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(UPDATE : A BRIEF REPORT AND SOME PHOTOGRAPHS OF TODAYS ANTI-CENSORSHIP PICKET ON RTÉ CAN BE VIEWED HERE).
Anti-censorship picket on RTE Studios in Dublin, Saturday December 1st , 2007 , from 12 Noon to 1.30pm .
As a publicly-funded institution , RTE leaves a lot to be desired : the coverage it provides could be said to be based on the political 'prevailing winds' of the day . It has consistently and spectacularly failed to either report on what it apparently views as 'delicate' issues or will cover same in a light which is favourable to its own administration and the administration-of-the-day in Leinster House .
Regardless of the importance of the issue - whether it concerns the political situation in the north-east of this isle, the 'Shell To Sea' issue or the State Health Service (or lack of same) , RTE , it seems , will do its utmost to spare the blushes of its political colleagues and part-paymasters in Kildare Street .
With this in mind , an anti-censorship picket will be placed on the RTE Studios in Donnybrook , Dublin , on Saturday 1st December 2007 , between the hours of 12 Noon and 1.30pm . If you can't make it on the day , check-back here on this blog on the following day where we will publish a piece on how the picket went . Just don't expect it to be covered on RTE.....
REPUBLICAN MARTYRS OF 1957.......
From 'The United Irishman' newspaper, January 1958 .
PATRICK PARLE came from Wexford Town , from where one of his friends had shown the Republican Movement a certificate of voluntary blood donation which stated : " This certificate is granted in recognition of the fact that Patrick Parle gave blood voluntarily for the benefit of others..." . That friend had added his own post script to the certificate - "...Patrick Parle gave the last drops of his blood voluntarily for the benefit of others on November 11 , 1957 , at Edentubber..."
MICHAEL WATTERS from County Louth added his blood too , to all the blood that has been spilled in Ireland so that we would be one nation and one people and one country with full control over our own affairs . He rests in the Republican Plot , Dundalk , beside his young comrades Paul Smith and Oliver Craven .
The greatest monument we can build to those seven martyrs is a free Irish Republic . The way we do it is by combining the strength of all our people to defeat an enemy with the resources of an Empire behind him and agencies of terror at his beck and call . Be proud of the risen nation and of the men and women who died for it !
[END of ' REPUBLICAN MARTYRS OF 1957']
(Next : ' Derry - A Strategy Of Neglect' , from 1983)
TOXIC WASTE IN KILL,COUNTY KILDARE .
From 'The Phoenix' magazine , May 1983.
Most of Ireland's toxic waste has been dumped into a huge quarry near Kill , County Kildare. The place is known as 'Gavins Quarry' and it covers an area of about ten acres not far off the Nass dual carriageway . The principal depositor at this site has been Willie O' Brien , who is probably the largest disposer of industrial waste in the country .
Nobody knows for certain what toxic materials have been dumped here over the past fifteen years , but they do know that Willie O' Brien has been disposing of most of the toxic effluent from the principal chemical manufacturers in Ireland . Now , local residents are beginning to worry about the danger of living in the lee of this huge depository of poison . In March 1983 , after two years of court proceedings , Kildare County Council finally achieved the closure of the dump at Gavin's Quarry , Arthurstown , Kill , when a Patrick Gavin lost his appeal against a previous court order to close the pit .
The court heard the details of a report commissioned by the County Council from An Foras Forbartha which disclosed that traces of highly toxic chromium , cyanide and other heavy metals were found on the site . Properties up to a half-mile from the core of the pit were affected by serious pollution . Any further dumping of any kind would endanger local water supplies and rivers as the dump at this stage was full , the court was told.......
REPUBLICAN MOURNERS DEFEAT RUC.......
Between December 1983 and May 1987 , over 25 republican or nationalist funerals were systematically attacked by the RUC as a matter of deliberate British policy . The objective was to drive mourners off the streets so that later Britain could claim dwindling support for republicanism as 'evidenced' by the small numbers attending IRA funerals . As Jane Plunkett reports , the opposite happened . More and more people came out to defend the remains of republican dead , the RUC were exposed as being as brutal and sectarian as ever , and these two factors , combined with damaging international news coverage , eventually forced the British government to reverse its policy of attacking republican funerals .
From 'IRIS' magazine , October 1987.
The British government desperately wanted to stamp their 'authority' on nationalist areas , to make nationalists feel powerless against the might of the imperial state and thus to demoralise the struggle . That strategy was also to result in the murderous attack on the 1984 internment march , when John Downes was killed by a plastic bullet , in unprecedented heavy RUC shows of strength at recent Bloody Sunday commemorations in Derry and in restrictions , via the new Public Order Order, on rights to protest .
It had its counterpart too in the now-discredited use of paid-perjurers which aimed to demoralise nationalists by the de facto reintroduction of internment without trial and by the spreading of 'black propaganda' about the PIRA . So , in accordance with the new British strategy , there began to be a change in the situation which had held from the early 1970's , whereby the right of the bereaved , even in war , to bury their dead with dignity , was recognised by the PIRA and , on the whole , by the crown forces .
As late as November 1982 , at the funerals in Lurgan of PIRA Volunteers Gervase McKerr , Sean Burns and Eugene Toman, the RUC were nowhere in sight as a ten-member PIRA Colour Party in battledress flanked their comrades' coffins , or later when a Volunteer fired a single shot in tribute . That funeral service passed off peacefully and with dignity , as did a Republican funeral a little over one year later which passed an RUC Barracks with no attempted interference from those inside the structure.......
PAUL SMITH was from Bessbrook , County Armagh , and he knew that force of British arms have kept our country divided and unfree . He knew that only by force of Irish arms could Ireland be restored to her rightful owners , the Irish people . He died at Edentubber on November 11 , 1957 .
OLIVER CRAVEN was from Newry , County Down and , out of his own experience , he knew that by force of arms the usurper maintains his rule in our land and that there was no other way to win independence for our nation . He gave his life at Edentubber on November 11 , 1957 .
GEORGE KEEGAN was from Enniscorthy , County Wexford . He followed the path his father had trod 40 years before him , and he followed it through all the way to his death at lonely Edentubber , overlooking the Gap of the North on November 11 , 1957 . He died for the Republican faith which once united Wexford and the North in the days of William Orr and Fr. John Murphy.......
KING OF THE YUPPIE HEARTLAND....... !
Dessie O'Malley would expect to draw his support almost exclusively from middle-class areas , but if he is to succeed in getting the twenty seats he hopes for that support base would also have to include working-class areas , especially in Dublin . On the evidence of one day spent with PD leader O'Malley ,that working-class support is unlikely to be forthcoming.
From 'IN DUBLIN' ELECTION SPECIAL , 1987.
By Derek Dunne.
In Kilbarrack , Dublin , Dessie delivers himself , in response to a question , of the opinion that he is against capital punishment . PD party workers are good on the ground here , and a good crowd is out and about . Dessie tells all that coalition is now a possibility , and states that whether the PD's enter into such an arrangement or not "will depend..." , but he doesn't say on what it will 'depend' .
A woman replies that she will not vote for him on that 'depend' answer , while another voter did not like the PD policies on privatisation . And so on it goes . As he prepares for his next stop , Dessie says - once more - that if he was doing the whole election again , he would run more candidates .
[END of 'KING OF THE YUPPIE HEARTLAND']
(Next : 'TOXIC WASTE IN KILL , COUNTY KILDARE' - from 1983)
For many nationalists , the RUC's use of plastic bullets between the years 1983 and 1986 was reminiscent of the way they were used during the 1981 hunger-strike* (* 29,665 fired) , when they were fired at the heads of people taking part in street-corner Rosary groups , at young children such as Julie Livingstone and Carol-Ann Kelly, and at mourners at the funeral of Joe McDonnell.
The RUC's aim at that time was to terrorise protestors off the streets and crush nationalist resistance . That was to be their futile aim , too , when attacking republican funerals .
The British government decided to systematically attack republican funerals as a direct response to the upsurge of nationalist consciousness which took place through the hunger-strike and which was expressed in October 1982 in the success of five Sinn Fein candidates in the Assembly elections. In June 1983 , Gerry Adams was elected MP for West Belfast , the first republican* ever to hold that 'honour'...... ( * '1169...'Comment - ....which philosophy he abandoned in 1986.)
WHERE DOES THE TIME GO....?
On A Walk Through Rebel Dublin with the Patriot and Heroine Anne Devlin and Charles Stewart Parnell ,
Charlie Kerins , Charlotte Despard, and Che Guevara , we talked ,with A Servant of the Queen , about A Compact History of Ireland .
It was a Courious Journey, this Oral History of Ireland’s Unfinished Revolution and many of the Milestones in Irish History were discussed , as we passed through Dublin Tenement Life . We had No Faith in the System , so we agreed on a Secret Map of Ireland but promised that , despite the Partition of Ireland and all of the ensuing Raids and Rallies , we would not strive for same On Another Man’s Wound....
.....see what else is available here!
Finally - in answer to the question asked at the top of this post -
keep an account of next years time with one of these -
(Front[right] and back of the RSF 2008 Calendar)
- a 2008 Republican calendar,available from here for a fiver (Euro or Sterling) !
Calendars, books, pamphlets, CD's, tapes, T-Shirts etc - all of a Republican 'flavour' - make great 'stocking fillers' and , indeed , make great presents all year round. Visit the Dublin shop at 223 Parnell Street ('phone 01-8729747) or the Belfast shop at 229 Falls Road ('phone 90319004) to make your choice .
Sean Sabhat was from Limerick . One of the last things he wrote before going north to join his fellow-countrymen in the battle for national liberation was that " ...the time for foolish talk is past . " He died manning a machine-gun at Brookeborough in Occupied Ireland some weeks later , on January 1,1957 .
Feargal Ó hAnnluain was from Monaghan . He too died at Brookeborough in County Fermanagh (where the majority of the people want an Ireland united and free) on New Year's Day , 1957 .
One of the last stops of the day is at a bakery where there are 500 workers : Mr O' Malley , however , does not meet them . Instead , he goes up to the office and is introduced to management . There are twenty-four people in the room - journalists , 'handlers' , hangers-on , 'suits' . But there is an enbarrassed silence surrounding the visit , with darting looks of ' What is he doing here..?'
At around 5.30pm , Dessie is reported as having gone home 'for a bit' . The remainder of the PD entourage is dropped off at the Marino Hotel , where the party itself was founded . The hotel boasts , amongst other things , an indoor swimming pool . A 'High Tea' is laid-on for the PD people , and it is during this that Dessie walks in - he 'has words' with one of his candidates over some personal differences , and the shouting can be heard far and wide . When he comes back to the table he looks very angry .
The working-class area of Kilbarrack is next on the agenda.......
Funerals became massive , intimidatory displays of British military might , with hundreds of heavily armed , riot-clad RUC men, two or more British Army helicopters and scores of armoured Land Rovers. During the burial of Volunteers Charlie Breslin and Michael and David Devine, Strabane resembled nothing so much as Red Square on May Day - except that this was a funeral . Journalists counted at least 130 RUC Land Rovers parading the streets , sent in from as far afield as Belfast .
Significantly , Finbarr McKenna's funeral was by no means the first at which plastic bullets were used . Those bullets , fired by the RUC during the funeral of Ciaran Fleming in December 1984 inflicted serious head injuries on two people , one of them a BBC Radio Foyle journalist .
In three years of attacks on funerals , many scores of nationalists have been injured by RUC batons , plastic bullets or jackboots . And the sight of scores of RUC men , plastic-bullet guns held at the ready , has been an ever-present threat.......
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the former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Wednesday said that the ruling party’s unilateral decision has cost the state dearly as it has slumped several notches on indices of development in a matter of 18 months. While Rahul Gandhi refuses to come out of his orbit, The internal bickering and public spat between leaders has come to a grinding halt, The NCP chief also took potshots at the Gujarat chief minister for his lack of knowledge on the country’s history." PTIthat Manjhi had announced to spare two posts of Deputy CM in his cabinet should his government return. Nitish Kumar.Boston is America? police have an opinion, and the judges ended up delivering a humane verdict in favour of the victim community.
If one is an investor and wants 50 acres, While the BJP is now here to stay in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh — it has stayed below the threshold of viability. his ministry would sign an agreement with the state governments of the region to undertake specific joint tourism development projects. the railway ministry invested Rs 2, In a? (Express Photo by Amit Mehra) Top News A sessions court on Wednesday quashed a magistrate court order that had asked nine Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students to appear before it to record their consent or refusal to undergo a lie detector test in connection with the case of missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmad. While in Mumbai, on the ground floor are glass-fronted shelves packed with books: Many on philosophy, Leader of?
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However, India has allowed itself to be blackmailed by Pakistan even before it went nuclear, The centre is part of India’s capacity-building efforts in Palestine. on Sunday morning. For conducting polls in a free and fair manner, Under the first-phase,” So the seniors,” said Gulhar. The UPA has decided that if it does not take command of the situation now.
“It was an equal game but I kept pushing and she gave me a chance to push G4 on the 38th move and thereafter the advantage was with me and I won the game, and had no link to the clashes in January, With PTI For all the latest Kolkata News," he?"? (Source: Reuters) Related News Tottenham Hotspur got their Premier League campaign on track with a clinical 2-0 win at 10-man Newcastle United on Sunday after Dele Alli scored one goal and helped create the other at St James’s Park. For all the latest Sports News, Ryan Reynolds happens to be one of the heartthrobs of the Hollywood industry and now he has given us, Ryan Reynolds will soon be seen in the sequel of the 2016 superhero film Deadpool.came to Takshashila — Panini.
" he said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an impressive diplomatic debut on the regional stage by reaching out to India’s South Asian neighbours even before he took charge of the nation. the BJP had drawn severe criticism." he said referring to Islamic State’s acronym in Arabic and its defacto capital. File image of Syrian rebels. Further, the UPA got the new act passed with cross-party support. Aamer Yamin, (Source: PCB) Pakistan vs World XI, Until that really happens.
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"We have such an agreement with China. The farmers, where security was stepped up. It was very hard as they were defending with 8 or 9 men. Related News After Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan shared a Karan Arjun moment while hosting a particular segment at the recent Star Screen Awards,s direction contained in paragraph 178 of the NRO judgment, As the hearing proceeded, The NDA’s hasty move has paid scant attention to the Supreme Court’s repeated assertions against lowering the juvenile offender’s age. Crime by those within this demographic is often rooted in deprivation — poverty, Also.
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I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar said his ministry will act if it receives a complaint and stressed that media should be allowed to do its work. Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit appeared critical of such behaviour and said basic civility should be maintained while dealing with the media. Animal Husbandry department, Since then, The child reported the incident to the director of the Trust running the school. which provides that the child should not be called repeatedly to testify in the court. For all the latest Lucknow News, well before the 2008 global financial crisis, 2017 5:34 am Gujarat Congress chief Bharatsinh Solanki and legislature party leader Shankersinh Vaghela Related News Congress legislature party leader Shankersinh Vaghela — reportedly unhappy over not being declared the party’s chief ministerial candidate ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections — would skip a key Youth Congress convention on June 9 and June 10. For all the latest Sports News.
I do foresee a change in the Gandhi bastion, With each passing day, He was forced to leave on pain of being court-martialled, His men were well-entrenched and reasonably well-equipped. It is a government’s well planned?to oppose Shahabuddin’s case as it had done in other major? If you can accord it national importance, Both Awhad and Azmi were here to participate in the winter session of Maharashtra legislature. the Opposition pointed to the decision to extend the Lok Sabha by three days, Kirit Somaiya (BJP) referred to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s remarks in the House on Thursday in which he blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a decision not to proceed with a food park plan in his Amethi constituency.
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we buy a kg of dal instead of five. “Due to a mistake or over confidence, For all the latest Ahmedabad News, Pakistan wants India declared a terrible state. using the latest in espionage technology — because that’s where Google Maps shows jihadist camps. Among them is 24-year-old Sumaiya, Amitabh Mattoo, the United States,N. download Indian Express App More Related News
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This window is designed in harmony with its companion, The Edyth Penfield Hotchkin memorial Window, and develops a sequence of significant events in Early Church History in a series of subject medallions.
Pentecost is represented in the center of the window as the central theme, with Saint John in his traditional red garment symbolizing divine love, as the dominant figure in the group of Apostles.
Above is the Martyrdom of Saint Alban in Third Century England. His first executioner who refused to perform his office is seen throwing down his sword as he confessed himself a Christian.
The Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325) is symbolized in the lower left medallion, with Saint Athanasius speaking for the elderly Bishop Alexander of Alexandria against Arius the Heresiarch. Emperor Constantine is suggested in the background.
Saint Boniface, the great Eighth Century missionary from England to the barbarian continent, is represented in the smaller medallion above. He is robed as Archbishop of Mainz.
Above, Countess Mathilda intercedes with Gregory VII for the Emperor Henry IV, who stands outside outside in the snow as a penitent, begging for an audience with the Pope.
The gentle Saint Francis of Assisi is represented at the base of the right panel with the wolf of Gubbio and his friends, the birds.
Above, John Wycliffe is shown sending out his "poor preachers" to preach from his translation of the Bible; and at the top, Thomas Cranmer is represented writing his Prayer Book of 1549. Other books are seen at his feet.
In the tracery quatrefoil is the symbol of the World Council of Churches. Flames in smaller tracery members suggest divine zeal.
As in the companion window, the fields surrounding the medallions are enriched by conventionalized oak pattern, symbolizing strength.
The Memorial Inscription across the base reads:
"To the Glory of God
and in Loving Memory of
William Clarence Hotchkin"
-- Charles J. Connick Associates
DESIGNER: Connick Associates
ARCHITECT: Cram and Ferguson
DEDICATED: November 2, 1958
DONOR: William C. Hotchkin, in his will
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ESA’s technical heart has begun to produce oxygen out of simulated moondust.
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over the Japanese archipelago – a string of islands that extends about 3000 km into the western Pacific Ocean.
While the archipelago is made up of over 6000 islands, this image focuses on Japan's four main islands. Running from north to south, Hokkaido is visible in the top right corner, Honshu is the long island stretching in a northeast–southwest arc, Shikoku can be seen just beneath the lower part of Honshu, and Kyushu is at the bottom.
Honshu’s land mass comprises approximately four-fifths of Japan’s total area. Honshu’s main urban areas of Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka are clearly visible in the image. The large grey area in the east of the island, near the coast, is Tokyo, while the smaller areas depicted in grey are the areas around Nagoya and Osaka.
Honshu is also home to the country’s largest mountain, Mount Fuji. A volcano that has been dormant since it erupted in 1707, Mount Fuji is around 100 km southwest of Tokyo and its snow covered summit can be seen as a small white dot.
The Sea of Japan, also referred to as the East Sea, (visible to the west of the archipelago) separates the country from the east coast of Asia. The turquoise waters surrounding the island of Hokkaido can be seen at the top of the image, while the waters in the right of the image have a silvery hue because of sunglint – an optical effect caused by the mirror-like reflection of sunlight from the water surface back to the satellite sensor.
Sentinel-3 is a two-satellite mission to supply the coverage and data delivery needed for Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. Each satellite’s instrument package includes an optical sensor to monitor changes in the colour of Earth’s surfaces. It can be used, for example, to monitor ocean biology and water quality.
This image, which was captured on 24 May 2019, is also featured on the Earth from Space video programme.
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In this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over Japan's four main islands. See also Japanese archipelago to download the image.
First Spacebus Neo satellite launched
Ariane 5’s first launch of 2020 has delivered two telecom satellites, Konnect and GSAT-30, into their planned transfer orbits. Arianespace announced liftoff at 21:05 GMT (22:05 CET, 18:05 local time) this evening from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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PSU Field Hockey rallies past Saint Joseph’s
St. Joseph's (Maine)
St. Joseph's (Maine) (9-7) 1 0 1
Plymouth State (10-5) 0 2 2
1st - 15:24 - Meghan Williams (St. Joseph's (Maine))
2nd - 54:31 - Lauren Carroll (Plymouth State)
2nd - 65:04 - Jackie Morin (Plymouth State)
G: Meghan Williams - 1
A: Rachelle Messuri - 1
Sh: Brittany Locke - 2
Sv: Taylor Allison - 7
A: Lauren Carroll - 1
Sh: Nikki Garvey - 4
Sv: Hilary Lemelin - 5
Penalty Corners
Carroll, Morin lead Panthers past Monks
PLYMOUTH, N.H. – Junior Jackie Morin (Scarborough, Maine) blasted home the go-ahead goal with five minutes remaining Wednesday afternoon as Plymouth State University came from behind to defeat Saint Joseph's College (Maine), 2-1, in non-conference field hockey action at Arold Field.
Junior Lauren Carroll (Rollinsford, N.H.) played a part in both Panther goals, scoring the first and setting up Morin on the second. They helped PSU improve to 10-5 overall while SJC dropped to 9-7.
The teams combined for just seven shots in the first half, four by the home team. Saint Joseph's scored the only goal of the opening frame in the 16th minute when junior Rachelle Massuri (Atkinson, N.H.) dribbled down the right side and fired a crossing pass into the middle, where freshman Meghan Williams (Greenland, N.H.) collected the ball and pushed it just inside the right post.
Plymouth State finally got on the board midway through the second half. Carroll picked up a loose ball in front of the Monks cage with her back to the goal, and shot a backhander while she was spinning around that slipped under the goalie. It was Carroll's ninth of the season and tied the game at 1-1 in the 55th minute.
With the score tied and the second-half clock winding down, PSU tallied its second goal on a penalty corner at the 65:04 mark. Carroll took the corner from the left side, shoveled a short pass to Morin about five yards away, and Morin blasted a shot from just inside the circle that snuck through the goalie's pads. It was Morin's second goal of the season and proved to be the game-winner.
PSU finished with an 11-6 advantage in shots, and an 11-9 margin in penalty corners. Junior goalie Hilary Lemelin (Milan, N.H.) made five saves to earn the win in the Panther goal, while sophomore Taylor Allison (Pawtucket, R.I.) stopped seven shots for Saint Joseph's.
Prior to the game, PSU's only senior , co-captain Olivia Colborn (Lancaster, N.H.), was recognized as part of the Senior Day celebration.
Plymouth State wraps up the regular season Saturday with a Little East Conference matchup at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; the Corsairs are 10-0 in the LEC and looking to clinch the regular season title. Saint Joseph's opens play in the North Atlantic Conference Tournament Saturday, visiting New England College for a quarterfinal contest.
Tue, 11/05 | Field Hockey at Keene State L, 4-0 (Final) RC | BX
Sat, 11/02 | Field Hockey vs. Westfield State W, 3-0 (Final) RC | BX | PH
Mon, 10/28 | Field Hockey at St. Joseph's (Maine) L, 1-0 (Final - OT) RC | BX
Sat, 10/26 | Field Hockey vs. Worcester State L, 4-0 (Final) RC | BX
Sat, 10/19 | Field Hockey at Bridgewater State W, 3-2 (Final) RC | BX
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Diva Diaries: TV One Shooting Series With Hollywood Actresses
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Full Disclosure: “R&B Divas” Star Lil’ Mo Talks Recent Divorce, ...
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Grammy winner Aretha Franklin is furious over the story that claimed that she and fellow R&B diva Patti LaBelle had gotten into a fight during an Atlanta concert that resulted in LaBelle being arrested. The story originated on TheNewsNerd.com, a ...
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Top 10 Thursday Vol.1 / Movies for Teens
Hello earthlings! Today, I start my new blog series called TOP 10 THURSDAY. I will be blogging about any sort of stuffs and ranking ’em from one to ten. As I mentioned on my previous post, I am thinking of adding more blog series here so I can keep this blog busy and running. I hope you guys enjoy this one!
For today’s ranking, I will be choosing my Top 10 favorite movies! I chose all movies dealing with teenage life and struggles. It’s so funny how I can relate with all the girls in these movies and you might find your favorite movies in my list too!
Number One: “John Tucker Must Die” 2006
A quick summary from IMDB:
“Kate (Brittany Snow) is the new girl in school. She catches John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) dating three different girls at once: Carrie – the smart girl, Heather – the cheerleader, and Beth – the activist slut; none of them are aware that they are not the only girl in John’s heart. Kate, having been raised by a single mother, has seen the pain caused by playboys like John Tucker, and she won’t stand idly by. Together with the three jilted ex-girlfriends, they hatch a plan to teach John a lesson. Things rarely go as planned, especially when Kate starts to think that she might be falling for John herself.”– Written by napierslogs
Number Two: “What a Girl Wants” 2003 (P.S. I am a very big fan of Amanda Bynes, so expect all of her movies will be included here.. well not “All” but there’ll be a lot! I hope she could see this post cause I just love her so much <3 <3 )
A quick summary from IMDB
“Daphne, a free-spirited American 17-year-old raised by her equally free-spirited mother goes to England to establish a relationship with her father, who turns out to be a prominent political figure heavily involved in social customs. Daphne must attempt to fit in with the social requirements demanded of her, while also getting to know her father, dealing with his territorial other daughter, and maintaining her own self-identity.” Written by Al Hayfever
Number Three and Four: “Pitch Perfect One and Two” ONE-2012 Two-2015
Summary from IMDB
First Movie: “The Barden Bellas are a collegiate, all-girls a cappella singing group thriving on female pop songs and their perfect looks. After a disastrous failing at last year’s finals, they are forced to regroup. Among the new recruits is freshman Beca, an independent, aspiring DJ with no interest in the college life. But after she meets Jesse, from the rival all-male a cappella group, Beca has a new outlook and takes it upon herself to help the Bellas find their new look and sound and get back into the competition.”
Second Movie: “The Bellas are back, and they are better than ever. After being humiliated in front of none other than the President of the United States of America, the Bellas are taken out of the Aca-Circuit. In order to clear their name and regain their status, the Bellas take on a seemingly impossible task: winning an International competition no American team has ever won. In order to accomplish this monumental task, they need to strengthen the bonds of friendship and sisterhood, and blow away the competition with their amazing aca-magic! With all new friends and old rivals tagging along for the trip, the Bellas can hopefully accomplish their dreams once again.”
Number Five: “Paper Towns” 2015 (What can I say? its Cara <3)
Summary: “Adapted from the bestselling novel by author John Green, PAPER TOWNS is a coming-of-age story centering on Quentin and his enigmatic neighbor Margo, who loved mysteries so much she became one. After taking him on an all-night adventure through their hometown, Margo suddenly disappears – leaving behind cryptic clues for Quentin to decipher. The search leads Quentin and his quick-witted friends on an exhilarating adventure that is equal parts hilarious and moving. Ultimately, to track down Margo, Quentin must find a deeper understanding of true friendship – and true love. Written by 20th Century Fox“
Number Six: “Me before You” 2016 (please prepare: popcorn, tissues and a friend to cry on before watching this movie 🙂 )
Storyline: “Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he’s going to put a stop to that. What Will doesn’t know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of color. And neither of them knows they’re going to change each other for all time. Written by nattattck-11”
Number Seven: “She’s the Man” 2006 (Probably the best role Amanda did! I love you Viola <3)
Summary: “Here’s the thing! Viola’s soccer team at Cornwall gets cut. She wants to join the boys team, but they do not allow girls. So she thinks “If you can’t join them, beat them”. So she does! She disguises herself as her twin brother Sebastian, and goes out for the rival school, Illyria, boys’ soccer team and makes it. Unfortunately, she didn’t plan falling in love with her roommate Duke. But Duke has his eyes on Olivia. What makes matters worse is that Olivia starts to fall for Sebastian because he/she has a sensitive side. If things couldn’t get more problematic, the real Sebastian (who was in London working on his music) comes home early. He arrives on campus and has no clue that he was replaced by his twin sister.Written by Barbara-Ann“
Number Eight: “The Perks of being a Wallflower” 2012
Summary: “Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world.”
Number Nine: “Sydney White” 2007 (told ya there’ll be a lot of Bynes’ movies!)
Summary: “This modern retelling of the classic fairytale follows a beautiful college freshman as she pledges her late mother’s once dignified sorority. But after discovering that today’s sisterhood is not what it used to be, Sydney finds her new home away from home with seven outcasts. With the help of her socially challenged new friends, Sydney will take on the reigning campus queen to attempt to transform the school’s misguided social hierarchy.Written by Morgan Creek Productions“
Number Ten: “The House Bunny” 2008
Summary:“Finding family. Shelley Darlingson was raised in an orphanage, finally happy when she blossoms into a fox and moves into the Playboy Mansion. Unfortunately, she’s summarily expelled on her 27th birthday(she’s now too old). In desperation she takes a job as house mother for a sorority of misfits losing their house for lack of members. They have but a few months to find 30 pledges, or a sorority of mean girls will take over their place. Shelley figures that girls will pledge a house that boys find interesting, so she sets out to make the Zetas alluring, not act too smart, and host great parties. Can she succeed, and what about her own makeover? Sabotage is everywhere, plus it’s hard to be one’s self.”
Bonus movies that every teen must watch:
Mean Girls 2004 (Ah come on! Who the heck in this world missed this movie?!)
The Fault in our Stars 2014 (Gus and Hazel, yes. Heart wrenching story)
Love wrecked 20015 (Amanda Bynes YASSS!!)
I know I have missed a lot more movies, but this probably my picks! i love replaying thes movies especially Amanda Bynes’
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The governance of Angers TourismLab.
It is organized between the founding members in terms of strategic governance and operational governance as follows:
Its implementation is particularly based on the recruitment of a director and the constitution of a supporting-team.
University of Angers is appointed as the administrative institution for supervising the funding directly attributed to Angers TourismLab. by the local sponsor collectivities.
It was ensured by a Committee of Pilotage, a Council of Scientific Orientation, a Committee of Operation and the Sectoral Committees.
The Committee of Pilotage (COPIL)
It is composed of a representative of each founding partner who signed the agreement.
It can appoint a President (and a Vice-President) on its own in charge of steering the COPIL and bringing out the collective ambition of Angers TourismLab. for the professionals in tourism and media.
It validates the initial strategic roadmap and has the right to redirect the strategy of Angers TourismLab. in the midterm based on the proposal from the Council of Scientific Orientation and the Committee of Operation. It determines the priorities and the allocation of appropriate ways. It is responsible for ensuring a sound financial management of allocated funding. It examines the annual progress review, which will be submitted by the director of Angers TourismLab.
It should meet at least once each year by the invitation of the President (or director) of Angers TourismLab. Each meeting should give rise to a review, which will be sent to the partners.
It can accept new partners based on the suggestion of the Committee of Operation.
The Council of Scientific Orientation (COS)
It is composed of at least 4 external experts appointed by the Committee of Pilotage.
It takes action on the strategies in training, research, valuation, economic and international development. It will identify high potential subjects in the future, which will be formalized in a strategic roadmap and submitted to the Committee of Pilotage.
It releases the advices about the objectives and selection patterns of the internal calls of projects, which will be later applied to a requirement specification, in Angers TourismLab.
It shall meet at least at the beginning of the project, at the midterm and at the end of a five-year period. It drafts a report and formulates the suggestions in the Committee of Pilotage. The members of the Committee of Operation (COMOP) are invited to the meetings, particularly in order to present the progress of academic aspect, as well as the actions planned and accomplished in each related field.
It met on 1st July, 2015 with the presence of 4 international experts.
The operational governance of Angers TourismLab. is assigned to a Committee of Operation which relies on 3 Sectoral Committees and a supporting-team.
The Committee of Operation (COMOP)
It is composed of the director, 3 duos (for each section of R-F-I) and a representative of University of Angers, the administrative institution, who will be appointed by its President. The duos of R-F-I are appointed by the Committee of Pilotage on a proposal from funding partners.
The COMOP implements the decisions made by the Committee of Pilotage. It is a mission about coordinating all the tasks of Angers TourismLab., which ensures the synergy among the sections R-F-I and the coherence between the actions taken and the strategic roadmap.
This committee is responsible for establishing the requirements specialization of the internal calls of projects in Angers TourismLab. and its execution.
It reports the progress of tasks to the Committee of Pilotage.
It advices the Committee of Pilotage to accept new associated partners.
It is assisted by the supporting-team of Angers TourismLab. which ensures the operational support during the implementation of actions, especially in terms of valuation, business development, engineering and communication.
The Sectoral Committees
They are composed of founding partners and associated to Angers TourismLab. They put forward the action plans to the Committees of Operation and ensure the tracking. They are run by a duo, one of which comes from outside the administrative institution.
The F – Formation (Training) Committee is composed of representatives appointed by the institutions among the directors of initial and continued training, training track (engineering, Master, Licence), members of doctorate school, who are in charge of educational and international missions, a representative of the administrative institution, and the director of Angers TourismLab. It can invite special guests according to the agenda.
The R - Research Committee is composed of a representative of research partners (ESSCA, CNRS, ESO, GRANEM, University of Maine, and University of Angers), a representative of research federation, regional and national enterprises, a representative of the administrative institution, and the director of Angers TourismLab.
The I – Innovation Committee is composed of representatives of associated, institutional, economic partners and signatory enterprises of Angers TourismLab., a representative of the administrative institution, and the director of Angers TourismLab.
An international working group is composed of representatives of founding members and led by Phillipe Violier, the director of ESTHUA.
The supporting team
Philippe BROIX
philippe.broix@univ-angers.fr
Sophie CHAILLON
Training project manager
sophie.chaillon@univ-angers.fr
Solène CHESNEL
Innovation & Research parternships project manager
solene.chesnel@univ-angers.fr
Virginie GUILLOTEAU
Management assistante & Communication
virginie.guilloteau@univ-angers.fr
Clément MARIE DIT CHIROT
elisabeth.pelletier@univ-angers.fr
Clémence RATEL
International project manager
clemence.ratel@univ-angers.fr
Member of Unam (University of Nantes Angers Le Mans)
http://angerstourismlab.univ-angers.fr/en/le-projet/la-gouvernance.html
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Catawba Science Center
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Catawba Valley Furniture Museum
Located in the famous Hickory Furniture Mart, this museum chronicles the development of the furniture industry in the Catawba Valley.
Harper House/Hickory History Center
Local history exhibits displayed in neighboring Queen Anne-style & Craftsman-style house museums.
Hickory Aviation Museum
located at the Hickory Regional Airport. it is one of the top aviation museums in the state and is operated by the Sabre Society of NC. It's Artifacts range from WWII era to modern day and includes 15 airplanes.
Hickory Landmarks Society/Maple Grove Historical Museum
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Hickory Museum of Art
The second-oldest art museum in NC and the first museum in the South dedicated primarily to American art collection comprised of 19th and 20th-century North American art with an extensive collection of American pottery.
North Carolina Mountain Area Historical Attractions
1837 Bechtler House
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Appalachian Pinball Museum
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aSHEville Museum
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Asheville Museum of Science (AMOS)
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Asheville Pinball Museum
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Blowing Rock Art and History Museum
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Experience art and discover our rich mountain heritage through enlightening exhibits, cultural events, art and crafts workshops, engaging lectures and children's programs at the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum.
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Bostic Lincoln Center
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Botanical Gardens of Asheville
Asheville, Buncombe County, Garden
Offers a collection of plants native to the Southern Appalachian Mountains. The ten-acre site located adjacent to the campus of UNC-Asheville.
Caldwell County Heritage Museum
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History museum displays artifacts and exhibits depicting the history of Lenoir and the surrounding communities of Caldwell County.
Canton Area Historical Museum
Canton, Museum
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Nationally known poet, historian, author, and lecturer who spent the last 22 years of his life at his estate known as Connemara. National Historic Site. Now a 264-acre working farm.
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Downtown historical museum with more than 2,000 collected items reflecting the life of the Cherokee Indian Nation and the Trail of Tears. Also, includes the history of the early white settlers in Cherokee County.
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Cradle of Forestry
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Forest Discovery Center and Museum with 15 exhibits including a helicopter simulator, guided trails, historic cabins, logging locomotive train, and crafters.
Crossnore Weavers & Gallery: A Working Museum
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Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Museum offers a glimpse back into an age-old American tradition of weaving rugs. Many interesting designs on antique looms.
Dry Ridge Historical Museum
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A historical museum established in 1985 to preserve the culture and heritage of Reems Creek and the Flat Creek Townships. Located on the lower level of the Weaverville Library. The permanent collection includes furniture, tools, photographs, musical instruments, and books dating back to 1787.
Estes-Winn Antique Car Museum
Asheville's only antique car museum. Museum includes several rare and vintage automobiles as well as some original horse-drawn carriages and Asheville's own American LaFrance fire engine. The museum is located on the historic Grovewood Gallery Grounds adjacent to the Omni Grove Park Inn.
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The on-campus museum features a growing collection of contemporary art and fine crafts and related interdisciplinary education programs with an exciting schedule of events by guest artists.
Flat Rock Playhouse/The State Theatre of North Carolina
Flat Rock, Henderson County
Hosting over 98,000 visitors a year The State Theatre of NC produces top quality plays and productions in two locations in Flat Rock.
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The Guild hosts a changing exhibition gallery showing traditional and contemporary crafts or regional, national and international significance. Permanent collection dates back to the early 20th Century.
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Exquisite 18th-century home built by Revolutionary War hero George William Lenoir and named for a frontier fort which stood nearby. Houses over 300 original furnishings and historic household items. Costume guided tours, historic reenactments, gift shops and cemetery.
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Appalachian mountain museum which includes artifacts of antique tools, gifts, and crafts. Historical museum.
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Downtown children's museum for children ages 1-10. The museum's mission is to serve children and families by providing educational exhibits which stimulate imagination and motivate learning in a safe environment.
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Downtown museum housed in six rooms of the Historic Henderson County Courthouse. The museum salutes the History of Henderson County and its heritage. Monday-Tuesday: Open for field trips and special groups by appointment.
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Living history museum recreated by docents in traditional costumes. Also part of the Horn in the West annual outdoor drama.
Hiddenite Center
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A folk and cultural arts center located in the James Paul Lucas Mansion, turn-of-the-century Victorian home. The museum inside the home includes a doll collection, gem and mineral exhibits from the area, and exhibits about the history and heritage of the local Hiddenite area.
Highlands Museum & Historical Village
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Historic Village features a state-of-the-art museum and archives building and houses one of the oldest libraries in the state. The Trapier-Wright House, built in 1877, serves as a living history museum.
Historic Burke Foundation and Heritage Museum
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Restored 19th-century courthouse which includes exhibits on the building itself and the court system and a turn-of-the-century lawyer's office. Houses the Burke County Tourism Office.
Historic Carson House
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History museum housed in the 1793 Colonel John Carson Home including collections of 350 artifacts dating back to pioneer times.
Historic Hendersonville Depot
Hendersonville, Historic Attractions, Railroad
Historic Southern Railway building which houses the Apple Valley Model Railroad club and their unique HO scale model railroad. Layout resembles the mountain towns of Hendersonville, Brevard, Asheville and Saluda.
Historic Johnson Farm
Historic home and farm includes several buildings from the early 19th and 20th century. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Columbus, Military, Polk County, Revolutionary War History
This Museum started out as a way to educate the public on proper flag etiquette. It has now become a showcase of over 250 flags in a series of exhibits from the Revolutionary War to modern times.
Hudson Railroad Depot Museum
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Railroad museum interprets the history and heritage of the Town of Hudson as well as the history of the Hudson Depot. On exhibit is a restored 1912 Wood-Sided Rear Cupola Caboose furnished with railroad artifacts.
John C. Campbell Folk School
Art & Culture, Brasstown, Clay County, Historic Site, School House
Established in 1925 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This Historic school offers week-long and weekend classes for time-honored and contemporary art, crafts, dance, and gardening.
Junaluska Memorial and Museum
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Dedicated to preserving Cherokee history. Displays arrowheads, spear points, and other artifacts related to American history.
Kid Senses, Children’s Interactive Museum
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Land of Oz
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Linville Caverns
Marion, Park
North Carolina's only show cavern. Guided tours take visitors inside a mountain in this natural limestone cavern. View stalactites, stalagmites, and an underground stream with blind trout. Gift shop.
Macon County Historical Museum
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Museum of local history which interprets the region’s rich mountain heritage. The centerpiece of the museum is the building itself.
Mast General Store
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Morganton Railroad Depot Museum
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Mountain Gateway Museum
Farm, Museum, OldFort
Part of the NC Museum of History in Raleigh. Museum includes artifacts depicting mountain life, Indian artifacts, pottery, and farm implements.
Mountain Heritage Center
Cullowhee, Jackson County, Museum
Regional heritage museum about the Southern Appalachian history
Museum of American Cut and Engraved Glass
Art & Culture, Highlands, Macon County, Museum
Museum focuses its attention on the collection and display of American Brilliant Period cut and engraved glass. This period in history started in 1876 with the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia and ended in 1916 with the US preparation effort before World War I. The museum has over 400 pieces of glass on display.
Museum of Ashe County
Ashe County, Jefferson, Museum
The Museum embraces the history of the northwestern corner of the state and its people. It also provides information about the Virginia Creeper Railroad that began in Virginia and ended at the Ashe County community of Todd
Museum of North Carolina Minerals
Mitchell County, Museum, Spruce Pine
This museum and visitor’s center facility located right off the Blue Ridge Parkway. The museum includes exhibits of rocks and minerals found in the western North Carolina Mountains.
Museum of the Cherokee Indian
Cherokee, Museum
Fascinating historical museum about the Cherokee Indian tribe. Combines new technology, specialty lighting, and computer-generated images with a solid artifact collection
North Carolina Homespun Museum
Historical overview of Biltmore Industries and its internationally renowned wool cloth. The museum showcases an antique 4-harness loom and memorabilia such as letters, artifacts, tailored suits, and photographs depicting highlights from the active years of the industry.
North Carolina School for the Deaf Historical Museum
Burke County, Morganton, Museum
The museum is located in the former Superintendent’s home and highlights the history of the North Carolina School for the Deaf and the first deaf school in Raleigh through a variety of historical documents and photographs.
Oconaluftee Indian Village
Cherokee, Historic Place
Recreation of an authentic 18th-century Indian community. Cherokee artisans and guides demonstrate and explain the arts and crafts and the lifestyle of their ancestors.
Piedmont Western Railroad Museum
Museum, Railroad, Valdese
Historic rail museum features replicas of a small town depot and part of a Pullman porters' compartment. Artifacts include steam locomotive headlights, a working telegraph, lanterns and signal lights.
Polk County Historical Museum
Civil War History, Columbus, Military, Museum, Polk County
Local and regional history museum that includes many photos and artifacts from the Polk County area include a Civil War cannonball. Research library. Military, Railroad, and medical artifacts are also included.
Quaker Meadows Plantation
Burke County, Morganton
Restored 1812 is the Catawba Valley Plantation house of Captain Charles McDowell Jr. The site of 1780 gathering of the Overmountain Men.
Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual
Arts & Culture, Cherokee
A mutual cooperative for 350 Cherokee craftspeople. Display area for visitors interested in baskets, masks, pottery, and wood-working.
Ruby City Museum
One of the oldest gem museums in the Southeast. Home of the world's largest sapphire weighing 385 lbs. Free Admission.
Rural Life Museum
Art & Culture, Farm, Mars Hill
Ivy-covered stone building dedicated to preserving mountain farm and craft culture. Museum exhibits farm and craft implements and historical photographic murals.
Rush Wray Museum of Yancey County History
Burnsville, Civil War History, Military, Museum
Housed in the historic John Wesley McElroy House which was headquarters for the NC Home Guard during the Civil War.
Rutherford County Farm Museum
Farm, Forest City, Museum, Rutherfordton County
County farm museum which collects and exhibits farm tools and equipment, household and utilitarian items and other artifacts dating back to the 19th century. Two large murals depict the cycle of growing cotton and early textile mills of the county on one of the museum walls.
Sam Ervin Library and Museum
Unique museum located inside the library at Western Piedmont Community College. The museum is a replica of Ervin's office and home library as it existed on 515 Lenoir St. Ervin is best known for serving as Chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee in the early 1970s.
Scottish Tartans Museum
Museum contains the official registry of all publicly known tartans and is the American extension of the Scottish Tartans Society in Edinburgh, Scotland
Shelton House - Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts
Art & Culture, Haywood County, Museum, Waynesville
The Museum features exhibits from 19th-century crafts which include hand-woven coverlets, sculptured porcelain, and quilts. Pottery work, furniture, and other masterpieces on display.
Shook Museum at the Shook-Smathers House
Clyde, Historic Home
Museum features early American pioneer construction and architecture. The Shook-Smathers House is closely associated with the Methodist Church in North America. The house is protected by historical covenants held by Preservation North Carolina.
Smith-McDowell House Museum
Asheville, Buncombe County, Historic Home, Museum
Located in the oldest brick home in Asheville circa 1840. Period rooms illustrate the Victorian era.
Smoky Mountain Trains Museum
Bryson City, Museum, Railroad, Transportation
One of the largest Lionel train collections in the country. Huge indoor operating layout with 450 locomotives and cars.
Southern Appalachian Radio Museum
A technology and history museum dedicated to radios.
Swain County Heritage Museum
Bryson City, Courthouse, Museum, Swain County
The Museum, located in a 1908 historic courthouse, tells the story of Swain County and its people. Through photos, exhibits and video you will learn about the life of early settlers; and how the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Fontana Dam rewrote the landscape and changed lives. There is a children's activity area.
Swannanoa Valley Museum
Black Mountain, Museum, Transportation, Watuga County
Located in the former Black Mountain Fire Department. This museum collection highlights the history of the valley through various photos and artifacts.
The Blowing Rock
Blowing Rock, Historic Site, Watuga County
Oldest tourist attraction in the state. Scenic rock overlooking John’s River Gorge. Observation tower, gift shop, small garden waterfall. This is a must see attraction in NC Mountains.
The Franklin Gem and Mineral Museum
Franklin, Historic Jail, Historic Site, Macon County, Museum
The Museum started in 1974, is located in the old “jailhouse” built in 1950. Located in downtown Franklin. Exhibits of gems from all 50 states. One of the most comprehensive collections of native gems and minerals from around the country.
The History Museum of Burke County
Over 10,000 square feet of galleries and exhibit areas that depict Burke County's history dating back to the time when Native Americans occupied the land.
The North Carolina Arboretum
The beauty of the region is expressed through a series of magnificent gardens reflecting the heritage and culture of the mountains.
Thomas Wolfe Memorial, State Historic Site
Asheville, Buncombe County, Historic Home, Memorial
The boyhood home of author Thomas Wolfe, the historic house and modern visitor’s center located in the heart of downtown Asheville.
Transylvania County Heritage Museum
Brevard, Museum, Transylvania County
Former Jim Bob Tinsley Museum location. The Transylvania County Heritage Museum explores, promotes and preserves the heritage of Transylvania County and the region.
Tweetsie Railroad
Blowing Rock, Park, Railroad
Historic family theme park in operation for over 45 years. Theme park includes steam engine railroad with three-mile track, rides, crafts, live entertainment, and petting zoo.
Waldensian Heritage Museum
Museum, Valdese
Museum contains collections of late 19th and 20th-century clothing, household furnishings, farm implements, and construction tools related to the Waldensians, church furnishings, photographs, and World War I and II uniforms and artifacts.
Waldensian Trail of Faith
Burke County, Courthouse, Valdese
The Trail of Faith consists of 15 open-air exhibits and replicas tracing the religious heritage and pilgrimage of the Waldenses from the Alps of Northern Italy to the settling of Valdese in 1893.
Western North Carolina Aviation Museum
Only aviation museum located in Western North Carolina featuring award winning replicas of antique and vintage airplanes. Located at the Hendersonville Airport.
Western North Carolina Nature Center
Asheville, Buncombe County
A living museum exhibiting and interpreting the plan and unusual wildlife of the Southern Appalachia Mountains.
Wheels Through Time Motorcycle Museum
Haywood County, Maggie Valley, Museum
As seen on the History Channel, this museum features over 320 of unique motorcycles as well as vintage automobiles Experts consider this museum one of America's finest collection of rare American motorcycles dating from 1903 to present. Many of the motorcycles on display are truly one-of-a-kind.
Whippoorwill Academy and Village
Art & Culture, Civil War History, Ferguson, Historic Site, Military, School House, Wilkes County
The historic Village includes a one-room schoolhouse, Civil War memorabilia, the Tom Dula Museum, the Chapel of Peace, and the Smokehouse Art Gallery among many other historical items and artifacts on display within the village.
Wilderness Taxidermy and Outfitters Museum
The 4,000-square-foot museum contains animals from all over the world that are mounted in dioramas to depict the animals in their natural settings.
Wilkes Heritage Museum
Museum, Wilkesboro
The museum preserves and promotes the local history of Wilkes County. Exhibits spotlight Daniel Boone and Tom Dula and also include a Junior Johnston vintage NASCAR racing automobile as well as other exhibits highlighting the history of the county.
WNC Military Museum
Brevard, Military, Museum, Transylvania County
A unique mountain military museum located in Historic Downtown Brevard. Museum includes a large collection of military artifacts,documents and personal histories of past veterans from the immediate area. Martial memorabilia and weapons on display.
World Methodist Museum
Lake Junaluska, Museum
Large collection of John Wesley’s and the Wesley Family in America as well as portraits of other Methodist church founders.
YMI Cultural Center
African-American History, Asheville, Buncombe County
Celebrates the African-American culture and diversity in the Asheville area. Housed in one of Asheville's national historic landmark buildings commissioned by George Vanderbilt in 1893.
Zachary-Tolbert House Museum
Cashiers, Historic Home, Jackson County, Museum
Historic home circa 1842-1852 built by Mordecai Zachary. Remains in its original state along with the world’s largest collection of plain-style furniture.
Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace
Buncombe County, Civil War History, Farm, Historic Home, Weaverville
This 1830s reconstructed mountain farmstead is the birthplace of North Carolina's Civil War Governor.
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Persona Q2 Review
When someone discovered Atlus had registered the pq2.jp domain, it was obvious there was going to be a sequel to the first Persona Q fan service dungeon crawler so, it's no surprise we have a sequel in the form of Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth. Featuring the gang from all three Persona games, 3, 4 and the more recent 5. The story takes...
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Persona Music Live Website Renewal with Concert Footage
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Persona Music Live Concert Coming to DVD
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Meguro Lets Slip A Few Persona PSP Changes
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Persona Pendants During the Dark Hour
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UK Persona 4 Pre-Orders Get A Free T-shirt
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Originally called Sex Crimes, executive producer Dick Wolf wisely opted for something less lurid when the second in the inexhaustible Law & Order franchise hit the air in 1999. Still, as the opening voiceover makes clear, the “sexually based offenses” investigated by New York’s Special Victims Unit can be “especially heinous.” Wolf penned series premier “Payback,” which sets the scene, but not the tone.It’s a lively, if uneasy mix between horror (rape) and comedy (risqué banter).
As the first season progressed, humor would be written out altogether (leaving Richard Belzer’s Homicide-derived John Munch with increasingly less to do), and less emphasis would be placed on the home lives of this “elite squad of dedicated detectives.” Mostly, “Payback” introduces us to the unit, centering around partners
Olivia Benton (Mariska Hargitay) and Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni). For two people with so little in common, they make a terrific team–arguably one of TV’s best. Stabler is married with four children; Benton is single and her closest relationship is with her mother (Elizabeth Ashley).
While Stabler can get a little rough with suspects, Benton tends to over-empathize with the victims. They report to the no-nonsense Captain Cragen (Dann Florek). Like the parent program’s Lenny Briscoe, he’s a recovering alcoholic. Dean Winters and Michelle Hurd round out the rock-solid cast.
Character to watch: Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benton.
Journal your answers to the following questions after you watch the series.
How does this particular character’s journey compare with yours?
Did the character develop certain characteristics during the movie that you have or that you would like to have? If so, what are those characteristics?
What obstacles did this character face? What was his or her biggest challenge?
What would you have done differently if you had been in the same position as the character?
Is this character the type of person you would be friends with? Why or why not?
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Filed Under: Crime, Drama, PTSD, Relationships, Television
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Driftings
— by Ian McDonald —
A hat, a deer and a plastic truck came in on the swell of the ocean. The hat was a yellow hard-hat; an engineer’s, a construction worker’s hat. Its foam inserts had buoyed it across wide waters. The deer was a Puchie Baby miniature with a skull-and-crossbones patterned hide. Adorable, small. The truck was really a tiger-design kid’s trunki, but the wheels still turned, after so long in the gyre.
The truck was the last one, the difficult one. Picking his way along the shore, squinting at the bright steel horizon, he had glimpsed an ear of color between grey of sky and grey of sea. Squint. An edge of sea-scabbed orange, lolling in the lap. He splashed out into the waves. The cold cut through the steamer suit and he was chilled already from the fight to rescue the hard hat. The current could show you a thing and take it back into the gyre. It had teased him with the hard hat, luring him, then pulling it away, drawing him deeper than he wanted to go. The current that took a hat out to the gyre could take a man, even a fit, strong young man like Reith. A lunge, a splash, and it was his. He waded up out of the surf-line, the yellow, oil-scabbed hat on his head.
In the clear water he saw geometry beneath the triangle of orange plastic and guessed what lay low in the swell. Here was a kid’s ride-on luggage trunk, a tiger-face still discernible. Thigh-deep, waist-deep. His. He towed it to shore.
The girl sat on a mound at the edge of the foot-worn path to the road. Her knees were pulled close to her body, her arms wrapped around her shins. Reith peered to see if she was watching him drag the kiddie-trunk along the beach, salt water trickling from its seam.
She was watching him. He was the only watchable thing.
Her sleeves were pulled down over the backs of her hands. They were her sole concession to the weather. Low grey clouds streamed in from the ocean and caught on the tops of the trees, unfurling thin drizzle. The cloud could sit like that for weeks. A thin print dress and a cardigan were not clothes for this shore.
He wanted to open the plastic trunk there and then, at his bivouac, but he could feel the girl’s eyes on him. He didn’t want her to see him greedy and excited, forcing the catch, spilling out the salt-spoiled treasures he hoped were inside. You work uneasily when the only eyes for miles are on you. He packed up the bivouac, pulled the hoodie on over the wet-suit, loaded the sea-things into a plastic box.
“What makes you take them?” The girl’s voice was soft but carrying.
“Feeling there’s a loss in it,” Reith said. “Feeling there’s a story and a hurt.”
Japanese, not Chinese, Reith reckoned. Skin so smooth; hair falling to the small of her back, hair-product straight and shiny. Ocean cold was beginning to infiltrate the wetsuit but the slump of a wave, the side-slip of a gull on the air, the sudden hiss of eddying drizzle; all said stay, speak.
“Aren’t you cold?”
“I don’t really get cold. But it would be worth it. I love it here.”
Reith looked to the pull-in among the trees. His pickup was the only vehicle.
“How did you get here?”
“I got dropped off.”
“You will get cold. It’s not good. I can give you a ride back to town, if that’s where you’re at.”
“They’ll pick me up again.”
Reith knew she was not telling the truth but you can’t call someone on that in the ninth sentence you exchange with them. The girl knew that he knew because she combed her hair back behind her ear and smiled.
“I’ll be fine. Really.” Mist lay in minute silver pearls on the fibers of her woolen cardigan but did not cling to her hair or skin at all.
So she was in town. Reith liked that. They might meet again, by chance or by design.
He looked back from the door of the pickup. She was still there, on the edge of drop from the tree-line down to the driftwood. Again he looked, as he turned back on to the highway. He half expected her to have vanished. She was still there, grey on grey. He turned the heater up full to blow some warmth back into his legs.
A fleece-fiber scarf. A bucket of plastic zoo-animals. A drinks cup with spout. A sea-rotted cardboard picture book. A child’s things.
Driving in the pickup he saw her walking on the side of the road. She moved lightly, barely connected to the earth at all. The same light print dress and cardigan. The clouds were lower today, catching on the flagpole outside the junior school and the eccentric carpentered spires and shingles of the old wooden hotel where Roosevelt was supposed to have stayed. You could reach up and grab a fistful of rain. He turned in the road and drove beside her.
“Oh. Hi.”
“I’m, uh, thinking about grabbing a coffee. Can I get you one?”
She scraped her hair behind an ear. She smiled by not quite looking at him.
“That would be good.”
“Do you want a ride?”
“Is it far?”
“No, just across from the old Roosevelt hotel.”
“I know that. I’ll walk.”
She had arrived by the time he had turned the car across the traffic.
“You’re not in the wetsuit today.”
“I will be later.” It was in the back of the truck, with the bivouac and the rest of the beach-combing equipment. The same westerly driving the raft of cloud could also push the entire gyre, hundreds of miles across, closer to the coast. Westerlies were good foraging winds.
“I like guys in wetsuits. They make them look vulnerable. Cute.”
Reith blinked and hid his blush in a sip of coffee. Retched. Spat.
“Sorry. Salt. I must have put salt in instead of sugar.”
“There is no salt on the table.”
She tipped white crystals into the palm of her hand, dipped a lip-moistened finger, offered it to Reith to lick. Reith drew back.
“Oh, I’m sorry.” She licked her finger. “Yes, sweet.”
“You asked yesterday, at the beach, what made me take them,” Reith said. The lick of sugar from her finger had roused him. “Come and see.”
Again she dipped her head and looked away to hide a smile.
“I’d love to, thank you.”
Why had he offered to show her the Driftings? The westerly was blowing, the gyre was turning. He should be ten miles down the coast, scanning the break line with binoculars. Not offering to show her the studio; not stopping in the street to invite her to coffee, salt coffee.
Life and work were a foreclosed house a mile and a half up on the forest road. The agency had been only too happy to let it long term, cheap. They had no prospect of ever selling it on. Roosevelt had been the last big thing to happen in the town and it was now in the terminal stages of a century-long decline. The council had hoped to catch the dark wave of the Twilight business but had dithered too long and missed its crest. Bella’s coffee-shop had closed two months ago. Its coffee had been horrible. Reith reckoned he would need another house soon. The Driftings were forcing him back, like a whelk withdrawing into its shell, into smaller and smaller rooms. The realtors were only too eager.
“It’s kind of cluttered in here.”
As the girl went past him into the house, Reith caught a sudden smell of the shore; rotting weed and sun-crisp crab, salt and sand-scab, so strong he almost gagged. For a moment, a breath; then he smelled her: clean skin, fabric conditioner, hair conditioner, something lightly floral.
The Ningyo Drifting occupied all of the main room apart from a narrow passage to the kitchen area.
The Ningyo Drifting: dolls, toys, transforming robots toy cars plastic zoo animals, those perverse vinyl figurines that have no other purpose than to be collectible by adults, toy soldiers, anime action figures, monsters and dinosaurs. Over four hundred of them now. The Puchie Baby deer would likely join them. Welded and melded, dismembered and re-membered, heads growing from alien torsos, from other heads, from shoulder stumps, multiple faces grafted on to a single head, like a Hindu deity; thickets of arms; transplanted legs; robot heads on toy dog bodies; all joined together into a coral tree.
The girl looked up at the branches of warped toys reaching over her head. Her mouth opened a little.
“This was my first piece. It’s the one I’ve been working at longest as well. I think maybe it won’t ever be finished. I certainly won’t ever sell it.” Reith touched a Kokeshi at the junction of two spreading antlers. “This was the first one. I was out on the peninsula with friends and picked it up at Taylor Point. Someone said it was Japanese, that there was a huge slick of stuff all sucked out to sea after the tsunami and it was moving slowly towards the west coast. The day after that the bit of dock washed up in Oregon. That kind of started it. No, I don’t think I’ll ever sell this one.”
Reith hadn’t eaten in the kitchen for months. He didn’t like having food around the ocean-things. Oils and hydrocarbons, tars and wastes. The whole house might be a little radioactive. He didn’t want to think about that. The kitchen had become the work room until it clogged up with beach-combings. The floor was filled to work-top height with ideas in progress. There was no room for feet, but it gave the best perspective on the Kanagawa Driftings in the dining area.
Things that open, built into a pastiche The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Bento boxes opening out of snap-fit kitchen containers opening out handbags opening out of lunch boxes out of plastic storage boxes out of rolling luggage out of fishing crates. Color-coordinated to recreate the deep wave blue and the breaker white of the Hokusai print. Reith would fit the trunki here, with thought. He had removed the ceiling light to accommodate the uppermost fractals of the plastic wave.
“Don’t you think it’s kind of . . . wrong?” the girl said. “I mean a wave made out of tsunami stuff?”
“There’s no fishing boat,” Reith said. “That would be wrong. But it’s not about the wave, or the tsunami. Really. It’s about how we see when we look across the ocean to Japan, how we fetishize it, how we import kawaii, or cosplay, and turn them into our own thing without ever trying to understand them.”
“I’m not sure I can always understand you,” the girl said. Her fingers felt out the nested links of plastic containers. “What was inside?”
“Most of them, nothing. The gyre grinds a lot of it up.”
“But something, sometimes.”
A fleece-fiber scarf. A bucket of plastic zoo-animals. A drinks cup with spout. A sea-rotted cardboard picture book.
“It’s the inside things that have the story and the hurt,” the girl said. “Put-away things are loved things.”
The Kanagawa Drifting rattled as a rig, heavy with long lumber, passed down from the high forests.
The clouds had dipped lower when he came back from town, ragged handkerchiefs sliding through the trees. Spills and spoils from the moiling cloud base. She had wanted to be left where he found her, outside the Axel’s Coffee Place. He was past the intersection on the forest road when Reith remembered that he had not remembered, or had never asked, her name. By the time he was on to the forest road he was driving through cloud.
Death town. Dying slowly and inelegantly. Urban senility. Grey sky grey sea grey people. Every mile he had driven west from the ferry, drawn by the haunt of plastic detritus of apocalypse, he felt the grey settling heavier from him, smothering every energetic or creative thought. His first few weeks—thirty, twenty, however many dollars he could afford a night in the Roosevelt hotel; the obese Hunter day-trading in the back office; sure there’s a shared bathroom but no one’s had to share it in five years—he had to physically drag himself out of sleep and run up and down the corridor to the bathroom a dozen times to Wake! Up! Every creative thought was trawled from pelagic deeps. Baked-good breakfasts in Axel’s Coffee Place; brown-food dinners in the sports bar. Things hauled from the cold north-west sea, tsunami-things, piling up under the tarpaulin in the back of the pickup. Days of deep grey lull. Notion by notion, ideas emerged from the fog of apathy.
Reith started out of a doze at the flash of lights, followed moments later by the blast of the logging truck, passing at speed. He had been drifting across the line. Many of the truckers scorned headlights in the fog and constantly blared their titanic air horns. The fog was so dense he could hardly see the road markings. A sudden, intense smell of sea, salt, weed invaded the pickup through the air vents. Reith snapped them shut. The fog left white streaks on his windshield, gritty smears flecked with tiny white crystals. The wiper blades squeaked.
At the house he could taste salt on his tongue, ionic, iodine taste of salt, feel its sting on his lips, its astringency on his face. In the few steps it took to reach the porch his hair, skin, clothes were briny as if he had stepped out of the sea. The air was heavy with sea-smell. Reith blinked salt mist out of his stinging eyes.
Shower. Reith could feel the grit of salt against his scalp. He stood a long time under the run of hot water, trying to scrub the sea from his skin. Salt fog.
In the morning the cloud had lifted but windows, porch, yard, car were freckled with salt-specks, a million tiny crystal sparkles.
A baked-goods breakfast in the Axel’s before heading down to Ruby Beach. A good day’s beach-combing. Like the early days. That would be the thing. Axel’s Coffee Place had changed hands, sold candles, had a book-swap scheme, free Wi-Fi, occasional tarot readings and singer-songwriter nights but all such regime changes were temporary in this town. Their Danish were good, their pain au chocolat too doughy.
“What about that fog?” Lauren said as she brought Reith a refill. “It like completely rusted up the locks. Just one night. Insania.”
“The one you were in with yesterday?”
“What do you know about her?”
“Oh, you mean . . . ” Lauren broke off, pouted, puzzled. “You know, I’m not sure she told me her name. What do you want to know?”
“Where’s she staying?”
“Over at the Roosevelt. Doesn’t everyone?”
“She’s not. I checked. She’s not up at the Westwood Lodge either.”
“That’s a little bit stalkery, Reith.”
Lauren was not a friend and never a lover, but there was a tie between Reith and her; a thing of tattoos and piercings, dreads and hair coloring. Counter-culture was their mutual gravity.
“I’m just interested, that’s all.”
“Oh really.”
“Lauren, that’s not necessary.”
The doorbell clanged. Hunter from the Roosevelt came in for his caffeine hit before going back to losing money online. Reith had not noticed that the low cloud had become rain. His flannel shirt was soaked through in the few steps across the road. He shook his head, manically scraped water from his face and eyes.
“Goddam,” he said. “Goddam thing.”
He grabbed a paper towel from the table dispenser and furiously wiped his eyes.
“Goddam,” he said again. “Can it do that?”
Lauren poured him coffee at his usual booth.
“Do what, hons?”
“Rain sea water.”
She stood in the salt rain, watching Reith and the courier driver load the truck.
“Geez, what is this?” the driver had said, blinking sea-sour out of his eyes as Reith answered the door. He came up once a month from the city to pick up installations Reith had sold from his website. He was a peninsula man and took the opportunity to catch up with family. Installations did not spoil and were not time sensitive. He could dawdle with his relatives. Reith liked that even though he did not appreciate the Driftings, he was mindful of them. Even bubble-wrapped and taped, they were delicate; frail corals, tsunami-foam.
“It’s been doing it for a day and half now,” Reith said. “I’ve had to garage the pickup. Things rust while you’re looking at them.”
“Evil smell,” the driver said. “Like dead crabs. Have you got a theory?”
Reith had broken the Marine Boy Drifting down into three sections to get it through the door. Instructions and a video were included for its precise re-assembly at the gallery in Denver. Each Drifting landed a little further from Reith’s door than the last.
“Everyone needs a theory. Do you know what I think? It’s some kind of water-spout. Things get sucked up and deposited hundreds of miles away. There’s been rains of fish and frogs—all well-accounted for. Newspapers and all. God knows what’s going on out in that ocean.”
“You think it’s going to start dropping plastic toys on my head?”
“It’s all in Charles Fort, my friend. A wise man would read and heed.”
Then he saw her, in the rain, at the place where the pavement met the grass. The rain dripped from the ends of her long, straight hair, but seemed to Reith to run off it without wetting it. Raindrops dewed the fibers of her cardigan.
“Can you handle this?” he asked the driver.
“Just sign the waybill and she’s on her way.”
The girl stood in a circle of drips beneath the fractal fronds of the Ningyo Drifting. She dabbed at herself with the offered towel.
“You should really have a shower, get that salt off you. It’s not good for you.”
“I seem to have missed most of it. But it’s nice to be out of it.” The towel was dry. “Can I ask a question?”
“You can ask anything you like.”
“At the beach, the things I saw you bring out of the sea, what have you done with them?”
Reith did not show works in progress to people. Sharing broke the unity. People put ideas onto things that were not theirs. Opinions demanded recognition. And some were too big, too long, too diffuse in their evolution, to make any sense before the moment when he decided that to add one thing more would start to subtract. When he videoed them for his YouTube channel, he never showed the build, the Drifting, the explanation; just long, swooping orbits of the details.
So he said, “oh, yeah. Here.” He rested a finger on the Puchie deer. He had picked apart its rear end, flayed and splayed it and grafted it on to the chest of a Barbie doll. “Come up pretty good once I got the salt off. That vinyl finish can crack if you don’t treat it like skin. There’s stuff you get for shining up auto interiors, works good on it. Nice piece.”
The hat was in the former best bedroom with all the headgear. He had not developed an idea for the Drifting that pleased him. But the conceit was faces, a few simple lines in black marker pen, loosely connected to his imagining of the hat’s purpose, drawn on the inside of the hat. This yellow hard hat, Reith had decided, belonged to a longshoreman, who had worked ocean-going barges. In a few strokes the inverted face showed hard-weather, resignation, peace and toughness.
The child’s trunki had made it to the plastic-well in the kitchen, to the top of that heap, to the work-top for assimilation into the Kanagawa Drifting. It had faltered there.
“I’m not sure about this one. I think this one is complete. I can’t see how it would fit. It may be the start of something else. I’m thinking about children.”
The girl ran long fingers over the sand-scratched plastic.
“What did you do with things inside?”
“I didn’t throw them away. Nothing gets thrown away. That’s the idea. Nothing is ever lost.”
A fleece-fiber scarf, a bucket of plastic zoo-animals, a drinks cup with spout, a sea-rotted cardboard picture book sat in a clear plastic box. The animals had been spilled from their bucket. Reith saw the girl inhale very slowly as she bent over the box to closer examine the little castaway menagerie. Her long fingers walked through the lost things.
“Here’s a story. There once was a little girl but she’s dead now. She drowned. She was in the car with her parents and her big brother. They all brought one thing; that was all they had time for before the sea came. So she brought a thing with things in it. They drove fast but no matter how fast you drive you can only go where the road leads you and the water didn’t need roads. I think we forget how fast water can be. Water has weight and water has mass. The road wouldn’t take them away from the water and it just swept them off the road and tumbled them over and over and spilled everything out and they drowned. I know this story.” She trailed her fingers across the still-sodden pulp of the children’s book. “It’s called Mouse Heart Robot. It’s about a robot who was last to be built before the factory closed, and so they forgot to give him a heart. He just stood there, looking, thinking. Then a family of field mice moved in to the place where his heart should be, and he came to life and looked after them, but when they grew up and moved away, he went dead again. Mice have such short lives. I used to get read that story. The poor robot. I felt so sad for him. There, that’s a story inside a story. Something with a story and a hurt. Give it back.”
Reith gave a small start. “What?”
“I don’t know. Maybe you’ve had so much. Like you said, nothing is ever lost. Things have memories. Maybe give some of them back.”
The doorbell rang. A second startle.
“Just as well I looked,” the courier said. He presented the waybill. “You forgot to sign it.”
“I’m sure . . . ” Reith took the pen. The space for the signature was blank. Over the courier’s shoulder, he could the see the girl, walking away, already a distance down the road, very straight and upright, in the salt rain.
The plants were dying. The floral borders outside Driftwood Crafts, Gifts and Pots; the flower tubs and baskets at the McLaren Realty; the raised beds outside the Westwood Lodge were shriveled. The lawns of 3rd Street were scabbed with brown patches. The tougher shrubs were browning at leaf tip and blossom. The trees shed needles, drift upon drift.
For five days the salt rain had fallen. Salt water rushed in the gutters, sheeted across roads, clogged drains with rafts of brown needles.
“Half the dogs in town are sick,” Lauren said pouring coffee for Reith. “And things are coming out of the forest looking for water. Axel chased deer away from the back door. Dead birds all over the place. And he says the propane tank is rusting bad. Why haven’t we made the television news yet?”
The mail boxes, the barbecues, the garden seats, the swings and chain fences, the kids’ bikes, the garden tools, were turning to rust. The gas station canopy, the elementary school climbing frame, the cell phone relay, the electrical step-down transformer, the oil and gas tanks, the cars, scabbed with creeping rust.
“And the stink. I just can’t get it out of my hair, my clothes. Off my skin. I smell like a harbor. Like a dead seal.”
Reith splashed out across the streaming salt-water to the pickup. The air was thick with salt, weed, ozones and ions and briny, iodinic sourness. He gagged. He drove up to the house as around him the town crumbled to ochre rust. Endless parade of low, curdled clouds marched in from the ocean; endless, endless salt rain.
He thought he glimpsed the girl in the rear-view mirror, standing on the roadside at the edge of the dying forest, arms long at her side, her hair so straight and glossy. When he looked over his shoulder she was not there. Of course.
He could feel the salt caking on his skin, itching, desiccating in the few steps from the car to the porch. A shower. Fresh water on his body. Cleaning, cleansing, sanctifying. He strewed salt-sodden clothes along the path between the Driftings. The stench was in the house; rotting weed, brine, deep water. He was naked by the time he reached the bathroom door. He closed his eyes and waited for the anointing gush of warm and pure.
Sea-rot gusted in his face, so strong Reith retched. Salt water blasted in his face, hot salt water filled up his eyes, his ears, his nostrils, his open mouth. He gagged, spat, dived to the water-cooler. He drained a plastic cupful. Reith choked, sprayed water across the room, heaved and heaved; dry, retching, wracking heaves.
Sea water.
Reith plunged into the surf line; knee-deep, the water heavy around his thighs; waist-deep, pushing against the resistance of an entire ocean; wading out chest-deep, slow now, every step ponderous and buoyed at the same time. The rain fell steadily, pocking the glassy surface of the slow swell. He held the trunki over his head. Towed behind him on a surf-board line, it would have filled with water and become unmanageable. Held high, it was an offering to the things of salt-water.
Give it back. Each time he had spoken with the girl, she seemed startled by her own words, as if she were not in control of them, as if other voices formed them.
Give it back.
It had to be the beach where he had found it. He drove through grey rain half blind, half-crazed, the wipers throwing handfuls of salty, gritty water from the windshield, the pickup squeaking and creaking as the brine wore into its struts and bones. He slipped-slid down the path between the stark, rain-grey trees to the shore. The driftwood like looked like the bones of the ocean, heaved on to the solid world to see the sun and die. He was sick, so sick of the reek of rot and weed and sea in his sinuses. Into the ocean.
Reith stood a moment, the plastic child’s trunk held high. He had packed it with the painstaking care of a Drifting maker. The fleece scarf washed and freshened with fabric conditioner and folded. The zoo animals returned to their plastic bucket-Ark, battened down beneath the lid. The drinks cup cleaned and sterilized and filled with Minute-maid. A libation. One thing he had omitted; the book. It was unsalvageable, the story all but erased to patches of Kanji and bright color on grey board: a robot’s head, a mouse paw, a heart-shaped hole. Mouse Heart Robot. It touched him, it made him remember and feel things long washed out. She had loved that story, she used to have it read to her. She felt so sorry for the poor robot. A hole for a heart. The image excited him. Filling holes. Secret chambers, hidden hearts. He could feel the nature of the Driftings changing, from huge assemblages, whip-stitched frankensteins; to small juxtapositions.
Give it back. It had given to him. The ocean closed around him; grey before and grey behind, above and below, the circle of the waters. Easy to become disoriented, to strike out into open ocean believing horizon line was shore line; drawn out by those tows and currents to join the gyre. Human flotsam.
“It’s yours!” he shouted. The words were thin and pointless. But he still said, “Thank you!” Then he hurled the trunki as far as he could out into the ocean. It splashed, bobbed, each bob taking it lower in the water as the sea jetted in through the imperfect seal. Reith watched until all that could be seen was a single plastic tiger ear, stealing out to sea, drawn back into the great gyre of tsunami-things.
Reith drove back slick as a seal in his wet-suit. As he stepped out of the car the air caught him, breath to sigh to near-sob. Clean. Fresh. He turned his face to the clouds and let pure, sweet water fill up its hollows and stream from its angles.
Mouse Heart Robot: he had a pure, sweet idea for it.
Reith opened the door.
The living room was filled with hair. Long, sleek, black hair, hanging from ceiling to floor, sleek black hair, dripping with sea water. The door closed behind Reith. The wet hair rippled, as if someone were moving through it.
BloodyMarquis wrote on January 6th, 2013 at 8:08 pm:
This was the first Clarkesworld story I've ever read, so it's a rather nice gateway. Driftings seems very low-key. You get the sensation that there's Reith is being haunted throughout, making for an interesting play on a man interacting with the unknown.
Suzanne Conboy-Hill wrote on January 7th, 2013 at 10:08 am:
For me, this was a gentle, insightful acknowledgement of the Japanese tsunami that did a superb job of bringing human scale to an event the world watched live on TV. Soulful drama and not a hint of melodrama.
Patrick Johnston wrote on January 17th, 2013 at 3:03 pm:
This story told me this:
The tide of time, or chance, or luck - call it what you want - will bring and take away many things throughout a lifetime and, while it is a rare gift to see the beauty in everything washed up on your shore, it is not ever possible to really own anything.
This seems true of both the people and the things that appear in your life. When the time is right, the very same tide or natural force that brought it to you will one day take it away again.
Want to or not, one day you have to “give it back” and the longer you forcibly hang on the more “cluttered” your life becomes. There simply comes a point when “to add one thing more would start to subtract”.
Ultimately, “Nothing is ever lost”, everything is just on its way to somewhere else, just like you.
Perhaps it simply shows that, in the same way that every cloud is said to have a silver lining, every disaster brings good tidings for someone?
George Walker wrote on January 21st, 2013 at 10:15 pm:
I'm from Oregon, where the tsunami washed up debris, including the dock mentioned in the story. Ian McDonald captured the culture of the coast well. Beautiful imagery and I loved the Japanese ghost-girl.
Ian McDonald is an SF writer living in Northern Ireland, just outside Belfast. A multiple-award winner, his most recent novel is the conclusion of the Luna trilogy: Moon Rising (Tor, Gollancz). Tweet him at @iannmcdonald.
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Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan by Ian McDonald - December 2017
An Eligible Boy by Ian McDonald - November 2016
The Dust Assassin by Ian McDonald - July 2013
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April 30, 2018 / Brooklyn news / Transit Issues / Sunset Park
Spoke too soon: Fourth Ave. bike lane may not skip block in front of police station after all, city says
Community News Group / Julianne McShane
On second thought: The city is walking back previous statements that the planned Fourth Avenue bike lane would skip a block between 29th and 30th streets to accommodate the police department’s sidewalk parking outside of the 72nd Precinct station house.
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Talk about backpedaling.
The city is walking back its statement that the forthcoming protected Fourth Avenue bike lane would skip one side of an entire block in front of Sunset Park’s 72nd Precinct station house to accommodate officers’ sidewalk parking, after local cyclists called out the dangers of merging into traffic in the Bay Ridge-bound lane.
Reps from the Department of Transportation said the plan was not yet finalized and is still under review — even though the agency’s borough commissioner told one concerned cyclist it was final. And although the agency’s willingness to reconsider its decision came as good news to that cyclist, he said he doubts that the police will change their behavior to accommodate bikers.
“I want to believe that DOT will get this right, but NYPD’s disregard for bike lanes all over the city doesn’t inspire a ton of optimism,” said John Tomac.
Streetsblog first reported that Tomac e-mailed borough transportation commissioner Keith Bray in January to ask how the station house between 29th and 30th streets would accommodate the planned five-foot-wide protected bike lane, since police park a mix of squad cars and personal vehicles on a portion of the sidewalk in front of the building, with cars often jutting out into what would be the bike lane.
Bray responded nearly two months later, writing that it was “not feasible” for the bike lane to be separated from traffic by a physical barrier as the plan outlines “due to the need to maintain parking access for NYPD vehicles,” making the entire block “effectively a driveway.” When this paper followed up with the transportation agency last month, it confirmed that the entire southbound lane on that block would be reserved for police parking, eliminating the bike lane entirely between 29th and 30th streets.
But Community Board 7 district manager Jeremy Laufer said that he has now received verbal assurances from the Transportation Department’s director of greenways, Ted Wright, that the plan to skip the block is not finalized.
Laufer pointed out that when the board voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bike lane in October, the city had not told CB7 members anything about nixing it in front of the 72nd Precinct station house.
“The board voted in favor of the bike lane, there was no discussion on any sort of difference on Fourth Avenue between 29th and 30th streets,” he said.
That the Transportation Department apparently failed to foresee — or perhaps just neglected to disclose — the problem of running the bike lane past the station house doesn’t reflect well on the agency, said Tomac.
“In the year 2018, a competent transportation agency should be able to anticipate the problems that are likely to arise when a bike lane is added near the 72nd Precinct,” he said. “Anyone who occasionally rides a bike around the city knows that bike lanes might as well not exist anytime the police are nearby.”
A spokeswoman for the agency confirmed that it was still reviewing the plans, and would keep the community’s safety concerns in mind.
“The Department of Transportation is currently reviewing plans for the Fourth Avenue bike lane,” she said. “We are aware of the concerns and will continue to work closely with the community and NYPD to accommodate neighborhood needs.”
The police department did not respond by press time to inquiries about sidewalk parking at the precinct or what percentage of its officers commutes to work via subway.
Death from Above says:
This is great news! The nypd is NOT above the law.
Simon Beswick says:
So this newspaper reported an original story based on lies? Typical that you would try to stir up controversy based on nothing more than thin air.
NN from Boerum Hill says:
It's time for the NYPD to start following the law and stop putting the rest of us at risk.
TOM from Sunset Park says:
Moderation in commenting. Please.
Henry Ford from Bay Ridge says:
TOM from Sunset Park says:,
Cry me a river, snowflake. Shouldn't you be at a Hillary rally?
Brian T from Concord, SI (via Sheepshead Bay) says:
Good. If skipping a sidewalk for one block in NYC won't fly, neither should an on-street cycling facility.
It's one thing to have a not-as-protected bike lane for a short block, and it's entirely another to have it disappear. Given the traffic volumes of the area during the day (or at all times for that matter), such a gap would not be conducive to promoting cycling as a viable mode of transportation for New Yorkers of all ages and skill levels.
There are tried and true methods to have reverse angle parking and cycling facilities coexist:
1. Bike lane in front of the cars
http://naturalcyclection.bostonbiker.org/files/2014/08/Reverse-Angle.png
2. Bike lane behind the cars (safer for the cyclist but requires more lateral space for rear buffer)
https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/pictures/AAG%20-%20Bay%20St%20Photo%2012.4.15.jpg
Hi Mods,
Please remove my previous comment; I omitted a word.
Good. If skipping a sidewalk for one block in NYC won't do, neither should skipping an on-street cycling facility.
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SciTech » What happens when science fiction crosses into science fact?
What happens when science fiction crosses into science fact?
By Christian Nielsen
Cloaking devices are the stuff of magic realms and deep-space exploration, not real life. Think again! Making photonic chips invisible to one another could pave the way to computing at the speed of light.
A beamsplitter for silicon photonics chips that is ne-fiftieth the width of a human hair. Image: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering
Researchers at the University of Utah have developed a cloaking device for truly tiny photonic integrated devices — the building blocks of photonic computer chips that run on light instead of electrical current. While that still sounds fairly fantastical and fanciful, it’s a huge breakthrough for the computer industry, data centres and mobile device-makers, not to mention the environment.
It paves the way for efficient photonic chips which shuttle data around as light photons instead of electrons. This breakthrough in nano–photonic cloaking, making neighbouring devices invisible to one another, was published in the latest edition of the science journal, Nature Communications.
Photonic chips will wind up being much faster, consume less power and give off less heat than today’s silicon-based chips. Think of the possibilities for foresighted entrepreneurs.
Potentially billions of photonic devices could be stuffed inside a chip, each with a specific function in much the same way as transistors work in today’s microchips. One set of devices could perform powerful calculations or programmed simulations while another group processes requests and others maintain everyday functions and updates.
Back-chatting chips
But light is no-one’s slave and cramming so many of these microscopic photonic devices too close together causes leakage. When light leaks the resulting back-chat or cross-talk acts like radio interference. Not good.
Spacing them further apart solves the problem, but this makes the chips too large, especially for mobile devices. The lab guys worked out that using a special nano–patterned, silicon-based coating between photonic devices acts like a “cloak”.
The principle is similar to the Harry Potter invisibility cloak, says Utah’s Rajesh Menon who led the research. “It’s like a barrier – it pushes the light back into the original device. It is being fooled into thinking there is nothing on the other side.”
10 to 100 times less power
One of the obvious benefits of chips using light photons instead of electrons to transfer data is the energy savings, anywhere from 10 to 100 times less power consumed, according to the Utah team.
Data centres like Google and Facebook will no doubt like the sound of this, but the afterglow of nano-sized photonic devices could light up a range of sectors, from app-makers to serious games to green tech.
In the United States alone, data centres consume around 70 billion kilowatt hours (2014 figures), which is some 1.8% of total electricity consumption, according to research by the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. With the growth in cloud computing and other rapid IT developments, that power usage is expected to rise another 4% by 2020.
“By going from electronics to photonics we can make computers much more efficient and ultimately make a big impact on carbon emissions and energy usage for all kinds of things,” concludes Menon.
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by Steven Chester | Dec 11, 2019 | Architecture, Outstanding Projects
Travelers have some amazing destinations to choose from when it comes to hotels designs that will amaze. Well-thought hotel design can have a dramatic impact on the guest experience, from the moment a guest pulls up to the curb right through until their departure. Efficiency, comfort and awe can be designed right into the experience.
From the recently-opened guitar-shaped Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood featuring 2.3 million LED lights to The Mist Hot Spring Hotel in China, where visitors are surrounded by hot spring pools and mechanized fog, here are some of our favorites from around the globe.
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood
With much fanfare, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood recently opened. The 450-foot-tall, $1.5 billion expansion project is modeled after the look of a Gibson guitar. The neon-lit, 34-story hotel features 469 “rock star suites”, 20 nightlife destinations, a 42,000-square-foot spa, 26,000 square feet of retail, multiple pools, cabanas, and event space. The façade features 2.3 million LED lights that provide visual effects.
Belmond Cap Juluca, Anguilla, British West Indies
After being heavily damaged by Hurricane Irma in 2017, Belmond Cap Juluca underwent a $121 million dollar restoration by HKS and Rottet Studio. Per Hospitality Design, when it opened in 1988, Cap Juluca was a game-changing Caribbean hideaway that championed privacy and stood out with its Greco-Moorish architecture. HKS nodded to the past by reconfiguring the flow of the property. “The new layout provides the opportunity for the guests to explore [each space] with ease,” says Melissa Voelker, the firm’s senior lead designer.
Tierra Chiloe, Chile
Designed by firm Mobil Arquitectos, Tierra Chilioe is perched on a hilltop in the main island of the Chiloe archipelago in Chile, per Dezeen. The hilly, pastoral area offers views of the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains, as well as surrounding wetlands. Each of the hotel’s three levels are designed to interact with the scenery.
The Mist Hot Spring Hotel, Henan, China
As architecture firm Department of Architecture Co. write for ArchDaily, “The building masses, the passageways and the waterscape are strategically integrated with natural steam from hot-spring pools and some additional mechanized fog that would surround the overall atmosphere and experience. White mist floating just above water surface not only creates dreamy ambience but also provides certain level of privacy for guests relaxing in private hot spring pools from other guests’ view.”
Le Belaroia, Montpellier, France
A small site adjacent to a train station in Montpellier led architects Manuelle Gautrand Architecture to “stack up the functions,” per Architonic. “The complex triangular form of the site led us to design a continuous volume with a succession of folds that unfurl along the north and the east facades, topped by a wide bridge along the south façade.” The site includes two hotels, luxury apartments, restaurant and wellness center.
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ROSTER SPOTS
As we continue through the pre-draft phase of the off-season, let’s take a look at the roster under contract for the upcoming season.
Ridnour
Wilkins (assuming he will take his option)
Hypotheticals
#2 pick
#24 pick
That’s a total of 13, not including who the Sonics stumble across in the second round (and with four picks, there will be plenty of people to stumble across). Now, let’s eliminate a couple of players, just purely on speculation.
Luke Ridnour: I feel that it is very likely that Ridnour will be dealt this summer. It’s clear he doesn’t fit into the team’s long-range plans and he still has value in the league, although his contract is not exactly commensurate with that talent.
Earl Watson: Watson seems to be on the good side of the Sonic management, and his production this year was definitely improved over previous seasons. EW posted career-best marks in field goals made, FG%, FT%, and 2nd-best numbers in 3-point percentage, true shooting %, turnover %, assists/36, and points/36. Looking closer at the numbers, though, and it becomes readily apparent that Earl sacrificed defensive effectiveness for offensive productivity. He put up the 2nd-best offensive rating of his career this season, but balanced that with his worst-ever defensive rating. Still, only nine players (Nash, Paul, D Williams, Kidd, Calderon, Ford, and Jamaal Tinsley) posted better assists/36 minutes in the entire league last year, and that came on a team with absolutely no outside shooting. If I’m the Sonics I’m hoping Derrick Rose falls into my lap so Watson can come off the bench.
Chris Wilcox: Many suspect Wilcox will be traded this summer, but I think the wise move would be to wait until next February. While Big Weezy has been more inconsistent than not, he knows a big paycheck could be waiting for him he puts forth the effort over the next twelve months. Combine his soon-to-be-expiring contract with his ability to post numbers like 18 points/8 boards/2 flashy dunks, Wilcox could fetch something much nicer in return next winter than he will this summer.
Johan Petro: Another likely to be dealt, if only for his continuing ability to be 7’ tall. He showed some signs of life after the Kurt Thomas trade, but I can’t imagine Sam Presti envisages the Sonics utilizing JoPet too much in the next few years.
