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Angela Witwer
Email: AngelaWitwer@house.mi.gov
N-1090 House Office Building
Map Of House District 71
D071 News / Committee / Bio - Angela Witwer
State Rep. Angela Witwer is serving her first term representing the 71st House District, which includes much of Eaton County and the cities of the cities of Charlotte, Olivet, Potterville, Grand Ledge, parts of Lansing, as well as the townships of Bellevue, Benton, Carmel, Chester, Delta Charter Eaton Rapids, Kalamo, Oneida Charter, Roxand, Sunfield, Vermontville, Walton, and Windsor Charter. An alumnus of Waverly Community Schools, Witwer went on to receive her bachelor’s degree in business and marketing from Northwood University.
Witwer began her professional career in clinical health care, working first in Sparrow Hospital’s burn unit and later as the manager of pediatric rehabilitation. This desire to help others, coupled with her clinical expertise, propelled her to become manager of Sparrow’s community relations and marketing department.
After 22 years working in health care, Witwer left Sparrow in 2007 to co-found Edge Partnerships, an award-winning public relations, marketing and advocacy group. During this time, she was a strong advocate for quality public education and community engagement, serving as the vice president of Waverly Community Schools’ Board of Education and was an active member of the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce Economic Club committee, and the Wharton Center for Performing Arts Advisory Council and the McLaren Greater Lansing Foundation Board of Directors.
Witwer lives in Delta Township with her husband Bruce and enjoys spending time with her two children and four granddaughters.
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vp.4.14 srutadeva was married to the Karusha prince Vriddhasarman, and bore him the fierce Asura Dantavaktra. Dhrishtaketu, raja of Kaikeya 19, married srutakirtti, and had by her Santarddana and four other sons, known as the five Kaikeyas. Jayasena, king of Avanti, married Rajadhidevi, and had Vinda and Anavinda. srutasravas was wedded to Damaghosha, raja of Chedi, and bore him sisupala 20. This prince was in a former existence the unrighteous but valiant monarch of the Daityas, Hiranyakasipu, who was killed by the divine guardian of creation (in the man lion Avatara). He was next the ten headed sovereign Ravana, whose unequalled prowess, strength, and power were overcome by the lord of the three worlds, Rama. Having been killed by the deity in the form of Raghava, he had long enjoyed the reward of his virtues in exemption from an embodied state, but had now received birth once more as sisupala, the son of Damaghosha, king of Chedi. In this character he renewed, with greater inveteracy than ever, his hostile hatred towards the god surnamed Pundarikaksha, a portion of the supreme being, who had descended to lighten the burdens of the earth; and was in consequence slain by him: but from the circumstance of his thoughts being constantly engrossed by the supreme being, sisupala was united with him after death; for the lord giveth to those to whom he is favourable whatever they desire, and he bestows a heavenly and exalted station even upon those whom he slays in his displeasure.
vp.4.24 [paragraph continues] The people called Kanakas will possess the Amazon country, and that called Mushika 74. Men of the three tribes, but degraded, and abhiras and sudras, will occupy saurashtra, Avanti, sura, Arbuda, and Marubhumi: and sudras, outcastes, and barbarians will be masters of the banks of the Indus, Darvika, the Chandrabhaga, and Kashmir 75.
vp.5.21 Thus having spoken, the human Kesava summoned mentally the deity of the wind, who came upon the instant, and said to him, "Go, Vayu, to Indra, and desire him to lay aside his pomp, and resign to Ugrasena his splendid hall Sudharman: tell him that Krishna commands him to send the royal hall, the unrivalled gem of princely courts, for the assemblage of the race of Yadu." Accordingly Vayu went, and delivered the message to the husband of sachi, who immediately gave up to him the hall Sudharman, and Vayu conveyed it to the Yadavas, the chiefs of whom thenceforth possessed this celestial court, emblazoned with jewels, and defended by the arm of Govinda. The two excellent Yadu youths, versed in all knowledge, and possessed of all wisdom, then submitted to instruction, as the disciples of teachers. Accordingly they repaired to Sandipani who, though born in Kasi, resided at Avanti to study the science of arms, and, becoming his pupils, were obedient and attentive to their master, exhibiting an example to all men of the observance of instituted rules. In the course of sixty four days they had gone through the elements of military science, with the treatises on the use of arms, and directions for the mystic incantations, which secure the aid of supernatural weapons 2. Sandipani, astonished at such proficiency, and knowing that it exceeded human faculties, imagined that the sun and moon had become his scholars. When they had acquired all that he could teach, they said to him, "Now
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Created by Sreeja Jijith at 03 Aug 2011 07:31 and updated at 03 Aug 2011 07:31
vp.3.5 It had been formerly agreed by the Munis, that any one of them who, at a certain time, did not join an assembly held on mount Meru should incur the guilt of killing a Brahman, within a period of seven nights 2. Vaisampayana alone failed to keep the appointment, and consequently killed, by an accidental kick with his foot, the child of his sister. He then addressed his scholars, and desired them to perform the penance expiatory of Brahmanicide on his behalf. Without any hesitation Yajnawalkya refused, and said, "How shall I engage in penance with these miserable and inefficient Brahmans?" On which his Guru, being incensed, commanded him to relinquish all that he had learnt from him. "You speak contemptuously," he observed, "of these young Brahmans, but of what use is a disciple who disobeys my commands?" "I spoke," replied Yajnawalkya, "in perfect faith; but as to what I have read from you, I have had enough: it is no more than this (acting as if he would eject it from his stomach); when he brought up the texts of the Yajush in substance stained with blood. He then departed.
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Hunter African Communities Council
Responding to the needs of African Australians in the Hunter
Celebrating African Culture
The Hunter African Communities Council is an inclusive not-for-profit organisation supporting Australians of African decent in Newcastle and the Hunter region. Whilst HACC is not a service provider, we work closely with local organisations and government agencies in a variety of areas ranging from settlement, legal advice to personal development support.
Our goals are to advocate and work collaboratively with external agencies to create a safe and welcoming community for all Australians of African origin and their connections while encouraging integration in Australian society and embracing unique cultural diversity.
We’re dedicated to providing reliable advice and support for Australians of African origin. With our strong sense of community and well-developed relationships, we advocate for and offer effective support to assist in successful integration and inclusion in Australian society while embracing our unique cultural heritage. We help families, groups, individuals and organisations learn more about African culture and its people. We help people of African origin find their place in Australian society, enjoy personal and professional success and celebrate diversity and multiculturalism. We focus on:
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Great Steps at Yeoncheon (en242)
Great Steps at Yeoncheon
Great steps! The Augustinian Delegation of Korea has built on a donated property a complex that eventually will contain a priory, novitiate, church / columbarium and a retreat house which when completed will be able to cater for up to forty “live in” retreatants. The columbarium is a Korean tradition for reverently preserving the cremated ashes of the deceased.
Except for Stage Two of the Retreat House, the complex is now built and operating. The church has seating for 130 persons. A number of commissioned art works, including a figure of the Risen Christ made of highly polished bronze and statues of Saints Augustine and Monica (his mother). There is a large church bell in its adjacent tower. The first Mass was celebrated in the church (see photo below) during April 2012.
The Priory (the osa residence) had ten rooms to accommodate friars, novices, and private retreatants. On Saturday, 8th September 2012 Cardinal Prosper Grech O.S.A. from Rome presided at the blessing of the church and the adjacent Augustinian Priory of the Mother of Good Counsel at Yeoncheon, north of Seoul and a mere five kilometres from the DMZ (demilitarized zone).
The Retreat House has been planned in two separate construction stages, comprising two separate buildings. Its first stage is now completed, a single storey building featuring a conference room, smaller lecture room, office, foyer, reception room, prayer room, storage room, men's and women's toilets, dining hall, kitchen, cook's quarters and laundry room. Stage Two will be a two-storey building with sleeping accommodation in the form of twenty twin bedrooms.
On the feast day of St Monica, 27th August 2013, the local Bishop of Uijeongbu, Most Rev. Lee Pedro, blessed the columbarium and a statue of Saint Monica in the church. Since soon after that date, Stage One of the Retreat House has been in full operation, and planning is under way so that Stage Two can be constructed in the near future.
The previous small Augustinian site at Yeoncheon higher up in the mountains has been sold, and its Augustinian community moved to the larger site. As well as a place for retreats and a church containing a columbarium, the complex will be a place of novitiate for those formally joining the order.
For the Yeoncheon photo gallery, click here.
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Articles Posted in the " Tommy Lee Jones " Category
By Best For Film on November 19, 2013 0 comment
Men in Black 4 gets a writer
By Harry Harris on May 06, 2013 0 comment
Four. There’s going to be another one. After two, and three, they’re still going to make Men in Black Four. Four. Do you guys not remember the Ballchinnian?
By Sarah Deen on April 25, 2013 0 comment
Matt Damon makes an early bid for Oscar glory in Promised Land, a gentle yet compelling drama about a small farming town facing an economic and industrial meltdown. While the financial difficulties faced by its characters will resonate with a lot of people, it feels a little out of date and we never get a sense of why this particular story is being told now.
Hailee Steinfeld for Tommy Lee Jones western
Did you know Tommy Lee Jones is directing a Western? If you did, WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY?
Argo wins at Screen Actors Guild awards
By f.topping on January 28, 2013 0 comment
Argo, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence won the top prizes at the Screen Actors Guild awards.
Steven Spielberg’s foray into the well-trodden political battlefield of the Civil War and President Lincoln’s fight to pass a bill against slavery is a predictable candidate for the Oscars, but nonetheless has many exceptional performances to applaud. Daniel Day-Lewis in particular, proves himself to be an excellent President, and makes this worthy (if turgid) drama stand out from the crowd.
Hilary Swank returns to the big screen with You’re Not You
By raynewilson on September 28, 2012 0 comment
The Million Dollar Baby actress to hopefully deliver another knockout performance.
Hope Springs is a delightful film which draws the curtain on a seldom discussed issue: What becomes of a marriage once the glitz and vitality are long gone and the couple are in their later years? As usual, Meryl Streep is terrific and works wonderfully with Tommy Lee Jones to portray a long established couple who have lost the spark in their marriage. Compelling viewing.
Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln gets a poster
By Kayleigh Dray on August 22, 2012 0 comment
It’s exactly what you expect…
Daniel Day-Lewis gets wiggy with it as Lincoln.
By Hannah Lane on August 08, 2012 0 comment
Impressive beard Mr. President.
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A Reader's Brain
All about Christian Fiction & Christian Living! Reviews of upcoming authors, giveaways, and contests! Enjoy!
The Revolutionary: Liberate the Captives by Kristen Hogrefe
Title: The Revolutionary: Liberate the Captives
Author: Kristen Hogrefe
Genre: Young Adult, Action, Adventure
Freedom costs more than Portia wants to pay, but revolutions run on sacrifice … and blood. Three months a satellite prisoner, Portia wonders if the Brotherhood has left her to die—until she plunges into the domain of an underground smuggler contacted by her brother. But her rescue comes with a price tag only she can pay, and now, she must forfeit her identity to act as a spy back in the dizzying politics of Crystal. There, she learns that her enemies want the Dome to approve mass satellite executions. No one knows why. Worse, they’re using her friend Luther, now a Court Citizen intern, to sign the short-term orders. She desperately wants to confide in Luther, but can she still trust him with the company he keeps? Plagued by shadows and guilt for leaving her protector Gath behind on the satellite, Portia must find a way not only to rescue him and the other prisoners, but also to destroy the slave camps once and for all.
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Despair, lack of identity, guilt, anger, and all kinds of emotion collide with a glimmer of hope and humanity in The Revolutionary. Keeping my mind spinning and on the edge of my seat would be an accurate description of me reading this book. The author did so well in helping you feel the pain of our characters in being treated less than human. We also sense the small glimmer of hope as the book goes on that there may be a way to freedom, yet without some sacrifice. The description of the world our characters live in and interact with really gave me a clear picture of a totally fictitious realm. The characters interactions and struggles were so clear in my mind by the author's portrayal of events. While the book was futuristic, history can be found in many of the circumstances our characters find themselves as well. The contrast seen in the book between the evil and the revolutionaries really made for a great plot with twists and turns galore. If you like action, suspense, dystopian, or futuristic fiction, this book is for you!
I received a complimentary copy of this book, and all opinions given are my own.
Kristen Hogrefe is a multi-published novelist and teacher who challenges young adults and the young at heart to think truthfully and live daringly. Her publishing journey began in 2010 with the first book in her young adult (YA) suspense trilogy Wings of the Dawn. She completed the trilogy in the fall of 2014, and in 2016, contracted with Write Integrity Press for a new YA dystopian trilogy: The Rogues. Kristen also has the heart of an educator and mentor. She teaches secondary language arts for Alpha Omega Academy and served in youth ministry for many years. Through Word Weavers International, she encourages aspiring writers and acts as president for an online writing group. She enjoys speaking events that allow her to connect with readers and other writers. A lifelong Florida resident, Kristen loves adventuring outdoors and running with friends. Connect with her online at KristenHogrefe.com.
Guest Post from Kristen Hogrefe
Identity, Coffee, and a Sprinkle of History in The Revolutionary The primary purpose of fiction is to entertain, but I think good fiction goes deeper by teaching us something about human nature, something about ourselves. The Revolutionary begins three months after Portia arrived at a satellite prison camp. She feels forgotten by her brother and friends who promised to rescue her. Deeper than the physical pain of starvation, she battles the emotional rawness from the dehumanization of her identity. A number replaces her name, and the Wasps who mistreat prisoners mockingly call them “rabbits.” When a two-faced smuggler helps her escape, her identity struggles continue. She dons multiple aliases to survive and help the Brotherhood launch a daring plan to destroy the satellite camps and oust the ruling Friend and Dome. The theme of identity is one I hope will resonate with teens and adult readers alike. At some point, we all ask ourselves, “What defines me?” Is it our friends, an academic program, a relationship, or a job? While those things describe our day-to-day lives, they themselves shouldn’t define us. The source of our true identity must come from somewhere deeper. That’s the question Portia has to wrestle with, and one I hope readers will consider.
A Cup of Joe Confession: One aspect of characterization I enjoy is giving my characters a small piece of myself. One of my early readers for book one, The Revisionary, remarked, “Let me guess. You like coffee.” I laughed and replied, “How could you tell?” Maybe lines like this one gave the fact away: “I start a pot of coffee. At least the aroma makes life smell better” (Portia, The Revisionary). In book two, I incorporate the memory-association of coffee for Portia as she thinks back to simpler times (like dorm life with Lydia). Coffee also serves as a catalyst for an important scene where Portia, in disguise, serves her enemies and in turn learns of their disturbing plans for the satellites. What about you? Are you a coffee drinker? If you are, I hope you’ll enjoy a giveaway opportunity for a Starbucks gift card. After all, coffee does make life smell better.
A Sprinkle of History Two summers ago, my brother and I had the opportunity to visit the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. It’s the historical site for the “shot heard round the world” that ignited the American Revolution. In book two, Portia and the Brotherhood launch their own threadbare revolution. Though the odds are against them, they’re determined to stop the abuses by those in power. My own visit to this famous site helped inspire Portia’s journey of discovery and the Brotherhood’s fictional parallels to the American Revolutionary War. Writing the scene where she rediscovers this birthplace of liberty was one of my favorites, because I walked the North Bridge and poured over books researching what happened that fateful day. I hope the scene comes alive for my readers and quickens their interest in history and its relevance for us today.
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Aryn the librarian, April 13
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Ashley’s Bookshelf, April 14
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Texas Book-aholic, April 15
A Reader’s Brain, April 16
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Bibliophile Reviews, April 21
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Artistic Nobody, April 23 (Spotlight)
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TheCommunity.com Launches Universal Declaration of Human Rights Campaign with Advance Screening of ‘Invictus’
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Labour's Purcell
Gay Roman Catholic Steven Purcell, a key figure in Gordon Brown's Labour party, took cocaine with a dealer he met in The Boundary bar, an alleged gangland pub in Yoker, Glasgow.
(The Scottish National Party is playing the 'Purcell card'.)
The pub is run by Kelly Bryce.
Kelly's brother Jamie makes regular jail visits to crimelord Jamie "The Iceman" Stevenson (Stabbing victim's feud.)
Stevenson has been a suspect in three gangland murders and is regarded as one of the most cunning and ruthless crooks ever to rule Scotland's underworld. (Notorious Scots gangster Jamie 'The Iceman' Stevenson.)
Kelly's family has links to violence and drugs.
In 2009, Kelly's brother Jamie Bryce was part of a 'gang' convicted of an assault at Glasgow's Byblos nightclub.
Jamie Bryce and millionaire boxing tycoon Barry Hughes were convicted of assaulting Christopher Boyle with a metal pole. (Former council chief Steven Purcell's cocaine party with dealers)
Boyle was punched, kicked and stamped on before being hit with a metal pole and stabbed.
Boyle suffered suffered cuts up to 10 inches long to his face and stomach. (Tycoon who attacked man with metal pole avoids jail - Herald ...)
Barry Hughes and Jamie Bryce were told to carry out 150 hours of community service for their part in the attack.
Boyle is a friend of convicted bank robber Ian "Blink" McDonald and killer Tony McGurn, jailed for stabbing a nightclub steward to death in 1991. (Stabbing victim's feud with boxing promoter Barry Hughes - The ...)
Labour is the party of war, poverty and corruption?
Jamie Bryce lives in a penthouse and drives a £100,000 Mercedes. (Former council chief Steven Purcell's cocaine party with dealers)
Jamie Bryce is a regular visitor to Scotland's biggest drug dealer, Jamie "The Iceman" Stevenson, in jail. (Stabbing victim's feud with boxing promoter Barry Hughes - The ...)
Kelly's father, James Bryce, is a convicted major drugs dealer.
In 2009, Assistant Chief Constable Johnny Gwynne and Detective Chief Superintendent Allan Moffat told Purcell that a dealer claimed to have mobile phone footage of Purcell snorting cocaine.
Reportedly, Purcell, "invited two dealers into his flat for a party." (Former council chief Steven Purcell's cocaine party with dealers ...)
Steven Purcell was once thought of as a future leader of the Scottish Labour party.
On 5 March 2010, Purcell fled from Scotland to Australia. This was just hours after his teenage friend, Danus McKinlay, was found dying outside the City Chambers building.
Purcell's ex-wife, Katrina Murray, is the Labour candidate in Dundee East. (General Election 2010: The seats where battle will be lost and won ...)
Labour's John Reid
A number of top Labour party people have links to drugs.
John Reid was UK Home Secretary and UK Defence Secretary.
Cannabis was found at John Reid's home
According to Dean Nelson, editor Scottish edition of the Sunday Times, John Reid "is part of the Lanarkshire West Coast Labour mafia.
"It's not about... making life better for the working class.
"It's about looking after yourself and your mates and not being accountable to anyone." - Dean Nelson, editor Scottish edition of the Sunday Times.
During the 1990s Bosnian War, John Reid became friends with indicted war-criminal Radovan Karadzic. Reid has admitted that he spent three days at a luxury Geneva lakeside hotel as a guest of Karadzic in 1993. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/l)
John Reid's son Mark is married to the daughter of Ronnie Campbell who reportedly has links to crime.
According to the Sunday Mail, 9/4/2005 (Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland): Fugitive and the minister ...):
"GRIM-FACED Defence Secretary John Reid shared centre stage at his son's wedding yesterday - with a villain wanted by police.
"Tony Blair's most trusted minister and fugitive Ronnie Campbell - the father of the bride - stood side by side on the steps of Westminster Cathedral.
"The Sunday Mail can reveal a warrant was issued for the arrest of Campbell, 47, on Monday after a violent incident involving a woman.
"Campbell, who sported a gold cravat and kilt, was the target of a recent gangland hit."
Labour's Jack McConnell
Jack McConnell was Scotland's First Minister and part of Blair's Labour Party.
Jack McConnell's wife, Bridget, is head of the Culture and Leisure Department of Scotland’s biggest local authority.
Reportedly, Jack McConnell's wife's department, and Jack McConnell's party organisation in Glasgow, gave Eddie Lyons, an alleged 'gangster', £1.4m in public funds over 10 years to run a community centre used by children.
Local people asked that Eddie Lyons be sacked as co-ordinator of Chirnsyde Community Initiative in Milton, north Glasgow.
Reportedly the Lyons’s family was involved in a 'war' with another group of alleged 'gangsters'.
At least 11 people have been shot since 2003 as a result of this 'war'.
In December 2006, the community centre was closed when Lyons’s nephew Michael was shot dead and his son Stephen and another man were critically injured.
In 2001 Eddie Lyons, his sons Stephen and Eddie junior, his brother Johnny and a friend called Paul McGuiness were charged with the attempted murder of Thomas McDonnell, who was attacked outside the community centre.
£63,000 was confiscated from Eddie Lyons’s home by police investigating alleged drug dealing.
In 2003, local parents were complaining that the council was forcing them to send their children to after-school fitness classes at Chirnsyde.
Local people 'watched the local hood handed taxpayers money, and official endorsement from Scotland’s first lady'. (Joan McAlpine: This is a nasty stink you cannot just ignore, Jack)
'Drug baron Justin McAlroy was gunned down on his driveway in Glasgow's Cambuslang only six days after wining and dining Labour VIPs Jack McConnell and John Reid at a dinner to raise funds for the party in 2002.' (New evidence casts shadow of doubt over conviction in notorious ...)
The following is taken from: http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/sep1998/scot-s17.shtml
"The Labour Party in Scotland has had an effective majority for decades through its control of the local authorities.
"During this time it has spawned a distinct social layer who control billions of pounds in revenue, awarding building and planning contracts, administering services...
"The Scotsman newspaper ran several articles on Ferguslie Park Community Business Holdings (FCBH), in Paisley.
"This scheme, established in the 1980s in the working class area of Ferguslie Park, was supposedly aimed at building 'community' businesses as a means of tackling unemployment.
"The Scotsman reported that at least part of the FCBH ...had fallen under the control of Paisley's drug gangs and was being used to launder money.
"Glasgow's Lord Provost, Patrick Lally, only recently successfully prevented Labour's attempt to expel him from office following allegations of corruption.
"Also in Glasgow, millionaire Labour MP, Mohammed Sarwar, has been suspended and faces legal action for allegedly attempting to bribe political opponents."
Moira Anderson.
11-year-old Moira Anderson was last seen boarding a bus in Coatbridge, near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1957.
She was on her way to the shops to buy a box of chocolates for her mum’s birthday.
According to The Sunday Times (Pressure on police to release paedophile dossier), 23 April 2006, Strathclyde Police have a dossier listing members of a child-abuse ring.
This dossier may identify the people who kidnapped Moira.
The dossier is said to implicate senior public figures, including senior police officers and members of the Crown Office and former Scottish Office.
These public figures are said to have abused children in Strathclyde (the Glasgow area) during the 1950s and 1960s.
The dossier is said to list vehicles and safe houses used in Glasgow, Monklands and Paisley where children were hidden before being taken to sex parties.
Strathclyde police have decided not to release the dossier.
The dossier was written by James Gallogley, a convicted child-abuser who died in Peterhead prison in 1999.
Hotel Fontainebleau, Miami Beach. Photo by Jim Rees.
It was at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami that Mafia leader Momo Salvatore Giancana suggested that a Cuban should murder Castro.
Fontainebleau marketing director Paul Pebley has said that mob ties and CIA intrigue are part of the lively history of the hotel. (CIA Family Jewels)
THE UK LABOUR PARTY'S STEVEN PURCELL has had his name linked to COCAINE GANGSTERS
Steven Purcell, reportedly, spent 31 December 2009, at Miami's five-star Fontainebleau hotel. (The strange and sudden fall of Labour's rising star)
On 14 March 2010, Scotland on Sunday reveals that that an 'arms-length council company' set up by Purcell 'lavished money on six-figure salaries for senior employees and on fundraising for Labour party coffers'. (Inquiry call over 'secrets' of Purcell)
Scotland on Sunday refers to Purcell's relationship with a network of councillors, businessmen and public sector bosses, with connections to the Labour party.
One of Purcell's initiatives is a council body called 'City Building'.
Its wage bill for senior employees doubled in just two years.
Reportedly, some of those who benefited were pals of Purcell.
City Building spent thousands of pounds on hospitality.
When Labour ran the Edinburgh government, the Justice Minister was Labour's Cathy Jamieson.
Cathy Jamieson was Scotland's justice minister, under a former Labour administration.
According to the Scotsman (scotsman.com/5):
"Scotland's justice minister Cathy Jamieson strongly denied helping a relative evade the law.
"While the Labour MSP transferred £100 to the bank account of nephew Derek Hyslop - who was on the run from police at the time - in July 1999, she has stated that she had no idea he was wanted by police.
"Hyslop, a drug addict who had just killed a woman in a robbery in Derby, was later jailed for manslaughter. Jamieson said the money was meant for her nephew’s baby."
Allegedly, the Labour Party in parts of Scotland is linked to gangsterism.
According to annaraccoon.com/ (Gordon Brown, Steven Purcell, & Glasgow Politics.):
"Irene Adams (Labour) MP for Paisley North piped up that her constituency committee had been infiltrated by drug dealers and gangster.
"She went on the record to name drug dealer and enforcer Stewart Boyd as the source of death threats she received whilst campaigning against drug dealing.
"Boyd was killed in an inexplicable car accident on the Marbella coast road, so ferocious that it led police to believe that Semtex had been present in one of the cars.
"The first time that Southerners really registered the goings-on in Glasgow was when Mohammed Sarwar became the first Muslim MP in the UK, standing for Glasgow Govan.
"His election was quickly followed by allegations of vote rigging and bribes...
"He is not standing in the 2010 election, but guess what? – his son Anas has been nominated as the prospective parliamentary candidate.
"That is Anas, not Athif, his other son who has recently been convicted of £850,000 worth of money laundering….
"It was not only the drug mafia and the crime mafia that we were protected from news of but the gay mafia too.
"We were told that the suicide of Gordon McMaster MP was ‘not suspicious’ and may have been because he was suffering from Gulf War Syndrome."
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Massive demonstration outside Tehran University
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:45 am Post subject: Massive demonstration outside Tehran University
Massive Freedom Demonstration Outside Tehran University For Freeing Ganji and All Political Prisoners NOW
Iranians hold up a picture and placards in support of jailed journalist Akbar Ganji, an outspoken critic of the Islamic state's clerical leadership, during a protest gathering in front of Tehran University July 12, 2005. Iranian police beat dozens of protesters with batons on Tuesday at a demonstration to call for the release of Iran's most prominent jailed journalist. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl
Iranian women, hold posters, in support of Iran's leading investigative journalist, Akbar Ganji, shown in the picture, who is jailed for articles linking government officials to murder, during a demonstration, outside Tehran University, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, July 12, 2005. Ganji was jailed in 2000 after his probe of the murders of five dissidents by Intelligence Ministry agents. Ganji had probed the murders of five political dissidents in the fall of 1998, which the Intelligence Ministry later blamed on 'rogue
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050712/481/vah10707121527
An Iranian woman, holds a poster of Iran's leading investigative journalist, Akbar Ganji, jailed for articles linking government officials to murder, during a demonstration in support him, outside Tehran University, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, July 12, 2005. Ganji was jailed in 2000 after his probe of the murders of five dissidents by Intelligence Ministry agents. Ganji had probed the murders of five political dissidents in the fall of 1998, which the Intelligence Ministry later blamed on 'rogue agents.' The poster signed ' 32 days hunger strike??' (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Source URL : http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?c=&p=Iran
Thousands demonstrate for release of political prisoners in Iran
Iran Focus and agencies
Source: http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2823
Tehran, Iran, Jul. 12 � Thousands of residents demonstrated this evening in front of the main gate of Tehran University, calling for the release of political prisoners.
Demonstrators included relatives of political prisoners, many of whom turned up with photos of their relatives presently in prison in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran and Gohar-Dasht Prison in Karaj.
They chanted �Free all political prisoners� and �In Iran, the cry is freedom�. Many called for the immediate release of jailed journalist Akbar Ganji.
There was a heavy police presence. State Security Forces and plainclothes agents stormed at the crowd with batons, clashing with demonstrators and injuring some seriously.
A number of protestors were also detained after holding up photos of Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi.
A number of political prisoners in Evin and Gohar-Dasht prisons have been on hunger strike for more than a month in protest to their prison conditions and as part of a boycott effort of the June presidential elections.
A Reuters journalist saw policemen beat several protesters, including young women, in streets surrounding the university and was struck by batons several times himself.
Other reporters and photographers were also forced to leave the scene, witnesses said.
IRAN: Concern over political prisoners mounts
14 Jul 2005 19:49:18 GMT
Source: IRIN
Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/7f1da250c754d024ef2f3ba1ed9dd602.htm
TEHRAN, 14 July (IRIN) - Police used violence to break up a student demonstration in the Iranian capital on Tuesday, amid escalating protests and concern over the deteriorating health of political prisoner and journalist, Akbar Ganji.
The police beat both male and female demonstrators and a local Reuters journalist covering the story was also attacked with batons as they tried to disperse the crowd outside Tehran University, in the centre of the city.
Akbar Ganji, Iran's most famous political prisoner, was given a six year prison sentence in 2000 after following his trial on a variety of charges. Some charges related to an article he wrote that linked some of the country's top officials to the 1998 murder of dissident intellectuals, known as the 'serial murders.' He was temporarily released from prison in May for medical care, when he came to the end of a 43-day hunger strike.
However, since returning to prison in June, he has resumed his hunger strike and he is now reported to be suffering severe respiratory problems.
Ganji's worsening health has prompted strong reactions from the West. As his supporters gathered at the university, President Bush released a statement calling for Ganji's release.
The authorities in Tehran reacted angrily to what they see as outside interference in domestic judicial affairs. State-run radio reported Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, Hamid Reza Asefi, as saying: "The White House talks about violations of human rights in Iran while the world hates the US violations of human rights in both Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisons [the two controversial US detention facilities holding untried terror suspects]."
On Wednesday, 33 Iranian political activists wrote a letter to the United Nations warning that Gangi's life is in danger.
"For the sake of human rights, (we) ask you to intervene directly in Ganji's case and follow it as an urgent human rights issue," the activists said in a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Ganji said in a statement released in May: "I protest against my illegal and unjust imprisonment, all the more so because I cannot even pursue my treatment outside Evin prison. I am beginning an unlimited hunger strike this evening. No one should be imprisoned - not even for a second - for expressing an opinion."
There are also concerns about the health of Nasser Zarafshan, another political prisoner held in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Zarafshan was the lawyer for the defence in the 'serial murders' case and he was detained in August 2002 on charges of divulging state secrets. He was sentence to five years in prison and 70 lashes.
In the past, the US-based pressure group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called Iran the world's biggest prison for journalists and in recent years, more than 100 publications have been shut down by Iran's hard-line judiciary, on charges ranging from criticising the leadership to 'insulting religious sanctities'.
Journalists and political dissidents are fearful that under Iran's new ultra-conservative President-elect, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, political crackdowns could increase as the power of the ideological right continues to grow.
Letter from Ganji
The following is excerpted from a letter by jailed Iranian Akbar Ganji.
"Islamic Prosecutor [Saeed Mortazavi] speaks openly of my death in prison. He told my wife: 'What if Ganji dies [in prison]? Dozens die in our jails every day; perhaps Ganji will be one of them.'
"What the Islamic prosecutor doesn't know is that Ganji may die, but the love of freedom, and the thirst for political justice will never die. Ganji may die, but humanism and the love of one's fellow man, and the hope and expectations for a better future, will never die.
"I will spend my time in solitary, but my heart will continue to beat for freedom. And some of the time I will hear prisoners cry for the windows of their solitary cells to be opened, to let the sun in."
Source: The Middle East Media Research Institute (www.memri.org).
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:57 am Post subject: Free Activists
Source : http://www.radiofarda.com/iran_article/2005/7/8e1201a1-5363-48f2-b132-b1fb993b728c.html
فراخوان کمیته دفاع از زندانیان سیاسی و فعالان فرهنگی و سیاسی برای گردهمائی سه شنبه در برابر دانشگاه تهران
کمیته دانشجوئی دفاع از زندانیان سیاسی همراه با چند سازمان دیگر و با حمایت برخی چهره های فعال در زمینه حقوق بشر و فعالان سیاسی و دانشجوئی، فراخوانی منتشر کردند برای گردهمائی بعدازظهر سه شنبه در برابر دانشگاه تهران به منظور حمایت از تقاضای اکبر گنجی، روزنامه نگار زندانی. مسعود باستانی، روزنامه نگار پیگیر وضع گنجی و از امضاکنندگان فراخوان این تجمع، در مصاحبه با رادیو فردا می گوید جمع کثیری از دانشجویان مستقل و دانشجویان نزدیک به دفتر تحکیم وحدت و اعضای دفتر تحکیم وحدت و سازمان ادوار تحکیم وحدت و گروه اتحاد دمکراسی خواهان نسبت به این فراخوان اعلام حمایت کردند. وی امیدوار است این تجمع اعتراض گنجی را به گوش افکار عمومی برساند.
مريم منظوري (rm) صدا | (wma) صدا [ 4:27 mins ]
حمید فاطمی (رادیوفردا): کمیته دانشجوئی دفاع از زندانیان سیاسی همراه با چند سازمان دیگر و با حمایت برخی چهره های فعال در زمینه حقوق بشر و فعالان سیاسی و دانشجوئی، فراخوانی منتشر کردند و از همگان دعوت کردند در تجمع اعتراض آمیزی برای نجات جان اکبر گنجی و آزادی همه زندانیان سیاسی، فردا، سه شنبه، از ساعت 5 تا 7 بعدازظهر در برابر دانشگاه تهران حضور یابند. مسعود باستانی، روزنامه نگار پیگیر ماجرای اکبر گنجی و یکی از حامیان این فراخوان در تهران در مصاحبه با مریم منظوری از رادیوفردا در باره این گردهمائی می گوید:
مسعود باستانی (روزنامه نگار مستقل، تهران): با توجه به اینکه اعتصاب غذای اکبر گنجی مدت زیادی است که طول کشیده و قوه قضائیه هیچگونه واکنشی نسبت به این اعتصاب غذای این زندانی سیاسی که می کوشد تا به وسیله اعتصاب غذا یعنی تنها وسیله مبارزه در زندان تلاش می کند که حقوق خود را استیفا کند و اکنون در آستانه سی امین روز اعتصاب غذای مجدد گنجی بعد از بازگشت به زندان اوین هستیم، نگرانی های بسیار زیادی را در مجامع سیاسی و فعالین سیاسی و دمکراسی خواهان در ایران به وجود آورده است.
مریم منظوری (رادیو فردا): آیا کسی حمایت خود را از این فراخوان تاکنون اعلام کرده؟
مسعود باستانی: این حمایت از طرف گروه های سیاسی داخلی از جمله جمع کثیری از دانشجویان مستقل و دانشجویان نزدیک به دفتر تحکیم وحدت و اعضای دفتر تحکیم وحدت وسازمان ادوار تحکیم وحدت اعلام شده و از سوی دیگر، گروه اتحاد دمکراسی خواهان اعلام حمایت کردند و پای آن را امضا کردند و از سوی دیگر حساسیتی که خیلی از سازمانهای حقوق بشری و سازمانهای بین المللی دنیا نسبت به وضعیت و سرنوشت گنجی دارند و در بیانیه های مختلف سازمان عفو بین الملل و سازمان گزارشگران بدون مرز و بقیه سازمان های حقوق بشری دنیا از وضعیت گنجی داشتند، یقینا این حرکت حمایتی گسترده... حمایت خواهند کرد. امیدوارم که در ساعات باقی مانده تا رسیدن به زمان این تجمع، ما شاهد حمایت های گسترده باشیم.
م.م.: آیا فکر می کنید تاثیری دارد ادامه این حرکت ها؟
مسعود باستانی: مسئله عمده این است که اکنون اکبر گنجی در زندان اوین مبارزه فردی برای حقوق خودش که استفاده از مرخصی استعلاجی و استفاده از امکانات درمانی خارج از زندان هست را آغاز کرده و اعلام کرده تا زمانی که به این خواسته حق و قانونی خود نرسد، دست از اعتصاب غذا بر نمی دارد. حمایت حداقلی هر یک از شهروندان در جامعه برای کمک به اکبر گنجی با حضور در این تجمع و مراسم های دیگر می تواند تا حد بسیار زیادی فضا را در خارج از زندان آماده کرده و اعتراض گنجی را به افکار عمومی اعلام کرده...
م.م.: فکر می کنید این تجمع به شکل آرام برگزار بشود؟
مسعود باستانی: بله، با توجه به تجربیات گذشته در برگزاری چنین تجمع های اعتراض آمیزی بوده، معمولا رفتار نیروهای انتظامی و افراد بر کنترل و مهار این گونه تجمع ها بوده و ما امیدواریم با رعایت خواسته ها و رعایت نظم و امنیت توسط شهروندان شرکت کننده در این تجمع، حداقل فضا را برای برگزاری ارام و منطقی و آزاد این تجمع مهیا بشود. علیرغم اینکه از سوی سازمان ادوار دفتر تحکیم وحدت، امروز هم درخواست مجوزی به استانداری تهران داده شده و از ا ستانداری تهران درخواست شده که در حد توانائی امنیت لازم برای برگزاری این تجمع را تامین کنند.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:24 pm Post subject: Clashes as Students Protest Arrest of Dissident in Tehran
Clashes as Students Protest Arrest of Dissident in Tehran
Clashes occurred in front of Teheran University as students on Tuesday protested the continued imprisonment of Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji, witnesses said.
The students news agency ISNA earlier reported that about 200 students had gathered to protest the jailing of Ganji, who has been on hunger strike for a month.
The students who also demanded release of all political prisoners clashed with dozens of police officers attempting to force the protesters to withdraw.
Reporters and photographers were also forced to leave the scene, witnesses said.
Ganji was said by his wife to in a critical health condition as a result of the hunger strike.
The dissident was temporarily released last May for treatment of pneumonia but had to return to jail just before the June 17 presidential elections, starting a renewed hunger strike.
Ganji, 48, was sentenced in 2000 to six years in prison after being charged with "disgracing" Iran in front of "counter- revolutionaries" at a controversial conference held that year in Berlin. He also linked Iranian leaders to assassination of dissidents.
Source: http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1033384.php/Clashes_as_students_protest_arrest_of_dissident_in_Teheran
Payvand's Iran News ...
http://www.payvand.com/news/05/jul/1088.html
Concern Grows Over Fate Of Jailed Iranian Journalist Akbar Ganji
By Golnaz Esfandiari
Iran's most prominent jailed investigative journalist, Akbar Ganji, has been jailed for the last five years because of his critical articles and his investigation into the murders of political dissidents and intellectuals -- murders in which, he says, top Iranian officials were involved. Now, Ganji's wife says that he has been on hunger strike for a month as he demands to be released unconditionally from prison. On 12 July, a gathering is due to take place in Tehran in his support.
Akbar Ganji
PRAGUE, 12 July 2005 (RFE/RL) Despite his poor health, Iran's top journalist Akbar Ganji is determined to continue his hunger strike until his unconditional freedom.
Ganji's wife Massoumeh Shafii was able to visit him on 11 July. She told RFE/RL that he believes a hunger strike is the only way to secure his freedom.
She also says Ganji has lost more than 20 kilograms as a result of his hunger strike, but that his morale is good.
"He is still on a hunger strike. His weight is 55 kilos now. He has lost a lot of weight during his hunger strike, he's without any force, the color of his face is yellow, and he tries very hard to speak normally," Shafii said. "His physical condition is not good, but he is in excellent spirits."
The journalist is reported to be subsisting on water and sugar cubes.
Ganji is known for his criticism of the Iranian establishment. He has said that his five years in jail, including several months in solitary confinement, has made his views even more radical.
In his two-part book titled "Manifesto Of Republicanism," Ganji has criticized the authority of Iran's Supreme Leader and said that under the country's current governmental system real democracy cannot be achieved.
Ganji was temporarily released from jail at the end of May on medical grounds. He suffers from asthma and back pain. Prior to his temporary release, he had also been on a hunger strike to protest his detention conditions.
Several days after his release, he spoke with Radio Farda and called for a boycott election of the 17 June Iranian presidential election.
"Those who are theoretically and practically committed to Iran's constitution, if they go after reforming the current ruling establishment, maybe they are taking the right way," Ganji said at the time. "But if someone's main concern is democracy and establishing a democratic regime that is bound to human rights, then that person would not be willing to reform the establishment; his main issue would be how to move from a un-democratic regime to a democratic regime. And I've written in the first and second 'Manifesto' that under the current regime I have no hope for any reform leading to a transition toward a democratic system."
On 11 June, shortly after making this statement, Ganji was returned to prison.
Ganji was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2001 on charges ranging from harming Iran's national security to spreading lies against the country's leaders. His sentence was later reduced to six years on appeal.
Ganji's wife told RFE/RL that Iranian officials have told him that unless he changes his views, he will not be released even after his jail term is over.
"Mr. Ganji says, �Even after the few months left of my jail term would be over, [the authorities ] will not free me because they have said it to me very clearly,'" Shafii said. "Even Trade Minister Mr. Shariatmadari -- who visited Ganji in jail two years ago -- told him: �the position of the establishment is that you should stay in jail until you [retract] what you have written in the 'Manifesto.' You have to say that you were wrong.' [Therefore] Ganji considers his unconditional release as the only solution."
In a recent open letter written from jail and published on several websites, Ganji said he will not take back his words and he will not show remorse.
There have been widespread calls for Ganji's release, including from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi. In a June 30 interview with Radio Farda, Ebadi expressed concern over Ganji's health.
"Once more I would like to bring the worrying condition of Akbar human rights groups," Ebadi said. "If no immediate action is taken he could [die]. I ask judiciary officials and the Iranian and international
The EU, the United States, and several human rights groups have also called on Iran's judiciary to free Ganji.
Ganji's wife says she has written to many humanitarian organizations about his husband's condition.
"We are worried and there is nothing we can do," Shafii said. "We are just witnessing how Akbar Ganji is fading out. We've tried all the [channels] inside Iran but unfortunately there haven't been any results. We've been also following the case outside Iran, we've been sending letters to the European parliament, [EU foreign and security policy chief] Javier Solana, to the UN, to [UN Secretary-General] Kofi Annan. We've sent letters to all places we could and [brought their attention] to Mr. Ganji's case. There is international pressure but it's not clear when the Iranian officials will respond." Today, a group of human rights activists, students and families of political prisoners have announced they will gather in front of Tehran's university to express their concern over Ganji's "critical" condition and to protest against the violation of his rights.
They say "if something unpleasant happens to Ganji, Iran's rulers will be held responsible."
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject: Thousands of people demonstrate
Thousands of people demonstrate in support of political prisoners outside Tehran University
Source: http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/207/69/
Relatives of political prisoners and thousands of Tehran residents gathered this afternoon outside the main entrance to Tehran University and its surrounding area.
Demonstrators, while chanting �free all political prisoners� and �in Iran, cry is freedom�, called for the release of all political prisoners.
Families of political prisoners brought photos of their relatives who are locked away in the notorious prisons Evin and Gohardasht (in Karaj).
State Security Forces and plainclothes agents tried to bring about an end to the protest by brutally attacking and beating the crowd. A number of demonstrators were injured seriuosly.
A number of protestors and supporters of the People�s Mojahedin Organization of Iran held up photos of the leader of the Iranian Resistance Mr. Massoud Rajavi and the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance Mrs. Maryam Rajavi. While brutally attacking such people, agents of the SSF arrested several of them.
Following the attack by the SSF, the crowd dispersed and regrouped in nearby streets and continued their demonstration despite continued clashes. The regime�s suppressive forces blockaded the streets to prevent people from joining the demonstrators.
Political prisoners in Evin Prison and Gohardasht Prison in Karaj have been on hunger strike for more than a month in protest to prison conditions and lack of basic commodities, and as part of a boycott of the regime�s sham presidential elections.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject: Police beat protesters at protest rally in Iran
Police beat protesters at protest rally in Iran
Source URL: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12532635.htm
TEHRAN, July 12 (Reuters) - Iranian police beat dozens of protesters with batons on Tuesday at a demonstration to call for the release of Iran's most prominent jailed journalist.
About 150 people, mostly students, had gathered in front of Tehran University chanting "political prisoners must be freed" when dozens of police moved in to break up the protest.
The rally was in support of Akbar Ganji, an outspoken critic of the Islamic state's clerical leadership who was sentenced to six years in jail in 2001 for articles he wrote alleging links between senior officials and the murder of political dissidents.
Ganji's family and lawyers say he is suffering from poor health and needs medical treatment outside prison. They say he has been on hunger strike for more than 30 days.
Judiciary officials say Ganji is in good health and is not on hunger strike.
A Reuters journalist saw police beat several protesters, including young women, in streets surrounding the university and was struck by batons several times himself.
It was not immediately clear if police made any arrests.
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:48 pm Post subject: Students, Police Clash In Tehran
Students, Police Clash In Tehran
Source: http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/07/f276bd75-9206-433e-859e-6b9e3235a561.html
12 July 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Clashes between students and police occurred today in front of Tehran University during a demonstration against the imprisonment of an Iranian dissident, Akbar Ganji, Radio Farda reported.
Student protesters, demanding the release of Ganji and other political prisoners, clashed with police who were trying to disperse the demonstration.
Ganji�s wife, Massoumeh Shafii, today told RFE/RL that her husband is in critical condition as a result of a month-long hunger strike.
In 2000, Ganji was sentenced to six years in jail for publicly criticizing the Iranian authorities.
(RFE/dpa/ILNA)
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject: W.House urges release of jailed Iran journalist
White House Statement on a Call for the Unconditional Releases of Akbar Ganji in Iran
Akbar Ganji, an Iranian journalist who since 1999 has been routinely sentenced to prison by the Iranian government for advocating free speech, is again in jail because of his political views. Through his now month-long hunger strike, Mr. Ganji is demonstrating that he is willing to die for his right to express his opinion. President Bush is saddened by recent reports that Mr. Ganji's health has been failing and deeply concerned that the Iranian government has denied him access to his family, medical treatment, and legal representation. Mr. Ganji is sadly only one victim of a wave of repression and human rights violations engaged in by the Iranian regime. His calls for freedom deserve to be heard. His valiant efforts should not go in vain. The President calls on all supporters of human rights and freedom, and the United Nations, to take up Ganji's case and the overall human rights situation in Iran. The President also calls on the Government of Iran to release Mr. Ganji immediately and unconditionally and to allow him access to medical assistance. Mr. Ganji, please know that as you stand for your own liberty, America stands with you.
[White House]
W.House urges release of jailed Iran journalist
Tuesday, July 12, 2005; 5:41 PM
Source URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/12/AR2005071201158.html
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday expressed solidarity with jailed Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji, who is on a hunger strike, and urged human rights groups and the United Nations to push for his release.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan also said in a statement that President Bush was concerned about the health of Ganji, an outspoken critic of the Islamic state's clerical leadership who was jailed for alleging links between officials and the murders of political dissidents.
"Through his now monthlong hunger strike, Mr. Ganji is demonstrating that he is willing to die for his right to express his opinion," McClellan said.
"President Bush is saddened by recent reports that Mr. Ganji's health has been failing and deeply concerned that the Iranian government has denied him access to his family, medical treatment and legal representation," he added.
The statement also had a message for Ganji that "America stands with you."
The statement came after about 150 people held a demonstration in Tehran calling for Ganji's release. A Reuters journalist saw police beat several of the protesters.
McClellan said the United Nations and human rights groups should "take up Ganji's case and the overall human rights situation in Iran."
He said Iran should release Ganji unconditionally from his six-year jail sentence.
Ganji's family and lawyers say he is suffering from poor health and needs medical treatment outside prison. They say he has been on a hunger strike for more than 30 days.
Iranian judiciary officials say Ganji is in good health and is not on a hunger strike.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:11 pm Post subject:
Reports from the Demonstration in Support of Akbar Ganji
Today, Tuesday the 12th of July, scores of demonstrators responded to a call for gathering in support of Akbar Ganji and all political prisoners. This demonstration was held in front of Tehran University from 5:00 pm, with an initial count of three hundred demonstrators. Later the number of demonstrators turned to roughly around 1,500 as the demonstration spread throughout neighboring streets.
Demonstrators were confronted and beaten by Islamic Disciplinary and Security Forces armed with clubs and chains. Images of bloodshed were seen throughout the neighboring streets of Tehran University.
Demonstrators held banners demanding the freedom of Akbar Ganji and all political prisoners. In addition, slogans such as "Political Prisoners Must Be Freed" were voiced throughout the city.
According to eyewitnesses, about twenty demonstrators have been arrested and drawn into captivity. Furthermore, a number of demonstrators have been hospitalized to due severe injuries.
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Pictures here: http://www.iranian.com/PhotoDay/2005/July/dd1.html
More than 2000 show support for Ganji
Here are four photos taken by me during Tuesday's demonstration at Tehran University in support of Akbar Ganji. I just want you to notice this. The police split us into many groups, therefore what the news reports say about the number of protesers is wrong. These photos are of that group which people were about 300, but in the main square they were more than 2000. You couldn't find an empty space
more pics here:
http://www.iranian.com/PhotoDay/2005/July/d1.html
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:29 pm Post subject: State Dept. Cites Iran Brutality Reports
State Dept. Cites Iran Brutality Reports
By BARRY SCHWEID
Thursday, July 14, 2005; 2:29 PM
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/14/AR2005071401042.html
WASHINGTON -- The State Department said it was disturbed by reports that peaceful protesters who demonstrated in support of a jailed Iranian dissident were treated brutally by Iranian police.
Spokesman Tom Casey on Thursday called on the "regime" in Tehran to exercise restraint and permit the Iranian people to invoke their right to peaceful assembly and free speech.
The statement followed President Bush's call Tuesday for the release of Akbar Ganji, a journalist jailed for writing articles linking government officials to murder. The White House statement was issued while some 300 Ganji supporters gathered in front of the Tehran University to demand his release.
The Iranian government responded Wednesday that Bush should not intervene in the case of the jailed dissident, especially in light of allegations of U.S. human rights violations in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisons.
In the meantime, 33 Iranian political activists asked the United Nations to press for Ganji's release, warning his life was in danger because of his monthlong hunger strike, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
Casey said Ganji was only one of many people thrown into jail in Iran simply for expressing their opinions peacefully. "There is no excuse for it," he said. "And it's not something the United States is going to stop speaking out on."
Covering his face, an Iranian protester, holds a banner, signed: "The regime can survive infidelity, but not oppressiveness", during a demonstration in support Iran's leading investigative journalist, Akbar Ganji, jailed for articles linking government officials to murder, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, July 12, 2005. Ganji was jailed in 2000 after his probe of the murders of five dissidents by Intelligence Ministry agents. Ganji had probed the murders of five political dissidents in the fall of 1998, which the Intelligence Ministry later blamed on "rogue agents." (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) (Vahid Salemi - AP)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2005/07/14/PH2005071401046.html
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:48 pm Post subject: The US Government Representing 1 million Iranian-American
The Iranian government responded Wednesday that Bush should not intervene in the case of the jailed dissident .....,
The US Government elected officials are representing over 1 million Iranian-American community, adddressing their concerns and they have every reason to stop Islamist regime brutal practices by any means.
The illegitimate Islamist regime in Tehran with support of less than 1% of 70 million Iranian people is not in any position and has no rights to speak on behalf of 70 million Iranian population.
Past 26 Years FACTS About Islamic Clerical Regime In Tehran:
4) The Islamic Clerical Regime has executed over 120,000 political prisoners and freedom-loving Iranians in less than 2 decades.
5) 70 Million Iranian people are hostage of Islamic Clerical Regime ruling by force and fear.
6) The Iranian people have clearly rejected the Islamist regime again by overwhelmingly boycotting the Mullah's Election SHOW. The BOYCOTT AGAINST THE MULLAHS HAS A GREAT MESSAGE to the Islamist Regime that they MUST GIVE UP POWER PEACEFULY NOW Or ELSE .... (http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6312 )
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject: Testing limits of dissent in Iran
FREE PRESS? Police beat protesters Tuesday at a rally in Tehran, Iran, calling for the release of jailed journalist Akbar Ganji. A woman, above, holds his photo.
MORTEZA NIKOUBAZI/REUTERS
Testing limits of dissent in Iran
Iran's judiciary said Thursday it will not free Akbar Ganji, jailed after criticizing top officials.
Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0715/p06s03-wome.html
By Angus McDowall | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
TEHRAN, IRAN � Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji entered the 33rd day of his hunger strike Thursday, demanding unconditional release from the notorious Evin prison in north Tehran.
With only six months left in his sentence on a variety of charges after he wrote articles linking Iranian officials to the murders of intellectuals during the 1990s, Mr. Ganji's plight has gained the attention of human rights groups that say he's being mistreated and the Bush administration that called for his immediate release.
But the case is also cast by reformists and rights groups as an important bellwether for how incoming president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will handle freedom of the press issues in Iran, where more than 100 reform-minded publications have been closed by authorities in the past five years.
After being jailed in 2001, Ganji wrote "Manifesto of Republicanism," a stinging critique of the Iranian political system that calls for an end to clerical rule and greater democracy. Although his sentence was for six years, Ganji's wife has said authorities have made renouncing his political views a condition of release.
Human rights groups are now becoming concerned about the health of the journalist, who is reported to have lost 40 pounds subsisting entirely on liquids for the past month. Ganji began his protest after claiming he was denied medical attention, but has now pledged to fast until he is granted an unconditional release.
Iran's clerical judiciary said Thursday Ganji is receiving appropriate care and that he will not win early release. The case has long been a cause c�l�bre for Iranian journalists and rights groups.
Police on Tuesday violently dispersed a small demonstration, estimated between 100 to 300 protesters, in support of Ganji outside Tehran University. According to eyewitness reports, police beat a crowd of women with batons and a local Reuters reporter. The crowd had earlier raised placards and chanted slogans calling for Ganji's release.
Hashem Aghajari, a university lecturer whose death sentence for blasphemy was quashed last year, told journalists at the demonstration that, Ganji's "crime is only writing, and this is not a crime under any law."
Iranian journalists say they have been instructed by judiciary officials in recent days not to write about the Ganji case. Such attempts at censorship are routine in Iran, but journalists say they have become more common since the start of the election period and they expect the situation to worsen.
"There is clear censorship," says Issa Saharkhiz, a reformist journalist who has himself been briefly imprisoned for criticizing the regime. "Things will become worse now because extremists in the judiciary and among the new conservatives have more power, and they are pushing to control everything."
Newspaper closures have been constant during the reform era, as conservatives in the judiciary and other bodies strove to block the movement. Recently the focus has turned to the Internet, as increasing numbers of websites are blocked and bloggers are jailed.
The president elect, who takes office in early August, has pledged to defend press freedom but journalists remain skeptical. At his first press conference after the election, Mr. Ahmadinejad said he had promoted free speech as mayor of Tehran, prompting heckling from local journalists. He responded by saying: "I'd like to welcome criticism even when it comes in the form of shouting."
But as speculation mounts over the incoming president's choice of cabinet members, journalists are listening with mounting concern. Tehran prosecutor general, Saeed Mortazavi, has been cited as a possible justice minister in a leaked list. Mr. Mortazavi has ordered the closures of a number of publications and is alleged to have participated in the interrogation of journalists, including Zahra Kazemi, who died in custody in 2003.
In an interview during a brief period when he was out of jail for medical treatment, Ganji said he was prepared to stay in prison for the rest of his life for his beliefs. "Under the current regime I have no hope for any reform leading to a transition towards a democratic system."
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:25 pm Post subject: Leading Dissident's Life in Danger
Leading Dissident's Life in Danger
Source: http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2005/07/14/iran11318.htm
The life of Akbar Ganji, Iran�s imprisoned leading dissident, is under serious threat due to his illness and a month-long hunger strike, Human Rights Watch said today. Ganji, an investigative journalist who was sentenced to prison by the Iranian government in 2000, has lost more than 40 pounds during the past month.
�Human Rights Watch is extremely concerned for Ganji�s health. The Iranian judiciary�s refusal to release Ganji for medical treatment is cruel and inhumane,� said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. �It is a serious contravention of the most basic humanitarian standards, and the international community should strongly condemn it.�
The Iranian judiciary imprisoned Ganji in April 2000 on vaguely worded charges, including �acting against national security� in connection with his participation at a conference in Berlin. He suffers from acute asthma that he developed in prison.
Iranian officials imprisoned Ganji shortly after the publication of articles he wrote documenting the involvement of high-ranking officials in the murder of intellectuals in the 1990s. The Iranian authorities have repeatedly prevented Ganji from receiving specialist medical care or taking medical leave as other prisoners are permitted. In protest of his unfair treatment, Ganji began a hunger strike last month, and has since sustained himself only on liquids.
Ganji has served nearly five-and-a-half years of his six-year sentence. Most prisoners in Iran are eligible for release after serving half of their sentence.
Ganji is one of the Iranian government�s most forceful critics. In his writings, he has criticized Iran�s system of governance. According to his wife, the judicial authorities have pressured him to �repent� for his writings as a condition for his release. In a letter smuggled out of jail last week, Ganji held Iran�s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamanei, directly responsible for his persecution.
Human Rights Watch is concerned that, in light of Ganji�s recent forceful criticism of the government, the Iranian judiciary may try to prolong his imprisonment by bringing new charges against him. The Iranian government frequently has relied on laws that restrict criticism of the government and its leadership as a basis for bringing charges against dissidents.
�After wrongfully imprisoning Ganji in the first place, the judiciary must not extend his imprisonment based on the opinions expressed in his recent prison letter,� said Whitson.
Human Rights Watch called on the Iranian authorities to release Ganji immediately for medical treatment and to end its persecution of peaceful critics and dissidents.
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According to research published in the Yale Daily News teenagers who smoke tobacco as well as, or with pot are more likely to develop a serious pot habit!
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Teenagers who see marijuana as a relatively low-risk drug may be more at risk for addiction than they realize, a new Yale paper says.
Co-occurring cannabis and tobacco use is significantly more likely to cause cannabis abuse and dependence than only cannabis use, according to a paper by Yale researchers accepted by the peer-reviewed journal Addiction last month. Psychiatry post-doctorate fellow Erica Peters said that she noticed consistent evidence across the literature of her conclusion and conducted the review to build momentum for the area of study. She said her study did not answer questions about the chemical pathways or the specifics of the drug interactions, but opened the door for future research.
“There’s something about tobacco use that seems to worsen marijuana use in some way,” Peters said.
She said that both simultaneous use — in the form of blunts, marijuana in a cigar wrapper — and use on separate occasions make cannabis more addictive. Co-occurring use also intensifies psychosocial problems, such as anxiety, depression and legal difficulties. The study found that adolescents were less likely to have good grades and more likely to have drunk alcohol in the past month.
Ninety percent of cannabis users also smoke tobacco, said Arpana Agrawal, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis. By contrast, only 40 to 50 percent of tobacco users also smoke cannabis, she said.
“If you’re going to tackle one, you have to consider the other,” she said.
Agrawal said that for the first time, the Yale paper provides a “really comprehensive, systematic” understanding of cannabis dependence and abuse over the lifetime of an individual who smokes tobacco and cannabis.
The important next step is to understand the best approaches to clinical treatment for co-occurring users, Peters said. Clinicians have yet to develop a effective treatment for cannabis dependence, so understanding that tobacco affects the majority of cannabis users is important, Agrawal said.
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As noted in Section 3.1 for the DHF test, Pr[t7s < 0] = Pr[x2(S) < S] seems to be converging to 1/2 as S increases. However, for the periodicities typically considered this probability always exceeds 1/2. This phenomenon indicates that a standard normal distribution may not be a satisfactory approximation when the characteristic root is close to 1 and the sample size is moderate, as Chan and Wei (1987) point out. It is also a well established fact that the power of unit root tests is quite poor when the parameter of interest is in the neighborhood of unity (see, for example, Evans and Savin (1981, 1984) and Perron (1989)). This suggests a distributional gap between the standard distribution typically assumed under stationarity and the function of Brownian motions obtained when the DGP is a random walk. To close this gap, a new class of models have been proposed, which allow the characteristic root of a process to be in the neighborhood of unity. This type of process is often called near integrated. Important work concerning near integration in a conventional AR(1) process includes Bobkoski (1983), Cavanagh (1986), Phillips (1987, 1988), Chan and Wei (1987), Chan (1988, 1989), and Nabeya and Perron (1994). In the exposition of the preceding sections, it has been assumed that the DGP is a special case of
Vt = Фе Vt-s + e t (31.62)
with фs = 1 and y-S+1 = … = y0 = 0. In this section we generalize the results by considering a class of processes characterized by an autoregressive parameter фs close to 1.
Analogously to the conventional near integrated AR(1), a noncentrality parameter c can be considered such that
ф§ = ec/N – 1 + N = 1 + IIе. (31.63)
This characterizes a near seasonally integrated process, which can be locally stationary (c < 0), locally explosive (c > 0), or a conventional seasonal random walk (c = 0). This type of near seasonally integrated process has been considered by Chan (1988, 1989), Perron (1992), Rodrigues (2000b), and Tanaka (1996). Similarly to the seasonal random walk, when the DGP is given by (31.62) and (31.63), and assuming that the observations are available for exactly N (N = T/S) complete years, then
Ssn = X eN Є.,и = X e( n4) c i s = 1, . . . , S. (31.64)
j=0 i=1
This indicates that each season represents a near integrated process with a common noncentrality parameter c across seasons. One of the main features of a process like (31.62) with ф§ = ec /N, is that
N/2ysn = NWSsn ^ °2lsc(r), s = 1, . . . , S, (31.65)
where Ssn is the PSP corresponding to season s and Jsc(r) is a Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and not a Brownian motion as in the seasonal random walk case. Note that, as indicated by, for example, Phillips (1987) or Perron (1992), this diffusion process is generated by the stochastic differential equation
dJsc(r) = cJsc(r)dr + dWs(r),
so that
and Jsc(0) = 0.
Applying results given by Phillips (1987), and following analogous steps to those underlying Section 3.1, yields:
T,* . . s=u
J2c(r)dr
where Jsc(r) and Ws(r), s = 1,…, S, are independent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and standard Brownian motions, respectively. Similarly, the f-statistic converges to
(Ф* – )
J 2c(r)dr
A more detailed analysis appears in Chan (1988, 1989), Perron (1992), Rodrigues (2000b) and Tanaka (1996). The result in (31.69) is the asymptotic power function for the DHF f-test. It is straightforward to observe that the distributions in (31.21) and (31.22) are particular cases of (31.68) and (31.69) respectively with c = 0.
The examination of the HEGY procedure in a near seasonally integrated framework is slightly more involved. As indicated by Rodrigues (2000b), ( 1 – (1 + n )L4) can be approximated by,
The results provided by Jeganathan (1991), together with the orthogonality of the regressors in the HEGY test regression, yield the distributions of the HEGY statistics in the context of a near seasonally integrated process. Rodrigues (2000b) establishes the limit results for the HEGY test regression. One important result also put forward by Rodrigues (2000b) is that the distributions are still valid when we allow different noncentrality parameters for each factor in (31.70).
We have considered only the simple seasonal random walk case, which was used to present the general properties of seasonally integrated processes. It should be noted, however, that the effect of nonzero initial values and drifts on the distributions of the seasonal unit root test statistics can easily be handled substituting the standard Brownian motions by demeaned or detrended independent Brownian motions.
Among other issues not considered are the implications of autocorrelation and mean shifts for unit root tests. The first is discussed in detail in Ghysels ef al. (1994), Hylleberg (1995), and Rodrigues and Osborn (1999). It is known that strong MA components can distort the power of these procedures. To a certain extent, however, these distortions can be corrected by augmenting the test regression with lags of the dependent variable.
The negative impact of mean shifts on the unit root test procedures, was noted by Ghysels (1991). Recently, Smith and Otero (1997) and Franses and Vogelsang
(1998) have shown, using artificial data, that the HEGY test is strongly affected
by seasonal mean shifts. This led Franses and Vogelsang to adapt the HEGY
test so as to allow for deterministic mean shifts (Smith and Otero also present
relevant critical values for the HEGY procedure in this context).
* We would like to thank three referees for their valuable comments.
1 The proof of the result appears in the Appendix to the companion working paper Ghysels, Osborn, and Rodrigues (1999).
2 Notice that the unit roots of a monthly seasonal random walk are:
1 -1, ±Ь л (1 ± V3 i), л (1 ± V3 і), л ( V3 ± i), і ( л/3 ± i).
The first is, once again, the conventional nonseasonal, or zero frequency, unit root. The remaining 11 seasonal unit roots arise from the seasonal summation operator 1 + L + L2 + … + L11 and result in nonstationary cycles with a maximum duration of one year. As can be observed, this monthly case implies five pairs of complex roots on the unit circle.
3 The reparameterization of the regressors proposed for monthly data by Beaulieu and Miron (1993) is typically preferred because, in contrast to that of Franses (1991), the constructed variables are asymptotically orthogonal.
4 Once again, due to the definition of his F-type statistic, the Kunst (1997) percentiles have to be divided by 4 to be comparable with those of Ghysels et al. (1994). In the monthly case, the Kunst values have to be divided by 12 for comparison with Taylor (1998). Since these percentiles are obtained from Monte Carlo simulations, they will not be identical across different studies.
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Merkle agency specialists noticed that Google is testing a new format for price expansion in product listings.
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As noted in Merkle, this format of displaying information about the discount allows you to save space in the ad and show other extensions (free delivery, product rating). In addition, it helps to increase CTR ads and highlight company offers among competitors' ads.
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According to Mueller, geographic targeting uses factors such as ccTLDs or Search Console settings.
For geotargeting we use mostly the ccTLD or search console setting, so place the server.
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The Botany Bay Medallion
Stories About Australia's Early History
Posts Tagged ‘hanging’
TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD – THOMAS BARRETT
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
‘He [ Barrett] may have been the maker of the Botany Bay Medallion…a skilfully engraved metal medallion inscribed with a relief description of the voyage dated 20 January 1788 and a representation of the Charlotte at anchor in Botany Bay. Mollie Gillen, Founders of Australia, Library of Australian History, Sydney, 1990
1788 – February 27, Sydney Cove: Thomas Barrett was the first person hanged in European Australia. A plague on the corner of Harrington and Essex Street in Sydney’s Rocks area marks Barrett’s fleeting presence in and dramatic exit from Australia.
Barrett fashioned the ‘Botany Bay Medallion’ AKA the ‘Charlotte Medal from a ‘silver coloured metal kidney dish’ belonging to Dr. John White who, as Chief Medical Officer would have certified Barrett’s death. See: From Here to Eternity
White an excellent medical administrator was nevertheless a flawed character exemplified by the controversy over the Watling Collection of paintings that remains currrant to this day.
Tags: botany bay medallion, charlotte medal, crime and punishment, death penalty, hanging
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A VICIOUS CIRCLE – THE HANGMAN’S NOOSE
‘The death penalty was brought to Australia with the First Fleet’. Mike Edwards, The Hanged Man, The Life and Death of Ronald Ryan, 2002.
1788 – 18/20 January, Botany Bay: About 750 (570 male and 193 female) of England’s convicted criminals, reprieved death on condition they be sent into exile, reached Botany Bay in the middle of January 1788; among them Thomas Barrett, Henry Lavell, Joseph Hall and John Ryan.
‘In determining the daily ration no distinction was drawn between the marines and the convicts…the standard adopted was that of the troops serving in the West Indies’. Wilfrid Oldham, Britain’s Convicts to the Colonies, Library of Australian History, Sydney 1990
1788 – 26 January, Sydney Cove: The fleet relocated nine (9) miles (14km) north to Sydney Cove on the 26th of January.
1788 – 27 January: ‘The landing of a part of the marines and [male] convicts took place the next day, and on the following, the remainder [of the men] disembarked’. Marine Captain Watkin Tench, Sydney’s First Four Years, ed. F.L. Fitzhardinge, Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1961
1788 – 27 February, Sydney: One (1) month later – 27 February – Barrett, Lavell, Hall and Ryan stood beneath‘ a large tree fixt as a gallows’.
Britain’s invasion and colonisation of New Holland brought Australia’s First Nations starvation, disease and a racist caste system based on colour. Well practised retribution was meted out when any dared to challenge the predators who stole their land and plundered their resources.
‘Imagine if we had suffered the injustices and then were blamed for it’. Paul Keating Redfern Speech, Paul Keating, 10 December 1992.
Although the myriad injustices that followed Britain’s invasion and dispossession stand in plain sight, because of widespread ignorance in mainstream non-Aboriginal Australia, they go largely unrecognised and unacknowledged, even if acknowledged, the First Australians are ‘blamed it’.
Tags: convicts, crime and punishment, First Fleet, gender inbalance, hanging, Thomas Barrett, transportation, women
CATCH 22 – JAMES FREEMAN
Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
James Freeman – ‘Hang or be Hanged’.
Extract showing a pardon on condition of becoming the public executioner. Dated 1 March 1788, signed by Governor Arthur Phillip.
‘For here was an opportunity of establishing a Jack Ketch who Should, in all future Executions, either Hang or be Hanged’. Dr John White, Chief Medical Officer, First Fleet Journal.
Friday 29th February of 1788 shaped as another busy day for the infant colony’s’ criminal court. It was decided, after the long drawn-out dramas of the previous two (2) days, as well as to avoid Sydney’s intense midday sun and drenching humidity, court would convene earlier than usual. See: Blind Man’s Bluff
At 8 am convicts James Freeman and William Shearman, accused the previous day of stealing from government stores, were the first to appear in the dock. Both were found guilty but while Shearman was sentenced to 300 lashes Freeman was condemned to death the execution to take place that same day.
Next to appear George Whitaker, Daniel Gordon and John Williams charged with stealing eighteen (18) bottles of wine. Whitaker was discharged but Gordon and Williams, both Afro – Americans, were found guilty and sentenced to hang with Freeman.
Tags: convicts, crime and punishment, executioner, First Fleet, hanging, jack ketch
ACT 2: BLIND MAN’S BLUFF – A DOUBLE BILL- HALL & LAVELL
‘The arm of a large tree was fixt upon as a gallows’. Arthur Bowes Smyth, Surgeon Lady Penrhyn, First Fleet Journal, Australian Documents Library, 1979
1788 – 27 February, Sydney Cove: On that day four (4) convicts John Ryan, Thomas Barrett, Henry Lavell and Joseph Hall were accused ‘on shaky evidence’ of robbing or conspiring to rob food from the government storehouse. Found guilty all were sentenced to death with the execution to take place later that day.
Tags: convicts, crime and punishment, First Fleet, Fort Denison, hanging, pinchgut
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY – THOMAS BARRETT
‘The death penalty was brought to Australia with the First Fleet. Mike Richards, The Hanged Man, The Life and Death of Ronald Ryan, 2002
One (1) month after disembarking from the ‘First Fleet’ Thomas Barrett was hanged.
His execution was public theatre staged to instil terror into all spectators; be they convict, soldier, sailor or the silent, unseen locals – The First Australians.
A small plaque at the corner of Harrington and Essex Streets in Sydney’s Rocks area marks Barrett’s fleeting presence in Australia.
‘The arm of a large tree was fixed upon as a gallows’. Arthur Bowes Smyth Surgeon Lady Penrhyn, Journal ed. Fidlon and Ryan, Australian Documents Library, 1979
1788 – 27 February, Sydney Cove: Thomas Barrett a convict aged about 30 years, was accused on ‘shaky evidence’ in company with three (3) others – Henry Lavell, Joseph Hall and John Ryan- of stealing from government stores.
‘In determining the daily ration no distinction was drawn between the marines and the convicts…the standard adopted was that of the troops serving in the West Indies’. Wilfrid Oldham, Britain’s Convicts to the Colonies, Library of Australian History, 1990
It is a matter of record the day before – 26th – they received their full ration.
Nevertheless at twelve (12) noon the four (4) men appeared before a hastily convened court. Found guilty as charged and sentenced to death the execution was to take place before nightfall. (more…)
Tags: botany bay medallion, charlotte medal, convicts, crime and punishment, First Fleet, hanging, Thomas Barrett, transportation
KETCH CONNECTION: THOMAS BARRETT SYDNEY 1788 – MICHAEL BARRETT LONDON 1868 – ROBERT RYAN MELBOURNE – 1967
‘The death penalty was brought to Australia with the First Fleet’. Mike Richards, The Hanged Man, The Life and Death of Ronald Ryan, 2002.
Tags: convicts, crime and punishment, death penalty, First Fleet, hanging, Thomas Barrett
INVASION – 1775 1783 1788 – CONTEXT
Criminals – Australia's Founding Fathers
First Fleet
Gender Imbalance
Second Fleet
Aborigines arthur phillip astronomer beheading Bligh Bryant captain cook chronometer convicts crime and punishment empire escapees First Fleet first peoples french gender inbalance Governors hanging HMS Sirius HMS Supply Invasion John Harrison john macarthur L'Astrolabe La Boussole La Perouse mabo Major Grose mary bryant Mary Putland navigation nevil maskelyne Phillip Gidley King provisions rebellion rum second fleet slavery smallpox spearing starvation the hulks Thomas Barrett transportation women
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Tiger Temple, or Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, is a Buddhist temple in Western Thailand which keeps numerous animals, among them several tame tigers that walk around freely once a day and can be petted by tourists.
The Theravada Buddhist temple is located in the Saiyok district of Thailand’s Kanchanaburi province, not far from the border with Myanmar, along the 323 highway. It was founded in 1994 as a forest temple and sanctuary for numerous wild animals. In 1995, they received the Golden Jubilee Buddha Image, made of 80kg of gold.
In 1999 the temple received the first tiger cub; it had been found by villagers and died soon after. Several tiger cubs were later given to the temple, typically when the mothers had been killed by poachers. As of 2004, three cubs had been born at the temple and the total number of tigers was ten.
Mek — Cloud 7 May 1999 Male
Phayak — Tiger 7 May 1999 Male
Phayu — Storm 25 June 1999 Male
Saifa — Lightning 25 June 1999 Male
Sairung — Rainbow 26 Sep 1999 Female
Chomnapha — Great Sky 15 Oct 1999 Female
Saengtawan — Sunshine 2 Feb 2000 Female
Darika — Starlet born in Temple of Saifa and Saengtawan 23 Feb 2003 Female
Hernfa — Skywards born in Temple of Saifa and Saengtawan 23 Feb 2003 Male
Famai — New Sky born in Temple of Saifa and Saengtawan 1 June 2003 Male
These Corbetts Tigers spend most of the time in cages, being fed with dog food and washed and handled by monks. Once a day, they are led on leashes to a nearby quarry, where they can roam around freely. Tourists may observe this from some 10m away, and may even pet one of the tigers. So far, there has been one serious attack on a tourist.
The temple collects donations in order to build a larger tiger sanctuary which would allow the animals to live in an almost natural environment all day long, with plans to release some of the animals back into the wild.
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Foo Fighters Cap Off The Exciting New Intersect Music Festival
Derrick Lee, 1 week ago 0 10 min read
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LAS VEGAS, NV- Stepping into the music festival ring for the first time can be a daunting proposition, but if you have the clout, and the resources, your first time up to bat can be a momentous score especially if you are an entity as large as Amazon Web Services (“AWS”). From high tech, state of the art, stage production to a star-studded line-up of top-notch talent, AWS and it’s production partner Production Club hosted the first-ever Intersect Music Festival.
For $259 ($99 if you were lucky enough to score last-minute discounted tickets), you had the chance to see an amazing line-up of acts, spanning the genres, including performances by Chvrches, Gessafelstein, Beck, Kacey Musgraves, Anderson .Paak and Foo Fighters. Of the 36 recording artists slated to perform, Blurred Culture was able to catch 18 of them.
CLICK THE PHOTO For More JAPANESE BREAKFAST @ Intersect Music Festival
My peers have been raving about Japanese Breakfast for a minute now, so I was very excited to see Michelle Zauner and company do their thing to kick off the music on the second day of Intersect.
I really enjoyed Japanese Breakfast’s shoegaze sprinkled indie rock. Michelle’s deceptively delicate vocals had enough edge to give each song, even the bedroom pop ones, a bit of a bite. The fuzzy guitar licks went big when they needed to, and I thought that their music played well in such a large room. They included a performance of a cover of The Cranberries’ “Dreams”, which was cute for its recognition factor, but I’ll be honest … I personally liked them performing their original material better.
While some of the emotional gravitas in the lyrics would have had more impact in a smaller or more intimate venue, I thought that this was a very solid showing, especially if you weren’t familiar with the band or their music. I was impressed.
CLICK THE PHOTO For More NONOTAK @ Intersect Music Festival
NONOTAK studio is the collaboration between the illustrator Noemi Schipfer and the architect musician Takami Nakamoto who create immersive art installations fusing light and music. They had two installations on display in the Experience tent, and I felt it necessary to check out their live performance as well. After the visual display during Gesaffelstein’s performance the other day, I felt like it Nontak’s performance would have a high bar to reach.
Most of the live videos I have seen of NONOTAK online seem to have them performing within lighting. Either surrounded by walls of light amongst projections. This performance seemed to take a slightly different approach, with the LED screen behind them emitting synchronized pulses of light that were choreographed to their beats.
With their backs to the screen, I noticed that Noemi was constantly looking over her shoulders to make sure, I assume, that everything was synched up. With them facing the audience, I really didn’t get to see them working their tools, and I really wanted to see Takami create music, who in all of the video I previewed online ahead of the festival, is wildly animated and intense.
CLICK THE PHOTO For More SPOON @ Intersect Music Festival
Spoon always puts on a good show, and they did so again at Intersect. They played their most popular songs including “Indie Out”, “The Underdog”, “Hot Thoughts”, “Do You” and “I Turn My Camera On”. They’ve recently added a cover of John Lennon’s “Isolation” to their repertoire, and it was the first time I’ve heard them perform that song.
Other than the cover, there weren’t any deep cuts or surprises in their set. It was a set filled with songs that any Spoon fan would enjoy and songs that could possibly find new fans. That’s the proper recipe for a festival outing, and when they the closed their set playing the garage rock-leaning “Rent I Pay”, and had their lead singer, Britt Daniel, wail out the final “And if that’s your answer, no I ain’t your dancer,” we didn’t need him to be, because the crowd was already dancing.
CLICK THE PHOTO For More LEON BRIDGES @ Intersect Music Festival
I love the way Leon Bridges’ sound is style is evolving. At one point during his Coming Home album cycle, I questioned whether his was a career that would follow in the Charles Bradley or Lee Fields path. Now, I absolutely love Charles and Lee, but for such a young artist, I hoped that he would take some risks with his sophomore effort, and really reach to find a wide audience, kind of like what Kacey did.
Leon’s sophomore album Good Thing did that just. Good Thing, in my humble opinion, still has those “classic” vibes the define Coming Home, but it also has fantastic production value, with a distinctly modern edge. The soul vibes are strong on this album, bordering on neo-soul, with some disco and funk moments sprinkled here and there. Good vibes all around.
With the words “Good Thing” illuminated in huge LED fonts behind him, Leon was able to get those good vibes to easily manifest on the stage during the performance. His confident swag gave his soulful crooning an additional level of veracity.
CLICK THE PHOTO For More THUNDERCAT @ Intersect Music Festival
It’s always a sonic adventure when you catch a Thundercat (nee Stephen Bruner) gig. He’s one of my two favorite bassists ever (the other being Victor Wooten), and it’s a guaranteed trip in another atmosphere whenever he starts to play. His melding of everything … jazz, funk, blues, hip-hop, soul … is a revelation and the way his plays and manipulates is 6 string bass is otherworldly. At times it can be overwhelming… but overwhelming in the best possible way. A flurry of notes that you can’t imagine are really being played even though it’s happening right in front of you.
Accompanied by Dennis Hamm on keys, and (I think because I couldn’t actually see him because the room was so dark) Justin Brown on drums, Thundercat took us on what was essentially a 40-minute jam session of his work. I thought there were a few songs that I wasn’t familiar with (or at least not on the vinyl albums in my collection).
But the music aside, perhaps the most noteworthy moment of the performance was when Thundercat casually announced that his next album is almost done. Something his fans have been waiting patiently for close to two years.
CLICK THE PHOTO For More BRANDI CARLILE @ Intersect Music Festival
In what was surely a disappointment for many fans in attendance, Brandi Carlile’s Intersect performance was significantly truncated due to her suffering from a bout of laryngitis. Brandi’s 50-minute set was cut to just a little under 20 minutes.
But Brandi, being the wonderful human being that she is, gave what she could given the circumstances, and performed what I thought were perfect renditions of “Every Time I Hear That Song, “Hard Way Home” and “The Eye”. She admitted that they were the “easy” songs to sing, but she still sounded lovely.
Ironically enough, the highlight of the performance wasn’t actually by Brandi. In between “Hard Way Home” and “The Eye”, she gave the stage to her longtime bandmates, twin Phil and Tim Hanseroth. They took on Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” and did an extremely admirable job on the number with pristine two-part harmonies. I appreciated it and spying on Brandi who stood in the wings, I could tell that she appreciated it too.
CLICK THE PHOTO For More ANDERSON PAAK @ Intersect Music Festival
Not only has Anderson .Paak released three fantastic albums- his latest being his 2019 LP Ventura– but he has the innate ability to bring the joie de vivre in those albums to life with his stage show. It’s not often we find a lead singer who spends a large portion of time on stage behind a drum kit. Phil Collins, Don Henley … even the soon to be addressed Dave Grohl .. all got their start behind a kit, but they eventually took center stage in front of their instrument when given the chance to front their own projects.
Anderson .Paak embraces the experience to perform while seated at his drums. While he would often leave drumming duties to the alternate drummer on stage so he could sing and strut the stage, he always came back to the top of the elevated platform to whack out some insane drum riff, all the while smiling for the whole world to see. And when he was away from his kit, he still had the rhythm of the music pulsing through his body, as he danced and strutted the width of the stage.
The Free Nationals, the band he plays with, were also seriously on point. The performed cuts from every album in Anderson’s repertoire, and even did a surprising- at least to me- cover of “Suede” off of his Yes, Lawd! collaboration with NxWorries and Knxwledge. I can only imagine how difficult it can be to keep up with the energy and spirit that Anderson oozes, but his players were on point every step of the way. He gave them moments to shine during extended jams throughout the set.
Foo Fighters @ Intersect Music Festival 12/7/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Scoring the Foo Fighters as the festival’s grand finale was, in my humble opinion, quite a feat. First, I was surprised that Dave and company would do this one-off as I had heard (and Dave confirmed at the show) that they were currently working on a new album. I deal with recording artists on a regular basis, and it’s not often I can get any of them to leave a studio to handle other business while in a creative state. Second, while I’m sure AWS paid a pretty penny to get the commitment, having as exciting a marquee name like the Foo Fighters top your bill not only gives the event cachet but also a legitimacy that tells possible competition that you aren’t messing around. Intersect was basically proclaiming, “Only top-shelf here, baby.”
Foo Fighters @ Intersect Music Festival 12/7/19. Setlist.
Having spent a lot of 2019 on the road hitting up the festival circuit, Foo Fighters’ setlist was as polished as could be. “All My Life”, “Learn To Fly”, “Times Like These”, “Best Of You”, “Everlong”… their setlist was a veritable “best of” from their entire repertoire, and their hardcore fans (fans who rushed the festival grounds when doors opened, and faithfully stayed up at the front of the rails all day to get a front-row view) sang along to every songe, rapt with glee.
Though I had seen video clips of Dave taking the drums to let Taylor Hawkins take lead vocal duties on a cover of Queen’s “Under Pressure”, it was a treat fantastic to see happen live. I’ve been a fan of Taylor’s non-Foos projects. His self-titled, debut album Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders is a very underrated album, and watching him turn on the front-man charm, on such an iconic song, was a real treat.
Also plentiful on the interwebs are impromptu moments when Dave engages the crowd to have some lucky fan join the band on stage to jam out for a song. That didn’t happen at Intersect though. Dave Invited someone to the stage … but it wasn’t to rock out on a song. It was to chug a beer (a Coors Light, apparently) with Dave! Before “Big Me”, Dave shotgunned a brew with a “big boy” wearing a Santa cap, who, as Dave quickly noted, wasn’t getting down the chimney this year. After pounding the beer, Dave wiped his face with the Santa Cap. Hilarious. Yet another footnote in Foo Fighters’ concert history.
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Tag Archives: MIAA
Like Fish
Posted on November 23, 2010 by Kelvin Leave a comment
Continuing with this latest theme of high school sports championships, I wrapped up my weekend for the Herald with the MIAA Division 1 Swim Dive Championships over at Harvard’s Blodgett Pool. It was loud, hot and humid in there, so there were plenty of enthusiastic teammates on the deck to liven up the otherwise solitary scenes of lone swimmers in the water.
I had a full slate of assignments ahead of me for the Herald, so unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to stick around for any of the championship rounds. From what it sounded like in that confined space for the preliminary rounds, I’m sure it was crazy!
11.21.2010 — BOSTON — New Bedford teammates cheer on Sara Rivard in the 100 Yard Butterfly at Harvard's Blodgett Pool in the MIAA Division I Swim and Dive Championships on Nov. 21, 2010.
11.21.2010 — BOSTON — Acton-Boxborough's Zoe Judd begins to open up a lead during the 100 Yard Freestyle at Harvard's Blodgett Pool in the MIAA Division I Swim and Dive Championships on Nov. 21, 2010.
11.21.2010 — BOSTON — Andover's Rachel Moore competes in the 100 Yard Butterfly with a state record-setting performance at Harvard's Blodgett Pool in the MIAA Division I Swim and Dive Championships on Nov. 21, 2010.
11.21.2010 — BOSTON — A teammate cheers on Brookline's Nan Wang in the 100 Yard butterfly at Harvard's Blodgett Pool in the MIAA Division I Swim and Dive Championships on Nov. 21, 2010.
11.21.2010 — BOSTON — Andover's Ashlee Korsberg opens up a lead in the 200 Yard IM at Harvard's Blodgett Pool in the MIAA Division I Swim and Dive Championships on Nov. 21, 2010.
Soccer Ballin’
So it’s high school sports championship season — usually a time of year when I get to shoot a lot of sports for the Boston Herald. And it happens three times a year!
This installment of championship action comes from the state soccer finals in Worcester, where I had two games — D2 and D3 — on the docket. Here’s a little rundown from Saturday’s games.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Concord-Carlisle defender Bennet Simonton tries for a bicycle kick with his back to Nipmuc midfielder Kelly Rooney in the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 2 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010. Concord-Carlisle won, 2-1.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Concord-Carlisle midfielder Zach Bloom shields Nipmuc midfielder Peter Clark in the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 2 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010. Concord-Carlisle won, 2-1.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Concord-Carlisle defender Stowe Simonton steals a loose ball against Nipmuc midfielder Kelly Rooney in the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 2 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010. Concord-Carlisle won, 2-1.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Concord-Carlisle's bench rushes the field after beating Nipmuc, 2-1, to win the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 2 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Lenox goalkeeper Andrew Bravo stuffs a shot attempt from Dover-Sherborn forward Sam Jordan in the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 3 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010. Dover-Sherborn won, 2-0.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Dover-Sherborn defender Chris Crowley gets caught up in traffic against Lenox in the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 3 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010. Dover-Sherborn won, 2-0.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Dover-Sherborn forward Cam Bielski gestures to the crowd after assisting on the second goal against Lenox in the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 3 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010. Dover-Sherborn won, 2-0.
11.20.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Dover-Sherborn forward Cam Bielski is mobbed by teammates after beating Lenox, 2-1, to win the MIAA Boys Soccer Division 3 Championship on Nov. 20, 2010.
Softball State Champs
Posted on June 22, 2010 by Kelvin Leave a comment
Continuing with my high school sports marathon day from Saturday, here’s a selection of photos from the MIAA Division 2 Softball championship between Hudson and Stoneham. It wasn’t exactly a close game, but what put Hudson ahead was their defense, which always makes for good photos.
There was also some interesting backstories on this team, too, from the starting pitcher celebrating her birthday and the catcher hitting her first career home run.
6.19.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Hudson catcher Micehelle Serrantino tags out Stoneham first baseman Gia Ruczkowski at home in the second inning of the MIAA Division 2 state final on June 19, 2010.
6.19.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Hudson catcher Michelle Serrantino is congratulated by coach Steven Martin after hitting a 2-run home run, the first of her career, against Stoneham in the third inning of the MIAA Division 2 state final on June 19, 2010.
6.19.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Hudson center fielder Jasmin Volpe can't get to a bloop single from Stoneham in the MIAA Division 2 state final on June 19, 2010.
6.19.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Hudson second baseman Sarah Caragian breaks up the double play attempt on Stoneham second baseman Colleen O'Quinn in the MIAA Division 2 state final on June 19, 2010.
6.19.2010 — WORCESTER, Mass. — Hudson starting pitcher Jurnee Serating-Ware, facing, is mobbed by teammates after closing out her win against Stoneham in the MIAA Division 2 state final on June 19, 2010.
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July 12, 2015 rossgradyamy, amy winehouse, charlie stross, grateful dead, rebel flag, soccer, world cup2 Comments
The struggle to post more than once a week is real, I tell ya. Last Saturday (our nation’s birthday) I spent grappling with the Singular Endless Computing Project that is WXDU. But I also found time (as documented previously) to eat a hot dog & tater tots because America.
At nightfall we drove out to the boonies to wish Jenks & Elysse well on the occasion of their wedding. Useful tip: Every wedding party would be substantially improved by amateur backyard fireworks displays. Mark that down. A+++
I didn’t (and still haven’t) listen to any of the “Grateful Dead” farewell shows from Chicago. I never much cared for Bobby’s songs even when Jerry was alive, and I don’t really see the point of paying attention to the remnants of that band now that Jerry has been dead for 20 years.
(My curiosity has been piqued a little bit by Will Hermes’s coverage in Rolling Stone, and even moreso by Lee Ranaldo’s report from the front lines. NYCTaper has two of the three shows up for download, so maybe one day.)
Nevertheless, nostalgia & the zeitgeist demanded some Grateful Dead. I gave away my tape collection decades ago, but nowadays there’s the internet. I had a hankering for a good “Franklin’s Tower,” which is how, thanks to Google, I wound up at headyversion.com, a site where Deadheads attempt to settle the age-old debates over which shows featured the best versions of which songs via simple up-or-down vote.
