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The monster within —
Horror film Jennifer’s Body bombed 10 years ago; now it’s a cult classic
Bad "sexy teen slasher" marketing buried this multi-layered tale of toxic female friendship.
Jennifer Ouellette - Sep 21, 2019 1:10 pm UTC
Enlarge / Megan Fox starred in the 2009 film Jennifer's Body. It underperformed at the box office, but has since become a horror cult classic.
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Typically, when we think of cult classic films and TV series that get a second lease on life via VHS, DVD, or streaming, we think of a nerd's club of mostly boys: Blade Runner, Office Space, Freaks and Geeks, and so on. There are obviously exceptions, and this weekend marks one of the the best ones in the horror space: the 10th anniversary of the criminally misunderstood Jennifer's Body.
This 2009 film, penned by Diablo Cody and starring Megan Fox, has prompted lots of fond reminiscences from cast and crew recently, as well as several glowing tributes. That's quite a shift from the film's debut, when Jennifer's Body received decidedly mixed reviews and underperformed at the box office. Count me among those who have long appreciated this smartly subversive, multi-layered horror/fairy tale about toxic female friendship.
(Major spoilers for the film below, because it's been 10 years, people.)
Anita "Needy" Lesnicki (Amanda Seyfried) is a shy, nerdy "nice girl" in the small town of Devil's Kettle. Her best friend since childhood is inexplicably the gorgeous cheerleader Jennifer Check (Megan Fox). "Mean girl" Jennifer drags Needy to a local bar dive bar one night to see an indie band called Low Shoulder; she has designs on the lead singer, Nikolai (Adam Brody). After a fire destroys the club and many of its patrons, Jennifer (still in shock) numbly agrees to drive off with the band in their van, against Needy's protests.
When Jennifer shows up at Needy's house hours later, she is covered in blood and vomits a black fluid over the kitchen floor, before running out into the night.
The next day, Jennifer seems like her usual selfish, callous self. But soon high school boys start showing up ripped to shreds and partially devoured. Jennifer has become a succubus who must consume human flesh to feed the demon within, thanks to a Satanic ritual gone wrong. (Low Shoulder needed to sacrifice a virgin in exchange for fame and fortune, and, well, Jennifer hasn't been a virgin since junior high.) Needy must face the fact that her best friend is a monster, and it's up to her to take Jennifer down before she chows down on more boys—like Needy's own boyfriend, Chip (Johnny Simmons).
So much subtext
So much more is going on in Jennifer's Body than its basic premise might suggest. Screenwriter Cody deliberately set out to make a horror film that honored the conventions while upending them in interesting ways. She started with the character of Jennifer, who would typically be the doomed "First Girl" in your average slasher film: beautiful, bitchy, promiscuous, and flushed with the power she thinks her sexuality confers.
She is victimized, thanks to the members of Low Shoulder, who brutally stab her to death in the woods while singing "867-5309/Jenny." The twist is that she doesn't stay dead, using those same seductive wiles to lure unsuspecting young men to their gruesome deaths—none of whom, it must be said, really deserve that fate.
This pretty much captures the initial dynamic between Needy (Amanda Seyfried) and Jennifer (Megan Fox).
Jennifer has fruit-punch mouth.
A succubus about to feed is not a pretty sight.
Needy has an alarming vision of Jennifer.
Jennifer tells Needy the truth about what happened to her that night.
The infamous kiss.
Snacking on Chip.
A hardened, wiser Needy.
Needy is also an atypical Final Girl. Scream reminded us all about the importance of virginity if a young woman is to survive a slasher film, but Needy and Chip have a normal, healthy sexual relationship, so that ship has long since sailed.
The script's humor is subtle and muted, and the teen slang has a nastier edge compared to many other comic horror films. While we get the requisite jump scares and gore galore, the film's best moments typically occur in the quiet interludes in between: the sweetly awkward sex scene between Chip and Needy, for instance, or the impassioned graveside rant by the grief-stricken mother of one of Jennifer's victims—not to mention the film's clever use of the ending credits to deliver one final twist.
Jennifer's Body premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2009 and hit North American theaters on September 18 that same year. Alas, critical reviews were mixed, and audiences didn't flock to theaters in nearly the numbers the studio had hoped for. The film grossed about $31.5 million worldwide against a $16 million budget—not a total box office bomb, but hardly a breakout hit. That led to a great deal of handwringing over what had gone so wrong.
All the elements for success were there, including a major star at the peak of her sex-symbol fame and an Oscar-winning writer penning the script. Was it because Megan Fox couldn't open a movie? (It's hands-down Fox's best performance.) Was it because the film was marketed to teens yet rated "R"? Or was it just a bad box office weekend overall? (The number one film that weekend was Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, with around $30 million.)
Certainly, the marketing was tonally at odds with the film from the get-go. Cody has lamented that the studio specifically targeted boys who were fans of Fox because of the first two Transformer films, when she had intended it to appeal just as much to girls. Cody has a valid point, judging by the original trailer:
Original trailer for Jennifer's Body.
The film's poster, featuring a tarted-up Fox in a schoolgirl's uniform, perched on the teacher's desk with the words "Hell yes!" scrawled on the chalkboard, didn't help matters. The trailer and poster made the film look like just another teen slasher B-movie, with the stereotypical high school hot girl as a murderous monster targeting horny teenaged boys, plus a bit of girl-on-girl action for some extra gratuitous titillation. There is none of the sly humor and sharp dialogue that makes Jennifer's Body such a nerdilicious delight, and there is no indication of just how well the film handles the intense and complicated relationship between Jennifer and Needy.
Even at the start of the film, they border on "frenemies," calling each other "Monistat" and "Vagisil." When Needy playfully punches Jennifer's arm for making a crude sexual joke, Jennifer responds by shoving Needy violently into a wall—a hint of things to come. We also get a sense of why Jennifer hangs out with Needy, who is pretty but not so much that she will ever upstage Jennifer. Needy, of course, idolizes her glamorous friend, but there's also a hint of worry whenever Jennifer mentions Chip.
Chip is the one thing Needy has that Jennifer doesn't, and that simmering tension and competitiveness boils to the surface after Jennifer's transformation. She targets emo-Goth guy Colin (Kyle Gallner) solely because Needy thinks he's cool, and it's only a matter of time before she goes after Chip. That's when we see how empty and insecure Jennifer—the girl behind the monster—really is, demanding Chip tell her she's better than Needy when they kiss. It adds yet another dimension to the girls' twisted relationship. As for that infamous same-sex kiss in Needy's bedroom, the way it plays out in context is far less gratuitous than the trailer makes it seem.
Patience and time
At some point over the last 10 years, people began rediscovering Jennifer's Body via DVD/Blu-Ray and streaming services. And the narrative surrounding the film slowly started to shift; it's now being touted as an iconic feminist horror cult classic. (Fox also starred in the 2010 critical and box office failure, Jonah Hex, based on the DC Comics antihero, which did not experience the same redemptive arc—probably because it is a genuinely bad movie.)
I might quibble with those who interpret Jennifer's Body as a straight-up #MeToo era revenge fantasy about female empowerment. Needy and Jennifer's friendship is clearly the primary driver and the power dynamics are constantly shifting between them. And apart from the evil band members, male characters are treated sympathetically. But it's very much a thinking person's horror film, and I'm pleased that more folks are starting to appreciate just how twisted and clever Jennifer's Body actually is.
Jennifer Ouellette Jennifer Ouellette is a senior writer at Ars Technica with a particular focus on where science meets culture, covering everything from physics and related interdisciplinary topics to her favorite films and TV series. Jennifer lives in Los Angeles.
Email jennifer.ouellette@arstechnica.com // Twitter @JenLucPiquant
terry1978 Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
reply Sat Sep 21, 2019 8:27 am
Is it? I know when it came out we all just saw it as a vehicle for Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried was nowhere near her popularity at that time.
maevo Smack-Fu Master, in training
It's a bad movie with nothing new.
Netguru Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
My wife and I love this movie. It's one of the first movies I ripped for my JRiver media center HTPC. I personally thought it was a very unique horror story that was entertaining when so many other horror movies are shyte. Apparently opinions differ quite a bit with this movie.
Ignus Fast Ars Centurion et Subscriptor
The quirky writing by Diablo Cody is what sets it apart. Reminds me of the touch that Joss Whedon has with his own characters (though he's not as successful outside his own universe).
312 posts | registered Oct 4, 2004
Nick_L Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
'ago'
Here, I think you dropped this.
194 posts | registered Feb 9, 2010
earthlingkc Ars Scholae Palatinae
Is curious to see directions Ars is willing to go with the transition from GenXr's to Millennials.
BTW, this didn't seem to do too well with Rotten Tomato or IMDB viewers...
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/jennifers-body
873 posts | registered Nov 13, 2012
Fred Duck Ars Scholae Palatinae
Alas, critical reviews were mixed, and audiences didn't flock to theaters in nearly the numbers the studio had hoped for.
While I appreciate the avian-themed terminology, when was the last time a horror film brought moviegoers to the cinema in droves? It's not like the western, which oversaturated its market and died. With its poking of cows and slinging of guns, it's more socially acceptable than high schooler possession murder time and as such, can be revived at regular intervals.
I'm not big into the cinema. The last motion picture extravaganza I saw on the silver screen was The LEGO Movie. (Everything is awesome! Da da da daaaa!) However, when do trailers ever accurately reflect the actual content of a talkie? Judging by the trailer for Master of Disguise, I expected it to be "a roller-coaster of a good time," "non-stop thrills," and "a moving period piece full of sentiment and this is the wrong quote." Instead, it was very few of those things and I prefer watching the trailer to the full picture.
Hort Ars Centurion
Fred Duck wrote:
While I appreciate the avian-themed terminology, when was the last time a horror film brought moviegoers to the cinema in droves?
These days- almost annually- "IT" raked in over $300 million and the just recently released sequel has already grossed more than $160 million.
Last year The Nun was generally considered a critical and fan failure and still grossed $118 million.
There's pretty much one or two every year that fill the theaters, at least for the release weekend.
charles222 Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
reply Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:14 am
This had better be as good as it sounds or AT will be receiving a bill for a 4 dollar iTunes rental ;p
Triplehammer Smack-Fu Master, in training
Who would classify a ten year old movie as "#MeToo era"?
46 posts | registered Aug 6, 2019
Besides the already-mentioned IT- The Witch made forty million dollars on a 4 million budget.
if you include cosmic horror, Prometheus grossed nearly half a billion dollars.
Get Out made 176 million on a 4.5 million budget.
Halloween 2018 made 255 million on a 10 million budget with two sequels planned.
Saw spawned six freaking sequels during the 00s.
Scream had 2 or three in the 90s.
And now for the 80s: The Nightmare franchise saw a movie nearly every year from 1984 to 1990.
Rockchurch Ars Centurion
Oh man, Jennifer’s Body was such an unexpected surprise. Marketed like any other scarefest, but it’s actually whip-smart and deadly funny.
Check your preconceptions at the door and prepare to be delighted!
smistephen Ars Praetorian et Subscriptor
I remember Megan Fox doing a deadpan promo for the movie, stating that its message was "always be who you are, even if who you are is a murderous succubus".
Thr2hrmrf Ars Centurion
I saw Jennifers Body, even have the blu-ray in our library. It wasn't such a bad movie. Could it have been better? Yes, it could have been better but it was actually pretty good anyway.
Last edited by Thr2hrmrf on Sat Sep 21, 2019 11:00 am
joele Smack-Fu Master, in training
Would have to agree with the general consensus in these comments: I haven't seen anyone talk about this film or put it on any sort of list regarding quality or cult status since it came out. I enjoyed Diablo Cody's Young Adult a lot more than Jennifer's Body and that film has also fallen off the face of the Earth since it came out.
36 posts | registered Jul 4, 2018
meorah Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
the trailer sums up the premise well and includes the one-liners it can (you're really complaining they didn't put long-form dialogue in a trailer just because it has good long-form dialogue?).
as for subversion and twists, there's already scream, saw, cabin in the woods, it follows, get out, and countless others.
jennifer's body always seemed like the girl version of funny games mashed up with enough cruel intentions thrown in to keep people from getting bored.
it's a good movie to watch once. it's not a good movie to wax poetic about just because it came out 10 years ago.
limeos Smack-Fu Master, in training
I saw it and the low shoulder song was stuck in my head for weeks. Also the cover for I can see clearly now. Great song choices.
I remember it being in the same vein as Ginger Snaps.
I have not seen either movie in ages but got fond memories of them.
4 posts | registered Jun 26, 2019
MNP Ars Scholae Palatinae
I've heard this take on the movie before. Nothing and no one can make this movie anything but a bad movie. It's a bad movie, but bad movies can definitely have value. Or you just like them.
For example I like Timeline, and I've never known another person who did.
928 posts | registered Aug 16, 2015
pxc Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
reply Sat Sep 21, 2019 12:04 pm
I thought it was OK when it first came out, but nothing worth strongly recommending to others. The clever bits of it tend to be spoofs of mediocre ideas, which was fine, but aren't enough to hold it all together and make it a good movie. I'm having a hard time working up the effort to watch it again, even with nothing else to do.
Looking over other movies from 2009, I would want to watch Moon, The Road, Antichrist or Fantastic Mr. Fox again more than Jennifer's Body.
BTKO Ars Praetorian
For this one, I think one problem it didn't perform well is the title of the movie. There is some good indications that even a well marketed movie with a bad title can have problems finding a market. "Jennifer's Body" is a bad title
Not sure why Jennifer's Body is "misunderstood" - according to marketing survey a lot of teen age high school boys wanted to understand Jennifer's Body.
chriskrum Ars Scholae Palatinae
It's okay. It's not great by any stretch.
flunk Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
I just assumed this movie sucked based on the horrible TV ad, and Megan Fox's generally bad performance in any movie I'd seen her in up to that point. I'd totally forgotten about it until just now.
I'm still not going to watch it.
4024 posts | registered Oct 5, 2005
nathanloiselle Smack-Fu Master, in training
limeos wrote:
I actually grabbed Low Shoulder's "Through The Trees" off of YouTube and "I Can See Clearly Now" was done by Screaming Weasels.
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Operative Me Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
earthlingkc wrote:
Is curious to see directions Ars is willing to go with the transition from GenXr's to Millennials
Is it just me, or does anyone else find that someone using that phrase tends to generates the same eye-roll as people who say things like “SJW” unironically?
Nine times out if 10, it seems they’re talking about the wrong generation (the oldest millennials, if they had kids at age 18, now have kids of legal drinking age), and that last time seems to be dripping with so much bog-standard “every generation after ours is wrong and bad”. It’s just hard for me to take seriously.
“Ars discusses the culture of the largest age bracket in the United States, where their headquarters and most staff are located” just doesn’t have the same ring as “Ars is changing because they’re listening to those millennials”, does it?
MNP wrote:
The book was okay. Standard Chrichton semi-schlocky science, but enough interesting bits to move the plot along.
harsaphes Ars Praetorian
reply Sat Sep 21, 2019 1:16 pm
Umm.... HALLOWEEN
493 posts | registered Jan 1, 2002
Fatesrider Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
Hort wrote:
Not to argue about your numbers, but you're missing a critical variable - the number of horror films released per year.
In 2009, it was DOZENS, and that's ONLY the U.S. market. Globally it was probably at least as many as the U.S. market, if not more.
So, it may have been over-saturation of a genre that caused the rating. Compared to OTHER offerings of the time, maybe it simply couldn't compete with something more family oriented after swimming in an oversaturated sea of horror films. Movie ratings are usually influenced by what ELSE is out there - at least to some extent.
And that there were a LOT of horror films that year which were BETTER. The Crypt, Final Destination, Children of the Corn, and the breakout hit of the year in horror, Zombieland.
In the face of stiffer competition, it's not surprising that this one fell under the radar. Not all movies are going to be hits. That they made double the costs back (or so) on Jennifer's Body is actually pretty damn good for the time AND the genre. So I don't know that I would call it underappreciated at all.
I would call it badly timed and marketed, though. It's best to market it appropriately, and to time it so that it's not being drowned in a sea of other similar films (if not in substance, then in genre). The rating may also have reflected disappointment in being titillated by previews that the movie didn't deliver.
No one likes a tease.
diamondhead Ars Praetorian
It wasn't a bad movie you know... I will say that Amanda Seyfried has gotten to make out with two females (Megan Fox and Julianne Moore) much better looking than her so i'm a bit jealous! :0
Akemi Ars Praefectus
It's not rally a bad movie. The problem is that it's neither bad nor notable. Truly bad films often end up as cult classics for the sheer entertainment value. Like a horror film that's supposed to be deadly serious, yet ends up side-splittingly funny due to the sheer incompetence of the script, direction, acting, FX, or a combination thereof.
Really solid films, especially if they end up defying convention and subverting a genre that's been played out also tend to make it to cult status. Regardless of how they performed at the box office.
The Room is a perfect example of a film gone so wrong that it's gone down the path of cult classic. One I'm sure will also head up that mantle is the recent film The Fanatic staring John Travolta. Between the wig, costuming, awful script (I literally can't tell with whom I supposed to sympathize in this flick), and Travolta's serious overacting. The film is definitely giving The Room a run for its money in the so bad it's time to call your buddies, grab some beers, and laugh your ass off type deal. I mean, Travolta's first line in the film is: I can't talk too long. I gotta poo. Did I mention it's written and directed by Fred Durst (yep, that Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJVfilrfdHQ
Darkness1231 Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
A great little movie. With sequels!
The movie worked well enough. The final shot of the evil scientist getting up close and personaled with a knight on horseback was nicely done. The interactions between the various people were treated well. The missing ear was fun.
tenocticatl Smack-Fu Master, in training
I liked it, but the marketing completely missed the point. The movie isn't even about Fox's character, it's about Seyfried's (since Needy has an actual character arch: she learns to see herself as at least equal to Jennifer, and that she doesn't need to be Jennifer's pedestal). Kind of like with Alita: Battle Angel, it's as if movie marketeers just can't conceive of targeting a female audience for something that's not a romcom or a costume drama.
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caeldan Ars Centurion
Darkness1231 wrote:
My biggest issue with timeline is that it also had the standard Crichton plot change between mediums (book to movie) that completely changes the tone /moral of the story
BINARYGOD Ars Praefectus
Triplehammer wrote:
Hypocritically the same people that whine like triggered snowflakes if you look at anything through a lense, particularly something that is 10+ years old.
"I am going to view this plot through a feminist lense" BOO!!!
"I am going to view this plot through the lense of sexuality, homosexuality in particular" BOO!!!
Then the the sort of person that is booing the above turns around and views Jennifer's Body through a modern "Mee Too"/feminist/anti-feminist lense so they can piss on it, and somehow, this is totally valid.
They will conveniently ignore anything said by the writer(s)/director(s) - because their feelings don't care about facts.
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caeldan wrote:
Agree. It's just a given with Crichton products. The only advice/data I have to share is I always see movies and books at completely separate. On the rare chance that the book translates well to video I appreciate it. But for the common situation, books != movie. Different media, different constraints, different outcomes. It does recall some attribution over the years "based on ideas from the book ..."
I remember when his next big book was Airframe! Big deal, except it dealt with friggin aircraft parts. So. Exciting. Just the title showed clearly how much excitement it would generate. Unions. Wings. Wow factor in the sub Kelvin range.
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"truth" in advertising —
Political ads can lie if they want, Facebook confirms
Last month, the company said paid speech was different. This month, not so much.
Kate Cox - Oct 10, 2019 4:55 pm UTC
Enlarge / The Facebook logo is displayed on a TV screen on September 9, 2019 in Paris, France.
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A few weeks ago, Facebook made it clear that posts shared by politicians are exempt from Facebook's community standards and also from fact-checking. The company did, however, indicate one area where posts made by politicians' accounts could be subject to scrutiny: in paid advertising. Faced with a stark real-world test, though, Facebook appears once again to be erring on the side of letting misinformation circulate far and wide if a politician promotes it.
The ad in question involves—you guessed it—President Donald Trump and his campaign for re-election. The Trump campaign in the past week has been airing ads on Facebook making false accusations about former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential nomination. The ads' claims about Biden's activities in Ukraine and elsewhere have been repeatedly debunked as baseless conspiracy theories, not only by media outlets but also by Republican politicians.
Cable network CNN deemed the ads in question too misleading to broadcast and refused to air them. Facebook, however, considers the matter out of its hands.
Facebook confirms its “standards” don’t apply to politicians
The Biden campaign explicitly asked Facebook to take down the ad, but the company declined.
"Our approach is grounded in Facebook’s fundamental belief in free expression, respect for the democratic process, and the belief that, in mature democracies with a free press, political speech is already arguably the most scrutinized speech there is," Facebook wrote in a response to the Biden campaign obtained by CNET. "If the claim is made directly by a politician on their Page, in an ad or on their website, it is considered direct speech and ineligible for our third-party fact checking program," the company added.
Rules change
Facebook said in September that politicians' speech was exempt from the company's content rules, but that exemption had two limitations. Previously debunked information, the company said, would not be allowed in advertisements:
When a politician shares previously debunked content including links, videos and photos, we plan to demote that content, display related information from fact-checkers, and reject its inclusion in advertisements.
Nor did the "newsworthiness" exemption to standards and speech apply without any limits to advertising, the company added:
In keeping with the principle that we apply different standards to content for which we receive payment, this will not apply to ads—if someone chooses to post an ad on Facebook, they must still fall within our Community Standards and our advertising policies.
Those advertising policies used to contain an explicit ban against misleading content. But as newsletter Popular Information noted last week, the language in Facebook's stated Advertising Policy has recently changed. While the guideline used to say that ads "must not contain deceptive, false, or misleading content," the rule now prohibits ads "that include claims debunked by third-party fact checkers" or, in some circumstances, by third-party organizations "with particular expertise" in the matter.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, also a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination and outspoken critic of Facebook, slammed the company in a series of tweets. Facebook is "deliberately allowing a candidate to intentionally lie to the American people," Warren said, adding, "This is a serious threat to our democracy. We need transparency and accountability from Facebook."
All downhill from here?
With just over a year to go before the actual 2020 election, the problems are going to get worse before they get better—if they ever get better. Instances of both misleading speech by politicians and deliberate misinformation by malicious actors will almost certainly continue to increase, and social media platforms, especially Facebook, will need to develop more robust strategies to deal with both.
The Senate Intelligence Committee this week issued a scathing report (PDF) delving into Russian state-sponsored misinformation on social media and how it uses Facebook and other platforms to influence US politics and elections.
"“Russia is waging an information warfare campaign against the US that didn’t start and didn’t end with the 2016 election," Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said in a statement. "Any solution has to balance America’s national security interests with our constitutionally-protected right to free speech. Social media companies, federal agencies, law enforcement, and Congress must work together to address these challenges."
Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) echoed the sentiment, warning, "With the 2020 elections on the horizon, there’s no doubt that bad actors will continue to try to weaponize the scale and reach of social media platforms to erode public confidence and foster chaos. The Russian playbook is out in the open for other foreign and domestic adversaries to expand upon – and their techniques will only get more sophisticated."
Kate Cox Kate covers tech policy issues, including privacy, antitrust, and other shenanigans, from Washington, DC.
Email kate.cox@arstechnica.com
Tondelaya Shillyshally von Brainstorm wrote:
If we are honest, the Biden story is not actually debunked.
If we are honest, yes it is.
Obama voter and Sanders supporter here.
Why do you expect others to be honest when you're clearly not?
Thants Smack-Fu Master, in training
science is good wrote:
BitsandBytes wrote:
OnThePlusSide wrote:
They used to say only two things are guaranteed in this life: death and taxes.
I say there are three things that are guaranteed in this life: death, taxes, and lying politicians...
...and it doesn't matter which side of the coin they represent very few ever tell the truth.
This is a sentiment people use when they don't want to use their brain to think. If you really think all politicans are equally bad, then you haven't been paying attention.
You're not somehow magically above it all because you condemn both sides. All it means is you're too craven to actually stand for something.
Or it could be that lumping things into this side or the other is damn stupid and that you need to evaluate each politician independently.
Except each politician doesn't behave independently. Republican politicians vote in near lock-step to support whatever their leadership does, that needs to factor into your evaluation.
How much power do we want Facebook to have? This is a tricky question. Facebook does have the right to control the content on their sites. Yet, because of their unique position, having them decide what is true or not-true gives them enormous power. The power to censor content is forbidden to the US government because of the potential of abuse. Yet the public controls who is in the government and has the power to remove those individuals. Such controls don't exists for corporations. Do we want to give censorship power to companies like Facebook and other large, monopolistic media outlets?
While the guideline used to say that ads "must not contain deceptive, false, or misleading content," the rule now prohibits ads "that include claims debunked by third-party fact checkers" or, in some circumstances, by third-party organizations "with particular expertise" in the matter.
Using the standard of "claims debunked by third party fact checkers" takes it out of the hands of Facebook. That's a very reasonable approach that addresses your concern, if they were to apply it.
Other media already do this. It's not problematic. E.g.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/busi ... gn-ad.html
Facebook wants to pretend it's not a news source, while carrying news. It's an inherently dishonest posture.
All that does is change which corporation decides what is true. "Third party fact checkers" are not a court, they have no public accountability, and are certainly not transparent.
That's total nonsense.
In terms of transparency, the only thing the fact-checkers are doing is reading the article, doing research to verify, and then sharing their findings. What could be more transparent than that?
In terms of "change which corporation decides what is true", half of them aren't even corporations. For example, FactCheck.org is a nonprofit non-partisan website that describes itself as a "consumer advocate for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics". It is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and is funded primarily by the Annenberg Foundation.
In terms of accountability, they are all certified by the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network. All of their findings are public.
Do you even know what the IFCN is or it's history? Who elects them? How are they accountable to the public in general?
https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/
They even have a transparency statement. https://www.poynter.org/international-f ... statement/
I think what you are really saying, as you move the goalposts further and further back, is "there is no one who can be trusted to validate facts, and consequently we should allow anyone to say anything they want." Society can't actually function on this basis. That's why we have laws governing slander and false advertising.
You might even be saying "there's no such thing as objective truth and, as such, true statements have no more value than false statements, so everyone should be permitted to believe anything they want." This appears to be the current stance of conservatives, and represents a recognition that their beliefs are no longer supportable on any factual basis. It's an admission of complete failure to interact with reality, and that they can only succeed through lies, and that their supposed ethics and morality really just come down to, "we must win at any costs." This stance should be an utter embarrassment to anyone who actually holds conservative beliefs out of principle.
Fancy Internet Person Ars Centurion
Thants wrote:
Make no mistake, sig knows that and endorses it wholeheartedly. The moderate act is strictly performance for Ars.
Tondelaya Shillyshally von Brainstorm Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
A. Where did I expect others to be honest?
B. I voted for Obama twice, and wrote in in 2016, and I'm unclear why you would think you know better.
C. Try to stay on topic, rather than attack the character of the messenger.
D. If we are honest, no it isn't. Nobody offered any proof either way. If all it takes is a reasonable sounding denial we have to hope you never are chosen for jury.
science is good Ars Praetorian
lie number 1
You might even be saying "there's no such thing as objective truth and, as such, true statements have no more value than false statements, so everyone should be permitted to believe anything they want."
Partisan BS
This appears to be the current stance of conservatives, and represents a recognition that their beliefs are no longer supportable on any factual basis. It's an admission of complete failure to interact with reality, and that they can only succeed through lies, and that their supposed ethics and morality really just come down to, "we must win at any costs." This stance should be an utter embarrassment to anyone who actually holds conservative beliefs out of principle.
As I have repeated expressed, is that these group are only accountable to themselves. There is no public election for them, no public accountability. You keep trying to move the goal post up to make hitting your target easy.
Nor have I ever came close to suggesting that facts are subjective.
That response is typical from him. Attack the person anything that does reflect badly on conservatives is false.
rabish12 Ars Legatus Legionis
If we are honest, the Biden story is not actually debunked. Republican politicians have denied it to be likely, and others have shown their suspicions it is not true, but that is not debunking something. If we went back in time to three weeks after Iran Contra was publicized, people could have said that was debunked. Later, it turned out true.
Go back and see. The justification was that the arms shipment was part of a hostage deal with Lebanon, and right after that excuse was offered, many considered it over. It was debunked. Later it became clear the arms were shipped prior to the hostages being captured.
We should not jump to the conclusion the story is false simply because most things Trump says are false. Reagan was right about a thing or two, even while he was supplying weapons to terrorists and assisting narcotic sales. Many credit Reagan for taking down the Berlin Wall, even though that was mostly not him, so, I guess my point is, we should wait and see what happens here. I doubt Biden is squeaky and shiny here.
We didn't "jump to the conclusion the story is false". We reached that conclusion because the overwhelming preponderance of evidence makes it clear that the story is false. Several fact-checking organizations have already gone through the timeline and the facts as we know them - here's just one of the articles FactCheck.org did on the subject - but it's really easy to verify the details yourself.
Oh, and as an aside: opening your post with "I'm one of you, but..." is a really transparent and shallow rhetorical tactic, and it absolutely does not work when you're some anonymous person on the internet. There's no way to verify it, and even if there were, it has literally no bearing on the validity of your arguments.
As The Pope, I've found people's claims to be a fellow liberal or a Conservative or whatever political affiliation quite suspect and utterly worthless.
There is no evidence to support Trump's line of bullshit attacks on Joe Biden or his son.
It's been investigated, there isn't anything there.
That's why people say it's been debunked. Because reasonable investigation has shown there is no substance and, frankly, only known liars are pushing it now. Not giving known liars the benefit of the doubt is reasonable and prudent.
Fancy Internet Person wrote:
You caught me. Supporting moderate positions, candidates, ideas and corporation across the alse is all an act. In truth I'm a Democrat.
There's articles linked near the top of the Ars story above that identify several of the pieces of evidence showing that the Republicans' version of events is just unambiguously false. Multiple fact-checking organizations have produced well-sourced articles explaining how and why the claims don't really make sense. You can even check it for yourself by just looking into how Shokin's behavior was being received at the time, and what the official stances of officials in the US and elsewhere was on his removal. Even if we give the story the absolute most generous interpretation possible and ignore huge swaths of evidence, the claims that Trump and his party are making - that Biden took action to end an investigation into his son (his son wasn't the target of, or implicated in, the investigation) or his son's company (his son certainly didn't own Burisma) - are so blatantly dishonest that they're still indefensible.
See, here's the thing: it's not that "nobody offered any proof either way". It's that you didn't look for any proof either way, either because you're dishonest or because you're lazy. "I don't know" never implies "nobody knows", and it's kind of crappy to act like it does when you haven't even tried to know.
awshucks Ars Praetorian
Personally, I think it should be illegal to materially lie in a political ad. Period. A bit of puffery is to be expected, but an outright lie another altogether. Politicians have a bad enough image without lying constantly to boot. They should be held to a higher standard being the great power and control they represent. Why should they live a lower standard?
rabish12 wrote:
It is fascinating people can even provide links to me that prove Biden is not squeaky clean here, and then pretend the story is debunked.
From Factcheck
In January 2018, Biden disclosed that during a trip to Kyiv he privately warned Ukraine’s then-president, Petro Poroshenko, and then-prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, that the U.S. would withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees if Ukraine failed to deal with corruption and remove Shokin as its prosecutor general.
That is illegal. Some might even call that Quid Pro Quo.
Last edited by Tondelaya Shillyshally von Brainstorm on Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:04 pm
fencepost Smack-Fu Master, in training
What I don't see anybody mentioning here is the name on the rejection letter of Biden's complaint about the ad, Facebook Public Policy Director, Global Elections Katie Harbath.
"Prior to Facebook, Katie was the Chief Digital Strategist at the National Republican Senatorial Committee. She previously led digital strategy in positions at DCI Group, the Rudy Giuliani for President campaign and the Republican National Committee." (https://www.leadershipinstitute.org/tra ... tyID=41961)
Or on her LinkedIn profile if you prefer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harbath
Guess they're not really worried about somebody making up things about Trump, because the reality is already Way Beyond what anyone would have thought to make up.
Edit: DCI Group (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCI_Group) "DCI has been described as a 'Republican public relations firm'."
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Since you are so sure it has been investigated, who investigated? A journalist? THREE journalists? Where was this grand investigation into Biden? I must have missed it.
That is illegal.
You don't understand how federal powers are delegated by the president, which is probably embarrassing if you're an American.
But let's set that aside for a minute, because you made a much bigger mistake here. You've insisted that the specific claims about Biden that Trump and his associates made are true... because Biden broke a law prohibiting him from negotiating on behalf of the US? You don't even know what the claims about Biden are, do you?
EDIT: Ooh, those are some sneaky edits you did. Removing the mention of the Logan Act before I clicked reply, adding some snark about quid pro quo before I finished writing.
Last edited by rabish12 on Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:18 pm
Right, let's cut the bullshit here. You've been editing out parts of your posts when you realize how indefensibly stupid they are, and you very selectively quoted the article I gave you to try and support literally the opposite of what it establishes.
You don't care who investigated this. You've demonstrated that you not only don't care whether or not the allegations are true but that you're willing to lie to push them when it's clear that they won't hold up otherwise. So hey, how about you come clean and tell us your actual problem with Biden instead of playing these games?
Elected? I think we have pretty solid evidence that being elected is no guarantee of truthfulness. Accountability for a fact checker, just like for a news source, is whether or not people choose to believe them. No more, no less. They present the facts they have determined, including the evidence. If you look at, say, Politifact, it's not just a "true" or "false" label. They explain what they found, what they concluded, and why. You can choose to respect that or not as you see fit.
But I think the labels you added to my comment make clear you don't even know what is and isn't a statement of fact. How can a clearly labeled speculation like "you might even be saying..." be a lie? I do in fact think that is a possibility, but I don't know whether it is actually the case. It's possible there's some other explanation, for example you are motivated purely by trolling and have no actual interest in the underlying rationale.
It's not illegal to carry out the diplomatic aims of the nation, especially when doing so has bipartisan support, which was the case with the removal of Shokin. The US is allowed to throw its weight around. It would be illegal if he was advancing his own personal interests, but the implied claim that he wanted Shokin removed to protect his son is vacuous since Shokin was not investigating Burisma at the time. We wanted Shokin out because he was failing to investigate corruption, not to protect it.
Your statements were nothing more than thinly veiled accusations. There was no reason for them. I stand by calling them out as lies.
Election don't make a person truthful, they provide a means of holding someone accountable. While it is not perfect, it is better than no accountability.
starmonche wrote:
"Claims about Biden have been repeatedly debunked"
Maybe keep your dumbass opinions to yourself and stop trying to spit that shit as fact, KATE.
In the fine article, the sentence you're paraphrasing includes 4 hyperlinks to sources. If anyone is expressing a "dumbass" opinion, it isn't the author.
Is there a reason this angers you so? Something about the author?
Kate provided sources for her assertion, and several more have been provided in the comments. You're going to need more than a "nuh-uh, you're stupid" at this point.
From his emphasis on her name, a cynic could think he hates women. I'm sure he won't do anything to support that idea.
From the fact that the very next post was him calling her retarded, I don't think it's even worth the time pretending to care what his motives are.
Tofystedeth wrote:
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Even if we accept that denotatively it is value neutral, connotatively, it is not. In discussions like this the word censorship has a lot of negative baggage, and part of learning any language is learning the cultural significance of words and idioms that may not be present in the dictionary definition. OK,technically it's censorship, and technically that's fine, but but bringing it up adds nothing to discussion.
Go back to my original statement. The term was used in connection with the power to censor being forbidden to the US government because of the potential abuse and questioning if giving it to FB was a good idea. So it was used correctly in terms of cultural significance and all that negative baggage. The issue that I am trying to bring to light, is that in the rush to shut up Trump, some appear to be willing to ignore that negative baggage and give those powers to a corporation.
See underlined.
Censorship at the governmental has "potential abuse" ramifications that involve things more significant than deplatforming.
e.g. No one is suggesting that Facebook be given the power to arrest people.
Nor did I suggest that anyone was suggesting that.
But you can't ignore the potential of abuse with giving either a government or a corporation a great amount of control over information and what ideas are expressed. It is not something that should be taken lightly.
That horse left the barn with the advent of the printing press.
If you think Facebook has exercised *anywhere* near the amount of control over information and what ideas are expressed as the NYT or Fox News, I have a bridge to sell you.
When false claims are being made, we have journalist to point out those claims as false, we have the FTC and the courts to block the ads. We don't need to put a corporation in an all-powerful, unaccountable and unremovable position of determine the truth.
How do these journalists inform us? Generally, via 'all-powerful, unaccountable, and unremovable' corporations, to use your words.
You are mixing journalism and advertising.
If your 'all-powerful, unaccountable and unremovable' corporation can't be trusted to decide what is "true" or not, do you think they can be trusted with the concept of what is or is not "journalism"?
It's the same damned complaint, and just as late as the other one.
See also: Fox News.
But, to be honest, I am worried about how condensed the media market is becoming. This is just an extension of that.
See also: Fox News, CNN, Washington Post
As I stated, not real happy with how condensed the media is becoming. I also added a little balance to your post.
vw_fan17 Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
Dilbert wrote:
gaballard wrote:
Also, if you work for Facebook, quit. I bet some Ars readers work there. You should quit your job and do anything else.
Where you work and who you gift the excess value of your labor to is a political decision.
Facebook is not about average, morally. It is fetid and corrupt, about on the same level as loan sharks. Do better.
Quit? I never started. I'm a west coast techie and I'd never work for FB or google for that matter, and a host of other similar companies. Despite much higher income potential. I don't want that kind of money, and I'm certainly not about to contribute helping them.
Good. I'm not on the coast, so it was never a serious consideration for me. I can imagine a situation where it would look like a great option.
But working there -- continuing to work there -- is an act of moral significance. A decent person should not work at Facebook.
I understand that Facebook employees do not want to consider that. Nor do the friends and family of Facebook employees.
My experience working in tech in CA is people are terrified of losing their jobs. They’d rather shut up and stay quiet than speak up and endanger their income and benefits. Doesn’t help that they’re in debt because they ran out and got a condo and a new BMW as soon as they got the job...
It would be inconvenient for them to make a moral stand in their employment. I don't envy people in that position. Nonetheless, I'm gonna advocate for it, because Facebook can only get away with its evil because people are willing to write the code, run the reports, manage the servers, etc...
That's odd because my experience in tech is not the same. The tech workers are highly sought after and very mobile. Any one of us can quit and get another tech job very easily.
This. Well, at least until you hit 50 (I'm close). At that point, FAANG don't want you anyway because you'll most likely NOT give up work-life balance "for the good of the company". Which is why I never wanted to join, and am still not working for any of those - I get linkedin messages every week about those and others. Besides, web sites are so boring - just some markup + database lookups that are mostly based on marketing requests. I had a "home page" in 1994, did JDBC + JSP pages in the late 90s. Got over it and didn't really want to go back.
On a different note: I swear Zuck will start asking employees to address him as "Dear Leader" any day now..
If we are honest, no it isn't.
Yes, it is. It was looked at back when it fucking happened, and there was absolutely nothing there. You claiming that "we have no proof either way" is a bad faith claim, worse than when I said you fuck goats (we have no proof either way, so that issue must not be resolved, either).
And I can tell you lied about being an Obama and Sanders supporter because you brought up such a bad faith and right wing talking point.
SixDegrees Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
Trump fucks dogs while russian prostitutes piss on him.
We have no proof either way, so it's entirely valid.
Although I suspect my assertion is more grounded in fact than Trump's.
Brevitic Ars Centurion
Kate Harbath, "Public Policy Director, Global Elections" for facebook (FOR THE PAST 9 YEARS) is the former Chief Digital Strategist for the National Republic Senatorial Committee, Director of Online Services for the DCI group for almost 2 years and "Deputy eCampaign Director for Rudy Gulliani Presidential Committee.
Is there some sort of reverse "never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupid" because uhhh.
sprockkets Ars Legatus Legionis
You are moving the goal posts, and holding one side of the isle to a standard they never intended to meet, ever.
Take your horse shit somewhere else.
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Hezio Ars Scholae Palatinae
thekaj wrote:
Shudder wrote:
If the claim is made directly by a politician on their Page, in an ad or on their website, it is considered direct speech and ineligible for our third-party fact checking program
Let's see how that works out when politicians start buying ads accusing Zuckerberg of money laundering and exploiting children.
Yeah, I was about to suggest a crowdsourced campaign to buy political ads on Facebook insinuating that Zuckerberg is a child molester. I read about that on the internet somewhere. Might have been on Facebook.
I heard Trump said it. Maybe the crowdsourced campaign can make the political ad clearly state it was Trump saying these things.
So I heard.
Hunter getting the job is likely due to his father's connections and reputation. That's called corruption.
However, by that same standard, Trump and his family are just as corrupt, but don't expect him to ever say anything about that, because by he's own standard Trump should be tried and killed for treason.
Problem is, no matter fucking what, it's still illegal for Trump to ask for dirt on any political rivals, even if justified. The proper way to do it is through official means, not via the president himself and his dirtbag lawyer.
linnen Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
SIG wrote:
Feel free to substitute "Tondelaya Shillyshally von Brainstorm" or "starmonche".
sprockkets wrote:
By that standard, every board of directors, every ivy league classroom, and every newsroom is also corrupt. The current white house extraordinary so, but also literally every last white house.
I think it's a good standard to apply. I think those domains are all terribly corrupt. But if the case starts and stops with Hunter Biden, that's garbage.
ItsMeMario Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
so free speech is hate speech but paid speech is free speech. got it.
tobergill Smack-Fu Master, in training
Katie Harbath, Facebook's public policy director for global elections who denied Joe Biden's takedown request worked for Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign. Zuck has already said he will campaign against Liz Warren. Is it time to break up Facebook unless they institute some meaningful controls?
16 posts | registered Apr 3, 2019
reply Fri Oct 11, 2019 12:15 am
tobergill wrote:
No, it's time to break up Facebook because they have no intention of ever instituting meaningful controls.
And by break up, I mean delete. It's nothing but a disease transmission vector for fascism.
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Review: Cauleen Smith/Museum of Contemporary Art
August 14, 2012 at 4:00 am by Art Editor
August 14, 2012 August 16, 2012 Filed under:
Cauleen Smith, film still from “Nicolai and Regina Series 01”
Cauleen Smith’s solo show at the MCA is the best contemporary art exhibition in Chicago this summer. While watching her short videos, which feature Chicago cityscapes and local musicians, I easily mistook Smith as a Chicago-based artist. I’m used to seeing only Chicago artists mine the city’s cultural history with such deeply personal insights. In fact Smith lives and teaches in San Diego, and has spent considerable time in Chicago doing research on local music history, facilitated by Threewalls in 2010 and a Black Metropolis Research Consortium grant in 2011. The fruit of her Chicago residency is a series of new videos and a multimedia installation that waken civic pride. Before the MCA exhibition closes in mid-September, Smith will open a solo show at Threewalls, a spot usually reserved for Midwestern artists.
Smith directs her attention to Sun Ra, an experimental jazz musician from Alabama who lived in Chicago from 1945 to 1961. The exhibition is a poignant sequel to the 2007 Hyde Park Art Center show, “Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68,” curated by John Corbett, Anthony Elms and Terri Kapsalis, which showcased ephemera from an important era in Chicago’s jazz history. Smith playfully engages Sun Ra’s legacy. She wears the legacy like a costume and enacts it in Chicago’s streets, melding her personal and our historical identities. Sometimes the narrative is enigmatic, and other times powerful, proving that Smith has successfully incorporated a shared history into a personal expression. Like Afrofuturism, viewers must embrace the weird in order to enjoy the wonder. Smith filmed musicians performing improvisations and Sun Ra’s brand of big band swing. If you’re sitting on one of the sculptures in the gallery—exercise balls covered with fake-fur-like enlarged afro puffs—you can bounce along to the rhythms. There are many secrets and surprises in Smith’s installation and her videos that are too good to give away here. The show is a perfect encore to Rashid Johnson’s recently closed solo show at the museum, which reflected his personal iconography based on jazz heroes. Both Johnson and Smith show us that history is most meaningful when we make it our own. (Jason Foumberg)
Cauleen Smith shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago, through September 16. She will show at Threewalls, 119 North Peoria, September 7-October 20.
Exhibiting a Lesser-Known Pioneer of Contemporary Photography: A Review of "Picture Fiction; Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary… A survey of the pioneering, Chicago-based experimental photographer includes his work alongside the work of his peers.
Art That Refuses to Be Walked All Over: A Review of Jessica Campbell at the Museum of Contemporary Art Campbell has a rare gift for revealing harsh truths with dark, funny, sumptuously textured pictures.
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Zelenskiy sworn in as Ukrainian president, says he’s dissolving Parliament
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. (Ukrinform TV/Wikimedia Commons)
May 20, 2019 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been sworn in as president of Ukraine and immediately announced he is dissolving the parliament.
In remarks after taking the oath of office at the Verkhovna Rada on May 20, Zelenskiy also called for the dismissal of top officials including controversial Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko, the defense minister, and the head of the state security service.
He said that lawmakers must dismiss the officials and pass several key pieces of legislation within two months — the maximum period of time between a published decision on the dissolution of parliament and new elections under the constitution.
“I dissolve the Verkhovna Rada of the eighth assembly,” Zelenskiy said. He did not propose a specific date for snap parliamentary elections.
There have been disputes over whether Zelenskiy has the right to dissolve parliament, in part because the governing coalition fell apart last week in what was seen as a bid by his political foes to bar him from disbanding it.
Opponents say the constitution gives parliament 30 days to form a new coalition and that the president cannot dissolve it during that time.
Zelenskiy, 41, a comedian and actor with no previous political experience, beat incumbent Petro Poroshenko by a large margin in a runoff vote on April 21.
In his remarks after being sworn in to a five-year term, Zelenskiy said a top priority is a real cease-fire in the simmering was against Russia-backed militants who hold parts of the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk.
He ended his remarks by saying: “Glory to Ukraine!”
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Mimbres Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home thanks auxiliary for 61 years of volunteerism
Auxiliary women helped Mimbres Memorial grow
Bill Armendariz | Deming Headlight
DEMING – For the past 61 years, Mimbres Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home had an ambassador to the community of Deming and Luna County. Thanks in great part to the MMH Auxiliary women who have volunteered through the past six decades to assist staff and visitors and put patients and nursing home residents at ease by providing a few of the comforts of home.
The hospital administration and staff recognized the existing members on Sunday, Jan. 12, with a private get-together at the Deming-Luna-Mimbres Museum where a proclamation was read declaring the date as Mimbres Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home Auxiliary Day. Refreshments and desserts were set out for the honored guests and MMH CEO Gary Poquette mingled with auxiliary members.
Established in 1958 – a year after the current site of the hospital was opened in Deming – the MMH Auxiliary was the branch extending toward the community. Members provided hand-crocheted throws and lap blankets for patients and provided hand-made teddy bears for children in the hospital. They also were stationed at the information desk to assist visitors to the hospital and nursing home and operated the gift shop. Hospital and nursing home staff could count on the auxiliary to assist in a pinch.
Community involvement is where the auxiliary members shined. Fundraising efforts have provided in the hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past 61 years to enrich the community of Deming and Luna County
The auxiliary raised money for medical equipment, supplies, services, furniture and many of the amenities the nursing home has enjoyed in the last six decades. They also provided scholarships for Deming High School graduates interested in a career in the medical field or health care industry. Nurses at the hospital have benefited from the fundraising efforts of the auxiliary by continuing with education and advancement.
Auxiliary President Virginia Pool recalled one of the biggest fundraisers dating back to the late 1950s and early ‘60s when the auxiliary would host its annual charity ball. “Oh, it was a lavish event,” she said. “Everybody was dressed in formal attire and they danced the night away.”
The event was held at the former League of United Latin Americans Hall, Council 205. Tickets were $2.50, and guests could reserve tables. This was strictly a black tie and formal gown event, with a live orchestra providing the dancing music.
The long-standing mission of the auxiliary is: “To be of service to Mimbres Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home, as well as the community of Deming." Mary Hopper told the Headlight, “Most of the money is used to make life more comfortable for the residents of the nursing home, but we also help people improve their lives through education.”
Tamara M. Hand, director of business development and marketing for MMH, read the proclamation to the volunteer members and handed out roses to each of the members who attended Sunday’s appreciation day. She also said Deming Mayor Benny Jasso – who was in attendance – may be working on a city-wide proclamation in honor of the day.
Bill Armendariz can be reached at 575-546-2611 (ext. 2606) or biarmendariz@demingheadlight.com.
Thanks for your support and caring hearts:
• Treasurer Alice Dunham, 15 years
• Benita Weikel, 14 years
• Debbie Ward, 13 years
• Rosie Holguin, 12 years
• Secretary Mary Hopper, 10 years
• Dorothy Appert, 9 years
• President Virginia Pool, 6 years
• June Bauer, 4 years.
• Carol Wolverton
Mimbres Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home Auxiliary.
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What really happened to the Playboy Bunny?
Published Monday, Oct. 19, 2015, 7:05 pm
Front Page » Business » What really happened to the Playboy Bunny?
Joel Schlosberg | @joelschlosberg | Support this author on Patreon
Playboy’s announcement (“Playboy is Doing What?!?,” Playboy.com, October 13) that it will be ending the nude magazine pictorials that have been its foundation for six decades might seem the result of the instability of free markets. The Foundation for Economic Education’s Sarah Skwire (“The Creative Destruction of Nudity in Playboy Magazine,” The Freeman, October 14) calls the shift “a perfect example of [Joseph] Schumpeter’s concept of creative destruction” prompted by “the relentless drive of the market, the need to satisfy new customers with different preferences and constraints, the constant push for new technology, and the desire for competitors to stand out in the marketplace.”
With competition from Penthouse to the Internet, Playboy has definitely never been a Ma Bell-style monopoly. And the repudiation of nudity embodies the same entrepreneurial adaptation to consumer demand that providing it was in the first place. But is that the whole story?
Is the relentless churn of the actually-existing economy a necessary byproduct of market dynamism? Are dwindling production values the inevitable side effect of increased variety of consumer options? In fact, much of the “destruction” is indeed destructive, with governments channeling markets in wasteful directions.
The 21st-century ascendance of Maxim magazine’s titillating-but-clothed approach is intertwined with the growth of the War on Terror-era military; The New York Times noted in 2012 that Playboy was among the magazines whose nudity keeps it “not available in the Middle East, making Maxim one of the raciest publications sold in combat zones.” And government subsidies to transportation and communication tip the balance to companies operating on artificially large scales in civilian domains as well; Playboy is in part making its overall brand palatable to more restrictive overseas markets.
This extends all the way to the workplaces which Playboy.com is now safe for. In 1928, George Bernard Shaw argued that industrial productivity depended on the rigid coordination of labor: “The railway service would not be of much use if the engine driver and the guard were to stop the train to look at a football match when they felt inclined that way.” In fact, that was the first industry to require offloading its bills on the taxpayers to be profitable. Investor Paul Graham observes that the founders of many of the tech startups he funds “work odd hours” and “look at whatever they want online without worrying whether it’s ‘work safe’,” yet a “company at this stage is probably the most productive it’s ever going to be.” Without the state helping to domesticate labor, analogous opportunities would become available to all workers.
As Karl Hess once wrote in Playboy’s pages, the ideal of laissez-faire is not catering to isolated individuals, but that “every community should be one of voluntarism, to the extent that it lives for and through its own people and does not force others to pay its bills.” Cultural norms based on local consensus rather than ill-fitting broader compromise would proliferate from Amsterdams to Salt Lake Cities. And social wealth would be almost as abundant as digital pictures.
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You are here: Home / Music / Classical Music / Classical CD Reviews: Stanford’s Mass “Via victrix”, Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Mendelssohn, and Anna Shelest plays Rubinstein
Classical CD Reviews: Stanford’s Mass “Via victrix”, Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Mendelssohn, and Anna Shelest plays Rubinstein
By Jonathan Blumhofer
Charles Villiers Stanford’s bold Mass Via victrix is finally heard; Pablo Heras-Casado wraps up his survey of the Mendelssohn symphonies in high style; Anna Shelest completes her performances of Anton Rubinstein piano concertos.
Charles Villiers Stanford’s star was diminishing over the last years of his life, though his output remained ambitious, as the BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales’ new recording of his Mass Via victrix makes clear.
Written to commemorate the end of World War 1, Via victrix wasn’t performed in full until 2018. Stanford, himself, conducted the “Gloria” at Cambridge University in 1920; otherwise, the score lay neglected for nearly a century. That’s a sad fate for so bold a piece.
Indeed, Stanford’s Via victrix was conceived as a kind of national memorial to the war, something along the lines, perhaps, of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. Whether it lives up to that comparison is another matter, but, at its best moments, it’s a touching, deeply thought-through score, one that deserves much more than a once-a-century airing.
In the present recording (a live taping of the complete work’s premiere), the BBC National Chorus of Wales sings with robust enthusiasm and spirit. Yes, there are some tonally rough spots in the “Kyrie,” and rhythms there and in the opening part of the “Gloria” are occasionally blurry. But, on the whole, theirs is an entirely satisfying reading.
The warm progressions that unfold once the “Kyrie” gets going are beautifully done and the “Cum sancto spiritu” fugue bristles with energy. Stanford’s acerbic harmonies in the “Crucifixus” of the “Credo” come across with winning intensity, as do the delicate textures of the “Sanctus.”
A strong cast of soloists – soprano Kiandra Howarth, alto Jess Dandy, tenor Ruairi Bowen, and baritone Gareth Brynmor John – acquit themselves admirably. Howarth, in particular, imbues her solos in the “Kyrie” and “Agnus Dei” with pliancy and warmth.
Adrian Partington leads the combined forces with a kind of missionary zeal. He has a good sense of tempo and pacing, not losing sight of the work’s big picture. It’s an unfamiliar piece, to be sure, and, accordingly, some tentativeness is present in the performance.
But Via victrix’s grand scope comes across with clarity. Its most striking episodes – the stately melismas of the “Kyrie,” the noble writing in the “Sanctus” and contrapuntal textures in the “Benedictus,” the pungent dissonances in the “Agnus Dei” – speak powerfully. Even if it’s, fundamentally, a conservative work, this is music deserves to be heard.
So, at least occasionally, is At the Abbey Gate, Stanford’s 1920 setting of Charles Darling’s eponymous unknown-soldier poem that fills out the disc. Written to mark the dedication of the Cenotaph that year, it’s cut from the same stylistic cloth as Stanford’s Songs of the Fleet, with choral and solo baritone episodes alternating between a pair of grand orchestral statements.
The performance here, again the work’s premiere recording, features baritone John taking the solo part. It’s steeped in grandeur: a sincere, heartfelt account of a sincere, heartfelt piece, earnest but not cloying.
After five years, Pablo Heras-Casado wraps up his survey of the Mendelssohn symphonies for Harmonia mundi. The ultimate installment pairs him again with the Freiburger Barockorchester, as responsive and crackerjack a period ensemble as they come.
The orchestra’s playing in Mendelssohn’s Symphony no. 1 is, accordingly, marvelously tactile: full of propulsive attacks, transparent gestures, and episodes of furious turbulence. In the opening movement, tempos are swift, dynamic swells are exaggerated, and the music’s aggressive moments stirringly realized. A similar approach defines the brash, outer sections of the third-movement minuet and the finale.
When the music quiets down in the second movement and the minuet’s trio, the Freiburgers respond with playing of lightness and color – conspicuously mysterious-sounding ones, to be sure, in the latter.
Taut rhythmic execution and driving intensity also mark the Freiburger’s account of their role in Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto no. 2, the Symphony’s counterweight.
The soloist here is Kristian Bezuidenhout. He plays his part with a lightness of touch that befits Mendelssohn’s style – the Second Concerto’s filled with lots of glittering passagework – but Bezuidenhout’s reading is also tonally weighted and shaped with care.
The result, is an altogether lovely, probing account of a Mendelssohn’s most easily-overlooked mature concerto. Its first movement brims with passion, while the second sings like an extended, orchestral Song Without Words. The finale is a lively blast.
Rounding out the album is an elegantly driving account of the Overture to Die schöne Melusine. It’s a strong, balanced finale to, perhaps, the finest entry in this series.
Pianist Anna Shelest — a clear affinity for Anton Rubinstein’s wildly virtuosic writing,
Anna Shelest’s survey of the complete Anton Rubinstein piano concertos continues apace with her new account of the Russian composer’s Third and Fifth keyboard concerti.
Highly regarded in his lifetime, Rubinstein’s output has faded in popularity since his death in 1894. Based on the excesses of these two scores, it’s not hard to see why. Some fetching ideas notwithstanding, both works are, ultimately, shallow and derivative.
The Third, with its echoes of Chopin in certain of the slow movement’s gestures and the finale’s rousing polonaise-finale, comes off the best. Still, the first movement’s choppy phrases, lack of developmental polish, and trite coda do little to balance things off.
Clocking in at more than forty minutes, the Fifth magnifies the former’s problems while also managing to overstay its welcome and treat the orchestra as an afterthought. True, it makes breathtaking technical demands of the soloist – but without much payoff (expressive, melodic, dramatic, whatnot) involved.
At least in these performances, you can’t fault Shelest or the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra (ENSO) their avidity.
Shelest has a clear affinity for Rubinstein’s wildly virtuosic writing, playing both pieces with terrific rhythmic command, bold colors, and a strong sense of shape. In the Third, she phrases the central movement’s Adagio sections with the utmost delicacy, while the outer movements’ blistering passagework glistens.
Similar brilliance and attention to detail mark her reading of the Fifth, with its anticipations of Rachmaninoff (an admirer or Rubinstein’s) and echoes of Tchaikovsky (one of his many students). Shelest’s articulation of the first movement’s busy octave-episodes are beautifully balanced and her introduction of the finale’s swashbuckling tarantella theme lacks nothing for flair. The stately middle movement proves winningly poetic.
For their part, the ENSO and conductor Neeme Järvi match Shelest for brio. Their account of the Third Concerto’s accompaniment is shapely and warm. In the Fifth, Rubinstein’s disjunct phrases and patchy treatment of the orchestra results in some ragged entries but the larger character of the music, such as it is, comes across well enough.
Jonathan Blumhofer is a composer and violist who has been active in the greater Boston area since 2004. His music has received numerous awards and been performed by various ensembles, including the American Composers Orchestra, Kiev Philharmonic, Camerata Chicago, Xanthos Ensemble, and Juventas New Music Group. Since receiving his doctorate from Boston University in 2010, Jon has taught at Clark University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and online for the University of Phoenix, in addition to writing music criticism for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Harmonia Mundi, Lyrita, Sorel Classics
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This early Baroque parish church and minor basilica in Vienna’s old town, also known as the Church of St. Maria Rotunda, is a striking example of the Italian Baroque style with an exquisite barrel-vaulted ceiling.
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In the Middle Ages the established monastic way of living was in an isolated community behind the walls of a cloisters where members worked at a trade and owned property, such as land, building and other objects of wealth. By contrast, mendicant orders did not work at a trade and embraced a lifestyle of poverty. They travelled and lived among people and most importantly, they depended for their survival on the goodwill of the people to whom they preached. Their purpose was preaching, evangelization, and ministry, especially to the poor taking as their examples the early apostles. Out of this ideal emerged two orders of mendicant friars: one, the Friars Minor, was led by Francis of Assisi; the other, the Friars Preachers, led by Dominic of Guzman.
The first church on this site was built by the newly arrived Dominicans near one of the gates in Vienna′s city walls in 1237. A series of fires in the Romanesque church instigated the construction of a new Gothic church between 1283 and 1302. However, this second building has a similar ill fate, it was heavily damaged during the first siege of Vienna by the Turkish army in 1529. The present building was built between 1631 and 1634 involving Italian craftsmen and artists. It has six side chapels each dedicated to a saint, who are portrayed in the paintings above the altars: St. Catherine of Siena, Thomas Aquinas, St. Rose of Lima, St. Anne, St. Vincent Ferrer, and St. Catherine of Alexandria. The frescoes of the barrel-vaulted ceiling of Matthias Rauchmiller (1675) depict 46 scenes from the life of Our Lady.
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Playlist: O'Dark 30 episode 118 (3-14)
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KUT's O’Dark 30 heads into the two weeks of Texas spring with more of the very best from the world of independent radio production this week. Every Sunday at midnight on Austin's KUT 90.5 and also at 4pm on digital KUT2 we present 3 hours of a little bit of everything from the world of independent radio production.
Episode 118 (3-14) includes 99% Invisible #39- Darth Vader Family Courthouse...Snap Judgment #218: Adaptation...Carmen's Grandmother...Remixing Grandma's Voice...Dan, the Oil and the Law...The Story of Black America: From Slavery to Civil Rights and the Modern Era...#59- Powered by Laughter...Rabble Rousers...Women Rising 19: Masters of the Spoken Word
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99% Invisible #39- Darth Vader Family Courthouse (Standard 4:30 Version)
From Roman Mars | Part of the 99% Invisible (Standard Length) series | 04:30
Not the kind of place that makes your divorce or custody battle any easier.
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Carmen's Grandmother
From Jay Allison | Part of the Stories From Carmen series | 10:50
Produced in 1992 and originally aired on All Things Considered, this evergreen story chronicles Carmen Delzell's visit to her grandmother in the nursing home. It's a complicated story about love in the face of racism.
This would be followed well by another story from the series, called "EZ Malone." Both reference relationships between black and white in the south, with Carmen's grandmother as the through-line.
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Produced in 1992 and originally aired on All Things Considered, this evergreen story chronicles Carmen Delzell's visit to her grandmother in the nursing home. It's a complicated story about love in the face of racism. This would be followed well by another story from the series, called "EZ Malone." Both reference relationships between black and white in the south, with Carmen's grandmother as the through-line.
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Remixing Grandma's Voice
From Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs | 02:12
When Afi Scruggs digitized an interview with her late grandmother, she recalled truism about technology: every time a format changes, important information risks loss. This essay reflects on capturing and keeping memories - and what happens when original sources are lost.
Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs
Conversations about data transference or archiving usually veer into discussions of technology and software. That was the mindset I was in when I digitized an interview I'd taped with my grandmother in Nashville, Tenn. on July 4, 1990.
As I listened to the interview, though, I recalled a lesson I'd learned from teaching Mass Communications: every time a format changes, important information risks loss. When I talked to my grandmother, I thought I was preserving a dying style of African-American singing. Instead I'd created an audio portrait that could bring ancestral voices to future generations - if they could access it.
My grandmother passed away in October, 2011, a few months after I created this essay. It is a meditation on transferring and archiving memories in the 21st century.
Remixing Grandma's Voice | 02:12
Dan, the Oil and the Law
From Paul Flahive | Part of the Arctic Entries series | 09:05
Dan fights the good fight and ends up in the slammer
Paul Flahive
While working for Greenpeace, Dan Ritzman, goes to the Arctic to stop offshore wells from being built and finds out that Oil is pretty important to Alaska.
Dan, the Oil and the Law | 09:05
The Story of Black America: From Slavery to Civil Rights and the Modern Era
From N Lorde | 17:23
In-depth documentary on the Story of Black America - from slavery to the civil rights movement. It’s fast-paced with a great original musical score and more importantly – it’s educational without being ‘preachy’!
The Story of Black America: From Slavery to Civil ...
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The Story of Black America: From Slavery to Civil Rights and the Modern Era includes narratives of fugitive slaves who escaped to Canada, how and why slavery was abolished as well as stories of the people who made a major impact in the civil rights movement. It’s fast-paced with a great original musical score and more importantly – it’s educational without being ‘preachy’!
The Story of Black America: From Slavery to Civil ... | 17:23
#59 - Powered By Laughter
From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies | Part of the SaltCast: the Backstory to Great Radio Storytelling series | 13:11
At Salt we say "Music is emotional fascism." It's a bit tongue-in-cheek. But, the idea is that you want to be VERY careful when you choose to use music for scoring a story.
Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Radio producer Avery Moore heard the following mantra for *four* years at journalism school: DON’T USE MUSIC!
Over and over, DON’T USE MUSIC was beaten into her.
Journalistically speaking, the logic is simple — don’t use music unless it’s part of the story. If it’s not part of the story, then the music is not germane and it shouldn’t be in the piece. Secondly, the argument continues, music can be emotionally manipulative — stick to the facts not manipulation.
That’s what Avery was taught and come hell or high water, she was going to stick with that philosophy… until late one night, sitting in front of her ProTools session at Salt, producing a profile, Avery did the unimaginable… and felt nauseous.
#59 - Powered By Laughter | 13:11
Rabble Rousers
From Sarah Boothroyd | 28:00
Touching on ethics, justice, democracy, and global citizenship, Rabble Rousers explores the notion of protest as a spontaneous installation of improvised 'music' in public space.
Sarah Boothroyd
"Protest, evasion, merry distrust, and a delight in mockery are symptoms of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A crowd of dissenters claps, chants, cheers, and shouts into the open air. Their chance choral creations are at once jubilant and angry, orderly and chaotic, rhythmic and random, melodious and cacophonous. Touching on ethics, justice, democracy, and global citizenship, Rabble Rousers explores the notion of protest as a spontaneous installation of improvised 'music' in public space.
Rabble Rousers features field recordings of protests from around the globe – including many culled from the Occupy Movement – as well as Creative Commons contributions from Random Coil, Pleq, Papercutz, Carlos Lemosh, Marcus Fischer, Upsteria, Erstlaub, Aurastore, Aos Crowley (Matt Dean), Pocka (Brad Mitchell), Matthias Kispert, and the Prelinger Archives.
Recipient of a Silver Medal for Best Sound at the 2013 New York Festivals Radio Programming Awards.
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Rabble Rousers | 28:00
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Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world, fighting for peace, justice, the environment, and civil society. In this program, we profile two American masters of the spoken word, provoking, inspiring, and moving us to action. Eve Ensler, playwright of the hit “Vagina Monologues” shares the innovative work of her organization, V-Day, and renowned storyteller, Diane Ferlatte, talks with us about using her art as an international bridge over cultural divides.
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Tag Archives: St. Thomas More
Interview 033 — Catholic Reform before Luther on The Mike Church Show
https://athanasiuscmdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/interview-033_mike-church_reformation.mp3
Today I was a guest on the Mike Church Show to talk about the myths surrounding Luther and the beginning of the “Reformation” and the Catholic reformers that began before Luther even appeared on the scene; so that Luther’s revolt was not due to abuses in the Church, but errors in theology that he embraced.
While we provide our particular interview free, there are hundreds of hours of great content to hear on the Mike Church Show and the Crusade Channel on the Veritas Radio Network! Please support them by subscribing to their podcasts.
The Spiritual Life and Prayer by Cecile Bruyére
Dom Gueranger
NPR Standard useless history on Luther and the Reformation
For biblical Learning in the middle ages, see the chapter on Wycliffe in St. John Fisher: Reformer, Humanist, Martyr for a scholarly summary.
Luther and the Bible
Erfurt University
***Shameless Plug Alert*** St. Robert Bellarmine’s treatise on Purgatory with copious references to the Greek Father
Tetzel
Myths about the 95 Thesis
For a summary of Luther’s lecture notes on Romans, see Philip Hughes, A Popular History of the Reformation
Exsurge Domine of Leo X
Cardinal Ximenez
Complutensian Polyglot Bible of Ximenez (I made an error when saying this was done 17 years before Luther, although Ximenez was compiling, directing and paying for it as early as that, it was not actually published until 1520; the point still stands as this was not done in reaction to Luther but a project that began before Luther and was carried out before Luther).
Humility of Heart by Gaetano de Bergamo (New complete translation provided by Mike Church)
University of Louvain
BBC In Our Time podcast on Erasmus
James Latomus (I accidentally said “John” in the podcast)
Ruard Tapper
St. Thomas More: A Great Man in Hard Times (with summaries of his positions and his contribution to Catholic Reform)
Sermons of St. John Fisher
Thomas Vio de Gaetano (Cajetan)
Marcello Cervini
Frederick the III (The wise)
St. Gaetano de Thiene
Theatines
Comuneros Revolt
Movie on St. Ignatius of Loyola
Simpsons Henry VIII (warning, crass humour)
Lord Nelson buried in St. Paul’s
Capuchins
A Capuchin Chronicle
Man sentenced to Capuchin monastery begs to go to jail because religious life is too hard
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St. John Fisher: Resistance to Tyranny
Today is the feast of the twin martyrs, St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More. There are books yet to be written on both, for all that have been written, but since so many more have been written on the latter I wish to write more on the former.
Now, in the first place, Fisher was a far greater theologian than St. Thomas More, who was a rhetorician and a lawyer, though no less devout a layman than Fisher was a bishop. Fisher established the seminary system in all but name, and made sure good preaching was the norm. This is rather an interesting thing. In the late Renaissance, patronage, which was designed to move ahead those who were worthy had become instead a way of rewarding friends and picking favorites. Men became pastors and bishops solely due to royal favor, and the Popes tended not to care because they received the first year’s income of that diocese, a sort of Church tax called the Annates. Suffice it to say the whole thing had gone very wrong in the fifteenth century, and now preaching was a rarity. Some Bishops did not preach a sermon in their lives. Many bishops lived elsewhere, and would attempt to have other dioceses consecrated under them, or when those had been exhausted abbeys, so they could live it up in Paris or Rome or some other large city, and appoint a vicar for low pay to administer his diocese. These often did not do so well, particularly since they were not paid for the job. At the time St. Charles Borromeo entered Milan as its Archbishop, there had not been a Bishop who actually resided in Milan for 125 years! Yet that holy reforming bishop had a portrait of two saints in his room, one of St. Ambrose, and the other of St. John Fisher.
This entry was posted in Articles, History, Saints and tagged Church history, faith, Fathers, government, heresy, Latin, Luther, Papacy, Reformation, revolution, saints, St. John Fisher, St. Thomas More, Theology, Tradition on 22 June, 2015 by rubens7.
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Hamilton’s title hopes boosted by Vettel’s grid drop
October 20, 2018 SportsFerrari rival Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, US Grand PrixAsdiq Rana
20 Oct, 2018 9:36 am
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton’s hopes of clinching his fifth Formula One world championship at the US Grand Prix were boosted when Ferrari rival Sebastian Vettel was handed a three-place grid penalty for a practice infringement.
Hamilton had already dominated both rainswept practice sessions for Mercedes when the German’s penalty was confirmed by race stewards.
Vettel, whose season has been punctuated by mistakes, added another error to the list when he was found to have gone too fast when red warning flags were waved during the morning running.
“I saw the red flag, I slowed down, they found it took too long and I think it’s pretty straightforward,” the unhappy German told Sky Sports television.
“But the rules are clear as well, it’s the first time we had this in the wet and you literally have to stop to 30 or 40kph, which I should do next time,” he added.
“I’m not sure it’s the right thing to do if there’s someone right behind you, but it’s more important you don’t get the penalty.”
Hamilton has won six of the past seven races and is chasing his fifth successive victory on Sunday.
If he wins, then Vettel must finish second to deny the Briton a title that would elevate him alongside the late great Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio as only the third driver to win five or more titles.
Hamilton has a 67-point lead and will be champion for the fourth time in five years if he scores eight points more than Vettel, who cannot now start higher than fourth.
The Mercedes driver put down an immediate marker in opening session by lapping 1.304 seconds quicker than the next man, his own Finnish team mate Valtteri Bottas.
He was more than a second faster than anyone else in the second session as well, with Toro Rosso’s Pierre Gasly making the most of the treacherous conditions to take second place on the timesheets.
Vettel meanwhile was fifth and 10th respectively while Red Bull’s Dutch 21-year-old Max Verstappen, always a threat, was third in both.
Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen was sixth and ninth.
MISERABLE WEATHER
Hamilton won his third championship at the Texan track in 2015 and has been almost unbeatable in Austin, winning five of the six races there since Texas first appeared on the calendar in 2012.
With the rain coming down steadily overnight, but easing slightly before the day’s action started, times were comparatively slow and Hamilton took his time before venturing out on track.
“The weather was miserable this morning; it looked like it was going to dry up going into FP2 (the second session) but then all of a sudden the heavens opened again,” said the champion.
“The intermediate tyres provided pretty good grip for the wet conditions, but I don’t think they will last very long,” he added.
“You can actually drive with quite a lot of standing water on the inters, so finding the cross-over between the extreme wets and the inters is going to be crucial as you can lose a lot if you get it wrong.”
The red flags came out in the first session after Sauber’s Charles Leclerc, Vettel’s future Ferrari team mate, spun at turn eight and went off, scattering gravel across the track.
There was little track action for most of the afternoon due to the conditions, which lifted in time for 15 of the 20 drivers to set a time. Bottas was one of those who did not.
“It was a pretty boring day, just waiting for the rain to go away,” said the Finn.
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TAKE NOTE: The Thelemic/Satanic ritual of rebirth
can be found in LIBER 44, a sacramental ritual of
Aliester Crowley known as the *Mass of the Phoenix*.
(I have written extensively about this in previous posts, especially regarding the London 2012 Olympics rituals).
I have not posted in a while due to the anticipation I have regarding the revelation – by actions, not rhetoric – of Donald Trump’s true intentions towards the globalist abomination of the Paris Agreement (Technocratic Carbon-666 world plantation economics). I thought I would just keep my mouth shut and observe more than opine, for a while, at least. So far, Donald Trump looks to simply be a puppet for global Zionism and Wahhabist extremism, and his attack on Syria during the 77th day of his Presidency spoke volumes to me semiotically; readers who have consumed my esoteric rants over the years will understand why. But, alas, the New World Order Luciferians (yes, they are Luciferians, or Ophite Gnostics to be more exact), are up to their old false-flag terror attack (human sacrifice) tricks again. I don’t call a false-flag lightly. Most Islamic extremist attacks are probably the work of legitimate small scale nut-jobs who don’t understand their attacks merely fuel the beast they think they are fighting. However, when the NWO do in fact perpetrate a large human sacrifice ritual that they are blaming on Islam, they tend to heavily stamp the event with elitist occult semiotic signatures; to communicate to other adepts their mastery over the helpless masses of human cattle (aka, goyiim, to dark Kabbalists).
TAKE NOTE: The first City of the Tour was Phoenix.
TAKE NOTE: The 44th (and last?) City on the Dangerous Woman tour is London. The venue is The O2 arena.
— The first concert in London occurs 111 days after the first concert in Phoenix.
— The Manchester bombing — which was probably just a warm-up and an esoteric conditioning procedure — occurred 365 days exactly after Ariana Grande announce the Dangerous Woman Tour on May 23rd 2016. 365 days is the period of the solar year, which is the death-rebirth cycle of the Sun, thus analogical to Phoenix symbolism.
— The Manchester bombing also occurred 333 days after the 2016 BREXIT Referendum, which is very important to the Phoenix/Whore of Babylon ritual being performed: The Whore/Financial City centre of Europe is getting a divorce from the Beast/EU; a resurrected Roman Empire. 333 is the special number of Choronzon/Chaos, the beast from the Kabbalistic Abyss in Thelema; Aleister Crowley’s satanic religion that many elites have adopted, which, for instance, Stanley Kubrick alluded to in his 1999 movie Eyes Wide Shut (‘sacred’ redemption-by-prostitute/scarlet woman A∴A∴ rites).
— The first London concert occurs 7777 days after the 1996 Docklands Bombing on the Isle of Dogs (9th Feb 1996), which destroyed the London World Trade Centre, and which was invoked on a massive stadium floor city map of London during the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the London 2012 (ZION) Olympic games. The closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics featured a famous ballet dancer in her 44th year of life (Darcey Bussell), performing a Phoenix ritual in the middle of a huge Union Jack, which is an analogue for the ancient 8-pointed Star of Ishtar (parallel to Sirius and Isis). SEE BELOW.
“The allegory in which the mysteries and higher grades are to be
clothed, consists of fire worship and the whole philosophy of
Zoroaster or the Parsis of old, who remain to this day in India.
This is why the Order, in the higher grades, will be called again:
the Cult of Fire, the Fire Order, or the Order of the Parsees;
it is something magnificent, above and beyond all expectation.”
–Weishaupt, Adam. “Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens (1787)”
(Melanson, Terry., ‘Fire and Time’, Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order Of The Illuminati.
Trine Day LLC, 2009. p. 218. n.2., Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens, pp. 330-1)
“…the merchants of the earth shall
weep and mourn over her; for no man
buyeth their merchandise any more…”
― Revelation 18:11. A future city of trade, destroyed.
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The Transatlantic slave trade
Fri May 21st 2010 by abagond
The Transatlantic slave trade (1501-1867), known by some in Texas as the Atlantic triangular trade, sold at least 12.5 million black Africans as slaves to work for white landowners on the other side of the ocean. Of these 1.8 million died at sea. Most of the rest were worked to death within seven years in the sugar cane fields of Brazil and the Caribbean.
The slave trade reached its height in the 1780s. A third of those sold were women. Towards the end a fourth were children!
Because the big money was in sugar only 4% came to the cotton and tobacco fields of North America. Three-fourths of those came from West Africa, the rest from what is now Congo, Angola and Mozambique.
While Europeans did catch some of their own slaves, they generally bought them from Africans. At first the Africans sold them prisoners of war but later as the market grew wars were fought to get slaves to sell.
A common white belief is that Africans “sold their own” as slaves. That is based on yet another common white belief: that Africa is a country. Africans did not sell their own: they sold their enemies. This became much easier to do once Europeans brought the gun to Africa and supplied a ready market for slaves.
Africans practised slavery long before the Europeans showed up, but the European kind was a different beast:
It was on a much vaster scale – millions, not thousands.
It was based on skin colour.
It was lifelong and fell upon one’s children too.
If you were caught you were put in chains and marched to a slave fort on the coast. Because you were on foot that could take months. About one in five – 3 million in all – died in these death marches.
Once at the fort you were put behind bars and there you waited for a slave ship and a good wind. That might take yet more months. And if the ship was not full it would spend weeks or months visiting yet other slave forts along the coast to fill up.
The Middle Passage:
It took as little as a month to get to Brazil, two months or more to get to North America.
Ships were packed so full that you had just enough room to lay down. Sometimes you did not even have enough room to roll over and lay on your side. It was dark and hot and airless and you lived in shit, piss, vomit and menstrual blood. The ship’s crew raped the women and girls. You had little to eat but even worse you had little to drink: fresh water was extremely limited on the high seas.
Disease was common. In the 1500s as many as half died on board. In the 1800s that dropped to 5%. Some who lived went mad.
So many slaves came that it was not until the 1840s and the Irish Potato Famine that more whites than blacks crossed the Atlantic.
How White America got rich
Guinea Coast
descendants:
Afro-Latinos
Some numbers on Black Americans
moral arguments:
The Arab trader Argument
“Go back to Africa”
The slave trade was immoral
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 15:04:12 Thaddeus
It took a month to get to Brazil, two months or more to get to North America.
It could take far longer, depending on what port the ship sailed from and where it went to. The two big slave trading ports in Brazil were Rio and Salvador. Slaves going from southern Africa to Rio could take months to get there, given prevailing winds and currents.
Recall that back in those days, unlike what that map would indicate, nobody sailed in straight lines: you had to follow the prevailing winds. In the South Atlantic, they run counter-clockwise. So a ship from Angola would probably sail north from the Tropic of Cancer, cross the Atlantic, and then have to sail back down to Rio in a big circle.
A long trip, any road.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 15:33:29 Mel
I guarantee there will be whites here saying: “that was so long ago. Why bring up the past?”
Y’know, that slave ship loading diagram is one of the most iconic images of the middle passage every produced in the west.
Does anyone know anything about its history or social conditions of production? I mean, what was it produced FOR? A court case? A “how to” manual for the slave trade? As an illustration of an ex-slave’s narrative…?
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 15:58:10 J
12 million is usually the conservative estimate, depending on what sources you utilise.
Whatever the figure?? It does not usually take into account the amounts killed in wars and the long march to the coasts.
And a very good point you make about ‘Africans selling their own’, which unfortunately based on ‘self-hate’ and a lack of knowledge of history.
There is also another side to this point. None of us should be surprised if a country would sell their own.
I think there was one other group that were sold and that was those at the bottom of the society.
There is nothing extraordinary about this except in this instance a person would be sold because of ‘status’ and not tribal identity, or a ‘prisoner of war’ – back then there was no such thing as a collective African identity.
And again African slavery of which I guess you can identify two influences:
1. Islamic slavery
2. indigeneous slavery.
Many commentators suggest that even though aspects of Islamic slavery was brutal. On the macro level, it was completely different to the process of ‘chattel slavery’ in the West.
If I may suggest that at some point, you could do a counterpart to this post and discuss the ‘East African Slave Trade’, on the East Coast of Africa, that took Africans to places in the Middle East, islands in the Indian oceans (??) etc.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 15:59:49 FG
Excellent summary, Abagond!
The map suggests that New World Afrodescendents searching for their roots should look more to West Africa than Egypt or the Swahili-speaking peoples.
That is if you do not believe people migrate FG.
And Swahili is for the East African Slave Trade
Perhaps you can create another post Abagond, because directly after the slave trade you see ‘New Imperialism’. This would all tie in nicely and be the logical sequence of event regarding the continent
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 16:44:56 Patricia Kayden
Very educational. Shows how strong Blacks are that 12.5 million slaves have become well over 100 million strong throughout the New World.
Also, while we know that “Africans sold their own” is a popular refrain, it must also be pointed out that there were Africans who openly opposed and fought against the enslavement of other Africans. That is often missed in the discussion — as it is made out that it was kind Europeans who put an end to the slave trade.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 16:45:04 realist
“The Transatlantic slave trade…known by some in Texas as the Atlantic triangular trade”
It’s like 1984. Sadly, the term will be used in textbooks around the country (not just Texas) unless people protest and/or write their congressperson demanding such nonsense not be taught to their children in standardized textbooks. Countless other garbage (including implicit evolution denial in sceince textbooks) will be forced upon the education of American children if we do not act.
“Africans did not sell their own: they sold their enemies.”
I agree with that statement completely. Moreover, transatlantic slavery is a disgusting legacy of western European civilization. It is remarkable, however, that during the period in discussion (1501-1867) western Europeans would not “sell their enemies” if the enemies in question were white. Black Subsaharan Africans, on the other hand, continue to sell other black people into slavery to this day. In Haiti, such a domestic slave trade exists and was recently documented in a New York Times blog piece. (http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/haitian-tradition-is-criticized-as-child-slavery/) The preceding link includes a gritty video documenting the lives of some child domestic slaves around Port-au-Prince.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 17:35:40 Y
Excellent, Abagond. It seems a lot of people focus so much on the slaves that made it to the New World that they forget about the millions that died along the way, and the horrendous conditions they lived in.
I know I would have died on board, or I would have killed myself…Definitely wouldnt have made it.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 17:53:36 Natasha W
But I wanted to point out that the map in the post is inaccurate. For instance, a substantial portion of slaves taken to the Southeastern areas of Georgia up through the South Carolina/North Carolina border were from Sierra Leone and Senegambia. And peoples captured from the Bight of Biafra were sent to the Virginia/Maryland area in large numbers. This is backed up by historical documents and genetic testing.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 19:27:28 Dahoman X
Abagond wrote:
“While Europeans did catch some of their own slaves, they generally bought them from Africans.”
This was true only in the latter phase of the slave trade. During the first centuries of this “trade”, the slaves were caught through razzias by the european crews, as evidenced by numerous reports by white captains and traders.
The second phase saw the creation of forts and trading post along the coast, as well as the rise of african auxiliaries of the slave trade and the intervention of europeans in the politics of the african kingdoms.
One can’t understand the 3rd and last phase (the emergence of coastal african slaver kingdoms such as Danxome (Dahomey)) if one is not aware of this process.
Abagond, would you happen to read french? If so I might find you some links from an african forum I know where all the process is discussed.
With regard to:
“so much on the slaves that made it to the New World that they forget about the millions that died along the way, and the horrendous conditions they lived in”.
This is partly because of the lack of written documents. This is one of the major problems with history as a social science.
However, by the time the slaves were on land, I believe there were more historical accounts.
Here is one such account of the Middle Passage
Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel: In the Mozambique Channel April and May, 1843
http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Days-Board-Slave-Vessel-Mozambique/dp/0933121466#reader_0933121466
From my memory most of those in the Caribbean are from what would be Ghana and Nigeria (Benin).
Brazil – Congo
Slave Trade & African-American Ancestry
http://wysinger.homestead.com/mapofafricadiaspora.html
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 23:54:55 peanut
Yes, i hate that lie used to excuse european enslavement of africans. Europeans enslaved/ mistreated their own too. Look at how the slovak slaves were tortured and mistreated by their hungarian overlords…research Erzebet bathory to get a good picture of that. Furthermore, there were plenty of africans who tried to stop the sale of african slaves to europeans, such as Queen Nzinga.
I read a book about slavery in Antigua…its a sad thing and a brutal history.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 00:17:22 Jess
“The Transatlantic slave trade (1501-1867), known by some in Texas as the Atlantic triangular trade”
How is that bad? I learned it that way too. We were taught that both mean the same thing, not just in one way. If anything it gives you the whole picture of the trade.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 00:56:44 leigh204
It really saddens me that people could do such horrible things to each other. I cannot fathom what these slaves had to endure. The slave trade was evil and disgusting.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 03:08:05 Thaddeus
Europeans enslaved/ mistreated their own too.
Some people on this board will be surprised to learn that.
Of course, Peanut could just be reiterating the old “The Irish were slaves, too” myth, right…?
It really saddens me that people could do such horrible things to each other.
Ironically enough, just saw a trailer today which deals with immigration into the U.S. from a Brazilian point of view. We’ve just had a big debate on immigration here. Obviously enough to me, things haven’t changed much. Self-claimed anti-racist activists on this blog would happily see families torn apart and people shipped from one side of the planet to another in chains, kept for months in a time in dungeons awaiting transhipment, etc.
If people who claim to be anti-racist activists on this blog can look that sort of thing in the eye today and say “Fair go. It’s only right”, why would anyone presume that we’ve learned much of anything since 1750?
The targets of inhuman behavior shift around a bit, but it’s always there.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 03:50:18 AB
i would recomend an independent documentary called 500 years later. it tells the whole story. we watched most of it in my africa in cinema class. http://www.hulu.com/watch/93209/500-years-later
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 10:31:01 Hathor
After the importation of slaves became illegal, they were smuggled in through Louisiana for Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia cotton growing. Most of these slaves were from other parts of Africa. The slaves from parts of West Africa were chosen because they had the rice growing skills and a resistance to malaria which was pertinent to the rice growing colonies.
There were only certain African groups that captured slaves and considering the amount of that population, I don’t agree that Africans including Arabs did most of the slave catching.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 10:35:13 Mira
This is a good post. I knew about the numbers and the time needed to sail, but I didn’t know about the regions of Africa where the slaves came from. I used to think it was more of central Africa; I had no idea about slaves coming from Mozambique.
Now, speaking of slavery, I think people should once and for all understand how horrible slavery was, and just because “Africans” and Arabs and people in the antiquity did it, it’s not an excuse. First of all, it’s wrong. If it’s wrong to kill and enslave a man, you don’t get a pass if someone else did before you. Plus- and I don’t try to minimize suffering of slaves in antiquity or those enslaved by non-whites – but whites often see western civilization as the best, completely fair, respecting human rights, etc, etc- and they were the ones who did this. And last, but not the least, in most of the other forms of slavery, you were able to buy your freedom, and/or you were enslaved for a given period of time (3, 7 years). Also, if you were an educated individual, or a craftsman, or you had any special skills, you were able to continue practising your craft or become a tutor in someone’s family (so I guess your live was a little bit less horrible). Not here.
Now, I disagree about skin colour as an important difference: enslaving humans based on skin colour isn’t any better or worse than enslaving them based on religion, or ethnic group, or any other criteria.
But even if they were, Hathor, so what? It doesn’t change the fact whites were ones enslaving those people. They didn’t take them to America and free them.
But it is important to note that, in any case, “Africans” didn’t capture “their own”- they captured their enemies. Africa is not uniform. Hey, white Americans and Russians are whites, and yet, they were (are?) enemies. And you can even say most of the Arabs are whites (they are Caucasians) so someone could say whites are attacking “their own”.
I am old enough to remember how Black folks looked different depending upon where they were from. Even the accents were different.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 12:02:38 J
Cheers Hathor,
Do you know where the other slaves were from, and would you like to say anything more on the matter??
Its funny, just as I was typing I remember a similar thing also happened in Jamaica, but I cannot remember any of the details where these Africans came from.
Anyhow suffice to say these ‘Africans’ also merged in with ‘other Jamaicans’ to become ‘Jamaicans’.
This is the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Alas-Kongo-Indentured-Immigration-1841-1865/dp/0801823080
“So what? It doesn’t change the fact whites were ones enslaving those people. They didn’t take them to America and free them
Indeed a very valid point.
There is another point to this but this time from the ‘slavers side’
Unfortunately leaving aside other political issues like prisoner of wars from other tribes, ‘pariahs of society’ who were to become slaves. This was a very lucrative business that any unscrupulous character could profit immensely from.
Well, I know there are some people who think whites have cruelty and a need to enslave others in their blood. But these things are not born with someone’s white skin; they are products of society, politics and other things that give them power. Indeed, there were whites who were enslaved/suffered by the hands or other whites and non-whites. And yes, there a non-whites who captured their enemies, and Arabs who enslaved people, etc etc.
But to use this argument to derail any discussion about this specific slavery is not a good thing, and it shows basic misunderstanding. So what if Egyptians, Greeks and Romans had slaves? In what way, exactly, does this make transatlantic slavery less horrible? Especially given the fact you were often able to free yourself in ancient slavery and you were often enslaved on a given period of time (3 years for example).
“But to use this argument to derail any discussion about this specific slavery is not a good thing, and it shows basic misunderstanding”
However, it is needed though, because if you look at ‘Western civilisation’ from a historical point of view. There is no remorse nor has there been regard to slavery, and in this sense the derailment (ie ‘red herring’) becomes all the more vital as a tool.
I best stop here because I can see myself heading towards reparation ha ha ha…
No but seriously, I stand by the above.
And with regard to my own comments:
“This was a very lucrative business that any unscrupulous character could profit immensely from”.
Even today – these are the only ones I can remember but there are many more – companies who were formed because of slavery
Tate & Lyle (sugar company)
And even today , such companies still continue to earn millions which otherwise would not have been possible without slavery
Mira,
I said what I said, because I am so tired of the commentary being, but Black people did it too. These comments not only are made during a post about slavery, they are made even in the context of explaining the legacy slavery left or how it has psychologically effected Black people to this day. I am sure there will some comment here that will blame all slavery on Black people, as if it is only in Black’s DNA.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 15:19:14 Natasha W
Generally true, although I wouldn’t lump all of the Caribbean together because they don’t all have the same origins. For example, many that were brought to Jamaica were the Kongo, who reside in present-day Zaire, Congo, and Angola.
Not necessarily. There were plenty of those from present-day Ghana and Nigeria (mainly Yoruba and Ewe) that were sent to Brazil, as well as others.
No one knew exactly where they came from, but comparing pictures of people in my geography books, people that were from the cotton states looked more like thy came from what we would call the Congo. Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Virginia looked more like people from West Africa. Every now and then I would see people with features that looked as if they were from Kenya, like Thomas Mboya’s people. I had met several Kenyans when I was in high school. I know that there are several different groups in Kenya, that why I made a reference. My paternal grandfather looked much like he came from Ghana. He was only one generation out of slavery. But more than likely his ancestors came from Sierra Leone, because he might be called a Geechee.
I understand you. I didn’t reply to your comment to argue with you, but to agree with you.
Since this post is the one discussing the slave sources, I wanted to dismiss the whole “africans/arabs/whoever did it too!” argument before it started.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 17:25:51 Kwamla
Another great post by Abagond. which I commend.
Any time the full comprehension and realization of the transatlantic slave trade is made bare, then discussed.
It never fails to amaze me how justifiable it can be made to be seen if it can be argued or proved that Africans were also complicit in this too.
Lets “suppose” this was true. SO WHAT!!!!????
What does it say about the so called humanity of the Europeans? Where was the so called moral superiority?
The fact that they deemed this was OK for 500 years must surely say something about the mind of Europeans?
