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Fallout 76 includes a new hot button problem: The 10% player trading tax
sheliasmithson Mai 2019
Fallout 76's player vending system consists of a 10% tax to curb inflation, and wasteland wanderers aren't delighted.
Ben Franklin when mentioned that nothing is particular in this world except for death and taxes, and it turns out that truism applies towards the wastelands of Fallout 76 as well. Bethesda's most current update towards the on-line RPG finally added a player vending program this week, which enables wasteland wanderers to sell their wares to other players for FO76 bottle caps, the game's major kind of currency... but it arrived with a caveat.
For every single sale produced among two players via the vending program, a 10% tax is levied by Bethesda for the sake of curbing inflation inside the user-generated economy, but the policy is causing a philosophical rift in the neighborhood in between those who recognise it as a important evil, and those who see it as a betrayal in the free industry.
For one point, the caps generated from this tax bracket aren't actually place back into the economy, and some players are calling for the cash to be invested within the reconstruction in the Appalachian welfare state, with floated concepts like a public healthcare method or perhaps a homeless rehabilitation service that could assistance wandering NPCs like Grahm and Moo Moo.
More opportunistic players, meanwhile, are deploying advanced mathematics to make sure they make their preferred profit on every sale against the tax, whilst others are avoiding the vendor method outright and trading directly with players to cut out the middle man (Bethesda), and circumvent the levy entirely.
To be fair, Fallout 76 has been struggling with a long-standing trouble of inflation, in which the abundance and ubiquity of Caps inside the economy results in a depreciation in its value, as players have much more funds than they know what to do with. This tax, then, is assisting to redress that imbalance, even while pushing some players to become complete time Fallout 76 libertarians and threaten to move to the No cost States. It really is really only a matter of time just before a full blown civil war breaks out.
Read the complete Fallout 76 patch notes ideal here, or watch our overview video beneath to view what we thought from the game at launch.
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Munster Club Championships 2019
Author Topic: Munster Club Championships 2019 (Read 5545 times)
LooseCannon
Re: Munster Club Championships 2019
Quote from: Ball Hopper on October 28, 2019, 03:57:01 PM
Quote from: LooseCannon on October 28, 2019, 03:51:57 PM
Do Kilgarvin join South Kerry now that they’re the only non-senior team from the Kenmare district?
It seems 2020 will see Kenmare Shamrocks, Tuosist and Kilgarvan play in the East Kerry championship as Kenmare District will not run competitions.
Templenoe will join the South Kerry championship.
Kenmare District will field in the 2020 Senior Football championship, but if intermediate club champions Templenoe opt for senior club status, it will leave only Tuosist and Kilgarvan for the District team.
Forgot about Tuosist. Had it in my head that there were only 3 teams in the district as opposed to 4. Are Kenmare District around a while, or has there ever been a situation where they’ve 2 of the 4 teams in senior championship before?
Ball Hopper
Kenmare Shamrocks turned senior in 2017 for the first time. Prior to that the name "Kenmare" in the county championship referred to the district team.
Templenoe have never been senior.
It will be interesting to see how Templenoe get on next year - numbers are falling again and having 4 players on the county panel meant conceding at least one county league division 1 game this year.
blanketattack
Quote from: clarshack on September 25, 2019, 09:45:57 AM
Hard to see past Templenoe and Na Gaeil for Intermediate and Junior All-Irelands tbh.
Templenoe have their 4 county stars and would be playing senior championship in any other county.
Na Gaeil have Jack Barry and Diarmuid O'Connor to call on as well.
Both teams played in Division 1 this year too.
Not really a level playing field is it?
Templenoe has a population of only a couple of hundred and it's an incredible achievement to have 4 players on the Kerry team for such a small 'village'. (* there isn't even a village there really).
They've made their way up to Senior from Novice (a.k.a Junior B) in just 6 years.
I don't know how you think they've an unfair advantage? They would have had to make their way up from Junior B to Senior in any other county as well.
Unfortunately it's almost inevitable they'll make their way back to junior B after the current batch is gone as there's only about 3 players on average in the u12, u14, u16 and minor age groups as not only is the population small but it's also an old population.
general_lee
Questions on Kerry.
Is there much atmosphere at these games? Do people fly the colours and wear the jerseys of the divisional sides? Or do they just cheer on their own men? If these clubs are so small, how/why have they not amalgamated properly? Clubs in Armagh, Down, Tyrone, Derry etc have fallen by the wayside in recent years, proper small clubs that can barely sustain 15 players never mind a handful of county players. How does a team like Templenoe “opt” for senior status? Surely as intermediate champions they shouldn’t have any choice?
Quote from: general_lee on October 29, 2019, 12:45:59 PM
Atmosphere is decent - a lot of neutrals attend county championship games though and things wouldn't be as hectic as a club team that hadn't been to a final in ages. For example, when Austin Stacks made a run a few years ago, their kids provided great support with flags and jerseys by all - a divisional side would never have that sort of support.
Divisional sides have become more of a team recently - the local club needle between players is gone now. This is mainly due to the fact that most of the players learned their football in schools and form friendships that transcend their respective clubs. The better players would have played together on regional development squads from U14 onward as well. St. Brendan's Killarney, PCD in Dingle, Tralee CBS and Colaiste Sceilig in Caherciveen are the big schools of their respective regions and county board coaches concentrate on the schools, coaching the coaches as much as the students.
Not many clubs have actually folded over the years...I can only recall Derrynane combining full time with Sneem over the last two decades or so. Minor teams, especially in South Kerry, may have three or four clubs together at this stage due to low numbers. Can't ever remember the Foilmore area being separate from St. Michael's-Foilmore, for example.
I presume Templenoe will take senior status in 2020, but as far as I know, they have not made any announcement thus far. They are a worry to all...they could be back in division 5 relatively quickly if numbers don't improve. They will be in division 2 for 2020 anyway and may look decent in senior club games when the county man are available...but their league games might tell a very different story.
Hope that helps your good questions...
Update 3 Nov...
QF: 10 Nov. St. Joseph’s Miltown Malbay (Clare) v Rathgormack (Waterford) in Miltown Malbay 1:30pm
QF: 10 Nov. Nemo Rangers (Cork) v Newcastle West (Limerick) in Mallow 1:30pm
SF: 17 Nov. St. Joseph’s Miltown Malbay (Clare) or Rathgormack (Waterford) v JK Brackens or Clonmel Commercials (Tipperary) in Clare or Waterford
SF: 17 Nov. Nemo Rangers (Cork) or Newcastle West (Limerick) v Dr. Crokes or Austin Stacks (Kerry) in Cork or Limerick
Final: 1 Dec.
Intermediate Football
QF: 9 Nov. Templenoe (Kerry) v St. Saviours (Waterford) in Templenoe 1:30pm
QF: 9 Nov. Galtee Gaels (Limerick) v St Breckans (Clare) in Gaelic Grounds, Limerick 1:30pm
SF: 17 Nov. Éire Óg (Cork) v Templenoe (Kerry) or St. Saviours (Waterford) in Cork or Waterford
SF: 17 Nov. Galtee Gaels (Limerick) or St Breckans (Clare) v Moycarkey-Borris or Clonmel Óg (Tipperary) in Limerick or Clare
QF: 16 Nov. Kilshannig or St. James (Cork) v Na Gaeil (Kerry) in Cork
QF: 16 Nov. Croom (Limerick) v Ballyduff Lower (Waterford) in Limerick
SF: 23 Nov. Michael Cusacks (Clare) v Kilshannig/St. James (Cork) or Na Gaeil (Kerry) in Kerry or Clare
SF: 23 Nov. Portroe or Mullinahone (Tipperary) v Croom (Limerick) or Ballyduff Lower (Waterford) in Tipperary or Waterford
QF: 3 Nov. Ballygunner (Waterford) 1-21 Sixmilebridge (Clare) 0-12
SF: 10 Nov. Borris-Ileigh (Tipperary) v Glen Rovers (Cork) in Thurles 1:30pm
SF: 10 Nov. Ballygunner (Waterford) v Patrickswell (Limerick) in Walsh Park, Waterford 1:45pm
Final: 24 Nov.
Intermediate Hurling
QF: 3 Nov. Fr. O’Neill’s (Cork) 2-19 Blackrock (Limerick) 1-20 AET
QF: 3 Nov. Ballysaggart (Waterford) 2-14 Causeway (Kerry) 0-15
SF: 10 Nov. Fr. O’Neill’s (Cork) v Broadford (Clare) in Castletownroche Midleton 1:30pm
SF: 10 Nov. Ballysaggart (Waterford) v Sean Treacys (Tipperary) in Dungarvan 1:30pm
Junior Hurling
QF: 16 Nov. Kilgarvan (Kerry) v Russell Rovers (Cork) in Kerry
QF: 16 Nov. St. Mary’s (Waterford) v Castletown-Ballyagran (Limerick) in Waterford
SF: 23 Nov. Clonlara (Clare) v Kilgarvan (Kerry) or Russell Rovers (Cork) in Clare or Cork
SF: 23 Nov. Carrick Davins or Arravale Rovers (Tipperary) v St. Mary’s (Waterford) or Castletown-Ballyagran (Limerick) in Tipperary or Limerick
Edit 6 Nov: Venue change in intermediate hurling in bold.
« Last Edit: November 06, 2019, 01:55:43 AM by Ball Hopper »
Kerry Senior Football Championship update:
Final set for 10 Nov East Kerry v Dr. Crokes in Tralee, after Dr. Crokes beat South Kerry in a semi-final replay today by 1-14 to 1-8.
If East Kerry win, Austin Stacks will go forward to Munster as winners of the Senior Club title.
If Dr. Crokes win, Dr. Crokes will go forward to Munster as county champions.
If its a draw, or if the county final is postponed, Dr. Crokes will go forward to Munster as the last club team standing in an unfinished county championship, unless postponements are granted for the Munster semi-final.
Edit: Kerry County Final result...East Kerry 2-14 Dr. Crokes 1-7, so Austin Stacks represent Kerry in Munster.
« Last Edit: November 10, 2019, 07:38:54 PM by Ball Hopper »
10 Nov Update...
QF: 10 Nov. St. Joseph’s Miltown Malbay (Clare) 1-11 Rathgormack (Waterford) 0-11
QF: 10 Nov. Nemo Rangers (Cork) 1-9 Newcastle West (Limerick) 0-9
SF: 17 Nov. St. Joseph’s Miltown Malbay (Clare) v Clonmel Commercials (Tipperary) in Dungarvan Miltown Malbay 1:30pm
SF: 17 Nov. Nemo Rangers (Cork) v Austin Stacks (Kerry) in Páirc Uí Rinn @ 1:30pm
QF: 9 Nov. Templenoe (Kerry) 5-12 St. Saviours (Waterford) 2-9
QF: 9 Nov. St Breckans (Clare) 2-13 Galtee Gaels (Limerick) 1-11
SF: 17 Nov. Éire Óg (Cork) v Templenoe (Kerry) in Ovens 1:30pm
SF: 17 Nov. St Breckans (Clare) v Moycarkey-Borris or Clonmel Óg (Tipperary) in Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare 1:30pm
QF: 16 Nov. Kilshannig (Cork) v Na Gaeil (Kerry) in Mallow 1:30pm
QF: 16 Nov. Croom (Limerick) v Ballyduff Lower (Waterford) in Bruff 1:30pm
SF: 23 Nov. Michael Cusacks (Clare) v Kilshannig (Cork) or Na Gaeil (Kerry) in Kerry or Clare
SF: 23 Nov. Mullinahone (Tipperary) v Croom (Limerick) or Ballyduff Lower (Waterford) in Tipperary or Waterford
SF: 10 Nov. Borris-Ileigh (Tipperary) 1-7 Glen Rovers (Cork) 3-8
SF: 10 Nov. Ballygunner (Waterford) 0-17 Patrickswell (Limerick) 0-9
Final: 24 Nov. Ballygunner (Waterford) v Borris-Ileigh (Tipperary)
SF: 10 Nov. Fr. O’Neill’s (Cork) 3-22 Broadford (Clare) 0-14
SF: 10 Nov. Ballysaggart (Waterford) 0-15 Sean Treacys (Tipperary) 1-11
Final: 24 Nov. Fr. O’Neill’s (Cork) v Ballysaggart (Waterford)
QF: 16 Nov. Kilgarvan (Kerry) v Russell Rovers (Cork) in Dr. Crokes (Lewis Road) Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney 1:30pm
QF: 16 Nov. St. Mary’s (Waterford) v Castletown-Ballyagran (Limerick) in Dungarvan 1:30pm
SF: 23 Nov. Kilgarvan (Kerry) or Russell Rovers (Cork) w/o (Clare) scr.
SF: 23 Nov. Carrick Davins (Tipperary) v St. Mary’s (Waterford) or Castletown-Ballyagran (Limerick) in Tipperary or Limerick
Blowitupref
There will be at least 2 mins of additional time
What type of preparation will Austin Stacks have done for next Sundays game. Will certainly be fresher than Nemo anyway
Is the ref going to finally blow his whistle?... No, he's going to blow his nose
Quote from: Blowitupref on November 11, 2019, 11:21:27 AM
Austin Stacks played their last league game on Saturday (9 Nov), so they might be fresh enough.
Mind you, it was in Caherciveen against already relegated St. Mary's...Stacks ran out winners by 4-15 to 1-6, so it mightn't have helped much.
Stacks' last game in the county championship was on 29 September, a 3-13 to 3-7 loss to eventual champions East Kerry.
AZOffaly
I assume this is wrong?
SF: 17 Nov. St. Joseph’s Miltown Malbay (Clare) v Clonmel Commercials (Tipperary)) in Dungarvan 1:30pm. Surely over in Clare somewhere?
tippabu
Quote from: AZOffaly on November 11, 2019, 07:22:03 PM
Yes....it's in miltown Malay at 1:30
AZ, you might know this. Is there differing rules from Munster and Leinster Councils regarding home advantage for club games? Surely Ferbane for instance could host a game, given that it, from what I’ve seen in pictures and heard from others held a massive ladies game the other day. Obviously the LGFA are a different organisation, but still?
I note that Bracknagh played their game in Gracefield, while Shannonbridge played their two Leinster games to date in the Faithful Fields. Yerselves (Ferbane) obviously played in OCP, but that’s a given, regarding senior champions init? Or init not?🤷♂️🤷♂️
Well spotted AZ...hope too many didn't have travel plans made. Game is in Miltown Malbay.
A few edits to my 10 Nov update...intermediate football game in Lisdoonvarna jumps out...has anyone been there for...eh...the craic?
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Topic: 'Amazing Race' gay wedding sparks rift
Author Topic: 'Amazing Race' gay wedding sparks rift (Read 2012 times)
**puddinpiepork**
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'Amazing Race' gay wedding sparks rift
The city's biggest marriage of the year will have it all -- politicians, celebrities and a little controversy
By ANN MARIE McQUEEN - Ottawa Sun
OTTAWA - Ottawa is welcoming him -- and his gay wedding -- with open arms.
But 23-year-old Alex Ali, who on Wednesday will marry his live-in boyfriend of five years, 30-year-old Lynn Warren III, is still searching for that kind of support from his own father.
Though the rest of Ali's family knew he was gay, though he had lived with Warren for years, they sheltered his Egyptian-born dad from the truth right up until just after Ali and Warren finished filming CBS' The Amazing Race 7. Ali finally told his father at the last possible minute, over the phone, forced to because he was about to begin a round of post-ejection media interviews.
"He responded just the way I knew he would, with shock and blaming himself and blaming me and everybody," he says. "It has caused all the problems in my family that I knew it would."
Consequently, only one of Ali's older sisters will be at his wedding, with his American-born mother and his other sister staying away to avoid further family rifts. The hard part is heading to a city bent on celebrating his orientation while his father refuses to even acknowledge it.
Hard, but as Ali points out, no different than what many gay people go through with their own families every day. And eye-opening, since he has had to learn to accept homophobia from those closest to him, and respect their position nonetheless.
"It has also given me a lot of courage because it took a huge weight off my shoulders," he says. "And now that it's out in the open and really out in the open, like national TV out in the open, I feel like I'm free to live my life the way I want."
The couple agree that if they were to expect parental objections from any corner, it would be from Warren's Republican Baptist parents. Though they would probably vote against gay marriage, Warren says they came through when he came out to them at 21, and have ever since.
"My dad being in the military for 25 years I was really worried about how he would take it," says Warren. "But the first words he said were, 'I just want you to know that I will always love you and this doesn't make any difference.' "
Warren's parents can't come to the wedding either, as his father is undergoing chemotherapy for lymphomic cancer and recovering from open heart surgery. They will, however, send a taped message of support.
About 40 friends and family are expected to show up, mingling among about 400 invited guests expected, including politicians, Race contestants including winners Joyce and Uchenna Agu, and a couple of celebrities that are being kept under wraps. Warren and Ali are fervently hoping Rosie O'Donnell, who gave them a cruise after they were booted off Race, is among them.
And lest anyone fear the Los Angeles-based pair are getting sick of all the attention, Warren sing-songs his words over the phone from a speaking engagement in Portland, Ore.
"Lo-ove it. Love it!" he says. "Are you kidding me, talking about yourself for hours on end."
The couple first met at a bar, which, they confirm, is like winning the gay lottery.
Warren says he knew from the beginning they were supposed to spend their lives together, while Ali figured he was too young for that to happen and took awhile to warm up to the idea. Nonetheless, they moved in together within days of meeting, fell in love, and started out working in the entertainment business as production assistants.
They worked their way up and were producers at A&E's controversial show Intervention -- where families have dramatic confrontations to stop an out-of-control member's drug or alcohol addiction -- when a Race casting person told them they should apply for the seventh season of the adventure reality series.
Fearing Race producers would suspect them of having an unfair advantage, they lied on their applications when listing their jobs as executive assistants. They later confessed, but when Race took them on the "executive assistant" tags remained.
They left their jobs at Intervention and have been cruising along post-show on speaking engagements, appearances and their upcoming wedding ever since.
They are also planning to continue working in television. The week after the wedding they are meeting with L.A.-based Evolution Studios to seriously discuss their pitch for a gay travel show.
The long-term plan is to adopt a child.
But first, a week in the capital, and a marriage.
Warren and Ali stress the celebration is about their love and no one's political agenda. Still, they can't help but hope the millions of Americans who watched and loved them on Race will pay attention -- and get the message.
"If they know about our marriage and us going to Canada, I think it will open more minds rather than just trying to shove it down their throat," says Ali.
"We're not trying to force it on you, we're going to Canada to do it our way. Maybe that will change somebody's mind."
link~
http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2005/05/28/1060089.html
drumstyx47
RFF Full Member
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Re: 'Amazing Race' gay wedding sparks rift
I wanna see cbs grow some balls and televise this wedding!
I would much rather watch those two get married than Romber ()
Congrats to them, they were so cute together on TAR {|
"I stick around until they start talking about gay stuff or Jesus stuff, then i just walk away" -Rudy, on Tagi's group discussions
taracar
RFF Newbie
I love Reality TV!
I watched the wedding live on TV. It really was a very touching classy affair. They both looked very happy and sincere. I wish them the best for their future.
angelfairy71
It really was an "Amazing Wedding". They are just, so perfect for each other, it's incredible. Congrats to both of them !
I know that you can find pics of the wedding elsewhere (like on WireImage.com), but you have to pay, and I just can't afford it. I need the pics for tomorrow afternoon, I'm making a photo album, going to get it signed by Lynn and Alex. I have the ones from Hot899.com, but I would LOVE the ones from WireImage.......
It'd be greatly appreciated if someone could send them to me.. I'm at angelfairy71 @ hotmail.com. Thanks you guys, so so SO much!
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South African Skeptics > Other > Fun > Topic: Judgement Day
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Re: Judgement Day
Wow.... but not suprising...
In 2009, the organisation reported in IRS filings that it received $18.3m in donations, and had assets of more than $104m, including $34m in stocks or other publicly traded securities.
Through chatting with a friend over what he acknowledged was a very difficult weekend, the light dawned on him that instead of the biblical Rapture in which the faithful would be swept up to the heavens, May 21 had instead been a "spiritual" Judgment Day, which places the entire world under Christ's judgment, he said.
The globe will be completely destroyed in five months, he said, when the apocalypse comes.
But because God's judgment and salvation were completed on Saturday, there's no point in continuing to warn people about it, so his network will now just play Christian music and programmes until the final end on Oct. 21.
http://www.news24.com/World/News/US-preacher-New-date-for-Rapture-20110524
st0nes
Is there no end to this prick's idiocy/venality?
Quote from: st0nes on May 24, 2011, 12:32:31 PM
No. Nor can there be. It’s theology in action, adhering to its proud, millennia-old heritage of chutzpah. Religionists’ capacity for intellectual fraud is inexhaustible. It’s why we’ll never be rid of their impostures. You could almost admire it in a way similar to how you might admire a slow-motion sequence of an unfolding train wreck.
Quote from: Mefiante
Religionists’ capacity for intellectual fraud is inexhaustible. It’s why we’ll never be rid of their impostures.
Justnownowism is totally legit though. It was revealed to me, personally!
Quote from: BoogieMonster on May 24, 2011, 15:33:10 PM
and I'm your most faithful follower, spreading your happy word whenever my religion comes in question....
Wandapec
100% Proud Atheist/Skeptic
SA rapture man apologises
Quote from: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/SA-rapture-man-apologises-20110524
He admitted they were wrong and apologised, but said this was only in some aspects, like the taking away of the faithful and the earthquake.
Oh, is that all? So what he is actually saying is that they were wrong about everything then....
Coetzee remains convinced that the final end of the world will arrive on October 21, when the Earth will be consumed by fire and sulphur.
Oh no, fire and sulphur.....
Financially, he is poorer than before, but he says he now has wealth in heaven, and adds that he wants to serve no other God.
Maybe he should hurry up and go where he will be wealthy!
They took the “consumed by fire and sulphur” bit straight from the Afrikaans article without thinking about it: “… vuur en swael…” The archaic name for sulphur is “brimstone,” and so a better translation would have been “consumed by fire and brimstone,” as we are accustomed to. As a means of persuasion, brimstone is always preferable to sulphur because it wins hands down in the “sounds re-e-e-a-a-ally menacing” department. Given a choice between being threatened by someone wielding brimstone or someone wielding sulphur, well, the sulphur-fiend’s gonna get flamed, isn’t he?
Merda accidit.
Quote from: Wandapec on May 24, 2011, 18:10:04 PM
Look on the bright side - nothing like a bit of hydrogen sulphide to freshen a place up.
True. As a rotten egg, it’s a lot friendlier than hydrogen brimstonide…
Rigil Kent
Clotting Factor
Three men make a tiger.
16 -2,2,4,6
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Er, I think brimstone’s chemical symbol is actually Bs. However, there’s an increasing trend towards fully capitalising, thusly: BS…
skeptical mantis is skeptical
after the rapture....
My head hurts after reading this - SA rapture man: Change of plans
Yeah, its now crossed over from being funny to being ridiculous.
I see Mr "Rapture" Harold Camping, Ruptured an artery and suffered a stroke.... seems like one of two explanations are in order here:
1) He's being smited for presuming to know god's plan
2) He's being raptured and will be going "home" soon....
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Call for Nominations: 2018 Health Innovator of the Year
by Ed Butler | Sep 12, 2018 | Awards
Dear Health Innovation NW Colleague,
Nominate the 4th Annual Health Innovators of the Year for 2018 here (Google form).
Nomination should only take approx 20 minutes of your time and can be completed on a computer, tablet or phone.
This award is for your peers, your teammates, your collaborators, your staff!
The Seattle Health Innovators of the Year Awards are intended to recognize and encourage individuals who engage in the hard work of driving progress in health and health care. We recognize that progress comes from both innovative ideas and exceptional execution by individuals. These awards are for our colleagues whose efforts we respect and whose examples we want to see more of. We want to encourage innovation in healthcare delivery, life sciences, population health, new ways of financing health services and uses of technology.
Who has changed your way of thinking, over the past year?
2018 Awards will be made in each of the following categories:
Imagination: This category is to recognize individual achievement in conceiving new ways of solving problems in the health sector via new methods, ideas, products, services, or business models.
Perseverance: This category is to recognize individual achievement in demonstrating tenacity over time in the face of adversity and in transforming health innovation challenges into opportunities.
Customer-focus: This category is to recognize an individual member of an innovation team who maintains focus on the customer and builds deep, long-term relationships by better understanding, anticipating, and fulfilling stated and latent customer needs.
External collaboration: This category is to recognize an individual who has put aside organizational boundaries and has established effective relationships with innovators in other companies.
Nominees must be individuals with a genuine connection to the Greater Seattle Area (broadly construed as Western Washington) involved in health innovation. Nominees may be from care delivery, health and wellness, health IT, life sciences, payers/purchasers etc.
Now’s your chance! Nominate the next Innovator of the Year here.
Nominations are due by Friday, November 9th. Winners will be announced at the Seattle Health Innovators Holiday Gathering on Thursday Dec 6.
Feel free to reach out with any questions!
Scott Kennedy
Health Innovation NW
kennedyscottp@gmail.com
Meet the 2017 Seattle Health Innovators of the Year
by Ed Butler | Jan 9, 2018 | Awards, Community Activities, Life Science Innovation
Evidence of the increasing maturity of Seattle’s health innovation community was on full display at the Annual Health Innovation NW Awards Night held at the Cambia Grove on December 14, 2017. This was the third year of the annual health innovation awards program. This program is designed to celebrate the heroes among us who exemplify exceptional performance in traits necessary for successful innovation: Imagination, Customer-centered, Collaboration, and Perseverance. Separate awards were made ito individuals Startups, Institutions, and Community Non-Profit sectors. Over 100 people came out to celebrate the accomplishments of 2017 and to prepare for another great year.
The awardees in the Imagination category:
Institutional sector: Tonya Palermo, PhD, from Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Community Non-profit sector: Suzanne Gwynn, Ladybug House
Startup sector: Mike Van Snellenberg, Wellpepper
Customer-centered
The awardees in the Customer-centered category:
Institutional sector: Vince Barrailler, Washington Health Benefit Exchange
Startup Sector: Cassie Wallender
Awardees in the Collaboration category:
Institutional sector: Michael McClain, MD, First Hill Surgery Center
Public Health sector: Hanna Oltean
Startup sector: Avadhut Joshi, Translational Software
Awardees in the perseverance category:
Institutional sector: Tony Blau MD, UW Principal Investigator ITOMIC trial and All4Cure
Community Non-profit sector: Dellann Elliott Mydland, The EndBrainCancer Initiative
Startup Sector: Chris Wood, Clario Medical Imaging
2017 Seattle Health Innovators President’s Awards
This year in addition to the annual Health Innovator of the Year awards for exemplary traits shown above, the Board also designated four President’s Awards for innovation in four areas of great interest in the coming year:
Regulatory Science Innovation
Shawn Swanson, MedsForAll
Pain Management Innovation
Zachary Fisk MD, Anesthesiologist
Patient-Centered Care Innovation
Tony Quang, MD, JD Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, UW, VA
Dema Poppa, Invio
For more information about these awardees and the 2017 Health Innovator of the Year Awards Program please see the agenda from the event: Health Innovator Awards 2017 presentation 20171214 2000 pdf
Health Innovation NW is a Washington State non-profit corporation dedicated to building a supportive community of individuals interested in transforming health and healthcare. We grew from the Seattle Health Innovation Forum meetup group, founded in 2013, that has over 1,700 members.
2017 Seattle Health Innovators Holiday Party and Awards Night
by Ed Butler | Dec 7, 2017 | Awards, Community Activities, Events, Startups
Health Innovation NW is hosting its Third Annual Health Innovator of the Year Awards on Dec 14th, 2017 from 5:30- 8:0pm at the Cambia Grove in Seattle. This event is a chance to celebrate the vibrant health innovation community that has formed in the greater Seattle area and to recognize the heroes among us who are making a difference in healthcare.
This event is an ideal holiday party for health innovation teams. Seattle is becoming an international health innovation hub, and it’s time to let the world know we’re here and that we support each other’s success. Over the past years, some companies sponsor their employees to attend this event so that they get to have a catered holiday event and enjoy the company of other health innovators. This is a cost-effective way to bring your entire team together and to build a supportive community.
The 2017 Seattle Health Innovator awards recognize individuals who by their imagination, customer focus, collaboration and perseverance demonstrate that improvements in access, delivery and quality of health care are possible and achievable. From our call for nominations to the public we have selected a group of 15 award finalists. This years’ cohort comes from across the healthcare industry, including care delivery, life science research, public health, patient advocacy and government.
The 2017 Health Innovator Finalists are as follows:
Innovator Title Organization of innovator
Cassie Wallender Chief Product Officer Invio Inc.
Chris Wood CEO Clario Medical
Dellann Elliott Mydland Founder and President The EndBrainCancer Initiative (formerly the Chris Elliott Fund)
Dema Poppa Founder Invio Inc.
Hanna Oltean Epidemiologist Washington State Department of Health
Michael McClain, MHS, MS, PA-C Executive Director First Hill Surgery Center (Joint Venture of Swedish and The Polyclinic)
Shawn Swanson CEO MedsForAll
Suzanne Gwynn Founder Ladybug House
Tony Blau, MD Founder All4Cure
Tony Quang, MD, JD Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology VA and UW Medicine
Vincent Barrailler CIO Washington Health Benefit Exchange
Tonya Palermo, PhD Professor at University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle Children’s Research Institute / UW
Zachary Fisk, MD Anesthesiologist Acute Pain Therapies
Avadhut Joshi, PhD Clinical Pharmacogenomics Lead Translational Software
Mike Van Snellenberg Sugarpod Team CTO Wellpepper
Space is limited. It is best to register early in case it sells out. Register for the 2017 Health Innovation NW Holiday Party and Awards Ceremony here. (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seattle-health-innovators-holiday-gathering-awards-gala-tickets-39530116643)
About the Health Innovator of the Year Awards:
In 2015, the Seattle Health Innovators decided to add recognition of local health innovators to their holiday meeting. A selection committee was formed, and the first cohort of nominees and winners was selected. 2017 is the 3rd year of the event. See a list of the past awardees here:
2016 Health Innovators of the Year (http://hinw.wpengine.com/?p=617)
About Health Innovation NW:
Health Innovation NW is a Washington State non-profit organization dedicated to empowering individual change agents in health and life sciences to connect, to educate the community, and to directly advance health innovation. The group is run by volunteers and sponsors multiple Seattle Health Innovators meetups each year, a group with over 1600 members.
We are a grassroots organization formed because of the need to create deeper connections within the health innovation community in Seattle. We started by organizing the Seattle Health Innovation Forum in May 2013. After 3 years of organizing events together, in 2016 we founded Health Innovation NW, a Washington non-profit corporation, so that we can take our collaboration to new levels. There is so much more we can do together to make a positive impact locally and globally. Learn more at www.healthinnovator.org.
Call for Nominations: 2017 Seattle Health Innovator of the Year Awards
by Ed Butler | Nov 5, 2017 | Awards, Life Science Innovation, Primary Care Innovation, Startups
Dear Health Innovation Colleague,
Nominate the 3rd Annual Health Innovator of the Year for 2017 here (Google form).
The Seattle Health Innovator of the Year Awards are intended to recognize and encourage individuals who engage in the hard work of driving progress in health and health care. We recognize that progress comes from both innovative ideas and exceptional execution by individuals. These awards are for our colleagues whose efforts we respect and whose examples we want to see more of. We want to encourage innovation in healthcare delivery, life sciences, population health, and new ways of financing health services.
Nominations are due by Wednesday, November 22. Winners will be announced at the Seattle Health Innovators Holiday Gathering on Thursday Dec 14.
You are invited: register for the 2017 Health Innovation NW Holiday Party at this link.
Health Innovation NW is a Washington non-profit corporation. Our mission is to empower individual change agents in health and life sciences to connect, to educate the community, and to directly advance health innovation.
Who are the 2016 Health Innovators of the Year?
by Ed Butler | Nov 30, 2016 | Awards, Health Innovators
Seattle is growing a strong health innovation community and the 2016 recipients of the Health Innovation NW Innovator of the Year awards prove it. Successful innovation in an industry as complex as healthcare requires a combination of imagination, customer focus, collaboration, and perseverance. This year we are recognizing a remarkable set of individuals who exemplify these qualities:
This award recognizes individual achievement in conceiving new ways of solving problems in the health sector via new methods, ideas, products, services, or business models. The 2016 awardee is Dr. Ingrid Swanson Pultz.
Ingrid Swanson Pultz, Ph.D is the Chief Scientific Officer at PvP Biologics. Dr. Pultz co-led an undergraduate team in 2011 that conceived of the KumaMax project that identified an enzyme that could be used for improved digestion of the gluten protein found in wheat, rye, and barley. As a post-doc, and then as the Principal Investigator of her own lab (the Pultz Lab) at the UW Institute of Protein Design, she built upon this work generating next-generation enzyme candidates using computational protein design. She and her colleagues designed and tested a synthetic enzyme to digest gluten before it gets to the small intestine, where it causes inflammation for people with Celiac Disease. At PvP Biologics, Dr. Pultz is working towards getting FDA approval for this new drug for sufferers of Celiac Disease.
Customer-Focus in a Startup Company
This award recognizes an individual member of health innovation startup team who maintains focus on the customer and builds deep, long-term relationships by better understanding, anticipating, and fulfilling customer needs. The 2016 awardee is Jared Munir.
Jared Munir, M.Eng. is a Technical Account Manager at Translational Software. Mr. Munir provides customer support to the clinical labs who are customers of Translational Software’s interpretive reports. He was nominated by many customers whose testimonials describe exceptional performance. Typical comments describe “unwavering commitment to help anyone in our organization regardless of their need for technical background”, “even through email, Jared gives off a sense of cheerfulness that helps the laboratory work through these issues without added frustration or stress”, and “exemplifies the exact type of mentality, attitude, and focus on customer care that every business dreams to achieve.” These customer stories bring to life the impact that is possible by working at an individual level to achieve better results.
Customer-focus in a Healthcare Delivery Organization
This award recognizes an individual working for a healthcare delivery organization who maintains focus on those served, builds deep relationships, and fulfills stated and latent needs.The 2016 awardee is Kim Wicklund.
Kim Wicklund, MPH, is Manager, Patient Engagement at Group Health Cooperative. Ms. Wicklund spearheaded the Plain Language Initiative at Group Health where she led a multidisciplinary group that collaborated to remove jargon from patient-facing communications and advocated for making plain language a Group Health communication standard. She also provides leadership around shared decision-making and self-management support for chronically ill patients. The “Living Well with Chronic Conditions” program has been successful for many years. However, her team observed that for many patients with chronic illnesses, the very action of coming to Group Health for a program meeting was infeasible. To this end, she sought funding through an internal grant mechanism to test the feasibility and acceptability of an online version of this self-management program. That program has since served over 1300 Group Health members.
Collaboration of Healthcare Institutions with Startups
This award recognizes exemplary performance by an individual with a healthcare institution who established effective relationships working with innovators in startup companies.The 2016 awardee is Dr. Douglas Maurer.
COL Douglas Maurer, DO, MPH, FAAFP practices full-service Family Medicine to a diverse patient population at Madigan Army Medical Center. A practicing physician and teacher, with a full-time job, Dr. Maurer makes time to meet with, support and perform research with early stage health companies. This provides growing companies with access to and understanding of a large real-world healthcare system. Dr. Maurer’s work provides an inspiring example of how an individual in a large organization can champion and collaborate with innovators to advance progress in healthcare.
Collaboration Across Healthcare Institutions
This award recognizes exemplary performance by an individual within a healthcare institution who has put aside organizational boundaries and established effective relationships with innovators in other institutions. The 2016 awardee is Dr. Lisa McFerrin.
Lisa McFerrin, Ph.D. is the Bioinformatics Project Manager for Seattle Translational Tumor Research at Fred Hutch. Her progressive work on developing Oncoscape creates a collaborative platform and community that unites the clinical, genetic, and computational fields to advance the understanding of cancer biology and improve patient care. Lisa’s work has been truly forward-thinking in recognizing that the future of healthcare will rely on bioinformaticists working hand in hand with researchers and clinicians. Oncoscape under Lisa’s management is helping to create an open source tool that unifies researchers, clinicians, programmers and patient data across the world to work together and learn from each other to speed translational research and cure cancer.
Perseverance in Healthcare Delivery Innovation
This award recognizes exemplary performance by an individual within a healthcare institution who has demonstrated tenacity over time and has transformed challenges into opportunities. The 2016 awardee is Dr. Sunita Mishra.
Sunita Mishra, MD, MBA is the Medical Director, Innovation for Providence St. Joseph Health. For over 15 years that she has practiced medicine she has brought a visionary quality to her work, from her advocacy of evidence based protocols in a medical group in Singapore in the 1990’s to her current role leading innovation strategy at a large care delivery system. Initiatives that have been rolled out with her partnership include the new Express Care service that has provided more convenient access to over 20,000 patients, offering virtual visits, home visits, and retail clinics. Dr. Mishra has also advised digital health startups in their go-to-market strategies. She is interested in learning how we can use technology to make healthcare more consumer centric and how health systems can use technology to enhance their care delivery.
Perseverance in Health Transformation Advocacy
This award recognizes long term individual achievement in the advocacy of human-centered transformation of the healthcare system. The 2016 awardee is Dave Chase.
Dave Chase is the co-founder of the Health Rosetta Institute and the Executive Director of “The Big Heist”, a satirical film about the need for change in the healthcare system. Mr. Chase has been a change agent in healthcare for over 20 years, from his role growing Microsoft’s healthcare vertical, through his journey as the founder of a patient-engagement company, Avado, and its successful exit to WebMD in 2013. Dave is a passionate advocate in the battle to fix the broken American healthcare system. He understands it inside and out and writes provocative pieces for Forbes and on LinkedIn. He’s honest about the journey as an entrepreneur, and yet supports innovative businesses through his role as a VC at Quad Aim Fund and Cascadia Capital. He’s the champion of Health Rosetta, an open source project aimed at creating a new health ecosystem.
Please join us as we celebrate another great year in Seattle’s health innovation community by honoring these individuals and by also recognizing the efforts of everyone involved in working for better health and better health care. Our Holiday Party is Thursday evening from 5:30-8:00 at the SURF Incubator, 999 Third Avenue, Seattle WA 98104. Prior registration is appreciated at this link.
2016 Seattle Health Innovator of the Year Award Nominations
by Ed Butler | Oct 10, 2016 | Awards
As announced in the last Seattle Health Innovators meetup on Oct 3, we’re seeking nominations for the 2016 Health Innovator of the Year Awards, due Monday November 14, 2016. We hope that you can use this process as a way to recognize top performers on your team as well as others in the community you find worthy of recognition. This annual awards program is a grassroots effort to give health startups and the health innovation community a way to say “thank you” to each other and to their collaboration partners.
There are four different awards, one for each of the following attributes of successful innovation: Imagination, Customer focus, Collaboration, and Perseverance. It’s easy to nominate someone using this form: Nominate an innovator here!
Your nomination effort is essential to the success and sustainability of this program. It can take less than 15 minutes to fill out the form. The person you nominate will appreciate that you took this opportunity to honor them.
Unlike other awards programs that require mass online voting (and thus become popularity contests) we’re doing this as a juried selection process. A team of respected leaders from the Seattle Health innovation community will be recruited to review and select the awardees. The evaluation criteria to be used are described on the Call for Nominations page.
We will announce the recipients of these awards at our December holiday party on Dec 1, 2016, which will again be held at the SURF Incubator. For a profile of last year’s (2015) awardees see this post.
Thank you for your support and nominations!
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19 Aug 31 • Your phone screen is gross. Here’s how to clean it See All Sep 1 • iPhone 11, Apple Watch 5 and more: The final rumors Apple Tags Internet Services Tech Industry Aug 31 • Best places to sell your used electronics in 2019 reading • Apple’s clash with Facebook and Google: What you need to know Share your voice Facebook Twitter Apple Comments Aug 31 • iPhone XR vs. iPhone 8 Plus: Which iPhone should you buy? • Apple CEO Tim Cook Justin Sullivan/Getty Images If you want a sense of how much power Apple holds over Silicon Valley, take a look at what the iPhone maker did to Google and Facebook this week.On Wednesday, Apple yanked enterprise certificates — digital signatures that both the tech giants used to run software on iPhones and iPads. That shut down internal apps employees at Google and Facebook used to communicate with their co-workers, find shuttle buses and test new features that could eventually be released to the public. It proved to be more a show of power than long-term punishment. Apple, which didn’t respond to a request for comment, had restored both companies’ certificates by Thursday. Google said its internal apps are back up and running. Facebook confirmed that Apple restored its certificates but said it didn’t have any new information to share. Here’s what you need to know.What’s going on?The spat started after TechCrunch reported that Facebook had taken advantage of an Apple program that lets companies design apps for private corporate use, as well as test apps before they’re available to you. Using a certificate from Apple’s Developer Enterprise Program, Facebook distributed a market research app that offered people as much as $20 a month to give the social network access to their phone and web activity. The data Facebook could view included web searches, location data and even private messages.The situation got worse when Google revealed that it also used an enterprise certificate for a market research app, called Screenwise Meter, that gave the company access to a person’s phone activity. The search giant offered gift cards to people to download the app.Apple determined that both companies had violated the rules of its Developer Enterprise Program because they distributed the apps to consumers instead of just employees. Apple blocked the apps by revoking the companies’ enterprise certificates — a move that shut down apps that Google and Facebook employees rely on at their campuses.What’s an enterprise certificate anyway?An iPhone won’t run an app unless the app has been signed using a cryptographic stamp of approval called a digital certificate. The certificate lets the iOS operating system verify that an app was written by an authorized party and hasn’t been tampered with. 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Marine Corps F-35Bs depart USS Wasp after carrier tests
By: JAMES DREW
Six US Marine Corps F-35B Joint Strike Fighters have departed the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp following a one-and-a-half-week trial that included 108 test sorties and an F135 engine delivery from a V-22 Osprey as the first combat fighter squadron stationed in Yuma, Arizona, prepares to declare initial operational capability this July.
According to deputy commandant for Marine Corps aviation Lt Gen Jon Davis, each of the 10 F-35pilots involved are now qualified for daytime carrier operations and another three have received their night-time flying qualifications.
The six aircraft have accumulated 85.5 hours of flight time collectively since arriving on the USS Wasp May 18. Two squadrons participated: Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron-501 of Beaufort, South Carolina, and Marine Fighter Attack Squadron-121 from the Air Station Yuma.
The squadrons will now continue their land-based preparations with the aim of passing a final operational readiness assessment due to take place over a two-week period in July if all goes according to plan.
“We’re going to run actual flight events with ordnance for all the mission profiles they’re supposed to be able to accomplish,” Davis said during a media teleconference from Oslo, Norway today. “Right now it looks like we’re tracking for that squadron to be able to declare initial operational capability in July, and when they think they are, we will confirm they are with an operational readiness inspection.”
The first squadron will become operational with 10 short-takeoff-vertical-landing (STOVL) F-35Bs, including some that are still being modified to correct deficiencies identified during testing. “There’s one airplane that may be a little late, but right now everything’s tracking to be on time,” says Davis.
The stint aboard the carrier focused on operational flying, but also on the logistics of maintaining the B-model on a ship using the autonomic logistics information system, or ALIS. The team was then able to evaluate the V-22 in its future carrier onboard delivery (COD) role by delivering a spare F-35 engine to the ship using a specially-designed rig. The Osprey flew the engine to the Wasp May 21 and departed with the weighty engine May 27.
The general says the logistics evaluation went well despite some complications like not having all the right parts and tools. The marines also trialled management and maintenance of the F-35’s low-observable coating to ensure its radar-evading characteristics could be maintained. “We proved we could do that at sea as well,” Davis says.
The Pentagon’s top acquisition chief Frank Kendall confirmed during the teleconference that the programme is making slow but steady progress and the marines and air force are on track to meet their IOC targets. The air force is hopes to stand up its first operational F-35A squadron at Hill Air Force Base in Utah by August 2016.
The F-35B is the most costly and complex of all three F-35 types and had experienced structural deficiencies and data fusion problems. The programme office is currently making corrections to the aircraft’s software to improve its data fusion capability. Those corrections are currently being tested as part of the Block 3i software load, and if successful those fixes will be installed on the Block 2B jets the marines will declare IOC with.
“We intend on taking that 3i software with the fixes to flight test around the last week of June,” says F-35 programme executive officer Lt Gen Christopher Bogdan. “We’ll be spending about 30 days flight testing those fixes, and if they appear to be good, then we will just leave those in 3i for the future airplanes and port them back into 2B.”
The Marine Corps has a requirement for 353 F-35Bs and 67 carrier-launched F-35Cs. The United Kingdom wants up to 138 F-35Bs for its carriers and Italy hopes to buy 30 STOVLs.
More on this story:
US Marines stick to F-35B dates despite new problems(24/03/15)
F-35 missed key software testing goals in 2014(21/01/15)
USMC’s F-35B can fire missiles when it comes online(16/01/15)
Marine Corps F-35s might miss July operational deadline(30/10/14)
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Leung, K. [梁國賢]. (2012). Prenatal ultrasound prediction of homozygous α⁰-thalassemia. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b4745403
Homozygous α0-thalassemia is a serious autosomal recessive disorder with poor fetal outcome and severe maternal complications. Conventionally, prenatal diagnosis is performed by an invasive test. A non-invasive approach using serial ultrasonography can effectively reduce the need for invasive tests in unaffected pregnancies. For two-dimensional ultrasound prediction, a total of 777 at-risk fetuses were studied from 12 to 20 weeks between 1995 and 2006. At 12–15 weeks’ gestation, the highest sensitivity (98.3%) was achieved by the combination of fetal cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) and/or middle cerebral artery peak systolic velocity (MCA-PSV) at a false-positive rate of 15.8%. At 16–20 weeks’ gestation, the sensitivity of CTR was 100.0%, but the false-positive rate was 5.2%. In contrast, the false-positive rate of MCA-PSV alone was 1.4% and that of the combination of CTR and MCA-PSV was 0%, although their sensitivities were less than 65%. In a cross-sectional retrospective study of 546 samples at-risk and control (268 fetal and 278 neonatal cord blood), the degree of anemia was only mild in 27.5% of the affected fetuses (see chapter 3 for definition of mild anemia). Because MCA-PSV is not very predictive of mild anemia, this may be one of the reasons why MCA-PSV is not very sensitive in predicting an affected pregnancy. A total of 832 at-risk pregnancies were studied using same noninvasive approach at Maternal and Neonatal Hospital of Guangzhou (MNH) and Tsan Yuk Hospital (TYH). The overall sensitivity and specificity of the noninvasive approach was 100% and 95.6% respectively. At MNH, the need for an invasive test was reduced by 78.6%, and all the affected pregnancies were diagnosed before 24 weeks’ gestation. After adequate training and monitoring the quality of the subsequent ultrasound examinations, the results achieved at MNH were comparable to TYH, with at-risk pregnancies including the affected ones being seen at a more advanced gestation at MNH. In a retrospective review of 361 women at risk of carrying an affected fetus, 311 (86.2%) opted for the non-invasive approach using CTR and/or placenta. The cost saving of this non-invasive approach was relatively small (HK$ 2,651) in comparison to the cost of the whole prenatal screening program. On the other hand, the non-invasive approach was more expensive than the direct invasive approach for low MCV couples, as well as couples discordant for α-thalassemia and β-thalassemia. ages. These results support the adoption of non-invasive approach in which routine invasive test or karyotyping is no longer performed. A total of 106 at-risk pregnancies and normal controls were prospectively studied using three-dimensional ultrasonography. Placental volume (PV) at 11-14 weeks, and PV/CRL quotient at 9-14 weeks’ gestation of affected pregnancies were significantly greater than unaffected pregnancies (P<0.05). Using a cut-off point of 1.2ml/mm for PV/CRL quotient to predict an affected pregnancy, the sensitivity, and specificity was 96.2%, and 100.0% respectively.
Thalassemia - Diagnosis.
Fetus - Ultrasonic imaging.
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dc.identifier.citation Leung, K. [梁國賢]. (2012). Prenatal ultrasound prediction of homozygous α⁰-thalassemia. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b4745403 -
dc.description.abstract Homozygous α0-thalassemia is a serious autosomal recessive disorder with poor fetal outcome and severe maternal complications. Conventionally, prenatal diagnosis is performed by an invasive test. A non-invasive approach using serial ultrasonography can effectively reduce the need for invasive tests in unaffected pregnancies. For two-dimensional ultrasound prediction, a total of 777 at-risk fetuses were studied from 12 to 20 weeks between 1995 and 2006. At 12–15 weeks’ gestation, the highest sensitivity (98.3%) was achieved by the combination of fetal cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) and/or middle cerebral artery peak systolic velocity (MCA-PSV) at a false-positive rate of 15.8%. At 16–20 weeks’ gestation, the sensitivity of CTR was 100.0%, but the false-positive rate was 5.2%. In contrast, the false-positive rate of MCA-PSV alone was 1.4% and that of the combination of CTR and MCA-PSV was 0%, although their sensitivities were less than 65%. In a cross-sectional retrospective study of 546 samples at-risk and control (268 fetal and 278 neonatal cord blood), the degree of anemia was only mild in 27.5% of the affected fetuses (see chapter 3 for definition of mild anemia). Because MCA-PSV is not very predictive of mild anemia, this may be one of the reasons why MCA-PSV is not very sensitive in predicting an affected pregnancy. A total of 832 at-risk pregnancies were studied using same noninvasive approach at Maternal and Neonatal Hospital of Guangzhou (MNH) and Tsan Yuk Hospital (TYH). The overall sensitivity and specificity of the noninvasive approach was 100% and 95.6% respectively. At MNH, the need for an invasive test was reduced by 78.6%, and all the affected pregnancies were diagnosed before 24 weeks’ gestation. After adequate training and monitoring the quality of the subsequent ultrasound examinations, the results achieved at MNH were comparable to TYH, with at-risk pregnancies including the affected ones being seen at a more advanced gestation at MNH. In a retrospective review of 361 women at risk of carrying an affected fetus, 311 (86.2%) opted for the non-invasive approach using CTR and/or placenta. The cost saving of this non-invasive approach was relatively small (HK$ 2,651) in comparison to the cost of the whole prenatal screening program. On the other hand, the non-invasive approach was more expensive than the direct invasive approach for low MCV couples, as well as couples discordant for α-thalassemia and β-thalassemia. ages. These results support the adoption of non-invasive approach in which routine invasive test or karyotyping is no longer performed. A total of 106 at-risk pregnancies and normal controls were prospectively studied using three-dimensional ultrasonography. Placental volume (PV) at 11-14 weeks, and PV/CRL quotient at 9-14 weeks’ gestation of affected pregnancies were significantly greater than unaffected pregnancies (P<0.05). Using a cut-off point of 1.2ml/mm for PV/CRL quotient to predict an affected pregnancy, the sensitivity, and specificity was 96.2%, and 100.0% respectively. -
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Inner-city youths go through a asimulation exercise during the Jamaica Social Investment Fund-aided lifeguard training programme at the YMCA pool in Kingston on Saturday.
Babsy urge public feedback to Sexual Harassment bill
Jamaica’s gender minister, Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, is urging nationals to participate in the consultations surrounding the Sexual Harassment Act, 2019.
The bill, which will be considered by a joint select committee of parliament, proposes a framework for dealing with sexual harassment in institutions as well as situations involving landlords and tenants.
Grange said sexual harassment “is a serious crime” which “militates against the desired level of peace, harmony and happiness in our country.”
“Through our work in this committee, we can protect all women and men from unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favours and crude sexual behaviours that affect quality of life by creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment,” Grange said
The committee is inviting members of the public to give feedback on the Bill ahead of its next meeting early in 2020.
The Committee requests feedback to be sent to the Clerk to the Houses, Gordon House (clerk@japarliament.gov.jm) by Monday, 23 December 2019.
Tell the police what you know – Chuck
Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck is encouraging more Jamaicans to come forward to report crime and corruption in the country.
Speaking at a Child Diversion Sensitisation Session at Glistening Waters Hotel and Attractions in Falmouth, Trelawny, on December 6, the minister said persons must muster the courage to speak out and expose criminals and wrongdoers.
“Far too many of us want to live without being interfered with, without having to come forward, but that’s not what life is. Life is about interaction, and in interacting you are going to meet people who are abusive and also engage in wrongdoing, and when you see them, tell the police,” Chuck said.
Motorcyclist dies in Negril crash
One of two motorcyclists who were involved in a collision on the Nompriel main road in Negril, Westmoreland, on Monday, December 9, has died.
He is 26-year-old Jevain Watson of Negril, Westmoreland.
The police said that about 11:45 p.m., Watson was driving a Cobra motorcycle along the Nompriel main road when he allegedly swerved to avoid a collision and crashed into another motorcycle that was being driven in the opposite direction. Both drivers sustained several injuries and were transported to the hospital, where Watson died while being treated.
The condition of the other driver could not be ascertained at press time yesterday.
Gunman disarmed in St Catherine
A gunman was disarmed by a citizen following an attack on the Greendale main road in St. Catherine on Monday.
Reports from the Spanish Town Police are that about 11:40 a.m., the man was standing along the roadway when he was approached by the gunman.
A confrontation ensued between them and the assailant was disarmed. The police were summoned and the firearm – a Browning 9mm pistol – was handed over to them.
Shaw wants more coffee on the farms
The Government wants farmers to increase the number of coffee trees they now have on their farms.
It is estimated that there is an average of between 600 to 650 coffee on each acre of land, and the Government wants that number to rise to 800 plants per acre.
Agriculture minister Audley Shaw said the push for increased tree density is a part of initiatives being undertaken to stimulate future growth of the coffee sector. He said other initiatives include the provision of fertiliser assistance, supplies and training to coffee farmers.
“To date, approximately 27,000 bags of 25lb fertilisers have been distributed to registered farmers in the Jamaica Blue Mountainand Jamaica High Mountain regions. We do need to talk more about this because we have additional fertilisers available,” Shaw said.
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the Jassdancer
The jass lifestyle through my eyes, ears and feet...
The Collegiate Shag
The Thing about Dean
The Jitterbugs are back!
well, it's about time...
What is this dance all the kids are doing today called Collegiate Shag?
where did it come from and what is it's history?
The truth is the history is very spotty, very little documentation and to make things worse the term "Shag" has come to mean many unrelated dances just like the term Jitterbug.
One of most popular dances in the United States today is called Carolina Shag, or too many in that region just Shag. To make things more complicated the city of St Louis, has it's regional dance called St Louis Shag, that traces even further back into the 1930's, but again to the dancers it's simply called Shag.
The enormous popularity of the Carolina Shag over the past couple decades, has caused enthusiast to try and research it's history and, all it seems have made the mistake of relating the "Carolina Shag" of today with the Shag done previous to WW2, done by the dancers who made the Big Apple famous. However, before we get into that lets start with square one with the term Collegiate Shag.
The Term Collegiate, was simply a descriptive term used to explain who, or the way a dance was done. for instance Collegiate Waltz, or Collegiate Fox Trot, simply put, this was the way the College Kids did the dance.
This style was not tied to any studio standard or structure but rather to whatever they felt was the way. This could be consider a rebellious type of dance, but not so much in that they just had their own way which was or could of been the trendy way to do it. Different schools had there way to do things and this is what set them a part, the College set.
So now, we just have Shag. where does this word even come from? well, I know the word is in fact used in a 1890 book with the definition being a Vaudeville Performer. This definition of the term Shag continued to be used all the way into the 1920's, however it's definition changed to be more specific describing Burlesque acts, and not just any Vaudeville performer.
One of the most knowledgeable historians in this field is Lance Benishek. He reminds us that these Vaudeville Performers did a step called the Flea Hop which consisted of a Step Hop which alternated right to left, and that is one of the possibilities.
Just as possible, i recall doing a performance Turkey Trot at a large camp in Sweden, and the legendary Norma Miller who started dancing at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem during the early 1930's, told me it was were the Shag came from.
Let's put all this Term History to rest for a second and let me introduce to you the first use of the Partner dance called "The Shag" .
I found a Book called "Land of the Golden River" by Lewis Phillip Hall. During the Winter of 1927 he came up with a dance routine called "The Shag", Lewis introduced this in august of 1928 in Wilmington at the Pirates Festival. Then in 1930, Kay Keever who was married to the Band Leader Jelly Leftwhich who played at the dances remembers singing in his band and jumping off stage to dance the Shag with Lewis Hall, and backs up Lewis claim that he was the one that invented the dance.
July 25th, 1929 (Blytheville Courier News, Arkansas)
Virginia Beach, VA. Sun back bathing suits and beach pajamas are the costume, the sands are the dance floor and the fastest time know to the terpsichorean art. The tempo for "The Shag" is the latest test for the energy of the southern colonist. While classified as a dance, the Shag essentially requires energy rather then grace. It apparently is the embodiment of all the movements of Highland Swing and the late Charleston. Unlike the Charleston, the feet of the dancers not lifted.
Although, in the south there were contest every summer at the Ballrooms starting in 1929, there was no mention until 1932.
July 22,1932 (Ironwood Daily Globe)
When the convention of dancing teachers opened at the Hotel New Yorker recently, an announcement was made that the Lindy Hop remained an outstanding ballroom dance. During the several days which elapsed, someone must have gone over the more recent dispatches. Toward the final session the statements read that the Earhart Hop would be "the thing".
This Winter the Shag at eve will have it's fill. The teachers have decided upon the Shag as one of their favorite dances. I'm told that it's a mild form of Tango and an improvement on the shuffle. Well the milder the better, so far as I'm concerned.
Followed closely by this advertisement 2 months later:
September 1st 1932 (Wilmington Morning Star)
"SHAG Dance contest to be held tonight at Wrightsville"
Is this the same Shag dance being done today or called the Collegiate Shag today?
No, it's not, but it was the original Collegiate Shag, and it was from the Carolinas.
Somewhere along the Lines, Dance studios started using single, double and triple Shag, to separate the styles but i think it just made things more confusing. I'll explain why as i go along.
The Collegiate Shag of today is commonly refereed to as "Double Shag". The Double consist of a step and Hop on your left, and then a Step hop on your right this takes up 4 beats of music, and then a step-step , or left right which is 2 beats of music completing the 6 beats of music. You can also simply say slow-slow-quick quick....to achieve the same timing.
Now to do the triple Shag, you simply add a Step Hop, making 3 step hops, before doing the quick quick.Triple Shag however can also mean adding "triple steps" to any basic shag, which is a syncopated 3 steps within 2 beats.
i can think of 3 basic's that fall under the term Single Shag. 1) you start with a Step-hop , quick quick which is 4 beats, and then you do the same thing starting on the other foot, step-hop quick quick. completing the 8 beats of music. 2) step, step, step-hop...and then alternate starting on right, step, step, step hop. 3) last is same as Cat step, Balboa, Jig Trot step and hop on 2 and 3.
So the Terms single, double, triple simply add confusion to a set of dances, that already have names which are separated by regions. these could all be considered Collegiate Shag, even though they are different dances done in different area's of the country during the Swing Era.
Now lets dig a little deeper...
One of the most famous film clips of Shag is no doubt Arthur Murray teaching the Shag in 1937 with his students and performers. How did he find the dance? well, it goes back to a dance called the Big Apple, and the original Big Apple dancers who all did the Shag, the Southern Version or single Shag. This was their swing dance, and what they did when they "Shined" or went into a circle to "Jam".
Upon their arrival to New York with the National Popularity of their Big Apple dance, Arthur Murray and one of his pupils Tom Gallagher took a trip to one of the most popular Collegiate Ballrooms called the Club Fordham. Upon their arrival they discovered an entire crowd of Shag Dancers, all doing the dance which we are discussing in this article. Well, it didn't take long for Arthur Murray to recruit dancers and a month or two later to come out with the Video we know of today.
So that's it? 1937? nothing earlier for this 6 count Shag? well, not necessarily so. A dancer who i came to know as Connie Wiedell, who's real name was Conrad, brought this dance to Los Angeles in 1935, and I've know a quite a few dancers that remembered that moment very well, as he first pulled up in his green Cord automobile. He became very famous in the Los Angeles dance scene as being a Shag dancer and appeared in films during the swing era, not to mention he taught a lot of dancers and it became his "Style" or "Look" of Shag that would forever become famous for being used in Cartoons.
Connie was from Minnesota, and was working in a theater in 1934 when he learned to do the Shag from some professional dancers. These dancers were on tour doing a dance called the Peabody. On his way to Los Angeles he thought he would call the dance "Chicago Shag" to make is sound more exciting and also accepting with the new dancers he would be coming across, however, thankfully that term never stuck, which would have confused history.
The dance simply became a "step" to use in their Swing dancing, such as Maxie Dorf, Ricky Birch, Fred Christopherson, Hal Takier, and even Dean Collins. One of my favorite clips is in the movie Cabin in the Sky with Duke Ellington's orchestra. Ricky Birch who was Connie's roommate at one time, comes in the Club and Jumps over a table with his partner before going into the Shag.
Today most dancers look at Connie Wiedell who dances in the beach clip (1940), Freddie and Betty Christopherson in 1937 adding Shag into their Swing, also Ray Hirsh and Patty Lacy in Blondie Meets the Boss (1939) and Mad Youth (1940). Also, there are some short clips of the Harvest Moon Ball which was held in Madison Square Garden, between the years 1936 and 1939 it had a Shag division, lastly, as mentioned before Arthur Murray's Instructional Video comes to mind as a great source, followed by Vitaphone shorts with Artie Shaw, and Woody Herman.
These are just a few of the clips that have become famous for today dancers.
I know, it's one of those dances that almost just seems to appear out of now where, becomes the most popular dance for kids for a few years and then disappears.
Obviously these kids in their saddle shoes who laid claim to doing this dance grew up and learned sophistication in dance was more important then hopping around the floor, that and the music they loved took a back seat to new music forms that did not fit the swing mold.
My personal opinion is the dance came from Turkey Trot which was a basic step for the Tommy dance as well. We know from film this dance was based on a step hop, step hop, when the quick quick came in we don't really know, however during the teens the two step and fox trot became a huge hit across the country which at least explains the possibility of added a variation of timing, which here means adding a quick-quick or step step alternating feet. In the Turkey Trot we see the same posture, same turns and patterns. The earliest i have this on film is 1914, however oral history of interviews puts the dance at least 5 years earlier. It was Al Jolsen that discovered these dancers and brought them from San Francisco to New York around 1914 which helped spread the dances popularity on both coast.
We've also heard of dancers claim that the Turkey Trot or Texas Tommy helped influence the Lindy Hop, If that's possible certainly it makes a lot more sense that it helped influence the Shag, if not created it.
anyways, this is my research and look at the dance which has become more popular in the last few years. Although, I started doing it over 10 years ago after discovering the Arthur Murray clip and practicing with friends, Learn as many steps from old timers, and spent unknown hours with Connie Wiedell. It seems to have recently had a small revival, with Shag weekends slowly popping up around the world. In the late 1990's we had Shag Contest all around Southern California which was real fun, but it didn't seem to last long, as most dancers were interested more in Lindy Hop, Swing, Charleston and Balboa. However, there were those countless nights in the back room of the Derby in Hollywood of all of us Shag dancers going off and Jamming! Imagine that on a regular night out....those were the days!
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What makes me enjoy the dancing of this Dean Collins guy who danced in so many movies during the 1940's? I've been asked this countless times, while out and about, and I have never actually written about my personal opinion.
I've inherited many of his belongings and collected tons of memorabilia which allowed me to create an archive in his name but that all has nothing to do with my personal fascination.
I could use perhaps simply use two words, "It's real" , but that would be to easy and would not really answer anything for people wanting to know the details or my in depth thoughts.
So I'll start with simply the way he dances on film, to me watching Dean is simply like watching someone that is very confident. It's as though he has nothing to prove, because he knows what he is doing and doesn't care either way what the viewer thinks.
All of his dancing is so genius, his subtle movements, foot work and the way he moves his girl, is all part of his master plan or agenda in dance. He take you with him, you watch him, you watch his feet, then his partner, back to him...it's a visual roller coaster in time with the music.
Sometimes, his magic is created with some type of tension against the music or movement with his partner which then becomes to synced It can only be described by me as a swell in the water pushing a floating object along so effortlessly.
Other times, it's as simple as him knowing what to do in order for the viewer to watch certain parts of his dancing. He has control, he can manipulate the viewer no different then a magician. He is a performer who uses as little as possible most of time and then can or will explode into a specific trick or movement that's necessary to dazzle the non-dancer, for Dean is no doubt "The dancers dancer".
Although Dean Collins will go down in history as the guy who brought the Lindy Hop from New York in Los Angeles, he claimed what he did was "The Lindy" once he had developed his own style which became the standard type of dancing by those in Los Angeles. Dean's "Lindy" could be described at a watered down version of what was being done by the dancers in Harlem's famous Savoy Ballroom, however that description would mean you could simply add water to something that is already there which is simply not true.
Dean "Lindy" is something he created using the foundation of what was already there. His strict discipline of body movement, his being able to separate the lower half of his body with the upper is an isolation rarely scene by any dancer of any form. His foundation of his dancing was created by syncopated steps in succession as opposed to the former style of sparring using these steps strictly as decoration, or the generation that would come after of over killing these syncopations as we see in European Boogie Woogie dancing. Dean's formula was just right.
Another thing about Dean's dancing was knowing when and how to show off his partners. He knew not only when but how to show of his partners, in way that had not been done before. Certainly, this was in part to the era in which he developed his type of dancing, but none the less he was the first to be documented in film showing off the follow, as a lady as opposed to showing her off as an athletic counter part.
This aspect surely gained hi popularity among the ladies of that time, allowing them to feel like a glamorous movie star such as Lana Turner or Betty Grable, instead of the next gold medalist in the high jump. Dean's most popular partner Jewel McGowan was allowed to shine in ways that no Lady has ever been able to do, and Dean's style with Jewel will never seriously be replicated with out Jewel.
When the two dance it was magic undaunted and unequalled since, However, when Dean Performed or in many times competed he teamed up with Irene Thomas. Irene was a master Hoofer and performer, who graduated in 1939 from Hollywood High school and too her going out and Jitterbugging was something all the kids just did. To her it was easy child play and she loved to push the limits of footwork variations as well as hamming it up for the audience or camera.
When Dean and Irene danced it took on a whole different picture, one of intense footwork variations one could almost see as a battle, or perhaps two musicians using a vocabulary so advanced that only the baptized could understand it's true greatness.
Regardless of what is going on through their feet, and movements and patterns the atmosphere around the dance was always one with ease, confidence and an attitude of genius that was never over done with cockiness. If anything, I would say most of his dancing tilted towards modest, which perhaps was an alter ego off the floor, none the less for many dancers that is the very escape, or explanation of dance.
As dancer, watching him we can sometimes cut through the persona we see on film as we witness in "Junior Prom" as he parades through one girl as a time with ease showing each one off until he finally ends with the actress for whom he taught a simple routine too. Some clips of him are downright silly, in which he dances with complete non dancers creating a catastrophe, but what the heck it was simply a paid gig, which meant paying rent and eating food, because few People realize today that during these war years him and his friends shared one suit, which they would trade off using when going to casting calls.
Even on uptempo songs such as "Hi Neighbor" in 1941, he retains the attitude, confidence and sophistication in his style that until then would have not been seen by any dancer. But then we witness his humble dancing in "Hellzapoppin" also in 1941 as he dances with film star Martha Raye while later in the film we witness the worlds best Lindy Hoppers dazzle in what is considered the best filmed Lindy Hop number in history.
Dean Collins was a one man act who knew what he needed to be his best, he was a master jitterbug who used his abilities like a credit card, and used it to the fullest it was worth. Frequenting the right dance spots around Hollywood he would not only constantly check his talent against other local dancers but also make the right appearances in the upscaled bars and clubs to rub elbows and make contacts with the movie stars of the silver screen.
While he was simply a Jitterbug dance bum, As Jewel referred to him as, he was able to show of his genius enough to give monthly private lessons to Arthur Murray, go on dates with stars such as Lana Turner, become good friends and hang out with Musicians like Harry James and find time to teach Shirley Temple how to dance.
His clothes unless costumed by the film department were at best simply nice casual, certainly nothing special of that time. Today's vintage aficionados' do their best to recreate that look, but certainly it was a look for the entire population of Jitterbugs and not just Dean's.
Carefully disciplined to a point where eccentric and sophistication met like never before, The focus was not just the feet, the timing or the movement, it was also his partners, the subtraction or addition of and where he wanted you to look was Dean Collins and his style of dancing. Unlike so many many masters from the 1930's and 1940's who have been recreated, Dean's will always remain the challenge unsolved, like an amazing dish of food which will never be recreated until the missing ingredients are finally discovered. Even if they are, as any cook will tell you , it's putting them together just right...
In 1984 The Los Angeles Times, had a nice obituary for Dean when he passed away calling him "The King of Swing". I wouldn't disagree that he was a King, but there is a lot of Kings, I think a more suitable title would have been "The Genius of Swing", for too me there has simply never been anything like him, and that's my fascination.
Labels: Dean Collins Lindy Hop Jewel McGowan Jitterbug Swing
One of the The most misunderstood terms and commonly asked questions I've come across in my travels, "What is a Jitterbug"?
It doesn't matter where the term came from, and it doesn't matter how it came to be, at least not in this writing. What does matter is it was....and even to this day is being thrown around in various ways.
Unfortunately, the answer of "what is a Jitterbug" really is not that easy, unless we take a closer look back in time. The time and era i draw my answer starts in the 1930's during the swing era when Bands played for dancers, and these dance bands were at the height of being popular music.
The best example i could site would be a newspaper clipping from Los Angeles advertising a contest in 1938 at the Paramount Theater.
In Bold letters it said "JITTERBUG CONTEST" and then under that it said, come see the The Shag, Truckin', The Lindy Hop, Randy Swing and the Susie Q!
The simple truth is Jitterbug was not a dance at all but rather an umbrella term used to label hardcore enthusiast who were normally in heir teens, but of course not always.
It was these teens that lived the popular music, by that i mean collected the records, bought the magazines, got autographs, danced until they dropped and converted their parents to listening and even dancing to their generations music. Which was different to their Parents generation and would be different the following generation.
Something I've come across in various interviews was how the Jitterbugs were looked upon by not only the public but also musicians. Many musicians embraced or at least respected these kids for their overall knowledge of knowing who was playing in what bands in what cities, something musicians simply didn't have time to do, and commonly didn't find it always important. One such player while on tour not knowing were a fellow friend and musician was playing kneeled down to the edge of the stage and asked a group of dancers "hey Kids, do you know were is Krupa playing right now?" to which they replied "They just hit Atlantic City!"
Of course, it goes without saying not everyone liked "The Jitterbug" for them it meant a reckless teen hell bent on smoking reefer and ditching school, and at one moment in history one of the greatest band leaders in history came out and called them "MORONS" , unfortunately Artie Shaws comment was taken out of context, and in response to the activities surrounding that nights Concert.
That night while in the height of his Big Bands Popularity, this being while Buddy Rich manned the drums a group of his fans outside like a frenzied group of piranha's cut up the new convertible top to his car and wrote all over his vehicle, destroying the paint job as well, while inside the Ballroom one Fan jumped from the second balcony breaking their leg, and lastly one Dancer so entranced by the music jumped on stage and accidently kicked Artie's Clarinet which in turn jammed the mouth piece into his lip. So backstage, when the Newspaper reporter "So what do you think of these Jitterbugs?" the response could be none other. Artie regretted his answer later, and recounted in interviews and to myself, that he truly enjoy dancing, and like music , he enjoys great dancing and great playing however most are not great.
What did the Jitterbugs think of this term, that the media deemed onto them? Well, this depends once again. Some dancers, who were very serious hated it, and went so far as to dismiss it as a racial term, That Jitterbugs were nothing but white kids who couldn't dance. While this person's belief might have in fact always been their opinion, we know it isn't true from the information, photographs and articles we have today. Check out how many white kids danced in Jitterbug contest from the 1939 movie "Keep Punchin". None, what we see are Jitterbugs from the famous Dance Troupe "Whitey's Lindy Hoppers" doing a dance called "The Lindy Hop". One of the dancers in that Scene Frank Manning, would agree, while another Norma Miller would quickly exclaim "We were not Jitterbugs, we were Lindy Hoppers!", now i too was confused.
So I went on speak to Venna Archer who one of the legends of dance on the west coast about the term. She simply accepted the term and stated "some dancers might disagree with the term to try and feel more important then everyone else by calling themselves something else, Like a Shag dancer, or Lindy Hopper, that's just them sticking up for their dance but like it or not, that's just what we were, Jitterbugs".
After the War the styles of dance began to become slightly more homogenized as the temperament around the dance floors changed, and slowly the media and other "removed sources" started to call the dance it self "The Jitterbug" , one such moment was when the Daily News changed the division name in the Harvest Moon Ballroom in 1943 from "The Lindy Hop" to "Jitterbug/Jive" , why this was done we will really never know, but possibly to give them the benefit of the doubt was to include all types of dances being done to uptempo dance music. Regardless, we began to see the trend of dance and instructional books start including lesson's in Jitterbug. From here the term takes directions, and new definitions....forever, loosing it's origin.
For one moment during the 1950's one Los Angeles paper got it correct, with an article and photograph of George Christopherson doing his trademark move of doing a front flip onto his back with his then partner Freda Wycoff with the Caption reading: "The JITTERBUGS ARE BACK!"
Labels: Jitterbug swing lindy hop artie shaw
What is this thing called Jassdancer? well, I guess it's my play on words,in an attempt to be specific, different, crafty or perhaps all?
Nowadays, if you call yourself a Jazz dancer, people think of some type of modern dance, or having to do with "Jazz Hands" be it Jack Cole or Bob Fosse.
Obviously, I could use the term Authentic Jazz Dance or even Vernacular Jazz dance which would be specifically what I focus on however, the terms can be confusing to people not familiar with history.
That's brings me to Jass, one of the popular and in my opinion miss spellings of the world. simply because places like San Fransisco were using the term earlier, at least what we have documented in print and they were spelling it "Jazz", one such group was Sid Leprotti's So Different Jazz Band.
However, as accurate this may be historically, it's what the history books say, and Ken Burns Documentary in which people subscribe to as being the Bible of Jazz which brings us to that 1917 recording by the Original Dixieland Jass Band, who soon after changed the spelling to Jazz.
so using the term Jass Dancer, as correct term, and then spelling it with the jaSS, it just a simply nod to a time when this art form was being incubated, and growing like crazy soon to kick off an era that would forever be remembered as the Jazz Era....
In the future I will be writing articles pertaining to the entire culture that surrounded this era, which includes whatever I find interesting to share in music, dance, fashion, art and writing.
Thanks, The Jassdancer
Sid Leprotti's So Different Jazz Band, San Fransisco 1915
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شیراز ، تیرازیس
City in southwest Iran: Shiraz was important during the Seleucid (312-175 BC), Parthian (247 BC-AD 224), and Sassanid ( AD 224–651) periods but reached its economic and cultural peak in the 10th–11th centuries, during the Islamic period. In the 14th century, Teimur occupied Shiraz, which had by that time become a Muslim centre rivaling Baghdad. In 1724 it was sacked by Afghan invaders and later became the capital of the Persian Zand dynasty (1750–94). Famous for its wine, gardens, shrines, and mosques, it was the birthplace of the Persian poets Saadi and Hafez, who have become international icons.Therefore, Shiraz is known as the city of famous poets, love and wine. The fame of this historical city is universal and the name Shiraz has been used as international brands. (Wikipedia) - Shiraz For the grape and modern-day wine, see Syrah. For the wine once produced in the Iranian city of Shiraz, see Shirazi wine. For other uses, see Shiraz (disambiguation).
Shiraz Širâz
Clockwise from top: Eram Garden, Tomb of Hafez, Qavam House, Chamran Grand Hotel, and Tomb of Saadi.
Nickname(s): Persian Cultural Capital City of roses City of gardens City of flower and nightingale
ShirazLocation of Shiraz in Iran
Province Fars
County Shiraz
• Mayor Alireza Pakfetrat
• City council Gholam Mehdi Haghdel Mahmoudreza Taleban Zahra Yaghtin Fatemeh Hooshmand Ehsan Asnafi Bijan Zarei Ebrahim Sho''ara Ahmadreza Naghib Zadeh Mozaffar Mokhtari Shobeir Zare''e Khafri MohammadKazem Dastgheyb Zein Al Abedin Arab Mohammad Haghnegar
• Total 240 km2 (86.487 sq mi)
• Land 240 km2 (86.487 sq mi)
• Water 0 km2 (0 sq mi) 0%
Elevation 1,500 m (5,200 ft)
• Total 1,700,677
• Density 3,609.8/km2 (9,347.5/sq mi)
Population Data: 2006 Census was 1,214,808, in 315,725 families
2011 Municipality was 1,700,677
Time zone IRST (UTC+3:30)
Area code(s) 0711
Routes Road 65 Road 67 Road 86 Future Shiraz-Isfahan Freeway
Website www.shiraz.ir
Shiraz pronunciation (help·info) (i/ʃiːrɑːz/; Persian: Širâz - شیراز, Persian pronunciation: ), is the fifth most populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province. In 2009 the population of the city was 1,455,073. Shiraz is located in the southwest of Iran on the Roodkhaneye Khoshk (Dry river) seasonal river. It has a moderate climate and has been a regional trade center for over a thousand years. It is regarded as one of the oldest cities of ancient Persia.
The earliest reference to the city, as Tiraziš, is on Elamite clay tablets dated to 2000 BC. In the 13th century, Shiraz became a leading center of the arts and letters, due to the encouragement of its ruler and the presence of many Persian scholars and artists. It was the capital of the Persia during the Zand dynasty from 1750 until 1781, as well as briefly during the Saffarid period. Two famous poets of Iran, Hafez and Saadi, are from Shiraz.
Shiraz is known as the city of poets, literature, wine and flowers. It is also considered by many Iranians to be the city of gardens, due to the many gardens and fruit trees that can be seen in the city. Shiraz has had major Jewish and Christian communities. The crafts of Shiraz consist of inlaid mosaic work of triangular design; silver-ware; pile carpet-weaving and weaving of kilim, called gilim and jajim in the villages and among the tribes. In Shiraz industries such as cement production, sugar, fertilizers, textile products, wood products, metalwork and rugs dominate. Shirāz also has a major oil refinery and is also a major center for Iran''s electronic industries: 53% of Iran''s electronic investment has been centered in Shiraz. Shiraz is home to Iran''s first solar power plant. Recently the city''s first wind turbine has been installed above Babakoohi mountain near the city.
2.1 Pre-Islamic
2.2 Islamic period
2.3 Modern Times
6 Demography
8 Main sights
9 Neighborhoods of Shiraz
10.1 Balloon Festival
11 Higher education
12 Transportation
12.1 Airports
12.2 Metro
12.3 Bus
12.4 Train
12.5 Roads
13 Famous people
14 Link with India
15 Twin towns – sister cities
The earliest reference to the city is on Elamite clay tablets dated to 2000 BCE, found in June 1970, while digging to make a kiln for a brick factory in the south western corner of the city. The tablets written in ancient Elamite name a city called Tiraziš. Phonetically, this is interpreted as /tiračis/ or /ćiračis/. This name became Old Persian /širājiš/; through regular sound change comes the modern Persian name Shirāz. The name Shiraz also appears on clay sealings found at a 2nd-century CE Sassanid ruin, east of the city. By some of the native writers, the name Shiraz has derived from a son of Tahmuras, the third Shāh (King) of the world according to Ferdowsi''s Shāhnāma.
History Main article: History of Shiraz Pre-Islamic
Shiraz is most likely more than 4,000 years old. The name Shiraz is mentioned in cuneiform inscriptions from around 2000 BCE found in south western corner of the Shiraz city. According to some Iranian mythological traditions, it was originally erected by Tahmuras Diveband, and afterward fell to ruin. The oldest sample of wine in the world, dating to approximately 7,000 years ago, was discovered on clay jars recovered outside of Shiraz (according to the referenced article, this discovery was made in Hajji Firuz Tepe, a Neolithic village in Iran''s northern Zagros Mountains, more than a thousand kilometers north of Shiraz).
In Achaemenian era, Shiraz was on the way from Susa to Persepolis and Pasargadae. In Ferdowsi''s Shāhnāma it has been said that Artabanus V, the Parthian Emperor of Iran, expanded his control over Shiraz. Ghasre Abu-Nasr (meaning "the palace of AbuNasr") which is originally from Parthian era is situated in this area. During the Sassanid era, Shiraz was in between the way which was connecting Bishapur and Gur to Istakhr. Shiraz was an important regional center under the Sassanians.
Islamic periodSection of a Ceiling from the Narinjistan Mansion, ca. 1870. These sections of a painted wood ceiling come from the public audience hall of the Narinjistan (Orange Garden) mansion in Shiraz, in southwestern Iran. Construction of this residence, noted for its opulent surface decorations and mirror work, was begun in 1870 by Mirza Ibrahim Khan and completed in 1885 by Muhammad Riza Khan, who belonged to the prominent Qavam family of Shiraz. Brooklyn MuseumArg of Karim Khan
The city became a provincial capital in 693, after the Arab invaders conquered Istakhr, the nearby Sassanian capital. As Istakhr fell into decline, Shiraz grew in importance under the Arabs and several local dynasties. The Buwayhid empire (945–1055) made it their capital, building mosques, palaces, a library and an extended city wall. It was also ruled by the Seljuks and the Khwarezmians before the Mongol conquest.
The city was spared destruction by the invading Mongols, when its local ruler offered tributes and submission to Genghis Khan. Shiraz was again spared by Tamerlane, when in 1382 the local monarch, Shah Shoja agreed to submit to the invader. In the 13th century, Shiraz became a leading center of the arts and letters, thanks to the encouragement of its ruler and the presence of many Persian scholars and artists. For this reason the city was named by classical geographers Dar al-‘Elm, the House of Knowledge. Among the Iranian poets, mystics and philosophers born in Shiraz were the poets Sa''di and Hafiz, the mystic Roozbehan, and the philosopher Mulla Sadra. Thus Shiraz has been nicknamed "The Athens of Iran". As early as the 11th century, several hundred thousand people inhabited Shiraz. In the 14th century Shiraz had sixty thousand inhabitants. During the 16th century it had a population of 200,000 people, which by the mid-18th century had decreased to only 50,000.
In 1504, Shiraz was captured by the forces of Ismail I, the founder of the Safavid dynasty. Throughout the Safavid empire (1501–1722) Shiraz remained a provincial capital and Emam Qoli Khan, the governor of Fars under Shah Abbas I, constructed many palaces and ornate buildings in the same style as those built during the same period in Isfahan, the capital of the Empire. After the fall of the Safavids, Shiraz suffered a period of decline, worsened by the raids of the Afghans and the rebellion of its governor against Nader Shah; the latter sent troops to suppress the revolt. The city was besieged for many months and eventually sacked. At the time of Nader Shah''s murder in 1747, most of the historical buildings of the city were damaged or ruined, and its population fell to 50,000, one-quarter of that during the 16th century.
The Qur''an Gate was a part of the great city wall built under the Buyid dynasty
Shiraz soon returned to prosperity under the rule of Karim Khan Zand, who made it his capital in 1762. Employing more than 12,000 workers, he constructed a royal district with a fortress, many administrative buildings, a mosque and one of the finest covered bazaars in Iran. He had a moat built around the city, constructed an irrigation and drainage system, and rebuilt the city walls. However, Karim Khan''s heirs failed to secure his gains. When Agha Mohammad Khan, the founder of the Qajar dynasty, eventually came to power, he wreaked his revenge on Shiraz by destroying the city''s fortifications and moving the national capital to Tehran. Although lowered to the rank of a provincial capital, Shiraz maintained a level of prosperity as a result of the continuing importance of the trade route to the Persian Gulf. Its governorship was a royal prerogative throughout the Qajar dynasty. Many of the famous gardens, buildings and residences built during this time contribute to the city''s present skyline.
Shiraz is the birthplace of the co-founder of the Bahá''í Faith, the Báb (Siyyid ''Ali-Muhammad, 1819–1850). In this city, on the evening of 22 May 1844, he first declared his mission as the bearer of a new divine revelation. For this reason Shiraz is a holy city for Bahá’ís, and the city, particularly the house of the Báb, was identified as a place of pilgrimage. Due to the hostile climate towards Baha''is in Iran, the house has been the target of repeated attacks; the house was destroyed in 1979, to be paved over two years later and made into a public square.
Tomb of HafezFurther information: 1910 Shiraz blood libel
In 1910 a pogrom of the Jewish quarter started after false rumours that the Jews had ritually killed a Muslim girl. In the course of the pogrom, 12 Jews were killed and about 50 were injured, and 6,000 Jews of Shiraz were robbed of all their possessions.
The city''s role in trade greatly diminished with the opening of the trans-Iranian railway in the 1930s, as trade routes shifted to the ports in Khuzestan. Much of the architectural inheritance of Shiraz, and especially the royal district of the Zands, was either neglected or destroyed as a result of irresponsible town planning under the Pahlavi dynasty.
Lacking any great industrial, religious or strategic importance, Shiraz became an administrative center, although its population has nevertheless grown considerably since the 1979 revolution.
Modern TimesChamran Grand Hotel located in Chamran Blvd
The City''s municipality and other related institutions have initiated restoration and reconstruction projects.
Some of the most recent projects have been the complete restoration of the Arg of Karim Khan and of the Vakil Bath, as well as a comprehensive plan for the preservation of the old city quarters. Other noteworthy initiatives include the total renovation of the Qur''an Gate and the mausoleum of the poet Khwaju Kermani, both located in the Allah-u-Akbar Gorge, as well as the restoration and expansion of the mausoleum of the famous Shiraz-born poets Hafiz and Saadi.
A lot of different construction projects is currently underway, which is going to modernize the City''s infrastructure. The Shiraz 1400 chain of projects is set to transform the city and greatly modernize the infrastructure.
After the Iranian Revolution, Shiraz was re-established as the capital of Iranian Art and Culture. Shiraz is known as the capital of Persian Art, Culture and Literature.
GeographyMaharloo Lake, Shiraz
Shiraz is located in the south of Iran and the northwest of Fars Province. It is built in a green plain at the foot of the Zagros Mountains 1,500 metres (4,900 feet) above sea level. Shiraz is 919 kilometres (571 mi) south of Tehran.
A seasonal river, Rudkhaneye Khoshk, flows through the northern part of the city and on into Maharloo Lake. As of 1920, the area had a large forest of oak trees.
Shiraz’s climate has distinct seasons, and is overall classed as a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSh), though it is only a little short of a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa). Summers are hot, with a July average high of 37.8 °C (100.0 °F). Winters are cool, with average low temperatures below freezing in December and January. Around 300 mm (12 in) of rain falls each year, almost entirely in the winter months, though in some cases as much as this has fallen in a single month (as in January 1965 and December 2004), whilst in the year from July 1965 to June 1966 as little as 82.9 millimetres (3.3 in) fell. The wettest year has been 1955/1956 with as much as 857.2 millimetres (33.75 in), though since 1959 the highest has been around 590 millimetres (23.2 in) in each of 1995/1996 and 2004/2005.
Shiraz contains a considerable number of gardens. Due to population growth in the city, many of these gardens may be lost to give way to new developments. Although some measures have been taken by the Municipality to preserve these gardens, many illegal developments still endanger them.
The highest record temperature was 43.2 °C (109.8 °F) on 21 July 1980 and the lowest record temperature was −14 °C (7 °F)
Climate data for Shiraz
Record high °C (°F) 22 (72) 26 (79) 32 (90) 34 (93) 39 (102) 42 (108) 43.2 (109.8) 42 (108) 39 (102) 34 (93) 30 (86) 28 (82) 43.2 (109.8)
Average high °C (°F) 12.1 (53.8) 14.7 (58.5) 18.9 (66) 23.8 (74.8) 30.6 (87.1) 36.1 (97) 37.8 (100) 37 (99) 33.7 (92.7) 27.8 (82) 20.5 (68.9) 14.4 (57.9) 25.62 (78.14)
Daily mean °C (°F) 5.3 (41.5) 7.7 (45.9) 11.8 (53.2) 16.2 (61.2) 22.5 (72.5) 27.7 (81.9) 29.8 (85.6) 28.7 (83.7) 24.5 (76.1) 18.4 (65.1) 11.7 (53.1) 6.8 (44.2) 17.59 (63.67)
Average low °C (°F) −0.4 (31.3) 1.2 (34.2) 4.8 (40.6) 8.5 (47.3) 13.2 (55.8) 17.1 (62.8) 19.9 (67.8) 18.8 (65.8) 14.1 (57.4) 8.8 (47.8) 3.8 (38.8) 0.5 (32.9) 9.19 (48.54)
Record low °C (°F) −13 (9) −8 (18) −4 (25) 0 (32) 6 (43) 9 (48) 14 (57) 0 (32) 7 (45) 2 (36) −8 (18) −16 (3) −16 (3)
Precipitation mm (inches) 79.8 (3.142) 49.8 (1.961) 48.4 (1.906) 30.6 (1.205) 6.6 (0.26) 0.2 (0.008) 1 (0.04) 0.1 (0.004) 0 (0) 5.2 (0.205) 20.7 (0.815) 63.2 (2.488) 305.6 (12.034)
Avg. rainy days 8.7 7.9 7.9 6.4 2.1 0.2 0.8 0.0 0.0 1.2 3.7 7.2 46.1
Avg. snowy days 1.5 0.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.6 2.7
% humidity 65 58 51 46 32 22 24 24 26 34 48 61 40.9
Source #1: Climate Charts
Source #2: Voodoo Skies for record temperatures, NOAA (1961-1990)
Economy See also: Economy of Iran
Shiraz is the economic center of southern Iran. The second half of the 19th century witnessed certain economic developments that greatly changed the economy of Shiraz. The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 allowed the extensive import into southern Iran of inexpensive European factory-made goods, either directly from Europe or via India. Farmers in unprecedented numbers began planting cash crops such as opium poppy, tobacco, and cotton. Many of these export crops passed through Shiraz on their way to the Persian Gulf. Iranian long-distance merchants from Fars developed marketing networks for these commodities, establishing trading houses in Bombay, Calcutta, Port Said, Istanbul and even Hong Kong.
Shiraz''s economic base is in its provincial products, which include grapes, citrus fruits, cotton and rice. Industries such as cement production, sugar, fertilizers, textile products, wood products, metalwork and rugs dominate. Shirāz also has a major oil refinery and is also a major center for Iran''s electronic industries. 53% of Iran''s electronic investment has been centered in Shiraz.
Agriculture has always been a major part of the economy in and around Shiraz. This is partially due to a relative abundance of water compared to the surrounding deserts. Shirāz is famous for its carpet production and flowers as well. Viticulture has a long history in the region, and Shirazi wine used to be produced here. Shiraz is also an Iranian center for IT, communication, electronic industry, and transportation.
The Shiraz Special Economic Zone or the SEEZ was established in 2000 with the purpose of boosting manufacture in electronic and communications.
ShoppingPersian Gulf ComplexVakil Bazaar as seen by Jane Dieulafoy in 1881
With more than 25 malls and 10 bazaars, Shiraz is known as the easiest place for shopping in Iran and the Middle East.
The Persian Gulf Complex, located at the north end of the city, is the largest mall in the world in terms of the number of shops.
The Vakil Bazaar, one of the oldest bazaars in the world, is located in the old city centre of Shiraz. Featuring beautiful courtyards, caravansarais, and bath houses, its shops are deemed among the best places in Shiraz to buy all kinds of Persian rugs, spices, copper handicrafts and antiques.
As of 2006, Shiraz has a population of 1,227,331, the majority of whom are Persian. Most of the population of Shiraz are Muslims. Shiraz also was home to a 6,000-strong Jewish community, although most emigrated to the United States and Israel in the latter half of the 20th century. Along with Tehran and Esfahan, Shiraz is one of the handful of Iranian cities with a sizable Jewish population, and more than one active synagogue.
Shiraz also has a significant Baha''i population, the largest in the country after Tehran.
There are currently two functioning churches in Shiraz, one Armenian, the other, Anglican.
Shiraz is known as the city of poets, gardens, wine, nightingales and flowers. The crafts of Shiraz consist of inlaid mosaic work of triangular design; silver-ware; carpet-weaving, and the making of the rugs called gilim (Shiraz Kilim) and "jajim" in the villages and among the tribes.
The garden is an important part of Iranian culture. There are many old gardens in Shiraz such as the Eram garden and the Afif abad garden. According to some people, Shiraz "disputes with Xeres in Spain the honour of being the birthplace of sherry."
Shiraz is proud of being mother land of Hafiz Shirazi, Shiraz is a center for Iranian culture and has produced a number of famous poets. Saadi, a 12th and 13th-century poet was born in Shiraz. He left his native town at a young age for Baghdad to study Arabic literature and Islamic sciences at Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad. When he reappeared in his native Shiraz he was an elderly man. Shiraz, under Atabak Abubakr Sa''d ibn Zangy (1231–1260) was enjoying an era of relative tranquility. Saadi was not only welcomed to the city but he was highly respected by the ruler and enumerated among the greats of the province. He seems to have spent the rest of his life in Shiraz. Hafiz, another famous poet and mystic was also born in Shiraz. A number of scientists also originate from Shiraz. Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, a 13th-century astronomer, mathematician, physician, physicist and scientist was from Shiraz. In his The Limit of Accomplishment concerning Knowledge of the Heavens, he also discussed the possibility of heliocentrism.
Main sightsA panoramic view of Shiraz in autumn 2009
The tombs of Hafiz, Saadi, and Khaju e Kermani (whose tomb is inside a mountain above the city''s old Qur''an Gate). Other lesser known tombs are that of Shah Shoja'' (the Mozafarid emir of Persia, and patron of Hafiz), and the Haft Tanan mausoleum, where 7 Sufi mystics are buried. The Tomb of Baba Kuhi sits atop a mountain overlooking the city, and the tomb of Karim Khan Zand is at the Pars Museum of Shiraz.
The oldest mosque is Atigh Jame'' Mosque, which is one of the older mosques of Iran, followed by Vakil Mosque and Nasir al-Mulk mosque. The Vakil Mosque is situated west of the famous Vakil Bazaar. It covers an area of 8,660 square meters and was built in 1187 (AH) during Zand Dynasty. On the two sides of the entrance gate there are magnificent tile-works and arches. The left and right corridors of the entrance gate are connected to the main room.
The citadel of Arg of Karim Khan sits adjacent to the Vakil Bazaar and Vakil Bath at the city''s central district. The most famous of houses are Zinat-ol-Molook House and Gahavam''s House, both in the old quarters of the city.
The Qur''an Gate is the entrance to Shiraz. It is located near the gorge of Allah-o-Akbar and is flanked by the Baba Kuhi and Chehel Maqam mountains. The gateway is where two copies of the Qurans known
The Eram Garden (Bagh-e Eram) in Shiraz is a striking location for visitors with a variety of plants as well as a historic mansion. Although the exact date of the construction of the garden is not clear, historical evidence suggests it was constructed during the Seljuk Dynasty on the orders of the celebrated Seljuk monarch Sanjar. Other historical Persian gardens are Afifabad Garden and The Museum of Weapons, Delgosha Garden and Jahan nama Garden.
Within a relatively short driving distance from Shiraz are the ruins of Persepolis, Bishapur, Pasargadae, and Firouzabad. At Naqsh-e Rustam can be found the tombs of the Achaemenid kings as well as the Ka''ba-ye Zartosht, which has been thought to be either a Zoroastrian fire temple or possibly even the true tomb of Cyrus the Great. Maharloo Lake is a popular breeding ground for various bird species.
Naqsh-e Rostam site contains funerary related works belonging to the Elamite (second millennium BCE), Achaemenid (550–330 BCE) and Sassanid (226–651 CE) eras. Naqsh-e Rostam is a site believed by archaeologists to have been a cemetery for Persepolis, where Achaemenid, Parthian and Sassanid royalty were laid to rest.
A creek crossing a property in Shiraz
A creek
Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz
Arg of Karim Khan (18th-century monument)
Rostam overcoming the Demon. The 19th-century mosaic mural at Arg of Karim Khan.
Qavam House
Tomb of Hafez
Tomb of Saadi Shirazi
Eram Street in autumn
Neighborhoods of Shiraz
List of neighbourhoods in Shiraz:
Zargari
Abivardi
Farhang Shahr
Ghasrodasht
Kooye Zahra
Ma''ali Abad
Molla Sadra
Shahcheragh
Shahrak-e-Golestan
Shahrak-e-Sadra
Tachara
Zerehi
kolbeh saadi
Podonak
Payegah
Bagh-e Nari (Narvan)
Siahatgar BLVD
Abiari Ave
Artesh square (Army Square)
Babakoohi
Kooye Jamaran(siman)
SportsHafezieh Stadium
Bargh Shiraz (Established in 1946) is Shiraz''s top team and currently plays in Iran''s Azadegan League. Its biggest honour was winning the 1997 Hazfi Cup. Moqavemat Sepasi (formerly Fajr Sepasi) (Established in 1988) also plays in Iran''s Premier Football League, and have also won the Hazfi Cup in 2001. Shiraz has two Football stadiums; the Hafezieh stadium with 20,000 Capacity built in 1945 and Another stadium, Shiraz Stadium, is due to be finished in 2009 and will have 50,000 capacity.
Furthermore, Shiraz has a professional basketball club Louleh a.s Shiraz BC. The team competes in the Iranian Basketball Super League.
Shiraz also has a female rugby team.
On the occasion of the Shiraz week, 12 hot air balloon flew at the same time across the city for the first time in Shiraz. The ceremony was held in two stages. First in sunset and other in night. After the end of the night ceremony, the floodlight was held in Hafezieh Stadium.
Shiraz''s Ballon Festival, 2010Higher educationShiraz University main building
Shiraz is home to a vibrant academic community. The Shiraz University of Medical Sciences was the first university in Shiraz and was founded in 1946. Much older is the august Madrasa-e-Khan, or Khan Theological School, with about 600 students; its tile-covered buildings date from 1627.
Today Shiraz University is the largest university in the province, and one of Iran''s best academic centers. Other major universities in or nearby Shiraz are the Islamic Azad University of Shiraz, Shiraz University of Technology, and Shiraz University of Applied Science and Technology.
The Shiraz Regional Library of Science and Technology is the largest provincial library serving the public.
Virtual University of Shiraz is one of the sub colleges of Shiraz University.
Transportation AirportsAn Iran Air Airbus A320 Approaching Shiraz International Airport (2011)
Shiraz International Airport serves as the largest airport in the southern region of Iran. After undergoing renovation and redevelopment work in 2005, Shiraz Airport was identified as the second most reliable and modern airport in Iran (after Imam Khomeini International Airport of Tehran) in terms of flight safety including electronic and navigation control systems of its flight tower.
Metro Main article: Shiraz Metro
A metro system started in Shiraz in 2001 by the Shiraz Urban Railway Organization which contains three lines. The length of the first Line are 22.4 km (13.9 mi), the length of the second line will be 8.5 km (5.3 mi) The length of the third line will be 16 km (10 mi). 21 stations was built in route one. The three lines when completed, will have 32 stations below ground and six above and one special station which will be connected to the railway station. The first line was started it''s work on October 2014.
Shiraz has 71 bus lines with 50,000 buses.Iran''s third Bus Rapid Transit was opening in Shiraz in 2009 with 2 lines.2 other lines be opening in 2010.
Shiraz is connected with the rest of Iran''s railway network. The trains arrive and leave from Shiraz Railway Station, Irans largest railway station according to surface area. It has passenger trains, operating 6 days per week to Isfahan, Tehran and Mashad.
There are 700 000 cars in the city of Shiraz.
Shiraz Transport Network
Bus Terminals (Bus Routes)
Karandish Terminal
Modares Terminal
Amirkabir Terminal
Shiraz Northwestern Terminal
National Railway Station
Shiraz Railway Station
Airport Shiraz International
National roads
Karim Khan, the ruler and de facto Shah of Iran from 1760 until 1779, made Shiraz his capital.
Mulla Sadra, Islamic philosopher, theologian and ''Ālim who led the Iranian cultural renaissance in the 17th century.
Saadi, poet of the medieval period.
Hafiz Shirazi, poet.
Mohammad Namazi, philanthropist & founder of the Namazi hospital in Shiraz. This later became the catalyst for the establishment of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 1955; one of the country''s top medical schools.
Siyyid ''Alí Muḥammad Shírází, the founder of Bábism, and one of three central figures of the Bahá''í Faith.
Shahriyar Mandanipour, writer.
Simin Daneshvar, novelist and author.
Firouz Naderi, scientist and currently the Director for Solar System Exploration at NASA''s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi, poet and university professor.
Ebrahim Golestan, writer and filmmaker.
Shirazeh Houshiary, artist, born in Shiraz in 1955, lives in London.
Arsi Nami award winning singer and songwriter
Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to United States President Barack Obama, born in Shiraz to African-American parents.
Omid Norouzi, Iranian wrestler, world and Olympic champion.
Tooji, singer, model and television host; represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Gholam A. Peyman inventor of LASIK.
Professor Ali Asghar Khodadoust introduced a method called Khodadoust line in ophthalmology.
Kamran Bagheri Lankarani was Iran''s Minister of Health and Medical Education.
Jimmy Delshad 67th and 70th Mayor of Beverly Hills.
Link with India
During Mughal Empire many people migrated to India from Iran. Today there is a small neighborhood in Kishanganj district, Bihar, India named Iran made of almost 100 households of Irani Indian migrated from Shiraz centuries ago. They are still practicing Irani Culture in Indian land.
Twin towns – sister cities
Weimar, Germany
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
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12 Farvardin Square (Shiraz) : میدان 12 فروردین شیراز
1910 Shiraz blood libel : فتنه کلیمیان 1910م در شیراز
2008 Shiraz explosion : بمبگذاری در شیراز (۱۳۸۷)
Abdullah Musawi Shirazi : سید عبدالله شیرازی
Abu ul-Ala Shirazi : ابوالعلاء شیرازی
Afro-Shirazi : افرو شیرازی
Afro-Shirazi Party : حزب آفرو-شیرازی
Al-Khurasani al-Shirazi : الخراسانی الشیرازی
Alavi Shirazi : علوی شیرازی
Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi : سيد علیمحمد دستغیب شيرازی
Ali Sayad Shirazi : علی صیاد شیرازی
Amir Mokhtar Karimpour Shirazi : امیرمختار کریمپور شیرازی
Ara Shiraz : آرا شیراز
B.A Shiraz BC : باشگاه بسکتبال لوله آاس شیراز
Bahman Shiraz F.C : باشگاه فوتبال بهمن شیراز
Bahman Shiraz F.C. : باشگاه فوتبال بهمن شیراز
Bahman Shirazi : بهمن شیرازی
Bargh Shiraz F.C : تیم فوتبال برق شیراز
Bargh Shiraz F.C. : باشگاه فوتبال برق شيراز
Carpet Mouse Pad Shiraz : ماوسپد فرشی شیراز
Damian Shirazi : دامیان سیروس شیرازی
Fahmideh Square (Shiraz) : میدان فهمیده شیراز
Fathullah Shirazi : فتح الله شیرازی
Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla : غالب شیراز دھلا
Hafez Shirazi : حافظ شیرازی
History of Shiraz : پیشینه شیراز
Hovhannes Shiraz : هوانس شیراز
Imad al-Din Mahmud ibn Mas‘ud Shirazi : عمادالدین محمودبن مسعود شیرازی
Iman Shirazi : ایمان شیرازی
Judeo-Shirazi : جودئو شیرازی
Junayd Shirazi : معین الدین جنیدبن مجمودبن محمد بقنوی شیرازی
Kamran Shirazi : کامران شیرازی
Karimpour Shirazi : کریمپور شیرازی
Labaniyat Arjan Shiraz FSC : باشگاه فوتسال لبنیات ارژن شیراز
Mahmud ibn Ilyas Shirazi : محمودبن الیاس شیرازی
Makarem Shirazi : مکارم شیرازی
Mawlana Shahin Shirazi : مولانا شاهین شیرازی
Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi : مهدی حمیدی شیرازی
Mirza Mohammad Hasan Shirazi : میرزا محمد حسن شیرازی
Mirza Mohammed Hassan Husseini Shirazi : سید محمدحسن حسینی شیرازی
Mohammad Ali Shirazi : سيد محمد علی شيرازی
Mohammad Baqer Shirazi : سيد محمد باقر شيرازی
Mohammad Hussaini Shirazi : آیتالله العظمی سید محمد حسینی شیرازی
Mohammed Reza Shirazi : سید محمدرضا شیرازی
Mohioddin Haeri Shirazi : محیالدین حائری شیرازی
Morteza Hosseini Shirazi : آیتالله سید مرتضی حسینی شیرازی
Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi : مؤید فی الدین شیرازی
Muayyad fil-Din al-Shirazi : مؤید فیالدین شیرازی
Mujtaba Hussaini Shirazi : آیتالله سید مجتبی حسینی شیرازی
Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi : نجم الدین محمود شیرازی
Naser Makarem Shirazi : ناصر مکارم شیرازی
Nazim Shirazi : ناظم شیرازی
Nima Shirazi : نیما شیرازی
Nitzan Shirazi : نیتزان شیرازی
Pars Museum of Shiraz : موزه پارس شیراز
Payam Mokhaberat Shiraz F.C : باشگاه فوتبال پیام مخابرات شیراز
Payam Mokhaberat Shiraz F.C. : باشگاه فوتبال پیام مخابرات شیراز
Persepolis Shiraz F.C : باشگاه فوتبال پرسپولیس شیراز
Persepolis Shiraz F.C. : باشگاه فوتبال پرسپولیس شیراز
Qotb al-Din Shirazi : قطبالدین محمود بن مسعود شیرازی
Qurayshi al-Shirazi : عین الملک قریشی شیرازی
Sadiq Hussaini Shirazi : سید صادق حسینی شیرازی
Salad Shirazi : سالاد شیرازی
Sanaz Shirazi : ساناز شیرازی
Sayyad Shirazi : صیاد شیرازی
Shahrdari Square (Shiraz) : میدان شهرداری شیراز
Shiraz (band) : شیراز (گروه)
Shiraz Adam : شیراز آدم
Shiraz Ali : شیراز علی
Shiraz Arts Festival : جشن هنر شیراز
Shiraz Biogas Power Plant : نیروگاه زیستگاز شیراز
Shiraz Bus Network : شبکه اتوبوس شیراز
Shiraz Bus Route : خط اتوبوس شیراز
Shiraz Bus Route 1 : خط 1 اتوبوس شهری شیراز
Shiraz Canyon : تنگه شیرز
Shiraz County : شهرستان شیراز
Shiraz Cuisine : آشپزی شیرازی
Shiraz Design Carpet Mouse Pad : پد ماوس فرشی طرح شیراز
Shiraz Dossa : شیراز دوسا
Shiraz International Airport : فرودگاه بینالمللی شیراز ( شهید دستغیب)
Shiraz Metro : متروی شیراز
Shiraz Minwalla : شیراز مینوالا
Shiraz Pasargad Higher Education Institute : موسسه آموزش عالي پاسارگاد شيراز
Shiraz Shariff : شیراز شریف
Shiraz Shivji : شیراز شیوجی
Shiraz Stadium : ورزشگاه میانرود شیراز
Shiraz Sumar : شیراز سومار
Shiraz Tal : شیراز تال
Shiraz University : دانشگاه شیراز
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences : دانشگاه علوم پزشکی شیراز
Shiraz University of Technology : دانشگاه صنعتی شیراز
Shiraz World Trade Center : مرکز تجارت جهانی ایران
Shiraz derby : شهرآورد شیراز
Shiraz rug : قالی فارس
Shiraz solar power plant : نیروگاه خورشیدی شیراز
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Shiraza Dogri : شیرازه ڈوگری
Shirazeh : شیرازه
Shirazeh Houshiary : شیرازه هوشیاری
Shirazi : شیرازی
Shirazi era : دوره شیرازی
Shirazi people : مردمان شیرازی
Shirazi wine : شراب شیرازی
Shirazi, Kenya : شیرازی، کنیا
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Shlomo Shirazi : شولومو شیرازی
Sultanu'l-Wa'izin Shirazi : سلطان الواعظین شیرازی
Taksirani Street (Shiraz) : خیابان تاکسیرانی شیراز
The Septembers of Shiraz : باشگاه فوتبال تربیت یزد
Zainuddin Shirazi : زین الدین شیرازی
Zandokht Shirazi : زنددخت شیرازی
Ziba Shirazi : زیبا شیرازی
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Shah Ismail 2. Of Safavid Dynasty Dies
Teimur Conquers Isfahan
Karimkhan Zand Rejects Russia's Alliance Offer
Nader Shah Assassinated
Masood Ghaznavi Appoints New Vezir
Bahai Leader Bab Executed
The Tobacco Uprising
Tahmasp Restored To Throne In Isfahan
Karim Khan Zand Dies
Ali Morad Khan Captures Shiraz
Sayed Morad Proclaims Shah Of Persia
Sadegh Khan Proclaims Shah
Lotfali Khan Becomes Last Zand King
Zand / Qajar Clash Near Perspolis
Body Of Karim Khan Zand Exhumed
Abadan Workers On Strike
Etemadoddoleh Arrested
Bahai Followers Executed
Ayatollah Dastgheyb Assassinated
Frenchman In Charge Of Cultural Heritage
Cancellation Of Tobacco Concession
Downfall Of Zand Dynasty
Abolfath Khan Ascends Zand Throne
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Teimur Exterminates The Mozaffarids
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Shah Signs Tobbaco Concessions
Prime Minister Alam Resigns
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Explosion In Shiraz Mosque
First Opening of Shiraz Arts Festival
Rais Ali Delvari Assassinated
Foundation of Shiraz University
Hafez-Goethe Dialogue In Germany
Iran Hosts Conference On Holocaust
Iraqi Missile Attack On Dezful
Khosrow Golesorkhi Is Born
Qavamolmolk Assassinated In Shiraz
Germany–Iran First Diplomatic Contact
American Pope In Isfahan
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Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout is the newest game in the Atelier series and follows brand new characters along their journey of exploration. Like previous Atelier games, one of the main protagonists takes up Alchemy. The main focus of this title is to explore the world, learn and improve your alchemy skills and to grow your party together as friends. It’s a large world filled with a range of creatures to fight and materials to collect.
It was admittedly my first Atelier game, so I went in near completely blind to the series. In many ways, this fresh outlook allowed me to critique and appreciate the game from a different perspective. The story and gameplay were not completely new for me, as I’ve played many similar titles. However the approach certainly was refreshing. Regarding the story, there may be brief spoilers for the beginning of the game. If you do not wish to read them, then please take care when reading the below paragraphs.
Ryza is a girl who seeks adventure. This is made clear from the very first scene of the game. The story is very much so a focus on this need for adventure, with each area providing a new feeling of wonder. Ryza aims to explore outside of the main island she lives on. After taking a boat from a hidden port, she and her two friends Lent and Tao set out to explore the world. The first actual adventure comes along sooner than expected, as the group venture into a place called Pixie Forest. As the group venture further through the forest, they find a girl in need of saving. After a quick battle, the girl is saved.
The girl, who is carrying some sort of box, thanks the team for their help and is escorted out of the forest. The girl then reveals her name is in fact Klaudia Valentz. A fitting name for a character that seems sophisticated and almost princess like. Before being able to escape the forest, the team is ambushed by an unbeatable opponent and all fall in battle. Just as they’re about to be struck down for good, two mysterious characters appear and save them from their demise.
After the team are saved by what looks like an explosion, Ryza gains an obsession of what power the mysterious strangers used. These mysterious characters reveal to Ryza that the power was in fact alchemy. The group then move towards the shore to depart the island. Klaudia’s father, Lubart, is there to meet them. After his brief introduction, he introduces the mysterious characters. The male being called Empel, and the female being called Lila. All newly introduced characters agree to stay in the same village as Ryza, and so are all set for future interactions with each other.
The story follows a very expected path of Ryza learning alchemy. It’s a very calm and slow paced story that focuses on providing a fun and an easy to understand experience. The above introduction is just a brief summary of the very first part of the game. After the initial story developments, the story can be slow paced for long periods of time. This is not necessarily a negative thing, as it helps add focus on the gameplay aspects of Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout. This story is truly about the main characters finding out about themselves and adventuring into not only the outside world, but into life.
Exploring in Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout is one of the main selling points of the game. With such a range of environments, enemies, ingredients, items and more to find, there is near infinite potential in finding everything in the game. Navigating the world is fairly easy too, thanks to the mini map that is always on screen. Other points of interest appear on the map too, which can be additional help when navigating places like forests.
Many areas will feature resting areas that allow the team to restore HP. These resting areas take the shape of a large flower with a bright light. An important note to remember is that these resting areas can usually only be used once within a certain time frame. After resting at a flower, they will require some time to recover before they’ll become available again.
After various areas have been visited, it’s possible to visit them via guideposts. These noticeboard type structures allow the player to move around without having to walk absolutely everywhere. An incredibly useful tool to use when hunting for materials. Early on in the game, it is also possible to travel straight back to Ryza’s room using the – button on the Nintendo Switch Joycon. This proves useful for saving the game in a hurry, or for dropping off unneeded items.
As far as battling goes, it’s introduced out of the blue. In some ways the introduction to battles felt forced, but it does get the basics out of the way very early into the game. In terms of breaking down each area of the UI and each action, the tutorial does an excellent job. It is clear and easy to understand, pointing out each option on screen and giving a brief description of everything that is or can be used.
At the start of the game there are three main options during battle. Attacking, moving or using a skill. Using a standard attack will allow your chosen character to gain an AP point and do average damage to the opponent. Moving will allow your chosen character to reposition themselves for a better strategic advantage.
Skill uses one of the characters acquired skills, which range from a powerful attack to healing. As mentioned earlier, characters gain AP points for using a standard attack. These AP points are shared between all the characters in the current party. AP points can also be spent in battle too, so it’s important to balance spending them and saving them for various other uses.
One such use and another important growing level in battle is the Tactics Level. This Tactics Level raises by earning the max AP and then consuming it all at once. Raising this Tactics Level provides a range of benefits during the battle. An example of the advantages of raising the Tactics Level is, after levelling it up from 1 to 2, characters gain the ability to attack twice with normal attacks. This upgrades once again at level 3, allowing the player to strike the enemy 3 times in a row. Such a small upgrade might prove important when fighting multiple enemies or stronger foes, so the Tactics Level is a mechanic to keep an eye out for.
The balance between AP usage and Tactics Level are is extremely important to winning battles and requires at least some level of strategy and skill. The higher the Tactics Level, the higher the max AP, meaning the Tactics Level won’t always be raising every battle. Taking these two gameplay elements into account along with the other elements such as skills makes the battling feel like a somewhat separate game. That’s not an entirely negative thing, but it does take away from the calm and relaxing atmosphere all the other experiences provide.
The battling system does provide two different modes to somewhat lessen the amount of thought or concentration required. Aggressive Mode is a mode in which other party members consume AP to use their skills. This could be an advantage against weaker enemies when wanting to get the battle over as soon as possible. The other mode is called Passive mode, in which the party members will simply use normal attacks. This is great for reserving AP for various reasons, but may take a little longer to take down the enemy.