Consensus suggested the October ’76 shows in Oakland, so it was off to archive.org. Be sure to scroll down & read the comments, as they are a remarkably accurate representation of any/all parking lot or dorm room Deadhead discussion.
My love/hate relationship with live Dead recordings goes back to high school, nearly 30 years, and all of those mixed feelings were brought into extra-sharp relief by this show, which features some exceptional highs scattered in amidst copious quantities of the wretchedness that every Dead hater loves to carp on.
I lapsed into a bit of a Twitter reverie:
I’m not a Deadhead, but I’ve owned & listened to a *lot* of Grateful Dead. It’s impressive how terrible they were so much of the time.
— Ross Grady (@rossgrady) July 5, 2015
Even a live set widely considered sublime/classic is typically like 80% painful slovenly garbage playing & wretched singing.
And yet that other 20% somehow hits whatever sweet spot is necessary to keep one listening through the rest of it. — Ross Grady (@rossgrady) July 5, 2015
Or OK realistically like 95%/5%? — Ross Grady (@rossgrady) July 5, 2015
My friend Bo stepped in & summed it up remarkably well:
@rossgrady all of the covers sound like they are in a practice room figuring out how to play the song
— Bo Williams (@mrboboto) July 5, 2015
@rossgrady it’s impressive that they played those songs so many times and still made them sound fresh, maybe by just being bad at it
I kept listening, though. Some things just get so baked into your brain that there’s no point in struggling against them.
In other news: Confederate flags are coming down all over parts of the South, going up in 10x strength all over other parts of the South. Harper Lee’s pre-Mockingbird debut novel, in which an older Atticus Finch turns out to be a reactionary racist, is finally published.
I haven’t read it, and I’m not going to read it (hell, as far as I can recall, I haven’t even read To Kill a Mockingbird), but it’s remarkably topical, if the reviews are to be believed. Near as I can tell, it’s all about how Atticus was fine with loving people of all races back in the 30s, when “everyone knew their places,” but by the mid-late 50s, he’d been spurred by the rise of the Civil Rights movement and the NAACP to choose sides. And as a white man in Alabama, he chose the only side that represented the preservation of the status quo & his own self-interest.
Today all the news is about the internecine battle between the pragmatist racists who want to take down the rebel flag to get themselves out of the spotlight & back into the comfortable shadows, and the absolutist racists who want to fly it from every pickup truck and public building in the land.
Sunday night we watched that soccer game, along with everyone else in the world. It was fun, although I was a little bit grossed out by all the cheering & “U S A !” chants from other people in the bar where we were watching. Soccer is supposed to be the sport of underdogs and weirdos, the sport that’s mocked & ignored by the “U S A !” contingent.
Plus it was embarrassing because the first half-hour of the game itself was embarrassing. I mean, I don’t know how else it could have been played, but it seemed untoward to keep racking up the points against a team who so clearly hadn’t bothered to actually show up, mentally.
There was a ton of great playing to watch, though. I just felt bad for Japan & thus was disinclined to jump up & applaud when we kept scoring ludicrous points against them.
This week I blazed through the new Charlie Stross Laundry Files novel, the Annihilation Score. Like all of the books in that series, it was pretty good. Unlike all of the books in that series, it was narrated by Mo O’brien (Bob Howard’s wife) rather than Bob. This was a welcome change, although Stross kinda struggled throughout the first half of the book to establish a voice for Mo that was substantially different from Bob’s.
Honestly, the whole series has kind of meandered slowly downhill since the Atrocity Archives, so I tackle each new book with diminished expectations. But I still read them — and enjoy them in the moment.
Last night we went to see Amy, the documentary about the decline & fall of Amy Winehouse. It was extraordinarily unpleasant to sit through, inasmuch as it kind of replicated the conditions under which she fell victim & eventually succumbed to drug addiction, alcoholism & bulimia. Lots of focus on her dysfunctional relationships & her struggles with celebrity; less & less attention paid to her art the longer the movie went on. It is in many ways as exploitative as the tabloid coverage that surrounded her when she was alive.
The filmmakers clearly intentionally used large amounts of footage of Amy entering & leaving buildings & cars under a barrage of flashbulbs & clacking shutters — it became a recurring motif throughout the second half of the movie. It was at times unbearable to watch — literally. Not the spectacle of Amy being besieged, but the actual flashing & clattering & yelling. In that sense, it was hugely effective as a device, but horrible to endure.
(I found myself thinking a lot about paparazzi, and about how digital photography has totally transformed that experience. Nobody was bothering to select angles or frame shots — they were just holding the shutter release down & shoving their cameras in her face. Were it me, I think I would devote a hefty percentage of my income to paying big burly dudes to grab & smash cameras, and settle the resulting lawsuits.)
Ultimately, I don’t think the movie did Amy justice as an artist at all, and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who isn’t already familiar with her work. But it’s a grim depiction of the life & death of a modern supercelebrity.
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Spotlight on Florence, Italy
The incredible Italian city of Florence (Firenze) fans out from the banks of the River Arno, flooding a Tuscan valley with breathtaking marble towers, terracotta domes, sculpture and art by some of the most creative minds in history.
After just a few days sightseeing here, the names Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello and Michelangelo trip off your tongue at every turn, and climbing to the tops of medieval bell towers or gazing at frescos before dinner feels as common place as a trip to Tesco.
The Medici family, who flashed their cash in Florence throughout the 14th century, funded a great deal of the culture that 21st century tourists flock to see. The artists’ egos and appetite to be considered the most accomplished Renaissance men in town brought about the rest – those guys loved a challenge.
For example, it was a 26-year-old Michelangelo who took up the challenge to carve the biblical hero David from a massive tower of marble. The challenge, which had stumped many experienced sculptors, took him two years to complete. By 1504 the six-tonne statue was positioned outside the Palazzo Vecchio (where a replica stands today). A replica also stands in Piazza Michelangelo high on a hillside overlooking the city, and the iconic nude is printed on a thousand aprons, postcards, bags, umbrellas and pens all around Italy and the rest of the world.
Where: the original statue of David was moved inside and stands on display at the Academy of Fine Art (The Accademia) in Via Ricasoli, in the north of the city.
Florence’s skyline is dominated by a 600-year-old gravity-defining cathedral dome that resulted from another creative challenge. The cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore dwarves domes the world over to this day. An icon of Florence, it was designed by mega-brain architect Filippo Brunelleschi who won a contest to top off the cathedral in style. When it was finally completed in 1436 over four million bricks had been used.
Where: Brunelleschi’s dome can be seen from almost anywhere in the city but if you dare, climb right up inside it along narrow staircases and steep ladders. Santa Maria del Firore is in Piazza del Duomo, at the heart of the city.
Florence is also as romantic as it is arty. Couples make a beeline after sightseeing to pose on the Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge), lick gelato as the sun sets and then peer at jewellery sparkling after dark in the windows of the medieval shops that are built above the River Arno. Prolong the romance by crossing the Arno into the Oltrarno quarter and getting cosy in a wine bar or traditional trattoria.
On the menu in the trattoria are satisfying Tuscan dishes such as ravioli with pear and pecorino cheese or meaty favourites like boar stew and Bistecca Fiorentina (rare T-bone steak served for two or three people).
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Kelly Pipes is a writer and editor who has worked in travel and travel publishing for the last ten years, and has enjoyed every single minute of it. Alongside other projects she shares off-beat travel news and authentic travel experiences on her own blog, Sandwagon.
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First Liberty: Supreme Court Must Review Sterling Bible Case
2 September 2016 JD
Kelly Shackelford of the First Liberty Institute wrote at the National Review that the US Supreme Court needs to review the case of court-martialed former US Marine Monifa Sterling:
Americans serving in the military lost some of their rights earlier this month when the military’s highest court ruled that a Marine has no rights under an important religious freedom law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
Shackelford explained where he believed the appeals court improperly diverged from the appropriate application of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act:
Yet in a stunning decision, the military court ruled 4–1 that RFRA did not protect Sterling’s religious expression, splitting with other federal appeals courts on two critical points of law.
First, the court held that a religious burden is “substantial” only if it concerns something important to that person’s faith. That’s wrong…
Second, the court noted that military service members can ask for accommodations from their chain of command, and said that Sterling must do so before claiming any rights under RFRA.
But RFRA does not include any requirement that a person must navigate bureaucratic mazes before getting legal protection.
In the article, Shackelford again notes the judges seemed to take a jaundiced view of Sterling because her performance was documented as poor. Yet, as noted here previously, rights are not protected only for the ideal Marine.
Michael “Mikey” Weinstein and his group have already tried to use Sterling’s case to demand the US military restrict another Airman’s religious exercise: the presence of his personal Bible on his office desk. While it wasn’t remotely related, Weinstein will continue to beat that drum as if it is, just like he continues to say Air Force rules in AFI 1-1 similarly restrict religious liberty, despite the Air Force’s own statement’s to the contrary (statements of their interpretations of the rules they wrote).
There is little doubt Sterling will remain a relatively disgraced former Marine, as her Bad Conduct Discharge will follow her wherever she goes. But the separate issue of religious exercise potentially affects not just Sterling, but every other member of the US military — and not just Christians.
The Courts, including the US Supreme Court, have long shown great deference to the US military. But Congress wrote the RFRA for the government — and did not scope it to leave the military, which is part of the government, to its own devices.
Shackelford is right: The Supreme Court does need to address this issue. Can the US Congress — which alone has the constitutional power to raise an Army — write a religious liberty law that the US military can choose to alter, ignore, or enforce as it sees fit?
tagged with afi 1-1, Bible, christian, Congress, first liberty institute, kelly shackelford, marines, mikey weinstein, Military, military religious freedom foundation, monifa sterling, MRFF, Public Expression, Religion, religious freedom, rfra, supreme court
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Almondsbury Cemetery
Gloucestershire Places of Worship
Other Places of Worship in this Area
Almondsbury, St Mary's Church
(0.35m.)
Almondsbury, Almondsbury Chapel (Demolished)
Almondsbury, Bristol Assembly Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
Awkley, The Vine Evangelical Church
Tockington, Olveston, Olveston & Tockington Methodist Church
Bradley Stoke, Almondsbury, Holy Trinity Church
Olveston, The Old Meeting House
Patchway, Almondsbury, Methodist Church (Demolished?)
Patchway, Almondsbury, St Chad's Mission Church (Demolished)
Olveston, Olveston Methodist Chapel
(1.6m.)
Olveston, St Mary's Church
Patchway, Almondsbury, Patchway Baptist Church
Note: distances (in miles) are calculated as the crow flies; it may be further by road or on foot.
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Almondsbury Cemetery, Almondsbury
Almondsbury Cemetery,
Tockington Lane,
Almondsbury, Gloucestershire.
We don't know when this Cemetery or Burial Ground was founded, but we understand it is still open.
Some notes about the history of the Cemetery will appear here in due course.
Now or formerly a Cemetery.
In most cases this will be a record of its original consecration.
This Cemetery is located at OS grid reference ST6013084593. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:
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I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Almondsbury, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.
Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) is available as a "Freedom of Information" document on the website What Do They Know. (verified 2018-10-14)
Notices of Civil Registration of Places of Worship for marriages are published in the London edition of The Gazette. Hint: search for registrations from 1998 by choosing 'Church' notices, and the option 'Registration for solemnising marriage'. (verified 2018-12-11)
The above links were selected and reviewed at the time I prepared the information, but please be aware their content may vary, or disappear entirely. These factors are outside my control.
Information last updated on 2 May 2013 at 10:24.
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You can specify either a Place, or OS Grid Reference to search for. When you specify a Place, only entries for that place will be returned, with Places of Worship listed in alphabetical order. If you specify a Grid Reference, Places of Worship in the immediate vicinity will be listed, in order of distance from the Grid Reference supplied. The default is to list 10, but you can specify How Many you want to see, up to a maximum of 100.
You can further refine your search by supplying other search terms.
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You can specify a church or chapel's Dedication, to restrict entries to those containing the term you supply as a dedication. So for instance, 'John' would return 'St John', 'St Mary and St John', 'St John the Divine' &c.
You can specify a Street address, and likewise 'George' will return George Place, St George's Street, George and Dragon, &c.
You can restrict the search to classes of Denomination. The exact denomination is always shown in the results, although the search is for broad types. So you can search for 'Methodist', but not 'Wesleyan Methodist' or 'Primitive Methodist'. 'Multi-denominational' includes Ecumenical Partnerships, and 'Miscellaneous' means anything not covered by other broad classes.
Please note the above provides a search of selected fields in the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship Database on this site (churchdb.gukutils.org.uk) only. For other counties, or for a full search of the Database, you might like to try the site's Google Custom Search, which includes full webpage content.
This site provides historical information about churches, other places of worship and cemeteries. It has no affiliation with the churches or congregations themselves, nor is it intended to provide a means to find places of worship in the present day.
Please also remember that whilst the above account may suggest that Almondsbury Cemetery remains open and accessible, this may not remain so.
Do not copy any part of this page or website other than for personal use or as given in our Terms and Conditions of Use.
You may wish to take a look at our About the Places of Worship Database page for an overview of the information provided, and any limitations which may be present.
This Report was created 20 Jan 2020 - 11:11:26 GMT from information held in the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 14 Jun 2019 at 13:31.
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"What Was In Jeremy's Egg? The Lesson of Easter from an Unlikely Child"
(By: Ida Mae Kempel)
This is a true story, the names have been changed for sake of privacy. Ida Mae Kempel is a free-lance writer from Alameda, California. This article appeared in Focus on the Family, April, 1988, and is used here by permission of the author.
3-31-99 Story of the Week Seeds from Church Within #25
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This week's SOW Seeds - #25 , contributed by: Amy Megow
[My Beloved Goddaughter] Being Easter week, I think it's rather Appropriate, don't you?
Jeremy was born with a twisted body, a slow mind and a chronic, terminal illness that had been slowly killing him all his young life. Still, his parents had tried to give him as normal a life as possible and had sent him to St. Theresa's Elementary School.
At the age of 12, Jeremy was only in second grade, seemingly unable to learn. His teacher, Doris Miller, often became exasperated with him. He would squirm in his seat, drool and make grunting noises. At other times, he spoke clearly and distinctly, as if a spot of light had penetrated the darkness of his brain. Most of the time, however, Jeremy irritated his teacher. One day, she called his parents and asked them to come to St. Teresa's for a consultation. As the Forresters sat quietly in the empty classroom, Doris said to them, "Jeremy really belongs in a special school. It isn't fair to him to be with younger children who don't have learning problems. Why, there is a five-year gap between his age and that of the other students!" Mrs. Forrester cried softly into a tissue while her husband spoke. "Miss Miller," he said, "there is no school of that kind nearby. It would be a terrible shock for Jeremy if we had to take him out of this school. We know he really likes it here." Doris sat for a long time after they left, staring at the snow outside the window. Its coldness seemed to seep into her soul. She wanted to sympathize with the Forresters. After all, their only child had a terminal illness. But it wasn't fair to keep him in her class. She had 18 other youngsters to teach and Jeremy was a distraction. Furthermore, he would never learn to read or write. Why waste any more time trying? As she pondered the situation, guilt washed over her. "Oh God," she said aloud, "here I am complaining when my problems are nothing compared with that poor family! Please help me to be more patient with Jeremy.
"From that day on, she tried hard to ignore Jeremy's noises and his blank stares. Then one day he limped to her desk, dragging his bad leg behind him. "I love you, Miss Miller," he exclaimed, loudly enough for the whole class to hear. The other children snickered, and Doris's face turned red. She stammered, "Wh-Why, that's very nice, Jeremy. Now please take your seat."
Spring came, and the children talked excitedly about the coming of Easter. Doris told them the story of Jesus, and then to emphasize the idea of new life springing forth, she gave each of the children a large plastic egg. "Now," she said to them "I want you to take this home and bring it back tomorrow with something inside that shows new life. Do you understand?" "Yes, Miss Miller!" the children responded enthusiastically -- all except for Jeremy. He just listened intently, his eyes never left her face. He did not even make his usual noises. Had he understood what she had said about Jesus' death and resurrection? Did he understand the assignment? Perhaps she should call his parents and explain the project to them.
That evening, Doris' kitchen sink stopped up. She called the landlord and waited an hour for him to come by and unclog it. After that, she still had to shop for groceries, iron a blouse and prepare a vocabulary test for the next day. She completely forgot about phoning Jeremy's parents.
The next morning, 19 children came to school, laughing and talking as they placed their eggs in the large wicker basket on Miss Miller's desk. After they completed their Math lesson, it was time to open the eggs. In the first egg, Doris found a flower. "Oh yes, a flower is certainly a sign of new life," she said. "When plants peek through the ground we know that spring is here." A small girl in the first row waved her arms. "That's my egg, Miss Miller," she called out. The next egg contained a plastic butterfly, which looked very real. Doris held it up. "We all know that a caterpillar changes and turns into a beautiful butterfly. Yes, that is new life, too" Little Judy smiled proudly and said, "Miss Miller, that one is mine." Next Doris found a rock with moss on it. She explained that the moss, too, showed life. Billy spoke up from the back of the classroom. "My Daddy helped me!", he beamed. Then Doris opened the fourth egg. She gasped. The egg was empty! Surely it must be Jeremy's, she thought, and, of course, he did not understand her instructions. If only she had not forgotten to phone his parents. Because she did not want to embarrass him, she quietly set the egg aside and reached for another. Suddenly Jeremy spoke up. "Miss Miller, aren't you going to talk about my egg?" Flustered, Doris replied, "But Jeremy - your egg is empty!" He looked into her eyes and said softly, "Yes, but Jesus' tomb was empty too!" Time stopped. When she could speak again Doris asked him, "Do you know why the tomb was empty?" "Oh yes!" Jeremy exclaimed. "Jesus was killed and put in there. Then his Father raised him up!" The recess bell rang. While the children excitedly ran out to the school yard, Doris cried. The cold inside her melted completely away.
Three months later Jeremy died. Those who paid their respects at the mortuary were surprised to see 19 eggs on top of his casket, .........all of them empty.
Dear Ever Loving Parent,
Thank you for Life... All of it's Seasons!
You ALL are Within the Infinitely Loving Embrace of our Universal Parent,
The Creator's Eternal Love, through me, to all of You,
Pastor Daniel
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Ray Yuenger
Hobbies: duplicate bridge; sticking needles in over- and under-inflated thought balloons
Conduct and Ethics Chair, District 21, since 2008
Former club director
Unit columnist since 1999 in Contract Bridge Forum and now the Diamond in the Ruff newsletter
Unit President 2008-2019, board member since 1999
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Director, that's not our understanding!
by Ray Yuenger Dec. 17, 2015
I've been wondering about a director’s authority to tell me what my partnership’s implicit understandings are. I’m aware of the Law that repeated deviations from announced understandings “lead to implicit understandings, which then form part of the partnership’s methods and must be disclosed in accordance with the regulations governing disclosure of system.” (Law 40C)
While my particular problem arose in a weak NT context, that context isn't critical to the poll questions.
The conventional 1♦ response in a weak NT context
The General Convention Chart says a “response is considered natural if in a minor it shows three or more cards in that suit and in a major it shows four or more cards in that suit.”
I try to get my partners to play a weak NT structure in which a strong NT hand opens the better minor and then either rebids 1NT or raises my suit response. To avoid wrong-siding some strong NT hands, one agreement I've found useful is a conventional 1♦ response to a 1♣ opening. To allow the strong hand to rebid 1NT opposite a marginal response, the 1♦ bid is alerted and explained upon inquiry as a hand that may have the following features:
fewer than 9 HCP,
no four-card major, and
possibly fewer than three ♦s. (For example, 964 K85 73 QJ852.)
A corollary of this convention is that with the second and third features, but 9-11 HCP, responder will bid 1NT after a 1♣ opening. (For example, K64 K85 73 QJ852.)
The "unnatural major" response to a 1♦ opening
I’ve made no agreements like the 1♦ convention with any partner after partner opens 1♦ on the way to a strong NT rebid. Nevertheless, for the same reasons behind the 1♦ convention, with a marginal hand I’ll occasionally respond (frequency discussed below) with a three-card major that contains an honor. (I’ve even done this when we aren’t playing a weak NT.)
I rationalize, if partner rebids 1NT, no harm was done, and we’re back with the field. If partner raises me, most of the time we’re in a 4-3 fit and I can ruff in the short hand.
Let’s call this kind of three-card major suit response to a 1♦ opening an “unnatural major”. Because I haven’t discussed this tendency or style with any partner, my major responses aren’t alerted like the 1♦ response is.
The director call
Let’s assume my tendency to bid an unnatural major has become pretty consistent over the last ten years I’ve played in my local club. Playing on a weekly basis, I've bid an unnatural major on the average of once every four months or roughly 5% of the time I'm responding to a 1♦ opening. One club director who is a former partner is aware of this tendency. Over the years, a few of my long-time opponents have commented on it and sometimes called the director.
A while back, I did it again while my latest partnership with a less-experienced player was just developing. She was focused on learning the 1♦ convention and other new agreements and apparently hadn’t noticed the first two times I'd made an unnatural major bid with her. (I probably ended up declaring one of them.)
When I made the bid for the third time with her, once my dummy appeared the opponents called my familiar director. My question for you is: based on what information could this director determine that my new partner and I have an implicit understanding and that, until I abandon this tendency, my partner has to alert my major responses the same as our 1♦ responses?
1. My tendency to respond with an unnatural major to a 1♦ opening cannot amount to an implicit understanding until it is significantly more frequent than one time in 20.
2. The director can’t find that we have an implicit understanding until my new partner admits she has noticed my tendency.
3. Even though my new partner hasn’t noticed my tendency, the director can find that we have an implicit understanding based on my opponent’s familiarity with my tendency.
4. Even though my new partner and the opponents haven’t identified my tendency, the director can find that we have an implicit understanding based on the director’s familiarity with my tendency.
5. The director can find an implicit understanding for other reasons. It's her club.
6. This isn't my concern, as I have no implicit understandings with any partner.
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Joint multiple quantitative trait loci mapping for allometries of body compositions and metabolic traits to body weights in broiler
X. Zhou, Y. Zhang, H. Zhang, J. Du, J. Ye, Y. Xu, R. Yang
Journal: animal , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 January 2020, pp. 1-8
In order to map quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for allometries of body compositions and metabolic traits in chicken, we phenotypically characterize the allometric growths of multiple body components and metabolic traits relative to BWs using joint allometric scaling models and then establish random regression models (RRMs) to fit genetic effects of markers and minor polygenes derived from the pedigree on the allometric scalings. Prior to statistically inferring the QTLs for the allometric scalings by solving the RRMs, the LASSO technique is adopted to rapidly shrink most of marker genetic effects to zero. Computer simulation analysis confirms the reliability and adaptability of the so-called LASSO-RRM mapping method. In the F2 population constructed by multiple families, we formulate two joint allometric scaling models of body compositions and metabolic traits, in which six of nine body compositions are tested as significant, while six of eight metabolic traits are as significant. For body compositions, a total of 14 QTLs, of which 9 dominant, were detected to be associated with the allometric scalings of drumstick, fat, heart, shank, liver and spleen to BWs; while for metabolic traits, a total of 19 QTLs also including 9 dominant be responsible for the allometries of T4, IGFI, IGFII, GLC, INS, IGR to BWs. The detectable QTLs or highly linked markers can be used to regulate relative growths of the body components and metabolic traits to BWs in marker-assisted breeding of chickens.
Brain glutathione levels and age at onset of illness in chronic schizophrenia
Yvonne S. Yang, Richard J. Maddock, Junghee Lee, Huailin Zhang, Gerhard Hellemann, Katherine L. Narr, Stephen R. Marder, Michael F. Green
Journal: Acta Neuropsychiatrica / Volume 31 / Issue 6 / December 2019
Oxidative stress is implicated in the aetiology of schizophrenia, and the antioxidant defence system (AODS) may be protective in this illness. We examined the major antioxidant glutathione (GSH) in prefrontal brain and its correlates with clinical and demographic variables in schizophrenia.
GSH levels were measured in the dorsolateral prefrontal region of 28 patients with chronic schizophrenia using a magnetic resonance spectroscopy sequence specifically adapted for GSH. We examined correlations of GSH levels with age, age at onset of illness, duration of illness, and clinical symptoms.
We found a negative correlation between GSH levels and age at onset (r = −0.46, p = 0.015), and a trend-level positive relationship between GSH and duration of illness (r = 0.34, p = 0.076).
Our findings are consistent with a possible compensatory upregulation of the AODS with longer duration of illness and suggest that the AODS may play a role in schizophrenia.
GP.06 Differential microglia and macrophage profiles in human IDH-mutant and -wildtype glioblastoma reveal therapeutic vulnerabilities
CC Poon, P Gordon, K Liu, R Yang, S Sarkar, VW Yong, J Kelly
Journal: Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Volume 46 / Issue s1 / June 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2019, p. S7
Background: Microglia and macrophages (MMs) are the largest component of the inflammatory infiltrate in glioblastoma (GBM). However, whether there are immunophenotypic differences in isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH)-mutated and -wildtype GBMs is unknown. Studies on specimens of untreated IDH-mutant GBMs are rare given they comprise 10% of all GBMs and often receive treatment at lower grades that can drastically alter MM phenotypes. Methods: We obtained large samples of untreated IDH-mutant and -wildtype GBMs. Using immunofluorescence techniques with single-cell automated segmentation, and comparison between single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) databases of human GBM, we discerned dissimilarities between GBM-associated MMs (GAMMs). Results: There are significantly fewer but more pro-inflammatory GAMMs in IDH-mutant GBMs, suggesting this contributes to the better prognosis of these tumors. Our pro-inflammatory score which combines the expression of inflammatory markers (CD68/HLA-A, -B, -C/TNF/CD163/IL10/TGFB2), Iba1 intensity, and GAMM surface area also indicates more pro-inflammatory GAMMs are associated with longer overall survival independent of IDH status. scRNA-seq analysis demonstrates microglia in IDH-mutants are mainly pro-inflammatory, while anti-inflammatory macrophages that upregulate genes such as FCER1G and TYROBP predominate in IDH-wildtype GBM. Conclusions: Taken together, these observations are the first head-to-head comparison of GAMMs in treatment-naïve IDH-mutant versus -wildtype GBMs that highlight biological disparities that can be exploited for therapeutic purposes.
Genetic and morphology analysis among the pentaploid F1 hybrid fishes (Schizothorax wangchiachii ♀ × Percocypris pingi ♂) and their parents
H. R. Gu, Y. F. Wan, Y. Yang, Q. Ao, W. L. Cheng, S. H. Deng, D. Y. Pu, X. F. He, L. Jin, Z. J. Wang
Journal: animal / Volume 13 / Issue 12 / December 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2019, pp. 2755-2764
Triploid and pentaploid breeding is of great importance in agricultural production, but it is not always easy to obtain double ploidy parents. However, in fishes, chromosome ploidy is diversiform, which may provide natural parental resources for triploid and pentaploid breeding. Both tetraploid and hexaploid exist in Schizothorax fishes, which were thought to belong to different subfamilies with tetraploid Percocypris fishes in morphology, but they are sister genera in molecule. Fortunately, the pentaploid hybrid fishes have been successfully obtained by hybridization of Schizothorax wangchiachii (♀, 2n = 6X = 148) × Percocypris pingi (♂, 2n = 4X = 98). To understand the genetic and morphological difference among the hybrid fishes and their parents, four methods were used in this study: morphology, karyotype, red blood cell (RBC) DNA content determination and inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR). In morphology, the hybrid fishes were steady, and between their parents with no obvious preference. The chromosome numbers of P. pingi have been reported as 2n = 4X = 98. In this study, the karyotype of S. wangchiachii was 2n = 6X = 148 = 36m + 34sm + 12st + 66t, while that the hybrid fishes was 2n = 5X = 123 = 39m + 28sm + 5st + 51t. Similarly, the RBC DNA content of the hybrid fishes was intermediate among their parents. In ISSR, the within-group genetic diversity of hybrid fishes was higher than that of their parents. Moreover, the genetic distance of hybrid fishes between P. pingi and S.wangchiachii was closely related to that of their parental ploidy, suggesting that parental genetic material stably coexisted in the hybrid fishes. This is the first report to show a stable pentaploid F1 hybrids produced by hybridization of a hexaploid and a tetraploid in aquaculture.
Screening of reference genes using real-time quantitative PCR for gene expression studies in Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes (Acari: Phytoseiidae)
C. Wang, J. Yang, Q. Pan, S. Yu, R. Luo, H. Liu, H. Li, L. Cong, C. Ran
Journal: Bulletin of Entomological Research / Volume 109 / Issue 4 / August 2019
A stable reference gene is a key prerequisite for accurate assessment of gene expression. At present, the real-time reverse transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction has been widely used in the analysis of gene expression in a variety of organisms. Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes (Acari: Phytoseiidae) is a major predator of mites on many important economically crops. Until now, however, there are no reports evaluating the stability of reference genes in this species. In view of this, we used GeNorm, NormFinder, BestKeeper, and RefFinder software tools to evaluate the expression stability of 11 candidate reference genes in developmental stages and under various abiotic stresses. According to our results, β-ACT and Hsp40 were the top two stable reference genes in developmental stages. The Hsp60 and Hsp90 were the most stable reference genes in various acaricides stress. For alterations in temperature, Hsp40 and α-TUB were the most suitable reference genes. About UV stress, EF1α and α-TUB were the best choice, and for the different prey stress, β-ACT and α-TUB were best suited. In normal conditions, the β-ACT and α-TUB were the two of the highest stable reference genes to respond to all kinds of stresses. The current study provided a valuable foundation for the further analysis of gene expression in N. barkeri.
Response of canopy structure, light interception and grain yield to plant density in maize
J. Li, R. Z. Xie, K. R. Wang, P. Hou, B. Ming, G. Q. Zhang, G. Z. Liu, M. Wu, Z. S. Yang, S. K. Li
Good canopy structure is essential for optimal maize (Zea mays L.) production. However, creating appropriate maize canopy structure can be difficult, because the characteristics of individual plants are altered by changes in plant age, density and interactions with neighbouring plants. The objective of the current study was to find a reliable method for building good maize canopy structure by analysing changes in canopy structure, light distribution and grain yield (GY). A modern maize cultivar (ZhengDan958) was planted at 12 densities ranging from 1.5 to 18 plants/m2 at two field locations in Xinjiang, China. At the silking stage (R1), plant and ear height increased with plant density as well as leaf area index (LAI), whereas leaf area per plant decreased logarithmically. The fraction of light intercepted by the plant (F) increased with increasing plant density, but the light extinction coefficient (K) decreased linearly from 0.61 to 0.39. Taking the optimum value of F (95%) as an example, and using measured values of K for each plant density at R1 and the equation from Beer's law, the corresponding (theoretical) LAI for each plant density was calculated and optimum plant density (9.72 plants/m2) obtained by calculating the difference between theoretical LAIs and actual observations. Further analysis showed that plant density ranging from 10.64 to 11.55 plants/m2 yielded a stable GY range. Therefore, taking into account the persistence time for maximum LAI, the plant density required to obtain an ideal GY maize canopy structure should be increased by 10–18% from 9.72 plants/m2.
In Situ Lorentz Differential Phase Contrast STEM Characterization of Rashba Interaction on Skyrmion Thin Films
B. D. Esser, A. S. Ahmed, K. Meng, J. Rowland, M. Randeria, R. K. Kawakami, F. Y. Yang, D. W. McComb
Journal: Microscopy and Microanalysis / Volume 24 / Issue S1 / August 2018
A predictive model for conversion to psychosis in clinical high-risk patients
Adam J. Ciarleglio, Gary Brucato, Michael D. Masucci, Rebecca Altschuler, Tiziano Colibazzi, Cheryl M. Corcoran, Francesca M. Crump, Guillermo Horga, Eugénie Lehembre-Shiah, Wei Leong, Scott A. Schobel, Melanie M. Wall, Lawrence H. Yang, Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Ragy R. Girgis
Journal: Psychological Medicine / Volume 49 / Issue 7 / May 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 June 2018, pp. 1128-1137
The authors developed a practical and clinically useful model to predict the risk of psychosis that utilizes clinical characteristics empirically demonstrated to be strong predictors of conversion to psychosis in clinical high-risk (CHR) individuals. The model is based upon the Structured Interview for Psychosis Risk Syndromes (SIPS) and accompanying clinical interview, and yields scores indicating one's risk of conversion.
Baseline data, including demographic and clinical characteristics measured by the SIPS, were obtained on 199 CHR individuals seeking evaluation in the early detection and intervention for mental disorders program at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center. Each patient was followed for up to 2 years or until they developed a syndromal DSM-4 disorder. A LASSO logistic fitting procedure was used to construct a model for conversion specifically to a psychotic disorder.
At 2 years, 64 patients (32.2%) converted to a psychotic disorder. The top five variables with relatively large standardized effect sizes included SIPS subscales of visual perceptual abnormalities, dysphoric mood, unusual thought content, disorganized communication, and violent ideation. The concordance index (c-index) was 0.73, indicating a moderately strong ability to discriminate between converters and non-converters.
The prediction model performed well in classifying converters and non-converters and revealed SIPS measures that are relatively strong predictors of conversion, comparable with the risk calculator published by NAPLS (c-index = 0.71), but requiring only a structured clinical interview. Future work will seek to externally validate the model and enhance its performance with the incorporation of relevant biomarkers.
Feeding corn grain steeped in citric acid modulates rumen fermentation and inflammatory responses in dairy goats
Y. Z. Shen, L. Y. Ding, L. M. Chen, J. H. Xu, R. Zhao, W. Z. Yang, H. R. Wang, M. Z. Wang
Journal: animal / Volume 13 / Issue 2 / February 2019
Cereal grains treated with organic acids were proved to increase ruminal resistant starch and can relieve the risk of ruminal acidosis. However, previous study mainly focussed on acid-treated barley, the effects of organic acid-treated corn is still unknown. The objectives of this study were to evaluate whether feeding ground corn steeped in citric acid (CA) would affect ruminal pH and fermentation patterns, milk production and innate immunity responses in dairy goats. Eight ruminally cannulated Saanen dairy goats were used in a crossover designed experiment. Each experimental period was 21 day long including 14 days for adaption to new diet and 7 days for sampling and data collection. The goats were fed high-grain diet contained 30% hay and 70% corn-based concentrate. The corn was steeped either in water (control) or in 0.5% (wt/vol) CA solution for 48 h. Goats fed CA diet showed improved ruminal pH status with greater mean and minimum ruminal pH, and shorter (P<0.05) duration of ruminal pH<5.6 and less area of ruminal pH<5.6, 5.8 and 6.0. Concentration of total volatile fatty acid and molar proportion of propionate were less but the molar proportion of acetate was greater (P<0.05) in goats fed the CA diet than the control diet. Concentration of ruminal lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was lower (P<0.05) and that of lactic acid also tended (P<0.10) to be lower in goats fed CA than the control. Although dry matter intake, actual milk yield, yield and content of milk protein and lactose were not affected, the milk fat content and 4% fat-corrected milk tended (P<0.10) to be greater in goats fed CA diet. For the inflammatory responses, peripheral LPS did not differ, whereas the concentration of LPS binding protein and serum amyloid A tended (P<0.10) to be less in goats fed CA diet. Similarly, goats fed CA diet had less (P<0.05) concentration of haptoglobin and tumour necrosis factor. These results indicated that feeding ground corn treated with CA effectively improved ruminal pH status, thus alleviated the risk of ruminal acidosis, reduced inflammatory response, and tend to improve milk yield and milk fat test.
P008: Hereditary Angioedema Rapid Triage Tool (HAE-RT): translating clinical research into clinical practice
S. Betschel, E. Avilla, S. Waserman, J. Badiou, K. Binkley, R. Borici-Mazi, J. Hebert, L. Howlett, A. Kanani, P. Keith, G. Lacuesta, W. Yang, A. Rowe, P. Waite
Journal: Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine / Volume 20 / Issue S1 / May 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2018, p. S59
Introduction: Hereditary angioedema (HAE) patients (both diagnosed and undiagnosed) commonly present to the emergency department (ED). Presenting symptoms (swelling and pain) may be erroneously attributed to common allergic and gastrointestinal conditions resulting in major delays in diagnosis and appropriate treatment. No published tools currently exist for HAE screening and management in undiagnosed disease. The overall goal of the study was to develop a HAE-RT tool for ED settings. Methods: A two-phase mixed methods approach was used to develop the HAE-RT Tool including: Phase 1: A Delphi Study [HAE specialists (N=9) and National Patient Advocacy Group Members (N=3)] was conducted to reach consensus (80% agreement) on predictor variables to include. Phase 2: A retrospective chart review was conducted to assess the predictive findings of the predictor variables. A convenient sample of patients presenting with angioedema (with and without HAE) between January 2012 January 2017 were included in the study. Results: Of the 12 experts invited, 9 (75%) participated in the Delphi study. Of 8 HAE-specific predictive variables, 4 reached consensuses including: (1) recurrent angioedema; (2) absence of urticaria; (3) past recurrent abdominal pain/swelling; (4) response to allergic therapy. The retrospective study included 85 patients (N=46 with HAE; N=39 non-HAE; overall 72% female). HAE patients were significantly more likely to have a family history of HAE (72% vs 0%; P<0.0001); previous recurrent angioedema (96%; P<0.009); present with no hives (91%; P<0.036); previous recurrent abdominal pain (80%; P<0.0001); and only 2% responded positively to allergy treatments (P<0.0001). Conclusion: Our study emphasizes the importance of key stakeholder involvement and feedback to facilitate the prioritization of important information that must be included in the design of an HAE-RT tool. The next step is to observe the effect of the HAE-RT tool on patient triage in the ED.
The changing HIV-1 genetic characteristics and transmitted drug resistance among recently infected population in Yunnan, China
M. Chen, M. H. Jia, Y. L. Ma, H. B. Luo, H. C. Chen, C. J. Yang, J. Dai, L. Yang, L. J. Dong, R. Lu, L. J. Song, Y. Han, J. Y. Lu, A. K. L. Cheung, Z. W. Chen, L. Lu
Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 146 / Issue 6 / April 2018
Multiple human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 genotypes in China were first discovered in Yunnan Province before disseminating throughout the country. As the HIV-1 epidemic continues to expand in Yunnan, genetic characteristics and transmitted drug resistance (TDR) should be further investigated among the recently infected population. Among 2828 HIV-positive samples newly reported in the first quarter of 2014, 347 were identified as recent infections with BED-captured enzyme immunoassay (CEIA). Of them, 291 were successfully genotyped and identified as circulating recombinant form (CRF)08_BC (47.4%), unique recombinant forms (URFs) (18.2%), CRF01_AE (15.8%), CRF07_BC (14.4%), subtype C (2.7%), CRF55_01B (0.7%), subtype B (0.3%) and CRF64_BC (0.3%). CRF08_BC and CRF01_AE were the predominant genotypes among heterosexual and homosexual infections, respectively. CRF08_BC, URFs, CRF01_AE and CRF07_BC expanded with higher prevalence in central and eastern Yunnan. The recent common ancestor of CRF01_AE, CRF07_BC and CRF08_BC dated back to 1983.1, 1992.1 and 1989.5, respectively. The effective population sizes (EPS) for CRF01_AE and CRF07_BC increased exponentially during 1991–1999 and 1994–1999, respectively. The EPS for CRF08_BC underwent two exponential growth phases in 1994–1998 and 2001–2002. Lastly, TDR-associated mutations were identified in 1.8% of individuals. These findings not only enhance our understanding of HIV-1 evolution in Yunnan but also have implications for vaccine design and patient management strategies.
Marshallsussmanite, NaCaMnSi3O8(OH), a new pectolite-group mineral providing insight into hydrogen bonding in pyroxenoids
Marcus J. Origlieri, Robert T. Downs, Hexiong Yang, Derek R. Hoffman, Mihai N. Ducea, Jeffrey E. Post
Journal: Mineralogical Magazine /
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 February 2018, pp. 1-35
The compensatorily-gained pigs resulted from feeding a methionine-deficient diet had more fat and less lean body mass
R. M. Humphrey, Z. Yang, M. S. Hasan, M. A. Crenshaw, D. D. Burnett, J. K. Htoo, S. F. Liao
Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Nutrition / Volume 6 / 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2018, e6
Compensatory gain describes an accelerated growth seen in animals following a period of nutrient restriction. Methionine (Met) is the second limiting amino acid in typical swine diets and is essential for muscle growth. This study was conducted to determine (1) if a Met-deficient diet can cause growth retardation in growing pigs, (2) if returning to a normal feeding can yield compensatory gain in the pigs previously fed the Met-deficient diet, and (3) if this Met-deficiency followed by the normal feeding program affects carcass characteristics. Twenty individually-penned crossbred young barrows were randomly allotted to two dietary treatments (n = 10). One Met-deficient (D1) and one Met-adequate (D2) diets were formulated based on corn and soybean meal and fed to respective pigs for 31 days. After that, all pigs were fed the same commercial grower-finisher diet until market weight (around 125 kg), then slaughtered, and carcass characteristics measured. The D1 and D2 pigs began with similar body weights (23.5 vs. 23.6 kg; P = 0.935), but after 31-days on the dietary treatments, D1 pigs were lighter than D2 pigs (51.6 vs. 55.0 kg; P = 0.102). After feeding the normal diet for 55 days, D1 and D2 pigs had similar body weights (122.7 vs. 122.6 kg; P = 0.989). In terms of carcass characteristics, however, D1 pigs had thicker back-fat (at 10th rib; 2.95 vs. 2.51 cm; P = 0.015), heavier belly weight (11.0 vs. 9.6 kg; P = 0.005), lighter ham weights (untrimmed: 20.8 vs. 21.6 kg; P = 0.043; trimmed: 19.6 vs. 20.6 kg; P = 0.016), lighter picnic shoulder weight (8.72 vs. 9.80 kg; P = 0.041), lighter total lean cut weight (51.8 vs. 53.8 kg; P = 0.055), and lower lean cut percentage (56.4 vs. 59.0%; P = 0.012). These results indicate that the Met-deficient diet produced growth-retarded pigs, which showed compensatory gain after the normal feeding. At slaughter, the pigs previously fed the Met-deficient diet had more fat and less lean tissue than their non-deficient counterparts.
Follow Up of GW170817 and Its Electromagnetic Counterpart by Australian-Led Observing Programmes
I. Andreoni, K. Ackley, J. Cooke, A. Acharyya, J. R. Allison, G. E. Anderson, M. C. B. Ashley, D. Baade, M. Bailes, K. Bannister, A. Beardsley, M. S. Bessell, F. Bian, P. A. Bland, M. Boer, T. Booler, A. Brandeker, I. S. Brown, D. A. H. Buckley, S.-W. Chang, D. M. Coward, S. Crawford, H. Crisp, B. Crosse, A. Cucchiara, M. Cupák, J. S. de Gois, A. Deller, H. A. R. Devillepoix, D. Dobie, E. Elmer, D. Emrich, W. Farah, T. J. Farrell, T. Franzen, B. M. Gaensler, D. K. Galloway, B. Gendre, T. Giblin, A. Goobar, J. Green, P. J. Hancock, B. A. D. Hartig, E. J. Howell, L. Horsley, A. Hotan, R. M. Howie, L. Hu, Y. Hu, C. W. James, S. Johnston, M. Johnston-Hollitt, D. L. Kaplan, M. Kasliwal, E. F. Keane, D. Kenney, A. Klotz, R. Lau, R. Laugier, E. Lenc, X. Li, E. Liang, C. Lidman, L. C. Luvaul, C. Lynch, B. Ma, D. Macpherson, J. Mao, D. E. McClelland, C. McCully, A. Möller, M. F. Morales, D. Morris, T. Murphy, K. Noysena, C. A. Onken, N. B. Orange, S. Osłowski, D. Pallot, J. Paxman, S. B. Potter, T. Pritchard, W. Raja, R. Ridden-Harper, E. Romero-Colmenero, E. M. Sadler, E. K. Sansom, R. A. Scalzo, B. P. Schmidt, S. M. Scott, N. Seghouani, Z. Shang, R. M. Shannon, L. Shao, M. M. Shara, R. Sharp, M. Sokolowski, J. Sollerman, J. Staff, K. Steele, T. Sun, N. B. Suntzeff, C. Tao, S. Tingay, M. C. Towner, P. Thierry, C. Trott, B. E. Tucker, P. Väisänen, V. Venkatraman Krishnan, M. Walker, L. Wang, X. Wang, R. Wayth, M. Whiting, A. Williams, T. Williams, C. Wolf, C. Wu, X. Wu, J. Yang, X. Yuan, H. Zhang, J. Zhou, H. Zovaro
Journal: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia / Volume 34 / 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2017, e069
The discovery of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave signal has generated follow-up observations by over 50 facilities world-wide, ushering in the new era of multi-messenger astronomy. In this paper, we present follow-up observations of the gravitational wave event GW170817 and its electromagnetic counterpart SSS17a/DLT17ck (IAU label AT2017gfo) by 14 Australian telescopes and partner observatories as part of Australian-based and Australian-led research programs. We report early- to late-time multi-wavelength observations, including optical imaging and spectroscopy, mid-infrared imaging, radio imaging, and searches for fast radio bursts. Our optical spectra reveal that the transient source emission cooled from approximately 6 400 K to 2 100 K over a 7-d period and produced no significant optical emission lines. The spectral profiles, cooling rate, and photometric light curves are consistent with the expected outburst and subsequent processes of a binary neutron star merger. Star formation in the host galaxy probably ceased at least a Gyr ago, although there is evidence for a galaxy merger. Binary pulsars with short (100 Myr) decay times are therefore unlikely progenitors, but pulsars like PSR B1534+12 with its 2.7 Gyr coalescence time could produce such a merger. The displacement (~2.2 kpc) of the binary star system from the centre of the main galaxy is not unusual for stars in the host galaxy or stars originating in the merging galaxy, and therefore any constraints on the kick velocity imparted to the progenitor are poor.
Remodelling of primary human CD4+ T cell plasma membrane order by n-3 PUFA
Yang-Yi Fan, Natividad R. Fuentes, Tim Y. Hou, Rola Barhoumi, Xian C. Li, Nicolaas E. P. Deutz, Marielle P. K. J. Engelen, David N. McMurray, Robert S. Chapkin
Cell membrane fatty acids influence fundamental properties of the plasma membrane, including membrane fluidity, protein functionality, and lipid raft signalling. Evidence suggests that dietary n-3 PUFA may target the plasma membrane of immune cells by altering plasma membrane lipid dynamics, thereby regulating the attenuation of immune cell activation and suppression of inflammation. As lipid-based immunotherapy might be a promising new clinical strategy for the treatment of inflammatory disorders, we conducted in vitro and in vivo experiments to examine the effects of n-3 PUFA on CD4+ T cell membrane order, mitochondrial bioenergetics and lymphoproliferation. n-3 PUFA were incorporated into human primary CD4+ T cells phospholipids in vitro in a dose-dependent manner, resulting in a reduction in whole cell membrane order, oxidative phosphorylation and proliferation. At higher doses, n-3 PUFA induced unique phase separation in T cell-derived giant plasma membrane vesicles. Similarly, in a short-term human pilot study, supplementation of fish oil (4 g n-3 PUFA/d) for 6 weeks in healthy subjects significantly elevated EPA (20 : 5n-3) levels in CD4+ T cell membrane phospholipids, and reduced membrane lipid order. These results demonstrate that the dynamic reshaping of human CD4+ T cell plasma membrane organisation by n-3 PUFA may modulate down-stream clonal expansion.
Change in FK506 binding protein 5 (FKBP5) methylation over time among preschoolers with adversity
Stephanie H. Parade, Justin Parent, Kantoniony Rabemananjara, Ronald Seifer, Carmen J. Marsit, Bao-Zhu Yang, Huiping Zhang, Audrey R. Tyrka
Journal: Development and Psychopathology / Volume 29 / Issue 5 / December 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 November 2017, pp. 1627-1634
FK506 binding protein 5 (FKBP5) alters stress response system functioning, and childhood maltreatment is associated with methylation of the FKBP5 gene. Yet it is unknown if maltreatment contributes to change in FKBP5 methylation over time. The current study draws upon a sample of 231 preschoolers, including 123 with child welfare documentation of moderate to severe maltreatment in the past 6 months, to understand if maltreatment contributes to change in FKBP5 methylation over a 6-month period. Review of child protection records and semistructured interviews in the home were used to assess maltreatment and exposure to other contextual stressors, as well as service utilization. Methylation of FKBP5 at two CpG sites in intron 7 was measured from saliva DNA at the time of initial study enrollment, and 6 months following enrollment. Child maltreatment was associated with change in FKBP5 methylation over time, but only when children were exposed to high levels of other contextual stressors. Service utilization was associated with increases in methylation over time, but only among children with the FKPB5 rs1360780 protective CC genotype. Methylation of FKBP5 is sensitive to stress exposure and may be a mechanism linking early adversity to long-term health and developmental outcomes.
Dynamic stress-related epigenetic regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene promoter during early development: The role of child maltreatment
Justin Parent, Stephanie H. Parade, Laura E. Laumann, Kathryn K. Ridout, Bao-Zhu Yang, Carmen J. Marsit, Ronald Seifer, Audrey R. Tyrka
Epigenetics processes may play a vital role in the biological embedding of early environmental adversity and the development of psychopathology. Accumulating evidence suggests that maltreatment is linked to methylation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene, nuclear receptor subfamily 3, group C, member 1 (NR3C1), which is a key regulator of the hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal axis. However, prior work has been exclusively cross-sectional, greatly constraining our understanding of stress-related epigenetic processes over time. In the current study, we examined the effect of maltreatment and other adversity on change in NR3C1 methylation among at-risk preschoolers to begin to characterize within-child epigenetic changes during this sensitive developmental period. Participants were 260 preschoolers (3–5 years old, 53.8% female), including 51.5% with moderate to severe maltreatment in the past 6 months. Child protection records, semistructured interviews, and parent reports were used to assess child stress exposure. Methylation of exons 1D and 1F of NR3C1 via saliva DNA were measured at two time points approximately 6 months apart. Results indicate that maltreated children evidence higher baseline levels of NR3C1 methylation, significant decreases in methylation over time, and then at follow-up, lower levels of methylation, relative to nonmaltreated preschoolers. Findings from the current study highlight the complex nature of stress-related epigenetic processes during early development.
Stress exposure and psychopathology alter methylation of the serotonin receptor 2A (HTR2A) gene in preschoolers
Stephanie H. Parade, Andrew M. Novick, Justin Parent, Ronald Seifer, Samantha J. Klaver, Carmen J. Marsit, Asi Polly Gobin, Bao-Zhu Yang, Audrey R. Tyrka
Serotonin signaling pathways play a key role in brain development, stress reactivity, and mental health. Epigenetic alterations in the serotonin system may underlie the effect of early life stress on psychopathology. The current study examined methylation of the serotonin receptor 2A (HTR2A) gene in a sample of 228 children including 119 with child welfare documentation of moderate to severe maltreatment within the last 6 months. Child protection records, semistructured interviews in the home, and parent reports were used to assess child stress exposure, psychiatric symptoms, and behavior. The HTR2A genotype and methylation of HTR2A were measured at two CpG sites (–1420 and –1224) from saliva DNA. HTR2A genotype was associated with HTR2A methylation at both CpG sites. HTR2A genotype also moderated associations of contextual stress exposure and HTR2A methylation at site –1420. Contextual stress was positively associated with –1420 methylation among A homozygotes, but negatively associated with –1420 methylation among G homozygotes. Posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder symptoms were negatively associated with methylation at –1420, but positively associated with methylation at –1224. Results support the view that the serotonin system is sensitive to stress exposure and psychopathology, and HTR2A methylation may be a mechanism by which early adversity is biologically encoded.
Acute and chronic cold exposure differentially affects the browning of porcine white adipose tissue
Y. Gao, N. R. Qimuge, J. Qin, R. Cai, X. Li, G. Y. Chu, W. J. Pang, G. S. Yang
Journal: animal / Volume 12 / Issue 7 / July 2018
Piglets are characteristically cold intolerant and thus susceptible to high mortality. However, browning of white adipose tissue (WAT) can induce non-shivering thermogenesis as a potential strategy to facilitate the animal’s response to cold. Whether cold exposure can induce browning of subcutaneous WAT (sWAT) in piglets in a similar manner as it can in humans remains largely unknown. In this study, piglets were exposed to acute cold (4°C, 10 h) or chronic cold exposure (8°C, 15 days), and the genes and proteins of uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1)-dependent and independent thermogenesis, mitochondrial biogenesis, lipogenic and lipolytic processes were analysed. Interestingly, acute cold exposure induced browning of porcine sWAT, smaller adipocytes and the upregulated expression of UCP1, PGC1α, PGC1β, C/EBPβ, Cidea, UCP3, CKMT1 and PM20D1. Conversely, chronic cold exposure impaired the browning process, reduced mitochondrial numbers and the expression of browning markers, including UCP1, PGC1α and PRDM16. The present study demonstrated that acute cold exposure (but not chronic cold exposure) induces porcine sWAT browning. Thus, browning of porcine sWAT could be a novel strategy to balance the body temperature of piglets, and thus could be protective against cold exposure.
The prevalence, age-of-onset and the correlates of DSM-IV psychiatric disorders in the Tianjin Mental Health Survey (TJMHS)
H. Yin, G. Xu, H. Tian, G. Yang, K. J. Wardenaar, R. A. Schoevers
Journal: Psychological Medicine / Volume 48 / Issue 3 / February 2018
To effectively shape mental healthcare policy in modern-day China, up-to-date epidemiological data on mental disorders is needed. The objective was to estimate the prevalence, age-of-onset (AOO) and sociodemographic correlates of mental disorders in a representative household sample of the general population (age ⩾ 18) in the Tianjin Municipality in China.
Data came from the Tianjin Mental health Survey (TJMHS), which was conducted between July 2011 and March 2012 using a two-phase design. 11 748 individuals were screened with an expanded version of the General Health Questionnaire and 4438 subjects were selected for a diagnostic interview by a psychiatrist, using the Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual – fourth edition (SCID).
The lifetime and 1-month prevalence of any mental disorder were 23.6% and 12.8%, respectively. Mood disorders (lifetime: 9.3%; 1-month: 3.9%), anxiety disorders (lifetime: 4.5% 1-month: 3.1%) and substance-use disorders (lifetime: 8.8%; 1-month: 3.5%) were most prevalent. The median AOO ranged from 25 years [interquartile range (IQR): 23–32] for substance-use disorders to 36 years (IQR: 24–50) for mood disorders. Not being married, non-immigrant status (i.e. local ‘Hukou’), being a farmer, having <6 years of education and male gender were associated with a higher lifetime prevalence of any mental disorder.
Results from the current survey indicate that mental disorders are steadily reported more commonly in rapidly-developing urban China. Several interesting sociodemographic correlates were observed (e.g. male gender and non-immigrant status) that warrant further investigation and could be used to profile persons in need of preventive intervention.
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Aw Geesh
Best of luck, Amy, and I hope they can cure it completely
The news that Amy Mickelson has breast cancer stunned and saddened the sports world and put the playing schedule of her husband, 36-time PGA Tour winner Phil Mickelson, on hold indefinitely.
A brief statement released Wednesday morning by Gaylord Sports, Mickelson’s management company, said: “More tests are scheduled, but the treatment process is expected to begin with major surgery, possibly within the next two weeks.”
Mickelson withdrew from this week’s HP Byron Nelson Championship and has suspended his Tour schedule indefinitely, which casts doubts on whether he’ll play the U.S. Open at Bethpage Black on Long Island June 18-21. Mickelson became an East Coast favorite at the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage, where he finished second to Tiger Woods. In 18 U.S. Open tries, he’s finished runner-up four times, most recently at the 2006 Open at Winged Foot, but he’s never won the event.
I pray they caught it quickly enough.
People | tree hugging sister | May 21, 2009 7:44 am | Comments (2)
Presbyterian Update: Terror Plot Broken Up
Oops, sorry, I meant “Man-Caused Disaster Averted”
The FBI and NYPD busted a four-man homegrown terror cell Wednesday night that was plotting to blow up two Bronx synagogues while simultaneously shooting a plane out of the sky, sources told the Daily News.
The idea was to create a “fireball that would make the country gasp,” one law enforcement said.
Little did they know the plastic explosives packed into their car bombs and the plane-downing Stinger missile in their backseat were all phony – supplied by undercover agents posing as Pakistani militants linked to Al Qaeda.
And why was this MCD plotted?
“They wanted to make a statement,” a law enforcement source said. “They were filled with rage and wanted to take it out on what they considered the source of all problems in America – the Jews.”
The group’s alleged ringleader, James Cromitie, according to the complaint, discussed targets with an undercover agent. “The best target [the World Trade Center] was hit already,” he allegedly told the agent. Later, he rejoiced in a terrorist attack on a synagogue.
“I hate those motherf—–s, those f—ing Jewish bastards. . . . I would like to get [destroy] a synagogue.”
A great note of thanks to the FBI and other law enforcement folks involved in averting this. Any other info on these Presbyterians?
Sources said the four men were arrested after a year-long investigation that began when an informant connected to a mosque in Newburgh said he knew men who wanted to buy explosives.
…The suspects – three U.S.-born citizens and one Haitian immigrant – at least three of whom were said to be jailhouse converts to Islam, were angry about the deaths of Muslims in Afghanistan, sources told The News.
You don’t say. Well, neither does CNN. To their credit MSNBC, ABC News and CBS all mention that seemingly relevant information.
World Stuff | tree hugging sister | 6:32 am | Comments (10)
The Mets Play In Flushing
Here’s the proof
A hapless Mets fan tried to make a diving catch when her gold tooth fell into a Citi Field toilet — and got her arm stuck in the commode.
The unidentified woman’s bizarre Flushing adventure happened during last Wednesday’s game against the Atlanta Braves, sources said yesterday.
It’s unclear how long she was trapped screaming in the john, but stadium security guards and emergency medical personnel eventually showed up.
But they could not pry her loose on their own.
There’s no word on whether she stepped on third.
(via HotAir)
Fun | tree hugging sister | May 20, 2009 2:20 pm | Comments (5)
President Obama Has “Tough” Negotiations With The Somali Envoy
…about Piracy
Fun | tree hugging sister | 7:11 am | Comments (1)
This Is Pretty Cool
The “Missing Link” has perhaps been found
Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.
This 95%-complete ‘lemur monkey’ is described as the “eighth wonder of the world”
The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years – but it was presented to the world today at a special news conference in New York.
The discovery of the 95%-complete ‘lemur monkey’ – dubbed Ida – is described by experts as the “eighth wonder of the world”.
They say its impact on the world of palaeontology will be “somewhat like an asteroid falling down to Earth”.
Researchers say proof of this transitional species finally confirms Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, and the then radical, outlandish ideas he came up with during his time aboard the Beagle.
If this turns out to be true I’m sure there will be many folks who will proclaim that this “proves” religion to be false, but it does nothing of the sort. I have a strong Christian faith but I’ve never had any problem with evolution or science in terms of them being “incompatible” with my religion.
I can see the Almighty trying to figure out a way to explain molecular biology to the ancient Hebrews and thinking “you know, I better go with the Genesis bit…”
World Stuff | tree hugging sister | May 19, 2009 10:57 am | Comments (18)
House Speaker To Step Down
Sadly, it’s the House Of Commons’ Speaker
Michael Martin is set to announce he will stand down as Commons Speaker in a statement to MPs at 1430 BST.
Mr Martin has been criticised over his handling of the furore over MPs’ expenses and a motion of no confidence in him has been backed by 23 MPs.
He also faced open challenges to his authority in the Commons on Monday.
It is understood he plans to step down “soon” rather than immediately. It is the first time in 300 years a Speaker has been effectively forced out.
Well, it’s a start.
Politics | tree hugging sister | 7:36 am | Comments (4)
And That’s Why They Play the Game
Because you can’t be THAT stoopid and a millionaire doing anything else…unless you’re Paris Hilton.
When the Super Bowl XLIII champion Pittsburgh Steelers make their trip to the White House Thursday, one of the players largely responsible for their victory over the Arizona Cardinals says he won’t be attending.
Linebacker James Harrison said he’ll pass on the invite from President Barack Obama.
…”This is how I feel — if you want to see the Pittsburgh Steelers, invite us when we don’t win the Super Bowl.
As far as I’m concerned, he [Obama] would’ve invited Arizona if they had won,” said Harrison.
Fun | Mr. Bingley | 7:31 am | Comments (5)
Totally uninspired today, so I will leave you to contemplate the glory that was the Battlecruiser.
Is it the weekend yet?
Life | tree hugging sister | 7:00 am | Comments (2)
Well, That’s Sad
The Hawk Checks Out
May 18, 2009: The American carrier, USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), after a four month delay, was finally decommissioned in Bremerton, Washington on May 13th. The Kitty Hawk served for 48 years and 13 days.
That name is an instant memory flash every time. I can immediately smell the wet heat of a Subic Bay afternoon and the shippy stink of the old girl, her naked flight deck broiled and baked in the sun.
I’d been at Dungaree Beach when her birds flew off and then overhead on their way to Cubi Point NAS (the end of the runway was directly behind me). What an incredible, exhilarating, deafening twenty minutes that was! The section flights of Tomcats and Intruders at full throttle, each trying to outdo the previous with the snap of their banks and the precision of their formation. All, I swear to God, at what seemed to be about 100 feet off the deck. Flippin’ rippled the water around my knees.
And then she came into the mouth of the bay, making her way majestically to the waiting tugs, their fire hoses spraying a mad welcome, like a hundred city fountains gone berserk.
A day later, a couple of us had wangled a tour. One of my most persistent memories is catching the tips of my fingers in the chain links that pass for railings in the narrow stairwells ~ the same chain links that the ship’s crew slid up and down like they were greased firepoles. One of those skills you pick up, I guess. Inside, she was cramped, smelly, dangerous for both head and shin…and amazing. She hummed with life in port, even with half her crew out in town and the rest trying to work through the hangovers. It was my first taste of a living ship ~ a vastly different experience than the USS North Carolina in her museum stillness.
Some of the guys with me had been out on her when our sister squadron had done carrier work-ups, so that made the tour a little more personal. They dragged me to where the Marines are berthed and, sure as shittin’, there was arresting gear stuff running under the racks, in a not-so-subtle bit of Navy “take that”. The cable, as you can imagine, runs damn near twenty-four-seven during ops, so, as a Marine, even if your time on deck is over? You get treated to the cable being pulled out and rewound in your sleep.
When at last I got back out on deck, the heat hitting my face like a mugging and blinking at the brilliant light, I witnessed the most indelible memory maker of the whole couple hours. With all the birds at Cubi, the flight deck was just bare naked acres of bubbling, oozing asphalt and aviation fluid spills, heat shimmers and mirages. Dantesque. All I could think about was my flip-flops melting on my way to the boarding ladder. Or worse ~ getting glued to the deck, pulling off mid-stride and my bare puddies…oh, ick. Mentally shaking myself not to act like such a ‘girl’, I glanced up at the stern. And there, in the middle of that primordial morass, was a sailor. Sunbathing. In his skivvies. Laying on a miniscule white military towel (for the uninitiated: a couple inches larger than a kitchen towel), with his overhanging, unprotected calves and shoulders on the festering deck, a ball cap under his skull and the fumes of his profession rising around him like a curtain. Complete with tiny boombox nestled on a plastic sack.
That’s what I remember about the USS Kitty Hawk.
Sleep well, old girl. And thank you.
Military Thingies | tree hugging sister | May 18, 2009 10:29 am | Comments (9)
Yes, Yes We Cancun
A room with a flu
Hotels in Mexico’s coastal resort of Cancún, one of the world’s most popular getaways, are adopting extreme measures as holidaymakers scramble to cancel bookings in the wake of the swine flu scare.
Visitors to one hotel, The Royal, are being offered a “flu-free guarantee”: anyone who contracts the flu virus within 14 days of checking out gets three free annual holidays.
Discounts abound elsewhere in Cancún, where Bestday, a Mexican-based internet broker, says four in five of the 31,000 hotel rooms it monitors in the city – and in the Riviera Maya coast to the south – are empty. The figure was one in five before the outbreak.
I’m sure their bookings were already down due to the economic mess.
World Stuff | tree hugging sister | 6:57 am | Comments (1)
It’s 10 P.M.
Do you know where your kids are?
TIJUANA, Mexico — The bodies of four U.S. citizens were found strangled, beaten and stabbed in a van in this border city, two days after they reportedly left their Southern California homes for a night at the Mexican clubs, U.S. officials said Thursday.
The victims, ages 19 to 23 years old, were found tied up on Saturday, but their deaths were not reported earlier because they were under investigation, said Fermin Gomez, an assistant state prosecutor in Baja California.
For God’s sake, stay on the north side of the border, kiddies.
Humanity...or the Lack Thereof | Mr. Bingley | May 15, 2009 11:07 am | Comments (6)
TARP: Taxpaying Americans Rear-ended Purposely
In times like these, it’s good to know who’s on your side. We can eliminate a couple agencies, Congress and the President right off the bat, thanks to articles like this. And recent testimony from bail-out-ees like AIG’s Liddy, which tells us more about the AIG machinations than we EVER wanted to know. Basically “The Fed made me do it!” Do what, you ask? Overpay to close out AIG’s credit default swaps, perhaps?
..Counterparties received 100 cents on the dollar for the CDOs, even though the prices paid by the Federal Reserve suggest that the bonds were actually worth 47 cents on the dollar.
“The latest admission from the (defunct yet living) company [AIG] is that well over $100 billion in taxpayer monies has gone to counter-parties at 100 cents on the dollar – no haircut, no penalty, no cost to those who made bad bets or chose their counter parties poorly,” notes Barry Ritholz, one of the sharpest minds on Wall Street who runs the must-read website the Big Picture Typepad.
I watched David Faber from CNBC go after this yesterday morning. He notes $180B of taxpayer moneyto AIG and asks how much went “NOT to bail out AIG, but it’s counterparties?…When the Fed went in and AIG took the money and closed out these credit default positions, why did it do so at par, when many of them were trading at steep discounts and could therefore have been unwound at numbers that would have been a lot less cost” to AIG and, ergo, the American taxpayer. Faber was listening when AIG’s Liddy testified before Congress Wednesday and was asked that exact question…and the answer to that is just horrific.
Liddy: “The FEDERAL RESERVE decided that we should pay a hundred cents on the dollar…that a hundred cents on the dollar should be paid in the settlement..”
Congressman Issa (R-CA): “But these were credit default swaps that I could have bought for a fraction of that on the open market, to the extent that somebody was floating them at the time, right? So we paid more than their current value at the time we paid them off.”
Liddy: “I believe that’s what the FEDERAL RESERVE decided was in THE BEST INTEREST OF THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM.”
Note to self: Geithner was the NY Fed president during all this. Another interesting footnote: Goldman Sachs was one of the beneficiaries of the Fed’s generous repayment policies in our name. For starters, ‘interesting’ because…
..Even more intriguing is Geithner’s informal brain trust, loaded with Wall Street luminaries. Since coming to the Fed in November 2003-recruited by then-New York Fed chairman Pete Peterson, co-founder of the Blackstone Group-Geithner has learned the ways of the financial industry at the feet of some of its biggest legends. He was almost immediately taken under the wing of Gerald Corrigan, a gregarious former New York Fed chief who is now a managing director of Goldman Sachs.
…especially when you consider…
…Digging deeper, it was likely Paulson who orchestrated the entire show and made the decision to pay claims at par, knowing that it would be a simple yet effectively hidden manner of further re-capitalizing Wall Street (and Goldman) without pesky questions from Congress. We have been told there were 4 attendees at the meeting to decide AIG’s fate: Paulson, Lloyd Blankfein (CEO of Goldman Sachs), B-52 and Geithner. That is Paulson’s crew, and any decisions emanating from this meeting are ultimately his responsibility, no matter how it is spun to Congress months later.
If I thought money in the mattress would do any good, I’d say go for it.
But the way things are now, it won’t be even be worth the effort to stuff it.
Politics | Mr. Bingley | 9:36 am | Comments (3)
Spending Is Bad, M’Kay?
…says the man who’s spent more than anyone, ever
May 14 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.
“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”
Holders of U.S. debt will eventually “get tired” of buying it, causing interest rates on everything from auto loans to home mortgages to increase, Obama said. “It will have a dampening effect on our economy.”
This is the guy who is currently spending $150 for every $100 of projected revenue.
With all due respect…what an ass.
“Most of what is driving us into debt is health care, so we have to drive down costs,” he said.
No, it’s rampant, out-of-control-drunken-sailor spending by the bastards in government, on both sides of the aisle.
As Stewie Says: “This is So Deliciously Evil…”
“…it HAS to be fattening!”
Hoyer Declines to Back Up Pelosi’s Claim That CIA Misled Congress
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer does not vouch for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s accusation against the CIA.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s deputy in the House declined to back her up on her stunning claim Thursday that the CIA misled Congress about its use of enhanced interrogation techniques.
Rep. Steny Hoyer, the House majority leader, panned the recent criticism of Pelosi as a “distraction” during a verbal tangle with Republican Whip Eric Cantor on the House floor.
But when asked directly whether he shares Pelosi’s belief that the CIA misled Congress, he backed off.
“I have no idea of that. I don’t have a belief of that nature because I have no basis on which to base such a belief,” Hoyer said. “And I certainly hope that’s not the case. And I don’t draw that conclusion.”
Politics | Mr. Bingley | May 14, 2009 7:31 pm | Comments (8)
Bailing out the Chinese
DETROIT (AP) – As thousands of General Motors workers await word on more U.S. plant closures, reports that the company plans to import Chinese-made vehicles to the U.S. have created a political problem for the automaker and the White House.
The reports, which GM will neither confirm nor deny, could mean trouble because GM is supported by $15.4 billion in U.S. government loans, largely due to the Obama administration’s desire to preserve the company’s 90,000 U.S. jobs.
The United Auto Workers charged last week that the Detroit automaker intends to almost double over the next five years the number of vehicles it imports to the U.S. from Mexico, South Korea, China and Japan.
“GM should not be taking taxpayers’ money simply to finance the outsourcing of jobs to other countries,” Alan Reuther, the union’s Washington lobbyist, wrote in a letter to U.S. lawmakers.
Pinch me hard sweet baby jeebus, because I find myself agreeing with the UAW.
I also feel like barfing.
Politics | tree hugging sister | 7:54 am | Comments (10)
Oh, NOOOEESSSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The fourth picture. Can’t be. C.A.N’.T.
…Dobby?!?!?!
Fun | Mr. Bingley | May 13, 2009 11:07 am | Comments (1)
You Said “Engage Auto Pilot”?
Silly me! I thought you said Eroto-Pilot
LOS ANGELES — A helicopter pilot who was videotaped receiving oral sex from a woman as he flew her around San Diego acted so recklessly that his license must be revoked, the National Transportation Safety Board said. The actions of David Martz were so dangerous, the NTSB concluded in a written ruling, that they put the lives of everyone on his aircraft and on the ground below him in danger.
…In rejecting his appeal, the NTSB said both Martz and the woman unfastened their safety restraints during the flight and that her body blocked his access to controls vital to operating the aircraft in an emergency.
Let the jokes begin.
Update: We have an exclusive photo from inside the helicopter:
“The basic rule of thumb is simple: Don’t stick things in your mouth if you don’t know what they are.”
Be ye president or peasant ~ truly words to live by.
Fun | tree hugging sister | 8:43 am | Comments Off on Quote of the Day
Since Woman Was Made From Adam’s Rib
(Or so they tell me) it seemed only fitting that I make some fine swine baby backs for my Bride for Mother’s Day…9 pounds worth
these porcine suckers were large enough
that I figured it was best if I cut them in half
and then coat them with the dry rub
then on to the smoker
for 3-4 hours of hickory-steeped pollution infusion!
Finger-lickin’ good.
Swill Food and Grog | Mr. Bingley | 7:25 am | Comments (8)
Why Cut Spending
…When you can tax fun?
If you make big bucks — or enjoy alcohol, cigarettes and Coke — the government might hit you up to pay for fixing the nation’s health care system.
On Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee peeked into vending machines and liquor stores, company payrolls and health savings accounts, looking for a mix of tax increases and spending cuts as a way to pay for a health overhaul — which could cost more than $1.5 trillion over 10 years.
…People who like the tax-free status of their company health benefits could be asked to ante up. Money in the pot: more than $700 billion over 10 years.
Treasure the tax benefits from your health savings account? Some experts say the accounts encourage “excess consumption” of health services — and committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) agreed they’re worth a look. Money in the pot: $60 billion over 10 years.
What encourages “excess consumption” of health services is making them free.
Update: And of course I see the Fearster was on this yesterday.
Oh well, that will teach me to go out of town for a few days…
Nanny State | Mr. Bingley | 6:30 am | Comments (7)
WHERE Do They GET This?
The Obama administration is defending its claim that the $787 billion economic stimulus plan will save or create 3.5 million jobs before 2011…
From the economic school of: “There is no spoon problem.”
Politics | tree hugging sister | May 12, 2009 8:25 am | Comments (5)
So, While We All Know
…this is true…
…”Blaming George” still makes a tingle run up the legs of all the hymn-singing true believers, but outside the embrace of the cult, that tingle is beginning to sting instead.
This is Mr. Obama’s government now.
…the bet’s on when they finally admit it.
I say they try to take the…
…Anticipating D-Day, Peter Orszag, the president’s budget director, said Monday that the scarier than expected economic news – the deficit out of control, tax receipts down and costs of bailouts and “stimulus” plans up – is all the fault of George W. Bush:
“It’s an economic crisis President Obama inherited.“
…line clean through at least 2010, especially if things go as south as they’re looking to right now.
In Light of the Critical Eye
…turned to the LOUSY Airforce One photo, I’d like to remind all what a REAL military aviation photo looks like.
Military Thingies | tree hugging sister | May 11, 2009 5:14 pm | Comments (5)
I Really Needed This On Friday
Swill Food and Grog | Mr. Bingley | May 10, 2009 11:02 am | Comments (7)
Hey Paco
If Oscar ever needs someone to talk to…
Fun | Mr. Bingley | 10:55 am | Comments (3)
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Review: Grayson Vol. 1: Agents of Spyral hardcover/paperback (DC Comics)
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Honestly, when I read the first two full issues collected in Grayson Vol. 1: Agent of Spyral, I wondered what all the fuss was about. This was clearly a better-than-average comic book, and writers Tim Seeley and Tom King were doing a fine job with their portrayal of former Nightwing Dick Grayson, but it wasn't a book I was falling over myself for.
But oh, that third issue. And then the Futures End tie-in issue, which I'm going to predict now will be the very best Futures End tie-in issue I read, quite beside the fact that it's a fantastic issue all on its own.
I had concerns about Grayson when I finished reading Nightwing Vol. 5: Setting Son. I do not have concerns about Grayson any more. At just four regular issues plus a Secret Origins story and the Futures End issue, the only flaw in Grayson Vol. 1: Agent of Spyral is that it's over too quick, and now we're left waiting six months before we can get our hands on the next volume.
[Review contains spoilers]
Again, the first two issues of Grayson are good, if not necessarily ground-breaking. In the first, Dick squares off against Midnighter, always a good time, and in the second, Dick and partner "Matron" Helena Bertinelli apprehend a woman who eats people, in a story with a quasi-X-Files tone. Seeley and King certainly capture the weird, wacky, ominous vibe of Spyral from Grant Morrison's Batman Incorporated; I had worried about the writers' portrayal of Batman, but his interactions with Dick are clever and touching; and Mikel Janin's art is spot-on -- not as "out there" as art in other of DC Comics's "Divergence" books like Batgirl, Detective Comics, or Gotham by Midnight, but neither so workmanlike as some of the less-notable New 52 titles. In all, a satisfactory first outing.
But that third issue, "The Gun Goes Off." At the fore, the writers have violence and humor and sex, demonstrating Grayson as a self-aware book with maturity. But then the story continues, tackling guns in many iterations -- violence, gun control, the specific resonances guns have in the Batman mythos. If Grayson were just a high-flying spy book, it might be easily dismissible, but between the emotions the writers imbue Dick with in his stand-off with the Old Gun -- "Please. I don't want this." -- and then the crushing ending, this is an issue that reveals Grayson as a comic with power.
That continues to the Futures End issue, with art by Stephen Mooney. The story unfolds backwards, Memento-style, but the reader's experience with the book will be very fluid -- I found myself understanding a new fact, flipping back, flipping forward again, re-reading parts, comparing them, and so on. But it's not just the storytelling, and it's not just the peek into Dick Grayson's future. The writers use what might be a burdensome tie-in to unpack a significant amount about Dick Grayson, and about Batman and Robin, including some of the best explanations I've read for by Batman doesn't kill and why Robin wore such bright colors. I see new things in this issue every time I read it, including -- just now -- realizing that every single page in this issue is its own "story" taking place in its own time period. Genius.
(Forgive me, but I did have to question Seeley and King positing Cluemaster as a Robin Dick Grayson-era villain. It's not entirely clear to me, but I was under the impression Batman Eternal was Cluemaster's first outing?)
It speaks volumes for the book, for the writers, and especially for artist Janin that the early scene in issue three can be that sexual and sexy without being gratuitous, exploitative, or immature. Indeed, this creative team could teach a master class in "how to do sex right in comics" (an accolade I would also convey on Joshua Hale Fialkov and Andrea Sorrentino for I, Vampire). It's equally impressive that the team can embrace without vacillation Dick Grayson's own status as a sexual icon; the book's fourth chapter is essentially an homage to "sexy Grayson." The writers even go so far, in the Futures End issue, to suggest Dick has some attraction to Batman (and out of the mouth of Batgirl, no less!). It's presented in such a way that readers can imagine it wherever on the sexual spectrum they want, but I thought it was a good sign that DC Comics had loosed the reigns enough where this kind of thing could get through.
Even as we're still pre-Convergence, when we talk post-Convergence books I thought Detective Comics Vol. 6: Icarus was enjoyable but not necessarily ground-breaking; in Grayson Vol. 1: Agent of Spyral, however, I can see the signs of really positive things in DC Comics's future. Despite my initial hesitations, Tim Seeley and Tom King have won me over. Dare I say "Nightwing who?"
[Includes original and variant covers, house ad, series pitch, pencilled pages, cover designs, and character sketches (whew!)]
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Zach King 6/15/2015 10:08:00 AM
Without spoiling too much of Batman Eternal, Cluemaster has been operating since before "Night of the Owls," though he was regarded as a forgettable B-list villain.
But yes, that Futures End issue was bloody brilliant.
collectededitions 6/15/2015 10:26:00 AM
Literally, I get new stuff every time I read it (or maybe I'm just slow on the uptake). Like, I found the "secret" on the first page but then I'm thinking, "But that doesn't tell us how he's going to get to ... Oh," because then I recognized the panels that echoed the other panels later on. So in some sense the story could be suggesting Dick's end is his beginning, except it's not really the end but even so.
I think I've read that issue forward and backward several times. I love how each page is just as important as the next, whether dropping a clue, establishing a theme, or slowly revealing the steps of the Dick/Helena relationship.
collectededitions 6/15/2015 04:28:00 PM
And why Robin wears bright colors! And Dick Grayson, supposedly the sane one of the dynamic duo, keeps "that thing" under his bed! And then Helena says this one thing and then Bruce says this other same thing but different thing, and then Batgirl says ... oh, what an issue!
I think that the biggest knock against this collection is that it's too short. It feels more like an anthology, since it's essentially the first half of an 8-issue arc. The second half plays off the previous issues really well, so it's a shame that DC split it up. But at least the fourth issue makes for a nice transition into the Futures End issue, which would have been a crime to not collect.
And it's not as though there isn't precedent for an eight-issue collection. I don't think it's a bad guess to say a deluxe edition collecting the first two volumes together might be a possibility down the road; that's good for the title but if it's the case then I'd as soon they just started there.
Cody 6/15/2015 07:05:00 PM
This makes me really excited now. I've been recently collecting a lot of New 52 trades so after I get all of Nightwing I can't wait to see Dick as a spy!
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#MooreandMe: Still Waiting at the Foot of the Tower
Posted by matttbastard on Dec 20, 2010 in Featured Articles, Sexism | 6 comments
Much has been written (and likely will be written) about #MooreandMe, the still-ongoing tweet-in convened in response to dismissive comments made last week by progressive icon Michael Moore (both on his site and via an appearance on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, which subsequently drew the bombastic MSNBC anchor into the fray) about rape allegations against Wikileaks founder (and socio-political rock star) Julian Assange. While the hashtag briefly attracted some reflexive ideological opponents to both Moore and Assange (most prominently, Mary Katherine Ham), the majority of participants keeping the tag alive appear to be progressive feminists/feminist allies who feel that both Moore (and Olbermann) have shown wanton disregard for the safety of rape survivors, and that both support for increased transparency in government and solidarity with rape survivors are not mutually exclusive stances.
This sentiment is far from universal on the mainstream feminist left, however. A schism was apparent during the at-times contentious debate that took place on Democracy Now between Naomi Wolf (who apparently has replaced her opportunistic contrarian support for all things Teabagger with opportunistic contrarian support for all things Wikileaks, cynically leveraging what’s left of her feminist credibility to try and protect Assange’s self-exposed flank with eventehfeminazi cover) and WAM! head-honcho and anti-rape advocate Jaclyn Friedman. Friedman, along with Tiger Beatdown’s Sady Doyle (who has tirelessly spent the past 5 days attempting to garner a response from Moore via the 140), created the #MooreandMe hashtag, referring to Moore’s first film, Roger & Me (in which the lefty documentarian chronicled his quixotic campaign to arrange a sit-down meeting with the then-CEO of General Motors to discuss the closing of manufacturing plants in Moore’s hometown).
Friedman, herself a rape survivor, seemed taken aback at times by the legalistic view towards sexual assault that was adopted by Wolf, who repeatedly cited her 23 years of experience counseling rape survivors to determinine what does and doesn’t equal ‘consent’ (enthusiastic or otherwise):
Wolf: Again and again and again, Assange did what Jaclyn, and everyone who cares about rape, and I, say you should do. He consulted with the women. … He stopped when women said ‘let’s talk about the condom,’ he discussed it, they reached an agreement, and they went ahead. He didn’t have sex with that woman when she was asleep. I agree that you need to be awake and conscious and not drunk to consent. We agree about that.
Friedman: He did have sex — that’s the allegation –
Wolf: Can you just bear with me?
Friedman: He started when she was asleep. That is the allegation.
Wolf: Well, you know — he started to have sex with her when she was asleep. Correct.
Friedman: And that’s rape.
Wolfe: She was half asleep. Then she woke up. Then they discussed how they would have sex, under what conditions, which is to me negotiating consent … they had a negotiation in which they both agreed not to use a condom, and then he went ahead and they made love.
Of course, it would help if Wolf would have been, y’know, completely upfront and honest about the allegations, instead of snidely repeating what is slowly becoming the Loose Change counternarrative of the pro-Wikileaks True Believer left (shorter: CIA-affiliated misandarists conspired with The Powers That Be to discredit our snowy-pated hero — as per some Holocaust denier, at least). Instead, Wolf continually and condescendingly insinuated that anyone who didn’t wrap themselves in industrial-grade tinfoil (ie, Friedman) was being “unserious” about the case (apparently offering an argument in good faith is a frivolous conceit).
Angus Johnson of Student Activism highlights and challenges the fast and loose nature of Wolf’s relationship with the facts re: specific allegations against Assange:
Let’s start by looking at the Guardian’s discussion of this incident — which is, again, the one that Wolf herself is relying on:
She had awoken to find him having sex with her, she said, but when she asked whether he was wearing a condom he said no. “According to her statement, she said: ‘You better not have HIV’ and he answered: ‘Of course not,’ ” but “she couldn’t be bothered to tell him one more time because she had been going on about the condom all night. She had never had unprotected sex before.”
So she’s asleep. Not “half asleep.” Asleep. She wakes up. He’s fucking her. He’s inside her. And what’s the “discussion” that follows? Is it initiated by him? No. Is it conducted on neutral terms? No.
It’s her asking him, while he’s fucking her, whether he’s complying with her previous explicit, non-negotiable demand that he use a condom.
And him saying he isn’t.
And continuing to fuck her.
And her giving up and letting him.
That’s the “discussion.” That’s the “negotiation.” That’s the prelude to their “making love.”
This isn’t a situation in which two people collectively negotiate the terms of consensual sex. This is a situation in which one person wants to do something, the person he’s with says no, and he waits until she’s asleep and does it anyway. Without asking. Without even telling her he’s done it until she asks him. And without stopping, once she’s awake and grilling him, to see whether what he’s doing is okay.
That’s not negotiation. That’s not discussion. That’s not ambiguous. That’s rape.
Kate Harding, responding to previous similar statements made by Wolf, is also seriously underwhelmed with Wolf’s victim-blaming-via-Authoriteh tactic:
[A]s someone who’s worked extensively with rape survivors, Naomi Wolf should damn well know better than to smear alleged victims long before all the facts are in, perpetuate a flat-out lie about the seriousness of the charges, and generally act like a cheerleader for rape culture, under the guise of someone concerned about “real” victims. Which we all know these women are not, duh, because Assange has already been tried and found not OH WAIT.
Here’s the thing: the guilt or innocence of Julian Assange, the background of his accusers, the legitimacy (or lack thereof) of the Wikileaks project, the burgeoning encroachment of the surveillance-saturated national security state — ultimately, none of this is germane to the debate. What matters is that a rape investigation involving a public figure has — yet again — been met with an inquisition in which — yet again — rape accusers find their identities spread across the internet, their sexual history questioned, their motivations analyzed under an electron microscope. In essence, when a celebrity (and, make no doubt about it, Assange’s Q ratings are through the roof) faces rape accusations, the accusers are the ones who are initially placed on trial in the court of public opinion — and that kind of mass speculation can ultimately effect both the outcome of a particular case and how future incidents involving victims of sexual violence unfold.
Ashley at SAFERCampus puts the allegations against Assange in context:
Psychologist David Lisak has been profiling rapists for years, and his work very clearly shows that the accusations in the Assange case are not “strange.” They’re in line with the way sexual violence usually happens. That is, it is usually committed by someone the victim knows, and it is usually committed by someone the victim did have some sexual interest in. These perpetrators play on the victims trust and perception that they are “good guys,” which in concert with a common tendency for self-blame, an expectation of official apathy, and a fear of community retaliation, often makes victims unwilling to pursue criminal charges.
Victims are not wrong to expect such things. In fact, here are the names of some other high-profile men who have been accused of violence against women:
William Kennedy Smith
Isaac Brock
In every case, I have heard apologetics and denial. In every case, the majority of people I’ve spoken to have believed that the alleged victim was lying. In every case, the alleged victims were harassed and threatened. In every case, the alleged rapist/batterer continued in a successful public career. That’s because people have a hard time believing that someone who seems nice, or who does work they like, could be capable of violence. And because people have a perception that women are less trustworthy than men.
I believe in openness and transparency in government. I believe that many, many rapes have occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan that we could have prevented if we had more of the transparency that WikiLeaks promotes. Widespread rape is what happens when you have a war. As an anti-violence activist and a believer in democracy, I like WikiLeaks.
But, as someone who has spent a lot of hours listening to survivors talk about their experiences of sexual violence, I also know that “good guys” who do good work can do horrific things to other people. We can support WikiLeaks as a project without supporting the culture of disbelief and victim-blaming that currently exists when it comes to sexual violence.
My ambivalence towards Assange and his role in the increasing prominence of Wikileaks as a non-state political actor is on record. But even if I wasn’t conflicted about the direction his radical, purportedly people-powered attempt to dismantle top-down organizational opacity has taken, it would not (nor should not) make any difference. I unquestioningly stand with survivors of sexual violence, regardless of who the perpetrator is. And if standing in solidarity with them makes me a usefully-idiotic agent of ‘neoliberalism’ (a hi-fuckin’-larious charge lobbed at me by serial self-Googler Will Sh*tt*rly and future remainder bin mainstay Douglas Lain, two nominally far-left SF/F writers who apparently hold no little simpering, simplistic contempt for ‘identity politics’ [sic] and oh-so bourgeois (EEK!) anti-racism, seemingly extricated directly from betwixt Marx’s buttcrack ) well, pass on over the Council on Foreign Relations membership app.
Damn right I’ll fill out the motherfucker. In triplicate.
Despite Keith Olbermann’s typically self-important post-GBCW martyr-posing, #MooreandMe is not a spectacular “anti-personist” frenzy of angry feminazis out for blood. Rather, as Boingboing.com’s Xeni Jardin noted on Twitter, the movement serves as both a “litmus test” on how we view sexual violence and an opportunity for further discussion about rape and rape culture. So many people — men and women, straight, gay, cis, trans — are now thinking, dialoguing, debating, listening as rape survivors share their stories.
Some, like Jardin, have taken the initiative and offered online infrastructure for survivors to post their experiences as part of the still-evolving You’re Not Alone project, inspired by Dan Savage’s It Gets Better anti-bullying viral video campaign. Numerous individuals have been inspired by Moore’s conspicuous silence to speak out with their wallets, with Doyle encouraging supporters to make donations to inclusive rape crisis centres and advocacy organizations in response. And if even one single rape survivor chooses to come forward because she (or he) has been galvanized by the outpouring of unconditional support in response to the latest inquisitional celebrity-assault clusterfuck then #MooreandMe has served its purpose.