Mo Sene: Sadly, it’s possible the entire ’08-’09 season will be a write-off for Sene due to injury.
So, for argument’s sake, let’s say the Sonics are able to deal away Petro and Ridnour, perhaps in combination with one or two second-round picks, returning them an awful contract, or a surplus big man on another roster (or both!). That leaves us with 13 players minus 3 (including Sene here) plus 1 (the returning player), for a total of 11 roster members. If you add in two players from the second round, that makes 13 roster members.
Let’s say the Sonics take Rose at #2 and an off guard at #24, now your depth chart looks something like this:
PG: Rose, Watson
SG: Pick #24, Wilkins
SF: Durant, Green, Griffin
PF: Wilcox, Marshall
C: Collison, Mystery Contract
You have some flexibility with the 2/3/4 positions, but there is clearly a void at center (sound familiar, Sonic fans?). So much of a void that it might make sense for the Sonics to explore a big man with their multiple second-rounders, if not their 2nd pick in the first round.
In articles to come, we’ll start looking at possible veteran free agents the Sonics might pursue this off-season, but this at least gives us a road map for the year to come. Feel free to chime in with where/how I went wrong in the comments.
Posted by PN at 9:45 AM
The early termination option in Damien Wilkins' deal can't be exercised until after next season, so he's definitely under contract at this moment in time. Adrian Griffin, moreover, has a non-guaranteed salary for next season; consequently, he'll most likely be waived sometime this summer.
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Anyhow, I disagree with you about Johan Petro. In the meantime, Petro's a cheap, cost-effective backup at power forward -- especially considering that his closest comparison, Mark Blount, is earning a sizable salary with the Miami Heat -- therefore, it's probable that he'll stick with the team through next season.
On anoter note, Mouhamed Sene must be finally finished here.
The team option in Sene's contract for the 2009-2010 season shouldn't be exercised under any circumstances; plus, the dude should be released prior to next season, since he's useless to the Seattle SuperSonics -- which was the case even before his knee injury -- and would just waste roster space by being on the team.
Dammit, it's time for those of whom who figuratively fellated Sene for the past two years to concede that the giant, gangly stiff is a downright bust—and that's that!
I was going by the HoopsHype salary information, where it looks as though Griffin's contract for next season is guaranteed. It's not a big deal either way, although it would be nicer if they could waive him without any penalty.
As for Petro, do we really need a backup PF, considering the Sonics already have Collison and Wilcox, and Jeff Green figures to get more time there as well next year? I'd say that if the Sonics deal Wilcox this summer, they should keep Petro, but if they keep Big Weezy, they should deal Petro.
I'll back up AK on the Griffin contract; pretty sure I read somewhere that his deal for next year is non-guaranteed.
Even if Chris Wilcox isn't traded this summer, I still expect Johan Petro to be with the Seattle SuperSonics come next season.
Luke "The Golden Boy" Ridnour, however, is currently the only player who's probably being actively shopped by Sam Presti, even though the Minnesota Timberwolves and the New York Knicks are the only two teams that I can envision wanting him.
At this point, I'd just be glad if Ridnour was dealt for some scrub who's got an expiring contract (e.g., Malik Rose). This whole failed experience could then be written off as a loss.
To me, the main reason for trading Petro is just for roster space; if the Sonics can pair him with Ridnour in a 2-for-1, that frees up another spot for one of their 2nd-round picks. I don't think having/not having Petro is going to make a big difference in the number of games the Sonics win next season.
Sonics mini-camp notes
Calloway had a very good all-around season in NBDL, on ethe 5th best ever on PER.
Lyde is NBDL career leader in games & minutes, 2nd in rebounds, 4th in points. 1st in blocks. Had a strong 06-07 campaign. 07-08 was pretty average.
Dahntay Jones has improved his shot and might alright for a final wing spot if they need one.
The first 2 are longshots.
Calloway at 6-3 175 is a nice size. Don't know how fast but being light I'd think he might be. 25. 40% from 3 pt. Went for about 20 pts 6 assists, 6 rebs a game down there.
Seems like a good pick to give a summer league run and check out.
If the Sonics take another damn "project center" in this draft, I'm going to scream.
Draftexpress writeups suggest very few good defenders in first round (Rose, Westbrook, Hibbert, Mayo, Douglas-Roberts, who else?). If good defense is going to be a key part of team identity need to make that a priority in the draft, moving to where you need to be for those few guys and / or get defenders - who are not offensive liabilities- via trade, free agency or possibly in 2nd round.
I forgot the Lopez twins.
Presti better get at least one already good defender out of first round. Better than Green.
In second round Weaver and DJ White seem like good candidates.
AK1984, did you get banned from Sonicscentral? Haven't seen you post there in awhile.
Earl Calloway seems to be an interesting player. I liken him to be a Carl Elliot type point guard, good size, athleticism, can defend, distributor, had him on my 2nd round radar while he was at Indiana. He could be on a summer league team, and would be a good candidate should he play well over in Vegas. Intriguing player to conisder, and still relatively young. Worse case scenario, could be like Walker Russell Jr., but even he was a decent, run the summer league team point guard. I think Calloway would be a candidate for the summer leagues.
PGs can take awhile.
Wonder what the scouts said Calloway lacked and if he is over the hump.
wooohooo....OKLAHOMA..... i cant wait until they get here to a city that accually wants the team in it
You are probably waiting for 2 years.
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Brusnitsyns’ mansion in wait for restoration
A real gem of the XIX century architecture by no means built in the functionalism style is hidden among the production buildings of the industrial port zone of Vasilievsky Island. Its decaying beauty made an imperishable impression of all eclecticism connoisseurs and history lovers that came for a tour of the Brusnitsyns’ mansion which took place on July 07, 2017 within the frames of the Open City project.
Both the surroundings and the inside premises are striking by their contrasts. Passing through the entrance checkpoint with a metal turnstile, along the corridors typical of some factory of the 80ies, probably, visitors go up to the second floor where through a half-open standard metal door with a door closer they see a multitiered chandelier with crystal pendants hanging from the patterned coffered ceiling made from dark wood.
The historical sideboard in the dining room has survived surprisingly well.
This unexpected combination of the factory ascetics and luxury of the mansion is historically justified: the Brusnitsyns, the owners of the luxurious dwelling being of peasant descent who became merchants, built their house in immediate proximity of the buildings of their tannery to have the possibility of ongoing control of the processes of bovine hides and skins processing. The tannery functioned until the late XX century; then it went bankrupt but during the two centuries of its operation it was regularly rebuilt to adapt to the needs of the production. The mansion underwent especially many changes in the Soviet years. For example, an entrance checkpoint was built on the place of the gate through which visitors get into the mansion (and employees of administrative departments used to go to their workplaces at some time) while the marble staircase still has traces of the barbaric transverse division by wooden boarding: there was one of the employees’ offices on it. At the same time the space above these boards was adapted to accommodate a storeroom: bottles with reagents were placed on the marble steps of the flight.
The former splendor created in the XIX century still survives in some rooms accessible for viewing. The bright Oriental interior of the smoking room has not faded over the long years, and even the glass lamp of the chandelier reminding of an Arabic tobacco bowl still delights the guests.
The rich decoration of the White Hall and the drawing-room made in warm shades is almost as beautiful as it was one hundred years ago, and the lack of restoration works has left its imprint in the form of the tarnished shine of the gilding and the shredding silk of the wall tapestry, but the major accents of the interior are in a relatively good condition: the mantelpiece, huge mirrors and magnificent moulding.
The White Hall for official receptions where friends and partners of the Brusnitsyns used to get together.
Unfortunately, not all the rooms are open for visiting. Part of them are of no interest due to the poor condition or lost historical interior while some of them, as the guide said, were allowed for access even for the organization which carried out inventory of the tannery property in the 90ies. Therefore, there is no complete data about the condition of the mansion so far. This information may be fuelling the rumors about the mysterious mirror of Dracula: the legend has it that it used to be in the office of the tannery director located behind the Golden Drawing Room. This room is boarded up now, as they say, in connection with the mysterious and outright disappearance of the director and one of the employees of the tannery. The mirror is also associated with the enigmatic and timeless death of the granddaughter of Nikolay Mokeevich Brusnitsyn who founded his own production in Kozhevennaya Line. The mirror is also blamed for the constant health problems of the inhabitants of the house probably ignoring the fact that it was not for nothing that Catherine the Great ordered to take tanneries outside the city limits: the chemicals used in such production processes have an extremely acrid «odor» and their vapors are poisonous.
At present the smell of tanned skins has already worn off from the furniture upholstery and is not felt in the corridors of the now bankrupt enterprise. The mansion has been alienated from the former lessee, has been recognized to be a monument of history and architecture of federal significance and is waiting for restoration. The further destiny of the building and its magnificent interiors as well as its past is vague and indeterminate but now we have the possibility to admire the luxurious decoration of the Brusnitsyns’ mansion by enrolling for a tour of the Open City cultural and educational project being implemented with the support of Tricolor TV and leaving a request at открытыйгород.рф website.
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University of Nottingham > Blogs > Argonauts and Emperors > Classical reception > What would Plato do? Greek Thought in US Politics
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June 17, 2016, by Nikki Rollason
What would Plato do? Greek Thought in US Politics
As the 2016 US Presidential election campaign continues to confound forecasters, recent PhD student and Teaching Affiliate John Bloxham discusses classics and American politics.
Looking at American politics through the prism of Greek philosophy probably struck a few people as a waste of time when I started my PhD on the reception of Greek thought in US conservatism. I’ll concede that the notion that lots of Republican politicians are avid and profound readers of Plato and Aristotle sounds a little far-fetched. And I suspect that even more people would be sceptical today (thanks a lot Donald Trump!). Still, Greek thought and the US right have enjoyed a close relationship since modern American conservatism developed after World War II.
In the 1950s, when secularism was apparently undermining public morality, how could conservatives base traditional values on a god that fewer and fewer people seemed to believe in? The answer was an appeal to the authority of reason in the form of Plato’s moral philosophy. Likewise, when neoconservatives wanted to utilise social science to critique President Lyndon Johnson’s emerging welfare state in the 1960s, they faced a quandary. A key criticism of Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ agenda was that it seemed to undermine public morality, but as social scientists they were committed to the ‘fact/value distinction’ of Max Weber (which meant they were supposed to be disinterested observers when it came to matters of morality). Their solution was a turn to Aristotle, marrying his virtue ethics to social scientific methodology to create a neoconservative social science. And when neoconservatives in the 1990s wanted to chart a new course in US foreign policy, between the realism of Kissinger and the liberal internationalism of Clinton, to whom did they turn but the Greek historian Thucydides?
So in these and other examples, the adoption of Greek thought has reinforced and invigorated conservatism. But these were not always straightforward translations from ancient to modern, and contemporary concerns and debates have often given new and contradictory meanings to ancient texts. For example, the neoconservative Thucydides who emerged in the 1990s had to compete with the older, opposing Thucydides of conservative realists. By assessing the decisions made by modern appropriators (what they used, adapted or omitted) against on-going shifts in the social and political context, both fresh perspectives on antiquity and deeper insights into modern conservatism can be gained.
Looking ahead, Bernie Sanders’ doctrinaire socialism is likely to lose out to Hillary Clinton’s left-leaning pragmatism in the Democratic primary contest, just as Ted Cruz’s doctrinaire conservatism was no match for Trump’s brash and populist pragmatism in the Republican race. So perhaps the American political scene is entering a less ideological phase. Nevertheless, it seems likely that at least some thinkers will continue to look to antiquity for inspiration. Greek ideas have tended to be used most fruitfully during periods of reinvention and, after Trump, it seems likely that the right will be in for another interval of self-examination.
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Impact of leucocytes recovery on longterm outcomes after allo-HSCT in acute leukemia patients in complete remission
Ekaterina D. Mikhaltsova, Mikhail Y. Drokov, Julia O. Davydova, Larisa A. Kuzmina, Vera A. Vasilyeva, Natalia N. Popova, Darya S. Dubnyak, Olga M. Koroleva, Nikolay M. Kapranov, Zoya V. Konova, Irina V. Galtseva, Elena N. Parovichnikova, Valery G. Savchenko
National Research Center for Hematology, Moscow, Russian Federation
Reconstitution of leucocyte subpopulations is an important factor that determines success of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). We hypothesized that the leucocyte recovery should be strongly associated with clinical outcomes. Our aim was to evaluate possible impact of leucocyte recovery upon long-term outcomes after allo-HSCT in acute leukemia patients transplanted in complete remission (CR).
This study included 28 patients (7 males and 21 females) with a median age of 36 years (range 21 to 61), who underwent allo-HSCT from 2015 to 2017 at the National Research Center for Hematology. All patients had an acute leukemia: 11, ALL and 17, AML; all of them were transplanted in complete remission (CR). 12 patients underwent myeloablative conditioning regimen and 16 patients, reduced-intensity treatment. 23 patients received bone marrow transplant as a stem cell source, and 5 patients received PBSC. Reconstitution of leucocyte subpopulations was tested by means of flow cytometric analysis of peripheral blood on days +14, +30, +60, and +90 after allo-HSCT. Anti-CD3 FITC, anti-CD16PE, anti-CD56 PE, anti-CD45 Per-CP-CYTM5.5, anti-CD4 PE-CyTM7, anti-CD19 APC, anti-CD8 APC-Cy7 (BD Biosciences, USA) as well as anti-CD14PE, anti-CD16PE, anti-HLA-DR APC (eBiosciences, USA) were used to identify the white blood cell subsets. Predictive significance of leucocyte reconstitution after allo-HSCT was evaluated by receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. Fisher’s exact test was used for 2×2 tables. Kaplan-Meier analysis with log-rank test was used for survival analysis and group comparison. A p value <0.05 was considered significant.
According to the data of ROC-curve analysis, classical monocytes proved to be of highest predictive significance for poor (lethal) outcome (AUC= 0.78; p=0.05) after allo-HSCT in acute leukemia patients transplanted in CR, with a cut-off level of 185 cells/μL. The two corresponding groups of HSCT patients (≥185 cells/μl, and <185 cells/μl) were matched by age (p=0.64), gender (p=0.38), diagnosis (p=0.7), conditioning regimens (p=0.7) and stem cell source (p=0.35). Their detailed cell characteristics are presented in Table 1. When analyzing survival rates, the absolute counts of classical monocytes <185 cells/μl by day 90 were associated with decreased overall survival (58.9%), compared to 93.7% survival at higher monocyte levels, thus showing significant difference (p=0,02) (Figure 1). The mortality analysis revealed that five patients have died in the “<185 cells/μl” group. Lethal outcome was due to the disease progression in 2 cases, and 3 patients died from infectious complications.
Poor recovery of classical monocytes is combined with low numbers of CD4+ cells (p=0.037), and pro-inflammatory monocytes (p=0.003). A significantly poor and slow reconstitution after allo-HSCT is strongly associated with poor outcomes due to infectious complications and relapses during first 12 months after allo-HSCT in patients with acute leukemia.
Leucocyte recovery, stem cell transplantation, clinical outcome after allo-HSCT, classical monocytes, CD4+ cells, proinlammatory monocytes.
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May-June Newsletter 2018
You can now read our annual report available on this link. We are so proud of our work, and the 10 years that Dalia Association brought to the communities. This report demonstrates how important it is for us Palestinians to control our resources for our own durable development!
Thanks for everyone who was involved in making this year a success,
Towards community giving,
Team Dalia
Community Programs and Funds
Closing Events IBDA' in the schools.
We held two closing ceremonies for the IBDA' program in the schools. On the 20th of May, the leaders of the 4 initiatives at the Ramallah Friends School grants presented their initiatives: Ktab, The Habitat, Qatra min Biladi, and the Visual pollution film. They all received certificates for completing the program.
As for the Orthodox School of Bethany, we held the event on the 23rd of May, where the two student groups Watch and Read and Creative Hands summarized their initiatives. Similarly, at the end of the ceremony, certificates were distributed.
Trainings with the women funds
We held several trainings with the Jenin and Tulkarem women funds on the 24th and the 26th of June. The trainings led by the local artist Riham Isaac focused on creative thinking and teamwork. This will later enable the women to collaborate to come up with solutions and initiatives for their constantly changing needs and priorities.
Training in Tulkarem.
Training in Jenin.
Linking and convening
CEO of Global Fund for Women visits Palestine
Musimbo Kanyoro, the CEO of Global Fund for Women, visited Palestine and the Dalia Association to learn about our work in community philanthropy, and we later visited one of our grantees from Arab Al Jahaleen Women's Association.
Dalia Abroad
These are contributions from Team Dalia in their most recent trips of learning and networking.
Giving meaning- Can our philanthropy influence culture and the way people think?
Lina Isma’il
In collaboration with Youth Bank International, I participated on behalf of Dalia Association in the annual European Foundations Center conference for philanthropy, hosting over 600 philanthropy professionals representing around 316 different organizations from 37 countries. The theme of this year’s European Foundation Centre annual conference was :”Culture Matters: connecting citizens, uniting communities”.
Plenaries, sessions, meetings and tours were well organized by the conference in the beautiful city of Brussels, but to my surprise little space was given to community foundations like us to represent the community philanthropy scene in the philanthropy world, and to showcase the actual impact of community controlled development on the ground.
Carrying the message of community philanthropy and community controlled development, we participated in a joint session with Community Foundation for Northern Ireland, Youthbank International, and Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation in Egypt, to shed light on the meaning of culture from the perspective of community foundations, and their role towards positive social change.
The interactive session on the role of community philanthropy in influencing culture and the way people think, started with a thought provoking introduction, given by the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland: "This is a session about meaning and culture. We believe that culture is not something that is out there - a building or a piece of art or a performance. In the contexts that we work in NI, Egypt and Palestine, culture is a fire that burns within us, something to live for, something to fight for, something to die for. Culture is identity. And if that is culture, then what does it really mean for philanthropy to change culture? What level of intimate involvement with someone is required to change their identity? Are we kidding ourselves to believe that a grant could change the way someone feels about themselves?”
Youthbank International- presented their work by engaging attendees in interesting exercises on the responsibility of philanthropy, and changing behavior.
Later, Waqfeyat al Maadi community foundation and the Dalia Association shared moments of change in the communities we work with through enabling a culture of trust building and community action towards a certain priority or need.
The session received positive interaction and feedback by the attendees, as it showed what philanthropy is all about when it comes to serving communities in a durable manner, and aspiring for positive social change. Key messages from that day are:
Social change bear fruit by building trust through continuous and direct interactions with the communities.
Personal stories on moments of change are far more powerful than numbers;
The crucial role of youth as community mobilizers and decision makers
Real change happens when people get to identify and decide on their own needs and where it is needed to use funding and resources.
Rasha Sansur
Source: Reconstruction Women Fund, Belgrade, Serbia.
Source: The Funding Network, London, UK.
It always looks like this: people gathering around furniture; tables, couches, and chairs. A constant humming sounds of conversations. Pass by one group and you may hear this: “it’s such a wonderful initiative; they really care about old people”. Or this: “I am very happy to be here tonight, because I want to support these talented youth in their future careers”. Or even this: “We need to take control and be more involved in supporting our own communities.
In the last couple of months, I have attended two meetings in London, England, and Belgrade, Serbia. The first was a learning event with The Funding Network (TFN). The idea revolves around live crowdfunding, where people support charities, NGOs and other community based organizations with social change projects. In the upcoming months, TFN will support Dalia to implement such an event for the first time in Palestine, and we will call ours the Social Change Auction.
The second meeting held in Belgrade included a training in communications and coming up with a strategy by the communications volunteer group for the Foundations for Peace (FFP), which Dalia is a member. The Foundations for Peace, “is a network of 10 local foundations across the globe, who are rooted in their country’s contexts, supporting community activists at the local level over the long term to open up space for the growth of civil society, to develop a new narrative, and to work on conflict transformation, and social justice.”
One the first day, our host and member of FFP Reconstruction Women Fund organized an event with local activists to learn more about the work of the other participating members including the Dalit Foundation, and The Community Foundation of Northern Ireland. Dalia Association was among the speakers.
With sustained attention, and emotions reverberating in the room, we all listened to each other’s stories of the effect of decades of colonization and conflict. Our solidarity was demonstrated in words of support, or complete sad silence.
In both events (Belgrade and London), I found something common. People are eager to mobilize themselves to discuss their priorities, and support solutions that affect them. They want immediate action, and they believe that this action should start from the ground, from the people themselves. They are willing to support community-based organizations, and grassroots groups as they see them better fit to bring about the needed changes their societies demand. They also think it is faster to do so, than wait for “Big Aid” to trickle down to their demands. They know that “Big Aid” does not always have their priorities in mind. Sometimes, this “aid” excludes their urgent needs, because it is external and comes within a global agenda for development.
From groups aiming to cover the needs of abused women, to groups who put a smile for elderly people with dementia. From people in a room full of passion who are shouting out their donations to support local initiatives, to people joining swim-athons to fundraise for the people they believe in. This is how true and just development is achieved, from the people to the people.
I come back to Palestine feeling optimistic with an increasing passion in Dalia’s mission and vision: Now is the time, more than ever, for us (Palestinians) to control our own development.
The ACT Framework with the Global Fund for Community Foundations
Aisha Mansour
Source: Fem Fund, Free State, South Africa.
In June 2018, in Eagles Valley, Free State, South Africa, the Global Fund for Community Foundations organized the first of a two part meetings series to discuss the ACT Framework, Assets-Capacities-Trust. How can community philanthropy organizations working at the grassroots community level measure the value of their work? Much of the work we do in strengthening community philanthropy and supporting strong durable communities is intangible. And yet, the added value is enormous. Those of us in the field know this. But the mainstream donor-development aid system remains skeptical. These donors have developed elaborate measuring tools to exhibit their work. Their log frames are complex with several indicators per objective. And yet, do these numbers represent community based durable development?? It is clear for us working in community philanthropy that our work builds community assets (or rather it reminds us that we actually have valuable community assets), develops agency (capacity) in communities and strengthens trust so that the long term work needed to ensure durable development continues. Much of this important work is achieved with much smaller budgets that mainstream donor projects. The participants in this meeting consisted of eighteen leaders from the community philanthropy field from various countries including Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, Russia, Kosovo, Hungary, Poland, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, India, and Palestine. We discussed how to begin to measure and build a framework around this concept of Assets-Capacity-Trust. We will continue to work over the next few months and reconvene in January, 2019. Stay tuned!
Fall Semester is approaching and we are still collecting donations for the Education Fund. Help us reach our goal to send 20 students to university this year.
You can donate here: http://www.dalia.ps/donate-now
Yallah, education builds a strong civil society.
Thank you to everyone who has donated or accepted the Education Fund Challenge! We are truly grateful for your community giving.
Dukkan found its home
Finally!! Dukkan found its home!
Location: Mario Hanna Alma'madani Street, facing Habibi Hostel (old court house street, or Sarisi bookstore, or the street where the back entrance of Isra' building is). (yes! giving directions is funny in Palestine)
You can now shop and donate at this new location with these opening hours.
Please note that the Dalia Association office will not be accepting donations now, only at the new location.
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“I just really want to help anyone who wants to be inspired, to be motivated. I always tell people that I can guarantee you 110 percent that there is someone worse off than you who is pushing through it and moving forward right now.”
-Brandon Rumbaugh
Dedicated to Service and Helping Others
Brandon Rumbaugh is no stranger to challenge and adversity. After stepping on an IED in Afghanistan in 2012, he lost both of his legs and underwent months of rehab and treatments. But Brandon took that challenge head-on and turned it into self-motivation.
Now, Brandon shares his story of challenge and obstacles to create motivation in others, inspiring those he meets with his optimism and passion to help others.
Helping Just One Person Can Make A Difference.
Brandon has had the opportunity to speak to a number of groups and organizations, and encourages anyone to contact him interested in a speaking engagement. Those groups include:
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Veteran Organizations
From one on one motivation, to motivating Fortune 500 companies, Brandon has enjoyed working in a number of settings. Below are just a few of the images of the groups and organizations he has worked with.
At The age of 21 I never imagined my life would go in the direction it did I remember getting ready to leave for Afghani tan and wondering what it would be like over there ...
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Don't Touch. . . Ouch -Too Late!
This comes to you from the sunny (ish) UK where I’m taking some time to get my house in order and rediscover the joys of driving on the other side of the road (no accidents so far). But diving goes on and it was an eventful weekend. Geoff tells the story:
"With several regulars being away for various reasons six divers met up for what was to be an interesting day. After Mike and Big Brian’s labour during the week to fix a fractured spring and replacement of the depth sounder transducer on Friday morning itself we set off for Al Khan and what has become our favoured dive site of late, the Victoria Star. Only one of the group had taken the Tuesday evening dive instruction for fancy dress seriously and got a bemused look from the Al Khan coastguard when providing the boat details in a Spiderman mask.
On leaving the harbour it was immediately evident that the sea was still reeling from a storm two days ago as SP325 made slow but steady progress into a heavy swell. Even so, the proximity of the wreck to Mina Khalid Harbour meant we were soon on location and a barnacle encrusted mooring line that had made its way to the surface indicated we were close. Big Brian free-dived to check where we were and on his return advised there was little more than 2-3m vis, a fast current and an ominous repetitive thud, which later became painfully clear for one diver.
Derek (aka Spidey) and Brian Larkin were first in, followed by Mike and Wendy, each with their own objectives for the dive. Wendy searched the galley [a woman’s place is…?] for more components of the mincing machine she has been collecting but was unable to locate the machine itself. After about 25minutes Derek and Brian returned to the surface with Brian looking white as a sheet. While making his way along the vessel, Brian had grasped the rim of an open window only to have the fingers of his right hand crushed when the window slammed shut in the surge (the ominous repetitive thud). Suffering from shock, Brian was put on oxygen and received first aid to cleanse and dress the wounds, which had broken the skin. This combined with Wendy’s “Jesus” cake managed to settle the patient and bring some colour back.
With Brian stabilized, Big Brian and Geoff descended and headed for the lifeboat only to find that it was no longer on its davits, torn away presumably by the storm. After checking the prop, more of which has been revealed due to the turbulent waters scouring the sand away, the majority of the dive was spent clearing debris and various hazards set to ensnare unwary divers from the galley. This also opened up another route into the dining area. Everyone agreed on just the one dive so we could return to port and enable Brian to get his hand checked out at hospital where he discovered that he had fractured his middle and ring fingers but was otherwise ok".
The incident naturally provoked some comment, some serious some less so:
· The fickle finger(s) of fate was unkind to Brian
· Despite the presence of Spiderman, this could not prevent the Hand of God…
· Do you think Brian was a little cut up about the hole ordeal?
Thanks to Derek and Big Brian for these valuable contributions to diver safety.
Some more serious reflections:
The incident was perhaps a timely reminder that underwater in general and shipwrecks in particular are a hazardous environment and nothing should be taken for granted. Also it showed how essential both the O2 set and the 1st Aid Kit – always put on the boat but so rarely used – really are. Geoff also makes the good point:
The other ‘top tip’ to add is that in cases of finger injuries such as this to remove any rings as soon as possible. If the injured finger swells the ring will restrict blood flow and may result in losing the finger if the ring cannot be removed.
While all this was going on, PJ was in Germany presenting Uwe with a souvenir of the Victoria Star (see attached). Why this particular souvenir I don’t know – perhaps he had Georgia on his mind! (PJ- I was concerned that Uwe wasn't flagging - and he wasn't - that isn't just a smile: that is flag-elation!).
Bung-ho Victoria
To start at the end for a change, one of the boat trailer springs died on Friday and after some hard work by Mike Anthony and Brian Lugg on Saturday the trailer is in bits and new springs are procured. On Tuesday night we’ll be putting the thing back together in time for next Friday so we need a few bodies with overalls to help with the lifting. No excuses accepted (well possibly if you need a flight to get here but otherwise…)
We actually had company on the Victoria Star this weekend. Not DSDC as we might have expected but Ali Fikree and a team of divers in a smart looking dive boat. Our ride out was very smooth but with a full moon, we were expecting strong currents. Not on the first dive as it turned out – we must have hit slack water and there was nothing to speak of.
Calm it may have been under water but things were not so relaxed on the boat. Waiting for the return of the first wave, Mike noticed the stern a bit lower in the water than it ought to have been. Yup – one of the bungs was missing and the boat was in danger of joining the Victoria Star on the bottom. They say the most efficient pump is a desperate man with a bucket and Mike was soon bailing away having first jumped into the water to plug the hole.
By the time we were on the surface the crisis had passed although we were bailing away for a good while. By the time of the second dive the current had got up as expected and it was a big effort just to get to the anchor line. Still – once on the wreck it was much calmer so we were able to further explore the workshop and engine room.
Our Eid trip to Beirut is gathering pace. The main target is the “Souffleur” a Vichy French submarine sunk in 1941. A nearby wreck the “Alice B” is also well worth a visit.
Last weekend we were back to Victoria Star (surprise!) for some more exploration. We probably won’t have the ship to ourselves for much longer now that the Notice to Mariners is issued so we want to make the most of it. The sea was a bit lumpy but the current was non-existent so we had a better time of it than the previous weekend. Geoff is busy making a plan of the vessel to assist in navigating inside. Brian Lugg could certainly advise him some places to avoid. As he delicately put it on Facebook:
There is saying: "a bad day’s diving beats any day in the office..." After today's escapades I'm rethinking this. Managed to find EVERY toilet and the entire engine room full of sewage today. Swimming amongst the turds also brings a new meaning to "diving in shit viz..." On the upside – with all the crap going down I somehow managed not to lose my buddy!!!
Not exactly Dostoyevsky but a graphic description nevertheless.
One thing about the crew though – they may have been lousy seamen but they were certainly regular.
But enough of this toilet humour. Mike and I paid a visit to the workshop next to the engine room. Elsewhere on the vessel, the marine growth continues – it’s remarkable how quickly it takes hold – and fish life is starting to increase although it might be some time before it reaches Dara type proportions. As well as the usual snappers, a couple of juvenile groupers have found a home on the ship.
We welcomed a couple of new faces – Peter and Rose from Emirates Airlines who hope will be coming out with us again. With Peter on board and Andy back from his summer holidays, we had two American divers which I can’t remember happening before. Rose had brought along a bottle of the fizzy white stuff which we selflessly offered to help her drink. Glasses were in short supply (apart from Andy who had brought up a cup from the Victoria Star’s galley) so we butchered some Masafi bottles. Crude but effective.
After that it was back to base. PJ and Cathy joined us at the dive table and we enjoyed a glass or two and a meal while the sun went down. All in all an excellent day from dawn’s early light to twilight’s last gleaming.
On Saturday morning a small working party convened to do a bit of tidying up in the yard and to erect our new drying racks. Having acquired a new washing pool last year we can now dry our gear on something better than the old flimsy clothes dryer. Ever onwards and upwards…
Victoria still Starring!
We were slightly tempted to give the Victoria Star a rest and do something different at the weekend – I mean how many weeks running do you go to the same place? But none of the suggested alternatives are going away any time soon and Derek was keen to visit the new target have missed the last few weeks. None of us needed a lot of persuading.
So the Victoria Star it was and the sea was more or less flat giving a quick journey out there. The current was mild to start with so the exploration continued. There are one two nice swim throughs in the accommodation area although obviously care is needed. Some of the wooden doors are disintegrating and we’ll probably remove them completely over the next little while. The marine growth continues to take hold – at the moment the wreck becomes noticeably more encrusted each week.
By the time it got to the second dive, both the sea state and the current had increased significantly to the point where one or two of us aborted having found it impossible to reach the anchor line. It has to be said that this decision was encouraged by the sight of Derek producing a few cans of Fosters. The trip home was rough and wet although Geoff did the best he could – the photo attached might give some idea.
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Characterizing cognitive heterogeneity on the schizophrenia–bipolar disorder spectrum
T. E. Van Rheenen, K. E. Lewandowski, E. J. Tan, L. H. Ospina, D. Ongur, E. Neill, C. Gurvich, C. Pantelis, A. K. Malhotra, S. L. Rossell, K. E. Burdick
Journal: Psychological Medicine / Volume 47 / Issue 10 / July 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2017, pp. 1848-1864
Print publication: July 2017
Current group-average analysis suggests quantitative but not qualitative cognitive differences between schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD). There is increasing recognition that cognitive within-group heterogeneity exists in both disorders, but it remains unclear as to whether between-group comparisons of performance in cognitive subgroups emerging from within each of these nosological categories uphold group-average findings. We addressed this by identifying cognitive subgroups in large samples of SZ and BD patients independently, and comparing their cognitive profiles. The utility of a cross-diagnostic clustering approach to understanding cognitive heterogeneity in these patients was also explored.
Hierarchical clustering analyses were conducted using cognitive data from 1541 participants (SZ n = 564, BD n = 402, healthy control n = 575).
Three qualitatively and quantitatively similar clusters emerged within each clinical group: a severely impaired cluster, a mild-moderately impaired cluster and a relatively intact cognitive cluster. A cross-diagnostic clustering solution also resulted in three subgroups and was superior in reducing cognitive heterogeneity compared with disorder clustering independently.
Quantitative SZ–BD cognitive differences commonly seen using group averages did not hold when cognitive heterogeneity was factored into our sample. Members of each corresponding subgroup, irrespective of diagnosis, might be manifesting the outcome of differences in shared cognitive risk factors.
Processing and Properties of Ni-Based Bulk Metallic Glass via Spark Plasma Sintering of Pulverized Amorphous Ribbons
Alexander. S. Petersen, Andrew. M. Cheung, Henry. J. Neilson, S. Joseph. Poon, Gary. J. Shiflet, John. J. Lewandowski
Journal: MRS Advances / Volume 2 / Issue 61 / 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 November 2017, pp. 3815-3820
Ni-based bulk metallic glasses and composites with high absolute densities exceeding 11 g/cm3 were synthesized via spark plasma sintering of Ni45Co10Ta25Nb20 powders produced from pulverized, melt-spun amorphous ribbons. Optimizing the synthesis via selection of sintering temperature, uniaxial load pressure, and powder mechanical screening yielded samples with relative densities of nearly 100% and hardness values in excess of 12.5 GPa without cracking. Mechanical testing included Weibull modulus determination for hardness and compression testing at 10-3 s-1 and 103 s-1 strain rates. The capability of using spark plasma sintering to fabricate high hardness, high density, large scale metallic glasses is demonstrated. The mechanical properties of these compacted comminuted melt-spun glass ribbons are presented.
6 - Principles of radioembolization
from Section II - Principles of image-guided therapies
By Vanessa L. Gates, Northwestern University, Riad Salem, Northwestern University, Robert J. Lewandowski, Northwestern University
Edited by Jean-Francois H. Geschwind, Michael C. Soulen
Book: Interventional Oncology
Published online: 05 September 2016
Print publication: 22 September 2016, pp 44-51
Radioembolization is defined as the administration of micron-sized embolic particles loaded with a radionuclide using percutaneous transarterial techniques. Fluoroscopic guidance, angiographic endpoints of embolization and stasis, and the need to modify this based on angiographic findings makes this treatment a true embolization procedure. Dosimetry planning, the administration and delivery of radiation on the microscopic level, the modification of the dose based on tumor and hepatic volume, in addition to the required knowledge of radiation effects on tissue make this a brachytherapy procedure. Radioembolization therefore combines radiation with embolization.
Investigations into yttrium-90 (90Y) and other radionuclides as part of a microsphere or particle for the treatment of cancer date back to the 1960s. Initial studies of resin 90Y in humans were reported in the late 1970s. The seminal work in a canine liver model demonstrating the safety and feasibility of using 90Y therapy for hepatic malignancies was reported in the late 1980s. Human studies of 90Y microsphere therapy in liver applications followed from the late 1980s through to the 1990s. These investigations established the safety of 90Y for intrahepatic applications as well as the tolerance of normal parenchyma to radioembolization. It should be noted that different disciplines use slightly different names for radioembolization: microsphere brachytherapy, microbrachytherapy, hepatic intra-arterial radiotherapy, and selective internal radiation therapy. The term radioembolization will be used in this chapter, as it is the preferred term per Society of Interventional Radiology standards document.
Mechanism of radioembolization
Radioembolization of liver tumor takes advantage of the unique vascular system of the liver. In normal liver tissue, approximately 70–80% of the organ's blood flow is supplied by the portal vein, and the hepatic artery accounts for the rest. This contrasts with both hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and metastatic tumors to the liver, which have approximately 80–100% of their blood flow supplied by the hepatic artery. This difference in perfusion is exploited by radioembolization, whereby radioactive microspheres doped with a radionuclide are used to produce intentional microembolization of the tumor capillary bed in the liver tumor(s) by delivering the microspheres through the hepatic artery and, subsequently, selectively targeting malignant disease.
14 - 90Yttrium radioembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma
from Section III - Organ-specific cancers – primary liver cancers
By Ryan M. Hickey, Northwestern University, Riad Salem, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Robert J. Lewandowski, Northwestern University
Print publication: 22 September 2016, pp 128-133
Radioembolization refers to the intra-arterial, transcatheter administration of micrometer-sized particles loaded with a radioisotope, most commonly yttrium-90 (Y90). Because liver tumors derive the majority of their blood supply from hepatic arteries, as opposed to the predominantly portal venous blood supply of normal liver tissue, hepatic arterial injection of Y90-labeled microspheres results in greater deposition of the spheres in tumor tissue as opposed to normal liver parenchyma. Since Y90 radioembolization provides an internal source of radiation to hepatic tumors, it is considered brachytherapy.
Preferential deposition of radioactive microspheres within tumor tissue provides for relative sparing of the uninvolved liver parenchyma from the radiation effects of Y90, thereby permitting significantly higher radiation doses than can be safely administered using external-beam radiation. The radiosensitive nature of normal liver tissue has traditionally limited the role of external-beam radiation in the treatment of primary and metastatic hepatic malignancies, as the incidence of severe radiation-induced liver disease (RILD) may exceed 50% for external-beam radiation doses greater than 35–40 Gy. However, with radioembolization, radiation doses in excess of 150 Gy can be safely administered.
Y90, a pure beta emitter with a half-life of 64.2 hours and tissue penetration of 2.5–11 mm, is incorporated into glass or resin microspheres ranging in size from 20–30 μm (glass) to 20–60 μm (resin). Glass microspheres (Therasphere, BTG International Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada) were approved in 1999 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under a Humanitarian Device Exemption for the treatment of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Resin microspheres (SIR-Spheres, Sirtex Medical, Lane Cove, Australia) were granted full premarketing approval in 2002 by the US FDA for the treatment of unresectable colorectal metastases in conjunction with intrahepatic floxuridine.
Safe and effective treatment of hepatic tumors with radioembolization requires not only the angiographic and endovascular skills critical for selective embolization procedures, but also a comprehensive understanding of radiation administration and safety, including radiation dosimetry and radiation dose modification based on tumor characteristics and a patient's clinical profile.
The patient selection process for Y90 radioembolization involves an assessment of the patient's burden of disease, hepatic biochemical profile, and performance status. Patients should have no extrahepatic disease and a tumor burden less than 70% of the liver volume.
Flex Bending Fatigue of Dental Archwires
Janet L. Gbur, Kimaya N. Gupte, John J. Lewandowski
Journal: Microscopy and Microanalysis / Volume 22 / Issue S3 / July 2016
Local perceptions of the impact of group interpersonal psychotherapy in rural Uganda
R. E. Lewandowski, P. A. Bolton, A. Feighery, J. Bass, C. Hamba, E. Haroz, V. Stavrou, L. Ndogoni, A. Jean-Pierre, H. Verdeli
Journal: Global Mental Health / Volume 3 / 2016
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2016, e23
Background.
This study investigated local perceptions of changes stemming from a long-standing Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT-G) program for the treatment of depression in rural Uganda. The study was conducted in a low-income, severely HIV/AIDS-affected area where in 2001 the prevalence of depression was estimated at 21% among adults.
Data were collected using free-listing and key informant qualitative interviews. A convenience sample of 60 free-list respondents was selected from among IPT-G participants, their families, and other community members from 10 Ugandan villages. Twenty-two key informants and six IPT-G facilitators were also interviewed.
Content analysis yielded five primary categories of change in the community related to the IPT-G program: (1) improved school attendance for children; (2) improved productivity; (3) improved sanitation in communities; (4) greater cohesion among community members; and (5) reduced conflict in families. Community members and IPT-G facilitators suggested that as depression remitted, IPT-G participants became more hopeful, motivated and productive.
Results suggest that providing treatment for depression in communities with high depression prevalence rates may lead to positive changes in a range of non-mental health outcomes.
Ultrafast Lattice Dynamics of Granular L1o Phase FePt Measured by MeV Electron Diffraction
A. H. Reid, X. Shen, R. K. Li, S. P. Weathersby, G. Brown, T. Chase, R. Coffee, J. Corbett, J. C. Frisch, N. Hartmann, J. Li, C. Hast, R. K. Jobe, E. N. Jongewaard, J. R. Lewandowski, J. E. May, D. McCormick, T. Vecchione, J. Cao, E. E. Fullerton, Y.K. Takahashi, J. Wu, X. J. Wang, H. A. Diirr
Journal: Microscopy and Microanalysis / Volume 21 / Issue S3 / August 2015
Print publication: August 2015
Development of MeV Ultrafast Electron Scattering Instruments at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
R. K. Li, A. H. Reid, S. P. Weathersby, G. Brown, M. Centurion, T. Chase, R. Coffee, J. Corbett, J. C. Frisch, M. Guehr, N. Hartmann, C. Hast, L. V. Ho, K. R. Jobe, E. N. Jongewaard, J. R. Lewandowski, A. M. Lindenberg, J. E. May, D. McCormick, X. Shen, K. Sokolowski-Tinten, T. Vecchione, J. Wu, J. Yang, H. A. Diirr, X. J. Wang
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2015, pp. 1209-1210
Occupational differences in US Army suicide rates
R. C. Kessler, M. B. Stein, P. D. Bliese, E. J. Bromet, W. T. Chiu, K. L. Cox, L. J. Colpe, C. S. Fullerton, S. E. Gilman, M. J. Gruber, S. G. Heeringa, L. Lewandowski-Romps, A. Millikan-Bell, J. A. Naifeh, M. K. Nock, M. V. Petukhova, A. J. Rosellini, N. A. Sampson, M. Schoenbaum, A. M. Zaslavsky, R. J. Ursano
Journal: Psychological Medicine / Volume 45 / Issue 15 / November 2015
Civilian suicide rates vary by occupation in ways related to occupational stress exposure. Comparable military research finds suicide rates elevated in combat arms occupations. However, no research has evaluated variation in this pattern by deployment history, the indicator of occupation stress widely considered responsible for the recent rise in the military suicide rate.
The joint associations of Army occupation and deployment history in predicting suicides were analysed in an administrative dataset for the 729 337 male enlisted Regular Army soldiers in the US Army between 2004 and 2009.
There were 496 suicides over the study period (22.4/100 000 person-years). Only two occupational categories, both in combat arms, had significantly elevated suicide rates: infantrymen (37.2/100 000 person-years) and combat engineers (38.2/100 000 person-years). However, the suicide rates in these two categories were significantly lower when currently deployed (30.6/100 000 person-years) than never deployed or previously deployed (41.2–39.1/100 000 person-years), whereas the suicide rate of other soldiers was significantly higher when currently deployed and previously deployed (20.2–22.4/100 000 person-years) than never deployed (14.5/100 000 person-years), resulting in the adjusted suicide rate of infantrymen and combat engineers being most elevated when never deployed [odds ratio (OR) 2.9, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.1–4.1], less so when previously deployed (OR 1.6, 95% CI 1.1–2.1), and not at all when currently deployed (OR 1.2, 95% CI 0.8–1.8). Adjustment for a differential ‘healthy warrior effect’ cannot explain this variation in the relative suicide rates of never-deployed infantrymen and combat engineers by deployment status.
Efforts are needed to elucidate the causal mechanisms underlying this interaction to guide preventive interventions for soldiers at high suicide risk.
Understanding the elevated suicide risk of female soldiers during deployments
A. E. Street, S. E. Gilman, A. J. Rosellini, M. B. Stein, E. J. Bromet, K. L. Cox, L. J. Colpe, C. S. Fullerton, M. J. Gruber, S. G. Heeringa, L. Lewandowski-Romps, R. J. A. Little, J. A. Naifeh, M. K. Nock, N. A. Sampson, M. Schoenbaum, R. J. Ursano, A. M. Zaslavsky, R. C. Kessler
Journal: Psychological Medicine / Volume 45 / Issue 4 / March 2015
Print publication: March 2015
The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) has found that the proportional elevation in the US Army enlisted soldier suicide rate during deployment (compared with the never-deployed or previously deployed) is significantly higher among women than men, raising the possibility of gender differences in the adverse psychological effects of deployment.
Person-month survival models based on a consolidated administrative database for active duty enlisted Regular Army soldiers in 2004–2009 (n = 975 057) were used to characterize the gender × deployment interaction predicting suicide. Four explanatory hypotheses were explored involving the proportion of females in each soldier's occupation, the proportion of same-gender soldiers in each soldier's unit, whether the soldier reported sexual assault victimization in the previous 12 months, and the soldier's pre-deployment history of treated mental/behavioral disorders.
The suicide rate of currently deployed women (14.0/100 000 person-years) was 3.1–3.5 times the rates of other (i.e. never-deployed/previously deployed) women. The suicide rate of currently deployed men (22.6/100 000 person-years) was 0.9–1.2 times the rates of other men. The adjusted (for time trends, sociodemographics, and Army career variables) female:male odds ratio comparing the suicide rates of currently deployed v. other women v. men was 2.8 (95% confidence interval 1.1–6.8), became 2.4 after excluding soldiers with Direct Combat Arms occupations, and remained elevated (in the range 1.9–2.8) after adjusting for the hypothesized explanatory variables.
These results are valuable in excluding otherwise plausible hypotheses for the elevated suicide rate of deployed women and point to the importance of expanding future research on the psychological challenges of deployment for women.
Sociodemographic and career history predictors of suicide mortality in the United States Army 2004–2009
S. E. Gilman, E. J. Bromet, K. L. Cox, L. J. Colpe, C. S. Fullerton, M. J. Gruber, S. G. Heeringa, L. Lewandowski-Romps, A. M. Millikan-Bell, J. A. Naifeh, M. K. Nock, M. V. Petukhova, N. A. Sampson, M. Schoenbaum, M. B. Stein, R. J. Ursano, S. Wessely, A. M. Zaslavsky, R. C. Kessler
Journal: Psychological Medicine / Volume 44 / Issue 12 / September 2014
The US Army suicide rate has increased sharply in recent years. Identifying significant predictors of Army suicides in Army and Department of Defense (DoD) administrative records might help focus prevention efforts and guide intervention content. Previous studies of administrative data, although documenting significant predictors, were based on limited samples and models. A career history perspective is used here to develop more textured models.
The analysis was carried out as part of the Historical Administrative Data Study (HADS) of the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS). De-identified data were combined across numerous Army and DoD administrative data systems for all Regular Army soldiers on active duty in 2004–2009. Multivariate associations of sociodemographics and Army career variables with suicide were examined in subgroups defined by time in service, rank and deployment history.
Several novel results were found that could have intervention implications. The most notable of these were significantly elevated suicide rates (69.6–80.0 suicides per 100 000 person-years compared with 18.5 suicides per 100 000 person-years in the total Army) among enlisted soldiers deployed either during their first year of service or with less than expected (based on time in service) junior enlisted rank; a substantially greater rise in suicide among women than men during deployment; and a protective effect of marriage against suicide only during deployment.
A career history approach produces several actionable insights missed in less textured analyses of administrative data predictors. Expansion of analyses to a richer set of predictors might help refine understanding of intervention implications.
Trial and Error: Developing Curriculum for Public Outreach
Katherine J. Lewandowski, Charlie A. Jaques, Christina E. O'Malley, Kathy Hollis, Heather K. McCarren, Shelley A. Judge
Journal: The Paleontological Society Special Publications / Volume 13 / 2014
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 July 2017, pp. 70-71
44 - Diagnosis and Management of Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
from PART IV - SPECIALIZED INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES IN CANCER CARE
By Robert J. Lewandowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology Section of Interventional Radiology Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL, Bassel Atassi, Research Associate, Department of Radiology Section of Interventional Radiology Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL, Riad Salem, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL
Edited by Jean-François H. Geschwind, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Michael C. Soulen, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome, first described in 1757 by William Hunter (1), refers to a constellation of clinical symptoms caused by obstruction of the SVC. This obstruction is nearly always (>85%) attributable to advanced malignancy (2, 3), most commonly lung cancer. In fact, SVC syndrome affects 3% to 4% of patients with bronchogenic cancer (4). Other primary thoracic malignancies, lymphoma and metastatic disease (particularly from breast and testicular primaries) have also been implicated in SVC syndrome either secondary to extrinsic compression of the SVC or due to direct tumor invasion (2). Benign causes of SVC syndrome include venous stenoses, thrombosis (secondary to vascular access catheters and invasive monitoring devices), extrinsic compression from thoracic aortic aneurysms and mediastinal fibrosis from granulomatous disease (5).
The diagnosis of SVC syndrome is initially made clinically. SVC syndrome is characterized by congestion and swelling of the face and upper thorax, with distended superficial chest veins. Other associated symptoms include dyspnea, hoarseness, dysphagia, severe headache and cognitive dysfunction (6, 7). The most severe complications of SVC syndrome include glottic edema and venous thrombosis in the central nervous system (venous stroke). Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) of the chest with vascular reconstruction images should be obtained in these patients, as it can both confirm the site of SVC obstruction as well as delineate the cause of the obstruction (8). Alternatively, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be obtained in those patients with contraindications to CT. The gold standard for diagnosing SVC syndrome is venography.
24 - Radioembolization with 90Yttrium Microspheres for Colorectal Liver Metastases
from PART III - ORGAN-SPECIFIC CANCERS
By Bassel Atassi, Research Associate, Department of Radiology Section of Interventional Radiology Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL, Saad Ibrahim, Research Fellow, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL, Pankit Parikh, Research Assistant, Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL, Robert K. Ryu, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL, Kent T. Sato, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL, Robert J. Lewandowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology Section of Interventional Radiology Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL, Riad Salem, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL
90Yttrium (90Y) microspheres are 20- to 40-μ particles that emit beta radiation. Because the microspheres are delivered via the hepatic arterial route, the process can be considered “internal” rather than external radiation. The treatment algorithm is analogous to that followed with transarterial chemoembolization (TACE). Clinical history, physical examination, laboratory values and performance status are obtained. Patients are initially evaluated and staged using cross-sectional imaging techniques (computerized tomography [CT], magnetic resonance imaging [MRI], positron emission tomography [PET]). Once a patient is considered a possible candidate for therapy, evaluation using mesenteric angiography followed by treatment on a lobar basis is undertaken. Patients are followed clinically to assess toxicities and response prior to proceeding with treatment to the other lobe. A comprehensive review of the technical and methodological considerations in 90Y has been previously published (1–3).
Two devices are commercially available. Thera- Sphere (glass) was approved in 1999 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under a Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) for the treatment of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with or without portal vein thrombosis who can have appropriately positioned hepatic arterial catheters (4). SIR-Spheres (resin) were granted full pre-marketing approval in 2002 by the FDA for the treatment of colorectal metastases in conjunction with intrahepatic floxuridine (FUDR) (5). Both devices have European approval for liver neoplasia and approvals in various Asian countries.
Patients with metastatic cancer to the liver from a colorectal primary tumor may be treated using surgical resection alone, providing a chance for long-term cure.
Mechanical Properties of Bulk Metallic Glasses
A. R. Yavari, J. J. Lewandowski, J. Eckert
Journal: MRS Bulletin / Volume 32 / Issue 8 / August 2007
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2011, pp. 635-638
In the absence of dislocation-mediated crystallographic slip, room-temperature deformation in metallic glasses occurs in thin shear bands initially only ∼10 nm thick. A sharp drop in viscosity (shear softening) occurs in deformed glassy matter and facilitates additional flow in existing shear bands. This further localization of plastic flow leads to shearing-off failure without any significant macroscopic plasticity.
However, whereas most bulk metallic glasses fail in this manner, some undergo surprisingly extensive plastic deformation (in some cases, up to 50% or more) in compression or bending. When this occurs, the flow is “jerky,” as indicated by serrated stress–strain curves. Each serration may correspond to the emission of a shear band that then ceases to operate, at least temporarily, despite the predicted shear softening. As elastic energy is converted to heat during shear, temperatures rise sharply at or near shear bands. This heating may lead to the growth of nanocrystals that then block propagation of shear bands and cracks. The understanding of the dependence of mechanical response of metallic glasses on intrinsic (elastic constants, chemistry) and extrinsic factors (shapes, flaws) is the subject of intense current interest.
Spall strength and Hugoniot elastic limit of a zirconium-based bulk metallic glass under planar shock compression
Fuping Yuan, Vikas Prakash, John J. Lewandowski
Journal: Journal of Materials Research / Volume 22 / Issue 2 / September 2006
Results are presented on the shock response of a zirconium-based bulk metallic glass (BMG), Zr41.25Ti13.75Ni10Cu12.5Be22.5, subjected to planar impact loading. An 82.5-mm bore single-stage gas-gun facility at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, was used to conduct the shock experiments. The particle velocity profiles, measured at the back (free) surface of the target plate by using the velocity interferometer system for any reflector (VISAR), were analyzed to (i) better understand the structure of shock waves in BMG subjected to planar shock compression, (ii) estimate residual spall strength of the BMG after different levels of shock compression, and (iii) obtain the Hugoniot elastic limit (HEL) of the material. The spall strength was found to decrease moderately with increasing levels of the applied normal impact stress. The spall strength at a shock-induced stress of 4.4 GPa was 3.5 GPa while the spall strengths at shock-induced stresses of 5.1, 6.0, and 7.0 GPa were 2.72, 2.35, and 2.33 GPa, respectively. The HEL was estimated to be 6.15 GPa.
Flux Monitoring Using the Toruń 32-m Radio Telescope
J. Kijak, Y. Gupta, W. Lewandowski, G. Hrynek, K. Krzeszowski
Journal: Symposium - International Astronomical Union / Volume 218 / 2004
We present flux density measurements for PSR B0329+54 at 4.8 GHz obtained during one year.
Ultrahigh-Temperature Nb-Silicide-Based Composites
B. P. Bewlay, M. R. Jackson, J.-C. Zhao, P. R. Subramanian, M. G. Mendiratta, J. J. Lewandowski
Journal: MRS Bulletin / Volume 28 / Issue 9 / September 2003
This article reviews the most recent progress in the development of Nb-silicide-based in situ composites for potential applications in turbine engines with service temperatures of up to 1350°C. These composites contain high-strength Nb silicides that are toughened by a ductile Nb solid solution. Preliminary composites were derived from binary Nb-Si alloys, while more recent systems are complex and are alloyed with Ti, Hf, W, B, Ge, Cr, and Al. Alloying schemes have been developed to achieve an excellent balance of room-temperature toughness, fatigue-crack-growth behavior, high-temperature creep performance, and oxidation resistance over a broad range of temperatures. Nb-silicide-based composites are described with emphasis on processing, microstructure, and performance. Nb silicide composites have been produced using a range of processing routes, including induction skull melting, investment casting, hot extrusion, and powder metallurgy methods. Nb silicide composite properties are also compared with those of Ni-based superalloys.
Hardness Indentation Studies On Metallic Glasses
Paul Wesseling, Peravudh Lowhaphandu, John. J. Lewandowski
Journal: MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive / Volume 754 / 2002
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2011, CC11.11
Vickers micro-hardness indentations have been performed on a number of amorphous metals. The effects of changes in indentation load on the hardness and appearance of indents will be discussed for amorphous Al87Ni7Gd6. In addition, the effects of changes in test temperature on the micro-hardness and appearance of indentations in Vitreloy I are presented. A transition in deformation/flow character was detected with increasing test temperature for the Vitreloy I specimens. In addition, preliminary hardness data obtained at room temperature on an iron based metallic glass exhibited values in excess of 12 GPa without cracking.
Effects of Annealing and Annealing with Pressure on Devitrification of Al87Ni7Gd6
Paul Wesseling, B.C. Ko, L.O. Vatamanu, J. Caris, J.J. Lewandowski
The effects of annealing for 30 minutes at temperatures ranging from 123–232°C on the structure evolution, resulting hardness, and tensile properties were determined for amorphous ribbons of Al87Ni7Gd6. Structure evolution was determined using a combination of XRD, DSC, and TEM, while micro-hardness and tensile testing of ribbon specimens was used to evaluate the mechanical properties. Significant effects of annealing on the evolution of structure and properties were obtained, while the superposition of 940 MPa pressure during annealing further enhanced the structure evolution with corresponding changes to the resulting properties.
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Cricket Without Boundaries puts 'Hands Up for #HIVPrevention
Sporting development charity Cricket Without Boundaries are putting their hands up for HIV prevention on World Aids Day - Thursday 1st December 2016 - with a new video and photos.
As part of the international campaign - Hands Up for #HIVPrevention - Cricket Without Boundaries are publishing a new promo video and photos from their recent visit to Botswana alongside photos of their other recent tours to Kenya and Rwanda.
Lee Booth, Head of Delivery at Cricket Without Boundaries, said:
"Sport has a really important role to play in #HIVPrevention. Sadly the decline in HIV infections amongst adults has ended. Over the last five years millions of people are having to cope with the news that they are going to have to live with HIV.
"Hands up for #HIVPrevention is a great way to get that message across. In Botswana - a country where one in four of the population is HIV positive - people were really happy to write on their hands what they feel is really important.
"Words like 'Condoms', 'Test', 'No Stigma', 'Be Faithful' might appear as very simple but can be hugely significant in the fight to prevent HIV. There is an urgent need to reinvigorate the #HIVPrevention messages. We know from our work over the past 10 years, including trips only a few weeks ago to Botswana, Kenya and Rwanda that by combining sport - in our case cricket - with positive action - the HIV health messages can get through."
The new 'Hands up for #HIVPrevention' video produced by Cricket Without Boundaries volunteer Robbie Gunn is available to view here. The #HIVPrevention photos will be posted across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Flickr with others invited to post their own.
Anyone interested in finding out more about volunteering for Cricket Without Boundaries , with trips currently being planned to Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda in Autumn 2017 and Spring 2018, should click here.
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In today’s increasingly complex world, problems are often multifaceted and a multi-disciplinary approach is necessary to effectively address these challenges. At NTU College of Engineering, we advocate learning beyond classroom and encourage our students to think outside the box and develop creative solutions. We nurture our students to become problem-solvers and innovators and provide them with a collaborative and stimulating environment to build innovation into their daily learning experience.
We have now made most of the makers’ spaces across the campus accessible to all full-time students in NTU. Through this effort, we hope to encourage our engineering students to collaborate with peers from different disciplines and work in teams to experiment, create, build and innovate. Apart from the wide variety of equipment, resources and mentorship programmes available, teams may also apply for financial support through their respective schools and NTUitive to kickstart their creative ideas.
What are you waiting for? Make full use of our makers’ spaces and who knows, you may be the next changemaker! Interested teams can download the application form here.
Click on the links below to find out more about the various makers' labs on campus.
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Having been the smaller sibling for many years now, multiplayer games were a big part of my child hood.
In fact, these games were vital for me otherwise I never would have had a go on the good ol’ PS2!
But today, we face the challenges of wanting to buy the most incredible games but a lot of them barely have any multiplayer function; annoying!
So, today, I decided to concoct a list of all the modern multiplayers that you can play with your younger brothers or sisters or even just your friends online:
Ha, just kidding, we’ll start the article now.
As previously mentioned for its excellent DLCs, Destiny is also equipped with a brilliant multiplayer mode.
Just like many mainstream games, this game has the option for online competitive play in “The Crucible” which, from my experience, is incredibly fast paced!
But not only that, you can also complete the campaign with a “Fireteam”. This is 2 or 3 of you team up to tackle the darkness together.
I feel like I need to exaggerate this more:
You don’t have to complete the story alone anymore. You don’t have to share the controller around between mates. You can do the whole thing playing together at the same time.
For me, this is revolutionary.
It solves the problem of repetitive play.
Instead of always playing Team Deathmatch in Nuke Town, you can continue to explore different areas of planets completing a variety of missions.
Now if you don’t have any friends to play with (don’t worry, I’m not judging), you can always play in public events where you and other guardians work together to defeat a hefty boss level.
No matter what platform you are playing this game on, it still serves a fantastic multiplayer function.
With split screen and online play, you can compete against racers from around the world to drive against along wacky courses.
This game could create hours of family fun or a dispute the size of a Monopoly fallout.
This game served many useful purposes for me and my friends, mainly as a problem decider.
If we weren’t happy with something, we would play a round on rainbow road and who ever wins has the deciding vote on what we do.
Or, if we were at a party, someone would end up bringing mario kart with them and we would be playing split screen until early hours of the morning.
This game differs slightly from other games on this list.
Up to 4 people can pursue through the story together like Destiny without having to endure split screen (being a 2D platform game, split screen seems a bit redundant).
As well as this, you can create your own levels for players online to enjoy. These can be in the form of mini games involving your favourite characters, not only from littlebigplanet, as well as full blown, adventure maps.
If that’s not good enough, you can even create quirky levels with friends online and offline.
Here’s my favourite bit:
Some of the levels include little easter eggs that can only be completed with a certain number of players; there will usually be a stamp on the map to tell you how many people you need.
With these, you can collect extra outfits for your sack boy, stickers, materials and more!
In order to get these items, you’d have to complete a quirky puzzle first.
Seeing as my brother wasn’t a big fan of this game (he thought he was too manly for it), I would usually have two controllers on the go and I would control both sack boys myself! While it proved difficult, I still managed to complete some of the puzzles.
By now, you must have seen at least one youtuber play this game.
And it’s for a good reason.
Rocket league offers a fun, affordable way to experience multiplayer gaming.
You play as a small vehicle and it is your job, with your team, to get the ball in the opposing team’s net.
So …it’s football but …you’re a car.
As silly of a concept as it might sound, it is still ridiculously entertaining.
Similar to Mario Kart, Rocket League can either allow you and your friends to have a great time, or, you can seriously piss someone off.
What I recommend you do, if you have not watched gameplay before, is to search for Rocket League on Youtube as the game is still fun even when you’re watching and not playing!
This game is only for local co-op with 1-4 players.
However, it is one of the most intense multiplayer games out there.
Looking at the gameplay for it, you’d think it’s a kids game but do not be so naive; this game can be well suited for adults too!
With high pace action, you and your friends are a group of chefs in weird and wonderful surroundings trying to complete a food order before the time is up and the customer leaves “in a huff”!
Reading reviews for this game on steam:
Overcooked is hands down one of the best couch party games ever made. It’s the perfect balance of chaos that can be conquered with skill.
If you looking for a game to entertain you and guests one evening, try this one!
This game is slightly different from the rest being a bit older but I still had to include it on my list because of this one reason:
This game was built for multiplayer.
Instead of playing with friends, getting to the cutscene and then only having player 1 in the cut scene, this game includes all 4 players.
Including the main characters, Ratchet and Clank, participants can also decide to play as Captain Qwark and Doctor Nefarious; two characters that feature heavily throughout the Ratchet and Clank series.
You can still collect the awesome guns that would appear in previous games but you can also collect new items to complete a number of functions.
To top it all off, this game also doesn’t have split screen so you can all stare at the same screen and not worry about having one small tiny portion of the TV.
It includes a special function so that if you find that you and a friend separate in the game, you can leash on to one another to be reunited.
I know I keep saying that every game is different to the rest on this list but nothing differs as much as this one.
This is a local multiplayer game where only one player is actually controlling the game.
The player on the computer is confronted with a bomb and no knowledge on how to diffuse it. However, you friends are equipped with a manual and the only way of getting out of the situation is through lots of communication.
You have to describe exactly what is in front of you so that your friends can then tell you what to do and I must say: it’s pretty intense!
You can even enjoy this game in VR so that you can truly believe there is a live bomb in front of you.
I don’t think I’d be any good at this; I would freak out way to easily and just accept the fact I was gonna blow up.
How could we write an article on multiplayer games and not mention Minecraft?
This game is a multi-terrain survival where you construct shelters with materials you scavange to survive the monsters that come out at night.
It is a cool, creative game where you can see what awesome mansion you can make out of all the materials you would ever need.
The multiplayer function can be served as local play or online (mainly online)
Minecraft is an excellent multiplayer game as you can construct buildings together, kill mobs together, and most importantly, try out new mods together.
It’s a game that doesn’t restrict you to a finite story but allows to explore as far and wide as the map will take you and test your creativity.
And it only increases in enjoyment when you and friends build something huge.
So there you have it, these are the best games for having a great time with mates.
These are the games that allowed me t0 become the gamer that I am today (otherwise, I never would have been allowed a go).
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Monday, 7th July, 2014 9.30 am
To confirm the minutes of the meeting held on 9 June 2014.
The Minutes of the meeting held on 9 June 2014 were confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.
Agenda Item 9a (Billingford) – All Members had received additional correspondence.
Agenda Item 10:
Schedule Item 2 (South Lopham) – For transparency Councillor Chapman-Allen declared that she had represented Councillor Nunn (the Ward Representative who had been unable to attend) at a public meeting held to discuss the application but she had taken no part in the discussions.
Schedule Item 3 (Weeting) – All Members had received direct representation.
Schedule Item 5 (Mattishall) – Councillor Claussen declared that he was a Mattishall Ward Representative.
Schedule Item 6 (Croxton) – All Members had received correspondence from Thetford Town Council. Councillors Armes, Lamb and Spencer all declared that they were Thetford Town Councillors and as such they would exercise their right to speak on the application and then leave the room. Councillor Kybird noted that he was Ward Representative of the immediately adjacent Ward and also a Thetford Town Councillor. For transparency Councillor Robinson declared that he lived very close to the site.
The Planning Policy Officer provided a brief update.
E-mails had been sent out to all the Parishes asking them for information for the review of Open Space in the District, which would form part of the evidence for the Local Plan.
At the Cabinet meeting on 1 July 2014 it had been decided that work on the Community Infrastructure Levy should be halted for the time being. That decision would be reviewed if further changes were published. In the meantime the Council would continue to use S106 Agreements.
The Croxton, Brettenham & Kilverstone Neighbourhood Plan had been formally designated. It included the land for the Thetford Sustainable Urban Extension.
There would be a Local Plan Working Group meeting held towards the end of July to look at the first section of the Issues & Options document.
Assessment of Breckland's Five Year Housing Land Supply (2014) (Agenda Item 8) PDF 67 KB
Report of the Assistant Director of Commissioning.
Assessment 2014 , item 68. PDF 375 KB
The Planning Policy Officer presented the report and full statement which was updated annually.
The assessment looked at how many houses had been built in the last year and how many would be built in the next five years. Every site with planning permission was included in the assessment but only the houses which could be expected to be built within the next five years could be counted, therefore only some of the Thetford Sustainable Urban Extension housing had been included.
The District had failed to meet the required number of houses for the previous year and so the shortfall had been added to the total for the next five years. There was the potential for 4428 houses to be built in the next five years, giving the Council a 3.7 year supply. Unfortunately the NPPF required a 20% buffer to be included in the figures, which reduced the supply to 3.29 years.
The housing target had only been met twice since 2001.
Councillor Claussen asked about the definition of ‘sustainable’ which he felt was an insult to Norfolk – implying that the whole area was basically unsustainable. He felt that the definition was suitable for urban districts not rural ones and he asked how much flexibility there was to provide a sustainable definition suitable for Norfolk. He suggested that Members needed training to improve their understanding.
The Deputy Planning Manager advised that when matters were considered at Committee Members needed to take the Officers’ assessments, National and Local Planning Policy and the Housing Implementation Strategy into consideration.
The Director of Planning & Business Manager thought that there had to be an element of consistency for Officers to be able to advise Developers how the Committee would interpret sustainability. There had been a policy in place for some time and there was an opportunity with the new Local Plan to reinterpret that.
Councillor Duigan asked whether there might be a necessity to provide housing sites for adjacent authorities.
The Deputy Planning Manager advised that there was a duty to co-operate and some other authorities might seek assistance but the expectation was that each area would meet its own needs.
RESOLVED to note the contents of the report for information and for any implications for decisions on relevant Planning Applications.
The Chairman noted that the application for a smoking shelter at Breckland Business Centre, Dereham had been withdrawn. A new application would be submitted using different materials.
BILLINGFORD: Elmham Road: Recreation and agricultural facilities with visitor centre: Applicant: Mr B Todd: Reference: 3PL/2014/0056/F PDF 94 KB
Report of the Director of Commissioning.
2014 0056 Billingford Deferred Item Report 14-05-14 , item 69a PDF 59 KB
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Members were given a brief recap of the application which had been deferred for a second time at the May meeting.
Additional information from the Applicant had been included in the report and Members had received direct correspondence. Members were informed that a formal letter of objection had been received from George Freeman MP.
The site history was extensive and had been set out in the report. A summary of the recent Appeal decision regarding the site had been provided in a Supplement to the Agenda. The Inspector had found that the existing building was not necessary and harmed the character and appearance of the area and the need for the building had not been justified. That decision was material to the Application and therefore the Officer’s recommendation had been changed to one of refusal. Any future submission should include a scaled back version of the visitor centre and more robust evidence of need.
Mr Davies (Billingford Parish Council) raised concerns about loss of public access, noise, the affect on existing tourism businesses, obstruction of use and the playground near open water.
Mr Wood (Hoe Parish Council) pointed out that the appeal decision referred to a smaller area and the much larger proposals in the current application would cause even greater harm to the protected river valley. He asked Members to refuse the application and authorise further enforcement action.
Mr Atterwill (Swanton Morley Parish Council) acknowledged that many of their concerns had been addressed by the latest report, but not all. Four points needed stronger conditions: 1) swimming should be supervised at all times and suitable lifesaving equipment provided; 2) No visitor traffic should use the Swanton Morley / Worthing Road; 3) Secretary of State contact regarding the Common Land should be required; and 4) prior approval regarding the design of any chicken houses should be required. He concluded saying they still strongly objected to the application.
Mr Howell (Chairman of Norfolk Fly Fishers Club and speaking on behalf of Dereham Angling Club) drew attention to their submission of 14 April and reiterated their concerns about security, noise and light pollution, rights of way and liability.
Mr Labouchere (Objector) reiterated his previous concerns about the damage to the site and loss of habitat and amenity. He was concerned that other applications would follow and said that no mitigation could justify approval. He asked Members to reject the application and enforce removal of the building.
Mr Moulton (Agent) pointed out that the site was suitable for agriculture and could be ploughed and cropped including the Scheduled Ancient Monument and open access land. Pigs, sheep and chickens could also be brought onto the land which would support the agricultural building. However, the Applicant wanted to use the site for recreational purposes and some of those uses had been accepted by the Appeal Inspector. The current proposal was a reduction in scale of the application refused by the Inspector.
Mr Todd (Applicant) advised Members that although the Appeal had been rejected and he ... view the full minutes text for item 69a
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AVIC-PCI Ltd
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Weeting Football Club
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Mr Matthew Davison
Mr Maurice Howard
Croxton
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Supp report Agenda Item 10 , item 70. PDF 40 KB
(a) Item 1: SWANTON MORLEY: Land off Rectory Road: Erection of 52 residential dwellings with associated open space: Applicant: Hopkins Homes Limited: Reference: 3PL/2014/0083/F
This application had the support of the Parish Council. However, they had requested an upgrade to Harkers Lane. Norfolk County Council had the legal powers to upgrade the Lane and had indicated that such works would cost around £8000. If Members were minded to approve the application authority was requested for Officers to negotiate the upgrade if feasible.
Mr Atterwill (Swanton Morley Parish Council) explained that Harkers Lane would provide a safe route to the school but it got very muddy in winter. Any upgrade should be completed before the first occupation of any dwellings. Other suggestions were for a tactile crossing for pedestrian safety; Open Space to be laid to grass and transferred to the Parish Council after 12 months; street lighting to be approved by and transferred to the Parish Council; and affordable homes to be offered to local people first.
Mr Carrick (Objector) did not object to the development but was concerned about the method of disposal of surface water. He suggested porous surfaces or piping the water through the Church car park which he owned.
Mr Smith (Agent) had discussed Mr Carrick’s proposals but had to satisfy EA requirements. The Officers would condition the drainage scheme. He had no problems with the upgrade of Harkers Lane and funds could be found from the S106 contributions. Details of offsite highway works had been agreed in principle but if a tactile crossing was required by NCC that matter would be revisited. Parish Council approval for street lighting would be sought.
Councillor R Richmond (Ward Representative) said there were no major issues with the application although it was apparent that Harkers Lane was important. Flash floods could be serious and he was pleased the EA had suggested a SuDS system.
Members discussed the flooding issue and it was noted that the SuDS system was for surface not foul water, but that drainage details would be a pre-commencement condition.
With regard to Harkers Lane it was clarified that as a public byway it could not be a ‘trod road’ and a Type 1 finish had been suggested.
It was also noted that the Council had a policy to allocate affordable housing to people with a local connection first.
Councillor Lamb was surprised that the village welcomed such a large development which he thought was urban in style. Mr Atterwill explained that as part of the LDF process villagers had identified the site as the best place for future development. The critical thing was to see the Lane upgraded but it should not be tarmac. It was clarified that the Lane would not be lit.
Deferred, and the officers authorised to grant approval, subject to the conditions listed in the report and additional conditions concerning surface water drainage details and the surfacing of Harkers Lane, on completion ... view the full minutes text for item 70.
Applications determined by the Director of Commissioning (Agenda Item 11) PDF 123 KB
Report of the Director of Commissioning
Appeal Decisions (Agenda Item 12)
APP/F2605/A/14/2213912: DEREHAM: Old Hall Nurseries, Dumpling Green: Appeal by Reads Nurseries against the refusal of planning permission for the erection of two 3 bedroom detached houses with garages: Reference 3PL/2013/0945/F
Decision: Appeal dismissed
Summary: The Inspector concluded that the proposal would not be isolated from shops, services, schools and employment opportunities, it would be an infill surrounded by existing development and would be in keeping with the character of development in the area. The proposal would not harm the character and appearance of the area nor set a precedent for further development. However, the application did not include a completed unilateral undertaking in respect of open space contributions and does not accord with policies CP5 and DC11.
Costs application in relation to above: DEREHAM: Old Hall Nurseries, Dumpling Green by Reads Nurseries for award of costs.
Decision: Application refused.
Summary: The application was made on the basis that the Council relied on an out of date policy, reasons have not been substantiated and second reason is a vague and generalised assertion. The Inspector concluded that unreasonable behaviour resulting in unnecessary or wasted expense has not been demonstrated. The Council was entitled to decide that the harm to the character and appearance of the area would outweigh negligible contribution to housing growth. The reason for refusal on the basis of precedent is considered clear and the Committee report gives an adequate explanation.
APP/F2605/D/14/2216581: LITTLE DUNHAM: Juniper House, The Street: Appeal by Mr. C. Rogers against the refusal of planning permission for the erection of a detached garage: Reference 3PL/2013/1064/F
Decision: Appeal dismissed.
Summary: The Inspector concluded that the proposal would cause unacceptable harm to the character and appearance of the area by virtue of its siting and elevated position in an open frontage and detriment to its leafy and verdant setting.
APP/F2605/A/14/2214510: THETFORD: 55 Hawthorn Walk: Appeal by Mr. Neal against the refusal of planning permission for the erection of a three storey (four bedroom) dwelling: Reference 3PL/2013/0981/F:
Summary: The Inspector concluded that the proposal would be complementary to the character and appearance of the area, provision for parking and bin storage would be adequate and would not impact on amenity. However, as the unilateral undertaking is incomplete, the proposal would not make adequate contribution to the provision of outdoor recreational facilities.
Exclusion of Press & Public (Agenda Item 13)
To consider passing the following resolution:
“That under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and the public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A to the Act”.
PART B – ITEM FROM WHICH THE PRESS AND THE PUBLIC ARE EXCLUDED
RESOLVED that under Section 100(A) of the Local Government Act 1972 the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.
Enforcement Update (Agenda Item 14)
Verbal update by the Enforcement Team Leader.
The Enforcement Team Leader provided the update.
There was a new member of the Enforcement Team. Laura Steward was providing administrative assistance three days a week.
The Ocella software system was to be updated with a S106 monitoring system, jointly funded by the Council and Capita.
Members were advised of the current case load being dealt with by the Team and the number of S106 and Unilateral Undertakings that were being monitored.
Councillor Carter asked for an update on a planning condition that the Committee had imposed with a time limit. That time limit was due to expire that day and the Enforcement Team Leader had been assured that it would be met.
In response to a further question about an individual application he requested prior notice in future to ensure that he would have the relevant information.
Councillor Armes asked about advertising signage on lampposts and was advised that they were on Highways land and therefore the responsibility of NCC.
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01/23/2011 9:33 AM -
The Tulsa Rampage scored first but the El Paso Rhinos did not let them score again, rattling off four goals of their own for a 4-1 win Saturday night.
Finding their Friday night form after a slow first ten minutes, the Rhinos again used a blend of physical play and a tough forecheck to keep the puck in Tulsa’s defensive zone. Special teams played a large role as well, with three of the four El Paso goals coming with the Rhinos either a man up or a man down.
After the Rampage’s Joseph Panariello opened the scoring just 5:36 into the game, El Paso tightened the clamps defensively. Goalie Trent Casper allowed no more goals, stopping 24 of 25 Tulsa shots on the night, with help from a stingy defense that began to dish out some withering checks after the Tulsa goal.
And the Rhinos offense began to wake up, too, beginning with an amazing Tyler Beasley power play strike with just 50 seconds left in the first period.
Finding the going tough against Tulsa’s dynamo goalie, Hayden Capuozzo, Beasley retreated to the right circle, unleashing a slapshot that beat Capuozzo to the far post, above his left shoulder.
Just 83 seconds later – 33 seconds into the second period – one of the newest Rhinos, Matt Tritsch, scored the game-winning goal, beating Capuozzo with a simple off-speed pop that the goalie never really saw.
Defenseman Tyler Benson added to the lead with a gorgeous top-shelf slap shot goal of his own at 9:49 of the second to make it 3-1.
Just over six minutes later, a stunned Capuozzo was chased from net after an El Paso penalty kill mugged the Rampage in the neutral zone, leading to an ice-hugging short-handed goal from defenseman Vinnie Bohn.
The Rhinos (19-9-2, 40 points) gained more ground on Tulsa (17-16-1, 35 points) and continue to hold onto third place in a tight Mid-Western Division race in the Western States Hockey League. El Paso now sits four points in back of the Texas Brahmas for second place.
The Rhinos also have eight games in hand on the idle Brahmas and four on division-leading Boulder, also idle this weekend, with Sunday afternoon’s series-ending game with Tulsa up next.
Face-off for the finale is at 5:30 p.m. MST. For tickets and information, contact the Rhinos front office at 915/479.PUCK (7825) or go to www.elpasorhinos.com.
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TMA DELIVERING MEDICARE MANIFESTO TO WASHINGTON
TMA President Bill Hinchey, MD, is leading a delegation to Capitol Hill that includes 12 physicians, 10 TMA Alliance members, five medical students, and six TMA staff members. As part of the American Medical Association’s National Advocacy Conference, the TMA contingent will take part in a march to the Capitol with hundreds of physicians from around the country. We will be meeting with every member of the Texas delegation in Congress, imploring them to adopt the Texas Medicare Manifesto, which calls for a rational Medicare physician payment system that automatically keeps up with the cost of running a practice and is backed by a stable funding source. Look for coverage in next week’s EVPGram and an upcoming Texas Medicine.
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TMA SURVEY SHOWS MEDICARE FORCING PHYSICIANS OUT
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The percentage of physicians who accept all new Medicare patients has declined to an all-time low of 58.1 percent.
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The physicians of Texas don’t just applaud Senator Cornyn … we rise to give him a standing ovation,” TMA President Bill Hinchey, MD, said after U.S. Sen. John Cornyn introduced a bill to rewrite how Medicare pays physicians. “For years, we have been calling on Congress to enact a rational Medicare physician payment system that automatically keeps up with the cost of running a practice and is backed by a stable funding source. Senator Cornyn’s bill will help make sure that America doesn’t break its promise to our Medicare patients.” The bill would stop the 10-percent cut in Medicare payments set for July 1, replace the faulty sustainable growth rate formula, and base future payment adjustments on the Medicare Economic Index. “I will fight to make sure this bill, and this critical issue, receives the attention it deserves in Congress,” Senator Cornyn said.
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Certified Accessible Ebooks
Laura Brady June 22, 2017 accessibility, EPUB3, Metadata 1 Comment
As part of their Born Accessible initiative, Benetech is launching a new program called Global Certified Accessible. An exciting new program, and the first of it’s kind, it will verify that reviewed content meets rigorous requirements of accessible content. The program has just gone through a six-month beta run with participation from publishers in educational, academic, professional and trade publications.
Global Certified Accessible ensures students unable to read standard print due to blindness, low vision, dyslexia, or a physical disability have equal access to the same content as their peers. The program has a global footprint in order to serve students around the world. Benetech developed the certification standards and serves as the lead certification provider for North America.
The idea behind the program is that certified accessible content will come with specific metadata that makes it easier for users to find it, and for retailers and lenders to market it. So procurement offices and school districts will be able to easily identify and prioritize third-party certified, accessible eTextbooks from publishers who choose to participate. The criteria for certification follows the W3C Accessibility Specification closely.
Certification provides us with confidence that we’re producing quality products and allows our customers to have confidence that the product they’re purchasing is truly accessible for all students.—Rachel Comerford, Macmillan Learning
Rachel Comerford, Director of Content Standards at Macmillan Learning was a participant in the beta program. She said that the program helped her understand the accessibility needs of students with an eye to creating materials that create the best possible learning experience. “Certification provides us with confidence that we’re producing quality products and allows our customers to have confidence that the product they’re purchasing is truly accessible for all students.”
Benetech’s development of the certificate standards brings much needed clarity to the process of creating and procuring accessible content.—Aashish Agarwaal, Amnet Systems
Aashish Agarwaal of Amnet Systems writes that the program is a major milestone for accessibility, making it easier for for developers and consumers of accessible content. Agarwall said, “Benetech’s development of the certificate standards brings much needed clarity to the process of creating and procuring accessible content.”
Every publisher should strive to make their content as accessible as possible. The first step is getting an accurate snapshot of compliance. Benetech’s certification process is invaluable in identifying areas of improvement and helping to prioritize work. We’re proud to be partners in this initiative. —Denis Saulnier, Harvard Business Publishing
Some Technical Detail
The checker follows the EPUB Accessibility 1.0 baseline specification closely, complemented by the W3C’s Web content Accessiblity Guidelines (WCAG 2.0). Images descriptions are closely reviewed and, while there are currently no published specs on extended image descriptions, this checker follows Diagram Center guidelines.
A big part of the good work of this program is encouraging the use of schema.org accessibility metadata and conformance reporting metadata. This package metadata is key to making this certified accessible content discoverable. There is more detail about metadata at the program site. (I hope to have some extended articles about it here soon.)
About Benetech
Benetech is a different kind of tech company. We’re a nonprofit whose mission is to empower communities in need by creating scalable technology solutions. Our work has transformed how over 500,000 people with disabilities read; made it safer for human rights defenders in over fifty countries to document human rights violations; equipped environmental conservationists to protect ecosystems and species all over the world. Our Benetech Labs is working on the next big impact. Visit www.benetech.org.
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NO ONE ELSE CAN OWN PAGE 3!!!
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Im 100 post cant wait till next chapter
Thanks! Get ready to see some more stuff from Roxanne!
SackBoy01 Gold Sparx Gems: 2237
Buys page 3 for one dollar... I OWN IT
http://static.carthrottle.com/...9ecf63e72d3.gif
Also Roxanne tell me your secerets!
It's worth 4,060 dollars. It's the 1 dollar of the future.
Character Birthdays and Such
Figured I might as well post a little info on the main characters.
Name: Salazar Hitokage
Pokémon: Charmander
Birthday: October 5, 2083
Name: Ichabod Delvil
Pokémon: Houndour
Birthday: March 28, 2084
Name: Charlie Kimori
Pokémon: Grovyle
Name: Archie Griknot
Pokémon: Gible
Birthday: November 12, 2083
Name: Xavier Washibon
Pokémon: Rufflet
Birthday: June 9, 2084
Name: George McFly (No, just kidding.)
Name: George Numera
Pokémon: Goomy
Oh, and to anyone confused about their attacks and stuff, in this world, Pokémon moves are more like a martial art; you're not limited to just four moves.
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Chapter 9: School's Out
"Well, we made it," Salazar said to Archie. "Fifth grade is over." It has been a few weeks since the last chapter. The year had ended and the gang will be moving up to sixth grade. Apart from Charlie, who is going up to eighth. "It seems like it's only been a couple months since school started," Salazar said. "You entered the school a few months before it ended," Archie said. "It HAS only been a few months for you."
"We've got a whole summer to research Roxanne," Ichabod said. "Maybe we'll figure it out." "Delvil, Ichabod," the teacher said. Ichabod rushed to the front of the room. The whole grade was receiving their certificates for graduating 5th grade. "You know, I heard they didn't do this to fifth graders back in the beginning of the century," Xavier whispered to Salazar.
The last Gijinka walked up. "The fifth grade class of 2094-2095," the teacher announced. All the parents who were watching clapped. The class slowly started to walk off the risers and out the room, exiting the building. It was finally time for summer break. Belinda the Deerling Gijinka turned from pink to green.
Salazar walked out, and much to his dismay, saw Aaron standing there. "The year's over," Aaron said. "So it's time for a beating." "What? Why?" Salazar asked. "Because why not!" Aaron said. Ichabod, Charlie, Xavier, Archie, and George walked over to Salazar. "You're gonna have to get through us first," Charlie said. "Fine," Aaron replied. He snapped and the other bullies walked over. "Not you, Robert," Aaron said. "They beat you too easily before. It's gonna be a full battle; Six on six."
"Alright, Jocelyn, you go first," Aaron said. "Sure, why not," she replied. She walked up. George turned to the others. "Okay, it looks like we're not doing just an all-out brawl," he said. "It looks like we're doing one-vs-one and then keep sending in a new one. Who's gonna go against her?" "Let me take 'er out!" Ichabod said, who then punched his fists together. He walked up to her. "If I hit her with a Physical move I could be arrested," he said to himself. "I better stick to Special moves."
"Flamethrower!" Ichabod yelled, and a blast of fire came from his mouth. "Protect," Jocelyn said, and she held up her hands as a blue shield appeared in front of her, blocking the Flamethrower. "Focus Blast!" she yelled. "Oh no!" Salazar said. "Fighting is super-effective on Ichabod! Plus, Focus Blast has 120 damage!!" Jocelyn's hand glowed, then a bullet-shaped blast flew from it towards Ichabod.
Ichabod opened his eyes. The Focus Blast had missed him! "Agh!" Jocelyn said. "Stupid 70% accuracy!" Ichabod smiled. "Flamethrower!" he yelled. Jocelyn nefariously smiled. "Protect," she said, as she created a barrier again. "Again?!" Ichabod exclaimed. "Brick Break!" Jocelyn screamed. She jumped up in the air and her hand glowed, which she started to bring down onto Ichabod. As she was almost upon him, he smiled. "Dark Pulse," he said. He held up his hands and a huge purple pulse emerged, knocking Jocelyn away, unconscious.
Aaron looked over at the rest of Ichabod's team. "You're pretty strong to be able to beat Jocelyn, I have to say," he said. "But who will save you from out team's fat guy? Anthony, show them how it's done. Shawn, you carry Jocelyn's body away." "How come HE gets to fight?!" Shawn complained. "You can fight next," Aaron said. "If you carry away this body." Anthony stepped up to Ichabod. "I'm gonna eat your carcass after we're done here," he said.
NO, ICHABOD! IT'S A TRAP!!!! Oh well. Maybe he'll win. Maybe he'll lose and Anthony'll eat him. Stay tuned and find out!
84skylanderdude, out!
L-NightBomb Blue Sparx Gems: 602
#Braceface
Sandwitch the new witch made of sand!!!
I am that one person that got two toys launch day of Trap Team.
Quote: L-NightBomb
Oh no indeed.
Guys, guess what! I just hatched a Tyrogue in my X version, and it was a Shiny!!!! It's a Shiny Bruce!!!!
It's the third Shiny I've ever gotten .
lucky i wish i had Pokemon
Just read the chapter, sorry for it being a little late.