Alchemy has two major stages in this game. The first and most time consuming part is the gathering of the materials/ingredients. Whilst it can be fun to explore various areas to search for required materials, it’s also extremely tedious due to the lack of information given. One of the first goals is to create a bomb. In the guide, the bomb item is listed along with the materials needed to create the item. This is extremely helpful for knowing the materials needed, but not helpful for finding these materials. Crimson Ore, Gunpowder, Fuel and Supplement are the materials needed, but when searching for more information on where to find them, there is none.
This leads to a large problem later on in the game when trying to create or upgrade various items, as it leads to extremely repetitive gameplay that forces you to search and run around for long periods of time for little reason. The game aims to provide a calm and relaxing experience, so the large amount of running around can be either seen as encouraging this peaceful focus, or making the game in some ways more stressful than it needs to be.
The second stage of the Alchemy is mixing the ingredients together in a cauldron. This is how items are synthesised. The easiest way of approaching this extremely complicated task is by simply choosing an item you’d like to create and choosing the materials you’ve gathered. Various other elements can come in to play, such as skills, stat related materials and the four material types. However, the game doesn’t pace out explaining all of these and throws them all at once to the player.
I personally found the explanations to be far too drawn out and confusing, so much so that it put me off the Alchemy portion of the game completely. I simply pressed A to quickly create items for the most part, to save myself the trouble of having to calculate each individual step. I feel that if the game slowly introduced the alchemy portion of this game, it might have been more approachable and easy to understand. Unfortunately this was not the case and combined with the tedious gathering aspect completely takes away from the calm and relaxed gameplay atmosphere that is attempted with this game.
The Nintendo Switch is known for having the lowest graphical ability of the current generation consoles, but that didn’t stop Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout from looking incredible. Whilst some areas and textures in the environment looked poor, the majority of the surroundings fitted the aesthetic. The character models were all beautifully created with love and care and truly encapsulated each characters personality.
Two major problems I faced were during the cutscenes of the game. Whilst I personally have no problem with the letterbox effect in cutscenes, it did bring me out of the immersion at times when a cutscene was sudden. This was not a major problem however. During near every cutscene in the game, the mouth of the character speaking did not match the speed of which they spoke. I’d expect this if the game had multiple audio options for dialogue, but it did not.
This out of sync talking made it very hard to take the game seriously at times and made it difficult to enjoy the story. Another problem during cutscenes was the running animations. Ryza seemed to run too fast compared to the speed she actually moved along the scene, so she appeared to run on the spot many times throughout the game. This once again made the cutscenes a somewhat silly experience, which was a shame, as they had a lot to offer in terms of story and quality.
User Interface and Navigation
The user interface and menu navigation is one of the most important parts of any game, as it defines how easy the player will be able to find what they’re looking for and interact with the world. Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout is a game that does an excellent job at making a lot of information easy to navigate. With the wealth of information given in this game, each menu had to be unique and stand out. That’s exactly what players were given, which increased ease of gameplay dramatically.
The equipment screen for example showed stats, equipped items, roles, level and more. The amount of information on this one screen was utterly insane and yet it was all displayed in an easy to understand way. Not only that, but navigating into different displays was just as easy. It was possible to jump from one screen to another without having to go back every time. This saved so much time and really made me appreciate the simplicity of the overall menu user interface.
This ease of use continued into things like the monster information screens. Each monster has their very own screen that details their name, status, a picture, a description, element adaptions, drop items and habitat. All of these pieces of information are absolutely vital for a game about acquiring items and staying alive, so these kinds of screens are something that are much needed.
My main focuses are on the habitat and picture. Finding what you need in this game can at times be incredibly difficult, so these simple additions can make a huge difference to the enjoyment of the game. There is also an option to see related journal entries. This option to see related entries is not restricted to only monster pages. It is a useful tool throughout the entirety of the game and makes near everything easier to find and do. I adore the user interface and menu design of Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout. It was honestly one of the best I’ve ever seen in any game.
Music and Audio
Since the very beginning of the game, the fun and fitting pieces of music accompanied the tone perfectly. The use of upbeat music in the very comedic areas of dialogue between characters made the whole experience feel more refreshing and calm. The majority of areas in game also had their own piece of music, which helped with navigation. The use of music being helpful to the player as well as setting the mood is vital in a game about exploring.
Audio is fitting in most areas, adding to the feeling that the world is alive. Various ambient noises accompany the music in a blend that feels fitting. The dialogue carries on this feeling with extremely well done voice acting work. Emotions of the characters gets across the feelings of the characters, despite the game only featuring Japanese voice acting.
Whilst Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout may have some drawn out gameplay segments and can be tedious at times, the characters and music keep players involved. With such a large amount of space to explore, many things to create and many enemies to face, the game provides a large range of content whilst still being, for the most part, easy to understand. As my first Atelier game, it was difficult to get into the alchemy initially, but i’d fully recommend it to newcomers who are looking for a relaxing and enjoyable game. It’s certainly worth getting past the first hurdle. The game has an incredible amount of DLC planned in the future, from character costumes to new areas. For more information you can check out the Official Site.
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Summary: Whilst Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout may have some drawn out gameplay segments and can be tedious at times, the characters and music keep players involved. With such a large amount of space to explore, many things to create and many enemies to face, the game provides a large range of content whilst still being, for the most part, easy to understand. As my first Atelier game, i'd fully recommend it to newcomers who are looking for a relaxing and enjoyable game.
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Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout Review Jordan Wharton November 12, 2019 Whilst Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout may have some drawn out gameplay segments and can be tedious at times, the characters and music keep players involved. With such a large amount of space to explore, many things to create and many enemies to face, the game provides a large range of content whilst still being, for the most part, easy to understand. As my first Atelier game, i'd fully recommend it to newcomers who are looking for a relaxing and enjoyable game.
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The National Law Journal has a story on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals oral history project. Michelle Dauber, Stanford, is one of the interviewers. According to the story, Dauber
is one of a corps of lawyers and professors who donate essential sweat equity to the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society's Oral History Program. That group has collected more than 150 interviews from judges across the circuit. They include both district court and circuit judges.
The professor has embarked on a series of two-hour sessions with Reinhardt, squeezed into court breaks, questioning him on his political life before joining the bench, such as his high-level participation in Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 California presidential campaign. She is also inquiring about some behind-the-scenes details of just what happened in some of his more controversial rulings, on subjects like the right to die and capital punishment.
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Egypt gets first sovereign credit rating upgrade since 2011
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Post by DJKeefy » Fri Nov 15, 2013 12:10 pm
Egypt gets first sovereign credit rating upgrade since 2011 revolution.
International credit rating agency Standard & Poor's raised its long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings for Egypt on Friday from "CCC+/C" to "B-/B" with a "stable" rating outlook.
The action is the first such positive step for Egypt since the 2011 revolution, which toppled long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak, triggering a series of credit-rating downgrades for the country by all the major international agencies.
The agency said it was prompted to raise Egypt's rating after the generous aid the country had received from oil-rich Gulf nations following Islamist president Mohamed Morsi's ousting in July of this year.
"In our view, the July announcements that Kuwait ($4 billion), Saudi Arabia ($5 billion), and the UAE ($3 billion) would provide Egypt with cash, interest-free loans, oil, and oil products amounting to 4.4 percent of 2013 GDP reduces the likelihood that Egypt will face a balance-of-payments crisis," said Standard &Poor's (S&P).
The additional $1.9 billion in aid pledged by the UAE to Egypt in October, and the fact that Egypt has already received three quarters of the promised funds, is an indication of the Gulf Cooperation Council's willingness to support Egypt, said the agency.
Egypt's net international reserves tumbled after the 2011 revolution and reached a record low of $13.4 billion in March of this year -- less than the required amount to cover three months' worth of imports. S&P expects reserves to "stabilise at above two months of current account payments during 2013-2016."
"The upgrade reflects our view that the Egyptian authorities have secured sufficient foreign currency funding to manage Egypt's short-term fiscal and external financing needs," said Standard &Poor's.
"We expect support from bilateral lenders to continue over the medium term as the Egyptian authorities try to address the country's political and economic challenges."
The stable outlook weighs the recent and promising aid against Egypt's "difficult political landscape and significant external financing pressures" said the agency.
Egypt's new rating is still located in the "junk" status end of the credit rating spectrum.
The agency's optimism was tempered by structural weaknesses in Egypt's economy, such as "weak" government finances, a central bank which will continue to monetise much of the government's local currency debt. "Central bank claims on the government and public sector increased to about 23 percent of GDP as of July 2013," a trend which would generate "10 percent average annual inflation over the next few years, alongside supply-side constraints," said the agency.
The agency also cited Egypt's high and expensive government debt, which it expects to reach 76 percent in 2013 and peak at 78 percent in 2014, as the government increases its debt "to meet its significant fiscal deficits while using some of its borrowings -- namely from the GCC states -- to support the level of foreign currency reserves at the central bank."
Standard and Poor's also highlighted the government's limited ability to raise revenues or cut spending, and its inflexible monetary policy given the Central Bank of Egypt's heavy support of the Egyptian pound since 2011 and the banking sector's high exposure to the government.
Source: http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/86522.aspx
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Pay rises for state workers and a drop in tax revenues caused a surge in the country's budget deficit last year, says finance minister.
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Based on ratings results from the the release of Nielsen July Portable People Meters, the numbers indicated Country cooling a bit as Pop Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR/Top40) loggs a second consecutive motnh of growth.
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Elsewhere in the pack of formats competing for shares of ears this summer, Nielsen saw other trends continue from previous months. The record-setting ways of both Hot Adult Contemporary (AC) and Classic Rock showed no signs of slowing down in July; meanwhile, in the spoken word arena, the heart of summer has once again proven to be a cool period for news and sports listening.
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Below are some highlights from Nielsen’s July PPM data across 45 markets using the full-week (Monday-Sunday 6 a.m.-midnight) daypart audience shares.
After establishing new all-time highs for listening share last month, Country held steady with audiences aged 6 and over (8.6%) and 25-54 (8.4%) and dropped back by nearly half a share-point among listeners aged 18-34 (10.2%) in July. This ended an impressive run of growth stretching back to January for America’s No. 1 overall format. Country finds itself tied with Pop CHR this month among all listeners aged 6-plus, and it appears these two formats will take the race for ‘format of the summer’ down to the wire in next month’s August results.
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Hot AC remained the format with the most consistent upward trend in 2014 by upping the bar for 6-plus (6.4%), 18-34 (7.2%) and 25-54 (6.9%) listener shares in July, each a new all-time high. And Classic Rock made some news of its own, topping out at a 5-share with listeners aged 6 and over and a 4.1-share among audiences 18-34 years old, each marking the first time the format has been above a five or four share in PPM in those demos, respectively.
6-plus shares for News/Talk dropped to their lowest mark in PPM since Nielsen began tracking this data in 2011 (8.1%), All News stayed flat relative to last summer (2.5%), and Sports fared slightly better this July (4.1%) than in 2013 (3.8%).
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Nielsen Releases Final Batch of July PPMs
July PPMs Were Released Thursday For The Following Markets:
Milwaukee-Racine
Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News
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FCC Call Letter Actions For July
During the period from 07/01/2014 to 07/31/2014 the Commission accepted applications to assign call signs to, or change the call signs of the following broadcast stations.
Chicago Radio: John Gallagher New VP/MM For Hubbard
Market vet John Gallagher, who once ran WLS 890 AM for ABC Radio and Citadel Broadcasting, is returning to Chicago to oversee the three Hubbard Radio stations, according to Chicago Media blogger Robert Feder.
Hubbard Radio COO Drew Horowitz has appointed Gallagher VP/Market Manager of Hubbard Radio/Chicago, which includes hot adult-contemporary WTMX 101.9 FM, classic hits WDRV 97.1 FM and adult contemporary WILV 100.3 FM.
He starts August 18 and succeeds Jerry Schnacke, who was forced out last April after 17 years in Chicago with Hubbard Radio and its predecessor, Bonneville International.
“John is the perfect person to lead our great brands in Chicago,” Drew Horowitz, president and chief operating officer of Hubbard Radio, said in a statement. “John has a proven track record as an operator and has the benefit of Chicago experience, which gives him insight into the market. I’m thrilled to have someone of John’s caliber and experience segueing into this very critical position for Hubbard Radio Chicago.”
Moonves: CBS No Longer Interested In CNN
Les Moonves
During Thursday's Earnings Conference Call with anaylysts, CBS CEO Les Moonves gushed about opportunities for CBS in the coming quarters, in part because of the demise of Aereo, the coming debut of Thursday Night Football on the network and what he expects will be "a frenzy of political spending this fall."
CBS will soon be producing original shows for digital video channels like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon, C.E.O. Les Moonves told investors Thursday.
He also said that Nielsen ratings that measure viewing seven days after broadcast is a big deal.
Moonves also addressed speculation that CBS would be interested in acquiring CNN. He acknowledged interest, but said the opportunity is off the table since 21st Century Fox said this week it would not pursue a merger with CNN's parent company, Time Warner.
"We thought about it, we talked about it, it is obviously something that is not going to happen," Moonves said, adding that the value of the channel being mentioned in the press (as much as $10 billion), was not what CBS would have paid. "The numbers they were throwing around were silly."
Sounds Like ABC Will Be Beefing Up Network Content
ABC News' content deal with broadcast radio giant Cumulus Media will end at the end of this year, and with it, ABC will be taking responsibility for its marketing, distribution and programming, as well as its affiliate relationships.
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Cumulus struck its own deal with CNN late last month for news and information content, effectively replacing Diane Sawyer and David Muir with Anderson Cooper and Erin Burnett.
Capital New York is reporting the loss of Cumulus as a distributor is a challenge; however, it does free up ABC to sell more content to stations it otherwise could not. ABC’s deal with Cumulus prohibited the distribution of some content to ABC’s more than 1,600 partner stations. Even without Cumulus, ABC is the largest radio news and information distributor, with around 50 million weekly listeners.
“This is really all about growth and good news, this is a chance for us to broaden what we create,” said Steve Jones, V.P. of ABC News Radio. “It is really taking all these programs that we are currently providing just to digital radio, and bringing them to broadcast radio.”
Those programs include shows like “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Nashville” and “The View.” ABC breaks out Kimmel's monologue and makes it available to stations, and can take content from "Dancing With the Stars" and make it available as well, a proposition that may be appealing to music stations.
Jones said that ABC will be adding new programs as well.
The company is working with a third party, Skyview Networks, to help on the distribution side and with national sales.
According to the LA Times, it's not clear what stations will carry ABC News Radio once the changes take effect on Jan. 1, though the company said the end of the Cumulus pact will allow it to make deals with other stations.
People familiar with the deal said Cumulus has been paying ABC roughly $17 million a year.
"We've chosen to take a different route to serve our radio stations more directly," Jones said in an interview. "We think we're going to provide more to stations than we currently can."
NYC Radio: Kenny Loggins Talks With 77 WABC
WABC 770 AM New York's "Saturday Cafe" host Laura Smith sits down for an exclusive interview with music icon Kenny Loggins Saturday, August 9 between 7:00 and 9:00 pm ET.
Smith talks to Loggins about writing songs as a teen, touring the world with his new shows, and his passion for music. Loggins' career spans four decades with international hits from his early days with Loggins and Messina, including "Your Mama Don't Dance", through his solo projects including, "This Is It", "Footloose", "I'm Alright", and "Whenever I Call You Friend" with Stevie Nicks.
Loggins also discusses his latest project, a new album with a country/rock trio called The Blue Sky Riders being released through a Kickstarter campaign. "The Saturday Cafe" interview with Kenny Loggins airs Saturday, August 9, at 8:00 pm ET on 77 WABC Radio and online: Click Here.
Official: Stephen A. Smith Starts Sept. 2 On SiriusXM
ESPN and SiriusXM have reached an agreement for ESPN to produce The Stephen A. Smith Show exclusively for SiriusXM's Mad Dog Sports Radio, channel 85.
The two-hour daily program will debut on satellite radio on Tuesday, Sept. 2, at 1 p.m. ET. The show will be produced and broadcast from ESPN Audio's headquarters in Bristol.
"Words can't express how excited I am to be going to SiriusXM," said Smith. "I've waited a long time for this. All I'm going to say is Sept. 2 can't arrive soon enough. So Buckle Up! Because I'm coming."
Traug Keller, ESPN senior vice president, production, business divisions, added, "This is an exciting new business opportunity for ESPN Audio. By creating outstanding exclusive audio content for SiriusXM, in this case The Stephen A. Smith Show, we are maximizing our presence on a variety of platforms that expand our reach and options for sports fans."
"Stephen A. is an exceptional talent," said Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM's President and Chief Content Officer. "We are thrilled he has chosen SiriusXM to be the exclusive home of The Stephen A. Smith Show and we're excited to collaborate with ESPN to provide him with a platform that delivers his commentary to listeners across the U.S. and Canada."
The Stephen A. Smith Show will lead in each day to Mad Dog Unleashed, hosted by the channel's headline personality, Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo. The daily weekday lineup on Mad Dog Sports Radio will now feature:
Evan and Phillips in the Morning with Evan Cohen and Steve Phillips (6:00-10:00 am ET)
Schein on Sports with Adam Schein (10:00 am-1:00 pm ET)
The Stephen A. Smith Show (1:00 - 3:00 pm ET)
Mad Dog Unleashed with Christopher Russo (3:00 - 6:00 pm ET)
Dog Bites with Steve Torre (6:00 - 7:00 pm ET)
Mad Dog Sports Radio Tonight with Dan Graca (7:00 - 11:00 pm ET)
The Wrap with Patrick Meagher (11:00 pm - 2:00 am ET)
Smith will continue to make newsworthy guest appearances on ESPN New York 98.7FM and other ESPN Radio affiliates. He will remain a featured commentator on ESPN2's First Take and make appearances on SportsCenter and other ESPN television shows. He had hosted a local radio show on ESPN New York since 2011.
ESPN Suspends Dan Le Batard Over LeBron Billboards
ESPN suspended radio host Dan LeBatard two days for purchasing a number of “You’re Welcome, LeBron” billboards in Akron, Ohio.
Dan La Batard
The NY Post reports LeBatard, an unapologetic Miami homer, first investigated getting an ad placed in a local newspaper before going to the billboard plan.
“It’s just fun anarchy,” LeBatard said on his ESPN radio show recently, according to USA Today. “All meant in fun — which, of course, will turn into Cleveland people getting filled with rage, poison and irrational hostility and want to use those billboards as a guillotine. Sports are so great, the more irrational the better. This is a publicity stunt disguised as a movement. Please don’t tell anyone there is no actual movement.”
ESPN did not find the humor in it. ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz released a statement Thursday after the billboard went up.
“Dan LeBatard will be off the air for two days, returning Monday. His recent stunt does not reflect ESPN’s standards and brand. Additionally, we were not made aware of his plans in advance,” he said.
LeBatard’s “reason” for the billboard was that Heat fans never got thanked by James after he decided to leave Miami for the Cavaliers.
Calgary Radio: AMP Aims to Play Much, More Music
Calgary Top 40 CKMP 90.3 FM AMP Radio is now offering listeners twice as many songs.
Their new format, which was unveiled last week according to the Calgary Herald, is called QuickHitz and allows the station to broadcast professionally edited down versions of songs that have been provided by Vancouver-based SparkNet Communications.
Steve Jones, VP of programming for Newcap Radio, which operates close to 100 stations across the country including AMP, thinks it’s a sign of the times. Or rather a sign that radio is finally willing to get with the times.
“Radio is using archaic logic to decide its programming,” he says.
“When you think about why songs are the length they are it goes back to the ’50s and ’60s when radio stations demanded three-minute songs and artists provided them. In order to be on a 45 RPM record with any sound quality your song had to be around three, three-and-a-half minutes. If you wanted to be on the radio or you wanted to be in a jukebox, which is how people heard their music back then, you had to be on a 45 RPM record. So that was the way it was done."
The obvious argument is that they are the way they are because that’s how the artists and producers meant them to be. It is their vision and to half their vision, alter it in order to make it more bite-sized for consumers with diminished attention spans might, some may posit, be an insult to that creative process.
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Jones is quick to point out that SparkNet’s team of producers work hard to provide the best version of the song, one that doesn’t “compromise the integrity of (it),” but also admits that permission from the artist or label is not required and says they could certainly request one from the company should they require a shorter version of a song from a Calgary musician.
Besides, he says, half the song length means double the amount of songs AMP can play in an hour, which also equals more exposure for the musicians, for more musicians. And that, theoretically, translates to more album sales, more concert tickets, more merch sold, etc.
Salem Reports 2Q Broadcast Revenue Increased 1.8 Percent
Salem Communications Corporation has released its results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2014.
Second Quarter 2014 Highlights
Total revenue increased 14.1%
Internet and e-commerce revenue increased 45.3% and Internet and e-commerce operating income increased 43.3%
Publishing revenue increased 99.4%
Two books published by Regnery are on the New York Times best seller list
Second Quarter 2014 Results
For the quarter ended June 30, 2014 compared to the quarter ended June 30, 2013:
Total revenue increased 14.1% to $68.6 million from $60.1 million;
Total operating expenses increased 20.3% to $61.1 million from $50.8 million;
Operating expenses, excluding gains or losses on disposals of assets, stock-based compensation expense, changes in the fair value of contingent earn-out consideration and impairment charges increased 21.2% to $60.2 million from $49.7 million;
Operating income decreased 19.3% to $7.5 million from $9.3 million;
Net income decreased to $1.3 million, or $0.05 net income per diluted share, from $5.2 million, or $0.20 net income per diluted share, in the prior year
Net broadcast revenue increased 1.8% to $47.9 million from $47.0 million;
Station operating income decreased 13.8% to $13.9 million from $16.2 million;
Same station net broadcast revenue increased 1.1% to $47.6 million from $47.0 million;
Same station SOI decreased 13.1% to $14.1 million from $16.2 million; and
Same station SOI margin decreased to 29.6% from 34.4%.
San Diego Radio: Rich 'Brother' Robbins Retires
Rich 'Brother" Robbins
Rich “Brother” Robbin is ending his radio career Friday, according to LA Radio.com.
Robbins is stepping down tomorrow from his 2p to 7p afternoon shift at the XHPRS 105.7 FM The Walrus in San Diego.
Rich has had much success over the decades. He spent time in Los Angeles in the 1970s at KIQQ (K-100), KKDJ, KGFJ, and KTNQ (10-Q). He’s been the quintessential afternoon Top 40 jock, a program director, general manager and station owner.
“It's been 95% fun and rewarding, but the time has come. I'm 100% ready to step away and get on with the rest of my life. I couldn't be happier if I were twins!”
Robbins was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin and grew up under the shadow of WCCO's giant tower in Minneapolis. His love for radio and being a Top 40 jock took him on the nomadic journey to Portland, Phoenix, San Francisco, Detroit, Kansas City, Tucson (ownership), San Diego, Nashville, and Memphis.
He arrived at KIQQ from KCBQ-San Diego and originated the idea of using dial position as a station identifier, named the station at 100.3 "K-100-FM." After K-100 was sold to Drake/Chenault, he was also a part of the line-up. He later became one of the original jocks on "the new Ten-Q."
August 8 In Radio History
In 1952...Robin Quivers, famous sidekick to Howard Stern, was born.
In 1979 after military service, Quivers returned to Baltimore where she studied at the Broadcasting Institute of Maryland and worked in a hospital. She landed her first job in the radio industry with a newscasting position at WIOO 1000 AM in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, followed by WCMB 1460 AM in nearby Harrisburg. She then moved back to Baltimore for a consumer reporter role at WFBR, where she also read newscasts with morning disc jockey Johnny Walker.
In March 1981, radio personality Howard Stern started his new morning program at WWDC in Washington, D.C.. He wished for an on-air newscaster to riff with him in the studio on the news and current affairs. That was when station program director Denise Oliver played Quivers a tape of Stern interviewing a prostitute on the air. She "had never heard anything like it...I just said, 'where do I sign? I’ll do anything just to meet this guy!'"
In 1963..."Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen was released and Radio stations quickly labeled it obscene.
In 1966...WABC moved to 1330 Avenue of the Americas
In 1982...WNBC-AM, New York City began broadcasting in AM Stereo.
In 1986...legendary DJs, Bobby Ocean and Dr. Don Rose did their last shows on KFRC, San Francisco, California.
In 2002...New York's WNNY 1380 AM changes call letters to WLXE
Pittsburgh Radio: WPGB Goes Country, Talk Goes To WJAS
Two big changes were in the Pittsburgh market Thursday as longtime oldies station WJAS 1320-AM flipped to conservative talk radio, and at 3pm, N/T WPGB went country as “The BIG 104.7” on the FM dial. WPGB will compete with CBS Radio's WDSY and WOGI-WOGG-WOGH Froggy stations owned by Keymarket.
WPGB 104.7 FM (13Kw) 54dBu Coverage
The latter began its new life playing Florida Georgia Line's “This is How We Roll,” the start of 10,000 consecutive songs without commercials, with the Bobby Bones Morning Show waiting in the wings.
A new PD for Big 104.7 will be announced soon.
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“It’s a great day for Pittsburgh Country music fans as we launch Big 104.7, a fresh new take on Country music. This station will give our listeners a front-row seat to Country’s biggest artists and concerts,” said David Edgar, Vice President of Programming for Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Pittsburgh.
“Listeners will also enjoy waking up with The Bobby Bones Show and his unique and entertaining insight on Country music. No one is closer to the heart of Nashville than Bobby Bones.” Pittsburgh fans of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and the other WPGB talk show hosts can now hear them on 1320-AM, WJAS, effective immediately.
Earlier in the afternoon, syndicated talk featuring Rush Limbaugh was simulcast on both stations as the 3 p.m. announcement neared, and "This is moving day!" promos were trumpeted during breaks. Others in the News/Talk 1320 WJAS lineup now include Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and David “Bloomdaddy” Bloomquist.
The change at WJAS (7Kw, 3.3Kw nights) means the end of a decades-long nostalgia format. Veteran DJs Jack Bogut and Bill Cardille said their goodbyes on air Wednesday, and Chris Shovlin also lost his evening show.
CBS Earnings Fall, Radio Revenue Down 3 Percent
CBS reported earnings of 78 cents per share in the most recent quarter, beating the expectations of analysts who predicted about 72 cents per share, according to THR.
Profit and revenue were both down slightly from the year-ago period, but that was to be expected since the popular sitcom How I Met Your Mother ended and competitors like ESPN stole some viewers away with their coverage of FIFA World Cup soccer.
Revenue was $3.19 billion during the quarter, down from $3.37 billion. Net earnings were $439 million, down from $472 million.
CBS also said Thursday it was doubling its share repurchase program to $6 billion, following on the heels of 21st Century Fox and Time Warner, both which also increased their buyback plans. CBS also said it would increase its cash dividend to 15 cents per share from 12 cents previously.
Local Broadcasting revenues for the second quarter of 2014 were $665 million compared with $698 million in the same prior-year period, primarily a result of softness in the advertising marketplace. An increase in affiliate and subscription fee revenues partially offset the decline.
CBS Television Stations revenues were down 6%, with three percentage points of the decrease attributable to the nonrenewal of a sports programming contract and the absence of the broadcast of the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament on CBS in 2014.
Radio revenues were down 3%.
ABC Radio News Breaks With Cumulus
James Goldston
ABC News has signed on with Skyview Networks to distribute and market ABC News radio content.
The new arrangement, which begins in January, comes as ABC’s distribution agreement with Cumulus Media comes to an end.
ABC News President James Goldston sent the following note to the news division today announcing the beginning of a new era at ABC Radio.
ABC News Radio will expand its operations to invest in new, premium programming and to take control of distributing and marketing its content and deepen affiliate relationships. ABC Radio serves nearly two thousand stations nationwide and the most popular digital radio platforms – making ABC News, by far, the number one choice for radio news and information for over 50 million listeners each week.
Today we’re announcing the beginning of a new era at ABC Radio.
Starting in January we’re going to expand our operations to invest in new programming, take control of distributing and marketing our content and deepen our affiliate relationships. A new relationship with Skyview Networks will help us deliver our content and bolster our sales efforts as our distribution agreement with Cumulus Media comes to an end. These changes will help us invest in premium programming and continue to lead the industry in new ways to reach our loyal audience of over 50 million listeners a week.
As a powerhouse for news and information, it’s critical we’re superserving our audience everywhere and all the time. Stations count on our investigative reporting, exclusive interviews, unparalleled coverage of breaking news and entertainment and sports programming. Over many years ABC News Radio has built an unmatched track record for exceptional service and radio reports from around the world thanks to the outstanding work of everyone at ABC News. It’s one reason ABC News Radio was recently honored for journalistic excellence with two Edward R. Murrow awards, including its most prestigious award for overall excellence.
ABC News is, by far, the number one choice for radio news and information. We serve nearly 2000 stations nationwide and the most popular digital radio services, including iHeartRadio and Slacker Radio. As we move ahead we see tremendous opportunities and know that we will have to work even harder to ensure a bright future. We’re taking these important steps now to work more closely with our terrific, long-standing station partners and better position us for digital audio growth in the future.
I’m confident that with Steve Jones and his team leading the charge, there are exciting new opportunities and many more great days ahead at ABC Radio.
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Boston Radio: CCM+E Wants More Bull
CCM+E wants to go non-DA with it's WBWL 101.7 FM in Boston. It's the home of freshly-minted Country The Bull.
WBWL 101.7 FM (1.7Kw) 60dBu Coverage
For The Bull (licensed to Lynn, MA) to be upgraded, CC has submitted a proposal to the FCC which would allow it to go directional with its Providence WWBB on adjacent 105.1 FM. That move in effect would mean Classic Hits WWBB would become a Class A signal instead of its current Class B designation.
Also...CC proposes the Commission allow Classic Hits WCIB 101.9 FM to use a directional antenna and reduce power from 50Kw to 13Kw. CC is acquiring WCIB as part of the three-way swap involving Connoisseur and Qantum, leaving the Qantum stations with Clear Channel.
The changes to the three stations would result in improved coverage south of Boston for “The Bull” although it would remains a Class A signal. The Bull competes with Greater Media's WKLB 102.5 FM.
NAB: Broadcast Ownership Rules Lacking in Rationale
The rationale underlying several decades-old media ownership rules that broadcast television stations only compete against themselves in local markets is simply not true, the National Association of Broadcasters said in comments filed Wednesday with the FCC. The Commission should adjust its rules to better reflect today and tomorrow's marketplace that features competition from rival industries as it weighs relaxing ownership restrictions, NAB said.
In its comments submitted to the FCC for its 2014 Quadrennial Ownership Review, NAB included an economic study by Economists Incorporated that tested the Department of Justice Antitrust Division's position that broadcast TV stations do not face competition from cable and other media sources for local advertising revenue. The study found no evidence that in local markets where broadcasters are engaged in a joint sales agreement (JSA) or shared service agreement (SSA) are broadcasters able to charge higher advertising rates than in markets where these arrangements are not present.
"The presence of JSAs and SSAs is not statistically associated with increased advertising prices in local markets," concluded the study, which was conducted by economists Hal J. Singer and Kevin W. Caves. "There is even some evidence that markets with JSAs and SSAs have prices approximately 16 percent lower than other markets, suggesting that these arrangements benefit consumers by lowering costs."
The study, which analyzed pricing data from the past 10 years in 210 local markets, also found that in markets with a duopoly television station owner do not have higher advertising prices than in markets without a duopoly. "Increases in local television broadcast station concentration do not appear to have any effect on the advertising rates that broadcasters are able to charge," the study concluded. That result "is consistent with the conclusion that local broadcasting prices re disciplined by non-broadcast alternatives," the study found.
NAB also highlighted a number of other broadcast ownership rules that can no longer be rationally maintained in today's marketplace. Cross-ownership rules that prevent common ownership of a radio station and TV station or broadcast entities and newspapers in the same market do not promote the Commission's localism, competition or diversity goals, NAB said in its comments.
"The newspaper-broadcast cross ownership rule, in particular, should have been eliminated years ago," said NAB. "Failure to do so has likely led to the hastened diminishment of the newspaper industry and should serve as a warning to the Commission of what can happen to the marketplace when it ignores its deregulatory mandate and waits too long to adjust its rules."
Barriers that restrict access to capital are the cause of depressed female and minority ownership of broadcast radio and TV stations, NAB said. Ownership restrictions have not led to an increase in female and minority entities owning broadcast stations and in fact limit their ability to obtain sufficient capital to purchase and operate stations.
"Purposefully depressing the value of broadcast stations through ownership limitations only makes it more difficult for current licensees to maintain operating capital in order to compete or for possible new entries to secure funding," said NAB. "It simply has not worked. The time has come for the Commission to consider better incentives-based alternatives."
Obama Stand Shakes Up Net Neutrality Debate
President Barack Obama edged up to questioning the Federal Communications Commission's newly proposed net neutrality rules, a heavily criticized plan that would favor Internet content providers that can afford to pay more for faster delivery of their services.
Obama campaigned heavily on net neutrality during his 2008 election, but has been largely silent on the issue since the FCC voted to kill it with new Internet service rules that would create "fast lanes" for content providers that can afford to pay for them; those that can't will be hit with slower traffic.
The Huffington Post reports Obama echoed one of progressives' major criticisms of the new rules at the U.S. Africa Business Forum in Washington on Wednesday, saying he is in favor of "an open and fair Internet."
One of the issues around net neutrality is whether you are creating different rates or charges for different content providers. That’s the big controversy here," he said. "You have big, wealthy media companies who might be willing to pay more but then also charge more for more spectrum, more bandwidth on the Internet so they can stream movies faster or what have you. And I personally -- the position of my administration, as well as I think a lot of companies here is you don’t want to start getting a differentiation in how accessible the Internet is to various users."
The president said an open Internet will allow for "the next Google or the next Facebook" to enter the arena, and succeed.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has said that he, too, opposes paid prioritization -- but critics argue that his proposal will create just that. The FCC is an independent entity within the executive branch and is free to ignore the weight of the president's opinion.
Dickey: NASH To Generate $50M In 2016
Lew Dickey
During Wednesday's earnings conference call with analysts, Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey highlighted the development of the company's Country brand NASH.
Dickey said, "The NASH brand is being architected to connect artists, fans and advertisers across multiple platforms, including radio, television, magazine, digital, events, recorded music, touring and licensing."
In radio, Dickey says Cumulus has rebranded 35 of our 68 owned and operated country format stations as NASH. The rest of our stations are currently using their legacy brands, with the NASH brand woven in throughout the day.
Cumulus expects to begin offering NASH affiliations through Westwood One early in 2015, with a strategy similar to the network television model.
Cumulus expects to launch the NASH app and website in early 2015 and offering the NASH -- which will offer the NASH community of fans unparalleled access to their favorite artists, including breaking news, new releases for music and behind-the-scenes looks and the important trends in the country music lifestyle, which include food and travel.
Dickey says he's confident in his forecast of $25 million in incremental NASH revenue in 2015 and another incremental $25 million of NASH revenue in 2016.
Dickey re-iterated the company's support of Rdio, calling it "a key pillar of our mobile strategy."
"We are leveraging our platform to contribute content, promotion and ad sales to Rdio over the next 5 years in exchange for an ownership stake of 15%. And then -- and it can be increased up to 20% through the exercise of performance-based warrants. That makes us the second-largest shareholder, behind its founder. Cumulus is focused on being a leader -- a leading provider of audio content in a widening audio space as consumers utilize digital music services to complement their broadcast radio listening.
Over time, we expect Rdio to become the digital platform for all of our local brands and nationally syndicated content distributed through WestwoodOne."
Orlando Radio: WCFB Takes-Over Sole Possession Of #1
The ratings compression which hit the Top 5 in June has been broken-up. The compression resulted in three ties in the Top5, including a two-way tie for #1 between UrbanAC WCFB and Contemporary Christian WPOZ.
Now, there's just one station at the top and it's Cox Media's WCFB 94.5 FM Star. It moved 7.3—7.5, while June co-champ Central Florida Education Foundation's WPOZ 88.3 FM Positive Hits slipped 7.3—6.7.
Cox Media's WWKA 92.3 FM remains #3 thanks to a 5.9—6.6 move.
The July's big winner is CBS Radio's Classic Hits WOCL 105.9 FM Sunny, which improved 4.6 (#10 June) to 5.8 ending up #4 for July. Sunny's Rick Stacy morning show also placed in the Top 5 and the station tied for #5 in the 25-54 demo.
CCM+E's AC WMGF 107.7 FM remains at #5, with a steady 5.6 showing.
Dropping out of the Top 5 is CCM+E's Top 40 WXXL 106.7 FM..it fell from #4 to #7, no thanks to a 5.9—5.1 share loss. XL106-7 has been trending down in Cume: 534,200 (May) 489,600 (June) 477,900 (July)
25-54: WCFB...WWKA...WPOZ...WTKS...3-way tie: WOMX, WOCL, WJRR
18-34: WXXL, WPYO...WCFB tie WJRR...WOMX
18-49: WCFB...WWKA...WXXL...WPOZ...WTKS
Cume: WOMX-FM 504,600...WXXL-FM 477,900...WMGF-FM 471,600...WPYO-FM 394,500 WOCL-FM 388,800...WPOZ-FM 357,600...WJHM-FM 355,800...WMMO-FM 334,600...WWKA-FM 302,900...WCFB-FM 271,900
Top Five Morning Shows (M-F 6-10a 12+ AQH)
Tom Joyner Morning Show, WCFB Star 94.5 FM
Monsters In The Morning WTKS, Real Radio 104.1 FM
Ellis, Tyler and Tracy, WPOZ Z88.3 Positive Hits
A-J & Ashley, WWKA K92 Country
Rick Stacy, WOCL Sunny 105-9 Classic Hits
The Numbers Just Keep On Comin'...
July PPMs Were Released Wednesday For The Following Markets:
Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill
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Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Fizzles
Sprint Corp has dropped its bid to acquire No. 4 U.S. carrier T-Mobile after regulatory resistance showed no signs of softening despite months of lobbying, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The move is a rare setback for Sprint's Japanese parent, SoftBank Corp, whose billionaire founder Masayoshi Son had seen the acquisition as key to taking on U.S. market leaders AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications Inc.
Sprint, the No. 3 U.S. mobile carrier, and T-Mobile have not ruled out consolidation in the future but concluded that a deal is unlikely to be approved at this time, the sources said. U.S. regulators have insisted that they want to keep the number of major wireless carriers at four.
"We didn't think the opposition would be this strong," a SoftBank executive said, but added: "The environment will definitely change".
The failure to reach a deal could give added impetus to a rival bid for T-Mobile by French telecoms firm Iliad ILD.PA. Iliad made a lower bid than Sprint but is in talks with U.S. cable and satellite companies to sweeten its offer.
Sprint on Wednesday named Marcelo Claure, 43, as its chief executive, effective Aug. 11, to replace Dan Hesse, who has been CEO since 2007. Hesse was Jeff Smulyan’s negotiating partner when Jeff put together the NextRadio deal with Sprint.
Claure founded mobile phone distributor Brightstar Corp, which was acquired last year by SoftBank.
Pandora Inks Indy Deal With Merlin
Charles Caldas
Merlin, the global rights agency for the independent label sector, and Pandora have announced a comprehensive partnership designed to help independent labels and artists grow the audiences they reach and the royalties they receive.
The deal - which applies to Pandora's business in the United States - brings together Merlin's membership of leading independent labels with Pandora's unmatched scale and music discovery expertise, creating new opportunities to build audiences and connect with fans.
"For the independent sector, internet radio is an increasingly important part of the digital market, and we want to see it continue to grow, and grow fast," said Charles Caldas, CEO of Merlin. "For the thousands of labels Merlin represents, this agreement with Pandora provides a real best of both worlds scenario: a hugely important opportunity to increase our members' revenues and access unparalleled opportunities for exposure, whilst continuing to support a collective licensing framework."
Brian McAndrews
"This is an important step to advance Pandora's ongoing commitment to build a vibrant and sustainable music industry," said Brian McAndrews, CEO of Pandora. "It's a true partnership that will grow our collective businesses, help artists reach larger audiences and give our listeners an even better music discovery experience personalized to their tastes."
Merlin's membership embodies over 20,000 independent record labels and distributors worldwide. According to Merlin, these labels command around a 10 percent share of the global and US streaming music markets. The new partnership will enable participating labels and the artists they represent to take advantage of the unprecedented marketing capabilities of Pandora's connected platform.
IN Radio: Adams Group Closes On Radio One Com Stations
Adams Radio Group has closed on its acquisition of Radio One Communications stations in Northwest Indiana.
Ron Stone, president and CEO of Adams, said, "My excitement for this market is through the roof. There are so few opportunities like this ... The Ellis family's 50-year stewardship of these stations has been amazing, and we are fortunate to be the next stewards of these great properties. These stations serve the Region, a fast-growing area from Chicago to South Bend covering about a million people -- great additions to our company."
Leigh, Len Ellis
Radio One Communications owned WLJE-FM, WXRD-FM, WZVN-FM and WAKE-AM. Len Ellis, who's known as "Uncle Len," is 86, and Leigh Ellis, 60, said he wants to retire and pursue other hobbies and devote more time to his family. The staff and stations will continue as they are now for the foreseeable future, they said.
Leigh Ellis said the family hired a broker last May to actively market the stations nationwide. Four companies talked to them about buying it, and others expressed interest before Adams Radio Group was chosen.
"We're excited to be joining Adams Radio and becoming part of a larger group," said O.J. Jackson, market manager. "We are excited to work with the people at Adams and together bring the stations to the next level."
This is the third market for Adams Radio Group since reentering the radio business last July. Adams closed on Las Cruces, NM in December and its eight station cluster in Fort Wayne in June.
Report: Disney Pulling Back On TV Advertising
In the most candid admission of how downbeat the television ad market is right now, ABC and ESPN parent Walt Disney Co. said it had decided to reduce its reliance on advertising.
The Wall Street Journal reports during a conference call on Tuesday night, Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger acknowledged that ad spending is growing faster on new media platforms than on traditional outlets. Acknowledging what some ad buyers have been whispering in recent weeks, Mr. Iger said that some ad dollars that was held back from the TV upfront “clearly moved to new platforms.”
Noting that Disney sees “a much more competitive environment out there for advertising,” Mr. Iger said Disney has made a “conscious decision” to reduce its reliance on advertising, which now accounts for “the low 20% range of our total revenue.”
His comments, which so far have received little attention, highlighted generally dispirited comments from media CEOs about the ad market on June quarter earnings calls over the past week or so.
Nielsen: Social Media Drives TV Viewers Awareness
The jury is still out on how strong an effect social media has on television viewing habits, according to marketingland.com.
An NBCUniversal executive made a big splash in April with an emperor-has-no-clothes statement, saying that social did nothing for Winter Olympic ratings but Twitter, Facebook and others beg to differ.
This week, Nielsen added more data to the social-matters side of the ledger, reporting a study showing that 25% of U.S. viewers said they were more aware of TV programs because of their social media interactions. The study, using data from the fourth quarter of 2013, also found that 15% of viewers say they enjoy television more because of their social media activity. Both figures were significant increases from 2012 results (18% for awareness, 11% for enjoyment).
However, social media isn’t the primary second-screen activity according to other Nielsen data. Two-thirds of tablet users and about half of the smart phone users said surfing the web was their No. 1 secondary activity while watching TV. Shopping (24% phone, 44% tablet), checking sports scores (27%, 29%), looking up actors, plots, athletes, etc. (29%, 41%) and emailing or texting friends about the program (29%, 23%) all surpassed reading social media commentary about the show (12%, 18%) in popularity.
FOX 2Q Beats Estimates
21st Century Fox reported quarterly profits that exceeded Wall Street expectations, driven by big box-office hits, including “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “Rio 2” and “The Fault in Our Stars.”
The NY Post reports Earnings per share in the fiscal fourth quarter rose to 43 cents versus a forecast of 39 cents. Revenue rose 17 percent, to $8.42 billion — topping estimates of $8 billion — on the strong theatrical results and growth in cable network programming.
The company also said Wednesday it is authorizing a $6 billion share buyback over the next 12 months.
Commenting on the aborted $80 billion bid for Time Warner, Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch said, “The refusal of Time Warner’s management and board to engage with us to explore this compelling offer, coupled with the reaction in our share price that undervalued our stock, resulted in our conclusion that this transaction was no longer attractive to Fox shareholders.”
“Yesterday we walked away. This is our resolute decision,” said Murdoch.
Entravision: 8 Percent Increase In Radio Revenue
Spanish-language media company Entravision Communications Corp. Wednesday reported is 2Q earnings. The company says
Commenting on the Company's earnings results, Walter F. Ulloa, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, "During the second quarter, we achieved continued growth in core advertising revenue (excluding retransmission consent revenue and political advertising revenue) as our television segment again outperformed the television broadcast industry, reflecting the contributions from our broadcast of the World Cup.
Our radio operations also produced revenue growth that we believe will be among the best in the industry. Continuing the trend of the last several years, we also experienced an increase in retransmission consent revenue. We also improved our free cash flow and net income over the second quarter of 2013 as we benefited from the successful refinancing of our debt last August."
Ulloa state Entravision continues to build it digital footprint and marketing solutions capabilities, "which provide us with an integrated platform to allow advertisers and marketers to connect with Latino audiences."
Net revenue increased to $61.8 million for the three-month period ended June 30, 2014 from $57.0 million for the three-month period ended June 30, 2013, an increase of $4.8 million. Of the overall increase, approximately $3.5 million was generated by its television segment and was primarily attributable to advertising revenue from the World Cup, and an increase in retransmission consent revenue. Additionally, $1.3 million of the overall increase was generated by the radio segment and was primarily attributable to advertising revenue from the World Cup. Radio revenue increased 8 percent, “among the best in the industry,” according to Ulloa.
Entravision Communications Corporation is a diversified Spanish-language media company with an integrated platform of solutions and services that includes television, radio, digital media and data analytics to reach Latino audiences across the United States and Latin America. Entravision has 58 primary television stations, including in 20 of the nation's top 50 Latino markets, and is the largest affiliate group of both the top-ranked Univision television network and Univision's UniMas network. Entravision also operates one of the nation's largest groups of primarily Spanish-language radio stations, consisting of 49 owned and operated radio stations.
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Sin Quirin accused of rape of two adolescents, pattern of Ephebophilia
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 10:47 AM (PST)
CW: Rape, minor abuse, drugs.
Writing this post is triggering as hell and my hands have been shaking.
The great writer Maggie Serota at Billboard has published a must read piece regarding child rape allegations against Sin Quirin of one of my all time favorite bands Ministry. The headline of the article falsely says Underage Sexual Relationships but there is no such thing because you aren’t in a “relationship” if someone is not able to legally consent , not to mention there is a wild power dynamic imbalance. Two alleged victims have spoken out and there appears to be a lot of corroborating email evidence and more – including statements from a former partner of the Ministry guitarist, Lacey Sculls.
1.) I have been talking about this for years now, and finally it has been confirmed by media giants BILLBOARD and SPIN. #SinQuirin, guitarist for the bands #Ministry and formerly #LordsofAcid, has multiple accusations that he is a sexual predator of underage girls.
— Lacey Sculls (@laceysculls) January 17, 2020
I have several thoughts. Ministry needs to kick or at minimum sit Sin down out of the band line-up immediately while this is looked into. I have interviewed Al 2x and Sin once and know former member of the band and they were a huge part of my social consciousness developing. So what. Despite talking to Al being a highlight of my professional career, Sin needs to sit down and not be on the tour with KMFDM while this gets “sorted out”.
Al issued a rather anemic statement through legal channels: In a statement, the band’s lawyer said, Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen “is unaware of any of potential nefarious activity by any member of Ministry during their respective tenure(s) with the band including but not limited to Mr. Sin Quirin.”
Well, hire someone else for the upcoming tour anyway. Even if you are “unaware” of it, there needs to be accountability in these matters and erring on side of caution to show survivors in your fandom and the wider world that this is something the band doesn’t take lightly. Especially since Al has condemned R. Kelly rightfully in the past.
This is a situation where the band can find someone else easy who would jump at the chance to play Sin’s parts. Dino Cazares or anyone who can play fast industrial would be great. Quirin’s attorney also calling one of the allegations “hilariously false” is a huge no no. It is not a hilarious situation in any way. This is the kind of tone deaf insensitive to victims BS response that- even if for example Maynard from Tool was innocent of edging the age of consent and having security poach girls off boyfriends at shows- soured me from supporting Tool at all again after Maynard rebuked the recent allegations against him with snarky tweets that could be very discouraging to people on fence about coming forward.
If someone is innocent I am not saying they should never play again but otherwise they need to be accountable and then it is up to the victims comfort what happens.
“The thing about being young is you have a harder time saying no,” recalls one of the alleged Sin victims. “…I really don’t want to let this person down, but I also don’t want this person to hurt me.”
I have a lot of sexual trauma and can relate to that statement. When I was 15 I was statutory raped by someone twice my age when I was incapacitated on three bags of heroin after a NIN/Manson show and my first time ever in Harlem in an unfamiliar neighborhood. It is one of my core traumas from early life and I never spoke about it for years because the person’s father is the first black person ever to win the Pulitzer Prize in a huge category and was a symbol of unity. I didn’t want to tarnish their family legacy and thought I would be mocked. It was very emasculating to me as a very closeted non-binary person, on top of everything else. I felt “not a man”.
I am lucky to have had a measure of restorative justice with this person and another friend who did something to me (there are several more including a literal doctor who I never will). That is not always healthy or possible. But the mental burdens certainly persisted for years of compartmentalization and therapists have agreed it is one of my foundational traumas from youth. I have spent years navigating very difficult times of mania, hyper apology, self-destructive cycles and racing thoughts, insomnia and other things that sadly still rear their head at time. Thankfully with the new decade I am meditating and sober again from booze, so far so good (and no narcotics at all since 1999). Sometimes due to this and other things like varying dysphoria or mental baggage I have had to be celibate for years at a time.
We can’t just pretend these scars and hurdles are all fake or people aren’t left holding the bag for other people’s “it was a wild, rock n roll time”. I have to think of that every time I love, say, David Bowie or Zeppelin. Humanity has to try and be accountable when there has been harm. Or at the very LEAST try and be healing and calm in the surrounding discourse so as not to encourage the type of “His Side Too” online bullying that Backstreet Boys fans dumped on the wonderful Melissa Schuman.
Sure, the conversation has evolved a lot since the 70’s and 80’s when more rock “gods” than not were doing super sketch shit… but even if someone like Sin WAS innocent – if we don’t even have civil discourse around these matters and sound arrogant like Sin’s lawyer or Maynard (who I believe said he shouldn’t have to bother responding to allegations or something similar), how the hell are people ever going to heal or feel safe. How can we trust the intentions of a band with social lyrics like Ministry? OR should we focus instead on the part in your book where you mock Madonna smelling like‘ tuna and dog shit’, Al?
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RIP Elijah Nelson of Black Breath
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Monday, December 30, 2019 at 12:36 PM (PST)
Very sad to learn of the sudden passing of Elijah Nelson of death metal band Black Breath. Was lucky enough to catch them live once and have them fully melt my face and the Elijah was a huge part of that and will be greatly missed by fans and loved ones. The group certainly are deserving of their cult following and regardless of all that it is always tragic when this sort of thing happens. Sending love out to everyone. Blasting some “Children of The Horn” right now.
More On: Death Metal, General News, Black Breath, Southern Lord Records
Photo Gallery 12/15/19: Obituary, False Prophet, Extinction AD, High Command rock Palladium Upstairs
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 10:17 PM (PST)
Pleased to report that there is still more metal and hardcore content to throw your way as we head towards the end of this insane decade. Our new contributing photographer Petra Dollet shot legends Obituary, the hungry False Prophet, respected ragers Extinction AD and the wild High Command for us at the quite recent Palladium Upstairs night of the run and here is a gallery of hate splattered visual impressions for you die-hards RIGHT HERE. Looks like it was an awesome night of heavy antics!
More On: Death Metal, Exclusive, Obituary, Relapse Records
Top 5 2019 Critical List : Jessica Rae Fisher
Posted by Metal Riot on Monday, December 16, 2019 at 11:20 AM (PST)
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The following is the personal list of year end album top 5 favorites from frequent yearly Metal Riot contributor Jessica Rae Fisher, aka Longhairedpoet. Much appreciation to Jessica for your support of the metal scene. \m/
Motionless in White – Disguise
Motionless in White brought the heat this year with Disguise. Chris Motionless brought some disgusting vocals. The stand out track for me was “Thoughts & Prayers.”
Thy Art Is Murder – Human Target
Thy Art is Murder never fail to disappoint and that is no less true this year with Human Target. The album starts with the brutal title track, but the album hinges, for me, around “Death Squad Anthem” and “Make America Hate Again.”
Ashbringer – Absolution
Ashbringer’s Absolution is probably the most “one of these things is not like the other” of my picks for this year, but the soundscapes that the band creates on the album, especially in both parts of “Eternal Separation,” are undeniably amazing. With tracks ranging from just over 7 minutes to 10 minutes 20 seconds, this 1 hour and 8-minute album is a marathon and not a sprint. Let each track envelope you in itself. It’s well worth it.
Counterparts – Nothing Left to Love
“Wings of Nightmares” really brought me into this album. These Hamilton, Ontario, Canadian hardcore metallers won me over this year with their combination of punishing instrumentation and emotive lyrics. Also check out “Paradise and Plague.”
Upon A Burning Body – Southern Hostility
Upon a Burning Body pushed through to stand out this year with Southern Hostility. This follow-up to their 2016 effort Straight From The Barrio has a strong opener in the track “Southern Hostility,” faithful to UABB’s style. Other standout tracks include “King of Diamonds,” “Burn,” and “Soul Searcher.”
More On: Metalcore, Exclusive, Motionless In White, Fearless Records
Rock News: Through Fire cover Roxette, Moonspell ‘Sin/Pecado’ re-issue, Stone Sour killer live video
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Monday, December 9, 2019 at 11:02 AM (PST)
Moonspell have never made a bad album. Stay jealous about it.
December’s Underground pulse beats strong as the blood flows towards year’s end and we have a few more cool news items to discuss with you here at Metal Riot. Today we discuss a much needed re-issue of Moonspell’s most divisive record, a young hard rock band Through Fire’s cover of a Roxette classic and some Stone Sour news!
Moonspell are one of my ALL TIME favorite bands, respected but deserving of so much more love and awe. The band has never been one-dimensional and remain one of the true touchstones of gothic infused, dark metal with a black poetic soul. Released originally by the band in 1998, Sin/Pecado (which gets a gorgeous re-issue treatment this month via Napalm) became the great divider of the Moonspell wolfpack. Produced by their long time companion (Waldemar Sorychta – Wolfheart, Irreligious), the songs of this “accursed” album were signs of a rebellion of the band against the sound that made them famous in the scene.
“Moonspell’s biggest flaw or quality, judge for yourself, is never to be satisfied with anything,” Frontman Ribeiro says. “There was true creative anguish burning inside us in 1997, after we were done with the endless Irreligious’ tours, that created the perfect (shit)storm that would be Sin. It was a strange year for us, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, were letting loose and seemed to be also under the same mood as we did, or vice-versa. It doesn’t matter. Metal was turning its wheel and we’re all on the falling side. We took the fall and enjoyed doing it anyway. It wasn’t Moses dividing the waters, but it did hurt sometimes to feel alone. Curiosly a lot of other people entered Sin’s mood a couple of years later and now they beg of us to play those songs live. If you’re reading this and need another taste at sin, let’s indulge each other and pick up that second skin from the late-nineties deep closet.”
I don’t understand how a true fan wouldn’t like this album. It is of course not black metal but certainly vibes with some of the darkly romantic decadence they displayed on Irreligious. “Magdalene” in particular is one of their best songs, stunning performances in particular on that song from Pedro and Ricardo in particular which would add even more dynamics to the band’s legendary live shows. I hope more fans discover this release. Happy for the band it is getting more respect as an important creative moment. Bands should not be forced to never follow their muse creatively into interesting, nuanced dalliances and diversions.
Omaha upstart’s Through Fire have a new Sumerian backed cover of a Roxette classic “Listen To Your Heart”. I am a big fan of the original and the band were one of the catchiest around in their heyday. I actually shouted them out on a verse of an industrial song on my band Walking Bomb’s most recent album, cuz I listen to them in the kitchen with my girlfriend sometimes, haha.
(Update: This was written just a day before I found out the sad news about the passing of Marie Fredrikkson. RIP to an awesome artist).
Anyway, this new hard rock version aint half bad. While not the style of rock I gravitate to the most, I admire the band bringing back a tune that deserves more love and putting their own spin on it for a new generation!
All Animal, the band’s highly anticipated sophomore album was produced by guitarist/songwriter Justin McCain. The title track single ‘All Animal’ was #1 on SiriusXM Octane Big Uns’ Countdown for 2 consecutive weeks and spent 18 weeks on the Billboard rock radio charts.
The band is currently on their ‘Holiday Havoc’ Tour with Brkn Love, Saul and Dead Posey. Tickets are available from ThroughFireMusic.com
Stone Sour are here to inspect your naughty to nice stocking ratio
Speaking of hard rock, current genre leaders Stone Sour have a new live video for the song “Whiplash Pants”. I loved seeing Corey’s t-shirt of The Specials! Right on!
Speaking on the band’s first official live release, guitarist Josh Rand says,
“This is the Reno show in its entirety, just how it went down on October 5th, 2018. We’re extremely proud of the fact that it’s 100% live with absolutely no overdubs! It’s not perfect but neither are we. I hope you enjoy this as much as we did playing it.”
Anyway, this is a high energy clip showing the bond between band and fans in a great way, more evidence of why they remain at the top of the pack in the hearts of many. The close camera guitar leads section is pretty fucking sick indeed as well. The clip is taken from the upcoming live album, Hello, You Bastards: Live In Reno which will be released on December 13th via Cooking Vinyl. Find the new track on your streaming platform of choice and watch the video below.
More On: Alternative Metal, General News, Stone Sour, Roadrunner Records
Nevermore Guitar Anthology book sees release
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 12:48 PM (PST)
Happy Thanksgiving week, folks. I don’t really get many opportunities to post that much NEVERMORE news anymore, but today is an exception. Fans of the powerful and heralded heavy metal band’s legacy can rejoice and be grateful for Nevermore: The Guitar Anthology, a new book that will help you learn how to play some of the band’s coolest songs so you can impress the disgruntled curly haired older dude at your local guitar shop. For real though, if you can play any of these monster tunes – you will become way cooler. I fucking love Nevermore. RIP Warrel.
“The Guitar Anthology” features guitar tab and notation for 10 songs from the Nevermore catalog. All songs were transcribed note for note from the original recordings by Heathen/Exodus (live) guitarist Kragen Lum and former Nevermore guitarist Steve Smyth. Learn how to play the songs exactly as played on the recordings with these 100% accurate transcriptions! Presented in 2 guitar format so you can learn to play every riff and solo just as Jeff Loomis, Tim Calvert and Steve Smyth played them on the albums. Includes foreword by Nevermore/Arch Enemy guitarist Jeff Loomis. 200 pages. This Deluxe Print Edition of the book also includes an exclusive Nevermore bookmark and a brand new Jeff Loomis Dunlop guitar pick not yet available to the public. This Deluxe Print Edition also includes a Digital Copy of the book in PDF format and is only through SubLevel Records!
Songs Included:
Beyond Within
Dreaming Neon Black
Enemies Of Reality
Narcosynthesis
The River Dragon Has Come
The Seven Tongues Of God
This Godless Endeavor
This Sacrament
What Tomorrow Knows
Upon purchase of this Deluxe Print Edition + Digital Copy you will receive an email notification that the book is available for download. Use the link provided in the email to download the eBook in PDF format to your computer, tablet or mobile device.
More On: Progressive Metal, General News, Nevermore, Century Media
CLUTCH’S NEIL FALLON LAUNCHES FUND-RAISING CHARITY AUCTION FOR INNOCENT LIVES FOUNDATION
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Monday, November 25, 2019 at 2:36 PM (PST)
Neil Fallon is the lyricist, singer, and rhythm guitar player of the rock band CLUTCH. What you might not know, is that since 2017, he’s also been on the board of the non-profit organisation INNOCENT LIVES FOUNDATION.
Based in the United States but working globally, the ILF is committed to helping children by unmasking anonymous online predators and aiding law enforcement to bring them to justice. Through open source intelligence gathering, the ILF create dossiers on possible child exploiters by searching the Internet for information and scouring the dark web for proof. Once evidence is found, the ILF turns the dossiers over to the appropriate law enforcement agencies. In 2019 more than 80 of the dossiers produced by the ILF are being used by law enforcement to track, capture, and and apprehend child predators. The ILF is a 501c3 charitable organisation and relies solely on donations.
Now, Fallon has organised a special online auction of rare and sought after rock ‘n roll memorabilia to benefit the Innocent Lives Foundation.
The auction lots include signed guitars from Slipknot, My Chemical Romance, No Doubt, Zakk Wylde, Thursday, and Clutch. Also up for bids are signed posters from the Foo Fighters and Black Label Society. Finally, there is a limited edition (#21 of 25) black and white photo print of Chris Cornell, courtesy of Andrew Stuart and approved by the Cornell estate.
When asked why he wanted to organise an auction for the ILF, Fallon responded, “No one wants to hear, let alone talk, about the topic of child abuse. We can choose to look away, but the victims don’t have that option. I realized that if I am in a position to help, how could I not? Putting together this auction is an easy thing to do for kids that need our help so desperately.”
Interested fans can place bids at: auctions.innocentlivesfoundation.org.
Bidding starts on November 25th at 11am EST (8am PST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET) and concludes on December 7th at 11:59pm EST.
Fallon returns to the UK with CLUTCH for headline shows pre-Christmas, with special guests Graveyard and Kamchatka. For tickets, visit www.pro-rock.com.
About the Innocent Lives Foundation
The ILF uses experts from around the globe to save children and stop the spread of child abuse material, which can include child pornography, child erotica, and content displaying any type of child abuse. They create technology and processes to combat child abuse material. They use this technology to assist law enforcement in bringing predators to justice.
To donate or for more info on the ILF’s work, please visit www.innocentlivesfoundation.org.
More On: Hard Rock, General News, Clutch, Weathermaker Music
Metal Riot’s Top 15 albums of 2019.
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 5:10 AM (PST)
Immortal Bird deserve to thrive
Hi everyone. As usual, I am inclined to post my AOTY list a little on the early side to hopefully get capitalist metal scum to buy more of these masterpieces in advance of the holiday season. I also am very busy doing important shit like going through a hellish move to get away from a slumlord, petitioning Marvel to reinstate Julian MacMahon as Dr. Doom in the MCU , etc. I have also been busy being furious that the entire Metal Riot Twitter account was deleted by vengeful Melanie Martinez and Foxygen stans just because I said that my gf Globelamp and I are not part of a god damn murder plot against stupid Foxygen and that anyone who thinks that is an idiot (FYI: their official twitter tweeted and deleted awhile ago “she tried to kill me and isn’t done”…complete evil nonsense). She has dental records that her teeth were knocked out, geniuses. It wasn’t from no one. The Melanie stans also hated that my gf stood up for the woman who accused Melanie of assault. Everything is wack. Not a good look to support Foxygen, to put it nicely.
Sorry I dropped some F bombs, Twitter! I notice you still have Richard Spencer on there with a god damn turkey emoji dogwhistling Native American genocide, you trash! Sorry I stood up for my abused girlfriend and want some losers to leave us alone. I do apologize to anyone inconvenienced and will continue to do my best to support lots of bands, though I am disgusted by the Twitter platform so not sure I will be replacing the account.
Anyway, it has been an intense year so I sure as hell hope these impeachment hearings gain some traction. Quick shameless plug. I was honored to release two albums this year with my Walking Bombs project via Nefarious Industries, the war, hate and capitalism themed Suicide By Citizenship and the non binary themed Sphinges Sibling Selves and Queens.
I am still in awe of the assembled allies who took part in these albums, from Gridfailure to members of Tad, Caustic Resin/Earth, Cycle Sluts From Hell, Kylesa, All Out War, Globelamp , The Beautiful Bastards and more. I will remain very thankful for years to come for these releases, which helped me express myself during a very hard personal year where my gf and I were battling Foxygen legally and dealing with DARVO. Thank you EVERYONE who checked my records out this year or did a premiere. More to come in 2020!
The following are some of the musical powerful albums by others that really resonated with me the most this year. Well, I mean they are the ones cloests to the hard rock, metal and punk genres. I also listened to lots of Tamaryn, Kerli and Jenny Lewis, as should you all. Bless you cool cats and let’s all keep the faith, I value you all and thank you for continuing to support the site. In the next few weeks before the end of the year we will also post short lists from other staff and guest artist favorite list contributors to continue our year end celebration. Stay loud and proud! Love, fangs and headbangs, y’all. Today is trans day of remembrance as I write this and let’s make the world brighter.
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More On: Death Metal, Exclusive, In Mourning, Spinefarm Records
Of Marijuanaut’s, Nicole Richie and Necropanthers: Metal News You Snooze On, You Lose
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 3:56 PM (PST)
Taking a moment from perusing the House Of Harlow 1960 crystal collection and being amused at the Rose Quartz Crystal Statement Ear Jackets name. They are a nice design but the merging of “crystal” and “statement” screams hippie + bougie to me in a way that I am sure was psychically intentional. No shade, Nicole Richie. That’s how you get ’em. Not a bad collection, sis!
Anyway, back here in Riot-ville to tell you unwashed weirdos the lowdown on some sounds.
Necropanther‘s much awaited The Doomed City is streaming HERE. The Colorado metallers mean business on this Logan’s Run inspired riff fest. I especially like the absurdly whiplash-ready track “Cathedral” which ought to appeal to both fans of Power Trip, old gargle scream Skeletonwitch and Pantera in fairly equal measure. Somewhere Farrah Fawcett is windmilling like Corpsegrinder and The production on this and the growls are just…is evil overused as a descriptor in metal? The stream comes in advance of the record’s official release this Friday November 15th.
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— Sleep (@sleep_official) November 10, 2019
Following a few December gigs, stoner icons Sleep will be on indefinite hiatus. I never expected another record, let alone the brilliance of The Sciences. I mean, it isn’t hard for dudes as rad at rocking as Sleep to make a good album, but that record was “chef’s kiss”. This Chicago date with Big Business looks pretty sick, for a pretty penny. I’d go, though. Lot worse things you could do with that money and you probably have enough weed already if this interests you, fam.
Seriously though, much thanks to Sleep for inspiring so many and keeping it real across the vastnesses of here, there and wherever. Hails.
More On: Doom Metal, General News, Sleep,
Crowbar’s Kirk Windstein to release ‘Dream In Motion’ solo album in January
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 10:55 AM (PST)
Hey kids. Just taking a break from The Mandalorian to tell you that gravel throated sludge icon Kirk Windstein has a solo album Dream In Motion coming next year (allegedly also featuring a Jethro Tull cover I am a little wary of, no offense to the big lug). Heavy Consequence has a premiere of the first video for the title track, which almost makes up for their ghastly top 25 albums of the decade list the other day (hahaha). Not sure yet if Windstein is part of the Down reunion show announced for next year, but somebody knows.
Can I just add that as usual Kirk is still the daddy of all the best riffs?
As for his decision to record a solo LP, Windstein states:
“The idea to record a solo album started out as, ‘I’m going to do an acoustic record,’ but that’s just so cliché, you know? Nothing against that, but it’s been done a million times. But I had been thinking about doing something a little more mellow for some time. It’s something I wanted to do, I needed to do. It’s another side of my songwriting, my personality. It’s another side of me. It’s something I did for myself. It’s not even that this isn’t heavy, because there are bits and pieces that are very heavy. But even the heaviest riff on this is something I couldn’t really do in Crowbar. If some Crowbar fans don’t like it, I’ll understand. But I hope people dig it.”
More On: Doom Metal, General News, Crowbar, E1 Entertainment
Defiled (Japan) announce new record, hear first song “Tragedy” today!
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 1:03 PM (PST)
Hey gang. Feeling the cooling positivity of that day after blue wave feeling and sipping some black coffee. Finally checking out this Cro-Mags (Harley version) promo from the remnants of Victory and I have to say that I don’t really understand why anyone says it sucks. “From The Grave” with Phil from Motorhead is a ripping rad rager and the vocals do sound ferocious if not my favorite voice for the band. I am way more of a fan of the John and Mackie version and wish they could somehow just dead this shit in the name of PMA and form the tightest , ugly heavy and illest combo going but after the violence and all the hate I understand why it is two distinct camps. It is sad, but I am gonna try and keep an open heart and love both.
Been going through a lot of crazy shit the last month with a very crummy landlord situation and family stuff as well as the year winding down so haven’t had the gusto to do too much self-insertion into any posts, but I wanted to thank you all who continue to support the site and also in the scene and general world who believe in ourselves and one another. We can heal a lot and restore balance to the force or justice or progress as a scene or wider society if we can process our pains and biases and try to move things in a productive and healing direction while still having respect for oneself and boundaries. I have to believe for all the good and bad days we all have that a lot of us underneath it all are better people than not or at least want to be. Sending you all love and horns tonight. Don’t mind me, I finally finished reading The Elfstones of Shannara and the sacrifice of Amberle to bond with the land as the next tree protector to shelter and cradle life through synergy has affected me and made me think about interconnectedness.
Anyway, on to some evil ass gnarly metal news- hahaha!
It has been a big Season Of Mist week around here so let’s not stop now! Defiled from Japan have a new album announced. This death metal group rip so fucking hard, it is truly a spectacle of unhinged wonder. The band will release their new studio album, Infinite Regress on January 24, 2020. The album art and track-list can be found below. Additionally, the band have revealed “Tragedy,” the first single from the effort. “Tragedy” can be heard below.
DEFILED comment: “The day has finally come! We are so incredibly proud to announce our new record, ‘Infinite Regress.’ The album will be out on 24th Jan 2020 via our home of Season of Mist. Please give a listen to our first official premiere song ‘Tragedy’ and we hope you guys enjoy it. Cheers!”
I don’t know about you but I think “Tragedy” fucking rules and love the brainy intro that devolves into fierce speed and then interesting slower deathy kinda tribal thud before back to a full fledged powerful attack. And some chunky ass lead parts amidst the growling chaos! This band is so cool and I really like their arrangements and clear dedication to not giving a shit about trends.
‘Infinite Regress’ can be pre-ordered in various formats HERE.
More On: Death Metal, General News, Defiled, Season of Mist
RIP Timi Hansen, true metal legend
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Monday, November 4, 2019 at 3:33 PM (PST)
Very sad news today as we learn that Timi Hansen of Mercyful Fate and King Diamond fame has passed of cancer. Read more here.
Thanks you for being a big part of some of my all time favorite releases and condolences to friends and family.
I just found out that I lost one of my dearest friends, who has been fighting cancer for a long time, in such an incredibly brave way. I feel so so sad for his entire family, you have my absolute deepest sympathy.
Rest in Peace, Timi. My dear dear friend.
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— King Diamond (@kingdiamond) November 4, 2019
More On: Heavy Metal, General News, Mercyful Fate, Roadrunner Records
Archspire members appear in new Jason Momoa show ‘See’
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Monday, November 4, 2019 at 8:34 AM (PST)
Here is some cool and somewhat different news for your Monday (other than that Richard Spencer is a POS nazi and wbk). Apple TV’s new series “See,” starring Jason Momoa (‘Aquaman,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ etc.), features a special appearance from ARCHSPIRE vocalist Oli Peters and drummer Spencer Prewett on the pilot episode! Peters showcases his signature gunfire vocals in a scene in which Momoa hand-selected the band to appear. The episode ‘Godflame’ can be seen at THIS LOCATION.
Very glad to see more good stuff happen for one of the coolest bands in metal!
About “See:”
A virus has decimated mankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Jason Momoa stars as the father of twins born centuries later with the mythic ability to see – who must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.
Later this month, ARCHSPIRE will kick off a European headlining tour. The band will be performing in support of 2017’s JUNO-Nominated record, Relentless Mutation. The full itinerary is as follows:
ARCHSPIRE European Dates (w/ Beneath the Massacre, Vulvodynia & Inferi)
11/30: Karlsruhe (DE) @ Weisse Rose
12/01: Sint-Niklaas (BE) @ De Casino
12/02: London (UK) @ Underworld
12/03: Bristol (UK) @ The Exchange
12/04: Glasgow (UK) @ Cathouse
12/05: Birmingham (UK) @ Asylum2
12/06: Manchester (UK) @ Rebellion
12/07: Rotterdam (NL) @ Baroeg
12/08: Paris (FR) @ Glazart
12/09: Toulouse (FR) @ Rex
12/10: Madrid (ES) @ Caracol
12/11: Barcelona (ES) @ Bóveda
12/13: Aarau (CH) @ Kiff
12/14: München (DE) @ Feierwerk
12/15: Ljubljana (SL) @ Orto Bar
12/16: Vienna (AT) @ Arena
12/17: Prague (CZ) @ Nova Chmelnice
12/18: Hannover (DE) @ Mephisto
12/19: Berlin (DE) @ Musik & Frieden
12/20: Leipzig (DE) @ Naumanns
12/21: Bochum (DE) @ Matrix
More On: Death Metal, General News, Archspire, Season of Mist
Bridge Nine one day Halloween sale to keep the pit spooky
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 3:32 PM (PST)
Happy Halloween, y’all. Have a fun, safe and spirited night. Don’t eat more candy than is reasonable. Listen to some Ministry or King Diamond or Afi or Wednesday 13 or somethin’ and also be sure to take advantage of Bridge Nine’s one day merch sale while you still can.
Happy Halloween! Take 25% off everything, except for pre-orders and new releases, today only! Just use the code CRIMSONGHOST at checkout.
More On: Metalcore, General News, Agnostic Front, Bridge Nine Records
Fall Free For All: High Command, Gatecreeper news items
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 10:15 AM (PST)
Photo by Nick Mehos
Worcester, Massachusetts-based crossover band High Command shall take a smoldering cauldron of heavy metal and fantasy worship and dump it on top of all your soon to be steaming heads this week when their Southern Lord backed Beyond The Wall of Desolation drops on Sept. 27th. “Impaled Upon The Gates” MIGHT be the most metal song I have heard all year (though the new Dark Throne has a lot of other candidates going for it in that department, I gotta say). The band have been supporting Spirit Adrift and are ready to embrace the coming victories that will surely follow this album’s potential glory. You can safely bet that this record turns skulls to powder for undead armored alligators to snort.
The mighty GATECREEPER rage back with a new video “From The Ashes” below.
GATECREEPER vocalist Chase Mason comments:
“From The Ashes is the most anthemic song we have ever written. Although we have flirted with the idea in the past, there are more melodic guitar leads in this song than ever before. I’d say this one is primed and ready for the European Metal Festival circuit.”
The intense old school vibes and dark wonder of this song is smooshing me into pulpy radness. God damn, the riff potency.
Additionally, GATECREEPER recently announced a Fall co-headlining tour with labelmates EXHUMED. The tour begins on October 31 in Austin, TX and ends December 4 in Las Vegas, NV. Additional support by Necrot & Judiciary. Tickets are on sale now.
Deserted is due out October 4th on CD/LP/CS/Digital. Physical packages are available for pre-order via Relapse.com HERE. Digital Downloads / Streaming Services are available HERE.
More On: Death Metal, General News, Gatecreeper, Relapse Records
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REVIEW: The 2016 Cinetopia International Film Festival DAY ONE- Captain Fantastic and The Alchemist Cookbook
The 2016 Cinetopia International Film Festival kicked off this past Friday and MCB was there to take it in.
Here's what we saw on DAY ONE...
Deep in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, non-conformist Ben (VIGGO MORTENSEN) and his wife guide their six children toward exceptional adulthoods through rigorous outdoor activities and highly intellectual homeschooling. Capable of surviving in the wilderness, knowledgeable of the details of reproduction, and seasoned in the works of Noam Chomsky, the family seems ready for any challenges that come their way – any challenges except functioning in the outside world. When tragedy strikes, Ben and his brood are forced to leave their utopia and venture into a world that is simultaneously unfamiliar, terrifying, and exciting. Writer/director Matt Ross (28 Hotel Rooms) has molded a delightful story that is as poignant as it is funny, with Mortensen leading an outstanding cast including six brilliant young performers who each shine in their own way. Captain Fantastic is a heartfelt story about parenthood, conformity, and the joys and perils of finding your way.
What MCB says:
The College for Creative Studies viewing room reached capacity for the Michigan premiere of Captain Fantastic this past Friday evening. It's always nice to see a packed house for a film as it adds a aura of excitement to the viewing experience. Nothing like a full room of laughs and emotion. And that's exactly what Captain Fantastic gave us during it's 118 minutes. The film was stellar. The writing and story are masterly crafted. A great movie should be able master of the art character development. Identifying with the cast of characters in a film is where the emotional investment comes from and once vested, and if the story is there, then you have yourself a winner. Captain Fantastic nails it with both and that's no easy task especially when the lead character has six children that all have sizable roles in the film. Viggo Mortensen may be the biggest "star" attached to the film, but the young cast playing his children act as his solar system who are always orbiting around him and scoring lots of laughs. Frank Langella, Steve Zahn, and Kathryn Hahn add to the film in their respective roles in the film as well. And yes ladies- There is a Viggo Mortensen full frontal scene to be enjoyed. Captain Fantastic is a quirky, character-driven and fun filled film. For these very reasons is why I can easily see the film being a success when it receives a wide release on July 8.
Captain Fantastic still has a Cinetopia screening ahead and that takes place on Friday, June 10 at The Michigan Theatre Screening Room in Ann Arbor. Do yourself a favor and go see it!
The Alchemist Cookbook
Young outcast Sean has isolated himself in a trailer in the woods, setting out on alchemical pursuits, with his cat Kaspar as his sole companion. Filled with disdain for authority, he has fled the daily grind and holed up in the wilderness, escaping a society that has no place for him. But when he turns from chemistry to black magic to crack nature’s secrets, things go awry and he awakens something far more sinister and dangerous. Grand Rapids based director Joel Potrykus (Buzzard, Cinetopia 2014) marries the heady nature of isolation with the hard and fast realities that come along with being a hermit on the fringe. Potyrkus fills our lungs and brains with the same caustic elements that turn Sean inward, dragging the audience along for one of the trippiest rides in the entire festival.
I wish some of the above plot statements above came across more in the film. For example- "a society that has no place for him" and "he turns from chemistry to black magic to crack nature’s secrets". There is nothing specifically in the film that would show that the world has no place for Sean (Ty Hickson). In fact, with his good taste in music I can easily see Sean being accepted in the music scene. Sean being a hermit is quite obvious in the film, but his reasons for being so and many other actions of his in the film are not so obvious. This is where the film lost me. I never felt a connection to the character and his alchemical ways. I didn't see Sean cracking any of natures secrets and didn't really see any point in including some scenes that basically led to nothing. Highlight of the film for me was the inclusion of music from Detroit's own Esham. I only wish the film itself stirred as much emotion in me as the opening song did.
Michigan director Joel Potrykus was in attendance for the screening and gave a intro to the film and took part in a Q&A with fellow crew members post screening. I enjoyed the Q&A and the candidness of everyone. Nice to hear stories about the making of the film from the actually people behind it.
The Alchemist Cookbook still has a Cinetopia screening ahead and that takes place on Wednesday, June 8 at The Michigan Theatre Screening Room in Ann Arbor. Director Joel Potrykus will once again be doing a Q&A after the film's screening.
The Cinetopia International Film Festival is running now till Sunday, June 12.
Visit cinetopiafestival.org for full film descriptions, trailers and dates/times/locations of all screenings and events.
Posted up by Casey on 6.6.16
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Title: 29 Items (3-19-10) sponsored by the International Great Beer Expo
Hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather and survived St. Patty’s Day. Also hoping that Nova can pick up their game after the near debacle yesterday. Good luck to Temple today…
I have not been to Body World2 yet but I just picked up my tickets. Reminder that it is in town until April 18th.
For those looking for some good New Orleans music, check out this show on March 30th. The brass band is always entertaining and then add some funk for the 2nd part of the bill.
Have you checked out Pandora yet? if you have a smart phone of any kind, this is an awesome free service. .
And lastly, rates are still hovering at 5%. Tax credit eligibility is April 30th….at that is up to $8000 for new buyers and $6500 for people in their homes for five years. Always happy to talk real estate with you… - Mark
SPONSOR: International Great Beer Expo
rom the producers of the award-winning Philly Craft Beer Festival (voted one of the top 10 beer festivals in America) comes Philly's second annual International Great Beer Expo. A true international beer tasting event will feature an incredible variety of beers from some of the finest U.S. and international brewers. 50+ International Brewers/100+ Beers
1) FREE OPEN BAR
You Are Invited - Complimentary Open Bar Party
ONE at Rittenhouse - 121 S. 19th St - Philadelphia
Saturday, March 20th 2010. 9:00PM - 11:00PM. Check-In Starts @ 8:00pm.
2) ARTCILES
A) Roy Halladay is now a homeowner
B) Dentist pleads to dumping medical waste at Shore
3) HUNGER WALK
4) Positano Coast has a New Menu!
Positano Coast’s inspired Italian menu still features a lot of your favorite dishes like the Grilled Octopus, Sea Urchin Pasta, Crudo, Mussels, Gnocchi Gorgonzola, Salmon Limoncello and more, but they have added some more delicious menu items to keep you coming back for more. Don't miss the Grilled Artichoke Salad, Baked Cannelloni, Cioppino, Half Roasted Chicken, Pork Shoulder, Spicy Crabcake and their new Large Plates section including Sesame & Miso Crusted Tuna, Rib-Eye and Grilled Lamb! Positano Coast is Open 7 Days a Week for Lunch, Dinner & Cocktails. BYOB Sundays & Mondays. Valet Parking Available. Positano Coast by Aldo Lamberti, 212 Walnut Street, 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19106, 215-238-0499
5) STUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE
They made you greater. They made you wise. They made you a better you.
On April 17, 2010 Students Run Philly Style will host its first road race and celebration of youth and mentorship. More than 1,000 people will join in this celebration of youth and mentorship and we invite you to join us at gener8tionrun. Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown believes in the importance of this event and the health of our children so much that she has agreed to join us as an enthusiastic partner.
6) MEET THE 76ERS FOR CHARITY
Meet members of the Philadelphia 76ers and Preview the 2010 Green Design Home Sheldon Crossing in Manayunk, the first Platinum LEED certified residential community
Thursday, April 1, 2010 from 6pm to 9 pm
At the Green Design Home
4711 Sheldon Street, Manayunk, PA
$25 donation includes valet parking
7) Pod Hosts All-You-Can-Eat Sushi for $25 Every Tuesday in March
The deal at Pod begins at 9 pm. $25 gets you all-you-can-eat sushi at Pod in University City on Tuesdays this month. And there are three tuesdays left in March: 16, 23, 30. The deal starts at 9 pm and goes to 11 pm so make sure you get a reservation right at 9 pm — you’ll definitely want to get your full two-hours worth. For $25 per person, you’ll have your choice of a variety of Maki, Nigiri and Hand Rolls, all served with miso soup or a house salad. Be sure to bring your appetite.
8) Haiti Fundraiser at XIX
March 27th from 6pm to 10pm
ESF will host a fundraiser at XIX Nineteen at the Bellevue Park Hyatt Hotel on March 27, 2010 from 6-10pm. This fundraiser is for our ESF Team Haiti Relief Efforts and that 100% of your support is exclusively used to support ESF Haiti. The $25 donation is exclusively for ESF Haiti Relief Efforts and includes a glass or red or white wine and light appetizers. Cash bar for additional beverages.
9) PHILLY MAG MARTINI MADNESS
10) Philadelphia Young Professionals Expo™
The American Pub at Centre Square
1500 Market Street. Centre Square Building. Philadelphia, PA 19102
The Philadelphia Young Professionals Expo™ is designed for Young Professionals to discover, learn and sample a variety of products, services and activities offered by companies and organizations in the Philadelphia and South Jersey area. Attendees will sample select liquor, beer, and treats and have an in-person experience with area products, all while interacting with sponsors & organizations. This year's expo will also feature a scavenger hunt that you can participate in to win great items.
The Young Professionals Expo is free to attend (if you RSVP, $10 charge otherwise), but guests are asked to help support a local charity. Guests, who donate, will receive extra drawing tickets, increasing your chances to win great prizes.
'Young Professionals' between the ages of 21 and 39
People who Work or 'Play' in or around the Philadelphia & South Jersey area
All levels of employees, including entrepreneurs, office managers, sales reps, supervisors and those that may looking for a job (you can network with people there - this is NOT a job fair)
SPONSOR: PHILADELPHIA SPORTS CLUBS
To Eat or Not to Eat Pre-Workout?
How to Avoid Lower Back Pain While Cycling
What Is Your Ideal Racing Weight?
Tackling the Top Running Injuries
11) Macy's Flower Show 2010
Spring will be in full bloom at Macy's from March 28 - April 11 as it transforms into an incredible floral wonderland filled with brilliant colors, textures and the sweet smell of spring for Macy's Flower Show 2010. This year's theme, "Spring is in the Air," ushers in spring with exotic floral displays and remarkable landscaped gardens from all over the world. From the hot air balloon centerpieces that will serve as the gateway for each floral fantasyland, to giant bugs, bi-planes and kites that will hover above the lavish indoor gardens, Macy's Flower Show will provide a lush escape for winter-weary spectators. Free to the public, Macy's Flower Show will be open during regular store hours and is made possible in part through partnerships with The Philadelphia Horticultural Society. Macy's, 1300 Market Street, 212.494.4495
12) BYO at the Comcast Center
The Market & Shops at Comcast Center announces the launch of BYO Saturdays. Market patrons are invited to bring their own bottle of wine to pair with selections from market merchants, every week from 10am to 5pm. All guests will be presented with sturdy plastic wine glasses and a keepsake wine tote. Market Merchants participating in the BYO offering include Au Bon Pain, Di Bruno Bros., Jake and Max's Deli, La Scala's Pizza, Mexican Post, Mike's Steaks, Sook Hee Produce, Termini Bros., Tokyo Sushi and Under the C Seafood. The Market & Shops at Comcast Center, 1701 JFK Boulevard, themarketatcomcastcenter.com
13) PHILLIES FAN CLUB
The Philadelphia Phillies have launched the new Fightin’ Phils Fan Club in partnership with MLB. The new fan club is designed to give fans exclusive online access and in-park benefits. Fans who join the club will receive access to the following: MLB.com’s Gameday application, exclusive Members Only section of Phillies.com, message board, member e-newsletter, desktop wallpaper library, online sweepstakes, discounted tickets for behind-the-scenes tour of the Phillies’ ballpark, discounted tickets to the Fightin’ Phils Fan Club Night on July 23, and discounts at a restaurant at the ballpark throughout the year. The annual membership rate is $24.99.
14) ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
Delilah’s Gentleman’s Club, on March 24th, to partake in their annual Entertainer of the Year competition, one of the longest-running exotic-dance competitions around! Delilah’s will proudly award over $12,000 in cash and prizes to the contestants, as well as the coveted title of “Entertainer of the Year,” and $7,000 to the most powerful, dynamic, creative, and talented dancer. The winner will also be featured in all of Delilah’s upcoming events.As an audience member, you will be stunned by bouts of unpredictable choreography, acrobatics, costumes, pole performances, lights, videos, and much more. Luckily you won’t have the difficult task of judging these phenomenal women. Instead, Delilah’s has asked former Atlanta Falcon Aaron Beasley, PhillyChitChat blogger Hughe Dillon, comedian Tim Adams, Daily News’ gossip columnist Dan Gross, and mixed martial arts fighter Julio Rosario to be in charge of crowning a winner. Begin the evening at 7 p.m. with a select open bar sponsored by Grey Goose Vodka and Corona Beer, and delicious hors d’oeuvres prepared by Delilah’s talented and award-winning culinary experts.
15) SEAPORT MUSEUM
Arts & Culture: Seaport Museum Welcomes New Exhibit
Nicole Dinten discovers why the waterfront museum has a thing for Slinkies.
16) RENTALS
3 bedroom, 2.5 bath town home on 10TH & CHRISTIAN streets in the BELLA VISTA area of Philadelphia. Available May 1st. This town home was BUILT BRAND NEW IN 2008 and has a ROOF DECK with a gorgeous view of the city, an off-street, GATED PARKING SPACE in the back, and a FINISHED BASEMENT that could potentially be used as a 4th bedroom. It has 3 floors with two bedrooms on the second floor, and a large master bedroom suite on the third floor. It also has top of the line GE appliances, a security alarm system, and beautiful cherry HARD WOOD floors. Perfect for a family looking for a nice, safe place to call home, or for a few roommates looking for a place together. Monthly rent is $2,800 but is negotiable within reason. All utilities (electric, gas, water) are tenant's responsibility. Photos are available. Please contact mail@mrosen.com for more information or to schedule a showing. http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/apa/1638360411.html
17) Support the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House with a Night at the Phillies!
Tickets are just $30 each (Terrace Level) and include a concession voucher and free McDonald’s Sandwich. Tickets are available for the following games:
Friday, April 2nd at 7:05pm vs the Pittsburgh Pirates
Wednesday, May 5th at 7:05pm vs the St. Louis Cardinals (Ronald McDonald will be joining us for this game, and a Ronald McDonald House family will throw out the first pitch!)
Thursday, May 6th St at 1:05pm vs the St. Louis Cardinals
Wednesday, September 8th at 7:05pm vs the Florida Marlins
To purchase your tickets, please visit our website at: www.philarmh.org. Proceeds support the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House’s mission of providing temporary lodging and supportive services for families whose children are receiving critical medical care at local hospitals.
18) TONY's "Trash & Treasures" Indoor Yard Sale
This 2-day event features second-hand clothing & shoes, furniture, CDs, jewelry, knick-knacks, vintage pieces, and more! Hours are: Saturday, 3/27, 10:00 - 6:00; Sunday, 3/28, 11:00 - 5:00.
At “Trash & Treasures” customers will find big fat bargains on a wide array of second-hand, vintage and used items. Among these items you’ll find some designer women’s and men’s clothing (such as Dior, Versace, Halston, etc.), shoes (Charles Jourdan, Stuart Weitzman, YSL, etc.), handbags (Whiting & Davis, Gucci, etc.), hats/gloves/scarves, knick-knacks, books, CDs, DVDs, rugs, posters, artwork, glassware, dishes, housewares, and, as befits any yard sale, a whole lotta junk! It’s cash and carry only at this unique yard sale. Prices will range from 25 to 25 – that means items will start as low as 25₵ and nothing will exceed $25.00! All sales are final. Because this “yard sale” is indoors, it will take place rain or shine.
19) EUROCIRCLE: Cocktails in Old City @ HARU
Wednesday, March 31, in Philadelphia at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Haru Sushi - 241 Chestnut St (Upstairs Bar) Philadelphia PA
We've met some new Eurocircle members in the last few months, and we'd love to meet some more. If you know of an international who would be a nice addition to our circle, please bring them out, and introduce them to our members.
This month Haru in Old City has invited us back, and they'll be mixing a new version of the Eurotini all night.
Light hors d'oeuvres will be served.
$20 pp. If paid by 3/25, $25pp after.
PAYPAL Payment Link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7958867
20) HELIUM COMEDY CLUB : Norm Macdonald
April 29 - May 1
Thursday, April 29, 8pm - $25
Friday, April 30, 8pm & 10:30pm - $30
Saturday, May 1, 8pm & 10:30pm - $30
Click HERE to purchase tickets.
21) Broad Street Run
A Philadelphia tradition, the 31st Annual Blue Cross Broad Street Run returns. More than 27,000 runners competed in 2009. The course runs through the varied neighborhoods of Philadelphia along Broad Street, finishing at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. For more information, visit www.broadstreetrun.com.
22) Children’s Crisis Treatment Center (CcTC)
CTC has just launched a new fundraising initiative called Team CcTC’s “Run for the Kids.” Team CcTC is open to runners and non-runners, with the culminating event being Philadelphia’s 31st Annual Broad Street Run on Sunday, May 2nd. If you are considering running the Broad Street Run on May 2nd (or would like to participate as a non-runner) please join Team CcTC and pledge your support! Team members are invited to 4 Fun Runs preceding the race, a team pasta dinner, a Team CcTC dri-fit race shirt, and a post-race tent party. Team CcTC is led by honorary coach and former Olympic runner Kate Fonshell Taylor. To join Team CcTC, visit http://teamcctc.kintera.org or contact Stephanie at 215.496.0707 x1162.
23) BEER WEEK OPENER
Celebrate America's Best Beer-Drinking City at the official opening festival of Philly Beer Week.
Join beer fans from across the region and enjoy a diverse range of outstanding ales and lagers - including the Official Collaboration Ale of PBW - made by Philadelphia's finest breweries. This is one-of-a-kind event held at the birthplace of America, with special guests, the arrival of the Hammer of Glory and the ceremonial tapping of the first keg.
Enjoy unlimited samples of beer from more than 25 breweries. Beer-friendly food available for purchase.
This event is a fund-raiser for Philly Beer Week and will kick off 10 days of more than 500 beer-drinking events at the region's finest taverns, restaurants, breweries and other locations.
All of the events can be found at www.phillybeerweek.org
24) FREE LIBRARY FESTIVAL
Now in its fourth year, the Free Library Festival is the Library's annual burst of books, music, and inspiration and is being held Saturday and Sunday April 17th and April 18th from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the
Parkway Central Library. The Festival weekend is packed with free programming for all ages, including talks by bestselling authors, poetry readings, musical performances, tours of the Library's special collections,
and programs and activities just for children. A fun, free way to spend the day, highlights of this year’s festival include:
Engaging conversations and book signings with:
Sapphire, author of Push, the basis for the award-winning film Precious
Kitty Kelley, acclaimed biographer and author of Oprah: A Biography, brings new insight into the life of talk show icon and media mogul Oprah Winfrey
Yann Martel, Booker award-winning author of The Life of Pi, will discuss his newest book, Beatrice and Virgil
Tina Campbell of the urban gospel duo Mary Mary will spread the message of empowerment through her book Be U: Be Honest, Be Beautiful, Be Intentional, Be Strong, Be You!
Jimmy Gownley, author of Amelia Rules: The Tweenage Guide to Not Being Unpopular
Plus Chelsea Handler, the bestselling author of Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, stand-up comedian, and the host of Chelsea Lately will be onsite to sign her newest book Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
Poetry Discussions with poets such as Catie Rosemurgy, Sonia Sanchez, Edward Hirsch, and Michael Dickman
Inter-City StorySlam, during which storytellers from Philadelphia and D.C. will compete against each other by spinning tales set to the theme “All About My Mother.”
Storybook Parade hosted by 6abc's Tamala Edwards
Teddy Bear Picnic hosted by storybook bear friends the Berenstain Bears, Lars, and Corduroy
Attached is the release and media alert detailing all the specifics of the event as well as a full event agenda. You can also visit freelibrary.org/festival for a full schedule and description of author events.
25) VIDEOS OF THE WEEK
A) Some good jump rope (clean)
B) Erin Andrews Peeping Tom Video (not for work)
26) YOUCIE Salsa and Sangria at the University City Arts League
Wednesday, March 24, 6:30-8:30pm
This is a special FREE preview of the UCAL 2010 spring dance programming. We'll learn new moves from Philadelphia-based dance teachers Kelly Ray, Lesley Mitchell, and Oliver Hannah. No experience necessary! We'll have sangria on hand to whet your whistle and get your feet moving. Wear comfortable clothes and prepare to be swept off your feet! (Water and light snacks will also be served.)
You must be 21 to participate in this event.
Please RSVP to youcie@universitycity.org
About the instructors: Kelly Ray and Lesley Mitchell are the cofounders of Dance Philadelphia. For more than a decade they have made an intensive study of Argentine Tango, and they visit Argentina yearly to immerse themselves in the tango culture of Buenos Aires. A native of West Philadelphia, Oliver Hannah has been teaching his "street salsa" style of dance for over three years. He placed 13th with the Philadelphia Pro Salsa Team in the 2007 World Salsa Championship! For more information about University City Arts League, the instructors, and class schedules, please visit http://ucartsleague.org
27) NAUGHTY BINGO
http://www.naughtybingo.com/
Naughty Bingo at Urban Saloon :: Fri, March 26
All Tickets will be sold at the door!
Click here to read about us in City Paper
When: Friday, March 26, 2010
Time: 7pm – 10:15pm :: Check-in will start at 7pm and the games will start at 8pm!! Come out early, relax, and get good seats. Urban Saloon has great food (seriously, it really does) so get some food and beverages before the games start!
Location: Urban Saloon (back room)
Address: 2120 Fairmount Avenue Philadelphia, Pa
Tickets: $15 cover at the door. Your entry fee gets you 8 games of Bingo, contests, a free drink (domestic beer or house wine), facetime with the naughty bingo mistress, and some great entertainment!!
Drink and Food Specials: $3 Heineken and Heineken lights. $5 house wines. $6 mixed drink specials. There will be food specials also.
Charity: A portion of the proceeds will support Children’s Hospital
28) Oyster Shucking Contest
Location: Oyster House: 1516 Sansom Street
Neighborhood: Center City (west of Broad St.)
Date: Mar 27th, 2010
The popular new raw bar and restaurant, Oyster House (215-567-7683) will host their first-ever Shucking Contest, featuring professional oyster shuckers from across Philadelphia competing for a $200 Grand Prize. An amateur shucking contest will follow the professionals, with guests hoping to earn a $100 Oyster House Gift Certificate. Admission to the shucking contest is $5 per person and includes all the varieties of the shucked oysters as well as access to Oyster House’s bar and a firkin of Dock Street’s West of Center Pale Ale, which will be on a pay-as-you-go basis. The professional shuckers, including competitors from Oyster House and others from renowned Philadelphia-area seafood houses, will be judged by local food writers Rick Nichols from Philadelphia Inquirer and Kirsten Henri from Grub Street Philadelphia on their speed and accuracy as they shuck their way through two dozen oysters, working in heats of three shuckers at a time. A one- second deduction will be made to each shucker’s overall time for each broken shell or ripped oyster. After a winner is crowned, amateur shuckers will face the same guidelines, working on one dozen oysters each for a chance to win a $100 Oyster House gift certificate. Onlookers can enjoy the fruits of the competitors labors; the oysters will be passed out to the crowd after each heat. www.oysterhousephilly.com
29) Four-Minute Dating for Single Professionals ~ 25-40 Years Old
Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 5:00 PM.
Price: $30.00 if purchased by 5 p.m. Friday, March 12
Are you single in the city? Would you like to meet other interesting, professional and fun singles while cutting through all the hoopla of the "first date" scene? Professionals in the City has the solution for you! Here's your opportunity to experience up to twenty first dates in only one evening of frolic and excitement.
During our Four Minute Dating Singles Party, you'll meet up to twenty intriguing members of the opposite sex within approximately one hour - spend four sweet minutes with each.
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Martifer Solar supplies two new turnkey projects in Lombardy and Piedmont region with more than of 3 MW
Martifer Solar, a subsidiary of Martifer SGPS, SA, has started the construction of two new PV plants in Northern Italy, with approximately 3.1 MW.
The first plant, in the province of Cremona, will have a peak power of 1 MW and will produce enough energy to supply about 300 four-member families.
This new project, installed on fixed structures, will avoid the emission of 636 tons of CO2 per year to the atmosphere. With an area of about 25,000 sqm, this plant is the result of the investment of a local farm in the differentiation of its own business into renewable energies, attesting the increasing interest of the agricultural sector in solar energy.
The second turnkey project, built in Alessandria on fixed structures and with a pick power of 2.08 MW, will produce enough energy to supply about 600 families composed by four members and will avoid the annual emission of 1,256 tons of CO2 to the atmosphere. The plant, which will be installed in a total area of about 40,000 sqm, is the result of a second agreement with Sunflower Italia Srl, a subsidiary of the Israeli investment company Sunflower, with which Martifer Solar already concluded the building of another PV plant of similar peak power in the same province.
"We are pleased to have started a replica of our previous project in Alessandria with Sunflower and to add another project to our track record in the North of Italy - Cremona - raising it to more than 8 MW currently in progress. In particular, Cremona project allowed us to add the agricultural category to our clients’ portfolio which was only composed by financial and industrial clients so far.” Pedro Pereira, Managing Director of Martifer Solar Italy, stated.
The construction of both plants started in October and is expected to be finished by the end of 2010. These two new PV plants strengthen the presence of Martifer Solar in Northern Italy, where the company has recently finished a 3 MW plant in Lombardy and another plant of 2.1 MW in the Piedmont region.
Martifer Solar is going to install, in 2010, more than 24 MW of PV plants, both in the Northern and Southern Italy. The EPC contracts in progress all over Italy and on behalf of different clients have a value of more than 75 million Euros.
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Beware the overly zealous innovator?
How do we handle an “Orphan”?
So, What now if the NDA is of little value?
Beware the NDA!
Innovation - Invention - Collaboration
Defining the Question (4)
Big “I” or Little “i” – What’s it to be?
Big ‘I’ or little ‘i’ – What’s it to be?
© Roger La Salle 2010
A revealing statistic!
In a recent book called “Creating Wealth” by Lester Thurow some interesting statistics are cited.
“…..In the 1920’s the life expectancy of a publicly listed company in the USA was some 65 years, by the 1990’s this figure has fallen to less than ten years. Of the companies forming the original list of the Standard and Poor’s Index, only one, General Electric still survives today, and to do so GE has had to constantly re invent themselves to remain relevant.”
Innovation versus Invention
Interestingly, some of the less initiated in this business often use the word innovator interchangeably with inventor. This is often done in a polite and misguided endeavour to differentiate the person in question from the classic stereotypical inventor, represented as some excentric weirdo with fuzzy white hair wearing a white dust coat.
In fact innovation and invention are different.
Whereas innovation may be defined as “change that adds value”, invention may be perhaps best defined as something “new, novel and without precedent”.
Notwithstanding the above, most inventions are in fact created by making improvements to existing things. Indeed there are few totally new inventions.
However, whereas novelty is an essential part of an invention, novelty is not an essential part of an innovation.
Big ‘I’ and Little ‘i’
When it comes to understanding innovation further, some texts refer to so called big ‘I’, and little ‘i’.
The former refers to big or disruptive innovations that totally change the landscape of a business, its products or the dynamics of the market. In contrast, little “i” refers more to incremental changes or improvements to businesses and products.
In theory, or more likely with the benefit of hindsight, many thinkers and writers on the subject refer to big ‘I’ as essential for businesses to survive for the longer terms. The push is for businesses to “disrupt” themselves and radically change for the better following in the footsteps of companies cited as case studies that have successfully done so.
Rear Vision is a wonderful thing!
NOKIA is one exceptional example of a company that successfully migrated its core business from timber to electronics. They did this after they saw the growing resistance to the use of the dwindling natural timber resource and the emergence of the new mobile phone business with almost unlimited market potential. This is a wonderful success story operating on the big “I” model.
General Electric is another company that has reinvented itself to become strong in the financial sector. However, in doing so GE took the safe option in that whilst creating its new enterprise it did not turn its back on its traditional engineering business, instead it used its brand strength to underpin the new endeavour.
Many texts refer to these case studies as a blueprint for the future and an endorsement of big “I” as the means to renewed riches as companies model themselves on the NOKIA style of rebirth. Unfortunately, all of these case studies are just that, studies in hindsight of a few “stars” that have successfully crossed the bridge to new horizons.
Rear vision is a wonderful thing, but if one looks at the history of disruptive pioneers you will find the path littered with the corpses of those who dared to be first with disruptions but failed, as is so often the case. The problem is that these pioneers are seldom heard from.
Consider some of the so called disruptive technologies that have either failed, or undergone a very difficult and expensive birth.
The ill fated COMET jet passenger airliner, a revolution in its day, plagued with technology problems whose ultimate solutions enabled Boeing, untarnished by the pioneering COMET failures, to win the world market for passenger jets. Concorde is another example of a technology before its time. Ultimately supersonic passenger transport will become commonplace, but not to the benefit of the Concorde pioneers.
Even the ubiquitous computer took many years to be adopted by the greater community. Indeed had it not been for the development of both word processing and spreadsheets, computers today would be little more than scientific novelties and platforms for games.
So too the computer mouse which was a complete novelty when first conceived in 1968. In fact it was some 13 years before this disruption in the way we use computers was actually commercialised.
Similarly for the internet, this was possibly one of the most disruptive technologies of the 20th century and has revolutionised the way business is conducted worldwide. But it was the application developers, not the creators, who have won the rich spoils offered by this disruption.
Failure is more the norm
There are countless examples of pioneers who failed with disruptive ventures and seldom rate a mention in the end game. Unfortunately, too often we are encouraged to follow the path of the very few successful winners who steal the limelight, as they should. But be warned, these people are few and far between.
What about little “i”
The “incrementalists” are the little “i” operators and there would be no better example than the car makers. Incrementally these people release face lifted new models with perhaps just one tiny added feature almost annually. They do this for no other purpose than to render your current model obsolete and to keep you continually upgrading to the newer one.
The cell phone and computer games companies are also wonderful exponents at this art, and what abut Microsoft? None of us can even use all the features of Windows 98, yet we still get a new, non backward compatible supposedly more featured version every couple of years. Indeed Microsoft even today, still owns this market and drives it through incremental innovation.
There can be no doubt that little “i” is far easier to manage than big ‘I’; and little ‘i’ carries far less risk.
So what is it to be?
For my money, little ‘i’ wins pretty well every time. However, if you do wish to have a go at investing in a disruption, use the tried and tested “outrigger model”, as discussed in my previous insight, as this certainly mitigates much of the risk.
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Roger La Salle, is the creator of the “Matrix Thinking”™ technique and is widely sought after as an international speaker on Innovation, Opportunity and business development. He is the author of three books, Director and former CEO of the Innovation Centre of Victoria (INNOVIC) as well as a number of companies both in Australian and overseas. He has been responsible for a number of successful technology start-ups and in 2004 was a regular panellist on the ABC New Inventors TV program. In 2005 he was appointed to the “Chair of Innovation” at “The Queens University” in Belfast. Matrix Thinking is now used in more than 26 countries. www.matrixthinking.com
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South Florida News, Vol. 8 Iss. 41
October 5, 2006 by TMO
MSA Florida Council hosts Islamic Weekend Intensive Oct. 13-15
Miami/Ft.Lauderdale–The MSA Florida Council will be presenting “The Sunnipath Study Tour *Miami*†featuring speakers Faraz Rabbani and Zaynab Ansari from Oct. 13-15 in a number of events in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.
Entitled “The Fiqh of Life; How to Submit to Allah in your Social Dealings, Work, Rest, and Play†the tour will start on Oct. 13 with a Friday Khutba by Rabbani at the Dar-ul-Uloom Institute in Pembroke Pines. It will continue with a weekend intensive on Oct. 14-15 at the Green Library Room 100 at Florida International University.
A well-known and increasingly popular “online Islamic academyâ€, SunniPath offers online educational courses on a wide-variety of Islamic subjects from a “traditional†Sunni perspective, taught by a faculty of traditionalist Muslim scholars (think turbans). This year, the academy is organizing its first face-to-face, real-world learning events as part of this, its “first North American Study Tourâ€. Other stops on the tour will be New York, NY, Austin, TX, Hamilton, ON. More information on the academy can be found at www.sunnipath.com, which also offers an Islamic question and answer service.
Registration for the weekend intensive will begin at 10 AM that Saturday and sessions will run from 11 AM-5 PM on Saturday and 10 AM-5 PM on Sunday. Pre-registration will be $30, and on-sight will be $35. Online registration is available at www.msanational.org/florida.
The event is also sponsored by new local Muslim charity, Project Downtown.
Islamic School of Miami needs more help for Earthquake Victims
Miami–Since the deadly earthquake of October 8, 2005, in northern Pakistan and Azad Kashmir, volunteers with the Islamic School of Miami (ISOM) have been engaged in hands-on relief, reconstruction, and rehabilitation activities in the region through a number of trips to the area and on-going programs, according to ISOM Earthquake relief coordinator Mohammad Javed Qureshi.
Immediately after the earthquake, the school provided 1,000 blankets, rations, medicine, and medical care to numerous severely injured and disabled people in the area. It also provided for the construction of shelter homes and a school in a remote village called Kumi Dunna, located in the mountainous Mansehra district of Tehsil Balakot. The ISOM has three local contacts in Pakistan who are working to coordinate its relief activities there and its efforts extend to numerous villages.
Despite these successes, thousands of families are still without adequate shelter and requests for aid have started to come in to ISOM volunteers from the villagers of Nathiagali and Murree for construction materials to build shelters to help save their families.
Throughout the past year, Qureshi has organized a number of informational and relief visits to the region, including bringing American doctors, such as Dr. Birgis Alam, to help treat those afflicted in the region. Now, the ISOM is again inviting donors to visit their projects in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir.
“This is an urgent appeal for donations,†said Qureshi, a veteran of numerous local relief efforts and a native of Pakistan, like many in the South Florida Muslim community. “Thousands of earthquake survivors desperately need rations, medicine, shelter, schools and masjids. The upcoming winter is forecasted to be a brutal one and snowfall has started far earlier than usual in many northern areas.â€
Qureshi explains that the compensation being paid by the Pakistan government is insufficient to construct the number of shelters and houses needed.
Regular updates about ISOM relief activities in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir can be found at www.pakistani.com, by following the link entitled “Latest News About Relief Efforts.†And for further information on ISOM relief activities, Qureshi can be reached at mohadq2003@yahoo.com.
The Islamic School of Miami is a non-profit organization established in 1994. All donations are tax deductible and receipts can be provided. Its tax exempt number is 65-056591. Checks may be made payable to Islamic School of Miami, with the note “Earthquake Pakistan†in the memo area. ISOM’s contact information and the address to which to send donations is: 11699 SW 147th Ave, Miami, FL 33196 (Tel: 305.408.0400 Fax: 305.266.1778).
Egyptian imams refused entry at MIA, returned to Egypt before Ramadan
Miami–Four visiting Muslim scholars from Al-Azher University in Cairo were sent back to Egypt after being detained for 24 hours by U.S. immigration authorities at Miami International Airport and allegedly receiving no explanation, no beds, and no access to a phone during their time here. The incident happened just before the start of Ramadan in Sept.
Local Muslim group the American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA) had invited the scholars to lead prayers at area mosques during Ramadan according to AMANA director Sofian Abdelaziz. Abdelaziz decried the incident, saying it thwarted efforts to provide religious opinions against terrorism and extremism.
The Sentinel quoted Abdelaziz as saying: “I consider this a big disaster for our community this year.†“We are against extremism, and we are not dealing with sheiks and imams who have a policy to teach extremism.†“We lost four good educators.â€
Al-Azhar is the preeminent Islamic university in Egypt and perhaps the world.
The Sun-Sentinel also printed an editorial on the incident on Sept. 26. “It’s tough to be a Muslim in America these days,†read the sympathetic editorial, which focused on the irony of the scholars being sent home since they were here to “lead prayers at mosques and preach against Islamic extremism, as they have in past years during Ramadan,†according to their supporters.
“It’s just the sort of preaching all Americans need to hear,†it stated. “Of course, Muslims must understand that it is the violence practiced by many of their coreligionists that leads to incidents such as this. Still, U.S. officials must be careful not to lump all Muslims together. The law-abiding ones, which make up the vast, vast majority, can greatly assist the war on terror.â€
The incident was initially covered by Sentinel reporter Ruth Morris.
CAIR-FL helps Muslim Med Students avoid Expulsion at Nova Med School
Group assists School in updating Dress Policy, accommodating Muslims
Ft. Lauderdale-Four female Muslim medical students faced expulsion from Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Ft. Lauderdale this September for refusing to undress in front of male colleagues for examinations during a training class.
CAIR Florida held a press-conference at the school about the issue on Sept. 15, and was then successfully able to encourage the med school to update its policy and accommodate the Muslim students.
“We call on Nova Southeastern University to comply with the law by providing these medical students with reasonable accommodation for their religious practices and beliefs,†CAIR-FL Legal Advisor Areeb Naseer had said before the initial press conference. Naseer said other American medical schools have accommodated religious beliefs while maintaining high standards of training.
CAIR assisted in review of NSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine (NSU-COM) religious accommodation policy.
For more than seven years, the NSU-COM had maintained a policy to reasonably accommodate and respect students who closely adhere to their core religious beliefs. This policy was implemented in recognition of certain religious beliefs that prohibit female students from revealing parts of the bodies in public. The policy is reviewed every few years with religious scholars and leaders, as well as with health professionals and community members who are representative of certain faiths.
This year’s review was made in cooperation with CAIR. Changes to the policies were agreed upon and implemented to better accommodate the students.
“We thank Nova Southeastern University for accommodating the religious beliefs and practices of Muslim students,†said CAIR-FL Executive Director Altaf Ali. “We believe this updated policy meets the needs of Muslim students while maintaining the high standard of instruction we have come to expect from the university.â€
The NSU-COM was established in 1979 and is currently ranked as the 15th largest medical school and the 5th largest osteopathic medical school in the nation. It has become the main private college in the Ft. Lauderdale area in recent times. An on-campus Muslim student group, called IMAN, has also become active at the school in recent times.
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November 24, 2011 Doug Patterson
Christmas come yet for the Circuit of the Americas and all American Formula 1 fans! We reported earlier that it seemed that the inaugural Formula 1 United States Grand Prix in Austin at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) was all but off the schedule. Even in a press release made by COTA, the organizers were convinced that they weren’t going to be making the 2012 season and were instead already setting their sights on the 2013 season. In a release today, it seems that may have changed! COTA has…
Featured, Formula 12012, Austin, Circuit of the Americas, COTA, F1, FOM, Formula 1, USGP
F1 Soap Box – The Gathering Concorde Storm
May 5, 2011 May 5, 2011 mike
If you thought the last round of Concorde Agreement talks were wild and wooly, with a threatened breakaway series and posturing galore from FOTA, well aren’t you in for a treat in the coming months. Some strange forces are aligning as we hear more details about the supposed News Corp interest and with Ferrari sounding off about their displeasure with the current state of F1 and the future technical package. The Timeframe and Players The current Concorde Agreement expires at the end of this season, so this means the teams…
Featured, Formula 12012, Bernie Ecclestone, Concorde, Ferrari, FIA, FOM, Formula 1, FOTA, News Corp
F1 Soap Box – 2012 Venues Under Threat
April 28, 2011 April 28, 2011 mike
Bahrain The May 1 deadline imposed by the FIA for Bahrain to reapply for a 2011 race date is upon us. But don’t look for a grand reshuffling of the season finale races to take place to allow Bahrain to slot in around Abu Dhabi. The situation continues to worsen in the tiny kingdom as Saudi troops have been blowing up Shia mosques and similar such things. While it is in Formula One Management’s (FOM) best interests to get this race rescheduled, the FIA is likely to spurn any attempt…
Featured, Formula 1Bahrain, Bernie Ecclestone, Circuit of the Americas, F1, FIA, FOM, Formula 1, Turkey7 Comments
F1 – USGP Returns in 2012
May 25, 2010 May 25, 2010 Shaun
The United States Grand Prix is set for yet another return as the traveling circus trades in their glitz in glamour for cowboy hats. The event was announced to day by Formula 1 and will be held in Austin Texas from 2012 to 2021. The race is slated to be held on a new fixed circuit that will be purpose built for the event. This is the first time since 1980 that the race will be held on a purpose built, fixed road course and the first time ever a…
Featured, Formula 12010, Alonso, Austin, Bernie, Ecclestone, F1, Ferrari, FIA, FOM, Formula 1, mclaren, Mercedes, Motosports, paddock, Schumacher, Texas, USGP4 Comments
F1 – Bernie’s Epic Fail
October 25, 2009 mike
The British GP is in jeopardy for next year due to the schemes hatched by F1’s very own dottering old man. This saga has taken a few twists and turns over the last year, but we will do our best to lay out the process that started with Bernie’s displeasure with Silverstone and ends with Bernie making the statement earlier this week: “The contract they have is the contract we like. We are not prepared to charge less. Do we need a British Grand Prix? No. I want a British…
Featured, Formula 12009, British GP, Donnington, F1, FOM, Formula 1, Motosports, open, paddock, Silverstone
F1 – Renault Ban Lifted for Valencia
August 17, 2009 Shaun
The FIA Court of Appeals met today to discuss the Renault ban that was put in place after a tire came off the car of Fernando Alonso during the Hungarian Grand Prix. The team’s defense was that there was no conscious wrong doing when Fernando left his pit box on his first stop. The highlight was well shown during the US coverage in which there appeared to be a problem on the right front wheel lock that later seen the tire come off the car and go into a grassy…
Featured, Formula 12009, Alonso, Fernando, FIA, FOM, Formula 1, Motosports, open, paddock, Renault
F1 – Why So Quiet Bernie?