And perhaps someone can tell me where is the historical evidence of Africans or any other peoples of colour systematically brutalizing, dehumanizing and lawfully disregarding the lives of human beings in this way for 100’s of years?
There isn’t any!!! The closest being perhaps the Jews during the 2nd world war but guess what? Thats was Europeans again!!!!
Has anybody noticed a pattern here?
There’s pretty good information that
most of the primitive capital accumulation in Brazil came from slave-trading rather than mining or sugar-making.
With regards to the trans-atlantic slave trade, here’s some basic facts that people often forget about it that are really necessary:
1) It occurred roughly over a 400 year period and the locus of slaving moved several times during that period. Speaking very generally, it tended to move south and east as time went on.
2) Different European and African peoples were highly active in it at different periods.
3) Technologies of slave trading changed radically during the period.
4) Relatively speaking, what’s today the U.S. was a late-comer to the game. It thus got few slaves from the northern parts of Africa and those that it did get tended to be concentrated in places of early colonization such as the North Carolina seaboard.
So to say “such-and-such a region got slaves from such-and-so a point in Africa” is generally a simplification.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 18:29:39 MerriMay
Agreed Kwamla,
The slave trade was truly tragic, I can’t begin to imagine what kind of depraved minds would pack their fellow human beings in such conditions, words fail me.
Blacks can commit a thousand crimes, it won’t in any way match the horror of what Europeans have done to them. Never!
Enslaving West Africa, colonizing the rest, the supine attitude of Europeans towards Africa makes me sick!
There is one aspect of the trade journey that is not mentioned here and was so horrific that Malcolm X suggested it had to be written out from nearly all the history books.
I had posted what he had to say on this matters on here – can’t quite remember where though)??
Seasoning Camps
“Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps found throughout the Caribbean.[54] Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves (destined for island or South American plantations) were likely to be put through this ordeal.
The enslaved people were tortured for the purpose of “breaking” them (like the practice of breaking horses) and conditioning them to their new lot in life.
Jamaica held one of the most notorious of these camps. All in all, 5 million Africans died in these camps reducing the final number of Africans to about 10 million.[54]”
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 00:05:27 J
Took a long while to find the excerpt from Malcolm X:
“Our people weren’t brought right to this country. They were dropped off in the West Indian islands in the Caribbean…
Why?… This was the breaking-in grounds. They would break them in down there.
When they broke them in, they would bring the ones whose spirit had been broken on to America. They had all kinds of tactics for breaking them in. They bred fear into them, for one thing…
And this is why they took the role of the ‘slave maker’ out of history. It was so criminal that they don’t even dare to write about it…
I read in one book how the slave maker used to take a pregnant woman…and make her watch as her man would be tortured and put to death.
[Another] had trees that he planted in positions where he would bend them and tie them, and then tie the hand of a Black man to one, a hand to the other, and his legs to two more, and he’d cut the rope. And when he cut the rope, the tree would snap up and pull the arm of the [slave] right out of his socket, pull him up into four different parts.
I’ll show you books where you can read it, they write about it.
They used to take a Black woman who would be pregnant and tie her up by her toes, let her be hanging head down, and they would take the knife and cut her stomach open, let that Black unborn child fall out, and then stomp its head, in the ground.
I’ll show you books where they write about this… ‘Slave Trade by Spears; From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin; Negro Family in U.S by Frazier touches upon it…
‘Anti-slavery’ by Dwight Lowell Dummond…”
Malcolm X on Afro-American History, Pathfinder Press…
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 01:13:52 Menelik Charles
@J,
Malcolm X’ on Afro-American History is one of the greatest, most accessible, books I’ve ever read. It would make a fine introductory reader for any African-American (especially male) wishing uplift themselves out of mental slavery. Indeed, it should be required reading in all US prisons.
Menelik Charles
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 02:57:23 Thaddeus
@Merrimay
Don’t you mean “lupine”?
Re: seasoning camps. The Wiki sez that South American slaves were put through this:
Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps found throughout the Caribbean. Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves (destined for island or South American plantations) were likely to be put through this ordeal.
Sorry, I call bulls$t on that. South American slaves were not shipped to Carribean before being sent to Brazil – and let’s face it, 95% of South American slaves came through Brazil. Either Meltzer got it wrong or (more likely) the Wikidiot quoting him got it wrong.
My favorite source for this topic is Hugh Thomas’ The Slave Trade.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 03:50:26 Paisley
MerriMay: “Blacks can commit a thousand crimes, it won’t in any way match the horror of what Europeans have done to them. Never!”
I totally agree. And let’s not forget European/white atrocities against the Australian Aboriginals, the Maoris, the Tasmanians, the indigenous Americans, etcetera, etc., on and on, ad infinitum….
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 08:49:40 MerriMay
@ Thad
Supine still stands, don’t play professor with me, you’ll only fail.
I used the metaphorical ‘supine’ hand as in a ‘gimme gimme’ attitude to Africa.
Secondly, I meant it as an indifference, careless, lazy, negligent(insert other meanings of the word) attitude to Africa.
Here we go again,
Thad in his role as RR and No_Slappz…
The thought that Whites could be incredibly evil to Blacks pains him so much that he has to reject the contention.
What he attempts to do is clever – well not really -. He rejects the contention of ‘seasoning camps’ but remains strangely silence on the brutality devised by the slaveowners. Almost as if that part is at least true, but he does not have an argument, or anything by which he can knockk that idea down, otherwise he would.
As a lecturer one would expect him to draw on his expertise to critique it.
However, because he has probably have not heard this thing before (here read too arrogant or a ‘troll’ to admit it). He has to suggests that Meltzer has it wrong.
However, this creates its own problems. Since if Meltzer is wrong. Then Malcolm X is also wrong and the references that he cited would also be incorrect.
This is one of the problems that can occur when you are schooled (or here read fooled) in ‘eurocentricism’ and over-rely on authors who are steeped in that tradition.
I am not surprised taht a person like you would therefore use Hugh Thomas as your reference. As the Americans might say a Johnny-come-lately to the scene.
And here we go further, one more reference to add to the list, in addition to the ones quoted by Malcolm X:
“Seasoning was a process conducted during the Atlantic slave trade for the purpose of “breaking” slaves. The practice conditioned the African captives for their new lot in life, newly arrive black African captive would have to be trained into the daily rigors that await them in the Americas. This training was carried out on Plantations in the Caribbean such as Jamaica. Then the conditioned captives were taken to the American south to be worked as a slave.
Estimated mortality rates for this process vary from 7% to 50% with duration between one and four years.[1]
Most slaves destined for island or South American plantations were likely to be put through this ordeal, though slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process. Jamaica held one of the most notorious of these camps. [2]
The process of seasoning had a strong profit motive for example, as economists state the average price of adult male slaves in Jamaica in the 1770’s was 52% higher than “New Negroes” (Africans who came to a New World).[3]
1. Kiple, K.F. The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History, p. 65.
2. Meltzer, Milton. Slavery: A World History. Da Capo Press, 1993.
3. Trevor, B. and Morgan, K. The Dynamics of the Slave Market and Slave Purchasing Patterns in Jamaica, 1655-1788. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 58, No. 1, New Perspectives on the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Jan., 2001), pp. 205-228
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasoning_(slave)
So what does this all mean??
In a nutshell, Thad is the ‘White liberal’ that Steve Biko warned about, and even Malcolm X also.
He is that ‘Great White Man’, do not worry about the other one (with that tag) who has taken up the ‘White Man’s Burden’ to teach the docile natives, their history and how best they should obtain their freedom also as part of the process, but yet at the same time maintaining the same White world order.
An ‘academic’ troll
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 10:45:37 Kwamla
Interesting to see how the trail of this discussion goes…
While comments from myself , MerriMay, Paisley, J, etc.. attempt to reflect on the culpability or responsibility of Europeans for behaving in this way…TIME AND TIME AGAIN!!!
Others seem preoccupied with establishing the precise statistics of which slaves came from or were sent where..??
Why is this so important ???
This is the level of reflection. As if it were some “tragic”, unintentional vast migration of peoples which took place so many years ago, and where the true facts or statistics have become obscured over time. But it happened… As did say the Roman civilization or the industrial revolution which took place over many years both of which had their ups and downs!!!
Again these tired old reflections refuse to examine or challenge the mind or motives of a people who would allow and STILL CONTINUE to allow such abhorrent behavior and practices to continue today.
It may not be so OVERT as in the case of industrialized fellow human slavery 200 years ago but that uncaring mentality still lingers on in the form of cruelty and disregard for peoples of colour, animals, the Earths environment etc…
This is not simply a question of apportioning blame, guilt or extracting apologies from any one race of people; or mounting an argument for reparations (another discussion) its about recognizing, acknowledging and owning up to collective PAST actions and behaviors.
Such honest, personal, DEEP opening up reflections become the guiding determinants for the way we wish FUTURE collective actions and behaviors to be seen and implemented.
What are the signs that such a global humanitarianism or Earth centered holistic approach is taking place today ???
I live in optimism …
I still like “lupine” better.
No, I don’t reject the notion of seasoning camps. I reject the statement of the Wiki you linked us to, which claims that South American slaves were sent through seasoning camps in the CARRIBEAN.
As for the brutality of the situation, that is evident.
Its not clear to me what you are saying here, or whether this is one of your mis-understandings??
It is being staed that some slaves taken from Africa went to the Caribbean so as to be ‘broken in like horses’ before they were then transported on to their final destination, so that they could become ‘good slaves’.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 12:36:04 Hathor
Kwamla,
The discussion about where slaves come from actually dispels the myth that all Africans participated in the slave trade.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 12:57:57 abagond
According to the Wikipedia article only about one in six African city states and kingdoms that knew about the slave trade took part in it.
I remember reading be that some of the African rulers were oblivious to the extent of the horrors of the slave trade, in its early period. Since once the slaves were sold that was it and this may make some sort of sense in the context of what slavery as an institution in Africa being ‘different’ to ‘chattel slavery’.
However, much later the rulers became fully cognizant of what was taking place, and in some instance rulers were held to ransom by the Colonial powers to provide slaves.
This is also another feature rarely discussed on why/how the slaves were provided.
Thad you really are a character, even though my ancestors in South Africa, were not subject to slavery, but of a colonial sort- a separate thread I’ll concede, it still pains me greatly to read about what fellow blacks went through.
Interesting observation that J has made about you, your complete indifference to it, the complete absence of outrage on your part speaks volumes. The hell with your geographical trail of slaves because as usual you bulldoze over others’ very valid points.
I’m not saying tear you hair out but for goodness sake where is the respect for these people???
I suppose this qualifies as commiseration on your part:
WTH?
Why do you constantly undermine the integrity of a subject as historically atrocious with your crap?? If you have nothing meaningful to add, just gag it.
Which leads to my second point.
You like ‘lupine’ better?? Cobblers!!! You take it upon yourself to correct things that don’t even warrant it??
Your arrogance is as usual insulting!! I don’t care what you like!
Regarding those specific sources in the Wiki, J, let’s go directly to them, shall we?
Kiple (The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History) does not mention the majority of South American bound slaves heading through Carribean seasoning camps. In fact, he barely mentions South America AT ALL in his book and when he does, it’s as a comparative pole for his main focus: the Carribean. When he mentions slaves bound for South America via Jamaica, he’s talking about the Guyanas and some northern spanish colonies. This trade was a drop in the bucket compared to that of the rest of South America.
So no, Kiple does not sustain the hypothesis that most slaves bound for South America were put through Carribean seasoning camps.
Let’s turn to Meltzer. Like most English-language historians of slavery, he barely mentions South America or Brazil. This, in fact, is one of the reasons one needs to temper these early authors with “Johnny-come-latelies” like Thomas, who understand that most slavery took place under the Portuguese and Spanish flags. Early English-language authors were far too willing to take the experience of British colonies as some sort of pan-Atlantic norm.
Meltzer does not mention most South American slaves IN GENERAL being shipped through Carribean seasoning camps, certainly not on page 65 and, as far as I can see, nowhere else in the book.
On to Trevor and Morgan. They do indeed mention slaves being transhipped to South America from Jamaica, but again, only to the northern tier of colonies, particularly British Guyana (which makes some sense).
None of these sources thus sustain the hypothesis that most South American bound slaves went through Carribean seasoning camps before being resold to South America. As I said, that appears to be a wiki error created by injudicious copy-pasting from other internet articles.
Metzler is not wrong, he’s just been poorly quoted: most of the ENGLISH trade did indeed go through Jamaica. The English, however, weren’t selling slaves to Brazil, the America’s largest consumer of slaves.
With regards to Thomas, why J thinks an author should be dismissed just because he’s written more recently on a topic is beyond me. In general, more recent books have BETTER data than older books.
Here’s what Thomas has to say on the subject of “seasoning” in a South American context:
The main ports for receiving slaves in South America were Rio (for the Portuguese) and Caratenga (for the Spanish – far less than Rio, however: 3000 slaves a year at its peak). In both ports, slaves were dumped into holding baracks on the outskirts of town, where they were left until a buyer came along. In Rio, slaves at this point were more often “fattened up” than sadistically beaten. This wasn’t because slave dealers were nice guys and humanitarians: the horrors of the middle passage left many Africans on death’s door and every dead slave was that much less profit.
Nevertheless, deaths in these barracks continued at an astounding rate. So bad that mass cemeteries needed to be dug near the Valongo, Rio’s slave trading street (and these were rediscovered during urban improvement projects in the 20th century). Thomas remarks that slave traders SHOULD have taken much better care of their “wares”, if the logic was simple capitalism. However, even more modern research by Brazilian scholars, shows that the care given to slaves in barracks depended quite a lot on the general economy of the time.
A booming economy would mean huge demand and quick turnover. Under these conditions, slaves would spend little time in the Valongo barracks and even the sickest would be picked up by desperate planters and miners. Traders didn’t care much about slave health in boom conditions: turnover was far more important.
When the economy slowed down, however, quality became more important and care could increase in order to increase the “shelf-life” of the slave. In a really bad economic downturn, however, the trader could simply decide that costs for maintaining the slaves alive could outweigh their possible sale value and simply let them die.
There was nothing approximating an organized “seasoning camp” on the Valongo, however, where slaves were systematically tortured to ensure obedience. Again, not because the Portuguese slave dealers were nice guys but because it was too much effort and cost. Why bother? The trader wasn’t a conscientous employee of the Great White Conspiracy to Subdue the Negro: he was an independent businessman, looking to make as much money as he could, as quick as he could by selling human flesh and souls. In Brazil, that meant “get ’em in and get ’em out” as quick as possible. Teaching the slaves obedience was not the Brazilian slave trader’s problem: it was the slave master’s problem.
Thomas has this to say about Jamaica as a transshipment point:
English ports were more brutal and less hygenic, but slaves brought to Jamaica for sale in Spanish America tended to be treated better than those sold elsewhere.
“Seasoning” was more often than not a general process which supposedly lasted a year or two and began with the slave barracks in African ports. Slaves would pass through two or three hands before getting to their final owners and, as they passed along, they’d be brutually treated as a matter of course. This was generally not because of some specific, thought-out plan to break the slaves’ will: it was the inevitable by-product of treating human beings as merchandise. Of course, ANY rebellion under these sorts of conditions was met with immediate and brutal violence, but again, not because this was some well-oiled, death-camp like machine, but precisely because it wasn’t. It was very often a poorly organized venture in which huges sums of money were being floated and could be won or lost on a throw of destiny’s dice. A plague sweeping through a cargo of slaves could bankrupt a dealer in one fell swoop. As Abolition inched closer and it became ever more clear that the trade from Africa would one day be stopped, traders began cramming their boats to the decks with slaves. The conditions for rebellion were, as one can well imagine, ripe and rebellion was the thing slave traders feared most, precisely because they didn’t have full control over their human cargo. It was a constant promise.
Now, I’m not as well acquainted with late-18th century British slavery as I am with the Brazilian varieties, but if there were a people who could have seriously contemplated the organization necessary for “seasoning camps”, it definitely would have been the British. That Enlightenment ethic could very well have produced some rationalist attempt to set up a camp where slaves’ wills were systematically broken. I’m willing to accept that as a hypothesis, given more proof than a Wikipedia article which misquotes an author.
What is definitely a fact, given the state of our knowledge on this issue, is that the vast majority of South American slaves did not pass through Jamaica or any other Carribean camp: they came through Rio and Salvador. And there is no indication that I’ve seen that anything like these camps operated here.
Note that this doesn’t mean that Brazilian slavery was not brutal.
Now, Kwamla asks “Why is this so important?”
Because this is the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the black presence in the Americas, the very history that black people have been deprived of. If you want history, you have to accept that it doesn’t always play out in accordance with your prejudices. If yopu want to know what happened back then, you have to really look at it.
As I mentioned in Abagond’s post on the Cherokee Trail of Tears, glossing one or another act of inhumanity as The Holocaust does not help us understand what happened. Slavery, like Indian reservations, had a complex history and had its OWN PARTICULAR coordinates of oppressions and brutalities. Imagining Dantesque slave seasoning camps where all slaves are systematically tortured to incur obedience leads us away from the REAL brutalities which occurred. As metaphor, the “death camp” has some explicatory power: as history, it confounds explanation and ends up creating myth.
And isn’t it one of black america’s complaints that too much of black history has been shrouded in myth?
Here’s one side effect mythologization produces:
Here in Rio (and in Salvador) we had an institution that was as bad or worse than the “seasoning camp”: the public slave prison, where masters could send unruly slaves to be tortured. Of course, if we’re going to get hung up on the myth of Brazilian slaves in Jamaican seasoning camps, we’ll never be able to discuss the REAL institutions which were used to break rebellious slaves, are we?
This returns to my wife’s article on the Black American Imperial Eye (https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/black-brazil-in-the-black-gringo-gaze/) : concentrating on the English-speaking transatlantic slavery and black experience as the norm creates a virtuality where (in this case) Jamaica becomes far more important than the Valongo, even though far many more black Americans’ ancestors (and J, please note that “America” does not mean the U.S. in this instance) came through the Valongo than through Kingston.
Brazilian black history is considered to be so secondary, so in fact inconcievable, that even to bring up the simple FACT that Brazilian slaves weren’t transhipped through Jamaica is enough to get one castigized as a violence-denying racist.
Again…you miss the point Hathor. It doesn’t really matter!!!
So what if they did? The point is what does it say about a specific group of people – Europeans – who unequivocally endorsed this mass trade of human beings??
So lets say most African nations actively played a part in capturing and selling slaves to Europeans does that make this any less of a de-humanizing act on the part of Europeans? Could it then be seen as just a bit of fair trade that got out of hand?
But of course then you would have to agree that if it had been the other way round. That is if African’s had discovered Europe they would have similarly entered in to deals with various European countries and started shipping white slaves back to Africa?
And if we could establish that the majority of European countries actively colluded with the African traders then this would have made things Ok. It would have been fair trade again? Both sides just as equally to blame as the other
One more historically example: Japan attacks the US in the battle of Pearl Harbour so the US drops the Atomic bomb on one of Japans major cites killing and injuring 100,000s of people. This was justified YES?. Because we can prove historically accurately here that Japan did attack the US destroying much equipment and many 100’s of US lives.
Or are you still not getting the point here?
Here’s where I think the misunderstanding is.
The wiki article J linked us to says this:
Most slaves destined for island or South American plantations were likely to be put through this ordeal…
Note: most slaves.
J interprets that to mean:
It is being staed that some slaves taken from Africa went to the Caribbean so as to be ‘broken in like horses’ before they were then transported on to their final destination…
Note: some slaves.
I have no objection to the idea that some slaves went through “seasoning camps” in Jamaica, beyond the fact that it would be interesting to see a primary source on this, rather than what appears to be a Wiki misquote of a secondary source cut and pasted from another internet source.
I DO object to what the Wiki quite clearly says, that most south-american bound slaves went through these Jamaican camps. That would only make sense in terms of the ENGLISH slave trade to South America, which was a small drop in a very large bucket.
MerriMay, “lupine” means “wolf-like”. It was not intended as a correction but as a bitter commentary. A commentary on the situation, not your grammar.
The hell with your geographical trail of slaves because as usual you bulldoze over others’ very valid points.
First of all, my making I point hardly prevents anyone else here from doing so.
Secondly, the only point I’m criticizing is the idea that the majority of South American slaves passed through Carribean seasoning camps. That is simply wrong. All points, of course, are valid but “valid” does not mean “correct”.
So no, I’m not preventing anyone’s opinion from being heard and no, I’m not “invalidating”.
Interesting observation that J has made about you, your complete indifference to it, the complete absence of outrage on your part speaks volumes.
So outrage is the measure of correct history, is it. MerryMay?
Look, right above me, right now as I type, a Military Police helicopter is flying towards Santo Amaro favela. It’s been buzzing the favela for an hour now and has twice exchanged automatic weapons fire with residents.
I have things right in front of me to get outraged over.
When I look at history, I look at it to try to see how we got to this situation HERE. I find that outrage doesn’t help much in that task. It doesn’t help the dead of two centuries ago and – more often than not – it blinds me to very important clues.
“Outrage” comes from a base feeling that one believes one already knows the truth. I know very few truths and most of the ones I thought I knew have not withstood the light of reason.
I believe that slavery was evil: that is a basic truth I hold to. I DO NOT believe – as most Americans seem to do – that having classified something as evil, I can now be on my merry and make believe whatever the hell I want about it. To me, if something is evil, it requires even GREATER attention and less presumption. And presumption is precisely what outrage generates.
Your mileage obviously varies. I respect that. Please respect my view as well.
It matters to me, when I see it being used to deflect the discussions.
What you say is not in dispute as far as I am concerned and I understand what you are saying.
I am not the kind of person who wants history rewritten in the pursuit of a racist agenda. When you have Black folks saying “Africans did it too” and Black folks have benefited from slavery, being an apologist for white privileged conservatives, I consider this to be a serious problem for Black folk.
Abagond started this post with a reference to the changes that the Texas board of education made for the criteria of their textbooks. Slavery is now a euphemism. Arizona has passed bill to forbid the schools from teaching any ethnic studies. Do you think that history now taught in Arizona will now be inclusive?
If this trend continues, it wont matter as you say, because there will nothing of slavery taught. Not even in the context of the constitution. The Texas BOE also is minimizing Thomas Jefferson and some other founders, base on their religious beliefs. So I can’t see the topic of 3/5ths ever coming up.
Do you think preteens are going to take upon themselves to become scholars?
Thaddeus
You have a curious deposition towards taking most comments by others here on a personal level. This has resulted in you having to write copious responses to defend your apparent “sleights” at the hands of MerriMay, J and possible others.
If you could leave this aside for one moment as, again, I would say to you its not really that important in the context of what we are discussing here: The Transatlantic slave trade
Your major contribution appears to be:
“…the only point I’m criticizing is the idea that the majority of South American slaves passed through Carribean seasoning camps. That is simply wrong…”
Now maybe you have made others but lets just agree this is your main concern.
You have also commented: “I believe that slavery was evil”
Well that might be so but on the basis of what you’ve contributed to this discussion (without the divergence into defending personal attacks or insults) it s doesn’t really convey, to me, any real “FEELING” sense of this.
Its all too easy to get caught up in personal side issues we deem to be more important because the real issues we fear may be too debilitating or uncomfortable to bear.
You make some valid comments here in response.
The experience you describe in Texas is along similar lines to how The Transatlantic slave trade is taught in many other countries. I know this is true in the UK where I am based.
The basic assumption here is that the actual trade or traffic is played down, deemphasized or even as you report omitted altogether.
This were the Internet and blogs like this come in. At least if preteens want to find this sort of information they can. Years ago before the age of the Internet it all too easy to claim ignorance (unless of course you were scholarly enough to read books!!) This need no longer be the case.
Until of course Black/African peoples start re-writing their own histories in all areas of media. But isn’t this very blog evidence of that very same thing already happening?
Thad,
I still do not understand your convoluted argument.
Since it appears you seem to support the contention in essence when you say:
“I DO object to what the Wiki quite clearly says, that MOST south-american bound slaves went through these Jamaican camps. =That would only make sense in terms of the ENGLISH slave trade to South America, which was a small drop in a very large bucket”.
Can you just clarify that the word MOST in capitals in the aforesaid is what this discussion is all about??
And if this is the case, can you this time provide any evidence?? Please note that if you cannot find any I will not use it either as an opportunity ‘to score points’ either, something which you are won’t to do
Just to say do not worry about the providing of evidence. I think I can sum up the problem of the discussion.
1. Wikipedia quote
“Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps FOUND THROUGHOUT THE CARIBBEAN. Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves (destined for island or South American plantations [including Guyana which is in South America my emphasis]) were likely to be put through this ordea”l.
2. Thad
I DO object to what the Wiki quite clearly says, that most south-american bound slaves went through these Jamaican camps
3. Please observe what the wiki quote states ‘FOUND THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE CaRIBBEAN’
Usually I would close with ‘I hope this clarifies’, but I doubt if this will be the case for you.
And finally with regard to your comment here Thad:
“Of course, if we’re going to get hung up on the myth of Brazilian slaves in Jamaican seasoning camps, we’ll never be able to discuss the REAL institutions which were used to break rebellious slaves, are we?”
You are the only one whohas reached this conclusion through your own faulty reasoning skills.
I think your faulty reasoning skills reveals your true guise as the ‘academic troll’ that you are.
And I stand by what I said previously : RR, No_Slappz and your good self serve the same purpose and function on a site like this.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 17:33:53 EnSayn
It’s a shame we believe this story without thought. If we really think about it, this story makes no sense. We are talking about a story of people walking up to 500 miles, being placed on board ships and living in these conditions for a month or more and everyone commenting says nothing about this passage. Its as if this is taken for granted. People living in this condition would not need to be seasoned, they would already be broken. People living in these conditions for a month or more would soon die upon reaching the Americas from various ailments. People living in these conditions would be very hard to sell on the auction blocks, that is what they were being transported for. To be sold. Just think about this! We need to look at the amount of Black people already living in the Americas that were enslaved. We need to look at how long we were living in the Americas long before the birth of a Christopher Columbus. We need examine the truth and begin to dispel this yarn accepted as truth. To think that we came from Africa under such conditions is not a testament to our strength, its a testament of our acceptance of another fairytale and never thinking logic of this deeply rooted lie.
@Kwamla
Well, let’s see. After I made an innocent play on words (“lupine” instead of “supine”) which, in fact, supported her point, MerriMay…
1) Told me to go to hell;
2) Said I could care less about slavery;
3) Said what I write is crap;
4) Told me to shut up;
5) And then (cherry on the top) called me arrogant.
I wouldn’t call that an “apparent slight”, Kwamla: I’d call that a serious of directed slights that were obviously intended to be taken on a personal level.
I’m not sure how you could read that differently.
That’s because I disagree with the general American opinion that feeling gives one extra validity, Kwamla. I’d rather go for precision in my history, thanks. I’ll leave the “feeling” to the likes of the Texas Board of Education.
Very simple, J: the Wiki article you cite says most South African-bound slaves headed through seasoning camps in the Carribean.
It is not a convoluted argument J. Not even close.
Here’s the quote:
Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps found throughout the Carribean. Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves destined for island or South American plantations were likely to be put through this ordea”l.
It seems very clear to me that, following basic rules of English grammar, the phrase “found throughout the Carribean” refers to the seasoning camps, not the slaves. The immediately following sentance then specifically says that slaves shipped to North American bypassed the camps while those shipped to south america didn’t.
The clear intent of the phrase is that most slaves bound for South America passed through the camps. Can’t get any clearer than that.
The problem is that this is only true in the context of English slave trading, which is of course Meltzer’s focus. The wiki article does not say that. It says “most slaves bound for South America” passed through the camps.
Not true. Most slaves bound for South America disn’t go through the Carribean and weren’t sold by the English.
EnSayn says:
People living in this condition would not need to be seasoned, they would already be broken.
Spot on. Slave suicide was one of the major worries of Brazilian planters, right up there with rebellion.
People living in these conditions for a month or more would soon die upon reaching the Americas from various ailments. People living in these conditions would be very hard to sell on the auction blocks, that is what they were being transported for. To be sold. Just think about this!
Mostly correct.
At least with regards to Brazilian slavery, if any thought at all was given to recently arrived slaves, it wasn’t to tie them up and whip them to break their spirits: it was to feed them, clean them and fatten them up a bit for the auction block.
That said, very little thought AT ALL was given to the slaves, especially in times of high market demand. So many of them DID die in the barracks upon reaching the Americas and were simply written off as a net loss.
but where is your evidence?? A question you like to ask of me so often (sic).
Either way, personally I do not have a problem with the quote.
In one of your responses earlier, the way you responded, it seemed to me that you had the book in front of you. Can you quote what Meltzer says on this very issue??
I would add also that I only introduced this point to enhance what Abagond had said here regarding the middle passage, especially as this part of history is not that well known.
What you have said here thus far has not changed or minimised this fact.
Whoa Whoa Thad
What is it with you and your inherent inability to understand the contextual sequence of what is written:
Let me clear this up. YOU imposed yourself on what I was saying, by seeming to agree with me at the same time being patronising by substitung a perfectly valid /applicable word(supine) and inserting your own as the better of the two(lupine). If that is not arrogant, show me what is!
Mind you, that wouldn’t make sense in the way that I intended, if you carry on that way, why don’t YOU compose your own narrative wherein you can do as you please with your text.
Do me a favor though. With the remaining 4 on your list I want you to quote me on where I told YOU specifically to shut up, go to hell, your writing is crap, and you don’t care about slavery.
When/if you’ve done so I will go on to illustrate to you, your continued lack of comprehension towards what I write.
*substituting*
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 01:21:45 Thaddeus
but where is your evidence?? A question you like to ask of me so often
Evidence for what? That Brazil was the world’s largest slave importer? Or that Brazil didn’t import slaves through Jamaica?
If the second, how am I supposed to logically prove a negative?
Can you quote what Meltzer says on this very issue??
Nope. Back at home now and not at the Museum.
Yeah, and what I have said here thus far has also not proven that the Holocaust is a fake.
Know why?
Because what I’ve said was not meant to prove that the holocaust is a fake, nor minimize the horrors of the middle passage. It was also not meant to prove that you are still beating your wife.
What I said was only meant to prove that the idea that most South American slaves were transhipped through Jamaican seasoning camps was bulls@#&. The wiki article you cite was dead wrong on that point.
I was AGREEING with your basic point by substituting an even more predatory adjective. Kindly take your tortured presumptions elsewhere.
I want you to quote me on where I told YOU specifically to shut up, go to hell, your writing is crap, and you don’t care about slavery.
1) “…just gag it”
2) “The hell with your geographical trail of slaves …”
3) [refering to my written opinons] “…your crap.”
4) “…the complete absence of outrage on your part speaks volumes.”
Now, considering that you have taken my innocent comment about “lupine” rather than “supine” Europeans to be a deadly arrogant insult, I can’t help but woner what you’d say if ANYONE said ANY of the above things to you.
For a woman who is oh-so-sensitive to perceived slights, you certainly have no problem at all insulting people.
If you’ve got something germaine to say about my points, go ahead, even if it’s rough. If it’s simply going to be more venting because you feel the need to virtually go off at someone, spare me.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 08:30:45 Kwamla
Ok. Thaddeus. I am going to put it to you that you make some valid points about:
.”..the idea that the majority of South American slaves passed through Carribean seasoning camps. That is simply wrong…”
And that perhaps in the process of making this point you’ve encountered some slight abuse. Examples of which you have “precisely” documented. But then perhaps this may also be valid for you to consider here. The attention to precision you so rigorously strive for, lets say virtuously and admirably, as a worthwhile scholarly pursuit leaves no room for the immense “human” or “emotional” consequences of the very subject we are discussing.
You yourself have commented:
This is a fair point and you of course are entitled to your own opinion. But you also conceded:
“…I believe that slavery was evil: that is a basic truth I hold to…”
Now for me there appears to be a “disconnection” between your explorations of this aspect of the trade and your rigorous assessment of the origins of Brazilian slavery
Its actual precisely this “disconnection” which I was attempting to convey in my own postings about the mentality (historically) of the European mind which in seeking to engage with cultures – not just peoples, but animals and the environment as well – reduces them to little more than components or numbers which can be “precisely” stacked or arranged according to the prevailing beliefs.
Maybe this is where perhaps categorizations of “arrogance” “uncaring” or even “racism” may appear.
For this reason the actual horrors and practices of the slave trade very rarely surface (except in discussions like these of course!!) but then these are exactly the issues that need to be discussed and come to terms with in dealings and interactions with all cultures.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 11:34:06 MerriMay
You know Thad you have a tendency to start a fire and cry foul when you get burned!
Most people just affirm ‘I agree’ etc, but you had to play the one-upmanship, and note the arrogance here.
”don’t you mean ‘lupine’ ”
which totally discredits what I’m trying to say. Are you a mind reader now? Why don’t you save that patronising for your classes. Even after I clarify and point out your wrongdoing you continue unperturbed
‘I still like lupine better’
It’s that bullheaded attitude that sticks in my craw, and why you continue to be at loggerheads with people…and hence derail.
Don’t piggyback off an idea and declare it your own as superior.
Now wrt:
1. That meant if nothing of substance is forthcoming except
diversionary tactics from the horror of what happened, then um yeah..gag the thought, not telling YOU to shut up!
2. that hardly means the hell with YOU Thad..was merely disagreeing with the point
3. Ah again, but you see YOUR crap is hardly YOU’RE(you are) crap Thad, so I reject that out of hand, there’s a difference between the two. Ad hominen it’s not.
4. Where did I say you don’t care, I said ‘speaks volumes’, now as to what those actually are, and you can decipher that and pin it down to ‘you don’t care’ well wake me up when you do!
Merri, I know you want a flamewar so you can baaaaaaw to Abagond about me and hopefully have me removed.
I’m not going to engage beyond restating my very simple position.
My “lupine” comment was meant to me an ironic and SUPPORTIVE commentary to your “supine” remark. In response, you fired back several very openly nasty comments at me.
Just imagine is someone – me for example – were to say to you “The hell with your crap regarding a ‘supine’ Europe. If you can’t contribute something relevant to the discussion, just gag it.”
I can imagine the MerriMay reaction to such a comment: immediate baaaaaaaw to the moderator that someone has launched a personal attack.
As I said to Kwamla above, it’s not your insults that bother me: it’s the hypocrisy.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 17:17:39 The Great White Man
I see the blame YT crew is out in full swing(The ocean must be in low tide…smh)
Look it was a horrible thing, but you must also accept the fact that Europeans are the ones who STOPPED IT!!!
You people only cry afoul when YT does it. The double standard here is downright pathetic….Arabs and Africans are doing it to this day!! but not a peep, YT does it and the victim mentality surfaces most tick…smh
We all know that non-white people hold us to a higher standard, because they all know the great things we’ve done for poor tribals, orphans, disaster relief, ect…..But please stop whining about the slave trade and only on YTs end of it…ok?
I’m sorry there will never be ANY REPERATIONS for AA, so please stop with the victim mentality, thank you.
You people only cry afoul when YT does it.
No one has even mentioned Yolanda Truman, TGWM. Please stay on topic.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 18:17:00 J
SW6,
Is this the item concerned??
Las Casas, Bartolomé de (1999), Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, London: Penguin, ISBN 978-0140445626 . Trans. Nigel Griffin.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 18:29:25 FG
Here’s a pretty interesting documentary on the slave trade to Brazil.
So when you at the musuem next time can you quote us what is said in Meltzer’s book verbatim??
So we can all come to our own respective conclusion
I’m sorry there will never be ANY REPERATIONS for AA,
There seems to be an echo here (with it being unworkable)
Gulp!!
http://books.google.com/books?id=KnWJCk8gIfwC&dq=A+Short+Account+of+the+Destruction+of+the+Indies&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=yWEBTMj1MtaH4gbCgfXLDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 20:32:41 zekjevets
Are you sure that’s it? I recently read the same book (albeit in Spanish), and it was mostly a repetitive look at the atrocities of the Europeans toward the indigenous peoples. Every chapter goes on about native people being killed, raped, burned, etc. Casas posited himself as being “charitable” towards the native peoples, though he was really just anti-Spanish government on behalf of the church, and didn’t really do anything concrete to stop the maltreatment of the indigenous, save a debate or two. I’ve only read the original though, so I don’t know what differences edited and translated versions have.
Abagond if I may, last I’ll say on this.
I’ve never asked Abagond to censor anyone, the same cannot be said for you.
Your mockery won’t work with me, you’d think your numerous feuds with people on this board would tell you something about your conduct, you remain clueless.
If you read back to how this started you’ll see a pattern with you.
You’re courting the moderator yourself by insinuating that I attacked you, yet Abagond hasn’t obliged, so I have not broken any rules. A commenter bit the dust recently for exactly this slick tactic. Nice try though. And you call me a hypocrite…smdh
And I suspect at some point in the distant future. A similar argument will be used, especially as it is already being discussed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/10175907.stm
This is vis-a-vis against the pretext of Africans selling each other
“A commenter bit the dust recently for exactly this slick tactic”
A t(h)ad true methinks
Except for No_Slappz, no censor requests here.
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 14:56:14 Thaddeus
Kwamla, I wrote a long reply to you, but it didn’t show up after three tries, probably because the system thought a percentage symbol was a coding order or aomething.
It seems to be permanently stuck in moderation.
Abagond, can you see the comment? Or should I post it again?
Yeah, well, J, like I said on another post, I remain skeptical until someone can show me HOW it’s going to work. International law, which you’ve refered to on this topic, does not cover reparations by nations and, even if it did, would be ignored by the U.S.
So even if reparations would get its day in court in The Hague, and would by some miracle be adjuged favorably, all the U.S. has to do is thumb its nose at International Law, as it has repeatedly done in the past.
The only way to get the U.S. to give reparations would be to force it to do so. If the assorted black movements trying for reparations have THAT much power, why not just take the coutry’s government over instead?
So yeah, unless you or someone out there can show a pragmatic and logical road to reparations, I will continue to qualify reparations as a pipe dream and a waste of time.
@MerriMay,
you’d think your numerous feuds with people on this board would tell you something about your conduct
What it tells me, Merri, is that thinking outside the box isn’t popular among people who are used to thinking in terms of dogmas.
You’re courting the moderator yourself by insinuating that I attacked you…
Merri, what I said was very clear, it wasn’t an insinuation. What I said was this: you yourself would consider the comments you directed at me to be a personal attack, were they directed at you.
Nice try at starting a flame war, but this is really my last word on the topic.
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 17:16:35 J
Since this topic is slavery, and reparations can be tied somewhat therein.
I am afraid I do not understand your logic here.
If groups of people are entitled to make a claim under something which is in the law. If these people believe they can appeal to the conscience of the Government, and the Government will acquiese. Then why should they not do so??
The only possible way to find out if it is a ‘pipe dream’ or not is for these groups to make such a claim, and see what the outcome is.
No??????????????
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 18:08:52 Mira
I believe blacks should receive reparations, but I don’t think it would solve any problems. But then again, the point of reparations is not “solving problems”.
I agree with Thad that reparations might lead to bad attitudes among whites, because they would think they don’t own blacks anything anymore, or they would use reparations for more racism.
Still, that should not be the obstacle for reparations.
But the bigger question is: how to determine who’s going to get reparations, and who’s going to give reparations.
Correct. But reparations are a claim made under international law and (in spite of what right-wing conspiracy loonies think) THERE IS NO WORLD GOVERNMENT!
International law covers basically two things: issues all nations have more-or-less agreed upon (and even then, it covers them poorly) and post-war retributions.
So, yeah, reparations would be a good idea IF…
A) You could get the presumed criminal in this case (i.e. the U.S. government) to go along with the idea that it should pay out billions or trillions to the descendents of slavery, or…
B) You could beat the U.S. government into submission.
I think we can agree that if your strategy for change boils down to not only convincing your oppressors to empathize with you BUT ALSO get them to freely hand over billions, it’s not a very practical strategy.
And if you’ve got the power to BEAT the U.S., why not just take it over and screw reparations? No need to ask for a paycheck if you own the bank, is there?
My point has nothing to do with whether people have a right to appeal. They have a right to waste their time however they please.
My argument is that I’m not going along with this strategy until someone can show me how it has a chance in hell of working. I’d rather waste my time posting here or looking at The Huffington Post.
By that same logic, the only way you can find out that you can’t fly is to jump off a building while flapping your arms.
If the anti-racist movement was blessed with a surfeit of cash, time, energy and talented activists, I’d say “Whatever. Might as well go for it and it can’t hurt”.
The fact of the matter, J, is that we are facing a huge wave of racist reaction – the worst in decades – and time, money and energy is short on the ground.
That is why I think “reparations” is a useless game being played by people who should know better.
Or stoners.
Either way…
With regard to
“I agree with Thad that reparations might lead to bad attitudes among whites, because they would think they don’t own blacks anything anymore, or they would use reparations for more racism”
This is a red herring and bears no relevance to international law – even if it is to have this impact.
I wasn’t talking about the law, or how to make reparations, I know nothing about the law. I just said, I believe blacks should receive reparations.
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 20:20:59 Jasmin
(I posted as zek earlier by accident–this is his computer.)
I wouldn’t know for sure–I read the book for a class in the spring semester and I’m pretty sure I sold it on Amazon, but I’m pretty sure the one I read didn’t say anything about slave labor at all–at that point the Spaniards were interested in taking the land and resources from the indigenous peoples, then returning to Spain (as “Indianos, meaning people who made their fortune in the New World). It was a while before people actually decided to stay and create colonies.
Per this link, Casas supported the importation of Africans, then later recanted and became an advocate for them, and it lists two books by him, but it’s Wikipedia (which I don’t count as a credible source) so who knows? 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas
I still am having problems understanding your reasoning in all of this.
1. Its not quite clear why you made reference to U.S being ‘criminals’. The issue of reparations would essentially be monetary – Its not a war trial of the US??
2. As for anti-racists and those fighting reparations there is a big gulf between the two, and that is why I made the connection between reparations and international law.
3. Its not also clear to me how you can reconcile reparations as an issue across the world and Blacks acting within the remit of the law to obtain it?? Surely you are not advocating that Blacks pick up guns and obtain the monetary that way??
4. As for people wasting their time, to use your own words. I am sure there were many who said that about Martin Luther King. In the real world of ‘politics liberation’ the only way to know if something politically is going to succeed or fail is to endeavour. There is absolutely no other way of knowing. Furthermore any fight for liberation is a piecemal journey, with many loses but also many victories. Thus ‘victories’ can be gained in other areas, even if the ultimate goal of repartion may not be completed.
5. Finally there appears an attempt here inadvertently or otherwise to deny Black people a fundamental right that all other oppressed nations have the right to ie make reparation claim. We always see this type of thing in the White Supremacy World. In the West they create ‘War trials’, to deal with those not followingthe status quo, whilst in South Africa they have a ‘Reconciliation Commission’.
I saw your comments Mira,
Thad’s comments were given as reason to why repartions should not be given and he made mention of White’s people reactions etc.
This is the red herring, which you quoted when citing Thad:
“I AGREE WITH THAD THAT REPARATIONS MIGHT LEAD TO BAD ATTITUDES AMONG WHITES, because they would think they don’t own blacks anything anymore”.
Furthermore this is not how racism, genocide etc or what I would call White Supremacy works. Its not a case of what or as the case Blacks may do, but rather what those endorsing White Supremacy have as their agenda.
I wanted to say that the question of reparations is not about “solving problems”; I do see them as war reparations.
I guess I was answering/posting my opinion on Thad’s comments on reparations. Unlike him, I think blacks should receive reparations, so that is the part of his post that I don’t agree with. But I do agree that reparations would not solve any racial issues/racism; but that is ok, because the point of reparations is not to solve problems, end racism or anything like that.
And yes, I am aware we’re going off topic… Sorry.
Jasmin,
So you were partying with the family that long??
Glad to see that it all went very good!!
“Per this link, Casas supported the importation of Africans, then later recanted and became an advocate for them, and it lists two books..”
I did not open the link. From what I remember Le Casa could be viewed as a ‘liberal’.
He saw and felt the oppression of the indigenes. However, instead of calling an end to the system, he advocated to use replace the indigenes with African labour instead.
This is a Priest remember…
When he saw the brutality that slavery brought upon the Africans which he suggested – he became ambivelent again.
Just for clarification purposes.
No-one has suggested that reparations would solve any racial issues/racism.
It is only Thad, who brought forth this explanation as a reason in his argument as to why reparation should NOT be given.
Technically I’m still on vacation, but not with the family anymore, and yes it went very well. 🙂
Las Casas pretty much followed the path of most of the clergy in the New World (though for some reason he gets more recognition as a champion of human rights)–some felt pulled to defend the humanity of indigenous peoples, but inevitably the Church ended up on the side of the government because they got money out of the deal.
On a related note, I’d recommend the move “The Last Supper” (“La ultima cena”, with an accent on the “u”) to anyone interested in slavery outside of the US. It’s set on a sugar plantation in Cuba in the late 1700s and came out either a year after or a year before “Roots”–it fits with that (mini) trend of films exploring the atrocities/hypocrisy of slavery. I’m pretty sure you can find it (with English subtitles) online.
on Mon May 31st 2010 at 02:00:21 Thaddeus
Mira, please have the courtesy to correctly state my position.
I have said several times I think there should be reparations. My only question is how is this going to come about?
Why does “criminal” mean “war” to you in this context? The only mention of war is that, AFAIK, the only time international law has dealt with reparations against a nation is after one has LOST a war and the international legal process is in the hands of the victors. To wit, Germany after WWII. Reparations are also occasionally judged in trade and fishing disputes because both sides have an interest in keeping within a general international system which may someday rule in their favor.
But never, to my knowledge, has any international court rules that a country pay reparations for evil-doing and said country paid them without a war occurring.
Personally, I’d think blacks would have a much better chance that way – though still not a very good one. As for “acting within the remit of the law”, seeing as how international law does not deal with this issue, how is that going to occur? There IS no international law on this issue, J, so you can’t be acting in the remit of it.
Here’s an example: Durban conference calls for reparations. Pretty much every major power pulls out of Durban. How is this going to come in front of international courts, given that the countries who run that system are the same ones who won’t listen to the argument for reparations?
4. As for people wasting their time, to use your own words. I am sure there were many who said that about Martin Luther King.
Perhaps. But King had the U.S. Constitution to work with as well as the consciences of a good portion of white folks.
Segregation could actually be fought in the U.S. because there was a higher law: FEDERAL law. If there was an INTERNATIONAL law system actually backed up by force, then the reparations struggle might have a point. But you’ll recall that desegregation happened in many places in the U.S. south at bayonet point.
Law is useless without some police force to back it up. King played to the Federal government because he knew that was the only force that could slap the southern states in line. With the federal government on the side of desegregation, the racists would have to fold and this is indeed what happened.
Who are the reparations folks playing to? Who’s going to send bayonets to collect reparations?
Martians?
In the real world of ‘politics liberation’ the only way to know if something politically is going to succeed or fail is to endeavour.
Simply not true. There’s not a liberationist in the world who’ll say “Hey, waste your efforts on something that has absolutely zero chance of succeeding.” To use your King metaphor, it’s as if King decided to only work with, say, the Alabama and Mississippi state governments because, what the hell, anything could happen, right? Might as well start somewhere…
Any liberation strategist would agree: one needs to know how to pick one’s fights and attack where one can PLAUSIBLY achieve something. Great hopeless, romantic gestures are fine for movies, but they rarely get sh1$ done in real life.
Finally there appears an attempt here inadvertently or otherwise to deny Black people a fundamental right that all other oppressed nations have the right to ie make reparation claim.
J, no nation has that “right”. There is no “right” in international law besides might and that is a stone cold fact. Maybe 50 years from now, that will be different. But until you get a global police force of some kind, it’s utopian in the extreme to talk about “rights to reparations”.
Vietnam, for example, has a stone solid right to reparations for the damage it suffered at the hands of the U.S. As part of the 1973 peace treaty, the U.S. AGREED to pay reparations. It has broken that agreement for 37 years now and there’s not a damned thing Vietnam can do about it. Hell, they can’t even strip Henry Kissinger of his Nobel Peace Prize, let alone get their just reparations cash.
So how, exactly, do you propose “rights” in an international legal system that can’t safeguard them?
There ain’t no such animal.
We always see this type of thing in the White Supremacy World. In the West they create ‘War trials’, to deal with those not followingthe status quo, whilst in South Africa they have a ‘Reconciliation Commission’.
And that should tell you something basic: power, as Mao said, ultimately comes out of the barrel of a gun. If you don’t have a gun on your side, you can chant “reparations” until you’re blue in the face, but it ain’t gonna do you sh1$.
Now, the “gun” can be metaphorical, as it often was in the case of the U.S. Civil Rights movement, but it has to be there.
Where’s the gun that’s going to get you reparations from the U.S.?
Hey, maybe Serbia can do it! What do you say, Mira?
IIRC, in the late unpleasantness over Kosovo, Serbia managed to shoot down, like, three NATO planes, inflicting zero NATO aircrew casualties.
So that makes the loss ratio for that war something like 1,000 Serbian dead for every NATO bomb-armer who smashed his pinky with a torque wrench.
I wouldn’t place high hopes in recruiting Serbia as an effective ally against the U.S. in the international struggle for reparations, J – bastion of international human rights though the Serbs may be. [roll eyes]
on Mon May 31st 2010 at 02:52:37 J
Cheers Thad,
Not sure whether much of what you say here is caught up in the world of language (semantics) or whether it applies correctly to the world.
I will stick with the former
“International law makes clear that victim groups have the right to remedies for harms done to them…In the past decade those engaged in these various struggles have begun to recognize their common cause and a global reparations movement has emerged”
http://asbarez.com/80547/the-global-reparations-movement-and-meaningful-resolution-of-the-armenian-genocide/
So we have come back full circle again:
For those who believe in the integrity of international law across the world. They have every right to follow that law that gives them redress.
A point I have already made.
Whether, they will get any redress??
This is a different matter – for them
However, the only way for these groups to know whether they can succeed or not with reparation is to engage in the struggle.
A point I also made previously.
J, I don’t know what apalls me the most: the fact that you link us to an Armenian genocide site as “proof” that reparations exist and work (even though the Armenians haven’t seen a penny), or the fact that you didn’t even read the post.
Said group’s pet legal PhD has this to say about reparations under international law (and remember, this is theory because no one has gained any yet):
International law makes clear that victim groups have the right to remedies for harms done to them. This applies to the Armenian Genocide for two reasons. First, the acts against Armenians were illegal under international law at the time of the genocide. Second, the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide applies retroactively. While the term “genocide” had not yet been coined when the 1915 Armenian Genocide was committed, the Convention subsumes relevant preexisting international laws and agreements, such as the 1899 and 1907 Hague Conventions. Since the genocide was illegal under those conventions, it remains illegal under the 1948 Convention. What is more, the current Turkish Republic, as successor state to the Ottoman Empire and as beneficiary of the wealth and land expropriations made through the 1915 genocide, is responsible for reparations.
Oh, OK. So reparations can only be charged for acts that were illegal at the time… That rules out slavery.
Guess we’ll go for a charge of genocide then, right?
Under this “law” (which is really just an international agreement), “genocide” means “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”?
Well, good luck proving “intent to destroy”. Vietnam’s got a better case AND an agreement for reparations and is still standing, hand held out.
EEEEEEEEEEEP!
Next contestant.
And the only way you can know whether you can survive a shot to the head from a .38 special is to go ahead and have someone shoot you, J.
Empiricism is no defense for stupid ideas which deductive reasoning should tell us are hopeless.
Here’s the deductive process again:
1) Ex-slaving nations control the legal system.
2) There is no higher authority to compel anyone to follow this system’s rulings.
3) If there were such an authority and it were on the side of reparations, much more could be done with such power than simple reparations.
4) Finally, international law, such as it exists, is written to SPECIFICALLY block out slavery as genocide.
Oh, and don’t forget that even if we can prove that slavery was genocide, it STILL wouldn’t qualify anyone for reparations, because genocide was only made illegal under this system in 1899.
So Armenians, Vietnamese, Bosnians, Sudanese… A whole slew of other peoples, up to and including the Jews, have been clear-cut victims of planned genocide according to the UN: not a dime have any of these people seen, as far as I am aware, in spite of the legality of their cases.
And yet you still think it’s a great and practical tactic to sue the U.S. under international law for a crime which was committed outside said law’s own understanding of the legitimate timeframe?
Riiiiiiiight….
And you have the balls to say “Well we can’t know ’til we try,” even though many other groups with much more “open and shut” cases have tried and got jack?
J, The Hague couldn’t even successfully convict Milosevic, but you SERIOUSLY think international law is the solution?
Riiiiiiiiiiiight…
You do this all the time Thad, you stae a position, and when it becomes untenable. You then shift your argument to a new position.
This is how the debate unfolded:
A commentator said:
“Let me get this straight. The American government apologized to the Japanese AND gave them 20,000 but reparations for 400 years of slavery and Jim Crow is off the table. WTF?
Not saying the Japanese American brothers and sisters did not deserve that and more, but what about AA? Why is it considered so unreasonable to do the same for us?”
And here are your replies thereafter:
1. But hell, let’s say that the U.S. goes nuts and decides to offer repatriations for all the descendants of the slaves. How’s that going to be done, first of all? By blood quantum? Because there are a lot of white people out there who are also slave descedents and you’d better believe they’ll come out of the woodwork if a handout is in the offering.
And here is the important quote from the same post
2. You SERIOUSLY want the U.S. to hand out 6 billion dollars and then say “That’s it, black people! We no longer are bound to think about racism because you’ve received your ‘I’m sorry’ cash”? You should present this idea to the far Republican right. They’d love it. A 6 billion dollar one-time settlement to never have to think about racial justice or affirmative action again would probably be considered a good buy.
3. Under international law, it would be very hard to argue reparations, period. In both the Italian/Libyan and U.S./ethnic Japanese cases, you have survivors alive today and some sort of clear-cut lineage regarding the crimes
4. Reparations is simply something that isn’t going to happen, outside the realm of science fiction
and in the same post
Reparations are a pipe dream. Literally. The kind of idea that gets into someone’s head after smoking too much and listening to a lot of Bob Marley.
When asked why did you use the above racist stereotype you go on to say:
5. Because “reparate” and “repatriate” often get mixed up in this sort of discussion.
With regard to reparartions being a global issue you wrote:
6. Good on them! You be sure to tell me when it gets beyond the radicals espousing to other radicals stage, when any non-black radical group starts seriously considering it, OK? Because I don’t see how you’re going to convince the U.S. to voluntarily hand over this sort of cash unless,
This time it not being a matter related to international law
7. Where’s that corpus regarding reparations for slavery or any other, similar, question?
In another post on the same point.
8. You’re going to have an impossible time proving either of those two points [ie genocide & slavery] under international law and leading them to reparations,
9. Summing up, I think reparations, while a wonderful idea in theory, is a complete stoner’s pipe dream in practice. To hold it out as any possible effective strategy for the improvement of black peoples’ lives in the real world is to believe that a dogmatic fantasy of a small group of militants is somehow going to convince the very people they are trying to punish to punish themselves
10. How would such an entity pay reparations and do you really think that any notional future superpower forcing such a situation would really care about the plight of black Americans? Even if said superpower were, say, Nigeria? Again, history indicates that they would not. They’d have their own agendas to worry about.
Back to reparations and smoking weed again:
11. Reparations is the kind of stupid idea that gets into a kid’s head after listening to Garveyist rhetoric while under the influence. Whether the kid in question is white or black, the idea that it is some sort of basis for real political activity is puerile
12. Now all we got to do is figure out how to collect it.
I know! We’ll get the white kids to listen to even MORE Bob Marley while stoned than usual. Then, once Garvey’s wise words have penetrated to the depths of their subconsciousness, they’ll be ready to vote black people all the money in the world.
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Folks, here’s the bottom line, truly. All my thoughts on this matter can be boiled down to this one thing. All my thoughts on this matter can be boiled down to this one thing: HOW ARE REPARATIONS GOING TO BE ENFORCED?
This time a question to me
13. My question to you is simple and unitary: HOW is it going to happen under any conceivable circumstance, no matter how remote?
A first time admission
I know people are fighting for this (across the world my emphasis).
What I would like you to show me is any coherent vision of how reparations could possibly be enacted.
You recognize that saying “people are fighting for this” is not the same thing as showing how ANY of said people expect to achieve it?
Another response directed at me
14. so nice try at wiggling your way out of this one, J, but no go: you have no pragmatic plan for reparations. It’s simply a rhetorical and dogmatic position with you.
About what I’d expect from a Garvyite. Garvey was always big on crowd-pleasing smoke-and-mirrors rhetoric.
15. J, this is simply wrong. I know of NO case of reparations for inhuman conduct that were mandated in a court of international law.
This in response to what I said:
“the issue of reparations is something that is enshrined in international law. It is given to countries who have a legal basis for a claim of injustice etc, or when such a claim is made. Usually that case will have to be argued out in a court”.
Thad describing himself and expertise
16. I am not an expert in international law, but I HAVE read quite a lot about the Nuremburg trials, Eichmann’s trial, Native American treaty law, and several very famous reparations cases. Because of my work on the human trafficking issue, I also have a pretty good workman-like notion of how modern anti-slavery law works on an international level and how the international court in The Hague is set up.
Moreover, I have researched the reparations issue with the people here in Brazil who push it and several of the organizations who push it internationally.
So while I’m not an expert, my knowledge on this point goes far beyond a Wiki education.
So I’m not simply spouting racist nonsense when I tell you that international law, such as it exists, is not geared to take entire nations and races to court and ESPECIALLY isn’t geared to do that for crimes against humanity.
So this in essence is your position regarding the subject, and it shows the shifting of positions etc.
I think you have said it all here eloquently, and Mira did quote you accurately
Thad I used this link because it says what you have been denying for so long that charges of reparations cannot be brought because of misdeed/conduct committed by a country.
So on this point you are wrong. On a more fundamental level it aso reveals your lack of knowledge in international law, something which even you admit to yourself. Please see point 16.
Secondly, with regard to the issue of slavery, the law can be used ‘retroactively’, just as the link says. However, that will take us into the issue of when and how can the law be used ‘retrospectively?’ Again this is something you missed in the link and not being conversant with international law, by your own admission.
And still while we are on your role here on this blogas to be the disruptor/liberal/racist etc
There is one important thing which you said:
I had asked:
“Surely you are not advocating that Blacks pick up guns and obtain the monetary that way”??
To which you replied:
“Personally, I’d think blacks would have a much better chance that way – though still not a very good one”
In the real world, this is exactly what happened with the Black Panthers. The state placed ‘agent provacauters’
within the group, to get the organisation to commits acts of violence that led to their ultimate demise – and people within the organisation’s death. In other words its a form of suicide but instigated by the powers that be
This is so common a strategy that it is used also in Britain, not so that people will die per se but to lead to the demise of radical groups – even to this day.
Very worrying that Thad should be willing to consider such a ‘strategy’ for Black people with regard to the issue of seeking reparations.
Sorry, J, that’s not true. In this case from the very beginning, I have made a point to say that I do not feel reparations bad, per se, but that they are a pipe-dream in terms of practicalities for SEVERAL different reasons.
I mean, which part of “Hey, if you can convince the U.S. government to seriously contemplate giving 6.000.000.000 dollars to black people as reparations for slavery, I’ll vote for it. Just don’t blame me for the likely results…”
It’s very easy to claim that someone is aying something that they are not by selectively cutting and pasting, J. That comment of mine came very erarly in the debate and it was repeated:
Summing up, I think reparations, while a wonderful idea in theory, is a complete stoner’s pipe dream in practice.
Liking the idea or not has nothing to do with it [my resistence to it], J: I’d just like you to show me where this is international law.
Folks, here’s the bottom line, truly. All my thoughts on this matter can be boiled down to this one thing: HOW ARE REPARATIONS GOING TO BE ENFORCED?
Hell, I’d like to see blacks get 6 trillion in reputations, if only because it’ll put another nail in the coffin of U.S. imperialist ambition.
I mean, just how often fo I have to repeat that the IDEA of reparations is not the problem, J, it’s the practical implementation? I’ve done this a half a dozen times now, and yet here you are, bald-facedly lying that I’ve somehow changed my position on this?
J, are you really that poor a reader or are you simply that manipulative a person? Because there’s no way in hell that this point could’ve somehow gotten by you unoticed if you were actually reading what I wrote.
Even your partial and very tendacious “summing up” of my points shows me sticking to one point and coming back to it again and again. Here it is, once again, repeated for the 100th time (or thereabouts):
Reparations are a pipe dream because here is no international legal or practical basis for them that could possibly be made to work.
And yes, J, I believe that your rhetoric about reparations is typical Garveyite boolshite. It is long on rhetoric and completely lacking anything that could be called a pragmatic plan. It SOUNDS good and for Garveyites like yourself, that’s all you need, isn’t it?
If that’s not the case, then show us a pragamatic outline of how reparations can be achieved. You have not done this, nor has any site you’ve linked us to done this. Nor does any site I have investigated on my own do this.
As far as I recall, I never said that charges couldn’t be brought. You enjoy paging through my old posts in search of contradictions, so knock yourself out.
Here’s my original comment on that:
Under international law, it would be very hard to argue reparations, period. In both the Italian/Libyan and U.S./ethnic Japanese cases, you have survivors alive today and some sort of clear-cut lineage regarding the crimes.
But note that NEITHER the U.S. nor Italian cases have anything to do with international law. Both countries voluntarily paid out those sums and asked for appologies from people who had been hurt by their acts in living memory.
I’m not aware of any area of international law (which is pretty vague) which can cover the U.S.-slavery case.
…and I stand by that original assessment. Nothing you’ve brought up has contradicted it. The Armenians aren’t getting cash: they’re having a HELL of a time arguing their point in court and in their case, they have a very clear lineage of the crime. Furthermore, the crime was conducted when genocide had already been outlawed.
To prove that black Americans are elligible for reparations because of genocide, you’d need to…
A) Prove that slavery was genocide in a legal and simply in a rhetorical sense (i.e. a conscious attempt to eliminate a people from the face of the earth);…
B) Prove that the genocide occurred under an operative form of international law which prohibitted it.
International law is clear on this point: a country can’t be guilty of a crime which occurred prior to the founding of the law. Seeing as how the earliest thing which could be understood as an international law or agreement against genocide was founded in 1899, then we’re pretty much SOL, aren’t we?
I suppose you could also try for reparations on the issue of slavery, but your going to run into the same problem again, I bet: international law won’t allow you to ask for reparations for something which wasn’t illegal under international law at the time.
So once again, J, the question isn’t and never has been “Can one bring charges for reparations in international court?”
The question is “Can said charges be made to work, in any way, shape or form?”
In other words, the question is “Do you have a case?”
The answer, as far as I can see, is no.
But people sue for sh17 all the time without having a case. You can bring charges up on anything you like. That was never at question. Whether or not those charges can be made to stick: THAT’S the question.
And J, no “we won’t know until we try” isn’t an answer unless the question is “How can we make money for lawyers?” Any ethical lawyer will tell you not to pursue a case unless you have some solid legal basis to do it. Sure, you can ignore the fact that you have a solid legal base, and charge away, but that’s not going to do you any good at all.
Its clear to see what was your original points. No amount of moving the ‘goalpost is going to change this fact:
I have quoted you at great lengths:
These were you initial comments.
As I said this is the ‘tactics’ you continue to use. When you are proved wrong on a point. You then go on to say, ‘I never said that’, ‘I never meant that’ etc. Or in this instance points 1 & 2 was not your starting point, but rather you begun your position at point 3 .
Let’s be honest here you are against reparations per se for Black people in America but you are attempting to utilse a ‘honest’ pretext to justify your position. And the one you are attempting to use is that you cannot see ‘how its going to work??’.
This in essence is what this dialogue is about.
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 00:16:33 Thaddeus
Nice try, J.
I’ll stand by what I originally said and note two things:
I’m not against reparations in theory, I think it’s never going to work in practice and that it’s thus a waste of time or a stoner’s pipedream.
I’ve been hammering out variations on this since we began our argument and I’ve not moved one jot from that position.
You can do all the creative cutting and pasting you like, but it doesn’t change that simple fact.
Nor does it change the fact thatm since we began the discussion, I’ve repeatedly challenged you to show us a pragmatic way in which reparations could be achieved, something you have yet to do.
Your entire argument regarding reparations to date can be summed up as follows:
“Friends, if we had some ham, we could have a ham sandwich, if we had some bread.”
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 00:22:00 FG
All this talk about reparations (i.e. cash handouts) is just a distraction from pursuing real solutions to the negative consequences of European colonialism. The focus should be on resolving the social problems experienced disproportionately by slave descendants and Native Americans so that they can catch up with whites. Why do so many minority families break up? Why do gaps in cognitive ability show up in minority kids at young ages? Why do so many minority kids get into crime and substance abuse? Determining the answers to these questions and formulating realistic policies based on them are key extricating ourselves from the racial quagmire.
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 00:59:14 MerriMay
Seriously, it’s like flogging a dead horse!! You’re spot on about those tactics though, it’s painfully obvious.
Merri, I seriously have better things to do than think up arcane strategies for trolling you and J.
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 10:34:57 J
Indeed Merrimay!!
What is even more ‘painful’ though is the influence that he and his partner (who is Black) has outside cyberspace iin the real world. With their anti-Black politics, and also – what must be assumed as the poor the level of education, if what has been shown on this blog, with the lack ability to reason, critical thinking etc. I dare to think how this all plays it out for the students but particularly the Black ones??
This is what is also painfully obvious!!
FG,
What you wrote her is a little confusing, can you kindly clarify??
When you say reparations is a ‘distraction’. Are you suggesting that those who are fighting reparations do not also want ‘social justice’ and parity within the US??
Nice ad hominems, J. I love you, too!
But here’s another question regarding reparations for slavery: do ALL descendents of slaves get them? What about white descendents of slaves? What about the white descendents of WHITE slaves?
It is no ad hminems – I just told it as I saw it.
If anyone is the master of ad hominems here then I am afraid not all the posters put together (since I have been here) would be able the amount you have spewed out.
I am not sure about your question on reparations either, unless it is another attempt to move the ‘proverbial goalpost’.
I think it is, be that as it may…
The law is clear, and it is usually ‘inclusive’ to all members.
Thus if Whites can formulate a claim, whether it be local or under international law, then they are within their right to make a reparation claim.
Its as simple as that…
The law is also clear that you can’t claim for crimes that weren’t crimes at the time they were committed.
How do you propose to get around that particular part of international law, J?
If ‘they’ can argue and give reason as to why the law should be used retrospectively – since it can be applied thus.
For instance with regard to Black people. Western nations and individuals are benefitting from the ramifications of slavery even today. Africa as a continent find itself in its current position directly as a result of this event.
So it depends if those who are advocating reparation can show that the argment of people NOT being alive is ‘superfluous’ to the effects of the crime, especially as it is still impacting today.
And again whether this argument will be accepted or rejected and/or before a court, does not preclude groups attempting to make such a claim, if they believe they have a ‘good’ argument.
on Thu Jun 3rd 2010 at 17:11:00 Thaddeus
The law is quite clear: you can’t hold people culpable for things that are illegal by today’s standards but weren’t illegal then. Retroactivity has nothing to do with it.
And once again, the argument here was never about whether people CAN take a case to court: it’s about whether or not said activity is a waste of time and resources.
I say it is. I challenge you to show us how reparations could conceivably IN ANY WAY come about. You have studiously avoided doing so.
Given that, I think it’s quite safe to assume that reparations, for you, is a convenient dogma and not a practical strategy.
on Fri Jun 4th 2010 at 00:25:59 J
Someone somewhere else had made reference to Roots.
Now this film is not for the fainthearted. I have just found my own personal copy a second ago, by chance.
“American distributors felt that such scenes were too incendiary, and forced Jacopetti and Prosperi to remove more than thirteen minutes of footage explicitly concerned with racial politics for American and other Anglophone audiences”.
xxx xxx xxx cert 30.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3766149445318503265#
on Fri Jun 4th 2010 at 03:16:58 leigh204
^ @J:
I finished watching this just now and it was stomach turning. The rape/torture scenes…omigosh. Everything was disturbing and sickening.
on Thu Jul 15th 2010 at 14:35:50 Kwamla
Curious. I just decided to what this film. I was indeed shocked!!!
I had expected a semi- disturbing watered down version of what slavery was about. But I have to say I was truly surprised…
The background info you provided is also quite useful. And I can imagine why they might want to do this. I wonder what those omitted scenes would have looked like?
This film should be compulsory viewing in all educational establishments. Simply for the purpose of allowing ALL peoples – Black, white POC, Jews etc.. to re-connect with the horrors of the past most inhumane treatment of a people.
I say this because I believe most of the present traumas and conflicts today between Blacks and whites can be traced directly to this 500 year period of shielded history.
One of the beautiful touches is how the narrator, towards the end, plays out scenes from the past and contrasts these in the present (Not sure when this is).
It clearly shows how much of this conflict is still trapped in the psyches of all of this. So for me films like this are about releasing guilt and shame NOT about holding on or increasing them
Sadly, this view is obviously not shared by the American distributors.
Now I wonder if Thaddeous has watched the film and commented on it? Some how I doubt if it would make any difference to his presentation of views.
One last observation: I noticed at the end when the film attempted to show white people on the receiving end of the same brutal violence they inflicted on Black people.
Lets suppose all those people running around naked, brutalized and de-humanized had been white and the people carrying out these inhumane treatments as well as documenting the process had been Black. In other words Black people (Or any other peoples of colour) exchanged places with white people.
What would have been the affect on the white psyche?
And would the American distributors still have wanted to censor or make those cuts?
on Wed Dec 15th 2010 at 18:30:58 Kwamla’s FB Wall | Kwamla's Facebook Blog
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on Thu Feb 9th 2012 at 05:28:56 Maurice L
Damn this was a good post. The comments are good as well.
on Sun Jul 8th 2012 at 15:58:23 rb
I think that this is abit racist
on Mon Aug 27th 2012 at 18:59:59 admin
Why have you not mentions ANYTHING at all about the Arab slave trade and the 150 million Africans enslaved by the Arabs, and the 50 million whites, asians and orientals enslaved and sold by Muslims? Why have you forgotten that Muslim sharia law and the mass conversion of Africans, is what brought and invented the slave trade and export of human beings to Africa over 1000 years before any Hispanic, Oriental, South American, European or American were even involved in slave trading?
And you have also omitted that African kings REFUSED to end the slave trade and blame the British for interfering into their god given right to sell slaves. You also mention nothing of blacks in America who were freed – yet kept their own black slaves, purchased and sold them like other slave owners. You also mention nothing that after Africans were converted to Islam, they felt they had the right to enslave people and willingly marketed, captured and sold their own people – making millions in profit from this trade with Muslims.
At present in 2012 there are only two continents that still sell and purchase slaves: Africa and the Middle East. The trade continues, although no one in the west purchase slaves anymore since the past 200 years or so.
Why are you not writing about African slavery of their own people – which solely happened due to Islamic sharia law, which supports slavery? Most of Africa is Muslim, due to mass conversion of Africans during the 14 centuries of Arab slave trade.
on Mon Aug 27th 2012 at 20:58:21 abagond
@ Admin
When I write a post I write the title first. Then I write 500 words about it. The title of this post is “The Transatlantic slave trade”, not “People other than Europeans who traded and owned black slaves”.
I have written about Africans and Arabs and slavery, not as history but as an argument white racists use to preserve their moral blindness, which seems to be what you are doing:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/africans-sold-their-own-people-as-slaves/
on Mon Aug 27th 2012 at 21:53:08 SomeGuy
At present in 2012 there are only two continents that still sell and purchase slaves: Africa and the Middle East.
I have news for you; when Ukrainian, Russian and other Eastern European pimps kidnap women and have them locked up in a house selling azz and not giving those women compensation of freedom….guess what…THAT’S SLAVERY.
on Mon Aug 27th 2012 at 22:36:58 B. R.
Trans Atlantic reminents of slavery exists in Brazil, where they exploit workers to go long distances, stay in barricks situation, get room and board and work like dogs, but, there horrible salarie cant even pay the room and board, so , they cant even get out of the debt, they have to stay on as slave labor…this is more than once and they talk about it as slavery in the news , so that isnt my depiction…and these people are mostly brown and black people
We have all heard of that version with women and sex traficing, and, that is how it works with men, in labor camps…they cant pay off their room and board and transport debt
on Tue Aug 28th 2012 at 15:04:07 admin
We need to end the slave trade COMPLETELY no matter where in the world it is. Unfortunately when it comes to Islam, slavery is endorsed by the religion. This means they converted millions of Africans to Islam to become their co-partner in the export slavery business.
SomeGuy: everyone know’s that the sex slave trade, is slavery. Again 80% of the entire slave trade is managed by Muslims due to their religious laws, that see no crime in killing or enslaving other people. The rest is by Russian mafia gangs and other criminal organizations.
Today there are an estimated 27 million people living in slavery.
on Tue Aug 28th 2012 at 15:20:14 SomeGuy
Backpedaling.
Backpedaling? WHAT Backpedaling? There is no backpedaling about anything. You trivialize the origin of exported slave industry simple because you don’t bother to research it. Asia and the Middle East will not permit their history to be openly examined. 200 million slaves captured by Arabs and you spend pages and pages on hispanic, portugese, american and other slave history that were a drop in the ocean in comparison.
Blacks are the ones backpedaling right back into slavery, by converting to Islam! How dumb can people be? American prisons are full of blacks converting to Islam.
Go to youtube and listen to Simon Deng and other slaves who recently escaped slavery under Muslim law, after their countries were converted into Islamic societies. They imagined Islam would bring them good things to their countries. Instead after gaining political control, they quickly started enslaving people. You can buy black slaves for $10 in Sudan, Niger and other places that are MUSLIM societies.
on Tue Aug 28th 2012 at 18:29:39 abagond
This post is about the Transatlantic slave trade. You are not going to derail it with your rants about Muslims. If you want to talk about Arab or African slave owners and traders, then do so at the links I gave you (repeated below). That is the proper place to talk about that stuff – that is, if you are serious and not just about derailing this thread.
on Mon Oct 1st 2012 at 17:58:31 rj
A lot of people like to bring up free negro slave owners but none of them mention how those free negroes became free nor how they came to own slaves. If you’re going to talk about something, talk about the whole story,don’t talk about it half way
on Sun Jun 30th 2013 at 13:18:06 j2000scott
i wonder why the Holy Bible. recognized and did not condemn slavery.
here is my take: in Old Testament days 2000 b.c. to 400 b.c. slavery was
accepted. A practice of tribes capturing slaves included Egyptians owning Hebrews, Africans
owning Africans of different tribes, Apaches owning members of other tribes, etc.
No shame involved. A little similar to women of America in the 1850’s -1920 having few rights,
no voting rights. Normal in its time. Perhaps the law to love your fellow man as yourself
quickened, informed man of God’s Will, and put into motion an energy that will discredit
slavery as a moral practice. The issue of shame began with the Golden Rule tho it took years
to fully develop in man’s collective consciousness.
on Tue Aug 27th 2013 at 19:37:47 Anton
Thank you for this post. Yet it is horrifying. And yes, whites often think that Africa is a country.
on Thu Oct 3rd 2013 at 22:25:26 Queen Ciara-Adira
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on Tue Oct 22nd 2013 at 08:20:36 Dana
Ending the Slavery Blame-Game
By HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/opinion/23gates.html?hp&_r=0
on Wed Dec 11th 2013 at 16:12:18 bethe37
Mel, I’m white and I have tears pouring down my face. Did I know all this stuff already? Yeah, but it sickens the heart to read it. How is it possible we live in a world so dark? Thank God change has come thru good men and women who sacrificed so much to bring change, but then… it’s still out there, that darkness. Human trafficing. We must abolish the ownership and abuse of other humans… it must be wiped off the face of the earth. I pray, before one more child is taken, change will come.
Love your fellow man, stop hating. We need each other.
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on Fri Oct 10th 2014 at 02:39:09 Sherilyn
I don’t believe that Africans started slavery long before the Europeans showed up . I believe that they did sold their own for commodities yes because of greed but this information is totally bias
on Fri Jun 12th 2015 at 20:05:02 Nancy Griffin
“A common white belief is that Africans “sold their own” as slaves. That is based on yet another common white belief: that Africa is a country. ”
Did you just make this up, or did you assume this? The truth is that some folks believe that slavery was strictly a white-vs-non-white issue, and the point being made by some is that it was not just whites buying-and-selling non-whites, that some of the non-whites participated as well, whatever their motives.
Some historians claim that Africans also mistaken assumed they were selling other Africans into servitude, not slavery, which was a common practice in Africa in the 1700s. I am not convinced of this, but some leading historians believe it is true.
Either way, I think your statement is your opinion, not fact.
on Thu Sep 3rd 2015 at 09:27:57 talibmensah
Walter Rodney had some interesting thoughts on the slave trade as part of the process of Europe underdeveloping Africa…interesting book but not sure how seriously scholars of the slave trade take it
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Remember, savages–especially MOSLEMS–NEUTERED most their slaves, which is why it didn’t “fall upon the children”–what children?
For everyone else, if you could put two really expensive items together and have a third really expensive item free, you’d be a fool not to.
Savages (Before they were counted as human)
I’m sure if people found a way to make cars or money reproduce, they surely would.
BUT there are still two-legged puppy mills long after slavery, so what’s the excuse there?
Or are they continuing because slavery wasn’t ended in other countries?
on Sat Mar 26th 2016 at 16:06:36 Nicole cox
What was the aim of seasoning
on Sat Mar 26th 2016 at 18:51:31 Afrofem
@Nicole cox
The aim of seasoning was to break the will of formerly free people and replace it with the acceptance of servitude.
on Wed Mar 30th 2016 at 00:42:57 Mighty matty
stop Thaddeus.
on Wed Mar 30th 2016 at 00:52:42 Willy Wrangler
Thaddeus you need to stop with your novel jesus h christ
on Wed May 18th 2016 at 23:00:35 Foh
If there was limited food and water how did any of the slaves live forget half. No air how did they breathe? No space to even roll over which most were laying on their backs and were vomiting no reports of numerous deaths from choking. I can go on and on most importantly where are the North American slave ships? I’ll wait, not once in site and it doesn’t matter that they were wood this was just hundreds of years ago they would of survived. Basically my point is so far this sounds like a bunch of bullshit you know why? Because most black people were already here long before them stinking 13 colonies words of advice the only thing that matters is physical proof not documents because anyone can Doctor up fake paper work, don’t believe everything that’s told to you no matter who it comes from.
on Sat Oct 28th 2017 at 18:51:53 Tomism
“Many Jews look white but in essence are not white because they have Jewish blood…like people believe whites were behind the African Slave Trade, when it was actually jews. There were also white slaves, working next to black slaves… and black plantation owners, who owned white and black slaves. To afford the cargo, ships or pay the captains, set up the ports, took money, something most whites did not have back then….it took European Christian whites to end slavery, after fighting against the powerful jewish lobby to keep it going.” -Harold Wallace Rosenthal
Jews have successfully managed to shift the blame for enslaving Blacks away from the themselves to Whites instead and they’ve used this lie to guilt trip compassionate White people and to agitate Blacks against Whites.
Whites did not have the money to afford a slave, let alone a ship full…the ports, ships, cargo…the entire African Slave Trade was a jewish operation, from beginning to end.
Jews and the transatlantic slave trade forms part of the wider history involving Jews and slavery which involved not only Africans, but also Europeans (especially Slavs), Middle Easterners, Central Asians and others. Specifically in relation to the transatlantic slave trade, it deals with the transportation of Black Africans to the Americas. Jews owned many of the slave-ships and had a very prominent, even leading role in the whole scheme.
Jews also sold white people as slaves to the Americas. Where tribes in Africa would kidnap other tribes to sell them to slavery to Jews, the Jews would kidnap whites. The hundreds of thousands of whites who were kidnapped, chained, whipped and worked to death in the American colonies and during the Industrial Revolution is kept secret by the Zionist-controlled media.[1]
http://immigration-globalization.blogspot.com
it was European Whites that ended the African Slave Trade, not jews or the King of Nigeria, who both fought against the ending slavery in European courts to keep it alive. The Jews were expelled from Spain on August 2, 1492, and from Portugal in 1497. Many of these Jews emigrated to Holland, where they set up the Dutch West Indies Company to exploit the new world.
White slaves were what this country was founded upon, especially in the Tobacco regions. They were worked to death and very few made to the conclusion of the in-denturedom. It was only when they needed a new slave class, that they started using the blacks. “White Cargo”
Slavery was NOT abolished by Lincoln…
just the name was changed to sharecropper with over 5 million Southern whites and 3 million Southern blacks working on land stolen by Wall Street bankers.
White, black, Indian, Hispanic, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Confederates valiantly stood as one in thousands of battles on land and sea. Afterwards, they attended Confederate Veterans’ reunions together and received pensions from Southern States.
Photos of black Confederate veterans may be seen in Alabama’s Archives in Scrapbook – 41st Reunion of United Confederate Veterans, Montgomery, June 2,3,4 and 5, 1931.” Lincoln did not claim slavery was a reason even in his Emancipation Proclamations on Sept. 22, 1862, and Jan. 1, 1863.
Moreover, Lincoln’s proclamations exempted a million slaves under his control from being freed (including General U.S. Grant’s four slaves) and offered the South three months to return to the Union (pay 40 percent sales tax) and keep their slaves. None did. Lincoln affirmed his only reason for issuing was: “as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said (tax) rebellion.”
By 1699, the number of free blacks prompted fears of a “Negro insurrection.” Virginia Colonial ordered the repatriation of freed blacks back to Africa. Many blacks sold themselves to white masters so they would not have to go to Africa. This was the first effort to gently repatriate free blacks back to Africa. The modern nations of Sierra Leone and Liberia both originated as colonies of repatriated former black slaves.
However, black slave owners continued to thrive in the United States.
By 1830 there were 3,775 black families living in the South who owned black slaves. By 1860 there were about 3,000 slaves owned by black households in the city of New Orleans alone.http://conservative-headlines.com/2012/03/americas-first-slave-owner-was-a-black-man/
Black Slave Owners and the Civil War
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooSTTxfriC8)
Dr. Tony Martin –
The Jewish Role in the African Slave Trade
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut7I75Q_-zA)
White Slaves of Black Masters
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfi1xHjFdgM)
on Sat Oct 28th 2017 at 19:26:51 satanforce
Let me guess. White Supremacist pretending to be Nation of Islam?
on Sun Oct 29th 2017 at 01:38:15 Afrofem
Everyone is responsible for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade except the people actually responsible for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
European Christians and their descendants blaming everyone but themselves.
on Sun Dec 3rd 2017 at 09:54:38 tecneek
..even before that the moors, and the biblical Exodus..
Satan force, the JewISH are Khazar converts, and they in their own books documented how they orchestrated the slave trade, and owned slaves… They are the synagouge of satan, per King James Bible. Also, they believe in their Talmud, not the Torah. The Classic Talmud hates black people, and believe they were cursed to be ugly, and believe in sex with young kids.. It is all in their Talmud. THEY are JewISH alright, but not Hebrew Israelites.
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on Fri May 31st 2019 at 16:41:19 jefe
They claim that the ship that transported the last shipment of African slaves to the USA was identified in Mobile Bay. The article says that the last survivor died in 1937.
Remains of the Clotilda are discovered in southern Alabama
The remains of the last slave ship to arrive in America are found, near Africatown
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/05/30/remains-of-the-clotilda-are-discovered-in-southern-alabama
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Charity Hospital was once considered the safety net of New Orleans. It was a place where anyone could go and receive the best healthcare available. The hospital was established in 1736, by a French shipbuilder, whose dying wish was to fund a hospital for the poor. The first hospital building, a small cottage in the French Quarter, opened a year after New Orleans was founded. Charity Hospital quickly outgrew that facility and a handful of temporary hospitals sprung up around New Orleans. The administration was taken over by the Sisters of Charity, a group of Catholic nurses who would run the hospitals along with the Medical College of the University of Louisiana. By the 20th Century, New Orleans was rapidly growing, and indigent care again exceeded Charity’s capacity.
Sunrise from the rooftop of Charity Hospital.
Today the hallways of Charity Hospital remain dark and empty.
In 1939, the Governor commissioned a new Art Deco-style hospital tower on Tulane Ave in the lower Mid-City neighborhood. Charity Hospital became the second-largest hospital in the country with 2,680 beds and encompassing a million square feet. It was known as a teaching hospital, a place where students from LSU and Tulane University could receive medical training. Designed by the same architects that built the Louisiana State Capitol, the building’s cornerstone lists the Public Works Administration as the building’s authority. Charity Hospital served over 100,000 indigent citizens each year before it closed. Charity Hospital was the longest continually running hospital in the country until August 2005.
A look at the front entrance to Charity from the rooftop.
A communications board at a nurses station reflects the feelings of those caught in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath.
In the Infectious Disease department, heavy-duty microscopes coupled with the Louisiana humidity slowly bend a wooden table.
A cart sits in the Pathology lab full of containers intended to be taken to the Morgue.
Hurricane Katrina signs posted in a dark, moldy hallway by the former staff.
The levees broke on August 29, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina made landfall. Rising floodwaters caused Charity Hospital to lose power. The electrical and mechanical equipment was underwater in the basement. The basement morgue flooded as well, sending bodies floating down the basement hallways. Doctors instructed the staff to pull the bodies out of the flooded basement and stack them in the stairwells. The floodwater trapped everyone inside for days with no power, no air conditioning, limited supplies, and food. Patients were hand-pumped oxygen by anyone willing to help, eventually being paddled down the flooded streets by staff to a nearby parking deck. After being carried up to seven flights of stairs, they were taken by helicopter to another nearby hospital for treatment. Several patients died in the parking deck, waiting to be rescued. Finally, a week after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans; the last patient was evacuated.
These plastic buckets were filled with body parts, dry rotting from the heat inside.
Trapped inside without food for days, starving patients and employees ate whatever they could find.
After the severe flooding, questions loomed regarding Charity’s future. The hospital had never closed, and many thought it would instantly reopen. Three weeks after Hurricane Katrina, the Army Corps, along with FEMA volunteers, had Charity Hospital back operational and ready to open. FEMA had generators set to be delivered to restore power however LSU representatives along with then-Governor Kathleen Blanco blocked the delivery multiple times and ordered the power turned off at the grid. Governor Blanco stated Charity Hospital would never reopen as a functioning hospital again. Hospital police forced out volunteers and staff, locking the doors without warning.
Over the next ten years, a bitter battle ensued between FEMA and LSU representatives about the amount of damage inside Charity. The disaster damage had to exceed half the cost of rebuilding to qualify for FEMA compensation. LSU wanted out of the impoverished healthcare business, hoping the closure of Charity would allow them to move on. LSU had been working to move towards a more privatized health care operation and wanted a new, state of the art facility outside of the downtown area. The closing of Charity allowed LSU to seek the government funds needed to help build a billion-dollar medical complex outside of the downtown area.
The turn-of-the-century autopsy amphitheater in the pitch-black basement.
University Medical Center, completed in 2015, cost a total of $1.2 billion. A replacement for Charity that seemed almost too little, too late. The state of the art facility features far fewer psychiatric beds and will not have birthing units. The 70-acre site in lower Mid-City is split off from downtown by the interstate, making it difficult to reach by the impoverished population. Many of the historic homes that outlasted Hurricane Katrina were destroyed or moved to less desirable areas to make way for University Medical Center. The city of New Orleans used the power of eminent domain to take over the land for the new hospital while continuing to pay over $3 million a year to secure the 70-year-old Charity Hospital as it sits dormant. Over the years, ideas for reuse such as a City Hall or medical student apartments were suggested but quickly put to rest. Charity Hospital remains abandoned and locked down under constant police patrol. Hopefully, one day, this Art Deco treasure will be filled again with thousands of people creating miracles and saving lives. Get a more detailed look from inside the walls of Charity Hospital in my book, Abandoned New Orleans
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104 Replies to “Charity Hospital”
Patrick Degan says:
The abandonment of Charity Hospital was and is a crime, as was the destruction of an entire neighbourhood to service the corporate demands of LSU.
Janet Schex says:
Just think – for a second – about trying to modernize a building from the early 20th century for modern needs such as computer wiring and wifi, not to mention patient privacy. The building served its purpose. It was time to modernize. It just wasn’t charming anymore.
Abandoned Southeast says:
Buildings are modernized and revitalized all the time. It’s not in the realm of impossible.
You obviously don’t understand the profound history of this building and what it meant to New Orleanians. This was a place of charity and hope, people are dying everyday in LA because of the greed in the medical industry. You felt very human when you came to charity hospital because the FIRST thing that was always asked was “what’s wrong” today at University, and other hospitals, the first thing asked is “what insurance do you have?” If you are one of the many in NOLA that doesn’t have insurance, unfortunately you are interrogated about how you intend to pay. Very Sad!
Andrew G King says:
I worked at Charity as a faculty member in ortho for 25 years. It was an anachronism and a disgrace. Dirty , and unsafe for patients , residents poorly supervised and unaccountable. The storm did a huge favor to the peopkle of New Orleans and medical education by terminating the hospital and allowing a modern facility to replace it.
Emily Ann Heine says:
I t i s a l o s s f o r N ew O rl ean s p eo p l e
It may have been all you say , but this hospital saved my life when I was 9yrs old in 1969… sad to see it this way !!
Betty Holsen says:
I worked there in the 80’s. The hardest work I ever did as a nurse but the most satisfying. This is so sad.
Melody Breyer Grell says:
Not sure how to post here, but the fact that there will be less psychiatric beds is the most disturbing part of this whole story. I have known people who, at their wit’s end have tried to get help, with hospitals turning them away into the danger of the night. And I mean that literally. There must be understanding that mental illness is really physical illness, bu tin the brain.
psychiatric care IS always at the bottom of the barrel for funding AND THE FIRST to get their budget cut.
Regarding in-patient ? the bed shortage is crisis levels nationwide AND THE LOSS CONTINUES AND NO ON CARES or has the common sense to REOPEN THE STATE HOSPITALS THAT STILL ARE WITH A SOUND FOUNDATION etc and OBEY THE OCCUPANCY AND STAFFING LAWS INSTEAD OF THEIR BS WITH SIMPLY CLOSING THEM ALL DOWN. mygawd WHAT DID THEY DO ? AND WHY ?
When they are ILL TO THAT POINT THEY NEED TO GET ADMITTED,assessed,treated and then discharged WITH STRICT FOLLOW UP.
WHEN THERE ARE NO BEDS , the family and care takrs definitely ARE AT THE RISK OF INJURY and the ill ones might even WIND UP DEAD AT THE HANDS OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT.
THIS IS A DISGRACE.
Thomas Warn-Varnas says:
i almost died in that hospital on my 33rd birthday.
infact i may have and my father might not have told me.
but i have to say, what? 11 years later, after the hurricane
all the funds in the world, billions spent, some of it went to roads
and this place, was politically abandoned because of loss?
imagine if only a fraction of those katrina funds were used for charity.
what it would have done.
but only a fraction was used for roads, most of which on the northshore
and the rest, pocketed away. as usual.
unreal, when you see these photos.
and i almost died (if i didn’t die and come back) on my 33rd birthday
about less than 11 months before katrina)
~peace
thomas 🙂
lishadiamond says:
The surgical amphitheater is NOT in the basement. It’s on the 9th floor. It’s also not pitch black. Please correct your huge description error. The flood waters did not reach the surgical amphitheater. This is misinformation.
Also, a lot of the dummies were placed there by police who use the building since Katrina for urban tactical drills.
The amphitheater pictured is located behind the Morgue in the basement. It’s there, I promise! There are other amphitheaters located in the hospital too. I remember seeing one with blue tile on another floor, maybe that’s the one you are referring to!
Mona (@Raynewriter) says:
I’m most interested in the “Surgeons records” photo. Do you know if there are other ledgers from the 60’s…like the one in the picture? What about old medical records? Thanks!
Yes, there were other ledgers and quite a bit of paperwork left behind.