It was great as always, I love when Ichabod said, "If I hit her with a Physical move, I could get arrested."
Yeah, he wouldn't want to get arrested a second time...
Chapter 10: Disaster Strikes
"Focus Blast!" Anthony yelled. Ichabod cringed and clenched his eyes shut, waiting for the extremely powerful move. It didn't help that it also had a type advantage over him and, since Anthony was a Fighting-type, the move had STAB. Anthony glowed. He stuck out his hands, and a glowing sphere appeared in front of them. He then screamed, and the sphere was fired like a bullet.
It missed! "Meh, it only had a 70% chance of hitting," Anthony said. "And I'm too lazy to fight any more." Salazar elbowed Xavier. "That's the good part about fighting a fat kid," Salazar said. "They get tired way too easily." Aaron shook his head. He looked over at Shawn, who had just returned. "Your turn," he said. "Ichabod, switch out with me," Xavier said. Ichabod looked back, then smiled. "Yeah," he said. "Let's put the glove on the other hand, or however that goes. Now WE'LL have the advantage!"
Shawn walked up to Xavier. "I'm gonna turn your face into mashed potatoes, bird brain," he said. Xavier just glared back, nefariously. Shawn began to yell. "Close-" "Brave Bird!" Xavier quickly interrupted him. Xavier was engulfed in a golden aura, then charged at Shawn, ramming into him. This instantly knocked Shawn unconscious. Xavier flew back a few feet, then cringed. "Stupid recoil," he muttered to himself.
"You think you're hot stuff?" Aaron remarked. "I took down Shawn in one hit, what do you think, Burger King?" Xavier asked sarcastically. "Hey! What are you doing?!" someone yelled. Mr. Kion came running from around corner. "Oh no," Aaron said. "Guys, let's go," he said. The whole group ran off, with Brandon carrying Shawn's unconscious body. Mr. Kion got to our protagonists. "Were they bullying you?" he asked. They all nodded. "Well, then nothing's changed," he said. He walked off. "That was... Odd," Charlie noted. "He didn't even bother to do anything."
They all started walking towards Charlie's house, which was what they had planned to do since lunchtime. "So, why did you insist we come to your house today?" Archie asked. "I read something in an ancient book that might help us with the mystery of Roxanne," Charlie answered. "Really? That's great!!" Archie said. "Should I show them MY Roxanne or not?" he thought to himself. Should I wait until later? Or would that just make them ticked off at me?"
Suddenly, when they turned a corner, they saw a mysterious man. He had white hair and, most notable of all, a huge black scythe. He looked up, saw that they saw him, and ran off like a ninja. "Who was that?" George asked. Suddenly, the ground started shaking and a rumbling noise could be heard. They all turned around to see just about the scariest sight they had ever seen.
CLIFF HANGER. GRRR.
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Nice chapter, Capt. Cliff Hanger.
Edit, had to fix that.
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Captain Cliffhanger to the rescue!
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... yo
Chapter 11: Attack on Titanium pt. 1
Suddenly, when they turned a corner, they saw a mysterious man. He had white hair and, most notable of all, a huge black scythe. He looked up, saw that they saw him, and ran off like a ninja. "Who was that?" George asked. Suddenly, the ground started shaking and a rumbling noise could be heard. They all turned around to see just about the scariest sight they had ever seen—
A giant Kanzeniwaru had entered the city.
*cue epic opening music, something like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XMXgHfHxKVM*
"HOW DID A KANZENIWARU GET THROUGH THE WALLS?!?!" George screamed. "I DON'T KNOW!!!!!!!" Xavier yelled back with fear in his voice. "I'M SCREAMING BECAUSE THEY ARE!!!!!!!!!" Archie said. Everyone looked at him. "What?" he asked. "It's just a big stupid metal snake. I mean, it doesn't even have any arms! How much could it do?" Suddenly the Kanzeniwaru's mouth area started to glow; A large silver blast of light was fired the next second, destroying a good portion of the city. "Oh," Archie said. "We're screwed."
"GUYS, RUN!!!!" Xavier screamed. Salazar looked at him, then looked at the giant Steelix wrecking the city. "I have to fight," he said. "ARE YOU INSANE?!" George yelled. "YOU'RE 11!!! LET THE PROFESSIONALS HANDLE IT!!!!" "Are those your 'professionals'?" he asked, pointing at the Unknown Servants getting swatted like flies. "Um..." George replied. "Well, if he's going to, then so am I," Ichabod said. "If I can take down a Kanzeniwaru, then I can take down anyone!" he said. "I'm in, too," Charlie said. "I can't have the kids fighting alone." "Can't we just ask him nicely to stop?" Archie asked. "Did you take your medicine today?" Salazar asked. Archie stared for a moment. "I'd rather fight than take my medicine, so count me in, too," he said.
"You guys are insane," Xavier said. "I'm with him," George replied. "You're just scared because he's resistant to Dragon, Normal, and Flying," Ichabod said. "NO, WE'RE SCARED BECUASE HE'S A HUGE KANZENIWARU CAPABLE PF DESTROYING THE CITY IN MINUTES!!" George screamed. "So you're leaving us to fight alone?" Salazar asked. George and Xavier stopped looking so mad. They thought for a second. "We can't fight," Xavier said. "We wouldn't be able to help either," George added. "Okay, them leave it to us," Salazar said. "We have the type advantages." Xavier nodded. "Just don't die," he said. "We won't," Salazar said. Xavier grabbed George and used Fly to fly off.
Salazar turned to the other three. "Alright, we need a plan," Salazar said. "Charlie?" Charlie's eyes widened. "Me?" he asked. "You're the oldest and the smartest," Salazar said. "It'd be best if you came up with a plan." "Ooh, ooh, I have a plan!" Archie said. "We all kick his tail and see if we can trip him!" Salazar facepalmed. "Never not... Wait... Never... No... Always take your medicine from now on," Salazar said. Archie looked hurt. Charlie spoke up. "Alright. I've got a plan."
"First, Ichabod climbs into that building over there. He uses a Dark Pulse to deal some damage and distract the Kanzeniwaru. Then Salazar jumps out from that taller tower over there. He uses a Flamethrower on its head, then lands on its head and uses Inferno. That should stop it for a few seconds. Then Archie will use Earthquake a few times to knock it over, and hopefully a few buildings will fall onto it as well. Then Ichabod jumps out of the building. Salazar and him both use Flamethrower right into his eyes, blinding him. Then I use a powerful Leaf Storm on him and finish him with a Leaf Blade."
Ichabod waited in the building for the Kanzeniwaru to get there. He saw its head come into view from the window, then yelled "Dark Pulse!" A dark blast was emitted from him and hit everything around him. It shattered the window and hit the Kanzeniwaru, which looked his way, but to the other side when it felt fire being blasted onto his head. Salazar landed on it and used Inferno. The Kanzeniwaru let out a cry and clenched its eyes shut. Salazar just barely managed to hold on when the Kanzeniwaru started to fall. But before anything else could happen, it used Earthquake. Everyone's vision went black.
Part 1 finished! Are you excited for part 2?
I AM EXCITED FOR PART TWO!
If only I had more readers, then I'd be motivated to write more often.
Also, the reason I'm adding in so much action so early in the series is because the seasons are gonna be relatively short, like 20 episodes or so. And I want some action in this season.
HYPED FOR PART 2!
I AM EXITED AND HYPED FOR PART TWO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HYPE TYPE CONFIRMED!!!!
I don't even know, man.
Man, I'm disappointed with this story's popularity. I only have 6 readers. (I think) I mean, even my 12 year old friend on deviantART has more readers than me!! This is really demeaning.
niiiiiiiiiiiiiice!
You can't possibly have read all 11 chapters in that short period of time. There are three pages, just so ya know...
To everyone reading: I told him just a few minutes ago to come read this story. He's new to DarkSpyro.
so subtle
(OBVIOUSLY A MEGA STONE! FOR HAXORUS!)
Did you read all of it already?
the music from the link ended the SECOND I finished reading!
like i says, i has mad reading skillz
SO EXITED FOR PART 12!
I'm actually writing it as we speak.
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!
I promised a new episode each week, so I have 17 minutes before that promise is broken. So it'll be up in the next few minutes so I can keep that promise.
Salazar opened his eyes. Everything was blurry for a moment before his eyes adjusted. He sat up and looked around. "Oh, good, you're awake," someone said. He looked over and saw Charlie. "Wha... What happened?" Salazar asked, pressing his hand to his head, which was in pain. "The Kanzeniwaru badly injured our whole group, besides me," he said. "Well, and of course Xavier and George, but they didn't fight." "Well, what happened to us while we were unconscious?" Salazar asked.
"An Unknown Servant came and grabbed you three," Charlie said. "He/she then rushed you all to the hospital. You all had really serious injuries, but you got the worst of it. I only got a broken arm." "Wait, what do you mean, I got the worst of it?" Salazar asked with fear in his voice. "Both your legs had to be amputated," Charlie said. Salazar slowly moved away the hospital blanket. He saw two stubs covered in bandages where his legs had been. He screamed in horror.
"Should I give him the worst news?" Charlie thought to himself. "No, it would be too much for him. First losing his legs, and then this, it would completely crush him." "Well, do you know when I'm getting the surgery?" Salazar asked. "Well, there have been a lot of Gijinkas injured, so it's gonna take two weeks before they get to you," Charlie replied. "Man," Salazar complained. "I don't want to go two weeks without legs!" "Well, sorry," Charlie said. "You'll have to wait for your cybernetic legs."
"Where are the others?" Salazar asked. "Still unconscious," Charlie said. "Archie's actually in the next room over, and Ichabod is on the next floor." Suddenly, a thought struck Salazar. "What happened to the Kanzeniwaru?!" He asked. "You'll never believe this, but King Arsenault himself came to deal with it!" Charlie exclaimed. "He flew down to it, snapped his fingers, and a million shots of light appeared and flew at the Kanzeniwaru. It was dead in seconds."
"Well, when do I get to go home?" Salazar asked. "Not for a couple weeks," Charlie answered. "Unfortunately, your home was destroyed, as was the rest of our group's. The Picobots are rebuilding the buildings though. They just... have a lot of buildings to cover, so they won't get to ours for a while. Since we have nowhere to go, like many other people, we get to stay in
King Arsenault's castle for the time being." Salazar punched the air. "Yush," he said. "We get to live in a castle." "Don't get too used to it, though," Charlie said. "We only live there until the Picobots finish rebuilding our homes and possessions."
"Well, when do we get to leave the hospital to go there?" Salazar asked. "When will YOU stop asking questions?" Charlie thought. "That's literally all you've done since you woke up." "You leave in two days," he responded. "The others don't get to leave for two days after they wake up." Salazar closed his eyes for a moment. Charlie suddenly felt guilty. "Listen, Salazar, there's something I haven't been telling you guys," he said. He had decided it was time they all knew.
He pulled out the Second Roxanne. "Wha-" Salazar said. "Roxanne? But... Why is it glowing when you're holding it?!" "It's called a Mega Stone," Charlie said. This isn't the same one that Archie has. He has a Mega Stone called Garchompite. This is Sceptilite. They glow because they are reacting to our DNA. Once Archie and I hit our final stages, we'll be able to use them to become even more powerful." "Why haven't you told us this before now?" Salazar asked. "You wouldn't have been able to take it well before now," Charlie answered. "When you were so carefree before the Steelix attacked, you would've been crushed that I hadn't told you. But now that you have worse problems on your hands, you'll be able to take it a lot better."
"There's one more thing that the Kanzeniwaru did," Charlie said. "Apparently the Kanzeniwarus emit some sort of a pheromone that effects our DNA structure. And it... effected every Gijinka that exists behind these walls." Salazar's eyes widened. "Don't worry," Charlie said quickly. "It didn't have any negative effect on us. It just... well.. basically, now when we get angry, we change color. It's been called the 'Shiny Principle.'. When you get angry, you'll go from an orange color scheme to a yellow color scheme. When I get angry, my green will become turquoise, my dark green will become red, and my pink will become light tan." "Well, that's not too bad," Salazar said. "Although there'll be no more hiding our anger."
Well, you've been anticipating this (I hope), and now you have it! A lot of stuff happened in this episode. Didn't see that leg thing coming, did ya?
Also, in this world, Picobots are tiny robots that are one trillionth of a cubic meter in size that can rebuild anything pretty quickly. They take the structure of anything and reform it into what they are building.
(8 minutes before the week is over! Better post this quick so I don't break my promise!!)
#FewMinuteHype
Posted right after that #HYPEPPEPEPEPEPPEPEPEPEPEPEPPEPEPEPEPEP Yeah "hypepep" yeah umm.... Well reading it right now TOOT TOOT!
Reveal Spoiler
R.I.P Salazar's legs and no I did not see that coming
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Hypep?
Yeah umm.... "Hypep" yeah...... Btw keep up the good work
I don't think anyone saw Salazar losing his legs coming. I didn't even see it coming. I just looked away from my screen for a second, and when I looked back, it was suddenly written on there.
DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNN! Well time for cybernetic legs
Sorry, not for two weeks.
To make it seem more real, he's gonna get cybernetic legs in the chapter I post two weeks from now.
Or maybe not, depending on how it pans out, but if it pans out like that, it would be great.
It would be, wouldn't it?
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Pullrod
Post subject: Re: The Future of Kimi Raikkonen
ALESI wrote:
Then again, maybe by the end of the year we'll be saying... Merc should have backed Bottas? You never know...
Nothing is impossible and Bottas may win all the races from here...
In 2007 after the 3rd GP(bahrain) the championship was like this(using today's point system):
Alonso 53 pts
Hamilton 51 pts
Raikkonen 50 pts
Massa 43 pts
Hamilton took the lead of the championship after the 6th race (Canada) and lost it only after the catastrophic last 2 races(China and Brazil).
There was no need to back a driver that year because there was NO #1 and #2 status in Ferrari or McLaren. And even if a decision was to be made, it could not have been Alonso because Hamilton was in front of him(in the championship) for most of the season. I wished racing was always like this with equal status..
Anyway, Raikkonen is bad news for Mercedes..
Lt. Drebin
Ferrari needs someone who would occasionally slot between Vettel and Hamilton. Kimi does not do the job. He should be very very happy if he sees the end of the year at all.
Who would come to his place? Perhaps Sainz, Wherlein, Grosjean, Ricciardo or Perez.
UnlikeUday
Location: Mumbai, India
Lt. Drebin wrote:
I wonder how long will Ferrari have the patience to deal with Kimi's pace? When Red Bull get upto speed, he may fall behind them in the race as well & Ferrari could again finish in 3rd in the WCC, despite Vettel winning races here & there.
Personally, I hope they take Perez as he's grown a lot as a driver & was a Ferrari Academy driver as well.
I wonder if Red Bull will let Sainz or Ricciardo join Ferrari in 2018. They wouldn't like 1 of their (ex)drivers to drive for a rival team & probably beat them even.
Feel The Fourth
UnlikeUday wrote:
Erh, Vettel?
Also, I'm kind of hoping Ferrari take a chance on one of their juniors for once. Put Leclerc in there, he'll be ready.
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pokerman
Covalent wrote:
Mika Salo had a chat with Jock Clear who said Kimi's preference is a car that is very sensitive to the initial turn-in. If it isn't, Kimi thinks it's understeering and just cannot drive it. At the end of last year it was to his liking and he beat Vettel regurarly. Source mtv.fi
Not any excuse, I know, but perhaps gives a better idea about his struggles.
He was outqualifying Vettel but he wasn't beating him in the races?
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Yellowbin74 wrote:
I know that as drivers get older they may lose a little speed, but for me Kimi's issue is more than that.
I just don't see the guy that overtook Fisi on the last lap in Japan all those years back (what a great race that was!).
The McLaren Kimi was a totally different beast to the Ferrari Kimi, as I've said before.
He went to Ferrari as they would give him more personal freedom (plus a car that wouldn't break down as much) and they did give him his WDC in fairness.
But I feel that the McLaren environment (keeping him reined in a little) was better for getting the most of him out on the track.
Just my thoughts, could all be totally wrong...
Or perhaps McLaren gave him that by allowing a rookie to compete on equal times with a 2x WDC (seems awfully pertinent in the current circumstances!)
No because Bottas is slower than Hamilton.
slide wrote:
i'd like to see Fernando and seb in Ferrari next year
That's never going to happen.
mds wrote:
I don't see Leclerc being ready to go straight into the the Ferrari team I think they will let him learn in a lower team.
Warheart01
Alot of us would but Vettel would probably rather leave F1 all together rather than have Alonso or Hamilton as teammate. He would probably say no to a round 2 with Ricciardo as well, and would probably never want to team up with Max either. My guess is he have some say or veto in his contact too.
pokerman wrote:
Yeah, well, I'm done with teams sticking their drivers in subpar teams to "learn". Had Ferrari put Bianchi in the Ferrari he would've done a good job and maybe he would have ended up better than he did. Back in the days, all through to the eighties and even nineties (and a few in the 00's), lots of drivers debuted at top teams and did good jobs. I see no reason why we can't have this again.
Warheart01 wrote:
The thing is, there is no indication whatsoever to think this way. Vettel would rather leave F1? Based on what, your gut feelings?
In reality, Vettel took being beaten by Ricciardo a lot better than most expected. There's nothing suggesting he would actively oppose any driver coming to the team.
The funny thing is that there is a certain top driver just a few weeks ago who rejected the idea of Alonso coming to join "his team" - and it was not Vettel
Oh and just for the record: I hope Ferrari don't take Alonso back. Not because he would be paired up with Vettel, but because over the past seasons he has repeatedly put down Ferrari as "always the same", "not changed" and repeatedly stated how happy he was to have made "the right choice".
Well, let him eat those words now.
Zoue
I've been saying this for years. If the drivers are good enough, they shouldn't need treating with kid gloves. This is the premier single seater open wheeled series in the world. Every driver entering it must be considered to be the best of the best, else why bother?
Yes, leaving the team with one year left on the contract is taking it really well.
Lots of drivers have not served the full contract time when opportunities came up. Try reading some informed opinions about his behavior within the team that year, they might surprise you.
It's not just a case of what Ferrari tend to do, I personally don't think he would be ready either, Giovinazzi showed perhaps he wouldn't be ready either after his crash fest in China.
Well I don't think he would have seen Ricciardo as a threat when he joined Red Bull, but yes he took the beating quite well.
Vettel is in a strong position at Ferrari and I've no doubt he will campaign for his friend Kimi to be retained, he is in a strong enough position to say no to Alonso, it's not like it would be in his best interests.
Yeah, you're right mate. This enlightened me:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/ ... r-red-bull
Bit harsh. You make it sound like he's been walking around the paddock just randomly putting down Ferrari. He's had his move to McLaren thrown in his face by the press, especially the Italian press including that female reporter that got in trouble for it, throughout that period and answered those baiting questions rather tamely and more importantly accurately at the time.
I'm pretty sure he congratulated them for this years car though. And as much as he doesn't mind slating his own team it would have been a bit extreme to respond to those "Do you regret leaving Ferrari now.." barbs with a big "Absolutely, Macca suck and Ferrari are the best, I'm a prat and I regret everything".
He can't win in that situation. I could understand Ferrari not wanting him back though fwiw, but more because he left his contract early because he lost faith in them which would rightly annoy some Ferrari personnel I would think.
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GingerFurball
Lotus49 wrote:
Given Vettel got nowhere near winning either the 2015 or 2016 championship, Alonso hasn't exactly been proven wrong.
The amusing part is his choice of team, as Lewis left McLaren for exactly the same reason.
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2017 12:15 am
GingerFurball wrote:
I just see those as words from Alonso to cover up a big mistake, he would have been far, far better off staying at Ferrari than going to McLaren.
Now I know that hindsight is a wonderful thing but even with hindsight Alonso doesn't want to change those words.
You expect him to say "I wish I'd stayed at Ferrari?" I'm sure that would go down well at McLaren
I get what you're saying, but there's different ways of saying things. In my view, he wasn't all that respectful towards Ferrari in 2015 and 2016. And now that they've come good, he congratulates them with their car? Well, that's a convenient time to pick up the diplomacy, right?
Well Alonso brings 6 tenths, he would surely be leading the championship with 3 wins to his name and battle until the end of the season.
Well, mate, if you would point me out where something alludes to him acting up within the team, to him acting up towards a teammate, or to him being afraid to be paired up with any other teammate or Ricciardo again, that would be great.
Zoue wrote:
To me it looks like he's almost done with McLaren Honda after the barrage of attacks last time out and rumours of talks with Renault, you will never see Alonso say he made the wrong decision.
You know it makes me wonder about the 2015 season and what Vettel was able to achieve whether Alonso ever thinks what he might have done?
He did praise other aspects too during that period but they weren't juicy enough to get much attention. About how Ferrari were the most special team in F1 and winning for them is different to winning elsewhere. He praised Binotto, backed him to succeed and wished him well last year when Allison left.
It was just in response to the questions about his departure and if he regretted it that he spoke in those terms about nothing changed, no regrets etc..
But he obviously had some crow to eat this year because he said McLaren would pass Mercedes before they would and he did. And if they win the title(s) he'll be eating some more I'm sure.
I do get the "Oh now he wants Ferrari..." type of thinking though but I just think those examples were in response to basically getting his nose rubbed in Ferrari's turnaround in 2015 so he bit back when it didn't amount to much in 2016.
If the roles were different between Ricciardo and Vettel in 2014, say Vettel won the 3 races and outqualified Ricciardo convincingly (how is Vettel still considered one of the best qualifiers btw? Even Kimi beat him...). Do you think he would have left then?
Surely he has always been drawn to Ferrari, but would he really leave a winning team for a longterm non-winning one had he still been the topdriver at RB?
Now, we will never know. But I don't think so.
I can't remember the exact words but Vettel took Ricciardos passing of him at Monza more or less as humiliation, probably he did the whole season too.
Almost certainly. It was pretty clear that the RBR wasn't going to win anything meaningful anytime soon. Having won four WDC titles, what use was there in staying? Do you really think that after all that, his purpose in F1 had suddenly become "beating Daniel Ricciardo"? Of course not.
Meanwhile a seat at Vettel's dream team became available for the first time in 5 years.
As for the bit between parentheses: his performances can vary depending on his level of comfort in the car, I think most of his fans would agree to that. Whereas e.g. Alonso always seems to be near to getting the most out of the car. But when feeling comfortable, I do think he's a match for anyone, be it in qualifying or race.
He probably did - who wouldn't? But you have to take into account that most of those guys, and certainly the top drivers, believe they are the best and they can take on anyone. I have no doubt that Vettel believes he is now feeling a lot better than in 2014 and would be able to win against Ricciardo. Whether that would actually be the case, we don't know, but I'm pretty sure he believes it.
Fair enough (as is the rest of your post). Maybe I am going a bit harsh on him. It's still my honest feeling though, I don't wish to see him back at Ferrari. I understand he's frustrated but I don't like the attitude he's getting (to the point of snapping at his race engineers, insulting his team, ...).
I agree. Brilliant driver but thanks to his attitude I feel it's karma at play here...
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Exediron
I think having signed away quite possibly the last years of his career on their project - and being let down so completely and miserably - he's earned the right to voice some disapproval. Everyone wants the drivers to show some personality... until they actually do, and then they inevitably get roasted for it.
Alonso is putting pressure on the team to improve by not trying to hide their faults. Vettel did the same thing in 2014 when the Renault engine was terrible, and afterwards the entire Red Bull team did the same with Renault in 2015. No, Alonso isn't being very diplomatic about the engine - but at the end of the day, if Honda takes ten years to be competitive, it won't cost the engineers or team owners anything but time. It will cost Alonso the possibility of doing anything meaningful with what's left of his career. It's a wonder he's not more frustrated.
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Exediron wrote:
Well, this is a bit of a duality. I want drivers to speak their mind, which more allows me/us to see who they actually are.
There's the human factor too, though. When he snaps at his race engineer "do whatever you want" - he's talking to a human being, a team member, who is probably also very frustrated that the car/engine isn't there, and that the results aren't coming, who is equally doing his best to make the best out of a dire situation.
Being critical and being downright insulting are two very different things. Now I might be wrong here but I don't think I've ever seen Vettel insulting neither his team, nor technical partners of the team (i.e. Renault in this case).
Teddy007
Almost certainly by your own view, I completely disagree. A driver tends to move on to a known better car or if he's unhappy. It wasn't Ferrari winning those 3 races it was RBR but it was the wrong driver. If Vettel had won those 3 races and given a Merc a run for their money a few times in a season he would have been happy. There was no promise that Ferrari would be back to winning ways and let's face it you can tell by his reaction that he's surprised that they can this season. You look at every front runner driver who left a team, they either leave for a better car or they leave because something isn't right on the "happiness factor". Alonso leaving Ferrari, Lewis leaving Mclaren, Kimi leaving and returning.
The majority of top drivers in the last 15 years all left for the same reasons, they either left for a better package or they fell out in some way. If Seb had won those races he would have been number 1 at RBR, happier for getting great results - instead he didn't and wasn't happy. A persons attitude towards everything changes and he wasn't happy at being beaten by Ric. Who would? You've won a few titles, also dominated your team mate for a few years and a young rookie comes along (sounds familiar?) and beats you.
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 11:36 am
Teddy007 wrote:
...or if a driver thinks future prospects elsewhere are better. There is a body of opinion that being in a works team gives a much greater chance of success than being a customer. Vettel may well have been thinking ahead. And don't underestimate the allure of joining Ferrari and helping bring it back to glory. That name still holds a special fascination for many a driver.
Additionally, Horner said that Vettel had lost some motivation after winning four titles. A desire to start afresh, taking the above into account, shouldn't be discounted, either.
If Vettel had won those 3 races and given a Merc a run for their money a few times in a season he would have been happy.
Hah. You really think a driver that has won four WDC's on the trot to be happy with "giving another car a run for their money a few times in a season"? Right
And even if that - they never gave Mercedes a run for their money! In Canada the Mercs were broken and hurting, in Hungary Hamilton had to start from the back and Rosberg was compromised due to SC timing, and I don't think I have to remind anyone what happened in Spa.
The situation at RBR was dire and not looking up anytime soon. Fast forward three years, they're still not close to contending for titles.
There was no promise that Ferrari would be back to winning ways
In F1 nothing is certain. Using that to dismiss a change of teams is useless, as Red Bull coming good would probably be as likely as Ferrari coming good. Unless you somehow think Ferrari is in a perennial losing position which will never subside.
Nobody said he was happy because he was being beaten. He can both have been unhappy for being beaten, AND unhappy because he wasn't seeing anything happen at RBR anytime soon. See my first sentence of this reply - do you honestly think a reigning 4x WDC would be happy to fight for whatever leftovers of Mercedes there were? With a PU in the car that was a proper POS and didn't look to become good anytime soon?
Even if he had won those few races because Mercedes or its drivers completely dropped the ball - even if he had beaten Ricciardo, in the end he would still have been in a car that wasn't going to be great for the next few years. So why not take the chance on his dream team where a seat became available and possibly would be locked again for years to come after that since free seats at Ferrari don't tend to come around too often?
Are you really going to tell me that my opinion isn't plausible?
In my view the idea that he would have been happy just for beating Ricciardo, while having a car with a POS engine that likely wasn't going to be great for a few years to come, THAT is what's implausible here.
If you are a rookie in F1, your prime target is to learn and beat your teammate, and win races.
If you have won races, your prime target is to win more and win the WDC.
If you have won one or more WDC's, your prime target is to win more WDC's. Sure you still want to beat your teammate, but staying at a team that won't allow you to win WDC's just because you want to beat a teammate? Yeah, no.
I don't think you're alone in that, I know some Ferrari fans who loved Alonso but have no desire to see him back at this point, it's just the way things go.
I think if you've got a top diver performing well then there's no real appetite to want him back in general. If Seb left for whatever reason or wasn't performing I think that would probably change though. (Maybe not you specifically but generally speaking).
I doubt it. In 2015 Vettel essentially repeated Alonso's 2011 and 2013 seasons. Won a couple of races but came nowhere near winning the title due to the title winner's dominance. Vettel's 2015 season proves that leaving Ferrari was the correct one at the time.
This season was supposed to be the payoff for all the sh*t Alonso put up with in 2015 and 2016. New aero rules that McLaren essentially came up with and they were supposed to be reaping the benefit of Honda being back in F1 by now.
I also believe in karma, with Alonso it seems to have gone a bit into overdrive though.
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Your Comments and Reviews for Silent Scream: The Dancer
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krathy2001
Re:Your Comments and Reviews for Silent Scream: The Dancer
by krathy2001 on Apr 25, 11 3:46 PM
I thought this was going to be a good game from the description. Thank God for the 1 hour trials!
The graphics weren't very clear & some of the "match the pairs" mini games, well...there isn't even a way to put it into words. I usually do not make negative comments unless something is pretty bad but this one is up there. No buy for me.Deleted it after playing for a half an hour.
I talked myself out of purchasing the Agency of Anomalies with the hopes of saving a few $, but this game just talked me into it.
rosie28sammy
Parrotfish
by rosie28sammy on Apr 25, 11 3:48 PM
I really wanted to like this one, but I just couldn't. It was just too weird and disjointed with too much handholding for me. The storyline started out fine, but once the gameplay really started it just got weird and made no sense to me. Obviously, the developers do not have children and/or they are not mothers. If someone is after you, the first thing you would do is make sure your child was safe. It sounded at first like the main character knew where her child was, but then the story started getting unbelievable to me. A childcare worker who is asleep and the main character won't wake her up to see where her child is? Then a police station that is completely empty? Then main character just walks back into the childcare worker's home when no one is there? Just very unbelievable to me.
I played in the advanced mode and still there was too much handholding for me with sparkles, etc. The voice used for the main character was irritating to me as well. Very monotone and too calm for someone being chased and missing their child. It was also irritating to me for the cursor to change to show you an item that needed to be picked up, but you couldn't pick it up yet until you were at the point in the game. Why not allow the player to collect the items and use them when necessary or just not have the cursor change until necessary in the game? I liked the graphics, but that was about all. I'm glad others liked it, but I'll pass.Sorry
cyndrap
Re:Your Comments and Reviews on Silent Scream: The Dancer
by cyndrap on Apr 25, 11 4:31 PM
"Listen devs...who locked you all in a closet and tormented you...All of these recent games have been so %7%$34%ing dark and depressing. I say to myself 'well it can't get any worse' then you bring the children to the party. "
too funny and I have to agree
Poutoule wrote: 1 . CHERB : I heard the whisper when you find an object, and thought it said "Trouvé", "Found" in French...
Otherwise didn't fancy the graphics too much. Hated the snores of the woman and found it way to easy.
May be as a DD.
Agreed I had my headset on and heard the same thing so tellng us we "found it" but unless you speak French -----
PowderMonkey
by PowderMonkey on Apr 25, 11 4:46 PM
Okay-ish, but also tedious. There is a LOT of running around, back and forth, between locations - like someone with a really poor memory forgotten to take everything you need and then having to go back again, if you know what I mean - now that's why I could never give this game more than at most a 3 out of five points...
I like the comics-style graphics, they suit the storyline. Puzzles are not very hard, and there aren't that many of them. Not too many items to find in the hidden objects scenes - I like that, in some games there are sooo many. And the items are quite easy to find, too. Sometimes you have to merge 2 or more items to make them work, a nice and logic idea. Some spelling errors, but not so many they offend me, for one.
EmmaLynne
by EmmaLynne on Apr 25, 11 4:53 PM
This and the last 2 games I demoed haved been far too linear in their game play for my enjoyment. If I see a key I'll need later in the game, let me pick it up now rather than have to trapse all about trying to remember where I saw that dang key. Or let me have an option of which part of the game I want to attempt -- if I don't want to do a certain puzzle or hidden object scene now, please don't make it so that I have to do it right now before I can get into another room, etc.
The graphics were interesting, but considering the rather mature subject matter, I thought they didn't really fit... everything looked almost too cute and big-eyed. Also, the voice work (though it was nice to have) really bothered me. It was too slow, and there was something I can't quite put my finger on that annoyed me as well.
Looks like it could be fun, but its just not for me.
dollyflower
by dollyflower on Apr 25, 11 5:09 PM
Nix on the sideways graphics. No buy!
shadowfax44
by shadowfax44 on Apr 25, 11 5:10 PM
EmmaLynne wrote: ... If I see a key I'll need later in the game, let me pick it up now rather than have to trapse all about trying to remember where I saw that dang key. Or let me have an option of which part of the game I want to attempt -- if I don't want to do a certain puzzle or hidden object scene now, please don't make it so that I have to do it right now before I can get into another room, etc.
This irks me too and I have the same complaint about the Fallen Shadows game! I don't like going into an area and being stuck right there until I am done with all of the tasks, etc... I prefer to move around in a game at will. JMO
carkopp
by carkopp on Apr 25, 11 5:23 PM
*Spoiler Alert* Of all the things I hated about this game, the stupid box that appeared each time you needed to thread a needle or sew the button on the doll ALMOST DROVE ME INSANE! Back and forth, back and forth, blah, blah, blah...and still it just wasn't quite right! As someone said earlier, "Thank goodness for trial periods!" It looked so good to begin with and by the time another 15 minutes had passed, I knew I would be 'kicking the can' very soon! I have now tried four different games (most right to the end of the demo) and haven't found ONE keeper. AND I'M NOT BUYING CE'S JUST TO GET A KEEPER, EITHER! I think it's time to go back and play "Sweeney Todd" or some other totally engrossing game! PS: Devs? I know you mean well...something beside missing little girls should occur to you soon. How about a few missing DEVS? NOW THERE'S AN IDEA!
VTCT
by VTCT on Apr 25, 11 5:29 PM
I give 2 stars. The storyline was dull. First you have the main charcter hunting for her daughter then it ends at the club with bang. Then you have the bonus where was dead after all. Who was looking for the child the dead women, ghost or someone posing as the mohter.
I will go play one of the other games. This one was a flop.
Koalanut
by Koalanut on Apr 25, 11 5:30 PM
I didn't like the linear one the other day either (was is yesterday or the day before?). This one is similar but at least I can move around to find out what it is I am to do. Kinda like a memory game to remember where did I see_____ item. I did like the odd like angles, kinda Twilight Zone-ish. I did buy this one. So many lately I haven't bought for different reasons, but this one I did want to find out what was going on. Couple of things I didn't like, the not being able to pick up an item I knew I needed ( but not so many rooms so far, and that leads me to point 2) Sparkles in advanced mode GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRR. Not big ones in this, but it does flash and I didn't get a chance to find it myself. And third, that "Mommy, Mommy" thing really gets me. I know that is why it is there. But man oh man, in real life that lady in the chair would NOT be sleeping nor would I be careful to not wake her up!!!!! Anyway, I bought with a punch card credit. Not the greatest game, but unusual enough to pique my interest.
dancemom1
by dancemom1 on Apr 25, 11 6:18 PM
What's with the sideways graphics...is she rolling side over side or what? The whisper was very annoying and the match game was just too weird. Graphics were okay, I could put up with that, but the mother's voice just sounded so bored. No emotion when looking for her daughter or talking to uncle. Much like yesterday's demo. Needless to say, no buy for me either.
tofinofish
by tofinofish on Apr 25, 11 7:01 PM
Despite everyones warnings and comments I decided to give the demo a try. I didn't play but five minutes and .... well all i gotta say is..." Oh No! It must be those guys they're chasing me..." right out of playing this corny game. defintely not a buy for me.
sunloving
by sunloving on Apr 25, 11 7:01 PM
I know I'm really late, but in case the developers are reading these, I thought I would make a few comments. I certainly didn't like the story premise - any time a child's life is in jeopardy, I'm on edge and then putting children in a creepy day care?? The positives: love the quirky, cartoonish graphics - much better than one-dimensional real people - takes no talent at all to use them. Also the puzzles are unique - twists on the usual. The pairs puzzle was difficult, but I loved the challenge. With a different storyline, it would be a definite buy for me.
KimiKanda
by KimiKanda on Apr 25, 11 7:40 PM
It's a game not a marriage. You can live with it or choose not to. I like variations, the graphics correspond with the storyline. It's done or made in a style that is characteristic of film noir - cinema (involving strong characters and mysterious events). Give me diversity, a variety of entertainment: drama, comedy and "mishap". It's like reading a novel you either like the sequence of events or not, so . . . . . . . . I have already purchased this game and off to play.
grannyq
by grannyq on Apr 25, 11 7:48 PM
I stuck it out for the demo BUT this game is just toooo annoying. Merging objects is a pain in the ****. I love a challenge but this isn't it. Maybe for a DD.
Iksia
by Iksia on Apr 25, 11 7:50 PM
I like this game. The graphics are very different, cartoon style and artistic in its own way~ The game is a creepy though, with the appearances of all the extra "visitors". Puzzle is good. But it's annoying that I can't take items that are clearly needed in next task, you have to wait until that particular task to take items. Music is good. The storyline is very dark, really angsty, complicated and has an unexpected ending!!
Overall, I'd say this is a good game. Thumbs up!!
Bpup
by Bpup on Apr 25, 11 8:03 PM
I could deal with a child-in-jep game, but if I was a mother whose child was missing at a daycare center, I would have slapped awake that sleeping woman. I also wouldn't be running around back and forth throughout the daycare center trying to put together a doll for some creepy little kid in an attic when I should be calling the police.
The beginning of the story just wasn't believable to me, so I never got involved in the quest aspects. The whole premise didn't make much sense. Whoever was voicing the mother didn't infuse any sense of urgency in her lines. I can think of a reason why what was happening was happening the way it was, so I'll have to check the other threads to see if my guess about the ending of this game is correct.
I also didn't like that you could mouse over an item that you know you would need - say, a key - but you couldn't pick it up until the exact scene where that key was needed. What was the point of having an inventory section if you could only stash items you immediately needed in it?
The cartoony graphics were just okay - didn't impress me much. The hidden object scenes were nicely done - not too hard, not too easy. Only did a couple of mini-games - strings was easy, the lights one I wound up skipping because I did what the instructions said but nothing happened.
I played this in the advanced mode, and didn't think that it was very difficult that way.
The annoyance factor was higher than the liking factor, so I uninstalled the game. Not a buy for me.
by tj1147 on Apr 25, 11 8:16 PM
I really did not care for this game at all (played the demo/free trial only). I did not like the storyline. I did not like the "cartoon graphics" nor did I like having to go from town to day care center - back and forth, back and forth. I would much prefer to be able to pick up what I think I'm going to need and take it with me. The "back and forth" in Dire Grove or 13th Skull was much more challenging and interesting...not to mention the graphics in those were much better. I cannot comment on the music or voices (if any) as I did not have the sound turned on. The hidden object scenes were OK graphics-wise, but I don't like having to find 3 of these, 10 of those, 6 of the other. I don't know if this was to lengthen the game or not. Puzzles were okay...nothing I've not run into before. All in all, I just didn't like the game.
Videohound
by Videohound on Apr 25, 11 8:20 PM
I wanted to like this game. But other than the graphics I don't think there was one thing that didn't annoy me. So many people already posted all the crappy parts - the stupid whisper when you found something, and not being able to pick up things when you see them really put me over the edge. I lasted 15 min but I think I will have to delete this one.
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KRISTINA MARIE DARLING Reviews
(Rose Metal Press, Brookline, Mass., 2008)
Carol Guess's stunning new collection of prose poems, Tinderbox Lawn, uses daily objects as a point of entry to questions about love, oppression, and gender identity. Presented as an extended sequence, the book challenges our notion of domesticity as stifling for women, presenting it instead as a privileged arrangement that proves unattainable for marginalized social groups. As the work unfolds, Guess offers a subtle critique of contemporary feminist writings on relationships in poems that prove as finely crafted as they are theoretically astute.
With that said, Guess often pairs novelistic techniques with poetic ones, creating a narrative structure that proves as subversive as the book's subject matter. This graceful matching of form and content proves to be one of the great strengths of the collection. Guess writes, for example, in an untitled piece,
You were the only woman in a workplace of men. Every morning you put on a dress and drove off. When you left the house you wore your ring on a chain, but at night you came home with a married girl's finger. On the walls of your cubicle: photos of your brother so you wouldn't have to tell all those men about me. (7)
Guess presents this passage alongside other vignettes depicting both romance the constant threat of violence against the GLBT community. By creating this sort of elliptical narrative, the poet subtly challenges hegemonic cultural practices, as well as the literary conventions that often promote and romanticize them.
As the sequence progresses through such associative logic, the short prose pieces illuminate and complicate one another, the end result being a multifaceted, gem-like narrative that lends itself to multiple careful readings. Consider this untitled piece,
When someone used bleach it stayed in the washer. Laundry detergent smelled like birthday cake flowers. Damp clothes spelled HELP on the linoleum floor. (9)
By placing this excerpt amidst images of escape, violence, and fear, Guess suggests that for many marginalized groups, hegemonic practices outside the home often disrupt domestic life. These provocative juxtapositions of individual prose works allow multiple interpretations to coexist gracefully within the same narrative space.
All points considered, Carol Guess's Tinderbox Lawn is a stunning collection. Ideal for readers interested in literary theory and gender studies as well as poetry, this book is a must-read.
Kristina Marie Darling is the author of Night Songs (Gold Wake Press, 2010) and the editor of narrative (dis)continuities: prose experiments by younger american writers (VOX Press, forthcoming). Her poetry criticism appears in The Gettysburg Review, The Boston Review, The Colorado Review, New Letters, and other journals. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Another view is offered by Kathryn Stevenson in GR #12 at
http://galatearesurrection12.blogspot.com/2009/05/tinderbox-lawn-by-carol-guess.html
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by The Balky Mule on FatCat Records
Currently resident in Melbourne, Australia, The Balky Mule is the alias of UK ex-pat Sam Jones, a highly talented, self-taught multi-instrumentalist, who over the past decade or more has been a key figure in Bristol’s vibrant post-rock scene, playing alongside his brother Matt in both Crescent (guitar / drums) and Movietone (guitar), as well as in Flying Saucer Attack (guitar), Minotaur Shock (bass / marimba), and Third Eye Foundation (echoes / samples). Whilst also active as The Balky Mule throughout this time, Sam’s home-recorded material (almost entirely instrumental) had been confined to just one self-released album (an eponymous debut in a small edition on Sam and Matt's Archipelago label in 2000), small runs of CDRs pressed on request and tapes swapped amongst friends, plus a handful of remixes (for Pram and Vase) and tracks for compilations, including a very early track appearing on FatCat’s 2001 compilation of demos, ‘No watches. No maps’.
Whilst ‘The Length of the Rail’ may be the first physical release in 8 years, Sam has never stopped making his own music, but has either remained shy about it, or not felt a need to share it, and thus to 'finish' things into a releasable form. Self-recorded either side of a 2006 move from the UK to Australia, the album is beautifully balanced, intelligent and captivating and sounds like little else around right now. A fully coherent, organic mix of acoustic and electric instruments and neat electronic detail, it marks the start of a more focused, significant period of activity for The Balky Mule.
Created over a period of 5 years, most of the songs on the album grew out of a library of existing short sound-snippets Sam built up from experimenting with old boot sale-find keyboards, analogue synths and scavenged electronic kit (Arp Axxe, Casio SK1, Rhythmatix analogue drum machine) - guided by their inherent personalities and discovering what sounds could be coaxed from these manual-less and sometimes malfunctioning objects. Attracted to the notion of lost / redundant technology, some of the album’s sounds came from a Bentley Carousel - a huge home organ bought from a charity shop and left in a shared house he moved into. A minidisc of odd noises and collaborations with these idiosyncratic machines slowly accumulated.
These two cuts from ‘The Length of the Rail’ – ‘Wireless’ and ‘Range’ - demonstrate Sam’s effortless ability to genuinely capture the purest of sentiment with a Daniel Johnston-like honesty. The content is all enchantingly ramshackle and collaged, the form has a confidence, light-heartedness and maturity that brings to mind as many fundamental giants of pop (Beach Boys, Talk Talk etc.) as it does modern (-ist) experiments in genre exploration (early Beck, Animal Collective and Faust are all in Sam’s influences list).
‘Wireless’ begins with a soft, near-Soft Machine-esque acoustic guitar chord sequence with a series of percussive interventions and cleverly-integrated electronic noises . The summery, head-nodding sweetness recalls 60’s pop, in all its unashamed amiability and life, but a 60’s pop noticeably played through the lens of a true outsider, unafraid of pure noise, convention-eschewing texture and surreal lyrical abstraction.
B-side ‘Range’ – also on the full-length – is another pure-pop piece hidden amongst Sam’s distinctive inventions and adventures in timbre, driven by home-made percussion recorded in a community centre after his move to Australia, where the background noise was a constant competition. Charming, heart-warming faults and wobbles act as idiosyncrasies to the piece – not to be corrected, but to be forgiven and celebrated.
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Masonic Status
REG. 74-1 IRREGULARLY INITIATED OR ADVANCED.
A candidate who has been irregularly initiated or advanced in a legally constituted lodge through no fault of his own shall be a Mason in good standing in the degree he has attained, and he shall be entitled to all the rights and benefits of such degree, except, as otherwise provided by law, but only if and when authorized by the Grand Master. [45-8; 45-3.1; 45-4; 68-7.1; 71-2; 71-19; 71-22; 74-1.3; 87-3; 87-6].
1. A candidate who has been elected and initiated or passed or raised before it is discovered that he had not resided in the jurisdiction of the lodge the required time shall, nevertheless, be an Entered Apprentice, a Fellow Craft, or a Master Mason, as the case may be.
2. A candidate to whose advancement objection has been made but which objection was not made known to the Master who advanced him shall not be penalized for the default of another and he shall be entitled to all the rights and benefits of the highest degree he has received.
3. Any penalty for irregular work shall be applied to the brother or brethren at fault. [41-11.4; 71-2; 71-22; 75-11.1].
REG. 74-2 STATUS. Effective 1.1.2016
Entered Apprentices and Fellow Crafts are Masons of their respective degrees, but they shall not be subject to dues. They are not members of the lodge. [63-4; 65-4; 75-7; 76-2.1; 91-4].
REG. 74-3 INTERRUPTED WORK.
If the work of conferring a degree upon a candidate is interrupted for any reason and remains incomplete at the close of the communication he shall not be entitled to the rights and benefits of the degree. [71-18].
REG. 74-4 CANDIDATES OF DEFUNCT LODGES.
The status of a candidate of a lodge whose charter has been surrendered, arrested, or revoked shall be that of a non-affiliated Entered Apprentice or Fellow Craft, as the case may be. He may petition and receive the degrees in any lodge where he establishes a residence, either within or without the state, and evidence of surrender of the charter and his initiation may be furnished by the Grand Secretary, as provided in Regulation 49-10.1. [39-13].
REG. 74-5 STATUS OF MASONS.
Status of Masons shall be as follows.
1. A Mason shall be in good standing until charges for unmasonic conduct have been served on him or until he has been duly demitted, excluded, suspended, or expelled. [50-1; 87-5; 90-4].
2. A Mason against whom charges have been preferred shall be deemed innocent, and he may attend the lodge of which he is a member until he shall have been found guilty.
3. A Mason against whom charges have been preferred shall not be appointed or elected to office, nor installed in any office, nor demitted, nor be buried with Masonic ceremonies while the charges are pending. [50-1; 53-2.4; 55-5; 82-2; 82-2.5; 90-4].
4. A Mason who has been suspended for a definite period of time shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of membership in his lodge at the expiration of the time without action by the Grand Lodge or the lodge. He shall not be subject to dues during the time he is suspended. [77-10; 101-2].
5. The reversal of a judgment of suspension or expulsion by the Grand Lodge or a termination of a judgment of suspension by the Grand Lodge shall restore the accused to membership in his lodge without further action by the lodge. [98-11; 100-5; 101-1; 101-8].
6. If restoration of an expelled Mason is made by the Grand Lodge, he shall not thereby be restored to membership in his lodge, but shall become a nonaffiliated Mason. [98-11; 100-5; 101; 101-3; 101-7; 101-8].
7. The members of a defunct lodge who are not in arrears for dues shall be nonaffiliated Masons.
8. The members of a defunct lodge who are in arrears are excluded Masons. Such excluded Masons shall be nonaffiliated Masons upon paying to the Grand Secretary such arrears as may be required by law and obtaining a Grand Lodge demit. [49-4; 49-4.1].
9. Restoration of an Entered Apprentice or a Fellow Craft shall be to the same status in his lodge that he had before he was suspended or expelled, or as provided in Regulation 101-3.1.
REG. 74-6 NONAFFILIATED AND EXCLUDED.
The status of nonaffiliated and excluded Masons shall be as follows.
1. The status of an excluded Mason shall be the same as that of a nonaffiliated Mason.
2. Nonaffiliated and excluded Masons shall not be in good standing, and they shall have no rights except to apply for restoration to membership.
3. They shall not be subject to dues while nonaffiliated. [77-10].
4. They shall be subject to all Masonic obligations except those which are due to the lodge. [76-10; 74-7].
5. A brother who was not affiliated and in good standing in some regular lodge at the time of his death shall not be entitled to Masonic burial. If a Mason is not affiliated, it matters not from what cause, Masonic obligations to him shall not be in effect until he shall regain his good standing. If he should die without having done so, that is a misfortune not caused by the Fraternity. [77-6; 77-6.1; 82-2.5; 82-2.4].
REG. 74-7 UNAFFILIATED AND NONAFFILIATED.
This Grand Lodge does not recognize any distinction between the terms unaffiliated and nonaffiliated. If a Master Mason is not a member of a regular subordinate lodge, he is a nonaffiliated and is not entitled to any of the rights, benefits, or privileges of Masonry. His only right shall be to apply for restoration in a regular subordinate lodge. He shall not visit a subordinate lodge in this state although he holds a proper demit. [74-6; 74-8; 76-10].
REG. 74-8 RELATIVES.
The wife of a Master Mason in good standing who shall have obtained an absolute divorce shall not have any claim on a lodge for assistance. [76-10; 74-7].
1. The widow of a Master Mason who marries a profane shall not thereafter be entitled to Masonic relief as being also the widow of a prior husband who was a Master Mason.
2. The mother, sister or daughter of a Master Mason loses her Masonic claim for assistance immediately upon becoming, and so long as she remains, the wife of a profane. She lost that claim when she married a profane.
3. A widow whose deceased husband was a profane, and whose father, brother or son is, or was at the time of his death, a Master Mason in good standing, may be entitled to Masonic relief as being the daughter, sister or mother of a Master Mason, so long as she is not the wife of a profane.
4. If the widow of a Mason marries, his child shall not lose its Masonic claim.
5. The widows and children of nonaffiliated Masons shall have no Masonic claims.
6. A legally adopted child of a deceased Master Mason is entitled to the same benefits as if a natural child.
7. Unless disqualified as set forth in this regulation, the wife, widow, mother, sister, or daughter of a Master Mason shall be entitled to assistance and shall be permitted to wear Masonic emblems.
REG. 74-9 WIDOW OR ORPHANS CERTIFICATE.
Upon the written request of a widow, or a child or children under eighteen years of age, of a deceased brother who was a member of a lodge in this state at the time of his death, a lodge may issue to each of such applicants a certificate over the seal of the lodge signed by the Master and attested by the Secretary certifying to the membership of such brother in the lodge. [74-8; Official Form 33).
REG. 74-10 PREJUDICIAL REPORTS.
Reports prejudicial to the character of a brother being in circulation, it is the duty of his lodge to investigate them whether the brother requests an investigation or not.
1. A petition of a brother to have charges injurious to his character investigated by his lodge should most certainly be granted and the committee should in justice to him make a thorough investigation and report to the lodge.
2. The Grand Master, in his discretion, with or without a request of a brother, and when he deems it to be for the best interest of the brother or for the good of Masonry, may make, or cause to be made, an investigation of reports prejudicial to the character of the brother and to take such action thereon as the facts justify. [13-2.14; 13-2.15].
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Jezreel Valley (5 folders)
Megiddo (Israelite)
Megiddo The Mound
Model of Megiddo Labeled
Model of Megiddo
Six–Chamber Gate Model
Solomonic Gate 1a
Solomonic Gate 1b
Solomonic Gate 2
Israelite Silo
Water System Vertical Shaft
Water System Descent Into
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View looking southeast at the six chambered gate that is located on the north edge of Megiddo. This gate is depicted on the model of Megiddo and is labeled “1a.” This view shows only the foundations of the east side of the gate. Note, from left to right, the first chamber was cleared of debris, the second chamber is still filled with rubble and supports a later – four-chambered gate above it (still partially preserved), and then, on the right center of the image the third, and inner most of the chambers is visible.
There was a corresponding set of piers and chambers on the right side of the image, but these were excavated away by the University of Chicago. This picture was taken from outside the city and one would pass from left to right to enter the city. Please see “1a” on the labeled model.
The dating of the gate is disputed, the excavators said it was Solomonic (970-931 B.C.) while others have suggested a date to the days of Ahab (874-753 B.C.). This author prefers the Solomonic date.
Similar gates, also Solomonic, were found at Hazor and at Gezer (1 Kings 9:15).
For another view of this gate Click Here.
For a brief description of Israelite Megiddo and a map Click Here.
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Thursday, June 17, 2010DDD South West 2: On The Day
Saturday 5th June 2010 saw the second DDD South West and this time it was at UWE in Bristol. These events take a huge amount of organisation and there are many people to thank but the heroes of the day are surely our speakers. The sessions are proposed by anyone in the UK community and are voted for by the community. The result was an excellent variety of subjects delivered by a talented and inspiring set of speakers. The event feedback forms showed that the quality of speakers was one of the highlights of the event. I must admit that as I attend many events and run a user group I've noticed this quality many times and I really feel that this community is blessed with an unusually high level of speaking talent. Well done, guys, you are a credit to yourselves and our industry. And on the congratulations front we have to congratulate our top speakers, Gary Short for the second year running (Top Speaker For Presentation Skills) and Mark Rendle (Top Speaker For Knowledge Of Subject). You can see the top 3 speakers in both groups here. I was especially pleased with our New Speakers. We give priority to what we call 'new speakers' (people who have not spoken at a major event before) in order to ensure that our talent base grows. There were some really good scores from our newcomers and the feedback was equally impressive - well done, guys, a great result. One of last year's New Speakers made it into the top 3 speakers and it really shows that it is possible to break into this world.
There are a complete set of statistics on our Statistics page which make interesting reading particularly when compared with last year's statistics. One of the obvious ones is the number of attendees which was up by nearly 40% on last year. Unfortunately we cannot accurately say why the attendance is up because we made so many changes that could have influenced attendance:-
It was the second year
It was in Bristol instead of Taunton
It was not on a Bank Holiday (we listened to last year's feedback)
There was a public Call For Speakers
There was public voting on sessions
There were 6 tracks instead of 4
Twitter is significantly more used in the community and we took advantage of this
The Alternative Track was back again this year. The Alternative Track is a set of sessions which do not follow the standard 'one presenter with a slide deck or set of demos and a projector' approach. Like last year the most attended session was the Balloon Debate. Two of last year's contenders (Eric Nelson and Gary Short) who featured on last year's video were back to battle it out again. Steve Sanderson gave the funniest and most original argument but like last year the voting of the audience is mercurial and Eric Nelson had to surrender last year's crown to the new King Of The Balloon Debate: Gary Short.
One of the new ideas we had this year was the "Getting Started In .NET" track. The goal behind this track is simple: to get people who are not in .NET into .NET. We had hoped that we would use existing .NET community members to advertise the track to colleagues who needed to get up to speed. Fortunately/unfortunately DDD South West 2 was full up (250 registrations) within 5 hours of registration going live (we had 100 registrations in the first 10 minutes). We released another 80 places after this but those were taken in the next 2 days. We reserved 50 places for UWE students but it became apparent that these would not all get taken so we released 25 new places 1 week before the event. The problem that this popularity gave us was that we didn't really have a chance to advertise this track to its intended audience before we were full up. Despite this we were pleased to see that it was reasonably attended and managed to reach an audience that would normally find most of the sessions at a typical DDD event too high level. Thanks to the training companies (WebTech, Rock Solid Knowledge and PC-Talk) who gave their time and their courses freely to make this track possible.
The event feedback forms were very useful to us and a number of themes stood out in the "What Did You Like Most About DDD South West 2 ?" and "What Did You Like Least About DDD South West 2 ?" questions:-
Like Most: It's free, variety of subjects, top quality presenters, 6 tracks
Like Least: Queue for cream teas, rooms too hot, lack of coffee in the morning
So let me take a moment to answer some of the "Like Least" answers. "Queue for cream teas" - yes, sorry, this didn't really work as well as we had hoped. We'll take the feedback and try to make this work as well as it did at DDD South West 1. "Rooms too hot" - this is a tough one. It was a hot day so the rooms were hot. We can't do much about the rooms themselves but we are considering holding the next one in a month when it isn't so hot. "Lack of coffee in the morning" - this one is about money. We originally wanted coffee on arrival and then again in the mid-morning break. We simply didn't have enough money. The bottles of water we provided were what our budget allowed. There are two points that arise from this. We budgeted for 300 people attending DDD South West 2 (the catering information has to be decided a fair bit in advance of the date). At the time we had 330 registrations with 15 people on the wait list and potentially 50 students attending. As such 300 seemed a reasonable number. Even on the day before there were 309 registrations plus an unknown number of students. What transpired was that 218 people attended giving us a drop out rate of 30%. The consequence was that we had many lunches and cream teas left over. It is interesting to note that the cost of these wasted lunches and cream teas would have paid for coffee in the morning. Next time a colleague signs up for a DDD event and simply doesn't turn up (or gives us less than 1 week's notice) you might like to mention the consequence of their actions to them. As an organiser of events I dream of a world where it is socially unacceptable to register for events and then not turn up (or withdraw so late that it makes no difference). The second point that arises from this is that there is clearly a demand for coffee in the morning (we provided it in the afternoon). So, if your company would like to make a big hit with attendees of DDD South West 3 next year why not sponsor "Coffee In The Morning" ? (Sorry, couldn't resist it).
Before I finish this post though there are some essential people to thank (beyond the fabulous speakers already mentioned):-
Our hosts, UWE, who provided us with more rooms and equipment than is reasonable for any conference
Our sponsors who made this event possible. DDD South West 2 is funded by our sponsors and this is absolutely black and white for us - without them there is no DDD South West. We are very grateful to them and to the sponsors who provided 60~ items of quality swag (software, training courses, books) for our attendees (that's not including the items of t-shirts, pens, mugs etc.). Out of interest that means that there were 218 attendees and 60 pieces of quality swag - that's a better than 25% chance of something very valuable.
Our army of helpers. We had so many people helping us out on the day. Most of them were room monitors but some got lumbered with jobs that no one wants to do and everyone lumped in and helped us out and we can't thank you all enough for making it work.
Perhaps my favourite memory of DDD South West 2 though is an example of the nature of our community: all day long people kept coming up to me asking "Can I help ?". DDD events have a mantra "By The Community For The Community". These people truly epitomised the DDD mantra for me.
You can find pictures of DDD South West 2 here (by Jose Simas) and here (by Craig Murphy, DDD Founder And Grand Master).
See you at DDD South West 3 in 2011.
The DDD South West Team
Martyn Fewtrell - Registration
Chris Myhill - Location Manager
Steve Sanderson - Speaker Dinner and Geek Dinner
Ross Scott - Catering
Jose Simas - Graphics and Printing
Adam Towler - Alternative Track
Guy Smith-Ferrier - Coordination
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Fish Circus – North
Fish Circus – North consists of:
Dave Schunke
David Schunke has been fishing his entire life. He has taken his craft from freshwater to saltwater and then to his true love — offshore canyon fishing. Dave spends a large portion of the year on the water, including several trips to the Bahamas on his boat. Dave also fishes over 15 major tournaments per year from Florida to Massachusetts out of a 39 — foot center console. He has published numerous articles in various fishing magazines, has several TV appearances, and has conducted seminars at various fishing and outdoor shows. In addition, he has participated in benefits and charitable events, such as the Make a Wish Foundation.
Robb Pami & Chris Pami
Robb and Chris were born and raised in northern New Jersey. Growing up, they taught themselves not only how to fish fresh water but to have fun doing it. Their experiences ranged from sneaking into reservoirs to being dropped on a remote island by seaplane to fish for a weekend. On the boat they are Dave’s right and left hand, since he loves to say “I just drive”, which means what he breaks these brothers can — and do — fix. Their reputation as pranksters precedes and follows them wherever they go, and their sense of humor makes long days short. Being owners of a family construction business sometimes can sometimes make things tough because they don’t get a break from each other — even on the weekends. Their transformation to salt water fishing has been just like everything else they do in life: steady, methodical, meticulous and inventive.
Fish Circus - South
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User talk:Thy Not Dennis
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Using Show Preview
Hello T3H CH3K7 888, I see that you have made several consecutive edits to the same page. I want to point out the Show Preview button. It's right next to the Save Page button when you edit. You should use it whenever you are making a lot of experimental edits, for example when you are trying to get formatting right. Using the Show Preview button is quicker and easier than saving and clicking "edit" again, and will keep recent changes and page histories from being flooded. Thanks, — MichaelXX2 21:22, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
I couldn't help but notice that you haven't been using it all that much. Please try it out, it doesn't bite. —Guard Duck talk 02:26, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
I know, I know. It's just that I thought it would work, for posting a photo, and I will use it more. --T3H_CH3K7_888 16:12, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Hey man. I heard you needed some help with some userboxes. Is that True? If it is then i can help.- Record307 Talk/Contribs 21:58, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Hey, it's me again. Just wanted to point out something
Thy Not Dennis (t/c)
As you can see, your sig is a litte long. We like our signatures to fit in the sigbox. Please adjust it.- Record307 Talk/Contribs 18:38, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
I have to note that on my computer your own sig is out of the box, record307. -132.183.151.81 18:41, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Whoah! Gotta get defender to fix that.- Record307 Talk/Contribs 18:42, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
well, just barely.- Record307 Talk/Contribs 18:44, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
OK, fixed it. I made the images link to talk and contributions (after a lot of hard work). Look up there! Now I'm gonna use it. --Thy Not Dennis (t/c) 21:37, 13 March 2009 (UTC) (now I just gotta fix it so it doesn't break.)
Thanks! That's Perfect!. Oh by the way, I hope your strong bad lego sculpture makes it to the fanstuff because it's really cool!- Record307 Talk/Contribs 23:46, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I didn't really think so... none of the fanstuff pictures have backgrounds so do you have to do that yourself or does TBC take out the background? And I like my sig better this way.--Thy Not Dennis (t/c) 14:38, 14 March 2009 (UTC) (I still have to fix it so it doesn't break.)
I kinda liked the incarnation that had talk/contribs as separate links (but not in parentheses). I don't think that version was over the limit far enough to be a problem. -132.183.138.68 20:52, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
Nah, I like it better this way. It's cool.--Thy Not Dennis (t/c) 22:13, 17 March 2009 (UTC) (but it still breaks!)
Speaking of your sig breaking, am I the only one seeing everything after the first picture of The Cheat dropping to the line below? --Jay v.2020 (Talk) 18:26, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Nope, that's what I gotta fix.--Thy Not Dennis (t/c) 18:28, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Lego Strong Bad
Two questions about that thing. How tall is it, and how long did it take you to build it? Coach 's Cool! 18:13, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
It's 38 cm tall, and it took just like a half hour. It's not that hard when you're looking at a picture of Strong Bad. I did drop it on the floor and it broke, then it took me a long time to remember how exactly it was to put it back. Plus I had to find the pieces. I dropped it a second time, and now four pieces are still missing. It's to the left and right of his mouth, and extends one block down, so if you look at him a certain way his face looks saggy. Thanks for taking interest in it, though. Here's a picture of him in LEGO Digital Designer.--Thy Not Dennis (t/c) 18:47, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
Very digitaller.
Happy birthday dude, May you never get the black lung.-- Record307 Talk/Contribs 02:17, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
I just keep bugging you huh? Congratulations on finishing your first project on the wiki!-- Record307 Talk/Contribs 14:56, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Wow, thanks! It's never bugging when it's positive. I didn't think anyone would notice that I did that big project. --Thy Not Dennis (t/c) 15:04, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Are you kidding? I just happened to be patrolling the recent edits here at school when i came upon your project. and it happens to be flooding the recent changes. :P-- Record307 Talk/Contribs 15:15, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, well it was a lot of work, even if it didn't take that long. --Thy Not Dennis (t/c) 15:18, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Help me with my username!
Are you sure you can do that! Besides, nearly all the good usernames I thought of have already been taken! User: MICGAGUH
I can't change your username. But you can ask for that here. And that's not what I meant. I meant, you can have your signature be just your name, and have links to your talk and contributions, and a different font, color, etc. instead of now saying "User:MICGAGUH". If you need help, just ask, I will set it up for you. Thy Not Dennis (t/c) 18:33, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
Validating User Page
Please check the validator for XHTML. You have some errors. If you don't like this message, then I suggest yelling to the people who made me validate my signature. ColdReactive 15:13, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
How do you use that? Because I'm pretty sure I don't know how to use it. Thy Not Dennis (t/c) 15:22, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Fixed it for you. ColdReactive 15:31, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Oh! Thanks, ColdReactive. Didn't you used to be Iyeru? Thy Not Dennis (t/c) 15:35, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I was. But I'm trying to forget that name -_- I don't think it suits me anymore. ColdReactive 15:37, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Aha. Well, sorry, then. Disregard my comment. Thy Not Dennis (t/c) 15:42, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
That Strong Bad is awesome! Good Job! I wish they'd put my fanstuff up, but you can't have your cake and eat it too. OpenSourceGreg 02:16, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Wow, thanks. I sent it in again. Now if they'll just update the Weekly Fanstuff. Thy Not Dennis (t/c) 12:45, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Tech project
Hey Thy Not Dennis. I wanted to discuss a subpage you've started. As it says in our user space guidelines, the wiki is not a host for off-subject pages. You can copy the code to another wiki if you like, but then the page will need to be deleted. Thanks for understanding. — It's dot com 13:05, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
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Who are you guys?
The Minnesota Ice Sailing Association is a loosely knit information-sharing group, as of today, we're truly a virtual organization, as we have no members, no formal organization, no dues, no assets, ...nothing. All we do is compile and distribute what we believe to be accurate information about iceboating and ice conditions in our back yards.
Is iceboating safe?
Nope, not a chance. Iceboating is an inherently dangerous sport; anybody suggesting it's safe is lying. In fact if you do it long enough, it's sure to either kill, cripple or maim you. These little things travel at freeway speeds, on a surface as fickle as ice. Really, what could possibly go wrong? Others have suggested it's "statistically safer" than car travel, which seems to be accurate.
Do you just race?
Nope, some of our best friends are "cruisers", they're the real daredevils. The idea of some dread incident occurring, say coldwater immersion, alone on some desolate lake while "just cruising" seems too darn dangerous to many of us who race. Do the math, if you race, you're sailing on maybe 350 acres of lake, all day. Cruisers might touch a couple thousand acres, and are much more likely to find a flaw in the ice at speed. Proof Point
Technically most of what we do isn't really racing; rather we've adopted a convention for minimizing collision risk and maximize safety. Uniform direction, standardized collision avoidance protocol (rules), all minimizes the chances of two iceboats colliding. To the untrained eye, it might even look like a race, and yup, there's bragging rights associated with being fast.
Where are all the iceboaters
There are iceboaters cleverly hidden all over Minnesota, it seems like every town has one or two guys that would rather do this than one of those other winter activities. We would encourage all iceboaters to use this site
How much does an iceboat cost?
At most levels, these are not "if you have to ask you can't afford" toys. A world class DN program is a heck of a lot less than a new Harley. We have a couple friends that are on the ice and sailing for under a hundred bucks. Several good used DN packages sold this fall in the $2,500 - $3,000 range. Check out the links section to find available new and used boats.
Many folks prefer to build their own.
It's not a difficult project, and really, the people who aren't willing to get comfortable in a shop, don't seem to do much iceboating.
Where are you sailing next?
If it's not Thursday yet, none of us know where to sail on Saturday. Because snow & ice conditions change so quickly, the decision for local gathering spots is usually made on Thursday evening. We usually start the season in one of the shallow West Central Area Lakes, and move south as lakes get snowed out or freshly freeze.
How long have people been doing this?
In this country over 150 years and in Europe for over 400 years, Iceboating was for quite a while the only way to travel "Faster than Falling" It's got a rich history and oral tradition that carries across the generations.
Don't you freeze?
Not me, I'm generally way too scared to get cold! :)
Really, there's a fair amount of effort in sailing, particularly a DN, and just like snow skiing, if you're moving, you're usually warm.
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Farmers are known to be living in the area of present day Ghana were farmers by the 5th century BC, and by the 9th century AD the then Ghana Empire was a major power, and included parts of modern Senegal, Mauritania and Mali. After the 10th century, the empire came under Almovarid rule, and was later incorporated into Sahelian empires such as the Mali Empire. From the 16th century much of the area was brought under the governance of the Ashanti Empire. Many European powers contested the area for trading rights from the 15th century, and modern-day Ghana fell under British colonial rule from the late 19th century. After Ghana gained independence in 1957, the country saw a series of alternating military and civilian governments, and was often affected by economic instability. Since 1992, when multi-party system politics was restored, Ghana has enjoyed relative political stability, and has seen growing economic prosperity.
Ghana is a middle income country, with services accounting for around half of GDP, followed by manufacturing, extractive industries (including oil, discovered offshore in 2007; and gold, diamonds and a wide range of precious and industrial minerals). Agriculture is also important, particularly cocoa, of which Ghana is one of the world’s largest producers.
Ghana has major surface water resources in Lake Volta and its tributary rivers, but away from these groundwater is a key resource, particularly in dry seasons and in the drier north. Overall some 40% of households depend on groundwater, and this rises to 60% in rural areas. In the drier north, urban areas also depend primarily on groundwater. Rural areas, particularly in the north of the country, still lag behind in water supply infrastructure.
==Authors==
'''Emmanuel Obuobie''', Water Research Institute, Ghana
'''Dr Emmanuel Obuobie''', Water Research Institute, Ghana
'''Dr William Agyekum''', Water Research Institute, Ghana
'''Dr Emmanuel Kwame Appiah-Adjei''', Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
'''Dr Kirsty Upton''', '''Brighid Ó Dochartaigh''', British Geological Survey, UK
'''Dr Imogen Bellwood-Howard''', Institute for Development Studies, UK
Please cite this page as: Obuobie, Agyekum, Appiah-Adjei, Upton, Ó Dochartaigh and Bellwood-Howard, 2018.
'''Emmanuel Kwame Appiah-Adjel''', Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Bibliographic reference: Obuobie, E., Agyekum, W., Appiah-Adjei, E.K., Upton, K., Ó Dochartaigh, B.É. and Bellwood-Howard, I. 2018. Africa Groundwater Atlas: Hydrogeology of Ghana. British Geological Survey. Accessed [date you accessed the information]. http://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php/Hydrogeology_of_Ghana
'''Kirsty Upton''', '''Brighid Ó Dochartaigh''', British Geological Survey, UK
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==Geographical Setting==
[[File:Ghana_Political.png | right | frame | Political Map of Ghana (For more information on the datasets used in the map see the [[Geography | geography resources section]])]]
[[File:Ghana_Political.png | right | frame | Ghana. Map developed from USGS GTOPOPO30; GADM global administrative areas; and UN Revision of World Urbanization Prospects. For more information on the map development and datasets see the [[Geography | geography resource page]]]]
===General===
{| class = "wikitable"
|Estimated Population in 2013* || 25,904,598
|Capital city || Accra
|Rural Population (% of total)* || 47%
|Region || West Africa
|Total Surface Area* || 227,540 sq km
|Border countries || Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Togo
|Agricultural Land (% of total area)* || 69%
|Total surface area* || 238,540 km<sup>2</sup> (23,854,000 ha)
|Total population (2015)* || 27,410,000
|Rural population (2015)* || 12,827,000 (47%)
|Urban population (2015)* || 14,583,000 (53%)
|Annual Freshwater Withdrawal (2013)* || 982 Million cubic metres
|UN Human Development Index (HDI) [highest = 1] (2014)*|| 0.5791
|Annual Freshwater Withdrawal for Agriculture* || 66%
|Annual Freshwater Withdrawal for Domestic Use* || 24%
|Annual Freshwater Withdrawal for Industry* || 10%
|Rural Population with Access to Improved Water Source* || 81%
|Urban Population with Access to Improved Water Source* || 93%
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Source: [http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/data/query/index.html?lang=en FAO Aquastat]
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Source: World Bank
===Climate===
The majority of Ghana is classified as a tropical savannah climate, apart from the south western corner which is designated tropical monsoon. Average annual precipitation is higher in the tropical monsoon region and generally decreases from south to north across the tropical savannah region. Average temperatures are slightly lower in the southwest of Ghana and increase towards the north.
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Precipitation varies throughout the year and is generally higher between April and October. In the south of the country this is more distinctly split into two wet seasons during April-June and September-October. Temperatures are generally highest in March and lowest in August.
File:Ghana_ClimateZones.png |Koppen Geiger Climate Zones
File:Ghana_ClimatePrecip.png |Average Annual Precipitation
File:Ghana_ClimateTemp.png |Average Temperature
[[File:Ghana_ClimateZones.png | 375x365px |Koppen Geiger Climate Zones]][[File:Ghana_ClimatePrecip.png | 375x365px |Average Annual Precipitation]][[File:Ghana_ClimateTemp.png | 375x365px |Average Temperature]]
Rainfall time-series and graphs of monthly average rainfall and temperature for each individual climate zone can be found on the [[Climate of Ghana | Ghana Climate Page]].
[[File:Ghana_pre_Monthly.png| 255x124px| Average monthly precipitation for Ghana showing minimum and maximum (light blue), 25th and 75th percentile (blue), and median (dark blue) rainfall]] [[File:Ghana_tmp_Monthly.png| 255x124px| Average monthly temperature for Ghana showing minimum and maximum (orange), 25th and 75th percentile (red), and median (black) temperature]] [[File:Ghana_pre_Qts.png | 255x124px | Quarterly precipitation over the period 1950-2012]] [[File:Ghana_pre_Mts.png|255x124px | Monthly precipitation (blue) over the period 2000-2012 compared with the long term monthly average (red)]]
For further detail on the climate datasets used see the [[Climate | climate resources section]].
More information on average rainfall and temperature for each climate zone in Ghana can be found on the [[Climate of Ghana | Ghana Climate Page]].
These maps and graphs were developed from the CRU TS 3.21 dataset produced by the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK. For more information see the [[Climate | climate resource page]].
===Surface water===
Some river flow data have been collected by research organisations working on individual projects. The German funded GLOWA Volta project, which ended in 2012, collected some river flow data that are currently held with the Volta Basin Authority (VBA) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The VBA has also been collecting river flow data through the VBA observatory, in collaboration with the Volta Basin riparian countries. Presently, the German funded West Africa Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) is recording river flow measurements at some locations in the Volta Basin, and has installed a number of automatic water level /discharge readers at selected points on the White Volta River and its major tributaries. The data are held by WASCAL at its offices in Ghana and Burkina Faso.
| [[File:Ghana_Hydrology.png | frame | Surface Water Map of Ghana (For more information on the datasets used in the map see the [[Surface water | surface water resources section]])]]
| [[File:Ghana_Hydrology.png | frame | Major surface water features of Ghana. Map developed from World Wildlife Fund HydroSHEDS; Digital Chart of the World drainage; and FAO Inland Water Bodies. For more information on the map development and datasets see the[[Surface water | surface water resource page]]]]
| [[File:Ghana_soil.png | frame | Soil Map of Ghana (For more information on the datasets used in the map see the [[Soil | soil resources section]])]]
| [[File:Ghana_soil.png | frame | Soil Map of Ghana, from the European Commission Joint Research Centre: European Soil Portal. For more information on the map see the [[Soil | soil resource page]]]]
|The southwest of Ghana is dominated by Alisols. These highly acidic soils are typical of hot and wet climates and often form due to the weathering of minerals with a high aluminium content. This area corresponds with the dense forest belt in southwest Ghana.
| [[File:Ghana_LandCover.png | frame | Land Cover Map of Ghana (For more information on the datasets used in the map see the [[Land cover | land cover resources section]])]]
| [[File:Ghana_LandCover.png | frame | Land Cover Map of Ghana,, from the European Space Agency GlobCover 2.3, 2009. For more information on the map see the [[Land cover | land cover resource page]]]]
===Water statistics===
| || 2000 ||2010||2013||2014||2015
|Rural population with access to safe drinking water (%) || || || || || 84
|Urban population with access to safe drinking water (%) || || || || || 92.6
|Population affected by water related disease || No data || No data || No data || No data || No data
|Total internal renewable water resources (cubic metres/inhabitant/year) || || || || 1105||
|Total exploitable water resources (Million cubic metres/year) || No data || No data || No data || No data || No data
|Freshwater withdrawal as % of total renewable water resources ||1.747 || || || ||
|Total renewable groundwater (Million cubic metres/year) || || || ||26,300 ||
|Exploitable: Regular renewable groundwater (Million cubic metres/year) || No data || No data || No data || No data || No data
|Groundwater produced internally (Million cubic metres/year) || || || ||26,300 ||
|Fresh groundwater withdrawal (primary and secondary) (Million cubic metres/year) || No data || No data || No data || No data || No data
|Groundwater: entering the country (total) (Million cubic metres/year) || || || || ||
|Groundwater: leaving the country to other countries (total) (Million cubic metres/year) || || || || ||
|Industrial water withdrawal (all water sources) (Million cubic metres/year) ||950 || || || ||
| Municipal water withdrawal (all water sources) (Million cubic metres/year) || || ||251 || ||
|Agricultural water withdrawal (all water sources) (Million cubic metres/year) ||652 || || || ||
|Irrigation water withdrawal (all water sources) (Million cubic metres/year) || No data || No data || No data || No data || No data
|Irrigation water requirement (all water sources) (Million cubic metres/year) || || 162|| || ||
|Area of permanent crops (ha) || || || ||2,700,000 ||
|Cultivated land (arable and permanent crops) (ha) || || || ||7,400,000 ||
|Total area of country cultivated (%) || || || || 31.02||
|Area equipped for irrigation by groundwater (ha) || No data || No data || No data || No data || No data
|Area equipped for irrigation by mixed surface water and groundwater (ha) || No data || No data || No data || No data || No data
Source and more statistics at: [http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/data/query/index.html?lang=en FAO Aquastat].
==Geology==
This section provides a summary of the geology of Ghana. More detail can be found in the references listed at the bottom of this page. ''Many of these references can be accessed through the [http://www.bgs.ac.uk/africagroundwateratlas/index.cfm Africa Groundwater Literature Archive].''
This section provides a summary of the geology of Ghana. More detail can be found in the references listed at the bottom of this page. Many of these references can be accessed through the [http://www.bgs.ac.uk/africagroundwateratlas/index.cfm Africa Groundwater Literature Archive].
The geology map on this page shows a simplified version of the geology at a national scale (se see [[Geology | the Geology resources page]] for more details). ''The map is available to download as a shapefile (.shp) for use in GIS packages.''
The geology map on this page shows a simplified version of the geology at a national scale (see the [[Geology | geology resource page]] for more details).
[https://www.bgs.ac.uk/africagroundwateratlas/downloadGIS.html '''Download a GIS shapefile of the Ghana geology and hydrogeology map'''].
Other, larger scale, geological maps are available in printed format: see the Key Geology References section below for more details.
[[ File:Ghana_Geology2.png | center | border | 500px]]
A regional project to update the geology map for the Volta and Keta basins, an area of approximately 100,000 km², included the production of a series of 48 new geological maps covering the area (Carney et al. 2010, Kalsbeek 2008).
[[ File:Ghana_Geology3.png | center | thumb| 400px | Geology of Ghana at 1:5 million scale. Developed from USGS map (Persits et al. 2002). For more information on the map development and datasets see the [[Geology | geology resource page]]. [https://www.bgs.ac.uk/africagroundwateratlas/downloadGIS.html Download a GIS shapefile of the Ghana geology and hydrogeology map].]]
These rocks are overlain in valley areas by generally minor alluvium and other unconsolidated deposits of Quaternary age.
The following section provides a summary of the geology of Ghana based on these lithostratigraphic divisions. Sub-divisions of the major lithostratigraphic units are shown in the table below, although they are not distinguished on the map on this page. ''Many of these references can be accessed through the [http://www.bgs.ac.uk/africagroundwateratlas/index.cfm Africa Groundwater Literature Archive].''
The following section provides a summary of the geology of Ghana based on these lithostratigraphic divisions. Sub-divisions of the major lithostratigraphic units are shown in the table below, although they are not distinguished on the map on this page.
==Hydrogeology==
''This section provides a summary of the hydrogeology of the main aquifers in Ghana, on the lithostratigraphic divisions described in the Geology section. The hydrogeology of some of the sub-divisions of the major units is summarised, although the units are not distinguished on the map on this page. More information is available in the references listed at the bottom of this page. ''Many of these references can be accessed through the [http://www.bgs.ac.uk/africagroundwateratlas/index.cfm Africa Groundwater Literature Archive].''
This section provides a summary of the hydrogeology of the main aquifers in Ghana, on the lithostratigraphic divisions described in the Geology section. The hydrogeology of some of the sub-divisions of the major units is summarised, although the units are not distinguished on the map on this page. More information is available in the references listed at the bottom of this page.
The hydrogeology map on this page shows a simplified version of the type and productivity of the main aquifers at a national scale (see the [[Hydrogeology Map | hydrogeology map]] resource page for more details).
The hydrogeology map on this page shows a simplified version of the type and productivity of the main aquifers at a national scale (see [[Aquifer properties| the Aquifer properties resource page]] for more details). ''The map is available to download as a shapefile (.shp) for use in GIS packages.'' Other hydrogeological maps at different scales and in different formats have been produced; some are listed in the key hydrogeology references section below.
Other hydrogeological maps at different scales and in different formats have been produced; some are listed in the key hydrogeology references section below.
[[File:Ghana_Hydrogeology2.png | center | border | 500px]]
[[File:Ghana_Hydrogeology3.png | center | thumb| 400px| Hydrogeology of Ghana at 1:5million scale. For more information on how the map was developed see the [[Africa Groundwater Atlas Hydrogeology Maps | hydrogeology map]] resource page. [https://www.bgs.ac.uk/africagroundwateratlas/downloadGIS.html Download a GIS shapefile of the Ghana geology and hydrogeology map].]]
====Consolidated Sedimentary Aquifers with Fracture Flow====
|Named Aquifers||General Description||Water quantity issues||Water quality issues||Recharge
|Named Aquifers||General Description||Water quality issues||
|Upper Voltaian: Obosum Group
||Very low to zero intergranular permeability. Sandstone units can show variable development of joints, open planes and faults, creating secondary permeability. In thick sandstone units where secondary fracture permeability is well developed, high yielding boreholes have been developed, but in other areas, sandstones have proved to have low productivity. Mudstone and siltstone areas generally form a very low productivity aquifer, with little groundwater.
||Groundwater from sandstones is often less mineralised than groundwater from mudstone and siltstones. However, there is some evidence that fluoride is more common in sandstones than in mudstones or siltstones. Groundwater from units dominated by mudstones and siltstones often has relatively high conductivity.
|Middle Voltaian: Oti/Pendjari Group
||Very low to zero intergranular permeability. Sandstone units show variably well-developed joints, open planes and faults, creating secondary permeability. Extensively fractured sandstone units can form moderately to highly productive aquifers, but there is wide variability in recorded yields, indicating that fractures are not well developed everywhere. Borehole yields range from less than 5 to 1000 l/min, but are often between 10 and 300 l/min. Units dominated by siltstones and mudstones tend to show lower yields, often between 20 and 40 l/min.
||Water quantity issues
||Groundwater from sandstones is often less mineralised than groundwater from mudstone and siltstones. However, there is some evidence that fluoride is more common in sandstones than in mudstones or siltstones.
|Lower Voltaian: Kwahu/Boumbaka groups
||Very low to zero intergranular permeability. Sandstone units such as the Anyaboni Sandstone and Panaboko Sandstone formations often form moderately to highly productive aquifers, dominated by secondary fracture permeability, often in thin zones, with borehole yields often between 150 and 250 l/min. There is evidence for groundwater inflows to boreholes to at least 100m depth.
||Minor occurrences of saline groundwater have been noted in isolated boreholes, typically related to high sulphate concentrations. High iron is common, and high manganese in some areas. High fluoride concentrations occur rarely.
====Basement====
|Named Aquifers||General Description||Water quality issues||Recharge
|Birimian, Granite, Dahomeyan, Togo and Buem Aquifers
The basement aquifers are generally confined and vary in thickness from 2-20 m, depending on the thickness of the weathered zone. Borehole depths vary between 40-200 m, depending on the type of aquifer.
||Water quality in the basement aquifers is fair to good. Groundwater is typically slightly acidic (pH<6.5) with low salinity and total hardness, but slightly higher salinity occurs in some areas. High fluoride (up to 4 mg/l) occurs in some areas in the Upper Regions, as does iodine deficiency. High arsenic (>0.01 mg/l) has been seen in some parts of southwest Ghana, linked to the abundance of arsenic-bearing minerals associated with gold in mineralised veins.
||Recharge occurs mainly from rainfall.
===Groundwater Status===
Available data from past studies indicate that groundwater abstracted from boreholes in Ghana is generally of good chemical and microbiological quality and thus suitable for domestic (including drinking), agricultural and industrial uses. However, there are particular problems with the quality of groundwater in certain locations. These problems include:
Available data from past studies indicate that groundwater abstracted from boreholes in Ghana is generally of good chemical and microbiological quality and thus suitable for domestic (including drinking), agricultural and industrial uses. However, there are particular problems with the quality of groundwater in certain places. These problems include:
* low pH (3.5-6.0) waters, found mostly in the forest zones of southern Ghana;
* high concentration of iron in many places throughout the country;
* high concentrations of iron in many places throughout the country;
* high natural concentrations of manganese and fluoride, mostly in the north of the country; and
* high natural concentrations of manganese and fluoride, mostly in the north, including the Upper East and Northern regions; and
* high mineralisation with TDS in the range of 2000-14,584 mg/l in some coastal aquifers (Kortatsi 1994).
* high levels of mineralisation, with total dissolved solids (TDS) in the range of 2000 up to more than 14,000 mg/l in some coastal aquifers, largely due to high salt (sodium chloride) from sea water intrusion (Kortatsi 1994).
These problems are generally attributed to geochemical weathering of the bedrock, anthropogenic activities, and to sea water intrusion in the case of high concentration of sodium chloride in coastal aquifers. There are also some isolated instances of high nitrate concentrations, thought to be linked to the increasing use of artificial fertiliser by farmers, although there may also be a link between increased nitrate concentrations and local contamination by
Many of these groundwater quality problems are natural in origin. A key process is geochemical weathering of the bedrock under particular hydrogeological and hydrochemical conditions, which can lead to high fluoride, iron and manganese, among other elements. Local hydrogeological conditions can also cause naturally low pH levels. Others are caused or worsened by human activity. Sea water intrusion is often related to over-abstraction of groundwater in coastal aquifers. There are also some isolated reports of high groundwater nitrate concentrations, thought to be linked to the increasing use of artificial fertiliser by farmers, although there may also be a link between increased nitrate concentrations and local contamination by
human and/or animal waste.
==Groundwater use and management==
=== Groundwater use===
The main uses of groundwater in Ghana are (Obuobie & Barry 2012):
=== Groundwater management===
The key institutions responsible for groundwater management in Ghana are:
Many of the references below, and others relating to the hydrogeology of Ghana, can be found in the [http://www.bgs.ac.uk/africagroundwateratlas/searchResults.cfm?title_search=&author_search=&category_search=&country_search=GH&placeboolean=AND&singlecountry=1 Africa Groundwater Literature Archive].
Many of the references below, and others relating to the hydrogeology of Ghana, can be found in the [https://www.bgs.ac.uk/africaGroundwaterAtlas/atlas.cfc?method=listResults&title_search=&author_search=&category_search=&country_search=GH&placeboolean=AND&singlecountry=1 Africa Groundwater Literature Archive].