June 19, 2009 mike
This is the sport that Bernie and Max brought to prominence. It has been Bernie’s life for decades. Mr. Ecclestone has proven to all that he is an unimaginably shrewd and capable businessman. So, why has he stood by the sidelines while Max and FOTA scuttled the ship? We can only make conjecture at this point. Bernie did make a statement this morning, “You’ll have to ask Max about it. For me, this situation is just back to the future.” Maybe referring to how he and Max gained control of…
Featured, Formula 12009, Bernie Ecclestone, breakaway, CVC, F1, FOM, Formula 1, FOTA, open, paddock
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Posts Tagged ‘Remy Charlip’
Remy Charlip Memorial October 21
Join us for a memorial honoring Remy Charlip – dancer, choreographer and founding member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, who went on to write and illustrate a number of children’s books.
5:30 pm. Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Sq South
photo by Lois Greenfield for The New York Times
You can find a lovely video of Remy here. He will be missed.
“Mr. Charlip’s half-century of work cut across a wide spectrum of art forms, aesthetic registers and audiences. He drew no particular distinctions among them. All were forms of an ‘internal dance,’ as he called it, that he liked to stage in his own and other people’s minds… The two forms he settled on, dance and children’s books, shared some essential elements. Both speak in a visual language for the most part, and both move through a series of scenes.
‘I love sequence, how one thing follows another,’ he said in the interview. ‘When you’re reading to a child, he can’t wait to get to the next page. “Turn the page, turn the page!” That’s because each new page is a door to another, different world.”
~ Paul Vitello, Published: August 18, 2012 in The New York Times
tags: Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Remy Charlip
Judson @ 50: ‘Judson Reconstructed’
Check out Movement Research in Partnership with Anthology Film Archives and Danspace Project for a special screening of JUDSON RECONSTRUCTED, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Judson Dance Theater!
Sunday October 7.
‘JUDSON RECONSTRUCTED’
3pm. Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Avenue.
$10; $8 students/seniors/Friends of MR/Danspace Project Members; $6 Anthology Members
In 1982, Danspace Project and Bennington College collaborated on “The Judson Project,” a series of performances dedicated to reconstructing Judson-era works with 14 Judson choreographers, including Edward Bhartonn, Remy Charlip, Lucinda Childs, Philip Corner, Brian De Palma, Judith Dunn, Simone Forti, Deborah Hay, Aileen Passloff, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Elaine Summers, and James Waring. The Bennington College Judson Project also filmed interviews with many of the artists that were central to Judson Dance Theater. Danspace Project and Movement Research share a selection of these rarely-seen reconstructions and interviews in a special afternoon screening.
Special thanks to: Jed Rapfogel and Andrew Lampert (Anthology Film Archives), Lydia Bell & Judy Hussie-Taylor (Danspace Project), and Wendy Perron.
photo: Deborah Hay: Ten (1968), Danspace Project, 1982.
By Herbert Migdoll. Courtesy: Dance Magazine
tags: Aileen Passloff, Anthology Film Archives, Bennington College, Brian De Palma, Carolee Schneemann, danspace project, deborah hay, Edward Bhartonn, Elaine Summers, James Waring, Judith Dunn, Judson @ 50, Judson Dance Theater, Lucinda Childs, Philip Corner, Remy Charlip, Simone Forti, steve paxton, yvonne rainer
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Police Nab Broadway-93rd St Stabber; Another Shelter Guard Caught Sleeping; N90s Guard Helps Fallen 210-Riv Shareholder; Congestion Pricing Disaster?
Police Nab Broadway-93rd St Stabber
Homeless Parolee Committed Broad Daylight Stabbing
3 Weeks After Release From Prison – Fled Crime To 96th St. Subway
The Daily News reported that the Police arrested Carlos Hernandez, 25, on assault, strangulation and other charges for a string of unhinged incidents, including a broad-daylight stabbing on Broadway and W. 93rd St. on Saturday, Feb. 16th. The arrest was made this past Wednesday, Feb. 27th.
Hernandez was released from prison Jan. 24 and was living in a makeshift homeless encampment near the Henry Hudson Parkway and 79th St., police sources told the Daily News. He was serving a sentence for assault and was released early.
At 4:45 p.m. the same day, Hernandez sat next to a 39-year-old man at Broadway and W. 93rd St. and threatened to stab him, cops said. Hernandez punched the man in the face, and the two scuffled. Hernandez then pulled out a sharp object and stabbed the man in the chest and slashed him in the face before running into the subway station at Broadway and 96th street. The unidentified victim, a resident of Hamilton Heights, was hospitalized in serious but stable condition.
Early that same Saturday, Hernandez attacked his ex-girlfriend, punching her in the face and choking her at the 79th St. encampment. A police source at the 24th Precinct could not provide any information about the names of the victims to N90s, noting that “the record is sealed.”
Hernandez has also been known for what Daily News termed, “terrorizing parishioners” at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. Read more: http://enewspaper.nydailynews.com/html5/desktop/production/default.aspx?pubid=a948621d-d740-4787-8c86-2cdff7a65076
He is being held in jail pending trial in Manhattan Criminal Court.
Strike 2!:
Another Praxis Shelter Guard Caught Snoring On The Job
A picture is a worth a thousand words. For the second time in less than a month, a guard at the Alexander Shelter operated by Praxis Housing Initiatives on West 94th Street was caught snoring away—this time at 6:04 AM on February 22nd.
In the words of one observer of city government: “You would think they would be on their toes after the first time a guard was caught snoozing. Strike One took place just four weeks ago. The New York Post posted a shot of the first snoring Praxis guard.
City Council Member Helen Rosenthal told the media: “Once the shelter opens, their guards will patrol the neighborhood, making the Neighborhood In The Nineties Security Patrol unnecessary.”
In Testimony submitted to State Supreme Court, Svein Jorgensen, Executive Director of Praxis Housing Initiatives, Inc., which the City is paying nearly $40 million to operate The Alexander Shelter, states, “Security procedures require the premises to be inspected every 15 minutes.”
If so many guards are asleep on the job, who is inspecting the premises, Mr. Jorgensen?
Why are Helen Rosenthal and Bill De Blasio giving unvetted support to this unprofessional operation which masquerades as a “high quality” shelter?
N90s Security Guard Provides Aid To Woman At 210 Riverside
Our N90s Cambridge security patrol guard, Robert Enrick, assisted a resident of 210 Riverside who fell last Tuesday evening while entering her building.
Patrolman Enrick noticed that the woman had sustained bleeding around the mouth, and called the building’s doorman to help him apply first aid and call for an ambulance, which took her to Mount Sinai Hospital. Individual shareholders in the 210 co-op support the Security Patrol.
St. Louis/Rustin House Refuses To Help Violent Resident
In response to several violent outbursts and attacks on individuals in the streets by a resident of the St. Louis/Rustin House at 319 West 94th Street, Neighborhood In The Nineties prevailed on the 24th Precinct’s Public Affairs specialist, Police Officer Stephen Jones, and the Sector A neighborhood patrol team to see if David, as the man is known, could be helped. The choice would be forcing an emotional disturbed person (EDP) into the correctional system.
Office Jones reported, “I went to 319 W. 94 this week and spoke to Ms. Linton, the Program Director of the Rustin House. I asked her if David could be included in their programs even though he is a previous resident. She informed me that Rustin House is an independent living home and that everyone who lives there (even previous residents) are eligible for all Lantern Programs offered at the Rustin House. They have to choose to be in the programs and cannot be forced to accept services. She informed us that she is not allowed to discuss with us if David has or has not accepted any of the services offered.”
It is sad that Ms. Linton was not open about whether David is in their program. The St. Louis has created its share of neighborhood problems, taking in people with serious mental health and substance abuse issues. We have been told privately that David is not in their program. His participation is not a HIPPA issue. Council Member Helen Rosenthal has been uncooperative in taking responsibility for a facility she helped create. If David winds up in the system, it will not be without N90s trying to do the right thing for him and the community.
Congestion Pricing:
Council Resolution Proposes Neighborhood Parking Permits–
Will We Be Swamped By Thousands More Cars?
The promise of congestion pricing is that it would help keep subway fares down and pay for the estimated $30 billion needed to repair signals and tracks, buy new rolling stock, and make the subways more handicap accessible.
Unfortunately, congestion pricing is projected to contribute less than a third of the capital costs (which excludes subsidizing the farebox). However, given the state of NYS politics, suburban legislators in Albany already are demanding at least half the money go to other such MTA entities as the LIRR and MetroNorth rail lines.
A sizable chunk of tolls on City bridges is already shipped to the suburbs.
While the neighborhood parking permit plan seems plausible, the cost of the permits has not been established. It is also possible that outer borough and suburban legislators will not support this proposal. It may be just more pandering to posture against the flooding of Upper West Side streets when tolls are placed on cars entering below 60th Street.
Quick…How many vehicles enter Manhattan daily? 717,000 vehicles!
That number includes 180,000 vehicles that enter via the George Washington Bridge,145,000, and 35,000 via the Henry Hudson Bridge. And while not all will be deterred by congestion pricing below 60th, if even a small percentage enters the streets of the Upper West Side to avoid the new tolls, we will experience dangerously clogged streets and serious conflicts for parking spaces!
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https://www.westsiderag.com/2019/02/28/uws-council-members-want-residential-parking-permits-so-neighborhood-doesnt-become-a-parking-lot-for-out-of-towners
The Fight For Our Neighborhood Continues!
Please join us Thursday, March 21st at 9 AM, Room 122, 80 Centre Street. We will be back in court.
Please HOLD THAT DATE!
There have been multiple date changes, but we have been able to keep the partial TRO (temporary restraining order), which limits the population of the Alexander shelter while the case continues.
Please support our efforts to fight back. Lawyers and private security guards are expensive. The alternative is unthinkable.
We ask that more people step up—individuals, building owners, business owners, co-op boards and tenants—and contribute to keep these two important efforts going.
Checks may be written to: Neighborhood In The Nineties, Inc. You may indicate “Security Patrol” or “Legal” on the check. Address: Neighborhood In The Nineties, Suite 1B, 310 West 94th Street, New York, NY 10025-6868. Credit card donations are accepted at www.N90s.org. Hit “DONATE,” follow PayPal prompts.
Neighborhood Meeting Next Tuesday!
Reserve Now! Support Your Neighborhood
Join us: General Meeting for Tuesday, March 12th at 6:15 PM.
Please R.S.V.P. to info@N90s.org. Location TBA.
Open to our neighbors only.
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Wowchuk introduces resolution against federal carbon tax
Unfair tax on carbon emissions hurts Manitoba’s economy and threatens jobs: Wowchuk
Rick Wowchuk, MLA for Swan River, today proposed a private member’s resolution calling on the federal government to not impose its carbon tax on Manitoba and to respect the provincial Progressive Conservative government’s Climate and Green Plan.
“The carbon tax is not part of a federal climate plan, but rather an escalating tax plan to take money off the kitchen tables of Manitobans and to threaten jobs and economic growth throughout our province,” said Wowchuk, Legislative Assistant to Sustainable Development Minister Rochelle Squires. “This tax is not in the national interest and is unfair to Manitoba. Our PC caucus and government are saying yes to fighting climate change, but no to the federal government’s carbon tax.”
Wowchuk pointed out that the PC government’s Climate and Green Plan continues Manitoba’s tradition of billions of dollars in investments in renewable energy, including hydro-electricity and solar power, while encouraging Manitobans to reduce energy consumption. He noted that Manitoba has the best green record in Canada as well as the new Conservation Trust to protect natural infrastructure. He proposed that the Legislative Assembly urge the federal government to respect Manitoba’s investments in the green economy.
“The federal government has a patchwork quilt of ad hoc environmental agreements with several provinces, creating different standards in each one,” added Wowchuk. “Our PC government is going to court to challenge Ottawa’s carbon tax, because the federal government can’t impose a carbon tax on a province that has a credible greenhouse gas reduction plan of its own.”
Though Wowchuk’s resolution was supported by PC MLAs, the opposition used their speaking time to run out the clock and prevent it from coming to a vote.
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Environment and development in the Mediterranean
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State of Mediterranean Forests 2018
Mediterranean forest area on the rise but increasingly in jeopardy
Climate change, wildfires and water scarcity drive forest degradation
26 November 2018, Rome – The Mediterranean forest area has increased by two percent between 2010 and 2015, resulting in a rise of 1.8 million hectares – about the size of Slovenia, says a new FAO-Plan Bleu report « State of Mediterranean Forests 2018 ».
But forests in the Mediterranean have also been considerably affected by degradation and are increasingly in jeopardy from climate change, population rise, wildfires and water scarcity, the report warns.
“Mediterranean forests have long been adapting to pressures caused by human development. But never have these pressures been so extreme as they are now,” said Hiroto Mitsugi, FAO Assistant Director-General, Forestry Department.
“Unless we do more to combat forest degradation, more than 500 million people across 31 countries and three continents will soon face a wide range of economic, social and environmental problems” added Mitsugi.
Elen Lemaitre-Curri, Plan Bleu's Director said: "In a context of rapid climatic, societal and lifestyle changes in the Mediterranean, forest and tree-based solutions are critical to the region overall sustainability, with an expected impact well beyond forested areas. Upstream forests, agro-forestry, and urban trees and parks can help preserve key ecosystem services, reduce soil degradation and transition towards a circular, resource-efficient, bio-based, low carbon and socially fair green economy. Reaching this potential will require using a range of instruments, including participatory approaches, innovative economic instruments and partnerships.”
Mediterranean forests – key figures
Mediterranean countries’ forest area is about 88 million hectares – the size of France and Italy. It represents two percent of the global forest area
Overall, the increase in forest area has been slightly greater in northern Mediterranean than in southern Mediterranean but, on a country basis, the greatest loss of forest area occurred in European countries (the greatest loss of forest area between 1990 and 2015 occurred in Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania)
There are 80 million hectares of degraded lands – including forests – in the Mediterranean
Protected areas have increased, particularly in regions with small forest areas - North Africa hosts four percent of the Mediterranean forests, but forest represents nearly a quarter of its protected areas
Forests are storing over 5 000 billion tonnes of carbon (about two percent of the global forest carbon), with an increase of 1.65 billion (two percent per year) between 1990 and 2015
Over 400 000 hectares of forests are burnt each year
At least 339 (16 percent) of Mediterranean forest animal and plant species are threatened with extinction
Drivers of Mediterranean forests’ degradation
Forest degradation in the north of the Mediterranean is driven mostly by land abandonment and fires, whilst forests in the south-east suffer from an overexploitation of fuelwood, overgrazing, and population pressure.
Climate change remains the most significant threat to all Mediterranean forests. Rising temperatures, erratic rain patterns, and longer droughts will significantly alter the cover and distribution of forests and trees over the next years.
For example, as trees try to withstand droughts, they deplete their carbon stores and produce less carbohydrates and resins, which are essential to their health. This has already led to a decline or dieback of oak, fir, spruce, beech and pine trees in Spain, France, Italy and Greece, and of Atlas cedar trees in Algeria.
The Mediterranean population doubled between 1960 and 2015, reaching 537 million, and is estimated to rise to 670 million by 2050. While there has been little demographic change in the north, rapid population growth in the south-east has led to an excessive exploitation of natural resources.
Wildfires remain a significant threat. Although the number of fires have decreased in the north and northeast in recent decades, the number of larger fires (affecting over 500 hectares) have increased. The report predicts this trend – overall fewer but larger fires – to continue.
Water shortages and soil erosion are particularly harmful to Mediterranean forests as soils are thinner and poorer than in other regions.
Over 300 animal and plant species of Mediterranean forests threatened with extinction
The Mediterranean region is the world’s second largest biodiversity hotspot, but as forests face rising pressures, so are its animals and plants.
Forests are home to three quarters of Mediterranean terrestrial mammal species, nearly half of the region’s vertebrate species and almost three quarters of terrestrial insects. Forests also hold more than a quarter of the region’s higher plant species.
Forests in Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Morocco have the highest number of threatened species (26 percent in Spain, 24 in Italy, 21 in Greece, 17 in Turkey, 15 in Morocco).
Mediterranean forests are also rich in fungi. However, they are gradually decreasing due to clear-cutting and timber harvesting.
Solutions to forest degradation
The report urges countries to scale up the restoration of forests and landscapes. In particular, it recommends:
Thinning and planting mixed tree species to reduce droughts’ impacts
New firefighting policies that look beyond suppressing fires and include preventative vegetation management, preparedness and restoration activities
A regional forest strategy and common policies
Strengthening forest value chains
Mediterranean forests are already part of the green economy, but their contributions could be maximized if green economy-related strategies place greater focus on forests
Increasing forests, parks, and vegetable gardens in urban areas
Creating stronger private-public partnerships for forest management
Applying FAO’s guidelines on restoring degraded forests and landscapes
The benefits of Mediterranean forests
Mediterranean forests are a source of timber, food, energy, medicine and water, and provide a range of goods, services and opportunities – from panels, paper, cork, mushrooms, truffles, honey, pine nuts to recreation, tourism and employment. They purify our air, protect our soils, and water and regulate our climate
The report covers 27 countries: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia and Turkey.
Adel Sarkozi, Media Relations, FAO: adel.sarkozi@fao.org
Nelly Bourlion, Programme Officer, « Forest ecosystems, biodiversity », Plan Bleu: nbourlion@planbleu.org
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The Poetry Chain Gang (Volume 2) | Lana Hechtman Ayers
The Black Telephone has five fast questions for poet Lana Hechtman Ayers.
BT: I prefer my poetry in small doses— that's why I love chapbooks so much. How do you prefer your poetry: in small doses (chapbooks, broadsides) or in large doses (full-length poetry books, anthologies)?
LANA: Poetry anywhere, any time, any dosage is my preference. Beautiful broadsides of brilliant poems are on display in my home office. And chapbooks are near and dear to my heart. As a youngster at the local bookstore I discovered stapled paper booklets in the poetry section that appeared very kid friendly and approachable. I bought and devoured them. What I love best about chapbooks is that you can have a complete experience and a wonderful introduction to a new poet in a very short space of time. Chapbooks are like single serving pies. In fact, I love chapbooks so much that I decided to become a chapbook publisher. In 2001, I established Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Press that publishes a title or two a year through a national contest. And later this fall, I am establishing MoonPath Press, a chapbook imprint for Pacific Northwest poets that will have open reading periods though out the year. As for books, I probably own more poetry books and anthologies than most bookstores carry. I just can’t get enough. Poetry saved my life as a child in harrowing circumstances. I found solace and hope in the voices of those poets who reached across distance and time to tell of the sorrows. And in the telling was testimony they had survived. And if those poets could survive and thrive, then so could I. Poetry continues to save and enliven my life each and every day.
BT: I read a poem recently called Birthplace by Michael Cerilli. In it, he has rappers sharing the same space as poets ("...a backpack full of lyrics/Notorious B.I.G., Rakim, Perdomo,/Run DMC, Brooks/wanting to be real cool..."); how do you feel about that— rappers as poets?
LANA: To borrow Whitman’s phrase, I believe poetry is large; it contains multitudes. Rap can be incredibly inventive and use language in provocative, fresh ways. Poetry is large enough to encompass many different forms of expression, from villanelles, sestinas, haiku and sonnets to free verse to rap and song lyrics of all kinds, every form in between, and even those not yet discovered. Invention and surprise are hallmarks of some of the most memorable poems. Cerilli’s narrator is moving out of his comfort zone in the poem, but wishing to embrace the language and expression of his students though he is inexperienced in their diction. Poetry in any form is at its best when it builds a bridge from one person’s experience to another’s, embracing and revealing universal experience, when the poem’s music transmits empathy, when true communication and connection happens.
BT: Did you work on a poem today?
LANA: Last night I had one of those rare experiences where I begin writing a poem in my dream. It’s only happened a handful of times, but I’ve discovered if I don’t get up immediately and start transcribing, the words are gone within minutes. And sometimes, even when I do get up to begin setting down the words, the poem turns out to be way less interesting that it seemed while I was asleep. Last night’s dream was about being lost in a series of corridors, the way I am lost in so many dreams. In this particular dream, I was in a hospital similar to the one my brother passed away in a few months ago, but with one important difference. This hospital was largely deserted. I was trying to get to the parking garage where I had left my car. But even when I found the garage, that too was empty, both of people and vehicles. After wandering three levels of the garage, instead of being frustrated and fearful, I began to make poetry of the situation (albeit Freudian) and speak it aloud to myself. So when I got up this morning, I wrote down what I could remember of the poem and have been working on it. The jury is still out as to whether this will turn out to be a worthwhile poem or not.
BT: Is there a poet you're really diggin' at the moment?
LANA: Many—too many to delineate here, so I’ll only name a few. Nearly thirty years ago I discovered the prolific poet Adrienne Rich and read her voraciously. Now, I am rereading the many volumes, finding the same joy there, but also the greater connection that comes with experience. I am also delving further into Lorine Niedecker who is a much under-appreciated American woman poet, as important and stylistically interesting as contemporaries William Carlos Williams and E. E. Cummings. Also, I discover new poets to fall in love with all the time being poetry editor at Crab Creek Review. Rachel Contreni Flynn was a recent poet whose work I fell in love with after she made a submission. I have been an ardent admirer ever since.
BT: I’m trying to start a chain, a chain of poets, sort of like a chain gang of poets. Can you please suggest a poet I should ask five fast questions to next?
LANA: Marjorie Manwaring*, Elizabeth Austen, and Carol Levin.
Lana Hechtman Ayers, originally from New York, lives in the Pacific Northwest where she works as a manuscript consultant and writing workshop facilitator. She is poetry editor of Crab Creek Review and runs Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Press. Lana earned Bachelors degrees in Mathematics and Psychology and holds a Masters in Counseling Therapy as well as an MFA in Poetry. A Pushcart Prize and National Book Award nominee, she is the author of several collections of poems: A New Red (Pecan Grove Press, 2010), What Big Teeth (Kissena Park Press, 2010), Dance From Inside My Bones (Snake Nation Press, 2007), Chicken Farmer I Still Love You (D-N Publishing, 2007), and Love is a Weed (Finishing Line Press, 2006). Cats, tekka maki, Earl Grey ice cream, jazz and independent film are among Lana’s favorite things. Visit her online at http://LanaAyers.com.
*Since Lana Hechtman Ayers suggested three poets, I picked one out of the three to interview next.
Posted by Michelle "Mim" McEwen at 5:10 PM
Andrew Shattuck McBride September 9, 2010 at 10:12 PM
Great interview! I enjoyed it.
Blessings, Andy
Michelle "Mim" McEwen September 10, 2010 at 2:17 PM
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“Right wing” hoopla over the official start of Brexit is completely misguided—because the most damaging European Court in terms of UK law is not part of the EU, thousands of EU laws are simply being transported wholesale onto British statute books—and the real cause of Britain’s decline is not the EU, but Third World immigration engineered by the British Parliament.
Firstly: Brexit advocates have quite falsely claimed that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is the court which has “interfered” the most with “forcing” Britain to accept “human rights” dictates, allowing radical Muslims and immigrant criminals to stay in Britain.
The ECJ, officially called the Court of Justice, is indeed the highest court in the European Union—in matters of European Union law, and is tasked with interpreting EU law and ensuring its equal application across all EU member states.
However, the actual court which enforces “human rights” is the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)—which is a supra-national entity established in terms of the European Convention on Human Rights. This convention is a separate international treaty to “protect human rights and fundamental freedoms in Europe,” drafted in 1950 by the then newly formed Council of Europe—a body which is still in existence and is completely separate from the European Union.
Britain is—and remains—a signatory to that Convention, and is—and remains—a contracting party to the Convention. There is therefore no justification for anyone to claim that Britain has now “escaped the application of human rights laws” through Brexit.
Secondly: More than 52,741 laws, passed by the European Parliament since 1990, are being transposed into UK law as part of the British government’s Great Repeal Bill. This means that thousands of laws which pro-Brexit campaigners said were “hampering” Britain are going to remain—and just be known as “British” law instead of “EU” law.
Thirdly, and most significantly, the real threat facing Britain’s continued existence as an independent First World nation has nothing to do with the European Union, and everything to do with the pro-Third World immigration policies actively pursued by all the British parties in the parliament in London.
Brexit campaigners have claimed that Third World immigration via the EU has posed a threat to Britain’s racial homogeneity—but the reality is that the number of Third Worlders who have entered Britain via the EU is tiny and numbers in the thousands—as compared to the millions who have entered via laws created by the British parliament.
For example, Professor David Coleman, Supernumerary Fellow in Human Sciences and University Professor in Demography at St. John’s College, Oxford, produced a study in 2013 which showed that the aftereffects of “decades of migration” and natural reproduction rates will have made the UK the West’s “most ethnically diverse nation after 2050.”
Furthermore, Professor Coleman said, white Britons will be an outright minority in the UK by the year 2066. Professor Coleman said migration has become the “primary driver of demographic change.”
According to the data—extracted from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) Census—as of 2011, around 20 percent of people in the UK are “nonwhite or non-British.” This percentage, the report said, is expected to rise to a quarter by 2025, a third by 2040, and reach up to 38 percent by 2050.
This has nothing to do with the EU, and everything to do with the immigration policies pursued by successive British governments, for which the people of Britain have continuously voted.
Professor Coleman’s 2012 report was based on the then current “net rates of immigration,” which had been running at more than 200,000 a year. The use of the words “net immigration” is, however, an old establishment political party trick to deceive the public about the true extent of Third World immigration into Britain.
The con works this way: they add up the total number of immigrants arriving in Britain, and then deduct from that number the total number of people leaving the country—and the difference is called “net immigration.”
In this way, 200,000 low-IQ sub-Saharan Africans coming into Britain are put on the same level as say, 50,000 white Britons retiring to Spain, or otherwise emigrating—and in this way, they justify the “stabilization” of the UK’s population, as if there has not really been any significant change at all.
The only way that this future can be averted is through a social and political revolution to halt and reverse Third World demographic replacement, and has nothing to do with membership of the European Union.
Perhaps the true nature of the “right wing” hoax was best illustrated with so-called “conservative” news outlet Breitbart’s coverage of the handing over of the “Article 50” letter to the European Union.
A banner headline on Breitbart urged its readers to “Remember Today, When Britain Pioneered Freedom for the World Again.”
The article was, however, written by the son of Gujarati immigrants from India, Raheem Kassam, who is also Editor in Chief of Breitbart London—and who was UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s most senior advisor.
The “right wingers” cheering on Brexit appear not to understand the significance of an Indian-origin UKIP activist telling them that their departure from the EU is a “day of freedom” for Britain.
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Tyra Banks Brings Models To Tears Asking Them To Pose Nude On ‘ANTM’ — Watch
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Tyra Banks had some models bringing on the waterworks when she made a surprise appearance on the latest episode of ‘ANTM’ and mentioned the potential of a nude photo shoot. Watch it here!
Eek! Tyra Banks, 44, made an unexpected appearance on the latest episode of America’s Next Top Model and she told the ladies that they may have a very revealing photo shoot coming up. In a sneak peek video obtained by EW, Tyra can be seen speaking with the models as they get ready to prep for their next photo op and they didn’t seem too thrilled as tears welled up in some of their eyes thinking they would have to strip down nude. “I told you guys at judging [we’re doing] a raw shoot,” Tyra said in the clip. “It’s stripped and it is bare.” As the models braced themselves, Tyra then brought on the punchline by saying, “But, it’s not naked. It’s no makeup!” Whew! CHECK OUT THE VIDEO HERE!
The girls were definitely relieved when they heard they wouldn’t have to be taking off their clothes. Erin, especially, was fearing a nude photo shoot and expressed her happiness with the false alarm. “I just thought, ‘What a relief,’” the 42-year-old explained in a confessional. “I would definitely do a makeup-less photo shoot over a nude any day.” As the clip goes on, Tyra can be seen taking the ladies upstairs to remove their makeup to get ready for the photos. They had a professional manicure done before Tyra arrived. “It’s scary to be raw,” Tyra said to the girls. “So, in each and every one of your individual photos, only one face will show. But, your model sisters will be right there in that photo supporting you with their beautiful hands as you show yourself vulnerably.”
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Your Brain on Music
When a friend tells you that a new song is dope, he's not exaggerating. There's new evidence to support what every DJ has always known - whether you're rocking to Kaskade in the car or Bach in the bedroom, the magic that happens between the headphones is as mood-altering and addictive as any drug.
For the proof, we go to Valorie Salimpoor, a doctoral student at Canada's renowned McGill University, who credits a drive to clear her head and the soaring violin of Brahms's Hungarian Dance No. 5 wafting from her car radio as the inspiration for her ground-breaking study.
"This piece of music came on, and something just happened," Salimpoor recalls. "I just felt this rush of emotion come through me. It was so intense." Intrigued by her response, Salimpoor fashioned a study in which participants listened to the first 30 seconds of 60 unfamiliar songs. To create her playlist, she first looked at the songs and artists that showed up on the volunteers' surveys, and plugged them into musical recommendation programs, such as Pandora and iTunes, to find similar less well-known selections. Ultimately Salimpoor brain-mapped 19 volunteers who had indicated similar preferences, mostly electronic and indie music. "In Montreal there's a big indie scene," she says.
To quantify how much they liked the music, participants were given the chance to buy the full version of each song - with their own money - using a computer program resembling iTunes. The program was set up as an auction, so participants could choose how much they were willing to spend on the song, with bids ranging from $0 to $2.
Those artists whose tunes were purchased can thank an area of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, known to play a pivotal role in reward, pleasure, laughter, aggression and addiction. The more activity in the nucleus accumbens, the more money study participants said they were willing to spend on a particular song.
"This was an indicator that some sort of reward-related expectations were met or surpassed," says Salimpoor.
Acting as the nucleus accumbens' faithful sidekick, and equally involved in the experience of music, is the superior temporal gyrus, an area of the brain shaped by the type of music a person listens to over a lifetime. The study suggests that when you hear new music, your brain flips through this library, building expectations from templates of music heard before. If those predictions are confirmed or pleasantly subverted, you may find yourself loving - and buying - that new tune.
"We can look at music as an intellectual reward," Salimpoor concludes, adding, "It's essentially pattern recognition, and this is something humans are very good at." You can listen to the clips that the researchers used in the study here.
And read more about the study here.
Britt Daley: She's Doing It.
5 Success Strategies for the DIY-er
In two short years, indie artist Britt Daley has shared the stage with Kevin Barnes (of Montreal), VHS Or Beta, Ying Yang Twins, ANR, Surfer Blood, and Yacht (to name few); teamed up with EDM producer Bill Hamel to co-write Carmen Electra's 2013 hit single, I Like It Loud; is breaking ground on her first full-length album; and made quite possibly the best chocolate chip cookies we've ever tasted.
She does it all (including the graphic art you enjoy with every issue of this newsletter) and does it well. So well, and with such passion, savvy and focus, that we couldn't help but ask Britt to share a few of the success strategies that have brought her so far so fast...
5 Tips for the Independent Artist...
ESTABLISH YOUR BRAND AND BE AWARE OF IT
"What style is your music? Who can I compare you to? Who could you open for? Be prepared to answer," says Britt."Don't expect anyone to get involved with your project if they don't know how to market and book you. How can you build a viable brand if you're not sure what you're selling? I hear this all the time from fellow musicians, "Well, I'm super eclectic..." or "I don't think I sound like anyone." Right. You shouldn't sound exactly like anyone else, but please give us a frame of reference. As a developing artist you will continue to define your sound, in fact I'm in the process of doing that myself, but I'm still able to answer those questions as my sound evolves.
ACTIVELY ENGAGE IN SOCIAL NETWORKING - THE RIGHT WAY
There are so many FREE resources to utilize. Aside from Facebook and Twitter, there are tons of music-centric sites like Soundcloud, Reverbnation, Sonicbids, the list goes on and on - and it can be overwhelming.
DON'T sign up for more than you can realistically manage. It's not a good look if a fan, or God forbid, an industry rep comes across the Facebook page you haven't updated since last July.
DO try new platforms and use them to stay relevant to your fan base. If you're an artist that appeals to teens/tweens you may want to look beyond Facebook, as many young people are shifting away from the social network giant.
DON'T make your profile sound like some PR guy manages it. Your followers want to get to know YOU, and what you're about.
DO be accessible, active and engaging. The goal is to gain fans that will support your career for the long run.
CREATE VIDEOS
"This is an area I need to get better at," Britt admits. "YouTube is becoming the main source of music content on the web. Let's face it, most of us would rather watch a video then stare at a sound wave". So with that in mind -- work on creating video content to further engage your listeners. Videos have way more potential of going viral, even Billboard has caught on, recently adding YouTube plays to their chart system.
THINK BEYOND SELLING MUSIC DOWNLOADS
PLAY LIVE - It's important to get real experience in front of a live audience, not only for exposure but it gives you the opportunity to get face time with people, grow your local and regional fan base, and sell MERCH. Think beyond T-shirts, and come up with creative and inexpensive items with a personal touch that your fans will want to purchase.
PUT IN THE WORK!
"Being an artist is a full-time gig," says Britt. "No one is going to do the work for you, and even if a manager or agent comes along, don't think the work load will lighten up - it's the exact opposite. They will not manage your website or Twitter account, and they are certainly NOT going to write, record, or rehearse your songs for you." It's up to you to hone your craft and hustle. Set realistic goals and stop focusing on 'getting signed'; focus instead on taking your career to the next level on your own. There are lots of artists enjoying lucrative careers without help from a label. Macklemore is an amazing example of this new class of Indie artists and they seem so much cooler, in my opinion."
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The DJ Guide to Amps and Speakers...
Editor's note: This month we welcome Phil Morse and the experts at DigitalDJTips.com aboard for an in-depth update on the two major components of any PA system: amplifiers and speakers.
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Amplifiers 101 Simply put, an amplifier (or "amp") is required to get the line-output signal of your mixer or DJ controller to a level where it can drive your speakers at the volume you need.
In choosing your amp, it's vital not only that the amplifier you choose has sufficient power (say 500W), but that your speakers can handle that amount of power. If you have a 500W amp but your speakers can only handle 250W, they will die on you rather soon. So I always recommend shopping for amplifier and speakers together. Alternatively, you could go for active speakers. These have the power amplifier built in and the manufacturer has already done the job of matching the amplifier(s) to the speaker(s), so you don't have to worry about it.
Keep in mind that a PA amplifier is very different from a hi-fi amplifier: Power amplifiers are made so they can handle their maximum power output for long periods of time. They often have serious heat sinks and fans that can sound loud in the store, but remember that you'll be playing in front of 100 people at a decent volume and trust me: You won't hear the fans.
In looking at the basic specifications of the amplifier, pay particular attention to the temperatures it can operate within. Even in climate controlled rooms it can get quite hot and you do not want your amp to fry, so be sure to consider whether the amp you're looking at can operate under such conditions. I would always advise to get amps with protective circuits. These should cover thermal protection (so the amp will shut down rather than die if it gets too hot), and short circuit protection (in a hectic set-up, a short circuit can always happen, and again you do not want your amp to die from it).
Finally, take good care that you buy a decent amplifier. The worst thing that can happen is that you buy a cheap amp that can't handle the heat and its thermal protection keeps cutting out every five minutes. This will drive you crazy, trust me - I know this from experience. For a look at the latest speakers, keep reading...
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DJ Success Coach Stacy Zemon joins us again this month with an enLIGHTening tip: "Mobile DJ business owners who are seeking a dramatic and cost-effective way to create an elegant mood for a wedding reception need look no further than LED uplighting."
According to Pro Mobile DJs' Wedding Wizard, Alan Dodson: "As the manufacturing of LED lighting fixtures continues to evolve, more and more options are now available to us for creating truly unforgettable room décor.
Far too many DJs just put lights in a room without thought to what is required to create the proper effect. The two biggest mistakes are not enough lighting to properly do the job, and failing to do a room design for the lighting." [Read More]
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Traktor DJ for iPad ®
Touch the Groove.
There's certainly been no lack of DJ apps targeted at iPad users. And from Algoriddim's djay to Numark's iDJ, there's a lot that many companies have gotten right. What remains to be seen is who will be the first to offer a full-featured app that a pro or even serious hobbyist will want to use. Native Instruments claims first dibs on that distinction with the introduction of Traktor DJ for the iPad.
For those familiar with Traktor, Traktor DJ is going to look and feel very familiar; its features are identical with Traktor in every meaningful way. Any areas where it might stray are concessions to the touchscreen interface, and they're done exceptionally well.
No, you're not going to want to play a live gig with a headphone splitter as your only sound output. Native Instruments knows this and has ingeniously utilized Apple's own Camera Connection Kit to turn the iPad into something more than just a place to park a companion app. Via the kit, you can hook your iPad into one of NI's top-flight Audio series USB sound cards and have full control from within the Traktor DJ app.
Scoff all you want at the notion of walking into a gig with a sound card and an iPad, but the iPad, with its integration of touch, brings back that tactile response that so many of us sorely miss. No, it doesn't feel like a record. Nothing will. But there's definitely a lot to be said for controlling music with your fingertips instead of a mouse click or buttons on a MIDI pad.
Priced at $20, it's in line with many other music apps that are available on the App Store. This one just happens to be better than most.
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Volleyball division hopes dashed at home
Junior right side hitter Ashley Taylor prepares to serve against IU East last Friday in the Student Center Gym. The Pioneers lost the heart breaker 2-3.
Photo by Sam Robinson | Point Park Athletics
Written By Dara Collins, Co-Sports Editor
The Pioneer volleyball team completed a road sweep before returning home last weekend to fight for first place in its division and play in the 10th annual Volley for Vision event.
The team played one of its most important games of the season last Friday (Oct. 27) against Indiana University (IU) East.
Point Park was a single match behind IU East and could steal the River States Conference (RSC) East Division title with Friday’s win plus two more.
The Pioneers’ energy was evident in the first set. Their cheers echoed throughout the Student Center Gym, and the team celebrated after nearly every point. Point Park stole set one 25-14.
“I think for the first time this season, I’ve seen a real fight and a real fire in them,” assistant coach Bridget Bielich said. “I think that was something that I was excited to see finishing out this conference because we’re going to need that fight and that fire going into the conference tournament.”
IU East answered with a 25-16 win of their own to tie the match, but Point Park once again gained the lead after a close set three.
Trailing 2-1, the Red Wolves began their comeback and won set four to tie the match for a second time.
The nail-biting fifth set tied at 5-5, 6-6, 7-7, 9-9, 10-10 and 11-11. Point Park led 14-13 at match point and looked to put the ball down when IU East’s libero picked up the dig and sent the ball back over the net to an empty area on the Pioneers’ side.
The set was tied again at 15-15 until the Red Wolves claimed the final two points to win 17-15.
“I think we played up to their level,” defensive specialist Jordan Dixon said. “It was a little rocky in sets two and four, but I think we still fought hard.”
The victory clinched IU East’s division title, and will subsequently host the RSC Tournament on Nov. 10 and 11.
“I just think we didn’t have that relentless pursuit and we didn’t push ourselves to our full potential,” freshman Camryn LaMonaca said.
The teams were neck and neck in kills. Point Park put up 46 to IU East’s 47. Junior Ashley Taylor led the attack with 18 kills, and libero Morgan Dangelo picked up the match-high 18 digs. Middle hitter Destiny Tucker played big at the net and totaled eight blocks.
The Pioneers played their second match of the weekend last Saturday against Ohio Christian University (OCU). The match marked the 10th annual Volley for Vision event.
Fans could purchase tickets for a basket raffle, and all proceeds benefitted Team Cassie of the Pittsburgh Foundation. Cassie Bruno, head coach Mike Bruno’s daughter serves as the inspiration for organization.
Team Cassie presented its first grant, a $1,000 donation to the Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children, between sets two and three. Bruno expressed his gratification that the first grant went to the school his daughter attended from the age of three until kindergarten.
Following the match, Volley for Vision included a new element this year. The Pioneers conducted a free special needs volleyball clinic.
The Pioneers defeated OCU 25-19, 15-25, 25-23 and 25-15.
Tucker recorded a career-high 17 kills, Taylor followed with 11 and junior Erica Gumz with ten. Three Pioneers also reached double digits in digs. Dangelo led the way with 18, and juniors Meg Reineke and Dixon came in second with 13 each.
“I think we did really well with communication again, but I just think we didn’t have that passion that we played with yesterday,” LaMonaca said.
The Pioneers first win of the week came from a sweep at West Virginia Tech last Tuesday, winning 25-23, 25-14 and 25-22.
The Golden Bears could not top power hitters Taylor and Gumz who tied for the match-high with 13 kills each. Taylor completed a double-double with ten digs.
The Pioneers stand at 19-13 overall and 9-6 in the RSC. After senior night at home Tuesday against Carlow, they close out their regular season this Saturday at non-conference Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
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Clang 8 documentation
External Clang Examples
« Choosing the Right Interface for Your Application :: Contents :: Introduction to the Clang AST »
External Clang Examples¶
This page provides some examples of the kinds of things that people have done with Clang that might serve as useful guides (or starting points) from which to develop your own tools. They may be helpful even for something as banal (but necessary) as how to set up your build to integrate Clang.
Clang’s library-based design is deliberately aimed at facilitating use by external projects, and we are always interested in improving Clang to better serve our external users. Some typical categories of applications where Clang is used are:
Static analysis.
Documentation/cross-reference generation.
If you know of (or wrote!) a tool or project using Clang, please send an email to Clang’s development discussion mailing list to have it added. (or if you are already a Clang contributor, feel free to directly commit additions). Since the primary purpose of this page is to provide examples that can help developers, generally they must have code available.
List of projects and tools¶
https://github.com/Andersbakken/rtags/
“RTags is a client/server application that indexes c/c++ code and keeps a persistent in-memory database of references, symbolnames, completions etc.”
http://rprichard.github.com/sourceweb/
“A C/C++ source code indexer and navigator”
https://github.com/etaoins/qconnectlint
“qconnectlint is a Clang tool for statically verifying the consistency of signal and slot connections made with Qt’s QObject::connect.”
https://github.com/woboq/woboq_codebrowser
“The Woboq Code Browser is a web-based code browser for C/C++ projects. Check out http://code.woboq.org/ for an example!”
https://github.com/mozilla/dxr
“DXR is a source code cross-reference tool that uses static analysis data collected by instrumented compilers.”
https://github.com/eschulte/clang-mutate
“This tool performs a number of operations on C-language source files.”
https://github.com/gmarpons/Crisp
“A coding rule validation add-on for LLVM/clang. Crisp rules are written in Prolog. A high-level declarative DSL to easily write new rules is under development. It will be called CRISP, an acronym for Coding Rules in Sugared Prolog.”
https://github.com/drothlis/clang-ctags
“Generate tag file for C++ source code.”
https://github.com/exclipy/clang_indexer
“This is an indexer for C and C++ based on the libclang library.”
https://github.com/holtgrewe/linty
“Linty - C/C++ Style Checking with Python & libclang.”
https://github.com/axw/cmonster
“cmonster is a Python wrapper for the Clang C++ parser.”
https://github.com/rizsotto/Constantine
“Constantine is a toy project to learn how to write clang plugin. Implements pseudo const analysis. Generates warnings about variables, which were declared without const qualifier.”
https://github.com/jessevdk/cldoc
“cldoc is a Clang based documentation generator for C and C++. cldoc tries to solve the issue of writing C/C++ software documentation with a modern, non-intrusive and robust approach.”
https://github.com/AlexDenisov/ToyClangPlugin
“The simplest Clang plugin implementing a semantic check for Objective-C. This example shows how to use the DiagnosticsEngine (emit warnings, errors, fixit hints). See also http://l.rw.rw/clang_plugin for step-by-step instructions.”
https://phabricator.kde.org/source/clazy
“clazy is a compiler plugin which allows clang to understand Qt semantics. You get more than 50 Qt related compiler warnings, ranging from unneeded memory allocations to misusage of API, including fix-its for automatic refactoring.”
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=blob_plain;f=compilerplugins/README;hb=HEAD
“LibreOffice uses a Clang plugin infrastructure to check during the build various things, some more, some less specific to the LibreOffice source code. There are currently around 50 such checkers, from flagging C-style casts and uses of reserved identifiers to ensuring that code adheres to lifecycle protocols for certain LibreOffice-specific classes. They may serve as examples for writing RecursiveASTVisitor-based plugins.”
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Tag Archives: airlines
Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada and IndustryWorks Studios Announce WRECKER Home Entertainment Distribution Plans in Canada
One Road Trip, Two Friends, A Wrong Turn
Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada is proud to announce plans with IndustryWorks Studios, the producers of American Mary, to bring the new horror-thriller film Wrecker to Canada.
Wrecker tells the story of best friends Emily (Anna Hutchison of The Cabin in the Woods) and Lesley (Andrea Whitburn of Lonesome Dove Church) who take a road trip to a music festival in the desert. When Emily makes a decision to turn off the busy highway and onto a lone, desert road, all hell breaks loose. They soon find themselves the target of a relentless tow truck that forces them into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Harrowing escapes, deadly situations and near captures, turning their road trip in to a living, breathing nightmare.
“Wrecker takes road rage to a new level, it is a game of supernatural cat and sexy mice. Reminiscent of Duel, Wrecker will demolish audiences!” says Susan Curran, Director of Marketing and Acquisitions for Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada of the new addition to the company’s catalogue. Evan Tylor, President of IndustryWorks Studios, echoes the enthusiasm for this deal, “We are proud to have Anchor Bay Entertainment as our Canadian distribution partner. It was exciting to create a unique take on such a familiar genre.”
About Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada
Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada is the Toronto based office of Anchor Bay Entertainment, a leading independent home entertainment company celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2015. Anchor Bay acquires and releases a wide array of filmed entertainment in the theatrical and home entertainment markets, including STARZ Original series, children’s entertainment, fitness (Anchor Bay Fitness), sports and specialty films on Blu-ray™ and DVD formats. The company has long-term distribution agreements in place for select programming with The Weinstein Company, AMC Networks and RADiUS, among others. Headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA, Anchor Bay Entertainment (www.anchorbayentertainment.com) is a full service distributor in the North American market. Anchor Bay Entertainment is a Starz (NASDAQ: STRZA, STRZB) business, www.starz.com. For more information visit www.anchorbayentertainment.ca
About IndustryWorks Pictures/Studios – Canada, International
IndustryWorks is a fully integrated Distribution, Production, Finance and New Media, worldwide content provider. IndustryWorks sets itself apart by having a keen sense of recognizing the potential in projects for distribution and is dedicated to releasing unique and marketable content to the world market place. The Company has several in-house projects in development and acquires films from producers around the world. IndustryWorks distributes its content to through all media outlets, including box office, VOD, SVOD, broadcast, airlines, internet and digital platforms, retail and rental outlets.
Website: industry-works.com, anchorbayentertainment.com
Twitter: @IWPictures, @Anchor_Bay
Facebook: facebook.com/IndustryWorksPictures
Instagram: @thepromotionpeople
This entry was posted in IndustryWorks Pictures and tagged 2015, airlines, AMC Networks, American Mary, Anchor Bay, Andrea Whitburn, Anna Hutchison, Beverly Hills, blog, box office, broadcast, Canada, Canadian, Digital, entertainment, Evan Tylor, film, Hollywood, IndustryWorks Studios, internet, Lesley Diana, Media, new, North American, PR, PR firm, RADiUS, release, Susan Curran, SVOD, The Promotion People, The Weinstein Company, Toronto, Vancouver, VOD, Wrecker on May 20, 2015 by press.
IndustryWorks Studios and WeatherVane Productions enter into major co-funding agreement
IndustryWorks Studios “IndustryWorks” is pleased to announce the recent co-funding and distribution agreement with WeatherVane Productions. IndustryWorks and WeatherVane Productions have entered into a US$50MM agreement to co-fund a slate of Feature Films and Television programming over the next 24 months. The deal will also include a generous P&A fund for select features for Domestic distribution. IndustryWorks will handle sales and distribution, both for domestic and international.
The deal was negotiated between John Curtis, COO on behalf of IndsutryWorks and Ross Marroso, Senior VP of Marketing and Development and Jason VanEman, President, WeatherVane Productions.
“This deal culminated from a long standing relationship with mutual parties and we are very excited about working with WeatherVane on not only this significant slate but on many other projects utilizing the synergies of both companies” – John Curtis, COO, IWS.
“This is the start to a great relationship that we expect to build upon, as we continue to strive to bring commercial films with that special creative flair, to the market place”. – Evan Tylor, President, IWS.
“Putting together a deal like this is something that WeatherVane Productions has been looking to do since coming into the market with at risk equity. We are extremely excited to be producing with IndustryWorks. This deal allows us to invest our equity into solid entertainment projects, keep our producer friendly finance model, and give WeatherVane Productions the security of guaranteed distribution that any producer and investor looks for.” – Jason Van Eman, President, WeatherVane Productions, Inc.
ABOUT INDUSTRYWORKS PICTURES/STUDIOS “IW” – CANADA, INTERNATIONAL
IndustryWorks is a fully integrated Distribution, Production, Finance and New Media, worldwide content provider. IndustryWorks sets itself apart by having a keen sense of recognizing the potential in projects for distribution and is dedicated to releasing unique and marketable content to the world market place. The Company has several in-house projects in development and acquires films from producers around the world. IndustryWorks distributes its content through all media outlets, including box office, VOD, SVOD, broadcast, airlines, internet and digital platforms, retail and rental outlets. www.industry-works.com
ABOUT WEATHERVANE
WeatherVane Productions, Inc. is a private investment production company specializing in entertainment and other non-entertainment related projects. Principals Jason Van Eman and Ross Marroso are committed to partnering with various producers and financiers to build the most advantageous finance plans for any and all media and entertainment projects. Most recently, WeatherVane announced “Royal Ice,” based on a story by Prince Albert II of Monaco, Scarlett Johannson’s directorial debut with “Summer Crossing,” and the new Penn and Teller Broadway show, Ben McConley, Ross Marroso and Jason Van Eman to executive produce.
Website: industry-works.com, weathervaneprod.com
Twitter: @IWPictures
This entry was posted in IndustryWorks Pictures and tagged 2015, airlines, AMC Networks, Ben McConley, Beverly Hills, blog, box office, broadcast, Broadway, Canada, Canadian, COO, Development, Digital, entertainment, Evan Tylor, film, Hollywood, IndustryWorks Studios, internet, IWS, Jason Van Eman, Lesley Diana, marketing, Media, new, North American, PR, PR firm, President, release, Ross Marroso, Royal Ice, Senior VP, Summer Crossing, SVOD, The Promotion People, Toronto, Vancouver, VOD, WeatherVane on May 18, 2015 by press.
INDUSTRYWORKS STUDIOS ANNOUNCES ITS DISTRIBUTION DEAL IN THE USA FOR THE FEATURE FILM ‘THE LOST LEGION’ WITH GRINDSTONE ENTERTAINMENT
IndustryWorks is pleased to announce at this year’s AFM the US distribution deal for ‘The Lost Legion’ with Grindstone Entertainment. Lionsgate Home Entertainment will release the film across its media platforms in 2015. The feature film will be the catalyst that launches ‘The Lost Legion’ TV series slated for 2015 from Executive Producers, Evan Tylor, John Curtis and Lloyd Simandl.
“We’re very excited to launch this movie with Grindstone Entertainment and we look forward to continuing to deliver high end TV content into the marketplace.,” says Evan Tylor, CEO IndustryWorks Studios.
IndustryWorks Studios is fresh off their newest production, the terror-driven, theatrical film ‘WRECKER’ starring Anna Hutchison (Cabin in the Woods). IndustryWorks Studio also brought us the now infamous and New York Times touted feature film ‘American Mary’ distributed by Universal Pictures, Anchor Bay and XLrator Media in 2013.
About ‘The Lost Legion’:
Sex, corruption, betrayal and the final death throws of a once powerful Empire. Where enemies become allies, allies become pawns and one man’s struggle to survive is “the last chance for a new Rome”.
After the fall of the Rome, a once powerful Empire is now but a shadow of it’s self, deprived of its former glory and the Dark Ages are imminent. Fortress towns are now small kingdoms where decadence and corruption thrive and the struggle to maintain control is quickly slipping away. In one such remote outpost, one Legion remains and strives to bring Rome back to its former glory and the interwoven lives of the strong, the corrupt, the innocent and the power hungry will determine Rome’s final destiny.
About the Cast and Characters:
The feature film stars Michelle Lukes (‘Strike Back’, ‘Alexander’, ‘Doctors’) as the manipulative and shrewd Urbina Prima, the wife of Maximus the insane and glory seeking Roman Emperor played by Brian Caspe (‘Hellboy’, The Illusionist’, ‘The Last Knights’). Also starring is Tom McKay (‘Hatfields & McCoys’, ‘The White Queen’) as the ‘Legions’ hero Taranis and Jim High (‘The Muskateers’, ‘Borgia’, Crossing Lines’) as Argos, the middleman who plays all sides of this chessboard.
This stellar cast comes with a long list of Emmy, Golden Globe and People Choice nominated credits and awards on both feature films and television.
“We have the utmost confidence that Grindstone along with the marketing machine of Lionsgate that ‘The Lost Legion’ will be given the perfect reveal into the US market. We’re looking forward to seeing it all come together.” Adds Caterina Scrivano, VP Sales & Marketing, IndustryWorks Studios.
“In the tradition of “Game of Thrones”, we look forward to bringing IndustryWorks’s new feature film, “The Lost Legion” to the U.S. audience. Evan, John, and Lloyd have created a fresh and quite provocative vision of the politics of the Roman Empire”. – Stan Wertlieb-Grindstone Entertainment Group-Head of Acquisitions.
About IndustryWorks Studios/Pictures
IndustryWorks is a fully integrated Distribution, Production and New Media, worldwide content provider. IndustryWorks sets itself apart by having a keen sense of recognizing the potential in projects for distribution and is dedicated to releasing unique and marketable content to the world market place. The Company has several in-house projects in development and acquires films from producers around the world. IndustryWorks distributes its content to through all media outlets, including box office, VOD, SVOD, broadcast, airlines, internet and digital platforms, retail and rental outlets.
For more press information, interviews and photographs please contact:
Lesley Diana | Lesley@thepromotionpeople.ca | 604-726-5575
For ‘The Lost Legion’ Sales and IndustryWorks information please contact:
Caterina Scrivano | CS@Industry-Works.com | 604-876-0547 or 604-306-3556
Or visit us at AFM – November 5th – 12th, The Loews Hotel – Suite #704
Website: industry-works.com/the-lost-legion
This entry was posted in IndustryWorks Pictures, The Lost Legion and tagged 2014, actor, airlines, American Mary, blog, box office, Brian Caspe, broadcast, Canada, David Kocas, director, drama, DVD, Emmy, entertainment, Evan Tylor, feature, film, firm, global, Golden Globe, Industry Works, internet, Jim High, John Curtis, Lesley Diana, Lloyd Simandl, Media, Michelle Lukes, MIPTV, movie, new, Oscar, People Choice, Petr Kubik, PR, press, producer, release, Roman Empire, Rome, SVOD, television, The Lost Legion, The Promotion People, Tom McKay, Vancouver, VOD on October 30, 2014 by press.
‘THE BIRDER’ starring Tom Cavanagh, Fred Willard and Graham Greene to screen at the LA Comedy Festival in Los Angeles with an official selection for its U.S. release on May 2nd at 7:00pm
IndustryWorks Pictures is excited to announce that Theodore Bezaire’s Sophomore Indie Comedy THE BIRDER will be screening in Los Angeles at the LA Comedy Festival on May 2nd at the Let Live Theatre at 7:00pm. This funny feature film is starring Tom Cavanagh (Ed, Scrubs), Mark Rendall (30 Days of Night), Jamie Spilchuk (Hard Rock Medical), Tommie-Amber Pirie (What If), Academy Award Nominee Graham Greene (Dances With Wolves, The Green Mile) and Hollywood funny man Fred Willard (Anchorman, Best in Show). The film makes its U.S. Premiere at the LA Comedy Festival.
Co-written by Theodore Bezaire & Mike Stasko and directed by Bezaire, THE BIRDER is a revenge-comedy set inside the world of bird watching. It’s the story of Ron Spencer (Cavanagh), a mild mannered birder who seeks revenge on a younger rival (Spilchuk) after losing the highly coveted position of Head of Ornithology at the National Park.
“THE BIRDER is a wonderful film and an excellent comedy. The film is a perfect combination of laugh out loud moments and a heartwarming story that the whole family can enjoy.” says Caterina Scrivano, VP Marketing, IndustryWorks Pictures. “We’re very excited to partner with IndustryWorks and see our film take flight!” adds producer Gerry Lattmann of The Dot Film Company.
IndustryWorks plans a market release at The Marché Du Film in Cannes, France this May and will start its release schedule later this year.
SELECTED MEDIA QUOTES
“Easily one of the best comedies you’ll see all year.” – RAINDANCE
“The Birder is a sweet, hilarious film, which is so successful due to the performances of Cavanagh and Rendall.” – TORONTO FILM SCENE
“This is a funny movie!” – SLATE
About The Dot Film Company – The Dot Film Company develops and produces content for Film and Television. They have worked in association with some of Canada’s most reputable organizations, such as Telefilm Canada, CMPA, TVOntario, Corus Entertainment, VideoFACT, BravoFACT! and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
About IndustryWorks Pictures – IndustryWorks is a fully integrated company that distributes and produces feature films, television and new media content worldwide. IndustryWorks Pictures sets itself apart by having the keen sense of recognizing potential in projects for production and its primary function is to release unique and marketable content to the market place. IndustryWorks’ mandate is to release films that appeal to the mainstream and niche audiences. The company has several in-house projects in development on an ongoing basis. IndustryWorks distributes its content to all ancillary media outlets, including box office, VOD, SVOD, airlines, Internet and digital platforms, retail and rental outlets.
Website: industry-works.com, thebirdermovie.com, lacomedyfest.com
Twitter: @IWPictures, @TheBirderMovie, @LAComedyFest, @tbezaire, @CavanaghTom, @Fred_Willard
This entry was posted in IndustryWorks Pictures and tagged academy award, actor, airlines, arts, box office, Canada, Cannes, Caterina Scrivano, comedy, Digital, director, entertainment, film, France, Fred Willard, Gerry Lattmann, Graham Greene, Hollywood, indie, IndustryWorks, internet, Jamie Spilchuk, LA, LA Comedy Fest, Lesley Diana, Let Live Theatre, Mark Rendall, Media, Mike Stasko, new, Nominee, Pictures, PR, premiere, producer, publicity, Raindance, retail, Slate, televison, The Birder, The Dot Film Company, The Marché Du Film, The Promotion People, Theodore Bezaire, Tom Cavanagh, Tommie-Amber Pirie, Toronto, US, Vancouver, VOD on April 29, 2014 by press.
Independent Studio IndustryWorks Pictures Brings The Powerful and Historical Original Drama Series ‘The Lost Legion’ to MIPTV
IndustryWorks is pleased to announce the exclusive ‘first look’ at the new TV drama series ‘The Lost Legion’ at MIPTV this April.
The thirteen one hour-long episodes by Executive Producer Evan Tylor, who brought us the now infamous and New York Times touted feature film ‘American Mary’. Petr Kubik and David Kocas direct ‘The Lost Legion’ and Christopher Hyde writes the series. Producers of ‘The Lost Legion’ are Lloyd Simandl and John Curtis. Production for the first two episodes has been completed. Filming will continue in Prague from June to December 2014.
“On behalf of IndustryWorks Pictures, we’re proud to present The Lost Legion, which takes us back to an era of a once great Empire struggling to retain its glory. I haven’t seen this portrayed before in film or television.” Says Evan Tylor, President of IWP. “The stories and characters are captivating, and the history is quite relevant, considering the uncertainty the modern world is facing today.”
“We’re excited about the possibilities for ‘The Lost Legion’ and other new and original shows that we have in development.”
About ‘The Lost Legion’ Television Series
After the fall of the Rome a once powerful Empire is now but a shadow of itself, deprived of its former glory and the Dark Ages are imminent. Roman Fortress towns are now small kingdoms where decadence and corruption thrive and the struggle to maintain control is quickly slipping away. In one such remote outpost, one Legion remains and strives to bring Rome back to its former glory and the interwoven lives of the strong, the corrupt, the innocent and the power hungry will determine Rome’s final destiny.
The series stars Michelle Lukes (‘Strike Back’, ‘Alexander’, ‘Doctors’) as the manipulative and shrewd Urbina Prima, the wife of Maximus our debauched and insane Roman Emperor played by Brian Caspe (‘Hellboy’, The Illusionist’, ‘The Last Knights’). The cast includes Tom McKay (‘Hatfields and McCoys’, ‘The White Queen’) as the ‘Legions’ hero Taranis Maldras and Jim High (‘The Muskateers’, ‘Borgia’, Crossing Lines’) as Argos, the middle man who plays all sides of this chessboard.
The stellar cast comes with a long list of Emmy, Golden Globe and People Choice nominated credits that features Tom McKay who starred in the BBC’s Golden Globe and People’s Choice Nominated show ‘The White Queen’ and stars in the Golden Globe award winning and multi SAG and Prime Time Emmy Award winning, TV show ‘Hatfields & McCoys’ along side Kevin Costner. Michelle Lukes starred in the Emmy Nominated show ‘Strike Back.’ Jim High stars in BBC America’s newest TV Series ‘The Musketeers’, the TV Series ‘Borgia’, Primetime Emmy Nominated TV series ‘Missing’ and the new NBC TV series ‘Crossing Lines’ and soon to be seen in the up and coming feature film ‘Serena’ with Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. Brian Caspe may be best known for Guillermo Del Torro’s ’Hellboy’, as well as ‘The Illuisionist’ and ‘Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol’, Brian Caspe is in the up coming action adventure film ‘The Last Knights’ with Morgan Freeman and Clive Owen and is also in the Oscar Nominated and multi-award winning TV series ‘The American Experience’.
About IndustryWorks Pictures, Inc
IndustryWorks is a fully integrated company that distributes and produces feature films, television and new media content worldwide.
IndustryWorks Pictures sets itself apart by having the keen sense of recognizing potential in projects for production and its primary function is to release unique and marketable content to the market place. IndustryWorks’ mandate is to release films and television content that appeal to the mainstream and niche audiences. The company has several in-house projects in development on an ongoing basis. IndustryWorks distributes its content to all ancillary media outlets, including box office, VOD, SVOD, broadcast, airlines, internet and digital platforms, retail and rental outlets.
This entry was posted in The Lost Legion and tagged 2014, actor, airlines, American Mary, blog, box office, Brian Caspe, broadcast, Canada, David Kocas, director, drama, DVD, Emmy, entertainment, Evan Tylor, feature, film, firm, global, Golden Globe, Industry Works, internet, Jim High, John Curtis, Lesley Diana, Lloyd Simandl, Media, Michelle Lukes, MIPTV, movie, new, Oscar, People Choice, Petr Kubik, PR, press, producer, release, Roman Empire, Rome, SVOD, television, The Lost Legion, The Promotion People, Tom McKay, Vancouver, VOD on April 2, 2014 by press.
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Call for proposal : Violence against women, children and LGBT population Communication Campaign
Recruitment of Services – Violence against women, children and LGBT population Communication Campaign
The Kolektif Drwa Imin (KDI) is a group of NGOs and collectives, comprising of PILS, Gender Links, Kolektif Drwa Zanfan Morisien, the Young Queer Alliance and Collectif Arc-En-Ciel, advocating for the rights of children, women and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer persons (LGBTQ) in Mauritius. Created in 2019, it aims at uniting our forces to make equality a reality for every Mauritian citizen.
The Mauritian society is still plagued by social ills which arguably are preventing the country from achieving more success, equality, and a sense of justice and an all-inclusive mode of development. One of such societal dilemmas the country is currently facing is violence against women, children and sexual LGBT whether sexual, physical, psychological or emotional and economic. The profound understanding of violence, from different perspectives, conclude to the definition that violence is undoubtedly a harm to our society. Violence against women, children and LGBT is a violation to human rights, often deeply rooted in gender inequality, is a public health problem since it exacerbates their vulnerability and discrimination overlap, and an impediment to sustainable development.
Since the launch of the Equality Justice Alliance (EJA) project in April 2019, the KDI mainly focus its intervention towards self-directed and interpersonal violence against women, children and LGBT. In this context, a social research on perception of violence and a Legal Environmental Assessment of violence are being carried out by external experts. The project focuses on reforming laws that discriminate against mentioned groups through an intersectional approach. Based on the findings and recommendations of the research and analysis of current laws, the KDI will advocate for social change.
Objective of the assignment
The objectives of this assignment are to implement a campaign encouraging the public at large and targeted populations (women, children and LGBT) to break the silence and taboo around violence, increase recognition and visibility of the problem among victims and society at large, encourage prevention and promote zero tolerance of violence. The campaign should be innovative, well targeted and structured, with its concept relating to the Mauritian culture and practices.
Campaign objectives
Encourage the public at large to prevent violence and identify its form
Challenge the misconceptions associated to violence
Encourage targeted populations and victims to seek for assistance (also in case of doubt)
Involve targeted population in the campaign through community-based activities
Organize press release based on the Legal Environment Assessment on violence and the research on perception of violence reports
Conceptualize and layout of position paper
Advise and design leaflets on violence against women, children and LGBT
Women, children and LGBT
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Proposing a plan, timeline and budget for the development and the delivering of campaign
Identifying and recommending appropriate communication channels
Planning, creation, diffusion and monitoring of content across selected mediums and channels
Developing key messages for the campaign and adapting the content and form to reach different audiences
Creating adverts of different formats for various mediums (tv, radio, billboard)
Media planning, reservation of advertising spaces and airtime (print, broadcast, online), monitoring that the adverts run accurately
Event organisation and coordination
Social media planning, content creation, management and moderation
Design leaflets directory of NGOs and public services in the field of assistance to any form of violence to women, LGBT and children
Advise and design position paper on violence against children, women and LGBT
Qualifications and competencies
The Communication, Public Relations and/or Advertising firm should have:
Qualified staff at bachelor's or master’s degree level in the field of communication, public relations, graphic design, advertising or related fields
Staff who is proficient in written and spoken English, French and Kreol Morisien
Capability and proven experience in crafting and implementing communication, public relations and advertising strategies
Capability and proven experience in coordinating communication, public relations and advertising campaigns
Capability and proven experience crafting messages and products in various formats (adverts, press releases, audio and video clips, social media posts) for diffusion across various mediums (newspapers, billboards, social media, radio, television)
Capability and proven experience in event management
Ability to adapt and decline a key message for different target audiences (general population and targeted populations) It is essential that the team demonstrates availability and responsiveness.
Total Campaign Budget
Rs 1,200,000. This includes all costs such as creative strategy, concept, design (including leaflets, position paper), copywriting, art direction, project management, media planning and buying, event organization, printing costs etc.
Campaign Brief
Shame and fear are significant barriers to seeking support and help. The campaign should challenge common myths and misunderstanding associated with violence.
Key messages examples:
Violans li pa akspetab
Violans li pa enn solision, li enn problem
La violence, c'est pas toujours frappant, mais ça fait toujours mal.
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Maine Republicans Approve New Platform
December 20, 2011 Commentary, Headlines, StateDenny Keschl, John Frary, Kathy Caso, Les Fossel, Mary Adams, Nichi Farnham, Roger Katz, Ted Cowan, Tim Russell
There isn’t much in this world less likely to excite me than a political party’s platform. They are – by and large – utterly devoid of meaning, entirely symbolic, and invisible to the public at large. In short, people don’t care about them, and especially so with me.
That all changed, of course, a year and a half ago.
The events surrounding the 2010 Maine Republican Party platform were, in a word, disastrous. For those of you who may have forgotten, there was an insurrection among the GOP grassroots on the floor of the convention hall, the establishment platform was thrown out and a new – entirely un-vetted – platform was put in its place.
That platform contained some interesting language, extolling the virtues of Austrian economics and attacking the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The haphazard, eclectic and not-much-to-do-with-Maine nature of the document, as well as the perceived anarchy among Maine Republicans at their own convention led to widespread ridicule in the media, and confused looks from many party elites.
At the time of the platform’s passage in 2010, I said the following:
I am not privy to exactly what the proposed changes from within the platform committee were, but what I do know is that they were rejected out of hand. Had the more “establishment” elements of the committee taken those suggestions and compromised and worked with those demands, it seems likely that they would have been able to hammer out something responsible that would have hopefully satisfied the libertarian/tea party wing without the insertion of what Dan Billings has called “nutcase stuff”.
This year, it seems, the Maine GOP decided to take that advice and incorporate their more rebellious brethren into the process and give them a voice, as a way to compromise and make sure nothing like 2010 happens again.
Of course, they had little choice but to listen. The activists responsible for the 2010 platform and their allies were not at all interested in being marginalized. Indeed, Christopher Gardner, Chairman of the Washington County Republican Committee sent a letter to the platform committee, gently reminding them that there were people out there who were watching. Carefully. Androscoggin apparently sent a similarly worded warning.
If all goes according to plan, there will be no repeat of the 2010 platform this year. Last night the platform committee – which included several activists involved in the “rebel platform” – voted unanimously to adopt a new platform.
I have spent most of the day talking to various people involved in the process, trying to piece together how it happened.
For the un-initiated, the platform committee has a very formal structure. Membership is static:
The sixteen county committees can send one representative each
The Senate Republicans can send three representatives
The House Republicans can send seven representatives
The chairman of the party can send three representatives
Senator Snowe, Senator Collins and Governor LePage can each send one representative
The process began in August, and the committee met monthly (twice in December) with former congressional candidate John Frary chairing the meetings. The initial work was in collecting and organizing ideas, and there were a number of platform submissions from a variety of people, as well as input from two county committees and even a group of farmers from Washington County.
But it was the dirty work of coming up with a document that would, in the end, make both sides happy that was the biggest challenge.
In 2010, the document that was accepted by the floor of the convention was drafted by a member of the Knox County delegation, Ted Cowan. Cowan was Knox’s representative on the committee this year, and was apparently given a number of opportunities to help draft the new document and give his input as to its direction.
One establishment source I spoke with described the activist contingent of the committee as “mostly reasonable” and interested in working on a compromise platform. There was tension at times, it seems, but by and large everyone was kept mostly happy.
The final document is the work of the entire committee, but principally Tim Russell, Mary Adams, Ted Cowan, John Frary and Kathy Caso. A number of legislators were involved from the beginning (Senators Roger Katz and Nichi Farnham as well as Representatives Les Fossel and Denny Keschl were singled out to me), but a number of people I spoke to suggested that the legislative Republicans in general were unengaged, or simply absent.
In the end, the final meeting of the platform committee saw the introduction of two documents. One was penned by Tim Russell, an ardent social conservative and sober establishment figure, and Kathy Caso, the very personification of fire breathing Tea Party conservatism. The other, much more colorful document, was written by Mary Adams, the anti-tax activist and TABOR crusader.
Upon the Caso-Russell document’s introduction as the base to work from for final edits, Cowan objected, declaring that the platform was boring and would fail to inspire the grassroots. It was his assertion that the Adams document – which in bringing up Sharia law in its second bullet point reads an awful lot like the floor platform from 2010 – was bolder, and would excite people. After a short discussion, the Caso-Russell version was accepted, and the committee began its work crafting a final draft.
I have read the full 2012 platform, and will be posting it here for you to read yourself once the last edits are made and a formal version exists. In general Cowan is right, it is “boring”, certainly when compared to the 2010 floor platform or the Adams document. But it is also a very interesting study in compromise, incorporating the activist passions of the base with the reserved concern of the establishment.
Gone are missives about the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Gone are broad commentaries on a host of federal and international issues. Gone are the whispers of conspiracy. Well, at least for the most part.
There is still plenty the left will rather enjoy attacking. Indeed, much to my chagrin a plank was added on Sharia law (over Chairman Frary’s objection), and nothing quite so gets my blood boiling as the phantom conspiracy garbage that issue represents (count me with Governor Christie on this – 2:42 on).
But in the end the new platform will avoid an embarrassing repeat of 2010, and give everyone a little of what they wanted.
The very definition of compromise.
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The Beacon Obituaries
is a community newspaper for Gander.
Filed chronologically as published for the Month of December 2010
LANNING, Margaret -
Passed peacefully away at Lakeside Homes, Gander on Friday, December 10, 2010 Margaret Lanning, age 74. Predeceased by her daughter, Brenda Dyke, parents, Levi and Isabelle Ball, brother, Harold Ball, sister, Mildred Fevens. Left to mourn with loving memories are her husband, Melvin, son, Derek (Nicole) of Gander, daughter, Debbie (Shawn) Cull of Moncton, NB; sisters, Florence Dalley of Botwood, Alma (Arnold) Bourne of Hamilton, ON; Jean Gill of Portugal Cove, Edna Davis of Bishop Falls, grandchildren, Jennifer Dyke, Stephen and Amanda Cull, Brendan and Amy Lanning and a large circle of other relatives and friends. Rested at Stacey's Funeral Home, Gander. Funeral service took place on Monday, December 13th at 11:00 A.M. from St. Martin's Anglican Cathedral, Gander. Internment followed at All Saints Cemetery. Donations in Margaret's memory may be made to a charity of one's choice. Arrangements entrusted through Stacey's Funeral Home. To sign our online memorial guestbook, please visit www.staceysfuneralhome.ca
STAGG, Jesse Lawrence -
Passed peacefully away at Brookfield Hospital on Sunday, December 12, 2010, Jesse Lawrence Stagg, age 65 years of Cape Freels. Predeceased by his parents, Ammon and Greta Stagg; sister, Marcie; brother, Maxwell; and other family. Left to mourn with fond and loving memories are his wife, Lucy; sons, Daniel(Danielle) of Ft. McMurray and David of Ft. McMurray; brothers, Henry(Loretta) of Cape Freels, Boyd (Florrie) of Cape Freels, Clifford (Zora) of Badger's Quay, Peter of Cape Freels, Clyde (Esther) of Cape Freels, Ben (Emily) of Cape Freels, Ricky (Juliette) of Cape Freels and Leonard (Maxine) of Cape Freels; sisters, Cassie Stokes (Tony) of Cape Freels, Barbara Humphries (Glenn) of Lumsden and Donna Blackwood (Arthur) of Cape Freels; a large number of nieces and nephews; and other relatives and many friends. Funeral service took place at Trinity United Church, Newtown on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 with Rev. Lorne Bungay officiating. Interment followed at The United Church Cemetery, Cape Freels. Donations in his memory may be made to The United Church Cemetery Fund, Cape Freels. Arrangements entrusted to the care of Kittiwake Funeral Home, Pound Cove - Musgrave Harbour. To send messages of condolence please visit www.kittiwakefuneralhomes.ca
ORGAN, Leo -
Passed peacefully away at Dr. G. B. Cross Memorial Hospital, Clarenville on Saturday, December 11, 2010, Leo Organ, age 76. Leo was a resident of Glenwood for 50 years. Predeceased by his parents, John and Lillian Organ, wife, Madonna, brothers, Nick, Abe and Ray Organ. Left to mourn with loving memories are his sons, Todd (Denise) of Clarenville, Peter (Winnie) of North West River, Lab; daughter, Betty (Matt) Myers of Fredericton, NB; brothers, Gerald and Mike of St. Joseph's Cove, grandchildren, Katie and Kristen Myers, Brett and Claire Organ, Marcus Organ and a large circle of other family and friends, the staff and residents of Cozy Quarters Home, Clarenville. Resting at St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church, Glenwood on Monday, December 13th. Funeral Mass took place on Tuesday, December 14th at 11:00 A.M. Cremation followed. Inurnment took place on Wednesday, December 15th at 11:00 A.M. at the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Glenwood. Donations in Leo's memory may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Arrangements entrusted through Stacey's Funeral Home, Gander. To sign our online memorial guest book, please visit www.staceysfuneralhome.ca
WHITEHORN, Verdun -
Passed peacefully away at the James Paton Memorial Hospital, Gander on Monday, December 20, 2010, Verdun Whitehorn, age 72. Predeceased by her parents, Gordon and Emeline Parrott, sisters, Daphne Ivany and Irene Raymond, brother's-in-law, Walt Raymond and Weldon Ivany, sister-in-law, Dot Parrott. Leaving to mourn with loving memories are her loving husband of 54 years, Howard (Howie), sons, Wayne (Janet), Gord, daughters, Lynn Walsh (Randy), Lorna Budden (Gary), Gigi Abbott (Shawn), grandchildren, Laurie, Robyn, Mark, Kyle, Jeremy, Quinn, Aidan, great-grandchildren Alyson, Ryan, sister, Joan Larcombe of GF-W, Ted Parrott (Grace) of Gander, Bill (Marg) of Nova Scotia, niece, Gloria Penney and a large circle of other relatives and friends. Rested at Stacey's Funeral Home, Gander. Funeral service was held on Wednesday December 22nd at 2:00 P.M. from St. Martin's Anglican Cathedral, Gander. Inurnment followed at Commonwealth War Graves on the Trans Canada Highway. Donations in Mrs. Whitehorn's memory may be made to the Central Northeast Health Foundation. Arrangements entrusted through Stacey's Funeral Home. To sign our online memorial guest book please visit www.staceysfuneralhome.ca
DART, Garfield Andrew (January 19, 1918 - December 31, 2010) -
Passed peacefully away at James Paton Memorial Hospital, Gander, Garfield Andrew Dart of Sandringham in his 92nd year. Predeceased by his wife, Winnifred (nee Bradley) and granddaughters, Samantha and Stephanie. Left to mourn son, Garfield Jr. (Ann), daughter, Cosetta White (Samuel), six grandchildren, Andrea, Andrew, Rebecca, Bradley, Garry, Charles. Former long time resident of Gander and retiree from the Federal Government, Garfield also served with the Nfld Forestry Unit in Scotland during WWII. Special thanks to the Dialysis unit in Gander and the staff of Nightingale Manor for their devoted care. Internment took place January 3, 2011 at The Church of the Resurrection, Sandringham.
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Learning from the Local in Greece
On October the 23rd 2017 nineteen organisations published a joint letter to Prime Minister Tsipras urging him to end the containment of refugees on the Greek Islands. Well known signatories included Human Rights Watch, Amnesty, and other large refugee and humanitarian INGOs.
Twelve days earlier however, and a stark reminder of the disconnect between the ‘local’ and ‘international’ in Greece, 40 Solidarity Groups and Organisations (increasing to 121 in the following weeks) had already shared their joint statement: “Open the Islands — no more dead from the cold.” Comprised largely of local, activist and grassroots groups, with only two organisations overlapping, the core message had been the same — permit the movement of refugees from the Islands to mainland Greece.
While the grassroots statement had been far more explicit in their condemnation of the EU-Turkey deal, the extent to which the advocacy divide was as a result of decidedly incompatible political approaches, or evidence of networks in action and an organic display of their limitations, is unclear. The founder of one grassroots organisation told me that knowledge about “Open the Islands” was word of mouth (through volunteer discussions) and noted that despite October 23rds statement being directly relevant to the services her organisation provided, they had not been asked to join.
The localisation agenda was born out of the World Humanitarian Summit 2016 and manifests itself as the Charter4Change’s 8 commitments and the Grand Bargain. Of which, predominantly, the focus has been on formal partnerships and funding. Signatories, both International Organisations and Government donors commit to increasing funding to local organisations — currently receiving a meager 0.2% cut of the pie globally. It’s a commendable start and confronting the financial disparity in the sector is essential, but examples can be taken from the Greek context to show that the disconnect between the ‘local’ and the ‘international’ pervades far beyond funding structures and mechanisms. And ignoring them as opportunities for the localisation agenda to address, in Greece and elsewhere, will surely only limit the impact and relevance of the funding goals.
The discord is evident in parallel advocacy (above), parallel coordinationsystems, parallel approaches and operations. The local, the grassroots in Greece have organised, restructured and redefined to the point where waiting for an invitation from the international community to formalise partnerships and relationships fast became obsolete. They have Campfire Innovation to collaborate and coordinate, they held the Con-Action Conference (the first grassroots conference of its kind), and with 80 partners, grassroots funder Help Refugees is a force to be reckoned with. Squats, cooperatives, volunteerism on and offline, dignified distributions and open camps, define the local in Greece. To the point where humanitarian principles, their guidance and governance often feels inapplicable.
Because in local no one goes on mission to field.
My particular interest, and that of the initiative, re:viewed, I am working on, is in approaches to accountability. Specifically, the relationships between service provider and service user in the aid sector and the power dynamics that govern them. If I mention the Core Humanitarian Standard’s accountability commitments as a way to frame and justify the concept of re:viewed to organisations that are already cooperatively organised, often by and with refugees, everyone’s thoroughly confused. Jargon need not apply.
At the same time, a degree of bureaucratic structure and procedural rigour would be helpful for the local in terms of boosting their ability to sustainably attract, absorb, use more funding. But if you look at reporting and upward accountability mechanisms (The IATI Standard as one example) used by international, their inadequacy for the local context is immediately obvious. Their application simply too much.
More ambitious hopes for the localisation agenda would see international seeking opportunities to connect and engage with local. In addition to what can be offered — funding and “capacity building” (or process deconstructing) — what is it that the local has, that is largely devoid in international? Why, for example, would an emotional reunion that played out at the Con-Action conference in Berlin — between a speaker and attendee he had personally helped off of a boat on the shores of the Agean sea and who was now resettled in Berlin — be wholly unimaginable in international?
“Localisation” and its twin, “accountability”, are not really bothered about charters, standards, targets and signatures as a measure of their success. Their potential is frankly far greater. They are concerned with relationships, between the international and the local, and between organisations and individuals — and how the power structures in these relationships could be redefined so that efforts to meet people’s humanitarian needs could have greater success all round. In both means and ends.
The Greek context is illustrative of the numerous ways and spaces in which the agenda of localisation has the potential to be more meaningfully explored to better meet these needs.
Could advocacy be louder and reach a bigger audience, if there was one unified voice and if the platforms and channels were shared? What lessons can the international learn from the local in terms of accountability and relationships with the people they provide services for, how do they organise, operate and include? To what extent could the extension or adaption of the internationals tools and processes be helpful and relevant for local?
Envisaging these discussions occupying horizontal spaces requires their conscious and proactive co-creation. A model that the local is already well acquainted with.
Tina Mason : Founder at re:viewed | Advocating for meaningful humanitarian accountability
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Liam Fox — just for fun
Filed under: brevity,just whinging,politics,sap of the month — anne thrope (miss) @ 12:22 pm
okay, let me riddle you a riddle.
how many ill-advised trips does it take to get from imbruglia to imbroglio?
wotjamean any clues? oh alright then
imbruglia: an antipodean popette/looker
imbroglio: a confused or perplexing political or interpersonal situation
obviously there’s no correct answer (yet) but give yourself a point if you said anywhere between 18 and 40.
excuse my absence
Filed under: just whinging,sap of the month,sport — anne thrope (miss) @ 4:17 pm
okay, so i’ve been sleeping on the job: what do you want me to do, take my personal property and leave the building? ;-(
alas and alack, it occurs to me that the duration of my silence has coincided almost precisely with that of the world cup.
well somebody’s granny (perhaps even mine) once told me “if you can’t say anything nice don’t say anything at all”; so with england’s performance in mind i have taken that advice.
and i propose to keep it that way rather than think about it and risk being sick on my shoes.
get a grip losers.
out — laws
Filed under: just whinging,politics,sap of the month — anne thrope (miss) @ 2:37 am
now here’s rum thing. without wanting to put the wind up you so close to bedtime.
over breakfast, last monday, right out of nowhere i said to the bemusement of the present mrs rant:-
‘that laws geezer; he’s done something bad.’
‘who she said? what are you talking about?’
undeterred by her characteristic failure of comprehension i explained that i was referring to david laws, newly appointed chief sec to the treasury.
now as to the origin of this information or how i had garnered it i had, and still have no clue, but so it came to pass, which makes it all-the-more unnerving. swipe me!
still, since we’re on the subject i might as well give you the benefit of my wisdom on recent revelations, be they never so prosaic.
first, mr laws seems to have been well-front when brains were being dished out.
okay, so he bats for the other side: not my cup of tea but hardly a hanging offence in the 21st century.
but then his problems, if we are to believe everything he says, probably date back to the 20th century; not that it makes much difference.
anyway, despite the brevity of his tenure in office the politics junkies among us have been left in no doubt as to his brilliance and his multi-millionaireness. nothing wrong with that.
so let’s look at the details here, in so far as we seem to have them.
for the purpose of concealing his gay relationship he claimed expenses presumably comparable to those of a person renting a room in another’s home when had he been open about his relationship he would have been able to claim perhaps double the amount in question.
on the one hand this suggests a certain persisisting perversity in the rules surrounding mps’ expenses claims.
but it also suggests, at least to me, that a mind as sharp as mr laws should have seen this coming and realised that the wise choice would have been to simply claim nothing.
in the words of the prophet: ‘they can’t touch you for it!’
but you don’t get to be a multi-millionare at his age without a preference to bag a quid here-and-there when you get the chance.
in summary: chances of:-
1. concealing your sexual preferences and leading any kind of relaxed lifestyle … tricky.
2. doing the above as a high-profile member of the cabinet … in prurient 21st century britain … next to impossible.
3. doing the above having broken the rules on mps’ expenses … vanishingly small.
at this moment david laws displays many of the characteristics of peter mandelson so he’s a long way from being politically dead-and-buried and must be grateful for the gracious words of his prime minister and party leader.
though what they must have said in private about his crass screw-up less than three weeks into the coalition he had such a prominent role in crafting one can only imagine.
still expect him back before to long; the coalition can ill afford to do without him.
let’s hope that, unlike mandelson, he doesn’t screw-up a second time. anyhow, if he does i’ll at least make the effort to let you know beforehand 😉
cheery bye soothsayers.
financially incontinent fergie
Filed under: just whinging,sap of the month,the bleedin' obvious — anne thrope (miss) @ 2:12 am
hearing sarah ferguson described this evening as ‘financially incontinent’ made me laugh. i couldn’t put it better whilst remaining polite if i tried.
other gems emerging today include suggestions that despite owing £100,000’s to all and sundry on both sides of the atlantic this deluded simpleton retains a staff of twelve!
i hope they make sure to get their no doubt trivial stipends in cash for their own sake.
on a lighter note news attributed to insiders suggests that her state-of-mind is fragile: no shit sherlock!
let’s hope she doesn’t risk further psychological damage by trying to get a handle on what happens to other people who spend money they haven’t got while carelessly lacking the opportunity to hawk access to a minor royal.
pass me a bucket, this one’s overflowing.
sarah ferguson – a national embarrassment or a horses arse?
have you ever had one of those times when two things merge into one so much that you can’t tell them apart?
as you can see i had one today when i read the latest about this pathetic, deluded mess; a legend in her own kitchen; where she has probably never been.
scummy, self-serving behaviour of this kind by morons who have no understanding of when they’re well-off has led to monarchies, and their heads, being removed in the not-too-distant past.
not that i’m suggesting that this brain-donor is part of the monarchy but there’s no doubt in my mind that shit rubs off.
sadly, even the deepest public opprobrium is unlikely to deter, or even penetrate the elephant hide of this of a grasping creature which over the last two decades has only further-stained the already tarnished reputation of britain’s royal family.
no offence intended obviously. bring on the tumbrils.
clarke back in government
Filed under: just whinging,politics,sap of the month — anne thrope (miss) @ 8:45 pm
quite a surprise to see fatty clarke back in office after all these years.
as it happens i used to be one of his biggest fans till he joined the repellant tobacco industry. nobody with his track record and range of options could be hard-up enough to justify that on the grounds of needing the cash.
anyhow there he is again, back in the pound seats.
a word of advice clarky: suit and hush puppies was never great but this latest get-up takes the cake.
knee breeches, silk stockings and a bib? on a fat, 70 year old geezer? in 2010? get a grip man you look like a reject from an amateur gilbert and sullivan production.
none intended obviously and much luck in the job; you’ll need it. not that it will affect you either way.
brown bashing
i’ve been absent again. go on, correct me! more! more!
but seriously ..ish i’ve been resisting all this brown bashing as much as i could. i mean, it’s so tempting it hurts, but it’s also what’s often described as “like shooting fish in a barrel”. where’s the achievement? it’s just too easy!
a less generous individual might say “never give a bum an even break”. for me though, this loser is worth less of my time and attention as every day passes. he spent his life yearning for this plum job and with characteristic aplomb, crow-barred it into his grasp just when it was turning to shit. but we’ve done this gargoyle to hell and and back.
much more interesting is surely gorgeous peter mandelson. you could stab this poppet through the heart with a graveyard-full of crosses every night of the week and he’d still fetch-up hale and hearty next morning assuring you that white, though possibly not entirely black is most certainly a deep charcoal grey.
and why wouldn’t you believe him? he’s had more come-backs than lazarus (mark lawrenson, match of the day, every week).
enough already, i’m off to the local elections count. i can’t wait.
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brown sorry again
Filed under: just whinging,politics,sap of the month — anne thrope (miss) @ 10:16 am
what do you do in a case like gordon brown?
barely a month ago the whole country was trying to drag him from his lair and force him to utter the “s” word. like a recalcitrant schoolgirl he refused until the clamour became unbearable, finally letting it slip out on a building site when he thought nobody was listening.
how pathetic! ever more pathetic now however, having grasped the nettle he is leading the charge of insincere mea culpae over mp’s scummy expense claims like he’s suddenly discovered a new way of amassing brownie (see what i did there?) points. in his dreams!
sheep as a lamb, pretty boy: give us another grin!
catch you later sleaze funders. 😉
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DWDD: CLOSING CEREMONY | Electrical Installation and Maintenance (NC II) for former rebels, mass base supporters and their dependents
From DWDD AFP Civil Relations Service Radio Website (Oct 18): CLOSING CEREMONY | Electrical Installation and Maintenance (NC II) for former rebels, mass base supporters and their dependents
“Malasakit at Pagbabago, TESDA susi sa kinabukasan.”
The 10th Infantry “Steady…On” Battalion under LTC SEVERO, CO 10IB, TESDA Misamis Occidental headed by Provincial Miraluna Baje-Lopez, TESDA Provincial Training Center-Plaridel under Engr Noel Econ, conducted the closing ceremony of the Electrical Installation and Maintenance NC II for fifty (50) Former Rebels, mass bases supporters and their dependents.
10IB / MCAG
http://dwdd.com.ph/2018/10/18/closing-ceremony-electrical-installation-and-maintenance-nc-ii-for-former-rebels-mass-base-supporters-and-their-dependents/
DWDD: WEAKENING | Two Dawlah Islamiya/Maute Members; Surrenders in Lanao del Sur
From DWDD AFP Civil Relations Service Radio Website (Oct 18): WEAKENING | Two Dawlah Islamiya/Maute Members; Surrenders in Lanao del Sur
CAMP MAJOR CESAR SANG-AN, Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur (DWDD) – Two Dawlah Islamiya / Maute members surrendered to Joint Task Force Ranao in Lumbaca-Unayan, Lanao del Sur last Tuesday, October 16, 2018.
The two surenderees are: Mr. Mubarak Dimasangkay Bassit and Mr. Alinok Muntik.
They yielded to Lt. Col. Ian Noel Ignes, the Commanding Officer of 55th Infantry Battalion, under the Joint Task Force Ranao.
Accordingly, September last year, they’ve harassed BrgyPantar detachment in Lumbatan during Marawi siege as diversionary tactics while the Maute terrorist groups were fighting in Main Battle Area.
The surrenderees brought along one caliber 50 and one Garand rifle .
Custodial debriefing of the two is still on-going as of this posting.
“The continuous surrender of Mautes entails weakening of their organizational leadership and capabilities, and we encourage others to lay down their arms and live peacefully,” Maj.Gen. Murillo said.
This month alone, a total of ten Maute members surrendered to JTF Ranao. JTF RANAO / MCAG
On October 9, seven surrendered to the battalion and on the following day, a Maute sniper surrendered to 49th Infantry Battalion. JTF Ranao / MCAG
http://dwdd.com.ph/2018/10/18/weakening-two-dawlahislamiyamaute-members-surrenders-in-lanao-del-sur/
DWDD: ASSISTANCE | Another Set of Surrenderees receives E-Clip benefits from the Government
From DWDD AFP Civil Relations Service Radio Website (Oct 18): ASSISTANCE | Another Set of Surrenderees receives E-Clip benefits from the Government
KIANGAN, Ifugao (DWDD) – Another Communist NPA Terrorist (CNT) member with thirteen (13) Militia ng Bayan (MB) members from Mt Province, Ifugao and Nueva Vizcaya surfaced, surrendered and presented themselves to the Secretary of the National Defense Hon Delfin ALorenzanaduring the Former Rebels Peace Summit at Headquarters Northern Luzon Command (NOLCOM), Camp Servillano Aquino, Tarlac City on the 16th Day of October 2018.
The voluntary appearance and surrender of the active NPA and MB members was a result of the thorough arbitration of the troops of 54th Infantry “Magilas” Battalion from Mountain Province,Ifugao and Nueva Vizcaya. The former rebels were inspired by the stories of the previous surrenderees with the warm accommodation and treatment of the military personnel and the benefits they received from E-CLIPduring the visit of PRRD in Camp Melchor F Dela Cruz, Upi, Gamu, Isabela.
According to one surrenderee, the CNTsthreatened us that we will be treated inhumane if we will surrender to the government which is contradictory to our experience when we were with our Philippine Army facilitators in NOLCOM. We were treated like their own comrades, no gaps between facilitators and us returnees. We were considered part of their family that made us comfortable at all times. Before returning to our homes we had a bunch of gifts coming from the government; grocery items, cash gifts and certificate of house entitlement from the National Housing Authority. All these were given to us freely by the government through the E-CLIP program in return to our sincere and voluntary surrender to the folds of the law, the MB further stated.
LTC NARCISO B NABULNEG JR, Commanding Officer of 54IB stated, It’s heartwarming to know that the MagilasTroopers are doing their job passionately and with dedication that resulted to the voluntary surrender of the CNTs. To the brave ones, you did the right decision in returning to the folds of the law and embrace peace in the mainstream society, LTC NABULNEG added. To the CNTs remnants in Cordillera and Nueva Vizcaya, don’t be deceived by the CNT self is hideology that brought you in the dark path, the government widely open its doors for your return through the E-CLIP program. It’s not yet too late to embrace and be part of the long and lasting peace that we are all dreaming of, don’t waste your time hiding in the mountains but rather spend your time wisely with your family,after all, nothing is more important than to be with your loved ones and enjoy a peaceful and productive life,he further stated. 54IBCMO / MCAG
http://dwdd.com.ph/2018/10/18/assistance-another-set-of-surrenderees-receives-e-clip-benefits-from-the-government/
DWDD: COMMUNITYY DEVELOPMENT | DSWD partners with 52nd ECB to construct Lumad schools in Davao del Norte town
From DWDD AFP Civil Relations Service Radio Website (Oct 18): COMMUNITYY DEVELOPMENT | DSWD partners with 52nd ECB to construct Lumad schools in Davao del Norte town
TALAINGOD, Davao Del Norte (DWDD) – The Eastern Mindanao Command (EASTMINCOM) of the Philippine Army, through the 52nd Engineering Brigade, has entered into an agreement with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Local Government Unit (LGU) of the Municipality of Talaingod, Davao Del Norte for the construction of classrooms intended for the children of the Indigenous People (IP) group Lumad in the town.
The project is under the DSWD Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS), one of the government’s poverty-alleviation programs implemented by the Department which uses the community-driven development (CDD) approach to empower communities in targeted poor and disaster-affected municipalities.
The project will initially be implemented in seven sites in Barangay Sto. Niño, Talaingod, which is considered a Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Area (GIDA).
Under the agreement signed by the parties, the implementation of the project shall adopt a convergence strategy and will use a “whole of nation approach,” wherein communities involved shall participate and the programs of different agencies involved will be integrated.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Eastern Mindanao Command represented by Brigadier General Dionisio Baudin, Commander of the 52nd Engineering Brigade, committed to providing security, technical assistance, limited labor, and supervision until the completion of the project.
In his message during the event, BGen. Baudin emphasized the sincerity of the military to carry out the project.
“The real job is after the signing of this agreement. We assure everyone that we are sincere and will carry out the task of building these classrooms for our IP children and youth,” he said.
Meanwhile, the DSWD, together with the Municipal Tribal Council, the local government of Talaingod, and the concerned barangay will be in charge of procuring materials and in monitoring of cultural sensitivity and the participation of the community and tribal beneficiaries in the overall implementation of the project.
Also present during the agreement signing were DSWD Region XI Assistant Regional Director for Administration Rebecca A. Santamaria, Talaingod Mayor Basilio Libayao, BGen. Antonio Rosario who represented EASTMINCOM Lt. Gen. Benjamin Madrigal, and other officials from the LGU and the military.
“We thank our army engineers for helping us provide our Lumad children in remote communities with access to basic social services,” Asst. Dir. Santamaria said.
“We at DSWD know that the IP sector is one of the most marginalized and disadvantaged in our society. This is why we do our best to reach out and extend basic social services to different IP groups through the implementation of our programs and services. We also continue to work together with our partners from the government to carry out initiatives that would improve the quality of life of our IP-kababayans while still preserving their culture,” Asst Dir. Santamaria ended. DSWD SMS / MCAG
http://dwdd.com.ph/2018/10/18/communityy-development-dswd-partners-with-52nd-ecb-to-construct-lumad-schools-in-davao-del-norte-town/
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DWDD: MARITIME EXERCISE | PH Navy sets sail for the first-ever ASEAN-China Maritime Exercise 2018
From DWDD AFP Civil Relations Service Radio Website (Oct 18): MARITIME EXERCISE | PH Navy sets sail for the first-ever ASEAN-China Maritime Exercise 2018
CAPTAIN SALVO PIER, Sangley Point, Cavite (DWDD) – The Philippine Navy (PN) held a send-off ceremony earlier today at Captain Salvo Pier, Naval Base Cavite, Sangley Point, Cavite City for its Landing Ship, BRP Dagupan City (LS551) for the conduct of ASEAN-China Maritime Exercise (ACMEX) 2018 from October 21 to 28 2018 at Zhanjiang, China.
Giving of the medallion to the Commander, Philippine Fleet, Rear Admiral Danilo Rodelas, the Presiding Officer for the Send-Off ceremony of the PN contingent for ACMEX 2018 at Naval Base Cavite, Cavite City
Sideboys Honors given to the Presiding Officer for the Send-Off Ceremony of PN contingent for ACMEX 2018
The PN contingent led by CMDR SHERWIN RESPETO PN(GSC), the Commander, Naval Task Group 88 who will participate for the ASEAN-China Maritime Exercise 2018 at Zhanjiang, China
Commander, Fleet Marine Ready Force, COMMO TORIBIO ADACI JR AFP welcomed the participants and audience during the Send-Ceremony last 17 Oct 2018
Commander, Philippine Fleet wishes fair winds, clear skies and following seas to the PN contingent who will sail to Zhanjiang, China for days to participate in the ACMEX 2018
REAR ADMIRAL DANILO RODELAS AFP, the Philippine Fleet Commander and at the same time Presiding Officer during the Send-off Ceremony of PN contingent to participate in the ASEAN-China Maritime Exercise (ACMEX) 2018
Ceremonial Handshake, a form of saying “GOOD LUCK” to all the PN contingent who will sail to China for the naval exercise
Cast off of the last line with CPF, CFMRF and CSAF as BRP DAGUPAN CITY departed at Capt Salvo Pier
NPAO / MCAG
http://dwdd.com.ph/2018/10/18/maritime-exercise-ph-navy-sets-sail-for-the-first-ever-asean-china-maritime-exercise-2018/
DWDD: CONSULTATION DIALOGUE | 33IB talks with residents of Brgy Langgapanan, Sultan Sa Barongis, Maguindanao (Video)
From DWDD AFP Civil Relations Service Radio Website (Oct 18): CONSULTATION DIALOGUE | 33IB talks with residents of Brgy Langgapanan, Sultan Sa Barongis, Maguindanao (Video)
BRGY LANGGAPANAN, Sultan sa Barongis, Maguindanao (DWDD)
Lt Col Harold M Cabunoc, the Battalion Commander of the 33rd Infantry (Makabayan) Battalion listens to the sentiments of the residents of Barangay Langgapanan, Sultan sa Barongis, Maguindanao during his visit at their community.
The people asked for the Army’s intervention in the ongoing clan war between rival MILF commanders of the 106th Base Command.
Lt Col Cabunoc has raised the issue to the Joint Ceasefire Committee to remove the armed MILF fighters from the community. He also stressed that the Philippine Army will not hesitate to use force against anyone who insists in perpetrating violence against hapless, peace-loving civilians.
The 33rd Infantry Battalion involves the people in resolving community issues that fuel armed conflicts.
Makabayan Warriors led by Lt Col Harold M Cabunoc visited Lasangan village in General Salipada K Pendatun, Maguindanao to collaborate with the local officials and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in addressing the security threats brought about by the presence of BIFF terrorists in the village.
The Makabayan Battalion uses the Joint Ceasefire Committee peace mechanisms in the conduct of its operations against peace spoilers who mingle with relatives in MILF communities around the AO.
Makabayan Warriors of Bravo Company led by Sgt Nadzmar D Yahcob, the Platoon Sergeant, visited Brgy Langgapanan to secure the evacuees who are returning to their homes.
The villagers were affected by the armed violence between MILF commanders who both wanted to control the extortion activities in the area.
The Makabayan Battalion supports the civil government in keeping the peace in former armed conflict areas.
The unit also facilitates the functioning of local government institutions to enable them build resilient communities. Photo by Pfc Jurry M Donasco / MCAG
http://dwdd.com.ph/2018/10/18/consultation-dialogue-33ib-talks-with-residents-of-brgy-langgapanan-sultan-sa-barongis-maguindanao-video/
DWDD: LAW ENFORCEMENT | Government forces arrest 4 BIFF members in Maguindanao
From DWDD AFP Civil Relations Service Radio Website (Oct 18): LAW ENFORCEMENT | Government forces arrest 4 BIFF members in Maguindanao
PRESIDENT QUIRINO, Sultan Kudarat (DWDD) – Combined elements of the Philippine security forces nabbed four members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters during a dawn raid in General Salipada K Pendatun, Maguindanao at 5:00am on Wednesday, October 17.
The suspects offered no resistance when heavily armed soldiers and policemen suddenly emerged in their hideouts to serve the arrest warrants against Datu Parido Balabagan a.k.a. Commander Banog of the BIFF 2nd Division. Unfortunately, Commander Banog, along with 8 of his men, was able to escape using a secret passage behind the compound where he was hiding.
Four high-powered firearms were seized including one Cal 7.62mm M14 Rifle, one Cal 30 M1 Garand Rifle, two Rocket-propelled grenade launchers, three MK2 Hand grenades and assorted ammunitions.
Lt Col Harold M Cabunoc, the Commanding Officer of the 33rd Infantry “Makabayan” Battalion, identified the suspects as Ronex Langalen, 47, Anwar Abdullah, 26, Allakbar Sekung, 20, and Renante Milan, 37. They were handed over to CIDG-ARMM chief PSSupt James Gulmatico for the legal cases that would be filed against them.
Colonel Robert Dauz, the Commander of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade, said that the effort was part of the intensified law enforcement operations against peace spoilers.
“This is the outcome of our all-out effort against armed threats who attempted to attack the police station in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat a few days ago. I hope that this incident would serve as a stern warning against the group of Commander Banog who have eluded arrest,” said Dauz.
Meanwhile, Major General Cirilito Sobejana has directed the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade to hunt down the remnants of the BIFF in GSKP town.
“You must continuously pursue them so that we can prevent their atrocities against hapless civilians. We will maintain the great teammanship with our brothers in the PNP to synergize our efforts against the enemies of the state,” he said.
Lt Col Harold M Cabunoc, the Commanding Officer of the 33rd Infantry (Makabayan) Battalion, gives his guidance prior to the conduct of joint law enforcement operations against the members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters led by Datu Parido Balabagan a.k.a. Commander Banog early morning today. The combined elements of the PNP-SAF, CIDG-ARMM, 2nd Mechanized Battalion, and the 33rd Infantry Battalion netted four high-powered firearms during the operations
Members of the 33rd Infantry Battalion’s Mortar Section manned the mortars to provide indirect fire support for the operating troops.
Lt Col Harold M Cabunoc and PSSupt James Gulmatico questioned the suspected BIFF members who were arrested during the raid on Commander Banog’s hideout in Barangay Lumabao, General SK Pendatun, Maguindanao. 33IB CMO / MCAG
http://dwdd.com.ph/2018/10/18/86115/
DWDD: RENEWED LIFE | Five (5) Day Rapid Reingtegration Program for Former Rebels
From DWDD AFP Civil Relations Service Radio Website (Oct 18): RENEWED LIFE | Five (5) Day Rapid Reingtegration Program for Former Rebels
Headquarters 10IB, Brgy Burgos, Oroquieta City (DWDD) – “Endings are not always painful because ending like what we are having now para sa probinsya for the last quarter of 2018 on my last term- are one of the best endings we have in terms of peace and order and conflict resolution in the province.” -Gov H.D. Ramiro
Provincial Government Misamis Occidental headed by Gov. Herminia D Ramiro, 10th Infantry “Steady…On” Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel Severo, Commanding Officer , 10IB, Department of the Interior and Local Government Misamis Occidental under Mr. Añasco, LGOO V, Misamis Occidental Provincial Police Office under Police Senior Superintendent Hebron, Provincial Director, 1st Civil-Military Operations Battalion under LTC M Valdez, CO 1CMO Bn, conducted the opening of the Five (5) day Rapid Reintegration Program for twenty six (26) Former Rebels.
Other inattendance were DOLE Mis Occ headed by Prov Dir Rodrigo, TESDA Mis Occ under Prov Dir Baje-Lopez, Rev. Fr Ernesto Lata Parish Priest IFI, Lopez Jaena, PGMO staff and partners from the media.
1DPAO / MCAG
http://dwdd.com.ph/2018/10/18/renewed-life-five-5-day-rapid-reingtegration-program-for-former-rebels/
PRO XI monitoring Dawlah Islamiyah
From the Mindanao Times (Oct 17): PRO XI monitoring Dawlah Islamiyah
The Police Regional Office XI said they are currently monitoring the possible presence of members of the Dawlah Islamiyah terrorist group that might have settled in nearby areas of Davao City.
This developed after two leaders of the organized crime group linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) were killed during a police operation in Hagonoy town, Davao del Sur on Sunday.
In an interview with reporters at the sidelines of the launching of PRO XI's send-off ceremony for the Oplan Dabaw Kalinaw at the Davao City Police Office on Tuesday afternoon, Police Regional Director Marcelo Morales said they are continuously monitoring other members of the terrorist cell.
"So we are monitoring them just in case they will conduct atrocities," Chief Supt. Morales said.
The regional director said they are also monitoring some barangays in the region that might be penetrated by the terrorist members.
However, Morales said they have not monitored recruitment activities in the region.
Intelligence monitoring is being conducted to have sharing and fusion of information to get a clear picture as to the security situation in the whole Davao city.
He also advised the public to be vigilant and alert in reporting any suspicious activity they witness and to report immediately to the nearby authorities.
"So walang dapat ipag alala yung kababayan natin dahil ang inyong kapulisan at kasamahan sa AFP ay tuloy tuloy na ginagawa yung mga kanilang trabaho para ma monitor lahat ng grupo who plan to conduct atrocities in Davao," he said. (People should not worry because the police and AFP continue to do their job in monitoring groups that might conduct atrocities.)
"We are also coordinating in the community, barangay officials to have a wider coverage on our information gathering,” he added.
During AFP-PNP press briefing yesterday held at the Royal Mandaya Hotel, Sr. Supt. Ferlu Silvio, Jr., the provincial director of Davao del Sur Police provincial office (DSPPO), said they are now pursuing other members who were able to escape last Sunday night.
Silvio said they are coordinating with the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP) to monitor their whereabouts.
He said bomb-expert brothers Norhan and Norton Sinapan came from the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and Cotabato City.
“We are still conducting investigation on who are those comrades that had stayed in the houses where they were neutralized,” he added.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/mindanao-times/pro-xi-monitoring-dawlah-islamiyah/2077692595585222/
US brings in $25M aid to Marawi
From MindaNews (Oct 18): US brings in $25M aid to Marawi
In a small classroom here, United States Ambassador Sung Kim read a book to third-grade students after he distributed teaching kits and story books at the Amai Pakpak Elementary School last Tuesday.
United States Ambassador Sung Kim talk to third grade students at the Amai Pakpak Elementary School in Marawi City on Tuesday (16 October 2018) after turning over teaching kits and story books, part of the P1.35-billion aid package to improve economic and social conditions of communities directly affected by the Marawi siege. MindaNews photo by FROILAN GALLARDOdor kidor
Kim arrived here bringing P1.35 billion ($25 million) in aid to improve economic and social conditions of communities directly affected by the Marawi siege and help stop the ISIS expansion in the country.
He briefed Lanao del Sur Governor Bedjoria Soraya Alonto Adiong and Marawi Mayor Majul Gandamra about the aid that will eventually be handed over to Task Force Bangon Marawi, which is overseeing the rehabilitation work.
“We will help youth obtain the skills they need for employment, as well as link them to Mindanao’s thriving production and services sector to help them find gainful employment,” Kim said.
Kim said the new aid package brings the total US assistance to Marawi to nearly P3.2 billion ($59.1 million).
He said the new package would help the long-term recovery of displaced residents.
“As the situation evolves, so does the nature of our response to the crisis,” Kim said.
He outlined the assistance, which includes provisions for training of 175 madrasa educators and administrators.
The ambassador said there would also be vocational trainings for the displaced residents.
http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2018/10/us-brings-in-25m-aid-to-marawi/
Photo: US Aid in Marawi
From MindaNews (Oct 19): US Aid in Marawi
Students of Amay Pakpal Central Elementary School in Marawi City greet United States Ambassador Sung Kim on Tuesday (16 October 2018), who arrived here bringing P1.35 billion ($25 million) in aid to improve economic and social conditions of communities directly affected by the Marawi siege. MindaNews photo by FROILAN GALLARDO
http://www.mindanews.com/photo-of-the-day/2018/10/us-aid-in-marawi/
Duterte supporters rally vs. terrorism, radical groups
From the Philippine News Agency (Oct 18): Duterte supporters rally vs. terrorism, radical groups
PRO DEMOCRACY RALLY. The Liga Independencia Filipinas, supporters of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte stage a rally in support of theadministration's fight against the CPP-NPA and other sectors in Mendiola, Manila on Thursday (October 18, 2018). (PNA photo by Gil Calinga)
More or less 3,000 supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte and representatives of various sectoral groups on Thursday staged a rally to promote democracy and condemn terroristic acts.
Members of Liga Independencia Filipinas (LIF) and various religious leaders, young people, farmers, seniors citizens, indigenous people and women's groups gathered at around 4 p.m. in Mendiola, Manila to express their support to Duterte's administration and its programs.
"Kami po ay dumalo rito dahil kami ay nagmamahal sa Diyos, sa bayan at sa pangulo dahil siya lamang ang may prinsipyo na kaya niyang baguhin ang ating bansa. Habang siya malakas pa ipanalangin nating magampanan niya ang pagkapangulo at ito na ang tamang panahon ng ating tunay na paglaya at pagunlad (We joined here because we love God, the country and the president because he has the principle to bring change to the country. While he's strong let us pray that he performs his roles as president and this is the time of true freedom and development)," Charis Basilican Church Archbishop Dedan Mallapre told the Philippine News Agency (PNA).
Mallapre said he wants genuine change effected in the country so he is taking his faith and prayer into action by uniting Filipinos toward achievement of true peace and freedom.
"Every six years nagpapalit lamang ang administrasyon pero walang pagbabago. Narito na ang prosperity natin, ang pagkakataon para sa mga Pilipino na hindi na nila kailangan pang mag-abroad. Magkakaraon na po ng mga malalaking negosyo dito na puro produktong Pilipino kailangan lang po nating ibigin ang pangulo at ang gobyerno at ating mga kababayan (we change administration but no true change is happening. Here is our prosperity, the time for Filipinos not to go abroad. There will be business offering pure Filipino products we just need to love the president and the government and our fellowmen)," he added.
Abdul Banghulot Puengan, former regional director of National Commission on Indigenous People in Region 10, said they are one with LIF in condemning the activities of Communist Party of the Philippines–New People's Army (CPP-NPA) and other radical groups.
He said the CPP-NPA exploits and harasses the indigenous people in the provinces which is a clear violation of Republic Act 8371 that mandates the rights of indigenous people to peacefully live in society.
"Ang mga indigenous people ay isa sa mga vulnerable groups dahil wala po silang edukasyon. Madali sila malinlang ng makakaliwang grupo. Maraming maraming sitwasyon na ang mga tribal leaders ay hina-harass ng leaders ng makakaliwang grupo at kapag di sila sumunod sa mga makakaliwa, ito po ay pinapatay nila. Sila po ang naghahari sa mga ancestral domain ng ating mga katutubo. Ang mga kabataang katutubo ay nire-recruit nila upang maisali nila sa maling adhikain na pabagsakin ang ating gobyerno (The indigenous people belong to the vulnerable groups because they don't have education. It is easy for them to be fooled by the leftist groups. There are many instances where the tribal leaders are harassed by the leftist group leaders and if they don't obey, they're killed, they rule over the ancestral domain of our natives. The young natives are recruited to take part in overthrowing the government)," he said.
Meanwhile, Mufti Aleem Naquib Taher said he, together with other Muslim scholars, condemn violent extremism and terrorism perpetrated by the leftist group and supports Duterte's strong will to end it.
"Mahigpit naming tinututulan ang terorismo lalo na't inuugnay ang terorismo sa mga Muslim na walang katotohanan dahil ang Islam ay relihiyon ng kapayapaan. Ang panawagan ng pangulo ay kapayapaan sa buong bansa na aming sinusuportahan, gagabayan ng Diyos ang ating pangulo at kasama niya kaming may pananampalataya kahit saan siya magpunta (We strongly condemn terrorism especially that it is linked to Muslims which is not true because Islam is a religion of peace. The president calls for peace all over the country which we support, God will guide him and we believers will support him anywhere he goes),"he said.
The rallyists came from diffferent Muslim communities in the provinces and Metro Manila.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1051525
3 cops killed, 3 others hurt in CamSur ambush
From the Philippine News Agency (Oct 18): 3 cops killed, 3 others hurt in CamSur ambush
Three policemen detailed to Food and Drug Administration Director General Charade Puno were killed while three others were wounded when they were ambushed by suspected communist rebels in Lupi, Camarines Sur on Thursday.