Jessica Hyde Meydrich says:
When did you visit the hospital to get these pictures? Is there really medical waste and body parts still sitting around? That just seems insane to me. If so, it seems like they would be cleaning the hospital out and removing records, chemicals, and bio hazards… This story makes me sad.
Elizabeth Shraberg Hurst says:
Yes I just spoke with my father who worked there and he confirmed there were two amphitheaters. One in the basement that adjoined the doctor’s dining rooms and the morgue, and another amphitheater that was on the upper 7 or 8th floor. It had fabulous pictures of old surgeons including the famous New Orleans surgeon Rudolf Matas, one of the founders of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, operating with a cigar in his mouth. The smoke was then believed to clean sounds! There used to be a tunnel to the Tulane medical school. On Fridays next to to the kitchen across from the morgue was a large 4 ft wide and tall cast iron pot where they had gumbo being stirred every Friday. It was shut down after an “expose” in the Times Picayunne! What happened to those patients, doctors, nurses, and staff in the aftermath of Katrina due to government ineptitude was a truly heinous crime.
Amazing insight. Thanks for sharing!
Agatha L says:
The gumbo was good!!!
Sarah Kelley says:
Is the autopsy amphitheater different than the surgical amphitheater? It said the morgue was in the basement so maybe the autopsy amphitheater is/was different than the surgical amphitheater.
I believe the amphitheater behind the morgue was the only one used for autopsies.
Rhonda Lefort King says:
It says it’s the Autopsy amphitheater not the surgical amphitheater.
Angela Armstrong Hebert says:
The article said that it was the autopsy amphitheater (NOT the surgical amphitheater).
Brenda Tidwell VanDorsten says:
Upon a recent trip to NOLA, I was awestruck by the huge white. abandoned building….looking like a large ghost looming over the new hospital across from it…It looked so out of place and SAD…yes, SAD. Abandoned after all it’s years of care and charity for this great city. I was also SAD.
Stacy Gerhold-Marvin says:
I don’t think LSU wanted out of the indigent healthcare business at the time the new hospital was negotiated and planned. It was Jindal’s vision to privatize.
Portions of Charity were already privatized before Katrina. LSU wanted to head in that direction.
judyb54 says:
With LSU at his back.
Judimarie BsnregisteredNurse Boyd says:
It is really sad to see such an iconic hospital let go to waste because of politics and not wanting to serve the poorer people of New Orleans. At what point does political clout take precedence over human life. Building another hospital that is not accessible to the poor, is a pure and outrageous jester that the poor has no value as human beings. It also reinforce the concept that the poor people are not worthy of receiving basic health care, which the indigent people (and all) have a right to medical care regardless of their financial or social status. Those people who directly denied the rebuilding of Charity Hospital, who deliberately made sure that the people in all areas, especially the people who reside in the predominately poor area, should be ashamed of themselves. Nothing of good will come to those who did this great injustice….and yet found funds to build a hospital to serve its select few. There is a saying that: “God is a God of mercy” and that He will look over and take care of those who can’t care for themselves ….to those who have political clout and not given one thought of those less fortunate…..shame on you….remember karma is real; and when you look down your nose at those less fortunate, one day you may be in that position…never forget this thought…going up the ladder of success is one thing, but falling down that you will see all those people you insulted with your decisions and heartlessness. IJS
Danny Nola says:
Why do people claim the new LSU Medical Center is not accessible to the poor? It is very accessible and is utilized by people with and without insurance constantly. As I actually work at the LSUMC, I can tell you we are always busy and are always being accessed by everyone who has a need. Please don’t make statements that are misleading and outright lies. From reading these posts, it sounds like there is this huge, new medical complex sitting empty, surrounded by a moat filled with alligators to keep the poor out and the golden drawbridge is only lowered to allow the Mercedes ambulances in….silly people.
It’s accessible. Just not by public transit like Charity. I’m sure indigent people in New Orleans still receive care, but at what cost? This new hospital cost 3 times what it would take to make Charity modernized.
Kerry Jordan Clemmensen says:
How is it not accessible by public transit?the streetcars and buses have stops there, front, & both sides. It’s incredibly accessible. Especially when you consider the huge indigent population a block away, living under the interstate.
As for the lack of psychiatric beds, it’s an incredibly advanced psychiatric ward.
The issue I believe had to do with the homeless and indigent walking to the new hospital facility which is divided by an interstate from where Charity is located. Not sure what public transit issue you are talking about? There are fewer psychiatric beds at the new hospital, all advancements aside.
Steven Flash Broughton says:
Abandoned Southeast, please do not take this in the wrong way, I wanted to help others that may not know the area understand it better.
I-10 is elevated through this area. Tulane Ave. (Charity is on Tulane) and Canal St. go underneath it (The new LSUMC is between Tulane and Canal). Claiborne is the city street that runs underneath I-10 in this area. There are plenty of people who walk along Canal and Tulane under I-10. There is a homeless population that lives under I-10. The homeless and poor have access to reach the new LSUMC by foot and by bus, as well as the streetcar if they have the fare for it.There are plenty of bus stops along Canal and Tulane that are in front of the new LSUMC. The new LSUMC is literally on the other side of I-10 from Charity Hospital, we are talking about blocks, not miles. Though I am not a native New Orleanian, the city has been apart of my life the last 8 years, with me living there and being active across the metro area for the later 4 and half years.
i took the term accessibility LITERALLY as not being in close proximity to either transit lines or walkable for most of the poverty stricken.
cocktailsandhighheels says:
This is so sad for me.. I was in New Orleans during Katrina. This is so hard to see, it brings back memories. A great and powerful hospital that kept the New Orleans citizens afloat for decades being brushed off like it is a piece of garbage! Kathleen Blanco was a sorry governor for this. Very good read and powerful read, thank you for this!
XOXO-
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The photo of “Surgeons records from the 1960’s” caught my attention right away. I was a patient at Charity during the early 60’s and have often wondered if there were any medical records remaining from that time period. I also think that there’s a misconception that Charity only serviced the poor when in fact people from all walks of life were patients here simply because the doctors and medical staff at Charity were often on the cutting edge of new surgical procedures and technology. What a shame to allow this hospital waste away. Many a good doctor, nurse, etc. learned here…worked here…taught here. So sad…
blueski7487 says:
You are absolutely right. The cutting edge doctors here had, gave me a wonderful life. I am so glad that I was given a chance by the doctors here in order for me to live the way I do and to have a chance at getting married and having a family of my own. I was one of their miracles.
Martin J. Powers says:
point well taken.
Brad Blasiar says:
This site has some misguided statements. LSU does not want “out of the indigent healthcare business.” They wanted a new facility because Charity was so old, and it’s construction of mostly concrete made modern updates very difficult – they literally had to run internet, power, and cable wiring outside the building. As mentioned above, Jindal was the driving force behind privatizing Louisiana healthcare, but even with privatization, LSU still serves the indigent in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and various other cities. The statement “After Charity’s closure, suicide rates tripled across New Orleans” indicates the closing of charity lead to these suicides. It was clearly the devastation of Katrina itself that lead to the rise in rates, not to mention the use of rates rather than actual suicides may be a bad statistic to use, considering the significant decrease in population, with those left behind more susceptible to suicide and depression. The idea that moving UMC literally less than half a mile away from the original Charity site makes “it difficult to reach by the indigent population” is ludicrous. I get the desire to want to make use of the building, but the aforementioned misdirection and outright lies lead me to question whether or not “Three weeks after Hurricane Katrina the Army (the Army?) had Charity Hospital cleaner than before the storm, fully operational, and ready to open.” As an LSU medical student starting in 2008, I was taught by many people that worked in Old Charity. It was not “fully operational”. One big issue was the very heavy CT and MRI machines. Charity only had the structural strength to hold these large machines on the first floor, making them vulnerable to any recurrent flooding. These were not replaced, and the hospital was far from “fully operational”. I understand the misgivings about the eminent domain, as well as the desire to make use of the building, but this is far from a black and white situation.
I agree the issue with Charity is far from black and white. Charity as a whole was not fully operational however the Army Corps of Engineers along with FEMA did clean the hospital well enough for it to be open for all intended purposes.
marushkasplace says:
Amazing history.
Cori Renfroe says:
My father, (who was not indigent), spent many a day looking out the window watching the superdome being built as he lay dying of cancer back in the 1970’s. I was very young and vaguely remember the large open wards with many occupied beds in each. If those wall could speak, oh, the stories they could tell…of life and death, happiness and grief. It is a wonderful building and should be restored to continue to help those many in need. It could be filled in a day with just those that need mental health. No major heavy equipment required, just people willing to show love and compassion to those most in need.
Katherine Jacobson says:
As a graduate of Charity Hospital School of Nursing, I can honestly say I was provided an education that money can not buy.
I was born at Charity Hospital and educated in the School of nursing there. Experienced the best Nursing education to be had in the country. I now teach nursing part time and am very well respected as an instructor by my students because of my experiences in the SICU and NICU of which I have worked at Charity. I am proud to wear the Charity Pin, as it is well recognized by physicians and patients. It is sad to see the the condition of that precious building. What a waste as decided by politicians. What do they truly know?
Elina M. Long says:
What year did you work in the NICU?
gwendolyn hardin says:
I am a 1982 graduate of Charity Hospital School of Nursing and carry the memories of those halls deep within my heart. My class pin has been recognized outside of Louisiana and many doctors have mentioned the excellent education which came out of Charity. I did not see any mention in this publication of the fact that Charity Hospital was shared by LSU and Tulane schools of medicine. We, the nursing students, had to know which school was in charge of our assigned patients. I was devastated when Charity School of Nursing went from a 3 year diploma program to a 2 year associate degree via Delgado. I have interviewed new graduate nurses from “Charity-Delgado” and know for a fact the education changed. The day I walked out of nursing school I went directly into an intensive care unit at a hospital in my home town. This was because of my education, most new grads had to work the floor for a year before entering the ICU. We, the grads of the former Charity Hospital School of Nursing, were blessed to have received such an excellent education. FYI, the charity hospital in Baton Rouge ( Earl K. Long) is another which suffered at the hands of the LSU take over. It is now just a vacant lot.
Thank you for reading and contributing. I learn something new every day.
the same way the politicians made the decision on the fate of your hospital , they made the destructive decision on the education and TRAINING for entry into professional nursing.
And the same way our military is trained on how to REACT AND APPLY KNOWLEDGE, the nursing student was the same.
This lack of training, the lack of hours spent as UNPAID BEDSIDE NURSES under the direction of both your “clinical instructor” and the head nurse accounts for their problems with professional adjustment and the knowledge that NURSING IS EXHAUSTING AS IT INVOLVES 100% OF YOUR MIND AND PHYSICAL EXERTION AND WE ARE JACKS OF ALL TRADES AND MASTERS OF THEM ALL.
There were no resp techs running around, to set up the vent or arterial line transducers etc etc-we did it all, no disposables for a while after graduation,so we were also soaking,washing,wrapping,autoclaving or gas sterilising.sharpening needles,checking for burrs,counting needles/syringes along with the narcotics on top of direct patient care,charting etc AND WE LOVED IT as nursing was a challenge and those “in it”had found their niche in life and yes we had lives including husbands,kids BUT WHEN ON DUTY, we were solely on duty.
mygawd, my 2 year diploma school rotated us through the OR,ICUs, recovery room, ER CCU, we had advanced cardiac care instruction,how to run a code, knowledge of basic LAW regarding malpractice, negligence abandonment,etc and even HOW TO TALK TO THE DOCTOR WHEN THEY BROKE STERILE TECHNIQUE, how to remind them YOU NEED ORDERS, OR THIS ORDER IS CONTRAINDICATED on and on and may gawd help you if not fully prepared to take care of your patients etc. remember YOUR scissors and clamps ? it was on par w/the military inspections preconference and all- then the oral quizzes-“patient presents with…what will you get ready ? what’s contraindicated ? what will you be looking for”
THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS BURN OUT as you would have burned out in the first three months due to the heavy academic load and CLINICAL hours on top of it.
There was also no such thing as “NOT MY PATIENT”.
Now we cannot place the ENTIRE blame on these BSN and assoc grads as they did their best and NURSING AS WE KNEW IT WAS DESTROYED by political bs artists,MSNs in charge of our professional licensure, and they are responsible for the poor standards of care,attitude and shortage. THOUSANDS for that BSN ? over in the UK your education was for free and you received an allowance as well.
I had to leave as it became intolerable working with too many arrogant BSNs we had to TRAIN and then hear nonstop “I didn’t go to college for 4 years to take a temp….answer the phones (fill in the blanks), and then be BLOCKED from advancement due to not having the BSN.
I am a 1972 grad. and even then the diploma schools were on the way out and I simply walked out one morning in 1997, after pulling a 12 hour shift THAT THEY voted for and finding out THEIR CHOICE for the head nurse for the night shift that same morning– an intolerable,POLITICAL choice and of course, us diploma grads that WERE GOOD ENOUGH to be “charge” for years, could not apply, so you know the rest of the story.
I quit nursing entirely.
NURSING IS THE ONLY PROFESSION THAT DESTROYED ITSELF.
Charles Gras says:
For all the hundreds of thousands of people treated at Charity , that could not afford to be treated any where else , The thousands who traveled from all over the world , to be treated by specialists , in this teaching hospital By teams from L.S.U. , Tulane , Delgado and many other disciplines . Charity Hospital operated in the black or in other words made a profit every year that it was open . I find it hard to believe anyone from these dedicated schools and disciplines wanted Charity to die on the vine
Ginger Coolidge says:
Thank you for these photos and this article. Originally from New Orleans, I returned and got married in May of 2005, just 3 months before everything changed in that city. Many members of my family were treated at Charity over the years and possibly I had some that worked there, not sure, they are are mostly deceased now. Lots of fingers could be pointed but I don’t want to go there. This article makes me sad and seems like a microcosm of what came of the city as a whole. That large structure still there , I wish there was a way it could be restored and used in some way.
Evelyn Frey says:
There is a difference between surgical and autopsy amphitheaters. The Big C had both and they were in different locations. The autopsy theater was in the basement near the huge morgue . Many memories from my nursing school days in the late 60’s – early 70’s. So sad that it lies in such a state now. The school og nursing is now only an empty shell .
Blanche Pelican says:
Charity School of Nursing never closed after Katrina, continuing to educate nursing students at other campuses until returning to the Education Building on South Claiborne in 2006. It is far from an empty shell! The Class of December 2015 was the second largest graduating class in the history of the associate degree program, with 158 graduates! For the Fall 2016 semester, the school anticipates approximately 650 students in the RN program, 100 in the PN program and 20 in the CNA program.
Charity Hospital School of Nursing became Charity School of Nursing-Delgado Community College in the early 1990s. The school’s dorm was closed by the state and later renovated to provide housing for LSU’s medical students.
Charity School of Nursing continued to maintain its ties with Charity Hospital through clinical rotations until Hurricane Katrina. Students now gain their clinical experience at hospitals throughout New Orleans and the surrounding parishes.
Although Big Charity still awaits its rebirth, Charity School of Nursing-Delgado Community College continues a proud tradition of service far into the future.
Michael Sparks says:
My father worked there as an LSU med student in the early 1970s and is now retired. I was once stitched up on a stretcher in the hallway by my dad after I fell and cut myself as a young child. I remember he once told me that “Big Charity” had a very old syphilis clinic and that he had handled records in French dating from the earliest days of that clinic. Amazing, and I wonder what ever happened to those historic records. I’d like to share this page with him, but I’m hesitant because I know it would make him very sad to see the hopsital in such decay. Of course many of us know the story of Charity’s demise, but actually seeing it like this is much different.
trower72 says:
Reblogged this on My Drop Foot by Matthew Trower and commented:
Nothing scarier than an abandoned hospital. These amazing photographs certainly back my theory up!
That essay at the end is misguided. The indigent are much more likely to live on the side of the interstate where the new hospital is, rather than between I-10 and the river, like Big Charity. Where are you from, anyway??
I recall the issue with patients reaching the new hospital compared to Charity was public transportation.
Marco D Meneghini says:
Charity was served by the Tulane streetcar and later by the Tulane trolley bus. The new hospital is served not only by the Tulane motor bus but also the Canal streetcar and the Gálvez bus.
Patty Sabatier says:
if nothing else, this site should be kept honored and marked as a sacred, like we have done with the
9/11 ground zero.
Charity was served by the Tulane streetcar, later the Tulane trolley bus. The new hospital is served not only by the Tulane motor bus, but also the Canal streetcar and the Gálvez bus.
There’s really not one issue that can pinpoint why Charity closed. It’s a litany of things besides public transit. That’s just one of many. Thanks for reading.
Jim Carrier says:
Terrific photos. The hospital’s travail during Katrina is documented in my book, “Charity – The Heroic and Heartbreaking Story of Charity Hospital in Hurricane Katrina,” available in paperback and e-book version from Amazon and other outlets. Jim Carrier, http://www.jimcarrier.com.
Having been born in Charity Hospital in 1987, I was a miracle baby. Back at that time they still had no idea really what thyroid disease was or how one got it. They were the first doctors who treated me for my illness. After that they sent my mom to Children’s Hospital in order for those doctors to get a handle on my health. I wish this place would be turned into something instead of sitting there as a reminder of the past and the indignity of people who gave up on a building that once held the only hope some people had. Now at 29, I have come a long way from those beginning days as a child whose parents feared wouldn’t make it or if I did what would I be like. They told my parents that I would never walk or be able to reach childhood milestones or even have children when it came to that time. I showed each doctor as a child, how wrong they were and even to this day I am still a walking true testament to the care that I was given as a newborn baby in the nursery at Charity Hospital. I thank the doctors there for giving me a fighting chance. I am grateful for the chance to live a very happy, healthy and long life because of their care and attention.
Great story! Thanks for sharing.
Your welcome. My story always inspired me through out my life.
Gilly says:
Absolutely incredible story with your wonderful images. It’s very interesting, as someone who lives in the UK, to see these amazing places you have rotting away. I know we have many of our own – but these are spectacular examples of decay and change. You are very talented at documenting it.
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jennifer baxter (@bbstrawb731) says:
Charity hospital was once a great place. It had the best doctors and students around. I had my son their and you were considered either an LSU or a Tulane patient. They had great nurses too. They also found my mother’s cancer there and took good care of her.
Ke Wilson says:
ive got 2 words for you ……. asbestos abatement
I’ve got one word for you. Money.
Jeffrey Sketchler says:
Great Pics. Charity had it’s day. It was an outdated facility in the 80’s when I learned and trained as a med student and subsequent resident surgeon. NOLA has long had a dire need for a more up to date institution for treating patients and training health care professionals. We now have it . Katrina sped up the process. Andy King is right. The Big Charity was historically significant, but NOLA was at risk for becoming historically insignificant in medical education without its replacement. Jeffrey Sketchler, MD
Thank you for your insight. I’d like to see the city do something with the building besides leave it shuttered or demolish it.
Armin Callo says:
Finally, LSU has its medical center. Good, and good riddance to Charity Hospital. My experiences there at Charity during my LSU Medical School days were HORRIBLE because of this building and its deficiencies. Yes, it is a beautiful, historic, art deco structure, maybe as a residential building, not as a fully-functioning, modern hospital.
I agree. It is a weird layout for a hospital but a residential building would be a good fit.
Buddy Goatcher says:
Wow. thank you for sharing, I was not aware Charity was abandoned,
Brings back memories! No nightmares. Around day four or five post Katrina I was tasked with directing a SAR mission to extract the daughter of a high federal official who was a nurse trapped in that hospital. They were at great risk at the hospital by being over run by hoodlums and gangs. We were one of two teams that approached from different directions. Our team encountered a fire fight and were delayed in resolving that problem and then ran out of water near the Xavier University. Our other team was able to rescue her.
Wow, incredible story. Thanks for sharing!
Carol Hayes says:
No millionaires in NO who would consider renovating for apartments with maybe the bottom 2 or 3 floors for boutiques and such? I have no head for business and this may have already been looked into. Just a thought as it is downtown and with it being made of concrete, no weather worries there.
Mem Shannon says:
I was born in this building December 21, 1959.
Kellie Voisin Briggs says:
I love the Charity Hospital history! I wish I has a chance to see the building in person…
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Emily Dardis (@edardi1) says:
your statement, “The levees broke August 29th, 2005, a few days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall” implies that the levees broke a few days after the storm hit New Orleans. The storm hit on the 29th and the levees broke the same day.
Corrected the error. Thank you for reading.
jbkeenanjr says:
Reblogged this on KeenLand.
Lorri Annette Curto says:
I’m reading Five Days at Memorial and the brief account of how well the staff at Charity handled the same time period post-Katrina caused me to find this site. As a RN in the Texas Medical Center I find the photos both intriguing and disturbing. Am I the only one who thinks it is time for this building to be demolished?
Griselda Foreman says:
Practical analysis . I was fascinated by the insight , Does anyone know if my company could get access to a template Profit & Loss Statement Sample form to fill out ?
Payton Martin (@thepaytonmartin) says:
Me and 3 of my friends had the opportunity to, let’s say, tour, this 1 million square foot building the other night. After hopping the fence, dodging security, cutting the lock on an exterior door, and unbolting the hinges, we were able to get in. Although the cleaning out of all the debris (which began in January) is already complete, it was still one of the coolest buildings I’ve explored. But let me tell you how sore I was the day after from climbing up 20 flights of stairs… 21 if you count the basement. I do have to say that although there are many arguments about the amphitheaters… I was able to view 2 of them, both housed on the 12th floor near the O.R. suites and anesthesia offices. They were named the Miles Amphitheatre and the Delgado Amphitheatre. While we did spend a fair amount of time in the basement, we did not find the morgue nor did we find another amphitheater… but that does not mean they are not there. One of the coolest things we did was get on the roof of the 13th floor of the west wing, and on the roof of the 20th floor (basketball court beneath us). There are so many areas we didn’t get to explore, and by 3 AM we were too tired to keep looking. We will definitely be back to this historic building.
Very interesting! I worked at Charity in the late 60’s, early 70’s as a Medical Technologist, learned so much and enjoyed it. Wish the building could be used for something! Thanks for the pictures and added info!
My dad received his training in Psychiatry at Tulane Universiy / Charity Hospital in the late 50’s. I lived in NO in 1989 and often visited the cafeteria during my training for an MPH Degree at Tulane. These photos are compelling and sad…… Too bad to see all that history blown away by Katrina and neglect……
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Just so yall know. She is clean again!! Our company was in there 6 months ago to do a complete gut on all materials not tied down. There is nothing left but the walls and big medical equipment. There is about 30 million dollars in asbestos removal to be done before anything else can be done. Tell you what its a spooky building when your up on the 20th floor and your all alone!!
Teresa Long says:
Do you know where all of the pictures were taken to when they cleaned? My great-great grandfather was one of the first heart surgeons there and his picture was in the entry way.
I am very saddened by the loss of Big Charity Hospital. I prayed for the recovery of this Facilty. It was very important to the people of Louisiana and other States as well. I can still picture in my mind the Hallways, Wooden Floors, Elevators, Entrance and Emergency Room area. When I heard Big Charity Hospital would not reopen I went to New Orleans and took Pictures of the outside and cried. Excellent care was given to my family member from my Great Grandmother (1912), Grandmothers, Aunt( 1930s), and Mother( 1980s). There was Love and Caring shown to Patients and Family which will not be forgotten.
Aluminiumstange says:
Excellent read, I just passed this onto a friend who was doing a little research on that. And he just bought me lunch because I found it for him smile Therefore let me rephrase that: Thank you for lunch!
Jean Bannon Breed says:
These photos are amazing as is your info about this historic hospital. I lived in New Orleans from 1970 to 1984 ( 20 to 34 years old) and being a broke hippie chick I counted to Charity to take care of me and they certainly did! Had a major surgery there and still have a photo of me in a ward with maybe 10(?) other patients. My girlfriend brought me a carton of cigs!!! I also came in one evening very ill and dehydrated and since they had no rooms they put me on a gurney in a hallway and inserted an IV. Always treated kindly and professionally and during rounds would have a posse of young Tulane and Loyola students discussing my case. After 30 yrs in California I am moved back and it breaks my heart to see that it has sat there for so long and there seem to be no plans to remove or restore. Such a big part of this city’s history. Thanks for the wonderful article and great photos!!!
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An impressive share! I’ve just forwarded this onto a co-worker who had been doing a little homework on this.
And he actually bought me dinner because I found it for him…
But yeah, thanx for spending the time to talk about this topic
Charity was like wrestling with some fictional “shit monster” – if you pardon my expression. If you won and beat it – including all the daily surprises and frequent inadequacies e.g. lack of supplies, pharmacy running out of a medication, etc, and you could live with the state worker staff mentality and the abominable racism, etc, you felt quite like the survivor. Sure you got your training but there was a lot of rig this and rig that – sink or swim – and you learned to be happy with it or you got run out even before you got your late paycheck.
I am not nostalgic for it at all. I went a few times as a child and waiting for hours like everyone else. I remember once walking from the nursing school to the main building and there were detours on the walkway for concerns of asbestos contamination. The bathrooms were literally hell holes – even the employees ones. When HIV hit in the 1990s they stuck those people down in some basement pit and few wanted to go there. Oh and don’t forget the rat races – literally – out by the snack bar in front. I taught myself a lot about care at Charity – mostly on my own – but it certainly was not the icon some people here seem to fondly remember. It was often like working in some alternate reality as if you were in one of those healthcare miniseries like St Elsewhere or House but a lot less of the happy endings.
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Daylight Thomas says:
I worked at Charity Hospital in 1989 as I was a medical student from Europe !
Lived in the French Quarter/Iberville street and had to walk every morning
to the hospital !
Was very concerned about the crime and violance in the city.
Therfore I decided only to arrive at daylight and to leave the hospital at daylight!
The residents called my “Daylight Thomas” and we hat many parties and fun
at my apartment in the quarter after work!
Maybe some of the doctors remember that time!
That’s funny. Thanks for sharing your
memories of Charity with us, Daylight Thomas.
I also lived in New Orleans during Hurricane Betsy !
Have a wonderful photo with Mayor of New Orleans Victor H. Schiro, Jim Garrison and my parents during a cocktail party at the Roosevelt Hotel, April 28th 1962 !
Best regards from Germany Thomas Anschuetz
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The Evil Accusation the Jews Uttered Against Maryam & Their Claim that They Killed Isa : Tafseer ibn Katheer
January 27, 2014 By AbdurRahman.org in Jews (Yahood), ~All Tags: Book Excerpts, dar-us-salam, Imam Ibn Kathir
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged) – Al-Nisa surah 4 © Darussalam 2000
Allah said,
(And because of their (Jews) disbelief and uttering against Maryam a grave false charge.) `Ali bin Abi Talhah said that Ibn `Abbas stated that the Jews accused Maryam of fornication.This is also the saying of As-Suddi, Juwaybir, Muhammad bin Ishaq and several others. This meaning is also apparent in the Ayah, as the Jews accused Maryam and her son of grave accusations: They accused her of fornication and claimed that `Isa was an illegitimate son. Some of them even claimed that she was menstruating while fornicating. May Allah’s continued curse be upon them until the Day of Resurrection. The Jews also said,
(“We killed Al-Masih, `Isa, son of Maryam, the Messenger of Allah,”) meaning, we killed the person who claimed to be the Messenger of Allah. The Jews only uttered these words in jest and mockery, just as the polytheists said,
(O you to whom the Dhikr (the Qur’an) has been sent down! Verily, you are a mad man!) When Allah sent `Isa with proofs and guidance, the Jews, may Allah’s curses, anger, torment and punishment be upon them, envied him because of his prophethood and obvious miracles; curing the blind and leprous and bringing the dead back to life, by Allah’s leave. He also used to make the shape of a bird from clay and blow in it, and it became a bird by Allah’s leave and flew. `Isa performed other miracles that Allah honored him with, yet the Jews defied and bellied him and tried their best to harm him. Allah’s Prophet `Isa could not live in any one city for long and he had to travel often with his mother, peace be upon them. Even so, the Jews were not satisfied, and they went to the king of Damascus at that time, a Greek polytheist who worshipped the stars. They told him that there was a man in Bayt Al-Maqdis misguiding and dividing the people in Jerusalem and stirring unrest among the king’s subjects. The king became angry and wrote to his deputy in Jerusalem to arrest the rebel leader, stop him from causing unrest, crucify him and make him wear a crown of thorns. When the king’s deputy in Jerusalem received these orders, he went with some Jews to the house that `Isa was residing in, and he was then with twelve, thirteen or seventeen of his companions. That day was a Friday, in the evening. They surrounded `Isa in the house, and when he felt that they would soon enter the house or that he would sooner or later have to leave it, he said to his companions, “Who volunteers to be made to look like me, for which he will be my companion in Paradise” A young man volunteered, but `Isa thought that he was too young. He asked the question a second and third time, each time the young man volunteering, prompting `Isa to say, “Well then, you will be that man.” Allah made the young man look exactly like `Isa, while a hole opened in the roof of the house, and `Isa was made to sleep and ascended to heaven while asleep. Allah said,
(And (remember) when Allah said: “O `Isa! I will take you and raise you to Myself.”) When `Isa ascended, those who were in the house came out. When those surrounding the house saw the man who looked like `Isa, they thought that he was `Isa. So they took him at night, crucified him and placed a crown of thorns on his head. The Jews then boasted that they killed `Isa and some Christians accepted their false claim, due to their ignorance and lack of reason. As for those who were in the house with `Isa, they witnessed his ascension to heaven, while the rest thought that the Jews killed `Isa by crucifixion. They even said that Maryam sat under the corpse of the crucified man and cried, and they say that the dead man spoke to her. All this was a test from Allah for His servants out of His wisdom. Allah explained this matter in the Glorious Qur’an which He sent to His honorable Messenger, whom He supported with miracles and clear, unequivocal evidence. Allah is the Most Truthful, and He is the Lord of the worlds Who knows the secrets, what the hearts conceal, the hidden matters in heaven and earth, what has occurred, what will occur, and what would occur if it was decreed. He said,
(but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but it appeared as that to them,) referring to the person whom the Jews thought was `Isa. This is why Allah said afterwards,
(and those who differ therein are full of doubts. They have no (certain) knowledge, they follow nothing but conjecture.) referring to the Jews who claimed to kill `Isa and the ignorant Christians who believed them. Indeed they are all in confusion, misguidance and bewilderment. This is why Allah said,
(For surely; they killed him not.) meaning they are not sure that `Isa was the one whom they killed. Rather, they are in doubt and confusion over this matter.
(But Allah raised him up unto Himself. And Allah is Ever All-Powerful,) meaning, He is the Almighty, and He is never weak, nor will those who seek refuge in Him ever be subjected to disgrace,
(All-Wise.) in all that He decides and ordains for His creatures. Indeed, Allah’s is the clearest wisdom, unequivocal proof and the most glorious authority. Ibn Abi Hatim recorded that Ibn `Abbas said, “Just before Allah raised `Isa to the heavens, `Isa went to his companions, who were twelve inside the house. When he arrived, his hair was dripping water and he said, `There are those among you who will disbelieve in me twelve times after he had believed in me.’ He then asked, `Who volunteers that his image appear as mine, and be killed in my place. He will be with me (in Paradise)’ One of the youngest ones among them volunteered and `Isa asked him to sit down. `Isa again asked for a volunteer, and the young man kept volunteering and `Isa asking him to sit down. Then the young man volunteered again and `Isa said, `You will be that man,’ and the resemblance of `Isa was cast over that man while `Isa ascended to heaven from a hole in the house.
When the Jews came looking for `Isa, they found that young man and crucified him. Some of `Isa’s followers disbelieved in him twelve times after they had believed in him. They then divided into three groups. One group, Al-Ya`qubiyyah (Jacobites), said, `Allah remained with us as long as He willed and then ascended to heaven.’ Another group, An-Nasturiyyah (Nestorians), said, `The son of Allah was with us as long as he willed and Allah took him to heaven.’ Another group, Muslims, said, `The servant and Messenger of Allah remained with us as long as Allah willed, and Allah then took him to Him.’ The two disbelieving groups cooperated against the Muslim group and they killed them. Ever since that happened, Islam was then veiled until Allah sent Muhammad .” This statement has an authentic chain of narration leading to Ibn `Abbas, and An-Nasa’i narrated it through Abu Kurayb who reported it from Abu Mu`awiyah. Many among the Salaf stated that `Isa asked if someone would volunteer for his appearance to be cast over him, and that he will be killed instead of `Isa, for which he would be his companion in Paradise.
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September 4, 2014 By AbdurRahman.org in Dua - Occassions, Dua - Supplication, Seeking Forgiveness (istighfaar), ~All Tags: Riyad-us-Saliheen
Allah, the Exalted, says:
“And ask forgiveness for your sin…” (47:19)
“And seek the forgiveness of Allah. Certainly, Allah is Ever Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” (4:106)
“And declare the freedom of your Rubb from imperfection beginning with His praise, and ask His forgiveness. Verily, He is the One Who accepts the repentance and Who forgives.” (110:3)
“For Al-Muttaqun (the pious) there are Gardens (Jannah) with their Rubb, underneath which rivers flow. Therein (is their) eternal (home) and Azwajun Mutahharatun (purified mates or wives). And Allah will be pleased with them. And Allah is All-Seer of the (His) slaves. Those who say: `Our Rubb! We have indeed believed, so forgive us our sins and save us from the punishment of the Fire. (They are) those who are patient, those who are true (in Faith, words, and deeds), and obedient with sincere devotion in worship to Allah. Those who spend (give the Zakat and alms in the way of Allah) and those who pray and beg Allah’s Pardon in the last hours of the night.” (3:15-17)
“And whoever does evil or wrongs himself but afterwards seeks Allah’s forgiveness, he will find Allah Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” (4:110)
“And Allah would not punish them while you (Muhammad (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam)) are amongst them, nor will He punish them while they seek (Allah’s) forgiveness.” (8:33)
“And those who, when they have committed Fahishah (illegal sexual intercourse) or wronged themselves with evil, remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their sins; – and none can forgive sins but Allah – and do not persist in what (wrong) they have done, while they know.” (3:135)
The Qur’anic Ayat on the subject are many and well-known.
1869. Al-Agharr Al-Muzani (May Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) said, “Sometimes I perceive a veil over my heart, and I supplicate Allah for forgiveness a hundred times in a day.”
1870. Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) saying, “I swear by Allah that I seek Allah’s Pardon and turn to Him in repentance more than seventy times a day.”
[Al-Bukhari].
1871. Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) said, “By the One in Whose Hand my soul is! If you do not commit sins, Allah would replace you with a people who would commit sins and seek forgiveness from Allah; and Allah will certainly forgive them.”
1872. Ibn `Umar (May Allah be pleased with them) said: We counted Messenger’s saying a hundred times during one single sitting: Rabb-ighfir li, wa tubb `alayya, innaka Antat-Tawwabur-Rahim. (My Rubb! Forgive me and pardon me. Indeed, You are the Oft-Returning with compassion and Ever Merciful.”
[Abu Dawud and At-Tirmidhi].
1873. Ibn `Abbas (May Allah be pleased with them) said: The Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) said, “If anyone constantly seeks pardon (from Allah), Allah will appoint for him a way out of every distress and a relief from every anxiety, and will provide sustenance for him from where he expects not.”
[Abu Dawud].
1874. Ibn Mas`ud (May Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) said, “He who says: `Astaghfir ullah-alladhi la ilaha illa Huwal-Haiyul-Qayyumu, wa atubu ilaihi (I seek the forgiveness of Allah, there is no true god except Allah, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting, and I turn to Him in repentance),’ his sins will be forgiven even if he should have run away from the battlefield (while he was engaged in fighting for the Cause of Allah).”
[Abu Dawud, At-Tirmidhi and Al-Hakim (on conditions of Al-Bukhari and Muslim for accepting Hadith)].
1875. Shaddad bin Aus (May Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) said, “The best supplication for seeking forgiveness (Syed-ul-Istighfar) is to say: `Allahumma Anta Rabbi, la ilaha illa Anta, khalaqtani wa ana `abduka, wa ana `ala `ahdika wa wa`dika mastata`tu, a`udhu bika min sharri ma sana`tu, abu‘u laka bini`matika `alayya, wa abu‘u bidhanbi faghfir li, fa innahu la yaghfirudh-dhunuba illa Anta. (O Allah! You are my Rubb. There is no true god except You. You have created me, and I am Your slave, and I hold to Your Covenant as far as I can. I seek refuge in You from the evil of what I have done. I acknowledge the favours that You have bestowed upon me, and I confess my sins. Pardon me, for none but You has the power to pardon).’ He who supplicates in these terms during the day with firm belief in it and dies on the same day (before the evening), he will be one of the dwellers of Jannah; and if anyone supplicates in these terms during the night with firm belief in it and dies before the morning, he will be one of the dwellers of Jannah.”
1876. Thauban (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: Whenever the Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) finished his Salat (prayer), he would beg forgiveness three times [by saying, `Astaghfirullah’ (3 times)] and then he would say: “Allahumma Antas-Salamu, wa minkas-Salamu, tabarakta ya Dhal-Jalali wal-Ikram. (O Allah! You are the Bestower of security and security comes from You; Blessed are You. O Possessor of glory and honour).” Imam Al-Auza`i (one of the subnarrators) of this Hadith was asked: “How forgiveness should be sought?” He replied: “I say: Astaghfirullah, Astaghfirullah (I seek forgiveness from Allah. I seek forgiveness from Allah).”
1877. `Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) reported: Prior to his demise, the Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) used to supplicate frequently: Subhan Allahi wa bihamdihi; Astaghfirullaha wa atubu ilaihi (Allah is free from imperfection, and I begin with praising Him. I beg forgiveness from Allah and I turn to Him in repentance.”
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
1878. Anas (May Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) saying, “Allah, the Exalted, has said: `O son of Adam! I shall go on forgiving you so long as you pray to Me and aspire for My forgiveness whatever may be your sins. O son of Adam! I do not care even if your sins should pile up to the sky and should you beg pardon of Me, I would forgive you. O son of Adam! If you come to Me with an earthful of sins and meet Me, not associating anything with Me in worship, I will certainly grant you as much pardon as will fill the earth.”’
[At-Tirmidhi].
1879. Ibn `Umar (May Allah be pleased with them) said: The Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) said, “O women folk! You should give charity and be diligent in seeking Allah’s forgiveness because I have seen (i.e., on the Night of the Ascension to the highest heavens) that dwellers of the Hell are women.” A woman amongst them said: “Why is it that the majority of the dwellers of Hell are women?” The Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) replied, “You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. In spite of your lacking in wisdom and failing in religion, you are depriving the wisest of men of their intelligence.” Upon this the woman asked: “What is the deficiency in our wisdom and in our religion?” He (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) replied, “Your lack of wisdom can be well judged from the fact that the evidence of two women is equal to that one man. You do not offer Salat (prayer) for some days and you do not fast (the whole of) Ramadan sometimes, it is a deficiency in religion.”
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“Roman Emperors: Running the Family Business,” interview with Ancient Origins (paywall), August 22, 2019
“Special Guest Episode on Ten Caesars,” The History of Ancient Greece Podcast, April 15, 2019
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“Why These Ten Caesars Explain Rome And The U.S.,” Rostrum, Octavian Report, April 10, 2019
“What Have the Romans Ever Done For Us?,” The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg #97, April 9, 2019
“Is Trump the New Nero?,” The World, March 21, 2019
“Episode 237: Ten Caesars by Barry Strauss,” The Bookmonger, March 11, 2019
“Leadership Lessons from the 3 Greatest Ancient Commanders,” The Art of Manliness Podcast #487, March 4, 2019
“The Death of Caesar,” Your Weekly Constitutional, August 21, 2017
“The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination,” Readara, August 4, 2016
Fareed Zakaria, “On GPS: Re-investigating the death of Julius Caesar,” CNN
John Hockenberry, “The Takeaway,” NPR, March 13, 2015
John Batchelor, “The John Batchelor Show,” March 28, 2015 — Part I & Part II
Mark Lynch, WICN Inquiry, April 16, 2015
Neal Conan, “Talk of the Nation,” NPR, on The Spartacus War, February 2, 2010
Interview on Spartacus on the Jim Engster show on WRKF, an NPR affiliate in Lousiana. (You’ll find me at 38:30, about 3/4 of the way through the recording.)
Neal Conan, “Talk of the Nation,” NPR, on the Trojan War, September 21, 2006
Neal Conan, “Talk of the Nation,” NPR, on Why the Greeks Matter, August 2, 2004
Videos In Brief
Francesco Maria Galassi Interviews Barry Strauss (July 20, 2017)
History in Five: The Death of Julius Caesar (March 4, 2015)
The Real Story of Caesar’s Death: A Lesson for Our Times (February 26, 2015)
The Five Stages of War (May 31 2012)
Learn the Tactics of History’s Greatest Commanders (May 1 2012)
Historian Barry Strauss Revealed (January 8, 2010)
Historian Barry Strauss Offers Some Advice (January 8, 2010)
Barry Strauss on Spartacus (July 29, 2009)
Barry Strauss Reveals the Question He is Asked the Most (July 29, 2009)
2010 When Rome Ruled: ‘Secrets of the Gladiators’ and ‘Killing Caesar,’ National Geographic Channel.
2009 Clash of the Gods, History Channel
2008, The Secret Life of Gladiators, Discovery Channel
2007, Athens: The Dawn of Democracy, PBS
2006, Where Did It Come From? Ancient Ships, History Channel
2006, Engineering an Empire: the Greeks and Engineering an Empire: Alexander, History Channel
2006, The Real Spartacus, National Geographic Channel
2005, Hannibal, National Geographic Channel
2004, Alexander and the Battle of Gaugamela (Great Battles); Real Gladiators and Who Killed Alexander? all on Discovery Channel
2003, Assassination of Julius Caesar and Spear of Jesus, both on Discovery Channel
2002, Unconventional Warfare and The Rise and Fall of Sparta, both on History Channel
2002, Debates, Debates PBS
2000, The Greeks, PBS
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When the Catfish was still just an idea, the plan was to make two or three cars for the people involved in making the car–no more. Building a one-off car is far easier than a production car–like building a clay pot takes an hour while making a tin can takes engineering, testing, meetings with vendors, buying the right assembly machines, and making sure it all fits, every time. In fact the car went from a sketch to the halls of the SEMA show in less than a year. When the decision was made to sell cars, tooling up for actual production took over twice as long. 2017 is now the year that tooling begins for the CFR.
This has always been the ultimate design, and was penned by Shawn Whetstone of Zukun Plan. These “new” renderings have been around since the start. There will be physical changes from this rendering, and that’s to be expected given that a lot of hands-on labor is needed to finish the body. The original name was supposed to be “Apex”, for its cornering abilities and it being the ultimate design for the Catfish. Right now the simple name is “CFR”. Maybe we’ll call it the “CFR Apex” when it comes out…let us know which one you like best.
The design incorporates more aerodynamic tweaks, with an emphasis on downforce that doesn’t add excessive drag. The new under wing helps add more grip to the back end, while massive air ducts on the side of the car suck hot air out of the engine. The side barge boards also “train” the air exiting the engine to flow next to the bodywork. The front end sees a splitter and whiskers (canards) set up to further add to the front end downforce. It’s a purposeful look and yet still keeps the strong styling cues.
The first CFR is being built now by V8 Roadsters in Florida, complete with V6 LGX engine and 8 speed paddle shift transmission. It will be wearing Mazda “Soul Red”, but will get a shake-down in bare white as seen in the last slide. Stay tuned here, “Bauer Limited Production” Facebook page and at “Catfish_Racing” on Instagram as we release more renderings.
Looking forward to seeing these builds.
Love the evolution of the body design.
When will you be able to order the new version?
The body is finished, except for the rear under-wing. While not mentioned in the story, the frame is getting a complete renovation. The changes deserve their own story, so we’re waiting for the final design to show off what’s been done. The major changes are no more K-member and no more rear subassembly; they’ve been incorporated into the design. This adds stiffness…and lightness. You can order any time. The new frame should be ready in June!
Do you know if the LFX/V7 combo with V8R kit will bolt right in and fit w/o clearance issues?
Our new 2.0 frame has a built-in K-Member and rear subassembly. This makes the entire frame much stiffer, and replacing the K-member with tubes allows for much more room in the engine bay. We will be mounting an LFX engine in the new setup (doing the R&D), and from that point on any customer can order the car with the LFX mounts. No need to purchase added parts (K-member, etc.).
Hey Cord, any update on this? The new design is beautiful!
Stefan lindsay says:
have you explored how the CFR as sketched would work for NASA reguations? would you be allowed the safety strut/tie bar (as shown) in singlar or double, like a scca lites car, or would there need to be a 4 point cage? -(as with the catfish at Thunderhill 25? or would you see something radical like the dragster style as in the Knoop Mann special?).
The Catfish is approved for use in NASA. specifically the Super Tour series which is based on a formula. So depending on whether you use a stock Miata engine or a fire-breathing LS6, the horsepower to weight ratio determines whether it’s in ST1/ST2/ST3 or STU. NASA has general rules for safety cages that apply to all of their racing categories, and we’ve developed a cage that would pass their regulations. It’s a bit more swoopy than the one at Thunderhill, but similar.
Riley Gartner says:
I haven’t seen any updates on the cfr in over a year. Is the model still being developed? Any new pictures you can release?
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Have cake and eat it strategy abandoned due to lack of bread
“The social enterprise sector spends a lot of time justifying itself by using the estimate of that there are 68,000 social enterprises. But it doesn’t question, firstly, whether the figure is accurate and, secondly, if it is, what the figure actually shows us.”
At first glance this may appear to be a quote from another needlessly pedantic blogger or academic, questioning the honourable attempts of the government and the social enterprise lobby to spread the good news about the inexorable growth of social enterprise in the UK. At second glance, it is in fact a quote from Lucy Findlay, Managing Director of the Social Enterprise Mark Company.
The estimate that there are 68,000 social enterprises in the UK comes from the Annual Small Business Survey (ASBS), conducted by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
This is the criteria by which BIS decide whether an organisation is a social enterprise:
no more than 75% of turnover is generated from grants and donations
no more than 50% of any surplus is paid to shareholders (or never generate a profit
the business owner thinks of the business as a social enterprise, and
the business owner thinks the business is a very good fit to the definition “A business with primarily social/environmental objectives, whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or community rather than mainly being paid to shareholders and owners”?
A previous ASBS found that there were 62,000 social enterprises in the UK and this figure was used prominently what was then the Social Enterprise Coalition now Social Enterprise UK (SEUK) and the New Labour government for several years.
When Lucy Findlay says that ‘the social enterprise sector’ doesn’t question the accuracy and meaning of this figure she’s either short of information or using a narrow definition of the social enterprise sector that excludes me, some of the UK’s leading social enterprise academics, and leading social enterprise support charity, Unltd.
The problem isn’t with the ASBS – which provides credible statistics based on clearly explained criteria – but with the fact those statistics have been prominently promoted by social enterprise support organisations that define social enterprise by very different criteria.
So, the criteria for Social Enterprise Mark holders are:
A. Have social and/or environmental objectives
B. Be an independent business
C. Earn 50% or more of its income from trading
D. A principle proportion (50%+) of any profit made by the business is dedicated to social/environmental pruposes
E. On dissolution of the business, all residual assets are distributed for social/environmental purposes
F. Can demonstrate that social/environmental objects are being achieved
So far, 462 organisations have been awarded the Social Enterprise Mark.
Regular readers may be aware that I’m not really a big fan of the Mark but despite my own opposition to the venture, I very much admire Lucy Findlay for her dedication and committment to a project that she believes to be socially useful. I also partly sympathise with her predicament on this point.
While Social Enterprise UK’s current team are not responsible – and those who werre responsible were clearly acting with the best of intentions – it is deeply regretable in terms of the credibility of the sector that the organisation that was then the Social Enterprise Coalition, as a co-owner of the Social Enterprise Mark company, found itself in the position of simultaneously promoting two significantly different definitions of social enterprise – one of which was purportedly the method for social enterprises to ‘prove they are genuine against a set of qualification criteria’.
It’s equally regretable for the Social Enterprise Mark Company, who have found themselves theoretically trying to sell their product to a clearly-defined target market of over 60,000 organisations when in reality the vast majority of those potential customers would be turned away if they attempted to buy the product. Of course, the chances of the Mark project receiving £964,000 worth of grant-funding from the combined pockets of Big Lottery and the government may not have been enhanced by a realistic assesment of the scale of social enterprise, as defined by Mark supporters, at that time.
At this point, we can be quite clear that there are at least 462 social enterprises in the UK and that there may be hundreds of thousands more than that, depending on your chosen framework for definition. In the 2009 – 2011 period, I found it difficult to understand how so many otherwise sensible people in the social enterprise lobby could justify the apparent ‘have your cake and it eat it position’ that there was need for significant government spending on supporting social enterprises but less than 462 social enterprises – less than one per parliamentary constituency – worthy of support. Even being charitable, this position apparently involved believing that over 60,000 organisations were waiting to apply for the Social Enterprise Mark and would do so once they got around to it.
No there is no money for social enterprise support – and the current government has no desire to promote ‘the social enterprise’ as a model – so the ASBS figure, though its meaning is entirely unchanged, is now virtually irrelevant. On the plus side, it means that what’s left of the social enterprise lobby is free to get on with promoting the social enterprise as a diverse social movement in all its glorious, hopeful messiness.
Tagged as Department of Business, Social Enterprise, social enterprise mark
14 responses to “Have cake and eat it strategy abandoned due to lack of bread”
MJ Ray
Oh dear! Has BIS drunk the KoolAid? Doesn’t “no more than 50% of any surplus is paid to shareholders (or never generate a profit” rule out a lot of non-CIC co-ops and mutuals? Both Con and Dem seem very keen on those now. And doesn’t it encourage enterprises to gamble on worker salaries instead of paying them part of it as dividends?
Also, do you admire anything that shows dedication and commitment, no matter how harmful they are?
You’ll probably need to increase that £954,000 once the dust settles on RISE’s collapse and we find out if/what else it has given to the SEM, despite it being forbidden by RISE’s M+A as I currently understand them… but with RISE having given free membership to SEM clients for a while before it died, I’m probably in a minority.
Hi MJ,
No, I don’t admire anything that shows dedication and commitment, no matter how harmful they are.
My underlying assumption, which I hope is shared by most in the movement, is that the Social Enterprise Mark is a project that has been undertaken by good people with honourable goals – I think getting more customers for products and services produced in a socially enterprising way is a fundamentally honourable goal.
The statement goes beyond that to express admiration for someone doing work that I personally don’t believe to be the most useful or effective way of achieving those honourable goals – in a dedicated and committed way.
The road to hell may be paved with good intentions, but is it paved by “good people with honourable goals”?
Getting more customers for products and services produced in a socially enterprising way would be a fundamentally honourable goal, but the goal of SEM CIC is actually to “Create social and environmental value through the promotion of social enterprise as a business practice and the promotion of indivudual social enterprises This will be achieved by the awarding of the Social Enterprise Mark to businesses that qualify under the criteria defined by the company and through the use of the Social Enterprise Campaign Device by supporters on a range of media, including […]” (quoted from Section B of the SEM CIC incorporation – an incorporation document signed by Peter Holbrook and then two unreadable signatures).
So SEM is not directly about promoting sales by social enterprises, unless it’s seen as a way to sell more SEM licences. Which seems unlikely because some of us in the sharing wing dislike it as much as the liberal-definition wing.
This is probably the second best marketing trick that SEM CIC has achieved, confusing even wise people like you about its stated aims. Maybe someone thinks that if enough people are confused enough, we’ll give up and welcome our new branding overlords. But that would be a sad day, directly opposite of educating and informing the public.
I wasn’t quoting the mem & arts. I think the underlying intention of those involved was to form a business promoting social enterprise as a business practice and promoting individual social enterprises in order to get more customers for products and services produced in a socially enterprising way. I was offering this as an opinion rather than a provable fact.
I completely accept – and have repeatedly pointed out – that trying achieve that aim through the means SEM CIC have done was fundamentally flawed – both in terms of the premise and the execution. I don’t SEM CIC have performed a marketing trick to make me think they’ve done the wrong thing, badly. At least, not a very useful one.
John Mulkerrin
‘it is deeply regretable in terms of the credibility of the sector that the organisation that was then the Social Enterprise Coalition, as a co-owner of the Social Enterprise Mark company, found itself in the position of simultaneously promoting two significantly different definitions of social enterprise’
Indeed it is, but Id ask you to explain more fully why you say they werent responsible?. P Holbrook chose to invest, they chose the definition despite much protest at the time, wasnt Lucy promoted to the SEUK board at the time?
In Nov 2009 there were 372 mark Holders, 90 new mark holders since then for £200k of taxpayers money.
17 Feb 2009 http://www.socialenterpriselive.com/section/news/policy/20090217/social-enterprise-mark-breaks-out-south-west
extract – Months of campaigning by Sunlight Social Enterprises CEO Peter Holbrook to make the mark UK-wide paid off last week as his community interest company, based in Gillingham, Kent, became the first recipient of the mark outside of the south west and its first ‘national champion’.
There’s different two issues. One is ‘is/was the Social Enterprise Mark a good idea’. Clearly the position on Peter Holbrook on that, both before and after become chief exec. of SEC in 2009/2010 was ‘Yes’. I disagreed with him on that issue but disagreeing with me does not discredit the sector.
Two is should SEC have simultaneously been telling people there were 62,000 social enterprises but that the Mark – which I can’t believe even its most enthusiastic supporters or worried opponents ever imagined could attract more than 10,000 holders in the first five years even if phenomenally successful – was the definitive kitemark for ‘a social enterprise’?
In respect of issue two, I think Peter Holbrook took the SEC job at the point where the slightly embarrassing fudge of the last two years was probably the least worst option available – although I’m glad that was his decision and not mine.
Mike Nulty
“free to get on with promoting the social enterprise as a diverse social movement in all its glorious, hopeful messiness.” ROLL ON!
you say ‘I very much admire Lucy Findlay for her dedication and committment to a project that she believes to be socially useful’. Does that include closing RISE to pass the assets into the Mark Co?
Im not glad it was his decision and not mine 🙂
No. I know.
Almost all definitions of SE are based around the purpose and activity of the organisation, not the income mix used to achieve it.
This creates an issue for CICs, how can we throw our weight behind SE when it wont recognise many who clearly are.
EG- A woman starts a CIC to deliver an after school reading class for children that have fell behind. She gets a start up grant from a local foundation to cover basic costs and takes donations from parents and sponsorship from local businesses to maintain the service. For this example the donations by parents are voluntary, as the class is designed to help those children that are from poor family backgrounds that cant always pay. Assuming an income mix of grant (50%) donations from parents (25%) and local business sponsorship (25%)
Is her CIC a social enterprise? The SEMark CIC and SEUK would say no, but could either say she isnt a social entrepreneur?
Id have given up debating this long ago if it wasnt so important. We can easily use the term social business to describe ourselves (technically probably more accurate) and most already accept that CICs are social enterprise.
However, I do feel there is a lot being lost to both CIC and SE and the social economy at large by insisting upon definitions that dont allow convergence.
I can see the social benefit, but where’s the business there? It looks like it could be 100% donation-funded (because grants and sponsorship are sometimes just donations in the eyes of the funder) – why isn’t that a charity? Maybe it is a social enterprise because there’s trade happening on the supplier side, but it’s not clear from the description.
Nevertheless, I’d probably be inclined to let it pass and call that a social enterprise if I hadn’t met so many people from donation-hooked enterprises that try to tell me that the co-op I work for isn’t a social enterprise. Usually they say that the co-op is TOO commerce-based (2 one-off grants in 10 years), that it pays its members in the wrong way (partly through dividends) or that its asset-lock has no external regulator (but in the reading CIC example, there were almost no assets to lock).
Slight hijack of the thread discussion, (sorry David) but ive set this example to express the problem of definition. For this discussion it isnt a Charity as she started it up with a friend helping her and wanted total control to ensure her vision of what the organisation would be and didnt have much buy in when she tried to gather supporters at the start. It remains an option for her to consider as she develops.
The point though MJ is almost all definitions of what an SE is make no mention of an income mix, here’s wikipedia’s entry on social entrepreneur
– ‘ A social entrepreneur recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create and manage a venture to achieve social change (a social venture). While a business entrepreneur typically measures performance in profit and return, a social entrepreneur focuses on creating social capital. Thus, the main aim of social entrepreneurship is to further social and environmental goals. Social entrepreneurs are most commonly associated with the voluntary and not-for-profit sectors,[1] but this need not preclude making a profit’
You mention that many might view it as 100% donation, even so that doesnt mean she hasnt had to apply entrepreneurial principles to achieve it, or that the social purpose is negated in any way. David makes an excellent example of this in ‘Onsustainability – Part 3’ https://beanbagsandbullsh1t.com/2012/01/30/on-sustainability-part-three/
She has set out on the path of delivering social value, how she develops will no doubt be an ever evolving strategy, to make the point lets say the aforementioned 50% grant was instead a contract direct with the local school. It was a great success and the contract length was for 3 years. Due to funding cuts the school couldnt afford to renew the contract but worked with her to secure funding through a national Charity, which provided a grant for the reading class for a further 3 years.
The work has never changed, but we’d allow her to call herself an SE in years 1-3 but not in years 4-6?OK, so SE isnt really a consistent identity to use throughout an organisations lifecycle.
We want to use language that is inclusive, consistent and simple. I cant use the term social enterprise practically if it excludes CICs.
Would any challenge/issues arise from her saying
I am a social entrepreneur
I run/work for a social business
I’m part of a social economy
That all CICs are Social Businesses is clear enough, what do you say MJ about all Co-ops being able to make the above statement?
I’m not quite sure which statement you are referring to as “above”, but I don’t see how one can say “all CICs are Social Businesses” else there wouldn’t be any reason to have a regulator. It’s possible to start with a good structure like CIC and then screw it up. Similarly, it is technically possible for a business to form as a co-op and then fail because it’s not delivering social value such as providing education and information, or contributing to its communities, which are both basic co-op principles. I would say that all fully-functioning co-ops are social enterprises, though.
I feel you need to make a distinction between the social entrepreneur – which she clearly is – and the social enterprise, which I think is more questionable in that example.
Now I’ll go read David’s new post!
the statement ……
I’m part of a wider social economy
Im looking for commonality of language that we can agree on, notwithstanding screw ups which will no doubt happen the CIC status is renewed each year with the Regulator.
There’s an event in Burnley on the 22nd Feb called CICS and Co-ops – A Conference, which will cover legal, finance and start up issues and commonality between CICs and Co-ops (incl the Co-op CIC or CIC Co-op however you prefer). Parts of those pre-event discussions have led to discussing language we can all use, hence wanting your opinion on the statement above.
Again noted that there needs to be a distinction between social enterprise and social entrepreneur, hence thinking social business (or social organisation) are less contentious for her to use.
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05 Apr Sheffield City Region: International Perspectives & Ambitions Post-Brexit
Posted at 10:28h in Events, Past Event by Tom Cargill – BFPG
On 26th March the BFPG co-hosted an event with the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce on the city and region’s international links and ambitions with around 80 people from across the region’s business and cultural communities. We were very grateful for the support and input of UBS as well as of Sheffield City Council, and grateful to the FCO for supporting this event and the national engagement work of the BFPG.
The panel included:
Dean Turner, UBS
Paul Brummell, Head of Soft Power and External Affairs Department, FCO
Kate Skarsten, Economic Counsellor, The U.S Embassy
Richard Wright, Director of Policy & Representation, Sheffield Chamber of Commerce
The panel started with an overview of the current global economic context from Dean Turner. He emphasized that the UK as a whole, and Brexit in particular, is in relative terms, just one small element in a complex and evolving international economic picture. This is an important reason why the UK, its regions, and individual businesses, have a strong incentive to encourage some sort of way forward on Brexit in order to focus on the wider challenges facing the world. Paul Brummell from the FCO offered a wider context to this, whilst also explaining how Sheffield’s traditions and global links offered particular incentives and opportunities to build on its rich international heritage for local, national and international benefit. Kate Skarsten from the US Embassy echoed the message about the scale of future opportunities for the UK and particular cities such as Sheffield; especially through new economic partnerships as is being proposed between the UK & UK post Brexit. The role of sub-state actors was emphasised too as individual cities, regions (and States in the US) and others are increasingly pioneering their own global links. This is important and welcome if coherence and coordination on a national level is maintained. Richard Wright concluded by reflecting on how effectively Sheffield had positioned itself to date. He made the key point that small and medium sized business in particular are important targets for encouraging greater exports, and yet currently we lack sufficient tools for bringing them into these conversations. Audience discussion continued this theme, but also raised the issue of infrastructure and the lack of sufficient connectivity between the city, region and world supporting exports and investment. Points were also raised about ensuring central government was best positioned to respond to the regions international priorities, as well as how Sheffield is integrated within the Northern Powerhouse, and relationships with other cities in the region.
The second panel was Chaired by Head of UK Regions Kathy McArdle. Taking Sheffield’s current international plans as a starting point, the session considered what more needs to be done and how the UK government might more effectively support the city and regions ambitions in years to come.
Dan Bates, CEO, Sheffield Theatres
Gordon Macrae, Gripple Ltd
Neil Cleverley, Twinkl
Caroline Cooper Charles, Film Producer and Strategic Development Executive, Screen Yorkshire
Edward Highfield, Director of City Growth, Sheffield City Council
The conversation here revolved around the relationship between the values the city and region projects and the business relationships and reputation it enjoys. Dan Bates fed back insights he had developed working with theatres in South East Asia, including building links with Sheffield. Culture, connectivity and building deeper cross-cultural understanding were key to understanding and opening new market opportunities. These themes were echoed by other panelists, though with the point being made that the city and region itself need to concentrate on what makes it different to competitors, and focus on making the most of this advantage. Gordon Macrae also made the point that for this strategy to succeed, regional business needs to become far better at exploiting opportunities to generate commercial advantage. Too often innovations from the region are capitalised upon business overseas. Caroline Cooper Charles built on this by pointing out that even within the UK film production is disproportionately clustered around London, meaning that what is claimed to be a national success story really doesn’t serve the interests of much of the UK. Overall there was a recognition that the limited capacity and attention span available for regional concerns from central government, made even more extreme due to Brexit, meant that Sheffield and the region would increasingly need to show leadership and identify bespoke strategies and routes to pursuing their international ambitions. This risks fragmentation and so coordination through the Northern Powerhouse as well as other regional and national structures where possible is key. However crucially, it is clear that whilst Sheffield has no shortage of skills or capacity to embrace and pursue a bold international strategy, it needs confidence and a strong sense of identity to succeed fully. Nurturing this is as much a cultural as a commercial priority, and a good reason for combining the efforts of both.
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the views of the BFPG. The BFPG is an independent not for profit organisation that encourages constructive, informed and considered opinions without taking an institutional position on any issue.
tom.cargill@bfpg.org.uk
Tom Cargill is Executive Director of the British Foreign Policy Group. He has worked in various roles in the public, private and NGO sectors, including at the charity for children in care Believe, as well as 10 years at Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) followed by 4 years at the engineering, procurement and construction multinational Bechtel. He is the author of numerous reports, chapters and articles on international and foreign policy issues.
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NASA blasts off into the freelance economy!
https://blog.freelancersunion.org/2015/07/21/nasa-blasts-freelance-economy/
47 years ago the first man landed on the moon, a week ago the New Horizons interplanetary space probe finished its 10 year journey to Pluto, and today freelancers are partnering with NASA.
In collaboration with Freelancer.com, NASA’s Center for Excellence for Collaborative Innovation now seeks freelancers to help design CAD models of tools.
The CAD models will represent tools like drills and scopemeters. These tools will be used by Robonaut 2, a humanoid robot that functions as a space assistant, aboard the International Space Station.
NASA’s just the latest company to crowdsource freelance talent and Freelancer.com’s network of over 16 million freelancers in over 247 countries promises that the space agency will receive a variety of ideas.
Traditionally, a job at NASA requires an advanced graduate degree, but this partnership opens a window to talented engineers at every level who would like to contribute to the efforts of space exploration.
While participating in (another) tournament lab may just be one small step for freelancers, it’s one big leap in innovative thinking for NASA.
What do you think freelancers, are you ready to shoot for the stars?
A new soul and media geek, Laura writes about sustainability, technology, poetry and pop culture. Find her @Pennyscientist or on Freelancers Union.
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PM Imran Khan approves 12 more planes to enter PIA fleet
By Noshin Bashir On Aug 28, 2019
According to the Air Marshal Malik, 12 new planes will become a part of PIA’s existing fleet by the year 2023.
Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the government was making efforts to transform Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) into an efficient and profit-making entity.
PIA – the national flag-carrier of Pakistan has met the fate of Pakistan’s current state of the economy in a way it costs much to the national income as it eats up the billions of taxpayer money in terms of deficit.
Looking at the annual losses that the state-owned enterprise has caused especially in the recent past it looks entranced that the entity would recover any soon. More often the incidents of imperfections in the service delivery and mechanical faults that happen nowadays more frequently during its flight operations adds more inconvenience on the part of passengers.
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Federal Cabinet Approves The Launch of New Airline
Prime Minister Imran Khan has said this Tuesday that the government was making efforts to transform Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) into an efficient and profit-making entity as it was the national flag carrier and a symbol of country’s identification abroad, APP reported.
The premier was heading a meeting to review the efforts for bringing the PIA on modern lines, said PM Office Media Wing in a press statement. PM, during the meeting, also observed that once a profit-generating airline and a leading institution in the regional aviation sector was pushed into trouble mainly because of mismanagement and negligence in the past.
Aviation Minister Ghulam SarwarKhan, Advisor on Finance Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Secretary Aviation Division Shah Rukh Nusrat, Secretary Finance Naveed Kamran, PIA CEO Air Marshal Arshad Malik and representatives of the airplane manufacturing organizations and other senior officials were in attendance at the meeting.
Also See: PIA Going Into Profit, Opening New Routes
The prime minister was informed by PIA CEO that due to the untiring efforts of the current management of PIA, the airline’s losses were decreasing continuously. The increasing number of expatriates and gradual improvements in the economy are the factors conducive to the promotion of the aviation industry, he was told further.
According to the Dawn report, PM Imran Khan has approved the purchase of additional planes for PIA’s existing fleet. The decision was taken during the meeting of the aviation division. According to the Air Marshal Malik, 12 new planes will become a part of PIA’s existing fleet by the year 2023. Initially, four planes will be added to the fleet by 2020. The size of the PIA fleet would go up to 45 by the addition of more aircraft that are expected to become the part of the national flag-carrier by 2023.
How do you see the improvements in the working of PIA provided the issues of ghost employees and other incompetencies remain largely unaddressed? Share your thoughts in the comment section
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Pti is doing great job under the leadership of great Imran Khan need refurms on media police judiciary
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Using markdown to markup bookmarks and pages: Part 1 – Basics
There are many features to start.me most users don’t know about. And that’s fine: that leaves something to be discovered. Today I will start a series of blogs about one of these ‘hidden’ features: Markdown. This easy to learn markup language is supported by start.me and allows you to add some extra style to your start.me pages. There are a lot of really cool things that can be done, ranging from making text bold to inserting images, links, and tables. And what’s good to know: these formatting tricks are not limited to the Notes widget: they apply to bookmarks as well!
A brief history of Markdown
Before we look into the great things that can be done with Markdown, let’s delve into the history of this markup language first. As you may know, the world wide web is based on HTML, which is short for Hypertext Markup Language. The proposal of this new markup language by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 shaped the Internet as we now know it.
In the early days, HTML was a rather simple markup language, but over the years it evolved and grown to be very involved. And this complexity is what inspired John Gruber in 2004 to create a more straightforward markup language, one that would be designed for humans rather than computers.
Markdown is used for a lot of formatting tasks, nowadays, and has a lot of fans
Nowadays, Markdown is widely accepted as the markup language for all sorts of documents. The main benefit of Markdown over many other markup systems is that it is both easy-to-write and easy-to-write. So even when the markup is not processed, the ‘raw’ code is still straightforward to read. For this reason, Markdown is very popular with software developers and is now available on many sites, including GitHub and WordPress.
What you can do with Markdown in start.me
Most of the content added to start.me usually consists of small bits of text, for naming things mainly. But there are places where you can actually write more text. The first thing that comes to mind is the Notes widget, of course.
The Notes widget lets you add blocks of text to your page, whether it is to jot down someone’s phone number quickly or to store often used email fragments. Using Markdown, you can do a lot of great things with the Notes widget:
Create bulleted lists
Add images to your notes
Add hyperlinks
Section texts with headings
Insert tabular data
Quote people
Highlight code fragments
But the bookmark block actually accepts longer text fragments as well. In the Detailed list mode, descriptions can be added to bookmarks. Although these usually will be short, there is no reason why you wouldn’t enter some more text. More recently, bookmark blocks were given an introduction section, that allows you to put some text above your links. Both bookmark descriptions and bookmark block introductions accept Markdown formatting. And that opens up a whole range of cool things:
Use an image header for your bookmarks
Highlight one or two words in the description of a bookmark
Add links to bookmark descriptions and introductions
Insert emoticons in your notes
How you do all that? I’ll show you!
Basic formatting: bold, italic and monospace
Not everything that you write down is equally important. Especially when texts grow larger, it becomes essential to mark the most relevant bits, the words readers really need to notice. An easy way to do that is to make these words bold or italicize them.
Say you have a Notes widget that contains a list of all the contact details for your business. But you recently changed the phone number and really didn’t want to forget that. Make it bold! How? Put two asterisks (**) both left and right of the phone number in your Notes widget. It would look like this:
Acme Inc.
71 Pilgrim Avenue
**(226) 906-2721**
www.acme.com
info@acme.com
Similarly, you can italicize words by putting an underscore (_) to the left and to the right of it. You can achieve a strikethrough by wrapping words in a pair of double tildes (~~). And if you like, you can use a monospace font as well: just put the text fragment between two backticks (`). Text you put in monospace will have a fixed character width, which makes it easier to align numbers. The example shows these formatting options:
Using Markdown, it is really easy to make text **bold**
or put them in _italics_. Words you don't like can be
~~stricken~~ and for extra effect use `monospace`.
Oh, and feel free to ~~_**`combine`**_~~!
Give these basic formatting options a try and spice up your bookmarks and notes widgets. Experiment a little and let us know if you have any questions. Soon, we will continue this series with a blog of more advanced formatting options, including inserting hyperlinks and images.
Markdown series
Part 1 – Basics
Part 2 – Bullets and headings
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2 Replies to “Using markdown to markup bookmarks and pages: Part 1 – Basics”
Joe Pierce says:
Any updates to this? I’d like to know how to add tabular data.
Stefan van Dierendonck says:
Hi Joe! We haven’t written an update article for our markdown options, but you can find more information here: https://sourceforge.net/p/tabulator/wiki/markdown_syntax/#md_ex_tables. We’ve tested this in our Notes widget, and it works without a hitch!
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Case Study: StorageCraft Academy and CharTec
Cela DeLaRosa
By Cela DeLaRosa
When your company mascot is a zebra with multi-colored stripes, it’s easy to guess how important it is for you to distinguish yourself from the rest of the herd.
So when Ryan Smith faced a massive expansion of his support team a few months ago, he knew what he had to do. Ryan is the service manager at CharTec, a StorageCraft partner and provider of hardware as a service (HaaS) and MSP sales training in Bakersfield, CA. In his two years at CharTec, he’s seen the company double in size.
One of CharTec’s unique offerings is a 24x7x365 help desk. The CharTec Help Desk operates out of Bakersfield, allowing MSPs to outsource U.S.-based phone support to their customers. As Ryan explains,
By outsourcing their help desk calls to CharTec, MSPs can provide more hours of support than they could by themselves, and do it without adding staff.
His support technicians handle help-desk calls, while the MSPs’ technicians handle onsite support calls.
Another popular offering is the CharTec Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) solution, powered by StorageCraft technology. The solution includes a BDR appliance, nightly virtualization tests, help-desk support, and full management and monitoring by CharTec. As the number of CharTec BDR customers has grown, so has Ryan’s support team.
Our mission is to help MSPs differentiate their offerings—stand out from the herd—with high-quality products and services. CharTec support technicians have to be the best. We had a core group of StorageCraft power users within our support team, but as the company grew, I knew we needed to take it to the next level.”
Case Study: StorageCraft Academy and CharTec (502.8 KiB, 810 downloads)
Stepping Up with StorageCraft Academy
While his StorageCraft power users could easily take care of their 700+ BDR customers, when that number jumped to 1,700, Ryan decided to do something different.
He required all of his support technicians to train and certify as StorageCraft Certified Engineers (SCE). StorageCraft Academy made it convenient for CharTec Help Desk technicians to get certified, with eLearning courses and online resource videos. According to Ryan,
Our technicians could take the courses at their own pace, whenever they could schedule the time to study. The SCE exam is also online, so we didn’t have to wait for a certain date or to travel to a different location to get certified.
Prior to the training, CharTec reps often had to escalate support calls to StorageCraft Technical Support. This caused delays in the resolution of the problem, decreased the customer’s satisfaction, and reduced the help desk’s productivity. With a growing number of BDR customers, Ryan knew that any delays in support would be unacceptable.
After the training we discovered that what we knew wasn’t necessarily the best practice. The formalized training eliminated a lot of bad habits and misunderstandings. Now, all of our techs have a baseline of expertise, so we can communicate better with each other and with our customers.
The SCE certification process also revealed that some technicians only thought they understood things. A few didn’t do well on the exam.
It was a reality check for everyone.
The difference in the SCE-certified CharTec team was immediately noticed by the StorageCraft Technical Support escalation manager, Kevin Steele. He reports:
I’ve definitely seen an improvement with CharTec support. They open cases that are much more difficult than before and are more adept at troubleshooting. I’ve talked with a few of the techs, and they’re very happy with StorageCraft Academy. The fact that it’s a requirement for all new techs to become StorageCraft Certified Engineers speaks very highly to the quality and credibility of the content.
Ryan agrees that the training content is high quality.
I would recommend StorageCraft Academy to any BDR support staff. The training is very clean and concise. It reaches that perfect balance between too technical and too simplified. You get the critical information you need to help your customers.
Improving Help Desk Productivity
Today, StorageCraft training and certification is required for every new support technician within their first 90 days at CharTec.
The improved StorageCraft product knowledge is helping the CharTec Help Desk provide faster responses to their BDR customers. Ryan says,
From our StorageCraft power users to the newbies, we’re all better equipped to handle disaster scenarios on the technical support end. And, we can manage complex questions internally, without calling StorageCraft for help.
By spending less time on each support call, CharTec is able to improve help-desk productivity and serve more customers.
Now everyone understands BDR and how to apply that knowledge. We have a clear understanding of how to troubleshoot and what to look for. The StorageCraft Academy helped us bring it all home with well-rounded training and an understanding of why we do the standard operating procedures.
With the CharTec BDR solution projected to surpass 5,000 customers in the next three years, Ryan is confident his technicians will be able to handle the new support demands.
Our team is well-versed in StorageCraft now. We can perform a server virtualization in less than 20 minutes, and handle most support calls in under three minutes.
Like its mascot, the CharTec Help Desk is standing out from the herd and helping customers do the same.
About CharTec, LLC
CharTec LLC was developed by CEO Alex Rogers specifically for IT service providers who support small to medium-sized businesses. The company built the largest MSP training facility in North America and created its HaaS program to provide custom hardware at no upfront cost to its partner base.
Their offerings to MSPs include:
Hardware as a Service (HaaS)
HaaS BDR
SaaS BDR
24×7 Help Desk
Website Development and Optimization
Sales and Operations Training
CharTec has been recognized as a “Best Channel Vendor” for 2012 and 2011, as well as “Best Channel Product” for 2011, by Business Solutions Magazine. In addition, the company received three Bull’s Eye Awards from Channel Insider and the “Best Hardware Product Award” from CompTIA in 2010.
CharTec is a sister company of ARRC Technology, a Master MSP for more than 20 years. Both are headquartered in Bakersfield, CA.
Tags: case study, chartec, StorageCraft Academy
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Home / industry / PSN Maintenance, Leaked PS4 5.0 Update, and How to Sign up for Sony’s Beta
PSN Maintenance, Leaked PS4 5.0 Update, and How to Sign up for Sony’s Beta
Dylan Lepore August 15, 2017 industry, News, Playstation 4, PS Vita, PS3, psn, Sony, technology Leave a comment 1,793 Views
Sony is releasing quite a few new things on PlayStation to make the experiences on it that much better but has yet to release a date on the PS4 5.0 update.
First off, Sony announced that there will be another round of maintenance for the PlayStation Network on August 15. These maintenance’s are pretty common especially when they’re working on big updates like this. The maintenance will affect PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita, along with PlayStation-related web services.
During the time of the expected 30-minute maintenance players will be able to use their systems, sign in, play games and use most applications, however, the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Video, and Account Management will be offline during the maintenance period.
In a statement by Sony, they say: “We apologize for any inconvenience. We strive to ensure that PlayStation Network services are available at all times, but occasionally we must take PlayStation Network offline to perform essential maintenance and implement feature enhancements. We are working hard to reduce the duration of each maintenance.”
Secondly, Sony announced that PlayStation 4’s 5.0 system update was on the way and that a beta would take place in August. Sony hasn’t shared any official information on the details of the update but the update notes for it have now been leaked.
Leaked 5.0 Patch Notes
Eurogamer reports that it has obtained the release notes for the 5.0 patch.
Twitch streaming at 1080p 60fps will be limited to those with the 5.0 firmware update using a PlayStation 4 Pro along with an overhaul of your console’s master/sub account system, the ability to follow any user similar to the system on Xbox One and Twitter. Currently, you can do this just for verified accounts of note, such as the official accounts for games, and some individual developers and YouTubers. Also, note the addition of notifications to the PS4’s quick menu.
Sony’s documentation states this is to “encourage more sharing of content and more interactions”. You’ll also be able to follow whoever you want without needing a friend request to be verified, and without filling up your friend limit. Because really, do you need 300 friends on PlayStation, well unless you play Destiny then yes.
For developers, the change is to “boost the viral potential of UGC”. In other words, when someone shares a cool video this will allow people following to see and share it further.
You will be able to choose if you only want existing friends or anybody to follow you and as always you can block users, too.
Further more the 5.0 update will give an expanded range of options for those who have “sub” or child accounts on their home console. New family accounts will be able to feature multiple adult accounts in a family, able to act in a parent/guardian role and set parental controls on a per-account basis, so each child has different communications, content-viewing and spending limit privileges. Requests can also be sent to adult accounts on other PS4s to join the same family.
There will be a new web application to manage family accounts, and access parental controls/family membership options from your PC and smartphone. In the context of Sony’s comments around keeping Minecraft and other cross-network games safe for children, it is interesting to see the company focus on this in its next system update.
For some reason, this update focuses a lot on Family control which is more of a Nintendo thing but it’s good we’re getting these options. You’ll never know when you might need settings like Accesibliltys or adding sub accounts especially if you’re a gamer with kids.
lastly, with 5.0, system notifications will be visible from your Quick Menu so you don’t need to head back to your Home screen. You will also be able to check the status of your uploads/downloads here too.
Minor changes include push notifications for events, spectator comments on the screen while broadcasting in VR mode, the ability to link broadcasts to a PlayStation Community, and support for seven more languages: Czech, Thai, Greek, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Romanian and Hungarian.
Behind the scenes, Sony will add support for bundle and compilation discs, with or without add-ons, and discs which support games and add-ons (such as in a Game of the Year Edition) which don’t need developers to rework any code.
No mention of PlayStation Now as asked about in the sign-up process for the beta but it could have been simply a poll for PlayStations use.
Beta Sign-Up
To sign up for the Beta head on over to these links and pick your current region:
In other PlayStation related new’s PS4 games are now coming to PC courtesy of PlayStation Now. Playing your PS4 library just got a little easier thanks to PS Now. At long last, PlayStation 4 games are playable on the PC. Click Here to read the full article!
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January 16, 2019 / 9:08 PM / a year ago
Bombardier CEO sees decision on loss-making CRJ jet this year
MOBILE, Ala., Jan 16 (Reuters) - Bombardier Inc aims to make a decision this year on the future of its CRJ regional jet as it “aggressively” pursues new orders to secure its industrial future, the Canadian planemaker’s chief executive said on Wednesday.
The company is exploring “all strategic options” for the loss-making programme including a potential sale, but its immediate focus is to win orders and cut costs, CEO Alain Bellemare told Reuters.
Asked whether Bombardier would reach a decision this year, he said, “I hope so, for sure. The more certainty we can provide the better but we are getting good traction”.
Bellemare was speaking on the sidelines of a ceremony marking a new U.S. assembly line for the larger A220 jetliner development, which Bombardier agreed in 2017 to sell to a venture led by Europe’s Airbus.
Bombardier, which had struggled to keep pace with the huge cash demands of a new aircraft programme, later sold its older Q400 turboprop programme and announced a review of the 20-year-old CRJ series.
“I don’t want to drag this on for too long but a lot of that is not in my hands; it is also in customers’ hands,” Bellemare said.
“We are trying to see how we build a backlog. For us to keep this thing going we need to have a skyline (future production profile) that makes sense. We are willing to maybe reduce our production volume but at the same time we need to have sufficient volume to feed the supply chain,” he added.
“We are very aggressive right now. We are working aggressively with airline customers. That’s our number one priority.”
Analysts say adding new orders and lowering costs are measures designed to throw the ageing CRJ programme a lifeline and make it more attractive to long-term investors.
The CRJ competes with Embraer regional jets and is helped by union “scope clause” rules in the United States restricting the size of jets used by regional airlines.
Bellemare played down concerns that the clauses could be renegotiated, hurting demand for the CRJ, saying they had historically been hard for airline managements to change. (Reporting by Tim Hepher; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Ichimei)
Posted on August 2, 2012 by carlosdev
Why do Japanese swordfights look so much better in the snow?
(2011) Samurai (Tribeca) Koji Yakusho, Naoto Takenaka, Hikari Mitsushima, Eita, Ebizo Ichikawa, Kazuki Namioka, Hirofumi Arai, Munetaki Aoki, Ayumu Saito, Takashi Sasano, Takehiro Hira, Baijaku Nakamura, Goro Daimon, Yoshihisa Amano, Ippei Takahashi. Directed by Takashi Miike
Honor is a word whose meaning varies from culture to culture. For some, honor means keeping one’s word – when it suits them. For others, honor is all about the written word. If it’s on paper, the it’s binder. If not, a verbal agreement is worth the paper it’s written on.
For the Japanese honor has a much more stringent connotation, particularly among the samurai – their warrior class. Honor is the be-all and end-all to life for them; without it, they couldn’t exist, much less function. The samurai have always been an object of fascination, even to the modern Japanese. Of late, there has been a revival in the samurai film, the genre of film that is perhaps as uniquely Japanese, a signature to their entire national film identity as Bollywood is to India.
Hanshiro (Ichikawa), a ronin (masterless samurai) shows up at the castle of Lord Kageyu (Yakusho) asking leave to commit hara-kiri – ritual suicide by disembowling himself with his own sword – in the castle courtyard. Kageyu is willing but regales him with a story – of a young samurai who had recently come to his door asking the same thing. There had been a rash of false suicides – ronin who came to their door asking to commit hara-kiri but not intending to go through with it, instead using the ritual as a means of getting money or employment. The lord and his samurai made sure, however, that the young samurai followed through. He begged that three ryu be sent to his family to pay for treatment of his sick wife and son, then he committed the ritual disembowelment – although he only had a bamboo sword, adding to the agony of the act.
Hanshiro also has a tale to tell; one of his daughter Miho (Mitsushima) who had fallen in love with the gentle, bookish Motome (Eita), her childhood friend. They got married and had a baby, but the clan both Motome and Hanshiro served had displeased the shogun. He ordered that their castle be dismantled so that a new clan might build their own, the samurai dispersed. Samurai have no skills other than those they’d been previously using; finding work was next to impossible for them.
They were getting desperate; Motome was selling off the few possessions he had to get food but Miho, who had always been sickly, is having trouble taking care of the home and the baby. As winter arrives, their struggle becomes life or death but Motome has a plan.
Miike is best known for his cult classic Ichi the Killer and more recently the samurai epic 13 Assassins. He has a reputation as a director who doesn’t let convention get in the way of telling a good story. He constantly pushes the edge, with varying degrees of success. He certainly is prolific; something like 54 films already under his belt and he’s just barely passed 50 and his pace is picking up. Most of his films don’t make it to America – about one in five do.
The ones that do are always interesting. They don’t always connect with me but they always have something that grabs my imagination. This one is no different and in many ways actually exceeds expectations. It’s not my favorite of his movies but it’s right up there.
The cinematography, like many Japanese movies, is superb. The landscapes lend itself to beautiful images. Even the impoverished village where Motome lives with his family has a kind of serene beauty. I think one of Miike’s conceits is that beneath the beautiful veneer are ugly things – like Motome dropping an egg he’d purchased with a book he’d sold and licking the yolk from the ground because he was starving.
The performances here are quite restrained. Ichikawa is at times the concerned father, the proud father-in-law, the wise sage and the fearsome warrior. Each co-exists within the other within Hanshiro and each appears as needed. Yakusho captures the essence of a powerful man; by his own rigid code of honor he has done nothing wrong and is convinced that he has acted properly. The conflict between Kageyu and Hanshiro is inevitable but also understandable. Hanshiro has learned through grim experience the fearsome cost of the rigid code of the samurai.
The hara-kiri scene is excruciating. The young samurai is forced to kill himself with a bamboo sword which bends and splinters while he is exhorted to twist the blade by a sadistic second. It is one of the few scenes in the movie that have any gore involved (Miike is well-known for showing realistic carnage in his films) and it is hard to watch at times. The more sensitive readers might want to give some thought before seeing the movie.
But the rest of the movie is much more character driven rather than action driven, which makes that scene all the more jarring – and all the more intense. I think by doing that, Miike made the scene far more powerful because it’s not just one stomach-turning scene among many. It’s unforgettable but again, I must stress that it’s not for the weak-stomached.
The nature of honor is a powerful question, but particularly in Japanese society so it’s no wonder that these sorts of film appeal to them as a nationality. For me, this is a compelling look into the samurai culture which shows the darker elements of the samurai code, which sets it apart from the many films that celebrate it.
REASONS TO GO: Subdued performances make for a subtle character study rather than a typical bloodbath. Well-choreographed action sequences as well.
REASONS TO STAY: The hara-kiri scene is brutal and hard to watch. The pacing is slow and it’s possible that the middle section could have been trimmed some.
FAMILY VALUES: Not a lot of gore but when it’s there it’s quite intense. Definitely not for small children although teens who aren’t too squeamish might enjoy it.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Although there was another movie of that name from 1962 with a similar theme, this isn’t a direct remake.
CRITICAL MASS: As of 8/2/12: Rotten Tomatoes: 82% positive reviews. Metacritic: 78/100. The reviews are very good in general.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Lone Wolf and Cub
SWORD LOVERS: The swords used in the film are modeled on genuine samurai swords of the period. Motome’s bamboo sword was not uncommon in the era either.
NEXT: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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Apankrah Deposit
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Early Pipeline Prospects
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Ghana is the second largest gold producer in Africa with a number of new mines in development or recently declaring commercial production (Obotan, Akyem, Subika, Prestea). Castle Peak's Akorade project is located in southwest Ghana, in the southern portion of the Ashanti gold belt. This prospective land package encompasses ~225 square kilometres, lying within 50 kilometres of five current and past producers accounting for nearly 50 million ounces in gold reserves and resources. Due to the proximity of multi-million ounce producers, all nine concessions making up the Akorade Project are within an area of well-established mining infrastructure and support. The main road between the regional mining centre of Tarkwa and the port city of Takoradi runs through the Akorade Property.
The Company has an initial discovery, the Apankrah Deposit, an inferred mineral resource estimate of 275,000 tons at 8.6 g/t Au for a total of 76,000 contained ounces. This inferred resource models a single shoot on the Apankrah Structure which is open to expansion along the host structure and on parallel structures that have demonstrated similar styles of mineralisation in limited drilling.
Numerous prospects and anomalies are distributed throughout the land package. These include conceptual geology targets based on known settings of existing Ghana gold deposits, coherent geochemical anomalies and, geophysical (magnetics and induced polarisation) discontinuities and anomalies. Additionally, historical mines and deposits are inferred to be located on structural trends that continue onto and through Castle Peak’s land position forming highly prospective trends for the discovery of new deposits.
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Castle Peak is a junior exploration company striving to develop a project pipeline of grassroots targets to undervalued deposits in Ghana with the potential for advancing to near term development. The Company endeavours to operate in a safe and environmentally sound manner while continuing to develop working relationships with government officials and members of the local communities.
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How to recognise if a Muslim is radicalised- a twenty-six point checklist
Hannover: Streit um Broschüre über Islamisten - Nachrichten Regionales - Hamburg - WELT ONLINE
A brochure published by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Islamists has become a major bone of contention. A list that it contains, which lists 26 "possible characteristics of the radicalization process", was called by the opposition on Thursday "absurd" and "outrageous".
The brochure is aimed at schools, youth services, judiciary, public affairs offices and businesses and seeks to raise awareness of the danger of radicalization, especially among young people.
Idea of recognising radicalisation using 26 point checklist absurd
"the idea of using a 26-point checklist to decide whether young people are drifting into the Islamist camp is in itself absurd," said Sigrid Leuschner SPD deputy in Hanover.
She accused Interior Minister Uwe Schünemann (CDU) of promoting and stirring up over the years "reservations, prejudices and distrust of Muslim citizens". Teachers and workers in the state youth agency would now be wondering whether they should inform the police if students were loosing weight combined with an incipient beard growth and a new style of dress ".
Among the points listed in the brochure are actually "visible external changes," such as "weight loss resulting from changing eating habits," and "undertaking survival training" or having "an increasingly stringent interpretation of religion."
Attempt "to persuade people to spy"
It is also pointed out indicators that should be “treated with caution". As of late afternoon,there was no statement from the Regional Interior Ministry. The judgement of the Greens on the brochure was also devastating.
It must be withdrawn and pulped, called the immigration spokeswoman Filiz Polat. Schünemann put Muslims under suspicion and tried to "persuade the public to become spies," she said. The spokeswoman for home affairs, Pia Zimmermann, the booklet belongs "to the trashbin". It is "at the lowest level" and serves "merely to stir up fears."
The criticism was sparked primarily by the items listed there such as "weight loss by changing eating habits," or "longer travel to countries with majority Muslim population." Also, a "preoccupation with life after death", sudden wealth and sudden debt can also point to a radicalization.
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Imam preaches at Sunday Mass, Parish Priest takes Friday prayers
kathweb Nachrichten .:. Katholische Presseagentur Österreich
Vienna Area Dean Rupprecht (left) will preach at Muslim Friday prayers, the Imam of Bad Vöslau will participate in Sunday worship - Christian-Muslim dialogue working at the "grass-roots"
Christian-Muslim dialogue can work well at the “grass-roots”: That is shown by remarkable initiatives in the whole of Austria, away from media attention, in which bridges are built between the two world religions - especially between actual people. "Kathpress" documents a few notable examples:
The Viennese Father Martin Rupprecht and Muslim imam Hizir Uzuner have agreed to an exchange of pulpits. Father Rupprecht, who Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn has given responsibility for Islamic relaions, invited the Islamic cleric from the mosque of Bad Vöslau (Lower Austria) on Sunday 24 June to his parish in Schönbrunn Vorpark to preach during Mass. Conversely, Rupprecht will preach on 29 June at 12.30 at Friday prayers in the mosque of Bad Vöslau, he announced in an interview with "Kathpress".
This initiative coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Islamic legislation in Austria and gives it substance as a "realization of mutual respect and understanding," said Father Rupprecht. "Already last year we undertook this 'pulpit exchange,'" he reported. "For some, this may be unusual - for the Imam and myself, it is a result of our years of discussions."
Bus tours for youth overcome borders
Pastor Rupprecht also drew attention an initiative previously prepared by him, in which young Christians and Muslims in Austria not only crossed religious barriers, but also national boundaries: a group of about 20 young people from Vienna and surrounding areas were in early June for a week on a coach tour of Bosnia-Herzegovina . This "journey of encounter" was intended as "a sign of hope" and allow inter-religious networking, according to the organizers Wolfgang Bartsch and David Neuber.