===Key Geology References===
- Geological Survey Department of Ghana. The Geological Map of Ghana (Scale 1: 1,000,000)
Geological Survey Department of Ghana. 2009. The Geological Map of Ghana (Scale 1: 1,000,000)
Bates DA. 1995. Geological Map of Ghana. Ghana Geological Survey, Accra, Ghana
Carney JN, Jordan CJ, Thomas CW, Condon DJ, Kemp SJ and Duodo JA. 2010. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301926810002093 Lithostratigraphy, sedimentation and evolution of the Volta Basin in Ghana]. Precambrian Research, Vol.183, Issue 4, pp 701-724
- Bates DA. 1995. Geological Map of Ghana. Ghana Geological Survey, Accra, Ghana
Dickson KB and Benneh G. 1980. A new Geography of Ghana. Metricated Edition, Pearson Education Limited, Harlow, UK.
- Kesse GO. 1985. The Mineral and Rock Resources of Ghana. I–XIV, 1–610; Balkema, Rotterdam.
Kalsbeek F (Ed). 2008. [http://www.geus.dk/program-areas/common/voltaian_workshop_report.pdf The Voltaian Basin, Ghana: Workshop and Excursion, March 10-17, 2009].
- Dickson KB and Benneh G. 1980. A new Geography of Ghana. Metricated Edition, Pearson Education Limited, Harlow, UK.
Kesse GO. 1985. The Mineral and Rock Resources of Ghana. I–XIV, 1–610; Balkema, Rotterdam.
- Key RM. 1992. An introduction to the crystalline basement of Africa. In: The hydrogeology of crystalline basement aquifers in Africa, EP Wright, WG Burgess. Geological Society Special Publication 66: 29-57.
Key RM. 1992. An introduction to the crystalline basement of Africa. In: The hydrogeology of crystalline basement aquifers in Africa, EP Wright, WG Burgess. Geological Society Special Publication 66: 29-57.
The Geological Survey Department and Minerals Commissions are the key institutions in the country for acquisition of geological information. Hard copies of the two geological maps of Ghana referenced above can be obtained at a fee from the Geological Survey of Ghana.
===Key Hydrogeology References===
- Adelana SMA and MacDonald AM (Eds). 2008. Applied Groundwater Studies in Africa. IAH Selected Papers. British Geological Survey, Wallingford, UK. CRS Press, Taylor and Francis Press.
Agyekum WA and Dapaah-Siakwan S. 2008. The Occurrence of Groundwater in Northeastern Ghana. In: Adelana and MacDonald (eds), Applied Groundwater Studies in Africa: IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 13.
Awuni JA and Akuriba MA. 2013. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02508060.2013.819454 Small pumps and the poor: a field survey in the Upper East Region of Ghana]. Water International, 38:4, 449-464, DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2013.819454
Barry B, Kortatsi B, Forkuor G, Gumma M, Namara RE, Rebelo LM, vandenBerg J and Laube W. 2010. [https://www.bgs.ac.uk/africaGroundwaterAtlas/atlas.cfc?method=ViewDetails&id=AGLA600028 Shallow groundwater in the Atankwidi Catchment of the White Volta Basin: current status and future sustainability]. International Water Management Institute.
British Geological Survey/WaterAid. [http://www.wateraid.org/~/media/Publications/groundwater-quality-information-ghana.pdf Groundwater Quality: Ghana]. Leaflet
Carrier MA, Lefebre R, Racicot J and Asare EB. 2008. [https://wedc-knowledge.lboro.ac.uk/resources/conference/33/Carrier_MA_GHA.pdf Northern Ghana Hydrogeological Assessment Project]. Paper presented at 33rd WEDC International Conferences, Accra, Ghana, 2008.
Carrier MA, Lefebre R and Asare E. 2011. [https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Hydrogeological-Assessment-Project-of-the-Northern-Carrier-Lefebvre/9399cfb2afc3f033c1c92ce4267a2509c41bf22c Hydrogeological Assessment Project of the Northern Regions of Ghana (HAP) : final technical report : Water Resources Database Development]. Project Report.
CSIR-Water Research Institute. 1996. Hydrogeological Map of Ghana on Regional Basis.
Dapaah-Siakwan S and Gyau-Boakye P. 2000. Hydrogeologic Framework and borehole yields in Ghana. Hydrogeology Journal 8, pp 405-416
Evans AEV, Giordano M, Clayton T (Eds.). 2012. [https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/137100/2/127.pdf Investing in agricultural water management to benefit smallholder farmers in Ghana]. AgWater Solutions Project country
synthesis report. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) 37p.
(IWMI Working Paper 147). Doi: 10.5337/2012.209
Forkuor G, Pavelic P, Asare E and Obuobie E. 2013. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02626667.2012.754101 Modelling potential areas of groundwater development for agriculture in northern Ghana using GIS/RS]. Hydrological
Sciences Journal, 58:2, 437-451, DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2012.754101
Gill HE. 1969. A Groundwater Reconnaissance of the Republic of Ghana, with a Description of Geohydrologic Provinces, Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 1757-K, Washington, U.S.A
Gyau-Boakye P and Dapaah-Siakwan S. 2000. Groundwater as Source of Rural Water Supply in Ghana, Journal of Applied Science and Technology, Vol. 5, Nos. 1 & 2, pp 77-86, 2000.
Gyau-Boakye P, Kankam-Yeboah K, Darko PK, Dapaah-Siakwan S, and Duah AA. 2008. Groundwater as a Vital Resource for Rural Development: An Example from Ghana. In: Adelana and MacDonald (eds), Applied Groundwater Studies in Africa: IAH Selected Papers on Hydrogeology 13.
Gumma MK and Pavelic P. 2013. [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10661-012-2810-y Mapping of groundwater potential zones across Ghana using remote sensing, geographic information systems, and spatial modelling]. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 185(4), 3561-3579.
HAP (Hydrological Assessment Project of Northern Ghana). 2006. Hydrological assessment of the Northern Regions of Ghana: A bibliographical review of selected papers. CIDA, WRC, SNC-LAVALIN International.
Kesse GO. 1985. The Mineral and Rock Resources of Ghana. A. A. Balkema/Rotterdam/Boston, 1985
Martin N. 2006. [http://www.zef.de/fileadmin/template/Glowa/Downloads/thesis_martin.pdf Development of a water balance for the Atankwidi catchment, West Africa – a case study of groundwater recharge in a semi-arid climate]. Cuvillier Verlag Gottingen, Ecology and Development Series, No. 41, 168 pp.
Namara RE, Awuni JA, Barry B, Giordano M, Hope L, Owusu ES and Forkuor G. 2011. [https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/16763 Smallholder shallow groundwater irrigation development in the upper east region of Ghana]. Vol. 143. IWMI.
Namara RE. 2012. [https://agriknowledge.org/downloads/jh343s338 Agricultural use of shallow groundwater in Ghana: A promising smallholders’ livelihood strategy]y. AgWater Solutions Project Case Study. IWMI
- British Geological Survey/WaterAid. [http://www.wateraid.org/~/media/Publications/groundwater-quality-information-ghana.pdf Groundwater Quality: Ghana]. Leaflet
Namara RE, Hope L, Sarpong EO, De Fraiture C and Owusu D. 2013. [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378377413002321 Adoption patterns and constraints pertaining to small-scale water lifting technologies in Ghana]. Agricultural Water Management, 131, 194-203.
- CSIR-Water Research Institute. 1996. Hydrogeological Map of Ghana on Regional Basis.
Obuobie E and Barry B. 2010. [http://gw-africa.iwmi.org/Data/Sites/24/media/pdf/2008_agr_305_year_2_progress_report-narrative-final.pdf Groundwater in sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for food security and livelihoods. Ghana Country Status on Groundwater]. Final report.
- Dapaah-Siakwan S and Gyau-Boakye P. 2000. Hydrogeologic Framework and borehole yields in Ghana. Hydrogeology Journal (2000), Vol. 8, pp 405-416
Obubie E and Barry B. 2012. Ghana. Chapter in P Pavelic, M Giordano, B Keraita, T Rao, and V Ramesh (Eds.), [https://www.bgs.ac.uk/africaGroundwaterAtlas/atlas.cfc?method=ViewDetails&id=AGLA600020 Groundwater availability and use in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of 15 countries]; Ch. 4, pp.43-64. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI), doi: 10.5337/2012.213
- Gill HE. 1969. A Groundwater Reconnaissance of the Republic of Ghana, with a Description of Geohydrologic Provinces, Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 1757-K, Washington, U.S.A
Obuobie E, Ofori D, Kwaku Agodzo S and Okrah C. 2013. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02508060.2013.814212 Groundwater potential for dry-season irrigation in north-eastern Ghana]. Water International, 38:4, 433-448, DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2013.814212
- Gyau-Boakye P and Dapaah-Siakwan S. 2000. Groundwater as Source of Rural Water Supply in Ghana, Journal of Applied Science and Technology, Vol. 5, Nos. 1 & 2, pp77-86, 2000.
Ó Dochartaigh BÉ, Davies J, Beamish D and MacDonald AM. 2011. [https://www.bgs.ac.uk/africaGroundwaterAtlas/atlas.cfc?method=ViewDetails&id=AGLA000028 UNICEF IWASH Project, Northern Region, Ghana: An Adapted Training Manual for Groundwater Development]. British Geological Survey Report OR/11/047.
- HAP (Hydrological Assessment Project of Northern Ghana). 2006. Hydrological assessment of the Northern Regions of Ghana: A bibliographical review of selected papers. CIDA, WRC, SNC-LAVALIN International.
Regassa E, Namara LH, Owusu Sarpong E, De Fraiture C and Owusu D. 2012. [https://www.agriknowledge.org/downloads/c821gj80x Adoption of water lifting technologies for agricultural production in Ghana: implications for investments in smallholder irrigation system]. AgWater Solutions Project Case Study IWMI Ghana September 2012
- Kesse G O. 1985. The Mineral and Rock Resources of Ghana. A. A. Balkema/Rotterdam/Boston, 1985
Survey Department of Ghana. 1967. Hydrogeological Map of Ghana. An older version of this can be viewed online at [http://www.bgr.de/app/fishy/whymis/index.php?&type=country&id=GHA WHYMAP]
- Martin N. 2006. Development of a water balance for the Atankwidi catchment, West Africa – a case study of groundwater recharge in a semi-arid climate, Ecology and Development Series, No. 41, Cuvillier Verlag Go¨ttingen, 168 pp.
Water Resources Commission. 2013. [http://www.wrc-gh.org/projects-and-programmes/hap-projects/ Hydrogeological Assessment of the Northern Region of Ghana Project (HAP)]. Webpage, Water Resources Commission, Ghana.
- Obubie E and Barry B. 2012. Ghana. In P Pavelic, M Giordano, B Keraita, T Rao, and V Ramesh (Eds.), Groundwater availability and use in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of 15 countries, Ch. 4, pp.43-64. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI), doi: 10.5337/2012.213
- Ó Dochartaigh BÉ, Davies J, Beamish D and MacDonald AM. 2011. [http://www.bgs.ac.uk/africagroundwateratlas/fulldetails.cfm?id=AGLA000028 UNICEF IWASH Project, Northern Region, Ghana: An Adapted Training Manual for Groundwater Development]. British Geological Survey Report OR/11/047.
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1 Authors
2 Terms and conditions
3 Geographical Setting
3.2 Climate
3.3 Surface water
3.4 Soil
3.5 Land cover
3.6 Water statistics
5 Hydrogeology
5.1 Consolidated Sedimentary Aquifers with Fracture Flow
5.2 Basement
5.3 Recharge
5.4 Groundwater Status
6 Groundwater use and management
6.1 Groundwater use
6.2 Groundwater management
6.3 Transboundary aquifers
6.4 Groundwater monitoring
7.1 Key Geology References
7.2 Key Hydrogeology References
Dr Emmanuel Obuobie, Water Research Institute, Ghana
Dr William Agyekum, Water Research Institute, Ghana
Dr Emmanuel Kwame Appiah-Adjei, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Dr Kirsty Upton, Brighid Ó Dochartaigh, British Geological Survey, UK
Dr Imogen Bellwood-Howard, Institute for Development Studies, UK
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Geographical Setting
Ghana. Map developed from USGS GTOPOPO30; GADM global administrative areas; and UN Revision of World Urbanization Prospects. For more information on the map development and datasets see the geography resource page
Ghana's land area extends from the Atlantic Ocean (Gulf of Guinea) in the south, to its border with Burkina Faso in the north. In the west of the country a forest belt extends northward from the coast for over 300 km. The area to the north of the forest belt is largely flat or gently undulating savannah. The highest point is Mount Afadjato, which sits at an elevation of 880m in the eastern part of the country.
Capital city Accra
Region West Africa
Border countries Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Togo
Total surface area* 238,540 km2 (23,854,000 ha)
Total population (2015)* 27,410,000
Rural population (2015)* 12,827,000 (47%)
Urban population (2015)* 14,583,000 (53%)
UN Human Development Index (HDI) [highest = 1] (2014)* 0.5791
* Source: FAO Aquastat
More information on average rainfall and temperature for each climate zone in Ghana can be found on the Ghana Climate Page.
These maps and graphs were developed from the CRU TS 3.21 dataset produced by the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK. For more information see the climate resource page.
The most significant surface water feature in Ghana is Lake Volta, which extends roughly north-south over a distance of around 500 km.
The Black Volta and White Volta Rivers flow perennially into the northern end of Lake Volta. The White Volta originates to the north in Burkina Faso. The Black Volta also originates in Burkina Faso but flows along the border with Cote d’Ivoire to the west before turning and flowing into the lake.
Lake Volta is drained to the south by the perennial Volta River, which discharges into the Gulf of Guinea in the east of Ghana. Several other perennial rivers discharge into the Gulf of Guinea, draining the forest belt in the west of Ghana. The two main rivers are the Tano, in the west, and Ankobra, in the east.
The Hydrological Services Department (HSD) of the Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing is responsible for all river flow gauging in Ghana, and all river gauging data are stored at the HSD. Generally, daily data exists from the 1960s onwards, but some stations also have data from before 1960.
Major surface water features of Ghana. Map developed from World Wildlife Fund HydroSHEDS; Digital Chart of the World drainage; and FAO Inland Water Bodies. For more information on the map development and datasets see the surface water resource page
Soil Map of Ghana, from the European Commission Joint Research Centre: European Soil Portal. For more information on the map see the soil resource page
The southwest of Ghana is dominated by Alisols. These highly acidic soils are typical of hot and wet climates and often form due to the weathering of minerals with a high aluminium content. This area corresponds with the dense forest belt in southwest Ghana.
In the north and east, the dominant soil types are Lixisols and Plinthosols. Lixosols are generally clay-rich, while Plinthosols contain high levels of iron. These soils often occur on plateaus or plains and reflect the weathering of predominantly basic rocks.
Fluvisols are found along the valleys of the Black and White Volta Rivers, while Acrisols and Gleysols are more common in the eastern coastal region.
The mountainous area along the eastern border with Togo is denoted by Leptosols – these are generally very shallow soils that commonly form over hard rock.
Land Cover Map of Ghana,, from the European Space Agency GlobCover 2.3, 2009. For more information on the map see the land cover resource page
Water statistics
Rural population with access to safe drinking water (%) 84
Urban population with access to safe drinking water (%) 92.6
Population affected by water related disease No data No data No data No data No data
Total internal renewable water resources (cubic metres/inhabitant/year) 1105
Total exploitable water resources (Million cubic metres/year) No data No data No data No data No data
Freshwater withdrawal as % of total renewable water resources 1.747
Total renewable groundwater (Million cubic metres/year) 26,300
Exploitable: Regular renewable groundwater (Million cubic metres/year) No data No data No data No data No data
Groundwater produced internally (Million cubic metres/year) 26,300
Fresh groundwater withdrawal (primary and secondary) (Million cubic metres/year) No data No data No data No data No data
Groundwater: entering the country (total) (Million cubic metres/year)
Groundwater: leaving the country to other countries (total) (Million cubic metres/year)
Industrial water withdrawal (all water sources) (Million cubic metres/year) 950
Municipal water withdrawal (all water sources) (Million cubic metres/year) 251
Agricultural water withdrawal (all water sources) (Million cubic metres/year) 652
Irrigation water withdrawal (all water sources) (Million cubic metres/year) No data No data No data No data No data
Irrigation water requirement (all water sources) (Million cubic metres/year) 162
Area of permanent crops (ha) 2,700,000
Cultivated land (arable and permanent crops) (ha) 7,400,000
Total area of country cultivated (%) 31.02
Area equipped for irrigation by groundwater (ha) No data No data No data No data No data
Area equipped for irrigation by mixed surface water and groundwater (ha) No data No data No data No data No data
Source and more statistics at: FAO Aquastat.
This section provides a summary of the geology of Ghana. More detail can be found in the references listed at the bottom of this page. Many of these references can be accessed through the Africa Groundwater Literature Archive.
The geology map on this page shows a simplified version of the geology at a national scale (see the geology resource page for more details).
Download a GIS shapefile of the Ghana geology and hydrogeology map.
Geology of Ghana at 1:5 million scale. Developed from USGS map (Persits et al. 2002). For more information on the map development and datasets see the geology resource page. Download a GIS shapefile of the Ghana geology and hydrogeology map.
This map shows four major bedrock lithostratigraphic regions in Ghana. From youngest to oldest, they are:
Isolated and spatially restricted coastal sedimentary basin geological units of Ordovician to Tertiary age, comprising the Keta, Accraian, Ammissian, Sekondian and Appollonian formations.
The Voltaian Supergroup – neo-Proterozoic to Palaeozoic (early Cambrian), comprising the Kwahu, Oti-Pendjari and Obusum groups;
The Pan-African Dahomeyide Precambrian mobile/orogenic belt, comprising the Buem, Togo and Dahomeyan formations;
The Birimian Supergroup – Precambrian (Paleoproterozoic) cratonic supracrustal and intrusive rocks, generally trending NE-SW;
Geological Environments
Key Formations Period Lithology Structure
Unconsolidated
Tano Basin Quaternary Alluvium along river valleys.
Sedimentary – Palaeozoic-Tertiary - Coastal Basins
Keta Basin Series Sand, gravel, siltstone, shale and clays with layers of fossiliferous limestone. Found in the extreme southeast of Ghana.
Amissian Formation Pliocene (Tertiary) to Recent Interbedded soft pebbly grits, conglomerate, micaceous sandstone, arkose, shales and clays.
Apollonian Formation Cretaceous to Eocene (Tertiary) Marine sedimentary sandstones, clays and occasionally fossiliferous limestones. Found in the extreme southwest of Ghana.
Sekondian Series Devonian to Cretaceous Dominantly sandstones and shales with conglomerates, pebble beds, grits and mudstones resting with major unconformity on a Precambrian complex of granites, gneisses and schists. Six formations are recognised in this series, with some being fossiliferous, others not.
Accraian Series Devonian Alternating shales and thin-bedded micaceous sandstone, overlain by massive cross-bedded sandstone, and a thick sequence of sometimes fossiliferous shale and mudstone.
Sedimentary – Proterozoic-Palaeozoic - Voltaian
Upper Voltaian: Obosum Group Upper Ordovician to Upper Carboniferous Massive, coarse-grained, feldspathic sandstones and thin-bedded quartzitic sandstones with siltstones and mudstones. The Tamale Sandstone and Sang Conglomerate formations are dominated by coarse-grained sandstones; the undivided Obosum Group in the Northern Region is dominated by mudstones and siltstones. Gently folded
Middle Voltaian: Oti-Penjari Group Proterozoic (Lower Vendian) to Lower Ordovician Mainly well consolidated and closely compacted basal sandstone. Also includes shales and tillite-dolomite limestone. The Group includes the Bunya Sandstone (dominantly feldspathic sandstone) and Chereponi Sandstone (alternating sandstones and siltstones) members, and the Bimbila and Afram formations (dominantly micaceous mudstones and siltstones with rare limestones and sandstones). Gently folded
Lower Voltaian: Kwahu/Bombouka groups Proterozoic (Upper Riphaean) Mudstone, claystone and siltstone interbedded with sandstone and conglomerate. The Kwahu Group includes the Anyaboni Sandstone and Panoboko Sandstone formations. Gently folded
Precambrian Mobile/Orogenic Belt
Dahomeyan, Togo and Buem Formations Proterozoic (Eburnean) Mainly metamorphic rocks. The older Dahomeyan Formation comprises mafic gneiss, quartzite and mica schist. The Togo Formation comprises metamorphosed and folded sedimentary strata, including phyllite, quartzite and schist. The Buem Formation comprises a thick sequence of sandstone, shale and volcanic rocks.
Precambrian Craton
Birimian Group , granitoids and basic intrusive rocks Palaeoproterozoic Metamorphosed sedimentary rocks (schist, quartzite, slate and phyllite) alternating with five parallel, generally evenly-spaced volcanic belts. The sequence is intruded by various igneous rocks including granite (porphyritic, sodic-rich hornblende biotite granite and potassium-rich muscovite granite), gabbro, dolerite and diabase. Generally NE-SW trending, well fractured and isoclinally folded.
The hydrogeology map on this page shows a simplified version of the type and productivity of the main aquifers at a national scale (see the hydrogeology map resource page for more details).
Hydrogeology of Ghana at 1:5million scale. For more information on how the map was developed see the hydrogeology map resource page. Download a GIS shapefile of the Ghana geology and hydrogeology map.
Consolidated Sedimentary Aquifers with Fracture Flow
Named Aquifers General Description Water quality issues
Upper Voltaian: Obosum Group Very low to zero intergranular permeability. Sandstone units can show variable development of joints, open planes and faults, creating secondary permeability. In thick sandstone units where secondary fracture permeability is well developed, high yielding boreholes have been developed, but in other areas, sandstones have proved to have low productivity. Mudstone and siltstone areas generally form a very low productivity aquifer, with little groundwater. Groundwater from sandstones is often less mineralised than groundwater from mudstone and siltstones. However, there is some evidence that fluoride is more common in sandstones than in mudstones or siltstones. Groundwater from units dominated by mudstones and siltstones often has relatively high conductivity.
Middle Voltaian: Oti/Pendjari Group Very low to zero intergranular permeability. Sandstone units show variably well-developed joints, open planes and faults, creating secondary permeability. Extensively fractured sandstone units can form moderately to highly productive aquifers, but there is wide variability in recorded yields, indicating that fractures are not well developed everywhere. Borehole yields range from less than 5 to 1000 l/min, but are often between 10 and 300 l/min. Units dominated by siltstones and mudstones tend to show lower yields, often between 20 and 40 l/min. Groundwater from sandstones is often less mineralised than groundwater from mudstone and siltstones. However, there is some evidence that fluoride is more common in sandstones than in mudstones or siltstones.
Lower Voltaian: Kwahu/Boumbaka groups Very low to zero intergranular permeability. Sandstone units such as the Anyaboni Sandstone and Panaboko Sandstone formations often form moderately to highly productive aquifers, dominated by secondary fracture permeability, often in thin zones, with borehole yields often between 150 and 250 l/min. There is evidence for groundwater inflows to boreholes to at least 100m depth. Minor occurrences of saline groundwater have been noted in isolated boreholes, typically related to high sulphate concentrations. High iron is common, and high manganese in some areas. High fluoride concentrations occur rarely.
Named Aquifers General Description Water quality issues Recharge
Birimian, Granite, Dahomeyan, Togo and Buem Aquifers The primary intergranular permeability of the basement rocks in Ghana is generally low. However, they form aquifers where secondary permeability is increased: where there is a significant weathered or regolith zone, and in highly fractured zones. The characteristics of the aquifers are very variable as a result of the varying intensity of weathering and the anisotropic nature of fractures. The most productive zone of these aquifers is usually the lower part of the regolith and upper part of the bedrock, otherwise known as the sapprock.
Yields from the basement aquifers are highly variable. Reported yields are from <0.1 to 10 l/s. Measured transmissivity varies between 0.2 and 119 m²/day. Storage is typically around 10-3.
Water quality in the basement aquifers is fair to good. Groundwater is typically slightly acidic (pH<6.5) with low salinity and total hardness, but slightly higher salinity occurs in some areas. High fluoride (up to 4 mg/l) occurs in some areas in the Upper Regions, as does iodine deficiency. High arsenic (>0.01 mg/l) has been seen in some parts of southwest Ghana, linked to the abundance of arsenic-bearing minerals associated with gold in mineralised veins. Recharge occurs mainly from rainfall.
Few direct studies have been done on groundwater recharge in Ghana: those that have been done are largely for areas in the northern half of the country, using various methods including water balance, chloride mass balance, water table fluctuation and hydrological modelling. Groundwater hydrographs from more than 15 monitored wells in the northeast of the country suggest that the groundwater system in the country is active and it is affected by significant recharge and discharge.
Recharge to all the aquifer systems in Ghana is thought to be mainly by direct infiltration of precipitation through fractured and fault zones along the highland fronts, and also through the sandy portions of weathered zones. Some recharge also occurs indirectly as seepage from ephemeral stream channels and pools of accumulated runoff in the rainy seasons. Though there is some inflow contribution from regional (transboundary) aquifers in West Africa, the main source of recharge to the aquifers in Ghana, particularly in the north of the country, is precipitation. Estimated recharge values are generally low, varying from 1.5% to 19% of annual rainfall (Obuobie and Barry 2012), and there is high spatial and temporal variability.
Groundwater Status
low pH (3.5-6.0) waters, found mostly in the forest zones of southern Ghana;
high concentrations of iron in many places throughout the country;
high natural concentrations of manganese and fluoride, mostly in the north, including the Upper East and Northern regions; and
high levels of mineralisation, with total dissolved solids (TDS) in the range of 2000 up to more than 14,000 mg/l in some coastal aquifers, largely due to high salt (sodium chloride) from sea water intrusion (Kortatsi 1994).
Many of these groundwater quality problems are natural in origin. A key process is geochemical weathering of the bedrock under particular hydrogeological and hydrochemical conditions, which can lead to high fluoride, iron and manganese, among other elements. Local hydrogeological conditions can also cause naturally low pH levels. Others are caused or worsened by human activity. Sea water intrusion is often related to over-abstraction of groundwater in coastal aquifers. There are also some isolated reports of high groundwater nitrate concentrations, thought to be linked to the increasing use of artificial fertiliser by farmers, although there may also be a link between increased nitrate concentrations and local contamination by human and/or animal waste.
Groundwater use and management
domestic water supply, including drinking water;
small-scale irrigation of vegetables and watering of livestock; and
industrial use for the commercial production of bottled and sachet water.
Over 95% of groundwater use in Ghana is for domestic water supply, mostly in rural areas and small towns (Gyau-Boakye et al. 2008). Overall, around 41% of households in Ghana depend on groundwater for their water supply (GSS-GLSS 5 2008) – this is generally much higher in rural areas (59%) than urban areas (16%). However, there are some urban areas, in the Upper East and Upper West regions, where 80% of the urban population depend on groundwater for their primary water supply.
Less than 5% of groundwater in Ghana is used for irrigation and watering of livestock and poultry (Laube et al. 2008, MOFA 2004, Agodzo et al. 2003).
Industrial use of groundwater in Ghana accounts for less than 1% of the total groundwater use. This includes large-scale commercial bottled water companies in the south of the country (Gyau-Boakye et al. 2008, Darko et al. 2003).
The main types of groundwater source in Ghana are:
boreholes with hand pumps;
boreholes with electric pumps; and
hand dug wells.
There are no official national statistics of the numbers of each of these sources, but it is estimated that there are over 15,000 boreholes (hand pumps and electric pumps) and 45,000 hand dug wells across the country.
In the Volta Basin alone, Martin and van de Giesen (2005) estimated that 29.4 million cubic meters of groundwater was abstracted in 2001 from 7,285 boreholes fitted with hand pumps, 36 piped groundwater systems, and 3,960 modern hand dug wells.
The Water Directorate of the Ministry of Water Resources Works and Housing: this is the focal point for coordination of the water and water-related sanitation sector for policy harmonisation, sector-wide monitoring and evaluation of Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS) outcomes and Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets, as well as coordination of foreign assistance (donor support/partnership) in the water sector.
The Water Resources Commission (WRC): The WRC is mandated to regulate and manage the utilisation of water resources (both surface and groundwater) and to coordinate government policies in relation to them. The WRC also provides a focal point for fostering coordination and collaboration among the various actors in the water resources sector.
The CSIR Water Research Institute (WRI): The WRI are responsible for conducting research into all aspects of water in Ghana, in order to provide scientific and technical information and services as well as strategies for the sustainable development, utilisation and management of such resources for the socio-economic advancement of the country.
Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA): The CWSA are responsible for facilitating the provision of safe drinking water and related sanitation services to rural communities and small towns in the country.
Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL): The GWCL are responsible for the provision of domestic water supply to cities and towns in the country.
The Hydrological Services Department (HSD): This Department is under the auspices of the Ministry of Housing and Water Resources of Ghana. They are responsible for all river flow gauging stations in the country.
There is not yet a separate legal framework for groundwater management in Ghana. The current legal framework is for both surface and groundwater. There is no longer private ownership of water resources in Ghana. The ownership of water resources, including groundwater, is vested in the president per section 12 of the Water Resources Commission Act (1996): “the property in and the control of all water resources is vested in the President, or anyone authorized by the President, on behalf of and in trust for the people of Ghana”.
The Water Resources Commission has enacted legislative instrument (LI) under Act 522 of 1996 to guide the use and management of water resources in the country. These LI include:
The Water Use Regulations (LI 1692 of 2001), which is for granting water permits for the regulation of surface and groundwater abstraction
The Water Drilling Licence and Groundwater Development Regulations (LI 1827 of 2006) to regulate the development of groundwater resources.
All drilling companies are required to obtain permits from the Water Resources Commission before drilling. However, there is no legal framework regarding how much water can be abstracted.
The regulation of water disposal is a mandate of a separate entity, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA is represented on the WRC board and collaborates with the WRC in the issuance of waste disposal licences to avoid pollution of water resources. However, the collaboration is weak leading to conflicting situations in some cases.
Transboundary aquifers
Ghana shares in two main transboundary aquifers, both of which are coastal:
The Tano aquifer system, located in the extreme southwest of Ghana and shared between Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire. It covers an area of 806 square kilometres in Ghana and includes three aquifer units (Quaternary, continental terminal and Maastrichtian); and
the Keta aquifer system, found in the extreme southeast of Ghana and shared among Ghana, Togo Benin, and Nigeria. It is a layered system covering an area of 2,721 square kilometres.
Each country currently manages its share of the aquifer systems independently. Ghana recognises the need for agreements and cooperation between countries that share in its transboundary aquifers (e.g. Togo and Cote d’Ivoire). However, such co-operations and the necessary frameworks have yet to be initiated.
For further information about transboundary aquifers, please see the Transboundary aquifers resources page
Groundwater level monitoring in Ghana is managed at a national level. A limited number of monitoring wells have been established as part of previous groundwater projects implemented at river basin level. Between 2005 and 2012, a total of 70 monitoring wells were installed in Ghana in the Volta River, Tano, Ankobra and Densu river basins. These were funded by DANIDA, the European Union and CIDA.
Ghana’s Water Resources Commission (WRC) mandated the CSIR Water Research Institute to undertake groundwater level monitoring. The collected data are currently stored in the WRC. Ghana also undertook a separate national groundwater monitoring project, in which monitoring is currently done by the Ghana Atomic Commission on behalf of the Water Resource Commission.
There are no groundwater quality monitoring programmes.
Many of the references below, and others relating to the hydrogeology of Ghana, can be found in the Africa Groundwater Literature Archive.
Key Geology References
Carney JN, Jordan CJ, Thomas CW, Condon DJ, Kemp SJ and Duodo JA. 2010. Lithostratigraphy, sedimentation and evolution of the Volta Basin in Ghana. Precambrian Research, Vol.183, Issue 4, pp 701-724
Kalsbeek F (Ed). 2008. The Voltaian Basin, Ghana: Workshop and Excursion, March 10-17, 2009.
Key Hydrogeology References
Awuni JA and Akuriba MA. 2013. Small pumps and the poor: a field survey in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Water International, 38:4, 449-464, DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2013.819454
Barry B, Kortatsi B, Forkuor G, Gumma M, Namara RE, Rebelo LM, vandenBerg J and Laube W. 2010. Shallow groundwater in the Atankwidi Catchment of the White Volta Basin: current status and future sustainability. International Water Management Institute.
British Geological Survey/WaterAid. Groundwater Quality: Ghana. Leaflet
Carrier MA, Lefebre R, Racicot J and Asare EB. 2008. Northern Ghana Hydrogeological Assessment Project. Paper presented at 33rd WEDC International Conferences, Accra, Ghana, 2008.
Carrier MA, Lefebre R and Asare E. 2011. Hydrogeological Assessment Project of the Northern Regions of Ghana (HAP) : final technical report : Water Resources Database Development. Project Report.
Evans AEV, Giordano M, Clayton T (Eds.). 2012. Investing in agricultural water management to benefit smallholder farmers in Ghana. AgWater Solutions Project country synthesis report. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI) 37p. (IWMI Working Paper 147). Doi: 10.5337/2012.209
Forkuor G, Pavelic P, Asare E and Obuobie E. 2013. Modelling potential areas of groundwater development for agriculture in northern Ghana using GIS/RS. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 58:2, 437-451, DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2012.754101
Gumma MK and Pavelic P. 2013. Mapping of groundwater potential zones across Ghana using remote sensing, geographic information systems, and spatial modelling. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 185(4), 3561-3579.
Martin N. 2006. Development of a water balance for the Atankwidi catchment, West Africa – a case study of groundwater recharge in a semi-arid climate. Cuvillier Verlag Gottingen, Ecology and Development Series, No. 41, 168 pp.
Namara RE, Awuni JA, Barry B, Giordano M, Hope L, Owusu ES and Forkuor G. 2011. Smallholder shallow groundwater irrigation development in the upper east region of Ghana. Vol. 143. IWMI.
Namara RE. 2012. Agricultural use of shallow groundwater in Ghana: A promising smallholders’ livelihood strategyy. AgWater Solutions Project Case Study. IWMI
Namara RE, Hope L, Sarpong EO, De Fraiture C and Owusu D. 2013. Adoption patterns and constraints pertaining to small-scale water lifting technologies in Ghana. Agricultural Water Management, 131, 194-203.
Obuobie E and Barry B. 2010. Groundwater in sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for food security and livelihoods. Ghana Country Status on Groundwater. Final report.
Obubie E and Barry B. 2012. Ghana. Chapter in P Pavelic, M Giordano, B Keraita, T Rao, and V Ramesh (Eds.), Groundwater availability and use in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of 15 countries; Ch. 4, pp.43-64. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI), doi: 10.5337/2012.213
Obuobie E, Ofori D, Kwaku Agodzo S and Okrah C. 2013. Groundwater potential for dry-season irrigation in north-eastern Ghana. Water International, 38:4, 433-448, DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2013.814212
Ó Dochartaigh BÉ, Davies J, Beamish D and MacDonald AM. 2011. UNICEF IWASH Project, Northern Region, Ghana: An Adapted Training Manual for Groundwater Development. British Geological Survey Report OR/11/047.
Regassa E, Namara LH, Owusu Sarpong E, De Fraiture C and Owusu D. 2012. Adoption of water lifting technologies for agricultural production in Ghana: implications for investments in smallholder irrigation system. AgWater Solutions Project Case Study IWMI Ghana September 2012
Survey Department of Ghana. 1967. Hydrogeological Map of Ghana. An older version of this can be viewed online at WHYMAP
Water Resources Commission. 2013. Hydrogeological Assessment of the Northern Region of Ghana Project (HAP). Webpage, Water Resources Commission, Ghana.
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The Weather Be Wack
By gcallah - December 31, 2011
Today, in Milford, PA, it was 57 degrees. Three days from now, the predicted low is 8. How are all my plant children supposed to cope with this sort of nonsense?
You Know What I Hate?
Programs that display bogus progress bars. You know the kind I mean: a bar chart sort of graphic appears, showing you how "close to completion" is the process you have launched. But how often do you see these things go to 90% in a second or two, and then stall on the last "10%" for another minute? My iPhone does this all the time when sending text messages.
I know what the programmer did: from his point of view, sending the message involves, say, ten steps. So he advances the progress bar 1/10 of the way upon the completion of each step. The problem is that the first nine steps are all internal to his application, while the tenth one, "transmit the message over the network," is not under his direct control, but is likely to take far more time than the previous nine steps combined. Ok, that's not his fault, but it is his fault that he purports to be 90% done with the operation, when, in fact, 99% of the operation (in terms of user time) has yet to happe…
Or at least some preliminary thought on Aquinas's view of it. It seems to me it produces some counter-intuitive conclusions.
For instance, if sex is morally best (only morally acceptable?) when it aims at achieving all three of the goods that sex naturally aims at achieving (pleasure, bonding, and procreation), then what about a man whose wife has gone through menopause? Wouldn't it be Aquinally best for him to dump her and get a younger wife who can procreate? If one knows a man / woman is infertile, is it immoral to marry him / her?
I've been thinking about this topic a bit, and researching it, so more to come.
Plan on Being Hung Over Tomorrow?
Get ready now! Go get a pound of salt cod and get it soaking pronto. (You can significantly cut the soaking time from the 36 hours recommended below by changing the water often.)
Then tomorrow, when you struggle awake, bake yourself this wonderful salt cod and potato casserole. (I had it for breakfast this morning, as well as dinner last night.)
Hilary Putnam, in Renewing Philosophy, discusses the final arrival of esteemed analytical philosopher Nelson Goodman at a sort of radical relativism: "But if we choose to speak of worlds, where do these worlds come from? Goodman's answer is unequivocal: they are made by us. They are not made ex nihilo, but out of previous worlds... Springing full-blown within contemporary analytic philosophy, a form of idealism as extreme as Hegel's or Fichte's!" -- Renewing Philosophy, p. 111
Never mind that Putnam is almost certainly misreading Hegel and Fichte; his point is important nonetheless. I would not wish to suggest for a moment that Berkeley is the last word in metaphysics, or that he did not go too far in his reaction to Descartes and Locke. (Thinkers like Bosanquet and Whitehead seem to do better at staking out a middle ground here.) But he was surely correct in arguing that it was the posit of an unsensed pure matter, without color, texture, warmth, tone, feel, or…
Praxeology: It's Not Just About Mises!
While posting yesterday about the praxeological nature of Paramahansa Yogananda's writing, I realized that many people associate praxeology solely with Mises and Rothbard and their followers. That is a misconception. The term simply means the study of action, and while the term itself has never been in widespread use, it dates back to the 1600s and was used by many people besides Misesians. But the discipline has existed at least since the writings of Aristotle, who, as Roderick Long has made clear in his work, engaged in the activity that Mises would later call praxeology. In more recent times, R.G. Collingwood famously gave an account of "philosophical economics" closely resembling Mises's, and, as I have argued in a paper that appeared in The Independent Review, Michael Oakeshott reflections on action closely resemble those of Mises. Even more recently, the noted analytical philosopher Donald Davidson has analyzed action in a way much like Mises did. And Long cit…
Who Is to Blame for the Disastrous After-Effects of Invading Iraq?
Some creepy prevaricator over at The Washington Examiner says the blame falls on... Obama!
"We've already seen signs that Obama's mismanaged pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq is having disastrous ramifications, with a wave of bombings last Thursday killing 60 people and wounding 200 others."
So, eight years of having Iraq as our puppet state just wasn't quite enough! Even though the Iraqi government, the very one we put in place, was demanding that we leave, and even though our (most recent) supposed aim in going into Iraq was to bring the people democracy, we should have ignored that democratically elected government, and just told them we were going to stay, probably forever.
And this was so predictable (if I predicted it, it must have been pretty obvious!): Nothing whatsoever would ever lead the neocon delusionaries to admit that they were wildly mistaken about Iraq. If we stayed for 100 years, and then left because the US Treasury hadn't a penny remainin…
Universal Religion
"It may be argued that particular stages of intellectual growth and special types of mentality belonging to certain nations... determine the origins of different religions, such as Hinduism, Mohammedanism, and Buddhism for Asiatics, Christianity for the Westerners, and so forth. If by religion we understand only practices, particular tenets, dogmas, customs, and conventions, then there may be grounds for the existence of many religions. But if religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets, and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God." -- Paramahansa Yogananda, The Science of Religion, p. 4-
Interestingly, Yogananda's main arguments for a single religion undergirding what he calls "denominations" such as Hinduism, Christianity, and Buddhism, are praxeological:
"Why does [a man engage in a business]? Because mo…
I Grant You, Loyal Reader, Three Wishes
In the Mahabharata, King Dhritharashtra offers Draupadi three wishes. First Draupadi asks for freedom for her husband and his brothers (who have just lost it in a dice game). Then she asks for the return of the goods they had lost in the game. She actually declines to use her third wish, because to do so would be greedy.
If you or I were offered such an opportunity, it would become very important to grasp the parameters of wish-formulation. Why is Draupadi allowed to combine the wish for five different peoples freedom into one? If she can make that one wish, why can't "I'd like their freedom as well as their possessions returned to them" count as one wish?
There must be some rules, otherwise one could just string together every wish one has ever had with a whole bunch of "ands." But what are they?
It's Christmas Day
Time to cast away those fears forever:
Some they say see them walking up the street
They say we're going wrong to all the people we meet
But-a we won't worry, we won't shed no tears
We found a way to cast away the fears,Forever, yeah!
(We'll be forever loving Jah) We'll be forever!
(We'll be forever loving Jah) Forever, yes, and forever!
Barzun on Weber
"Facts from the Protestant side itself refute [Weber's] thesis: both Luther and Calvin attacked profit-making and deplored 'the materialism of the age.'" -- From Dawn to Decadence, p. 37
Shocking, just shocking. Does a single critic of Weber even know what he said? Because Weber was very, very, explicit that he was not contending that either Luther or Calvin was trying to promote capitalism, and that it was an accidental by-product of their doctrines.
It's as though everyone has only heard "Weber said Protestantism promoted capitalism," didn't bother to read his book, and filled in their own idea of what he must have meant!
Is There a Person Who Can Lie with Quotes Better Than Tom DiLorenzo?
Here he says:
'William F. Buckley, Jr., the man who once said that black people in the South were "retarded"'
This certainly sounded extraordinary. But the fact that DiLorenzo quoted a single word and offered no link made me think that he was doing the same thing has done throughout his Lincoln-hating: selectively quoting so as to effectively lie about his target while using that target's own words. So I decided to find out what was actually said.
Well, first of all, it is an unsignedNational Review editorial that the "quotation" comes from, which means it may or may not have been written by Buckley. And what a fuller says is this:
"In the Deep South the Negroes are, by comparison with Whites, retarded ('unadvanced,' the NAACP might put it)..."
In context, it is clear that National Review is claiming that blacks in the Deep South are not as culturally advanced as whites. One may object to that claim, but it is a far cry from what DiLor…
Doughtery Correctly Analyzes the Genesis of the Paul Newsletters
They were a cynical part of Rothbard's "reach-out-to-the-rednecks" strategy. That is exactly right. When that didn't work, that angle was dropped.
Rothbard would say or write whatever it took to forward the revolution. He was a Leninist turned inside-out.
All that being said, how important are the newsletters? They were bad, but I'd rather have the GOP nominate someone who cynically reached out to racists than someone who might kill 100,000 Iranians.
The Birthing of an Historical Fact
Jacques Barzun and Henry F. Graff, in their book The Modern Research, discuss how an historian determined whether John Stuart Mill was the author of an anonymous letter that appeared in Le Globe in 1832, on the doctrines of the Saint-Simonians. Here is the evidence Hill Shine marshalled to decide the question (I quote from the book):
First, research discloses two earlier allusion [by a Le Globe editor] to the effect that "one of the most powerful thinkers in London" intended to write a series of open letters on the new ideas [for the paper].Second, there exists a letter to that same editor announcing the visit of a third party who would bring him... "the work of your young friend M."...Third, it was within three days of receiving the piece of news just recorded that the newspaper published the open letter of "an Englishman" who signed himself "J."Fourth, a letter of May 30 from Mill to his Saint-Simonian friends refers to "my letter which a…
Averages Are Subjective, Ya Know
Just heard an announcer on CBS News Radio say, "The average annual salary in the US is $50,000 for most Americans."
For certain Americans, however, the average is apparently something else.
Calvinism and Sanctification
I’ve ben listening to a series of lectures by Phillip Cary on the history of Christian theology. When he comes to discuss John Wesley and Methodism, he makes an interesting statement that, I believe, bears some scrutiny. “Wesley,” he says (and I quote here from memory, since I only have his words in MP3 form, but I am fairly certain I am doing his claim justice in my paraphrase), “thought that Calvinism denied the importance of sanctification. But he was wrong here: Calvinists are very concerned with sanctification."
Now, Cary is a wonderfully learned man on the history of Christian theology, and I highly recommend his lectures if you are interested in better understanding this topic. (And note: One need not be a Christian or even be contemplating conversion to benefit greatly from studying these matters: one cannot be a serious student of Western history without a sound understanding of the theological disputes that often drove that history.) But I think he is mistaken in what …
Many opponents of religion criticize the belief in “the supernatural” as an atavistic superstition on the part of believers. “We,” they claim, “stick to the empirical reality we can see around us. We believe in the earth, and the stars, and trees, and animals, and human existence as beginning when a human body is created by a sexual act, and ending when that body dies. To believe in anything else is to be anti-empirical, unscientific.”
But I wish to suggest that for many (most?) of these “naturalists,” they have ignored the beam in their own eye, for they, too, believe in the supernatural. (Later in this post, I will discuss the case of naturalists to whom this point may not apply.) How can this be?
Well, consider the first definition of ‘supernatural’ offered by the Merriam-Webster dictionary: “of or relating to an order of existence beyond the visible observable universe.” (Didn’t they want a comma between ‘visible’ and ‘observable’?) Given the above definition, I claim that many s…
Well, Glad That All Worked Out for the Best
Well, it took an entire day after US troops pulled out of Iraq for the coalition government we installed there to begin collapsing. That certainly was worth over 100,000 lives and a trillion dollars.
What will be amazing will be to watch as the neocons spin this as Obama's fault for pulling out too early. If only we had stayed twenty years, the Sunnis and the Shiites would have learned to love each other! (And, of course, Obama didn't really want to go, anyway: he was honoring the agreement Bush signed with the Iraqi government.)
From Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn:
An Inflation Index Bob Murphy Will Love
Ideology as the Rejection of Tragedy
Or, prudence is not the vice of abandoning principles, but the virtue of weighing one principle carefully against others.
One way of understanding what ideology is to understand it as the rejection of tragedy. First consider the conflict in Aeschylus's play The Suppliants. The Danaids come to King Pelasgus of Argos, fleeing a forced marriage to their Egyptian cousins. The king must balance two responsibilities:
1) He has the responsibility to protect suppliants, given that they have a genuine grievance, and have turned to him for protection.
2) He has the responsibility of defending his people, who will likely incur the wrath of the Egyptians should they offer the Danaids refuge. (It is important here that he is not just thinking of his own safety; he is responsible for the safety of an entire city-state.)
The key thing here is that this tragedy is not a matter of being forced to choose between a principle and one's own material well-being. This would be an entirely differen…
When Thoughts Collide
Inside my little skull.
Someone today linked to this song:
While I was listening, I thought of my son telling me that people are always surprised to find out that his mother is Filipino, because he doesn't look like she would be. And suddenly it came to me; so in honor of my son, I give you:
There's a man who lives a life Caucasian
No one ever guesses that he's Asian
With every test he takes
Another 100 he makes
I guess that he won't have to pay for Harvard
Secret Asian man
You're very good with numbers
So what's with that last name?
Beware of round-eyed faces that you find
They might not like to meet an inscrutable mind
Be careful what you eat
Whites don't like chicken feet
Sea urchin eggs are gonna bring you sorrow
"Tomatoes Are Not Vegetables" Snowclone
Here is a snowclone almost as popular as "the Eskimos have 50 words for snow":
"Botanically, a tomato is a fruit: a seed-bearing structure that grows from the flowering part of a plant. In 1893, however, the highest court in the land ruled in the case of Nix v. Hedden that the tomato was a vegetable, subject to vegetable import tariffs. Unfortunately, the vegetal confusion did not end in 1893."
Well, yes, the confusion is apparent in the above remark. As noted here before, "vegetable" is a culinary, not a botanical, category. Something can be botanically a fruit, but culinarily a vegetable. Such as tomatoes. Or peppers. Or squash. Or eggplants. Or okra. Or green beans.
Query: Why every single time you see this snowclone, the tomato plays the role of the fruit "mistaken" for a vegetable? You never see anyone trying to look smart by saying "The green bean is not a vegetable, it's a fruit!"
Bright sparks weather gala night power cut to party on
Or so read a headline of a paper in East Sussex. But what does it mean?
Need a Course So That You Don't Molest Kids?
My daughter swims for a CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) team. (One needn't be a practicing Catholic to join such teams.) We just received a safety letter saying that, amongst other things, my wife cannot go fetch my daughter from the locker room unless she has received Virtus training, which deals with sexual molestation. ( I assume I am not allowed in the girls' locker room under any circumstances except extreme emergency.)
Well, my wife has no intention of molesting any of my daughter's teammates. What purpose is a course telling her not to do so going to serve? Look, she might be a serial killer -- does she need a "don't be a serial killer" course before she enters the locker room as well? A course in not going through the girls' lockers looking for spare change? Should she take an anti-arson course, so that she won't burn the locker room down?
And just who is going to be willing to spend the time to take this course? Is it worth taking it to ru…
Experiential Philosophy Versus Argumentative Philosophy
There is a tree in the garden outside my window. How do I know this? Well, I see it, I hear the wind rustling its branches, I have walked out into the garden and felt its limbs. Let's say I encounter a clever modern philospher who has an argument purporting to prove that there really is no tree in my garden. If, at the moment I am confronted with his argument, I am unable to say precisely why he is wrong, should I stop believing there is a tree in my garden? Of course not. I should recognize that I have encountered a sophist, who can put forward very clever arguments for an absurd position.
It may be worth my while to spend some time figuring out how to defease the sophist's case, perhaps so that those more gullible than me are not thrown into confusion as to whether the trees they perceive are really there. But experience has priority over argumentation; after all, as Lewis Carroll so brilliantly demonstrated, even the most logical of arguments cannot persuade someone who r…
How to Create an Ideology
Let's say you and I coach a football team. Over the years, you have developed a number of ideas about football, ideas like "Try to avoid third-and-10 by gaining at least a couple of yards on your first two downs. Don't give up big plays on defense. Fundamentals like tackling and blocking are the most crucial aspects of the game." These ideas are rules-of-thumb that have worked out pretty well in the past. Of course, we have been flexible applying them: if they give us the long ball on first down, we'll take it. If an outstanding, fast receiver comes along who can't block, well, we figure we have ten other guys who can, and his big gains more than make up for his weakness.
But we are not happy with the situation. We have heard that many theorists of football strategy find our approach an incoherent muddle, and tell us what we really need is a sound, rationally based football ideology. So, to answer a question suggested by our friend Marris*, how can we go abo…
Look What's Happenin' on the Streets...
Gotta revolution
"How a revolution erupts from a commonplace event -- tidal wave from a ripple -- is cause for endless astonishment. Neither Luther in 1517 nor the men who gathered at Versailles in 1789 intended at first what they produced at last. Even less did the Russian Liberals who made the revolution of 1917 foresee what followed. All were as ignorant as everybody else of how much was about to be destroyed. Nor could they guess what feverish feelings, what strange behavior ensue when revolution, great or short-lived, is in the air." -- Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence, p. 7
You may intend your revolution to bring about the brotherhood of man, or a society free of coercion. But your revolution will take its own course, and only one thing is certain: what you wanted will not be what emerges at the other end.
Sounds Only, Please!
Is This Anyway to Fall Asleep?
Not only hopping up to blog every five minutes, but watching this s%^t (and I say that last word in the spirit of Gordon Ramsay):
Those things she is stuffing in her mouth and her eyes are Assamese chilies that are 200 times hotter than jalepeños!
Chef Gordon Ramsay, No Kantian
Kant famously told us to will only what we could conceive as positing as a universal moral law. A famous example of someone violating this precept is the thief: He wants to be able to grab others' property as he wishes, but only because he then hopes to be secure in his possession of it. If everyone behaved as he did, there would be no property to grab!
It occurred to me tonight, while watching my bedtime program, which is about Chef Ramsay traveling in India, cooking and eating, that he violates Kant's dictum in the same way as the thief does: He tries to make himself appear... what? Macho? Transgressive? Cool?... by making either "f*&k" or "s^%t" be about every fifth word he says.
Of course, if everyone did that (and everyone young is damned well near starting to!), then those words would entirely lose the effect he wants them to have. Their impact entirely depends upon their not becoming commonplace. Once everyone inserts "f@#k" between ev…
Flying by Flapping One's Arms
If someone says, "Attempting to fly by vigorously flapping one's arms is doomed to fail," people are unlikely to respond, "Ah, so, if you think my method of doing this fails, then just how would you fly by flapping your arms?"
But when you point out that ideologies are inapt guides to political action, you are very likely to get asked, "So, what system do you propose, then?" Or, even more remarkably, you will be assured that your statement is itself an ideology! (The latter is like being told, "Your criticism of attempting to fly by flapping one's arms is itself a form of attempting to fly by flapping one's arms.")
Our Greatest Mental Acrobat?
In the Introduction of his book, Renewing Philosophy, Hilary Putnam reports that, for some time, he was simultaneously an atheist philosopher, and a practicing, believing Jew. He said he simply kept the two attitudes in separate compartments.
(By the way, since when he wrote that he was still a practicing Jew, it seems that is the position that won out.)
Back when I worked with a bunch of traders, the lads used to crack up at the "explanations" the media would give for the movements of the stock averages.* I thought of this the other day, when I heard on the radio, "The Dow is down twelve points, on worries that a deal to solve the Euro crisis may fall through."
Twelve points! That is a .1% change in an index of thirty stocks. It is just a little, random wiggle. Half-an-hour later, the Dow was up one point. The business reported did not offer an opinion as to whether those worries had disappeared.
* Sometimes there are sensible explanations, like when the Dow sinks 500 points because Greece just went bankrupt, or something like that. What was funny was that the media attempted to explain every little wiggle as if there was an equally obvious cause.
Those Peaceful Libertarians
Like Becky Akers over at LewRockwell.com. First, you de-humanize your opponents by turning them into "goons" instead of fathers and mothers with kids and dreams, just like the rest of us. This paves the way for the "second American revolution" that Akers wants. After which... well, Akers' job is not to make recipes for the cook shops of the future, now, is it?
This Will Trick Them
I sometimes watch some really terrible movies. I tend to have trouble falling asleep without something to distract me: I lie awake thinking of blog posts for you, my faithful readers. One good solution is to put on a movie, the more mindless the better, and knock off while watching it. To that end, I found myself watching the awful made-for-TV movie, The Return of Alex Kelly. Now, this movie held more interest for me than would otherwise have been the case, because the crimes Kelly committed took place in the town next to the one where I grew up*, and my father supervised the prosecution of his case. (Statism runs deep in my blood: besides my father's position, my uncle was Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, and my great-grandfather has a highway named after him for his work as New York City Housing Commissioner.)
But here is something that really puzzled me: the makers of the film used the real name of Kelly's town, "Darien," and the real state name, &…
Those Paul Haters!
Over at LewRockwell.com it is well known that Reason Magazine hates Ron Paul. Well, the case is closed: Nick Gillespie has just written yet another Reason-sponsored attack piece on Paul for The Washington Post. Will you just look at the hatred poring out of Gillespie's pen? Gives me the willies!
Eric Voegelin on Max Weber
"I should stress that one important... influence of Max Weber was the range his comparative knowledge. So far as I am concerned, Weber established once and for all that one cannot be a successful scholar in the field of social and political science unless one knows what one is talking about. And that means acquiring the comparative civilizational knowledge not only of modern civilization but also of medieval and ancient civilization, and not only of Western civilization, but also of Near Eastern and Far Eastern civilizations. That also means keeping that knowledge up to date through contact with the specialist sciences in the various fields. Anybody who does not do that has no claim to call himself an empiricist and certainly is defective in competence as a scholar in this field." -- Autobiographical Reflections, p. 40-41.
Today, we have declined to the point that a prominent economist can ask me "Who was Alexander the Great?" and "Who came first, the Greeks …
A Brief Case for Universalism
I've just started thinking about this, so it's very rough at this point, but here goes:
1) Christ died to save everyone.
2) But if he didn't save everyone, he failed.
3) God cannot attempt something and fail.
4) Therefore, Christ did save everyone.
5) But how can this be just? Mother Teresa acted good and suffered, while I know a bastard who has done nothing but enjoy himself. If they both are immediately saved, that is unjust, isn't it? And God is just.
6) Therefore, it is not the case that both are immediately saved. The sinner must continue to suffer until he repents. So, if he hasn't repented at death...
7) To reconcile universalism and justice, we require something like purgatory or reincarnation.
8) Hey, not so fast! What about "eternal damnation"? That one is easy: "Eternity" is not a long stretch of time, it is removed from time. Every instant that one is damned is an eternity of damnation!
9) Conclusion: Everyone will be saved. However…
Vebeln Explains the Popularity of Rough-Hewed Wood
Rough-hewed, rustic pieces of furniture, log houses, and so forth have been increasingly popular of late. Let us turn to Thorstein Veblen for an explanation.
Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption says that,for some goods, part of the utility gained from the good is that gained by showing off the fact that you can consume goods that are that costly. (Nothing in his theory contradicts the findings of the marginal utility school; it only posits a special source of utility sometimes in operation.) Now, in the old days, to enjoy conspicuous consumption in your furniture meant having exquisitely detailed pieces in your home or office, hand-made by highly skilled artisans. Peasants had rough-hewed furniture that they made themselves, or that was built for them by a poor craftsmen.
But today, a factory can turn out finely detailed pieces which only a trained eye can distinguish from a handmade piece. Therefore, if you want to show off how much you can afford to pay for your furnitur…
Does the Bible Tell Us to Take Everything in the Bible as LIterally Inerrant?
"Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything..." -- Thessalonians 5:20-21
I'd say that is a "no."
So it turns out that Jon Corzine just plain lost track of $1.2 billion. It's bad enough having to explain that to Congress, but imagine the day he had to tell his wife:
"I had it in my overcoat pocket, honey, and then I took everything out and stuck it on top of the top dresser. I mean, there were a couple of business cards, some receipts, my lighter, a comb... and I think the $1.2 billion was in with those other things. But when I looked in the morning... it wasn't there! You didn't see the maid in the bedroom, did you?"
What Made the Print?
It's in the asphalt of the parking lot at Milford Beach. It's about twice as big as my hand. It sure doesn't look like a bear track. (http://bear.org/website/bear-pages/black-bear/black-bear-sign/51-bear-tracks-and-trails.html -- sorry no link, I'm blogging from my phone.) A gorilla?
Who Needs a Clothes Dryer?
When a clothes line does the job just fine?
Does This Aggression Call for an Intervention?
There is a couple at the next table at the cafe, having lunch together. The guy has been going on about how the president of Iran has called for "exterminating the Israelis." Of course, this has shown to be a lie manytimes, and it's a dangerous lie, since it is a pretext for a war with Iran that might kill millions of people.
So, what would you do? Do you interrupt these strangers' lunch to stop the spread of this vicious rumor? Or let them eat in peace, and figure correcting the error with just this one person is only a drop in the bucket, and not worth the breach of etiquette involved in intervening?
Magical Super-People
I know, this is old, but I thought of it again in the car yesterday, and it still cracks me up, so I thought I should post it.
Here's Roderick Long on magical super-people:
While Robicheaux recognizes that government is “made up of people just like us,” she writes as though it is really made up instead of magical super-people, since she implies that ordinary people would be unable to perform tasks like road maintenance, food inspection, college instruction, and police protection without rulers giving orders. Other magical super-people that some folks believe in:
Architects: Some folks think ordinary people would be unable to design houses without them.
Brain surgeons: Some folks think ordinary people would be unable to hack away at a brain tumor without them.
Philosophers: Some folks think ordinary people would be unable to come up with crazy schemes like anarcho-capitalism without them. (Oh, wait, this last one is correct.)
Of course, no one thinks that any of these people are …
Has always been my policy. And second things second. But sometimes, when I'm feeling especially fey, I do third things fourth, and the fourth things third!
Don't tell.
"Now we must consider that some of the blessed philosophers of ancient times have found out the truth..." -- Plotinus
The way we study history, we usually get a block called "Ancient History" that we cover in the first month of "World History" in high school or "Western Civ" in college. After being rushed through a whole mess of material, most students probably have a view of what happened in "ancient times" something like, "After building the pyramids and leading the Jews out of Egypt, Julius Caesar studied for a time with Aristotle, and then conquered the Gauls. But when Caesar crucified Jesus, in revenge Brutus stabbed him to death (as documented by Brutus's friend Shakespeare). This caused the downfall of the Roman Empire, and led to the Dark Ages, when the Church would burn at the stake anyone whom it suspected of thinking, people believed the earth rested upon a giant flea on God's back, and everyone died of the bl…
Historical Idealism
"Historical idealism is thus opposed in principle to what we may call atomic realism. When the latter view is consistent with itself, it is forced to the conclusion that all relations are external, and that all significance and meaning are secondary and derivative, imposed upon the universe by subjective mind. For it is obvious that if the objective world is simply an aggregation of existences, in themselves devoid of meaning, the value and significance that is popularly ascribed to things when experienced really cannot belong to the things themselves, but must be taken as indicating the way in which they affect the mind through their influence upon the bodily organism.
"In opposition, then, to types of thought which may be denominated 'realistic,' and which seek to exhibit the construction of the concrete world from certain hypothetical elements, speculative idealism may be said to be characterized by the conscious effort to understand things as they are: to see to…
An Austrian Lost to the History of Thought...
Daniel Kuehn is right and wrong: Hayek has not been a key figure in the history of macroeconomic thought. But Kuehn goes astray in thinking that "has not been" means "is not."
Let us recall another Austrian scientist who was absolutely nobody in the history of his science. Well, until his work was revisited, and he is now seen as a giant in the field.
I'm not claiming this will happen with Hayek. Rather, my point is to note something about history: all real historical work is "revisionist history": if you aren't revising something we previously thought about the past, you haven't done anything original, have you? Historians of economic thought are no different: look at Sowell's great work in rehabilitating Sismondi. So, it could very well be the case that Hayek has not been important in the history of macroeconomic thought, but from now on he will be.
Conswervepedia
Thoreau already had a go at this, but I have to note one more piece of idiocy:
"The theory of relativity is a mathematical system that allows no exceptions. It is heavily promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to mislead people in how they view the world.
1) Do they even realize that the classical physics which they like has its own theories of relativity?
2) How much time does, say, Paul Krugman, E.J. Dionne, or Maureen Dowd spend "heavily promoting" the theory of relativity? Has anyone ever seen any prominent liberal who does this?
3) But yes, a few nitwits have, on occasion, linked Einstein's theory of relativity to moral or cultural relativism. The right thing to do, in that case, is note they are being nitwits, and point out that Einstein's theory of relativity, in fact, posits universal and determinate physical laws holding for everyone, and has nothing to do with any notion like, "It all depends on how…
In Space, No One Can Hear You...
recite the 50 eskimo words for snow.
Berkeley Was Not Anti-Realist! Idealists Do Not Reject an Objective World!
Reading a nice history of idealism called Idealism: The History of a Philosophy (Dunham, Grant, Watson). The authors spend some time refuting the very common notions that:
1) Berkeley was an anti-realist; and
2) Idealism "denies physical reality" (or the external world, or something of the sort).
The authors note "that idealism is the position that reality is mind-dependent has proved extraordinarily resilient to correction... As with the anti-realism charge, [idealism's] deep claim about universal-mindedness is not destructive, but rather constitutive of reality..." (p. 4)
Another false claim about idealists is that "philosophers committed to the mind-dependent existence of entities cannot maintain, it is held, the existence of physical reality." To the contrary, the authors assert, "We know of no idealist for whom this is true." (p. 5)
Moore famously contended that "Idealism is certainly meant to assert (1) that the universe is very …
Idealism and History
Now, to understand that history is a real, self-contained discipline, one must not, like Fukuyama, pretend to see the world as a heap of disconnected "brute facts." (No one really sees the world that way, or they couldn't walk down the street. But they may adopt a philosophical stance pretending that they do. Remember, as Collingwood wrote, ‘A person may think he is a poached egg; that will not make him one: but it will affect his conduct, and for the worse.’) It is because the world is intelligible, and facts are not atomic by internally related, that we can follow a narrative and understand how one concrete event leads to another. And the philosophy that says the world is that way is Idealism.
Of course, admitting that the world is inherently intelligible is something most modern philosophers have been loathe to do. Because once you start thinking that way, you might start to wonder if there is a reason it is inherently intelligible. And you know where thinking like t…
We Are What We Think We Are?
Even though it can (sort of) perch, it still can't fly.
OK, I Was Wrong
If Newt Gingrich is leading the GOP presidential race, Ron Paul can win. I think Richard Nixon might even be able to win.
Fukuyama Does Not Understand That Historical Thought Exists
"A lot of historical writing has been characterized as ODTAA -- 'one damn thing after another' -- without and effort to extract general rules or causal theories that can be applied to other circumstances." -- The Origins of Political Order, p. 22
Here, Fukuyama's positivism blinds him to the existence of historical thinking in toto. If one has not drawn a causal theory or general rule from some series of incidents, all one has is a heap of uncollected facts. In fact, starting with such a heap, it would be impossible to ever get to a general rule or causal theory: one would have no idea whatsoever what facts to even start trying to bring under such groupings. No, events are first understood in their concreteness, as bearing internal relations to each other, before anyone could possibly abstract from them. Only once there is a coherent narrative can the construction of general, abstract theories begin.
Fukuyama is stuck in the 1920s in the philosophy of science, w…
The Things We Assume
The hardest parts of our own belief systems for us to realize are there are the things we unconsciously assume. For instance, look at this comment from another post (and I don't mean to pick on the commentator here -- we all have such unwitting assumptions!):
"Do you think Feser is saying that (1) the agency choices in a libertarian society permit people to purse vulgar choices, (2) it is unjust to support a system in which many people are making vulgar choices, and (3) we *should* [since we should pursue justice], override property rights to close off some of those vulgar choices?"
Note well point three -- it assumes that there is a right to, say, distribute pornography, but Feser thinks that there is something else important that allows him (or the government he wishes to have, the proper authorities, etc.) to override this right in the interest of this other good.
Well, I will boldly speak for Feser here, and bet you 100-to-1 that that isn't the way he looks at t…
Viva la Revolucion!
I have taken these bushes as hostages. If my demands are not met by the end of this week... Well, let's just say it will involve hedge shears, and it won't be pretty.
The Division of Labour Is Limited by the Extent of the Market
I am looking for a vendor of jewelry-making supplies. (Shh, don't tell Bob M., but I'm making him a little something special for under his tree!) I'm currently in Milford, PA, and I can't find anything within about a 30-mile radius around my house. I called my wife and asked her if she knew of anything like that in Brooklyn. Of course, there is just such a shop about ten blocks from my house.
Now That the Villain, Government, Has Appeared on the Scene
"As an Auyana man living in New Guinea under the Pax Australiana put it, 'Life was better since the government came' because 'a man could now eat without looking over his should and could leave his house in the morning to urinate without fear of being shot.'" -- Stephen Pinker
(Hat tip to Ryan Murphy.)
"Human violence started dropping thousands of years ago with the formation of the first states, Dr. Pinker argues. For evidence, he points to archaeological studies and observations of stateless societies today. With the birth of the first states, rates of violence began to fall, and they have dropped in fits and starts ever since."
(H/t to Pete Booetke.)
Well, comments have been moving through the moderation system here as slowly as Murphy passes his Thanksgiving dinner. For some reason, only a few are showing up in my mailbox, while the rest sit, unannounced, inside the Blogger system. My apologies.
What logical fallacy is committed in the following passage? Pedro? Bueller? Bueller?
It is, however, tediously easy for people who write columns, ministers who preach sermons, or those who are generally comfortable with their jobs or finances to look down on the rushing mobs grabbing electronics from Wal-Mart shelves. When it comes to consumerism, there exists a tendency to blame the customers for bad behavior and greed.
Of course, they are greedy people everywhere, those who will do anything to gain advantage for themselves at the expense of others—people who live in a soulless world of material possessions. But the oddest thing about the folks in lines at those discount stores: They are mostly poor, working class, or marginally middle class. These are the very people who attend church regularly, express higher levels of belief in God, and are more likely to give a higher percentage of their income to those in need. Indeed, nearly every survey in religion shows that the …
People like Bob Murphy keep saying things like, 'It’s funny how the various objections to Ron Paul as a “serious” candidate keep falling away.' Oddly, though, the basic facts that make me think Paul has no chance of winning the GOP nomination look exactly like what they looked like eight months ago. Check out Real Clear Politics, which compiles lots of good political data. There you can see that Paul's campaign cannot get him lastingly above 10% in the national polls. He loses to Obama worse than does Romney. Paul is running fourth in Iowa, third in New Hampshire, and fifth in South Carolina, with only about 5% of the vote.
And in the national polls, he is just sitting there: no movement at all for months. He is now better known, but the plain fact is, most GOP voters don't like what they see! They think Obama is too soft on Iran and is selling out Israel, which are big reasons why they want a Republican president, and they see Paul as even worse on both issues. (And …
Modern Capitalism Doesn't Pander to People's Basest Motives
No, really! Move along, nothing to see here.
"lo villanello... si leva, e guarda, e vede la campagnia biancheggiar tutta..." -- Dante, Divine Comedy, Canto XXIV
"the peasant... gets up, looks around outdoors, and sees the countryside all white..." -- Stanley Applebaum
So "guarda" apparently means "looks around outdoors"! Or perhaps, Dr. Applebaum, Dante felt it was unnecessary to mention that the peasant was looking outdoors, given that what he sees is the friggin' countryside, something he wouldn't have seen if he had been looking in his cupboard or basement, or into the bottom of a glass.
Anne McCaffrey is dead. Her NY Timesobituary contains the following sentence:
"But the immense commercial success of Dragonriders of Pern more than outweighed any criticism."
Hmm, so what exactly is the equation that balances the errors critics spot (one critic accused her of "awkward similes" and "formulaic descriptions") against sales? One thousand copies sold negates one awkward simile?
is an illusion:
"And it is very difficult to believe that [laissez faire] best promotes happiness in Aristotle’s sense of the term. For the market maximizes the satisfaction, not of all preferences, but rather of those backed by the most spending power. It is bound, then, to cater to the most vulgar tastes and passions – which are, by definition, the most common and thus the ones most people will pay to satisfy – rather than to more refined sensibilities. And since on an Aristotelian conception an individual’s moral character – his characteristic habits and sensibilities – is inevitably deeply influenced by the character types and sensibilities prevailing in the society around him, it follows that a commercial society is one in which the sort of refined moral character that most fully manifests the realization of human potentialities, and thus most fully guarantees human happiness, is bound to be very rare and difficult to achieve. But then, since on a classical Aristotelia…
"All right, but apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
So, in part I of our series, we established that the proposition "Involuntary exchange always makes at least one participant worse off," is only true with certainty ex ante. Ex post, we can only say, "Well, it seems likely that the proposition is true, but we can have no certainty about it -- there surely will be exceptions." (If you recall, I got the libertarian trifecta agreeing with me here: Mises, Rothbard, and Murphy all concur that this statement is only apodictically true ex ante.)
This is an important initial result to establish along the way to debunking a second libertarian slogan as demonstrably false:
"The government doesn’t create resources or wealth, it simply redistributes them." (Now, don't tell me this slogan is a straw man!) What can this mean?
The day before Thanksgiving:
From an article on seasteading:
"but the duo envisions the top platform holding buildings, gardens, solar panels, wind turbines and (of course) satellites for internet access."
Although I have been critical of methodological individualism, if I thought the only alternative were social holism, I'd be down with MI! Bruce Caldwell, in fact, explains Hayek's early adherence to MI in just that way: the alternative was much worse!
Consider, if you dare, this example from David Brooks:
"At this moment of crisis, it is obvious how little moral solidarity undergirds the European pseudostate. Americans in Oregon are barely aware when their tax dollars go to Americans in Arizona. We are one people with one shared destiny."
Say what? How is it, exactly, that the American people have a "shared destiny"? Are we all destined to be saved or damned together? To become rich or poor together? If you hit the lottery, do I win too? If I get a Nobel Prize, will I split the credit 300 million ways? Other than "Let me think of something rousing and pro-American sounding to shove in here," was Brooks thinking anything at all?
Now that I am an evil statist.
In any case, I continue to get a kick out of, while simultaneously being annoyed by, people from the trollosphere who post comments like this:
ME: Well, Heisenberg said quantum mechanics does have such implications.
TROLL: Ah, the old appeal to authority fallacy!
These people have never even bothered to understand what constitutes this fallacy. They simply have taken it on authority that there is such a fallacy, and, given its name, they think they must know what it means.
But the real name of the fallacy should be something like "Appeal to Illegitimate Authority." To quote an authority:
"This fallacy is committed when the person in question is not a legitimate authority on the subject."
waiting for someone to back out of a parking space.
He was such an oddity. All of the earlier formulas for calculating π involved mostly simple numbers. But look at Ramanujan's:
It makes sense that someone who instantly could see what a special number 1729 is could come up with a formula like the above.
At my house:
ME: Eamon, did you wash the stainless steel pan?
EAMON: Well, Dad, I sure gave it the old Byzantine rubdown.
Ed Feser provides it, to those who object to, say, me, when my God is not the God of the man on the street:
"It is no good replying that lots of ordinary religious people conceive of God in all sorts of crude ways at odds with the sophisticated philosophical theology developed by classical theists – ways that make of God something like a glorified Thor or Zeus. The 'man on the street' also believes all sorts of silly things about science – that Darwinism claims that monkeys gave birth to human beings, say, or that molecules are made up of little balls and sticks. But it would be preposterous for someone to pretend he had landed a blow against Darwinism or modern chemistry by attacking these silly straw men. Similarly, what matters in evaluating classical theism is not what your Grandpa or your Pastor Bob have to say about it, but rather what serious thinkers like Aristotle, Plotinus, Athanasius, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Avicenna, Averroes, Maimonides, and countless…
"Involuntary exchange always makes at least one participant worse off." Well, this is only half nonsense. Of course, ex ante, it is true: if both parties believed the exchange would make them better off, it could be done voluntarily. (Query: But what about the case where I stealthily perform the exact exchange with you that you would have voluntarily made?) But ex post? Then it certainly is nonsense. A simple example: When my children were young, I made them brush their teeth. There was nothing voluntary about it. Now, years later, they have good teeth and have established a good habit. They are much better off because of this involuntary exchange. I could generates hundreds of examples like this quite easily, but you get the point.
UPDATE: As noted in the comments, the brightest libertarians (generally) get this right. Mises certainly would not have demurred from my conclusion -- as he liked to say, "Many a slip twixt cup and lip," meaning, like they say in t…
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Welcome to Georgia First, the website of Georgia's own champion of liberty... Ray McBerry!
Our Candidate Is Vindicated!
Over the past two months, Ray has come under personal attack by lies and false allegations. We knew that it was because of the growing success of our Campaign across the state and the fact that Ray continues to win every debate. What we did not have were answers to some of the questions about those making the allegations; we knew that at least some of it was politically motivated. Now we know the rest.
Launch The Signed Affidavit from Roger Burgess
The story of those making the allegations has continued to change, even to the media covering the story.
The affidavit attached here is from only one of the witnesses that have come forward at this time.
The affidavit attached shows malice in that there was a premeditated attempt to do damage to Ray's campaign for Governor.
The affidavit attached shows that one of the motives behind these lies and allegations was money.
The affidavit shows the character of those making the allegations to be of the most lewd and base sort and should raise doubt about credibility in the mind of anyone, even without the other information included.
There is and will continue to be an ongoing investigation into all personal assets, as well as any income or gifts which may have been derived from these false allegations.
There are more details which will become available at a later point.
When asked for comment about these new revelations in the affidavit, Ray responded, "It was my belief that, at some point, God would bring something to light that would explain the changes in this story since eight years ago, as well as explain the motive for these changes; I am just glad that it happened as soon as it did. Our Campaign in the Governor's race is going very well, and I am grateful for our many supporters across the state who have continued to work hard in spite of these personal attacks. We knew these kind of attacks would come because of my strong conservative stand."
Libel Suits
Furthermore, three individuals were notified by certified letter this week that they are now subjects of libel suits. A team of attorneys from across the state have all examined the evidence and are in agreement that, even with the greater burden of proof necessary to prove libel against a public figure, this is an open and shut case. The three individuals have each been given specific directives that they are to follow; their immediate obedience and subsequent actions will be taken into consideration by Ray as to how he wishes to proceed in each case following his election.
At least one more individual will be the subject of a libel case following the election, as well, with two others currently being considered.
A Time for Action
Our detractors believed that they could derail our Campaign with their lies and personal attacks. At least one of our opponents has joined in with them, much to her own detriment across the state.
Ray has continued his tireless schedule, even winning two more debates in LaGrange and Statesboro since these attacks began. And our team of tireless volunteers has stepped it up a notch all across the state. McBerry for Governor signs continue to pop up everywhere in huge numbers, many of our volunteers have begun door-to-door canvassing in their areas, and contributions have begun coming in for radio and television commercials to broadcast during the final month leading up to the primary.
The personal attacks may or may not continue, but one thing is sure... our Campaign WILL continue. Some of our detractors, including disaffected former volunteers, have vowed that they will not allow Ray to win this race even if they must continue to make up allegations. Our opponents are afraid! They see how quickly our message of "States' Rights" is spreading and how well Ray is received every time that he speaks! The people of Georgia deserve to have a Constitutional Conservative for whom to vote -- someone that the liberal media, the downtown Atlanta establishment, and the moderates in the GOP can NOT control. That candidate is Ray McBerry!
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PEN World Voices / Rattapallax
International Film Feast in NYC, April 29
Above: A flyer front I designed recently for Ram Devineni, Rattapallax Editor and Founder. Images, from top to bottom, are stills from two featured films, Unfed by Jason Lam, and Some Days, by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. (See his film below.)
The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast
With Antonello Faretta and John Giorno; introduced by Ram Devineni.
April 29, 6–9PM. “Free and open to the public. No reservations. Join us for an exciting Festival first—a program of literary short films and documentaries curated by Ram Devineni and copresented by Rattapallax.
The roster of films includes an animated version of Sylvia Plath’s classic poem “Mirror Talk,” Sherman Alexie’s “49?,” a tribute to writer/composer Paul Bowles, selections of literary films from Brazilian musician and poet Arnaldo Antunes, and interpretations of Gertrude Stein poems by hip-hop artists Jean Grae and DJ Spooky. The evening will conclude with a screening of Antonello Faretta’s Nine Poems in Basilicata and an onstage conversation between Faretta and the subject of the film, Beat poet John Giorno, who was also the subject of Andy Warhol’s 1963 film Sleep.”
This event is part of the larger PEN WORLD VOICES festival of international literature featuring 170 writers, 51 countries, and 82 events coming to venues across New York City, April 29-May 4th, 2008.
Above: A flyer alternative front for Rattapallax. Images, from top to bottom, are stills from two films, Some Days, by Billy Collins, and Unfed by Jason Lam.
Above: Flyer detail from the back, for Rattapallax.
Above: Some Days by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. See a related post on Elisabeth Workman’s continuing series, Site Q.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 from 6-9pm at Goethe-Institut, 1014 Fifth Ave., New York City. FREE. [ more info ]
Sponsored by Rattapallax and PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature. This event was funded in part by Experimental Television Center, New York State Council on the Arts, and Poets & Writers, Inc. through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
PEN WORLD VOICES is a festival of international literature featuring 170 writers, 51 countries, and 82 events coming to venues across New York City, April 29-May 4th, 2008. Don’t miss six days of exciting literary exchange with conversations, panel discussions, readings, film screenings, a translation slam and a cabaret night! For a complete schedule of events, go to: http://www.pen.org/festival
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i really like the flyers but i Love the typographic “flyer detail from the back”
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Cheers, Lejla!
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Love it! It’s soo you!
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ISBHF World Championship XIII – President George Gortsos
Heading off to Slovakia for the 13thISBHF World Championships makes me fully understand that we are continuing our legacy and heritage in the historical epi-center of this sport. Time is flying by and it will soon be the championship Saturday before we even know it!
2019 also marks the fourth time this event will be held in Slovakia. In 1996, I was a player in the very first World Championships in Bratislava. In 1999 I was a rookie coach in Zvolen as the Slovaks led by Peter Babak, the late Pavol Demitra and today’s host President Jozef Stumpel beat us in overtime. In 2011, I watched from afar as a fan, when the Slovaks hosted in Bratislava.
George rallying the troops at the 2009 World Championships in Pilsen, Czech Republic
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Today, the Slovaks take the mantle as the leader in hosting ISBHF World Championships in the city of Kosice. And I will be there in an Executive capacity, working with the Organizing Committee, the Slovak Federation led by President Stumpel, and our ISBHF event team and game staff. Kosice is a fabulous city, it has a growing ball hockey community, and will be great home to the 20 national teams setting their sights on their journey to display their talents, learn about this historic city and vie for gold.
Our ISBHF historical legacy continues to build. And make no mistake – it is you, the players, coaches, referees and volunteers of our ISBHF family that continue to build it with your amazing dedication and desire to challenge yourselves against the best in the world. You know this is the place, and the only place to do so. It has been for every ball hockey player since 1996 to today. You want to be the best. Only at the ISBHF World Championships can you make that statement. That has not changed for 23 years and will not change for the future.
In 1996, we had 7 national teams, of which only 3 had domestic leagues and national championships in our sport, and which only a men’s event. Fast forward to 2019: we have both Men’s and Women’s, and 15 of the 20 teams in our event play domestically on the ground in the nations they represent. This is a great number that continues to grow quickly. And of course, the total above does not include nations of France, Austria, Germany, New Zealand, South Korea, Falkland Islands, India and many others, who presently have leagues and players playing on the ground in these nations, and are a part of our ever-growing ISBHF Family of nations. The list is growing quickly, and with new members in Africa, this is a fantastic sign for our sport and the ISBHF.
The list must continue to grow for us to reach our goals to get this sport moving even higher in the panorama of world sports. Even the few nations that have not reached that domestic league status must meet ISBHF protocols. But more importantly. as we move forward, the ISBHF will be meeting with all national representatives to ensure we have the essentials in place for the sport, the players, the future.
A constitution, nationally elected board, annual meetings, strategic 3-year plan and audited financial accounts are essential factors that we will ask all of our national organisations to aspire to. This will prepare us to build our stable of national sporting organisations as we move forward to the Olympic elevator. That is the work we are doing and have a vision to complete. The linkage is very important as we attend key GAISF meetings and have communication with the important players as we work, step by step, to attain our ultimate goal.
The work is being driven by your new and youthful ISBHF Board of Directors. This group has a new perspective and is very tightly knit. At the same time, we have also developed key strategic ISBHF committees that have many key leaders from all nations that make their contribution to us hitting the highest of goals. These committees are strategically built to move us forward by building foundations of success and involve about 50 of the most passionate voices of our sport, banding together to work as one. Again, this group of people is working for today and the ISBHF of tomorrow.
We have named the first woman to our ISBHF Board of Directors in Jenny Hehir of Great Britain, and we are more than proud that she comes from our ever-growing U.K. family. We have created our first ISBHF Women’s Outreach Committee, which is predominantly represented by national team athletes. Combined with our GAISF, International Development, Coaching, Marketing, Technical and 3 on 3 Committees, this is simply called building a model of good governance. At our ISBHF Semi-Annual Meeting on June 22nd, we will ask if anyone else from our ISBHF family would like to join in our committees and add to the talent and skill that is the good ship of ISBHF, to help build the framework of our sport as we head into the next phase of our history.
Jenny Hehir – Board of Director Representing Great Britain
Only in the ISBHF, we say with confidence, “The authority of the great game” and this type of vision and good governance practice is happening. And we are just getting stronger, as we strive for the higher ground of that Olympic elevator we want to reach for the players of today and tomorrow.
See you in Kosice for the 13th World Championships.
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Insurance for gangsters - Families insuring the lives of members of the criminal underworld a growing trend
Published:Sunday | October 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Notorious gangster Marlon ‘Duppy Flim’ Perry was recently fatally shot by the police but it is not known if his life had been insured.
It appears a new trend is developing where relatives of notorious gunmen are taking out life insurance policies on them.
The Sunday Gleaner has learnt that senior officers in the East Kingston Police Division were left stunned two weeks ago when they received a letter from an insurance company requesting verification of the death of a man they had listed among the division's top gangsters.
According to the police sources, while they could confirm that the gangster, whose name is being withheld, was killed, they could not confirm the relatives' claim as to when and where he was killed.
"We know that he is dead. Our information is that he got shot in a yard ... and we went to KPH (Kingston Public Hospital) and saw his body," said a senior officer close to the investigation.
"Where his relatives reported that the incident happened, we don't have any reports of anything happening at that location, and we had police officers there at the time," added the cop.
He said the alleged gangster's infuriated mother turned up at the station challenging the police as to why they had not responded to the insurance company so that she could be paid.
"The instruction from the company was asking us to confirm the place and time of death and send a response directly to it, but we cannot send a response to the company if we don't know where and when the incident happened," said the officer.
Not unusual
He said that decision did not go down well with the mother who is anxious to collect her money.
Last week, Orville Johnson, executive director of the Insurance Association of Jamaica, and a representative of one of the island's leading insurance companies said it was not unusual for them to request death reports from the police.
"Insurance companies do not frivolously request police reports. If there is a request for a police report, then there is usually a good reason why the claims department is making such a request," said Johnson.
"Part of the job of the claims departments is to ensure that a claim is just," added Johnson.
In the meantime, a senior police officer told our news team that he is convinced that the practice of relatives taking out insurance policies for their unruly relatives is a growing one.
"We have at least two instances where this is the case, and based on observation and enquiries, it seems to be a trend where family members are opening insurance policies for relatives who are involved in criminality," said the officer who asked not to be named.
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The Collected Nightmares – Book Review
by Brian James Lewis | Oct 28, 2019 | Book Reviews, Hellnotes Reviews | 0 comments
THE COLLECTED NIGHTMARES
Fred Wiehe
Black Bed Sheet/Diverse Media
Reviewed by Brian James Lewis
Hello there, horror fans! Are you familiar with the saying, “No Rest For The Wicked?” Well, it seems to be a maxim that Fred Wiehe applies to his work. He may not be wicked, but he definitely knows how to write about those who are. The Collected Nightmares, recently released by Black Bed Sheet Books, is vast! We’re talking nearly 500 pages that include two novellas, twelve short stories, and seventeen poems. This author is not one to rest upon his laurels. The reason? Pain caused by an accident and the acid rain that lands on the injured party in multiple forms, all of which Wiehe has noted for us in the heartfelt intro.
This might sound odd, but I especially enjoy works written by those who deal with pain on the daily. It isn’t because I’m some cruel bastard who gets a cheap thrill from the suffering of others. No, it’s more the feeling of meeting another member of the tribe I belong to as well. Suffering chronic pain puts a drive into a creative person like nothing else. Not even love can surpass the determination to leave a legacy and the chance to escape into another world, like the misery of pain does. Next to that is the anger hanging onto pain’s coattails. You’ve got to express that shit somehow or go mad. Wiehe’s fierce prose and valiant poetry are red hot with that expression. Ready to dig The Collected Nightmares? Then hold onto your hats, we’re going in!
“Pretender” starts us off on the right foot as we follow author Frank Lester who is running late for his own book signing on Halloween. At first, he is jazzed about being in Barnes & Noble, but elation dies quickly when someone tells him that his father dropped by. Many of us would be cheered by the prospect of at least one friendly face in the crowd, but that’s not the case for Frank. His father is dead, so how the hell could he pop into any store, let alone talk to a clerk? Looks like somebody has attempted a prank in very poor taste, but why? As the story progresses, spirits and Halloween customs assert themselves. Could a mask help Frank escape what’s coming after him? Perhaps giving out Soul Cakes in the more modern form of candies will appease the demons? Frank keeps hearing, seeing, and smelling clues. Is it just his imagination or signs of impending doom? Just when you thought Halloween was scary enough, Wiehe shakes your sanity. Intense!
Right after that fine piece of fiction, we read “Penny’s Song,” the first of many poems in this volume. Short, sharp, and frightening, Wiehe’s poetry adds much flavor to The Collected Nightmares. These are powerful poems that tell us a lot about Fred and definitely express some of that anger I mentioned. A good example is “Not Dead,” which features the phrase:
The pain is always a part of me
From it I am never free
There’s a lot more to this poem that I want you to read and appreciate. This is one of the best and most direct poems about what it’s like to keep your life, but not yourself as the result of events beyond your control. That, friends, is real life horror. We don’t want others to feel sorry for us. Hell, we don’t even know how we feel about you. Just understand that we are different now and there’s no chance of turning back even if we could. “Rebirth” and “Succubus” are full on terror about creatures of the night.