Make no mistake: unless Moore finally decides to unplug his ears and acknowledge the uppity rabble outside, this online mobilization will not end anytime soon, as Doyle has outlined in no uncertain terms:
I am standing out here until Michael Moore comes down. I don’t care if I’m the only one doing it — though I hope you join me — I don’t care how long it takes, I don’t care what they do to me, I don’t care what they say to me, I don’t care what they say about me, I don’t care if I’m in danger, I don’t care if you don’t like it, I don’t care who it pisses off, I don’t care if it pisses my friends or my mother off, #MooreandMe is not going away until Michael Moore responds to us directly and with a full apology and with support for anti-rape organizations, it is not going away as long as I have breath in me. If you close my Twitter account, I’ll post from a friend’s, if you shut down my website I’ll do guest posts at another feminist website, if you ruin my career and make it impossible for me to pay my bills I’ll couch surf, I’ll sleep at the house of a friend that has Internet and do it from there, if you set fire to my computer or shut off my Internet I’ll go to an Internet cafe and I will keep going. How long did Michael Moore stand outside of Roger’s office? A couple hours, maybe? A day? It’s been four days now. That shit is unconscionable. It is unacceptable. And it can go on for as long as he wants it to go on, because we’re not stopping. We’re not backing down. We’re not disappearing. Because they scared and bullied and threatened and shamed and lied to and lied about and disappeared all of those women, all of those women who were scared enough to go away or too scared to report in the first place, they all went away, and somebody has to not go away. We have to not go away. Engage in #MooreandMe to the extent that you can, the extent that you are capable of while still feeling safe and healthy, but me? I’m taking “safety” and “health” off the table, as personal requirements, right now. No matter what they do to me, no matter how long Michael Moore ignores me, I am still going to be here outside the tower. At this point, if you want to fucking stop me from demanding that apology, you will have to get a gun and literally shoot me down. And if I survive that, I’m Tweeting from the hospital.
Come on down and join the discussion, Michael. There’s still an open seat at the table with your name on it. We’ll be here, waiting.
As long as it takes.
6 Responses to “#MooreandMe: Still Waiting at the Foot of the Tower”
opit says:
This sounds like the online version of ‘Trial by Rumour’ aka Mob Rule.
matttbastard says:
My least favourite Black Sabbath album. Also, an entirely inapt metaphor, unless one’s goal is not to accurately describe what’s going on, but rather to delegitimize the mobilization.
So, I suppose all protest movements = ‘mob rule’? Am sure the anti-worker wingnut fringe will be delighted to hear you’re on board with them the next time France decides to collectively shut down the Republic when Sarkozy again tries to ‘reform’ pensions. ZOMG MOB RULE!
Pssh.
My negro ass.
This is simply an example of 21st century people-driven protest and decentralized organizing at work. Nothing more, nothing less. But, as always, it is indeed amusing how threatened the dominant norm gets whenever the amorphous other bands together in solidarity. This is akin to women telling dickhead SDS shitstains to make their own damn sammiches, not holding a gun to anyone’s head.
‘Mob rule’.
More like ‘too much ruckus to ignore as per usual.’
Will Shetterly says:
Yo, Matt! I was noticing your tweets about how Olbermann had a big tender ego when blocking you and Doug Lain was tough for not blocking you, but you blocked me, so I’m here to apologize for bumping into your big tender ego.
But the blocking is cool. When you got nothing and ad hominem isn’t working for you anymore, you block your opposition.
Seriously, read about neoliberalism. David Harvey is good, if your flavor of antiracism means you’d rather read a white guy than the black man, Adolph Reed Jr., you mock.
Actually, Willy, I blocked you not because your tiresome One True Leftist posturing make me quiver and quake with equal measures fear and frustration, but, rather, because, unlike Doug Lain, who at least seems to serve his Marxist boilerplate with a side of sincerity, you are nothing but a troll.
See, what you did up there, the whole neener neener beehive poke? That is textbook trolling. And now, in response to your taunting, I am ‘feeding’ said troll. Which, clearly, is a waste of my time, my readers’ time, and an insult to the intelligence of (almost) everyone involved.
So, in lieu of once again making this All About Will Shetterly (which, as anyone who has had the unfortunate privilege of engaging you in the past can attest, is the be-all and end-all of your online interactions — seriously, you are the ultimate personification of that Zoidberg gif), I’m simply going to once again kindly invite you to 1. Pucker up and kiss my neoliberal negro ass. 2. Go fuck yourself.
DJ rewind: 1. pucker up and kiss my neoliberal negro ass. 2. Go fuck yourself.
(Yes, yes, I know — ad hominems. So vulgar. Go. Fuck. Your. Self.)
Oh, and if *your* infinitely starved ego is so easily tweaked that you feel compelled to parasitically latch onto such an inapt gotcha like your conflation above, an argument painfully contorted to the point of almost Gordian complexity (and Onion-esque absurdity), well, have at it, cuddles. Don’t ever say I never gave you a tidbit.
But. I also won’t be baited into a futile exchange with someone who wouldn’t recognize a good-faith argument if it jumped up and walloped him upside his thick head with a hardcover copy of ‘Capital’.
Now, run along back to your bridge, little Willy. Methinks I can hear cloven hooves tramp-tramp-tramping in the distance…
(Oh, and kindly don’t come back. We don’t serve trolls in this here speakeasy. No offense.)
Or, to quote Barney Frank:
“Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.”
Ah, Matt. I expected no better of you, but I am sorry you didn’t disappoint me.
If you won’t engage with me, try engaging with the work of Adolph Reed or David Harvey. Try questioning your assumptions. But if you wish to be intellectually honest–
Never mind. You keep on being your bastard self until that no longer works for you.
But, lest anyone wonder, a few points:
I’ve never claimed racism was over; I’ve literally bled in the struggle to end racism. The feministsf wiki says my “work features strong women characters and people of color.” So you can keep misrepresenting me in your effort to advance whatever it is you’re trying to advance, and I’ll keep doing my best to make a world that’s fair for everyone.
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SATURDAY NIGHT FIRST AID KIT, DIRE STRAITS.
First Aid Kit with Blue. From the album The Lion's Roar (2012).
Swedish folk band around the sisters Klara (vocals/guitar) and Johanna Söderberg (vocals/keyboards/Autoharp/bass guitar).
Dire Straits with Private Investigations. Album Love over Gold (1982).
British rock band, formed in London in 1977 around the Knopfler brothers. When I was a student, they were in their prime. Here I go again, all sentimental.
THE JOYS OF MULTICULTURALISM: IN LEIPZIG, GERMANY, KNIFE ATTACKS UP 300% SINCE 2011.
Oh Brave New World of multiculti enrichment thanks to those who know what's best for us! Via François Desouche:
"Souvenons-nous des meurtres cruels de ces derniers mois. À Kandel, un jeune homme a poignardé son amie de 15 ans dans une pharmacie jusqu’à ce qu’elle saigne à mort. À Berlin, Keira, 14 ans, a été assassinée par son camarade de classe chez elle de 20 coups de poignard. Quelques jours plus tard, Mireille a été tuée à Flensburg avec un couteau, par son petit-ami Afghan.
D’où vient l’augmentation des attaques au couteau en si peu de temps? Apparemment, la possession de couteaux est une nouvelle tendance.
Le journal « Bild » a publié des chiffres effrayants. À Leipzig, les attaques au couteau ont augmenté de 300 pour cent. Il y avait 33 cas connus en 2011, 138 en 2017. A Berlin, il y a en moyenne sept agressions au couteau par jour. Parmi les auteurs, de nombreux adolescents et même des enfants.
La Rhénanie du Nord-Westphalie a également dû faire face à plus de 500 attaques au couteau au cours des six derniers mois...
"Let's recall the cruel murders of the last few months. In Kandel, a young lad knifed his 15 year old girlfriend in a pharmacy until she bled to death. In Berlin, Keira, 14 years old, was assassinated at home by her classmate with 20 stabbings. A few days later, Mireille was killed in Flensburg with a knife, by her Afghan boyfriend.
Where does the sudden increase in knife attacks come from? Apparently, knife possession is a novel tendency.
"Bild" newspaper has published terrifying stats. In Leipzig, knife attacks are up 300 per cent. In 2011, there were 33 cases, 138 in 2017. In Berlin, there's on average 7 stabbings a day. According to the authors, often by adolescents and even children.
In Nordrhein-Westphalen, over the past six months alone there were 500 knife attacks..."
Here is the Bild article.
If you import the Third World, you become the Third World.
COTTBUS, GERMANY. ANTI-MERKEL, ANTI-CULTURAL ENRICHMENT DEMO.
Via Gates of Vienna. Demos like this are heartening to see, but it took an extraordinary amount of Cultural Enrichment before enough Cottbusians could be bothered to hold it in the first place.
What is distressing is that far too many Germans in cities and areas where Cultural Enrichment is somewhat less can't see the writing on the wall.
Anyway, the UK or France don't come even close to show a comparable degree of resistance against a government acting against its own people.
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PAUL JOSEPH WATSON ON SWEDENISTAN.
Paul Joseph Watson, editor-at-large at Infowars.com has a thing or two to say about Sweden:
TRAILER: LAURA SOUTHERN'S UPCOMING DOCUMENTARY "FARMLANDS".
A girl to watch. 22-year old Laura Southern made the documentary "Farmlands", thereby doing what western media adamantly refuse to...
... namely report on the demise of Africa's wealthiest country and the slow genocide of its original inhabitants, the White farmers.
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A SWEDISH COUNTESS RELOCATES TO HUNGARY FOR SECURITY REASONS.
Our Waffenbrueder over at Gates of Vienna continue to post very relevant videos. Here is one telling the story of a Swedish countess (!), Natalie Contessa of Sandeberg, who recently moved from Sweden to Hungary for security reasons.
Here's the gist of the story, via Hungarian Ambiance:
"Swedish-Hungarian Natalie Contessa af Sandeberg has moved from Stockholm to Hungary because of security reasons; she told channel M1 TV that currently, Hungary is one of the safest countries in Europe due to lack of migrants.
The interview was broadcasted by M1 TV on Friday. Natalie Contessa af Sandeberg whose mother is Hungarian told the interviewer: Hungary is unlike Sweden, Germany or Austria, which are flooded with migrants; the Swedish media is deliberately slanting the news on the refugee crisis including what really has been happening in Stockholm where Natalie lived.
Public security in the Swedish capital has been drastically deteriorated in the last two or three years.
She recalled that one morning on her way to work she was attacked by a migrant in the subway. In vain, she cried out for help; but nobody helped because everybody was afraid, and the police did not come either. Finally, she managed to run away from the attacker.
Natalie Contessa af Sandeberg added that many policemen are also quitting their jobs because they are not protected either.
Many Swedes have a hard time to get a job at the university hospital where she worked where about eighty percent of her colleagues were immigrants, including doctors and nurses.
She also said school teachers regularly threatened by migrant students with knife, and children getting robbed on the street in broad daylight. This is yet another reason why many families planning to leave Sweden.
Natalie Contessa af Sandeberg said she was not a racist; she merely recounts her experiences - Sweden is flooded by migrants who intimidate, and threaten local citizens and most companies are in favor of hiring migrants.
She also added that the Swedish government provides generous benefits to immigrants but they do not appreciate it, instead they threaten indigenous Swedes who leave the country in increasing numbers; most of her friends have already left Sweden said the Swedish-Hungarian woman."
I would advise freedom-loving people, in particular in the Anglosphere, to hold fast to your rights and to expect the worst re government scrutiny.
I don't want to sound like I am panicking, but I would counsel to err on the side of caution. Throughout the (Western) EU, there's a now unmistakable trend towards huge government control and a veritable crackdown on freedom of speech, in particular where it concerns criticism of the EU's multicultural ideology. Examples are galore:
a.) In Germany, Heiko Maas' Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz in effect since January 2018
Heiko Maas, Germany's 21st century version of a Joseph Goebbels/Roland Freisler
b.) In France, where Boy Macron wants a law against 'fake news'.
c.) In the UK, which has (briefly) detained, and refused entry to the country, Martin Sellner of the Identitaeren and his girlfriend Brittany Prettibone, because they wanted to give a speech at London's Speaker's Corner.
d.) Sweden: see the story above but it's much worse than that.
There is overwhelming evidence that Europe, at least the European Union, is now sliding inexorably towards a gigantic police state. As catastrophic demographic trends continue, and with the migrant's strong inclination to gravitate to government jobs, the evolution towards a EUSSR will only accelerate.
To Americans in particular: more background checks are needed to verify amongst others the mental sanity of gun buyers, but under no circumstances should the 2nd Amendment be repealed.
To make sure Americans get it, let me repeat it.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD THE 2ND AMENDMENT BE REPEALED.
Stick to your guns. It's the ONLY way to block government tyranny.
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Premier League: Manchester Utd vs Everton Preview
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 04: Paul Pogba of Manchester United and Idrissa Gueye of Everton battle for the ball during the Premier League match between Everton and Manchester United at Goodison Park on December 4, 2016 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)
Manchester United’s recent standout victories vs Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City made it five Premier League (PL) games undefeated (W3, D2). They netted 2+ goals in all five of those matches, highlighting their growing attacking prowess. Additionally, they scored a combined five goals inside the opening 30 minutes across that five-game sequence. Whilst scoring early goals has been a recent theme for the ‘Red Devils’, they often counter this by conceding late. So far this season, they have conceded 68.42% of their PL goals in the second half. Notably, they have conceded a goal between the 60th and 75th minute in two of their previous three PL home matches. < p>
Everton ended a three-game winless run (L3) last weekend by defeating Chelsea 3-1. Despite the win, that result made it seven consecutive PL games without a clean sheet for the ‘Toffees’. Furthermore, five of the games during that run saw them concede at least once in the final 30 minutes of the match. Whilst interim manager Duncan Ferguson will be boosted by his side’s victory last week, Everton’s record of no win in five PL visits to Old Trafford will be a concern (D1, L4). Three of those fixtures saw them concede 2+ goals.
Players to watch: Marcus Rashford (MUN) is in blistering form having netted 13 goals across his previous 14 competitive appearances for club and country. After his brace last week, Dominic Calvert-Lewin (EVE) has seven goals across all competitions this season – four of those goals arrived in away fixtures.
Sunday 15th December, 2019 – 14:00 (UK)
Manchester United vs Everton TV channel:
De Gea; Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Maguire, Shaw; McTominay, Fred; James, Pereira, Rashford; Martial
Lingdard , Pogba
Everton:
Pickford; Sidibe, Holgate, Keane, Digne; Iwobi, Davies, Sigurdsson, Bernard; Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin
Gomes , Walcott
WDDWW
United have won 36 of their previous 54 Premier League games against Everton, suffering just nine defeats in the process. The Toffees have won just one of their last 26 Premier League away matches with the Red Devils, meanwhile, losing 20 times. The 20-time English champions have also won three of their last four league meetings, although they suffered a 4-0 defeat when they travelled to Goodison Park back in April. United recorded a 2-1 win in the corresponding clash last season, with Pogba and Martial scoring the goals for the hosts while Sigurdsson registered for the Toffees.
last meeting between Manchester United vs Everton:
Their previous meeting ended as Everton won 4:0 against Manchester United
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Nobel-prize winner Toni Morrison
blackottawa September 1, 2019 No comments Obituary, Z. Main Story
Toni Morrison: Literature Nobel-prize winning author dies
The Nobel Prize-winning US author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88.
The Morrison family confirmed “with profound sadness” that Morrison had died “following a short illness”.
The author of 11 novels, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, having published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970.
Her book Beloved told the story of a female African-American slave and was made into a film starring Oprah Winfrey in 1998.
Morrison once said: “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
The Morrison family statement said the “extremely devoted mother, grandmother, and aunt” had “passed away peacefully last night [5 August] surrounded by family and friends”.
“The consummate writer who treasured the written word, whether her own, her students or others, she read voraciously and was most at home when writing,” it continued.
“Although her passing represents a tremendous loss, we are grateful she had a long, well lived life.”
The family added: “While we would like to thank everyone who knew and loved her, personally or through her work, for their support at this difficult time, we ask for privacy as we mourn this loss to our family.
“We will share information in the near future about how we will celebrate Toni’s incredible life.”
Her long-time editor Robert Gottlieb from Knopf publishers, said: “She was a great woman and a great writer, and I don’t know which I will miss more.”
And Sonny Mehta, the chairman of Knopf, said: ” I can think of few writers in American letters who wrote with more humanity or with more love for language than Toni.
“Her narratives and mesmerising prose have made an indelible mark on our culture. Her novels command and demand our attention.
“They are canonical works, and more importantly, they are books that remain beloved by readers.”
Source: BBC News
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Home › Blog › WRC › Season 2019 › A FIFTH CONSECUTIVE PODIUM FOR THE C3 WRC AS OGIERINGRASSIA FINISH THIRD IN ARGENTINA!
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A FIFTH CONSECUTIVE PODIUM FOR THE C3 WRC AS OGIERINGRASSIA FINISH THIRD IN ARGENTINA!29.04.2019
Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia produced another heroic performance to claim their fourth podium of the season and Citroën Total World Rally Team’s fifth in 2019, after a nail-biting finish on the final stage!
After a ten-second penalty was handed to their direct rivals for the final podium place by the rally organisers late last night for failing to follow the racing route on one of Saturday’s stages, Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia went into today’s final leg in third position. They held a slim 6.0s lead as they prepared to tackle the very rough stages of El Condor and Giulio Cesare. Displaying their famous neversay-die attitude, the six-time world champions put up a determined fight in the C3 WRC, whilst not forgetting the importance of ensuring they secured big points for the championship. Their efforts were rewarded in the end: victory on the Power Stage, their third stage win of the weekend, saw them hang onto the final podium spot by just 1.4s!
Sébastien and Julien’s third position, combined with the five bonus points earned on the Power Stage, means they consolidated their hold on second place in the world championship, ten points behind the leaders. This is their fourth podium this year, after winning in Monte-Carlo and Mexico, and finishing as runners-up in Corsica. It is also the fifth time in as many events this season that Citroën Total World Rally Team has finished in the top three.
Despite the difficult, changeable grip conditions, particularly on the opening day after the heavy rain that fell prior to the event, the French crew made an excellent start, consistently among the frontrunners to end the leg second overall, just 11.9s behind the leaders. Day two proved to be trickier. Confused about which route to take on the morning loop (SS11) by a gate left open – whereas the roadbook indicated it was meant to be closed – Sébastien and Julien hesitated and ended up damaging the power steering of their C3 WRC when they hit the gate. They therefore dropped back to sixth position, 21.8s adrift of the podium. They then fought back like the champions they are on the second loop, claiming two stage wins on their way to fourth overall, keeping them in with a good chance of finishing on the podium going into the final day.
After making a decent start with a fifth fastest time on the rally’s first proper stage (SS2), Esapekka Lappi and Janne Ferm were unfortunately then held up by a puncture immediately afterwards (SS4) when they hit a bank following a crest. The Finnish pair were gradually upping their pace on what was only their second appearance in Argentina – as could be seen in their promising split times – when a tyre came loose following a puncture, rolling the car (SS8) and forcing them to retire from the rally on the opening leg.
Competing in the WRC2 Pro class in a C3 R5, Mads Østberg and Torstein Eriksen claimed their second consecutive category win after Rally Sweden, whilst also amassing a handsome tally of ten stage wins from the overall total of seventeen contested. Yet further evidence of the competitiveness of Citroën Racing’s flagship customer racing product on the very demanding Argentinian roads, where the C3 R5 was competing for the first time.
REACTIONS FROM…
Sébastien Ogier, Citroën Total WRT driver “It’s a pretty good result in terms of points, but we can’t be pleased with our out-and-out performance level. There are some conditions, like those we saw in Mexico or here on the second runs, where we are fairly competitive. But we have to improve when there is less grip or when the road is more technical. I’m pleased to see our persistence rewarded, because once again this weekend we pushed as hard as possible right to the end.”
Esapekka Lappi, Citroën Total WRT driver “Despite not knowing the roads here particularly well, I was obviously hoping for a better outcome from this round. But after we had picked up a puncture, I was caught out when the tyre suddenly came loose. Thiscaused the car to understeer, we hit a bank at the side of the road and rolled the car. Obviously, I’m sorry for the team, but after a few days’ rest with my family, Janne and I will back raring to go and have the best Rally Chile possible, where we’ll all be on an equal footing in terms of experience.”
TWO QUESTIONS FOR PIERRE BUDAR, CITROËN RACING TEAM PRINCIPAL
How do you assess your performance in Argentina?
It was clearly a tough weekend, one that we can’t be satisfied with. The points for third place and from the Power Stage are fairly positive as regards the championship, but we lacked pace on these roads. The result is down in large part to Sébastien and Julien’s relentless commitment and persistence. Meanwhile, Esapekka and Janne deserved at least to make it to the end of the rally, in order to keep adding to their experience. Perhaps in future they will need to manage a puncture differently, but we are still 200% behind them so that they can finally get back on the right track in Chile.
How are you intending to tackle the transition to Rally Chile?
First of all, we’ll be shipping the backup C3 WRC out to Chile for Esapekka and Janne, so that they will have a completely new car for the event. Although we have relatively little time, we are also going to get to work on improving the C3 WRC as much as possible in clearly identified conditions, and define the best set-up for the rally. It’s a new event for everyone, and will also be fairly different to what we experienced this weekend. In any case, we are all fired up to keep fighting as hard as possible for the championship.
THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEKEND
Jean-Luc Gaucher, Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia’s Chief mechanic, was the man in charge of coordinating Saturday’s mid-leg service, during which the Citroën mechanics repaired the stricken number 1 C3 WRC. He told us about how they took just forty minutes to repair the car’s power steering, broken by the French crew in a minor impact.
“Actually, we had a whole load of parts to replace. The entire power steering, of course, but also the gearbox, the hydraulic unit and the clutch. Generally speaking, these sorts of repairs need careful planning beforehand, so that everyone knows precisely what order to do things in and so that everything goes smoothly once you get started. Given that we only had one car left in the race at that point, we could have all eight of our mechanics involved, but on the other hand, we were limited by the physical space to four people working on the front on the car, in the critical area. Although we train for this kind of situation, it’s always satisfying to see things work out when it’s for real. It was important to get the car working again as quickly as possible, because when you work on the hydraulics, the start-up procedure takes quite a bit of time, but that’s precisely what we managed to do. After a long, difficult service like this, there’s always a niggling fear that you might have missed something, so it was nice – and reassuring – for all of us to see Sébastien and Julien grab two consecutive stage wins straight afterwards!”
FINAL PROVISIONAL STANDINGS
1. Neuville / Gilsoul (Hyundai i20 WRC) 3:20:54.6
2. Mikkelsen / Jaeger (Hyundai i20 WRC) +48.4
3. Ogier / Ingrassia (Citroën C3 WRC) +1:04.8
4. Meeke / Marshall (Toyota Yaris WRC) +1:06.2
5. Latvala / Anttila (Toyota Yaris WRC) +1:21.1
6. Sordo / Del Barrio (Hyundai i20 WRC) +1:26.7
7. Suninen / Salminen (Ford Fiesta WRC) +4:57.3
8. Tänak / Järveoja (Toyota Yaris WRC) +14:24.8
9. Østberg / Eriksen (Citroën C3 R5) +14:28.5
DRIVERS’ WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
1. Thierry Neuville – 110 points
2. Sébastien Ogier – 100 points
3. Ott Tänak – 82 points 4. Kris Meeke – 54 points
5. Elfyn Evans – 43 points
6. Andreas Mikkelsen – 30 points
7. Jari-Matti Latvala – 28 points
8. Esapekka Lappi – 26 points
9. Dani Sordo – 26 points
10. Sébastien Loeb – 22 points
MANUFACTURERS’ WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
1. Hyundai WRT – 157 points
2. Toyota Gazoo Racing – 120 points
3. Citroën Total WRT – 117 points
4. M-Sport Ford WRT – 78 points
CITROËN AND OGIER TAKE BRONZE IN WALES GB
CITROËN CLAIMS A ONE-TWO FINISH AND MOVES BACK INTO THE TITLE HUNT !
CITROËN’S FLYING FINNS GRAB SECOND PLACE!
CITROËN FIGHTS TO SECURE PRECIOUS POINTS WITH THE C3 WRC IN SARDINIA
CITROËN POCKET YET ANOTHER PODIUM!
THE C3 WRC SECURES ITS SIXTH CONSECUTIVE PODIUM AS OGIERINGRASSIA FINISH AS RUNNERS-UP!
A FOURTH CONSECUTIVE PODIUM FOR THE C3 WRC AS OGIER-INGRASSIA FINISH AS RUNNERS-UP IN CORSICA!
C3 WRC SETS SAIL FOR CORSICA
Citroën secures its second win of the season with Ogier-Ingrassia!
The Mexico notebook by… Sébastien Ogier
Citroën secure second consecutive podium as Lappi-Ferm finish as runners-up!
Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia secure historic 100th WRC win for Citroën!
The C3 WRC all set for regal challenge
Citroën Total WRT launches its 2019 season!
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Kyungsoo Yoo
PI, CRB Objective 2 Lead
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Hillslope generation and transport of mineral surfaces for complexation with carbon
Assistant Professor, Land and Atmospheric Science; Department of Soil; Water; and Climate; University of Minnesota
Univ. of Minnesota - University of Minnesota
Yoo's Univ. of Minnesota page
Ph.D., Ecosystem Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 2003
It is often viewed that soils are comprised of static organic matter and inorganic minerals that are subject to hydrological, chemical and biological processes. However, biogeochemical processes of minerals and organic matter and their interactions occur as they physically move on the earth surface at the wide range of spatial and temporal scales. My research goal is to quantitatively integrate the interactions among rocks, minerals, and organic matter in motion and to use this understanding to define and resolve fundamental questions in the geochemical and geomorphic evolution of landscapes and regional to global biogeochemical cycles. Currently, I am studying carbon cycle and weathering in the Chippewa National Forest in Northern Minnesota, Sierra Nevada in California, and the Piedmont in Pennsylvania and Delaware.
CZO Research Groups
2. Co-evolution of Critical Zone Structure, Hydro-Bio-Geo-Chemical Function and Carbon Complexation
University of Minnesota Department of Soil, Water, and Climate 439 Borlaug Hall 1991 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul, MN 55108
Department of Soil, Water and Climate
CZO Publications
Papers/Books
The Geochemical Transformation of Soils by Agriculture and Its Dependence on Soil Erosion: an Application of Geochemical Mass Balance Approach. Yoo, K., B. Wenell, J. Ji, A. Aufdenkampe, J. Marquard, J. Klaminder (2015): Science of the Total Environment
Riverine coupling of biogeochemical cycles between land, oceans, and atmosphere. Aufdenkampe, A. K., Mayorga, E., Raymond, P. A., Melack, J. M., Doney, S. C., Alin, S. R., Aalto, R. E., and Yoo, K. (2011): Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9:53-60.
Rates of soil mixing and associated carbon fluxes in a forest vs tilled agricultural field: implications for modelling the soil carbon cycle. Yoo, K., Ji, J., Aufdenkampe, A., and Klaminder, J. (2011): Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 116:G01014.
Papers and books that explicitly acknowledge a CZO grant are highlighted in PALE ORANGE.
Other CZO Publications
The Christina River Basin Critical Zone Observatory (CRB-CZO): Quantifying carbon sequestration by integrating spatial and temporal carbon and mineral fluxes. J. Kan, D. Karwan, O. Lazareva, C. Rosier, A. Aufdenkampe, D. L. Sparks, L. A. Kaplan, J. Pizzuto, K. Yoo (2012): The 2nd International Conference of Geobiology-Critical Zone Observatories for sustainable soil development and beyond. Sept 4-8, 2012, Wuhan, China.
Biogeochemical Transformation of Fe- and Mn- Along a Redox Gradient: Implications for Carbon Sequestration within the Christina River Basin Critical Zone Observatory. Lazareva, O., D.L. Sparks, A. Aufdenkampe, K. Yoo, S. Hicks and J. Kan. (2012): DENIN Research Symposium, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, January
2012 CRB-CZO Annual Report to National Science Foundation. Sparks, D., Aufdenkampe, A., Kaplan, L., Pizzuto, J., and Yoo, K. (2012): NSF Award #0724971
Role of Fe- and Mn- Redox Coupling on the Carbon Cycle in a Mixed Land Use Watershed. Lazareva, O., D.L. Sparks, A.. Aufdenkamp, K. Yoo, S. Hicks and J. Kan. (2011): CZO National Meeting, Tuscon, Arizona, May 8-12
Role of Fe- and Mn- redox coupling on the carbon cycle in a mixed land use watershed: Christina River Basin Critical Zone Observatory. Lazareva, O., D.L. Sparks, A.. Aufdenkampe, K. Yoo, S. Hicks and J. Kan. (2011): Goldschmidt 2011 conference, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14-19. p. 1279.
Christina River Basin Critical Zone Observatory: Carbon-mineral interactions from molecular to basin scales in the Anthropocene. Yoo, K., Aufdenkampe, A., Chen, C. and Sparks, D.L.. (2011): Invited Talk, Goldschmidt 2011 conference, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14-19. p. 1224.
Future Directions for Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) Science. Anderson, R.S., Anderson, S., Aufdenkampe, A.K., Bales, R., Brantley, S., Chorover, J., Duffy, C.J., Scatena, F.N., Sparks, D.L., Troch, P.A., Yoo, K. (2010): CZO Community, December 29, 2010 Cross-CZO National
Christina River Basin CZO: Spatial and temporal integration of carbon and mineral fluxes: a whole watershed approach to quantifying anthropogenic modification of critical zone carbon sequestration. Aufdenkampe, A.K., D.L. Sparks, L.A. Kaplan, J.E. Pizzuto, K. Yoo (2010): Invited Talk at the quarterly meeting of the Christina River Basin Task Force, Dec. 3, Newark, DE
Spatial And Temporal Integration Of Carbon And Mineral Fluxes: A Whole Watershed Approach To Quantifying Anthropogenic Modification Of Critical Zone Carbon Sequestration. Aufdenkampe, A.K., Sparks, D.L., Yoo, K., Kaplan, L. A., and Pizzuto, J.E. (2010): 3rd Annual National CZO PI meeting, Boulder, CO, September 13-15.
Distribution, Speciation, and Elemental Associations of Soil Organic Carbon under Varying Landscape Topographic Positions at the Molecular Scale. Chen, C., Aufdenkampe, A.K., Yoo K., and Sparks D.L. (2010): 3rd Annual National CZO PI meeting, Boulder, CO, September 13-15.
Integrating Geochemical and Morphologic Evolution of Soil-Covered Hillslopes in a Transient Tributary Basin . Weinman, B.A., K. Yoo, S.M. Mudd, M.D. Hurst, K. Maher, K. Mayer, C. Andersen. (2010): Abstract EP23C-04. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 13-17
Soils Move, and That Matters for Biogeochemistry: Weathering and the Carbon Cycle from a Geomorphic Perspective . Yoo, K., A. (2010): Invited Talk, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, April 23.
Where Minerals Meet Carbon: An Inevitable Geomorphic Control of Carbon Cycle in the Anthropocene. Yoo, K., A. (2010): Invited Talk, University of Calgary, Canada, Biogeoscience Institute, March 10.
Extending the Interdisciplinary Interfaces of Geomorphology by Changing the Units of Key Variables: From Volumes to Masses to Areas . Yoo, K., A.K. Aufdenkampe, B.A. Weinman, S.M. Mudd, C. Chen. (2010): Abstract EP43A-0749. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 13-17.
Case Study: The Role of Pedology In Christina River Basin CZO. Yoo, K., Aufdenkampe, A., and. Sparks, D.L. (2010): Invited Talk, ASA-CSSA-SSSA 2010 International Annual Meetings, "Green Revolution 2.0: Food + Energy and Environmental Security," Long Beach, CA, Oct. 31 - Nov. 3.
Science on the Graveyard Shift: Discovering what gets buried and how
31 Oct 2012 - By dark of night in an old graveyard, things rustle. At least if that cemetery is at London Grove Friends Meeting in Kennett Square, Pa. Look...
New wells to provide critical zone data
03 Aug 2012 - A major research effort was underway the last week of July 2012, led by the faculty and students of the Christina River Basin Critical Zone...
Christina River Basin Critical Zone Observatory Featured in NSF Video
22 Jun 2010 - The National Science Foundation’s Science360 daily news service website has posted a video that includes a segment on the Christina River...
Team to study human effect on watershed
19 Oct 2009 - The narrow creek that runs behind the Stroud Water Research Center has witnessed plenty of changes over the centuries. Hundreds of years ago,...
New Critical Zone Observatory seeks to answer climate change questions
28 Sep 2009 - The University of Delaware, in collaboration with Stroud Water Research Center in Avondale, Pa., has received a $4.3 million grant from the National...
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Sacred Heart Dec 13, 2019 14:55:00 GMT -5
Massey makes HC a 12 point favorite (72-60) with an 83% chance for the win.
Sacred Heart is currently 3-4. They lost to Seton Hall, Siena, Stony Brook, Nebraska, and SDt Joseph (PA). They have. victories over Hofstra, Bridgeport, and Detroit.
Need to learn about the SHU Women?
FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Back at home in the friendly confines of Coach Bike Court, the Sacred Heart women's basketball team looks to get back in the win column with a Saturday afternoon tilt against Holy Cross. Incredibly, this is just the second meeting between the two teams and the first at the Div. I level as the first and only prior meeting came back in the 1980-81 season. Tip-off from Fairfield is scheduled for 2 PM.
All children ages 12 and under can take part in a shootaround on Coach Bike Court with the Pioneers following the game. The contest is also SHU's Camper Day as all Jessica Mannetti Basketball Campers receive $1 tickets for them and their siblings plus a buy-one, get-one voucher for future games.
OPENING TIP
The Pioneers head into 2019-20 having lost five players to graduation, three of which were All-NEC honorees last season including Kat Haines (First Team All-NEC), Candice Leatherwood (Second Team) and Erin Storck (Third Team). With seven fresh faces to the program (five first-years, two incoming transfers), SHU will lean on several key veterans as senior Allyson Murphy, junior Olivia Dabney and redshirt junior Nikki Johnson will be relied upon heavily in the early stages of the season as other contributors work their way into the lineup or back from injury.
The Pioneers matched a league record last season as four players (Haines- First Team, Leatherwood – Second Team, Storck – Third Team and Adrianne Hagood – Third Team) were named All-NEC. That was just the second time in league history (joining FDU in 2014-15) that four players from one team were named All-Conference. Hagood is the lone returning All-NEC performer for the Pioneers from last season.
A women's basketball program with a storied history, the Pioneers advanced to the WNIT for the fourth time in school history in 2018-19, marking the eighth time in SHU's Div. I history that the Pioneers have advanced to a national postseason tournament (4x WNIT, 3x NCAA, 1x WBI). Also impressive is that all four of the Pioneers' WNIT berths have come over the last seven seasons while SHU has made a national postseason tournament in six of the last nine seasons overall.
Adrianne Hagood is having herself a breakout junior season as she heads into Saturday afternoon sitting third in the NEC in scoring (17.6 PPG), fourth in three-point percentage (43.5) and first in three-pointers per game (2.9). Hagood has gone off for double figures in 6-of-7 games played thus far in the season while her lowest single-game point total in 2019-20 is eight points. After coming into her junior year with four career 20+ point games, Hagood already has three 20+ point efforts on the season including a career-high 29 points (8-12 FG, 5-7 3FG, 8-8 FT) in a home win over Bridgeport on Nov. 20.
Through eight games, the Pioneers generate a large percentage of their offense at the free throw line as SHU leads the NEC in both free throws made (118) and attempted (176). Individually, four Pioneers are shooting at least 70 percent from the charity stripe while Hagood and Jessica Woods are second in the NEC in free throw attempts (43). As a team, SHU is shooting 67 percent from the line and average 14.8 makes per game.
Jessica Woods has been a key cog on the interior for the Pioneers as she has put up 9.8 PPG with 6.9 RPG and 1.6 BPG in 26 MPG. Woods scored double figures in five straight games to start her SHU career, which stands as the longest such streak for a Pioneer in program history. She sits tied for 22nd in the NEC in scoring, seventh in rebounding, 14th in field goal percentage (41.5) and fifth in blocked shots.
SHU's dominance in the NEC is noteworthy as the Pioneer have finished the regular season sitting in the top four of the league standings in 14 of the last 15 seasons. In addition, SHU has advanced to the NEC Tournament in all 20 seasons since joining the NEC in 1999-00 and own the league's longest-standing active postseason streak (next-closest is Bryant at seven straight postseason berths). The Pioneers own a cumulative record of 252-98 (.720) in NEC regular season play and have never finished with a win percentage below .500 in league play across 20 NEC seasons.
Nikki Johnson had herself quite the debut as a Pioneer as the Western Carolina transfer put up a collegiate career-high 25 points (8-17 FG, 3-6 3FG, 6-7 FT) with five steals, five rebounds and four assists in Wednesday's season-opening loss at Seton Hall. In two years with Western Carolina (2016-18), Johnson's best outing was a 19-point effort against UNC Greensboro in her sophomore season. After sitting out the 2018-19 season due to NCAA transfer rules, Johnson's first effort was noteworthy as the Pioneers had six newcomers out of nine total players to see the floor playing in their first game as a member of SHU.
SOUTH POINT SHOOTOUT RECAP
Flying out to Las Vegas for their first regular season tournament since 2015-16, the Pioneers showed well with a 66-60 win over Detroit Mercy before giving Nebraska a solid fight in a 72-49 loss. In the Detroit Mercy victory, the Pioneers recorded their first win away from home in 2019-20 behind a season-high 10-for-22 (45.5 percent) showing from three-point distance while capitalizing on their free throws with an 18-for-22 (81.8 percent) effort at the charity stripe. That was the best single-season percentage for SHU at the free throw line since going 18-for-20 against Saint Joseph's on Dec. 20, 2018 (32 games prior). Against Nebraska, the Pioneers couldn't overcome a 31-9 deficit midway through the second quarter but the effort was evident as SHU was outscored by just one point (41-40) in the final 25:14 of play.
FREE POINTS AT THE LINE
Through eight games, the Pioneers generate a large percentage of their offense at the free throw line as SHU leads the NEC in both free throws made (118) and attempted (176). Individually, four Pioneers are shooting at least 70 percent from the charity stripe while Hagood and Woods are second in the NEC in free throw attempts (43). As a team, SHU is shooting 67 percent from the line and average 14.8 makes per game.
THAT 70+ SHOW
After going 5-4 in games where the Pioneers scored 70+ points in 2017-18, SHU has since turned it around completely in 2018-19 and into 2019-20, having gone 13-0 in similar games over the last two seasons as team defense keyed the turnaround. Cumulatively, in those 13 contests the Pioneers outscored opponents by 255 (+19.6 per game) and defeated opponents by 22 or more points in seven of those games.
RECORD-BREAKING START
Consistency in the low post has come from junior college transfer Jessica Woods as she posted five straight double-digit scoring efforts in her first five games as a Pioneer. She owns per-game averages of 11 points, 7.3 rebounds and 1.6 blocks in just 25.7 minutes while shooting 45 percent from the floor. Woods' start to the season is record-breaking as she owns the longest streak with double digit points to start her SHU career in the program's Div. I history (since 1999-00). The previous longest streak was two games, accomplished several times with the most-recent being Candice Leatherwood's first season with SHU in the 2017-18 campaign.
DRI-PPING BUCKETS
After missing the first game of the season with an injury, Adrianne Hagood has provided a huge scoring lift in her seven games played of 2019-20. After scoring 13 (4-10 FG, 3-9 3FG) in a 27-point home win over Hofstra, Hagood netted 23 on 8-for-11 shooting and 3-of-5 from long range at Siena while she tallied a career-high 29 on 8-for-12 shooting, 5-for-7 from three and 8-of-8 at the free throw line against Bridgeport. She followed that up with 21 points in a win over Detroit Mercy to go along with a team-leading 16 points against Nebraska. The junior guard came into this season with four career 20+ point efforts but she already has three such games through seven appearances in the new season.
DABNEY DOING HER BEST WORK
Back healthy again after missing the final 10 games of 2018-19 due to injury, junior Olivia Dabney was at her best in the Pioneers' 71-44 home win over Hofstra (11/10). Playing 35 of the possible 40 minutes, Dabney matched her career-high with 13 points while her six field goal makes is a new career-best and nine field goal attempts ties a career-high. A featured player for SHU, Dabney has played at least 30 minutes in seven-of-eight games in the season as her 34.1 minutes per game average ranks fifth in the NEC and Top 100 in the nation. Dabney's defense has been her strong suit in the 2019-20 season as she is tied for third in the NEC in blocks (14) and blocks per game (1.8).
FIRST TASTE OF COLLEGIATE BASKETBALL
With three All-NEC starters gone from the 2018-19 roster due to graduation, the Pioneers are going to be a new-look squad for the 2019-20 campaign and the season opener at Seton Hall was a prime indicator. With only nine Pioneers dressing, six of those nine to hit the floor were either first-years of incoming transfers playing in their first career game for SHU. Among those that shined in their debuts were Nikki Johnson (career-high 25 points, five steals, five rebounds, four assists), Sonia Smith (12 points) and Jessica Woods (12 points) as those three combined with Allyson Murphy (10 points) as four Pioneers hit double figures in scoring against the Pirates.
PRESEASON EXPECTATIONS
At the league's annual Social Media Day held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, SHU tied for third in the NEC Preseason Coaches' Poll. This marked the second straight season the Pioneers earned third in the preseason poll and it comes on the heels of a productive 2018-19 campaign in which the Pioneers went 19-13 overall and 14-4 in the NEC. Seeded second in the 2019 NEC Tournament, the Pioneers were bounced by Saint Francis U in the semifinal round but still got a taste of national postseason play as SHU earned the league's automatic bid into the WNIT. That WNIT berth marked the sixth national postseason tournament appearance for the Pioneers in the last nine seasons while SHU's 14 league wins last season was their most in a single-season since the 2014-15 campaign.
TRANSFORMING HER GAME
In terms of year-to-year improvement, Olivia Dabney made considerable strides to her offensive production from her freshman to sophomore season. As a freshman, Dabney slashed 24.5/20.9/47.7 in terms of FG%/3FG%/FT% in her rookie season only to improve to 42.2/43.4/75.8 in 19 games before going down with a season-ending injury in February. Dabney's three-point game was an area she highlighted to improve and the work paid off as her 43.4 percentage from three (23-53 3FG) would've ranked second in the NEC had just met the qualifying standards, just one season removed from going 14-for-67 (20.9 percent) from distance.
THE FRIENDLY CONFINES OF THE PITT CENTER
SHU took advantage of the games held in the Pitt Center last season, owning a 10-5 record in home games in 2018-19 including an impressive 8-1 regular season mark against NEC competition. In the eight SHU home wins in NEC play, the Pioneers owned an average scoring margin of +14.0.
PROTECTING THE BALL
The Pioneers valued protecting the ball throughout the 2018-19 campaign and it showed in the stats as SHU led the NEC in fewest turnovers committed per game (13.9). For the season, the Pioneers went 11-5 in games in which SHU committed less than 15 turnovers and committed fewer turnovers than their opponent in 21-of-32 games (65.6 percent) in 2018-19. SHU set a season-best with just six turnovers at LIU Brooklyn (Feb. 18), which marked the fewest turnovers for the Pioneers in a single-game since coughing up five against CCSU back on March 6, 2010 (275 games prior).
DEFENSE FIRST
Team defense told the story throughout last season as the Pioneers allowed 80 points or more just twice in 32 games last season. The Pioneers went 11-2 in 2018-19 when holding opponents to less than 60 points and allowed less than 50 points seven times (7-0 record in those games).
After going 5-4 in games where the Pioneers scored 70+ points in 2017-18, SHU turned it around completely in 2018-19 and went 11-0 in similar games last season as team defense keyed the turnaround. Cumulatively, in those 11 contests the Pioneers outscored opponents by 214 (+19.5 per game) and defeated opponents in six of those games by 22 points or more.
BUT FIRST…WE TAKE THE LEAD
Owning a halftime advantage was a huge key to success in 2018-19 as the Pioneers went 18-3 in games SHU led at halftime. In NEC play, the Pioneers outscored the opposition by a combined score of 606-475 (+131, +7.3 scoring margin per game) in the first halves of games and have led at the half in 15-of-18 league games. In those 18 NEC regular season games, the Pioneers' largest scoring margin by-quarter is the first period as SHU outscored the opposition 306-226 (+78). By comparison, the next-largest scoring margin was the second quarter, wherein SHU owned a 300-247 (+53) advantage.
BACK IN THE NIKKI OF TIME
After sitting out the 2018-19 season due to NCAA transfer rules, redshirt junior guard Nikki Johnson is set to make her debut as a Pioneer in 2019-20 after transferring in from Western Carolina University. Johnson saw time in 58 career games (33 starts) and averaged 5.0 PPG (38.3 FG%, 33.3 3FG%, 69.1 FT%) to go along with 1.7 RPG, 1.4 APG in 18.7 MPG. She posted a career-high 19 points at UNC Greensboro on Feb. 24, 2017 while she finished her sophomore season third on the team in three-pointers (29) while she had the second-most assists (60) in 2017-18.
JOURNEY FROM JUCO TO SHU
A welcome addition to the SHU frontcourt, junior center Jessica Woods figures to play a large role in the interior for the Pioneers in 2019-20. Woods dominated for two seasons at Union County Junior College, posting 891 points (14.1 PPG), 728 rebounds (11.6 RPG) and 177 blocks (2.8 BPG) in her two-year career at the junior college level. She is a proven winner, helping lead Union County to the 2019 National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCCA) Tournament where her team finished as the national runner-up. Woods' 2018-19 campaign saw her named to the All-Region First Team while averaging a double-double (14.1 PPG, 11.5 RPG) and shooting 51.2 percent from the floor.
FIVE FRESH FIRST-YEAR FACES
After not having a first-year on the roster in 2018-19, SHU added five first-years for the 2019-20 campaign as forward Marie-Laeticia Ziba, guard Sonia Smith, forward/center Carly Stroemel, guard Savannah Marshall and guard Nicolette Arnold all enter their first collegiate seasons as Pioneers. Both Ziba and Arnold stand 5-11 and 5-10, respectively, and will add versatility along the wing for SHU along with shooting. Smith is another dynamic ball-handler after closing her career at the prestigious National Christian Academy as a 1,000 point scorer. Stroemel won a pair of conference titles for Paul VI High School in New Jersey while Marshall stayed in-state as she dominated at the Connecticut high school level for Westbrook, averaging 19 points per game over her career.
Post by ndgradbuthcfan on Dec 13, 2019 15:01:52 GMT -5
Dec 13, 2019 14:56:52 GMT -5 rgs318 said:
Too much information, and then some!
SHU - PROBABLE STARTERS
24 - Jessica Woods..........C (Jr, 6'2") 10 ppg / 7 rpg / 1 apg / 26 mpg
03 - Nikki Johnson...........G (RS Jr, 5'9") 11 ppg / 4 rpg / 4 apg / 30 mpg
04 - Jayla Davis................G (Jr, 5'7") 7 ppg / 3 rpg / 1 apg / 19 mpg
10 - Olivia Dabney...........G/F (Jr, 5'10") 8 ppg / 5 rpg / 2 apg / 14 mpg
22 - Adrianne Hagood......G (Jr, 5'8") 18 ppg / 3 rpg / 1 apg / 30 mpg
TOP SUBS:
12 - Allyson Murphy...........G (Sr, 5'5") 4 ppg / 3 rpg / 2 apg / 29 mpg
02 - Sonia Smith................G (Fr, 5'7") 6 ppg / 1 rpg / 1 apg / 16 mpg
00 - Marie-Laeticia Ziba...G/F (Fr, 5'11") 1 ppg / 1 rpg / 1 apg / 11 mpg
23 - Madison Cheatham....C (Sr, 6'4") 1 ppg / 2 rpg / .5 apg / 9 mpg
Being politically correct, SHU has no "freshman" players. Instead, they have "first years".
Sacred Heart Dec 13, 2019 16:38:57 GMT -5 sader1970 likes this
ndgrad...if too much, why did you repost the entire thing?
Post by longsuffering on Dec 13, 2019 17:40:13 GMT -5
Since SHU has gone to national post season tourneys six out of the last nine years, it is a good thing we have never played them in D-1.
I have seen SHU play before the HC game at SHU (as part of a doubleheader). They have had some good players and teams.
Last Edit: Dec 13, 2019 18:10:41 GMT -5 by rgs318
Sacred Heart Dec 13, 2019 20:14:08 GMT -5 rgs318, hc6774, and 2 more like this
SHU has 6'4" Senior Center Madison Cheatham. No Dewey and Howe.
Last Edit: Dec 13, 2019 20:16:00 GMT -5 by longsuffering
Post by bison137 on Dec 13, 2019 20:43:53 GMT -5
Dec 13, 2019 17:40:13 GMT -5 longsuffering said:
Not really. They have gone to postseason tournaments largely because the NEC is a very weak league - much worse than the PL. The last time they had a strong team was 2012.
Sacred Heart Dec 14, 2019 1:13:58 GMT -5 via mobile
Post by purplehaze on Dec 14, 2019 1:13:58 GMT -5
This is a game with lots to lose and little to gain - we better bounce back - long bus ride on the morning of game day - this will not be easy
Sacred Heart Dec 14, 2019 6:22:15 GMT -5
Post by ndgradbuthcfan on Dec 14, 2019 6:22:15 GMT -5
Believe me, that was not my intention.
SH 15-7. HC does not look in sync.
At the end of 1st qtr, SH 17-12. SH missing 2 starters , HC missing Faulkner.
HC scores first 5 of the 2nd, tied at 17 on Smith 3
HC has been a t/o machine with 9 so far, brutal
SH 24-23, 4 mins to go , HC looking a little better, but lazy turnovers are killing them.
Sacred Heart Dec 14, 2019 14:45:59 GMT -5 via mobile
Post by purplehaze on Dec 14, 2019 14:45:59 GMT -5
Not playing well but only down 1 at the half 31-30 - Avery with 10 and Lauren with 9 pts
SH 31-30 at the half. AL w/10, Manis 9.
HC 39-35 early in the third, Manis taking control scored 7
HC playing very good D, mediocre O. Still, lead up to 42-35
HC 51-40 under 2 mins to go. Manis w/21
after 3 HC 53-42 on a strong defensive effort.
Not sure what’s going on with Swords and Ezemma - Megan has missed numerous layups and Ezemma has literally thrown the ball to no one three times for unforced turnovers- SHU is not very good and we should finish this off
Lead up to 17 on a nice put back by Swords. By the way, she missed only 2 shots today, 5/7
SH goes on a 6-0 run of some very bad decisions on offensive by HC to close w/in 11 w/ around 5 mins to go
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Edmonton Election Results – A big Iveson landslide and few City Council surprises
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Photo: Don Iveson celebrates his re-election victory with his family (photo: Twitter)
As expected, Don Iveson was re-elected Mayor of Edmonton in a huge landslide with 141,182 votes – 72 percent of the total votes cast in that race – increasing his total vote count from the 2013 election. Placing a very, very distant second was perennial candidate and pro-smoker advocate Don Koziak, who earned 6.7 percent.
Jon Dziadyk
Of the City Council races, the most notable ended up being the surprise defeat of incumbent councillor Dave Loken in Ward 3, who was unseated by Jon Dziadyk by 464 votes. Karen Principe placed a strong third-place in this race. Loken, who was running for his third-term on council, becomes the first incumbent councillor to lose re-election since Don Iveson defeated Mike Nickel in 2007.
In neighbouring Ward 7, Kris Andreychuk ran an incredible first-time campaign placing 165 votes behind three-term councillor Tony Caterina. Caterina saw his share of the vote drop from 42 percent in 2013 to 33 percent in this year’s election.
Three new councillors were elected in Wards without incumbents. In Ward 4, Aaron Paquette finished first in a twelve-person race with 23 percent of the vote. Sarah Hamilton earned 35 percent of the vote in a nine-person race in Ward 5 to succeed retiring one-term councillor Michael Oshry. And in Ward 9, Tim Cartmell was elected with 41 percent of the vote over four challengers.
Sarah Hamilton
Running what appeared to be a stealth re-election campaign in Ward 8, three-term Councillor Ben Henderson was re-elected with 36 percent of the vote. This is a 38 percent drop in support from 2013, when he was re-elected with 74 percent of the vote. Challengers Kirsten Goa placed second with 22 percent, James Kosowan with 19 percent and Eli Schrader with 11 percent.
In the Public School Board races, Michael Janz was re-elected in a landslide in Ward F. With 15,671 votes and 71.4 percent of the total vote, Janz earned the most votes of any trustee and council candidate and the highest percentage of any candidate in this election except Don Iveson.
In Ward C, Shelagh Dunn earned 45 percent of the vote, unseating incumbent Orville Chubb, who earned 18 percent of the vote. In Ward D, former CBC broadcaster Trisha Estabrooks was elected with 44 percent.
In Ward G, Bridget Stirling appeared to be in a tough race for re-election, but she defeated conservative activist Tyler Duce by a 33 percent margin. Duce’s campaign had broadcast a robocall endorsement from former Edmonton-Gold Bar MLA David Dorward in the final weekend of the campaign.
And in Calgary, Naheed Nenshi appears to have been re-elected as mayor, despite recent polls that showed him 13-points behind challenger Bill Smith.
I will have more analysis of the results and what they could mean for the next four years tomorrow (after I get some sleep).
Tags 2017 Municipal Elections, Aaron Paquette, Ben Henderson, Bill Smith, Bridget Stirling, Calgary Municipal Election 2017, Dave Loken, David Dorward, Don Iveson, Don Koziak, Edmonton Election, Edmonton Municipal Election 2017, Eli Schrader, James Kosowan, Jon Dziadyk, Karen Principe, Kirsten Goa, Kris Andreychuk, Michael Janz, Michael Oshry, Mike Nickel, Naheed Nenshi, Orville Chubb, Sarah Hamilton, Shelagh Dunn, Tim Cartmell, Tony Caterina, Trisha Estabrooks, Tyler Duce
Edmonton Election races I will be watching on Election Night
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Election Day is Monday October 16, 2017. Voting stations are open from 9:00 am until 8:00 pm. Use the Where to Vote tool to find your voting station and candidate list. Authorized identification is required to vote.
With less than 36-hours left until the polls open on Alberta’s municipal Election Day, candidates and their campaign teams will be pressing hard to make sure their efforts over the past month pay off.
Here are a few Edmonton City Council races I will be watching on Election night:
Aaron Paquette
Ward 4: There are twelve candidates running in this northeast Edmonton Ward. Ed Gibbons has represented the area since 2001 but decided not to seek re-election. With so many candidates there is a chance that the successful candidate could be elected with a small percentage of the total vote. It is difficult to make a prediction about who will win, but one campaign that sticks out is that of well-known artist and past NDP candidate Aaron Paquette. I am also watching Alison Poste, Hassan Haymour, Rocco Caterina, Justin Draper, and Trisha Velthuizen in this race.
Ward 5: One-term councillor Michael Oshry decided not to seek re-election. There are nine candidates in this race, but I am predicting that Miranda Jimmy, Sarah Hamilton, and Dawn Newton, and David Xiao will place in the top four.
Ward 7: Tony Caterina is running for his fourth-term on city council and, unlike most incumbents, he has always faced strong challengers. In 2010 he was re-elected with 48 percent of the vote and in 2013 he was returned to office with 42 percent. This time around, he faces a strong challenge from Kris Andreychuk, who is running a solid campaign and has the support of the two previous second place challengers (including Caterina’s council colleague Scott McKeen, now representing Ward 6). I have also been impressed by Mimi Williams, who placed third in 2013 but is running a noticeably better organized campaign this time.
Kirsten Goa
Ward 8: Councillor Ben Henderson was re-elected with 84 percent of the vote in 2013 but this year he faces a much more robust challenge from three main candidates – Kirsten Goa, Eli Schrader and James Kosowan. I have spoken to a number of voters in this ward who have been confused by Henderson’s low-profile campaign and my impression is that Kirsten Goa is the candidate to watch in this race.
Ward 9: With six-term councillor Bryan Anderson retiring, this looks like it could be a four-way race between Tim Cartmell, Rob Agostinis, Sandy Pon, and Payman Parseyan.
Ward 11: Mike Nickel will be hard to beat, but challenger Keren Tang has been running a strong and well-organized campaign. Nickel was first elected in Ward 11 in 2013, but he ran for mayor in 1998 and 2001, and later served as Councillor for Ward 5 from 2004 until he was defeated by Don Iveson in 2007.
I am also watching a handful of Public School Board races, including Ward A, where incumbent Cheryl Johner is facing six challengers, Ward G, where incumbent Bridget Stiring is being challenged by conservative activist Tyler Duce, and Ward F, where my friend Michael Janz is being challenged by Yemi Philip.
Just outside of Edmonton city limits, here are some more races I will be watching:
St. Albert Mayoral Election: Councillors Cathy Heron, Cam Mackay and former councillor Malcolm Parker are running to succeed retiring Mayor Nolan Crouse. This bedroom community north of Edmonton is known for its nasty politics and divisive elections, and this year’s election was no exception. A slate of candidates, apparently friendly to Mackay, have been campaigning against the construction of a second library branch in the growing community.
Strathcona County Mayoral Election: Incumbent Roxanne Carr is facing a strong challenge from former Progressive Conservative MLA Jacquie Fenske, former mayor and past Wildrose candidate Linda Osinchuk, and past federal Liberal candidate Rod Frank.
Are there any other races I should be watching on October 16? Let me know!
Tags Aaron Paquette, Alison Poste, Ben Henderson, Bridget Stirling, Cam Mackay, Cathy Heron, Cheryl Johner, David Xiao, Dawn Newton, Don Iveson, Ed Gibbons, Edmonton Election, Edmonton Elections, Edmonton Municipal Election 2017, Eli Schrader, Hassan Haymour, Jacquie Fenske, James Kosowan, Justin Draper, Keren Tang, Kirsten Goa, Kris Andreychuk, Linda Osinchuk, Malcolm Parker, Michael Janz, Michael Oshry, Mike Nickel, Mimi Williams, Miranda Jimmy, Nolan Crouse, Payman Parseyan, Rob Agostinis, Rocco Caterina, Rod Frank, Roxanne Carr, Sandy Pon, Sarah Hamilton, Scott McKeen, Tim Cartmell, Tony Caterina, Trisha Velthuizen, Tyler Duce, Ward 11, Ward 4, Ward 5, Ward 7, Ward 8, Ward 9, Yemi Philip
Nomination Day kicks off Edmonton’s 2017 Municipal Elections
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Photo: Sarah Chan (left) and her husband, Mayor Don Iveson (right), at Nomination Day at Edmonton City Hall.
Dedicated citizens across Alberta gathered this morning in town halls and community centres to submit their nomination forms to become official candidates in this year’s municipal elections. In Edmonton, 132 candidates and their supporters stood in a line stretching through City Hall’s grand atrium in order to file their papers and officially start their bids for election.
For Edmonton, this represents a record number of candidates running for Mayor, City Council and the city’s two school boards.
Over the past year, I have maintained a list of declared nomination candidates for Council and the Public and Catholic school boards. This list is now updated to reflect the names of the candidates approved to run in the October 16, 2017 municipal elections.
On this year’s ballots, Edmontonians will see a few familiar faces and the names of many first time candidates. Three long-time local politicians will not be on the ballot this year. Longtime councillors Bryan Anderson and Ed Gibbons, and one-term councillor Michael Oshry, have decided to not seek re-election.
I will delve deeper into the candidates and the issues facing voters in this election in the weeks ahead, but here are a few initial observations about Nomination Day:
By my count, 48 of the 132 candidates running in Edmonton’s municipal elections are women. 13 of the 20 candidates running for the Edmonton Catholic School District are women. 11 of 28 candidates running for the Edmonton Public School Board are women. 24 of 84 Mayoral and City Council candidates are women. Equal Voice has an excellent analysis of the gender balance in this election on their website, yegparity.ca.
Mayor Don Iveson is being challenged by 12 candidates. Most recognizable among the challengers is perennial candidate Don Koziak. Koziak has run in at least nine municipal and provincial elections since 1995, including the mayoral race in 2007 and briefly in 2010, and as the Wildrose Party candidate in Edmonton-Glenora in 2012 and 2015.
Edmonton Public School Trustee Michelle Draper was acclaimed in Ward B. She is the only candidate in Edmonton to be acclaimed in this election.
The most crowded City Council race is in Ward 4, where 13 candidates are running to replace retiring Councillor Ed Gibbons. The least crowded City Council race is in Ward 2, where incumbent Councillor Bev Esslinger is facing 2 challengers in her bid for re-election.
Here are a few of the photos from Nomination Day that I have posted on Flickr under Creative Commons licensing:
Aaron Paquette, candidate for Edmonton City Council in Ward 4.
Bridget Stirling, candidate for Edmonton Public School Board in Ward G.
Kris Andreychuk (right) and his family. Kris is running for Edmonton City Council in Ward 7.
Michael Janz, candidate for Edmonton Public School Board in Ward F.
Laura Thibert, candidate for the Edmonton Catholic School Board in Ward 77.
Ahmed Knowmadic Ali, candidate for Edmonton Public School Board in Ward A.
Tags Aaron Paquette, Ahmed Knowmadic Ali, Bridget Stirling, Bryan Anderson, Don Iveson, Don Koziak, Ed Gibbons, Edmonton Elections, Edmonton Municipal Election 2017, Kris Andreychuk, Michael Janz, Michael Oshry, Michelle Draper, Nomination Day
Edmonton Election Update: School Board Trustees Now Included.
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We are now five months away from the October 2017 municipal elections in Edmonton. Here are some of the latest updates to the list of candidates running in Edmonton’s municipal election, now including candidates running for trustee positions on the Edmonton Public School Board and Edmonton Catholic School District.
Edmonton Public School Board
Former CBC reporter Trisha Estabrooks announced tonight at The Bellevue that she will run for Edmonton Public School Board in Ward D. A long-time local CBC reporter, Estabrooks is now a freelance journalist and co-host of The Broadcast, a podcast about women and politics. She is being endorsed by Ray Martin, who has served as trustee for the area since 2013 and is not seeking re-election. Local advocate and Alberta Avenue resident Adam Millie is also running in Ward D.
The current chairperson of the Edmonton Public School Board, Michelle Draper, is running for re-election in Ward B.
Former chairman Michael Janz is seeking re-election in Ward F. Janz was first elected to the public school board in 2010 and has become well-known for his public advocacy on issues such as fair and equitable funding for public schools and improving financial literacy in schools.
Bridget Stirling is running for re-election in Ward G. Stirlng was first elected in a 2015 by-election to replace former trustee Sarah Hoffman, who had been elected as the MLA for Edmonton-Glenora and now serves as Deputy Premier and Minister of Health.
Local photography business owner Mary-ann Fleming is running for election in Ward I.
Edmonton Catholic School District
Outspoken trustee Patricia Grell is running for re-election in Ward 71.
The current chairperson of the Edmonton Catholic School District, Laura Thibert, is running for re-election in Ward 77.
Trustee Debbie Engel is running for re-election in Ward 74. Engel was first elected to the Catholic board in 1998.
Trustee Larry Kowalczyk is not seeking re-election in Ward 72.
Edmonton City Council
Liz John West is the latest candidate to enter the race in City Council’s Ward 7. Also recently announced in Ward 7 is Andrzej Gudanowski.
Michael Oshry has dropped out of the city council race in Ward 5. Oshry was first elected in 2013 and briefly considered a run for the Progressive Conservative Party leadership in 2016.
If you know any other candidates who have announced their intentions to stand for Mayor, Council, or School Board and are not on this list, please send me an email at david.cournoyer@gmail.com. I will add them. Thank you!
Tags Adam Millie, Andrzej Gudanowski, Bridget Stirling, Debbie Engel, Edmonton Catholic School District, Edmonton Municipal Election 2017, Edmonton Public School Board, Larry Kowalczyk, Liz John West, Michael Janz, Michael Oshry, Patricia Grell, Ray Martin, Sarah Hoffman, The Broadcast Podcast, Trisha Estabrooks
210 days until Election Day in Edmonton
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Edmonton City Hall in the depths of winter.
Alison Poste
With Edmonton’s 2017 municipal elections now 210 days away, we are starting to see more candidates file their intentions to run for city council. I have updated the list of declared candidates, which now includes Alison Poste in Ward 4, Svetlana Pavlenko and Michael Oshry (presumably) in Ward 5, Payman Parseyan and Sandy Pon in Ward 9 and Brandy Burdeniuk in Ward 11.
Oshry, the current councillor for Ward 5, announced earlier this month that he would like to see stricter rules around who can run in Edmonton’s municipal elections.
CBC reported that for the next election in 2021, Oshry would like to see candidates putting their names forward be required to collect 100 signatures and provide a $1,000 deposit. This would be an increase from the current requirement of 25 signatures and $100 deposit.
Michael Oshry
I am supportive of a change that would require potential candidates to collect 100 signatures, which I think is fair and probably good practice, but I am reluctant to support such a drastic increase to the financial deposit. For many first-time candidates, especially those without support from private sector developers, $1,000 is no small amount of money in a campaign budget.
We should not seek to limit the number of individuals seeking election by creating unnecessary financial hurdles but we can gauge their seriousness and commitment by increasing in the number of signatures required on their nomination forms.
Tracking Calgary election candidates
I have been asked by a number of readers whether I will also be tracking candidates running in Calgary’s municipal elections. The answer is no, but thankfully, Sarah Elder-Chamanara has launched a new website tracking candidates in Calgary. I will definitely write about any interesting races that develop in other municipalities during the campaign but my focus on municipal politics remains in Edmonton.
Tags Alison Poste, Brandy Burdeniuk, Calgary Municipal Election 2017, Edmonton Municipal Election 2017, Michael Oshry, Payman Parseyan, Sandy Pon, Sarah Elder-Chamanara, Svetlana Pavlenko
Stephanie McLean wants more women to run in next year’s municipal elections
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Stephanie McLean
Alberta’s Minister for the Status of Women Stephanie McLean is heading on a four-city tour to convince more women to run for elected office in next year’s municipal elections. The tour will feature events in Edmonton on October 18, Medicine Hat on October 20, Calgary on October 24, and Lethbridge on October 27.
Despite a record number of women being elected to the Alberta Legislature in May 2015, including nearly a majority in the governing New Democratic Party caucus, and the majority of provincial cabinet ministers being women, the number of women elected to municipal office remains low.
According to the Alberta government website that promotes the tour and includes an online campaign toolkit, women hold an average of 26% of elected seats in municipal politics and Albertans elected 490 women out of a possible 1,874 municipal positions during the 2013 municipal elections.
At the Edmonton event on October 18, the only woman elected to our City Council, Bev Esslinger, will join Ms. McLean and Métis Nation of Alberta President Audrey Poitras for a discussion about how women can launch campaigns for municipal office. The discussion will be moderated by Edmonton Journal reporter Elise Stolte.
The Lethbridge event will feature Maryanne Sandberg, Councillor from the Municipal District of Willowcreek. The Medicine Hat discussion will include past mayoral candidate Milvia Bauman, Newell County Reeve and past provincial election candidate Molly Douglass and moderator Christy Pick from Shaw TV Channel 10.
The Calgary event discussion will include Piikani Nation Councillor Angela Grier former Calgary City councillor Gael MacLeod and will be moderated by radio host and former Wildrose and PC MLA Danielle Smith.
2016 marks 100 years of women’s suffrage in Alberta. As we can see in the current American presidential race, women candidates face many challenges when it comes to seeking office, least of all still having to campaign hard against an opponent who is grossly under qualified. I have heard it said that women have to be asked five times to run for office before accepting, while it usually only takes men one ask. It is my hope that more women will seek election, and will be elected throughout the province. After all, it is 2016.
On the topic of women running in municipal elections, Miranda Jimmy launched her campaign for Edmonton City Council in the southwest Ward 5. She will be facing incumbent Michael Oshry, should he choose to run again.
Tags Angela Grier, Audrey Poitras, Bev Esslinger, Christy Pick, Danielle Smith, Elise Stolte, Gael MacLeod, Maryanne Sandberg, Michael Oshry, Milvia Bauman, Miranda Jimmy, Molly Douglass, Stephanie McLean, Women in Alberta Politics, Women in Politics
PC Party Superdelegates could block Jason Kenney’s hostile takeover
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There are thirty-four days remaining until the Progressive Conservative leadership officially begins on October 1, 2016. The race is already unofficially underway with one candidate in the contest Jason Kenney – the Member of Parliament who launched a hostile takeover campaign earlier in the summer in a bid to merge the PCs with the Wildrose Party with the backing of lobbyists with Wildrose Party ties.
I keep hearing from my friends involved in the PC Party that a social conservative like Mr. Kenney cannot be allowed to win this race.
The third-place PC Party, which formed government in Alberta from 1971 until 2015, have abandoned its former one-member one-vote system that threw open the doors to any Albertan who wanted to participate. The party’s next leader will be chosen by locally elected delegates – 15 from each of the province’s 87 constituencies.
The PC Party committee drawing up the rules for the leadership race has decided that of each group of 15 elected delegates, ten which will be open to any local party member wishing to become a delegate and five reserved for local party officials. This is somewhat similar to the Superdelegate system used by the Democratic Party in the United States.
Doug Schweitzer
The adoption of this Superdelegate system means the thousands of Wildrose Party supporters who may purchase PC Party memberships to support Mr. Kenney may have a smaller impact than if all 15 delegate spots were wide open. It will likely make it more difficult for Mr. Kenney to succeed in his hostile take over the Alberta’s PC Party.
But stopping Mr. Kenney would mean someone would actually have to run against him.
We have heard rumours of that Calgary lawyer Doug Schweitzer is aiming to run, with the support from the party’s monied Calgary establishment. He is the former CEO of the Manitoba PC Party and was connected to Jim Prentice‘s 2014 leadership campaign. Also said be considering a run is Byron Nelson, another Calgary lawyer and a past PC election candidate.
Richard Starke
I am told that more than a few moderate Tories are warming up to the idea of supporting soft-spoken veterinarian Richard Starke, one of two remaining rural PC MLAs. Sandra Jansen has also been talked about as a voice of the party’s ‘progressive’ wing. She is despised by federal Conservative activists for throwing her support behind two Calgary Liberal Party candidates in the last federal election.
Will there be a candidate from Edmonton? The NDP remain popular and ahead in the polls in the capital city, which elected New Democrats in every constituency in the 2015 election.
Thomas Lukaszuk
Former Edmonton-Castle Downs MLA Thomas Lukaszuk has been rumoured but his support of funding cuts to the University of Alberta, his close association with former premier Alison Redford and his strange $20,000 cell phone bill are significant political impediments. According to a recent ThinkHQ poll, his disapproval rating in Edmonton sits around 50 percent.
City Councillor Michael Oshry has mused about running but his real goal might actually be to secure his spot as a PC candidate in Edmonton-McClung in the next election, a seat that the PCs might be able to pick up. Lawyer Harman Kandola, who was the PC candidate in Edmonton-Ellerslie in 2015 is also said to be testing the waters for a run.
Katherine O’Neill
I have heard some PC Party members wish party president Katherine O’Neill would join the leadership race. The former Globe & Mail reporter and past PC candidate has been criss-crossing the province at the same speed as Mr. Kenney and his big blue truck, though it is probably too late for the party president to shift gears into a leadership vote this close to the official start of the campaign.
Mr. Kenney has spent the summer travelling around the province preaching his gospel of merging the PCs and Wildrose Party to defeat the risky, dangerous and scary socialists in Edmonton. But it might not necessarily a bad thing that Mr. Kenney has sucked up all the PC leadership oxygen this summer. In doing so he has defined the narrative of this part of the campaign – merging the PCs with the Wildrose – an idea that 1,000 PC Party members, including many who will now vote as Superdelegates, loudly rejected at their annual general meeting earlier this spring.
Tags 2017 Alberta Progressive Conservative Leadership Race, Alison Redford, Byron Nelson, Doug Schweitzer, Harman Kandola, Jason Kenney, Jim Prentice, Katherine O'Neill, Michael Oshry, Richard Starke, Sandra Jansen, Superdelegates, Thomas Lukaszuk
A look at who is backing Jason Kenney’s bid for the PC Party leadership
Post date July 5, 2016
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Jason Kenney with former Reform Party leader Preston Manning, a key player in the last attempt to unite-the-right in Alberta.
Conservative Member of Parliament Jason Kenney is expected to announce his candidacy for the leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta tomorrow, July 6, in Calgary, deliver a speech in Grande Prairie that evening and then travel to Edmonton on July 7 for another speech. He was widely expected to run for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada and only just recently began positioning himself as candidate to unite Alberta’s conservative partisans under one banner.
He would be the first candidate to officially enter the PC leadership contest, which is scheduled to be held on March 18, 2017.
As I explained in a column last month, Mr. Kenney could have a rough landing in Alberta politics.
A skilled organizer with more than 25 years of experience as a taxpayers federation lobbyist and Ottawa politician, Mr. Kenney should not be underestimated by his opponents.
Mr. Kenney follows in the footsteps of his former colleague, Jim Prentice, who led the PC Party from 2014 until its defeat by Rachel Notley’s New Democratic Party in May 2015. That election ended forty-four uninterrupted years of PC majority governments in Alberta.
Mr. Kenney recently purchased a membership in the PC Party, despite being widely seen as a supporter and ideological ally of the Official Opposition Wildrose Party, currently led by former MP Brian Jean.
Perhaps anticipating a threat of takeover, the PC Party recently abandoned its one-member one-vote system of choosing its leader in favour of a closed-delegate system, which forces candidates to campaign and organize in all 87 constituencies across the province.
Mr. Kenney is not assured an easy victory in the PC leadership race. I spoke with CTV about some of the potential candidates who also might enter the race, including former deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk, who Mr. Kenney once described as an “asshole,” Vermilion-Lloydminster MLA Richard Starke, and Calgary-North West MLA Sandra Jansen, who said she would consider leaving the PC Party if Mr. Kenney became the leader. Edmonton City Councillor Michael Oshry is also considering entering the contest and former MLA Doug Griffiths is rumoured to be interested.
It is unclear whether Mr. Kenney would resign as the MP for Calgary-Midnapore immediately or if he would keep one foot in federal politics until he secures a leadership position in a provincial party. Under provincial elections law, he does not need to resign his federal seat until he is a registered candidate in a provincial election.
Because of his track-record as a social conservative and Wildrose supporter, Mr. Kenney might not find a great deal of support among existing PC Party members, including the 1,001 who attended the party’s annual general meeting earlier this year. But two unite-the-right groups could provide him with a base with which to organize his PC leadership bid.
Mr. Kenney appears to have the support of two unite-the-right groups. The Alberta Can’t Wait group, backed by former Reform Party stalwarts Preston Manning and Cliff Fryers, lobbyist Hal Danchilla and 1980s Tory cabinet minister Rick Orman, and the Alberta Prosperity Fund, backed by former right-wing talk radio host Dave Rutherford, former MLAs Heather Forsyth and Shiraz Shariff, and former PC Party president Jim McCormick. The Alberta Prosperity Fund issued a formal endorsement of Mr. Kenney on July 5, 2016.
The Alberta Can’t Wait group was reportedly planning to hijack the Alberta Party later this summer and Prosperity Fund founder and director Barry McNamar, formerly of the Fraser Institute and Manning Centre, is reportedly suing the Wildrose Party.
The two groups are part of a burgeoning cottage industry of anti-NDP groups, including the infamous and less polished Kudatah, that have popped up since the May 2015 election. Both the Wildrose and PC Parties have publicly rejected their overtures.
Alberta’s elections laws bar political parties from merging financial assets, meaning any actual merger between conservative parties is highly unlikely. Making things more complicated was the formation of a sixth conservative party last month – the Reform Party of Alberta. It may be a more likely scenario that a PC Party led by Mr. Kenney would apply to Elections Alberta to change its name to the Conservative Party of Alberta and urge Wildrose MLAs to run under its banner in the 2019 general election.
Cast into the opposition for the first time in 44 years, Conservatives in Alberta will need to define what their vision is for the future of our province. After decades of fiscal mismanagement, much of Alberta’s current economic situation is a result of decisions made by PC Party governments. Conservatives cannot simply expect that Albertans will forgive, forget and restore the natural governing party in 2019. Those days are gone.
Aside from his politically charged rhetoric about “free enterprise” and the bogeyman ‘bohemian Marxism‘ it remains completely unclear what Mr. Kenney’s vision for Alberta would be, besides just returning Conservatives to power. I expect we will find out more in the next few days.
Tags 2017 Alberta Progressive Conservative Leadership Race, Alberta Can’t Wait, Alberta NDP, Alberta Prosperity Fund, Barry McNamar, Brian Jean, Cliff Fryers, Conservative Party of Alberta, Dave Rutherford, Doug Griffiths, Fraser Institute, Hal Danchilla, Heather Forsyth, Jason Kenney, Jim McCormick, Jim Prentice, Kudatah, Manning Centre, Michael Oshry, Preston Manning, Rachel Notley, Reform Party of Alberta, Richard Starke, Rick Orman, Sandra Jansen, Shiraz Shariff, Thomas Lukaszuk, Unite the Right, Wildrose Party
Let’s end the myth of partisan-free city council elections
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Edmonton City Councillor Michael Oshry
We need to keep politics out of elections: That sums up recent comments made by Edmonton City Councillor Michael Oshry. The west Edmonton councillor has waded into the 32-candidate by-election race in southeast Edmonton’s Ward 12, questioning the decision of some MLAs to endorse candidates in the municipal contest.
Mr. Oshry’s comments have sparked a resurgence of the popular and misinformed myth that “there is no partisan politics in municipal elections.”
It is natural for politically engaged people to be involved in elections for different levels of government. In fact, the most successful campaigns I have been involved in at a municipal level have attracted organizers and volunteers from a variety of partisan loyalties. It is also not uncommon for municipal politicians to have party connections or the support of politicians from other levels of government. Despite this, no one is proposing to bring political parties back to city council, as existed in Edmonton until the late 1980s.
Like all municipal elections in Edmonton, a number of candidates running in the Ward 12 by-election have party affiliations or are being supported by individuals involved in party politics at the provincial and federal levels.
Nav Kaur has been endorsed by New Democratic Party MLAs Rod Loyola and Shannon Phillips and recent federal Liberal candidate Beatrice Ghettuba.
Arundeep Sandhu was vice-president of organization for the Progressive Conservative Party until late 2015 and posted on his Twitter feed that he has the support of Sherwood Park Conservative MP Garnett Genuis.
Danisha Bhaloo has been endorsed by former PC MLAs Stephen Mandel and Heather Klimchuk and her campaign manager, Catherine Keill, is a former PC candidate and current Vice President of Communications for the PC Party.
Yash Pal Sharma has been endorsed by former PC MLA Peter Sandhu.
Balraj Manhas ran for a PC Party nomination in 2015.
Moe Banga was a candidate for a federal Conservative nomination in 2014.
Don Koziak ran as a Wildrose Party candidate in 2012 and 2015.
Laura Thibert was briefly nominated as a Wildrose Party candidate before the 2015 election.
Mike Butler has run for the NDP and Liberals in numerous provincial and federal elections.
If partisan affiliations in provincial and federal elections or endorsements from provincial or federal politicians precluded citizens from running for political office, then a number of current city councillors, including Mr. Oshry, would be ineligible to serve.
Mr. Oshry was endorsed by St. Albert PC MLA Stephen Khan during the 2013 municipal election.
Councillor Tony Caterina ran as a PC candidate in the 2015 election and ran as an Alberta Alliance candidate in the 2004 provincial election.
Councillor Bev Esslinger was a PC candidate in 2012 election.
Councillor Ed Gibbons was a Liberal MLA from 1997 to 2001. In 2015, he donated $375.00 to the Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville PC Association and in 2007 and 2011 he donated $850 and $1,100 to the PC Party.
Mayor Don Iveson donated $250 to Linda Duncan’s election campaign in 2008, while he was city councillor.
Councillor Dave Loken campaigned for NDP candidate Janis Irwin in the 2015 federal election and donated more than $2,000 to the Alberta NDP between 2011 and 2014.
Councillor Mike Nickel is a former PC Party constituency director. In 2014, he donated $318.25 to the Leduc-Beaumont Wildrose Association and in 2005 he donated $600 to the PC Party.
Councillor Michael Walters was an Alberta Party candidate in the 2012 election and endorsed a PC candidate in the 2015 election. He also ran for an NDP nomination in 2000.
Here is a look back at some municipal politicians from the recent past who have had partisan affiliations:
Former mayor Stephen Mandel was a PC MLA from 2014 to 2015. He donated $3,000 to the PC Party between 2010 and 2012, while he was Mayor of Edmonton.
Former councillor Kim Krushell was a local PC Party constituency association president before being elected as a city councillor. In 2008, she donated $425 to the PC Party. She now serves as a regional director for the PC Party.
Former councillor Karen Leibovici was a Liberal MLA from 1993 to 2001 and a federal Liberal candidate in 2015. During her mayoral bid in 2013, she was endorsed by a handful of PC MLAs, including then-deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk and PC MLA David Xiao.
Former councillor Linda Sloan was a Liberal MLA from 1997 to 2001. She ran for the Liberal Party leadership in 1998.
Former councillor Jane Batty donated $425 to the PC Party in 2010.
Former councillor Wendy Kinsella ran as a PC candidate in the 2001 election, while she was still a sitting city councillor.
Former councillor Brian Mason was elected as an NDP MLA in a 2000 by-election. He is now Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation.
Perhaps the strangest example of partisan involvement in municipal politics was in 2007, when the Wildrose Party donated $250 to Kerry Diotte‘s city council campaign. This is the only example I have found of a political party actually donating money to a municipal election candidate.
These lists demonstrate that after more than four decades of PC governments in Alberta, support for the governing party became engrained in all levels of politics to the point where support for the PCs from municipal politicians was not seen as partisanship, just the way the business of politics was done.
Tags Arundeep Singh Sandhu, Balraj Manhas, Catherine Keill, Danisha Bhaloo, Don Koziak, Edmonton City Council, Edmonton Ward 12 By-Election, Garnett Genuis, Laura Thibert, Michael Oshry, Mike Butler, Mohinder Banga, Nav Kaur, Political Parties in Municipal Elections, Rod Loyola, Shannon Phillips, Stephen Mandel, Yash Pal Sharma
Big Money in Edmonton Municipal Election
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Edmonton’s 2013 mayoral candidates Don Iveson, Karen Leibovici and Kerry Diotte.
$4.35, $19.75, and $5.45 are how much Don Iveson, Karen Leibovici and Kerry Diotte‘s campaigns spent for each vote received in Edmonton’s October 21, 2013 mayoral election. With the most efficient dollar-to-vote ratio is Mr. Iveson, who won the election with a landslide 132,162 votes (62% of the total votes cast).
With a less efficient dollar-to-vote ratio was Ms. Leibovici, who earned 41,182 votes (19% of the total vote) while outspending Mr. Iveson by more than $237,500 and declaring a steep $142,415.27 campaign deficit.
Released last week, the financial disclosures for Edmonton’s 2013 Mayoral and City Council elections detail how much each mayoral and councillor candidate raised and expensed during the campaign. Below is the breakdown for the top three mayoral candidates.
Edmonton Mayoral Election 2013, Financial Disclosure
Candidate Total Revenue Total Expenses Surplus/(Deficit)
Iveson $618,501.63 $576,059.79 $42,441.84
Leibovici $671,171.34 $813,586.61 ($142,415.27)
Diotte $179.912.11 $179,852.76 $59.35
Mayoral candidates Josh Semotiuk and Gordon Ward self-financed their campaigns and did not declare any donations. Candidate Kristine Acielo did not file a financial disclosure.
Here are the financial breakdowns submitted from elected city council candidates competing in Edmonton’s 12 wards.
Edmonton City Council Election 2013, Financial Disclosure
Andrew Knack $43,143.06 $43,143.06 $0
Bev Esslinger $34,044.28 $33,220.88 $823.40
Dave Loken $97,054.50 $96,906.55 $147.95
Ed Gibbons $93,461.44 $93,254.44 $207.00
Michael Oshry $82,587.85 $82,929.85 $295.00
Scott McKeen $105,862.81 $103,585.54 $2,277.27
Tony Caterina $87,950.00 $87,603.00 $347.00
Ben Henderson $59,335.06 $31,640.26 $27,714.80
Bryan Anderson $68,836.47 $43,783.69 $25,052.78
Michael Walters $107,198.85 $106,744.60 $454.25
Mike Nickel $65,199.00 $64,793.81 $405.19
Amarjeet Sohi $130,840.99 $85,105.30 $45,735.69
According to the Local Authorities Elections Act, donations to municipal election candidates are limited to a maximum of $5,000 for individuals, corporations and trade unions during an election year.
Tags Amarjeet Sohi, Andrew Knack, Ben Henderson, Bev Esslinger, Big Money, Bryan Anderson, Dave Loken, Don Iveson, Donations, Ed Gibbons, Edmonton City Council, Edmonton Mayoral Election 2013, Financial Disclosure, Gordon Ward, Josh Semotiuk, Karen Leibovici, Kerry Diotte, Kristine Acielo, Michael Oshry, Michael Walters, Mike Nickel, Scott McKeen, Tony Caterina
Don Iveson’s win a vote for optimism and smart planning in Edmonton
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Mayor-elect Don Iveson, and mayoral candidates Karen Leibovici and Kerry Diotte.
There will be plenty of analysis about what last night’s election means for the city of Edmonton. With 132,162 votes – 62% of the vote – Don Iveson earned a commanding victory in the mayoral election over his two main opponents, Karen Leibovici and Kerry Diotte.
This is a win for the positive campaign and a stunning rebuke of the traditional negative campaign. While his main opponents strayed into negative tactics, Mr. Iveson’s campaign avoided the taunts by focusing on remaining positive and optimistic. And it worked. This should send a strong message to voters and politicians across the land that you do not need to go negative to win.
This is a vote for the future. I spoke with many people over the past month who weren’t sure what this election was about. While “the future” and “long-term planning” aren’t sexy wedge issues like the closure of an airport or the construction of a new hockey arena, they are so much more important. Campaigns can be delivered in full-sentences. Mr. Iveson’s comprehensive platform and its focus on long-term planning differentiated him from the other candidates.
Edmontonians have given Mr. Iveson a clear mandate to move forward with an agenda to renew public infrastructure, kickstart innovation, expand LRT, and change the way we fund our city.
There are challenges ahead. As mayor, Mr. Iveson will have to build a team on a city council with six new faces. Any successful mayor understands that they are only one vote of thirteen on council. Balancing progressive voices like re-elected councillors Ben Henderson and Amarjeet Sohi and newly-elected Michael Walters and Scott McKeen, along with moderate conservatives like Michael Oshry and fiscal hawks like Mike Nickel could be a challenge.
Building a strong region will be critical to moving Edmonton forward and new opportunities exist for the Capital Region Board with new mayors Tom Flynn in Sturgeon County, Lisa Holmes in Morinville, and Roxanne Carr in Strathcona County. Regional cooperation on planning and development, as well as service delivery, are areas where the capital region could see progress over the next four years.
Solving the fiscal challenges facing Alberta’s cities will also be difficult. The provincial government needs to be convinced that Alberta’s cities require additional resources and responsibilities to address the tremendous pressures associated with fast growing populations. The introduction of City Charters could be a significant step to helping cities deal with this issue.
With the province’s most dynamic political leaders now leading our large urban municipalities, Naheed Nenshi in Calgary, Don Iveson in Edmonton, Melissa Blake in Wood Buffalo, Bill Given in Grande Prairie, and newly elected Tara Veer in Red Deer have an opportunity to pursue a strong urban agenda that the provincial government cannot ignore.
(Note: I have been happy to volunteer my personal time during the election campaign to help Don Iveson become the next mayor of Edmonton. I am ecstatic that Edmontonians have entrusted him with their votes)
Tags Amarjeet Sohi, Ben Henderson, Bill Given, Don Iveson, Gordon Ward, Josh Semotiuk, Karen Leibovici, Kerry Diotte, Kristine Acielo, Lisa Holmes, Melissa Blake, Michael Oshry, Michael Walters, Mike Nickel, Naheed Nenshi, Roxanne Carr, Scott McKeen, Tara Veer, Tom Flynn
7 City Council races to watch in Edmonton
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With most attention focused on Edmonton’s mayoral election, it is important to remember there are a number of contest for City Council that could produce interesting results on election day. There are seven Wards that I will be keeping a close watch on when voting ends on October 21.
Andrew Knack
After three-terms, councillor Linda Sloan announced only weeks before the nomination day that she would not seek re-election. This must have been a big surprise to her lone-challenger Andrew Knack, who had already been campaigning for months. This is Mr. Knack’s third attempt at winning a city council seat and he is not unchallenged. Health economist Bryan Sandilands, community activist Jamie Post, past-Wildrose Alliance candidate Sharon Maclise, and former CTV reporter Sean Amato have also entered the race. I suspect Mr. Knack’s head-start could be hard to overcome.
With three-term councillor Kim Krushell choosing not to seek re-election, there is an open race in north Edmonton’s Ward 2 . Both Don Koziak and Bev Esslinger will have name recognition from their previous political adventures. A perennial election candidate, Mr. Koziak placed a close second behind Ms. Krushell in 2010 and has run for office many times in the past, including as the Edmonton-Glenora Wildrose candidate in the 2012 provincial election and the mayoral election in 2007. Ms. Esslinger is known from her time as a public school trustee and as last year’s unsuccessful Progressive Conservative candidate in Edmonton-Calder. Candidate Nita Jalkanen could also play a factor in this race as a vocal opponent of the downtown arena project.
David Dodge
Is first-term councillor Dave Loken politically vulnerable? Challenger David Dodge hopes so. The low-profile Mr. Loken is facing a strong challenge from Mr. Dodge, the former president of the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues. Mr. Loken has an incumbent advantage, but it could be a close race.
The race to replace four-term councillor Karen Leibovici has drawn a crowd. Businessman Michael Oshry, former City Hall insider Terry Demers, transit worker Allan Santos, community league president Rob Hennigar, beer man Jim Gibbon, and former Catholic schools trustee Rudy Arcilla are among the nine candidates. My money is on the cool and confident Mr. Oshry.
Heather Mackenzie
Sixteen candidates have entered this race to represent north central Edmonton’s core neighbourhoods. Public school trustee Heather Mackenzie, former Edmonton Journal columnist Scott McKeen, police offcer Dexx Williams and community league president Derrick Forsythe are who I would pick as leaders of the pack. But leading the pack might not be enough. Many of the candidates in this race can expect to receive a few hundred votes each by simply being on the ballot, which could siphon votes away from the front-runners.
Filling Don Iveson‘s shoes in Ward 10 will be a tall order (both literally and figuratively). Community organizer Michael Walters has been pounding the pavement and waging a well-financed campaign for months. As a past provincial election candidate, Mr. Walters also has name recognition in the area. He is facing challenges from university instructor Richard Feehan and businessman Hafis Devji, but they may have a difficult time catching up. My prediction: Mr. Walters’ sweeps Ward 10 on October 21.