Killed in the ambush were Senior Police Officer (PO) 1 Percival S. Rafael; PO3 Carlito S. Navarroza, and PO1 Ralph Jason D. Vida.
PO1 Jonathan P. Perillo, Ruby S. Buena, and Rodolfo F. Gonzaga were wounded in the attack, Camarines Sur police said.
Initial reports said that at about 9:10 a.m., the six police officers were on board a marked vehicle en route to Daet, Camarines Norte, where Puno was scheduled to attend an event, when they were waylaid by some 20 armed men, believed to be members of the New People's Army.
Puno was unharmed in the attack, police said.
Members of the 1st Camarines Sur Provincial Public Safety Company were able to immediately respond to the area, forcing the NPA members to withdraw.
The wounded police personnel were rushed to the Bicol Medical Center in Naga City for treatment.
Abu Sayyaf frees militiaman in Jolo
From the Philippine News Agency (Oct 18): Abu Sayyaf frees militiaman in Jolo
Government troops have recovered the militiaman, who was seized by the Abu Sayyaf together with his wife, more than a month ago in Zamboanga del Norte, police said Thursday.
The Sulu Provincial Police Office said militiaman Rufo Roda was recovered around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in downtown Jolo, the capital of Sulu.
The police said Roda was taken to downtown Jolo by unidentified persons following successful negotiations led by a certain Al, a resident of Jolo, Sulu.
The police said that Roda, escorted by military intelligence personnel, boarded a commercial ferry Wednesday night en route to this city.
Roda and his wife, Helen, were seized by five Abu Sayyaf bandits following a clash in the evening of August 31 in Piacan, a coastal barangay in Sirawai, Zamboanga del Norte.
Five people were killed while a child was injured during the clash in Piacan, Sirawai. The police said there is no update yet on the condition of Roda’s wife, who remains in captivity.
The Abu Sayyaf bandits are still holding captives 10 people, including two foreigners--a Dutch and a Vietnamese.
Insurgency gains cited
From the Manila Standard (Oct 18): Insurgency gains cited
The Duterte administration’s implementation of the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program is the primary reason why the insurgency in the country is now on a decline, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said.
“Our government is here, led by President Rodrigo Duterte. He will give everyone a chance to return to the fold of the law, live a new life in peace and make everyone able to contribute to development,” Lorenzana said in a statement sent to reporters Wednesday.
Through this program, more rebels are sending surrender feelers to the government, he said.
The DND chief made this comment during the final leg of the two-day Peace Summit for the Former Rebels at the Northern Luzon Command headquarters in Tarlac.
The event also included the surrender of firearms and the ceremonial acceptance of 125 FRs from Regions 1, 2, 3 and Cordillera.
E-CLIP is the flagship program of the Duterte administration that seeks to effect social healing and national unity through a whole-of-nation approach towards the higher objective of having just and lasting peace.
It also provides social equity to former members of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front and the Militia ng Bayan by devising a different modality of providing benefits and services to the FRs, in order to reintegrate them into mainstream society.
Lorenzana also commended the efforts of all agencies under the Task Force Balik-Loob, headed by Defense Undersecretary Reynaldo Mapagu, which implements the E-CLIP by consolidating all the programs of TFBL lead and partner agencies, as well as local government units which implement the reintegration program in their localities through the E-CLIP Committees headed by provincial governors.
http://manilastandard.net/news/national/278332/insurgency-gains-cited.html
2 Reds face charges for killing Zambo Norte village exec
From the Philippine News Agency (Oct 18): 2 Reds face charges for killing Zambo Norte village exec
Authorities have lodged a murder complaint against two suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels linked to the Oct. 2 killing of a barangay official in Zamboanga del Norte, police said.
Police Regional Office 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula) information officer, Chief Insp. Helen Galvez, said the case was filed before the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office in Dipolog City, capital of Zamboanga del Norte, on Wednesday.
Named as respondents in the murder case were Rolando Maglasang, alias Moben, of the NPA’s New Beautiful Country, and Africia Alvarez Rosete, alias Bambam, of the NPA’s Mindanao Regional Guerilla Unit.
Galvez said Maglasang and Rosete have been tagged by witnesses as among the eight rebels who allegedly killed Jose Rey Bongcawel, 44, a barangay councilor of San Isidro, Sergio Osmeña, Zamboanga del Norte.
Bongcawel was inside his residence when the rebels -- clad in camouflage uniforms and brandishing high-powered firearms – reportedly arrived and opened fire.
The barangay councilor suffered multiple gunshot wounds and died instantly.
Recovered from the crime scene were empty shells of M-14 and M-16 Armalite and AK-47 rifles.
Galvez said the murder case against the suspects was received by Prosecutor I Felin Legara-Comidoy.
She said the respondents remain at large.
6 NPA supporters surrender in Occidental Mindoro
From the Philippine News Agency (Oct 18): 6 NPA supporters surrender in Occidental Mindoro
MINDORO SURRENDERERS. Six supporters of the New People’s Army (NPA) communist terrorist group, whose identities have been withheld, have voluntarily surrendered to the troops of the 4th Infantry Battalion (4IB) in Occidental Mindoro on Oct. 16, 2018, (Photo courtesy of 2ID-DPAO)
CAMP CAPINPIN, Tanay, Rizal -- Six supporters of the New People’s Army (NPA) communist terrorist group voluntarily surrendered Tuesday to the 4th Infantry Battalion (4IB) in Occidental Mindoro, military authorities announced on Thursday.
The Army’s 2nd Infantry “Jungle Fighter” Division (2ID) temporarily withheld the identity the six surrenderers.
Lt. Col. Dennis C. Gutierrez, commanding officer of the 4IB, said four of those who yielded are members of the Milisyang Bayan (MB), a militia group; while the two others belong to Sangay ng Partido sa Lokalidad (SPL), a local branch of the NPA Communist terrorist group.
Gutierrez said MB is the the armed component of the NPA tasked to conduct attacks against government forces.
On the other hand, the SPL is the political organ of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in the barangays, which provides mandates on the Arouse, Organize, and Mobilize (AOM) tactics of the NPA rebels.
In an interview by the military troops after surrendering, the surrenderers admitted they are “tired of the deception and false promises of the NPA that they will win against the government.”
"The NPA's propaganda is frustrating. We’re convinced by the government programs by seeing our comrades who surrendered before us, living peacefully with their families, something that we have never felt when we are under the NPA organization,” one of the surrenderers said.
Brig. Gen. Antonio G. Parlade Jr., commander of the 203rd Infantry Brigade, said the mass surrenders were made possible through the Community Support Program and collaborative efforts of the community-based negotiation in the area.
Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Rhoderick M. Parayno, 2ID commander lauded the efforts of the 4IB troops against the NPA communist terrorists in the area.
He said the 2ID is steadfast in its campaign in bringing back normalcy in the Area of Operation citing, “the snowballing of NPA surrenderers is a clear indication of the effectiveness of our strategies in winning over the NPA and its five-decade-old treachery. There are a lot of opportunities for the NPA communist terrorist group who would like to return to the mainstream society. We will pursue the conduct of the local peace talks since it has a great chance of success and resolve all issues immediately.”
According to Capt. Jayrald B. Ternio, officer-in-charge of the 2ID Public Affairs Office, the 4IB commander will formally present the surrenderers to the local government units and other government agencies in Mindoro.
Ternio said the surrenderers would be properly documented and processed under the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program or E-CLIP, and receive immediate cash assistance and other benefits in the program.
He said the surrenderers can also avail of the government loan facility besides educational benefits which can be extended to the rebel’s immediate family members.
PNP gets 700 drone units to beef up security ops
From the Philippine News Agency (Oct 18): PNP gets 700 drone units to beef up security ops
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has acquired 700 drones to beef up law enforcement, security and safety activities against possible attacks by communist New People’s Army (NPA) rebels and other threat groups.
PNP chief, Director General Oscar Albayalde, said the drones will be issued to all police operating units, especially to elite units like the Special Action Force and provincial mobile groups.
“In other provincial mobile groups or other regional mobile groups, we do not have drones and it is not a standard to issue drones. Now, around 700 drone units are to be delivered and these will be deployed to various mobile groups. The use of drones in operations such as in rallies and internal security operations will now be a standard,” Albayalde told reporters on Thursday.
The PNP chief said that drones are important since these serve as part of the surveillance operations of the policemen, especially those involved in anti-insurgency operations.
“It’s part of surveillance, (especially) for ambush sites. Remember, ambush sites are grounds occupied by enemies. You cannot just enter that unless you will send an advance team. But if you have drones, you can detect these a few meters before reaching the critical area. That is very important. If the enemies see that, they will be distracted,” he explained.
The drones, worth PHP56 million at a unit price of PHP80,000, are set to be delivered either late this year or early next year.
Earlier on Thursday, three policemen were killed while three others were wounded in ambush by suspected New People's Army rebels in Barangay Napolidan, Lupi, Camarines Sur.
The casualties were assigned as security escorts of Food and Drug Administration Director General Nela Charade Puno.
Based on the investigation, the police vehicle was initially hit by a blast from an improvised explosive device before the cops were repeatedly shot.
The wounded cops, however, were able to put up a fight, which prevented the rebels from taking away their guns.
On Tuesday, suspected communist rebels also ambushed a group of policemen in Aurora that resulted in the death of PO2 Ronald Ruidera.
Albayalde, however, said that such ambush scenario has long been a modus of the communist rebels.
In Aurora for instance, he said the cops were lured into responding to a report of a truck burned in a remote area of the province, where they will be eventually ambushed.
A resurgent communist New People's Army in southern Philippines raises security threat in Mindanao
From Channel News Asia (Oct 18): A resurgent communist New People's Army in southern Philippines raises security threat in Mindanao (By Amy Chew)
President Duterte has designated the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People's Army, as 'terrorist organisations'. AFP/Noel CELIS
Security forces fighting pro-Islamic State (IS) militant groups in the troubled Mindanao island now have another battle on their hands, with the resurgence of the New People’s Army (NPA) - the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
Analysts have warned that the NPA is expanding its influence as abject poverty and military operations which displaced large numbers of civilians are pushing them into the arms of the communist insurgents.
The group's resurgence comes at a time when pro-Islamic State militants are deepening their presence on Mindanao, increasing the security threat in southern Philippines.
“Radicalisation due to forced evacuation of many people, especially indigenous peoples, is an important driving force in recruitment into the NPA,” said Francisco Lara, senior peace and conflict adviser of International Alert, an independent peace building organisation.
The CPP was formed in 1968 and its armed wing, the NPA, was set up a year later.
According to Luke Lischin, a terrorism researcher and academic assistant at the National War College of Washington DC, all the factors that drove people to join CPP and NPA five decades ago are still present today.
“Many of the historical drivers of NPA recruitment remain in place today - widespread poverty and income disparity, land exploitation, labour exploitation, human rights abuses, political marginalisation and discrimination in the rural hinterland, etc,” he said.
“Moreover, (President Rodrigo) Duterte has called for the bombing of indigenous peoples (who are supposedly supporting rebels) and carried out mass arrests of CPP party members.”
The destruction wrought by counterinsurgency campaigns in Mindanao has led to a massive displacement of civilians, whose woes are compounded by a rice shortage crisis.
MORE ATTACKS BY NPA IN 2017
Lischin pointed out that the number of NPA attacks spiked from 60 in 2016 to 260 in 2017, with the group killing or wounding 281 people last year.
He warned that the NPA, which is believed to have about 3,700 members, could pose a bigger threat than IS.
“IS in the Philippines is very loosely organised and fractious, limiting their ability to organise; for a period of time the (pro-IS) Maute brothers and Isnilon Hapilon served as capable leaders able to unite disparate groups, but now these groups lack such leaders,” said Lischin.
Abdullah and Omar Maute led a radical group composed of former Moro Islamic Liberation Front guerrillas and foreign fighters while Hapilon was a former leader of the Abu Sayyaf Group. In May 2017, they led pro-IS militants in a five-month siege of Marawi city before all three were killed, along with more than 1,000 people.
Lischin considers the NPA to be much more organised, with stronger military leadership and better developed social and political infrastructure compared to IS. The NPA has also existed for decades and has a national presence beyond Mindanao.
“The security threat posed by IS remains real, despite the victory of government forces in Marawi, but it is eclipsed by the communist insurgency due to the reach and scope of their operations,” said Lara of International Alert.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/communist-new-peoples-army-philippines-security-threat-mindanao-10841242
Duterte says gov’t ‘tried, but failed’ to broker peace with Reds
From the Manila Bulletin (Oct 17): Duterte says gov’t ‘tried, but failed’ to broker peace with Reds
President Duterte is still not ready to resume the government’s peace negotiations with the Communists because of their continued involvement in atrocities against the people.
The President admitted that his administration tried but failed to make peace with the Communist rebels.
President Rodrigo Duterte (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez / MANILA BULLETIN)
“I do not think there will be talks again,” Duterte said in a speech during a recent Philippine Army event in Taguig City.
“I will make peace with the enemies. We have tried. We failed with the NPAs (New People’s Army). I do not think that I’d ever be ready again to talk to them,” he said.
The President recalled that he used to go to the mountains to talk to the communists but lamented their insincerity given their attacks on troops and civilians alike.
Duterte, however, still offered assistance to any rebels who would lay down their arms and surrender to authorities. “Sabi ko sa NPA pagkain, medisina, magbigay ako [I told the NPAs I will give them food, medicines],” he said.
Duterte, however, ruled out giving the rebels any weapons and bullets, saying the military will be the one might run after him.
“Alam mo kung sinong papatay sa akin? Kayong mga army. Pagbaba ko dito, aambushin ako niyan [Do you know who will kill me? You, the Army. When I come down here, you’ll ambush me],” he added.
Early this month, the President ordered government troops to neutralize Communist rebels engaged in atrocities, saying there will no longer be any need to present any court warrant.
Duterte said the government was “not into crime prevention” but “neutralization” since the insurgents were committing rebellion “24 hours a day.”
The government earlier suspended peace negotiations with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), NPA and National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) set last June, pending a review of the past signed agreements and public consultation.
Duterte has said peace talks would only resume provided conditions were met such as holding the negotiations in the country, ceasefire pact, no collection of revolutionary tax, and no coalition government.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2018/10/17/duterte-says-govt-tried-but-failed-to-broker-peace-with-reds/
STATEMENT: Suara Bangsamoro on the 1st anniversary of the ‘liberation’ of Marawi City
Posted to MindaNews (Oct 16): STATEMENT: Suara Bangsamoro on the 1st anniversary of the ‘liberation’ of Marawi City
Statement of Suara Bangsamoro, National Executive Council(NEC)
16 October 018
Homelessness and landlessness, the result of President Dutertes liberation of Marawi City
A year after President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of Marawi Citys liberation from the siege mounted by Maute and other ISIS-inspired groups, more than 27,000 displaced Marawi City residents continue to suffer homelessness and landlessness due to governments rehabilitation plan that prioritized the construction of a military camp and an economic zone.
Suara Bangsamoro supports the protest rally being held today by a group of displaced Meranaw residents who are until today barred by the government from returning to their communities citing various reasons including clearing operations and delays in groundbreaking ceremonies.
Suara Bangsamoro believes that the demands of protesting displaced Meranaw residents led by the Bangsamoro National Movement for Peace and Development and the Moro Consensus Group are just: immediate start of the reconstruction of their houses and not build more temporary shelters as a way to permanently prevent them from reclaiming their houses and properties in the ground zero, to construct their own houses if the government will not provide resources, to be part of the rehabilitation plan.
Task Force Bangon Marawi continues to exclude the displaced Meranaw residents from its rehabilitation plan of the 27 barangays identified as ground zero or the most affected areas (MAA), leaving most of them living in temporary shelters lacking basic services due to dwindling relief services after President Duterte declared the liberation of Marawi City. On the other hand, foreign and local business enterprises interests are prioritized in the rehabilitation and accommodating various schemes to favor those who will invest in the reconstruction of Marawi City into a military and economic zone.
With the destruction of their livelihood due to the incessant aerial bombardment of the ground zero areas in Marawi City, the continuing displacement makes it hard for the displaced residents to provide for their families. Adding to this burden is the rising food inflation in the country that makes it impossible for them to buy basic commodities without a steady income. Inflation in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is recorded the highest in Mindanao at 8.1% on August this year.
Suara Bangsamoro is one with the displaced Meranaw residents in holding the government accountable for most of the destruction of Marawi City due to its incessant aerial bombardment as a response to the Maute group siege. As a result of last years five months military operation against Maute and other ISIS-inspired groups who mounted a siege of Marawi City last year, at least 37 mosques, 44 madrasah facilities and 22 schools were destroyed due to aerial bombardment. At least three thousand cases of houses looted, mostly by the military who were left inside the ground zero areas.
We are one in the clamor of the displaced Meranaw residents for justice to the 1,000 who were killed due to the military operations, to the innocent civilians who were arrested, tortured into admitting they are Maute members and sympathizers, and continue to be detained due to trumped-up charges, and to all those whose lives were made vulnerable to killings, arrests and police and military abuses due to the blanket authority given by President Duterte through his declaration of Martial Law in Mindanao.
We support the human rights violation complaint filed by Sultan Abdul Hamidullah Atar of the Ranaw Multisectoral Movement at various human rights organization and agencies including the United Nations and the International Criminal Court in September together with other victims of human rights violations that testified at the International Peoples Tribunal (IPT) last September 18-19 in Brussels, Belgium.
We enjoin the rest of the Moro people and the rest of Filipino people to continue to expose the human rights violations brought about by President Dutertes declaration of Martial Law in Mindanao and fight his fascist and tyrannical rule.
http://www.mindanews.com/statements/2018/10/statement-suara-bangsamoro-on-the-1st-anniversary-of-the-liberation-of-marawi-city/
125 ex-rebels get E-CLIP benefits
From the Manila Bulletin (Oct 17): 125 ex-rebels get E-CLIP benefits
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has welcomed 125 former New People’s Army (NPA) rebels from Northern Luzon during the two-day peace summit at the headquarters of the Northern Luzon Command (NOLCOM) in Camp Aquino, Tarlac City earlier this week.
Lieutenant General Emmanuel B. Salamat, NOLCOM chief, said the peace summit was realized through the joint efforts of the Philippine Army’s 5th Infantry Division and 7th Infantry Division and other key government agencies.
The peace summit was conducted to facilitate the distribution of the benefits to the rebel returnees through the Enhanced Comprehensive Localized Integration Program (E-CLIP).
The E-CLIP program extends reintegration assistance, firearm remuneration livelihood assistance, housing, conditional transitional grant, livelihood materials and implements or employment assistance, access to government service, loan and market access, medical assistance, alternative learning system, psychosocial assistance, college tuition and stipend, and legal assistance.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año, both represented President Duterte during the ceremonial acceptance of the consolidated firearms from the rebel returnees.
During the summit, two of the rebel returnees, “Ka-Angel” and “Ka-Cris,” recalled the struggles they experienced as NPA rebels, as well as the life-changing benefits they received after their surrender.
“NOLCOM will continue to work together with different government agencies and stakeholders to pursue its mission of bringing peace to the nation and strive to spark the consciousness of more NPA rebels to turn in to the government and to become productive citizens of the nation,” Lt. Gen. Salamat said.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2018/10/17/125-ex-rebels-get-e-clip-benefits/
Whatever happened to… the liberation of Marawi City
From the Southeast Asia Globe (Oct 18): Whatever happened to… the liberation of Marawi City (By Paul Millar)
One year ago, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte stood in the ruins of the southern city of Marawi and declared it ‘liberated’ from terrorist influence. But for the tens of thousands of civilians still unable to return to their homes, the ongoing presence of the Philippine military and the unflinching rule of martial law suggest not liberation but occupation.
Filipino protesters stage a demonstration marking the Marawi city siege first year anniversary, at the gates of Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines, 23 May 2018. The demonstrators called on President Rodrigo Duterte to end the Martial Law in Mindanao, citing cases of displacement of communities and alleged human rights violations committed by military on civilians Photo: Francis R. Malasig / EPA-EFE
A year since the guns fell silent, the Islamic City of Marawi is still in ruins. Five months earlier, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) had launched a desperate operation to capture the head of a terror group pledged to Islamic State. In retaliation, militants from the Maute and Abu Sayyaf groups set churches and schools ablaze, raising their black flag above the ashes to declare the city a new caliphate in the global jihad. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were driven from their homes as the pounding of government artillery reduced the city to rubble. Only when the bodies of Isnilon Hapilon and Omarkhayam Maute, the commanders of the insurgent groups, were dragged from where government snipers had laid them out did the fighting end.
But the war still hangs heavy over Marawi City. Drieza Lininding, chairman of the Moro Consensus Group civil society organisation, said that tens of thousands of refugees from the fighting continued to languish in makeshift shelters, unable to return to the homes that they’d left behind.
“We still have more than 2,000 families – that’s more than 50,000 individual persons – who are still displaced,” he said. “Most of them are scattered around the Philippines.”
The capital of Lanao del Sur, a province of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Marawi City has long been an enclave of the Philippines’ Muslim Moro community. For decades, much of the southern island of Mindanao has struggled for independence from the Philippines’ predominantly Catholic central government in Manila – an insurgency that has seen tens of thousands of lives lost as different separatist groups splinter and unite and fracture once more as the nation lurches towards an uneasy peace.
Some people are now calling Marawi City occupied. Because for more than a year now, they’ve built this prison
With the rise of the Maute and Abu Sayyaf groups, violent Islamist splinter factions that have publicly pledged allegiance to Islamic State, the more moderate Moro Islamic Liberation Front has pursued a united front with President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration, fighting side by side with the nation’s military on the streets of Mindanao. Next year, the group hopes to ride the ensuing wave of goodwill to self-rule in January through a nationwide vote on the creation of an independent Bangsamoro state. But for those who watched the Philippine military reduce the nation’s largest Muslim city to a burned-out husk in its fight against extremism, the prospect of peace is looking distant indeed.
Rooted as they are in centuries of Christian settlement in the predominantly Muslim region, these fears have hardly been helped by what critics see as a heavy-handed approach of the AFP that sees every Muslim in Mindanao as a potential soldier in an armed insurgency that has raged for decades. The Moro Consensus Group’s Lininding cited the government’s plan to build a 10ha military base at the site of the siege’s bloodiest battles as a sign that Duterte’s legions had not come as liberators, but as conquerors.
“It’s an invasion,” he said. “Some people are now calling Marawi City occupied. Because for more than a year now, they’ve built this prison – we cannot even visit our home, we were only allowed a few hours by the government to salvage whatever was left of our homes. It’s very sad for us. And the government is declaring this victory – what victory? From who?”
A view of ruins in Marawi city, Lanao del Sur province, Philippines, 23 May 2018 Photo: Linus Escandor II / EPA-EFE
Joseph Franco, a research fellow specialising in counterinsurgency at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, said that resentment towards the military is growing: “Some community leaders are becoming more receptive to the idea that Marawi was a plot to destroy Islam. It is very conspiracy theory-ish but it is not a good sign if some known community leaders are starting to air this out.”
Many of those who have yet to return to the broken spires of Marawi feel alienated from an achingly slow reconstruction process that has seen the Duterte administration reach out to a consortium of Chinese companies that have pledged to help the local business community transform the gutted city into a thriving modern metropolis. For a people who pride themselves on having fought off the imperial ambitions of the Spanish, Americans and Japanese, the prospect of turning over the rebuilding of their homes to an apparently unaccountable foreign power hits a historically raw nerve.
Zachary Abuza, a professor at Washington, DC’s National War College, said that the government’s abortive approach to rebuilding the shattered city had planted the seeds for a resurgence in the kind of armed terror that brought the nation to its knees little more than a year ago.
“The next Marawi will be Marawi,” he told Southeast Asia Globe. “The residents and IDPs [internally displaced persons] remain seething with the government’s mishandling of reconstruction. This will not end well for the government. The appropriation of land for a large military base to provide security will only fuel resentment and insecurity. It is hard to imagine the government’s handling of this being much worse.”
Abuza was also scathing in his assessment of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ unchecked devastation of the city, unleashing the full might of its artillery on both militant and moderate alike.
“My takeaway about the AFP is that they remain poorly trained and led,” he said. “They continue to use artillery as a counterterrorism tactic, which is why Marawi looked like Raqqa. They do this in central Mindanao all the time, knowing all too well that it will lead to civilian casualties. And they engaged in some looting in Marawi, which doesn’t help their public image.”
Why is martial law still in place? Who are the enemies? Are we the enemies?
But for many of those who still rankle at the military’s excesses, the ongoing imposition of martial law across the entire Mindanao region makes any criticism of military rule untenable. Speaking to local media, University of the Philippines former law dean Pacifico Agabin said that Duterte’s decision to declare martial law gave the armed forces almost unlimited power over the people of Marawi.
“If the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus is suspended, you cannot hold public meetings and speak against the government. Complete silence,” he said. “You cannot travel to the area where there’s fighting. Freedom of movement can also be suspended in places which the military determines [as unsafe].”
Lininding argued that the military were using the cover of martial law to suppress the rights of the local people.
“Why is martial law still in place? The fighting was settled almost a year ago,” he said. “Who are the enemies? Are we the enemies? We know that they want to suppress us, to instil fear among the people so we will turn a blind eye to whatever they’re doing. Because of the martial law, we can do so little. We cannot protest, we can only do so much on social media.”
Filipino soldiers next to damaged buildings in the ruined city of Marawi Photo: Merlyn Manos / EPA-EFE
Nor is it even clear how many innocent lives were lost during the street fighting, with initial reports of fewer than 300 Maute fighters slain rising to almost 1,000 when the fighting ended. With no reliable investigation into the number of dead, Lininding said, it was impossible to say just how many of the so-called terrorists killed in the assault had actually been members of Islamist groups.
“Until now, there is no clear data on how many civilians were killed at ground zero,” he said. “This is also a concern – some people are afraid to come forward and say, ‘My relative was lost in ground zero’ because the military might accuse their family or their loved ones of being Isis sympathisers or Isis members. We are being persecuted – and we can do so little.”
Perhaps most worrying is the perverse financial incentive that the outright war against Islamist terror – or Muslim independence – in Mindanao has created for the nation’s armed forces. Although the US has long supported the government’s counterterror operations in the Philippines’ restive south, the spectacle of a Philippine city under siege by Isis-linked militants has drawn increased financing for counterterror operations from as far afield as Singapore, Japan and Australia. Abuza said this surge in funding had created a moral hazard for a military already bloated by billions of dollars siphoned from international donors over the years – much of which was used mainly for personnel costs.
“They have no incentive to end the conflicts,” he said. “They are gravy trains. We need to ask very hard questions about corruption within the AFP. Where the hell did the Mautes and the Abu Sayyaf group get enough guns and ammunition for a five-month siege?”
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It is a question the Duterte administration cannot afford to ignore. Pointing to a series of recent skirmishes between the military and remnants of the Maute group, Abuza said he believed the war for Mawari was far from over.
“Marawi has once again put the Philippines at the centre of counterterrorism in Southeast Asia. It is the only place that militants can actually hold territory,” he said, adding that it was not yet clear whether the Middle East-based Islamic State was prepared to declare a formal caliphate-linked territory within Southeast Asia. “But it is clear that the militants in the region want it declared. To that end, foreign fighters will continue to make their way into the southern Philippines.”
https://sea-globe.com/whatever-happened-to-the-liberation-of-marawi-city/
Suspected BIFF member killed in clash with MILF in Maguindanao
From ABS-CBN (Oct 18): Suspected BIFF member killed in clash with MILF in Maguindanao
A suspected member of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) was killed in an encounter with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Barangay Pimbalakan, Mamasapano, Maguindanao on Thursday, the military said.
Authorities identified the fatality as a certain Saudi Sabang.
The firefight happened at 5 a.m. in Sitio Makalag while the MILF's Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces were conducting security operations in the area.
The gunbattle lasted for 6 hours before the BIFF withdrew to the town of Shariff Saydona Mustapha.
Major General Cirilito Sobejana, commander of the Army's 6th Infantry Division, said MILF is determined to end terrorist activities in Central Mindanao.
BIFF is a breakaway group of MILF led by the late Ustadz Ameril Umbra Kato.
https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/18/18/suspected-biff-member-killed-in-clash-with-milf-in-maguindanao
He looked me in the eye and said we would die in the jungle
From ABS-CBN/ANCX (Oct 18): He looked me in the eye and said we would die in the jungle (By Ces Drilon)
Ten years ago, Ces Drilon, together with two ABS-CBN cameramen, were in Sulu to interview the controversial one-armed Abu Sayyaf leader Radulan Sahiron. But after many hours of walking to the Abu Sayyaf camp, they were told they have been kidnapped for ransom.
In this account the editor Carlo Tadiar asked her to write for the defunct publication Metro Him in 2008, the celebrated journalist recounts in great detail her 10 harrowing days in captivity, surviving the threat of being beheaded, and the arduous road to their release. But this piece is also about the two cameramen, Jimmy Encarnacion and Angel Valderama, who couldn't have been more dissimilar to the men who threatened their lives.
The mid-afternoon downpour had long stopped. But the man kept his camouflage raincoat on, with only the nose of his rifle jutting out. The rain did nothing to cool the air, so oppressive was the heat entrapped by the thick vegetation. I espied the man as he sat on the ground, the hood of the raincoat now hanging from his nape, his hair drenched with sweat. I wondered why he would not take his raincoat off. It was not until the following day that I got my answer. After I was told we were being held for ransom, I saw the man in the raincoat with only a T-shirt on and I realized he had only one arm.
He was Sulayman Patta. Commander Tek and Commander Harris were his aliases, I was to learn from the military, after our release. Among all our captors, he was the one I was to communicate with the most, having been assigned by the commander to relay his instructions to us. In the most frightening moment of our captivity, he looked at me with blazing eyes and told me that I and my team would die in the jungle.
Jimmy Encarnacion and Angel Valderama were members of my team for the coverage in Sulu. In the last two and a half years, they were my regular companions in my out-of-town coverages, which brought us to as far north as Ilocos Norte and as far south as Sulu and Tawi-Tawi. But this time, I was not to rely on them for our story to get to air in time for the evening news. I was to lean on them for our very survival. Jimmy and Angel were my protectors during our captivity. The respect they showed me was picked up by our captors who addressed me as “ma’am” as Jimmy and Angel did. The two would look after my welfare, even washing my soiled clothes for me. They had no recrimination for me, even if I had repeatedly asked them for forgiveness for bringing them into danger. In our darkest moment, Jimmy reached out for my hand and we prayed. Our quiet prayer gave me the strength and calmness I so desperately needed when all seemed so hopeless.
The man leading us is Sulayman Patta, who wore a camouflage raincoat, followed by the man we nicknamed Babyface because he used the toner with the brand RDL Baby Face Kalamansi. Babyface was very fastidious about his looks. He brushed and combed his hair all the time and sprayed himself with baby cologne. He also shampooed his hair regularly compared to other men. When we were walking to our freedom, and I complained that i was getting so sweaty, he sprayed me with his cologne.
All throughout our captivity, I marveled at our surroundings and how it was a stark contrast to the brutality of the men who had control over us. On our second day, I began to write a journal. And in one of my first entries, I wrote:
“During the day, when you gaze at the deep blue sky or at night as you look up to the darkness dotted with stars and a crescent moon, you wonder how the Sulu sky can shelter such cruelty.”
When I watched the sunset during the days of our captivity, I had to hold back my tears. It was my favorite time of day. When I admired the scenery, the men would mock me. It was very odd that the men did not appreciate their surroundings, especially when they claim the land as rightfully theirs. The contrast could not have also been starker between the band of armed men who held me and my news team. I was witness to the display of perverted masculinity among our captors, and yet in moments of utter hopelessness was uplifted by the quiet bravery of Jimmy and Angel.
This is me sitting on a hammock beneath our plastic roof, writing in my journal.
All throughout our nine nights in Sulu, I was surrounded by men. My only encounter with women was on the second day when we walked through a small community atop a mountain. I would look into their eyes as if begging for help, our kidnappers forbidding us from uttering a word. The few houses we saw became sparser and sparser as we moved deeper into the jungle. I always made sure I was never too far from Jimmy, Angel and Professor Octavio Dinampo, who arranged the interview with Radulan Sahiron, the reported new amir of the Abu Sayyaf Group. I had also learned through a source in the legislature, Sahiron, a former warrior of the MNLF who had joined the Abu Sayyaf, was sending surrender feelers to the Arroyo administration. The source had informed me Sahiron had written a letter to a top security official, exploring the possibility of laying down their arms. President Arroyo, in a meeting with several legislators from the south had reportedly given a Sulu congressman the go-ahead to initiate contact with Sahiron.
Throughout our ordeal, four to five armed men would be assigned to us as our closed-in guards, watching over us during the day. At night, one or two would always be on alert, taking turns to check on us. The group would make a list of assigned guards every hour as darkness enveloped our camp. In my journal, I wrote:
“I’ve always had a romanticized view of Sulu, that outlook was shattered today. What turned these young men into the monsters that they are? What went wrong? They laugh, chat and joke around like any other Pinoy male but they have a deep hatred and a warped sense of the Muslim struggle. My mistake was in being so naïve in hoping that the man I was to interview would present a different view of the Abu Sayyaf. I was wrong. Apparently the message never even got to him. Greed and hatred got in the way. If we are to believe the commander in charge, he just decided to form a team to kidnap us for ransom.”
This is our walk to freedom. We trekked for about six hours before we were released.
The Muslims’ quest for self-determination has been a running story I had been covering since I began my career as a journalist almost 25 years ago. I was present when the chief government negotiator under the newly installed Aquino government, Ambassador Emmanuel Pelaez, met with MNLF Chairman Nur Misuari for the first time in Sulu in 1987. In 2001, shortly after Gloria Arroyo assumed power, I had gone to Libya to cover the beginning of peace talks between the newly established Arroyo government and the MILF.
I had gone to the camps of the MNLF and the MILF and have seen their warriors brandishing their high powered firearms. But our captors whom I believed to be members of the Abu Sayyaf were of a different breed. Where I had been in search of an ideology, I had only found a lust for money.
A rendering of Abu Sayyaf's Sulayman Patta by CIDG.
It was not so much that they were men and I was the lone woman that kept me powerless and in fear. As a journalist who had dealt with men from various walks of life, gender was not a big issue for me. But these were men who used the barrel of the gun and their Islamic faith to get what they wanted: money. They did not perform any military drills during our time in the jungle but they were disciplined in practicing their faith. The men would lay down their arms to pray three times a day, spreading their plastic sacks on the muddy jungle floor. In the first days of our captivity, I had urged Professor Dinampo to join them in prayer, but he refused, saying he could not be with them who had a prostituted view of their faith. But as our stay in the mountains wore on, he had relented and the morning after Angel was released, he prayed with them at the crack of dawn.
The guns were not pointed at us all the time and in the end, not a single shot was fired, but we were always in fear, even when the men would crack jokes with Angel and Jimmy. On our third day, three young boys joined the group, one of whom told me he was 12. He bore an armalite while guarding me as I bathed in a spring. He said he never went to school, but he was old enough to carry a gun. I wondered as we returned to camp and as he sat in his hammock to watch over us if he really knew how to fire his weapon. Whenever the prospect of a lower ransom amount would be brought up as I spoke with my family, the men would regard us with contempt. They would pepper us with angry words, and the possibility that they would use their guns on us became very real. In one phone conversation I had with my sister Grech, she asked to speak to Commander Tek to tell him that our family could only afford P2M and to understand that ABS-CBN had a no ransom policy. One man remarked in the background, “Mag-umpisa na lang tayong magkuhay!” Alarmed, I had told my sister, “maybe we can borrow money from ABS-CBN.” The teenaged boys were particularly mean and would taunt and mock me. “Kawawa naman si ma’am, hindi nakikita ang mga anak niya." Kawawa naman si ma’am, they would recite in their high-pitched voices, over and over like a nursery rhyme. I was angered by them at first, and at one point, scolded one of them for their lack of respect; they were only as young as my sons. But then I realized, who could blame them with such men as their role models? As we walked to our freedom on our last day, I had urged a 17-year old boy, whom I had admired for his cooking skills, to go to school. His reply to me was, “No, I don’t want, I might even become an engineer.” These boys were convinced, bearing arms and fighting was the right path to take. His response broke my heart.
Our last camp prior to our being released. Leftmost is Prof. Dinampo, then Sulayman, then a man who introduced himself to Jimmy as "Brain Damage."
The fourth day
June 11 was our fourth day in captivity. It was my dad’s birthday. As a Lt. Colonel in the Philippine Army, it was he who had made places like Patikul, Maimbung and Jolo familiar to me. They were just postal addresses in his letters to me when I was in high school, when he served as a battalion commander in the south. But as a journalist and perhaps because of him, Sulu had a particular draw for me. My father had passed away in a helicopter crash fifteen years ago, but I could feel his presence in the depths of Sulu. I thought, this was a place where he had survived an ambush once, and in moments of despair I called on my father’s spirit for survival. Early in the day, as the Commander handed me my phone to call my family, I read a text my mother had sent, “Your release on your dad’s birthday will be his most beautiful gift to us.”
But it was not to be.
It was mid afternoon of that day when all the guns were pointed at us for the very first time. The men went berserk when I got off the phone with Vice Governor Lady Anne Sahidula. She had told me that all my family could afford to pay was P2M; the group was demanding P20M. Commander Tek, the one-armed man, was raving mad. When the phone was grabbed from me, he looked me in the eye and said we would die in the jungle. “Sanay naman kaming mabuhay sa gubat. Kaya naming mabuhay dito. Kayo mamamatay na lang kayo dito!” Jimmy's video camera was taken down from the camp. The men said they would just set fire to it. “Ang camera na ito ipapanggatong na lang namin!”
As I returned to my hammock, Jimmy said to me, “Ma’am ang mga baril nila nakatutuk lahat sa atin.” I was to afraid to look so I said to him, “Magdasal na lang tayo.” I began to pray the rosary, using my fingers to count my Hail Marys. Jimmy reached for my hand and we prayed quietly together. Before this, he whispered he had secretly taken footage of the camp we had just moved to. I realized that not only did we have to contend with the rage of the armed men over the ransom, we feared the footage may be discovered. Then my heart jumped when the men grabbed Jimmy and Angel, forcing them to kneel on the mud, tying their hands behind their back.
“Two million lang! Two million lang! Mababawasan pa yon!” one of our guards told Jimmy.
“Kailangan mag-ultimatum na tayo!” said Commander Tek.
If the full amount was not received by Indanan Mayor Alvarez Isnaji (the person they had chosen to receive the money for them) by 2 p.m. the following day, the men told us, Angel would be beheaded while Jimmy would film it with his video camera. “Ikaw Jimmy kukunan mo ang pagpugot ng ulo ni Angel, live!”
As for me, I was told to put makeup on. “Make-up ka nang make-up. Mag-make-up ka nang mabuti, para pag na-LBC ang ulo mo sa ABS-CBN, maganda ka!”
My line to my family was initially through my sister Grech, but later it was through my brother, Frank. His voice was always reassuring, calm and sober. I recall my voice breaking when he told me to be strong after I asked him to update all my insurance payments, “Remember, positive thinking,” he said. “Hang on, hang on. We’re doing everything we can.” I said sorry to him in another phone call and I was close to tears, “Don’t be sorry, don’t be. Everybody’s behind you here.”
But contact with my family was abruptly shut off when the crisis committee composed of ABS-CBN news executives, members of my family included, decided I should communicate solely with Vice Governor Sahidula. When I informed Frank about the ultimatum on Angel, it was to be our last conversation. The line was cut. It became the supreme test of faith for me. When I would try to call Charie Villa, my direct superior at the ABS-CBN newsroom, my call would be rejected. Grech’s phone was shut. There had to be a good reason, I explained to Jimmy and Angel. “May magandang dahilan kung bakit gano'n, hindi lang natin alam," I told them, "Huwag na tayong maghaka-haka pa, baka ma-depress lang tayo.” I discouraged any speculation. I told them we should not lose faith. We resolved to boost each other’s spirits. We agreed that if one is down, the others should cheer that person up. They were more than up to the challenge. I can only imagine the fear and the doubts running in their heads.
The possibility of rape
Our captors never laid a hand on me, until the eighth night of our captivity when I was roused from sleep in my hammock and my hands were bound in rope that they used to tie our plastic tents. And on our last day, I was slapped twice while talking on the phone to Senator Loren Legarda. The sound of the slap stunned me, but when the shock ebbed, I wondered why I didn’t feel any pain. Still, their brute force was palpable, even when they would lovingly clean their weapons in the morning before they would even have breakfast.
Jimmy Encarnacion and Angel Valderama as they appeared in the Metro Him feature. They were photographed by Milo Sogueco.
A number of the men wore their hair long. They had sachets of shampoo and hair conditioner with them. One proudly proclaimed he had a popular brand and gave me a sachet, the first time I bathed. The younger ones had toners and cotton to clean their face and keep acne away. We nicknamed one of the men “Babyface” because of his use of a particular brand called RDL Babyface toner. On the first day of our captivity, someone had taken the bronzer from my bag. On our last day, before we began our long walk to our freedom, the men had taken my cologne, pressed powder and make-up pouch. I was amazed that even in the depths of the jungle, the men would gaze at themselves in the mirror, cleaning their acne with toner and brushing their hair to a sheen.
The possibility of rape was a fear that hung heavy in the air for me. I never betrayed my anxiety to Jimmy and Angel. But the night Angel was freed, Commander Tek had hung his hammock so close to mine.
I had asked Professor Dinampo to speak to him as a fellow Tausug to keep a distance from me but he didn’t. In his testimony before the preliminary investigation on the case against the Isnajis, Professor Dinampo said that aside from the ultimatum on Angel, he overheard the men say they would rape me. It was the first time I had heard this from the Professor and my heart sank to the pit of my stomach. The Professor told the prosecution panel he kept it from me for fear I would become hysterical. That night in the jungle, when I heard the commander’s soft breathing as he fell asleep, I thought of reaching out for a bolo to slit his throat.
But survival was still primordial and I let the thought pass. It was not until the men who escorted Angel came back in a jubilant mood past midnight that they called the attention of Commander Tek, noting the closeness of our hammocks. They spoke in Tausug. After the exchange, the one-armed commander moved his hammock some distance from mine. The men had received part of the ransom then and were perhaps in a celebratory mood. Thoughts of rape were set aside.
The following day, Commander Tek teased me saying the men were jealous of him. “Nagseselos si Commander sa akin, ma’am,” referring to one man who always held my cellphone and the leader of the group that escorted Angel out of the camp. I ignored his comments. One time, one of the guards called my attention. I had folded my jeans below my knees to keep it from getting muddied up. The guard said such display was not allowed by the Muslim faith. “Ibaba mo ang pantalon mo, bawal yan sa aming mga Muslim.”
“Ayaw ko ding ipakita ang legs ko,” I told him as I rolled down my pants. I had to struggle to hide my revulsion.
With Prof. Dinampo
On the side of the authorities, there was Police Superintendent Winnie Quidato, the acting Chief of the Intelligence Division of the PNP-Intelligence Group and Marine General Juancho Sabban, head of Task Force Comet in Sulu. PSupt Quidato was just a voice on the phone for me at first. He introduced himself to me as an official of the DILG helping to secure our release. He had posed as a DILG official to monitor the movements of Mayor Isnaji and his son Jun, who was the initial contact of our kidnappers. It was his revelations after our release that convinced me that the father and son were not mere negotiators but were most likely co-conspirators of the group that held us.
On the morning we were released, the Isnajis were announcing the ultimatum had been lifted, as if they had complete control of the kidnappers. And yet up to the two o’clock deadline, Jimmy was threatened with being beheaded and I was being slapped. The revelation came as a shock to me.
General Sabban was a frequent contact in my various coverages in the south. He was beside me on our flight to freedom in the wee hours of the morning of June 18. He had picked us up from Mayor Isnaji’s residence shortly after our release. Upon seeing him, I apologized for not telling him I was in Sulu. Prior to my coverage, I had mulled telling him in confidence about my possible interview with Sahiron, but I had ditched the idea, planning to call him only after. I had thought confidentiality was of utmost importance for our safety. As a journalist, protecting one’s sources was primordial. But there was no need to say sorry; I believed he understood. I told him in the end, as I resigned my fate to God, I was hoping for his rescue mission. A text I had sent out to my family and ABS-CBN had apparently reached him, when about ten men left camp after Angel’s release, “Ten men left, and only about twelve men here. Now is the time to go delta.” Delta was my code for a rescue mission. He laughingly told me even President Arroyo had been informed about the message. Sabban’s men have since caught three suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf, one of whom had been caught on the video taken surreptitiously by Jimmy.
Jimmy’s video camera was kept in a plastic sack bag, but he had outwitted our captors. He told them he had to keep one side open so as not to trap the moisture inside. Jimmy had also told them the camera had to be cleaned and switched on daily and this was when he took video of them. In one moment of desperation, he confessed to me of being tempted to grab a gun from one of our young guards who kept watch while he bathed. But he said while he could have escaped, it would have put Angel and me in jeopardy. We were a team and we looked out for each other. No one’s interest was put above the others. It was vital for our survival. To be a real man does not mean having a gun and exercising dominance over the weak and defenseless; to be a real man is to show courage in the most trying and desperate of times.
During our ordeal, when death seemed imminent, my thoughts had turned to my sons, and I had scribbled a poem for them in my journal. They had endured my long hours in the field, when I would cancel family outings to hop on a plane at a moment’s notice to cover a breaking news story. I had just returned from a vacation in Los Angeles where one of my sons was taking college. We had just visited Disneyland, where they teased me no end for being too scared to enter one of its most popular attractions, the haunted house, when I would cover the most dangerous spots in the country for my news reports.
“It was a haunted house of make believe
And yet I was afraid to enter
And here I am deep in the lair of the Abu Sayyaf
That I so heedlessly sought admission
I open my eyes in the darkness
And in between the trees
Imagine figures floating, fleeting, watching
But all I make out in the darkness
Are the heavy steps that break the silence
And the guard opens his light on me and says
“ma’am, tulog ka ba?”
And for a second my hair rises on end
And I shiver in fear
How I wish
I had stepped in the haunted house of make believe my sons
Screaming in fright to your delight
My sons, I can’t wait
We will still do it someday"
Video grabs courtesy of ABS-CBN News
This story first appeared in Metro Him Magazine September - October 2008.
https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/spotlight/10/18/18/my-captors-my-men
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Title: 1992 Cricket World Cup
Subject: 2015 Cricket World Cup, Cricket World Cup, List of Cricket World Cup records, Cricket in Australia, Cricket World Cup awards
Collection: 1992 Cricket World Cup, 1992 in Australian Cricket, 1992 in New Zealand Cricket, Cricket World Cup, International Cricket Competitions from 1991–92 to 1994, International Cricket Competitions in Australia, International Cricket Competitions in New Zealand, International Sports Competitions Hosted by Australia, International Sports Competitions Hosted by New Zealand
1992 ICC Cricket World Cup (Benson & Hedges World Cup)
Administrator(s)
Cricket format
Tournament format(s)
Round-robin and Knockout
Pakistan (1st title)
Player of the series
Martin Crowe
Martin Crowe (456)
The 1992 Cricket World Cup was the fifth staging of the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was held in Australia and New Zealand from 22 February to 25 March 1992, and finished with Pakistan beating England in the final to become the World Cup champions for the first time.
Firsts 1
Venues 4
Australia 4.1
New Zealand 4.2
Officials 5
Umpires 5.1
Referees 5.2
Squads 6
Tournament progression 7
Round – Robin Stage 8
Points table 8.1
Match scores 8.2
Knockout stage 9
Summary 9.1
Bracket 9.2
Semi finals 9.3
Final 10
Man of the Series 11.1
Trivia 11.2
Tactical Innovations 12
Notes and references 13
The 1992 World Cup was the first to feature coloured player clothing, white cricket balls and black sightscreens with a number of matches being played under floodlights.[1] The 1992 World Cup was also the first to be held in the Southern hemisphere. It was also the first World Cup to include the South Africa national cricket team, which had been allowed to re-join the International Cricket Council as a Test-playing nation after the end of apartheid.
The format was changed from previous tournaments in that a complete round-robin replaced the use of two qualifying groups. The initial draw was released with eight competing countries and 28 round-robin matches. In late 1991, South Africa were re-admitted to the International Cricket Council after long years of apartheid and the draw was amended to include them. The revised draw included 36 round-robin matches plus the two semi-finals and the final.
The rule for calculating the target score for the team batting second in rain-affected matches was also changed. The previous rule simply multiplied the run rate of the team batting first by the number of overs available to the team batting second. This rule was deemed to be too much in favour of the team batting second. In an attempt to rectify this, the target score would now be calculated by the "highest scoring overs" formula.
In this system, if the team batting second had 44 overs available, their target score would be one greater than the 44 highest scoring overs of the team batting first. While the reasoning behind the system was sound, the timing of rain interruptions remained problematic: as the semi-final between England and South Africa demonstrated, where a difficult but eminently reachable 22 runs off 13 balls was reduced to 22 off 7 (the least productive over, a maiden, being deducted) and finally 21 off 1 ball (the next least productive over having given 1 run). It was seen that, if the interruption came during the second innings, the side batting second was at a significant disadvantage – one which was only overcome once, in fact, in England's group-stage victory over South Africa.
The 1992 World Cup featured the seven Test teams of the day, and for the first time South Africa, who would play their first Test in 22 years in the West Indies a month after the World Cup, and Zimbabwe who for the third time qualified by winning the 1990 ICC Trophy and would play their first Test match later in 1992. Teams who entered were:[2]
Venues in Australia
Adelaide Oval Adelaide, South Australia 3
Lavington Sports Oval Albury, New South Wales 1
Eastern Oval Ballarat, Victoria 1
Berri Oval Berri, South Australia 1
The Gabba Brisbane, Queensland 3
Manuka Oval Canberra, ACT 1
Bellerive Oval Hobart, Tasmania 2
Ray Mitchell Oval Mackay, Queensland 1
Melbourne Cricket Ground Melbourne 5
WACA Ground Perth, Western Australia 3
Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney 4
Venues in New Zealand
Eden Park Auckland, Auckland 4
Lancaster Park Christchurch, Canterbury 2
Carisbrook Dunedin, Otago 1
Trust Bank Park Hamilton, Waikato 2
McLean Park Napier, Hawke's Bay 1
Pukekura Park New Plymouth, Taranaki 1
Basin Reserve Wellington, Wellington 3
Eleven umpires were selected to officiate at the World Cup: two from each of the host nations, Australia and New Zealand, and one from each of the other participating nations.
West Indies' Steve Bucknor and England's David Shepherd were chosen as the umpires for the first semi-final,[3] while New Zealand's Brian Aldridge and Australia's Steve Randell were chosen for the second.[4] Bucknor and Aldridge were chosen for the final.[5]
1 Steve Bucknor West Indies 9
2 Brian Aldridge New Zealand 9
3 David Shepherd England 8
4 Steve Randell Australia 8
5 Khizer Hayat Pakistan 7
6 Piloo Reporter India 7
7 Dooland Buultjens Sri Lanka 6
8 Peter McConnell Australia 6
9 Steve Woodward New Zealand 6
10 Ian Robinson Zimbabwe 6
11 Karl Liebenberg South Africa 6
Two referees were also selected to supervise the semi-finals and final. Australia's Peter Burge supervised the first semi-final and the final,[3][5] while New Zealand's Frank Cameron supervised the second semi-final.[4]
1992 WC
Peter Burge Australia 63 2
Frank Cameron New Zealand 5 1
Tournament progression
Round-robin stage
2 4 5 7 9 11 11 11 W L
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 14 L
0 2 3 3 3 5 7 9 W W
2 2 2 4 6 8 8 10 L
Win Loss No result
Note: The total points at the end of each group match are listed.
Note: Click on the points (group matches) or W/L (knockout) to see the match summary.
Round – Robin Stage
Co-hosts New Zealand proved the surprise packet of the tournament, winning their first seven games to finish on top of the table after the round-robin. The other hosts, Australia, one of the pre-tournament favourites lost their first two matches. They recovered somewhat to win four of the remaining six, but narrowly missed out on the semi-finals. The West Indies also finished with a 4–4 record, but were just behind Australia on run-rate. South Africa made a triumphant return to international cricket with a win over Australia at the SCG in their first match. They and England had solid campaigns and easily qualified for the semis, despite upset losses to Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe respectively. India had a disappointing tournament and never looked likely to progress beyond the round-robin. Sri Lanka were still establishing themselves at the highest level and beat only Zimbabwe (who did not yet have Test status) and South Africa.
New Zealand were defeated only twice in the tournament, both times by Pakistan, in their final group match and in the semi-final. Pakistan had been lucky to be in the semi-finals at all: following only one victory in their first five matches, they were also fortunate to scrape a point from the washed-out match against England which appeared to be heading for a heavy English victory (Pak 74 all out, Eng 24/1): eventually they finished one point ahead of Australia with an inferior run-rate.
New Zealand 14 8 7 1 0 0 0.59 4.76
England 11 8 5 2 1 0 0.47 4.36
South Africa 10 8 5 3 0 0 0.14 4.36
Pakistan 9 8 4 3 1 0 0.17 4.33
Australia 8 8 4 4 0 0 0.20 4.22
West Indies 8 8 4 4 0 0 0.07 4.14
India 5 8 2 5 1 0 0.14 4.95
Sri Lanka 5 8 2 5 1 0 −0.68 4.21
Zimbabwe 2 8 1 7 0 0 −1.14 4.03
Match scores
248/6 (50 overs)
Martin Crowe 100* (134)
Craig McDermott 2/43 (10 overs)
David Boon 100 (133)
Gavin Larsen 3/30 (10 overs)
New Zealand won by 37 runs
Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand
Umpires: Khizer Hayat and David Shepherd
Player of the match: Martin Crowe
Robin Smith 91 (108)
Manoj Prabhakar 2/34 (10 overs)
Ravi Shastri 57 (112)
Dermot Reeve 3/38 (6 overs)
England won by 9 runs
WACA Ground, Perth, Australia
Umpires: Dooland Buultjens and Peter McConnell
Player of the match: Ian Botham
313/7 (49.2 overs)
Andy Flower 115* (152)
Pramodya Wickramasinghe 2/50 (10 overs)
Arjuna Ranatunga 88* (61)
Eddo Brandes 3/70 (10 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 3 wickets
Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Umpires: Piloo Reporter and Steve Woodward
Player of the match: Andy Flower
Rameez Raja 102* (158)
Roger Harper 1/33 (10 overs)
Desmond Haynes 93* (144)
Wasim Akram 0/37 (10 overs)
West Indies won by 10 wickets
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia
Umpires: Steve Randell and Ian Robinson
Player of the match: Brian Lara
Roshan Mahanama 80 (131)
Willie Watson 3/37 (10 overs)
Ken Rutherford 65* (71)
Ruwan Kalpage 2/33 (10 overs)
New Zealand won by 6 wickets
Trust Bank Park, Hamilton, New Zealand
Umpires: Piloo Reporter and David Shepherd
Player of the match: Ken Rutherford
David Boon 27 (31)
Allan Donald 3/34 (10 overs)
Kepler Wessels 81* (148)
Peter Taylor 1/32 (10 overs)
South Africa won by 9 wickets
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia
Umpires: Brian Aldridge and Steve Bucknor
Player of the match: Kepler Wessels
Aamir Sohail 114 (136)
Iain Butchart 3/57 (10 overs)
Andy Waller 44 (36)
Pakistan won by 53 runs
Bellerive Oval, Hobart, Australia
Umpires: Dooland Buultjens and Steve Randell
Player of the match: Aamir Sohail
Keith Arthurton 54 (101)
Chris Lewis 3/30 (8.2 overs)
Graham Gooch 65 (101)
Winston Benjamin 2/22 (9.5 overs)
England won by 6 wickets
Umpires: Karl Liebenberg and Steve Woodward
Player of the match: Chris Lewis
1/0 (0.2 overs)
Ray Mitchell Oval, Mackay, Australia
Umpires: Ian Robinson and David Shepherd
The match was initially reduced to 20 overs a side due to rain. A helicopter was used to dry the pitch but as play began rain fell again, washing out the game.
Peter Kirsten 90 (129)
Mark Greatbatch 68 (60)
Peter Kirsten 1/22 (7 overs)
Umpires: Khizer Hayat and Piloo Reporter
Player of the match: Mark Greatbatch
Brian Lara 72 (71)
Ali Shah 60* (87)
Winston Benjamin 3/27 (10 overs)
West Indies won by 75 runs
Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane, Australia
234 (47 overs)
Dean Jones 90 (108)
Kapil Dev 3/41 (10 overs)
Mohammed Azharuddin 93 (102)
Tom Moody 3/56 (9 overs)
Australia won by 1 run (revised target)
Umpires: Brian Aldridge and Ian Robinson
Player of the match: Dean Jones
Rain interrupted play after 16.2 overs in the Indian innings (45/1). India's target recalculated to 236 off 47 overs.
74 (40.2 overs)
24/1 (8 overs)
Saleem Malik 17 (20)
Derek Pringle 3/8 (8.2 overs)
Ian Botham 6* (22)
Wasim Akram 1/7 (3 overs)
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia
Umpires: Steve Bucknor and Peter McConnell
Peter Kirsten 47 (81)
Don Anurasiri 3/41 (10 overs)
Allan Donald 3/42 (9.5 overs)
Basin Reserve, Wellington, New Zealand
Umpires: Khizer Hayat and Steve Woodward
Player of the match: Arjuna Ranatunga
Martin Crowe 74* (43)
Kevin Duers 1/17 (6 overs)
Andy Flower 30 (28)
Chris Harris 3/15 (4 overs)
New Zealand won by 48 runs (revised target)
McLean Park, Napier, New Zealand
Umpires: Karl Liebenberg and Dooland Buultjens
New Zealand innings interrupted at 9/1 (2.1 overs). Match reduced to 35 overs per side. Further interruption at 52/2 (11.2 ov). Match reduced to 24 overs per side. Innings ended by a third interruption after 20.5 overs. Zimbabwe set a target of 154 from 18 overs.
Sachin Tendulkar 54* (62)
Mushtaq Ahmed 3/59 (10 overs)
Aamir Sohail 62 (95)
India won by 43 runs
Umpires: Peter McConnell and David Shepherd
Player of the match: Sachin Tendulkar
Match reduced to 49 overs per side due to a slow over rate by Pakistan.
Malcolm Marshall 2/26 (10 overs)
Gus Logie 61 (69)
Meyrick Pringle 4/11 (8 overs)
South Africa won by 64 runs
Lancaster Park, Christchurch, New Zealand
Umpires: Brian Aldridge and Steve Randell
Player of the match: Meyrick Pringle
Tom Moody 51 (88)
Ian Botham 4/31 (10 overs)
Mike Whitney 1/28 (10 overs)
Umpires: Steve Bucknor and Khizer Hayat
Sachin Tendulkar 81 (88)
John Traicos 3/35 (6 overs)
Sachin Tendulkar 1/35 (6 overs)
India won by 55 runs (revised target)
After rain forced the early close of the Indian innings, the target was recalculated to 159 runs in the 19 overs.
Aravinda de Silva 62 (83)
Geoff Marsh 60 (113)
Australia won by 7 wickets
Umpires: Piloo Reporter and Ian Robinson
Player of the match: Tom Moody
Umpires: Karl Liebenberg and Peter McConnell
Andrew Hudson 54 (77)
Imran Khan 2/34 (10 overs)
Inzamam-ul-Haq 48 (44)
Adrian Kuiper 3/40 (6 overs)
South Africa won by 20 runs (revised target)
Player of the match: Andrew Hudson
When Pakistan was 74/2 after 21.3 overs, rain halted the play for an hour and the target was revised to 194 in 36 overs.
Neil Fairbrother 63 (70)
Asanka Gurusinha 2/67 (10 overs)
Arjuna Ranatunga 36 (51)
Chris Lewis 4/30 (8 overs)
England won by 106 runs
Eastern Oval, Ballarat, Australia
Mohammed Azharuddin 61 (84)
Anderson Cummins 4/33 (10 overs)
Keith Arthurton 58 (99)
Javagal Srinath 2/23 (9 overs)
West Indies won by 5 wickets (revised target)
Umpires: Steve Randell and Steve Woodward
Player of the match: Anderson Cummins
Eddo Brandes 20 (28)
Kepler Wessels 70 (137)
Malcolm Jarvis 1/23 (9 overs)
Manuka Oval, Canberra, Australia
Umpires: Steve Bucknor and David Shepherd
Player of the match: Peter Kirsten
Aamir Sohail 76 (104)
Steve Waugh 3/36 (10 overs)
Dean Jones 47 (79)
Aaqib Javed 3/21 (8 overs)
Umpires: Karl Liebenberg and Piloo Reporter
Sachin Tendulkar 84 (107)
Carisbrook, Dunedin, New Zealand
Umpires: Peter McConnell and Ian Robinson
Graeme Hick 2/44 (8.2 overs)
Alec Stewart 77 (88)
Richard Snell 3/42 (7.5 overs)
England won by 3 wickets (revised target)
Umpires: Brian Aldridge and Dooland Buultjens
Player of the match: Alec Stewart
Rain disrupted play in England's innings for 43 minutes when they were 62/0 after 12.0 overs. The target was revised to 226 in 41 overs.
Phil Simmons 110 (125)
Chandika Hathurusinghe 4/57 (8 overs)
Athula Samarasekera 40 (41)
Carl Hooper 2/19 (10 overs)
Berri Oval, Berri, Australia
Umpires: David Shepherd and Steve Woodward
Player of the match: Phil Simmons
Mark Waugh 66* (39)
John Traicos 1/30 (10 overs)
Peter Taylor 2/14 (3.4 overs)
Australia won by 128 runs
Player of the match: Steve Waugh
Rain stopped play with Australia 72/1 after 15 overs. Match reduced to 46 overs per side.
Graeme Hick 56 (70)
Dipak Patel 2/26 (10 overs)
Andrew Jones 78 (113)
Ian Botham 1/19 (4 overs)
New Zealand won by 7 wickets[6]
Player of the match: Andrew Jones
Mohammad Azharuddin 79 (77)
Manoj Prabhakar 1/33 (5.1 overs)
Umpires: Dooland Buultjens and Khizer Hayat
Rain reduced the match to 30 overs per side
Javed Miandad 57 (84)
Champaka Ramanayake 2/37 (10 overs)
Player of the match: Javed Miandad
Wasim Akram 4/32 (9.2 overs)
Danny Morrison 3/42 (10 overs)
Umpires: Steve Bucknor and Steve Randell
Player of the match: Mushtaq Ahmed
David Houghton 29 (74)
Zimbabwe won by 9 runs
Lavington Sports Oval, Albury, Australia
Umpires: Brian Aldridge and Khizer Hayat
Player of the match: Eddo Brandes
Andy Cummins 3/38 (10 overs)
Australia won by 57 runs
Player of the match: David Boon
Knockout stage
In the first semi final, Pakistan defeated tournament favourites New Zealand in a high scoring encounter to win their first semi final in 4 attempts and book a place in the World Cup Final for the first time. Inzamam-ul-Haq smashed a 37 ball 60 in the run chase to achieve the target with one over remaining and also won the Man of the Match award.
In the second semi final between South Africa and England, the match ended in controversial circumstances when, after a 10-minute rain delay, the most productive overs method revised South Africa's target from 22 runs from 13 balls to an impossible 21 runs from one ball. This rule was replaced for One-day International matches in Australia after the World Cup as a result of this incident, and it was eventually superseded by the Duckworth–Lewis method for the 1999 World Cup onwards. According to the late Bill Frindall, had the Duckworth–Lewis method been applied at that rain interruption, the revised target would have been four runs to tie or five to win from the final ball.[7] As a point of clarity, ESPN points out that England's innings was cut short when the overs weren't completed by 6:10pm (the rescheduled close of innings time),[8] Cricinfo say that had Duckworth–Lewis been applied to the entire game, South Africa's target from the original 45 overs would have been 273, which would then have been reduced to 257 from 43 overs, i.e. five runs more than they were set under the most productive overs rule.[9]
In a thrilling final, Pakistan beat England by 22 runs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), allowing the "cornered tigers" captain Imran Khan to lift the trophy. Derek Pringle took two early wickets for England before Imran Khan and Javed Miandad added 139 for the third wicket to steady the Pakistan innings – although both were very slow to score early on, and Imran benefited from a dropped catch just as he was trying to increase the tempo, having up to that point scored only 9 in 16 overs. Late flourishes from Inzamam-ul-Haq (42 off 35 balls) and Wasim Akram (33 off 18 balls) took Pakistan to a total of 6 for 249. England also struggled early in their innings with Mushtaq Ahmed's googly accounting for Graeme Hick. Neil Fairbrother and Allan Lamb then took England to 4 for 141 when Wasim Akram re-entered the attack and bowled from around the wicket. He bowled Lamb and Chris Lewis with consecutive deliveries. England fell 22 runs short with captain Imran Khan, in his final One Day International, taking the final wicket of Richard Illingworth to give Pakistan its first World Cup title.
21 March – Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand
1 New Zealand 262/7
4 Pakistan 264/6
25 March – Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia
Pakistan 249/6
22 March – Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia
2 England 252/6
3 South Africa 232/6
Martin Crowe 91 (83 balls)
Inzamam-ul-Haq 60 (37 balls)
Player of the match: Inzamam-ul-Haq
Graeme Hick 83 (90 balls)
Andrew Hudson 46 (52 balls)
Richard Illingworth 2/46 (10 overs)
England won by 20 runs
Player of the match: Graeme Hick
Rain interrupted play before the last ball of the 43rd over. South Africa then required 22 runs off 13 balls for victory. With 2 overs lost due to rain, the target was reduced to 22 runs from only 1 ball.
227 all out (49.2 overs)
Imran Khan 72 (110 balls)
Derek Pringle 3/22 (10 overs)
Neil Fairbrother 62 (70 balls)
Player of the match: Wasim Akram
This was Imran Khan' s last ODI.
The MCG 87,182 people during the final
The final began with eerie resemblances to same fixture earlier in the tournament when England bowled out Pakistan for a paltry 74, as Derek Pringle dismissed both Pakistani openers at 24. However, Imran Khan and Javed Miandad settled down to see off the new ball. A crucial moment occurred when Imran Khan was dropped by Graham Gooch at 9 runs. He later went on to score a match-winning 72. At the 25 over mark, Pakistan had only scored 70, but accelerated the score to 139 by the 31st over as Javed Miandad summoned a runner and Imran and him built a steady partnership. During his innings, Imran Khan hit a huge six off Richard Illingworth that landed far back into the members section. Imran played a captain's innings getting a score of 72 and Miandad 58 to steady the innings, expectedly followed by an onslaught from Inzamam (42) and Wasim Akram (33) enabling Pakistan to give England a fighting target of 250.
England's start was shaky. Ian Botham was dismissed for a duck by Wasim Akram, followed by Stewart, Hick and Gooch, which left England tumbling at 69/4. A solid partnership of 71 between Allan Lamb and Neil Fairbrother caused Imran to give an early second spell to his main pacer Wasim Akram in the 35th over. The decision wrote the fate of the match. Two deliveries from the left arm fast bowler dismissed Allan Lamb and Chris Lewis. Soon Fairbrother was caught by Moin Khan off Aaqib Javed to seal England's last hope. When the cards were laid down, Captain Imran Khan had the last laugh when Richard Illingworth was caught by Ramiz Raja off his delivery to finish off the final and crown Pakistan World Champions of cricket.
Leading Run Scorers
456 Martin Crowe 9
437 Javed Miandad 9
410 Peter Kirsten 8
368 David Boon 8
349 Rameez Raja 8
18 Wasim Akram 10
16 Ian Botham 10
16 Mushtaq Ahmed 9
16 Chris Harris 9
14 Eddo Brandes 8
Man of the Series
Martin Crowe, New Zealand[10]
This was also the last time England had advanced to semi-finals (and finals) of a 50 over World Cup.
A notable feature of this World Cup was the innovative tactics employed by New Zealand captain Martin Crowe, who opened his team's bowling with spin bowler Dipak Patel, rather than with a fast bowler as is usual practice. Another innovation was the then unorthodox ploy of opening the batting with "pinch hitters", such as New Zealand's Mark Greatbatch.[6][11] These innovations reversed the immediate prior form of New Zealand who, realising they lacked a team of world-beaters, turned instead to craft; England had a clean sweep of their tour of New Zealand in 1991–92. Public expectations increased but were dashed in the semi-final as young Inzamam-ul-Haq pulled off victory for Pakistan while injured Martin Crowe watched from the stand.[12]
^ Williamson, Martin (17 March 2007). "Ruling an impossible target". Cricinfo. Archived from the original on 25 March 2007. Retrieved 28 April 2007.
^ "Captains of 1992 Cricket World Cup". Retrieved 8 June 2011.
^ a b "1st SF: New Zealand v Pakistan at Auckland, Mar 21, 1992". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ a b "2nd SF: England v South Africa at Sydney, Mar 22, 1992". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ a b "Final: England v Pakistan at Melbourne, Mar 25, 1992". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ a b "Rare: New Zealand vs England World Cup 1992 HQ Extended Highlights (15 March 1992)".
^ "Stump the Bearded Wonder", Bill Frindall explains how D&L would apply to 1992 WC semi-final
^ [2], ESPN scorecard of the 2nd semi final
^ England v South Africa, Cricinfo scorecard of the 2nd semi final
^ Issacs, Vic. "Benson & Hedges World Cup, 1991/92, Final". CricInfo. Retrieved 29 April 2007.
^ Longley, Geoff (3 August 2013). "1992 Cricket World Cup Memories".
^ Anderson, Ian (December 13, 2014). "Ken Rutherford digs in on racing's sticky wicket". Where are they now?.
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The Long Arm (film)
Title: The Long Arm (film)
Subject: Films directed by Charles Frend, Dorothy Alison, Gordon Dines, Ursula Howells, Police procedural
The Long Arm
British film poster
Charles Frend
Michael Balcon
Robert Barr
Janet Green
Gebrend Schurmann
Gordon Dines
Gordon Stone
Rank Film Distributors (UK)
22 June 1956 (1956-06-22) (UK[1])
The Long Arm (USA: The Third Key) is a 1956 British police procedural crime film starring Jack Hawkins. The film, which is based on a screenplay by Robert Barr, was directed by Charles Frend and produced by Michael Balcon. It was shot on location in London and Snowdonia in North Wales.
Two years later Hawkins would reprise a similar role in John Ford's Gideon's Day, a film based on the books of John Creasey.
When police respond to a burglar alarm they find nothing amiss after meeting the nightwatchman who allowed them to search the premises. However the next day the safe, having been opened with a key, is found empty. Supt Tom Halliday (Jack Hawkins) and his new Detective Sergeant, Ward (John Stratton), begin searching for the fraudulent nightwatchman.
Halliday deduces that the false nightwatchman has committed 14 safe-breaking jobs across the country - all against the same type of safe, all with keys. Visiting the safe maker, Halliday gets the names of all the staff, but they are all cleared. Shortly after another safe is cracked and a bystander is run over as the burglar gets into a getaway car. The victim manages to pass limited information to the police before dying. The hit-and-run vehicle is found in a scrap yard. The car had been stolen from a Mrs Elliot and inside they find a newspaper that leads them to a garage in north Wales and a certain Mr Gilson - a deceased former employee of the safe maker.
Halliday finds there are 28 further safes in London. He also finds out that Gilson is being tipped off which safes have a lot of cash in them by an insurance agent. The police arrange with the owner of a safe in the Festival Hall to let the insurance agent know about gala nights that generate a lot of cash. After tailing the insurance agent, the police find that he is meeting Mrs Elliot, and then get her positively identified as Mrs Gilson - the wife of the apparently dead safe key maker.
Halliday and Ward deduce that the man faked his own death after spending years making duplicate keys (the third key) for all the safes his company produced. Both detectives then lie in wait for the safe burglar at the Festival Hall, and catch him in the act. As they wait for a police car outside, Mrs Gilson arrives in a sports car. Halliday jumps on the bonnet and breaks the windscreen as Ward chases down Gilson on foot. Both are caught and arrested.
Jack Hawkins as Supt Tom Halliday
John Stratton as Sergeant Ward
Dorothy Alison as Mary Halliday
Michael Brooke as Tony Halliday
Sam Kydd as Police Operator
Glyn Houston as Police Sergeant
Richard Leech as Gilson, the burglar
Newton Blick as Detective Commander Harris
Geoffrey Keen as Chief Superintendent Malcolm
Sydney Tafler as Mr. Stone
Ursula Howells as Mrs. Elliott (Mrs. Gilson)
Peter Burton as Mr. Creasey, insurance agent
George Rose as Slob, the informer
Arthur Rigby as Detective Inspector at Chester
Ralph Truman as Colonel Blenkinsop
Ian Bannen as Stanley James, hit-and-run victim
Alec McCowen as doctor in the hospital
Nicholas Parsons as PC Bates
Richard Davies as a newsagent
Harold Goodwin as a librarian
Meredith Edwards as Mr Thomas, garage owner
The film premiered at Gaumont Haymarket in London on 22 June 1956.[1] However the reviewer for The Times was not impressed because they found the story implausible and "not quite clever enough" even though it used a documentary filming style.[2] It won the Silver Bear for an Outstanding Single Achievement award at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival.[3]
^ a b The Times, 22 June 1956, page 2: First advert for The Long Arm, running at Gaumont Haymarket - found in The Times Digital Archive 2014-06-24
^ The Times, 25 June 1956, page 12: The Arts - found in The Times Digital Archive 2014-06-24
^ "6th Berlin International Film Festival: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2009-12-27.
The Long Arm in the British Film Institute's "Explore film..." database
The Long Arm at the Internet Movie Database
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The Foreman Went to France (1942)
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A Run for Your Money, Barnacle Bill (1957 film), Cone of Silence (film), Girl on Approval, Johnny Frenchman
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:steele: JFC, it is too early for this shit. Login cookies were default set in the code to expire in the far, far off future of Jan 1, 2020. Fixed it, hopefully we don't lose anybody. Happy new year.😅 🎉 ]
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lilmookieesquire said @ 2:45pm GMT on 1st Jan [Score:5 Insightful]
To be fair who ever thought SE or the code would last to 2020. Happy New Year.
steele said @ 7:38pm GMT on 1st Jan [Score:3]
matt or marck fucking planned this. lol, maybe, I dunno. All I know is it wasn't me. I just went to double check the original codebase I started with and the 2020 was already in there.
donnie said @ 4:34pm GMT on 1st Jan [Score:3]
Y2.02k
Silent said @ 6:25pm GMT on 1st Jan [Score:2]
Reminds me of all those scrolling film intros "In the far far distant future of 1999."
Silent said @ 12:14pm GMT on 2nd Jan [Score:1]
I AM NOW AT 69 KARMA, DO NOT MOD ME EVER AGAIN.
Silent said @ 12:45pm GMT on 2nd Jan
NuncEstBibendum said @ 9:52pm GMT on 1st Jan [Score:2]
I'm currently overwhelmed by a huge wave of SensibleErection nostagia. I just realized we are quite...
...old.
rylex said @ 11:38pm GMT on 1st Jan [Score:1 Insightful]
20 years of SE.
Site has been legal to bang for awhile now
foobar said @ 9:34am GMT on 2nd Jan [Score:1 Underrated]
Right? It's hard to believe this little bit of the internet that was is still here.
Paracetamol said @ 3:09pm GMT on 1st Jan [Score:1 Informative]
Just was about to post this one ‘Here We Go. The Chaos Is Starting’: An Oral History of Y2K.
backSLIDER said @ 5:26pm GMT on 1st Jan
So when do they expire again?
3030. No fucking way we're lasting that long.
Jack Blue said @ 6:26pm GMT on 1st Jan
Good try. You'll not get rid of me that easily.
And... When I tried to post this on my android phone (chrome),the "post" button went away the minute a letter was added to the box.
steele said @ 7:12pm GMT on 1st Jan [Score:2 Sad]
That is a chrome mobile thing. Turn your phone sideways and then back to normal and the box will realign. Fuck if I know why it does that. Sometimes chrome will also decide not to load half the front page, but then you do a select all and it's there.
Paracetamol said @ 8:22pm GMT on 1st Jan [Score:2 Interesting]
The layout still makes heavy use of tables. This triggers a different CSS layout mode: Basically, it waits for all elements to appear before finisihing the render.
Due to performance throttling this may be the reason for mobile glitches.
damnit said @ 10:39am GMT on 2nd Jan
I figured it was something like that when I checked. It turns out you couldn't log back in if you selected "until logged out." Selecting "session" got me logged back in.
machpi said @ 6:30pm GMT on 2nd Jan
I got a 'data breach' notification after I logged back in. I'm going to ignore it.
C18H27NO3 said @ 7:32pm GMT on 2nd Jan
Data breach. HA! That's funny.
Is that like paying bills every month?
No, that's something else.
C18H27NO3 said @ 11:25pm GMT on 4th Jan
Seems like the same thing to me. Private data for content and convenience.
steele said @ 8:07pm GMT on 2nd Jan
Weird. From your browser? Might be because we're not using ssl.
ethanos said @ 5:50pm GMT on 7th Jan
aha... now I see where thieves found my old passwords.
steele said @ 6:46pm GMT on 7th Jan
? SE doesn't store your password in plaintext so it wasn't from here. Unless you mean that I've been selling user information in which case, yeah, I thought I made that very clear. ;)
ethanos said[2] @ 5:58pm GMT on 7th Jan
plus: I would like some attribution for some of the graphics on the page.
Is that yours?🤷♂️ It's got a sig on it...
No... I was just trying to figure out where the drawing came from and if there was more story behind it. Thx.
steele said @ 11:02pm GMT on 7th Jan
Oh, no idea, that's from the first site.
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Travels Through Central & Eastern Europe Rudi Dezelin 11
Assistant Printers Needed! 12
The One That Got Away Peter Dyce 13
Committee Meeting Report 2/10/85 Bill Holland 14
Social Notes 14
by Patrick James.
Sitting in the comfort of the Mittagong Chinese Restaurant, surrounded by my companions of the last two days in various stages of spruced-upness, one starts to think about bushwalking. Do you really need a hole in the head to be a bushwalker? Careful, if surreptitious, observations of my fellow walkers during the weekend indicated that they were just normal members of society. Perhaps 'normal' might not be the exact word - but it will do.
The weekend started normally enough; after driving south from Sydney along highways and finally byways, we stopped at the first roadside campfire we saw. Luckily Roger, my trusted guide, seemed to know the two shadowy figures crouched around the flames. Within about an hour, more people arrived and introductions were made. Strangely enough, although the faces remained the same, the names varied, not only during the introductions, but throughout the weekend. Thus Bill - Bob - Barry was the one with the red co-ordinated wardrobe - red tracksuit, red underwear, red hat, red wine and red nose. Angelique answered equally well to Angela or Adrianne. Was this, I wondered, as a bright green prospective, a test to check my memory, a strange S.B.W. rite, or name changing to protect the innocent.
Saturday at 8.30 am and we were on our way. The customary introduction circle was done away with as the names varied and were obviously false (perhaps nom de marcher).
The walk itself was straight forward; down 600 metres, along a bit, up 600 metres, lunch, down 600 metres, along a bit, camp, eat sleep eat, along a bit to the waterfall, back to camp, eat, pack, then off through the gorge (well worth the effort), then up 600 metres, into the cars and off to sample Mittagong's sino-epicurian delights.
During the weekend, this impressionable prospective was impressed on a number of occasions. Most notable was Heinz's/Helmut's light to dine by: this was either a new Eveready product, skillful use of luminous paint or the cutest piece of bio-engineering imaginable. I was amazed by the variety of food which appeared from the confines of the packs, a variety to rival David Jones' Food Hall: yogurt, cream, red and white wine, some medicinal spirits, chocolate biscuits, and, if I remember correctly, rice pudding. Robert/Roger's demonstration of the nutritional properties of some animal scats was memorable. I've eaten food which tasted like scats, but not vice versa.
The two hour happy hour also impressed me; what a delightful way to end the day. Our leader's insistence that cooking dinner not be started before sundown I thought was odd. Was this to make all the food uniformly badly prepared or simply to define the end of happy hour? As a polite prospective, I quietly saluted and followed orders.
Should I be asked to give out prizes for the weekend the recipients would be Marty for the “neatest and most refined diner” award, and Simon for his luncheon dish “surprise du jambou”. Fran would get a special prize for her companionship as I gasped my way up those 600 metres.
So as the last honeyed prawn follows the sweet and sour pork and my feet send back messages that they really do belong to me, I feel a bit less prospective and think I look forward to another trip with the Holland machine.
by Ainslie Morris.
Sapphire fossicking and visiting two little gems of national parks can add delight to the uneventful New England Highway drive to Brisbane. You'll need a day for each.
Fossicking adds another dimension to the bush and improves observation in the way that bird-watching and wild-flower identification can.
Inverell is the centre of the fossicking area and is 730 km from Sydney. Turn off at Guyra or Glen Innes, or if coming south you can take a quiet dirt road down the foothills of the Great Divide from Deepwater through Emmaville. The Tourist Office in Inverell provides excellent information.
We (Mike Reynolds and I) had no idea of where to start, and no equipment, so we took advantage of the Council-run Nullamanna Area, 20 km from Inverell, or watch out for it if coming from Emmaville. You may camp in the tiny village itself - just ask.
A signpost clearly indicates the entrance to the FOSSICKING AREA, open 9 - 5 on Tuesdays, Thursdays, weekends and every day during the school holidays. Cost is $4 plus very cheap equipment hire; we hired one bucket, one shovel, two sieves and hessian bag. You'll get muddy, so wear an old shirt and shorts. Rubber gloves protect your fingers.
The hard digging up out of Frazer's Creek is done for you by back-hoe, and you are shown how to sieve. In no time you're shaking your “rattler” and getting fossicker's back as you stand leaning over the big wash-tank. Then it's tip out your cleaned gravel, and with tweezers or fingers you pick out your first little blue stone - a sapphire! We found eight in a morning, but we were slow. Regulars showed us larger stones they'd had cut, some worth a few hundred dollars.
The blue sapphire, with the red ruby, diamond, emerald and opal, are the most desired gemstones. Sapphire, which means blue, is a variety of the mineral corundum coloured by the presence of some titanium. This area produces 80% of the world's sapphires.
A bonus for cyclists visiting Inverell in early September is to see the Grafton to inverell Cycling Classic, of international standard. There is also a fun run on the day for you keen joggers.
The scenic gems are two little national parks on the Mt. Lindesay Highway 30 km out of Tenterfield. First is Boonoo Boonoo (pronounced Bunny B'noo), which has a good 14 km track in to it, clearly signposted on the right. We had the campsite to ourselves; water can be collected on the way in from one of several creeks as you cross them, or froth- the swimming hole on the river 100 metres from camp. This river descends in cascades and falls for 210 metres into a gorge. The gorge may be viewed from the top, but to see the falls you'll need to go to the bottom. It looks far, but only takes lf hours return for fit and experienced walkers. Near the bottom the track disappears into a steep rock scramble in rainforest, then you clamber over huge boulders for a view of the falls. For a day walk you'd need to negotiate these, then it looks a bit easier to follow the river down on flat rock ledges.
Bald Rock (Boonoo Boonoo to the aborigines) is also off the unsealed Mt. Lindesay Highway to Brisbane, a few kilometres further on but on the left. A good 6 km track takes you to a picnic area where you may camp overnight. An easy walk takes 1 hour return, and raises you 200 metres above the surrounding wet sclerophyll forest. The beauty of the rock is in its coloured streaks, shown in the 1985 N.S.W. wilderness Calendar for August. We read that there are views out to the peaks of the - Scenic Rim and the Tweed coast, but we could hardly see the rock itself for mist and rain. Now we'll have to go back - oh dear!
The Mt. Lindesay Highway twists along the border through lush cattle grazing hills surrounded by peaky rocks. Mt. Lindesay itself dominates the scene; it looks impossible to climb, but a walker can get up to the base of the upper cliff.
Please add the following names to your list of members:
BROWN, Jennifer, 3/26 Pacific Street, Watson's Bay, 2030. Phone 337-6872
JAMES, Patrick, 15/46 Robertson Street, Kogarah, 2217. Phone 588-2614
Series on FIRST AID. by Ainslie Morris. Test your knowledge! Discuss with friends before reading the suggested ways of dealing with the emergency.
Write a letter to the Editor if you have other suggestions.
SITUATION 2.
It is night-time, after dinner. A billy of very hot water has been placed 1 metre from the fire, where it can't be seen. A person wearing shoes and socks steps in it.
PLACE: Cox's River. There is a river and steep ridge walk of 3 km to a fire trail.
SYMPTOMS: Pain in foot and ankle.
Signs: Blisters.
What will be your:
(1) IMMEDIATE ACTION?
(2) ASSESSMENT OF BURN?
(3) TREATMENT -
(a) Of burn?
(b) Of patient?
(4) FURTHER ACTION?
Answers are on page 9.
The Club has arranged a screening of the film “A Singular Woman” to be shown in the clubrooms on Wednesday, 27th November (see Social Notes).
This film is the story of Marie Byles, and her efforts to preserve the area now known as Bouddi National Park.
An exceptional film about a remarkable woman - and a past member of this Club.
by Jim Brown.
An Exploratory Trip into the Northern Budawangs, 1957.
“There it is! That's it!” And fourteen bush walkers jumped up, ran out into the darkness away from their fires, and watched Sputnik One - Man's first space vehicle - move across the starlit sky, rather like a falling star itself, until it disappeared from our sight.
The occasion was Colin Putt's exploratory trip into the Northern Budawangs about 10/11 October, 1957, and we were camped for the Saturday night on Tarn Mountain. Just one week previously the Russians had taken a mean advantage and launched Sputnik One into orbit around the Earth over the Labour Day Holiday week-end. Or maybe they just didn't care about New South Wales celebrating its Labour Day on the first Monday in October.
Shortly after the passage of Sputnik I sought my sleeping bag, as the leader had decreed a very early start next morning for those who wanted to get to Mount Owen (then know by S.B.W. as Mount Renwick). As I snuggled down in philosophic mood I drew a kind of comparison between this first venture beyond the confines of Earth and what we were doing in a small-time way….looking for something new. At least, however, we were there with all our abraded shins and aching muscles, whereas Sputnik One was un-manned, just a mechanical presence in Space. And before I slept I prayed (if an Unbeliever can pray) that Homo would be Sapiens enough to refrain from making a future battleground in Space.
But that is not my story. The story is about one of those exploratory trips of the 1950s into the Northern Budawangs, told to the best of my recollection after almost 28 years.
First it needs to be explained that the Budawangs were not extensively explored until the 1950s, even by those questing souls, those insatiably curious people, the bush walkers. Difficulty of easy access was the main problem in days when only the affluent or those besotted with the automotive machine owned cars. During the War years the car population had actually diminished - you couldn't do many Budawangs trips on a ration of a gallon or so of petrol each week.
Notwithstanding this, a few walking parties, taking train to Nowra and hire cars beyond, managed to make the first dint in the protective armour of the Budawangs. The late Ray Kirkby led some trips into the area between Sassafras and Wog Wog about 1947/8, and about the same time Grace and John Noble trudged along the southern part of the range from near Mount Budawang itself to Currockbilly and Wog Wog. A little later Alex Colley who, in company with the late Maurie Berry, had ascended Currockbilly from the east (somewhere along Belowra Creek), also led some parties in from Sassafras towards The Castle: these met with mixed success owing to the abominable weather often encountered in the area.
Others, including Ken Angel and some of his friends who produced a map of the region, and Ron Knightley and colleagues also tried conclusions with portions of the Budawangs and gradually there was a spread of bushwalker awareness of a relatively unspoiled and spectacular country. In the mid- 1950s Frank Leyden and some friends made a fresh try from the Sassafras side, with a measure of success, and it was about this time that the increasing ownership of private cars brought the area within the reach of a wider circle of walkers.
At Easter, 1957, Alex Colley and party came in from Wog Wog and reached Mt. Renwick/Owen. Over the June holiday week-end that same year a party camped at Yadboro Flat: one group climbed The Castle and the others scaled Talaterang from the Clyde River - a reprint of The Castle party's story was published in the magazine in April 1983. Simultaneously members of the Coast and Mountain Walkers, in particular Colin Watson, were undertaking exploration in the region.
I had first been in the Budawangs with a party which went from Wog Wog down Yadboro River to the Clyde and out to the coast over the Pigeon House ridges at Easter, 1952, and later had joined in a couple of the trips following the Leyden explorations from Sassafras. Like all the others, I was impressed by the promise of this new walking ground. However, most of these trips were private ventures, and did not get into printed walks programmes.
Which brings us, finally, to the Colin Putt exploratory of October, 1957. I think this may have been the first official programmed walk for nine years that entered the Budawangs from Sassafras - the previous one being Alex Colley's in June, 1948, which had been plaguedcby deplorable weather. Colin's averred intention was to get from Sassafras to Mount Renwick/Owen (and who knows time permitting, The Castle).
Transport was by Putt-mobile, a fairly large truck furnished with a canopy in which up to 16 or 18 walkers could be conveyed with a minimum of comfort, but a high level of satisfaction. This time there were 14 - some I can still recall are Colin (driver/leader), Heather Joyce (White), George Gray, John Manning and Eric Pegram. Friday night was spent at Tianjara Falls, and in the morning, turning south at Sassafras, our vehicle got us most of the way to the site of the ruined sawmill at The Vines.
At that stage the easy way south, passing east of Quilty's Mountain and through the level swampland of Styles/Sallee/Haddles Creeks was not known, so we dived straight down from the old sawmill into Kilpatrick Creek and up the other side on to the northern end of Sturgiss Mountain (needless to say we did not know those names, nor did we have any map worth a pinch of salt). There was a small cliff to surmount to reach Sturgiss Mountain, but it couldn't have been formidable because I cannot remember any butterflies invading my inside as they do on even modestly steep places.
However, the party did get rather widely dispersed and selected a variety of different ways of scrambling down into the top end of Hidden Valley (then called “Hopalong Valley” because of a fancied resemblance to the gullies where Wild West character Hopalong Cassidy used to pursue the rustlers in the T.V. series). When finally the scattered party assembled on the scrubby but reasonably level floor of Hidden Valley, Colin Putt announced sternly, “We willnow rope up”. Thereafter the party kept fairly coherent shape.
We were now on ground already known to George Gray and myself, and we made good time along Hidden Valley and out to the big grassy/reedy saddle between Pagoda Rocks and Mount Houghton, where we took lunch. In fact, I think the early afternoon stage, along a wombat parade below the cliffs on the eastern side of Mount Houghton and then up a gap on to Mount Tarn was suggested jointly by George and myself. Along the way we found the burnt sticks of a campfire in an overhang, and someone said, “Probably C.M.W. - they're prowling through this place too.”
On Tarn Mountain, however, we were all at a loss, but Colin and John Manning went “looking” with a vague snippet of information about a way down “in the second slot”. While we waited they explored and confirmed that the “second slot” would get us down below the cliff and on to the long reedy spur that runs down to the very beginnings of the Corang River. BUt it was too late in the day, so we camped on top of Tarn in the shelter of a big rocky mound, shaped rather like a rising moon. That was the night we. saw Sputnik One.
We had used up so much of the week-end that The Castle was no longer an option, but we could still hope to discover the link between Tarn, Bibbenluke Mountain and the western face of MOunts Renwick/Roswaine (Owen/Cole). Colin accordingly decreed a 5.00 am departure, without packs, on Sunday to look at the way down from Tarn and to find the saddle connecting Bibbenluke with the Mount Renwick massif.
So, obedient to the last, as walkers always are (Ha, Ha, Ha) nine out of the 14 got out of their sleeping bags about 4.15 am and moved off in picaninny daylight at 5.10 am. They did pass the Corang headwaters, skirt Bibbenluke Walls and find the saddle leading to Renwick before the enemy, time, forced a retreat. But another couple of links in the chain of discovery had been forged.
Here I confess I went only to Bibbenluke Walls, where I discovered I had lost my watch. It was an old one, and used only on walks, but it had been a gift from my parents in 1934 and had been with me all through the War years: I left the party and turned back looking for it and didn't find it.
About 10.30 the reconnaissance party returned and we all packed and left Mount Tarn, retreating by the same route. As the Putt-mobile approached Sassafras we met an incoming Army convoy whose commander was shocked to learn he would be loosing off mortar bombs in an area where civilians went bush walking.
And night fell. We ate at Nowra. No one looked up to see if Big Brother in the Sputnik was still watching us.
Last month you were invited to put numbers in order of priority against the following items, so that you might safely reach your destination after a 200 mile unscheduled moon-walk:-
Item Correct No. Rationale
Box of matches 15 No oxygen
Food concentrate 4 Can live for some time without food
50 ft of nylon rope 6 For travel over rough terrain
Parachute silk 8 Carrying
Portable heating unit 13 Lighted side of moon is hot
Two .45 calibre pistols 11 Some use for propulsion
One case of dehydrated Pet Milk 12 Needs H2O to work
Two 100 lb tanks of oxygen 1 No air on moon
Stellar map (of moon's constellation) 3 Needed for navigation
Life raft 9 Some value for shelter or carring
Magnetic compass 14 Moon's magnetic field is different from earth's
5 gallons of water 2 You can't live long without this
Signal flares 16 No oxygen
First aid kit containing injection needles 7 First aid kit might be needed but needles are useless
Solar-powered FM receiver-transmitter 5 Communication
(1) IMMEDIATE ACTION.
* D - Danger - look for danger to yourself, the casualty or bystanders. Is the billy empty or put next to the fire?
* R - Response - quickly assess the state of consciousness of the casualty. If fainting from pain and shock, lie him/her down with feet raised. Lift leg well above burn. Immediately pour on WATER and remove hot shoe and sock.
WATER - Tell someone or get a canvas bucket full of cold water, or use a large billy, or plastic bag ih a hat. Use a creek only if very close by - remember, it is dark. Leave foot immersed in water for 10 minutes. Do NOT break blisters.
(2) ASSESSMENT OF BURN.
All burns are serious. In the torchlight it is hard to see if: Superficial or deep?
Superficial: Only the outer layers of the skin are damaged. The area is red and painful, sometimes with blistering.
Deep: The damage may extend to deep layers of the skin, which may then look white.
(3) TREATMENT.
(a) OF BURN: Do NOT apply any lotions, ointments or oily dressings. Do NOT prick or break blisters. DO apply a sterile non-stick or other clean dressing, and bandage lightly - e.g. roll-on bandage. Always carry both of these in your First Aid Kit.
Burns are a common accident. Treat as for a deep burn - you can't tell.
(b) OF PATIENT:
Give fluids e.g. sweet tea.
Give pain-killers e.g. Panadol.
Help him/her to bed.
(4) FURTHER ACTION.
In daylight, the patient should be able to walk out. Split the pack load between the party.
Cover the burnt foot and ankle well to keep out infection, e.g. a clean sock over the bandage, and shoe loosely tied. A section cut out can give comfort and still provide a walking sole.
Two people to assist patient to fire trail and seek transport to hospital. The patient can expect at least two weeks off work with daily medical treatment.
PREVENTION !!
SO - keep billies right next to or on the fire, or else empty it and place with your eating gear. Keep shoes on always at the camp-fire. They reduce the severity of burns, especially if you walk on white ashes which look dead but are actually very hot.
by Rudi Dezelin.
Here is an account of a recently completed tour of parts of Europe during this year's northern summer. Members planning an overseas trip to Europe may find my experiences and advice helpful in planning their itineraries.
Flying Thai Airlines to Bangkok I joined a Polish “LOT” Airlines flight to Warsaw and then on to Stockholm. Polish Airlines is one of the cheapest airlines available on the S.E. Asia - Europe sector. The return fare from Sydney to Europe was approx. $1450. This is some $300 or $400 less than the big, established western airlines charge.
Sweden. Arriving at Stockholm's modern ARLANDA Airport, I was met by a Swedish friend whom I knew from a previous (1978) holiday in Europe. My friend showed me the sights of Stockholm, the beautiful, clean and tidy Swedish capital. Stockholm is known as the “Venice of the North” due to its waterways and the lakes surrounding the city.
Sweden is about the most expensive country in the whole of Europe, about the same as Switzerland. However, I found I could get delicious, healthy and inexpensive meals at a good self-service restaurant with smorgasbord dishes, a Swedish speciality now internationally known.
Owing to Sweden's very high latitudes, it has very long hours of daylight. The sun was up by 4 am in the morning and it was still light at 10 o'clock at night. Hence the name sometimes used to describe Sweden - “The Land of the Midnight Sun”.
On the last Sunday of my visit we went on a lovely bushwalk to a lakeside national park, just outside Stockholm. It was a warm and sunny May day and the flowering tulips, daffodils and silver beech trees were a beautiful sight. Swedish people appear to be very nature-loving and fitness conscious. There were thousands of people to be seen cycling and walking in the park on this glorious spring day.
West Germany. On the following Monday it was with sadness that I boarded a train for Germany, as the Swedish people impressed very wK1 with their cleanliness, friendliness and their helpfulness to foreign visitors. That night I arrived in Hamburg in West Germany quite late after a very long and tiring train trip through southern Sweden and Denmark. I stayed only one night in Hamburg catching a train for Munich in Bavaria the following morning.
My next stop was the mountain town of Berchtesgaden, near the Austrian border. It was very interesting to travel up the steep mountain road to inspect the famous “Eagles Nest” mountain retreat. The views from the top were unbelievably beautiful. At present there is a restaurant and coffee shop on the site where a former German leader used to have his vacation house. The place is very popular with international tourists, especially Americans.
Yugoslavia. Leaving Germany, I continued south to Yugoslavia. This is a poor and backward communist (non-aligned) country that is at present experiencing very serious economic problems. Be that as it may, it is relatively cheap to travel through compared to the northern and western European countries. This is mainly due to its very weak local currency, the “Dinar”, and the consequently very favourable exchange rates for “hard” (western) currencies.
I found the Dalmatian coastline to be the most scenically interesting part of Yugoslavia. I spent a week on the island RAB off the coast of N.W. Yugoslavia. It is a very scenic little island with beautiful beaches but tends to be overrun by hordes of German tourists during “the season” (July and August).
Hungary. Leaving Yugoslavia, I crossed the Hungarian border to visit this other small Eastern Bloc country. Its capital, Budapest, was a pleasant surprise. The city straddles the long Danube River and has very many fine old buildings dating back several centuries when Hungary was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hungary has very good and cheap food, especially paprika-flavoured dishes and its world-famous “goulash” is especially good. There are many restaurants in Budapest where one can dine and be entertained by live Gipsy bands! After Budapest, I briefly visited Lake Balaton, a rather large lake about 100 km south of the capital. The lake is rather “touristy” and is used for yachting and swimming by locals and tourists.
Czechoslovakia. The next country, Czechoslovakia, is another Eastern Bloc country. I found it quite unfriendly and uninteresting, except for the capital Prague, which has some fine buildings and old churches along the river. Its shops were very poorly stocked and it is normal practice for people having to queue up when doing their shopping.
I found Hungary to be relatively “free” and the most prosperous compared with the other Eastern Bloc countries.
Austria. It was with great pleasure that I crossed the Czech border to get into beautiful Austria! (Parochial prejudice, I call it! Ed.) The difference between Austria and the drab and boring Eastern Bloc countries is unbelievable! I was stunned by the wealth and prosperity so obvious in Austria: there are well stocked shops and the inhabitants are well dressed and prosperous looking. Austria is a “neutral” country though very “western” in its outlook and way of life.
I spent a most enjoyable five weeks here. Having bought a bicycle, I toured lots of quaint mountain villages by bike and “bushwalked” in some beautiful mountain country. There are still wild mountain gOats (“chamois”) to be seen grazing on the mountain peaks, and the alpine flowers one sees are spectacular.
The country in general is a real pleasure to travel through. Public transport is clean, very efficient and always on time. Austria, compared to the Eastern Bloc and southern European countries, is not cheap, but in my opinion, it was the most beautiful and enjoyable country of all.
In March next year the present printers of the Club magazine wish to hand over to someone else and there is, fortunately, a Club member who is prepared to take over if two assistants are willing to help.
This could, be an interesting and “fun” job, involving two nights' work each month. Anyone wishing to “give it a go” would be wise to go along during the next three months' printing sessions and learn how it is done.
All work done for the S.B.W. is done by volunteers (and there are a lot of different jobs), so new members are invited to offer if they feel there is any work they can take part in. This applies to the many other jobs that need to be done in the Club as well as the magazine printing.
However, at the moment, ASSISTANT PRINTERS are wanted, so please consider whether you can help, and if so ring Phil Butt 94-6333 (H) or 339-7179 (B), or Barbara Bruce 546-6570 (H), or speak to Barbara or Ainslie Morris in the clubroom. The off-set printer is at present located at Seaforth but in future will probably be located at Turramurra.
by Peter Dyce.
The September issue of our magazine carried an interesting story of a successful trout fishing bushwalk in the Blue Mountains.
This has prompted me to tell you of a fishing experience in the Snowy Mountains last May. For many years now I have enjoyed my annual pilgrimage to Kosciusko, skiing in winter and fishing in summer. Trout fishing for me is one of the most rewarding of outdoor pursuits, combining elements of bushwalking with the excitement and anticipation of catching a nice fat trout to be cooked, wrapped in foil, in the embers of the camp fire. Finger licking good! Even when the fishing is not successful, the fresh mountain air, the sunrises, sunsets and starry nights are reward enough.
On this occasion my son David and I were fishing from our dinghy in Lake Jindabyne. We noticed a large truck pull up at the edge of the lake and then start to dump its load into the lake; we saw large black objects coming off the back mixed with a lot of liquid, but from the distance could not be sure what was being dumped. We were a little concerned that perhaps the lake was being polluted. The truck left only to return with another load. This time we started our motor and quickly raced over to see what was going on. Imagine our surprise! The truck was from the trout hatchery and they were dumping - can you believe it? Yes - they were dumping live trout into the lake. Some were monsters over 10 lbs in weight.
We started trolling and within minutes David had a strike. He played the fish right up to the boat, I got the net under him and lifted him into the boat. The fish was so big he was bent over in the net, in excess of 8 lbs. I removed the hook from the fish, and then, the incredible thing happened. David lifted the fish, admired it, and threw it back in the water. I did not know whether to laugh or cry! I said, “David, why did you throw him back?” He said, “Dad, it's not fair to keep these fish, they have just had their first taste of freedom after years of imprisonment at the trout hatchery.”
We continued to fish, I landed a beautiful six-pounder, threw him back too; in all we caught six fish between us, the smallest about five pounds and they all went back.
When we got back to our caravan park we told our story, which some found hard to believe, but one man had been at the trout hatchery when they were cleaning out their concrete tanks of old breeding fish to put back in the lake, so our story was believed in the end.
Unbeknown to us, the caravan park was running a competition for the biggest trout caught that week - first prize an aluminium boat with outboard motor; David would have won for sure, but he said he was not sorry and was pleased he released his fish. The next morning as we passed the spot on the lake where we had our excitement the previous day, there was hardly elbow room, fishermen from far and wide had heard the news and were trying to catch a big one. We do not know if any fish were caught. We had had our rewarding experience.
8.9.10 Nov. FAMILY WALK - Megalong - Six Foot Track - Cox R. - Canons 20 km Easy. Leader: DAVID ROSTRON 451 7943.
This walk will now be led on the following weekend, 15.16.17 November.
Insurance is still being investigated and the Committee will further consider problems arising from the proposals. A letter was received objecting to compulsory personal accident insurance. Members are able to voice their opinions at the next General Meeting (December).
Reinvestments of funds of $3,000 at 13.7% p.a. for 4 years was approved.
A request is being sent to North Sydney Council that it advise when/if it proposes to redevelop the Community Centre. Also it is being asked to unlock the upstairs doors on to the balcony.
by Bill Holland.
Don't forget, the CLUB AUCTION is on October 30th (next Wednesday?). If the mails are on time there is still the opportunity to put your old or unwanted gear to good use. Charlie Brown is the auctioneer.
In November, Greta Davis will show slides on Nepal on the lath. Magazine wrapping follows the dinner on the 20th, and there is an important announcement about the 27th.
The Minister for Planning and Environment, Mr. Bob Carr, has had to defer his address to the Club until 22nd January '86 (to be shown on the next programme). Unfortunately, the House was meeting on the night originally scheduled.
We have, however, been able to arrange a screening of the film “A SINGULAR WOMAN”. This film is about Marie Byles, and will be of tremendous interest to Club members. She was a member of our Club, and it was through her efforts that Bhouddi became a National Park. Appearing in the film are members: Dot Butler, Paddy Pallin, Bill Hall, Rae Page and Frank Duncan (and Fazeley Read's feet!). So, mark 27th NOVEMBER in your diary for “A Singular Woman” and pass the word to other members and friends.
Programme: Nov. 6 Committee Meeting.
Nov. 13 Slides on Nepal - Greta Davis.
* Nov. 20 Magazine Wrapping.
Nov. 27 Film - “A Singular Woman”
* DINNER before the meeting at “Eric's Seafood Restaurant”, 316 Pacific Highway, Crow's Nest. BYOG. 6.30 pm sharp.
For $7.40 you can send the 1986 Wilderness Calendar anywhere. This includes postage. Colour photographs are by S.B.W. member, HENRY GOLD. Fill in and cut out the application form below:-
The Secretary,
Colong Committee,
18 Argyle Street, Sydney. N.S.W. 2000.
Please send….copies of the 1986 Wilderness Calendar to:-
NAME: …………
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Fighting Bullies at the UN
Recent outbreaks of violence at the border between Israel and Gaza garnered more than their fair share of biased media attention. Many liberal news outlets conveniently left out that the “protests”—which were actually people storming Israel’s border with the intent to breach it and murder innocents—were organized by Hamas with the cynical goal of prompting Palestinian casualties and global condemnation of Israel.
As expected, the United Nations followed the terrorist group’s lead and fell into line, heaping criticism on Israel.
The terrorists were, by their own admission, determined to infiltrate the Jewish state and sow as much death and destruction as possible. After Israel successfully defended its borders and citizens from these malicious would-be intruders, the world, the media, and the U.N. decried its justified actions as human rights violations, despite the fact that Hamas claimed the majority of victims as its own.
Seventeen States Are Flat-Out Ignoring Federal Hemp Laws and Markets Are Thriving
This report was originally published by Michael Maharrey at FEE.org
Even with the liberalization of the law in 2014, the federal government still prohibits industrial hemp production for commercial purposes. But this hasn’t stopped more than a dozen states from developing commercial hemp markets anyway. They’ve simply ignored the federal laws, nullifying prohibition in effect within their borders.
Seventeen states specifically authorize and license commercial hemp production despite federal prohibition, and many other states allow commercial cultivation despite paying lip-service to federal law.
FEDERAL FARM BILL
In 2014, Congress cracked the door open for hemp in the U.S. with an amendment to the 2014 Farm Bill. The law allows hemp cultivation for research purposes, but prohibits “commercial” production.
The “hemp amendment” in the 2014 farm bill—
…allows State Agriculture Departments, colleges and universities to grow hemp, defined as the non-drug oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis, for academic or agricultural research purposes, but it applies only to states where industrial hemp farming is already legal under state law.
In 2016, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Drug Enforcement Agency released a “statement of principles” to guide interpretation of the hemp section in the Farm Bill. It states:
After primary win, Maryland Democrat Ben Jealous shirks questions about party divides
Pressed on his party's internal divisions, Ben Jealous delivered an impressively evasive performance on MSNBC this week, shirking a conversation that's especially germane to his own candidacy.
Jealous is running in a blue state, but now faces the challenge of unseating a popular Republican governor while campaigning on a (very) progressive platform. The former NAACP president won the Democratic primary to take on Republican Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday. Watch Jealous squirm in this interview with Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle, who pursued a perfectly reasonable line of questions about whether far-left candidates are driving centrists away from the Democratic Party.
At one point when Ruhle accurately accused him of "not answering" their questions, Jealous hit back with the devastating response, "I mean, I am. I mean, look this is... I'm work-..." before making some vague and irrelative point about how important it is to have governors "solving real problems in real time." And the newly-minted nominee really didn't want to talk about House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, side-stepping Ruhle's direct ask for his thoughts on the California Democrat "sitting at the helm" of his party.
Most Private Doctors Not Prepared to Treat Veterans - VFW
A RAND study of New York physicians found that while veterans living in the Empire State like to use doctors outside the VA, most physicians in the private sector were unfamiliar with veterans’ unique conditions
More than 800,000 veterans in New York find it difficult to get quality health care outside the VA, according to a study released in March by the RAND Corp.
The nonprofit research organization published a study called “Ready or Not: Assessing the Capacity of New York State Health Care Providers to Meet the Needs of Veterans,” and found that only 5 percent of the 746 health care providers surveyed in New York are members of the VA Community Care network. VA manages and funds a number of non-VA programs through its Office of Community Care that provides veterans with care in the community.
In New York, VA operates 12 medical centers and 48 outpatient clinics, but only about half of the state’s vets are enrolled in the VA system. And only 58 percent of those enrolled used the VA in 2015, according to the RAND report.
The authors conclude that these results mean “many” New York veterans are receiving health care in the community sector.
Q: The Plan To Save The World
Thanks You Seaford Police. SPD Should Follow Their Lead.
Seaford Police Department and 911 Center
6/23/2018 Dog left in vehicle, Food Lion parking lot. Temperatures around 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Car was not running and windows cracked. Owner arrested for Animal Cruelty, arraigned and released on unsecured bond pending court appearance.
Michael Moore: "Wimpy And Weak" Democrats Need To Rise Up And Put Their "Bodies On The Line"
Michael Moore weighed in on the current political climate, suggesting that "wimpy and weak" Democrats need to "rise up" and resist Trump by putting their "
Appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote his new anti-Trump documentary, the filmmaker whose lastdocumentary accidentally helped Trump win the 2016 election by delivering an unintentionally inspiring speech, said that despite inaction by many of the left "a few people want to stand up and say, I've had enough, that's it."
Moore, who says he "cries every single day when he watches the news," initially stressed "We don't have to be violent, we have to remain non-violent," only to later ask "When are people going to get off the couch and rise up?" - adding:
“Sadly, Trump is not going to leave ... He plans to be re-elected, he loves the term ‘president for life.’ The only way that we’re going to stop this is eventually we’re all going to have to put our bodies on the line. You’re going to have to be willing to do this.”
Moore also defended a Lexington, VA restaurant owner ejecting White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders one week ago.
If it were just basic political differences, Moore said he would not be in favor of throwing Sarah Huckabee Sanders out of a restaurant.
“But that’s not what’s going on now,” he said. “We’re not talking about political differences. We’re talking about thousands of children being kidnapped and put in jails.” -Daily Beast
Watch: Thirty Years Of Failed Climate Predictions
On June 23 1988, NASA’s James Hansen testified before Congress and made very specific predictions about global warming. In this video, Tony Heller of realclimatescience.com shows how he got them exactly backwards, and how scientists and journalists continue to spread baseless misinformation.
Hillary Refuses To Condemn The Left Becoming
Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton rejected calls of civility in a recent interview, calling for “strength and resolve” to resist President Trump.
The Guardian reports that when asked about some on the left becoming “uncivil” recently, she responded:
“‘Oh, give me a break,’ she erupts, eyes widening into indignation. ‘Give me a break! What is more uncivil and cruel than taking children away? It should be met with resolve and strength. And if some of that comes across as a little uncivil, well, children’s lives are at stake; their futures are at stake. That is that ridiculous concept of bothsideism.'”
Clinton also mocked people who call for civility in political discourse, imitating, “Well, you know, somebody made an insulting, profane remark about President Trump, and he separated 2,300 children from their families, that’s both sides, and we should stop being uncivil — oh, and, by the way, he should stop separating children.”
Annapolis Shooter Worked At Federal Agency For Three Years After Harassment Conviction
Jarrod Warren Ramos — who allegedly killed five Maryland newspaper employees Thursday — worked at the Department of Labor at the time that he was convicted of harassment in 2011 for a pattern of bizarre behavior and remained in that job until 2014.
A spokesman for the Department of Labor told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Ramos had been employed by a Bureau of Labor Statistics IT contractor and that his employment ended in 2014. He did not say on what terms the employment ended.
In July 2011, Ramos pleaded guilty to criminal harassment in a Maryland courthouse. He was initially sentenced to 90 days in jail, but served 18 months of probation and was ordered to therapy.
The Capitol Gazette, a local paper, published an article on the harassment case, headlined “Jarrod wants to be your friend.” It outlined a bizarre fixation by Ramos on a high school classmate who did not remember him, with years of Facebook messages and persistent threats.
‘I CAN’T EVEN … ‘ — HILLARY TURNS INTO A STUTTERING MESS WHEN ASKED ABOUT MELANIA TRUMP
In an interview published Friday, Hillary Clinton was asked about first lady Melania Trump and what she thought of President Trump’s immigration policy.
Clinton’s bizarre, rambling response made little sense and did not convey much information.
The Guardian’s Decca Aitkenhead writes:
“I ask how [Clinton] interpreted the jacket the first lady wore to visit a child detention centre, bearing the opaque and intriguing slogan: ‘I really don’t care, do u?’ Clinton slumps back in her chair, wide eyed, arms spread, defeated by the mystery. ‘That, I have no idea. I have no idea. I can’t even … I don’t have any idea. I don’t know.’ Does she feel sorry for the first lady? ‘I don’t know. I honestly don’t know.'”
The Guardian article also includes a quote from Clinton in which she refuses to condemn many on the left becoming “uncivil.”
Maxine Waters says she's faced increased threats, cancels attending 2 events
"As the President has continued to lie and falsely claim that I encouraged people to assault his supporters, while also offering a veiled threat that I should 'be careful', even more individuals are leaving (threatening) messages and sending hostile mail to my office," she said in a statement.
"There was one very serious death threat made against me on Monday from an individual in Texas which is why my planned speaking engagements in Texas and Alabama were cancelled (sic) this weekend," she continued. "This is just one in several very serious threats the United States Capitol Police are investigating in which individuals threatened to shoot, lynch, or cause me serious bodily harm."
The Democratic congresswoman received widespread criticism from both sides of the aisle after she encouraged people to publicly confront and harass members of Trump's administration in places like restaurants, department stores and gas stations.
Newspaper reporter Conor Berry resigns over false claim Annapolis shooter wore MAGA hat
A reporter at The Republican newspaper in Massachusetts resigned Friday after falsely claiming on Twitter that the man accused of gunning down five journalists Thursday at a Maryland newspaper wore a “Make America Great Again” hat as he carried out his attack.
Conor Berry apologized for the mistake in a pinned tweet, calling it “stupid” and “regrettable.” His Twitter bio now states, “Former newspaper reporter.”
Folks, My 21-year career as a “journalist,” a fancy term that makes my skin crawl, frankly, came to a screeching halt yesterday with one stupid, regrettable tweet. Can’t take it back; wish I could. My sincere apologies to all good, hardworking reporters and to POTUS supporters.
— CONOR BERRY (@CBerry413) June 29, 2018
Rep. Jeff Denham: Narrow bills are the strategy for fixing immigration
Rep. Jeff Denham previewed upcoming attempts on immigration reform Friday, after Republicans failed to pass their comprehensive “compromise” bill earlier this week.