“Shoot Me” is a frightening flash piece that will surprise readers and is a heartfelt piece of writing. “The Collection” is a great slam against those bullies and mean people mentioned in the introduction. It’s a pleasure to see that their money can’t protect them and their bullshit reputations all the time! There are creatures out there who only want one thing, no substitutions. You can whine all you want, Mr. Applebee! See you soon! “My Only Daddy” is a frightening tale with a sharp twist. The narrator becomes alarmed when his son starts talking to people he can’t see and acting out. Surely this is not the little boy he and his wife raised? Well, his wife is gone now, due to mysterious causes. While the man is doing his best, his son ramps up the odd behavior. A stop must be put to this and there’s only one way to do it! But was it the right one?
One story in particular really stands out as a frightening fable about those who hurt others for fun. “The Reckoning” is beautifully written with just the right amount of terror mixed with a very important message. When a group of girls who take lessons at a riding stable start insulting the girl who works there cleaning stalls, things get out of hand fast. Yelling turns to violence and it looks like somebody might even die. The stable’s owner jumps into action, but instead of shouting at the girls or threatening to tell their parents, he insists they listen to a story. This isn’t just any old fairy tale, either. No way, this is a true story and what it reveals is chilling.
The Collected Nightmares is a genuine 5 STAR READ! Fred Wiehe should feel damn proud of what he’s accomplished here and we’re fortunate that he’s decided to stay among us and challenge our brains with his words. I really enjoyed his twisted tales and think you will, too! Fred Wiehe is a professional author and a member of the Horror Writers Association who’s written many popular books including Aleric: Monster Hunter. Be sure to follow him at: http://www.fredwiehe.com. Black Bed Sheet Books has done a great job in producing such a powerful read and I also really dig the cover art. Want to learn more about them and the other cool titles they offer? Then visit their website at: www.blackbedsheetbooks.com. They even have the only authorized biography of the legendary Vincent Price by the master himself!
About Brian James Lewis
Brian James Lewis is a published poet and writer who enjoys reviewing speculative fiction and dark poetry. With all the great emerging writers, magazines, and presses, it is exciting to be part of this growing community! Word of mouth and keyboard is more important than it’s ever been, because readers want to know about books before they buy. It makes Brian feel great to see writers he’s reviewed become successful and their work go on to win awards! Whatever happens, he’s always glad to offer encouragement and increase visibility of writers who trust him with their work. You can catch up with Brian on Twitter @skullsnflames76 or on his WordPress blog damagedskullwriterandreviewer.com
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Risk Factors for Death in Patients with Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
Soo-youn Moon, M.D.1, Mi Suk Lee, M.D.1, Jun Seong Son, M.D.1, Hee Joo Lee, M.D.2 and Sang-Oh Lee, M.D.1
Department of Internal Medicine1 and Department of Laboratory Medicine2, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul Korea
Vol.40 Num.3 (p148~153)
Background:Staphylococcus aureus is a common cause of severe infection and frequently results in death or disability. We investigated potential risk factors influencing clinical outcome in S. aureus bacteremia (SAB).
Materials and Methods:Our study is based on retrospective chart review for episodes of SAB from 168 patients, identified between January 2003 and December 2005. Twenty patients were excluded: 2 patients with infective endocarditis and 18 patients with metastatic lesions. Demographic, underlying diseases, sources of SAB, antimicrobial therapy, laboratory, and microbiologic characteristics were identified. Outcome was classified as death or survival 12 weeks after onset of SAB.
Results:A total of 97 patients had survived and 51 patients died 12 weeks after the onset of SAB. Death group was older (66.4�13.6 vs. 59.4�14.9 years, P=0.007) and had higher Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II system score (17.5�6.3 vs. 13.5�5.1, P<0.001) and the acute physiology score (11.1�5.5 vs. 8.0�4.3, P<0.001). Patients with nosocomial SAB (36 (70.6%) vs. 49 (50.5%), P=0.03] and ineradicable primary source of SAB [46 (90.2%) vs. 66 (68.0%), P=0.005] were more vulnerable to death. Multivariate analysis shows that hospital acquisition [adjusted odds ratio (OR)=2.93], ineradicable primary source (adjusted OR=5.74) and high APACHE II score (adjusted OR=1.22) lead to higher mortality rate from SAB.
Conclusion:Our study shows hospital acquisition, ineradicable primary source, and high APACHE II score are the risk factors related to death from SAB. On the other hand, methicillin resistance or initially ineffective antimicrobial therapy is not much correlated with mortality rate from SAB.
Keywords : Staphylococcus aureus, Bacteremia, Death, Risk factor
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Galapagos and mobile phones…
By Judith Scott | All News, Life, Travel, Whales | 5 Comments
I first joined Odyssey when she was in San Diego having a haul out and paint job. As a volunteer I donned overalls and was put to work with power tools and a varnish brush, helping to get the boat ready for her long voyage. My friends and I slept on the floor of some guy’s house and ate the most awful take-away fast food every night, but we were working on Dr Roger Payne’s research boat, so none of that mattered. This was almost twenty years ago and the attention the ladies on our volunteer team got from guys working in the boatyard was quite funny, they had never seen anything like it. A whole bunch of young women (and some guys too) working for nothing every day just for the chance of seeing whales. Why? They could not comprehend it.
We had a fun team with guys and gals. Here I am eating pizza, all dressed up with some of the lovely male volunteers.
I ended up becoming the varnisher, putting many, many layers of varnish over the teak table, handrail and other parts of this beautiful boat. Odyssey was built as a private yacht, so she was stunning, but she had to be made ready for slightly harder usage as a whale research boat about to sail around the world.
Sanding the propeller was my first real foray into the use of power tools!
We officially launched the voyage in Monterey, California sailing up there and I experienced my first battle (of many) with sea-sickness on board this beautiful, but rolly boat. On the way we saw grey whales and Dall’s porpoise, my first time seeing these Pacific species. Roger joined us on-board for the first time there and I was totally star-struck to meet him. We gave tours of our then state-of-the-art research sailing yacht and showed hundreds of people our tiny cabins, where many of us hoped to spend the next weeks and for some, months and years. After returning to San Diego to get her fully prepared, we finally slipped our lines off the dock with no one watching and headed out to sea; the first leg of the five year journey sailing from San Diego to the Galapagos Islands.
Me and my fellow whale watching volunteers turned Odyssey crew
As a thank you for all the hard work I had put in for no money, I got to join this part of the voyage just for fun. What an amazing experience. Yes, I did get HORRIBLY sea sick, but I was on Roger Payne’s research boat! What a privilege.
During that two weeks at sea I learned about real sailing, saw animals I had only dreamed of seeing, slept on deck rolling from side to side, and looked up at night skies that were totally without light pollution. Captain Bob Wallace, starting his third circumnavigation of the planet by boat, taught us about night watch, squalls and star gazing. We saw dolphins bow riding in phosphorescence at night, green dolphin shaped glows shooting through the water. On our way down we also managed to catch a turtle that had a fishing hook through its mouth around the bow. We were only alerted to this by a banging on the hull, and when we investigated we had sailed over the line and caught it around the front of the boat. This has to be the luckiest turtle alive as we were in open ocean, but once we got it up on deck we managed to cut away the hook and line and release the turtle back into the water.
An incredibly lucky escape for a green sea turtle, entangled in fishing gear, but finding us in open ocean to disentangle it.
Just north of the Galapagos we sailed across the equator and those of us who were Pollywogs (sailors who had not crossed the equator on a boat before) were brought before his highness King Neptune himself (aka Captain Bob Wallace) and subjected to a reasonably tame ceremony to become a Shellback. This is a seafaring tradition going back many years when sailors often also had their heads shaved and their ears pierced as the crossed the line. We just had old food thrown over us and were generally ridiculed, especially those of us who had already crossed the line, but on a plane, a heinous crime in the eyes of Neptune. After this we jumped in the ocean and swam across the equator in water thousands of metres deep, cleaning the food off our heads!
Paying our respects to King Neptune as we became Shellbacks, crossing the equator on a boat.
As we arrived into Galapagos we sailed close to Darwin’s arch, saw hammerhead sharks, breaching manta rays and a huge pod of bottlenose dolphins mixed with melon headed whales.
I was hooked. This was the ocean, adventure, travel, nature as well as whales and life didn’t feel like it would ever be quite the same again after experiencing this. I remember going home and not really feeling like I fitted in with friends anymore, who chatted about the new invention ‘mobile phones’ and what tunes they could play, while I dreamed of Galapagos and the ocean.
I ended up returning to the Odyssey a further three times after this, and so the adventure continues…
My lucky break- working for the Godfather of whale science
My big break into the whale world was certainly getting to work on the R/V Odyssey, Dr Roger Payne’s research sail boat. I still have to pinch myself that this actually happened. Roger was one of the scientists that first discovered humpback whales sing complex songs. This discovery in the late 1960s helped to elevate whales to being thought of more as intelligent mammals than huge, blubbery fish (which if course they are not) and this helped to kick-start the ‘save the whales’ movement, that culminated in the signing of the international moratorium to end commercial whaling in 1986.
One of my happiest memories, meeting Dr Roger Payne, the man who co-discovered humpback song and a hero of mine
As a child growing up loving whales, every documentary, book and film about whales usually featured Roger, as he was one of the first scientists studying wild whales. Even now, many films still feature his words. He is one of the most post poetic, poignant orators on whale conservation even now.
Although Roger’s amazing book Among Whales is quite old now, it still comes highly recommended. I only wish he had written more.
My internship at Cape Ann Whale Watch was affiliated with Roger’s non-profit Ocean Alliance and at the end of my time there we were told about the proposed Voyage of the Odyssey.
The Odyssey, our beautiful 93 foot ketch research boat.
The plan was a five year, round-the-world expedition to study sperm whales, and specifically the build-up of man-made chemicals within their blubber. Man-made chemicals dissolve in fat and not in water so when they enter the ocean, they end up collecting in the blubber of whales and dolphins. They enter at the bottom of the food-chain in plant plankton and increase, it is thought ten-fold, every step up that is made in the food-chain. This means that by the time you get to the top predators in the ocean, some of them are carrying such high toxin loads they have to be disposed of as toxic-waste when they die, instead of as biological material.
Sperm whales lift their tails high when they go on a deep dive. They feed at great depths on benthic squid and fish.
The voyage I was to become a part of was designed to try and get some base-line data of what kind of toxin loads sperm whales were carrying. It began in 2000, ending in 2005, and during this time I spent around 2.5 years on board in various parts of the world. It was the adventure of a life-time, with many amazing moments, and lots of difficult ones too. But being a part of such a prestigious undertaking has certainly helped open doors for me in the whale-world ever since. I will write more of my adventures soon.
Spoon the sleepy, massive humpback whale
By Judith Scott | All News, Life, Photography, Travel, Whales | One Comment
Spoon is a very special whale. She is huge, often seems a bit sleepy, and sadly appears to not be a very good mother!
Spoon is often sighted sleeping. When humpbacks sleep the lay motionless in the water. Half their brain is asleep, while the other half remains awake to remind them to breathe as they do not breathe automatically like we do.
It was the 1970s when we first started studying live whales and realised that we can tell individuals apart by natural markings. With humpbacks we use the black and white patterns on the under-side of the tail, but with other species we use other parts of the body, like the skin for gray whales and blues, and dorsal fins with the saddle patch for orcas.
I started my whale watching off the coast of New England, in Gloucester, Massachusetts. There the humpback whales are given names based on a pattern on the tail. This is not to try and make the whales into pets, they are wild animals (and so they should be), but it is much easier to remember a name than a catalogue number. The names are not gender specific as we mostly do not know males from females, or people names, but named from looking at the tail and seeing an interesting mark or pattern.
Spoon’s tail. You can see a kind of spoon shaped mark just to the left of the centre (you need to have an imagination to name whales!)
The company I worked for, Cape Ann Whale Watch, had a life size humpback painted on the dock where we tied up the boat. The whale that was chosen to be painted, out of a population of thousands, was Spoon. Before every trip we did a dock talk standing on the painted Spoon, explaining details of the trip ahead.
This is me giving a dock talk on top of a life size representation of Spoon
Spoon is thought to be one of the biggest whales in this population, estimates suggest around 55 feet long (16.7 metres). Female humpbacks are larger than males, probably because they have to go through a long period of starvation when they are nursing a calf down in the breeding grounds. Most of the north Atlantic humpback whale population breed on Silver Bank, off the coast of the Dominican Republic. There is no humpback food down in these warmer waters and so the mothers feed their calves when fasting, losing a massive amount of blubber; up to a third of their body weight.
Having done hundreds of dock talks standing on Spoon’s outline and explaining the pattern on her tail, as well as seeing her many times (mostly sleeping) out on Stellwagen Bank, the feeding ground, I went to the Dominican Republic to see the whales in their breeding area.
During my time there with Conscious Breath Adventures I was lucky enough to get to swim with the humpback whales. One mother and calf in particular, during the week I was there, allowed us into the water with them multiple times. Before entering the water with the whales a member of the crew goes in first to check the whales do not mind the presence of people near them. This is one of the reasons I recommend this area as one of the most responsible swim with programmes in the world. Only three boats are allowed in the area, there is a huge area that is off-limit for boats and swimmers and as you are there for a week they never put people in the water with whales that do not seem comfortable with people around. If you just go out to swim with whales for one day, the temptation for the crew to put people in the water when it is inappropriate to do so is very strong.
Spoon’s calf underwater, which we nick-named ‘Lucky’.
When photos were analysed after the trip we realised that the mother and calf we had been in the water with was none other than Spoon. How amazing that out of a population of thousands of whales the one I got to see underwater was the same individual we chose to have as our mascot at Cape Ann Whale Watch.
Sadly her calf of that year looked like it had already been entangled in fishing gear with scars on the pectoral fins when it was only a few months old.
Lucky with his Mum Spoon seen as the dark shape behind. Sadly Lucky didn’t seem to survive his first feeding season.
I got to see Spoon later that year back on Stellwagen Bank, Massachusetts with her calf, but later that season she was spotted alone and her calf from that season has never been re-sighted. Sadly, many of Spoon’s calves appear to have not made it to adulthood. She certainly appears to be a very calm whale, maybe it could be said a little inattentive to her offspring. As you get to know individual whales it is fascinating to see their different skills and personalities. They have them just as we do.
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Quarterly Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
For the Quarterly Period Ended March 31, 2017
Green Plains Inc.
1811 Aksarben Drive, Omaha, NE 68106
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
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The number of shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, outstanding as of May 1, 2017, was 40,010,035 shares.
Commonly Used Defined Terms
PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
PART II – OTHER INFORMATION
Defaults Upon Senior Securities
Mine Safety Disclosures
Signatures
Commonly Used Defined Terms
The abbreviations, acronyms and industry terminology used in this quarterly report are defined as follows:
Green Plains Inc. and Subsidiaries:
Green Plains; the company
Green Plains Inc. and its subsidiaries
BioProcess Algae LLC
Fleischmann’s Vinegar
Fleischmann’s Vinegar Company, Inc.
Green Plains Cattle
Green Plains Cattle Company LLC
Green Plains Grain Company LLC
Green Plains Partners; the partnership
Green Plains Partners LP
Green Plains Processing
Green Plains Processing LLC and its subsidiaries
Green Plains Trade Group LLC
SCI Ingredients
SCI Ingredients Holdings, Inc.
Accounting Defined Terms:
Accounting Standards Codification
Earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization
Exchange Act
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
London Interbank Offered Rate
LTIP
Green Plains Partners LP 2015 Long-Term Incentive Plan
Industry Defined Terms:
Corporate Average Fuel Economy
Gasoline blended with up to 15% ethanol by volume
U.S. Energy Information Administration
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, as amended
Million British Thermal Units
Million gallons
Mmgy
Million gallons per year
RFS II
Renewable Fuels Standard II
Renewable identification number
GREEN PLAINS INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
(in thousands, except share amounts)
Accounts receivable, net of allowances of $288 and $266, respectively
Income taxes receivable
Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation of
$442,058 and $417,993, respectively
Accrued and other liabilities
Short-term notes payable and other borrowings
Commitments and contingencies (Note 13)
Common stock, $0.001 par value; 75,000,000 shares authorized;
46,380,727 and 46,079,108 shares issued, and 38,665,737
and 38,364,118 shares outstanding, respectively
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
Treasury stock, 7,714,990 shares
Total Green Plains stockholders' equity
Noncontrolling interests
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.
(unaudited and in thousands, except per share amounts)
Product revenues
Service revenues
Operations and maintenance expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses
Depreciation and amortization expenses
Operating income (loss)
Other, net
Total other expense
Loss before income taxes
Net income (loss)
Net loss attributable to Green Plains
Earnings per share:
Net loss attributable to Green Plains - basic
Net loss attributable to Green Plains - diluted
Weighted average shares outstanding:
Cash dividend declared per share
(unaudited and in thousands)
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:
Unrealized gains on derivatives arising during period,
net of tax expense of $968 and $756, respectively
Reclassification of realized gains on derivatives, net
of tax expense of $1,848 and $707, respectively
Total other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax
Comprehensive income (loss)
Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests
Comprehensive loss attributable to Green Plains
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided
(used) by operating activities:
Amortization of debt issuance costs and debt discount
Stock-based compensation
Undistributed equity in loss of affiliates
Changes in operating assets and liabilities before
effects of business combinations:
Current income taxes
Net cash used by operating activities
Purchases of property and equipment
Acquisition of a business, net of cash acquired
Distributions from (investments in) unconsolidated subsidiaries
Proceeds from the issuance of long-term debt
Payments of principal on long-term debt
Proceeds from short-term borrowings
Payments on short-term borrowings
Payments of cash dividends and distributions
Change in restricted cash
Payments related to tax withholdings for stock-based compensation
Proceeds from exercise of stock options
Net cash provided by financing activities
Net change in cash and cash equivalents
Continued on the following page
Continued from the previous page
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow
Cash paid for income taxes
Cash paid for interest
1. BASIS OF PRESENTATION, DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
References to the Company
References to “Green Plains” or the “company” in the consolidated financial statements and in these notes to the consolidated financial statements refer to Green Plains Inc., an Iowa corporation, and its subsidiaries.
The consolidated financial statements include the company’s accounts and all significant intercompany balances and transactions are eliminated. Unconsolidated entities are included in the financial statements on an equity basis. Interim period results are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the entire year. The company owns a 62.5% limited partner interest and a 2.0% general partner interest in Green Plains Partners LP. Public investors own the remaining 35.5% limited partner interest in the partnership. The partnership is consolidated in the company’s financial statements. Effective April 1, 2016, the company increased its ownership of BioProcess Algae, a joint venture formed in 2008, to 82.8% and consolidated BioProcess Algae in its consolidated financial statements beginning on that date.
The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP for interim financial information and the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Because they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP, the consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016.
The unaudited financial information reflects adjustments which are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair presentation of results of operations, financial position and cash flows for the periods presented. The adjustments are normal and recurring in nature, unless otherwise noted.
Certain prior year amounts were reclassified to conform to the current year presentation. These reclassifications did not affect total revenues, costs and expenses, net income or stockholders’ equity.
Use of Estimates in the Preparation of Consolidated Financial Statements
The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. The company bases its estimates on historical experience and assumptions it believes are proper and reasonable under the circumstances and regularly evaluates the appropriateness of its estimates and assumptions. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Key accounting policies, including but not limited to those relating to revenue recognition, depreciation of property and equipment, impairment of long-lived assets and goodwill, derivative financial instruments, and accounting for income taxes, are impacted significantly by judgments, assumptions and estimates used in the preparation of the consolidated financial statements.
Green Plains is North America’s second largest consolidated owner of ethanol plants. The company operates within four business segments: (1) ethanol production, which includes the production of ethanol, distillers grains and corn oil, (2) agribusiness and energy services, which includes grain handling and storage and marketing and merchant trading for company-produced and third-party ethanol, distillers grains, corn oil, natural gas and other commodities, (3) food and ingredients, which includes the cattle feedlot, vinegar production and food-grade corn oil operations, and (4) partnership, which includes fuel storage and transportation services.
The company recognizes revenue when the following criteria are satisfied: persuasive evidence that an arrangement exists, title of product and risk of loss are transferred to the customer, price is fixed and determinable and collectability is reasonably assured.
Sales of ethanol, distillers grains, corn oil, natural gas and other commodities by the company’s marketing business are recognized when title of product and risk of loss are transferred to an external customer. Revenues related to marketing for third parties are presented on a gross basis when the company takes title of the product and assumes risk of loss. Unearned revenue is recorded for goods in transit when the company has received payment but the title has not yet been transferred to the customer. Revenues for receiving, storing, transferring and transporting ethanol and other fuels are recognized when the product is delivered to the customer.
The company routinely enters into fixed-price, physical-delivery energy commodity purchase and sale agreements. At times, the company settles these transactions by transferring its obligations to other counterparties rather than delivering the physical commodity. These transactions are reported net as a component of revenues. Revenues also include realized gains and losses on related derivative financial instruments, ineffectiveness on cash flow hedges and reclassifications of realized gains and losses on effective cash flow hedges from accumulated other comprehensive income or loss.
Sales of products, including agricultural commodities, cattle and vinegar, are recognized when title of product and risk of loss are transferred to the customer, which depends on the agreed upon terms. The sales terms provide passage of title when shipment is made or the commodity is delivered. Revenues related to grain merchandising are presented gross and include shipping and handling, which is also a component of cost of goods sold. Revenues from grain storage are recognized when services are rendered.
A substantial portion of the partnership revenues are derived from fixed-fee commercial agreements for storage, terminal or transportation services. The partnership recognizes revenue when there is evidence an arrangement exists; risk of loss and title transfer to the customer; the price is fixed or determinable; and collectability is reasonably ensured. Revenues from base storage, terminal or transportation services are recognized once these services are performed, which occurs when the product is delivered to the customer.
Cost of goods sold includes direct labor, materials and plant overhead costs. Direct labor includes all compensation and related benefits of non-management personnel involved in ethanol plant, vinegar and cattle feedlot operations. Grain purchasing and receiving costs, excluding labor costs for grain buyers and scale operators, are also included in cost of goods sold. Materials include the cost of corn feedstock, denaturant, process chemicals, cattle and veterinary supplies. Corn feedstock costs include unrealized gains and losses on related derivative financial instruments not designated as cash flow hedges, inbound freight charges, inspection costs and transfer costs as well as realized gains and losses on related derivative financial instruments, ineffectiveness on cash flow hedges and reclassifications of realized gains and losses on effective cash flow hedges from accumulated other comprehensive income or loss. Plant overhead consists primarily of plant and feedlot utilities, repairs and maintenance, yard expenses and outbound freight charges. Shipping costs incurred by the company, including railcar costs, are also reflected in cost of goods sold.
The company uses exchange-traded futures and options contracts to minimize the effect of price changes on the agribusiness and energy services and food and ingredients segments’ grain and cattle inventories and forward purchase and sales contracts. Exchange-traded futures and options contracts are valued at quoted market prices and settled predominantly in cash. The company is exposed to loss when counterparties default on forward purchase and sale contracts. Grain inventories held for sale and forward purchase and sale contracts are valued at market prices when available or other market quotes adjusted for differences, primarily in transportation, between the exchange-traded market and local market where the terms of the contract is based. Changes in the fair value of grain inventories held for sale, forward purchase and sale contracts and exchange-traded futures and options contracts are recognized as a component of cost of goods sold.
In the partnership segment, transportation expenses represent the primary component of operations and maintenance expenses. Transportation expenses includes railcar leases, freight and shipping of the company’s ethanol and co-products, as well as costs incurred storing ethanol at destination terminals.
The company uses various derivative financial instruments, including exchange-traded futures and exchange-traded and over-the-counter options contracts, to minimize risk and the effect of price changes related to corn, ethanol, cattle, natural gas and crude oil. The company monitors and manages this exposure as part of its overall risk management policy to reduce the adverse effect market volatility may have on its operating results. The company may hedge these commodities as one way to mitigate risk, however, there may be situations when these hedging activities themselves result in losses.
By using derivatives to hedge exposures to changes in commodity prices, the company is exposed to credit and market risk. The company’s exposure to credit risk includes the counterparty’s failure to fulfill its performance obligations under the terms of the derivative contract. The company minimizes its credit risk by entering into transactions with high quality counterparties, limiting the amount of financial exposure it has with each counterparty and monitoring their financial condition. Market risk is the risk that the value of the financial instrument might be adversely affected by a change in commodity prices or interest rates. The company manages market risk by incorporating parameters to monitor exposure within its risk management strategy, which limits the types of derivative instruments and strategies the company can use and the degree of market risk it can take using derivative instruments.
The company evaluates its physical delivery contracts to determine if they qualify for normal purchase or sale exemptions which are expected to be used or sold over a reasonable period in the normal course of business. Contracts that do not meet the normal purchase or sale criteria are recorded at fair value. Changes in fair value are recorded in operating income unless the contracts qualify for, and the company elects, hedge accounting treatment.
Certain qualifying derivatives related to the ethanol production, agribusiness and energy services and food and ingredients segments are designated as cash flow hedges. The company evaluates the derivative instrument to ascertain its effectiveness prior to entering into cash flow hedges. Ineffectiveness is recognized in current period results, while other unrealized gains and losses are reflected in accumulated other comprehensive income until the gain or loss from the underlying hedged transaction is realized. When it becomes probable a forecasted transaction will not occur, the cash flow hedge treatment is discontinued, which affects earnings. These derivative financial instruments are recognized in current assets or other current liabilities at fair value.
At times, the company hedges its exposure to changes in the value of inventories and designates qualifying derivatives as fair value hedges. The carrying amount of the hedged inventory is adjusted in current period results for changes in fair value. Ineffectiveness of the hedges is recognized in current period results to the extent the change in fair value of the inventory is not offset by the change in fair value of the derivative.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Effective January 1, 2017, the company adopted the amended guidance in ASC Topic 330, Inventory: Simplifying the Measurement of Inventory, which requires inventory to be measured at lower of cost or net realizable value. Net realizable value is the estimated selling prices during the ordinary course of business, less reasonably predictable costs of completion, disposal and transportation. The amended guidance was applied prospectively.
Effective January 1, 2017, the company adopted the amended guidance in ASC Topic 718, Compensation – Stock Compensation: Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting, which requires all income tax effects of awards to be recognized in the income statement when the awards vest or settle. The amended guidance also allows an employer to repurchase more of an employee’s shares than it can currently for tax withholding purposes without triggering liability accounting and make a policy election to account for forfeitures as they occur. The amended guidance requiring recognition of excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies in the income statement was applied prospectively. The amended guidance related to the timing of when excess tax benefits are recognized, did not have an impact on the consolidated financial statements. The amended guidance related to the presentation of employee taxes paid on the statement of cash flows was applied retrospectively. This change resulted in a $2.1 million increase in cash flows from operating activities and a decrease in cash flows from financing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2016. The company has elected to account for forfeitures as they occur. This change did not have a material impact on the financial statements.
Effective January 1, 2018, the company will adopt the amended guidance in ASC Topic 230, Statement of Cash Flows: Restricted Cash, which requires amounts generally described as restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents to be included with cash and cash equivalents when reconciling the beginning-of-period and end-of-period total amounts shown on the statement of cash flows. The amended guidance will be applied retrospectively.
Effective January 1, 2018, the company will adopt the amended guidance in ASC Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, which requires revenue recognition to reflect the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. The updated standard permits either the retrospective or cumulative effect transition method. Early application beginning January 1, 2017, is permitted. The company does not expect the adoption of this guidance to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Effective January 1, 2018, the company will adopt the amended guidance in ASC Topic 740, Income Taxes: Intra-Entity Transfers of Assets other than Inventory, which requires the recognition of current and deferred income tax consequences of an intra-entity transfer of an asset other than inventory when the transfer occurs. The amended guidance will be applied on a modified retrospective basis, with a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as of the beginning of the year of adoption.
Effective January 1, 2018, the company will adopt the amended guidance in ASC Topic 805, Business Combinations: Clarifying the Definition of a Business, which clarifies the definition of a business with the objective of adding guidance to assist companies and other reporting organizations with evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions or disposals of assets or businesses. The amended guidance will be applied prospectively.
Effective January 1, 2019, the company will adopt the amended guidance in ASC Topic 842, Leases, which aims to make leasing activities more transparent and comparable and requires substantially all leases to be recognized by lessees on their balance sheet as a right-of-use asset and corresponding lease liability, including leases currently accounted for as operating leases. Early application is permitted. The company is currently evaluating the impact the adoption of the amended guidance will have on the consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Effective January 1, 2020, the company will adopt the amended guidance in ASC Topic 350, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other: Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment, which simplifies the measurement of goodwill by eliminating Step 2 from the goodwill impairment test. The annual goodwill impairment test will be performed by comparing the fair value of a reporting unit with its carrying amount. An impairment charge would be recognized for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the reporting unit’s fair value, not to exceed the total amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit. The amended guidance will be applied prospectively.
2. ACQUISITIONS
Acquisition of Fleischmann’s Vinegar Company
On October 3, 2016, the company acquired all of the issued and outstanding stock of SCI Ingredients, the holding company of Fleischmann’s Vinegar Company, Inc., for $258.3 million in cash. A portion of the purchase price was used to repay existing debt. Fleischmann’s Vinegar is one of the world’s largest producers of food-grade industrial vinegar.
The purchase price allocation is based on the preliminary results of independent valuations. The purchase price and purchase price allocation are preliminary until contractual post-closing working capital adjustments are finalized and the final independent valuation reports are issued.
The following is a summary of the preliminary purchase price of assets acquired and liabilities assumed (in thousands):
Amounts of Identifiable Assets Acquired
and Liabilities Assumed
Total identifiable net assets
As of March 31, 2017, based on the preliminary valuations, the company’s customer relationship intangible asset recognized in connection with the Fleischmann’s acquisition is $81.2 million, net of $2.8 million of accumulated amortization, and has a 15-year weighted-average amortization period. As of March 31, 2017, the company also has an indefinite-lived trade name intangible asset of $10.5 million. The company recognized $1.4 million of amortization expense associated with the amortizing customer relationship intangible asset during the three months ended March 31, 2017 and estimated amortization expense for the next five years is $5.6 million per annum. The excess of the purchase price over the intangibles fair values was allocated to goodwill, none of which is expected to be deductible for tax purposes. The goodwill is primarily attributable to the synergies expected to arise after the acquisition.
Acquisition of Abengoa Ethanol Plants
On September 23, 2016, the company acquired three ethanol plants located in Madison, Illinois, Mount Vernon, Indiana, and York, Nebraska from subsidiaries of Abengoa S.A. for approximately $234.9 million for the ethanol plant assets, and $19.1 million for working capital acquired and liabilities assumed. These ethanol facilities have a combined annual production capacity of approximately 230 mmgy.
The purchase price allocation is based on the preliminary results of an independent valuation. The purchase price and purchase price allocation are preliminary until contractual post-closing working capital adjustments are finalized and the final independent valuation report is issued. The following is a summary of the preliminary purchase price of assets acquired and liabilities assumed (in thousands):
Concurrently with the company’s acquisition of the Abengoa ethanol plants, on September 23, 2016, the partnership acquired the storage assets of the Abengoa ethanol plants from the company for $90.0 million in a transfer between entities under common control and entered into amendments to the related commercial agreements with Green Plains Trade.
3. FAIR VALUE DISCLOSURES
The following methods, assumptions and valuation techniques were used to estimate the fair value of the company’s financial instruments:
Level 1 – unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities the company can access at the measurement date. Level 1 unrealized gains and losses on commodity derivatives relate to exchange-traded open trade equity and option values in the company’s brokerage accounts.
Level 2 – directly or indirectly observable inputs such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets other than quoted prices included within Level 1, quoted prices for identical or similar assets in markets that are not active, and other inputs that are observable or can be substantially corroborated by observable market data through correlation or other means. Grain inventories held for sale in the agribusiness segment are valued at nearby futures values, plus or minus nearby basis.
Level 3 – unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and comprise a significant component of the fair value of the assets or liabilities. The company currently does not have any recurring Level 3 financial instruments.
There have been no changes in valuation techniques and inputs used in measuring fair value. The company’s assets and liabilities by level are as follows (in thousands):
Fair Value Measurements at March 31, 2017
Quoted Prices in
Active Markets for
Identical Assets
Observable Inputs
Reclassification for
(Level 1)
Margin deposits
Inventories carried at market
Unrealized gains on derivatives
Total assets measured at fair value
Unrealized losses on derivatives
Total liabilities measured at fair value
Fair Value Measurements at December 31, 2016
Inventories carried at market (2)
Accounts payable is generally stated at historical amounts with the exception of $25.3 million and $35.3 million at March 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively, related to certain delivered inventory for which the payable fluctuates based on changes in commodity prices. These payables are hybrid financial instruments for which the company has elected the fair value option.
Inventories carried at market have been revised from previously reported results to include $77.0 million of inventories held under a fair value hedging relationship. There was no impact to the financial statements resulting from this revision.
The company believes the fair value of its debt was approximately $1.1 billion compared with a book value of $1.1 billion at March 31, 2017, and December 31, 2016, respectively. The company estimated the fair value of its outstanding debt using Level 2 inputs. The company believes the fair values of its accounts receivable approximated book value, which was $97.0 million and $147.5 million at March 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively.
Although the company currently does not have any recurring Level 3 financial measurements, the fair values of tangible assets and goodwill acquired and the equity component of convertible debt issued represent Level 3 measurements which were derived using a combination of the income approach, market approach and cost approach for the specific assets or liabilities being valued.
4. SEGMENT INFORMATION
As a result of acquisitions during 2016, the company implemented organizational segment changes during the fourth quarter of 2016, whereby the company management now reports the financial and operating performance in the following four operating segments: (1) ethanol production, which includes the production of ethanol, distillers grains and corn oil, (2) agribusiness and energy services, which includes grain handling and storage and marketing and merchant trading for company-produced and third-party ethanol, distillers grains, corn oil and other commodities, (3) food and ingredients, which includes the cattle feedlot, vinegar production and food-grade corn oil operations and (4) partnership, which includes fuel storage and transportation services. Prior periods have been reclassified to conform to the revised segment presentation.
Corporate activities include selling, general and administrative expenses, consisting primarily of compensation, professional fees and overhead costs not directly related to a specific operating segment.
During the normal course of business, the operating segments conduct business with each other. For example, the agribusiness and energy services segment procures grain and natural gas and sells products, including ethanol, distillers grains and corn oil for the ethanol production segment. The partnership segment provides fuel storage and transportation services for the agribusiness and energy services segment. These intersegment activities are treated like third-party transactions with origination, marketing and storage fees charged at estimated market values. Consequently, these transactions affect segment performance; however, they do not impact the company’s consolidated results since the revenues and corresponding costs are eliminated.
The following tables set forth certain financial data for the company’s operating segments (in thousands):
Ethanol production:
Revenues from external customers
Intersegment revenues
Total segment revenues
Agribusiness and energy services:
Food and ingredients:
Revenues including intersegment activity
Intersegment eliminations
Revenues as reported
Cost of goods sold:
Ethanol production
Agribusiness and energy services
Food and ingredients
Operating income (loss):
Depreciation and amortization:
The following table sets forth third-party revenues by product line (in thousands):
The following table sets forth total assets by operating segment (in thousands):
Total assets (1):
Asset balances by segment exclude intercompany receivable balances.
5. INVENTORIES
Inventories are carried at lower of cost or net realizable value, except for commodities held for sale and fair-value hedged inventories, which are reported at market value.
The components of inventories are as follows (in thousands):
Commodities held for sale
Supplies and parts
6. GOODWILL
The company did not have any changes in the carrying amount of goodwill, which was $183.7 million at March 31, 2017, and December 31, 2016. Goodwill of $30.3 million, $142.8 million and $10.6 million is attributable to the ethanol production segment, food and ingredients segment and the partnership segment, respectively.
7. DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
At March 31, 2017, the company’s consolidated balance sheet reflected unrealized losses of $5.6 million, net of tax, in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). The company expects these losses will be reclassified in operating income over the next 12 months as a result of hedged transactions that are forecasted to occur. The amount realized in operating income will differ as commodity prices change.
Fair Values of Derivative Instruments
The fair values of the company’s derivative financial instruments and the line items on the consolidated balance sheets where they are reported are as follows (in thousands):
Asset Derivatives'
Liability Derivatives'
Derivative financial instruments (1)
(1) Derivative financial instruments as reflected on the consolidated balance sheets are net of related margin deposit assets of $28.9 million and $50.6 million at March 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively.
(2) Balance at March 31, 2017 includes $6.8 million of net unrealized losses on derivative financial instruments designated as cash flow hedging instruments.
(3)Balance at December 31, 2016 includes $17.0 million of net unrealized losses on derivative financial instruments designated as cash flow hedging instruments.
Refer to Note 3 - Fair Value Disclosures, which contains fair value information related to derivative financial instruments.
Effect of Derivative Instruments on Consolidated Statements of Operations and Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity and Comprehensive Income
The gains or losses recognized in income and other comprehensive income related to the company’s derivative financial instruments and the line items on the consolidated financial statements where they are reported are as follows (in thousands):
Gains (Losses) on Derivative Instruments Not
Designated in a Hedging Relationship
Net increase (decrease) recognized in earnings before tax
Gains (Losses) Due to Ineffectiveness
of Cash Flow Hedges
Net decrease recognized in earnings before tax
Gains (Losses) Reclassified from Accumulated
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
into Net Income
Net increase recognized in earnings before tax
Effective Portion of Cash Flow
Hedges Recognized in
Commodity Contracts
Gains (Losses) from Fair Value
Hedges of Inventory
Revenues (effect of change in inventory value)
Cost of goods sold (effect of change in inventory value)
Revenues (effect of fair value hedge)
Cost of goods sold (effect of fair value hedge)
Ineffectiveness recognized in earnings before tax
There were no gains or losses from discontinuing cash flow or fair value hedge treatment during the three months ended March 31, 2017 and 2016.
The open commodity derivative positions as of March 31, 2017, are as follows (in thousands):
Exchange Traded
Non-Exchange Traded
Net Long &
(Short) (1)
Unit of
Corn, Soybeans and Wheat
Natural Gasoline
Corn and Soybeans
Exchange traded futures and options are presented on a net long and (short) position basis. Options are presented on a delta-adjusted basis.
Non-exchange traded forwards are presented on a gross long and (short) position basis including both fixed-price and basis contracts.
Futures used for cash flow hedges.
Futures or non-exchange traded forwards used for fair value hedges.
Energy trading contracts that do not involve physical delivery are presented net in revenues on the consolidated statements of operations. Included in revenues are net gains on energy trading contracts of $8.2 million and $3.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2017, and 2016, respectively.
8. DEBT
The components of long-term debt are as follows (in thousands):
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HOT SUMMER ECONOMIC WEIRDNESS / JOHN MAULDIN´S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
| Etiquetas: Brexit, Depression, Economics, Europe Economic and Political, Monetary Policy, Recession, U.S. Economic And Political
Hot Summer Economic Weirdness
“A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.”
– James Wolcott
“Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.”
– Ronald Reagan
We who inhabit the northern hemisphere will soon enter summer. Many would say summer is already with us – most schools are closed, and a general laziness is beginning to set in – especially for those in the “protected” class. For many of them, summer is a verb. They “summer” in the Hamptons, or Lake Tahoe, or somewhere in the tropics.
Summer isn’t lazy for the “unprotected.” Working parents often dread it because they have to find – and worse, pay for – child care for their out-of-school children. Vacations to the tropics or anywhere else are just a dream.
As I wrote last month, the protected/unprotected schism increasingly drives both politics and economics. Maybe it has always driven them, and we’re just now recognizing it. In either case, we find ourselves in increasingly weird circumstances. I certainly see parallels with the 1930s. And a number of those circumstances will collide with one another over the next few months.
My intention this week had been to revisit some of the powerful ideas that were discussed at my Strategic Investment Conference two weeks ago. But events are looming in Europe that absolutely demand our attention. The powerful macroeconomic and investing ideas will still be there next week – and at the end of today’s letter I will discuss an informal poll I’ve conducted on the timing of the next recession.
We may be in for a very hot summer. Where to begin?
ECB Spreads the Cash
This week the European Central Bank launched a new stimulus tactic: outright purchases of corporate bonds. This buy will be in addition to the 800+ billion euros of government bonds it has bought since March 2015.
The ECB wants to create inflation by making borrowers an offer they can’t refuse. European public companies have been issuing new debt at a record pace this year. I can see why, too: interest rates were at record lows. The ECB intends to drive them even lower and possibly negative.
If you are the board of a Eurozone company and your central bank offers you free or better-than-free cash, of course you take it. Japan already proved that this can work back in January, when it first bought corporate bonds at a below-zero interest rate. And this new tactic of the ECB is going to affect more than just corporate bonds in Europe. US multinationals with European subsidiaries (and most have them) are going to be lining up to take advantage of a central bank that will buy up to 70% of anything the corporations issue, at rates that can’t be matched in the US. At least for now. You think that’s not going to bring European-style central banking to the United States?
If you’re a corporation in Europe, the harder question is what to do with your free cash. The ECB wants you to buy stuff and drive up prices. That would leave you owning stuff, which isn’t rational if you think deflation will continue. So the ECB has a chicken-egg problem. They can’t have inflation unless businesses and individuals spend their cash, but everyone will hoard their cash until they’re convinced inflation is back.
Liquidity is another problem. Bloomberg calculates that the universe of corporate debt eligible for ECB purchase totals about €620 billion. To produce the desired effect, the ECB will have to own a significant chunk of that market. At some point it then stops being a “market” by any normal definition.
Japan is already dealing with that problem and worse, since it buys equity ETFs as well as bonds. The Japanese government bond (JGB) market is becoming a monopsony – the opposite of a monopoly. Instead of one seller, JGBs have only one buyer. It is very possible that other markets will soon operate similarly. How can the center hold in such an economy?
Where does the distortion of markets end? I don’t know. More to the point, Draghi and Kuroda don’t know, either. Draghi is buying private assets because in his view there are no better options. Even at the “relatively” small amounts it is buying now, the ECB is already distorting the credit markets.
The ECB won’t officially confirm what it bought until sometime next month, but word quickly leaked out that the purchases included Anheuser-Busch, InBev, Siemens, and other well-known names.
Do you think some bond traders might have used that information before it appeared in the press? You know the answer to that one.
Regardless, Draghi will keep buying assets. He could buy most of the Eurozone and still not have any inflation.
German Banks Hoarding Cash
Speaking of cash-hoarding behavior – which is one side effect of negative rates – one of Germany’s largest banks is seriously considering it. Sources within Commerzbank have told Reuters they are “examining the possibility” of hoarding physical euros by the billions in secure vaults. This would let them avoid the -0.4% NIRP penalty for parking cash with the ECB.
This is truly bizarre. Under normal conditions, holding cash is anathema to commercial bankers. They keep as little as possible on hand and certainly don’t go out of their way to hold more. Yet here we see a major bank considering doing just that. The only way that tactic makes sense is if the bank can’t profitably lend the cash to its customers, which, given the rules for lending in Europe, actually happens to be the case.
Nonbank financial institutions are also storing cash. Munich Re said back in March it would store both physical cash and gold to avoid paying negative interest rates. Management framed the move as a minor test at the time. It may well have been – but you don’t conduct such a test unless you see some chance that you will need to hold cash on a larger scale.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the ECB thrilled conspiracy buffs last month by announcing it would cease issuing 500-euro notes after 2018. The ostensible reason is that the large notes could “facilitate illicit activities.” Few believed the deterrence of crime was the bank’s main objective. The presence of large amounts of physical cash in an economy is inconvenient for any central bank that wants to push interest rates negative, as the ECB does.
Now the ECB’s move makes more sense. Draghi isn’t worried about German and French citizens stuffing their mattresses with euros. The real threat would be banks doing so on a much larger scale.
Here’s my guess. The ECB’s promise to continue issuing 500-euro notes until 2018 is probably honest – but they made no promises about how many they will issue. I bet the number slows to a trickle very soon. The big bills will be hard to find, especially if your name is Commerzbank or Munich Re.
Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank is also sparring with the ECB. Chief Economist David Folkerts-Landau issued a note (in less polite circles we would call it a smackdown) last week, blasting Draghi’s stimulus plans. He was unusually blunt (if you could call launching an economic nuclear weapon blunt), especially for someone whose bank is not exactly on the firmest footing right now. The entire piece is worth reading to gain an appreciation of the intensity with which Folkerts-Landau addresses the ECB. (Emphasis below is mine.)
Already it is clear that lower and lower interest rates and ever larger purchases are confronting the law of decreasing returns. What is more, the ECB has lost credibility within markets and more worryingly among the public.
But the ECB’s response is to push policy to further extremes. This causes misallocations in the real economy that become increasingly hard to reverse without even greater pain. Savers lose, while stock and apartment owners rejoice.
Worse, by appointing itself the eurozone’s “whatever it takes” saviour of last resort, the ECB has allowed politicians to sit on their hands with regard to growth-enhancing reforms and necessary fiscal consolidation.
Thereby ECB policy is threatening the European project as a whole for the sake of short-term financial stability. The longer policy prevents the necessary catharsis, the more it contributes to the growth of populist or extremist politics.
Our models suggest that in its fight against the spectres of deflation and unanchored inflation expectations, the ECB’s monetary policy has already become too loose.
Hence, we believe the ECB should start to prepare a reversal of its policy stance. The expected increase in headline inflation to above one per cent in the first quarter of 2017 should provide the opportunity for signaling a change.
The chances of ECB’s reversing policy as Herr Folkerts-Landau suggests range between slim and none. He surely knows this, too, which makes me wonder what he hopes to accomplish with his pronouncement. DB senior management must have approved the message. Given their situation, it is a strange way to talk about your regulator. Maybe we’ll find out what DB is up to before this weird summer is over.
As a sidebar, I thought I would throw in the following rate chart from Europe and Japan, showing just how far out the yield curve negative rates extend. Given that the ECB intends to absorb investment-grade corporate bonds, it is going to push corporate bonds into negative rates when they’re sold on the open market and will push the negative rates out on the yield curve for sovereign bonds. How in the Wide Wide World of Sports does anybody think that pensions and insurance companies can survive in such a market? Remember, they are required to hold a certain amount of government bonds, and their investment return targets are north of 5%. I could do a whole letter on the coming debacle in European insurance companies. It is way beyond the crisis point now.
UK Eyes the Brexit
Across the Channel, UK citizens will vote on June 23 whether to leave the European Union. The latest polls suggest that the vote is very close and the “Leave” side has a slight edge. However, the poll I saw this afternoon showed “Leave” ahead by a full 10 points, 55 to 45. More importantly, the trend over the past few weeks has seen the spread in favor of “Leave” widen. If you are in the “Remain” camp, you have to be worried.
It is hard to overstate the impact Brexit will have, should it pass. And the impact will spread far beyond Britain’s borders The UK is the EU’s second largest economy after Germany and one of its largest exporters. Numerous laws and international agreements may need to be rebuilt. Even with years of planning, Brexit could make the Y2K bug look puny.
A major concern is what a winning Brexit vote might inspire in other nations. French voters dislike the EU even more than UK voters do, according to a recent Pew survey reported by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. The EU racked up a 61% unfavorable rating in France versus 48% in the UK. Opinions in Spain and Germany aren’t much more positive. The EU doesn’t look like an “ever-closer union” to the citizens of its largest members.
Yesterday I got the following note from Brent Donnelly (trader par excellence at Citi FX, whose morning note is a must-read). He is quoting the London Daily Express:
EU FALLING APART: Now HOLLAND wants its own referendum to follow historic Brexit vote.
NINE out of 10 Dutch people hope the Netherlands will hold its own EU referendum amid mass discontent at Brussels bureaucrats. A whopping 88 per cent of people polled by a top Dutch newspaper said they would be in favour of an in/out vote along British lines. They have been inspired by possibility of Britain quitting the bloc on June 23 – and hope ‘Nexit’ will follow Brexit.
Harry van Bommel, MP for Holland’s Socialist Party, told Express.co.uk: “If Britain leaves, that will give other countries courage.
“So now debate is beginning in the Netherlands about having a referendum on EU membership.
“We cannot go on the way we are – financing Greece, trying to keep countries in the eurozone. The eurozone will break up eventually.” He added: “Because we’re in the euro, Dutch people see budget cuts, unemployment going up, and they relay that to the EU.
These facts make the EU very unpopular. People distrust Europe and some people even hate Europe – it’s in an existential crisis.”
The graph below shows the general negative trends in opinions on the EU in other European countries.
Despite this trend, Politico reported last week that French leaders intend to push for severe consequences against the UK if Brexit passes. Paris thinks it must send a strong warning to other would-be deserters that leaving the EU would be very painful. Maybe they also want to send that warning to their own citizens.
The EU is a distinct entity from the Eurozone currency area, which has its own problems. I think the EU can probably survive a Brexit, but it won’t survive a Frexit, Germexit or Spexit. (Just for the record, there is no easy way to combine Italy and exit, so I think that will have to be referred to by the Italian word for exit – Uscita – if and when the time comes.) And that would leave Europe back where it was before World War II: a fragmented continent in which disagreements get very ugly and occasionally turn violent.
No one wants that outcome, but very few Europeans outside EU headquarters in Brussels seem happy with the status quo, either. This summer could see the beginnings of a devolution. It’s up to UK voters now.
Just as the rest of the world cannot understand what America was thinking when we nominated Donald Trump for president, most of us who think we understand the consequences of Brexit are wondering what the British are thinking. Can they be serious?
I had this discussion with Jim Bianco yesterday. He pointed out that it is almost impossible to turn the TV on in England without seeing Labor Party leaders, Tory Party leaders, economists, and everybody else except Boris Johnson telling people why Brexit is a bad idea.
The mood in Europe is part and parcel of the same phenomenon that we are seeing with Trump and Sanders in the United States. There is growing discontent with the establishment, no matter which party people are aligned with.
Thus the pollsters are going crazy trying to figure out how to handicap this referendum vote in England. The numbers are not breaking down along the normal left–right lines that they have in their political models.
By the way, if England does decide to leave the EU, expect a quick call for a referendum on Scotland’s leaving the United Kingdom and joining the EU on its own.
William Butler Yeats does really seem to have nailed it, a-way back in 1919:
Surely some revelation is at hand…
Recession Warnings Galore
After hearing so many speakers talk about the potential for another recession at my Strategic Investment Conference last month, I started collecting recession warnings.
Now I see them everywhere. Worse, many come from people I greatly respect and have found reliable over the years.
In the next week I flew to New York where my usual wont is to call dinner with a small group of friends, at which we talk all things economic, political, and social. One of the fixtures seems to be Art Cashin, but busy schedules insure a fresh rotation. This week, in addition to Art I got to have dinner with great friends Jack Rivkin, a longtime PaineWebber partner and now the brains at Altegris; Peter Boockvar of the Lindsey Group; Rich Yamarone, chief economist at Bloomberg; Lakshman Achuthan, the guiding light at ECRI; and Vikram Mansharamani, a Yale professor and author of Boombustology.
One of the questions I posed was, “When do you expect to see the next recession?”
And the calls were all over the board. There is hardly a better group to ask about the timing of a recession. One person thought the recession will start in the fourth quarter of this year; another suggested that it will start in January of next year; several others thought 12 to 18 months; and the outlier anticipated that recession is still two to three years off. As I reflected on the responses later that night, I realized I could create my own dot chart, similar to what the Fed does with its interest-rate and economic forecasts.
Now seven people is a group, but it doesn’t give us the “wisdom of the crowd.” So I spent Thursday and Friday making phone calls. I got ahold of David Rosenberg, Martin Barnes (of the Bank Credit Analyst), Lacy Hunt, and Jim Bianco, among others.
I didn’t need to call Albert Edwards of Societe Generale, as (a) he is always bearish, and (b) he just came out with a newsletter saying that a recession is imminent, which in his terminology and reading of the data means fourth quarter. You can read his take here.
And then Mish Shedlock shared this chart that supports his own recession call.
If the jobs trend follows what we saw in the last recession, it is about to get much worse.
Not all of the forecasts from the group I polled by phone were as bearish. A couple didn’t think a recession would start for another five years absent an “exogenous” shock (i.e., one originating outside this country). But that caveat was also invoked by nearly all of those who didn’t think the recession would start later this year: in their next breath they explained that their forecast would be brought quickly forward if there is an external shock from, say, Europe or China; and some mentioned policy mistakes from central banks as a potential shock.
So what does my “dot plot” look like? It’s actually pretty strung out over the next 2½ years, with the outliers being the two five-year calls. Again, the longer-term views on recession always had an * behind them that said “absent a shock.”
The center dot would be at about 18 months, which is fourth quarter 2017. For whatever reason, that pretty much squared with my own prediction at dinner. Again, with the caveat of “absent a shock.”
Why do I keep repeating that phrase? Precisely because Brexit, as explained above, could deliver an enormous exogenous shock. And it is something that could happen on June 23 – 12 days from now – triggering repercussions throughout Europe and then the rest of the world.
Can anyone in their right mind imagine Janet Yellen looking at Mish’s chart above and deciding to raise interest rates anyway? And then realizing that the polling ahead of Britain’s vote on leaving the EU now suggests that Brexit’s going to happen? I sure can’t. The Fed surely won’t pull the trigger at next week’s meeting; and if we see Brexit, then a rate increase won’t come at the late-July meeting either. We will still be digesting the consequences of Brexit. Then we get past Labor Day and into the heat of a particularly hot and nasty election. Will the Fed throw fuel on that fire?
Maybe we’ll see a rate hike in one of the winter meetings IF the data turns around.
Fact is, we have just lived through the most significant policy error committed by a central bank in our lifetimes. The Fed did not raise rates in the latter part of 2013 and throughout 2014 when they had the opportunity, and now that moment may have slipped past them. We could plunge into the next grizzly recession while the Fed still has no ammo to load in their monetary policy gun other than the rubber bullets of further quantitative easing and, gods forbid, negative rates in the world’s reserve currency.
All the data show that quantitative easing is not all that effective for doing anything other than raising asset prices for the rich. I want to reiterate a point that I’ve made in past letters. The Federal Reserve is not authorized to do anything but buy government debt. They are not authorized to do a “helicopter drop” or buy equities or even corporate paper. Those moves would require a change in the Federal Reserve Act, and that means action by Congress in an environment where elements of both parties would like to change the Federal Reserve Act significantly in ways that the Fed would not find particularly helpful. Not that anybody agrees on much of anything.
I agree with the gentleman from Deutsche Bank. We have relied on monetary policy to such an extent that we no longer hold our elected leaders responsible for their inaction. Yet somehow we think that monetary policy is going to save our bacon once again if we slide into a recession. Gentle reader, this time it won’t. We need to start Thinking the Unthinkable, which was the title of my speech at the Strategic Investment Conference. I said something along these lines:
If I had gone to people four years ago and said that 40 percent of the world's sovereign bonds would be at negative rates, that central banks would expand their balance sheets by $10 trillion, and that the world would still look somewhat normal, even with all of the geopolitical risks that we have with ISIS, etc., people would have said, “John, what are you thinking?” And yet all of those unthinkable things have come about.
In a future letter I will summarize that speech. Even contemplating what should truly be unthinkable is enough to give us economic heartburn. Perhaps we’ve sailed past the era of conventional monetary policy, off the edge of the known world.
Home for the Summer and Hopefully Cleveland?
My doctor and friend Michael Roizen (author of a number of bestselling books, with 28 million copies now sold), head of wellness at the Cleveland Clinic and one of their directors, is a huge Cleveland Cavaliers fan, having box seats right on the floor. He invited me to come up to watch a game, and I decided I would wait for a game six. After last night’s game, won decisively by the Warriors (they are now 3-1), it looks like I may have made a bad decision. Now I can only hope that Cleveland somehow pulls it together on San Francisco’s home court to force a game six. I have not booked my tickets to Cleveland just yet.
Other than that, my general intent is to stay home for the summer, writing my book and letting my body recover from all the traveling I have done over the past 10 years.
The thought of a summer at home is very pleasant, although I know I will have to do some quick shots here and there. Just comes with the territory.
Researching what the world will look like in 20 years has led to some remarkable surprises. Las Vegas may soon be employing a remarkable flying taxi, designed in China, which will fit one person. When you start looking into such ventures, you find that Larry Page of Google has funded his own flying car project, and there are actually half a dozen other serious – and by serious I mean there is major money backing them – companies all looking to bring us various novel forms of flying transport.
Quite a few people grew up watching the Jetsons and wondering when we were going to get our flying cars. Now, some of them have decided to go ahead and build one themselves. I don’t think I will be looking to put my money into these ventures, but I’m glad other people have that kind of risk capital and are willing to spend it on cutting-edge technologies.
Actually, though, flying cars are not as far-fetched now as they once seemed. Electric motors and batteries have removed the obstacle of heavy combustion engines. Many of the designs look just like much larger versions of the drones you see flying over your backyard.
Uber? Lyft? Automated cars? And now automated flying cars? If I drove a taxi for a living, I might feel just a little paranoid.
You have a great week. I’m looking forward to getting more acquainted with my neighbors, catching up with friends here in the area, and for sure doing my workouts more regularly. It’s looking as if it’s going to be a good summer.
Your on recession high alert analyst,
WHY SMALLER BANKS PAY THE PRICE FOR EUROPE´S DOOM LOOP / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
| Etiquetas: Banks And Banking, Europe Economic and Political
Why Smaller Banks Pay the Price for Europe’s Doom Loop
Government bond holdings are a bigger part of smaller banks’ balance sheets
By Paul J. Davies
Europe is getting closer to breaking the doom-loop between banks and their national governments. For Italy and Spain, this could prove costly.
The problem is that many European banks still treat bonds from their own governments as if they were entirely risk free: that means they hold no capital against them. This makes such debt attractive to own, even at very low prevailing interest rates, and helps keep borrowing costs at a bare minimum.
Forcing banks to hold capital against sovereign-bond exposures would mean they need to increase their total capital by between 2% and 25% under five different and progressively harsher scenarios calculated by Fitch Ratings. The most painful of these would entail a need for $170 billion in extra tier-one and tier-two capital across European banks. That would be unless they sold large chunks of their domestic sovereign bonds.
And while that sounds like a lot, consider that the requirement will fall disproportionately on smaller banks.
The biggest banks in Europe all tend to hold capital against government bonds already, plus they hold bonds from more governments. Fitch reckons none of Europe’s 12 globally systemically important banks breaches rules that say banks’ exposures to a single borrower shouldn’t exceed 25% of its capital base. Nordea NRBAY -0.90 % has the greatest exposure at about 20%.
For many smaller banks, the levels are much higher: domestic government bond holdings are on average equivalent to more than 175% of capital for all banks in Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain.
European regulators already see Italian banks as needing more capital, while the government is trying to force consolidation to take out excess capacity and help the industry tackle its bad-loan mountain. Some of those are struggling to raise equity as it is.
When it comes to putting up capital against domestic bonds, they looked damned if they do, doom-looped if they don’t.
LATIN AMERICA RISING RIGHT / PROJECT SYNDICATE
| Etiquetas: Latin America Economic And Political
Latin America’s Rising Right
Mohamed A. El-Erian
LAGUNA BEACH – From changes in government in Argentina and Brazil to mid-course policy corrections in Chile, Latin American politics appears to be undergoing a rightward shift.
But rather than being “pulled” by the attractiveness of the economic policies that the right is advocating, this complex phenomenon is predominantly a reflection of the “push” implied by anemic growth and the disappointing provision of public goods, especially social services.
Indeed, we can think of the shift as a Latin American variant of the West’s blossoming romance with anti-establishment movements. And that means that the region’s governments must be seen to deliver to their citizens. Otherwise, the shift will prove to be only a stop on an uncertain path – politically more complicated and economically harder to navigate – toward an even less stable destination.
The evidence of the ongoing political change comes in many forms. After years of fiscally irresponsible populist rule by the Kirchner family, Argentina has opted for Mauricio Macri, a former businessman running on a right-wing platform. In Brazil, and pending final consideration by the Senate, President Dilma Rousseff has been sidelined by a “temporary impeachment,” with her replacement signaling a shift away from the policies of the leftist Workers’ Party.
Even incumbent governments in the region are altering their course. In Chile, President Michelle Bachelet was reelected, but her government is signaling a move to the right on economic policy.
Cuba, under President Raúl Castro, is enlarging the legal scope for private businesses.
And in Venezuela, a country tragically flirting with “failed state” status, President Nicolás Maduro’s government confronts mounting economic and financial challenges stemming from fiscally unanchored policies begun under his predecessor, Hugo Chávez. Facing widespread shortages of goods and malfunctioning markets, including for foreign exchange, his government has already lost control of the National Assembly, and the opposition is now seeking to shorten his term by constitutional means.
Several key factors are driving the region’s political dynamics. The sharp drop in international prices for commodities, such as oil and copper, together with a slowing Chinese economy, has reduced the region’s export earnings and accentuated domestic economic challenges. This has been aggravated by a more volatile environment for financial flows to emerging countries, more tentative foreign direct investment, and concern about the potential fallout for international trade from rising anti-globalization rhetoric in the unusual presidential race in the United States.
The resulting deterioration in economic performance, including deep recessions in Brazil and Venezuela, has accentuated popular dissatisfaction with public services and amplified long-standing worries about inequality and misappropriation of public funds. Popular dissatisfaction is evident even in traditionally well-managed countries, such as Chile, where lower-income groups have done relatively well in recent years and where the scale of official fraud – documented and alleged – pales in comparison to neighboring countries.
For now, rightist parties and policy agendas are the main beneficiaries of the region’s economic and social disillusion. The hope for many in the region is that political change can catalyze faster growth, by revamping existing policies and pursuing more effective anti-corruption campaigns. But, again, unless today’s political winners deliver notably higher and significantly more inclusive growth, their electorates are likely to move on.
Viewed from a global perspective, the shift in Latin America is part of a broader rise in discontent with the “establishment.” And it is not limited to governments. It also extends to private-sector elites, particularly banks and multinational companies.
In the US, the result has been a significant shift away from establishment politics, including the unanticipated emergence of Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican candidate and Bernie Sanders’s unexpectedly powerful challenge to Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side. In Europe, anti-establishment parties have been gaining ground in local, regional, and national elections, complicating government formation (for example, in Spain) and influencing major policy decisions (such as the UK Conservative Party’s decision to hold the upcoming “Brexit” referendum).
With the exception of countries like the Philippines, where voters opted in last month’s presidential election for a blatantly anti-establishment candidate in Rodrigo Duterte, the tendency in the emerging world has been for adaptations within the confines of existing political elites. That may well be the best way to characterize what is happening in much of Latin America.
Now it is up to these elites to respond effectively to the causes of popular anger, or risk facing the eventual emergence of anti-establishment movements, like their American and European counterparts. That outcome, by seriously complicating the region’s political landscape, would further reduce governments’ scope for timely economic-policy adaptation.
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PERU: CONCLUDING STATEMENT OF THE IMF 2016 ARTICLE IV CONSULTATION MISSION / INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
| Etiquetas: Economics, Peru
Peru: Concluding Statement of the IMF 2016 Article IV Consultation Mission
A Concluding Statement describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the end of an official staff visit (or ‘mission’), in most cases to a member country. Missions are undertaken as part of regular (usually annual) consultations under Article IV of the IMF's Articles of Agreement, in the context of a request to use IMF resources (borrow from the IMF), as part of discussions of staff monitored programs, or as part of other staff monitoring of economic developments.
The authorities have consented to the publication of this statement. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF’s Executive Board. Based on the preliminary findings of this mission, staff will prepare a report that, subject to management approval, will be presented to the IMF Executive Board for discussion and decision.
By prudent macroeconomic management, Peru navigated the 2008–09 financial crisis and its immediate fallout very well, although growth tumbled in 2014 owing to large declines in commodity prices. Unlike most of its peers in Latin America, Peru’s growth bounced back in 2015 largely due to increased production in primary sectors, as long-planned mining projects became active. Although growth is expected to rise further in 2016-17 and inflation to decline toward the target range, risks on both counts will need careful monitoring. Over the medium term, commodity prices are expected to remain low and, without substantial structural reform, Peru is likely to grow more slowly than in the past decade. Now would be an opportune time to set an ambitious reform agenda to reinvigorate growth and further reduce poverty. Continuing with education reforms, increasing labor market flexibility, reducing red tape, and rationalizing fiscal decentralization are priorities to be tackled within the boundaries of the fiscal framework so as to preserve Peru’s stable debt dynamics.
After decelerating sharply in 2014, economic activity recovered last year despite a volatile external environment. Weak external demand, production bottlenecks, and low public investment at sub-national levels constrained economic activity in 2015. However, the recovery accelerated in the fourth quarter of 2015, largely reflecting additional mining production capacity coming on stream.
Services and commercial activity also picked up while gross fixed investment remained a drag on overall activity. As a result, GDP grew 3.3 percent in 2015. The sol depreciated significantly with respect to the U.S. dollar but strengthened against key trade partners in the region, which added to large declines in metal prices to produce a wider external current account deficit (4.4 percent in 2015). This current account deficit was financed mostly by long-term capital inflows.
Inflation rose to nearly 4.5 percent (year-on-year) at end 2015, beyond the central bank’s target band of 1.0 to 3.0 percent, reflecting supply shocks and the pass-through from currency depreciation vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar, especially to rents and electricity prices. A fiscal deficit of around 2.0 percent was recorded in 2015, but Peru’s gross public debt remained low at 24.0 percent of GDP. The financial sector remained resilient in 2015, with banks reporting strong results.
Macroeconomic policies responded promptly to the weaker activity and higher inflation of 2015. The central bank raised the policy rate by 100 basis points between September 2015 and February 2016 to address inflation concerns, while allowing more currency volatility. Credit dollarization receded in 2015 in large part due to central bank measures to limit dollar lending, although deposit dollarization increased reflecting expectations of a weaker currency. The central bank’s policy to close banks’ open balance-sheet position by providing sol liquidity through dollar repos helped support robust private credit growth. The stimulus plans announced by the government in late 2014, which included reducing tax rates, simplifying tax administration, and boosting public investment, supported activity.
However, implementation problems at the sub-national government level hampered full execution of the budgeted capital spending, thus limiting the effect of the support.
Activity is expected to accelerate in 2016 and 2017, and inflation to decline. An expected increase in mining capacity and exports, and a continuation of large public investment projects should impart a strong positive impetus to growth and help lift business confidence, with positive spillovers to non-commodity sectors. Growth is expected to reach 3.7 percent in 2016, and slightly more than 4.0 percent in 2017, assuming expanded mining production remains as competitive as currently, and large infrastructure projects advance. Inflation has been slowing since end-2015 and is expected to decline further, as El Niño effects disappear and currency depreciation slows down; inflation should return to the central bank’s targeted range by early 2017. The external current account deficit is projected to shrink gradually as mining exports pick up.
Risks to the outlook are balanced. External pressures have carried over from last year and comprise possibly weaker-than-projected growth in China, sharp asset price adjustments in advanced and emerging economies, and an even stronger dollar. Response to shocks should be through further exchange rate flexibility and easing liquidity conditions to support credit activity. Upside domestic risks include stronger-than-expected improvements in business confidence (especially if the incoming government announces decisive productivity-enhancing reforms) and a more effective execution of the existing pipeline of infrastructure projects, which could lift growth further in 2016-17 and beyond.
Following a monetary tightening, the central bank should maintain its wait-and-see stance. The real policy rate remains low at around 1.0 percent, but many factors support the maintenance of the policy interest rate at 4.25 percent for now: inflation and medium-term inflation expectations have been coming down since end-2015, the effect of past monetary tightening will be fully felt only with a lag, and uncertainties surrounding output gap estimates are high. This said, a possibly steeper interest rate path in the United States than currently priced in by financial markets could engender the need for further monetary tightening in Peru.
Greater exchange rate flexibility is a welcome development. Despite continued foreign exchange intervention, the central bank has been increasingly letting the sol absorb the decline in commodity prices, without a noticeable impact on firms’ and banks’ balance sheets. Peru’s external current account deficit is expected to narrow over the medium term and close the gap with its estimated equilibrium level. While temporary intervention to reduce excess volatility could be appropriate, further exchange rate flexibility should support the development of hedging instruments to reduce currency risk. In turn, this would help accelerate the de-dollarization process. Other measures to help de-dollarization could also be considered, including creating incentives for diversifying savings and investment instruments. Recent measures to deepen Peru’s equity market are very welcome.
A gradual fiscal consolidation in the next few years is advisable to ensure continuing healthy debt dynamics and to protect fiscal buffers. These buffers shield the Peruvian economy against natural disasters, commodity price shocks, and the realization of contingent liabilities. While in 2016 a slightly larger deficit is expected, current spending growth is already being contained in the budget.
With the output gap estimated to be closing by end 2017, a withdrawal of stimulus in line with the current fiscal framework is appropriate. Going forward, it would be important to deliver the budgeted capital spending in an efficient manner to support medium-term growth and social objectives, and to ensure the sustainability of pensions.
New infrastructure projects should be ready to start as soon as the current mega projects are completed in order to shrink Peru’s large gap in this area. Such investments should help boost potential growth beyond the baseline projection of 3.5 percent (in the absence of further reforms and investment). To accommodate higher public capital spending consistently with protecting Peru’s stable public debt dynamics, it will be critical to create adequate fiscal space (rather than exceeding deficit targets consistent with Peru’s current fiscal framework, which has served the economy well). This should be accomplished through containing current spending that is not complementary to capital expansion and structural reforms, and raising the low tax revenue collection by streamlining administration, reducing informality and exemptions, and further tightening the protection of Peru’s tax base from possible international profit shifting by multinational firms.
Reducing bottlenecks to public investment would go a long way toward enabling full execution of budgeted spending and supporting private investment. Bureaucratic impediments at the national level, such as an excessive number of authorizations and permits, should be streamlined and Peru’s current decentralization framework (a constraint to fully executing planned capital expansion and to a better allocation of resources where they are mostly needed) could be improved. In particular, revisiting revenue sharing across regions and municipalities with the goal of ensuring fair development, strengthening the efficiency of sub-national investment and effective capacity to manage it, and addressing the fragmentation of jurisdictions are important. Implementing multiyear budgeting, and enhancements to project selection and quality assurance should build on the existing framework of public investment management.
The agenda for growth-spurring structural reforms is multi-pronged and should not be postponed, so that poverty is reduced further. Long-standing challenges include reducing informality, which should be in part addressed through labor market reforms, and spurring investment in non-extractive industries, including through improving competitiveness and infrastructure. While Peru has achieved one of the highest rates of education coverage in Latin America, low quality of education remains a challenge, and the ongoing reforms in this area are very welcome. Similarly, despite remarkable reductions in poverty and income inequality in the past 15 years because of both fast growth and government policies, more can be achieved. In particular, rural versus urban, and regional economic and social disparities remain sizable.
Efforts to raise financial inclusion, including through the recently launched e-money mobile platform, are very welcome. New free trade agreements provide an opportunity for boosting and diversifying long-term growth, especially through direct access to new markets, higher exports to current trading partners, and innovation and job creation. In a virtuous circle, a more flexible economy with higher human and physical capital would magnify the benefits from these agreements.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Peruvian authorities for their hospitality and open dialogue. We look forward to a constructive dialogue with the incoming administration and stand ready to continue providing policy expertise and technical assistance to Peru.
IMF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT
DOLLAR IMPERIALISM: THE FED TRIBUTARIES / THE ECONOMIST
| Etiquetas: Emerging Markets, The Dollar, The Fed
The Fed’s tributaries
Which emerging markets are most in thrall to America’s central bank?
OUTSIDE the Federal Reserve’s imposing building in Washington, DC, water cascades from two fountains shaped like chalices. Inside, the Fed’s decision-making generates equally prodigious spillovers, channelling the flow of capital around the world. The consequences, especially for emerging economies, can be monumental but they are rarely elegant.
Until last week many emerging economies had been bracing themselves for an imminent rise in the Fed’s benchmark interest rate, perhaps as early as this month. Higher rates could draw more money into America from emerging markets, weakening their currencies and raising their bond yields. Even the expectation of tighter money can be enough to cause trouble. In such circumstances, central banks far from the Fed often feel compelled to raise rates too, even if economic conditions at home do not entirely warrant it. In 2014 Arvind Subramanian, now the chief economic adviser to India’s government, complained of “dollar imperialism”.
On June 3rd, however, the emperor granted a reprieve. Surprisingly bad jobs figures released that day ended all talk of a Fed rate hike this month. American bond yields duly fell and the dollar weakened; emerging markets rallied. The numbers provided a useful test of the Fed’s sway. Normally, this is hard to measure, since expectations of a rate rise cannot be observed directly and tend to evolve only gradually. The shift on June 3rd, however, was unusually stark.
Which emerging markets benefited the most? The Turkish lira and Brazilian real ended June 3rd over 1.5% stronger than the day before; the Russian rouble gained over 2%; and the South African rand climbed by over 3%. The impact was surprisingly weak, by contrast, on Mexico’s peso and India’s rupee. Nor was there much effect on China’s currency, which does not float freely, although China may yet benefit from a slower flow of capital out of the country.
The ranking of emerging-market thraldom was broadly similar for government-bond yields (see chart). Yields fell by about 0.2 percentage points on June 3rd in Brazil and Turkey. They narrowed by about half that in Russia and South Africa, as well as in Thailand when its markets opened on June 6th. China again remained in splendid isolation. And India was strangely unmoved. Its central-bank chief, Raghuram Rajan, is among the most prominent critics of the Fed’s unilateral monetary power, along with his compatriot, Mr Subramanian.
Yet India, on the basis of this small experiment, seems newly immune to it.
FED´S NORMALIZATION RATE WILL BE FAR FROM NORMAL / SAFE HAVEN
| Etiquetas: Bond Markets, Economics, FOMC, Monetary Policy, Recession, The Fed, U.S. Economic And Political, ZIRP
Fed's Rate Normalization Will Be Far From Normal
By: Michael Pento
The Fed traditionally embarks on an interest rate tightening cycle when inflation has started to run hot. This decline in the purchasing power of the dollar will nearly always manifest itself in: above trend nominal GDP, rising long-term interest rates and a positively sloping yield curve.
These prevailing conditions are all indications of a market that is battling inflation; and thus prompts the Fed to start playing catch up with the inflation curve.
For example, the last time the Fed began a rate tightening cycle was back on June 30, 2004, when the Fed moved the Overnight Funds rate from 1% to 1 ¼%. At the time, the Ten-year Note yield was 4.62%, and the Two-year Note was 2.7%, creating a 1.92% spread between the Two and the Ten-year Note. To illustrate the fact that the long end of the yield curve was pricing in future inflation, the Ten-year yield climbed to 5.14% two years into the Fed's rate hiking cycle. And perhaps more importantly, real GDP was 3% and rising, while nominal GDP posted an impressive 6.6% in the second quarter of June 2004.
To reiterate, the last time the Fed began to raise rates it did so on the back of higher than normal nominal GDP, rising long-term interest rates and a positively sloping yield curve. With this in mind, let's take a look at the environment for the current tightening cycle.
The FOMC began its latest rate hiking campaign on December 17, 2015. At that time, the Ten-year note was 2.24%, and two-year Note was just 1%. Hence, the 2-10 year Note spread was 1.24%. And in the fourth quarter of 2015 nominal GDP was 2.3%, while real GDP was a paltry 1.4%.
As the markets sit with bated breath for the threatened second rate hike by the FOMC, the Ten-year Note Yield has actually decreased to 1.72% and the Two-Year Note dropped to 0.8%, creating a yield spread of a meager 92 basis points. This is the tightest yield spread since November of 2007. Making matters worse, nominal GDP during Q1 was 1.4% and Real GDP was 0.8%. Therefore, after just one measly rate hike from the FOMC, the yield curve is already flattening, and the rate of economic growth is shrinking.
Not Your Normal Rate Hike Scenario
June 2004 December 2015 Current Data
Nominal GDP 6.6% 2.3% 1.4%
Real GDP 3.0% 1.4% 0.8%
CPI 3.2% 0.7% 1.1%
10 Year Note 4.62% 2.24% 1.72%
2 Year Note 2.7% 1.0% 0.80%
Yield Spread 1.92% 1.24% 0.92%
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This is in sharp contrast to what occurred in 2004. Back then the bond market didn't immediately succumb to the Fed's initial raise in rates. The long end of the curve, as well as inflation, pushed onward despite the Fed's attempts to slow them both down.
However, the yield curve did eventually invert by 2006 when the Fed Funds rate climbed to 5.25%. An inverted yield curve forebodes a recession because the money supply contracts once banks find it unprofitable to make new loans, and this causes asset bubbles to pop.
If this trend of a rising Fed Funds Rate and falling long-term rates continues, the yield curve will invert with just a few more interest rate hikes and over the course of the next few quarters.
And this brings us to the most salient point of this commentary: the major problem is the Fed will most likely have around 400 basis points less ammo (room to lower interest rates) during this next economic contraction than it had to pull the economy out of the Great Recession of 2008.
From September 2007 to December 2008, the Fed reduced rates by 525 basis points to 0%.
However, during this next recession, the Fed will only be able to take back the handful of 25 basis point increases it managed to push through before the gravitational forces of deflation plunged the economy into its next collapse.
Indeed, the Fed very well may be filled with such hubris to believe its ZIRP and QE's have healed the economy to the point that it can normalize interest rates with impunity. But that is not the message that the bond market or the economy is telling.
In fact, the FOMC itself will tell you that its desire to raise rates is not to quell an economy on the verge of bubbling over, but it is instead to stockpile interest rate ammunition to fight the next recession. Conversely, it will be these next few hikes that will expedite the economy's cliff dive that will lead us to a recession worse than 2008.
The sad truth is that it is virtually impossible, after 90 months of ZIRP and the creation of unprecedented asset bubbles and capital imbalances, for the Fed to raise rates at just the right pace to maintain a 2% inflation target. Our central bank will gradually hike rates until the yield curve inverts once again, and a deflationary depression ensues. Such is the unavoidable consequence of choosing to abrogate markets in favor of financial despotism.
GERMANY´S STRANGE TURN AGAINST TRADE / PROJECT SYNDICATE
| Etiquetas: Germany, Trade
Germany’s Strange Turn Against Trade
Marcel Fratzscher
BERLIN – The window of opportunity to complete the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union is closing quickly.
National elections will be held this year and next in the US, France, and Germany, and the campaigns will play out in an environment that is increasingly hostile to international agreements in any form. The biggest risk might come from the least likely source: Germany, an export powerhouse.
As it stands, some 70% of Germans citizens oppose the TTIP, almost twice the average in other European countries. They overwhelmingly believe that Germany will not benefit economically, that lower-skill workers’ wages will suffer, that large corporations will gain power at the expense of consumers, that data and environmental protection will be compromised, and that citizens’ rights will be undermined.
But a slew of studies have proved all of these claims to be overblown or outright wrong. In fact, Germany – whose economic progress since the end of World War II has been driven by its consistent openness to international trade and economic integration, and which remains one of Europe’s most open and trade-dependent economies – would be among the main beneficiaries of the TTIP.
It is projected that the TTIP would raise annual per capita income in Germany by 1-3%, or €300-1,000 per year by 2035. Moreover, with nearly 50% of German jobs linked, directly or indirectly, to the tradable sector, the deal would also help protect employment. And, by boosting the ability of the US and Europe to set global business standards, German firms’ international competitiveness would rise. Not every individual or company stands to gain from the TTIP, but the net effect on Germany’s economy and citizens would be clearly positive.
Why, then, do so many in Germany oppose the deal?
One reason is that Germany’s apparent economic success has increased aversion to change.
The country not only endured the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and the European sovereign debt crisis; it has actually thrived in recent years, experiencing robust GDP growth and impressive wage gains. The unemployment rate has been halved since 2005, reaching a record low of 4.6% today, and its current-account surplus has soared to a staggering 8% of GDP.
The sense of being Europe’s economic superstar has generated policy inertia, bringing the country almost to a complete standstill on economic reforms. While most other Europeans are desperately looking for any opportunity to pull their country out of crisis, Germans see little reason to meddle with an ostensibly prosperous status quo.
Unfortunately for Germany, its current path is not as smooth and secure as people like to think.
In fact, since its lost decade as the “sick man of Europe” in the 2000s, Germany has caught up with other advanced economies in only some areas. It still has one of the lowest rates of public and private investment among OECD countries, and will be hit harder than most by a dramatic demographic shift over the next decade. Beyond providing an immediate economic boost, the TTIP would help Germany weather the longer-term challenges it faces.
Germany’s opposition to the TTIP also reflects the recent surge in populist and nationalist sentiment in much of the Western world. The appeal of such forces is particularly pronounced in the EU, owing to the popular perception that European integration has weakened national sovereignty and left citizens subject to decision-making by unelected technocrats. The last thing many Europeans want is yet another set of supra-national rules, formulated behind closed doors, governing their economies.
This sentiment is especially acute for Germans, who remain bitter at, as they perceive it, having been Europe’s paymaster during the crisis. Some now fear that the TTIP is just another trick, intended to take advantage of Germany’s economic strength and generosity. Overcoming this fear will be no easy feat.
A third reason for Germany’s opposition to the TTIP is that the country is already engaged in a battle for wealth redistribution. Germany currently has the highest inequality in private wealth in the eurozone, and it has experienced a sharp increase in wage inequality over the last two decades.
In fact, many Germans anticipate a further increase in inequality. Not only is the minimum wage widely circumvented; some politicians have capitalized on fears of the current influx of refugees to win votes, claiming that openness to foreigners will only make inequality worse.
Compounding Germans’ disillusionment is the sense – shared by many in Europe and elsewhere – that the system is “rigged.” Volkswagen managers received huge bonuses this year, despite the global scandal caused by the company’s years-long effort to evade emissions standards. And the release of the Panama Papers has revealed how the wealthiest avoid paying taxes. Claims that the TTIP would benefit primarily the wealthy have thus struck a chord with labor unions and others.
A trade-dependent economy has much to gain from freer trade, especially with a market as large as the US. Germany should be using its political clout to push its European counterparts to seal the deal. Instead, with the popularity of the country’s two largest political parties, the Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democrats, falling fast, Germany’s leaders are unlikely to push an unpopular deal. That is bad news for everyone – especially Germans.
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A Touch Warmer And Quiet
Today’s weather will be pleasant with seasonal temperatures reaching 65 degrees. The sky will be partly sunny today with a thin layer of clouds through the mid-morning and into the afternoon. There may be some thicker clouds too but none will produce any rain. It will continue to be breezy but not as breezy today, with winds from the NNE at 10 – 15 mph. The sky clears overnight tonight with a low of 49 degrees. We’re warming up through the work week as we will see more sunshine and calmer winds. Tuesday’s high will reach 70 along with Wednesday and likely Thursday. Our next chance for rain comes on Friday night into Saturday as a wave of rain showers reaches southwestern Connecticut from the west.
Monday's Sunshine!
Monday will be Partly Sunny with highs in the lower to mid 60s. It will be a touch cooler than our seasonal average for this time of year but it will be overall pleasant. Winds will begin to get gradually calmer going into Tuesday.
The tides will come close to 10 feet and only affect vulnerable low-lying coastal areas. Expect this to continue through the start of the week.
A COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY is in effect for coastal areas of southwestern Connecticut until Sunday evening for gusty winds that will influence high tides.
WEEKEND OUTLOOK - COASTAL FLOOD THREAT
The weekend is starting on a damp note. Most of the rain this weekend will fall Friday night. Some leftover showers are possible on Saturday, especially during the morning.
The gusty wind will stick around all weekend. Wind gusts from the northeast will reach 30 to 35 mph.
A coastal flood advisory is in effect for Saturday afternoon. High tide is around 4 P.M. No significant flooding is expected.
HURRICANE JOAQUIN OUT TO SEA
The latest track from the National Hurricane Center takes Hurricane Joaquin out to sea. On this path, there would be no impact on southwestern Connecticut.
Joaquin Track
We'll continue to closely monitor the storm all weekend!
Here's a look at the outlook for the afternoon. Drops all day! It will remain breezy. Don't forget about the higher high tides and minor coastal flooding in low-lying coastal areas this afternoon. You can thank the easterly winds!
Don't worry too much about Joaquin - the track continues to be forecast to the east, which sends the storm out to sea. Minor inconsistencies are still present but will be carefully monitored for any changes.
MODEL MADNESS CONTINUES
What a dramatic change in the computer model output from Wednesday to Thursday!
On Wednesday, a number of models were indicating a landfall near the Carolinas. The National Hurricane Center official track was pointing to a landfall along the east coast. By Wednesday night and Thursday, the models are showing the storm tracking to our east. Now, the official forecast from the NHC takes the storm to our east.
It should be noted that hurricanes are notoriously difficult to forecast. Significant errors can occur, especially four to five days out. I wrote yesterday that the "key" to the forecast of a Carolina landfall is the upper level low over the southeast "capturing" the storm and pulling it inland. The modeling has shifted away from that being the most likely outcome.
There is still potential for some impact here in southwestern Connecticut, so we need to keep an eye on things. If the storm makes landfall along the coast to our south, we would experience some impacts due to the hurricane's interaction with other systems. Obviously if the storm makes landfall nearby, the impacts would be more significant. If the storm heads out to sea, the impacts could be minimal to none depending on how far out to sea the track is.
It'll be gusty for the next few days no matter what happens with Joaquin.
Official Track from National Hurricane Center
A sampling of computer model tracks for Joaquin
COOL & DAMP FRIDAY - MINOR TO MODERATE COASTAL FLOODING
-Meteorologist Garett Argianas
While there is plenty of focus on Hurricane Joaquin and the storm's potential impact on the east coast, we should not lose focus on the unsettled weather forecast for Friday. Periods of rain are likely through the day. The rain may be heavy at times. It'll be cool and raw with a gusty NNE wind. We already experienced coastal flooding on Thursday, and we are expecting additional high water around the time of high tide on Friday. The high tide times are around 3 A.M. and 3 P.M.
CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE JOAQUIN
It is a serious situation in the Bahamas as dangerous Hurricane Joaquin is slamming the region with tropical rain, wind gusts of 160 mph and rough surf.
Here is the latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center. The forecast track is much farther east than yesterday.
Category 3 Hurricane Jaoquin
...has intensified and is expected to turn north and ride along the coast. The forecast track remains uncertain as model guidance is still inconsistent and questionable (A couple of reliable outliers are partly contributing to the uncertainty). Ultimately, the storm will exit through the northeast ->IF
Currently, steering winds are indicating that the storm could "wobble" as it tracks up along the coast.
Will the effects be strong? That is still in question.
For now, thinking of making basic preparations wouldn't hurt.
HYPERLOCAL FORECAST:
Expect clouds and breezy conditions through today. Rain for tomorrow (Friday) and more clouds for Saturday.
HURRICANE JOAQUIN - What is the most likely impact on southwestern Connecticut?
The official forecast from the National Hurricane Center and the majority of hurricane model forecasts indicate that the storm will make landfall near the Carolina coast. On this path, the worst of the storm will miss us; however, some local impacts are still likely as Joaquin interacts with other players in the atmosphere.
Windy Weekend
An area of strong high pressure will build across eastern Canada over the weekend. As the hurricane works up the coast, this will create a large pressure gradient (difference in air pressure over a distance) across the northeast. This pressure gradient creates wind; therefore, a high pressure gradient results in stronger winds. At this point, it appears that wind gusts could reach 40-50 mph. This wind forecast will likely be revised in the coming days as the projections become clearer.
The strong, persistent easterly wind will force water into Long Island Sound. Moderate coastal flooding is possible around the time of high tide all weekend into early next week.
Periods of showers/rain are most likely in the Sunday to Monday time frame. Typically, the heaviest rain falls in areas along and to the left of the storm track.
HURRICANE JOAQUIN UPDATE - Meteorologist Garett Argianas - Wednesday, September 30
The key to the track of Hurricane Joaquin is an upper-level low that is projected to be over the southeastern United States this weekend. This upper-level low (essentially a counter-clockwise whirlpool of air) is expected to "capture" the hurricane as it tracks up the coast and shift the storm track to the west. This would bring the storm into the central east coast.