Who will replace Kerry Diotte in Ward 11? Hoping to leverage his name recognition and local outrage over potholes, two-time mayoral candidate and former city councillor Mike Nickel is attempting to stage a political comeback, but he is not alone. Mixed martial arts company owner Harvey Panesar (watch his video below), retired citizenship judge Sonia Bitar, and Mujahid Chak could be the biggest obstacles to Mr. Nickel’s return to politics.
Tags Allan Santos, Andrew Knack, Bev Esslinger, Bryan Sandilands, Dave Loken, David Dodge, Derrick Forsythe, Dexx Williams, Don Iveson, Don Koziak, Hafis Devji, Harvey Panesar, Heather Mackenzie, Jamie Post, Jim Gibbon, Karen Leibovici, Kerry Diotte, Kim Krushell, Linda Sloan, Michael Oshry, Michael Walters, Mike Nickel, Mujahid Chak, Nita Jalkenen, Richard Feehan, Rob Henningar, Rudy Arcilla, Scott McKeen, Sean Amato, Sharon Maclise, Sonia Bitar, Terry Demers
Edmonton Election Substance and Style #1
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With Edmonton’s election campaign in full-swing, it is easy for this political watcher to miss a moment or campaign announcement over the course of a week. At the beginning or end of each week, I plan to compile ‘Substance and Style’, a summary of some the week’s events that I may have missed. Please share a comment below if you believe I missed any important stories.
Don Iveson
Mayoral candidate Don Iveson released some thoughtful positions supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses, renewing roads and infrastructure, and taking a fresh look at how Edmonton is funded. Kerry Diotte stayed away from the fray, mostly attending forums and campaign events. As for policy, he continues to focus on his four key issues – roads, debt, taxes and the arena deal. Meanwhile, Karen Leibovici released statements on transit smart cards, fast-tracking a small and medium sized business review, and clearing snow from city sidewalks for seniors.
Ward 10 council candidate Michael Walters released his eight priorities at City Hall. Ward 5 candidate Michael Oshry wrote a thoughtful blog post on municipal debt.
Kerry Diotte
#yegvote Google Hangout
Mr. Diotte will be joining Mack Male, Ryan Hastman and I for a conversation on our next #yegvote Google Hangout on Thursday, October 3 at 8:00 p.m. Visit EdmontonPolitics.com to watch the hangout and use the #yegvote hashtag on Twitter to pose questions that we can ask Mr. Diotte during the hangout.
Donor Lists Released
Ms. Leibovici released her list of donors, which showed $365,000 in donations. Mr. Iveson released his list of donors, totalling $318,772. Mr. Diotte has said that he will not release the list of his financial backers until he is legally obligated to after the election.
Karen Leibovici
Leibovici goes negative
Ms. Leibovici’s campaign launched a negative attack on Mr. Iveson over the weekend. In a campaign press release, Ms. Leibovici attacked both Mr. Iveson and popular Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, claiming they are conspiring to increase the federal Goods & Services Tax by 1%. There is not any evidence that Mr. Iveson plans to raise the GST, nor is that a power any mayor actually has.
Ironically, Ms. Leibovici spoke out against the 1% cut to GST in 2007, accusing the federal government of being unfair to municipalities by refusing to give them more money to fix sidewalks and sewers.
More gutter politics
A email account operating under the fake name “Henry Frendman” is circulating copies of a a satirical column that Mr. Iveson wrote fifteen years ago for the student newspaper at the University of Alberta. The fake email quotes the obviously satirical column, titled “Workers of the World: Repose!“, and accuses Mr. Iveson of being a Marxist. “That was clearly written as a joke when I was 20 and that is what you do in campus newspapers. You write silly things to get a rise out of people,” Mr. Iveson told Metro Edmonton.
As the mayoral election gets closer and some campaigns get desperate, expect more negative campaigning.
Debt Misinformation
Disappointingly, misinformation about Edmonton’s debt levels continues to penetrate the mainstream media. In a recent Edmonton Journal column, former city councillor Mike Nickel, now running in Ward 11, was referenced as claiming the city is near the top of its borrowing limit. This is simply untrue. As of 2012, the City of Edmonton has reached 52% of its borrowing as limited by the provincial government.
Tags Don Iveson, Henry Frendman, Karen Leibovici, Kerry Diotte, Mack Male, Michael Oshry, Michael Walters, Naheed Nenshi, Ryan Hastman
Beer man Jim Gibbon runs for Edmonton City Council
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Jim Gibbon
Jim Gibbon, the founder and president of Amber’s Brewing Company, announced this week that he will run for City Council in west Edmonton’s Ward 5.
Speaking over the phone this week, the owner of the popular local craft beer company explained his reasons for wanting to run in the October 21 elections. Last year, Amber’s Brewing was forced to find a new location because of a sharp rise in rent at its former location in the Ritchie neighbourhood in south central Edmonton. Mr. Gibbon looked for a new location in Edmonton and enlisted the help of Ward 8 City Councillor Ben Henderson, who he described as being a great help.
But after meeting with city staff, who proved to be less helpful in responding to his requests to rezone a potential new location for the brewery, which could have included Petrolia Mall, he decided to look outside Edmonton. According to Mr. Gibbon, city staff told him it would take 18 months to properly rezone a new location, which was an unrealistic time frame for the local business to wait to find a new home. After inquiring with the City of Calgary, who told him they could quickly rezone a space for his brewery if he moved south, Mr. Gibbon told me he looked north to the City of St. Albert, where Amber’s is now brewed in a brewery owned by the Hog’s Head Brewing Company.
“We chase business out,” said Mr. Gibbon, who wants to make the city more friendly and flexible to local entrepreneurs who want to lay down roots in Edmonton.
Not just a simple beer man, Mr. Gibbon is a director of Edmonton’s Heritage Festival and holds a Masters in Business Administration, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Sciences from the University of Alberta. Mr. Gibbon is the nephew grandson of Ray Gibbon, who served as mayor of St. Albert from 1968 to 1974 and as interim mayor in 1989.
In Ward 5, Mr. Gibbon faces five other declared candidates: former Catholic school trustee Rudy Arcilla, past provincial Liberal Party candidate Arif Khan, former city council executive assistant Terry Demers, Dan St. Pierre, and Michael Oshry. Ward 5 is currently represented by Councillor Karen Leibovici, who is running for mayor.
Tags Arif Khan, Ben Henderson, Dan St. Pierre, Jim Gibbon, Karen Leibovici, Michael Oshry, Rudy Arcilla, Terry Demers
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Scott Storch Calls Timbaland The N Word
What's interesting to me is that a White rapper is calling a Black performer the N-word in a music clip. Fascinating. Stupid, too. What's equally so is Paris Hilton using the word, as reported here. Here MediaTakeOut's view and explanation of all of this followed by the video itself and the song:
February 27, 2007. In today's hip hop, diss songs are commonplace. But even a hip hop diss song has boundaries that aren't supposed to be crossed. And MediaTakeOut.com has learned that hip hop producer Scott Storch may have just crossed that boundary.
Storch, who is Caucasian, has been publicly feuding with fellow producer Timbaland for months. And in a recent diss track, the Caucasian producer put all of his harsh feelings on wax.
In the new song, entitled Built Like Dat, Storch blasts Timbaland with some scathing lyrics. The Caucasian producer uses the track to make some explosive allegations against his rival. For example, Storch claims that Timbaland is on steroids, and implies that the hit producer is a homosexual. But that's not the controversial part of the song.
Near the end of the track, Storch uttered the verse, "Don't apologize [N Word], you can't even get your label to work right." And that verse, which was clearly aimed at Timbaland, is sending shockwaves throughout the hip hop community.
MediaTakeOut.com spoke with a prominent New York DJ who offered his take on the controversial track. The DJ, who asked to remain anonymous, told us the following, "I know Scott [Storch], and he always talks reckless like that ... I don't know if he's a racist or not. I do know that no matter how many beats you make, you don't have the right to call a Black man a [N Word]."
And there may be another reason to question Storch's use of the 'N word' against rival Timbaland. The Caucasian producer is very close friends with socialite Paris Hilton - who was caught on tape using the 'N Word' to refer to Black people.
MediaTakeOut.com has repeatedly tried to contact Timbaland for comment. So far, he hasn't responded to our requests.
We've included audio of the song below. Storch uses the 'N word' when there's :40 left:
Labels: Calls, N Word, Scott Storch, The, Timbaland
3:32 PM bemti2000 said...
Common he did not say nothin like that.Nox did.
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Surprisingly good coverage (I think) from a newspaper who only carried a short AP article when reporting on the June 29 protest in Tokyo.
From Washington Post (7/1/2012; emphasis is mine):
First nuclear reactor to go back online since Japan disaster met with protests
By Chico Harlan
TOKYO — Protesters this weekend thronged the wide streets in front of the prime minister’s office in Tokyo, and across the country they gathered about a quarter-mile from the entrance of a nuclear plant. They shouted “No to the restart,” and parked cars in front of the plant’s access road, blocking workers from coming or going, according to Japanese media.
But the workers were already inside.
Sunday, at the Ohi nuclear facility along Japan’s western shoreline, those workers went through the technical steps to reboot a reactor, the first to come back online since last year’s massive nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi.
The restart at Ohi — with potentially more to follow — will avert dire power shortages and sustain the economy, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has told the nation. But the restart also has divided the country, staging an increasingly hostile showdown between the government and those doubtful about its atomic safety claims.
Some political experts thought Noda’s announcement two weeks ago about the restart of two reactors at Ohi — the No. 4 unit is scheduled to restart later this month — would quiet public opposition. Instead, Noda’s announcement fomented it, and social media-organized protests that once drew hundreds now draw thousands. A Friday rally in front of Noda’s office drew 17,000, according to police, though organizers put the number around 200,000.
The central government has so far given no indication that the public display will cause a rethink of its nuclear restart efforts. Wide-scale protests are rare in this country, where people traditionally comply with authority figures, and Noda, who is also pushing for a consumption tax increase, faces a backlash for his pro-nuclear stance.
In a Pew Research Center poll earlier this month, 70 percent of Japanese said they favor a reduction in the country’s reliance on nuclear power. The government, before calling for the restart, received approvals from local and regional officials near Ohi, a process that required months of persuasion.
Engineers at Ohi planned to pull out the control rods that prevent nuclear fission on Sunday evening. By Wednesday, according to Japan’s Kyodo news agency, the 1,180-megawatt reactor will begin transmitting power.
Before the series of meltdowns at the Fukushima plant, which forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 people, Japan depended on its 54 reactors for roughly one-third of its energy. But in the wake of the accident, those reactors steadily went offline, either because of safety concerns or for routine maintenance checks. In early May, the final reactor in Hokkaido went offline and the country became briefly nuclear free.
Noda became a voice for the restart, and last month he said that a failure to restart the reactors would jeopardize life as Japanese knew it. The government forecasted energy shortages during the sweltering summer — nearly 15 percent in one region, known as Kansai, that had been particularly atomic-dependent. Japan picked reactors No. 3 and No. 4 at Ohi as the first to restart because they supplied the Kansai region and because they had already passed stress tests to gauge their response to disasters.
The restart comes at a time when policymakers here are planning the country’s energy future. The so-called Energy and Environment Council is debating three options: By 2030, nuclear power will account either for 20 to 25 percent of Japan’s total electricity share, 15 percent, or zero percent. The council is supposed to reach a decision in August, Japanese media have said.
Well, workers had to take a ferry boat to the plant. And "months of persuasion" is an obligatory tap dance, so to speak, to give the impression to the gullible public that it has been a hard decision. Washington Post should know, as it is the same in the US.
If the writer, who is based in Tokyo, had spoken with protesters anywhere in japan, the protesters would have told him that they'd rather have a rolling blackout or rationing than the restart of nuclear power plants.
Labels: Ooi Nuclear Power Plant, Washington Post
Beppe said...
The writer should also have mentioned that the extent of the electricity shortages has been contested and that the so called stress tests are computer simulations carried out by the utility themselves, which did not publish the mathematical models used nor the input data (i.e. what kind of stress was simulated).
To Chico:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF45YUYmm7k
This is NOT just about nuclear safety. This is a a basic human rights issue. No person should be made to suffer the way the people from Fukushima have suffered.
We know nuclear plants will fail. The government and the industry know they will fail too. When they do fail, the event is too catastrophic.
The Japanese public knows this. And the overwhelming majority of the Japanese public is not of divided opinion. They don't want any more nuclear power in Japan. And no amount of persuasion about new safety measures is ever going to change that.
And nuclear is NOT necessary anymore, despite what the owners of the nuclear power plants and their paid-for politicians will say. There are options - computer controlled smart grid technology available today would make it possible to run a national power infrastructure WITHOUT traditional baseload power plants. (See Jacobson at Stanford Univ).
The real story here in Japan is that the government, against the overwhelming disapproval of the Japanese people, has restarted this power plant because the businesses that donate money to them have told them they want it restarted.
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by Ray Connolly – Bloomsbury Publishing (September 28, 2011)
The campaign of terror in London begins with a televised death-threat and climaxes in a spectacular, on-the-air takeover of capital radio.
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Not a tooth is knocked out, not a kidney bashed inÂ? an outstanding thriller that rests on less obvious grounds. The characters are odd but rarely violent. Their aims are bizarre and their methods usually unorthodox....
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Prime Minister Simon Russell's personal alarm clock is ticking away, while outside, beyond No. 10, prison riots, bombs in Ireland, corporate blackmail in China and civil unrest in Russia jostle for attention....
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Introduction: Last year introduced me to Tristan and the Youngest Templar series, a historical fantasy adventure story for YA/middle grade audiences. Youngest Templar: A Trail of Fate, came out in October of 2009 and is the second installment in what is to be a trilogy by Michael Spradlin.
Overview: A Trail of Fate, picks up right where Keeper of the Grail leaves off. Tristan has washed ashore in an unknown land. He is a bit disorientated and doesn't know if his fellow travel companions, Robard Hode and Maryam are still alive. Tristan does still keep hold of the sacred Holy Grail and is trying to make his way to England. With this in mind, Tristan heads out in what he hopes is the direction to reach England.
On his travels he runs into a heretical band of Cathars, lead by a young woman named Celia. After learning about the cause that the Cathars are fighting against, Tristan agrees to help them out.
Meanwhile, Sir Hugh is still on Tristan's trail. Hugh has his eyes on the Grail, and will stop at nothing to make sure that he gets what he wants.
Analysis: There are very few historical fantasy series out there that can combine the use of information and action so nicely that readers young and old barely know that what they are reading can actually be teaching them a little something. Michael P. Spradlin does just that in the Youngest Templar Trilogy, and a Trail of Fate continues this trilogy.
A Trail of Fate takes readers this time into France, and focuses on some of the issues that were going on there at the time. Unlike in A Keeper of the Grail, this second book stays in France. In the first book there was a lot of traveling around and the setting never really settled on one area. This time there is plenty of time to create a setting and set a foundation for what is happening in France.
Tristan, our main character and the one who's story is being told, really is growing right in front of the reader's eyes. This second book gives us a little glimpse into a slight crush/romance on Tristan's part. A great addition that really added to the Tristan character. Besides the development of this side of Tristan, readers are shown Tristan's courage and quick thinking in situations. All making him an easy to like main character that can become attached to readers.
On the action front there is plenty of sword fighting, arrow flying, and moments of suspense to add to the moments of character building. There isn't just moments of crash, bang, boom in the sword fighting. Instead real thought is put into the descriptions of the fighting.
The older readers will find this book a page turner, at 250 pages it's a very quick and satisfying read. For the younger readers it's got a great feel and enough to grab their attention.
If you read my first review of Keeper of the Grail (click here ), you'd know I wasn't a big fan of the major cliffhanger ending. Sadly, the same thing happens in A Trail of Fate. It just ends. I still stand by the belief that after this whole series is over these books will be wonderful back to back to back, but to have say a fight scene going on and the book just end, really is unexpected. So if this series has a downfall it's the way the books end.
Hopefully readers won't let that sway them. The Youngest Templar series is really picking up steam and there are plenty of hints throughout this second book as to a building plot, and what might happen in the third and final book. I eagerly await the third book and can't wait to see what is in store for Tristan and all his friends, where Michael Spradlin takes this series, and what new things I might learn in the third book.
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You Are Here:Help - FAQ - New Zealand plants
FAQs - New Zealand plants
1. How many indigenous plants are there in New Zealand?
The number of indigenous plants in New Zealand is as follows:
Vascular plants 2,418
Mosses approx. 560
Hornworts 20
Liverworts approx. 600 (likely to be 1000)
Lichens 2,300
Macroalgae (seaweeds) approx. 800 (likely to be 1000)
Total number of plants = 6,698
Please note that the estimated number of plants changes as scientists find, name or reassess the taxonomic status of plants.
2. How many plants are there in the world?
There are an estimated 422,000 flowering plants in the world, approximately 1,000 gymnosperms, 15,000 ferns and fern allies (including club mosses, spike mosses, quillworts, spike horsetails and whisk ferns) and approximately 22,000 mosses, liverworts and hornworts.
3. How many exotic plants occur in New Zealand and how many of these are weeds?
There are 24,744 exotic species recorded in NZ according to Duncan & Williams (2002)*. Some experts estimate that the number may be more like 35,000 although there is no definitive list. The NZPCN website lists 2536 of these exotic plants as naturalised in New Zealand. Of these, approximately 300 to 500 are regarded as serious environmental weeds.
* From: Duncan, R.P.; Williams, P.A. (2002) Darwin's naturalization hypothesis challenged. Nature 417: 608-609.
4. What is the difference between a weed, an alien plant, a naturalised plant, an adventive and a non-native?
A weed is a plant that grows in the wild and which is negatively affecting things we value (e.g., the natural environment, our health or our livelihoods). A weed is often also referred to as an invasive plant. An alien plant is one which does not naturally occur in a certain place (i.e., it is not native) but may or may not be not established in the wild. Alien plants are also referred to as adventive, casual, or non-native. A naturalised plant is one not native but which is established, or grows and reproduces, in the wild.
5. How many threatened plants are there in New Zealand and in the world?
Over 30% (797) of New Zealand's indigenous plants are regarded as threatened or uncommon in NZ. The IUCN (World Conservation Union) Red List for the planet contains 8,447 plants in 2007
6. What is the difference between a rare, threatened or endangered plant?
A rare plant is one that is not commonly found in the wild. It may be naturally rare or sparse or may have a restricted range. Rare plants may or may not be of conservation concern. A threatened plant is a rare plant which is at risk of extinction in the wild. An endangered plant is a type of threatened plant. It is a technical term for describing the degree of risk of extinction a plant is under. Some technical terms, such as endangered, are commonly and inaccurately used to refer to all threatened plants.
7. Who decides which plants in NZ are listed as threatened?
In conjunction with the Department of Conservation, the Network is involved with a 3 yearly assessment of the status of New Zealand's threatened plants. Information collated every three years is assessed by an expert panel comprising Peter de Lange, John Barkla, David Norton, Ewen Cameron, Peter Heenan, Shannel Courtney and Andrew Townsend (facilitator). Each new threatened plant list is published in the New Zealand Journal of Botany.
8. How many plant species are endemic to New Zealand?
There are an estimated 1,984 species, subspecies, varieties or forms that are endemic to New Zealand which is 82.2% of the New Zealand flora. These plants cannot be found growing naturally in the wild outside of New Zealand. This high degree of endemism is one of the reasons for New Zealand being identified by Conservation International as a Centre of Plant Diversity and world biodiversity hotspot.
9. What does endemic mean?
Endemic means exclusively native to the biota of a specific place. A species that is endemic is unique to its own place or region: found only there, and not found naturally anywhere else.
10. Are there any families of plant endemic to New Zealand?
Ixerba used to be the only endemic flowering plant family in New Zealand until the APG merged the Ixerbaceae with the New Caledonian Strasburgiaceae. There is only one NZ species in this family - Ixerba brexioides
11. What is a divaricating plant?
New Zealand has more than 60 species of small-leaved shrubs and low-growing trees with densely interlaced wiry, highly tensile stems. Collectively these are known as divaricating shrubs because their branches are spread apart at a wide angle. The divaricating form is also referred to as filiramulate meaning plants that have small widely spaced leaves or short shoots on thin, often tough branches and are a characteristic feature of over 60 species the New Zealand flora. They include conifers, daisies, myrtles, brooms, pittosporums, and coprosmas. This feature is found elsewhere but is most prominent in New Zealand, where it occurs in around 10% of woody plants and has evolved independently in 18 plant families. Examples of species are: Corokia cotoneaster,Raukaua (Pseudopanax) anomalum, Elaeocarpus hookerianus.
12. What is a hybrid?
A hybrid is an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species. For plants that means it has parents which are genetically distinct (different cultivars, varieties, species or genera). Hybrids can occur naturally in the wild or be artificially crossed by a plant breeder. Hybrids in garden centres have usually been crossed to achieve a desired outcome such as a showy flower, coloured foliage or a more hardy plant.
An example from the New Zealand flora is the sterile Thelymitra xdentata (a sporadically occurring hybrid between Thelymitra longifolia and Thelymitra pulchella). Click here to read the Network fact sheet.
13. What is a cultivar?
While a hybrid (see above) is usually a cultivar (CULTIvated VARiety), a cultivar is not necessarily a hybrid. A cultivar is a plant selected for its commercial qualities. It may be an unusual one-off wild form or it may be an unusual form selected in a nursery, or a hybrid.
14. How can I tell whether a plant is wild, or is a hybrid or a cultivar?
Plant names can help distinguish between a wild plant, a hybrid or a cultivar. Every wild plant a scientific name in Latin composed of two parts: 1) the genus name, and 2) the species name. The genus is a bit like a surname, and the species a given name. There may also be a variety or form name, both also in Latin. Usually a cultivar has a non-Latin name which is often in single inverted commas e.g. Phormium 'Yellow Sun', or Griselinia littoralis 'Eden Mint'.
The name of a hybrid usally has an x (the multiplication sign) in it symbolizing it is a cross e.g., Coprosma propinqua x robusta. However, a hybrid bred to be sold in a nursery can also have a cultivar name.
15. What indigenous woody plants are deciduous (i.e., shed leaves at the end of the growing season)? Are there any deciduous trees native to NZ?
See the Deciduous plant section of this website. Approximately 28 species (4.8%) of the New Zealand woody flora have a marked loss of leaves in winter. Only 11 species are consistently fully winter deciduous (adults are entirely leafless, or nearly so, towards the end of winter) although juvenile plants in some populations may retain significant foliage during the winter. They are:
Discaria toumatou
Fuchsia excorticata
Hoheria glabrata
Hoheria lyallii
Muehlenbeckia astonii
Olearia fragantissima
Olearia gardneri
Olearia hectori
Olearia odorata
Plagianthus divaricatus
Plagianthus regius
The following 11 species are best described as semi-deciduous, the degree of leaf loss varying markedly according to exposure, site, and geographic location:
Carmichaelia odorata
Carmichaelia arborea
Coprosma virescens
Coriaria arborea
Fuchsia perscandens
Muehlenbeckia australis
Muehlenbeckia complexa
Olearia fimbriata
Urtica ferox
Some populations of Sophora microphylla and Sophora tetraptera are brevideciduous meaning they lose their overwintering leaves in spring at the time of flowering and before the new leaves have flushed, but are otherwise annual evergreens.
Coriaria angustissima, C. plumosa, C. pottsiana, and C. sarmentosa are rhizomatous subshrubs in which the above-ground stem and leaves die back completely in winter. They are rarely included in lists of indigenous deciduous trees and shrubs because they have a herblike appearance. However, they have woody rootstocks and should be regarded as deciduous.
For more information about deciduous trees see:
McGlone et al. 2004. Winter leaf loss in the New Zealand woody flora. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2004, Vol. 42: 1-19.
16. Are there poisonous indigenous plants? Which are the most poisonous?
There are only a very few native plants in NZ poisonous to humans and/or stock. There are far more poisonous exotic plants in gardens and naturalised in the wild. See the Poisonous plants section of this website.
Poisonous native plants include: karaka (Corynocarpus laevigatus), kōwhai (Sophora species), tītoki (Alectryon excelsus), ngaio (Myoporum laetum) poroporo (Solanum aviculare and Solanum laciniatum), tūrutu (Dianella nigra), New Zealand daphne (Pimelea prostrata), tutu (Coriaria species), waoriki (Ranunculus amphitrichus), ongaonga (Urtica ferox), and bracken fern (Pteridium esculentum). For more information see the Poisonous native plants section fo this website.
* Connor, H. E. 1951. The Poisonous Plants in New Zealand. New Zealand D.S.I.R. Bulletin: 99.
17. What is New Zealand's tallest tree?
Kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) is New Zealand's tallest indigenous tree. This is a distinctive tree of usually swampy alluvial terraces. Its main habitat is lowland forest. It was formerly dominant on frequently flooded, and/or poorly drained alluvial soils. Occasionally extends into lower montane forest. Once the dominant tree of a distinct swamp forest type all but extinct in the North Island - the best examples remain on the West Coast of the South Island. For more information see the species fact sheet - click here
18. What is New Zealand's smallest plant?
New Zealand's smallest vascular plant is Water meal (Wolffia australiana) a minute aquatic plant.
Other tiny plants are the pygmy orchid (Ichthyostomum pygmaeum) which grows epiphytically on tree trunks, iti (Cardamine lacustris), the forget-me-nots (Myosotis pygmaea var. minutiflora and M. pygmaea var. pygmaea), Gentiana lilliputiana, several pygmy weeds (Crassula species), Petrie's starwort (Callitriche petriei subsp. petriei), and Stackhousia minima. The smallest grass is pincushion grass Agrostis muscosa and the smallest sedge, at only 6mm tall, is Isolepis basilaris. Most of New Zealand's non-vascular plants tiny, and some are only visible with a hand lens.
19. Which of New Zealand's plants produces the most nectar?
The male inflorescences of Dactylanthus taylorii each contain up to 1.6 ml of nectar (Ecroyd 1996). The nectar in dactylanthus flowers attracts its pollinator, the short-tailed bat. More information about Dactylanthus taylori is included on the Network fact sheet.
20. What is New Zealand's rarest tree?
According to the Guiness Book of Records, one of the rarest trees in the world is New Zealand's Pennantia baylisiana with just one specimen growing in the wild. The species was discovered by Geoffrey Baylis on the Great Island of the Three Kings Group in 1945. Baylis took a cutting that he grew in Dunedin, and since then other trees have been cultivated in gardens. It has large glossy leaves, and looks rather like a karaka. There is still just this single tree growing wild on the Three Kings.
22. Where should I go to see native plants?
To see native plants near to towns or cities visit your local botanic gardens or specialist native plant nursery. These places label their plants so you can learn their names. You can also visit your local herbarium to view pressed specimens. Ask your local or regional council if they manage a reserve with an interpretive, labelled, walk. There are also reserves, national parks and conservation areas throughout the country managed by the Department of Conservation. Contact your local Department of Conservation office for more information or visit their website - www.doc.govt.nz
23. Are any indigenous plants pollinated by lizards?
Geckos visit flowers of several native plant species for nectar and pollen (e.g., pohutukawa and flax). New Zealand herpetologist Tony Whitaker has also shown that both skinks and geckos are also seed dispersers of many native New Zealand plants. Today the lizard fauna has declined so much that lizard and plant interactions are now only easily observed on predator free offshore islands.
24. Are there any parasitic plants indigenous to NZ?
New Zealand has only one fully parasitic flowering plant, Dactylanthus taylorii, which grows under the ground attached to the roots of a host tree. It takes all its sustenance from its host. New Zealand also has eight mistletoes which are stem hemi-parasites. They have green leaves and make their own food through photosynthesis but use a host tree or shrub to obtain water.
25. Does New Zealand have any indigenous orchids?
New Zealand has just over 100 species of orchids in almost 40. Orchids are highly represented in threatened plant categories as they are vulnerable to habitat loss e.g., clearing of scrub and draining of wetlands. View the Orchid section of this website for more infromation.
26. Are mangroves native to NZ?
New Zealand's has only one mangrove, Avicennia marina subsp. australasica. This is the most southerly growing mangrove in the world. This sub-species is native to New Zealand, but is also found naturally in south-eastern Australia and Lord Howe Island. For more information about this species read the Network factsheet.
27. Will any threatened NZ plants be affected by climate change?
Climate change is likely to have a diverse range of impacts on New Zealand's flora either directly by creating conditions not conducive to survival and reproduction or exacerbating impacts of invasive species. Plants at their distributional limits, or higher altitudes, may be more affected. Understanding the ecology of threatened plants is a key requirement to managing populations in the light of climate change. The MWH sponsored national seed bank is one project which the Network believes will assist protecting threatened plants in the light of a changing and unpredictable climate.
28. Are kauri trees rare?
Kauri or Kauri pine (Agathis australis) is not currently listed as threatened in New Zealand. Some stands of kauri on private land remain vulnerable to illegal logging, while trees are still periodically removed (although only by permit or with approval) for cultural purposes, such as for making waka (canoes) or other Maori buildings and structures. Some small southerly populations are rather vulnerable to goat browse destroying regenerating seedlings and saplings. For more information about kauri read the Network fact sheet.
29. How can I tell the difference between indigenous plants and weeds?
30. What is the difference between pampas and the native toetoe?
Native toetoe (Cortaderia toetoe) is easily identified by its stout, erect, densely feather-like flower head, and ivory leaf sheaths. Native toetoe is easily distinguished from the South American Pampas grass species by their spring-flowering, rather than autumn flowering habit, waxy leaf sheaths, and by the dead leaves which fold longitudinally and separate at the joints. The South American species curl up toward the leaf base, ultimately decaying to a state resembling wood shavings. For more information about native toetoe click here to see the Network fact sheet.
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Photo of the memorial bookplate created for the Memorial Book. The book was illuminated by Mrs. Marion Grigsby and was donated to the West Vancouver Memorial Library in 1950.The envelope includes a photocopied image of Mrs. Grigsby working on the bookplate. Item #2330a.
Photo of the memorial bookplate created for the Memorial Book. The book was illuminated by Mrs. Marion Grigsby and was donated to the West Vancouver Memorial Library in 1950.The envelope ...
Former army ammunition hut from Second World War, at time of photo used as Parks Board storage shed.
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Newly unveiled plinth commemorating those killed in WWII, December 9 1979.
Newly unveiled WWII plinth, December 9 1979.
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View of WWII Veterans at dedication of Second World War Plinths, West Vancouver Memorial Arch, December 9 1979.
WWII Plinths Dedication Ceremony
Legion members and friends of the library, on Marine Drive, at the dedication ceremony for WWII plinths placed at the West Vancouver Memorial Arch.
Legion members and friends of the library at the dedication ceremony for WWII plinths placed at the West Vancouver Memorial Arch. A 98 year old veteran is pictured in the West Vancouver Memorial library.
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Legion members and friends of the library at the dedication ceremony for WWII plinths placed at the West Vancouver Memorial Arch.
Legion members and friends of the library talking at the dedication ceremony for WWII plinths placed at the West Vancouver Memorial Arch.
View of WWII Veterans and unknown woman at dedication of Second World War Plinths, West Vancouver Memorial Arch, December 9 1979.
Wreath Laying, Second World War Plinths
View of two women laying wreaths during dedication ceremony of WWII plinths, December 9 1979.
Legion members and friends of the library at the dedication ceremony for WWII plinths placed at the West Vancouver Memorial Arch. Three men are pictured talking in the West Vancouver Memorial library.
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Legion members and friends of the library at the dedication ceremony for WWII plinths placed at the West Vancouver Memorial Arch. Mr. W.D.M. Patterson (left), chairman of the WVML board from 1976-1977, can be seen talking with a patron.
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Details of the “reserve” used by MEPs in 2015 online – The Point
The “reserve” of some 80 million used by MPs in 2015 was published Monday on the Assembly’s website, with a split almost equally between support to municipalities and associations. Buying a lawn tractor, Restos du Coeur, or repair halls … This is the third time that the use of this reserve, which also have the senators, and made public at the initiative of the Socialist president of the Assembly, Claude Bartolone.
long perceived as a black box, it is always criticized, as recently by the “associated Taxpayers” which sees a “clientelist practice.” In 2015, members had requested “the allocation of 81.2 million euros in subsidies” on some 90 million voted appropriations, said the Assembly, which allowed, as in 2014, to return to the State 8.75 million euros “to participate in the effort to save”.
EUR 360 000 refugees
According to the general rapporteur for the Budget, Valérie Rabault ( PS), responsible for the management of this parliamentary reservation, the amounts were distributed among municipalities of investment projects (52%) – such as the purchase for 15,000 euros a lawn tractor in Vienna – and payments to associations. Every member receives an average of 130,000 euros, of which he is free to decide the allocation. The officers of the Assembly have 140 000 euros, the Vice-Presidents, Quaestors group presidents and committee chairmen have 260 000, the President of the Assembly 520 000.
the largest amount paid in 2015 came from institutional reserve of the Presidency of the Assembly 360 000 for assistance to refugees, with the same reservation also funded the Council of State (250 000) Jean Jaurès foundation (200 000), or the foundation “Energy for Africa” by Jean-Louis Borloo (50 000). Some elected officials have chosen to focus their windfall on their common, like the chairman of the finance committee, Gilles Carrez (Republicans), top of the table with the granting of EUR 200 000 in Perreux-sur-Marne ( Val de Marne), of which he is mayor, for “works of local interest.”
beneficiaries various
others also favored their common associations or s’ finding there as environmentalist Christmas Mamère, the newcomer to the government Hélène Geoffroy (PS), André Santini (IDU) or elected or LR Patrick Ollier Patrick Balkany, the latter having notably released 70,000 euros for an association that organizes “getaways and travel for Levalloisian”. Claude Bartolone, elected in Seine-Saint-Denis, has contributed 190,000 euros to the town of Bondy for the construction of a sports field, as financing local associations such as the Restos du Coeur 93 or Little Brothers of the Poor .
the leader of the Socialist deputies – whose group has distributed EUR 39.9 million – Bruno Le Roux has supported sports clubs, Restos du Coeur, Secours populaire or like many other socialist elected the League of education. LR side, where the envelope was 26.3 million, the leader Christian Jacob has allocated 12 000 euros to his city of Provins (Seine-et-Marne) for the redevelopment of the pavilion sports.
as for the other group leaders, the leader of the elected left Front André Chassaigne has such dedicated its funds mostly to joint his district in the Puy-de -Dôme, also booking 2000 euros … the French Alliance of Santiago de Cuba. Among other recent entrants to the government, the former PS Chairman of the Committee on Laws Jean-Jacques Urvoas now Justice Minister, has allocated funds in 2015 with several organizations linked to the prison, the student association for Genepi the rehabilitation of prisoners.
The compliance officer grabbed the FN in the PACA region after the revelation of a survey of Mr. Estrosi – The World
Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, head of the National Front party (FN) in Provence-Alpes Regional Council -Côte Riviera, seized Monday, February 29 the compliance officer of the Region on the issue of a survey conducted by its president, Christian Estrosi (Republicans, LR). This opinion poll conducted after the election of the candidate of the right, was paid by the regional council, many of his questions were about the image of the latter in PACA.
“This use of finances in the region, and thus the taxpayers’ money, to very personal (evaluate its strategy, image, test its allies, its competitors and its opponents) do we appear neither moral or perhaps even legal “, argued M me Maréchal-Le Pen in a statement. His party demand that the entire survey and communicated to that bill.
“We can then judge (…) of the usefulness of the expenditure incurred on deniers of the community … and consider all appropriate suites. “
” No reason to hide anything “
The Socialist Christophe Castaner, who led the removed PS-MRG list to beat the FN at the poll, he has meanwhile urged that this poll was made public: “the first requirement that stems from my retirement to fight the National Front by promoting the election of Christian Estrosi, is transparency. “ And it called ” solemnly “ Nice Mayor ” to commit to stop using public funds from the Region to finance new [polls ]. “
” There is no reason to hide anything. Everything will soon be made public “, said on his part Mr Estrosi Monday night. According to him, the survey covers “on the aspirations of people and the perception of the executive”. He said that similar surveys will be set up “every six months (…) to follow the changing expectations of the 5 million Provence, the Alpine and the côte d’Azur.”
the President of the PACA region “glad also that the National Front elected grasp the compliance officer” as they opposed his appointment “This is a first step and we hope they also will submit their asset declarations for better transparency. “
The actor-robber Rédoine Faïd front of the jury – Liberation
Robber cinephile and “self-taught” false repented overhyped and escaped spectacular Rédoine Faïd, 44, will finally have the right to trial in a suit whenever he spent over two decades to carve. Too wide to suit his shoulders, some cops and former middle. A solitary confinement since his arrest after a month of “beautiful” resounding in 2013, the native of Creil (Oise) appearing Tuesday alongside eight other accused before the Assize Court of Paris for an aborted robbery concluded by van the murder of a municipal police. This record river should mobilize a hundred witnesses and 25 experts until April 15.
Lead wreaths. Créteil, May 20, 2010 . It is 9 am 15 when two police officers noticed two holes in the bodywork of a van stopped at a light. One of the agents out of the car and asked the driver of the van off the ignition. No reaction, “no look” will tell the officer at his hearing. The van then starts abruptly, fire grate and is committed towards the A4. Beginning of a chase in slalom at 100 km / h. Through the rear doors, the fugitives emptied a teargas bomb and swing extinguishers on their pursuers. A tunnel, police wipe of the first long-gun bursts and replicate pulling through their windshield. Grapeshot crescendo: the shotgun to the Kalashnikov. Several motorists pay the price of stray bullets. The general alert is initiated. A cap stops the van. Under the lead shot, the police hide behind the parapet and think they have reached one of the shooters. The truck still spawning a path on the hard shoulder. The police abandoned the pursuit, the fault of a flat tire.
Villiers-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, the van hit a 4 × 4. The perpetrators, four in number or five according to testimony, fare hooded and equipped with bulletproof vests. They perform a first carjacking when a municipal police vehicle is positioned a few meters from them. Without hesitation, one of the men fired on the officers, hitting Aurélie Fouquet fatally in the head and his colleague Thierry Moreau chest. “They wanted to kill the cop, it’s clear they were determined” tell the agent before the judges, ensuring he could touch one of the shooters. The thugs emptied the contents of his van before setting fire. They escape by A4, steal a new car and go.
Mehdi Kider, the suppression of banditry Brigade had spotted before the assault suspect van parked outside his home, was arrested in stride. Weapons, ammunition, explosives and hoods executives met briefly hiding in the neighbor’s garden. DNA samples and the blood found in the van enable first identifications. Without giving names, Kider then explains that the van involved in the shooting was to join a convoy of five vehicles – including a truck of 19 tonnes – for an armored car robbery that morning. A scenario that evokes the film Heat Michael Mann.
The investigation is gradually moving towards the clan Fai’d, including redoine known for tracing the procedures seen At the movie theater. Then in full promo for his book Robber: cities to organized crime , released in October 2010 and the result of interviews with journalist Jerome Pierrat, Rédoine Faïd ensures on TV shows that his ” demons [are] not asleep, but completely dead “ after ten years behind bars for robberies. The judges are interested in a documentary filmed simultaneously by Pierrat for Canal + on the “big shots of cities,” where Fai’d testifies at length. On the rushes, they recognize the box searched, and several protagonists of the aborted heist.
peroxide. Implicated in January 2011, Rédoine Faïd flees before being arrested the following summer. Of the nine suspects, most for repeat offenders, three are on trial for premeditated murder Aurelie Fouquet, including Olivier Tracoulat in his absence. The trace of peroxide robber wounded in the temple in the shooting, could not be located. It is not known whether he survived, the team that tried to smuggle the Netherlands for treatment. Fisal Faid, who calls his brother “the big boss” is probably the last member of this squad. Having fled to Algeria, where he is now held, it will be tried separately. However the presence of Rédoine Faïd in the van could not be established; he will not have to answer for the murder of police.
The Robber has always denied any involvement in the case, although it appears on video tape the day before the tragedy at the wheel Leading the convoy vehicle intended for steering. His escape with explosives and hostage-taking of Sequedin Prison in the north in 2013, has since tarnished the image of the repentant scaffolded during his media phase. For judges, Fai’d is the common denominator between all the defendants, and as such, faces life for its central role in what the prosecutor called “war operation, which could go at the end of its war logic “
Guillaume Gendron
Dismantling of the “jungle” of Calais: tensions between migrants, activists and CRS – Le Figaro
VIDEO – Clashes broke out Monday between migrants, militants “No Border” and police during the dismantling of the southern part of the slum. Four people were arrested and five slightly injured CRS.
Boards, cardboard, structural elements … Validated by the court Thursday, the dismantling of the part south of Calais shanty town, an area of 100 m2, began Monday. After a rather quiet morning, the situation is tense in the early afternoon, despite the police presence and “a quiet and gradual dismantling” said a police officer. One hundred and fifty migrants and radical militants No Borders, who are fighting for the abolition of borders, have launched projectiles at police. “Extremists torched empty tents, said the policeman, there was a lot of stone throwing, fifteen grenades in response.” Three No Borders and a migrant were arrested. Five policemen were injured. By early evening, migrants, some armed with an iron bar, broke into the port ring road adjacent to the “jungle”, throwing stones or taking vehicles bound for England.
“read also: in Calais, the state places its” marauders “under police escort
other officers were securing the intervention of” the company withdraws tents and unoccupied shelters “, totaling a hundred policemen. Public Security Police and the LAC were deployed in support. Despite this, the work stopped about 17 hours, the situation is extremely tense. Parallel to the dismantling, thirty officials of the French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII), the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA) and the prefecture of Pas-de-Calais went door-to-door in each of the cabins concerned by the dismantling.
A migrant shelter next to a burning
the first ultimatum to evacuate had been set for Wednesday, February 24. But suspensive summary proceedings filed by several associations and hundreds of migrants had left pending evacuation, before validating Thursday. In recent days, the debate has crystallized around alternative housing provided by state services. The government announced a calibrated plan for 800-1 000. A countdown largely underestimated, consider the associations, which amounted rather the number of people affected at more than 3 400. But the prefecture maintains its figures.
“We squared area and 100 police officers at the borders went into each tent” explains Steve Barbet, head of communications for the prefecture of Pas-de-Calais. “We have counted between 800 and 1000 people, and our estimate was considered reliable by the Administrative Court in its decision on Thursday. ‘
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Several alternative housing are planned: the temporary reception center, built by the state next to the slum, has 200 available seats. Behind the ring road, civil security tents can receive 500 migrants. Furthermore, the reception centers for asylum seekers with 500 seats available, and the government announced Friday the creation of 500 additional places throughout France. But these centers are struggling to fill: most migrants do not want to give up England. Monday evening, 150 migrants were brought into the port ring road, hurling stones or typing on trucks bound for England before the police regained control of the premises.
El Khomri law: Valls lengthens his working time – Liberation
A delay to avoid withdrawal. Faced with strong protest demanding the abandonment of the draft Labour Code Reform Act, the executive has postponed two weeks the text Ministers Council examination carried by Myriam El Khomri, the Minister of Labour. Sign of a government sounding the retreat at a time when a petition against the bill approaches the 800,000 signatures and that a day of action is scheduled for March 9 with the support of the CGT? “The decline, it would abandon this text,” cut Manuel Valls Monday morning during a press conference improvised Agricultural Fair. “Since the debate is packaged, it must restore the reality of this law, said the Prime Minister. must raise misunderstandings, explain, answer false information. “ On Twitter, El Khomri it, justified the postponement as ” extra margin to deepen the dialogue with social partners and enrich “ the law.
the government had (also) need to take a breath. ” A strong signal must be given, welcomes the PS deputy Christophe Sirugue , tipped to be the rapporteur of the text. The question now is to what this report: really enter into consultation with the unions and parliamentarians, or prepare a withdrawal “ Opponents of the bill continue to call the second option?. “The Prime Minister will realize that the partners have fully understood the text,” quips Paul Christian MP, spokesman of the left wing of the PS. “The purpose of this fortnight is to decant the fluid sense, to see the red lines of everyone, do we respond in the entourage of Valls. and objectively Collectively, we must recover the positions of each other’s flat. “
” re-clean the text “
At the Elysée and Matignon it refuses for now to talk of abandoning the lower section. “You do not change the general philosophy of the text,” insist near the head of state, which specifies the areas where negotiation is possible: “Geographical scope of redundancy, level the capping of allowances to industrial tribunals and pass days to the unilateral discretion of the employer if there is no agreement. “ Exactly what should the CFDT … (read here -against). “Martine Aubry, when it moves, four people left the PS. The CFDT is several hundred thousand encartés on the bottom, “ quips a ministerial adviser. There are some days, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis already confided to Libération that her party would remain stalled on the position of Laurent Berger union. “We say that the reformist unions say” ensured the first secretary of the PS.
No need, in these conditions, tiring to get support from the CGT and FO. Both unions reject the “philosophy” text: that the primacy of company agreements. “Is that employees lose rights with greater recourse to collective bargaining? We think not , does one slice at Matignon. There are 38 000 company agreements signed each year in France, collective bargaining is a strong point of our social system. “
But beyond this “red line” government, many “cursor” including capping prud’homales benefits and the definition in the law of redundancy, so may change. “We will re-clean the text” confirms an adviser to the prime minister. A “other passageway” could be found on the day package in SMEs. And on the issue of referendum in business, the executive expects the return of the State Council to eventually evolve the device. As for the other “key measure” El Khomri bill, the staff of account activity (CPA), it could be “enhanced” do we also know Matignon. Whether before the filing of the text in the Council of Ministers on March 24, or during parliamentary debate shifted to May.
“Presidential Seal”
In the meantime, the social partners must be received by Manuel Valls, Myriam El Khomri and Emmanuel Macron. The Minister of Labour has already started the job. She saw the CFDT and CGC late last week, UNSA Monday and is scheduled to meet Tuesday FO. Meanwhile, Valls will attempt to pick up the thread with the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly receiving at Matignon, its president, Catherine Lemorton and Christophe Sirugue. Both PS deputies will have their own demands: a “withdrawal” of the article “30 bis” that expands and clarifies the definition of redundancy, “easing” to SMEs and “developments” on other subjects unpalatable to the Socialists: cap prud’homales allowances, penalties and learning. A list of amendments that would put the pieces of a PS group many of whose members – not just “slingers” – felt rushed, both on the substance of the text but also the form with the threat a passage in force.
as the deprivation of nationality in January, the executive seems to have underestimated the reaction of the left on a text which affects some of its social fundamentals. Which forced him to temporize. Holland has first attempted to clear mines – in vain – the ground since his presidential plane, explaining prefer negotiation and search for “a majority” on the text. Recourse to 49.3 tussle between the Elysée, Matignon and the Ministry of Labour on the strategy? “A collective expression clumsiness” weights close to President. Just back from his trip in the Pacific and Latin America, Holland has decided to calm things down. “This solution has emerged quickly Friday night. We want to respond by negotiating with a law that promotes negotiation, “ confirm a presidential adviser. The Head of State and the Prime Minister are called Saturday and Sunday saw at the Elysee. Load the second to announce the postponement Monday morning. The same who said last week he would “to the end” . “We had to reset a party completely through debate, the Prime Minister was the first to agree,” say at the Elysee as a mini-cropping, where we want to twist the neck to the idea of a reform-driven Valls alone: “the text was refereed by Holland and nobody else, he carries the presidential seal from AZ.” to prove , the head of state has planned this week traveling on the theme of work.
Lilian Alemagna Laure Bretton
The anti-crime brigades now equipped with assault rifles – Liberation
Two hundred and four assault rifles, 1,474 helmets and ballistic visors, 1835 vests: the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Monday presented the new equipment provided to anti-crime brigades (BAC) of the Prefecture of Paris in the BAC-2016 PSIG plan.
“ the mere fact of embodying public authority, by the uniform you wear, enough to make you the target. Some criminals that you face no longer hesitate to use against you heavy weapons, real weapons of war against which you must have means of response and protection adapted , “the Minister said police officers present at the presentation in the police station in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
the BAC will also be equipped with 241 flexible ballistic shields that with body armor will withstand Kalashnikov. Assault rifles HK G 36, issued to BAC, were previously reserved for elite response forces. These new ways, with deliveries spread until the end of June, also count 116 tasers (Taser), 134 defense ball launchers, 981 batons defense ammunition 25,200 short-range defense.
the whole for an amount of “ EUR 17 million ,” said the Interior Minister who was accompanied by the Minister of Overseas George Pau-Langevin. “ It was necessary for you to be able to replicate the Kalashnikov weapons fire that some criminals become more reluctant to use against you ,” said the minister.
These allocations are part of the BAC-level PSIG 2016. “ BAC and PSIG (platoons monitoring and intervention of the police, ie) should indeed be able to intervene as quickly as possible reinforcement of first patrols undertaken, especially when we are confronted with mass killings , “said Bernard Cazeneuve.
” this requirement imposes a tight mesh of course, and a very fine articulation between police and gendarmerie, so that the whole territory is covered. That’s my main goal, and I would even say that it is my obsession , “he said.
Alliance wants the same hardware for all police officers
“ We will not sulk our pleasure on hardware that comes in and that was absolutely necessary. Now, we need public servants who are endowed with such equipment is in capacity to use them, so we will have to make a big effort on training. It will be the challenge for today ‘reacted Nicolas Comte, deputy secretary general of SGP-FO Unit.
“ The primary stakeholders are not that LAC. These are also the staff of the General Service and they will not have all these means “Fabien has qualified Vanhemelryck, National Secretary of Alliance. To this union, “” blue “is a separate target: we want this material to all staff .”
LAC The police had made in 2011 the subject of a study by the sociologist Eric Fassin, then study which highlighted the excesses, inefficiency and even productivity-against this policy.
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Report of the Labour Act, the government appears weak position – Le Figaro
THE SCAN POLICY / VIDEO – The announcement of the postponement of the El Khomri law creates doubt in the right elected officials who were willing to vote. On the left, opponents of the text now hope to get her outright withdrawal.
Faced with the outcry provoked by the Bill El Khomri , which seeks to amend the labor law, the government is trying at all costs to get relief. The first action took the form of a deferral of consideration of the text by the Cabinet to 24 March, announced by Manuel Valls on Monday morning from the agricultural show. A postponement in particular intended to meet the demands of the CFDT and continue the dialogue left to “remove misunderstandings”, as the Prime Minister. The other measure, most cosmetics, is to change the title of the Labour Act in government press releases. Originally introduced as the “bill to institute new freedoms and new protections for companies and assets”, the text is now presented as “ draft law on new protections on business and employees “. Widely criticized gestures and mocked by the opposition, who declared previously ready to pass the law, and that sound like an admission of weakness for leftist opponents.
Asked about BFMTV, the deputy Republican of Hauts-de-Seine Thierry Solère is not fooled by the maneuver: “We were many to say right: we will vote if no reform is not changed, upset, sweetened. But we see that, while it is still not passed by the Cabinet, it postpones 15 days, three weeks a month … And unfortunately I know what it means. I am an absolute parallel with what happened on the reform of the deprivation of nationality (…) after two and a half months left mess, reform has completely changed and there will obviously not majority in Congress to vote the constitutional reform, “warns the organizer of the primary from the right. “ synthesis Holland will go and gut the Labour Act. This is the story of this five-year period: reform backwards “abounds on Twitter MP Alpes-Maritimes Éric Ciotti. “The government no longer governs, he can only do one thing: save time,” judge turn the president of the senate group LR Bruno Retailleau. A decline that purports to Senator Philippe Dallier that “the end of the five-year period will look like a cross path for the government and for France.”
“The government governs Moreover, it can do one thing: save time “
” No postponement but the withdrawal “
If the government seems in danger of losing a part of its support to the right, left many opponents welcomed the report as a first victory. “Feed-needed for a coup. Let this time of social dialogue does not end with a new provocation! “Warns the leader of rebellious deputies Christian Paul on Twitter. “What a waste of Com” says the elected PS Pas-de-Calais Guy Delcourt, who protested against the seizure of Matignon on the record. And rebellious Laurent Baumel to respond directly to the Prime Minister: “ Manual, do not worry, we have too much” understood “the Labour Act. On termination, we do not expect the postponement but the withdrawal “.
Other, more intransigent, hoping to convert the try and secure the withdrawal of the entire project. ‘First victory! until the withdrawal continues “, says MP Isabelle Attard, related ecologist. A bell sound picked up by the senator and patron of the Communist Party Pierre Laurent: “After the first decline of the government, not let go! Continue to act for the outright withdrawal of the El Khomri law. “
Not surprisingly, this report appears as a relief for a number of moderate socialists or close to power. “Give time for dialogue to rebalance Labour Act is a good method. Reason is better than tension, “welcomes the MP Sandrine Mazetier, aubryste old who has approached the government. “Give yourself time to significantly rebalance the draft Labour Act in dialogue with unions is a good measure,” abounds Treasurer PS Jean-François Debat, support Francois Hollande. An opinion that seems to be shared by Guillaume Didier, the leader of the Socialists in the Senate: “This report should be accompanied by calming the debate to pass the improved job market of our country.”
A counselor Myriam El Khomri slams the door
This is a new illustration of the opposition aroused Bill El Khomri left. An advisor to the Minister on Monday decided to slam the door of the cabinet. “This is a beautiful ministry, which has unfortunately diverted from its primary mission: to defend the employees, in a troubled economic climate,” says Pierre Jacquemain to Humanity . The young man is however a close Myriam El Khomri, he was the pen. And since his first morocco, the Secretariat of State in charge of urban policy. “I gradually realized that we were losing the battle. In fact, the Ministry of Labour policy is decided elsewhere, at Matignon, “irritated this former close Autain Clementine (Left Front). Today, Peter Jacquemain has no words strong enough to criticize the text of his former boss: “This bill is a historic mistake. It is a matter of social rights in regression. “
Fifties of the Maine-et-Loire tortured and killed: the couple indicted – francetv info
The 55 year old man has been indicted for arrest, kidnapping followed by death, and for acts of torture and barbarity habitually on vulnerable person, heads punishable by life imprisonment. His partner of 46 years was indicted for arrest, kidnapping followed by death, said the floor.
The body of the victim, aged 57, was found Friday morning in the vineyards in Saint -Light-of-Montbrillais, north of Vienna. He had numerous bruises, burns and fractures, to clear the deputy prosecutor Patrick Maire to the press. The victim was then allegedly strangled, without establishing with certainty whether she died in the place where it was abandoned, or transferred after his death.
An important police device, deployed after the discovery of the body led to the arrest in a few hours Friday, two suspects, who were then placed in custody. They were remanded in custody on Sunday after their indictment.
According to the deputy prosecutor, the victim, a native of Montreuil-Bellay Maine-et-Loire, was kidnapped since December by the
couple Argenton-the Church, fifteen kilometers in neighboring Deux-Sèvres, where the suspects lived. She would have been almost daily violence and humiliation.
The victim, who was under curatorship, had no family, and worrying disappearance was reported a few weeks ago by neighbors.
the motives of the crime, committed in a context of great social and intellectual distress, remained rather vague Sunday. It could be a “Revenge after a family dispute” older, said the prosecution: the victim knew the suspects, and had stayed there including 12 years for human parents.
Whither go the evacuated migrants of Calais jungle? – Le Figaro
The evacuation of part of the jungle began. Part of illegal will be relocated to centers across France, the rest dispersed in the Calais area.
That’s it, the evacuation of part of the Jungle of Calais began. This would cover between 800 and 1,000 people according to the Interior Ministry. A figure widely underestimated by the associations, which they count “3450 people, including 300 unaccompanied minors”. Whither go the evacuated migrants? The State ensures that everyone will be rehoused.
• The temporary reception center (CAP)
A center in “hard” consisting of 125 heated containers equipped with running water and electricity, was opened in early January along the Jungle. Each container contains a dormitory with a capacity of 12 seats, or 1,500 places in all priorities for families. It would remain the Government’s 200 seats.
• Accommodation Centre Jules Ferry north of the camp
Created in April 2015, this center is the first to be opened since the closure of Sangatte. There is a day care center, to enable migrants to eat, to shower, to charge their phones. It also has overnight accommodation places. 100 more spaces were created in September, aimed primarily at women and children, the total amount to 400 seats. In total, there are thus about 2000 accommodation places in Calais same. But most of the evacuated migrants intended to be spread over the entire territory.
• Reception and Orientation Centres
” our goal is to shelter the Calais migrant sustainably. It is for this reason that since October, it was open reception and orientation centers have supported 2,800 people, “said the Minister of Housing Emmanuelle Cosse after the launch meeting monitoring committee for the sheltering of the Calais migrants plan.
welcome centers and orientation were indeed greeted in four months in 2691 migrants of Calais. Also called “respite centers” these structures receive clandestine migrants to convince them to make asylum procedures in France. It is in these centers that we evacuated for example migrant high school Jean Quarré or those of Porte de la Chapelle. There are 102 scattered across France, except in the Ile-de-France and in the North that are already saturated.
The installation is done on a voluntary basis, without coercion, in buildings made available by municipalities or requisitioned by the state. Five hundred additional places in reception centers will be made available “in the coming days” to receive migrants from the “jungle” of Calais, had announced Friday the ministers of housing and interior.
• dispersion in the region
State services organize outreach patrols in the camps to inform migrants of the possibility of their applications for asylum in France and convince them to join the CAD. But many of them refuse to register in shelters because they want to remain in areas near England. These are likely to disperse in the region, seeking, some to win the Grande-Synthe camp, the other other coastal crossings. For a domino effect, the evacuated migrants could be distributed in other ports, such as Ouistreham, in Normandy, Dieppe, Cherbourg or Zeebrugge in Belgium, from where the ferry to the UK.
A former nurse Auschwitz trial: “Justice in these cases, is symbolic” – The Obs
Monday, February 29, opens in Neubrandenburg (northwest Germany) the trial of Hubert Zafke , 95, a former nurse tried Auschwitz for “complicity” in the extermination of 3,681 Jews. The man was 19 years old at the time and was in office when the convoy Anne Frank Otto and Edith’s parents and her older sister Margot arrived. The court initially refused in June 2015 to open a trial, citing the declining health of the old man. A decision overturned on appeal on the grounds that the former SS is not entirely unfit to stand trial.
However, the issue of former judge very old Nazis arises again. A dozen procedures are still underway in Germany after the sentencing to four years in prison Oskar Gröning, former accountant of Auschwitz. Certainly, these late trials illustrate the German will to try until the last criminal in the Third Reich, but for Serge Klarsfeld , president of the association of son and daughters of Jews deported from France, until this justice at endian, generally exercised without evidence, is problematic. Interview.
Such trial-they still mean more than 70 years after the end of the Second World War and in the face of very old accused?
– The German company is today made up the great majority of people who have not experienced the Third Reich and the favorable judgment of Nazi criminals until their last breath . It was 50 years ago, this was not the case: the major Nazi criminals were protected by the German company then composed of people who had lived and supported the Third Reich. There has been certainly a positive development of the German company that understood the importance and immensity of the crime that had been committed and who would like Nazi criminals to trial.
Simply, it was 50 years ago, there were still criminals makers who have played an important role and for which there was, if not witnesses, documents signed by them, they were recipients where it was about their activities. At the time, we found medical excuses not to judge them or not sentencing.
Today, deemed criminals were subordinate positions at the bottom of the pyramid of crime, for which there is no longer any witnesses or documents. But German justice now, always docile to the will of the company, believes that a suspect, even if he is no evidence, if it was in a position, even quite subordinate and external crime, is considered criminal unless he proves his innocence. For example: accountants had no contact with prisoners, they counted the money of people who arrived at Auschwitz. They knew we murdered but they did not kill, they were a small cog. A gear which we do not even know what was the behavior at the time. But we judge them as accomplices but can not prove their personal involvement and will almost inevitably doomed. So me it hits my sense of justice
hard not to judge either …
-. I am not against, but I am not for either. This is an ambiguous situation. In my career, I never wanted to judge other criminals than those for which evidence existed. I have never been involved, beat me until I was convinced of the guilt of someone as convinced that he had a free will and he had the means to judge what was doing. I took care to consider whether it had the means to escape from the place assigned to him if he could help it. I can not fight against someone who has the place where he was, showed human feelings, did his best. There, it is young people who were 18 years old at the time and who were at the bottom of the social pyramid. It has nothing to do with a decision-criminal who would not be at risk and that men organized mass death.
In the case of Hubert Zafke, I confess myself powerless to nurse I do not know if, in relation to a convoy which arrived Anne Frank, he addressed a smile saddened to that family or if he gave them a kick in the ass. When we do not know, it’s difficult to blame.
And then find yourself facing an old man, like John Demjanjuk [Ukrainian goalkeeper Sobibor camp condemned in 2011, note] that was on a stretcher, drooling mouth open, and do not say a word, it’s a little disarming. But justice in these cases, is symbolic.
Why then did it take so long to bring them before justice?
– After the war, West Germany would not judge the major criminals, those who organized the arrest and deportation of 3,000 to 4,000 people each time. Why ? Because these were people who had received an education. They were recycled in Germany in an honorable situation they were businessmen, lawyers, judges, senior civil servants. The basic SS, who was not part and which killed a child in a Polish ghetto, with two witnesses on the other hand it was doomed. It has sometimes found a number of criminals, but it was with reluctance.
In the 1970s, a machine head of Oradour-sur-Glane, who was 19 at the time, was indicted by prosecutors in Dortmund. But the president of the Assize Court of Cologne miners refused to open the trial saying it did not have enough evidence, despite the implausibility of his statement where he claimed not to have drawn. Besides West Germany never wanted to judge the general Lammerding, the top official of Oradour-sur-Glane.
And you say, today is the reverse: one can condemn a nurse or an accountant to which there is no evidence …
– the German court has extended the notion of guilt, which was restricted to serious criminals before. John Demjanjuk had made an appeal after being sentenced to Munich in 2010, arguing that this interpretation was invalid and had to prove personal involvement of someone in a specific crime. But he died before his appeal could not be examined by the German Supreme Court.
In the absence, for now interpretation of guilt on this extension, the German court before the pressure of public opinion, can not say she can not prove she jeopardizes the personal guardian. She now considers that the crime was a terrible crime, it can not tolerate people who were guards at Auschwitz are unpunished, that Germany must redeem himself. While many believe that even those who occupied subordinate positions must be condemned without examination of their personal behavior. She prefers to be able to judge the criminals until their last breath leaves to give them an automatic sentence of three to four years in prison that we can not apply because of the advanced age of the accused. All employees are guilty of Auschwitz, even the mason.
This is a complex and ambiguous situation because this is the last round of a judicial process that never takes place in the history.
There have been these past 70 years, an exceptional effort with justice courts allied, French and German national justice. Should not it ends in a kind of malaise to see people unable to defend themselves, tried and sentenced automatically
Interview by Sarah Diffalah
Agricultural Fair: Valls accused of being “a puppet of Europe” – The Point
For now, all is well. Manuel Valls arrived before 7 am in the quiet Agricultural Fair tense after the visit and punctuated with insults of President François Hollande. The head of government was first welcomed the Minister of Agriculture Stéphane Le Foll and the president of the FNSEA, the main farmers’ union, Xavier Beulin.
Then Manuel Valls visited the booth cattle, where sat, like every day, the mascot of the fair Cherry bazadaise a cow, and launched into a discussion with breeders. In France, “the crisis is deeper because there is this link between the land and society,” said the Prime Minister. As for Francois Hollande on Saturday, beginning his visit took place peacefully. The president had suffered his first whistles an hour later.
Exchanges with breeders
The atmosphere is tense, however. “We feel abandoned,” launched at the Prime Minister, Claude Duval, installed since 1973 and has 100 dairy cows. Manuel Valls replied: “We are aware of your problems. “In addition to the very low level of milk sales prices, the farmer whose cow Eugenie, race salers and 7 years old, was champion of the 2015 Salon also complained of problems of drought affecting fodder.
After the stand Eugenie Manuel Valls had a tense exchange with a group of breeders. “You are the puppets of Europe”, launched her Francois, farmer in Normandy, before adding: “They are there to strut, but they have no power and we we’re dying. “When asked by representatives of the dairy sector the” liberal “vision of Brussels, the Prime Minister recalled seeing last week Commissioner Phil Hogan with Minister Stephane Le Foll. “There is an awareness, I think, the severity of the crisis,” said Manuel Valls. For him, it could not be any crisis of confidence in Europe about that. “The first two pillars of Europe, it was the steel and agriculture. It is not necessary that this pillar then collapses. “
The farmers want appeasement
” We want to get the great cry of distress of farmers in the countryside, “said José Baechler, a Lot-et Breeder Garonne who would then attend a breakfast with the Prime Minister. Asked about the reception planned for Manuel Valls, the breeder said that producers “want appeasement” but want their “about being heard.” “The problem (selling under the cost of production, Ed) recurring for several years now reached an unbearable level,” according to José Baechler, who judged insufficient aid announcements made so far.
Prime Minister also happens to few hours of the official end of business Monday night at midnight negotiations between industrial and retail (GMS), accused of driving prices down by training farmers in this downward spiral. For ten days, the main actors – food manufacturers and agricultural officials – take turns to denounce the “harder than ever negotiations” with representatives of the GMS, which sometimes take the shape of a “guard view “as an industrial speaking on condition of anonymity.
an amendment to the 2008 law
” We called the signs of large distribution to exercise solidarity by not lowering prices during trade negotiations in 2016, “warned last week Manuel Valls. On Saturday, President Hollande hit hard and warned dealers: while “the state does not set prices,” he acknowledged, but it can and “must put pressure on distributors for true recognition of the farmer’s work, “he said. The Head of State intends to change “before the summer” the law of modernization of the economy (LME), adopted in 2008 under the previous five-year period to ensure better protection of the producer, the poor relation of these negotiations, and he “is not used as an adjustment variable” to preserve margins of middlemen and distributors.
“be careful what you will do in the next 48 hours because it will determine the content this next law “, he launched the bosses of major retailers. For farmers, the LME they call “Leclerc Act”, according to the hypermarkets and supermarkets of the same name, establishes freedom of price negotiation between the central purchasing of supermarkets and their suppliers. A system that allows the first to impose their prices and demand reductions that penalize producers. “A law tailored for Michel-Édouard Leclerc by his friend Sarkozy” and accuses Bruno, a dairy farmer from the Morbihan.
A serious crisis
These purely French difficulties related to extreme concentration of large retail chains in France, defended by four central purchasing, in addition to a cyclical crisis of overproduction, falling demand and Russian embargo that weighs the latter especially on during pork. For his part, Xavier Beulin, the boss of the powerful FNSEA agricultural union first in the country, denounced these “bosses teaches hand on heart that gently come tell us that all is well, they themselves will take their responsibilities “while their groups demand decreases” – 4% – 8% on all food products. ” “Are we may have as detestable attitude? “Has he asked.
Several departments of the south of France in orange vigilance wind and avalanches – Le Figaro
WEATHER – Strong winds are expected in the Pyrenees-Orientales and the Aude and high avalanche risk always concern Savoy and the extreme southeast. The access road to the resort of Isola 2000 in the Alpes-Maritimes, was cut Monday morning in both directions because of an avalanche, blocking 3,000 people.
The bad weather already announced this weekend continue early this week. . The coming depression southwest of Europe should lead to strong weather until Monday night
Six departments were placed on orange alert by Météo Consult *: Corse-du South and Corsica for the risks of storms, the Aude and Pyrénées-Orientales wind orange alert, Alpes-Maritimes and Savoy in orange avalanche alert.
Météo-France, meanwhile, ranked the departments of Savoie, of Alpes-Maritimes, Aude, Eastern Pyrenees and Andorra orange alert.
Monday morning , the depression is centered on Corsica, hit by thunderstorm. The storm blew across the Gulf of Lions with 137 km / h at Cape Bear (66).
During the day , the mistral was also to strengthen in lower Rhone Valley and western Provence, up to 120 or 130 km / h between Aix-en-Provence, Istres, Arles and Orange, accentuating the sensation of cold with a close feel of 0, specifies Weather Consult.
in eastern France, a risk of avalanche maximum also affects the Savoie and Alpes-Maritimes. The avalanche activity is expected “observed on average about once a year,” according to Météo-France. “The heavy snowfall, accompanied by a South East wind more or less strong” during the weekend of 40 to 60cm, “have increased avalanche risk level 4 during this -fort- day Sunday on the mountains of Haute-Maurienne and Mercantour. “
As a result of these storms, the access road to the Isola 2000 ski resort in the Alpes-Maritimes , was cut Monday morning in both directions because of an avalanche “indefinitely,” according to Traffic monitoring. Traffic is stopped on this line since 1:15, said the site of the road safety organization.
According to France Bleu Azur, 3,000 people are stranded in the ski resort after avalanche occurred on the night.
This week is the last of the winter holidays for Zone C of Education (academies of Paris, Versailles, Créteil, Toulouse and Montpellier).
Vienna: a tortured and killed in his fifties, a couple indicted – BFMTV.COM
A couple was set Sunday to review Poitiers and detained two days after the discovery in the Vienna of the body of a fifties who was kidnapped and tortured for two months, in an apparently related to a history drama family, social distress on background, do we learned from a judicial source. The 55 year old man has been indicted for arrest, kidnapping followed by death, and for acts of torture and barbarity habitually on vulnerable person, heads punishable by life imprisonment. His partner of 46 years was indicted for arrest, kidnapping followed by death, said prosecutors.
The body of the victim, aged 57, was found Friday morning in the vineyards in Saint-Leger-de-Montbrillais, north of Vienna. He had numerous bruises, burns and fractures, to clear the deputy prosecutor Patrick Maire to the press. The victim was then allegedly strangled, without establishing with certainty whether she died in the place where it was abandoned, or transferred after his death.
The victim sequestered since December
An important police device, deployed after the discovery of the body led to the arrest in a few hours Friday, two suspects, who were then placed in custody. They were remanded in custody on Sunday after their indictment. According to the deputy prosecutor, the victim, a native of Montreuil-Bellay Maine-et-Loire, was kidnapped in December by the couple in Argenton-The Church, fifteen kilometers in neighboring Deux-Sèvres, where remained suspicious.
It would have been almost daily violence and humiliation. The victim, who was under curatorship, had no family, and worrying disappearance was reported a few weeks ago by neighbors. The motives of the crime, committed in a context of great social and intellectual distress, remained rather vague Sunday. It could be a “revenge following a family dispute” old, said the prosecution: the victim knew the suspects, and had stayed there including 12 years with the man’s parents <. / p>
Vienna: a couple indicted after the discovery of a tortured body – Le Figaro
The lifeless body of a 57 year old woman was discovered Friday in Vienna. A man aged 55 and his partner of 46 years were indicted and detained Sunday in Poitiers. The victim was held captive for two months and have suffered violence at the couple’s home.
The garbage collectors have made a gruesome discovery Friday morning. At Saint-Léger-de-Montbrillais, north of Vienna, they found the body of a woman of 57 years in the vineyards. The body of the victim had numerous bruises, burns and fractures, according to the deputy prosecutor Patrick Maire. She was strangled, but it is unclear whether she died at the scene, or transported after death. The investigation went quickly: a couple from Deux-Sèvres was quickly put into custody and indicted on Sunday before being remanded in custody.
The 55 year old man has been indicted for arrest, kidnapping followed by death, and for acts of torture and barbarity habitually on vulnerable person, heads facing the life imprisonment. His partner of 46 years was indicted for arrest, kidnapping followed by death, said the floor of Poitiers.
After denying the facts at the beginning of the custody, both accused came to recognize their responsibility as New Republic . The man would have sought to minimize the role of his companion. The couple said at the hearings have carried the body of the victim while she was still alive.
According to the deputy prosecutor, the victim, a native of Montreuil-Bellay Maine-et-Loire, was kidnapped in December by the couple in Argenton-the Church, fifteen kilometers in Deux-Sèvres, neighboring department, where the suspects lived. She would have been almost daily violence and humiliation. This woman, who was under curatorship, had no family, and worrying disappearance was reported a few weeks ago by neighbors.
The motives of the crime, committed in a context of great distress social and intellectual, remained rather vague Sunday. It could be a “revenge following a family dispute” old, said the prosecution: the victim knew the suspects, and had stayed there including twelve years at the man’s parents <. / p>
Child overthrown in Paris: the suspect indicted and imprisoned – The Express
The man suspected of stealing a vehicle then overturned and seriously wounded a child in Paris on Friday was charged and remanded in custody on Sunday, do we learned from a judicial source.
This man of 35 years, released from prison Monday was arrested during his flight on the A3 at Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), after trying to rob a fast food. While he was under the influence of alcohol, “he drove towards the police” during his arrest, the source said
The man has been indicted by a judge for armed robbery, unintentional injuries aggravated attempted murder on person holding public authority, driving without a license and driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol status, of all offenses committed in recidivism . A special magistrate was then remanded in custody, as was required the Paris prosecutor.
The suspect came out of prison
The six year old remained Sunday in critical condition, the source said. He was overthrown by the suspect driving a vehicle he had just stolen under threat of a toy gun, earlier in the southeast of the capital, instead of Italy (thirteenth arrondissement).
The man was released from prison after serving a sentence of ten months firm. His record holder twelve convictions for drug offenses, several driving offenses without a license, extortion and theft, said the judicial source.
Poitiers: a tortured and killed in his fifties, a couple indicted – Le Parisien
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ILLUSTRATION. a couple was set Sunday to review Poitiers and detained two days after the discovery in the Vienna of the body of a fifties who was kidnapped and tortured for two months.
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a couple was set Sunday to review Poitiers and detained two days after the discovery in the Vienna of the body of a fifties who was kidnapped and tortured for two months, in an apparently related to drama old family story about social distress background, do we learned from a judicial source.
The body of the victim, aged 57, was found Friday morning in vineyards in Saint-Léger-de-Montbrillais, north of Vienna. He had numerous bruises, burns and fractures, to clear the deputy prosecutor Patrick Maire to the press. The victim was then allegedly strangled, without establishing with certainty whether she died in the place where it was abandoned, or transferred after his death. An important police device, deployed after the discovery of the body led to the arrest in a few hours Friday, two suspects, who were then placed in custody. They were remanded in custody on Sunday after their indictment.
Revenge in mobile way?
According to the deputy prosecutor, the victim, a native of Montreuil-Bellay Maine-et-Loire, was kidnapped in December by the couple in Argenton-the Church, fifteen kilometers in neighboring Deux-Sèvres, where the suspects lived. She would have been almost daily violence and humiliation. The victim, who was under curatorship, had no family, and worrying disappearance was reported a few weeks ago by neighbors.
The motives of the crime, committed in a context of great distress social and intellectual, remained rather vague Sunday. It could be a “revenge following a family dispute” old, said the prosecution: the victim knew the suspects, and had stayed there including 12 years with the man’s parents <. br />
FRANCE 3 Languedoc-Roussillon
Departments of Pyrenees-Orientales and Aude as well as Andorra were placed in orange vigilance winds with expected gusts of 110 km / h to over 160 km / h from Monday 3h, announced Meteo France. The alert level 3 is valid until Tuesday 7am.
By Fabrice Dubault
Published 02/28/2016 | 4:53 p.m., updated 02/28/2016 | 5:14 p.m.
© BENELUXPIX / MAXPPP illustration
the next night, Sunday night and Monday, and all day Monday, the tramontana (northwest wind) is blowing hard on a large half of the Eastern Pyrenees and Aude.
for the North-westerly wind, starting Monday 3h, the north wind will blow between “110 and 130km / h on a widespread, these values may be slightly exceeded the coastal areas of Languedoc Roussillon between 130 and 140km / h “, according to Météo-France, believing that ” Cape Bear “in the Pyrénées-Orientales, the gusts could exceed 160km / h.”
the northerly wind northwest will also blowing hard all day Monday on the eastern Pyrenees and especially the ridges exposed to the north wind. The gusts then reach 110 to 130 km / h including Andorra.
According to Meteo-France, this type of event happens windy “two to three times a year.”
the consequences of an orange alert for strong winds
power cuts and telephone can affect the distribution networks for relatively long periods.
the roofs and chimneys can be damaged.
tree branches may break. Vehicles can be deported.
Road traffic may be disrupted, especially on secondary roads in forest areas.
The operation of ski infrastructure is disrupted.
Some damage may affect electricity and telephone networks.
advice behavior orange alert in case of high winds
* Limit your movement. Limit your speed in highway driving, especially if you drive a car or hitch sensitive to the effects of wind.
* Do not walk in the forest [and on the coast].
* In town, be alert to possible falling objects various.
* do not intervene on roofs and touch any electrical son fell to the ground.
* Store or secure sensitive to the effects of objects wind or likely to be damaged.
* Install imperative generators outside buildings.
François Hollande heckled at agricultural show – Le Figaro
VIDEO – Visit of President of the Republic ended on Saturday after 6 hours in an electric atmosphere. Five farmers were briefly detained after the dismantling of the stand of the Ministry of Agriculture.
The inaugural visit of President of the Republic, François Hollande, the 53th edition of the agricultural fair this Saturday morning started off well. It ended about 6 hours in a far less serene climate where police had to intervene twice to calm the angry farmers. The Head of State also said hearing those moods. “The cries I hear them (….) Anger, I prefer it is expressed on the occasion of this show and outside,” and “this is a very strong demand which is expressed, “he said during his visit. “Our action is legitimate, we can not content ourselves with having only speeches, we want deeds,” Jerome replica Despey, deputy general secretary of the FNSEA after removal of part of the Ministry ‘s stand Agriculture.
Back on these events. The President of the Republic, François Hollande, the crowd of VIP red carpet accurate 6:47, and headed in Hall 1, the farm animals by which all begins official visit. He takes care to talk on camera with the leader of the Peasant Confederation, Laurent Pinatel. Avoiding to repeat the incident last year where fierce opponent of the 1000 farm cows had been expelled forcibly from the procession. Then he goes under the hedge of green and white flags of the union FNSEA (National Federation of Farmers’ Unions) protesting against the proliferation of environmental standards. He will then greet Cherry and his breeder Landes, Joel Sillac, owner of the cow star bazadaise race salon recognizable by its gray dress anthracite. Not hesitating to fondle although sharp horns of cattle posing for photographers who are fighting to have the best plan in the crackling flashes. They then meet with a young goat herder, Lucien Bourgeois, who told him of his anxiety to see more and more of his colleagues quit the fault craft a price sufficient milk. Francois Hollande takes time to talk to each other.
But when it passes in front of Holstein dairy farmers, the dairy industry reference race, an hour after his arrival, atmosphere skids. “Resignation, resignation breaks up,” we hear in a concert of whistles. “We wanted to express our distress, says Marion, breeder at the head of a herd of 65 dairy in the Aube, at Marolle Bailly. He would not listen. It was said out loud what people thought of him. When one is not capable of being the height of the current crisis, there is one solution: leave. Will it take that one disappear one after the other so that the power to take the right steps ?, asks the peasant. “Friends hanged themselves in their stable because they could no longer cope with loads of accumulation,” she insists. Some other young farmers, who participated last Sunday night, the action before the house of Stéphane Le Foll at Le Mans, are also among the protesters. “For two years we are promised a recovery of the dairy sector and we see nothing coming, we get impatient. Fortunately we are passionate about our business, “says Emmanuel, a farmer in the Sarthe from being molested by plainclothes policemen, approaching too close to the head of state.
When you are not able to be up to the current crisis, there is one solution: from
. then around 10 o’clock when all the participants think the hardest is over, the stand of the Ministry of Agriculture located in the institutional lobby is sacked by 130 operators of the FNSEA, Ile de France. “The police prevented us from doing what was expected to agree with them: unfurl a banner on the ministry’s stand to show our distress, Damien Greffin acknowledges the virulent boss of the Paris majority union. We were repelled by security forces and it is at that moment that everything has degenerated. ” The solidified cardboard based ecological furniture Ministerial stand was completely destroyed. “The incident is closed,” expressed himself in Xavier Beulin substance after negotiations with the prefect of Paris, the Police released the five farmers arrested after the rampage. This show really can not do without like the others. We expect more angry movements in the coming days.
Opponents of the shale gas are mobilizing in the Gard – Le Figaro
A rally in Barjac in the Gard is organized on Sunday late morning, at the initiative of collective Ardèche “Stop Shale Gas”. The reasons for the anger: a court order issued in late January that allows Total multinational to resume shale gas research
The anti sling. shale -Gas off again in the south of France. Several thousand people gathered Sunday in Barjac (Gard) requesting a total ban on the exploration and exploitation of shale gas. While the organizers announced 15,000 participants in mid-afternoon, the police dénombrait in 6000, reports France Bleu Ardeche. “Nothing is loose,” “It’s still there,” “We are not masochistic-schists,” could be read on the demonstrators placards.
“We do not want promises, we want actions,” insisted during a press conference Paul Reynard, one of the collective Stop spokespersons shale gas, which called for “citizens assembly”. “The Minister of Ecology Ségolène Royal has not stopped us unfulfilled promises, like all its predecessors. It is enough if the Socialist government wants to legislate, he must do it immediately. ” Otherwise, mobilization, nonviolent since 2010, will be transformed into “blocks”, threatened a spokesman Sebastien Spain.
A legal battle dating from 2011
The reasons for their anger: a court order issued in late January. The Cergy-Pontoise Administrative Court annulled the repeal of the exploration permit called “Montelimar” granted to two companies in the Total Group in April 2010. In other words, the court authorized the multinational to resume shale gas research several thousand km² in Drôme, Ardèche, Gard, Vaucluse and Herault.
This legal battle was in October 2011. At the time, the government had decided to repeal the three exploration licenses including the total. The executive was then made that decision under the law of 13 July 2011 banning the controversial technique of hydraulic fracturing, the only employee so far to extract the gas trapped in shale narrow cracks. And even if Total had pledged not to resort to this solution, the Ministry of Ecology had estimated that the oil was not specific enough on substitutions solutions. Considering this decision unfounded, Total had decided to file an appeal.
Ségolène Royal appealed
On 28 January, the Cergy-Pontoise Administrative Court eventually decide canceling the repeal of the license. “The Tribunal found that the two companies of the Total group had fulfilled their obligations in a clear commitment not to resort to hydraulic fracturing,” he justified in a statement. “This decision really angry people. It has greatly expanded our movement, “said Mr. Reynard. “Oil as Total obtain permits over 15 years, they expect a change of majority and the coming to power of parties supporting the exploitation of shale gas,” he said, referring to the party Republicans.
In the process, the Ecology Minister has appealed this decision. Which for now puts the decision of the court admnistratif. The minister said in a statement that “the law on the energy transition to green growth” fixed “target of reducing 30% of the oil consumption by 2030″. She else reaffirmed its determination “to strictly enforce the prohibition of hydraulic fracturing in an objective of protecting the environment and health.”
Total had however stated shortly before the decision of Cergy court does not want to “push through on that subject” and go against the advice of the government. “If the national community does not want us to do exploration of shale gas, we will not do,” reacted the CEO of Total, Patrick Poyanne, micro Europe 1. “I think he needs to be a consensus on such a subject. ” Statements that have not reassured the opponents.
Perico Légasse: the agricultural show or cynicism of the FNSEA and supermarkets – Le Figaro
FIGRAOVOX / BIG INTERVIEW – Perico Légasse was present at agricultural show this weekend. The opportunity to take stock with FigaroVox on the crisis of the rural world and to remember that the show is primarily that of major brands.
Perico Légasse is editor of the topic wine and food at the weekly Marianne .
tHE VOX FIGARO: the agricultural show opened this weekend. Just a few weeks FigaroVox, you stated: “The Fair will remain the major industrial and commercial brands whose profits are made on the eradication of a company they have helped to ruin.” This show does -it still make sense?
Absolutely, this show has a very deep meaning, that to dedicate the triumph of the agricultural industry through the eradication of peasant agriculture. As if a gun dealer installed a mausoleum to his glory in the middle of the cemetery of the city bombed by its aircraft. When I see the giant billboard at the sign of a famous low cost distributor in the middle of dairy cows as his stores sell an infamous import white liquid, UHT brick that ruin the French breeders, I think the provocation has limits. It’s fair thugs who come taunt the people they extort and everyone wanders these aisles and say that cohabitation is a great sign of social evolution. A joke does one?
It is still the recipient of the anger of part of the peasantry. François Hollande was booed by farmers asking him to resign …
Fearing overflows, Nicolas Sarkozy had not opened the lounge 2010. This never happened during the Fifth Republic. At least, Francois Hollande, to the level of national unpopularity, he did not steal it. The intensity of the uproar and the violence that followed did were not seen. Such insulting the head of state has been shocking. The difference is that with Nicolas Sarkozy Francois Hollande has not replied, “! Go away, silly”
It should be said height of paradox, he was under the “protection”, in addition to its security Service General Tapioca way (what failure to proclaim his fear of the people with such police deployment when it was elected by universal suffrage, that’s vacillating regime that clings), Xavier Beulin, president of the FNSEA, the union mainly responsible majority of the appalling situation in which French agriculture is. Being there, I witnessed the scene. There was something grotesque to see a forest of flags, at the sign of the gravedigger union welcome the coroner to mourn over the dead body of their common victim. For if François Hollande belongs to a party that has consistently promoted and voted, right and center, François Bayrou in mind, agricultural policies that send our peasants in the wall for 40 years, there was a sacred cynicism dose Beulin from Xavier, CEO of the multinational April (ex Sofiproteol) equivalent, the agro industrial level, of what is Michelin on the tire field, playing the representative of the ruined farmers. Let’s say he is not truly representative.
What is this contradictory?
Xavier Beulin is leading a industrial empire that not only has nothing to agricultural in the original sense of the term, but promotes an economic system which, moreover, eradicates the real agriculture. Challenged by its base discredited among its members for a long time owned factories that processes of the Brazilian industrial chicken (while sending commandos of the FNSEA to protest against poultry imports putting French industry at evil), the President Beulin was reminiscent of an incendiary treating the arsonist matches merchant. Then they went for a walk booed, addressed to one as to another.
Is not it a little easier to blame when the FNSEA we know the complexity of the issues and power relations in terms of agricultural issues?
of course the FNSEA is not alone guilty. There is also in this union, including departmental federations (FDSEA) adherents who do not share the national strategy and fought to prevent the excesses that led to the current tragedy. FNSEA is not a block. Upon succeeding Luc Guyau, in 2001, two candidates opposed in the election to the presidency of the union, Jean-Michel Lemetayer, continuer of the productivist option, representing breeders, and Dominique Chardon, bearer of a new vision of agriculture concerned with environmental compliance, bio producer in the Gard. The first prevailed. In 2010, it was the victory of the grain lobby, with Beulin
Not forgetting the deadly trio Agricole. – MSA (MSA) – Chambers of Agriculture where sometimes the same dignitaries sit in three instances . Dignitaries often affiliated with … FNSEA. Coincidence. The other scourge eradicator is retail, public enemy # 1 of Agriculture and, at this level of deterioration of the market, the French economy. But it would be too easy to blame only the institutions. When he has the money, and he does not change his eating habits in the direction of a responsible and civic attitude, the consumer is also involved in the collapse of our agricultural heritage. Hence the urgency, we never repeat it enough, a civic information for adults on consumer issues and taste education for the generations that will be customers of tomorrow.
the resignation of François Hollande would it change anything to the situation. The president and the executive are they paying for the negligence of their predecessors?
The resignation of the President of the French Republic does not change much the situation in that that the fundamental levers, which we agreed to lose control in agricultural policy, are today operated in Brussels. Furthermore it is true that the current executive inherits forty years of Wrong Way and lies. The greatest criminal is Jacques Chirac who managed to make believe that he was the savior of farmers by establishing a system of total assistantship funded by the German taxpayer through the CAP. Coup, in tactical terms, to set a one-time deficiency, but disaster in strategic terms, when installing, structurally, a fundamental economic activity for the nation in a logic of generalized subsidies. Everything was modeled and continued on this principle regardless of the ruling majority. To sum up, the way the Chinese proverb, we were given a fish to eat French farmer rather than teach him to fish.
The crux of the problem is it European?
I will not say it like that. Europe, in itself, is not a defect, on the contrary. It is even the only solution brings hope to our agriculture, in a true common market subject to free and undistorted competition focusing first community interests. True greater Europe is Europe as a priority and then the world. The opposite of what has been put in place. This is the original spirit of the Treaty of Rome and I do not despair that chaos towards which we are moving strides us back one day if we do not want the “Euroexit” understand the output of the European Union Of the history. The Commission in Brussels has become a wound. Romanian Dacian Ciolos was a good Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development. His departure in 2014 was a great relief for the lobbies. Today the European Union cancer is the Atlanticist clan that acts within the institutions. The conditions of trading on the transatlantic Treaty (document kept secret, available at certain hours without permission to make a copy or translate) are hallucinating. The silence surrounding these transactions not conducted on people without warrants or representation proves that something illegal is going on between Brussels and Washington. In Paris, the topic is taboo when asked the top of the state, “Do not worry, it will not succeed, Germany will oppose.” For once, this is a big American TAFTA meteorite that may one day fall on us.
Must start restore milk quotas? If its partners, particularly Germany, refuse to hear, France should she act unilaterally?
Let’s say it was a mistake to remove them even if they were, anyway, an artificial arrangement designed to regulate the market, thus by no means a permanent solution. The real solution is that the French market buys and consumes French French milk cows by paying a fair price to the producer, not the collecting cooperative nor the distributor racketeer. The formula may seem simplistic. Yet it is the only Cartesian, efficient, fair and legitimate. For the rest, it was agreed that Germany retains the role of major industrial power and the France of the great agricultural power. Thus the Gallic and Teutonic cows had bolts were well kept. But our friend and ally dear, dear Chancellor panzer decided otherwise and the Federal Republic has also become the first European agricultural power with methods of disloyalty unnamed, in total disregard of the major European balances. Starting with the use of Romanian workers, Bulgarians or Poles subject to the social legislation of posted workers in factories in meat that the cost ruin our producers. The Germans operate the diktat. Adenauer wake up, she went crazy!