“I think there are extremes on both sides that want to politicize the issue and use it for political gain,” he said on during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
The California Republican said the fight over immigration, whether it be with Democrats or fellow Republicans, is not over. He explained that on particular issues, like the Dreamer fix, there are Democrats willing to work across the aisle.
Mr. Denham explained the way forward was most likely through smaller, more narrow bills that tackle individual aspects of the overall immigration system. He said that the first bill would address the ongoing family separation issue, and the next issue on the table would be a fix for DACA, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
McConnell on court schedule: 'This is not 2016'
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell renewed his vow to vote on a new Supreme Court justice this fall, taking to the Senate floor Thursday to reject Democrats’ demands to put it off until next year.
Democrats, still seething over the way Republicans blocked consideration of a pick in 2016 ahead of the presidential election, say that standard should be expanded to include congressional elections as well.
Mr. McConnell said that was completely different.
“This is not 2016. These aren’t the final months of a second-term, constitutionally lame-duck presidency with a presidential election fast approaching. We are right in the middle of this president’s first term,” he said.
He said it’s more accurate to compare this year to 2010, when President Obama nominated and the Democratic-led Senate confirmed Justice Elena Kagan, or 1994, when President Clinton nominated and a Democrat-majority Senate confirmed Justice Stephen G. Breyer.
Overturn Roe v. Wade
We write not to praise Anthony Kennedy's jurisprudence, but to bury it.
Across 31 years, Justice Kennedy issued many rulings, good and bad. But his most lasting legacy was the travesty he released 26 years ago today, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. With airy, mystical reasoning, unrooted in the Constitution, the common law, or the natural law, he talked himself into saving a precedent that was indefensible legally, scientifically, and morally.
In saving Roe v. Wade in 1992, Kennedy did violence to the rule of law, and undermined the court's legitimacy and added extra poison to our politics. Casey helped transform national politics into a winner-take-all partisan death match that, over a decade, saw both parties destroy the rules of the Senate. That's before mentioning that Casey condemned tens of millions of babies to death in the womb.
Politicians are already saying in so many words that replacing Kennedy is, more than anything else, about saving or scrapping Roe and Casey.
Most news media will portray Roe as a venerable precedent, but an honest discussion of these cases should begin with an admission of the near-universal judgment among legal scholars, not just those who oppose abortion, that Roe v. Wade was a jurisprudential embarrassment.
Leftmedia: Trump Caused Newspaper Attack
Five journalists who worked at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, were murdered Thursday when an individual with a longstanding grudge against the newspaper blasted his way into the building seeking revenge for a lost 2015 defamation lawsuit he had leveled against the paper. It was personal animus against that specific newspaper, not some generalized anti-media sentiments. Nevertheless, as news of the attack quickly spread across the country, once again leftists politicized the atrocity by blaming President Donald Trump.
The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman wrote, “What happened today is sickening. This alleged gunman appears to have had a longstanding grudge against the paper and little else is known so far. But Trump is the only president in memory to call the press ‘the enemy of the people.’”
Reuters’ Rob Cox went further, angrily pontificating, “This is what happens when [Donald Trump] calls journalists the enemy of the people. Blood is on your hands, Mr. President. Save your thoughts and prayers for your empty soul.” Others joined in with similar memes.“
The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway observed, "We also didn’t see [the MSM] wonder if the media’s harsh treatment of Republicans led to the mass assassination attempt on a baseball field filled with Republican senators and members of Congress last June. They also didn’t wonder if anti-police rhetoric led to the targeted murders of various policemen in recent years. The blame game seems to work one way with traditional media sources.”
AG Sessions Is Rewriting Asylum Regulations
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is drafting a regulation that will narrow the asylum rules and likely deter many people from taking the costly and risky step of migrating towards the United States, according to Vox.com.
Vox reported that they read a draft of the regulation, which could be enacted by the end of the year:
Under the plan, people would be barred from getting asylum if they came into the US between ports of entry and were prosecuted for illegal entry. It would also add presumptions that would make it extremely difficult for Central Americans to qualify for asylum, and codify — in an even more restrictive form — an opinion written by Sessions in June that attempted to restrict asylum for victims of domestic and gang violence.
Mueller Prosecutors and Mike Flynn Agree to Third Delay in Sentencing
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn will wait another two months to receive a sentence for his false statements to investigators after his defense lawyers agreed to another delay Friday with prosecutors from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office.
Flynn, who pleaded guilty in December to lying to FBI agents about the content of his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak in the presidential transition, had already agreed to two delays in sentencing with Mueller’s prosecutors. The felony charge to which Flynn has pleaded guilty carries a potential five years in prison. Given that this is Flynn’s first offence and his agreement to cooperate with investigators working the “Russia probe,” he is expected to receive significantly less time than that and may avoid incarceration altogether.
Reports in the winter indicated that Flynn’s team may be considering a withdrawal of his guilty plea and ongoing negotiations to that effect may also have provided some of the rationale for this new delay.
Goodlatte: Peter Strzok Refused to Testify About Any Talks with Fusion GPS
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) revealed that during his closed session interview with the House Judiciary and Oversight committees, former FBI official Peter Strzok refused to answer multiple questions, including whether he communicated with the author of the discredited anti-Trump dossier or with the firm paid by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to produce the infamous dossier.
Goodlatte made those revelations during the televised portion of Wednesday’s hearing.
"We went through a lot of questions about a lot of things for which we got answers, but we were also stymied time and time and time again because the FBI counsel instructed him not to answer because it was, as she called it, an ongoing investigation."
After the hearing, Goodlatte appeared on Fox News to further comment on the FBI counsel’s refusal to allow Strzok to answer certain questions. The Congressman said that some of Strzok’s testimony was “not believable” when it came to the “hateful nature” of his anti-Trump text messages.
“His explanations for … those questions about that hateful attitude are not believable,” Goodlatte told Fox News.
Pompeo: NKorea Has Not Returned US Soldiers' Remains
North Korea has yet to return the remains of U.S. soldiers, despite President Donald Trump's claim at a recent rally, according to Sec. of State Mike Pompeo.
Roughly 7,700 U.S. troops from the Korean War are still unaccounted for. The United States sent 100 wooden coffins to the North Korean border with South Korea to prepare for the remains.
Pompeo revealed to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday that the U.S. has "not yet physically received" the remains, but said he is "optimistic that we will begin to have two opportunities..."
Ten Horrible Liberal Tweets Blaming Trump’s ‘Fake News’ and ‘Enemy of the American People’ Attacks For the Capital Gazette Shooting in Annapolis
So, it happened again. As tragedy struck, before the shooter's motive was known, Americans were already attacking one another, assuming the worst. Naturally, Trump was attacked as "full Hitler" -- because it was Thursday.
On Thursday, a middle-aged white man with a grudge targeted the Capital Gazettein Annapolis, Md. He killed five people and injured two others. Before his motives became known, both liberals and conservatives assumed a political motive. Many liberals went so far as to directly blame President Donald Trump for the shooting.
(I will not name the shooter, because the desire for notoriety drives mass shooters. You can read about him here, although it will be enough to say his motives were personal, not political.)
Most attacked President Trump's tweet from February of last year decrying "the FAKE NEWS media" as "not my enemy" but "the enemy of the American People!" This tweet directly named five mainstream media outlets, many of which received multiple "Fake News Awards" at the beginning of this year.
Never Forget: Never-Trump Would’ve Handed Democrats 6-3 Supreme Court Majority
Had the National Review, the Weekly Standard, David Frum, Rick Wilson, Jonah Goldberg, Bill Kristol, Joe Scarborough, and the rest of this morally bankrupt crew called Never Trump won the day, Democrats would be looking at a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court.
Had Never Trump got what they wanted in 2016 — a President Hillary Clinton — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia would have already been replaced with another Ruth Bader Ginsberg, which ensured an immediate 5-4 left-wing majority. But thanks to the man Never Trump told us was not a real conservative, we got Neil Gorsuch.
If that is not enough of a real-life nightmare (as I’ll explain below), Wednesday’s retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy would have increased that already unthinkable majority to 6-3, ensuring a left-wing court rewriting the Constitution for decades to come...
Tebow Named to Double-A All-Star Team
Tim Tebow has impressed fans and fellow players alike, and now he has impressed the Double-A Eastern League All-Star committee enough to be offered a spot on this year’s team.
After improving by leaps and bounds this season, on Friday Tebow was named to the Double-A Eastern League’s All-Star squad, MLB.com reporter Anthony DiComo noted on June 29.
The former NFL quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner batted .261/.335/.398, earned five home runs in 67 games with the Mets’ Binghamton affiliate, MLB.com reported. However, those numbers include a .318/.357/.455 mark in June, easily his best month since his minor league debut last season. Tebow’s .733 places him as 35th in the Eastern League.
Ohio boy's lawn care business goes viral after 'ridiculous' neighbor calls cops on him
A resident in a Maple Heights, Ohio neighborhood called the police on a 12-year-old boy who is spending the summer mowing lawns.
The boy, Reginald “Reggie” Fields, along with his siblings and cousins, were mowing a customer's lawn when Reggie accidentally cut a different neighbor’s grass.
The mistake spurred that resident to call the Maple Heights Police Department, Lt. Joe Mocsiran confirmed to Fox News on Friday.
"They said I was cutting their grass. I didn't know it," Reggie first told WEWS News 5.
Mocsiran said no action was taken against Reggie.
“A little kid is out there working hard -- heck no,” he said, explaining that it’s difficult to tell where one person’s lawn starts and another ends in the neighborhood where the incident occurred.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/29/ohio-boys-lawn-care-business-goes-viral-after-ridiculous-neighbor-calls-cops-on-him.html
DOJ Plan Would Bar Border Hoppers From Getting Asylum
The Department of Justice is crafting a plan that would prohibit any migrant convicted of crossing the border illegally from receiving asylum, Vox reported Friday.
The plan, a copy of which was viewed by Vox, would also further restrict the ability of Central Americans to claim domestic or gang violence as a reason to request asylum.
Those who are convicted of illegal entry or reentry would be denied asylum if they were caught between legal ports of entry, asking for asylum, Vox reports.
Four Things to Know About the Supreme Court Vacancy
1. This is why the American people elected President Trump.
At this time in 2016, candidate Trump had recently made public his proposed Supreme Court shortlist. The prospect of filling Justice Scalia’s seat with someone from that list of outstanding men and women – rather than a liberal activist appointed by Hillary Clinton – was the deciding factor driving many to the polls to elect Trump President. And he has made good on that campaign promise in spades, with a raft of top-flight nominees to the appellate courts as well as the crown jewel, Justice Gorsuch. Now, as Gorsuch completes his first full term on the Court, it is clear that he is the judge we all hoped he would be: smart, fair, reasonable, and independent. His commitment to the Constitution and faithfulness to the laws he is tasked with interpreting have already left their mark on the Court.
2. The next Justice, whoever he or she is, will be outstanding.
The sports teams making their draft picks would kill for the bench President Trump has. The list from which he has pledged to select the next Justice includes the best and brightest of our federal and state judges. They all have judicial records of listening to the arguments of both sides in the courtroom, delivering well-reasoned decisions, and fairly applying the law with a scrupulous adherence to the Constitution. Like Justice Gorsuch, each one of them has the wisdom and experience necessary to sit on the Supreme Court from Day One.
Coast Guard suspends search for boater who went missing near Kent Island, Maryland
BALTIMORE – The U.S. Coast Guard in Baltimore suspended the search Friday for a missing boater who went missing near Kent Island.
Kevin Yates Sr., 41, is believed to have fallen from a 40-foot powerboat Wednesday, somewhere between Kent Island and Herrington Harbor South.
The Coast Guard made the decision to suspend the search after numerous searches with multiple partner agencies since notification. Crews completed 39 searches, providing more than 870 square nautical miles of coverage.
“Our hearts go out to the family; it’s the hardest decision to suspend a search like this,” said Cmdr. Matt Fine, the deputy commander at Sector Maryland-National Capital Region. “I would like to thank the seven port partners that searched with us. With the busy boating season, I just cannot stress enough the importance of everyone onboard wearing life jackets when on the water.”
Coast Guard Sector Maryland-National Capital Region received a report Wednesday at about 2:45 p.m., that Yates was missing from the 40-foot cabin cruiser. The boat owner had gotten underway with Yates, who had gone below deck in transit and when he had not reappeared about an hour later, the owner searched the boat for him.
After realizing he was no longer aboard, he called a friend on shore, who called the Coast Guard.The reporting source stated that Yates had likely fallen overboard between Kent Narrows and Herring Bay.
Coast Guard Sector Maryland-National Capital Region command center launched search crews aboard boats, cutters, helicopters and coordinated search efforts with the Maryland Natural Resources Police, the Maryland State Police, Anne Arundel County Fire Department and Naval Air Station Patuxent River.
The on-scene weather, at the time of the incident, was reported as 25 knot winds, 4-to-5-foot seas and a water temperature of 75 degrees.
WCSO Press Releases - Jun. 29, 2018
Incident: Disorderly Conduct
Date of Incident: 6-26-18
Location: 7000 block of State St, Willards
Suspect: Catrino, David L, 50 of Ocean City, MD
Narrative: On 6-26-18, at 2 pm, Deputies were dispatched to the area of State St, Willards for a road obstruction. The town of Willards called and advised that David Catrino completely blocked the roadway by placing large concrete road barriers across the street. The street in question is a dead end road, so the barricades allowed no access to homeowners that lived on the far side. Deputies met with town officials and with David Catrino. Catrino is a landowner in the area, and he believed that he owned the road. State St is a county road, maintained by the town of Willards. Catrino refused to move the barricades and became disorderly. Catrino was arrested and transported to Central Booking. The barricades weighed 2000 lbs. each, and required heavy equipment to move them off the roadway.
Charges: Littering with a weight exceeding 500 lbs., Disorderly Conduct
Incident: Motor Vehicle Theft, CDS, Bench Warrant Service
Location: 812 Boundary St, Salisbury
Suspect: Kelley, Jacqulynn Elizabeth
Narrative: On 6-26-18, Deputies were dispatched to the Joseph House, 812 Boundary St, for the theft of a work van. Deputies met with the victim who advised that he left an associate, Jacqulynn Kelley, alone in the van for a short period. When he returned to the parking lot, the van was gone. A short time later, a Deputy found Kelley driving the stolen van in the area of Davis St and E Isabella St. Kelley initially provided a false name to the Deputy. The Deputy found that Kelley had an active Bench Warrant. CDS and paraphernalia were located inside the van. Kelley was arrested and transported to central booking.
Charges: Motor Vehicle Theft, Theft with a value over $1500, Possession of Heroin, Possession of Cocaine, Assuming the identity of another to avoid prosecution
Incident: Possession of CDS
Location: Rt 13 and Hazel St, Salisbury
Suspect: Morton, Tena D. 37 of Salisbury
Narrative: On 6-29-18 at 130 am, a Deputy saw a traffic violation in the area of Rt 13 and Hazel Ave. The Deputy conducted a traffic stop and an occupant advised that there was a small amount of marijuana in the car. The Deputy located the marijuana and also found a small amount of crack cocaine in the purse belonging to Tena Morton. Morton was arrested and transported to Central Booking.
Charges: CDS Possession, crack cocaine
CNN Blames Trump For Newspaper Shooting That Had Nothing to Do With Him
Gunman’s vendetta against newspaper stretched back 7 years
CNN’s Asha Rangappa blamed Donald Trump’s rhetoric for the shooting of journalists at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis yesterday despite the fact that the gunman’s vendetta against the newspaper stretched back seven years and had nothing to do with Trump.
Armed with smoke grenades and a shotgun, Jarrod W. Ramos opened fire on journalists working at the newspaper yesterday afternoon, killing five.
Almost as soon as the shooting was reported, and with zero knowledge of the gunman’s motive, mainstream press talking heads began blaming Trump’s anti-media rhetoric.
Over Six Hundred Individuals Charged in Largest Ever Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar announced that 601 individuals are being charged in the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action.
The indictment includes 165 doctors, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals, who allegedly participated in fraud schemes amounting to more than $2 billion in false billings. One hundred and sixty-two of the defendants were charged "for their roles in prescribing and distributing opioids and other dangerous narcotics," according to a press release by the Department of Justice.
"Health care fraud is a betrayal of vulnerable patients, and often it is theft from the taxpayer," said Attorney General Jeff Sessions. He continued,
"In many cases, doctors, nurses, and pharmacists take advantage of people suffering from drug addiction in order to line their pockets. These are despicable crimes.… Today the Department of Justice is announcing the largest health care fraud enforcement action in American history. This is the most fraud, the most defendants, and the most doctors ever charged in a single operation—and we have evidence that our ongoing work has stopped or prevented billions of dollars’ worth of fraud.
Kirsten Gillibrand’s Stepmother Was In Child-Trafficking Sex Cult Says Former Cult Employee
A former top employee of the NXIVM sex cult tells Big League Politics that Democrat senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s stepmother was an active member of the cult while Gillibrand’s father actually worked for the cult.
NXIVM leaders Keith Raniere and Allison Mack are standing trial on human-trafficking and child sex trafficking charges. The cult’s benefactors donated lavishly to Hillary Clinton and even hacked Hillary Clinton’s non-secure emails.
Frank Parlato, former NXIVM publicist who has exposed the fact that Raniere was branding women, told Big League Politics that the cult is nothing less than a Satanic organization with ties to major Democratic politicians and an extremely disturbing record with children.
Governor Hogan Lowers Maryland Flag to Honor Victims of Annapolis Shooting
ANNAPOLIS, MD - Governor Larry Hogan today released the following statement ordering Maryland flags to be lowered to half-staff to honor the victims of the shooting at the offices of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis on June 28:
“With the lowering of the Maryland flag, we honor the dedicated journalists of our hometown newspaper in our state’s capital. To the family, friends, and colleagues at the Capital Gazette and its parent company, the Baltimore Sun, you have the deepest sympathies of a state in mourning,” said Governor Hogan. “There is no amount of clarity that will ever explain or nullify the pain that comes with losing so many lives for so little reason; journalism is a noble profession upon which our democracy depends, and we will fight to defend it.”
The flags are lowered to honor the following Capital Gazette staff members: Gerald Fischman, Robert Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith, and Wendi Winters.
The governor has the power to lower the Maryland flag at his discretion. The flags will remain lowered until sunset on Monday, July 2.
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(PIKESVILLE, MD) – With extra traffic expected in the days leading up to and several days after the Fourth of July, additional Maryland state troopers will be on patrol, using a variety of initiatives to keep traffic moving, respond quickly to highway incidents and take appropriate enforcement action when violations are observed that threaten the safety of travelers.
Beginning today, troopers from each of the 23 Maryland State Police barracks will focus enforcement efforts on impaired driving, aggressive driving, speeding, distracted driving and other violations that often contribute to highway tragedies. Additional troopers will be working overtime assignments funded by highway safety grants from the Maryland Department of Transportation Highway Safety Office.
Troopers on the Eastern Shore will be directing their heaviest enforcement to Rt. 50 and Rt. 13. Impaired driving and speed enforcement will be priorities. Drivers, especially those headed to the shore, are urged to be on constant alert for pedestrians. Pedestrians are reminded to use crosswalks, obey traffic control devices and dress for visibility.
In addition to working enforcement in cooperation with local police departments, troopers will be working closely with personnel from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration. SHA provides significant help arranging detours at crash sites and conducting courtesy patrols to assist motorists.
Drivers can check travel conditions and delays before traveling. SHA provides up-to-date traffic and road conditions at roads.maryland.gov, or chart.state.md.us. Traffic conditions are also available at md511.org, or by safely dialing 511 on your cell phone.
Troopers are urging travelers not to drive distracted and to make traffic safety their first priority whenever they are behind the wheel. Help us keep Maryland highways safe throughout this upcoming Fourth of July.
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Salisbury City Council Agenda Packet
Attached is the Agenda Packet for Monday’s Work Session, which is posted on the website at the link below.
https://salisbury.md/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/7-2-18-Work-Session-Agenda-Packet.pdf
A Father's Ten Commandments
Happy Fathers’ Day. Get back to work.
Even on this day, you are on the clock. Your children are watching and listening.
Thus, I offer you a Father’s Ten Commandments.
Read it with humility. That is how it was written.
1. Your Soul Comes First
Sounds a little selfish to put yourself before anyone else, but we’re talking your soul, your lifeblood. Dads will get all kinds of advice about spending time with their kids and being present (some of which is spelled out below), but is your presence empty of meaning? Your own soul must be nourished, if you are to nourish others. (Remember the airline instructions in case of emergencies: apply your own oxygen mask before taking care of your children.)
2. Love Your Wife
We are imperfect but love never fails (1 Corinthians 13: 8-9). It is an absolute lesson to teach your children. However, the lesson is weakened considerably if Dad does not love Mom. This is a community you’re building, based on a committed love. The lesson extends beyond creating a secure home life. Love includes respect, and if you do not respect your wife, how do you expect your sons to respect women? How do you expect your daughters to avoid men who do not respect them?
3. Your Family Comes First
Yes, the first commandment still applies. We’re talking about how you apply that soulful life of yours. Having children is not something to check off the bucket list; they are not part of your life, they areyour life. Your work is not about your fulfillment (a bonus, if it is fulfilling) but about providing for your family. Your time is now a commodity to give away — make time for the whole family, and for each of them. Schedule that time like you would for any valued appointment. Remember the stories passed on by Hospice nurses: They never heard a patient regret not winning more accolades or making more money; the wish was for more time in relationships.
New litmus test? Dems demand elimination of ICE amid immigration furor
Democratic lawmakers and candidates are increasingly seeking the elimination of Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of their suite of demands in D.C.'s heated border battle.
The calls reflect not only the deepening divide between the two partisan poles on immigration -- with one side seeking a border wall, and the other looking to dismantle the lead enforcement agency -- but the growing influence of the progressive wing.
More and more Democratic politicians have embraced such causes as 'Medicare for all' and a federal jobs guarantee. Now, they're getting behind the call to abolish ICE, with gusto.
Perhaps no 2018 moment better captured that growing influence than liberal primary challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's shocking victory Tuesday night over Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., a member of party leadership.
Ocasio-Cortez ran on all three of those platforms, and even protested outside an ICE center in Texas.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/28/new-litmus-test-dems-demand-elimination-ice-amid-immigration-furor.html
Philadelphia releases felon despite detainer and criminal arrest warrant in place
PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a dangerous illegal alien after he was released by the city of Philadelphia, despite an active detainer, which included a criminal arrest order signed by a federal judge.
On Thursday, June 14, 2018, ICE officers obtained a criminal arrest warrant in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania for Guillermo Leon-Sandoval for violation of 8 USC 1326(a), re-entry of a removed alien. City authorities had previously said they would honor detainers that included a criminal arrest order signed by a judge, but did not in this case.
Guillermo Leon-Sandoval, 35, has been charged by Philadelphia police with unlawful restraint/serious bodily injury; simple assault; recklessly endangering another person; and false imprisonment. The incident giving rise to these charges involved the assault of his estranged wife. Leon-Sandoval was also previously convicted of illegal entry in September 2014.
“The local government’s goal of making Philadelphia a sanctuary city will not deter us from our mission of making communities safer nationwide and honoring immigration laws,” said Gregory Brawley, acting field office director for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Philadelphia. “In this case, the individual has been charged with recent violent crimes. We will continue to pursue individuals such as this for arrest and removal.”
“I commend ICE for arresting this individual pursuant to a federal judicial arrest warrant,” said U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain. “The U.S. Attorney’s Office is committed to enforcing federal law, including, of course, our immigration laws. We will continue working with all law enforcement agencies to keep our community safe.”
ICE does not conduct sweeps, checkpoints, or raids that target aliens indiscriminately. ICE operations target public safety threats, such as convicted criminal aliens, gang members, and individuals who have violated our nation’s immigration laws, including those who re-entered the country after being removed and immigration fugitives ordered removed by federal immigration judges. Reports to the contrary create panic and put communities and law enforcement personnel in unnecessary danger. Any groups falsely reporting such activities are doing a disservice to those they claim to support.
Kamala Harris: Dem Colleagues Ready to Play ‘Hardball’
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said her colleagues in the Senate were ready to play “hardball” to delay President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee’s confirmation to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy until after the 2018 midterms.
When asked what a Trump pick would look like, Harris said, “We are looking at a destruction of the Constitution of the United States based on all the folks he’s been appointing thus far for lifetime appointments. He’s been appointing ideologues. He’s been appointing people who have refused to agree Brown v Board of Education is settled law.he’s been appointing people not even qualified by bar associations. So this has got to be one—we all need to understand this to be one of the most serious fights we have yet to have had with this president. And we cannot relent.”
Pence to Central Americans: ‘If You Can’t Come Legally, Don’t Come at All’
Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Brazil on Tuesday with a warning message for Central Americans thinking of coming to the United States or sending their children with smugglers: “If you can’t come legally, don’t come at all.”
Pence was in Brazil meeting with President Michel Temer when he made remarks specifically addressed to Central Americans.
“To the people of Central America, I have a message for you, straight from my heart and straight from the heart of the American people,” Pence began, calling them neighbors with hopes that they will “prosper and thrive.”
“Don’t risk you lives or the lives of your children by trying to come to the United States on a road run by drug smugglers and human traffickers,” urged Pence.
“If you can’t come legally, don’t come at all,” he said firmly with a strong warning. “If someone tells you they can bring your child to America, don’t believe them. Hold on to your children.”
The Vice President urged Central Americans to “Build your lives in your homeland and be confident that your neighbors in the United States and across this new world are all working together to ensure a brighter future for all of the nations of this hemisphere.”
Leftist Anti-Trump, Soros-Funded Groups Join Open Borders Protests
The Women’s March – the same Soros-backed leftist protest group that marched to resist the duly elected President Donald Trump and pushed the anti-gun March for Our Lives – is jumping on the open borders movement in protests planned for Thursday and Saturday in Washington, D.C., and across the country.
The Women’s March Facebook page states:
We call on women from all communities to descend on our nation’s capital and demand the safety and freedom of immigrant families and children. We will put our bodies on the line to demand an end to this administration’s the zero-tolerance policy that automatically criminalizes undocumented immigrants and tears families apart, and to call on Congress to abolish ICE, an agency that is terrorizing our communities every day.
More drama here
Unknown substance discoloring Baltimore's Inner Harbor
BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Department of Public Works has identified the source of what discolored Baltimore's Inner Harbor Thursday afternoon.
Around 4 p.m., Baltimore DPW tweeted that material discharging into the Inner Harbor is sediment from a downtown construction project. They said the project is not being done under DPW authority.
The Mayor's Office of Emergency Management tweeted, "We are aware of the discolored water at the Inner Harbor. We are monitoring the situation. The Baltimore Fire Department is investigating. We have no additional information at this time."
The Fire Department tweeted that crews are at the scene, and "preliminary test showed no hazard or threat to anyone walking the Pavilion."
Smug Rosenstein Refuses to Tell Rep. DeSantis Whether Anyone in Obama Admin Directed Halper to Approach Trump’s Camp
DAG Rod Rosenstein smugly laughed at Rep. Ron DeSantis Thursday after the GOP lawmaker asked him why he hasn’t recused himself from the Mueller probe in the face of obvious conflicts of interest.
Rosenstein also refused to tell DeSantis whether anyone in the Obama administration directed the informant, Stefan Halper, to approach the Trump campaign.
FBI Director Christopher Wray and DAG Rod Rosenstein are on Capitol Hill Thursday publicly testifying to House Republicans over the FBI and DOJ’s mishandling of Hillary’s email investigation and Spygate.
House Republicans will also be holding a vote Thursday on a resolution demanding the DOJ comply with requests to turn over classified Trump-Russia docs or face impeachment, contempt.
Rep. Harris Urges Baltimore County Executive to Comply with Federal Immigration Law
WASHINGTON, DC: On June 28, Congressman Andy Harris, M.D. (MD-01) sent a letter to Baltimore County Executive Don Mohler concerning the County Executive’s position on illegal immigration and border security. Congressman Harris sent this letter after County Executive Mohler wrote to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, expressing disdain for the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Congressman Harris made the following statement regarding the letter:
“The State of Maryland has the second highest frequency of MS-13 gang activity in the nation, second only to California. I am concerned that County Executive Mohler will not comply with federal immigration law, and instead follow the policies of his predecessor and establish Baltimore County as a sanctuary for criminal illegal immigrants. No one wants to see children separated from their parents, and the federal government is taking action to keep together families detained for illegally crossing the border. But the safety of Maryland’s citizens is my top priority, and compliance with federal immigration law keeps Marylanders safe. I urge County Executive Mohler to comply with federal immigration law.”
The Genocide Of White South Africans Is In Full Swing
Trump Puts ICE Protesters and “Extremist Democrats” on Notice “The Only Response They Will Find From Our Govt is LAW AND ORDER!”
President Trump put ICE protesters and “extremist Democrats” on notice late Wednesday evening in a pair of tweets.
The left is completely unhinged; they want open borders, no law and order and to abolish ICE.
Protesters across the nation have put ICE buildings under siege, blocking and harassing officers coming and going to work.
Antifa anarchists posted pictures, names and locations of ICE officers online to encourage violent protesters to hunt down officials.
A senior DHS official residing in Washington D.C., recently found a decapitated, burnt animal carcass on his doorstep.
Less is more: The rise of over-treatment in the 21st Century
The country doctor of the early 20th Century had very few tools to address patients’ complaints. Armed with a few simple medications and some basic surgical techniques, they often had to rely on reassurance and bedside manner to ease suffering.
The situation has changed. Backed with an impressive array of medical advances, the tendency is for doctors to treat aggressively. Patients’ expectations have been stoked by glowing media accounts of impressive breakthroughs against an ever-expanding list of maladies. Direct-to-consumer advertising encourages the public to “ask your health professional” about this or that cutting-edge therapy.
Overtreatment has therefore become rife; only in recent years are we coming to re-evaluate highly-touted tests, medications and procedures.
In a recent survey of physicians, “Overtreatment in the U.S.”, doctors admitted that 20.6% of overall medical care was unnecessary, including 22.0% of prescription medications, 24.9% of tests, and 11.1% of procedures. The main reasons cited were fear of malpractice (84.7%); patient request or pressure (59.0%); and difficulty accessing patient records (38.2%) Most of the physicians surveyed (70.8%) believed that doctors are more likely to perform unnecessary procedures when they profit from them.
Another recent study concluded that “5.5% of hospital admissions, 14% of hysterectomies and 10–20% of antibiotics prescribed for upper respiratory tract infections are unnecessary and could be avoided.” (Source)
Lately, there have been some notable instances of overtreatment.
Cancer: Recent papers presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) showed that aggressive treatment of certain cancers was unwarranted.
Nolte: Supreme Court Fight Will Increase Violence from Media-Sanctioned Mobs
With nothing less than the fate of the Supreme Court at stake, America’s far-left radicals and their enablers in the establishment media are about to turn bullying, intimidation, menacing, and outright violence up to 11.
As we have meticulously documented, Jeff Zucker’s CNN has spent the last five years inspiring, normalizing, encouraging, and outright calling for political violence.
Zucker and his CNN puppets (most especially Chris Cuomo and Jake Tapper) see mob justice as a legitimate political tool, a way to boost Democrat turnout, to blame their own chaos on Trump, and to terrorize their targets, including innocent police officers. And if this media-inspired violence can intimidate a few weak-kneed Republicans into voting against Trump’s upcoming Supreme Court pick, all the better.
Unfortunately for law-abiding Americans on the right and left, CNN is no longer alone. As we have witnessed during the past weeks, the rest of the establishment media have now joined CNN in its unholy crusade to justify and inspire left-wing hate mobs.
Good Riddance, Justice Kennedy
While it is true that Justice Anthony Kennedy was a disappointment to conservatives, the observation misses the point. Kennedy did not owe conservatives decisions that they liked. What all Americans deserved from him was the conscientious application of the law. That they did not get it is the true indictment of his time on the Supreme Court.
Again and again, Kennedy made rulings that aggrandized the power of the Court and of himself as its swing justice. No justice, right or left, was more willing to substitute his judgment for that of elected officials and voters. No justice was less willing to tie himself down to clear rules or a legal philosophy that would constrain him in future cases, let alone rules or a philosophy that bore a plausible relation to the Constitution. We moved toward a system of government no Founder intended, in which his whim determined policy on a vast range of issues.
House Passes Measure To Force DOJ Documents While Rosenstein Grilled In Heated Testimony
The House passed a resolution on Thursday demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) hand over a trove of sensitive documents related to the FBI's investigations into both Hillary Clinton's email probe and the Russia investigation.
The floor vote passed 226-183, representing a further escalation in an ongoing feud between Congressional investigators and the DOJ. The demand sets a July 6 deadline for outstanding materials, which Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) said on Wednesday that failure to comply could result in holding Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in contempt, or even impeachment.
Moments before the resolution was passed, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein traded barbs in a fiery exchange during Congressional testimony - with Jordan accusing Rosenstein of keeping information from Congress.
“I am not keeping any information from Congress,” Rostenstein insisted, before being cut off.
“In a few minutes, Mr. Rosenstein, I think the House of Representatives is gonna say something different,” Jordan fired back.
“I don’t agree with you … If they do, they will be mistaken,” replied Rosenstein.
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Utah St.
6:00 PM PT7:00 PM MT8:00 PM CT9:00 PM ET2:00 PM GMT10:00 PM 北京时间7:00 PM MST9:00 PM EST, Nov 18, 2019
Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, Logan, Utah Attendance: 8,667
No. 15 Utah State routs UTSA 82-50
Rutgers continues hot streak, tops Minn
(AP Photo/Eli Lucero)
By JOHN COON
LOGAN, Utah (AP) Opponents are quickly discovering that generating offense against Utah State is a difficult task.
The No. 15 Aggies proved it again on their way to an 82-50 victory over UTSA on Monday night. It did not take long for the Roadrunners to get overwhelmed on one offensive possession after another.
Utah State (5-0) dominated the inside, outrebounding UTSA 55-36, and outscoring the Roadrunners 46-16 in the paint and 38-8 in second chance points. It meant fewer looks at the basket and tougher shots overall for UTSA.
The Roadrunners (0-5) shot just 29% from the field. They were the fourth straight Utah State opponent to shoot under 40% on their field goals.
"That's just what we want our identity to be," senior guard Sam Merrill said. "With all the hype and the expectations and the rankings, we understand that we're still not even the most talented team. We got to play the right way and I think that's what we've done these last four games."
Merrill scored 21 points, including five 3-pointers, to lead the Aggies. Diogo Brito added 17 points and Brock Miller chipped in 10 for Utah State.
Justin Bean and Alphonso Anderson each had 11 rebounds to set the tone on the glass. Bean also dished out a career-high five assists.
Jhivvan Jackson scored 15 points to lead the Roadrunners. Erik Czumbel added 12 points and Keaton Wallace added 10. Jackson and Wallace both shot under 30% from the floor.
Points were in short supply largely because Utah State effectively blanketed the perimeter. UTSA just went 7-of-30 from 3-point range.
"We're kind of a perimeter based team right now and we need to find ways to get better shots and easier shots and attack the rim off the dribble," Roadrunners coach Steve Henson said. "Their length certainly bothered us in there and they stayed up on Keaton and Jhivvan. Even the shots they made were pretty contested."
Merrill scored three of Utah State's first four baskets. All of those came from the perimeter, allowing the Aggies to carve out a quick 11-2 lead.
UTSA answered with a 14-2 run over a 4 1/2 minute span. The Roadrunners took their first lead after Czumbel and Jacob Germany hit back-to-back baskets to put UTSA up 16-13.
It didn't last long.
Utah State scored the next 14 points and didn't look back. The Aggies scored baskets on five straight possessions, highlighted by Miller's corner three and dunk off a steal on back-to-back possessions. UTSA missed 10 straight shots over a four minute stretch, which opened the door for Utah State to charge back in front.
"To play good defense, you obviously have to be fundamentally sound, but you have to want to do it," Utah State coach Craig Smith said. "You have to that toughness and that edge to do that. We've demonstrated that we have that - both last year and this year."
The Aggies ended any hope of a potential comeback late in the second half. Utah State scored baskets on six straight possessions, culminating in back-to-back 3-pointers from Brito and Alphonso Anderson, to take a 70-46 lead with 6:42 left.
Bean finished with double-digit rebounds for the fourth time in just five games. Eight of his 11 boards came on the offensive glass. The sophomore forward is averaging 11.0 rebounds through five games.
"That guy just has a nose to the ball," Smith said. "You can't explain it. It's like a really good middle linebacker that seems to recover every fumble or is just always in the right place at the right time."
Merrill moved ahead of Jalen Moore (1,634 points) for ninth-place in school history for career points. He has scored 1,655 career points and is averaging 17.4 points per game this season.
Utah State will get a truer test of its AP Top 25 status when the Aggies play LSU and North Texas in the Jamaica Classic on Friday and Sunday respectively.
UTSA: Erratic shooting and a flurry of turnovers kept the Roadrunners from upsetting a ranked opponent for their first win of the season.
Utah State: The Aggies imposed their defensive will around the basket and forced UTSA into taking lots of tough shots for 40 minutes. Utah State also kept up the pressure in disrupting the passing lanes. It helped the Aggies overcome intermittent shooting struggles.
UTSA hosts Wiley College, an NAIA school, on Friday.
Utah State faces LSU in the first round of the Jamaica Classic on Friday.
More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25
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SpudShow 368 - Moth Complex
Group - Moth Complex
Track 1 - "Learned My Lesson", which is the lead track from our "Error 256" EP
Track 2 - Tied Up In Knots
Moth Complex is an electronic rock band fronted by singer/songwriter, Aoife O'Leary.
Moth Complex combines Aoife's powerful and gentle voice with off-kilter electronics and bruising rock. It's a sound of contrasting elements - at times loud and intense, at others pretty and soft - with each element complimenting and highlighting the other.
Based in Dublin, Ireland, Aoife began writing songs for Moth Complex with the idea of combining a propulsive sound with a hard, cold edge with open and bared melodies and words.
She approached Gerry Owens to work with her, having known his writing and production on Skindive. Together they defined their sound and wrote the songs for Moth Complex.
The live show is the perfect place to explore the varied musical elements in Moth Complex and here, Aoife is joined by Dave Kavanagh (guitar), Eoin Markey (bass) and Damien Murphy (drums).
Irish language social Network - AnLionra
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news @ nature.com: Transmissions wobbles create weather data...
"Research carried out by Hagit Messer and her colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel shows that it is possible to gauge rainfall by analysing the signal fluctuations of mobile-phone base stations. The group believes that by using information that is already collected by mobile-phone companies it should be possible to create much more accurate weather models. 'What we are offering is better accuracy and better coverage,' says Messer.
It is a well known phenomenon that rain can affect mobile-phone transmissions: droplets in the air reduce signal strength, with different-sized droplets affecting specific frequencies in the signal. This is so firmly established that base stations now automatically compensate for signal attenuations as the atmospheric conditions change, says Messer, whose work is published today in Science."
(Messer H., Zinevich A., Alpert P. Science, 312. 713 (2006).)
(. . .)
Mobile-phone signals themselves have also been harvested for other information in the past. Some researchers, such as Microsoft's Eric Horvitz, have looked at using such signals as a way of monitoring how much traffic is clogging the roads, simply by using mobile-phone transmissions as proxies for the number of cars. And in 1999 during the conflict in Kosovo, it is widely thought that some sort of disturbances in mobile-phone networks were used to help Serbian forces detect US Air Force F-117 stealth fighters, and shoot one down, when they couldn't be seen on radar.
Remember when the Chinese Embassy was "accidentally" bombed by the US in Yugoslavia? I remember hearing a student being interviewed on KPFA claim he had discovered how, using electronic equipment easily obtained from Radio Shack, one can use distortions of radio waves caused by Stealth Fighters and Bombers to track them. He described it as the planes causing "ghosts" in the TV signals, like when your antenna is not adjusted correctly. Sounded reasonable to me. After Milosevic's residence was bombed, the only radio signals being sent in the area were from the Chinese Embassy's television transmitters. Therefore, to enable our attack to proceed, the Embassy had to be bombed. I've never found mention of this anywhere— on or off the net—but I just found this:
From Pacificnews.org, 1999:
Now, five months later, two newspapers -- the Observer in London, Politiken in Copenhagen -- jointly reported October 17 that several NATO officials and military officers have admitted that U.S. bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade was deliberate.
The reporters also quoted a NIMA source as saying that the "wrong map" story was "a damned lie."
"Nearly everyone involved in NATO air operations or (radio) signals command knows that the embassy bombing was deliberate," said Jens Holsoe of Politiken, lead investigative reporter on the team.
The seasoned Danish journalist said he could not make sense of the claim that NATO based its targeting on old city maps, but "couldn't figure out in my own mind why NATO would deliberately bomb the embassy."
However, soon after he entered Kosovo with the first contingent of KFOR troops, he met a NATO electronic intelligence (Elint) officer who told him the Chinese Embassy was being used as a rebro (re-broadcasting) center.
"NATO had been hunting the radio transmitters in Belgrade," the officer said. "When the President's (Milosevic) residence was bombed on 23 April, the signals disappeared for 24 hours. When they came on the air again, we discovered they came from the embassy compound."
Oddly enough, I just found this online, from MIT, from 2001:
“Televisions have improved quite a bit, and comb filters have gotten better,” said Duckworth. “On older TV sets, though, when an airplane goes over your house, a reflective wave from the aircraft ends up interfering at your antenna, and you see lines and artifacts on your screen. To the extent that a stealth aircraft does not absorb the wave, the remnants of it still interact with the airplane and result in detectable interference patterns.”
The television analogy is particularly apt, since Lockheed has been working on a project that operates on the same principles as Roke Manor’s anti-stealth system. In this project, called Silent Sentry, FM radio stations and VHF television broadcasts are used to provide the dense network of radio waves that interacts with stealth aircraft. While there are fewer FM and VHF transmission towers than cell phone towers, each individual station transmits much more powerfully. The smaller number of stations would also reduce the computational requirements of the system.
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Alonzo Reid - "Hooked On Your Love"
You've got me hooked on your love and it's driving me crazy! You know how it is when you are so much in love. Alonzo Reid is from Montgomery, Alabama, and here's part of his bio (taken from http://www.coyotemusic.com/artists/detail/alonzo-reid/).
Alonzo "Mr. Undercover Freak" Reid earns his moniker by writing and performing a mature brand of R&B born of the tradition pioneered by the late Marvin Sease, for whom Alonzo played drums and percussion for 14 years. Alonzo began playing drums at age 6, and grew up to play behind gospel legends Shirley Caesar, Dorothy Norwood, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, The Soul Stirrers, and Aretha Franklin. Adding to an already impressive career, Alonzo also played with Bobby Womack and Mel Waiters.
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25 years of worsening poverty DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 12/09/2011
25 years of worsening poverty
Early this week, another one of those “summits” on the dire economic straits of the country was in the news — this one convened by religious and “civil society” leaders together with a leading member of the Edsa I political crowd (who is also a counsel of choice of the oligarchs). Archbishop Antonio Ledesma and Christian Monsod had a three-day “summit on poverty, inequality and social reform,” which, as expected, grumbled and griped about RP’s impoverishment.
“Our nation,” the archbishop said, “is in an explosive situation… Poverty is mounting, streets… are teeming with beggars and dislocated indigenous peoples…” And this probably why the other intoned in his keynote, “The task today is no less heroic than at Edsa — it is liberation from the yoke of poverty that would make democracy more meaningful to the poor… Twenty-five years after Edsa, where are we on that promise?”
Where indeed is the country today after those Edsa coup cohorts of the US and the oligarchy took over the reins of government?
Monsod should be the first to know. Didn’t he lawyer for what is touted as one of the most exploitative businesses in the country? Didn’t he preside over the dramatic deterioration of the electoral system when he, as chairman of the Comelec (Commission on Elections), removed party representation in the Board of Election Inspectors while allegedly padding the voters’ list prior to the 1992 polls, which (many say) enabled Fidel Ramos to steal victory and spawned worsening election cheating ever since?
Heck, Monsod and his wife were even at the forefront of Edsa II, which ousted the only Philippine president in the past 25 years who never approved — but, in fact, vigorously disapproved — any power or water rate increases in his attenuated two and a half year term. And hasn’t his wife been the poster girl of globalization economics in the country all these years?
Together, the two only embody the prevailing economic-political-corporatist system of the past 25 years under the Yellow banner.
Meanwhile, Archbishop Ledesma, I am told, is genuinely for the poor. But the religious “bleeding heart” rhetoric and busy “good Samaritan” activities of these well-intentioned human beings (like the antics of running priest, Fr. Robert Reyes) seldom translate into actionable programs that uproot the sources of poverty and its consequent moral decline.
Even during periods of ideological radicalization within the Roman Catholic Church (such as the flowering of liberation theology), the geopolitics of Rome (which has always been intricately linked with the western oligarchy’s pre-eminence) always gets in the way. Although the Vatican has chastised capitalism in many encyclicals of popes past, to this day, it ultimately yields to the power of capital, especially in its politics.
Back here, the situation is no different as the Catholic Church still persists in harping on government corruption when, in fact, it is the corruption of unfettered and extreme, globalized capitalism that systematically concentrates wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands.
The Church spearheaded the ouster of Marcos who, in his 21 years of authoritarian government, began laying the foundations for economic democracy in building publicly owned energy, water, irrigation, transport, health, shelter, as well as social and physical infrastructures.
Such publicly owned utilities are at the heart of economic democracy, where capital from taxes, utilities payments, and profits are plowed back for the expansion and development of these shared assets and services. Without economic democracy as a foundation, any political democracy can only be a farce.
Edsa I and II reversed our budding economic democracy when these assets — financed by past and future taxes of the people — were handed over to the voracious profit-seeking local oligarchy and western corporatocracy, effectively privatizing the profits while socializing the capitalization of these privatized assets.
In the ouster of President Joseph Estrada, the Catholic Church also fell prey to the schemes of the foreign and local corporatist-swindlers. It must never be forgotten that the central issue in the ouster of Erap was not jueteng, which 10 years later is still rampant in the country. The real goal was the massive privatization of our state assets, beginning with the power generating plants.
The evidence is there: The singular focus of the Edsa II regime of Gloria Arroyo was the passage of the Epira (Electric Power Industry Reform Act) that was railroaded through the lame duck Congress in May 2001, allegedly through the carrot of $300 million in ADB loans and millions of lobby money distributed by then and current Speaker Sonny Belmonte. That’s why it is no longer a surprise to hear power oligarch Erramon Aboitiz say (before the Management Association of the Philippines) that “We considered the privatization process as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
The oligarchs never had it so good when they took over our nation’s cheapest and natural energy resources (such as our hydroelectric and geothermal plants); then hiked their production cost, making our rates “the highest in Asia” (four times higher than Vietnam or China); then distributed such electric power at prices that are lopsided against residential consumers by a ratio of as much as 20:1, in favor of commercial and industrial users (like giant malls and factories).
So, should Christian Monsod and Archbishop Ledesma still wonder why the “The nation’s top 1 percent of… families — 185,000 — have an income equal to (that) of the bottom 30 percent of poor families numbering 5.5 million,” or that “the percentage of hungry families at 21.5 percent (has risen) from 15.1 percent in July?”
True, their summit may have dwelt on such issues as Hacienda Luisita, the conditional cash transfers, or the conflict in Mindanao. But, the simple truth is that all these will still have to hinge on the resolution of one fundamental injustice: The socialization of costs and the privatization of profit.
What they did to power, they did to water, toll ways, telecoms, ad nausea. These people can summit all they want; but they who created the problem can never be expected to provide the solution.
(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino/Radyo OpinYon, Monday to Friday, 5 to 6 p.m. on 1098AM; Talk News TV with HTL, Saturday, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable Channel 8; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio archives)
The CIA's most secret prison revealed
In the historic city of Bucharest, the CIA tortured and interrogated high-risk terrorists for years in a basement prison, under the nose of roughly two million Romanians.
An investigation carried out by reporters for the Associated Press led to the news organization revealing on Thursday that in the years after the September 11 terror attacks, the Central Intelligence Agency operated an underground holding center for some of the most sought after alleged terrorists. There in a small six-cell jail, prisoners such as al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were beaten and detained, all unbeknownst to the citizens of Romania or American authorities outside of the CIA.
This revelation from the AP comes after officials have adamantly denied any such institution in the past..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/prison-revealed-cia-bucharest-371/
Iran shows intercepted CIA drone unscathed (VIDEO)
Days after the Pentagon first denied and then admitted that it lost touch with a high-tech drone aircraft, authorities in Iran are now saying that they have the plane — and its condition is pristine.
The unmanned, robotic aircraft — a RQ170 Sentinel drone plane — disappeared last week. American authorities quickly dismissed claims that they lost the plane over Iran, only to later admit that the CIA was flying a reconnaissance mission over Afghanistan when they lost touch with the top-secret stealth drone. Soon after it was believed that communication was cut once the plane waded through the air in Iranian territory. American officials then claimed that satellite imagery showed that the drone had crashed and was beyond repair.
Officials out of Tehran, however, now say that they intercepted the craft and have it in perfect shape. For proof, Iran television has even broadcast footage of the craft..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/iran-drone-plane-craft-385/
Election-meddling fiasco hits US-Russia relations
Revelations about email transactions between the US State Department and the Russian election watchdog Golos prior to Russia's parliamentary elections threaten to bring the reset to a grinding halt.
Before a single vote was cast in the parliamentary elections, a string of incidents indicated that foreign governments were already exerting influence over the election process.
Golos, an independent watchdog that has been monitoring elections in Russia for 10 years, was fined 30,000 rubles ($1,000) last week by a Moscow court for publishing “election-related opinion polls and research” after a deadline for publishing such material had passed (it is illegal in Russia to publish such information five days or less before an election).
Duma officials who petitioned to start a probe with the prosecutor’s office argued that the NGO was funded by “foreign organizations” hoping to influence the results of the elections.
Watchdogs to guard the watchdogs?
The Russian news website Life News on Friday published emails it claims show correspondence between the US State Department and the Russian election watchdog Golos that detail payments for work done to discredit the results of Russia’s parliamentary vote.
Life News reported it has come into the possession of 60 megabytes of Golos' private online correspondence sent and received by Golos Executive Chief Lilya Shibanova and her deputy Grigory Melkonyants. Judging by the published documents, the Russian election watchdog, which claimed to be an independent entity, was actually funded by the US State Department to advance US foreign policy objectives..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/politics/russia-us-elections-clinton-putin-2012-usaid-427/
Another Filipino executed in China, OFW group calls for ‘Zero Remittance Day’ on Dec. 18
“No Filipino goes out of the country with a death wish. Our 12 million overseas Filipino workers were compelled to leave the country to seek so-called greener pastures abroad in the absence of jobs, livelihood and decent living conditions in the Philippines.” – Garry Martinez, Migrante International
BUSTILLOS CHURCH, Manila — Shortly after noon, Vice President Jejomar Binay confirmed the execution in China of the 35-year-old Filipino who was sentenced to die for smuggling heroin. In front of Bustillos Church, a stone’s throw away from Mendiola, a moment of silence was offered to another victim of government neglect.
“I came here to extend my condolences to the family. I know how they are feeling right now. Seeing, touching your loved one and then after a few minutes, you see them lying down, cold and lifeless,” Basilisa Ordinario, mother of Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, a Filipino executed in China on March 30, told Bulatlat.com.
Ordinario said she knows how difficult it is to accept an execution of a loved one. She broke down in the middle of the campout dubbed “Kampuhan laban sa Krisis, Kaltas at Kahirapan” when Garry Martinez, chairperson of Migrante International, relayed the execution of the 35-year-old OFW in China.
“They need prayers so they could gather their strength,” Ordinario said. “Our government runs under a rotten system.”
Basilisa Ordinario, mother of Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, breaks down during the moments of silence offered to the unidentified OFW executed in China on Dec. 8(Photo Janess Ann J. Ellao / Bulatlat.com)
Garry Martinez, chairperson of Migrante International, said the government should try telling the news to Mrs. Ordinario in person. Ordinario has not received any significant help from the government after Sally’s execution on March 30.
“The labor export policy has brought about deaths of OFWs,” Martinez said, “Even if we die abroad, they would not speak to protect our rights for fear of losing billions of dollars in remittances.”
Last minute efforts?
The unidentified OFW was arrested for trying to smuggle in 1.495 kilos of heroin at the Guilin International Airport in China. Last November 28, the Philippine Consulate General in Guangzhou received a confirmation that the Supreme People’s Court has affirmed the lower court’s decision imposing the death sentence on the OFW. On Nov. 30, the DFA announced that the OFW would be executed.
The DFA stressed that the Filipino was not an overseas Filipino worker but entered China as a tourist. Consequently, on Dec. 3, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said the Filipino was a “veteran drug mule,” receiving about $4,000 to $6,000 every operation..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/12/09/another-filipino-executed-in-china-ofw-group-calls-for-zero-remittance-day-on-dec-18/
Worse hunger cited in blocking fare hike petition, other price hikes
“At this point any increase in transport fares will be rendered insignificant amid continuing oil price increases.” – Lana Linaban, Gabriela
MANILA – Filipinos are known for being optimistic and happy, but many still cannot escape the harsh reality of increasing prices and dwindling income. More than half of Filipino families (10.4 million) have rated themselves as poor in the third quarter of this year, up from last quarter’s 9.8 million families, based on a Social Weather Stations survey. “Moderate” and “severe” hunger also reportedly worsened, as an estimated 4.3 million families experienced having nothing to eat in the past three months.
These only confirmed what progressive groups have been saying each time they press the government to put an end to hikes in prices of oil products and utilities, and for a substantial wage hike. The monthly budget of Filipino families has been eroded through the years without a substantial wage hike amid nonstop price hikes.
In a study released last April, independent think-tank Ibon Foundation revealed that the current minimum wage in the National Capital Region, where wage is relatively highest in the country, is down to two-fifths of the estimated average family living wage (FLW) of P988 ($22.976) a day. Wages have thus shrunk further from being at least half of the average family living wage in 2001 to just two-fifths of living wages today.
Aquino administration and price hikes, worse hunger
Instead of correcting this problem of forced belt-tightening of Filipinos, the Aquino government has “time and again wronged the people by failing to provide a much needed respite from scandalous increases in prices of oil and other commodities,” said Lana Linaban, secretary-general of women’s group Gabriela.
President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III has been accused of conniving with the oil cartel and sharing in their “greed,” to the detriment of Filipino consumers. Aquino has also been criticized for not acting on pricing abuses of telecommunication companies, power companies, drug companies and schools and universities. His 2012 budget was likewise condemned by critics as skewed against the actual needs of the people and more in favour of paying big financial institutions and arming the military..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/12/08/worse-hunger-cited-in-blocking-fare-hike-petition-other-price-hikes/
Police use violence against protesters marching to Mendiola again
“Prohibiting such activities, and branding it as “seditious,” goes against the core principles of democracy, transparency and accountability which are central in Aquino’s vision of a straight path and contrary to the call of the Aquino administration for active public participation in the governance of our country.” – UP Resident Alfredo Pascual
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Police once again violently dispersed protesters when they tried to march toward Chino Roces Bridge on the second day of Occupy Mendiola, Dec. 7, Wednesday, barely three days before International Human Rights day on Dec. 10. The progressive solons of Bayan Muna, Kabataan Party-list, ACT Teachers Party and Gabriela Women’s Party condemned, in the strongest possible terms, the violent dispersal of hundreds of protesters attempting to reach Chino Roces Bridge (former Mendiola Bridge).
Police violence has seriously injured three student protesters.(Photo courtesy of Alvin Tenedero / Bulatlat.com)
“The state violence exercised by the Aquino administration against the protesters is reminiscent of the Calibrated Pre-emptive Response (CPR) and other human rights violations under former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. It is deeply alarming and ironic that the Aquino administration confidently inflicts violence against peaceful protesters during the international celebration of human rights week,” the progressive bloc said in a statement sent to Bulatlat.com.
At about 3:00 p.m the protesters who marched from Plaza Miranda were once again prevented from reaching Mendiola. The police blocked the protesters near Bustillos church, a few blocks away from Mendiola, and used water cannons and truncheons to stop them. Some of the protesters were injured and was arrested by the police. According to Anton Dulce of Anakbayan who joined the protest, three were seriously injured and five protesters are still being detained – three PUP students, one member of Anakpawis and a member of Karatula cultural group – by the police at the Western Police District.
“Who would not revolt in a country where fascism is widespread? The police should apprehend criminals and not innocent people. The straight path of Aquino is zigzaged. Another falsehood in the litany of his promises,” Jing Paz, public information officer of College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) said in text message sent to Bulatlat.com..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/12/08/police-use-violence-against-protesters-marching-to-mendiola-again/
A practical Christmas NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 12/09/2011
A practical Christmas
Seventeen days to go before Christmas. Given the squabbling from left and right of frame, here’s a stanza of the one song combatants would perhaps do well to heed, if at least only for the season.
Ngayon ay Pasko Na
Ngayon ay Pasko na/Panahon na maligaya
Ang mga kalungkutan atin munang kalimutan/
At ang mga kaaway ating kaibiganin/ At kung Pasko’y tapos na/
Saka na lang muling awayin
I know I can’t force people to kiss and make up, as I in my younger days couldn’t be convinced to give up a fight. What’s additional cause for worry is the fretting and worrying over the season’s tradition of gift-giving. To give or not to give in this time of want, this is the question, in the month where Santa Claus seems to be purposely hiding. He’s nowhere to be found in the US, not in Europe, nawala na lang siyang bigla.... MORE
SC justice’s impeach dependent on House leadership By Gerry Baldo and Angie M. Rosales 12/09/2011
SC justice’s impeach dependent on House leadership
By Gerry Baldo and Angie M. Rosales 12/09/2011
The impeachment case filed against Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo is going to succeed if it has the stamp of the House leadership given the limited time Congress has to tackle the issue.
“If the House leadership wills it, there will be time,” Ilocos Norte Rep. Rodolfo Fariñas said yesterday. He is the vice chairman of the House committee on justice.
Marikina Rep. Miro Quimbo, who is also a vice chairman of the justice panel, said the House is left with only 10 session days before the Christmas break of which only three are left to the justice panel to come out with a committee report on the complaint..... MORE
SC questions DoJ-Comelec panel’s ‘secret’ probe rules, rushed rulings By Benjamin B. Pulta 12/09/2011
SC questions DoJ-Comelec panel’s ‘secret’ probe rules, rushed rulings
The Aquino lawyers may yet again lose their case before the Supreme Court (SC), as the Department of Justice-Commission on Elections (DoJ-Comelec) panel appears to have neglected publishing the rules of the panel probing the alleged 2007 senatorial fraud, along with the speed with which the DoJ wrapped up the preliminary investigation against former President Gloria Arroyo.
The non-publication of the rules of the panel investigating the alleged fraud in the 2007 elections was among the issues raised yesterday before the SC as it resumed hearing the oral arguments on the constitutionality of the DoJ-Comelec panel.
In oral arguments at the high court yesterday, several justices questioned the lack of publication of the rules of the joint preliminary investigation of the DoJ-Comelec panel.
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House to frustrate Noy on RH bill By Gerry Baldo 12/09/2011
House to frustrate Noy on RH bill
President Aquino, despite his imprimatur on the Reproductive Health (RH) bill, may not be able to get what he wants from his congressional allies.
According to Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, the House may not be able to grant the President’s wish to vote on the RH bill before the House goes on a Christmas break.
Belmonte said that the President had told to him put the issue of the RH bill to a vote before Dec. 17 but the Speaker said he may not be able to play Santa Claus to the President and grant his wish because of the long list of lawmakers who want to question the sponsors of the bill..... MORE
SC petitioned to issue final ARMM polls ruling By Benjamin B. Pulta 12/09/2011
SC petitioned to issue final ARMM polls ruling
A Group has asked the Supreme Court (SC) to declare with finality its ruling originally issued last October which upheld the law synchronizing elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) with the national elections.
In a motion for early resolution, the Bangsamoro Solidarity Movement asked the court to turn down the motions for reconsideration filed by veteran poll lawyer Romulo Macalintal, former Tawi-Tawi Gov. Almarim Centi Tillah, Prof. Datu Casan Conding and Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Laban and other petitioners seeking the reversal of the court’s ruling.
Before the law, Republic Act 10153 was passed, the ARMM polls were supposed to take place last August. The SC ruling also affirmed Malacañang’s authority to appoint officers-in-charge (OICs) for the ARMM..... MORE
Solon hails DILG acquisition of fire trucks By Charlie V. Manalo 12/09/2011
Solon hails DILG acquisition of fire trucks
Citing the pressing need at the municipal level to provide increased access to disaster relief services, Kasangga Rep. Ted Haresco yesterday lauded Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse Robredo for purchasing 170 fire trucks to cover the needs of about 666 municipalities throughout the country.
This would greatly boost the capacity of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) to handle fires throughout those municipalities which currently make do with old and dilapidated units.
Haresco said the lack of infrastructure, especially in the rural areas, already contributes to severely limited access to social services, underscoring that this poses hazards to lives of people..... MORE
Militant labor group lambasts Aquino gov’t for harassing activist-protesters By Pat C. Santos 12/09/2011
Militant labor group lambasts Aquino gov’t for harassing activist-protesters
By Pat C. Santos 12/09/2011
The militant labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) yesterday condemned the filing of trumped-up charges against five leaders and five participants in the Mendiola Campout protest action, saying the Aquino government is harassing activists holding peaceful protests against unabated hunger and poverty in the country.
The Manila Police District (MPD) yesterday filed before the Manila City Prosecutor’s Office charges against Vencer Crisostomo (Anakbayan chairman), Joel Maglunsod (vice chairman of Anakpawis Party-list and KMU), three other leaders and five participants in the Mendiola protest action.
“This is political harassment from a president who promised us change. President Aquino has not changed the dire economic situation in the country and he has not changed the government’s repressive approach to protesters,” said Elmer “Bong” Labog, KMU chairman..... MORE
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Foul play EDITORIAL 01/05/2012
House prosecutors are into dirty play, aided moreover, by the yellow media, what with the lead prosecutor, Iloilo Rep. Niel Tupas Jr., at a media forum, coming up with a deed of sale document of a condominium said to belong to Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, and claiming four more Corona properties that he said the prosecution is in the process of verifying while calling on the CJ to make public his Statement of Assets and Liabilities Networth (SALn).
The next day, the yellow media had a photo of an empty Taguig penthouse which is not even the condo that the CJ owns, and which condo, incidentally, he had earlier disclosed in his reply to the impeachment complaint..... MORE
‘America preparing military intervention in Syria’
Damascus is criticizing the US for sending an envoy to Cairo's Arab League discussions about ending the Assad regime’s crackdown on dissent. London-based political analyst Chris Bambery says the US is preparing for a military intervention in Syria.
According to Barbery, sanctions against Syria are only the beginning of Western intervention. "The key ally in this enterprise, Turkey, has been involved with the Free Syrian Army – training them, and we know there are also American advisers in those camps in Turkey," he says. And, "when you combine all that – sanctions, diplomatic moves, the involvement with the Free Syrian Army, it begins to create a dynamic that though perhaps the Americans don’t want involvement in the military operation in Syria, they can pull it in that direction.”.... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/military-syria-arab-america-223/
‘EU lacks sense of society to politically unite’
“A monetary union without political union is impossible to maintain,” economist Arjo Klamer said 20 years ago. And as Europe struggles to deal with the euro crisis, the EU countries are still too different to politically unite, Klamer told RT.
Klamer, who is a professor of the Economics of Art and Culture at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, says a political union should be formed now, because stronger fiscal coordination and better social policy would support the euro. However, “There is too much heterogeneity. The countries are too different.
Countries are too attached to their own sovereignty,” he told RT..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/eu-political-union-failure-237/
Libya: Collapse of justice leaves at least 7,000 behind bars (w/ Video)
Libya: Collapse of justice leaves at least 7,000 behind bars
With their common enemy dead and gone, the uniting factor which bound Libya’s former rebels in their fight against Muammar Gaddafi has melted away. Now, in-fighting among the different armed factions is spilling onto the streets.
Meanwhile, thousands of Libyans remain behind bars waiting for the new rulers to try them for their crime of failing to jump ship.
One of the first amnesties of the new Libya was when hundreds of men and women, many of them sub-Saharan immigrants, were released from a makeshift prison. Most of them had spent several months in captivity for the crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/libya-justice-collapse-tripoli-227/
CNN censors vet that supports Ron Paul (w/ Video)
CNN censors vet that supports Ron Paul
The establishment’s war against Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has been evident since the Texas congressman began surging in the polls, but the previously privy attack on the candidate was made public to millions Wednesday night.
During a live interview Wednesday night from an Iowa caucus location, CNN briefly spoke to an US military veteran and adamant supporter of Rep. Ron Paul until the soldier began praising Paul for the non-interventionist ideals that separate the congressman from the mainstream candidates endorsed by the establishment..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/cnn-ron-paul-thorsen-207/
Poor Bart I.N.S.I.D.E . C.O.N.G.R.E.S.S Charlie Manalo 01/05/2012
Poor Bart
I.N.S.I.D.E . C.O.N.G.R.E.S.S
Charlie Manalo
He may enjoy the title Chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) but Nicanor Bartolome may be far from one.
According to reliable sources inside Camp Crame, ex-fugitive, Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson, who is reportedly being eyed by President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino to take over the helm of Department of Interior and Local Government, is already wielding his influence in the force, particularly on the appointment of officers in juicy positions.
According to the source, Ping, who went into hiding after being implicated in the Corbito-Dacer double murder case, only to surface later after Noynoy assumed the presidency, is imposing himself on Bartolome, allegedly dictating on the PNP chief on who to appoint to certain positions in the police organization, prompting one official to described Lacson as the “de facto chief PNP.”.... MORE
Noy gives green light to ‘shaved’ FoI By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 01/05/2012
Noy gives green light to ‘shaved’ FoI
By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 01/05/2012
A watered-down version of a controversial bill seen crucial in achieving transparency in government transactions was approved yesterday by President Aquino.
Press Undersecretary Manolo Quezon III admitted that the original version of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Bill has been defaced and many of its crucial provisions that promote free access to information have been removed.
The Malacañang version of the bill includes giving special shield for the President and his official family from being scrutinized on the basis of an FoI Law..... MORE
Pinoys in Syria reject return, say no jobs in RP By Michaela P. del Callar 01/05/2012
Pinoys in Syria reject return, say no jobs in RP
By Michaela P. del Callar 01/05/2012
Majority of Filipino workers in Syria have rejected the Philippine government’s offer to repatriate them to the Philippines for free amid the worsening political security situation in the troubled Middle East state, citing scant employment opportunities back home, Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario admitted yesterday.
Del Rosario, who flew to Syria last weekend to personally check on the progress of evacuation efforts of the Philippine Embassy there, said many Filipinos have expressed their desire to remain even as the government declared the highest crisis alert in the country that calls for mandatory repatriation of all its nationals.... MORE
Flood victims, kids compete for use schools 01/05/2012
Flood victims, kids compete for use schools
Flood evacuees and pupils competed for space of schools yesterday, with both wanting to use the buildings following the Christmas break, officials said.
In some cases, survivors of last month’s floods from tropical storm “Sendong” were moved to alternative shelters as children returned to schoolhouses that had been used as evacuation centers.
But in other instances, hundreds of the evacuees refused to leave, forcing school officials to find novel ways of conducting classes..... MORE
For not getting ‘pulutan,’ drunken man kills 3 women 01/05/2012
For not getting ‘pulutan,’ drunken man kills 3 women
A drunken man went on a shooting spree and killed three women and wounded an American after he was not given “pulutan” (appetizer) last Tuesday night in Tondo, Manila.
The suspect was identified as Ronald Cruz, 37, of 1220 Masinop St., Tondo, a former seaman and a messenger of Philippine Reclamation Authority..... MORE
Katipunan heroine’s remains brought to QC hall today 01/05/2012
Katipunan heroine’s remains brought to QC hall today
The remains of Melchora Aquino, more popularly known as Tandang Sora, are laid today at the Quezon City Hall after their exhumation from Himlayang Pilipino before they are brought to their final resting place at a shrine exactly where she was born 200 years ago.
At a press conference, Mayor Herbert “Bistek” Bautista and Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte, who heads the Task Force Tandang Sora, said the relics of the Grand Old Lady of Katipunan, who was said to be a look-alike of actress Dawn Zulueta when the city’s lone heroine was in her 20s, will be brought to the city hall in a flag-draped casket and on a horse-drawn carriage..... MORE
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Economic interests behind push for greater US military presence in the region
By BENJIE OLIVEROS
If US military presence overseas is about ensuring peace and stability, why did it invade Afghanistan and Iraq, and why is it now provoking Iran? If the US is really serious about pushing for human rights and democracy, why is it constricting civil liberties through the Patriot Act and why is it cracking down on Occupy Wall street activists?
This is because promoting peace, stability, human rights and democracy are not the main reasons for US military presence abroad. It is to give muscle to the push for US economic interests.
This is summed up in an article written by US State Secretary Hillary Clinton with the title “American Pacific Century” in November 2011. She called those demanding for a downsizing of American engagement abroad (read: US military presence) as “misguided.” “From opening new markets for American businesses to curbing nuclear proliferation to keeping the sea lanes free for commerce and navigation, our work abroad holds the key to our prosperity and security at home.”
During the Bush Jr. administration, the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to secure oil and gas pipelines while it invaded Iraq in 2003 to corner the second largest oil reserves in the world. Also, the US intended to stimulate its economy through the production of war materials and reconstruction projects following the occupation. But these did not work and the US government came under pressure from the American public to pull out its troops in both countries.
Initially, the succeeding Obama administration tried to deflect these calls for US troop withdrawal by gradually reducing deployments in Iraq while increasing it in Afghanistan. But the costs of maintaining troops abroad and the pressure being exerted by the economic crisis, worsening unemployment, and the US debt burden forced the Obama administration to reduce government expenditures, including the Department of Defense. The Obama administration’s commitment to reduce expenditures was followed by its announcement that it would refocus its military presence from Iraq and Afghanistan to Asia and the Pacific..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/02/10/economic-interests-behind-push-for-greater-us-military-presence-in-the-region/
National depression TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 02/12/2012
National depression
This year could be one of the lowest in our history. There is a surfacing depression due to so much stress to the beleaguered Filipino people. We are known in the world as a pliant people and our resilience is exceptional. But until when can we keep on bending? We will definitely snap when depression and extreme stress break our already brittle spinals.
Depression in geology’s common parlance is a landform that is sunken due to several geological factors and mechanisms. Anything that is “pushed” below is a “depression.”
The impeachment proceedings are one source of national depression as it is becoming a national embarrassment rather than a process that positively asserts our global democratic face. The leadership of the lower house has already warned congressmen of their absences and disinterest in other parts of their job description as they sit uselessly in the Senate gallery gloating over their prosecutors..... MORE
New UN resolution unlikely to change Russia and China’s minds on Syria
A week after vetoes from Russia and China put an end to a UN resolution on Syria its supporters are coming back with another draft.
Saudi Arabia, backed by the West and the majority of Arab countries, is hoping the document will be presented before the UN General Assembly, Reuters reports. Unlike the UN Security Council, no country has the power of veto in the assembly, but its resolutions have no legal force.
Little in the text appears to have changed since the previous presentation. The resolution lays the blame for the Syrian violence, which has taken thousands of lives, at the door of President Bashar al-Assad. It also calls for him to step down before a transitional period to a democracy..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/syria-un-resolution-russia-097/
Pop legend Whitney Houston dies (PHOTOS)
US singer and actress Whitney Houston has passed away at the age of 48 in Los Angeles. Her publicist Kristen Foster informed the Associated Press of her demise. The cause of her death is as yet unclear.
“Unfortunately, it is true,” a spokeswoman for Houston’s family confirmed to Reuters.
The singer was found in a hotel room in Beverly Hills, police spokesman Mark Rosen told reporters. “At 3:55 pm Whitney Houston was pronounced dead at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.”.... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/star-whitney-houston-dies-101/
Euro-freeze zone: Extreme frost blankets Europe (PHOTOS)
Thick ice and heavy snow have locked the entire European continent, already claiming the lives of nearly 500 people. And while Europeans are struggling to warm themselves, frigid temperatures are showing no signs of rising in coming weeks.
Weather forecasts predict the cold snap, which started in late January, to continue until mid-February.
In some parts of Europe thermometers show temperatures lower than -39 Celsius. In the Czech Republic weather forecasters warned that night-time temperatures could reach as low as -40 Celsius in the mountains..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/europe-freeze-cold-death-079/
KMP charges Aquino envoy of inking anomalous $300M agri-deal with Bahrain
“This so-called joint venture smacks of land-grabbing and conflict of interest on the part of President Aquino’s political lieutenant in the Gulf.” – Danilo Ramos, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas
The farmers group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) is calling for official congressional inquiries into the a supposed $300-million land lease deal the Benigno Aquino III government entered with Bahrain. Last week, business reports had it that Bahrain’s Nadir and Ibrahim Sons of Hassan Group signed a $50 million agriculture investment deal with AMA Group Holdings of the Philippines.
KMP secretary general Danilo Ramos said the deal was actually part of a larger project worth $300 million. The project, he said, was originally launched two years ago and aims to ensure Bahrain’s food security and promote the agribusiness sector.”
Special Envoy to the Gulf Cooperation Council Amable R. Aguiluz V with Bahrain Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa. In a statement, the Bahrain official hailed the growing bilateral relations, expressing his country’s “ keenness to further enhance joint cooperation with friendly countries’ officials in strengthening bilateral ties. “ (November 2010 Photo From the office of the SEGC / bulatlat.com)
Ramos said that it was “revolting” how Philippine lands are being devoted for the food security needs of other nations while Filipino farmers suffer worsening landlessness, hunger, and poverty. He criticized Dr. Amable R. Aguiluz V who serves as the Aquino government’s Special Envoy to the Gulf Cooperation Council. Aguiluz’’ family owns the AMA Group Holdings that established a joint venture called “RP Harvest” with Bahrain’s Hassan Group, to cultivate bananas, rice and other crops on a 10,000-hectare land in the province of Davao Del Norte in Mindanao.
“This so-called joint venture smacks of land-grabbing and conflict of interest on the part of President Aquino’s political lieutenant in the Gulf,” Ramos said. “Ambassador Aguiluz, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Agrarian Reform have a lot of explaining to do on this massive sell-out of our lands. A no-holds-barred probe on Aguiluz is in order.”.... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/02/10/kmp-charges-aquino-envoy-of-inking-anomalous-300-agri-deal-with-bahrain/
CBCP head urges impeach court to heed SC ruling By Charlie V. Manalo 02/12/2012
COMPLYING WITH TRO ON CORONA DOLLAR ACCOUNTS ‘ACADEMIC’
CBCP head urges impeach court to heed SC ruling
As the nation awaits the decision of the Senate in its caucus tomorrow, on whether or not to compel Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) president Pascual Garcia to produce records of the alleged foreign currency deposits of impeached Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Renato Corona, the head of a Catholic bishops’ group called on contending parties in the impeachment trial to respect the law and follow the SC temporary restraining order (TRO) on Corona’s dollar bank accounts.
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma issued the call for the Senate, Malacañang and the House prosecution panel to comply with the SC decision restraining the issuance of a subpoena on the dollar accounts of Corona.
The SC en banc, voting 8 to 5, favored a petition of the Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) that baring details of Corona’s accounts will violate Republic Act 6426 or the Foreign Currency Deposits Act..... MORE
‘Stop sale of cosmetics laced with mercury’ 02/12/2012
‘Stop sale of cosmetics laced with mercury’
A Manila councilor has filed a resolution asking the city government to take action against unscrupulous retailers of cosmetics laced with mercury, an extremely toxic chemical, to protect public health.
District II Councilor Numero “Uno” Lim made the move in response to the continued proliferation of mercury-contaminated skin whitening creams as uncovered by the EcoWaste Coalition, a toxics watchdog.
The resolution called on the city government to undertake immediate enforcement operations, in collaboration with the EcoWaste Coalition and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to rid the local market of mercury-tainted cosmetics..... MORE
Noy apppointee to SC gets CJ impeach petition By Benjamin B. Pulta 02/12/2012
Noy apppointee to SC gets CJ impeach petition
Malacaangs latest appointee to the Supreme Court (SC) has been tasked to take up the petition filed by Chief Justice Renato Corona questioning the impeachment complaint against him.
The case has been reportedly raffled by the 15-man en banc to Associate Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe after Senior Justice Presbitero Velasco inhibited from the proceedings.
Bernabe, who was appointed by President Aquino last September, filled the post of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, who retired from the SC on June 19, 2011..... MORE
Jardeleza formally assumes post as chief government lawyer By Fernan J. Angeles 02/12/2012
Jardeleza formally assumes post as chief government lawyer
By Fernan J. Angeles 02/12/2012
Malacanang has formally announced the appointment of a new Solicitor General Francis Jardeleza replacing Jose Anselmo Cadiz, whom President Aquino claimed to have resigned and go back to private practice.
Jardeleza, who has been calling the shots at the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) even before the Palace announcement, has reportedly been in quandary and now faces the burden of having to choose between two bosses, the appointing authority or the real boss as referred to by his appointing authority.
Even before he can formally assume post today, appointing authority President Aquino has given Jardeleza a marching order to seek a reversal of the Court of Appeals (CA) ruling directing the government to infuse a whopping P 25 billion to the shuttered bank..... MORE
Developers urged to build communities for survivors 02/12/2012
Developers urged to build communities for survivors
Vice President Jejomar Binay on Thursday urged real estate developers to help in building sustainable communities for survivors of the major earthquake in Negros Oriental and of tropicala storm “Sendong” in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan.
“I ask you to contribute whatever resources you have to help our affected fellow citizens. The magnitude of the housing need is huge, but natural calamities can only challenge us to double our efforts,” Binay said in a speech during the Real Estate Developers Recognition and Appreciation Night.
“In CdO and Iligan, we need to build about 14,000 houses. There are designated areas which will serve as relocation sites for the affected families and we urge you to help us develop these areas into sustainable communities,” he added..... MORE
Mystery surrounds murder of former QC solon’s BF By Gina Peralta-Elorde 02/12/2012
Mystery surrounds murder of former QC solon’s BF
By Gina Peralta-Elorde 02/12/2012
The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (CIDU) has started to dig deeper into the killing of long-time boyfriend of former QC Rep. Nanette Castelo Daza inside her residence in Quezon City before midnight last Friday.
The victim, who sustained five gunshot wounds and died on the spot was identified as Noel Orate Sr., 55, a district manager of United Laboratories. He was shot dead inside Daza’s home on Maninging Street, Barangay Teacher’s Village East, Quezon City.
The suspect, Daza’s son-in law, was identified as Romeo Allan Robes, provincial board member of Bulacan. He is the husband of Daza’s daughter, QC Councilor Jessica Castelo Daza..... MORE
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Haus der Deutschen Kunst, Munich
Part 4 -- Sculpture
The premier sculptors of the Third Reich (that is, those who were Hitler's favorites) were Arno Breker, Josef Thorak, and Fritz Klimsch. Thorak and Breker were multi-talented, working in stone and metal with themes varying from the heroic to nudes, while Klimsch did mainly nudes. (Note - copyrights to the works of Arno Breker and Josef Thorak are held by the Europäische Kultur Stiftung and Arno-Breker-Museum in Bonn; used here by permission. Books and videos on Arno Breker are available from the museum - contact Joe Bodenstein at MARCO-VG@gmx.de.)
Thorak's works were often monumental, particularly those meant to grace the autobahns and the Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nürnberg, so his studio had to be very large. The photo on the left shows Thorak working on an autobahn sculpture called "Monument to Work." The drawing on the right, from a 1938 issue of the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung newspaper, shows the inside of Thorak's studio. The huge scale can be seen from the minute size of the actual man and horse in the center foreground. The monuments under work were meant for the Märzfeld military demonstration area in Nürnberg (the figure on the right is "Siegesgöttin" (Goddess of Victory). A model of this collection, which was never installed, is shown below. Thorak's "Fahnenträger" and "Lanzenträger" were also meant for the Märzfeld. Click here to see then-and-now views of Thorak's studio.
On the left, a view taken on the opening day of the 1938 art exhibit; in the background is a model of Thorak's "Siegesgöttin." On the right, another view of Thorak at work on "Denkmal der Arbeit" (Monument to Work).
On the left, a model of Thorak's "Denkmal der Arbeit" (Monument to Work), with an artist's conception of the work in place - this work was to be placed in the median at the southern entrance to the autobahn system, at the Austria border near Salzburg. See the pictures above of Thorak working on the full-size sculpture (which was never finished).
Arno Breker's works were also widely used to decorate government buildings. These two statues flanked the entrance to the New Reichs Chancellory in Berlin. On the left is "Die Partei" (1939) and on the right is "Die Wehrmacht" (1939). (Center photo from Das Bauen im neuen Reich by Gerdy Troost, Bayreuth, 1938 ed.)
Honor Guard of the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler (Hitler's Body Guards)
in front of "Die Wehrmacht" in the Reichskanzlei Ehrenhof (Court of Honor)
Military and government themes were favorites at all the exhibitions. On the left is "HJ-Trommler" (Hitler Jugend Drummer) by Anni Spetzler-Proßchwitz, 1938; on the right is "Hoheitsadler" (National Eagle) by Hanns Goebl, 1941.
"LMG-Schütze" (Light Machinegun Gunner) by Bernd Hartmann-Wiedenbrück, 1941
"Aufstürmender Grenadier" (Assaulting Grenadier) by Bernd Hartmann-Wiedenbrück, 1943
"Nach dem Kampf" (After the Battle) by Hans Bühler, 1943
"In Memoriam" by Paul Bronisch, 1941
Some artists portrayed animals. On the left is Fritz Behn's "Adler" (Eagle), 1939; in the center is Emil Manz's "Tiger," 1938; on the right is Josef Thorak's "Pferd" (Horse), 1939. Two of Thorak's bronze horses graced the garden entrance to Hitler's Reichskanzlei in Berlin.
Thorak's "Pferd" in the garden of the Reichskanzlei in Berlin.
"Fahnenträger" (Standard Bearer) by Josef Thorak, 1937 (another work meant for the Märzfeld in Nürnberg)
"Drachentöter" (Dragon Slayer) by Franz Josef Mikorey
"Die Schauende" (The Looker) by Fritz Klimsch, 1937 (the model was Martha Nabel from Berlin).
"Die Schauende" still exists, as decoration on the terrace overlooking Lake Chiemsee in southern Bavaria, behind the former Autobahn rest stop. Click here to view another similar work by Klimsch, that also still exists.
"Genius des Sieges" (Genius of Victory) by Adolf Wamper, 1940
"Deutsche Waffe" (German Weapon) by Hias Lautenbacher, 1941
Neptune Fountain in Munich, by Josef Wackerle, then and now. On the right is another fountain work by Wackerle, this one at the Ernst Sachs Bad in Schweinfurt.
Bust of Hitler, by Ferdinand Liebermann, 1937
Bust of Field Marshall Rommel, by
Fritz Berberich, 1943
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The Best T Bag
The Best T Bag Apr 17, 2006 20:35:17 GMT
Post by rainman on Apr 17, 2006 20:35:17 GMT
Get voting now.
www.timnickson.co.uk
raggedbone
The High-T
T-MAN!
Curse and blast and double curse and blast again!
Post by raggedbone on Apr 17, 2006 22:38:04 GMT
If T.Bag had to be replaced, then I don't think we could have done a lot better than Georgina Hale for sheer all-out comedy and hilarious insanity - she has her moments; but, for me, Elizabeth Estensen was the original and the best. I think a lot of it depends on which one you saw first. A lot of the people I've come into contact with who never saw Estensen on its original run prefer Hale. I think they're both bloody marvellous!
Nice cake, hmm?
Post by Jamie on Apr 18, 2006 20:28:15 GMT
Now this is a tricky question!
It has to be Elizabeth Estensen as Tallulah Bag, even though I adored Georgina Hale as Tabatha Bag, many of my favourite moments in T-Bag are from the Tabatha Bag era.
Georgina did a fantastic job of taking over as T-Bag and although she wasn't (excuse the pun) everyone's cup of tea, I thoroughly enjoyed watching her more brashful, comedic and stark-raving bonkers T-Bag and after five series of Elizabeth as Tallulah Bag it made a drastic change for the series.
But, as Raggedbone says, I grew up watching Tallulah Bag first and so she has a special part in my childhood memories - and what memories they are.
The Best T Bag Nov 25, 2006 9:58:04 GMT
Post by Dan on Nov 25, 2006 9:58:04 GMT
I only ever saw Georgina Hale so I guess that's why I picked her.
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IMO IMDG Code Supplement 2014 Edition, Published: March 1, 2015, ISBN: 9789280115987, English, Publisher: International Maritime Organization, Paperback, Pages: 455
Prazo de Entrega: Entre 3 a 4 Semanas.
O recebimento de encomendas internacionais está sujeito a procedimentos aduaneiros e isto pode causar atrasos além do tempo estimado de entrega.
Publisher: International Maritime Organization; 2014 ed edition (March 1, 2015)
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 1 x 11.8 inches
Category: Safety Management
Tag: IMO - International Maritime Organization
The publications which relate to the IMDG Code have been consolidated into a supplement which is sold separately. Contains the following texts: EmS Guide (as amended), Medical First Aid Guide, Reporting Procedures, Packing Cargo Transport Units, Safe Use of Pesticides, INF Code (as amended).
The International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code relates to the safe carriage of dangerous goods by sea, but does not include all details of procedures for packing of dangerous goods or actions to take in the event of an emergency or accident involving personnel who handle goods at sea. These aspects are covered by the publications that are associated with the IMDG Code, which are included in this Supplement.
Within a continuing process of revision of publications that are relevant to the IMDG Code, the EmS Guide: Emergency Response Procedures for Ships Carrying Dangerous Goods was further amended at the eighty-seventh session of MSC in May 2010, and the details are described in MSC.1/Circ.1360. Also at the at the ninetieth session of MSC in May 2012 and ninety-third session of MSC in May 2014, and the details are described in MSC.1/Circ.1438 and MSC.1/Circ.1476 respectively.
The Supplement also includes texts of the Medical First Aid Guide, descriptions of the reporting procedures for incidents involving dangerous goods, harmful substances and/or marine pollutants, the International Code for the Safe Carriage of Packaged Irradiated Nuclear Fuel, Plutonium and High-Level Radioactive Wastes on board Ships and other appropriate Assembly resolutions, resolutions and circulars of the Maritime Safety Committee and circulars of the Facilitation Committee and of the Sub-Committee on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers.
The following circulars have been added to the present edition:
- MSC.1/Circ.1439 Conversion table (record of amendments) for part 7 requirements of the IMDG Code concerning transport operations
- MSC.1/Circ.1440 Illustrations of segregation of cargo transport units on board containerships and ro-ro ships
- MSC.1/Circ.1442 Inspection programmes for cargo transport units carrying dangerous goods.
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Urtica lyallii
Watson.
The Temperate Database is in the process of being updated, with new records being added and old ones being checked and brought up to date where necessary. This record has not yet been checked and updated.
Common Name: Stinging Nettle
Urtica lyallii is a perennial plant that can grow up to 1.20 metres tall.
It is harvested from the wild for local use as a food, medicine and source of materials.
The leaves of the plants have stinging hairs, causing irritation to the skin[
The Herb Book.
Lust. J.
Lots of information tightly crammed into a fairly small book.
]. This action is neutralized by heat so the cooked leaves are perfectly safe and nutritious[
]. However, only young leaves should be used because older leaves develop gritty particles called cystoliths which act as an irritant to the kidneys[
Discovering Wild Plants - Alaska, W. Canada and the Northwest.
Schofield. J. J.
Alaska Northwest Books; Alaska
A nice guide to some useful plants in that area.
A California Flora.
Munz P.A. & Keck D.D.
University of California Press; Los Angeles
An excellent flora but no pictures. Not for the casual reader.
Western N. America - Alaska to California.
Moist places near the coast in California[
Habit Perennial
Self-fertile No
We have very little information on this species and do not know if it will be hardy in Britain, though judging by its native range it should succeed outdoors in most parts of the country. It is closely related to U. dioica and is sometimes classed as being no more than a sub-species of that species. The Flora of N. America treats this taxon as no more than a synonym for U. gracilis, and also treats that taxon as a sub-species of U. dioica[
]. The following notes are based on the general needs of the genus.
Prefers a nitrogen-rich soil[
]. The best fibre is produced when plants are grown on deep fertile soils[
A dioecious species - both male and female forms must be grown if fruit and seed are required.
Young leaves - cooked[
]. A very nutritious food, high in vitamins and minerals, it makes an excellent spinach substitute and can also be added to soups and stews[
Native American Ethnobotany
Moerman. D.
Timber Press. Oregon.
Very comprehensive but terse guide to the native uses of plants. Excellent bibliography, fully referenced to each plant, giving a pathway to further information. Not for the casual reader.
]. Only use the young leaves and wear stout gloves when harvesting them to prevent getting stung. Although the fresh leaves have stinging hairs, thoroughly drying or cooking them destroys these hairs.
Nettle beer is brewed from the young shoots[
The leaves are alterative, antiasthmatic, antidandruff, antispasmodic, diuretic, expectorant and tonic[
]. An infusion has been used in the treatment of colds[
]. The plant has been used in a sweat bath to treat rheumatic-like pains all over the body[
]. An infusion has been taken by a woman to relax the muscles when she is about to give birth[
]. An infusion has also been used as a body rub to treat soreness and stiffness[
The fresh leaves of nettles have been rubbed or beaten onto the skin in the treatment of rheumatism etc[
]. This practice, called urtification, causes intense irritation to the skin as it is stung by the nettles. It is believed that this treatment works in two ways. Firstly, it acts as a counter-irritant, bringing more blood to the area to help remove the toxins that cause rheumatism. Secondly, the formic acid from the nettles is believed to have a beneficial effect upon the rheumatic joints.
A decoction of the peeled bark has been used in the treatment of headaches and nose bleeds[
An infusion of the roots has been used in the treatment of intermittent fevers[
A strong flax-like fibre is obtained from the stems[
A Dictionary of Plants Used by Man.
Usher. G.
Forget the sexist title, this is one of the best books on the subject. Lists a very extensive range of useful plants from around the world with very brief details of the uses. Not for the casual reader.
Ethnobotany of Western Washington.
Gunther. E.
University of Washington Press
0-295-95258-X
A small book, it is a good guide to useful plants in Western N. America.
]. Used for making string and cloth, it also makes a good quality paper[
The Useful Plants of Great Britain.
Johnson. C. P.
Written about a hundred years ago, but still a very good guide to the useful plants of Britain.
]. It is harvested as the plant begins to die down in early autumn and is retted before the fibres are extracted[
Plants in British Columbian Indian Technology.
Turner. N. J.
British Columbia Provincial Museum
Excellent and readable guide.
A hair wash is made from the infused leaves, or a decoction of the roots[
A - Z of Companion Planting.
Allardice.P.
Cassell Publishers Ltd.
A well produced and very readable book.
]. This is used as a tonic and antidandruff treatment[
The following uses have been listed for U. dioica, but they are almost certainly also applicable to this species.
The plant matter left over after the fibres have been extracted are a good source of biomass and have been used in the manufacture of sugar, starch, protein and ethyl alcohol[
An oil obtained from the seeds is used as an illuminant[
An essential ingredient of 'QR' herbal compost activator[
Commonsense Compost Making.
Bruce. M. E.
Excellent little booklet dealing with how to make compost by using herbs to activate the heap. Gives full details of the herbs that are used.
]. This is a dried and powdered mixture of several herbs that can be added to a compost heap in order to speed up bacterial activity and thus shorten the time needed to make the compost[
]. The leaves are also an excellent addition to the compost heap[
Britain's Wild Larder.
Loewenfeld. C. and Back. P.
David & Charles; Newton Abbot.
A handy pocket guide.
Companion Plants.
Philbrick H. and Gregg R. B.
Details of beneficial and antagonistic relationships between neighbouring plants.
] and they can be soaked for 7 - 21 days in water to make a very nutritious liquid feed for plants[
How to Enjoy your Weeds.
Hatfield. A. W.
Frederick Muller Ltd
Interesting reading.
]. This liquid feed is both insect repellent and a good foliar feed[
Complete Guide to Herbs.
Holtom. J. and Hylton. W.
A good herbal.
The Wild Garden.
De. Bray. L.
The growing plant increases the essential oil content of other nearby plants, thus making them more resistant to insect pests[
Although many different species of insects feed on nettles, flies are repelled by the plant so a bunch of freshly cut stems has been used as a repellent in food cupboards[
The juice of the plant, or a decoction formed by boiling the herb in a strong solution of salt, will curdle milks and thus acts as a rennet substitute[
]. This same juice, if rubbed into small seams of leaky wooden tubs, will coagulate and make the tub watertight again[
A beautiful and permanent green dye is obtained from a decoction of the leaves and stems[
A yellow dye is obtained from the root when boiled with alum[
Seed - sow spring in a cold frame, only just covering the seed. Prick out the seedlings into individual pots when they are large enough to handle, and plant them out in the summer.
Division succeeds at almost any time in the growing season. Very easy, plant them straight out into their permanent positions.
Cite as: Temperate Plants Database, Ken Fern. temperate.theferns.info. 2020-01-19. <temperate.theferns.info/plant/Urtica+lyallii>
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TerrorScribe
The Nonsensical Ramblings of a Would-Be Genre Filmmaker
Tag: Amber Heard
Film, Reviews1 Comment
REVIEW:’The Ward’
April 11, 2011 Joe Lopez
Kristen (Amber Heard) just can't wash the crap smell off from "The Ward".
In a perfect world, there is no crime, no disease. In a perfect world, we are at peace at the personal level, the global level and every level in between. In a perfect world, no good deed goes unrewarded, nice guys finish first and true love conquers all.
In a perfect world, John Carpenter never makes a movie like “the Ward”.
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REVIEW: ‘Drive Angry’
March 2, 2011 March 3, 2011 Joe Lopez
Angry Milton (Nicolas Cage) is angry in the revved-up, old-school "Drive Angry".
If you’re not, you might want to.
Ready? Here goes.
Nic Cage has done a movie I like.
It’s that that I dislike him as a person or actor. It’s not that he hasn’t done anything I’ve liked before, but it certainly seems that he’s kind of gotten himself into a bit of a rut- not the typecast rut, though. No, it’s that rare condition that I call the “Sean Connery Rut” where no matter what role the actor plays (Russian sub captain, Spanish swordsman, etc…), it’s performed the exact same way. So, it seems to me that Cage has brought that same lazy… Nic Cage-y style to every role he’s done in the last ten years. It’s rarely a good thing.
Call “Drive Angry” the exception.
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Bertie is a small red bus who appears in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. (View photo). He is first seen rescuing Thomas's passengers after Thomas gets stuck in a snowdrift (though not properly introduced until the following story, 'Thomas and Bertie'). Bertie's most famous adventure was challenging Thomas to a race in which Thomas eventually won. Bertie also had to chase after Edward after he left the station without Bertie. Bertie the bus has also in appeared in several other adventures.
He is one of the best known non-rail characters in the series. He is cheerful and boisterous, and although he enjoys a good-natured rivalry with the engines, he is most usually seen helping them out, whether bringing passengers or assisting when the railway is out of action.
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Bertie first appeared in 'Thomas, Terence and the Snow', a story in Tank Engine Thomas Again (published 1949). His first major appearance came in the next story, 'Thomas and Bertie', in which he had his famous race with Thomas. The story proved very popular, and ensured that Bertie would return. He did eventually return, in Edward the Blue Engine, becoming the only non-rail character to appear in more than one book by the Reverend Awdry. He made one final appearance in More About Thomas the Tank Engine (published in 1986), by Christopher Awdry, though has had numerous mentions under Christopher's name.
Unusually, the story Thomas and Bertie was not based on a real-life incident, unlike most of the Railway Series stories. Rev. W. Awdry said that such a race was not likely due to "reprisals from authority", and he is careful to note in the story that "although, between you and me, they would like to have another race, I don't think they ever will".
In real life, buses have often worked hand-in-hand with railways. It is difficult to determine what sort of bus Bertie is, but the Real Lives of Thomas the Tank Engine website suggests that he is close to an AEC Regal.
The red livery was common on buses in the United Kingdom, most famously being used by London Transport.
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In the film Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Bertie was voiced by Kevin Frank. In this, Bertie had a habit of saying, "Vroom-vroom!" at the end of his speeches. This habit was carried over into the television series for a time.
His Latin American voice actor is Pedro Armanderiz Jr.
In the story 'Bertie's Chase' in The Railway Series Bertie's license plate reads CRD54. CRD no doubt stands for C. Reginald Dalby, the illustrator at the time. 54 refers to the fact that the story was published in 1954. However, in "Thomas and Bertie" Bertie doesn't have a license plate at all.
Thomas and Bertie do in fact have another race, albeit only in the television series. It takes place in the Season 7 finale, and this time Bertie is the winner.
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From The Dallas Times Herald Jan 3, 1985 LOS ANGELES – Louie Anderson heard his name and knew it was time to move toward the light. There was no more time to worry, no more time to dream. [...]
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So, where were we? Oh, yeah, Austin, at the top-secret all-star blow-your-mind-empty-your-pockets fund raiser for Bernie Tiede’s resentencing trial, featuring appearances from Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater, lots of people with suits and wallets, the dulcet tones of Tenacious D and, looking alternately [...]
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So where were we? Oh, yeah, Atlanta. In the summer of 2014, right after the kidney-stone-in-the-parking -lot incident but before I spent the bulk of the next six months hanging around with the Alabama Shakes, who succeeded in spite of me and [...]
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So where were we? Oh, yeah, getting our head shaved in Palm Coast, Florida by Carmelo, The Demon Barber of Cypress Branch Way. For those of you who haven’t been following along, which is most of you, I’m trying to make up [...]
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So, where were we? Oh, yeah, back in Los Angeles, recovering from the Traipsemobile’s one-and-only criminal intrusion, the window-breaking, GPS-taking smash-and-grab in Oakland. The Traipsemobile on the Going To The Sun Highway And that was, let me do the math [...]
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Geneva a Center for International Talks and Organizations; Freedom of Speech in China; United States` Concern about Security at Winter Olympics in Russia; Google Glass for Firefighters
Aired January 23, 2014 - 04:00:00 ET
CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR: Kicking off with a couple of international stories today on CNN STUDENT NEWS. I`m Carl Azuz. Welcome to the show. Diplomats from around the world are gathered in Geneva, Switzerland. But their focus is on the country in the Middle East. Since 2011 Syria has been torn apart by a civil war. More than 100,000 people have been killed, and more than 1.5 million Syrians have become refugees. They`ve had to leave their homes. The international meeting in Geneva is to try to find solutions, but officials aren`t expecting a breakthrough. For one thing, the U.S. wants other countries to help restore peace in Syria. Syrian officials say this is a Syrian conflict, and it needs to stay that way. Like the civil war itself, it`s complicated, and why is this meeting happening in Switzerland anyway?
BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Shaky hopes for Syria`s peace on the stable and neutral ground of Geneva. This Swiss city is known as the world`s negotiating table, where a brute force and battles won`t gain any ground. The international status of the city was cemented after World War I as the seat to the ill-fated League of Nations. Then again, after the Second World War in 1945, housing key departments of the newly established United Nations. From Vietnam to the Cold War to talks on the Balkans. The conflicts of the 20th century left a mark here, in the search for peace. One reason, Switzerland`s famed neutrality allows Geneva to be a dispassionate arbitrator. The city also name-dropped in the famous Geneva Conventions, the standard switch (ph) layout international rules for human treatment in war time.
KOFI ANNAN, FORMER SECRETARY GENERAL, U.N.: The Geneva Conventions and all other instruments of international humanitarian law must be scrupulously respected.
ANDERSON: It`s not just diplomats who gather here. FIFA, the Red Cross, (inaudible) and the famously water-tight banks. All the hard work hasn`t gone unnoticed. With 14 of the coveted Nobel Peace Prizes going to organizations and individuals from the city synonymous with the world. Becky Anderson, CNN, London.
AZUZ: Moving across the world now to China. It`s a communist country, which means the government officially has control over politics and the economy. China`s constitution says citizens enjoy freedom of the press, but it also says that the state, the country suppresses activities that endanger state security. What that means is that if China`s government sees something as the threat, in the media or on the Internet, it can and often will censor it. One example, a trial has started for a Chinese activist. He`s accused of organizing protests against government corruption. The government wants to control what is said about the trial, and it`s cracking down on international media whose reports may not be in line with the message that the Chinese government wants to send.
DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So, we are heading towards a court in Beijing, where prominent activists goes on trial today.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Please wait a moment. Please. Please.
MCKENZIE: Why? This is a public space. There is no need to shut at me.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (speaking Chinese)
MCKENZIE: So, the court is just behind us. The name of the activist is Xu Zhiyong, and the reason he is in trial is because he had a gathering of people several times, and was one of the founders of the new citizens` movement. That is why there are all these police surrounding me here. We are going to go try look at the entrance of the court, which is just here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (inaudible)
MCKENZIE: Sorry, you can`t stop me. It`s a public .
(voice over): Soon, the situation violently escalated. Police and plain- clothed men targeting us, taking away our phones and I.D. and breaking the camera.
(on camera): You can`t physically. They are physically manhandling us. They are physically manhandling me.
This is a public space, I`m allowed to report. I`m allowed to report.
We are reporters. We are reporting in the public space.
MCKENZIE: Au!
Hey, hey, hey, hey. Do not physically manhandle .
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (speaking Chinese)
MCKENZIE (voice over): Other international journalists were roughed up during the trial. One policeman told me they were following orders. They`ve moved us from the van into a police car.
A government spokesman said they will investigate the incident, but that without law and order there will be "chaos" in China.
(on camera): The police and the plain-clothed guys drove us to the street corner several blocks away from the court, and then just dumped us on the side of the street. We would be shooting this with our camera, but they entirely tore off the front section of the viewfinder, so Charlie can`t use it - that all. This really shows how much China wants to manage the message, but in doing so, the irony is, they betray some of the strong arm tactics they use against journalists, including, and it`s obviously it`s often far worse for Chinese nationals. David McKenzie, CNN Beijing.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Time for the "Shoutout." In which field would you deal with backdrafts, helitacks and skid units? If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it, mountain climbing, public relations, construction or firefighting? You`ve got three seconds, go!
Backdrafts, helitacks and skid units are all found in the field of firefighting. That`s your answer and that`s your shoutout.
AZUZ: It`s possible that Google Glass could be added to that list, to type of computer that users can wear like eye glasses. It can be used to get directions, take pictures, see text messages and potentially help people working in dangerous conditions communicate. But it has its limitations and the $2,000 price just scratches the surface.
ZAIN ASHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Google says Glass can make reading emails easier. It can also help you navigate in an familiar city. But can it save lives? 34-year old firefighter Patrick Jackson thinks so.
He wants firefighters to use Google Glass to receive notifications on fires in the area and to help find people trapped inside burning buildings.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Go. (inaudible) plan.
ASHER: And to help rescue passengers in burning vehicles. He`s also developed a way for Google Glass to use GPS signals, such for the nearest fire hydrants.
Jackson who is based in North Carolina was one of 8,000 people selected to develop apps for Glass last year in Google`s "If I had a Glass Challenge." 150,000 people applied. His suggestion on how firefighters could use Glass to save lives caught Google`s attention. Google gave him some guidance on writing an app for firefighters. But since Jackson already had experience in computer engineering and had written android apps in the past, he didn`t need much help. Jackson says he`s still trying to iron out a few minor details. For example, Glass still doesn`t fit well inside a firefighter`s mask. So firefighters have only used it on the way to a fire, and not inside an actual burning building. There are also some questions about what would happen if Glass actually got close to a real blaze. Would they melt, for example? Also, its reliability in finding fire hydrants or receiving fire alerts depends on Internet connection and a reliable GPS signal. So, certainly still a few kinks (ph) to work out. Zain Asher, CNN, New York.
AZUZ: Who would have thought we find so many eagles in the American southeast? We are flying high with the Falkner High School Eagles who are perched in Falkner, Mississippi. We are on the wing with the Inman Middle School Eagles who are overhead right here in Atlanta, Georgia. And we are soaring with the Chesnee High School Eagles who are aloft in Chesnee, South Carolina. No particular order here, all of them are created eagle.
We`re about to put today`s show on ice, but we`re going to freeze for one more minute and take you to a Swedish town just beneath the Arctic circle. The story involves what you might call "Instruments" and an idea that was music to one man`s ears.
SEBASTIAN SAURY, VIVEKA SJOLUND "THE VOICE OF WATER": Ice music is music, which is played on instruments that are built of ice.
My personal interest in this is to make it real music, not just clinking an dinking on like a bunch of hanging ice cubes, but real music, which is tuned right, which has got melody and harmony and rhythm, and it`s real music, as we know it.
It takes two days to freeze each plate. So, that`s four days. After that, it`s probably another four days to finish the instrument. So, it could take me a week.
AZUZ: Sound is good enough to make your heart melt. The instruments themselves do that in the spring. Of course, you might not have heard the percussion in that piece, but if you thought it was cool, you know, you`d like to chill out while listening to it, I hear you can download it on IceTunes. OK, OK, I`m done. We`ll tune up more news and puns for you tomorrow.
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Glitch Sees Swiss Charged Twice for Card Payments
ABC News, 23rd January 2014
Shoppers in Switzerland must have thought they were seeing double when they checked their bank accounts this week.
A Swiss company that processes electronic payments says anyone who withdrew money or paid for something with their debit or credit card on Tuesday was charged twice. A spokesman for SIX Management AG said Thursday the glitch affected millions of cards issued by banks in Switzerland and the tiny neighboring state of Liechtenstein.
Bank of Ireland glitches affecting customer accounts
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Crowds flock to cash machine after it starts spewing out FREE notes
Around 60 people queued up at the ATM in Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts, before the fault was spotted by bosses and the cash machine put of service
The Mirror, 14th January 2014
Dozens of people flocked to a cash machine after word spread that it had started giving out free money.
The Lloyds Bank ATM in Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts, malfunctioned and began spewing out notes as customers withdrew cash yesterday morning. Around 60 people are reported to have queued up at the hole-in-the-wall as word spread of the possible windfall. [...]
The fault was spotted by bosses and the cash machine put of service around 3pm. A spokesman for Lloyds Bank said investigations had begun into how the error occurred and the group would not be able to provide details on how much cash was taken from the ATM. It is not thought that individuals who cashed in will not be pursued to reimburse the bank.
Comment: There are the usual stories of glitches (that I can't really definitely link to the recent harsh space weather), but I like stories of free money from ATM machines...
Double threat: US grid vulnerable on two fronts
CNBC News, 5th January 2014
Consensus is growing that the U.S. electricity grid is vulnerable to both hacking and physical attacks, but protecting it remains a work in progress–especially given the spending that would be necessary by financially stretched utilities.
The risks have heightened the calls for officials to address potential threats before they become reality. In November, the North American Energy Reliability Corp. staged a simulated attack on the grid; meanwhile, House Energy and Commerce Committee ranking member Rep. Henry Waxman, D.-Calif., flagged the grid as "not adequately protected" from either cyber or physical attacks at a hearing in December.
Comment: The listing of big power outages or blackouts worldwide is useful.... This list stops short of the massive July 2012 India power outages that some claim affected 660 million people or approx. half the population...
'Military-Style' Raid on California Power Station Spooks U.S.
Foreign Policy, 27th December 2013
When U.S. officials warn about "attacks" on electric power facilities these days, the first thing that comes to mind is probably a computer hacker trying to shut the lights off in a city with malware. But a more traditional attack on a power station in California has U.S. officials puzzled and worried about the physical security of the the electrical grid--from attackers who come in with guns blazing.
Around 1:00 AM on April 16, at least one individual (possibly two) entered two different manholes at the PG&E Metcalf power substation, southeast of San Jose, and cut fiber cables in the area around the substation. That knocked out some local 911 services, landline service to the substation, and cell phone service in the area, a senior U.S. intelligence official told Foreign Policy. The intruder(s) then fired more than 100 rounds from what two officials described as a high-powered rifle at several transformers in the facility. Ten transformers were damaged in one area of the facility, and three transformer banks -- or groups of transformers -- were hit in another, according to a PG&E spokesman.
Comment: If you check the archives, I stated quite some time ago that the U.S. military will not allow themselves to become vulnerable to the U.S. national power grid which currently is not under their control... It is obvious to me that they will try and get something done and this "dress rehearsal" using military grade weapons might only be a fact finding mission in derterming just how bothered utilities are about the issue of physical and cyber threats to the national power grid... The suspicion that this is really about highlighting the vulnerability to space weather is all part of the concern that utility companies are running the U.S. national grid on a shoestring to maximise profits and will only respond to a major crisis which of course is not good enough, especially if the crisis means the grid is destroyed... So, this strange incident has a certain logic for those who realise just how vulnerable society has become... It will be interesting to see how this develops...
reality is looming for many... Thinking positively about it not happening is not a useful strategy...
AIB customers left hanging following bank card glitch
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NatWest victim of cyber attack after site crashes for the second time
Independent News, 6th December 2013
Royal Bank of Scotland has said its websites fell victim to a cyber attack after customers were unable to access online banking. The group's website, which includes NatWest, was down for approximately an hour this morning and yesterday night following what the bank described as a "deliberate" surge in traffic in a cyber attack.
Power outage plunges most of Venezuela into darkness
Reuters, 3rd December 2013
(Reuters) - Venezuela's second massive power outage of the year plunged much of the nation into darkness on Monday night, prompting renewed talk of sabotage from President Nicolas Maduro's government and cries of incompetence from its foes. [...]
Monday's outage appeared similar to a massive September 5 blackout that was one of the worst in the South American OPEC member's history. Maduro, a 50-year-old former bus driver who narrowly won a presidential election this year after the death of his mentor and former leader Hugo Chavez, accused the opposition then of deliberately sabotaging the power grid to discredit him. [...]
"Be strong against this electrical war that yesterday's fascists have declared against our people," Maduro said in another address to the nation at about 11 p.m. local time.
Comment: The concept of an "electrical war" is quite interesting, especially when there are lots of more mundane reasons and excuses for power failures that will only get worse as the geomagnetic environment gets more extreme.
Compensation after Cyber Monday technical glitch hits RBS, Natwest and Ulster Bank
Glitch: RBS Group customers could not pay for online purchases London Evening Standard, 3rd December 2013
Customers who were left out of pocket when they couldn't pay for online purchases due to a banking glitch are to be compensated, the Royal Bank of Scotland has confirmed.
Shoppers banking with the RBS, which includes Natwest and Ulster Bank, were left high and dry on 'Cyber Monday' - the biggest online shopping day of the year - when a technical problem meant they could not pay for goods.
Online card payments could not be made between 6.30pm and 9.30pm yesterday evening due to a glitch which also affected smartphones and the banks' websites.
RBS said customers were now beginning to access their money again and apologised to customers for inconvenience caused.
Comment: Despite the terrible problems in recent years, RBS still had cash to pay huge million pound bonuses for their top people... Personally, I am amazed customers have remained loyal because the number of major disruptions to normal service. Then of course, there is the recent news that a government watchdog has accused this same banking group amongst others, of pushing healthy businesses to the wall to get hold of their assets which are then sold off at a good profit... See, Royal Bank of Scotland faces claims of 'killing off' small firms. It is amazing that the public are prepared to be involved in anyway with these particular banksters.
RBS admits decades of underinvestment after latest IT glitch
Channel News Asia, 3rd December 2013
The head of Royal Bank of Scotland admitted on Tuesday that it had failed to invest in its IT systems "for decades", after a glitch left customers of the state-rescued lender unable to access cash for three hours.
Comment: IF this banking group are not taken over which I think is the best option, contractors are going to make this a very expensive computer systems upgrade process, you can be assured of that...
RBS to push ahead with bonuses as probe nears
The size of the bonus pool at RBS will not be affected by the decision of th City watchdog to investigate allegations that the bank had deliberately pushed companies into default, say sources
Telegraph, 1st December 2013
The Royal Bank of Scotland is pressing ahead with plans to pay multi-million pound bonuses, despite the launch of a regulatory probe into its lending practices. Sources at RBS said the size of the bonus pool would not be affected by the decision of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to investigate allegations that the bank had deliberately pushed companies into default.
London-based banks simulate giant cyber-attack
Phys.Org News, 12th November 2013
Dozens of London-based banks joined other financial institutions in the capital on Tuesday for a giant exercise to test their defences against a cyber-attack, officials said.
Government officials, regulators and the Bank of England oversaw the exercise, dubbed "Waking Shark II". Details of the exercise were kept secret, but sources said it tested how banks coped with a sustained attack, focusing in particular on investment banking systems.
Comment: Hmmmm.... What are they really worried about? Actually, I was quite impressed when I saw some TV news where fake computer engineers managed to obtain access and hacked directly into a computer systems network at a local bank branch in order to transfer money out... a sophisticated modern day bank robbery...
DHS, FEMA to participate in power grid drill on Nov. 13-14
Legitgov.org, 11th November 2013
DHS, FEMA to participate in power grid drill on Nov. 13-14 07 Nov 2013 National Grid will be among the participants in North American Electric Reliability Corp.'s second Grid Security Exercise, which is being referred to as Grid Ex II by those participating. Many of the specifics of the drill have not been made known to utilities and agencies involved, according to a National Grid spokesman... In addition to National Grid and other utilities, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technology will be involved. [I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I believe in math. And mathematically, these f*ckers 'go live' during drills about 88 percent of the time. Ergo, heads up! *Math* is not on our side. --LRP]
Comment: I was impressed with the logic....
Walmart Website Error Allowed Customers to Buy $600 Electronics for $8.85
ABC News, 6th November 2013
Walmart has said that it has resolved an issue that was causing an online frenzy among shoppers. An apparent glitch on the company's website early this morning led to $8.85 listings for items that included computer monitors and projectors normally worth hundreds of dollars.
The country's largest retailer was selling a 24-inch high-definition Viewsonic computer monitor, an InFocus IN2124 Projector digital projectors and other products, many for $8.85. The projector is listed for $578.89 on Walmart.com and $579.99 on Newegg.com. As customers shared the deals on social media sites like Instagram, wondering if the site was hacked, products sold out in just hours.
Comment: I always expect major computer system glitches after solar flares... but bit-flips can happen at any time.
After losing verdict, Toyota settles in sudden acceleration case
LA Times, 25th October 2013
Facing the potential of paying millions of dollars in punitive damages after losing an Oklahoma sudden acceleration lawsuit, Toyota Motor Corp. quickly reached a settlement with the plaintiffs. On Thursday, an Oklahoma City jury found that faulty electronic systems in a Camry sedan caused it to accelerate out of control and crash, killing one woman and injuring another. [...]
The decision, handed down late Thursday, marked the first time that the Japanese automaker has been found responsible for sudden acceleration in one of its cars. After a brief deliberation at the end of a nearly three-week trial, the jury decided that software in the 2005 Camry's electronic throttle system was defective and caused the accident in September 2007. [...]
Toyota still faces hundreds of personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits related to sudden acceleration.
Comment: Toyota still can't fix their cheap crappy car electronics that are being compromised by cosmic rays, so people are still being killed. Btw despite all the bad publicity, it's not only Toyota that have this same issue and we know that the authorities suspect cosmic rays because it's already a matter of public record.
Walmart shelves in Springhill, Mansfield, cleared in EBT glitch
KSLA News, 14th October 2013
MANSFIELD, LA (KSLA) - Shelves in Walmart stores in Springhill and Mansfield, LA were reportedly cleared Saturday night, when the stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even though they were not showing limits.