The aim of the trip was deliberately chosen: As a result of the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina by the Danube monarchy, Islam was recognized in 1912 by law. The young travelers visited not only Catholic and Serbian Orthodox churches and a number of Islamic institutions such as Sunni and Shiite mosques and a Sufi convent, but also the old synagogue in Sarajevo. They met dialogue partners such as the Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Mustafa Ceric, the Catholic Bishop of Banja Luka, Franjo Komarica, and the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valentin Inzko.
Above all, the young Christians and Muslims came closer and became friends. "There was a great group atmosphere, with fun and touching interviews," enthused David Neuber. Bosnian Imam Senad Kusur who works in Vienna added: "The trip will not be an end but a beginning to our cooperation."
Dialogue about birth, marriage and death
In Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, a market town with a comparatively high proportion of Muslims in the population, a series of events is taking place in which the life formed by faith plays a role. Elizabeth Dörler, who is responsible for issues related to Islam in the Diocese of Feldkirch reported, in an interview with "Kathpress" on the encouraging high response for the dialogue which has already taken place on birth, marriage and death - and how it is experienced by Christians and Muslims.
The two Rankweil parishes, the two cooperate mosque associations and the parish councils cooperate shed light on these key life events not only theoretically, but to make their substantial form understandable. Presenters speak coram publico with those who are involved in the issue, "religious experts" - that is parish priests, imams and religious teachers - then explain the background. Through examples which the participants brought with them such as candles mediated the experience vividly and with all senses, Dörler reported on the three previous dialogue evenings. The issue of prayer will be the focus of the next evening.
See also Muslims dance in Catholic Church
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The Open Thread for July 30, 2018
by Delaware Dem
President Trump “threatened to shut down the federal government if Congress does not pass sweeping changes to immigration laws, including appropriating more public money to build his long-promised border wall,” the Washington Post reports.
“Trump’s threat raises the stakes ahead of a Sept. 30 government funding deadline, a political showdown before the November midterms that Republican congressional leaders had hoped to avoid.”
An interesting question from @YouGovUS. Democrats want a candidate for Congress who is more like Obama than Bernie by 54-29 (I'm not sure that's surprising, or if it is, in which direction). pic.twitter.com/zwOoIKFb7x
— Will Jordan (@williamjordann) July 29, 2018
An internal memo says the DNC has reached out to 30 million voters so far and acquired 94 million cell phone numbers of registered voters ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
Axios: “There are only 100 days until the election. Reaching voters where they are —on cell phones, not landlines — and connecting with new voters will be crucial to Democrats’ efforts in November and looking ahead to the 2020 presidential election.”
THIS. IS. AN. INCREDIBLE. STORY.
How the McDonalds Monopoly game you played for a decade was rigged. https://t.co/n9CiISn339
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) July 29, 2018
One of President Trump’s Scottish golf resorts has “partially destroyed” the special nature site on which it was built, the Observer reports.
“Normally the site’s conservation status would have prevented any significant development. But Trump said that, if he was refused permission to develop… he would withdraw from the entire scheme. He also claimed that, when completed, the land there would be ‘environmentally enhanced and better than it was before.’ The Trump Organization said last year its environmental approach to the course had been ‘first class’”
Slate: “The master Republican mapmaker Tom Hofeller is among the visionaries who understood how sophisticated new GIS software and powerful new data sets provided an opportunity for the GOP to gerrymander itself decadelong advantages in the U.S. House of Representatives and state legislatures nationwide. Hofeller trains state legislators and junior line-drawers, however, with a PowerPoint so old-school that it looks like it might have been designed on a Commodore 64. There are no special effects to clutter Hofeller’s most important laws of redistricting: Avoid recklessness. Always be discreet. Avoid email.”
Said Hoefeller: “Emails are the tools of the devil. Remember — A journey to legal hell starts with but a single misstatement or a stupid email!”
“Time and again, Hofeller’s political allies have failed to heed his advice. The most recent example: newly disclosed emails—part of a federal court challenge to the constitutionality of the Michigan map by the League of Women Voters—that reveal just how determined GOP operatives, mapmakers, and congressional staffers were to design maps that would provide Republicans with a full decade of dominance.”
New York Times: “As scrutiny of the couple often referred to as Javanka became increasingly intense during the president’s first year, Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump seemed to retreat from public view, and after several of their allies in the White House departed, there was a near-constant stream of questions about whether they would follow.”
“But as one staff member after another has disappointed him and has departed or been dispatched, Mr. Trump has retreated into the familiarity of his family — his daughter, above all, and eventually, her husband. As Mr. Trump, cut off from dissenting voices and convinced of his own popularity, has become more emboldened, so have his daughter and son-in-law.”
OUCH!!! 👉Donald Trump is a mere 1 percentage point away from Richard Nixon when it comes to the number of Americans who want him impeached, according to a new poll released Friday. https://t.co/qli4DjVe4h
— Jon Cooper 🌊 (@joncoopertweets) July 29, 2018
“A network of secret-money nonprofit groups has spent millions of dollars attacking swing-seat House Republicans on health care and taxes, quietly becoming one of the biggest players in the 2018 political landscape,” Politico reports.
“The groups have local members and names like Floridians for a Fair Shake, Michigan Families for Economic Prosperity and North Carolinians for a Fair Economy. But they are all linked to one obscure nonprofit in downtown Washington, D.C.: the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which has funneled millions of dollars to progressive causes in recent years and set up each of the new groups, according to D.C. corporation records.”
Had a very good and interesting meeting at the White House with A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher of the New York Times. Spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, “Enemy of the People.” Sad!
CNN reported that the conversation took place more than a week ago, on July 20. ABC News’ Meridith McGraw posted Sulzberger’s statement in full and noted, “NYT says the meeting was off the record at the request of White House aides…but then Trump tweeted about it this morning.”
Read Sulzberger’s statement below:
New: Statement from the @nytimes publisher AG Sulzberger about President Trump’s tweet this morning: pic.twitter.com/CKjjTc1Fqy
— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) July 29, 2018
CNN: “Holder’s travels have taken him to Arizona, Indiana and Ohio for state Democratic Party dinners, as well as Florida, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Texas, Pennsylvania, Florida and Georgia for events and meetings with local activists. Holder’s meetings generally focus on combating gerrymandering, his cause célèbre since leaving the Obama administration, but his events are often peppered with politics and — invariably — comments about his future.”
Yeah, there are a number of potential candidates that I start out as a firm “No” to, and those include Eric Holder, Deval Patrick, Terry McAuliffe and Bernie Sanders.
“The influential conservative Koch network opened up their summer meeting with an emphasis on bipartisanship while also delivering sharp critiques of President Trump and his administration,” CNN reports.
Said network co-chair Brian Hooks: “The divisiveness of this White House is causing long-term damage.”
“It’s one of the defining stories of the midterms: An explosion of Democratic women running for office in record numbers and outperforming male rivals in primaries, potentially reshaping the party for years to come,” NBC News reports.
“Behind the scenes, Democratic women are looking to fuel the trend by expanding their reach within another historically male-dominated field: Political fundraising.”
“Over several cycles, donors have helped lay the groundwork for a national network of women’s ‘giving circles,’ an informal organization in which mostly upscale members pledge a minimum amount of cash toward candidates for an election cycle. The model is adapted from the philanthropy world, where similar groups pool together charitable donations.”
holy cow https://t.co/0uxmPgSMa8 via @EricLevitz pic.twitter.com/5Nc3596vNh
— Seth D. Michaels 🌲 (@sethdmichaels) July 29, 2018
Atlanta Journal Constitution: “The race for governor between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp is a warm-up for the 2020 presidential election and a historic test of whether Georgia is a battleground state in President Trump’s bid for a second term.”
“The duel between the two longtime rivals is poised to attract tens of millions of additional dollars, visits from a constellation of political stars and even more attention from national media casting the race as a litmus test for the presidential contest over the next 100 days.”
“The candidates have little choice but to nationalize the race. Kemp won a landslide victory over Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle last week thanks to Trump’s endorsement, and the president and other leading GOP figures have a direct stake in making sure Kemp prevails in November.”
NEW CBS POLL: nearly all Americans in both parties say Russian election meddling is unacceptable, even if it helps their party https://t.co/HfygTwB1NQ pic.twitter.com/xz6o77FIX7
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) July 29, 2018
“The lawyer nominated to run the Superfund toxic cleanup program is steeped in the complexities of restoring polluted rivers and chemical dumps. He spent more than a decade on one of the nation’s most extensive cleanups, one involving Dow Chemical’s sprawling headquarters in Midland, Mich,” the New York Times reports.
“But while he led Dow’s legal strategy there, the chemical giant was accused by regulators, and in one case a Dow engineer, of submitting disputed data, misrepresenting scientific evidence and delaying cleanup, according to internal documents and court records as well as interviews with more than a dozen people involved in the project.”
this is why Mueller report matters. Half of Rs (9+42) are willing to consider the facts. Don't believe the 'nothing matters' BS https://t.co/A9E888uRHP pic.twitter.com/IJYjjWwIJS
— Greg Dworkin (@DemFromCT) July 29, 2018
A new CBS News poll finds that 49% of Republicans say that hearing criticisms of President Trump on the Russia investigation only makes them want to defend him more. Another 42% say they want to wait to see what the facts show. (Hint: that’s the more important stat here).
Seventy percent of Republicans call the Russia investigation a “witch hunt,” while 77% of Democrats call it a “critical” matter of national security.
“The Trump administration is urging American-backed Afghan troops to retreat from sparsely populated areas of the country, officials said, all but ensuring the Taliban will remain in control of vast stretches of the country,” the New York Times reports.
“The approach is outlined in a previously undisclosed part of the war strategy that President Trump announced last year… It is meant to protect military forces from attacks at isolated and vulnerable outposts, and focuses on protecting cities such as Kabul, the capital, and other population centers.
New York Times: “A Wesleyan Media Project analysis of national advertising data from Kantar Media/CMAG also shows Republicans are rarely bragging to voters about the economy’s strength.”
“Republicans have reason to doubt the efficacy of an economic message in hotly contested midterm campaigns, which have historically been referendums on the sitting president. The last time the economy grew 4 percent in a quarter was in the middle of 2014, under President Barack Obama, just before Senate Democrats lost nine seats — and their majority — that fall.”
“For their part, Democrats are weaponizing the tax law — which is mired in only middling popularity — against Republican opponents in some key races. Their critiques have been fed by government statistics showing that wages for typical American workers have not risen over the past year, after adjusting for inflation, even though Republicans promised the tax cuts would unleash rapid wage growth.”
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46 comments on “The Open Thread for July 30, 2018”
Unstable Isotope
I’m a firm no on Joe Biden.
Delaware Dem
I will be a firm no on Biden if he tries to be a “radical centrist” that attacks the left / liberal base of the Democratic Party, like Chris Coons and Mitch Landrieu did.
cassandram
Why a NO on Holder or Patrick?
Patrick has the Bain Capital baggage, and he is just so boring to listen to. Holder has no elective or political experience. Your first run for office should not be for President. Don’t cite Trump to me in response, because his election is not a good thing and an example of WHY we don’t elect neophytes. Also, in any interview, I don’t think he would be a good campaigner.
wikwox
Holder is also the man that collected fines rather than jailing bankers, over 100 bankers went to jail over the savings and loan scandal, damn near none under Holders watch. Bad portent of him as president.
delacrat
I’m a firm Yes on Jill Stein.
No wonder you keep trying to wave off any Russian interference stories Jill Stein is also under some scrutiny for her visits and meetings there and is paying for her lawyers from the money she took from all of the folks who thought she would pay for a vote recount.
You are a traitor then.
Given the evidence of the past 10 years, more like a useful idiot.
Jill Stein is the reason I no longer vote Green, and it has more to do with her pandering to the anti-vaccination crowd than her playing footsie with Russian thugs.
You prefer Hillary Clinton and the Dems who pander to the anti-Medicare-for-All crowd and “plays footsie with” pro-TPP thugs.
Same here, post Stein it’s never again on the Green Party, good idea, incredibly bad implementation.
“Same here, post Stein it’s never again on the Green Party,” – wikwox
That makes as much sense as “post____never again on the Democratic Party”
Wooo , that’s a strong word.
not even enticing bait.
Seriously? Because I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around Wooo being a strong word.
:laugh:
TRUMP-SUPPORTING SOYBEAN FARMERS SAY THEY’LL GLADLY SUFFER ‘TO THE DEATH’ FOR HIS TRADE WAR
So much for economic anxiety.
I’m a firm yes on Sally Yates.
I’m all in on Ocasio Cortez.
Just watch this:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/27/daily_show_host_trevor_noah_to_alexandria_ocasio-cortez_how_will_you_pay_for_your_agenda.html
Face of your party, folks. Dumber than a box of rocks and with the crazy eyes as a bonus.
And this is a softball interview.
I think she might make a few Republican ads this cycle. The gift that keeps on giving. Pelosi was useful to us for a long time but I think she can retire now.
Yeah, you guys don’t get to talk about fiscal responsibility or ask how things get paid for. That’s just another lie to add to your list.
The Trump administration expects the annual budget deficits to rise nearly $100 billion more than previously forecast in each of the next three years, pushing the federal deficit above $1 trillion starting next year.
I’ll take a little bit of a deficit increase for 3+% annual GDP growth.
Really? Then why weren’t you cheering Obama for this?
Never mind. I know I can’t have an honest discussion with a cult member.
Obama never got there. Not even halfway.
Average GDP growth 2009 – 2016: 1.5%.
Never mind. Why should I bother presenting actual facts to a cult member.
GDP growth hit or surpassed 2 percent on a quarterly basis across more than a dozen quarters under Obama, and it surpassed 3 percent eight times. As the Washington Post’s Philip Bump points out, quarterly GDP growth has exceeded 5.1 percent in 37 months since Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, including four times under Obama.
—5.1% Q2 2014
The Face of the GOP, folks. Neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier. And he is one of 5 actually standing for office. The really bad news is that xyz is likely quite proud of this. Still these guys will be meeting in front of the White House soon, so the entire crew will be tied into the Culture of Corruption.
Nobody in the GOP has done anything but condemn this guy. He has no shot of winning and will never take office.
Ocasio Cortez will win in a walk and is being talked about as the savior of the Democrats – by a lot of Democrats. She will be in the House for years if not decades. She already has made numerous appearances on national media and revealed a stunning level of cluelessness.
As much as you might wish it to be so, there is no comparison between the two, except for the fact that the guy is probably just as dumb as she is.
She will hurt the Democratic Party about the same amount that Louis Gohmert and Steve King have hurt Republicans. The only people who go on about stuff like that are the people who already are going to vote how they’re going to vote. Duh.
You only come here when you’re scared, and all the regulars here know it.
The GOP is *voting* for these guys. It’s how they got to primaries. I’ll take someone who wants to make sure we all have affordable health care, good schools and well cared for seniors over a white supremacist any day of the week.
I know math probably isn’t your strong suit, but there is a reason that annualized GDP data is a much better measure of the strength of the economy than quarterly data.
https://money.cnn.com/gallery/news/economy/2017/01/06/obama-economy-10-charts-final/3.html
I know accurate history isn’t your strong suit, but when Obama took office the economy was a flaming bag of dogshit on the front porch. The Dow dipped below 6,000. But I guess that went down your convenient memory hole.
There’s also nothing in that chart that shows “annualized data” is better. That’s a chart of actual annual data, not projections, and it makes the point about the economy Obama inherited.
Also — again with the convenient lack of memory — Obama was not able to enact any of his programs because Democrats didn’t control Congress. Trump cannot enact most of his programs even with GOP control of Congress.
But they’re got the hackers in place for the midterms, so I guess it will all work out.
So tell us — why are you such a shill for the party of destructive dickishness?
Honestly? Probably because I started voting Republican in 1988 and never broke the habit. Dad was pretty much country club Republican and they say the best predictor of future voting habits is your parents.
The Republican platform generally aligns better with what I think is good for the country than the Democratic platform does. This tendency accelerated during the Obama years and has not started to swing back the other way.
Would have considered a reasonable Democratic alternative to Trump but didn’t get one, and I like what Trump has done so far.
I should probably say Dad was more of a chamber of commerce Republican than country club. Dad only played public courses and was in the industrial league. Edged a little bit more towards blue collar.
“I like what Trump has done so far.”
Which is what exactly? I mean, what has he actually accomplished?
1) Gorsuch + a shitload of other conservative judges.
2) 3.2 trillion dollars in tax cuts.
3) Killed 1000s of pages full of Obama bullshit regulations/red tape, gutted Dodd Frank, reined in CFPB.
4) Consumer confidence, business confidence and many other economic indicators at levels not seen for nearly two decades.
5) DJIA up over 5000 points since his election.
6) Pulled out of circle jerk Paris Climate Accord.
7) Pulled out of ridiculous Iran deal Obama brokered.
8) Pounded ISIS into submission.
9) Brought together leaders of North and South Korea and laid groundwork to end Korean War.
10) Met with Kim Kardashian in the Oval Office.
So it’s: take credit for Obama accomplishments, destroy Obama accomplishments and bullshit. Hang on to that list, This is why history will record this guy as The Worst President Ever.
Obama did nothing, but give us higher insurance rates and separate this country!
Shorter Cassandra – “Damn, that’s a pretty good list. I got nothing.”
This would be so much more entertaining if you knew how to play this game or at least had some wit. Apparently our wingnut commenters have not graduated from NaNaBooBoo yet.
1) How does this benefit you?
2) That he hasn’t paid for and never will.
3) Why would you want to empower banks to fuck over consumers? Are you a bank executive? If not, why would you want this?
4) Confidence comes and goes. Will you change your mind when it wanes?
5) DIJA went up far more under Obama. Worthless measure, though, and of value to you only if you are heavily invested in the stock market. Are you? If so, then it makes perfect sense to vote Republican. The question then becomes, Why are you here?
6) It’s a circle jerk because it doesn’t go far enough?
7) Ridiculous why? Seemed no better or worse than most such deals.
8) If this were remotely true he’d brag about it every day. It’s not.
9) Again, you are badly misinformed. Like everything else he does, it was all for show. Perhaps you’ve missed the fact that NK has kept right on keepin’ on.
10) This is like one of those jokes about only being able to off one of them.
1) Conservative judges = less legislation from the bench
2) I think it will, and in any event the less of my money going to the government, the better
3) I think the term you are looking for is “not punish banks for consumers that foolishly overextend themselves”
4) If the Democrats elect a president that pushes a similar pro-business agenda, I’ll think about voting for them. Unfortunately for Democrats, that hasn’t happened in a while.
5) I’m invested enough in the stock market to hopefully do well in retirement. That’s one of the reasons I vote Republican. Mostly here just to torque the loony fringe a bit. Most of you reliably rise to the bait.
6) Circle jerk because it was basically an extortion scheme for third world countries to siphon money from the first world at the behest of rich white guilt liberals.
7) Because it basically paid out cash to fund terrorist activities.
8) Haven’t read that much about Syria for a while, have we?
9) No other president has made this much progress in ending this conflict.
10) Who makes jokes like that?
xyz, Since you don’t know how less case law benefits you, just say you don’t know.
1) Nope. Not even close. Striking down laws is how “legislating from the bench” works, and conservative judges do it just as often as liberal ones do. But thanks for demonstrating that you’re not familiar with data that doesn’t come from propaganda sources.
2) Your belief in tax cuts paying for themselves shows the same thing you demonstrated on #1.
3) Wells Fargo opened accounts for people without telling them, then charged them for it. Without CFPB they’d still be doing it.
4) Why does making businesses follow the law “anti-business”? You realize, one would hope, that the laws exist because without them businesses would dump their waste wherever they want. We enacted the laws after decades of letting them do whatever they wanted, and as a result we all have PFOA in our livers.
5) I’m probably far more invested in the market than you are, as I’m already living on it in retirement. You’re just wrong about Republicans being better for business. Look it up. Not that it’s causal, but the market historically does much better under Democratic presidents.
“Mostly here just to torque the loony fringe a bit. Most of you reliably rise to the bait.” This is a sign of deep insecurity.
6) Read and learn:
https://www.factcheck.org/2017/05/trump-paris-agreement/
7) No, that’s not what it basically did. It gave Iran the money we seized from the it. What it does with the money is its business, but your simplistic formulation indicates that Islam is another topic on which you are uninformed.
8) Speak for yourself.
9) This one hasn’t done anything about ending this conflict, either. Again, you need to find news from outside the bubble.
10) Seriously? You’ve never heard of rape, marry, kill? That I find hard to believe. But, for the record, if I only have one bullet I’d try to get them to stand back to back.
1) No – legislating from the bench is the party that is not having much success with it’s electoral agenda does. That would be your party.
And legislating from the bench is not just about striking down laws. Hint: A lot of things that get appealed never get heard.
C’mon Alby. Hopefully these are just your warmup pitches. You’re not missing many bats here.
“3) Killed 1000s of pages full of Obama bullshit regulations”
Name one. Just one. Provide justification why that one regulation should have been rescinded.
Most people just parrot what they hear regarding the regulations. Are you the exception?
Two biggest ones are repealing the Stream Protection rule which was a ridiculous overreach, and the Clean Power Plan, which is proving to be unnecessary as normal economic forces (cheap natural gas via hydraulic fracturing and advanced drilling techniques) are already changing our energy mix for the better.
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Dear Senator Surovell: Your Defense of Dominion’s Welfare Dependency Perfectly Illustrates the “Virginia Way”
Author Challenges Surovell to Refuse Further Campaign Contributions from Dominion
Jeff Thomas
Virginia Capitol, ground view.
Dear Senator Surovell,
Thank you for your response to my column about how campaign contributions and a reverence for the “Virginia Way” corrupt politicians.
As I wrote:
“Dominion Power’s business interests in raising electricity rates run directly counter to the citizenry’s interests in keeping rates low. Dominion is guaranteed a 10% return on investments by the taxpayer, as if every time you went to the store, you spent a hundred dollars, and the government gave you a hundred and ten. Dominion is the state’s largest campaign contributor (internal party transfers don’t count): therefore, they write the state’s energy policies.”
You replied:
“I think some of what Mr. Thomas says has merit, but the idea that Dominion’s “rate increases” is a prime example of the failure of the “Virginia Way” is lazy thinking. Virginia has some of the lowest electricity rates in the United States – that point is not debatable.
Now one could argue that’s because the USA doesn’t correctly price the cost of carbon, but that doesn’t explain the situation. If you take Mr. Thomas’ point and play it out and assume Dominion was completely in control of the legislature/SCC, etc. then our rates would be massive and they’d be leveraging the crap out of ratepayers and cash flowing like crazy. There’s an inconsistency there.
Their “low rates” are not the correct example – the lack of solar, wind, renewables, and the lack ***HIGHER*** rates is what Mr. Thomas should be citing as the example of corporate influence if he wants to make his point, not how much ratepayers are actually paying.” [sic]
As the source I cited noted, unlike private corporations, the government guarantees Dominion a rate of return of 10% or more.
You note that the “point is not debatable” that Virginia has some of the lowest electricity rates in the United States. Our electricity rates (“All Sectors” column, December 2016) are 17th out of 50, and, obviously, they would be lower if Dominion was not guaranteed a 10% return on equity. North Carolina, where Dominion also operates, has lower rates. Why?
It is unsettling that you would lash out at a citizen for “lazy thinking” without even familiarizing yourself with the basic facts, and it is a dereliction of duty for an elected representative not to be aware of the government-imposed burdens faced by his constituents. These state-monopolistic electricity payments come out of our pockets as easily as taxes, and they are unnecessarily high.
You write that “some of what Mr. Thomas says has merit.” I wrote about the lies told to the populace to mask the selling of the reins of government by politicians to their campaign donors. What parts have merit?
You write that “our rates would be massive and they’d be leveraging the crap out of ratepayers and cash flowing like crazy” if Dominion was a more effective crook. As you know, Dominion wrote and passed a bill through the legislature in 2015 that canceled the refunds due to customers from overcharging us even beyond the overly generous 10% return on equity. Attorney General Herring’s office estimated that this would cost Virginia ratepayers $280 million in lost refunds for 2013-2014 alone, and the refunds were canceled until 2023. So, let’s be conservative and estimate the cost for this is $1 billion.
Is there any other company in Virginia that gets a $1 billion handout from the state legislature, and is it just a coincidence that they are also the state’s largest campaign contributor? I’m glad you voted against that bill, but how much money does the Dominion-government cartel have to take from Virginia citizens before it crosses your threshold for “cash flowing like crazy?” $10 billion? $100 billion?
Noting that things could be worse is a tautology.
You do have a point that Dominion is a socialist corporation dependent on government, and, therefore, there is a limit to how much they can take. Dominion will take however much it can get away with taking, and with our current legislature, that is a lot, although you are either ignorant of the basic facts of the matter, or do not think a $1 billion corporate welfare check from our pockets is a “crazy” amount of money.
Do you think that our rates would be lower if the government guaranteed Dominion a 3% return on equity rather than 10%, or if the legislature gave them $100 million instead of $1 billion? How much money do you think it is reasonable for Dominion to take from us unnecessarily?
It troubles me very much that Dominion has used ratepayers’ money in part to become one of your top campaign donors, and has given you more than $12,500.00. How much money did they give you before you became a politician, and why do you think they give it to you? Virginia is one of six states that permits unlimited campaign contributions. As you know, these can be used for personal expenses, and almost all campaigns are uncompetitive. For the first time in history – in history – all incumbent legislators on the ballot in November 2015 won reelection.
Since campaign contributions are irrelevant to your reelection chances, will you, Scott Surovell, refuse campaign contributions from Dominion?
Scott Surovell
Virginia Way
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Reliability and concurrent validity of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire short form among pregnant women
Birgitte Sanda ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9290-57361,2,
Ingvild Vistad2,
Lene Annette Hagen Haakstad3,
Sveinung Berntsen1,
Linda Reme Sagedal2,
Hilde Lohne-Seiler1 &
Monica Klungland Torstveit1
The International Physical Activity Questionnaire short-form (IPAQ-SF) is frequently used to assess physical activity (PA) level in the general adult population including pregnant women. However, the reliability and validity of the questionnaire in pregnancy is unknown. Therefore, the aims of the present study were to investigate test-retest reliability and concurrent validity of IPAQ-SF among pregnant women, and whether PA is reported differently among those who fulfill (active) vs. do not fulfill (inactive) recommendations of ≥150 min of weekly moderate intensity PA in pregnancy.
Test-retest reliability was examined by answering IPAQ-SF twice, two weeks apart (n = 88). To assess validity, IPAQ-SF was compared to the physical activity monitor SenseWear Armband® (SWA) (n = 64). The participants wore SWA for 8 consecutive days before answering IPAQ-SF. PA level was reported as time spent in moderate-, vigorous- and moderate-to-vigorous intensity PA (MPA, VPA and MVPA) corresponding to the cut-off points 3–6, >6 and >3 Metabolic Equivalents (METs), respectively.
Test-retest intraclass-correlation of MPA, VPA and MVPA ranged from 0.81-0.84 (95% Confidence Intervals: 0.69,0.90). Comparing time spent performing PA at various intensities; the mean differences and limits of agreement (±1.96 Standard Deviation) from Bland-Altman plots were−84 ± 402 min/week for MPA,−85 ± 452 min/week for MVPA and 26 ± 78 min/week for VPA, illustrating that the total group under-reported MPA by 72% and MVPA by 52%, while VPA was over-reported by 1400%. For the inactive group corresponding numbers were 44 ± 327 min/week for MPA, 52 ± 355 min/week for MVPA and 16 ± 33 min/week for VPA, illustrating that the inactive group over-reported MPA by 13% and MVPA by 49%, while VPA was not detected by SWA, but participants reported 16 min of VPA/week. In contrast, corresponding numbers for the active group were−197 ± 326 min/week for MPA,−205 ± 396 min/week for MVPA and 35 ± 85 min/week for VPA, illustrating that the active group under-reported MPA by 81% and MVPA by 60%, while they over-reported VPA by 975%.
IPAQ-SF had good test-retest reliability, but low to fair concurrent validity for MPA, VPA and MVPA compared to an objective criterion measure among pregnant women. Further, women fulfilling PA guidelines in pregnancy under-reported, while inactive women over-reported PA level.
Physical activity before and during pregnancy promotes health for both the mother and the unborn child [1,2,3,4]. Healthy pregnant women are recommended to be physically active for at least 150 min per week at moderate intensity, or to continue their pre-pregnancy physical activity level if these recommendations are already met [1,6,, 5–7]. However, studies suggest that physical activity recommendations are rarely met, either in the general population [8,9,10] or among pregnant women [11]. Additionally, physical activity levels tend to decline during pregnancy [12, 13]. Feasible, reliable and valid measures of physical activity before, during and after pregnancy may aid in investigating changes over time, measuring effectiveness of health promotions and interventions and evaluating population trends [14]. Physical activity entails complex behaviour. Identifying the most accurate way to capture total physical activity level is challenging, as different methods have strengths and limitations [15]. A wide range of objective and subjective techniques (including indirect calorimetry, accelerometers, inclinometers, heart rate monitors, multisensors, pedometers, doubly labeled water, diaries, self-reported and interview-administered questionnaires) have been applied to record physical activity in different populations, including pregnant women [16, 17]. In large-scale surveys, self-reported questionnaires are widely used to estimate physical activity level due to their low cost and easy distribution [18,19,20,21]. Women who are regularly physically active may have better comprehension of physical activity intensity and duration, and thus may be more accurate in reporting physical activity [22]. There is limited knowledge whether such differentiated perception of physical activity affects the responses in self-report questionnaires.
Short, user-friendly questionnaires of good reliability and validity are preferable to corresponding lengthy ones, if the same information is captured. Further, a questionnaire capable of assessing physical activity levels before, during and after pregnancy would be useful. Most validated self-reported pregnancy-specific questionnaires are lengthy, only for use during pregnancy [23,24,25], and few are tested for reliability [24]. The International Physical Activity Questionnaire short form (IPAQ-SF) is designed with only 7 questions and is frequently used to assess physical activity level in large-scale population-based studies, including during pregnancy [18,19,20, 26]. The long version of IPAQ, which assesses physical activity across different domains such as leisure-time, home-life, work and transport, has been validated among pregnant women [27], showing poor correlation between the questionnaire and an accelerometer (0.03 for moderate physical activity (MPA), 0.15 for total physical activity). To our knowledge, the IPAQ-SF has not been tested for reliability or validity in a pregnant population.
Hence, the main aim of the present study was to evaluate the two-week test-retest reliability, as well as the concurrent validity of the last 7-day IPAQ-SF among pregnant women. In addition, it was of interest to investigate possible differences in concurrent validity of IPAQ-SF in women classified as “inactive” or “active”, based on whether or not they fulfilled current physical activity recommendations in pregnancy.
In the reliability study, the participating women filled in the paper version of IPAQ-SF questionnaire twice with a two-week interval. In the validity study, IPAQ-SF was compared to SenseWear Armband® (SWA). The participants wore the SWA for eight consecutive days, while maintaining their usual daily routines, before answering IPAQ-SF electronically. Further, based on SWA measures, participants were divided into an inactive group, including those who did not fulfill the national physical activity guidelines at 150 min of MPA per week (n = 30), and an active group including those who fulfilled the national physical activity guidelines (n = 34) [5]. Written consent was obtained from all participants and the Regional Committee for Medical Research Ethics South-east approved both studies (REK reference 2009/429).
Participants and data collection
Reliability study
A convenience sample of 154 pregnant women referred for routine ultrasound to Southern Norway Hospital Trust, Kristiansand, between October 2009 and December 2010 were recruited to participate in the test-retest study. The participants received a written invitation one week before their scheduled routine ultrasound examination, around gestational week 18–20. Those literate in Norwegian were eligible for participation. Eighty-eight participants (57%) completed both questionnaires within four weeks, and were included in the present analysis.
Validity study
Participants in the validation study were recruited at the time of routine ultrasound examination at the outpatient clinic at Southern Norway Hospital Trust, Kristiansand (n = 108), from local health care centres (n = 2) and through advertisement on Facebook (n = 8). Eligible participants received oral and written information about the project, along with information on how to wear the SWA and how to get access to the web-based IPAQ-SF. They were also asked to report any non-wear time periods during their wear period. All participants were informed that IPAQ-SF reflected their physical activity level for the past week, and that the intention of the study was not to evaluate their physical activity level, but to compare two physical activity measures. Women between 14–35 weeks of gestation who were literate in Norwegian were eligible for the study, excluding those with allergy to nickel since the SWA contains eight percent nickel. Recruitment was done over two periods, November - December 2013 and May 2014 – January 2015. Of 118 enrolled, complete dataset for analysis was obtained from 64 participants (54%). Data from 54 women were excluded because of technical instrument failures (n = 13), missing IPAQ-data (n = 3), withdrawn consent (n = 3), developing rash (n = 3), a late spontaneous abortion (n = 1) or based on the IPAQ–SF data cleaning protocol (n = 31) (those who answered “don’t know” in one or more of the minute categories in the questionnaire).
International physical activity questionnaire short-form
IPAQ was originally developed as an instrument for standardized measurement of physical activity behaviours in different populations. Various forms were developed, including a 7-item short “last 7 day” self-reported form (IPAQ-SF) [28]. The reliability and validity of IPAQ have been tested in adult populations [28,29,30]. IPAQ-SF quantifies physical activity during the last seven days divided into four categories: vigorous intensity, moderate intensity, walking and sitting. In addition to intensity, frequency and duration of physical activity are assessed.
In the category of vigorous intensity, the respondent was asked: “During the last 7 days, on how many days did you do vigorous physical activities like heavy lifting, digging, aerobics, running or fast bicycling?” with the possible responses 0 to 7. This was followed by a question of “How much time did you usually spend doing vigorous physical activities on one of those days?”. The response categories were divided into “don’t know”, “10 min”, “20 min” and so forth up to “2 h or more”. Similar questions follow in the categories moderate intensity physical activity (with examples of carrying light loads, jogging or bicycling at a regular pace, with specification not to include walking) and walking for at least 10 min at a time, followed by the same response alternatives. Finally, in the category “sitting” the respondent was asked “During the last 7 days, how much time did you spend sitting on a weekday?” and the response was number of hours. Vigorous physical activity was described as “activities that take hard physical effort and make you breath much harder than normal”. Moderate physical activity was described as “activities that take moderate physical effort and make you breath somewhat harder than normal” (www.ipaq.ki.se).
Responses were scored according to the IPAQ-protocol (www.ipaq.ki.se) after summation of the duration (in minutes) and frequency (in days) of the different physical activity intensities; MPA, vigorous physical activity (VPA), and moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA).
Sensewear ® armband monitor
SWA (BodyMedia Inc, Pittsburgh, PA, US) was used as an objective comparison measure of physical activity level. The SWA is a multisensory device that contains a 3-axis- (SWA Mini) or 2-axis- (SWA Pro3) accelerometer and registers galvanic skin response, skin temperature, heat flux and collects minute-by-minute data. SWA is worn on the upper arm (left arm for SWA Mini and right arm for SWA Pro3) on the triceps and at midhumerus point. The predecessor, SWA Pro2, has been validated in pregnancy against indirect calorimetry for conditioning exercises, showing that the SWA Pro2 underestimated energy expenditure by nine percent [31]. The newer model, SWA Mini, has also been validated in pregnancy against indirect calorimetry, but only for activities of daily living, showing that SWA overestimated energy expenditure in all activities except inclined walking, by a mean of 27.7% and 35.6% depending on algorithm used [32]. Both SWA Mini and SWA Pro3 have shown significant agreement with doubly labeled water in measuring total energy expenditure in adults [33]. Nine (14%) of the 64 participants in the present study used the older version SWA Pro3 during a period when SWA Mini was not available.
Data were downloaded and analysed using appropriate software (SenseWear Professional Research Software; BodyMedia Inc, Pittsburgh, PA, US software 7.0.0.2378 (Mini), 6.1.0.1528 (Pro3)) according to manufacturer. Further, the data were computed into 10-min epochs of MPA, MVPA and VPA, for comparison with IPAQ-SF, with the following cut-off points: 3–6, >3 and >6 Metabolic Equivalents (METs), respectively, corresponding to the compendium-based MET intensities [34]. A day of recording was valid if the participant wore the SWA for at least 19.2 h, i.e. 80% of a 24-h sampling period [35]. A measurement time-frame of at least four consecutive valid days was required in order for an SWA recording to be included in the analysis [36].
Baseline data as socio-demographic variables and weight were self-reported through questionnaires and consent forms.
All data collected were analysed using the statistical software package IBM SPSS Statistics version 22.0 (IBM Corp., Somers, NY, USA). Background variables are presented as median with min-max values, frequencies, or percentages. A two-way mixed, single measure, parametric intraclass correlation (ICC (3.1)) was performed evaluating the extent of agreement of IPAQ-SF in the test-retest analysis. An ICC ≥ 0.70 was considered acceptable [14]. Level of significance was set to five percent. Bland-Altman plots with limits of agreements (mean difference ±1.96 Standard Deviation) are presented as level of agreement between IPAQ-SF and SWA [37]. Spearman correlation coefficient was used for correlations between IPAQ-SF and SWA. A correlation coefficient ≥ 0.50 was considered acceptable, as proposed by van Poppel et al. [14]. Median with interquartile range and logarithmic transformation were used in the analysis of time spent in the respective intensities due to skewed data.
With respect to sample size, no power calculations were done in the reliability study; the number of participants included was considered to be acceptable based on comparable published studies [24, 28, 38]. In the validity study, posteriori sample size power calculation was performed (level of significance: five percent), showing a power of 83% using G*power 3.1.9.2.
Baseline characteristics for participants in both the reliability and validity studies are shown in Table 1.
Table 1 Baseline characteristics of participants in the reliability and validity studies
The test-retest reliability of IPAQ-SF presented as ICC was 0.81-0.84 for MPA, MVPA and VPA (Table 2).
Table 2 Test (test 1) and retest (test 2) of physical activity measures and reliability coefficient of IPAQ-SF, n = 88
Each participant wore the SWA for a mean of 6.7 (5–8) days, with mean on-body time of 23.6 h daily. Comparing time spent performing physical activity at the various intensities, the mean differences and limits of agreement from Bland-Altman plots were −84 ± 402 min/week for MPA, −85 ± 452 min/week for MVPA and 26 ± 78 min/week for VPA (Fig. 1). This illustrates that IPAQ-SF under-reported MPA by 72% and MVPA by 52%, while VPA was over-reported by 1400% compared to SWA for the total group. Further, when participants were divided into two groups based on physical activity level, the mean differences and limits of agreement from Bland-Altman plots for the inactive group were 44 ± 327 min/week for MPA, 52 ± 355 min/week for MVPA and 16 ± 33 min/week for VPA. This illustrates that the inactive group over-reported MPA by 13% and MVPA by 49%; while VPA was not detected by SWA, but the participants reported 16 min of VPA/week in IPAQ-SF. Corresponding numbers for the active group were −197 ± 326 min/week for MPA, −205 ± 396 min/week for MVPA and 35 ± 85 min/week for VPA (Fig. 2), illustrating that the active group under-reported MPA by 81% and MVPA by 60%, while they over-reported VPA by 975%.
Bland-Altman plot depicting MVPA level over the past week for the total group, n = 64 X-axis represent average of IPAQ and SWA (minutes), Y-axis represents IPAQ minus SWA (minutes). (______) mean difference between the two methods, (− − −) limits of agreement (1.96SD)
Bland-Altman plot depicting mean difference for MVPA level over the past week. a inactive group (n = 30) and b active group (n = 34). X-axis represent average of IPAQ and SWA (minutes), Y-axis represents IPAQ minus SWA (minutes). (______) mean difference between the two methods, (− − −) limits of agreement (1.96SD)
Differences between the two measures (IPAQ-SF and SWA) in the different physical activity intensities and their correlations are shown in Table 3. Significant correlations were found in time spent in VPA for the whole sample (τ = 0.39, p = 0.002), MPA for the inactive group (τ = 0.38, p = 0.037) and VPA for the active group (τ = 0.42, p = 0.013).
Table 3 The correlation between self-reported time (IPAQ-SF) spent on three different physical activity intensities with measures from SWA, for total-, inactive- and active group, using Spearman correlation coefficient (SCC) (n = 64)
Reliability between test and retest for MPA, VPA and MVPA using IPAQ-SF was good. With respect to validity, comparison of IPAQ-SF estimations of MPA, VPA and MVPA with the reference method SWA showed, however, limited agreement. Physical activity level was under-reported using IPAQ-SF for the total group, in contrast to most self-reporting questionnaires, used both in general and in pregnancy [29, 39]. Interestingly, our results suggested that physically active pregnant women tended to under-report, while inactive pregnant women tended to over-report their physical activity level using IPAQ-SF. This indicates that self-reported estimation of physical activity varies by physical activity level.
We found somewhat higher ICC (0.81–0.84) of IPAQ-SF compared to previous studies investigating test-retest of physical activity questionnaires, where median reliability coefficients varied from 0.62 – 0.76 [40]. Furthermore, the present study demonstrated higher test-retest reliability compared to the initial test-retest of IPAQ-SF conducted among adults in 12 countries (pooled Spearman τ 0.76) [28, 40], as well as similar reliability compared to another pregnancy-specific self-reported questionnaire (0.78–0.83) [24] and interview-based questionnaires (0.81–0.84) [38, 41]. Reliability was highest for VPA (0.84), which may be explained by the often planned nature of these activities, making them easier to recall.
To achieve level one of evidence for reliability it is suggested that the time frame between the two questionnaires should be short enough not to change physical activity level, while long enough to prevent recall [14]. The time frame of mean 2.5 weeks, appropriate sample size (>50) and analysis (ICC), as well as good correlation (>0.70) between MPA, MVPA and VPA in the present study supports achievement of level one evidence of reliability, according to points raised by Van Poppel et al. [14]. Though the present study lacks measure of responsiveness, the high correlation coefficients reflect good consistency, which may give IPAQ-SF some value in repeated measures and ability to monitor change in physical activity level over time, as well as ability to compare physical activity levels before, during and after pregnancy.
Correlation coefficients for MPA (τ = 0.08, p = 0.536), VPA (τ = 0.39, p = 0.002) and MVPA (τ = 0.14, p = 0.280) in the present study were in accordance with correlation coefficients reported in a review comprising 23 previous studies using IPAQ-SF (between −0.09–0.38 for MPA,−0.18–0.47 for VPA and 0.15 for MVPA) [29]. In addition, the present results are in line with other pregnancy-specific physical activity questionnaires that have been validated against a physical activity monitor, with correlation coefficients between 0.08–0.59 for MPA, VPA and total physical activity for self-reported questionnaires [23,24,25], and between 0.06–0.59 for MPA, VPA, MVPA and total activity for interview-administered questionnaires [38, 41]). In a systematic review on measurement properties for physical activity questionnaires in adults, Van Poppel et al. (2010) suggested a correlation cut off point >0.50 as sufficient for level 1 evidence of validation when compared to an accelerometer [14]. Few physical activity questionnaires for pregnant women report correlation values >0.50. To our knowledge, a self-reported questionnaire validated by Haakstad et al. [23] and an interview-administered questionnaire validated by Schmidt et al. [38] were the only two studies reporting correlation values >0.50, and only for VPA and total activity/sports-exercise respectively. However, comparison to other studies should be done with caution as studies differ in methodologies that are used, including measurement methods, statistical analysis and cut-off points [14, 41]. These differences might also partly explain the variation in results between studies, in addition to assessment in different trimesters when it concerns pregnancy. According to a systematic review comprising 148 studies, large variations of under- and over-reporting of physical activity level are found ranging from −100% to 4024%, with an average over-report of 138% [39]. Our findings, that physical activity categorized as MPA and MVPA was under-reported by > 52%, are similar to results reported in a Swedish IPAQ-SF validation study using MTI Actigraph as criterion measurement, where MPA and VPA were under-reported by 49% and 31%, respectively, among the female participants (n = 98) [42]. Another validation study of a pregnancy-specific questionnaire conducted in Norway, using ActiReg® system as criterion measure, also found that MPA was under-reported, although not to such extent as in the present study (only 16%, MPA τ = 0.15, p = 0.183) [23].
Pregnancy is associated with large physiological changes in cardiovascular, respiratory, hematologic and metabolic responses, leading to increased heart rate, respiration, resting metabolic rate and absolute energy cost, [43, 44]. These changes in relation with IPAQ’s guidelines of moderate and vigorous intensity (www.ipaq.ki.se) may explain the poor correlation between the two methods included in the present study. The physiological changes may alter the perception of intensity level with respect to physical activity and exercise. The wide limits of agreement of MPA (−84 ± 402) and MVPA (−85 ± 452) for the total group in the present study may indicate that IPAQ-SF does not assess these intensities accurately on an individual level in pregnancy. Further, as significant correlation between IPAQ-SF and SWA was seen only for VPA for our total group, these results indicate that IPAQ-SF alone may have limited value in assessment of physical activity level among pregnant women, especially if use of only one measurement point. The proven reliability of IPAQ-SF may make it suited for repeated measurements of physical activity level over time in study participants.
When dividing our total group based on those fulfilling the national physical activity guidelines or not, the active group (n = 34) under-reported their MPA and MVPA with almost three hours/week. In contrast, the women in the inactive group over-reported MPA and MVPA by six (13%) and 23 (49%) minutes/week respectively, which is lower than most findings from previous validation-studies of IPAQ-SF (36–173%) [29]. Our findings are similar to those reported by Shook et al. [45], which demonstrated differences in self-reported physical activity level based on fitness level in the general adult population [45]. In another recently published study using a pregnancy-specific questionnaire [22], self-reported physical activity levels were over-reported among both active and inactive participants. Few studies have, however, focused on possible differences between those defined as physically active and physically inactive. In the present study the degree of under-reporting of MPA and MVPA by the active group was substantially larger than the corresponding over-reporting by the inactive group, resulting in considerable impact on the result for the whole group. Finally, similar to previous studies [30, 45], we found VPA level over-reported in both the inactive and the active group.
There may be several reasons for discrepancies in self-reporting of physical activity level among active versus inactive pregnant women. Perception and tolerance of intensity in a given activity may be different. Due to the physiological changes in pregnancy, as decreased pulmonary reserve, increased cardiac output and systemic vasodilation, the inactive women may have experienced heavier breathing at a lower activity level and classified intensity as moderate in accordance to questionnaire guidelines, while the SWA may only have registered it as light intensity. On the other hand, the active women may have used the physiological responses before pregnancy as reference and thereby felt insufficiently active, which might have led to under-reporting of MPA and MVPA. A Canadian study conducted in 129 adults (n = 90 females) highlights the difficulties in selecting the proper physical activity intensity; most participants underestimated MPA and VPA and, when instructed, only 24% walked at a moderate to vigorous pace, while the majority actually walked at light intensity [46]. In addition, in the present study, active women might have spent more time walking compared to the inactive women, captured by the SWA as moderate intensity activity, but according to IPAQ instructions, walking should not be included in the moderate intensity category. The SWA registered significantly more steps among the active- compared to the inactive group (58616 steps vs. 45424 steps/week, p = 0.005, data not shown), although quantifying steps does not include aspects such as intensity.
The significant correlation between IPAQ-SF and SWA seen for MPA for the inactive group may suggest that IPAQ-SF may be of some value to assess MPA for inactive pregnant women. Further, when we removed the three outliers seen in the Bland-Altman plot in Fig. 1, we found an association between IPAQ and SWA in assessing MPA and MVPA for the inactive group, with the mean differences and limits of agreement from Bland-Altman plots being 4 ± 138 and 10 ± 172 min/week, respectively (data not shown). However, removing outliers did not change the results significantly for the total or for the active group.
A wide range of self-reported physical activity questionnaires are available, though reviews have shown that it is difficult to point out some that are superior to other [14,48,, 40, 47–49], including those specific to pregnant populations [50]. Accordingly, dose–response relationships between self-reported physical activity level and pregnancy outcomes remain difficult to establish [51, 52]. Though we found limited validation of IPAQ-SF when assessing MPA, VPA and MVPA in pregnancy, only a small number of other self-reported physical activity questionnaires available for use in pregnancy possess overall good validity for measuring different physical activity intensities [23,24,25]. Therefore, IPAQ-SF’s advantage of brevity and its ability to assess physical activity level preconception, during pregnancy and postpartum, as well as later in life, are of great value. This is especially relevant as the importance of initiating lifestyle changes pre-pregnancy is increasingly recognized [53,54,55]. Additionally, IPAQ-SF’s good test-retest reliability in this study and for the general adult population [28] supports use of repeated measures.
Strengths of the present study included an acceptable sample sizes [14], and that all data were cleaned and analysed according to the IPAQ protocol. Another strength is the use of the objective physical activity monitor SWA that combines information about different signals and captures movements. SWA is sensitive for several activities, from sedentary behaviour and sleeping to vigorous physical activity [56]. Furthermore, the SWA is small, light and wireless and localized on the upper arm, a convenient location especially in pregnancy, compared to other activity monitors worn at the waist or hip. In addition, compliance with the SWA was high (mean wear 6.7 days, 98% on-body).
A limitation of SWA is that it must be removed when in contact with water and that it contains eight percent nickel, which may cause skin reactions. SWA has also, like accelerometers [57, 58], been shown to have difficulties in registering inclined walking, rowing and cycling [32, 59, 60]. Another possible limitation of the present study is that we included two different versions of SWA.
Another limitation is that we cannot report responsiveness of IPAQ-SF in the present study [14]; in the test-retest study there is a lack of an objective comparison, while in the validation study there is a lack of two self-report measures.
Characteristics of the women in both our studies, such as age, marital status, household income and smoking habits, are similar to those reported in the largest cohort study conducted on pregnant Norwegian women (the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study) as well as to the general female population of reproductive age in Norway [54, 61, 62]. The majority of women in our studies (61.5% in the reliability study and 75% in the validation study) had higher education (college/university education) which also concurs with what was reported in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (59.5%) [54]. A large proportion of the general female population in Norway also has higher education (27.6 - 58.0%, age interval 20–39 years) [63], although somewhat lower than what was observed in the validation study. In the reliability study, 27% of the participants were overweight/obese, which is similar to the prevalence found in the general female adult population in Norway (23% with BMI ≥ 27 kg/m2) [64] and in participants in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (32.8% with BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2) [54]. In the validation study, however, only 10.9% of the participants were overweight or obese. Based on these characteristics, the participants in the reliability study seem to be representative of both the pregnant population and the general female population of Norway, while the participants in the validation study were somewhat slimmer and a slightly larger proportion had higher education. However, as this study aims to test-retest a questionnaire and to compare two measurement methods within the same subject, we maintain our assumption that motivated participants compliant to the planned investigations can provide relevant data for a methodical study. Further, as the two studies aimed to assess measurement properties of IPAQ-SF within each subject, one could argue that the results might have been similar in a random sample from the pregnant population [25]. Additionally, IPAQ has been tested among adults both in developed and developing countries and demonstrated similar results [28].
We have no information regarding non-responders. However, there were no significant differences in socio-demographic variables when comparing those included (n = 88 in reliability study, n = 64 in validation study) with those excluded from the analysis in the two studies (n = 18 in the reliability study and n = 31 in the validation study), except for 92% of included women being fully employed outside home in the reliability study compared to 100% of the excluded women (p = 0.019).
IPAQ-SF showed good test-retest reliability, but limited concurrent validity when compared with a sensory-based physical activity monitor in pregnant women.
IPAQ-SF under-reported time spent in MPA and MVPA by > 52% and over-reported VPA by 1400%. The participants’ physical activity level affected the agreement between the questionnaire and the physical activity monitor. Stratifying on whether women fulfilled or did not fulfill physical activity recommendations, the active women under-reported MVPA by 60%, while the inactive women over-reported MVPA by 49%. These findings suggest that participant’s physical activity level should be taken into account when self-reported evaluation of physical activity is done. Physical activity questionnaires are valuable, especially in large-scale population based surveys. Until a questionnaire with improved validity has been developed, objective methods should supplement self-report measures, when possible, in studies investigating physical activity and pregnancy outcome.
IPAQ-SF:
International Physical Activity Questionnaire Short Form
Moderate physical activity
MVPA:
Moderate and vigorous physical activity
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SenseWear Armband
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The authors are grateful to all the pregnant women who agreed to participate in the reliability and the validity study. Thanks to our colleagues Siw Rottem, Hanne Bråthen Hansen and Anita Refsland at Southern Norway Hospital Trust, Kristiansand for recruiting participants. At last, thanks to Ingrid Anette Aas Pedersen for assistance and contribution in the validation study.
The reliability study was financed by grant from South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority, while the validity study was financed by this first author’s PhD Research Fellowship funds by the University of Agder. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the article.
The datasets analysed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
BS was responsible for data collection and coordinating the validation study, assisted in planning the study and further completed the data analysis, data interpretation, the generation of tables and figures and drafting the manuscript. MKT and IV were responsible for planning the study, and assisted in coordination, data collection, data interpretation and in reviewing the manuscript. LRS was responsible for planning and coordinating the test-retest study, as well as the data collection, and contributed in reviewing the manuscript. LAH, SBS and HLS assisted in data collection, data interpretations and in reviewing the manuscript. All authors had final approval of the submitted manuscript.
The authors report no conflict of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
Written consent was obtained from all participants and the Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics (REK) approved both studies (REK reference 2009/429).
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DURHAM, N.C. (April 3, 2013) – If the breakfast biscuits baked at the Hardee’s® restaurant at 3912 N. Duke Street seem especially delicious, that’s because they are made by a three-time Biscuit Maker Champion.
Biscuit maker Shirley Jones was named the 2013 Best Biscuit Maker of Boddie-Noell Enterprises, the largest Hardee’s franchise operator in the country. Jones advanced beyond more than 800 other biscuit makers at 334 Hardee’s restaurants to win the overall award for the second year in a row and the third time since the competition began 30 years ago. Jones also won the award in 2009 and 2012. She is the only Biscuit Maker to win the award three times.
Contestants in Boddie-Noell’s annual Biscuit Maker Challenge represented Hardee’s restaurants across North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina and Kentucky. In addition to Jones, the three best biscuit maker regional winners were Hillary Basinger of the Hardee’s at CarolinaBeach, Elijah Hoff of the Timberville, Va. location and Medora Vicars of Lexington, Va.
“I can’t believe I won again,” said a clearly stunned Jones when her name was announced. “This is truly an honor. I’ve worked hard on perfecting the procedures over the years and it feels great.”
Jones and the three other regional winners will be featured later this year on the in-store tray liners at all Hardee’s restaurants operated by Boddie-Noell.
Boddie-Noell honored the four regional winners and announced Jones as the overall winner during a banquet at the company’s Rose Hill Plantation near Nashville.
The competition started in November, and each biscuit maker was evaluated based on the quality of his or her biscuits, knowledge of proper biscuit equipment, cleanliness and care of the biscuit equipment, knowledge and execution of company procedures, grooming and appearance. The competition’s judges included general managers, district managers, regional directors, vice presidents and other executives in the restaurant division of Boddie-Noell.
Jones, who lives near Rougemont, has worked as a biscuit maker at Hardee’s for 16 years.
Jones says the key to creating the best Hardee’s Made from Scratch™ Biscuit begins with “taking pride in what you do.” After that, being consistent and “following procedures every day” is key. Jones also noted she has been baking biscuits her whole life.
“We have some amazing biscuit makers in our company, but Shirley is always one of the best,” said Terry Lewis, Boddie-Noell’s vice president of operations for Hardee’s and host of the Biscuit Maker Banquet. “It’s so great to see her standing up here again this year.”
Aside from making biscuits, Jones enjoys singing in the choir at church and gardening with her husband. She loves to cook and is an avid collector of shoes and jewelry.She is currently helping to plan her daughter’s wedding in August.
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The Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award (BBCSA) presented by SR Bats announced on Monday the players on its watch list for the 2019 college baseball season.
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The award, created by the Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation, was open to nominations from all Division I baseball programs in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico. This year’s watch list consists of 30 players representing 26 programs in the five states. The BBCSA is based on performance at the plate, academics and personal integrity.
The BBCSA will announce finalists for the award in May. The winner of the third annual Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award presented by SR Bats will be announced in June and honored at a gala in the fall.
Baylor’s Richard Cunningham, Texas A&M’s Braden Shewmake and Houston’s Joe Davis are the only players who have been on the BBCSA watch list for all three years of the award’s existence. Two players on this year’s watch list, Texas Tech’s Josh Jung (2018) and A&M’s Shewmake (2017), were finalists for the award in the past.
Texas Tech’s Hunter Hargrove was the winner of the inaugural BBCSA in 2017 while Dallas Baptist’s Devlin Granberg took home the honor in 2018.
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Why We Like It: Chrispin’s “Good Bad”[ 3 minute read ]
January 11, 2020 - Created by Conor Herbert
In today’s age, technology has flooded our lives with content. Caught in the mire are today’s musicians who champion an art form that’s more widely distributed than any other throughout human history. And we, more often than not, overlook the music created by unfamiliar faces because it’s challenging. We’d rather have an easy listen, a known quantity to skim through while we think about something else.
Hearing is easy, but listening is difficult. Welcome to “Why We Like It”, where we rebuke the trends in favor of thoughtful analysis and underknown sounds.
“Good Bad” – Chrispin
How We Found It
Brooklyn-based emcee Chrispin slid “Good Bad” into our inbox at Submithub in late December, closing out my first year on the platform – and my first decade as a music writer – with some well-deserved respite from the ever-stressful Christmas period. That’s not to say the track is without consequence: in fact, Chrispin fuses the wins and losses of life with an adventurous spirit, and his lust for life breaks through in his witty delivery.
It’s only occasionally that you come across a cut so replete with contagious energy, and it’s rarer still to hear such a track seamlessly flip from language to language, and Chrispin’s “Good Bad” is the exception that proves the rule. The irreverent anthem packs lovelorn reflection and rich personality into three minutes of vocal harmonies and half-sung melodies, melding with bilingual bars and lighthearted asides.
The world is getting smaller, and onetime journeys are now little more than day trips and red eyes. In this interconnected world, the ability to speak more than one language gives you an edge, and whilst it’s hardly the most traditional example, Chrispin’s fusion of English and French immediately stood out. It’s not a gimmick as much as a single facet of an already-terrific track, one which explores the nine-to-five and the liquor-laden respite; the love and the loss; the clean getaways and the emotional quagmires. “Good Bad” runs as a sun-tinged anthem about collision and contradiction, taking the good with the bad and the highs with the lows. It’s the reset button my decade needed, a reminder that there’s beauty in the wild and unpredictable, a testament to the excitement of the day-to-day. That’s the kind of thing you forget working the holidays in hospitality.
From The Artist
Trying to mesh the two languages together is difficult since only one’s my primary language, but that’s what’s exciting about it. Trying to craft schemes and hooks in French that rhyme with their variants in English is crazy fulfilling when it turns out near perfect. Writing is all about craft and emotion to me, and when I talk about real things and couple that with the fact that I labored over the sound of every syllable and word pairing- I feel like it’s satisfying to me and the listener.” – Chrispin for CentralSauce (2020)
More From The Artist
Chrispin is on Instagram, proof that his strong sense of style isn’t tied to any one medium. If you want to keep up with his new shit – and having listened to “Good Bad,” you should – chuck him a follow!
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You can check out more of his work on his SoundCloud account, which includes popular cuts such as “Eamon, Ave & Yassky,” a three-man cut atop Slum Village’s “Go Ladies” instrumental, and his 2017 single “Bubble Rap,” produced by Aso.
Check out this continuously updated playlist of songs Conor has added to our Discovery section! Each track or artist has been featured in our “Why We Like It” section, so be sure to check out the page here on the site.
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Hey! I’m Conor, a Melbourne-based hip hop fan and unabashed Kanye stan. My work explores records by way of the samples within, contextualizing the tracks and sounds that have helped shape hip hop for decades. I love bringing new, unique and engaging content to fans who share my interest in the inner workings of artistry. Beyond my passion for music, I’m a screenwriter, though I’m sure I won’t feel like I’ve made it until I work with Janelle Monáe. She’s so great.
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Posts Tagged ‘Viswanathan Anand vs Magnus Carlsen game 5’
Carlsen vs Anand 2014 World Chess Championship: Game 5 Analysis
With both players even after four games and Magnus Carlsen due to get the white pieces in rounds 6 and 7, it was important for Viswanathan Anand to make good use of being white in round 5. Vishy once again began with “1. d4” but this time, a more prepared Carlsen, demonstrated his incredible knowledge of the Queen’s Indian Defense at a lightning fast pace. Anand responded to Magnus’ rapid moves with novel ideas which kept the pressure on Carlsen throughout the game. The young Norwegian never cracked and when the dust settles he was able to hold Vishy to just a draw. Still, this was my personal favorite round from the 2014 FIDE World Chess Championship as both contestants seemed to be performing at their best.
Viswanathan Anand vs Magnus Carlsen 2014(photo from: https://chess24.com)
I thoroughly enjoyed the entire game but, in particular, I loved how Viswanathan Anand dared Magnus Carlsen to gobble a pawn on b2 with his queen on move twenty. Had Carlsen accepted the pawn, the “Tiger from Madras” would have chased Magnus’ queen for several moves and caused him all kinds of difficulties. Carlsen finally accepted the pawn on move twenty-two and wisely set up a queen trade to alleviate Anand’s pressure.
[Event “FIDE World Chess Championship 2014”]
[Site “Sochi, Russia”]
[White “Anand, Viswanathan (IND)”]
[Black “Carlsen, Magnus (NOR)”]
[Eco “E16”]
[Annotator “Chris Torres”]
[Source “”]
{[ QUEEN’S INDIAN def.,E16]}
1.d4 Nf6
2.c4 e6
3.Nf3 b6 {Magnus Carlsen moves to a Queen’s Indian Defense in round 5. In the Indian Defenses, black attempts to control the center with pieces rather than occupying it with pawns. So, in the Queen’s Indian Defense, the idea is to control d5 and e4 with the fianchetto of the queen’s bishop.}
The position after Magnus Carlsen plays 3… b6.
4.g3 Bb4+ {This move and the subsequent retreat has been gaining popularity in recent years.}
5.Bd2 Be7
6.Nc3 Bb7
7.Bg2 c6 {Generally it is not a good idea to place pawns in front of a strong bishop as Carlsen does here. However, in this line of the Queen’s Indian Defense, Magnus is adding more strength to his coming d5 push.}
8.e4 {Anand constructs a nice wall in the center.}
The position after Viswanathan Anand plays 8. e4.
8… d5 {Carlsen swings a wrecking ball toward Anand’s wall.}
9.exd5 {Anand could have also played 9. cxd5 or 9. e5 as in the games below:}
( 9.cxd5 cxd5 10.e5 Ne4 11.O-O O-O 12.Re1 Nxd2 13.Qxd2 Ba6 14.a3
Nc6 15.b4 Bc4 16.Qe3 b5 17.Nd2 Qb6 18.Nxc4 bxc4 19.Rad1 Rae8
20.f4 g6 21.h4 f6 22.Nxd5 exd5 23.Bxd5+ Kg7 24.Bxc4 fxe5 25.dxe5
Rd8 26.Bd5 Qxe3+ 27.Rxe3 Rd7 28.Red3 Rfd8 {…1/2-1/2, Karpov Anatoly (RUS) 2775 – Tiviakov Sergei (NED) 2655 , Linares 1995 It (cat.17)})
( 9.e5 Ne4 10.cxd5 cxd5 11.O-O O-O 12.Re1 Nxc3 13.bxc3 Ba6
14.h4 Nc6 15.Ng5 Na5 16.Qb1 g6 17.Nf3 Rc8 18.h5 Rc6 19.Bf1 Bxf1
20.Rxf1 Kh8 21.Bh6 Rg8 22.hxg6 Rxg6 23.Bd2 Nc4 24.Qd3 b5 25.Kg2
Qa5 26.Rh1 Nxd2 27.Qxd2 Rxc3 28.Rh5 Rg7 {…1-0, Ruban Vadim (RUS) 2590 – Tiviakov Sergei (NED) 2635 , St. Petersburg 1993 Zt})
9… cxd5
10.Ne5 {With nothing to prevent it, it makes good sense for Anand to move the knight to the outpost at this point.}
10… O-O
11.O-O Nc6 {Magnus Carlsen has played his opening moves noticeably faster in game 5.}
The position after Magnus Carlsen plays 11… Nc6.
12.cxd5 {Anand had five serious options to consider here. I give examples of the other four below:}
( 12.Bg5 Rc8 13.Qa4 Na5 14.cxd5 Nxd5 15.Bxd5 Bxd5 16.Bxe7 Qxe7
17.Nxd5 exd5 18.Rfe1 Rfe8 19.Nd3 Qd8 20.Rxe8+ Qxe8 21.Qxe8+ Rxe8
22.Rc1 Nc4 23.b3 Nd6 24.Nf4 Nb5 25.Nxd5 f6 26.Ne3 Nxd4 27.Rc7
Nb5 28.Rb7 Kf8 29.a4 Nd4 30.Rxa7 Nxb3 31.Nd5 Re6 {…1/2-1/2, Abramovic Bosko (SRB) 2500 – Scavo Fernando (ITA) 2185 , Montecatini Terme 1997 It (open)})
( 12.Qa4 Rc8 13.cxd5 exd5 14.Rfe1 a6 15.Bg5 b5 16.Qd1 h6 17.Bxf6
Bxf6 18.Nxd5 Re8 19.Qh5 Nxe5 20.Nxf6+ Qxf6 21.dxe5 Qb6 22.Bxb7
Qxb7 23.Rad1 Re6 24.Rd6 Qe7 25.Rd5 Qb4 26.Re2 Qc4 27.Qf3 Qxa2
28.Rd7 Rf8 29.Kg2 Qc4 30.b3 Qc5 31.Rd5 Qc7 {…1/2-1/2, Almasi Zoltan (HUN) 2650 – Breder Dennis (GER) 2454 , Germany 2003 Bundesliga 2002/03})
( 12.Bf4 Na5 13.Rc1 dxc4 14.Bxb7 Nxb7 15.Nc6 Qd7 16.d5 Bd6
17.Be5 Bxe5 18.Nxe5 Qc7 19.Re1 Rfd8 20.Nc6 Re8 21.Qf3 Nd6 22.dxe6
fxe6 23.Nd4 e5 24.Rxe5 Rxe5 25.Qxa8+ Re8 {1/2-1/2, Wehmeier Stefan (GER) 2400 – Rodriguez Amador (ESP) 2510 , Olot 1996 It (open)})
( 12.Nxc6 Bxc6 13.Bg5 Rc8 14.Bxf6 gxf6 15.cxd5 exd5 16.Rc1
Qd6 17.Qd2 Rfd8 18.Rc2 Qd7 {1/2-1/2, Czerwonski Aleksander (POL) 2360 – Grabarczyk Miroslaw (POL) 2445 , Warsaw 1995 Ch Poland})
12… Nxe5
13.d6 {According to my extensive database, this is a novelty.}
( 13.dxe5 Nxd5 14.Nxd5 Bxd5 15.Bc3 Bxg2 16.Qxd8 Rfxd8 17.Kxg2
Rd5 18.Rfd1 Rad8 19.Rxd5 Rxd5 20.f4 f5 21.Rc1 Kf7 22.Be1 {1/2-1/2, Komljenovic Davor (CRO) 2465 – Palac Mladen (CRO) 2561 , Sibenik 9/10/2010 Ch Croatia (team) (1A)})
13… Nc6 {Magnus Carlsen responded quickly as if he expected Anand’s move.}
14.dxe7 Qxe7
15.Bg5 h6 {Magnus challenges Anand’s pin.}
16.d5{!} {Anand is really adding spice into this game.}
The position after Viswanathan Anand plays 16. d5.
16… Na5 {!?} {Wow! The world was expecting a rook to move to d8 and Carlsen, instead, places a knight on the rim.}
17.Bxf6 {It may have eliminated Anand’s advantage in having the bishop pair, but I still believe 16. d5 to be an exceptional move by Vishy.}
17… Qxf6
18.dxe6 {Magnus Carlsen has some interesting captures to consider.}
The position after Viswanathan Anand plays 18. dxe6.
18… Qxe6 {Although, it appears that Magnus’ alternative choices are identical to each-other.}
( 18…Bxg2 19.Kxg2 fxe6 20.Qe2 Nc6 ) ( 18…fxe6 19.Qe2 Bxg2
20.Kxg2 Nc6 )
19.Re1 {This move prepares for Vishy’s 20th.}
( 19.Bxb7 Nxb7 20.Qf3 Nc5 21.Rfe1 )
19… Qf6
20.Nd5 {!} {Viswanathan Anand is daring Magnus Carlsen to capture on b2!}
20… Bxd5 {It is worth taking a moment to look at 20… Qxb2:}
( 20…Qxb2 21.Re2 {!} Qa3 22.Re3 Qb2 23.Rb1 Qxa2 24.Ra1 Qc4
25.Rxa5 {!} bxa5 26.Ne7+ Kh8 27.Bxb7 Rad8 28.Qa1 {!} Qc5 {and white has some nice targets while black is left defending.})
21.Bxd5 Rad8
22.Qf3 Qxb2 {Carlsen finally accepts Anand’s challenge.}
The position after Magnus Carlsen plays 22… Qxb2.
23.Rad1 Qf6 {!?} {Carlsen is ready and willing to shatter his king-side pawn structure as long as it relieves the pressure Anand is exerting on him.}
24.Qxf6 gxf6
25.Re7 {Rooks on the seventh rank are very powerful weapons.}
25… Kg7 {There is no point in trying to save the pawn on a7.}
The position after Magnus Carlsen plays 25… Kg7.
26.Rxa7 {?} {This obvious move is slightly inaccurate. A better plan would have been leaving the “dead pawn” on the board but also leaving Magnus’ knight stranded.:}
( 26.Rc7 f5 27.Kg2 Rd6 28.Bf3 Rxd1 29.Bxd1 )
26… Nc6
27.Rb7 Nb4
28.Bb3 Rxd1+
29.Bxd1 Nxa2
30.Rxb6 {At this level, there is not much Viswanathan Anand can do to avoid the draw with Magnus Carlsen.}
The position after Viswanathan Anand plays 30. Rxb6.
31.Bf3 f5 {This obviously prepares for the knight to move to e4.}
32.Kg2 Rd8
33.Rc6 Ne4
34.Bxe4 ( 34.Rc4 Nd2 35.Rb4 Nxf3 36.Kxf3
{and the knight and bishop would have left the board anyways.} )
34… fxe4
The position after Magnus Carlsen plays 34… fxe4.
35.Rc4 f5 {I enjoy World Championship Matches because the players continue to play beyond where they would normally agree to a draw. The extra moves demonstrate good technique and are of good educational value.}
36.g4 Rd2
37.gxf5 e3
38.Re4 Rxf2+
39.Kg3 Rxf5 1/2-1/2
The final position of Game 5 from the 2014 Carlsen-Anand World Chess Championship Match.
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and the official site for the 2014 FIDE World Chess Championship Match in Sochi, Russia.
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LOVELESS (127 R)
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A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Writers: Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev
Stars: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov
Subtitled in English
Boris and Zhenya loathe each other, and chances are you will loathe them too. She spends every moment in his presence lashing him verbally; he absorbs every blow with a sluggard’s indifference. They have a young son that neither wants or cares about.
Their ruin of a marriage (to call it “unhappy” would be optimistic) is on cruel, unvarnished display in “Loveless,” the fifth feature directed by the gifted Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev, who examines their household in the manner of a pathologist performing an autopsy.
Pathologies of every sort abound in this corrosive and hypnotic movie, a story of domestic collapse that slowly develops into a withering snapshot of contemporary Russian malaise. That makes it of a piece with Zvyagintsev’s earlier work, especially his Oscar-nominated 2014 film, “Leviathan,” an intimate family drama that expanded into a seething, sweeping indictment of Vladimir Putin’s regime, full of liquored outbursts, biblical allusions and satirical jabs at the unholy alliance of church and state.
“Loveless,” which will represent Russia in this year’s foreign-language film Oscar race, is a smaller, more self-contained picture, and both its human drama and its social critique feel more glancing, more thinly dispersed. If the proud, fallible characters in “Leviathan” largely held our sympathies, Zvyagintsev keeps Boris (Aleksey Rozin) and Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) at a glassy remove, not inviting our commiseration so much as our contempt.
The two have already called it quits before the story opens, sometime in 2012. Zhenya, a beauty who runs a salon, is already dating a wealthy older businessman, Anton (Andris Keiss). Boris, bearded and brawny, has a desk job at an anonymous firm and a pregnant young girlfriend, Masha (Marina Vasilyeva). All that remains is for the soon-to-be-exes to rid themselves of their suburban Moscow apartment and their 12-year-old son, Alyosha (Matvey Novikov), whom they plan to ship off to boarding school until his inevitable military training.
Novikov is on screen for only a few minutes and has little dialogue, but that’s all this young actor needs to make a devastating impression. Whether Alyosha is trudging home from school in the snow or glaring as his mother shows their apartment to potential tenants, his every glance and gesture bespeaks years of emotional damage. Few shots in any movie this year are more brutalizing than the one in Alyosha stands listening to every word of his parents’ argument, his face frozen in the silent scream of the desperately unloved.
The next day Alyosha vanishes, though his parents are so busy and self-absorbed that another day passes before they even realize the boy is missing. There is a measure of satisfaction in seeing Boris and Zhenya shocked at having their wish — that their son would, in effect, disappear — granted so swiftly. Did Alyosha run away, or was he kidnapped? “Loveless” poses a still more troubling question: Is this a world that, in any meaningful sense, deserves its children?
The answer may be no, but the movie, written by Zvyagintsev and his regular collaborator Oleg Negin, finds about a hundred different ways of saying it. A visit to Alyosha’s estranged grandmother (a terrifying Natalya Potapova) suggests that Zhenya, for all her failures as a mother, has made the best of a grim legacy.
Boris’ office chatter reminds us that, in an ostensibly Christian culture that frowns on divorce, people often hold onto their spouses and children just to save face. Grim headlines about looming disasters in Ukraine and elsewhere blare from every radio and TV screen, drowned out by the vapid allure of Instagram feeds and other technological distractions.
Meanwhile, the police are too bogged down to do much more than cough up encouraging statistics about child runaways. Boris and Zhenya, their mutual hatred exacerbated rather than assuaged by this tragic turn, have no choice but to call on a dedicated volunteer squad to lead a search-and-rescue mission. The shots of the volunteers quietly at work yield some of the picture’s most haunting and crystalline images, the camera slowly moving across gloomy wooded terrain and into squalid derelict buildings, tracing an arc from natural beauty to man-made entropy.
There is a grave majesty in these cold environs, brilliantly captured by Zvyagintsev’s regular cinematographer, Mikhail Krichman. Since the director’s arrival on the international scene with his remarkable first feature, “The Return” (2003), his feel for the metaphysical power of landscape — distilled in compositions and camera movements that can take your breath away — has earned him frequent comparisons to his countryman Andrei Tarkovsky, the auteur behind such cinematic monuments as “Solaris” and “Andrei Rublev.”
Again and again, Zvyagintsev shoots his characters through car windshields, rain-flecked windows and other glass surfaces, as if he were trying not only to see through to their souls, but also to view them as projections — living representations of a society mired in cruelty, selfishness and apathy. Boris and Zhenya’s marriage is both a symptom and a symbol of this problem, and their efforts to start their lives anew, casting off the child that binds them together, suggests a desire to plead ignorance of a bitter past and rush foolishly forward into an uncertain future.
Is Alyosha an emblem of lost promise, of a new generation doomed to be far worse off than the one before it? These questions may be rooted in Russian soil, but Zvyagintsev knows they are hardly unique to his country alone. Toward the end of this searing, finally overwhelming film, it’s unclear which is the more disturbing realization: that Alyosha was lost long before he went missing, or that you don’t really want him to be found.
– Justin Chang, LA Times
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The Board of Education of Topeka, Bruises, Brunswick, Brunswick Youth Works, brutal, brutal apartheid system, brutality, buddies, build, build health, build hope worldwide, Build me a son, Build me a son whose heart will be clear, Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be, building, Building Accountability, Building Dreams, Building Hope, Building Responsibility, Building to Community, bunch of folks, burglary, burial, burial funds, Burke County, Burke County Court Calendar, Burke County Court Calendars, burned, burned remains, Bush, Bush adviser Karl Rove's team, Bush is really out of touch with the American people, business, Business Plan, Business Sector, business side of medicine, businesses, Businesses are Discourteous, butcher knife, Butterfly kisses, buy cigarettes, buying more than one gun a month, By Augusta Chronicle Staff Writer Dena Levitz, By Augusta Chronicle Staff Writer Greg Rickabaugh, By Lawrence Viele, by Mark Mathabane, By Morris News Service, By Staff Writer Timothy Cox, C & J Enterprises, Caged Bird Sings, calculated, caliber, California, California Breast Cancer Act of 1993, California Department of Corrections, California Youth Authority, call 911, called 911, came to the White House, Camilla, Camilla Massacre, can be tried, can only, can't even comprehend why white Republicans would re-elect President Bush, cancer, cancer rate, cancer research, Candace Hillman, candidate, Candidate For The 10th Congressional District, Candidates, Candidates in the Rite of Passage Program, candlelight homage to homicide victims, candlelight homage to local homicide victims, candlelight homage to local murder victims, candlelight homage to murder victims, Candles, Candles were lighted for Niteka Wesbey, Candles were lighted for Rodney Johnson, Candy Williams, Candy Williams: You Knew I Was an Addict, cannot be measured in dollars, capacity, Capitol, Captain, cards for Father's Day, care, care about, caring, Carlton Lamb Jr., Carlton Lamb Jr. killed, Carlton Lamb Jr. murdered, carry a gun, carry a loaded gun, carry on unity goal, Carter Center, cartercenter.org, carve pumpkins, Case, case unsolved, cases, cash, casting, casting their ballots, Catara Hill, catch lightning bugs, Cathy Cobb, Caucasians against all crime, Caucasians against all violence, Caucasians against crime, Caucasians against violence, Caucasians against white crime, Caucasians against white violence, causes for why we have sexual violence, causes of crime in the black community, causes of death, causing concern among some Democrats, caveat, cbpr.org, ccchron@augustachonicle.com, Ccchron@Augustachronicle.Com, CDC, cdc.gov/violenceprevention, Cedric Jackson, Cedric Jackson died, celebration, celebration of life, cemeteries, cemetery, cemetery tours, Cent, Center, Center for Disease Control, Center West Parkway, Centers for Disease Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Central Savannah River Area Girl Scouts, certain amount of lawlessness allowed in the black community, certificate of need, certificate of need requirement, Cesar Chavez, chair, chairman, chairman of the Augusta State University Department of Psychology, Chairman Of The Department, Chairman Of The Event's Organizing Committee, chairwoman, chalk it up, challenge, challenges, challenging, chamber, chambers, change, change faces, change that system, change the law, change the system, change things that are wrong, changed our nation, changed our times, changes, changes to system, Chapter, character, charged, charged his roommate, charged with homicide, charges, Charles Bullock, Charles Hankerson, Charles Ramsey, Charles Walker, Charles Weigle, charter schools, Chavone Hollimon, chest, Chief, Chief Deputy, child, child care, Child caught in a cross-fire, child child's head, child murdered, child raising skills, child's father, child's head hit the wall, Child-Abuse Victims, childbearing out of wedlock by different partners is taken too lightly in our society, childbearing out of wedlock is taken too lightly, childbearing out of wedlock is taken too lightly in our society, Childcare center, children, children are the only pure joy, children deprived, children deprived of development, Children killed by handguns, Children Live, children love it, children miss class, children today, children today are saturated in passive entertainment like television, children who go are struggling, children's education, Children’s Defense Fund, chocolate, choice, choked, choking, choking death of an Augusta man, choking death of an Augusta woman, Choose, Choosing Jails Over Schools, Chris E. 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Steve Morris, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Institute, Columbine High School, combat Richmond County's rising violent crime rate, combat violence crime rate, combining efforts, come back, come together, comedian, comfort, comfortable, Coming of Age, Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa, coming up for a vote, commemorate, commemorating 1996 murder victims from Richmond and Columbia counties, commission of crime experts and political appointees, commit crimes, committees, committing more crimes, common employer, Communication, communications, communities, communities suffering the most, community, community a better place, community activist, community center, community centers, community childcare, community development model, Community Developmental Issues, Community Economic Development, Community Empowerment, community involvement, community oriented policing, community representatives, Community Resource Center, community safety, community service, Community vs. Needs, community-based, community-based organizations, community-based partnerships, company, compassion, compelled to leave, compelling, Competition between males and females, compilation of the TV-12 news stories, complaint, complaint about politics, complaint about sex, complaint and ban, complaints from a parent, complex, comprehensive family, compromised, CON, CON legislation, concentrate, Conceptualizations, concerned, concerned about our youth, concerned about violence, Concerns, concerted local effort, condemn, condemns, condemns young mothers to a life of poor education, condemns young mothers to a life of poverty, condemns young mothers to a life of welfare, conditions, Confederate flag, confessed, confessed to beating, confessed to choking, confessed to killing, confessed to murder, confessed to murdering, confessed to raping, confessed to shooting, confessed to stabbing, confessed to strangling her after a fight, confidence, confined, Conflict, conflict of values, conflicts, confronted neighborhood thugs, confusion, Congregation Children of Israel, congressional candidate, connecting with, connection to Africa, connection to South Africa, consequences, consequences for their inappropriate behavior, considerable personal courage, conspiracy, conspiracy to traffic guns, constitutional, constitutional rights, Consumerism, contact, contact Victims Assistance, Contemporary Black Family, content, content of his character, contentious debate, contents of the text, continue efforts to prevent crime, continue the work of the Million Youth Movement, continuing process, Contrary to popular belief, contribute, contributed to the decline, contributed to the decline in crime, contributed to this article, contributed to this report, contributing factor to the epidemic of black-on-black violence, contributing factors, contributing factors to black-on-black violence, Contributors, control, Controlling Behavior, Controversial, Convenience Store, convict, convicted, Convicted Georgia Sen. Charles Walker, convicted Georgia Senate Majority Leader Charles Walker, Convicted Georgia Senator Charles Walker, convicted killer Antonio Ruffin, convicted murderer Antonio Ruffin, convicted murderer Antonio Ruffin had killed before, convicted once, convicted se, conviction, conviction overturned, Core Rights, Coretta Scott King, Cornell, Cornell Drive, Cornell Harris, Cornell Harris: Dare 2 Dream Like King, Corporate America, Corporate Greed, correct disparities, cost, cost is high, cost of firearm injuries, cost of firearm injuries in the United States, cost of firearms, cost per firearm death, cost the state, costly, couldn't wait, counseling, counsels, counted the numbers, counterproposal, Counties, country, country a better place, County, county legislative delegation, County Sheriff, county's legislative delegation, courage, Courage defined the life of Barbara Ann Thurmond, courage was an inspiration, courageous, courageous activist, court, Court Calendar, Court Calendars, Court of Law, courtroom, courts, cousins, covered, covers courts, covers crime, crack cocaine, crack-cocaine statistics, crack-cocaine stats, craving for respect, Create, created, creating, creating more a violent society, creating new life is taken so lightly, creating new life is taken so lightly that school children sing about it, Creation, Creations of FireKawand Crawford, Creative Impressions, credit for the drop in black homicides, crime, Crime Affects Our Nation, Crime and health care, Crime and the Law, crime and violence, crime can happen to someone you know or love, crime committed, crime committed against their souls, crime decrease doesn't mean anything to victim’s families, crime drugs, crime experts and political appointees to revamp sentences, crime happens to someone else, crime has since subsided, crime has wreaked on our community, Crime in America, crime in black community, crime in the black community, crime in their streets, Crime is a Societal Problem, crime is allowed in the black community, crime is in our faces, Crime is no longer someone else's problem, crime is someone else’s problem, Crime is Something That Happens to Someone Else, crime lab, crime might go up again next year, crime must STOP, crime nightmare, crime numbers might be down this year, crime prevention, crime rate, crime rate falls but not rape and sexual assault, crime rate falls except rape, crime rate is like the stock market, crime reporter, crime spree, crime traces, crime victim, crime victim’s rights, crime victims, Crime Victims Advocacy Council, crime victims and their families, crime victims and their families are treated with compassion and dignity, crime victims and their families treated with compassion and dignity, Crime Victims United of California, crime victims’ families, crime-ridden, crime. 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Johnson, depart, Department of Psychology at Augusta State University, deprived, deprived children, deprived of development, deputy, deputy prosecutor, Derek Alderman, dermatologist, describes, desensitizes young people, desensitizes young people to death, desensitizes young people to violence, desensitizing young people to death, desensitizing young people to violence, deserves, deserves America’s highest civilian honor, designed, despair, Despite, despite being poor, destitution, destruction, details how, detention, determination, deters voters, deters voters from casting ballots, deters voters from casting their ballots, Devastating, develop, develop trust, developed, developing community, developing family, developing family and community, development, Developmental Issues, Developmental Issues of Families and Community, deviance, diagnosed, diagnosis, did just that, did not attend the NAACP Convention, did not pass, did not pass state requirements, did not pass state requirements for reading and language arts, did not vote, didn't embarrass him, didn't have any say-so, didn't know how, didn't want her to have the baby, didn’t work, died, died at a very young age, died at the scene, died later at the hospital, died that day, died this summer, died too young, different technology, difficult, difficult for most people to fathom, difficulties, difficulties and challenge, dignity, dinner, direct social activism, Director, Director Of Rape Crisis And Sexual Assault Service, director of Rape Crisis and Sexual Assault Services in Augusta, director of the Victims Assistance Department of the Augusta Richmond County judicial system, Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, dirty, disabilities, disabled, disabled Navy veteran, disagreement, disappointed to learn, disciplinarians, discipline, discuss, Disgraced Georgia Sen. 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prisons, disproportionate number of blacks in prisons, disproportionate number of blacks in prisons in the state of Georgia, disproportionately impact low-income, disproportionately impact minorities, disrespect for the black church, disrespecting the black church, disrupted, disseminate electronic information, distance between Augusta and Birmingham, District 9 at-large seat, District Attorney, District Attorney Danny Craig, District Attorney Danny Craig has prosecuted homicide cases equitably, District Attorney Danny Craig listens to the voices of all crime victims, District Attorney of the Augusta Judicial Circuit, District of Columbia, District of Columbia Police, District Of Columbia Police Chief Charles Ramsey, Divided City, DividedCity.US, Divine Order/Decree, Divine Revelation, do not feel good about themselves, do not feel safer, do not forget, Do you know someone who you can help, Do-Over, doctorates, documented black family could not be sold, Does that sound like someone you know, doesn't even touch college tuition, doesn't take into account, doing her part, doing his part, dollar an hour, domestic cases, Domestic Violence, domestic violence cases, dominance, Domonique Benn, Don Cheeks, don't condone crime, don't have any answers, Don’t forget, Donna Brown, Donzella James, door kicked in, double standards, double standards in the criminal justice system, double standards of the criminal justice system, double standards within the justice system are contributing factors to black-on-black violence, Downsizing, Dr. Charles Bullock, Dr. Deborah Austin, Dr. James Lesher Jr., Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Behavior, Dr. Jim Cruickshanke, Dr. King might remind us that the civil rights struggle was multicolored and moving forward must be as well, Dr. King would have a few choice words for today's music, Dr. King would no doubt take note of how far we have to go, Dr. King would say we need to keep the spirit of Barbara Thurmond alive, Dr. King would take note of how far we have to go, Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr. Martin Luther King would say ‘no’ Augusta has not lived up to his dream, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Robetta McKenzie, Dr. Steve Hobbs, dragged the victim down an embankment, Dramatic Unities, drastic changes, drawn, drawn into, drawn into the daily lives of a people who lived in hideous conditions under apartheid, dream, Dream Speech, dreamed, dreams, Dreams to Grow On, drive-by, drive-by shooting, Driver, drop-out, dropping out of school, drown, drowned, Drug crime, drug deal gone bad, drug dealer, drug dealers, drug dealing, drug deals, drug debt, Drug Lords as Leaders, drug-related crime, drug-related disagreement, drug-related robbery, drugs, drugs and alcohol, duplex, During this century American justice has been a mockery for black people, during what police said, dying, each slaying, early education, earmarked, Earnestine (John) Covington, Earnestine Covington, easily recognize, East Central Georgia Learning Resources System, east 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involuntary manslaughter conviction, Involvement, Ira Harrison, Ira Harrison: Acts of Joy, Irresponsible Business, is it about politics, is it politics, Is this complaint and ban about politics, Is this complaint and ban about se, Is this complaint and ban about sex, ISBN-10: 1410769232, ISBN-10: 1410769240, ISBN-13: 9781410769237, ISBN-13: 9781410769244, Islam, Isolation, issue, issues, issues that arose, it, it sends the wrong message to impressionable minds, It takes a village to raise a child, it would be nice to see more African American judges behind the judicial bench, it would be nice to see more black faces behind the judicial bench, It's filth, It's filth and it's sickening to me and it's unacceptable to have something like this in the school system, it's important, it's sickening, it's sickening to me, It's Still Time to Stop Blaming the White Man, it's time we cared about how every neighborhood looks and feels to live in, it's unacceptable, Italian nationalist leader, J. 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Walt Disney Family Museum Podcast, Episode 1: Diane Disney Miller and Don Hahn
By Mr. DAPs|2013-12-11T14:15:57-08:00December 11th, 2013|Categories: DAPs Magic News, Walt Disney Family Museum|Tags: DAPs, Diane Disney Miller, Disney, Don Hahn, Magic, News, Podcast, Walt Disney Family Museum|0 Comments
The Walt Disney Family Museum Unveils First Podcast
The first podcast from the Walt Disney Family Museum has been released. It includes the final interview with Diane Disney Miller, daughter of Walt Disney and founder of the Walt Disney Family Museum. It also features Disney legend and producer Don Hahn. The interview with Don Hahn is about the holiday film Christmas with Walt, which he produced for the Walt Disney Family Museum.
The Walt Disney Family Museum Podcast will be a monthly podcast that will continue to tell the story of Walt Disney. It will include interviews with Disney legends, imagineers, animators, filmmakers, and others who are connected with the Walt Disney story. It will also cover the events going on at the Walt Disney Family Museum.
The first podcast was first released on December 5, 2013. This would have been Walt Disney’s 112th birthday.
Here is the first episode of the Walt Disney Family Museum Podcast:
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PENFIELD CSD DATA
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(Data are lagged a year.)
Commissioner's Regulations require that certain expenditure ratios for general-education and special-education students be reported and compared with ratios for similar districts and all public schools. The required ratios for this district are reported below.
The numbers used to compute the statistics on this page were collected on the State Aid Form A, the State Aid Form F, the School District Annual Financial Report (ST-3), and from the Student Information Repository System (SIRS).
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The pupil count for Special Education is a count of K-12 students with disabilities for the school year plus students for whom the district receives tuition from another district plus students for whom the district pays tuition to another district. Students attending the State schools at Rome and Batavia, private placements and out-of-state placements are included.
Instructional Expenditures Per Pupil is the simple arithmetic ratio of Instructional Expenditures to Pupils. The total cost of instruction for students with disabilities may include both general- and special-education expenditures. Special-education services provided in the general-education classroom may benefit students not classified as having disabilities.
Total Expenditures Per Pupil
Total Expenditures Per Pupil is the simple arithmetic ratio of Total Expenditures to Pupils. Total Expenditures include district expenditures for classroom instruction, as well as expenditures for transportation, debt service, community service and district-wide administration that are not included in the Instructional Expenditure values for General Education and Special Education. As such, the sum of General Education and Special Education Instructional Expenditures does not equal the Total Expenditures.
Information about Students with Disabilities (2017 - 18)
Commissioner's Regulations require reporting students with disabilities by the percent of time they are in general education classrooms and the classification rate of students with disabilities. These data are to be compared with percentages for similar districts and all public schools. The required percentages for this district are reported below.