What do you think of the reaction of Stéphane Le Foll after the night tour Sunday surprise of farmers?
as a patron of the exhibition, he resented, and this is normal. . Legitimate reaction of someone who himself was tested when protesters came interpellate the home, a Sunday night
On this question, I’ll be solemn and categorical: I do not share all About Stéphane Le Foll when he tackles some agricultural issues, I do not agree with all his decisions about production chains, and nobody can suspect me of any political collusion with the government spokesman Valls but I assert here that it is the largest agriculture minister that the French Republic has been a long time. A thought for Philippe Vasseur, Glavany Jean and Michel Barnier, who were also very good ministers. Stéphane Le Foll shows undeniable skill and knows his files like no other. Without borrowing the jargon to anyone, I think he can not do everything and, when possible, others do not allow it to decide. It has a margin of French governor in 2016 Europe and must often make difficult choices. Point. I have said and written many times, here and elsewhere, its draft to make France the leading European agro-ecology, and measures installed in this sense, is a significant event. It is even a major historical turning point in the history of French agriculture from the Edgard Pisani Modernization Act in 1964. You have to go even harder, because it’s the only voice of salvation for our farmers.
You’re the only one to come to the defense minister.
of course, this is not enough, of course, things are struggling to put in place, but given the morbid hostility of officials of the FNSEA respect to this great idea, you understand why. This animosity is also the best proof that agroecology is a step towards a situation where agronomy and ecology combined enable France to become the thriving agricultural power it was.
Also, nocturnal attack at his home in Le Mans, and the acts that followed, are unfair. They leave a sick feeling for those who believe in political confrontation in the loyalty and dignity. Stéphane Le Foll does not behave like a dignitary and use a minimum of protection for personal safety. He travels in second class on the train and everyone can approach to discuss with him. Abusing this facility is not worthy of peasants, even nerve ends. Few voices are raised to denounce the method. Saturday morning on the show, I heard the insults of unprecedented violence made against him, and despite all the sympathy and active solidarity that I bring to the peasant cause, I found just disgusting to treat so. One day it will be recognized, with all the reservations we want, the good he has done to France. I say bluntly. Should one be astonished that position and would assume anything, he owes nothing to me and I owe him nothing. It is a question of values.
The angry farmers she translated more widely the gap between the elites and the people, the clash between two worlds that have nothing in common?
Not only. I would even between two conceptions of France. In a very interesting paradox in the sense that preserving the earth world can have a connotation maurassienne while also fighting environmentalists left. For what I think ecology is a conservatism as opposed to progress as a source of environmental damage. Hence the contradictions and confusions in some parties. At the same time, a certain agriculture believes in emancipation by adopting modern methods, intensive and lucrative that the socio away the heritage character of its activity. In which case it puts sustainable in the background since the market refuses to pay him the two. We are now in overproduction for a limited offer or down. Only way, producing less but better. There is therefore a farmer who does not want to become a farmer and there is the farmer who does not want to become a farmer. Whoever loves plowing with satellite guidance and he who loves plowing with feet on the ground. Not two worlds but two civilizations who oppose. This divide is at the heart of rural tragedy that we live for twenty years. Next is to graft the urban vision of this distress. A time considered a polluter, whiny, assisted the peasant is finally perceived without which we are nothing. The future of the planet is in their hands. So civilization. And this future will be what we make of it, a floor cocksucking to eat fast and cheap or a preservative that can sit around the table with good food, clean and fair. Someone who is on Earth only to produce and conquer market share of subsidized or someone who is there to feed us, supporting himself by the fruit of his work adequately paid. The laws of nature, inalienable parameter when approaching 7 billion people, will not be satisfied from those of the mandatory unlimited growth. And there is the peasant, and resource management, which will determine the fate of mankind. The company will soon what choice do if she wants to save her children.
Can the revolt of the farmers be the spark that will lead to a national protest movement? Can there be merger of struggles?
I do not think so. The great social earthquakes are generally urban. The rural population does not have enough demographic weight, which is a tragedy in itself, to induce an earthquake. However, supportive, strong and well-coordinated, peasant anger can block the country, possibly more with other sectors of society outraged. This would require a common denominator. The combined incompetence of the political class and the art of flying in squadrons blunders may well be that denominator. The terms of the big night does not seem yet exist, it will not prevent the government from having small painful morning if the mad cow continues to kick over the traces. The urgency of urgency, at this hour, and restore pride to the French peasantry. And this requires courageous decisions.
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The Chamber of Commerce promotes the city, the view is great, but City where is the economy?
Canadian Traveller, 4/6/14. "Pacifica - California's natural playground."
Pacifica, CA best sunset anywhere, but where's the economy?
"One of the most panoramic coastal towns in the San Francisco Bay Area, Pacifica is famous for its beautiful coastline, breathtaking vistas and bohemian ambiance.
The town’s ethereal beauty is further enhanced by its Mediterranean-style weather. Temperatures range from 15to 20 degrees cooler than they do on the central coast, drawing visitors to Pacifica’s shoreline to cool off during the hot summer months.
Just 15 minutes from San Francisco, it is the perfect place to soak-up picturesque views of the rolling hills and crashing waves Californian coastline. The area boasts some of the finest hiking trails in the Bay region, including the new Devil’s Slide Coastal Trail, which opened just last month. Devil’s Slide Coast is a 3,600-hectare network of publicly accessible lands between Pacifica and Half Moon Bay explores dramatic landscapes and crucial ocean habitats." Read article.
Note: photograph is from the above article.
Pacifica Chamber of Commerce promotes this city
Pacifica Tribune/My Turn, 6/26/14. "Insight into what Pacifica Chamber does to support our city economy" by Chris Porter
New store front businesses gets our ribbon cutting
"There have been many letters and posts to blogs regarding the Pacifica Chamber of Commerce and why they should even be considered for a $10,000 stipend from the city of Pacifica. The city of Pacifica was funding the Visitors Center, which is open weekends from May through November. Just the payroll for this time frame far exceeds $10,000.
Within the past 12 months, the chamber has developed Pacifica's visitor website, VisitPacifica.com; launched the mobile app, iPacifica; centralized the community calendar on the website and the iPacifica app; hired a public relations firm to market local hotels and Pacifica; hosted two groups of travel writers on three-day stays within the city, which resulted in coverage in or on VIA magazine (AAA), Travel and Leisure, Senior Living and Diablo Magazine, SF Examiner and Contra Costa Times newspapers, eGloral Travel media, ontravel.com, Postcardsforyou.com, LocalGetaways.com, and KGO810News.
Contrary to stated as facts, our membership dues are not used for PAC activities, which are monies voluntarily contributed and earmarked by the business contributing such to go directly to the PAC, but used for the activities listed above. We have contributed to the new Devil's Slide Shuttle, which brings visitors into Pacifica to view the newest tunnel in California and then stay in our town for lunch or at least fill up their gas tank. We have revamped the kiosk in Rockaway Beach to show the latest activities and events in Pacifica.
We provide tourists information and
internet advertising from our Rockaway office
This past Saturday we hosted Taste of Pacifica, which showcases the restaurants in this town and gives information on how to locate them and make reservations. The event was a sell out with many people coming from out of town to sample our culinary cuisine. This "private organization," as you call it, brings people into this town who spend dollars, which helps the city and our entire community, not just our members.
We do what we can to grow business
Do you want to target and reach all demographic groups for your business to be successful? The Pacifica Chamber of Commerce provides these 21st-century products and services to help our chamber member businesses succeed. If you feel there is worth to being in the directory, being on our website, being on the iPacifica app, and joining us in community events like the Taste of Pacifica, the Annual Golf Tournament, the Oktoberfest, and the Rockaway Tree Lighting, then join us. If not, do not negate the importance we bring to this city as its marketing arm.
In 2011, the total transient occupancy tax (TOT) was $940,000, which increased to $1.1 million in 2012 with the 2 percent increase in the TOT voted in by the citizens. In 2013 the $1.1 million increased to $1.3 million through marketing Pacifica as a tourist destination by the chamber. It was always the understanding that the $10,000 funding the Chamber received came directly from the TOT tax and not the taxpayers pocket.
We are just asking the citizens of Pacifica to give credit where credit is due. No one is promoting this city except the Chamber of Commerce."
Note: in adapting the article reprint from the original Pacifica Tribune article, a title has been added, and the one paragraph text has been changed to several paragraphs. Approval for printing the article in full has been allowed by Chris Porter.
Reference - Pacifica Chamber of Commerce.
Note: photographs: Business opening ribbon cutting (Lovey's Tea Shoppe), from Pacifica Chamber of Commerce, 11/9/12. The business office from InfoUSA, posted on a Fix Pacifica article (Chamber annual award annual dinner, 2/12/12). Superman helping from CNN, slide 2 of 8, in an article by Kevin Pilley, 6/6/13, "The town where Superman lives". "Sometimes saving the world involves mundane tasks. Metropolis's resident Superman helps out with a little gardening."
San Francisco is focused on homeless and affordable housing
A compassionate investment in the welfare of people, with better outcome.
The Examiner/Chris Roberts, 6/27/14. "Mayor: building supportive housing key to ending homelessness."
Homeless housing, a good space
Mayor Ed Lee getting it right again
"San Francisco is working to build its way out of the homelessness problem. A total of 19,000 "chronically homeless people" have been moved off of the streets and into housing or sent back home to their families over the past decade, Mayor Ed Lee announced Thursday.
And of those longtime homeless, 11,362 people are living in The City in supportive housing, apartment complexes with mental health and other service workers on site. Building more of that housing is the key to ending chronic homelessness, Lee and other city leaders said Thursday, which marked the 10-year anniversary of The City's first 10-year plan to get people living on the streets indoors.
.... San Francisco's housing crunch is affecting people in all social classes and income levels. Lee has repeatedly said building or fixing up 30,000 new units of housing by 2020 -- 10,000 of which are supposed to be below market rate -- is a top priority." Read article.
Related - San Francisco Chronicle/Heather Knight, 6/28/14. "San Francisco's new ideas for ending chronic homelessness." "San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco officials believe their decade long attempt to place homeless people in permanent housing with services attached remains the smartest way to get them off the street, but they're trying, or at least considering, several additional approaches to finally curb one of the city's most stubborn problems."
San Francisco Chronicle/Kevin Fagan, 2/21/05. "Homeless respond to good quarters." "Design buildings that make the homeless want to live in them, or at least walk inside and apply for assistance, and you will have an infinitely better chance of getting them to stabilize their dysfunctional lives, the 58-year-old professor told an audience earlier this month at Cody's Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. And every time a homeless person starts living indoors, society is able to spend less on jails, hospitals and all the other expensive emergency services that become revolving doors for most people living on the street. The math is borne out in national studies showing that housing with counseling services on site -- called supportive housing -- costs about $1, 000 a month to maintain, while hospital beds cost about $30,000 a month, and jail cells cost more than $3,000 a month."
The Examiner/Joshua Sabatini, 6/1/14. "Mayor's budget plan boosts workforce, increases investment in homeless services and housing." "The budget proposal comes as San Francisco has a growing income inequality gap, soaring rents and increasing evictions, ongoing problems with pedestrian fatalities and more than 6,000 homeless adults for more than a decade. The mayor's investment in these issues is expected to take center stage as the spending plan undergoes a review by the Board of Supervisors in the coming weeks. .... He said it "protects social services for people who need them most, is affordable over the long term, increases city services including public safety and supports our continued economic recovery. .... As a result of the voter-approved 2012 Housing Trust Fund, the mayor's budget includes investing $44.4 million in below-market-rate housing during the next two fiscal years. Lee, who has called for the construction of 30,000 housing units by 2020, is also proposing to issue debt backed by the future trust fund increases to generate an additional $50 million in the same time frame."
Note photographs: Housing unit by Brant Wart from related San Francisco Chronicle, 2/21/05 article. Mayor Ed Lee by Mike Koozmin from The Examiner, 6/1/14 article.
Forward thinking, sea level rise containment
CBS/KCBS channel 5, San Francisco Bay Area, 6/27/14. "San Mateo County planners grapple with expected 3-foot sea level rise."
At least our county is thinking about sea level rise now
"FOSTER CITY (CBS SF) — The threat of rising seas in San Mateo County was the focus of a planning conference in Foster City Friday morning hosted by federal, state and county government leaders. “Sea level rise is one of the most critical issues we face in San Mateo County, and there are no more crisis-oriented issues than this one,” said Congresswoman Jackie Speier, D-San Francisco/San Mateo/Redwood City, one of the conference hosts.
.... David Pine noted that of the 20 cities in San Mateo County, 19 were in attendance. In addition to city staff and elected officials, officials from special districts and regulatory agencies were in attendance. ....“The first concept is to introduce the reality of a 3-foot sea level rise, and the significant effect it will have on San Mateo County’s people and property. The second concept is to design an organizational structure on how to prepare for this, and the third is to create a task force to make recommendations and explore options for funding,” Pine said." Read article.
Related - KQED, blog 6/13/14. "Rising seas will likely lead to unprecedented flooding along parts of California’s coast within 20-60 years, according to new research by Climate Central. Driven by climate change, global sea levels have already risen several inches over the past century."
Inside Bay reference - State of CA/BCDC, San Francisco bay areas. ".. Data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to produce a series of sea level rise maps showing areas vulnerable to 16 inches of sea level rise at mid-century and 55 inches at the end of the century." Coastal reference - Cal-adapt, "Sea level rise" "Global models indicate that California may see up to a 55 inch (140 cm) rise in sea level within this century given expected rise in temperatures around the world. The following map tool displays areas that may be in threat of inundation during an extreme flood event (100 year flood). These data were developed by scientists from the USGS (Bay Area) and Pacific Institute (Coast)."
Note: graphic from Resilient by design.
Hwy 1 Design Alternative
(2 lanes thru at Rockaway, 3 lanes thru at Valleymar)
Some people in town have voiced concern about the number of lanes and the width of the Cal Trans Hwy 1 design, and how it fits into the aesthetics of our coastal community.
I too felt the new design was a little large so I went ahead and looked at the intersections from all directions in attempt to improve traffic flow while minimizing the width and number of lanes.
Here is what I came up with:
I call this the ( 2 + 3 ) concept which has 2 thru lanes at the Rockaway/Fassler intersection, just like now, to reduce unnecessary width, and 3 thru lanes at the Valleymar/Reina Del Mar intersection to increase capacity.
Note the frontage road in front of the Shell/Tire Shop now extends all the way to the Valleymar. This lane then becomes both a turn lane and thru lane in front of the Valleymar Station, to increase capacity at this critical section.
Heading South from SF an additional 3rd lane is added near the Sewer Plant to increase capacity, then as you travel toward Rockaway the thru lane becomes a turn only lane at Fassler, leaving only 2 thru lanes heading Southward.
There are other improvements like adjusting the width of the Median and Margins and removing the kink in the roadway near the lumber yard for example. I am sure you have your own suggestions. But I think the first step is to settle the lane configuration, and then add the bells and whistles later.
So go ahead and take look at the lane configurations in the North & South directions and try to improve it! Add a lane here, or remove one there. Add a turn lane, or move the bus stop and then see the results for yourself. Good luck!
Scott McIntosh
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Changing times, San Bruno ballot initiative will raise downtown building limits to 90 feet
The Daily Journal (San Mateo County), Angela Swartz, 6/26/14. "San Bruno looking at new height limits: allowing buildings up to 90 feet could help the downtown grow."
San Bruno downtown
"In an effort to revamp its downtown, San Bruno officials are considering putting a measure on the November ballot to modify its ordinance that limits building heights, potentially raising them from 50 to 90 feet.
Established in 1977 as a result of a voter initiative, Ordinance 1284 was intended to preserve the existing character of San Bruno by requiring voter approval for high-rise developments, increased density in existing neighborhoods and projects encroaching upon scenic corridors and open spaces. Permits and approvals can’t be issued to allow construction of building taller than 50 feet or that exceed three stories unless approved by a majority of voters at a regular or special election.
The discussion on building heights started in 2012 when the city concluded a strategic vision process with a transit corridor plan, said City Manager Connie Jackson. The transit corridor plan outlines a number of different areas in the transit corridor, including along El Camino Real, San Bruno Avenue and San Mateo Avenue. In the plan, proposed building heights range from three to seven stories in some areas.“The plan is critical to the city’s achievement to transform those key areas of our city into the future,” she said.
.... “There was a strong interest to make sure there was thoughtful integration of new development areas with existing residential neighborhoods,” she said. “Keeping the character and quality and to make sure taller, more densely populated buildings didn’t create a negative impact for neighbors.” Read more.
Reference - City of San Bruno. City-data.com: population 42,165 (2012), household income $72,185 (2011), per capita $33,339 (2011). Note photograph: San Bruno downtown from a County of San Mateo Newsroom article.
Moving Pacifica forward, good news/bad news with solutions
"Moving Pacifica Forward" by Jim Wagner and Mark Stechbart
After all that, good news Smiley,
the city may have a future after all.
"Years of debate and artificial delay are coming to an end regarding the Hwy 1 safety widening. Final approvals for the Beach Blvd hotel, restaurant and library site are at hand, however, the ongoing City budget train wreck only gets worse. Good news and bad news.
After nearly 30 years of debate and delay, City Council took another step forward by denying an appeal of the City's capital improvement program by opponents of the Hwy 1 widening. A small group of Hwy 1 opponents have made every imaginable last minute objection to fixing this bottleneck that really wrecks the commute. In their appeal, opponents pushed an old "solution" of building frontage roads on either side of this stretch of Hwy 1, wiping out every business along the east side. Other last minute "alternatives" are a break down lane for emergency vehicles only, dooming commuters to sit in the gridlock; a light rail system running north out of town. We'll stick with the retired firefighters and the Teamster driver--put one lane in each direction and don't monkey-wrench our commute.
After almost 20 years, the Beach Blvd project on the abandoned old sewer plant site will be before the final permitting agency, the Coastal Commission, hopefully by the end of the year. That's good news. Several million dollars from a developer to build the project that will generate $500,000 annually in revenue is in sight. A new restaurant for Pacifica on prime oceanfront property will be an instant revenue producer. the bad news, it took way too long and we could have used the money this year to avoid another budget mess and lost library hours. However, we are one step closer to a real Main Street in Pacifica.
The City budget remains front page news. A huge deficit. Millions of fees and taxes collected for one purpose but moved around into unrelated programs. Unclear past plans to repay these "loans". An employee pension plan that needs a "loan" from the sewer fund to buy it down. Council bit the bullet and a tough audit will bring clarity. What remains to be discovered is why this went on for eleven years since 2003.
With a renewed focus, Council and this community can adopt a sustainable local economy. Some old bad habits have to be corrected, but the recent actions discussed above provide us with a positive roadmap forward, benefiting everyone."
Note: the above text was published in the Pacifica Tribune as a My Turn article, 6/25/14. Permission to reprint the full article was allowed by the authors. Graphic: the "good news/bad news smiley is from DJ Rootbeer music blog.
General Plan Open House Saturday June 28, 2014 (for those who missed the first open house)
There must be a Red-legged frog
on this property somewhere
"Community Open houses City of Pacifica General Plan update.
Notice is hereby given that the City of Pacifica Planning Department will be holding two (2) Community Open Houses on the General Plan Update. The Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) and the Draft General Plan/Local Coastal Land Use Plan are also available for review during this period.
Date: Saturday, June 28, 2014
Where: Pacifica City Council Chambers, 2212 Beach Boulevard, Pacifica
Time: 11 AM to 1:00 PM
Please note: this is a repeat General Plan Open House. The same material presented at the June 18th Community Open Houses will be presented at this second meeting. More information, 2 pages (pdf).
Note photographs: lot view from 3888 Palmetto Avenue ($4,300,000, 2+ years on site) from Home Finder. Red-legged frogs from Knights Science Journalism, MIT. The prior Fix Pacifica announcement, was pretty much the same for the prior 6/18/14 meeting.
Atherton parcel tax for public works projects and police services renews
A parcel tax is another economic solution if city voters approve, and pass the measure.
The Almanac (Menlo Park, Atherton, Portola Valley, Woodside), Renee Batti, 6/24/14. "Atherton city council oks maximum parcel tax."
"Atherton property owners will pay the maximum rate -- $750 annually for most of them -- in parcel taxes for the next fiscal year, the City Council decided at its June 18 meeting. The parcel tax, which raises about $1.86 million annually for public works projects and police services, was set to expire next month, but was renewed by voters in 2013 for four years. The council must approve charging the tax rate each year, and can set it lower than the voter-approved maximum. The tax has always been charged at the maximum rate.
At the study session, Councilman Widmer said that even with conservative projections on the town's surplus revenues -- which this year are estimated at about $6 million and projected to grow as high as $11 million in five years -- the town should be able to lower the parcel-tax rate this coming year without promising reductions in the future.
Councilwoman Lewis noted that the town must focus on deferred maintenance for infrastructure and "significant capital projects" in the future, and keeping the tax rate at its current level would allow it to accelerate some of the work. Referring to the town's study of alternative revenue sources, she said, "Hopefully we won't have to pass another parcel tax in four years." Read more.
Reference - Town of Atherton, CA website. City-data.com, population 7,191 (2012), median household income $232,953, per capita $125,933 (2011). Population change since year 2000, -0.0% (2012).
Note photographs: Old Atherton city hall from the Town of Atherton, CA website above, the sign from Way Marking.com.
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Dental fluorosis in the Vesuvius towns in AD 79: a multidisciplinary approach.
Source: Annals of Human Biology [Epub ahead of print] | July 5th, 2019 | By Petrone P, Graziano V, Sastri C, et al.
Industry type: Volcanoes
BACKGROUND: Endemic fluorosis induced by high concentrations of fluoride in groundwater and soils is a major health problem in several countries, particularly in volcanic areas.
AIM: To evaluate the occurrence of dental fluorosis resulting from exposure to high levels of environmental fluoride in 79 AD Herculaneum and close Vesuvius towns.
SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The occurrence of dental fluorosis from teeth of the Herculaneum victims of the 79 AD eruption and some individuals from Pompeii (14-37 AD) and Nocera Inferiore (Salerno, IV sec. AD) was detected by means of Particle Induced Gamma-ray Emission technique (PIGE).
RESULTS: A clinical and analytical scenario of dental fluorosis resulted from the extreme high fluorine tooth content detected in teeth from Herculaneum and the Vesuvius area inhabitants. The adoption of PIGE technique has proved to be particularly effective in showing moderate as well as milder forms of dental fluorosis, otherwise not clearly detectable by clinical and histological analysis.
CONCLUSIONS: Morphological, histological and elemental analysis of teeth of the 79 AD Herculaneum population show that in this area fluorosis occurred since Roman times.
*Abstract online at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31274338
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Representative Offices in Indonesia in a Nutshell
A foreign investor could set up a Representative Office to study the market for a maximum period of 5 years. Foreign Representative Office is an office incorporated by an overseas company to represent itself in Indonesia with a view to managing the interest of the company or the affiliated companies in Indonesia and/ or in other countries and/ or to prepare the establishment and development of foreign investment companies in Indonesia.
Foreign Representative Office usually has limited functionality and generally are prohibited from directly engaging in operational activities, signing contracts, issuing official invoices, receiving payments from its clients, and directly engaging in any other profit-generating activities.
Foreign representative office (Kantor Perwakilan Perusahaan Asing or KPPA) is usually set up when a foreign company wishes to establish a presence in Indonesia but does not (yet) intend to actually carry on any business there. To put it simply, KPPA is merely an administrative arrangement and primarily designed for non-commercial activities. Legally, a KPPA is not a business entity per see and not allowed to perform any activity with the purpose to generate profits.
The requirements and procedure to form a representative office in Indonesia are governed by the Regulation of The Chairman of BKPM No. 15 of 2015 Regarding Guidelines and Procedures for Licensing and Non-Licensing Investment. According to this regulation, there are 3 types of Representative Offices which can be incorporated in Indonesia, namely:
Foreign Company Representative Office (Kantor Perwakilan Perusahaan Asing or KPPA).
The functionality of KPPA is limited to:
Manage the parent company’s corporate interests.
Prepare the establishment and development of its business in Indonesia.
The documents required to incorporate KPPA are as follows:
Copy of Articles of Association of the foreign company represented and any amendment(s) in English or its translations in Bahasa Indonesia from a sworn translator.
Letter of appointment from the foreign company represented to whom which will be proposed as a Representative Executive.
Copy of passport of director of the company to be represented.
Copy of valid passport (for foreigner) or a copy of identification card number (for Indonesian citizen) who will be proposed as a Representative Executive.
Letter of a statement concerning the willingness of Representative Executive to stay, and only work in the position as the Representative Executive without doing other business in Indonesia.
Power of Attorney (PoA) if the application is not obtained directly by Representative Executive.
Important Notes for KPPA:
KPPA can only be incorporated in the capital of Indonesian provinces (e.g. Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Kalimantan, etc.).
The location of KPPA must be in the office building.
KPPA permit is valid for 3 years and can be extended 2 times for 1 year each.
After 5 years KPPA may be granted an extension for different activities than before.
KPPA must be incorporated in an office building or tower.
In case Representative Executive is a foreigner, he/ she must obtain a Temporary Stay Permit Card (Kartu Izin Tinggal Terbatas or KITAS) and Work Permit to stay and work in Indonesia.
Foreign Company Trade Representative Office (Kantor Perwakilan Perusahaan PerdaganganAsing or KP3A).
The functionality of KP3A is limited to:
Introduce, promote and market the goods produced by a parent company, as well as providing information, or directions for use and importation of goods to companies or users in Indonesia.
Conduct market research and surveillance in Indonesia for domestic sales of goods produced by the parent company.
Conduct market research on the items required by parent companies abroad (who appointed the company in Indonesia) as well as providing information about the terms of the export of goods to companies in Indonesia.
Closing contracts for and on behalf of the company that is appointed by the parent company in Indonesia for export of goods.
In order to perform the trading related activities in KP3A, a Foreign Company Trade Representative License (Surat Izin Usaha Perwakilan Perusahaan Perdagangan Asing or SIUP3A) must be obtained from BKPM OSS-C. The documents required to obtain SIUP3A are as follows:
Letter of appointment from the foreign company represented to whom which will be proposed as a Head of Representative Office.
Letter of intent concerning the activity of representative office in Indonesia and the regulation to not engage in any trading activities as well as selling transaction.
Letter of reference from a Commercial Attaché/ Representative of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in the country of origin.
Head of Representative Office must attach the following documents:
Curriculum Vitae or CV (Daftar Riwayat Hidup).
Foreign citizen: a copy of valid passport and Foreign Worker Employment Plan (Izin Mempekerjakan Tenaga Kerja Asing or IMTA).
Indonesia citizen: a copy of valid resident identity card (Kartu Tanda Penduduk or KTP) and Tax ID (NPWP).
Letter of domicile of KP3A from building management or local official.
Copy of temporary SIUP3A.
PoA if the application is not obtained directly by Head of Representative Executive.
Important Notes for KP3A:
KP3A is prohibited to carry out any trading activities and sales transactions such as submitting tenders, signing contracts, settling claims, etc.
KP3A can be incorporated into the capital of provinces, districts, and cities in Indonesia.
KP3A must be incorporated in an office building or tower.
In case the Representative Executive is a foreigner, he/ she must obtain a Temporary Stay Permit Card (KITAS) and Work Permit to stay and work in Indonesia.
Foreign Company Construction Representative Office (Kantor Perwakilan Badan Usaha Jasa Konstruksi or BJUK).
The license can be obtained by a Foreign Construction company with large-scale qualification as stipulated in the Ministerial Regulation. BJUK License can be used to undertake construction service business activities throughout the territory of Indonesia. BJUK License is valid for 3 years and can be extended.
Documents required for the obtainment of BJUK are as follows:
Application Letter (original in Bahasa Indonesia).
Copy of Article of Association of Company from mother country which has been legalized by a public notary or competent authorities in the country of origin.
General data on foreign construction services business entity.
Original letter of recommendation from the Indonesian Embassy in a country of origin which states that the construction company is legally registered in the country and has a good reputation.
Copy of valid construction service permit of the parent company which has been certified by the issuing authority.
Copy of equalization certificate legalized by an Institute of national level.
Original letter of appointment for the Chief Representative of BJUK by the parent company.
Record of latest financial statements of the parent company which has been audited by a public accountant.
Copy of passport or identity card of Chief Representative.
The CV of Chief Representative.
Domicile Certificate of the Representative Office in Indonesia issued by the local municipality office.
Letter of a statement of truth and authenticity of documents (original).
Letter of a statement that the directors or commissioners of the parent company are not serving as commissioners or board of directors in other construction companies (original).
Original PoA stamped and signed by company directors if the application is not directly carried out by Chief Representative Executive along with documents of the receiver of PoA.
Benefits of a KPPA:
Only 3 working days to process.
100% foreign ownership is allowed.
Minimum expenses, no investment required.
Shareholders and directors are not necessary.
Fast incorporation and set up.
Establish a market presence in Indonesia very inexpensively.
Full compliance with law and regulations in Indonesia.
Able to apply limited stay permits (KITAS) for its foreign executives.
A KPPA enjoys special tax treatment and the tax authorities do not normally seek to tax a representative office. This practice is based on the theory that the KPPA carries on no business and hence has no profits here to tax.
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The World's Largest Indoor Cocktail Party?
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The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that the Atlanta Sports Council and the Georgia Bulldogs are in discussions about possibly moving the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party to the Georgia Dome at least once every four years.
(UPDATE: The AJC talked to Damon Evans. He says that there are no discussions to move the game. The rest of this post is the original note on the subject)
I'm pretty sure that the current contract expires in 2010, but all parties involved like to have the contract renewed before Year 3 of the 4 year deal starts. In other words....now.
Here's why I'm against this:
We don't lose because of the location - The City of Jacksonville didn't cause Terrence Edwards to drop a game tying catching in 2002. It didn't cause Quincy Carter to throw the INT before the half in 2000. It didn't call timeout in the rain in '93. It didn't fumble the kickoff to start the second half in 2006. It didn't bust Shockley's knee before the game in 2005. We lose when we go down there because we don't play well. We could play the Gators on the moon, and we will lose if we wet the bed at first sight of an Orange helmet with script letters.
Access to Tickets in Atlanta - The current cut-off for tickets is over 10,000 Hartman points. Some of the demand for tickets is suppressed because it's logistically and financially cumbersome to get to Jacksonville from the Atlanta area -- where the vast majority of our fans live. There would be dramatically more demand for tickets to a game in Atlanta. The listed ticket prices, the secondary market and the Hartman cut-off for the tickets would explode due to increased demand.
The Dome is Smaller -- Capacity at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium is 84,000 for UGA vs. UF. The record crowd at the Georgia Dome is 75,000. That's roughly 11 percent fewer seats. Cutting 4,500 tickets out of the UGA allotment would be a real problem.
The Dome has ZERO personality -- Part of the appeal of the game in Jacksonville is the party. 75,000 people can't tailgate in Atlanta the way we do in Jacksonville.
Access to Florida Talent -- I'd like Mark Richt to explain how Alabama and Clemson playing games in Atlanta is good for their recruiting in Georgia and bad for UGA. While UGA playing games in Florida isn't a good thing for us.
We're chicken shit if we leave -- This would be the first step in running us out of Jacksonville.
Georgia fans didn't complain about the location when Dooley won 17 of 25 contests against the lizards.
I assume most of this is posturing for a better deal from the City of Jacksonville. I'm all for that especially in light of what other neutral site games are paying their participants. But a long term move away from this most excellent tradition makes no sense to me.
Recruit better players. Win the game. Stop making excuses.
-- Another reason to stay in Jax - GTP
-- Orson's take on this - EDSBS
Labels: Jean Shorts, Tailgating, UGA
Florida didn't call timeout in '93 either.
I totally agree. . . the problem with the schedule is not the game in Jacksonville but the long stretches of road games every other year. We could pick better battles . . . . if we have to moan about the JAX game, lets focus on getting a permanent bye week prior to the the cocktail party. . .
My reason for moving from Jacksonville every year doesn't have to do with winning or losing - it has to do with economics. Think about how much money is spent down there each year by Georgia fans and Florida fans alike. Why should the city of Jacksonville and the state of Florida get all that tourist revenue each year? Is the state of Florida more deserving than the state of Georgia? I would think not. Why can't we split it up? I vote for alternating between the Dome and Jacksonville.
While I agree that Jacksonville didn't cause Edwards to drop a pass or Carter to throw an interception, having the game just over and hour away from the Gators home site ever year does play to an advantage - lets not be ignorant.
Well color me ignorant...
As was pointed out, we weren't griping about the advantages/disadvantages back in the '80s. And I'm pretty sure Jax hasn't moved since then..
As far as the economics, I hear ya. But it's warmer down there, it's a nice location for a football game in late Oct/early Nov. Like the argument against having the Super Bowl in Atl, the one for keeping the WLOCP in place is the same. Atlanta runs the chance of being cold and surly compared to warm and sunny.
Demz da breaks for businesses in Atlanta.
Agree on all points.
That being said, I may never, ever to to JAX again.
Last year might have been the most painful loss in my lifetime. Combine that with the money I spent, a seven hour drive, thousands of obnoxious Gator fans and a crippling hangover and it may have been the final straw
While I agree that this is probably just posturing for a better deal, Gary Stokan is a badass and he will put together a package that will entice UF and UGA to want to come.
I think that having the Clemson/Bama, Vpi/Bama games there was merely a practice run for what needs to be done to get the Cocktail Party to Atlanta.
And, of course, we have got the Ace-in-the-hole of downtown video poker, something that can only be matched by podunk, backwood hamlets in North Carolina and Mississipi. That should seal the deal.
I don't care to tailgate underneath a bridge or in a parking deck. Nothing like tailgating in Jax, nothing like the landing thursday after checking in at the Omni, nothing like seeing the St. John's River. Vince Dooley owned the gators, the evil one owned us, and Meyer's got a good start. I don't think playing the gators in the dome gives us any advantage whatsoever. i like the game in Jax because it's a mini vacation, something to look forward to. chicken shit indeed. can you imagine the grief we'll hear if/when they beat us in the Dome?
Even though we haven't had much success against the Gators, it sure is fun to be there when we win. To see the empty seats on their side is fantastic!
Cousin Pat said...
@ Jacob: "My reason for moving from Jacksonville every year doesn't have to do with winning or losing - it has to do with economics."
There are so many traditions in college football being trumped by economics that it is a shame. But I'll speak to the economics of the situation, too.
I grew up on St. Simons Island. If you think the WLOCP only benefits businesses in Florida, you are out of your mind. That game is the biggest Coastal Georgia moneymaker between Labor Day Weekend and St. Patrick's Day.
And do not forget the huge contingent of Dawg fans who live south of I - 16. The WLOCP is in OUR backyard.
Anon @ 10:51 - couldn't agree more. While PWD makes great points about keeping it in Jax, it may be a long time before I go back after last year's trainwreck. Just a miserable, miserable experience. Tired of going down there with our hopes high and then getting them dashed while having to endure the off-the-charts obnoxiousness of the Gator fans. Unfortunately, I missed the thrill of the '07 win because we just had our first child. Damnit.
the tri guy said...
Jacob--Be careful, you're making a little too logical of an argument as to why The City Too Busy To Bath is a tradition whose time has passed.
Also, PWD--how does being Florida's bitch in Florida for 20 years help us recruit that area? You know what would help us recruit that area better? Winning more than 15% of the time during a recruit's lifetime. The location of that game isn't helping us in recruiting one bit. Not when we're nationally and regionally seen as losers down there.
The Dome max numbers are misleading. They may squeeze about 75K in there, but you don't want an extra seat.
For the 06 Chicken Bowl I had "overflow" seats. They were directly behing a column on a folding chair placed in the concourse.
We couldn't see but about 1/3 of the field and that was when we stood on top of the chairs.
We stayed for the opening kickoff and stormed out of the Dome. Called the pup on the way home and told her to pause the DVR while we drove home ... watched the game at home.
[By the way, Chick-Fil-A did refund my money when I complained.]
This is laughable. Move the game to Atlanta and the world will perceive us as losers running from a fight, regardless of what excuse we use.
Then, watch the world laugh when we lose the first cocktail game played in the Dome. Talk about being ridiculed.
Nope, for anyone that is tired of making the trip and watching us lose, just stay your ass at home. Someone will gladly buy your ticket. Direct your anger and concern at Coach Richt, not at the city of Jacksonville.
Nothing more humiliating than running from a fight when all you have to do is hit back once in a while.
Nope, for anyone that is tired of making the trip and watching us lose, just stay your ass at home.--I have, since 2005 when those "neutral" Jacksonville natives working at the hotel I was staying out were doing the Gator chomp at me the morning I was checking out.
By all means, take my ticket and have a blast down there. I'll stay home and be heartbroken, but I'll be a grand better off and not have a 6 hour drive.
Tri Guy - win a couple and the mullet nation will stfu and you won't have to endure the "chomp".
Btw, the hotels in Jax proper are weak. You're better off at Amelia or PV.
Make it a home-and-home game. Solves lots of problems. Screw Jacksonville. Screw the state of Florida.
After reading the comments about this stuff from a few different sources this morning I find it interesting how opinions vary from site to site.
Reading the posts from all of the bed-wetters on the AJC site makes me think that many of our Dawg fan brethren have lost their minds.
It's atleast a little bit comforting that the consensus opinion here is that moving the game is a bad idea. No disrespect meant to those who don't agree.
It's an away game every year versus our athletic equal/superior.
If we want to start winning championships, we need to start playing our best opponent at home or closer to home every other year.
To argue otherwise is foolish.
Florida doesn't suck anymore, and they call it home field advantage for a reason.
Tri Guy,
And losing in Atlanta would make it better for us?
If you pull out, you're assuming that being down there is why we lose. And that's flat out not the case.
We lose because we lose.
If we lose in ATL, I promise it will be worse.
Dawg93: it may be a long time before I go back after last year's trainwreck.
So we should move the game to Atlanta so you don't have as far to drive when we lose? PWD said it best: recruit better players, win the game, and stop making excuses. Jacksonville is a lot like Knoxville: my opinion of the town improves much more when we whip someone's ass.
I'm for home-and-home, not ATL. If we go home-and-home, let's see if any of Florida's other SEC rivals jump at the chance to give up home field advantage every year for the privilege of playing in them in Jax every year.
Leave it in Jax...Our CORCHES & TEAM need MAN UP.
I think this is all posturing. And I think we should squeeze every last penny out of the state of Florida for keeping the game down there. I do think Orson's comments about tailgating in Atlanta are amusing. When he mentioned "under the bridge" and "shanty-town" I thought he was talking about Jax. There are a lot of sketchy spots down there.
I live in ATL and would to not have to go all the way to JAX every year. Almost every year the trip is more hassle than fun. I spend way too much money and we never win. I am not saying we win more in ATL but hell, it can't be worse...
In ATL we could at least be surrounded by OUR sidewalk alumni.
ONe thing about the timeout in 93....it was a hell of a lot clearer in 93 than about 3/4 of the ones the coaches (damn, especially Tuberville) call from the sidelines nowadays.
I don't think that if we moved the game to the ATL that we would automatically start winning every year, but I do absolutely think that there's some mental block associated with playing Florida in the state of Florida. I don't think talent has a whole lot to do with it in recent years.
Dubbayoo said...
UGA playing games in Florida isn't a good thing for us because we get our butts kicked...but keep it there for the other reasons you said.
+1 Dubbayoo....We'll keep losing the actual game, but man is the party fun!
i would kill a man to play florida in sanford.
can you imagine how ridiculous north campus would be???
Future Alum - we did it before during the Gator Bowl remodel. It wasn't a great experience.
You're against it because you don't want to break tradition. Everything else is a rationalization. If there was long storied history of home-and-homes and we were talking about moving to a permanent neutral site, there would be a laundry list of reasons why not to.
Personally, I see no logical reason to play the Gators every year in a stadium so neutral it's called the Gator Bowl. That might not be the single reason we lose it so often but it sure doesn't help. That's why teams prefer home games to away games.
The real answer to this question should be what is best for the team, and no one knows what is best for the team better than Richt. His answer, he would like to look at moving the game. That sounds like it should end the debate. He knows what it takes to get the team ready and what his team faces in prep for the game. I don’t see him offering a punch-list full of reasons for the change, he would be a fool to publicly point out the weaknesses of his team playing a road game, but if he thinks it would be better to move the game closer, then I think he has seen something that might be fixed by moving the game to ATL (or Athens). I am not saying that Richt can not make a mistake; lord knows we have all seen that he can, but if the coach thinks it is worth the effort to get the game moved then he has my vote. Along the lines of let the Generals fight the battles, not the politicians. You do that by giving the ones in the trenches what they say they need to win, not what you would like for them to have. If location is a tool that my guy thinks he needs to even the playing field, I’m going to give it to him.
The argument that UGA did just fine under Dooly points out more about the quality of UF at the time then anything else, especially location. It is not a valid argument; at best UGA and UF are equal in talent and in coaches, not like it was under Dooly. If this IS the case then the only real advantage you can point to has to be the location of the game, FLORIDA! Say what you want, Jville is home field for UF, no matter how you sugar coat it or alternate the endzone each year – home field advantage goes to Florida. We are so tied up in tradition that we gleefully give them home field advantage every year and chastise those that call for it to be moved, all in the name of tradition. I am all about tradition, but I like the tradition of Georgia winning more than the tradition of playing a game in UF’s backyard. Until UF drops in the talent level or downgrades in coaching, the only two ways I see getting a shift in the advantage category is to move the game AND/or keep an open week before the game. I also whole heartedly agree that Georgia needs to clear our future schedules for the week before the Florida game. That is the first thing that should be done, years ago. If your argument is that location has nothing to do with the game, it is simply the fact that our guys wet the bed at the first sight of the chomp; I would tell you to read the first paragraph again. It might not be wetting the bed so much as something in prep or logistics. Again, give the coach what he thinks he needs to win.
As for being chicken sh!t for wanting the game moved, I would say this, would you rather be called chicken sh!t for moving the game, which UF fans will soon forget if it evens the win/loss record, or would you prefer to be called stupid for getting the chicken sh!t kicked out of you year end and year out and keep coming back for more. Has anyone ever heard of the quick and simple definition of crazy? You keep repeating the same action over and over, hoping for a different outcome, but it never happens. If Georgia was 0 for 17 over the past 17 years would as many people still be calling for the game to stay in Jville, for the sake of tradition? Those that keep saying you should not mess with tradition are holding on to hope, which is supported by a win every 3 to 5 years (even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then). It’s just enough to keep you coming back for more and hoping the worm will turn. I don’t see that happening as long as things remain the same; that is the coaching, the player talent level and the location. Home and Home would be far better than Home (for UF) and Home (for UF).
I feel sorry for the poor fans in Atlanta fans that want the game in the Dome so they can avoid a 6 hour drive just to see their Dawgs play.
Fans from South Georgia make that trek 6 or 7 times a year for home games and they never whine this much.
I stopped going to Jax after the 2005 game. I didn't enjoy the expensive hotel, the Jax cops, or the Florida fans.
Jax isn't a level playing field. It is a hour from Gainesville and you can't tell me that isn't an advantage for the Gator players.
I don't care about tradition. I don't care about how moving the game looks. I don't care about the tailgating. I want to WIN. UGA has to beat Florida and Auburn in the same year if there is any chance of a MNC. Go home and away and there are no excuses.
Anon @ 3:49,
It's like you read my mind.
I can give you a real, real short answer to this. What does Florida want - to keep it in Florida. That seals it for me, if Florida wants it to stay in Florida, I want it moved. I will be damned if I will do what my enemy wants, that is just stupid.
Dear Anon Long Winded at 3:49,
Richt's record on the road is dramatically better than at home.
If it's really a road game every year, then why wouldn't we want to keep it on the road?
Wouldn't moving it home and home free us up to be able to schedule bigger name opponents? Isn't that what has supposedly hamstrung some of our rumored out of conference series, that need for the 6th home game?
Richt is 42 and 9 at home, 30 and 4 on the road and 10 and 9 at neutral sites. Just looking at these numbers as percentages, home is loosing 21% of the time, away 13% of the time and neutral 90% of the time. Is that a real argument? If you really look at it, Jacksonville is considered a neutral site, thus we loose 90% of the time. I would rather have a home/home deal, at least it would be only a loss 21% or 13% of the time, not 90.
If you want to take the neutral site argument out of it and go with just home and road wins and losses, I would say that 42/9 vs. 30/4 is not a dramatic difference. You are looking at difference of 8% between the home and away losses. If Richt had just won 3 more games at home (45&6) you would be at 13%, just like the road record. So the argument about his road record being vastly better than the home record boils down to three losses/wins at home. Just looking at the difference between the number of home and road games played I do not put much stock in the argument. We lost more because we played more.
If you do consider the Florida game in Jacksonville a road game, Richt’s record for away would be 32 and 10 for a loss 31% of the time. Yep that’s a no brainer, move the thing.
Anon 6:09 - assuming you stats are correct, how's a 10-9 record losing 90%?
Recruit better players.
Resurrect George Patton.
Clone Herschel 5 times.
Make a pact with Lucifer (cause FG jesus ain't doing it).
Place roadside bombs on 301 north.
Buy a voodoo doll.
Steal a stealth bomber and take out Gainesville.
Lace their Gatorade with arsenic.
Infiltrate their program with a spy
Hold Urban's family hostage
Train harder.
Practice harder and better.
Grow a pair.
Man Up.
WIN THE GAME.
But whatever you do, don't move the damn game.
Sports Dawg said...
To heck with neutral. It's time for home and home baby!
Dawglicious said...
I have so many fond memories of Jacksonville, win or lose, but since I was there in 1980 I will fight ANY move out of Jax. Tradition trumps virtually everything, and we have lost far too many great traditions of the past.
Finally, downtown Atlanta that time of year has no charm, and you want to compare THAT venue to being next to the water in Jacksonville? It is a JOKE.
For all you people claiming CMR winning % on the road is dramatically better(PWD) Home .823
Away .882... doesn't sound so dramatic does it. A WHOPPING 3 game diff.
Also, I am tired of hearing about the last time they came to Athens that didn't work out so well did it? Well, that was quite possibly one of our worse teams and at the same time one of their best teams. Hell, they hung 1 less than half a hundred on us last year. ITs a home game for Fl. Ask anybody else of the SECs big teams if they want a neutral site game an hour and half away from UF campus and see what your answer is.
The actual percentages for losses would be home-17%, away-11% and nuetral-47%. If CMR had won 3 more games at home that would take it to 11%, just like the away loss percentage. If the Jacksonville games are added into the away catagory CMR would have lost 24% of the time on the road. The numbers are wrong, but the point is not. I have to say, if the wins & losses given by anon 6:09 are right, that is not a great advantage.
I do not like the ATL option, but if UF wants to keep the game in Jacksonville, fine, but we play every other game in Athens. Home and Home.
Anon @ 11:46, you nailed it. I don't see any other SEC team foaming at the mouth to give up their home game every other year to play UF in Jax every year. Probably b/c they don't consider it very neutral. Funny, huh?
isnt the stadium split 50-50, they show enough pics of it on cbs
yes, the tickets and fans within the stadium are virtually 50-50. I've always said that although we drive further, our guys have as much support with Jax Municipal Stadium as do the Florida boys. When we score, our fans make just as much noise. And when we beat their asses, they leave just as quickly and quietly as we do when they beat ours.
As for our two decade losing problem, it has never been about the location or the fans or the st johns river, or the drive down. It's been primarily about Ray Goff and Jim Donnan combined with Spurrier coached teams. Lately, it's been about Mark Richt and his team's inability to play their best due to the mental intimidation and pressure associated with playing Florida. Which has led to tight play, which has led to mistakes, which leads to more losses.
When we play loose, our chances our winning increase exponentially.
We have traveled much greater distances to play teams and have trounced them when they WALK from their cozy locker room to the field. Conversely, we could play Florida in Anchorage, AK and play stiff - not from the cold, but from the aforementioned mental strain.
Don't forget that the roles were once COMPLETELY reversed. It was the FLORIDA fans that wanted to move the game from Jax. Can you believe that? They wanted to move what we are now complaining as a home game for them.
This is what PWD is telling you guys and you're not listening. You're coming up with all these pathetic excuses like revenue to the state of Florida, you're tired of traveling, you're embarrassed when hotel employees "chomp" at you, beer sold in Florida is weaker than that of other states, etc, etc. You're literally sprinting to the easiest, most convenient perceived solution when in fact it's not a solution at all. Florida's solution in 1989 was to hire a man that wanted to win this game so bad that he would have sold his child into slavery. That, and the fact that his arrival corresponded with the arrival of Ray Goff (ugh). Our solution is to manage the schedule in our favor to have the week-off beforehand, continue to recruit and work extremely hard and prepare well, and primarily, our coaches have to WANT this game more than any other. Us fans are already their. When our coaches and players want it as much as Spurrier's teams did in 1989 then we'll turn this around. I'm not saying they don't want it now, but the record speaks for itself.
In addition, Urban moving to another school would be tremendously helpful. But I'd rather whip him straight up. For Christ's sake, Ole Miss and the Nutt did it in the swamp.
Just my .02. Don't move the game - grow a pair, get pissed, work hard, and win damnit!
Oklahoma doesn't seem to have a problem playing Texas in Dallas.
It's called losing. We're losing and we're looking for an excuse. And blaming the losses on the venue makes us look stupid.
Keep it in JAX and stay home if you don't like the drive or atmosphere. Something tells me somoene else will take your spot.
Screw moving the game to the dome, move it to a home and home. Georgia doesn't need a party, Georgia doesn't need to appease it's south georgia fans, and Georgia doesn't need to continue playing here to get recruits. We have a national presence on television already; last I looked Knowshon was from Jersey and Stafford was from Texas. I don't think either one of them signed because of the game being held in Jax. Secondly, a Georgia fan will follow his or her team anywhere. I seriously doubt we lose the south Georgia crowd simply because they can't go to Jax for the game anymore. Third, both Sanford and Ben Hill can accomodate 88,000+ fans so that would not be a problem. Lastly, if you are there to party, do it on your own time, the Dawgs are there to play football. I could give two cents about the people who are down there to have a 4-day drinkfest. It's time for this game to move to a home and home series. Period. That's how it should be.
We dont have to play in Jacksonville to win Florida recruits. Traveling does play a part in the game. I want UGA to win. I could care less about the tailgaters that screw up and disrespect grounds anyways. Smaller Ticket allowment means less retards.
Ya, move the game. Whatever PWD.
I also dont care about what venue you want to visit game visitors. Let me make that clear. Because the people in the stands dont win the game.
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Project EverGreen Reports Broad Range of Support from All Areas of the Green Industry
Project EverGreen continues to receive strong backing for its mission to educate consumers on the importance of preserving and enhancing green spaces. In announcing second quarter contributions to the national non-profit organization, Den Gardner, Project EverGreen�s executive director, said, �It is gratifying to see that we are gaining such broad participation from all areas of the green industry.�
To illustrate this, Gardner announced 18 second quarter additions to Project EverGreen�s contributor list. They include: Arysta LifeScience, Atwood LawnCare, Inc., Bayer Crop Services, Dan Carrothers, Faddegon�s Nursery, Inc., Debra Holder, Hunter Industries, Inc., Jacobsen, William Klutho, Chris Kujawa, Land-Tech Enterprises, Inc., Lawn Doctor, John Marchionda, Nufarm Americas, Inc., Ohio Lawn Care Association, Precision Laboratories, Inc., Syngenta Crop Protection and The Greenery, Inc.
According to Gardner, this makes a total of 54 individuals, companies and associations who have already signed on to support Project EverGreen in 2006. �This is on track with 2005,� he said, �But it is vital that we gain additional support to expand our consumer education efforts. Anyone who has an interest in helping focus on the positive benefits healthy landscapes and other green spaces provide should contact me at (877) 758-4835 or visit our Web site www.projectevergreen.com.�
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John B. Emerson, Ambassador of the United States of America
Irena Goldenberg, Partner, Highland Capital Partners Europe
Eran Davidson, Davidson Technology Growth Debt.
Oliver Heimes, Lakestar
Steffen Kiedel, CFO, 6Wunderkinder
Thomas Klein, CEO, Cytolon
Niklas Östberg, CEO and Co-Founder, Delivery Hero
Keynote speakers included U.S. Ambassador John B. Emerson and Dr. Martin Reck, General Manager of Deutsche Börse AG. Irena Goldenberg (Highland Capital Partners Europe) and Oliver Heimes (Lakestar) provided insight into investors’ perspectives, while successful entrepreneurs like Steffen Kiedel (6Wunderkinder), Thomas Klein (Cytolon) and Niklas Östberg (Delivery Hero) spoke from experience about catching the interest of investors from Germany and the U.S. After the speeches, pitching sessions took place in which growth stage startups could present their products to potential investors.
“I am often asked how to re-create Silicon Valley in Germany. But Valley envy is a poor guide to success,” said John B. Emerson, the Ambassador of the United States in Germany. He suggested appreciating local differences instead: “The most difficult yet crucial element in
building an entrepreneurial ecosystem is to tailor the suit to fit its own local dimensions, style and climate.” The suit, however, does not seem to fit its German owners – yet.
Local founders expressed their admiration for American equity culture and their frustration with German angst and debt culture. Ambassador Emerson pointed out some of these fundamental cultural differences between the German and the US startup scene: “The acceptance that today’s failure may be tomorrow’s huge success is one of the biggest differences between the U.S. and Germany.” The so called “debt-culture” would prevent experimentation that is “essential to a thriving entrepreneurial culture.”
Steffen Kiedel, CEO of 6Wunderkinder, described his experiences with German and American venture capitalists (VCs) and pointed out three main differences. First, when it comes to risk aversion, American investors are much more venturesome. Another difference is the speed and character of negotiations: American VCs negotiate quickly and meet young founders at eye level. In Germany, pitching founders sometimes wait days for a response and then feel like school children during negotiations.
The relationship between startup founders and investors should be fruitful for both sides. Irena Goldenberg, Partner at Highland Capital Partners, compared it to marriage: “Choosing a VC is like choosing a partner, it should be someone you like and someone you want to spend time with.”
At the Growth Company Forum, it seemed as if German founders preferred to look overseas to find the right spouse.
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Shrine Bowl practice for RMHS' Barnes
Rocky Mount offensive lineman Whit Barnes (right) bangs against a North Carolina teammate during Day 1 of practices Monday for the Shrine Bowl of North Carolina game set for Saturday afternoon at Wofford College. The South Carolina and North Carolina squads are holding practice at Dorman High School in Spartanburg, S.C.
The Wake Forest recruit, who wore No. 50 during his 48-game career at RMHS, will wear No. 51 in Saturday's contest. (Click on picture to enlarge)
To see some action footage of Barnes practicing this week, click here!
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Richwalski will not be a candidate for the NN football job
Northern Nash athletic director Dan Richwalski stated Monday that he will not be a candidate for the head football coaching position at the school. He said he was informed by the Nash-Rocky Mount Schools central office that he could hold both positions at the school.
Currently, no head football coach in the N-RM system is an athletic director. Incidently, no head football coach in the current NEW 6 3-A Conference, which Northern Nash is a member, is an athletic director.
That pattern will continue next year when SouthWest Edgecombe leaves the league and Wilson Hunt joins it. Hunt's AD Stevie Hinnant is an assistant coach with Warriors' football team.
Chad Smith resigned as the Knights' head football coach on Nov. 10.
Richwalski will not be a candidate for the NN foot...
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March 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2016.12.017
Shedding Light on Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy
OCT to Predict Progression of Disease
David A. Baran
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2016.12.017
Published online March 15, 2017.
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2017 American College of Cardiology Foundation
David A. Baran, MD∗ (docbaran{at}gmail.com)
Heart Failure and Transplant Research Department, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey
↵∗Address for correspondence:
Dr. David A. Baran, Heart Failure and Transplant Research, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, 201 Lyons Avenue, L-4 Transplant Center, Newark, New Jersey 07112.
cardiac allograft vasculopathy
heart transplantation
time-to-event analysis
Although heart transplantation has become the treatment of choice for eligible candidates with end-stage cardiac failure, survival is far less than the natural life span for all except the oldest patients (1). Analysis of International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation registry data show progressive improvements in long-term survival, mostly due to improvements in 1-year outcomes. Importantly, the slope of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation survival curves haven’t changed over time, and therefore, to significantly improve post-transplantation survival, it will be necessary to modify long-term hazards such as renal failure and cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) (1). Indeed, CAV represents one of the major causes of late mortality following heart transplantation.
The pathogenesis of CAV is complex and is thought to reflect a form of chronic rejection (2). This is supported by the observation that more potent immunosuppressive drugs such as mycophenolate mofetil and everolimus are associated with significantly less coronary intimal thickening as assessed by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) studies (3,4). Yet once the patient develops CAV, proliferation signal inhibitor medications such as everolimus have a variable impact on the progression of disease. This has frustrated clinicians and patients alike, and the only therapy proven to alter prognosis for transplant patients with severe CAV is retransplantation. This is not a practical solution given the chronic imbalance between donor supply and the ever expanding heart transplantation waiting list.
Although IVUS has been an invaluable tool to study CAV since the first report in 1991 (5), it is focused mainly on the size of vessel structures such as the lumen, as well as intimal and medial thickness. In the case of CAV, the use of IVUS has granted insight into the rapid growth of intimal thickness in vessels that appear angiographically normal, and this has correlated with poor patient outcomes (6,7), making this an important surrogate endpoint in heart transplantation trials (8).
More recently, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been applied to image coronary artery anatomy given its 10-fold increased spatial resolution compared with IVUS. Beyond the improved resolution, OCT can delineate elements of the arterial wall such as microchannel vessels or collections of macrophages that cannot be detected by alternative techniques. The disadvantages of OCT include the need for steady intracoronary contrast administration during imaging and difficulties imaging the interface between the intimal and medial layers of the coronary vessel (which are more easily distinguished with IVUS).
In this issue of iJACC, Clemmensen et al. (9) report on a prospective study of 62 heart transplantation patients who underwent comprehensive multivessel optical coherence tomographic analysis and correlated the findings to the occurrence of “nonfatal coronary progression” (defined as a new coronary lesion of at least 70% or performance of percutaneous coronary intervention). They show that the presence of layered fibrotic plaques (possibly indicative of healed endothelial injuries) and “bright spots” (which are associated with macrophages) are associated with a high risk for CAV progression.
Although others have applied OCT to heart transplantation patients (10–12), this is the first study to correlate specific optical coherence tomographic findings to the risk for angiographic disease progression. In this study, the risk for progression of CAV was nearly 9 times higher for patients with a specified incidence of layered fibrotic plaque (>9.6%) and bright spots (>7.9%). However, when adjusted for angiographic grade of CAV and time post-transplantation, the association was weak at best (p = 0.06). Notably, parameters such as intimal area and intima/media ratio remained significant predictors despite adjustment for CAV grade, and these could be measured by IVUS as well. Unlike IVUS, OCT requires iodinated contrast to be injected during the acquisition of images, and this may have a significant impact in patients with chronic kidney disease. Furthermore, as with IVUS, the interpretation of OCT requires significant experience, and the figures in the paper show findings that may be challenging to discriminate for less experienced examiners. Published standards exist, but the use of OCT is not widespread compared with IVUS (13).
Taken with previous work, it is likely that the pathogenesis of CAV is more complex than we have imagined. Because all heart transplantations start with a grossly ischemic donor heart, it seems plausible that some early aggressive CAV is due to an exaggerated response to endothelial injury. In this setting, drugs such as statins and proliferation signal inhibitors are effective in reducing the incidence of intimal thickening and CAV. Late post-transplantation, perhaps the driving forces are more like traditional coronary artery disease in nontransplantation patients, whereby immune and metabolic factors lead to vessel inflammation and vulnerable plaque formation. This is consistent with the imaging findings in the present study and others (12,14), and therefore the treatment may need to be targeted accordingly. This would explain the relatively poor efficacy of proliferation signal inhibitors when initiated for established CAV and suggests a role for enhanced dosing of statins as well as use of drugs such as aspirin and clopidogrel.
Further studies using OCT will hopefully explore the differential nature of CAV at different time points. Perhaps in the future we will use intracoronary imaging to customize treatment to individual patients so that we can finally reduce the impact of CAV and increase the longevity of heart transplantation patients in a meaningful way. There are many challenges ahead, not the least of which is the risk aversion of pharmaceutical firms and transplantation programs alike as we strive to understand and prevent CAV from killing our heart transplant patients.
↵∗ Editorials published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging or the American College of Cardiology.
Dr. Baran has received honoraria from Otsuka, Novartis, Maquet, and Cardiac Assist; and research funding from Astellas. These are not relevant to the topic of this editorial.
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1. Aleksandrov, E
Argento, Daniela
Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, Forskningsmiljön Governance, Regulation, Internationalization and Performance (GRIP). Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, Avdelningen för ekonomi.
Bourmistrov, A
Grossi, Giuseppe
Emerging streams of institutional theory in accounting research: current status and future directions2018Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
This paper aims to reflect upon the emerging streams of institutional theory, their application and influence on the accounting research of the last decade. Specifically, the paper’s ambition is to review and understand the role of institutional logics (IL), institutional entrepreneurship (IE) and institutional work (IW) in accounting research. These streams of institutional theory become increasingly valuable in accounting research for their explanatory capacities. At the same time, but their application, especially in a combined form, can also raise criticalities within theoretical pluralism agenda. We compile a structured literature review of articles published in scientific journals in the accounting field (levels 4 and 3 in ABS list). We examine the way how current accounting literature utilizes the selected institutional streams of accounting theory, how the theories or their combination (if any) are justified and used in a flow of argument for the understanding of accounting practice.
Bourmistrov, G
Emerging streams of intitutional theory in accounting research: current status and future directions2018Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
More than 30 years have passed since first calls to see accounting as social and institutional practice (Burchell et al., 1980; Hopwood, 1987; Hopwood & Miller, 1994). During these years, a significant number of theories have been striving to extend and challenge the hegemony of particular ways of seeing accounting (Jacobs, 2012) with acknowledging the need for inter-disciplinary approach and theoretical pluralism in contemporary studies. Within this theoretical pluralism, the institutional theory was recognized as one of the dominating theories in accounting research during last decades (Jacobs, 2012; Lounsbury, 2008; Modell, 2015).
However, despite acknowledging the paradigmatic developments of institutional theory into several streams in organisational science (DiMaggio, 1988; Lawrence et al., 2009, 2011; Oliver, 1991; Thornton et al., 2012), few attempts were done to make a separate review of these streams and their value for accounting literature (Modell, 2009). Here, influential work of Lounsbury (2008) rather reflected organizational science literature with seeing accounting as a context which can give crucial insights into institutional and practice theories rather than vice versa. Jacobs (2012) in his study of theoretical pluralism in accounting research during 1992-2008 acknowledged the institutional theory domination but made few reflections on its progressions and implications for seeing accounting as social and institutional practice. And finally, more recent studies of Modell and his colleagues (Modell, 2015; Modell et al., 2017) made overviews of two streams of institutional theory (e.g. logic and work) and institutional theory combination possibility with other theories. While giving the valuable insights into understanding of issues related to theories combinations in accounting, these studies hardly review the accounting literature related to institutional theory streams which were criticised for apolitical nature but at the same time acknowledged as self-sufficient.
Therefore, it seems that current studies rather ignore or criticize specific institutional theory streams, jumping into possible theory combinations agenda without revealing the value of these streams for accounting research. Such tendency may potentially lead to marginalization of accounting knowledge (Jacobs, 2016; Jacobs & Cuganesan, 2014) with the use of these streams under the quest for contribution to the interdisciplinary literature.
In this regard, this paper aims to reflect upon the emerging streams of institutional theory, their application and influence on the accounting research of the last decade. Specifically, the paper’s ambition is to review and understand the role of institutional logics (IL), institutional entrepreneurship (IE) and institutional work (IW) in accounting research. These streams of institutional theory become increasingly valuable in accounting research for their explanatory capacities. But at the same time, but their application, especially in a combined form, can also raise criticalities within theoretical pluralism agenda. Therefore, we construct our research questions as:
How have the emerging stream of institutional theory (IL, IE and IW) been used by accounting scholars?
How have these streams influenced accounting research?
What could be done in the future accounting research using emerging streams of institutional theory?
In order to answer these research questions, we compile a structured literature review (Massaro et al., 2016) of articles published in scientific journals in the accounting field (levels 4 and 3 in ABS list). As a frame for analysis of the paper, we use conceptual clarification and analytical framework proposed by Lukka and Vinnari (2014) who made a distinction between domain theory and method theory in order to capture the relations between common knowledge about accounting as a social practice and the theories used to extend this knowledge. Applying to our paper, domain theory refers particularly to a set of knowledge about accounting as social and institutional practice. Method theory (i.e. IL, IE, IW) is a meta-level conceptual system, which can offer alternative perspectives and add new understanding/insights into domain theory. Following this analytical distinction, we examine the way how current accounting literature utilizes the selected institutional streams in domain-method dimension, how the theory or their combination (if any) are justified and used in a flow of argument for understanding of accounting practice.
Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, Avdelningen för Ekonomi och arbetsliv. Högskolan Kristianstad, Forskningsmiljön Governance, Regulation, Internationalization and Performance (GRIP).
Because change happens!: analyzing the change agent at work in legitimizing integrated reporting2016Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
Helsinki: which performance for the Smart City?2017Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, Avdelningen för Ekonomi.
Il dominio dei cambiamenti nei servizi pubblici locali: fattori stimolanti ed ostativi2012Inngår i: Ricerche intorno all'azienda universale: gli allievi per Giuseppe Catturi / [ed] Roberto Di Pietra, Riccardo Mussari, Angelo Riccaboni, Padova: CEDAM, 2012, s. 201-215Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
Le correlazioni tra variabili di disclosure e caratteristiche dei CDA2012Inngår i: Le disclosure dei compensi agli amministratori nei bilanci delle società italiane quotate / [ed] Roberto Di Pietra, Padova: CEDAM, 2012, s. 305-344Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
Outsourcing public services2016Inngår i: Global encyclopedia of public administration, public policy, and governance / [ed] Farazmand A., Springer, 2016, s. 1-7Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Annet vitenskapelig)
Baskerville, G
Institutional entrepreneurs and stakeholders’ involvement in shaping global public sector accounting standards in New Zealand2019Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
This study investigates the roles of institutional entrepreneurs and stakeholders’ involvement, and their interactions, in enabling the development and adaptation of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) for public sector financial reporting. This back 25 years, when it was anticipated that public sector reforms in Australia, the UK and New Zealand would result in a shift from a public service, whose purpose had been to promote public welfare, to an enterprise culture based on ‘efficiency and economics’ (Mascarenhas 1993). Similarly Boyett had earlier noted that ‘there may be a “new strain of leadership - the public sector entrepreneur – (is) emerging to display many of the characteristics of their business counterparts’. However incentives for entrepreneurial activity are not the traditional profit motive. “Entrepreneurship occurs in the public sector where there is an uncertain environment, a devolution of power, and at the same time re-allocation of resource ownership, to unit management level” (Boyett 1996). The value of this study is in applying the theory of institutional entrepreneurs in such environments, in New Zealand, examining the development of NPM concomitant with leadership and entrepreneurship. We discuss the evolution and roles of institutional entrepreneurs (in the Treasury, standard setting appointees, and the Officer of the Auditor General) in the public sector, and reactions and involvement of other stakeholders in the development and adaptation of IPSAS.
A qualitative research design was implemented through conducting interviews with key actors whose responses are interpreted through the lens of Institutional Entrepreneurship Theory. The findings unveil the powerful role of the institutional entrepreneur that initiates divergent changes, which break with the institutionalized template for organizing public sector accounting within the Kiwi institutional context, and actively participate in the implementation of these changes. The change from ‘sector-neutral’ standards to sector-specific standards after 2010 was facilitated by the achievements to date of the institutional entrepreneurs, concomitant with New Zealand providing global leaders in public sector accounting.
The institutional entrepreneur ‘on the ground’ had at times mobilized their power relationships and deep personal networks to gain support of, and generate active involvement, of other stakeholders operating in the field. Stakeholder involvement is needed to complement the change agenda of the institutional entrepreneur, to the end of effectively implementing accounting changes. This paper contributes to the literature on public sector accounting change by theorizing on the mutual need of institutional entrepreneurs and stakeholders’ involvement to shape global standards in local contexts.
Broccardo, L
Truant, E
Making sense of sustainability: internal contradictions and obstacles to full integration2019Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
This paper aims at contributing to the recent literature about the internal dynamics of sustainability. The specific research question addressed in this paper is: how do various organizational actors understand and make sense of sustainability in their workplace? To answer this research question a case study was prepared by focusing on IREN, an Italian listed multi-utility operating in the electricity, gas, and energy district heating, integrated water service and waste sectors, with considerable engagements with sustainability work. Data was collected through a combination of methods, i.e. interviews, e-mail exchanges, observations and document study. Findings reveal that sustainability has multiple meanings and various organizational actors interpret it differently depending on their role within organizations. Different interpretations of the concept of sustainability are also reflected in how sustainability is implemented and monitored. Multiple expectations explain why sustainability is difficult to integrate in organizational practices.
Brorström, S
Translating social sustainability into practice: an illusion of control2018Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
This paper aims to understand why and how the concept of social sustainability evolves over time by generating a gap between the initially desired strategy and the daily practices/results at the city level. The paper addresses the research question: Why and how does a social sustainability gap emerge during the implementation of smart city strategies? The empirical focus is on the city of Gothenburg (Sweden) actively engaged since 2012 in implementing smart city strategies with emphasis on social sustainability.
Broström, S
University of Gothenburg.
Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, Forskningsmiljön Governance, Regulation, Internationalization and Performance (GRIP). Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, Avdelningen för ekonomi. Norge.
Putting social sustainability into practice: close the gap an get lost in translation2018Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
The purpose of this paper is to understand why and how the concept of social sustainability evolves over time by generating a gap between the initially desired strategy and the daily practices at the city level. An extensive ethnographic study was conducted focusing on how social sustainability, as defined in the smart strategy of the city of Gothenburg, was first translated and then turned into practice. Through the lens of Actor Network Theory, findings reveal that the translation of a smart city strategy aimed at ensuring social sustainability depends on how the actors involved at various organisational levels interpret the concept of social sustainability and work to translate it into practice. Such translation takes different directionsand may lead to a transformation of the concept itself which becomes foggier over time.
Putting social sustainability into practice: close the gap and get lost in translation2018Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
The purpose of this paper is to understand why and how the concept of social sustainability evolves over time by generating a gap between the initially desired strategy and the daily practices at the city level. An extensive ethnographic study was conducted focusing on how social sustainability, as defined in the smart strategy of the city of Gothenburg, was first translated and then turned into practice. Through the lens of Actor Network Theory, findings reveal that the translation of a smart city strategy aimed at ensuring social sustainability depends on how the actors involved at various organisational levels interpret the concept of social sustainability and work to translate it into practice. Such translation takes different directions and may lead to a transformation of the concept itself, which becomes foggier over time.
Culasso, E
Because change happens!: analyzing the change agent in legitimizing integrated reporting2017Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how a sustainability manager, embodying the role of change agent, legitimizes the implementation of Integrated Reporting. By focusing on an Italian public utility, operating in the electricity sector and listed on the Italian stock exchange, which has recently implemented the Integrated Report, this paper unveils how a voluntary change (i.e. the adoption of the Integrated Report) can be achieved thorough the legitimizing work carried out by a sustainability manager driven by strong intrinsic engagement, availability of resources and intense networking.
Design/Methodology/Approach – The case study methodology was adopted to reach the purpose of this research. A longitudinal and explanatory case study was realized by analyzing data collected from different sources. Relevant information was extrapolated from various corporate documents, visit to the case organization and thirteen in depth interviews conducted with sustainability managers, finance managers, communication managers and human resources managers. After triangulating data, findings were analyzed through the lens of institutional entrepreneurship which is the branch of neo-institutional theory explaining how actors can drive substantial changes.
Findings – This study uncovered how the adoption of Integrated Reporting – which requires a substantial change in organizational structure, processes and thinking – can be achieved over time through the perseverance of a sustainability manager who strives to legitimize his individual position and strengthen the value of the whole Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) area within the organization. Such perseverance, necessary to initiate and achieve the desired change, can be successful when the change agent uses available resources and networking skills, to gain support from various groups with different power balances, and to enable people of different organizational areas to collaborate to the end of preparing the Integrated Report.
Research limitations/implications – This research highlights that when people belonging to different organizational areas perceive the added value of implementing a substantial change, they engage in alternative practices and show availability to collaborate. Still, the reluctance to share strategic information in the light of its disclosure in the Integrated Report is perceived, meaning that bridging the gaps between finance and sustainability managers requires more efforts. The true transformation of organizational values and beliefs, in line with the ideas of Integrated Reporting, requires the full acceptance and practice of integrated thinking on each level of the organization.
Practical implications – This paper shows that the voluntary implementation of Integrated Reporting is possible when the reporting tool is not only perceived as a disclosure document, but also as a vehicle that increases the awareness and sharing of corporate integrated value. People in different areas interact in a different way facilitating the horizontal integration of operational activities.
Originality/Value – as an emerging phenomenon, literature has focused on many aspects of Integrated Reporting. This paper adds value to recent debates by focusing on how individual actors legitimize their projects within their organization by highlighting tensions and how they can be overcome to achieve the desired change.
Culasso, Francesca
Truant, Elisa
Competing logics in the expansion of public service corporations2016Inngår i: Utilities Policy, ISSN 0957-1787, E-ISSN 1878-4356, Vol. 40, s. 125-133Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
This paper contributes to the current debate on the evolving nature and meaning of public service corporations. It draws upon notions of neo-institutional theory and adopts a case study methodology. The study focuses on the case of SMAT, an Italian water corporation, whose value has been recognized at home and internationally. Findings show how a public service corporation's priorities and activities, particularly commercialization and internationalization, are constrained by various factors. These include: the burden of regulatory frameworks, the public nature of the corporation and its governance, the expectations of users, and the need for infrastructural investment.
From sustainability to integrated reporting: the legitimizing role of the CSR manager2019Inngår i: Organization & environment, ISSN 1086-0266, E-ISSN 1552-7417, Vol. 32, nr 4, s. 484-507Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
This article aims to explore how an individual actor, embodying the role of the institutionalentrepreneur, legitimizes new corporate reporting practices. This study is based on a longitudinaland explanatory case study of an Italian listed public utility, operating in the electricity sector,which has recently implemented Integrated Reporting. Findings were analysed through thelens of institutional entrepreneurship, revealing that Integrated Reporting can be implementedthrough the legitimizing activities carried out by the corporate social responsibility manager.This organizational professional, with strong competences and intrinsic engagement, efficientlyuses available resources and gains support from various organizational groups through intensenetworking. A substantial change in corporate reporting practices can influence the positionof the institutional entrepreneur who originally triggered the change process. The institutionalentrepreneur first moves from the periphery to the centre of the organization and then sharessuch central role with other organizational professionals once the change has been implemented.
Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle.
Di Pietra, Roberto
Department of Business and Social Studies, University of Siena.
Exploring the receptivity to accounting regulation change: what information is being disclosed in Italian Management's Reports2012Rapport (Annet vitenskapelig)
This paper is aimed at investigating how regulatory change affects corporate disclosure. In particular, an analysis of the information disclosed in the Management’s Reports prepared by Italian listed companies is conducted. The Italian context is interesting because the 2007 reform has extended the contents to be included in Management’s Reports. Companies have to disclose information pertaining to risks and uncertainties, performance indicators, environment and personnel. These new requirements do not only lead to an increase of the information to be disclosed, but also to a change in the nature of the information made available. In addition to the more traditional financial information, also social, environmental and strategic information must be provided. The content analysis conducted on the 2008 financial year Management’s Reports prepared by the major Italian listed companies allows for formulating reflections on the receptivity to regulatory change. Research findings suggest that only few companies have been receptive to the reform.
University of Siena.
IASB ED management commentary versus European regulation: the impact on Management’s Reports of companies listed on Italian stock exchange2014Inngår i: Accounting and regulation: new insights on governance, markets and institutions / [ed] Roberto Di Pietra, Stuart McLeay, Joshua Ronen, New York: Springer-Verlag New York, 2014, s. 291-309Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
This chapter aims to investigate how regulatory change affects corporate disclosure. The explanations are based on institutional theory which provides an understanding of how organizations may react to a change in the regulatory framework. By conducting a content analysis, the chapter focuses on the information disclosed in the Management’s Reports prepared by the major Italian listed companies after the enactment of the 2007 law. This law extended companies’ disclosure obligations since management has to disclose information pertaining to risks and uncertainties, performance indicators, environment, and personnel. The new requirements not only lead to an increase in the information to be disclosed, but also to a change in the nature of the disclosed information. In addition to the more traditional financial information, also social, environmental, and strategic information should be provided. The main results of the content analysis allow to formulate some tentative reflections on companies’ receptivity to the 2007 regulatory change.
Dobjia, D
Special issue on governing by numbers: audit culture and contemporary tales of universities’ accountability2018Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
The QRAM Special Issue encourages submissions, based on case studies and other qualitative methodologies, in different contexts and from scholars across disciplines. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following issues:
• Which (and how) accounting and accountability challenges are influenced by the institutional changes in the high education field (e.g. the “leaking” of external funds, competition, rankings, ratings, public value and accountability)?
• How do internal and external university stakeholders use their accounting and accountability models?
• How do academics cope with the new “audit culture” and “calculative technologies” of hybrid universities?
• What are the effects for academics of new forms of control and accountability?
• How does the new “audit culture” challenge the role of professionals in universities?
• What are the main aspects of external and internal auditing within the context of universities?
• How can empirical studies on “audit culture” and “calculative technologies” in the academia contribute to accounting and accountability theories?
Jääskeläinen, A
Servalli, S
Soumala, P
Governmentality and performance for the smart city2016Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
Suomala, P
Jääskinen, S
By applying the Foucauldian “governmentality” framework (Foucault, 2009), and its bio-political implications (Foucault, 2008), and following an interpretivist approach, this paper aims at exploring how municipalities drive smart city programs in the pursuit of governmentality goals spanning from efficiency to societal impacts.
We contend that cities striving for smart development engage in programs trying to direct or reorient practices towards desired aims, by adopting various tools (technologies of government) and involving a plurality of actors (governmental experts).
By conducting a longitudinal case study with interventionist elements with reference to the City of Helsinki, we have addressed both the benefits and criticalities faced in Helsinki’s programs introducing new performance measurement systems as a technology of government. Our findings show that such technologies of government are useful, but also problematic tools, especially considering the fragmentation in inter- and intra-departmental operations characterizing smart cities and related forms of resistance.
Persson, Kamilla
Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi. Kristianstad Univ, Dept Business, Kristianstad, Sweden..
Vingren, Theres
Sustainability disclosures of hybrid organizations: Swedish state-owned enterprises2019Inngår i: Meditari Accountancy Research, ISSN 2049-372X, Vol. 27, nr 4, s. 505-533Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the content of the sustainability reports of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and the factors influencing the sustainability information they disclose. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon the literature on sustainability disclosure, institutional logics and hybrid organizations, several hypotheses were deduced. By means of a quantitative content analysis, the sustainability disclosure index of 45 Swedish SOEs was calculated. Statistical analyses were conducted to test which variables affected the sustainability disclosures of the selected SOEs. Findings The findings reveal that only state ownership and corporate size significantly affect SOEs' sustainability disclosures. Fully state-owned SOEs disclose less sustainability information than partially state-owned SOEs. Large SOEs disclose more sustainability information than small SOEs. However, there are weak indications that having a public policy assignment (PPA) (activity) negatively influences environmental sustainability disclosures, and that having a majority of female directors on the board decreases the total sustainability information disclosed. In addition, the statistical analyses show that having state representatives on the board and being profitable may positively affect the disclosures. Originality/value Accountability is particularly important in SOEs, and their complex hybrid nature has an impact on sustainability disclosures in a surprising way. State ownership and control do not necessarily imply an increased amount of sustainability disclosure.
Tagesson, Torbjörn
Halmstad University.
Collin, Sven-Olof
The "externalisation" of local public service delivery: experience in Italy and Sweden2010Inngår i: International Journal of Public Policy, ISSN 1740-0600, E-ISSN 1740-0619, Vol. 5, nr 1, s. 41-56Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
In recent years, the local government sector in European countries has undergone important changes involving, among other things, the externalisation of local public service provision through various forms of corporatisation, public-public collaboration, public-private partnerships and contracting out. An important consequence of these institutional changes has been the recasting of local governance systems through the need for increased cooperation between public and private actors. This article addresses these matters with comparative reference to the experience in Italy and Sweden. In doing so, it considers local governments in their constitutional and legal contexts, leading to more detailed discussions of their externalisation initiatives and resultant organisational forms and governance arrangements. Issues of ownership have been important concerning the significance of 'community' and 'place' in the management of public affairs.
Thomasson, Anna
School of Economics and Management, Lund University.
Governance and control of externalized water service management: comparing solutions adopted in Italy and Sweden2011Inngår i: Corporate Ownership & Control, ISSN 1727-9232, E-ISSN 1810-3057, Vol. 8, nr 3, s. 188-195Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
In this paper the challenges imposed on corporate governance of water services in Italy and Sweden are analyzed and compared. From the comparative analysis we notice that with externalization of services more stakeholders become involved in the provision of the services. These stakeholders have common as well as divergent interests and the challenges thus become to find an alignment of interest among stakeholders in order to secure a sustainable provision of the services. The comparative analysis indicate that such alignment is especially difficult when stakeholders have heterogeneous background (public and private sector).
Vollenweider, Petra
Explaining the consolidation of financial statementsin the Swiss Federal Government2012Inngår i: Yearbook of Swiss Administrative Sciences 2012, Winterthur: Swiss Society of Administrative Sciences SSAS , 2012, s. 11-22Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
The growing development of decentralized entities has highlighted the limitations f the traditional annual reports of governments, which do not necessarily capture he financial consequences of subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates. There s a growing tendency to consider consolidated financial statements as essential o support decision-making processes and to ensure higher public accountability. his paper seeks to understand and to explain how the Swiss Federal Government as prepared its consolidated financial statements for the three fiscal years 009–2011.
Lövstål, Eva
Tilltro, Tydlighet och SamTal: A och O för framgång i innovativa samverkansprojekt – DIDEC från ett forskningsperspektiv2018Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
Daniela Argento and Eva Lövstål (Kristianstad University) explain the role that Trust, Clarity and Dialogue can play in the successful implementation of innovative collaborative projects.
Vad händer med en verksamhet när man genomför ett utvecklingsprojekt?2019Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
Daniela Argento and Eva Lövstål (Kristianstad University) explain the challenges that organizations undergo when they implement an innovation project.
Magliacani, M
L´analisi di alcune ricerche realizzate nel contesto italiano ed internazionale2012Inngår i: Le disclosure dei compensi agli amministratori nei bilanci delle società italiane quotate / [ed] Roberto Di Pietra, Padova: CEDAM, 2012, s. 59-74Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
Peda, G
The enabling role of institutional entrepreneurs in the adoption of IPSAS within atransitional economy: the case of Estonia2017Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
In the light of neo-institutional theory, and adopting the case-study research methodology, this paper explains the adoption of IPSASs for modernising public sector accounting in Estonia. This study reveals that the smooth – yet gradual – adoption of IPSASs-compliant accounting systems was enabled by the involvement of powerful actors (i.e. institutional entrepreneurs) with foreign and/or business backgrounds. In addition, the change in public sector accounting in Estonia was facilitated by the developments in its international positioning, characterised by the transition from a Soviet-communist to a market economy and subsequent EU membership, and by the absence of past accounting practices which could potentially hinder the change.
Peda, P
The relationship between trust and contract within externalized public service provision: how does closeness matter?2015Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
The relationship between trust and control within externalized public service provision: insights from the Estonian water sector2014Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
International harmonisation as a stimulus to change public sector accounting: evidence from the Estonian central government2014Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
The role of institutional entrepreneurs in the accounting change of a transitional economy2016Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, Avdelningen för Ekonomi och Arbetsliv. Kristianstad Univ, Ctr Business Studies, Kristianstad, Sweden..
Peda, Peeter
Finland.
Interactions fostering trust and contract combinations in local public services provision2015Inngår i: International Journal of Public Sector Management, ISSN 0951-3558, E-ISSN 1758-6666, Vol. 28, nr 4-5, s. 335-351Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between trust and contract in the context of externalized local public services provision. Design/methodology/approach - A multi-theoretical framework is used to analyse different combinations of control mechanisms (i.e. trust and contract) with reference to three cases of externalized water service provision in Estonia consisting of inter-organizational relationships between local governments and water companies with different ownership structures (public, private and mixed public-private). Findings - The relationship between trust and contract, which can either be substitutes or complements, or eventually erode each other, is contingent upon the capacity of interacting individuals (and related organizations) to keep interests aligned in water services provision. Originality/value - The relationship between trust and contract is analysed by considering the interactions between key actors within the underlying governance setting.
Högskolan Kristianstad, Forskningsmiljön Governance, Regulation, Internationalization and Performance (GRIP). Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, Avdelningen för ekonomi.
The enabling role of institutional entrepreneurs in the adoption of IPSAS within a transitional economy: the case of Estonia2018Inngår i: Public Administration and Development, ISSN 0271-2075, E-ISSN 1099-162X, Vol. 38, nr 1, s. 39-49Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
In the light of neoinstitutional theory and by adopting case study research methodology, this article explains the adoption of International Public Sector Accounting Standards for modernizing public sector accounting in Estonia. This article reveals that the smoothyet gradualadoption of International Public Sector Accounting Standards-compliant accounting systems was enabled by the involvement of powerful actors (i.e., institutional entrepreneurs) with foreign and/or business backgrounds. In addition, the change in public sector accounting in Estonia was facilitated by the developments in its international positioning, characterized by the transition from a Soviet communist to a market economy and subsequent European Union membership and by the absence of past accounting practices, which could potentially hinder the change.
Umans, Timurs
Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, Forskningsmiljön Auditing, Organisation and Society (AOS). Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi, Avdelningen för ekonomi. Linnaeus University.
Håkansson, Patricia
Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för ekonomi.
Johansson, Annika
Reliance on the internal auditors’ work: experiences of Swedish external auditors2018Inngår i: Journal of Management Control, ISSN 2191-4761, E-ISSN 2191-477X, Vol. 29, nr 3-4, s. 95-325Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
The purpose of this study is to explore how external auditors experience their decision to rely on internal auditors’ work. This study employs both qualitative and quantitative methods consisting of semi-structured interviews and questionnaires administered to external auditors in Sweden. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with external auditors who are working in Big 4 audit firms in Sweden and have engagements with internal audit functions. A questionnaire was administered to authorized/approved auditors, members of the Swedish Association of Certified Public Accountants (FAR). Findings indicate that external auditors use the work of internal auditors as they gain efficiency in performing their work. Nevertheless, external auditors may compromise their independence and professionalism through closer involvement with internal auditors, which may lead to uncritical evaluation and use of the reports prepared by internal auditors. At the same time, while relying on the internal auditors’ reports, external auditors appear to be conscious of the consequences for the audit quality they deliver. The study highlights the dilemma faced by external auditors in their cooperative work with internal auditors and the balance/imbalance in their opinions concerning efficiency gains, independence, professionalism and audit quality.
University of Siena, Italy.
van Helden, Jan Gerrit
University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Reforming the Dutch water chain: how radical ambitions turned into a moderate pace of change2009Inngår i: Journal of Accouting & Organizational Change, ISSN 1832-5912, E-ISSN 1839-5473, Vol. 5, nr 3, s. 321-343Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain how and why the initially ambitious reform of the Dutch water sector turned into a moderate pace of change. The explanations are based on institutional theory.
Design/methodology/approach – This paper is a case study at the organizational field level of the Dutch water sector.
Findings – In order to enhance efficiency and transparency, Dutch Central Government initially attempted to enforce top-down radical changes, including the formation of integrated water chain companies. However, after discussions and reactions of the interested parties, the central government authorised a bottom-up approach, giving discretional powers to the individual water organizations. This transition to a bottom-up approach can mainly be explained by the limited pressure exerted by the central government to change and the powerful position of the relevant organizations within the water sector, as well as their ability to establish strong coalitions to avoid mandatory radical changes.
Research limitations/implications – The theoretical background is useful in analysing thechange processes in other public sectors.
Practical implications – The Dutch way of consensus seeking might be threatened by its own inertia, and in the case of ineffectiveness, it could be replaced by a more top-down and radical reformpackage.
Originality/value – Unravelling public sector reform into goals, means and approaches is useful, because although goals can remain the same during the change process, the means and approachesmay be altered. Resistance to radical changes might stimulate convergent change options, such as reinforcement of the existing means of reform and may also decrease the embededdness and impermeability of the institutional fields.
Water sector reform in Italy and in the Netherlands: ambitious change with an uncertain outcome versus consensus-seeking moderate change2010Inngår i: International Review of Administrative Sciences, ISSN 0020-8523, E-ISSN 1461-7226, Vol. 76, nr 4, s. 790-809Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
This article aims at analysing the commonalities and differences in recent water sector reforms in Italy and in the Netherlands. The reforms in both countries are characterized by similar goals of achieving greater transparency and efficiency, and comparable governance ideas regarding the establishment of integrated water companies. However, there appears to be a gap between the reforms as initially intended and the way in which they were realized. Although the reform idea of forming integrated water companies has been maintained in Italy, its realization has been postponed, whereas in the Netherlands this reform idea has been replaced by a bottom-up implementation approach, stimulating cooperation rather than integration projects within the water sector. An assessment of the accomplishment of the reform goals conducted in the Netherlands shows that greater transparency and efficiency have been realized to some extent, whereas in Italy any systematic information on this issue has been unavailable. Our analysis of the reasons for the gaps between the reforms as originally intended and the way in which they have been realized shows some similarities between the two countries in the sense of highly institutionalized practices. There are, however, also substantial differences between these two countries. In Italy, there are no networks of water organizations, which explains the lack of local and regional commitment to the centrally desired changes, resulting in their slow execution. In the Netherlands, these networks are powerful enablers with strong coalitions, which have resisted the compulsory implementation of radical changes.
Points for practitioners
The success of a radical water sector reform, which proposes that the current types of organizations be replaced by new types of organizations, is dependent upon the approval of all powerful stakeholders. However, if radical reform is only supported by some of these powerful stakeholders, it is wise to focus mainly on the relevant goals, and have the stakeholders achieve these goals at their own discretion. The reform implementation will benefit from the involvement of stakeholders at the executive level in both the discussions about the reform content and the processes through which this content can be realized.
Broberg, Pernilla
Högskolan Kristianstad, Forskningsmiljön Auditing, Organisation and Society (AOS). Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, Avdelningen för Ekonomi och arbetsliv. Linköping University.