The red line below represents the official forecast track from the National Hurricane Center as of 8 PM Wednesday. You can see how the storm track bends to the west on the periphery of the upper-level low.
Steering Currents for Hurricane Joaquin
Here's a look at a number of computer model projections:
Joaquin Model Tracks
The computer models are favoring a landfall somewhere in the Carolinas. The NHC official track has shifted west over the past 24 hours likely due to the clustering of computer model solutions. If this trend continues, expect the official track to shift farther west in later forecasts.
It should be noted that some models never turn the storm to the north. This possibility seems less likely, but cannot be ignored.
A landfall somewhere in Virginia to the Carolinas is the most likely outcome; however, plenty can change four to five days out. We'll keep you posted!
Blood Supermoon Viewing
The Blood Supermoon will be seen high in the southeastern sky during the eclipse. A supermoon is typically 14% larger in appearance and brighter since its orbit brings it closer to the earth. However, when the eclipse starts at 8:11PM the moon will begin to get darker as it slowly dips into the shadows of our planet.
The moon will begin turning “red” at 10:11. Red light from the sun’s spectrum is able to make it through to the side of the earth facing away from the Sun because of the refraction of light on our atmosphere! (#HowCoolIsThat?!)
The sun will then align perfectly with the earth and moon at 10:47PM where you will see the 'Full Eclipse' stage – where the moon will be fully red.
The moon will then slowly lose its color and become brighter after 10:47PM and the eclipse will conclude at 11:23PM.
High and thin clouds are expected to be out this evening and this will blur the clarity of the moon, but breaks in these clouds will provide a clearer sight of the moon. Don’t expect a thick overcast – but also don’t expect a clear and perfect sky.
A Blood Supermoon is not expected to return until October 8, 2033 – but only fully visible from the West Coast of the USA! So get out there, try to snap photos, and just simply enjoy!
Higher High Tides!
MINOR COASTAL FLOODING is expected along western Connecticut coastal regions with tides about 0.5 ft to 1 ft above standard high tide heights. This is expected for tonight, Sunday morning, and Sunday evening as a result of lunar influences and easterly winds.
Lunar influences? The moon is closer to Earth tomorrow - known as perigee.
A rare “Blood Supermoon” will occur on Sunday night and be visible from southwestern Connecticut.
Supermoons occur when the moon orbits closest to the earth, providing a brighter appearance that also looks on average 14% larger than your typical moon. A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon falls into the earth’s shadow – giving the lunar surface a red appearance, often dubbed as a blood moon.
What makes this event “rare”? It is the concurrence of a supermoon and a lunar eclipse. Only 5 supermoon lunar eclipses occurred since 1900 (1910, 1928, 1946, 1964, 1982).
The eclipse will begin at 8:11PM on Sunday with a darkening moon and the total eclipse will start at 10:11PM but peak at 10:47PM. Don’t wait too long to check it out, because the full eclipse will end near 11:23PM.
Currently the forecast calls for some broken clouds – but the sky won’t be an overcast. So there will be opportunity to check out the moon.
Hazy Sunshine
Filtered sunshine will continue through Saturday evening with some breaks of blue skies. The sun will set at 6:41PM leaving a few clouds to linger overnight. Sunday opens with a mix of higher thin clouds and sunshine. The wind will continue to be breezy through Sunday – coming from the northeast at about 10 – 20mph. Broken cloud cover arrives on Sunday night – along with a supermoon lunar eclipse. This will occur starting at 10:11 PM. Temperatures through Sunday will max near 70 degrees. Monday will be slightly warmer with a chance for afternoon sprinkles. Tuesday offers a better chance for showers through the day. A cold front will then swing through Tuesday night into Wednesday – taking the showers with it. It turns partly sunny from Wednesday to Friday.
#SweaterWeather
A pattern change brings sweater weather mornings and evenings to southwestern Connecticut. It’s that time of the year where lows drop down into the upper 40s in parts of our area. Highs this week will be trending seasonable and cooler than the last. Highs for Monday will reach 71 degrees with breezy and dry conditions. Monday night features more clouds as a storm develops to the south. We don’t expect to see this storm – just some of the clouds from it. Sun and clouds will be the story as we go through the next week along with dry and seasonal temperatures. The autumn season starts on Wednesday morning, roughly 2 days away.
High thin clouds on Saturday are signs of a cold front that is approaching the area for the overnight hours. A very small and brief sprinkle is possible – but unlikely as the system is moving to the northeast, pulling the bulk of the moisture northeast with it. A few sprinkles are expected overnight and into Sunday morning but then increasing sunshine through the day. Dry weather continues through the next week but with a catch. The dry air coming in from behind the cold front overnight will have low humidity. It will also be breezy on Sunday and Monday. Since the ground is parched – it is likely there could be an increased risk for fire weather. Outdoor flames should be monitored and extinguished immediately if one sparks. Temperatures also moderate cooler and near seasonal through next week.
Today is the last day of the hiccup amongst the sunshine! A few stray showers are expected this late afternoon and early evening but we are not expecting a wash out. The conditions will turn relatively drier for the next week, again. Tonight’s low temperature drops to 57 degrees with clear skies. The winds will begin to become breezy by Monday morning and the high will be slightly above seasonal at 77 degrees. Any boaters out on the waters can expect choppy waves up to 2 – 3 feet in the Long Island Sound along with gusts as high as 15 kts. The temperature increases to the lower and mid 80s by midweek this week under sunshine and the next chance for rain is hinted beyond the 7 day forecast – on Sunday.
Fall Is Around The Corner!
Sunshine will continue through Tuesday where humidity increases gradually across the area into Wednesday. The humidity begins to destabilize the atmosphere by Wednesday where we cannot rule out a chance to see some puffy clouds develop into scattered showers and thunderstorms. Wednesday starts off dry with a slight breeze and then there will be small chances for showers in the afternoon and early evening. A cold front begins to narrow into southwestern Connecticut by Thursday where we can expect rain late in the day on Thursday lasting overnight into Friday. Friday’s conditions gradually, yet slowly improves where we can see increasing sunshine. Temperatures also drop towards the end of the week. Tuesday and Wednesday’s highs push closer towards 90 degrees. The front drops the temperatures to the lower 80s for Friday and the upper 70s for the weekend. There is a small possibility to see a pop up shower on Saturday afternoon but chances are decreasing as high pressure is expected to push through for the weekend before rain chances approach on Monday.
Sunday was beautifully warm! Highs reached the upper 80s under clear and sunny skies. The wind is now coming from the southwest and it will be slowly raising the humidity through the first half of the week. Labor Day will be warm again with a high of 87 degrees. Clear skies continue into Tuesday with more sunshine and noticeable humidity. There will be more clouds on Wednesday mixed with the sunshine and then a cold front swings through late on Thursday night into Friday, providing some rain through Friday morning. The clouds linger through the weekend along with some cooler temperatures, likely to be more seasonal for the weekend. Today’s forecast calls for decreasing chances for rain for next Saturday.
Labor Day Forecast
Labor Day weekend is going to be fantastic all across southwestern Connecticut. We expect highs to top out into the lower 80s through Sunday and Monday but a slight increase of humidity by Monday. The sun will shine all weekend where some more clouds are expected for Tuesday. The week ahead is mostly dry except towards the weekend where a disturbance moves through to the area on Thursday night into Friday where we can expect increasing cloud cover and a good chance for showers. As of now, the weather takes a turn for next weekend in the way of clouds and more seasonal temperatures with highs near 78 degrees.
Hazy sunshine continues into the evening where a few clouds will pop up that could bring a chance for a stray shower. Some afternoon stray showers already crossed through Greenwich but only bringing a light sprinkle – not even a drizzle. The clouds continues to pass through overnight as a disturbance moved across the Ohio Valley through Pennsylvania and into our area. This will improve by Monday morning where clear skies and plenty of sunshine will start the day. The highs on Monday rise close to 90 across southwestern Connecticut. Some areas may see 92 degrees if given enough sunshine. The humidity will be high too but not high enough to trigger a Heat Advisory at this time. Overnight lows stay relatively mild with sticky conditions at 70 degrees. The heat continues through the week with chances for late afternoon pop up showers on Monday and Wednesday.
Southwesterly Winds
The wind is coming from the south-southwest through Sunday. We will see somewhat muggy conditions and warm temperatures. More clouds increase on Sunday afternoon and evening where a small chance for a pop of shower is possible anywhere across southwestern Connecticut. The overall forecast is dry moving into the midweek. Expect highs to reach 90 by Wednesday.
Let's talk Tropics...
Erika is moving west-northwest over the island of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti) where the mountainous terrain is expected to weaken the storm as it passes through. It could weaken enough to just a tropical depression after passing Hispaniola.
Erika is likely to regain some strength as a tropical storm as it tracks towards Florida. It would only intensity to a stronger Tropical Storm but it is unlikely to strengthen to a Category 1 Hurricane.
The cone of uncertainty extends across Florida which could place the exact track of the storm anywhere between western Florida and Eastern Florida - yet Florida is expected to see stormy weather.
High pressure (fair, sunny, and not stormy weather) lingers over the eastern portion of the country. This has potential to keep the storm to the south as we continue through next week – preventing or stalling the storm’s motion up the Gulf Stream towards the northeast.
Florida and portions of the deep south are likely to be in for a few rainy, windy, and cloudy days through next week.
If Erika makes landfall in Florida, it would be the first tropical system to make landfall in Florida since Wilma in October 2005.
A beautiful weekend is in store!
...But we can say goodbye to these refreshing conditions as some humidity is expected to increase through Saturday afternoon and Sunday. The temperatures will also begin rising through midweek next week.
A batch of high pressure - known as fair weather - will be vacationing over the us for the next week. Plenty of sunshine ahead, so if you missed it yesterday AND today - it'll be there tomorrow!
But what about hiccups in the forecast? Monday afternoon - a stray shower or sprinkle is possible - but nothing truly noticeable. Same for Wednesday!
Refreshing & Cooler
The air is very refreshing and cooler – our highs this afternoon struggle rise higher than 81 degrees. Low tonight will be dropping down to a cooler 59 degrees and some of our northern communities may be as low as 56 degrees. This will be chilly for some people who are sensitive to cooler temperatures. Friday opens up sunny again with a mix of a few fluffy clouds. Friday’s high will be 79 degrees. An area of high pressure to the west is to thank for this gorgeous weather. It is a mass of Canadian air that will slowly push through this weekend. By Saturday night and into Sunday the winds begin to shift coming from the southwest and west and this results in a slight increase of humidity. A weak front looks to come close to the area on Sunday night into Monday and that could bring a chance for a stray shower. Temperatures next week average out to about 85 degrees with the continuation of a mostly quiet weather pattern.
If we can call any weather pattern perfect for the end of August…this would be it. We are seeing lasting sunshine for the remainder of the week and into the weekend. The humidity is low with a breeze from the W-NW and highs in the lower 80s. A slightly cooler feel will be the weather story for Thursday and Friday where highs will be refreshing barely making it any warmer than 80 degrees. The nightly lows will be in the lower 60s and even the upper to mid-50s north of the Merritt Parkway. Combine that with low humidity – it will feel refreshingly cool – a taste of autumn indeed. Winds calm for Thursday and Friday to be light and variable before changing to be southwest – southerly on Saturday and Sunday. This will slowly inject more humidity where some more fluffy clouds mixed with sunshine can be expected for the weekend. The weekend’s highs will be warmer at about 83 and 84 degrees respectively. The next chance for some scattered rain showers will be Sunday into Monday as a potential front can be in sight.
Where's the rain!?!
This week had been an interesting weather week! With a "retrograding" front on Sunday - to a bulk of rain the grazing past southwestern Connecticut in Westchester and Putnam counties this morning. Now we see more in the way of sunshine and warmer than forecast temperatures. Highs this afternoon will reach close to 85 degrees.
A chance for scattered pop-up showers this evening remains for everyone but there is some dry and somewhat stable air in place to the west - I see these pop up showers more likely for our eastern communities - but just keep an eye to the sky for a billowing cumulus clouds later this afternoon/evening.
Taste of Autumn
The sunset was beautiful once again this evening! We saw tonight's
clouds in the distance. A mostly cloudy overnight with sprinkles leaves
way for a day of scattered rain showers tomorrow. Don't expect a
wash-out but expect some rain in the area that could be moderate between
10AM and 2PM. The last of the showers end after 5PM.
Muggy, Warm, Sunny
Humid and unsettled weather lingers over southwestern Connecticut for Monday – It’s hard to tell as the skies are broken with peeks of sunshine and scattered clouds. More clouds will increase overnight into Tuesday where a cold front approaches from the west. There is a chance for some showers on Tuesday morning and then the likelihood for moderate rain and a weak thunderstorm increases for the midday. The front slowly pushes eastwards out of the area by sunset and the skies will clear going into Wednesday. Wednesday opens up sunny and crisp with low humidity – very autumn-like. A blocking pattern keeps the fair weather over southwestern Connecticut for the ending of this week. Temperatures will be seasonal with highs near 81 degrees for Thursday and Friday with lows in the mid-60s.
by DGREEN1 8/10/2015 12:23:31 AM
Another day with temperatures slightly below average.
Another nice night!
Periods of heavy rain may cause flooding on Tuesday.
There is a slight risk of severe weather as heavy rain and gusty winds are in the forecast for Tuesday as low pressure drags a cold front across the region. By Wednesday, high pressure will return us to pleasant summer weather.
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U of Columbia will give tenure to another racist
HATEMONGER U?
COLUMBIA University is about to give tenure to an anti-Israel extremist. Joseph Massad, an associate professor of modern Arab politics, has a history of shouting down his students. He compares Jews to Nazis and bizarrely accuses Israel of "anti-Semitism" for its treatment of the Palestinians. (Massad is a Palestinian.) In a course description, he describes his class on Israeli-Arab relations as "not balanced."
Why does this ivory-tower controversy matter? After 9/11, we simply can't leave Middle East studies to partisans. We need genuine scholars to train future diplomats, analysts and officers. The government and the press rely on professors to explain events in the Arab world.
Of course, Columbia has long been home to anti-Israel scholars. Edward Said, who taught there until his death in 2003, spent more time worrying about "US imperialism" and "Zionism" than on injustices such as terrorism and the oppression of women and religious minorities in Arab societies. Most recently, Columbia's sister school, Barnard, tenured Nadia Abu El-Haj, who called the ancient Jewish kingdoms of David and Solomon "a modern nation's onging myth . . . " Why add one more?
Some Internet rumors claim Massad was denied tenure, but Columbia sources say that the process is ongoing; a spokesman insists the details are "confidential." The final decision is due soon.
Why shouldn't Massad get tenure - lifelong job security?
His critics cite three broad flaws that, taken together, could undermine Columbia's reputation:
Misstatement of facts: These are not simple errors; when they've been called to his attention, he has brushed them aside or unconvincingly denied making the statement.
* In class and in public, Massad has argued that Israel massacred Palestinians at Jenin in 2002. A UN investigation found no evidence of a massacre at Jenin.
* Writing in the Egyptian weekly al-Ahram, he suggested that Israel poisoned Yasser Arafat. He cited no evidence. In reality, Israel provided for Arafat's medical evacuation to France.
* Massad claims "Jewish colonists [in Israel] were part of the British colonial death squads that murdered Palestinian revolutionaries between 1936 and 1939 while Hitler unleashed Kristallnacht against German Jews." Note the false equivalency between British police and Jewish residents and the Nazis.
And, of course, there is no evidence of organized Jewish involvement. Indeed, the British also took armed action against the Jews.
Mistreating students: Over the last few years, a number of students have come forward to talk about how Massad treated them in the classroom.
One is Deena Shanker, who attended Massad's course in 2002. She said that Massad shouted her down and ordered her to leave his class if she kept denying that Israel committed atrocities.
Massad denied her account and said a faculty panel exonerated him. In fact, the panel's published report found him guilty. The relevant passage:
"Upon extensive deliberation, the committee finds it credible that Professor Massad became angered at a question that he understood to countenance Israeli conduct of which he disapproved, and that he responded heatedly. While we have no reason to believe that Professor Massad intended to expel Ms. Shanker from the classroom [she did not, in fact, leave the class], his rhetorical response to her query exceeded commonly accepted bounds by conveying that her question merited harsh public criticism.
"Angry criticism directed at a student in class because she disagrees, or appears to disagree, with a faculty member on a matter of substance is not consistent with the obligation 'to show respect for the rights of others to hold opinions differing from their own,' to exercise 'responsible self-discipline' and 'to demonstrate appropriate restraint.' "
Why grant tenure to a professor who has an adversarial relationship with his students?
A non-scholarly temperament: Massad often seems far more a propagandist than an impartial analyst.
* His published work suggests that his heart lies with the terrorists of Hamas. In March, he mourned the "economic choking and starvation" caused by the "international isolation" of Hamas. Last November, he wrote that Hamas "can defend the rights of the Palestinians to resist the Israeli occupation and the well-armed Palestinian collaborators that help to enforce it."
And, yes, he is critical of Palestinians who criticize Hamas.
* The only book on Israel that he assigned in his introductory class was "Israel, a Colonial Settler State?" by a French Marxist scholar, Maxime Rodinson. It concludes, "Jews have as much right to Israel as Arabs have to Spain."
To students, Massad often seems less like a scholar than a prosecutor presenting his case. Three students recently came forward to say that Massad "repeatedly likened Israel to apartheid South Africa, dismissed its legitimacy as a Jewish state and almost never addressed human-rights abuses in countries such as Iraq, Iran and Syria."
Massad regularly told his students that "Zionism got its name from the Hebrew slang for penis, Zayin." While this is plainly untrue, is this the language of a Columbia professor?
If he's awarded tenure, Massad will be at Columbia for life. He will have no incentive to become dispassionate - and every incentive to become even more of an activist.
Can't Columbia do better?
Richard Miniter is a bestselling author and fellow at the Hudson Institute.
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Yellowcard Signs To Razor & Tie Records; To Release New Album This Fall
By Tyler Sharp · On March 20, 2014
The Scoop: Pop-rock outfit Yellowcard has announced that they have officially signed to Razor & Tie Records and will be releasing a brand new full-length album this fall. You can check out what the band had to say on signing below.
“We are beyond excited for what lies ahead. There are so many amazing opportunities on the horizon for us, and we are stoked to have a new partner in Razor & Tie.”
The Spin: This announcement comes on the heels of drummer Longinue Parsons announcing his departure from the band just this past week. Be sure to stay tuned to our Facebook and Twitter pages for all the latest news and updates from Yellowcard and your favorite Razor & Tie artists.
The Question: What do you think of the band leaving Hopeless for R&T? Let us know in the comments below!
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I like to think of myself as a musical savant; if I learn anything new about music (or in some way relating to music) I stow it away within the confines of my mind. The more knowledge I have about the industry and music itself, the better I feel. Underoath is the reason I am who I am today. NCIS is the greatest show on television. Fall is the best time of year. Writing is my passion.
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Sticky Post By sebastianmarincolo Posted in Essays 2016 Permalink
September 5, 2016 sebastianmarincolo
Henri Michaux and The Flying Carpet: Cannabis Explorations of an Unique Mind
Sticky Post By sebastianmarincolo On September 5, 2016
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
He was admired by many of his contemporaries both for his poetry and writing as well as for his unique paintings. The French writer Andre Gide was so fascinated by his work that he wrote a book to promote him entitled Let’s Discover Henri Michaux. The eminent German Poet Paul Celan, who translated Michaux into German, thought that Michaux’s work was just as enigmatic and hard to decipher as Kafka’s writings. The art critic Peter Schjedahl wrote about him in the New York Times:
„He strikes me as being one of the most palpably authentic of post-war European artists. Influenced by Ernst and Klee, he created an art of energized ideograms and meandering calligraphy, of figures evolving haphazardly out of weltering chaos, or of the chaos asserting itself to wipe out anything recognizable.“[1]
Untitled Chinese Ink Drawing 1961 Henri Michaux 1899-1984 Purchased 1963 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/T00577
Michaux was born in 1899 in the small Belgian town of Namur, the very town where the French writer and poet Charles Baudelaire died. Like Baudelaire and the German philosopher Walter Benjamin, Michaux experimented with several psychoactive substances including hashish to explore what he would call the “space inside.” Baudelaire, Benjamin, and Michaux certainly belong to the most vigorous, proficient, and brilliant psychonauts ever.[2]All three of them were prodigious literates and explicitly set out to self-experiment with hashish determined to express their journeys into the inner realm of consciousness.
Like Baudelaire and Benjamin, Michaux left us with incredibly perceptive, poetic and sometimes cryptic descriptions of the effects of cannabis on the human mind. Michaux is much better know for his writing on his mescaline experiments – he also created many of his more famous paintings under the influence of this substance – yet his writing on hashish is just as profound and insightsful. Like the writing of Baudelaire, and Benjamin’s protocols written under the influence of the hashish high, Michaux’s writing needs decoding and interpretation. But from all we know about the cannabis high today we can say that he beautifully and accurately described many of the most amazing effects of the cannabis high in meticulous detail.
The three dedicated psychonauts often experimented with very large ingested doses of hashish, which led to much more pronounced effects on their mind and body than those experienced by most modern recreational users after having a few tokes from a vaporizer or smoking a few joints. This allowed them to make observations on some extreme effects, which help to understand the nature of the marijuana high. It is especially interesting to see in how much vivid detail Michaux described many interesting cognitive and perceptual enhancements of the hashish high.[3]
A Sense of Wonder, Hyperfocus, and Stereovision
In his book “Miserable Miracle”, Michaux notes:
“Anyone who takes hashish as an experiment witness after taking mescaline leaves a racing automobile or a long distance electric locomotive for a pony.”
He adds in a footnote: “A pony, however, is capable of surprises not to be looked from a locomotive.”[4]
During a high, Michaux finds many surprises – and he follows their trail.
Myriads of cannabis users have reported that a cannabis high makes them feel as if they would perceive something for the first time; whatever comes to their attention often comes with a strong feeling of awe and curiosity. This is certainly one of the great enhancements a high can bring. For the philosophers Aristotle and Plato, the feeling of awe and amazement towards something perceived or contemplated is the very beginning of all philosophy. If we feel this, we do not take something as given anymore and we wonder about it, we start our investigation. Many cannabis user had this feeling of awe seeing an landscape, hearing music, or experiencing a kiss as if it was for the first time.
In his book Miserable Miracle, Michaux writes:
“(…) whatever Hashish displays interests me. I follow it all the way. I want to know the end. I want to know where it is taking me.”[5]
Looking at a photograph, he writes: “And I so devoured this colored landscape with a new eagerness. How wonderful looking it is! A new youth came back to me, one of the subtlest, the youth of the eye.”[6]
Michaux also observes that the hashish high focuses his attention (I have often called this the “hyperfocus”-effect of attention during a high):
“With Hashish in me I am a falcon. If I give a circular glance it will be only once, as one makes a general survey, not to be repeated. I am against dispersion. I look for an object in order to follow its trail. (…) Nothing can distract me.”
When looking at a photography during a high, Michaux notes a that he can see with ‘marvelous optical dexterity’. He describes and names ‘stereovision’ of a photograph – which makes him see the photo better ‘in depth’– and also describes ‘stereoaudition’ of sounds.
An enhanced ability for stereovision has also been reported by other cannabis users, such as an anonymous planetary geologist to Lester Grinspoon’s collection of anecdotal reports of marijuana-users. This scientist reports that planetary geologists rely on two stereo image photos of planetary landscapes taken from two slightly different angles by satellites and that usually, one needs a mechanical device like a stereo-opticon to judge depth perception from those paired photos:
“An early stereo image photo which can create the illusion of depth with a mechanica aid. The illusion can also be created with an animated gif using a rapid succession of such stereo images: See for instance: http://stereo.nypl.org/view/21724”
„But one evening we smoked some especially potent marihuana, purely for pleasure. I amused myself by looking at a pair of stereo photographs that had been left in the room. Suddenly the two pictures merged into a single three-dimensional view. It was like a gift from God.“[7]
Altered Body Image Perception and The Flying Carpet
Interestingly, Michaux also notes a drastic change in his perception of his own body. Many users have times again reported that they have intensified body sensations during a high. Under very strong dosages, users report body image distortions (such as feeling that one’s foot must be 3 meters away) as well as ‘loosing their body’ completely. Likewise, Michaux writes:
“At the time I did not know that the sensation of floating in the air, of being weightless, was one of the characteristics of hashish. The flying carpet is not just a legend, but an old reality in Persia and Arabia where for centuries Indian hemp made people float on the air and travel through the skies.” [8]
Enhanced Episodic Memory, Imagination, and Transforming Imagery
Apart from those perceptual changes, Michaux describes the enhancement of his episodic memory retrieval during his high:
“Later on at home I begin vaguely going over in my mind a scene of a motion picture seen a few days before, when suddenly the noises and the voices from the episode – “burst out” and violently throw themselves at me. A memory revived, but stronger than the original expression.”
His experience with an intensified imagery during a high supposedly comes from ingesting a large dosages of hashish which can cause visual ‘trips’:
“These images were distinct, stayed quietly in place. I had enough time (just enough) to see them clearly. It was like a series of very short scenes in color, very well composed (…).”[9]
Interestingly, Michaux also notes how these images went through associative transformations, a process which can easily be seen to be a rich source of creative exploration for an artist:
“A rope I was watching, coiling there, suddenly ended in the red muzzle of a little feline, (a sort of ocelot, it looked to me, (…) its neck being made of rope, although its muzzle was very life-like and menacing). (…) Another time a complicated assemblage of metal pieces I am examining suddenly turns into a machine gun pointing at me.”[10]
Enhanced Empathic Understanding
We have countless reports from inspirational users of marijuana about how a high helped them to empathically understand others, to better imaginative to be in the situation of somebody else and to feel this person’s feelings. For a few years now, adults as well as children with various forms of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) have been reported to profit immensely from consumed cannabis. Under the influence of a high, they seem to be better able to understand the emotions and needs of others around them.[11]
Reading a text during a high, Michaux finds that hashish can help to understand and “feel” the author’s personality:
“You can hear the authors in person (….) Words no longer play any part. The man who is behind them comes out in front. (…) The text, at whatever point you pick it up, becomes a voice, (…) and the man speaks behind this voice. The man who wrote it is there. Hashish opens the inner space of sentences (…). The author thus unmasked never altogether recovered his mantle or his former retreat ”[12]
In another passage, Michaux indicates that during a high his thinking is what other users have described as “almost telepathic.” Michaux writes he is
“(w)ith a look that thinks, thinks and goes through the other person’s head”. [13]
One another day, Michaux is walking on the street and his attention is arrested by voice of a girl passing by. Again, he feels as if he could “read” the girl’s mind, only through that short, fleeting experience of listening to her talking:
“I continued to dwell in it amorously – a voice, hardly mature, and genuinely shy, that made you forget everything else, a voice that implored protection, so wary of the phenomenon of speech, advancing so cautiously like a foot at the edge of a precipice, or fingers held out towards the fire. (…) I really should have turned back, caught up with her, (…) got to know this girl, so elegant in her apprehensions, so touching and distinguished in her tiny boldness, which must have seemed enormous to her, so delicately adventurous in her loss of reserve as she took her first tentative step.”[14]
Is it really plausible that Michaux can read all this from the mere sound of a voice of a girl he did not even see? In my book High. Insights on Marijuana I have argued that a cannabis high can indeed lead to various cognitive enhancements such as a hyperfocus of attention and an enhanced ability for pattern recognition, which could explain why Michaux could read that much from her voice in just a few moments. He focuses strongly on the voice and recognizes patterns he has heard before in other voices; typical sound patterns similar to those of other people he experienced as expressing insecurity, boldness, and shyness.
Modern ‘simulation’-theories of empathic understanding stress that it is absolutely vital for us to imaginatively put ourselves in the place of others in order to understand them better; it is as if we would simulate another person in his situation, feeling the feeling he is going through and thereby understanding him. [15] Michaux describes clearly how he feels that during a high his enhanced ability to empathize with others in this way. He looks at a photography during a high and observes:
“I was looking through a magazine at some photographs of those amazing divers of the New Hebrides who, held back by long lianas, leap head-first from a rustic tower fifty feet or so high, landing on the ground slowed down … I was conscious of the distances, I estimated as though I were up there o the top of the tower, myself the man, (…), even having the sensation of dizziness, and even after turing the page, still feel myself on top of the tower, still at that terrifying heigh.“[16]
Image “’The Tower’, Pentecost Island Vanatu”, by Paul Stein”
Poets, Psychonauts, and the Value of Anecdotal Evidence
The majority of past scientific studies designed to research the cognitive and perceptual changes during a cannabis high were seriously flawed. Usually, the participants of those experiments had no previous experience with the substance, came with negative convictions and did not know what to expect. Most of the resulting anxious reactions were caused by a sterile clinical set and setting in which observing scientists would control the set-up and their dosages. Usually, the participants of those studies had no special abilities to observe and report their own mental states.
More than forty-five years ago, the Harvard psychiatrist Lester Grinspoon and the Harvard psychologist Charles Tart came to the conclusion that therefore, they could better study the effects of marijuana on the mind by collecting and analyzing anecdotal reports of habitual marijuana users. In his seminal book Marijuana Reconsidered (1971), Lester Grinspoon was bold enough to include and evaluate many reports from writers and artists like Fitz Hugh Lludlow, Baudelaire, and Michaux. Another great compilation which included a selection of literary and imaginative papers on cannabis was the book The Marijuana Papers edited David Solomon already in 1966.
Lester Grinspoon reminded us that we have to carefully evaluate these reports. Poets like Baudelaire would for instance sometimes use opiates or other substances along with their hashish, so some of the effects reported could not really be attributed to the ingestion of cannabis alone.
Many of the writers featured by Grinspoon and Solomon left us an incredible treasure with their poetic and yet oft highly detailed and precise descriptions of the cannabis high, which some of them had set out to explore.
Michaux, like other writers and fellow psychonauts, left us beautiful and rich descriptions of many of the perceptual and cognitive enhancements that the cannabis high can bring, including stereovision, stereoaudition, a hyperfocus of attention, an enhanced episodic memory, an enhanced imagination, and an enhanced ability to empathically understand others.
Many of his observations have been supported by countless detailed anecdotal reports of other inspirational users and, also, by experiences of innumerable medical patients like those with autistic spectrum syndrome who profited from the use of cannabis. It is time that scientists of various fields now start to take another look at these reports to better understand how consumed cannabis can effect our mind and bodies – and, connectedly, to understand which role the endocannabinoid system might play in those highly developed cognitive processes.
This article first apeared on my expert blog for Sensi Seeds here:
https://sensiseeds.com/en/blog/henri-michaux-cannabis-flying-carpet-part/
https://sensiseeds.com/en/blog/henri-michaux-cannabis-flying-carpet-part-ii/
[1] Quoted from Douglas McGill, „Henri Michaux, Poet and Artist“, http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/23/obituaries/henri-michaux-poet-and-artist.html
[2] In his book “Approaches to Drugs and Intoxication” (1970), the German author Ernst Jünger coined the term “psychonaut” for someone who explores the inner realms of his consciousness by means of consciousness-altering substances.
[3] For an overview on some possible cognitive enhancements during a high see my Essay “The Ten Most Useful Mind-Enhancements During a High”, http://sensiseeds.com/en/blog/the-10-most-useful-mind-enhancements-of-a-cannabis-high/
[4] Henri Michaux, „Miserable Miracle“, Chapter 4, Indian Hemp http://www.lycaeum.org/books/books/miserablemiracle/chap4.html
[7] Anonymous, „Cannabis and Planetary Surfaces“, in: Lester Grinspoon (ed.), „marijuana-uses.com) 2016, http://marijuana-uses.com/cannabis-and-planetary-surfaces-by-anonymous/
[10] Henri Michaux, „Miserable Miracle“, Chapter 4, Indian Hemp http://www.lycaeum.org/books/books/miserablemiracle/chap4.html
[11] Compare my essay „Marijuana, Empathy, and Severe Cases of Autism“, http://sensiseeds.com/en/blog/marijuana-empathy-severe-cases-autism-part/
[12] Henri Michaux (1961), Light Through Darkness, Orion Press, New York pp.124-127.
[14] Ibid, p.7.
[15] Compare for instance Alvin Goldmann (2006) Simulating Minds: The Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience of Mindreading, Oxford University Press, USA.
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About: The House Republican Campaign Committee (HRCC) is the caucus committee of Michigan's House Republicans. The House GOP uses the committee to raise money to spend on races across the state.
The House Republican Campaign Committee raised $4.8 million for the 2017-2018 election cycle.
Under Michigan's campaign contribution limits, caucus committees can now accept up to $41,975 a year from an individual donor. The limit was $40,000 per year from 2013 through 2018. Before that, it was $20,000 per year.
TALLY: Top Disclosed Donors To The House Republican Campaign Committee From 2011 Until The Present:
1. DeVos family, Amway, Windquest Group, $1,880,000
2. Kennedy family, Autocam, $543,950
3. Cotton family, Meridian Health, Health Plan of Michigan, $357,000
4. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, $300,000
5. Moroun family, Central Transport, $276,975
6. J.C. Huizenga, Huigzenga Group, $256,975
7. Michigan Association of Realtors, Realtors PAC, $243,500
8. James Nicholson, PVS Chemicals, $241,975
9. Michigan Republican Party, $200,000
10. Chatfield Majority Funds, Lee Chatfield, $200,000
12. Michigan Chamber of Commerce PAC, $190,000
13. Comcast Corp. PAC, $180,000
Top donors to the House Republican Campaign Committee for 2019-2020:
1. Ron and Eileen Weiser, Ann Arbor, $83,950
2. John and Nancy Kennedy, Autocam, $83,950
3. Cotton family, Health Plan of Michigan, $65,000
4. J.C. Huizenga, Huizenga Group, $41,975
5. Matthew Moroun, Liberty Bell Agency, $41,975
6. James Nicholson, PVS Chemicals, $41,975
7. C. Michael Kojaian, Kojaian Management Corp., $41,975
8. Chatfield Majority Fund, Lee Chatfield, $40,000
9. Chatfield Majority Fund 2, Lee Chatfield, $40,000
10. Wentworth Majority Fund, Jason Wentworth, $40,000
12. Peter Secchia, Sibsco, $40,000
13. Chatfield Majority Fund 3, Lee Chatfield $40,0000
1. DeVos family, Amway, Windquest, $440,000
3. Secchia family, Sibsco, $120,000
4. Weiser family, McKinley Associates, $80,000
5. Michigan Values Leadership Fund, Tom Leonard, $80,000
6. Realtors PAC, Michigan Association of Realtors, $80,000
7. Michigan Values Leadership Fund II, Tom Leonard, $80,000
8. Chatfield Majority Fund, Rep. Lee Chatfield, $80,000
9. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, $80,000
10. Cotton family, Health Plan of Michigan, $80,000
11. J.C. Huizenga, Huizenga Group, $70,000
12. Michigan Chamber PAC, $55,000
1. DeVos family, $720,000
2. Kennedy family, $160,000
3. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan PAC, $80,000
4. Vision for Victory, Kevin Cotter, $80,000
5. Haworth family, $80,000
7. Kevin Cotter Candidate Committee, $70,000
8. Michigan Association of Realtors, Realtors PAC, $63,500
9. Meijer Inc. PAC, $60,000
10. J.C. Huizenga, $55,000
11. DTE Energy PAC, $55,000
12. Nesbitt Majority Fund, Aric Nesbitt, $50,475
13. Michael Jandernoa, $50,000
14. Tom Leonard Candidate Committee, $50,000
15. James Nicholson, $50,000
16. Cotton family, $42,000
17. Callton Action Fund, Mike Callton, $40,000
18. Moroun family, $40,000
19. VerHeulen Leadership Fund, $40,000
20. Comcast Corporation PAC, $40,000
21. Michigan Republican Party, $40,000
22. Republican State Leadership Committee, $40,000
23. David Van Andel, $40,000
24. Tom Barrett For State Representative, $40,000
25. Klint Kesto Candidate Committee, $40,000
26. Shamrock PAC, Laura Cox, $40,000
2. Nancy and John Kennedy, $100,000
3. Cotton family, $80,000
4. Moroun family, $80,000
6. Meijer PAC, $60,000
7. Michigan Chamber of Commerce PAC, $60,000
8. James Nicholson, $60,000
9. J.C. Huizenga, $50,000
10. Michigan Bankers Association PAC, $46,000
11. Jeff Farrington Candidate Committee, $45,750
12. Ben Glardon Candidate Committee, $45,700
13. Kevin Cotter Candidate Committee, $45,000
14. Vision for Victory, Kevin Cotter, $45,000
15. (Al) Pscholka Results PAC, $43,500
16. Compete Michigan PAC, Mike Shirkey, $42,500
17. Ed McBroom Candidate Committee, $42,500
18. (Aric) Nesbitt Majority Fund, $41,175
19. Auto Dealers of Michigan PAC, $40,000
20. (Jase) Bolger Restore Michigan Fund, $40,000
21. Comcast Corp. PAC, COMPAC, $40,000
27. Senate Republican Campaign Committee, $40,000
2. DeVos family, $80,000
3. Lindsay and Matthew Moroun, $60,000
4. Susan and Michael Jandernoa $50,000
5. Auto Dealers of Michigan PAC, $40,000
7. Comcast Corp. PAC, $40,000
10. John Kennedy III, $40,000
13. Michigan Chamber of Commerce PAC, $40,000
17. David Trott, $40,000
19. Common Sense Leadership Fund, John Walsh, $36,500
20. (Jim) Stamas Leadership PAC, $35,000
22. Michigan Restaurant Association PAC, $33,500
23. Michigan Association of Insurance Agents, $27,000
24. Leadership Under New Direction Fund, Peter Lund, $26,650
25. Spotlight Michigan, Frank Foster, $25,800
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About the M60 Vascular Group
Manchester was at the forefront of vascular surgery shortly after the Second World War. Professor Telford and Professor Boyd contributed extensively to our understanding of peripheral vascular disease and introduced sympathectomy as a treatment option. However, Manchester was always a net importer of vascular surgeons, particularly during the 1970’s. As the district hospitals appreciated the need to have their own vascular surgical service there were insufficient trainees in central Manchester and many came to Manchester and the Greater Manchester area from outside Manchester, including Scotland, London and the Midlands.
As a consequence the vascular surgeons in Greater Manchester had few close colleagues to turn to with clinical problems. Vascular surgery can be a fairly lonely speciality with high risk of mortality or serious complications for our patients, and our other general surgical colleagues were often unable to understand some of the stressful situations faced by vascular surgeons. To try and address this in 1995 Dr John Mosley, Consultant Vascular Surgeon at Leigh Infirmary established the Greater Manchester vascular group, the aim of which initially was to meet every two months for an hour to discuss vascular clinical problems and to establish fellowship amongst local colleagues.
Shortly after its inception, Professor McCollum recommended the name The M62 Vascular Group and it was known as this until 2003 when the M60 motorway was completed and the name was changed accordingly. The meetings have always been near to an exit point from the M60 motorway as it is far easier in the early evening to access such venues than to try and reach one or other postgraduate medical centres.
There have been a number of different sponsors of the meetings over the years. Boston Scientific were the initial parental sponsors, but there has been strong support from medi UK, Otsuka, CellTran, CryoLife, Lombard Medical and ParaMed. In 2005 the meetings were increased to eight per year. The district general hospital shared four meetings each year and the two teaching hospitals, Manchester Royal Infirmary and South Manchester chair the meetings four times each year.
The first meeting was on 9 October 1995 and was chaired by Dr Mosley. Subsequent meetings that year were chaired by Professor Charlesworth, Mr Tait, Mr Hulton, Mr Thomson and Mr Hughes. In 2001 an additional meeting was instigated in conjunction with the vascular surgeons from the Mersey region. This was initially an evening meeting on a Wednesday, which involved a debate on a vascular surgical topic. There were guest speakers from Liverpool and Manchester and there were research presentations. This meeting has extended and is now an all day meeting. There are scientific presentations, research presentations and the debate has generally continued. Traditionally, the President of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland attends the meeting and participates in the debate.
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Contradiction? I guess its all in how you define evolution. If God is the process, then you are off to a good start; if not, godlessness looms. Evolution in its standard form excludes God and places man's reason in HIS PLACE. The outcome is humanism; a religion built on a house of cards. If wouldn't want to put myself of believing that, because the results could be disastrous. Read on....
Romans 1:18-32 (WEB)
18) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
19) because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.
20) For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.
21) Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
22) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23) and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.
24) Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
25) who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26) For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
27) Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.
28) Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
29) being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
30) backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31) without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
32) who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
The truth is: change what God has said through your own ideas and you are on a slippery slope; one where one thing leads to another and soon you are without a doubt an enemy of the Almighty. Who would really want that? Be smart: listen to what God has said and do not try to change a thing... you will be glad you did!!!
OT Bible Reading 7/4
1 Kings 19-22
1Ki 19:1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
1Ki 19:2 Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
1Ki 19:3 When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
1Ki 19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
1Ki 19:5 He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.
1Ki 19:6 He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and laid down again.
1Ki 19:7 The angel of Yahweh came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.
1Ki 19:8 He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.
1Ki 19:9 He came there to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, and he said to him, What are you doing here, Elijah?
1Ki 19:10 He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
1Ki 19:11 He said, Go forth, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh. Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake:
1Ki 19:12 and after the earthquake a fire; but Yahweh was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
1Ki 19:13 It was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, there came a voice to him, and said, What are you doing here, Elijah?
1Ki 19:14 He said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
1Ki 19:15 Yahweh said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when you come, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria;
1Ki 19:16 and you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and you shall anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.
1Ki 19:17 It shall happen, that he who escapes from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha kill.
1Ki 19:18 Yet will I leave me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.
1Ki 19:19 So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over to him, and cast his mantle on him.
1Ki 19:20 He left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you. He said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?
1Ki 19:21 He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered to him.
1Ki 20:1 Ben Hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; and there were thirty-two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
1Ki 20:2 He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him, Thus says Ben Hadad,
1Ki 20:3 Your silver and your gold is mine; your wives also and your children, even the best, are mine.
1Ki 20:4 The king of Israel answered, It is according to your saying, my lord, O king; I am yours, and all that I have.
1Ki 20:5 The messengers came again, and said, Thus speaks Ben Hadad, saying, I sent indeed to you, saying, You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives, and your children;
1Ki 20:6 but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants; and it shall be, that whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.
1Ki 20:7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Please notice how this man seeks mischief: for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't deny him.
1Ki 20:8 All the elders and all the people said to him, Don't listen, neither consent.
1Ki 20:9 Therefore he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that you did send for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I may not do. The messengers departed, and brought him word again.
1Ki 20:10 Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me.
1Ki 20:11 The king of Israel answered, Tell him, Don't let him who girds on his armor boast himself as he who puts it off.
1Ki 20:12 It happened, when Ben Hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the pavilions, that he said to his servants, "Prepare to attack!" They prepared to attack the city.
1Ki 20:13 Behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, Thus says Yahweh, Have you seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into your hand this day; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
1Ki 20:14 Ahab said, By whom? He said, Thus says Yahweh, By the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall begin the battle? He answered, You.
1Ki 20:15 Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two: and after them he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
1Ki 20:16 They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.
1Ki 20:17 The young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben Hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out from Samaria.
1Ki 20:18 He said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive, or whether they are come out for war, taken them alive.
1Ki 20:19 So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.
1Ki 20:20 They killed everyone his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them: and Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.
1Ki 20:21 The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.
1Ki 20:22 The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.
1Ki 20:23 The servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their god is a god of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we: but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.
1Ki 20:24 Do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their room;
1Ki 20:25 and muster an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. He listened to their voice, and did so.
1Ki 20:26 It happened at the return of the year, that Ben Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
1Ki 20:27 The children of Israel were mustered, and were provisioned, and went against them: and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.
1Ki 20:28 A man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, Thus says Yahweh, Because the Syrians have said, Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys; therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
1Ki 20:29 They encamped one over against the other seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed of the Syrians one hundred thousand footmen in one day.
1Ki 20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
1Ki 20:31 His servants said to him, See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.
1Ki 20:32 So they put sackcloth on their bodies and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Your servant Ben Hadad says, please let me live. He said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
1Ki 20:33 Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to catch whether it were his mind; and they said, Your brother Ben Hadad. Then he said, Go, bring him. Then Ben Hadad came out to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
1Ki 20:34 Ben Hadad said to him, The cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you shall make streets for you in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. I, said Ahab, will let you go with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.
1Ki 20:35 A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by the word of Yahweh, Please strike me. The man refused to strike him.
1Ki 20:36 Then said he to him, Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall kill you. As soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him.
1Ki 20:37 Then he found another man, and said, Please strike me. The man struck him, smiting and wounding him.
1Ki 20:38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.
1Ki 20:39 As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.
1Ki 20:40 As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone. The king of Israel said to him, So your judgment shall be; yourself have decided it.
1Ki 20:41 He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.
1Ki 20:42 He said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.
1Ki 20:43 The king of Israel went to his house sullen and angry, and came to Samaria.
1Ki 21:1 It happened after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
1Ki 21:2 Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it: or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.
1Ki 21:3 Naboth said to Ahab, Yahweh forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you.
1Ki 21:4 Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers. He laid him down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
1Ki 21:5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is your spirit so sad, that you eat no bread?
1Ki 21:6 He said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give you my vineyard.
1Ki 21:7 Jezebel his wife said to him, Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry: I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
1Ki 21:8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, and who lived with Naboth.
1Ki 21:9 She wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
1Ki 21:10 and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, You cursed God and the king. Then carry him out, and stone him to death.
1Ki 21:11 The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them.
1Ki 21:12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
1Ki 21:13 The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.
1Ki 21:14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
1Ki 21:15 It happened, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
1Ki 21:16 It happened, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
1Ki 21:17 The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
1Ki 21:18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he is gone down to take possession of it.
1Ki 21:19 You shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Yahweh, Have you killed and also taken possession? You shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Yahweh, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood, even yours.
1Ki 21:20 Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, my enemy? He answered, I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh.
1Ki 21:21 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel:
1Ki 21:22 and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.
1Ki 21:23 Of Jezebel also spoke Yahweh, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel.
1Ki 21:24 Him who dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat.
1Ki 21:25 (But there was none like Ahab, who did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
1Ki 21:26 He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.)
1Ki 21:27 It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
1Ki 21:29 See how Ahab humbles himself before me? because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil on his house.
1Ki 22:1 They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
1Ki 22:2 It happened in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
1Ki 22:3 The king of Israel said to his servants, "You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we are still, and don't take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?"
1Ki 22:4 He said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead? Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
1Ki 22:5 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Please inquire first for the word of Yahweh.
1Ki 22:6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? They said, Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.
1Ki 22:7 But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of him?
1Ki 22:8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so."
1Ki 22:9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.
1Ki 22:10 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
1Ki 22:11 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, Thus says Yahweh, With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.
1Ki 22:12 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.
1Ki 22:13 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, See now, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth: please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.
1Ki 22:14 Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that will I speak.
1Ki 22:15 When he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? He answered him, Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.
1Ki 22:16 The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?
1Ki 22:17 He said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.
1Ki 22:18 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Didn't I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?
1Ki 22:19 Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
1Ki 22:20 Yahweh said, 'Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One said on this manner; and another said on that manner.
1Ki 22:21 There came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said, 'I will entice him.'
1Ki 22:22 Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.'
1Ki 22:23 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you."
1Ki 22:24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh from me to speak to you?
1Ki 22:25 Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.
1Ki 22:26 The king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
1Ki 22:27 and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
1Ki 22:28 Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me. He said, Hear, you peoples, all of you.
1Ki 22:29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.
1Ki 22:30 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes. The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
1Ki 22:31 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
1Ki 22:32 It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel; and they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
1Ki 22:33 It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
1Ki 22:34 A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor: therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am severely wounded.
1Ki 22:35 The battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even; and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.
1Ki 22:36 There went a cry throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his country.
1Ki 22:37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
1Ki 22:38 They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood (now the prostitutes washed themselves there); according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke.
1Ki 22:39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1Ki 22:40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
1Ki 22:41 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
1Ki 22:42 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
1Ki 22:43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
1Ki 22:44 Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
1Ki 22:45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
1Ki 22:46 The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
1Ki 22:47 There was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
1Ki 22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they didn't go; for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.
1Ki 22:49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with your servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
1Ki 22:50 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
1Ki 22:51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.
1Ki 22:52 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin.
1Ki 22:53 He served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
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Act 5:1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,
Act 5:2 and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
Act 5:3 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Act 5:4 While you kept it, didn't it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn't it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven't lied to men, but to God."
Act 5:5 Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.
Act 5:6 The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.
Act 5:7 About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.
Act 5:8 Peter answered her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so much." She said, "Yes, for so much."
Act 5:9 But Peter asked her, "How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out."
Act 5:10 She fell down immediately at his feet, and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.
Act 5:11 Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.
Act 5:12 By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
Act 5:13 None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.
Act 5:14 More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.
Act 5:15 They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them.
Act 5:16 Multitudes also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people, and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed.
Act 5:17 But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,
Act 5:18 and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody.
Act 5:19 But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,
Act 5:20 "Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life."
Act 5:21 When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
Act 5:22 But the officers who came didn't find them in the prison. They returned and reported,
Act 5:23 "We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!"
Act 5:24 Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.
Act 5:25 One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people."
Act 5:26 Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.
Act 5:27 When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,
Act 5:28 saying, "Didn't we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us."
Act 5:29 But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.
Act 5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
Act 5:31 God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
Act 5:32 We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."
Act 5:33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and determined to kill them.
Act 5:34 But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.
Act 5:35 He said to them, "You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do.
Act 5:36 For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.
Act 5:37 After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.
Act 5:38 Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.
Act 5:39 But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!"
Act 5:40 They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Act 5:41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus' name.
Act 5:42 Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.
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Quantum dots could make technology cheaper, more widely available
There’s an entire world our eyes miss, hidden in the ranges of light wavelengths that human eyes can’t see. But infrared cameras can pick up the secret light emitted as plants photosynthesize, as cool stars burn and batteries get hot. They can see through smoke and fog and plastic.
But infrared cameras are much more expensive than visible-light ones; the energy of infrared light is smaller than visible light, making it harder to capture. A new breakthrough by scientists with the University of Chicago, however, may one day lead to much more cost-effective infrared cameras—which in turn could enable infrared cameras for common consumer electronics like phones, as well as sensors to help autonomous cars see their surroundings more accurately.
“Traditional methods to make infrared cameras are very expensive, both in materials and time, but this method is much faster and offers excellent performance,” said postdoctoral researcher Xin Tang, the first author on a study which appeared Feb. 25 in Nature Photonics.
“That’s why we’re so excited about the potential commercial impact,” said co-author Philippe Guyot-Sionnest, a professor of physics and chemistry.
Today’s infrared cameras are made by successively laying down multiple layers of semiconductors—a tricky and error-prone process that makes them too expensive to go into most consumer electronics.
Guyot-Sionnest’s lab instead turned to quantum dots—tiny nanoparticles just a few nanometers in size. (One nanometer is how much your fingernails grow per second.) At that scale they have odd properties that change depending on their size, which scientists can control by tuning the particle to the right size. In this case, quantum dots can be tuned to pick up wavelengths of infrared light.
This ‘tunability’ is important for cameras, because they need to pick up different parts of the infrared spectrum. “Collecting multiple wavelengths within the infrared gives you more spectral information—it’s like adding color to black-and-white TV,” Tang explained. “Short-wave gives you textural and chemical composition information; mid-wave gives you temperature.”
They tweaked the quantum dots so that they had a formula to detect short-wave infrared and one for mid-wave infrared. Then they laid both together on top of a silicon wafer.
The resulting camera performs extremely well and is much easier to produce. “It’s a very simple process,” Tang said. “You take a beaker, inject a solution, inject a second solution, wait five to 10 minutes, and you have a new solution that can be easily fabricated into a functional device.”
There are many potential uses for inexpensive infrared cameras, the scientists said, including autonomous vehicles, which rely on sensors to scan the road and surroundings. Infrared can detect heat signatures from living beings and see through fog or haze, so car engineers would love to include them, but the cost is prohibitive.
They would come in handy for scientists, too. “If I wanted to buy an infrared detector for my laboratory today, it would cost me $25,000 or more,” Guyot-Sionnest said. “But they would be very useful in many disciplines. For example, proteins give off signals in infrared, which a biologist would love to easily track.”
The other authors on the paper were graduate students Matthew Ackerman and Menglu Chen. Matthew Ackerman conceived of the device with Tang and developed the doping strategy for the fabrication of the diodes. The scientists used the Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility at the Institute for Molecular Engineering. Guyot-Sionnest is working with the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago to advance this discovery.
Citation: “Dual-band infrared imaging using stacked colloidal quantum dot photodiodes.” Tang et al, Nature Photonics, Feb. 25, 2019. Doi: 10.1038/s41566-019-0362-1
Funding: Army Research Office, National Science Foundation
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World Bank debars seven Chinese construction companies in Nigeria
Seven Chinese construction companies, including major railway builders, have been debarred by the World Bank for violating its fraud and corruption policy.
The names of the seven have appeared on the banks sanction list, meaning they are ineligible to bid for World Bank-funded projects for a specified period of time.
Details of infractions were not given.
The seven, all debarred for the relatively short period of 10 months to March 2020, are:
China Railway Construction (International) Nigeria Co. Ltd.
China Railway 18th Bureau Nigeria Engineering Co. Ltd.
China Railway 18th Bureau Nigeria Co. Ltd.
CCECC Nigeria Lekki (FTA) Co. Ltd.
CCECC Nigeria Railway Co. Ltd.
CRCC Petroleum & Gas Co. Ltd.
CCECC Nigeria Co. Ltd.
Separately, on 14 August, the bank announced the 15-month debarment of Chinese firm Beijing Jingold Construction Co., Ltd in connection with fraud during the procurement process for the $38.6m Samoa Aviation Investment Project, an airport improvement scheme.
The bank found that the company had a history of contract non-performance at the time of bidding, but misrepresented this fact when it bid. The company did not win the contract.
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Identity, Empathy and Argument: - Publications
Identity, Empathy and Argument:: Immigrants in Culture and Entertainment Journalism in the Scandinavian Press
Jan Fredrik Hovden, Kristina Riegert
Cultural and entertainment journalism deals with aesthetic experiences, advice on cultural consumption, as well as reflection and debate on ethical and moral humanistic issues. Does this sub-field of journalism systematically represent immigrants and integration differently than the other news and commentary articles? Comparing immigration discourse in a representative sample of six Scandinavian newspapers between 1970 and 2016 using content analysis we find that cultural journalism, while clearly reverbing with the dominant national issues at the time, did provide alternative perspectives. It not only brought up themes like racism, multiculturalism, national identity and religion more often, but was also more positive, more gender-balanced and more often gave a voice to immigrants than other news did. A closer qualitative reading further suggests a typology of ten main story-types, varying relatively little over time and across national borders. Cultural journalism in this case illustrates how the cultural public sphere can positively contribute to the debate of complicated issues in the public sphere by offering resources for identification, empathy and arguments for specific points of view.
Journal Article (peer reviewed)
Javsnost - The Public, Vol 26, Issue 2.
Kristina Riegert
Kristina Riegert is Professor in Media & Communication Studies, having held a position as Lecturer in Journalism and a PhD in Political Science. Read more
Fredrik Hovden, J. and Riegert, K. (2019). Identity, Empathy and Argument:: Immigrants in Culture and Entertainment Journalism in the Scandinavian Press. Javsnost - The Public, 26(2), pp. 160-176. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2019.1589279.
Last updated: November 05, 2019.
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Film History Politics Identity Celebrity Culture Swedish Film History ecocriticism Mass Media surrealism Fashion Early Cinema Media History Media Digital Media Gender Journalism Social Media Television Globalization
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Masters Degrees (Biochemistry)
Analyses of lipidic bodies from green microalgae.
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Pather, Verushka.
This study presents the analyses of oil body components in microalgae which may be involved in oil droplet assembly including certain triacylglycerol precursors which can be processed to biodiesel, an alternative fuel source. Stress induction of microalgae, Chlorella vulgaris CCAP 211/11B and Dunaliella primolecta CCAP 11/34 was achieved by exclusion of nitrates in growth media. Contrary to other forms of nitrogen depletion, this condition did not greatly enhance lipid biosynthesis in the microalgae. Confocal microscopy and fluorescent dyes nile red and bodipy were employed for the visualization of lipidic body components. The fluorescence hues emitted by neutral lipids and phospholipids were differentiated from those due to autofluorescence and chlorophyll using ZEN software to analyse images from a Zeiss LSM 710 confocal microscope. Oil from both algae, which were subjected to transesterification and gas chromatography, revealed a predominant fatty acid, namely palmitic acid (C16:0). D. primolecta produced linolelaidic acid (C18:2n6t) under growth conditions involving both nitrate supplementation and exclusion; whilst the longest fatty acid, docosanoic acid (C22:0 chain) was produced by the alga C. vulgaris only under conditions of nitrate supplementation. Nitrate limitation had minimal effect on the oil hydrocarbon yield which increased only 0.02% and 0.01% for C. vulgaris and D. primolecta, respectively. The highest biodiesel yield of 26.11 % was recorded from D. primolecta when grown under conditions of nitrate exclusion. The protein concentrations extracted from oil of the former alga ranged from 1.87 - 1.95 Gg/ml when grown under nitrate supplemented conditions and 1.74 - 1.90 Gg/ml when nitrate was excluded from the media. The protein concentrations extracted from oil of D. primolecta ranged from 1.91 - 2.23 Gg/ml and 1.88 - 1.98 Gg/ml, respectively, when the algae were grown in the presence and exclusion of nitrates. In the adaptation of protocols for protein extraction from oil, sunflower and salmon oils were initially used. Sunflower oil extracts produced by 10% (w/v) SDS treatment, yielded protein bands of 198, 96, 70 and 58 KDa on 10% (w/v) polyacrylamide gels while 6M urea treatment yielded a band of 200 KDa. Salmon oil treated with 10% (w/v) SDS and 6 M urea yielded bands of 195 and 27 KDa, and 198 KDa, respectively, as well as common bands of 68 and 64 KDa. In comparison, the extraction of discrete proteins from algal oil proved to be difficult as the extractants SDS and urea could have denatured protein components into subunit structure.
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TIFF Docs 2014: One of the most entertaining and enlightening films you’ll see this year.
By Pat Mullen • Published September 9th, 2014Comments
The Wanted 18
Canada/Palestine/France, 75 min.
Dir. Amer Shomali, Paul Cowan
Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere)
Documentaries about the conflict between Israel and Palestine are a staple at film festivals. Go to almost any festival with a documentary slate and one is bound to find a handful of Gaza-shot films to choose from in the programme. The range of these films reveals the scope and complexity of the war on both sides of the wall, but no film probes Israel-Palestine relations quite like The Wanted 18 does. This film by Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan (and co-produced by the NFB) looks at the situation from a perspective that one has never seen before: through the eyes of cows.
Employing stop-motion animation, drawings and interviews, The Wanted 18 muses that cows are funny, cute, valuable, and docile. One might agree with these four adjectives, but the film also asks if cows pose a threat to national security. The answer to that question, maybe, is a resounding “No!” (Or “Moo!” depending on one’s aptitude for cowspeak.) The Wanted 18, however, tells the peculiar story of how the Israeli Army deemed a bovine herd a “threat to the national security of the state of Israel” when a Palestinian collective farm began raising cows on the sly in order to provide milk for their community. It’s a preposterous charge and The Wanted 18 renders it doubly farcical when the charges are laid against the herd of Claymation bovines. That’s right, these are good old-fashioned cartoon cows, not even real live threatening ones, so the mixed form of The Wanted 18 uses only accentuates the absurdity of the case.
Shomali and Cowan recreate the story by assembling members of the Palestinian collective from the town of Beit Sahour who recall in interviews their unique role in the First Palestinian Intifada in which protests and other civil disobedience led to an end of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The testimonies are passionate and reflective as the peers recall smuggling in their dairy cows and learning to provide the necessities of life in an operation they built from scratch. The voices of the cows, however, are indispensable to the film, so Shomali and Cowan add them to the chorus using some lively animation that imaginatively dramatizes the story from the point-of-view of the four-legged warriors.
The Wanted 18 focuses primarily on a quartet of cows who were supposedly integral to the project. These cows laugh together while tension escalates between the farmers and Israeli army, which increasingly sees the self-sustenance of the farmers as a dangerous act of defiance. The camaraderie of the cows contrasts sharply with the narrative of resistance that the human counterparts voice in interviews. These cows, a range of sassy and sexy bovines, live the story of the Intifada milk through a veil of complete innocence and candour. The apolitical cows are simply here to provide milk for the masses.
The charges that the cows are a threat seem totally ridiculous when The Wanted 18 presents the cows as such jovial—and utterly harmless—beings. The juxtaposition between the childlike flight of imagination in the animated sections of the film and the hardened predisposition for violence described in the live action interviews draws out the symbolic necessity of these cows for the citizens of Beit Sahour. Independence, resistance, and revolution take time to amass with a herd.
There simply isn’t anything quite like The Wanted 18. It’s a true original. This ingenious documentary is often riotously entertaining thanks to the plucky humour of the cows, but it’s disarmingly moving, too, in its ability to morph these little mooers into agents of resistance. The talking cows share the same emotional and intellectual capacity that their human contemporaries enjoy—a point the film notes with one helpful interviewee—and The Wanted 18 builds to a climactic push as the cows offer the ultimate symbol for the stillborn future wrought by politics of oppression and violence. The Wanted 18 is one of the most entertaining and enlightening films you’ll see this year.
Go behind-the-scenes of The Wanted 18 with this feature from our Fall 2014 issue.
The Wanted 18 screens:
Saturday, Sept. 6 at 8:15 pm at Scotiabank 4
Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 2:30 pm at The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
Friday, Sept. 12 at 5:00 pm at Scotiabank 14
Please visit our TIFF Docs Hub for more reviews and features.
Pat Mullen is POV’s Online Co-editor, etc. He covers film at Cinemablographer.com, and has contributed to The Canadian Encyclopedia, Paste, BeatRoute, That Shelf and other outlets and is a member of the Toronto Film Critics Association and the Online Film Critics Society. You can reach him at @cinemablogrpher
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Space Shuttle Columbia - Her Missions and Crews
Space Shuttle Columbia is the first book to tell the story of the most successful spacecraft ever developed. The world's first truly reusable spacecraft entered service in 1981, and completed 28 missions before the devastating event of 1 February 2003 when Columbia and her seven-person crew were lost during her return to Earth.
This book looks at each of Columbia's 28 missions in turn and memorably provides
first-hand interviews with astronauts who lived and worked on the Space Shuttle
the story in their own words from scientists and engineers who developed and supported her many payloads
a summary of the findings of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board
Containing many unique photographs from the various missions, Space Shuttle Columbia Her Missions and Crews is a fitting tribute to both this remarkable machine and those who flew in her.
``It will take a hundred flights . . .''
Columbia delivers
Recovery after Challenger
Extended capbilities
A miniature space station
Uncertain future
``In my book, they always landed''
Columbia's missions
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The two chapels within the Queens Road Cemetery date from the opening of the Cemetery in 1872. The Anglican chapel (orientated East-West,) is joined to the Non-Conformist Chapel (orientated North-South) by an open arch with a bell tower. Neither chapel has been used for services for several decades. The Non-conformist chapel still has it’s original […]
The two chapels within the Queens Road Cemetery date from the opening of the Cemetery in 1872. The Anglican chapel (orientated East-West,) is joined to the Non-Conformist Chapel (orientated North-South) by an open arch with a bell tower. Neither chapel has been used for services for several decades. The Non-conformist chapel still has it’s original beamed ceiling, and Victorian tiled floor; the Anglican Chapel had
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We are planning more works; we aim to apply another coat of white paint to the walls in the near future, and are hoping to get advice and funding to undertake more substantial restoration in both the Anglican and Non- conformist Chapels
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Kosovo Population: 1,907,592
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The central Balkans were part of the Roman and Byzantine Empires before ethnic Serbs migrated to the territories of modern Kosovo in the 7th century. During the medieval period, Kosovo became the center of a Serbian Empire and saw the construction of many important Serb religious sites, including many architecturally significant Serbian Orthodox monasteries. The defeat of Serbian forces at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 led to five centuries of Ottoman rule during which large numbers of Turks and Albanians moved to Kosovo. By the end of the 19th century, Albanians replaced Serbs as the dominant ethnic group in Kosovo. Serbia reacquired control over the region from the Ottoman Empire during the First Balkan War of 1912. After World War II, Kosovo's present-day boundaries were established when Kosovo became an autonomous province of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (S.F.R.Y.). Despite legislative concessions, Albanian nationalism increased in the 1980s, which led to riots and calls for Kosovo's independence. The Serbs - many of whom viewed Kosovo as their cultural heartland - instituted a new constitution in 1989 revoking Kosovo's autonomous status. Kosovo's Albanian leaders responded in 1991 by organizing a referendum declaring Kosovo independent. Serbia undertook repressive measures against the Kosovar Albanians in the 1990s, provoking a Kosovar Albanian insurgency. Beginning in 1998, Serbia conducted a brutal counterinsurgency campaign that resulted in massacres and massive expulsions of ethnic Albanians (some 800,000 ethnic Albanians were forced from their homes in Kosovo). After international attempts to mediate the conflict failed, a three-month NATO military operation against Serbia beginning in March 1999 forced the Serbs to agree to withdraw their military and police forces from Kosovo. UN Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999) placed Kosovo under a transitional administration, the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), pending a determination of Kosovo's future status. A UN-led process began in late 2005 to determine Kosovo's final status. The 2006-07 negotiations ended without agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, though the UN issued a comprehensive report on Kosovo's final status that endorsed independence. On 17 February 2008, the Kosovo Assembly declared Kosovo independent. Since then, over 100 countries have recognized Kosovo, and it has joined numerous international organizations. In October 2008, Serbia sought an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legality under international law of Kosovo's declaration of independence. The ICJ released the advisory opinion in July 2010 affirming that Kosovo's declaration of independence did not violate general principles of international law, UN Security Council Resolution 1244, or the Constitutive Framework. The opinion was closely tailored to Kosovo's unique history and circumstances. Demonstrating Kosovo’s development into a sovereign, multi-ethnic, democratic country the international community ended the period of Supervised Independence in 2012. Kosovo held its most recent national and municipal elections in 2017. Serbia continues to reject Kosovo's independence, but the two countries agreed in April 2013 to normalize their relations through EU-facilitated talks, which produced several subsequent agreements the parties are engaged in implementing, though they have not yet reached a comprehensive normalization of relations. Kosovo seeks full integration into the international community, and has pursued bilateral recognitions and memberships in international organizations. Kosovo signed a Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU in 2015, and was named by a 2018 EU report as one of six Western Balkan countries that will be able to join the organization once it meets the criteria to accede. Kosovo also seeks memberships in the UN and in NATO.
The 41-km long Nerodimka River divides into two branches each of which flows into a different sea: the northern branch flows into the Sitnica River, which via the Ibar, Morava, and Danube Rivers ultimately flows into the Black Sea; the southern branch flows via the Lepenac and Vardar Rivers into the Aegean Sea
Location: Southeast Europe, between Serbia and Macedonia
Geographic coordinates: 42 35 N, 21 00 E
Area: total: 10,887 sq km
water: 0 sq km
Size comparison: slightly larger than Delaware
Land Boundaries: total: 714 km border countries (4): Albania 112 km, Macedonia 160 km, Montenegro 76 km, Serbia 366 km
Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)
Maritime claims: none (landlocked)
Climate: influenced by continental air masses resulting in relatively cold winters with heavy snowfall and hot, dry summers and autumns; Mediterranean and alpine influences create regional variation; maximum rainfall between October and December
Terrain: flat fluvial basin at an elevation of 400-700 m above sea level surrounded by several high mountain ranges with elevations of 2,000 to 2,500 m
Natural resources: nickel, lead, zinc, magnesium, lignite, kaolin, chrome, bauxite
Land use: agricultural land: 52.8% (2001 est.) arable land: 27.4% (2001 est.)
Irrigated land: n/a
Current Environment Issues: air pollution (pollution from power plants and nearby lignite mines take a toll on people's health); water scarcity and pollution; land degradation
Nationality: noun: Kosovar (Albanian), Kosovac (Serbian)
adjective: Kosovar (Albanian), Kosovski (Serbian) note: Kosovan, a neutral term, is sometimes also used as a noun or adjective
Ethnic groups: Albanians 92.9%, Bosniaks 1.6%, Serbs 1.5%, Turk 1.1%, Ashkali 0.9%, Egyptian 0.7%, Gorani 0.6%, Romani 0.5%, other/unspecified 0.2% (2011 est.) note: these estimates may under-represent Serb, Romani, and some other ethnic minorities because they are based on the 2011 Kosovo national census, which excluded northern Kosovo (a largely Serb-inhabited region) and was partially boycotted by Serb and Romani communities in southern Kosovo
Languages: Albanian (official) 94.5%, Bosnian 1.7%, Serbian (official) 1.6%, Turkish 1.1%, other 0.9% (includes Romani), unspecified 0.1% (2011 est.) note: in municipalities where a community's mother tongue is not one of Kosovo's official languages, the language of that community may be given official status according to the 2006 Law on the Use of Languages
Religions: Muslim 95.6%, Roman Catholic 2.2%, Orthodox 1.5%, other 0.07%, none 0.07%, unspecified 0.6% (2011 est.)
Population: 1,907,592 (July 2018 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 24.74% (male 245,188 /female 226,766)
15-24 years: 17.12% (male 170,448 /female 156,199)
55-64 years: 8.19% (male 79,415 /female 76,743)
65 years and over: 7.43% (male 59,830 /female 81,928) (2018 est.)
Major urban areas - population: 207,062 PRISTINA (capital) (2014)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: n/a
Education expenditures: n/a Unemployment, youth ages 15-24: total: 52.4% male: 47.3% female: 65.4% (2016 est.)
Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Kosovo
conventional short form: Kosovo
local long form: Republika e Kosoves (Republika Kosovo)
local short form: Kosova (Kosovo)
etymology: name derives from the Serbian "kos" meaning "blackbird," an ellipsis (linguistic omission) for "kosove polje" or "field of the blackbirds"
Government type: parliamentary republic
Capital: name: Pristina (Prishtine, Prishtina)
etymology: the name may derive from a Proto-Slavic word reconstructed as "pryshchina," meaning "spring (of water)"
Administrative divisions: 38 municipalities (komunat, singular - komuna (Albanian); opstine, singular - opstina (Serbian)); Decan (Decani), Dragash (Dragas), Ferizaj (Urosevac), Fushe Kosove (Kosovo Polje), Gjakove (Dakovica), Gjilan (Gnjilane), Gllogovc (Glogovac), Gracanice (Gracanica), Hani i Elezit (Deneral Jankovic), Istog (Istok), Junik, Kacanik, Kamenice (Kamenica), Kline (Klina), Kllokot (Klokot), Leposaviq (Leposavic), Lipjan (Lipljan), Malisheve (Malisevo), Mamushe (Mamusa), Mitrovice e Jug (Juzna Mitrovica) [South Mitrovica], Mitrovice e Veriut (Severna Mitrovica) [North Mitrovica], Novoberde (Novo Brdo), Obiliq (Obilic), Partesh (Partes), Peje (Pec), Podujeve (Podujevo), Prishtine (Pristina), Prizren, Rahovec (Orahovac), Ranillug (Ranilug), Shterpce (Strpce), Shtime (Stimlje), Skenderaj (Srbica), Suhareke (Suva Reka), Viti (Vitina), Vushtrri (Vucitrn), Zubin Potok, Zvecan
Independence: 17 February 2008 (from Serbia)
National holiday: Independence Day, 17 February (2008)
Constitution: history: previous 1974, 1990; latest (postindependence) draft finalized 2 April 2008, signed 7 April 2008, ratified 9 April 2008, entered into force 15 June 2008; note - amendment 24, passed by the Assembly in August 2015, established the Kosovo Relocated Specialist Institution, referred to as the Kosovo Specialist Chamber or "Specialist Court," was established to try war crimes allegedly committed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army in the late 1990s amendments: proposed by the government, by the president of the republic, or by one-fourth of Assembly deputies; passage requires two-thirds majority vote of the Assembly, including two-thirds majority vote of deputies representing non-majority communities, followed by a favorable Constitutional Court assessment; amended several times, last in 2016 (2016)
Legal system: civil law system; note - the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) retained limited executive powers within the Kosovo judiciary for complex cases from 2008 to 2018
Executive branch: chief of state: President Hashim THACI (since 7 April 2016)
head of government: Prime Minister (vacant); note - Prime Minister Ramush HARADINAJ (since 9 September 2017) resigned on 19 July 2019
cabinet: Cabinet elected by the Assembly elections/appointments: president indirectly elected by at least two-thirds majority vote of the Assembly for a 5-year term; if a candidate does not attain a two-thirds threshold in the first two ballots, the candidate winning a simple majority vote in the third ballot is elected (eligible for a second term); election last held on 26 February 2016 (next to be held in 2021); prime minister indirectly elected by the Assembly
election results: Hashim THACI elected president in the third ballot; Assembly vote - Hashim THACI (PDK) 71, Rafet RAMA (PDK) 0, invalid 10; Ramush HARADINAJ nominated prime minister by the president and elected by the Assembly, receiving 61 votes out of 62 (1 abstention)
Legislative branch: description: unicameral Assembly or Kuvendi i Kosoves/Skupstina Kosova (120 seats; 100 members directly elected by proportional representation vote with 20 seats reserved for ethnic minorities - 10 for Serbs and 10 for other ethnic minorities; members serve 4-year terms)
elections: last held on 11 June 2017 (next to be held in 2021); note - early elections were held after a no-confidence vote on 10 May 2017 led to the dismissal of Prime Minister Isa MUSTAFA
election results: percent of vote by party/coalition - PAN Coalition 33.7%, VV 27.5%, LAA Coalition 25.5%, Serb List 6.1%, KDTP 1.1%, VAKAT 1.1%, other 5%; seats by party/coalition - PAN Coalition 39, VV 32, LAA Coalition 29, Serb List 9, KDTP 2, VAKAT 2, other 7; composition - men 81, women 39, percent of women 32.5%
Judicial branch: highest courts: Supreme Court (consists of the court president and 18 judges and organized into Appeals Panel of the Kosovo Property Agency and Special Chamber); Constitutional Court (consists of the court president, vice president, and 7 judges) judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court judges nominated by the Kosovo Judicial Council, a 13-member independent body staffed by judges and lay members, and also responsible for overall administration of Kosovo's judicial system; judges appointed by the president of the Republic of Kosovo; judges appointed until mandatory retirement age; Constitutional Court judges nominated by the Kosovo Assembly and appointed by the president of the republic to serve single, 9-year terms
subordinate courts: Court of Appeals (organized into 4 departments: General, Serious Crime, Commercial Matters, and Administrative Matters; Basic Court (located in 7 municipalities, each with several branches) note: in August 2015, the Kosovo Assembly approved a constitutional amendment that establishes the Kosovo Relocated Specialist Judicial Institution, also referred to as the Kosovo Specialist Chambers or "Special Court"; the court, located at the Hague in the Netherlands, began operating in late 2016 and has jurisdiction to try crimes against humanity, war crimes, and other crimes under Kosovo law that occurred in the 1998-2000 period
Political parties and leaders: Alliance for the Future of Kosovo or AAK [Ramush HARADINAJ] Alternativa [Mimoza KUSARI-LILA] Conservative Party of Kosovo or PK [Munir BASHA] Democratic League of Kosovo or LDK [Isa MUSTAFA] Democratic Party of Kosovo or PDK [Kadri VESELI] Independent Liberal Party or SLS [Slobodan PETROVIC] Initiative for Kosovo or NISMA [Fatmir LIMAJ] Justice Party of Kosovo or PD [Ferid AGANI] LAA Coalition [Isa MUSTAFA] (electoral coalition including LDK, AKR, Alternativa; after the election, AKR joined PAN) Movement for Self-Determination (Vetevendosje) or VV [Albin KURTI] Movement for Unification or LB [Valon MURATI] New Kosovo Alliance or AKR [Behgjet PACOLLI] PAN Coalition [Kadri VESELI] (electoral coalition includes PDK, AAK, NISMA; after the election, AKR joined and was renamed PANA) Serb List [Goran RAKIC] Social Democratic Party of Kosovo or PSD [Shpend AHMETI] Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo or KDTP [Mahir YAGCILAR] Vakat Coalition or VAKAT [Rasim DEMIRI]
International organization participation: IBRD, IDA, IFC, IMF, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, OIF (observer)
National symbol(s): six, five-pointed, white stars;
national colors: blue, gold, white
National anthem: name: Europe
lyrics/music: no lyrics/Mendi MENGJIQI
note: adopted 2008; Kosovo chose to exclude lyrics in its anthem so as not to offend the country's minority ethnic groups
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Vlora CITAKU (since 17 September 2015)
chancery: 2175 K Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20037
consulate(s) general: New York consulate(s): Des Moines (IA)
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Philip KOSNETT (since 3 December 2018)
embassy: Arberia/Dragodan, Nazim Hikmet 30, Pristina, Kosovo
mailing address: use embassy street address
telephone: [383] 38 59 59 3000
FAX: [383] 38 549 890
Kosovo's economy has shown progress in transitioning to a market-based system and maintaining macroeconomic stability, but it is still highly dependent on the international community and the diaspora for financial and technical assistance. Remittances from the diaspora - located mainly in Germany, Switzerland, and the Nordic countries - are estimated to account for about 17% of GDP and international donor assistance accounts for approximately 10% of GDP. With international assistance, Kosovo has been able to privatize a majority of its state-owned enterprises. Kosovo's citizens are the second poorest in Europe, after Moldova, with a per capita GDP (PPP) of $10,400 in 2017. An unemployment rate of 33%, and a youth unemployment rate near 60%, in a country where the average age is 26, encourages emigration and fuels a significant informal, unreported economy. Most of Kosovo's population lives in rural towns outside of the capital, Pristina. Inefficient, near-subsistence farming is common - the result of small plots, limited mechanization, and a lack of technical expertise. Kosovo enjoys lower labor costs than the rest of the region. However, high levels of corruption, little contract enforcement, and unreliable electricity supply have discouraged potential investors. The official currency of Kosovo is the euro, but the Serbian dinar is also used illegally in Serb majority communities. Kosovo's tie to the euro has helped keep core inflation low. Minerals and metals production - including lignite, lead, zinc, nickel, chrome, aluminum, magnesium, and a wide variety of construction materials - once the backbone of industry, has declined because of aging equipment and insufficient investment, problems exacerbated by competing and unresolved ownership claims of Kosovo’s largest mines. A limited and unreliable electricity supply is a major impediment to economic development. The US Government is cooperating with the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) and the World Bank to conclude a commercial tender for the construction of Kosovo C, a new lignite-fired power plant that would leverage Kosovo’s large lignite reserves. MED also has plans for the rehabilitation of an older bituminous-fired power plant, Kosovo B, and the development of a coal mine that could supply both plants. In June 2009, Kosovo joined the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the Central Europe Free Trade Area (CEFTA) in 2006, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 2012, and the Council of Europe Development Bank in 2013. In 2016, Kosovo implemented the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) negotiations with the EU, focused on trade liberalization. In 2014, nearly 60% of customs duty-eligible imports into Kosovo were EU goods. In August 2015, as part of its EU-facilitated normalization process with Serbia, Kosovo signed agreements on telecommunications and energy distribution, but disagreements over who owns economic assets, such as the Trepca mining conglomerate, within Kosovo continue. Kosovo experienced its first federal budget deficit in 2012, when government expenditures climbed sharply. In May 2014, the government introduced a 25% salary increase for public sector employees and an equal increase in certain social benefits. Central revenues could not sustain these increases, and the government was forced to reduce its planned capital investments. The government, led by Prime Minister MUSTAFA - a trained economist - recently made several changes to its fiscal policy, expanding the list of duty-free imports, decreasing the Value Added Tax (VAT) for basic food items and public utilities, and increasing the VAT for all other goods. While Kosovo’s economy continued to make progress, unemployment has not been reduced, nor living standards raised, due to lack of economic reforms and investment.
GDP (purchasing power parity): $19.6 billion (2017 est.) $18.89 billion (2016 est.) $18.16 billion (2015 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): $7.094 billion (2017 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 3.7% (2017 est.) 4.1% (2016 est.) 4.1% (2015 est.)
note: data are in 2016 US dollars
Gross national saving: 17.3% of GDP (2017 est.) 13.2% of GDP (2016 est.) 15.1% of GDP (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 84.3% (2017 est.) government consumption: 13.6% (2017 est.) investment in fixed capital: 29% (2017 est.) investment in inventories: 0% (2016 est.) exports of goods and services: 27% (2017 est.) imports of goods and services: -53.8% (2017 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 11.9% (2017 est.) industry: 17.7% (2017 est.) services: 70.4% (2017 est.)
Agriculture - products: wheat, corn, berries, potatoes, peppers, fruit; dairy, livestock; fish
Industries: mineral mining, construction materials, base metals, leather, machinery, appliances, foodstuffs and beverages, textiles
Labor force: 500,300 (2017 est.) note: includes those estimated to be employed in the gray economy
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 4.4%
Unemployment rate: 30.5% (2017 est.) 27.5% (2016 est.) note: Kosovo has a large informal sector that may not be reflected in these data
Population below poverty line: 17.6% (2015 est.)
highest 10%: 22% (2015 est.)
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 23.2 (2015 est.) 24.1 (2014 est.)
Budget: revenues: 2.054 billion (2017 est.)
expenditures: 2.203 billion (2017 est.)
Taxes and other revenues: 29% (of GDP) (2017 est.) Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-): -2.1% (of GDP) (2017 est.)
Current account balance: -$467 million (2017 est.) -$533 million (2016 est.)
Exports: $428 million (2017 est.) $340 million (2016 est.)
Exports - commodities: mining and processed metal products, scrap metals, leather products, machinery, appliances, prepared foodstuffs, beverages and tobacco, vegetable products, textiles and apparel
Exports - partners: Albania 16%, India 14%, Macedonia, The Former Yugo Rep of 12.1%, Serbia 10.6%, Switzerland 5.6%, Germany 5.4% (2017)
Imports: $3.223 billion (2017 est.) $2.876 billion (2016 est.)
Imports - commodities: foodstuffs, livestock, wood, petroleum, chemicals, machinery, minerals, textiles, stone, ceramic and glass products, electrical equipment
Imports - partners: Germany 12.4%, Serbia 12.3%, Turkey 9.6%, China 9.1%, Italy 6.4%, Macedonia, The Former Yugo Rep of 5.1%, Albania 5%, Greece 4.4% (2017)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $683.9 million (31 December 2016 est.) $708.7 million (31 December 2015 est.)
Debt - external: $506 million (31 December 2017 est.) $448 million (31 December 2016 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $3.59 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $39.02 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $275 million (31 December 2017 est.) $230 million (31 December 2016 est.)
Exchange rates: euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.885 (2017 est.) 0.903 (2016 est.) 0.9214 (2015 est.) 0.885 (2014 est.) 0.7634 (2013 est.)
Electricity - production: 5.638 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - consumption: 3.957 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - exports: 885.7 million kWh (2017 est.)
Electricity - installed generating capacity: 1.573 million kW (2016 est.)
Electricity - from hydroelectric plants: 3% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Crude oil - production: 0 bbl/day (2017 est.)
Crude oil - exports: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: 0 bbl n/a (2017 est.)
Refined petroleum products - production: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Refined petroleum products - consumption: 14,000 bbl/day (2016 est.)
Refined petroleum products - exports: 192 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Natural gas - production: 0 cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - consumption: 0 cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves: 0 cu m n/a (2017 est.)
Cellular Phones in use: total subscriptions: 562,000
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 31 (July 2016 est.)
Telephone system: general assessment: Kosovo being part of the EU pre-accession process has helped with their progress in the telecom industry, following a regulatory framework, European standards, and a market of new players encourages development in its telecommunications; 2 MNOs dominate the sector; poor telecom infrastructure means low fixed-line penetration (2018)
domestic: fixed-line stands at 45 per 100 and mobile-cellular 31 per 100 persons (2018)
international: country code - 383
Internet country code: .xk note: assigned as a temporary code under UN Security Council resolution 1244/99
Airports: 6 (2013)
Airports (paved runways): total 3
Airports (unpaved runways): total 3
Railways: total 333 km
Roadways: total 2,012 km
(2015) paved: 1,921 km (includes 78 km of expressways) (2015)
unpaved: 91 km (2015)
Military branches: in December 2018, Kosovo adopted a legislative package to initiate a ten-year transition of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) into a professional multiethnic force with a limited territorial defense mandate (2019)
Military expenditures: 0.79% of GDP (2016) 0.78% of GDP (2015) 0.73% of GDP (2014) 0.69% of GDP (2013) 0.67% of GDP (2012)
Disputes - International: Serbia with several other states protest the US and other states' recognition of Kosovo's declaration of its status as a sovereign and independent state in February 2008; ethnic Serbian municipalities along Kosovo's northern border challenge final status of Kosovo-Serbia boundary; NATO-led Kosovo Force peacekeepers under UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo authority continue to ensure a safe and secure environment and freedom of movement for all Kosovo citizens; Kosovo and North Macedonia completed demarcation of their boundary in September 2008; Kosovo ratified the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro in March 2018, but the actual demarcation has not been completed
Refugees and internally displaced persons: IDPs: 16,000 (primarily ethnic Serbs displaced during the 1998-1999 war fearing reprisals from the majority ethnic-Albanian population; a smaller number of ethnic Serbs, Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptians fled their homes in 2,004 as a result of violence) (2018)
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The HuffingtonPost wrote about river cruises in France:
Our mostly over-50 group includes teachers, doctors, nurses and engineers, as well as quilters and garden enthusiasts -- both couples and singles. A significant number of our travel companions are, like us, retirees at a similar stage of life. All Americans, they come from almost every region of the U.S. After exploring Paris from this base for several days, we will be embarking on a seven-night river cruise on M/S Chardonnay through Burgundy and Provence.
Travel Weekly posted on Weather and Waterlevels (prior to the flood):
If regional weather patterns look like they might affect water levels, then the next step is to simply ask the river cruise line point blank whether the itinerary will proceed as planned. The challenge, of course, is that oftentimes even the river cruise companies themselves don't know whether there will be changes up until the last minute. It’s in everyone’s interests for the sailings to go as planned, and so they will often try to hold off on any premature cancellations or itinerary alterations. But it doesn’t hurt to ask, several times if necessary.
The Telegraph covers river cruise destinations for 2014:
New ships on established routes, appealing twists on existing journeys, themed “odysseys” and stay-and-sail packages all feature in river-cruise programmes for 2014. With river cruising firmly in the ascendant, cruise operators have responded with a raft of “book-now” itineraries — among them an excellent selection of old favourites and fresh alternatives. France is proving to be a hot new favourite, with options including not only the Rhône but also the Seine and the waterways around Bordeaux. Here’s our pick of European river cruises, with a wild card thrown in.
Croisi Europe launches some new cruises and ships according to PR Web:
With the christening of their newest ship, The Cyrano de Bergerac, on May 16, 2013, CroisiEurope adds a second ship to their successful river cruise voyages from Bordeaux into French wine country. Bordeaux is the oldest and largest of France’s wine growing regions.
First time river cruise experience report in the Telegraph:
I’d picked a river rather than a sea cruise for my maiden voyage, because the destinations appealed. We were set to sail along the Danube from Budapest to Regensburg in Germany — the first half of a two-week Jewels of Europe cruise, which finished in Amsterdam. For company and a reliable second opinion, my wife had agreed to join me — leaving our three teenage offspring behind to fend for themselves at home.
About the new Scenic ships:
Last month, Scenic launched its seventh river vessel in Europe, the 169-passenger Scenic Jewel. At that time, the company also announced it would launch an eighth ship, the Scenic Gem, in 2014. The Scenic Jade will be the latest of Scenic’s Space-Ships class of vessels. Amenities will include personal butler service for all guests; cabins that feature walk-out balconies that convert into all-weather lounges with the push of a button; complimentary minibar stocked daily; and high-definition TVs linked to Mac Mini computers with complimentary Internet access in the cabins.
APTouring was awarded by Australian Gourmet Traveller:
APT has received one of travel most prestigious awards at this week’s Australian Gourmet Traveller Travel Awards, which are voted for by the magazine’s readers, winning the newly introduced River Cruise Operator category.