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The source data for the statistics in this table were reported through the Student Information Repository System (SIRS) and verified in Verification Report 5. The counts are numbers of students reported in the least restrictive environment categories for school-age programs (ages 6-21) on BEDS Day, which is the first Wednesday of the reporting year. The percentages represent the amount of time students with disabilities are in general-education classrooms, regardless of the amount and cost of special-education services they receive. Rounding of percentage values may cause them to sum to a number slightly different from 100%.
School-age Students with Disabilities Classification Rate
This rate is a ratio of the count of school-age students with disabilities (ages 4-21) to the total enrollment of all school-age students in the school district, including students who are parentally placed in nonpublic schools located in the school district. The numerator includes all school-age students for whom a district has Committee on Special Education (CSE) responsibility to ensure the provision of special-education services. The denominator includes all school-age students who reside in the district. In the case of parentally placed students in nonpublic schools, it includes the number of students who attend the nonpublic schools located in the school district. Source data are drawn from the SIRS and from the Basic Education Data System (BEDS).
Similar District Groups are identified according to the Need-to-Resource-Capacity Index. More information is available on our NRC capacity categories page.
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« Ebola survivor in DR Congo passes college exam taken in isolation | Main | Ebola: Ituri records nearly 200 deaths and 385 confirmed cases since the beginning of the epidemic (Provincial Minister of Health) »
The Ebola virus is winning in eastern DR Congo
Thanks to Mary Marshall for sending the link to this long article published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies: The Ebola Virus Is Winning in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The conclusion:
The outbreak is occurring in an area where the risk of cross-border and international spread is extremely high. Eastern DRC borders Rwanda, the most densely populated country in Africa; Uganda, which has already experienced a handful of cross-border cases successfully contained; and South Sudan, another active warzone lacking a functioning health system.
Yet the steadily expanding Ebola outbreak has not been exported cross-border in any significant numbers, a curious phenomenon for which there is no clear explanation. Nor has there been significant spread inside the DRC into Goma, a populous transport and trade hub on the Rwandan border. If there had been significant spread to Kinshasa; Goma; or neighboring urban centers in Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, or Burundi, far greater world attention would have been paid to what was happening in eastern DRC, including presumably how also to fix the insecurity and chaos.
Ebola also competes with other pressing health security demands. Ebola arrived in 2018 as other outbreaks unfolded in the east and across the vast reach of the DRC—malaria, diphtheria, cholera, and diarrhea. At the same time, the DRC’s longstanding, chronic humanitarian emergency has left over 12 million in need of humanitarian assistance.
Management Holes
A final critical barrier to success is weak management, implementation, and supervision of the response effort. There are poor lines of communication among the many players involved in the response. Public health data is housed in distinct databases, not shared with those who need it and not integrated to provide an overall picture. Standardization of and visibility into the response structure, protocols, and training are sorely lacking. International donors are increasingly frustrated with the lack of transparency. The coordination and communication fundamental to a unified and effective public health response are not yet in place.
Where Does This Leave Things?
The answer: far behind and in danger of further regression. The virus is winning and may continue to win. In the judgment of CDC experts, eastern DRC remains a long distance from the critical milestones that would signal transmission is being stopped and the outbreak ended. That sobering sentiment hung over the WHO declaration of a global health emergency on July 17, 2019, which reversed three previous emergency committee determinations that there was no emergency.
Previous hesitation reflected pressure from Kinshasa and neighboring capitals in Rwanda and Uganda, fearing disruptions of trade, transport, investment, and sovereign control. Awareness of mounting risks clearly informed the visits by several senior U.S. officials to the outbreak hot spots in the spring, their purpose to think through a “reset” in both U.S. approaches and broader multilateral strategies.
Ebola in eastern DRC is not going away anytime soon. Nor are the hard barriers to access rooted in insecurity and chaos and the companion barriers linked to DRC’s governance, major power indifference, an excess burden of health security challenges, and weak management.
The last year has delivered cutting, loud lessons. There are no ready-made solutions to fixing insecurity in eastern DRC or building lasting trust within communities. There does not appear to be any long-term strategy, articulated or advanced, that brings to the table much greater expertise outside public health: diplomacy, policing and mediation, intelligence, communications, and community trust and development. A narrow, overwhelmingly public health approach, even if it were implemented effectively, would still fall far short of what is required. Building the engagement of alienated communities and securing the ground require enhanced local knowledge and far more systematic outreach than has existed up to now.
If the seasoned teams of renowned U.S. Ebola experts cannot be deployed safely into the center of the fray at the earliest moment, the initiative is lost, critical public health interventions founder, and an enormous hidden price is paid. If management is not tightly coordinated and held accountable, there is waste, and that quickly becomes an excuse for donor inaction and excess caution, particularly given the DRC’s notorious brand of corruption.
We should press for immediate action in three areas.
The first is to provide answers to the basic question of what it is truly going to take to overcome the threats posed by the Mai Mai and the ADF, who is charged with fixing these threats, and how. Up to now, there have been no answers to these questions.
Second, a glaring high-level political vacuum remains to be filled. Guterres would benefit enormously from the active partnership of a small number of global opinion leaders committed to working with him to eliminate the security barriers and advance an adequately funded, integrated strategy.
Finally, the U.S. government should move ahead to reinstate its seasoned civilian Ebola experts to operate effectively and safely in the hot zone one year after withdrawing them. The benefits of having such a high-impact capability warrant assuming a higher risk tolerance and taking special measures. Beyond DRC, the frustrations and costly delays experienced in DRC are likely to be repeated elsewhere in the future in other austere, disordered settings.
In recognition of this problem, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security is calling for the establishment of a U.S. global health crises response corps, which would receive special training and support to operate safely and effectively in diverse insecure settings. With this enhanced capability, the U.S. government would be equipped to intervene early, in collaboration with international partners, to stop outbreaks at their source and to save lives.
September 13, 2019 at 09:24 PM in Ebola, International engagement, Politics and health, Response, Social disruption, Violence | Permalink
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‘Marjorie Prime’ Star Lois Smith On Taking Character From Stage To Screen – The Contenders London Video
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“I probably have never been as excited about a new play as I was when I read that,” veteran actress Lois Smith said of Marjorie Prime, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Jordan Harrison play on which Michael Almareyda’s film of the same name is based.
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Breaking out at Sundance, where the indie auteur won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, the film stars Smith as Marjorie, an elderly woman who has a holographic version of her younger husband (Jonn Hamm) created to keep her company. Prior to taking on Marjorie on the big screen, Smith had played the character in the theater, in New York and Los Angeles, getting the rare opportunity to cross mediums with a character.
Before an audience at BAFTA at Deadline’s inaugural The Contenders London event, Smith expressed her gratitude for the experience; the film, featuring supporting performances from Tim Robbins and Geena Davis, bowed in limited release in August.
'Marjorie Prime' Trailer: Jon Hamm Plays Lois Smith's Hologram Husband In Sundance Standout
“I feel so fortunate—first of all, to have been able to do it in the first play,” Smith told Deadline’s Joe Utichi. “But then, to have this really interesting journey, which is kind of once-in-a-lifetime. You don’t get to do this very often.”
While there was naturally a change in the material when Marjorie was adapted for screen, for Smith, the change was largely in the nature of the medium of film, and what it can communicate. “I don’t think the interpretation changed. I think what changed is the way she’s seen because it’s a film, and not a play,” Smith explained. “In the play, it took place in a single set, and Marjorie spent most of the time in a reclining chair. In the film, on the other end, it’s a house, an outside—an ocean, a beach—in and out of rooms and beds, et cetera.”
“That’s really fun,” she continued, “but it didn’t change the character I had come to know.”
To view more of Deadline’s conversation with Smith, click above.
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‘Saturday Night Live’ Navigates The Politics Of Christmas Dinner With Help From Kate McKinnon’s Greta Thunberg
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With Christmas right around the corner, Saturday Night Live made fun of those awkward political discussions many families will have to suffer through on December 25.
For this weekend’s cold open, the NBC sketch comedy series dissected how the conversation shifts in different parts of the country.
The sketch kicked off with Aidy Bryant saying the nation is “more divided than ever,” but families have more in common than they think. To prove her point, she hacked into three home cameras for a bird’s-eye view.
First up, a family dinner in San Francisco.
“I’m so happy that everyone flew here for the holidays and I’m even more happy that they did it! They’re impeaching Trump,” Cecily Strong said.
Her family agreed. “I don’t know what took them so long. Trump is a criminal!” added Kyle Mooney.
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“He violated the constitution,” Bowen Yang said. “There has to be consequences.”
A completely different scene played out in Charleston, South Carolina where a family of Trump supporters was steamed.
“Well, they did it. They’re impeaching Trump,” family patriarch Beck Bennett said. “I’m sorry, what crime did he even commit?”
“I guess the crime of being an alpha male who actually gets things done!” Heidi Gardner insisted.
Meanwhile in Atlanta, an African-American dad only wanted to talk movies and TV.
“Do y’all think Bad Boys III will be good or not?” Kenan Thompson asked his family. “I mean, it’s got to be good, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back together.”
His daughter, played by Ego Nwodim, suggested Martin Lawrence has lost his appeal, sparking an argument. Chris Redd then said he wanted to talk politics instead, because movies are too divisive.
“Oh you mean, Trump is definitely getting impeached, and then definitely getting re-elected?” Thompson said, before bringing up The Masked Singer.
They then cut back to the family in South Carolina and Beck Bennett saying, “Obama did way worse stuff than Trump ever did and they didn’t impeach him.”
The sketch moved on to the families discussing the current crop of Democratic contenders.
“You know who I’m starting to like a lot? That Pete Buttigieg,” Thompson said, prompting his family to crack up laughing.
The sketch ended with Bryant saying it really doesn’t matter what the three families think, because the election will be decided in Wisconsin. Then suddenly climate activist Greta Thunberg, played by Kate McKinnon, appeared with a scary Christmas message.
“The ice caps will melt and the elves will drown,” McKinnon warned. “So merry maybe our last Christmas to all, and Donald Trump step to me and I’ll come at you like a plastic straw comes at a turtle. I can’t believe I’m saying this to a 70-year-old man, but grow up.”
Marriage Story star Scarlett Johansson hosted this weekend, with Irish singer-songwriter Niall Horan serving as musical guest.
[Watch the full video above].
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Tag: Atlantic Records
Nipsey Hussle Ink a Partnership Deal With Atlantic Records
November 28, 2017 Azlyrics
Nipsey Hussle is on the verge of dropping his new project Victory Lap and now he is making some major moves.
But before that album arrives he is making some major label moves. The Crenshaw rapper signed a new partnership deal with Atlantic Records. Nipsey spoke about the details of the deal in an interview with Billboard. The partnership will encompass several albums including his upcoming debut Victory Lap. His own label All Money In will also take shelter under his new deal with Atlantic.
“It’s not about a fame ambition or getting a radio record,” Nipsey Hussle told Billboard. “The decision really came down to the message I’m trying to get across. I wanted to give that message the best chance to be heard and consumed on the highest level. That was my goal from the jump as All Money In took time to build its position in the hip-hop lane.”
Atlantic Records chairman/CEO Craig Kallman and chairman/COO Julie Greenwald released a statement praising the rapper for his work ethics and vision. “Nipsey is not only an extraordinary MC, but a true visionary and innovative entrepreneur,” the statement reads. “Over the past seven years, he has built an incredible brand that reflects his independent, non-traditional approach to what it means to be a creative artist in the modern music marketplace. We are thrilled and honored that he has chosen Atlantic as his label home.”
Nipsey Hussle recently made headlines for his split with his baby mama Lauren London. “[Lauren London] and I had a dope relationship and made a Beautiful child,” he wrote. “We are deciding to separate and raise our Son together as the main priority. This was A mutual choice and We will function with each-other as family w love and respect.”
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Nipsey was previously signed to Epic Records but parted ways with the label in 2010 to form his own imprint, All Money In. He said that he was inspired by rappers who started their own labels like JAY-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records. “Those labels started off as boutique operations, reached a boiling point in terms of cultural relevance and then partnered with a major to help take things to the next level,” Hussle said. “My vision is to build something like that. I really believe in Atlantic’s Julie Greenwald, Craig Kallman, [president of black music] Mike Kyser, and [senior VP of A&R] Dallas Martin. That’s their vision for All Money In as well. We’re not just taking a check and giving up all the credit for the work we’ve done to get here.”
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Gucci Mane New Album “El Gato” May Arrive By Year End
Gucci Mane drop his new album, Mr. Davis, in October and now he might drop his next project, El Gato, by the end of the year.
Gucci is known to drop a lot of project simultaneously so this move shouldn’t come as a surprise. About two weeks after dropping Mr. Davis, the Atlanta rapper announced his next album, El Gato: The Human Glacier, on Twitter. “I’m naming my next album #El Gato the #HumanGlacier I wanna make 10 mo million for my honeymoon #1017 #MrDavisTheAlbum,” he tweeted.
Sources around the production are saying that he is looking to drop the album before Christmas. “The album is coming possibly before Christmas and that’s a fact,” sources told us. “El Gato look out because it will be album of the year contender and some surprise guest will be on it. This will be a Christmas present for the fans.” Gucci Mane just renewed his contract with Atlantic Records for a whopping $10 million, so perhaps that was the $10 million he spoke of when he announced that album last month.
Gucci Mane has released 11 studio albums since 2005 and since his released from prison last year May he released four albums including a joint project with Metro Boomin, DropTopWop. Gucci has been laser focused on making his money this year and has even found a way to profit off his wedding by having it broadcast on BET live. Seems he also found a way to profit off his honeymoon.
I'm naming my next album #El Gato the #HumanGlacier I wanna make 10 mo million for my honeymoon #1017 #MrDavisTheAlbum
— Gucci Mane (@gucci1017) October 24, 2017
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Gucci Mane Gets $10 Million To Renew Atlantic Records Contract
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Gucci Mane continues to bank paper this year with a $10 million deal with Atlantic Records to renew his contract.
The Atlanta rapper probably have the most impressive year of all the rappers on the planet. Gucci Mane walked out of prison in May last year a brand new man and the newness shined bright for the rest of last year and intensified this year. His Jamaican wife Keyshia Ka’oir has also been getting a lot of praise for helping the rapper turn his life around. “Thank You @AtlanticRecords for the 10 million dollar extension #ELGATOTheHumanGlacier I appreciate It sincerely,” Guwop wrote on Twitter.
Since leaving prison, Gucci Mane has been laser focused on making his paper and this new $10 million deal with Atlantic Records is just the latest episode of his money making spree. Guwop and Ka’oir have even found a way to profit off their wedding which aired live on BET and now they are planning to make more dough off their honeymoon.Ka’oir also revealed recently during an interview that she made $30 million from her cosmetic and fitness line.
Gucci Mane has been known to release a ton of new music in a short space of time. His new album Mr. Davis was released on October 13th this year and now he is already working on his next project, El Gato The Human Glacier. He didn’t reveal a release date for that project but it will be the first album on his new deal with Atlantic. “I feel like I’m a brand new artist working on his 1st album #ELGATOTheHumanGlacier,” he tweeted. Gucci Mane has released two mixtapes and three albums since his release from prison which is roughly a year and a half ago. He is also featured on a number of singles from other artists and they have all been hits.
Thank You @AtlanticRecords for the 10 million dollar extension #ELGATOTheHumanGlacier
I appreciate It sincerely
— Gucci Mane (@gucci1017) November 8, 2017
I feel like I'm a brand new artist working on his 1st album #ELGATOTheHumanGlacier
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Rapper NBA YoungBoy Says He Is Going Back To High School
October 26, 2017 Azlyrics
NBA YoungBoy says he is heading to high school to get his diploma.
The rapper who is also known as YoungBoy Never Broke Again made the announcement in a video posted on Instagram on Wednesday (Oct. 25). The “Untouchable” rapper is currently one of the most promising new rappers in the game, but he dropped out of high school at the 9th grade so he could focus on his blossoming rap career. He was also arrested for a robbery incident that authorities say he was involved where he was sent to a detention center.
YoungBoy has since been trying to clean up his image and even signed a new deal with Atlantic Records. Seems the label has been pushing him to enroll back in school and now he has a chance to get his high school diploma. “They accepted me in public school,” the rapper said. He then revealed that he will be attending the Scotlandville Magnet High School in his hometown Baton Rouge, LA. Since breaking onto the rap scene this year with his mega hit “Untouchable,” YoungBoy Never Broke Again has been doing very well while building a name for himself in a crowded field. At age 17, he has also got some cosign from some seasoned veterans in the game.
#nbayoungboy going back to school!??
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Money Moves This How Cardi B Celebrates Her Billboard No. 1 Single
September 26, 2017 Azlyrics
“I don’t dance now I make money moves.” Cardi B is singing all the way to the bank after her breakout hit “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)” reached No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 this week.
Last week, Dancehallhiphop.com reported that Cardi B will overthrow Taylor Swift for the top spot on Billboard this week after “Bodak Yellow” shows strong sales over the past week. The former Love and Hip Hop New York star got the news from last week and posted a video of herself dancing. That was just the beginning of the celebration because her label Atlantic Records threw her a surprise party with some of her family and friends turning up.
“Thank you everybody I am very happy and I am very honored,” she said. “Especially since my family is here you know like at first I kept asking and I keep coming to the label like why is my sh*t not playing on the radio I do not understand whats going on and then they just be like you gotta keep working hard to get the record that big record. I said am going to do it am going to give you that record… And then it was just like when it hits the Billboard, you know I don’t know how this music industry work, but then am like everybody listening to this song. If it’s not on the Billboard then it really doesn’t matter.”
Atlantic Records reps said that Cardi B is one of the hardest working rappers in the business. She was also presented with her plagues for the achievement. This week Bardi also created history when she became the first female rapper since Lauryn Hill did it in the 1990s to have a lead number one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She did it even before Nicki Minaj who scored No. 2 singles as lead but never reached number one.
“THANK YOU THANK THANK YOU ,I haven’t even showered son with all the running around I loveee you all each and everybody contributed for this .Ya made it happen for me !!!!! The number 1 WAY!!” Cardi B said on IG.
#cardib turning up. Her single "bodak yellow" bout to be #1 on the charts. Is she having the best year out of all the female rappers??
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#cardib at Atlantic records for the celebration of "bodak yellow" reaching #1 on the billboard hot 100
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Cardi B Gets First Solo Billboard No. 1 Song Since Lauryn Hill As A Female Rapper
Cardi B creates hip hop history this week when she becomes the first female rapper since Lauryn Hill to score a solo Billboard number one single.
Cardi’s breakout hit “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)” is currently No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 and she is dancing all the way to the bank because the track is the number one seller on digital media over the past week. Lauryn Hill scored a Billboard Hot 100 number one single as a solo act with “Doo Wop (That Thing)” on November 14, 1998. The song lead the chart for two weeks and helped cemented Hill as one of the greatest emcees of all time.
Other female rappers have achieved number one singles since Hill, but not as a solo artist. In 2001, Lil Kim earned a number one hit as part of the single “Lady Marmalade” with Mya, Pink, and Christina Aguilera. Female rapper Shawnna gets a number one in 2003 by being a guest on Ludacris hit single “Stand Up.” Iggy Azalea gets her first number one single when “Fancy” topped the chart in 2014, but she had help from Charli XCX. That track topped the chart for seven consecutive weeks. Nicki Minaj has yet to score her first Billboard Hot 100 number one single. She has several top ten songs and is the female artists with the most entries to the chart in history.
Cardi B also creates history by becoming the first female rapper to top the chart with their debut single. While Cardi B has released mixtapes before “Bodak Yellow” becomes a mega hit, that was the first time she ever scored a Billboard hit.
Atlantic Records threw a grand party for Cardi B to celebrate the occasion and presented her with her plaque. “Thank you everybody I am very happy and I am very honored,” she said. “Especially since my family is here you know like at first I kept asking and I keep coming to the label like why is my sh*t not playing on the radio I do not understand whats going on and then they just be like you gotta keep working hard to get the record that big record. I said am going to do it am going to give you that record.”
Nicki Minaj congratulate Cardi on her success on Twitter saying, “Congratulations to a fellow NEW YAWKA on a RECORD BREAKING achievement. Bardi, this is the only thing that matters!!! Enjoy it??? @iamcardib”
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Every review of The Thin Red Line that you read is likely to note that Terrence Malick, the Thomas Pynchon of American cinema, has been on a sabbatical from filmmaking for two decades, since Days of Heaven in 1978. Rightly so — that’s a crucial bit of information for you to have as you settle into that theater seat. Once the lights go down, you’re in Malick’s world. It’s as though the last 20 years of Hollywood filmmaking never happened.
The Thin Red Line may not be sui generis, but it is more or less without precedent in recent history. The obvious reference point is 1979’s Apocalypse Now, which shares The Thin Red Line‘s distended narrative style as well as Malick’s penchant for lustrous images emerging from an ink-black cinema screen. Both pictures are war movies for which the setting of a real war is largely incidental to the psychological implications of participating in war. They’re about states of mind, about the impact of mad violence on the psyche, and about a man’s capacity for poetic feeling even in a time of war.
In the first reel of The Thin Red Line, Malick sets up his ground rules, and what’s amazing is how effortlessly he plays the game. The dominant device is the interior monologue, and Malick shuffles it from soldier to soldier at regular intervals. These rhapsodies in voiceover (“How did we lose the good that was given us?”) irritate viewers who find it downright irrational that soldiers under pressure would be so damn delicate, but the difference between (to make the obvious comparison) Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line is the difference between a film that strives for realism and one that investigates impressionism.
I don’t mean to shortchange the storytelling craft on display here, which is astounding. The film’s centerpiece is an hour-long skirmish in the battles of Guadalcanal, in which Charlie Company takes an enemy encampment atop a grassy hill. Racked with tension, dread, and agonizing detail, it ranks with the Normandy sequence from Saving Private Ryan as a showcase intersection of cinematic art with moviemaking technology. Things really shift into gear when the camera comes unmoored, gliding easily above the blades of tall grass. As the American soldiers creep forward, it remains jarring when the screen explodes in gunfire and shrapnel.
Malick and cinematographer John Toll shoot this in a way that makes us feel trapped with the soldiers, singleminded in a mission that identifies only an enemy to be overcome. So when he starts cutting in little POV shots from inside the enemy bunker, behind the machine guns, it’s unnerving. And when those enemy soldiers start running into frame, their bodies jerking and flailing as they’re shot down by our American protagonists, it’s downright terrifying. Through all of this, the camera keeps pushing forward, finally tracking slowly through a ramshackle camp full of wounded, forlorn Japanese soldiers. It may be that we’re meant to see them, the losers in the battle, as pathetic doppelgangers of the Americans.
The film comes unglued at about the two-hour mark, allowing its elusive narrative center to drift and dissipate. Still, even that last section is riddled with beautiful images and tiny epiphanies. It was the film’s presence and immediacy that startled me time and again — for most of the film, Malick did the damnedest job of putting me there in the tall grass, asking myself what it all meant and trading words with the philospher inside. For all its skill in evoking a time and place far removed from any viewer’s everyday experience, The Thin Red Line takes place inside your head.
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Pakistan tells US anti-terror operations have been run ‘largely from own resources’
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Tahir Khan | Published — Saturday 6 January 2018
Pakistan says US military aid suspension ‘counterproductive’
ISLAMABAD: Hours after the US suspended almost all security assistance to Pakistan, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday that Pakistan has fought the war against terrorism “largely from its own resources.”
US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert announced on Thursday that America was suspending the transfer of military equipment and security-related funds to Pakistan. The Foreign Ministry in Islamabad is awaiting further details from the US administration.
“The impact of the US decision on the pursuit of common objectives is likely to emerge more clearly over time,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “However, it needs to be appreciated that Pakistan has fought the war against terrorism largely from its own resources, spending over $120 billion in 15 years.”
US President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze aid to Pakistan could affect almost $2 billion worth of assistance, an AFP report quoted a senior administration official as saying on Friday.
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said on Tuesday that Washington would withhold $255 million in assistance to Pakistan from the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) fund, which is used to provide military equipment and training to friendly countries.
“Arbitrary deadlines, unilateral pronouncements and shifting goalposts are counterproductive in addressing common threats,” the Pakistani statement said, adding that Pakistan believes its cooperation with the US in fighting terrorism has directly served US national security interests as well as the larger interests of international community.
The statement stressed that “(Pakistan) has helped decimate Al-Qaeda and fight other groups” who posed “a common threat to peace.” The country cleared areas through a “series of major counterterrorism operations” which successfully led to the “elimination of an organized terrorist presence.”
US leaders claim that Pakistan has failed to take action against the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network, who are blamed for attacks on US and Afghan forces inside Afghanistan.
As the US increases pressure on Pakistan after Trump’s Tweet last week, experts in Pakistan claim that Washington is trying to shift blame for America’s failure in Afghanistan.
Senate Defense Committee Chairman Mushahid Hussain Sayed believes Trump’s “rhetoric” will have no major impact on Pakistan.
“The US is unable to extract itself from a quagmire in Afghanistan,” he told Arab News. “It’s the longes unwinnable war in American history, so scapegoating Pakistan to cover up the Pentagon’s failures suits the American establishment.
“There is no panic, rather a carefully calibrated response to the raving and ranting of a mercurial leader of a declining super power. However, no one in the Pakistani system will blink in the face of such rhetoric. Dialogue and defiance will go together, because Pakistan is now well-positioned in the region, with greater strategic space than there was following 9/11.”
According to former Ambassador Ayaz Wazir, playing the “blame game” will not solve anything and that the time is ripe for the US to pay attention to a political solution to the Afghan conflict.
“President Trump is on record saying that 22 militant groups are operating in Afghanistan, a country where his forces are based. Has he cleaned Afghanistan of that menace? It’s easier to blame others than to see one’s own faults,” he told Arab News.
However, retired Brig. Said Nazir Mohmand does not rule out “surgical strikes” in Pakistan’s tribal regions and an increase in drone strikes.
“Anything has to be expected (of Trump),” he said. “The US could opt for surgical strikes, but any such action will destabilize the region and force Pakistan to join the other camp.”
'Pakistan fighting war on terror with its own resources'
Dance, Jul 13, 2011, in forum: Pakistan's Internal Security
The War on Terror should have been on Pakistan, not Afghanistan
narcon, Nov 24, 2014, in forum: Central & South Asia
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11 active terror mails in Kashmir Valley run from Pakistan: US
SRP, Jul 30, 2015, in forum: Indian Defence Forum
Anees, Jul 31, 2015, in forum: World Affairs
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Delegitimise All Terror Groups Operating On Your Soil: US Tells Pakistan
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By Ruth Hayhurst on December 19, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )
Angus Energy site at Brockham, Surrey, on 16 December 2018. Photo: Brockham Protectors
Angus Energy announced this morning it had begun its testing programme on a controversial oil well at Brockham in Surrey. But local people have been asking questions about whether the company has met all the conditions of its environmental permit.
The Environment Agency (EA) issued an updated permit for the site last month, in advance of tests to assess oil flow from the well. This was drilled – in Surrey County Council’s view – without planning consent.
The permit included pre-conditions that had to be met before work could begin. The conditions including: requirements for a gas management plan, site improvements and monitoring arrangements; restrictions on the use of acid; and prevention of water reinjection.
The EA dropped its usual public consultation on the proposed permit because testing was imminent. But it promised to tell a residents’ group when the pre-conditions had been met.
So far, the group, Brockham Oil Watch, has said it has heard nothing. The EA is treating the group’s questions, sent earlier this month, as a Freedom of Information request. This means there is no obligation on the EA to respond sooner than 20 working days.
DrillOrDrop asked the EA whether the pre-conditions had been met and invited it to respond to the group’s concerns about the handing of its questions.
The EA said this afternoon it would be issuing a briefing tomorrow (Thursday 20 December 2018). Asked about the form and distribution of the briefing and, again, whether the pre-conditions had been met, an EA spokesperson said:
“That is all I have”.
Angus Energy said in a statement to investors this morning it had “commenced its previously announced commercial flow test programme at the Brockham Oil Field.”
The flow test will assess the Kimmeridge layers of the BR-X4Z well at Brockham. The company said the test programme would break for a fortnight over Christmas, starting on 23 December 2018. An analytical update would be issued in due course, Angus said.
Brockham Oil Watch said today:
“We have a confirmation that the flow test started, but no confirmation that the pre-operational condition was satisfied and no details of an approved gas management plan.
“Why are the conditions of the new EA permit not being enforced?
“Angus have an appalling track record at Brockham and other sites. They have committed numerous breaches, misled the public and the regulators, playing them off against each other time and again. This should not be tolerated.”
Angus chairman, Paul Vonk, talked about the Brockham flow test during an interview in October:
“We are finalising the contracts with service providers and the details are being set out. We’re looking to switch that on literally in the next couple of weeks – definitely before Christmas and then we’ll be in production.”
Shares in Angus fell sharply on today’s news and closed on the day down more than 14% at 11.02p.
This morning, some online comments by investors drew attention to the wording of the statement. They distinguished between the start of the “programme”, used in the statement, and actually “testing”.
DrillOrDrop invited Angus Energy to comment on the statement. This article will be updated with any response.
Local concerns
Equipment began arriving at the Brockham site earlier this month, beginning with the flare stack on 6 December.
This prompted Brockham Oil Watch to contact the EA with questions about the permit pre-conditions.
When the group received no answers, it turned to local councillors, appealing to them to press the EA for more information and for an unannounced visit to the Brockham site.
Brockham Oil Watch told DrillOrDrop earlier this week:
“We are surprised with the work progressing so quickly after the announcement of the modern EA permit 26 Nov. This permit has a number of conditions including the requirement for a gas management plan that must be agreed prior to production from the Kimmeridge layers via the new well (BRX4Z). As far as we’re aware, the conditions have not yet been satisfied.
“The last update we had from the EA was on 7 Dec. The enclosed CAR dated 29 Nov shows that the EA are raising a number of issues with regards to the gas management plan. It also shows that Angus have not yet removed the link between the injection pump and the reinjection well on the site plan, even though reinjection is banned under the new permit.
“Angus Energy are pressing ahead with the appraisal work, possibly in breach of the new environmental permit. They may well also be pressuring the EA to work to their schedule and rushing through approvals. We have asked multiple questions of the EA since 7 Dec due to the activity on site, but were told that, due to a small number of staff, these would be answered as FOI requests, so taking 20 working days or more. (By then, the workover might be completed and any damage would have been done.)
“The EA prides itself on transparency and maintaining strong and meaningful links with the local community in order to benefit from local support and local knowledge. It is therefore unacceptable for the EA to be introducing delays in information disclosure by treating them as FOI requests. Such delays run the potential risk of failure to prevent permit breaches. We expect the EA to provide information in a timely and transparent way.”
Brockham Oil Watch said Angus Energy was required to establish a community liaison group as part of permission for a seven-day well test at another oil site at Balcombe, in West Sussex.
“The community liaison group includes regulators, police, councillors and representatives of local community.
“At Brockham, where Angus have permission for 3 years of extraction, including multiple workovers, there is no liaison group and little transparency, leaving the community in the dark. A representative of Angus Energy met with three parish councillors in late October and offered the next meeting in 6 months’ time.”
Updated: Investor comment
An investor in Brockham, the exploration company Doriemus, said in a statement (20/12/2018):
“We are pleased that the long-term flow testing of the Kimmeridge layers has now
finally commenced at Brockham. This work has been a long time coming.
“There is now obviously a great deal of local and UK attention on the visible activities
associated with work on site at Brockham, and Doriemus sees it as totally prudent
that the Operator publicly flag its intention to temporarily stop flow testing over the
Christmas and New Year break. An unannounced lack of activity at Brockham over
this holiday period may indeed cause unnecessary concerns as to the programme
underway.”
Updated 20/12/2018 with Doriemus comment
Tagged as: Angus Energy, Brockham, Brockham Oil Watch, Environment Agency, flare, flow, Freedom of Information, investors, permit, pre-conditions, programme, question, statement, test
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Get over it. It is a bloody oil plot, they do exist on this planet, where oil can be found.
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It sits just 25 miles north of Charlotte and right along the western shores of Lake Norman, offering its residents a perfect balance of work opportunities and water adventure. The town is known as much for its NASCAR and big business connections as its beautiful scenery. Welcome to Mooresville.
Interstate 77 runs right through Mooresville, making it convenient for commuters who work in Charlotte and other nearby cities. The number of new homes in the area is just one indication of how quickly the area is expanding, but even with the new growth, Mooresville is still something of a laid-back lake town. If you prefer something a little more fast-paced, however, you might like to know that over 60 NASCAR teams and businesses make their home in Mooresville. For this reason, the town has earned the nickname “Race City, USA.”
Mooresville’s roots date back to the mid-1700s when prominent English, Scot-Irish, and German families moved to the area from Virginia, Pennsylvania, and other parts of North Carolina. They sought fertile farmland and found it. A century later, the area was home to numerous cotton plantations, some of which still stand today. Just before the Civil War, a farmer named John Franklin Moore helped turn the area into a prosperous railroad town called Moore’s Siding. Before his death, Moore incorporated the town of Mooresville in 1873, and the area has grown ever since.
Some of NASCAR’s top drivers call Mooresville their home base. They include Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Kyle Busch, and Jeff Gordon.
Racing isn’t the only big business in town. Mooresville is also the corporate headquarters for Lowe’s Home Improvement stores.
In 2014, the credit card comparison website Credit Donkey named Mooresville as the best place to live in North Carolina. Low crime rates, short commute times, income, and the number of restaurants in the area played a role in the rankings.
Mooresville once had its own minor league baseball team. The Mooresville Moors were popular in the years leading up to World War II.
The town sits right on Lake Norman, the state’s largest man-made lake. It takes up 32,510 acres and is 33.6 miles long and 9 miles wide.
Most people who visit Mooresville do so to experience the local racing culture, and the racing-oriented attractions do not disappoint. But it’s not all about NASCAR. Golf, shopping, history, and fun on Lake Norman are a few of the reasons why residents love this family-friendly town. For those who like to dine out, Mooresville is home to dozens of restaurants, ranging from casual, downhome barbecue joints to upscale steakhouses and international cuisine.
Epic Chophouse – Located on South Main Street in the heart of Mooresville’s historic downtown area, Epic Chophouse is one of the area’s most popular steakhouses. Residents flock to the dining establishment to enjoy its steak, seafood, and wine menu.
Carolina Ribs on the Run – You can’t live in North Carolina without dining on barbecue and ribs, and one of Mooresville’s favorite restaurants is Carolina Ribs on the Rub on River Street. The casual eatery offers dishes like wings, pulled pork sandwiches, and, of course, ribs.
Caruso’s – For fine dining, locals love to have dinner at the Italian hotspot Caruso’s. As if the classy atmosphere wasn’t enough reason for residents to fall in love with the restaurant, its menu features freshly made authentic cuisine.
Blu Star Grill – Every town needs its own burger joint, and Blu Star Grill on Marketplace Avenue is that and more. Build your own burger made from seven protein options and all-natural ingredients. Vegetarian and gluten-free dishes are also available.
Joe Fish Casual Seafood – Moorseville may be a 5-hour drive from the Outer Banks, but that doesn’t mean residents can’t experience delicious seafood any time they get a craving. The chef promises to bring his New England seafood experience to North Carolina and does not disappoint. The restaurant is located on River Highway.
Iredell County Area Transportation System – The Iredell County Area Transportation System or ICATS, along with the town of Mooresville, provides a van shuttle that runs weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The wheelchair-accessible van makes stops at places like Mitchell Community College, the Mooresville Library, Target, Best Buy, and Walmart.
Airports – Several large and small private and commercial airports are located within 7 to 35 miles of Mooresville. These range from the small Lake Norman Airpark to Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
Consumer Square – Consumer Square is a large shopping center with several recognizable stores and restaurants. Some of them include Walmart, Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell. It also has its own movie theater.
Mooresville Crossing – Mooresville Crossing is another large shopping center with the restaurants and stores people have come to expect from suburban towns. Some of these include Staples, Petco, Chili’s, Red Robin, Best Buy, Old Navy, and CVS.
Downtown Mooresville – For shoppers who prefer independent boutiques and unique merchandise, Downtown Mooresville is a perfect place to spend an afternoon. Visit a few antique stores and art galleries before having lunch at a local favorite like The Daily Grind or Pie in the Sky Pizza, Inc.
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Lake Norman State Park – Lake Normal State Park provides plenty of family fun in the great outdoors. Rent a boat, catch a fish, take a swim, or simply hike the 12 miles of nature trails.
North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame – You cannot visit or live in Mooresville without checking out the racing culture. The North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame is the place to start. It features dozens of displays, including 35 race cars, and its own theater.
Lazy Five Ranch – Lazy 5 Ranch is a must for families. Drive through the park in your own car or rent a horse-drawn carriage, and get up close and personal with hundreds of animals, like giraffes, zebras, and rhinos. You can even pet and feed the animals.
Mallard Head Golf Course – Imagine a relaxing round of golf while looking out at the tranquil waters of Lake Norman. Mallard Head Golf Course sits right along the shore and is 6,904 yards of world-class golf.
GoPro Motorplex – At GoPro Motorplex, it is your turn to get behind the wheel. Kart racers of all levels can rent a kart that tops out at 55 miles per hour and race it around a world-class track that is based on the Kartdromo Parma in Italy.
While Mooresville has deep historic roots, it is home to plenty of new construction, ranging from multi-million-dollar mansions to classic one-story ranch-style homes. Because of its location on Lake Norman, waterfront homes are popular in the area. Some condos and townhomes are also available.
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Tag: Joey Beltram
Is it Wednesday again already? Where did that week go?
Right, we’ve got the biggest number of suggestions to get through that we’ve ever had this week, and that’s without any from a couple of regular Chain Gangers, so there’s no time for pleasantries this week, bar a courteous “Hello!” (Also, I’m feeling a little under the weather today, so please excuse me if there are less attempts at jokes than usual this week…)
Still, the show must go on, and all that.
We signed off last week with “The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead” by XTC, inviting your usual wide-ranging nominations for tunes that link to it, and I can’t think of a batter way to kick things off this week than with one of The Beard’s suggestions:
“The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead was released in 1992. Also released in 1992 was the album Connected by Stereo MCs. That year they supported Happy Mondays on their Yes Please! tour. Yes Please! is a genuinely appalling album and one that appeared to mark the end of Shaun Ryder as a lyricist and a poet comparable to Yeats (in the mind of Anthony H. Wilson, anyway). That was until he came back with Black Grape and the single Reverend Black Grape a few years later.”
Black Grape – Reverend Black Grape
“My first thought was that the XTC sleeve looked familiar, but I know that I didn’t buy ‘Peter Pumpkinhead’ as a single, only acquiring later on a compilation. A quick look through the vinyl singles revealed another XTC sleeve in that style for The Disappointed, which I presume was on the same album [it was, on “Nonsuch”]. This immediately brought to mind a couple of other singles I possess called Disappointed – one by Public Image Limited…”
Public Image Ltd. – Disappointed
“…and the other by Electronic.”
Electronic – Disappointed (Single Mix)
There’s also this, not a single, granted, but a B-Side of the 12″ of his second solo single, back when he was still good, and this containing one of my favourite self-deprecating couplets:
“This is the last song I will ever sing (Crowd noise: ‘Hooray!!’)
No, I’ve changed my mind again (Crowd Noise: “Awww…’)”
Morrissey – Disappointed
Which leads us rather nicely on to the first suggestion from Badger of When You Can’t Remember Anything:
“Spud in ‘Bob the Builder’ famously is a scarecrow who has a pumpkin for a head. This brings us nicely to the Bob the Builder theme tune.”
Bob the Builder – Can We Fix It?
Now, when I say the Morrissey song leads us nicely to Bob the Builder, it’s because Bob is of course voiced by actor Neil Morrissey, and not because anyone other than the aforementioned Spud has a head shaped like a pumpkin.
But whilst we’re still in Morrissey territory, here’s The Robster from Is This The Life?:
“Frank Sidebottom didn’t have a pumpkinhead, but it was the size of a pumpkin. His cover of Panic is always worth a spin, but as it’s that time of year, you may want to consider something from the Christmas Is Really Fantastic EP which came out 30 whole years ago! Blimey…”
Panic fits where we are at the moment, I think:
The Sidebottoms – Panic
By the way, apologies for the absolute bobbins way that mp3 ends; I didn’t notice until earlier today that it cuts out mid-conversation between Frank and Little Frank, and, erm, frankly I haven’t had time to re-edit it.
Anyway, we seem to be in the middle of some pumpkin related shenanigans, so here to add to the mix is a couple of suggestions from SWC, also of When You Can’t Remember Anything:
“If you need a Pumpkin reference [as it happens, I thought we would, but we’ve done alright, ta!], then we could go towards ‘Pumpkin’ by Tricky…”
Tricky – Pumpkin
“…or perhaps,” SWC continues, “down the Smashing Pumpkins route and have some ‘Today’….”
The Smashing Pumpkins – Today
And here’s another. Remember Kate Nash? You know, her with that really annoying voice that sounded like she was affecting an Essex accent, had a massive hit with “Foundations” a few years back? Yeh, you do. Well, anyway, here’s one of her follow-up singles:
Kate Nash – Pumpkin Soup
I have no idea why that song is so named. I can’t help but suspect it’s one of those “Yesterday/Scrambled Eggs” scenarios, except she didn’t bother changing it.
Time for a big Chain Gang welcome to a new (I think…) contributor, and here with a couple of belters is Julian, the first of which is a double-linker, since it mentions not only pumpkins but also ballads:
“Murder Ballads by Nick Cave & The Bad Seedshas the song The Curse Of Millhaven, a line in which refers to two dog killers as ‘Stinky Bohoon and his friend with the pumpkin sized head’…”
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Curse Of Millhaven
I’m surprised there hasn’t been more suggestions for songs from this album linking to the Ballad theme, to be honest, but now we’re here, you may as well have another bash Julian:
“Also on the album was a great take on ‘Stagger Lee’ which leads one to The Clash with ‘Wrong ‘Em Boyo’, yet an other take on ‘Stack ‘o’ Lee’.”
The Clash – Wrong ‘Em Boyo
Sorry, George, I had no idea he was going to do that, honest….
Anyway, since we seemed to have strayed into Ballad territory, we may as well have some more. Welcome, then, Charity Chic from Charity Chic Music:
“I shall redeem myself with my second thought – ‘The Ballad of El Goodo’ by Big Star.”
Yes, I know I haven’t posted his first suggestion yet, do I need to post the whole Dr Who, Timey-Wimey clip again? I’ll get to it. Besides, this now adds a whole element as to whether or not CC’s second suggestion really is going to be better than his first, don’t ya think?
Big Star – The Ballad of el Goodo
Over to Rol of My Top Ten fame next:
“I remembered My Top Ten Ballads Of… which I did ages ago (I can’t be bothered looking for a link, I’m not after a cheap plug this week!) Ahead of the aforementioned Peter Pumpkinhead [and another one which will be along in a minute or two] was ‘The Ballad of Barry Allen’ by Jim’s Big Ego, which is about the fleet-footed superhero The Flash and, curiously enough, written and performed by Jim Infantino, the nephew of comic book artist Carmine Infantino who used to draw said superhero quite a lot back in the comics I read when I was a younger, more affluent person.”
Jim’s Big Ego – The Ballad of Barry Allen
Over to Alyson from What’s It All About, Alfie?:
“I tend to submit only one suggestion per week as realise you must be pretty overloaded nowadays [yeh, a little, but I’ll survive!] …but three that came to mind immediately – if any of them seem worthy of including, or have a gag in them, take your pick.”
This, then was the third: “…Marianne Faithful, who tends to be remembered less for her music as for “other things” but there you go”:
Marianne Faithfull – The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan
Gags? I have no idea what you mean. Nor do I have any idea what those “other things are” that you refer to.
Oh, I see.
Moving swiftly on, here’s Martin from New Amusements, back for his second week of Chain Gangery:
“My first reaction was to pick up on the ballad, and go with ‘The Ballad of Tom Jones’, by Space and Cerys Matthews. However, much as I sometimes love Cerys, I felt determined to come up with a better song than this….”
You will, Martin, you will. But in the meantime:
Space with Cerys Matthews – The Ballad Of Tom Jones
Back over to Rol, who’s still banging on about the Ballad Top 10 he did over at his place, but which he definitely isn’t after a cheap plug for, nosireebob. (It’s right here if you want to have a look. Needless to say, there’s some belters)
“At #2 was Martin’s Tom Jones.
But #1…
#1 was something really rather special.
‘The Ballad of the Kingsmen’ by Todd Snider. It’s Louie Louie-tastic.”
Todd Snider – The Ballad of the Kingsmen
Remember earlier I edited Rol’s suggestion so as not to spoil a forthcoming “Ballad” link? Well, here’s the song in question, as suggested by babylotti:
“‘The Ballad of’ leads me immediately to The Bloodhound Gang’s ‘The Ballad of Chasey Lain’.”
The Bloodhound Gang – The Ballad Of Chasey Lain
babylotti continues: “The video (apart from having several ladies in a state of undress) is one of those ones which stops the song halfway through, which leads me onto my next suggestion, the magnificent Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order (You’re a real ‘up’ person..) surely the best song they ever wrote?”
I’m not arguing.
babylotti is right, The Bloodhound Gang video does stop halfway through (as their bass player wanders off stage, his eye caught by one of these ladies). I have watched it, so that you don’t have to, just to check the link is valid. You know, purely for research purposes. Seven times.
In case you’re not sure what babylotti is talking about re:Bizarre Love Triangle, this from wiki:
“The music video, which was released in November 1986, was directed by American artist Robert Longo. It prominently featured shots of a man and a woman in business suits flying through the air as though propelled by trampolines; this is based directly on Longo’s “Men in the Cities” series of lithographs. The video also features a black and white cut-scene where Jodi Long and E. Max Frye are arguing about reincarnation, in which Long emphatically declares “I don’t believe in reincarnation because I refuse to come back as a bug or as a rabbit!” Frye responds, “You know, you’re a real ‘up’ person,” before the song resumes.”
Probably easier if I just post the video, really:
Oh, and the song too:
New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
Some of you, and I won’t be asking for a show of hands, will perhaps not be familiar with Chasey Lain, so I’ll let babylotti wrap things up, as he seems to know who she is:
“My last suggestion, as Chasey Lain is a porn star, I would like to suggest another porn star who went on to make a record (no, not Paris Hilton, though surely that would have made worst single of the week….), ‘Fallen Angel’ by Traci Lords”
Traci Lords – Fallen Angel
Now, I know what song I would go to next, and thankfully, Rol knows it too:
“The link to Traci Lords…made me think of ‘Little Baby Nothing’ by the Manics which features Traci on guest vocals and also deals with the exploitation of women by the porn industry.”
Manic Street Preachers – Little Baby Nothing
Now, a few moments ago, babylotti made reference to the Worst Record of the Week, and surprisingly, in a week where we’ve already mentioned Bob the Builder, there were very few of these this week. Few, but not none.
Step forwards SWC:
“The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead takes us to A recent poll in a magazine in which ‘More Than Words’ by impossibly awful hair bear band Xtreme was voted as the ‘worst ballad of all time’. This was a song that was my sisters first dance at her wedding and a song on a cassette that I once reversed my car over around 19 times.”
A small admin point here: I’m taking the link to be bands whose names start with an X? In which case, sorry to break the news, but they were called Extreme, not Xtreme. But, under the weather as I may be, Spurs have just managed to finally win a game in the Champions League (better late than never, eh?), so I’m feeling magnanimous and I’ll let it slide this time:
Extreme – More Than Words
Actually, there’s another reason I’m posting that; remember that annoying ex-flatmate I mentioned last week? Genuinely, that was one of his favourite records.
Okay, time for a shift, or a time shift, maybe. Here’s Alex G from We Will Have Salad (I’m going to keep linking to your blog until you start writing stuff again by the way):
“From Wiltshire’s second most popular rock group to its first: “Stonehenge” by Spinal Tap, please.”
Spinal Tap – Stonehenge
Of course, it’d be sacrilege for me to post that and not also post this:
And whilst we’re on out-dated sounding bands from the 70s, here’s a suggestion from George:
“Right. Worst record of the week. Here goes. Also from Swindon was Diana Dors, who was married to Alan Lake, leading to Emerson Lake and Palmer and a record I bought for a pound (and was described to me in the record shop as a terrible record, and they were right) Pictures At An Exhibition, and side 1 track 2 The Gnome. Complete and utter tripe.”
Emerson Lake & Palmer – The Gnome
He’s got a point, hasn’t he, readers?
Okay, where next? We haven’t had any Peter links yet, have we? Let’s sort that out.
Selection number two from Alyson:
The Art of Noise feat. Duane Eddy – Peter Gunn
Back to George next:
“I suggest The Shock Headed Peters and ‘I, Blood Brother Be’. Swiss Adam is a fan of that song too, he posted it once. The six and a half minute version please.”
No. Have the six minutes forty two second version instead:
Shock Headed Peters – I, Bloodbrother Be (£4,000 Love Letter)
Over to Kuttowski from A Few Good Times in My Life. As you will see shortly – and this is my introducing yet another element of suspense – I have had to disqualify his first suggestion. Until the moment of that big reveal, though:
“Far back in time, when punk ruled my life for a bit I was addicted to Peter and the Test Tube Babies. Fast, mean and straight was the main things they gave me at these times. So I would like to suggest their ‘Banned From The Pubs’.”
Peter and The Test Tube Babies – Banned From the Pubs
I’m not surprised they were banned from pubs. Test Tube Babies are way under age, even if they are accompanied by a consenting adult.
Time to head over to Muso Corner and see what some of our regulars have rustled up for us this week.
Here’s Martin again: “Andy Partridge of XTC was originally going to produce Blur’s ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’ but, at the label’s insistence, was subbed, and Stephen Street was drafted in like an indie supply teacher. Cue career-redefining album and the salvation of the band. All of which is my excuse for pitching Colin Zeal by Blur, from ‘Modern Life’ …”
Well pitched sir. You’ll be on the creative team on The Apprentice in no time!
Blur – Colin Zeal
And joining Martin in Muso Corner this week, it’s The Swede from Unthought of, though, somehow:
“‘Peter Pumpkinhead’ was produced by the late Gus Dudgeon, most famous for twiddling the knobs on many of Sir Reginald of Pinner’s greatest hits, though also among his credits are two albums by The Bonzo Dog Band (post Doo-Dah). From the second of these, ‘Tadpoles’, I’d like to suggest ‘Canyons of Your Mind’.”
Bonzo Dog Band – Canyons of Your Mind
“(There’s a rather splendid TV performance of the song on YouTube if you’re looking for a video to post this week.)” The Swede rather helpfully suggests. Well, I wasn’t, but since I think the clip you’re referring to is actually where I know the song from, it would be churlish of me not to:
Back now to SWC, with “a proper suggestion”. And when he says, “a proper suggestion” he means “a proper suggestion”:
“If I remember this song correctly it had a dodgy reference in it to crucifixion – something about being nailed to a chunk of wood…?”
You do remember correctly; in fact it goes:
“Peter Pumpkinhead was too good
Had him nailed to a chunk of wood
He died grinning on live TV
Hanging there he looked a lot like you
And an awful lot like me!”
“So the obvious link to that is ‘Reverence’ by the Jesus and Mary Chain.”
The Jesus & Mary Chain – Reverence
“I’m only hoping,” winds up SWC, “that the real link is nothing to do with Crash Test Dummies.”
I’m not sure I understand that reference. Still, with a bit of luck, someone will explain it to me soon enough.
Here’s Alex G again:
“‘The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead’ was later a minor hit for Crash Test Dummies via the soundtrack of ‘Dumb and Dumber’ [Oh, I see! Thanks!]. So going with the link of “original recordings of songs subjected to ‘quirky’ cover versions on the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack”, I would like to suggest “Get Ready” by The Temptations.”
The Temptations – Get Ready
Penned by Smokey Robinson when he was still called William, and covered by The Proclaimers of all people on the above named soundtrack, I think that may be my favourite record of the week. It’s certainly my “Best Dressed for a Single Sleeve” winner of the week.
Time for more Dumb and Dumber relayed madness from Rigid Digit of Stuff & Nonsense:
“As mentioned above, covered by Crash Test Dummies for the ‘Dumb and Dumber’ soundtrack, Crash Test Dummies are best known for going “Mmm!” a lot. That single was a huge seller (and after a while hugely annoying). The parent album (God Shuffled His Feet) is worth a listen, as is the follow-up single ‘Afternoons and Coffeespoons'”
Maybe time has dulled it’s ability to irritate, but I listened to “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” after you mentioned it, first time I’d heard it in years, and it wasn’t as bad as I recalled. It’s his voice that’s really annoying, I think. Still, I don’t know anything else by them, so let’s have a listen and see if he’s always like that:
Crash Test Dummies – Afternoons & Coffeespoons
Nope still annoying.
Ok, time for some links to the band’s names, and here’s Alyson back for her third, which is actually her first, choice:
“The band ABC (another 3-letter one) with one of their early ’80s ‘Lexicon of Love’ tracks such as ‘Poison Arrow'”
ABC – Poison Arrow
But there’s an elephant in the room here. And what do you need when there’s an elephant in the room? A Badger to expose it, that’s what:
“XTC is a quick way of spelling ecstasy which when shortened is just E which leads us to Ebenezer Goode by The Shamen.”
Anybody got any Vera’s? Lavely.
The Shamen – Ebeneezer Goode
I’ve been a bit quiet on the suggestion front this week, so here’s a couple from me in a similar vein. Firstly, a song which is even less subtle than Ebenezer Goode as to the topic in question:
E-Zee Possee – Everything Starts With an E
That was co-written by Boy George under the name Angela Dust (see what he did there?), and released on his More Protein label – who knew he was into drugs? Oh yeh, sorry, everybody.
And whilst we’re being all unsubtle, here’s The Beard:
“XTC, as already stated, sounds like ecstasy so…
E, Ecstasy
M, Motherfucker, motherfucker
F, From us to you
EMF (Live At The Bilson) by, erm, EMF.”
EMF – E.M.F. (Live At The Bilson)
That was the B-side to their smash “Unbelievable” single, and I remember there being quite the furore in some of the red-tops when they flipped the record over and found out what EMF stands for. Other interesting facts: one of the band (Derry…?) used to have a party trick where he inserted a whole orange under his foreskin. That’s not the sort of party I ever want to be invited to, thank you very much.
Still, more fine E related skull-doggery is afoot, with this suggestion from Swiss Adam from Bagging Area, which wins my “Oh, Is That What That Tune’s Called!!” Award of the Week:
“XTC, as several people have pointed out, is also a name of a popular rave drug. It is chanted throughout Joey Beltram’s monstrously good Energy Flash.”
Joey Beltram – Energy Flash
Next, and finally in this drug-fuelled frenzy, a bloody great record, given a bloody great remix, by the bloody great Basement Jaxx:
Missy “Misdemeanour” Elliott – 4 My People (Basement Jaxx Remix)
Now, earlier on, I mentioned that I had to disqualify a suggestion by Kuttowski, this one to be precise:
“XTC were an art-rock band from Swindon and were much more as the average in these days. So it would great to listen to their Making Plans For Nigel once again.”
I don’t disagree, but here at The Chain we need a link to be more than just “X band also did X song”, the suggestion needs to be more than that.
But, I’ll tell you what, how about I give you a tune which has the music from “Making Plans” but something else over the top if it? I’m talking, of course, about one of them there “mash-ups”; as a whole I’m not a great fan of the genre – yes, they’re often very clever but equally often the producer over eggs it, assumes the listener needs it explaining, and includes the vocal from the backing track when it really isn’t required, spoiling it.
This is one of the better ones, mixing Tweet featuring Missy Elliott’s “Oops (Oh My)” with the aforementioned XTC tune. Give it a listen:
Go Home Productions – Making Plans For Vinyl
And since we’re, sort of, on Nigel, here’s Julian back for another go:
“Nigel was going to work for British Steel, which of course leads one to Sheffield steel with which the knife in ‘This Is England’ by The Clash was made of.”
Phew! For a moment there, I thought you were going to suggest Judas Priest…
The Clash – This Is England
You thought we’d finished with the pumpkin related tunes a while ago, didn’t you? Well, as it happens, we haven’t, I was saving a couple back.
Here’s George again:
“A pumpkin is a member of the squash family, and in the 1970s there was a squash player called Jonah Barrington (who stormed out of Superstars for some reason ,but I might be wrong there), and Barrington Levy is a reggae artist, so I suggest his diddly-diddly-wah-hoo song ‘Here I Come’.”
Barrington Levy – Here I Come
Now that link got me thinking. Are pumpkins members of the squash family? A bit of research reveals this:
“Pumpkins, squash and gourds are members of the enormously diverse Cucurbitaceae family, which contains more than 100 genera and over 700 species.”
So, George, you’re close enough, suggestion allowed.
But wait…pumpkins, squash and gourds you say? Brace yourselves, I feel a couple of puns coming on, which are actually just an excuse for me to post two of the greatest records ever written:
The Beach Boys – Gourd Only Knows
Somebody really should have checked the spelling on that sleeve before they released it.
And just in case you don’t get it:
Teenage Fanclub – Gourd Knows It’s True (Peel Session)
Time to tie up one more loose end now, and it’s back to Charity Chic, who you will recall is due to post a record worse than Big Star’s “The Ballad of El Goodo”, which really shouldn’t prove too difficult:
“XTC to Andy Partridge to the Partridge Family to David Cassidy and Daydreamer.”
David Cassidy – Daydreamer
Since we’re on Partridges – and I know you’re expecting me to post a video clip to a bit of Alan Partridge, but I’m not going to -here’s something seasonal from The Great Gog:
“Now it’s December, there is a well-known song that features the word partridge rather a lot. My favourite version of this tune actually DOESN’T contain the word partridge, and despite many listens over the years, I do still find it mildly amusing – The Twelve Days Of Christmas by Bill Barclay.”
Bill Barclay – 12 Days of Christmas
If you like that, you’ll like this too:
Ok then, to round things up, here’s a wee message from Andy Partridge himself, which I picked up on one of those “Late Night Tales” compilations a few years ago, this one compiled by Helmut, and it seems rather apt:
Andy Partridge – History Of Rock And Roll
And that’s it for our suggestions this week. Here’s the next link in The Official Chain:
“Frank Zappa’s record label was called Barking Pumpkin, so…”
32. Frank Zappa – Valley Girl
So, your suggestions please, via the Comments section below, for records that you can link, and explain the link in your suggestion, to Frank Zappa’s “Valley Girl”.
(I am contractually obliged to also write: More soon.)
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Mom and Gramma: when I say "my parents" these are the two to whom I refer. They still live in the same little house in San Diego where I resided off and on myself. Don’t let their sweet exteriors fool you… I mean, where else would I’ve gotten my weirdness from?
Sugarbear: my brother, three years younger. A pot-smokin’, car-fixin’, drum-playin’, bird- and snake-raisin’ Christian. Sugie just moved from Seattle to Boston to go to the Berklee School, and kinda looks like his idol Jesus Christ. He’s aggravating as hell, and even more opinionated than me, if such a thing is possible... but he's one of the funniest people I know.
Number One: as in Star Trek, TNG. He's my oldest friend in the world, and he was my Best Man when me and THTM got hitched. Number One woos chicks by speaking French and doing the Lindy Hop. It's hard to believe we've know each other since before we got our driver's licenses! Damn, we's old!
O Nancy My Nancy: my old bookstore cronie. Truly a Very Important person. She’s the only person who can call me "Darnell." She’s also the only person from whom I’ll take a movie recommendation 100% seriously.
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Birmie: A Chix, short for Birmingham. Birm's weird in many ways, but I think her obsessive love for Kevin Richardson pushed her over the edge. She thinks she's clever by sending me pictures of Simon with Squicky Kevy Monobrows glued over his own. But I'll get even with her... oh yes!
Kel: Another Durannie. I’d still be friends with her even if she wasn’t, though, because she cracks my shit up and is one of the most genuinely kind people in the world! 'Sides, who else would willingly do Boy Band Dances in the car with me? She's a little lamb!
Goddess Caroline: A Chix. Caro’s a Nick Fan, but I like her anyway. She’s also a fellow lit major, and a BRILLIANT woman, but she’s misguided enough to think that the Romantics are where it’s at, when I know it’s the Modernists that kick ass. Byron used hair curlers and fucked his sister, honey!
Cyndi: A Chix. Cyn personifies the positive side of loyal fandom. Not only is she super-smart and a just-plain amazing person, she's one of the few people who've been able to parlay Duranieism into something viable.
Milla: A Chix. Milla is awesome. You send her an e-mail saying "Damn, I have PMS," and three minutes later, she's written a whole parody song to the tune of "867-5309" about it. Hand her a piece of paper, and in under five minutes, she's done caricature sketches of The Durans as South Park characters. She's the one who needs her own website, dammit! (Hey! She finally took me seriously!)
Parlance: Yes, another Psycho Durannie Friend! Par makes me laugh until I want to pee myself... and not just because of her misguided crushes on The Retarded Puppy (aka "Power Bottom") and... Bean. Tag yer man! Tag yer man!
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My New Boyfriend: Terry Bozzio. I fell head over tootsies for him at the Missing Persons concert. (And yes, THTM knows I call him "my new boyfriend"....)
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The Kidlet/my niecelette: technically not my niece, but my cousin’s daughter, Skyler is the Only Decent Child on the Face of the Earth. I just plain enjoy her as a person. Plus we both love Barbies and Boybands.
My Dumb Dad: Old. Sicilian. Chauvinistic. Pretty much a non-entity in my life. But about once a year, he manages to stir up shit. Don’t expect no Michael Landon stuff here.
Blevins: technically, he's Stepfather Number Two. Mom met him at a country bar. That should tell you something. When he was thinking he was all super-cool and professional and introduced himself to someone, he'd say his name, Bill Evans, like it was all one word. His first name came out like it had no vowels. Hence, Blevins, or Bl. Bl is also responsible for the Culinary Magnum Opus that me and Sugarbear call a "BillBQ".... Just don't get too close to the steak with those matches, yo!
The h.s.b.f /DumbAss.: my high school boyfriend. I spent seven years of my life with this shallow, selfish and unintellectual boy, all because my friends told me we were The Perfect Couple and I looooooved him soooooo much! Then I grew up.
The Sycophant: my so-called best friend who, among other things, made sexual advances to no less than five of my male relatives/friends before moving on. She is now Mrs. DumbAss. Thank You, God….
Boy Wonder: There are Exes and there are Whys. Boy Wonder, a co-worker four years younger than I, was my indoctrination into the Wild World of Dating Disasters… all in less than a month, too!
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November 2012, Todd Keister featured in "Faculty Advice Column" in Daily Targum.
November 11, 2012 Michael Bordo research discussed in Negocios,"EEUU puede demorar solución al precipicio fiscal hasta segundo trimestre de 2013".
October 28, 2012 Carl Lin (Ph.D. Rutgers, 2012) on U.S. visa policy quoted in Business Week article entitled, "Why More Immigration Not Less is Key to U.S. Economics Growth. Carl is currently an assistant professor at Beijing Normal University and a Research Fellow of IZA Bonn.
October 24, 2012 Professor Michael Bordo's recent research discussed in Time Business & Money, "Are We Getting the Economic Recovery We Deserve?"
October 23, 2012 Professor Michael Bordo's research discussed in Financial Times editorial, "A Slow convalescence under Obama".
October 21, 2012 Michael Bordo discusses recent research in a Bloomberg news editorial.
October 16, 2012 Economics faculty members advise students to pay attention to numbers in The Daily Targum.
October 14, 2012 Michael Bordo's research discussed in Hoover Institution Youtube video.
October 13, 2012 Michael Bordo quoted in The Economist, "Trade-offs.. Having your cake...Less inequality does not need to mean less efficiency".
October 3, 2012 Michael Bordo on the John Batchlor Show.
October 2, 2012 Eugene White and Hugh Rockoff participated in a panel discussion at the Museum of American Finance in New York on "The Financial Regulatory Tide, In or Out?"
September 29, 2012 Hugh Rockoff quoted in Elsevier, No. 39, "Alles voor de euro", pg46-50.
September 27, 2012 Michael Bordo quoted in the Wall Street Journal, "Michael Bordo: Financial Recessions Don't Lead to Weak Recoveries".
August 20, 2012, Bruce Mizrach and Rutgers graduate student, Cheng Gao quoted in NJBiz, "From Knight into day Direct Edge: Tech controls may have prevented $440M disaster of its ex-owner".
August 8, 2012, Michael Bordo quoted in the Washington Post, "Economists to Romney campaign: That’s not what our research says".
July 28, 2012, Eugene White quoted in the Wall Street Journal, "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do".
April 25, 2012, Jennifer Hunt on PBS Newshour.
April 2, 2012, Eugene White discusses bank regulation in a podcast hosted by the Libary of Economics and Liberty on April 2, 2012.
On March 31 a reception was held at the annual meetings of the Economic History Society at Oxford to launch Hugh Rockoff's new book, America's Economic Way of War: War and the American Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War. This book, published by Cambridge University Press, appears in a series sponsored by the Society.
March 28, 2012, Former graduate student Li Liu's dissertation research was discussed in The Independent on March 28, 2012.
March 22, 2012, Jennifer Hunt quoted in Marketplace Freakonomics Radio,
"Closing the gender gap in patent filing".
March 2012, Michael D. Bordo quoted in the The Atlantic Magazine, "The Villain".
March 17, 2012, Michael D. Bordo quoted in The Economist, "Body of evidence -Is a concentration of wealth at the top to blame for financial crises?".
March 6, 2012, Michael D. Bordo quoted in The Atlantic Magazine, "No, Democrats: Income Inequality Didn't Cause the Financial Crisis".
March 2, 2012, Michael D. Bordo interviewed in Region Focus - The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Fourth Quarter 2011. The entire interview can be viewed at: www.richmondfed.org/publications.
February 11, 2012, Eugene White quoted in the Sunday New York Times, "Break Up the Banks? Here’s an Alternative".
February 2, 2012, Rosanne Altshuler quoted on MSNBC.com, "Industries in limbo as Congress mulls expired tax breaks".
January 31, 2012, Rosanne Altshuler quoted in The Hill, "Lawmakers debate temporary provisions, with eye on reform".
January 30, 2012, Michael Bordo quoted in the Wall Street Journal - The Outlook,
"Bernanke's Imprint on Fed Not Easily Erased".
Winter 2012, Rosanne Altshuler interviewed in Rutgers Magazine.
January 13, 2012 Michael Bordo interview on Wall Street Journal's Market Watch on Federal Reserve policy towards interest rates.
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The effectiveness and safety of amisulpride in Chinese patients with schizophrenia who switch from risperidone or olanzapine: a subgroup analysis of the ESCAPE study
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. 2017;Volume 13:1163-1173
Journal Title: Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
Publisher: Dove Medical Press
LCC Subject Category: Medicine: Internal medicine: Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry: Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
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Ying Liang, Xin Yu On behalf of the ESCAPE Study Group Peking University Sixth Hospital, Peking University Institute of Mental Health, Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health (Peking University), National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders (Peking University Sixth Hospital), Beijing, People’s Republic of China Introduction: Second-generation antipsychotics show significant interpatient variability in treatment response and side-effect profiles, and the majority of patients with schizophrenia require multiple treatment changes. This subgroup analysis of the ESCAPE study evaluated the efficacy and safety of amisulpride in Chinese patients with schizophrenia who switched from risperidone or olanzapine.Methods: ESCAPE was a prospective, open-label, multicenter, single-arm Phase IV study in which Chinese patients with an ICD-10 diagnosis of schizophrenia received amisulpride for 8 weeks. This analysis included 109 patients who switched to amisulpride from risperidone (n=68) or olanzapine (n=41) and 59 treatment-naïve patients for reference. The primary effectiveness outcome was a ≥50% decrease in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) Total score from Baseline to Week 8. The study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01795183).Results: Of the patients who switched from risperidone and olanzapine, 77.9% and 56.1% achieved ≥50% reduction in PANSS Total score from Baseline to Week 8 and 57.4% and 46.3% achieved ≥20% reduction in PANSS score from Baseline to Week 2, respectively; these end points were achieved by 66.1% and 61.0% of treatment-naïve patients, respectively. No unexpected adverse events (AEs) were reported. Of the most common AEs, extrapyramidal side effects occurred in 32.4% and 14.6%, blood prolactin increase in 32.4% and 39.0%, and ≥7% increase in body weight in 4.4% and 12% of patients switching from risperidone and olanzapine, respectively.Conclusion: The results of this subgroup analysis suggest that switching to amisulpride from risperidone and olanzapine is effective and generally well tolerated in Chinese patients with schizophrenia. Keywords: schizophrenia, amisulpride, risperidone, olanzapine, China
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Ohio Job Outlook 2014
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1 Ohio Job Outlook 2014 Executive Summary Ohio Job Outlook to 2014 Executive Summary WORKFORCE 411 December 2006
2 Job Outlook to 2014 Preface The Bureau of Labor Market Information has been developing projections of the Ohio economy for several decades. People who use the outlook information include: individuals planning their careers and choosing among the wide variety of education and training options available to them; educational program planners developing curricula and courses of training; administrators and legislators responsible for government policies; and business executives planning marketing and personnel strategies. The changing industrial structure of the economy will be affecting the number of jobs available by occupation. Information about such change is important to people making decisions about their own future or the future of where they work. Employment projections represent employers needs for workers who have the skills to produce goods and services their customers want. State models used to develop these projections make use of the Bureau of Labor Statistics techniques that translate the demand for goods and services into jobs. Individual industries are analyzed according to whether the goods or services are destined for a local market, like grocery stores or restaurants, or for export, either outside Ohio or overseas. The 2001 recession has had a greater and longer lasting effect on Ohio than the nation as a whole and most other states. These projections for Ohio reflect the latest trends and the expected impact of major downsizing in the motor vehicle industry. Occupational projections incorporate analytical decisions made at the national level regarding the effects of technological change, organizational structure, and shifts in demand. A feature of the occupational analysis is the concept of educational clusters. 1 This describes the educational attainment of year olds for each occupation. The categories are: high school, some college and college as well as combinations. A single category is listed if at least 60 percent of the people in that occupation have attained that level of education. When two or more educational categories are listed, it means that at least 20 percent of the people currently working in that occupation have that level of education. For example, for electricians the most significant source of postsecondary training is long-term on-the-job training. However, the educational attainment of year-old electricians is almost evenly split between high school and some college. Therefore, electricians are in the high school/some college cluster. Educational clusters provide an improved picture of entry paths for an occupation. This information complements the traditional method of assigning an occupation by the most significant single source of postsecondary education or training. 1 U.S. Department of Labor s Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Projections and Training Data, Chapter I at
3 This executive summary highlights the demand for employment in Ohio to More detailed information on the projected demand for industry and occupational employment, a slide show and a high employment prospects table by education and training level are available at Data are also available to download from through the Data Query menu. The slide show and Labor Force Table for Ohio also document the continued aging of the Ohio workforce. Page 2
4 Overview In the last three years, Ohio s unemployment rate has been higher than the U.S. rate; before that Ohio s rate tended to be slightly lower. Because of slower growth in Ohio s population and income than is expected nationally, overall employment in Ohio is projected to grow at a slower rate than nationally. Over the period, the Ohio economy is projected to create approximately 425,000 new jobs, primarily in the service-providing industries. This report highlights findings on three aspects of Ohio s future outlook. In the first section, economic trends, we look at population and income and how these factors affect demand for products and services, in terms of Ohio s relationship to the national economy. The next section presents projected changes in industry employment. The outlook for specific occupations or jobs is the focus of the final section. In this section, attention is paid not only to the growth or decline of each occupation, but also to the number of annual openings and the average hourly wage. Educational levels are discussed both in terms of educational and training level needed for an occupation and educational attainment usual for people already in a job. This section also presents the occupations that have the highest prospects, based on both wage and annual openings, between now and Although the labor market in Ohio is still feeling the effects of the 2001 recession, employment will continue to increase at a slow rate. On average between 2004 and 2014, the Ohio economy is expected to have about 190,000 annual openings. Most job openings will result from the need to replace workers who leave the labor force, usually upon retirement or transfer to another occupation. Over three out of every four openings in Ohio are expected to be net replacement needs. Therefore, even declining occupations may provide substantial opportunities for employment. Health and computer-related occupations dominate the list of fastest growing jobs. In general, the Ohio economy will provide jobs for workers at all educational levels, but individuals with more education and training will enjoy better job opportunities. Growth rates over the period are 13.5 percent for those occupations requiring any level of postsecondary training. This compares to 4.9 percent for those occupations that usually require on-the-job training or experience in a related occupation. Occupations that generally require moderateterm on-the-job training for a worker to achieve average job performance are projected to grow the slowest, reflecting the concentration of many production occupations in declining manufacturing industries. Educational cluster analysis also reinforces the point that all categories that require at least postsecondary training are expected to grow faster than the Statewide average. This analysis shows the highest projected rate of job growth is for categories where most workers have some college or a college degree. Page 3
5 Ohio Economic Trends Through 2005 the Ohio job market was still suffering from the effects of the 2001 recession with lackluster job growth. The number of Ohioans unemployed and the unemployment rate continued to remain high, 349,900 and 5.9 percent, respectively. In the last three years, Ohio s unemployment rate has been higher than the U.S. rate and the gap has widened. Ohio and United States Unemployment Rates, U.S. Ohio The economy s need for workers stems from the demand for goods and services, which is measured by gross domestic product at the national level and gross state product for Ohio. Changes in demand for specific goods and services have a major effect on changes in the quantity of goods and services produced by specific industries. Ohio ranks seventh in the country in gross state product, the value of output produced by a state, and accounts for 3.6 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. 2 In 2005, growth in Ohio s valuation of output lagged national growth, a 1.0 percent increase compared to 3.5 percent for the U.S. In 2004, the difference was not as great: U.S. output grew 4.2 percent compared to 3.0 percent for Ohio. Demand for many goods and services are based largely on consumption expenditures by the local population. For example, employment in grocery stores, restaurants, bookstores, hospitals, and similar establishments depends on the 2 Bureau of Economic Analysis, BEA News, June 6, Page 4
6 needs and wants of people living in the area who have money to spend. So population and income are two of the primary factors determining local demand. Ohio s population has been increasing for the past decade and will continue to rise, but at a slower rate than the U.S. population. Ohio income will decline as a share of national income because of slower growth in population than is occurring in other parts of the country, especially the South and West. Likewise, per capita income relative to the U.S. is expected to decline somewhat. 3 Expected declines in both of these factors affecting demand will contribute to overall employment growth in Ohio occurring at a slower rate than is projected nationally. One of the underlying causes is the announced downsizing of the motor vehicle and parts industry. 3 Global Insight, Long Trend Forecast, Spring Page 5
7 Ohio Industry Employment Over the period, the Ohio economy is projected to create approximately 425,000 new jobs, primarily in the service-providing industries. Goods and services are produced in offices, factories, stores, and other work places. All goods and services are classified into an industry based on their type. For example, factories assembling cars are in the motor vehicle manufacturing industry, and supermarkets are in the grocery store industry. For analytical purposes, most industries fall into the goods-producing or the service-providing sector. Ohio Employment Outlook by Sector Millions Goods-Producing Service-Providing This job outlook was produced under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The divisions within the goods-producing sector are natural resources, including agriculture and mining; construction; and manufacturing. In the service-providing sector, the divisions are wholesale and retail trade; transportation and utilities; information; financial activities; professional and business services; education and health services; leisure and hospitality; other services, except public administration; and government. Changes in demand for an industry s products, due to shifts in consumer preferences or government priorities, constitute the most important cause of differences in employment growth rates among industries. Technological change is another factor affecting industry employment change. For example, automated equipment in manufacturing plants enables fewer workers to produce more goods, and its use is a major reason for declining employment in manufacturing. Major Industries The number of jobs for Ohioans is anticipated to rise from million in 2004 to million by Service-providing industries will account for virtually all of the job growth; construction is the only goods-producing sector expected to add jobs. Education and health services will add one of every three new jobs, Page 6
8 while more than one in four jobs will be gained in professional and business services. Large numbers of jobs are also projected in leisure and hospitality, primarily food services; local government, principally in education; and wholesale and retail trade. Construction employment, financial activities and other services are each projected to add more than 20,000 new jobs by Also growing are transportation & utilities and information. Manufacturing and natural resources are projected to lose employment. Ohio Employment Outlook by Major Industry, Education & Health Services Prof. & Business Services Leisure and Hospitality Government Wholesale & Retail Trade Construction Financial Activities Other Services Transportation & Utilities Information Natural Resources Manufacturing Thousands In Ohio, two-thirds of manufacturing employment is in production of durable goods, like machinery, motor vehicles and steel. Ohio also has a higher concentration of employment in manufacturing than most other states. The downside to having generally high paying manufacturing jobs is that they are more negatively impacted by business cycles. With the latest announcements of downsizing and plant closings in the motor vehicle and parts industries, Ohio manufacturing employment is projected to continue ratcheting downward. Page 7
9 Ohio Employment Projections by Major Industry Major Industry 2004 Annual Employment 2014 Projected Employment Change in Employment Percent Change Total 5,822,100 6,247, , % Goods-Producing Industries 1,159,500 1,097,500-62, % Natural Resources, inc. Agriculture and Mining 100,800 91,700-9, % Construction 234, ,500 24, % Manufacturing 824, ,300-77, % Service-Providing Industries 4,288,600 4,775, , % Wholesale and Retail Trade 853, ,000 46, % Transportation and Utilities 186, ,000 18, % Information 92,800 97,700 4, % Financial Activities 312, ,500 22, % Professional and Business Services 624, , , % Educational and Health Services 740, , , % Leisure and Hospitality 495, ,500 60, % Other Services, except Government 228, ,100 21, % Government 755, ,700 47, % Self-Employed, Private Household & Unpaid Family Workers 374, ,200 1, % Specific Industries with High Growth: At a more detailed level, the fastest growing industry is expected to be community care facilities for the elderly with better than 50 percent growth expected between 2004 and Two of the next three industries are also health care related. Demand for health care and social assistance will increase because of the growth of the older population. Unlike in recent past projections, only one of the top ten fastest growing industries is computer related. The highest computer related industry is data processing, which is tenth, followed by computer system design at eleventh. Ohio Industries with the Fastest Job Growth Community care facilities for the elderly Home health care services Office administrative services Residential mental health facilities Management & technical consulting services Outpatient care centers Employment services Amusement parks and arcades Activities related to real estate Data processing and related services Percent Change, Page 8
10 Most New Jobs: Industries with rapid job growth offer good job prospects. However, industries employing a lot of workers with more moderate growth may offer more opportunities. Employment services is expected to add 45,600 new jobs between 2004 and 2014; food services and drinking places are expected to add 44,500 new jobs, the majority (22,700) in full service restaurants. Large numbers of new jobs are also projected in the private health care industry, most notably in nursing and residential care facilities (27,000), offices of physicians (24,200), hospitals (23,700) and home health care services (16,500). In addition, local government education is projected to add 26,400 new jobs. These industries, which are displayed in the table below, account for close to half of the new jobs that will be added over the next 10 years. Ohio Industries Adding the Most New Jobs Employment services Local government, education Offices of physicians Hospitals Full-service restaurants Limited-service eating places Local government, except educ. & hospitals Home health care services Community care facilities for the elderly Educational services Thousands, Replacement Needs: Plant closings, changes in business practices, such as outsourcing or relocating production to more effective locations, and productivity increases are also having a significant impact on Ohio s manufacturing employment. While employment in Ohio s manufacturing sector will continue to experience structural declines, there will still be many job openings even though employment is expected to fall to about 750,000. The employees who remain in manufacturing will tend to be more highly skilled, productive and higher paid. As workers of the baby-boom generation begin to retire in larger numbers, the biggest challenge for Ohio s employers will be finding skilled, well-trained workers. 4 4 The Graying of the Ohio Labor Force: Demographic Changes to 2012, The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, Bureau of Labor Market Information, October Page 9
11 High Employment Prospects: There are some industries that are expected to have both a high rate of growth and a large number of annual openings. The next table presents these industries with high employment prospects. It includes mainly business and health related industries. NAICS Code Ohio Industries with High Employment Prospects* Industry Title 2004 Annual Employment 2014 Projected Employment Change in Employment Percent Change Employment services 140, ,200 45, % 6211 Offices of physicians 81, ,200 24, % 6216 Home health care services 36,200 52,700 16, % 6233 Community care facilities for the elderly 26,300 39,700 13, % 5415 Computer systems design & related services 39,000 50,700 11, % 6232 Residential mental health facilities 23,000 31,800 8, % 5416 Management & technical consulting services 22,100 30,200 8, % 6244 Child day care services 25,100 32,600 7, % 6214 Outpatient care centers 21,100 28,100 7, % 493 Warehousing and storage 26,000 32,700 6, % 5611 Office administrative services 14,400 20,400 6, % 5313 Activities related to real estate 15,600 20,600 5, % * These industries are expected to grow by at least 25 percent and create at least 5,000 new jobs. Page 10
12 Ohio Occupational Employment The previous section presented the outlook for labor demand in Ohio by industry. Because the mix of occupations is different within each industry, the demand for the occupations concentrated in an industry rises or falls with the fortunes of that industry. In this way, the economy s occupational and industry structure form a close relationship. Although the labor market in Ohio has been slow to recover since the 2001 recession, employment is expected to continue to grow although at a slow pace. On average, between 2004 and 2014, the Ohio economy is expected to have about 190,000 annual openings. Most job openings will result from the need to replace workers who leave the labor force, usually upon retirement, or transfer to another occupation. More than three-fourths of the openings in Ohio are expected to be net replacement needs. Identifying occupations that have more favorable job prospects is important in career decision-making. This section presents the job outlook in Ohio by type of work and by education and training level. Changes in technology, business practices, and operations affect how employers structure staffing to improve productivity. For example, technological advances will continue to reduce the need for telephone operators; word processors and typists; travel agents; and order clerks. In general, the Ohio economy will provide jobs for workers at all educational levels, but individuals with more education and training will enjoy better job opportunities. Type of Work We group occupations by type of work performed to gain a better understanding of broad occupational employment trends. Two groups, professional & related occupations and service occupations, are the largest two categories in terms of current employment and projected job growth. Together these two groups on Ohio Rate of Employment Change by Major Occupational Group Professional & related Service Construction & extraction Mgmt., business & financial Trans. & material moving Installation, maint. & repair Sales & related Office & admin. support Farming, fishing & forestry Production Percent Change, Page 11
13 opposite ends of the educational attainment and earnings spectrum are expected to provide almost 70 percent of the total job growth, 150,690 and 145,090 jobs respectively. Two other major groups are expected to grow faster than the Statewide average of 7.3 percent: construction and extraction occupations, 9.6 percent; and management, business and financial occupations, 8.9 percent. Slow-growing occupational groups are transportation and material moving occupations; installation, maintenance and repair occupations; sales and related occupations; and office and administrative support occupations. The remaining two groups, production and farming, fishing and forestry, are expected to have declining employment. Ohio Occupational Employment Projections by Major Occupational Group Employment Change in Employment Total Percent Annual Occupational Group Annual Projected 2014 Change Openings Total, All Occupations 5,822,100 6,247, , % 190,089 Management, Business and Financial 565, ,300 50, % 15,253 Professional and Related 1,047,930 1,198, , % 35,645 Service 1,120,460 1,265, , % 46,520 Sales and Related 603, ,530 33, % 23,504 Office and Administrative Support 924, ,360 9, % 25,538 Farming, Fishing and Forestry 14,900 14, % 429 Construction and Extraction 259, ,070 24, % 7,507 Installation, Maintenance and Repair 237, ,100 14, % 7,051 Production 591, ,770-33, % 14,711 Transportation and Material Moving 456, ,800 31, % 13,936 High Growth Rates: Health and computer-related occupations dominate the list of fastest growing jobs. Health occupations will account for 23 percent of net job growth. Service occupations, except health, will account for another 24 percent of job growth. In addition to professional and service occupations, the other groups expected to grow faster than average are construction and extraction occupations; and management, business and financial occupations. Ohio Job Growth, Computer & math. Other Health Trans. & mat. Mov. Const. and extraction Educ. Training & library Sales Service, exc. health Mgmt., business & finance Page 12
14 Of the ten fastest growing jobs, nine are either in health or computer related occupations. These ten occupations all have growth rates at least four times higher than the rate for all occupations of 7.3 percent. Most of these high growth occupations require a bachelor s degree. Fastest Growing Jobs in Ohio Network systems & data communication analysts Home health aides Physician assistants Computer software engineers, applications Medical assistants Computer software engineers, systems software Database administrators Diagnostic medical sonographers Network & computer systems administrators Hazardous materials removal workers Percent Change, Annual Openings: New job growth is one component of occupational demand, but a larger source of job openings is net replacement needs. More than threefourths of the job openings are expected to result from the need to replace workers who leave the labor force or transfer to another occupation. Therefore, even declining occupations may provide substantial opportunities for employment. Many occupations with the most annual openings (see next page) have high employment and high replacement needs and tend to be lower-skilled. Many of these jobs are entry level and a worker can expect occupational mobility as they achieve more education and training. Within Ohio and nationally, sales occupations are at the top of the list in terms of occupations with the most annual job openings. The top two occupations are cashiers and retail salespersons, followed by two food service occupations: waiters and waitresses and combination food preparation and serving workers, including fast food. The other occupations that make up the top ten are laborers, freight, stock, material movers, hand; registered nurses; janitors and cleaners; customer service representatives; general office clerks; and stock clerks and order fillers. Team assemblers, truck drivers, teachers, secretaries, child care workers and accountants are examples of other occupations with many annual openings. Most health occupations are growing and have a large number of annual openings. Therefore, they will account for many job opportunities for Ohioans, in large part because of the need to care for an aging population with a longer life expectancy combined with medical advances that make new treatments available. Page 13
15 Occupations in Ohio with the Most Annual Job Openings, Annual Openings Average Wage 2006* Occupation Retail Salespersons 8,201 $11.11 Cashiers 6,864 $8.00 Waiters and Waitresses 5,799 $7.03 Comb. Food Preparation & Serving Workers, inc. Fast Food 5,208 $7.25 Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand 5,010 $11.41 Registered Nurses 4,630 $26.09 Janitors/Cleaners, except Maids & Housekeeping 3,008 $11.00 Customer Service Representatives 2,643 $14.49 Office Clerks, General 2,641 $11.25 Stock Clerks and Order Fillers 2,368 $10.55 Sales Rep., Wholesale & Mfg, ex. Tech. & Scientific Products 2,282 $28.82 Team Assemblers 2,241 $14.09 Nursing Aides, Orderlies and Attendants 1,994 $10.79 Home Health Aides 1,973 $9.42 Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer 1,960 $17.87 Food Preparation Workers 1,938 $8.45 Postsecondary Teachers 1,922 $59,794** General and Operations Managers 1,894 $45.63 Cooks, Fast Food 1,714 $7.36 Secondary School Teachers, except Special & Vocational Ed. 1,696 $48,874** Accountants and Auditors 1,654 $27.20 Child Care Workers 1,641 $8.70 Maintenance and Repair Workers, General 1,610 $16.25 Elementary School Teachers, except Special Education 1,581 $48,077** Secretaries, except Legal, Medical & Executive 1,554 $13.52 Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers 1,536 $10.70 Bookkeeping, Accounting and Auditing Clerks 1,525 $14.47 Receptionists and Information Clerks 1,453 $10.56 Executive Secretaries & Administrative Assistants 1,404 $18.13 Tellers 1,374 $10.84 *May 2005 wages aged to April **Annual earnings, typically for a 9½ month school year for teachers. Many occupations are expected to have less employment by 2014, losing a total of almost 95,000 jobs. These occupations include electrical and electronic equipment assemblers; farmers and ranchers; stock clerks and order fillers; press machine operators and tenders; and secretaries, except legal, medical and executive. However, because of replacement needs even declining occupations can provide opportunities for employment. These five occupations alone are expected to provide approximately 5,000 annual openings. Page 14
16 When making a career decision, it is important to look at both the employment growth rate and total job openings to assess future job prospects. In general, jobs with fast growth rates offer good job opportunities. However, large slowly or moderately growing occupations often provide many more job openings than small, fast growing occupations. For example, physician assistants are expected to grow by 43 percent with 125 job openings a year, while retail salesperson are expected to grow by only 13 percent, but will provide 8,200 openings per year. Education and Training Level In general, the Ohio economy will provide jobs for workers at all educational levels, but individuals with more education and training will enjoy better job opportunities. Growth rates over the period will range from 2.3 percent for occupations requiring moderate-term on-the job training to 18.8 percent for occupations requiring an associate degree for entry. Ohio Employment Growth by Education and Training Levels Graduate degrees Work exp. plus BA Bachelor's degree Associate degree Postsec. voc. trng. Work experience Long-term OJT* Moderate-term OJT** Short-term OJT*** Percent Change, * Long-Term on-th- job training is twelve months or more of combined experience and training. ** Moderate-Term on-the-job training is one to twelve months, combined experience and training. *** Short-Term on-the-job training is up to one month. Education will play a bigger role in the Ohio workplace. All categories that generally require at least postsecondary training are projected to grow faster than the 7.3 percent average for all occupations. Occupations that generally require moderate-term on-the-job training for a worker to achieve average job performance are projected to grow the slowest, reflecting the concentration of many production occupations in declining manufacturing industries. Educational Cluster: Another way of looking at job requirements is to look at the educational attainment of people working in a given occupation who are This is called an educational cluster analysis and divides attainment into three Page 15
17 groups: high school, some college, and college. 5 In order for a single category to be listed, at least 60 percent of a given occupation has to have that level of education; for multiple levels, at least 20 percent. Education and training levels indicate the most significant source of postsecondary training needed for entry into an occupation. For example: for electricians the most significant source of education and training is long-term on-the-job training. However, the educational attainment of year old electricians is almost evenly split between high school and some college. Therefore, electricians are in the high school/some college cluster. The year old age group was selected because it would more closely match the education of those wanting to enter the field. This educational cluster analysis shows the highest projected rate of job growth (16.2 percent) is for the category where most workers have some college/college. This is followed by 13.1 percent growth for occupations where the workers have a college education. Ohio 2004 Employment and Growth By Educational Cluster Educational Cluster 2004 Employment Growth Rate Annual Openings High School 742, % 23,424 High School/Some College 2,920, % 94,313 High School/Some College/College 909, % 29,802 Some College/College 624, % 21,705 College 624, % 20,885 High school is the usual education attained for only one in seven occupations. On the whole then, workers with higher levels of education have more options in the job market and better prospects for obtaining higher paying jobs than less educated individuals. High Employment Prospects A high prospect occupation is defined as an occupation that pays at least $12 an hour and has at least 75 annual openings. The final table, on the next page, provides a sample of occupations that have high employment prospects in the State of Ohio by education and training level. The best example of a high prospect occupation is a registered nurse, which is projected to have over 4,600 annual openings and had an average salary in 2006 of $26.09 an hour. Other examples are truck drivers; customer service representatives; construction trades; automotive service technicians and mechanics. 6 5 U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Projections and Training Data, Edition, February 2006, Bulletin 2602, page 2. 6 For a complete list of high prospects, please visit our website: Page 16
18 Occupations in Ohio with High Employment Prospects Annual Openings Average Wage 2006 Title Short-Term On-the-Job Training Truck Drivers, Light or Delivery Services 893 $13.71 Bill and Account Collectors 730 $13.96 Bus Drivers, School 702 $12.01 Moderate-Term On-the-Job Training Customer Service Representatives 2,643 $14.49 Sales Rep., Wholesale/Mfg, ex. Tech./Sci. Prod. 2,282 $28.82 Team Assemblers 2,241 $14.09 Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer 1,960 $17.87 Maintenance and Repair Workers, General 1,610 $16.25 Secretaries, ex. Legal, Medical & Executive 1,554 $13.52 Bookkeeping, Accounting and Auditing Clerks 1,525 $14.47 Executive Secretaries & Administrative Assistants 1,404 $18.13 Long-Term On-the-Job Training Carpenters 1,283 $17.56 Electricians 896 $22.51 Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers 873 $20.96 Fire Fighters 852 $16.55 Plumbers, Pipefitters and Steamfitters 782 $22.34 Work Experience in a Related Occupation FL Sup/Mgrs of Food Prep. & Serving Workers 1,160 $13.64 First-Line Superv./Mgrs of Retail Sales Workers 1,152 $18.24 First-Line Sup/Mgrs of Office & Admin. Support 1,131 $21.37 FL Sup/Mgrs of Production/Operating Workers 860 $24.15 Post-Secondary Vocational Training Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics 1,211 $16.66 Licensed Practical & Licensed Vocatational Nurses 1,204 $17.86 Medical Secretaries 752 $12.68 Associate Degree Registered Nurses* 4,630 $26.09 Bachelors Degree Secondary Sch. Teachers, ex. Spec. & Voc. Ed. 1,696 $48,874** Accountants and Auditors 1,654 $27.20 Elementary School Teachers, ex. Special Educ. 1,581 $48,077** Computer Software Engineers, Applications 798 $35.10 Work Experience Plus Bachelors Degree General and Operations Managers 1,894 $45.63 *Training is met through a two-year associate degree; a three-year diploma; or a four-year bachelor's degree. **Annual earnings, typically for a 9½ month school year for teachers. Page 17
19 Technical Notes Projections of employment demand were made at the 4-digit industry level, based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) using single-equation regression models. These models related Ohio industry employment to national industry employment and other key economic determinants for Ohio, especially income and population. National projections of industry demand, published in the November 2005 issue of The Monthly Labor Review, were a key input. Occupational estimates were derived by creating an industry-occupation matrix with occupational data supplied by Ohio employers from the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) surveys for 2002, 2003 and 2004 reflecting the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) coding structure. These industry staffing patterns were adjusted for expected technological change and other factors from national data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in projecting occupational demand. Net annual replacement needs were computed from national rates also supplied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and published in Occupational Projections and Training Data, Edition, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Although these rates have been found to provide reliable estimates of Ohio's replacement needs for specific occupations, there are many additional openings resulting from turnover. The source of the wage estimates is the May 2005 Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) wage survey for Ohio. These estimates have been aged to April 2006 using the Employment Cost Index, through the Estimates Delivery System (EDS). The analysis by education and training level is made possible by the classification of the OES occupations into eleven distinct categories by the staff at the Office of Economic Projections at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The accuracy of projections for individual industries and occupations is subject, of course, to error because of the many unknown factors that will affect the economy over the projection period. Furthermore, while occupational employment projections and related job outlook information can provide valuable inputs to the career decision-making process, they should not be the sole basis for a choice of career. Additional Information More detailed information on Ohio's projections is available through the query feature available through the Bureau of Labor Market Information of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) internet site at Printed copies of this report and a companion pamphlet, Occupational Trends, Ohio's Hot Jobs, are available by contacting the Bureau of Labor Market Information at (614) or writing to ODJFS, Bureau of Labor Market Information, P.O. Box 1618, Columbus, Ohio Page 18
20 Office of Workforce Development P.O. Box 1618 Columbus, OH Bureau of Labor Market Information Business Principles for Workforce Development Partner with the workforce and economic development community. Develop and deploy new information solution tools and systems for the workforce and economic development community. Provide products and services that are customer and demand driven. Be known as an important and reliable source for information solutions that support workforce development goals and outcomes. Acknowledgements: Sandy Newman, Projections Coordinator, produced the Ohio Job Outlook under the direct supervision of Workforce Research Chief Larry Less, Labor Market Information Bureau Chief Keith Ewald, and Assistant Bureau Chief Rudy Wilkinson. For further information, visit our website at or contact the Ohio Bureau of Labor Market Information at WORK-411 or Bob Taft, Governor Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Barbara Riley, Director William F. Demidovich, Jr., SPHR, Deputy Director, Office of Workforce Development Keith Ewald, Ph.D., Chief, Bureau of Labor Market Information ODJFS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Service Provider (12/2006)
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Investing in solar energy: follow the unusual example of a Belgian cooperative
It is a first in Belgium! At a time when citizens’ initiatives are mushrooming across Europe , in Mouscron the community energy cooperative COOPEM was launched …. by the municipality!