The chaos that followed ultimately required intervention from local police, and left behind numerous carts filled to overflowing, apparently abandoned when the glitch-spurred shopping frenzy ended.
Springhill Police Chief Will Lynd confirms they were called in to help the employees at Walmart because there were so many people clearing off the shelves. He says Walmart was so packed, "It was worse than any black Friday" that he's ever seen.
Comment: 2 hours of mayhem... but Walmart must be to blame for not imposing a sensible limit. The rumours of a U.S. governmenr default must be a severe worry for many on benefits. Also, America Would Be Consumed With Mass Rioting And Looting If Food Stamp Program Stops Functioning
Ark. woman awakes to $4 trillion bank balance
KSLA News, 3rd October 2013
The Fort Smith woman awoke Tuesday and saw that her online bank balance was at $4,040,404,040,404.04 - or more than $4 trillion. Layes says she thought it was either her lucky day - or that someone was going to get in trouble.
She contacted her local BancorpSouth branch and the mistake was quickly corrected. BancorpSouth tells the Southwest Times Record (http://bit.ly/GB58oa ) that a "system display issue" caused inaccurately high account balances for some online customers. The problem has since been corrected
Comment: This glitch affected other accounts too...
Access restored for food stamp users, Xerox says
USA Today, 12th October 2013
People in 17 states found themselves unable to buy groceries with their food stamp debit-style cards Saturday after a routine check by vendor Xerox Corp. resulted in a system failure. Xerox announced late in the evening that access had been restored for users in the 17 states affected by the outage, hours after the first problems were reported.
"Re-starting the EBT system required time to ensure service was back at full functionality," spokeswoman Jennifer Wasmer said in an email. [...] Mississippi Department of Human Services director Rickey Berry confirmed that Xerox, the state's EBT vendor, had computer problems. He said he had been told by midafternoon that the problems were being fixed.
"I know there are a lot of mad people," Berry said.
Weekend Attacks on Arkansas' Electric Grid Leave 10,000 Without Power; 'YOU SHOULD HAVE EXPECTED U.S.'
Forbes, 7th October 2013
More than 10,000 people in Arkansas were dumped into a blackout Sunday following an attack on that state's electric grid, the FBI said today, the third such attack in recent weeks. In August, a major transmission line in the region, around Cabot, Ark., was deliberately cut.
The FBI said that two power poles had been intentionally cut in Lonoke County on Sunday, resulting in the outage. "Though we remain confident that we will identify the person or persons responsible for these incidents," the FBI said in a press release, "we are enlisting the public's help to be our eyes and ears. We take threats to our power grid very seriously."
The FBI said it would pay a $25,000 reward for information about the attacks. And for good reason. The FBI suspects these attacks are linked with a third incident in September.
Comment: I think this series of attacks is unrelated to the government power down drill in mid November because 10,000 people losing their power is not what the government is worried about... The fear is 100 million upwards losing their power for extended periods and fried transformers that cannot be replaced quickly.
FIERY EXPLOSIONS ROCK NSA DATA CENTER
Next News Network, 8th October 2013
BLUFFDALE, UTAH – Massive electrical surges at a data storage facility for the National Security Agency have led to the destruction of hugely expensive machinery and delayed its opening for a year, officials revealed Tuesday.
In the past 10 months alone, the facility has experienced 13 electrical surges, which officials describe as "a flash of lightning inside a 2-foot box." The melting metal that results from the fiery explosions causes the circuits to fail and prevents NSA workers from using the computers. A spokeswoman for the NSA insists, despite no clear culprit for the explosions, that the issues "have been mitigated."
Comment: Hmmmm.... I presume the high and mighty that chose this location had never heard of geomagnetically induced currents or GICS.... Too bad... Presumably this facility was located on an energy node for esoteric reasons, but in the extreme geomagnetic conditions on this planet that we are now experiencing, this site is not such a great location for computers... I can tell them for free that they should expect this to get worse, far worse... The signs of the times are evident for anyone who can engage brain and process the relevant information that is readily available. Also more at the Wall Street Journal: Meltdowns Hobble NSA Data Center
$2 Billion NSA spy center is going up in flames Fiscal Times, 8th October 2013
Who is going to believe that a contractor could not work out the electrical capacity requirements for this computer system? That is a total red herring...
Pilots in Asiana Crash Report Throttle Glitch
Claim contradicts results of U.S. probe, which failed to reveal mechanical or electrical errors Time, 8th October 2013
Asiana Airlines pilots involved in a deadly San Francisco plane crash earlier this year have told investigators that the failure of an automated speed-control system played a major role in the accident.
The pilots said that the auto-throttles disconnected without warning before the twin-engine jet slowed dramatically and hit a sea wall near a runway at San Francisco's international airport, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
This account differs from the safety board's preliminary findings, which did not uncover any mechanical or electrical problems with the Boeing 777 prior to impact. Air safety officials previously said the pilots may have failed to activate the auto-throttle correctly, but Asiana maintenance logs detail a number of "uncommanded auto-throttle disconnects."
Comment: Hmmmm.... I would say that no electronics can be completely shielded from cosmic rays... Based on what we have been told here, I imagine there will be a confession in the near future from engineers that this was not pilot error.
Blackout, New on Channel 4 9pm, Mon 9 Sept 2013
Ch4 News, September 2013
Feature-length 'What-If' drama exploring the effects of a devastating cyber-attack on Britain's national electricity grid. Based on expert advice and meticulous research, Blackout combines real user-generated footage, alongside fictional scenes, CCTV archive and news reports to build a terrifyingly realistic account of Britain being plunged into darkness.
The film plots the days following a nationwide power cut, as experienced by a cast of ordinary characters struggling to feed and protect themselves and their families. These eyewitness accounts reveal the disastrous impact of a prolonged blackout on hospitals, law and order, transport, and our food and water supplies.
The programme casts members of the public from user-generated footage, weaving real-life archive with scripted drama to tell the story of how Britain could descend into chaos and anarchy without power.
Comment: 10th Septemmber 2013: I watched this 'What-If' drama and it was totally realistic in depicting the hoardes of clueless, superficial and trite living on the edge of anarchy at the best of times... There was absolutely nothing to argue about, the drama was realistically terrifying, terrifying and terrifying. Actually, the cause of the blackout explained as an act of warfare EMP event by enemies is obviously an excuse to get government and military support for funding and actions, because we know in reality, that only space weather could deliver this type of knockout blow. I have seen no claims that a Carrington level Category 5 geomagnetic storm could burn out the whole national UK grid at the same time, BUT engineers have stated that this could happen in the United States due to their poorly maintained antiquated system... The United States is a super power with super weapons but no decent knickers basic infrastructure.... The chickens are surely coming home to roost for a nation with an ethos of greed.
[Yet Another] Glitch hits Nasdaq system at center of trading outage
Reuters, 5th September 2013
Feature-length 'What-If' drama exploring the effects of a devastating cyber-attack on Britain's national electricity grid.
Based on expert advice and meticulous research, Blackout combines real user-generated footage, alongside fictional scenes, CCTV archive and news reports to build a terrifyingly realistic account of Britain being plunged into darkness.
Comment: A message for those who have ears to hear.... For many who want to watch UK TV outside of the UK, here are some links I found:
http://www.expatshield.com/
http://johnlewis.ie/watching-iplayer-outside-the-uk/
HSBC customers hit by IT glitch
Branch and telephone banking systems crashed over the weekend, with reports of problems online today. News, 2nd September 2013
HSBC customers are having difficulty accessing banking services after a weekend of disruption that saw the bank's computer systems fail. HSBC's in-branch IT systems went down on Saturday, leaving customers unable to access banking services such as opening new accounts, applying for loans or transferring funds in branch.
Customers were also unable to access telephone banking services for several hours. The technical glitches did not appear to be fully resolved this morning, with some users having trouble accessing HSBC's website. A holding page said: "We are sorry that our website is currently unavailable, please try again later". An HSBC spokesman said the bank had an "internal browser issue" on Saturday that caused the disruption.
Comment: Bank computer systems are getting hit again and again and again... but how many are getting the message?
Homeland Security's Napolitano says major cyber attack, severe weather await her successor
Washington Bureau, 27th August 2013
Janet Napolitano has some advice for her successor at the Department of Homeland Security: "You will need a large bottle of Advil."
Napolitano gave her farewell address as Homeland Security secretary this morning at the National Press Club. She's leaving to become president of the University of California system. Napolitano spent most of her speech touting her agency's accomplishments during her tenure. [...]
More interesting was her "open letter" to her as-yet-unnamed successor. Besides making sure he or she is well-stocked with pain relievers, the next Homeland Security security will need to be prepared for terrorist attacks, more severe weather events due to climate change, and budget challenges, she said.
Plus, you can count on America being hit with a major cyber attack that will seriously disrupt the economy, she said.
Comment: I actually don't want to agree with conspiracy theorists, but the politicians are not helping..... Simply, I don't think it's a good idea to ignore this type of serious warning coming from a top government official.
NASA Alert: America Blackout & Grid Shutdown 2013 [VIDEO]
Investment Watch Blog, 1st September 2013
"Comet Ison Solar Flare emp electric grid down janet Napolitano warns of unprecedented event"
Comment: Watch this series of video clips on the first YouTube link! The revelation that we had a near miss from a Carrington level Category 5 geomagnetic storm in July 2012 and the upcoming U.S. government grid power down drill in November 2013 (probably due to fears concerning Comet ISON triggering a massive CME), informs us that our technological society is now playing Russian roulette with the Sun. Btw, we are facing space climate change, so this kind of event is coming. It is not a matter of if, it is when, just like all the various space weather reports, scientists, engineers and government officials claim has to be expected. Unfortunately, world controllers might have decided there is not much they can do and instead prefer to engineer some chaos – rather like a controlled demolition – to remain in control. From my perspective, there is still very little interest in the mainstream concerning the future of humanity, so best of luck if you are interested in survival.
Eurex Restarts Trading After Technical Glitch
Wall Street Journal, 26th August 2013
A glitch in time synchronization caused German exchange operator Deutsche Boerse AG's Eurex Exchange arm to halt trading for slightly more than an hour early Monday, the latest in a thread of technical issues at global exchanges.
The Eurex derivatives trading market was halted at 0620 GMT, 20 minutes after trading started, "in order to protect the integrity of the market," Deutsche Boerse said. "An incorrect time synchronization within the ...
Comment: Time synchronization.... A GPS fail? GPS is used for timestamping in computer systems... See also Eurex Derivatives Exchange Suffers Outage Due To Glitch In Time Synchronization
Power Grid Down Drill To Be Conducted By US Government
Off The GridNews, 28th August 2013
Power grid vulnerabilities are finally garnering some attention by government officials.
An electrical grid joint drill simulation is being planned in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Thousands of utility workers, FBI agents, anti-terrorism experts, governmental agencies, and more than 150 private businesses are involved in the November power grid drill.
The downed power grid simulation will reportedly focus on both physical and cyber attacks. The antiquated electrical system in the United States has been one of the most neglected pieces of integral infrastructure.[...]
The disaster drill is being described as a crisis practice unlike anything the real power grid has ever experienced. The GridEX II drill Nov. 13-14 will focus primarily on how governments will react if the electrical grid fails and, for instance, the food supply chain collapses.
Comment: THIS IS IMPORTANT.... THIS IS IMPORTANT....THIS IS IMPORTANT.
Finally, all the pieces of the puzzle are coming together.... As I have already stated before, the timing of November 2013 for this drill is to make sure that personnel are in place and aware of what they need to do in the event that Comet ISON causes a massive solar blowout. Check out the archives for previous comments, (use google search on the Home page or Archives Menu). We have seen tiny comets cause huge CMEs, but Comet ISON is in another league and we can guage just how electrically active it is when it flies by Mars. If we see huge electrical discharges between Mars and Comet ISON (like McCanney says might happen), then it will be time to start panicking especially for those in the United States who have no survival preparations and are worried. BY THE WAY, IGNORE THE HYPE FROM CONSPIRACY THEORISTS. THE GOVERNMENT MAY MAKE THE DECISION TO POWER DOWN THE GRID ANYWAY TO SAVE IT FROM BEING COMPLELELY DESTROYED... THE US GRID IS ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE BECAUSE IT IS ANTIQUATED, SO THIS ACTION COULD AMOUNT TO TAKING NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. OTHERWISE IT IS TAKING THE RISK OF THE GRID BEING PARTIALLY OR COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND A HUNDRED MILLION PLUS PEOPLE DYING WITHIN 2 YEARS. THIS IS NOT HYPE, WE ARE FACING A POSSIBLE MEGA DISASTER.
As Worries Over the Power Grid Rise, a Drill Will Simulate a Knockout Blow
New York Times, 17th August 2013
31st August 2013: Update
What if the U.S. government already know that in the event of a knockout blow [category 5 geomagnetic storm] they can't save the national power grid? A Carrington level event means the national power grid gets destroyed in lots of different locations at once and no matter what they do there is going to be severe consequenes... Over the years I have pointed out the concern about worsening space weather, the facts are evident, but I think Comet ISON is literally a trigger. We are facing a potential mega disaster because the Sun is blowing out huge CMEs when any tiny comet approaches, but Comet ISON is already considered to not be a normal comet and the lack of clear images from astronomical sources is also an issue, see this excellent website, Comet ISON News. It is interesting that those involved in the disinformation campaigns that promoted non-issue comets like Comet Elenin are now fairly quiet. Presumably these people were paid to cry wolf but it's almost like they don't realise that they have been played... What can you say about people who are so stupid? The U.S. government realise there is a huge risk but most people are just too wrapped up in trivialities to understand the issues. Nothing has changed, scientists say a Carrington level event is inevitable and there is a 12 percent chance of Earth experiencing an enormous megaflare erupting from the Sun in the next decade but they also state they are not taking into account long-term space climate change... My work has been about providing the proof that we are seeing dramatic change being driven by the new cosmic environment... Previous civilisations have been destroyed by cosmic conflagrations and humanity are at the next make or break point... Sigh....
2 Canadian warships collide en route to Hawaii
HMCS Algonquin and HMCS Protecteur were conducting towing exercises with officer of the watch trainees CBC News, 31st August 2013
Two Canadian warships are returning to port in Esquimalt, B.C. today after colliding during training exercises while en route to Hawaii.
Officer of the watch trainees on the ships were in the midst of towing exercises, which require close-quarters manoeuvring, when the collision occurred at around 11 a.m. PT Friday morning.
No one was hurt, but the HMCS Algonquin sustained significant damage to her port side hangar while HMCS Protecteur sustained damage of a lesser degree to her bow. Navy Lt. Paul Pendergast, spokesman for Maritime Forces Pacific, called the collision "an unfortunate accident" and a "rare event."
Comment: Is this just an example of sheer incompetence or another GPS/Navigational fail to add to all the other similar incidents?
Nasdaq admits partial blame for trading freeze
The company behind the Nasdaq has admitted partial responsibility for a three-hour freeze in trading on the tech stock exchange last week. But Nasdaq OMX also pointed the finger at rivals NYSE Euronext, blaming them for overwhelming Nasdaq's systems.
NYSE's Arca system sent "a stream of inaccurate symbols", and cut out over 20 times, swamping Nasdaq's computers. Nasdaq was "deeply disappointed" that its back-up systems failed to handle the data volume. NYSE made no comment.
Comment: So what caused "a stream of inaccurate symbols"?!? I still think this incident was caused by cosmic rays causing bit-flips and as we know, corrupted data and hardware can go unnoticed or completely foul up computer systems. Hence, I agree with the assessment. This is a programming failure because the error was not picked up immediately and dealt with due to poor program testing... I know about software testing because I have been a software analyst in the past. BUT THE BACKUP SYSTEM FAIL DESERVES SOMEONE TO BE FIRED AT THE VERY LEAST. FFS... THIS IS THE NASDAQ TRADING PLATFORM..
CBOE Futures Exchange Hit With Data Glitch
System Recovers After Temporary Delay of Quotes
WSJ News, 27th August 2013
CBOE Holdings Inc., operator of the largest U.S. options exchange by trading volume, alerted traders to problems with some market-data services early Tuesday, according to notices on the exchange operator's website, before all issues were fully resolved by about 1 p.m. Eastern time.
Amazon glitch hits Instagram and AirBnB
Websites suffer outages and slowdowns after Amazon web server runs into problems
Guardian, 26th August 2013
Goldman puts four on leave after glitch
CNBC News, 26th August 2013
Back to the 19th century': Mysterious techno breakdown hits Gitmo 9/11 tribunal
RT News, 24th August 2013
Defense lawyers for Guantanamo detainees asked the judge in the military tribunal on Friday to suspend pretrial hearings as mysterious computer glitches are just the latest technological setbacks to complicate the legal proceedings.
Defense lawyers for Guantanamo detainees asked the military tribunal judge to suspend pretrial hearings as mysterious computer glitches have made their job a 'hot mess' forcing some of them to draft motions with pen and paper.
"We're basically put back in the 19th century," Army Major Jason Wright, who represents the alleged mastermind of the terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, said on Friday, as quoted by Reuters. "It takes about five to 10 times what it would normally take to do defense functions."
Defense lawyers for five Guantanamo detainees said email correspondences they sent were never received, investigative records that took years to compile had disappeared and external monitors were unable to access their internet searches. Even the prosecuting and defense teams had been given access to each other's files.
Comment: I think this appears to be electromagnetic sabotage. Thanks R. v. Straaten for the tip.
Crisis of market confidence after Nasdaq shutdown
USA Today, 23rd August 2013
Nasdaq in Fresh Market Failure
Wall St Journal, 22nd August 2013
Nasdaq trading halted due to technical issue
Yahoo News, 22nd August 2013
Nasdaq said on Thursday it was halting trading in all securities until further notice due to a problem affecting quote dissemination. Dozens of publicly traded companies, including high-profile companies such as Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT) and Facebook (FB), were showing their shares halted. The Nasdaq status message was time stamped at 12:14:03 ET.
A spokesman for the SEC said, "We are monitoring the situation and are inclose contact with the exchanges." The Nasdaq (NDAQ) options markets also issued a "system update" saying they were recommending firms route all open orders elsewhere.
Comment: Wow.... Processor issue, see All Nasdaq markets halting trading due to processor issue. Check out my archives, I have been going on and on about the unreliability of computer systems and the continuous stock market "glitches"....This is major...Update: NASDAQ IN COMPLETE UNPRECEDENTED SHUTDOWN I have been calling this for years now.... How many people really understand the implications of Space Weather effecting virtually everything on this planet? Well you will if you have been following this blog.... Bullseye!
Goldman trading glitch could cost more than $100 million
Goldman Sachs experienced a trading glitch Tuesday that resulted in a large number of erroneous single stock and ETF options trades. Many of the trades may wind up being erased but the error could still cost the firm upwards of $100 million, according to a person familiar with the situation.
"The exchanges are working to resolve the issue," a Goldman spokesman said in a statement. "Neither the risk nor the potential loss is material to the financial condition of the firm." [...] The botched trades occurred when Goldman's internal computer system that helps to determine where to price options mistakenly ended up sending orders
Comment: These trading glitches just keep on coming.... I imagine many of the super rich think they are immune to changes in the cosmic environment... Well, they are not as cosmic rays changing bits and bytes (bit-flips) is a fact of computing life that we can only expect to get worse... Are Intel busy selling their cosmic ray detector on a chip? I don't know... Update: Goldman assessing fallout from options trading glitch
Russian sunbathers throw in the towel as 550-tonne military hovercraft blunders ashore
Metro News, 21st August 2013
If you thought people who played loud music at the beach were annoying, spare a thought for these startled sunbathers. Holidaymakers enjoying the peace on this white sandy beach in Russia leapt to attention when a monster military hovercraft made an unexpected appearance.
Witnesses reported a 'terrible roar' and 'big waves' as the 550-tonne war craft charged up the shore. They then watched open-mouthed as paratroopers started to disembark and demand they roll up their towels and move on.
A spokesman for the Russian defence ministry told the tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda that the 60m (200ft) vessel was on a tactical mission in an area owned by the military. 'Docking at the beach is normal,' was the spokesman's rather matter-of-fact response to questions. 'What people were doing at the beach on the territory of the military (base) is unclear.'
But the newspaper pointed out that the base the ministry referred to was in Khmelevka, several kilometres from the beach in Mechnikovo, near Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea.
Comment: I am calling this as another really embarrassing GPS/navigational fail.... An absolute classic... Incredible...
Technical glitch in IOB's core banking system hits service
The Hindu Business Line, 19th August 2013
Chennai, Aug. 19: A technical snag in Indian Overseas Bank's core banking system (CBS) on Monday affected services across the country. According to M. Narendra, Chairman and Managing Director of the bank, following a usual maintenance work, a complex technical malfunction cropped up in the system that restrained banking services to its customers. While the transactions were carried out on the basis of account holders' Saturday balance in some branches across the country, the bank's ATM network could not transact any business on Monday.
Prison Computer 'Glitch' Blamed for Opening Cell Doors in Maximum-Security Wing
Wired News, 16th August 2013
Florida prison officials say a computer "glitch" may be to blame for opening all of the doors at a maximum security wing simultaneously, setting prisoners free and allowing gang members to pursue a rival with weapons.
But a surveillance video released this week (see above) suggests that the doors may have been opened intentionally – either by a staff member or remotely by someone else inside or outside the prison who triggered a "group release" button in the computerized system. The video raises the possibility that some prisoners knew in advance that the doors were going to open.
It's the second time in two months that all of the doors in the wing opened at once, officials say, raising questions about whether the first incident was a trial-run to see how long it would take guards to respond.[...]
But a trio of security researchers – John Strauchs, Teague Newman, and Tiffany Rad – say that many prison systems have vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely by hackers or accomplices from inside or outside a prison. They have examined systems at a number of facilities and two years ago presented their findings at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas.
Some of the vulnerabilities exist in the architecture and configuration of the systems, causing them to be accessible via the internet. Other vulnerabilities exist in the programmable logic controllers that are used to control not only prison doors, but surveillance cameras and other prison systems. Many PLCs use Ladder Logic programming and a communications protocol that have no security protections built into them. There are also vulnerabilities in the Windows-based desktop machines that are used to monitor and program the PLCs. Anyone who gains access to these computers can control the PLCs and the operations they monitor, the researchers say.
Comment: This is a long report about various incidents and includes what happened at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Maryland that I previously noted April 2013. The article implies that jail-door hacking could be very possible, but my interest is whether these systems can be hacked by ambient electromagnetic signals now that Earth's geomagnetic environment has become more extreme.
Huge flood wave threatens major Russian Far East cities as region is hit by cyclones
The Siberian Times, 16th August 2013
At least 30,000 homes are hit by flooding in Amur region, with Vladimir Putin ordering more emergency aid to stricken people. A section of the world famous Trans Siberian Railway was closed on Thursday on the route linking capital Moscow with Vladivostok. Flood water washed away some of the stone ballast supporting the track in Amur region after a nearby river reached a 'critical level, said a Russian Railways statement. Both Amur and Khabarovsk regions are devastated by record deluges which have caused rivers to break their banks, forcing residents to abandon their homes and threatening disease.
Chinese Stocks Swing Wildly After Trading Glitch
Wall St Journal, 16th August 2013
Chinese shares swung wildly Friday after a trading glitch at a local brokerage sent shares of the benchmark index surging 5.6% in the space of just a few minutes before stocks ended lower on the day. Traders said an accidental "fat-finger" trade was to blame. A spokesman from the China Securities Regulatory Commission said "sizeable" buy orders from brokers at midsize firm Everbright Securities caused the jump in shares. Everbright said it suffered an internal trading error and would conduct an investigation. The Shanghai exchange suspended the company's stock. [...] Everbright Securities said in a statement to the Shanghai Stock Exchange there were problems in the arbitrage system of its proprietary trading. It didn't return calls for comment.
Comment: I am not convinced about the fat-finger excuse at all, this could be another cosmic ray induced software/hardware computer error. Computer sytems are not infallible and talk of investor confidence being shaken is now a common refrain.
10 Years After Blackout, US Grid Faces New Threats
Epoch Times, 10th August 2013
On the ten-year anniversary of the nation's largest blackout, the U.S. electrical grid is better managed and more flexible but remains vulnerable. Among potential problems are increasingly extreme weather, cybersecurity threats, and stress caused by shifts in where and how power is produced.
Many worry the grid isn't fully prepared for the new and emerging challenges, even though an analysis conducted for The Associated Press shows maintenance spending has steadily increased since North America's largest blackout.
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents
David Kriesel, 7th August 2013
In this article I present in which way scanners / copiers of the Xerox WorkCentre Line randomly alter written numbers in pages that are scanned. This is not an OCR problem (as we switched off OCR on purpose), it is a lot worse – patches of the pixel data are randomly replaced in a very subtle and dangerous way: The scanned images look correct at first glance, even though numbers may actually be incorrect. Without a fuss, this may cause scenarios like:
Incorrect invoices
Construction plans with incorrect numbers (as will be shown later in the article) even though they look right
Other incorrect construction plans, for example for bridges (danger of life may be the result!)
Incorrect metering of medicine, even worse, I think.
To make things even more worse: The copiers in question are the common Xerox WorkCentres, and Xerox seemed to be unaware of the issue until we found out about it last Wednesday. Whats more, not only one different WorkCentre model seems to be affected, as we tested at least two with this issue (Xerox WorkCentre 7535 and 7556). Additionally, the current software release, as installed by xerox support, did not solve the issue, thus, the issue existed on the very old release we had installed, as well as on a very new one. The error has been confirmed by a xerox rental firm in the meantime, and Xerox is investigating as well, so it does not seem to be some dumb handling error or something similar (if I was thinking this, I of course would not publish it here).
Comment: This is absolutely incredible.... I don't think a simple "fix" is the issue here... This might not just be a problem for Xerox either...
Glitch hits NAB online, mobile banking
Second of big four to have issues in a week.
IT News, 5th August 2013
A number of National Australia Bank customers have been unable to access online and mobile banking this morning after the bank suffered what appears to a server error. [...] NAB is four years into a multibillion dollar, ten-year technology transformation to replace its legacy mainframe systems, developed in the 1950s.
NAB was forced to take its payments systems offline a few weeks ago after a technology glitch halted the processing of payments for around 12 hours. It did not reveal what caused that glitch. The bank is the second of the big four in the past week to suffer an online banking outage.
Westpac's online and mobile services were down for two days late last week. The bank was able to restore services on Thursday night but online and mobile banking went down again for a second full day on Friday. It denied rumours of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack being behind the outage but is yet to provide the cause.
Comment: It does seem high profile major computer systems that people expect to be working 24/7 are becoming much more unreliable...
M&G accounting glitch hits 32,000 investors
The UK's biggest bond fund manager has admitted messing up income payments to thousands of investors.
Telegraph, 1st August 2013
Fund giant M&G has apologised for paying incorrect income to thousands of investors in one of its most popular funds.
The mis-payments began in May when M&G overpayed unit holders of the High Yield Corporate Bond Fund. To rectify this mistake the investment house took back the overpayments in July - but failed to let its investors know.
Comment: Did they really think nobody would notice?
Thousands of businesses hit by Streamline glitch
Businesses across the country have been left out of pocket as a result of technical problems at the UK's largest payment processing businesses, which is partly owned by Royal Bank of Scotland.
Telegraph, 31st July 2013
Streamline, which handles half of all face-to-face card transactions in Britain, said it was investigating as a "high priority" problems with payments made between Friday and Sunday, after businesses reported missing payments.
In a statement on the company's helpline, Streamline said it was aware of the issue and was trying to work out what had gone wrong.
A spokesman for Streamline said: "We are aware of a technical issue which has meant that some customers have not received settlement for transactions processed between 26-28 July as expected. We are looking into the issue as a matter of urgency and will be communicating with customers as soon as we have more information. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."
Comment: This same type of problem has been happening around the world, so maybe there is something systemic going on.
Railways boss denies safety problems
The Local (Switzerland) News, 31st July 2013
Investigators said on Tuesday a signalling failure or one of the two drivers ignoring a signal was the likeliest cause of the crash.
"I'd like to stress that we are investing 50 million francs in 1,700 safety signals between now and 2016," Meyer told Tages-Anzeiger. "But to bring our signaling up to the highest level of the European Train Control System (ETCS) we would need 2 billion francs."
"Our goal is that by 2035 our networks should be fitted with the ETCS. We are currently installing this safety system on the Gotthard railway line between Mattstetten and Rothrist and in the Lötschberg tunnel," Meyer said. The CEO conceded that the signalling system in operation at Granges-pres-Marnand dated from 1958.
Investigators probe cause of fatal train crash
The Local (Switzerland) News, 30th July 2013
Swiss investigators have pointed to signal-jumping as the likely cause of ahead-on train collision that killed a driver and injured 25 other people.[...] Sauterel said the assumption was that one of the trains had left the station too early, ignoring signals.
Comment: As regular blog readers will know, I have pointed out that railway signals can be affected by space weather induced problems. Yes, there have been a lot of recent major railway incidents (see list below), but I decided to wait until it was reported there was some kind of issue with signalling and it looks like something strange happened in Switzerland. Yes, it is very easy to blame a driver jumping a signal but the signal could have been wrong and there has already been tacit acknowlegement that there may have been a signalling failure. Anyway, here is a repeat of the warnings from Lloyds of London.
5. Space weather can also disrupt pipelines and railway signals
It can cause problems such as corrosion on pipelines and incorrect signal settings on railways. Again, there are means to mitigate these effects, but they usually require keeping back-up systems, which adds to operational costs.
Rail transport
[...] Looking to the future, emerging train control technologies, such as the European Train Control System,61 rely on communications links based on mobile phone technology and are therefore potentially vulnerable to interference from solar radio bursts. These links enable trains to report their speed and position to control centres and for those centres to transmit movement authorities to trains. Interference from radio bursts could break those control links and bring railway movement to a halt. This would severely disrupt railway schedules. Currently, these new control technologies are largely deployed as trials on selected lines, and most train routes still use physical signalling systems. We would therefore expect limited impact in the coming solar maximum of 2012 to 2015, but these control systems are likely to be more widespread by the following solar maximum (around 2024), so the risk could be higher. Developers and potential users of this technology will need to monitor space weather problems on the existing trial systems and look for solutions to reduce the long-term impact.
Lloyd's of London, November 2010
Recent Railway Incidents
– July 24, 79 people killed in the Spain's worst train accident in decades
– July 12, 2013: Six people are killed and nearly 200 injured just south of Paris when four cars slide off the tracks as a passenger train speeds through the small French town of Bretigny-sur-Orge.
– April 22, 2012: A woman dies of injuries a day after two trains collide head-on in Amsterdam. At least 16 people are seriously injured.
– April 13, 2012: Three people are killed and 13 injured in a train crash near Frankfurt when two trains collide and derail.
– March 3, 2012: Two trains collide head-on in southern Poland, killing at least eight people and injuring around 50.
Hacker who made ATMs spit out cash dies in Calif.
My Fox News, 26th July 2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A prominent hacker who discovered a way to have ATMs spit out cash and was set to deliver a talk about hacking pacemakers and other wireless implantable medical devices has died in San Francisco, authorities and his employer said.
Barnaby Jack died at his home in San Francisco Thursday, although the cause of death is still under investigation, San Francisco Deputy Coroner Kris Barbrich said.
Jack, who was in his mid-30s, was scheduled to speak on Aug. 1 at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. The headline of his talk was, "Implantable Medical Devices: Hacking Humans," according to a synopsis on the Black Hat conference website.
Comment: It can't be a surprise to many that this hacker was killed, when will people learn that advertising major news is not always the best idea.... Whatever, due to the publicity surrounding this suspicious death, there will be lots more novices trying to repeat the ATM trick... I don't think too many will be bothered about learning how to hack pacemakers.
Five Costa Concordia staff convicted over shipwreck in Italy
Italian court sentences cruise liner employees for manslaughter and negligence over sinking of cruise liner off Giglio
Guardian, 20th July 2013
An Italian court has convicted five people of manslaughter and negligence over the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that left 32 people dead. [...]
Prosecutors allege that Schettino lost control of the 114,500-tonne ship after hitting a rock as he skirted the shoreline of Giglio in a "salute" to a retired cruise line commodore. Schettino has denied the charges and insisted that the rock was not on nautical maps.
The reef sliced a 70-metre-long (230ft) gash in the hull and seawater rushed in, causing the ship to capsize.
Comment: At the time I wondered if this was a problem with navigational systems being wrong. Well, nothing has changed my mind about this possibility. No captain, a fool or otherwise, would navigate a large ship towards marked rocks unless he was not where he thought he was....
PayPal accidentally makes man a QUADRILLIONAIRE after transferring $92,233,720,368,547,800 into his account
Daily Mail, 17th July 2013
* Chris Reynolds left shocked after opening his monthly-statement
* 'I just felt like a million bucks' he said
As a regular PayPal customer, Chris Reynolds spends no more than $100 a month. So when the 56-year-old checked his balance with the online money-transfer company recently, it was something of a surprise for him to be told he was a quadrillionaire - making him the world's richest man. Mr Reynolds, from Delaware County, opened his monthly-statement by email on Friday to discover that his balance was a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800.
UK flights affected by computer problems
Flights in southern England have suffered delays because of air traffic control computer problems.
BBC News, 9th July 2013
Nats, the national air traffic control body, said UK airspace was not shut, nor were all flights in and out of the UK suspended - as one airport had said.
Nats said operations were returning to normal following technical work carried out at its Swanwick, Southampton, control centre. Contingency plans had been put in place to minimise disruption, it added.
Nats provides air traffic navigation services to aircraft flying through UK controlled airspace and at several UK and international airports. Its website said it handled 7,086 flights on Monday. Jersey Airport had tweeted just after 10:00 BST on Tuesday that the computer failure at Swanwick had "resulted in the temporary suspension of all flights in and out of UK air space."
In an update 25 minutes later, the airport said there was "once again movement in UK skies. However, some delays may result."
Comment: The computer glitches, that I think are being caused by the increase in cosmic rays, are most notable when computer systems used by banks, stock markets and airlines/air traffic control breakdown and it is becoming obvious that things are getting worse. Thanks to A. Rowicki for the tip.
Wiping Out Bank Accounts
Prioritizing Cyber, Nuclear Capabilities
Armed With Science, 7th July 2013
Malicious cyberattacks are quickly becoming a defining security challenge "for our time, for all our institutions," said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
"They are putting America's economic and technological advantages and our industrial base at risk," the secretary added. "And they threaten our critical infrastructure."
Hagel noted some now-familiar defense challenges in the cyber realm: attacks are invisible, hard to track to their source, and potentially can be classified as either criminal activity or acts of war.
"Attribution is not impossible, but it is not as simple as identifying a navy sailing across the ocean or an army crossing a border to attack you," Hagel said. "This is a fundamentally different, more insidious kind of threat than we've ever seen – one that carries with it a great risk of miscalculation and mistake."
Comment: I changed the headline to something most people can appreciate... Well, I treat this kind of article from a military source in exactly the same way as the articles on an EMP strike. I think the real issue is dealing with the increasing impact of space weather and for computer systems that means the general increase in cosmic rays. Yes, real cyber attacks are real, but so are cosmic rays corrupting computer software and hardware. So, as I continue to document examples, we are seeing plenty of disruption now.
Ready.gov – Space Weather
Ready.gov, April 2012
The term "space weather" refers to the variable conditions on the sun and in space that can influence the performance of technology we use on Earth. Extreme space weather could potentially cause damage to critical infrastructure – especially the electric grid – highlighting the importance of being prepared.
In order to protect people and systems that might be at risk from space weather effects, we need to understand the causes of space weather.
The sun is the main source of space weather. Sudden bursts of plasma and magnetic field structures from the sun's atmosphere called coronal mass ejections (CME) together with sudden bursts of radiation, or solar flares, all cause space weather effects here on Earth.
Space weather can produce electromagnetic fields that induce extreme currents in wires, disrupting power lines, and even causing wide-spread blackouts. Severe space weather also produces solar energetic particles, which can damage satellites used for commercial communications, global positioning, intelligence gathering, and weather forecasting.
Comment: This is affectively a Ready.gov advice sheet on Space Weather.. For the naysayers, solar storms are nothing new, but it is the fact that the transmitting properties of space have changed and therefore if we get huge solar coronal mass ejections coming our way, then they will have a bigger impact. This is combined with the issues that Earth's magnetosphere (magnetic shielding) is less affective. Earth's magnetic shield has "cracks" in it as well as sometimes there are massive breaches where the magnetic field affectively disappears on the daylight side. What this means is the planet can be "zapped" by large large flows of charged particles from the Sun (BIG electrical shocks) and if this is too severe there is a danger of national power grids being knocked out. Of course on a personal level, every single brain on the planet is also getting some big shocks too as the big and small shocks are detected by human brains that are wired into the environmental Schumann Resonances - but there are other environmental signals that humans can pick up that are not so beneficial. I wrote about this in my book Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spirtual Evolution and nothing has changed in my analysis. Now, we only have more revelations from the space agencies about geomagnetic conditions getting worse and worse. The planet is now regularly ringing like a bell with spacequakes.
Best of the Blog - Space Weather, Electronics
& Electromagnetic Chaos Archive
ICBC customers lose cool over glitch
China.org News, 24th June 2013
A system glitch suffered by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China paralyzed its over-the-counter, ATM and online trading in several cities in the country yesterday, sparking talk that it has run out of money before the bank issued a clarification later.
"Now the system has recovered and all services are back to normal. ICBC is deeply sorry about the inconvenience it has brought to the customers," the bank said.
The glitch had caused several of its customers to leave angry messages on ICBC's official page on Sina Weibo, the Chinese Twitter-like service, after they failed to draw or transfer their money from their ICBC accounts yesterday morning.
Ferry damaged hitting dock in Harwich
BBC News, 22nd June 2013
A lifeboat has been launched after a ferry carrying 400 people struck the dock in Harwich, Essex, as it berthed. Eyewitnesses reported seeing the Sirena Seaways vessel listing to its port side in Parkeston Quay after the accident.
Eric Chalmers, who is at the scene, said the ferry was "only just" upright in the water. Essex Fire and Rescue Service said no-one was trapped and there had been no injuries but the vessel had suffered damage below the water line.
Comment: Another major navigational fail.... Dare I repeat my usual stance that GPS is unreliable....
Sirena Seaways ferry damaged hitting Harwich dock [PHOTOS]
Eyewitness Chris Vincent said the ship was coming in at "quite some speed" -- Gert Jakobsen, vice-president of communications for DFDS, said it was "difficult to say" why the ship had struck the quayside. "There might have been some wind, we don't know why, but it hit the quay," he said.
250 Southwest Airlines flights cancelled or delayed nationwide after system outage
Chicago Sun Times, 22nd June 2013
About 250 Southwest Airlines flights were cancelled or delayed nationwide after a system-wide outage prevented flights from departing.
The outage did not affect flights in the air, but forced Southwest Airlines to keep planes grounded, the airline said on its Twitter feed late Friday. The problem, which started about 11 p.m. Friday, was resolved about two hours later.
Comment: At this moment, some work needs to be done to assess the reason why so many airlines are having problems with their computer systems.... Yes, I do explain there is a problem with cosmic rays corrupting computer hardware and software and those with the biggest banks of computers will get hit and get the publicity because of the impact when things go wrong, but location (height above sea level etc) and IT management are also important to consider...
The Stock Exchange of Thailand's online trading system collapsed
The Nation, 21st June 2013
The Stock Exchange of Thailand's online trading system collapsed at 4.10pm, leaving some orders unsettled. SET President Charamporn Jotikasthira told Krungthep Turakij today that the system should be recovered by 7.30pm today, when the night trading session for futures will start. He attributed the collapse to the malfunction of computer hardware. Settrade, which oversees the system, announced that the system has been successfully fixed. "The SET and brokerage houses have in place the damage-prevention system. Yet, this is beyond our control as two hardware equipment malfunctioned at the same time," he said.
Comment: I changed the headline to reflect the severity of the problem... these stock market computer system failures just keep on coming... but it looks like there was some kind of recovery plan in place as one would expect.
GPS Leads Woman Onto Railroad Tracks, Minivan Destroyed
Breitbart News, 20th June 2013
BELMONT, Mass. – A woman and her two children, ages 7 and 10, narrowly escaped serious injury when a train smashed into their minivan after a GPS device led the driver onto MBTA train tracks Tuesday night.
The woman was driving southbound on Brighton Street shortly before 9 p.m. when the GPS device directed her to make a right turn which placed her vehicle directly onto railroad tracks. Apparently the woman was unable to drive off the tracks, forcing her to flee the vehicle with her children.
Comment: I am starting to think the numbers of these GPS stories suggests there is a bad combination of factors operating. We have a certain percentage of people who routinely refuse to think for themselves and are susceptible to being hypnotised whilst listening for the next sat-nav command. Once they are in automatic mode they will obey absolutely any command no matter how ridiculous...
Blast hits midtown Manhattan
RT News, 16th June 2013
A massive explosion has rocked Manhattan, few blocks away from the UN headquarters. Police and firefighters are at the scene. Initial reports suggest that an underground transformer exploded setting nearby cars on fire.
Comment: These transformer fires happen quite frequently these days. Presumably, this is caused by a combination of stray electrical currents and bad maintenance. GICS (geomagnetically induced currents) are much more of a problem now due to worsening space weather conditions. See archives for previous comments.
Why do Transformers Explode?
Transformer Protector Corp Flashback!
"A one-year research project led to the discovery of 730 transformer explosions in the USA only Click for document #5. Many experts anticipate that the number of failures will increase significantly in the near future, from 1% in 2001 to 2% in 2008 Click for document #17. In addition, the shorter lifetime of new transformers will sharply increase above this rate after 2008 Click for document #18."
I picked this up originally in May 2011 when there was a bout of transformer fires. These website has since been updated and evidence of these reports might be harder to find.
Pavement explosion rise 'worrying'
BBC News, 17th June 2013
Londoners could be at risk of serious injury after a large increase in the number of exploding pavements. The Health and Safety Executive says it is worried by the rise in blasts across the capital over the past year. UK Power Networks, the company which distributes electricity across London, claims its system is actually safe.
Comment: I have been saying this has become a problem, I am vindicated yet again!
US warns of cyberattacks targeting medical devices
The FDA is warning that implanted medical devices, such as pacemakers and defibrillators, are often connected to networks that are vulnerable to cyber attacks that could shut down or manipulate the machinery.
Hackers with malicious intentions could introduce malware into the equipment, thereby gaining access to configure settings in medical devices or hospital networks, the Food and Drug Administration said in a warning sent to hospitals, medical device manufacturers, user facilities, and biomedical engineers.
"Over the past year, we've become increasingly aware of cyber security vulnerabilities in incidents that have been reported to us," William Maisel, deputy director for science at the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, told Reuters. "Hundreds of medical devices have been affected, involving dozens of manufacturers."
Comment: I don't believe this story, secure encryption is available and that is why the US government has to take major companies to secret courts to get them to hand over data.. So, anyone who understands the implications of space weather and the ensuing geomagnetic chaos as I have been documenting on my News of the Imbalance Blog will realise there is good reason for warning people about medical devices being hacked. If authorities can't even keep jail locks from unopening what else do you think is going to happen? See archives, Best of the Blog - Space Weather, Electronics & Electromagnetic Chaos . Btw it is not all bad, I have received one email informing me that a pacemaker had naturally re-charged itself...
Garage-door glitch: Army radio technology locks out Georgia homeowners
Washington Times, 11th June 2013
Fort Gordon in Georgia is getting a new military radio upgrade – and area residents aren't happy. They report a side effect of the system upgrade is leaving them locked out of their garages.
Apparently, the military's radio system is jamming remote-control garage-door-opener signals, The Associated Press reported.
Reports of the stopped-up garages began filtering in to military personnel last week, the Augusta Chronicle reported. That's coincidentally the time that Fort Gordon started upgrading its land-to-mobile radios to a 390 megahertz bandwidth – the same frequency used by remote controllers for garage doors, AP said.
The lockout has hit nearly 500 residents, who brought their concerns to their garage-door dealer, Overhead Door Co. of Augusta.
Comment: How can this be caused by a military upgrade when it means the military must be using a frequency that is used to open garage doors? This is not the first example of the exact same issue so maybe a proper explanation is required.
ICICI Bank glitch hits customers, shoppers
They could not withdraw money or shop for hours on Sunday
The Hindu, 10th June 2013
ICICI bank customers found themselves left high and dry for a while here on Sunday afternoon when they could neither withdraw money from the ATMs nor swipe their cards for transactions while shopping. [...] When contacted, ICICI sources said that a 13-minute technical glitch due to a snapping of a switch on Sunday afternoon led to failure of ICICI ATMs in the city.
Comment: So, here in India, the technical staff can provide the details immediately about what went wrong, but this ability is rare elsewhere around the globe....
Beer fridge causes mobile network outage
Daily Caller, 6th June 2013
An Australian man's faulty beer fridge is being blamed for blackouts in the mobile network in multiple neighborhoods. "I'm amazed something like that could knock out part of the network," fridge owner Craig Reynolds told the Herald Sun last weekend.
The interference, spread throughout the town of Wangaratta, is believed to have been caused by the fridge's emissions of unusual electrical signals. Engineers from Australian telecom company Telstra report that any electric signal of a large enough strength can generate radio frequency noise that causes blackouts.
Comment: I had some difficulty believing this story was genuine, but there are other versions of this story with extra details, see Isn't It A Pain When Your Beer Fridge Knocks Out The Entire Neighborhood's Cell Network? [The Consumerist] & Fridge fault causes Telstra mobile network blackouts [Herald Sun] Update: Beer cans can be used to boost wi-fi signals, see archives.
NYSE Euronext markets back on line after glitch
Boston.com, 6th June 2013
PARIS (AP) – Trading on a number of European exchanges started about an hour late Thursday after a problem with NYSE Euronext's systems prevented customers from placing orders. Exchanges in Paris, Lisbon, Brussels and Amsterdam were affected by the unexplained glitch.
But NYSE Euronext spokeswoman Caroline Tourrier said all trading was normal by around 10:00 a.m. CET (0800 GMT) and that the New York exchange should not be affected when it opens. Tourrier said the company still could not say what caused the glitch and that investigations were ongoing.
Comment: Also at Bloomberg.com, Euronext Glitch Delays Trading From Paris to Amsterdam. Well, there are even complaints that traders expected better reliability from the Twitter website which was down Tuesday Twitter's outage stakes grow as stock traders lose social factor , but its like there is a high level of delusion concerning the reliability of computer systems where the facts are stray cosmic rays are regularly bringing down computer systems and there is a limit to what can be done to minimise the impact. At the moment, Intel's cosmic ray detectors on a chip don't seem to be in widespread use even though they should be.
Three faces Ofcom probe following 3G data outage
The Inquirer, 5th June 2013
UK MOBILE OPERATOR Three is in talks with Ofcom following its 3G data outage on Tuesday, which saw subscribers left without access to the web. That's according to Sky News, which has heard from UK watchdog Ofcom that it has contacted the mobile operator over the outage.
This outage saw Three users unable to access the web on Tuesday, but the operator managed to restore its 3G services. By midday, the network's data services were back up and running in London, although despite promising that all would be resumed by the afternoon, full service was not restored until Tuesday evening.
Comment: Again, no immediate explanation offered but hopefully an enquiry will eventually provide answers.
Westpac's banking system hit by overnight glitch [NZ]
New Zealand Herald, 5th June 2013
A glitch in Westpac's banking system caused processing delays overnight, frustrating a number of customers.
Several customers voiced dissatisfaction on the bank's Facebook page, with many complaining they hadn't received wages or other payments overnight as expected.
A bank spokesman said the problem was solved before the start of the business day, and he apologised to any customers who were inconvenienced.
Comment: Somebody is lying or how could customers notice there was a problem and complain? Even if there was a problem, a backout and restart overnight should in effect be invisible to bank customers. I worked in IT in the financial sector so I know how it works.
Debit card glitch hits Capital G customers
Royal Gazette, 5th June 2013
Capital G has issued a statement explaining a technical glitch affecting customers using their credit and debit cards abroad. The bank's chief banking officer Bob Wilson said yesterday: "We are aware that some Capital G customers requesting cash withdrawals from international ATMs or attempting point of sale transactions abroad may currently be experiencing issues with the use of their Capital G credit and debit cards.
Comment: I need more technical info to make a call here, but this should not be happening...
STV [Scottish TV] apologises after glitch blanks out screens
Herald Scotland, 4th June 2013
STV viewers were dismayed tonight after the channel went off air shortly before a flagship referendum documentary was to be shown.
Viewers reported the channel cutting out during the Scottish news programme at around 6.30pm on some networks including Sky and FreeSat.
However, the broadcaster's programmes stayed on screen for viewers watching via the Freeview service. An STV spokesman said the glitch was linked to a network transmission issue on some platforms.
Comment: Long TV outages seem to be quite rare...
Axa customers hit by pensions glitch
Thousands of pension customers with Axa Wealth saw their monthly payments taken early as the result of an IT glitch.
Telegraph, 3rd June 2013
Six thousand Axa Wealth customers had their monthly pension contributions incorrectly taken from their bank account last Wednesday as the result of a computer glitch. All those affected were reimbursed on Friday, and a Axa spokesman told Telegraph Money that if customers had incurred any bank fees as a result of the mistake, it would reimburse them.
The company stressed that customers did not need to take any action – the payment will be taken on the correct day as usual and the issue had been resolved. The pension provider is writing to all its customers with details of the glitch and has set up a phone line to answer any queries concerning the incident.
Comment: I see this as bad for society as trust in computer systems is being steadily eroded.
RBS apologise as app glitch locked customers out of their accounts for the second time this month
Herald Scotland, 31st May 2013
Royal Bank of Scotland customers faced more frustration today as they struggled to check their money using the bank's mobile phone app.
RBS just can't seem to get their computer systems straight. I admit, this is not just about space weather, this is mainly really poor management...
OSE president to lose pay for glitch
Japan Times, 23rd May 2013
OSAKA – The Osaka Securities Exchange said Wednesday it will cut the monthly pay of its president, Motoharu Fujikura, by 30 percent for one month over a system problem that forced it to suspend derivatives trading in March.
Couple's £163,000 mobile phone bill shock
BBC News, 22nd May 2013
An electrician and his wife had a shock when they received a mobile phone bill for £163,000, then fought for months to have the debt cleared.
For 15 years, Alan and Carolyn Mazkouri, from Swansea, had a business deal with Orange for 10 phones. They told the BBC's Watchdog programme that they normally had a bill for £300 a month, before the shock demand came in September. [...] The bill suggested that Mr Mazkouri's phone had downloaded data by dialling up the internet every 20 minutes for three weeks.
Comment: So... did Orange really expect this couple to pay the bill?
Italy deaths as Genoa ship hits control tower
BBC News, 8th May 2013
At least four people have died and several more are missing after a container ship crashed into a control tower in the Italian port of Genoa.The Jolly Nero smashed into the concrete and glass tower late at night, reducing it to rubble. Three people were reported to have been trapped inside a lift that fell into the water as the tower collapsed. [...]
'Utterly shocked'
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, but Genoa's Il Secolo XIX newspaper quoted the Jolly Nero's captain as saying that two engines appeared to have failed and "we lost control of the ship". The head of the Genoa Port Authority, Luigi Merlo, told the newspaper: "It's very difficult to explain how this could have happened because the ship should not have been where it was."
Comment: Hmmm.... Maybe, someone was looking at a navigational device rather than actually using lookouts to do visual sightings... As I keep saying, due to space weather, GPS is not reliable anymore, so these major ships, cargo ships, tankers and submarine accidents will keep happening until the message gets through, see archives Best of the Blog - Space Weather, Electronics & Electromagnetic Chaos .
27,000 Atmos Energy customers overcharged 10x by billing glitch
Dallas Morning News, 6th May 2013
About 27,000 Atmos Energy customers have been mistakenly charged ten times the amount of their bill because of a billing glitch. The mistake happened to customers who have their bill automatically deducted from their checking accounts or credit cards, company spokeswoman Jennifer Ryan said.
The mistake caused headaches for customers who unexpectedly found themselves overdrawn through no fault of their own. "I was drafted $646.40 instead of $64.64," complained Melissa Alexander of Fort Worth on the company's website. "I AM NOT A HAPPY CAMPER!!" Alexander said later she contacted her bank immediately but the funds will be tied up until Atmos corrects the error.
India BlackBerry services back to normal after outage by FP Staff May 6, 2013First Post News, 6th May 2013
BlackBerry services which faced an outage in India and some other parts of the world are finally functioning normally. A 3 May tweet from the company's official handle read, "All BlackBerry services are returning to normal levels. Apologies to any customers who experienced issues earlier. ^DH"
NYSE MKT Hits Trading Glitch
24/7 Wall St, 2nd May 2013
Trading at the NYSE Euronext's NYSE MKT exchange was halted briefly today. What is important here is not that the trading halt barely last two minutes, but that more than 400 symbols were temporarily unavailable for trading. This is not a miniature flash crash but an unavailable crash for electronic traders.
Windstream voice outages mostly resolved; technology upgrade blamed
Fierce Telecom, 2nd May 2013
Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN) reported Wednesday evening that the majority of the network outages that left business customers across as many as 23 states without voice service have been fixed, though isolated issues remain.
The telco said on its support page that while "There may still be some isolated issues our team is working aggressively to remedy." The outage was due to a technology upgrade on various parts of its long-distance network, the carrier said. It did not reveal the voice vendor that performed the upgrade.
"Unfortunately, after the new technology was subjected to mass volume, this newly upgraded system began performing erratically," Windstream said on its support site. "We have subsequently reverted to the prior configuration."
Comment: Maybe, as geomagnetic conditions on this planet worsen, there is a need for more honesty concerning the reliability of phone/mobile network & internet services. As all operators are facing the same issues, the general public should at least have access to inderpendent databases that informs people about the cause of faults that last more than half an hour and whether it is space weather related.
Windstream suffers voice network outage across several states
Fierce Telecom, 29th April 2013
Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN) reports that it is suffering a "widespread" outage on its voice network, an issue that's affecting the ability of customers in several states to make long-distance and toll free calls. The number of customers affected is not known at this time. The telco said on its website that the outage occurred around 11:30 a.m. EDT. In addition to long-distance and toll-free voice services, the telco said on its Facebook page that the outage is affecting its ability to receive inbound calls to its support centers and that it is "investigating reports that local inbound and outbound calling also may be disrupted for some customers."
UPDATED: Optus network outage causes disruptions in Sydney Customers affected for several peak morning hours
ARN News, 30th April 2013
Some Sydney-based Optus Business customers on the Evolve network experienced lengthy outages this morning due to a failure on the telecommunications provider's end. Optus has confirmed a "hardware issue impacted a router in an Optus exchange" in Ultimo. While the telco said it caused "intermittent dropouts," the outage experienced by IDG Communications, the publisher of ARN, lasted for about four hours between 05:00 and 09:00 this morning. During that period, the network was only available for very brief periods before going under once more.
AT&T Network Outage Frustrates Hundreds of Alaska Customers
KTUU News, 30th April 2013
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An AT&T network outage was reportedly fixed within an hour Tuesday afternoon, however GCI and Alaska Communications customers were reporting service disruptions due to the issue. Andy Colley with AT&T Corporate Communications said a "network link went down around 4:52 p.m. Alaska time and was repaired around 5:45 p.m. Alaska time." Customers may have experienced block calls during the outage.
ASX website hit by glitch
The Herald News, 30th April 2013
The website of the Australian Securities Exchange is down this morning due to a "technical glitch".
The asx.com.au site has been displaying only a limited menu with no up-to-date market data as of about 9.30 on Tuesday morning. A spokesman for the ASX said although the site was experiencing technical difficulties, "the dynamic information that goes out to market is going out as normal". [...]
ASX systems have suffered "glitches" in the past, with two high profile outages in 2011, one halting trade for four hours.
Comment: Obviously, this is NOT a major problem but it does not inspire confidence because the number of financial exchanges around the world experiencing "technical glitches" is creating a crisis of confidence with investors.
Glitch unlocks Montgomery County jail doors
Washington Post, 27th April 2013
About 500 locks on cell doors simultaneously opened inside Montgomery County's main jail early Saturday, prompting officials to declare a security emergency that included posting about 20 police cars on the perimeter of the facility near Clarksburg.
No inmates tried to escape and the locks were reset, said Arthur Wallenstein, director of the county's Department of Correction and Rehabilitation. Wallenstein said the cell-door locks also disengaged Tuesday before being reset. "It's definitely a problem," he said. "We must find the source of it."
County maintenance workers and outside contractors were in the jail Saturday working on the system to find a permanent fix for the doors, Wallenstein said. The doors are part of an electronic system guided by computer programs and corrections officers.
Comment: Now, that is what I call a glitch! Well, I think this story in itself should be enough to remove any doubt that electronics that require a stable geomagnetic environment are occasionally unreliable. I hope these same electronic locks are not used at banks etc but I bet they are....
CBOE works to contain fallout from glitch
Market Watch, 27th April 2013
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) – Senior executives of the Chicago Board Options Exchange were on Friday working to contain the fallout from a software glitch that delayed trading on Thursday and left U.S. markets without critical hedging tools.
Analysts estimate the episode could have cost parent CBOE Holdings Inc. (US:CBOE) some $700,000 in lost revenue, and its share of U.S. options trading dipped below its recent average as clients continued to assess the impact of what the company described as a "systems issue." [...]
CBOE, the largest U.S. stock-options exchange in terms of trading, failed to open for trading Thursday because of an "an internal systems issue" that prevented its computers from validating some orders, and sending reports back to traders. Trading opened about 3 1/2 hours late, leaving investors frustrated and traders milling about CBOE's Chicago pits.
Thursday's breakdown left banks, asset managers and other investors unable to deal in heavily traded options on major stock indexes and CBOE's own Volatility Index, or VIX. Those contracts are available solely on the CBOE.
Comment: Hmmm.... the high profile computer system fails just keep coming and the reason is OBVIOUS if you understand the problem we now have with space weather and cosmic rays. This failure seems to have caused another major upset for traders,my opinion is based on the amount of high profile media coverage.
Nationwide BS suffers IT glitch as customers take to social networks to complain they are locked out of online banking
Thisismoney.co.uk, 23rd April 2013
Nationwide Building Society has been hit by 'technical difficulties' meaning millions of customers cannot access online and mobile banking – while some reports suggest cash machines are not working either.
On Nationwide's website this afternoon, a message reads: 'We're sorry to have to tell you that our online bank is unavailable. We are making every effort to restore service as quickly as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience this will cause you.'
A Nationwide spokesman said: 'We are currently experiencing an IT issue that is affecting services including our online bank. [...] The glitch has seen scores of customers complain on social networking website Twitter – including businesses who are unable to take payments. :
Comment: Twitter complaints here. Well, we had some some minor C-Class flares have been observed around Sunspot 1726 today and yesterday but the flurry of high profile computer glitches is quite impressive. See sidebar for the latest x-ray flux data over the last few days.
Chicago Board Options Exchange
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) – Trading resumed at the biggest U.S. options exchange by volume after being delayed by several hours Thursday because of system problems.
Jeddah port cargo services suspended following glitch
Arab News, 24th April 2013
Cargo services were disrupted at the Jeddah Islamic Port due to a technical fault in the electronic exchange system, informed sources said. The port authorities did not comment on the issue or on its impact on cargo activity of the port. Hani Al-Trabulsi, a cargo dealer at the port, said the system stopped working a few days back and the outgoing and transit cargo services were suspended with the exception of goods that had already been entered prior to the technical glitch.
Comment: Another random cosmic ray hit with a significant impact
NZX back up after technical glitch - New Zealand
NZ Herald News, 23rd April 2013
The NZX is now back in operation after a technical glitch this morning kept investors in the dark with no market announcements being published on the stock exchange operator's website and Reuters and Bloomberg services not showing trading action.
The stock exchange did not publish any new market announcements on its public website throughout the morning, due to technical issues though trading was open, an NZX spokeswoman said.
It was unclear whether that was behind Reuters and Bloomberg terminals not showing any trading action, and if that extends to IRESS products. In a formal announcement at 11am, the NZX confirmed it was currently experiencing difficulty with its market data feed.
Apple's iCloud services again hit by global outage
Apple Insider, 23rd April 2013
The iCloud suite of services experienced an outage Tuesday morning, marking yet another period of downtime for Apple's cloud-based operations.
The outage appeared to affect a number of iCloud-based services, including Mail, Find My iPhone, and Find My Friends. Users attempting to log in to iCloud.com were also met with a "Connection Error" message that explained that "iCloud encountered an error while trying to connect to the server."
The issues appeared to be worldwide as of Tuesday morning, as readers from around the globe reached out to AppleInsider to detail their own issues. Despite the multitude of issues, Apple's iCloud System Status website claimed that all iCloud services were online and operational. No downtime was noted by the company.
Patent: Cosmic ray detectors for integrated circuit chips US 7309866 B2
Patent Services, June 2004 Flashback!
The normal background radiation environment on the surface of the earth has ionizing components that sometimes affects the reliability of semiconductor integrated circuit chips, such as memory chips used in computers. [...]
Cosmic particles in the form of neutrons or protons can collide randomly with silicon nuclei in the chip and fragment some of them, producing alpha-particles and other secondary particles, including the recoiling nucleus. [...]
Cosmic ray induced computer crashes have occurred and are expected to increase with frequency as devices (for example, transistors) decrease in size in chips. This problem is projected to become a major limiter of computer reliability in the next decade. Various approaches have been suggested to eliminate or reduce the number of soft errors due to cosmic ray interactions in chips.
Comment: I believe the issue of cosmic rays becoming more and more of a problem is not just related to a decrease in chip size but more related to an increase in cosmic rays. As NASA have informed the world, cosmic rays are at an all time high and are expected to increase because the shielding our solar system and planet are both simultaneously weakening, see archives for more info.
Cosmic threat to tomorrow's computers
ZDNet.co.uk, 5th February 2008 Flashback!
"...cosmic rays of the sort pouring down to Earth from exploding galaxies, neutron stars and other energetic events. These are largely shielded by the atmosphere, but more than enough get through to sea level to cause problems. Engagingly, this also means that SER goes up with altitude - you'll get five times as many just 2,600 feet above sea level, and if you're living in Denver (5,280 feet ASL) expect ten times as many.
Cosmic rays are now the biggest source of soft errors - and they're common enough that on average, a gigabyte of RAM will have one soft error every couple of weeks."
Intel plans to tackle cosmic ray threat
BBC News, 8th April 2008 Flashback!
Computer processor manufacturer Intel have revealed details of a patent for protecting future generations of computers from the growing threat of cosmic rays.
The company has designed an on-chip cosmic ray detector to try to cope with the particles, which originate in space before sporadically entering the Earth's atmosphere and going through everything they encounter. Because the operation of computers is through charged particles, the unpredictable hits from the rays are problematic, potentially causing the system to crash.
"What happens is if a cosmic ray causes a collision inside the silicon chip, that releases lots of charged particles," Intel's senior scientist Eric Hannah told BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme. "All our logic is based on charge, so it gets interference."
SGX Checks Derivatives Trading Glitch to Protect Cash Cow
Business Week News, 18th April 2013
Singapore Exchange Ltd. (SGX), operator of Southeast Asia's biggest bourse, said it's reviewing procedures after derivatives trading was delayed by a computer breakdown last week, sending investors to alternate venues.
The three-hour delay, caused by a faulty system-monitoring process, sent investors to Osaka to buy and sell Japanese index contracts on April 9. The disruption in the bourse's fastest- growing business, happened as the company plans to roll out new products amid record derivatives trading.
Comment: The high roillers are starting to lose some serious money due to unreliable computers systems... I need to check if the Intel cosmic ray detector on a chip is too expensive for the average derivatives trading exchange...
American Airlines passengers still backed up after glitch
NBC News, 17th April 2013
Flight cancellations and delays continued to bedevil American Airlines customers on Wednesday -- a day after a major glitch crippled the carrier's reservation system, leading to the grounding of its fleet for several hours. "These computer system can get hung up waiting for data. If it never gets it, the system can get overloaded and leads to a shutdown," said Dr. Bill Curtis, chief scientist at CAST, a software analysis firm.
Comment: This seems to happen quite frequently with airlines and I presume there must be huge banks of vulnerable servers in bad locations....
Metromover reopens after technical glitch
Miami Herald, 18th April 2013
Miami's automated Metromover train failed to open for service during the rush Thursday morning because of a "technical issue." But by midday Thursday transit officials had managed to restore service to all stations. [...]
The service is periodically disrupted by computer glitches, which some experts blame on the complexity of the system.
New Zealand's largest bank hit by technical glitch
Otago Daily Times, 16th April 2013
New Zealand's largest bank has been hit by a technical glitch today, holding up overnight payments and leaving customers unable to access internet banking. ANZ Bank said it was working to fix an outage affecting ANZ Internet Banking, ANZ goMoney for Android and iBank. "Our IT team are looking into this now and hope to have these services back up and running soon," it said in a Facebook announcement.
Many government websites down due to glitch in NIC server [INDIA]
Economic Times, 16th April 2013
NEW DELHI: Websites of various ministries and state-run departments are down since late morning today due to a technical glitch in the server of NIC, the agency which handles IT functions of the government. "There was a UPS (interruptible power supply) failure at 1130 hours (at NIC control room) and the sites will be restored within a few hours of the failure," Department of Information Technology Secretary J Satyanarayana said.
Minor Glitch Stops Unit 5 of Bulgaria's Nuclear Plant
novinite.com, 15th April 2013
All survive after jet lands in sea off Bali Indonesia
BBC News, 13th April 2013
A passenger jet has ended up in the sea off the Indonesian island of Bali after missing an airport runway but everyone aboard survived.
Fifteen people were taken to hospital after the crash, which involved an Indonesian Lion Air plane carrying 101 passengers and seven crew.
Photos posted on Twitter show a jet with a cracked fuselage sitting in water near rocks, with dinghies nearby.
Comment: Was this a satellite navigation fail? It sounds like there was not much room for failure... Well, I don't care whether authorities want to blame the pilots. In a chaotic Geomagnetic/EM environment with military spokesmen and others screaming about the problems with GPS and associated navigation systems (see archives), generating regular reports of billion dollar submarines and tankers crashing, we all have a right to wonder. I don't know if there are solutions to fixing the problem of inaccurate navigational data, but at the moment, space weather is roiling the ionosphere and the result is there will be more major incidents where locational precision is vital. Whatever, I would like to congratulate the pilots that nobody died when the plane hit the water.
TSB Bank glitch sees details sent to wrong customers [NZ]
TV NZ News, 12th April 2013
PSA: Weird Glitch Caused A Bunch Of Disney Games To Temporarily Appear Free On The Play Store, Prices Back To Normal Now
Android Police, 9th April 2013
Earlier this morning, something strange happened. A handful of paid Disney games – including Where's My Water?, Temple Run: Brave, and Wreck-it Ralph, among others – suddenly showed up as free in the Play Store. Naturally, stories started popping up in the Android world that a bunch of fairly popular games were suddenly available without charge for no apparent reason. Perhaps Disney decided that it was time to give some titles away – but that didn't make much sense, as the "lite" versions of most titles were still present alongside their formerly-paid counterparts. Turns out it was just a glitch, and the games are once again donning their original $0.99 price tags. Disney isn't entirely sure what happened.
Comment: Computers are getting randomly hit by cosmic rays and some are getting lucky... More: a selection of the latest computer system glitches.
Aflac's computer glitch affects ¥1.8 billion in insurance deals
Japan Times, 6th April 2013
Glitch hits Apple's iMessage, Facetime
PC World, 9th April 2013
Apple's iMessage and Facetime messaging systems were hit with a glitch Tuesday that took the services offline for several hours. The problems for both services began shortly after noon Pacific TimeTuesday and continued until after 5 p.m. PT, according to Apple. iMessage is an instant messaging service and Facetime is a video calling service.
Singapore Exchange Says Derivatives Trading Resumes After Glitch
Bloomberg News, 9th April 2013
Singapore Exchange Ltd. (SGX), the operator of Southeast Asia's biggest stock market, said it resolved a technical glitch that delayed the trading of derivatives until 10:45 a.m. local time.
Software glitch stings punters - $30 million
Harness Link, 10th April 2013
Dutch internet banking problems due to a cyber attack
Dutch News, 6th April 2013
Friday's internet banking problems at a string of Dutch banks were caused by a cyber attack, the Dutch banking association NVB said.
Both the internet banking system iDEAL and ING bank were out of action for several hours because of the attack on Friday afternoon. It was not a hack and internet banking security was not compromised, Nos television quoted NVB as saying.
Comment: I was sent another 4 links concerning Dutch internet banking problems but I have concluded that any DDos attacks are a smokescreen as hackers and computer geeks would have advertised this through the popular media sites like Twitter and Facebook when the problems first started and not after the event. Here are the Dutch links, ttp://www.nu.nl/internet/3390585/storingen-bij-banken-cyberaanval.html, http://www.nu.nl/internet/390806/ing-doet-aangifte-van-cyberaanval.html, http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/21455696/__Cyberaanval_op_ING_gestopt__.html, http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/21455621/__OM_begint_onderzoek___.html.
Another Fail For Dutch Banks: Big trouble with iDeal
telegraaf.nl, 5th April 2013
iDeal suffers a major failure which makes it a good number of banks is not possible to internet banking. That said a spokeswoman Currence, the company behind iDeal. The cause of the failure is not known.
Google Translation+: According to Currence, customers of ING and SNS Bank cannot pay via PayPal. This has affected five or six other banks on the receiving side so in effect, nobody can pay via PayPal. It is not known when the problems will be solved. Two days after ING payments had been shut down due to a major fault, the app and the site for online banking the bank are once again inaccessible. On social media, hundreds of people are complaining about the new jam. They can not currently transfer money over the internet. Via Twitter, ING has admitted fault.
Comment: I have been sent another set of two Dutch links, this is the original Dutch version of this article, link 1. I don't know anything about Dutch banking but this will be of great interest to Dutch blog followers after I have been making claims for years about computer systems becoming more vulnerable in the worsening cosmic environment. Thanks to E. Pierau for the links. See below for an update:
Several banks affected by disturbances
Nu.nl, 5th April 2013
Google Translation+: On Friday, several Dutch banks suffered a major failure. There are still problems with ING, but by 15.00 the other banks which were affected by Ideal-interference, was solved by nce 15.00 solved.
Clients of ING may still have problems logging in, as a spokesman said some clients might have difficulty with internet banking. [...]
The problems at ING may occur both on the website and in the applications. What causes the disturbance, it is not yet known. A spokesman for the bank suggests however that the problems have nothing to do with the failure on Wednesday .
Comment: Here is the original Dutch version Link 2.
Dutch bank ING's online customers find wrong balance in accounts
Reuters, 3rd April 2013
(Reuters) - Dutch bank ING was inundated with complaints from retail and business customers in the Netherlands on Wednesday because their online accounts showed incorrect balances.
ING said that it had a problem with processing payments on Tuesday night and that balances online appeared incorrect even though the actual balances in the accounts were not affected. It said the problem was not caused by computer hacking.
Angry customers complained by phone, on social media and in person at bank branches. ING said that it did not know how many customers had been affected.
Separately, rival Dutch lender Rabobank said that it also had problems with its online banking on Wednesday. Rabobank's problems, which were unrelated to those at ING, prevented customers from requesting loans online.
Comment: Thanks to E. Pierau, I was sent two Dutch links (link 1 & link 2) about two different Dutch banks suffering from major computer glitches. This Reuters articles mentions both but, apparently, the ING glitch was much more serious. The Dutch article (Google translation) Big trouble at ING internet banking states this is the fifth failure in ten days at ING. Since there have been so many similar failures in recent times, I can't be specific but I am suspicious that it might be space weather related. It is hard to be sure when banks usually refuse to be truthful about the cause of computer system failures, see archives for previous comments on this matter. More below:
ING internet banking in chaos after 'mysterious' withdrawals
Dutch News, 3rd April 2013
Financial services group ING is grappling with a major internet banking breakdown which has led to thousands of people being unable to use their direct debit cards.
In some cases, people have 'lost' thousands of euros from their accounts because of the fault while others have thousands of euros too much, Nos television reported.
Even account holders who are not allowed to overdraw have discovered their counts are deep in the red because of double bookings. Some people say long queues built up in supermarkets as people found they were unable to pay.
Comment: The chaos is only just beginning...
Glitch hits on-line banking yet again [Ireland]
Herald News, 3rd April 2013
CUSTOMERS of two major Irish banks were unable to access their accounts online yesterday. People seeking to log on to their accounts at AIB and Permanent TSB were faced with notices from the banks warning them of technical problems. Customers were unable to make money transfers or to pay bills. [...] The glitch that hit Permanent TSB knocked out online banking and the banks' telephone services. "It lasted for an hour but the problems were resolved and all services are back as normal," said a spokesman.
'Glitch' and long waits frustrate Service Ontario customers
mississauga.com, 3rd April 2013
ONTARIO – Thousands of Ontarians were left frustrated by computer problems at Service Ontario offices across the province yesterday, with many standing in line for hours only to walk away. Blaming a "complex" problem with the Service Ontario information technology system, transactions for driver's licences, vehicle registrations and health cards have "either slowed down or are not getting through," said Jenna Mannone, spokeswoman for Harinder Takhar, the minister of government services.
Comment: Canada can expect to get lots and lots of computer failures due its northern latitude and thus likelihood of computer hardware and software being corrupted by cosmic rays...
Computer glitch paralyzes Montreal metro system for an hour [Canada]
CTV News, 2nd April 2013
MONTREAL–For the second time in three weeks, Montreal's entire metro system came to a halt on Tuesday afternoon due to a computer glitch. Service was interrupted on all four lines of the metro just after 6 p.m. The outage lasted about an hour.
Comment: These transport system failures for trains and metros are also quite common these days...
RBS fixes mobile app after glitch locks out customers
Royal Bank of Scotland, the state-owned lender, has fixed its latest technical glitch which left NatWest, RBS and Ulster Bank customers locked out of the bank's mobile app for hours on Friday.
Telegraph, 28th March 2013
"All our mobile banking applications are now running normally. We apologise again for the inconvenience caused to our customers," the bank said. The glitch prevented people from logging on using the mobile app, customers were still able to use all the bank's services online, at ATMs and branches.
Comment: The banking technical fails just keep coming, but RBS really does seem to have some issues...
Apple iPhone users urged to upgrade software after glitch leads to bill shock
news.com.au, 28th March 2013
AUSTRALIAN phone carriers have warned iPhone users to update their smartphone software after paying out en masse for excessive data downloads reportedly caused by Apple software faults.
All three major phone carriers yesterday confirmed a wave of complaints and bill shock following the launch of the iPhone 5 in Australia, with another more recent fault draining data for some iPhone email users.
The original fault, which affected only some iOS 6 iPhone users, delivered unexpectedly heavy mobile data use as the phones incorrectly appeared to be using a wi-fi connection when they were not.
Comment: This is a much more detailed report Apple customers slugged by software bug. Apple iPhones are automatically switching from wi-fi to 3G and 4G networks and the phone companies are making a killing...
Food stamp glitch angers shoppers, grocers
Standard Speaker, 26th March 2013
Last Sunday was a bad day for grocery shopping. In some stores, angry customers barked at cashiers and abandoned shopping carts full of food while stock workers scrambled to return ice cream and frozen dinners to the freezers before they thawed, all on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
"It was a total mess," said Tom Baseski, owner of Thomas' Market in Kingston. The food stamps program, which eligible members now use with a state-issued debit card, was supposed to be offline across Pennsylvania from 11 p.m. Saturday until noon on Sunday while the Department of Welfare
Comment: Another Electronic Benefit Transfer card (EBT) computer systems upgrade fail...
Officials investigate cause behind massive earth-split in Brazil
Extinction Protocol, 26th March 2013
BRAZIL – The cause of massive land collapse in Brazil is being investigated. The prosecutor Douglas Roberto Ribeiro de Magalhaes Chegury is investigating the cause of environmental disasters in the cities of Santo Domingo and Campos Belos, Goias in the Northeast. Since yesterday (14/3), surveys are being carried out by the technical-skills expert prosecutors in places, where geological disasters, were generated by the collapse of land. [...] According to Chegury, in early February, shortly after becoming aware of the environmental disaster in the Serra Geral, which divides the states of Goiás, Tocantins and Bahia; the civil investigation was initiated due to public outcry.
Comment: Nothing in the mainstream media...
Software glitch WIPES OUT listings of 10,000 eBay sellers
The Register, 22nd March 2013
eBay has confessed to The Register that a software bug destroyed the listings of 10,000 merchants in Britain, the US, Germany and Australia.
The online tat bazaar said it was restoring the listings, but it was unable to tell us if traders would be able to recover their sales histories - an important component for eBay sellers, who build trust with customers by showing how they had previously sold items on the site.
Comment: Due to the severity of space weather and the degradation of Earth's magnetosphere (external magnetic field and cosmic shielding), I predict that the computer glitches are going to just keep on coming. It will be interesting to watch how IT professionals cope and eventually the reaction of the masses when they finally wake up and realise just how precarious things have become for our societies heavily reliant on technology. Regardless, surely there must be some backups somewhere even if they are little out of date?
Debenhams price glitch accidentally gives 99% off
AOL Money News, 22nd March 2013
Bargain hunters, trawling the web in the small hours this morning, stumbled across a price glitch on the Debenhams website, which left them offering 99% off all Land's End clothing. This meant a coat worth £90 was priced at just 72p.
The site was overwhelmed with orders and crashed at 4.30am. It has since been closed for 'essential maintenance'. So will the orders be honoured? [...]
Nowadays most companies have small print on their websites to make it clear that a contact of sale is not complete just because you have made an order and a payment has gone through. Instead they tend to specify that an order is deemed to have been made when the goods are dispatched.
Comment: You really have to wonder about how major companies are allowing these "human errors" to be generated and then go undetected...
JPMorgan Chase glitch displays customers as zero
Were bank's systems hacked, customers ask
Computer World UK News, 19th March 2013
Customers of JPMorgan Chase reported seeing zero balances in their accounts both online and on mobile, and speculated that the bank's systems had been hacked into.
The bank however clarified late Monday that it was having a technology problem regarding customers' balance information that it was working to resolve.
"Almost had a heart attack... Haven't checked my balance in a little bit but it read zero. Gotta be an early April Fool joke or something," wrote one user on Twitter. Some others suggested that the bank's systems may have been hacked.
"It has nothing to do with the cyber threats - it's an internal issue. We are very sorry to our customers for the inconvenience," the bank said in a statement.
Comment: Hmmm... Another bank having a computer system meltdown... It just keeps on happening...
Verizon Wireless Software Glitch Has Customers Paying Twice The Price
TriState News, 18th March 2013
Some Verizon Wireless customers might notice a big difference in this month's phone bill paying nearly twice the price. The company says a software glitch is to blame in some Midwest states, but they ensure customer's will get every dime back after this mistake. A store manager explains what Verizon plans to do about it.
Comment: After big solar flares and CMEs, there are always more reports of glitches but there is always a constant stream of reports that are due to the background flux of cosmic rays.
Second computer glitch shuts down NASA Mars rover
Reuters News, 18th March 2013
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 18 - The Mars rover Curiosity has had a second computer glitch, extending an unplanned work break for the NASA robot that discovered the first life-friendly chemistry beyond Earth, scientists said on Monday. Engineers had hoped to resume Curiosity science operations on Monday following a problem with the rover's main computer two weeks ago.
Comment: I think both recent Mars rover shut downs have been associated with large CME blasts which should be expected as Mars has virtually no intrinsic magnetic field and a thin atmosphere so there is little or no protection from the effects of severe space weather.
SingTel blames SMS outage on software glitch
ZD Net, 18th March 2013
Summary: Telco restores SMS services nearly half a day after disruption on Sunday evening, which it blames on an "isolated software glitch".
SingTel has fully restored its various SMS services following an outage which lasted nearly half a day. On Sunday evening, some of the Singapore telco's customers could not send nor receive SMS. Many of the took to the company's Facebook page to air their complaints.
"Some customers may have experienced intermittent difficulties in sending and receiving SMS from approximately 10.30pm Sunday. Our engineers worked through the night to restore sending and receiving capabilities for postpaid and prepaid customers by 6.10am Monday," a SingTel spokesperson told ZDNet.
The incident follows a more serious outage affecting M1 customers in January, where customer could not access services for voice and data. M1 blamed the disruption on a power fault triggered by one of its vendors during an upgrade of equipment. Services were fully restored only after 64 hours.
Comment: The last outage was 64 hours... that's impressive! See previous comments that explain how space weather is a major cause of disruption for mobile phone services.
SmarTone glitch hits clients again
The Standard, 19th March 2013
Thousands of SmarTone Telecommunications customers were unable to make calls to fixed-line phones yesterday morning when a server suffered a technical glitch.
However, the disruption was less severe than an incident in April last year which left subscribers without mobile phone or internet access for four hours.
"I was frustrated that I could not use my cell phone to make calls to my fixed-line phone at home," one SmarTone subscriber said.
Comment: I don't think it is a coincidence that mobile phone operators in Hong Kong and Singapore had trouble with their services about the same time after a major blast of space weather.
Woman facing charges after computer glitch over pays her $10K
WTAQ News, 17th March 2013
CONOMOWOC, WI (WTAQ) - An apparent computer glitch resulted in a worker at Stein Garden Center in the City of Oconomowoc getting 10 times the pay she was owed.
Forty-seven year old Lynda G. Johnson was paid at a rate of $88.25 an hour, instead of the $8.25 she was supposed to get. She was overpaid by $10,000. The company discovered the error about a month after Johnson quit last May.
Comment: Back in June 2012, compulsive gambler Ronald Page took out $1.5 million in 17 days at an ATM and frittered it all away before the bank noticed. Consequently, a judge only gave him 15 months because of the gambling addiction and the fact the judge thought it was the bank's fault for allowing it to happen. As computers become less reliable due to interference from cosmic rays corrupting data files, it will be interesting to see how these cases are resolved.
Key Fobs Mysteriously Being Disabled In Suburban Parking Lot
CBS Local Chicago News, 12th March 2013
Something strange is happening in a Tinley Park strip mall lot. CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports the mystery has left investigators puzzled, and dozens of people without a working car. [...]
A strange force is leaving some shoppers stranded; their car key fobs powerless to unlock and even start their vehicles. "It actually happened to my mom over the weekend and it didn't work for her either," said Ken Hopman. Asked if he thought was weird, Hopman said, "Yeah."
Joe Karchesky thinks so, too. Last weekend, his wife's key fob went kaput outside the Kohl's. She was locked out. "I went out there with the other key fob thinking that they key fob was dead, the battery was dead, and so we got the other one and I brought it out there and there was nothing," said Karchesky. Until it was towed away. Just outside the parking lot – problem solved.
Comment: Long termers will know that I have picked up these kind of stories about failing electronics in the past and they seem to be related to local energy 'hot spots', but now we are watching to see if these electronic glitches become widespread.
BUPA glitch sees credit cards charged multiple times
Health fund's SNAFU not so good for members' financial health
The Register, 7th March 2013
Health insurer Bupa has charged some of its members three or more times their fortnightly premium, after a software glitch saw multiple payments debited to credit card accounts.
Reg readers have confirmed that BUPA's Australian operations charged their credit cards three or more times in February, in some cases resulting in them exceeding their credit card limits.
Bupa issued a canned statement to The Reg in which it says "We experienced a minor system-based error in early February that resulted in a very small proportion of members having an additional deduction – and in very rare instances several deductions – charged to either their American Express or Diners Club credit card." "We contacted members impacted and refunded any money that was over-charged as quickly as possible."
Comment: Since we have another glitch where a major company refuses to explain the nature of the error, my usual stance is to assume that a cosmic ray caused a bit-flip. I think software was corrupted because there was not a full blown meltdown that would occur for a hardware failure. See archives, for many similar stories.
RBS and Natwest apologise after SECOND computer meltdown means customers are unable to withdraw cash
Customers took to micro-blogging site Twitter to voice their anger over technical problems
The Independent, 7th March 2013
The RBS banking group has been forced to apologise for the second time in just nine months after technical problems left customers unable to access accounts or withdraw money.
Customers began reporting problems with online banking, phone banking, cash withdrawals and debit card payments at around 2200 GMT on Wednesday evening.
Customers took to micro-blogging site Twitter to voice their anger over technical problems. RBS said all services had been returned to normal by 0100 GMT today but some customers still could not access their accounts.
Comment: As I have explained on this blog ad infinitum, computer glitches are getting more frequent.... Instead of complaints, people need to understand the issues associated with space weather and then develop new strategies for how to cope with the quickly changing geomagnetic conditions on this planet. What are people waiting for? Complete catastrophe? See archives June 2012 concerning the major trauma caused by this bank group's complete meltdown of banking services, Best of the Blog - Space Weather, Electronics & Electromagnetic Chaos .
RBS To Compensate Customers Hit By IT Glitch
Sky News, 7th March 2013
RBS has blamed a "hardware fault" for a glitch that meant customers were unable to use their accounts online or withdraw cash for several hours. The technical problems, which started on Wednesday evening, came less than a year after RBS, Natwest and Ulster Bank customers were hit by a major computer issue.
Comment: A cosmic ray causing a bit-flip?
RBS FX Platform Suffers Technical Glitch
Fox News Business, 7th March 2013
Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc's (RBS) foreign exchange trading platform suffered a technical glitch during Asian trading hours Thursday, a spokeswoman for the bank said. An institutional client of the bank said the issue affected some of its price feeds for up to eight hours.
NASA loses communication with Space Station
CNN News, 19th February 2013
CNN) -- NASA lost communication with the International Space Station on Tuesday and has established only sporadic connections since, according to NASA spokesman Josh Byerly. The space agency says it is currently only able to communicate every 90 minutes when the facility passes over ground stations in Russia. The station, which is carrying one American astronaut and two
Comment: Hmmm... There are reports the outage was for 3 hours, see also Space Station Astronauts Lose NASA Radio Link for 2 Hours
Facebook glitch temporarily breaks the web
Techspot, 8th February 2013
Yesterday, an untold number of Internet surfers experienced a glitch which abruptly redirected them from the sanctuary of their favorite websites to a Facebook error page. Websites essentially taken down by this snafu included Hulu, Lifehacker, Washington Post, ESPN, CNN, NBC, Kickstarter and plenty of others -- basically any site who dares to integrate Facebook Connect. [...]
According to Cnet, Facebook Connect was broken between roughly 4:15 pm and 4:40 pm PST. Cnet also notes that around the time this problem began, Alex Wilhelm from The Next Web tweeted, "Reading article. Dragged from two diff sites to Facebook, which displays what appears to be a permissions error. Wa?"
A Facebook spokesperson issued a statement which acknowledged the issue, stating that the social networking company quickly resolved the issue and Facebook Connect is once again nominal.
Presumably, Facebook will do absolutely everything within its power to prevent another issue of this magnitude; however, the bug does present an opportunity for website owners to step back, big-picture style, and re-evaluate the growing trend of social network integration.
Comment: I suppose we are reminded about the madness of the crowds and what happens when people and resources are all too localised...
Bank of India shares tumble due to technical glitch at NSE
IBN Live, 5th February 2013
Mumbai: Shares in Bank of India make a sharp fall before quickly recovering in what some traders describe as a "freak" trade. Trading at Rs 336.65, down 1.2 per cent, Bank of India shares suddenly fell to Rs 314, down 7.8 per cent on the day, at around 12:20 pm IST. The shares, however, recover to Rs 337.35.
On February 1, shares of Tata Motors and Ultratech Cement fell as much as 10 per cent due to a technology glitch at Religare Capital that caused "unintended transactions", the brokerage said.
Comment: Another stock market glitch...
Georgia man guns down immigrant after GPS sends him to wrong driveway
Raw Story, 29th January 2013
A 69-year-old war veteran and former missionary was arrested over the weekend on the suspicion of killing a 22-year-old Cuban immigrant who mistakenly arrived in his driveway because of faulty GPS directions.
Gwinnett County jail records obtained by The Atlanta Journal Constitution indicated that Phillip Walker Sailors was charged on Sunday with the murder of Rodrigo Abad Diaz.
Friends who were in the car with Diaz told WSB-TV that they were trying to pick up a friend on the way to ice skating on Saturday but their GPS directed them to the wrong address. The friends said that they waited in the driveway for a few minutes before Sailors emerged from the house and fired a gun into the air.
Comment: What can you say when mentanlly ill people in a gun culture have the ability to shoot first before bothering to ask questions...
M1's switch glitch frustrates customers [Singapore]
Today Online, 16th January 2013
SINGAPORE - An outage to one of M1's mobile network switches led to a loss of 3G mobile services for nearly all of yesterday, leading thousands to express their anger on M1's Facebook page while the telco scrambled to restore services. M1 - which was still working to resolve the issue at press time - first posted a statement about mobile services being affected on its Facebook page at about 6am yesterday.
A power incident at its network centre during a transmission equipment upgrade at 3am had set off the gas suppression and water sprinkler systems, "which, in turn, caused an outage to one of our mobile network switches", M1 said. This led to a loss of 3G coverage for some customers in the south-western parts of Singapore, namely West Coast, Jurong and Tuas.
Although M1 said 2G services were not affected, some customers told TODAY that they did not have 2G coverage either and others were unable to make or receive voice calls and text messages. Some customers in northern parts of Singapore like Ang Mo Kio and Woodlands reported loss of services as well. M1 was unable to estimate the number of users affected as coverage had not been fully restored. By press time, thousands of M1 customers had expressed their dissatisfaction on its Facebook page, with one post generating over 2,100 comments.
Comment: As I keep saying, people need to get use to this. Poor mobile phone services will be the new norm for a variety of space weather related reasons, see previous comments.
Phone Location Glitch Makes Las Vegas Man Really, Really Popular
New York Magazine, 15th January 2013
Wayne Dobson, a 59-year-old retiree from Las Vegas, has had a lot of new visitors recently, owing to a glitch in cell-phone-locating technology – like Apple's "Find My iPhone" feature – that has wrongly directed people looking for their lost phones to his front door. The glitch, which seems to be limited to Sprint customers, has made a living hell of Dobson's quiet existence. Now angry phone users accost him at all hours of the night, demanding that he return their stolen property.
Computer glitch causes huge flight delays at Pearson
The Star, 10th January 2013
A computer glitch caused significant flight delays at Toronto's Pearson International Airport Thursday evening. Nav Canada, the country's air navigation services provider, was fixing a flight planning system failure, which created a huge backlog of delays for incoming and departing flights, said spokesperson Ron Singer.
Birth certificate computer glitch puts wrong name for father on document Computer glitch at Pa. Department of Health puts wrong name on birth documents.
The Morning Call, 15th January 2013
– Who's your daddy?
For about 500 new Pennsylvania families, that's more than a mere schoolyard taunt. It's a real-life headache, courtesy of a computer glitch that caused birth certificates to be printed with a key piece of information utterly incorrect – the name of the new dad.
The erroneous birth records were sent out this month by the Division of Vital Records at the state Department of Health, which was switching to a new computer system, agency spokeswoman Holli Senior said Tuesday.
Comment: The issue is not computer glitches, it's the dramatic escalation of these glitches and computer systems becoming more and more unreliable due to increased levels of cosmic rays (Earth's poor cosmic shielding problem) corrupting hardware and software.
Vodafone glitch hits overseas BlackBerry users
The Globe and Mail, 11th January 2013
Computer glitch prompted $1 billion emergency loan to Memphis bank in 2010
Commercial Appeal, 3rd January 2013
A government computer glitch led the Federal Reserve to make a $1.02 billion emergency loan to Memphis-based First Tennessee Bank two years ago. The loan was repaid within two days and was all but forgotten until the Federal Reserve on Dec. 28 revealed First Tennessee owner First Horizon National Corp. was the single largest borrower in late 2010 from its emergency fund.
Comment: This could be true or it could just be another funny financial transaction....
LSE's Regulatory News Service Resumes Operation Following Glitch
Bloomberg News, 3rd January 2013
London Stock Exchange Group Plc's Regulatory News Service resumed operation after a technical issue that disrupted dissemination of company information to investors and traders.
Mark Wisken, an RNS executive at LSE, described it "connectivity issue." RNS didn't publish any release between 5 a.m. and 8:36 a.m. in London yesterday, the first trading day of 2013, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The service carries almost 175,000 statements each year via data vendors such as Thomson Reuters Corp. and Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News. LSE says it features more than 70 percent of price-sensitive U.K. announcements. Companies and public-relations agencies pay to publish releases.
The disruption yesterday came as LSE was considering charging banks and brokers for the service. Data providers already pay to redistribute it.
Comment: Hmmm... these major financial computer systems are getting more and more unreliable as some have started to notice....
Glitch hits Telecom cellphones (NZ)
stuff.co.nz, 2nd January 2013
Thousands of Telecom mobile phone customers in the South Island are having problems with cellphone reception. Telecom says it is aware of the problem but a spokesman said he was unsure when the fault would be fixed.
The widespread problem manifests itself in strange ways, with callers sounding as if they are under water or as if an alien life form is attempting to make contact. Spokesman Richard Irvine said the fault had been traced to a failing element in the network serving a large portion of the South Island.
He was unsure what specific component was faulty, but said it was a piece of infrastructure such as a server. The problem had developed over the past week and was probably exacerbated by increased network traffic as people called and texted family and friends over the New Year holiday. "We want to apologise to people for the problems that they're having," Irvine said.
Comment: This would just be another report of another mobile phone network failing under the new cosmic conditions but this report provides us with the novelty of "callers sounding as if they are under water or as if an alien life form is attempting to make contact." That sounds like fun....
Disaster for Lloyds TSB customers on New Year's Eve as technical glitch renders cashpoints and debit cards out of action
Daily Mail, 31st December 2012
* Credit in customers' accounts also appeared to have been wiped out
* Lloyds claimed the problems were resolved in an hour
* Latest glitch caps a calamitous year for Lloyds which was forced to set aside £1.4bn in compensation for mis-sold payment protection insurance
The New Year's celebrations got off to a terrible start for many Lloyds customers who were unable to get their money out of cash machines or pay by card.
Gremlins in the state-backed lender's computer systems left many stranded without money as they prepared for the biggest night out of the year.
Revellers also received a nasty shock when the credit in their current accounts appeared to have been wiped out. The problems, which kicked off from 4pm, affected those with Lloyds TSB, Bank of Scotland and Halifax bank accounts. Halifax and Bank of Scotland are both part of the Lloyds banking group, which has 22million current account customers and received a £20billion bail out during the financial crisis.
Comment: I keep reading about people who angrily state they will take their custom elsewhere but ALL the banks and building societies have the same issues with highly vulnerable computer systems due to spaceweather and specifically cosmic rays.... The biggest banks have the additional problem of old legacy systems that require extra effort and expertise to maintain. For more info, see the blog archives Best of the Blog Space Weather, Electronics & Electromagnetic Chaos.
NYSE Trading Glitch Caps Year of Snafus for Exchanges
Wall Street Journal, 31st December 2012
Rival exchanges briefly stopped sending orders to the New York Stock Exchange as the Big Board experienced trading problems with more than two dozen stocks Monday.
The glitch, which was quickly resolved, came in the last hour of trading in a year that has been marked by technological glitches large and small.
Comment: The NYSE in trouble again....
TOP STORIES 2012: The Year of the Glitch
Traders Magazine, 26th December 2012
There's a good chance the date Aug. 1, 2012, will be burned into the collective memories of stock trading executives just as much as May 6, 2010. That was the day Knight Capital Group unintentionally built up a gross position of $7 billion in just 40 minutes as it lost control of one of its algorithms at the New York Stock Exchange. The market maker lost $440 million getting out of those trades, pushing it to the brink of collapse. [...]
Knight's gone-wild algorithm was the fourth prominent software glitch of the year and the straw that broke the Securities and Exchange Commission's back. [...] The Knight fiasco followed the Nasdaq-Facebook fiasco in May, which itself followed the BATS Global Markets fiasco in March, which itself followed the Ronin Capital fiasco in February. (See Traders Magazine, September, for details.)
Why so many glitches all of a sudden? Were there, in fact, more than usual? Or has the media simply been more vigilant in covering computer-generated trading errors since the flash crash?
Comment: The question of 'Why so many glitches all of a sudden?' is what I have been trying to explain on this blog because it is not just trading platforms and banking systems, our modern technology infrastructure is now vulnerable to spaceweather and specifically cosmic rays and new solutions are required. For more info, see the blog archives Best of the Blog Space Weather, Electronics & Electromagnetic Chaos.
Thousands without power in Austin area
KVUE News, 28th December 2012
"AUSTIN -- Crews are working to restore power to thousands of Austin residents. Austin Energy says up to a record 50 pole fires sparked overnight due to dirt and moisture on equipment, causing power outages for about 5,000 customers. As of 9:30 a.m. about 3,000 people were without power.
"The rash of fires is the result of a lack of rain over a long period of time," Ed Clark with Austin Energy said in a statement. "Dirt and dust builds up on the small devices (called insulators) that connect power lines to power poles. Misty conditions such as those experienced overnight can cause the dirt and dust to track across the insulator providing a pathway for electricity to move from the power line to the pole."
Comment: Poles lighting up like candles again... Yes, I did say before that this was St Elmo's fire, see previous comments....
TMX resolves glitch that caused data freeze, affected some stock prices
Global News, 12th December 2012
TORONTO - The owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange says it has fixed a technical that had temporarily affected how traders saw some real-time numbers. The TMX Group Ltd. (TSX:X), which operates the TSX, says systems are back to operating normally after the setback. Wednesday's glitch had caused both the headline S&P/TSX composite index numbers, as well as some specific stock prices to be displayed incorrectly through some sources, including on the TSX website.
Australian police warn Apple maps 'could kill': Users looking for city directed to barren outback more than 40 miles away
Daily Mail, 10th December 2012
* Users searching for the city of Mildura found themselves directed to the middle of the Murray-Sunset National Park
* They ended up in an area with no nearby water supplies and no mobile network where temperatures can reach 46C
* Some motorists were stranded for up to 24 hours and were forced to walk long distances before they were able to call for help
Police in Australia today warned drivers with iPhones not to navigate with Apple Maps after users looking for one city found themselves in barren outback more than 40 miles away.
Motorists following the much-criticised mapping service to the city of Mildura in the country's south-east ended up in the middle of the nearby Murray-Sunset National Park.
With no nearby water supplies and temperatures in the park reaching as high as 46C, police warned the mapping error had the potential to be 'life-threatening'.
Comment: In the future, people are going to die in droves because they refuse to engage brain and think.... Please see my previous comments on GPS and satellite navigation, poor quality Apple Maps is not really the issue...
Apple Maps Glitch in Australia Shows Why We Have To Stop Blindly Following GPS Navigators
Texas: Power Pole Fires Leave Thousands Without Power Thursday
KWTX-TV News 10, 6th December 2012
WACO (December 6, 2012)-Power poles in as many as five Central Texas counties were burning Thursday morning and authorities were trying to find out why. A Department of Public Safety communications officer said power poles in Hill, Falls, Bell, Williamson and McLennan counties mysteriously began bursting into flames at about 4 a.m. Thursday.
He said the fires that had been reported were burning at the tops of the poles, some involving transformers. Various power company representatives had been dispatched to survey the damage and several fire departments were sent to douse the flames. One power company technician told a News 10 reporter near McGregor that the fires likely were caused by a build up of dust on transformers that shorted out due to low-lying fog. [...]
As many as 30 power poles were burning in one area of Hill County, just off Interstate 35 at mile marker 361. As many as 20 poles were reported burning in Bynum east of Hillsboro and and others in the Aquilla area where some customers were without power.
There were poles on fire along Highway 6 near Falls County roads 112 and 113 that had forced closure of Highway 6 and had stopped trains along an adjacent railroad line for about an hour but traffic was moving normally by about 5:45 a.m. Some limited power outages were reported in the area around Perry, just north of Marlin.
Comment: Read the story, because there were many more than 50 transformers/poles on fire! This reminds me of the concern about dust in the atmosphere causing explosions... Also see archives for astronomers' estimates of the amount of cosmic dust entering our atmosphere.... Is there a link with the mystery tremors also causing consternation in Texas? It is really is getting hard to keep up with the EM chaos in the environment.
Dust Causes Explosions, And Apparently Nanodust Causes Mega-Explosions
Popular Science, 15th February 2012
Texas: BTU Responds to 5 Power Pole Fires Monday Night
KBTX News, 3rd May 2012
More than 70 BTU customers lost service for a few hours after power poles began to spark and catch fire. Dust and a little bit of rain caused the problems.
BTU linemen were staying busy Monday night responding to power pole fires across their service area, including here at South College Avenue and Dodge Street in Bryan. [...] "Very unusual for us to have five pole top fires in one night ," said Dan Wilkerson, Bryan Texas Utilities General Manager.[...]
"The form of either dust and on the coast salt builds up on insulators and when there's just enough light rain the two mix together and make a mud that is conductive and it will conduct electricity down to the pole or the cross arm and catch them on fire," Wilkerson said. [...]
With more than 100,000 poles in the BTU system, Wilkerson said a good rain is needed to fix the problem and says light rain, mist and fog causes the most problems. "I've never seen sparks shoot from a power line. I've never seen it personally so it was a little shocking, a little surprising," Foster said. [...] Four refineries along the coast also experienced power pole fires last week.
Comment: So multiple poles lighting up has happened before, the issue now is the scale of this electromagnetic phenomenon and presumably something in the environment is causing ignition. This could be quickly fluctuating geomagnetic fields, or a combination of geological or atmospheric effects... I now wonder if this also explains St Elmo's fire when it is seen on tall spires....
SaskTel 'glitch' slaps customers with $100,000 cellphone bills
Globe & Mail, 5th December 2012
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is blaming a technology glitch for a billing error that slapped some wireless customers with incorrect charges as high as $100,000. The provincially owned telco, more commonly known as SaskTel, said roughly 9,000 of its more than 600,000 wireless customers were affected by the billing mistake, which occurred late last month.
Cargo ship feared lost after collision off Dutch coast
BBC News, 5th December 2012
Dutch coastguards are mounting a major rescue operation in the North Sea after a cargo ship is reported to have sunk after a collision. The accident took place around 100km (60 miles) off the coast of Rotterdam.
A coastguard spokesman said helicopters were winching the 24 crew members of the Baltic Ace to safety. Three lifeboats and two helicopters are assisting the rescue, and two naval frigates are also reported to be heading for the scene.
Comment: Another GPS fail? Apparently, earlier today two planes came within 15 seconds of a mid air collision by Amsterdam airport.... I have no link for this... More: Search continues for seven missing crew members after cargo ship collides with another vessel in North Sea
Nasdaq Glitch Caused Index Derivatives Halt in Sweden
Wall Street Journal, 30th November 2012
A computer error caused Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.'s (NDAQ) system to wildly overstate the size of an order for Swedish stock-index futures, prompting the exchange operator to close index futures and options trading on its Stockholm market Wednesday, a spokesman for the exchange said Friday.
The glitch was resolved in a couple of hours, the spokesman said, and involved a relatively obscure product, but it was the latest in a series of technical problems that have rattled investors. Critics say such incidents highlight vulnerabilities of the increasingly fast–and complex–global markets.
On Wednesday, a trader entered an order to buy or sell six OMX30 futures contracts expiring in December. Because of a "bug" in Nasdaq's system that disseminates information to customers' trading applications, the order showed up as 4.2 billion contracts instead, the spokesman said.
Comment: A bug? Really? What about a bit-flip instead? Well, as a critic, I will say that space weather in the form of cosmic rays corrupting computer hardware and software is highlighting the vulnerabilities of the increasingly fast–and complex–global markets....
Japan's new nuclear-proof robot gets stage fright
Yahoo News, 21st November 2012
YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - A Japanese robot designed to withstand high levels of radiation and extreme heat at damaged nuclear plants such as Fukushima froze on Wednesday on its first public demonstration.
Despite being home to the largest number of industrial robots in the world, Japan did not have a device capable of entering the damaged Fukushima nuclear facility after last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami.Instead, Japan brought in U.S. robots to survey the extent of the damage inside the reactor buildings.
Toshiba Corp unveiled Japan's own nuclear-proof robot on Wednesday, a four-legged device able to carry up to 20 kg of equipment and capable of lifting itself up if it falls over on uneven surfaces and amid debris. During the demonstration, the robot experienced a case of stage fright. The shuffling Tetrapod locked up and suddenly froze after it tried to balance itself, forcing technicians to carry it away.
Comment: Hilarious... More comment at Energy News.
Software 'glitches' are not acceptable. Learn from aviation
Tech World News, 20th November 2012
The term "glitch" is often used to describe an error in software, but the word itself undermines the severity of such errors, according to open source software company Adacore.
Only this year, a so-called software glitch was responsible for a substantial IT failure at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which meant that millions of customers could not gain access to funds in their bank accounts. Events from the Wall Street Crash to Toyota's brake failings in 2009 have also been attributed to software glitches – trivialising the problem and implying that it can be reasoned away.
According to Robert Dewar, president and CEO of AdaCore, however, there is no excuse for these outages. In the world of aviation, where failure is not an option, software glitches simply do not happen. Speaking to Techworld, Dewar said that the banking sector can learn a great deal from ultra-paranoid industries like aviation, which use highly reliable programming languages such as Ada in their application development. [...]
Ultimately, writing more reliable code will cut down on errors and reduce the risk of costly outages in most industry sectors. Before this can happen, however, people have to stop accepting that "glitches" are trivial and start demanding better software. "You wouldn't excuse the crash of a jumbo jet by labelling it a glitch, so why the failing of a banking application?" he concluded.
Comment: This article is all sales pitch but anyone who reads my blog will know that this article is not exactly accurate.... In the world of aviation, the specialists all know that at typical cruising altitude cosmic radiation is approx. 300 times more of an issue for electronics than at ground level. ["At normal aircraft cruising altitudes the radiation is several hundred times the ground level intensity and at 60000 feet a factor three higher again." Source: ESA Space Weather Net: Effects on Spacecraft & Aircraft Electronics (1998) But since frequent fliers are being given new warnings about high levels of cosmic radiation, it must be assumed that space weather especially during geomagnetic storms is now far higher...] So, software is created where everything is done in triplicate --literally -- and radiation hardened microelectronics are used to try and ensure software that controls flight data is not being corrupted by cosmic rays. However, with the onset of severe space weather that is still not good enough and engineers are having to work out how to make aviation software, especially autopilot systems even more reliable. Here, it seems this article provides us with another flicker of hope as it seems a few more people engage brains and try to improve the chances against our modern technological world collapsing....
Engineers investigate effects of space weather on airliners
The Engineer, 11th October 2012
EBT System Crashes In 10 States: Millions Unable to Use Their Food Stamp Cards
The Daily Sheeple, 17th November 2012
The Electronic Benefits Transfer system managed by JP Morgan Chase crashed on Friday, leaving millions of recipients of the benefits in ten states without a way to put food on the table. Bank officials said that the outage affected EBT recipients in Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Georgia, South Carolina, Indiana, Kentucky, Connecticut, West Virginia, Delaware. It also hit the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Florida's Department of Children and Families said that some 3.6 million people were unable to access their benefits when the system crashed. According to JP Morgan, a technical glitch was responsible for the outage.
Credit cards, debit cards and other forms of electronic money transfer and processing were not affected. A bank spokesman for JP Morgan would not elaborate on the cause of the glitch. Service for frustrated EBT residents was restored after about 6 hours on Friday.
Comment: Most commentators predict rioting and looting if this system goes down for an extended period of time... JP Morgan will not comment, but I have explained that an increase in cosmic rays is causing computer systems to crash more often... Remember, in 2004, an Intel representative stated "we are living on borrowed time...."
The Classified Report DHS Doesn't Want You To See: "The Electric Power Delivery System� Could Be Severely Damaged By A Small Number of Well-Informed Attackers"
SHTFplan.com, 15th November 2012
In 2007 the National Academy of Sciences completed an extensive review of the national power grid infrastructure in a 164 page report titled Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System. In it the NAS detailed a wide array of physical, personnel and cyber vulnerabilities that could pose a significant risk to the national security of the United States.
Even though the report was originally written for public release, notes Madison Ruppert of End the Lie, the entire document was almost immediately classified by the Department of Homeland Security and hasn't seen the light of day until this week. That release came after five years of committee reviews, reversals, deliberations and pressure from the Academy itself.
The contents of the report make it clear why DHS wanted to keep it out of public view, as it illustrates severe deficiencies within the whole of the national power grid infrastructure.
Comment: This is essential reading especially after the fiasco in New York. Here is another important excerpt:
A terrorist attack on the power system would lack the dramatic impact of the attacks in New York, Madrid, or London. It would not immediately kill many people or make for spectacular television footage of bloody destruction. But if it were carried out in a carefully planned way, by people who knew what they were doing, it could deny large regions of the country access to bulk system power for weeks or even months. An event of this magnitude and duration could lead to turmoil, widespread public fear, and an image of helplessness that would play directly into the hands of the terrorists. If such large extended outages were to occur during times of extreme weather, they could also result in hundreds or even thousands of deaths due to heat stress or extended exposure to extreme cold. [...]
Full Report: National Academy of Sciences
Well, as this article points out, the Department of Homeland Security have sat on this report for five years, so none of the proactive measures recommended by the report have been taken. But then one of the nightmare scenarios occurred when New York got hit by an extreme weather event... The DHS fully expects "hundreds or even thousands of deaths due to heat stress or extended exposure to extreme cold." I expect there to be trouble as people find out about this report...
United Airlines has another large computer outage
Third major computer outage since June
Wavy.com, 14th November 2012
NEW YORK (AP) – Thousands of United Airlines passengers around the globe are stranded at airports and on planes after another computer outage at the world's largest carrier.
This is at least the third major computer outage for the Chicago-based airline since June. [...]
In a subsequent phone call with The Associated Press, Franck added: "Why is there a total system failure on a beautiful day? What happened to the backup and the backup to backup?"
United Continental Holdings Inc. spokesman Charles Hobart said the airline was aware of a computer issue affecting some of its flights and was working to resolve it.
Comment: I have explained a few times that airports are vulnerable due to their location at energy vortexes that I think were good for communications, but this is now a major problem in a celestial deluge.... The clue I had was orbs making a nuisance of themselves at airports...
LIPA chief Michael Hervey resigns
Newsday, 13th November 2012
LIPA chief operating officer Michael Hervey has resigned, according to Long Island Power Authority chairman Howard E. Steinberg. The resignation is effective at the end of the year.
Hervey had become a target for an outpouring of anger at LIPA from a range of critics, including Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and residents who had been without power for more than two weeks after superstorm Sandy
Comment: I can only imagine that Hervey was getting some nasty emails see, Class action filed against LIPA, but he has been spared from getting punched in the face by some ignorant hobbitt... See Suspect arrested in utility worker's assault. Well, in the future there is a risk that national grids will go down and stay down, but most are oblivious to this possibility and the consequences of life in the aftermath.
NYSE Trading Glitch Hits 216 Securities, Zaps Half Of Average Trading Volume
Forbes, 12th November 2012
The New York Stock Exchange suffered an outage in a new matching system that caused its share of Monday's trading volumes to fall by about 50%. The trading glitch affected 216 securities including JPMorgan Chase, Deere, CVS, and Schlumberger, but didn't really throw off equity markets, which closed the day basically flat.
A voracious arms race to make financial markets faster has made them technologically more complex and, at the same time, seems to have increased the number of blunders, glitches, and mistakes that undermine not only the markets themselves, but investors' confidence in the system. [...]
Trading glitches have increased in frequency over the last few years, zapping investor confidence on markets and their infrastructure.
Comment: Incredible....Well, things are now looking very bad, but I have been explaining what was obvious to me... NASA tells us that cosmic rays are at an all time high and expected to get far higher and the European Space Agency (ESA) tells us that Earth's magnetosphere (external magnetic field) is like a sieve so it is inevitable that we can expect computers and electronics to be affected by bit-flips as more cosmic rays corrupt computer and networks and turn on/off bits and bytes with dire consequences... Please see archives for my comments ad infinitum on the continuing problem of "glitches" affecting computer systems and especially affecting stockmarkets around the world in recent months.... Best of the Blog - Space Weather & Electromagnetic Chaos .
Computer glitch forces reactor shutdown
Standard Speaker, 11th November 2012
SALEM TWP. - One of the two nuclear reactors at PPL's Susquehanna plant near Berwick was shut down early Friday because a computer system that controls the reactor's water level was not functioning properly.
Operators and federal regulators are investigating the cause of the computer problems at Unit 2, according to a press release from the company, which said the reactor remained in "a safe condition."
U.S. nuclear spokesman Neil Sheehan said operators manually shut down the reactor at 1:18 a.m. by inserting control rods after monitors showed lowered water levels in two systems: one that circulates water inside the reactor to maintain safe temperatures and another that channels water through the reactor to produce steam to drive turbines. "There were no releases of radiation, no complications, no danger to plant workers or the public," Sheehan said.
He said Unit 2 will remain offline until the cause of the computer malfunction is found and corrected. "Now it's a matter of diagnosing what the problem is with the digital control system," Sheehan said.
Comment: Is this yet another cosmic ray hit?
Levitt: Subpar NYSE backup plan 'very unfortunate'
New Mexico Business Weekly, 30th October 2012
[...] In the face of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission said Oct. 30 that for the New York Stock Exchange to go down for two days " ... without an adequate back-up plan is very, very unfortunate." The comments came from Arthur Levitt in a Bloomberg Radio interview. [...]
According to a Bloomberg News report, the NYSE Euronext closed markets across every asset class Monday and Tuesday – the first time since 1888 that it has closed for consecutive days due to weather. Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. also shut down. U.S. stock markets plan to reopen today.
Levitt said the reputation of the NYSE will suffer due to the events.
. "People look to the New York Stock Exchange as being the symbol of American capitalism ... To see the New York Stock Exchange crippled is a body blow that will really shake the image of that institution for a long time to come."
Comment: Terrible.... In other reports Levitt says:
Levitt said that the NYSE should have moved operations to a location "far away" from New York during the storm. "If you're going to have a stock exchange, it should have a backup facility of some sort so that regional events don't cause its closure," said Levitt, who is a Bloomberg LP board member and an adviser to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. "This should not happen to the world's most prominent exchange."
Source: NYSE's Closing to 'Shake Image' for Exchange, Levitt Says
Quite frankly, I think Levitt is right.... Folk need to take planetary upheaval and the need for disaster recovery a little bit more seriously...
NYSE Floor Traders Struggling With Internet, Cell Service
Business Week, 30th October 2012
The New York Stock Exchange (NYX) opened on time by running on backup power from generators following the longest weather-related shutdown in more than a century. Brokers on the NYSE floor experienced limited Internet and mobile-phone connections while still being able to trade from the exchange.
Trading went "very smoothly, everything opened fairly quickly," Duncan Niederauer, the chief executive officer of NYSE Euronext, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television's Matt Miller. "Participation has been a lot more active than we thought," he said. "For some it was business as usual, for some they were using their backup site."
Comment: Even the NYSE is forced to open running on backup generators, no internet, no terminals, poor or non existent wi-fi and mobile-phone connections..... That is almost like going back 100 years...
UPDATE: NYSE Traders Will Experience Spotty Cell Phone, Wireless Internet Service
Business Insider, 31st October 2012
UPDATE: Cell phone usage is pretty spotty for all of us down here in lower Manhattan right now. Also, some of the internet connections are kind of slow, so if people use that for some of their data feeds, that's slow.