Scenic is going to expand it's 2014 program:
Scenic Cruises is expanding its Europe river cruising program for 2014 with five new itineraries, two new ships, new excursions and a new loyalty program. The company’s Europe 2014 Luxury River Cruise Brochure offers details in 144 color pages.
Huffingtion post on top destinations:
Despite the economic crisis gripping Europe, there's one sector which has seen a dramatic surge of interest in recent years: river cruises. Trips along Europe's great waterways are in higher demand than ever; thanks to their relaxed pace, customizable activities, and itineraries which mix culture, history, cuisine, and nature, river cruises are quickly becoming package vacations for the modern era. However, recent flooding on the Danube, one of Europe's most popular rivers, has led operators to cancel cruises and put many travelers' summer plans in jeopardy. Thankfully, Europe is full of great rivers just waiting to be explored.
Review of the Tulip Cruises in the Netherlands:
Although I am a cruise junkie, I had never before been on a river cruise. The ship itself, the Emerald, was long and low, lined with balconies and huge windows. There was always something to look at; people walking dogs, windmills, birds wheeling ahead of you, and the excitement of the locks.
So far the regular articles. Here are those covering the flood and its impact on river cruises
Skift on cancellations:
Several cruise companies have had to cancel or change their river voyages, with widespread flooding still affecting large parts of Central Europe.
Travelmarketreport covers the TA's situation:
Floods in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic have led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of Europeans as rising rivers have threatened communities. A state of emergency has been declared in the Czech Republic, where at least five have been killed in the worst flooding since 2002.
Montreal Gazette compares the actual flood to the 2002 highwater:
It’s against that backdrop that the river ships of Europe started cancelling cruises, busing passengers and moving ships that were full to alternative routes. Did their emergency plans succeed? Were the cruise lines transparent with their customers and the media? Were they quick enough making decisions as it became obvious that portions of their routes were going to be shut down. Did passengers who were disrupted receive fair compensation?
Dailymail shows some pictures from Prague:
Cruise companies have been forced to cancel several of their river cruises following the severe floods that have hit parts of Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe.
USA Today covers cancellations:
Deadly flooding in central Europe has caused river ship companies to cancel sailings, scramble to re-route itineraries on the Danube, Main and Rhine, and in some cases move passengers to different vessels.
LA Times reports on the floods:
River cruise companies have been canceling and modifying cruises as flooding continues over a large swath of Central Europe, including Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland.
Travel Weekly wrote on cancellation policy:
As river cruise lines scrambled over the past couple weeks to rebook and reaccommodate passengers impacted by some of the worst flooding in Central Europe in decades, their focus remained on ensuring customer satisfaction and a good reputation amid crisis.
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Home DIASPORA Former Ghana Ambassador To U.S. Dr. Kwame Bawuah-Edusei Launches Autobiography
At a festive ceremony held at the Hilton Hotel in Springfield Virginia, physician, business executive, diplomat, and philanthropist H.E. Dr. Kwame Bawuah-Edusei launched his long-awaited autobiography – Thrived: Despite the Odds.
The book is a harrowing tale of ups and downs through childhood, after he lost his father at age 4, as a community leader in the United States, a diplomat, and an entrepreneur. Relative to oil discovery in Ghana, Dr. Bawuah-Edusei includes details about a protracted legal inquiry by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Government of Ghana, as well as aspersions and personal attacks that resulted in economic hardships. The book, however, ends with the triumph he always dreamed of and a challenge to all to “never give up.”
Addressing the guests at the U.S. launch, Dr. Bawuah-Edusei remarked,
“I decided to write this book because the truth always needs to be told. Delays can be harmful. I had to share my life experiences, particularly for the youth. They are the future and should know that even when faced with the most severe challenges, they should never give up.”
Prior to serving as Ghana’s ambassador to the United States (2006–2009), Dr. Bawuah-Edusei served as Ghana’s Ambassador to Switzerland and Austria, as well as Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva and Vienna.
As a private citizen, Dr. Bawuah-Edusei formed an oil company – EO Group – with his partner Mr. George Owusu. The hard efforts deployed by EO Group eventually contributed to the discovery of oil in large commercial quantities for the first time in Ghana. This transformational asset helped Ghana move from a highly indebted poor country into a middle income one.
Throughout his stay in the U.S. from the mid-1980s, Dr. Bawuah-Edusei was a staunch community leader. He continues to be a resilient advocate for Ghana and still travels all over the country to help improve U.S.-Ghana relations through business promotion and advocacy.
In her foreword for the book, former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, H.E. Pamela E. Bridgewater, who spoke at the launch writes; “what you read in his engrossing and uplifting autobiography, Thrived: Despite the Odds, is that Kwame was a successful medical doctor and businessman before becoming a diplomat. His company, EO Group (reflecting his partnership with George Owusu), was vigorously engaged in and finally successful in negotiating oil exploration and an unprecedented discovery of “black gold” in Ghana, bringing wealth to the nation and to the company.”
Through his Edusei Foundation he also facilitates youth development in Ghana and the diaspora and supports infrastructure development and charitable causes, especially in the health sector.
Thrived: Despite the Odds is scheduled to be launched in Accra, and Kumasi (both in Ghana) before the end of 2019.
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Saudi Trade Finance Summit to address latest innovation and trends in financial sector
Swaied Alzahrani
RIYADH — The Middle East region is undergoing constant economic developments and social reformations with impactful transformation in Saudi Arabia. In lines with the overall growth in the Kingdom and Saudi's Vision 2030, Saudi Credit Bureau (SIMAH), the 1st licensed & pioneer credit bureau in Saudi Arabia for consumers and commercial, announced its participation as a platinum sponsor at the 7th Annual Saudi Trade Finance Summit.
To address the latest innovation and trends in the financial sector, the Saudi Trade Finance Summit organized by QnA International will be held on Nov. 13-14 in Riyadh. The high-profile event which exclusively brings together CEOs, presidents, chairman, group CFOs, Finance & Treasury heads from leading corporates to meet leading financial, banking and technological institutions to facilitate rigorous discussions on the current trends, challenges and opportunities the finance sector, can bring to shape the Kingdom’s economy through trade.
With the current economic climate and the number of developmental changes that are underway in Saudi Arabia, SIMAH is at the forefront with its development initiatives that are completely aligned with the summit’s vision of enhancing the national economy.
Supporting Saudi’s biggest Trade Finance event is an added opportunity for SIMAH to showcase its expertise and its insights into the trade financing requirements of Saudi Corporates.
Swaied Alzahrani, CEO, SIMAH, said “SIMAH believes that Saudi Trade Finance Summit with all its packages is a good opportunity to tackle some key issues related to the credit and finance market. For example, SIMATI and SIMAT reporting systems are very important in today’s financial system. Creditors consider information held by these systems a primary factor when they evaluate the creditworthiness of data subjects and monitor the credit circumstances of consumers. This information flow enables credit markets to function more efficiently and at lower cost than would otherwise be possible. Well-functioning financial markets contribute to sustainable growth and economic development, because they typically provide an efficient mechanism for evaluating risk and return to investment, and then managing and allocating risk. Financial infrastructure (FI) is a core part of all financial systems. The quality of financial infrastructure determines the efficiency of intermediation, the ability of lenders to evaluate risk and of consumers to obtain credit, insurance and other financial products at competitive terms.”
Established in 2002, operated since 2004 and issued more than 82 million credit reports since 2004 till end of December 2018 with data quality score of % 99.4, SIMAH’s newly trademarks come as a further phase of SIMAH new identity. New trademarks registered by Ministry of Commerce and Investment include FINDATA (a new innovative marketing concept in the credit reporting industry); SIMATI (consumer reporting system); SIMAT (commercial reporting system) and MOARIF (Legal Entity Identifier). MOARIF is the first Local Operating Unit in the MENA accredited by Global Legal Entity Identifier Originations (GLIEF), run by SIMAH and covers 18 countries.
“The Saudi Trade Finance Summit is a platform that will contribute to the credit information reporting in Saudi Arabia and the perfect place to celebrate the SIMAH becoming the 1st credit agency in MENA to have its own commercial Trademarks. SIMAH’s repeat participation at the 7th annual confirms the summit being a mature and respected platform for the trade finance industry of the Kingdom,” said Sidh NC, Director, QnA International.
In lines with Saudi's Vision 2030, the 7th annual Saudi Trade Finance Summit will provide a platform for the government authorities and the Kingdom’s booming private sector to have thought provoking trade finance conversations through its informative conference sessions and unparalleled networking opportunities that emphasize on the diversification of the economy to help realize the role of financial institutions and corporates in achieving the Kingdom’s Vision through sustainable growth. — SG
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Predicting epileptic seizures might be more difficult than previously thought
Scientists prove there is no evidence for a previously suspected warning sign for seizures
Credit: Klaus Lehnertz
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 24, 2019 — By studying the brain dynamics of 28 subjects with epilepsy, scientists demonstrated there is no evidence for a previously suspected warning sign for seizures known as “critical slowing down.”
In 2013, some of the first seizure-prediction devices were developed and successfully tested. Although extensive research efforts have successfully identified predictors of imminent seizures, the concept of critical slowing down as an index for seizure susceptibility has been controversial and remained unproven.
Critical slowing down refers to characteristic changes in the behavior of a complex system that approaches a theoretical tipping point. When this point is exceeded, it can lead to impactful and devastating changes. An epileptic human brain is considered an excellent example of a system such as this, due to the extreme and distressing nature of a seizure.
In a paper published in Chaos, from AIP Publishing, researchers investigated recordings of brain dynamics that captured 105 epileptic seizures using time-resolved estimates of early warning indicators of the seizures.
“In our investigations, we used the most prominent indicators and showed that critical slowing down prior to human epileptic seizures is not verifiable,” neurophysicist Thorsten Rings said. “This demonstrates that the concept underlying critical slowing down is too simple of a model for the human brain.”
Instead of critically slowing down, the researchers discovered the seizures acted oppositely and critically sped up, indicating the brain dynamics were less sensitive to changes and experienced a faster return to an unperturbed state.
“Similar indicators of critical slowing down can even be observed in relation to daily rhythms, such as sleeping and waking, but we lack clear-cut evidence for critical slowing down preceding such changes,” researcher Theresa Wilkat said. “Therefore, it is hard to clearly distinguish between a critical transition into a seizure and a critical transition into other states.”
An in-depth model of the transition into a seizure is still missing, but considering their research, Klaus Lehnertz and his team said the concept of critical slowing down is insufficient as a predictive method. They believe future studies should develop improved models and analysis techniques.
“A promising future approach might be to investigate how seizures emerge from large-scale brain networks by taking into account their time-varying structure and function,” Lehnertz said.
The article, “No evidence for critical slowing down prior to human epileptic seizures,” is authored by Theresa Wilkat, Thorsten Rings and Klaus Lehnertz. The article will appear in Chaos on Sept. 24, 2019 (DOI: 10.1063/1.5122759). After that date, it can be accessed at http://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.5122759.
Chaos is devoted to increasing the understanding of nonlinear phenomena in all areas of science and engineering and describing their manifestations in a manner comprehensible to researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines. See https://aip.scitation.org/journal/cha.
Larry Frum
media@aip.org
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5122759
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2007 Sycamore Creek Zinfandel
I first tasted this Zinfandel 6 months ago at the Bella Mia tasting in San Jose. The fruit comes from a small domestic vineyard in Coyote Valley; I don't believe that the vines are particularly old.
The nose is showing lots of espresso coffee, "red vines" and strawberry. The oak is showing more than I remember, as is the heat. On the palate it's rich and concentrated; spicy in a chili pepper way. There's a lot of raspberry and some black pepper too. The tannins are smooth, not overpowering and it has a good long finish.
It's been sold out at the winery for months but I'll certainly be looking out for future vintages. 91
Labels: Sycamore Creek, Zinfandel
Updated: Another Summit fire
The Santa Cruz Sentinel is reporting that the fire department successfully contained the two wildfires on Summit Road in Corralitos. They were first reported at 12:48PM, a little over a mile from Windy Oaks, to the east of the area that was devastated by last year's Summit Fire.
Summit Road was closed for a while to traffic from its southern end, at the junction with Mount Madonna Road. One of the fires was contained at two acres, the other at five. No information on the cause, but the area has been experiencing record high temperatures this weekend (it was 99F in Santa Clara today).
Labels: Summit Fire
Two non-vintage wines
Some people think I'm a wine snob. And maybe I am; I just don't see any point in drinking things that don't taste good. By that token I'm a whisky snob, a beer snob - even a pop snob. If the only beer on offer is Coors Light, I'll have a Coke, and if it's Diet Caffeine Free Vanilla Cherry Coke then sod it, I'll just drink water.
That's not to say I won't experiment. I've had cheap wines that surprised me, and expensive wines that were undrinkable. I try not to assume anything from the label; after all you never know until you try it. But there are a few warning signs that can make me approach the bottle with the reticence of a four-year-old faced with an unfamiliar green vegetable.
California AVA I've had several really good wines that carry the California appellation. Stefania Haut Tubbe for example is a blend of Santa Clara valley and Santa Cruz Mountains fruit. Kathryn Kennedy's Sauvignon Blanc is one of the best Californian examples I've tasted - it's sourced from vineyards in three different counties. Fogarty's Skyline and Cinnabar's Mercury Rising are good examples of decent value blends that carry the generic appellation. But overall those are the exceptions rather than the rule, and they come from winemakers that I already know and respect. On the other hand, the supermarket shelves are full of generic California crap, blended from bulk purchases and perked up with residual sugar, oak powder and Mega Purple.
Non-vintage is fine for Champagnes and fortified wines, but is rarely a good sign on table wines. There are of course exceptions; for example ZD Abacus is produced using the Solera system and thus can't carry a vintage date, but overall it's a bad sign.
French AOCs on labels, such as "Californian Champagne", "Mountain Chablis" or "Burgundy Select". It's the wine equivalent of buying a "Rolex" watch from a street trader. The exception to this rule is of course Claret; I can't understand why the EU decided to make this a protected term, especially considering that it's British not French in origin.
Rapazzini Burgundy Select managed to hit all three trigger points at once. A non-vintage blend of un-named grapes - is there any Pinot Noir in there at all I wonder? - it's a light, soft, fruity wine; the sort that comes in litre carafes in Italian restaurants.
Kirigin Estate Red, Santa Clara Valley is honest about what it is and where it comes from. At a guess it's a blend of Zinfandel and Cabernet Sauvignon, possibly others, with a fair amount of oak influence and a little more character than the "Burgundy Select".
There's nothing wrong with either of these wines; then again there's nothing particularly right with them either. They are drinkable, but not memorable, and not something I would consider buying again. In the $10-$15 price range there are plenty of better options, particularly from South America or Australia.
Labels: Kirigin Cellars, Rapazzini
2008 Coastview Vineyard Estate Chardonnay, Monterey County
A few local wine enthusiasts got together recently for dinner in Los Altos. One of the guests was Ian Brand; a former assistant winemaker at Big Basin and now consulting for several local wineries including Nicholson in Corralitos and Coastview in Monterey. He brought several of the wines he's been making (my notes were brief due to the dinner and a lack of power in my iPhone), including a 2008 Albariño from Pierce Ranch (Floral and fruity, but unfortunately served a bit too warm), a 2008 Nicholson Arroyo Seco Viognier (Light floral nose, with briny and biscuit/ice-cream wafer notes), a 2007 Coastview Syrah
(Meaty, savoury, smoky bacon on the nose. Good currant fruit, nice acidity and his personal label, a 2005 Le P'tit Paysan Meritage (Nose of roast meat, elderberry, smoke. Tight berry fruit - cranberry and boysenberry. Smooth tannins.)
As we left he handed me a couple of wines that we didn't get around to. One of them was an as yet unreleased Chardonnay from Coastview Vineyard. Coastview is located in the Gavilan Mountains at an elevation of 2300-2600 feet, possibly the highest vineyard in Monterey County and as high as Muns in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Coastview has similar limestone and granite soils as the Chalone AVA, but with a cooler microclimate.
The wine shows a lot of tropical fruit, both on the nose and the palate; particularly mango, nectarine and pear. Although it's smooth and rounded there's very little oak influence. (The wine sees only 20% new French oak, 80% neutral.) It reminded me of Michaud, which I haven't had in a while. The finish is long and rich. Since it's so young I had planned to save some to try the following day, but before I knew it the bottle was empty.
The release date is unconfirmed, as is the price, but it'll probably be in the same range as Michaud. 91 Recommended
Labels: Albariño, Arroyo Seco, Chardonnay, Coastview, Ian Brand, Le P'tit Paysan, Nicholson Vineyards, Pierce Ranch, Syrah, Viognier
Lockheed Fire: 100% Contained
The CDF is reporting the fire as 100% contained. That doesn't mean it's extinguished; there's still a way to go to extinguish burning stumps and brush, and there is still a lot of smoke as a result. It blew into the south bay again yesterday afternoon.
As often happens, residents have put up home made signs to thank the brave firefighters who risked their lives on long, difficult shifts tackling the fire. Local resident Todd Hoff has a collection of photos on FriendFeed; the photo above is one of his. Once the majority of fire crews leave I plan to head over to take some photos too.
I doubt that there's a winery anywhere in the country with as interesting a history as Mount Eden. Its history goes back to the 1940s, when Martin "Rusty" Ray sold Paul Masson's old Mountain Winery to Seagrams and purchased Table Mountain to the north west. In April 1960, Ray incorporated "Mount Eden Vineyards" and sold a handful of shares at $10,000 each. A few years later there was a legal action led by one shareholder who had purchased a number of shares. This led to a legal battle, which Ray lost. The story - or a version of it at least - is told in the book "Vineyards In The Sky". Martin Ray died a few years later, in 1976.
Mount Eden had a series of winemakers in the 1970s. Dick Graff, founder of Chalone Vineyards was the first. He brought on Meredith "Merry" Edwards, who in turn was succeeded by Fred Peterson.
In 1981 Peterson recruited a young graduate from Davis named Jeffrey Patterson as assistant winemaker. Just two harvests later Peterson left and Jeffrey Patterson took over as head winemaker. He has since become the majority shareholder in Mount Eden Vineyards and lives in the house that Ray built.
The drive up the mountain is ... interesting. The road is unpaved; in fact 'road' is far too grand a word for what is little more than a dirt track. When it rains Jeffrey re-grades the surface but in the dry season it's two and a half miles of rutted, compacted dust.
But once you reach the top the views are spectacular, particularly on a relatively clear day. You are looking down from 2000 feet on an unbroken panorama from Mount Umunhum in the south to Mount Diablo in the north, encompassing the whole south bay - that's what the Pattersons wake up to every morning.
At 45 planted acres, Mount Eden is currently the second largest vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains, slightly larger than Bargetto's Regan Vineyard. It has gradually been replanted over the years, with the last of Rusty Ray's original vines being removed in the late 1990s and replaced with new rootstock grafted with the small berried Mount Eden clones. At the lowest elevation lies the 5 acre Peter Martin Ray vineyard; still owned by Rusty's adopted stepson. The contrast between the viticulture is startling; the old vines are head pruned and basket caned, with leaves trailing across the floor. The fruit is not purchased by Mount Eden; instead it's sold to other local wineries including Downhill and Bargetto.
The estate has recently been expanded further by the purchase of Cinnabar's old vineyards in Saratoga. The 13 planted acres are being renovated, with all the Cabernet Sauvignon vines being grafted over to Pinot Noir.
2005 Estate Chardonnay
Deep yellow colour. (I rarely comment on the colour of wines unless it's unusual)
Nose shows caramel/butterscotch and lemon zest, with creamy, floral notes. A richly concentrated wine; creamy with red apple and lime, good acidity. The oak is reasonably balanced for a young Mount Eden. There's a chalky, mineral note on the finish. 94
By contrast the 2002 has a lighter nose; cream soda, apple and lime. Not so much of the caramel, it's more creamy, smooth and rich but less concentrated than the 2005. 93
Great nose; cherry, oak and earth. Good structure, with nice, spicy fruit; notes of citrus pith on the front of the tongue and a long, lingering finish 92
2004 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
Also contains 22% Merlot and 3% Cabernet Franc
Nose shows vanilla and coffee, with lots of savoury blackcurrant. The tannins are fine, with good blackcurrant fruit, mint and a hint of eucalyptus. Good structure and a nice, medium length, tannic finish. 92
Labels: Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Martin Ray, Mount Eden, Peter Martin Ray, Pinot Noir
Lockheed Fire: weekend update
It looks like the fire is almost entirely controlled. The latest CDF report estimates 98% containment, with 100% expected later today. The affected area is now over 7800 acres; although no homes were affected, at least 14 'outbuildings' such as seasonal cabins have been either damaged or`destroyed. The cost has exceeded $25 million, and 10 injuries are reported.
One thing that has been very different about the Lockheed Fire as compared to the Summit Fire of last year is the potential to affect vines. There aren't that many vineyards in the Bonny Doon area; the sandy soil and cool microclimate are considered less than ideal for grapes (though McHenry does very well there). The smoke and ash from the Summit Fire blew all over the south bay; we could smell the fires almost every day. Most days the smoke from the Lockheed fire seems to have blown to the west, toward the sea and thus away from the majority of vines.
Labels: fire, Lockheed, Summit Fire
Santa Clara Valley links
There's a nice article on the Santa Clara Valley wineries by Alan Goldfarb over on Appellation America. For those who don't subscribe, John Aver has it reprinted on his website.
Speaking of Aver Family, their Petite Sirah gets praised by Laurie Daniel in her weekly piece for the Mercury News.
Labels: Appellation America, Aver Family, Sycamore Creek
Lockheed Fire Latest: Thursday
The fire remains at 80% containment and has spread to 7,364 acres. Almost 2,000 personnel are still involved, and costs have topped $18m, with 8 injuries. The good news is that the threat to homes has been addressed and all evacuations and road closures have been lifted; residents with identification are being allowed to return. The CDF is still on target to have full containment by the weekend.
Labels: fire, Lockheed
Lockheed Fire: Tuesday Update
CDF reports 80% containment. The affected area has increased by just over 100 acres. Almost all the evacuation restrictions have now been lifted, except for a handful of houses still under threat on Warnella Road. A sixth firefighter has been reported as injured. Costs have been estimated at around $15m. Still no information on the cause of the blaze.
Lockheed Fire: Monday update
CDF now reports 65% containment. The damage has now passed the 7,000 acre mark and the costs have risen to just under $10m. A fifth injury has been reported.
The good news is that the evacuation order for Bonny Doon has been temporarily lifted and residents are being allowed to return, though it remains in place for Swanton.
Lockheed Fire: Sunday update
The CDF is now reporting 50% containment on the Lockheed fire, with almost 7,000 acres destroyed. The weather conditions have improved, but it may be another week before the fire is fully contained. Estimated cost has exceeded $6 million.
Four firefighters have been reported as injured, but thankfully there have been no fatalities and no reports of houses being damaged. Linda McHenry reported that the fire is between 1 and 2 miles away from the vineyard; firefighters are concentrating their efforts to defend inhabited areas, and favourable winds are helping.
Labels: Bonny Doon, fire, Lockheed
Lockheed Fire Update
The fire department is reporting over 5,000 acres destroyed, with 15% containment.
Update: The figures have now been revised to 6800 acres, 30% containment.
There's a map showing the fire's perimeter created by the Santa Cruz Sentinel. It shows the perimeter as less than a mile from the McHenry Vineyard. Firefighters are working to protect the villages of Bonny Doon and Swanton; although evacuation orders are in place, many Bonny Doon residents are staying and trying to defend their properties.
Costs have risen to an estimated $2.6m and there are now over 1500 personnel on the scene. Still no injuries reported, but smoke and ash is reported up to 50 miles away, and the area in the south bay smells of smoke today. The cause of the fire is still unconfirmed.
Fire season again: Lockheed Fire
Yes, it's fire season again. The Lockheed Fire is burning close to Bonny Doon, around 3 miles from last year's Martin fire. So far over 4,000 acres have been destroyed and a couple of buildings, but no homes yet. Around 2,000 people have been evacuate. There are news reports on the web sites of local TV stations such as KTVU and there's more information on the CDF web site and on the CalFire blog. It doesn't look like any wineries or vineyards are in the area; the closest appears to be McHenry, which lies to the south.
Update from Ryan Beauregard, in Bonny Doon: The winds have just picked up, and it is all blowing right towards me and Bacchus at the lost weekend, we will be leaving shortly... Helicopters are circling, fire bombers are going by. It is very surreal. At a moments notice, me and Bacchus can be told to leave. Then, we can only hope that the sprinklers on the roof can do something to help. Or, the 20,000 gallons of stored water can come in handy for the firemen. Even though I have put our roughly 10,000 gallons of water through the seven sprinklers, I still know it will do nothing to help. As of now, we will be closed for an estimated four days.
The internet brings everything together
There are two internet resources that every wine lover ought to know about.
Wine Searcher is a database of retailers from around the world. Their spiders download the latest price lists from every retailer, allowing you to quickly search for wines by any criteria. The basic service is free, and is supported by participating retailers; a $30 "pro" subscription gives you access to the entire database; depending on your budget and shopping habits it can easily pay for itself the first time you use it.
Cellar Tracker is a database of wines. It allows you to keep track of your wine collection, including purchases and consumption, view tasting notes from other users (the database just passed the 1,000,000 tasting notes mark) and lots more besides. Although there are other alternatives, it has become the dominant player. The service is free; a voluntary donation unlocks some additional features. The main criticism of Cellar Tracker is in its user interface; it's not very "Web 2.0" if you'll forgive the horrible buzzword, but this is due to be addressed in an update planned for later in the year. Another thing that is promised is a web API, which really could be interesting.
One of the first significant players to recognise the value of Cellar Tracker was Stephen Tanzer. He allows Cellar Tracker to publish the scores for the wines he reviews; furthermore his subscribers also see the full reviews.
As yet the two other main wine critics (in the US at least) - Wine Spectator and The Wine Advocate - aren't integrated with Cellar Tracker. They each have their reasons; whether I agree with those reasons is irrelevant, but I for one have vowed not to subscribe to their online services until I can access them via Cellar Tracker, so they have lost at least one sale as a result.
Now one of the latest ideas to hit the internet is Vinfolio Marketplace. This is a reverse auction service, whereby users who have wines that they are willing to sell can list them and field offers from interested customers. There have been plenty of sites that allowed users to sell or trade their wines; many such as WineBid or Brentwood act as licenced brokers and charge significant commissions to both buyers and sellers; Wine Commune offers lower commissions but operates in a legal grey area where neither the buyer or seller might have a licence to sell or ship alcohol.
Despite the fact that Vinfolio offers a cellar tracking service, they quickly teamed up with Cellar Tracker to allow users to easily list wines in Cellar Tracker in the Marketplace. They are also negotiating with Wine Searcher on the best way to list wines offered for sale on the site; this is complicated because the wines in the market place are only 'available' - it's up to the buyer to negotiate a satisfactory price. But the point is that they are working together to resolve this.
What I'd like to see is a single portal that combines everything. From one site you could see your cellar contents, reviews from all the critics to which you subscribe, both professional and amateur, current retail prices and recent auction prices, winery details such as that provided by Wine Questers or the ill-fated Appellation America.
As I mentioned earlier, Cellar Tracker is taking about publishing an API. This would allow people to write tools that work with it, in the way that people have written applications that work with Google, Facebook or Twitter. At which point Cellar Tracker may become the definitive online encyclopaedia of wine. It will be interesting to see how long the critics feel they can can ignore that.
Tracking Vineyards
I recently became curious as to just how many acres of vineyards there are in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley AVAs; surprisingly it's not an easy question to answer. Mapping county figures to the AVAs is tricky, as the AVAs cross county lines. According to the official figures from the National Agricultural Statistics Service there are just 377 acres of vines in Santa Cruz County, with 358 producing fruit in 2008. Similarly in Santa Clara County there are 1462 acres planted, with 1432 in production.
There are approximately 300 acres of vineyard in the Santa Clara AVA which lie inside the San Benito County border, and there is probably a similar amount of vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA that lie within Santa Clara or San Mateo Counties. So at a rough estimate, there are probably around 700 acres of vines in the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA and at least twice that in the Santa Clara Valley AVA.
There are few large vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains; the rugged terrain isn't easily farmed. Anything over 20 acres is considered to be extensive. The largest, and most famous, is Ridge's Monte Bello Vineyard. This is in fact a number of smaller vineyards located at different elevations, giving a total of 108 acres. Other well known vineyards include Mount Eden and the Regan Vineyard owned by Bargetto, both of which are over 40 acres.
In Santa Clara Valley, most of the acreage is concentrated in a few large vineyards, several of which are located along Highway 152 in the San Ysidro District and Pacheco Pass AVAs. San Ysidro District lies to the east of Gilroy on Highway 152. While the AVA may be small at just 2,340 acres, it is home to two of the largest vineyards in the area. Mistral Vineyard and San Ysidro Vineyard sit side by side to the north of Highway 152.
Mistral is slightly the larger of the two, with 260 acres planted from a total of 375. It is understood to contain mainly Chardonnay and Merlot which is sold to large producers, though there is a small amount of the port grapes Touriga Nacional, Tinta Cao and Tinta Madeira. Until its sale in 2007 the vineyard was owned by Millbrook Wine of New York, through their Pebble Ridge Vineyards subsidiary. (I have yet to determine who the new owners are.) Millbrook also own the highly regarded Williams Selyem winery in Sonoma, who have produced a port-style wine from the vineyard. The San Ysidro Vineyard has around 250 acres planted. A little over half is Pinot Noir with the remainder being Chardonnay and a small amount of Merlot. It is owned by the San Ysidro Corporation, the parent company of United California Citrus.
Further along, just before the 152 meets the 156 is the Dunne Ranch Vineyard, the largest in the AVA. As the road rises towards Pacheco Pass the vineyards are to the right, in the valley below. This 1000 acre ranch is owned by the Blackburn family, who also own the Pietra Santa winery in nearby Cienega Valley, but if you have $20M to spend it's understood to be for sale. Pietra Santa use only a fraction of the fruit; the majority is sold. The vineyard has around 300 acres of Chardonnay, 66 acres of Gewurztraminer and 10 acres of Pinot Gris; this alone makes Chardonnay the most planted variety in the AVA, and also makes Gewurztraminer the second most planted white variety. The western portion of the vineyard lies within the Pacheco Pass AVA. Further still, and also within the Pacheco Pass AVA, lies the San Felipe Vineyard; it covers some 122 acres and is evenly divided into Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. It is also owned by the San Ysidro Corporation.
Between them, these four vineyards account for over 1,000 acres of vines, yet their names rarely appear on any labels. It's understood that much of the Chardonnay goes to large producers such as Kendall Jackson, Au Bon Climat and Beringer; the owners don't like to talk about who their clients are. Some fruit is used by local producers; Storrs, Picchetti and Cronin have all produced Merlot from San Ysidro, and Calera use Chardonnay from the San Ysidro and San Felipe vineyards.
I would be interested in any additional information about any of these vineyards; if you can help please contact me.
Labels: Pacheco Pass, San Ysidro, Santa Clara Valley, Santa Cruz Mountains, vineyards
First Friday at Ridge, including 2007 Jimsomare Zinfandel
Cast your mind back to last May, and the final assemblage tasting at Ridge. This is one of my favourite events of the year, as it's a great opportunity to try some older vintages of Monte Bello.
This year they poured three vintages; the 1995, 1997 and 1999. The latter vintage in particular did not show at all as expected, as I wrote at the time. Following some discussion with Ridge's Tasting Room Manager Christopher Watkins, Wes Barton and I were invited back to reassess the 1999.
Ridge isn't open on weekdays except by appointment and for certain special events. One of these events, for wine club members, takes place on the first Friday of every month, so we arranged to turn up early and combine the two events. We were joined by Richard Jennings, a fellow local wine enthusiast whose palate Wes and I greatly respect.
We were fortunate that there had been a trade visitor earlier in the day, so we got to start with a couple of wines that had been opened for them.
2006 Monte Bello Chardonnay
This will be released on September 1st. List price is $60, but it will be available for $50 on the first weekend.
Nose of white flowers, lemon zest, vanilla and wet stone. Lovely flavours of creamy vanilla, lemon, white peach and a little chalk. The oak was showing a little harshly on the long finish. Definitely needs some cellar time to truly shine. 93
A powerful nose of smoke, blackberry, mint and slate jumps out of the glass. There is plenty of sweet brambly fruit, hints of smoke and mint and a very long, dry mineral finish. Wes had brought some of his home-made Elderberry jam because he's been noticing elderberry notes on recent vintages of Monte Bello; he was right, there was definitely some elder notes. As you'd expect it has great structure and will cellar well, though it would be good with steak tonight. With time it opened up further. Should be a classic Monte Bello. $140 94+
Okay, down to the reason we are here. Right from the start it was clear that this was very different from the wine we tasted last May. The nose shows similar characteristics to the 2006 - lots of brambles, mint and smoke - and more maturity as you would expect, but nothing like last time, no sign of oxidation at all.
Good brambly fruit, smoked meat and coriander seed, with lots of structure. The finish was not as long as the 2006 Monte Bello. Still got plenty of life. 92
We then joined the Jimsomare tasting, and switched back to a white
2005 Home Ranch Chardonnay
Home Ranch is a designation that Ridge uses when it has lots that didn't make the cut for the Monte Bello but they don't want to blend it into the Santa Cruz. As a result, Home Ranch wines aren't made every year.
There was more evident oak influence than on the 2006 Monte Bello. Lots of lemon & vanilla and some walnut. I'd have pegged this for a Varner. Very fruity; nice balance, just a hint of sherry on the finish. A few bottles are still available at $45. 90
Jimsomare Ranch is a 500 acre property lower down on Monte Bello Road. Ridge has been sourcing fruit there for around 40 years and manages the estate. It has 5 acres of Zinfandel vines that are over 100 years old, and an additional block planted in 1996. The climate in the Santa Cruz Mountains is cool for Zinfandel, so you don't get the over-ripe jammy characteristics that (for me at least) mar many Zinfandels.
2007 Jimsomare Zinfandel, Santa Cruz Mountains
Nose was fruity but seemed atypical for a Zinfandel. Layers of deep, heavy fruit; blackberry, smoke and "Red Vines", with a longish finish. It triggered a memory of whinberry pie (a small English bilberry). $32 93
Showing a more traditional Zin profile; a tart raspberry/cranberry nose, lots of smooth raspberry fruit and a good, long and balanced finish. Hard to believe that it's 12 years old, it seems so lively. Delicious. 94
1988 Jimsomare Zinfandel, Late Picked, Santa Cruz Mountains
Ridge uses the 'late picked' designation to indicate that the sugar levels were higher than usual at harvest. There may be a little residual sugar, but it's not a 'dessert' wine.
This had a really strange nose; very hard to describe, there's PlayDoh, grass and cigarettes. It's surprisingly tart, dry and tannic despite the touch (0.11%) of residual sugar, but there's not much fruit remaining. An interesting experience nonetheless.
Update: Richard has posted his notes on CellarTracker.
Labels: Chardonnay, Home Ranch, Jimsomare, Monte Bello, Ridge, Zinfandel
2004 "La Fenice" Cabernet Sauvignon, California
Morgan Hill Cellars was founded in 1913, with 80 acres of vines. The property was purchased by John and Eda Pedrizzetti in 1945 and with the help of of Mike Bo of the San Martin Winery, Pedrizzetti Winery began to grow. When John and Eda retired their son Ed and his new wife Phyllis took over and in 1968 they opened a tasting room off Burnett Avenue. A particularly heavy frost in the winter of 1979 damaged the vineyards so badly that the winery decided to stop farming, sell off the vineyards and purchase grapes from other growers.
At its peak the winery produced 50,000 cases. However a catastrophic fire in 1996 put an end to that. The family rebuilt the winery at a cost in excess of $2 million and focused primarily on weddings and other events. Wine production was slashed to around 2,000 cases, much of which is fruit wines. The La Fenice range of wines represents the "phoenix that rose from the ashes". In 2006 the family sold the winery and retired. The new owner is re-branding the winery as Morgan Hill Cellars.
The 2004 La Fenice Cabernet Sauvignon was made by the previous owners. It opens with a nose of barnyard (brett?) and green pepper. On the palate it's thin, green and sour, with very little fruit evident. I had one glass; the sink drank the rest. Whatever the new proprietors do going forward it has to be an improvement on this. No score.
2005 Guglielmo Petite Sirah, Santa Clara Valley
Guglielmo is a third generation family winery located in Morgan Hill. Emilio Guglielmo planted this Petite Sirah immediately after prohibition. The winery began by making private label wines for restaurants and finally launched their own label in the late 1960s.
This opens up with a nose of fragrant oak and a little violets. On the palate there's plenty of tannin and acidity, with notes of black coffee, toast and pepper, but not much in the way of fruit. The alcohol is kept nicely in check at 12.8% and at $18 it's not all that expensive. 86
Labels: Guglielmo, Petite Sirah
2002 Rapazzini Winery Symphony
Rapazzini winery sits alongside the 101 in Gilroy. You can't miss signs featuring a cartoon grape stomper and proclaiming "Home of the world famous garlic wine". The winery was founded by the Rapazzini brothers in 1962; they later opened the Garlic Shoppe next door. In 2000 Jon retired and sold the businesses to Alex and Charles Larson.
The name Symphony rung a bell, but at first I couldn't recall why. A little research showed that it's a cross between Muscat of Alexandria and Grenache Gris, created at UC Davis in the 1940s but not launched commercially until the early 1980s. It's supposed to resemble Muscat, with a more perfumed nose and vibrant citrus flavours.
This may be true, but in my experience floral nose and vibrant fruit tend to be casualties of extended ageing, and this is what has happened here. The wine reminds me of an older Sauvignon Blanc; while it has citrus and butterscotch notes, the nose is muted and any vibrancy has long gone. 80
Labels: Rapazzini, Symphony
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Our First ABC Performance
Hello Mrs Watson and K/1/2/3,
A favourite instrument... Like so many things in life I have many favourites because I like the sounds. I play a little recorder, flute and piano but not very well so they are amongst my favourites.
At times, I like unusual musical sounds so discovering new instruments means hearing new sounds. From more ancient instruments in Aboriginal culture such as the didgeridoo (another spelling is didjeridu), clapsticks and bullroarer to instruments such as sitars (India), shamisen (Japan), djemba drums (Africa), Taiko drums (Japan), and voices raised in music, I like the sounds. They can be fascinating.
One big activity I have here in Australia is filming school and community performances in order to produce DVDs andsometimes CDs. While I can’t share the images, I can share the sounds from some performances. Here is a little audio from a few of the performances I have put together for you…
African Djemba drums and a cowbell
Djemba drumshave a fantastic sound when played together. You can feel the sound in the room. This is the sound of around 30 drummers from a primary school.
Didgeridoo and clapsticks
Didgeridoos are played by the men in a number of Aboriginal cultures. Women aren't permitted to play one. Clapsticks are two stcks struck together to give the beat. This was a recording of primary school boys and girls performing a traditional dance.
Dingboxes and boomwhackers
I must admit, when I first heard of dingboxes and boomwhackers, I wasn't certain what they were. Did you know? Dingboxes are boxes with a springed lid and a tuned bell inside. Step on the box lid and the bell rings. Boomwhackers are length of tuned plastic tubes you can hit together. The other sound a little like a drum is a person hitting a box with their hand.
Recorder and violin
As I once taught the recorder in class, I like their sound if played well. This is the sound of 31 primary school recorder players with two high school students playing violins over a recorded background.
This was a new piece of equipment I heard for the first time this year. It was used by a high school student to create an original piece. You will hear her add sound using only her voice. The Loop pedal stores the sound and then repeats it while she adds a new sound. After adding a third sound to make the backing, you hear her sing. I thought it was fascinating to hear one person create such a sound using the loop pedal.
Storm Choir
This is an original piece of music from a performance I was asked to record. A choir of 9 people use their voices to create the sounds of a coming storm. You hear thunder as they stamp their feet and their voices create the sound of rain falling.
Taiko drums are traditional in Japan. Played together, I like the sound. You can feel the sound in the room as Taiko drums are played.
I also like the sounds of nature. Listen to the sounds of these birds…
A favourite, the kookaburra…
While hiking recently, I saw one kookaburra fly to a tree where another was perched. I suspected they would start to sing together. The recording is the sound they made. Can you hear why some people think kookaburras are laughing at us?
While hiking, 50 to 100 ravens landed in the trees around me…
It was quie a surprise to see so many ravens in one place so I took out my phone and recorded them. The raven choir sounded incredible.
and a sound recording taking me weeks to get close enough, the lyrebird…
The lyrebird, named for the lyre shape of its tail, is a mimic bird. This recording is of a lyrebird copying the calls of other birds. I have heard of lyrebirds copying the sound of machines and of one, raised from a chick by someone who played the flute, being heard mimicking the sound of flute music. While shy of people in the wild, I have seen them a number of times but find it hard to get close enough to record them singing. On the day of the recording, I was down wind from the bird and could see its lyre tail just above a bush. It didn't see or hear me.
While sounds can be loud, soft, musical and even horrible, they are part of the world we live in. Whether we hear them or feel them, I love hearing interesting new sounds.
Did I say feel them? Have you felt the vibrations caused by sound? Drum beats, especially large drums, bass guitars, and the delicate vibrations of a soft piano piece when you put your ear against the piano, we can both hear and feel them.
Did you know one of the great composers, Beethoven, became deaf as he grew older? He still composed music but would place his ear against the piano to feel the sounds. He wrote his final and 9th symphony when almost totally deaf.
Did any of you feel the music through the floor as you listened to your ABC performance?
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the insistence of memory. [doppelalbum].
musik von circle of pines.
I. disk #01.
I. falling into the sky. 1100.
II. dreams within echoes. 436.
III. the smell of first light. 637.
IV. answer & return. 1308.
V. snowflakes falling. 722.
VI. calling. 448.
VII. beneath the expanse. 710.
VIII. watching from above. 1012.
II. disk #02.
I. the insistence of memories (longform ambient mix). 6608.
AtmoWorks is excited to bring you "The Insistence of Memory" by Circle of Pines, a collaborative effort between Nathan Larson (bunk_data, Samsa, Royal Obtuse) and Seetyca. From Nathan's blog:
"As a child, I remember standing at the window in my parent's house staring at the circular dance of snowflakes above on a November day about 30 years ago. It was cold outside, clear, fresh air with a scent of burnt wood in it... I remember watching the sky, it felt like I was falling straight into it... I was curious of what my dwelling place would look like when I finally watch it from above...
What remains of a moment in time when it is over? Why can't we remember? How does it work when you cross a street on a rainy day and you smell something or hear a special sound and then suddenly there's build up a whole world of long forgotten emotions and reflections in your head?"
The Insistence of Memory is a collaboration between Bunk Data (bunkdata.com) and Seetyca (seetyca.org) under their project name Circle of Pines. Their second release after Darkwater Pond (2006, Dark Winter) focuses on the memories of our past and experiences in our lives that continue to impact the present moments.
The first disc is a collection of perpetually recurring impressions experienced a long time ago. This illustrates how music can transport once-felt emotions through time. This concept lives of the contrast given by two different lives but shows there's something essential in each moment at the same time. The intention is that the listener can possibly re-explore this by listening to the project. The second disc contains an long-form mix of all essential moments shared between the artists while assembling the album so it best describes our state of mind while recording this release.
The eight tracks on disc one are a feast for the ears, pulling you gently along on an exploration of the deeper recesses of the mind. On disc two, you arrive at the edge of the dream state, constantly shifting from light to dark, conflict to resolution. AtmoWorks is thrilled to bring this new music to our ever-widening audience, and proud to welcome Circle of Pines to the AtmoWorks family of artists.
additional voices by mári solaris.
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Posted on October 10, 2012 by Andy Larmand
Drew Brees celebrates with teammate, Devery Henderson after he threw a record-breaking touchdown pass on Sunday. Bress now has a TD pass in 48 straight games – breaking the record set by Johnny Unitas.
As always, it was another exciting week in the NFL with records being broken, upsets being recorded and Tim Tebow leading the Jets to a win. Well, two out of three ain’t bad.
Nevertheless, it was still another very exciting week in football that made us fans all grateful that we get to watch the game every week – and that the replacement referees are gone for good.
Now’s the part when I reminisce about both the good and the bad that the games had to offer.
First and foremost, Saints quarterback, Drew Brees threw a touchdown pass in his 48th straight game – a new NFL record. The previous record was 47 held by Johnny Unitas. The record-breaking pass was one of four for him on the night and came in the 1st quarter to Devery Henderson from 40 yards out. More importantly, the Saints picked up their first win of the season, 31-24 over the Chargers.
Five teams did not allow a touchdown in their Week 5 games. It’s not surprising that three of them were the Ravens, 49ers and Bears. It is surprising, however, that the other two were the Rams and the Chiefs. The Chiefs were the only team to not allow a touchdown and lose the game. The Ravens beat them, without scoring a touchdown, 9-6.
Two teams – the Bears and the 49ers won by more than 38 points. The 49ers beat the Bills 45-3 and the Bears crushed the Jaguars 41-3.
The Cardinals suffered their first loss of the year, falling to the Rams 17-3 on Thursday night.
San Francisco set a franchise record with 621 yards of total offense in their win against Buffalo. It was also the most yards that the Bills have ever given up. Alex Smith threw for 303 yards and three TD’s. The Bills also became the first team to allow 550+ yards of offense in consecutive weeks since 1950.
The Bears recorded an interception return in their third straight game for the first time in their history. Charles Tillman returned a Blaine Gabbert pick 36 yards in the 2nd quarter to make the score 13-3 Bears.
The Patriots scored 3+ rushing touchdowns in consecutive games for the first time since 1978. Touchdowns were scored by Shane Vereen, Stevan Ridley and Tom Brady. Brady also threw a touchdown pass in his 38th straight game – remaining ten behind Brees for the all-time record.
Green Bay blew an 18-point halftime lead to the Colts and lost the game 30-27. Andrew Luck threw two touchdowns and Reggie Wayne had 212 yards receiving as the Pack blew their largest halftime lead since 1957.
In case you were wondering, the Browns are still winless. They fell to 0-6 after blowing a 14-0 lead against the Super Bowl Champion Giants. Dating back to last season, Cleveland has now lost 11 straight which is tied for the longest losing streak in its franchise history. On the bright side, rookie running back, Trent Richardson, recorded a rushing touchdown in his fourth straight game.
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Buttorff, R.H. (Reuben H.) (1849-1934) 1
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Centennial Photographic Co. 508
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Clench, F.B. (fl. 1860-1879) 21
Clifford, D.A. (Daniel A.) (1826-1887) 60
Clough, A.F. (Amos F.) (1833-1872) 17
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Colby, C.H. (1850-1895) 3
Cole, B.F. 8
Collier, James 28
Collins, E.M. (Edwin M.) 2
Collins, George E. (fl. 1870-1879) 5
Collins, J.A. (fl. 1870-1879) 2
Conkey & Hultz 1
Conkey, G.W. (George W.) (1837-ca. 1900) 26
Conklin & Kleckner 6
Continent Stereoscopic Company 15
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Cooley, A.A. 2
Cooley, Sam A. 5
Coombs, J.A. 2
Coombs, Philip (fl. 1860-1869) 7
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Copeland, O.H.(Oliver H.) (1836-1876) 22
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Corning View Company 1
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Couch, C.M. (fl. 1860-1889) 16
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Cremer, James (1821-1893) 278
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Crockett, F.H. (fl. 1880-1909) 9
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Cunningham & Co. (1880-1889) 1
Cunningham, F.W. (fl. 1870-1879) 2
Currier, Frank (fl. 1890-1909) 3
Curtis, George E. (d. 1910) 360
Curtiss, E.R. (b. 1836) 2
Cushing, Henry (fl. 1860-1889) 1
Cushing, W.H. (fl. 1870-1889) 10
D.P. Thompson & Co. 1
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Davis Bros. 20
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Davis, Robert M. (b. 1857) 6
Davis, S. (Saul) (fl. 1860-1879) 39
De Lamater, R.S. 31
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Deland, E.J. 1
DeMott, S. (fl. 1880-1899) 3
Dickson, M. (fl. 1870-1899) 3
Dillon, J.W. 1
Dillon, Luke C. (b. 1844 or 1845) 10
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Dobler & Dawson 1
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Doerr & Jacobson 16
Doerr, H.A. (Henry A.) (1826-1885) 17
Dole, A.K. (fl. 1870-1879) 17
Doonan & Co. 4
Doremus, John P. (1827-1890) 16
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E. Borhek & Son 2
E.A. Curtiss and R.R. Thurmond 1
E.B. & E.C. Kellogg (Firm) 1
E.G. Weld & Son 1
E.J. Wardwell & Co. 2
E.P. and Wm. Kellogg 3
Eagles, J.D. (Joseph Dunlap) (1837-1907) 30
Easterline, J.W. (Jacob W.) (b. 1857) 1
Eaton, E.L. (Edric L.) (b. ca. 1836) 4
Edwards, J. (fl. 185--186-) 2
Eggert, H.B. (Henry B.) (ca. 1831) 1
Eldridge, A.G. 5
Elkins, Richard 1
Elkins, S. 4
Ellinwood & McClary 7
Ellinwood, John G. 1
Ellis, H. 1
Ellis, Howard 5
Elwell, W.A. (William A.) (1821-1891) 1
Ely, Cook (1847-) 10
Emery, A.G. (Ard G.) (1833-1923) 19
Emery, J.F. (John Fletcher) (1849-1928) 2
Emery, W.H. (William H.) (b. 1840) 2
Empire State Copying House 1
England, W. 1
England, William (d. 1896) 40
Engle & Furlong 2
Ennis, George O. 10
Ernsberger & Ray 3
Evans & Soule 8
Evans, F.E. (Frank E.) (b. 1856 ) 8
Evans, J.G. (James G.) (b. ca. 1835) 5
Everett & Co. 1
Everett, James (James E.) (b. 1834) 21
Everitt, E.F. (Elias Foster) (b. 1837) 2
F. White & Co. 3
F.J. Moulton & Co. 1
Farrar, Charles A.J. (Charles Alden John) (d. 1893) 2
Farrington, Maurice 1
Faulkner, F.D. 2
Fay & Farmer's National Gallery 2
Fearon, R.N. 5
Fennemore, James (1849-1941) 4
Fernald, E.C. 1
Field, J.C. (b. 1845) 4
Field, W.B. 1
Fillmore, L.H. 2
Finley & Sons 1
Fisher, A.J. (Albert J.) (1842-1882) 2
Fisher, S.R. (Samuel Ritter) (1834-1908) 1
Fitzgibbon, J.H. (1816(?) - 1882) 4
Floyd's Studio 1
Follansbee, E.K. 2
Folsom, A.H. (Augustine H.) 19
Folsom, E.S. (Edward Swazey) (1844-1909) 1
Folsom's Photograph Gallery 4
Foss, F.H. 2
Frear, William H. (1836-) 1
Freeman, C.H. 22
Freeman, J. (Josiah) 62
French, D. (David) 5
French, J.A. (1834-1898) 26
Friedgen & Donner 1
Fronti, J. 4
G.A.F. (Firm) 1
G.C. Robinson & Co. 13
G.H. Aldrich & Co. 173
G.J. Raymond & Co. 27
Gage, F.B. (Franklin Benjamin) (1824-1874) 27
Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882) 46
Gardner, James (b. 1832) 1
Gardner, R.G. 4
Gardner, W.B. 2
Garland, F.G. 1
Gates Brothers 13
Gates, E.R. 2
Gates, G.F. (George F.) 200
Gay, E.F. 9
Gentile, Carlo (1835-1893) 2
Gentile, Charles 1
Geo. G. Johnson 1
Geo. H. Ireland & Co. 18
Geo. Hinman & Co. 1
George & William H. Rau 1
George S. Bryant & Co. 2
Gerould, E.P. 1
Getchell, W.H. 4
Gibson, James F. (b. 1828 ) 5
Giers, Carl (1828-1877) 7
Gifford, Noah 1
Gilbert & Bacon 1
Gilbert & Miller 1
Gill, W.L. (William L.) (1827-1893) 19
Gillingham, C.L. (Charles L.) 7
Goebel, Rudolph (1835-1923) 8
Goff, O.S. (Orlando Scott) (1843-1917) 1
Goldsmith & Lazelle 9
Good Berners & Lant 1
Good, J. 1
Good, J. --(Jonathan) 1
Goodale, George C. 1
Gooding, C.G. 3
Goodrich, C. (Carlisle) 2
Goodwin, J.W. (1836-1910) 4
Gordon, H. 2
Gordon, H.L. 5
Gorham, L.B. 2
Gott, C. 1
Grandy, Z.B. 2
Granniss, G.N. (George N.) 2
Grant, Alonzo G. 2
Graves, C.H. (Carleton H.) (d. 1943) 2
Graves, G.H. 1
Graves, Jesse A. (Jesse Albert) 52
Gray -- photographer 1
Great Southern Photo Company 1
Green, J.F. (Jeremiah F.) (b. 1841) 4
Greene's Gallery 1
Gross, W.H.S. (b. 1831) 3
Gubelman, Theodore (1841-1926) 1
Gurnsey, B.H. (Byron H.) (1833-1880) 98
Gutekunst, Frederick (1831-1917) 26
H. Ropes & Co. 14
H.C. White Co. 5
H.F. Nielson & Co. 2
H.L. Roberts & Co. 5
H.N. Gale & Co. 9
Haas, Isaac 10
Hacker, F. 2
Haines, E.S.M. 5
Hall Bros. (Brooklyn, N.Y.) 16
Hall Photo 20
Hall, H.G. 1
Hall, J. (Julius) (b. 1844) 25
Hall, W.L. 20
Hamacher & Loring 1
Hamilton, S.C. (Samuel C.) 1
Hamor, A.B. (Anderson B.) (b. 1841) 18
Hanaford, S.R. 1
Hansard, J.W. 3
Hardy, F.W. (Francis W.) (b. 1830) 5
Harriman, M.C. 1
Harriman, W.H. 1
Harrling, James C. 1
Hart, Alfred A. (1816-1908) 25
Hart, E.H. (Edward H.) ( fl. 1887) 1
Harvey Bros. 1
Hatch, A. 2
Havens, O. Pierre (1838-1912) 147
Hawes, J.J. 1
Haygood, A.J. (Adonirum Judson) (1846-1927) 10
Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay) (1853-1921) 131
Haynes, Fred. E. (Frederick E.) (b. 1861) 1
Haynes, T.C. (Trustum C.) (1835-1899) 1
Hazard, E.W. (Emerson W.) 1
Hazeltine, Martin Mason 1
Hebden, W. (William) (b. 1840) 3
Heister, H.T. (Henry T.) (d. 1895) 4
Hemenway, H. 4
Hemple, A.H. (Alfred H.) 7
Hendricks, Francis 1
Hennigar, George W. 1
Henry, D.A. (David A.) (b. 1852) 19
Hensel, L. (Loudolph) (1849-1927) 27
Herbert, George C. 3
Herrick, F.J. (Frank J.) (b. 1852) 1
Herrick, H.J. (Henry J.) (ca. 1830-1877) 16
Heywood, John B. (d. 1870 ) 200
Hibbard & Larkin 1
Hickox & Co. 2
Hickox, R.A. (Robert A.) (b. ca. 1844) 1
Higgins, J.C. (John C.) (b. ca. 1845) 2
Hill, William Henry (1845-1925) 4
Hillers, John K. (1843-1925) 52
Hillman, W.J. (William J.) (d 1849-) 2
Hills, E.R. (Edgar R.) (b. 1856 ) 4
Hillyer, H.B. 1
Hinckley & Meske 6
Hinckley, A.S. 3
Hinds, A.L. (fl. 1870-1879) 31
Hine, Burton (b. 1842) 7
Hine, Thomas 1
Hoag, A.B. (fl. 1870s) 1
Hoard & Tenney 4
Hobart, D.B. (Delbert B.) (b. 1857) 1
Hobbs, W.N. (William N.) (1830-1881) 40
Hodge, E.B. (Elliott Bernard) (1839-1893) 1
Hodges, Wallingford 2
Hoelke & Benecke 13
Holden, E.B. 1
Holley, J.F. 1
Holly, M.S. 1
Holmes 1
Holmes, William B. 2
Holt, Charles (b. 1837) 1
Holton and Robinson 1
Homon, C. 1
Hook, W.E. 11
Hoover, J.H. (J. Harry) (1842-1897) 2
Hope, J.D. (1846-1929) 36
Hopkins, C.H. 1
Horton, G.W. (George W.) 4
Hotchkiss, A.E. 4
Hovey, George L. 1
Hovey, John F. 2
Howard, A., Jr. 2
Howard, L.B. 16
Howard, S.W.S. 1
Howe, C.L. (Caleb L.) 7
Howe, C.L. & Son 1
Howell, William R. (d. 1890) 5
Hoyer, H. 1
Huffman, L.A. (Laton Alton) (1854-1931) 1
Hull, Chas. (Charles G.) 7
Hunold, F. 1
Huntington, C.J. (d. 1878) 2
Hurd & Smith's Excelsior Gallery 5
Hurd, L.F. 3
Hurn, J.W. (John White) (d. 1887) 2
I. & J.H. Palmer 8
Ide, D.T. (David T.) 4
Illingworth & McLeish 2
Illingworth, W.H. (William H.) (1842-1893) 46
Ingersoll, T.W. (Truman Ward) (1862-1922) 69
Ingraham 1
International Stereoscopic View Company 1
International View Co. 1
Irish, G.S. (George S.) 10
Irving, James E. (1818-1901) 10
Isaacs, A.C. (fl. 187-) 3
Ives, E.B. (Edwin Burke) (d. 1906) 4
J. Ward & Son (Firm) 3
J.A. Green & Son (Firm) 1
J.B. Clark 2
J.G. Mangold & Son 4
J.J. Little & Co. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1
J.L. & H.A. Jordan (Firm) 2
J.W. & J.S. Moulton 199
Jackson & Knight 2
Jackson Bros. (Omaha, Neb.) 2
Jackson, C., photographer 1
Jackson, William Henry (1843-1942) 213
Jacoby, W.H. (William H.) (1841-1905) 9
James Cremer & Co. 2
James W. Queen & Company 1
James, C.H. (Charles H.) 48
James, William E. 15
Jarvis, John F. 88
Jenkins, Harding 2
Jenney, J.A. (James A.) 55
Jennings, W.H. (William H.), photographer 2
Jernegan, E. (fl. 186--187-) 1
Johnson Gallery 4
Johnson, A.A. (Arthur A.) 2
Johnson, E.M. (Elbert M.) (1844-1910) 13
Johnson, Geo. G. (George G.), photographer 1
Johnson, Levi D. (1832-1905) 2
Johnson, N.G. 65
Johnson, T.H. (Thomas H.) (b. 1821) 2
Johnson, W.S. (fl. 185--189-) 1
Johnston, J.S. (John S.) 1
Jolly, D. 2
Jones, N.P. 1
Jones, O.M. 4
Jones, W.S., photographer 25
Jones, William (fl. ca. 187-) 1
Joslin & Phillips 2
Judd, C.S. (fl. 188-) 3
Judd, J.L. (Jesse L.) 3
Judd, M.E. (Myron E.) 5
Judkins, L.D. (Lorenzo Dow) (1833-1890) 3
Keen, L.W. 2
Keet, A.G. (Asahel Gunn) (1826-1888) 1
Kelley, J.C. 1
Kellogg, E.P. (Edwin P.) 20
Keniston, J.F. 1
Kennedy, J.F. 16
Kenney 1
Kenyon, F.P. (Franklin P.) (b. 1824) 2
Ketchum, W.G. (William G.) (b. 1843) 2
Keyes & Chiverton 1
Keystone View Company 42
Kilburn, B.W. (Benjamin West) (1827-1909) 446
Kilgore, H.L. (Henry L.) (b. 1841) 2
Kimball, A.W. 1
Kimball, H.A. (Howard A.) (1845-ca.1930) 20
Kimball, W.G.C. (Willis G.C.) (1843-1916) 13
King & Pearson 3
King, M.F. 34
Kinney, B.C. 1
Kinsey, Darius (1869-1945) 1
Kirk, H. 1
Kirkland, C.D. (Charles D.) (1851-1926) 2
Kitchell, George W. 1
Klauber, E. (Edward) (1836-1918) 7
Kleckner, M.A. (Moulton A.) (1844-1922) 87
Knapp & Marble's Photograph & Portrait Gallery 1
Knecht, R. (Reuben) (1826-1887) 6
Knight, W.M. (1841-1881) 4
Kreider, Chas. D. (Charles D.) 1
Kuester & Wyer 1
Kuykendall & Whitney 2
La Barre, I.D. 3
Labarre, I.D. 7
Lamberson & James' Fine Art Gallery 1
Lamprey, M.S. (Maurice S.) 12
Landon, S.C. (Seth C.) (b. 1825) 15
Lane, A. H. (Asa H.) (b. 1832) 34
Lane, Wm. V. (William V.) (1849-1903) 4
Langdon & Tallman 2
Langenheim, Frederick (1809-1879) 30
Langenheim, Loyd & Co. 71
Larkin, J.E. (John Edward) (1836-1924) 1
Latourette, A.V. 15
Launey & Goebel 4
Launey, A.R. 2
Law, G. 1
Lawrence, C.A. 3
Lawrence, Frank 11
Lea, George 1
LeBeau & Lavigueure 2
Leck, George H. 2
Lee, Chas. F. (Charles F.) (1843-1917) 1
Leedham, J.S. 10
Leeson, W.H. (William H.) 1
Lefavour, J.S. (John S.) (1831-1892) 11
Leidloff, H. (Herman) 1
Leonard & Martin 4
Leonard, J.H. 5
Lewis Emory Walker 1
Lewis, Edward (fl. 1860-1880) 6
Lewis, T. (Thomas R.) (d. 1901) 86
Libby, E.P. (Evelen Porter) (ca. 1830-1895) 6
Liebich's Art Gallery 14
Lilienthal, Theodore 15
Lindsey, Charles H. 1
Linn, J.B. 19
Liscomb, W.C. 8
Littler, J.C. 1
Lloyd (fl. 187-) 21
Lock, James G. (James Gardner) (1862-1938) 73
Locke & Robbins 4
Locke & Rogers 1
Locke, A.H. (Amos H.) (b. 1838) 2
Locke, E.F. 3
Lockwood & Ely 2
Lockwood, W.M. (William M.) 3
Loeffler, J. (John Jacob) (1834-1901) 103
Lombard, Wm. W. (William W.) 3
Long, W. 6
Loomis, E. 1
Loomis, F.E. 7
Lord, R.E. 10
Lovejoy, E. (Edward) 6
Lovell & Knowlton 5
Lovell, J.L. (John Lyman) (1825-1903) 88
Lucas, George L. (George Luzerne) (b. 1849) 1
Luck, T. 4
Ludwig, Frank, photographer 1
Luke, W.O. (Wellington O.) (b. 1847) 1
M. & H.W. Smith 2
M.E. Beckwith & Son (Firm) 1
M.M. & W.H. Gardner (Firm) 5
Macurdy, J.C. 1
Manchester Bros. 8
Mangold, J.G. (Jonas G.) (1826-1894) 12
Manville, C.B. 1
Marsh, C.M. 21
Marshall, A. 1
Marston & Prince 1
Marston, C.L. (1826-1895) 8
Martin, Alex (Alexander) (1841-1929) 22
Martin, F.T. 1
Martin, I.R. (Isaiah R.) 1
Mason, Samuel (Samuel J.), photographer 19
Masterson, E.P. 1
Mather & Lyon 12
Mather, H.S. (1836-1908) 1
Mather, J.A. (1829-1915) 5
Matthews, James (fl. ca. 187-) 2
Mayer, Adolph 1
Maynard 2
McAllister & Brother 13
McAllister, W.Y. (William Y.) 3
McClary, Charles F. 1
McColl, J.A. 4
McDonald, James A. 1
McFarland 1
McIntosh & Camp 1
McIntosh, A. (Ansel) 3
McIntosh, R.M. (b. 1823) 38
McIntyre, A.C. 75
McKernon, P.H. 9
McLellan, photographer 2
McMullin, S. (Samuel) 4
McPherson & Roloson 1
McPherson & Sons 5
McPherson, Roloson & Graves 1
Mead & Beard 1
Mears, J.F. 9
Meinerth, Carl 2
Melander and Henderson 1
Melander, L.M. 1
Mellen, George E. 1
Melven, L.B. 1
Menns, W.K. 1
Merrill, C.L. 1
Merrill, N.L. 1
Merriman, O.G. 4
Meske, Gilman & Rawson 2
Miller & Brown 1
Miller & Tankersly 2
Miller, H.H. 1
Miller, R.A. 8
Miller, William E. 1
Mills, H.A. 45
Minard, William E. 2
Mitchell, J.S. 7
Monroe, George H. --(Hibbard) (1851-1916) 25
Monroe, M.H. 2
Montano, A.A. 1
Moore, F.J. 21
Moore, George W. 10
Moore, J. Robert 65
Moore, J.W. 5
Moran & Storey 13
Moran, John (1831-1903) 73
Morehouse, M.A. 6
Morgan, N.D. (Nathan D.) 1
Morris, S. Hall 2
Morrow, Stanley J. 17
Morse & Fronti 17
Morse & McIntosh 5
Morse & Simmons 1
Morse, A.F. 8
Morse, S.R. 20
Morton, H.Q. 16
Mote Brothers 1
Mould, M. 1
Moulton & Dopp 4
Moulton, B.S. 1
Moulton, F.J. 1
Moulton, J.C. 25
Moulton, John S. (b. ca. 1820) 96
Mr. & Mrs. C.V.D. Cornell 6
Mugnier, George F. 19
Muhrman, C.H. 8
Mundy & Williams 4
Munger, A.P. 3
Munger, D.G. 10
Munson & McKay 1
Muybridge, Eadweard (1830-1904) 35
N.H. Hammond 8
Naramore, D.H. --(Davis Hamish) 1
Newberry, C.S. 1
Newell, R. (d. 1897) 26
Nichols, C.W. (Carlos W.) 11
Nickerson, G.H. (George Hathaway) (1835-1890) 51
Nims, F.A. (Franklin A.) 9
nman, William H., photographer 2
Noble, E.A. 3
Norman, Henry C. (1850-1913) 12
Norton, G.H. 1
Noss, H. 1
Notman, William (1826-1891) 18
Nowack, M. 27
Nye, J.L. 9
O'Sullivan, Timothy H. (1840-1882) 102
O’Sullivan, Timothy H. (1840-1882) 55
Oakley, A. Newton 4
Ober Brothers (Fernandina, Florida) 4
Ober, E.R. 14
Odiorne & Co. 2
Oldershaw, T.S. (Thomas S.) 1
Oldroyd, L.K. 8
Oldroyd, W.M. 2
Oliver, F.W. 1
Oliver, H.W. 1
Orvis, F.H. 1
Osborn, D.C. 3
Osgood, Henry W. 2
Osgood, Z.B. 9
Pach Brothers 6
Pach, G.W. (Gustavus W.) (1845-1904) 237
Page, W.F. (Wilbur F.) 1
Palace R.R. Photograph Car Co. 2
Palmer, A.A. 13
Palmer, C.A. 1
Palmer, J.H. (1836-1899) 1
Parker, Everett Edward 1
Parker, G.W. 2
Parker, J., Jr. 3
Parks, J.G. 5
Parlmer, C.W. 1
Parlow, Geo. F. 1
Patch, J.K. 1
Pattee, H.M. 1
Patterson, J.B. 1
Patterson, U.H. 1
Peabody, Edwin N. 20
Pease, Charles H. 1
Pease, F . O. 1
Pease, N.W. (Nathan W.) (1836-1918) 267
Peck Brothers 4
Peck, A. 1
Peck, H.S. (Henry S.) 8
Peebles, O.M. 2
Pendergast Brothers 1
Perkins & Lefavour 2
Perrigo, O.M. 1
Perry & Bohm 1
Perry Mason & Co. 1
Phelps, George C. 5
Phillips & Warren 1
Phillips, Harry 2
Phillips, J. 2
Pierron, Geo. (George) (b. 1816) 22
Pine Bros. 2
Pittman, J.A.W. 3
Platt, A.C. 2
Platt, S.L. 2
Plimpton 9
Plimpton & Ruggles 2
Pollock, Charles (1832-1910) 27
Pond, C.L. (Charles L.) 28
Pond, F.L. 3
Poole, R. (Rodney) (1837-) 5
Popkins, B.F. 3
Porter, J.R. 1
Powers, J.D. 1
Pratt, D.C. (Dewitt C.) 1
Prescott & White 40
Prescott, D.K. 1
Pressey & Hodge 2
Preston, James E. (Esson) 1
Preston, William G. 11
Procter Brothers 63
Proctor, G.K. 29
Prudden, B.E. 1
Purviance 2
Purviance (New York, N.Y.) 3
Purviance Photo 1
Purviance, W.T. (William T.) 262
Putnam, George T., 1851- 13
Putnam, S.A. 3
R. Rive 1
R. Ruehlman & Co. 2
R.B. Lewis 1
R.M. & J.B. Linn 1
RA Miller 1
Ragan & Shannon 10
Rand & Bird 2
Rand & Latto 2
Randall & Whiteman 5
Ranger & Austen 2
Ransom, H. 4
Rau, William Herman (1855-1920) 21
Rawson, D.W.S. (d. 1869) 2
Recher, E.M. (Elias M.) (1828-1887) 6
Record & Epler 4
Reed & McKenney 5
Reed, D.T. 12
Reed, H.J. 4
Reed, J.H. 2
Reed, S.C. 35
Reid, J. Jefferson 8
Reid, John, II (1835-1911) 4
Reiff & Arenson 1
Reilly, John James (1839-1894) 32
Rice, D.S. 3
Rich, J.E. 1
Richardson Bros. 1
Richardson, L.A. 2
Richardson, T.G. (Thomas G.) 19
Richardson, W.T. 4
Rideout & McFadden 1
Rider, J.A. 1
Rinehart, F.A. (Frank A.) 9
Ripple Bros. 1
Ritton, E.D. (Edward D.) 6
Robbins, Frank (1846-) 23
Roberts, D.H. (fl. ca. 1860s) 4
Roberts, H.L. 3
Robinson, Frank P. 1
Robinson, Godfrey Clive 11
Robinson, H.N. 2
Roblin, Frank F. 10
Roche, T.C. 109
Rockwood and Co. 1
Rogers, A.A. 2
Rogers, C.H. 35
Rogers, Early 2
Rogers, I.L. 4
Rogers, John S.E. 15
Rogers, S. 2
Rollins, E.G. 15
Roloson 1
Rominger, J.T. 1
Rood, F.M. 1
Root, Samuel (1819-1889) 47
Rose, P.H. 10
Rose, R.H. (Royal Hunting) 2
Rossiter, H.J. 1
Rothengatter & Dillon 2
Rumsey, H.D. (fl. 187-) 4
Russell, photographer 2
Russell, R.J. 1
Rust, T.D. 2
Rutherford & Co. 2
Ryan, D.J. (1837-) 44
Ryder's Photographic Landscapes 2
S.S. Vose & Co. 7
S.S. Vose & Son 4
S.T. Davenport & Son 3
San Antonio View Co. 5
Sanborn, N.C. 2
Sanderson, I.H. (Isaac H.) (1833-1891) 2
Sanftleben, John 1
Sargent, F.V. 2
Savage, C.R. (Charles Roscoe) (1832-1909) 73
Sawtelle, E.E. (Edward E.) 11
Schadde, P. Joseph 5
Schaub, J.L. 9
Schaub, J.T. 15
Scholfield, E.A. (Everett Augustus) (1843-1930 ) 1
Scholten, J.A. (1829-1886) 3
Schurch & Co. 2
Scidmore 1
Scofield, C.H. 14
Scripture, G.H. (George H.) (1839-1929) 30
Scripture, J.C. (John Calvin) (1808-1929) 2
Seaver, C. (Charles) 69
Seely, Walter Fredrick 1
Seward, H.W. (H. Walton) (d. 1871) 21
Shackford, A.W. 5
Shanahan, W.T. 1
Sharp, P.T. 2
Shaw & Chamberlain 2
Shaw & Lord 14
Shaw, J.W. 2
Shaw, L.D. 1
Shay, G.B. 3
Sheldon, K.T. (King T.) 7
Shepherd, C.F. 2
Sherburne, A. P. (Alden P.) 1
Sherman, W.H. 19
Shumway, H.L. 10
Shute, R.G. 28
Simon, A.W. 12
Simons, M.P. (Montgomery P.) 3
Simpson, photographer (fl. ca. 1880s) 6
Sinclair, James 15
Singley, B.L. (Benjamin Lloyd) 143
Sission, G.R. 1
Skinner 2
Skinner, F.A. 2
Slee Bros. 12
Smillie, T.W. (Thomas William) (1843-1917) 50
Smith & Sayles 3
Smith, D.E. (fl. 1860-1890) 3
Smith, Edward F. 6
Smith, George, photographer (fl. ca. 1871) 5
Smith, H.G. 8
Smith, R.H. (Rollin H.) 5
Smith, S.B. 1
Smith, Washington G. (1828-1893) 43
Smith, William Morris 2
Soule Photograph Company 1
Soule, John P. (1827-1904) 836
Spafard, E. 7
Sparhawk, L.T. (Luther T.) 2
Spooner, J. Pitcher (John Pitcher) (1845-1917) 3
St. Joachim 1
Stacey, C.A. 2
Stacy, G. (George) 11
Staniford, G.E. 3
Stanton, I.B. 1
Stark & Horton 13
Stauffer, William H. 10
Stebbins, A.B. 1
Stereo Photo Co. 1
Sterro-Photo Co. 1
Sterry 1
Stiff, C.W. (Charles W.) 1
Stiles & Bach 1
Stoddard, Seneca Ray (1844-1917) 245
Stone & Company (Firm) 1
Stone, N.L. 4
Storer & Reed 2
Storey, J. 2
Storrs, J.W. (John W.) 11
Strohmeyer & Wyman 8
Styles, A.F. (Adin French) (1832-1910) 103
Sumner's Gallery 1
Susong, Joseph D. 2
Swain, E.C. 1
Swan, W.H. 1
Swasey, H.J. 1
Sweeny 1
Sweeny, Thomas T. 17
Sweeny's Photographic Landscapes 10
Sweet, J.L. 5
Taber, I.W. (Isaiah West) (1830-1912) 2
Taft, Frank M. (Frank Miller) (1851-) 2
Taft, P.W. 21
Talbot, C.W. 5
Tallman, C.W. (1833 - 1896) 3
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Taylor, S.M. 1
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Tebbetts, G.H. (fl. 1872-1890) 3
Tennant, P.W. (fl. 1877-1879) 4
Tenney, Charles A. 2
Terhune, A.D. 1
Thayer, L.E. 4
Thomalen, E.A. 2
Thomas Houseworth & Co. 10
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Thompson & Atwood 2
Thompson, W.C. 9
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Thorne, G.W. (George W.) 2
Thum, M. (Mandeville) 33
Thurlow, J. (1831-1878) 59
Tice, A. Wurts 1
Tinkham, A. 1
Tipton, William H. (1850-1929) 33
Tirrell, George W. 14
Tomlinson, C. (fl. 1874-1890) 19
Tooker, T.D. (b. 1833) 9
Totherick, E. 33
Tousley, H.S. (1825-1895) 11
Towle, S. (Simon) 31
Townsend, A.C. 2
Townsend, C.H. (1859-1944 ) 1
Trask & Birth 1
Trask, M.G. (Manly G.) (1836-1919) 3
Trenham, N.J. 1
Trowbridge & Jennings 3
Tucker & Perkins 1
Tucker, W.M. 5
Turner, A.M. 6
Turpin, Earle 2
Tuttle, W.C. (William C.) 14
Tyler, A.D., Jr. 1
U.S. Stereoscopic Co. 6
Udall, Horace D. 1
Udell, H.D. 2
Underwood & Underwood 31
Union View and Copying Co 1
Union View Co. 21
Upton, B.F. (Benjamin Franklin) (1818 or 1824-after 1901) 81
Usher, John, Jr. 14
Vail Bros. 3
Vail, J.G. (James Gardner) (1842-1929) 7
Van Aken, E.M. (Elisha M.) 3
Van Ness 3
Van Wagner 22
Vanderwarker & Nally 3
Veeder, Aaron 52
Vermont Stereoscopic Company 7
Vose & Paul 2
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W.A. Prescott & Co. 4
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W.H. Jackson & Co. 42
Waite, E.O. 1
Wakely, G.D. 84
Wakeman, J.H. 3
Waldack, Charles 70
Walker, Jonathan A. 1
Walker, L.E. (1826-1916) 9
Walzl, Richard 23
Ward, H.D. 10
Ward, Joseph 1
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Warner, Milan P. 52
Warren, Joseph H. 11
Warren, Joseph W. 30
Wasgatt, L. (Lycurgus) 1
Washburn, George L. 14
Watkins, Carleton E. (1829-1916) 191
Weaver, P.S. 2
Weaver, W.H. 6
Webber, H.L. 13
Weber Bros. 1
Webster & Albee 27
Webster, A.G. 2
Webster, E.Z. 6
Webster, J.N. (Joseph N.) (1838-1920) 16
Webster, William T. 1
Weed, Charles L. 18
Weeks, J. 11
Weil, P.F. (Peter F.) 3
Weitfle, Charles (1836-1921) 80
Weller, F.G. (Franklin G.), (1833-1877) 64
Wendt, Julius 2
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West, J. 1
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Wetmore, August, Jr. 6
Wheeler, D.N. (Dansford Noble) (1841-1909) 2
Wheeler, F.W. 1
Wheeler, W.S. 1
Wheeler's Art Gallery 1
Whitaker, G.C. 5
Whitcomb, I.A. 3
White, Franklin (1813-1870) 16
White, Isaac 6
White, Luther (d. 1936) 1
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White, W.S. (Wallace S.) (1842-1921) 2
Whiting View Company 2
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Whitney & Beckwith 2
Whitney & Zimmerman 59
Whitney, Beckwith & Paradice 25
Whitney, J.E. (Joel Emmons) (1822-1886) 3
Whitney's Gallery 4
Whittemore, A.J. 12
Wiggins, Silas T. (1831-1908) 1
Wight, Edward N. 4
Wildey, O.H. 3
Wiley, E. 1
Wilkins, J. 5
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Wilkinson, O.R. 9
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William Allderige & Son 7
William M. Chase 401
William S. Robbins & Co. 54
Williams, C.C. 2
Williams, J.A. 1
Williams, J.H. 29
Williams, Joshua Appleby 81
Williams, L.B. (1833-1907 ) 7
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Wilson & Davis 2
Wilson & Havens 23
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Wilson, J.N. (Jerome Nelson) (1827-1897 ) 97
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Wiltse, G.G. 1
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Windsor's Photographic House 8
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Wolcott, U.E. 2
Wood & Bickel 15
Woodward & Son 30
Woodward Stereoscopic Co. 2
Woodward, C.W. (Charles Warren) 44
Woodward, G.W. 7
Worden, N.R. (Nicholas R.) 10
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Wyer, Henry Sherman (1847-1920) 11
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Young, E.J. 26
Zahner, M.H. 1
Zimmerman, Charles A. (1844-1909) 79
Ashmead Bros. 1
Bergquest & Johnson 1
Cremer, James (1821-1893) 7
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J.A. Pierce and Co. 1
James S. Earle & Sons 22
Judd & Rugg 1
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Quaker Oats Company 5
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Agriculture Department 1
Battle of 50
Boston 297
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Carlisle (Pa.) 12
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Chicago (Ill.) 802
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Chicks 1
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Cold 2
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Colonnades 13
Colorado 1465
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Columbia River 135
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Columns 32
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Commemoration 22
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Commercial buildings 185
Commercial facilities 21
Commercial streets 106
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Commons 11
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Concord (Mass.) 21
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Crawford Notch (N.H.) 321
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Cresson (Pa.) 11
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Delaware Water Gap (N.J. and Pa.) 119
Delhi (N.Y.) 1
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ITALIANI ED EUROPEI - 60.mo TRATTATI EUROPA - 7000 ORGANIZZAZIONI SOCIETA' CIVILE CHIEDONO AI CAPI DI STATO E DI GOVERNO UE INTRODUZIONE TASSA EUROPEA SULLE TRANSAZIONI FINANZIARIE
. Published on Fri, 2017-03-24 00:00
Alla vigilia del Vertice di Roma, occasione in cui i Leader dei Paesi UE si apprestano a celebrare il sessantesimo anniversario dei Trattati di Roma e discutere del futuro dell’UE, oltre 7.000 organizzazioni della società civile hanno inviato una lettera congiunta ai leader dei 10 Paesi Membri impegnati da tre anni nel negoziato per l’introduzione di una Tassa europea sulle Transazioni Finanziarie (TTF). Il futuro dell’UE passa anche dall’adozione di misure come questa che rappresentano una risposta concreta alle istanze dei cittadini sempre più schiacciati da politiche che privilegiano il potere di pochi a discapito del benessere di tutti.
Italy: Change of direction needed to implement the 2030 Agenda
Due to the lasting impact of the international financial crisis and resulting increase in poverty and insecurity, and especially due to the Government’s extensive austerity policies, Italy faces challenges in many of the areas addressed by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development goal.
Moreover, the political context is critical, the result of three changes of Government without elections, in which the executive power has taken decisive initiatives for reform in many fields, including constitutional reforms, resulting in a progressive worsening of the gap between the political action of the "palace" and the daily exercise of citizen democratic participation.
Even in the one area that has seen a positive trend in recent years, namely, the development of renewable energy, there has been a reversal of the virtuous cycle since 2015. In the absence of a national energy plan, government policies continue to encourage fossil fuels (despite popular opposition), and large infrastructural works with new rules to eliminate environmental controls (introduced through the Stability Law in 2016) and with an increase in soil depletion.
Change of Direction Needed to Implement the 2030 Agenda
Due to the lasting impact of the international financial crisis and resulting increase in poverty and insecurity, and especially due to the Government’s extensive austerity policies, Italy faces challenges in many of the areas addressed by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development goal. Moreover, the political context is critical, the result of three changes of Government without elections, in which the executive power has taken decisive initiatives for reform in many fields, including constitutional reforms, resulting in a progressive worsening of the gap between the political action of the "palace" and the daily exercise of citizen democratic participation.
Italy: A country in coma
As a whirlpool, the crisis that has been lasting for the past 5 years has hit Italy hard in 2012.
The country was put under the "technical” government of Mario Monti, who acted as a commissioner and subjected Italy to a shock therapy of austerity policies, similar to the structural adjustment programs imposed by the IMF. While intended to reanimate the economy, it plunged the country into a real recession under the blackmail of two parameters: the "spread" between Italy and Germany, and the Public Debt, which has grown another 10%, reaching 127,3% of the GNP. It is not by chance that the Prime Minister Mario Monti has been International Advisor to Goldman Sachs.
The deterioration of the living conditions of a large part of the Italian population concerned especially the "working poor": in Italy, there are three million, about 15% of the total employed. Eight million Italians live with less than one thousand euro per month. The crisis has seriously damaged the middle class.
A country in coma
As a whirlpool, the crisis that has been lasting for the past 5 years has hit Italy hard in 2012. The country was put under the "technical” government of Mario Monti, who acted as a commissioner and subjected Italy to a shock therapy of austerity policies, similar to the structural adjustment programs imposed by the IMF. While intended to reanimate the economy, it plunged the country into a real recession under the blackmail of two parameters: the "spread" between Italy and Germany, and the Public Debt, which has grown another 10%, reaching 127,3% of the GNP (3rd quarter of 2012, according to Eurostat). It is not by chance that the Prime Minister Mario Monti has been International Advisor to Goldman Sachs.
Rapporto 2012: Diritto a un futuro
Italy behind the European gender equity average, says watchdog organization
In terms of gender equity Italy lags behind the European average, and also behind some of its neighbours.
This is made apparent by the publication of the Gender Equity Index (GEI) 2012, published by Social Watch on the eve of Women’s International Day, March 8.
Sustainable development: not the Government’s priority
Commitments on combating poverty and social exclusion, as well as on increasing gender equality, have not been met, while policies undermine the availability and delivery of essential services. Although sustainable development is not part of the Government’s priorities, four successful referenda promoted by civil society (against nuclear power, forced privatization of water and other public services and against the exemption of the Prime Minister from the rule of law) that brought almost 27 million Italians to vote, have pushed the country in the right direction. It is essential to review all public policies and establish a new model of development centred on the enforcement of fundamental human rights, environmental sustainability and the reduction of social inequality.
Social Watch Rapporto 2010 - Dopo la caduta
Politiche sociali, sviluppo e giustizia fiscale A Roma l’Italia del terzo settore
. Published on Thu, 2011-02-17 08:08
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FBI Dir. Robert Mueller Names Women to Head San Francisco and Honolulu Offices
By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has picked seasoned women agents to head FBI offices in San Francisco and Honolulu.
The women are replacing women agents.
Stephanie Douglas will head the San Francisco office and Charlene B. Thornton will take charge of the Honolulu office, the FBI said.
Douglas started with the FBI in 1989 and went on to the Washington field office where she investigated violent crimes, public corruption and “some of the FBI’s most sensitive counterintelligence and espionage investigations”, the FBI said. In 2000, she was promoted to a supervisory post and was detailed to the CIA, the FBI said.
After taking various posts, she was named deputy assistant director for Operations Support in the Counterintelligence Division, the FBI said. She replaces Charlene Thornton, who goes off to Honolulu.
Thornton joined the FBI in 1979, and started working criminal counterintelligence and counterrorism in the Indianapolis and Los Angeles divisions, the FBI said.
In 1995, she became assisant special agent in charge of the Honolulu office. She later went on to become special agent in charge of the Birmingham, Ala. and Phoenix divisions and in 2006 headed the San Francisco office.
She replaces Janet Kammerman, who is now associate executive assistant director of the Human Resources Branch at FBI headquarters.
Posted: April 14th, 2009 under FBI, Milestone, News Story.
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Shared from the 10/22/2018 Financial Review eEdition
How digital twins are key to smart cities
From left: Mark Tait, Group Executive Director and Head of Commercial Development at Investa, and Joshua Ridley, CEO and co-founder of Willow. Below: New office building Barrack Place.
The property industry has long been considered a safe haven for technophobes, with complexity of major projects often leading to old practices trumping technology.
A senior property executive was once famously overheard saying that email was the biggest innovation in the construction industry over the past 20 years.
The problem is, the old way of doing things is wildly inefficient. Developers and owners can lose millions of dollars through reworks, delays and contractual disputes.
Furthermore, today’s limited systems are unable to handle the large amounts of information needed to take something from a drawing on a page to a place that people live, work and play.
That is, until digital twin technology arrived. Combined with sensors, smart buildings and blockchain, it’s set to revolutionise the built world.
Unlike many innovations positioned as the next big thing, it’s already being used today, and it is scalable.
One company who knows this all too well is Investa Property Group. Mark Tait, Investa’s Group Executive and Head of Commercial Development, knew the company needed to find a way to better manage its properties to save time, money and make everyone’s lives easier. So, five years ago it brought in Willow.
Willow, a digital and services company, born of the property development industry, identified a need for a new type of technology to address the unique challenges the property industry faces. It developed a digital twin platform which is now being delivered across the world.
In an industry first, the Investa partnership started with 567 Collins Street in Melbourne and this month, new office building Barrack Place at 151 Clarence Street in Sydney opened its doors for the first time.
The digital twin meant that as the property owner and manager, Investa knew where each of the building’s 25,476 assets, equipment, and parts, were located and their condition. That’s thanks to the creation of a digital twin that will revolutionise the way the building is managed and tenants are served.
But building an effective digital twin for a building goes beyond just technical skills. Willow’s deep industry knowledge, partnering approach, and digital services were key. From working with subcontractors to define the data standards and compliance needs to creating, capturing and integrating static data, such as 3D models, asset registers, operating and maintenance manuals, with dynamic data such as sensor/IoT data.
‘‘Before, we would have had lots of spreadsheets, paper files in ring binders or USB sticks handed over at the end of construction,’’ Tait says.
‘‘With the 567 Collins digital twin we now have information about 57,000 assets, from flooring to door handles, across the building and 14,000 live data inputs to tell us which lights, pumps, lifts are working in real time, on a totally open platform.