Meet Emmanuel Fontaine, one of its directors and an energy adviser to the municipality of Mouscron (58,000 inhabitants).
In France and Germany, citizens are often behind the creation of energy cooperatives. How did you come up with the idea for this initiative?
The municipality of Mouscron had been considering ways of making PV installations accessible to its citizens. Thanks to the POLLEC programme, we were able to carry out an alternative financing study for renewable energy projects. That is how the idea of a cooperative came into being.
This initiative also enabled the municipality of Mouscron to meet its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.
Several public meetings, strong involvement by citizens and a partnership with two companies, Energiris and Aralia, led to the establishment of COOPEM on 4th May 2017, once the cooperative’s corporate articles and future lines of action were drawn up.
How does COOPEM operate?
Although it is a municipal initiative, COOPEM’s equity is mainly owned by citizens (55%), 15% being owned by the municipality and 30 % by the two private partners Energiris (a Brussels citizens’ cooperative) and Aralia (a third-party investor in PV projects) providing experience and expertise to COOPEM. Representatives of these three groups of stakeholders are also members of the organisation’s Board.
The cooperative provides two types of packages, for citizens and for local businesses.
Thanks to bulk purchasing and the government’s Qualiwatt subsidy (still in place in the first half of 2018) citizens benefit from a reduction on the cost of the installation, with the COOPEM taking responsibility for the administrative aspects and the work, using local installers to carry it out.
Residents get advice and support throughout the process.
When residents use energy from the grid, their meter runs normally but conversely, when their PV panels generate electricity, the meter runs backwards.
What financing system do you offer to businesses?
You are familiar with “leasing” contracts for cars … the same system can be used for PV installations!
COOPEM asks businesses to pay a 10% fee as a contribution to the cost of the installation, with savings on the electricity bill rapidly paying back the investment (2 to 3 years). After 10 years, ownership of the panels passes to the company which then derives the full benefit from the energy savings.
What is the situation one year after setting up COOPEM?
After one year in operation, COOPEM has installed almost 90 PV units, the 3rd wave ending in June 2018. Public awareness is increasing and word of mouth is much more efficient than advertising campaigns, but now COOPEM has to face a new challenge with the end of the Qualiwatt subsidy offered by the government to all households planning to install new PV panels on 30th June 2018.
The example of Mouscron is part of a collection of best practices on the deployment of renewable energy in Europe. Read more about them on: www.renewables-networking.eu/cities
Mouscron signed the Covenant of Mayors in 2012 and has been a member of Energy Cities since 2013.
More information about the COOPEM on our website
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6 Of A Family Set On Fire While Asleep In Meerut
National January 15, 2020, 1:15 pm
Meerut: In a shocking incident, a family of six were set on fire while they were asleep in their house here on Tuesday.
A 40-year-old woman and her five children were sleeping in their house when the incident occurred. all suffered serious burns, while one of them has been shifted to Delhi for treatment as the case is critical.
The incident occurred at Zahidpur village in Kharkhoda region of Meerut.
Reports claim that unidentified miscreants stuffed a pipe down the mesh window, pored petrol in the house and threw a lit match into the building.
The woman's husband had abandoned her over 8 years ago, and she has been working as a labourer to survive her 5 children.
Manish Bisht, station in-charge, Kharkhoda police station, said, "The family says it is clueless about who could possibly be behind the act. They do not seem to have any enmity with anyone. We will talk to the woman once her condition stabilizes."
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For 20 years, International Maritime and Warehouse Management (IMWM), a division of Enmarcolda S.A. has provided logistics, warehousing and support for the USAID PL-480 Title II Humanitarian Food Program, World Food Programme Food Donations to Haiti, and the Private Voluntary Organizations Food Commodity Donation Programs in Haiti.
Enmarcolda S.A., owned and operated by the d’Adesky-Lemke family, is an international logistics and warehousing corporation serving the Haitian community since the company was formed in 1961. For 20 years, IMWM division has managed an 80,000 sq. ft. central warehouse, distribution operation and trucking program for the USAID PL-480 Title II program, World Vision, Catholic Relief Services and World Food Programme. The central warehouse is located in Port-au-Prince 1/2 mile from the APN port.
Throughout the years, IMWM division has received, warehoused and distributed between 30,000 to 80,000 metric tons of food commodities per year to over one million beneficiaries for the humanitarian agencies.
USAID PL-480 Title II program provides for the donation of U.S. agricultural commodities by the U.S. government to meet humanitarian food needs in foreign countries. Commodities may be provided to meet emergency needs under government-to-government agreements through public and private agencies, including intergovernmental organizations, and other multilateral organizations.
Employing more than 150 full time employees, IMWM division estimates that more than 1,000,000 metric tons of food has passed through its warehouse in the last 20 years. Combining state of the art technology with unsurpassed local knowledge and experience, the Enmarcolda management teams, led by Jeffrey d’Adesky, provide superior logistics and warehousing services at the most competitive rates in Haiti.
Enmarcolda’s reputation in warehousing and logistics is most evident in the fact that on many occassions The US Military has used Enmarcolda’s services, land, warehousing and trucking facilities to assist in their military operations and to support their relief efforts in major natural disasters, including the recent major earthquake of January 2010.
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Sam and Dean are left to pick up the pieces after the loss of their mother, the demise of Crowley and the heartbreaking death of Castiel. Meanwhile the birth of Jack leaves the .. show full overview
Sam and Dean are left to pick up the pieces after the loss of their mother, the demise of Crowley and the heartbreaking death of Castiel. Meanwhile the birth of Jack leaves the Winchester brothers with differing opinions on how to deal with a Nephilim. After being dragged into the breach, Mary must learn to survive Lucifer and an apocalyptic world.
The Rising Son
Sam and Dean begin to explore what Jack is capable of doing with his powers. An unexpected visit from Donatello alerts the boys to the fact that Jack will need more protection than the .. show full overview
Sam and Dean begin to explore what Jack is capable of doing with his powers. An unexpected visit from Donatello alerts the boys to the fact that Jack will need more protection than the Winchesters can provide. There is a new Prince of Hell in town, Asmodeus, and with Lucifer out of the picture, he sets his sights set on Jack.
When her friend is murdered by a wraith with a taste for psychics, Missouri enlists the help of Dean and Jody to protect her granddaughter, Patience, who has no idea she shares her .. show full overview
When her friend is murdered by a wraith with a taste for psychics, Missouri enlists the help of Dean and Jody to protect her granddaughter, Patience, who has no idea she shares her grandmother’s trait and could be next on the wraith’s hit list. Meanwhile, Sam continues to work with Jack on learning how to control his powers.
The Big Empty
When multiple patients of grief counselor Mia Vallens turn up dead, Sam, Dean and Jack investigate the mystery surrounding the murders and, each inadvertently, are forced to deal with unresolved grief of their own.
Advanced Thanatology
While working on a case involving the ghost of a demented doctor, Sam and Dean get assistance from an unexpected source - Billie. Castiel finds his way back to the Winchesters.
Castiel is reunited with Jack and together with Sam and Dean, they head to a sleepy old western town to investigate a murder. Dean gets to live out his boyhood fantasy when he comes face to face with a famous, gun-slinging outlaw.
As Sam and Dean continue their search for Jack, with Asmodeus hot on their trail, they stumble across a familiar foe. Meanwhile, Lucifer manages to escape Michael’s grasp and finds himself an unlikely and mostly unwilling ally.
The Scorpion and the Frog
Feeling as if they are running out of options, Sam and Dean agree to steal a mysterious trunk belonging to a demon named Barthamus, in exchange for a locater spell the Winchesters can use to track down Jack.
The Bad Place
Jack, desperate to prove to Sam and Dean that he is good and that he can control his powers, enlists the help of a dreamcatcher named Kaia to help him find Mary Winchester and save her .. show full overview
Jack, desperate to prove to Sam and Dean that he is good and that he can control his powers, enlists the help of a dreamcatcher named Kaia to help him find Mary Winchester and save her from the alternate universe. However, when plans go awry, the Winchester brothers are the ones who need saving.
Wayward Sisters
When Sam and Dean go missing, Jody Mills calls Claire Novak, the rebellious rogue hunter, and tells her it is time to come home – they need to find the Winchesters. Claire returns and .. show full overview
When Sam and Dean go missing, Jody Mills calls Claire Novak, the rebellious rogue hunter, and tells her it is time to come home – they need to find the Winchesters. Claire returns and reunites with Alex Jones, who has stayed behind with Jody and tries to balance a “normal” life with being a part time hunter. While Jody is happy to have Claire home again, she’s plagued by Patience’s disturbing vision involving her adopted daughter. Claire and Alex search for Kaia Nieves, the dreamcatcher responsible for opening the rift that Sam and Dean went through, as she holds the key to their whereabouts. Jody calls her friend, Donna Hanscum, to round out the team and the women head off on the most important hunt of their lives.
Donna calls Sam and Dean for help after her niece, Wendy, goes missing. The three hunters discover Wendy was kidnapped by a man who sells human parts to monsters in a grotesque online auction and race to save her before it is too late.
Various & Sundry Villains
Dean falls victim to a couple of witches, sisters Jamie and Jennie Plum, who manage to steal a powerful book of spells from the Winchester brothers. When Sam and Dean go after the book, .. show full overview
Dean falls victim to a couple of witches, sisters Jamie and Jennie Plum, who manage to steal a powerful book of spells from the Winchester brothers. When Sam and Dean go after the book, they get help from a powerful and surprising ally when Rowena, back from the dead, intervenes to assist them.
Devil's Bargain
Sam, Dean and Castiel search for Lucifer who, meanwhile, strikes an unlikely deal with a local faith healer named Sister Jo. Asmodeus inches closer to finding Jack.
Jack and Mary manage to escape Michael’s clutches and end up finding an ally in “apocalyptic world” Bobby Singer. Meanwhile, Sam, Dean and Castiel continue to search for a way to open a .. show full overview
Jack and Mary manage to escape Michael’s clutches and end up finding an ally in “apocalyptic world” Bobby Singer. Meanwhile, Sam, Dean and Castiel continue to search for a way to open a breach, not realizing that one of their own may be working against them and costing them precious time.
A Most Holy Man
Sam and Dean are close to collecting everything they need to open a rift into the apocalyptic world and possibly rescuing Mary and Jack. The one missing ingredient leads the Winchesters .. show full overview
Sam and Dean are close to collecting everything they need to open a rift into the apocalyptic world and possibly rescuing Mary and Jack. The one missing ingredient leads the Winchesters to a black market for religious relics where everything is not always as it seems.
Sam, Dean and Castiel are transported into the animated world of Scooby Doo where they join forces with the Scooby gang to solve a ghostly mystery.
Sam and Dean continue to collect the pieces necessary to open a rift to the other world in order to save their family. Their latest quest leads them to a Men of Letters bunker from the .. show full overview
Sam and Dean continue to collect the pieces necessary to open a rift to the other world in order to save their family. Their latest quest leads them to a Men of Letters bunker from the 1920s and a hungry God from another dimension. Meanwhile, Ketch makes a shocking decision about Gabriel after an unruly encounter with Asmodeus.
Bring 'Em Back Alive
Lucifer rules over heaven but things aren’t going exactly as planned, exasperating his first lady, Jo. Sam and Castiel are perplexed by the return of Gabriel. Meanwhile, Dean gets one step closer to finding Mary and Jack.
Funeralia
Sam and Dean must stop Rowena, who is on a deadly mission. Meanwhile, Castiel looks to heaven to recruit angels for an impending invasion but is shocked by not only what he finds, but who.
Gabriel is back and drags Sam and Dean into his plot for revenge on the demigods who sold him to Asmodeus. Meanwhile, Jack's inflating confidence leads to reckless decisions that could put others in harm's way.
Sam, Dean, Castiel and Gabriel must work together if they have any hope of bringing Mary and Jack home. Meanwhile, Rowena’s encounter with Lucifer may alter the outcome of the journey for one of our heroes.
Sam and Dean devise a plan that will save innocent lives. Meanwhile, Jack continues to wrestle with the consequences of his decisions.
Our heroes, Sam and Dean Winchester, continue to be tested in the battle between good and evil, but one impulsive decision could alter the lives of one the brothers forever.
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Compact20 takes place over the course of four days. The conference portion will feature over 100 sessions focused on civic engagement, community-engaged research, civic- and service-learning, institutional change, university-community partnerships and more. Join us the day before for the Biennial Summit of Presidents and Chancellors and our newest event, the Campus Compact Impact Awards Celebration, where we will celebrate individual and institutional impact.
These four days promise lots of room for learning and great opportunities for networking with faculty, staff, senior administrators, students, and community partners all dedicated to harnessing the power of higher education to achieve future with full participation for all.
Pre-conference Sessions
Community Tours
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SUMMIT OF PRESIDENTS & CHANCELLORS
Presidents & chancellors will come together for inspiration and practical work on higher education’s role in creating an economy, a society, and a democracy with full participation.
CAMPUS COMPACT IMPACT AWARDS CELEBRATION
This new annual event from Campus Compact will recognize the achievement of individuals and institutions in advancing the public purposes of higher education.
PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS & COMMUNITY TOUR
There are several unique opportunities available to conference attendees. Join us Sunday for pre-conference sessions or Monday for a tour of the community.
Pre-conference intensive
Pre-conference session: How Knowledge Claims can be Unjust and What We can do about It
Pre-conference session: Learning from Seattle (and Other Cities): Place-Based Community Engagement for Justice and Equity
Biennial Summit of Presidents & Chancellors
General Sessison
Keynote: Eric Liu, CEO of Citizen University and Civic Evangelist
Large breakouts
Large breakout
Attention Is the Scarcity: A New Approach to Civic Digital Literacy
Getting Students to Vote—How You Can Help Overcome the Barriers
CAP 2.0: Strategically Implementing and Assessing an Institutional Civic Action Plan
Steps for Developing an Engaged Campus: Lessons from Our Book
The Quest for Authentic Community Engagement: How Market Forces Shape Community Engagement and What to Do About It
Small breakouts
Dialogue and Civil Discourse: Developing Skills and Dispositions for Dialogue across Difference
Increasing Voter Participation of Vulnerable Populations to Promote Social and Economic Justice
Honoring Ways of Knowing for Biocultural Restoration and Resilience in the Face of Climate Change
Raising Voices with Action Research: Collaborative Inquiry with Urban Community Partners
Measuring Mutual Benefit and Reciprocity in Community Engagement and Public Service Activities
Leveraging Democratic Leadership through Student Engagement Scholars: Empowering Self & Community
Equity Begins with Your Syllabus: The Key to a Learning-Centered Service Learning Environment
Problem-Solving and Information Literacy: Complex Thinking about Social Issues in Service-Learning
Lessons Learned from a Place-Based Initiative Pilot Year
Learning by Giving: Experiential Philanthropy, Equity, and Democracy
Surveying the Syllabus: What Syllabi Communicate about Service-Learning at Four-Year Institutions
Developing and Assessing High-Impact, Classroom-Integrated Service Learning Projects
How to Move Beyond Service & Voting: Alternative Breaks for Deepening Civic & Democratic Engagement
Pitfalls and Possibilities for Global Partnerships and Critical Pedagogy in Global Service Learning
Promoting Equity and Social Justice through Sustainability
Florida Civic Fellows Program: Pilot Effort Brings College Civic Ed Programming to H.S. Students
Reacting to the Past: Democratizing the Classroom through Historical Role Playing Games
A Call to Action: Media Literacy as Part of Higher Education's Public Purpose
Moving from Expert-Driven to Community-Engaged Models of Community Partnerships in the STEM Fields
The Promise of Pluralism: Civic Engagement's Relation to Interfaith Learning and Development
Practical Strategies for Addressing Microaggressions in Community Engagement
Extended break
Community Learning Exchanges: Making Spaces to Unite the Power of Place and Wisdom of People
Effective Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion against Neoliberalism
Developing Communities of Practice around the Campus Compact CEP Credentialing Program
Power, Privilege, and Intersectionality: Community Engagement in Higher Education
Innovative Strategies for Engaging Adult Learners through Leadership Development Programming
An Equity Lens on Voting: Espousing an Intersectional Perspective for Voter Parity
Dialogue as a Tool to Develop Collaborative Partnerships for Community Impact
From the Ferguson Uprising to Aspired Democracy: What Did We Learn About Fulfilling the Promise?
Capture Student Civic Action and Learning with Compact2Learn
Rooted in Place: Practicing Anti-Oppression, Integrity and Humility for the Long Haul
Next Steps in Supporting and Retaining Community Engaged Scholars
Service after the Storm: Engaged Disaster Response at Carolina
No More ‘One and Done’: Engaging departments for collectivizing and sustaining impact
Challenging Individualism: Designing Inclusive, Collective, and Sustainable Partnerships
The Wild Difference: Hearing Voices of Small Farmers and Endangered Plants in Downeast Maine
PICCE: A Case-Study of Leveraging Inter-Institutional Assets to Grow Community Engagement
Developing a Statement on Free Speech and Expression
Using the Civic Learning Spiral to Deepen Student Learning in Co-Curricular Community and Civic Engagement
Community Engagement in the Technical Disciplines
The Arc of Citizenship Bends Toward Justice When We Work Alongside Communities
Gathering Towards Action Again: Reflecting on Two Years of Communities of Practice for Community-Based Participatory Research
All Voices Matter: Exploring Justice Through Inclusive Education
Engaged Voices of the City
Leading Campus-Community Partnerships: Mission, Voice, and Emergent Models
Co-Producing Knowledge in Environmental Justice Research and Teaching
Finding Common Ground for Action through Deliberative Dialogue
Creating Engaging Online Social Justice Assignments with a Focus on Community Engagement
The Merger: A Partnership Centered on Social Justice – ¡Sí se Puede!
Asset-Based Educational Experiences: Working to Understand and Embrace Students’ Cultural Capital
Successful Community Engagement During Times of Demographic Shift
Lessons from a Democratic Engagement and Student Voter Registration Campaign in the Age of Trump
Diversifying the Field of Community-Engaged Scholarship
Fuller Participation: Supporting Faculty Civic Development for the Good of the Whole
Can We Imagine Critical Service-Learning on Stolen Land?
Layali Al-Sham: Musicking and Community Engagement at the University of Texas, El Paso
Using Civil Dialogue to Bridge Campus and Community
Including All our Voices: Listening, Learning, and Working Better Together
Civic Ethos in Check: Self-Assessing Your Campus’ Democratic Engagement Action Plan
Bridging the Divide: Developing Students' Capacity to Navigate Urban/Rural Divides
Civic Inquiry: Developing Curricula to Advance Community Leadership, Opportunity, and Voice
#CompactNationPod LIVE
University & Community Transformation: A Place-Based Justice Approach to Partnerships & Change
Professional Credentialing Program: Opportunities for Growing the Field and Institutionalizing CE
Building a More Just and Equitable Democracy: The Work of Campus Compact
Democratic Deliberation in Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement
Partnerships with a Purpose: Emphasizing Measurable Outcomes for Underserved Communities
Community Engagement in LGBTQ+ Communities: Opportunities and Challenges
The Power and Challenge of ‘Place’ in Public and Private Anchor (Aspiring) Institutions
Getting it on the Transcript: Validating Co-Curricular Community Engaged Learning
What Stories from Youth Gang Members can Teach us about the Promise of Full Participation
Paving a path to the polls: Overcoming Process Barriers through Student Voter Education
Building Transformative Service-Learning Partnerships to Promote Full Participation
Building Community Partners’ Capacities as Co-Educators through Professional Development Programs
E-portfolios as a Pedagogical Tool for Civic Learning and Leadership Development
Solutions Journalism: A Tool for Creating Civic Empowerment
Ask Every Student: Achieving 100% Student Voter Registration
Building Inclusive Democracy: 26th Amendment Rights and On-Campus Polling Sites
Democratizing Knowledge for the Public Good: Internships, Research, and Experts in the Rust Belt
Arts as Civic Engagement: Fulfilling the Promise of Full Participation
Civic Engagement Matters: Now Let's Prove It!
Asset-Based Community Development: Strategies for Universities to Employ ABCD with a Critical Lens
The 21st Century Social Contract in Action: Keys to Civic Engagement at a Community College
Ways of Knowing Homelessness: Findings from a Global Thematic Service-Learning Exchange Program
Conversation Project: A Democratic Model for Talking Together to Build Community
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CEO, Citizen University & Civic Evangelist
"Democracy works only when enough of us believe democracy works," says Eric Liu. How do we rekindle that belief? How do we, as individuals, organizations, communities, corporations — even professions — reinvigorate the meaning and spirit of citizenship in America? These are the questions civic evangelist Eric Liu explores in his compelling, acclaimed talks.
Liu, son of Chinese immigrants and former White House speechwriter, is the CEO of Citizen University, a nonprofit working to foster a culture of powerful, responsible citizenship. His eight books include You’re More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen, and the national bestsellers The Gardens of Democracy and True Patriot. His first book, The Accidental Asian, Notes of a Native Speaker was a New York Times Notable Book featured in the PBS documentary, “Matters of Race.” Liu’s latest book is Become America: Civic Sermons on Love, Responsibility and Democracy, which grows out of the Civic Saturday phenomenon that Liu and his team pioneered and has now spread nationwide. Liu served as a White House speechwriter for President Bill Clinton and later as the President’s deputy domestic policy adviser. He has also served as a board member of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Washington State Board of Education and the Seattle Public Library, and is co-founder of the Alliance for Gun Responsibility. He is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School.
Hear Liu's keynote at the opening session on Monday, March 29 at 8:30 AM.
Pre-conference Sessions & Community Tours
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM on Sunday, March 29 at the Hyatt Regency Seattle
HOW KNOWLEDGE CLAIMS CAN BE UNJUST AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT
Presented by John Saltmarsh, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Adam Bush, College Unbound; James Lin, GLIDE Foundation/Glide Memorial Church; John Loggins, University of San Diego; Chris Nayve, University of San Diego; Star Plaxton-Moore, University of San Francisco; Linda Caballero Sotelo, New Americans Museum
In her landmark 2007 book, Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing, the philosopher Miranda Fricker shows how individuals can be wronged in their roles as knowers. Fricker demonstrates that members of powerful groups devalue the knowledge claims of members of less powerful groups and, by denying the less powerful access to resources, prevent them from organizing information in ways that enable them to make effective knowledge claims. She calls these wrongs epistemic injustice. In this session, participants will come together as a learning community of engaged scholars to explore Fricker’s ideas and their application to the work of community engagement. We will examine how Fricker’s framework has been applied in recent scholarship on democratic participation and social change and consider its implications for transforming the work of community engagement. Participants will learn about the defining elements of epistemic justice/injustice, discover the potential epistemic and ethical repercussions of injustice for individuals and communities through participation in a story circle, and discuss how to promote epistemic justice in community engagement endeavors.
Admission: $100
LEARNING FROM SEATTLE (AND OTHER CITIES): PLACE-BASED COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR JUSTICE AND EQUITY
Pre-conference Session & Embedded Institute
Presented by: the Place-Based Justice Network, Molly Ayers, Gonzaga University; Jamie Ducar, University of Pittsburgh; Kent Koth, Seattle University; John Loggins, University of San Diego; Nolizwe Nondabula, University of San Francisco; Erin O’Keefe, Loyola University Maryland; Jennifer Pigza, Saint Mary's College of California
The pace of change in communities across the country and around the world has deepened inequalities and tested the limits of higher education community engagement. This session is an opportunity to learn from and with practitioners of place-based community engagement strategies designed on the principle that communities and higher education institutions should work in sustained partnerships to identify pathways to greater equity, justice, and voice. Participants will learn about various examples of place-based engagement and will visit sites of action in Seattle.
This pre-conference session and embedded institute will include a pre-conference session from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM on Sunday, March 29, a community tour on Monday, March 30, and several recommended conference sessions and opportunities for reflection throughout the conference.
Admission: $125*
*The admission price for this session includes participation in Monday's community tour as well as embedded sessions and meetings throughout the conference. Read more about the community tours below.
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM on Monday, March 30
In Seattle, the University of Washington and Seattle University along with dozens of community partners have drawn upon the approach of place-based community engagement to develop comprehensive neighborhood-based strategies connecting campus and community. Through these site visits, participants will explore the historical and contemporary context of one Seattle neighborhood and learn how neighborhood and university leaders are co-creating new ways of partnering and pursuing positive social change. Site visit participants will initially gather together for a brief overview and framing before traveling in smaller groups to one of six distinct Seattle neighborhoods.
TOUR LOCATIONS:
Othello-UW Commons
The development of Sound Transit Light Rail over the last decade has fundamentally changed the south end of Seattle—bringing historically disinvested neighborhoods the opportunities and challenges associated with economic development and gentrification. The area around Othello station is the historic home to South Asian and East African immigrant communities in Seattle, and sits in one of the most diverse zip codes in the country. While the University of Washington holds multiple long-time partnerships with Southeast Seattle communities, the opening of the Othello-UW Commons (uw.edu/othello) in January 2019 has ushered in a new chapter of collaboration and partnership between the University and the surrounding community. This community tour will be led by the Manager of the Othello-UW Commons, and will engage community partners, students, and residents in a conversation about the strengths and challenges associated with this kind of community-campus collaboration
Beacon Hill: El Centro de la Raza
The Beacon Hill neighborhood in South Seattle is the historic and cultural home to a diverse group of communities. Similar to many other neighborhoods in the fast growing city of Seattle, Beacon Hill has faced significant pressures of gentrification and displacement of long-term residents. This site visit will explore the University of Washington’s robust partnerships with one community hub for Seattle’s Latino community, El Centro de la Raza (The Center for People of All Races) (elcentrodelaraza.org) in their efforts to work for solutions to racism, poverty and other community issues. Highlights will include speaking with community partners about El Centro’s wide range of social services programs, learning about the Plaza Roberto Maestas mixed-use affordable housing project and exploring how University of Washington faculty and students connect with the Beacon Hill community to address critical social issues.
The Doorway Project (dorwayproject.org) is a University of Washington and YouthCare (youthcare.org) led initiative supported by the Washington State Legislature (Substitute Senate Bill 5883; 2017). The Doorway focuses on addressing youth and young adult homelessness in the University District through continuous community-engaged collaboration with U District service providers and community members. The primary aim of the Doorway is to center the voices of youth and young adults in the U-district who are experiencing homelessness in order to co-develop and evaluate a comprehensive and effective service model that ultimately reduces youth homelessness and improves quality of life for all affected. Participants in this community tour will learn more about youth and young adult homelessness in the U-district, understand the structure and goals of the Doorway, and hear from participating community collaborators.
Chinatown-International District
The Seattle Chinatown-International District (C-ID) is the historic and cultural home of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino and Vietnamese American communities. Through strong community activism and long-term planning, the neighborhood is working to honor its historical and current cultural context while remaining equitable and affordable to all residents. Seattle University partners with organizations in the C-ID through a variety of cross-disciplinary efforts. Co-led by community and university leaders, this site visit will explore how place shapes partnerships in one of Seattle's oldest neighborhoods.
Yesler Terrace
Yesler Terrace is the oldest public housing community West of the Mississippi and the first public housing community in the nation to be racially integrated. With support from a HUD Choice Neighborhood Grant, Seattle Housing Authority is currently facilitating a comprehensive neighborhood redevelopment of Yesler Terrace that will, upon completion, lead to a densely populated mixed-income neighborhood. Since 2012, Seattle University has served as the lead education partner on the Choice Neighborhood grant. In this role, the University has facilitated a collective impact effort uniting multiple neighborhood education partners to support Yesler children and their families. Co-led by leaders from Seattle Housing Authority and Seattle University, this site visit will include a visit to Yesler Terrace, Bailey Gatzert Elementary School, and several additional community organizations to explore the opportunities and challenges of supporting a neighborhood experiencing significant transition.
The Central District is historic and current home of Seattle's African American community. In recent years the neighborhood has faced significant pressures of gentrification and the displacement of long-term residents. Pursuing a vision of equity and justice, local leaders have mobilized to preserve the racial and cultural context of the neighborhood. Through visits to local schools, community organizations and public spaces, this visit will explore the complex role of universities in supporting equitable development while mitigating and interrupting institutionalized racism.
These sessions include lunch and are part of the Place-Based Community Engagement Embedded Institute. All conference attendees can participate but priority will be given to individuals choosing to participate in the full Embedded Institute.
Campus Compact builds its conference agenda by inviting faculty, staff, students, and community partners to submit sessions for inclusion in this process. Our call for proposals deadline was June 30, 2019, and we are no longer accepting suggestions for sessions. If you have any questions about our proposals process, please contact us at conference@compact.org.
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1953 Yankees, 1960 Canadians, 1996 Bulls.....2017 Philadelphia Eagles
By Westbrook36, September 10, 2017 in Around the NFL
hail2skins
The Heavy Hitter
What, no Westy appearance after the beatdown of the Cowboys? He must be on a secret mission.......or wrestling Mongols!
SkinsGuy
The Cover Corner
Maybe he is out hunting his own turkey for Thanksgiving............
..........or they are hunting him.
SkinsFTW
I don't think they can make cheesesteaks out of turkey parts.
Westbrook36
When will he disappear next?
If the Eagles win the rest of their games to go 15-1, and then go on to win the Super Bowl, they have to be in the discussion for the greatest team of all time, right?
Right now your your stomach is churning because the thought disgusts you, yet you realize it is correct.
39 minutes ago, Westbrook36 said:
No, our stomachs are churning because you're here,and you disgusts us.
Come on man.
If the Eagles somehow end up in the SB they'll just be spending another day in Tom Brady school.
I know it, you know it, we all know it.
BleedBNG
The Deep Threat
1 hour ago, Westbrook36 said:
You mean in the discussion of the second greatest team of all time. They are definitely having a '91 Redskins type of season so far, but you realize the greatest of all time would be incorrect.
https://www.foxsports.com/nfl/gallery/best-super-bowl-winner-ranking-greatest-team-nfl-history-cowboys-redskins-49ers-patriots-list-012517
And I'm sure the same people would say the '91 Redskins would blow the tail feathers off the '17 Eagles.
But nice try Westy.
pointyfootball
8 hours ago, BleedBNG said:
WB is a grenade-tosser, for sure.
For sake of an argument that can never be settled, do you really think if magically the 1991 team could play the 2017 team they would beat them? I would think not, just because I think the players are bigger, stronger and overall faster. The issue would be what set of rules they would play by as the teams were/are obviously built differently. 91 skins team was dominant even though the NFCE was really good that year.
Gents, we are all friends and I am a reasonable man. Let’s all agree that if the Eagles win out they are in the discussion for most dominant teams of all time; we don’t need to definitely proclaim them as the greatest team of all time right now. Plenty of time for that later for the football historians.
ILikeBilly
The Benchwarmer
11 hours ago, pointyfootball said:
Well in that sense, today's players are also softer. Rules have changed so much. Using 1991 rules, today's teams would all be walking wounded. Also, even though the eagles are good, they are only just better than a fully healthy Skins team. The 1991 Skins in 3 playoff games had a 61 point differential. We had #1 O and #1 D. Bigger, stronger, faster helps, but it wouldn't matter against a team like the '91 Redskins.
Voice_of_Reason
6 hours ago, Westbrook36 said:
If they go 17-1 and win the SB, we can talk. Hell, if the lose their final meaningless game against the cowboys and win the SB, we can talk about it.
But they have to win a bunch more games, including some tough outs against the Rams, Vikings, and probably either the Atlanta or Carolina in the playoffs.
If if they do it, hats off to them.
But it if not, they might go down Luke the 1998 Vikings who went 15-1 then choked away a playoff game against the falcons, and ended up in the Missing Rings “America’s Game” episode.
i kinda think Philly karma will lead to missing rings. But the future is still unwritten...
91 skins team was dominant even though the NFCE was really good that year.
Skins were a dominant team in '91, but I think they get overlooked somewhat even by Skins fans because of the lack of the signature win leading up to the SB. While the 82 team had the victory over Dallas, the 83 team the nail biter over SF, and 87 featured the Darrell Green leaping punt return at Chicago, the 91 team played two teams in Atlanta and Detroit which never really did anything of consequence in any other year during that timeframe. Within the division, Dallas was clearly ascendant, but the Eagles, despite having a great D, lost Randall Cunningham the first game of the season, and the Giants were in their first year of Ray Handley, who made the curious decision to start the season with Jeff Hostetler over Phil Simms. Joe Montana also was injured for the whole season in SF.
This isn't to discount the Skins dominance that season, but it might have been made a lot more interesting...................
You said earlier that our stomachs are churning because the thought disgusts us. What really disgusts us (if the Eagles make it to the SB) is having to root for either the Patriots or the Steelers.
TheGreatBuzz
I would totally be willing to have this conversation if I thought you would come back and have a discussion if they don't do well. But I think we all know you won't.
On 11/27/2017 at 12:43 PM, Westbrook36 said:
... if the Eagles win out ....
14 hours ago, Pape said:
Yes, I have a feeling we won't seeing Westbrook this week.
He's gone back deep undercover till the next Eagle win..... I mean till his mission is done.
If you lose like that to the seachickens with all of their injuries you might not do so much in the paloffs.
The Redskins beat them with about 1/2 a roster just a few weeks earlier.
Tom [Giants fan]
The Respected Opponent
The conversation about the Eagles being one of the greatest teams of all times did not last long.
8 hours ago, Tom [Giants fan] said:
Tom, regardless of the rest of the season, the 2017 Eagles are already the greatest NFC East team of all time, besting the 86 Giants, 91 Skins, or any of the Cowboys teams of the early-to-mid 90s.
Momma There Goes That Man
Well, looks like a likely torn ACL for Wentz.
Seems like hot young QBs that are called Black Jesus and now Ginger Jesus have bad luck. Maybe leave the Jesus nicknames alone for a bit.
TryTheBeal!
On 9/10/2017 at 5:53 PM, TryTheBeal! said:
This thread portends certain doom for the Eagles. I am thrilled.
Ever shall it be so...
I would have preferred to see them lose with Wentz. Cuts down on the excuses they can try to use.
Good thing for Philly is that they appear well set-up to at least get a first-round bye (although I would anticipate Wentz is done for the season) and have a fairly easy schedule the rest of the way....their toughest opponent might be the last game against Dallas, who might not have anything to play for. And it provides a potential interesting story for Foles, the former Eagles starter, to come in and lead the team in the playoffs.
Patrick Evidente
**** the Eagles. I hope they amputate Wentz's leg.
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מקרוביולוגיה מולקולרית סגל אקדמי בכיר
Email: martin@post.tau.ac.il
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Office: Green - Biotechnology, 216
1977-1978 B.Sc. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Biology
1980-1985 PhD. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Genetics
2003-present Full Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University.
2002-2004 Chairman, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University.
2000-2001 Visiting Scientist, Whitehead Institute, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, USA
1998-2003 Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University.
1994-1995 Visiting Scientist, Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
1992-1998 Senior lecturer, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University.
1988-1992 Lecturer, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University.
1985-1988 Research associate, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL., USA. Area: Homologous recombination in yeast
Other Appointments and Awards
1988 The Alon Fellowship Prize
1994-1995 Visiting Scientist, Department of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
1999 The Prof. Nathan Treinin Prize, by the Israel Cancer Association
1999-present Editor, Current Genetics.
2000-2001 Visiting Scientist, Whitehead Institute, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, USA.
2003-2013 Editor, FEMS Microbiology Reviews.
2006-2009 Board of Directors, The Genetic Society of Israel.
2007 The Tel Aviv University Prize for Research Excellence.
2008-present The Pasha Gol Chair for Applied Microbiology
2010-present Editor, Genetics Research International.
2011-present Editorial Board member, Molecular and Cellular Biology.
2011-present Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
2011-present Director, The Joan and Haim Constantiner Center for Molecular Genetics.
2012-present Editor, Journal of Fungal Genomics and Biology.
2012-present Editorial Board Member, Open Access Genetics.
2013-present President, Genetic Society of Israel.
The Kupiec laboratory uses “the awesome power of yeast genetics” to investigate basic universal processes that are very hard to study in other organisms. Our basic methodology involves Molecular Biology techniques. As yeast is today the best understood eukaryotic organism, with more than half of its genes with a known function/activity, the new genetic and molecular tools developed in yeast have jump-started a REVOLUTION IN BIOLOGY: Systems Biology. We are able, for the first time, to ask very basic questions about the way genomes are organized, genes interact, proteins talk to each other, etc. This genome-wide approach requires novel tools, which we are helping to develop in cooperation with people from Computer Science at TAU. Most of the essential pathways, complexes and genes involved in basic cellular processes are conserved in evolution, and human orthologs are present for most of the genes we study.
Here are some of the basic biological questions that we are trying to understand, using the baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) as a model organisms:
DNA repair: Our cells are constantly exposed to radiation and chemicals that cause damage to the DNA or even break the chromosomes in pieces. Even natural cellular metabolism creates oxidative stress and DNA damage. Luckily we have efficient mechanisms to repair the damage.
Stability of the eukaryotic genome: Normal cells have remarkably stable karyotypes. You can easily identify to what species a cell belongs, just by looking at its chromosomes. However, cancer cells lose this stability, and start accumulating translocations, deletions, amplifications, etc. Many of the endpoints of these rearrangements fall in repeated sequences (sometimes called “junk DNA”) that fill-up our genomes. What prevents a high level of chromosomal aberrations as a consequence of recombination between repeated sequences?
Telomeres: Telomeres are nucleoprotein complexes at the end of the eukaryotic chromosomes. We would like to know how do all these genes work together to regulate telomere length. Are there several pathways? Complexes? What are the interactions between the various elements? To answer these questions we are using a combination of Molecular Biology, Systems Biology, Genetics and Biochemistry. Bioinformatic models are used as a basis to plan possible experiments. The results are then incorporated into the model, to generate more predictions in a continuous cycle that progressively refines the model.
The TOR protein kinase: The TOR protein kinases exhibit a conserved role in regulating cellular growth and proliferation. We would like to answer some of the following questions: What is the function of each of the Tor proteins? What is the nature of their interactions? How are they regulated? Why are mammalian cells and budding yeast so affected by rapamycin (an anticancer drug in clinical trials), whereas fission yeast can grow in its presence? How do the Tor proteins integrate signals from the environment to know when to grow? And how do they talk to the cell cycle machinery to coordinate growth (in volume) with cell division?
For a full list
Tuller T, Kupiec M. and E. Ruppin (2009) Co-evolutionary networks of genes and cellular processes across fungal species. Genome Biol. 10:R48.
Schonbrun, M., Laor D., Lopez-Maury-L., Bahler J., M. Kupiec and Weisman R. (2009) The TORC2 complex regulates DNA damage response, gene silencing, and telomere length maintenance. Mol. Cell. Biol., 29(16):4584-4594.
Yosef N., Ungar L., Zalckvar E., Kimchi A., Kupiec M., Ruppin E., Sharan R. (2009) Toward accurate reconstruction of functional protein networks. Mol Syst Biol. 5:248.
Mitchell A., Romano G.H., Groisman B., Yona A., Dekel E., Kupiec M., Dahan O. and Y. Pilpel (2009) Adaptive prediction of environmental changes by microorganisms. Nature 460(7252):220-224. News and views in: Nature (2009) 460(7252):181 and Cell 138:409 (2009).
Mazor, Y. and M. Kupiec (2009) Developmentally regulated MAPK pathways modulate heterochromatin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nucl. Acid Research 37(14):4839-4849.
Ungar, L., Sela, Y., Yosef, N., Sharan, R. Ruppin, E. and M. Kupiec (2009) A genome-wide screen for essential yeast genes that affect telomere length maintenance. Nucl. Acid Research 37(12):3840-3849.
Yosef N., M. Kupiec, Ruppin E. and Sharan R. (2009) A complex-centric view of protein network evolution. Nucleic Acid Research 37(12):e88.
Fridman, V., Gerson-Gurwitz A., Movshovitz N., Kupiec, M. and L. Gheber (2009) Midzone organization restricts interpolar microtubule plus-end dynamics during spindle elongation. EMBO Reports, 10: 387-393.
Tuller, T., Rubinstein U., Bar D., Gurevitch M., Ruppin E. and M. Kupiec (2009) Higher-order genomic organization of cellular functions in yeast. J Comput Biol. 16: 303-316.
Parnas O, Zipin-Roitman A, Mazor Y, Liefshitz B, Ben-Aroya S, M. Kupiec (2009) The ELG1 clamp loader plays a role in sister chromatid cohesion. PLoS ONE 4: e5497.
Agmon, N., Pur, S., Liefshitz, B. and M. Kupiec (2009) Analysis of repair mechanism choice during homologous recombination. Nucl. Acid Res. 37: 5081-5092.
Tuller, T., Ruppin E. and M. Kupiec (2009) Properties of untranslated regions of the S. cerevisiae genome. BMC Genomics, 10: 391-398.
Tuller, T. Birin, H., Gophna, U., Kupiec, M. and E. Ruppin (2010) Reconstructing Ancestral Genomic Sequences by Co-Evolution. Genome Research 20: 122-132.
Ben-Aroya, S., Agmon N., Yuen, K., Kwok, T, McManus K., Kupiec M. and P. Hieter (2010) Proteasome nuclear activity affects chromosome stability by controlling the turnover of Mms22, a protein important for DNA repair. PLoS Genetics 6: e1000852.
Romano, G.H., Gurvich Y., Lavi O., Ulitsky I., Shamir, R. and M. Kupiec (2010) Different sets of QTLs affect fitness variation in yeast. Molec. Systems Biology 6:346-357.
Tuller, T., Waldman Y., Kupiec M. and E. Ruppin (2010) Translation Efficiency Is Determined By Both Codon Bias and Folding Energy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107:3645-3650.
Gat-Viks, I., Meller, R., Kupiec, M. and R. Shamir (2010) Understanding gene sequence variation in the context of transcription regulation in yeast. PLoS Genetics 6: e1000800.
Tuller, T., Felder, Y. and M. Kupiec (2010). Discovering local patterns of co-evolution: computational aspects and biological examples. BMC Bioinformatics 11: 43- 62.
Parnas O., Zipin-Roitman, A., Pfander, B., Liefshitz, B., Mazor, Y., Ben-Aroya, S., Jentsch, S. and M. Kupiec (2010) Elg1, an alternative subunit of the RFC clamp loader, preferentially interacts with SUMOylated PCNA. EMBO J. 29: 2611 - 2622.
Parnas, O. and M. Kupiec (2010) Establishment of sister chromatid cohesion: The role of the clamp loaders. Cell Cycle 9: 4615. (Invited comment on: Maradeo et al., “Rfc5p regulates alternate RFC complex functions in sister chromatid pairing reactions in budding yeast”. Cell Cycle 2010; 9:4370–4378.
Tuller, T., Birin H., Kupiec, M., and Eytan Ruppin (2010) Reconstructing Ancestral Genomic Sequences by Co-Evolution: Formal Denitions, Computational Issues, and Biological Examples. Journal of Computational Biology, 17:1327-1344.
Barzel A, Naor A, Privman E, Kupiec M. and U. Gophna (2011) Homing endonucleases residing within inteins: evolutionary puzzles awaiting genetic solutions. Biochem Soc Trans. 39:169-73.
Zhang X., Kupiec, M., Gophna, U. and T. Tuller (2011) Analysis of Co-evolving Gene Families Using Evolutionarily Reciprocal Orthologous Modules. Genome Biology and Evolution 3:413-423.
Barzel, A., Privman, E., Pe’eri, M., Naor, A., Sachar, E., Burstein, D., Lazary, R., Gophna, U., Pupko, T. and M. Kupiec (2011) Native homing endonucleases can target conserved target sites in humans and in animal models. Nucleic Acid Research 39: 6646-6659.
Tuller, T., Girshovich, Y., Sella Y., Kreimer A., Freilich S., Kupiec, M., Gophna, U. and E. Ruppin (2011) Association between translation efficiency and horizontal gene transfer within microbial communities. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Feb 22.
Barzel, A., Obolski U., Gogarten, J.P., Kupiec, M. and Hadany L. (2011) Home and away, the evolutionary dynamics of homing endonucleases. BMC Evol Biology 11: 324.
Agmon, N., Yovel, M., Harari, Y., Liefshitz, B. and M. Kupiec (2011) The role of Holliday Junction resolvases in the repair of spontaneous and induced DNA damage. Nucleic Acid Research 39: 7009-7019.
Reuveni, S., I. Meilijson, M. Kupiec, E. Ruppin and T. Tuller (2011). Genome-Scale Analysis of Translation Elongation with a Ribosome Flow Model. PLoS Comput Biol. 7(9):e1002127.
Parnas, O., Amishay R., Liefshitz, B., Zipin-Roitman A., and M. Kupiec (2011) Elg1, the major subunit of an alternative RFC complex, interacts with SUMO-processing proteins. Cell Cycle 10: 17.
Liefshitz, B. and M. Kupiec (2011) The roles of RSC, Rad59 and cohesin in DSB repair. Mol Cell Biol. 2011 Oct;31(19):3921-3. Epub 2011 Aug 15. (invited commentary on Oum et al., “RSC facilitates Rad59-dependent homologous recombination between sister chromatids by promoting cohesin loading at DNA double strand breaks”. Mol Cell Biol. 2011 Oct;31(19):3924-37. Epub 2011 Aug 1)
Tuller, T., Veksler, I., Gazit, N., Kupiec, M., Ruppin, E., M. Ziv-Ukelson (2011) Composite effects of gene determinants on the translation speed and density of ribosomes. Genome Biol. 12: R110.
Ungar, L., Harari, Y. Toren, A. and M. Kupiec (2011) Tor Complex 1 controls telomere length by regulating the level of Ku. Current Biology 21: 2115-2120.
Freilich, S., R. Zarecki, O. Eilam, E.Shtifman-Segal, C.S.Henry, M. Kupiec, U. Gophna, R. Sharan and E. Ruppin (2011) Competitive and cooperative metabolic interactions in bacterial communities. Nature Communications 2:589. doi: 10.1038/ncomms1597.
Harari, Y., Rubinstein L. and M. Kupiec (2011) An anti-checkpoint role for Rif1 (invited commentary on Xue et al: “A novel checkpoint and RPA inhibitory pathway regulated by Rif1”. PLoS Genet 7: e1002417) PLoS Genetics e1002421. Epub 2011 Dec 15.
Ben-Shitrit, T., Yosef, N., Shemesh, K., Sharan, R., Ruppin, E., and M. Kupiec (2012) Systematic identification of gene annotation errors in the widely used yeast mutation collections. Nature Methods 9: 373-378. News and Views in: Baryshnikova, A. and B. Andrews (2012) Neighboring-gene effect: a genetic uncertainty principle. Nature Methods 9: 341–343.
Dominissini, D., Moshitch-Moshkovitz, S.,Schwartz, S., Salmon-Divon, M., Ungar, L., Osenberg, S., Cesarkas, K., Jakob-Hirsch, J., Amariglio, N., Kupiec, M., Sorek, R., and G. Rechavi (2012) Topology of the human and mouse m6A RNA methylomes revealed by m6A-seq. Nature 485: 201-206.
Silberberg Y, Gottlieb A, Kupiec M., Ruppin E, Sharan R. (2012) Large-scale elucidation of drug response pathways in humans. J Comput Biol. 19:163-174.
Kupiec, M. and R. Weisman (2012) TOR links starvation responses to telomere length maintenance. Cell Cycle 11: 1-4.
Gazy, I. and M. Kupiec (2012) The importance of being modified: PCNA modification and DNA damage response. Cell Cycle. 2012 Jul 15;11(14).
Mazón G., Lam A.F., Ho C.K., Kupiec M. and L.S. Symington (2012) The Rad1-Rad10 nuclease promotes chromosome translocations between dispersed repeats. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 19: 964-971. nsmb.2359.
Yona,A.H., Manor,Y.S., Romano,G.H., Herbst,R.H., Mitchell,A., Kupiec,M., Dahan, O. and Y. Pilpel (2012) Chromosomal duplication is a transient evolutionary solution to stress. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 109:21010-21015.
Singh, S., Shemesh, K., Liefshitz B. and M. Kupiec (2013) Genetic and physical interactions between the yeast ELG1 gene and orthologs of the Fanconi Anemia pathway. Cell cycle 12:1625-1636.
Agmon, N., Liefshitz, B., Zimmer, C., Fabre, E. and M. Kupiec (2013) Effect of nuclear architecture on the efficiency of double-strand break repair. Nature Cell Biology 15: 694-699.
Gazy, I. Liefshitz, B., Bronstein, A., Parnas, O., Atias, N., Sharan, R. and M. Kupiec (2013) A genetic screen for high-copy-number suppressors of the synthetic lethality between elg1 and srs2 in yeast. Genes, Genomes and Genetics 3: 917-926.
Schonbrun , M., Kolesnikov, M., Kupiec M. and R. Weisman (2013) TORC2 is required to maintain genome stability during S phase in fission yeast. Journal of Biochemical Chemistry 288:19649-19660.
Romano, G-H, Harari, Y., Yehuda, T., Podhorzer, A., Rubinstein, L., Shamir, R., Gottlieb, A., Silberberg, Y., Pe’er D., Ruppin, E., Sharan, R. and M. Kupiec (2013) Environmental stresses disrupt telomere length homeostasis. PLoS Genetics, 9(9):e1003721. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003721.
Harari, Y., Romano, G.-H., Ungar, L. and M. Kupiec (2013) Nature vs nurture: Interplay between the genetic control of telomere length and environmental factors. Cell Cycle 12:3465-3470.
Gazy, I. and M. Kupiec (2013) Genomic instability and repair mediated by common repeated sequences. Proc. Natl. Academy Sci. USA. 110:19664-19665. Comment on Aksenova AY, et al. (2013) Genome rearrangements caused by interstitial telomeric sequences in yeast. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110:19866-19871.
Laor, D., Cohen, A., Pasmanik-Chor, M., Oron-Karni, V., Kupiec, M. and R. Weisman (2013) Isp7 is a novel regulator of amino acid uptake in the TOR signaling pathway. Mol. Cell. Biol., in press.
Kupiec, M. (2014) Biology of telomeres: lessons from budding yeast. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, in press.
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Russian diplomat pulled over for apparent drunk driving in Klaipėda
A Russian diplomat was pulled over for apparent drunk driving in the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda on Wednesday evening, but refused to take a breathalyzer test, the Police Department said.
The third secretary of Russia's Consulate General, identified by his initials A. T., smelled of alcohol when his VW Jetta car with diplomatic number plates was stopped by police in Šiaulių Street.
The 32-year-old man refused a breathalyzer test by citing diplomatic immunity.
The car was driven back to the consulate by a member of the staff.
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Datel: Unlicensed Product Showcase
Written by JMC47 on March 9, 2015
/ Last update on March 10, 2015 / Short link / Forum thread
Software licensing has been a way to control not only the quality of products for game consoles, but also limit what developers could do. From the Nintendo Entertainment System onward, Nintendo has used a variety of lockout chips and DRM in order to make sure all of the products on their consoles had the Nintendo Seal of Approval. Their efforts kept quality much higher than in the previous era of gaming, but did not completely stomp out all unlicensed products and games. For the GameCube, Wii, and many other consoles, Datel has been the most prominent producer of unlicensed hardware and software. They have survived a rough market to make a claim to fame with popular products such as Action Replay!
These range from extremely interesting utilities to minigame collections. So, enjoy a quick look at some of this rarely emulated software!
Unlicensed Datel Software Showcase
Dolphin Progress Report: February 2015
Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on March 1, 2015
/ Last update on March 1, 2015 / Short link / Forum thread
One of the topics of talk that have been hitting up message boards and social media is that of when the next official Dolphin release is coming up. So much has happened in the past year that it's kind of crazy. Huge speedups that hit the core of the emulator, crazy accuracy improvements, hundreds of games with higher compatibility ratings and much more. Most people by default recommend the latest development builds over Dolphin 4.0.2.
But a release build is about more than the latest and greatest features. It's about putting the absolute best you have in terms of stability and usability as well. Yes, the latest development builds are fast, they're accurate, but they also have loads of issues that need to be taken care of before a release can even be considered. The fact of the matter is that a lot of people still use our older releases, and we don't want another case where a release has huge, advertised features broken. Dolphin 4.0 was a lesson that we'd rather be safe than sorry and have to release multiple hotfix builds shortly after a much anticipated release.
We understand that everyone is eager for the next official version, but when there are so many known critical issues on the tracker and others still getting discovered, it's just not the right time for release. While a lot of the issues have owners, due to the volunteer nature of the project, many of the problems aren't currently being worked on. For a lot of the issues, a little time and expertise may be enough to narrow down and fix release critical issues. For our users? Keep finding mistakes in the emulator and making developers aware. Especially when there are so many new features being added.
With that in mind, let's get to a more fun topic; February's Notable Changes!
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Alix of Hesse, 6th of June 1872
By Mmeguillotine @MmeGuillotine
The Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia was born on this day, 6th June 1872 to Grand Duke Louis VI of Hesse and by the Rhine and his wife, Princess Alice, who was the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
The baby princess was given the name of Alix Viktoria Luise Beatrice. Her first name was a Germanic approximation of her mother’s name and the middle names honoured her formidable grandmother and three of her aunts.
I can see similarities between Alix’s childhood and that of Marie Antoinette, a Queen for whom she was later to have much sympathy. Both were doted on by their parents, both came from large families (Alix was the sixth of seven children) both had a sister with whom they were especially close (in Alix’s case this was princess Marie); in the background of both their childhoods there is a powerful female matriach (Alix was a favourite granddaughter of Queen Victoria) and both experienced the loss of siblings in childhood (a haemophiliac brother died after a tumble from a window and princess Marie died at the age of four in the same diptheria bout that killed their mother).
Although Alix’s family nickname was ‘Sunny’, later photographs of her as a child always seem to show her as melancholy with sad wide eyes and a downturned mouth. Of course, you never see anyone precisely dancing jigs of joy in Victorian photography and most photographs of the young Alix seem to show her in mourning for her mother and sister, but even so she was clearly a thoughtful, serious minded girl.
After the death of Princess Alice, Queen Victoria took her motherless Hesse grandchildren under her wing and it seems that little Alix was her especial favourite as she took a great interest in the girl’s education and future well being. This even involved trying to matchmake Alix with her grandson Eddy, the Duke of Clarence who was expected at that time to become King. However, Alix gracefully turned the match down and we are told that Queen Victoria respected her for standing up to her.
Why was pretty princess Alix so determined not to marry her cousin, Eddy? Well, it seems that a few years previously, at the wedding of her sister Elizabeth to Grand Duke Sergei of Russia in St Petersburg in 1884 she had met the young Tsarevich Nicholas, heir to the Russian throne and they had developed a bit of a crush on each other.
Despite the annoyances of geography and also Nicholas’ parents being opposed to the match (despite the fact that his father, Tsar Alexander was Alix’s godfather, they weren’t keen on the prospect of a German bride and wanted him to marry Princess Hélène d’Orléans who, ironically, was madly in love with Alix’s spurned cousin Eddy, the Duke of Clarence) the young Nicholas and Alix eventually got their way and became engaged in April 1894.
It wasn’t exactly a popular match – princess Alix had paid frequent visits to the Russian court over the years as her blooming romance with Nicholas flourished and grew and her shy, quiet manners had not exactly won her fans in the rather brash and flamboyant world of Russian high society. Also, Nicholas’ father had remained opposed to the bitter end and had only changed his mind when his son, madly in love with Alix by this point, informed him that he would never marry and would become a monk if he could not have his heart’s desire.
Nicholas’ father died during their engagement and they were married less than a month later on the 26th of November 1894. It was clearly a love match and the young couple were obviously devoted to each other – Alix may have been shy and diffident with most people, but her love for Nicholas was incredibly passionate and wholehearted. It’s as though the sad girl of the old photographs exploded into life and happiness when she was joined to the love of her life and their letters to each other bear a testament to their mutual adoration, which was so rare for a royal couple at that time.
Like Marie Antoinette before her, I think that Alix was one of those very shy people who blossom when in the company of the people that they truly love and care for but seem aloof, cold and haughty to everyone else. It’s bad enough being like that when one is a private person and able to hide away from the world (as both women eventually contrived to do) but for a Queen and Empress, forced to meet strangers and be smiling and sociable at all times, this must have been painful indeed.
Like Marie Antoinette, Alix was unpopular both in the country as a whole and at her new husband’s court because of her German background and what they saw as her aloof ways, which made it impossible to really get to know her. Their positions demanded that they allow themselves to become public property with every detail of their lives examined and observed but both women were equally determined to resist this – preferring instead to pour their energies into their private lives and children.
I find it particularly sad that both women were actually really keen on charitable work and helping people and were also both frustrated by the luxurious and ceremonial trappings of their lives but nonetheless had (and still have) a reputation for being uncaring to the point of callousness about the ordinary people that they longed to assist and for being in avaricious thrall to the lifestyle that they never felt completely comfortable with.
Sadly and tragically for both, the similarities don’t end there…
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Abderrahmane Sissako
Sissako at the 2016 César award
(1961-10-13) 13 October 1961 (age 58)
Kiffa, Mauritania
Film director, screenwriter, producer
Abderrahmane Sissako (born 13 October 1961) is a Mauritanian-born Malian film director and producer. His film Waiting for Happiness (Heremakono) was screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival official selection under Un Certain Regard,[1] winning the FIPRESCI Prize. His 2007 film Bamako received much attention. Sissako's themes include globalisation, exile and the displacement of people. His 2014 film Timbuktu was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival[2] and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[3]
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Biography[edit]
Soon after his birth Sissako's family emigrated to Mali, his father's country, where he completed part of his primary and secondary education. Sissako returned briefly to Mauritania, his mother's land, in 1980. Then he left for Moscow, where he studied cinema at the VGIK (Federal State Film Institute) from 1983 to 1989. Sissako settled in France at the beginning of the 1990s.
Besides his work as a director, he also works as a cultural advisor for Mauritanian head of state Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.[4]
1990 Sex et perestroïka Assistant director Directed by François Jouffa & Francis Leroi
1991 Le jeu Director & Writer Short
1993 Oktyabr Director & Writer Short
1995 Petite météorologie ou Sept histoires de temps Actor Short directed by Charles Castella
Molom, conte de Mongolie Production designer Directed by Marie-Jaoul de Poncheville
1997 Africa Dreaming Director TV Series (1 Episode)
Documenta X - Die Filme Director Directed with Charles Burnett, Harun Farocki and Aleksandr Sokurov
1998 La Vie Sur Terre Director, Writer & Actor San Francisco International Film Festival - Golden Spire
Fribourg International Film Festival - Ecumenical Jury Award
Fribourg International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention
Fribourg International Film Festival - Grand Prix
Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou - Air Afrique Special Award
Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou - INALCO Award
Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou - Special Mention
Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou - TELCIPRO Award - Feature Film
Taormina Film Fest - Silver Charybdis
Rostov-Luanda Director & Writer Documentary
Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film - Best Documentary Award - Special Mention
2002 Waiting for Happiness Director & Writer Cannes Film Festival - Foreign Cineaste of the Year
Cannes Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema - Best Film
Gijón International Film Festival - Special Jury Award
Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film - Youth Jury Emile Cantillon Award
Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou - Grand Prize - Etalon de Yennega
Paris Biennal of Arab Cinema - IMA Grand Prize
Nominated - Gijón International Film Festival - Grand Prix Asturias - Best Feature
Nominated - Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film - Golden Bayard - Best Film
Abouna Executive producer Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
2003 Le silence de la forêt Producer Directed by Bassek Ba Kobhio & Didier Ouenangare
Malenkie lyudi Producer Directed by Nariman Turebaev
2006 Bamako Director, Writer, Producer & Actor Lumières Award for Best French-Language Film
International Istanbul Film Festival - FACE Award
Festival Paris Cinéma - Audience Award
Daratt Producer Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
2008 8 Director & Writer Directed with Jane Campion, Gael García Bernal, Jan Kounen, Mira Nair, Gaspar Noé, Gus Van Sant & Wim Wenders
Stories on Human Rights Director Directed with Marina Abramović, Sergei Bodrov, Shira Geffen, Jia Zhangke, Etgar Keret, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Pipilotti Rist, Walter Salles, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jasmila Žbanić...
2010 Je vous souhaite la pluie Director TV Short
2014 Timbuktu Director & Writer César Award for Best Film
César Award for Best Director
César Award for Best Original Screenplay
Cannes Film Festival - François Chalais Prize
Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Lumières Award for Best Film
Lumières Award for Best Director
Chicago International Film Festival - Best Director
Globes de Cristal Award - Best Film
African-American Film Critics Association - Best World Cinema
Jerusalem Film Festival - Best Feature
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics - Best Film
Grand Prix de l'UCC
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Nominated - Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or
Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Nominated - Cairo International Film Festival - Best Arabic Film
Nominated - Louis Delluc Prize - Best Film
Nominated - Hamburg Film Festival - Art Cinema Award
Jury[edit]
In addition to feature films and short films, Sissako has served on the jury of the Premiers Plans festival in Angers in January 2007.
2000: 53rd Cannes International Film Festival (jury member, Cinéfondation and short films section)
2003: 56th Cannes International Film Festival (jury president, Un Certain Regard section)
2014: 36th Moscow International Film Festival (jury member, main competition section)
2015: 68th Cannes International Film Festival (jury president, Cinéfondation and short films section)
Thomas Sotinel, « Abderrahmane Sissako. Pour en finir avec le cinéma du Nord », Le Monde, 21 octobre 2006, p. 19
Samuel Lelièvre, « Les cinémas africains, Abderrahmane Sissako et les frontières du monde », CinémAction, no. 137, 2010, pp. 182–185.
^ "Festival de Cannes: Waiting for Happiness". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
^ "2014 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
^ "Oscars 2015". Oscars 2015: what will win best foreign language film?. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
^ Abderrahmane Sissako, une imposture mauritanienne Archived 2015-03-10 at the Wayback Machine, Mondafrique, 20 February 2015.
Abderrahmane Sissako on IMDb
Interview: Abderrahmane Sissako with Kwame Anthony Appiah
Sight and Sound, Film of the Month: Bamako
A Fragmented Epistemology: The Films of Abderrahmane Sissako
Sissako YouTube Interview, 2007
Films directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
Life on Earth (1998)
Waiting for Happiness (2002)
Bamako (2006)
Stories on Human Rights (2008)
Timbuktu (2014)
1976 Bertrand Tavernier
1977 Joseph Losey
1978 Alain Resnais
1979 Christian de Chalonge
1980 Roman Polanski
1981 François Truffaut
1982 Jean-Jacques Annaud
1983 Andrzej Wajda
1984 Ettore Scola
1985 Claude Zidi
1986 Michel Deville
1987 Alain Cavalier
1988 Louis Malle
1990 Bertrand Blier
1991 Jean-Paul Rappeneau
1992 Alain Corneau
1993 Claude Sautet
1995 André Téchiné
1997 Patrice Leconte / Bertrand Tavernier
1998 Luc Besson
1999 Patrice Chéreau
2000 Tonie Marshall
2001 Dominik Moll
2002 Jean-Pierre Jeunet
2004 Denys Arcand
2005 Abdellatif Kechiche
2006 Jacques Audiard
2007 Guillaume Canet
2009 Jean-François Richet
2012 Michel Hazanavicius
2013 Michael Haneke
2015 Abderrahmane Sissako
2016 Arnaud Desplechin
2017 Xavier Dolan
2018 Albert Dupontel
Mathieu Kassovitz (1996)
Cédric Klapisch (1997)
Luc Besson (1998)
Erick Zonca (1999)
Agnès Jaoui (2001)
Patrice Chéreau (2002)
François Ozon (2003)
Alain Resnais (2004)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2005)
Philippe Garrel (2006)
Pascale Ferran (2007)
Abdellatif Kechiche (2008)
François Dupeyron (2009)
Jacques Audiard (2010)
Roman Polanski (2011)
Maïwenn (2012)
Abderrahmane Sissako (2015)
Arnaud Desplechin (2016)
Paul Verhoeven (2017)
Robin Campillo (2018)
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Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, Recurring story elements
The party time traveling in Final Fantasy VIII.
Time is our greatest obsession. Who has not dreamed of returning to the past, of changing the future? Imagine the power. To see how our choices affect our lives, and then return to undo them. Endless possibilities. Imagine the freedom to cross time and journey through the ages. The freedom to change the past, and bend history to your will.
Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2
Time travel is a recurring motif in the Final Fantasy series, which focuses on carrying people through time and possibly allowing them to change their fate.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. (Skip section)
Final Fantasy Edit
Garland explains the time loop.
The Four Fiends, created from the power siphoned from the four elements, are tasked with sending Garland 2000 years into the past every time he is killed by the Warriors of Light. Once Garland is sent to the past, his fiends transfer what is taken from the four elements back to their master. After he has absorbed enough power, Garland sends the fiends, whom he has created in the past, to the future, where they drain from the four elements in the first place. This creates a time loop that allows him to live forever.
The Warriors of Light follow Garland and his fiends 2000 years back to the past and sever the time loop by defeating them in battle. This creates a new timeline with a Garland of a new reality awaiting the heroes.
Final Fantasy II Edit
Deumion's past is experienced firsthand in the Arcane Labyrinth.
The ability to time travel revolves around the desire to change the past and the wish to preserve a single moment in time and avoid an unwanted future. Ellone is a young woman with the power to transfer people's consciousnesses into other people's from the past. Although limited to people she has had contact with, Ellone hopes to change the past and prevent a series of events from happening. She discovers, however, that her attempted manipulations were a part of the causes that led to the events she wishes to erase, and learns that attempting to change the past in such a way is futile. She acknowledges that the information and new perspective gained by witnessing the past events can help one to alter the present and future.
Ultimecia amidst absorbing all time and space.
Ultimecia, a sorceress who lives far in the future, knows of a coming "prophecy" of her being defeated by a "Legendary SeeD". To prevent this, Ultimecia intends to compress time into a singularity with a form of magic known as time compression and absorb all that ever had and ever would exist, including all time and space, to become "a living god".
Using the Junction Machine Ellone, Ultimecia sends her consciousness back in time to possess and control past sorceresses. She controls Edea Kramer to pursue Ellone because the Junction Machine has a limit; she wishes to get even further back in time to start the time compression. After Edea is freed from Ultimecia's control, the latter possesses Rinoa Heartilly and then Adel. Adel is killed and Ultimecia possesses Rinoa, at which point Ellone sends Ultimecia's and Rinoa's consciousnesses back into the Adel of the past, and then brings only Rinoa back.
Teenage Squall and child Squall meet.
Ultimecia casts the time compression spell, but when Ellone severs the mental link she cuts Ultimecia off from the earlier time periods and leaves the spell incomplete. This allows a group of SeeDs from the present to travel through time, encounter Ultimecia in her realm, and kill her. As the time compression spell is broken and time begins to revert into its original form, one of the SeeDs, Squall Leonhart, ends up too far back in time and meets himself as a child. He plants the idea of forming the SeeD organization that would one day defeat Ultimecia, thus becoming the "Legendary SeeD" Ultimecia plans to avoid facing in the future.
Tidus initially believes that he has traveled 1000 years into the future after coming into contact with Sin and being taken to Spira. He later learns that the time travel was an illusion, as the city from which he hails from is a dream of the fayth.
Final Fantasy X-2.5 ~Eien no Daishō~ Edit
Yuna and Tidus are transported to a Besaid of 1000 years ago that greatly differs from the Besaid they know from their time.
Scattered throughout Vana'diel are numerous statues that resemble Atomos, called the "Cavernous Maws", which act as portals to twenty years into the past, around the time of the Crystal War's end. Lilisette uses the portals to prevent the events that would lead to her father's death, while Lady Lilith, a version of Lilisette who hails from a reality in which the Crystal War never ended, uses them to ensure the continuation of her future by erasing Lilisette's future.
Despite their efforts, neither erase the other future, and instead achieve a balance between the two realities. The goddess Altana had once rewritten the timeline to prevent its ruin.
The time traveling portal, Historia Crux.
The universe is divided in two halves; what could be called the mortal world, or the world of Gran Pulse and Cocoon, and the world of the dead, the unseen realm. Valhalla is the middle realm. Whereas beings are born, live, and die in the mortal world, Valhalla is a world of entropy that exists outside the timeline, a world without a past or future. Those who reside in Valhalla can see the span of the entire timeline by gazing into the mortal world.
The ability to travel in time originates from Goddess Etro who resides in Valhalla. The legends state that she places a piece of chaos, energy that seeks to return everything to entropy, into every human, giving them a "heart". Certain people possess more "heart" as a gift from the goddess than others, giving them greater affinity to chaos, and can enter the Historia Crux and travel in time. As Seeress Yeul explains to Serah in the Void Beyond: "The power to step outside the timeline. The power to witness the future. These gifts come from Etro. Her servants are known by her blessings."
Lead scenario writer, Daisuke Watanabe, has explained in an interview[citation needed] that because the goddess Etro saved Serah by releasing her from her crystal stasis she acquired powers normally inaccessible to humans, and this is why she can time-travel when passing through the Time Gates. Other people, namely Lightning, Sazh, and Snow, who were also saved from crystal stasis by Etro, also have the power to use the Historia Crux; however, Hope appears not to have this power.
Noel and Serah time-traveling.
Noel Kreiss hails from 700 AF, an era where humanity is extinct except for him. He prays for the goddess to grant him the gift of chaos so he may follow Caius Ballad to Valhalla. His prayer is answered and he is taken to Valhalla where he meets Lightning, Etro's champion who protects Etro's temple from Caius. Lightning asks for Noel to find her sister Serah, and sends him through a Time Gate to New Bodhum 3 AF.
For Noel and Serah to travel in time they use Time Gates and artefacts to open them. The Historia Crux is the crossroads of history, "the ability to step outside of the timeline" as Yeul puts it. Whenever a Time Gate to the Historia Crux is opened with an artefact writing in Etro's script briefly floats in the air, indicating a link to the goddess.
It may well be that the Time Gates are consciously created by the goddess, rather than things that arise out of paradoxes, as Snow Villiers is unable to follow Serah and Noel through a Time Gate despite being a time traveler himself, because the gate in question was not "meant for him". Because Lightning resides in Valhalla she can keep an eye on Serah and Noel's journey to solve the paradoxes in the timeline, and eventually leaves Valhalla through a Time Gate to meet them in New Bodhum 700 AF, although their encounter is brief.
Caius and Yeul entering a Time Gate.
Caius, who possesses the Heart of Chaos, wants to bring about the end of history. Because of the Heart of Chaos Caius can travel to Valhalla from where he creates paradoxes in the timeline to set the stage for a mass sacrifice to open Etro's gate. This would allow chaos seep into the mortal world, and transform the world into Valhalla. Caius cannot travel in time like Noel and Serah do, but he sends messages from Valhalla to his past self; this is why the Caius of 200 AF knows Noel.[1]
After manipulating the timeline to suit his needs, the city of Academia in 500 AF becomes so affected by chaos Caius is able to enter there from Valhalla. When he is about to destroy both the old and New Cocoons his plans are foiled by Serah and Noel and he opens a portal to Valhalla. After a gruesome battle on Valhalla's shores Noel's sword pierces Caius's Heart of Chaos. The paradox ends and the Time Gates vanish, marking the end of Serah and Noel's time-traveling journey.
Another method of time travel is invented by Hope Estheim who is unable to use Time Gates: a suspended animation capsule that can be used to travel forward in time.
In Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward the Illuminati's ultimate goal in the Alexander raid series is to take full control of the machine primal and utilize its time manipulating abilities to alter the flow of history and take control over the world. Alexander itself used these powers to see the best course of actions that would avoid it falling on the hands of evil, and manipulated events in such a way that he would ultimately be defeated by the Warrior of Light and be sealed away in the flow of time.
The battle against Alexander includes an intermission wherein the party members have to divert machinery that is readying to fire against them in the past; if the mechanic is not correctly executed, the shot wipes out the party,; succeeding makes the shot miss. This was seen in a previous cutscene, in which they miraculously dodged said attack, to the surprise of Quickthinx Allthoughts.
In Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers G'raha Tia travels from the future to avert the coming of the Eight Umbral Era. In the original timeline, after the events of Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood, the Eorzean Alliance, with the aid of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and the Warrior of Light, continued to impose defeat after defeat upon the Garlean Empire, forcing Emperor Varis to unleash the powerful chemical weapon known as the Black Rose. Due to the Flood of Light bringing a Rejoining of the First, the weapon's effects were vastly amplified by the overflowing light, turning it into a planet-wide catastrophe that nearly wiped out all life on the Source, even killing the Warrior of Light.
Two hundred years later later, remnants of the Garlond Ironworks, guided by historical documents detailing the Warrior of Light's exploits in the past—in particular of their actions in ending the Dragonsong War, as well as their battle with Alexander and Omega—found a way into the Crystal Tower.
The expedition group unsealed G'raha Tia, who was previously sealed within it. With their combined efforts, they build a time machine based on a design passed down by Cid Garlond. The machine, known as The Tycoon, is an artificial recreation of Alexander that combines its time-manipulation abilities with Omega's dimension-hopping capabilities. Using the Crystal Tower itself as a power source, they send G'raha Tia, and the tower itself, back into the First, one hundred years before the deployment of Black Rose, giving G'raha sufficient time to master the magics required to ultimately summon the Warrior of Light into the First and alter the course of fate.
This new timeline has three main differences over the original timeline that avert catastrophe. The absence of the Scions in the Source means that the war against the empire remains in a standstill, and forces Tataru Taru to call upon the aid of Estinien Wyrmblood, leading him into meeting Gaius van Baelsar and joining forces in sabotaging facilities producing the Black Rose chemical, further delaying deployment.
The Warrior of Light's triumph in pushing back the forces of light prevents the Rejoining of the First, weakening the Black Rose's effects even if the weapon is eventually used. Finally, Zenos yae Galvus recovers his original body from Elidibus and kills Varis, becoming the de facto ruler of the Garlean Empire.
Final Fantasy XV Edit
Ahead lies a future uncertain, yet sure is the astral memory, wherein the King may walk.
From Chapter 9 onwards, the party can use Umbra to "relive astral memories" of Lucis or, later, Altissia. This is purely a gameplay feature, however. If the player is having Cid upgrade their weapons, Cid will not call the party to come pick them up if they "travel to the future" to rest. When returning to Lucis, the day and night cycle is restored to what it was at the beginning of the game.
In the The War of the Lions version, Ramza Beoulve encounters Balthier from Final Fantasy XII. As Balthier explains he needs to return to the Cache of Glabados to put things back as they were, it can be assumed he was displaced in time. Ramza also meets Luso Clemens from Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift, still with his Gran Grimoire.
Luso opens the Grimoire.
Luso Clemens finds the Grimoire of the Rift that enables him to travel hundreds of years into the past to a time where Ivalice possessed all sorts of magicks, different races and technologies. Luso joins a clan and makes several friends in this magickal time, doing errands in every location and saving Jylland from the supremacy of clan Duelhorn and the dark ambitions of the Khamja organization. Every time an important event occurs the Grimoire writes down, in itself, the essential facts, creating something of a journal.
The great sage Lezaford tells Luso the only way he can return home is by completing his story at the time he finds himself in; he should live life to the fullest while in this Ivalice until his "job" is done. Upon defeating Illua and the monster from the Rift, Luso returns to his era, keeping the Grimoire.
The party can travel through time with the Talon and possessing the correct Talon Units, but they can only go to a specific eras. The effects of the flooding and its threat can be seen upon the world of the past, present and future.
After the Heroes of Light meet up with Rolan in Spelvia they find him consumed by monsters. They release him, but along with it the darkness trapped within Rolan is unleashed upon the world and the party is sent over a decade into the past to a time where they are just being born.
The party travels the world uncovering many mysteries that explain the events that took place in the original world, and the reasons the cities were tainted. The heroes defeat Chaos's minions, and Chaos himself, reverting the timeline into normal, and the heroes are sent back to their own world.
Time travel can be performed using the Compass of Space and Time invented by Altair. Kaiser Oblivion attempts to use the Compass to travel into the past and undo his own family's history, but is tricked into being sent into the distant future. In the second timeline, he uses the Compass to go to the future again, this time to banish the immortal Diamante.
The Adventurer and the player can both travel through time without any visible form of aid, manifesting as the player's ability to save and load the game. At the end of Chapter 4, the player travels back in time using the New Game Plus feature, allowing them to repeat the first four chapters for any missed asterisk jobs or to alter the timeline. At the end, the Adventurer travels back in time to give Tiz the hourglass at the start of Bravely Default and returns to the present afterward, forming a stable time loop. While traveling into the past, the Adventurer's clothes temporarily become green instead of their usual red.
Time is suspended while Reynn and Lann are within Nine Wood Hills or the Coliseum connected with it, allowing them to spend as much time there as they like before returning to the world of Grymoire with no time having passed there since they left. By visiting The Girl's Tearoom, Reynn and Lann may travel throughout time to intervene in battles, taking the place of those who would normally fight them. Following the battle, those whom the two intervened for might have limited awareness of the aid they had been granted, though the opponent will have no knowledge of anything unusual having happened.
Following the release of the Cogna into Grymoire, Reynn and Lann use this ability to great effect, intervening repeatedly throughout Grymoire on mass scale before the Cogna can wreak devastation upon the world. Following the game's ending, a shouted "No!" from Reynn reveals that she will not accept events as they happened and the sacrifice of her brother, Lann. Tama uses her remaining power to rewind time to the party's entry in the final dungeon, in the process altering events to a timeline in which she was never a part of their journey and Serafie handles all of the tasks that were set to her in the original timeline. The player then continues events in the altered timeline, working towards a better resolution for the world of Grymoire. The party is later able to restore Tama with the aid of the Girl Who Forgot Her Name from The Girls' Tearoom.
Although not strictly time traveling, the Phantom Village in Final Fantasy V can be visited in the present time even though the point of view of the inhabitants is 1,000 years in the past due to being locked between dimensions for that long. In the Interdimensional Rift, the same village appears frozen in time altogether.
Spoilers end here.
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The SpongeBob Musical
The SpongeBob Musical at Fox Theatre
Get ready to grab your family and friends to head on down to Bikini Bottom when The SpongeBob Musical arrives at the Fox Theatre Detroit from December 24th – December 29th. This show is the perfect holiday gift for SpongeBob fans and will be a fantastic way to spend the holidays with those you love.
Check out all the show information below and purchase your tickets to insure you get your seats. Plus we have a chance for one lucky winner to win 4 tickets to the opening night show on December 24th at 2 PM.
Show Information:
The critically acclaimed, award-winning The SpongeBob Musical, declared “Brilliant!” by The New York Times, will play the Fox Theatre in The District Detroit for 8 performances starting Tuesday, December 24 through Sunday, December 29 as part of the 2019-20 Theatre Series.
“Wonders pour from the stage in a ravishing stream of color and invention” (Time Out New York) as Broadway’s best creative minds reimagine and bring to life the beloved Nickelodeon series with humor, heart and pure theatricality in a neon-sparkly “party for the eyes and ears” (Daily Beast). Be there when SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face catastrophe—until a most unexpected hero rises to take center stage. This “creative explosion” (Broadway.com) is “nothing short of genius” says TheaterMania, so bring the entire family to celebrate friendship and cooperation and learn the power of unity and inclusion.
The SpongeBob Musical explodes with energy and features an original pop and rock-infused score by a legendary roster of Grammy® Award-winning songwriters. Led and conceived by visionary director Tina Landau (2018 Tony Award® nominee) and a Tony Award®-winning design team, the production brings the spirit of SpongeBob to life with humanity, heart, and pure theatricality. The SpongeBob Musical features a book by Kyle Jarrow, orchestrations and arrangements by Tom Kitt, musical supervision by Julie McBride and Tim Hanson, and choreography by Christopher Gattelli. The design team includes scenic and costume design by David Zinn, lighting design by Kevin Adams, projection design by Peter Nigrini, sound design by Walter Trarbach, hair and wig design by Charles G. LaPointe, make-up design by Joe Dulude II, foley design by Mike Dobson, and casting by Stewart/Whitley.
The SpongeBob Musical is a one-of-a-kind musical event with original songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper & Rob Hyman, John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T’s, They Might Be Giants, T.I., Domani & Lil’C and songs by David Bowie & Brian
Eno, and by Tom Kenny & Andy Paley. Additional lyrics by Jonathan Coulton. Additional music by Tom Kitt.
The Original Cast Recording is available now from Masterworks Broadway wherever music is sold and streamed. Explore the depths of theatrical innovation in The SpongeBob Musical, 2018 Best Musical winner of the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, where the power of optimism really can save the world.
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Show Time:
December 24th at 2 PM
December 26th at 7:30 PM
December 27th at 2 PM & 7:30 PM
December 29th at 12 PM & 5:30 PM
Location: Fox Theatre
Address: Detroit, MI
Tickets : $35 and up
Can’t wait to see if you won, purchase your tickets for The SpongeBob Musical today.
November 20nd – November 30th at 11:59 PM EST , 18+ US only
4 tickets to SpongeBob Musical December 24th at 2 PM
***Winner must be able to attend show in Detroit,MI. Transportation and parking are the responsibility of the winner. Winner has 24 hours to claim prize or a new winner will be drawn. ***
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StartupBootcamp: A global school
Posted on January 22, 2016 by denissefintech
Next week, StartupBootcamp will organize two Fintech Fast track events in Mexico DF and Sao Paulo.
StartupBootcamp is a global network of industry focused startup accelerators. It started in Europe, Denmark and today it is present all around the world with 13 accelerators in 10 locations (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, Eindhoven, Istanbul, London, Singapore, Miami and New York). Their three month programs give direct access to an international network of the most relevant partners, investors and mentors in their sectors. It won the admiration of Forbes and The Economist, praising their training system for entrepreneurs and an incredible high net worth network.
The StartupBootcamp (SBC) Fintech is the world’s largest accelerator for Fintech Startups. The three month acceleration is opened to worldwide startups with programs in London, Singapore and New York. The accelerator is the first one to receive support from leaders in the financial technology. These include 15 corporate partners, as Mastercard, Banco Santander, DBS Banks, PWC, Rabbobank among others. Yesterday, it was announced Deutsche bank decided to join the partner club too.
I would like to talk about the SBC New York program, whose applications are now open.
The startups selected will receive mentorship from entrepreneurs, investors and partners worldwide and will have access to international markets. In each batch, 10 teams are selected for a three month program to work in the New York facilities and each one will receive USD 20 thousand in cash. The program is led by Jesse Podell, a passionate about Fintech, who travels around the world to “taste” the Fintech ecosystem in other cities.
“Entrepreneurs need to think global from day one”, is a common advice from mentors. Building startups that is global-ready from the beginning will put entrepreneurs in the best position to deploy world changing solutions ahead of the competition. Countries with a small market as Colombia (47 million people) or Chile (17 million people) for example are already practicing this quote when they conceive the product because they want to reach more users. Big countries, as Brazil (200 million) or Mexico (120 million) have the reflex to focus on their local market, ignoring the global potential. International investors feel more confident when they deal with a startup that can be easily adapted to any country. A startup can start small, locally, but it has to have in mind that it needs to grow internationally: “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars”.
To be close to the moon, a startup should take every opportunity to be in touch with international accelerators, investors, partners or team members. The result of the melting-pot will bring concepts and approaches that can pivot the initial product or service. International actors definitively add constructive input because they see the problem differently and hence the solution. After all, deconstruction is what makes us to think outside the box.
Therefore, when international accelerators launch programs in the US, Germany, Singapore or Chile, for example, Latin American startups need to apply. Doing the path to be selected and joining other international participants, enrich the life of the startups and train them for new benchmarks. A first advice…Go to the StartBootcamp Fintech New York and apply.
Meanwhile, you can also apply to the StartupBootcamp Fintech fast-track events that they are organizing for the next week. (StartupBootcamp Fast Track Mexico and StartupBootcamp Fast Track Sao Paulo)
StartBootcamp will select 10 teams to perform a pitch during one day and receive feedback and mentorship from StartBootcamp NY team and known personalities from the startup local ecosystem.
This is another opportunity to gather the Fintech community in Mexico and Brazil to share experiences, woes and threats. It is also an opportunity to have a chat with the international experts to learn more about the accelerator program or to look for similar references of your product abroad. Don’t ignore the foreigner, he will definitively bring something new.
To end, shoot to the moon now! Latin American Fintech startups can also become global references. That’s our mission.
This entry was posted in Home, Investors and tagged Accelerator, Fintech Brazil, fintech mexico, Startupbootcamp, StartUpbootcamp Fast Track, startupbootcamp fintech, Startupbootcamp Fintech New York by denissefintech. Bookmark the permalink.
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FAFSA New Haven
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COLLEGE GOAL WEEKEND
Saturday, January 30, 2016 — 1 pm
Community Room at Gateway Community College (New Haven)
Hosted by: Gateway Community College & New Haven Promise
College Goal Weekend is a national initiative designed to provide incentive and aid for high school seniors to fill out their FAFSA application. Financial aid experts from several area colleges will be on hand to guide the process. It is very important to bring the required materials to complete the application. Click here for the checklist. High school juniors are also encouraged to come to discover the changes to the FAFSA timeline and requirements for the Class of 2017. Like this Facebook page for important updates, including parking information. Register for this event.
Naugatuck Valley Community College (Waterbury)
Hosted by: Naugatuck Valley Community College
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Hosted by: Middlesex Community College & Connecticut Talent Assistance Cooperative
FIRST GEN, NEXT GEN
Thursday, February 11, 2016 — 7 pm
Lyman Center For Performing Arts at Southern Connecticut State University
Hosted by: Southern Connecticut State University & Wells Fargo
This event is focused on first-generation students and families with the screening of the award-winning documentary First Generation, narrated by Golden Globe nominee Blair Underwood, followed by a panel discussion of such students and campus resource experts. This one-hour film illustrates how four high school students broke the cycle of poverty and brought hope to their families and communities. This event is important not just for high school seniors, but also juniors and sophomores as it is not too early to learn about college affordability. After the screening, there will be a panel discussion and the opportunity for students and families to ask questions. Like this Facebook page for important updates. Register for this event.
AN INSIDE LOOK AT COLLEGE COSTS
17 Hillhouse Avenue at Yale University (New Haven)
Hosted by: Yale University & New Haven Promise
Designed to be much more than another chance to get help filling out your FAFSA, “An Inside Look At College Costs” will be a joint presentation by representatives from Yale University and New Haven Promise. It will address the cornerstones of affordability, the instability of institutional and federal aid, the importances of wise choices and the timeline of expenses. Students and families will be able to ask questions and get answers from experts. Like this Facebook page for important updates. Register for this event.
To apply for the New Haven Promise Scholarship, please follow this link. No matter your plan, New Haven public school students who reside within city limits should take the 10 minutes to apply. Below is an outline of eligibility:
• Be a New Haven resident and attend New Haven Public Schools or approved public charter schools in the City of New Haven.
• Achieve a cumulative 3.0 grade point average (GPA) or better upon graduation from New Haven public schools.
• Maintain a 2.0 GPA during the years s/he is enrolled in post-secondary education to college.
Civic Behavior
• Have a positive disciplinary record.
• Complete the community service requirement.
• Achieve 90% attendance or better during high school (grades 9-12).
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Three reasons why sustainability in textiles is such a rage - Fashionnex
Three reasons why sustainability in textiles is such a rage
Gone are the days when sustainable clothing was shapeless, foggy, and drab-colored.
Available in a broad range of super-stylish designs, bright colors, and fun fabric prints, eco-clothing has stepped into prime time, and is on its way to gaining a firm foothold in the industry.
But, there's more to it. Clothing brands, in today's time, are keen to build trust in their products by becoming more environmentally and ethically conscious. They are focusing on style as much as sustainability.
Wondering, what's causing this spurt in the popularity of sustainable clothing?
Here are the top three reasons responsible for the rising demand for sustainable textile products.
1. Enhanced Awareness
About 75 percent millennials are turning away from fast fashion. Millennials are, in fact, acting as the driving force behind the green clothing revolution. They are willing to pay more for products that come from businesses that are making efforts towards sustainability.