Linköping University.
Gyllengahm, Niclas
Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle. Grant Thornton.
Mårtensson, Ola
Explaining the influence of time budget pressure on audit quality in Sweden2017Inngår i: JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT & GOVERNANCE, ISSN 1385-3457, Vol. 21, nr 2, s. 331-350Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
This paper is aimed at explaining how time budget pressure influences audit quality in the Swedish context. A hypothesis is deduced and tested through a survey sent to Swedish auditors. The Swedish context provides a special setting since audit firms and auditors have been facing new pressures due, for example, to the removal of statutory audits for a majority of the companies in Sweden. The findings show that time budget pressure lowers the quality of audits performed by Swedish auditors, but it is not the only explanation. Audit quality is also related to other factors such as gender, position, experience, number of clients, local office size and audit firm. Thus, the model is useful for explaining the factors influencing audit quality and could be used and expanded in future studies. The study also has practical implications showing that when trading-off between audit efforts and available resources and setting time budgets for each audit assignment, audit firms should also consider the personal characteristics of the auditors.
Brorstrom, Sara
Gothenburg University.
Lund University.
Almqvist, Roland
Stockholm University.
Translating sustainable and smart city strategies into performance measurement systems2018Inngår i: Public Money & Management, ISSN 0954-0962, E-ISSN 1467-9302, Vol. 38, nr 3, s. 193-202Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
This paper shows how sustainable and smart strategies can be implemented in cities and how these strategies influence, and are influenced by, performance measurement systems. Drawing upon the Foucauldian notion of governmentality, the authors present the case of Gothenburg in Sweden, where they interviewed the key actors involved in a new sustainability strategy. Translating strategy into performance measurement systems requires collaboration across organizational boundaries and considerations of financial goals and social and human aspects.
42. Brorström, S
Almqvist, R
Thomasson, A
The influence of sustainable and smart strategies on performance measurement systems in a Swedish city2016Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
43. Broström, S
Translating sustainable and smart strategies into performance measurement systems2017Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
The aim of this paper is to investigate how sustainable and smart strategies are implemented at the city level and how these strategies influence and are influenced by performance measurement systems. Drawing upon the Foucauldian notion of governmentality, the paper analyzes the city of Gothenburg (Sweden) where interviews and observations were carried out with key actors. The results show that translating strategy into performance measurement systems requires collaboration across organizational boundaries and considerations of financial goals and social and human aspects.
Culasso, F
D, Truant
To what extent can a business model be disclosed in the integrated report?2018Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
This paper aims to explore weather and to what extent a Business Model (BM) can be consolidated within the Integrated Report (IR) through the explication of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) implemented by the organization. A longitudinal and explanatory case study was realized by focusing on an Italian listed public utility, operating in the electricity sector, which has recently implemented the IR and has adopted the BSC for internal managerial purposes for several years. Findings were analyzed through the lens of the BM definitions and theory, in conjunction with the attitude of Performance Measurement/Management Systems - such as the BSC - to adequately describe BMs. This paper unveils how the general pressure from financial markets to deeply disclose also non-financial information, and among this the adopted BM, finds a limit to its full applicability. Organizations still show resistance in fully communicating their competitive advantages and how their managers are responsible for the medium- to long-term goals. Findings reveal that the change in corporate reporting practices, achieved over time through the implementation of IR, does not completely force the top management to disclose the BM of the organization by communicating the internally adopted BSC to the market.
45. Culasso, F
Truant, D
Manzi, L
To what extent can a business model be disclosed in the integrated report2018Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
This paper aims to explore weather and to what extent a Business Model (BM) can be consolidated within the Integrated Reporting (IR) through the explication of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) implemented by the organization. A longitudinal and explanatory case study was realized by focusing on an Italian listed public utility, operating in the electricity sector, which has recently implemented the IR and has adopted the BSC for internal managerial purposes for several years. Findings were analyzed through the lens of the BM definitions and theory, in conjunction with the attitude of Performance Measurement/Management Systems - such as the BSC - to adequately describe BMs. This paper unveils how the general pressure from financial markets to deeply disclose also non-financial information, and among this the adopted BM, finds a limit to its full applicability. Organizations still show resistance to fully communicating their competitive advantages and how their managers are responsible for the medium- to long-term goals. Findings reveal that the change in corporate reporting practices, achieved over time through the implementation of IR, does not completely force the top management to disclose the BM of the organization by communicating the internally adopted BSC to the market.
47. Mutiganda, J.C.
Deep sea port performance and public accountability: institutional logics approach2015Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
48. Natalizi, D
Bartocci, L
The role of institutional entrepreneurs within the European EPSAS program: evidence from the Italian case2017Konferansepaper (Annet vitenskapelig)
The impasse of European Harmonization for PSA has represented a critical point of the European agenda. By issuing the Directive n. 85 in 2011, the European Commission has assumed an active role, promoting an international program of PSA harmonization. This paper aims to shed light on the European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS) program, run by a Task Force of Eurostat, which wants to set up and implement one accounting system for all the European Member States. Through the lens of Institutional Entrepreneurship, the study wants to investigate the role of key actors involved in the process and their strategic actions, especially who is at the intersection between the international and national level. The findings contribute to the extent of literature on collective forms of Institutional Entrepreneurship. With reference to the Italian case, this article suggests policy implications, exploring the country-specific issues in favor/against the EPSAS program.
The impasse of European Public Sector Accounting harmonization represents a critical point on the European agenda. By issuing Directive n. 85 in 2011, the European Commission has assumed an active role in the promotion of an international program of Public Sector Accounting harmonization. This paper aims to investigate the dynamics of the “European Public Sector Accounting Standards” (EPSAS) program, run by the Task Force of Eurostat with the goal of setting up and implementing one accounting system to be used by all the European Member States. Through the theoretical lens of institutional entrepreneurship, this study investigates the role, actions and skills of the “change actors” involved in the accounting harmonization process at the intersection between the international and national levels by focusing on the Italian case. The findings reveal the importance of the actions undertaken by the identified institutional entrepreneurs and suggest that a synchronization of strategies is necessary to mobilize national contexts towards the goal of European Public Sector Accounting harmonization.
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu.
Governance and performance of a mixed public-private enterprise: an assessment of a company in the Estonian water sector2013Inngår i: Public Organization Review, ISSN 1566-7170, E-ISSN 1573-7098, Vol. 13, nr 2, s. 185-196Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Local governments are increasingly entering into partnerships with the private sector in the “externalization” of public service delivery. While the financial and non-financial interests of the partners involved may appear to be in opposition and potentially un-reconcilable, this is not always the case, especially where governance arrangements exist to align and balance the requirements of financial and non-financial performance. Such arrangements are analysed here with reference to Estonia’s largest water company with mixed public-private ownership. It has a business-like management that facilitates a combination of good non-financial performance (quality and affordability) and considerable financial performance (profitability.
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New French aerospace report endorses reality of UFOs
Labels Disclosure, Sigma/3AF Comission, Ufo
August 16, 2010–A new French report released on May 31, 2010 concluded that UFOs are definitely real and possibly of extraterrestrial origin. While not an official government study, the Progress Report of the Sigma/3AF Commission comes from a highly credible source, the Aeronautical & Astronomical Association of France, known as the 3AF, which established a Commission on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena back in May 2008. The Commission’s President is Alain Boudier, a former French Defense attaché, and one of its key members is Jean-Gabriel Greslé, a former fighter pilot who studied at the U.S. Air Force Academy and later became an airliner pilot with Air France, where he experienced a couple of UFO sightings. Greslé has published three UFO books in France, including Unidentified Flying Objects: An Airline Pilot Talks (Guy Trédaniel, 1993).
The Sigma/3AF is not a final report but just a work in progress document; nevertheless, it provides good background material on the history of official UFO research in France, a balance of Sigma’s work during the last two years, a brief description of the most significant French cases, and some comments and conclusions. The report begins with a brief history of French official UFO research, which is quite extensive: “France is the only country where the collection of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (PAN in French) and its scientific study have been assigned since 1977 to a civilian official organization, the CNES (National Center for Space Studies, the French space agency) through the GEPAN study group.” After a short description of this unit, now known as GEIPAN (Study and Information Group on Aerospace Unidentified Phenomena), the report outlines other official or quasi-official French studies, including the famous COMETA (Committee for In-Depth Studies) Report of 1999, issued by a group of high-ranking retired French military and intelligence officers, which concluded that UFOs were real and probably extraterrestrial.
Members of the Sigma/3AF Commission also met representatives of many other official French military and intelligence organizations that had some UFO involvement in the past. These included the National Gendarmerie, which has collected UFO reports systematically since the 1960s; the General Secretariat of National Defense, which issued an interesting report a few years ago (although I am not aware that it was ever released to the public); the Air Force; and one of France’s intelligence services, the General Directorate for External Security, which admitted through an “authorized source” that UFOs have been monitored by the agency since the early sixties.
The English translation of the full Sigma/3AF report can be downloaded in pdf format here.
The original French text of the Sigma/3AF report can be downloaded in pdf format here.
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Dawn Mission Education and Communications (E/C) | Ceres Image Release - 02.25.2015
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Source: Dawn Mission Education and Communications (E/C) youtube
February 25, 2015—Dwarf planet Ceres continues to puzzle scientists as NASA's Dawn spacecraft gets closer to being captured into orbit around the object. The latest images from Dawn, taken nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers) from Ceres, reveal that a bright spot that stands out in previous images lies close to yet another bright area. -Dawn Mission Education and Communications (E/C)
Ceres Comes into View | One Mystery White Spot is TWO | Feb. 26, 2015
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Source: humanspan youtube
Closing in at less than 30,000 miles, Ceres has come into view for the first time in high resolution and with a contrast of surprises. First, the ONE brightest white spot is actually TWO very bright spots within ONE crater. Second, like we were expecting because of how Vesta came into view - first generating great excitement and then proving to be just a big cratered asteroid, Ceres appears to be a big golf ball looking like the Moon. While complex craters have central peaks that can reflect sunlight and multiple craters can overlay one another having multiple central peaks, this is definitely only one crater with TWO distinct central peaks and they happen to be the brightest spots on the entire surface of the Dwarf Planet.
So, what are we left with as Dawn prepares to begin orbiting Ceres in 7 days on March 6th, 2015? The images of Ceres sure don't reveal water, but the current biggest mystery - these two white spots - may reveal the water beneath the surface and betray the "moon like" disguise of this protoplanet thus making it perhaps one of the most unique planets bound to our Sun. Maybe the Fountains of Enceladus give us a clue about what we are seeing as we point out in Video #2 in this series. While some questions are answered, more come to mind as the Dawn Spacecraft prepares to arrive next week. -humanspan
Nicholas Kollerstrom | Breaking the Spell, The Holocaust Myth and Reality | Hour 1 | Feb. 25, 2015
Labels Henrik Palmgren, Nicholas Kollerstrom, Redicecreations /
Source: redicecreations.com, terroronthetube.co.uk, whatreallyhappened.info
Febuary 25, 2015–Nicholas Kollerstrom, PhD, is an English author, historian of science, and political activist. He was an honorary member of staff at University College London (UCL) for 11 years. Dr. Kollerstrom has always had an interest in Hermetic-alchemical issues and is presently managing New Alchemy Press. He is the author of several articles and books, and joins us to speak about his latest publication, Breaking the Spell, The Holocaust Myth and Reality.
We begin our discussion with an analysis of the real physical data that exists relating to the purported existence of huge cyanide gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps. Nick gives details of the numbers and causes of deaths at Auschwitz that were recorded daily and then published, figures that are staggeringly less than the 6 million number that has been seared into the 'official' storyline.
We talk about the outbreak of typhus in 1942, the delousing chambers that were created to deal with the disease infestation, and how this ordinary hygiene technology was used in an attempt to decrease mortality rates of valuable workers in the labor camps. Nick brings light to the real purpose of the camps and how the horrific stories developed during the nightmare and confusion of war.
Further, he'll explain the lack of any documents or intercepted communications indicating orders to exterminate prisoners, and the reconstruction of history that has created an undebatable transcendental mythos of death by gas chambers. Then, we'll consider the motivations for perpetuating the Holocaust myth and who has come to benefit from what was certainly the worst collective experience that European Jews have endured.
Nick breaks down the holocaust narrative that is the direct result of the academic world dismissing evidence multiplied by Hollywood's mythologizing of events. Later Kollerstrom describes signs that people are beginning to wake up to the motives of the holocaust industry. We end with thoughts on sacred war ratifying myths, the persecution of truth seekers, and the need for open discussion and debate regarding one of the most important events of world history. -redicecreations.com
Dr. Robert Duncan ex CIA Engineer | Satellite Directed Energy Weaponry on Targeted Individuals
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Ex CIA Engineer Dr. Robert Duncan and Targeted Individual Tyrone Dew explain the HORRIFIC REALITY of Satellite Directed Energy Weaponry Terrorism and Motive of Aaron Alexis and Myron May.
EBTV | Dr. Larry Malerba, D.O. | Metaphysics & Medicine: Societal Implications
Labels D.O, Dr. Larry Malerba, Evita Ochel, Holistic Medicine /
Source: evitaochel.com, spiritsciencehealing.com
EBTV presents host Evita Ochel and featured guest Dr. Larry Malerba, D.O. in a dialogue about the role of metaphysics in medicine, and the limitations and biases of conventional medicine and science.
Dr. Malerba is a physician, educator, and writer whose mission is to build bridges between holistic healing, conventional medicine, and spirituality. He is the author of 2 books, “Green Medicine: Challenging the Assumptions of Conventional Health Care” and his new book “Metaphysics & Medicine: Restoring Freedom of Thought to the Art and Science of Healing”, as well as countless articles on his own site, as well as on various popular media.
“It is a disturbing reality that modern medicine believes it can heal illness without consideration for the role of consciousness.” ~ Dr. Larry Malerba, D.O.
Link to past video episode: "Green Medicine: A Holistic Approach to Health" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZmEqT7x1gs
General topics covered in the video include:
1. A summary of how Dr. Malerba became professionally involved as a holistic physician. (2:05)
2. Dr. Malerba’s view of the conventional medical system. (3:47)
- link to report “Death by Medicine - 2004”
3. How metaphysics influences medicine. (7:23)
- Book quote: “While medical science projects an image of fact-based certainty, its very foundation is predicated upon unspoken metaphysical beliefs.” Dr. Larry Malerbav - the limitations of materialism
4. The consequences of medicine failing to incorporate our new quantum world-view. (10:50)
- the influence of reductionism
5. How reductionism brings about the illusion of control and leaves us with a fragmented world-view. (14:12)
6. How mechanism in Western medicine confuses association with causation, and results in circular thinking. (16:36)
7. How rationalism is one of the most flagrantly abused ‘isms’ of Western medicine. (19:26)
8. The financial limitations of individual patient care in light of the current medical model. (25:46)
9. How objectivism dismisses patient’s experiences, fuels its own biases, and objectifies the body and disease. (28:42)
10. How conformism has limited both patients and healthcare providers into a limited way of thinking. (30:55)
11. How skepticism limits our progress and potential. (39:09)
- an example of how the Measles outbreak and vaccination policy is influenced by skepticism
12. Societal next steps given the challenges of modern medical science. (47:31)
Extraterrestrial Anomaly Or Satellite In The Western Skies | Feb. 24, 2015
Source: HawkkeyDavisChannel
News lines and websites lite up as an unidentified flying objects was seen in the skies of Utah, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, California and Canada on February 24 2015.
Stan Deyo | UFO Tech | FADE to BLACK with Jimmy Church | Feb.4, 2015
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Source: jimmychurchradio.com, standeyo.com
Stan Deyo joins us for the first time and we discuss his development of UFO tech with Edward Teller in Australia and what this means to the world today...the Alien Agenda, Alternative 3 and also his recent research into the discovery of the Garden of Eden. -jimmychurchradio.com
John Lenard Walson | Moon Footage | Filmed with 8 Inch Scope
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Source: JohnLenardWalson youtube
Ole Dammegard | Templates of False Flag Operations: Paris & Copenhagen | Hour 1 | Feb. 23, 2015
Labels Henrik Palmgren, Ole Dammegard, Redicecreations /
Source: redicecreations.com, lightonconspiracies.com
Febuary 23, 2015–Ole Dammegård, is an author, investigator, former journalist, and the creator of the website Light On Conspiracies. Ole returns to the program to discuss the recent events in Paris and Copenhagen, along with the patterns of many other false flag operations and how they tie together.
Ole begins by breaking down the themes and elements of major false flags operations and the reasons why the Global Elites are using this mechanism to create chaos, instill fear and take control. We'll look at the tactics of these high level, hidden criminals and who could be benefitting from these sinister plots. Ole explains the components of filmmaking and how to decipher the telltale signs of the propaganda machine working behind the scenes of the corrupt events we're seeing take place across the globe.
Then, he takes us step by step through the recent shooting events in Paris, pointing out unmistakable clues of staged scenes. We talk about the media's use of repeating and looping to pump the details of these 'attacks' into our subconscious as a means for conditioning the acceptance and even the desire for a more controlled, policed, militarized and surveilled world. -redicecreations.com
Jeanice Barcelo | Birth Trauma and the Dark Side of Modern Medicine | Hour 1 | Sanitas Radio
Labels Jeanice Barcelo, Mel Fabregas, Sanitas Radio /
Source: sanitasradio.com, BirthOfANewEarth.com
Are people more unhappy because of the barbaric way doctors treat mothers when they deliver their babies? Tonight we discuss the gut-wrenching way hospitals and doctors brutally manipulate pregnant mothers. This interference in the mother-child bond is a key element in the breakdown of human love worldwide.
The medical profession creates lasting scars between mothers and infants. It destroys marriages. And it injures and kills children. Its effect on the world, especially women, children, and families, is catastrophic. Jeanice Barcelo describes her own personal story of birth trauma, viewed within the context of our technologically based birthing culture. The discussion focuses on the dark side of modern medicine; especially as it pertains to the ritual abuse of mothers and infants during hospital birth.
There is also important information about prenatal trauma, along with statistics regarding how many people are struggling with postpartum depression and post-traumatic stress, including fathers, and the way all of this is causing a breakdown in human love.
Jeanice Barcelo is a transformational teacher, a birth activist and whistleblower, and someone who is concerned with all things that limit or undermine human love. Jeanice is an outspoken leader in the movement to expose the violence of hospital birth and to get birth out of the hospitals and back into the home. Through her radio and television shows, and in her forthcoming book series, she speaks out about the horrors of technologically-managed pregnancy and childbirth, as well as the evils of mind-control, satanism, pedophilia, child abuse, pornography, abortion, vaccines, and more.
Jeanice has spent the last 15 years uncovering the long-term and inter-generational impact of primal trauma on the human body/mind/spirit system. She views the ever-escalating amounts of violence being inflicted on babies and pregnant mothers as systematic, methodical, purposeful evil. Jeanice has lectured extensively on this topic and has created an important curriculum designed to help end the lineage of abuse, violence, and trauma and restore humanity’s capacity to love. -sanitasradio.com
Rebekah Roth | Methodical Illusion-Missing Pieces of 9-11 | OffPlanet Radio with Randy Maugans
Labels 9/11 Explosive Connections, Randy Maugans, Rebekah Roth /
Source: radio.offplanetmedia.net, methodicalillusion.com
We are joined by Rebekah Roth, a former flight attendant and airline industry insider. Using her intimate knowledge of the airline industry’s protocols, procedures, and technology, has uncovered amazing details of what happened on September 11, 2001. Beginning with uncovering the fact that 7 of the alleged hijackers aboard United flight 11 are still alive! That alleged hijackers had sued to have their names restored; that one hijacker was already dead…that the original narrative of “terrorists with box cutters” withered under scrutiny of the details surrounding a mysterious passenger who turns out to be a Mossad assasin.
She discloses her research on:
-What actually hit the World Trade buildings 1 and 2
-The strange details of the missile that hit the Pentagon
-What actually occurred over Shanksville, PA
-The inconsistencies of phone calls allegedly made by flight attendants from flight 11; where the calls were actually were made from, and why stories did not match.
-Why Todd Beamer and his group onboard flight 93 could NOT have been initiating their plans to take back the alleged plane over Shanksville, the famous “Let’s roll” drama…
-Where the planes and passengers were taken, and their actual fates.
-The connections between Israeli contractors, the Pentagon, and highly placed officials in the airlines and FAA.
-The technology that allowed the planes to appear and disappear off FAA radar, and the technology that likely guided projectiles into the WTC buildings…and much more.
Related link: At Least 7 of the 9/11 Hijackers are Still Alive
Rebekah shares an immense amount of data and experiential/anecdotal facts in her interviews, but the data can also found in detail in here book—a work of “fiction” that contains more truth than the so-called media have ever reported.
“Methodical Illusion” is available here.
Mike King | The BAD War: Chronology of Events, from 1848 - WWII | Hour 1 | Feb. 20, 2015
Labels Henrik Palmgren, Mike King, Redicecreations /
Source: redicecreations.com, tomatobubble.com
Febuary 20, 2015–Mike King is a private investigative journalist and researcher based in the New York City area. A 1987 graduate of Rutgers University, King's subsequent 27 year career in Marketing & Advertising has equipped him with a unique perspective when it comes to understanding how "public opinion" is scientifically manufactured.
His website, Tomato Bubble, is a platform for disseminating alternative history, philosophy and current events. Mike returns to Red Ice Radio to enlighten listeners about his groundbreaking book, The Bad War: The Truth Never Taught About World War 2.
Mike illustrates the timeline of events of this shameful episode in history beginning in 1848, where the story of WW2 begins – the year known as "The Springtime of the People," when "spontaneous" revolts broke out across Europe and South America. He explains how during this time the Rothschild family and their web of British operatives began hijacking Europe in an attempt to destabilize the Old World and bring about Democracy.
We look at the establishment of the Reuters Telegram Company, the first Zionist news giant to take control of the press and the official narrative of the events leading up to WW2. Mike takes us back to the period prior to WW1 when the German Reich was formed and through its unification, Germany began to grow and out-produce both France and Britain, attracting a lot of envy.
He talks about the League of the Three Emperors, an alliance organized to defend Eastern Europe by blocking British and French intrigue and suppressing internal communist movements – a defensive whose destruction would lead to the formation of the New World Order. We examine NATO, the alliance formed between Britain and France after WW1 – a corrupt and deceitful organization who sought to provoke war and dismantle empires throughout Eastern Europe.
Then, Mike will explain the events leading up to WW2, including Germany's pleas for reason and peace up until the 11th hour, the blame for instigating the war Germany was tricked into accepting, the monstrous Treaty of Versailles, and the formation of the Zionist Arab Spring enclave by Lord Rothschild. In the second hour, Mike explains Poland's important role in WW2, a country that is always portrayed as a helpless innocent and a victim of Hitler's bullying, and the myth of Belgian/Dutch neutrality.
Then, we'll talk about Hitler's stance against the war, his letters to the Vatican pleading for peace, and Britain's refusal to hold mediations. Further, Mike tells us about the propaganda of the controlled Western press, the vilification of Hitler, and the real Hitler who ruled the people's hearts, held nearly universal support, and was considered a national hero at the time. We'll end by discussing the genocide of Germans after the war, the atrocities and crimes against Northern Europe that have been erased from the pages of history, and what we can do to bring light to the big lie of the past 75 years of history. -redicecreations.com
NSA's SIM Card Scandal Bigger Than You Think | Feb. 22, 2015
Source: activistpost.com
by Vladimir Platov
Activispost
Stolen encryption keys are just the beginning. US NSA appears to have compromised big telecom, IT manufacturers, online banking, and even passports, starting on the factory floor.
Recent days have been marked by a record number of news stories regarding the US and its allies trying to establish total control over Internet users.
On February 16, researchers at the Moscow-based security group Kaspersky Lab announced the discovery of the ultimate virus which has virtually infected all spheres of military and civilian computing in more than 40 countries around the world. They’ve managed to discover a piece of malware that must have been installed on hard disks while they were still being manufactured, and due to its complexity and a certain number of features that it shares with Stuxnet, it’s safe to assume that it was created by US secret services.
On February 18, The Guardian confirmed that for the last 7 years Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) had been sharing personal intelligence data en masse with America’s national security agencies, regardless of the fact that it had intercepted millions of foreign citizens' conversations. The ruling of a UK court clearly suggests that these actions were illegal on top of being carried out in violation of the the European Convention on Human Rights.
Read more at: activistpost.com
Questions For Corbett | Is “The Lord of the Rings” an Allegory? | Feb. 22, 2015
Labels 9/11 Explosive Connections, Federal Reserve, James Corbett, NWO /
In this edition of the "Questions For Corbett" series, James tackles your questions on constitutional challenges to the Federal Reserve, the 28 pages and 9/11, Steve Jobs and the New World Order, political interpretations of "The Lord of the Rings" and much more.
CrossTalk: Forever War | Feb. 23, 2015
Labels ISIS, Libya /
Boundless powers and endless wars: This is the likely outcome if Barack Obama is granted the kind of military authorization he wants from Congress. This time around the target and enemy is the Islamic State. Is it fair to say that America and the IS live off of each other?
CrossTalking with Eric Draitser, Stephen Schlesinger, and Jim Antle III.
Dawn Mission Education and Communications (E/C) | ...
Ceres Comes into View | One Mystery White Spot is ...
Nicholas Kollerstrom | Breaking the Spell, The Hol...
Dr. Robert Duncan ex CIA Engineer | Satellite Dire...
EBTV | Dr. Larry Malerba, D.O. | Metaphysics & Med...
Extraterrestrial Anomaly Or Satellite In The Weste...
Stan Deyo | UFO Tech | FADE to BLACK with Jimmy Ch...
John Lenard Walson | Moon Footage | Filmed with 8 ...
Ole Dammegard | Templates of False Flag Operations...
Jeanice Barcelo | Birth Trauma and the Dark Side o...
Rebekah Roth | Methodical Illusion-Missing Pieces ...
Mike King | The BAD War: Chronology of Events, fro...
NSA's SIM Card Scandal Bigger Than You Think | Feb...
Questions For Corbett | Is “The Lord of the Rings”...
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Sources: Barca turning to FA after penalty no-call
37dSam Marsden and Moises Llorens
1hRob Dawson
Sources: Barcelona to send VAR complaint to Spanish FA after being denied late penalty
Is Sergio Busquets becoming a hindrance for Barcelona? (1:45)
Ale Moreno questions whether or not Sergio Busquets is limiting Barcelona after their draw vs. Sociedad. (1:45)
Sam Marsden
Moises Llorens
Barcelona will complain to the Royal Spanish Football Federation [RFEF] after they were denied a late penalty in Saturday's 2-2 draw at Real Sociedad, sources have told ESPN.
Gerard Pique appeared to be pulled down in the area in the 93rd minute of the game but referee Antonio Alberola Rojas turned down Barca's appeals. The decision didn't even appear to be referred to VAR.
Griezmann impresses against former club in free-scoring draw
Real Sociedad had earlier been awarded a penalty in very similar circumstances when Sergio Busquets tangled with Diego Llorente.
Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu felt both penalty calls should have been looked at by VAR and was left so unimpressed with events in San Sebastian that he contacted his counterpart at the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, immediately after the match.
Bartomeu will now proceed to file a formal complaint about the use of VAR to the RFEF on Sunday. He will also ask for an explanation about how the technology is being applied in Spain, pointing out that Barca were among those who supported its introduction into La Liga.
Mikel Oyarzabal's early penalty had given La Real the lead but Barca fought back with goals from Antoine Griezmann and Luis Suarez.
The home side levelled just after the hour mark through Alexander Isak and both sides had chances to win the game, but it was Barca who were left unhappy as their late penalty shout fell on deaf ears.
"There's always going to be controversy," midfielder Busquets told reporters. "For their penalty, there's a clash [between two of us]. Maybe I have grabbed [Llorente] but if you set the bar there it's going to be difficult [to remain consistent].
Barcelona were left unsatisfied by the seeming lack of a VAR review late in Saturday's match. ANDER GILLENEA/AFP via Getty Images
"The proof of that comes with Pique, because it's clearer than mine. I don't know why VAR didn't review it. Those moments have to be looked at by VAR.
"But we don't know what's going on in the referee's head or when VAR should get involved. We don't know and we're not going to know because they don't say. They don't make any comments [about the decision process]."
The draw could see Barca give up top spot to Real Madrid if Los Blancos can win away at Valencia on Sunday.
Barca and Madrid then meet on Wednesday at Camp Nou in the first Clasico of the season, a game which has been rearranged having been called off in October due to the political unrest in Catalonia at the time.
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Dead On - Relentless II
Dead On is taut, well-directed whodunnit. L.A. Police Detective Sam Dietz investigates the gruesome murder of a man. The man was slashed, strangled, and afterward, the murderer smeared a symbolic message on the wall with the victim's blood. When it's determined the murder is the work of a serial-killer, the FBI is brought in, and Dietz is introduced to his partner, Agent Kyle Valsone and a friendly conflict develops between the pair. In all, twenty-three murders have been committed and the murderer has left no substantial clues. Sam grows suspicious of Kyle when he finds the FBI is not telling him all the facts in the case. He learns that all the victims had new identities as part of a federal witness protection program. When Sam goes public with his distrust of Kyle, he's suspended but decides to continue the investigation on his own.
Starring: Ray Sharkey and Leo Rossi
Director(s): Michael Schroeder
Producer(s): Cinetel Films, Inc. through New Line Cinema
Screenwriter(s): Phil Alden Robinson, Mark Sevi
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Release Date: Wednesday, June 12, 1991
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A hotel cleaning woman keeps her large dog with her for protection. As they enter a room, they interrupt a murder in progress. The dog attacks the murderer and in the struggle, the dog is thrown through a glass window, presumably to his death many floors below. (The long fall and landing is not shown on film.) An American Humane representative was present for both the training and filming of this scene. The dog had been trained to jump up and then off a seven-foot wall, and also prepped to go through candy glass. He was also trained to attack and release on command. For the actual filming, the scene was shot in numerous cuts and edited together later. Although the window appeared to be high, the dog landed just below the sill, out of camera range.
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MORE BARN Banner
a.k.a. The
Shroud of Tourin'
(click pic for 28K large pic)
For Rusties everywhere, 1996 was The Year of MORE BARN!
Just as Neil started his tour, Brad Brandeau was able to get the MORE BARN! T-shirts distributed to Rusties far and wide, and they made appearances at all of the tour stops. But this wasn't enough for Andy Strote...
Just before Neil's stop near Toronto in Barrie, Andy created the banner. It was a major attraction at the pre-show RustFest. (Follow that link for to find several pics of it like this one, before all the signatures, beer and dirt added more character to the banner...) It also made an appearance at the show itself.
At the next show at Pine Knob (near Detroit) the Banner almost didn't make an appearance due to security types who just didn't "get it". However Mary Maguire got some help from Zeke Young and the banner flew.
After that show, Andy decided that, even if he couldn't come along, the banner itself should follow Neil throughout the rest of the tour. After christening the banner The Shroud Of Tourin' he handed it off to be carried from show to show.
Though there were a few problems along the way, including it being detained at the border by federal agents ( !!! ), the Shroud made it to most of the remaining shows of the tour. For example, here it was outside The Gorge show in Washington state, as well as inside it. It even made the television news across Canada, in a report from the Winnipeg RustFest!
But without an official annointing from Neil himself, the banner was incomplete. So, at the Ottawa show Mary Maguire had to do it again. Once again she enlisted the help of Zeke -- the whole story is down below.
You can see the signature for yourself if you don't believe it... :)
For the sports fans out there, at the Montreal show Hugo Roy was able to get Yvon Lambert to sign the Banner, too. That story is also down below.
A few days later, at the next-to-last stop of the Tour (The Meadows in Hartford), Neil acknowledged the shroud from the stage.
So there you have it -- the true story of the Shroud of Tourin'. Currently Andy is trying to decide what to do with this priceless artifact. This page will be updated when something develops.
Neil Signs The Shroud
by Mary Maguire
Hi Rusties.
What a week. I'm pooped. Two fantastic shows, a night of Neil-watching at MuchMusic, a whole pile of new pals, and Montreal still to come.
I guess you heard that we got the banner signed. Here's how it went down...
After festing at Marshey's, the Corel Rust contingent made their way to great seats in rows 12-15. (Very comfy, BTW. As you've no doubt heard, I was forced to SIT in mine AGAINST MY WILL).
While we waited for the show, Zain and his cousin Zuben chatted with Zeke at the soundboard. I joined them briefly, shook Zeke's hand, told him we'd met at Pine Knob, etc. (Zain and Zuben also got their hands in for a shake.) Zain very nicely asked if Neil might sign the banner after the show. Zeke replied that he was usually pretty busy, but after asking where we'd be sitting, he said he'd try to get it done.
Zain gets ALL the credit for setting this up. Unfortunately, he was not able to be with us after the show (or during the show, for that matter) and so the torch was handed to me.
Security was bullyish. Many Rusties were rushed out the door as soon as the show ended. A small contingent, now known as Team Rust, remained to get the job done. I introduce them to you now:
At center: Trish Richardson and yours truly
On left wing: John Carter, Kat, and Powderfinger
On right wing: Adrien Comeau, Dave Fielder and Mike Jones
On Defense: Kato and Dave Y.
And in goal: Brian
Brian, though not a Rustie, was instrumental in getting Zeke's attention and roughing it with security. I get the impression he has experience in this area (Trish??)
As chairs were being folded, I wrapped the banner around my neck and headed for the stage. Unfortunately, I couldn't get Zeke's attention and was ready to give up. As we started walking toward the exit, he called out to us. I think Brian may have caught his eye and waved or something. Zeke motioned for me to come forward, which I did. And told me to wait by the boards until he was finished cleaning-up the stage.
Security had some problems with that, and Zeke was forced to set it straight (sound familiar?). They finally let us stay on the condition that we be confined to the player's bench!!! And thus we became Team Rust, lined up in all our glory, watching the sweepers, and the roadies, and the guys who walk the high beams. Some of the workers were very pleasant (once they knew who'd asked us to stay).
Zeke eventually finished-up and came over. I handed him the banner and Barry's "Sharpie" and questioned whether he would in fact bring the banner back. He assured me that he would and I let him take it. At one point Zeke came out and gave the Sharpie back (I guess they had one of their own). I again said (jokingly) that the banner had better get back to me and he smiled and said it would.
A short time later, we were moved to another part of the stands because the workmen started taking more stuff apart. When Zeke came back out a few minutes later, he did a double-take, wondering where we'd gotten to. He told us that Neil and the Horse were "kicking-back" in the dressing rooms, that they had alot of stuff to sign, and that it would be about 10 more minutes. We assured him that we could wait! I asked if he wouldn't rather that I go back to the dressing room WITH him, but he must not have heard me. ;-)
I suspect the delay was a result of Neil reading our signatures!!
Ten minutes later, Zeke came rushing back out (I think he was kind of excited, himself) and showed us the BIG SIG. "Neil Young" was scrawled just above the word "Rust" and just below the list of cities. We gave a cheer. He handed me the banner. I grabbed his hand and thanked him. He was all smiles and so were we.
Mike Jones has got the banner in Saint John now, and will carry it through each show to Buffalo. I hope it comes your way, wherever you are.
Just remember, Rusties, that new signature's a great one, but no more important than your own.
Yvon Lambert Signs The Shroud
by Hugo Roy
This story happened just before the Neil Young show in Montreal. I was sitting in a bar called the Ovation. This bar is actually located inside the Molson Centre, the place where Neil was playing that night. I was with a couple of rusties and in front of me was Mary Maguire. As I stood up to order a meal, I noticed a very familiar person standing just behind Mary. You guessed it, it was Yvon Lambert, a hockey player that use to play with the Montreal Canadians and the Buffalo Sabers.
When I told Mary about Yvon Lambert standing behind her, she asked if I wanted to ask him to sign the banner. This is about what happened next.
Mary: "Why don't you ask him to sign the banner?"
1-0 for Mary. She really got me with this question. My only answer was:
Hugo: "Me? Why don't YOU ask him to sign the banner. You're good at this."
1-1. The ball was now in her court.
Mary: "I can't, I don't speak french."
2-1 For Mary. She's a professional at convincing people. I had not much to say at this point.
Hugo: "Are you sure this is a good idea?"
Mary: "Sure. Neil's a hockey fan and a lot a people know who Yvon Lambert is."
3-1 For Mary. When I looked in her eyes, I knew I had to do it. After all, I was facing an official member of Team Rust. She had convinced me without too much effort.
I stood up and I approached M. Lambert
Hugo: "Excusez-moi, je suis dans un groupe de fans de Neil Young qui se nomme "Rust" et nous le suivons un peu partout a travers le monde. A chaque spectacle, nous faisons signer de plus en plus de fans sur cette baniere. Je me demandais si vous pouviez la signer? Neil Young est un bon fan de hockey."
Yvon Lambert: "Bien sur, c'est une tr�s bonne idee. Continuer votre bon travail..."
Translation: I just asked him to sign the banner and he said it was a good idea.
So if you want to see it on the banner, just look beside Neil's signature. It says Yvon Lambert, #11.
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Tough week for the Lakers. They snapped a 4-game skid but not before losing some games to some quality competition, namely the Clippers. On top of that, I’m pretty sure Kyle Kuzma’s trainer isn’t going to be invited to Taco Tuesday at Lebron’s house, after firing off some highly critical tweets. Lebron is already sending a strongly worded letter to the Santa at the North Pole demanding that he takes a crap in the trainer’s stocking next year. I don’t know if Kawhi is better than Lebron on a nightly basis, but he certainly makes the matchup difficult. In all seriousness though, Lebron is going to have to figure out how to be the smarter and more skillful player against the Clippers, rather than the most athletic guy. That’s the only difference between the Lakers and Clippers right now, but I think Lebron is capable of figuring out that challenge.
As for the Clippers, yes they are basking in the glory of a win over the Lakers on Xmas Day, but then they followed that up by laying an egg against Utah. Doc Rivers blamed the loss on the fact his team is sick, but they are probably sick from watching Paul George shoot 30% from the field the last 4 games. He been awful lately, and nobody cares unless your name is Lebron, Harden or Westbrook. Then there’s Kawhi Leonard, who won the AP Male Athlete of the Year, but I’m sure he’s going to miss the ceremony due to load management. The Clippers are winning but they are annoying. So is Kawhi’s Uncle, who probably asked Jeannie Buss for sexual favors while negotiating with the Lakers over the summer. This dude reminds me of the Uncle in the movie “He Got Game”.
The Rams may have found the win column yesterday to finish the season over .500, but it was a lost cause. Todd Gurley just isn’t getting enough work, and whatever happens next season, he and Sean McVay need to hold hands and sing ” Kum-By-Ya” until they resolve whatever weird beef they have. They are also going to be a team that is shopping at the “99 Cent Store” this off-season, since they have paid everybody already, and still need to pay Jalen Ramsey. Despite that, I see no reason why the Rams can’t get back to the playoffs next year if they get creative with the cap, and fix the offensive line. There is still talent on this team.
The Chargers’ season also mercifully came to an end yesterday, but sadly the Charger career of Philip Rivers probably did as well. After watching Rivers get emotional at the post game press conference yesterday, I was thinking how much respect I had for the guy. I’ve gotta admit, I’ve always been a Drew Brees guy over Philip Rivers, but Rivers played so hard and didn’t care about the interceptions. He was always about going for it, even if the ride with the Bolts was bumpier than the Matterhorn. For Philip’s sake, and the sake of his 22 children, I hope he goes someplace else next year where he can win. For the Chargers, it’s going to be a disaster either way moving into a new stadium and losing name players like Rivers and Melvin Gordon, while having no fans.
Elsewhere around Week 17, America is cracking the champagne open after the Patriots lost to the Dolphins, which means they have to play next weekend in the playoffs. Marshawn Lynch was serving tequila shots at a parking lot tailgate in Oakland two weeks ago for the Raiders’ last game there. Last night he started for the Seahawks on Sunday Night Football. Legend. The NFC East playoff spot should go to LSU instead of the Eagles. More on them in a moment. Jameis Winston has thrown 30 interceptions this season, and he’s asking for $30 million next season. Isn’t this country amazing? The Bengals are so bad, even their celebrations suck.
The Bengals can’t even celebrate right pic.twitter.com/vEKIk9T1xE
— Someone's An Idiot (@SomeonesAnIdiot) December 29, 2019
USC football finished up their season with a Holiday Bowl loss against Iowa State. The only thing worse than the SC coaching is Qualcomm stadium. The seats in that stadium look like they were recovered from the Titanic. As if Trojan fans aren’t mad enough, now USC AD Mike Bohn is blaming the fans for the Trojans’ poor recruiting class. Maybe it’s because recruits don’t want to join a Clay Helton-coached team that consistently gets embarrassed by good competition. Not because the fans want to see them fail. Helton has embarrassed USC Athletics more than Lori loughlin. Anybody that wants to point out that USC lost Kedon Slovis, Slovis doesn’t play defense or special teams, where much of their problems were against Iowa State. USC was supposed to finish strong in the Holiday Bowl. Instead, it validated every concern its frustrated fan base has levied against Clay Helton.
As for the College Football Playoff, the United Nations has charged LSU with crimes against humanity for what they did against Oklahoma. Oh should Oklahoma join a conference now? Or maybe they should be relegated to Division II. Look, for all the “Prisoner of The Moment People” saying Oklahoma didn’t belong in this game, yes they did. They had the fourth best season in the country. This happens sometimes. The top teams are just really good. The same thing can be said for Division II and Division III College Football, which has the larger playoff format most people are pushing for. Meanwhile Ohio State and Oklahoma have agreed to play a 3rd place game and Ohio State is already up 28-0 before the game started. Hopefully the Championship game is a little more competitive.
I don’t even know what to say anymore about UCLA Basketball. They lost at home to Cal State Fullerton. UCLA should NEVER lose to Fullerton. Now Coach Mick Cronin issued an apology to all the fans for the poor defense that they played Saturday. However, it’s actually their offense that is far more offensive to watch. Cronin is basically saying he doesn’t have enough talent. He also said he plans on talking to Chip Kelly and borrowing some of his football players to work on post defense with his players in practice. That’s like asking Chris Brown for advice on domestic abuse prevention. Kelly’s players have no talent, and they sure don’t win. Things look like they are going to get worse in Westwood before they get better.
For those of you that missed it, Dodger free agent pitcher Rich Hill and his wife were arrested at a Patriots game last week. This arrest makes him a great candidate for the Astros to sign, since it’s pretty much a requirement to have a criminal record to play for them. This also validates the “Dick Mountain” nickname he gave himself for being so ballsy. Have you seen Hill get angry and throw water coolers when he gets removed from a regular season game by Andrew Friedman’s computer? Imagine what he did to those cops if he did that to a water cooler. Probably took the whole squad to take him down.
OJ Simpson Twitter is still great for jokes that simply write themselves. OJ’s latest Twitter debacle was after he won his fantasy football championship, and showed up on social with a belt hours later. I’m beginning to think the league doesn’t really exist because it usually take a while to get your league’s belt or trophy if you win. Juice got his hands on it like he was given the Stanley Cup, which seems unlikely. Kirk Cousins should be a little nervous since OJ thinks he nearly “murdered” his chances. Clearly, OJ is still “killing” the competition. But seriously though: who would play in a Fantasy Football League with OJ, let alone invite him to one?
Christmas comes early for The Juice. Super Bowl Champ. pic.twitter.com/o5KNuu3Eaf
— O.J. Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) December 24, 2019
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Jesus: The Silent Years
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The Evacuation to Egypt, Matt 2:13; the 6 Annunciations; Gabriel Instructs Joseph to Leave Bethlehem with 3 Imperatives: Take, Leave, & Stay; Magi’s Gifts Underwrite the Sojourn to Egypt; Herod Prepares His Squad of Assassins
May 2, 2010 View Class
John’s Double Entendre in Rev 12:1–4: the Satanic Plot to Assassinate Messiah & the Attempted Holocaust in the Tribulation; Jeremiah’s Description of Jewish Negative Volition in the Tribulation, Jer 30:4–7
Charles Feinberg on “That Day” in Jer 30:4–6; Gabriel’s Mandate to Joseph, Matt 2:13; Comparison of Imperatives vs. Responses; Joseph’s Integrity Part of God’s Choosing Him as Legal Father of Jesus; Evacuation from Palestine; Magi’s Gifts Underwrite Egyptian Excursion; Jewish Blindness to Messiah’s Presence, v. 14
Joseph Takes Jesus into Protective Custody & Evacuates Bethlehem for Egypt, Matt 2:14; Documenting the Death of Herod in 1 B.C., v. 15; Joseph Not Only Had the Davidic Bloodline but also the Integrity to Be Legal Father of Jesus; Jesus Was Prophesied to Come out from Egypt, Hosea 11:1
Scene Change: Herod’s Rhetorical Veil Exposed: He Learns of the Magi’s Deception; His Chronic Bitterness Billows into Explosive Anger, Orders Hit Squad to Slaughter the Innocents of Bethlehem; Effort to Assassinate Jesus Violates Invisible War’s Rules of Engagement, Matt 2:16
May 23, 2010 View Class
Herod’s Explosive Anger & the Release of His Assassins; Apostello: Those Who Give Orders & Those that Carry Them Out are Equally Guilty; the “Slaughter of the Innocents,” Herod’s Grotesque Death-Shadowed Valley, Matt 2:16; Fulfillment of Jeremiah’s Prophecy: Rachel Weeps for the Slaughter of Innocents by Nebuchadnezzar, Jer 31:15, & by Herod, Matt 2:17–18
The Death of Herod and Return to Israel: Recalculating the Date of Herod’s Death: W. E. Filmer, David Beyer, & Jack Finegan from Josephus’s Antiquities pre 1544, Matt 2:19; Clues to When the Holy Family Left Egypt for Israel, Luke 2:39–43
Gabriel Orders Joseph to Return to Israel, Matt 2:20; Joseph Immediately Responds: He Follows the Coastal Route Back to Gaza, v. 21; News that Archelaus Rules Judea Makes Joseph Hesitate to Go There, v. 22a; Augustus Makes Archelaus Ethnarch
The Life & Crimes of Archelaus; His Banishment to France; Joseph Hesitates to Return to Bethlehem & His Fourth Dream: Go to Galilee, Matt 2:22; the Philology of “Nazareth”: Jesus Is the Branch, Isa 11:1; Matt 2:23
Timeline from the Lord’s Birth to Settling in Nazareth: Tracking the Scribal Error in Josephus’s Antiquities; Herod died in 1 B.C.; Jesus Was 10-months Old on His Arrival in Nazareth, Luke 2:39–43; Jesus at Age 12: Discusses Doctrine with the Rabbis, vv. 46–47; Mary’s Anxiety over Jesus’ Absence, vv. 48–49
June 13, 2010 View Class
The Boy Jesus Asserts His Undiminished Deity in Response to His Anxious Mother’s Concern, Luke 2:49; He Places Himself in Continuous Subordination to Joseph & Mary, v. 51; the Hypostatic Union Defined
Introduction to the Doctrine of Kenosis: The True Humanity of Christ Could Not Rely on His Divine Attributes in the Execution of the Prototype Plan; Definition of Kenoo; the Doctrine of Kenosis: “Keep on thinking this”; the Mind-set of Jesus, Phil 2:1–4
Review: “Keep on thinking this.” Phil 2:1–5a; You Cannot Think What You Do Not Have in Your Soul; Good Decisions Are Based on Resident Doctrine, Habitual Recall, & Consistent Application
Spiritual Combat: The Dark Side v. the Light; Ignorance of Truth Gives False Teachers the Advantage; Doctrine Is the Antidote, Phil 2:5; the Deity of Christ: He Does Not Use Divine Attributes in the Prototype System, v. 6
The Humility of Christ in Agreeing to Add to His Person the Essence of True Humanity, Phil 2:6b; the Hypostatic Union Defined; Nonuse of Divine Attributes in the Prototype Spiritual Life Imperative for Our Salvation, v. 7a
The Prototype Divine Dynasphere; the Great Power Experiment: Can Jesus Remain Sinless without Use of His Divine Attributes? False Definitions of the Hypostatic Union; Impeccability Confirmed by the Resurrection
July 11, 2010 View Class
The Prototype Divine Dynasphere: Hypostatic Union, Rom 1:3–4; Eph 1:19–20; the Necessity for Kenosis During the Incarnation; the Lord’s Sovereign Decision to Deprive Himself of the Use of Divine Attributes; Phil 2:7; Kenosis Illustrated
The Lord Takes on the Status of a Bondservant by Taking of True Humanity, Phil 2:7; the Development of the Doctrine of the Hypostatic Union: the Church Councils & the Creed of the Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451)
Doctrine of the Humiliation of Christ: The Concept of Humiliation: an Anthropopathism; Kenosis: Restriction of Independent Use of Divine Attributes; the Imperfection of Man Demands a Divine Solution: Christ Our Mediator; the Glorification of Jesus at Session, John 7:38–39; Acts 3:13
Eight Problem-Solving Devices in the Prototype; Posse non Peccare: Able not to Sin: Jesus’ Volition Vulnerable to Temptation; Kenosis & Evidence Testing: Doctrine Provided Effective Defense, Matt 4:1–4
General Characteristics of the Divine Dynasphere: (1) Purpose: Glorify Christ, (2) Objective: Spiritual Maturity, (3) Policy: Grace, (4) Protocol: Obedience, (5) System: Virtue First
General Characteristics of the Divine Dynasphere: (6) Point of Reference: the Love of God, (7) Authority: the Word of God, (8) Result: Personal Sense of Destiny, & (9) an Enemy: Cosmos Diabolicus
August 1, 2010 View Class
Kenosis Demands the Lord Grow in Grace in His True Humanity; His Humiliation: Becoming a Bondslave; Trichotomous at Physical Birth: Body, Heb 10:5, Soul, Isa 53:11, & Spirit, Isa 11:1–2; Luke 23:46
Physical Illustrations of Hupostasis: Light: Particles & Waves & Oil & Vinegar; Kenosis Defined; Shekinah Glory Disclosed, Matt 17:1–2; Glory Unveiled Permanently at the Session, Heb 1:2–3; Function of the Hypostatic Union During the Incarnation
Jesus: Non Posse Peccare; God Tests but Does Not Tempt; Christ Was Tempted by the Devil & the World but Did Not Sin, Heb 4:15; the Soul’s Ménage à Trois in James 1:13–15
Jesus’ Appearance Considered as a Man by the Romans, Phil 2:8; His Humiliation on the Cross: Details on Crucifixion, Imputation of Our Sins & Their Judgment, & Loss of Fellowship with the Father, Matt 27:46; Isa 53:12; 1 Pet 2:24; By His Wounds We are Healed, Isa 53:5; Unity in the Church, Phil 2:1–5
August 22, 2010 View Class
Review of Philippians 2:1–8; the Humiliation of Christ: Obedience to the Salvation Plan of God inside the Prototype, v. 8b; E–mail from a Dorito
Kenosis Required the Lord’s Obedience to Be Learned inside the Prototype, Heb 5:8; Glory Veiled & Glory Restored, John 17:5; Necessity for the Humanity of Christ: (1) to Be Our Savior, (2) to Be Our Mediator, (3) to Be Our High Priest
Necessity for the Humanity of Christ: (4) to Be the Son of David; the Two Genealogies: Joseph’s in Matt 1, Mary’s in Luke 3; Prophecies of the Line of Christ through Abraham, Judah, & David; Definitions: Hypostatic Union & Kenosis; The Silent Years: Conjecture; “Proof” Passages: Maybe, Maybe Not: Luke 4:16, 22; Matt 54–56
“Proof” Passages: Maybe, Maybe Not: Jesus in Nazareth, Matt 13:57–58; John the Baptist, Mal 3:1 cf. John 1:15, 23, 30–31, 33–34; Philip & Nathanael, John 1:44–48
September 5, 2010 View Class
The Silent Years: About Glastonbury: Joseph of Arimathea in Glastonbury: Source Articles: The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1926; The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1979; The Leading Facts of English History, 1923; The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia, 1956; The Oxford Guide to People & Places of the Bible, 2001; The Traditions of Glastonbury, 1982
The Silent Years: Joseph of Arimathea: The Biblical Perspective: Claims the Body of Jesus; Removes Remains from the Cross; Prepares for Burial with Nicodemus; Inters in His Own Tomb, Matt 27:57–60; Mark 15:43–46; Luke 23:50–53; John 19:38–42; Joseph of Arimathea: The Secular Perspective: Talmud: Joseph Was Mary’s Uncle & Her Protector Once Widowed; Biblical Definition of a Widow, 1 Tim 5:3–4, 9
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September 12, 2010 View Class
Joseph of Arimathea: The Secular Perspective: Documentation of Rome’s Tin Supply in England; First-Century Sea Routes; Joseph Was a Metals Merchant for Rome; The Traditions: The Harlein Collection: Jesus at Cornwall: Jesus’ Well, Place Manor Church, & Tunic Crosses
The Traditions: Jesus at Avalon, aka Glastonbury: Jesus’ Wattle House; Ten References He Built the Church in Avalon: Domus Dei; The Education of Messiah: Evidences of Higher Education Available in England; His Speaking Skills Different from that Taught the Rabbis; The Tradition Continues: William Blake’s “Jerusalem,” Its Performance at Last Night of the Proms: London, 1994
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Paxton and Kelsey in the San Juan Islands August 2011
It was decided that Paxton would be crew for the trip to the San Juans and Roche Harbor, and that Kelsey would crew for the trip back. Paxton came over to the house on Monday evening and we discussed our travel plans for tomorrow and the two days following. Linda dropped us off at the marina around 7:30 and we had breakfast and stowed our gear. Paxton was going to handle the lines and fenders during docking or leaving the dock, and he would also back me up on the helm when I needed a break. We untied and motored over to the fuel dock at Breakwater to top off Helios' diesel tank and the gas tank for the dinghy and its spare. We were underway for Poulsbo by 8:30. The water was smooth with the wind less than 5 knots so we didn't even take the sail covers off, (a common theme for the trip.) We arrived in Liberty Bay and the Poulsbo Marina a little after noon, and Don Foss from TYC was there so we pulled in next to him and he took the line from Paxton. We got all settled in our slip and the marina paid and it was time to walk through town. Paxton was giving me a hard time about being Norwegian after seeing one of the stores describing the upcoming slug hunt and the availability of slug hunting licenses. We decided upon the Hare & Hound for lunch with fish & chips for Paxton and a large cheeseburger for me, and root beer for both of us. We walked over to Sluy's Bakery for dessert, which we brought back to the boat to eat. Paxton dropped the kayak in the water to paddle around the marina, while I visited with Don and Paul & Leslie Brantner from TYC.
Paxton and I were up for my coffee and his cocoa and then breakfast. We listened to the weather forecast and made our decision to travel up the eastside of Whidbey Island, since the winds were supposed to be 30+ knots in the eastern part of Juan de Fuca. Once again the wind gods were somewhere else, as we had winds of 2 knots. We motored over to Everett and were tied to the dock with everything settled by 3. We both had showers and then an early dinner at Anthony's Woodfire Restaurant, and back to Helios for a couple of movies, Jaws & Heartbreak Ridge. We were to bed later than planned but we will sleep some other time.
We were up at 7 for breakfast and coffee for me, and were untied and on our way by a little after 8. We needed to arrive at the southern entrance of the Swinomish Channel around 1:30-2:00 P.M., so we alternated using the engines and moved along around 5.5-6 knots. There was plenty of water with the lowest reading under the keels being 6 feet. We were tied up at the end tie of Q dock at Cap Santee by 3:45 P.M. Paxton had called for a slip while we were traversing the channel. We used the dinghy to get over the office and check in. We got back to Helios and we washed the deck with Paxton doing most of the work. We had dinner at the new Anthony's and were entertained by the chef cooking the seafood, while we sat at bar seats overlooking his grill. It was back to Helios and Jaws 2 before heading off to bed.
We were up a little after 7, had breakfast and coffee. The fog had limited visibility but we had a schedule to meet. Helios was underway by 8:30 and moving slowly through the fog, with visibility down to 100-150 yards. The AIS and radar were providing a sense of security by showing where the Washington State Ferries and the tugs with tows were. We got across Rosario Strait and through Thatcher Pass before the fog started to lift. We motored up Harney Channel and through the Wasp Islands to San Juan Channel and Roche Harbor. We anchored over in front of the Seattle outstation, and took the dinghy over to the docks. We were on the docks around 2, only to find out through a text from Grandma that the schedule had been pushed back because of the fog in Seattle. The estimated time of arrival was close to 4, so Paxton and I had plenty of time to walk the docks and ended up sitting in the waiting chairs for Kenmore Air and watching the moving circus of boats trying to get to the Customs Dock so they could check in to the U.S.A. Grandma and Kelsey came in on a Beaver with four other passengers and we walked up to Dominique’s to have the dry flower arrangement ordered. We then headed back to the dinghy and Helios. The anchor was raised with a huge amount of eel grass. We were underway for the 3.5 miles trip to Reid Harbor, where we dropped anchor and settled in for the night. The grandkids and I took a ride down to the dinghy dock and back, and before we left Kelsey took try at starting the motor on the dinghy and it started. After the dinghy ride the kayak went in the water and Paxton and Kelsey paddled around various parts of the anchorage. We had hamburgers and fruit for dinner and then Kelsey started watching a Bones episode, while Paxton and I played a couple of games of Chronology. After the games we watched another episode of Bones with Kelsey and then it was time for bed.
Paxton and Kelsey using the dinghy and the kayak in Reid Harbor on Stuart Island
Linda and I were up a little after seven, while the grandkids were still sleeping. It was a quiet time for coffee and reading. They got up when Linda started breakfast. It was a nice day and we were in the dinghy on our way to the dock for a little walking to stretch the legs. We walked over to the Prevost side and while Paxton and Kelsey walked along the edge of the shore we watched them and the other people on the dock. Paxton decided to take the East Loop Trail up to the top of the bluff for the view, while the rest of us waited on the pier, watching two people fairly new to sail-boarding try to improve their skills. We all got in the dinghy for a trip to Gossip Island at the head of the harbor, with Kelsey driving. It was a little windy but the view was outstanding. Kelsey got us all back to Helios, and then she and Paxton were out in the dinghy.
We retreated to the cockpit and pull down the side curtains to enjoy a nice afternoon. Paxton gave dinghy rides and tours to all of us during the afternoon. Kelsey and I started up again of Mexican dominoes and she dominated me for three games, and then Paxton joined in and she be both of us twice before he managed to eke out a win. We had decided to spend another night rather than raise anchor find someplace new and drop anchor again. It was getting close to dinnertime, so it was time to hoist the dinghy into position, with Kelsey and I handling the and with the motor and Paxton handling the bow. We had steak for dinner and then it was time for some more Mexican dominoes with the four of us playing. Kelsey continued to win the majority of the games. A little later we moved inside to watch some NCI S episodes before heading to bed.
Linda and I were up early for coffee and a little quiet time before the grandkids got up. After they were up and had breakfast and Kelsey had done some of her summer homework, it was time to raise the anchor and head towards Fisherman's Bay. It wasn't a very long trip and we had to be careful entering as it is fairly shallow. We were tied up in our slip by two o'clock in the afternoon. And the kids were anxious to try out the swimming pool. After little time in the pool. It was time to walk back to Helios for a late lunch. We walked the docks looking at the other boats in the Marina. The grandkids got their nets out at a bucket to see what they could catch from the dock.
Looking across Fishermen's Bay to the Isthmus that separates Fishermen's Bay from the channel, leading to cattle pass
After the grandkids returned the four of us played Mexican dominoes and Kelsey continued to be the major winner with Paxton I jumping in every now and then to breaker streaks. It was baked chicken with sesame ginger for dinner with corn, and then after everything was cleaned up a walk around the docks. It was a couple of episodes of Rizzoli & Isles before bed.
We awoke to sunshine and calm waters and Linda and I got up around 7, letting the Grandkids sleep until they were ready to get up. Kelsey was up first with Paxton about 10 minutes later. We had breakfast and then while Kelsey was doing her reading for school, Paxton and I took the garbage up to the dumpsters. When everyone was ready we went over to the bike rental place. Kelsey and I were on a tandem, while Paxton and Linda opted for two singles since Linda would have to drive on a tandem. We headed to Lopez Village and parked the bikes and walked around the various stores. We found the Soda Fountain and had some sundaes, before moving on to the other stores. The Fudge Factory was a great place to stop, as was the store with the jigsaw puzzles. We finally made our way back to the bikes and headed back. I provided the entertainment when I was trying to dismount at the bike rental place and got one leg hung up on the handlebar set behind my seat. We were back to the boat to have the grandkids change into swimsuits and it was 2 hours in the pool. We were back for dinner and then I took the grandkids back to the pool. While they were swimming I took a shower and then they both did when they were done swimming around 8. We walked back to the boat for a little settling down and a couple of episodes of Bones.
This puzzle has a sea lion giving the Lopez Island wave. Kelsey was the first one to put it together.
Linda and I were up around 7:30 and the grandkids by 8. We had breakfast, filled the water tank and got ready to get underway. We were out of Fisherman’s Bay a little after 10 and through Upright Channel to Obstruction Pass. We went up the East side of Orcas but not enough wind to sail and the current was against us. We found a mooring buoy in Ewing Cove. We all loaded up in the dinghy to go pay for the moorage and then the grandkids donned their wetsuits for a little swimming. The swimming didn’t last very long with the water temp being 10 degrees colder than Wollochet or Oro Bay. After the swimming we gathered on the foredeck to warm up. Grandma brought out the deck chairs and cockpit seats and we sat in the sun. A little later we had a snack and then it was time for a tour of the East end of Sucia Island, with Kelsey driving the dinghy. We started by going through the pass at the head of Ewing Cove and around the north side of Ewing Island. We then headed over to Fossil Bay looking at the channels between North and South Finger Islands and South Finger Island and Sucia Island, with a quick look into Snoring Bay, before entering Fossil Bay. I think there might have been more boats in Fossil Bay than Echo Bay. We came back via the channel between South Finger Island and Sucia Island, across Echo Bay and through the rocks to Ewing Cove and Helios. I played a game of Chronology with the Grandkids while Linda got dinner ready. After dinner we watched “Wild Hogs” as it was Paxton’s choice for the evening. After the movie is was almost 10 and we all gathered back on the foredeck to look at stars and we even saw a couple of shooting stars. Everyone headed to bed after stargazing.
Looking towards obstruction Pass with Mount Baker in the background, and fog in the southern portion of Rosario Strait after clearing obstruction Pass
The 3 pictures above and 2 below were taken at Sucia Island, where we moored in Ewing Cove.
On the left - "You First", On the right - "Both Together"
Linda and I were up a little after 7 and thought it was warm enough in the boat that we didn’t need the heat turned on to remove the chill. It was a little rocky with the high tide being at 8 and boats leaving in the morning. We had pancakes and bacon for breakfast and then got ready to leave and do some sailing. When we got out between Sucia and Orcas the wind was 10 from the East so up went the main sail and we rolled out the Code 0. Our best speed was around 6 before the wind gradually died. We put the sails away at the bottom of Waldron Island and motored towards eastern tip of Speiden Island and then Roche Harbor. When we got into Speiden Channel the wind was 14 knots coming up the channel behind us and the current was helping also, so we were making 9 knots. The run was too short to get the crew to put the sails back up and there was a lot of traffic, so the water was very sloppy. We arrived in Roche Harbor to find no crab pots today and our end tie slip one pier back on “I” dock from where we were a month ago. The grandkids jumped into the kayak to paddle over to the swimming pool, but returned with the news that you had to be over 14, or accompanied by an adult. I went over in the dinghy with them, while Linda straightened up Helios. They played in the pool while I read a magazine until Linda walked over, and Paxton decided he had enough. He had showered and was ready to go back, so he and I jumped in the dinghy. I saw Rod Tayet and Nini on their sailboat, which is moored across the way from Helios’ moorage in Breakwater. We pulled up and talked much longer than Paxton wanted, I’m sure. We headed back when the dock boys said a boat was coming in and we would have to move. When we got back the girls were already there. We relaxed around the cockpit and then took a dock walk to look at boats. We only did half the marina leaving the other half for tomorrow. We got back had hamburgers for dinner with some fruit and then walked up to the head of the dock while the flag lowering ceremony was happening. We got to the ice cream stand for dessert only to find out neither Linda or I had brought enough money, so she walked back while I watched Paxton and Kelsey play bocce ball. We had our ice cream and walked back to Helios and an evening movie, “Fools Gold”, after which we all went to bed.
We were up a little later than usual and we both had coffee and discussed today’s logistics and then Kelsey was up and Paxton shortly thereafter, in time for breakfast. Our plan was to leave on the bus around 10:30. We were ahead of schedule and caught the earlier shuttle bus, and were in Friday Harbor by 10:30. We walked around the various shops and bought small fishing rods and gear for the Grandkids, T-shirt & Hat for Grandpa and a visor for Kelsey. I saw a beautiful gold orca ring at Dan Levin’s Jewelry Store. We took the 1:00 shuttle back to Roche Harbor and Kelsey and I did a page of math, (multiplying fractions,) while Linda and Paxton washed the deck. I went with the grandkids to the pool and Linda went up to the store to pick up her flower arrangement. The kids swam until around 6 and we headed back to get ready for dinner.
We walked up to the more causal restaurant called, Madrona. We were seated outside next to the railing. While we were eating, one of the employees was finishing his last shift of the summer, and two of the other guys picked him up and carried him over and dumped him into the water off the railing of the pier to the old dock. After dinner we walked down the old dock to look at boats but the girls wanted to head back to the boat to get some warmer clothes for the flag lowering ceremony. We walked back up and got some ice cream for dessert and the ceremony. The cannon salute caught the girls off guard; however, the ceremony was very nice. We started to walk down one of the fingers that we hadn’t checked out, but we decided it was time to head back to the boat as things were cooling off rapidly. We started “Sleepless in Seattle”, Kelsey’s choice, after they tried fishing at dusk. About halfway through the movie Kelsey was falling asleep, and Paxton had already bailed, so it was time for bed.
Linda and I were up at 7 for coffee and quiet time. We aren’t sure where we will end up for the evening. After breakfast the grandkids headed to the dinghy dock by the pool in the dinghy, and I walked up with a little shopping list. I talked with one of the dock helpers about staying another night, but wanted to talk with Linda before a final decision. She agreed and went to pay for another night, and then we walked up to the stores. We each found something in the store and then it was back to Helios and the kids changed into swimsuits with tops and took the dinghy back to the pool dinghy dock, and when they were done fishing they would call so one or both Linda and I could come over to get them into the pool area. Linda puttered on the boat while I walked the docks looking at boats, and ran into new members of TYC, Ken and Edie Gordon on Kokomo. They had joined last month and will be presented to the club at the September meeting. The grandkids called around 4:30 and Linda and I walked over with kindle and magazine to pass the time. Paxton was done first around 6 and Kelsey shortly afterwards. While they showered to rinse off the chlorine, Linda walked back to get dinner started and I came with the kids in the dinghy. We played Mexican Train Dominos in the cockpit until dinner was ready, and then it was a quick walk to the ice cream stand for dessert before it closed, and a little more Mexican Train Dominos in the cockpit while eating ice cream. We adjourned to the cabin to watch a couple episodes of Bones and it was time for bed.
Paxton using stern mooring line as a tightrope
Linda and I were up before 7 for coffee and quiet time. I think we will try and leave a little early and stop by English Camp, will see. We were finished with breakfast by 9:30 and Paxton took up the garbage and helped me fill the water tank. He rolled up the power cords and Kelsey started the engines to warm them up. We pulled away from the dock at 10 headed for Deer Harbor. It was a short trip helped by the fact it was almost high tide, so we could leave through the opening on the east end of Pearl Island, which eliminates about a mile of travel, and the lowest reading with a 5’ tide was 6’, or 10’ to the surface. The current was already flowing west so we hugged the San Juan shoreline for a little relief. We pulled into Deer Harbor a little after 11 and the dock was busy. The guys on the dock asked me to wait while they figured out what they were going to do. We motored by our outstation and saw that there was only one boat there, so we pulled in and tied up. Ron and Sharon Hegewald were there. I notified the marina that we would be at the outstation, and they said fine, since they were turning away people. The grandkids were anxious to swim, so they went swimming for awhile came back for lunch. While we were gone Steve Felton in Wiki Wiki side-tied to Helios. They returned to the pool and swam until 6 when we went back for dinner, and then it was time for ice cream for dessert and a walk of the docks to look at boats. We came back and played some Mexican Train Dominos and I talked with Steve a little. He has his boat up for sale and is buying Roger Rue’s Penn Station, a 44 Hylas. We adjourned to the cabin for a couple episodes of Bones before bed.
Linda and I were up at 7 for coffee and quiet time. This is our last day together as the girls fly out on Kenmore air at 3. I think Paxton and I will go to Garrison Bay for the evening, as it will give us a good start for crossing the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The plans were made in sand once again. The weather isn’t going to hold so we are going to Hunter Bay. The grandkids were up and read to swim after breakfast and we were at the pool until after 12. We stopped at the small grill restaurant on the dock to place our lunch orders. Paxton and I waited for the orders while Linda and Kelsey headed back to the boat. We hung around the boat until it was time to walk over to the Kenmore dock for the plane, which was a few minutes late. Paxton and I were back at Helios getting ready to go to Hunter Bay on the southeast corner of Lopez Island. It was about a 2 hour trip under power, as the wind was variable and usually on the nose. We dropped the anchor in 22 feet of water. Paxton and I planned Monday’s travel and had dinner watching an episode of Rizzoli & Isles. We watched Bullet and then it was time for bed.
I was up at 6:30 to gray skies and a light mist. The diesel heater didn’t want to work this morning, so it looks like I have another project. We are hoping to be underway by 8 and through Deception Pass before 10 and on our way to Everett. Paxton was locking the anchor into place as the clock went from 7:59 to 8:00. The wind continued to build as we headed towards Deception Pass; however, the waves hadn’t time to build. We had gusts of 23-25 through the pass, and fairly steady in the 15-20 all the way to Oak Harbor. The motor down to Everett was long and boring, with various motor vessels passing us, along with dodging the purse seiners. We were tied up to the dock in Everett at 3:37 in the rain. We got all the power on and the heaters running, including the hot water heater and after 15-20 minutes Paxton showered, then I showered. We walked up to the Woodfire Restaurant, stopping to pay our moorage fee at the check in box. Paxton had his favorite appetizer of hard little breads with a bowl of baked 4 cheeses with pecans on top, while I had the calamari. We had light meals, pizza for Pax and fish and chips for me, so there would be room for dessert. After dinner we walked back to one episode of Rizzoli & Isles and then Bloodwork with Clint. It was still early enough that I introduced him to an episode of Highlander, and then it was off to bed.
I awoke because of a thump hitting the hull. I got up looked through the windows, didn’t see anything and set about making coffee. I noticed the battery bank drop when I started the coffeepot and checked the power cables, and one had come loose. I plugged it back in and everything was fine. I think we will leave sometime between 9-10 today. We left at 9:30 and had to motor all the way to Poulsbo, as the most wind we saw was 6 knots on the nose and most of the time it was less than 3 knots. We pulled into the fuel dock to top off and get assigned a slip, and we took the one behind the office, where we had been before. It was a little tight getting in but we managed. We got the power hooked up and headed uptown to walk around. We stopped in the marine store looking for ball bearings no luck. Paxton wanted them for his monkey fist knots. We stopped at Sluy’s Bakery for an afternoon snack and then hung out on the boat until time to go to dinner. Paxton has been whipping the end of various lines on the boat. The Woodfire Pizzeria was our choice for dinner. The movie for the evening was Clint’s “Line of Fire” and then it was off to bed.
We were up at 8 and Paxton went up to the bakery for our breakfast. There is no wind and low tide was 7:46. We pulled out of the marina around 10:30 and motored all the way through Rich Passage. After we cleared the WSF lanes and were a little north of Blake Island, we put up the main sail and the code 0. The wind was primarily from the north and we started out on a port jibe headed towards the Fauntleroy Ferry dock. We were sailing along at 5 knots and after jibing we adjusted the code 0 tack over to the starboard ama and were able to sail 150 degrees on the apparent wind and still be moving above half the wind speed. We had one section after rounding Point Robinson where we were moving at 7.5-8.0 knots. The commercial traffic forced us over to the mouth of Quartermaster where the wind shadow drops the wind to less than 4 knots and we furled the sails. We tied up at our home slip in Breakwater at 6:30 and Linda arrived shortly thereafter to take us home. It was a great trip.
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2012 SUMMER CRUISE WITH FOCUSED
GULF ISLANDS - BRITISH COLUMBIA
We had untied Helios from her slip and motored out of Breakwater about 2 in the afternoon on Friday. Joe and Cheryl Guizzetti on Focused were motoring from Thea Foss to meet us. Since we had somewhat of a timeline there was no sailing in the light air, as we motored up Colvos Passage to Eagle Harbor. It was a help for Saturday's long day of travel to be able to complete 20 on Friday afternoon. We arrived at the outstation and 3 TYC members were there already, and they helped tie up Helios and Focused. The next day we had planned on traveling to the new outstation at Coronet Bay next to Deception Pass, which was 55 miles away. The Hendersons and Flatens were headed directly to the San Juans, while Roger & Sue Williams were also going to the Deception Pass outstation. We were out and on our way at 7:30. We had the ebb helping us as we made our way up the east side of Bainbridge Island to the top, where we crossed over and headed towards Edmonds. It was just after Edmonds that the ebb worked against us all the way to the southern entrance to the Swinomish Channel. As we approached Coronet Bay the flood current coming through Deception Pass slowed us considerably. There is a long narrow channel to follow to enter the Deception Pass Marina, where the TYC outstation is located. We decided to have Focused go first with the ability to maneuver in tight places with the bow thruster. They were able to tie up and call us to let us know that we would be across from them on an empty slip. The next day was a short day of travel with our destination being Spencer Spit off Lopez Island, 20 miles away. We had planned to leave later in the morning and use the declining ebb to help us and then the flood up Rosario Strait for assistance, but we left early when there was a question about enough water under the keels while at the outstation. It was a foggy, drizzly day as I led the way and as Helios and Focused went over to anchor on the south side of the spit, Sojourn continued on to Roche Harbor. As it turned out this was the worst weather we would have for the entire trip, and after a long dinghy ride, both couples snuggled in with the heat on for a cozy evening. The rainbow in the picture was taken after our dinghy ride.
We had a little wind from the south over the night, but we had a solid bite with the anchor and had no problems. We pushed back our departure to 9:30 and headed for Bedwell Harbour. I had called and reserved two slips for us at Poet's Cove Marina on South Pender Island, which is right next to the Custom's Dock in Bedwell Harbour. Joe and Cheryl have Nexus cards so they cleared Canadian Customs with a phone call, while Linda and I cleared in person. It was only 22 miles of travel so we had most of the afternoon to walk around the Poet's Cove Resort. We also caught up on a few clean up details, with Joe cleaning his mast climbing line, which had a little mildew. You can see from the picture that was very convenient with Helios and Focused right across the finger pier from each other.
We slept very well and were up at 7:30 for coffee. Linda read while I checked the weather and updated this blog. We decided to stay until the official departure time of noon, when we pointed the bows towards Montague Harbour about 15 miles away. It was an easy trip with the Canadian ferries providing the only excitement as we made sure we were out of their way. We arrived at Montague at 2 and set about finding the perfect anchorage for our boats. After we were anchored Linda and I put the dinghy in the water and as I held on to the toe rail and rub rail Linda washed and scrubbed the waterline. We headed over to Focused after we were done and picked up Joe and Cheryl for a trip to the store at the marina. Cheryl and I had ice cream then we all loaded back in the dinghy for a trip over to the Provincial Park, where we tied up the dinghy to the dock and walked up into the campground for a view of the anchorage. We then took the dinghy for a tour of the boats in the anchorage, before ending up back at Focused to drop off Joe and Cheryl. We headed back to get our chicken and wine for dinner and then were back at Focused where Joe grilled and we ate. We sat around after dinner and talked and watched the sunset. Linda and I were back at Helios a little before 10 and it was time for bed. We are planning on leaving around 10 tomorrow for Telegraph Harbour Marina on Thetis Island.
We were up at 6 to clear blue sky and seeing the sun hit the tree tops of the surrounding hills. I fired up the diesel heater and Helios was warm and cozy. We had coffee and discussed possible stops for our cruise to give Joe and Cheryl a flavor of various stops. We had the anchor up by 10 and were moving northward towards Telegraph Harbour. We were just off the southwest corner of Wallace Island when the Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft made and appearance. It was moving at almost 40 knots. It was tending the red marker buoy on that corner. We were tied up at Telegraph Harbour by 1 and were across the dock from each other. We were at the north end of the pier farthest out. I helped Joe mark the anchor chain for Focused with different colored rubber inserts from Imtra, and Linda and Cheryl walked over to the "Honor Store" and bought some bread. Upon their return we put the dinghy in the water and motored over to Thetis Island Marina to see what the little store had available. We then headed through the "Cut" to Clam Bay and motored around looking at the various boats at anchor. We got back, and since we had the end of the dock to ourselves, set up our chairs and Joe's portable table for dinner. We stayed outside visiting until after sunset and a few bugs started to come out to join us.
We slept in until 7 and had coffee and breakfast, then showers. It was time to start a new day. We decided to walk to the ferry terminal and take a ride over to Chemainus and see the wall murals on the downtown buildings. The walk gave us a little exercise as it was up and down hills for about 20 minutes. The ferry ride was about 25 minutes and dropped you off real close to the downtown area. We stopped at Barnacle Barney’s for a large lunch, so dinner would be snacks, wine and conversation. The lunch was very good. We spent about 2 hours walking around town looking at the murals and various shops and then caught the 5:00 ferry back to Thetis Island. The walk back was a little warm, but there was more downhill than uphill. We settled in and set up the chairs on the dock with the foldable table scaled down for snacks. The bugs started visiting around sunset so we moved back aboard our boats.
We decided to head to Nanaimo and called to see if reservations could be made for tonight to go with ours for tomorrow and the answer was yes. We sailed for about an hour and then it was time to motor to Dodd Narrows before the ebb was too strong against us. As we were approaching Dodd Narrows we were hailed on the VHF by Mike Hoffman on Lady Hawk, who was headed south. They had spent last night in Nanaimo. We had about 1.5-2.0 knots against us as we made our way through Dodd Narrows, but there were no problems. We came into Nanaimo and contacted Cameron Marina on VHF 67 and they were there on the docks to help tie up Helios, and then Focused. There was plenty of power and water, so Joe and Linda got the hoses out to wash the salt off the boats. After Focused and Helios got their baths, it was time for an exploratory walk around the esplanade of the waterfront and an early dinner. We went to the Bistro Pub and got a table outside on the veranda to watch the going on of the marina while having dinner. After dinner the temperature had gone down and the wind continued, so we were back to the boats and then to Helios’ enclosed cockpit for an evening get together, and after sunset we retired to Helios and Focused for a quiet evening.
We were up at 6:30 for coffee and to watch the activity of the boats leaving or going to the fuel dock. We had breakfast and I jumped in the shower, and then we started a load of clothes in the washing machine. It is good to use it 3 or 4 times a year. Joe was back around 11 from a morning walk and Cheryl was done with her chores about the same time. We left the dock in groups with Joe and me heading to the marine store and Linda and Cheryl to the shops downtown, with an agreement to meet for lunch. We had lunch at Penny’s Palapala, which is on the docks and then walked over to the Thrifty Food Store and BC Liquor store to resupply the boats. Then it was time to settle down at the boats for the evening. Cheryl made up some shrimp cocktails which she brought over to Helios and we sat around in the cockpit enjoying the sun. Then they headed back to Focused to cook dinner and we cooked ours and had dinner in Focused cockpit. Then we walked the docks looking at the various boats, including the Sachas from TYC with Sound Harbor. We discussed the departure time for tomorrow and decided that the goal was to cast off lines at 6:30.
We were both off the dock and motoring out by 6:30 with Dodd Narrows 5.5 nm away. There were boats waiting to pass through Dodd Narrows southbound as we approached because a tug and log boom were just clearing in a northward direction. It was an easy motor down to the Sansum Narrows, and Linda had called ahead to reserve space at Dungeness Marina in Cowichan, but we were supposed to arrive around 1 and at our current pace we would be there before noon. We took a side tour to Maple Bay Yacht Club to look at the reciprocal dock, and then looking at Genoa Bay before going over to Dungeness Marina. We tied up on a finger pier with Focused on the opposite side. It was a little bouncy, until the 6 o’clock calm. We walked the one street looking at all the shops, gallery and the one marine store. We made reservations at the Masthead Restaurant and headed back to the boats. We dressed up a little and had a wonderful dinner on the deck overlooking the harbor. We spent the rest of the evening sitting in the cockpit and enjoying the setting sun, before heading to bed.
We were up at 6:30 for coffee and breakfast. Then it was time for showers and getting ready to head out to Ganges. The trip was about 3 hours and we had a difficult time getting into our slip. We had to back in against the wind and it took 3 tries before we were safely tied up, and it was time for Focused, which did a fine job backing into their slip on the opposite side of the finger pier from us. We walked to the downtown area about 10 minutes away. There were numerous shops along with a Thrifty Foods. Joe and I found some stuff to buy at Mouatts Hardware in their marine section. We walked back and the wind was still strong so we all got together in Helios’ cockpit for wine, cheese and crackers. The wind finally lightened and Joe fired up his grill to cook the steaks, and when done we ate in our cockpit, and then waited for the sun to go down and the moon to rise.
The checkout time for the marina was 11, and we pulled out then, with Focused first and then Helios. The trip over to Horton Bay or Winter Cove is only a couple of hours, and we only had to dodge one of the large fast Canadian ferries before entering Navy Channel, which had a positive flow for us on the flooding tide. We decided to check Horton Bay out first and if we didn’t like it, then go to Winter Cove with Port Browning as a backup. Horton Bay was like falling down the rabbit hole, with a current of 3.5-4.0 knots pushing us along and never going below 1 knot in the bay. We talked it over and decided to head over to Winter Cove. We didn’t have a very good SOG with all the current against us, but it was a safe trip. Winter Cove had plenty of anchorage and we both dropped anchor in the southeast portion of the cove. We spent some time straightening and cleaning our boats and then it was time for a dinghy ride. We picked up Joe and Cheryl and crossed over the cove to look at the small boat passage. At first we just passed by the opening and rode the current, but then it seemed that there was enough water over the rocks to pass through, which we did. We headed out to the Belle Islets, which are a bird sanctuary. We saw two mature bald eagles and one that was 2 or 3 years old and had not yet gotten its white head or tail feathers. We also saw a black oystercatcher, with its bright orange legs, feet and beak, along with numerous small birds. There were a large group of seals that didn’t seem that disturbed with our presence, as we kept about 50 yards away and were motoring slowly. We crossed back over to the shoreline of Samuel Island and traveled along it until it was time to ride the current through small boat passage. We motored around the rest of the cove and saw some very shallow spots, but there was enough water that we didn’t touch. We agreed that Focused would grill the dinners, fish for them chicken for us and we would eat in Focused cockpit. Linda and I headed back to Helios to get things ready for dinner and motored back in about an hour. The dinner was great and we sat in the cockpit until the sun set around 9:30 and it was time to head back to Helios.
It was a beautiful morning with bright sunshine and calm water. I made a route from Winter Cove to Friday Harbor and it is 20 miles, which should take us about 3 hours, plus or minus depending upon the currents. We are planning on leaving at 10 which is about an hour before low tide, so we can see all the rocks to avoid.
The anchors were up with plenty of mud and seaweed to be washed off. We motored out into Plumper Bay and then across Boundary Passage and on to Friday Harbor. Joe and Cheryl used the NEXIS program and just called to clear Customs, but we went to the Customs Dock checked in and waited for the Customs Officer to come down and visually inspect the documents. Once she approved the documents then I completed the form to purchase my tab for the year and we were on our way to the fuel dock. We took 78 gallons at $4.03, which isn’t too bad for about 350 miles. With a full tank we tied up in front of Focused along the inside of breakwater “C”, opposite the seaplane dock. We rinsed Helios to get rid of the salt spray and then cleaned up to walk around town. It was a little late for shopping as most of the stores that Linda and Cheryl were interested in were closing, but they have all day tomorrow. Joe and I found King’s Marine, West Marine and ACE Hardware. I bought a handheld depth gauge that will primarily be used in the dinghy. We walked down to “The Place” by the ferry landing and had a wonderful dinner, and then a rather quick walk back in the cooling evening.
We were up a little before 7 for coffee and some reading. There is a light cloud cover, which should burn off as the day goes along. After breakfast the girls got ready and headed to town for a concentrated day of shopping. Joe was going in to find nuts and bolts to mount a winch handle to his mast, so I did some small projects on Helios until Joe got back. He had bought a pound of shrimp, so we split it, put a little cocktail sauce on them and had lunch. After lunch we did a couple of small projects on Focused and then moved to the cockpit for a can of pop and conversation. The girls got back around 3 with shopping bags full. We visited in the cockpit for a while and then decided to move to Helios for snacks and drinks. I put up a couple of beach towels on the starboard side to block the sun and it was very comfortable. We broke up around 6:30 and agreed to meet on Focused at 7 when Joe would have the grill hot and ready. He grilled our hamburgers and their chicken, and then we had dinner in their cockpit. Just before sunset we walked the B-C-D breakwaters looking at boats. It had cooled enough that it was time to head inside, and we said we would be up to help them off tomorrow morning on their way home.
We were up at 6 for coffee. We went out to help Joe and Cheryl and to say good bye. Focused was untied and moving out of the marina by around 7:30. They are going down through Cattle Pass and across Juan de Fuca Strait to Port Ludlow. The currents and wind should make it a quick passage.
It was a quick two weeks and we are already planning in our minds for a trip next year, and various weekends that we can get away in South Sound this summer and fall.
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Comics in other media
Comics etc
By slinker, June 14, 2011 in Comics in other media
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Dr. Orpheus!
Location:Venture Industries Arachnid Research Facility
They are dropping some loot on this. They plan on it running for 6 seasons with 10-12 hour long episodes per season.
http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2011/06/13/hbos-big-budget-american-gods-series-set-to-run-for-six-seasons/
Rogan 176
Queer Eye For The Cam Whore
Location:Belgrade, Serbia
I heard Gaiman is preparing a book sequel, which'll validate the show running for so many seasons.
Christian 906
Location:Brigadoon
I suppose Anansi Boys could be seen as a spin-off rather than any sort of sequel, and that American Gods novella he had published after the novel wasn't a sequel, but he seems to be stretching things.
Still, I wouldn't mind seeing Gaiman return to the American Gods world...but at the same time, I always fear sequels, because they often leave me sad if I hold the original on a pedestal.
I have such fond memories of American Gods, I fear I can't but be let down.
Yeah, and the letdown will probably start right after the initial casting is announced.
Lou K 1,132
POWAH!!!
Not sure they can even get that much material out of American Gods.
I reckon they'll split the book into 2 seasons (possibly three) and then base the remaining seasons on the yet-to-be-published sequel.
Anansi Boys are, I believe, optioned somewhere else and therefore wont enter into the equation.
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Doesn't actually mean lawful nice.
Depends if they do much back story for the various gods. I can see that as being half the entertainment of the show really.
You have all the goodness of the old gods of europe, everyone loves folk stories* then you got all the coolness of the various powers and gods of the "new" America. I think there is room in there for alsorts of excellent episodes, imagine Anansi's back story, you could have it shot normally for the bits where he is telling the stories verbally as stories to Shadow, then fade to painted animation in rich colours for the exciting bits of the stories set in the dreamtime of Africa.
For the New Gods, it wouldn't be so hard to make some sort of cybertech "vision" of them forming out of our daily devotions on the web, at the Casinos, and in front of the TV, would it?.
Man, this could be such a cool series, so much room for innovation and showmanship.
And of course it will do well viewer number wise, if I know one thing about my cousins, it is that shows with "American" in their title, become instant successes in the ratings.
The thing that excites me is the rumored budget of 40 mil for 10 episodes, which is, as far as I can tell, some 3-4 times larger than your average TV show's so, even if they do some bottle episodes or mostly real-world based, their F/X/costume/set design budget should be damn high.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/06/14/american-gods-tv-series-to-draw-on-the-book-we-already-have-and-the-one-neil-gaiman-has-yet-to-write/
All your capital are belong to us
Location:Oslo, Norway
The success of this series will hinge on the casting of Wedensday, IMHO.
I agree with Avaunt. I think back stories will go a long way-even taking up a whole episode here and there.
Besides, if Gaiman's producing it as well, and writing a pilot treatment, he might add some backstories for some of the gods - Chernobog, Ibis etc.
Yeah, I could imagine some spotlight plots in between longer stories detailing a myth about a certain character.
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Token Black Guy
Location:Bklyn, NY
WOW! American Gods HBO series?! I've recall reading the book and thinking if anything, HBO would be the company to possibly pull this off.
Chinese bakery
Location:Beijing
Great, just what we needed - American Gods to be even longer.
Nah, this could be good. Doubt they'll do a Game-of-Thrones-style straight-up adaptation though. Certainly wouldn't expect them to stretch one book over multiple seasons. Strikes me that folks would be more tempted to read the book and tank ratings for the subsequent season if they already know half the story (unlike with GoT, where they have to make the decision to start a whole new book and potentially an entire book series).
It's not like the world of American Gods would be particularly difficult to elaborate for anyway.
Between this, GoT and 100 Bullets, is HBO becoming Nerd Adaptation Theatre?
Nerd adaptation theatre sounds about right, though they seem to have passed on Preacher, which sounded like more of a shoo-in than all of the abovementioned.
But if you're right about season-per-book deal, why would they toss out the whole 6-season thing in the early press? Though maybe they'll just work with Gaiman on the plotlines to subsequent seasons, and he'll just write his novels after the fact (like a somewhat more fortunate Neverwhere affair).
I don't think it'll be a season per book - I'm guessing it will be more like True Blood and diverge from the storyline laid down in the books and novella while retaining most of the characters and setting. Saying that they're going for six seasons when the only adaptable elements are a(n admittedly massive) novel and a novella seems odd.