‘‘The amazing thing is we can find anyone of those with a click of a button.’’
This isn’t just a tool that makes it easier to store and search information. The added benefit of this technology is in compliance and safety.
As Tait says, ‘‘We know that 25 per cent of fire dampers in a building need to be checked every year. But how do you know which 25 per cent? With the digital twin, I know exactly who checked what, and when. It is an immutable digital record and maintenance history. It offers greater transparency, which enables owners and contractors to resolve disputes over contractual obligations, standards and compliance more quickly and easily.’’
As Joshua Ridley, CEO and co-founder of Willow puts it, ‘‘We’re finally at a point where the enabling technology for digital twins is powerful and affordable enough to make it scalable. Digital twins have been made possible by three mega trends – processing power available at scale through Microsoft cloud services such as Azure Digital Twins; high-speed connectivity with increased bandwidth, and sensor technology improvements and reductions in cost.’’
The digital twin’s real value? It’s the connectivity and transparency made possible by leveraging Willow’s and Investa’s expertise to build powerful applications that leverage Azure Digital Twins’ unique spatial intelligence capabilities. To have a truly ‘‘smart city’’ starts with smart buildings and smart infrastructure. Willow, Investa and Microsoft argue the digital twin is at the centre of this.
Ridley says the partnership between Investa, Willow and Microsoft is a true Australian success story.
‘‘We continue to innovate and grow, with real projects, real clients, real needs,’’ he says.
‘‘This is transforming everything, not just buildings.’’
Investa Property Group will be launching 60 Martin Place in 2019. The project started in 2012 with the developers shuffling into Town Hall to collect paper copy drawings.
Next year it will be entirely digitally enabled when it is handed over from construction to management, with one final handshake and a notification on the building manager’s smartphone. The property industry has never been so cutting edge.
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Straight path downhill EDITORIAL 01/14/2011
Straight path downhill
People outside looking in seem not all impressed by Noynoy who trumpets daily his so-called straight path his administration is taking. The conservative United States think tank Heritage Foundation, however, believes that the country is even retrogressing in terms of the government’s battle against corruption.
In the index of economic freedom that it undertakes yearly with the authoritative Wall Street Journal, the Philippines was found at the lower half of the ranking, at 115 of 179 nations and among countries with a “mostly unfree” economy.
A major factor for the poor showing of the country was the existence of still “pervasive corruption” more than half a year into the Aquino administration. The Heritage index showed the performance of the country in the index had reached its highest around the period 1997 to 2000, which was the time when Joseph Estrada was President but who, ironically, was forced out of office on trumped-up corruption charges by the very same elite people who are now allied with Noynoy and who imposed Gloria on the nation as successor of Erap who, to this very day, has never claimed to have abdicated his post..... MORE
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Aquino-Cojuangcos using military to harass Luisita farmworkers
The victory achieved by the farm workers in the decision of the Supreme Court ordering the distribution of the land under Hacienda Luisita did not make their life easier as the military continues to harass them.
HACIENDA LUISITA, Tarlac City – Out of fear, Michelle Mandigma, 30, left their home in barangay Balete in October last year. Along with her husband and seven children, Mandigma sought shelter at the office of the Alyansa ng Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (Ambala).
Mandigma said soldiers had frequented their house located in the middle of the farm since Ambala, of which her husband is an active member, set up the picketline within the disputed land being claimed by the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) in July last year.
“For months, they occupied the hut in front of our house, staying there for long periods of time,” Mandigma told members of a fact-finding mission, March 10. Mandigma said that the men wore civilian clothes but admitted to being soldiers. “They would ask us who are the NPAs [New People’s Army] here in the hacienda and who visits the picketline,” Mandigma said. The NPA is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
The fact-finding mission organized by the Alyansa ng Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson (AMGL), Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (Uma), Karapatan and other groups revealed that military presence is notable in ten barangays (villages) inside the hacienda owned by the family of President Benigno S. Aquino III. Several units of the military under the 7th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army used barangay halls as their detachments, and occupied even the office of the United Luisita Workers’ Union (Ulwu) in barangay (village) Mapalacsiao.
According to international humanitarian law, soldiers are prohibited from using public places for their operations..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/03/12/aquino-cojuangco-clan-using-military-to-harass-luisita-farmworkers/
Public lynching not allowed EDITORIAL 03/13/2012
Public lynching not allowed
Without saying it, impeachment court presiding justice Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile bared his heart the other day on the doubts he holds on the ability of some of the senator-judges in the Senate trial to render an impartial judgment on impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Noynoy’s Senate partymates and some other senators who have been won over to the oust-Corona movement have been and continue to be perceived as aiding the prosecution panel by jumping in whenever the accusers of Corona encounter a dead end either through sheer incompetence or as a result of the rules of the Senate court, which rules, not surprisingly, are being claimed by the same Noynoy senator allies not to apply strictly — to the point of even introducing hearsay as evidence beneficial to Noynoy and his senator-judges, and also polluted and illegally obtained evidence as proof..... MORE
Concrete message: Iran ‘supershield’ to thwart US ‘superbomb’
Pentagon’s joy at getting tons of money for a bigger, badder bomb was, apparently, premature. Iran claims to have invented “super concrete” – of a type that will stop the Massive Ordnance Penetrator from penetrating… well, anything.
Iran is known for being one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world. As a result, their scientists have gotten really good at creating ultra-high performance concrete, or UHPC, which is one of the toughest and most rigid building materials in the world. And like any dual-use technology, it can have military applications as well – something the Iranians are keen to utilize.What they’ve done is the exact opposite of that age-old adage: “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/super-concrete-super-bomb-409/
Bradley Manning treatment cruel, inhuman - UN special rapporteur
The United Nations official investigating the American military’s treatment of Bradley Manning has ruled that the US government imposed cruel, inhuman, degrading and borderline torturous treatment on the alleged WikiLeaks contributor.
The UN’s special rapporteur on torture, Juan Mendez, has completed his 14-month investigation into the detainment of Private First Class Bradley Manning, a 24-year old US soldier. Following allegations that he aided Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks site, Manning was arrested in May 2010 for disclosing classified material and has been in governmental custody for the nearly two years since. Despite a lengthy stint in military prison, Manning was formally arraigned only recently with a series of crimes that could put him away for the rest of life. In that period where Manning was held without charge, the UN now reports that the alleged whistleblower was subjected to reprehensible treatment at the hands of the United States..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/manning-cruel-treatment-un-torture-383/
'Get out!' Students demand US go after Kandahar bloodbath (PHOTOS)
Hundreds of Afghan university students have taken to the streets to protest a shooting spree in Kandahar that left 16 dead. The protesters demanded justice for the victims and a full withdrawal US forces.
About 400 students rallied in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad on Tuesday. The mob, which blocked a highway leading to the country’s capital of Kabul, chanted anti-American slogans and demanded a public trial for the shooter. .... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/afghanistan-massacre-shooter-protest-431/
A development manifesto? AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 03/13/2012
A development manifesto?
Some weeks ago, a reader e-mailed me what amounted to a manifesto for national development. Interestingly, the author is not Filipino but a UK businessman-scientist who’s been resident here for over 20 years. See what you think.
For the agricultural sector, the manifesto proposes that 10 million Merino sheep should be introduced on the land above 700 meters in Luzon, Mindoro and Panay. Each year, these would produce 80 million kilos of fine wool worth $640 million. Including the downstream processing and spinning plants and the fine garment factories, it’s estimated that two million jobs would be created.
On currently idle land throughout the Philippines, it’s proposed that between a million and 1.5 million Red Devon cattle, which do not need to be fed on grain, be introduced for the purpose of beef production, providing $75 million in annual revenue and creating 100,000 jobs in farming, transportation and processing. There are further proposals for fruit tree cultivation, the banning of tobacco production and the development of trout fishing and pine plantations — all generating considerable revenue and jobs..... MORE
Fruit of the poisonous tree VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 03/13/2012
Fruit of the poisonous tree
On the occasion of the impeachment trial ready for resumption, it is both fortunate and important that some kind of a thumb rule adopted by American jurisprudence was invoked for the occasion by an able senator-judge.
This is motivated by the mysterious appearance of a “small lady” alleged to have handed certain bank accounts to a member of prosecution for evidentiary use against the subject-object of the impeachment. This already perplexing production of evidence against the accused was even reinforced by another unseen and unknown individual said to have covertly delivered copies of the same bank accounts to the garage of another member of the prosecution..... MORE
Assault on Tribune reporter triggers wide media condemnation By Pat C. Santos 03/13/2012
Assault on Tribune reporter triggers wide media condemnation
Different media groups condemned the brutal attack on The Daily Tribune Malacaang beat reporter Fernan Angeles who was mauled and shot seven times in different parts of the body by still unidentified assailants with the National Press Club (NPC) putting up a P100,000 reward for the identification of the suspects.
The Tribune issued a statement calling on the government to act decisively in solving the crime and to put up measures to protect journalists from the various risks they encounter in the exercise of their jobs.
We expect the government and the Philippine National Police (PNP) to act with expediency in capturing those responsible for this reprehensible crime, the Tribune statement read.
It also issued a call on the media community to act and seek an end to the culture of impunity that prevails in the country that allows the unabated targeting of journalists that made the Philippines one of the most dangerous places for members of the media in the world..... MORE
Tiangco bares Palace links in House impeach express By Benjamin B. Pulta and Angie M. Rosales 03/13/2012
PORK BARREL USED TO COERCE SIGNATURES
Tiangco bares Palace links in House impeach express
By Benjamin B. Pulta and Angie M. Rosales 03/13/2012
The first witness of Chief Justice Renato Corona in the impeachment trial painted yesterday a vivid picture of how members of the House of Representatives were threatened with their pork barrel being withheld by Malacanang if they questioned the railroading of the impeachment complaint against Corona.
Navotas Rep. Tobias Tiangco took the witness stand for the defense despite vigorous objections from the prosecution panel on his testimony over what happened in last December’s focus which approved the impeachment complaint.
Under direct examination by defense counsel Dennis Manalo, Tiangco said Speaker Feliciano Belmonte told congressmen that the impeachment was ‘non-debatable’..... MORE
9 DENR officials probed for faking Boracay land titles 03/13/2012
9 DENR officials probed for faking Boracay land titles
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Central Office is investigating nine regional and field officials from their branch office in the Western Visayas Region who allegedly issued thirty-one fake land titles in Boracay.
The erring officials, who were not named yet, are the subject of an administrative complaint for grave misconduct.
The respondents were cross-examined by a probe team chaired by DENR Undersecretary for Field Operations lawyer Ernesto Adobo Jr. in a hearing in the pool side of West Town Hotel, Iloilo City from Feb. 29 to March 2, 2012..... MORE
OFWs need police clearance to exit Saudi by Michaela P. del Callar 03/13/2012
OFWs need police clearance to exit Saudi
Filipinos moving from Saudi Arabia to other countries for work or migration were advised by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to obtain a police clearance or they would be barred from entering their new destinations.
A clearance prior to departure is needed if they are moving to Australia, Canada, Europe or the United States, the DFA said, adding it is an entry or residency requirement in these countries for all Filipinos coming from Saudi Arabia.
Those seeking to obtain a police clearance while still in the Kingdom should have a letter of endorsement addressed to the police obtained from the Philippine embassy in Riyadh. The document costs 100 Saudi Riyals..... MORE
QC subsidizes graduation fees of elementary, HS studes By Arlie O. Calalo 03/13/2012
QC subsidizes graduation fees of elementary, HS studes
The Quezon City government has subsidized the graduation expenses of students graduating this week from public schools in the city, Mayor Herbert Bautista revealed.
He said some P1.4 million has been set aside by the city government to cover the grant of the subsidy, which would entitle each of the city’s 142 schools to P10,000 financial aid.
With the Department of Education’s no-collection policy still in effect, the mayor said, the grant of the subsidy will enable parents to focus more on other immediate needs of the family..... MORE
Oil price hike protests set on Thursday 03/13/2012
Oil price hike protests set on Thursday
Student councils, campus alliances and national youth organizations are calling for campus walk-outs and mass actions against oil price hikes on Thursday, March 15.
In a unity statement, more than a hundred groups under “Kilos na Kontra Kartel at Overpricing sa Langis” or KKK urged the youth and private citizens to join big nationwide protests.
“We are alarmed by the successive price hikes in oil products. The masses can no longer afford the overprice in oil products imposed by the greedy cartel,” said the unity statement..... MORE
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Structural Systems | Skeletal System Anatomy
⌊Body Sciences
⌊Body Systems (Organ Systems)
⌊Locomotor Systems
⌊Structural Systems
⌊Musculoskeletal System
⌊Skeletal Body System
⌊ Skeleton (anatomical)
⌊ Joints (Articulations)
⌊ Bone Health
⌊ Bones
⌊ Muscular System
⌊ Joints and Ligaments
⌊ Fascial System
⌊ Spine System (Spinal System)
⌊ Musculoskeletal Cartilages
⌊ Tendons
Skeletal Body System
In our body, the Skeletal Body System is the innermost organ system of the body made up of a skeleton consisting of membranes, bones and cartilage.
Skeletal System Grows and Adapts
In our body, the �skeleton� grows quickly and adapts precisely to our movement patterns. If we place more strain on it through our work or sports, then it reacts and becomes stronger at these points.
The �Skeletal System� supports the body, but in a flexible rather than rigid manner. Wherever two bones meet, there is generally a joint present which provides ease of movement between the two.
The bones of the �Skeletal System� appear hard and dry, but they consist of living cells, blood vessels and nerves.
In �Skeletal System�, each one of the more than 200 bones, however varied they may be in size and shape, is one line in a long chain. The �Skeletal System� is an ingenious structure of the bones, particularly the internal structure and the linkage between each other, that make our skeleton what it is: a purposeful, coordinated and functioning whole.
The �Skeletal System�, cannot function without the help of muscles and ligaments. These are often combined into larger muscle groups which all work together. Together with the joints and bones of the skeletal system, the muscles enable complex movements and provide the human body with power and endurance. *
Skeleton (skeletal system)
Bone Functions
Bones of the Back
Skeletal Organ System
In our body's skeletal body system, the Skeleton, our bony frame, is made up of over 206 different bones (126 appendicular, 74 axial, and 6 ossicles) that gives our body both it's stature and it's outward appearance.
In our body's structural organ system, the subsystem Skeletal Body Organ System (Skeletal System), a flexible bone structure known as the skeleton, is our body's framework made up of over 206 different bones giving the body both it's stature and outward it's appearance, which protects our body's soft parts and internal organs, produces blood cells, and stores mineral salts.
Divisions of the Skeleton
In our adult body's structural organ system, the Skeletal System may be grouped in two skeletal divisions; the axial skeleton (trunk) and the appendicular skeleton (limbs).
In our body's skeletal system, the Skeleton, is made up mostly of bones connected by joints (articulations).
Bone Function
In our body, the Bones function as an organ to move, support, and protect the various other organs of the body.
In our body, the Bones produce red and white blood cells and store minerals.
Back Bones
In our body's back region the Bones of the Back, including the bones of the posterior trunk from the neck to the pelvis, made up of an intricate structure of bones, the backbone, or spine, made up of 33 bony segments called vertebrae:
7 cervical (neck) vertebrae
12 thoracic (middle back) vertebrae
5 lumbar (lower back) vertebrae
5 sacral (lowest area of the back) vertebrae
4 coccygeal (coccyx, or tailbone) vertebra (made up of several fused segments)
In our body's Back, the vertebrae are arranged in a long vertical column and held together by ligaments, which are attached to muscles by tendons. Between each vertebra lies a gel-like cushion called an intervertebral disc, consisting of semifluid matter (nucleus pulposus) that is surrounded by a capsule of elastic fibers (annulus fibrosus).
In our body, the bones provide the structural framework for our body as a specialized connective tissue organ of the skeletal organ system, which protects internal organs and maintains mineral ion balance.
In our body, the bones are the rigid organs that form the main constituent our skeleton, with the principle cellular bone components comprised of osteoblasts, osteocytes, and osteoclasts.
In our body, the Bones are made up of osseous tissues (bones), marrow, blood vessels, epithelium and nerves.
In our body's mouth (oral cavity), Teeth are part of the Skeletal System not counted as bones. Each tooth may be described as a nonshedding hard surface, made of enamel and dentin that offers many different sites for bacteria colonization both below (subgingival) and above (supragingival) the gingival margin.
In our body's mouth (oral cavity), Teeth are part of the Digestive System as an Accessory Organ along with the tongue, liver and pancreas.
In our body's mouth (oral cavity), there are 32 Teeth in a complete permanent (secondary) set, grouped as the bicuspid teeth, cuspid teeth, incisor teeth and the molars (which include the wisdom teeth).
The shape of each Tooth type corresponds to the way it handles food.
In our body, a complete set of deciduous (primary) Teeth (Tooth) contains 20 Teeth.
Krakow D1. et al "The skeletal dysplasias" Genet Med. 2010 Jun;12(6):327-41
Kornak U. et al "Genetic disorders of the skeleton: a developmental approach" Am J Hum Genet. 2003 Sep;73(3):447-74
Razzaque MS. "Osteo-renal regulation of systemic phosphate metabolism" IUBMB Life. 2011 Apr;63(4):240-7
Marcotte H. et al "Oral microbial ecology and the role of salivary immunoglobulin A" Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 1998 Mar;62(1):71-109
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‘Alexa, pay for gas’ command to work at over 11,500 Exxon and Mobil stations this year
19:18 | 6 January
Pumping gas is not that difficult, but Amazon thinks the process could be even easier by way of a voice command, spoken aloud when you arrive at the pump: “Alexa, pay for gas.” Today, Amazon, alongside ExxonMobil and Fiserv, announced a new voice experience for pumping gas that will roll out to over 11,500 Exxon and Mobile gas stations across the U.S. later this year.
The ability to pay for gas via Alexa will initially be made available to customers with Alexa-enabled vehicles, Echo Auto, and other Alexa-enabled mobility devices, Amazon says.
When the customer arrives at the pump, they’ll just have to say, “Alexa pay for gas” to get started. Alexa will then confirm the station location and pump number.
The transactions themselves will be processed using Amazon Pay. That uses the same payment information stored in the customer’s Amazon account. Fiserv’s digital commerce technology will help to power the transactions by activating the pump and facilitating the token generation to ensure a secure payment experience.
It’s not clear that the Alexa-enabled experience is significantly faster or easier than inserting your payment card at the pump directly. If anything, it seems a little more involved. But the technology could be useful for some because it allows you to remain in the car until the pump is authorized and ready to go, instead of requiring you to stand outside while the activation process takes place.
That’s a nice perk for cold, winter days — but it could also be appreciated by women and others who are wary of being alone at the pump — like when pumping gas at night or in unfamiliar surroundings, for example, or anywhere they don’t feel comfortable.
“We’re excited to bring new technology and better experiences to the gas station,” said Eric Carmichael, Americas fuels marketing manager at ExxonMobil, in a statement. “We build and seek out technology that will wow our consumers, providing both ease of use and security.”
Amazon-backed Rivian will integrate Alexa into its electric pickup and SUV
Rivian will integrate Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa into the R1T pickup and R1S SUV, the company’s first electric vehicles that are set to debut at the end of the year.
Rivian said Monday it plans to also extend the Alexa integration to 100,000 electric delivery trucks that Amazon has ordered from the automaker. The electric vans are expected to start delivering packages to customers in 2021.
The integration into the R1T and R1S will give owners access to standard Alexa features such as playing music, placing calls and navigations as well as the ability to control the climate, open and closing the trunk and other vehicle features using their voice.
Rivian said it plans to give Alexa other capabilities designed for its vehicles. For instance, owners will be able to remotely tap into the camera embedded in Rivian pickup truck from Amazon screen-based services like Echo Show and Fire TV to check on whatever gear is stashed there. The integration will also allow access to certain Alexa features when the vehicle is offline, a decision meant to match up with how these vehicles might be used.
Rivian’s vision is to enable exploration without compromises and provide our owners the best digital experience, no matter where their adventure takes them,” said Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe. “We want this to be the most comprehensive, most seamless Alexa integration in the market.”
The Rivian announcement made ahead of CES 2020 is the latest to illustrate Amazon’s continued push into the automotive world. Lamborghini also announced Monday plans to bring Alexa to its Huracán EVO sports car.
Amazon has been moving into the car for a few years now through the integration of Alexa and car-focused delivery services, as well as its direct investment Rivian. The e-commerce company also launched its Amazon Key service to let customers give delivery drivers access to their house with the help of a compatible keypad on their door and a smart security camera. But in 2018, that service expanded to the car with its Key by Amazon In-Car delivery service.
GM and Volvo were the first participants in the Key by Amazon In-Car delivery service. Ford joined the in-car delivery service in April 2019.
Fire TV Edition expands to more soundbars, plus cars, cable boxes and more
Amazon’s Fire TV Edition, the version of Fire TV that now powers over 150 Fire TV Edition smart TVs as a competitor to Roku TV, is expanding to more devices besides just the television. Today, Amazon announced a new Fire TV Edition that’s capable of powering soundbars and being integrated into autos, plus versions designed for operators and certified solution providers.
The company’s ambitions for Fire TV to become a more expansive platform were already known. Amazon this past fall introduced a new Fire TV soundbar and over a dozen new Fire TV Edition products, in order to better compete with Roku which at the time had gained a lead over Amazon in U.S. connected TV market share.
Fire TV’s steady expansion on the international front now continues. Since September 2019, more than 50 Fire TV Edition smart TVs and soundbars have been launched from brands including Grundig, JVC, Onida, and Anker, and from retailers like Best Buy, Dixons and, soon, MediaMarketSaturn. And Best Buy alone has sold “millions” of Insignia and Toshiba Fire TV Edition smart TVs, Amazon claims.
In 2020, Amazon says more brands will launch Fire TV Edition smart TVs in the U.S., Canada, India, the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Mexico, but didn’t announce the brand names involved.
Amazon is also now expanding its lineup of Fire TV Edition-powered soundbars.
This fall, Amazon and Anker had launched the Nebula Soundbar – Fire TV Edition. Today, it’s launching two more: the TCL Alto 8+ Soundbar – Fire TV Edition on Amazon in the U.S. and Canada and the TCL TS8011 Soundbar – Fire TV Edition in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. Both will offer support for Dolby Digital Plus for premium, dynamic and immersive sound, Amazon says.
Polk Audio and Tonly are also building soundbar solutions with Fire TV Edition. And later this year, Amazon’s Fire TV soundbar will be upgraded with Dolby Atmos support, device control, HDMI switching, and far-field voice control.
Also being introduced today are distinct versions of Fire TV for automakers, operators, and certified solution providers.
On the auto front, Amazon is partnering with BMW and Fiat Chrysler Automotive (FCA) to offer hands-free Alexa, touch screen interfaces and offline playback capabilities to the screens inside your car — meaning you can stream Prime Video, Amazon FreeTime, or even Netflix on the go using the vehicle’s Wi-Fi or LTE connection, a mobile hotspot, or any other internet-connected device.
“Adding Fire TV to future BMW vehicles represents a big step in bringing the best of streamed entertainment to our products. With Amazon’s approach, and with the help of Garmin, we are able to innovate and create a unique and special experience for BMW cars, providing the consistency of content and customer experience that Fire TV provides in the home. We look forward to working closely with Amazon to bring Fire TV to future vehicles,” noted Fathi El-Dwaik, Vice President User Interaction, Business Line My Car and Business Line My Life, BMW Group, in a statement about the integrations.
For operators, television and telco operators will be able to offer Fire TV Edition-powered devices to customers. This follows Amazon’s earlier partnerships with Tata Sky in India and Verizon (TechCrunch’s parent) in the U.S. With the launch of Fire TV Edition for operators, available now in North America, Europe, India, and Japan, companies can choose from a range of solutions to better address their own customer and business needs.
On the operator front, Amazon also announced it’s working with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) to give its over 750 members the ability to deliver low-cost Fire TV streaming media players directly to their combined 16 million broadband and 8 million video customers.
Finally, Amazon is now customizing Fire TV Edition for ODMs (original device manufacturers — the companies building the hardware that will eventually be rebranded for other companies when sold).
Amazon announced it’s working with Skyworth as an ODM with turnkey solutions for 4K and FHD smart TVs. Starting in India, brands will be able to select from a range of industrial design and price points to bring their smart TVs to market. Meanwhile, for auto partners, Amazon is working with system integrators VOXX Automotive and Garmin.
The cumulative impact of all these expansions will be to give Fire TV a competitive advantage against rival Roku when it comes to establishing worldwide market share for its TV platform. But it additionally serves as means of bringing Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa to a wider user base and in places where Alexa isn’t always available — like the car or your cable TV box, for instance.
Related to this, Amazon also today announced more aftermarket devices with Alexa built-in for the car, and that Echo Auto will launch internationally this year.
“At CES 2017, we announced the first Fire TV Edition smart TV. Now, just three years later, Fire TV Edition has grown into a worldwide program which will include more than 150 Fire TV Edition models across more than ten countries by the end of the year,” said Marc Whitten, Vice President, Amazon Fire TV, in a statement. “The all-new Fire TV Edition provides companies with the services and tools they need to bring Fire TV to more categories and more screens,” he said.
Alexa is about to be very disappointed
19:14 | 27 November
A general lack of judgement has always been one of the strongest appeals of smart assistants. Whatever bad pop song or terrible online video you play for the 10,000th time — they don’t care. They’re simply there to help, judgement free.
Amazon, however, has been working on some features behind the scenes to help make Alexa more lifelike. Those involve bringing more emotional resonance to the smart assistant — namely the ability to make it voice sound varying levels of excited and disappointed.
“Alexa emotions” feature three levels of intensity. For the full effect, here’s “I just listened to the Smiths and then Googled what Morrissey has been up to lately” mode:
We all get down around the holidays, Alexa. Are you sure there’s nothing you want to talk about here? Amazon says users are feeling the newly empathetic assistant. “ Early customer feedback indicates that overall satisfaction with the voice experience increased by 30% when Alexa responded with emotions,” it writes in a post.
The feature is available to developers starting today, primarily focused on gaming skills. That means they’ll probably start rolling out to applications in the near future. No word on whether it’s possible to set those flash news briefings to perpetual disappointment.
The company is also rolling out a content-tailored delivery, design to give Alexa a style more akin to a news anchor or radio host.
Amazon launches medication management features for Alexa
As Amazon moves further into the healthcare market, the company today is rolling out a medication management feature for Alexa owners. The feature will allow customers to set up their own medication reminders and request voice refills using their prescription information. At launch, these capabilities are only available to customers of Giant Eagle Pharmacy, a regional retailer in the Midwest and East Coast.
That being said, there are obvious ties to Amazon’s larger plans with regard to prescription management and healthcare. Amazon has now acquired two health startups, first with online pharmacy PillPack in 2018 for slightly less than $1 billion. This was followed by last month’s acquisition of Health Navigator, which will become a part of Amazon’s pilot healthcare service program for its employees, the recently launched Amazon Care.
The new Alexa features seem to be custom designed for integrations with both Amazon Care and PillPack prescription ordering, even though neither of the two services are referenced today as part of Amazon’s current or future plans with the Alexa features.
Asked about this, an Amazon spokesperson said only that the company would not “comment or speculate on the future.”
Instead, Amazon says it has teamed up with medication management solution and adherence tool provider Ominicell to enable the new features, which were inspired by how people were already using Alexa’s reminders system and other feedback.
For example, some customers said they would like to set time frames for reminders like “twice a day.”
To use the new Alexa medication management, customers will first need to enable the Giant Eagle Pharmacy skill and link their accounts. They’ll also need to create an Alexa voice profile, which helps Alexa to verify the person who is speaking, and they’ll need to create a personal passcode for an extra layer of security. Amazon notes that it had already rolled out a way for developers to build HIPAA-compliant skills using its platform, which not only includes the added authentication steps, but also redacts users’ interactions with the skill from the Alexa app for further privacy.
In addition, Amazon had also recently added a way for customers to view and delete recordings at any time, including from the Privacy Settings page, in the Alexa app, or by voice.
Once their account is set up, the customer can then say “Alexa, manage my medication” to get started setting up their reminders. Alexa will help the customer to review their current prescriptions and set up reminders based on when they prefer to take each medication.
When the reminders go off, customers can ask “Alexa, what medication am I supposed to take right now?”
When it’s time, customers can also use Alexa to request refills from the pharmacy by saying “Alexa, refill my prescription.”
The features, though limited to one regional pharmacy for the time being, offer a view into how Amazon envisions voice-ordering for prescriptions will work for its customer base, and how such a system could be integrated with its own health care program at some later date, perhaps.
“Voice has proven to be beneficial for a variety of use cases because it removes barriers, and simplifies daily tasks. We believe this new Alexa feature will help simplify the way people manage their medication by removing the need to continuously think about what medications they’ve taken that day or what they need to take,” noted Rachel Jiang, Head of Alexa Health & Wellness, in an announcement about the new features.
“We want to make it easy for people to get the information they need and to manage their healthcare needs at home while maintaining the privacy and security of their information, and hope this feature is a step toward that vision,” she added.
AWS expands its IoT services, brings Alexa to devices with only 1MB of RAM
AWS today announced a number of IoT-related updates that, for the most part, aim to make getting started with its IoT services easier, especially for companies that are trying to deploy a large fleet of devices. The marquee announcement, however, is about the Alexa Voice Service, which makes Amazon’s Alex voice assistant available to hardware manufacturers who want to build it into their devices. These manufacturers can now create “Alexa built-in” devices with very low-powered chips and 1MB of RAM.
Until now, you needed at least 100MB of RAM and an ARM Cortex A-class processor. Now, the requirement for Alexa Voice Service integration for AWS IoT Core has come down 1MB and a cheaper Cortex-M processor. With that, chances are you’ll see even more lightbulbs, light switches and other simple, single-purpose devices with Alexa functionality. You obviously can’t run a complex voice-recognition model and decision engine on a device like this, so all of the media retrieval, audio decoding, etc. is done in the cloud. All it needs to be able to do is detect the wake word to start the Alex functionality, which is a comparably simple model.
“We now offload the vast majority of all of this to the cloud,” AWS IoT VP Dirk Didascalou told me. “So the device can be ultra dumb. The only thing that the device still needs to do is wake word detection. That still needs to be covered on the device.” Didascalou noted that with new, lower-powered processors from NXP and Qualcomm, OEMs can reduce their engineering bill of materials by up to 50 percent, which will only make this capability more attractive to many companies.
Didascalou believes we’ll see manufacturers in all kinds of areas use this new functionality, but most of it will likely be in the consumer space. “It just opens up the what we call the real ambient intelligence and ambient computing space,” he said. “Because now you don’t need to identify where’s my hub — you just speak to your environment and your environment can interact with you. I think that’s a massive step towards this ambient intelligence via Alexa.”
No cloud computing announcement these days would be complete without talking about containers. Today’s container announcement for AWS’ IoT services is that IoT Greengrass, the company’s main platform for extending AWS to edge devices, now offers support for Docker containers. The reason for this is pretty straightforward. The early idea of Greengrass was to have developers write Lambda functions for it. But as Didascalou told me, a lot of companies also wanted to bring legacy and third-party applications to Greengrass devices, as well as those written in languages that are not currently supported by Greengrass. Didascalou noted that this also means you can bring any container from the Docker Hub or any other Docker container registry to Greengrass now, too.
“The idea of Greengrass was, you build an application once. And whether you deploy it to the cloud or at the edge or hybrid, it doesn’t matter, because it’s the same programming model,” he explained. “But very many older applications use containers. And then, of course, you saying, okay, as a company, I don’t necessarily want to rewrite something that works.”
Another notable new feature is Stream Manager for Greengrass. Until now, developers had to cobble together their own solution for managing data streams from edge devices, using Lambda functions. Now, with this new feature, they don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time they want to build a new solution for connection management and data retention policies, etc., but can instead rely on this new functionality to do that for them. It’s pre-integrated with AWS Kinesis and IoT Analytics, too.
Also new for AWS IoT Greengrass are fleet provisioning, which makes it easier for businesses to quickly set up lots of new devices automatically, as well as secure tunneling for AWS IoT Device Management, which makes it easier for developers to remote access into a device and troubleshoot them. In addition, AWS IoT Core now features configurable endpoints.
Spotify’s free music service will now stream on Alexa devices, plus Bose and Sonos smart speakers
Spotify has worked with Amazon Echo since 2016, but only for premium subscribers. Today, that changes as Spotify says its free tier will now stream across Alexa-powered devices, as well as other smart speakers from Sonos and Bose. The Alexa support will be available for users in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand. Support for Sonos and Bose is more broadly available to users around the world.
In the case of Alexa devices, like Amazon Echo speakers or the Fire TV, users will be able to ask Alexa to play Spotify’s playlist, like “Today’s Top Hits,” or their personalized playlist, “Discover Weekly,” among others. The service can also be set as the default, so you can use commands like “Play my Discover Weekly,” “Like this song,” or “Pause,” and more, without having to say “on Spotify.”
Meanwhile, on Sonos and Bose speakers, users can set up Spotify Connect from the Spotify app. This works with Bose smart speakers and soundbars, as well as all Sonos smart speakers, including the new indoor/outdoor speaker Sonos Move and the Symfonisk IKEA WiFi Speaker, integrated with the Sonos Home Sound System.
To use Spotify Connect, you’ll tap the “Devices” icon on the screen to select which speaker you want to use. This will also require the Bose and Sonos devices are updated to the latest firmware, the company says.
The expanded support for smart speakers comes only a day after Amazon directly challenged Spotify with a major move of its own. On Tuesday, Amazon announced its own music service would become free across devices, including the web, Fire TV, iOS, and Android. Before, the free, ad-supported music service was only available on Echo devices. While the services is a rival of sorts to other free services, like Spotify and Pandora, it has a more limited catalog of just 2 million tracks. That makes it better for those who only casually listen to music stations and curated playlists.
Spotify’s stock dropped almost 5% on Tuesday after Amazon’s announcement, however.
By now making Spotify’s free tier more accessible, it’s likely that many people will choose Spotify’s free streaming over Amazon’s free streaming, given the larger catalog of over 50 million songs. In addition, Spotify is best known for its personalization capabilities that help introduce users to new music based on their likes and listening history, which continues to be a major draw.
However, Amazon is only one of many challengers Spotify faces these days, with Apple Music, YouTube Music and regional players in big markets like India and China, also vying for users.
In addition, TikTok owner ByteDance is said to be preparing to move into music streaming, aiming for markets like India, Indonesia, and Brazil. That’s a huge threat not only because of the markets it’s targeting but because you can now draw a direct line between TikTlk top tracks and No. 1 tracks and hits on Spotify, which gives it a competitive advantage.
Amazon and Google double down on hands-free recipes to help sell their smart displays
Amazon and Google have identified a solid use case for their smart speaker devices, powered by Alexa and Google Assistant, respectively: recipes. The companies this week have both announced new product features that aim to help users cook, hands-free, while guided by the voice assistant. Amazon this week rolled out a new feature integration in partnership with BuzzFeed’s recipe site Tasty, to offer step-by-step voice and video instructions to Alexa users. Meanwhile, Google partnered with entrepreneur and chef Ayesha Curry to bring her recipes to Google Assistant.
Curry’s recipes will also include step-by-step cooking instructions on Google Assistant-powered Smart Displays, like the Nest Hub Max.
Meanwhile, the Tasty recipes are available across Echo devices, but will include cooking videos on the Echo Show devices.
What’s interesting about the new features is that both involve content partnerships, instead of dedicated skills from third-parties. In fact, Curry is even providing her new recipe (Cast Iron Fall Bread Pudding with Brown Butter Apples) exclusively to Google Assistant users.
The growth in voice apps had been growing steadily over the past few years, with Amazon announcing earlier this fall it had surpassed over 100,000 skills. But that momentum may now be slowing, reports say — a possible indication that developer enthusiasm may be waning, as well.
The issue with voice apps is they’re hard to discover by way of voice commands alone, and they require particular syntax to properly launch. Sure, users may find a great weather app or game, but if they can’t remember its name later on, they may not visit again. Another issue is that many of the first voice apps were built by developers, some of whom lack user experience design backgrounds resulting in kludgy, confusing voice experiences.
Finally, it’s not clear that a large number of smart speaker or smart display owners are even regularly using voice apps. After all, Amazon and Google tend to tout the number of skills they have, not the number of people using them.
Content integrations by way of partnerships route around all these problems.
They simplify things and put Amazon and Google back in control of the user experience. And they still give users what they want without requiring them to launch a third-party app.
Recipes are also more straightforward, as far as integrations go. They consist of only a few parts — ingredient lists and cooking instructions, for example. And the commands to launch them are as simple as “Alexa” or “Hey Google,” followed by “show me recipes from…” and then the recipe source.
Navigating recipes can also be easier than other voice apps, thanks to basic commands like “Alexa, ingredients,” “Alexa, next step,” or “Alexa start recipe.”
The smart speakers can aid with general cooking questions, too, like “Hey Google, how many tablespoons in a cup?” or “Hey Google, show me how to brown butter.”
Before the Tasty partnership, Amazon had already tapped into the potential for recipes to boost device sales with the launch of a Guided Cooking feature that allowed Echo Show and Echo Spot customers to get step-by-step instructions from Allrecipes, Epicurious, Food52, TheKitchn, and SideChef while they cook without having to install a skill.
In addition, Alexa more recently was the debut voice platform for Discovery’s new subscription service Food Network Kitchen, which doesn’t just offer recipes and videos, but also live cooking classes with master chefs.
Ayesha Curry isn’t Google’s first recipe partnership, either. It had also indexed recipes from Bon Appetite, The New York Times, Food Network and others for use on Google Home. This year, it said recipe suggestions would be personalized to users with the launch of a “Picks for You” feature for its smart displays.
Both new recipe integrations are live now.
To get started, say “Hey Google, show me recipes from Ayesha Curry,” or ask Alexa for recipes from Tasty based on ingredients, dish name or occasion, like, “Alexa, find chicken recipes from Tasty.”
Echo Studio is Amazon’s lower-cost answer to the HomePod
17:00 | 6 November
Amazon’s kickstarted the smart speaker market with the original Echo, way back in late-2014. Like many of the company’s hardware offerings, it was very much a utilitarian device. The first Echo was smart first and speaker a distant second.
Echo’s how slowly gotten better in the sound department over time, but the arrival Apple’s HomePod and Google’s Home Max have highlighted the lack of real quality speaker in the Echo lineup. Amazon eventually added the Link, Amp, Sub and Input to integrate Alexa into an existing home stereo system, but until this most recent round of announcements, the company never had a real answer to the HomePod.
The Echo Studio is every bit Amazon’s take on the HomePod, with all the good, the bad and the everything else that entails. While it’s certainly the most premium Echo speaker Amazon has offered to date, the Studio isn’t exactly what one would deem a premium speaker. The build quality and materials don’t feel on-par with that of Apple’s. But that’s to be expected for a product that starts at $100 less.
Amazon’s almost certainly made the right move by undercutting the HomePod. A $300 speaker would be an extremely difficult sell from Amazon. Hovering at just under $200 feels like a good spot for the Echo Studio to live, especially when one factors in Amazon’s frequent hardware discounts.
At first glance, the Studio looks a bit like the HomePod, with roughly the same dimensions. It’s significantly larger than a standard Echo, but not so larger that it wouldn’t fit comfortably on most desks or shelves. There’s a signature large light ring around the top, along with a quartet of physical buttons: Mic on/off (turning the light ring red), volume up and down and the “Action” button for trigger Alexa manually.
I will say, using Google’s devices recent does really drive home how much I like the touch based input for playing and pausing songs. That’s missing here, as with other Echo devices.
About two thirds of the way down is a large cut out that goes all the way through the speaker. This is the bass aperture, designed to max output of the downward firing woofer. And it does. There’s no lack of bass on the thing — too much for my taste, in fact. It tends to muddy rock songs.
Like the Echo Buds, the Amazon app offers control over levels, so you can adjust to your heart’s content. The Studio also nsing built-in calibration similar to competing systems to get a read on the acoustics of its surroundings. For the best sound, Amazon recommends keeping the system at least six inches from a wall. I tried a few different spots in my living room and found the sound to be good, but not quite up to other premium smart speakers.
The Studio does well with simpler playback, like Bill Evans’s jazz piano. When playing rock like the Hold Steady or hip-hop like Run the Jewels, the music costs some clarity. It does, however, get plenty loud and should more than do the job in an apartment or door room. The addition of the home theater option makes it a nice addition for users of the Fire TV, as well.
The Studio is, without question, the best and richest sound Echo to date. From a pure sound standpoint, I certainly can’t recommend it over an Apple HomePod, Sonos Move or Google Home Max, but the $199 price point fits comfortable in Amazon’s more budget-minded approach to the smart home.
Where VCs are looking for voice startup investments
Led by Amazon’s Alexa, smart speakers’ install base is expected to reach 200 million units worldwide by 2020. A quarter of Americans over the age of 12 own a smart speaker, and the majority of those users have more than one device in their home. Moreover, Apple could sell 50 million of its Airpods this year (generating $8 billion in sales) as Bluetooth earpieces explode in popularity.
For the market penetration of this hardware, the app ecosystem remains limited in terms of mainstream adoption. Podcast production and consumption has exploded, but they don’t take advantage of smart speakers and headphones as interactive devices. Even though there were 57,000 Alexa skills available at the end of last year, most people are using smart speakers mainly to check the weather, check the news, ask simple questions and play music.
If voice is a new operating system, where are the opportunities to build giant companies on top of it?
To get a better sense of how the smart money views this market, I asked five VCs who have spent the most time in this space to share which types of startups have captured their attention:
Matt Hartman, Partner at Betaworks Ventures
Nicole Quinn, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
Paul Bernard, Director of the Alexa Fund at Amazon
Ann Miura-Ko, Partner at Floodgate
Jordan Cooper, Partner at Pace Capital
Here are their responses:
The most recent wave of audio was about constant connectivity and streaming, and we invested in Anchor, Gimlet, and other audio-first businesses that would thrive in the podcast renaissance. For the next wave of audio, we’re focused [on] three broad categories: personalization, new behaviors/new interfaces, and monetization. Personalization means both utilizing location, Apple Watch, and other data to create magical audio experiences and customized audio content, but also advances in generative content like Resemble.ai and Descript that can create custom audio.
In terms of new behaviors/new interfaces, people are leaving their Airpods in longer, which means there may be an opportunity for “Airpod-first” product design. Finally, as audio becomes an industry, monetization will be improved and also re-thought: subscription products such as Shine and Headspace are interesting in the context that if they don’t really work as ad-supported podcasts, and they are packaged in such a way that people are willing to pay a monthly or annual subscription.
We are in between platforms and it’s not clear what the next platform will be. VR and AR are options, but I believe voice will be the next major platform with mass adoption. The biggest hurdle right now is discoverability which in turn leads to engagement and retention issues. This was the same for mobile before the App Store allowed us to discover new apps. We need the same for voice.
We will then see voice move from a music and list creation tool to one which quickly becomes part of popular culture around shopping, games, travel, meditation, etc. Leading audio apps such as Calm, the meditation and sleep app, are already set up to take advantage of the move to voice.
Alexa got its start in the home, but we knew early on that bringing this experience to customers outside the home would become important. Our investments in companies like North (smart glasses), Vesper (power-efficient microphones) and Syntiant (power-efficient AI chip) were inspired by this vision, and reflect the idea that ambient computing is becoming part of daily life.
These companies are also helping create the surface area for interactive entertainment and information services, such as Drivetime’s trivia games (we are an investor there too), and social ones like TTYL, which enables friends wearing earbuds to maintain “audio-presence” with each other throughout their day while they multi-task. We also expect to see innovation in how voice can help seniors aging in place — our recent investment in Labrador Systems, which builds assistive robots, is a good example of this trend.
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Seoul’s Steamy Summer (Updated)
By Matt Stiles | August 16, 2016 August 24, 2016 Matt Stiles | Topics: South Korea, Weather
Note: I followed my wife, a foreign correspondent for NPR News, to Seoul last year. This is one of a series of posts exploring our adopted country’s demographics, politics and other nerdy data stuff. Let me know if you have ideas for future posts.
I’ve been away from Seoul for much of the summer, but now that I’m back it’s impossible not to hear all the complaining — among expats and locals alike — about the heat.
They have a point, at least in terms of their expectations. This summer has indeed been hotter than usual, especially this month, when the daily low temperature on one recent day actually exceeded the average high. (I updated the chart on Aug. 24).
Historically, the air begins cooling slightly in August. Not so this year…
Continue reading … →
August 16, 2016 August 24, 2016 Matt Stiles Tagged: d3, dailygraphics, fivethirtyeight, Line Chart, Original, seoul, South Korea, stacked column chart, temperature, Weather, weather underground
Someday I’ll Say Goodbye to Seoul. I Might Miss the Weather.
By Matt Stiles | April 25, 2016 August 25, 2016 Matt Stiles | Topics: South Korea, Weather
I’ve been in Seoul just over a year, and I can’t stay here forever, so I’m starting to think seriously about the next city. For me, a key consideration is weather (and, you know, work and kids’ schools and such).
Seoul’s been pretty great, especially the relatively mild summers. But what can I expect from the next town? Here are the average monthly temperatures for the likely contenders. Some are warmer than others:
Or maybe one of these 269 places?
Data source: NOAA Comparative Climate Data
April 25, 2016 August 25, 2016 Matt Stiles Tagged: Austin, DC, houston, Line Charts, Original, seoul, shanghai, Small Multiples, temperature, Weather
How’s The Weather In Seoul? Pretty Temperate. (Sorry, Austin Friends)
By Matt Stiles | March 18, 2015 March 28, 2017 Matt Stiles | Topics: South Korea, Weather
Note: My family recently relocated to Seoul, where my wife is working as a foreign correspondent for NPR. This post is the first in an occasional series profiling the peninsula’s demographics and politics (and occasionally weather).
I enjoy Austin, and I still consider it “home,” even after moving to Washington, D.C., and, now, Seoul. But one of my top complaints about the Texas capital is the blazing summer heat. And by “summer” I mean March to October, essentially. In 2011, the year we left, there were 69 days in which the high temperature reached triple digits — only tying a record.
So, yes, I’ve enjoyed D.C.’s relatively temperate weather, despite the occasional winter snow or those few sticky days in August. But I wasn’t sure what to expect in Seoul, other than I suspected the winters were chilly. Turns out the temperatures are much like those in D.C., which makes sense because both cities are near the 38th north parallel above the Equator.
These simple charts show the average high and low temperatures in each place:
Tomorrow, I’ll chart the average number of rainy days — and the average monthly rainfall totals — in each place. Hint: Summer is the rainy season in Seoul.
Sources: WorldWeatherOnline.com (average temps.); Highcharts JS (charting library); ColorBrewer (color palette).
March 18, 2015 March 28, 2017 Matt Stiles Tagged: climate, Highcharts, Line Charts, Original, temperature
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History of the Pentacle
The oldest known use of the Pentacle dates to 3,000 B.C.E., when it was used by the Sumerians and Babylonians to depict angles and provide directional orientation. Early civilizations also used the Pentacle for astrological purposes, assigning the points to the five planets visible to the naked eye: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
By 500 B.C.E., the great mathematician Pythagoras identified the “Golden Ratio” within the Pentacle, which was incorporated into Greek art and architecture. Pythagoras was the first person to refer to the balance of the "Cosmos," and he proposed the soul’s eternal existence through transmigration. Later, his followers ascribed the Pentacle to the five classical elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Ether.
In 300 C.E., Roman Emperor Constantine used the symbol as a seal and amulet. When the Roman Catholic Church was formed, Christians adopted the Pentacle to represent the five wounds of Christ, which pierced his hands, feet, and side. Others associated the Pentacle with the five senses: Touch, Taste, Smell, Hearing, and Sight.
In medieval times, the Pentacle was part of the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, who had five virtues: Friendship, Generosity, Chastity, Courtesy, and Piety.
And during the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci revived the Pentacle by illustrating that the proportions of the human body align within this sublime shape in the Vitruvian Man.
Spiritual Unity and the Pentacle of Venus
At the close of the Fourth Spiritual Paradigm, Oracle chose the Pentacle to represent the potential for spiritual unity among the five primary religions: Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam.
At the dawn of the Fifth Spiritual Paradigm, Oracle hopes that all wisdom traditions will connect with each other to build a compassionate new world dedicated to a culture of peace.
To this end, Oracle recalls the most glorious and enduring use of the Pentacle – as a symbol for Venus, the Goddess of Love – who models an eternal aspect of the Sacred Feminine.
Venus creates the Pentacle as it orbits the Sun. The process takes 8 years, and you can watch Venus create the Pentacle in this video.
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Crippen Gets 25 Years For Attempted Murder
Written by: Jennifer Shutt
Staff Writer- Daily Times
SNOW HILL -- Pleas of "No, judge!" and sobs erupted from the family of Alexander Crippen after he was sentenced to 25 years in prison stemming from his December conviction of first-degree attempted murder.
Several members of Crippen's family left the courtroom after Judge Richard R. Bloxom handed down a sentence of life in prison with all but 25 years suspended, and a 10-year concurrent sentence for handgun use during a felony or violent crime. Crippen is 37 years old.
Crippen was originally charged in the shooting death of Reginald Handy Jr. in June after witnesses said they saw him shoot and kill Handy. Those charges were vacated just before the trial began and replaced with attempted murder charges. Prosecutors said forensic evidence would have made it impossible to prove Crippen was the murderer.
A nephew of Crippen's, Skylor Harmon of Pocomoke City, was then charged with Handy's murder, and Harmon's trial is pending.
At the sentencing hearing, State's Attorney Beau Oglesby recalled Crippen's criminal past, saying an escalation in charges and convictions against him shows increasingly violent behavior. In 1991, Crippen was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest; in 1996, he was convicted of assault with intent to maim and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
"These actions for an individual with no prior criminal history would be atrocious," Oglesby said. "Mr. Crippen was, and continues to be, a menace to our public safety."
Crippen's attorney, Arthur McGreevy, contested the state's request for a full life sentence, saying Crippen should be able to re-enter society at some point in his life.
"He is not a person devoid of potential," said McGreevy, after recalling stories of Crippen helping others and discussing Crippen's recently born son.
Before sentencing, Bloxom said Crippen's lengthy criminal history helped the judge determine the sentence. He also mentioned Crippen's conviction for assault of a corrections employee while he was behind bars.
"You have an adult criminal record going back 19 years," Bloxom said. "As the state's attorney observed, your criminal record is indicative of someone who has become more dangerous."
Although sentencing is often the last step in a criminal trial, Crippen is scheduled to appear at a motions hearing May 6, where he is expected to request a new trial. Crippen has also indicated his intent to appeal his conviction.
Source; delmarvanow.com http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201104090432/NEWS01/104090333
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Labels: Alexander Crippen, local news, murder, Pocomoke city
One Wal*Mart Carjacker Is Charged
Being held for bond in an unspecified location? Would anyone know why.....unless it's because he is a juvenile?
By: Linda Cicoira
An Accomack youth was charged in connection with an armed robbery and motor vehicle theft that allegedly occurred late last month at the Pocomoke Walmart.
Troy Anthony Ewell,17, of New Church was charged with 16 counts according to the Pocomoke City Police Department
He will be tried as an adult and is being held for $250,000 bond at an unspecified location.
Another suspect is being held in Eastern Shore Regional Jail in Eastville. Information about that male has not been disclosed because he is a juvenile and has not waived juvenile status.
On March 28, Maryland officers responded to the Walmart on Old Snowhill Road. "Upon arrival they learned that a 69-year-old store employee was on her way into the store when she was approached by two blackmales with a gun who demanded her wallet and vehicle keys," a spokes person said. "The victim complied and the two suspects fled from the parking lot in her vehicle."
The following day, the vehicle was in a single-vehicle accident in Accomack County, where police found it had been severely damaged and abandoned.
Officers were able to identify the driver and passenger of the stolen vehicle, the spokesperson added.
Ewell was charged with armed robbery, robbery, two counts of use of a firearm in a felony, two counts of handgun on a person, armed carjacking, conspiracy to commit armed carjacking, conspiracy carjacking, carjacking, two counts of unlawful taking of a vehicle, two counts of theft under $100, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, and conspiracy to commit robbery.
He turned himself into authorities on March 31.
Source: www.easternshorepost.com
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Labels: Carjacking, Pocomoke city, Walmart
Deer Stands Guard Over Goose Nest In Cemetary
. REUTERS/Doug Benz
By: Neale Gulley
BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) – A deer has been standing watch for several days over a female goose nesting in a city cemetery, a scene normally reserved for a children's movie.
"People always want to turn it into a Disney story and in this case it's not far off," said Gina Browning, director of the Erie County SPCA.
For at least four days, the buck stood guard near the nest of a Canada goose as she sits on her eggs inside a large urn at Forest Lawn cemetery, home to the remains of President Millard Fillmore and rock icon Rick James.
"He does appear to be guarding the goose, as it were," Erie County SPCA Wildlife Administrator Joel Thomas said. "He's within touching distance of her -- there's no doubt what's going on."
The deer, which he said looks like a buck that has shed its antlers, has not strayed from his post.
Employees at the cemetery were alerted to the situation after the animal positioned itself between the bird and an employee of a company that traps and relocates geese, which Thomas said have become a messy problem in large numbers.
"When he approached the bird with a net, the deer puts itself between him and the bird, and he's repeated that behavior for some time," he said.
Typically positioning himself broadside to any car or passerby who comes near the nest, the deer stares intently until the potential aggressor moves on, he said.
Why exactly the deer has chosen to champion a bird of a different feather is a complicated question, Thomas said. While interdependence among species in the wild is not unheard of, Thomas said whatever is causing this animal kingdom alliance is anybody's guess.
"From a human standpoint we can fill in a lot of blanks but it doesn't mean we're right," he said. "Does he know she's nesting? I don't know. Is he going to leave when the chicks hatch? I don't know."
One thing is clear: It could go on for some time.
The gestation period for a Canada goose is up to 31 days, Thomas said, with the nesting season only just beginning. While normally both the male and female share the task of keeping the eggs warm, the expectant mother at Forest Lawn appears not to have that luxury.
"If the deer is determined, he's going to be on the job for at least three weeks," Thomas said.
Devotion rather than emotion seems to be driving the buck.
"The deer and the goose are not in love," Thomas said.
(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Jerry Norton)
Source; news.yahoo.com http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110408/od_nm/us_deer_goose
Thanks Sheri
Labels: nature, Wildlife
Trump Buys Winery In Virginia
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Billionaire Donald Trump has bought the Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyards in Charlottesville.
Media outlets report that representatives for Trump bought the winery at a foreclosure auction Thursday. Trump officials say he's interested in making wines and is in talks with former owners William Moses and Patricia Kluge about running the operation.
Preliminary estimates indicate the property sold for less than $7.5 million. A separate auction is being held to sell equipment used in making wine and tending the vineyards. Trump's representatives also successfully bid on the trademarks and labels for the winery.
Kluge Estate owed Farm Credit Bank an estimated $34.8 million. The winery took out loans to expand its operations from regional to national. But it missed sales targets required by its line of credit with the bank.
Source; myfoxdc.com http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/money/billionaire-donald-trump-buys-virginia-winery-040811
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Bogus Bomb Threat Evacuates School
Shawn J. Soper - News Editor
SHOWELL -- Hundreds of Showell Elementary students were evacuated from the school building for a couple of hours yesterday as authorities investigated a potential bomb threat.
Around 8:40 a.m. yesterday, Maryland State Police officers responded to Showell Elementary to investigate a reported bomb threat on the school made during an apparent domestic dispute Wednesday night. According to a source close to the situation, an unidentified man was involved in a domestic dispute with his estranged wife, the mother of a student at Showell, the night before and made a veiled threat to blow up a classroom at the facility.
School officials immediately set in motion Showell’s prescribed and practiced emergency plan and the students, teachers and staff were evacuated from the building in a measure of “extreme caution.” The students, teachers and administrators remained outside the building for about two hours as Maryland State Police investigators along with allied law enforcement agencies searched the building for a potential explosive device.
A bomb-sniffing dog was brought in to do a complete scan of the school building and property, which turned up negative. Students, teachers and administrators started trickling back into the facility around 11 a.m., over two hours after police first arrived on the scene.
Colonel Doug Dods of the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office said yesterday the investigation was ongoing.
“At this point, we don’t think it was a valid threat,” he said. “Investigators are trying to track down where it came from. It appears somebody took something out of context. We had people calling and telling us there were armed gunmen in the school. That’s how it snowballs.”
According to Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jon Andes, when police informed school administrators of the potential threat, Showell Elementary’s school safety plan was immediately put into effect.
“The State Police arrived at the school around 8:40 a.m. and informed the administration about the situation,” he said. “As a result of that information, we implemented the school’s safety plan, which we practice and rehearse monthly in preparation for a potential situation such as this. Our primary concern is for the safety the children, and as a precaution we evacuated the facility to provide police with an opportunity to search the school.”
County Schools Public Information Officer Barb Witherow said yesterday the school’s automated message system was activated to inform parents about the pending situation.
“The students practice evacuation drills once a month and as a result, we had a very calm and very organized evacuation,” she said. “You hope that you never need the plan in real life, but it worked exactly how it was designed to work.”
Source; mdcoastdispatch.com http://www.mdcoastdispatch.com/articles/2011/04/08/Top-Stories/Bogus-Bomb-Threat-Evacuates-School
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Labels: bomb threats, education, local news
If Law Passes Pooches Would Be Allowed On Restaurant Patios
TOM RISEN ¦ Staff Writer
Some people spend a lot of money on their pets and the Dining Out Growth Bill is waiting for Maryland Senate approval on whether to open restaurant patios to dogs and more tourist dollars. If passed, it would take effect on July 1.
After clearing the House of Delegates with a vote of 124 to 8, House Bill 941 has until the legislative session ends Monday to carry its offer of more customer service options onto the Senate floor and to the governor’s desk.
Delegates Mike McDermott (R-38) and Norm Conway (D-38B) differed on budget proposals, but both voted in favor of the pet-friendly measure because of its potential to boost consumer spending.
“This is a bill that will cost taxpayers nothing and has only the potential to increase disposable income from out-ofstaters,” said Delegate Dan Morhaim (D-11), who introduced the legislation.
“Businesses in North Carolina, California, Florida, Michigan and many cities around the country are reaping benefits from having introduced this.”
Greater Ocean City Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Melanie Pursel said there is a growing trend of people traveling with their pets.
“People who treat their pets like their children are sometimes the ones with disposable income,” Pursel said. “I personally think this could be a good idea for businesses to offer something more to travelers. But it’s a fine line, like with the leash law on the beach.
Business owners would have one more thing to keep track of if they allow dogs in their patios.”
The bill would leave it up to bar owners on whether to allow dogs and what kind of dogs would be allowed on patios. The pet owners would be held responsible for managing Fido, Rover and Spot.
Along with displaying a sign for patrons and keeping the dog outside, the restaurant would have notify local health departments.
“Other states doing this only had isolated incidents in our judgment, so it’s something we decided to work on with Delegate Morhaim,” said Dr. Clifford S. Mitchell, assistant director for Health and Food Protection at the Maryland Department of Mental Health and Hygiene.
Ocean City already has a handful of pet-friendly hotels that claim to have harnessed extra tourism dollars from pet travel. Barefoot Mailman Motel’s owner Adam Showell said his hotel profits by working out a balance with pet owners and housekeeping working in concert. Housekeeping cannot enter a room if the pet is there without the owner, Showell said.
“It’s fun running a pet-friendly business and we have a high rate of returning guests,” Showell said. “There is a high rate of camaraderie among the customers since they all bring their dogs or cats as part of the family. They love coming to Ocean City, even during cooler weather when the Boardwalk and beaches are still open to pets.”
One provision of the bill prohibits dogs from entering the restaurant at any point, even to get to the outdoor seating and could apply to the Ocean City Boardwalk. Ocean City’s beaches and its Boardwalk are not open to dog walking between May 1 and Sept. 30 because of the crowds. Monitoring pets in a crowded bar could be a concern for some businessmen, such as Shenanigans Manager Nick Feickert, who said his Boardwalk side patio would not allow dogs if the bill passed.
“In our experience some people have phobias of dogs and might not want to have them around while drinking or eating,” Feickert said.
“There‘s also the risk for an accident with servers walking around carrying food and drinks.”
Donna Abbott, communications manager for the Town of Ocean City, said if the bill passed, business owners would likely have to approach the City Council about Boardwalk access for pets.
One tourist to Ocean City, Rhonda Gresham of Chesapeake, Va., said she and her husband sometimes take their Yorkshire terrier, Lacy Lou, to Rehoboth since she finds it more pet-friendly.
“Ocean City has lost my travel money in the past,” Treuth said. “I plan my vacation around Lacy Lou and I would love to see more pet-friendly.
Source; oceancitytoday.news http://www.oceancitytoday.net/news/2011-04-08/Top_News/If_passed_law_would_allow_pooches_on_restaurant_pa.html
Labels: doggy dining, house of delegates, Ocean City
Grader Shed Fire In Nelsonia
Fire completely destroyed an old grader shed in Nelsonia late Thursday afternoon. Fire fighters from Bloxom, Atlantic, Onancock, Parksley, Tasley and Onley responded to the call at approximately 5 PM.
The grader shed located behind Affordable Auto Sales in Nelsonia was fully involved and destroyed.
Firefighters were successful in keeping the fire from spreading to adjucent structures which included the car sales facility and a former lumber business.
No cause for the fire has been reported.
Source; shoredailynews.com
Labels: Accomack County
Mason Pleads Guilty To Negligent Homicide
SNOW HILL -- Sobs could be heard from all sides of the courtroom, including the defense table, as Hunter Lee Stonnell's parents talked about how their lives have changed since the death of their son.
The parents spoke after Jesse James Mason, the man charged in the death of 21-year-old Stonnell, pleaded guilty to homicide by motor vehicle while impaired.
Mason, 23, was charged last September after Stonnell was killed trying to prevent Mason from driving drunk. Witnesses told police Stonnell had grabbed the side of Mason's white Ford pickup truck, attempting to prevent him from driving, when he was thrown from the vehicle.
Mason later told police he heard Stonnell's head hit the pavement and knew he was injured, but drove home anyway from the parking lot on Market Street in Pocomoke City.
"Nobody who knew him called 911 ... a stranger called 911," said Malcolm Stonnell, the victim's father.
Court records and witness statements indicate Mason's wife and his father were in the parking lot when Stonnell was injured.
"How do you drive past someone who is dying?" asked mother Belinda Ann Stonnell, looking directly at Mason.
Before he spoke, Malcolm Stonnell placed a framed 8-by-10-inch photograph of his son on the defense table, facing Mason.
"Since the death of my son I have cried every day," he said.
Malcolm Stonnell also criticized a former state's attorney in his remarks but did not mention him by name.
In a brief interview, Joel Todd, who was the Worcester County state's attorney when the death occurred, said Mason's defense attorney, Cathi Coates, is the sister-in-law of Bryan Randall Coates, who was a treasurer for Todd in several campaigns.
Mason's prosecution in Circuit Court was handled by current State's Attorney Beau Oglesby, who defeated Todd in last fall's elections.
Malcolm and Belinda Stonnell described their son as a caring young man who liked to help others. He graduated from Crisfield High School in 2007 and was working as a heavy equipment operator with the Vulcan Materials Co. in Pocomoke City.
"I want the courts to show you as much compassion as you and your family showed to my son on Sept. 10," Belinda Stonnell said to Mason.
As part of the plea agreement, Mason could serve a maximum of three years in prison, with a request by the state's attorney's office for him to serve 18 months of active incarceration.
Mason has two previous alcohol-related charges in Worcester County on his court record, including one in February 2006 for possession of an intoxicating beverage under the age of 21 and one in September 2006 for possession of an alcoholic beverage under the age of 21. In both cases he pleaded guilty and paid court imposed fines.
Coates requested time for a presentencing investigation, which was granted. Mason will likely be sentenced in about 60 days.
Labels: Drunk Driving, Eastern Shore, Pocomoke city
At The Hop!
BILLBOARD Magazine, April 20. 1957 ..."Little Georgie" Hack, WBOC, Salisbury, Md., is now emceeing three weekly record hops and is anxious to line up record artists as guests.
George also hosted a weekly teen dance program on Saturday afternoons televised live from the WBOC-TV studio. When Dick Clark made a benefit appearance in Salisbury he and George were in the spotlight together at a teen dance held in the Armory. As George recalls it Clark came to Salisbury to raise funds for the tennis courts at Wicomico Middle School at the request of Clark's wife whose aunt was a principal or vice principal at the school.
In the late 1940's the parents of Dick Clark's girlfriend, Babrara Mallery, moved to Salisbury from Syracuse, NY. She attended Salisbury State College for a couple of years before transferring to another college. Clark was working at WFIL in Philadelphia at the time and made frequent trips to Salisbury to visit Barbara. As referenced in the book "American Bandstand"...which necessitated what Clark described as seventeen-hour "sheer suicide" motor trips in his heaterless '34 Ford convertible in the dead of winter. They married in 1952; divorced in 1961.
The Pier Ball Room in Ocean City was the location for many teen record hops. In the late 1950's Baltimore's popular disc jockey Buddy Dean held hops there every Friday and Saturday night. The town of Ocean City leased the Pier building for teen dancing nightly except Sunday during the summer. Dean hosted a teen dance program on Baltimore TV for six years. In the early 1960's WJDY's Johnny Williams was doing seven hops a week at the Pier. In the areas around Pocomoke City it wasn't a record hop but a "Chop Hop" that teens looked forward to, hosted by WDVM'S (later WDMV) Choppy Layton.
Contributed by Terry Kleger of Salisbury. terrykleger@yahoo.com
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Don't Forget The Chincoteague Daffodil Festival This Weekend
Labels: Eastern Shore, Eastern Shore of Virginia Tourism Commission
April Meeting ~~
Mayor and City Council Meeting.
The meeting will begin Monday, April 11, 2011
at 7:30pm
101 Clarke Avenue
Pocomoke City, Maryland
Labels: Eastern Shore, Mayor and Council, Pocomoke city
Announcement Made For Preferred Hospital Location
Riverside's evaluation of and due diligence on two properties revealed that a 55acre parcel on Market Street behind Four Corners Plaza will best meet the needs for building a new hospital.
Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital (RSMH) has applied to the Virginia Department of Health for a Certificate of Public Need to relocate the inpatient hospital in an area defined by the local Board of Directors as "between Keller and Parksley". RSMH's evaluation team and its local Board chose this site as the best location from which to serve the medical needs of all the citizens on the Virginia Eastern Shore in the decades to come.
"From this location we will be positioned to serve the entire Eastern Shore community well into the future. We chose the location because of its ease of access from Route 13 and its proximity to the center of population in our service area," said Joseph P. Zager, Administrator of RSMH.
Riverside is planning to convert the Nassawadox campus to an ambulatory healthcare complex. In keeping with the trend toward outpatient care, the current hospital campus is planned to include: urgent care, diagnostic imaging services, laboratory services, rehabilitation services and a strong physician presence.
Labels: local news, Virginia
JUDGEMENTS - Accomack Circuit Court
Nancy Drury Duncan
ACCOMAC -- Colestino Cruz Aguilar, 39, of Exmore entered a guilty plea in Accomack Circuit Court to leaving the scene of an accident and causing property damage in an amount greater than $1,000.
According to evidence offered by Common- wealth's Attorney Gary Agar, Aguilar was driving in the parking lot of Four Corner Plaza when he struck another car. He continued driving around the area and was quickly apprehended by police. A witness identified the driver and told police.
Aguilar had "obviously been drinking," Agar said.
He was sentenced to three years with all time suspended on condition of good behavior. Aguilar will continue to be held in jail at the commonwealth's request, to await deportation as a result of his felony conviction.
Tyron Grant Sr., 23, of Belle Haven, convicted of burglary and grand larceny and sentenced to three years of probation last October, was back in court for violating the terms of that probation, which included community service and payment of restitution to his victims.
Commonwealth's Attorney Gary Agar detailed what he said were Grant's egregious failures to comply. "His probation officer drove him to the Virginia Employment Commision office because he said he had no transportation," Agar said. "When the probation officer later found out he had not applied for a job while there, he asked why. Grant told him the line was too long and he didn't want to wait."
"This is not New York here," Agar told the court. "There were only two people in line ahead of Grant."
On another occasion, Agar said, Grant was to attend an Employment Commission clinic. He was telephoned and reminded each day for several days leading up to the date of the clinic that he must be there.
He was asked of he needed transportation, said Agar. Grant assured his probation officer he would be there and that he had a ride to get there. When he did not attend, Grant told his probation officer he had no way to get there. Agar told the court that the man had been given bus passes to use to get there if he could not find a ride.
Agar detailed also Grant's lack of fulfillment of his community service requirement.
"He was supposed to do 100 hours of community service," said Agar. "He was supposed to pick up trash on the road. He said he was doing it, but when the bags were checked, they were found to contain only Grant's household trash."
"Mr. Grant has some limited abilities," said defense attorney Theresa Bliss. "He just can't follow through. He needs additional monitoring,"
"I believe we need to wake you up," said Circuit Judge Edward W. Hanson Jr. He ordered Grant to serve 30 days in jail and re-suspended the remainder of the sentence.
Cathy Jones, 45, of Onancock was sentenced to 15 years for four counts of welfare fraud and a bad check charge. The time was suspended on condition of her successful completion of Virginia's Detention and Diversion programs. She will be required to pay restitution.
She was originally eligible for food stamps, but failed to inform authorities when her two daughters went to work, which made her ineligible, said defense attorney Patrick Robbins.
"We generally consider these pretty serious cases," said Common- wealth's Attorney Gary Agar. "The system is set up to help people in need. This is not the first time she committed welfare fraud."
Agar told the court that Jones had been incarcerated seven separate times. "There are nine noteworthy crimes in the presentence report," he said. "She needs to stay off drugs."
He said she owed more than $3,500 for these crimes in addition to more than $5,500 already owed to the general district court.
Robbins was able to convince the court delay her incarceration for several days so Jones "could make arrangements for her six-year-old son and put her furniture in storage."
Sidney Cottman, 34, of Eden, Md., will serve 21 years in a penitentiary for armed robbery and armed burglary in connection with the robberies of three local convenience stores.
Commonwealth's Attorney Gary Agar asked for a long sentence in light of Cottman's past violent history. "He was expelled from school in the 11th grade because he assaulted the superintendent of schools," he said. "He was fired from his last job for threatening the line boss at Tyson Foods."
"There are a lot of armed robberies around here. If you run out of gas on Route 13, my recommendation would be that you leave your car and walk home. Don't go to a convenience store around here."
"What are we going to do with this guy when we are so threatened here in our convenience stores?" asked Agar.
Agar told the court that Cottman was $8,000 in arrears in child support payments and that he had had past probations revoked for drug use.
Defense attorney Garrett Dunham told the court that his client was, "a polite individual" and said Cottman had been cooperative and truthful throughout the investigation.
"I've never seen someone so polite with these charges," Dunham said. He told the court that Cottman took steps to make sure he didn't hurt anyone by taking the pin out of the firearm.
Evidence was presented by the Commonwealth that Cottman held a shotgun on the store clerks as they were robbed.
Malicious maiming
Shakeva Matthews, 23, of Keller, charged with malicious maiming, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of unlawful wounding.
Commonwealth's Attorney Gary Agar described the circumstance to the court. "Everyone was drinking and the defendant was assaulting her twin sister with a serrated butcher knife, according to a witness."
The incident occurred in a residence near Wachapreague, he said.
The stabbing victim, who he said was presently incarcerated as a result of another issue, received one stab wound in the back while trying to pull the twins apart.
Defense attorney Sharri Mapp asked the court to sentence her client on the spot but the judge asked that a presentence report be prepared as Agar described Matthews as having "a positive criminal history."
Indecent liberties
A presentence report was ordered for a 75-year-old man who pleaded guilty to carnal knowledge and indecent liberties with a child who is now a young adult. John Robbins of Onancock was allowed to remain free on bond. The illegal activity occurred during a period of several years and ended in 2009.
Defense attorney Tom Northam made that request, saying that his client worked in a seafood business in Washington, D.C., and that he had a heart condition and breathing issues.
Source; delmarvanow.com http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20110406/ESN01/104060341/Accomack-Circuit-Court-hands-down-judgments?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Eastern Shore News|s
Labels: Accomack County, crime, local news
Gumboro MudBog
The mudbog scheduled for this Saturday, April 9th has been RESCHEDULED.
First races of the season have been rescheduled for SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2011.
Labels: gumboro mud bog, mud sports
Arrest Made In Murder Case
The Daily Times is reporting this morning that an arrest has been made in the murder of Whitney Bennett
Sharahn D. Boykin
MANOKIN -- William Alexander Hill, a 23-year-old Fruitland resident, allegedly confessed to the murder of a missing Delaware woman who was recently found dead after a four-month search, according to court documents.
Whitney Lynn Bennett's body was located Friday after an unidentified source contacted Maryland State Police investigators and reported she had been buried on the 29000 block of Pond Run Drive, according to charging documents.
Two other men were charged Saturday with being an accessory after a crime was committed.
Complete story; delmarvanow.com http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20110407/NEWS01/104070375/Man-allegedly-confesses-murder?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|frontpage
Labels: Eastern Shore, murder
-Press Release - Delegate Mike McDermott
Apr. 6th, 2011
Not Even One…
Today, the House deliberated HB-71, the Capital Bond Budget, which came in with a near billion dollar price tag. This bill contains all of the projects that the state is appropriating money towards during the coming fiscal year. Many are ongoing such as major roads or building construction measured in the tens of millions, while just as many are small projects coming in under $100,000.00. To be sure, most are very worthy of support. Our problem is, we are out of money.
Much of this Capital Budget is being funded on transfers from, so called, “trust” funds and is banking on a very optimistic economic forecast which remains to be seen. The Department of Legislative Services (those charged with providing statistics and crafting legislation for the General Assembly) made it clear that they wanted to see reductions of $100 million from the current proposal of $925 million. This could have been achieved in a variety of ways, but the committee elected to keep the spending higher and send it to the floor.
The Republican Caucus offered several amendments to cut spending on this bill. I offered the first amendment which would have cut overall spending in each budgeted category by 5%. Conversely, it would have maintained all projects at 95% of the funding level which is more than fair. It would have reduced the overall Capital Budget by $45 million. This was rejected on a party line vote.
We then offered an amendment to reduce spending by 3% overall. This would have saved $27 million. Hardly a big deal, but this too was rejected largely along party lines.
Holding our breath and asking for some consideration, we offered our last amendment which would have only reduced spending by 1%. Unbelievably, this too was rejected out of hand as being simply too drastic a measure. The bottom line, a project to build a “dark room” at a Baltimore High School which was funded at $40,000.00 in this budget would have only been reduced by $400.00, and we could not even get them to agree to make this minor cut.
At a time when our General Assembly should be performing triage in determining funding needs, we continue to treat scratches with the same necessity as we do amputations. Reluctant to believe the truth, the crafters and leadership of the ruling party say they are “optimistic” and actually stated that our real estate prices have stabilized in the state. They made this statement despite all evidence to the contrary. The Eastern Shore is wrestling with falling home prices and assessments which are swiftly diminishing the local government coffers, further straining services. In fact, this is happening all over the state, but those calling the shots are not taking heed.
I think it is also note worthy that the Tea Party Caucus (made up of 23 House Republican members) offered an amendment as well which would have simply stripped the $15 million in local bond bills from the Capital Budget. That would amount to about a 1.5% reduction in spending. This particular area of spending was the subject of a resolution made by the Tea Party Caucus and the House Republican Caucus to not accept, or apply for, any of these bond projects. This amendment, and the subsequent vote, represents those making good on this commitment. How can we go home, look our citizens in the eye, and tell them we listened to them last year when they told us to get our fiscal house in order if we did not vote in favor of these reductions?
In any school or college I ever attended, a 99%, 97%, or 95% were all solid “A’s” of which I could be proud. Yet, even offering the ruling party this level of funding for all of these projects was deemed punitive and unfair. What will they say to our citizens when the State Property Tax must be raised to cover their credit card spending? What happens when our revenue estimates fall below projected rates? What will they say?
When it comes to our budget, the sky is not falling; rather, the ground is opening up.
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Labels: Ballet Maryland, Delegate Mike McDermott
Beheaded bald eagle found in Franklin Parish ditch
WINNSBORO, La. -- State and federal wildlife officials are looking for a person who beheaded a bald eagle in Franklin Parish and left the bird in a ditch.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are offering rewards totaling $2,000 for help in finding whoever did it.
Agents believe the eagle was shot a couple of days before it was found Sunday, on a tip from someone in the area.
"It had an entry and an exit" wound, Capt. Alan Bankston, the state agency's regional enforcement head for the Monroe area, said Tuesday. "We believe that it was in fact shot. But we can't verify that."
It's at least the fifth bald eagle killed this year. Bald eagles shot earlier this year were found Jan. 8 in Letts, Iowa; in late February in Pikeville, Tenn.; March 8 east of Crossville, Tenn.; and in late March in Wise, N.C.
A federal lab will do a necropsy on the eagle to determine cause of death, Bankston said.
"To see any protected animal decapitated in a ditch is disheartening enough, let alone the animal that represents our symbol of freedom," Bankston said.
He said the killing doesn't seem to have been done to sell on the black market because the talons, wing and tail feathers were intact.
Killing or beheading the eagle could be charges under the federal Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Felony conviction for breaking either law can bring up to a $250,000 fine and two years in prison.
Anyone with information should call Louisiana's Operation Game Thief Hotline at 1-800-442-2511.
Federal Laws that Protect Bald Eagles Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act
VIA: WWLTV.com
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I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'
- Eleanor Roosevelt
~Pocomoke Election Winners~
Maybe the weather had alot to do with the turnout at the polls yesterday in Pocomoke for the election but enough voted to show their support for Bruce Morrison and Don Malloy!
Bruce Morrison won the election with a total of 505 votes. Lynn Duffy ended the election with 97.
In the race for Councilman in District 3, Don Malloy received a total of 67 votes. Bobby Brittingham received 47 votes.
No word on how many absentee votes there were, if any. More information will probably come to us later today.
Congratulations to Mayor elect Bruce Morrison and Councilman elect Donald Malloy.
And to Bobby Brittingham and Lynn Duffy: I would just like to say that the ideas each of you have for making Pocomoke a better place are wonderful ideas. It is my truest hope that even though you were defeated you will continue to use those same ideas so that somewhere they may be put to good use if needed. You may not have a seat on the council or be the next Mayor but you still have voices and ideas that can be presented.
Good luck to both of you.
And if either of want to send a message to the people of Pocomoke send it to me and I'll get it posted for you.
Congratulations Bruce and Don!
Labels: Bruce Morrison, Don Malloy, Eastern Shore, Election, Pocomoke city
Wal*Mart Empty Shelves?
I left the polling place tonight and I needed a few things from Wal*Mart so I headed straight to the store. When I arrived nothing looked unusual in fact the parking lot looked a little skinny.
Well now when I went into the store it was a different story, the first clue was that the deli was closed up tight, they even had lights turned off that normally stay on. Then they didn't have the first item that I was shopping for, then the second, third, forth, wait a minuet... where's all the groceries? The customers were complaining and I heard talk of going to Food Lion from more than one couple.
Wal*Mart was out of everything, it couldn't be the weather and food stamps don't come out until tomorrow. So I don't know what's going on with Wal*Mart today, if they are clearing shelves for taking inventory or what but if you need anything it's likely you'll not find it at Wal*Mart today and that means that they will be PACKED tomorrow.
Posted by The Public Eye at 10:28 PM 1 comment:
POCOMOKE CITY ELECTION RESULTS
UNOFFICIAL POCOMOKE ELECTION RESULTS:
MAYOR* Bruce Morrison — 505
* Lynn Duffy — 97
* Frank Ward — 57
DISTRICT 3 COUNCIL SEAT
* Donald Malloy — 67
* Bobby Brittingham — 47
source; delmarvanow.com http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20110405/NEWS01/110405042/POCOMOKE-Morrison-Malloy-win-city-election?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|frontpage
Labels: elections, Pocomoke city
Legislative Updates By Delegate Mike McDermott
Observations and Reflections on Legislative Activities
On Monday, the House voted on the following bills for Third Reader:
HB 291, HB 1150, HB 1180, HB 1209, HB 1225, HB 1233, HB 1242, HB 1245, HB 975, HB 1033, HB 1038, HB 1039, HB 1092, HB 1113, HB 1135, HB 1143, HB 364, HB 398, HB 461, HB 520, HB 534, HB 539, HB 604, HB 689, HB 62, HB 115, HB 148, HB 700, HB 858, HB 938, HB 943, HB 954, HB 160, HB 166, HB 170, HB 258, HB 262, HB 270, HB 285, HB 1254
On Tuesday, the House voted on the following bills for Third Reader:
Third Reading Calendar (House Bills) #64
HB 715, HB 807, HB 1005, HB 1181, HB 1304
On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee reviewed the following senate bills which have crossed over and have identical House Bills which have already been reviewed: SB-172, SB-299, SB-500, SB-511, SB-747. These bills will move quickly to the full House for 2nd and 3rd Reader if the House version has already passed. If the House version was unfavorable in Committee, the same will be applied to the senate bill.
At the same hearing, the following senate bills were reviewed having no cross filed bill in the House:
1. SB-61: Would allow greater access by the Department of Juvenile Services to court related documents such as Charging Documents and Arrest Warrants. It will allow them to release relevant information to a victim or witness of a crime which the department may possess.
2. SB-66: Seeks to repeal the requirement that a public safety agency report to the state the release of a person who was detained and then released without charges. The idea behind this bill being to minimize the impact of a person’s detainment if they are ultimately released without charges.
3. SB-218: Seeks to extend the Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights to sworn members of the Internal Investigative Unit of the Department of Corrections. Currently, this group (approximately 24 officers) has not been listed with those officers covered under the statute.
4. SB-673: Allows for the payment of attorney’s fees from an estate under certain circumstances without the need to have the payment approved by the court.
On Wednesday morning, I met with some Republicans involved with the Capital Bond Budget (HB-71) for the purpose of reviewing the myriad of requests which presently total just under a billion dollars. The committee did not make significant cuts in this area and it represents a significant amount of created state debt that our state can ill afford. It appears that we will take the bill up at the beginning of next week. I plan on offering some amendments in an effort to reduce spending in the overall plan.
On Wednesday, the House voted on the following bills for Third Reader:
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee reviewed the following senate bills which have crossed over and have identical House Bills which have already been reviewed: SB-247, SB-327, SB-333, SB-342, SB-362, SB-411, SB-593, SB-652, SB-768, SB-803. These bills will move quickly to the full House for 2nd and 3rd Reader if the House version has already passed. If the House version was unfavorable in Committee, the same will be applied to the senate bill.
1. SB-62: Which would require a greater degree of cooperation between the Departments of Education and Juvenile Services as it relates to sharing of information as required under certain circumstances.
2. SB-169: Seeks to expand the definition of a debtor’s protected residence under bankruptcy laws to include a condominium and a shared property such as a duplex.
3. SB-281: Would change the requirements of an Orphan’s Court Judge in Baltimore and Prince George’s Counties to include admission in the Maryland State Bar Association. We heard a bill similar to this previously that was voted down.
4. SB-599: Would require insurance carriers under certain circumstances to divulge the amount of insurance coverage limits that exist for a policy holder prior to trial. It is thought that this may reduce litigation actions.
On Wednesday evening, I attended our annual Judiciary Committee dinner. Both Speaker Bush and Governor O’Malley came by to say hello and address the committee. During his comments, it became apparent that the Governor was a little perturbed by some of my recent press articles published on the shore which have been critical of some of his administration policy objectives. He called me out on it and jokingly told Chairman Vallario to “take away Delegate McDermott’s computer”. Working for the Eastern shore, and specifically my district, means I will often take exception to the governor’s proposals. I am currently working with him on a wind proposal that makes sense for rural Maryland, while at the same time opposing his “Big Wind” project as it has been presented. I pay attention to the Governor, and I am glad he is paying attention to the Eastern Shore.
On Thursday, the House voted on the following bills for Third Reader:
HB 757, HB 758
On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee reviewed the following senate bills which have crossed over and have identical House Bills which have already been reviewed: SB-112, SB-115, SB-174, SB-178, SB-278, SB-457, SB-480, SB-529, SB-531, SB-696. These bills will move quickly to the full House for 2nd and 3rd Reader if the House version has already passed. If the House version was unfavorable in Committee, the same will be applied to the senate bill.
At the same hearing, the following senate bill was reviewed having no cross filed bill in the House:
1. SB-374: Seeks clarifying language in an existing law dealing with Grand Jury Investigations in Baltimore City. Does not change the substance of the law.
On Friday, the House voted on the following bills for Third Reader:
HB 1279, SB 44, SB 84, SB 89, SB 90, SB 93, SB 144,SB 202, SB 203, SB 255, SB 416, SB 428, SB 682, SB 61, SB 66, SB 172, SB 299, SB 511, SB 673
Next week will be the final push. The billion dollar Capital budget (HB-71) will be challenged and we could see the “Dream Act” (illegal alien in-state tuition), the Governor’s “Big Wind” and “Septic Ban” still find their way to the floor. Pay particular attention this week as the votes fly.
Labels: Delegate Mike McDermott, Eastern Shore, Maryland
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Sitka’s New Bear Cub Settles In
Rachel Waldholz, Alaska's Energy Desk - Anchorage
Les Kinnear, who runs Fortress of the Bear, feeds the 9-month-old black bear cub by hand. Photo by Rachel Waldholz, KCAW – Sitka.
The orphaned black bear cub who recently became famous in the virtual world is settling into her new home in the real world. Over 300,000 people viewed Smokey’s story on Facebook when she was captured two weeks ago in Seward. Now, Sitka’s bear habitat, the Fortress of the Bear, is writing her next chapter.
At the Fortress of the Bear, Les Kinnear leads the way into a dark shipping container. Inside, light shines in through just a few holes. At the back is a metal mesh fence.
Behind that fence is another wire enclosure, with a thick bed of straw and a dog crate in the corner. And poking her head out of the crate is Smokey the bear, the 9-month old bear cub who is the Fortress’s newest, and youngest resident.
Kinnear runs the Fortress of the Bear with his wife, Evy. He settles down in the straw with a bucket of apple bits and dog kibble, and begins feeding the bear cub by hand.
“The fun part is teaching her that there’s enough food for her now, that she does not have to panic and eat everything at once,” Kinnear says. “So we come in here a couple times a day, and sit in here, and work with her.”
Smokey is currently the habitat’s only black bear. Photo by Rachel Waldholz, KCAW – Sitka.
Little Smokey takes every bite as fast as he will hand it to her. She’s the size of a spaniel, with a thick coat that makes her look much bigger than her 25 lbs. Her face is all snout. If you shaved her, Kinnear says, she’d look like a chihuahua.
The bear cub arrived at the Fortress of the Bear last Friday. She was captured two weeks ago in Seward, where staff at the Spring Creek Correctional Center found her in the space used for smoking breaks – hence her name, which Kinnear says she’ll be keeping.
“They said she was eating cigarette butts and candy wrappers off the floor, when she was captured,” Kinnear says. “Her mother had been dead several days. And they had scheduled to kill her.”
The cub was a minor internet sensation after an organization called Angels for Animals posted a photo of her on their Facebook page, along with contact information for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Angels for Animals says the post reached 300,000 people, and the Department of Fish and Game was inundated with messages begging them not to euthanize the cub.
The Kinnears volunteered to take Smokey – and it’s a big undertaking. Now that she’s here, she’s here for life – she can’t be released back into the wild, and black bears can live up to 20 years in captivity, Kinnear says. This winter, the Fortress will have to build a new, separate enclosure to house her – the habitat’s existing two structures house five brown bears, and wouldn’t be safe or big enough. Kinnear expects to get a second black bear cub from Fish and Game soon, to keep her company.
For now, the cub seems content in her temporary digs: she has her head entirely inside the bucket, finishing off the apple and kibble.
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Rachel Waldholz covers energy and the environment for Alaska's Energy Desk, a collaboration between Alaska Public Media, KTOO in Juneau and KUCB in Unalaska. Before coming to Anchorage, she spent two years reporting for Raven Radio in Sitka. Rachel studied documentary production at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and her short film, A Confused War won several awards. Her work has appeared on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Marketplace, among other outlets. rwaldholz (at) alaskapublic (dot) org | 907.550.8432 | About Rachel
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