73 percent consumers feel the need to be responsible for contributing towards sustainability.
87 percent employees are willing to take a pay cut if it means their company makes socially-conscious choices.
The aforementioned figures paint a bright future for the sustainable clothing industry. More people are looking for ways on ethical living and seeking more sustainable alternatives.
Highly visible campaigns such as Fashion Revolution are helping consumers understand the significance of ethical fashion, thereby inspiring them to drive a transformation in the fashion industry. What started as a mere hashtag campaign turned into 2015's number one trending campaign on Twitter, with 64 million users.
2. Reduced Carbon Footprint and Water Wastage
Aren't we all familiar with how fast fashion has outsize environmental impacts?
Besides requiring a massive quantity of water and chemicals, the fast-clothing-production system emits a substantial amount of greenhouse gases.
It takes about one-third of a pound of chemicals to produce enough cotton for one t-shirt. On the other hand, it requires roughly 20,000 liters of water to produce a single t-shirt and a pair of jeans.
Opting for organic fibers such as bamboo, hemp, linen, and organic wool, amongst others can help reduce the environmental footprint. What's more? It can also help trim the number of chemicals in one's life.
An increasing number of international brands such as H&M, Levi's, and Nike are bringing their A-game to the table by embracing the idea of reclaiming products for reuse.
H&M, in partnership with I:CO, collects used clothing by the bagful at each of its retail stores. Similarly, Levi's offers its customers a financial incentive for giving away their used shoes and clothes to them. Nike, on the other hand, in its aim of reducing the massive amount of recyclable waste, takes used shoes to reuse the soles for rubber athletics surfaces, such as tracks.
3. Benefits for People Involved in Its Making
Besides being more durable, organic clothing is also relatively more high-performance than its conventional counterparts. It further, ensures no compromise on the quality of clothing or the living and working conditions of people producing them.
The sustainable clothing system entails ethical production practices and is committed to bettering the fashion industry's global impact by:
being sweatshop free
ensuring fair wages and trade
promoting safe-working conditions
being cruelty-free
Weaving a Better Future
2016, the year of sustainable development, saw organizations such as Walmart Foundation awarding grants of nearly $3 million to universities for conducting extensive research on sustainable textile manufacturing. 2017 will witness the eco-friendly market strengthening with each passing day, and the conscious fashion movement improving its game. As consumers are taking steps to accommodate a sustainable sartorial style and clothing brands are stepping up to make a difference, the sustainable textile industry will see a substantial growth. Moreover, green fashion will help businesses avoid supply-chain disasters, thereby resulting in maximized profitability and reputation maintenance. Sustainability in textiles, thus, will help create drastic transformations, right from the supply chain through to the consumer and back again.
1. Nielsen.com
2. Fashionrevolution.org
3. Ico-spirit.com
4. Vancouversun.com
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FoodMeUpScotty
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London: World #27 & 2* The Ledbury
Posted by FoodMeUpScotty on September 16, 2017 October 4, 2017
I can’t think of too many restaurants that I’ve had both a strong desire to visit and an equally strong level of frustration to secure a table.
Given the reputation of The Ledbury, a perennial #Worlds50 Best Restaurant and Two Michelin Starred establishment, I can understand that it’s a little difficult to get into. However, the main reason that I’ve been unable to secure a table in the past is because you cannot get a table as a solo diner….
Frustrating!
But enter Steve and Gemma; mates who happen to have scored a table for two, while visiting London at the same time I was there for business. Serendipity stepped in and after a quick call to the restaurant, I was added to the table and was going to The Ledbury!
Further illustrating the popularity of The Ledbury, helmed by Australian born Brett Graham, our reservation wasn’t until 9:45. A small price to pay, really. I mean, the three of us were super excited and we’d planned a strategy to try to get into the dining room early 🙂
Our plan was to arrive at 9:15 and hope for the best. I’d decided to get to the restaurant a little earlier than that, with the aim of having a walk around the restaurant’s very posh Notting Hill location. My Uber dropped me off out the front of the Ledbury, which was in a very refined looking building that oozed class; and as I walked by the windows on my suburban tour, could see that it was clearly filled with the well heeled of London.
I’m not going to bore you with my Notting Hill adventure, but once my dining companions arrived we made our way into the dining room and only had to sit for a short time before our table was available; our plan had worked.
Which was a good thing; we were definitely going for the eight course tasting menu, which would make it a very late night for us….. And on a school night!
With only a short preamble from our waiter, we advised of any food allergies (I just noted that I hated tapanade and olive) and marched on with the tasting menu. But as with most tasting menus, we kicked off with a series of amuse bouche.
Our trio of small bites included a cute little seaweed crisp with a light cream made from mussels, light and crisp with a lovely salty hit; little spheres of foie gras topped with a mead jelly, a surprising crunch followed by hot creamy foie gras, the mead providing an interesting sweetness; lastly we were provided deer dumplings with a mustard hit, the small bite earthy and meaty at the same time.
There’s nothing like starting off a tasting menu with a bang; and that’s what happened with our first dish: Yellow Tomato Soup looked bright and vibrant in it’s bowl, the bright yellow of the soup and sorbet offset against the orange of the lobster. There was a sharpness to the soup that was a combination of the acidity of the tomato and the twang from a splash of chardonnay. I particularly liked the contrasting textures and temperatures on the dish, which offset the sweet lobster and sharp sorbet and soup.
Once our plates where whisked away, they were replaced pretty quickly with a porridge and oatmeal sourdough with virgin cultured butter that was super soft and fluffy. We had to actively stop ourselves from indulging in too much of the bread, it was seriously good, especially with the strong flavoured salty butter that melted into the air pockets from the bread!
I thought the presentation from the White Beetroot was a little boring; layers of thinly cut and clay baked beetroot were wrapped around some smoked eel, then topped with a small amount of English caviar. Textually, the dish worked, although I found the balance of the dish to be slightly out for my tastes. I didn’t really get enough of a salty hit from the caviar, which in turn meant that the white beetroot was just a little on the bland side. The smoked eel partially helped by giving an extra dimension to the flavour profile, but it just fell a little flat for me.
I was a little shocked by the presentation of our next dish! The Warm Pheasant’s Egg was nothing like the beautiful presentation I’d seen from IG feeds and photos from the restaurant online… Thankfully, what it lacked in visual appeal was made up for in it’s flavour (mostly). What the dish amounted to was egg, ham and truffle with texture coming from some croutons and celeriac. I quite liked the creamy pheasant egg yolk and the salty ham, I even liked the crunch of the croutons, but given the huge amount of Manjimup truffle, I didn’t get that earthy umami hit that I was expecting.
Our next dishes were the fish course, and I was surprised to be presented with a completely different dish to Steve and Gemma; while they received the Steamed Cod that was noted on the menu, I was given an alternative of Cornish Turbot. It took a few moments, but we eventually noted that there was a green sauce on the cod dish that turned out to be an olive emulsion. I was super happy that they’d given me new dish instead of ruining the flavour profile of their standard dish.
I’m normally not a huge fan of Turbot, manly because I think it doesn’t have a strong flavour and most times I’ve had it, the fish has been lost amongst the other flavours on the plate. Not so with The Ledbury dish, the accompanying fennel and elderflower sauce was light and sweet against the expertly prepared fish. I quite liked the subtle flavours which contrasted the relatively benign turbot.
I’d been enjoying our meal to this point, but apart from the kick off dish of Yellow Tomato Soup, there had really been no real standout dish that excited me. There had been good solid cooking, but hardly a dish that screamed #Worlds50best restaurant meal.
That changed when the Hen of the Woods was presented; the simple looking dish saw a chunk of Hen of Wood mushroom sitting on a potato emulsion which was surrounded by a rosemary sauce. This was a revelation, the strong earthy flavours of the well seasoned and perfectly cooked mushrooms exploded on the palate. The creamy potatoes and the slightly sharp hit from the rosemary just balanced the dish wonderfully. I was a little sad when I finally polished off the last morsel; then surreptitiously looked to see Gemma or Steve were not going to finish their servings…. Alas, they were equally rapt!
Head Chef Brett Graham is well known for his love of hunting game, so it was totally unsurprising to see Berkshire Roe Buck as our main protein. There were major components of the deer on display, a roe chop with a decent amount of smoked bone marrow sat alongside an expertly cooked and wonderfully rare loin; then there was the roe sausage that finished off the meaty part of the dish. Along for the ride were red grapes for acidity and red leaves and a puree – all red and giving an overarching look and feel of bloody red to the plate. I’m a huge fan of venison, so I liked the gamey meat on the plate, but can’t help thinking that some radically contrasting flavour or colour could have enhanced the dish.
By the time we’d finished our meat course, it was getting quite late and we were just about the last table left in the restaurant. So there was a noticeable increase in our interactions with the wait staff and the pace of meal picked up 🙂
A simple palate cleanser of passionfruit curd had been piped into a small bowl, a sauce of sauternes and olive oil completing the very uncomplicated dish. It worked though, the sharpness of the curd really reset my palate and had me ready for dessert.
I thought the Dark Chocolate looked quite boring on the plate, but thankfully the flavours worked well. There were huge cherry halves for sharpness, the stout ice cream was rich, creamy and delicious; and there were ‘chocolate rocks’ that were really quite surprisingly light. But as desserts go in a #worlds50best restaurant, it was a little underwhelming, and quite frankly would have been a disappointing way to finish the meal.
Thankfully though, we were given an extra little treat at the end of the meal by way of a second dessert (which was not on the menu). Our waiter eagerly explained that it would be shame for us to leave the restaurant without trying the signature dessert of Brown Sugar Tart! It was again very simply presented, but with much cleaner lines and more purpose than our first dessert, and I have to say it was a huge step up. The tart was sweet and textually great with a sugar crust sitting on top of the creamy caramel tart. The perfect quenelle of stem ginger ice cream that sat next to the tart was the perfect foil to its sweetness, a hint of biting ginger contrasting the sugary hit nicely.
It was a much more memorable way to finish the meal…. Now I’m not sure if this happens to every diner, or we managed to score it because 1) I was taking photos or 2) we were the last diners in the restaurant; but it would definitely be a better finish to the standard tasting menu.
We were last out of the restaurant and it was approaching midnight, so quite a late night for us and the staff. We’d really been hoping to get a tour of the kitchen or meet Brett, but neither of those things eventuated. We actually think Brett was not in the restaurant by the end of the meal, making a point that we had one of his home town boys at the table – surely enough to get the Newcastle native out of the kitchen??
I’ve had a bit of time to reflect on our meal at The Ledbury, and also quite a few close comparison meals from other restaurants currently in the Top 100 and I have to say that I was a little disappointed overall. There were a couple of dishes that really stood out for me, in particular the Yellow Tomato Soup and the Hen of the Woods, but the remainder of the dishes were nothing super exciting or new; albeit very well cooked.
I watched the live stream of the #Worlds50Best (I still don’t have an invitation!) this year and was well aware that there was a huge amount of disappointment on the face of Chef Brett when The Ledbury slipped from #14 in the world to #27….. But I honestly and totally understand the slip after dining in the restaurant. There are a heap of very hungry and creative chefs banging on the door of the Top 50; and I’m not really sure there was anything sufficiently outstanding that would stop the new interlopers overtaking The Ledbury (and other mainstays in the Top 50 for that matter).
I really wanted to love The Ledbury, and instead I just thought it was OK.
I’m glad I eventually was able to dine at the Ledbury, but I’m not sure I’d rush back anytime soon….
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March 31, 2015 By Fausta
Mexico: Uber driver attacked
while the passenger was still in the cab, at 4am:
Mexico City cabbies come to blows with Uber ride-share driver
Angry taxi owners used bats to attack a vehicle while the passenger was still inside
Before dawn, a group of taxi drivers used baseball bats to smash the windows and doors of an automobile that was transporting an Uber user in the city’s central Roma district.
The thugs are organized
The attackers are members of the Permanent Committee for Transportation in the Federal District, an organization made up of taxi drivers who came together last October to organize protest rallies against the online application, which is used to put passengers in touch with private drivers.
La mafia de taxistas Roma – Cibeles agarraron a batazos al @Uber que pedí a mi domicilio conmigo adentro @PGJDF pic.twitter.com/9nhEBaPL9P
— Edgar Molina ▼ (@Edgar_sk) March 20, 2015
Here’s a link to the Uber app.
Filed Under: Mexico
Argentina: Yet another Iran connection
Argentina’s current ambassador to the OAS allegedly held accounts in Iranian banks totaling nearly US$48 million.
Máximo Kirchner held bank accounts abroad with Nilda Garré, says financial sector investigator
The son of Argentina´s president, Cristina Kirchner, is said to have been a joint accountholder in million-dollar bank accounts in the United States and Cayman islands with Argentina´s former ambassador to Venezuela
On Sunday, March 29, the Argentinean newspaper Clarín published an article in which it claimed that Nilda Garré had held bank accounts in the United States and Iran. One of the accounts mentioned by the newspaper was with Felton Bank, headquartered in the American state of Delaware, and amounted to US$ 61.5 million between 2005 and 2010.
The Iranian bank account was said to have been opened on April 28, 2011. This occurred only three months after a secret meeting held in the Syrian city of Aleppo in which the foreign ministers of Iran and Argentina negotiated the creation of a truth commission that would serve to cover up Iranian participation in the 1994 attacks against the Jewish association Amia in Buenos Aires, according to the Argentinean prosecutor Alberto Nisman who was murdered in January of this year.
Nilda Garré has been an influential figure within the Argentinean government since the first days of the presidency of the late Néstor Kirchner. She was Argentinean ambassador to Venezuela, Defense minister, Security minister and is currently ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS). She denied to Clarín that she had maintained bank accounts in the United States and Iran.
Garré, who was Argentina´s Defense minister when the Iranian government had asked Chavez to persuade Argentina to share nuclear secrets in exchange for money, “was in charge of handling this matter with her counterparts in Iran and Venezuela.”
The Iranian accounts totaled almost US$48 million.
See also: Afirman que Garré habría manejado dos cuentas en Irán
Sospechas de triangulación de dinero e insumos a través de Venezuela
Llegaron a tener 48 millones de dólares. Antes habría tenido otra en un banco de EE.UU. La ex ministra lo niega.
Filed Under: Argentina, corruption, Iran, terrorism. Latin America
Would Peru go for Chavismo?
Mary O’Grady writes about the reasons behind Peru’s recent economic success: A market model that allows for
a vibrant consumer class that is entrepreneurial and creative
openness to imports
structural reforms that included ending a punishing system of import tariffs and quotas
fiscally conservative governance.
Still, the downturn in commodity prices is eating into growth and the slowdown that began last year continues. Market forecasts for GDP growth are in the 3% range for 2015. Peru’s economy is performing far better than most in the region, but lackluster is not what Peruvians have come to expect.
The obvious answer to this lethargy is more aggressive trade opening on key products like sugar and corn, more tax cutting and deregulation. But Mr. Humala’s popularity is sagging and he is unlikely to do anything bold. Meanwhile, opponents of economic freedom will turn slower growth into opportunity by linking stagnant incomes in the market economy and corruption.
As O’Grady points out, this means Peru Is Chavismo’s Next American Target
Corruption scandals give the left an opening in the 2016 presidential election.
On a seemingly unrelated topic,
The Obama administration insists on easing restrictions on Cuba’s merciless Communist dictatorship while Cuba’s dependence on Venezuelan oil goes bust. Once Cuba’s economy improves cosmetically (because you can bet those in power will not give up their acquisitiveness), the Cuban propaganda machine will use this as another tool in its propaganda arsenal against market economies.
No matter how ruinous Cuban-driven Chavismo is in real life; propaganda is the only thing Cuba’s regime is good at, and it is particularly effective in Latin America.
Face it: The fact that the article talks about Chavismo – instead of Castrocommunism – itself is a success for the Cuban propaganda machine; in reality, “The Venezuelan regime is a puppet controlled by the Cubans.”
Hernando de Soto’s excellent book, The Other Path, available on Kindle for under $10, and Ian Bremmer’s The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
Filed Under: business, Cuba, economics, elections, Fausta's blog, Latin America, Peru, Venezuela Tagged With: Fausta' blog, Hernando de Soto
The dismissed Nisman case Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
Argentina’s Federal Criminal Appeals Court refused to open an investigation into the complaint filed in January by former AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman four days before he was found dead
Federal prosecutor Germán Moldes will try to reactivate the investigation against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner next week
Accusations fly that
Prosecutor Viviana Fein is conducting the investigation into the death of Alberto Nisman “with an evident interest” of only showing that the AMIA special prosecutor committed “suicide.”
Meanwhile, Venezuelan defectors from Hugo Chavez inner circle are talking.
Falklands defence: Why is Argentina considering an aircraft deal with the Russians?
Russia’s potential deal to lease 12 long-range bombers to Argentina is causing Britain to rethink its protection of the Falklands. Why is Cristina Kirchner cosying up to Moscow?
Bolivian Mob Tries to Bury Alive Teacher Accused of Raping Girl
Brazil Economy to Shrink, Joblessness Rises
The Brazilian central bank’s view of the economy is getting worse, with the official unemployment rate rising in February, as Latin America’s largest economy continues to struggle.
After Ratings Reprieve, Brazil Faces Tough News
President Dilma Rousseff got a big break when Standard & Poor’s maintained Brazil’s investment-grade credit rating, but Friday’s coming report on economic growth is expected to bring the embattled president bad news.
Flood torrents devastate Peru and Chile
Two dead as flash flooding hits Chile Atacama desert region
Colombian Government, FARC Agree to Begin Land-Mine Removal
New IG Report: DEA Agents in Columbia Partied With Hookers Hired By the Drug Cartels
Obama’s Cuba Folly Unfolds
Half Million People March Against Violence in El Salvador
Britain to boost Falklands Islands defences
Jamaican Prime Minister Rebukes Gay-Rights Protestors At New York Townhall
39 Central American Migrants Rescued in Mexico from Human Traffickers
Panama Canal sets sights on new $17 billion expansion project
As it enters the final stretch of a massive expansion, the Panama Canal Authority is setting its sights on an even more ambitious project worth up to $17 billion that would allow it to handle the world’s biggest ships.
Workers are now installing giant, 22-story lock gates to accommodate larger “Post-Panamax” ships through the Canal, one of the world’s busiest maritime routes.
The project involves building a third set of locks on the Canal. It is being headed by Italy’s Salini Impregilo and Spain’s Sacyr, and should open on April 1, 2016.
Paraguay Farmers March in Asuncion to Demand President’s Resignation
Floods in Chile and landslides in Peru after heaviest rain in 80 years
Puerto Rico Prepares for Luxury Shopping Amid Recession
Puerto Rico Mayor Gets 5 Years for Bribery
Uruguay will no longer grant asylum to Guantanamo prisoners
The new Uruguayan government says it will no longer grant asylum to prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
In December, Uruguay gave sanctuary to six Arab men who had been held at the US base in Cuba for 12 years.
Opinion polls said most Uruguayans rejected the decision taken by outgoing President Jose Mujica.
Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa also said Uruguay would stop taking refugees from the Syrian conflict.
Does that mean they’ll kick Syrians Jihad Abu Wael Dhiab, Ali Husain Shaaban, Ahmed Adnan Ajuri, and Abdelhadi Faraj, Palestinian Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan, and Tunisian Adel bin Muhammad El Ouerghi out of the country?
“Normalization” update: Venezuelan Castro puppet seeks to humiliate U.S. at the Summit of the Americas but Maduro Says “Venezuela Is Ready” for Dialogue with U.S. Of course. In his spare time, he indulged in vandalism,
Alicia Bárcena’s blinders
The week’s posts and podcast:
Cuba {heart} Iran: Love-terror
How a German trial relates to the #Nisman case
Ecuador: Chinese loans, social media censorship
Today’s Colombian hookers update
Venezuela-Iran’s Aeroterror: Airplanes full of drugs & money
Podcast: US-Latin America: Cuba-Venezuela, elections in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina & more
Barrio 18 in El Salvador: A View from the Inside
The #Nisman Case and the Whitewashing of Iran
About that “Cuban side or the white side”
Thank you, Newsmax
Argentina: Beef for bombers
Today’s WSV* moment: Now Snowden wants to come back
Today’s immigration headlines
Ted throws his hat in the ring
Filed Under: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Carnival of Latin America, Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Iran, Jamaica, Latin America, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela Tagged With: Alberto Nisman, Falkland Islands, Fausta' blog, Jihad Ahmed Mujstafa Diyab
Colombia: FARC’s “Pedro Nel” dead
Key FARC commander found dead: Colombia military
The body of a key FARC commander has been found in a grave in south-central Colombia, the Colombian army claimed on Wednesday.
The commander of the guerrillas’ 66th front, “Pedro Nel,” was found in an improvised grave in the Planadas municipality in the Tolima state.
According to the military, the deceased guerrilla commander was severely injured in combat with a military unit in the nearby Neiva department on March 12 when his unit was collecting extortion payments.
However, Pedro Nel was able to escape and fled to Tolima where he died hours after the clash with the military, according to the National Army’s 9th Division.
Army commander General Jaime Asprilla told press that the death of “Pedro Nel” “seriously affects the Central Joint Command [block] of the FARC” that is active in the Tolima and Huila states.
The ringleader’s death is the second important combat kill reported by the army this month.
Better dead than in congress.
Filed Under: Colombia, FARC
You may recall that a few years ago I recommended this book:
Jon B. Perdue, director of the Latin American program at the Fund for American Studies, has written THE must-read book about our hemisphere, The War of All the People: The Nexus of Latin American Radicalism and Middle Eastern Terrorism.
The title refers to Hugo Chavez’s name for his war on U.S. “imperialism”, an ideological and political, violent war involving Iran, terrorist organizations from around the world, and drug money.
Now we have the Obama administration cozying up to Cuba and Iran (Ace has much more on the awful Iran deal), after having declared “the Monroe Doctrine is over.”
Meanwhile, Iran strives for hegemony.
Jaime Suchlicki writes on Cuba’s love for the ayatollahs (h/t Babalu):From Havana to Tehran
The strange love affair between a theocracy and an atheistic dictatorship.
Communist Cuba’s alliance with the Iran of the Ayatollahs dates to 1979, when Fidel Castro became one of the first heads of state to recognize the Islamic Republic’s radical clerics. Addressing then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, Castro insisted that there was “no contradiction between revolution and religion,” an ecumenical principle that has guided Cuba’s relations with Iran and other Islamic regimes. Over the next two decades, Castro fostered a unique relationship between secular communist Cuba and theocratic Iran, united by a common hatred of the United States and the liberal, democratic West — and by substantial material interests. (In the photo, Iran’s Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi and Cuba’s Vice Foreign Minister Marcos Rodriguez attend a wreath-laying ceremony on Revolution Square in Havana on Sept. 7, 2011.)
Suchlicki recommends that Washington address Havana’s troublesome alliances with rogue regimes; I’m cynical enough to say it already has.
Filed Under: Cuba, Iran, terrorism. Latin America Tagged With: Fausta's blog, War of All the People
So there you have it: a word that is OK to use when referring to the Clintons.
Read my article to find out which word.
Filed Under: Democrats, Hillary Clinton, politics
Roya Hakakian explains Germany’s commitment to justice:
Iran’s Assassins in Berlin
The determination of the prosecutor, the press, and the Iranian exile community made all the difference in Germany, where the courts ruled against Iran’s highest leaders.
[Investigator Bruno] Jost had a major advantage. He was investigating in the shadow of the World War II blunders and the fundamental transformations that the German justice system had undergone. By the time the trial was set to begin, Tehran was no longer the focus of popular attention. Now, it was Germany, herself, on trial, with something grand to prove about her own credibility and the authenticity of her reformation.
In contrast,
Whether the same spirit can cross over into another continent to move the course of the Argentines’ investigation is to be seen. But this much is for sure: The sum of the 1994 AMIA bombing, Iran’s lethal role, the misconduct of former President Carlos Menem, an alleged conspiracy to halt the nuclear negotiations, the mysterious murder of Alberto Nisman, and the alleged corruption of President Cristina Kirchner or the Argentine Intelligence all add up to something larger. It is about Argentina herself, the state of her republic, and whether the ghosts of its dirty past are truly buried or still lurking in the shadows.
This us a must-read.
Filed Under: Argentina, Fausta's blog, Germany, Iran, terrorism, terrorism. Latin America
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June 12, 2015 By Fausta
Cars: Private enterprise vs. government-owned
Private enterprise vs. government-owned: A consumer economy beats a command economy, all the way down the road.
Read my article here
Filed Under: cars, Iran, Venezuela Tagged With: Da Tech Guy Blog, Fausta's blog
Venezuela: And now for the Iranian cars
Venezuela, where gasoline is almost free but the cars are lousy.
Jesus Silvia’s report on Press TV:
Iran’s car industry has shown signs of enhancing its share in Venezuelan market. The sale of US cars in Venezuela’s market has decreased dramatically since President Nicolas Maduro banned American automakers from using dollars for transactions. Iranian vehicles made by Venirauto group seem to be an alternative to Venezuelans in times of a troubled market.
VENezuela + IRan + AUTO = Venirauto, which is also a handy pun for “coming by car” (venir en auto)
At the 0:40 mark, Francisco Espinoza, president of Venirauto group, “Our achievement is based on inspiration given by our late commander, Hugo Chavez. He wanted Venezuela to ally with Iran, and we’re doing so.”
Compare and contrast the very low-tech plant shown in the video with a Hyundai assembly plant at Kancheepuram district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu October 4, 2012,
or the Volvo trucks assembly plant in South Carolina
One of the reasons Iran is willing to build cars in Venezuela when foreign automakers are leaving is that, as early as 2007, Iran agreed to build platforms in a US$4 billion development of Orinoco delta oil deposits in exchange for Venezuelan investments.
As you would expect from a government-forced monopoly, the cars don’t look jazzy (emphasis added),
The company Venirauto, which is 51% Iranian and 49% Venezuelan, is producing two different models. The first model, the Turpial at a price of Bs. 17 million (US$7,906), is a 4-door sedan based on the old Kia Pride model. The second is the Centauro, at a price of Bs. 23 million (US$11,069), and is based on the Peugeot 405 given that the French firm is the main supplier of engines and technology to the Iranian company. Both models are exempt from Venezuela’s sales tax IVA (Value-added tax), due to a government program to subsidize cars that include Venezuelan production.
The goal is to eventually produce 100% of the cars in Venezuela.
The Peugeot 405 was introduced on 1987 and, according to Wikipedia, is still produced under license in Iran and Egypt but ceased production in France in 1997. The old Kia Pride (not to be confused with the Kia New Pride) was in production from 1987 to 2000.
Don’t expect to find those in Kelley’s Blue Book Top 10 anytime soon.
Parting question,
Can the Venirautos be bullet-proofed?
Filed Under: cars, Iran, Venezuela Tagged With: Fausta's blog, Venirauto
December 26, 2014 By Fausta
Argentina: Top Gear hot water
The Top Gear Christmas special airs this weekend on on December 27 and 28. The lads covered a lot of ground,
And they were run out of town:
Top Gear Christmas Special: What really happened in Patagonia?
Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond arrived in Argentina in September to film the Top Gear Christmas Special. The subsequent fortnight was even more dramatic than they could have imagined
Filed Under: Argentina, BBC, cars, entertainment, TV Tagged With: Fausta's blog, Top Gear
November 7, 2014 By Fausta
He can have my Volvo for US$500,000
Soon-to-be-former Uruguayan president Pepe Mujica claims that an unnamed Arab sheik (who must have been smoking the Uruguayan government’s most famous crop) has offered to buy Mujica’s VW Beetle for US$1million:
Uruguayan president Jose Mujica receives $1m offer for his blue Beetle
The leader says that an Arab sheikh wanted to buy the car which has become a symbol of his humble style
he joked that he did not sell it because of his dog Manuela, famous for only having three legs.
Filed Under: cars, Uruguay Tagged With: Fausta's blog, Jose Mujica, Pepe Mujica
October 6, 2014 By Fausta
The Top Gear Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
The Top Gear lads got ‘chased by thousands and ordered out of country’
“When we saw people on Twitter getting upset we took the plate off. But they still attacked us so we made a break for it to our hotel in Ushuaia.
“The mob just descended on the hotel and encircled us. State representatives came and ordered us out of the country.”
Here’s the car that caused the fracas,
This is my car on its last day in Argentina. Note the plates that everyone says caused offence. pic.twitter.com/mCfncbMa6F
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) October 4, 2014
Video of the police escorting them.
Barcelona star Lionel Messi to face tax evasion trial
Barcelona and Argentina star Lionel Messi is to face trial for alleged tax evasion, a Spanish judge has ruled.
Argentina central bank governor resigns amid economic woes
Argentina’s central bank governor Juan Carlos Fabrega has resigned after less than a year in office.
Bolivian Couple Arrested in Argentina Accused of Killing Their Daughter
With election Sunday, Brazil deals with oil scandal
Corruption charges in a refinery project complicate the race for the ruling party.
They include corruption, political machinations with the state-controlled oil company, and delays and overspending on a multibillion-dollar oil refinery that Brazil needs desperately.
PetroCaribe and the Caribbean
Single point of failure
Venezuela’s financing programme leaves many Caribbean countries vulnerable
Extreme skiers Auclair and Fransson die in Chile avalanche
Police in Chile have found the bodies of two extreme skiers who had been missing since an avalanche struck a mountain in southern Chile on Tuesday.
Colombian Attorney General Says Conflict Cases Could Be Shelved
Prince Charles and Camilla to Visit Colombia and Mexico
Who will save Bogota?
Keep Cuba out of hemispheric summits
Prosecutors seek 5-year prison term for Cuban opposition activist Ciro Alexis Casanova
Fraternal Relations, Part III
The Dark Side of Green Justice
Review: ‘Law of the Jungle’ by Paul Barrett
Former Haiti president Duvalier diesJean-Claude Duvalier
Haiti’s notorious former ruler Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has died of a heart attack in the capital Port-au-Prince, reports quoting official sources say.
Jamaica Gets Help Preparing for Possible Ebola Cases
Leader of Cartel Is Captured
The leader of one of Mexico’s largest cartels, Héctor Beltrán-Leyva of the Beltrán-Leyva gang, has been captured, the authorities said Wednesday night, giving President Enrique Peña Nieto another high-profile victory against organized crime.
Indeed, How Dare We Leave Andrew Tahmooressi Behind?
Is Panama’s President Being Coerced by Cuba’s Regime?
1,400 Cops Occupy Unruly Panamanian Prison
Panama President Demands That Judge Explain Growing Wealth
Rutherford B. Hayes: An OK President but a hero in Paraguay
Hayes agreed to negotiate a long-held border dispute between Argentina and Paraguay, and the decision gave the nation 60 percent of its land.
Spanish Speleologist in Hospital after 12 Days in Peruvian Cave
Puerto Rico Offers Itself as a Gateway to U.S. Market, Official Says
Venezuela Oil Price Continues Tumbling
Venezuela’s Ministry of Energy and Petroleum reports that the average price of Venezuelan crude sold by Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) during the week ending October 3 fell to its lowest price since January of 2011. The Latin American Herald Tribune notes that the Ministry continues to post an inaccurate average for the year and reduced the average price for the whole of 2013 by $1.41 without explanation
Venezuela: Lawmaker Killed in His Home, Police Say
A day after Robert Serra, a rising star in Venezuela’s governing party, was stabbed to death in his home, officials said Thursday that it was a carefully planned murder.
The week’s posts and podcasts:
Brazil: Aécio goes to the runoff
Argentina: Top Gear fracas
Brazil: More of the same?
En español: El Alcalde de Iguala en la UdQ
Argentina: Hoping it’s hit rock bottom
Cuba: Risky business
Taxes, and a book
Brazil: Dilma up in the polls
En español: Últimas noticias del idiota iberoamericano
Venezuela: Why the military won’t rise up
At Da Tech Guy Blog:
I’m a tax exile, and proud of it
And now for something completely different: A book on Cuban history
The week’s podcast:
Let’s chat with Alina Garcia-Lapuerta, author of “La Belle Creole”
Filed Under: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Carnival of Latin America, Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean, cars, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela Tagged With: Andrew Tahmooressi, Carl Andreas Fransson, Ciro Alexis Casanova, ebola, Fausta's blog, Héctor Beltrán-Leyva, Jean-Philippe Auclair, Juan Carlos Fabrega, Law of the Jungle: The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who'd Stop at Nothing to Win, Robert Serra, Rutherford B. Hayes. Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear
Top Gear crew ‘chased by thousands and ordered out of country’
“There were hundreds of them. They were hurling rocks and bricks at our cars. They were trying to attack us with pickaxe handles.
over a license plate that reminded people of the Falklands.
H982 FKL.
The Argentinians call the Falklands the Malvinas, but, all the same, look at this,
The locals had their two minutes of hate, and the lads needed police escort to get out of the country safely.
For the only accurate account of what happened in Argentina, read the Sunday Times tomorrow.
Filed Under: Argentina, cars Tagged With: Falkland Islands, Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear
July 23, 2014 By Fausta
Communism at work: Give up your car
Translation: Workshop:
Maximum Socialist Efficiency
The State enterprise building
the New Economic Order
My latest article, Communism at work: Give up your car, is up at Da Tech Guy Blog.
In other related news, Maduro says he needs $15billion to rebuild the exhange system, which is the amount Hugo Chavez spent on weapons purchases three years ago.
Filed Under: cars, Communism, Cuba, economics, Venezuela Tagged With: Fausta's blog
November 15, 2013 By Fausta
Damme!
As in Jean-Claude Van,
On second thought, the song is Only time,
How Volvo Created the Jean-Claude Van Damme ‘Epic Split’ Video
Filed Under: cars, YouTube Tagged With: Enya, Fausta's blog, Volvo
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SEC awards whistleblower $20 million
Richard L. Cassin November 15, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission Monday awarded more than $20 million to a whistleblower who helped the SEC act “against wrongdoers before they could squander the money.”
The $20 million award is the third biggest since the SEC’s whistleblower program issued its first award in 2012.… Continue Reading
Dan Adamson: Brute-force due diligence gives way to a more enlightened approach
Dan Adamson November 15, 2016
We have already looked at some of the common pitfalls of modern due diligence, from the brute force open-source intelligence (OSINT) approach of Google searching to the over-reliance on manually curated watchlists.… Continue Reading
Mike Scher: Dear President Trump, Compliance officers are still underdogs
Michael Scher November 15, 2016
How will President Trump and the new administration view compliance officers and their work? Are compliance officers friend or foe?
It’s no secret the election has changed almost everything. A big shake out is coming to America.… Continue Reading
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Northwest Medical Informatics Symposium
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Tag Archives: Susan Collins
12 Republican senators voted against Trump’s national emergency to build border wall
Posted on March 15, 2019 by Dr. Eowyn | 19 comments
Bridget Bowman reports for Roll Call that yesterday, 12 Republican senators joined every Demonrat senator in voting for a resolution to block President Trump invoking a national emergency at the southern border so as to build the wall with defense funds. Trump had declared a national emergency last month after the Democrat-dominant House refused to appropriate his requested $5+ billion funds for a border wall.
See “The Trump Show” on Trump’s declaration of national emergency to build border wall, and “Ann Coulter: By signing the budget deal, Trump signs away his right as CIC to build the wall“.
The resolution passed the Senate, 59-41, after passing the House late last month.
The Gang of 12 Republicans includes so-called “moderate” senators — one of whom is up for re-election in 2020 — and so-called “conservatives”. 6 of the 12 serve on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Here are the 12 Republican senators who voted to thwart President Trump’s national emergency declaration:
(1) Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee: A 3-term senator and member of the Appropriations Committee said in a statement yesterday ahead of the vote that although he supports the president on border security, the emergency declaration sets a dangerous precedent: “His declaration to take an additional $3.6 billion that Congress has appropriated for military hospitals, barracks and schools is inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution that I swore an oath to support and defend.” Alexander announced last December that he would not run for re-election in 2020.
(2) Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri: A senior member of the Appropriations Committee, Blunt is concerned about the precedent Trump’s declaration of emergency would set. Blunt was re-elected to a second Senate term in 2016. (He served several terms in the House before running for Senate in 2010.)
(3) Sen. Susan Collins of Maine: Not only is this POS pro-late term abortions, Collins actually co-sponsored the resolution ostensiblyout of concern for the precedent an emergency declaration would set for the powers of the executive branch. The four-term senator is likely to face her toughest re-election next year, with Democrats raising millions of dollars for a yet-to-be-determined challenger after she voted for Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
(4) Sen. Mike Lee of Utah: First elected in 2010, Lee announced his support for the resolution Wednesday after Trump rejected Lee’s offer of a compromise to curtail future national emergency declarations through an amendment of the National Emergencies Act to include the automatic termination of future emergencies after 30 days unless Congress authorizes the emergency to continue. Lee said in a statement announcing his decision that “For decades, Congress has been giving far too much legislative power to the executive branch.” One of the most conservative senators, Lee is up for re-election in 2022.
(5) Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas: A member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Moran tweeted that “I share President Trump’s goal of securing our borders, but expanding the powers of the presidency beyond its constitutional limits is something I cannot support.” Moran is up for a third term in 2022.
(6) Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska: Another pro-abort POS, Murkowski said in a floor speech earlier this month: “Congress is a co-equal branch of government and as such Congress should stand up for itself.” She is not up for re-election until 2022.
(7) Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky: Earlier this month, Paul announced at a GOP Lincoln Day dinner that he would support the resolution because Congress did not appropriate the funds Trump was looking to use for the border wall, and “If we take away those checks and balances, it’s a dangerous thing.” A self-described libertarian, Paul was re-elected to the Senate in 2016 after a failed White House bid, and he will not face voters again until 2022.
(8) Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio: Portman had worked with Mike Lee on the compromise resolution. The two-term senator said that while he supported Trump’s request for border wall funding, an emergency declaration is not necessary to secure those funds, and that the declaration would set a “dangerous precedent” by opening “the door for future presidents to implement just about any policy they want.” Portman won re-election by more than 20 points in 2016 and won’t face voters again until 2022.
(9) Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah: Although Romney is a freshman senator, he entered the Senate with a high profile as his party’s 2012 presidential nominee and the former governor of Massachusetts. Critical of Trump in the past, even before Trump officially declared a national emergency, Romney said he “would also expect the president stay within statutory and constitutional limits.” Romney won the open Utah Senate race in 2018 by 32 points, and he is not up for re-election again until 2024.
(10) Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida: Like the others, Rubio too warned of the precedent set by Trump’s national emergency. A member of Senate Appropriations, he said in February that while he agrees there is a crisis at the southern border, “a future president may use this exact same tactic to impose the Green New Deal.” Rubio won re-election by 8 points in 2016 after an unsuccessful run for the GOP nomination for president. Trump carried Florida by just 1 point in 2016.
(11) Sen. Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania: A “conservative” Republican, Toomey had occasionally broken with President Trump in the past, particularly on Trump’s use of tariffs. Toomey told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he supports Trump’s effort to build a border wall, but the declaration of a national emergency was “a very important separation of powers issue.” Toomey narrowly won re-election in 2016 when Trump won Pennsylvania by less than a point.
(12) Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi: The two-term senator, who’s the chairman of the Commerce Committee and the second-highest-ranked Republican on the Armed Services Committee, also had “serious reservations” about what an emergency declaration would do to the separation of powers. Wicker said in a statement earlier this week: “The precedent we set this year might empower a future liberal President to declare emergencies to enact gun control or to address ‘climate emergencies,’ or even to tear down the wall we are building today.” Wicker, an Air Force veteran, won re-election comfortably last fall in a state Trump carried by nearly 20 points in 2016.
Today, President Trump used his veto powers for the first time to overturn the Congressional resolution, calling it “reckless”. He said: “Today I am vetoing this resolution. Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution and I have the duty to veto it.” To override his veto would require two-thirds of the vote in both the House and the Senate, and the Senate doesn’t have the 67 votes needed for an override. (New York Post).
For all the Gang of 12’s concerns about the separation of powers and Trump setting a “dangerous precedent” by declaring a state of national emergency, one would think such declarations are rarely invoked.
Not so.
The fact of the matter is there have been 58 national emergencies declared by presidents since 1979 under the National Emergencies Act of 1975, 31 of which are still active national emergencies. Below are the number of national emergencies declared by President Carter and after:
Jimmy Carter: 2 — one of which is still active.
Ronald Reagan: 6 — none of which is active.
George H.W. Bush: 5 — none of which is active.
Bill Clinton: 17 — 6 of which are still in effect.
Barack Obama: 13 — 11 of which are still active.
Donald Trump: 3. (Source: CBS News, citing the Brennan Center)
H/t Kelleigh
Posted in Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Congress, Conservatives, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, illegal immigration, Liberals/Democrats/Left, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, RINO, United States, US-Mexico border wall
Tagged active national emergencies, declarations of national emergencies from Carter to Trump, Jerry Moran, Lamar Alexander, Lisa Murkowski, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Mitt Romney, National Emergencies Act of 1975, Patrick Toomey, Rob Portman, Roger Wicker, Roy Blunt, Sen. Rand Paul, Susan Collins
Unhinged Left: Man arrested for death threats against GOP senators who supported Justice Kavanaugh
Posted on October 20, 2018 by DCG | 9 comments
Deranged and stupid DeRisi/Suffolk County Police photo
From NY Post: A Long Island man was busted for making death threats against GOP U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley and Susan Collins for their support of then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, The Post has learned.
Ronald DeRisi, 74, was taken into custody early Friday, and is expected to be arraigned later in the day in Central Islip federal court before Magistrate judge Gary R. Brown.
The Smithtown man is accused of leaving disturbing voicemails on the senators’ office phones following their public support of Kavanaugh’s nomination and confirmation, in an attempt to discourage the pols from voting in the jurist’s favor, a source familiar with the case revealed.
In one message left on September 27, DeRisi allegedly said that he had a “present” for Iowa’s Grassley, growling, “It’s a 9 millimeter. Side of your f—ing skull you scumbag motherf—–r.”
The message concluded: “Yeah, Kavanaugh – I don’t think so.”
In another rant aimed at the 85-year-old senator, DeRisi was recorded saying “We’re tired of this guy sucking taxpayers’ money! Getting a free f—ing ride! How many more years you gonna do it? None! He’s a dead man! 9 millimeter, side of the f—-ing head! If f—ing Kavanaugh gets in, he’s dead f—ing meat! Actually even if Kavanaugh doesn’t get in he’s dead f—ing meat. 9 millimeter, side of the head, you f—ing old bastard.”
Most of the calls were placed from a pre-paid cell phone, according to court docs.
DeRisi took a different tone with Collins, of Maine, calling her a “twit” on the day of the vote.
“I’m gonna get you,” he’s accused of saying. “You better pray this guy don’t get in.”
He left another message two minutes later, saying: “tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.”
Less than an hour later, Collins received another message from DeRisi.
“Listen, you dumb son of a bitch, don’t you know that guy’s a sex offender? How could you not know that…you f–king twit.”
DeRisi pleaded guilty in Nassau County in 2015 to one count of aggravated harassment, for repeatedly calling his target’s office more than 15 times, and leaving threatening voicemails. It’s not clear if that victim was also a public figure. A message to DeRisi’s residence was not immediately returned.
Reps for Collins did not return requests for comment, while Grassley’s office referred the Post to the Public Information Office of the United States Capitol Police, who also declined to comment.
“Representative democracy cannot work if elected officials are threatened with death for simply doing their job,” United States Attorney Richard Donoghue said in a statement. “The First Amendment – the pinnacle of American achievement – protects debate, disagreement and dissent, not death threats. We and all those dedicated to the rule of law will not tolerate the use violence and threats of violence in attempts to prevail in political disputes.”
Unhinged Google exec slams GOP over Kavanaugh nomination: “F-ck. You. All. To. Hell.”
Young female Kavanaugh protester taunts & assaults elderly man
Deranged Left: Republican Colorado senator’s wife received text with attachment showing beheading, family members doxxed
Anti-Kavanaugh protesters claw at Supreme Court door; glad to ‘ruin’ his life
The Deranged Left: Professor shoots himself in arm to protest Trump; pro-lifer threatened with rape & strangling
Posted in crime, Donald Trump, Idiots, Liberals/Democrats/Left, Republican Party, Supreme Court, Taxes, Trump Derangement Syndrome, United States, US Presidents
Tagged #waronwomen, aggravated harassment, Chuck Grassley, death threats, deranged left, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Long Island, Nassau County, New York, Suffolk County, Susan Collins, unhinged democrats
Men Without Chests Threaten Our Culture and Civilization
Posted on October 9, 2018 by Dr. Eowyn | 36 comments
By guest blogger Kelleigh Nelson
“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” – C. S. Lewis
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis was first copyrighted in 1944, which makes this short booklet all the more astonishing. The insight Lewis had in those years of the pervasive philosophy that was intermingling within the educational systems is just as relevant for today, and now it is right in our faces. We can see vividly the corruption of morals and basic decency that is leading us more and more toward a Godless society. C.S. Lewis looked logically at what happens when faith and tradition are removed from a society. And we just watched what Lewis was describing in Judge Kavanaugh’s hearings, including the protests by Soros-paid anarchists.
Men Without Chests
“Men Without Chests” is the curious title of the first chapter of C.S. Lewis’ Abolition of Man. Lewis explains that the “The Chest” is one of the “indispensable liaison officers between cerebral man and visceral man. It may even be said that it is by this middle element that man is man: for by his intellect he is mere spirit and by his appetite mere animal.” Without “Chests” we are unable to have confidence that we can grasp objective reality and objective truth.
The result of such chest-less education, as Lewis warns, is a dystopian and totalitarian future.
As our society disintegrates into what C.S. Lewis described in his short booklet, we are seeing more and more men without chests. Those men are allowing the destruction of our society by anarchists who literally hate America and her culture and want it destroyed.
Facebook Executive Faces Outrage
Recently, hundreds of Facebook employees voiced outraged at senior executive Joel Kaplan, head of global policy for Facebook, for attending Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s congressional hearing in an apparent show of support for the Supreme Court nominee. Kaplan is a longtime friend of Judge Kavanaugh. Many employees felt that Kaplan’s presence at the hearing signaled that Facebook as a company had endorsed Judge Kavanaugh. They expressed their discontent in internal company message boards as well as directly to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
CEO Sheryl Sandberg wrote in an internal message to employees that she thought “it was a mistake for him to attend given his role in the company.” A meeting has been scheduled to further discuss employees’ concerns. Zuckerberg, Sandberg and Kaplan are expected to attend and answer questions.
Kaplan apologized in a note to staff, but also added later, “I believe in standing by your friends, especially when times are tough for them.”
When did having friends and loyalties outside of your employer’s ideals become verboten? Why apologize? For what? Only men with no chests do that.
University President Congratulates Childhood Friend
Charles Davis, the dean of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, recently issued an apology to those he had “offended” with a tweet congratulating a childhood friend on becoming the state’s Republican candidate for governor. (See “U. of Georgia professor apologizes for offense of congratulating childhood friend who won a GOP primary“)
Davis then faced an intense backlash from liberals, who accused Davis of being a “racist” blind to his own “privilege” for daring to suggest that Brian Kemp is “a nice guy.”
Davis tweeted to his friend, “I went to high school with GOP guv candidate @BrianKempGA. We played YMCA ball from childhood. Politics be damned. He is a nice guy, always was Kind to a fault. He’s a friend, always has been, and will be when we’re old(er) and grey(er). That’s how all this should work people.”
He then apologized and tweeted, “I’d like to apologize to anyone offended by my tweet shout out to Brian Kemp. It was ill-timed and poorly written. I’ve read and learned so much from you all and will endeavor to be more thoughtful.”
No, it wasn’t ill-timed, and neither was it poorly written. Get a chest!
In other words, Charles Davis has been warned that speaking or caring about Republican friends is verboten. Men without chests!
Professor James Moore Defends Constitution
In this #MeToo era of believing every charge leveled by a woman against a man, the University of Southern California students want Professor James Moore fired for stating the law…innocent until proven guilty. This is a part of the U.S. Constitution that ensures justice for those accused of a crime. Not so for these university students however.
Democrats rape U.S. Constitution
Moore got himself in hot water when he noticed an email that was sent out to all staff and students at the university last Thursday. The email, which instructed students to “Believe Survivors” of sexual assault, inspired Moore to give those students a lesson in the criminal justice system. “Accusers sometimes lie,” he pointed out in a reply-all email of his own. “If the day comes you are accused of some crime or tort of which you are not guilty, and you find your peers automatically believing your accuser, I expect you find yourself a stronger proponent of due process than you are now.”
Instead of the university supporting the truth Professor Moore was trying to teach his students, Dean Jack Knott placated them with comfort and assured them that they were right and Professor Moore was wrong! “What he sent was extremely inappropriate, hurtful, insensitive,” he said. “We are going to try to do everything we can to try to create a better school, to educate the faculty. This is going to be a multi-pronged effort. We are going to have a faculty meeting later this week around implicit bias, sensitivity towards survivors.”
Obviously, it’s extremely inappropriate to point out that the accused in this country deserve due process.
Dean Jack Knott believes the truth of the U.S. Constitution is verboten. Another man without a chest.
While our secular society still maintains that honor, ethics, and integrity matter, it has purposely attacked, silenced, or destroyed those institutions and organizations that used to teach moral principles and universal Godly truths that instilled honor and character into men’s hearts and souls.
Today’s educational establishments have embraced moral relativism. Other political and cultural institutions have done the same, including our so-called progressive churches where most pulpits spew watered down pablum.
Interesting that in the cases of Tawana Brawley, the Duke lacrosse players, and the Rolling Stone defamation article, investigations of the alleged victims proved the innocence of the accused. Over 219 celebrities, politicians, CEOs, and others have been accused of sexual misconduct since April 2017. One wonders how many of these accusations were valid. And our Senate Judiciary Committee is not seeking an investigation of Christine Blasey Ford. We are just to accept that despite a total lack of proof or corroboration, she is telling the truth.
Now a retired University of Southern Maine professor, Susan Feiner, has offered students a course credit to harass Sen. Susan Collins on Kavanaugh because Senator Collins understood the fallacious attacks on this brilliant Judge and the importance of nominating this man to the supreme court. This professor has done this without the consent of the committee of faculty or university deans…and this is the seditious rot inside the brains of those teaching our young people.
Real women want strong masculine men with chests. They want decent, honorable, reliable men who have not been feminized by society and do not cower to the pressures of today’s tyrannical and anarchist society. And men have two choices: to find female strength captivatingly attractive, or to be insecure and intimidated. Real men love strong women, because God’s glory is beautiful, and “woman is the glory of man.” Link
C.S. Lewis saw the early stages of the moral collapse, societal chaos, and cultural decay we’re all now experiencing full force. Inevitable destruction awaits all societies that reject universal moral principles, deny the existence of objective reality, and silence and punish those who teach and speak the truth. Men must return to God, follow His moral principles, seek the truth, and lead virtuous lives.
In his September 19, 1796 Farewell Address to the nation, George Washington stated: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great Pillars.”
William McGuffey, author of the McGuffey’s Readers, which were the mainstay of America’s government public school system from 1836 till the 1920’s, wrote: “Erase all thought and fear of God from a community, and selfishness and sensuality would absorb the whole man.” Where do you think the world is heading today?
Posted in Culture War, Liberals/Democrats/Left, professors and intellectuals, Republican Party, social media, United States, War on White People
Tagged Abolition of Man, Brian Kemp, C. S. Lewis, Charles Davis is a spineless pussy, Christine Blasey Ford, evidence against Kavanaugh, Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg, George Washington farewell address, Joel Kaplan, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Susan Collins, Susan Feiner, Swedish men in pussy hats, USC dean Jack Knott, USC professor James Moore, William McGuffey
Liberal tears: Vile comments left for Sen. Collins on her Twitter timeline
Posted on October 7, 2018 by DCG | 14 comments
The Women’s March message to Sen. Collins…
These people are vile.
Some of the comments unhinged demorats left for Sen. Collins on Twitter yesterday (NSFW language):
“Please, stop talking. Your voice yields no reason. Your sentiments and words are as empty as Trump’s head, and as cold as his heart. You’re no friend to American democracy or decency; you’re the enemy. #SHAME.”
“We’re coming for you. Enjoy your remaining days in the senate because we’re gonna rip you from that seat. Shame on you.”
“Maybe someone in her family will know what it feels like to be assaulted and not believed.”
“Here’s my full statement: YOU ARE FINISHED.”
“My full statement to you regarding everything you stand for. I hope you live in shame and misery every moment of every day and live 1,000 torturous years reflecting on how despicable of a human you are because you deserve it.”
“You fucking dog!”
“BLOOD ON HER HANDS and the deaths of women will be seen as having been contributed to by her lack of action for what’s right and legal. A sham of a Senator.”
“In honor of all those victims of sexual assault, go to Hell. In honor of those of us in the LGBTQ community, go to Hell. In honor of all the people who will be screwed over by this partisan hack on the court, go to Hell.”
“You are a sorry excuse for a woman!! Despicable POS”
“Skank!”
“#eatMe”
“FUCK U….I REALLY HOPE U & UR LOVED ONES REAP THE KARMA U HAVE SOWED 10FOLD…U R EVIL TO THE CORE ..MAY U & THE ONES U LOVE NEVER REST IN PEACE…”
Since this whole Kavanaugh circus had began, Collins received all kinds of threats – including those of rape and death. Expect that to continue now that Collins helped us get Justice Kavanaugh.
Posted in Donald Trump, Insanity, Liberals/Democrats/Left, Media, Radical feminists, Republican Party, social media, Supreme Court, Taxes, Trump Derangement Syndrome, United States, US Presidents
Tagged Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Susan Collins, Twitter, unhinged democrats, Women's March
Brett Kavanaugh sworn in as Supreme Court Justice!
UPDATE (Oct. 9):
Justice Brett Kavanaugh is already at work! He hired his clerks — all women — and will participate in oral arguments before the Supreme Court today.
This afternoon, Brett Kavanaugh, 53, was sworn in as 114th Supreme Court justice, hours after the Senate voted 50-48 to confirm him.
Chief Justice John Roberts administered the constitutional oath and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy administered the judicial one.
The quick swearing-in enables Kavanaugh to begin work immediately in advance of arguments at the court Tuesday.
Kavanaugh’s wife, children and parents were in attendance. (New York Post)
The Senate voted today to confirm U.S. District Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be the next Associate Justice on the Supreme Court, replacing pro-abortion Justice Anthony Kennedy following his retirement.
Kavanaugh was confirmed on a 50-48 vote:
All Democrat senators, except Joe Manchin (WV), voted “no” against Kavanaugh’s nomination.
All Republican senators voted “yes,” except pro-abort Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), who voted “present”, and pro-life Steve Daines (Montana), who supported Kavanaugh but was absent due to his daughter’s wedding.
Dianne Feinstein badgering Lisa Murkowski
Kavanaugh secured enough votes yesterday when Senators Susan Collins (R) and Joe Manchin (D) agreed to support him.
Last night, Sen. Collins delivered an extended defense of Kavanaugh’s record and announced her intention to vote in favor of his confirmation. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) took to Twitter to praise Collins’ “strongly held principles” and to denounce the Left’s threats against Collins:
“Most will never know the full extent of the efforts to intimidate & threaten @SenatorCollins on the #Kavanaugh vote. I am not talking about political pressure or people screaming at her in an elevator. I am talking about vicious, vile & dangerous actions.”
On Twitter, deranged Leftists call Collins a “traitor to women”, a “rape apologist”, and demand she be forever harassed in public as a punishment for her vote to confirm Kavanaugh.
Yesterday, when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell filed for cloture on Kavanaugh’s nomination, he said:
“This evening, the Senate will receive the results of the FBI’s supplemental background investigation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. This is now the seventh time the FBI has looked into Judge Kavanaugh’s background. And this information comes on top of what has already been one of the most thorough, most exhaustive Senate reviews of any Supreme Court nominee in our nation’s history.
Five days of public hearings. Sixty-five private meetings with Senators. More than 1,200 responses to written questions from members. More than 500,000 pages of documents for review — the most produced for any Supreme Court nomination in history. And the 300-plus opinions Judge Kavanaugh has issued during his 12 years on the D.C. Circuit. And now, Senators will have the evidence collected by this additional [FBI] background investigation for their consideration as well.”
Source: LifeNews.com; Breitbart
See our posts on the tortuous and torturous course of Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation:
Dianne Feinstein in tears after reading FBI report on Kavanaugh
Boom! FBI has completed investigating Kavanaugh!
Prosecutor Rachel Mitchell rips apart Christine Ford’s allegations against Judge Kavanaugh
Christine Blasey Ford and the Hillary Clinton Connection
Christine Blasey Ford’s body language
Kavanaugh-accuser Christine Blasey Ford’s handwriting
Audio evidence of Christine Ford’s political adviser plotting in July against SCOTUS nominee Kavanaugh
Christine Ford, the woman who accuses Judge Kavanaugh of sexual assault 36 years ago
Leading Catholic magazine retracts endorsement of Judge Kavanaugh
Your tax dollars at work: Planned Parenthood threatens senators if they vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh
Posted in abortion, Congress, Conservatives, Liberals/Democrats/Left, Republican Party, Supreme Court, United States
Tagged Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Lisa Murkowski, Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Sen. Joe Manchin, Sen. Steve Daines, Susan Collins
Four senators blocked Senate from passing bill to defund Planned Parenthood
Posted on August 26, 2018 by Dr. Eowyn | 24 comments
A June 2018 Gallup Poll found that although 60% of Americans support legalized abortion during the first three months of pregnancy, most oppose it in the later stages. Only 28% and 13% still support abortion once a pregnancy reaches, respectively, the second and third trimester. In the third trimester, the unborn baby is often viable outside the womb with medical support.
Put another way, the Gallup Poll found that 40% of Americans — 4 of every 10 — oppose legalized abortion. The population of the United States in 2018 is 327.123 million. That means 130.85 million Americans oppose legalized abortion.
It is bad enough that 4 of every 10 Americans believe abortion is immoral and should not be legalized. We are compelled by our government to give financial support, by way of our taxes, to the killing of unborn human beings.
Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion business in America, kills some 320,000 unborn babies every year, 900 babies every day. Its most recent annual report showed a record income of $1.46 billion — $400 million of which came from taxpayers. As Senator Rand Paul said in his speech on the Senate floor:
“Planned Parenthood received over 400 million dollars of taxpayer money, the government with a wink and a nod tells us that Planned Parenthood doesn’t spend the money on abortions but everybody knows that the taxpayers are really cross-subsidizing Planned Parenthood’s abortion mills.”
LifeNews reports that on Thursday, August 23, 2018, another effort to defund Planned Parenthood — a pro-life amendment sponsored by Sen. Paul that would revoke taxpayer funding for the abortion mill — failed in the U.S. Senate by a narrow 45-48 vote.
Republicans hold a narrow 51-seat majority in the Senate. Were it not for four senators — two Republicans, and two Democrats who had touted themselves as pro-life — the amendment to defund Planned Parenthood would have passed. By their votes against the amendment, these four senators are forcing 130.85 million Americans to subsidize the killing of the unborn with our hard-earned tax dollars:
Susan Collins (R-Maine)
Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
Joe Donnelly (D-Indiana)
Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia)
After the vote Thursday, Planned Parenthood leader Dawn Laguens personally thanked Collins and Murkowski on Twitter:
“Huge thank you to @SenateDems, @lisamurkowski, & @SenatorCollins for standing up & protecting access to health care.”
Last year, the Senate also fell short of enough votes to defund Planned Parenthood, in part, because of Collins and Murkowski. In a letter to her constituents last summer, Murkowski vowed that she is “committed” to forcing taxpayers to fund the abortion chain. Earlier this week in an interview with Politico, Collins proclaims her fealty to the abortion mill, “I have voted for 21 years now for funding for Planned Parenthood. And yet, they continue to question my commitment. And that is extremely aggravating and unfair.”
Neither Murkowski nor Collins has indicated if they will support U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Although both pro-abort anti-life senators voted to confirm Justice Neil Gorsuch, they are facing huge pressure from abortion activists to vote against Kavanaugh.
Planned Parenthood has launched a $30 million political spending campaign to “take over Congress” in the November midterms. The only way the abortion business will be defunded completely is if pro-life voters head to the polls this November and provide the pro-life side a few more votes in the Senate to be able to achieve victory.
SIGN THE PETITION! Congress Must De-Fund Planned Parenthood Immediately
H/t Big Lug
Posted in abortion, Congress, Culture War, Evil, Planned Parenthood, United States
Tagged defund Planned Parenthood, Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Joe Donnelly, Sen. Joe Manchin, Senator Rand Paul, Susan Collins
Fears being poisoned, Obama has a food taster
Posted on March 15, 2013 by Dr. Eowyn | Leave a comment
A food taster is a person who takes the food or drink to be served to someone else to confirm that it is safe to eat and does not contain toxins or poisons. The person to whom the food is going to be served is usually an important person, like an emperor or monarch (all dictators!) who fears being assassinated. In ancient Rome, that task was often given to a slave, whose life is expendable.
Back in 2009, the AFP reported that La Fontaine de Mars, a restaurant in Paris, France, in which Obama and his family had dinner on the night of June 6, 2009, confirmed what waiter Gabriel de Carvalho had said about the POS using a food taster.
De Carvalho said: “They have someone who tastes the dishes. It wasn’t very pleasant for the cooks at first, but the person was very nice and was relaxed, so it all went well.”
The US Secret Service has always refused to confirm that US presidents travel with a food “taster.” Now we have word that Barack Obama has a food taster, but not just when he’s traveling.
Nicholas Ballasy reports for The Daily Caller, March 14, 2o13, that Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins told reporters the POS didn’t eat the scrumptious food at a lunch meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill because his “taster” was not present.
Collins said Obama had “looked longingly at” the healthy but tasteful lunch of lobster salad, Fox Family Potato Chips, and wild blueberry pie with Maine’s Gifford ice cream, but said he “can’t” eat the lunch: “He looked longingly at it. He honestly did look longingly at it, but apparently he has to have essentially a taster, and I pointed out to him that we were all tasters for him, that if the food had been poisoned all of us would have keeled over so, but he did look longingly at it and he remarked that we have far better food than the Democrats do, and I said that was because I was hosting.”
Uneasy is the head that wears the crown.
The caesars of ancient Rome had slaves as their food tasters. I wonder who’s the poor sucker who’s the food taster for the POS?
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Internet Kill Bill and How to Fight Back
Posted on February 1, 2011 by Dr. Eowyn | Leave a comment
As Egypt’s government attempts to crackdown on street protests by shutting down internet and mobile phone services, the government of the United States — supposedly “the beacon of democracy” for the world — is preparing to reintroduce a bill that could be used to shut down the Internet.
The bill, granting Obama or any POTUS broad emergency powers to seize control of and even shut down the Internet in times of “national emergency,” initially was introduced last year but had expired with a new Congress. Wired.com reports that the bill will soon be reintroduced to a Senate committee.
Separated at birth
The proposed legislation was introduced into the US Senate by Demonrat-turned-“independent” Senator Joe Lieberman, who is chairman of the US Homeland Security committee and who recently announced he will not seek reëlection. (Good riddance)
Last year, Lieberman argued the bill was necessary to “preserve those networks and assets and our country and protect our people” because, for all its allure, the net could be a “dangerous place with electronic pipelines that run directly into everything from our personal bank accounts to key infrastructure to government and industrial secrets”. This meant that US economic security, national security and public safety were now all at risk from new kinds of enemies, including “cyber warriors, cyber spies, cyber terrorists and cyber criminals”.
RINOs are butt-ugly critters
RINO Senator Susan Collins (Maine), a co-sponsor of the bill, said that unlike in Egypt, where the government was using its powers to quell dissent by shutting down the internet, her and Lieberman’s bill would not. “My legislation would provide a mechanism for the government to work with the private sector in the event of a true cyber emergency,” Collins said in an emailed statement to Wired. “It would give our nation the best tools available to swiftly respond to a significant threat.” Blah, blah, blah….
The shutdown in Egypt is the most comprehensive official electronic blackout of its kind. According to Renesys, a US Internet monitoring company, Egypt’s four main internet service providers cut off international access to their customers in a near simultaneous move at 2234 GMT on Thursday. Around 23 million Egyptians have either regular or occasional access to the internet, according to official figures, more than a quarter of the population.
The scale of Egypt’s crackdown on the internet and mobile phones amid deadly protests against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak is unprecedented in the history of the web, experts have said. “It’s a first in the history of the internet,” Rik Ferguson, an expert for Trend Micro, the world’s third biggest computer security firm, said. Julien Coulon, co-founder of Cedexis, a French internet performance monitoring and traffic management system, added: “In 24 hours we have lost 97 per cent of Egyptian internet traffic”.
Despite this, many Egyptians are finding ways to get access, some using international telephone numbers to gain access to dial-up internet.
Mobile telephone networks were also severely disrupted in the country on Friday. Phone signals were patchy and text messages inoperative. British-based Vodafone said all mobile operators in Egypt had been “instructed” Friday to suspend services in some areas amid spiralling unrest, adding that under Egyptian law it was “obliged” to comply with the order.
Egypt – like Tunisia where mass popular unrest drove out Zine El Abidine Ben Ali earlier this month – is on a list of 13 countries classed as “enemies of the internet” by media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Condemnation of Egypt’s internet crackdown has been widespread. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Cairo to restore the internet and social networking sites. Facebook, the world’s largest social network with nearly 600 million members, and Twitter also weighed in. Twitter, which has more than 175 million registered users, said of efforts to block the service in Egypt: “We believe that the open exchange of info & views benefits societies & helps govts better connect w/ their people.”
US digital rights groups also criticised the Egyptian government. “This action is inconsistent with all international human rights norms, and is unprecedented in internet history,” said Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology in the United States.
[Source: Ben Grubb and Asher Moses, “As Egypt goes offline US gets internet ‘kill switch’ bill ready,” Australia’s TheAge.com, January 31, 2011]
So should the Internet kill bill actually gets passed by Congress and Obama shuts down the net, does this mean we’ll just take it lying down?
Hell no! We’re Americans, the biological and spiritual sons and daughters of Revolutionaries!
OpenMesh.com has a list of open-source ad-hoc network and routing protocols/platforms that will provide local information during an Internet kill switch. Print the following list and keep it handy!
B.A.T.M.A.N: https://www.open-mesh.org/
Roofnet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roofnet
GNUnet: https://gnunet.org/
Netsukuku: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsukuku
Open Mesh Project: https://www.openmeshproject.org/
OLPC Mesh Network: https://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mesh_Network_Details
Open source BGP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol
Digitatas: https://sites.google.com/a/opensailing.net/digitata/
sMesh: https://www.smesh.org/
Coova: https://coova.org/
Babel: https://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/babel/
SolarMESH: https://owl.eng.mcmaster.ca/~todd/SolarMESH/
WINGproject: https://www.wing-project.org/
Wiki list of mesh protocols: Wikimedia list of ad-hoc mesh protocols and packet routing
Even bigger list of ad-hoc routing protocols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc_routing_protocol_list
Commercial projects:
Meraki ( google funded) | https://meraki.com/
Firetide | https://www.firetide.com/
Basic explanation – how this stuff works:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network
Example of a working grassroots wireless community: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Wireless_Metropolitan_Network
We Americans will resist and fight tyranny till our dying breath. It’s in our DNA!
H/t beloved fellows Tina, May, Joseph.
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UNREST (2017): Review by Katusha Jin
by Katusha Jin
Bechdel-Wallace List Reviews: U-W
Director Jennifer Brea, originally a PhD student at Harvard, becomes the voice of 17 million worldwide silent sufferers in her eye-opening personal documentary about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, otherwise known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). Unrest is a scream for help from those who have been deprived of the much-needed support from doctors and loved ones alike. (KIZJ: 5/5)
Review by FF2 Associate Katusha Jin
Jennifer Brea is struck by a 104.7-degree fever. But this time, it doesn’t disappear the way normal fevers do. Out of thirst she gets out of bed to get a cup of water, but her body ceases to be able to move; she is left on the floor and cannot walk a step further. This is far from the end of the vast number of symptoms that would follow. Her sensitivity to light increases drastically to the extent that her head is pierced with pain from the slightest amount of sunlight. At times her mouth fails to form words and produce anything but gibberish sounds for hours. Even the simplest action of clenching a fist can be an impossible task. Scarier than having these symptoms, is not knowing what causes them, and being misdiagnosed with hysteria by professional doctors. Brea pieces together many of her own personal recordings with interviews from others and documents her entire journey with the debilitating disease.
The once lively, smart, and active woman, is now a bedridden body which, at its worst moments, can only drink if her husband, Omar Wasow, feeds her from a bottle. Misunderstood by doctors and left in the dark, Brea’s craving for an explanation of her illness leads her to Google as her soul source of information. She finds many who have had similar symptoms and realizes that it is a disease called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). In fact, 1 million people suffer from CFS in the US alone. However, she and her husband also find that there is still no cure available for this life sucking disease.
Most would never consider sitting up in bed and putting our feet on the ground as a difficult task. Yet, for young Jessica, a patient with CFS, this is a physical feat she has only performed once in the past 8 years, after which her body convulses and shakes uncontrollably. Brea contacts many other patients and hear their own struggles with the disease, whilst questioning her own ability to be a mother, a wife, and, most importantly, a human being. This is a lifestyle that most never think about.
Some hug their cameras and kiss it goodbye, others go to places using their minds just to stay sane. Jennifer Brea has made a remarkable and brave attempt to co-write this documentary with Kim Roberts. Accompanied by music from the talented Bear McCreary, this film is moving on so many levels; it is heartbreaking, shocking, and exceptional at propelling forward so many hushed up stories. People’s lives are at stake, and yet most medical students do not even know that this disease exists. This movie must be seen by as many people as possible, especially those that could help find a cure and save these tortured lives, who can do nothing but wait for a miracle and pray that it comes in their lifetimes.
© Katusha Jin (9/23/17) FF2 Media
Top Photo: Omar and Jennifer.
Middle Photo: Jennifer at her wall of science, researching about the disease.
Bottom Photo: Omar and Jennifer in their bedroom surrounded by pills.
Photo Credits: Jason Frank Rothenberg and Shella Films
Does Unrest pass the Bechdel-Wallace test?
Yes, without question.
Jennifer interviews many women who talk about their daily struggles with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, many of which are about fighting hard to simply be able to exist everyday.
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Dayna Hagewood July 17, 2018
Generation Wealth mirrors excessive qualities of subjects
Jan Lisa Huttner December 13, 2014
ISN’T IT DELICIOUS?
Katusha Jin February 12, 2019
‘The Unicorn’ brings courage and hope through the sound of music
by Katusha Jin September 22, 2017
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Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering
Vol.07 No.12(2014), Article ID:50660,10 pages
10.4236/jbise.2014.712097
An Efficient Liver-Segmentation System based on a Level-Set Method and Consequent Processes
Walita Narkbuakaew1, Hiroshi Nagahashi2, Kota Aoki2, Yoshiki Kubota3
1Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
2Imaging Science and Engineering Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
3Gunma University Heavy-Ion Medical Center, Gunma, Japan
Email: narkbuakaew.w.aa@m.titech.ac.jp, longb@isl.titech.ac.jp, aoki.k.af@m.titech.ac.jp, y_kubota@gunma-u.ac.jp
Received 14 August 2014; revised 1 October 2014; accepted 16 October 2014
This paper presents an efficient liver-segmentation system developed by combining three ideas under the operations of a level-set method and consequent processes. First, an effective initial process creates mask and seed regions. The mask regions assist in prevention of leakage regions due to an overlap of gray-intensities between liver and another soft-tissue around ribs and vertebrae. The seed regions are allocated inside the liver to measure statistical values of its gray-inten- sities. Second, we introduce liver-corrective images to represent statistical regions of the liver and preserve edge information. These images help a geodesic active contour (GAC) to move without obstruction from high level of image noises. Lastly, the computation time in a level-set based on reaction-diffusion evolution and the GAC method is reduced by using a concept of multi-resolution. We applied the proposed system to 40 sets of 3D CT-liver data, which were acquired from four patients (10 different sets per patient) by a 4D-CT imaging system. The segmentation results showed 86.38% ± 4.26% (DSC: 91.38% ± 2.99%) of similarities to outlines of manual delineation provided by a radiologist. Meanwhile, the results of liver segmentation only using edge images presented 79.17% ± 5.15% or statistical regions showed 74.04% ± 9.77% of similarities.
Liver Segmentation, Level-Set, Geodesic Active Contour, Speed Images, Statistical Thresholds
Liver image segmentation is an important procedure in the computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) and surgery (CAS). For example, it is used to determine the liver’s volume [1] that is essential information of liver surgery for primary hepatic tumors, metastatic lesions, and transplantation. Liver segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images is a challenging topic because of large variations in shapes and sizes. Moreover, gray-intensities of liver generally overlap another soft tissue. Occasionally, some CT data sets present high levels of image noises, some artifacts, and low image contrast due to the conditions of image acquisition and respiratory status [2] .
Many algorithms have been proposed to give high efficiency and reduce user involvement as presented in [3] - [5] . The level-set method is an interesting solution because it possibly gives high accuracy with small intervention from a user. However, it is normally formulated by a complicated energy-function. This sophisticated formulation may slightly improve performance of liver segmentation, but it consumes more computation cost due to an additional term. Further, it may require many data sets of manual delineation to produce extraordinary information from training data sets.
Alternatively, improvement in a quality of anatomical representations in a given image can give good segmentation results. For instance, in [6] , the level-set speed image was introduced to represent clear boundaries of a liver’s volume before performing the segmentation. This method performs well when image noises are suppressed. Thus, an advanced filter may be required to reduce image noise without deterioration in edges of anatomical structures. Further, in [7] , liver’s regions were described by a statistical distribution model of gray-in- tensities. Nonetheless, this method excludes gradient information that possibly assists in the segmentation.
Consequently, we are motivated to create an efficient liver-segmentation system from a combination of three main ideas. It is intended to perform under the conditions of a level-set method and consequent processes. These three ideas are presented to achieve several purposes as follows.
· The effective initial-process is proposed for excluding all information outside the ribcage and creating seed regions in axial images. The exclusion process assists in prevention of leakage regions when a given curve moves near ribs and vertebrae. The seed regions are completely allocated inside the liver for measuring statistical values of gray intensities. Further, it helps to obtain the start and stop indexes of axial images that contain liver regions.
· Liver-corrective images are created to represent statistical regions of the liver and preserve the edge information. These liver-corrective images help a level-set method based on reaction-diffusion (RD) evolution and a geodesic active contour (GAC) model to cope with high level of image noises. Further, an advanced image- filter is unnecessary.
· We use a concept of multi-resolution to combine with the RD-GAC based level-set method in order to reduce computation time.
We applied the proposed system to 40 sets of 3D CT-liver data, which were acquired from four patients by using a 4D-CT imaging system. The 10 different sets of 3D CT data were collected in a free-breathing cycle for each patient. In addition, we compared the proposed system with the liver-segmentation methods using only edge or statistical-region representation.
The rest of paper is organized as follows. Section 2 briefly describes related methods, and section 3 explains details of the proposed system. Next, the experimental results are illustrated and discussed. Finally, we conclude this study in the last section.
2. Related Methods
2.1. A Liver-Segmentation Approach Based on Edge Images
This approach transforms given images into edge images before performing liver segmentation. We refer to Lee, J. et al. [6] , who proposed a liver-segmentation method based on level-set speed images (LSSI). It contains two main processes as shown by a simple diagram in Figure 1. First, boundaries of anatomical structures are extracted. It begins with noise reduction by using a modified curvature diffusion filter [8] . Next, a speed image
(SI) is constructed from a gradient magnitude image and a sigmoid formulation as
Figure 1. A diagram of liver segmentation based on the LSSI technique.
where is a given image. The parameter and present center and width of the sigmoid function,
respectively. By choosing proper and , it is possible to make pixels inside the homogeneous regions to be towards 1.0 and pixels beside edges to be around zero, respectively. Next, a threshold is required to gener-
ate an inverted binary image called seed region growing as if . After SRG images
are constructed from all axial-images, a level-set method is applied to segment the liver’s region in each axial image.
However, this approach is inappropriate for the curve propagation in an inward direction. Thus, it is necessary to create an initial region for constructing a zero level-set function (LSF) inside the liver’s region. Further, for 3D CT data, liver regions in axial images expand from the top to around the middle; then, they shrink to small regions at the bottom of the volume. Consequently, each 3D CT data set needs to be divided at least two sections in z-axis (top-to-bottom) for placing initial curves inside the liver’s regions. Then, the first image in each section requires manual drawings of seed regions to initialize the zero LSF. In addition, complexity of edge information is reduced by using a segmentation result of previous image slice as an initial curve for a consecutive image. Further, the narrow bands are applied to limit areas of the curve propagation.
2.2. A Liver-Segmentation Approach Based on Statistical Regions
This approach statistically describes liver regions by measuring mean and standard deviation of its gray intensities. These measures were mentioned in [7] [9] and we called them the statistical thresholding (ST) technique. According to those papers, this method starts from using a mean-shift filter [10] to reduce image noise. Next, statistical regions of liver are extracted when gray-intensities are in a range of . The variable is a constant that identifies a distribution rate. Subsequently, connected component labeling is applied and liver regions are selected. Next, these regions are refined by an active contour method. However, this approach needs good sampled regions to obtain the statistical values. Thus, liver segmentation based on the ST technique is performed as shown in Figure 2. The seed regions produced by our proposed system (section 3.4) are used to measure statistical values. Then, the statistical regions of liver are extracted by a range of and these statistical regions are used to segment a liver’s volume by using the level-set method.
2.3. A RD-GAC based Level-Set Method
Generally, a level-set method requires a re-initialization process to preserve an accurate numerical-solution, but this process consumes high computation cost as mentioned in [11] - [14] . The reaction-diffusion (RD) evolution [12] was introduced to remove this re-initialization process. Further, it supports a variety of forces for controlling the curve propagation. In summary, the RD technique requires two main steps for propagating the curve under a concept of two-step splitting method [15] . In the first step, the level-set evolution (LSE) equation is used
Figure 2. A diagram of liver segmentation based the ST technique.
to produce the reaction term. If a geodesic active contour (GAC) model [16] is applied, the reaction term is
where is a constant that gives the reaction time-step. The variable denotes the LSE based on the GAC model. The is a divergence operator, coefficient is a constant, and is an edge detector function. The variables and denote an image and a Gaussian smooth filtering, respectively. Afterwards, a diffusion term is required to regularize the level-set function into a piecewise constant. Further, its result is updated into the level set function. This process is explained as , where is a constant for diffusion time-step. Next, the updated result of the LSF is backwards sent to the first step. The iteration process is terminated when a stop condition is satisfied.
3. Proposed System
The proposed system (see Figure 3) is organized from five different processes and two types of combinations. These processes are: removal of information outside the ribcage, creation of liver-corrective images, multi-res- olution RD-GAC based level set, creation of seed regions in axial images, and post processing. The first combination called an initial process includes the first four processes. Meanwhile, the second combination is used to segment liver’s regions in axial images, and it is created from integration of the second, third, and fifth pro- cesses.
3.1. Removal of Information outside the Ribcage
To exclude all information outside the ribcage, we create a mask region for each axial image by performing the following procedures. First, a median filter is used to reduce noise. Then, a two-stage multi-thresholding Otsu’s (TSMO) method [17] improved by our proposed range constraint is applied to a filtered image. The result of the thresholding presents five segments containing background, three levels of soft tissues, and hard-tissue regions. Next, the hard-tissue regions represent ribs and vertebrae, and a template of seed points is created to cover these regions (see Figure 4). Subsequently, we move these seed points to boundaries of hard-tissue regions, and use straight lines to connect these points together in order to generate a mask region. However, regions of ribs and vertebrae are not always clearly displayed in some axial images (see a red arrow in Figure 4). Thus, we use a combination of soft-tissue regions instead of hard-tissue regions. In fact, this combined region is often larger than a boundary of the ribcage. Therefore, morphological erosion is required to shrink this combined region after connecting all seed points together.
Indeed, the original TSMO method [17] was introduced to accelerate computation without changing the results of a traditional Otsu’s method [18] . Conversely, these results are not good to present hard-tissue regions in our data sets as shown in Figure 5. Therefore, we need a range-constraint to improve the results. Indeed, an assignment of a range-constraint is often mentioned [19] - [21] , but it depends on a specific pattern of gray-inten- sities in a given image. In this study, we present a simple idea to define a range constraint by cutting gray intensities below the water (0 HU). The CT images describe gray intensities as CT standard numbers in the Houns-
Figure 3. An overview of a proposed liver-segmentation system.
Figure 4. An example of mask-region creation. (a) and (d) Two sample images, (b) and (e) templates of seed points, (c) and (f) mask regions.
Figure 5. An example of five-class clustering on a 16-bits CT image (a) using TSMO method (b) and including a proposed range-constraint (c).
field unit (HU) computed from the linear attenuation coefficient of materials [22] . Further, CT numbers of liver and bone are higher than the water.
3.2. Creation of Liver-Corrective Images
We perform the following steps to represent statistical regions of liver and preserve edge information in a given image. First, some samples of liver regions are measured their means and standard deviations of gray intensities in a liver’s volume. Then, binary regions are extracted by thresholding in a range of . Next, these binary regions are refined by morphological operations, such as dilation, erosion, opening, and hole-filling. This refinement helps to separate regions of liver from another tissue. Afterwards, connected-component labeling is applied, and we select one region that can represent the liver. Further, if the selected region dramatically differs from the segmented region in the previous image, this selected region will be improved by merging or intersecting with the previous segmented-region. Then, if the selected region is denoted by and a given image is represented by , the liver-corrective image (LCI) will be
Moreover, we use the selected region to construct a zero LSF for starting the level-set segmenta-
tion, that is if ; otherwise, where is a positive constant.
3.3. Multi-Resolution RD-GAC based Level-Set Segmentation method
As for the RD-GAC based level-set method in section 2.3, we combine it with a concept of multi-resolution as shown in Figure 6. In this study, three levels of 25%, 50%, and 100% of the original resolutions were performed. First, the edge detector function and the zero LSF are obtained at the original resolution. Then, they are scaled
Figure 6. A concept of multi-resolution RD-GAC based level-set method.
down to the lowest resolution. Next, the level-set method is operated. Afterwards, the result is used to construct the zero LSF in the higher resolution. Meanwhile, the edge detector function at the original resolution is scaled down to the desirable resolution. Then, the level-set method is repeatedly calculated to continue propagating the given curve from the lower resolution. Similarly, the process of segmentation is repeated until a final contour at the original resolution is released.
3.4. Creation of seed regions in axial images
After we remove all regions outside the ribcage (section 3.1) in a given 3D CT volume, coronal images are reconstructed by cutting the 3D CT volume in x-z planes (see Figure 7). Then, coronal images at the middle of the 3D data are sampled. Next, we define the region of interest (ROI), and create the liver-corrective images (section 3.2) from these samples of coronal images. Afterwards, the multi-resolution level-set method (section 3.3) is performed. The segmentation results represent the liver’s regions in coronal-image planes. Thus, if we compute the parallel projection of these segmentation results onto vertical axes of the coronal images, we will be able to obtain the start and stop indexes of axial images that include liver’s regions. Further, if these results are cut in horizontal planes (x-y planes), we will get seed regions in axial images.
3.5. Liver Segmentation in axial images
This process contains three main operations. First, we use seed regions produced by the process in section 3.4 to create liver-corrective images (section 3.2) in axial-image planes. Afterwards, the multi-resolution level-set method (section 3.3) is utilized to segment a liver’s volume.
3.6. Post Processing
From the segmentation results in section 3.5, they are refined by applying a Gaussian smooth filter to coronal and sagittal image planes. In addition, we use a hole-filling method to get outside boundaries of the liver regions. However, we can preserve hole-regions by intersecting these hole-filling regions with regions of holes.
4. Experiments and Results
4.1. Data Sets
We applied the proposed system to 40 sets of 3D CT-liver data, which were acquired from four patients by a 4D-CT imaging system (a GE Discovery ST machine and a Varian RPM system) in a cine mode. In each patient, 10 different sets of 3D CT data corresponded to a breathing cycle, which were counted from 0% to 90% phases of a breathing cycle with an equal different time phase. These data sets are provided by the MIDAS community, http://midas.kitware.com/community/view/47. Each 3D-CT data set includes 136, 120, 150, and 120 slices of 16-bits axial-images for patient A, B, C and D. The size of each axial image is 512 × 512 pixels with resolution 0.98 square millimeters, and slice thickness is 2.5 millimeters.
4.2. Parameter Setting for the Level-Set Method
When we used a GAC model to control the curve propagation and allocated the boundaries of the zero LSF inside the liver, the following three conditions were used to adjust parameters. First, the reaction factor of the RD method (section 2.3) should be large enough to move a given curve in the outward direction. However, if this reaction factor were over defined, the curve would easily move outwards from boundaries of liver. We set it to
Figure 7. An example of some steps in creation of seed regions in axial images from coronal images.
be 0.005 and 0.03 for coronal and axial images, respectively. Next, the diffusion factor should be
as mentioned in [12] . Further, it should be a small value to get an accurate result when a given image includes high level of image noise. We assigned . Lastly, if we need a given curve to propagate outwards, the coefficient of area term has to be a negative value; for example, we defined for all experiments.
In addition, we simply defined the maximum number of iterations to stop the curve propagation as 300 iterations. However, if we segment liver’s regions in axial images, it will be possible to reduce the number of iterations. We automatically adjusted the number of iteration by performing parallel projection of liver-segmentation results in coronal images onto the vertical axes of coronal images. Actually, a position on the vertical axis is equivalent to the index of axial image. If the projection data at the position is denoted by and the total number of axial images is , the maximum number of iterations in each axial image is
4.3. Results and Discussion
In this study, we validated similarities between the segmentation results of the proposed system and liver’s volumes delineated by a radiologist. Further, these segmentation results were compared with the liver-segmenta- tion methods based on the level-set speed image (LSSI) and statistical thresholding (ST) techniques, which were implemented in accordance with diagrams in section 2.1 and section 2.2, respectively.
4.3.1. Qualitative comparison
In Figure 8, an accumulated error from previous images and an overlap of gray-intensities between liver and another soft tissue caused some over-segmentations in all methods as shown in the first row. Liver segmentation based on the LSSI technique met a problem of the curve propagation in thin regions (see a yellow arrow in the second row). The given curve was unable to move into the remaining part of the liver’s region as indicated by a blue arrow. From observation, this problem occurred after a liver’s region in a given image was separated into two parts by edges in a speed image of the LSSI technique, and an initial region of the zero LSF was created inside the only one part. When we compared our proposed method with the LSSI and ST techniques, the proposed method achieved the best fitting boundaries of liver’s regions. These comparisons are illustrated in the remaining rows. However, these results did not clearly display hole-regions as shown in the outlines of manual delineation.
Next, Figure 9 shows examples of liver’s boundaries in coronal and sagittal images. The under-segmentation was a major problem of the proposed method as indicated by yellow arrows. This problem arises when an initial process creates extremely small seed-regions. Next, the results of liver segmentation based on the LSSI technique contained over or under-segmentations when some boundaries of anatomical structures were not extracted well in the speed images. Moreover, a critical problem of liver segmentation based on the ST technique is to cause a kind of over-segmentation as shown by blue arrows. In our opinion, this problem occurs when data sets include large variation in averages of gray-intensities among different axial-images. Further, sizes and locations of seed regions used in statistical measures occasionally fail to give good approximate liver’s regions.
4.3.2. Quantitative measures
This study validated the segmentation results by using relative absolute volume similarity (RAVS), volume overlapped coefficient (VOC) and dice similarity coefficient (DSC) [23] . Moreover, the quantities of over-and
Figure 8. Six examples of liver-segmentation results in axial-images of patient A (phase 0 slice 66), B (phase 20 slices 73 and 83), C (phase 0 slices 94 and 100), D (phase 50 slice 50), which are presented from top to bottom.
under-segmentations are measured by false positive rate (FPR) and false negative rate (FNR) [24], respectively.
where represents a segmented volume and denotes a manual-drawing volume. In summary, the proposed method gave the highest accuracy of 86.38 ± 4.26 percent on average of similarities, which was measured by RAVS, VOC, and DSC from all 40 sets of 3D CT data. Meanwhile, liver segmentation based on the LSSI and ST techniques presented 79.17 ± 5.15 percent and 74.04 ± 9.77 percent of similarities, respectively. These results are shown in Table 1. The under-segmentation was a major problem of the proposed method, and this problem mostly appeared in the data sets of the patient B as reported in Table 2. However, the segmentation results of the proposed method showed fewer lost-regions than the results of liver-segmentation based on the LSSI technique in the data sets of the remaining patients. Further, liver-segmentation based on the ST technique showed the largest values of over-segmentations.
4.3.3. Computation time
The proposed system was operated under MATLAB environment on 3.40 GHz Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 2006 CPU. It spent around seven minutes 35 seconds to compute in the effective initial process. Further, liver segmentation in axial images consumed about 16 minutes and six seconds. Thus, the proposed system required around 23 mi-
Figure 9. Eight examples of liver-segmentation results: (Top) outlines in coronal images, and (bottom) outlines in sagittal images. The results show at slice 160 in patient A (phase 70), B (phase 30), C (phase 50), and D (phase 90).
Table 1. Comparison of average similarities and errors measured in all 40 data sets (unit: %).
Table 2. Comparison of average similarities and errors measured in patient A, B, C, and D (unit: %).
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By Every Record Tells A Story on March 3, 2014 • ( 117 )
The “Do What Thou Wilt” inscription on Led Zep III
Want to know why some Led Zeppelin vinyl LPs sounded better than most other rock LPs? Read on…
It is received wisdom that the earliest Led Zep UK pressings – with a plum and red label, rather than the later green and yellow label – are the ones to have. They therefore fetch the most money. But received wisdom, I have discovered, is not always correct.
The US pressing of Led Zep III
When I first started building up my record collection again, my local record shop, Leigh Records, had a £40 UK plum labelled copy of Led Zep III and a US pressing for £7.50 in the same condition. I plumped for the cheaper version. This wasn’t because I have some sort of maverick vision or second sight as a record investor. It’s because I could get *almost* the same thing for thirty-two pounds fifty less, and a penny saved is, as the saying goes, a penny earned. However, a bit of impromptu research from some audiophiles* has revealed that in the majority of cases the US pressing actually sounds better than the UK one.
This is in contrast to the general rule of record collecting that if you buy an early pressing from the country of origin of the artist, you are most likely to be nearer the source tapes, and therefore the sound ought to be better. It seems Led Zep are an exception: they had such great success in the USA that this generally fairly reliable guideline doesn’t hold true – after the first album at least. I didn’t know it at the time, but my US pressing was pretty early and has excellent sound – probably better than an equivalent UK version.
French Pressing of “Houses of the Holy”. Note the lilac label and “House of the Holy” title
Another thing you should know about buying Led Zep vinyl is that their first couple of albums are very, very expensive.
You shouldn’t be prepared to look for first pressings unless you are fond of shouting “— Me!” whilst you suffer a heart attack from fright.
The first pressings of Led Zep 1 are easily identifiable with Turquoise lettering on the front cover. Oh, and by the £1,500 price tag in mint condition. No, I don’t have one. Second pressings – still from the sixties and with orange lettering on the cover – are marginally less ridiculously priced, but may still set you back a few hundred quid if mint. No, I don’t have one of those either. I found one for twenty-five quid a little while ago, but it jumped, so I didn’t buy it…
Led Zep II is less expensive, and there are a couple of things to look out for: Top money for Led Zep 2 can be up to £250 for a mint first pressing – identifiable by a mis-credited “Living Loving Wreck” on the label.
A “Plum” coloured UK Pressing of Led Zep II. Note the “Livin’ Lovin’ Maid” song title, meaning this is not a first pressing. First pressings said “Livin’ Lovin’ Wreck”
Still a first pressing, but without the “Living Loving Wreck” mis-print is a £60 copy in mint condition which lists “The Lemon Song”, crediting the writers as Plant and Page on the label. Later copies are c£40 and call this song “Killing Floor” with a credit to Willie Dixon – which if you have ever heard Willie Dixon’s song you will have some sympathy for. Look also for a light brown sleeve with a blurry green edge. However, whichever copy you look for, finding Led Zep II in great condition is harder work than listening to Depeche Mode’s third album.