ORIGINAL: Bloomberg TV reporter Alix Steel was just down at the NYSE, and she said that although the floor is open today, traders will still face a nasty inconvenience left over from Hurricane Sandy
But the real problem is right now there is no Verizon service or wifi in the exchange. The exchange itself is up and running, but the guys are basically trading blind. Their Bloomberg terminals are down. They don't have internet access. One trader told me there's not going to be that much action going on down on the floor today.
Comment: This is really not very good at all...
Problems at Five Nuke Plants
Yahoo News, 30th October 2012
The nation's oldest nuclear plant declared an alert and a second plant just 40 miles from New York City was forced to shut down power as five different nuke plants in Hurricane Sandy's path experienced problems during the storm.
Indian Point in Buchanan, New York, on the Hudson River north of New York City, automatically shut power to its unit 3 on Monday night "as a result of an electrical grid disturbance," according to Entergy, the plant's operator.
The connection between the generator and the offsite grid was lost, and the unit is designed to shut down to protect itself from electrical damage. Entergy said there was no release of radioactivity, no damage to equipment, and no threat to the public health.
Comment: This is overwhelming.... There are various reports available at Energy News Link.
Massive Flooding Damages Several NYC Data Centers
datacenterknowledge.com, 30th October 2012
Flooding from Hurricane Sandy has hobbled two data center buildings in Lower Manhattan, taking out diesel fuel pumps used to refuel generators. A third building at 121 Varick is also reported to be without power. There were also reports of outages for some tenants at a major data hub at 111 8th Avenue, and many other New York area facilities were running on generator power amid widespread utility outages.
Comment: Well, it seems that disaster management plans were inadequate against the overwhelming force of Frankenstorm Sandy. Yahoo News reports: "NEW YORK (AP) – Several popular media websites in the New York area are inaccessible after a massive storm knocked out power to much of the city. The Huffington Post website is down. So are gossip site Gawker and the blog Mediaite. Major news sites including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal appear to be operating." Power outages black out popular websites
NYU hospital to investigate power outage that forced mass evacuation
Apparently unanticipated generator failure sparked exodus of hundreds of critically-ill patients at height of superstorm Sandy
Guardian, 30th October 2012
New York University hospital has launched an investigation into the double power outage which sparked the evacuation of more than 200 patients, including critically ill newborn babies, at the height of Monday night's superstorm. [...] Despite forecasts of a storm surge of up to 11ft, NYU did not anticipate heavy flooding and decided not to evacuate all patients before Sandy hit – in contrast to its handling of tropical storm Irene in August last year. In fact, the surge hit almost 14ft, flooding much of lower Manhattan and cutting power almost everywhere below 39th Street.
At a press conference late Monday night, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was unable to hide his anger at the failure, telling reporters that the hospital had assured officials that its back-up systems had been tested. Dr Andrew Brotman, senior vice-president and vice-dean for clinical affairs and strategy at the hospital, told CNN that between 7 and 7.45pm on Monday the hospital's basement, lower floors, and elevator shafts filled with 10 to 12 feet of water and the hospital lost power. "Things went downhill very, very rapidly and very unexpectedly," Brotman said. "The flooding was just unprecedented."
Comment: Terrible.... I am quite stunned by the details provided here... Well, even the backup generators for nuclear power plants in the United States are often poorly maintained and often don't work when required, (see archives for details). Quite frankly, people need to start taking disaster management a bit more seriously...
Pic of nurse carrying a Neonatal Intensive Care baby in her arms as they both are evacuated from NYU Hospital. Heroes.
inagist.com, 30th October 2012
Down 9 flights of stairs too... This website has lots and lots of interesting tweets, not all are factually correct....
Power grid upgrades may cause blackouts, warns Braess's paradox
PhysOrg.com, 23rd October 2012
(Phys.org)–In order to meet increasing energy demands, power companies have the option of adding new power lines to the existing grid. But in a new study, researchers have found that, contrary to common intuition, adding certain new power lines may cause power outages across the grid due to desynchronization. This finding is an example of Braess's paradox, which was originally discovered in traffic networks to show that adding a road to a congested traffic network may counterintuitively increase overall driving time. This study is the first time that Braess's paradox has been found in oscillator networks.
Glitch leaves Go Card users out of pocket
Sydney Morning Herald, 23rd October 2012
The international company responsible for TransLink's smartcard ticketing technology was left red-faced after a technical glitch saw more than 2800 Go Card customers charged for trips they never took. [...]
"This arose as a result of an operator error during a security upgrade for the system," he said. "The remainder of the live Go Card system was operating normally during the time of the top-up issue."
But one of the customers referred to Cubic by TransLink told brisbanetimes.com.au that the fault had resulted in almost $1000 in false recharges billed to his account.
The man, who did not wish to be named, provided banking records which showed TransLink Brisbane made 24 $40 charges against his credit card over a period of four days, though each transaction was subsequently matched by a refund.
Amazon Cloud Goes Down Again, Breaks Foursquare and Others
Wired News, 22nd October 2012
"The cloud is cool. But it's not always there. That's what some Amazon customers learned today after another outage on Amazon's cloud computing platform knocked off several popular websites offline."
So, in this geomagnetic environment, I think any online business, needs to realise that being online 24/7 will be impossible regardless of whether the entire back office infrastructure is being supported elsewhere aka "cloud" or not. The real issue is complete infrastructure breakdowns that last for days on end...
Nasdaq Teams Up With Amazon To Offer Cloud Storage Services
Trefis, 26th September 2012
Nasdaq OMX (NASDAQ:NDAQ) has entered a partnership with Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) to allow brokers in the U.S. to store trade information on the latter's cloud network using a platform called FinQloud. [1] The platform will allow investors to keep track of financial data that they are required to maintain and will also help them save money as it uses a pay per gigabyte fee structure. Users will only have to pay for storage capacity used, thus saving on storage costs that they would have incurred had they used their own systems. [2]
Although some customers might be skeptical of the offering given the recent software glitches that have plagued Nasdaq's systems, the company insists that it will maintain strict vigilance to ensure that it meets the "stringent operational and regulatory security requirements of the financial services industry and to protect data integrity."
Comment: Gotcha! Well, I think this is some proof that "the recent software glitches that have plagued Nasdaq's systems" have been caused by cosmic rays corrupting software because this is tacitly being acknowledged here as a marketing strategy for why brokers should move data onto servers that are being better monitored for data integrity... NASA warned about cosmic rays being at an all time space-age high and were set to reach new heights, but few paid any attention (except for Intel who were tipped off early), but data servers are being corrupted so often now, this is now providing one headache after another... This was very obviously going to happen and as the Intel patent for cosmic ray detectors on a chip explained in 2004, "We are living on borrowed time."
Email glitch hits Batelco customers
Gulf Daily News, 18th October 2012
Clients who subscribe to the company's fixed Internet Protocol (IP) addresses were allocated new addresses overnight. Problems were first detected at around 5am and continued for several hours before reportedly being resolved in the afternoon, according to one IT expert monitoring the disruption.
They said mail servers would have been unable to receive or send emails and locally-hosted websites would have also been affected. "At some stage during the night, fixed IP addresses on Batelco's ADSL lines in Bahrain were changed to different dynamic IP addresses," they said.
Aug. 1 stock trading fiasco costs Knight $604M
The Knight Capital Group trading firm said it lost $764.3 million in the third quarter because of a software glitch that flooded the stock market with trades one day in August, causing dozens of stocks to fluctuate wildly. Knight said Wednesday that the software glitch cost it $461.1 million in financial losses. The company also took a charge of $143 million to reflect its weaker brand and competitive position after the episode.
Union: Radio Glitch Delayed Yonkers Firefighters
Yonkers Daily Voice, 17th October 2012
YONKERS, N.Y. – An "unprecedented" breakdown of the Yonkers Fire Department's radio equipment likely delayed firefighters' response time to a Wednesday afternoon fire by several minutes, the union president said. [...] A spokesperson for Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano said the city has launched an investigation into the communication breakdown. She said it may have been caused by a power surge that knocked out the system almost simultaneously as the dispatch call went out.
Glitches hit ANZ banking systems [Au]
The Age News, 16th October 2012
ANZ's banking system was hit by a series of glitches this afternoon which tied up its phone and internet banking for nearly an hour in total. The bank said that the problems that had halted its ATMs, eftpos, internet banking, mobile banking apps and call centres had been resolved as of 2.10pm (AEDT) this afternoon. Internet banking customers may still experience delays due to a backlog of orders, however.
New Rules for Meteorite Hunters
Discovery News, 15th October 2012
Navy submarine, Aegis cruiser collide during routine operations; no injuries, damage unclear
Washington Post, 13th October 2012
NORFOLK, Va. – The Pentagon said late Saturday that it is investigating why a Navy submarine collided with an Aegis cruiser off the East Coast.
The U.S. Fleet Forces Command said in a news release that the submarine USS Montpelier and the Aegis cruiser USS San Jacinto collided at about 3:30 p.m. during routine operations. No one was injured, and the extent of any damage to the vessels was not clear Saturday evening, said Lt. Commander Brian Badura of the Fleet Forces Command.
Comment: We already know the answer... GPS sometimes is worse than useless as it can be tens of metres off... The last big collision was in August 2012 when a guided missile destroyer collided with a Japanese-owned oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz early Sunday morning, see archives. These collisions are certainly not rare events.
O2 Says Sorry After Millions Hit By Outage
The phone network says it was left red-faced after another major outage problem affects more than two million of its customers.
Sky News, 13th October 2012
[...] The problem began when one of O2's network nodes, which help connect and manage traffic, failed at lunchtime. O2 issued a statement saying the fault had been identified and fixed on Friday afternoon, but admitted the problems were still being experienced into the evening.
The company said it is trying to discover the cause of the glitch, but said it was the not the same fault that led to widespread connection issues in July, when some customers had a 24-hour service outage. The company had only just recovered from a separate problem that began on Thursday, involving people unable to make calls or use data with some 2G phones.
O2 said it had had a problem with its 2G service in northwest Scotland, and anyone with a 2G phone would not be able to use it for calls, texts, email, or the internet. [...]
He blamed the disruption on a "piece of network hardware which manages the registration of handsets" and insisted such an issue was extremely rare.
Comment: Another bit-flip caused by a cosmic ray? There was even a similar technical glitch at Qatar Telecom (Qtel) that caused a brief yet major disruption too....
Millions suffer as O2 network stumbles
BBC News, 12th October 2012
Millions of customers on O2's mobile network have reported having trouble making calls. O2 said about 10% of its 22 million customers had suffered an intermittent service since 12:00 GMT on Friday.
On its network status page, O2 said some phone numbers across the UK were not working, but it was not the same technical fault that cut millions of customers off in July 2012. The operator added it hoped to resolve the fault before early Friday evening.
Comment: Again....
Engineers at Qinetiq are investigating the effects of geomagnetic storms and space weather on commercial airliners with a view to developing mitigating technology solutions. The company is conducting commissioned research into the phenomenon, developing sensors for advanced warning and designing novel system architectures with better tolerances.
The increase in microelectronics systems in aircraft in the past few decades means that they are potentially more vulnerable to geomagnetic events originating from space. The main threat to aircraft systems specifically is from neutrons that are created in the atmosphere through the collision of space phenomenon such as solar flares with the Earth's magnetic field.
'Think of what's happening as being rather like the Large Hadron Collider going on all the time at the top of the atmosphere,' Keith Ryden, senior consultant on space environments and effects, told The Engineer. 'They [the neutrons] are very penetrating because they're not charged and they go through the aircraft and into equipment. If they reach a silicon device, because they're travelling so fast, basically a nuclear reaction happens inside the silicon that causes a certain quantity of charge to be developed.'[Oh really....]
Studies have shown that at a very fundamental level this can lead to so-called 'bit flips' where a 1 changes to a 0 and a 0 to a 1 in various locations.
This can have a variety of unpredictable consequences but there is evidence to suggest that autopilot systems are particularly vulnerable. During a Qantas Airbus 330-303 flight in Australia in 2008, the autopilot dived twice without warning due to scrambled data, injuring 122 crew and passengers, 13 seriously. Subsequent investigations suggested it could have been a 'single-event effect' in the computer caused by geomagnetic activity.
Comment: This is a very useful article (and technical enough) explaining that there is a growing awareness that microelectronics in airplanes are becoming very vulnerable to space weather and backs up the assertions that I have been making for years now... Finally we have got the truth about what happened to the Qantas Airbus 330-303 flight in Australia in 2008, when 122 people were hurt and 13 seriously hurt when the plane took two unexpected nosedives, see archives. It seems that engineers are not bothering with the stupid excuse of laptops causing electromagnetic interference (EMI), rather we get a much more serious explanation of neutrons from space causing nuclear reactions in electronics...
Bill shock: customer charged $14,766,481,895,641,556.00
Sydney Morning Herald, 11th October 2012
A Frenchwoman who received a telephone bill for an amount equivalent to nearly 6000 times the country's annual economic output has had the real amount she owed waived - after finally convincing the company they must have made a mistake.
Solenne San Jose, from Pessac in the Bordeaux region of southwestern France, could not believe her eyes when she opened the bill to discover she was being asked to pay �11,721,000,000,000,000 ($14,766,481,895,641,556.00) to close her account.
"There were so many zeroes I couldn't even work out how much it was," she said. Ms San Jose's alarm mounted when operators at Bouygues Telecom told her they could not amend the computer-generated statement or stop the balance from being debited from her bank account.
Comment: Oh well, soon it is going to be very obvious that computer software and hardware are being corrupted much more often by cosmic rays flipping bits and bytes.
ASIC says it will investigate ASX technical glitch
Business Spectator, 10th October 2012
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched an investigation into a technical glitch at the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that prevented important company announcements from being released to the market for nearly four hours on Tuesday, according to The Australian Financial Review.
On Tuesday, the ASX stopped publishing company news from 1211 AEDT, and the problem forced investors to trade blind for nearly four hours until being fixed at 1556 AEDT, only minutes before the market closed for the day.
In a statement, the ASX said a database application issue had prevented the release of information to the market, but the issue was not related to the trading platform. [...]
It marks the second time in less than a year that the ASX has been hit with a serious technical issue. Last October 27, the stock market was closed completely for four hours due to a computer meltdown.
Comment: Yet, another computer/networking glitch at a stockmarket....this is incredible...
Arctic probe into solar storm sat-nav disruption
Scientists in the Arctic have launched an urgent investigation into how solar storms can disrupt sat-nav.
Studies have revealed how space weather can cut the accuracy of GPS by tens of metres. Flares from the Sun interact with the upper atmosphere and can distort the signals from global positioning satellites. The research is pressing because rapid warming is attracting more vessels, tourists and mining operators. The project is under way at a remote observatory on a windswept mountainside in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the High Arctic. [....]
Professor Lorentzen said: "If you have a very large solar storm, you can get a distortion of up to tens of metres. "It's absolutely important to understand why this is happening so that if we know that we have a solar storm, then we might be able to predict the deviation or accuracy of the GPS signal in the future."
This matters as the retreat of Arctic ice opens up the region to new activities including oil drilling, shipping and tourism - all of which require highly accurate navigation especially for search and rescue. But signal distortion has also been observed at much lower latitudes during solar storms so may have more widespread implications.
Comment: Apparently, this is now urgent.... We have been given some good information as the military used to have GPS accurate to within 1 metre, but now that can be out by 300% even without a geomagnetic storm where it seems the distortion is "up to tens of metres...." Presumably things are now desperate.... Well, since 2004 when I realised that space weather was delivering evolutionary change, I realised what was going to happen, it was extremely obvious to me... But, I have been very much on my own as very few really understand even basic physics. Furthermore, even fewer understand the ancient warnings that our planet has been subjected to cosmic deluges many times in the past. Please see below and archives for previous warnings about GPS from military sources and information concerning the massive impact on our modern technological infrastructure.
Comment: In an article for the Air Force Times, Schwartz warns against dependence on GPS, dated 23rd January 2010, and it seems there has been a major change of heart about the military use of GPS. This is a new dispensation, dependency on GPS accuracy is now a thing of the past.
The Air Force's top uniformed leader thinks the military is too dependent on global positioning and must develop an alternative to the navigation system to reduce its vulnerability to enemies.
Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz delivered his warning about the government's satellite constellation Jan. 20 at a national security conference in Washington but also assured his fellow defense leaders that Air Force scientists are working to develop other navigational technologies.
"Global positioning has transformed an entire universe of war-fighting capability. Our dependence on precision navigation in time will continue to grow," Schwartz said in the opening address to the conference, sponsored by the Institute of Foreign Policy and Tufts University's Fletcher School. "It seemed critical to me that the joint force reduce its dependence on GPS aid." [...] Schwartz told the audience he fears reliance on GPS could paralyze operations if an enemy blocked the GPS datalink or – even worse – programmed U.S. satellites to send the wrong coordinates.
"Our operations cannot grind to a halt for a degraded or denied system," he said. "Our reliance on information technologies, for example, is very well known."
Schwartz warns against dependence on GPS,
Air Force Times, 23rd January 2010
I have already quoted from the Lloyds Space Weather, Its impact on Earth & Implications for business report already once this week, but I will repeat it again, hopefully after the recent media focus on space weather in the last few weeks, I believe there must be some new website visitors who would be interested to understand the implications of what is happening. Thus we read:
Businesses should avoid reliance on satellite navigation as the sole source of position data.
"The major risk is the potential to lose the satellite navigation signal completely. We expect that disturbed space weather conditions will become much more common in the period from 2012 to 2015 due to increasing solar activity. Therefore it is likely users will experience a loss of signal more often. In such cases, we may expect major position errors to arise, perhaps comparable to those caused by the transmission of competing radio signals, known as jamming. For example, a recent jamming test in the UK showed position errors of up to 20km. Businesses should avoid reliance on satellite navigation as the sole source of position data. It is essential to have a second system that uses a different technology. A good example is the enhanced-LORAN navigation systems, such as that now being deployed in the UK."
Please do not be fooled, space weather IS the biggest enemy to Military operations and hence the encouragement to start learning how to do without, hence the need for military exercises. Space weather is cosmic energies frying satellites and swamping our planet, it is clear that things are getting far worse, as there has been some interesting examples of major technological failures, see archives, but please note: I have been listing biological failures too for quite some time.
S.Africa's JSE says trade halted due to glitch
The Africa Report, 9th October 2012
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) said on Tuesday that trade had been halted on Africa's biggest stock market due to a system glitch. A spokeswoman for bourse operator JSE Ltd said the bourse was investigating the cause of the error. The exchange has been plagued by system troubles in the past.
Electromagnetic Interference/Capability testing and structural dynamics testing completed for LDCM
Space Daily, 10th October 2012
Orbital Sciences Corporation recently completed Electromagnetic Interference/Capability (EMI/EMC) testing and structural dynamics testing of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite.
Pictured above, engineers at Orbital's Satellite Manufacturing Facility in Gilbert, Ariz. place the satellite on the vibration table to perform the side-to-side X-axis vibration test to ensure the spacecraft can survive its rocket ride into space.
The satellite is currently being prepared to enter thermal vacuum testing during which the satellite will be operated in a chamber that simulates the vacuum and temperature extremes of space.
Comment: Not that long ago, it was taught that space was a cold dark vacuum where nothing much happened, but something has changed in recent decades. Today, Earth satellites have to be able to deal with massive electrical shocks from charged sub-atomic particles flowing at speed through the near Earth cosmic environment... Yes, space might be a near vacuum, but when trillions of tonnes of sub-atomic particles are moving at up to 2 millions per hour and sometimes faster, due to coronal mass ejections from the sun, then that is enough to cause major problems for Earth based satellites.
4,000 tons of shells explode in Central Russia, leave mushroom cloud-like plume of smoke (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
RT News, 9th October 2012
Lloyds, Co-Op Fix IT Glitches
Tech Week Wurope, 8th October 2012
Two separate technical issues left Lloyds TSB, Halifax and Co-Operative customers unable to withdraw cash
Glitch wipes nearly $60bn off Indian stock index
Latest error 'exacerbated by high-frequency trading'
The Guardian, 5th October 2012
India's main share index plunged 16% within minutes on Friday in a so-called "flash crash" – the latest in a series of market glitches that have shaken confidence in global financial markets.
India's National Stock Exchange (NSE) was forced to halt trading for 15 minutes, after a brokerage placed 59 wrong orders, triggering a sell-off that wiped nearly $60bn off the value of the country's biggest companies.
The orders were cancelled and stocks recovered, with India's Nifty index closing down 0.8% on the day. But the event will concentrate the minds of regulators concerned about the impact of trading technology on the stability of markets. [...]
Joseph Saluzzi, co-founder of US agency broker Themis Trading, said: "We look at it as minor earthquakes and what they build up to is one much bigger earthquake, which could be an entire global market breakdown."
The NSE blamed Friday's crash on human error but Saluzzi said that was highly unlikely. "There is no human being in the world that can take down the stock market by 16%. This is typical spin."
Comment: Just wow...... I imagine that confidence in high speed electronic trading is also crashing.... so, if this is not human error, what exactly is going on?
Glitches Halt Some NYSE Liffe Trading
Wall St Journal, 5th October 2012
LONDON–A glitch halted commodities trading on the NYSE Liffe exchanges in London and Paris on two separate occasions Friday, following a similar disruption earlier this week.
The glitches are testing the nerves of some in the commodities market and potentially could undermine confidence in the company's technological systems, an analyst said.
"The exchange has reached the limit of what they can get away with as this has happened twice in a row," said Edward George, head of soft-commodity research at Ecobank. "Should these issues occur for a third time over the next few weeks, it could undermine confidence ...
Virgin Australia plane vanished from radar
News.com.au, 5th October 2012
* Virgin Australia plane lost by air traffic control
* Went off the radar for 30 minutes on busy route
* The plane was flying from Sydney to Brisbane
HOW can a packed passenger plane disappear from the radar for over 30 minutes along one of the busiest flight routes in Australia? An investigation has been launched to find out just how this happened last Friday on a Virgin Australia flight.
Comment: Since radar is now an established technology (mid 1940s onwards), I can only presume atmospheric conditions were such that the plane was surrounded by a type of energy that makes it invisible to radar. The same type of energy that is making asteroids difficult to see in space even with radar.
Qantas emergency as cabin fills with smoke
A QANTAS plane that left Sydney bound for Germany has made an emergency landing in Darwin after an unusual smell filled the cabin. There were 305 passengers on board the Boeing 747 when it made its unscheduled stop at Darwin Airport late on Thursday.
They are being put up in hotels while engineers investigate what was described by one passenger as a burning smell. [...] Jim Macnamara wrote: "Electrical fire on Qantas QF5 to Singapore over NT. Landed safely in Darwin. Stranded. But welcome Terra firma."
Comment: Another incident of a funny burning smell inside a plane, but this time we are told there was an electrical fire which we know can be caused by stray electromagnetic currents.
The latest trading glitch: Kraft
The Buzz, 3rd October 2012
Computer glitch causes Melb traffic gridlock [AU]
ABC World Today, 3rd October 2012
"SAMANTHA DONOVON: The computer failure has forced the closure of Melbourne's Burnley and Domain tunnels, bringing traffic to a standstill on many crucial routes. Safety systems have shut down and electronic traffic signs are frozen.
Citylink's infrastructure manager, Warren Gourley, says communication between control computers and the incident management system has inexplicably broken down. But he doesn't believe the private operator's systems have been hacked"
Comment: Glitch, glitch, glitch.... Just a reminder that the rise in cosmic rays is corrupting more electronics and thus is affecting life on Earth... The tunnels were closed for 11 hours....
Belfast traffic lights glitch lead to major disruption
BBC News, 4th October 2012
Technical glitch caused 911 outage for Indiana
WDRB 41 Louisville - News, 1st October
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Residents in several Indiana counties were not able to call 911 this morning. INdigital Telecom says service was out from 4am to 9am. That's five hours of not being able to call 911 directly. [...]
Ndigital says a core router located in Fort Wayne went out of service, but didn't indicate it failed. When the router restarted, it did not connect to the network and had to be restored manually. 911 service was fully operational at 9 Monday morning. James Goldman, the President of the Board of County Commissioners for Harrison County says, "In technology today, in all the electronics involved, sometimes things happen.
Canadian Internet Provider Rogers Experiencing Major, Prolonged Outage [Update: It's Back!]
Tech Crunch, 29th September 2012
"Canadian wireless and internet provider Rogers is currently experiencing a widespread, continued outage of services on both its cellular and cable home internet data networks, according to various user reports. Rogers is the second-largest internet provider in Canada by subscriber count, and the largest cellphone provider with somewhere around 10 million mobile customers."
Over five hours, but no explanation offered.... there could be a link with the latest blast from the sun, see data provided above.
Radar anomalies picked up on the Australian BOM network – September 27, 2012
The Watchers, 27th September 2012
Comment: It seems that weather radars are picking up large bubbles of plasma leaking into Earth's atmosphere from space. Scintillation is nothing new but pesumably the magnitude of the problem is an issue.
Shop's misery as credit card glitch holds up payment for more than £2,000 of business
Barnet Today, 24th September 2012
A HIGH BARNET trader has told of his frustration after a banking software glitch left him more than £2,000 out of pocket.
Steven Goorwich, who owns camping store Cover, in Barnet High Street, described his horror at discovering that a credit card terminal provided by HSBC had failed to accept five days' worth of payments.
The problems began on Tuesday August 21 when Cover's only credit card terminal refused to accept certain credit and debit cards.
After contacting the bank's help desk, Mr Goorwich was told that HSBC had been suffering software difficulties.
Comment: Hmmm.... The issue is not just about one shopkeeper, as the article states, "HSBC had been suffering software difficulties".... It really makes you wonder what the true extent of computer glitches are and whether anyone is paying attention and keeping note of trends.
Asda computer glitch leads to rush on groceries after system dishes out valuable money off vouchers
Daily Mail, 22nd September 2012
Shoppers are grabbing huge discounts on their groceries after a glitch with an Asda computer system meant it wrongly dished out valuable money off vouchers.
The supermarket operates the Asda Price Guarantee (APG), which promises to refund the difference if customers could have bought the same basket of goods more cheaply at a rival.
Customers who use the system punch the details of their purchases into the APG website and, if a rival store is cheaper, they are awarded vouchers to the value of the difference.
Comment: Well, I have been told that the real problem with all these glitches is too many underqualified people getting jobs as computer specialists, but they don't know enough about computing to know what they are doing.... I resisted this idea for a long time but the major computer screw-ups keep coming and I can't keep blaming this on bit-flips.... or can I?
'I've made £8,670 off Asda in four weeks': Professional shoppers exploit glitch to cash in on supermarket's price guarantee
This is Money, 24th September 2012
BlackBerry Hit by Service Outage
Wall Street Journal, 21st September 2012
LONDON–Research In Motion Ltd. suffered another setback Friday as a new round of service problems hit users of its BlackBerry device, less than a year after a network outage knocked out handsets around the world.
The timing of the latest setback couldn't be worse for the Waterloo, Ontario-based company, coming on the day that rival Apple Inc.'s latest incarnation of the iPhone was delivered to customers around the globe.
For several hours before service was restored, customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa couldn't send or receive emails. In a statement, RIM apologized to customers who had been affected. "We can confirm that services have been restored and are now operating normally," it said. The company didn't provide a reason for the malfunction.
Comment: Hmmm.... We await a technical explanation fot this latest setback but Apple have been having troubles too this week with their cloud computing Imessage service and poor app performance (see below) also described as a fiasco and 'epic fail'. See Apple Maps is An Epic Fail � NBCNews.com , for a sardonic description of complaints... Update: servers hit again, see below:
RIM's servers are back up – for now
Know Your Mobile, 21st September 2012
"BlackBerry maker RIM had a spot of bad luck earlier today when its servers went down for the second time in 12 months, causing service outages for users. Now, it seems, things are back to normal.
RIM has issued a statement, saying: 'Our apologies to any customers impacted by the BlackBerry service issue today. We can confirm that services have been restored and are now operating normally.'"
Comment: Only going down for a couple of hours is quite good compared to the previous 4 day outage that became a mega-diaster for BlackBerry maker RIM. The way things are going, servers crashing on a regular basis will become the norm until computer hardware being radiation hardened (rad-hard) becomes standard...
Apple map glitch relocates Dublin Airport to farm
BBC News, 21st September 2012
A technical glitch on Apple's mapping software led to some confusion as to where Dublin airport is located.
The capital's airport is situated on the north side about six miles outside the capital. But on the iOS 6 map application its position is given as a farm in Dundrum, three miles south of the city.
Airfield is a 35-acre estate which sits in the Irish Justice Minister Alan Shatter's constituency. The error led him to issue a statement.
Comment: The reports about this failed launch are quite hilarious... Whatever, it seems there, might have been some very poor testing of a new software product but we can't keep using testing as an excuse, as a map of a whole town in water can't just be about poor programming... Well, we know for a fact that the use of standard GPS and satellite navigation systems is problematic... Google Maps was introduced without much of a problem, so this has led me to be consider once again, the general climate of glitches associated with mobile phone products and services.... Basically, it really makes you wonder how long it will take for society as a whole to face some reality.... The military are already well aware and made it public knowledge that there are major issues with standard GPS and satellite navigation systems due to space weather... Whatever, I am amazed by how bad the failings of major companies that are highly reliant on technology are becoming...
New Apple maps app under fire from users
BBC News, 20th September 2012
"Lilo and Stitch" Has a Glitch as Disney Shows Sex Film
Big Cartoon News, 19th September 2012
The man and woman having sex on a Disney Channel sure weren't Lilo or Stitch. [...]
The video was so explicit that neither the Disney Channel nor FOX Carolina, which reported the story, are allowed to air it. An information page from the movie that Brown recorded made it clear that it was 2002's "Lilo and Stitch," and that it was rated PG. "I've been in the TV industry for 15 years, and I've never once seen that," said David Guttey, a contractor for Dish Network, who examined Brown's receiver. "It kind of had me astonished."
Comment: It's not the first time in recent years this has happened, but this is a Disney channel that was affected. Satellite interefernce is a well known problem (see the article below that gives a good tutorial on the subject), but I would have thought there would have been some programming in the system somewhere that automatically moved on to something suitable for children if a main signal was lost.... This is seriously terrible.
Satellite Interference: Tech To The Rescue
Sat Magazine, June 2008
Focus: Tackling Satellite Interference
Mil Sat Magazine, December 2011
"Satellite interference is a huge problem in this industry and affects a whole plethora of different users across various sectors of this extremely diversified business. The military is no exception and is the one area where fixing the problem of satellite interference is the most crucial, as it can, and often does, jeopardize vital operations." [...]
What Interference?
The problem of interference is widespread and it stems from the phenomenal amount of media and data streaming up to satellites. With so many satellites orbiting our planet, (and more to come!) the first thing that a user, or a system, must do is point it at the right one. With orbital spacing as close as 1.5 degrees, mistakes are often made using flyaway or mobile terminals. As important is the frequency at which the user transmits to the satellite; this has to be correct. In addition, the power at which the signal is transmitted is often forgotten, yet an important factor: Too low and it's too weak, too high and it often shows up on small antenna systems as adjacent satellite interference. This delicate setup, as a consequence, is therefore, inherently prone to human and equipment error.
The effect of interference is naturally a loss or degradation of signal, which in a military environment means a potential loss of communications, something, which everyone working in that environment is keen to avoid.
AT&T U-Verse Computer Glitch Opens Account For Dead Man
The Consumerist, 12th September 2012
Back in February, a St. Louis man's father passed away. But that didn't stop the folks at AT&T U-Verse from somehow opening a new account five months for the deceased five months after he'd died -- all because he'd once inquired about service at some point in the past.
When the late man's son noticed the U-Verse bill in July, he saw that the balance was $0.00, so at least his father's ghost wasn't running up bills he couldn't pay.
Comment: This is an interesting variation on the computer glitch theme...
GoDaddy Outage Was Due to Technical Glitch, Not Attack
Wired.com News, 11th September 2012
GoDaddy says technical issues, not a hacker attack, knocked it offline yesterday.
"The service outage was not caused by external influences. It was not a 'hack' and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS)," interim CEO Scott Wagner said in an e-mailed statement. "We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables."
The outage knocked internet services offline for a large number of GoDaddy customers between about 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Pacific yesterday. The outage was so bad that at one point GoDaddy had to turn to competitor VeriSign to restore service to its GoDaddy.com domain, which was also knocked offline.
An anonymous hacker claimed responsibility for the attack, but according to Wagner's statement, that claim was bogus.
Comment: Go Daddy, describes itself as the world's largest web hosting company and hosts 53 million domain names, but according to twitter it was down for about 6 hours... that is a lot of small business owners losing money whilst the sites are down... Well, because this is a company run by technicians we get told the truth for a change and the fault was corrupted router data tables. I think that could only have been caused by EM interference in the form of a cosmic ray... Cosmic energy is now flooding the planet so an increase in computer system outages was highly predictable. Intel declared in 2004 that "we are living on borrowed time" because they were tipped off that there was serious changes taking place in our solar system. Most likely we can point to the solar wind that used to be called our cosmic 'bullet proof vest'. Well, if you want to compare cosmic rays to bullets, the dramatically flagging solar wind in the mid 1990s and onwards means that we don't have much serious protection these days as Earth's magnetic field is flakey and our atmosphere alone is not good enough to stop all galactic cosmic rays.
Gmail Outage: First GoDaddy, Now Gmail is Down for Some Users Today [Report]
Inside Boston News, 11th September 2012
Knight hires IBM as consultant to look into trading glitch
Reuters, 11th September 2012
Well I think it is very obvious that technical staff have told management to %&*/%!%? and as the problem was outside of their control so the technically ignorant top tier have gone running to IBM who will charge a small fortune to tell them the completely obvious, but at least IBM can be expected to provide some proof. I eagerly await a suitable public announcement of the results.
Another day, another bank glitch: ANZ customers offline
Sydney Morning Herald, 7th September 2012
In the third online outage at a major bank this week, ANZ has confirmed that 5000 large corporate client users of its web-based cash management service have been unable to view their balances for two days.
The error with the ANZ Transactive system was blamed on a "technical glitch" that prevented customers from seeing their accounts or conducting transactions online. [...]
The glitch marks the third such interruption to services at a big-four bank or subsidiary, this week.
National Australia Bank's internet banking system was offline for hours on Wednesday, frustrating customers who could not access their accounts. Also this week, CBA-backed CommSec said as many as 9000 clients may have had their share dividends diverted to the wrong accounts.
The faults come as Australia's banks race to upgrade their creaky technology to support the needs of customers who increasingly conduct transactions through mobile phones and online rather than by visiting bank branches.
The Reserve Bank, for its part, is pushing the banks to improve the overall speed and stability of their processing systems.
Comment: People are demanding more services for their mobile phones, but this technology is extremely vulnerable to space weather.... What's more, senior U.S military have already declared that GPS is now unreliable, but this is necessary to sync phones with network coverage. So, the general populace is still generally unaware that the arrival of new cosmic conditions is now affecting the reliability of critical technological infrastructure (radio and satellite communications, computers, GPS, power grids, pipelines etc) used to maintain our modern technological world. We have to do business differently on this planet or watch our modern technology become useless, it's up to us.
UK's FSA wants banks to detail IT backup plans: FT
Reuters News, 4th September 2012
(Reuters) - Britain's financial regulator has sent letters to the nine largest banks and building societies in the UK requesting details of their IT contingency plans, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
The Financial Services Authority wants the main high street banks to detail their efforts to prevent a software glitch like the one that hit Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) in June, rendering the bank unable to process payments for clients.
The letter, sent by two senior FSA executives, also demands the names of senior managers who could be held personally responsible if information technology systems experience problems.
They also requested that each bank submit a written account of what had been done to "to ensure the overall resilience of critical infrastructure and banking processes" and what contingency plans were in place to restore service "within an acceptable timeframe" if a failure did occur, the FT said
Comment: Quite frankly, I have been appalled by the terrible IT related stories I have come across in the last few months.... There is no excuse, things need to be a whole lot better to prevent a complete meltdown, especially if we experience a major outburst of solar cosmic rays called a Ground Level Enhancement (GLE) event, at a time when the Earth's magnetic field has disappeared on the daylight side....
'Confidence in banks has been rocked by IT glitch'
Belfast Telegraph, 4th September 2012
Hmmm..... I predict it won't just be the banks that will suffer from a credibility issue as computer systems become very glitchy due to the increase in cosmic rays...
Technical glitch hits customers at Northern Bank
More than 350,000 Northern Bank transactions were hit by a glitch yesterday following a minor incident, the company said. The problem was detected at 8.40am and resolved just over two hours later, with operations back to normal by 10.42am. A Northern Bank spokesman confirmed 289,000 debit transactions and 65,000 credit transactions were affected.
Comment: I am only highlighting certain types of glitches based on an arbitary public annoyance factor, but there are lots of incidents being reported around the world...
MARTA working to fix glitch, remains cash-only
11alive.com, 4th September 2012
"ATLANTA -- After working through the weekend, MARTA said Monday their Breeze payment machines are still not able to take debit or credit payments. They won't be fixed when commuters go back to work Tuesday.
It's a glitch that started on Friday and looks to continue into the work week, because MARTA officials said they don't know the cause of the problem."
Card glitch leads to $2m mistake
Trinidad Express Newspapers, 3rd September 2012
A GLITCH in the system created a $2 million mistake at the Ministry of People and Social Development.
On Saturday, hundreds of recipients of the Targeted Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (CCTP) visited the supermarket expecting their usual monthly balance, but instead received double the amount.
Comment: The English is difficult to understand, but it is clear that a payment file, was processed twice. That is a poor IT failure because this mistake should have been made impossible to make.
Computer glitch sparks Metrolink meltdown
Manchester Evening News, 3rd September 2012
Greater Manchester's entire tram service was suspended for half an hour after a server fault in the control room at the Metrolink depot in Queens Road.
The problem struck at around 8.30pm on Monday. A message on the Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) website said: "Due to a server fault in the control room at Queens Road Metrolink depot, all services are temporaily suspended.
"We are attemtiong to rectify the fault and will get back to you with more information as soon as possible. Metrolink would like to apologise for the inconvenience this may cause." A spokesperson for TfGM said it was not safe to run the tram network while the computer problem persisted.
Comment: Another computer server failure... but I am impressed the problem was fixed in 40 minutes....but it makes me wonder whether it was luck or simply it was a fault that was easy to detect and rectify...
Asda charges customers FIVE TIMES for their online shopping order and must now repay hundreds
This is Money, 31st August 2012
Asda has apologised to customers and refunded hundreds of pounds after charging them as much five times for their internet shopping orders.
One customer was charged £790 for a £140 shopping order and will now have to wait five days for a refund.
A power cut yesterday in the U.S. at parent company Wallmart's office caused a computer glitch in its systems, leading to the error. [...]
A spokesman from Asda said that it was an isolated incident but that it has installed further precautionary measures to prevent it from happening again.
This is the second time that Asda's payment system has been subject to a glitch. Some customers were charged twice for their online shopping in July last
Comment: A power cut? To the best of my knowledge, I can't see a process for how one financial transaction could be repeated five times... However, I can see that some kind of EM interference (like lightning) that caused a power cut and also managed to corrupt some computer hardware. It is certainly interesting just how often computer batch programs are hicupping and deducting too much cash from people's accounts... Since the annoyance factor is high, how this can happen and go undetected is quite an enigma...
Computer glitch blamed for 580 delayed flights
North Jersey, 30th August 2012
CHICAGO – United Airlines said a piece of computer hardware was behind the technology meltdown that delayed 580 flights and shut down its website for more than two hours.
The outage on Tuesday prevented workers from boarding passengers on time. United passengers reported long lines in the airline's hubs in Newark, San Francisco, Houston and Chicago. It also caused nine cancellations.
The problem was a piece of hardware in a data center that failed to communicate properly with other computer equipment, said Megan McCarthy, a spokeswoman for United Continental Holdings Inc. A backup system failed to take over for the troubled hardware.
Comment: Hmmm... so we get a real explanation for a change, but despite the backup failure and the hassle, this outage lasted only two hours... I think this is another example of a cosmic ray induced computer network failure.
Computer Outage Briefly Halts United Flights In Bay Area & Across Nation
CBS SF News, 28th August 2012
In the last few weeks, computer glitches have affected universities, government agencies, airlines, emergency services, stock markets, computer software suppliers (Apple & Microsoft), telecommunications & mobile phone networks, but things have to get far worse for most to take any notice and to start querying what is going on....
UAE exchange bureau blames unpaid wages on computer glitch
The National, 29th August 2012
Computer system still busted....
Brokers braced for another day of likely trouble
The Jakarta Post, 28th August 2012
"This was because the IDX had switched to the emergency system, given the main system was not running," he said.
Satrio added that due to the problem, securities started trading only at 10 a.m. when the problem waned, but halted once more at 10:15 a.m. when connection "died out again".
Comment: So.... IDX HAD exactly the same problem as Knight Capital, because we are told: "The IDX system had suffered a glitch in 2009 as well, when a large security house flooded the trading system with orders."
IDX Dismisses BUMI-Related Rumors on Trading System Error
Indonesia Today, 28th August 2012
"JAKARTA (Indonesia Today) - The management of Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) dismissed speculations surrounding hackers and brokers of Bumi Resources (BUMI) behind disruptions of trading system on Monday (August 27)."
IDX Returns to Normal Trading
Update: IT Glitch Disrupts Indonesian Stock Trading
Jakarta Globe, 27th August 2012
The Indonesian stock exchange delayed trading on Monday after almost a third of its members failed to connect to the bourse's system.
Trading resumed about 1:30 p.m. according to Samsul Hidayat, the bourse's director of trading and membership, but was suspended again at 3:30 p.m., or half an hour before the market close.
The benchmark Jakarta Composite Index rose by just 0.01 percent, closing at 4,145.88. Only 664,000 shares were traded based on data from Bloomberg, a miniscule amount compared to the average 4.4 billion shares traded daily on the IDX this year.
Comment: Terrible.... even the backup system failed... Oh well, major financial institutions continue to suffer from technical "glitches", but there is a background of lots of less high profile computer system failures... Well, it can't be much longer now for those on the merry-go-round to wake up to our new cosmic reality... According to Reuters, this disaster is not over, see below:
Indonesia stock exchange struggles to resume Tuesday
Reuters News, 27th August 2012
Aug 27 (Reuters) - Indonesia's stock exchange has not decided yet whether trading will resume on Tuesday after technical problems that hampered the market in Southeast Asia's biggest economy on Monday.
Officials at the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) were testing a "disaster recovery" system and working late into the night to try to decide whether trading will function, sources at the exchange told Reuters.
OK, I realised what would happen (read the 2006 version of my book), but I am still amazed at how quickly the break-down of our modern technological world is taking place...
Stuck accelerator takes woman on ride over 110 mph
CBS News, 24th August 2012
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – An Iowa woman whose accelerator got stuck as she drove up Interstate 35 in Missouri managed to control the vehicle even as speeds topped 110 mph and she was forced to the median several times to avoid other drivers, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.
Patrol spokesman Sheldon Lyon praised Lauri Ulvestad, 47, of Ames, Iowa, for not crashing her 2011 Kia Sorento as she weaved through traffic and a construction zone with no way to slow down.
Comment: It is a fact that car electronics are being affected by cosmic rays... for more background info, see the link below and archives.
Cars vs. cosmic rays
Cosmic Log NBC News, 2nd April 2010
Two years ago, Intel senior scientist Eric Hannah said it was just a matter of time before the cosmic-ray problem started affecting cars. "It's strange, but this is the reality we're moving into as we get smaller and smaller circuits," he told the BBC.
Toyota problems were mechanical, study says
SF Chronicle, 9th February 2011
Unintended acceleration in Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles was rooted in mechanical flaws rather than electronic defects, a U.S. investigation found.
NASA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday that a 10-month probe of defects that led to recalls of more than 8 million vehicles worldwide found no electronic causes. Safety advocates and some lawmakers had pointed to electrical faults as a reason for the reports about the world's largest automaker. [...]
"What most likely happened was pedal misapplication," he said. "The driver stepped on the gas rather than the brake or in addition to the brake."
So.... Toyota still thinks that drivers don't know the difference between the brake and the accelerator pedal.... Unless NASA used a particle accelerator like those at CERN, then it is difficult to know what they could have done to replicate high speed sub-atomic particles from cosmic ray showers hitting car electronics at ground level.
Microsoft Fixes Windows Phone Marketplace Glitch, Resumes Publishing Apps
Mobile Apps, 19th August 2012
"According to Microsoft, a changeover in the back-end infrastructure for the app store was behind the issue. On Thursday, Aug. 16, Marketplace chief Todd Brix said the "hiccup" has been addressed."
Comment: The use of the word "changeover" suggests that I might be right about a cosmic ray causing a bit flip, as this "changeover" took two days to find and presumably a piece of hardware that was hosting some operating system software had to be replaced...
Microsoft Windows Phone Dev Center Glitch Fixed
Eweek, 18th August 2012
For two days, new Windows Phone apps couldn't be published to the site after a site upgrade caused a glitch. The problems are now resolved, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft has apparently repaired a "hiccup" with its newly rebuilt Windows Phone Dev Center that prevented the publishing of new phone apps to the site for about two days.
App publishing was temporarily put on hold during the glitch, which was originally reported Aug. 14 in a post by Microsoft's Todd Brix on The Windows Phone Developer Blog.
In an Aug. 16 update, Brix announced that the problem was related to digital certificates and was finally resolved.
Comment: It really makes you wonder.... Not even Microsoft can get away with a high profile launch without problems with hardware/software... I imagine that there would have been the normal testing and everything would have been signed off before the due date and everything would have been good to go but then no doubt, there was some cosmic rain and then bam! Why would Microsoft allow this to happen unless it was due to circumstances beyond their control? This is not just another software bug that needs a 'fix'.... This is a quote from my book because it is becoming very relevant:
"Now, in the New Energy, car manufacturers have to allow for stray cosmic rays, specifically neutrons from space, interfering with car electronics. As one media report explained, "Neutron-induced firm errors have progressed from being a nuisance to being a significant problem" [44]. With the poor state of Earth's magnetosphere, it has become apparent that Earth's atmosphere cannot provide adequate shielding from high energy cosmic rays which are suspected as being the primary of interference in car electronics. This possibility was brought to light by a "concerned scientist" who sent a email tip-off to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Administration (NHTSA) [45]. The message read:
For reasons I am unable to disclose, I am anonymously submitting several publically available scientific papers that discuss the possibility of cosmic rays disrupting electronics at sea level, essentially flipping a bit from one to zero, or vice versa. This phenomenon is a 'soft' error that is not detectable except through redundant electronic and communication systems. The scientific community refers to such occurrences as 'Single Event Upsets,' or SEUs. The reason SEUs are now relevant to the automotive industry is because electronics have gotten smaller and the required voltage levels have dropped significantly, therefore making electronics more susceptible to cosmic radiation."
Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spiritual Evolution (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012)
It is no secret that authorities suspect cheap electronics in Toyota cars were being fried by cosmic rays to the extent that many accidents were caused and people died. (While Toyota has received most of the attention, other car makers have had software-related incidents.) In March 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported: Now, Even NASA Is Involved in Toyota Crisis , and the only reason for NASA to be involved is to provide data that either proves or disproves the notion that cosmic rays are causing problems in the electronics used for computer technology in cars. Now, there seems to be an acceleration and it has become noticeable because large computer installations belonging to high profile financial institutions are being hit. It is no secret that NASA have informed the world that they are expecting cosmic rays to go up another 30% above the current high in the near future, see Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High! The European Space Agency ESA) have told us straight that the Earth's magnetic field has major rifts and occasionally disappears on the daylight side see, Multiple rifts in Earth's magnetic shield. Therefore, we don't have to speculate, scientists already know that cosmic rays are a problem and even Intel have informed us that "we are living on borrowed time" a quote that appears on the patent for a cosmic ray detector on a chip.... Our modern technological world is highly reliant on computer technology and electronics and they are becoming more and more unreliable due to a major celestial deluge.... My main reasons for pointing this is out is that we must acknowledge that various sources that includes indigenous groups and Mayan Elders, warned about cosmic changes, but it seems before I wrote my book in 2006, very few had integrated enough science and metaphysics to make a link with Space Weather and the dramatically changing cosmic conditions that will force massive evolutionary change on Earth.
Technical glitch: Hundreds of UAE workers without Eid salaries
Exchange house, which pays workers under government's Wage Protection Solution system, closes outlets
Star Online, 18th August 2012
Hundreds of employees across the UAE [United Emirates] are stranded without their salaries ahead of Eid Al Fitr tomorrow after a money exchange that handles their payments suffered technical problems and is unable to process the payments.
The workers get paid through the exchange under the government's Wage Protection Solution system. Workers have been visiting the exchange's offices in several of the emirates, only to be greeted with downed shutters. The workers affected belong to several companies that process their payments through the exchange. [...]
Says one employer who pays his workers through the WPS system and this exchange: "For the last five days, I am reading this board – 'Closed Due to System Problems'.
"We have deposited the workers' salary for the month of August on August 3, 2012, and normally it takes two or three days to dispense the salary. Even after fifteen days, salaries are not paid," said Manohar, an Indian manager of an automobile trading firm in Sharjah.
According to eye-witnesses, a team from Dubai Police had reached the money exchange's head office located in Deira, Dubai, this morning. "I came here because I did not get a normal email alert that the payment has been cleared. All their branches in Sharjah remain closed.
"The company's junior staff are available in the office, but they are unable to handle the problem. They say the system is down and they cannot do anything," says another customer.
Comment: How ironic, the wage protection scheme run by the government has failed..... but these days, is two weeks long enough to fix a computer problem? The Royal bank of Scotland group that included Natwest and Ulster bank took longer than that to sort out all their customers' accounts.... Quite frankly, if it was only hundreds of people being affected, I hardly think that would be enough to make international news, but it says here there has been an issue for 15 days and the police were sent to see what was happening.... Whatever, there are a lot of computer "glitches" occuring, but those that involved people not getting paid and continued issues with unreliability, takes us nearer to the point of mass realisation that something rather fundamental is happening...
Mapco Gas Station Debit Card Glitch Falsely Charges Outlandish Amounts For Gas Fill-Ups (VIDEO)
Huffington Post, 16th July 2012
Ray Crockett was recently charged more than $84,000 for what was supposed to be a $30 tank of gas. The ordeal left Crockett frozen out of his hopelessly overdrawn Citibank account and with a measly $100 Visa gift card from Mapco to get him through the weekend. Citi has since credited Crockett's account, according to ABC News. But the drama has all but subsided. A NewsChannel 5 investigation revealed at least 16 other Mapco customers have recently been hit with five-figure gas bills after visiting the gas station.
This is where 'glitch' can easily be an euphemism for 'fraud'...
Port Columbus glitch blamed on transformer 6 inbound flights sent elsewhere after lights along runway go out
Dispatch News, 16th August 2012
There are a lot of transformer fire incidents reported in the United states at the moment, but I would like to see some statistics and a clear trend. Use Google news and keywords transformer + fire to pick up details.
Knight rises as firm reportedly finds trade glitch
Marketwatch, 14th August 2012
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) – Knight Capital Group Inc. shares shook off early session losses on Tuesday afternoon to end 5.3% higher following a televised report suggesting that the firm has discovered what triggered a more than $400 million trading loss earlier this month.
Bloomberg TV reported Tuesday that Knight Capital KCG +5.28% determined that outdated software was accidentally triggered when new software was loaded onto Knight's system.
The old software glitch multiplied the firm's stock orders by 1,000, the report said.
Comment: For reasons I have already explained concerning software maintenance and upgrades, there is no way on Earth that a multiplication factor of 1,000 went unnoticed by any normal testing procedures especially on just one algorithm, when we are told.... "You've got 13 exchanges, 50 dark pools, brokers that internalize client orders at their own desks and thousands of algorithms pumping orders in milliseconds..." But, the story of 'outdated software' is just plain bizarre... Are Knight Capital seriously expecting us to believe that multiplying the firm's stock orders by 1,000 was normal practice? But if that is true, then that creates other issues..... Quite frankly, a cosmic ray flipping a bit (bit-flip) is much more believable....
Computer glitch leaves police unable to talk with dispatchers
My San Antonio News, 13th August 2012
A computer hardware malfunction that left San Antonio Police Department dispatchers unable to hear officers' radio transmissions has been fixed, but diagnostic testing on the system continues, city officials said. Sunday afternoon the problem with the radios lasted about 20 minutes, but similar difficulties with communication occurred nightly last week. During the time the channels were down, dispatchers weren't able to hear the officers, which was a problem if they needed help or wanted to pass on information about suspects or victims.
Comment: Some glitches are more of an issue than others....
American stars miss Olympics closing ceremony due to TV glitch
Hollywood News, 12th August 2012
I suppose this is the only way that some will be interested in space weather as technology becomes more unreliable and eventually even the most superficial want to know why....
Blood bank national computer glitch upsets pathologists
News.com.au, 14th August 2012
I changed the headline to make it more headline worthy.... Hmmm... I am interested in the computer glitches that really matter and it seems that the escalation of major problems is ongoing.
Navy: U.S. destroyer collides with oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz
CNN News, 12th August 2012
(CNN) -- The U.S. Navy said its guided missile destroyer collided with a Japanese-owned oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz early Sunday morning.
No one was injured in the collision that occurred about 1 a.m. local time when the USS Porter collided with the Panamanian-flagged bulk oil tanker M/V Otowasan, the Navy said in a statement.
The Navy did not provide details about the collision, saying only the accident was not related to combat. It said the incident is under investigation
Comment: Hmmm.... Landbased (Loran C) and/or satellite navigation systems screwed up? Well, it is difficult making a call here because it is public knowledge that GPS is no longer totally reliable, but Loran C is often only described as an inferior system used by mariners or as a backup land-based alternative to GPS and other satellite navigation systems. Some sources claim that the current LORAN system has been phased out in the United States and Canada, but we do know for sure that the US military now rely on a more sophisticated version of GPS, I don't know what systems other militaries are relying on. Whatever, the U.S. Navy's guided missile destroyer collided with a Japanese-owned oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz and there must have been total reliance on a navigation system that failed..... bigtime. If you look in the archives this is becoming a common occurence. I also detailed the issue of failing GPS in my ebook What is Space Weather?. My interest is that stormy geomagnetic conditions affect humans as well as satellite navigation systems.
Woman is left £27,000 in debt after her new Orange pay as you go mobile withdraws £20 from her bank account every TEN MINUTES
Daily Mail, 9th August 2012
A holidaymaker was left £27,000 in debt after mobile phone company Orange extracted £120 an hour from her account for almost a week.
Anne Roberts was horrified to discover NatWest had repeatedly allowed the funds to be taken after she purchased a £20 pay-as-you-go phone while holidaying in Wales.
A technical blip meant Orange had been withdrawing £20.49p from Ms Roberts' account every ten minutes since she bought it. [...]
Mrs Roberts claimed other customers had suffered the same problem, with one person being overdrawn by £39,000.
Comment: Wow....
First Time Ever in South Africa: Snow in All 9 Provinces
News 24, 8th August 2012
As Glitches Mount, Cyber Safety Net for Businesses Shrinks
CNBC News, 9th August 2012
It is shaping up to be the year of the glitch. Days after the massive software failure which nearly put Knight Capital Group out of business, exchanges in Tokyo and Spain were forced to suspend some trading due to glitches, while a software bug caused Southwest Airlines to charge online customers several times over for the same flight.
The problems are raising a red flag about system risks resulting from software upgrades, but there are few security products or insurance coverage to protect businesses from glitch-related losses.
"These incidents are certainly a wakeup call for software quality at these organizations," says Eric Baize, senior director of the product security office at RSA, a division of EMC.
Comment: Comprehensive cyber insurance is a damn good idea, as we seem to have lots of new infestations of software bugs..... However, for those who are more informed, we don't know just how bad and how quickly the impact of space weather will take hold.... as Intel declared in 2004, we have been "living on borrowed time..." Unfortunately, the ignorance about what is happening to our world is breathtaking...
Globe blames Sun system glitch for interconnection problems
ABS-CBN News, 9th August 2012
MANILA, Philippines - Globe Telecom, the second largest telecommunications company in the country, said its subscribers are having difficulty connecting to subscribers of rival Sun Cellular due to a glitch in the latter's system.
In a statement, the company said Globe and TM subscribers may have been encountering problems making and receiving voice calls, as well as sending and receiving text messages from Sun subscribers.
"Initial investigation shows a glitch in the interconnection facility of the Cellular Mobile Telephone System of Sun Cellular. Globe and Sun engineers working to restore the Sun-Globe interconnect to its normal level," Globe said, in a statement.
Oh yes, mobile phone networks are getting very glitchy too these days.....
Flying high: El Al to honor cheap tickets to Israel from glitch
JTA News, 9th August 2012
Metro still investigating glitch that led all trains to be halted; problem could happen again
Washington Post, 16th July 2012
HYATTSVILLE, Md. – Metro officials say they still don't know what caused a software program tracking trains to shut down twice over the weekend, and it's possible it could happen again. All trains on the Washington-area transit network were halted for a half-hour each time the system failed.
Dave Kubicek (koo-bih-CHECK), Metro's deputy general manager for operations, says the computer system vendor and Metro engineers and maintenance staffers are working around the clock to figure out what caused the problem. He says he can't be sure it won't happen again. [...]
The glitch did not affect Metro's signaling system, which ensures that trains maintain enough space between them. But it affected Metro's ability to see where trains were on the lines.
Comment: Reading through the Lloyd's of London, Space Weather, Its impact on Earth & Implications for business report I saw something that I had not noted before. It says there is a new dependence on mobile phone technology but it is a fact that there are now many recent examples where this technology is now failing and even whole networks brought down.
El Al fare glitch spurs buying frenzy on NYC-Israel flights
USA Today,8th August 2012
"Israeli carrier El Al has not yet decided whether it will honor New York-Tel Aviv tickets that it mistakenly sold for just $330 to $400 round trip. Such tickets typically run anywhere from $1,000 to $1,600 for coach-class seats."
I was going to ignore this story until I read the glitch was thought of as "a bargain of biblical proportions" and "pregnant women even tried to book future flights for their unborn children."
Tokyo bourse hit by glitch in derivatives trading
Reuters News, 7th August 2012
(Reuters) - The Tokyo Stock Exchange halted trading in derivatives including Topix futures and Japanese government bond futures for more than an hour on Tuesday morning, suffering a glitch for the second time in six months. Trading resumed at 10.55 am Tokyo time (0155 GMT). A Tokyo Stock Exchange spokeswoman said the exchange was still investigating the problem.
Trading in Nikkei futures was not affected because they are traded on the Osaka Securities Exchange. (8697.OS) The last time the Tokyo Stock Exchange was hit by a glitch was on February 2 when cash-share trading was halted in the morning session. In that case, trading in some 240 shares and instruments was affected.
Comment: Oh, well...... I don't have enough information to be 100% sure of any explanation for why 5 stock markets (all in very different time zones and parts of the world) have had major computer related problems in the last 7/8 days. BUT, unless this is just all a coincidence (eye roll), when stockmarkets around the world fail, there is an automatic kneejerk reaction to report the news and investors and players are all anxious to find out what happened and to be reassured that it won't happen again. Yet, providing technical explanations to people without a technical background is not so easy. Since there have been so many other types of technology failures in recent weeks and months, I am wondering out loud whether we are just seeing more and more space weather related interference problems. It is a fact that Earth's shielding is deteriorating, but we dont know just how bad things are until we are officially told and often that is by an media announcement released in the dead of night and I don't always see important information straight away.... Whatever, here is a brief summary of what's happened on the borses in the last 7/8 days. First there was the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) [Bangladesh] that remained suspended Tuesday as Monday's trading could not be settled due to technical glitch in the central depository system (CDS). Knight Capital, a major Wall Street brokerage of stock trades [United States], almost went bust after a duff algorithmn entered millions of faulty trades in less than an hour on Wednesday morning. Spain's stock exchange was halted for nearly five hours earlier Monday after another duff algorithm caused trading in Madrid to stop. The Tokyo Stock Exchange halted trading in derivatives including Topix futures and Japanese government bond futures for more than an hour on Tuesday morning due to another technical glitch... At this point I would like to mention that when we had a major episode of space weather in 1989, the Toronto Stock Exchange was halted, see below:
SCIENTISTS blame an intense burst of solar activity for events which halted all trading on Toronto's stock market last month. Officials watched in disbelief as three disc drives failed in succession on what is supposed to be a 'fault-tolerant' computer system. The crash stopped trading for three hours. 'I don't know what the gods were doing to us,' said John Kane, the vice president of the exchange.
Solar storms halt stock market as computers crash
New Scientist, Magazine issue 1681, 9th September 1989
At the moment, it is very difficult to find out what is going on especially with financial institutions when 'confidence' is a mandatory requirement. Yet, as we all know after the last few months, confidence can be quickly eroded, by massive computer failures. Whatever, there seems to have been a sharp increase in major incidents and lots of nerves are now jangling.
UPDATE 1-Technical glitch stops Spanish stock trading
Reuters, 6th August 2012
* No time specified for trading to restart
* Auctions started at 0935 GMT - bourse (Adds detail)
Aug 6 (Reuters) - Trading on Spain's stock exchange was halted on Monday due to a technical problem, which technicians were investigating, a spokesman for the exchange operator BME said.
Trading was halted shortly after 0800 GMT, when the blue-chip exchange, the IBEX, was up 0.25 percent at 6,772 points.
Equity market auctions began again at 0935 GMT, but no time was specified for full trading to resume, the bourse said.
Comment: Hmmm... could be a coincidence.... but, we await more details... So far, Spain's stock exchange has been partly down for nearly 4 hours.
Spanish stock exchange halted for technical glitch
Market Watch, 6th August 2012
Algorithm Trading Responsible For Another Glitch
Benzinga, 6th August 2012
"Spain's benchmark Ibex 35 Index was halted for nearly five hours earlier Monday after a trading glitch caused trading in Madrid to stop. The Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles SA, the company that oversees the stock exchange, could not comment on the nature of the glitch and only said that trading had been halted due to a technical glitch."
US Stocks Rise; Knight Capital Gets Lifeline
NPR News, 6th August 2012
Jamaica Update: Mysterious Island wide blackout
Caribbean Hurricane Network, 6th August 2012
"The entire Island of Jamaica is without power and I doubt its Ernesto . Moderate to heavy rains are affecting some Central and Eastern parishes but I cant see how in the West where no rain or impacts the power is out.Its not quite as big as 600 million in India but Its highly unusually for the entire Island to be without power at any given time."
Elsewhere, the excuse provided is two cars crashing and bad weather.... not really a very believable scenario...
Glitch Prompts eBay to Cancel Listings and Issue Refunds
Ecommerce Bytes, 6th August 2012
Bay cancelled what's thought to be thousands of listings over the weekend after a glitch wiped out critical data from the item descriptions. eBay sent an email to those affected promising to issue double refunds to sellers who paid insertion fees and must now edit the listings to add back in the data and then relist them.
eBay sellers were initially alarmed over the weekend when some of their listings were cancelled due to supposed "Duplicate Listing" policy violations. "It is my belief that a rogue ebay employee has hacked into my account and simply ended the listings from within," one reader wrote to EcommerceBytes on Sunday, but it turned out eBay cancelled the listings because of Friday's glitch, which was reported in the EcommerceBytes Blog.
Comment: Another technical glitch.... but from the listing of related stories, Ebay seems to have lots of glitches on a regular basis....
London 2012 Olympics: Viewers unhappy at BBC reporters' methods during post-event interview
BBC's 'touch-feely' presenters hit a nerve: Viewers unhappy at reporters' methods during post-event interview Britain's victories in the Olympics may have taken the nation's emotions to a new level, but viewers are unhappy that the BBC's reporters can't seem to keep their own in check.
Many have complained about over-excited 'touchy-feely' displays of congratulation or consolation from the corporation's journalists – including rubbing, stroking and patting athletes as they interview them. Most prominent has been athletics trackside reporter Phil Jones, whose tactile interviews with Jessica Ennis, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah raised eyebrows.
Comment: Actually, I noticed this too... the most hilarious coverage is the sports veterans/pundits getting over excited about Mo Farrell's win in the 10,000 metres, hysterical.... I have noted the comments here, but I think it is a general sign that many people are losing the use of their android genes. Just watch some old TV clips (1960s and older) and note presentators speaking in a mechanical drone like robots, those voices make me shiver.... something has changed, real empathic humans are back in fashion.
Southwest Airlines promo glitch charges customers for flights aplenty
CNN Blog News, 3rd August 2012
When Southwest Airlines offered a limited-time promotion on Friday to celebrate reaching three million fans on Facebook, it seems they accidentally racked up duplicate charges on the credit cards of their loyal customers. [...]
Because of being charged multiple times, sometimes upwards of 30 separate occasions, customers complained that the strain on their credit cards for the unexpected charges had a domino effect on their finances.
"I was sympathic [sic] to the situation before I actually spoke with a rep from Southwest who said, there is nothing she can do...southwest will refund the charges when they get to it and it will take 8 -10 business days before I get my money back and now I have to call customer relations to get the overlimit fees back, and I was charged interest on the $1400 on the duplicate charges and I have to pay for the long distance fees to call customer relations as they do not have a 1-800 number...SERIOUSLY?!?!? Are you freaking kidding me?" Suzanne Worrell wrote in a blazing pos
Comment: Really? The same VISA card charge was duplicated up to 30 times on a customer's credit card...... read the stories, this is unbelievable.... Oh well, I am wondering if we have no entered a new phase in the acceleration of space weather because I refuse to believe that all these financial computer "errors" are all coincidences..... Whatever, if this is going to keep up, soon there will be so many complaints that even the most obtuse will realise that something strange is going on.... I would be scrutinising the NICT magnetosphere simulation for any clues as to what is happening to Earth's shielding, but it is no longer available.....
Should every computer chip have a cosmic ray detector?
New Scientist, 7th March 2008
"But Intel thinks we may still be living on borrowed time:
"Cosmic ray induced computer crashes have occurred and are expected to increase with frequency as devices (for example, transistors) decrease in size in chips. This problem is projected to become a major limiter of computer reliability in the next decade. "
Hmmm.... So in 2004, when the patent for building cosmic ray detectors into every chip was filed, Intel must have known for quite some time that cosmic rays were a problem and the situation was expected to get far worse. Well, we do know that NASA was monitoring the flagging solar wind in the mid 1990s (and maybe long before that) and so 'those in the know' were informed early as to which way the wind was blowing... Well, even though the general public have been informed, the lack of education means the news means nothing to the majority despite the seriousness of the implications.
BBC News, 8th April 2008
Computer processor manufacturer Intel have revealed details of a patent for protecting future generations of computers from the growing threat of cosmic rays. The company has designed an on-chip cosmic ray detector to try to cope with the particles, which originate in space before sporadically entering the Earth's atmosphere and going through everything they encounter.
Because the operation of computers is through charged particles, the unpredictable hits from the rays are problematic, potentially causing the system to crash. The risk from cosmic rays may not be thought of as a big problem on a single computer with a single chip, as there is the potential for error only perhaps every several years. [...]
But Mr Hannah explained that on a supercomputer with 10,000 chips, there was the potential for 10 or 20 faults a week. And the risk of cosmic ray interference will only increase as chips get smaller. This is because circuits will require less charge per switch to operate. [...]
And this is potentially a problem not just for PCs and supercomputers, but anything with computer-operated parts - for example cars. "You could be going down the autobahn at 200 miles an hour and suddenly discover your anti-lock braking system doesn't work because it had a cosmic ray event," Mr Hannah said.
"It's strange, but this is the reality we're moving into as we get smaller and smaller circuits."
Comment: If you look around there is a lot of useful information on the internet, discussing which computer hardware suppliers took cosmic ray induced errors seriously. As an aside, some Toyota car owners found out the hard way that car electronics are vulnerable to cosmic rays. But, even after hundreds of accidents and some deaths, a Toyota representative claimed that drivers did not know the difference between the brake and the accelerator, see archives for more info.... I wrote about this scenario in my book Tuning the Diamonds as car electronics manufacturers, were complaining that users want reliability to the standard of a military tank but don't want to pay for the quality components needed.... Well, our cheap electronics are being fried by cosmic rays but it seems that there has been expectation that things were going to get far worse and it is now happening. Meanwhile, there is still little interest in how bioelectromagnetic humans are supposed to cope in this cosmic deluge and after my experiences in the metaphysical community, you will need to be switched on to be able to come through the trauma of dealing with the unsavoury characters you will have to deal with to find out some truth.
United States Patent: Cosmic ray detectors for integrated circuit chips
RBS IT glitch will cost bank £125m
computing.co.uk, 3rd August 2012
"The IT glitch that affected NatWest, Ulster Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will cost the RBS Group £125m, the firm has revealed. In its half-year report, RBS said that it had to provision £125m for "costs arising from the technology incident in June 2012". The incident left millions of customers unable to access their accounts, while RBS struggled to fix the issue."
Wall Street sees Knight as software risk wake-up call
Chicago Tribune, 3rd August 2012
[...] Dealers don't always do a great job of testing, said Colin Clark, a developer with Cloud Event Processing, a firm that works with big Wall Street banks and exchanges on software and technology. "They're not investing enough in testing now," Clark said, noting the pressure banks face to cut costs.
U.S. stock trading volume is 40 percent below its peak volume in 2009, according to Tabb Group, falling from an average of 12 billion trades a day to 6 million to 7 million currently. That decline has weighed on profits at firms, and strained the willingness of many to invest in unglamorous areas like testing systems, said Larry Tabb, founder of Tabb Group, a consulting firm that focuses on capital markets.
"There are fewer people minding the store, and the people in place are stretched too thin," Tabb said. But others on Wall Street dismissed the notion that dealers are not investing enough in their systems, noting that dealers spend millions on technology in part to be more efficient and reduce staffing levels.
Comment: I can hardly believe that people are talking about testing software systems as being "unglamorous"....... Surely, going bust is even more unglamorous..... Presumably, being interested in reality is too unglamorous for some too....
Knight Capital 'has 48 hours' to save itself after IT glitch causes $440m loss
Telegraph News, 3rd August 2012
Since March, a series of embarrassing technology issues, including the botched Facebook trading debut after its IPO and the failed public offering of BATS Global Markets have rocked markets and shaken the confidence of investors.
"You've got 13 exchanges, 50 dark pools, brokers that internalize client orders at their own desks and thousands of algorithms pumping orders in milliseconds," said Larry Tabb, founder of Tabb Group, a financial consulting firm. "The structure just may be too complicated to work."
Comment: Please note the statement, "thousands of algorithms pumping orders in milliseconds". In this latest Information Technology (IT) fiasco, there is no evidence that there was a timestamping problem, but I want to inform. (Please note that on financial forums in the blogosphere, like Zero Hedge, there is some real cynicism about a financial broker losing lots of other people's money and these commentators have other reasons to explain Knight Capital's imminent demise...). Regardless, satellite navigation services are used for timestamping financial transactions but this is sometimes failing due to space weather roiling the ionosphere, screwing-up the total electron count and thus generating incorrect values. The US and UK military have been publicly warning for the last few years (plus other informed sources) that GPS and satellite navigation services are no longer reliable and this has got to the stage where military exercises have started without using satellite navigation services (think about the consequences of an EMP strike/massive geomagnetic blast, that cripples our satellite communications systems, thus rendering sophisticated computer controlled technologies useless). Due to all the high profile computer failures, I suspect that greedy bosses are busy firing the real brains and replacing them with 'numpties' that don't fully understand how major computer networked systems work. The reason for this belief is the sheer number of banks and stock market companies now struggling with so-called 'failed' software updates/server issues. Back in the old days (maybe 15 years ago before outsourcing to India became popular), IT staff were competent enough to maintain computer systems in good working order, so what is happening now is beyond incredible (I can hardly believe it). There are too many factors converging at once and we are heading towards disaster due to penny pinching CEOs that don't understand that our world is changing and thus leaving their companies wide open to major computer screw-ups. But more importantly, the general public are not being educated about what is happening to our world, so all people see is major service providers failing on a regular basis. From my perspective, space weather is being treated like a joke, but on a regular basis; mobile phones don't work, technologies that rely on mobile phone technology and satellite navigation systems regularly fail, bank ATMs don't always work, a few spectacular bank computer foul-ups means that customers are being impacted and in parts of the world, there seems to be more electrical transformers blowing up thus causing power outages but assessment is difficult because there are a lot of delapidated and outdated power grids failing for many different reasons. This list can be extended.... Thus, due to so many different service providers failing to provide in the usual manner, I am hoping that a few more intelligent people might start to engage brain and think about why this is all happening at the same time that they look up into the sky and see new incredible atmospheric phenomena, (electrified noctilucent clouds should at least provide some kind of hint.....). Personally, when various space agencies explain in plain language that the planet is being bombarded with cosmic radiation, I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to conclude that there will be major consequeces, but it seems that too many people are dizzy from being on the merry-go-round and cannot think deeply enough to realise that our world is facing a major new challenge.
Solar storms could spark $2 trillion 'global Katrina'
The Star, 22nd February 2011
[...] "Power grids, air traffic control systems and intelligent transport systems need to be looked at," Stephan Lechner, director of the European Commission Institute for Protection and Security of the Citizen, told a weekend meeting.
"And would our financial trading places have to shut down if the accuracy of the time stamp for an electronic order was not given any more?" [...] "GPS is a critical part of almost everything we do," Thomas Bogdan, director of the Space Weather Prediction Centre in Colorado, told the session.
"Every time you go to a gas station and purchase a gallon of gas with your credit card, that's a satellite transaction taking place."
"How long can our telecommunications networks live without a time stamp" provided by GPS, Lechner asked.
"The potential vulnerability of our systems has increased," Sir John Beddington, chief scientific adviser to the British government, told the weekend meeting.
Comment: Note the concern about timestamping....
Knight Capital Gets a Lifeline
Wall Street Journal, 3rd August 2012
"Knight has blamed software installed on its system Tuesday for errors entering millions of trades in less than an hour as the market opened the next day. The errant trades were routed to the New York Stock Exchange, which on Wednesday started operating a new trading platform designed to attract trades from individual investors."
Loss Swamps Trading Firm
Knight Capital Searches for Partner as Tab for Computer Glitch Hits $440 Million
Wall Street Journal, 2nd August 2012
Knight officials blamed software installed earlier this week for causing the brokerage firm to enter millions of faulty trades in less than an hour on Wednesday morning. The orders roiled trading in almost 150 stocks and left Knight holding losing positions in many shares at the end of Wednesday's trading session. As the company's stock slid 63% on Thursday, officials sought out a potential cash injection or buyer, according to people with knowledge of the ...
'Someone has a major, major problem on their hands': Panic on Wall Street as computer glitch sparks 'out of control' surge in trading
Daily Mail, 2nd August 2012
A technical glitch at a major Wall Street brokerage of stock trades caused wild swings in a number of stocks shortly after markets opened.
The malfunction occurred at Knight Capital, one of the largest processors of stock trades.
The company said in a statement that a 'technology issue' had occurred in its market-making unit related to the routing of shares of about 150 stocks to the New York Stock Exchange. [...]
Joe Saluzzi, co-head of trading at Themis Trading told FoxBusiness.com: 'The [algorithms] went nuts this morning. Someone has a major, major problem on their hands.'
CNBC reported that such algorithms are developed by major brokerages that buy and sell stock in accordance with formulas and market situations.
Comment: Here, we are being told that a major crisis (bad enough to cause the likely demise of a major Wall Street player), was caused by some duff programming of a trading algorithm, but this implies there was insufficient testing of computer software.... Well, I just don't believe this was just another software "upgrade" and "bug" that went wrong, for all the reasons that I keep repeating..... Major computer failures that are so bad that we are hearing about them, are becoming headline news on a regular basis.... Whatever, there are now so many reports of major computer failures or "glitches" that a few media pundits have noticed and are starting to query what is really going on.......
Stock exchange glitch cost U.S. trading firm $440m in just a few minutes and could lead to its bankruptcy
Daily Mail, 3rd August 2012
'We're losing the human control in our business,' said Joe Anastasio, a founding partner of financial services consulting firm Capco who specializes in stock trading issues. 'We've been so focused on automated throughput of orders and high-volume execution with no human intervention that we have lost the human logic factor when things go wrong.' One of the problems, he said, is that millions of orders stack up overnight for automatic execution at the opening of trading, with a single error potentially creating a deluge of bad trades.
Comment: The reliance on computer technology is the issue as there are no guarantees and complete failures are possible...
Did 'Solar Storms' Cause India's Massive Blackout?
New York Times India Blog, 1st August 2012
"A big geomagnetic storm can essentially put extra electric currents into the grid," Mr. Hapgood added. "If it gets bad enough, you can have a complete failure of the power grid."
Comment: It looks like a few in the mainstream media are getting the message about the vulnerability of national power grids..... BUT the response that solar storms only induce GICS in northern latititudes IS WRONG! See archives for links to research papers concerning geomagnetically induced currents.
Explosions cut power in Auckland [NZ]
NZ Herald, 1st August 2012
"A faulting 11,000 volt cable has caused multiple explosions and a fireball at a rail overbridge on Weymouth Rd in Manurewa this morning. There are now significant traffic delays and disruptions in the Weymouth area. Weymouth Rd has been closed after a motor accident following the explosions."
Technical glitch in CDS halts trading in bourses
Financial Express, 1st August 2012
"Share trading at the both bourses -- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) -- remained suspended Tuesday as Monday's trading could not be settled due to technical glitch in the central depository system (CDS).
Trade settlement through central depository system in the bourses was disrupted Monday due to a technical glitch in the software of the Central Depository Bangladesh Ltd (CDBL), the service provider of the electronic settlement system."
There have been other more major stock markets halted due to strange technical glitches in the last 18 months or so, but as usual, explanations have not been forth coming. I believe this is just another random strike but until there is a proper technical explanation, this is difficult for outsiders to assess. Also: Server glitch halts stock trading
Investors demand probe into CDBL's 'technical glitches'
The Financial Expres, 1st August 2012
Experts and investors stressed on proper and impartial investigation into the 'technical glitches' that occurred in the server of the CDBL (Central Depository Bangladesh Ltd) Monday, to revive all stakeholders' confidence on the electronic share transaction system.
Their comments came following the failure of the CDBL's server that compelled both the bourses to suspend the day's trading for the first time due to technical reasons Tuesday.
Earlier, technical glitches occurred several times in the server, and the authority restored the system before the trading started on the following day. But for the first time, the trading of a whole session was suspended due to technical reasons.
Power Is Restored Across India After Crippling Blackout
New York Times, 1st August 2012
But Ajit Sharan, the power secretary for Haryana, said that the central government is supposed to warn states if they are drawing excessive power from the system, and that did not happen on Tuesday or Monday, when another blackout affected a quarter of the nation's population.
"This hype that states are overdrawing is the reason for the collapse is not right," said Mr. Sharan. It is too early to say what exactly happened, he said. [...]
Power experts in the United States speculated that inattention by those manning crucial circuit breakers on India's electrical grid may have led to the blackout.
Comment: According to the New York Times, this is the biggest ever power grid failure in human history... The blame game has started.... Why are people "watching" circuit breakers? Surely this could be automated?
Pakistan blackout protests turn violent
Press TV News, 31st July 2012
"Prolonged and widespread power outage in most of Pakistan's cities during scorching summer heat has triggered violent protests in most areas of the country."
Power outages in Saudi Arabia 'hard to avoid': head of electricity agency
Al Arabiya News, 31st July 2012
"The authority is preparing an extensive study to find out causes of power outages in different parts of the Kingdom. "Causes of interruption are diverse and vary from one region to another," he added."
Notable power outages around the world
AP, 31st July 2012
India hit by second grid collapse in two days: 620 million without power in larger outage
CNN News, 31st July 2012
India suffered its second huge, crippling power failure in two days Tuesday, depriving as much as half of the vast and populous country, or up to 600 million people, of electricity and disrupting transport networks. The first power grid collapse, on Monday, was the country's worst blackout in a decade. It affected seven states in northern India that are home to more than 350 million people.
But Tuesday's failure was even larger, hitting eastern and northeastern areas as well. Both blackouts cut power in the Indian capital, New Delhi. The power companies that operate the affected electricity grids reported Tuesday's collapse on their websites. With about 1.2 billion people, India has the second-highest population of any country, behind China. [...]
Monday's grid failure struck in the early morning. Residents spent the rest of the night drenched in sweat amid humid weather, and many backup power systems had run out by daybreak. Power was partially restored after about six hours, authorities said.
Comment: Of course the backup generators are not meant to be run for more than 4 - 8 hours and so people relying on them were left bereft... Think of all the recent investment in a country that can't even manage to keep major power grids operational when it's too hot..... but, India is not alone in that respect.... see previous comments and recent articles expressing concern about space weather, and national power grids in general.
Major blackout hits northern Indian cities- 370 million powerless
Yahoo News, 30th July 2012
Northern India's power grid crashed Monday, halting hundreds of trains, forcing hospitals and airports to use backup generators and leaving 370 million people - more than the population of the United States and Canada combined - sweltering in the summer heat.
The blackout, one of the worst to hit India in a decade, highlighted the nation's inability to feed a growing hunger for energy as it strives to become a regional economic power.
The country's northern grid crashed about 2:30 a.m. because it could no longer keep up with the huge demand for power in the hot summer, officials in the state of Uttar Pradesh said.
Comment: 370 million people affected must be some kind of record.... Backup generators are essential in this country but most are only designed for 4 - 8 hours. From online reports, it seems that it took this time and longer to restore power in some regions. India's national power grid is not very robust but due to space weather, national power grids across the globe are all vulnerable in these worsening geomagnetic conditions.
Power cut causes major disruption in northern India
BBC News, 30th July 2012
MSU attracts NASA attention with computer system for space
Space Daily, 30th July 2012
Two Montana State University graduate students who are building a radiation-proof computer system for use in space have received an extra boost from NASA. Justin Hogan and Raymond Weber recently learned that their project with faculty member Brock LaMeres was one of 14 selected by NASA for development and demonstration on commercial launch vehicles in 2013 or 2014. [...]
MSU will receive anywhere from $125,000 to $500,000 to continue designing and building an "environmentally aware" computer system that will work in space even if it's bombarded by radiation or high-energy particles. Work on the project began in 2010 with a three-year, $750,000 grant LaMeres received from NASA EPSCoR.
Radiation and high energy particles can cause even shielded computers to crash or malfunction. "It's a major problem specifically for manned missions where computers aren't allowed to fail," LaMeres said.
Comment: This is good news because cheap radiation hardened computers will be needed for normal computing on Earth fairly soon....
Twitter users help jam Olympic cycling broadcast
LONDON – The IOC says social media users helped cause problems for traditional broadcasters during the first big event of the London Olympics.
Because of a glitch with GPS signals on Saturday during the men's cycling road race, broadcasters were unable to provide television viewers with much information about the location and timings of riders on the 155-mile course.
International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams says the Olympic Broadcasting Services service was jammed by "hundreds of thousands" of people sending texts, pictures and updates to social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Adams says "we should have foreseen that." The problem appeared to be solved for Sunday's women's road race.
Comment: A "glitch" with GPS signals.... I think there are two issues here, but when GPS fails, there is a breakdown due to massive volume all trying to re-calibrate locations or more correctly synchronise network operations at the same time, see previous comments related to recent mobile phone network failures.
"Mobile phone networks are often dependent on satellite navigation services for accurate timing information. This is essential to maintain synchronisation of network operation; for example, as phones move between the cells that form the heart of every provider's network.64 Therefore, network operations are at risk from space weather impacts on satellite navigation signals..." pg 17
2012 Olympics plane forced to land at Cambridge
An aircraft being used for aerial shots of the 2012 Olympic Games had to make a forced landing at Cambridge Airport. The King Air B200, which was being used as an airborne relay station, had to land after suffering a loss of its electrical system.
Operators, ASL of Belgium, said the pilot had to navigate on Saturday night using only charts and a compass. ASL also said the plane's landing gear retracted and the aircraft "fell" on the runway but no-one was hurt.
Comment: This is such a strange event that I think it must be noted. We have to wait for the results of the inquiry by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch but I still think we should expect more and more strange electrical faults as the impact of space weather accelerates. Planes are at risk because they are flying into invisible currents, NASA's 'ion plumes' that can now be seen appearing on weather radar systems (see archives for more information). Furthermore, geophysisists are also producing maps of Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICS) that flow to/from the Earth at major transformers in the UK and similar efforts are being undertaken in Europe. As I have already documented there are other efforts to understand the hazards of space weather being undertaken in the UK and worldwide.
US Air Force claims to be source of mysterious cloud rings seen in skies over Hawaii
The Extinction Protocol, 27th July 2012
HONOLULU - Hawaii News Now's Facebook page was flooded Thursday afternoon with photos of mysterious looking clouds. The 'rings' were spotted above Oahu, Maui and Lanai. They looked like the common contrail or vapor trail that forms behind aircraft; however these 'trails' were circular and do not match the normal Hawaii flight patterns. Some wondered if they were part of the RIMPAC exercises or even a UFO? Here is the official statement from RIMPAC: "RIMPAC's Air Forces had a NATO AWACS aircraft flying south of Oahu, in a circular pattern; at about 29,000 feet today during the time those contrails were visible. The AWACS was controlling RIMPAC assets exercising further away from the island."
Comment: Hmmm... I think this story requires further investigation....
Twitter briefly down across much of planet
Seattlepi.com, 26th July 2012
Millions hit by new banking glitch [UK]
Millions of bank customers at Nationwide and Natwest were left unable to access cash or found they had been overcharged after severe computer problems hit two of Britain's biggest banks.
Telegraph, 26th July 2012
The IT glitches at Nationwide and Natwest come just weeks after a bungled software update left up to 12 million Natwest and RBS customers unable to pay bills or move money. Consumer groups called for savers to be compensated and said that the computer problems are proof of "widespread failure" in the banking system.
Over 700,000 customers at the Nationwide building society were told today that they had been charged twice for making purchases with their debit cards. The card transactions in question were made on Tuesday but were debited again on Wednesday, and meant that some people became overdrawn. The building society said that around 50,000 customers had had subsequent transactions declined as a result.
Meanwhile many of Natwest's 7.5 million customers were unable to use their debit cards or were unable to log on to their online bank accounts due to computer problems.
Comment: Because I worked in IT for about 10 years mostly with a large financial institution, I am really struggling with the recent crop of IT failures... I don't expect 'human error' to be provided as an excuse, as there should be procedures in place to stop human error.... [Update: I have been thinking.... This is similar to the original Natwest failure when the scheduler CA-7 was corrupted and ran for three nights before anybody noticed there was a problem... here it seems that somehow the same files were re-run to cause a duplicate batch update... and it will be interesting to see if this was caused by the same scheduling package, CA-7 which is sold to many different types of large companies that need to process large amounts of batch overnight processing... If so, the fact the duplication was not backed out on the second night because it was simply not spotted is really worrying... Besides sheer incompetence.... this raises the spectre of deliberate sabotage, (poor programming might not be sufficient because someone clever needs to hide the code, as normal testing SHOULD have eliminated the CA-7 software failing bigtime.... ) By the constant cock-ups, I am being persuaded that the standards of IT staff have dropped dramatically since my time in the IT world and I am even having wild thoughts about 'Programmers Revenge'. Maybe there is someone out there with the mentality of I can make your computer systems work or I can break them just as easily.... This could even be private or corporate sabotage....] Whatever, banks and major financial institutions and 'cloud' computing services should be able to cope with computer software and hardware 'upsets', but it seems some are regularly failing... Yes, I am explaining that space weather is now an issue (see previous comments), but I am concerned that there are too many signs that our modern technological world could completely break down due too many factors converging at once. Space weather would only act as a trigger, but I am losing confidence in the ability of people to deal with unusual circumstances.
Banks hit by technology breakdowns again: Thousands of Nationwide customers fuming as building society takes debit card purchases TWICE and more problems emerge at Natwest
Technical disruptions hit 95 CBA [Commonwealth Bank] banches [Au]
Sydney Morning Herald, 25th July 2012
"An internal computer upgrade at the Commonwealth Bank has caused some disruption to services at a small number of branches. A spokesman for the bank said the computer upgrade had limited services at 95 of its more than 1000 branches across Australia. Netbank, phone banking, ATMs and EFTPOS had not been impacted by the computer glitch."
A nice vague press release... but a common theme and excuse of a computer upgrade going wrong...
Yahoo's system glitch leaves 5,698 companies fuming
Daily Bhaskar, 27th July 2012
Osaka: The last week system failure that knocked out a rental server service operated by a Yahoo Japan Corp. subsidiary has left 5,698 companies fuming. The technical glitch led to the disappearance of the data belonging to the companies including information used for their websites.
"Regrettably, we have determined that we cannot retrieve the data," Firstserver Inc. said on its website. The Osaka-based company also said it is unable to rebuild the system, while it plans to compensate for the damages.
The system failure occurred around 5 PM Wednesday when the company tried to upgrade the server system's security, it said. Firstserver has attributed the glitch to problems with its computer programming and operational procedures. The company has also lost the backup data.
Comment: I think this is very suspicious.... no backup data? I would prefer to believe this is a case of fraud than blaming incompetence or even space weather... Backing up data and sending it off-site to facilitate disaster recovery are normal procedures, if this is not being done, then the CEOs of all these companies are fools to be involved with such a Mickey Mouse outfit...
Powercut cripples Grand Cayman
RJR News, 25th July 2012
"A power outage in Grand Cayman, which started at 6:30 this morning and lasted until late afternoon, crippled the entire island Wednesday. [...] Caribbean Utilities Company, the only electricity provider on the island, said the outage was caused by a fault in one of its substations which affected the entire system."
Mysterious force blocks car remotes
azcentral.com, 24th July 2012
YONKERS, N.Y. -- A busy stretch of Yonkers Avenue has become a Bermuda Triangle for parked cars. For at least six months now, business owners here say a mysterious force has been locking people with keyless remotes out of their vehicles or preventing them from starting their engines near Yonkers and Page avenues. But the cars revive after they are pushed or towed away.
An expert hired to investigate the problem said Monday that localized radio interference is to blame for disrupting the signals sent from keyless remotes, but he still was trying to pinpoint the exact source of the signal.
"It's not a common phenomenon," said David Maxson, a radio-frequency communications specialist and owner of Isotrope in Medfield, Mass. "I only get a handful of these quirky types of complaints every year." [...]
Faulty electronics are likely to blame, he said. Keyless remotes are designed to transmit quick, intermittent signal bursts over radio frequencies shared by other low-power devices such as garage-door openers and meter readers. It appears that an malfunctioning device in the area is sending out a more powerful, continuous signal that drowns out others. Life-saving medical electronics such as pacemakers should not be affected, he said.
Comment: The source of the "more powerful, continuous signal that drowns out others" could be natural.... a local vortex or 'portal' where energy is entering or leaving the Earth. Think of our planet as hosting a geometrical grid of invisible tornadoes that act like pores breathing in cosmic energies and breathing out surplus terrestrial 'waste'.... Now, some of the bigger portals are being picked up by radar and are interfering with GPS, (NASA uses the metaphor of 'ion plumes' to confuse those who can't mentally process or think in terms of metaphors, ie they are using 'hermetic jargon'..... ) Whatever, it is interesting these reports are increasing, as this is a sure sign of the build up energies on Earth, with the increasing levels of energetic flux associated with space weather.
Rolling blackouts policy sparks anger across Egypt
Egypt Independent, 22nd July 2012
"Power cuts continued across Egypt despite promises by officials from the electricity and energy ministries that the crisis will gradually ease."
Freak pavement explosions have injured at least seven people in London [UK]
London Evening Standard, 20th July 2012
A series of pavement explosions has injured at least seven pedestrians in London in recent months, the Standard can reveal today.
One pensioner is now suing a power supply company after he was left seriously injured by an explosion under a manhole in a London street.
Details of his case have emerged just weeks after a woman pedestrian suffered 20 per cent burns in a similar freak explosion in Edgware Road.
Colin Wingate, 75, was left in a wheelchair for nearly three months after the blast blew out a manhole cover he was standing on while chatting to friends.
He contacted the Standard after reading in the paper of the ordeal of the pedestrians in Edgware Road. In May a 55-year-old woman and two other women pedestrians were injured when the pavement they were walking on blew up in an explosion apparently caused by an electrical fault.
The incident is now being investigated by the Health and Safety Executive which revealed to the Standard they know of at least three more pavement explosions which injured pedestrians in London in the past 19 months. [...] A HSE spokesperson commented: "The Health and Safety Executive is aware of a number of other incidents in the London area in recent years involving exploding utility equipment, including pit covers and electrical boxes. The majority of these incidents did not result in injury, and were attributed to electrical faults and/or gas leaks. They were investigated with UK Power Networks.
Comment: There was a spate of underground transformer vaults blowing up and manhole covers sent flying into the air, even dramatic fires and smoke pouring out of manholes in May 2011, but it seems they are still occuring in the United States (see links below). Therefore, it is interesting that there are now reports in the United Kingdom [UK] that covers about the same length of time, but a few people have been getting seriously injured... Most likely, this is occuring elsewhere in the world too... Whatever, it is most likely that electrical explosions and fires will continue as geomagnetically induced currents (GCICS) become more of an issue, see archives for previous comments and click the image icon for more information on transformer faults.
IPL: Fault sends smoke from downtown Indy manhole
Indy Star News, 15th July 2012
An underground cable in a Downtown manhole shorted out today, causing power outages to about 400 Indianapolis Power & Light customers.
At abut 3 p.m. today, Indianapolis Fire Department was called to 50 E. 16th St., where firefighters found smoke coming from a manhole. Brad Riley, spokesman for IPL, said the incident "was not a manhole explosion."
FD has investigated at least two other manhole incidents this month. Pressure from an underground cable caused a manhole lid to slide in the 300 block of Massachusetts Avenue Downtown on July 5; and a cable fault in an electrical vault caused flames to shoot up from a sidewalk grate in the first block of South Capitol Avenue on July 4.
Underground blaze knocks out power in downtown Newburyport?
The Eagle-Tribune, 23rd July 2012
"NEWBURYPORT – An Inn Street manhole cover shot 6 feet into the air yesterday around 10 a.m. yards away from a playground filled with families after an underground electrical wire from a nearby transformer caught on fire."
Satnav glitches annoy Olympic drivers
IOL Motoring, 23rd July 2012
Drivers transporting athletes and high-ranking officials in the run-up to the Games keep getting lost because of a satnav glitch.
About 4000 BMWs have been fitted with the so-called Dynamic Olympic Route System which ensures they follow the network of VIP-only routes. But drivers say the system has crashed repeatedly. [...]
One driver, who claimed the DORS system crashed on the first three days of training, said another problem was that it was reliant on receiving a strong wi-fi signal.
Comment: Of course, there are many who believe that modern wireless technology is perfect and nothing can go wrong, but this belief is held by people who are oblivious to the cosmic changes taking place on this planet.... The reliance on GPS and wi-fi in worsening geomagnetic conditions, will cause so many problems that eventually it will force many more people to wake up to the reality of space weather.
Radiation damage bigger problem in microelectronics than previously thought
Science Codex, 20th July 2012
The amount of structural damage that radiation causes in electronic materials at the atomic level may be at least ten times greater than previously thought.
That is the surprising result of a new characterization method that uses a combination of lasers and acoustic waves to provide scientists with a capability tantamount to X-ray vision: It allows them to peer through solid materials to pinpoint the size and location of detects buried deep inside with unprecedented precision.
Comment: This article explains why our cheap modern microelectronics cannot deal with too much radiation from space. Thus, with the onset of space weather, major problems like the Toyota car electronics failures and failures in airplane electronics (because we are being told categorically by world authorities that space radiation is now more of a major issue for frequent fliers and we can deduct that applies to plane electronics too as we have recent verified examples), hence the growing concern.
United Airlines $33 Flights To Hong Kong Result Of Computer Glitch
NEW YORK -- It was an airfare deal too good to be true: fly first class to Hong Kong for just 4 frequent flier miles and $33 in taxes.
Clearly, it was a computer glitch. But it's also turning out to be the first major test of the Department of Transportation's new consumer protection rules prohibiting airlines from "increasing the price after the consumer completes the purchase."
On Sunday, computers at United Airlines erroneously let passengers book flights to Hong Kong – or other places in Asia connecting in Hong Kong – in exchange for 4 miles, plus government taxes. Frequent fliers quickly shared the error on blogs and online chat rooms. Some, such as Ben Schlappig who runs the site One Mile at a Time, advised people not to call the airline, saying, "there's no need to bring further attention to this pricing."
A business class seat for a flight on United to Hong Kong goes for about $8,500 or 120,000 frequent flier miles; first class costs $10,250 or 140,000 miles.
Before long, hundreds, if not thousands, of fliers – the airline won't say how many – booked trips. United eventually pulled the plug and announced it wasn't honoring tickets already sold. People could get a refund without paying a penalty or have the proper amount of miles deducted. Anyone who had already started their trip would be allowed to complete their travel.
Comment: Wow.... that is some glitch.... but seriously, I would be very surprised if this was 'human' error.... Yet, it seems that United Airlines had no procedures in place to check for ridiculous and erroneous computer software/hardware induced errors. Personally, I don't think that companies need to honour computer glitches but I think there needs to be a mandatory way of proving that there has been a 'bit flip' (due to a cosmic ray) because it seems that this is going to become much more of an issue as the geomagnetic conditions on this planet worsen and computer programs and systems are not robust enough to deal with the consequences.
[...] Looking to the future, emerging train control technologies, such as the European Train Control System,61 rely on communications links based on mobile phone technology and are therefore potentially vulnerable to interference from solar radio bursts. These links enable trains to report their speed and position to control centres and for those centres to transmit movement authorities to trains. Interference from radio bursts could break those control links and bring railway movement to a halt. This would severely disrupt railway schedules. Currently, these new control technologies are largely deployed as trials on selected lines, and most train routes still use physical signalling systems. We would therefore expect limited impact in the coming solar maximum of 2012 to 2015, but these control systems are likely to be more widespread by the following solar maximum (around 2024), so the risk could be higher. Developers and potential users of this technology will need to monitor space weather problems on the existing trial systems and look for solutions to reduce the long-term impact. pg 16
[...] Mobile phone networks are often dependent on satellite navigation services for accurate timing information. This is essential to maintain synchronisation of network operation; for example, as phones move between the cells that form the heart of every provider's network.64 Therefore, network operations are at risk from space weather impacts on satellite navigation signals... pg 17
Why are mobile networks dropping like flies?
GigaOM, 13th July 2012
[...] Why are networks suddenly conking out all over the world? It looks like global networks are developing a signaling problem – more specifically a signaling overload problem.
Details are starting to emerge about just what caused the Orange and O2 outages. Computerworld UK and Information Age separately reported that the network element at fault in both cases was the home location register, or HLR. It's not exactly the most commonly known piece of gear, but in brief the HLR acts as an anchor point to which we remain tethered as we move about the network. It stores our subscriber identities and knows what services we can access, but most importantly, it tracks each device's present location so the network knows where to direct inbound and outbound traffic.
The HLR plays its dispatch role by receiving a constant stream of signals from devices updating the database on their current locations and activities. According to Computerworld, a data glitch in an Orange HLR node generated error messages, which then multiplied as they got knocked back and forth around the network. Just because the HLR was failing, that didn't stop devices from sending out their updates. Like a million kids screaming "look at me!" from the backseat while you're trying to deal with the coffee you just spilled in your lap, smartphones kept pinging the suffering HLR creating a huge bottleneck. The end result: the whole system fails, leaving millions of handsets without their lifelines to the network core.
Comment: There a few other articles asking the exact same question of why networks are suddenly failing all over the world. My suggestion is that maybe pundits should look for a global problem.... According to a CNet report, "multiple layers of redundancy" failed due to an "exceptional situation", see, O2 apologises for screwup, admits 'multiple backups' failed. The question is: was this a unique failure or not? The explanation provided here for the O2 data glitch is too vague and 'Telco Engineer' in the comments section suggests this explanation cannot be true.... According to a 2007 NATO space weather report: "Telecommunication mobile networks working with high capacity are overloaded by extraordinary additional requests of users under space weather storm conditions." Since Space Weather causes "Interference of mobile phone radio waves with solar radio waves" and in case of solar radio bursts leads to much higher failure rates, then we have a global problem that degrades mobile phone usage and can possibly cause a whole network to fail..... We will have to see how long it takes before we can establish the true facts, but if this is space weather related, then we can expect these major network failures to continue.
Minor geomagnetic storm in progress (Kp5) as CME impacts Earth
The Watchers, 15th July 2012
O2 network 'fully restored' after 24-hour blackout
Mobile network apologises, telling its users to turn phone on and off again if they are still having problems
O2 has said its mobile network is now fully restored after a 24-hour blackout left hundreds of thousands of its customers unable to receive calls or text messages.
The company apologised for the outage, which affected customers across the UK, and said its 2G and 3G networks for mobile data were back online.
O2 said in a statement: "Following previous updates, our tests now show that all our 2G and 3G services have been fully restored for affected customers. [...] Last week, France Telecom's Orange network offered to compensate its 26 millions users who were hit by a massive nine-hour blackout in the country.
Comment: I was sent a link to the BBC version of this story by one of my regulars with the message: "Unusual for whole network to go down for such a lengthy period, thought it might interest you Susan", (thanks Alan R), but I could not read the story there as the BBC website was down with a server error... Of course, another coincidence...
O2 apologises over 'embarrassing' network problems
Mobile operator likely to have to pay compensation to the almost 8 million customers affected by the 24-hour outage
Guardian News, 12th July 2012
"O2 has been forced to apologise to almost 8 million customers after an "embarassing" network failure led to a 24-hour blackout across the UK and Ireland.
Its chief executive,Ronan Dunne, admitted the massive outage was humiliating for the company.
The UK's second largest mobile network is now facing an investigation by telecoms regulator Ofcom into what caused the downtime and is likely to have to pay compensation to customers affected by the blackout."
Electrical fire in Calgary's Shaw building knocks out radio stations, 911 service
Vancouver Sun, 11th July 2012
. CALGARY -- An electrical fire at Shaw Communications' downtown headquarters has wiped out radio stations, internet service, 911 service in the core, cable TV service and much of city hall's phone system.
Fire crews were called early Wednesday afternoon for a two-alarm incident at Shaw Court at 630 3rd Ave. S.W. Calgary Fire spokesman Jayson Doyscher said the incident appears to be in an electrical room on the 13th floor. The building's employees were evacuated, but EMS said they were not treating any patients.
Comment: I received an email from Deborah S. in Canada with links and the message: "Living on the west coast of Canada I have noticed what seems to be an increase in unexplained power outages since the blast of multiple solar flares this July." I will admit, this is a lot of disruption all at once... There was an X1.1 flare on Friday 6th, but this was after 12 'M' flares in just six days... According to spaceweather.com, sunspot AR1520 unleashed an X1.4-class solar flare today (July 12th) at 1653 UT, so there is likely to be more strange electrical fires and interference to communications etc. However, the planet gets flash fried with particles in several different ways and due to substorms, some events can occur many hours after a major event as energy reverberates around the planet... Well, we can expect many more electrical fires and explosions in the future as Earth's shielding (magnetosphere) weakens and geomagnetic storms induce large electric currents (GICS) in the ground and also in the air. (See archives for the July 2011 incident in The Netherlands where 3 tv/radio station towers had electrical fires on the same day).
Thousands lose electric power in U.S. northeast as substation goes down in fire
Calgary activates municipal emergency plan in wake of explosion and fire (VIDEO)
"An explosion in an electrical room at Shaw Communications' downtown headquarters has put radio stations off the air, cut Internet service, hit hospital computers and many city and provincial government computer networks.City officials have activated the municipal emergency plan as they try to understand the magnitude of the service outages and the ramifications."
Stampede power outages not linked to rolling blackouts: Enmax
Calgary Herald News, 10th July 2012
"CALGARY – An Enmax executive says that the power issues that plagued some Stampede midway rides Monday night, including an outage that stranded close to 200 midway riders on the WestJet Skyride, had nothing to do with rolling blackouts elsewhere in the city. [...] Power supply to Calgary and parts of the province plummeted by 15 per cent yesterday after four power plants broke down unexpectedly in a matter of hours."
Computer glitch deletes German crime cases
A computer glitch at Germany's federal police headquarters deleted evidence on organised crime and terrorism cases in another embarrassing blow to the country's intelligence services. Telegraph, 9th July 2012
Comment: If you google "glitch" at Google News, there are always recent examples... That is because increasingly high levels of cosmic rays are affecting computers, but the chaos is only really just starting as Earth's magnetic shielding continues to weaken. Currently, few seem to realise that Earth is becoming an increasingly cosmic environment, hence we will continue to see computer and electronics failures until society takes space weather much more seriously. However, a computer "glitch" can be used as a convenient excuse for incompetence and foul play....
Computer glitch 'wrongly jailing young people'
ABC Sydney, 8th July 2012
"Young people who claim they have been falsely imprisoned due to a computing glitch are today launching a class action against the New South Wales Government."
Man on dole 'took £42,000 from Ulster Bank cash machine'
belfast telegraph, 7th July 2012
A man was able to remove more than £40,000 from an Ulster Bank ATM in one day in the early stages of the computer meltdown, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal. [...]
"We are aware of some customers, who for a short period, had access and chose to withdraw funds in excess of their account balance through some ATMs," the spokesman said. "We can confirm that all transactions carried out at affected ATMs were posted to customer accounts."
It is up to the bank whether they decide to pursue criminal charges against the man for theft. A PSNI spokeswoman said that officers had been called to an incident at an ATM machine on the Shankill Road around 8pm on June 22. She added: "Police liaised with the bank and the bank ATM was put out of service." [...]
As news of the Ulster Bank debacle spread, the Belfast Telegraph received early reports of cash machines malfunctioning. One Ulster Bank account holder contacted us on June 24 to say that ATMs in Armagh were issuing extra money to those using Ulster Bank cards. He added that some people were taking out thousands of pounds because accounts weren't being updated, which meant it was possible to make withdrawals over and over again if your balance was in credit.
Comment: What a joke... due to space weather (more cosmic rays affecting computers and electronics), these ATM robbery stories are set to continue....
Northampton [UK] Town centre street closed after 20 foot [deep] hole appears in the road
Northampton Chronicle and Echo, 9th July 2012
The article claims that a fire engine caused a bore hole that was 20ft deep... Either there is some new physics operating on Earth, or this claim is truly ridiculous.... I am now wondering whether we will see one of these deep holes that will be big enough for a car or lorry to fall into, appearing on a motorway in rush hour....
Banking IT 'Glitch' Reaches Germany: Deutsche Postal Bank Halts ATM Transactions
Silver Doctors, 7th July 2012
The IT 'glitch' that has entirely shut down RBS' NatWest Bank and halted ATM transactions at Russia's largest bank Sberbank, has now spread to Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Postbank.
Deutsche Postbank Friday reported its own IT glitch that has completely paralyzed its ATM's nationwide. While this entire string of 21st Century Bank Holidays has received zero MSM coverage, it is appearing more and more likely that the derivatives domino chain known as insolvency has been triggered.
Comment: Hmmmm.... In the comments, 'Tears of the Moon' disagrees that this is a liquidity issue and he provides a nice little tutorial on ATMs and ATM communication with their hosts, based on his 20 years of experience. We are also told there are regular ATM outages in France and I suspect this is a design issue associated with space weather and most likely cosmic rays flipping bits and bytes. I was unaware of problems with ATMs in Russia but in the comments, there are claims that there have also been problems in Spain alongside the well known problems in Scotland and the UK. Quite frankly, I would hazard a guess that this is an ongoing worldwide problem, cosmic rays have no boundaries....
Apple blames app glitch on rogue server
Today Online, 8th July 2012
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple has blamed a rogue App Store server for a glitch that meant popular iPhone and iPad apps including Instapaper were corrupted and rendered unusable.
The firm said that the server wrongly included a Digital Rights Management (DRM) code when the apps were downloaded, which meant they could not be opened. Apple normally uses DRM to ensure that apps work only for users who have paid for them or are authorised to use them, reported the Daily Telegraph.
Hmmm... Things are getting worse.... Maybe, I mean the excuses are getting worse.... Seriously, some techie forgot to set up the right security on a server? More Tech info: The "APP"LE Drama Continues
Comment: If you google "glitch" at Google News, there are always recent examples... That is because increasingly high levels of cosmic rays are affecting computers, but the chaos is only really just starting as Earth's magnetic shielding continues to weaken. Currently, few seem to realise that Earth is becoming an increasingly cosmic environment, hence we will continue to see computer and electronics failures until society takes space wather much more seriously. However, a computer "glitch" can be used as a convenient excuse for incompetence and foul play....
Air France crash 'due to pilot and technical failings'
Technical failure and human error led to the loss of an Air France flight over the Atlantic in June 2009 and the deaths of 228 people, according to the final report into the crash. The report by France's aviation authority, the BEA, blames the Airbus A330's ergonomics as well as inappropriate action by the pilots.
The jet disappeared in a storm while en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro. It took nearly two years for the flight recorders to be found. The BEA said that the disaster began with the malfunctioning of speed sensors known as Pitots during a period of turbulence.
Comment: The question not answered here is what 'knocked out' the speed sensors.... I would suggest the answer is electromagnetic intereference. It is a fact that NASA have got involved with the whole issue of air turbulence and therefore we can only presume that this is directly related to space weather. NASA have made it clear that planet Earth is now experiencing the new phenomenon of massive plumes of ions during space weather events. In plain language, airplanes are literally flying into massive electric discharges or currents that can fry electronics, therefore pilots need assistance because this can have serious consequences for safety. Please see links below for more details.
Strange Space Weather over Africa
NASA News, 13th November 2007
NASA To Help Aircraft Avoid Ocean Storms, Turbulence
Red Orbit News, 7th July 2009
Ulster Bank executives brief Stormont on computer failure
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18717547 Ulster Bank's ongoing problems are expected to be fixed by 16 July, executives have told the NI Assembly. Thousands of customers in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic are being affected by a computer failure at the bank's parent company RBS.
Senior members of the bank have been at Stormont to explain the crisis to a committee of assembly members. Jim Brown, Ulster Bank Group CEO, said next week would be the final week of any significant delays for customers.
Comment: This is apalling.... 4 weeks to fix up their databases affecting millions of bank accounts and nobody has resigned....
Ulster Bank CEO Jim Brown apologises to customers over technical crisis
RTE News, 5th July 2012
Ulster Bank counts the cost of catastrophic IT meltdown
Irish Times, 6th July 2012
Here we are presented with another version of this catastrophic IT meltdown...
NatWest customers were double-charged for personal loan repayments during IT fiasco
Daily Mail, 4th July 2012
Royal Bank of Scotland has botched customer payments for the second time in a fortnight.
Days after leaving 7.5million customers penniless or struggling to use their accounts, the state-owned bank has accidentally taken loan payments from tens of thousands of borrowers twice.
It was forced into a humiliating apology yesterday after the fresh computer error unexpectedly swiped up to £800 from NatWest and RBS customers.
Last month a fault in the bank's computers meant customers did not receive their wages or missed vital mortgage or loan payments after direct debits were not paid.
RBS said it was still investigating how many were hit by the latest problem which affected customers with personal loans. RBS has an estimated two million such customers, but said it was 'aware that a small number of personal loan payments from customers have been debited twice'.
Comment: This is incredible.... see previous comments
RBS gives more detail on IT failure train wreck
Z D Net, 2nd July 2012
Comment: The explanation from RBS / NatWest IT failure is so deliberately vague, that the author of this article suggests, "(It's important to note that a software bug or hardware failure could have caused the problem, although this is less likely than human error.)" Well, I simply cannot believe the cover story about a live update going disasterously wrong for reasons I have already explained. The standard process of testing and change management procedures, through various computer environments DEV (short for development) and then PSEUDO and LIVE is all designed to prevent major foul-ups.... One-off updates to live systems are NEVER done directly.... only through a migration of software from at least one testing environment... Whatever, we must note that however the memory was wiped, the same could happen to any computer installation processing commercial, government and military data on this planet..... The difference is how quickly IT staff respond and deal with the problem.... the RBS / NatWest IT failure has already reached legendary status in the IT Hall of Shame... beyond terrible... Update I have changed my mind because I don't have enough information about how and when CA7 batch scheduler software and the database were corrupted, a memory wipe could have happened before or during data processing..... BUT, I cannot understand why this was not a straight forward disaster recovery and reprocessing started at a point when the database and software were uncorrupted....
RBS: outsourcing not to blame for bank IT glitch
PC Pro News, 26th June 2012
"The incident has left many wondering how such a serious fault could last so long at a bank, and what the actual cause was - with reports suggesting a flawed upgrade in Computer Associates' software was the root of the problem."
Yes, there was an obvious knee-jerk reaction to blame Computer Associates and/or a poor " junior IT technician" & "'Inexperienced operative' in India..." Well, I would be amazed if Computer Associates could be blamed because the facts remain that nobody noticed there was a problem and it took three nights of batch before it was discovered.... that is incredible...
If One Storm Can Turn D.C. Dark For Several Days, What Would A Massive EMP Burst Do
The Economic Collapse, 3rd July 2012
[...] "How in the world would any of us survive in a world without electricity? In past centuries our forefathers knew how to survive in such a world, but most of us do not have the same skills or resources that they had."
The simple answer is that most people relying on the comforts of our modern technological society will die very quickly [if the power grid is mostly destroyed] but those with hard lives in poor parts of the world will most likely survive as they are not reliant on a stupid system of a centralised power grid for electricity that is now vulnerable to space weather and/or sabotage.
Fixing Power Outages: It's Complicated
Zen Haven, 4th July 2012
Amazon Blames Power, Generator Failure for Outage
PC Mag News, 3rd July 2012
Amazon this week blamed a power outage and a resulting generator failure for a Web services blackout that took down Internet firms like Instagram and Netflix on Friday night. [...] Electrical storms that blasted the East Coast on Friday night pulled the plug on some of Amazon's servers in Northern Virginia, leading to issues with what Amazon refers to as its Elastic Compute Cloud, Relational Database Service (RDS), and Elastic Beanstalk. Amazon said this week that a generator failure at one of its multiple data centers resulted in the outage.
Comment: From what I have seen and read, Amazon Cloud has had more problems in Europe, but at least this company is not frightened to explain the difficulties that they are having as their computer services are continously disrupted by the increasingly chaotic geomagnetic and electromagnetic conditions on Earth. What is interesting is that the 'Derecho' or hurricane formed over land on the East Coast is explained as an electrical storm. The electrical nature of our weather and particular phenomena like tornadoes, dust devils and hurricanes is being acknowledged by atmospheric scientists and climatologists but this is following the same trend in astronomy, astrophyiscs and cosmology as the realisation grows that we cannot ignore electromagnetic forces in the universe that are 39 orders of magnitude stronger than gravity.
NASA satellites show extent of power outages after the "derecho"
Scientific America, 12th July 2012
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Trip Planner : Europe / Switzerland
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Immerse yourself in a snow-capped mountain wonderland in Switzerland's serene Alpine setting. See the world-renowned Matterhorn, Switzerland's second-highest mountain at 4,478 m (14,962 ft) tall, or zoom down the mountains on toboggan, ski, or snowboard. In the warmer seasons hike around the rolling green hillsides covered with pine trees and picturesque aqua blue lakes. Luxurious cities dotted with cozy wooden chalets and colorful flowerbeds balance quaintness with first-class cultural offerings. Indulge in the country's opulence of milk chocolate, cheese fondue, and keg-carrying St. Bernard dogs. Switzerland is in Europe. Add Switzerland and other destinations in Switzerland to your travel plans using our Switzerland trip planner.