Again, adapting one book over multiple seasons strikes me as a very strange thing to do, but I can't see Gaiman devoting the next five years to churning out American Gods sequels either. So taking elements from one and mixing it with the other seems like the most sensible thing to do.
Run AG as a cut-down first season/introduction to the world and let it go its own way from there. There should be enough characters and concepts to keep it going for a good long while.
I see your point, though I was going by Gaiman's (albeit somewhat flippant) comment from that link above :
And for those asking, No, 6 years of AMERICAN GODS on TV doesn’t mean just the 1st book. It means I need to write the 2nd now, for a start.
And if they're going all-in with 6 planned seasons, I could see them doing the book over 2 or even 3 seasons, perhaps expanding on some elements, with Gaiman's approval/blessing/design - I for one would love to see an entire episode about vikings vs. indians, but put through the lens of the drama facing Nordic gods that find themselves unable to help their worshipers in this strange new land - fun way to ground those "Coming to America" stories with members of the regular cast - say Odin and Thor (and keep Loki away from it or at least not show his face, so his identity will remain a secret until the big reveal). Something along the lines of that Richard Alpert episode of LOST (only better).
With such a pace, i don't think it would be that much of a stretch to have at least two season's worth of only the original novel.
Yeah, fair enough - thought you meant a GoT-style 'by the book' adaptation. If they're going to be looser with it I can see multiple seasons for one book really working out.
I would watch it if all it was, was a ongoing series about Mr Appleseed walking the America that has both Native and Immigrant Gods in it, and how they rub along/fuck one another over and also, have to deal with Raven stealing all their good shit.
Say what you like about American spelling and self involvement and all the rest, it makes an excellent playground, so big, so diverse, and yet all one playing field.
Shit, just think about all the stories you could tell. Which side was any particular God on, during the Civil War, for instance.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/06/27/anansi-boys-headed-towards-tv-more-details-of-american-gods-series/
Does this mean that they'll be doing Anansi Boys for the BBC? That would, actually, be awesome.
My pick for playing Wedensday: John Hawkes
While he is sporting a nice grayish beard here, I pictured Wednesday a bit older (and less... vulnerable?). Though he is a fine actor, and could most likely pull it off.
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Psycho killer, qu'est ce que c'est.....
If you watch Winter's Bone, it's a good example of how can he do 'less vulnerable'. But definitely agreed on the age aspect. Wednesday should be a whole lot older.
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Ryan Hewett’s New Experimentations With Form
by Andy SmithPosted on May 28, 2018
In Ryan Hewett’s recent works, the painter uses disparate abstract elements to reconstruct the human form. The artist’s works focuses less on the harsh textures of past works, instead introducing new hues and formations into his portraits. The effect is both disconcerting and wholly absorbing.
“Hewett began his career drawing with pencil, eventually graduating from draughtsmanship to oils and developing a highly expressive style with sculptural and textured surface,” a statement from Unit London says. “The heavy impasto can appear modeled rather than brushed and Hewett works with both brush and palette knife, layering and scraping back, describing the face and body of his sitter in terms of shape and structure. His paintings are notable for their flesh tones, and are thick with florid reds and lead white. He works impulsively, without a preliminary sketch or charcoal, beginning by applying paint directly to the surface and working quickly for fear of the oil drying. The result of this style of working is an abstracted and dynamic portrait with great presence and vitality.”
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Century Jewelry Kinds
The Highwaymen are a bunch of African American artists celebrated for his or her distinctive paintings of Florida’s pure environment. A singular program in New York City created by the Center for Court docket Innovation provides people who have committed a low-degree crime like trespassing or legal mischief the opportunity to completely divert their case out of the traditional court system. As a substitute, members in the Undertaking Reset initiative meet in group settings with teaching artists to share a dialogue about works of art over a three-hour course. Upon successful completion of this system, the case is declined by the local district attorney’s workplace, the arrest file is sealed, and the individual by no means sets foot in a court room.
Pollen spent almost 22 years at Sotheby’s, rising to senior director of Sotheby’s Europe and head of twentieth century British Art. An early career spotlight was the 1990 sale of “The Crucifixion” by Stanley Spencer for £1.3 million ($1.6 million) – then a file for a contemporary British artist (though lengthy since eclipsed by Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and others). All the arts which belong to polished life have some widespread tie, and are linked as it had been by some relationship. Edward Hicks is an example of an American wildlife painter of this period, who’s artwork was dominated by his non secular context.
How may this exhibit change individuals’s conception of the position up to date artists play in our society? Along with the exhibition and parallel programming, on November 2, we’re holding Art+Politics, an all-day symposium (RSVP) , which is free and open to the public. Leaders in the neighborhood will speak about the position of artwork in cultivating areas for civic engagement on controversial topics and sparking social change. Our aim is to interact dialogue concerning the potential of artwork to supply platforms for dialogue and learning about others’ experience. We hope to problem stereotypes relating to refugee standing and experience, immigrant lives, and migrants. The exhibition affirms the ability of art to inform tales about who we’re as human beings and urges us to interact difficult issues.
THE ARTWORK GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA is presently displaying Sonic Blossom and Tarnanthi alongside our collection. These figures, spectacular as they’re, do not start to convey the astounding success at public sale of a handful of Chinese artists: Zhang Xiaogang, Yue Minjun, Cai Guo-Qiang, Liu Xiaodong, and Liu Ye. The leader this year was Zeng Fanzhi, whose Masks Collection No. 6 (1996) sold for $9.6 million, a file for Chinese up to date art, at Christie’s Hong Kong in Could. Listed below are some nice examples of acrylic work on-line, supplying you with just a small pattern of the range of uses with acrylic paints.
Decide what products you’re going to sell and ask your self if you are willing to make them. If your enthusiasm is to turn one in all a kind creative gadgets you will see it to be a excessive finish market that competes with ceramics, painting, images and a bunch of different creative work. Most woodturners who’re in a position to make cash on the craft do so by turning multiples of small objects reminiscent of pens or kitchenware. Salad bowls by the carload might earn sufficient cash to allow the turning of a few artistic objects to maintain the interest up.
century, jewelry, kinds
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Home Research > Members > 1509-1558 > GOWER, Walter (by 1537-83)
GOWER, Walter (by 1537-83), of Droitwich, Worcs. and London.
b. by 1537. m. Margery, 5s. 3da.1
Walter Gower’s place in the Worcestershire family of that name has not been discovered but he owned land and salt pans in Droitwich which could have come to him from Francis Gower, bailiff of Droitwich in 1516. He sued out a pardon in 1559 as ‘of Lions Inn, Middlesex’ and was thus probably a lawyer. When Gower made his will in 1579 he was living in Clerkenwell, the suburb to which John Bell had retired after resigning the bishopric of Worcester in 1543. Gower was buried in St. James’s, Clerkenwell, on 3 Sept. 1583.2
Author: M. K. Dale
1. Presumed to be of age at election. PCC 37 Brudenell.
2. Worcs. RO, bulk accession 1006, no. 353; Vis. Worcs. (Harl. Soc. xxvii), 59-61; Habington’s Worcs. (Worcs. Hist. Soc. 1899), ii. 307; CPR, 1558-60, p. 184; Reg. St. James Clerkenwell (Harl. Soc. Reg. xvii), 31.
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I thought you might be interested in this Ashmolean object: Writing cabinet decorated with hunting scenes , early 17th century http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/object/EA1978.129
Writing cabinet decorated with hunting scenes
Lacquer painting was an important luxury art in Safavid and Qajar Persia and Mughal India. As with many of the Mughal decorative arts, very few early examples now survive. This painted and lacquered scrutore, or small portable writing cabinet, is one of only two known examples of its type.
The four sides of the cabinet are decorated with spirited scenes of noblemen in Mughal dress on caparisoned horses, hunting various wild beasts, including deer, lion, tiger, fox and crane. The figures are finely painted in a restricted earthly palette, generously heightened with gold, which is also used profusely on the surrounding large and exuberantly burgeoning shrubs and trees, creating dramatic contrasts with the black background. The top has been restored and weakly repainted in a more Persianate style, probably in the 19th century.
Drop-front caskets of this kind probably first appeared in Germany after the middle of the 16th century and soon became popular in Italy, the Iberian peninsula and elsewhere. The commonest Indian type of scrutore is teak-veneered with ivory inlay; examples in other techniques are much rarer.
Asia › India › Deccan (possible place of creation)
Asia › Pakistan › Sindh province (possible place of creation)
wood, painted and lacquered
20 x 28.5 x 21.5 cm (height x width x depth)
organic › vegetal › wood,
organic › vegetal › resin › lacquer
covered › coated › painted,
marked › painted,
decorated › painted,
painted,
covered › coated › varnished › lacquered
communications equipment › art/writing equipment,
furniture/furnishings › furniture › cabinet
Purchased, 1977.
EA1978.129
Harle, J. C., and Andrew Topsfield, Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1987), no. 99 on pp. 88-89, pl. 23 (colour) & p. 89
Digby, S., ‘The Mother-of-Pearl Overlaid Furniture of Gujarat: The Holdings of the Victoria & Albert Museum’, R. Skelton et al., Facets of Indian Art: A Symposium held at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986), p. 215, fig. 11
Michell, George, and Mark Zebrowski, Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates, New Cambridge History of India, 1: The Mughals and their Contemporaries, 7 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 147-148, fig. 109
Zebrowski, M., ‘Indian Lacquerwork and the Antecedents of the Qajar Style’, William Watson, ed., Lacquerwork in Asia and Beyond: A Colloquy Held 22-24 June 1981, Colloquies on Art & Archaeology in Asia, 11 (London: University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 1982), cat. pp. 334-335, pl. 1
London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 21 April-22 August 1982, The Indian Heritage: Court Life and Arts under Mughal Rule, Robert Skelton, ed. (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982), no. 544 on. p. 161, illus. p. 161 fig. 544
First floor | Room 33 | Mughal India
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Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum
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Lacquer painting was an important luxury art in Safavid and Qajar Persia and Mughal India, being used especially for fine-book-bindings made for royal patrons. As with many of the Mughal decorative arts, very few early examples now survive. This painted and lacquered scrutore, or small portable writing cabinet, is one of only two known examples of its type.
Drop-front caskets of this kind probably first appeared in Germany after the middle of the 16th century and soon became popular in Italy, the Iberian peninsula and elsewhere. Before 1600 examples were being made in Japan and India after models supplied by the Portuguese. The commonest Indian type of scrutore is teak-veneered with ivory inlay; examples in other techniques are much rarer.
The cabinet has been attributed by two authorities to the Deccan on stylistic grounds, but more recently it has been assigned to the Western province of Sind, which was a major centre for the manufacture of cabinets as well as painted and lacquered bows in the early 17th century.
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GM Talent Match bring the house down at the People's Powerhouse
On Wednesday 12th of July, Greater Manchester Talent Match attended the People’s Powerhouse event in Doncaster.
The event, held as a response to the Northern Powerhouse, brought together practitioners, policy makers, opinion formers, local people and stakeholders with an aim to share best practice, learn, debate policy and share what’s...
Talent Match Mixer - a GIF Journey
On Monday 10th July, Greater Manchester Talent Match celebrated the achievements of young people on the programme in an inspirational event.
The event was held to celebrate and inspire young people on the Greater Manchester Talent Match programme, giving young people the opportunity to meet with others in similar situations to themselves and listen to stories from those who...
Can you help to #MakeMentalHealthWork?
From 17th July to 21st July 2017, the Greater Manchester Talent Match Youth Panel are running a week-long social media mental health awareness campaign aimed at employers.
We'd like you to get involved!
The campaign was conceived by the Greater Manchester Talent Match Youth Panel. Their aim was to get the issue of mental health discussed in the workplace....
Call for proposals: GM Talent Match - Stakeholder Consultation
THIS COMMISSIONING IS NOW CLOSED.
GMCVO is seeking proposals from potential providers in relation to the Greater Manchester Talent Match programme. We are looking for a consultant (or consultants) to:
1) initiate and deliver a stakeholder consultation plan which will lead to
2) recommendations for the development of a GM Wide on-line resource for employment and support...
Employers aim to identify the potential of young people in their workshop
On 21st June, we co-hosted our Greater Manchester Employers Workshop with Business in the Community as part of their Future Proof campaign.
Business in the Community’s Future Proof campaign is backed by the City & Guilds Group and supported by Talent Match in...
Jack's confidence grows as he develops with Greater Manchester Talent Match
Since Jack joined Greater Manchester Talent Match, his confidence has grown immeasurably.
Before joining the programme, Jack had been out of education and work for about a year, he was low in confidence and motivation and suffered from anxiety and depression.
As a result of his...
Peter's working at the BBC after interview identified potential
Peter, 22, from Manchester is a Software Development Apprentice at the BBC, a job he started in September 2016 after six months on Greater Manchester Talent Match.
Peter, who has an autistic spectrum condition, applied to the apprenticeship after being sent a link to the...
Young people get incredible edible at Heaton Park
Young people from across Manchester met in Heaton Park recently to take part in a volunteer gardening day.
The volunteering taster event gave young people the opportunity take part in gardening activities including sowing and planting seeds and working in the orchard.
As part of the event, they also spoke to current volunteers about their experiences and...
Taster sessions give young people the chance to ‘have a go’ at volunteering
Young people from across Rochdale met in Falinge Park last week to take part in a number of volunteering opportunities.
The day started with the chance to have a go at gardening in Falinge Park. Helping to make it an even nicer green space for the community. They volunteered with the community garden,...
Youth Panel log nearly 3 months of volunteering hours
We are delighted to announce that the Greater Manchester Talent Match Youth Panel, have racked up 1,991 hours of volunteering over the last year, the equivalent of nearly 3 months non-stop volunteering.
Volunteering with the Youth Panel covers everything from planning events and campaigns to cooking and rafting. The Youth Panel’s current recent...
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8 ways to attend college for free
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"Amatongo" Zulu A generic name for ghosts. Zulu
"Ihoiho" Tahiti The ghosts of the dead, which were supposed often to visit the living, especially relatives, and to inflict illness or death. Tahiti
"Elohim" Semitic The genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, Jahveh, etc., were species. The ghost or spectre which appeared to Saul is called Elohim. Semitic
With the costs of higher education at an all-time high, the American Dream of a college education can seem like just that — a dream.
However the reality is that there are lots of things a prospective student can do to help offset the high costs of higher education.
If you’re trying to figure out how to go to college for free, we have some advice that might help you on your way.
We’ve covered a wide range of options from how to get free tuition through a grant to various service opportunities.
Take a look at these and other ways you might be able to score a free college education.
"Bogeyman" Scotland Boogyman, or bogyman, is a legendary ghost-like monster often believed in by children. The bogeyman has no specific appearance. The term bogeyman is also used metaphorically to mean a person or thing of which someone else has an irrational fear.
Goddess name
"Carlin" Scotland Goddess of Winter and the spirit of the eve of Samhain (Halloween), the night the ghosts of the dead roamed the world of the living. Scotland
"Wraith" Scotland The ghost of a person shortly about to die or just dead, which appears to survivors, sometimes at a great distance off. Scotland
"Chagrin aka Harginn" Romania A mischievous ghost that most often takes the form of a large yellow hedgehog, which always foretells some impending disaster. Romania
"Bulla" Roman An amulet worn, by Roman children, intended to ward off ghostly anger.
"Lares" Roman Either domestic or public. Domestic lares were the souls of virtuous ancestors exalted to the rank of protectors. Public lares were the protectors of roads and streets. Domestic lares were images, like dogs, set behind the hall door, or in the lararium or shrine. Wicked souls became lemures or ghosts that made night hideous. Penates were the natural powers personified, and their office was to bring wealth and plenty, rather than to protect and avert danger. Roman
"Larvae" Roman Mischievous spectres. The larva or ghost of Caligula was often seen, according to Suetonius, in his palace. Roman
"Limbus Patrum" Roman The half-way house between earth and heaven, where the patriarchs and prophets, after death, await the coming of Messiah. According to the Roman Catholic notion, this is the "hell," or hades, into which Jesus Christ descended after He gave up the ghost on the cross.
"Aitu" Polynesia ghosts or spirits, often malevolent. Polynesia
"Mombo Wa Ndhlopfu" Mozambique Masters of the Forest, serpents that were credited with speech and bad breath. Often åśśociated with the flesh-eating maggots of corpses, ancestral spirits and ghosts took that form as a disguise. Ronga, Mozambique
"Choorail" Moslem The ghost of a pregnant woman. India. Moslem
"Kitsune" Japan A foxy ghost. Japan
"Duppies" Jamaican The ghosts of deceased people. An Obeah man will summon a Duppy and plant it in a home to curse the occupants. A sample of the victim's clothing, hair or especially menstrual fluid may be obtained so that a Duppy may rape a female victim while she sleeps and make her ill. Jamaican
"Morrigu/ Morrigan/ Morrighan/ Morgan/ Badb/ Nemain" Irish / Wales / Britain The Crone aspect of the goddesses who were a trinity responsible for war & ghosts
"Acheri" Indian They are the ghosts of little girls, who live on the tops of mountains but descend at night to hold their revels in more convenient places. Indian
"Airi" Indian The ghost of someone who killed in hunting. Those who see him face to face are burnt by the flash of his eye, or are torn to pieces by his dogs, or have their livers extracted and eaten by the fairies who accompany him. Indian
"Davy Jones's Locker" Indian I.e. he is dead. Jones is a corruption of Jonah, the prophet, who was thrown into the sea. Locker, in seaman's phrase, means any receptacle for private stores; and duffy is a ghost or spirit among the West Indian negroes. So the whole phrase is, "He is gone to the place of safe keeping, where duffy Jonah was sent to."
1. Grants and scholarships
Financial aid — the traditional way of eliminating college costs — is still available. To increase the odds of landing grants and scholarships, Doug Hewitt, co-author of “Free College Resource Book,” advises students to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, and then focus on local prizes.
“There are more scholarships you’ll qualify for in your home state than nationally,” says Hewitt. “Look at local organizations and talk to your high school (guidance) counselor.”
And remember to start your search early. You won’t be the only person wondering how to go to college for free and scholarships can be limited to a first come, first served basis. You should also keep in mind that you don’t need to wait for your senior year to start hunting for scholarships. There are grants and awards available at all high school grade levels.
2. Give service to your country
The U.S. Coast Guard, Air Force, Military (West Point), Merchant Marine and Naval academies offer free college opportunities to students who serve after college, but cash is also available through ROTC programs closer to home.
Service requirements for ROTC programs vary, but all require students to complete military training on campus and commit to up to 12 years, depending on the branch of service. Students leave with training, a guaranteed job and opportunities for more free education.
AmeriCorps, a national service organization that offers education awards in exchange for community work, provides an award of up to $5,730 for each full year of service. Maximum years of service vary among AmeriCorps programs. Members also receive a living stipend while serving in the program.
3. Work for the school
Schools charge students tuition, but their employees often can get a free education. “This is a great option, especially for older students with job experience,” says Reyna Gobel, author of “CliffsNotes Graduation Debt.” “If you’re 18, you might not qualify for a job that provides (tuition) benefits.”
Schools typically provide benefits for full-time workers and sometimes require a certain level of experience, Gobel says. Future students can find out about their school’s policy by calling the admissions office.
4. Waive your costs
Some students can get a free pass based on academic performance or other factors.
The North American Council on Adoptable Children in St. Paul, Minnesota, reports that Connecticut, Kentucky, Virginia, Maine, Massachusetts, Texas, Florida and Maryland offer waivers at certain public schools for adopted and foster care children.
Other schools offer waivers for Native American students, senior citizens and dislocated workers. To find out what your school offers, call the financial aid office.
5. Become an apprentice
An apprenticeship is another solid option when you’re determining how to get free tuition. They can also open you up to job opportunities post-college.
Overall, your average apprenticeship program will take 1-6 years. You will probably be required to put in that time along with at least 2,000 hours of field work annually. The good news is that there are apprenticeships in more than 1,000 occupations, which can give you more options.
In exchange, the sponsoring employer pays for college or technical training and provides a salary. A list of available programs is available at the ApprenticeshipUSA website.
6. Have your employer pick up the costs
Another way you might receive a free college education is through your employer. Often given in the form of an employee reimbursement, there are plenty of employers that can help curb the cost of higher education.
7. Be in demand
Another great way to find out how to go to college for free is to determine if your field of study is “high-needs.” Will your studies result in a career that’s high in demand? Ask yourself this before you even enroll if you’re trying to cut the cost of college.
Generally, schools will offer incentives to anyone focusing their studies on math, science, nursing, teaching, and social work. There are also additional opportunities available through organizations like Teach for America, the Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program and the National Institutes of Health.
The nursing program at the University of Portland in Oregon has offered scholarships covering approximately 80% of the final 2 years of undergraduate study, if students sign a 3-year employment contract with the local health system, Fabriquer says. “There are similar programs in (high-needs) fields across the country,” he adds.
8. Choose a school that pays you
Last on our list of ways on how to get free tuition, and probably the riskiest. There are, indeed, schools that will pay you to focus your studies in a single subject (which they dictate). Schools such as the Webb Institute and the Curtis Institute of Music offer a select range of academic programs and pick up the tuition cost for every student. Just think long and hard about your decision before you commit to this course.
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U.S. said to impose sanctions on Iran's leaders, metal exports
by Emilio Sims
— Jan 11, 2020
At an emergency meeting in Brussels on Friday amid soaring US-Iran tensions, the officials - including NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg - did not consider triggering a dispute resolution process that could lead to renewed United Nations sanctions on the Islamic republic.
No one was hurt in Tuesday night's missile barrage aimed at two bases in Iraq housing American troops, which came five days after a top Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani, was killed in a United States drone strike near Baghdad International Airport.
Mnuchin said US President Donald Trump will issue an executive order imposing sanctions on anyone involved in the Iranian textile, construction, manufacturing or mining sectors.
We have no doubt that when these challenges are checked Iran will see no reason to avoid compliance with the agreed commitments.
Abdul-Mahdi's comments to Pompeo suggests he was standing by his previous statements that U.S troops should leave Iraq despite recent signals toward de-escalation between Tehran and Washington following the tit-for-tat attacks that brought Iraq to the brink of a proxy war.
He said the U.S. had "specific information" on threatened attacks "against American facilities, including American embassies, military bases". "We have to make sure we get it right", Pompeo said.
He used filmmaker Michael Moore's tweets as an example of someone making the events "all about their hatred for Donald Trump".
"What President Trump did is he smoked out Iran, ended the global conceit, this pretence that Iran wasn't backing terrorist militia across the world, by basically holding the top general responsible for all these terrorist militia, accountable for his actions. We still need to focus minds, but it's probably coming soon", a European Union diplomat said before Friday's emergency meeting.
Assuming the allegations of a missile strike prove true, the responsibility for the tragedy rests squarely with the Iranians, Heyman added, and Canada must first focus on ensuring the families of the victims can properly grieve their losses.
'I sat in a intelligence briefing, [a] classified briefing, the day before. Many legislators, including two Republicans, said they were unsatisfied with the hearing. Pompeo was asked about this discrepancy and whether the Trump administration had told senators multiple embassies were targeted.
"There was no specific information given to us of a specific attack ..." It says Pompeo called the Iraqi premier.
Despite the dissent from Lee and Paul, Republicans remained mostly behind Trump, with many of them accusing Democrats of trying to curtail the president's constitutional authority as commander-in-chief to the benefit of Iran.
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Faking it: 6 ceramic tile designs that will give you the look of wood
Light-colored, wood-look ceramic tiles are a practical choice for basements, which can be prone to moisture.
March 12, 2019 - 9:00am
By Emily Myers
Hardwood is the material of choice in NYC and while flooring and other manufacturers have been offering imitations for years, recent advances in inkjet and digital printing have resulted in some great pretenders. You can get ceramic tiles with grain and texture that will give you the look and feel of wood with more durability.
One interior designer gives credit to Joanna Gaines of "Fixer Upper" on HGTV who highlighted a rustic wood paneling called shiplap, for sparking interest in viewers who wanted an easy way to replicate the look.
Wood-look ceramic tile is "fun and playful, and you can get it at a wide array of price points. It’s now very ubiquitous from Home Depot to a high-end tile shop,” says Betsy Helmuth, owner of Affordable Interior Design. That might explain why you are seeing it popping up in listing photos for NYC apartments.
“It is great in a place where you can’t use wood, like a basement or a beach house, somewhere that gets a lot of humidity or a lot of wear, or where the moisture might impact real wood,” says Helmuth. The remodeled basement of a Chinatown duplex (pictured above) is one example.
It can work in a bathroom if it doesn't bump up against real wood.
Another application is for a bathroom, though Helmuth warns against having the wood-look tile too close to real wood flooring. “I don’t like the juxtaposition of the real with the fake. In my mind, it is one or the other,” she says.
The tile looks very convincing in listing photos but in person, it’s clearly not wood. While Helmuth says that’s not something that should put buyers off, mixing the two will highlight the difference.
“It does look like tile, you can see the grout lines between the pieces, which is very unlike real wood. On its own, it can be lovely and it can be a really nice statement," she says.
If you're looking for a classic, Helmuth suggests you're better off with a marble-hex tile or subway tiles but it can be a fun spin on wood and it's practical if there's any risk of moisture damage.
Below, six wood-look tiles for your next interior design project.
Oxy Wood Collection from Nemo Tile, price on application
This tile is available in planks of various sizes and colors as well as mosaic sheets, like this one in beige and brown.
Trellis Oak from Daltile, price on application
A take on traditional oak, this tile is available as planks, lattice weave or as a herringbone accent in a range of colors.
Redwood Natural from Wayfair, $5 per square foot
This porcelain tile has a low sheen and comes in 6-inch-by-36-inch planks, suitable for walls and floors.
Provenza Cross Cut Wood Tile from Artwalk Tile, $5 per square foot
These 6-inch-by-24-inch tiles mock the cross cut grain of wood for a different effect and come in a range of colors—this one is marrow.
Modern Visual from Wayfair, $2.50 per square foot
A dark brown faux wood designed and manufactured in the U.S. and suitable for flooring indoors and out. Planks are 6 inch by 24 inch.
Montagna Wood Vintage Chic from Home Depot, $2 per square foot
Scratch resistant and suitable for walls and floors, these tiles come in planks that are 6 inch by 24 inch and create a mismatched, shabby-chic look.
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Useful writerly links
Post by Jane » Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:44 pm
http://www.duotrope.com/index.aspx
huge database of places that accpet unsolicited submissions
http://www.newpages.com/npguides/litmags.htm
all the literati magazines
http://www.jbwb.co.uk/
short story, poetry, novel etc markets
http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html
how to format a submission
add yer own
"We all tend to idealise kindness and tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nutcases." Sebastian Horsley
Post by Jane » Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:22 pm
for the ladies;
http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/opf/harpers.php4
free entry, 2000 words, theme: the gesture.
prize = international reclaim, £1000, a writer's workshop
DEADLINE APRIL 24th
for any commonwealth citizens
http://www.cba.org.uk/competitions/Shor ... tition.htm
free entry, 600 words, up to 3 subs per person
prize = £2000
DEADLINE MAY 15TH
Jimmy Bastard
Location: Heaven sent, hell bent & unrepentant
Post by Jimmy Bastard » Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:38 pm
This is a nice on, gotta be sharp on the uptake.
closing date: April 25th
This Christmas we will be publishing the Idler book of Idle Pleasures, with excellent illustrations from the marvellous Ged Wells. Knowing what a talented bunch our readers are after the success of all the crap books, we thought we’d leave fifteen of the seventy-odd pleasures up to you. The only stipulation is that each pleasure must either be very cheap or completely free. The best fifteen entries will appear in the book and each writer will get a copy of the book and an invitation to the launch event, which will have a free bar. Entries should be no more than 200 words and be emailed to dan@idler.co.uk. The closing date for entries is April 25th.
http://www.idler.co.uk/
Pep Up The Turmoil
beev
Post by beev » Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:16 pm
Warehouse Theatre- International Playwriting Competition 2007
Warehouse Theatre Company's International Playwriting Festival celebrates 22 successful years in 2007.
The festival is held in two parts.
The first is the competition with entries accepted from all over the world and judged by a panel of distinguished theatre practitioners...
The second is the festival itself which showcases the selected plays from the competition.
The festival takes place on 24 &25 November 07
For more information visit: http://www.warehousetheatre.co.uk/ipf.html
Deadline 30 June
Soho presents: the verity bargate award/playwrights network
Soho 's hunt for the most original and exciting new play.
Every two years Soho Theatre launches a national competition to find the best new play by an emerging writer. The winner will thrill London audiences with their imaginative, daring and relevant work.
They aim to welcome writers from a variety of backgrounds and levels of experience to take part in a series of their workshops on the process behind creating a new piece of theatre for the VBA.
£5000 (in respect of an exclusive option).
a residency at Soho Theatre.
the chance to have their play produced at Soho Theatre.
Writers may submit one unproduced, unpublished full-length play (not shorter than 70 minutes). There is no restriction to subject matter.
The award is open to any writer resident in the British Isles and Republic of Ireland .
For more info rmation please visit http://www.sohotheatre.com
Deadline 6 July 2007
Protect The Human Playwriting Competition
Protect the Human is a brand new playwriting competition run by iceandfire theatre in conjunction with Amnesty International UK. The aim of the competition is to explore individual stories of dis placement and conflict, highlighting the power of the 'ordinary' individual voice.
They are looking for plays that imaginatively interpret iceandfire's mission statement of:
"Exploring individual stories of displacement and conflict."
Winning plays will receive a rehearsed reading at The Soho Theatre in London during Amnesty's 'Protect the Human' week, October 2007. The overall winner will be awarded £500 which will be increased to a standard commission plus dramaturgical support if the play goes into full production.
For full details and inspiration on where to begin please:
visit http://www.iceandfire.co.uk/protectthehuman
or email protectthehuman@iceandfire.co.uk
Initial submissions are welcomed between 1-14 May 2007
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Kaʻū News Briefs, Saturday, May 11, 2019
Wildfire at South Point in June of 2014, remembered by volunteer firefighters who met in Pāhala yesterday as
part of a Hawaiʻi Wildfire Management Organization meeting to plan for more protection of
Kaʻū homes, ranches, farms and communities. Photo by Isaac Davis
MUCH FUEL FOR WILDFIRES is held within the tall grasses covering the South Point area of Kaʻū. The cattle ranches and wildlands experienced a wet winter, leading to a large volume of vegetation that could burn this summer, said volunteer firefighters attending Hawaiʻi Wildfire Management Organization's meeting in Pāhala on Friday.
Representatives of Volunteer Fire Departments, land stewardship organizations,
and the coffee industry met to discuss the wildfire season and safety.
Hawaiʻi Wildfire Management Organization offered help.
Other possible burn areas surround most villages and neighborhoods of Kaʻū. Volunteer firefighters from Na`alehu, Ocean View, Discovery Harbour, and Pāhala, along with other residents, vowed to reach out to their communities to help make them safer from destruction by wildfires.
Hawaiʻi Wildfire Management representatives Pablo Beimler and Carson Magoon said they will work with homeowners to make dwellings more fire safe and to develop evacuation plans. They offered to work with large landowners on mapping properties for fire risks, escape routes, and possible firebreaks. They offered to go into the schools to teach children about fire safety. They distributed the Ready, Set, Go! Your Personal Wildland Fire Action Guide.
They said that communities could become firewise-certified and may in the future receive lower fire insurance rates from some insurance companies, like USAA.
James Akau, of Nā Mamo o Kāwā, cosponsored the meeting and a work day at Kāwā today. He talked about planting fire-resistant native plants.
Beimler said the prediction is that wildfires will become more numerous and more frequent in Hawaiʻi and across the planet.
He reviewed preparedness for homeowners and talked about the 10-foot rule: keeping most vegetation, bushes, and trees at least ten feet from buildings. Beimler talked about "ladders" - vegetation, with branches, acting as ladders for fire to climb up the side of a house and burn it. He said post and pier homes collect kindling beneath them and recommended blocking off the area under houses with a mesh. Pāhala fire Captain Ron Ebert emphasized using stainless steel mesh so that it will last a long time.
The Wildfire Management team mentioned wildfires that combine and become so hot that nothing can survive. They noted the Australia fires that trapped hundreds who died on a highway, and the Paradise, California fire that trapped people and took out most of the town.
They talked about building materials that are "hardened" against fire. While it would be expensive to cover an old wooden home with fire retardant siding, it would be advisable to use fire retardant materials for additions, they said. When replacing roofing, choose fire retardant materials.
Embers were a major theme of the presentation. Embers can blow under houses and light up the kindling of leaves, dry grass, and other materials beneath the floors. Embers can enter into roof openings. Embers can float from long distances, where wildfires are burning, and make it through a window screen. They are a major ignitor of fires, they said.
Communities can come together to work on fire prevention plans for neighborhoods. Sometimes grants are available. Waikoloa Village created a kind of firebreak that also serves as a walking trail on the outskirts of a neighborhood and created landscapes with plants that don't burn easily, said the representatives of Wildfire Management. They presented the idea of landscaping with native plants, particularly those more resistant to fire.
Volunteer fire fighters on hand were Ron Ebert, Capt. 11D and Liz Polido from Pahala; Ken Shisler, Captain 11C from Discovery Harbour; and Mac Goddard, Captain 20A from Ocean View.
The Ready, Set, Go! Hawaiʻi, a Personal Wildland Fire Action Guide is available to download.
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The University of Shorbrooke crew tests Hoʻōla One at Kamilo Beach. DLNR photo
HOʻŌLA ONE REMAINS ON THE ISLAND TO HELP HAWAIʻI WILDLIFE FUND clean up Kamilo and other beaches where plastics wash ashore. The machine, invented by a group of students from Shorbrooke University in Quebec, came to Hawaiʻi Island for a shakedown. Hoʻōla One became more efficient removing microplastics from the sand with each adjustment by its creators.
Last month, the Hoʻōla One team worked for some two weeks at Kamilo Beach in Kaʻū, testing their machine that they hope will lead to making smaller versions that will clean microplastics from beaches all over the world.
The name given Hoʻōla One by its designers means giving life back to the sand. The team of university engineering students worked for more than two years, spending about $70,000 (Canadian) to build the machine. Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund raised $15,000 to ship the large machine and its creators to Kaʻū. Pāhala Plantation Cottages put up their housing.
Said Megan Lamson of Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund, "The potential application for this machine both in Hawaiʻi and around the world can be huge. We've always kind of joked about having a marine debris plastic magnet and this is the closest and most innovative project that I've seen. I've got a lot of hope for this and I'm really stoked."
During the last full week of April, the students rotated duty watching over their creation during the night. By day, they all worked together to identify design flaws, kinks, and adjustments needed to get Hoʻōla One operating as close to their design vision as possible.
Hoʻōla One cleans Kamilo Beach, known for its plastic problems. DLNR photo
Student Jean-Felix Tremblay said, "We spent thousands of hours, many nights and weekends, working on the Hoʻōla One." He joked that their goal was not to get good grades but just to build a practical, working machine – which became their entire academic focus. Three of the students continue to work full-time on Hoʻōla One, with the goal of producing smaller models, after starting their own company.
The Hoʻōla One concept originated with Alexandre Savard, who says he became motivated by the issue of marine debris after viewing films and videos. He said, "I just wanted to contribute to solving the problem. When I found out about Kamilo and its reputation as the most micro-plastics polluted beach in the world, I proposed to my fellow students, that if we can clean up this beach, we can clean up any beach anywhere."
Marine plastic pollution is a threat to aquatic wildlife because they can ingest it. The plastics can
be a vector for transmission of invasive species and diseases. Brian Neilson, Administrator of Hawai‘i Department of Land and Nature Resources Division of Aquatic Resources, said, "All of this rubbish is created by someone, somewhere. We can't point the finger and blame a specific country or any one industry. This is a global problem and we can all contribute to solving it by practicing the 4R's (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle)."
Steve Bergfeld, Hawaiʻi Island Branch Manager for the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife, said, "Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund and its many, many volunteers have done extraordinary work in bringing Kamilo Point, part of the Kaʻū Forest Reserve, back from the brink of being totally covered by plastics and other marine debris. Unfortunately, it's a never-ending challenge and I can't tell you how appreciative we are of their work, as well as the efforts of the Hoʻōla One team."
After leaving Kaʻū, some of the team members traveled to Honolulu to meet with numerous beach-clean up organizations as well as potential funders to secure the money needed to build additional machines.
A MEETING ON FUTURE SENIOR HOUSING IN NĀʻĀLEHU will be held Sunday, May 26 at 4 p.m. at Nāʻālehu Community Center. The session is sponsored by ʻO Kaʻū Kākou, which is purchasing property mauka of Highway 11 at the site of the old Nāʻālehu Fruit Stand for the project. A statement from the organization says the meeting will include an update on support necessary to take the project to the next step. Fundraising ideas will be entertained. "Please put your well-planned suggestions in writing," says the OKK statement.
VOLCANO WATCH, written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates, this week focuses on new insights gained from Kīlauea Volcano's 2018 summit collapses:
A year ago, USGS HVO scientists and Island of Hawaiʻi residents were in the throes of an historically unprecedented series of events for Kīlauea.
By early April 2018, the volcano showed signs that change was coming. But details were elusive, even as monitoring instruments tracked an increasingly pressurized magmatic system from Kīlauea's summit to Puʻu ʻŌʻō on the East Rift Zone.
On April 30, the Puʻu ʻŌʻō cone split open under heavy cloud cover. Lava emerged briefly from a crack on the cone's west flank before the remaining magma drained into the rift zone. Unsupported, the Puʻu ʻŌʻō crater collapsed, leaving a seemingly bottomless, dusty pit.
Ash rises above Halemaʻumaʻu within Kīlauea's summit caldera in this May 27 telephoto image from near Volcano House Hotel in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. By the time Kīlauea's summit collapse events ended on August 2, Halema‘uma‘u was 2.5 km (1.5 mi) wide and 500 m (1600 ft) deep; prior to the 2018 collapses, it was about 1 km (0.5 mi) wide and 85 m (about 280 ft) deep. A segment of a long-closed Park trail is visible winding across the caldera floor (lower left). USGS Photo by K. Anderson
Magma below Puʻu ʻŌʻō was immediately on the move, heading toward the lower East Rift Zone. The ground heaved slightly in response, with earthquakes delineating the path of molten rock as it pushed downrift and toward the surface.
On May 3, lava erupted within Leilani Estates. So began the largest eruption on Kīlauea's LERZ in over 200 years.
Over the next weeks, the summit lava lake withdrew deeper into the volcano as magma emptied into the LERZ, as if a valve had been opened at the bottom of an overflowing rain barrel. Aided by the nearly 3,000-foot elevation difference between the summit and LERZ vents, the lava lake steadily drained and Kīlauea's summit collapsed inward. This in turn prompted many felt earthquakes as the volcano's roof began to strain due to the loss of underlying support.
Recession of the lava lake resulted in near-constant rockfalls into the empty, steep-walled conduit, each one liberating clouds of rock dust and glassy ash. Explosions sent towering columns of ash skyward and, in some cases, littered the ground around Halemaʻumaʻu with dense blocks of rock. Volcano Village and downwind Kaʻū communities experienced dustings of sulfurous ash.
By late May, Kīlauea summit explosions were replaced by episodic collapse events, a process witnessed only a few times at volcanoes around the world, and never with such clarity.
All told, 62 collapse events rocked Kīlauea's summit, each one releasing energy equivalent to about a magnitude-5.3 earthquake. The repeated shaking took its toll: HVO's building cracked, as did Jaggar Museum in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park and Highway 11. Park roads and water system, and residential foundations in Volcano, were also damaged.
A year later, HVO scientists and colleagues continue to process data from 2018. A recent Volcano Watch, volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/hvo_volcano_watch.html?vwid=1409, mentioned what we're learning from the LERZ eruption.
Scientists use a laser diffraction particle size analyzer to examine fine ash from the 2018 Kīlauea summit explosions. The research examines fine ash – grains 1 millimeter to 1 micrometer – and investigates the processes of eruption, fragmentation, and respiratory health hazards (PM10, PM2.5). USGS image by A. Van Eaton
We're also gaining new insights from Kīlauea's 2018 summit events. Here are a few highlights:
Prior to 2018, long-held models indicated that explosive summit activity was driven by steam explosions produced by the interaction between groundwater and the hot conduit below Kīlauea's caldera. But data from several 2018 explosions suggest that magmatic gas is the primary driver.
Rather than necessarily occurring as one big drop, Kīlauea caldera collapse can proceed incrementally over long periods of time, with ground shaking during sustained, rapid summit deflation and episodic collapse posing a major hazard.
Under certain conditions, Kīlauea's summit and LERZ can be extremely well-connected through the core of the rift zone. This is supported by the rough equivalence of the LERZ erupted volume and the summit collapse void, both on the order of 1 cubic kilometer (roughly 1 billion cubic yards.) Increases in fissure 8 lava output after some collapses attested to the transit of a pressure wave from the summit down the rift zone.
A study led by an international group of scientists has found evidence that seismic velocity – the speed at which seismic waves travel – within Kīlauea's summit showed measurable changes leading up the 2018 activity. This finding potentially offers another means to forecast eruptive activity.
The 2018 Kīlauea LERZ eruption and summit collapse profoundly impacted people on the Islandof Hawai‘i and beyond. While the events were inspiring to us as scientists, they were also deeply sobering as we witnessed up close the great losses suffered by family and friends.
HVO staff honor the resilience and aloha of island residents, who continue to help each other. We also honor the dedication of everyone who worked to keep people safe. Finally, we thank affected communities and local, state, and federal partners for supporting HVO. Kīlauea's 2018 events did indeed take a village!
Volcano Activity Updates
Three earthquakes with three or more felt reports occurred in Hawaiʻi this past week: a magnitude-3.1 quake 8 km (5 mi) southwest of Kahaluʻu-Keauhou at 2 km (1 mi) depth on May 4 at 12:01 p.m. HST; a magnitude-2.9 quake 10 km (6 mi) south of Leilani Estates at 7 km (4 mi) depth on May 3 at 1:20 p.m. HST; and a magnitude-3.3 quake 16 km (10 mi) south of Fern Acres at 7 km (4 mi) depth on May 3 at 4:28 a.m. HST.
Kῑlauea Volcano is not erupting and its USGS Volcano Alert level remains at NORMAL.
The USGS Volcano Alert level for Mauna Loa remains at NORMAL.
Visit volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo for past Volcano Watch articles, Kīlauea and Mauna Loa updates, volcano photos, maps, recent earthquake info, and more. Call 808-967-8862 for weekly Kīlauea updates. Email questions to askHVO@usgs.gov.
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CELEBRATION OF LIFE LANTERN FLOATING EVENT happens Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday, May 25 from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Reed's Bay in Hilo. As a pre-event, the motorcycle and classic car community is invited to ride from Reed's Bay to Kaʻū Hospital to greet and meet the patients, staff, and Kaʻū community.
The hospital parking lot will be cleared to have the motorcycles and classic cars create a viewing procession pass all the patients and staff. All riders will stop for 45 minutes to greet the patients and community while displaying their bikes and cars for all to see. A special glow-in-the-dark Celebration of Life bracelet will be worn by all riders in support of keiki bereavement and the Celebration of Life event. The bracelets are available online now for a $10 donation, with a limited supply available at Kaʻū Hospital during the bikers visit.
Riders will arrive to Kaʻū Hospital approximately 1:15 p.m. and will leave for Reed's Bay at 2 p.m. The public is invited to join the procession at Reed's Bay for the 15th annual Celebration of Life Lantern Floating Event.
The event is organized by Hawaiʻi Care Choices services, from Laupahoehoe Point to South Point Road in Kaʻū. They offer Palliative Care, a pre-hospice program focused on pain relief and discomfort due to cancer, congestive heart failure, COPD, and kidney failure; Hospice Care, end of life comfort; and bereavement care, with a free weekly support group in Hilo. Inquire about their services by calling 969-1733, visiting hawaiicarechoices.org, or asking a primary care physician. They work with Kaʻū Hospital, Nāʻālehu Bay Clinic, and the Kaʻū Rural Health Resource Center.
Kauwela Tour, The Mo‘olelo of Mana Wāhine – Nā Wai Chamber Choir Concert, Sunday, May 12, 11:30 a.m., Kauaha‘ao Congregational Church. Free admission. Donations welcome. nawaichamberchoir.com
3rd Annual Mother's Day Chamber Music Concert, Sunday, May 12, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m., Volcano Art Center. Music by Volcano Chamber Players Susan McGovern, viola, Glenda Johnson, violin, Meg Saunders, cello, Rumi Reeves, violin, guest Gerdine Markus on recorder and operatic vocals of D'Andrea Pelletier. Complimentary pupu. Beverages and flowers for purchase. $20/VAC ember, $25/non-member, free to children 12 and under. Funds raised support Niaulani Sculpture Garden and ongoing programs. 967-8222, volcanoartcenter.org
Medicine for the Mind: Teachings in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition, Sunday, May 12 – 2nd Sunday, monthly – 3 p.m. – 5 p.m., Volcano Art Center. Free; calabash donations welcome. Dress warmly. Patty Johnson, 345-1527
Mother's Day Buffet, Sunday, May 12, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m., Crater Rim Café, Kīlauea Military Camp. Main entrees: Prime Rib, Lemon Butter Fish w/Tropical Salsa and Vegetable Stir Fry w/Tofu. $29.95/Adults, $14.95/Child (ages 6-11). Reservations required, 967-8356. Open to all authorized patrons and sponsored guests. Park entrance fees apply. kilaueamilitarycamp.com
Free STD Testing, Monday, May 13 – 2nd Monday, monthly – 9 a.m. – noon, Ocean View Community Center. Sponsored by Hawai‘i Department of Health. Call for appt. on different day or time. Teenagers 14+ do not need parent/guardian consent. Always confidential. Free condoms and lube. 895-4927
Ka‘ū Homeschool Co–op Group, Monday, May 13, and 27, 1 p.m., Ocean View Community Center. Parent-led homeschool activity and social group, building community in Ka‘ū. Confirm location in case of field trip. Laura Roberts, 406-249-3351
Mobile Spay & Neuter Waggin', Tuesday, May 14, 7:30 a.m. – 4 p.m., St. Jude's Episcopal Church, Ocean View. Low income pet parents and those with limited transportation qualify for mobile spay/neuter service. Free. Surgery by phone appointment only. Hawai‘i Island Humane Society, hihs.org, 796-0107
Wonderful World of Wine & Watercolor, Tuesday, May 14, 4 p.m. – 7pm, Volcano Art Center. $30/VAC members, $35/non-member, plus $17 supply fee.Learn to transfer a photo onto watercolor paper while sampling several wines from Grapes in Hilo. 967-8222, volcanoartcenter.org
After Dark in the Park – Kauwela Tour, The Mo‘olelo of Mana Wāhine – Nā Wai Chamber Choir Concert, Tuesday, May 14, 7 p.m., Kīlauea Visitor Center Auditorium. Musical journey that honors the music of both historic and modern-day mana wāhine. Honolulu-based Nā Wai Chamber Choir is a professional vocal ensemble that preserves, propagates, and innovates the legacy of Hawaiian choral music. Hilo native Dr. Jace Kaholokula Saplan leads ensemble on annual kauwela tour. Free; park entrance fees apply. 985-6011, nps.gov/havo
Ocean View Community Association Board of Directors Mtg., Wednesday, May 15, 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m., Ocean View Community Center. 939-7033, ovcahi.org
Instructional Tennis, Wednesday, May 15-June 19, 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., Kahuku Park, H.O.V.E. Register keiki ages 6-12, May 6-10. Free. 929-9113, hawaiicounty.gov/pr-recreation
Arts and Crafts Activity: Watercolor Painting, Wednesday, May 15, 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m., multi-purpose room, Ka‘ū District Gym, Pāhala. Register keiki grades K-6, May 9-14. Free. 928-3102, hawaiicounty.gov/pr-recreation
Story Time with Auntie Linda from Tūtū and Me, Thursday, May 16, 10:30 a.m. – noon, Nā‘ālehu Public Library. Free; includes craft activity. 929-8571
Family Reading Night, Thursday, May 16, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m., Ocean View Community Center. 939-7033, ovcahi.org
Volcano School of Arts and Sciences Middle School Theater Night, Thursday, May 16, 6 p.m., Kīlauea Military Camp's Kīlauea Theater. Each grade will perform a one-act murder mystery. Free admission, donations welcome. Park entrance fees may apply. volcanoschool.net
Stained Glass Basics I, Saturday and Sunday, May 18, 25, and June 1 and 2, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m., Volcano Art Center. $90/VAC member, $100/non-member, plus $15 supply fee. Advanced registration required. Limited to 6 adults. 967-8222, volcanoartcenter.org
Ocean View C.E.R.T. Mtg., Saturday, May 18, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Ocean View Community Center. Community Emergency Response Team monthly meeting and training. 939-7033, ovcahi.org
Hula Kahiko – Kumu Hula Wahineaukai Mercado with haumana (students) of Ke Ana La‘ahana Public Charter School, Saturday, May 18, 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., hula platform near Volcano Art Center Gallery. Hula performance. Free; park entrance fees apply. 967-8222, volcanohula@gmail.com, volcanoartcenter.org
Nā Mea Hula w/Wes Awana, Saturday, May 18, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Volcano Art Center Gallery porch. Hands-on cultural demonstration. Free; park entrance fees apply. 967-8222, volcanohula@gmail.com, volcanoartcenter.org
Arts & Tea Culture Workshop Series #1, Saturday, May 18, noon – 5 p.m., Volcano Art Center. Hand-build porcelain ceramic tea bowls with Volcano artist and tea farmer Chiu Leong. Includes history of tea bowl culture and brief overview of local tea farming by Eva Lee. Focused cupping, tasting and education on Hawaii grown white teas. Pre-event for A Taste of Tea Pottery Fundraiser on August 25. Workshops designed to be attended as a series; #2 set for May 18, #3 set for July 27. No experience necessary. $60/VAC member, $75/non-member for series. Individual workshop, $25 each. Registration limited. 967-8222, volcanoartcenter.org
Ham Radio Mtg., Saturday, May 18, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m., Ocean View Community Center. ovcahi.org
Full-Time Teaching Assistant Sought by Tūtū & Me to implement curriculum for caregivers and keiki in Tūtū & Me Traveling Preschool in Kaʻū. Competitive salary and benefits package, including medical, dental, drug, and vision; flexible spending plan; 403b retirement plan; vacation, sick days, and 14 paid days off; and more.
Minimum requirement is a high school diploma. Early Childhood Education, related coursework, and/or experience working children preferred. For more, visit pidf.org/about/careers. Apply by emailing resume and cover letter to hr@pidfoundation.org or fax to 808-440-6619.
Hi-Employment Seeks Student Employees to work in a macadamia nut orchard on weekends and holidays. Duties include hand-harvesting macadamia nuts, filling and transporting nut bag and buckets, loading 25-plus pound bags into truck beds, and possible clearing of brush and branches. Applicants must be at least 15 years old, have a work permit, two forms of ID, and transportation to "Panaʻewa Stretch." Call for more details, 238-3741, hi-employment.com.
Nāʻālehu Independence Day Parade happens Saturday, June 29 at 11 a.m. The parade route begins at the Nāʻālehu Elementary School and ends at the Nāʻālehu Hongwanji Mission. To participate, call Debra McIntosh, 929-9872.
A CONCERT TO RAISE MONEY FOR STEWARDSHIP OF THE KAʻŪ COAST will be held on Saturday, May 25, 6 p.m. at Pāhala Plantation House on the corner of Maile and Pikake Streets. The concert is one in a series of performances during the Hawaiʻi International Music Festival, in its third season in the islands. The series is called Of Water.
Metropolitan Opera Soprano Amy
Shoremount-Obra. HIMF photo
2018 International Bach Competition
Prize Winning Pianist Andrew Rosenbaum.
HIMF photo
The recital features internationally acclaimed artists Metropolitan Opera Soprano Amy Shoremount-Obra and 2018 International Bach Competition Prize Winning Pianist Andrew Rosenblum. They will perform works by Turina, Mahler, Fauré, Rachmaninoff, Duke, and more.
Donations accepted at the event go to Kaʻū Coast non-profit stewardship organizations, including Nā Mamo O Kāwā, nmok.org; Ka ʻOhana O Honuʻapo, honuapopark.org; Ala Kahakai Trail Association, alakahakaitrail.org; Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund, wildhawaii.org; and Hoʻomalu Kaʻū, hoomalukau@gmail.com.
In addition to the opportunity to donate to coastal stewardships, an opportunity to support Hawaiʻi International Music Festival is available by reserving best seats for $25 each. They are available at recitalpahala.bpt.me and at the door – cash or check only. See the concert schedule for other islands at himusicfestival.com. For overnight accommodations, contact Pāhala Plantation Cottages at 928-9811.
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Keira Marcos July 15, 2009 September 3, 2013 The Sentinels of Atlantis
Guides of Atlantis by Tabakat
Title: The Culling
Author: Keira Marcos
Series title: The Sentinels of Atlantis
Series Order: 6
Fandom: Sentinel/Stargate Fusion
Rating: NC-17 (sexual content, violence)
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard, Teyla/Ronon (many secondary pairings)
Warnings: Explicit sex, adult language, violence
Summary: The Athosians dial Atlantis in desperation—their Guardian has been culled and they need sanctuary.
John was convinced that Chuck liked to say “Unscheduled Off World Activation” over the radio in that not quite panicked toned because he was trying to be more like Walter. He sort of missed Walter a lot and wished he’d stolen him on the way through the gate to Pegasus. He and Walter had spent many a crazy ass night dialing the gate when they’d been looking for Vala.
Chuck, the Canadian, had his own charm but he wasn’t Walter. He didn’t smell like coffee and chocolate chip cookies like the tight-assed Air Force man that was Sergeant Walter Harriman.
John trotted down the small set of stairs from his office and entered the command deck area above the gate. “Cameron isn’t due to check in for three hours.”
“I know, sir.” Chuck took a deep breath. “I’m receiving an IDC; it’s the one you left with the Athosians. I’ve opened a channel but there is nothing but static.”
John activated his own radio. “This is Colonel Sheppard, please respond.” The scream of a Guide in distress was one that any Sentinel could recognize and it chilled him to the bone. “Teyla! Teyla, please respond!”
“Wraith.”
“Lower the shield,” John snapped at Chuck as the Marines on guard duty prepared for incoming. He clicked his radio over to the military channel. “We are Situation Blue.” He clicked over and didn’t bother to actively listen to the Marines as they started to mobilize for engagement. They knew their jobs, and what he expected from them. “Send your people through, Teyla!”
People started to pour through the gate in droves, and John was relieved when Elizabeth appeared on the stairs and immediately started calling out instructions and getting them out the way. She’d visited the settlement several times since they’d finally established communication with the Athosians. They knew enough of her to trust her, it seemed.
Rodney came from one of the side halls and rushed to John’s side. “Teyla?”
“Nothing,” John ground out grimly. “She screamed—she screamed like I’ve heard Guides scream in the field when their Sentinels go down.” His hands tightened into fists.
Rodney clicked his radio. “Teyla, respond.” He waited. “RESPOND. Goddamnit. Right now!”
John flinched at the use of the Guide voice. He’d only heard Rodney use it once since they’d bonded and that had been when McKay basically invaded the Sentinel-Guide Council and called their own to task over the treatment of Cameron Mitchell.
“He’s gone,” Teyla whispered hoarsely. “Culled.” The sound of harsh sobbing was almost drowned out by the crowd of people in the gate room.
“Come through the gate,” Rodney ordered. “Now, Teyla.”
Everyone turned as Teyla stumbled through the gate and she fell to her knees. Her small body wracked with gut wrenching sobs. No one else came after her.
“Chuck,” John said.
The gate winked out.
Rodney hurried down the stairs and pushed through the people that were lingering, staring at Teyla—at as much as loss as she herself was. He dropped to his knees in front of her and after a very obvious hesitation gathered her in his arms. He gasped and took in a horrified breath. “Show me.”
Teyla took a shuddering breath and went slack in Rodney’s embrace as she gave her mind over to him. It took seconds, and John watched with pain curling in his gut as his Guide took on her loss, her devastation.
“McKay!” He stopped just short of touching his Guide. “You’re going too deep!”
Rodney blinked and then slowly helped Teyla stand. He kept a tight grip on her. “Recall Cameron and prep a Jumper. They were in a Hive ship. It could still be in orbit.”
John started snapping out orders and barely acknowledged as Keller rushed past him and took charge of Teyla. Lorne was at his side as he entered the Jumper Bay. “Your Guide stays here.”
“Yes, sir.” Evan turned and went to get some Marines.
John clicked his radio. “Ford, Cadman—report to the Jumper Bay and bring something with a very big bang.”
McKay was sitting in the co-pilot’s seat by the time he had the Jumper flight ready and sixteen Marines in the cargo hold. Lorne took a seat behind him and tapped the back of his seat.
They lowered into the gate room in front of an open wormhole, and Chuck updated him on the Mitchell’s situation—too far from the gate to help immediately even with a Jumper. They didn’t have a lot of time.
“Tell him to haul ass back, Chuck. We’re going to disable the Hive as soon as we can so it isn’t going anywhere if I have to say anything about it. I want him on my six as soon as possible. We’ll need the Jumper if we can rescue any of the culled Athosians. Radek?”
“I’m here Colonel Sheppard.”
“You’re in charge; don’t let anyone blow up the city!” John shot his fellow Sentinel a look through the front window of the Jumper and grinned when the Czech glared back at him.
They cloaked as soon as they came through the gate, the small forest that once surrounded the gate was charred black and still mostly on fire. The village that lay ahead wasn’t in much better shape. Fired on from orbit, John thought. He grimaced at the loss. He knew fewer than two hundred of the Athosians had made it through the gate.
“McKay?”
“There is a huge ass energy reading in orbit and three smaller ones in the atmosphere of the planet. I’m not reading any life signs beyond animal life. I think those smaller ones must be the Darts Ronon and Teyla spoke of.” Rodney’s fingers danced over his tablet PC. “Ask the Jumper to do a full scan of the Hive—I want any information it can gather for me.”
John nodded as he directed the Jumper to start scanning and then pushed it towards space. He took a deep breath as they left the planet’s atmosphere. He’d been up in an X-302 a few times before he left Earth but this was so much more. The smoothness of it and lack of vibration was beautiful.
Then he saw the Hive. He grimaced. It looked like someone had knocked a chunk of Hell off and tossed it into space. Black, and wet looking – it was pretty much exactly like what an insect would build.
“Can you feel him?”
Rodney nodded. “Oh yeah, alive and feral. Did we bring the ZAT?”
“No.” John glared at him. “Simpson still has it in pieces.”
“I’ll be sure to verbally abuse her most stringently,” Rodney promised.
The hangar bay was full of small craft but empty of Wraith. The pure arrogance of that was a little grating. John growled under his breath as he landed and popped the hatch. “Cadman, study the scans of this thing and plant the explosives. I want this Hive in fucking pieces when we leave. Understood?”
“Blowing up alien ships is my favorite thing to do, sir.” Cadman slipped past him and dropped down into the pilot’s chair to study the schematic the Jumper’s scanner was building.
John glanced over the Marines. “We are searching for Athosians. Anything on this ship that isn’t Athosian moves, you kill it. Don’t let them get close to you—avoid taking fire if you can because their guns just knock your ass out and leave you laying there to be fed on. Aim for the head. Keller says their skulls aren’t much harder than our own and I emptied my entire P-90 into one of their chests before the damn thing stopped moving.”
They all nodded.
“Davies, Jenkins—you’re staying with the Jumper. Do not let them take it from you and watch for survivors. We’ll be sending any we find your way.” John clipped on the P-90 he was offered. “McKay, stay close. We’re going to have a hell of a time when we catch up with him.”
“Life signs?”
Rodney snorted. “Dropped by thirty six in the last twenty minutes. Ronon is two levels down and moving like a berserker. The Marines are moving in squads on the other levels and you’ll be happy to know are kicking much ass. The Wraith weren’t prepared to be boarded.” He took a deep breath. “Do you feel her?”
“Oh yeah,” John admitted. “That’s a Queen, right?”
“That would be my guess,” Rodney admitted.
“Can you keep her preoccupied?”
“She’s very irritated already,” Rodney leaned against one of the nasty slimy walls and studied his scanner. “There are a group of life signs about two meters ahead of us. Looks like two Wraith guards.”
John was suddenly in front of him. He leaned and took a deep breath against Rodney’s neck. “Don’t let her hurt you.”
“I won’t. She’s kind of like a child, really. My little sister’s mind was more complicated.”
John decided as he slid down the hall and turned the corner that he hated the Wraith a whole fucking lot. They were decidedly the biggest assholes he’d ever met in his life and he’d done a six month stint in Washington as an Air Force liaison when he first joined up out of college. Additionally, a bullet in the back of the head killed a Wraith quite nicely. Both drones went down with thumps and the people in the cage started talking all at once.
John frowned at them and held up his hand for silence. “McKay, I need you to open this door.”
Rodney came around the corner, pulling out a fist full of connectors. “Yeah, I’m on it. Looks like there about fifty Wraith left on the ship. They are converging on the Queen near the front of the Hive. They’ve even stopped trying to recapture Ronon. He’s one level down but climbing. Pretty sure he’s heading for these cages.”
“Great.” John took a deep breath. “Who knows him best?” The tall man that John had met briefly more than once came forward. “Halling.”
“He’ll recognize me, Colonel.”
“Great,” John said as the door slid open with a nasty slick sound. “Fuck, this ship is just disgusting.”
“Yeah. It really is.” Rodney put his pack down on the floor, pulled out a plastic bag, and started shoving parts of the ship into it. One of the kids stopped, watched him for a second and then started helping. “Thanks.”
“Why are you doing this?” Jinto asked with a frown as he shoved a piece of the wall Rodney had knocked off into the bag.
“The more we know about them the easier they’ll be to kill,” Rodney muttered and then glanced up in horror. “Sorry. I shouldn’t have said that to you.”
Jinto offered him a bright smile. “It’s okay. Killing Wraith is great.”
John stiffened. “He’s coming. Halling you’re up!”
Halling rushed out of the cell and put himself in front of John and the rest of his people as Ronon came around the corner, his gun in one hand and a bloody sword in another.
“Guardian, do your duty!”
Ronon paused, and John’s mouth dropped open in shock as his fellow Sentinel seemed to shake completely clear of the mindless rage that had been fueling him for more than an hour.
“Sheppard?” Ronon questioned.
“Here.” John cleared his throat. “Teyla is on Atlantis with Keller. She’s safe.”
“Safe?” Ronon’s voice broke. “I thought… I lost her… I couldn’t feel her.”
Rodney shoved his samples in his pack. “She came through the gate on my order with the rest of your people. Sorry. I couldn’t risk leaving her on the planet to wait for us. She wasn’t herself.”
John looked Ronon over as he motioned the Athosians out of the cage. “Ronon, you’re on point. We have one Jumper in the cargo bay and Cameron Mitchell is in bound with another. My men are doing clean up and we’re ready to blow this joint. Literally.”
Vala was standing in the doorway of the hanger bay, a double barreled shot gun at the ready when they came into view. She motioned the Athosians forward and looked Ronon over with a frown. He was covered in blood. “Don’t you know how to duck?”
Ronon offered her a grin that made her blink. “It’s not my blood.”
“Good for you,” Vala’s gaze connected with John’s. “Cameron is pulling back team four. They have an injury and lost radios due to interference. They are two minutes out. Cadman reports that we are ready on the explosives. She said something about celebrating her independence day.” She raised an eyebrow.
“Very big bang,” John explained.
By the time Cameron dragged team four back into the hangar they’d crammed everyone into the Jumpers. It was almost anticlimactic. They left the Hive cloaked and at a safe distance, John turned the Jumper around. “Cadman?”
Laura squeezed into the cockpit between Ronon and Lorne who were both standing. She offered a small control box to Ronon silently. “Sir?”
Ronon frowned at the box, and his thumb grazed over the button. Then he pushed it. The Hive shattered. It was the only way John could describe it—it shattered and burned like black glass glittering the space above Athos. It was pretty damned awesome.
Ronon swallowed hard and looked down at Cadman. “I like you. I like you a lot.”
Cadman grinned.
Ronon didn’t even look around the city as he was lead from the Jumper Bay. He connected with her heart beat first, filtering it out of the hundreds he was surrounded by, heard her voice next—saying his name, moving toward him. They met in the hallway heading toward what Sheppard had called the infirmary. She launched herself at him and he hit the floor— falling to his knees and shaking with relief.
Her fingers clenched in the braids she’d patiently put in his hair only the night before, her small body shaking with sobs she was too far gone to control. He hated himself in that moment, because he’d given her this pain. In bonding with her, he’d opened her world up to the kind of pain that couldn’t be recovered from. If he had died on that ship it would have been the most pain she’d ever known.
The life you’ll be saving is mine. Lorne had said that to his Guide that day they’d fought the Wraith together. The guilt Ronon had carried for the loss of his first Consort burned bright for a few precious seconds and then faded gently. He couldn’t carry Jonar in his mind anymore, not and honor the sacrifice Teyla made every day to stay with him.
“Can you stand?”
Ronon opened his eyes and focused on Sheppard. “Yes, Alpha.”
“We don’t bond in public. I don’t know… how that works for your people but we make every effort to do that in private.” John flushed as if he were embarrassed.
Ronon would have laughed if he’d had the energy for it. “No, we prefer privacy as well.” He ran one hand down Teyla’s back, relieved that she’d fallen silent and was trying to calm herself.
“If you’ll follow me, Dr. Weir has set up a room for you and your Guide. It’s in the infirmary due to our mission protocols but you won’t be disturbed.”
Laura nodded and shifted under her Guide’s hands with a soft sound of pleasure. Soap ran in thick waves off her body as Aidan carefully washed away the smell of the Wraith Hive. “How about you? Teyla’s distress must have been a little much to take.”
“I’m good.” Aidan dropped a kiss on her shoulder as he turned her under the dual shower heads to rinse her. He would have preferred to take her back to their quarters but protocol demanded they shower in the large communal showers just off the Jumper Bay due to their exposure to the Wraith ship. There were others in the showers, the Marines, Lorne, Sheppard and his Guide, Mitchell and his Guide—all of them intent on each other. If the Marines had any kind of problem with the women being in there they hadn’t voiced it. He figured they probably wouldn’t—at least not now. He and Laura had been showering with SG teams for years with no problems.
The outer door opened and Aidan turned briefly to watch Dr. Jennifer Keller enter. She went to the place where her Sentinel had dropped his gear and efficiently stripped. He took note of the Marines who checked her out and marked them for discussions. Keller was new to the SGC and the men had learned the hard way not to even eyeball Vala when she was clothed much less when she was naked. Keller was a different story all together.
She pinned up hair has she walked to her Sentinel and ran one hand down his back. Lorne took a deep breath and turned for her, his face pressed against her hair as pulled her under the water with him. Aidan relaxed and refocused on his own Sentinel but he knew a discussion about team showers with Sheppard and Lorne was in order.
Laura offered him her shampoo over her shoulder he took it with a little smile. Suddenly, he missed her hair more than ever. When they’d been younger, before they’d joined the Marines she’d worn her hair so long she could sit on it. Now, it barely drifted past her shoulders. He sighed.
“What?” She asked.
“I was just thinking about how long your hair used to be, that’s all.” He lathered her up quickly, taking special care to massage her scalp the way he knew she liked and also to remove any trace smells of the Hive from her skin. “Remember our bonding ceremony?”
“You two had a bonding ceremony?” McKay asked from the next set of showerheads over. “Seriously?”
“Yeah.” Laura turned to rinse her hair out, her hands automatically bringing her Guide closer. She ran one hand down his chest and over the ripped muscles of his stomach. “We bonded at sixteen, McKay. We weren’t even allowed to be alone together for two years after we bonded. We had a Conservator act as a chaperone for all that time. We had to do the full bonding ceremony.” She grimaced. “I had to do my imprint in front of both sets of our parents.”
Sheppard sputtered. “Christ. What?”
“I know.” Aidan groaned and then let his head drop on his Sentinel’s shoulder briefly. “It was mortifying.”
Rodney laughed suddenly. “Wait, a full imprint?”
Laura grinned and patted Aidan’s shoulder. “As much as they would let me get away with which in the grand scheme of things wasn’t much.” She picked up the soap and started to wash her Guide. “But our spiritual/mental bond was fully developed within the first week of our meeting and by the time we were able to complete a sexual bond two years later…” She shrugged.
“Yeah, two years of foreplay,” Aidan muttered and one of the Marines across the way laughed. “That’s okay though—because we didn’t come out of the apartment we got ourselves on her eighteen birthday for two weeks.”
John laughed. “I bet.” He leaned his back against the wall and let the water rush over him to relax. “There was a big difference?”
“Huge,” Laura admitted. “It was like living in the dark with a flashlight that worked on alternate Wednesdays compared to what we developed after sex came into play.”
Aidan nodded his agreement. “I was missing a lot—things I didn’t even know. I had a hard time keeping her shields even and her senses balanced with just a spiritual bond.”
“So, do you think it was because she wasn’t allowed to do a full imprint?” Jennifer asked. “I mean, surely—she wasn’t allowed to taste or touch everything she wanted to during the initial imprint.”
“Okay, wow.” Stackhouse laughed. “Can we call a time-out on the sex bonding talk because some of us don’t have a built in sex partner?”
John grinned. “Yeah, probably should. I just got finished telling Ronon that we don’t sex bond in public but all this talk is making it difficult.”
Aidan was almost too busy telling his dick to behave to even nod his agreement to that. At least with his back to the rest of the room, he wasn’t going to pop wood in front of Sheppard and Mitchell. He closed his eyes when he realized they’d probably be able to smell him. His own Sentinel chuckled softly and slid between him and the wall. She tucked her face against his neck and shook with near silent laughter at his predicament.
“You are evil,” Aidan murmured against her hair. “Just so fucking evil.”
“Our people?” Teyla asked softly against Ronon’s neck.
Ronon closed his eyes and let his fingers run down her back as he let his hearing spread out over the city of the Ancestors. He knew each of the Athosians by scent and by the unique cadence of their heart beats. It was easy to push the Lanteans aside and focus on his own people. “We lost thirty-three, but none of the children.”
Teyla closed her eyes tightly and choked back a sob.
“When it is safe,” Ronon whispered. “We will return to Athos and recover anything we can of your people’s…” He sighed when she shook her head. “What?”
“They fired on us from space—the village was destroyed. There is nothing left to return for.” She curled against him, her fingers sliding against his skin for purchase. “I can’t believe the Lanteans went after you. I didn’t expect it… when I called them I only wanted refuge for our people and I hoped perhaps the Wraith would cull me as well.”
“No.” Ronon turned abruptly and pinned his mate to the bed. “No, never wish for that.” He held her in place with firm hands and met her gaze with hard, angry eyes. “I’d suffer anything to keep you out of the hands of the Wraith.”
“My place is at your side,” Teyla whispered.
“I would sacrifice everything—even my honor to keep you out of the hands of a Wraith. If they destroyed my home world to kill the Consorts, Teyla, don’t…” He took a deep breath. “Don’t ever give them what they want.” Ronon watched her mouth firm up in defiance. “Promise me.”
“I won’t let anyone or anything take you from me again,” Teyla returned evenly. “Nothing. I couldn’t survive it again.”
“I realize it was an emergency, and perhaps you forgot the chain of command…” Elizabeth took a deep breath. “But I’m fourth in the command structure. After Rodney, I’m the senior civilian on the base.”
John tapped his ink pen on the desk in front of him and wondered for the first time why he had it. He hadn’t seen a piece of paper on the city since he’d gotten to Pegasus. He tossed it aside and focused on Elizabeth Weir. “I’m aware of the expedition charter, Dr. Weir. That being said—we were in what I considered a combat situation and when it comes to such situations, there is no way in hell I’d leave you in charge of the city.”
She flushed with anger. “Are you saying that you’ve no intention of honoring the expedition charter?”
“I will follow General O’Neill’s orders to the letter,” John returned evenly. “And when it comes to combat or conflict situations—you are not suited to make decisions. You don’t have a military mind set. You also don’t deserve to be put in the position of having to determine who on this city can be sacrificed and who can be saved.”
“And Radek Zelenka does?”
John paused and then nodded. “He’s former military and no matter how he feels about it—his Sentinel gifts give him the skill set he needs to make tough decisions about who lives and who could die in the defense of this base. He’s Rodney’s second in command for a reason, and that decision was made before he was changed by the city.” He exhaled sharply. “I like you, personally, Elizabeth. I think you are a strong and intelligent woman with a lot to offer the expedition. But I have to tell you—you have no chance in hell of getting the Marines on this base to follow your orders. They are men shaped by war and loss—some of them have seen more death than they have life. The youngest of them, at just twenty-two, already has over a hundred kills under his belt. When he crossed the one hundred mark he went out and got so stupid drunk that O’Neill had to go bail him out of jail in Colorado Springs.”
“The civilians on this base…”
“Want to feel safe,” John interrupted. “Even you—I see it in you and everyone else. And there is Earth to consider.”
“You don’t trust me?” Elizabeth asked her gaze narrow.
“I think you would hesitate to make the decisions that I know are going to be necessary in the days and weeks to come.” John inclined his head. “Your first instinct when the Athosians came through the gate was to offer to negotiate for Ronon’s release.”
She opened her mouth and then closed it. “Yes. Yes, it was.”
“Tell me, look me right in the eye and tell me you think you can negotiate with a species that considers us food. Tell me you can make deals with them and you can trust them to honor those deals.”
Elizabeth flushed and then shook her head. “No. No, I can’t tell you that. Not after what I read about them in the Ancient database.”
“Yet, your first instinct was to try.” John sighed. “Don’t you see?”
“I see.” Elizabeth nodded, her eyes closed. “I see. This isn’t the mission we thought we had before us. It’s not about science or exploration.”
“No, it’s about survival,” John admitted gently. “I want to keep our people alive. I want to make it safe for you to go out and meet the peoples of this galaxy. I want the botanist to gather plants and find a cure for cancer. I want the anthropologists to travel the worlds of this galaxy and find out about all of these people the Ancients left behind but right now—that isn’t an option. Right now, we’ve got a bunch of alien vampires preparing to leave this galaxy for Earth and they don’t even know they’re coming.”
“I want to be an asset to you, John. Right now I don’t feel like much of one.” Elizabeth stood up and paced away from the desk. “I can’t just sit back and do nothing.”
“You can learn to handle a weapon,” John said finally. “Like I asked you to do repeatedly before we left Earth. You can help us build relationships and alliances with the people in this galaxy so we can form some kind of intelligence network so we can defeat the Wraith before they gather up enough of whatever they need to leave this galaxy and head for our home.”
“You can stop looking at Rodney like he’s a monster for killing that Wraith.”
Elizabeth flinched. “I… it was a shock, Colonel Sheppard. To kill a subdued prisoner—you, of all people, understand how wrong that is.”
“I understand on Earth that it would be frowned upon in some instances and an out right war crime in others. But we aren’t on Earth, Dr. Weir, and we aren’t in a situation where we can allow a Wraith to gather intelligence on us, nor are we in a good position to take a hostage. We don’t have the power to maintain the prison section and live at the same time. No matter how that Wraith died—he was dead. If we’d been able to remove that shield in the field, I would have put him down as soon as it came off.” John inclined his head. “If we’d brought it back, it would have starved to death in the cage. It isn’t like we could have met its dietary needs.”
He watched a look of horror flick across her face and fought back the urge to grin. It would be entirely inappropriate and would not do anything to maintain a healthy relationship with the woman.
Elizabeth huffed. “No, I suppose not. This goes back to that military mindset I don’t have, right?”
“Right.” John nodded. “You’re a gentle person, Elizabeth. You see the good in people and you’ve worked towards peace all of your life. I really don’t want to see you change but I know the situation out here is going to change us all. I need to protect our people, you included, as much as possible. I can’t be different than what I am.”
“The Sentinel imperative?” Elizabeth questioned.
“Yes,” John admitted. “And I see things in you that you don’t want anyone to know. You have no secrets from me and I know how scared you are. I know you aren’t sleeping and I know you feel it’s a weakness to turn to your husband for support.”
She paused and blushed. “I…”
“He loves you, Elizabeth. He loves you so much he gave up Earth for you with absolutely no hesitation. Like most of the people on this mission, he stepped through the gate thinking it was a one way trip. He didn’t do it for exploration, discovery, or even some misplaced loyalty to me like some others did—he did it for you.” John took a deep breath. “He begged Sumner. Did you know that? He practically got down on his knees when Sumner dismissed him from the mission.”
Elizabeth blinked back tears. “I didn’t… I didn’t know that.”
“Trust him and let him be there for you—it’s the whole reason he’s here.” John inclined his head and looked her over. “And get some pills from Jennifer. She has a few things that aren’t addictive. You need something or you’re going to start look like shit and we can’t have you looking like shit in front of the others.”
She glared at him and brushed a tear from her cheek. “Did anyone ever tell you that you’re something of an asshole?”
“Yes. My Guide mentioned it a few times.”
“You and Weir get things settled?”
John darkened the glass walls of their office and the door flicked lock with a thought as McKay settled in a chair in front of the desk. “Mostly. I think she’s chaffing under my authority but I expected that. She is a strong, confident woman and in other circumstances she’d probably be in an excellent leader for the expedition.”
“If we were still a scientific expedition,” Rodney clarified. “But, I don’t think O’Neill ever thought that was what we would be out here.”
“No, I agree. I think all of those years going through the gate taught him enough to believe that there is something stupidly evil just out of our reach 99% of the time.” John rubbed the back of his neck and frowned. “So, I think we might have a problem.”
Rodney pressed his lips together in a thin line. “It isn’t something we ever had a problem with on Earth. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve been in the same communal shower with Samantha Carter.” He grinned. “In case you’re interested in knowing, she’s a work of art.”
John laughed softly. “I just bet. Jackson, too.”
“Yeah, really pretty ass but no one ever bothered her or her Guide in that situation.”
“Keller isn’t a known commodity and a few of the men definitely responded,” John grimaced as he said it. “I can’t blame them really; it’s a natural response to a naked woman. But what bothers me is that it wasn’t a problem until she arrived. They didn’t spare Laura or Vala a second glance.”
“There was a problem early on with Vala but she kicked one of the Marines’ ass for looking at her tits in a briefing. It was all the lesson they needed. Cadman and Vala—they are both soldiers. Jennifer is a soft, very feminine woman who doesn’t look a damn thing like a soldier.”
“Well, Jennifer Keller isn’t in a position to kick anyone’s ass for looking at her considerable and curvy assets.” John frowned. “So, it’s an issue and I’d rather not have Lorne reduced to feral homicide among our own.”
“Options? There is only the one big shower that has the hall from the gate room and the Jumper Bay. There are a lot of female soldiers on the base as well. Either way we cut it we’re going to be having unisex showering going on.”
“I was hoping you could encourage the city to coming up with a solution,” John admitted. “Maybe if you put a few engineers on designing walls that can be moved around and broken down—the city would give you a solution like she did with Radek’s situation.”
“I think she feels guilty about what she did to him,” Rodney admitted. “She caters to his needs very quickly—and Parrish asked me if you had reported feeling like you were being watched.”
John shook his head. “I feel… monitored to some degree but probably no more or less than anyone else on the city. We both know that the internal sensors are always active. It could be that Radek is picking up on them so acutely because his situation is new and he has no refuge from the city itself.”
“We should probably take him off world soon,” Rodney said then. “They could both use some time where it is just them.”
“Yesterday I would have suggested a trip to Athos,” John looked down at his empty desk. “Ronon said there seemed to be no reason or method to their culling. I think we need to investigate that—start mapping the worlds they’ve culled and look at the big picture. They know where Earth is, what we need to know is how long it will take them to get there.”
“We need to do a survey of the mainland,” Rodney said finally. “Radek would actually be good for that. With Parrish’s field being botany they’d make for a good survey team for finding land we can cultivate and if there are any natural mineral deposits we can take from the planet itself. We don’t have the power to maintain the Athosian population within the city itself.”
“I imagine that Ronon and Teyla would want to be a part of the survey team if they agree to settle the people here on the planet. If not we’ll do our own survey and help them get settled where ever they want to go.”
Ford dropped into his desk chair and stared at the ten men who made up squad six. “So, let’s talk about Jennifer Keller.”
Most of them colored brightly and averted their gazes and Stackhouse just cleared his throat. “Lieutenant, I believe we all get the fact that she’s off limits but she’s an unknown and today—well we’re used to Cadman and Vala. They don’t even blip on the radar any more to be honest but Keller…” He shrugged. “Some of the men find her very interesting but I don’t believe any of them are a threat to her in any aspect. They know she is both emotionally and physically unavailable to them.”
“I know.” Ford offered a small grin. “The physical reactions aren’t really the problem at this point. I don’t think any man could expect you not to get a little interested physically. I’ve gone round and round with more than one man over Laura—and I’m not even a Sentinel.” He sighed. “It’s the aggression I felt that I have a serious problem with. I’m not going to point fingers but I know that at least three of you had far more than just physical reactions. What you need to understand is that Sheppard and McKay both felt the same things coming off of you—probably in far greater detail that I did because of their ratings on the Sentinel-Guide Scale. I’m only a level 4 Guide and I noticed it. I don’t even want to know what McKay got off of you.”
Stackhouse frowned. “Aggression.” He glanced around the room, taking in the two teams that had been called in.
“Yes, the kind of aggression that leads very dangerous situations.” Aidan took a deep breath. “She felt it too and if anyone of you makes that woman nervous due to your inappropriate interest in her—Lorne will kill you.”
“You think that zoomie could get the best of one of us?”
“Yes, Corporal Keener, I do and if you think otherwise you’re an idiot,” Ford snapped. “What you also fail to understand is that the Sentinels on this base have formed a pride. Which means that not only is Lorne a threat when it comes to Keller—every Sentinel on this base is. You crowd her, make a pass at her, or express any sexual interest in her what so ever – they’ll get in line behind Lorne to kill you.” He jerked his thumb over his shoulder. “And that includes that truly big mother fucker they stormed a Wraith Hive to get back and bring here.”
“I thought Sentinels were supposed to protect the tribe,” Stackhouse murmured a little stunned at Ford’s anger.
“From outside forces and from each other,” Laura Cadman said from the doorway that connected her office to her Guides. “There are protocols when it comes to interacting with Guides—especially civilian Guides. I have to make allowances for Aidan that I’d never be required to make if he wasn’t in the Corps.” Her gaze swept around the room and settled on Keener. “You’ll notice that Sheppard rarely allows anyone to touch his Guide but I’m not so militant about it. Keller is a doctor on the base, she’ll be responsible for your physical care—she will touch you but you are never allowed to touch her back. Vala is as much a soldier as I am—she won’t wait for her Sentinel to avenge her when she’s perfectly capable of kicking your ass and shoving her combat boot up your ass.”
“She broke that guy’s arm three years ago,” Markham muttered. “She wasn’t even breathing hard when she was done kicking his ass.”
Stackhouse laughed a little and relaxed in his chair but he sobered after a few seconds. “I’ll take care of the men. I don’t want anyone forced to defend their Guide, Lieutenant. It would help if we got that Q & A McKay mentioned before.”
“And you’re really sure I shouldn’t be there?” John asked, crossing his arms and staring hard at his Guide as he moved around.
“Look, they know that you are all going to listen in on the conversation but I think we’ll get a more honest dialogue if they don’t have to look at you while they are asking me what to do with you if you go batshit insane. Feral episodes are a taboo subject and mundanes know that. I also want to introduce Teyla and make sure they understand what she is so Ronon doesn’t kill half the Marines in order to make his claim. He isn’t nearly as civilized as the rest of you.” He shot the alien Sentinel a look and Ronon just smirked at him. “You’ve ruined him already—he’s smirking, just like the rest of you.”
“Hey,” Cameron frowned. “You can’t blame his smirking on us—he’s only been on the city for twenty hours.”
“Whatever,” Rodney waved him off. “Vala and I are going to conduct the Q & A. I’ll formally introduce Teyla. We’re going to keep Jennifer out of it. Parrish and Ford are going to attend but only answer questions if necessary.”
It turned out that one hundred Marines could be eerily silent when put together in a large group. Rodney sighed and glanced towards Vala. They’d both decided to forgo any kind of lecture or prepared statement and to just take questions. Apparently no one had any questions.
“Okay.” Vala reached back behind her into the back pack she carried with her almost everywhere and pulled out a couple packages of index cards. “Let’s try it this way.”
Fifteen minutes later they had a stack of index cards full of hastily written questions. Rodney had Aidan and Parrish organize them into sections and duplicates – even accounting for duplicates there were a lot of questions. He took the first set that was offered to him and he glared briefly at Parrish who shrugged innocently.
He flicked his fellow Guide the bird and then cleared his throat. “Okay, first question—Are bonded Guides the property of their Sentinel? The answer is complicated and I don’t say that lightly. Sentinel-Guide pairs bond for life. The longer they are together the stronger their connection becomes so much so that often elderly pairs die within minutes of each other because the depth of their bond is so profound that they cannot be separated, not even in death.
“There was a time when Guides were considered actual property and were purchased by Sentinels in large auctions at least on Earth. We had some basic rights and could refuse to bond with a Sentinel after purchase and as a result—a Sentinel would often own three or four Guides who helped him but did not actually bond with him. Once a bond mate was found—the Sentinel normally released the other Guides in his care either to another Sentinel or to the government. I say care because once a Sentinel purchased a Guide he was duty bound to protect and provide for that Guide until which time their relationship was severed.”
Rodney paused and looked around the room. “None of us are slaves and even when we were collared and sold like cattle—we weren’t slaves. I guess the best term, though it is profoundly offensive, is that Guides in the past on Earth were considered highly valuable pets. They were used for their mental gifts and for sex with equal measure. Thankfully, that is no longer the case and the Guide Protection Act was put into place to prevent the abuse of Guides even within bonded pairs.” He put the card aside and drank half a bottle of water before going to the next question.
“Okay—why are Guides and Sentinels basically hairless except for head hair?” He grinned at that and then laughed softly. “Actually, that’s a sensory issue. Sentinels at the very least have five heightened senses. That means they feel everything hundred times more acutely than you do. So body hair on themselves or on their Guides can make for uncomfortable or in some cases agonizing sexual contact. Most Guides have their body hair removed permanently in Guide school after puberty sets in. It’s just easier than maintaining a daily hair removal regimen.” He caught the surprise from Teyla and figured she’d be visiting Jennifer in the infirmary after the meeting.
Rodney frowned at the next question and without a word handed it to Vala.
Vala read it then laughed. “Nosy little bastards.” She leaned against the table and cleared her throat. “I’ve heard that Guides are incapable of having a sexual response to anyone other than their Sentinel, is that true?” She ignored the snickers and offered them a smirk. “This is actually a question that our population has wrangled over for quite a while. A Guide within a platonic pairing is capable of having a sexual relationship outside their bond; however, such a relationship can cause problems for their Sentinel. A Guide in a sexual bond with their Sentinel is for all intents and purposes incapable of physically wanting another person as long as they are bound in such a deep empathic way that it can be painful to want another that way. In fact, it is distasteful and offensive for me to even think about it.”
She put the card in the discard pile McKay was creating. “The problem with a platonic bond is that Guides are by nature a very sexual and touch oriented. We want sex, we like it, and we actually like to have a lot of it. It is best for the pairing if the Sentinel just be prepared to give it up regularly.”
Vala grinned at the laughter that elicited. “If the bond is platonic and the Guide is forced to seek an outside partner, the Sentinel is forced to endure their Guide smelling like another person which is very offensive to their natures. That being said, in many cultures in the Milky Way galaxy it is not uncommon to find a strong Sentinel in a triad bond or relationship with two Guides. Or even a mundane female if breeding is a social concern. On my homeworld it is tradition for two Guides to seek out a Sentinel to share. They often form loose mental tethers to one another upon meeting and a compatiable Sentinel is added to that bond at a later date.”
“The smell is why touching a Guide is bad?” One of the men asked from the front row.
“Yes,” Rodney answered with a nod as Vala turned to grab a bottle of water. “As a Guide my first duty to my Sentinel is maintain the foundation of his senses—he grounds himself on my body and if another person, or a Hive or whatever—it’s going to screw with his ability to ground and use his senses effectively.” He glanced down at the next question in his hand with a frown. “Parrish?”
David took the card with a shrug and read it. “Okay—what do the Sentinel-Guides ratings really mean?” He paused and considered that. “All Sentinels, no matter their rating have the same gifts when it comes to the senses. Some, like Colonel Sheppard, have additional gifts but for the moment let’s concentrate on the five senses: taste, touch, hearing, sight, and smell. While they all have the same basic heightened senses—the United States rates their abilities to use those gifts on a scale from 1 to 6. The more control a Sentinel can wield during a situation the higher his or her rating on the scale can go which is why Sentinels are normally evaluated when they first come online and then again after they’ve settled to get a good sample of their abilities.
“The US is the only country that actually rates Sentinels. Contrary to popular belief, the rating system is not used to determine the acknowledgement of an Alpha Sentinel or Colonel Sheppard’s case, an Alpha Sentinel Prime. To put a fine point on it, only Sentinels determine that and they do it within themselves like hierarchy with a pack or pride.” He waved the card around. “In fact, one of the most impressive things about Colonel Sheppard was the fact that he is a very gifted Sentinel and still hid what he was for over twenty years.”
“What reason would a Sentinel hide his abilities the way Colonel Sheppard did?” Stackhouse asked from the front row. “What is an Alpha Sentinel Prime?”
Rodney rolled his water bottle in his hands as he moved on the table he was sitting on. “As much as anyone can say that Sentinels and Guides are free; in many respects we are not. When the Colonel was a child, a Sentinel of his abilities would have been taken from his parents and raised by the government. He would have been considered government property—and that law didn’t change until about ten years ago.
“Even now, Sentinels in the US are all but pressed into military or civilian service of some kind. It’s in their nature to serve and to protect—so it works out but I’ve encountered many Sentinels who would prefer a different life. His ability to hide what he is—well it’s a gift in itself.
“As to his Alpha Sentinel Prime status that has more to do with his additional gifts rather than his rating or his ability to use his senses. The Colonel is as empathic as any Guide on this city. That makes his needs as a Sentinel somewhat unique. There are very few Primes on Earth and we’ve rarely found them on other worlds at all. Ronon knew what John was when he met him; but at this point we don’t know what that means in regards to the phenenomon on his home world.”