This brings us to III.
Led Zep III is a terrific record all round. Ever try to play That’s The Way on guitar? It’s hellishly tricky – until you realise Page uses an alternative tuning (it’s an open-G tuning, the same one that Keith Richards uses to play “Rocks Off” or “Start Me Up” -and pretty much all of his songs) and then you just learn a few basic chord shapes and Bob’s your uncle (or should that be Jimmy’s your uncle?) – it’s actually pretty easy to play the basics. (Whilst we’re on the subject, “The Rain Song” from “Houses of the Holy” is another not-as-tricky-as-you-think song to learn – with an alternative tuning from low to high DGCGCD – that just sounds beautiful as you play it).
“So Mote It Be” inscribed on Led Zep III
Led Zep III also (shock horror) has the inscription in the run off groove of that Scottish master of evil magick Alistair Campbell, sorry, Alastair Crowley. “So Mote Be It” and “Do What Thou Wilt”, which led to much apparently serious speculation as to whether Page, Plant, Bonham and Jones had sold their souls to the devil. Which just goes to show how gullible people were in the seventies…
With all of these albums, you can buy cheaper copies by targeting the eighties reissues on green Atlantic labels. These can be bought for substantially less, albeit on lightweight eighties vinyl. And there’s the rub. Because the value in buying any forthcoming re-issue will be in the quality of the vinyl – especially for the first four albums. If you bought your Led Zep vinyl in the eighties, or if your old copy is crackly, then these new versions ought to be better sounding copies – and that’s a good reason to buy.
The ’80s Green Atlantic label – this is Led Zep IV
Buying the later (Physical Graffiti onwards) albums on vinyl might not be so essential, because the original copies are still common and less expensive. The quality of the original vinyl is also very good:
As Led Zep’s manager Peter Grant revealed in a 1989 interview in Raw magazine:
“We first got the idea for Swan Song after Atlantic f- up the pressings for Led Zeppelin II. They actually ran off 100,000 copies which jumped all over the place because they didn’t follow Jimmy’s precise instructions on the master tape. So we just decided that it was time for us to take control of our own situation and ensure that Led Zeppelin were presented in the best possible manner. We oversaw every aspect of record manufacture. I would go down to the pressing plant myself and make sure that everything ran smoothly. And I discovered some very interesting things. For instance, the records are dipped during the manufacturing process into vats of acid right? But for Rock/ Pop stuff these vats are only cleaned out every six months. However, for classical records there are separate vats which are cleaned out every ten days! So, I persuaded the powers that be to dip Zeppelin’s albums into the classical vat, which is part of the reason why the sound quality on our albums was so good.”
However, even if better quality copies of Led Zep’s later albums (Physical Graffiti, Presence, In Through The Out Door) are plentiful, the promise of extra tracks may yet convince us to shell out the hard-earned…
As to whether the new reissues will be up to scratch? We’ll have to wait and see. I’m more interested in the extra tracks and outtakes Page has promised for Led Zep III and onwards. Should you buy? As Jimmy Page might say, Do What Thou Wilt…
* source: Steve Hoffman’s Forums – an Internet resource populated by some of the world’s finest audiophiles**
** By which I mean “music geeks”. In the nicest possible way.
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This is an awesome post. It’s not every day I learn something new about my favorite band of the last 35 years, but you provided plenty of interesting tidbits here. Even though I have a clean set of Zeppelin LPs I’m pretty sure they’re all ’80s pressings. As I believe I mentioned in your previous Zeppelin post, I also have a Mobile Fidelity half-speed mastered copy of Zeppelin II which I played last week for the first time in nearly 30 years. My old turntable finally died and I chose that as my first record for the new turntable. What a great choice. Hopefully the vinyl remasters that are coming our way will sound at least as good as that. Then again, their albums were recorded & mixed so perfectly that even a mediocre vinyl pressing should sound excellent.
Well thank you – high praise indeed – it’s always good to find things that aren’t easily look-up-able on the internet (yes, that is a word) and therefore a bit different.
I think a clean ’80s copy will be good for most people – sadly my copy of Led Zep II is poor and quite crackly, so I have a good reason to invest in the new ones as and when they come out.
What turntable did you buy? I have a Rega…
I bought the Audio Technica AT-LP120. Based on weeks of research & solicited opinions from people who know more about audio components than I do, as well as my spending limit, this model met most of my criteria. My only disappointment is that it doesn’t have auto-return, but that’s something I’m living with. Otherwise it looks & sounds excellent, and certainly an improvement on my 30+ year old Onkyo which was past its prime. I was told that I should get a Rega or Thorens, but both were out of my price range.
Looks good – and more expensive (I think) than a Rega!
Really? I was told by some “experts” that the only way to get a Rega for less than $400 was to find a used one. I actually spent more than I wanted to for the Audio Technica but it came so highly recommended that I decided to splurge (and nothing cheaper appealed to me).
Maybe the import prices are higher – they are made up the road from me, so they may be cheaper here. The AT looks very nice – always good to spend slightly more than you wanted to – I think you end up being happy about it in the end…
Alan Downes
Hello, I have a Zeppelin 111 2401 002 Stereo & thinking of selling it. The record is in good condition.
Tracey Miles
I have a pink vinyl led zeppelin iv printed in 1971, which I bought new from a record shop as a teenager. It’s in a used but reasonable condition. Can you tell me its value please
September 15, 2019 • 11:03 am
Hi Tracey, I can’t find any reference to a 1971 official release on pink vinyl, (I looked on Discogs briefly), so it could be a pirated copy, although difficult to say without further information or pictures. Anyone else know?
dazzrecords
Unless it is the 1978 UK Lilac vinyl reissue (which looks pink), it is most likely a bootleg. Not to say it’s worthless, but it wouldn’t be worth much more than you paid for it.
genxatmidlife
Wow! I had no idea there might be some valuables in the basement. Hubby is a Zep fan, and I think we have pre-80s US pressings. I’ll have to check. Now, if only my Thompson Twins and Shalimar vinyl was so coveted…
Yes, Shalamar and Thompson Twins are strangely absent from the Rare Record Guide. Can’t understand why…
Hugely impressed by your knowledge. Have all the albums on vinyl, though I have no idea about their desirability. and listen to Zep, like everything else these days on my iTunes.
Thanks – it might be worth checking the colour of your copy of Led Zep I…
The funny thing about the Led Zep II’s that jumped all over the place – they’re now considered the “must have” version. The story goes that the turntables of the day couldn’t handle the dynamics and people were returning them left, right and centre. Today’s equipment can handle these pressings and I can attest to the fact that they sound amazing. Look for an “RL” in the runout groove (Robert Ludwig).
I’ll go put my anorak back on now.
Is that right? That’s excellent – thank you for sharing this. Anoraks always welcome here, especially when they give us information like that!
robert nakata
The evidence of the potential superiority of audio of the first USA pressings over the first UK pressings is right on the UK red/plum coloured Atlantic labels. The UK label states, just above the spindle hole: Under license from Atlantic Recording Corpn., U.S.A. and, at 6 o’clock, Polydor Records Limited. Led Zeppelin, or more specifically, Jimmy Page, negotiated their recording contract with Atlantic Records USA; there are several interviews with Page that confirm this business deal. Because of this deal, all Led Zeppelin master tapes reside in a vault somewhere in the USA (likely, New York area). No record label would ever send the original master tape anywhere in the world, especially for a group that sold multi-millions of physical formats like LZ. So, at best, the UK pressings have started with a duplication of the master tape, not the original master tape itself. But this does not necessarily mean the UK pressings are inferior audio. There are so many manufacturing stages between transferring a tape (whatever its origins) to the final, pressed vinyl. Their manager, Peter Grant, claims they started Swan Song Records as much to quality control the manufacturing of their vinyl records. At the pressing plant Grant saw that, in the final stage of manufacturing, an acid cleansing bath for classical records was renewed every 10 days. Rock album baths were changed at over far longer periods, so Grant had them change the baths as often fro LZ vinyl records.
Stuart Tacey
Don’t think this is true that the UK Plum’s were not from the masters. There are stories of Jimmy Page personally bringing the master tapes back to the UK with him. The UK Plum’s of III and IV beat the US pressings.
J P
It didn’t help them much. The Swan Song Zeppelin albums sound terrible.
The Village Hag
Amazing post. I learn so much from you =)
Thank you! Nice to know it’s educational in a good way, rather than just learning “how to waste lots of time reading blogs”
Devilscucumber
April 8, 2014 • 12:48 am
Nice article. Yesterday I received an RL Led Zep II from an online auction, for the opening price of $30 (in Ex cond), wasn’t listed as RL, took a punt due to the inner sleeve adverts matching up to online images. I must say the bass pumps hard and the resolution is better than the red/pum UK.
(Did you know the first UK stampers for Led Zep I (-1) both sides, were used for the turquoise and the first orange letter covers, but side 2 was re-cut as it was considered “too hot” (evidenced on “Communication Breakdown”)?
Quite a few think the 200gm Classic Pressing is the best to get on this one.
I also have the (SIC) “House of the holy” French pressing, pictured, which also sounds great, (has anyone compared it to the US RL version??, would be keen to hear about that). It smokes a slightly later German version I have.
Its a pity that the extras on Led Zep III don’t include the version of “Friends” Page & Plant recorded with the Bombay Symphony in 1972, returning from their Australasian tour. (One of my neighbours was a press photographer at the Auckland concert, and jumped in to help tune an acoustic guitar for the roadies when Bonham turned up dead drunk an hour before the show and the ground crew scrambled to sober him up, not that you can tell he was in any way impared from the bootleg of the concert).
As for Physical Graffiti I’d go for the UK first press, its very nice.
Of course I’ve already ordered the first 3 with bonus discs, (why not add to the stack).
April 8, 2014 • 8:28 pm
Thanks for this – as much good info as what I wrote! I agree that the UK Physical Graffiti sounds nice. And yes, I intend to purchase all three, albeit these will be my first serviceable I and II. The extras included on the vinyl of III are enough, I think, to draw me in to that one…
Classic Records used the original master tapes to make their reissue series of LZ at 33 1/3 and 45rpm on 200g vinyl. There is a picture of the LZ II mastertape (from New York) in an audiophile magazine titled Stereophile which details how Classic Records obtained and developed their reissue series.
simon.hawkins4@ntlworld.com
I listened to my UK first pressing of PG all the way through last night and it sounds great, though doesn’t quite have the Bass oomph of the earlier LPs on first pressings. I am a dealer so hear them often. Side 1 of my copy has a pressing fault which causes the needle to mistrack in a few places on the first 2 tracks causing some distortion. I know it is not stylus damage (which sounds the same) because I have owned it from new. I have just played the first LP of the second pressing, since I have just acquired a mint copy and I would say it is just as good, but without the fault. I don’t know if this fault is common on first pressings
The same is true IMHO of Dark side of the Moon, where the much desired blue triangle first pressing commonly has a pressing fault at the very start of side 2 and sometimes also on side 1, after that it sounds fantastic; but so does the A3/B3 second (or third) pressing which has no pressing faults and amazingly sells for only a tenth of the price. I think the intros are often spoiled on the BT version and the intros are important.
The point about the louder pressings of LZ II jumping is new to me but I think that it was more likely caused by the engineers following Page’s instruction to record it loud, rather than them not following his instructions. It plays fine on a proper turntable but not on a Radiogram which is what most people had in 69, if they were lucky. The same is true of Electric Ladyland and is the reason why people want the Track versions rather than the later Polydor versions which were recorded quieter because of the jumping problem. Why people pay 5 times more for the version with the blue writing rather than white writing is beyond me because the discs are from exactly the same master.
I hope there are some fellow nerds out there who find this interesting.
Fantastic stuff! Thanks for this – all great to hear – and glad you mentioned the DSOTM record too (I don’t have that blue pressing – too much cash!)
Just playing Side 1 of PG now (-1 matrix)…
Now that you mention it, the first 2 tracks seem to lack low bass, (apart from a bass drum hit just before the fade out of Custard Pie). But then “In My Time of Dying” seems to have some more bass… not sure what was happening here, probably recorded in drips & drabs in different places, but the mid-range is quite forward, and it makes a quite 3D like soundstage. More listening required!
I did Simon thanks. So if one is after early rock albums like these, to listen to not collect and they aren’t millionaire is their any internet reference that can help find best pressings at affordable prices?
Teel1
Led Zep II Question regarding the above credit info, original post mentions the Lemon Song, my 1969 copy lists the Lemon Song as being buy ‘Burnett’ ? Glad I read this cos my original Led Zep 1 is the red and plum version in mint…. all my albums are from 1969 to early 80’s, all of Zep, Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Floyd, etc and I’d like to sell the lot, anywhere in the UK that might buy the entire collection ?
Burnett is Howlin’Wolf’s real name. (First name Chester I think).
You’ll get the best price selling individually on eBay, but check out record Collector magazine -there are plenty of dealers for a job lot – just don’t expect to be paid what they are worth.
So much for the early Zep albums being worth a lot, you can find 1969 originals on e-bay struggling to reach £16 ( $20)
Perhaps – but they will most likely be in terrible condition – ie crackly, scratched etc – it’s all about the condition…
Hi. Great info here, thanks. But as a Zeppelin vinyl collector myself, I’d like to add a few clarification comments if I may. The very first pressing of Zeppelin I is not the turquoise printing UK one, it’s the orange printing US one (with the pink and brown Atco-style label). These were released in January 1969 in the US, fully two months before the turquoise ones were released in the UK, technically making them “closer” to the original master tapes.
Also, while many people think the Aleister Crowley inscription on Zeppelin III denotes a first pressing, this is not the case. All US and UK pressings, both first and re-issues, display some form of the inscription on one or both sides. On the US pressings the inscription is neatly written in a small script font, while on UK pressings it is in a much larger block-style printing that is clearly different than the US font. The US pressings have the phrases “Do What Thou Wilt” and “So Mote Be It”, while the UK pressings have “Do What Thou Wilt” and “So Mote It Be” (note the wording switch from “So Mote Be It”). Apparently all other international pressings have no inscriptions at all, with the sole exception being the Lebanese pressing.
And the side placement of the inscription is not consistent; it seems to vary by where and when the album was pressed. I have personally seen pressings with the inscriptions on both sides, sometimes switched sides, sometimes only “So Mote…” on one side and the other blank, sometimes only “Do What…” on one side and the other blank, and sometimes no inscription at all. Cheers!
Thank you – good to get some extra detail. Appreciated.
About those Atco records.. I just recently came home after purchasing LZ: IV and It turned out to be a clear Atco record.. Is this good or bad?
Hi. What do you mean by “clear Atco record”? Are you saying it has an Atco-style label?
Interesting. Incidentally, I bought an original copy of Led Zeppelin I with the turquoise lettering in near mint condition from Leigh Record Exchange (same shop?) in the early eighties for £20 (I think). I sold it about four years ago for £1000.
Yup – same one I think. I think your timing was impeccable!
That was certainly a good day to be a record collector. The chap who ran the shop had just bought someone’s entire record collection with loads of late sixties / early seventies LPs. I also bought, on that same day, an original Shades Of Deep Purple (which I only discovered many years later, was the rare mono version), several Iron Butterfly albums and a few others (there may have been some Monkees albums amongst them – but I’ll deny it if anyone asks). All were near mint condition. That shop could be a gold mine some days.
I have Led Zeppelin II from 1968 never been opened. Worth anything?
Are you sure it’s from 1968? It wasn’t released until late 1969. If it’s 1969 and still sealed, it’s probably worth quite a bit!
Heh, that’s a fair point. Pedantic, but fair!
In a word, yes.
If it’s a UK pressing in mint condition it depends upon the credits on the label. If Living Loving Maid is mis-credited as “Living Loving Wreck” it’s worth around £250 to a collector. If it has “Maid” rather than “Wreck”,look at “The Lemon Song”. If credited as The Lemon Sing your copy is worth £60-80. If it is “Killing Floor” it is a slightly later pressing and worth £40-50.
If you are in the US, then other rules may apply.
Probably worth saying that if it is sealed it may be worth more than if you break the seal to look at the label. Having a sealed (and thus guaranteed never played) record from ’69 has to be quite a rarity.
Me pedantic??? Never!!!!
Actually, I was just worried that it might be a fake. It probably is. Bob, just send it to me. I’ll take care of it for you.
For the avoidance of doubt Bob, I think Dazzrecords may be being disingenuous. Send it to me instead. I’m very trustworthy.
*looks to camera*
*rubs hands greedily*
Robin Gough
I have 2 LZ1 Orange lettered covers one with the silver line at the bottom,the other without but has 1cm gap between the top and the LZ writing and less picture at the bottom, both are 588171 both labels have 1,2,4 Warner Bros./7. Arts with 3. Jewel music underneath Warner Bros on a second line. I have been told these are the original 1st after the Turquoise.
also side one matrix has 588 171 with the 8 etched and side two 588 171 with no 8 etched same as the Turquoise, I would be interested in what you reckon thanks.
Paul W
I have the exact same French “House Of The Holy” as pictured in your article……is there any value to this one?
I paid £12 for mine (I think) so it isn’t wildly valuable but nice to have regardless I would say….
Hi. Great article.
Hoping all is well.
Two things. New reissues tend to be digital remastered so your buying essentially an oversized cd. WTF
Although the first UK pressing of 1 is astronomical mint if records are graded properly then VG+ should be quite good to listen to on normal (not audiophile) players. Would you agree?
I would agree, yes. It comes down to personal taste, but even if I had the money I wouldn’t feel happy about spending a grand on a record. I’m prepared to take a small drop in quality to pay a lot less and enjoy every other aspect of vinyl ownership. I don’t have an audiophile- level stereo either….
Teresa Lynne
I have 2, One printed 1969, with orange writing in the left upper corner that says led zeppelin.. Label on album is green on top, red on bottom sd-8216.. The other one is led zeppelin II , Award Gold record printed 1969. Sd-8236.. Are either one of these worth money?
I have a question has anyone ever seen this led zeppelin record it has and old picture of them bonham on the left page in the middle with a scarf jones on the right and kneeling down in front is a striped shirt plant. I can’t tell if someone made it or if its just old. the vinyl is broken a little but the words on it are wizard live recordings private collectors edition can anyone help me out with this?
sorry not wizard wizardo
Wizardo is a bootleg label. It could be any bootlegged Zeppelin recording. Got a photo or two you can post? But if the vinyl is cracked, it’s pretty much worthless…
Sounds like a bootleg mate.
Martyn Wright
I have a copy of Physical Grafitti that although plays in the right order, has side 2 label on side 4. Any value?
Hi – mispressings sometimes attract buyers, but generally won’t make a huge difference in value compared to the condition of the record itself.
Although it isn’t actually a mispressing (just a mislabeling), I agree. Label errors happen in the record industry much more than people think, and, with a few exceptions, they’re really of no extra value.
Agree – and yes, it’s a mis-labelling.
Fran Yeldham
On my Led Zep ll the name Allen is etched into the run off, any idea as to why. its a 1969 reissue K40037 A. Also I have CODA. I believe its a first press, A0051, the etching on the run off has been scratched out and xxxx hen scratched in again !!! . I have Robert Plants autograph.
Can you tell me about CODA,I would grade it as excellent -, due to the fact I dropped my eyeliner pencil and the back of the sleeve has a tiny dot on it, the vinyl is a++. is it worth anything?
I have After the Crash vol 1,both the vinyl’s are A++,the sleeve has a little wear on the corners.
Im sitting here looking at my Zep collection and Plant and Page albums, I need some help as to how to price them.
Hi. I’m not sure what the “Allen” means; never seen that in a Zeppelin runoff groove. But runoff groove etchings really don’t mean much. Sometimes matrix numbers are input incorrectly, so a scratch out and correction is done. Sometimes the sound mastering engineer will identify himself (eg, “Porky” by George Piros on Zeppelin IV), and sometimes it’s just a personal message or inside joke (see: http://www.publiccollectors.org/MatrixMessages.htm).
That said, your K40037 is a 1973 reissue. Your Coda is probably a first pressing (1982), but Coda doesn’t have a lot of value on the collectors market; you can easily find a still-sealed one these days for about $15. After The Crash is a Robert Plant live bootleg from his April 11, 1988 show at the Hammersmith Odeon; maybe worth $15 or $20.
As for pricing your items: An album is worth only what somebody will give you for it, and condition is everything to collectors. I would recommend you first grade your records according to Goldmine or Record Collector grading standards, then search Ebay (both current and ended listings) to get an idea of what they’re going for in that condition. This should give you a pretty good idea of value.
Just a quick point of note..by the way liked going through this article, vinyl is nothing if not interesting to learn about.
Anyway, to the point, Porky is just one of many iterations of dead-wax notations from the king of all mastering (imo) George Peckham, not George Piros as you’ve mentioned.
Ah, indeed Tom J. is correct. I got my George’s mixed up; Piros mastered Led Zeppelin I, not IV…
MItch Lee
Inexplicably, the very best pressing of Led Zeppelin IV that I have–and I have owned perhaps 9 copies– And the one have have kept since I got it– And the one I will take to the old-folks home with me– And then have played at my memorial is… from the Record Club of America. I know this sounds just flat crazy. But when one is an audiophile and a strict empiricist such eldritch contradictions of all time and space simply can not be denied. It is the only one that allows me to hear all the guitar parts on Black Dog clearly. And I’ll bet most of you still haven’t heard that third voice!
Steve Mander
In Australia we had 3 rather rare EPs (especially the first) & some incongruities such as Whole LoTTTa Love with an extra T on the 45. An interesting topic about my favourite 70s band
June 3, 2015 • 6:02 am
Also, the first Australian pressing of Led Zeppelin III says “Led Zeppelin 111” (three ones, read as one hundred and eleven) on the label instead of “Led Zeppelin III”…
Chema Valldejuli
June 4, 2015 • 1:56 pm
was there a reprint of the turquoise version od Led Zep I?
Yes. In 2010 there was a re-issue of the turquoise-lettered version, supposedly limited to only 1000 copies. The matrix number on side 1 is “LZ A” and on side 2 it is “LZ B”. The jacket is identical to the 1969 original, but it has no lamination and no spine text. The label is smaller in diameter (3&7/8 inches wide; original is 4 inches wide), the bottom half of it is more pink colored (original is closer to plum), and the trail-off area is about twice as wide as on the original. You can find them on Ebay occasionally.
I grew up listening to Led Zeppelin on my dad’s record player and loved this post. I have a Led Zeppelin III on vinyl and it looks just like the picture you have of the US release…red and green with the titles of the songs listed down vertically, unlike the picture of the 80’s reprint where the titles seem more horizontal. Is there any specific way to tell if this is authentic compared to an 80’s copy?
If by “authentic” you mean a first pressing (1970), then yes. A 1970 first pressing of Led Zeppelin III will have a catalog number of SD-7201 printed in the green part of the label, and an address of 1841 Broadway along the bottom of the red part of the label.
Asa Panatero
Great article & even more in the comments! Wondering if anyone might be able to help me figure out what my Led Zeppelin II album could be worth. It is an RL cut (SD 8236) also has The Lemon Song with credits to Page & Plant. It’s in the proper original sleeve & everything too. I’ve been able to correctly identify all of the key info online but see a huge price scale even on copies that seem to be exactly the same in every aspect, including the condition grade, etc. Can anybody help me out here?? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!
Hi. First, to ensure that yours is a first U.S. pressing, make sure that in addition to the SD-8236, the address printed along the bottom of the label is 1841 Broadway. If it is 75 Rockefeller instead (but still SD-8236), you have a circa-1974 re-issue (Atlantic moved their offices to the latter address in 1973).
Second, a record is only worth what someone is willing to pay you for it, and condition is everything to a collector. That said, I recommend you grade your record by Goldmine or Record Collector grading standards, and then use Ebay to research values of the same item in the same condition. An important distinction to make here is between asking prices and selling prices; just because someone is asking $100 for an item doesn’t necessarily mean it’s worth $100. Your best barometer of value would be to use Ebay’s advanced search feature and search in the Sold Listings category. The selling prices you find here should give you a good idea of what the value of yours might be.
By the way, the Lemon Song – Page Plant credit is only an issue with UK pressings of the album; the U.S. pressings were never changed to the Killing Floor – Burnett credit.
Thank you Chris- enjoying your authoritative advice!
Thanks so much for your comment. The Lemon Song was the only thing I wasn’t sure of after reading this article & figured that out afterwards but thank you for clarifying. It is definitely a first pressing & I have done everything you mentioned including the eBay search. I’m still finding a large gap in the price of sold albums. I guess it’s just that people like to say things are in great condition when they’re really not in hopes of making more money. I will keep looking & hold on to it for now unless i can find a very knowledgeable & reputable source for pricing or buying. Thank you!
Leonard Dawe
By fluke purchased a Led Zep I with the blue writing, red plum label, superhype credit in mint (jacket and disc) condition at a record swap. Wasn’t aware of it’s value until I walked by a young gentleman that was wowed by what I had. Haven’t played it either. Had to purchase the box set as my playable disc.
It goes without saying I’m really pleased for you and not jealous at all….
Regarding Asa’s Aug 29th comments on finding a very knowledgeable & reputable source for pricing or buying:
Printed pricing/buying guides were pretty much rendered obsolete with the advent of auction websites like Ebay. This is because the global nature of Ebay allows basically a worldwide audience to see and bid on an item, and also allows for the value to change on an almost instant basis (as outside market forces affect values, or two collectors engage in a bidding war over the item).
Plus, a printed pricing/buying guide is only accurate at the time it’s printed; 6 months later the values it lists could be vastly different in the real world. And any “knowledgeable & reputable” human pricing source today will be using Ebay (in the same manner as I mentioned on Aug 29th above) as one of his price quoting resources. Cheers.
Lots of great info in this thread, you really know your stuff.
For many years I have been sitting on a hidden gem that I would like to hear your thoughts on.
I have a copy of Zepp IV Atlantic serial number kdr19129r which normally is a standard album. But my copy is slightly different.
The album is normal in every way except for one, the pressing is side2 and side2.
You can imagine my shock when I put it on the turntable all those years ago. Knowing that I had something quite obscure I returned the album to its sleeve and have never played it again. Needless to say the vinyl is in pristine condition, the sleeve has very little wear, just the typical burred corners otherwise outstanding.
I have searched from time to time on different threads for possible value estimates and let me say the range is significant.
I would love to hear your thoughts on what I’m holding on to here. Such as value, the rarity, & if I should have it insured etc.
So glad I stumbled onto your site and look forward to exploring it thoroughly.
Cheers and Ramble On 🙂
Hello Myles. I’m assuming you mean that the album has the Side 2 tracks pressed onto both sides, and not that there are simply two Side 2 labels on the LP. I’ve never seen that kdr prefix on the catalog number before; are you sure it’s not ksd? Ksd would indicate that it’s a Canadian pressing. Regardless, the 19129 indicates it’s a 1977 re-issue (as opposed to a 1971 original). All that said, I’ve seen this type of anomaly once or twice before, and the records usually go for a couple hundred dollars (if I recall correctly). But, as I’ve said in some of my other posts, it’s only worth what someone is willing to give you for it, which could vary wildly from day to day. One idea for a value might be to list it on Ebay but include an astronomical Reserve Price (so that you’ll be sure nobody meets it), and see what kind of bidding activity and price it goes up to. Cheers
Thanks Chris – enjoying your replies!
Carol Craddock
I have a mint condition LED ZEPPLIN collection that I am considering to sell. I have a perfect complete 1,2,&3 with complete album cover etc. I’m the original owner and have kept them put away safe. Any ideas of the best site to sell these on?
TheRedPen
Agree; Ebay. It’s an international marketplace, so you’ll get better exposure and prices than from a local record store or dealer. Be sure to take and post good photos and accurately describe the conditions of your records (based on the Goldmine or Record Collector grading scale). Also, if you don’t already know about the issue status, be sure to do some research to determine if yours are first pressings or re-issues, and what country they are from. Good luck.
Thank you the information you gave me Is very helpful. I’m going to do more research as most of mine are from the early 70’s.
Hi .. I wonder if you can help me. I have a copy of Led Zeppelin’s
IV album in pink vinyl. I’m not a fan tbh and have acquired it completely by accident. I can’t find much information about it online. Can anyone enlighten me what it might be worth? Thanks. Very interesting post btw. I’m a big vinyl fan having spent most of my life with it after my first introduction to it at the tender age of 6 (possibly earlier) when I used to listen to my dads collection (when dad was out and mum was in the kitchen of course !). It was always treated with the utmost respect, even at that age.
The pink / lilac one is a limited edition UK-only pressing released in November 1978. I’m not sure how many in the edition though. As for value, it would depend upon the condition. I would expect a near-mint copy to fetch around $75.
The notion that US pressings of III sound better than a UK Plum original is simply not true. The A5/B5 Plum is the best version available cut from the original masters. Whereas the US sounds dull and lifeless being cut from a copy tape.
Julie Deighton
We’re, can I get led zeppelin vinyls records from the first edition thank u
Your local record store (if there are any near you still) may have some, but your best source will be Ebay. Either way though, be prepared to spend a lot of money if you want them in good playing condition…
Barry.knight
I have a.led.zep1v.limited colored. Vinyl looks like1971 would u no if it is worth anything
Hi. I couldn’t really say from the limited info you have provided. What color is it? What do you mean by “vinyl looks like 1971”? What country is it from?
Heather Forsyth
Is the Australian version of Houses of the Holy with the misprint/ reverse cover really all that rare? Is it valuable at all? Thank you
Hi. It’s hard to say. I know they aren’t that common, but value will depend upon its condition and what somebody is willing to pay you for it on a given day. There are a couple on Ebay right now with asking prices of a few hundred dollars, but asking price and selling price can be two quite different things. I would throw it up on Ebay with an astronomically high reserve price (one so high that you’re sure it won’t be attained), and see what your highest bid gets to. That will give you a pretty good indication of its current value.
First, sorry for my English. If we discuss how publication sounds better, it is necessary to compare the sound. This is the easiest method.
Now I will tell you my thoughts after listening to many instances.
Of course first and foremost about the first album L.Zep.
Because all the other albums sound much better in the English edition (first press), than all the rest countries (especially the US).
Only one album a special talking – it Physical Graffiti. But about it later.
The first album was released in the US much earlier than in England – in 1968 on test pressing mono and stereo. How do they sound, I do not know unfortunately. But I can guess that it is probably the killer.
The next edition – it mispress (ATCO).
To be honest, all the English edition of the 1st album sounds awful – flat, no bass, no volume.
This applies to all editions – and 1st turquoise with uncorrected matrixes, and with corrected, and Warner.
So mispress sounds much more interesting.
There are more editions of the US, which sound far better than English editions.
Of course it’s bright red and green with long threaded tracks and with Broadway 1841.
But these editions were released with different matrices at different factories in different time in huge quantities. Therefore, find a copy of the excellent sound is not easy.
Unfortunately the majority of US copies vocal is removed into the background.
Than a later Edition, the vocals further. Of course it’s terrible. After all, it is Robert Plant vocals.
Finally, a few words about Physical Graffiti.
Recorded it terribly. Sounds awful. The worst of all the albums. But…there is one England edition, with excellent sound. This is the first edition – label with a very,very dark and saturated colors. This edition is very rare and expensive. The last time I saw over 500 pounds 3 years ago.
Still there is one American edition with super sound. But it is even more rare.
Of course for a long time can tell about the sound in different editions, but alas…
HI, I inherited a pretty big vinyl collection a few years ago and am thinking of selling some , including the Led Zeppelins. I’ve got I,ll, and lll plus physical graffiti and possibly a couple more (its taking a while to go through!) Think I is a second press and all the others appear to be first . Sleeves are all in good condition and records play perfectly. Any idea of current values and the best places to sell? Sadly we have no space to store anymore and it seems a shame for them to sit wasted in a loft. Any help hugely appreciated! UK based.
Hi Amanda, I think you’ll get best prices on eBay, but it takes time and you need to give good descriptions and photos. You can look at a site such as Discogs to et an idea of value of albums – it all comes down to condition. If you want to sell them all in one go to a dealer, you will get maybe a third of an eBay price, because they will want to make a profit also.
ian taylor
Hi I have a question if you could help me
I bought a copy of led zeppelin vol 2 that is a Russian press with the album cover in Russian and the label in russian, I bought it at a fair over 25 years ago and paid £30.00 for it
Is it worth anything today?
GotLed
Hello. By “vol 2”, do you mean it’s a Russian pressing of “Led Zeppelin II”? If so, assuming it’s in near-mint condition, maybe around £10.00. These Russian pressings are not official Atlantic Records releases (i.e., they’re basically pirate copies), and have no real value except as curiosities.
Thrainn
I have a copy of Led Zeppelin II pressed in 1982 in Iceland. 500 copies were pressed and Coda and Houses of the holy were also pressed for Iceland, same number, 500 each.
I don´t have more info, discox does not have any info on Led Zepp. II
Anyone know anything about Icelandic Led Zep pressings?
Hi. Discogs states this info about the Houses album: “Between 1981 and 1984 there was applied an 85% luxury tax on vinyl imports in Iceland, which forced 3 Icelandic companies to start pressing vinyl in Iceland: labels Steinar, Fálkinn and Spor. The pressing company was named Alfa, and most covers were printed in Prisma, both of which are located in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. These were not big pressings, approximately between 250 to 500 copies for each title”.
So I would assume the info would be the same for the Icelandic Led Zep II and Coda.
Excellent research! So that’s a pretty limited early eighties pressing!
I have an old Led Zeppelin II LP which has a discrepancy between the disk label and the album cover as to which tracks are on what side.
Album cover: Side One = Whole Lotta Love, What Is and What Should Never Be, The Lemon Song, Thank You; Side Two = Heartbreaker, Living Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman), Ramble On, Moby Dick, Bring It On Home.
Disk label = reversed, same groupings but with 1 = Heartbreaker, etc and 2 = Whole Lotta Love, etc.
Side One marked (ST-A-691672R1) and Side Two marked ST-A-691671R1).
Doesn’t matter (to me) if this makes it ‘valuable’ — I’ll be dying with this album!
Once upon a time a very long time ago (I think it was 1971) I bought the album with “Stairway to heaven” as the last track on side 1 (it’s Led Zeppelin III isn’t it?).
Anyway, when I got home and played it, it was something completely different on side 2. It wasn’t Led Zeppelin at all, more a Perry Como like artist or some other sleezy stuff. I was so disappointed so I went back with the record and got a new correct one.
How stupid was I when I was only 16 years old? Would it have a great value today if I had kept it? Have anyone of you heard about a pressing of this kind?
I’m not convinced having Perry Como on one side would increase the value of a Led Zep record. The mispressings that I have heard of that have decent value tend to have alternative mixes or changes in mono/stereo, so I suspect you haven’t missed out on a windfall!
Hi Arne. The album you had was Led Zeppelin’s 1971 untitled 4th album, commonly called IV or Zoso, not Led Zeppelin III (1970).
As for the value, it’s hard to say. Mispressings like this happen a lot more than most people think, as it can sometimes be chaos in the pressing plant. The most common pressing plant errors are typos on labels or just the wrong labels being put on the records. Not quite as common are actual track and album side errors like the one you had, but they do happen and are not necessarily “rarities”. In both situations, the record may command just slightly more in the marketplace, as an oddity, but not that much more. But many dealers mistakenly think these things are indeed rarities and will assign a premium value to them.
I would think that if the incorrect side had a rather unpopular artist on it, it may not be worth much more than the correct version of the album. But if it had a popular or the same artist, it may be worth a little more to a collector. That said though, keep in mind that something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it, and just because it may be rare does not mean it’s valuable; it could be the only one in existence, but if nobody wants it, it’s worthless. Cheers.
Thanks for the information. As you say, there is no title on my record (the correct one I changed to back in 1971). Now I at least know which record I have.
As for the “rarity” of the copy I returned back to the shop, I agree that it’s probably of no interest for a Led Zeppelin fan since it was not Led Zeppelin on side 2 (unless it was really them singing some Perry Como like songs on side two, which I strongly doubt).
I can now stop regretting that I returned the recorde to the shop 46 years ago. I can instead enjoy the real Led Zeppelin record. I still have it.
Have had a copy of physical graffiti for a number of years now side4 even though has the right tracks on it has the side 4 label of the Song remains the same album any thoughts on this and possible worth.
Labeling errors like this happen a lot more than most people think, as it can sometimes be chaos in the pressing plant, and don’t really add any more value to the record. The fact that Physical was released in 1975 but Song wasn’t released until 1976 indicates that you have a later reissue of Physical (because the Song labels didn’t exist yet in 1975). As for value: about the same as a Physical reissue, but you may get a bit more from a collector who views it as a curiosity. Cheers.
Greg Mitchell
Ive a question I cant seem to get info on: I have 3 Sealed Zeppelin LP’s, all three have a sticker that says “d/j copy monaural” and in the edges of the round sticker it says “promotional not for sale” and has a colored dot sticker. I know when I bought these I was told they are colored vinyl. I do believe they are boots. Any info? Value? Sound? “Houses of” has an Obi. Thanks
Sorry, they are Zep II, Zep III, and Houses of the Holy. 2 purple dots, Houses is yellow.
First a word about bootlegs: A bootleg is a recording that is not commercially available to the public (such as a live concert recording never released by the label). A pirate is an unauthorized copy of an existing authorized album. These colored vinyl albums with the colored dots are later (circa 2013) versions from the E.U. and Germany and are most likely pirates, as there would be no need to produce a DJ or promo copy of any Led Zeppelin album at this point in their career (it’s not like nobody knows them and they need promoting). The albums are just produced to make money for the creators of them.
I have a NOS Promo 45 of Zeppelin’s “Trampled Under Foot” still sealed in the FedClass mailer with a Green Swan Song label in Stereo on one side and a White label Mono Mix on the other side. Any idea on its rarity and or value? Thanks, Greg
Hi Greg: is it this one? https://www.discogs.com/Led-Zeppelin-Trampled-Under-Foot-/release/12879204
If so, there is another one on sale for $8, and non-promo copies average something similar.
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Aaron M. Miller, MD, MBA, FAAP, Ahmad A. Aref, MD, MBA, Brad H. Feldman, M.D., Samuel P. Solish,MD and Sarwat Salim MD, FACS
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2 Optic Nerve Anatomy
2.1 Optic nerve in the detection of glaucoma
2.2 Optic Nerve Imaging Technologies
2.3 Photography of the Optic Nerve
2.3.1 Advantages of Optic Disc Photography
2.3.2 Disadvantages of Optic Disc Photography
2.4 Computed Analysis of the Optic Nerve Head and Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer
2.5 Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy
2.6 Scanning Laser Polarimetry
2.7 Optical Coherence Tomography
2.7.1 Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Analysis by OCT
3 Acknowledgement
Since the mid-19th century, it has been recognized that changes in the optic nerve appearance correlate with vision and visual field loss in glaucoma. Although there have been variations in the definition of glaucoma over time, increased attention to the structure and appearance of the optic nerve has been a hallmark in understanding glaucoma. Direct observation with notation progressed to accurate photographic techniques. Recently, techniques utilizing sophisticated laser scanning with digital image processing have been used to assist clinical evaluation of the optic nerve and the nerve fiber layer. This article will discuss information on evaluation of the intra-bulbar structure of the optic nerve as it relates to glaucoma, with particular emphasis on three imaging devices, confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, optical coherence tomography, and scanning laser polarimetry.
Optic Nerve Anatomy
The optic nerve (optic disc, optic disk, optic nerve head) area is approximately 2.1-2.8 mm2 in whites who are not highly myopic depending on the measurement method utilized. The optic nerve size changes in early life and is likely stable after age 10. There are significant variations in optic nerve structural parameters in homogenous populations as well as with refractive error and race.[1]
Optic nerve in the detection of glaucoma
Changes in the optic nerve in glaucoma are classically considered to be cupping and pallor of the disc. The term pallor is likely to be misinterpreted to mean generalized pallor of the optic nerve. The pallor of glaucomatous optic nerves relates to the increased visibility of the lamina cribosa as compared to the neuroretinal rim (containing the ganglion cells). As the rim thins from ganglion cell loss, the cup becomes larger and often deeper exposing the lamina with increased pallor of the cup. Pallor of the neuroretinal rim indicates previous insufficiency of the vascular supply of the optic nerve which is often unrelated to glaucoma.
The retinal ganglion cells coursing into the optic nerve are responsible for the appearance of the neuroretinal rim.
The decrease in vision from glaucoma is related to the loss of retinal ganglion cells. Elevated intraocular pressure is the greatest risk factor for development of ganglion cell loss. However there appear to be a number of different pathophysiologic mechanisms by which ganglion cell loss may occur. The optic nerve appearance often provides evidence of the presence and progression of glaucoma.
Clinical Signs of Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy
Generalized
Large optic cup
Asymmetry of the cups (usually > 0.2)
Vertical elongation of the cup
Regional thinning
Cupping to the rim margin (notching)
Splinter hemorrhage
Nerve fiber layer loss
Less specific
Exposed lamina cribrosa
Nasal displacement of vessels
Baring of the circumlinear vessels
Peripapillary atrophy
Optic Nerve Imaging Technologies
This is the left optic disc of a patient with POAG. Note the increased vertical cup:disc ratio and thinning of the superior neuro-retinal rim.
Although other technologies exist for the evaluation of the optic nerve and nerve fiber, the following are the major technologies with the greatest installed user base in 2015.
Disc Photography
Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy
Scanning Laser Polarimetry
Photography of the Optic Nerve
Fundus photography has been the primary method of documenting the optic nerve until the advent of computerized imaging techniques. Fundus photography was developed in the 1920’s. The standard optic nerve photographic technique of 35mm film and now digital photography has been used extensively since the 1960’s.
Photographic documentation of the optic nerve serves multiple purposes. Single images can be used to closely evaluate the structural relationships within the nerve. Extended examination is difficult for patients and practitioners. Thus, photography allows the practitioner to evaluate fine details of the anatomy not easily seen on examination. It is not uncommon for practitioners to identify feature such as disc hemorrhages on subsequent evaluation of a photograph. In addition, photographs allow for analysis of changes in the anatomy of the optic nerve over time.
Stereo disc photography and red-free nerve fiber layer photography are additional techniques to enhance the evaluation of the disc photograph. Although recent advances in computerized analysis of the optic nerve head have assisted the practitioner, these methods have not completely supplanted photographic analysis of the optic nerve. In particular, the cost of optic nerve photography is substantially lower than the newer techniques.
Stereo disc photography has greater utility in determining size and shape of the neuroretinal rim and the depth of the cup than two dimensional photography. Stereo disc photography can be achieved utilizing several methods. A common technique is to take two photographs of the same nerve shifting the angle of the camera slightly between exposures. The resulting photographs can then be viewed with an inexpensive stereoscope viewer or similar device [2].
Advantages of Optic Disc Photography
Similar to clinical exam; comfort and easy interpretation for some clinicians
Full color helps to distinguish between cupping and pallor
Better detection of disc hemorrhages
Aids in detection of peripapillary atrophy
Stable technology
Less expensive compared to other imaging devices
Disadvantages of Optic Disc Photography
Qualitative, not quantitative description
Interobserver variability
High quality of photographs required for accurate interpretation
May be difficult to detect subtle changes with a photograph
Requires special hand held lenses for viewing and interpretation
Computed Analysis of the Optic Nerve Head and Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer
Digital evaluation of the optic nerve has progressed over the last thirty years. Various techniques for analyzing photographs have been utilized to provide objective data from photography. Techniques such as stereophotogrammetry, stereo chronometry, raster stereography were developed to analyze the optic nerve head and/or disc photographs. Often expensive and complicated, these techiques failed to reach the level of common use. In the 1990’s, three new technologies were introduced for optic nerve imaging which garnered significant interest. These are Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy, Optical Coherence Tomography and Scanning Laser Polarimetry.
QUANTITATIVE IMAGING
Clinical Parameters Measured
HRT Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy Optic Disc Tomography
GDx& Scanning Laser Polarimetry/Birefringence Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness
OCT Interferometry Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness
Confocal Laser Ophthalmoscopy (CSLO) is the concept behind the Heidelberg Retinal Tomograph. This technique for precise microscopic imaging was patented in 1955 by Marvin Minsky, now a Professor at M.I.T.[3] Since the original patent, numerous instruments in many areas of science and engineering have utilized this technique to perform precision microscopy. Confocal microscopy offers several advantages over conventional optical microscopy, including controllable depth of field, the elimination of image degrading out-of-focus information, and the ability to collect serial optical sections from thick specimens. The key to the confocal approach is the use of spatial filtering to eliminate out-of-focus light or flare in specimens that are thicker than the plane of focus. [4]
Confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy generates up to 64 transaxial laser scans through the ONH and peripapillary retina to reconstruct a high-resolution 3-dimensional image. A 670-nm diode laser emits a beam that is focused in the x-axis and y-axis (horizontal and vertical dimensions) of the ONH, perpendicular to the z-axis (axis along the optic nerve). The reflected image from this plane is captured as a 2-dimensional scan. Successive equidistant images are obtained, up to 64 in total, depending on the cup depth. These sections are then combined to form a 3-dimensional construct of the ONH region. Surfaces of the optic cup, optic rim, and peripapillary retina are determined by a change in reflectance intensity along the z-axis at each point. This creates a topographic map for the calculation of cup-to-disc (C/D) ratio, rim area, and other optic disc parameters. [5]
The HRT II and III instruments have become the standard instruments for CSLO scanning of the optic nerve head in glaucoma. Description of the instrument and the concepts underlying the analysis software is available.[6][7]
Scanning laser polarimetry (SLP) (GDx Nerve Fiber Analyzer, Carl Zeiss Meditec) measures peripapillary RNFL thickness by sending a laser beam to the posterior retina and assessing the change in polarization (retardation) of the reflected beam. This retardation of the scanning beam results from the birefringent properties of the neurotubules contained within the ganglion cell axons. The laser scanning is also based on CSLO and has a wavelength of 780 nm. A high-resolution image of 256 by 256 pixels is created of the optic nerve and peripapillary retina. Each point is a measure of the retardation of the laser scan at its location. Three serial scans are obtained with each test. Although SLP measures RNFL thickness throughout the entire image, the RNFL thickness for the double hump is determined along a 3.2-mm-diameter 8-pixel-wide circle, centered on the disc (calculation circle). The double hump is a graphic plot of the RNFL thickness around the optic nerve that is observed in most normal individuals, with the superior and inferior poles having the greatest RNFL thickness compared with the nasal and temporal poles. Some of the parameters presented are based on the RNFL thickness measurements within the calculation circle alone, but the nerve fiber indicator (a summary value that is intended to represent the likelihood of glaucomatous RNFL loss) is based on the entire RNFL thickness map. In addition, comparison of serial scans with normative data to help determine progression is available, and this is based on the entire image, not just the calculation circle. Prior versions of the machine provided a fixed compensation for the corneal birefringence that contributes to the retardation of the laser signal (fixed corneal compensation [FCC]). However, the corneal effect may differ significantly among individuals, change over time, and be substantially altered after ocular surgery, particularly LASIK. The updated device, GDx with variable corneal compensation (VCC), incorporates individua
lized compensation for the corneal component. [5]
GDx Printout: Patient with Early POAG
Optical Coherence Tomography is an imaging technique which utilizes the concepts of interferometry as described by Albert Abraham Michelson. The device he designed, later known as an interferometer, sent a single source of white light through a half-silvered mirror that was used to split it into two beams travelling at right angles to one another. After leaving the splitter, the beams travelled out to the ends of long arms where they were reflected back into the middle on small
mirrors. They then recombined on the far side of the splitter in an eyepiece, producing a pattern of constructive and destructive interference based on the spent time to transit the arms.Most of Michelson’s work was concerning the measurement of the speed of light.[8]
The use of Optical Coherence in biological systems was described by Huang et al in 1991[9]. Since that time, instrumentation has been developed by multiple companies to utilize this technique for measurement of ophthalmic structures.
A major event in the evolution of OCT was the use of light wavelengths instead of time delay to determine the spatial location of reflected light. Through the use of Fourier transformation, this took the technology from the original method of TD-OCT to the development of SD-OCT. The original OCT method, known as TD-OCT, encoded the location of each reflection in the time information relating the position of a moving reference mirror to the location of the reflection.44,45 SD-OCT, instead, acquires all information in a single axial scan through the tissue simultaneously by evaluating the frequency spectrum of the interference between the reflected light and a stationary reference mirror. This method enables much faster acquisition times, resulting in a large increase in the amount of data that can be obtained during a given scan duration using SD-OCT. A comprehensive review of SD OCT by Joel Schuman is available. [10]
Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Analysis by OCT
RNFL is measured in the peripapilary region with circular scans of 3.4 mm diameter centered around the optic nerve head
Measurements of RNFL thickness are shown in a TSNIT orientation and are compared to age-matched controlled individuals.
The Green area is the 5th -95th percentile by age, Yellow Area is 1st-5th percentile, and Red Area is below the 1st percentile.
This printout reveals blunting of "double hump" appearance of RNFL in the left eye and RNFL thinning superiorly in the right eye
Photos Courtesy of Samuel Solish, MD, EyeCare Medical Group, Portland, Maine
Medeiros, FA, Prata, JA, Tavares, IM. Optic Disc and Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Analyzers in Glaucoma. American Academy of Ophthalmology. Current Insight 2006. https://www.aao.org/current-insight/optic-disc-retinal-nerve-fiber-layer-analyzers-in- Accessed March 25, 2019.
Glaucoma Diagnosis, Structure and Function Reports and Consensus Statements of the 1st Global AIGS Consensus Meeting on Structure and Function in the Management of Glaucoma. Weinreb & Greve (ed) Kugler: The Hague, Netherlands 2004
↑ Jonas et al Survey of Ophthalmology 43; 4, 1999
↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy
↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confocal_laser_scanning_microscopy
↑ http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/techniques/confocal/
↑ 5.0 5.1 Lin, SC, Singh, K, Jampel, HD et al Ophthalmic Technology Assessment:Optic Nerve Head and Retinal Nerve Fiber Analysis. A Report by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology 2007;114;1937-1949
↑ Allingham, R. Rand , et al Shield’s Textbook of Glaucoma, 5th ed, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004
↑ http://www.agingeye.net/glaucoma/heidelberg.pdf
↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson-Morley experiment He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907.
↑ Huang D, Swanson EA, Lin CP, Schuman JS, Stinson WG, Chang W, et al., Science 1991; 254:1178-81
↑ Joel S. Schuman, MD, Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography For Glaucoma (An AOS Thesis) Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc 2008;106:426-458
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Hidden history about Madrid 1995: a look at the conference that changed the world
By Larry Kummer, Editor / 15 Comments / 11 September 2012 11 May 2019
Summary: Today we have an excerpt from a longer work describing one of the key global diplomatic meetings shaping the early 21st century world, our equivalent of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In the era of 4GW State-to-State wars are replaced by global conferences setting policy about currencies, trade — and climate change.
Excerpt from Madrid 1995: The Last Day of Climate Science, posted by Bernie Lewin at Enthusiasm, Scepticism and Science musings on the origins and impacts of global warming alarmism in the history and philosophy of science (for more see their About Page). Reposted with their generous permission.
I recommend that anyone interested in climate change go to Lewin’s website and read this series in full. These excerpts give just a flavor of the rich detail he provides on this important and fascinating story.
These links go to these chapters at Lewin’s website.
MADRID 1995: Tipping Point?
The Quest – Part II
The Last Day – Part I
The Last Day – Part II: A shambolic Victory of the Virtuous
(1) Introduction
When Ben Santer arrived in Madrid in the late autumn of 1995, did he know that this conference would change his life forever?
Undoubtedly ambitious, a rising star in the climate modelling scene, he was doing well at age 40 to be leading the writing of a key chapter in the IPCC Second Assessment Report. In fact, the convener of this IPCC Working Group, John Houghton, had asked him to take it on quite late in the day, only after more established scientists had turned down the offer. Perhaps they had a hunch of what was about to unfold, for it would be Santer’s fate that great forces of history would bear down on the lead author of his chapter at this conference.
When he was through with it, when Houghton had accepted the final draft a few days later, climate science would be changed forever. After a long struggle, the levees of science gave way to the overwhelming forces of politics welling up around it, and soon it would be totally and irrevocably engulfed.
The story of Ben Santer’s late changes to Chapter 8 of the Working Group 1 Report is familiar to most sceptical accounts of the climate change controversy (e.g. here & here and a non-sceptical account). However, it is often overshadowed by other landmark events, and so it is usually not put up there in the same league with Hansen‘s sweaty congressional testimony of 1988, with the establishment of the IPCC nor with the Hockey Stick Controversy. Yet, if one looks at the greater controversy in terms of its impact on science, then this conference in Madrid might just surpass them all.
This was the tipping point. This was climate science’s Battle of Hastings, when political exigencies — the enemies of science — broke through the lines and went on to overrun all its institutions.
John Houghton writes of it under the heading Meetings that Changed the World. Here we consider whether this meeting in Madrid was the moment when climate science gave way under the monumental pressure of politics. It culminated in famous and controversial statement in Chapter 8 Second Assessment Report:
“Viewed as a whole, these results indicate that the observed trend in global mean temperature over the past 100 years is unlikely to be entirely natural in origin. More importantly, there is evidence of an emerging pattern of climate response to forcings by greenhouse gases and sulphate aerosols in the observed climate record. Taken together, these results point towards a human influence on global climate.”
{Here we} continue our quest for how human attribution was first established by the IPCC with a close look at the dramas on the final day in Madrid 1995 using the Australian Delegation Report (published by the Bureau of Meteorology) as our guide.
The first and second essays on the Chapter 8 Controversy will help readers follow the story, but the main tip for new readers is to read this summary about the importance of Barnett 1996: “Estimates of low frequency natural variability in near-surface air temperature“, T.P. Barnett, The Holocene, September 1996 — Ungated large pdf here.
Also helpful will be this key to drafts and meetings:
SAR 18Apr95 draft: the version of the Working Group 1 Second Assessment Report (SAR) sent out for review before the deadline for comments on chapters in early July 1995
Asheville Meeting of Lead Authors (25-8 July 1995): convened primarily to redraft the Working Group 1 Report’s Summary for PolicyMakers (SPM) in the light of comments and in preparation for Madrid
SAR 9Oct95 draft: the version of the Working Group 1 Report circulated to the governmental delegates prior to Madrid
Madrid Working Group 1 Plenary (27-29 Nov) convened primarily to give line-by-line approval to the Summary for PolicyMakers (SPM) and to accept the underlying Report.
Rome IPCC Plenary (11-5 December 1995): convened to accept all the Working Group Reports and give line-by-line approval to the Synthesis Report.
SAR: The IPCC Second Assessment Report as published in June 1996, the Working Group 1 part of which is also referred to as the ‘Scientific Assessment’ [pdf here].
(2) Excerpt from MADRID 1995: Tipping Point?
Late in the belated preparations of its 3rd report (the ‘Second Assessment’), the IPCC Working Group 1 was still saying that the science was inconclusive, uncertain and disputed. Moreover, despite enormous pressure, including his own personal interests and opinion, Ben Santer’s chapter continued to proclaim that the evidence for the detection and attribution of a catastrophic warming trend was in many ways uncertain and certainly inconclusive — hardly the bases for a legally binding global commitment to radical reform.
Climate science did not just roll over under the pressure of politics. Until the Madrid meeting, IPCC science had managed to keep on doing its thing mostly uncorrupted by the monumental political forces building up around it. In this view, one is drawn to speculate that if only somehow the whole turnaround in and after Madrid had not happen, what then? What of Kyoto? What of all the rest? Would this episode in the history of the UN have become as forgettable after 1996 as the Ice Age Scare after 1976?
But it did happen. The Assessment delivered just enough of what was needed for Kyoto. In the realpolitik of the situation, it could hardly be otherwise. In another post I will explain why.
(3) Excerpt from “The Quest – Part II”
The nitpicking of the Doubters was as nought to the damaging critique coming out of an unpublished investigation conducted by the Chapter 8 lead authors themselves.
This investigation [pdf] is an exploration of how to properly establish the ‘yardstick’ of natural climate variability. … they set out to explore how to establish the variability in the longer centurial and millennial timeframes necessary to give some perspective on the multi-decadal warming trend in question, and to establish the pattern of this warming as a background to the pattern studies now being employed to solve the D&A question. Circulating under the title ‘Estimates of low frequency natural variability in near-surface air temperature,’ the account of this investigation is an extraordinary tale of how every toehold collapses into dust.
When they investigated the models they found that models tend to vary widely in their estimates of climate variability on longer time scales, and they tend to under-estimate this variability. This latter is perhaps understandable because the models ‘do not incorporate changes in solar output or changes in volcanically induced aerosol inputs to the atmosphere.’
That they do not incorporate other external forces is a problem for detection studies because it is ‘likely to inflate the statistical significance of typical detection metrics by under-representing the air-temperature variance that one should expect in nature.’ The models also tell us very little about the natural spatial patterns of climate variability and what they do tell varies widely. ‘This result is particularly worrying’, says the paper, ‘since most modern sophisticated detection methods try to find predicted spatial patterns of change’ — and here referring directly to key pattern studies used in the Second Assessment.
All these facts make it difficult to say if observed spatial changes in climate are ‘normal’ or due to anthropogenic effects. One or both of these model flaws [in spatial distribution and understated variability] might bias the results of an objective detection study and lead us to believe confidently that an anthropogenic signal has been found when, in fact, that may not be the case.
If the models are left aside then there is no recourse to the instrument record because it is too short for this purpose, and anyway likely contaminated by the human impact. So the only place to establish the long-range background climate variability is in the proxy data records across the last millennium. And this is where the critique really bites, slamming available proxy reconstructions as inaccurate, contradictory and evidently tending to underestimate variability. The conclusion of the paper heralds a warning:
Our results should serve as a warning to those anxious rigorously to pursue the detection of anthropogenic effects in observed climate data.
And the warning is:
The spectrum of natural variability against which detection claims, positive or negative, are made is not well-known and apparently not well represented in early CGCM [model] control runs.
In other words: with the question of natural variability unresolved ‘it is hard to say, with confidence, that an anthropogenic climate signal has or has not been detected.’
More than anything else cited in Chapter 8, this paper is the spoiler of all attribution claims, whether from surface pattern studies, or from vertical pattern studies (with almost no prospect of paleo proxy data), or from the analysis of the global mean. Indeed, references to it remain in the published version of Chapter 8, but the more explicit elaborations of its implications are contained in a number of the famous passages deleted after Madrid. Read it and there is no wonder that the drafts of the IPCC D&A {Detection & Attribution} chapter had concluded that ‘no study to date has both detected a significant climate change and positively attributed all or part of that change to anthropogenic causes.’
And then there are the closing words of the entire Chapter. The final paragraph of the deleted ‘Concluding Summary,’ reads as though a summary of the paper’s chief warning:
Furthermore, the large differences between the internally-generated noise estimates from different CGCMs translate into large uncertainties in estimates of detection time, even for a perfectly-known time-evolving anthropogenic signal. These noise estimates are the primary yardsticks that must be used to judge the significance of observed changes. They may be flawed on the century time scales of interest for detection of a slowly-evolving anthropogenic effect on climate. The burden of proof that this is not the case lies with climate modellers, experts in the analysis of paleoclimatic data, and with the scientists engaged in detection studies.
(4) Excerpt from “The Last Day – Part I”
It was at Madrid, and even more so at Rome two weeks later, that the lobbying by the NGOs was stepped up to unprecedented levels, including such veiled threats, and supported by newsletters, flyers and pamphlets. When arriving and departing from the conference centre in Rome, a delegate would pass through a public demonstration, a flyer showing Rome as a wasteland thrust into his hands. If he were unfortunate enough to be identified as sceptical he might even find himself surrounding by a group chanting Climate Criminal!
… just before the conference is about to begin the US State Department indicates that it is not happy with the conclusion of Chapter 8 and tells Houghton that ‘it is essential’ to prevail upon the chapter authors to make changes according to the outcome of ‘the discussion.’ Although not entirely explicit, there remains a strong suggestion that this is a formal request for Houghton to direct Santer to revise Chapter 8, and especially the Concluding Summary.
If that is what is being requested, and we take into account the US delegations strategic influence upon the direction of ‘discussions’ in Madrid, then there appears to be a striking similarity between the desired outcome of the US State Department and what in fact occurred. That is, following the completion of ‘the discussions’ in Madrid, this text of the D&A section of the Executive Summary would be revised and expanded as giving the ‘current understanding’ of the Chapter’s science, and the Chapter would be ‘revised’ accordingly.
… it is hard to avoid a number of political realities, like the US domination of global politics and that there was a strong lobby keen to exploit the new Clinton Administration’s strident support for global action on climate. It is also hard to avoid the fact that Santer is employed by the US government and that many of the other Lead Authors and Contributors are also dependant on the vastly inflated funding for climatology emanating from the coffers of USA and those countries (UK, Canada) aligned in the push for a positive and consistent attribution claim.
(5) Excerpt from “The Last Day – Part II: A shambolic Victory of the Virtuous”
Bert Bolin had been moving around the room consulting with various delegations in an attempt to find a resolution. Finally, at 10.30pm he interrupts proceedings, ‘took over the meeting’ and declares that…
… he had decided, as an extraordinary measure, to overrule the agreed text because of the extreme importance of the wording to the way the IPCC findings would be interpreted. He said he did not wish there to be any discussion but he believed the meeting would accept, as the ‘bottom line’ on detection and attribution: “Nevertheless the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.“
No one dissented from this ruling and so this is how this famous line came into being. For Zillman this is more than another admission of the failure to reach accord. He is surprised and taken aback by the decisive way Bolin resolves a matter of no small import to the whole assessment process.
…It is now a real scramble for the finish. The Executive Summary approval is hurriedly wrapped up during the final hour while delegations pack up and leave. Past midnight, with minutes to go, the only thing left to do is to ‘accept’ the underlying chapters. This would not have been of much concern if it weren’t for the (now even more glaring) inconsistencies between (the body and conclusion) of Chapter 8 and (the newly drafted) D&A section of the Summary.
The story goes that this Working Group 1 Plenary did indeed give consent for the Lead Author to revise Chapter 8 according to the consensus it had finally achieved. For example, here is Houghton again in a ‘Justification of Chapter 8′:
The plenary meeting finally ‘accepted’ the draft chapters (including Chapter 8) subject to their revision by the lead authors to take into account the guidance provided by the meeting and in particular the need for overall consistency. [Nature 382, 22 August 1996].
How explicit was this acceptance and how specific was this guidance is hard to establish. The matter would not be raised at Rome (where only the 9 October 1995 draft appeared) and precious little has been obtained recording or discussing the problem before we come to the justifications proffered months later when the controversy broke. But anyway, perhaps it doesn’t matter what was actually said or not said, agreed or not; for, by all accounts, at this stage the meeting had degenerated into a shambles.
(6) For More Information
For an eye-opening look inside the IPCC see Donna Laframboise’s The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World’s Top Climate Expert. See these excerpts at the Financial Post: part one, part two.
For more information about climate change see these FM Reference Pages:
Science and Nature – my articles
Science & nature – studies & reports about climate change
15 thoughts on “Hidden history about Madrid 1995: a look at the conference that changed the world”
OldSkeptic
I always said I’d never argue with you again about climate change. And I wont now, I’ll just make a US$100 bet with you. That by Sept 2017 (5 years) you will change your mind. If by then you haven’t, then I’ll pony up. We can inflation adjust the $100 if you want.
This is about in line with my prediction (here and elsewhere) a few years ago that “in 10 years everyone will panic”. So 5 years is roughly in line with that time frame.
I simply download the raw data (as I did with the entire IPCC stuff, including model projections, etc) and do my own analysis. And come to my own .. and quite different conclusions. In fact some of mine are ..well …. quite more ‘scary’ than what most people read in the press (especially the US press).
I don’t follow FM’s articles on climate change very closely, but I think he has already changed his mind after reading a recent well-done study on the topic.
Read the article more closely, FM isn’t decrying the science. He is attempting to document the moment when politics overcame the science and some scientists started making politically-motivated inaccurate statements about what they knew (and could prove) about climate change.
“Read the article more closely, FM isn’t decrying the science. ”
I’ve never done “decrying the science” (whatever that means). Can you provide an example to support your statement?
My position has always been clear (and I can easily provide many citations to support this):
That the world has been warming during the past two centuries (the early part of which was obviously not driven by CO2)
that there is a debate among climate scientists about the causes of this, and future forecasts
that the climate sciences are underfunded.
that the standards of proof for large-scale public policy use are higher than for a typical academic debate
If you are betting that I’ll change my mind, let’s see you state my views. You’ve been unable to do so accurately in the past, so that would be progress.
“I simply download the raw data (as I did with the entire IPCC stuff, including model projections, etc) and do my own analysis.”
Most of what I remember of your comments is your “decrying the science”, mocking scientists with relevant education and experience, who have published in peer-reviewed publications. You have been a poster child here (with Maclaren) for the growing anti-intellectualism in the west, where your ideology trumps the process of science. Here’s my favorite example: High school science facts prove global warming! Skeptical scientists humiliated by this revelation!
Now we see that you do so on the basis of your own work. Congratulations! I await your publications! They should be interesting, since your comments make it clear you have not the slightest idea about the state cutting edge of climate sciences debated in the IPCC.
Glad to see you admit the reality of global warming! While I’m sure you can find an outlier in a variety of fields who claim that global warming is not driven by humans, can you find any scientific group or scientific organization that disagrees about the human component of climate change?
Every post about global warming produces this delusional replies, like putting a penny in the machine gets a gumball.
I’ve written scores of posts discussing almost every aspects of the climate debate, citing hundreds of peer-reviewed papers. Almost every one gets a Yahoo posting something almost identical to gazelle’s in its ignorance.
To restate the situation for the hundredth time, the world has been warming during the past two centuries — which fact by itself shows a natural component.
There is a debate about the attribution of past warming (which probably varied over time) between natural drivers (eg, rebound from the Little Ice Age, solar influences) and anthropogenic drivers (eg, co2, aerosols, land use changes).
The IPCC reports make few claims about attribution of current climate activity to warming to date, as that remains actively de bated in the literature.
There is an even larger debate about forecasts, both the extent of future CO2 emissions (the IPCC consensus does not reflect well the debate among geologists about the extent of fossil fuels reserves), and the net effects of the various anthropogenic effects.
These debates are the subject of most climate related posts, followed in frequency with those about the poor representation of these things in the general media, and how that has been the major driver of the climate policy debates.
For the past five years my recommendations have been the same:
(1). More funding for climate sciences. Many key aspects (eg, global temperature data collection and analysis) are grossly underfunded.
(2). Wider involvement of our pool of talent in this debate. For example, geologists, statisticians and software engineers have been largely excluded — although their specialties are deeply involved.
One fun game to play with responses like Gazelle’s: how many of the standard warmista’s standard replies does he/she hit?
Pro-AGW comments often display no signs of having read the skeptics’ work.
Pro-AGW comments often invent assertions which they can easily refute.
Pro-AGW comments usually show little or no awareness of the authoritative reports on this issue.
Pro-AGW comments usually show little or no knowledge of the long struggle to force some climate scientists to release data and methods.
Pro-AGW comments usually show little understanding of the scientific method.
They illustrate the pro-AGW faith in computer models.
They illustrate the irrationality of the “precautionary principle” as commonly used.
Update: Pro-AGW comments usually consider scientists to be authorities, unless they disagree with AGW orthodoxy. Then they’re cranks. Example here.
One, two, three, and four seem certain. Five and eight seem likely, but only by inference. Six and seven are seen in the advanced form of warmistas, after long indoctrination.
The real test of their mettle comes from exposure to actual climate science. The more open-minded will disappear from the discussion. The hard-core believers will continue, usually responding with lies, insults, and evasion (identical responses to right-wingers defending faux economics).
If he replies to my questions we will learn more, proving these guesses correct — or wrong!
an outlier would be one of your recommended bloggers, Steve McIntyre. See, eg, this response to McIntyre “Yamalian yawns“, Gavin Schmidt, RealClimate, 11 May 2012
In what sense is McIntyre an “outlier”? My guess is that you cannot accurately summarize his views.
My further guess, based not on your comment here but it’s similarity to others, is that you cannot accurately summarize any aspect of the state of the debates in the climate sciences. Just a guess, of course.
Gazelle citing this as something remotely relevant to this post is quite nuts. Schmidt’s post gives his explanation for his refusal to comply with a Freedom on Information Act request, part of a multi-year-long massive program in the US and UK to conceal key data and methods from public review. A clearer violation of the core principles of science is difficult to even imagine.
In a rare note of honesty, in the early days of this program to maintain secrecy one major climate scientist explained his motive:
“Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.”
— Phil Jones, UK Climate Research Unit, 21 February 2005 (see the full story)
A few years ago the hospital where I work was audited by our feds. I messed up right from the off by letting them in without closely inspecting their photo IDs – their posse could have been any old hatchet-faced federal goons, who would not have had the statutory right to enter a clinical area. Breach of data protection act, badda boom. Our nurse was more on the ball and just responded to their attempt at small talk “So, how are your clinical studies going at the moment?” with “Lovely day, isn’t it!”. They laughed – remember, as with the police, nothing is off the record and anything you say can be used in evidence against you. They were just fishing.
They found lots of things wrong, amounting to several Major Findings. None had affected patient care or the scientific integrity of our studies. In other words, we passed inspection. Auditors will always “find something wrong with it”. Always. But that does not mean a reasonable person or the courts would find it actually important, scientifically or ethically.
I don’t know Prof Jones, have never been to UEA, but do know auditors and audit. McIntyre is by his own description an auditor, not a scientific researcher. He is using FOI to go fishing, and this is a controversial area in law and ethics, especially in the UK where our FOI act is very recent so his actions may end up as a test case. A lawyer would surely tell you never to talk to the police without a lawyer present, and the same applies to auditors. If I was a juror listening to prosecution present this at a trial, I know I couldn’t possibly convict Jones on this comment. His mistake was not to pass this self-appointed auditor’s requests straight to legal affairs.
Thank you for sharing your experience, but the situations are not remotely comparable. McIntyre is not “fishing”. He is attempting to get the supporting data used to produce conclusions upon which we’re being asked to make massive public policy decisions.
Most of this work was publicly funded, with requirements for public access to the data. Many of the sponsoring institutions and most of the journals publishing these studies have strict and broad requirements to disclose data and methods. All of these have been ignored with the studies in question.
Furthermore, as a result of the work of McIntyre and others, much has been released into the public domain. And some key journals are starting to enforce their disclosure and archiving requirements. These are essential for the review and replication of work, essential steps in the scientific process.
We all owe a large debt of gratitude to these people for improving the climate sciences. Note that these kinds of disclosure and replication are routine in many other sciences.
The previous way climate business was done:
“We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.”
— Phill Jones’ reply to Warwick Hughes, 21. February 2005; confirmed by Phill Jones. From a slide by Hans von Storch, GKSS Research Centre, presented to the National Academies of Science
Hoyticus
What is so difficult about acknowledging that climate science is filled with known unknowns and unknown unknowns? When people comment here on climate science they’re as rigid as those that comment on economics. Another similarity between them is you get the data you pay for.
I swear I need to read The Closing of the American Mind…
“What is so difficult about acknowledging that climate science is filled with known unknowns and unknown unknowns?”
The need for dogmatic rigidity — to refused to admit the existence of debate in the literature — comes from the desire for vast public policy changes. Assumption of large new government powers to regulate economic activity, to divert the world’s investment capital into specific directions.
Since that foundation in current research does not yet exist — the known unknowns you mention — then propaganda must create it, suppressing some aspects and exaggerating others. For example the IPCC reports are quite cautious about attribution of current weather to the long warming. Yet every major weather event gets exaggerated as “historic” and blamed on global warming.
Remember the warnings after Katrina in 2005 of a massive new era of hurricanes era? Didn’t happen. Similarly the current US drought is nothing unusual, despite the fantastic hype in the news media.
“The need for dogmatic rigidity”
It’s the same dynamic as seen in many religious, political and social organizations. In extreme forms, in revolutionary movements — such as the communist party. It maintains internal cohesion and focus.
Very useful for the leaders. It’s like having loyal robots.
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HumanWaste5150
Location: GTA, Canada
DeathRiderDoom wrote:
HumanWaste5150 wrote:
I just got through a few British series that I enjoyed quite a bit : Mock the Week, Coupling and Spaced.
Spaced is kinda cool - quirky and pretty original, though i'm concerned it gets too much credit. A better show with some of the same attributes is IDEAL, that show fucking owns for so many reasons. I command anyone reading this post to go watch it from episode one, to episode say, 4, and not get hooked on it - and watch the rest within a week or so. Can't happen - too good, too addictive.
My thoughts precisely! I found people going crazy over it but I enjoyed it enough to recommend it but people do fawn over it. I am a big fan of Ideal actually. I have only seen random episodes but its quite good in the same darker and quirky style of British humour.
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All brothers fighting against each other
We fought to the last breath
Wonder if we will shake hands
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Necroghast
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:23 pm
DrFunkenstein wrote:
Anyone a fan of the X Files? Started watching it a couple months ago (halfway through the fourth season). I never watched it when it was new, but I am really enjoying it.
Yes. The X-Files is one of my all time favorite shows. Another really great show that I would recommend to anyone who has ANY INTEREST AT ALL in science fiction would be Battlestar Galactica. It is so good. Other than that I watch some Star Trek here and there, various animated stuff and.... The food network. They make delicious looking things there.
DeathRiderDoom
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Yeah X-Files is great, i remember loving it when it came out, i was like 9 or 10 or something. I only have season 1 - need to get the rest, haven't watched any in a while. I love David Duchovny.
Anyway, speaking of the darker side of TV - I've recently started watching Tales from the Crypt again. I LOVE this show so much. Got all the episodes. Another one from my childhood, this show has really stood the test of time for me. From the star-studded casts, to the exploration of the darker side of human nature, the awesome set design, and of course the crypt keepers memorable, lame puns, this show has it all really.
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Under_Starmere
Abhorrent Fish-Man
Dunno if any of you watch Frontline here. It's a pretty great journalistic series affiliated with PBS that I check out from time to time. They've got tons of fascinating programs on a wide variety of different subjects archived on their website, but I thought some of you might be interested in the piece linked below, which is a documentary on one man's experience undergoing medically assisted suicide. I thought it was very much worth sharing.
http://video.pbs.org/video/1430431984
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We had to watch Frontline episodes in English in high school. They were okay, but nothing I'd watch again. Very dark humour.
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lord_ghengis
Still Standing After 38 Beers... hic
I actually get nothing at all out of spaced. It's weird and different, but I can't find anything I'd actually laugh at.
Naamath wrote:
No comments, no words need it, no BM, no compromise, only grains in her face.
whiplash50
marktheviktor wrote:
I loathe reality tv. Will not stand for it.
Ughh, my girlfriend watches this shit all the time and it annoys the hell outta me. I'll never understand the appeal as long as I live. Who cares if some fake tan sportin' walking STD's get into another fist fight about who misplaced the KY warming gel and margarita salt?
I stick to the old shit mainly, simpsons, sanford and son, wonder years, happy days, etc... or will watch all the stand up stuff on comedy central. Newer cartoons (family guy, american dad) are great too.
Also the occasional special about a bedbound fat fuck is a nice change up for comic relief.
thrash_and_hash wrote:
Oh so after i came from the Gentlemen's Club, after a hard evening of Backgammon, forsooth lemme say i enjoy mayo with dicks.
Hahaha, my girlfriend watches Jersey Shore too. Horrible, awful, retarded stuff, but actually pretty hilarious. I have absolutely zilch in common with these guido idiots - it's like we're from different planets. Utter trash TV - utterly worthless human beings.
Is anyone here into some of the lesser known British shows like Armando Iannucci Shows, Saxondale, 15 Storeys High? All excellent. I've been rewatching all the Armando Iannucci lately - the guy is a genius. Some of you may know his work from I'm Alan Partridge, etc. That show is odd, quirky, dark and purely hilarious - one of the smartest shows i've seen in a while.
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unhallowed81
I've been a faithful Dexter, and Californication watcher, but i'm ready for something new to catch my attention. Anymore i would rather watch some classic 80s, or 90s movie than watch some sitcom.
mythos_slayer
I love my Crime-Drama's, The Sopranos, OZ, Dexter, 24 to name a few.
What did everyone think of Boardwalk Empire?
I really liked it, not sure if I like it as much as The Sopranos, have to wait for a few more seasons.
All in all I was very pleased Buscemi finally had a good starring role that he deserved. (I also have hoped Christopher Walken could star in a similar Drama. Fingers crossed!)
I though it was a believable portrayal of gangster life in 1920's America (without prior knowledge what went on there at the time) and Buscemi did steal the show with his eccentric mannerisms that I like. Also Michael Pitt played his part well, but Stephen Graham outdid himself as Al Capone, couldn't even notice that a British actor was playing a (in?)famed Italian-American gangster in his youth.
All in all a great show and looking forward to the next season!
mythos_slayer wrote:
Yeah i dunno BE looks okay, but really didn't reverberate with me as much as Sopranos. Not nearly as good, but i havent watched the whole thing so yeah. All i know is i've seen all the Sopranos a whole bunch of times each, and that i really dig it - one of the great dramas of the last decade or so.
Oz is also solid as the natural qualifier for Sopranos but, i'm only upto season 2.
I thought the same after a few episodes of BE, but after the finale it did rise up to a respectable standard for a Crime-Drama.
I agree with The Sopranos being great, watched it a third time a while ago and I still love it, especially the Pine Barrens episode.
Definitely watch all the OZ seasons, later on it almost seems like a Mexican Soap (partially of course) with the homo relations between a few of the characters but it is fun and amusing filled with sadistic betrayals. My favourite character still is Vern Schillinger, J. K. Simmons just makes that character so likeable in a weird way.:S
Hahaha, great that you mention Pine Barrens - totally the epitome of black comedy right there. Thing about Sop - in that episode or others - is the level of quotable material - people like Paulie (who by the way, along with other actors in the show, actually has experience with New York area organised crime life) and others just have SO MANY memorable quotes and moments. I love the love/hate relationship with Paulie and Christopher - soooo funny. I think i've watched through the whole thing like 7-8 times.
bassistneededlolnot
I just watched three episodes of "Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura". I would seriously vote for the guy if he ran in the next Presidential election. He's not the brightest person, but I love how he has no loyalty at all to any political party. As for the show: there <i>are</i> some ridiculous moments. The "investigators" will just run up to some rent-a-cop, shove a camera in his face, and accuse him of being part of an insanely complex conspiracy. The dude is obviously going to be startled by the wild questions and will only <i>seem</i> to be lying due to stuttering and nervousness. Overall, though, it's an interesting show and they do find some credible people to interview.
Thanks for the info, didn't know about the actors having experience with real crime life, but it makes sense.
I guess that might be a thing that BE lacks is input for gangsters from that era compared to Sop..unless they found some 100 year old mobsters to help out with the series.:S
I agree with the Paulie-Christopher relationship:D. Christopher was my favourite character the first two times I saw it, but recently I really noticed Furio, he's such a bad ass especially when Tony sends him to "sort" out the guy with the Korean wife. That guy will do anything to make someone pay their debts:D.
MrMcThrasher
I absolutely LOVE King of the Hill. I don't think it should have been replaced with The Cleveland Show, that show sucks balls.
Also love It's Always Sunny and Seifeld, which are probably my favorite tv shows ever. Curb is good too.
The only TV drama I liked was 24. I almost cried at the finaly.
Pawn Stars is awesome, probably the only reality show I cared about besides Verminators. Anybody else watched that show?
I've been up all night watching Psych re-runs on Netflix. It is a very enjoyable show and it gets better season after season. The interplay between Gus and Shawn is hilarious (of course) and even when an episode is mediocre it allows for the episode to be just as enjoyable as any other.
Leify wrote:
My grandfather always said, if you can't fix a problem, just systematically blow shit up.
BoltTheGates
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 12:31 am
bassistneededlolnot wrote:
This show . I'm still good friends with my ex, and the past couple of times she's been in town, away from school, she's brought this show up, and I can't help but mock it.
*in my best Jesse Ventura impression* "I'm out to get answers! I'll wrestle the truth out of these people hiding it! They don't want us to know the truth, but we're gonna find out! They want to shoot a former US governor! There's a conspiracy against me!" etc.
I was actually interested in conspiracy theories, and paranormal and cryptozoology stuff for that matter, until shows like this and Monsterquest and Ghost Hunters/Ghost Adventures came along and completely ruined my fascination with these topics. Throughout these shows they build up the suspense by showing some evidence and interviewing some eyewitnesses or experts, and you expect them to answer or find whatever they're looking for by the end, but they don't find or answer anything definitively!!! So the whole show ends up looking like a major waste of time and money, and that really pisses me off . They are no better than reality shows like Jersey Shore and whatever crap VH1 spews up.
Location: Nepal
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:16 am
I Love "How I met your Mother", haven't watched a single episode that's not funny. And I also enjoy 2 and a half men and The Simpsons. And Southpark too.
You can't cast out what you don't know.
I haven't really watched TV since Seinfeld ended. Don't have cable anymore and haven't for years. I have watched two series in the past couple years via rental though - Battlestar Galactica and Rome. BSG was incredible until the end, which was brutal in my opinion. Rome was incredible, but I think they're funding got cut and so it was shorter than the producers had intended, but still awesome.
It just struck me that Gareth from The Office (UK) would, in all likelihood, be a total black metal geek.
Anyone heard of this new BBC sitcom "Whites"? http://bluenunblog.wordpress.com/2010/0 ... es-sitcom/
As per British comedy conventions - its an incestuous cast including familiar faces from shows such as IT crowd and Peep Show (both solid comedies), and is co-written by one of the actors from Peep Show too. I've watched the trailer and it seems decent enough. I'll be getting the episodes as they come out. Soooo many good British sitcoms.
ahsanxr
As much as I'd like to be more "productive" in breaks, in recent ones I end up spending most of the time watching TV series. Here are some of the ones I've watched and like so far:
Prison Break: Awesome show oozing with suspense and thrill. The first season was amazing, the later ones were good and definitely more than watchable.
24: Finishing the 8 seasons definitely took a while but I definitely enjoyed it. I especially loved seasons 1,5 and 7. Season 8 got really repetitive although not bad. The best part about it is that if you have too much free time on your hands, open up a pack of Doritos get a can of soda and start watching. You won't even notice the fly by.
Breaking Bad: Simply amazing crime drama. The main characters are awesome (Walter and Jesse), the story is exciting and the atmosphere the show creates is also great. I can't wait for the fourth season to come out although it definitely is taking more than its time.
Dexter: Seasons 1, 2 and 4 were really good. 3 was decent and 5 in my opinion simply sucked. After the chilling ending of Season 4 it was sooo disappointing. Lumen ruined it for me. The story was decent and if executed properly it could have been a pretty good season. My main problem with it was the way Lumen acted wasn't really something you would expect from someone who had been through all that. Also the "darkness" coming and going seemed like horseshit to me. I'm glad though that this season won't have any effect on the next seasons because they basically pressed "reset" at the end of the finale and things went back to the way they were at the start of the season.
The Wire: Only seen the first season but I can say without any hesitation that its the best written show ever.
OZ: On the 4th season right now. I really like the gritty prison drama although in recent seasons it has become relatively unrealistic and like a previous poster mentioned, a bit soapy with all the homo relations. The Schillinger vs Beecher saga never ceases to entertain me.
Other than these dramas I also like watching comedies among which my favorites are Scrubs, The Office and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Scrubs was brilliant especially for the first 5 or 6 seasons. I loved the silly/goofy kind of humor they had going. The Office is also consistently good although it can sometimes have episodes which don't make me laugh. CYE is simply brilliant. Watching Larry David getting into all those weird and messed up situations with the self-obsessed people of Hollywood is nothing short of hilarious.
Definitely gonna check it out, looks great.
On the topic of Ianucci, I like Thick of It and Oblarg likes it quite a bit as well. Doesn't hold a candle to Yes, Prime/Minister though and I think even Ianucci knows that .
Hahah really? I remember Yes Minister when i was a kid, and i think i watched it a bit a few years ago - but man Thick of It is a pretty classy show i reckon. Those self -involved, image-obsessed ministerial types facing shitstorms every day, hahahaha. Has some familiar cast members too.
Adept128
blob wrote:
HIMYM is probably the best sitcom on the air. Everys single episode has a great story and is funny as hell. I always laugh for forty minutes straight whenever Marshal slaps Barney. The last few episodes have been some of the best IMO, especially the one with the in-show countdown.
Two and a Half Men? How I met your mother? hmmm...... seems like you really don't know what constitutes a "best sitcom on TV".
EpsilonVector
There's tons of terrific stuff on TV. I mostly watch comedy and fiction, of which:
Shows I watched fully (and enjoyed):
Friends, Seinfeld, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Married... with Children, Freaks and Geeks (a real gem (comedy/drama). Too bad it was cancelled in the 1st season), Southpark (though they lost it after the 9th season), Wonderfalls (another one of those shows that got cancelled after 1 season, though luckily that 1 season contains a standalone story. This is comedy/drama with a few paranormal twists. Has a very "life has a sense of humor" kind of humor. Reminded me of Dead Like Me, but without the suckiness that quickly befell it),
24, anything by Joss Whedon (though I never finished Angel, mostly because it seemed to have gone to hell around the 3rd season), Futurama, Star Trek TNG and DS9 (really hated TOS. It did not age well), Andromeda (yet another show spoiled by the TV network's idiocy. Seasons 1 and 2 were awesome, 3 and 4 uninspired, and then on the 5th season they suddenly completely changed format, mostly for the best), first 2 seasons of Sliders were great, the rest was just disappointment after disappointment (Fox's idiocy at work).
I also liked The Guild (a web series), and Beauty And The Geek (one of the few reality shows that has some "educational" value. It's a good study of stereotypes and social interactions).
In the queue:
Star Trek: VOY and Enterprise, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, all the Stargates, finish Lost, Eureka, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Curb Your Enthusiasm.
QI is just awesome. It doesn't help that I have a total mancrush on Stephen Fry but I'm through 2 seasons so far and its such a fun and witty show.
Ecliptik
Whose Line Is It Anyway? and good ole' Mythbusters have to be my two favorites. Who else saw Kari wearing that Venom shirt, anybody?!
Also like South Park and basically anything on Discovery that's Earth/Life/Space related. Fucking sucks me right in.
Ecliptik wrote:
That wasn't a real Venom shirt, sorry to break the news! We've cleared that up here on MA before, or was it the chat? Not sure.
Also been watching a lot of Mythbusters lately. Cool show, some great stunts have been attempted. Been watching Treme today. Anyone here familiar with this show? Not bad at all, glad it got picked up for another season. Anyway, those into the music side of New Orleans oughtta love it. I think it's fairly well done.
I've been dooped?
Now I'm sad.
Just googled it. Looks cool, too bad I don't get HBO =(
aaronmb666
BoltTheGates wrote:
I watched two episodes of Conspiracy Theory. One where there was a machine in Alaska that supposedly could change weather and one on 9/11. I quit watching after that. I watched Loose Change like 5 or so years ago, and after watching a thing on National Geographic about the conspiracy vs truth, I just want to hit those guys that think its a conspiracy. There were three conspiracy theorists that given more than enough evidence, yet they still didnt believe it.
circleofdestruction
whiplash50 wrote:
Reality TV is a fucking plague. I understood why it was on when all the writers were striking, since they didn't need a script for it,but the amazing thing is people kept on watching this retarded garbage and it became popular.
I watch mainly crime related shit, like Forensic Files, North Mission Road, and stuff like True Stories of the ER, I shouldn't be alive, and any other shows about people dying, nearly dying, or being sick, heh. As for fictional series, I sometimes watch House, Law and Order (mostly SVU, but I'll watch any of them), eh, that's about it I guess. I hate sitcoms. Cartoons: I like Family Guy but somehow I hate American Dad. I watch South Part sometimes, and Aqua teen hunger force. I also watch a lot of the stupid "top 100 [whatever] videos" and "i love the [insert decade]" on vh1 for nostalgic reasons (including nostalgia for the times mtv and vh1 played actual music...).
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Reality TV's been around for a lot longer than that, dude. And let me say that it is just pure garbage. Muff cabbage, even.
Anyhoo, watched some season 5 The Wire last night with a friend of mine who's watching it through for the first time. Great stuff - need to do a marathon of that, or Breaking Bad with him sometime. All set to watch Generation Kill - over again. I've only watched it through once and that was over a year ago. Anyone else like that show?
I can't understand how people can like Family Guy and NOT American Dad. The latter is actually quite a smart show. I admit, that when it first came out, i was pretty skeptical - it seemed to mirror Family Guy, which just mirrored the Simpsons - in terms of having a character for ever person in the household etc. But it's actually very well written, and funny. The stories are great, they feel original, and we don't have the over reliance on cutaways or gags that Fam Guy has. Having an alien (no less a drunk, drug using, effiminate, borderline gay, persona switching, movie referencing alien), plus Stan's career in the CIA opens up a world of opportunities for great stories, much like how the future universe did for Futurama (great show). Anyway, i definitely recommend American Dad - far better than Fam Guy, and it hasn't begun to slip in quality since its inception - actually it keeps getting better.
Errebuss
Lately, I've been watching mostly animated shows. My all time favorite animated show is definitely King of the Hill. I know very few people who really like this show as much as I do, and I can't seem to understand why that is. King of the Hill was excellently done. The Hills perfectly parody the average American family. It stayed consistently funny throughout it's entire run without having to become as crude as most adult-oriented cartoons. And usually every episodes ends with the characters learning something and becoming closer together. I really wish Fox would have kept this show around for another few seasons instead of giving Seth MacFarlane three shows during the same block (American Dad and The Cleveland Show have pretty similar ratings as King of the Hill did).
Other shows I enjoy are South Park (seasons 1-8), Star Trek: The Original Series, Gundam Wing, Looney Toons, The Office (although it started slipping in season five, and has seen a general decline ever since), classic Simpsons.
Shows I don't care for so much include: Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, Two and a Half Men, How I Met Your Mother, Big Bang Theory, and most reality shows and day time talk shows.
As for this current season's new shows, the show I've really been enjoying watching is Outsourced. It's quickly become my favorite NBC comedy, but unfortunately now that NBC has moved it's time slot, it looks like it may be canceled after this season. It's a shame.
I can't stand KOTH - never saw the appeal, It lways seemed like one of those shows that people just watch coz it's on the air. Possibly the most un-funny out of all the adult-oriented animated shows.
Two new shows i've checked out recently include MonsterQuest in history channel, and Penn & Teller: Bullshit, both of which are pretty enjoyable. I mean, i never expect them to find any of these monsters they're looking for, and it's kinda odd that it's on History channel (they've been progressively veering away from real "historical" shows for some time now), but it's kinda entertaining to hear all the anecdotes from locals about these demonic creatures, and whatnot. Penn & Tellers show is just a rather fun, straightforward, highly, highly cynical and inflammatory look at, and debunking of, things like alternative medicine and idiots like John Edward. It's presented in a fun sorta way, though what they're saying is often just common knowledge for a lot of people. Anyway, i'll probably try get hold of more episodes of these shows.
WebOfPiss
Myopic Void
Location: Presidio Modelo
I'm gonna kick your ass! /Hank Hill voice
Muhammadabbadabba
Location: R'lyeh
The fact you like Bullshit tempers my reaction a little. Fair warning, if you're not a libertarian, some episodes won't sit too well; then again, that's there intent. Otherwise, you'll enjoy that show immensely. Personal favorite episodes: New Age Medicine, Numbers, Easy Money, PETA, World Peace, Hair, College.
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PhilosophicalFrog
The Hypercube
You are missing the point. It's not about funny qua funny. It's about "funniness". There's something beyond the standard joke formula. There's just something quirky, charming and ultimately very very funny about the show. Stick with your Family Guy or Robot Chicken or something else quick and stupid.
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