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Places to visit in Switzerland
Lucerne BEST FOR: Mountain, Bridge, Water Body
Zurich BEST FOR: Water Body, Zoo, Mountain
Zermatt BEST FOR: Scenic Drive, Mountain, Ski Area
Interlaken BEST FOR: Parasailing / Paragliding, Mountain, Stand-Up Paddleboarding
Bern BEST FOR: Observation Deck, Garden, Wildlife Area
Geneva BEST FOR: Water Body, Fountain, Landmark
Grindelwald BEST FOR: Ski Area, Mountain, Hiking Trail
Lauterbrunnen BEST FOR: Waterfall, Valley, Parasailing / Paragliding
Lenk im Simmental BEST FOR: Ski Area, Waterfall, Thermal Spa
Appenzell BEST FOR: Specialty Museum, Brewery, Religious Site
Brienz BEST FOR: Water Body, Waterfall, Wildlife Area
Basel BEST FOR: Landmark, Art Museum, Zoo
Lausanne BEST FOR: Specialty Museum, Religious Site, Marina
Murren BEST FOR: Hiking Trail, Mountain, Lookout
Engelberg BEST FOR: Mountain, Bridge, Parasailing / Paragliding
Wengen BEST FOR: Mountain, Gift & Specialty Shop, Bar / Club
Lugano BEST FOR: Water Body, Mountain, Park
Meiringen BEST FOR: Canyon, Waterfall, Specialty Museum
Winterthur BEST FOR: Science Museum, Room Escape Game, Specialty Museum
Montreux BEST FOR: Monument, Mountain, Scenic Walking Area
Urnaesch BEST FOR: Mountain, Specialty Museum, Hiking Trail
Thun BEST FOR: Water Body, Castle, Landmark
Neuhausen am Rheinfall BEST FOR: Waterfall, Castle, Specialty Museum
Regions of Switzerland
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Switzerland Holiday Planning Guide
Immerse yourself in the snow-capped mountain wonderland of Switzerland's serene alpine setting. See the world-renowned Matterhorn, Switzerland's second-highest mountain at 4,478 m (14,962 ft) tall, or zoom down the mountains on toboggan, ski, or snowboard. In the warmer seasons, hike the rolling green hillsides covered with pine forests and picturesque aqua-blue lakes. Luxurious cities lined with cozy wooden chalets and colorful flowerbeds balance quaintness with first-class cultural offerings. Indulge in the country's opulence of milk chocolate, cheese fondue, and keg-carrying St. Bernard dogs.
Swiss Alps: World-renowned for its spectacular high mountains, the Swiss Alps region is a ski- and hiking-lovers’ paradise.
Canton of Bern: Home to gorgeous mountains, plateaus, waterfalls, and lakes, Canton of Bern boasts plenty of outdoors activities as well as its capital city, Bern.
Canton of Zurich: Located at the base of the snowy Swiss Alps, Canton of Zurich draws visitors to its bustling eponymous city overlooking beautiful Lake Zurich.
Canton of Vaud: Go on an igloo adventure or explore the mountain villages by hot air balloon in Vaud, a region of glaciers and valleys.
Canton of Lucerne: The Canton of Lucerne is known primarily for the lakeside city of Lucerne, home to one of the oldest covered bridges in Europe and a 17th-century Jesuit church.
Canton of Schaffhausen: Switzerland’s northernmost region, Canton of Schaffhausen boasts rolling hills, vineyards, and the largest waterfall in Europe.
Canton of St. Gallen: Bordering Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein, Canton of St. Gallen serves as a hub for culture and education in Europe.
Canton of Fribourg: Home to the Three-Lakes Region and the snowy Pre-Alps, the Canton of Fribourg offers a mixed bag of Swiss delights.
Canton of Basel: Often labeled the “Cultural Capital of Switzerland,” Canton of Basel attracts visitors with its milder climate and abundance of cultural offerings.
Canton of Graubunden: Switzerland’s largest canton, Graubunden showcases everything desired from a Switzerland vacation: medieval castles, World Heritage Sites, and natural beauty.
Canton of Ticino: The country’s most “Mediterranean” canton, the Italian-dominated Ticino provides a place where travelers can catch a taste of “La Dolce Vita” at espresso bars, relax at beaches, or stroll along palm tree-lined promenades.
Canton of Valais: Alpine sports dominate the mountain region of Valais, home to quaint villages and luxury resort towns.
Cities in Switzerland
Zurich: Trendy neighborhoods, natural beauty, and medieval architecture distinguish Zurich as one of Switzerland’s most prosperous cities.
Lucerne: Lucerne’s well-preserved Old Town, charming mural-laden squares, and architectural monuments put it at the top of many Switzerland itineraries.
Zermatt: A chic ski resort town famous for being the home to the Matterhorn Mountain, Zermatt offers the best of both winter and summer sports.
Interlaken: Drawing mostly backpackers to its extreme sport attractions, Interlaken offers the best of the Swiss outdoors in one convenient location.
Bern: Packed with cafes and luxury shopping arcades, Switzerland’s capital city is listed as a World Heritage Site for its sandstone architecture and world-class museums.
Geneva: A veritable city of the world, Geneva boasts more international organizations than any other city in the world, but it is also renowned for its delectable chocolates and luxurious jewelry.
Basel: Located at the meeting point of the Swiss, German, and French borders, Basel’s international stature is complemented by its hybrid Old Town and quality cultural scene.
Lausanne: Situated alongside Lake Geneva, Lausanne is composed of distinct neighborhoods of outdoor markets, thriving art, and historical buildings.
Lugano: The “Little Italy” of Switzerland, Lugano is best enjoyed through outdoor activities along the serene Lake Lugano.
Things to Do in Switzerland
Popular Switzerland Tourist Attractions
Lake Geneva: One of Europe’s most popular vacation destinations, the large Lake Geneva is best enjoyed by paddle steamer cruise going from one lakeside city to the next.
Mt Pilatus: A steep cogwheel railway, an aerial cableway, and a panoramic gondola serve to transport visitors to the top of Mt Pilatus for a magnificent view of Lucerne and the surrounding area.
Lake Lucerne: Many travelers on a Switzerland trip stop by the picturesque Lake Lucerne to see the mountain meadow on the lake’s southeastern shore--long considered the birthplace of the Swiss nation.
Old Town (Altstadt): Start your tour of Zurich at the iconic Old Town (Altstadt) to see the city’s iconic bridge connecting two cathedrals as well as its well-preserved 19th-century architecture.
The Geneva Water Fountain: One of Geneva’s most iconic symbols, this powerful fountain shoots water to a height of over 140 m (450 ft).
Gornergrat Bahn: Experience a unique tour of Switzerland high above the Alps on the historic Gornergrat Bahn, the country’s first electric rack railway.
Chateau de Chillon: This fairy-tale castle was the setting for one of poet Lord Byron’s works, and it’s one of the most popular Switzerland tourist attractions.
Chapel Bridge (Kapellbrucke): Lucerne’s covered Chapel Bridge was built in the 14th century; it depicts various painted scenes from the city’s rich history.
Bahnhofstrasse: Luxury clothes, jewelry, and chocolate shops line Zurich’s Bahnofstrasse, an upscale avenue stretching from the city’s central train station to the lakeshore.
Dying Lion of Lucerne Monument: A centuries-old carving dedicated to Swiss soldiers lost during the French Revolution, the Dying Lion of Lucerne Monument combines somber tribute with natural beauty.
Planning a Switzerland Vacation with Kids
Places to Visit in Switzerland with Kids
Between its cosmopolitan cities and natural attractions, there are enough places to visit in Switzerland to keep both kids and adults entertained for weeks. The Swiss Alps serve as a logical starting point for those wishing to jump straight into their Swiss adventure. Aside from the dozens of mountains and ski resorts, the Alps also accommodate indoor activities. Get wet on the Caribbean-themed Aquaparc’s 1 km (0.6 mi) slide, or check out miniature versions of the country’s landmarks at Swissminiatur. Young children can enjoy the rides at Happyland, while older kids can take on the obstacle courses and ziplines at Forest Fun Park Zermatt.
In the cities, zoos and museums are among the top activities for kids visiting Switzerland. Don’t miss the impressive Zoo Zürich when visiting the country’s largest city or the bears at Barenpark that gave Bern its name.
Things to Do in Switzerland with Kids
Switzerland has drawn people from around the world to experience its snow-capped mountains for centuries. Even if your family has little experience skiing, a winter Switzerland itinerary is incomplete without trying your luck on one of the country’s many slopes. The Swiss Alps are certainly worthy of their reputation, but also consider the less touristy regions of Canton of Valais and Canton of Vaud. Both areas offer an assortment of excellent resort towns such as Saas-Fee and Villars-sur-Ollon.
In the summer months, hiking provides one of the best ways to enjoy the Swiss countryside. Virtually every region is equipped with hiking paths, but some of the best can be found in the Canton of Schaffhausen and the Canton of Bern.
Tips for a Family Vacation in Switzerland
If traveling extensively in Switzerland, invest in a Half-Fare Card (“Demi-Tarif” or “Halbtax”) to save 50 percent on travel tickets. Kids between the ages of 6 and 16 can also enjoy half off all travel or travel free when accompanied by a parent in possession of a Junior Card. Swiss Family Cards offer similar advantages--inquire at any train station to find the option that is most economical for you.
Dining and Shopping on Holiday in Switzerland
Cuisine of Switzerland
While Swiss cuisine holds a lot in common with French, German, and Italian cooking, many authentically Swiss dishes do exist. Potatoes, meats, and cheeses are easy to find for most meals, with Swiss cheeses such as Emmental and Gruyere among the most well-known and popular. If you’re enjoying a Switzerland holiday during the winter, be sure to warm up with a cheesy fondue, named a national dish by the Swiss Cheese Union. Snack on the popular cervelet or “cervelas” sausage, and chase it down with a glass of Rivella, a carbonated milk drink. For more upscale dining, look into making a reservation at one of Zurich’s or Geneva’s Michelin-starred restaurants--indeed, Switzerland has one of the highest per-capita Michelin star-rated spots in the world.
Shopping in Switzerland
Despite a common misunderstanding, Switzerland is not a member of the European Union, and thus does not use the euro. Instead, the Swiss currency is the Swiss Franc (CHF), and prices tend to run higher than its neighboring countries. However, it’s often impossible to avoid shopping on a trip to Switzerland due to its proliferation of high-quality products. Watches are among Switzerland’s most well known exports, but can be extremely costly. Swiss chocolates are a more reasonable (and tastier) shopping option, and rival Belgium as some of the best in the world. Check out Confiserie Sprungli and Confiserie Teuscher in Zurich to find some of the very best.
Know Before You Go on a Trip to Switzerland
Switzerland has a history distinct from that of its neighbors, due to its longtime commitment to neutrality. The Swiss Confederation was established in 1291 as an alliance between several autonomous cantons. By 1499, the Swiss Confederation obtained independence from the Holy Roman Empire. Despite an attempt by Napoleonic forces to conquer Switzerland in the late 18th century, by 1815 the Congress of Vienna formally established Switzerland as an independent, neutral state. The Dying Lion of Lucerne Monument was hewn in 1821 to commemorate the Swiss Guards killed during the French Revolution--one of the country’s last military exploits.
Switzerland remained neutral during both World Wars in the 20th century and was not invaded during that time. As such, Swiss buildings evaded the damage suffered by its neighbors, with national monuments such as the Chapel Bridge (Kapellbrucke) and Zurich’s Old Town (Altstadt) remaining in pristine condition to this day. In the latter half of the 20th century, Switzerland was involved in various peacekeeping and international development missions, establishing various United Nations headquarters in Geneva despite not joining the organization until 2002. While Switzerland is still not a member of the European Union, it remains active in various European organizations and the country implemented the Schengen Agreement in 2008.
Customs of Switzerland
Swiss culture is a mixed bag of German, French, and Italian influences in a decidedly Swiss mentality. While Switzerland is a very safe country in which to travel, familiarizing yourself with certain laws and customs will ensure that your Switzerland holiday will be hassle-free. Understand that different languages predominate in different regions: German in the north and east, Italian in the south, and French in the west. Spend a moment researching the local language, and make an effort to learn a few simple words in phrases in that language.
The Swiss are punctual and well-mannered. Be sure to arrive on time, and don’t ever litter--though not illegal, locals will resent you for it. One thing that is illegal is photographing somebody without his or her explicit consent. While it is possible to sight celebrities in one of Switzerland’s attractive cities or resorts, refrain from taking their photograph (or anyone else’s, for that matter,) without asking their permission first.
Holidays & Festivals in Switzerland
Each of Switzerland’s cantons celebrates local holidays independently with the exception of the National Holiday, celebrated on August 1 nationwide. Some notable regional holidays include the Lenten carnival “Morgenstraich” in Basel, and the “Sechseläuten” in Zurich. The latter is observed on the third Monday of April to celebrate the end of winter by burning a snowman mannequin. If your Switzerland itinerary takes you to Bern in late November, try to catch the Zibelimärit, a traditional bad-breath market fair where onion pie, onion sausage, and onion soup is consumed.
Switzerland Travel Tips
Climate of Switzerland
Switzerland boasts a temperate climate, which varies according to altitude. Extreme heat or cold is rare, with summers ranging from 18 to 28 degrees Celsius (65 to 82 degrees Fahrenheit) and winters ranging from -2 to 7 degrees Celsius (28 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit). Due to the variation in altitude, it’s a good idea to carry an extra sweater and/or sunscreen wherever you go.
Transportation in Switzerland
Switzerland is very well-connected, with trains, buses, and mountain transportation incorporated into a single system. The number of options and ticket types can be overwhelming, so don’t hesitate to ask for assistance at your local train station or from your hotel concierge. Planning in advance and making reservations is occasionally needed. Check out the Swiss Federal Railway’s website for more information.
Driving is another great option, as roads are plentiful and well-maintained, but beware that speeding and other driving violations are strictly enforced and can result in heavy fines or arrest.
Languages of Switzerland
As part of your Switzerland trip, you’re likely to hear a variety of languages. The country’s official languages are Swiss German, French, Italian, and the lesser-known Romansh. Swiss German predominates, which is not altogether the same as “traditional” German. When traveling, familiarize yourself with the local language. Although English is widely understood in every region, an attempt to speak a few words in the local language is greatly appreciated.
Tipping in Switzerland
Tipping is not a requirement in Switzerland. However, a small tip of 5 to 10 Swiss francs is appreciated for good service at restaurants.
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Welcome to my steamship pages in Turku, Finland
The theme of these pages is passenger steamships which have trafficked from Turku or via Turku.
As Turku is situated in the southwest corner of Finland, it has always been a natural centre for a lively ship traffic. Especially before the railway became more popular about 100 years ago, there was frequent boat traffic from Turku to the whole coast of Finland. Turku is also known as Finland’s gate to the west. There has been regular traffic from Turku to Stockholm for almost 200 years.
Turku lies in the middle of the Turku archipelago including 40.000 islands, many of them inhabited. The archipelago stretches from Hanko to Uusikaupunki including Åland. Hence Turku has always been the centre for the traffic in the area.
These pages are written in Finnish, but by choosing “Laivahaku / Index” on the left side of the front page, you will find an alphabetical list of ships.
All feedback (even in English) is welcome and appreciated. As for corrections, complements and pictures, I preserve the right to use this material on my pages.
I wish you interesting exploration on these pages.
Lasse Sjöström
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High School Possession
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High school senior Chloe had everything going for her: a loving family, good grades, and, as the star of the girls soccer team, a scholarship to college. After her mother catches her father cheating on her, she starts acting out. It starts with a fight with another player during a game and progresses to a drunken meltdown at a high school party. To make matters worse, she's starting to hear voices in her head. At first they're merely taunting her, but it's not long before they're telling her to hurt herself or worse, others. Her concerned mother takes her to a never-ending parade of psychiatrists, none of whom are able to help. A church youth group known as "The Chosen" befriends Chloe's best friend Lauren with an unusual offer to help. They believe that Chloe is possessed by a demon and that the only way to cure her is to perform an exorcism. As Chloe's behavior worsens, Lauren starts to think "The Chosen" might actually be able to help her. However as the exorcism begins, Lauren discovers that the leader of the group has an ulterior motive and has no intention of helping Chloe get better. As things quickly turn violent, Lauren is forced to act quickly and save her friend.
Shanley Caswell
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Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Biology
Surveying Mutagenic and Anti-mutagenic Effects of Citrus Limon
Malihe Entezari ,
Ahmad Majd ,
Fathollah Falahian ,
Sedighe Mehrabian ,
Mehrdad Hashemi ,
Abolfazl Movafagh
DOI 10.31557/apjcb.2017.2.1.9-12
Submitted: Nov 12, 2016
Published: Feb 25, 2017
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Background and objective: Cancer is one of the main causes of mortality in the world and countless mutagenic chemical compound kill millions of cancer patients every year. Scientists are searching for natural foodstuff to prevent cancer. The present paper examines anti-mutagenic and anti-carcinogenic effects of citrus lemon.
Methodology: Human astrocytoma cancerous cell line was cultured in DMEM (Gibco) with FBS10% (fetal bovine serum), L-glutamine, penicillin, and streptomycin at 37ºC for two days. Then the samples were treated with citrus lemon juice and biotic potential of cells was examined through the MTT method. Anti-mutagenic and anti-carcinogenic effects of citrus lemon were studied through back mutation assessment standard method (Ames test). The test was done using Salmonella typhimurium strain (TA100) with the mutation in histidine operon that needs external histidine source. The strain creates the reverse colony in presence of carcinogenic agents (sodium azide).
Findings: Based on the MTT method, human astrocytoma cancerous cell line demonstrated significant cellular death compared with the control groups (p<0.01). Ames test showed that the juice prevented back mutation and rate of inhibition, based on the anti-mutagenic effect, of half-ripen and ripen citrus lemon was 71.7% and 34.3% respectively. In addition, the anti-carcinogenic effect of half-ripen and ripen citrus lemon were 83.3% and 50% respectively.
Conclusion: Anti-mutagenic and anti-carcinogenic effects of citrus lemon were examined for the first time. The results showed that in this regard half-ripen citrus lemon was more effective than ripening citrus lemon.
Caused by several mutagenic and carcinogenic chemical compounds, cancer is one of the main causes of mortality in the world. According to the estimates, more than 75% of cancer cases are due to environmental agents [1, 2]. Damages and genetic mutation in DNA sequence and mutation of genes and other changes in chromosomic structure are the main carcinogens [3]. Many mutagenic and carcinogenic elements induce their destructive effects by free radicals (e.g. reactive oxygen species (ROS)). Antioxidants can attenuate the destructive effects of ROS, which is known as the pathogen of cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurological problems, and aging. Daily intake of antioxidants, as anti-carcinogen, improves immunity against free radicals [4, 5, 6]. Some vegetables and fruits are rich in antioxidants such as polyphenols, vitamin C & E, beta-carotene, and lipoten, which are the main anti-carcinogenic edible compounds [7]. Citrus fruits are rich in antioxidants [8, 9]. Ames test is one of the most common tests to measure anti-carcinogen and anti-mutagen effects. The test relies on using bacteria with specific mutation [10, 11] and the effects of different elements on cancerous cells cultured in vitro. For the first time, the present study attempts to examine the anti-carcinogen effect of half-ripen and ripen citrus lemon juice based on its effect on cancerous cells and Amex test.
Cytotoxicity effect of citrus lemon juice on the cancerous cell line (in vitro) was examined through an experimental study and MTT assay. The results were computed based on stimulation index and analyzed though t-test.
Ames standard test was used to examine anti-carcinogen and anti-mutagen effects of the juice samples on salmonella Typhimurium mutated bacteria and the results were analyzed based on the colonial growth of the bacteria in an arbitrary condition using ANOVA.
Human astrocytoma cancerous cells (line 1321) were used. The cells were cultured in DMEN with 10-20% FBS in an incubator (37ºC and 5% CO2). To carry out cell tests and incubation, after culturing adequate cells, the adhesive cells were extracted from flux foam by trypsin (0.25%). Each experiment was replicated three times. Given that some of the cells were adhesive and needed to be in normal growth condition, all the experiments were done after 18hrs of incubation in cell culture plate wells (cells complete adhesion to plate).
The rate of living cells in cells suspension was obtained through the viability test. This technique enables us to control and adjust cells count and density in the culture; so that MTT mark on the cells distinguishes the living cells by purple crystals that are formed through oxidation of the dye by mitochondria dehydrogenation. The cell count is obtained based on the living cells percentage as follows:
Viability (biotic potential) = (number of living cells/total number of culture cells) * 100
It took 18hrs for all cells to be completely attached to the plate and then different concentrations of juice (25µl/ml, 50 µl/ml, 100 µl/ml, 500 µl/ml and 0 as the control group) were added to the plates. Afterward, the plates were placed in an incubator (37ºC and 5% CO2).
Marking was done using the MTT method. The method is based on oxidation of dimethylthiazol diphenyl tetrazolium bromide so that purple unsolved formazan is formed by dehydrogenation of mitochondria enzyme on the living cells. MTT solution (50m/l) was obtained by solving 50mg MTT powder in 10ml of PBS (0.15molar) and diluted before marking for ten times by PBS so that 0.5mg/ml of MTT was obtained. It is notable that after preparation, the PBS solution was placed in the autoclave. Following incubation of cancerous cells with different concentration of the fruit juice for 48hrs (37ºC and CO25%), the plate was marked by MTT (0.5mg/ml). Afterward, the samples were kept in the incubator (37ºC) for 3-5hrs and then the overhead liquid was replaced by 200µl isopropanol solution (Germany, Merck) before placing the plate on the shaker for 10-15min. Then the samples were examined by microtiter plate reader (Elisa-reader, Organon-Teknika, Netherland) at 570nm. Induced toxicity was computed as follows:
%Cytotoxicity = (1-mean absorbance of toxicant) * 100/mean absorbance of negative control
% Viability = 100-%Cytotoxicity
To have lower test error, MTT dye was added to a few empty wells cell and then the wells were washed and adsorption score of the empty wells was deducted from the total adsorption score.
Salmonella typhimurium (TA100) was used for Ames test. The histidine-dependent strain was supplied directly by Professor Ames. The experiments needed a fresh culture of bacteria and incubation time in the fresh overnight culture of the bacteria in nutrient broth must not exceed 16hrs. The optimum concentration of the bacterial was 1-2 * 109 cell/ml. After examining cytotoxicity effect of fruit juice on cancerous cells, Ames test was carried out by adding the juice to 0.5ml of fresh overnight culture of TA100 and 0.5mmol histidine and biotin each to a tube containing 10ml top agar (50gr/lit agar + 50 gr/lit NaCl) and carcinogenic agent sodium azide (1.5µgr/ml). The content of the pipe was expanded on the surface of glucose agar (40% glucose at least) and placed in the incubator of 48hrs at 37ºC. Three replicates of each treatment were prepared and incubation, back colonies in the experiment, and control plates were counted. The results were compared after angular transfer using variance analysis.
There are several compounds that are inactive, in their stable form, in terms of mutagenic and carcinogenic effects; to have such effects, they need to be activated. That is, it is necessary to add sterile fruit juice to the micro chromosomic extract of mammals’ liver cells (e.g. mouse). Therefore, hepatectomy was performed on 10 male mice after 24hrs fasting. Having no food stimulates and increases liver enzyme secretion. The livers were homogenized in potassium chloride (0.15mol) and centrifuged for 10min (9000rpm, 4ºC). The overhead liquid (S9 mixture) was removed and mixed by the required cofactors (NADP and phosphate glucose 6); 0.5ml was added to Top agar mixture to examine anti-cancer effects.
After counting the colonies in anti-carcinogenic and anti-mutagenic tests, inhibition or antioxidant effect was obtained as follows. [12]
Inhibition rate = (1-T/M) * 100
Where, T represents back colonies adjacent to the mutagenic element and the fruit juice in each petri dish and M represents back colonies in the Petri dishes of positive control (mutagenic agent).
Comparison of the results obtained from the MTT test on cancerous cells adjacent to different concentrations of fruit juice revealed loss of biotic potential of cancerous cells. There was a significant difference between the half-ripen and ripen fruit juices in inhibiting the growth of cancerous cells (p<0.05); so that the former had the more inhibiting effect (Fig. 1).
Count of colonies adjacent to 25µl of the fruit juice (given the results of biotic potential test results) indicated that half-ripen and ripen fruit juices had significantly different effects in terms of anti-mutagenic effects on colony growth comparing with control samples (sodium azide and distilled water) (p<0.05). Ripen and half-ripen fruit juices had moderate (34.36%) and strong (71.71%) anti-mutagenic effects respectively. For instance, by adding S9 for metabolic activation of the juice, Ames test was replicated to examine the anti-cancer effect and, compared with the control (sodium azide and distilled water) the half-ripe fruit juice had higher anti-carcinogenic effects on colony growth. (p<0.05)
Additionally, there was a significant difference between the effect of half-ripen and ripen fruit juices (p<0.05). Although, both were strong anti-cancer agents so that carcinogenic inhibition rate of the ripen and half-ripen fruit juices reached 50% and 83.33% respectively.
Figure 1 :Biotic Potential Of Cancerous Cells After Treatment By The Ripen And Half-Ripen Fruit Juices
Given that standard cancer treatment methods (surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy) affect both the cancerous and healthy cells [13], many authors have tried to find better anti-cancer drugs in herbal medicines. These medicines only affect the cancerous cells and leave the normal cells intact [14]. The effects of different edible antioxidants on cancer and cardiovascular diseases have been proven so that they increase longevity up to 60% [15]. Laboratory surveys of poly-metoxilate flavonoids including tangertine showed that this compounds have antioxidant and anti-cancerous effects and protect neurons [16]. The effect of limonins (flavonoids) on cellular cycle was examined in 2001 and the results confirmed these compounds cause changes in cellular division or apoptosis so that cellular division happens at the G1 stage [17]. Another set of experiments in 2005 on nobiletin (a flavonoids found on citrus peels) supported anti-cancer, anti-virus, and anti-inflammation effects [18]. A study in 2006, based on MTT method, reported anti-cancer effects of citrus limonoids to extract on neuroblastoma cancerous cells (SH-SY5Y) and adenocarcinoma (Caco-2); the results showed the higher sensitivity of neuroblastoma [19]. Authors in [20] showed that inducing apoptosis is done by caspase. In [21, 22, 23, 24] the four main systems that initiate apoptosis were listed including signal paths that induce cascade activation of caspase enzymes, cellular damages that increase penetrability of mitochondria membrane and activate caspases enzymes, DNA damage that lead to augmentation of P53 protein and facilitates DNA repair by the said protein, and cellular membrane damage path that activates sphingomyelinase enzyme and generates ceramide factor out of lipid compounds of cell membrane.
Taking into account the sensitivity of neuroblastoma cancerous cells, growth inhibition effect of citrus lemon on human astrocytoma cancerous cells through the MTT method was supported. Anti-carcinogenetic effect of citrus fruit was introduced in 2002 by analyzing the chemical compounds of the fruits including vitamin C, beta-carotene, flavonoid, limonoid, and acid folic [25]. Given the absence of any report about anti-mutagenic and anti-carcinogenic effects of half-ripen and ripen citrus lemon juice, anti-cancer effect of the fruit was examined using biotic potential and Ames tests and salmonella Typhimurium bacterium to determine anti-mutagenic and anti-carcinogenic effects. Half-ripen and ripen citrus lemon showed anti-mutagenic and anti-carcinogenic effects. According to Ames theory (1982), the agent is anti-carcinogenic and anti-mutagenic when the number of colonies on the positive control culture (with the mutagenic agent) is two times of the experiment sample. When the inhibition rate varies between 25 and 40%, the anti-mutagenic effect is moderate, it is strong when the rate is more than 40%, and it is negative when the rate is less than 25%. This is also true in examining the anti-carcinogenic effect by adding S9 for metabolic activation [10, 11]. These features were observed in citrus lemon juice samples. In vitro examinations on the effects of citrus lemon juice on cancerous cells culture showed that the juice repressed cancerous cells; moreover, the half-ripen citrus lemon was more effective than ripening citrus lemon.
Inhibition or antioxidant effects of the juices showed anti-carcinogenic and anti-mutagenic effects, while half-ripen citrus lemon was more effective than ripen ones. In 2000, [26]reported inducing of apoptosis in HL-60 cells by flavonoids of lemon. In 2007, [27]argued that the variation of pH in cancerous cells had anti-cancer effects. The higher effectiveness of half-ripen fruits might be due to the difference in flavonoids content or pH of the juice. As shown by anti-mutagenic test, citrus lemon juice induced anti-mutagenic effects. This paper used the fruit juice along with mouse liver extract (S9). Many anti-cancer agents are in inactive phase and cannot attach to DNA, while there is no electrophilic enzyme activity. Since the bacterium does not have this system, liver extract (S9) and cytochrome active system P-450/P-448 was used for activation [28]. As illustrated, the fruit juice along with S9 liver extract had anti-carcinogenic effects and half-ripen citrus lemon was more effective that ripen citrus lemon. This difference probably shows that a chemical compound in the juice needs P-4540/P-448 enzyme system for activation.
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Waterford Aero Club
The home of general aviation in the South East of Ireland
Waterford Airport, Killowen
Co. Waterford, Ireland
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The story of Waterford Aero Club
Written by Dick Cole
Waterford Aero Club was founded in 1982 with the aim of bringing pilots and enthusiasts together to expand the interest in hobby aviation.
Dick Cole’s first solo in the Dimona at Kilkenny airport
The seed to start a flying club in Waterford actually started when I met my good friend Chris Hennessy at the Kilkenny Flying Club which I joined soon after I came to Ireland to live in Tramore, Co Waterford after moving from England in the early seventies. Chris had returned from England about the same time as me to settle in Waterford (his birth place) with his wife and children after living for many years in Heartfordshire, not far from Luton where he obtained his licences.
Chris and I cemented our friendship from that time onwards. We shared many hours of flying together in the clubs Rally aircraft – especially in EI-BBI (which we both had shares in). I clearly remember the day when we were relaxing, sipping a lovely glass of beer on a hot sunny May afternoon on the terrace of the “Hotel De France” in Jersey, where we were staying for the weekend having flown to jersey from Kilkenny to compete in the Jersey air Rally in EI-BBI. There we started to talk of the possibility to start our own flying club somewhere in Waterford, especially as we had almost an hour drive getting to Kilkenny to go flying. Chris came up with the idea to visit a Mr. Westcott Pitt in Dunmore East, who was a pilot and used to have a grass strip and hangar in Dunmore East. I believe he was known to have done joy flights from Tramore beach.
Shortly after our return from Jersey, Chris arranged a meeting with Mr Pitt at his house in Dunmore East. On our arrival and formal introductions complete Mr Pitt kindly ushered us both into his spacious lounge and sat us both down in two comfortable leather armchairs. In front of a glowing open fire, soon making us feel relaxed, he gave myself a tot of Irish whiskey and Chris a glass of red wine, we then started to talk about flying in general till eventually we got round to inquire if he would consider renting us his field and hanger for us to form a flying club in Waterford. It was two very disappointed pilots when he told us that as much as he would have liked to rent his field to us it was not possible to do so as the field was leased to a local farmer and the hanger was full of machinery, so rather sadly we bid our host farewell.
Strangely enough, soon after meeting Mr Pitt I was approached by a gentleman (a German national living in Co.Waterford) who proceeded to show me a copy of his plans that he had applied to the Waterford County council for a proposed airport development in the area of Portlaw. It certainly was ambitious (the plans of which I still have) and I was in no way financially able to join him in the project which was his purpose of meeting me, however I heard that the plans were rejected by the W.C.C. This may well have been due to the fact that Waterford Corporation had plans of their own submitted for the present airport.
I received a call from Chris that the Waterford Corporation wished to meet him to speak with him in an advisory capacity about their plans for the proposed development of a Municipal airport at Killowen. It was great news that we were going to have an airport in Waterford and its progress up to completion was watched regularly. I was often plied with all sorts of questions from my friends (who knew of my involvement with flying) – what type of aircraft would be flying out of the aerodrome; would it be big enough for Jumbo jets, etc. etc.
The Waterford municipal airport was eventually completed and the official opening was on the 10/08/1981. Chris was subsequently appointed the airport manager in 1982 (which he managed very successfully for over 7 years) and helped to make the airport what it is today.
It was just after Chris became manager that he arranged a meeting in Dooley’s Hotel in Waterford between myself and Peter Brophy (R.I.P.). We also invited john Duggan from Wexford to join us (in a advisory capacity) the purpose of the meeting was to talk about hopefully starting a flying club at the airport. It was agreed at the meeting that Chris would apply to the Waterford Corporation for permission to lease us a site to erect a club house and have use of the airport to operate a flying club.
The forming of Waterford Aero Club, Chris and I agreed that the first thing we should do would be to form a Limited company in order to protect ourselves against 3rd party litigation. I remember we asked other parties to come in with us to be Directors but they all declined to accept the risk, so it was left to Chris and I to form the company Waterford Aero Club Ltd, which I did on the 9th February 1982, with a share liability of £100, splitting the shares 50/50 between Chris and me.
Now it’s all very well having the responsibility of forming a flying club but what do you do when you have no plane or clubhouse? Once again Chris came to the rescue by approaching IONA in Dublin airport and we took the responsibility of leasing a Cessna 150 from them for training purposes, we were also given temporary permission to use the Porto cabin for a operations room until we built our own club house. The members all co-operated and we soon had a small club house built on the site leased from the Corporation.
Once we got operational, the club (to coin a phrase) took off immediately, and our membership grew and grew very quickly, we also leased a beech skipper EI-BHU from Avair to cope with the demand for persons wanting to fly. Chris became our CFI and instructor. We then took Peter Tawse on board to be an assistant instructor to Chris. Chris gave hours and hours of his time outside his responsibility of being the airport manager including every weekend, high days and holidays with hardly a break in between…
Myself and the committee members also put in many hours of our spare time in the early days in order to keep the club going we organised a number of flying competitions throughout the year. This was easy to do in the early days as there was very little commercial flying going on. You could almost say we had the airport to ourselves! We used to have great Christmas parties and I would sponsor a cup for pilot of the year. Unfortunately with the new drinking laws, the support for the Christmas festivities dwindled and died out.
The original clubhouse being cremated
The airport was now developing very fast with operators such as Ryanair and Avair who were both operating services from Waterford. It was then we were told that we would have to move from our present site and go to the southern end of the aerodrome. After much haggling with the Corporation we eventually did a deal to lease the ground to where we are today.
So now we were left in another dilemma as to where was the money coming from to build a new clubhouse and hangar. An emergency meeting was called among the members as to how we could do this for all we had in the treasury was the surplus money that we had accrued from the flying which did not amount to much anyway as most of the profits had gone into the development of the club. It was then proposed that we ask members to voluntarily put up £1200 each and in return they would be given life membership. Several members agreed to this and so with some help from the bank we were able to build our club house and adjacent hangar.We acquired the services and expertise of our club member Willie Cullinane to do the construction of the club house and hanger and immediately the planning permission was approved. The work soon got underway – many of the members put in some of their time in whatever way was possible for them, to help keep some of the cost down, although the credit is due to Willie who did the work within our budget and way below what it would have cost had we had to call in a outside building contractor.
Now the new club house had been completed we were probably now one of the most successful clubs in Ireland. But it now left us with an added problem as to what to do with our original little club house as it now had to be removed and disposed of from where it was standing. We could not just tear it down as it had served us so well. We all decided we should give it a decent burial, so we cremated it. Soon after we had moved in to our newly finished club premises, we got news that Avair had ceased trading and that we were about to lose the use of the Skipper to the Liquidator.
Once again Chris came to our rescue. We only had a surplus of around £2000 in the kitty – certainly not enough to buy a plane that was being valued at between £15,000 and £20,000. The bank were not interested in loaning us the money, however, not to be daunted, Chris went to meet the Liquidator. There was another Skipper with the liquidator EI-BHT. This was the best of the two planes, so after a lot of haggling again by Chris he got an agreed price to buy the better plane EI-BHT for £10,000, but the money had to be up front there and then. So without hesitation, Chris gave over a cheque for the £10,000. I also know and I hope he doesn’t mind me mentioning it, for as far as I know the balance came out of his own pocket which he was never reimbursed for.
Piper Warrior, EI-DJM and Beechcraft Skipper, EI-BHT parked outside the new hangars.
At a committee meeting held in May 2000 it was agreed by Chris and myself to pass over the shares and control of the club to the club members at which time a board of directors was appointed with Chris Hennessy as our Chairman, Victor Young as our Secretary, and Michael Power as our Treasurer. Chris remained CFI and Brian Power assistant CFI. Also instructing was George Roche, Paul Hutchinson, and there have been other instructors at the club that have since left.
Over the past 29 years the club has gone from strength to strength to enable the club to add to its fleet two Warrior Cherokee’s and also to develop and extend considerable hangarage. The extra hangarage now houses 8 privately-owned aircraft.
In 2006, Sean Walsh became Chairman, Victor young remained Secretary-come-Treasurer with Michael Power as the Assistant Treasurer. Myself, Niel Marchant, Pat Bryne, and Tom Mackey were appointed to the board of directors.
The Club has since sold the Skipper, EI-BHT, and one of the Warriors EI-WRN, and replaced these with two new Sierra Tecnams. We had been considering for some time to invest in a more economical type of training aircraft that runs on Mogas to reduce flying costs. It was our Chairman Sean Walsh who researched the market for a safe, economical training plane that would be possible to purchase within our budget so he decided that the Italian-built Tecnam was the one we should go for. His proposal to purchase this plane was put to the board for approval, and the board readily agreed that Sean should go ahead with the order. It was also agreed that we put in an option to purchase a 2nd Tecnam. The day arrived when the first Tecnam was ready for delivery and Victor along with Tom Mackey flew out to the factory near Naples, Italy, and ferried home the first plane to Waterford. As soon as the second Tecnam came ready for delivery, Victor along with Chris ferried home the second Tecnam.
Since their arrival to the club, they have been in constant use – clocking up many flying hours. The club has now had its own fuel pumps installed which is also a credit to our Chairman who managed this operation from start to finish, which took many hours of his time.
The Waterford Aero Club is a credit to all of its members especially our Secretary-come-Treasurer Victor Young who spends endless hours of his own time keeping the books and finances under control and keeping the members up to date with events of the club.
I wish to pay tribute to Chris Hennessy who has devoted his life to the Waterford Aero Club and gave his time and services completely free over the 29 years. Chris resigned as our CFI in Dec 2008, and passed over the reins to Brian Power, but he still remains assistant CFI and still continues instructing at weekends and taking people for voucher flights.
I also wish to pay tribute to the past and present members who unselfishly gave the club £1200 to help build our club house and hangar. Their names are for all present members to see as they are listed as life members on the membership notice board. Sadly some of those members have either passed on or have left the club after retiring from flying.
I close my story detailing with the history of the club, the dates are as close as my memory will allow and if I omitted people who deservedly required to be mentioned it is not intentional and to those on behalf of myself and the club I say thank you most sincerely. To the younger generation and those who have the responsibility for the continuance and well-being of the club, I say it is a great club: it is your club so it is up to all to care for it.
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Reviews : The History
Posted by dnprossi on 2010/9/9 17:29:57 ( 24281 reads )
The History by Marianna Vecellio
In 1959 two young students at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan - Valter and Eleonora Rossi, with their cousin Franco Cioppi, founded the 2RC Stamperia d’Arte atelier. They were of the idea that graphic art was an actual artistic genre along with sculpture and painting and not merely an off-spring. Valter and Eleonora's goal was to create a workshop where various graphic techniques could be developed in order to allow artists to work with the same freedom that they would use in other mediums.
The beginning: Lucio Fontana
In the early Sixties Valter and Eleonora Rossi printed their first graphic portfolio: a series of etchings by Fontana. The portfolio won them the first prize in Tokyo for graphic art.
Lucio Fontana was one of the most respected artists since the war, along with Alberto Burri. Fontana's approach to the material, his repeated interventions, with cuts and holes on the canvas and paper represented a new concept in the experimentation of space. Such new ways of engraving also became possibile due to the fact that the printing techniques used could partly preserve the tactility of the surface unique to this medium while also keeping the special concept of Fontana's works.
1965 - Alberto Burri. Photo by Valter Rossi
Hence 2RC Edizioni d'Arte was founded. Ever since the start it was clear that it intended to work with artists who were advanced in their research. Between 1962 and 1969 the following artists all went to print with 2RC: Alberto Burri, Gio Pomodoro, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Giulio Turcato, Giuseppe Santomaso, Piero Dorazio, Pietro Consagra, Achille Perilli, Beverly Pepper, Adolph Gottilieb, Afro and of course Lucio Fontana.
The Rossi's desire to graphically produce the processes and contents of contemporary artists, was driven by various elements: their great respect for art, the need for adventure, their knowledge of painting and sculpture, and the ability to understand each artists distinctive style and touch. They were to become fine and couragiously innovative masters of their work in producing the works on paper.
1974 – Afro, Valeria Gramiccia and Valter Rossi. Photo by N. Lo Duca.
Between 1962 to 1983 the Rossi's continued to publish engravings. One of the arists was Burri whose work was described by Vittorio Rubiu as "ever closer to painting, almost unmistakabley so". The Rossi's used acetate, trasparent and colored plastic to return to a burnt plastic effect with variations on white while introducing the materiality of Cretti to paper by using an unconventional and elaborate method of etching and engraving.
1969 - UNESCO and the consolidation
1969/70 was a special year for the Rossis. A.i.a.p Unesco commissioned them to produce a portfolio of graphic art that would put them in close working contact with various world famous artists. It was a dream come true: working with some great artists such as Juan Miro, Alberto Burri, Alexander Calder, Victor Vasarely, Victor Pasmore, Sonia Delaunay, Louise Nevelson, Sebastian Matta, Man Ray, Max Bill and Wotruba.
For the Rossi couple the moment had arrived to make themselves known to an international audience. It was to be the start of an intimate and profitable collaboration with many of the greatest contemporary talents.
This was the time to consolidate their work: in fact they produced the "Presenze Grafiche" 95cmx95cm engravings series. The format was a completely new and unseen for graphic art at the time.
The Seventies were the years in which the Rossi's developed various engraving techniques, such as embossing, indispensable to sculptors such as Beverly Pepper, Gio and Arnaldo Pomodoro, Chillida who managed to recreate sculptural shapes and forms in their works.
1973 – Pierre Alechinsky on Sida while working, Bodrum.
In 1973 Valter and Eleonora went to Turkey on their sailing boat where they produced their first work with Pierre Alechinksy: 'Mare Nostrum'. From this moment on these master printers changed the concept of the atelier. No longer was it neccessary for the artist to go to the printer. now he could remain in situ in his own work place wherever it may be such as Bodrum (Turkey) and from there Menton (France), Palma di Majorca (Spain), Los Angeles (USA), Southampton and Montuak (Long Island, USA), Palm Beach (Florida, USA), Point Race (California USA), and the studio in New York.
1975 – The Segal with Simona at the Ara Coeli, Rome.
The possibility of being able to produce engravings of large and unusual formats attracted to the 2RC a great following amongst private collectors and museum curators along with artists such as Afro, Sam Francis, Henry Moore, Pierre Soulages, Giacomo Manzu, Nancy Graves, Arnaldo Pomodoro, George Segal, Graham Sutherland and many others. In the Seventies these artists would pass by the print shop situated in Via degli Astalli in Rome to produce their large-scale works of which the largest was created by Pierre Alechinksy measuring 200cm x 300cm.
The large format and dimension of these works became fundamental to the action of the work. The surface is tangible, ready to lend itself to tricks and trials which the artist then puts to the test in the engraving itself.
Large dimension also becomes part of playing with color. Eleonora Rossi was greatly sensitive to color, in fact both herself and Valter loved passages of tonality and color. The Rossi's loved their work and their work becamea condition of their life.
The British Artist: Pasmore,Sutherland, Moore, and Bacon.
The artist Victor Pasmore was presented to Valter Rossi by Alberto Burri for the Unesco portfolio commission in the late Sixties and continued to work with 2RC until his death in 1987. Valter remembers fondly the relationship he had with Pasmore.
Rome was a favorite stop-off for Pasmore in the Sixties between London and his home in Malta - he often returned to London to attend to his business as director of Urban Planning.
Pasmore would spend many happy brief periods in Rome producing works with the Rossi's, developing his organic shapes and bright colors tinged by Mediterranean seascapes.
1977 – Graham Sutherland with Eleonora Rossi, Mentone.
Graham Sutherland challenged the Rossi's with the aquatint problem: this solitary artist decided to share his painting quest for a trace burnt away by time. Together they worked in Sutherland’s studio in Menton, France to produce the Bees series in 1976/77 and 'Le Bestiaire' series in 1979, inspired by Apollinaire.
Henry Moore's graphic art work during the early 1980's has been clearly quoted by Giulio Carlo Argan, that noticed this sculptors capability in showing the limits of the natural horizon with a single graphic trace and the sculptural nature in the human figure, which has always been a central theme in his work. The master printers were not over-faced by the problem of trasferring plastic layouts onto a bi-dimensional surface, but instread it was a starting-point for their research of lines and color in space. Moore's enthusiasm was so great that he lent the Rossi's five large sculptures for the opening of their new print shop called Vigna Antonimiana Stamperia d'Arte in Rome situated in a new site by the Terme di Caracalla.
1978 – Valter and Eleonora Rossi in the Henry Moore's studio.
At the end of the 80's the Rossi's satisfied one of their life-long career desires: Pierre Levè at that time Director of the Marlborough Gallery in New York invited them to produce a series of prints with Francis Bacon. This British artist, as lovable as he was difficult and complex, when faced with drawing, initially failed to depart from the white sheet of paper. Bacon refused to accept graphic art as he was convinced it was an unpractical technique but went on to produce. By overlapping the copper plates Eleonora succeded in reaching a colour that Bacon had always thought impossibile in graphic art: a very specific shade of orange. This was the beginning of the realization of a series of prints that was sadly interrupted by Bacon's death.
The experience with Bacon was yet another learning curve for the Rossi's: graphic art does not need to be produced with immediacy. It is not a question of laying down an image but an emphasis on experimentation, an exchange of understanding and generosity between the artist and the printer.
The Seventies were to be difficult, violent and grey years in Italy: relations with overseas artists and the political climate drove the Rossi's to New York where they opened a print shop in 1979. It was to become a new phase of prolific work for them.
Their aim was to create a stronger link with the american artists with whom they already worked, giving them an overseas reference point in order to print in Italy and at the same time create an international presence.
This period was full of different experiences and events: Pierre Alechinsky's over-refined expressionism (the first to inaugurate the press in Soho); the numerous trips to California and the mobile scaled-down print shop created by Eleonora Rossi for Sam Francis; from the Blue Jeans series by George Segal which started in 1974 to 1987 with the realization of the Portraits; Helen Frankenthaler, Nancy Graves and Julian Schnabel.
1984 – Enzo Cucchi at the Vigna Antoniniana. Photo by G. Gorgoni.
The Rossi's decision to open the print shop in New York happens to be at the same time of the apparition, in the Big Apple, of a group of young Italian artists of the Transavant-guard movement lead by Achille Bonito Oliva. Two among these artists were Fracesco Clemente and Enzo Cucchi. The collaboration with the Transavant-guard stated of with an interesting converation with Achille Bonito Oliva. He immediately managed to get to grips with the intrinsical concept of graphics: the relationship between the artist and the actual engraver to whom the artist delivers the outline.
Francesco Clemente's ability in the assimilation of technique distinguished him amongst other artists from the beginning. He combined the fluid lines of etching with the fine watercolour aquatint, achieving on paper, the same luminosity of his paintings.
During that period, Clemente introduced Julian Schnabel to the Rossi’s and they went on to produce a large-scale series of etchings: each work became an event, the proof of an instinct, a footprint on paper.
Recent years
When reminiscing fondly over the 2RC history Valter Rossi remembers "Each artist brought something and everybody enjoyed it". He tells enthusiastically of the open and helping attitude within their print-shop that contiunously adapted to the different needs of each artist as they came along. Today, the print shop is situated in Rome, on the Cassia road, awaiting for a new definitive and emblematic location. The work in graphic art is never-ending and with knowledge gained from the past, history and experience become reciprocal in their exchange between past and present artists.
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Frozen II 2019
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Bohemian Rhapsody 2018
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Whiplash 2014
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La La Land 2016
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
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A Star Is Born 2018
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer — until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.
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Kat is an aspiring singer-songwriter who dreams of making it big. However, her dreams are stalled by her reality: a conniving and cruel stepfamily and a demoralizing job working as a singing elf at billionaire Terrence Wintergarden’s Santa Land.
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Footloose 2011
Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s troubled daughter Ariel in the process.
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Around the Web: Fashion Footprints. Dental Data. Born-Again Bookstores. Delicious Design. Correlation Caution. Dash Disturbance. Forgery Fallout. Rocket Reading.
Quantifying fashion’s environmental footprint. Transforming the bookstore into a “cultural department store.” A profile of revolutionary designer Cipe Peneles. Buy your own Follows and Likes. Caution: Correlation vs. Causation. Using hyphens in academic paper titles adversely affects citations stats. Nuclear tests can help spot art forgeries. An AR-enabled book about the history of rocket launches. All that and more in WhatTheyThink’s weekly miscellany.
By WhatTheyThink Staff
You can have friends or you can correct people’s grammar. MARY NORRIS
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) June 5, 2019
Fashion Footprints
At Harper’s Bazaar, Google and Eco-Fashion Designer Stella McCartney team up to reduce the environmental footprint of fashion, starting with compiling data about the environmental impact at the production of raw goods such as cotton and viscose, expanding later to other parts of the supply chain. The aim is to provide brands with actionable data that will enable them to reduce their environmental impact.
Sink your teeth into this:
Beam Dental, which uses brushing stats collected by its connected toothbrush to lower dental insurance premiums, raises $55M Series D (@kyle_l_wiggers / VentureBeat)https://t.co/OHkTd17jUZhttps://t.co/oaXqiXUCsM
— Techmeme (@Techmeme) June 2, 2019
Bookstores Unchained
At the New York Times, a story about Canadian bookstore chain Indigo, which reinvented the idea of the bookstore by turning it into a “‘cultural department store’ where customers who wander in to browse through books often end up lingering as they impulsively shop for cashmere slippers and crystal facial rollers, or a knife set to go with a new Paleo cookbook.” Now they’re headed to the U.S.
Google Lens will show reviews if you point it at a restaurant’s menu starting this week https://t.co/NOpuzR2L3v pic.twitter.com/CPfAU4oK7o
— The Verge (@verge) June 2, 2019
At CreativePro, a profile of influential designer Cipe Pineles (1908–1991) who “is credited with blending fine art and lively, colorful illustrations (especially of food, her passion) and hand lettering within her design–especially in her work on magazines. Pineles totally changed the world of editorial design during her reign.”
Everywhere a Sign
At Boing Boing, a post about hand-painted Indian transportation signs. “They’re a riot of gorgeous typography and design, creative and individual and intensely evocative of the places they came from.”
Color Strips
Visual Artist and Grad of @PrattInstitute @Aubrey_Roemer walks us through the creative side of digital print including how it has enabled artistic freedom. This image was produced for a strip club printed on a flatbed printer #DigitalPrintWeek2019 @SmithersPira @PrintingNews pic.twitter.com/yf2BDq7GZB
— WhatTheyThink (@whattheythink) June 6, 2019
It’s Like Selling
Can’t get anyone to follow you or like your social media posts? Well, why not just buy them? “Quick Fix” is a Finnish art installation commissioned by Helsinki’s Pixelache and produced by artist Dries Depoorter in Ghent, Belgium. “Quick Fix in an interactive installation. The artwork makes it possible to buy followers or likes in just a few seconds. For a few euros you already have 200 of likes on Instagram. Choose your product, pay and fill in your social media username. You receive the like or followers just a few seconds later.” One caveat, though: “The accounts that like or starting to follow you are fake accounts.” In other words, just like Facebook.
The IoT Heats Up
Unfortunately, quite literally.
So we finally get AC, right? Great.
Google is down. We have a Nest thermostat. Nest runs on Google. Can’t turn on AC because app is down.
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Yeah, Correlate This
Some years ago (14, it turns out!), our own Dr. Joe Webb once made a shocking statistical discovery: the decline in printing shipments was all Ken Griffey, Jr.’s fault. Indeed, as the chart shows, the number of games played by former baseball player Ken Griffey, Jr., had a significant correlation with inflation-adjusted printing shipments:
Anyone who looks at charts like this (or like any of those at a site called Spurious Correlations) will immediately yell “Correlation doesn’t mean causation!”
“Correlation doesn’t mean or imply causation” has become a clichéd phrase, and one Slate author has had quite enough (it’s an old post but still relevant): “No, correlation does not imply causation, but it sure as hell provides a hint....A correlation can’t tell one from the other; in that sense it’s inadequate. Still, if it can frame the question, then our observation sets us down the path toward thinking through the workings of reality, so we might learn new ways to tweak them. It helps us go from seeing things to changing them.”
So while some correlations are obviously absurd (Ken Griffey, Jr., and printing shipments, or the number people who drowned in a pool and the number of films Nicolas Cage has appeared in) some may not be, such as the one the Slate writer cited: “Depressed people send more email.” It’s not difficult to envision how such a relationship may go beyond mere correlation, and just spotting the relationship can provide ideas for further research. It may pan out to nothing, but it provides a compelling question to ask.
Interestingly, the “correlation is not causation” admonition dates back to the 1890s—when the discovery of statistical correlation was first made.
That’s when the British statistician Karl Pearson introduced a powerful idea in math: that a relationship between two variables could be characterized according to its strength and expressed in numbers. Francis Galton had futzed around with correlations some years before, and a French naval officer named Auguste Bravaissketched out some relevant equations. But it was Pearson who gave the correlation its modern form and mathematics. He defined its role in science.
Dash Off a Paper
Who’d’a thunk it, and supposedly this isn’t just correlation: using hyphens in the titles of academic papers can have a negative impact on citation statistics, or at least that’s the finding of a new paper called “Metamorphic Robustness Testing: Exposing Hidden Defects in Citation Statistics and Journal Impact Factors,” by Zhi Quan Zhou, T.H. Tse, and Matt Witheridge, published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. (They decided against titlering it “Metamorphic Robustness Testing--Exposing Hidden Defects in Citation Statistics and Journal Impact Factors” for fairly obvious reasons.)
Back in 2015, Letchford and colleagues conducted a large-scale study on Scopus, and found that papers with shorter titles tended to be cited more than those with longer titles.
On the contrary, Professor Tse and the present team find that it is actually the number of hyphens in the title that serves as the more dominating factor for citation counts. Usually, the number of hyphens is correlated to a paper's title length, thus giving the misinterpretation that citation counts depend on title length.
Can someone write an article on millenials killing the doorbell industry by texting "here"
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Blowing Up the Art World
Here’s an eye-catching headline from the New York Times: “How Nuclear Bomb Tests Are Helping to Identify Art Forgeries.” “For years, scientists have been refining techniques to determine the age of a painting using radiocarbon dating and the lingering effects of the tests. Now, a team of researchers has dated one such artwork using a paint chip the size of a poppy seed, according to a study published on Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”
Incoming! Mail
In 1959, the US Navy successfully delivered post from Virginia to Florida via cruise missile.
AR Takes Off
Filmmakers MaryLiz Bender and Ryan Chylinski are at work on a project that combines a printed book with Augmented Reality and a short film to document “humanity’s grand adventure to space.” Called Guidance Internal: Lessons from Astronauts:
The art and the pages in this book come to life immediately teleporting you to rocket launch pads, directly to our intimate interviews with astronauts and the people sending missions to space. We fuse art with science blending our love of photography with compelling video to capture the emotion, excitement, and gravity of these events. We also give you a front-row seat to transformative performances by artists inspired by these experiences
They have, er, launched a Kickstarter to fund the project.
Boarding a plane now. So many catagories board first. Fortunately for me, right after military personnel are people with unusually large noses.
— Brent Spiner (@BrentSpiner) June 5, 2019
This Week in Printing, Publishing, and Media History
1140: The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
1889: The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Ore.
1929: American game show host and producer Chuck Barris born.
1961: American lawyer, academic, author, and founder of the Creative Commons Lawrence Lessig born.
1965: The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
1783: The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
1876: An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City. (Insert your own Amtrak joke here.)
1907: American actress Rosalind Russell born. Russell starred with Cary Grant in His Girl Friday, one of the best—and funniest—newspaper movies ever made.
1917: The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded. Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall win the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe); Jean Jules Jusserand wins the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days; and Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
1851: Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a 10-month run in the National Eraabolitionist newspaper.
1919: American-Swiss author and illustrator Richard Scarry born.
1947: American singer-songwriter and violinist Laurie Anderson born.
1956: Elvis Presley introduces his new single, “Hound Dog,” on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1756: American soldier and painter John Trumbull born.
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, 1806.
1799: Russian author and poet Alexander Pushkin born.
1875: German author, critic, and Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann born.
1892: The Chicago “L” elevated rail system begins operation.
1933: The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, N.J.
1946: American bass player and songwriter Tony Levin born.
1810: The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
1848: French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin born.
1911: American engineer and designer Brooks Stevens born, most famous for designing the Wienermobile. (As we saw last week, a replica is for sale.)
1955: Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
1958: American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor Prince (né Prince Rogers Nelson) born.
1971: The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1975: Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder. Alas, the “videotape war” of the late 70s and early 80s would result in VHS becoming the dominant format...for a while.
1867: American architect Frank Lloyd Wright born.
1887: Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the “Art of Compiling Statistics,” which was his punched card calculator.
1912: Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1949: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published, initially as fiction...for a while
1916: English biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist, and Nobel Prize laureate Francis Crick is born.
1523: The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples.
1891: American composer and songwriter Cole Porter born.
1930: A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1934: Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1961: American screenwriter, producer, and playwright Aaron Sorkin born, and walking and talking in no time.
1973: Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
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Wind Turbine -Power production in Wind Turbine
Measure the Power Output of the 500W Horizontal Axis Turbine within a specified operating range and load.
Plot the Power produced at different wind speeds as a function of the wind speed
Introduction and Background
Wind power is an alternative clean energy source and can be relied on for the long-term future instead of the conventional fossil fuel energy. A wind turbine is a way of producing cost-effective, pollution free energy. A single household can be run on the energy generated from a wind turbine. Because wind is a source of energy which is non-polluting and renewable, wind turbines create power without using fossil fuels, without producing greenhouse gases or radioactive or toxic waste. Wind power reduces global warming.
Basic Theory of a Wind Turbine
Wind turbine is a mechanical device which converts wind energy to electricity. Electricity produced from a wind turbine is basically Alternating Current. When wind with sufficient speed hits the blade of the turbine, it creates a force on the blade causing the momentum from the moving wind to be transferred into rotating shaft. The rotating shaft will be part of the generator which produces electricity. Basically the kinetic energy of the wind is converted into electrical energy. Energy is generated when the wind speed reaches about 4 to 5 m/sec, and a speed of 11 to 12 m/sec allows the turbines to generate at their rated capacity. They shut down when the wind exceeds 24 to 25 m/sec. There are a number of safety systems that can turn off a turbine if wind speeds threaten the structure. There are two predominant types of wind turbines
• HAWT – Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine
• VAWT – Vertical Axis Wind Turbine
This experiment utlises a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine, in which the axis of rotation is horizontal, or parallel to the Earth’s surface. A commercial grade horizontal wind turbine has the following subsystems
Turbine Subsystems
– Rotor
• 1,2, or 3 blades
• Aero braking systems
• Pitch controls
• Gearbox
• Hydraulic Systems
• Shafts
• Braking system
• Nose cover (nacelle)
– Yaw system
• Direction control
• Perp. to the wind stream
– Electrical and Electronic
• Generator
• Relays
• Circuit Breakers
• Wiring
• Drop Cables
• Controls
• Sensors
• Power Electronics
– Support Systems
• Roads
• Ground Support Equipment
• Power Substation
Probably the most commonly activated safety system in a turbine is the "braking" system, which is triggered by above-threshold wind speeds. There are many kinds of braking system namely
Pitch control mechanism
In this system,the turbine's electronic controller constantly monitors the turbine's power output. At wind speeds over 25 m/s, the power output will be too high, at which point the controller tells the blades to alter their pitch so that they become unaligned with the wind. This slows the blades' rotation. Pitch-controlled systems require the blades' mounting angle (on the rotor) to be adjustable.
Passive stall control
The blades are mounted to the rotor at a fixed angle but are designed so that the twists in the blades themselves will apply the brakes once the wind becomes too fast. The blades are angled so that winds above a certain speed will cause turbulence on the upwind side of the blade, inducing stall.
Active stall control
The blades in this type of power-control system are pitchable, like the blades in a pitch-controlled system. An active stall system reads the power output the way a pitch-controlled system does, but instead of pitching the blades out of alignment with the wind, it pitches them to produce stall.
Woking of the Generator inside the turbine
Generator consists of a rotor and stator.When the Rotor is permanent magnets in this case, the stator should be stationary coils of wire and vice versa. When these magnets move past the coils of wire or vice versa, AC electricity is produced in the coils. It is then converted into DC electricity using a rectifier.
Parameters in Wind energy production
In order to gain enough data to obtain meaningful results, three details would have to be logged in real time:
1. The output power of the turbine. (watts)
2. The rotation speed of the turbine (rev/s)
3. The wind speed (m/s)
The analysis would require instrumentation to measure 4 parameters:
1. System voltage
2. System current
3. Turbine rotational speed
4. Wind speed
Wind Turbine Power output variation with steady wind speed
The figure below shows how the power output from a wind turbine varies with steady wind speed.
Cut-in speed:
At very low wind speeds, there is insufficient torque exerted by the wind on the turbine blades to make them rotate. However, as the speed increases, the wind turbine will begin to rotate and generate electrical power. The speed at which the turbine first starts to rotate and generate power is called the cut-in speed and is typically between 3 and 4 metres per second.
Rated output power and rate output wind speed:
As the wind speed rises above the cut-in speed, the level of electrical ouput power rises rapidly as shown. However, typically somewhere between 12 and 17 metres per second, the power output reaches the limit that the electrical generator is capable of. This limit to the generator output is called the rated power output and the wind speed at which it is reached is called the rated output wind speed. At higher wind speeds, the design of the turbine is arranged to limit the power to this maximum level and there is no further rise in the output power. How this is done varies from design to design but typically with large turbines, it is done by adjusting the blade angles so as to to keep the power at the constant level.
Cut-out speed:
As the speed increases above the rate output wind speed, the forces on the turbine structure continue to rise and, at some point, there is a risk of damage to the rotor. As a result, a braking system is employed to bring the rotor to a standstill. This is called the cut-out speed and is usually around 25 metres per second.
Wind turbine efficiency or power coefficient:
The coefficient of power of a wind turbine is a measurement of how efficiently the wind turbine converts the power in the wind into electricity.
The available power in a stream of wind of the same cross-sectional area as the wind turbine can easily be shown to be
Available power in the wind,
where v is wind speed in metres per second, ρ is density in kilograms per cubic metre and A is the swept area of the trubine , r is rotor radius in metres then the available power,P is in watts.
The efficiency, μ, or as it is more commonly called, the power coefficient, cp, of the wind turbine is simply defined as the actual power delivered divided by the available power.
Coefficient of power =( Powe produced by the wind turbine/Total power available in the wind)
The Betz limit on wind turbine efficiency:
There is a theoretical limit on the amount of power that can be extracted by a wind turbine from an airstream. It is called the Betz limit.
Betz limit =16/27
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My Top Ten Sixties Albums
by Rowley on Tue 15 Apr 2014, 10:06 am
Am a huge fan of sixties music and thought I would either see if there are any kindred spirits out there or perhaps try and convert a few people to the cause by posting what for me are the top ten albums of the decade. Have tried to go for a few bits and bobs people may not be too familiar with. Apologies in advance for the lack of the Beatles in here. Left them off because guess most people are pretty familiar with them already, and to be honest for some reason they have always left me a bit cold.
Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left – Am not normally a fan of acoustic music or its practitioners as it is all a bit whiny for me but over his all too short career Drake proved himself as a master of the art. Not a duff track on it, and whilst plenty consider his later, more pastoral work his best, this debut remains his finest hour for me. Beautiful, beautiful record.
The Zombies –Odyssey and Oracles – Brilliant example of late sixties pop. Every song could be a single on this album. Brilliant harmonies throughout and one of the best crafted albums of this or any era.
Cream – Disraeli Gears – Cream are often described as the first ever supergroup and on Disraeli Gears they live up to their billing. The trio of Baker, Clapton and Bruce have a power few bands can match and songs like Strange Brew and Sunshine of Your Love sound as fresh today as they would have done on release.
Love – Forever Changes – Hard to categorise this album, often gets tagged as a psychedelic album, but for me this is more down to the flower power cover and era of release. However Forever Changes is far more accessible than a lot of psychedelic stuff. Mainly acoustic album but not in a twee or folksy way, huge influence on many bands, apparently is one of the Stone Roses favourite albums, which is obviously enough of a recommendation for me.
The Kinks – Face to Face – The Kinks are probably my favourite band of this era and so I really struggled with which of their albums to put in. Suspect most would go for Village Green but for me I prefer this one. Is early enough to still have the moddish R&B sound I like but also is the first example of the story telling songwriting Davies was to become a master of on later albums.
The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Gilded Palace of Sin – Another album that is hard to categorise, would describe it as a mix between psychedelic and country, but that makes it sound absolutely awful, which does it a huge disservice. Will not be to everyone’s taste but the songwriting and lyrics are absolutely brilliant and the music is like nothing you have ever heard before or since.
Dusty Springfield – Everythings Coming Up Dusty – Make no apologies for loving Dusty Springfield, listening to her sixties work there is a bit of everything, big ballads, soul classics and classic pop singles. Again really debated which of her albums to put in but as an introduction to her work this is perhaps the best starting point, bit of everything in here and her voice has arguably never sounded better.
Traffic – Traffic – Love Steve Winwood and could have found a place for a number of his albums, but Traffic’s second album is hard to leave off. Am a massive Traffic and Winwood fan and for me this is their best moment. Less obviously psychedelic than their debut and less prone to the prolonged jams that were common to their later work Traffic is the most disciplined of their albums and songs like Feelin’ Alright and Pearly Queen stand up to repeated listening.
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds – Often quoted as the inspiration behind the Beatles Sgt Pepper album Pet Sounds is a stunning piece of work, endlessly experimental but never losing touch with the brilliant harmonies and melodies that had made the Beach Boys famous. Also trivia fans the song God Only Knows was the first hit single to feature the word God.
Bob Dylan – Bringing it All Back Home – Hard to have a list of sixties album without having Dylan on and this for me is his best work of the era. At the time this was considered a controversial album as it marked Dylan embracing electric guitars, which was seen as a betrayal of his folk roots. However when the song writing is as strong as it is on Maggie’s Farm and It’s All Over Now Baby Blue who really cares.
Have not put the albums in order as this is way too tough. When this gets the flood of responses that are an almost inevitability for such threads may move on to do similar for other decades.
Location : I'm just a symptom of the modern decay that's gnawing at the heart of this country.
Re: My Top Ten Sixties Albums
by superflyweight on Tue 15 Apr 2014, 10:35 am
Some good choices up there, jeff and good to see some less obvious choices as well.
Not sure I could do a top 10 at this stage without more thought but would probably be thinking about including:
The Beatles - Rubber Soul (possibly a bit cliched to include a Beatles' album but Rubber Soul was a real game changer and inspired Brian Wilson to make the brilliant Pet Sounds)
The Grateful Dead - Live Dead (captures the essence of the Dead which in turn captures the essence of 60's psychedelia).
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II (not their best album but album shows them really finding their feet)
Velvet Underground and Nico (almost perfect!)
The Stooges (such a massive change from almost anything else going on in the 60's)
The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed (worth inclusion for one of the greatest songs ever written - "Gimme Shelter").
superflyweight
Location : Right here waiting for you
Feel bad for missing the Velvet Underground now supefly, which is a belter. That is just an oversight on my part. Really debated with Let It Bleed as it is a great album, but for me think it is put in the shade by Exile a couple of years down the line, which will almost certainly feature should there be a seventies list.
by Galted on Tue 15 Apr 2014, 10:51 am
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (more of a personal guilty pleasure than a great album)
The Doors - The Doors
Galted
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by The Womble on Tue 15 Apr 2014, 11:10 am
Some good albums up there. I too am a fan of sixties music, especially The Kinks. I would choose The Kink Kontroversy as my favourite album of theirs. 'Where Have All The Good Times Gone' and 'I Am Free' are great tracks.
I like Them's album The Angry Young Them, 'Mystic Eyes' is blinding!
I love Abbey Road, I think that is a stellar album.
Also a big fan of Manfred Mann and The Hollies.
The Womble
Location : The Phantom Zone - AKA Doncaster
by 88Chris05 on Wed 30 Apr 2014, 1:33 pm
Nice stuff, Rowley. Not as clued up on the sixties as you are and my favourites are maybe a little more concentrated across the seventies and eighties, but I'll give it a go anyway.
In no particular order, apart from 'Revolver' which is my definite number one.
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sam Cooke - The Wonderful World of Sam Cooke
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Cream - Wheels of Fire
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Phil Ochs - Pleasures of the Harbor
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
The Who - The Who Sell Out
Definitely a couple of yours that I'm only familiar with by name, or maybe the odd song here or there. Certainly need to dig a bit deeper and check 'em out.
88Chris05
Location : Nottingham
by Rowley on Wed 30 Apr 2014, 1:42 pm
Cheers Chris, have no idea who Phil Ochs is but intend to find out this evening. Considering doing the 70s at some point, started scribbling down some ideas but was struggling, may have to try irrespective. All else fails will just list about five Stones albums.
Phil Ochs is one of these names my old man got me in to. Think Dylan but with a bit of extra quirkiness and a more experimental side. 'Pleasures of the Harbor' is a bit detached from his usual style which I'm not mad on (although it's not bad, either) but on that album he really has some interesting tunes. Kind of sunk in by osmosis - heard his records playing on our Hi-Fi when I was a kid and naturally thought they were garbage, started remembering them when I got a bit older and found myself thinking, "Hhhmm, looking back maybe they were ok, I'll check them out."
by Guest on Mon 12 May 2014, 8:43 pm
Ooh.Sorry to join this thread a bit late-was just getting irate at another tv advert using a Pixies song in a cutesie"we're-all-the-same,really" type affair(The Pixies!!!) I stumbled into this with a bottle of Thunderbird in one hand and a Gang of Four lyric about consumerism brainworming through my bonce.
Kinks album for me is "something Else By The Kinks", although this possibly could eak into the 70s?Although I thought Nick Drake's debut was a 70s....could be wrong on both counts...okay just checked, nick Drake's 1969.
The Doors "The doors" plus "Strange Days".
Love "Forever Changes"-possibly the best 60s lp in my view.( Scouse band Shack do a good impression if you like them).
The Velvet Underground and Nico.
Tim Buckley-"Happy Sad" and "goodbye and Hello"
Pink Floyd "Piper at the Gates of Dawn".
Jimi Hendrix "Axis Bold as Love"
13th Floor Elevators," The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators"
Simon & Garfunkel, "Sounds of Silence"
The Who "Sell out"
There's a story about Phil Ochs travelling in a car with Dylan. His Bobness asked him what he thought of his latest song,and Ochs was one of the few people who spoke his mind to him;he told him he didn't like it and Bob ordered him out of the car. Seems to sum up the difference between the two-Ochs never got caught up in, or wanted to be, a pop star.
Billy Bragg wrote a song about him, "I dreamt I saw Phil Ochs" ,and he certainly believed that Ochs was the real deal whereas Bob sold his soul.
by Rowley on Mon 12 May 2014, 8:53 pm
Cheers Andy, second person to point out my shameful omission of The Velvet Underground which is unforgivable on my part. Something Else is the 60's, believe Lola vs is their first 70s album. Totally agree re the Love album, lacked the nerve to try and put them in order but Forever Changes would almost certainly have been top of the pile.
Could not decide on a Who album, really like My Generation, but that is the old mod in me rather than the albums brilliance. Should I ever get my arse in gear to do a 70s list dare say Who's Next will appear, which despite being Jeremy Clarkson's favourite album is absolutely brilliant.
I'm a big fan of "Astral Weeks" too,Chris. The song "Madam George " is staggering.(Album starred session musicians, no-one is sure who played bass on that song!)
"Something else" has ,of course, copper bottom classics such as "situations Vacant","Lazy old sun", the very familiar "David Watts" (grew up with the Jam version!),and has corking extras on the 2004 release,such as "autumn almanac"-one of my favourites! (And Blur based most of a career on )"Death of a Clown"...everyone's a winner...
Actually recently read Ray Davies' book "Americana".He's curiously flat in prose, but it's worth a read.
I must point out that I'm a big fan of the latter Traffic ,Rowley, "John Barleycorn Must Die" (1970) is terrific, especially "Freedom rider" .
As "Disraeli Gears " was mentioned I didn't feel the need to mention it-however it was a massive influence on the young Mick Jones, for which we should be hugely grateful!
I also like the later traffic stuff, particularly john barleycorn as you rightly say. However still think Traffic is their finest hour
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TAMS and genomics schemes to open from May
Ciaran Moran
Mar 31, 2015, 3:58pm
Schemes under the Rural Development Plan, such as TAMS and the Beef Data and Genomics Programme, are expected to be open from May, according to the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney.
Speaking in the Dail, the Minister said that schemes under the Rural Development Plan (RDP), including Knowledge Transfer Groups, Bioenergy Scheme and Areas of Natural Constraint as well as the Beef Data and Genomics Programme and TAMS, will open as soon as a ‘letter of comfort’ on the Rural Development Plan is issued by Europe.
Minister Coveney said this will mean that Ireland is likely to see “through the month of May and June the opening of the schemes one after the other”.
He said that TAMS and the Beef Data and Genomics Scheme are the two schemes that will be prioritised this summer.
The Minister said he hopes to get a ‘letter of comfort’ in the next two weeks from the European Commission, while the RDP still awaits formal adoption. However, he said the ‘letter of comfort’ is a practical measure which would allow him go to the Department of Finance and Public Expenditure to open schemes and commit payment of monies.
“It’s not ideal, but it is a solution which allows us to get schemes open.” He also said this is what farmers are looking for.
“I would have rathered at this stage that we would have a full approval process for our RDP. But the Commission is satified and we are satified that a letter of comfort will give the nessesseray financial and legal cover that we need to be able to get schemes open.”
Genomics Simon Coveney TAMS
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Consider a Bill of Rights along with amendments 19th and 20th - V. Anandasangaree - Secretary General - TULF
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Colombo, 24 April, (Asiantribune.com):
V. Anandasangaree - Secretary General - TULF has called for the adoption of a Bill of Rights along with 19th and 20th amendments to the constitution.
He has said, that I am frankly of the opinion that neither the 19th amendment nor the 20th amendment will get passed or even reach the point of debating ,as now rescheduled for the 27th and 28th of this month.
He said, after a bloodless silent revolution, what is happening in the country today is thoroughly disappointing.
“Creation of this situation will amount to total betrayal of the trust our people had placed on our leaders,” Anandasangaree pinpointed.
“Whether we like it or not we all know that the people very much desire a change. They want good governance and it is the duty of every one to give full backing to achieve it. The whole world will curse us if we miss this golden opportunity which was God sent with no chance of getting another for many generations to come,” he said.
In a statement to the press, Anandasangaree pointed out that “very few know that I am a very senior politician of over fifty five years standing and one of the few in the country and perhaps the only one Tamil still alive in politics. I had been very patriotic and loved the country and its people. I have had good solutions for our problems and whatever opportunity that came on our way I was never consulted at all. Under the present circumstances also I am ignored, yet in view of the unsettled situation, I have a good suggestion to get over the problem that cannot be opposed by anyone who loves this country. What I now suggest will greatly ease the situation and pave the way to reach our goal. “
He went on to emphasize that nothing will be lost if the country will pay attention to my suggestion to introduce the Bill of Rights in toto, as found in the South Africans constitution. If it is adopted without any delay along with the 19th and 20th amendments it will be very acceptable. Otherwise if by any chance the same situation arises again to postpone the 19th and 20th amendments, the Bill of Rights can go through without any opposition. There is no guarantee that a similar situation will not arise again to compel for the postponement of the debate for a future date. I had a solution for the ethnic problem that had been appreciated by both the Government and the opposition and also editorially commented by some national dailies, but unfortunately was not taken up.
He further said:
The South Africans consider the Bill of Rights as the cornerstone of democracy enshrining the Rights of all people in their country and affirming the democratic values of human dignity equality and freedom. It will be the duty of the state to respect, protect, promote and fulfill the rights in the Bill of Rights.
It is very unfortunate as to why; I had been singled out for a nasty treatment, by the three top rankers of the National Government who should have consulted me at least on crucial matters that concern the state, since I am the one who had faced the worst embarrassment and humiliation for very many years.
The filthy words and phrases used against me over the phone will run into several volumes if any one took the trouble to compile them. But the irony is Madam Chandrika Bandaranayake Kumartunga, much respected President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Hon. Ranil Wickrasingha, the three top Leaders, did not give me a chance even to congratulate them on their success, when infact the latter two were wished over the phone the very same day their candidatures were announced and the support of the TULF was made known to the public of Sri Lanka two days later through the press.
Both of them were with me in Parliament for several years. I never went to them for any favor. As far as Madam Chandrika Bandaranayake Kumaratunga is concerned she is the most competent authority to vouch for my integrity and dignity. It is very unfortunate as to why I had been subjected to this type of treatment by these people. I also cannot fail to pay my compliments to two Ministers of the UNP who think that they are carrying the Universe on their head, and do not see anybody around – concluded Anandasangaree, the veteran Tamil former member of parliament.
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The natural inborn talent of understanding pictorial and technical art, these are the starting points of Alberto Zappa, who from a very young age had a burning desire to draw.
A passionate experimenter of textural materials, mixed with colors, he identified with time, details of his style. Today, this means the refining harmony of fascinating compositional works.
For 40 years he has been doing figurative artwork. Here his attention turns to nature. It allows him to represent his work in large projects, grasping them in a fascinating context and observing moments of unexpected joy. He always has an eye regarding a particular moment and humility. This demonstrates that the work itself has a purpose.
When the artist`s impressive environment is transformed, by man, or a prestigious residence, from the ancient city, it is sensed by the massive and protective walls, or thick frosted windows. It is here that he involves us in his imaginary world, populated by invasive figures. Thus, this causes us to reflect on the bigger picture, which has transformed our situation, by the rich testimony of our past, in which our roots are sank.
The evolving nature of Alberto Zappa`s abstract paintings, with the passing of time can be seen to exhale much transfiguration. Much and so more reflecting his sympathy. However this gives us an opening to discover the genesis of his virtual need to represent the invisible existence from the heart and mind. And also to portray nature abstractly in a way that challenge the inherent concert yet better displaying the inherent realities.
The artist however today works simultaneously on two fronts:
Abstract conceptualization with an ever increasing amazing interpretation of the substance yet paving a new path with competence and certainty: That which mirrors humanity and nature in the abstract.
This has no doubt received rapid unanimous consensus owing to a striking elegance in color combination. Whichever way; evenly spread strong tones and rhythms which gives way to shaded tones and rythms. In the whole, creating masterpieces that ignites instant satisfaction and pleasure.
Among his work, features predominately, images with unusual long necks and disjointed bodies which induces to reflection. Could these paintings be highlighting the challenges we must encounter for auto realization? Or are they a reflection of the difficulties encountered in accepting change?
The recent work of Alberto Zappa, contemporary and modern as it is, does not end in offering its admirers esthetic satisfaction but initiates the visitor to become participants. Magnetizing him into intercourse. In some of his creations, even small inserts are seen being distinguished in contrasting colours which breaks the sequence of the surface. This kind and level of meticulosity goes to demonstrate the ardent love of nature of the artist.
Wherever they appear in a scene; which signifies a landscape viewed from either the top or sideward. In whatever sense they carry reasonable significance. The black sections representing windows which bring to our consciousness houses, nests and important places to us: in which all of us can find a place, even as part of a spectator of a desired opera. With ease even possibly identifying the germ or motivating idea.
Posing in front of the paintings of Alberto Zappa, multiple advanced interpretation are inserted in the contemporary artistic discussion. And it is open to individual interpretation.
Thus Alberto Zappa continues to encaptivate us, producing scenes reflecting that of maker and creator.
With his recent works, we are either inspired into assent or invited into expression of contrast mirroring the diversity, the peculiarity and our uniqueness in personalities that is common in the human specie.
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Hillary May Have Lost Election, But She Beats Trump as Primary Target of GOP Oversight Chairman’s Ongoing Investigations
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (photo: Brendan Hoffman, Getty Images)
By Matthew Daly, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who promised before the election to investigate Democrat Hillary Clinton for years, says he will wait until President-elect Donald Trump takes office before "poking around" the businessman's financial affairs and possible conflicts of interest.
While Rep. Jason Chaffetz is holding off on Trump, the four-term Utah lawmaker pledges to continue investigating Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
"There are some outstanding issues floating out there that will still take some time," Chaffetz said in an interview Thursday.
Chaffetz said it's only fair to wait until Trump becomes president before looking at potential conflicts involving his global business empire.
Democrats have called for investigations into Trump's financial ties with foreign businesses and governments, as well as his lease with the U.S. government for a luxury hotel near the White House.
But Chaffetz said Thursday that Trump "needs time to get his affairs in order. When he becomes the president we'll start providing some oversight of that."
The comments were in stark contrast to a remark Chaffetz made before the election that he had "two years' worth of material already lined up" to investigate Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president who lost to Trump in last month's election.
Democrats took notice.
"For Republicans, there was no allegation too small to investigate with respect to Secretary Clinton, but now there is no scandal too big to ignore for Donald Trump," said Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the senior Democrat on the oversight panel.
"Donald Trump's global entanglements are unprecedented," Cummings said, and the oversight committee should "address these conflicts of interest now instead of waiting until after he is sworn in as president."
Trump's business dealings, his charitable foundation and his campaign's ties to pro-Kremlin elements in Russia and Ukraine are all areas ripe for examination by the oversight panel, Cummings and other Democrats said.
At a minimum, Trump should divest his wide-ranging assets or put them in a blind trust not operated by his children, Democrats on the committee said in a letter to Chaffetz seeking an immediate review of Trump's financial holdings.
The letter cited media reports indicating that at least 111 Trump companies have done business in 18 countries.
Trump has broadly asserted that as president he will not be hemmed in by conflict-of-interest laws. "The law is totally on my side," Trump told The New York Times last week.
Chaffetz echoed that view and said he was encouraged by Trump's announcement this week that he would soon announce plans to step back from his company while he is president.
"He's moving in the right direction," Chaffetz said of Trump.
Chaffetz has a complicated relationship with the president-elect. He denounced Trump after the GOP nominee was caught on videotape making crude, predatory comments about grabbing women. But Chaffetz later said he would vote for Trump, calling Clinton "bad for the USA."
Still Chaffetz said that Trump, like any president, will not be able to avoid scrutiny by the oversight committee.
"His obligation is to abide by the law," Chaffetz said of Trump. "Our obligation is not to be a cheerleader but to actually provide oversight, and we intend to fulfill that."
No presidential administration "likes to have Congress poking around," Chaffetz added, "but it's what we do."
At least one Republican on the oversight panel agrees that Trump's business interests deserve scrutiny.
Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., said Trump "rightly criticized Hillary" over possible conflicts of interest related to the Clinton family foundation.
"If you have contracts w/foreign govts, it's certainly a big deal, too," Amash wrote on Twitter, addressing Trump.
"DrainTheSwamp," Amash added in a hashtag, referring to Trump's campaign vow to "drain the swamp" of lobbyists, donors and political cronies in the nation's capital.
Despite his pledge, Trump has tapped a host of insiders and campaign contributors for top posts in his administration, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said Friday. Whitehouse urged Trump to adopt ethics rules to reduce the influence of lobbyists and "corporate special interests."
5 Trump Business Ties that Pose Conflicts for the President-Elect (by Bernard Condon, Associated Press)
With No Ethics Rules Binding U.S. Presidents, Trump Business Ventures Put Conflicts of Interest at High Risk (by Bernard Condon, Associated Press)
Move over Benghazi – Planned Parenthood Now Has 5 Committees Investigating It in Congress (by Noel Brinkerhoff and Steve Straehley, AllGov)
House Benghazi Committee Sets Record as Longest-Lasting Special Congressional Investigation (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
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Women Bridging Borders
Various organizations and materials have been instrumental in stimulating our thinking and encouraged our involvement. This section connects you with these resources.
Just Like Us – follows four young women, two have documentation and two do not; a must read book (written in Denver by Helen Thorpe).
Christians at the Border by Danny Carroll – presents “scriptural precepts” to love the foreigner among us; an excellent book for theological.
The Case for Asylum: A Child’s Long, Lonely Trek –a detailed story about one Honduran youth seeking help and Laura Rheinheimer, a paralegal who assisted him.
Sin Nombre (Without a Name) – a violent, hard-to-watch movie, but one that gives the viewer an essential understanding of the situation.
Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking (LCHT) – ask about their Trafficking 101 class
Prax(us) – a small non-profit that works with at risk street-based youth
Nationwide and worldwide
Polaris – an excellent informational site
National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline (1-888-373-7888)
Mennonite Church USA’s “Statement against Human Trafficking, Modern Day Slavery”
Girls Like Us – a must read (written by a survivor)
African Community Center (ACC) – conducts educational and social service programs that help refugees resettle in their new communities
Project Worthmore – a small group of committed community members who mentor and befriend refugee neighbors
Mennonite Central Committee – helps refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon
MCC has provided nearly 18,000 relief kits and 101,000 comforters in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. (MCC, 2015)
Meet the Middle East (MTME): a Denver-based non-profit organization based whose purpose is to educate American students, adults and businesses on Middle East topics while fostering relationships between our countries by providing a unique study abroad opportunity.
One Voice: an international grassroots movement that amplifies the voice of mainstream Israelis and Palestinians, empowering them to propel their elected representative toward the two-state solution.
Jewish Voice for Peace: Israelis and Palestinian: a Jewish organization that provides a voice for Jews and other allies who believe that peace in the Middle East will be achieved through justice and full equality for both Palestinians and Israelis.
Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) – Palestine Projects: CPT Palestine is a faith-based organization that supports Palestinian-led, nonviolent, grassroots resistance to the Israeli occupation and the unjust structures that uphold it. By collaborating with local Palestinian and Israeli peacemakers and educating people in our home communities, they help create a space for justice and peace.
The Olive Grove: A Palestinian Family’s Story written by Denver author and cofounder of Meet the Middle East organization, Deborah Rohan (Schlueter); Book Club reading guide
One Land Two Stories: Two local professors, one Israeli and one Palestinian explore the Middle East conflict from their own perspectives; by Shaul Gabbay and Amin Kazak.
Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew – Three Women Searching for Understanding; written by Ranya Idiby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner; Book Club reading guide available.
We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A book written by President Jimmy Carter who developed a comprehensive plan he believes can work. (Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid is a second book written on the subject by President Carter)
Beyond Belief: An award winning documentary which tells the story of two women who were widowed on September 11, 2001. Rather than turn inward, grief compels these women to bridge the East-West cultural divide. They focus on empowering widows in Afghanistan and creating a grassroots campaign that inspires each of us to become an active global citizen who will promote a more tolerant and peaceful world.
Is Peace Out of Reach? 60 minutes: Bob Simons reports (in 2009) that a growing number of Israelis and Palestinians feel that a two state solution is no longer possible.
Rick Steves’ The Holy Land: Israelis and Palestinians Today: This hour long special weaves together both Israeli and Palestinian narratives. Steves visits Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Hebron, Bethlehem and Ramalah. The show also discusses the persistent challenges facing the region.
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'He weeps by the side of the ocean, He weeps on the top of the hill', the poet wrote of himself in 'How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear'. This programme considers when and why people cry in Lear's work, and considers how - or how far - tears offer catharsis.
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Raven Gates & Adam Gottschalk - Bachelor in Paradise 4 - Discussion
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by GuardianAngel on Wed Sep 13, 2017 3:42 pm
I was happy for her, but now I'm back to not liking her. They are cute together but I'm not sure she's into him as much as he is into her. She is very monotone IMHO as if she's half asleep all the time.
Go to the link for the full story.
https://www.glamour.com/story/why-adam-and-raven-didnt-get-engaged-on-the-bachelor-in-paradise-finale
Adam Gottschalk: There’s no pressure. We’re on a track where I think our engagement is going to be so much more magical than Derek and Taylor!
Raven: [Laughs.] He promised me a really big ring!
Adam: Yeah, I had to swap numbers with Neil Lane to make sure that I got that taken care of.
Re: Raven Gates & Adam Gottschalk - Bachelor in Paradise 4 - Discussion
by North on Wed Sep 13, 2017 4:27 pm
*SNIPPED*
@GuardianAngel wrote: I was happy for her, but now I'm back to not liking her. They are cute together but I'm not sure she's into him as much as he is into her. She is very monotone IMHO as if she's half asleep all the time.
Go to the link for the full story. https://www.glamour.com/story/why-adam-and-raven-didnt-get-engaged-on-the-bachelor-in-paradise-finale
So Raven is now a spokesperson for sexual assault and consent? Because of her experience on The Bachelor and BIP? But no mention of her being a spokesperson for assault and battery? She was pretty specific on her experience with that on The Bachelor as well. All in my opinion.
PS - I agree about the monotone. It would drive me nuts!
by cookielover12 on Wed Sep 13, 2017 7:51 pm
I'm sorry but I don't really see the chemistry between them two. But I can tell that Adam is more into Raven than she is into him. Part of me thinks she's with him because she was announced to be on BIP to find "love" on ATFR and she made it a goal to find "it".. JMO.
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by Guest on Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:52 pm
I don't get some of the article, intimate details kg sex with Nick?
I thought Nick only did it with Vanessa?
I didn't follow her nor her interview after Nick's season, so I don't know.
by lleyki on Wed Sep 13, 2017 9:30 pm
peggy0221 wrote: I don't get some of the article, intimate details kg sex with Nick?
The question was phrased a little awkwardly. I think the interviewer was referring to Raven's frankness in talking about sex with Nick on his season and specifically the fact that she'd never had an orgasm in her previous relationship.
lleyki
by Maddy on Tue Sep 19, 2017 4:56 pm
https://giphy.com/gifs/bachelorinparadise-season-4-kiss-1Ika11ImUbz6o
by Kashathediva on Tue Sep 19, 2017 5:26 pm
Cute little bar mitzvah kiss. Reminds me of when I was 12.
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by suzq on Sat Sep 23, 2017 2:26 pm
According to SM, It looks like Adam was with Raven at the M & G that she had with Luke Pell on Thursday night in Little Rock. (Raven's IG)
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by cookielover12 on Sat Sep 23, 2017 4:16 pm
I'm sorry but what was Raven thinking wearing this?!? I still find it very hard to believe she is a boutique owner but wears this kind of clothes. Those shoes are not very cute JMO.
PIC from Raven's IG.
by Kashathediva on Sat Sep 23, 2017 4:19 pm
Raven reminds me of my 18 yr old niece who has no guidance or style and digs into her closet and makeup the second her mom leaves town and heads for the nearest frat party. The difference is Raven is an adult.
by albean99 on Thu Jan 04, 2018 3:55 pm
I just checked after seeing Raven on TB Monday and they're still together. Good for them. I didn't expect it.
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by flojo031 on Fri Jan 05, 2018 4:28 pm
Yeah, it's great that they're still together and happy, but Raven posted something on Twitter that's kinda disturbing: https://2img.net/h/oi68.tinypic.com/30hyf0i.png
I get not wanting to date anyone twice your age (unless you're into sugar daddies) or the whole being hit on at a funeral thing, but was the MS addition really necessary?!! And just when I was almost starting to like her again right after her and Rachel made up, but now she's back on my sh** list.
http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/posts/raven-nicole-gates-twitter-150503
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Stoltz sells off last of Barley Mill Plaza land; Weiner: no traffic capacity for intensive use; walkable village preferable
Councilman Bob Weiner said he is encouraged by the fact that it is a local developer purchasing the property.
"Unlike Mr. Stoltz, Greg Pettinaro understands the importance of working with community leaders, the county's Land Use Department and the district councilperson," Weiner said.
Weiner said whatever development comes to the property should be pedestrian-friendly.
"The Barley Mill site is miles away from an intrastate highway and as such, it has limited traffic capacity," Weiner said. "I would hope the intensity of use would be lessened by a walkable, mixed-use village where residents can walk to where they live, shop, work and play."
Pettinaro plans to redevelop 24-building plaza into mix of residential, retail and office space
Scott Goss and Xerxes Wilson , The News Journal 8:21 a.m. EDT October 20, 2016
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• The Stoltz real estate organization closed a deal earlier this month for Barley Mill Plaza.
• Real estate developer Greg Pettinaro said his Newport-based company purchased the land.
• Stoltz bought the 92-acre former office complex from the DuPont Co. in 2007 for $94 million.
Barley Mill Plaza, one of the most controversial properties in New Castle County, has been sold.
The Stoltz real estate organization closed a deal earlier this month to sell off its remaining 57-acre stake in the property, concluding a nearly decadelong battle with its affluent Greenville neighbors over its plans to redevelop the former DuPont Co. complex.
Real estate developer Greg Pettinaro said Wednesday that his Newport-based company purchased the land on Oct. 6, adding to the five retail and office properties in Greenville the business acquired from Stoltz last year for a reported price of more than $100 million. Financial terms of the latest land deal were not disclosed.
Already the biggest landowner in Greenville's retail district, Pettinaro plans to redevelop the 24-building plaza into a mix of residential, retail and office space.
"We would like to design a project that the community will embrace and be an asset to the local economy and neighborhoods," Pettinaro said. "It is a beautiful piece of property that has so much potential."
The Stoltz organization was never able to capitalize on that potential.
Stoltz Real Estate Partners, headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, bought the 92-acre former office complex from the DuPont Co. in 2007 for $94 million.
The company, headed by Keith Stoltz, touched off the most contentious battle in Greenville history a year later when it proposed three massive projects along the Del. 141 corridor, including a $525 million redevelopment of the Barley Mill Plaza. That project called for the construction of 700 apartments or condominiums; 1.48 million square feet of office space; and 731,250 square feet of retail space, which included stores, restaurants, a fitness center, a day care and a hotel.
Several wealthy and powerful residents of Greenville formed a well-funded group called Citizens for Responsible Growth that opposed the projects, arguing the plans would cripple traffic and forever change the bucolic landscape of the area.
With the help of then-County Executive Chris Coons, a compromise was reached in 2010 that dropped the scale of the Barley Mill Plaza development to 1.6 million square feet of shops and offices, while eliminating the residential component. A rezoning of 37 acres along Del. 141 from office to commercial use was approved in 2011.
But the deal bitterly divided the community between those concerned about the Barley Mill Plaza development and those fighting a 12-story tower at the Greenville Center, also owned by Stoltz. The schism led to the creation of Save Our County, a new group that sued New Castle County and property owner Barley Mill LLC in late 2011, claiming the rezoning violated state law.
Current County Executive Thomas P. Gordon joined the battle against Barley Mill Plaza after returning to office in 2012, a year before Delaware Chancery Court invalidated the rezoning and two years before the Delaware Supreme Court upheld that decision.
Soon after, Stotz sold off 35 acres of the Barley Mill Plaza property to Odyssey Charter School and withdrew its original 2.8-million-square-foot mixed-use plan. A year later, the company sold off five properties to Pettinaro, including the Greenville Center, Powder Mill Square, the Montchanin Corporate Center, the Greenville Professional Center and the Barley Mill House.
"This is one of only a few large tracts of land left in northern New Castle County," Pettinaro said of Barley Mill Plaza's remaining 57 acres. "This fits right in with what we do as a company, and that's redevelop eyesore structures into something that pleases the community."
Greg Pettinaro says his company plans to meet with Greenville community groups before proposing a redevelopment plan for the Barley Mill Plaza. (Photo: PETTINARO)
Larry Tarabicos, who represents Stoltz, said Barley Mill was the last of the Stoltz properties in Greenville. He said Pettinaro will likely have learned from the previous legal fights over the property.
"I don't think the community should be overly concerned," Tarabicos said. "It certainly won't be a major battle like we saw before."
Pettinaro declined Wednesday to give specifics about what the exact combination of mixed uses his company hopes to build on the property.
"Before we're willing to discuss anything publicly, we first want to meet with the community groups and talk to them about what we're thinking of doing, answer their questions and, hopefully, get their support," he said. "I expect we'll be reaching out to them in the next 30 days."
Pettinaro said he has no timetable for submitting building plans to the county or beginning work on the property.
“We would like to design a project that the community will embrace and be an asset to the local economy and neighborhoods. It is a beautiful piece of property that has so much potential.”Gordon said the issue will be closely watched by local government.
"The county still has to be vigilant knowing the history of this place and the traffic limitations," Gordon said.
Tom Dewson, a local community activist who fought Stoltz's plans as part of Save our County, said the property is important for two primary reasons. First, it is the gateway to the historic Brandywine Valley.
"We are looking forward to an early and open dialog with the Pettinaro organization," Dewson said. "Anything has to be considered in the light of the character of the area."
Dewson said the property is also important for its position in an "employment corridor." He said the five miles from U.S. 202 to Faulkland Road is home to 100-percent office, residential and institutional uses.
"There are no retail uses along that corridor," Dewson said. "That has been the character of the area for many decades, and that character is very important to the community."
"Unlike Mr. Stoltz, Greg Pettinaro understands the importance of working with community leaders, the county's Land Use Department and the district council," Weiner said.
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In conversation with Joel Brunker
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Australian world title contender Joel Brunker, 28-1 (16 KOs), analyses former foe Lee Selby's IBF featherweight title tilt against tough Russian Evgeny Gradovich, and discusses a potential Commonwealth title clash with Josh Warrington as well as his own fighting future.
This Saturday sees Lee Selby challenge unbeaten IBF champion Evgeny Gradovich at London’s O2 Arena – how do you see the fight going?
I think Selby will make the fight very awkward for Gradovich. Selby has this difficult style that makes him very difficult to land clean punches on. Gradovich will come forward and be the aggressor and Selby will look to counter. I don’t think Selby will stop Gradovich, but I do think he will win on points.
The fight takes place at London’s O2 Arena, which hosted your final eliminator with Selby in October - will familiar surroundings give Selby any advantage? Were you fazed at all with the big arena?
Most definitely. Selby has been there before and has home ground advantage. I give Gradovich full credit for fighting in Selby’s backyard. I wasn’t fazed at all. I don’t really worry too much about the crowd and my surroundings.
Looking back at October’s fight, were you surprised how quick and slick defensively Selby can be?
Not really. I have sparred him a few times and I knew he was a quality fighter. I think Selby knew he needed to be on his game on the night and full credit to him; he was the better fighter on the night and deserved the win.
Despite a determined effort, Selby stepped on the gas in the 9th taking your ‘0’. Do you think your 14-month break since the Mike Oliver fight played a part with ring rust?
Leading up to the fight I didn’t think it would affect me, but as soon as the opening bell rang I could feel the ring rust. My performance against Selby is not a true reflection of what I am capable of doing in the ring and that is what hurts me the most. I can handle losing if I performed at my best, but - I can honestly say that in the fight against Selby - I was far from it. I would like an opportunity to fight Selby again at my best and, if the outcome is the same, I can at least sleep knowing there was nothing more I could have done.
Three months have passed since you captured the vacant International Boxing Organization Oceania super-featherweight title with a convincing second round TKO over Rey Laspinas - it must have been pleasing fighting in front of your hometown fans for the first time in almost 18 months?
It was. I always like fighting in front of my home crowd; it seems to bring out the best in me. I was hoping to get some rounds under my belt in that fight, but when you see an opportunity to end the fight early you have to take it.
It was a peach of a body shot that finished off the awkward Filipino - was that something in particular you were working on in the gym?
It is no secret I love to attack the body, but it wasn’t something I planned to do before the fight.
Australian boxing seems to be in a pretty good place right now with the likes of Daniel Geale, Anthony Mundine, Lucas Browne and Billy Dib all in the world title mix of late. Are there any names we should keep an eye on in the next wave of contenders coming through?
Keep an eye on welterweight Jeff Horn, a very talented boxer who is about to explode onto the world stage.
I’m sure you still have world title aspirations of your own - you’re still ranked No.9 with IBF. Is this your likely route or have you plotted your next move with another one of the governing bodies?
My management are looking at this closely now. It is all about opportunity. It really doesn’t make a difference to me who I fight. As I said, I would like to fight Selby again in the future, but I will fight whoever I need to so I can get a title shot.
Another one of the UK’s rising stars Josh Warrington has catapulted himself into the world rankings with a couple of solid victories - have you had a chance to see him in action yet?
I have had a brief look at him, as I am mandatory for the Commonwealth title. I think his style and mine would make for a very entertaining fight, so I am very keen for this fight to go ahead. It will also be a singing battle of the Football fans, his Leeds supporters against my Western Sydney Wanderers supporters.
Finally, when we can expect to see you out again? I’ve seen Jack Asis’ name being mentioned which would be a big domestic showdown.
My management is currently working on this as we speak. I am happy to fight Jack Asis or whoever my management lines up for me. I want to take on the best fighters and work my way to a world title shot. Finally, just a huge thanks to the UK fans. I appreciate the support you guys give me and I hope to come and fight there again soon.
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Yesterday, Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, celebrated the deployment of the Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner on its daily scheduled services to Shanghai by hosting a spectacular "Abu Dhabi Night" reception. The event took place at Bellagio Shanghai, a five-star hotel inspired by the Art Deco history of the city's famous Bund and styled on a 'modern interpretation of Shanghai's past'. The occasion was attended by leading figures from the UAE and local government officials, diplomats, corporate partners, members of the travel industry and social influencers from the two countries.
Sheremetyevo Welcomes First Vietnam Airlines Flight[Jul. 02, 2019]
On July 2, 2019, Sheremetyevo International Airport welcomed the inaugural flight of Vietnam Airlines, Vietnam's national airline, on the Hanoi -- Moscow -- Hanoi route. The event was attended by Mr. Ng Puc Manh, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the Russian Federation, Mr. Lk Thanh Dung, General Representative of Vietnam Airlines in Russia, and Mr. Denis Pashkovsky, Deputy CEO for Commercial Activities of SIA JSC.
Emirates Launches Its New Service to Porto[Jul. 05, 2019]
Emirates has launched its new four times weekly service to Porto, its second destination in Portugal. The new service provides travellers from across Emirates' global network with a direct flight to the popular city in the north of the country. Passengers departing from Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou, can also visit Porto, the historic and charming coastal city, after convenient transfer in Dubai.
China Eastern Airline Launches Direct Qingdao-Dubai Flight[Jul. 01, 2019]
A new direct flight linking Qingdao, the biggest city in Shandong province, and Dubai of The United Arab Emirates has been launched on June 29 by China Eastern Airlines (CEA), which is being scheduled for three times a week, offering them on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Direct Flights Between Heathrow and Zhengzhou Link Ancient Cities for First Time[Jun. 27, 2019]
Europe's first direct flight from Zhengzhou, the capital of central China's Henan province, landed at London's Heathrow Airport on Tuesday.
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That’s the last straw !
a) I can’t tolerate any more.
’the last straw’ means the last in a series of unpleasant events which finally makes you feel that you cannot continue to accept a bad situation.
The idiom ’the last straw that broke the camel’s back’ is from an Arabic proverb about how a camel is loaded beyond its capacity to move or stand.
This also gives rise to the phrase ’the last/final straw’, used when something is deemed to be the last in a line of unacceptable occurrences.
le bouquet, le coup de grâce, la goutte d’eau qui fait déborder le vase
‘New EU biofuels law could be last straw for farmers hit by wet weather and rising costs
Andrew Watts, 52, is looking nervously at the darkening sky. We are standing at the edge of a field, where his new red-and-yellow seed drill is sowing wheat at an impressive clip. The vast machine can cover six hectares (15 acres) an hour but it may not be fast enough to get the whole field done before the rain starts.’
The Observer, 14 Oct. 2012
’Charity tin theft the final straw for taxis
A WAGGA taxi company thought they could grin and bear a spate of break-ins to their vehicles over the past few months, but a heartless theft which saw a fund-raising tin for a disabled teenager stolen this week was the last straw.’
The Daily Adviser, 24 Aug. 2012
Losing my job was bad enough, but being evicted from my house was the final straw.
The impact produced an environmental catastrophe that was the last straw.
b) I can’t drink any more.
c) I haven’t got any money left.
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First held in 1930 in Hamilton, Canada, today the Commonwealth Games is the world’s second-largest multi-sports event, and the fourth most-watched global broadcast sports event. Featuring athletes from 71 nations and territories, the Commonwealth Games has provided some of the most memorable moments in world sport; from England’s Roger Bannister and Australia’s John Landy duelling it out over the ‘Miracle Mile’ at the 1954 Vancouver Games, to Northern Irish boxer Barry McGuigan winning the Gold at the 1978 Edmonton games – instantly becoming a figure of unity to a then divided nation. The achievements of athletes such as Australia’s Dawn Fraser and Ian Thorpe at the Commonwealth Games are the stuff of legend, but who can forget the amazing 4ft 9in weightlifter Precious McKenzie? Barred from competing for South Africa due to apartheid, McKenzie competed for England and New Zealand, and won four consecutive gold medals. It’s the inspiring athletes such as McKenzie as much as their diversity and world-class action that make ‘the friendly games’ such an indispensable, and enjoyable, part of the global sports calendar. It’s a chance for smaller nations to shine, and for sports popular among Commonwealth nations – such as netball, rugby 7s and Lawn Bowls – to play on a unique stage.
Officers: President: HRH Prince Imran (Malaysia); Chief Executive: Michael Hooper
Activities: The Federation promotes the Commonwealth Games, held every four years. It also encourages and supports the holding of single sport championships in Commonwealth countries and promotes and develops sport throughout the Commonwealth. The next Commonwealth Games will be held in Glasgow in Scotland in 2014 and the Gold Coast, Australia, in 2018. The next Commonwealth Youth Games will be in Samoa in 2015 followed by St Lucia in 2017.
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Boardman Park Studies 400 Trees in ‘Green Oasis’
This Business Journal Daily article details the work Davey Resource Group is doing to help Boardman Park become a more sustainable area.
By Josh Medore
By Dan Slagle’s count, there are some 400 trees in the northern portion of Boardman Park. That’s the section most visited, the park director says, and where the Green Oasis has its greatest impact.
And with more and more people coming every year – an estimated 450,000 visitors came to the park in 2015 – how the park looks plays as much of a role in its success as the entertainment it offers.
In an effort to know exactly what’s going on with the park’s trees, Boardman Park has enlisted Davey Resource Group, based in Kent, to create a tree management plan. Included are data on the location, size and species of each tree, as well as notes on how to maintain it and any damage.
“We can get good baseline data and combine it with our knowledge of urban forestry to help the park become more sustainable,” says Davey business developer Shirley Vaughn. “We want to give the park a clear picture of how they can care for this tree in the future. It helps them prepare.”
In early May, Davey Resource Group project manager Jim Jenkins took inventory of the trees on the northern 60 acres. The process for each tree is straightforward.
Using a GPS device connected to a portable computer, he marks the location of a tree on an aerial image of the park that doubles as a map. While the GPS system gets the position close, it’s up to Jenkins to pinpoint each tree’s spot and enter it into the system. Then, he measures its diameter with a Biltmore Stick – named for the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina where it was developed – and examines the tree for any sign of damage.
“For each and every tree, we do a 360-degree check to inspect it from all angles,” Jenkins says as he examines the trunk of an oak tree. “What we’re looking for are dead limbs and decay.”
Should there be any sign of damage, it’s noted in the computer file, along with the location, species and an age range. With the combined information, each tree is graded A through F.
Once the inventory is completed – Jenkins spent about four days inspecting the 400-plus trees – long-term management recommendations will be made. Should a tree be graded D or F, Jenkins will recommend three species of trees to replace it should it die. For other trees, notes will accompany many entries in the inventory on how it should be pruned to maintain structural integrity or how often it should be fertilized.
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Samsung ditches Android for Tizen with second smartwatch range
Feb 24, 2014 | Mobile
Samsung has showcased its second attempt at smartwatches, with two new versions of its Gear range, running on its own Tizen operating system rather than Android. The Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches are companion devices to the Galaxy smartphones, although last year's model was poorly received by both critics and consumers. The company [...]
Samsung has showcased its second attempt at smartwatches, with two new versions of its Gear range, running on its own Tizen operating system rather than Android.
The Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches are companion devices to the Galaxy smartphones, although last year's model was poorly received by both critics and consumers.
The company demonstrated the Gear 2 device alongside another new model, the lighter Gear 2 Neo at its own event in Barcelona, one day ahead of the Mobile World Congress in the same city.
Both have a heart rate sensor, a pedometer and various tools to measure exercise, sleep and stress levels.
The watches run on Tizen OS, a fledgling mobile operating system, rather than Google's Android software.
The move is being seen as part of a wider strategy from Samsung to move away from Google's platform and to lessen its reliance on the search giant's product.
Crucial to Tizen's longer-term success will be whether it can attract the same breadth and quality of apps compared to Apple's App Store and Google Play.
Currently the Tizen app store includes apps from CNN, Ebay, Evernote and Paypal and others, as well as some workarounds that allow Android apps to run on the platform.
Getting mainstream attention
After sales of the first smartwatch stalled, Samsung is hoping the new devices will catch on top mainstream conumers with a range of new features and enhancements.
Firstly, the battery life of the new devices is considerably better. Samsung promises two to three days of power - much more than the charge-every-night issue suffered by the company's first effort.
The Gear 2's camera is now situated on the main body of the device, taking it away from the strap and removing some of the rigid bulk of the Galaxy Gear.
The Gear 2 Neo does not have a camera, but is 13g lighter as a result.
Samsung has heralded both devices as offering "freedom and style" - but despite bringing in extra design expertise, the watch still looks very much a technology product, rather than a fashion accessory.
Galaxy S5 launch
Samsung is expected to launch the latest iteration of its flagship smartphone range, presumably to be called the Galaxy S5, at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress on Monday night.
The current model, the S4, has proved to be a hugely popular product for the South Korean firm, and is widely considered the only real rival to Apple's iPhone.
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Weekend Autograph Opportunities: Wes Parker and Andy McCue to Discuss LA Dodger History
This isn't quite an autograph appearance, but promises to be so much more. The Institute for Baseball Studies at Whittier College is presenting a discussion session featuring author Andy McCue and former Dodger first Baseman Wes Parker titled, "The Dodgers Come to Los Angeles: Politics and Pennants in Paradise."
No doubt this should be an interesting evening. The event starts at 7:00PM. Also the Institute for Baseball Studies will open their doors from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM. Check out the flyer below for more information, or go to this link. Admission is free.
BTW, McCue's book titled "Mover & Shaker" is an absolutely fantastic book. It's one of the more detailed studies on Walter O'Malley and the Dodgers I've ever read. I consider it a must read for fans who want to have a better understanding of Dodger history.
Whittier College, Villalobos Hall
13507 Earlham Dr.
By ernest at Wednesday, September 23, 2015 0 comments
Links Labels: Auto Op, Wes Parker
2015 Topps Triple Threads - The Dodgers' Unity Cards
Below are all of the Dodger Unity insert cards found in 2015 Topps Triple Threads. They feature jumbo sized game-used uniform pieces, and a couple are signed. Go here to check out all of my past post on this set.
Unity Single Jumbo Relics (#/36)
#UJR-AGN Adrian Gonzalez #UJR-AGO Adrian Gonzalez
Links Labels: 2015 Triple Threads, Adrian Gonzalez, Clayton Kershaw, Hyun-jin Ryu, Joc Pederson, Yasiel Puig, Zach Greinke
Blog Kiosk: 9/23/2015 - Dodger Links - RIP, Yogi Berra
RIP, Yogi Berra.
He was an incredible opponent and an even better person. Roundly beloved by just about everyone, Yogi Berra will be sorely missed. For sure, his "Yogism's" will live on forever in folklore - told by one generation to another for the next thousand years or more.
In honor of him I dug up the above press photo from the 1951 All-Star Game. It originally comes from eBay. As you can see, Yogi is sliding home as the ball sails past the bewildered Dodger legend Roy Campanella.
You should also check out Mark Langill's story at Dodger Insider about the famous steal of home by Jackie Robinson on Berra during the 1955 World Series, here. Below are more links to check out:
Dodger writer Howard Cole shares his fantastic story. Via Howard Cole at CNN iReport, "A 25-year Transplant Survivor Shares His Story, and His Gratitude for the Gift of Life."
Via Ken Gurnick at MLB.com, "Dodgers hopeful for return to full health."
"I definitely would like to play with a full boat, a full complement of players healthy with some type of rhythm and swinging the bat well," (Mattingly) said. "Unfortunately, we've got a few guys banged up, and we're not a lot different than a lot of other teams. We're heading toward 180, 190 games including Spring Training. That's a lot of baseball, and everybody is a little banged up right now."
This is good news. Via Vincent Samperio at Dodgers Nation, "Justin Turner Calls MRI Results The ‘Best Case’
After sitting out two games, the 30-year-old underwent an MRI and discussed the results. The MRI showed tendinitis and a bone bruise in his knee. Based on that, Turner believes he will be back in the starting lineup in a couple days. He was happy with what the examination showed. “This was pretty much the best case we could’ve had,” he said. “But, there’s not really a whole lot medicine-wise to speed it up. So, it’s kind of a good-case, bad-case thing.”
I would prefer they not use him in Colorado - if it can be helped. After all, I see no reason to risk anything now. Via Mark Saxon at ESPN, "Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen expects to be available to pitch at Coors Field."
Jansen's history of health scares in Colorado could be a problem considering he is far and away their most effective reliever and the Dodgers are hoping to clinch the NL West title there this weekend to make next week's four-game series in San Francisco an afterthought. Jansen said he will be ready if called upon at Coors.
"I'm good to go," Jansen said. "It's not an issue for me there any more."
ICYMI: The Dodgers have added Adam Liberatore to the active roster. Per a Dodger press release:
Liberatore has gone 2-2 with a 4.15 ERA in 35 games with the Dodgers this year, last appearing on July 20 at Atlanta. After making his big league debut on April 17, Liberatore opened his career with nine consecutive scoreless appearances and, overall, he has limited opposing hitters to a .222 batting average with 26 strikeouts in 26.0 innings in the Majors this year. He did not allow a run in his last five appearances with Oklahoma City, last pitching in a postseason game against Round Rock on Sept. 11, and went 0-1 with three saves and a 3.74 ERA in 19 Triple-A games.
I thought I would pass this link on. For a bunch of great memorabilia photographs from the recent National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago go to the Sports Antique website, here. There are hundred of great pics to go through.
Here is something fun. Check out a custom made Lego build of Dodger Stadium available for sale at Stadium Brick.com, here. It consist of over 2,500 bricks.
Links Labels: Adam Liberatore, Blog Kiosk, Don Mattingly, Justin Turner, Kenley Jansen, NSCC, RIP, Roy Campanella
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