Stackhouse raised his hand and cleared his throat when Rodney nodded. “Could he act as a Guide?”
“Not in the traditional sense,” Rodney admitted. “First and foremost, he doesn’t have the training for it and secondly his bond with me would prevent it. He can, however, influence the Sentinels under his command—calm them down or do the exact opposite if the situation called for it. His empathic burden is a heavy one—as heavy as my own but what makes a Prime dynamic in battle is his ability to spread out the weight of his empathy to influence others.”
Mouths dropped open and Stackhouse leaned forward, slightly horrified. “What do you mean exactly, Dr. McKay?”
“In the right circumstances, John Sheppard could lead an army of thousands into battle without speaking a word to them,” Rodney said quietly. “Those suspectible to his influence, Sentinels and mundane sensitives alike, would respond to every unspoken objective. Could he make you act contrary to your ethics? No. Could he force you to act to save your own life in a moment of fear? Absolutely. Could he dull the pain in your body to keep you on your feet? Yes, on a rather grand scale. There is an urban legend that a Roman Alpha Sentinel Prime once took an army of Sentinels into battle and they fought non-stop for five days. And when they won the day, half of them dropped dead from exhaustion. Is it true? I have no idea but I wouldn’t bet against it.”
Rodney glanced down at the next question and frowned. It wasn’t one they should be answering but the problem with promising to be open is the “being open” part of the equation. “Question—what did the city do to Radek Zelenka?”
Parrish reached out and took the card from Rodney and tapped it on his chin. “Dr. Zelenka had a previously undiscovered latent Sentinel gene. The city activated it when he touched the control chair and in turn also activated his ATA gene. We are unsure what the connection between Sentinel genes and ATA genes are. Dr. Keller is researching that carefully and the study could take years. Fortunately, Radek and I have always been friends and in that friendship we were able to find a path to a Sentinel-Guide bond. He is a Level 6 Sentinel and I’m a Level 5 Guide. On Earth, he would have been encouraged to seek his Guide among Level 6 Guides only.”
“Could another Guide challenge you for him if we returned to Earth?” Markham asked. “A higher rated Guide or maybe one who thought he or she was a better match to Dr. Zelenka?”
David shook his head. “No, such challenges on Earth are considered pair-bond interference and that is our highest crime. We are all honor bound to protect the pair-bond. The challenges in our community in the past were among Sentinels; in fact it was common when a Sentinel was allowed to own several Guides at the same time. It was how Guides changed hands and hopefully ended up with a Sentinel they could bond with.”
“There are a lot of female Guides on the mission but that’s a little bit misleading, right?” One of the men in the middle asked. “Most Guides are male?”
“Yes,” Rodney nodded. “Most Guides are male; just as most Sentinels are male. Traditionally, the protection of the tribe fell to men so from an evolutionary stand point it makes sense that it would be males. In the last two hundred years, we’ve records for just 203 female Sentinels registered with the Sentinel-Guide organizations on Earth. Besides Laura Cadman, most of you have probably met or at least seen one of them—Colonel Samantha Carter.”
“I met another one,” Stackhouse offered. “Major Anne Teldy. She’s a Marine. At the time I met her she wasn’t bonded. Can a Sentinel live their whole life unbonded?”
“Yes, while a bond offers them a protection and a foundation on which to base their senses—bonding isn’t required for them to live.” Rodney admitted but he frowned as he did so.
“We’re the icing on the cake, so to speak,” Vala offered and then grinned when Rodney laughed. “Who turns down icing?”
“Okay, what does a Guide get from bonding?” Rodney frowned at the index card and then sighed. “Okay, the easy answer is that a Guide gets everything from the bond but that wouldn’t answer your question. I’m stronger now that I’m bonded—physically, mentally, and emotionally. My Sentinel offers me the kind of mental shielding that I could only dream about before I was bonded. In that way, I am able to balance my empathic burden on our bond.”
“And sex?” Markham asked with a little grin.
“Actually, the sex and the skin hunger are a byproduct of bonding. I had a teacher in Guide School once tell me that the Guide is often just acting out their Sentinel’s aggressions and deep seated desires,” Rodney said, his voice dry and sarcastic. “I just think she didn’t like to admit she liked to be fucked and blamed her Sentinel for it.”
And with that, the last of the tension bled out of the room. Rodney watched the Marines relax and felt himself relax in turn. They all had to work together and survival was their number one goal.
“There are instances when it is perfectly okay to touch a bonded Guide. If we are incapacitated in the field, feel free to throw us over a shoulder and haul our ass home—our Sentinel will eventually thank you for it.”
“What do you mean eventually?” Stackhouse asked his gaze narrow.
“Well,” Rodney inclined his head. “If someone shot me—my Sentinel would lose his fucking mind. Don’t get in his way and don’t try to stop him. The battle drive is the most dangerous feral state a Sentinel can be forced into. They are fed by anger and incited by the smell blood. The prevalent theories among most anthropologists that study Sentinels believe that Viking berserkers were probably Sentinels. The blood will excite them, make them kill more, maybe even in some instances make them seek more of the enemy to kill when common sense would dictate a retreat.”
“And at that point they can’t be reasoned with?” Markham asked with a raised eyebrow.
“No. Your best option is to tuck in behind them, watch their back, and get his Guide on the scene as fast as you can.”
“Can they come out of a feral state by themselves?”
“Yes, but it can be difficult. I’ve seen Sentinels do it—but they were unbonded Sentinels.” Aidan shrugged when McKay looked his way. “I’ve been in the Marines for ten years, sir. Laura and I have seen combat in a variety of ways due to our pairing and our skill sets.”
“And if the Guide is injured and can’t calm his or her Sentinel down?” Stackhouse asked his voice neutral but not soft.
Rodney frowned because there was really only one solution and he didn’t like the idea of giving anyone permission to take his Sentinel down. “We had a Sentinel go feral on us and his Guide was unavailable…” He glanced briefly at Vala and felt the twinge of pain drift over her mind. “We had to stun him to get him back through the gate but not before he killed upwards of eighty Jaffa.”
McKay cleared his throat and continued. “Most of you have not met Teyla Emmagan.” He opened his shields slightly as the woman stood in order to get a good read on the men in the room. “She is the bonded Guide and mate of Ronon Dex, the Sentinel we rescued from the Hive ship yesterday. As far as we know he is the last Sentinel in this galaxy and his continued sanity and survival are dependent on his Guide. It is our hope that Teyla and her people will join us on this world and help us in our fight against the Wraith. If that is their choice, you will see her and many of the Athosians on a daily basis until which time we find them a place to settle on the main land. Due to the primal level of their bond, it is very important that you respect her space and never, ever give her a reason to fear you. You do not touch her unless you literally have no choice—emergencies only. You do not speak to her unless she speaks to you first.”
One of the female Marines leaned forward and took a deep breath. “That seems kind of isolating for her, sir.”
“Yes, it might from your perspective, Sergeant Mehra.” Rodney paused and considered his words carefully. The last thing he wanted to imply was that Ronon or his Guide were primitive. It wasn’t anything like that. “Ronon suffered an immense, incomprehensible loss when his world was destroyed by the Wraith. This loss was recently compounded by the loss of Athos—a planet that he had established as his territory. Territorial imperatives differ for individual Sentinels on Earth to a large degree and due to the transitory nature of our population—mostly especially our military population—it is muted by circumstances. There are always exceptions to this rule but for the most part, Sentinels on Earth can shift their territory at will.”
“That isn’t the case with Sentinel Dex?” Stackhouse questioned. “He appears to be comfortable on the city.”
“I believe he will adjust to the new location, his new mission, and the loss of many within his personal tribe but it will take time. As it stands, the only true territory that Ronon can currently claim is his Guide. Yes, that sounds crude or even barbaric but it isn’t. It’s a coping mechanism of sorts and any Sentinel on this city could be driven to it. If you intrude upon his territory, he may kill you before he can think to do otherwise.”
Mehra nodded. “Okay, how do help the big guy get settled besides what you’ve mentioned?”
“Colonel Sheppard is going to insert Sentinel Dex into the training schedule as time allows. He served in his own military on Sateda until he was forced to accept other responsibilities due to his own Sentinel rank, which was that of a Specialist. This rank is equal with a regional Alpha on Earth.”
It had taken exactly eight days for one of the Marines to fashion a rope ladder and attach it to the east pier, shortly after they’d realized that the city’s unique design created a series of sea water pools between the piers that allowed water to flow in and out but no substantial sea life. John didn’t know if they were supposed to be recreational but it wasn’t often that he ventured out to the area the Marines had taken the time to clean up that it wasn’t being used.
“How deep is it?”
Rodney leaned back on his hands. “About thirty feet. Once your men got out here and started cleaning out the seaweed and algae—Atlantis filtered the water and small animal life she’d picked up on our trip to the surface. I’m pretty sure she’s using the pools for hydropower. We are sitting right in the middle of the strongest currents on the planet. The water flows through a series of ducts, straight through to the other side of the city and out into the west pier pool. We’re still trying to figure out where she’s storing the power and what she’s using it for.”
“The water isn’t being pushing into desalination tanks or the sewers?”
“No, she has a separate system for that in the lower levels. It was one of the first things we checked on when we started working through the problems. Fresh water, toilets, and food—remain a priority.”
John nodded and then pulled off his t-shirt. “I’m surprised no one else is out here.”
“Maybe they think you want to be out here alone,” Rodney murmured.
“Yeah maybe.” He’d heard a few people approach and then drift away without coming onto the pier. “How are Ronon and Teyla?”
“Still a little traumatized but they are both making an effort to hide it. They lost people—and they both suffer for it. He feels guilty for the pain he caused her—she is just desperate to never be separated from him like that again. I understand her far more than I understand him—but that’s just our nature. I’d rather die with you than live without you.”
John flinched. “I wouldn’t want that… you know that. I’d want you to live.”
“I couldn’t survive your loss, John. I’ve known since we first bonded that we would be one of those pairs that die together. It’s better that way, for both of us.”
John nodded his chest tight with relief and guilt. At times he wondered if he would have agreed to bond with Rodney if he’d known how deeply their minds and souls would weave together. He wanted to believe that he could be selfless enough to walk away from McKay rather than face everyday knowing that their bond would kill him if John died.
With a sigh, he unlaced his boots and dropped them on the pier. “How about a swim?”
Rodney nodded his agreement. “I bet the water is going to be cold.”
“Nah, not too bad actually.” John said after extending his sense of touch out. “About seventy-four degrees give or take.”
He just grinned when his Guide huffed but started pulling off his clothes. When he was positive that McKay wasn’t going to chicken out, he dived off the pier with practiced ease. He felt the impact of McKay in the water fifteen yards from him just before he surfaced. The water was cool, but bracing and really quite nice. He’d been out on the pier a handful of times to watch or to rest in the sun but he’d avoided the water—not quite ready to dip himself in the salt water of an alien world. The water was rough but pleasant on his skin, slightly abrasive but not painful.
“What do you feel?” Rodney asked as he surfaced beside him. “Can you feel the vibrations of animals in the water? Do we have anything like whales or dolphins on this world?”
“Something whale-like,” John murmured. “I can feel the vibrations of their songs on my skin—it’s familiar. Nothing in the world feels like whale-song. I’ve always been able to feel it more than I could even hear it and the nuances of their language are stunning—musical in ways that I can’t even begin to describe. I don’t sense clicking like you get with dolphins, but there is something else—something mental that I can’t really get a hold of in the water. Do you feel that?”
“Yes,” Rodney admitted. “At first, I thought it might be the city but it feels organic. We’ve encountered aquatic mammals on other planets with telepathic abilities but not often. It could be the same animal you’re getting the whale-song from.”
“Could be,” John murmured. “It’s pretty amazing either way.” He reached out and pulled his Guide close with one hand cupped around his neck. “I love you.”
“I know.” Rodney pressed his forehead against John’s. “And it stuns me. I never expected so much from bonding. I think I forced myself to expect nothing because it was easier to think that I’d always be alone.”
John curled his hands against his Guide’s wet skin. “You’ll never be alone, Rodney, not ever. I promise.”
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OMG!!! This was such a surprise! I checked your site on a whim and here it was. Thanks for another great chapter in this story. I am really enjoying the way people are reacting and relating to each other. Keep it up!
chrisking2005
Yay! I’ve been hitting the refresh button since yesterday afternoon (because of the difference in time zones…).
This was *great*.
*blithers merrily*
I can’t decide if I love the weekly episode or hate it. I love having a regular installment, and I’m suffering the tortures of the damned as I count down the days until the next installment. (Same bat channel! Same bat time! Aaaaaaaand, I just dated myself again, didn’t I?)
I love this ‘verse of yours – so different from WMHB, and equally addicting.
*fangirls for ya*
I totally love this AU you have created looking forward to the next instalment thanks for sharing this awesome talent with us Star
adafrog
Wonderful, thanks.
hewlettluver
great update just fantastic really can’t wait for more
danceswithgary
Another wonderful part! I loved the exposition via the Q&A session.
witch in winter
I started checking your web site around 9 this morning…this is such a good AU. Hope all is well with you. See you next Wednesday.
purrfus
What an episode!
The rescue, Weir, the shower, and then the awaited Q & A…
I really need to expand my vocabulary because I don’t have adequate words to express how wonderful this is.
djaddict
Another great addition to the series!
The Q&A session was awesome
I would love to see Rodney go head to head with a Queen
Sorka42
Wonderful new chapter. This was great. Thank you for posting.
Phlebas
This was great! I’ve been checking the site obsessively since yesterday and it fulfilled all my hopes. Thank you!
ramkat
Brilliant. Another chapter. I’m so loving this. It has all my favourite people in it and I was a big fan of The Sentinel. Thanks so much for sharing your brilliance.
Happy happy:-)
Tiamatorin
Excellent as always, keep up the good work. I’ll be eagerly awaiting the next installment. I think probably the intelligence they’re contacting dimly isn’t the whales, but Atlantis. It might be pretty cool if it were the whales, I dunno. I’ll just have to wait and see.
So good – more please.
ribbon_purple
Is it even possible for you to write something that isn’t fantastic?
sentarla
I really, really loved the part where John was telling Elizabeth about how much Simon loves her. Its small personal parts like that, that truly sets your writing apart from everyone else. Thank you so much for the update and can’t wait for the next part!
Really, really love this universe and the stories you are writing in it. Can’t even say which part I like the best because it’s all made of awesome. Looking forward to the next chapter.
Wordwitch
Thank you: this is wonderful. And I enjoyed seeing the On Guides seminar.
Ronon going through the Hive like a dose of salts … THAT was worth seeing!
Goddess47
Lovely addition….
I love Cadman’s reference to “Independence Day”…. the scene in the uni-sex shower was a nice piece of day-to-day business yet enlightening in the Sentinel Universe…. the Q&A was nicely grounding in that it explained for me (a latecomer to Sentinel in general) some of the reasons for how Sentinels and Guides work together.
You’ve put a lot of thought into this ‘verse and it shows nicely here.
Another very informative episode. Loved the history about the Sentiels and Guides. Looking forward to more
libsechumanist
Another great update. Thanks bunches.
Romyra
This was a great chapter in your Sentinel series! I was so happy when the sga newsletter showed that you had updated. You plot lines are always so very entertaining.
Seliki
This is wonderful as always, I love the Q and A that rocked. Also the talk with Elizabeth was great and handled with a light hand good job.
moonfall
YAY! I’ve been compulsively checking each day 🙂 heh. Enjoyed the new section very much with bits of all of them learning how to deal with things. Good section with Elizabeth. It made much more sense than what they did with her in the show. Loved the Q&A and wanted more with John & Rodney. I know, so many characters, so little time 🙂 Eagerly awaiting the next episode – on my birthday even! 🙂
springwoof
very exciting chapter!
inalaska
i have read so many mcshep stories and they sometimes get mixed up in my head. i had watched the sentinel series, but after it went off the air, i forgot about it pretty much. since reading your stuff i have been looking at some of it and i even read a story where rodney and john meet blair and co. but i have now become confused with all the reading and trying to keep it straight in my head.in your story and timeline, have your john and rodney met them? and did u write a particular story about it?
In this particular story– John hasn’t met Jim/Blair but Rodney met them off screen a very long time ago. Jim and Blair have not made an appearance in this series YET.
wonderful update. I just found this fic & I couldn’t resist reading the whole thing in one sitting~
This series just keeps getting better and better. Can’t wait for the next part.
Wonderful new chapter! Great fun reading and love how the story is unfolding and what reactions and actions the character makes. Seems you are intermingling just a little with your Sentinel fic. If so, you mentioned that wolf guides are very powerful and special amongst the guides. And Rodney is a wolf guide. Will you somehow work this into this fic? Also, 2 days until your next chapter and I’m biting my nails….
Actually- this world is entirely separate from my Sentinel fic “The Awakening”. I use a lot of the same themes but in this fic Sentinels/Guides aren’t matched through DNA as they are in my other fic. If that had been the case John and Rodney would have found each other as teenagers.
It’s fanon that in most Sentinels are Known fics that Wolf Guides are extremely powerful.
Hey, its Aug. 1st, and no new chapter! Sad, tears of pain, I have not recieved my fix in over 2 weeks. Help me!!!1
Just re-reading. Again.
This part blows me away…
Too cool for words.
That’s a very important scene for the series and for an upcoming episode. 😉
I like the way you’re mixing canon and this fic. Great job.
I have to admit, I’ve always been sympathetic to Weir in discussions like what you had here- I’m a negotiate first type of person too. Also, John’s Geneva Conventions discussion in the show kind of bothered me because it’s not reciprocal- you are bound by it if you sign on regardless of what the other party feels.
And I’ve worked for the U.S. military AND with Iraqi refugees, so I have a hard time with the basic assumption that all wraith are evil right off the bat and you can’t negotiate with them. But that’s just my personal issue with the show, NOT your writing. You’re sticking to your subject matter, and doing an awesome job of it.
I guess my point would be– so how would you make deals with the Wraith. Would it look like this:
“Okay, Todd, you can eat people off all of the worlds in this sector but leave the rest of us alone.”
Fundamentally– the dietary needs of the Wraith make any kind of “deal” completely heinous. Something the writers of the show highlighted in the episode Condemned.
I completely agree, and I’m not advocating any sort of deal like that. I would still say that I’m opposed to torturing wraith, but in general I completely get how deals with the wraith are an almost impossible prospect (Sheppard’s wraith proves it IS possible though to some degree). I guess what I was trying to say though is that the negotiate first, and then realize it’s going nowhere and decide to fight is not a bad thing when time is not of essence. BUT here, Sheppard was right that time IS of the essence. I mean, it’s different in a hostage situation where negotiation might be a good idea because storming the castle could just lead to dead hostages, but this wasn’t a hostage situation at all, and a rescue was necessary. So I wasn’t disagreeing with Sheppard as much as putting in a nice word for mediation because I found the blanket idea that Geneva was not applicable wrong, I just think Geneva would allow Sheppard to do what he did.
I should explain myself here- this is really not meant as criticism. But I’ve lived for seventeen years where the army’s word was law and ordinary citizens have no real rights against them- that often translates to widespread rape, torture, and extra-judicial killing, so I just believe that civilians should always be in charge. Not in charge of military operations, which is why I think Sheppard was right, but of governments as a whole. And operations should perhaps always have a civilian there as a check. So my point isn’t that Elizabeth is always right, but that having her there, even if she’s wrong, adds a very necessary component to the debate.
Sorry, rambling on. You must hate me! Please feel free to ignore this.
I only hate stupid people. And asshats. I hate asshats, too.
Also, people who annoy me don’t get their comments posted on my Happy Place.
You’re fine 😉
I like to think about stuff like that and I like that fic makes people think.
starr_falling
Exciting chapter! Hives are so creepy, I probably enjoyed them blowing it up a little too much. The Q&A was both interesting and amusing, and one of the things I’ve always loved about Vala was how she owned her sexuality.
gail19
I apologize for failing to comment before, since *hides face in hands* this is not my first reading of this story. While it is difficult to get the computer to myself sometimes, if I can find time to read I can find time to let you know what I think and feel about a story.
This is one of my favorite episodes of this series. There is so much information – characterization, world building, etc – presented in different ways. The conversations between characters establish and maintain each character while providing background and clues for the future. Its a great balance.
Sheppard’s scene with Weir is fantastic. While Sheppard wins, each person’s ideas and views are treated with respect by the other. Not easy in male/ female relationships – especially given the stress of the situation.
Changing perspective from character to character within a scene and from scene to scene can be a total nightmare. This flows so smoothly.
Debi C
I’m embarrassed to admit I’ve just discovered this entrancing piece of art you are creating. I love everything about it. It took me a moment to take a deep breath because I’m a big J/D fan but you handled it very well. And I loved the Cam/Vala relationship. Perfect.
So, excellent work, keep it up, and I’ll be right there reading as you go. Thanks again.
Laura_trekkie
Poor Teyla and Ronon; having to deal with the pain and fear of being separated and then the feelings of loss for the Athosians they didn’t get back. At least it cemented the relationship between Athosians and Lanteans, especially the agreement between John and Ronon.
I liked the Q & A with the Marines. There were some serious questions there, but also some light hearted ones and it was good that the meeting was relaxed and the Marines really wanted to know the answers and what to do in various tough situations.
kraymond24
Keira, I am rereading this for about the 10th time, and it is as awesome as ever. However, in this episode and one other, I have come across some text that I don’t remember from previous readings. Now, it is entirely possible that I just skimmed over it before, but something keeps telling me that there are some new tidbits in here. Have you added any text since your original postings? Specifically, I didn’t remember this part:
This is a really super image of John directing people with his mind, and I swear it wasn’t always in there. Can you please satisfy my curiosity? Thanks!!
It was something that I had taken out the first time I wrote it and put back in when I went through the series to start working on the ebook version of Season 1. I had to shape up the Alpha Sentinel Prime stuff because it was a little confusing and haphazard due to replotting.
So, short answer- yes, it’s new to the site. I added it in January.
Thank you very much for the reply! I enjoyed reading more about the concept of Primes. So, are Jim Ellison and Jack O’Neill Primes with similar empathic powers as John and his nephew?
No. Alpha Sentinel Primes are very rare. There are less than ten on Earth and Andy is one of them.
Oh, ok. I thought I read something about Jack being one, but I think I just assumed. That makes more sense. Thanks!
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Worcester Bosch and CEO of Committee on Climate Change discuss future of heating
Published: 21 June, 2019
Worcester Bosch has met with the CEO of the Committee on Climate Change to discuss the decarbonisation of heating and hot water.
This was ahead of the recent announcement that the Government was committed to net zero UK carbon by 2050 – following recommendations from the CCC.
During his tour of the Worcester Bosch HQ, Chris Stark, CEO of the CCC became one of the first people in the UK to see first-hand the UK’s first fully-functional hydrogen boiler.
The prototype runs on 100% hydrogen gas and could potentially lead the way to a new fuel source for heating and hot water in the UK.
Martyn Bridges, Director of Technical Communication and Product Management at Worcester Bosch said: “It is excellent to see organisations and bodies such as the CCC directly connecting with big heating companies to discuss decarbonisation.
“Now there is a confirmed commitment on net zero, it is the responsibility of all of us in the heating sector to contribute fully. We believe Hydrogen is has a major part to play so we are happy to have been able to show Chris what our research and development has produced.
“With the Keele University trials due in a couple of months, the recent Drax coalition on a Humber-based hydrogen facility and our prototype boiler we believe hydrogen is definitely the way forward when it comes to tackling decarbonisation of heating and hot water.”
Also in attendance was Mike Foster, CEO of Energy and Utilities Alliance. He said: “The gas boiler is not the enemy in the fight against climate change but an ally. It’s the use of methane that releases carbon, and that needs to be phased out.
“Using low or zero carbon gas in our homes will keep them warm and keep bills down, as well as saving the planet.”
Worcester Bosch will be officially revealing its hydrogen boiler prototype at an event later this year.
Pictured: Chris Stark (left) and Worcester Bosch CEO Carl Arntzen.
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Title: More Than Okay
Pairings: Will/Jack
Rating: G
Summary: Will and Jack spend Christmas Eve together.
Disclaimer: I admit it! I made it up! Also: Don't google yourself.
Notes: Okay, so I’m pretty sure S8 had a Christmas episode, and therefore negates this. However, let’s just pretend the canon ends at the Penguin episode.
Will awoke on the morning of Christmas Eve wishing that he didn’t have to get out of bed. He always woke up too early and followed the same routine. Maybe today could be different. Moving the comforter around, feeling the warmth that he would crave if he stood up, he decided to stay in bed. An extra 30 minutes wouldn’t hurt. He rolled onto his side, closed his eyes, and slid back toward sleep…
A hyperactive knock startled out of his almost-sleep. Muffled through the door, he heard Jack chanting, “Wiiill! It’s time to get uuup! It’s Christmas Eeeve!”
Will groaned into his pillow. Maybe if he ignored Jack, he would go away.
The door swung open a half-second later. That method hasn’t worked for 17 years. Will should know by now.
“C’mon, sleepy-head! The rules say we get to open one present on Christmas Eve, and it’s my turn to go first!”
Jack’s enthusiasm wasn’t helping Will’s morning grouchiness. “I just wanna go back to sleep,” he grumbled.
Jack’s consistent bouncing stopped abruptly. “Wait. You mean you’re actually going to sleep in?”
“Mmm,” Will responded, sinking his head into his pillow.
“But you haven’t slept in since you were fourteen.”
Will didn’t respond. If Jack would just disappear… or shut up, even… the sleep would be wonderful.
“Can I…” Jack began with a hesitant tone. “Um, join you?”
Will cracked one eye open. Sure enough, Jack was still in his pajamas. “If you promise to be quiet.”
Jack made a delighted noise. He hurried over to the other side of the bed and slid underneath the comforter.
Will next awoke to a loud knock on his door. “Go away,” he murmured, not loud enough to be heard through the door.
Grace yelled through the door. “Will, it’s almost noon! What the hell?”
Will’s eyes snapped open. The clock on his nightstand read 11:47, but his attention was drawn elsewhere. Sometime in his sleep, he and Jack had met in the middle of the bed, and Will now had his arm wrapped around Jack’s stomach. Jack stirred slightly, signaling to Will that Grace had woken him up, too.
“Alright, alright. I’ll be out soon!” he yelled back, hoping she’d go away. Luckily, no response filtered back through the door.
He withdrew his arm, immediately feeling the cold contrast of the air. Jack twisted around to face him. “G’morning,” Jack said with a shy smile.
Will was struck with the oddness of the situation. Something about this should be bothering him, and yet he felt completely comfortable. “You ready to open your Christmas Eve present?” Will asked, feeling as if he was in a good mood already.
Jack beamed and hopped out of bed immediately. “I thought you’d never ask!” He bolted out into Will’s living room.
Will slowly pulled the comforter away, feeling the sting of the cold air. Deciding pajamas were suitable attire for his living room, he headed on out. Jack was moving the boxes under Will’s lackluster Christmas tree into stacks with a giddiness that made Will smile.
Grace emerged from her bedroom. “You’re kidding, right? You’re gonna parade your Christmas around me again? Forget this. I’m going shopping.” She grabbed her coat and left without a backwards glance.
Will wanted to throw a comment back at her about shopping on Christmas Eve and suicide, but it was too late. He walked up beside Jack and picked up a small box from Jack’s stack of presents. “Here, open this one.”
Jack shook his head and did not take the box. “No, no, no. I’ve changed my mind. You go first.” He picked up a box wrapped loosely in pink wrapping paper and held it out to Will.
Jack nodded, smiling, then bit his lip and looked down.
The wrapping was easy to remove. Jack tended to get excited about Christmas presents and forget how to wrap boxes properly. He tried in vain to open the taped box with his hands, but then decided to forego the embarrassment and annoyance and just use scissors. Jack sat impatiently while he cut the box open.
When the last of the tissue paper inside had been pulled away, Will pulled out two stuffed penguins that, when placed facing each other, were magnetically drawn to each other. Something that felt like butterflies in his stomach distracted him for a moment, but he tried to ignore the feeling.
“I know it’s cheesy. I just… I mean they were so cute. And. You know, penguins are great, right? So I thought maybe you’d like…”
“It’s a wonderful gift, Jack,” Will said gently. He looked up into Jack’s eyes. “Thank you.”
“You really like it? I mean I kind of thought you’d think it was stupid or something. Like the whole penguin thing was like… a frillion years ago, so I wasn’t sure if you even cared or remembered or anything.”
Will held the two penguins close together, and watched as their beaks snapped together. “Of course I remember.” He set the penguins down and gave Jack a hug.
Jack’s arms found their way around Will’s back, and he could feel Jack’s breath against his neck. As he pulled away from the hug, he turned his head slightly and kissed Jack lightly on the cheek.
Jack looked flustered for a second, and he touched his cheek lightly where Will had kissed him. The blush on his face was surprising and endearing. After a nervous laugh, Jack quickly said, “Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m starving. What do you have to eat around here?”
Before he could run to the refrigerator, however, Will stopped him. “Don’t you want your gift?”
“Oh! Yeah, um.” He reached for the box Will had offered earlier.
“No,” Will told him, taking the box from his hands. “I’ve changed my mind.”
“Right. Um, which one, then?” Jack wouldn’t look him in the eye.
He placed his hand on Jack’s arm and waited for Jack to meet his gaze.
“Will?”
Will suddenly lost his nerve when Jack looked back at him.
Jack’s smile gave away that he was about to make a joke about the situation. “C’mon, Will. If you’re gonna kiss me, then just do it and get it over with!”
Something leaped inside of him as he quickly leaned in and brushed his lips against Jack’s.
Jack froze. “I wasn’t serious!” he said in a higher octave than usual.
“I know, but I was. Merry Christmas.”
Will moved the penguins onto the mantle, moving pictures out of the way so that they were easily seen. When he turned away from the fireplace, Jack was standing behind him. Jack moved closer, but paused before he was too close. “Is this… okay?” Jack whispered.
Will closed the distance between them, giving Jack a long, sweet kiss, which Jack returned. “It’s more than okay.”
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What the hell is a Sebastian Bach interview doing next to features on bands like In Flames, Dimmu Borgir, and Crisis? Well, for those who don't know, Sebastian Bach is metal. Yes, that pretty boy you remember singing MTV-power ballads from the eighties probably is more metal than half the hardcore wannabes, new metal pogo-ers or evolving European artistes currently saturating the scene. You see, folks, metal is an attitude, a state of mind. And whether you like what he's doing or not, Sebastian Bach represents an important element of modern metal. A throwback of sorts to the days when loud guitars, Marshall stacks, heavy drinking and screaming vocals fell squarely within the metal genre, no questions asked. Bach has been to the mountaintop, surrounded by the booze, the groupies, the money, and the stadium tours. Yet after all these years he still can hang and talk a little King Diamond. With the release of his new album 'Bring 'Em Bach Alive,' the Metal Update had the opportunity to speak with the former Skid Row vocalist about metal, girls, and his legendary travails.
METAL UPDATE: Tell us what Sebastian Bach has to offer hardcore metal fans in 1999.
SEBASTIAN BACH: I've got Paul Crook in my band right now, and he's from Anthrax. He is one of the heaviest guitar players around and he brings a real heavy sound to songs like "Slave to the Grind." I've got a new album, 'Bring 'Em Bach Alive' with Wolf Hoffman from Accept. Anybody who ever listened to "Restless and Wild," "Fast As a Shark," or "London Leatherboys" from 'Balls to the Wall,' you know all those great metal riffs. I definitely love metal. There's no doubt about it. (laughs).
MU: Are you a metal singer, Sebastian?
SB: I'm a screamer, man. You can ask Phil Anselmo. You know, he had me out every single night to do "This Love," and "A New Level" in 1998. "Of confidence and power," man. (laughs) Every single night.
MU: Were Pantera fans receptive to your role in that tour?
SB: Sure, man. We took Pantera on their first ever U.S. arena tour.
MU: You're on tour right now. You must be having a blast.
SB: Oh man, we are kicking ass. We're having a lot of fun.
MU: Who's coming out to these shows? Old school fans?
SB: Well, its just packed. So whoever can get a ticket. (laughs) Tell you the truth, I do get more females at my shows than most metal bands. I can't lie. (laughs)
MU: Are they still babes or are they just the same women who came to see Skid Row, only ten years later?
SB: Well, to be honest . . . the girls who had their picture on my wall when they were like, twelve, well, they're twenty-two now. (laughs) So they're all coming to the show and they're like, "I've been waiting like ten years for this!" (laughs) They're always like, "my mom wouldn't let me come see you," and everything. (laughs) And they're all like, dressed to kill and everything.
MU: So the shows aren't so bad for the guys, either . .
SB: They're like, "dude, you bring out all the chicks!" It's hilarious. I just go up there and sing my set. I don't analyze it.
MU: What bands did you listen to growing up?
SB: Like every kid, I was a KISS fanatic. Earlier KISS. Like the first three albums. And 'KISS Alive.' And then the New Wave of British Heavy Metal hit, and I was really into Venom and Exciter and Anvil. Actually, I just got asked to join Exciter in an email. I was like, "thanks, guys, but I'm doing pretty well on my own though." But yeah, I stood in line to get King Diamond's autograph on the 'Don't Break the Oath' album.
MU: What do you think of King Diamond now?
SB: He's cool, man.
MU: Do you consider his style to be what you would call good vocals?
SB: Yes I do. You have to be very talented to pull off those high notes, those falsettos. I can't sing falsetto. I'm full-on screams. I don't know how he does it. Plus, he's opened up for us a couple of times in Brazil. And he smokes cigarettes all day. I'm like, "how does he do it?"
MU: Sad that those guys made more money from Metallica covering their songs on 'Garage, Inc.' than from the entire balance of their careers.
SB: Well, they are pretty big, man. In some countries. In like, Brazil, they do 20,000 seaters down there. And in Europe.
MU: So, at the beginning of Skid Row, it seems you had more of a metal attitude than a glam one.
SB: Yeah, but I also dug bands like . . . Kiss was nothing but makeup. So I do enjoy a visual presentation as well. Judas Priest, with the black leather and all that shit.
MU: But those bands have a little more substance than some of the other bands who came later, in the "makeup-and-hairspray eighties."
SB: Oh yeah. I know. I don't see any similarities between "Unskinny Bop Bop Bop Bop Bop Bop Bop" and "Slave to the Grind." I don't hear the similarity. I know I got the same haircut as that guy, but so does Willie Nelson and Greg Allman. (laughs)
MU: Were you ever friends with those people?
SB: The only time I ever met Brett Michaels was when he came to see us when were on the road with Bon Jovi. That's the only time I ever really met that guy.
MU: Do you miss the days of playing stadiums?
SB: It's really simple for me. I just book a show, it sells out. I do another one. I do a CD. I don't really analyze where I fit. I have too much to think about. I have a musical vision. I don't want just three CDs. I want like, twenty CDs. I respect bands like Rush that follow their own musical vision.
MU: Why didn't Skid Row become a Rush, AC/DC, Aerosmith or a Van Halen?
SB: I got kicked out of the band in December '96. And the drummer got kicked out after that. That's basically what happened. You'd have to ask the other guys. They own the name. If I owned the name, Skid Row would still be going.
MU: No chance of a Skid Row reunion in the near future?
SB: No. I just signed a four album deal.
MU: With Spitfire?
SB: Yes. So I'm gonna be crankin' out solo albums like rapid fire.
MU: How do you feel about Spitfire records?
SB: I think they're awesome. They're hooking me up with people like you, and they believe in rock and roll. Atlantic Records doesn't give a dog shit about rock and roll. They don't even like rock and roll.
MU: What about the other artists on Spitfire?
SB: If it's good enough for Alice Cooper, it's good enough for Sebastian Bach. And believe it or not, they just signed Motley Crue for all of Europe and Japan.
MU: Is Motley Crue an influence?
SB: The first two records, 100%. 'Too Fast For Love' and 'Shout at the Devil.' My god.
MU: Are you friends with those guys?
SB: Yes. I'm friends with Vince Neil and Tommy Lee and Nikki.
MU: Why did Tommy Lee leave the band?
SB: I don't really know about that. Last time I saw them was at Roseland in New York, I think. But I actually got asked to join the Crue before John Corabi. I auditioned with them, and they wanted me to join the band. But I had a tape of 'Slave to the Grind' in my pocket at that time. I had to get that out to the public. I love that album. And Nikki goes, he says at the time, "if Aerosmith had asked me to join around the time that 'Shout at the Devil' was about to come out, I would have said no too."
MU: Why did you bust out at that point with an album that was that much heavier? Every fourteen year old girl in the land bought your album and hung your picture on the wall. And you come out with an album that's more metal than the first!
SB: (laughs)
MU: And a lot of metalheads really stand behind what you did with 'Subhuman Race.'
SB: Right on. Yeah man, there's some heavy shit on there like "Frozen." I still do "Frozen" in the set 'cause it's really fuckin' heavy.
MU: How did Skid Row go heavier at the height of their popularity? You got a big bag of cash on one side of the table, and musical integrity on the other. What stopped you from making the equivalent of a Backstreet Boys album with guitars and long hair?
SB: I was nineteen years old, when we recorded the first record. I was trying to be heavy. (laughs) I thought songs like "Sweet Little Sister" were the heaviest fucking things in the world. I was really going for it. But I was only nineteen. I didn't physically . . . I mean, when I listen to that album -- it's got great memories but I sound like a little kid. And I didn't have the muscles in my throat to really belt out kick-ass rock like the verses to "Monkey Business." A couple of years later, I'm twenty-three or twenty-four. And, you know, money doesn't mean shit to me. I'm not from a rich family. My dad's a painter, he paints pictures because he loves to paint pictures. And I rock and roll because I love to rock and roll. And I'll never stop doin' it. Because I'm a singer, and I was the lead soprano in my church choir when I was like eight years old. And that's like the same thing that I'm doing right now. Just doin' whatever music I want. I can't sing music I hate.
MU: Did you make enough money from the good times with Skid Row to afford you that luxury now?
SB: Well, believe it or not, we just did 1200 kids two nights ago in Baltimore, MD. Twenty bucks a pop. I'm not really relying on the past. I'm doin' fine right now.
MU: Tell me about 'Bring 'Em Bach Alive.'
SB: I have some great players on there. On the studio tracks I have Anton Fig from the first Ace Frehley solo record. Need I say more on that one? He's also on the David Letterman Show. And, at The Chance in Poughkeepsie on the 17th, and at the Birch Hill in New Jersey on the 18th, I'm gonna have two drummers. Two drummers set up side-by-side, playing the entire set. It's going to be so metal. I can't wait.
MU: Is this just to whet the appetite for the real solo album you're doing next year?
SB: Yeah, but this is a real album. It's got five studio tracks at the top that definitely are new tunes, and show a different side of me. "Done Bleeding" is a pretty metallic track. And "Counterpunch" is very heavy too. But, basically, if you look at the back of the album, Atlantic Records is still on the back. Because they put that album out in all of Europe and Japan. Like thirty-two countries. and Spitfire got it for the states and Canada. Which is awesome 'cause they're really doing a great job promoting it.
MU: MTV News Online had an item on a rumor that you were joining Van Halen recently.
SB: I saw that. I also heard it on Howard Stern.
MU: Have you been on Stern's radio show?
SB: Two times. I love him. He sets my attitude up every morning.
MU: Is the Van Halen thing completely out of the question?
SB: I've never been asked. It's the weirdest thing. It's nothing but rumors.
MU: Would you take it?
SB: Yes, I would. If you are interviewing Alex, tell him to give me a call. (laughs) At least let me try out. I never tried out man, Jesus.
MU: What do you think makes sense for them now?
SB: Give 'em David Lee Roth. That's what I think. But I'd just like the chance to try out. 'Cause I can scream the old Roth. I think I can do the Sammy Hagar stuff as well. I don't know if I can do the Cherone-era, but I'll give it a shot. I love Gary man, but you can't be a really nice guy and be the singer of Van Halen. (laughs) When he goes, "I've been to the edge, and then I stood and looked down." (laughs) It's fucking mean, you know? That's fucking kick-ass rock.
MU: Ever seen the Slayer home video, 'Live Intrusion'?
SB: I'm in it, aren't I? Smokin' some bud. (laughs) Believe it or not -- this will blow all you metal guys away -- those guys opened for Skid Row twice, in England, at Castle Donnington, in 1992 and 1995. In '92, it was Slayer, Skid Row, and Iron Maiden, and in '95 it was White Zombie, Slayer, Skid Row and Metallica. (laughs) So those were pretty heavy bills.
MU: And you never thought you'd be better served gigging with Warrant and Poison instead of Slayer and Iron Maiden?
SB: No. I don't hear the similarity in the music, man. I know there's this perception, I guess, of some people. But at the time, in 1991, Skid Row was on tour with Guns 'N Roses, and we were doin' 70,000 people per night. Just us two bands. And then we headlined arenas and took Soundgarden on the 'Badmotorfinger' tour on the road for two months opening up. So anybody who was around then knows the true scene of what that was. I guess it's the way I look or something. But I can't help the way I look.
MU: Part of it had to do with the fact that you had a couple huge singles that were monster mainstream hits.
SB: And, well, videos too. Videos kinda put us in that bracket. But "Monkey Business" is a heavy video, man. (laughs)
MU: What are we gonna hear on the next solo record?
SB: I'm gonna do more songs with Wolf, more songs with Larry, and probably some songs with Paul Crook from Anthrax.
MU: What songs are you doing on tour?
SB: We're gonna do some really obscure Skid Row songs. Like "Livin' on a Chain Gang," is in the set. It was never in any Skid Row set. All the new shit. All the hits. You gotta come see me with two drummers. Anton Fig is great. Paul Crook adds a really heavy sound to the gig. He's going out with me, then he's gonna play with Anthrax in January and then back out with me in February. Goin' all across America, out to California, up through Canada and back again.
MU: Will you ever get back to the sales figures you had at the peak of Skid Row?
SB: I'll have fun tryin'! It's kinda like makin' babies -- tryin' is the fun part. (laughs) It's like, "oops. this album didn't do as good. Time to make another one." (laughs). I love rock and roll too much.
MU: Is the lifestyle on the road still the same?
SB: No. I have to be honest with you -- I can not drink Jack Daniels anymore. I'm thirty-one. When I was twenty-one, I could drink a whole bottle of that shit. Last night, I had one blast of it, and I'm hurtin' right now. (laughs) But I party, drink a couple beers, I smoke a little bit. But I can't drink the hard booze anymore. I don't know how I did that. Jesus Christ!
MU: Give me a rock and roll road story of yore.
SB: Wow. Let's see. The Guns 'N Roses days were the craziest times.
MU: Do you know Axl Rose?
SB: Sure.
MU: You could just call him up and . . .
SB: Not right now, I couldn't. A couple of years ago I could. He sends me like Christmas cookies at Christmas. And like, when we played in Hollywood at the Whiskey last year there was a big bouquet of flowers with a note on it which said, "Have a great gig. you're buddy, Axl." He's kinda like Charlie, from Charlie's Angels. You don't really see him, but you know he's around, somewhere. (laughs)
MU: So give me a story from the G'N R tour.
SB: Dude, they rented the MGM Grand plane. And you probably don't even know what that is. Most people don't even know what that is. It doesn't even exist anymore. But back in the early nineties, there was a 747 that was only for movie stars and rock stars. It was like a complete tour bus in the air. But it wasn't a little plane like most of the bands have. It was a freakin' 747 or a DC-10 or some shit. And they used to rent this, and it would seat 400 people, and they only had like seventy people. Three-quarters of it was empty! And we'd be flyin' around over the United States doin' all sorts of crazy shit. And I kept trying to get on this plane. They didn't tour by bus, Guns 'N Roses, they toured by plane. And I'd say, "Axl, let me come and party on the plane, man." And he's like, "yeah, probably next week, man, you can come on." And I'm like, "c'mon man, let me come on the plane, man." He goes, "yeah man, next week man, we'll do it. I'll be great." And I'm like "C'mon man. Dude, I just scored a big ball the size of my fist of sticky, black, opium, man." He goes, "Sebastian, get on the fuckin' plane!" (laughs) That was my admission on to the plane flight. I don't think too many people get on plane flights with a ball of opium. (laughs)
MU: Any last words for your internet fans?
SB: Yeah. Please go over to my site, www.sebastianbach.com for the latest tour dates and all that stuff.
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Home / Irish aerial dance: ‘It’s taking off’
August 9, 2013 · by admin · in Dance, Features, The Irish Times
Niamh Creely took up aerial dance she was “awestruck by the immense strength and skill needed to produce such graceful movements, but I was also excited by the possibilities that opened up by being able to move through the air”.Landfall, which she created with Jonathan Walsh, Aisling Ní Cheallaigh, and Arlene Caffrey, features four post-apocalyptic survivors suspended in a floating limbo above the audience’s head.“The ground has literally fallen away, and our set designer, Pauric Hackett, has found ingenious ways to make the different areas extensions of the four characters’ personalities. There’s a suspended garden, a floating window, a giant net that serves as a nest and an old lamp post that might still have some light to shed.”Aerial dance emerged in the 1970s, as dancers experimented with low-flying trapezes, ropes and bungee cords. Early practitioners took procedures or “tricks” from circus arts and incorporated them into modern dance forms. Whereas circus arts emphasise the tricks, aerial dance is a seamless continuum of tricks and moves that is more concerned with the overall form than individual moments.
“Within aerial dance, there is the aesthetic of dance, which is different than the aesthetic of circus arts,” says Nancy Smith, co-author of the book Aerial Dance and artistic director of Frequent Flyers Productions in Colorado. “But there is definitely a blurring of boundaries between dance and circus.”
“Aerial performance, because of the risk involved, demands a heightened state of awareness that leads to an incredible Zen-like state of being in the moment,” says Smith.
This existential danger is always present. Safety procedures are meticulous and accidents are rare. Yet, in 2008, tragedy struck Fidget Feet, the pioneers of aerial dance in Ireland, when performer Emma Insley died in a freak accident when rehearsing a show called Real Eyes.
Devastated, director Chantal McCormick and the rest of the company were supported by Insley’s family, who encouraged the company to continue. Real Eyes was never performed, although some of its material is contained in their latest work, Fire Birds, which is dedicated to Insley’s family.
“We have six Irish dancers beating the ground with their hard shoes and then getting lifted 40m through the air over the heads of the audiences,” says McCormick. “Music is from six drummers on a six-metre-high stage dressed in angel wings, and there are three red musical notes flying through the air with a family of three musicians,” she says.
Are her artistic ideas now stifled by safety concerns? “No, because we work very closely with riggers, designers and production managers. Whatever the idea, we can safely come up with a solution to make it work,” she says.
There is no dedicated space for aerial dance, so Fidget Feet is planning to open up an Aerial Dance Creation Centre in Westmeath, comprising a large studio and a smaller one. New Irish companies, such as Creely’s Ether Productions, show how Fidget Feet’s workshops are inspiring a new generation of aerial dancers.
“Dancers are pushing boundaries with what their bodies can do, inventing new and interesting aerial apparatus, finding new venues to perform and collaborating with other art forms,” says Smith.
An exciting future? “It’s taking off,” she says. “Pun intended.”
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All posts by Abdul Haq Musa
The Demonisation of Maszlee Malik
October 17, 2018 Abdul Haq Musa
If one were to rely solely on Utusan Malaysia for news on the current Minister for Education, one would think that the honourable Minister is consumed with only thoughts of socks and shoes.
This pea-brained newspaper with gutless editors are back with their mischief. Their toxic spew is now centred on YB Dr Maszlee Malik, the Minister of Education.
Their journalists wait in ambush, trailing the Minister on his walkabouts. They care little for any weighty substance the Minister expounds on, preferring instead to wax lyrical about socks, shoes and other trivia, an obsession that reveals more about themselves than the man they write about.
If Utusan is worth even a grain of journalistic salt, it would report on the numerous initiatives drawn up by the honourable Minister in the last 100 days. This includes the green policy in all learning institutions encompassing vehicle-free zones, community clean-ups, tree-planting and adopting the 3Rs; Reuse, Recycle, Reduce.
However, Utusan has never been known as a bastion of journalism.
A newspaper sans integrity or honesty is but a pitiful face of hate politics, demonization and vilification. It sows discord and dangerous divides, with scant regard for nation building. It does not educate but leaves a trail of ignorance in its wake.
In the effort to dumb down to the masses and move more copies off the shelves, it has shown itself to be a disgrace and mockery to the art of journalism.
In a country hungry for insightful, investigative and balanced journalism, the mainstream media stand at a threshold. Known for their trumpeting of the past government, they now have the opportunity to be the voice of reason, and check and balance to the current government.
Utusan have the golden opportunity of playing a leading role in this country’s new political process and render support to a Minister who could potentially be a game-changer in the sad affairs of our current Education system.
But will they rise to the occasion? Will they pick up this mantle and be a beacon of truth and honesty? Or continue to meekly obey their masters and drown in their own venom?
Some soul searching is long overdue.
musamn@gmail.com
Journalistic Fetish for Socks and Shoes
We’ve heard some outrageous stuff being uttered in the past week. And some real petty stuff being reported by both the mainstream and alternative media in the more recent few days.
The most outrageous being an ex-UMNO politician lambasting Pakatan Harapan (PH) leadership with “Your stupid manifesto stopped you, is it?”
Though enlightened by the new politics of PH she probably still carries with her foul baggage from her UMNO past.
We wrote a piece which politely lashed at our Prime Minister when he announced that he would be holding the education ministry portfolio. And took to task both Anwar Ibrahim and Kit Siang for pussy footing on the issue. (https://www.malaymail.com/s/1632351/doctors-to-doctors-talk-musa-mohd-nordin-and-johari-bux)
It was heart warming to learn that unlike many, PM still held dear to the PH manifesto, heeded principle centric politics and immediately relinquished the idea.
We would like to see the moral compass still held high in the ever unpredictable realm of Malaysian politics. And in the new era of Malaysia Baru, we should not succumb to the Machiavellian politics of past or present politicians or even civil society for that matter.
In more tangible terms, the Minister of Education should be allowed to carry on with his job, entrusted by the PM and his cabinet, without distraction from quarters who do not have a clue of the educational system which has been adversely corrupted by the past politics of education.
And neither has the minister’s job been made easy by the mischievous and petty coverage of his tasks at rehabilitating the education ministry.
At one point in time I thought I was reading the sensationalized headlines of a silly tabloid but it turned out to be a national daily J
Come on guys! Buck up your journalistic skills and focus on the key messages of the minister. And please for heavens sake, do not allow your fetish for socks and shoes to cloud your writings.
And I hope the editors would do better than to allow such nonsensical reporting just for the sake of sales revenue and sensationalism. For a start, they may require some back to basic lessons, like not missing the forest for the trees.
Oh! By the way, have you actually read Dr Maszlee Malik’s “100 Hari Buku Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia” which addresses some of the big tickets in our educational system?
Dato’ Dr Musa Mohd Nordin
Consultant Paediatrician & Neonatologist
Damansara Specialist Hospital
YES MINISTER! YESSSS
September 15, 2018 Abdul Haq Musa
I have no doubt that many of you have written to your Pakatan Harapan (PH) state assemblymen (ADUN) and parliamentarians (MP) on various issues that in your humble opinion solicited their immediate attention.
A few ADUNs and MPs may have obliged and undertaken the necessary actions or remedial tasks but would it be too far-fetched to suggest that the majority have not even bothered to acknowledge receipt of your complaint, let alone revert, or only paid lip service to your suggestions, whilst a few were actually pissed off with your recommendations?
Well! Some of us never got to ascend the rarefied atmosphere of top echelons of corporate or academic leadership because we held dearly and uncompromisingly to our puritanical and religiously democratic views trained into us since our formative days in the UK. Among others, the notion that a leader should be told what he needs to be told and not what people feel he wants to be told. In short, calling a spade a spade (we hope we are being ethnically correct and colour blind) was and still continues to be a dearly held principle of engagement.
We always wondered why our peers including some very close colleagues of ours hesitated and used twenty words to convey what needed to be said in five words to our bosses. With so many words, inflexions and padded advice, much of the real essence was lost in the delivery.
After a protracted period of cold storage and exile for some, the reasons finally dawned on us – Eureka!
There are leaders who preferred being given advice and told what they actually wanted to be told and eschewed advice on what they really should be told. Much like the case of where the emperor wore no clothes.
In the context of Malaysian political governance, either BN or PH, we would suggest that the progenies of the aforementioned emperor are still alive and thriving, though less in the latter.
Hence subordinates, who hope to curry favour for obvious reasons, tailor their counsel to get the ears of their little emperors. There exists a culture where, upon ascending a top post, people bow and scrape to their leaders and exaggerate beyond reasonable measures moderate successes and carefully gloss over cracks and pits. They know this is the culture and leaders and followers feed off each other.
Woe betide those who like the proverbial little boy dare to draw attention to the emperor’s nudity. Our society is in its present mess not because our leaders are not smart (some undoubtedly are smart but the rest are less so) but because of an inherent internal inertia to the purveyors of not so good home truths.
No matter how smart, capable or visionary a leader is, he is subject to blind spots, either in his rear mirror, side mirror or even front windscreen if we use the similitude of a driver of a car. Blind spots can turn a pleasant drive into a tragedy. Therefore, taking cognisance from sensors allows one to make measured, careful steps to avoid dangers and help rebuild our nation’s glorious destiny.
The fact that some of our PH big wigs feel we are not up to the mark with our knowledge of their actual circumstances, thus our observations are defective and not evidential, and are therefore good reasons to be rejected outright.
I hope our ADUNs and MPs are good listeners and takes on board dissenting views with good spirits and aplomb. Kudos to the magnanimous Minister of Education who exhibited masterly PR skills in news releases when confronted with those rabble pack of university students.
Inability or unwillingness to make use of the inputs would perpetuate the culture of fawning, selective information gathering and processing so prevalent before albeit in a new Malaysia Baru form.
We however are not willing to be a party to this bodek culture and will never temper our views just because they prick our ADUN’s, MP’s or Minister’s ego.
Our political leaders are well-advised to view the UK comedy of the early 1980s, Yes Minister, which embodies authority and politics as a hypocritical world filled with double talk.
Prof Awaluddin Shaharoun
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A helm to grasp, a course to steer and a port to seek
May 29, 2018 Abdul Haq Musa
Generically, we medical doctors are politically naïve. Doctors #Tun MM and #Datin Seri Wan Azizah are the outliers in our profession, in a good way actually.
So we stick to the stuff we do best, to cure sometimes, to relieve often and to comfort always. But when confronted with a malignant tumor or a brewing septicemia, without hesitation we are trained to execute radical surgical excision or institute powerful intravenous antibiotics.
And we sensed this scenario rearing its ugly head soon after 9 May 2018. Sticking our clinical noses into the post GE14 ambience, we are perturbed by the political nuances displayed by some of our Pakatan Harapan (PH) leaders.
What is the wisdom or traction to be achieved by now suggesting post GE that “rising cost of living and the unpopular #GST were the top reasons voters swung to #PH”
It only invites derision and outrage from a large segment of PH supporters who would swear that the historical PH triumph boils down to the aura and popularity of #Tun MM.
Way back, when the opposition was still in the wilderness and finding its footings, when the idea was first mooted that #Tun MM must lead the alliance and be the PM designate, it was vehemently opposed by most in the coalition especially from PKR because it meant overshadowing the iconic PKR supremo DSAI.
It is not too far fetched to suggest that best friends became estranged and alienated. Some, being loose cannons and not much of a team player, virtually left party matters and focused on big data processes which undoubtedly was another critical success factor for PH.
But a few PH team centric guys pursued this #Tun MM for PM idea cautiously but firmly. As shrewd and wise strategists they endeavored to get the best outcome while minimising collateral damage inadvertently and eventually turned over the sceptics in PH.
This immediately transformed the opposition into a solid front that warmed to the cynical electorate who were dismayed at the earlier fractured ranks of the opposition forces. For the first time a PM designate was in place. For the first time the component parties agreed to a single logo. The first 100 days promises were enumerated in simple lingo and info-graphics. And PH were first to launch their manifesto well ahead of a nervous BN. The rest as they say is history.
In the final analysis, multiple factors contributed to the sweet PH victory at GE14. To inflate the GST and cost of living factor or for that matter the #Tun MM factor as the overriding critical success factor is much too simplistic and worse still, derogatory of other factors or other persons or other hidden hands who similarly contributed to the peaceful transition of power.
Let us instead move forward with the monumental task of rebuilding our beloved nation which has been plundered by the despicable and kleptocratic political governance of the previous administration.
PH political leaders must embrace and manifest the decorum and adab to inspire confidence and continuing support from the rakyat. Failing which, the PH leadership should discipline them appropriately to ensure that the coalition spirit is always cherished and “lone rangers” are not given a free rein to destroy the fabric of the PH camaraderie.
Let us as the rakyat, cleanse our hearts and minds of aspersions of our new leaders and allow them the space and time to get the nation back on its feet
Let us be aware of the elements in our society who are not happy with the new government and are bent on destroying it
Let us be conscious of the widespread fake news online which are planned and planted to sow discord and hostilities of the rakyat towards our elected leaders and government
Let us pray that God Al-Mighty bless our #Tun MM with good health` and longevity, because he “resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer and a port to seek” to paraphrase the American historian Henry Adams.
It is a given that those who aspire to be leaders of men must have qualities that enable them to discharge their duties not only effectively but also with utmost integrity and thus the “helm to grasp”.
The new “course to steer” as manifested in the Buku Harapan lends primacy to reforming and rebuilding our once esteemed institutions of the state.
Our Malaysian ship has a new captain, #Tun MM, to chart a new course, to steer to a “port to seek” where we all seek to live harmoniously and desire that the bounty of the land be shared equitably among its people.
This Malaysian ship must not be left floundering. We all owe it to our future generations. Failure is not an option!
Dr Musa Mohd Nordin, Damansara Specialist Hospital
Dr Johari Bux, Tung Shin Hospital
MOH – Letter to the Press
Unlike the controversies surrounding the choice of the minister of education, which we in no uncertain terms debunked in an earlier mail (http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2018/05/18/doctors-to-doctors-on-mahathirs-cabinet-line-up/), it was relatively plain sailing for the post of minister of health.
Notwithstanding, there are major and pressing issues within the health ministry which needs to be immediately addressed. Suffice to mention among these grievances, the dwindling budget allocation for health (2% of GDP in the public sector), shortage of hospital beds in the ministry of health (MOH), the lack of synergy between the MOH and the private health sector, incessant complaints from junior doctors due to a “toxic MOH work culture”, the need to harness the talent pool among health care professionals (HCP) to flourish the MOH centres of excellence to mitigate the brain drain, increasing the opportunities for medical officers to pursue postgraduate studies, the challenges of non-communicable diseases (NCD), and ageing population, plugging leakages in the MOH finances and the escalating costs of healthcare.
Therefore in our humble opinion, the next immediate, urgent and important task for YB Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad is to source for wisdom, experience and talented persons who will advise him professionally. His team need to headhunt for the best brains & hearts from amongst the medical fraternity for this national duty.
We, the rakyat, will not tolerate mediocrity in our quest for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for our citizenry.
Just short of a royal commission, he will need to re-examine and re-evaluate the status of the health of Malaysians and the healthcare services currently available at service to the rakyat.
His advisors will need to report specifically on 4 areas of concern, namely;
1 the existing and future needs for accessible, safe and quality healthcare services,
2 the resources required to actualize these services
3 to make recommendations to the minister of the necessary infra-structure, provisions, resources (urgent and important, must have, can wait, can do without) and
4 zero towards the objective of universal health coverage “ensuring that all our rakyat have access to needed promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services, of sufficient quality to be effective, while also ensuring that the rakyat do not suffer financial hardship when paying for these services”
We are very sure that there have been studies to address some or all of these issues. They advisory board does not need to reinvent the wheel!
The wise, experienced and eminent persons on the advisory board should collate all of these information and synthesise the roadmap to ensure the good health of all Malaysians and the healthcare services required to actualise this.
In the final analysis, the KPI of the minister is to ensure ensure health for all Malaysians, that no Malaysian is left out, and that Malaysians stay healthy.
Dr Johari Bux
Tung Shin Hospital
Doctors to Doctors talk
When YAB Tun announced that he would be holding the education ministry and YB Kak Wan the women’s affair, we flipped!
And upon reading this morning’s Star headlines; “Anwar: Ministerial posts for top two not contrary to manifesto” – we double flipped!
Is everyone simply being polite to YAB Tun when he rationalized his masterplan to rejuvenate the Malaysian education system? Didn’t the young Turks, the likes of YBs Dr Dzul, Khalid Samad, Chin Tong, Izzah et al in the political forum who were always loud and dissenting (in a good way) responded to YAB Tun’s plans to revolutionize the learning and teaching of our young minds.
It is as if they were mesmerized by YAB Tun or still in cloud 9 post-GE14 euphoria, or more probably it was like they “tak sampai hati” to speak against an old man’s “dying wish” for his nation’s children and their future.
We, hard core clinicians, maybe politically naive in the bargaining and jostling of political posts in the new cabinet but as far as Tun and Kak Wan are concerned we are clinically convinced on the grounds of “Evidence Based Politics” (EBP) that neither should hold portfolios in the Pakatan Harapan cabinet.
As PM and DPM, they should be the Master Jedis on the “Pakatan Harapan High Council”, mentors of the PH-Padawans, guardians trusted with the fiduciary duty to oversee the new cabinet to ensure the cherished values of Competency, Accountability and Transparency (CAT) of political governance are fully operational.
There are plenty of talents in the PH coalition and our guess is that Tun would be simply spoilt for choice!
And if our reading of Kak Wan is correct, she would not want to stay a minute longer in the cabinet!
Besides, we do not want to gestate another family dynasty in the new PH cabinet – we just rid of one on 9 May 2018.
Dr Musa Mohd Nordin
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A New Program To Train Veterans For The Thousands Of Auto Industry Jobs That Are Available Now
Bello’s goal with his visit to Washington, is to be able to work hand in hand with the government agencies to expedite an approval, allowing for a larger population of veterans to be served.
Phoenix – January 2, 2020 – Richie Bello Institute of Leadership and Management’s Founder, Richie Bello heads back to Washington in the continued saga of what to do and not do to gain government support for his not for profit. Bello drives to bring the automotive industry qualified and certified trained veterans into its workplace. Veterans currently represent approximately one in five of the automotive industry personnel population, but Bello looks to address the other 80%. “The turnover in the industry is beyond belief!” said Bello. “Dealers are putting tremendous revenue into marketing, but when the buyer hits the floor, the team is not trained well enough to get the maximum ROI”. Bello chants that it’s a vicious cycle. He is countering the cycle by recruiting veterans offering certification and placement into dealerships at no cost to the veteran. This complimentary program is being self-funded by the institute under the guidance of Washington’s grant program that takes approximately two years from launch to achieve. Bello worked with Washington when Phil Roe was serving as liaison for Veterans Affairs.
Bello is going back to bridge the new representation to assure that the grant approval process is compliant and expeditious. At this time, Bello brought the country’s leading industry vendors together to support the program funding as many as fifty veterans per month for a minimum of one year. This will help the institute achieve the proof of claim that the government looks to review. The Richie Bello Institute of Leadership and Management provides an eco-system for the automotive industry, where trained veterans can use its programs to continue to move up the ranks. The veteran and the dealer benefit from the program. The dealer will gain trained veterans at much lower than usual and customary for recruitment and training. Dealers will also receive a one-time replacement should the veteran not pass a three-month evaluation. Once certified, the veteran will have access to on-going support from the institute for the life of employment with the dealer placed. Areas of training include Sales; F & I; Service Managers, Technicians and Advisors; Operations; Parts Management and Parts Counter.
Bello assembled a seasoned team to support the initiative. Jeanne Fontana serves as Executive Director. Fontana brings thirty-five years of experience overseeing marketing and business development initiatives for various companies and not for profits. David A. Castillo serves as Director of Veteran Affairs and brings his nine-year term in the Marine Corps to bridge the national organizations and enrolled veterans. Brandon Hardison serves as Director of Training, with decades of experience developing sales and training programs for national brands and dealers throughout the country. John Fairchild serves as Director of Dealer Relations and brings his trained dealer network stronger returns on Fixed Ops. This top team has volunteered their services to this date and will be compensated for services from placement fees to dealers. A large portion of dealer recruitment fees will go back to the institute to support another veteran.
The Richie Bello Institute of Leadership and Management is a 501C3 not for profit with its training center in Phoenix, Arizona and its business offices in Long Island, New York. The mission of the organization is to improve the quality of the automotive industry employee and improve the career paths of veterans of the United States military through this highly lucrative industry.
Company Name: Richie Bello Institute of Leadership and Management
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Website: https://richiebellowest.com/
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Authors argue public planning should be caring; science shows it is impossible to separate emotion from process
Mike Krings
mkrings@ku.edu
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LAWRENCE — In the popular television show “Parks and Recreation,” public servant Leslie Knope once said when people yell at her she hears them “caring loudly.” Bearing the emotions of angry communities might be a comedic TV trope, but public planners are trained to remain rational and keep their own emotions out of the process. Two University of Kansas researchers have published an article arguing that not only is it a disservice for public servants to try to maintain the paradox of separating their own emotions while considering the community’s, but scientific research also shows it is impossible.
Because emotions contain wisdom in their own right and cannot be separated from daily work, public service educators should train students to embrace their own emotions and view caring as a central part of their work, the authors said.
“Historically, we’ve been pretty intellectual and data-driven. For most of the 20th century – and still today in a lot of places – an older white guy goes into a room, looks over a bunch of numbers and comes out with a plan mismatched to community needs,” said Ward Lyles, associate professor public affairs & administration. “We cannot send planners into communities without acknowledging emotion plays a valuable part in decision making, that expressions of emotions are obstacles to overcome. Even though our field grapples with this all the time, we put almost no training into actively and fully ‘caring about our community.’”
Lyles and Stacey Swearingen White, professor and director of KU’s School of Public Affairs & Administration, published the article in the Journal of the American Planning Association. The KU researchers examine a seminal 1969 publication in the profession that viewed citizen involvement in planning as a ladder. Author Sherry Arnstein described citizens' emotional responses as a reaction to their lack of power in the public planning process. At the lowest rungs of the ladder were people granted the least power: minorities, the poor and those in similar situations of little influence. Slightly higher were people experiencing tokenism, or those from lower rungs granted small roles in the process such as invitations to public meetings. As the rungs progress upward, those occupying them possess more power in the planning process: Ideally, at the top, citizens truly have control.
While a half-century has passed since Arnstein’s ladder began to influence planning and related public service fields, the authors argue not enough is being done to meaningfully engage the public to help with emotionally laden issues such as equitable access to quality infrastructure, social justice in community programs and grappling with the climate crisis. While planners genuinely want to do what is best for the communities they serve, attempting to set aside one’s own feelings about those issues — and control or steer the emotions of the public — does not allow for true collaboration and effective public policy, especially those in traditionally marginalized communities.
“A large part of what planners do is engaging the public in the planning process. We have to be able to understand what it is a community wants for itself and how to help achieve that,” Swearingen White said.
Lyles and Swearingen White also analyzed research in psychology, sociology and neuroscience to show that humans are not capable of completely separating their own emotions from those they serve. They distilled that research into nine insights:
When planners experience the feeling of threat, similar to the tense sense of flammability in Arnstein’s writing, their brains often respond with a natural sense of flight, fight or freeze, reducing opportunities for productive discussion and collaboration
Planners’ use of logical thinking is rarer than they like to believe, meaning that planners rely on irrational thinking at moments when they need to slow down and engage their more evolved cognitive faculties
Planners can intentionally reinforce experiences that support planners’ abilities to work with other people who are also constantly changing.
Planning’s longstanding struggle with the emotional paradox is indicative of even longer-standing intellectual traditions that stigmatize emotions
Planners cannot assume that they, or anyone else, will interpret expressions of emotion by other people consistently or accurately; perceptions are inherently limited and influenced by emotions and cognitive biases
Planners can embrace, understand and use the wisdom of their emotions
Planners who understand relationships as inherently emotional can be more intelligent and effective in their work
Planners can work with emotions to more skillfully and effectively engage with the full spectrum of diversity and difference in communities, particularly as planners aim to advance social equity and justice
Power is relational. Planners may feel empowered when fostering public engagement, even as that power generates cautionary feelings of uneasiness.
“Western scientists are confirming what many spiritual traditions, especially Buddhist lines of insight, have argued for thousands of years: breathing, mindfulness and other techniques help us work with deeply intertwined and connected systems of thought and feeling,” Lyles said. “Essentially, Stacey and I, along with a growing number of other scholars, feel that we’ve spent too long preparing planners as if their brains are computers with a switch to turn emotion on and off, instead of the much more complex, nuanced, and importantly, powerful systems they really are.”
The authors cite the idea of neuroplasticity, which finds that human brains are continuously rewiring and evolving neural connections, as one premise behind their insights. Brain scans have shown that when people think about certain topics, even unpleasant ones, the emotional control centers of the brain are involved as well.
“I would say that’s emblematic of the planning process. You can’t discount emotion or just say, ‘I quit.’ And if you try to ignore your own or others’ emotions, you’re doing a disservice to what really matters to the community,” Lyles said.
The authors conclude by calling for their field to reimagine work and consider planning as caring. To do so, they provide questions working planners can use for self-reflection, call for educators and leaders to prepare future planners who embrace emotion and social intelligence and promote inclusion through cultural humility, among other actions.
“Public engagement matters because it is emotional, and it is emotional because it matters. We must see the essence of humanity as including rational thought characteristic of primates but also emotions that we inherit from our earlier ancestors,” Lyles and Swearingen White wrote. “We must recognize the wisdom in a critical analysis of the causes of inequities in our communities but also the frustration, anger and grief in our communities. In doing so, we will honor Arnstein’s indignation at injustice and wisdom in charting a course to more equitable processes and outcomes while also better resolving the emotional paradox that her work mirrors back to us.”
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Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
A "Brief, Urgent Message": Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five
As a culminating activity for Slaughterhouse-Five, students make a compilation album (a CD with 6-8 tracks) that reflects their analysis, understanding, and reaction to the ideas in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of Shakespeare
After reading The Tempest or any other play by William Shakespeare, students work in small groups to plan, compose, and perform a choral reading based on a character or theme.
Language and Power in The Handmaid's Tale and the World
Students work in small groups to examine Margaret Atwood's use of and observations about language in The Handmaid's Tale. Through this activity, students discover and articulate overarching thematic trends in the book and then can extend their observations about official or political language to examples from their own world.
Storyboarding the Transformation from Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde
Students imagine and storyboard their own vision of the transformation of Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde and then evaluate movie portrayals.
Using Microblogging and Social Networking to Explore Characterization and Style
Students use social networking sites to trace the development of characters by assuming the persona of a character on the class Ning and sending a set number of tweets, or status updates.
Grades 6 – 12 | Strategy Guide
Reading Online
In this Strategy Guide you will learn how online reading differs from offline reading and strategies to build and reinforce the skills that online reading requires.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. - Television public speaking 4
Presidential candidates, 1960 4
Civil Disobedience 3
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Radio public speaking 3
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Trials, litigation, etc. 3
Arrest 2
Interracial marriage 2
Lunch counter sit-in, 1960 2
Meet the Press Television Program 2
Southern Christian Leadership Conference--meetings 2
Student movements 2
Interview on arrest following Indictment by Grand Jury of Montgomery County
3.7 min.
Gaines, Marion [Atlanta Constitution]
Atlanta Constitution
Montgomery County, Ala.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Income taxes
WSB-TV-GU
WSB Television News Video Archive, University of Georgia, Libraries, Athens, Ga.
Interview on Meet the Press
The Proceedings of Meet the Press 4 (17 April 1960): 1-12
Spivak, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Edmund)
Craig, May [Portland Press Herald]
Lewis, Anthony [New York Times]
Van Der Linden, Frank [Nashville Banner]
Brooks, Ned
Collins, LeRoy
Nashville Banner
Portland Press Herald
National Broadcasting Company, Inc.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Television public speaking
Meet the Press Television Program
RBOH-DHU-MS
Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
[Washington, D.C.]
Misc-15
Interview by Edwin Randall for ''Sit-Ins,'' radio program
Randall, Edwin
Philadelphia, Penn.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Radio public speaking
Interview on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Arrest and the Student Sit-ins
Hartsfield, William Berry
Patterson, John Malcolm
Statement on Lunch Counter Sit-Ins Arrest
Jail no bail
Statement on Transfer of Martin Luther King, Jr. to Reidsville State Prison
Hollowell, Donald
Reidsville State Prison
Interview on John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy's Role in Release from Prison
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Interview after Release from Georgia State Prison
[Reidsville, Ga.]
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''A Talk With Martin Luther King,'' Interview on 11/13/60 at Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y.
Dialogue 1, no. 2 (December 1960): 1, 4.
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marty balin, 1942-2018
{ September 29, 2018 @ 1:10 pm } · { an appreciation }
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Jefferson Airplane in 1967 on the cover of “Surrealistic Pillow.” Back row: Jack Casady, Grace Slick, Marty Balin. Front row: Jorma Kaukonoen, Paul Kantner, Spencer Dryden.
Any contemporary band is defined by its lead singer. That role might not always dictate the musical vision of the ensemble at hand, but the vocalist is the individual whose presence is most unavoidably visible. If a band happens to have more than one featured singer, the group personality either becomes more diverse or fractures entirely.
During it psychedelic heyday, between 1966 and 1970, the Jefferson Airplane utilized four lead singers – two were exclusively vocalists (Marty Balin and Grace Slick), two others, featured less frequently, doubled as guitarists (Jorma Kaukonen and Paul Kantner). For many, it was Slick – a fashionable and authoritative presence on and off stage – that dominated the Airplane’s vocal crew. But Balin, who died Thursday at the age of 76, largely set the standard for the band’s flight pattern and offered, nearly a decade latter, an out-of-nowhere hit.
Balin was a singer versed in pop and poetry, a blend that propelled the Airplane’s 1966 debut album, “Jefferson Airplane Takes Off,” a record cut prior to Slick’s involvement and the full emergence of Kaukonen and Kantner as singing alternatives. But it was with the vanguard 1967 recording “Surrealistic Pillow” that Balin’s broader pop profile revealed itself, whether it was through the uneasy calm of “Today” and “Comin’ Back to Me” or the unrelenting bravado of “3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds” and, especially, “Plastic Fantastic Lover,” a parable about television that bordered on funk. But the album also included two monster hits sung by the newly recruited Slick (“Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit”) as well as a critically lauded guitar instrumental by Kaukonen (“Embryonic Journey”). That meant having to share the spotlight.
The Airplane’s front line would stay intact though the recording of its leanest, most immediate album (1969’s “Volunteers”) as well as the euphoric highs and disastrous lows of two noted music festivals (Woodstock and Altamont) that reflected the extremes of late ‘60s pop counterculture. He left the band in 1970. The Airplane itself folded in 1973
There is a bizarre footnote to the band’s saga. Reborn in 1974 as Jefferson Starship (without Kaukonen or founding Airplane bassist Jack Casady), the band earned a huge No. 1 hit with 1975’s Balin written and sung “Miracles,” an ultra smooth pop-soul crooner that placed Jefferson Starship at the very heart of the pop mainstream the Jefferson Airplane spurned a decade earlier.
Balin played Lexington only once that I know off – a May 1978 concert at Rupp Arena with Jefferson Starship, but the wings were clearly coming off at that point. It played like more a pack of disparate, discontented artists than as a actual band. A year later, Balin and Slick were gone, Southern singer Mickey Thomas was picked up and a move deep into ‘80s pop began. This was the band that became simply Starship, which still tours today.
All this makes Balin sound like a mere board member of rock ‘n’ roll conglomerate, which is perhaps what he really was. But listen to his best recorded performances, from “Comin’ Back to Me” to “Miracles,” and you hear a singer taking on the world. It’s just that there were a lot of other equally eager hands in his ranks also reaching for it.
in performance: justin timberlake
{ September 20, 2018 @ 12:36 am } · { in performance }
Justin Timberlake.
A certain irony revealed itself last night at Rupp Arena, triggered by the fact Justin Timberlake named his current tour after his recent “Man of the Woods” album. After all, the title conjures all sorts of naturalistic images, many of which became artfully visible through the use of multiple see-through video screens that rolled up and down during the two-hour concert, making these living postcards seem more like dancing holograms.
But that came later in the set. When Timberlake and his 20-plus member posse of singers, dancers and band members entered amid a light show that would have made Pink Floyd envious, the feel was almost space age. Then when the pop celebrity took to dancing amid showers of lasers for the show-opening “Filthy,” the concept of a man of the woods didn’t just seem foreign. It seemed non-existent.
Timberlake would, in time, slow the show down to a modestly more relaxed pace that played more to his tour and album’s stated theme – as in an acoustic sit down set around a makeshift campfire that meshed amiable hits like “Until the End of Time” with covers of tunes by Fleetwood Mac, Lauryn Hill and even John Denver that were assigned to his backup singers.
All of this woodsy congeniality was essentially a diversion from a program that began like shot from a cannon with a dance-pop party drive that didn’t even remotely dissipate until Timberlake formally greeted the crowd of 18,000 nearly an hour into the show.
From a visual standpoint, the concert was a stunner that played out on a series of three stages utilizing the entire arena floor to create an in-the-round feel. But audiences members were also planted in and around the ‘S’ formation of the stages, including one near the middle of the floor that included, no joke, its own bar.
Through that, Timberlake and his entourage moved and grooved through the beat-heavy bravado of “SexyBack,” the Marvin Gaye-ish pop-soul of “Suit and Tie” and the blasting synth-savvy orchestration of “Cry Me a River.” What unraveled was a masterful pop display with a visual aptitude that proved fashionable and functional for Timberlake’s tireless workouts.
Go beyond that, however, and things were a little problematic. For all of his physicality and good-natured exuberance, Timberlake never really caught fire as a vocalist last night. His appealing high tenor vocals were noticeably thin and, ultimately, little match for the musical weight of such a massive band. There were a few intriguing moments, like the acoustic revelry summoned during “Drink You Away” and the very focused and organically anthemic delivery of “Say Something” (far and away the best of the “Man of the Woods” tunes). But for a sizable portion of the show, Timberlake relegated himself to chief cheerleader and dance captain by letting his backup singers – and, at times, even the audience – tackle much of the heavy vocal lifting.
The other difficulty was the sound. The was one of the weakest, muddiest sound mixes for a major Rupp concert in recent memory with bass drowning out much the brass and percussive finesse of Timberlake’s band – a surprise indeed given how sharp the visual presentation of the performance was.
Such was life last night for pop music’s man of the woods – a performance star with energy to burn and audience-friendly charm by the truckload, but also with a surprising hesitancy of letting loose on the dance floor, or the pseudo-great outdoors, with a commanding howl.
in performance: cortex
{ September 17, 2018 @ 10:45 pm } · { in performance }
Cortex. From left: Kristoffer Berre Alberts, Gard Nilssen, Ola Hoyer and Thomas Johansson. Photo by Peter Gannushkin
The Norwegian quartet Cortex set a quiet precedent when it first played the Outside the Spotlight series three years ago this week. It displayed the kind of improvisatory prowess favored by many of the more abstract minded free jazz units that have been guests of the series over the years. But what distinguished Cortex in 2015 was its sense of balance, its ability to embrace composition and groove as complimentary vehicles for the wilder improvs.
That kind of cunning was placed on abundant and appealing display again earlier tonight for an OTS return at the University of Kentucky’s Niles Gallery. Here, Cortex used foundations of blues, bop and coarse swing as enticements for more corrosive mischief.
The show opening “Standby” placed the band’s stylistic extremes in motion, locking in a unison melody line established by trumpeter Thomas Johansson and tenor saxophonist Kristoffer Berre Alberts. Once the very Mingus-like cool of bassist Ola Hoyer was added in, the tune embraced an almost deceptive sense of swing. But the momentum remained spacious enough for drummer Gard Nilssen to guide the sound through rougher melodic waters and back to safe harbor again.
On “Chaos,” one of two tunes played from Cortex’s recent “Avant Garde Party Music” album, the sound turned more turbulent with a cyclical horn phrase by Johansson and Albert that summoned the band’s disparate melodic strategies like a reveille before dispersing them again.
There were appealing variations of these excursions, as well. “Lament” simmered the music to a slow blues boil while the set closing “Legal Tender” let the rhythm section loose with a fun, rubbery groove that Albert took several deconstructed swipes at on alto sax.
Topping it all was the new “I 797 B,” a tune named after the visa forms the band members had to contend with for its current United States tour (a trek that has already had two canceled dates due to Hurricane Florence). Like all of Cortex’s music, there was brightness to the melodic construction but also enough trap doors for various solos to break with the sense of musical order and, for a few bars, bust the room up.
in performance: ross hammond
{ September 16, 2018 @ 8:49 pm } · { in performance }
Ross Hammond.
So what does an industrious solo guitarist with jazz, folk-blues and world music leanings do when a week’s worth of gigs get scrubbed? He heads homeward and plays for the faithful there.
That’s what Lexington-born, Sacramento, Calif.-bred Ross Hammond did this week. After a string of concert dates in Carolinas were cancelled due to the uninvited presence of Hurricane Florence, the guitarist landed some last minute pick-gigs in Central Kentucky. This afternoon’s set at CD Central was the only appearance out of Hammond’s last five scheduled shows that didn’t fall to Florence.
With the remains of the storm not due to reach Kentucky until late tonight, the guitarist created an attractive living room ambience for the South Limestone music store during a set of instrumental tunes played on steel and 6 string acoustic guitar.
The jazz accents within this performance were present in Hammond’s almost conversational sense of improvisation. But, as a whole, the set operated from a more roots-conscious, folk-blues base. The opening “Codes,” for instance, used the resonator guitar – in this case, an instrument built in Sacramento out of a vintage turkey roasting pan (seriously; check out www.turkeytone.com for details) – as a slide savvy vehicle for a wiry, but relaxed blues melody that gradually opened itself up to a bit of Eastern intrigue.
This was a game plan that played out more boldly as the set progressed. While a steel guitar reading of the blues chestnut “Sitting on Top of the World” steered to appealing back porch gospel and the nimble “McDowelling” (on the 6 string) relished in more ruggedly textured folk-blues, the title tune to Hammond’s 2017 album “Follow Your Heart” (also on the 6 string) let in another pronounced breeze from the East.
That set the stage for “May You Be Happy,” a work recorded with Indian singer and vocal improviser Jay Nair but presented here as a solo mash-up of Hindustani spiritualism and antique Western blues. The feel was very raga-esque in its contemplative stance but also folk-rooted given the steel’s expressive range and vibrancy.
All in all, an immensely inviting homecoming from a Kentucky guitar pro seeking shelter from the storm.
in performance: xiomara and axel laugart
Xiomara Laugart.
Near the end of “Añorado Encuentro,” a 10-minute summit of elegiac strings and vocal finesse, Xiomara Laugart let loose with a smile. A huge one, in fact – the kind that registers the joy and victory that only comes from a level of mischievous adventure.
For the vocalist and her pianist/son Axel Laugart, that meant not only taking her singing outside of her native Cuba but also out of the New York clubs that have long become her adopted performance home and setting up shop in the unlikely but very complimentary Lexington environment of Tee Dee’s Bluegrass Progressive Club
At the first of two sold-out performances there last night, which served as the second season opener of the Origins Jazz Series as well as the latest cultural sponsorship of the Green Room Exchange, the concert also strayed from the usual musical tapestry Laugart performs in. Distinguishing these shows were the string arrangements of Jonathan Ragonese. That meant deemphasizing the strong percussive undercurrent of Laugart’s music in favor of tasteful orchestration that highlighted the hushed luster of her singing.
Laugart and Ragonese have worked with these arrangements before in New York, but they are hardly common components of her repertoire, which might explain the obvious joy Laugart registered from the stage, whether it was from the way the strings blossomed half-way through “Por Ti” or how they accented Laughart’s vocal sway during “No Tengo Nada.”
Ultimately, though, the real magic was a result of how the strings mingled with everything – and, more importantly, everyone – else onstage. Aside from mother and son Laugart and Ragonese (who served as onstage conductor and, briefly, saxophonist), the string sextet and jazz combo at work last night were made up of Lexington artists, all of which played with a level of taste and buoyancy that matched the drive established by the out-of-towners.
Of particular note were alto saxophonist Jonathan Barrett, drummer/percussionist Tripp Bratton and bassist Danny Cecil, all of whom bolstered the show’s unimposing rhythms while doubling as creative soloists that balanced the orchestration. All of their work converged beautifully during “No Creo,” the evening’s most radiant blend of vocal grace and instrumental ingenuity.
A footnote: in a pre-show speech, the Origins Jazz Series dropped a huge addition to its already massive season. The Bad Plus has been confirmed for a Dec. 8 concert at the Lexington Children’s Theatre on Short St.
in performance: leo kottke
{ September 15, 2018 @ 2:04 am } · { in performance }
Leo Kottke.
“Remember, Leo. Your future is in the trombone.”
That was the advice Leo Kottke recalled last night at the Grand Theatre in Frankfort given to him by his Mahler-obsessed band director as a seventh grader in Oklahoma. But in true Kottke fashion, such advice, off the mark as it proved to be, was merely a warm-up for a parable of how the refuge of his earliest musical education formed the basis of disco.
Think that was rich? Try the tale of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Gene Pitney, who supposedly had a one-handed bassist who played with a wooden prosthetic that unexpectedly detached and rolled across the stage during a performance.
Such was the territory Kottke visited last night through yarns full of curious but conversational charm. But such obviously unrehearsed dialogue has long been the bonus prize of a Kottke concert, an inviting if not slightly obtuse way of welcoming audiences to his typically stunning musicianship on 6 and 12 string acoustic guitars.
At 72, Kottke remained as stylistically indefinable as an instrumentalist and he was unassuming and, frankly, outrageous as a raconteur. His playing remained a mash-up of folk and folk-blues references bolstered by vintage pop interference and a decided preference for composition over improvisation.
How else do you explain a deconstruction of the 1961 Bert Kaempfert orchestral hit “Wonderland by Night” into a gentle, respectful lullaby for 6 string guitar or how the folk themes within Kottke’s own 1969 work “Ojo” were repeated with steadily darker variations that brought out the orchestral depth and beauty of the 12 string?
Kottke has never had hits, per se, but he dispensed with two cover tunes that helped define his music during the early 1970s – Paul Siebel’s “Louise” and Tom T. Hall’s “Pamela Brown” – in side-by-side fashion early in the 90 minute program. Both revealed sagely, if not occasionally mumbling, creases in Kottke’s baritone vocals.
But if the program focused primarily on the rear view mirror of Kottke’s 50 year career, it ended with a brave look over the dashboard with a new work titled “Wet Floor.” Tagged by the guitarist as an encore tune (“so we can all leave the theatre at the same time”), the piece played out like a suite that shifted from passages of subtle lyricism to beefier, rhythmic interludes that again illuminated the 12 string’s robust sound.
Kottke may be most at home onstage poking away at unlikely corners of his past through story and song. But a tune like “Wet Floor” reminded us the guitarist still has invention and cunning to spare for the road ahead.
in performance: howard levy and chris siebold/osland-dailey jazztet
Howard Levy (left) and Chris Siebold.
The first sounds Howard Levy greeted tonight’s crowd at the Singletary Center for Arts Recital Hall with was a series of low, bullfrog-like grunts – vocal exercises, one supposes, for an artist who wouldn’t sing at any point during the evening.
“It gets better,” promised guitarist Chris Siebold, Levy’s performance partner of some 15 years.
Indeed it did. For the following 90 minutes, harmonica stylist and pianist Levy (best known for his ongoing work with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones) used Siebold’s guitar colors as foils for duo selections largely pulled from a just-released album, “Art + Adrenaline.” To most years, what resulted could probably have been filed under the blanket term of jazz simply because the music was predominantly instrumental and heavily reliant on improvisation. But a closer listen revealed strong accents of blues, urbanized folk, Eastern-flavored rhythms, tango, swing and probably a dozen other styles. The thrill, however, came largely from the duo’s very natural chemistry.
That awarded some of the tunes a certain amount of technical indulgence, mostly in the form of warp speed runs from both players. But it also set up a conversational design for the evening that allowed the myriad styles at work during the set to bloom.
Such was the case with the show opening “The Tristate Boogie,” which allowed a steely, Slim Harpo-like guitar dash by Siebold on resonator guitar (which he played exclusively, without a slide, for the entire program) to form a foundation for Levy’s country-esque outbursts on harmonica. That set up one of the evening’s greatest curiosities, a Levy tune called “Evanston Tango” that held tight to a new generation dance sound very much in the vein of tango colossus Astor Piazzolla, complete with a jazz-like tumble into swing that distinguished the latter’s compositions.
Stretching the stylistic and geographical boundaries of the repertoire further was a lovely reading of Bach’s “Siciliano in G Minor,” where Levy’s harmonica serenade emphasized dramatically slower, quieter and more graceful strides within Siebold’s playing. More visibly audacious was Levy’s simultaneous juggling of harmonica duties (with his right hand) and piano (with his left) during “Riding the Urban Range” and a full surrender to steel guitar and blues harp phrasing on a Siebold-led cover of “Key to the Highway.”
The five members of Osland-Dailey Jazztet – which also opened the evening with a brief, three-song set – joined the duo for a two-tune finale highlighted pianist Raleigh Dailey’s “Jules Verne” The composition used a mischievous, light tempered intro as tease for a boisterous, boppish joyride that highlighted the novel design – harmonica, soprano saxophone, steel guitar and trombone – of the combined bands’ front line. What emerged was a display of honestly joyous jazz pollination that bolstered a sense of playfulness and invention that fueled the entire show.
in performance: red, white and boom 2018
{ September 2, 2018 @ 1:05 am } · { in performance }
Brad Paisley. Photo by Jim Shea.
Can one detect a country music artist’s influence by the t-shirt they’re wearing? Let’s take a quick check of the artists corralled into Rupp Arena last night for round two of Red, White and Boom 2018 to find out.
Florida-born Jake Owen donned an Aerosmith tee and wound up bounding about the stage with the tireless physicality of a gymnast. A spike haired bass guitarist for Chase Rice wore a Metallica shirt, which added to a set already ripe with ample rhythmic crunch (and click tracks and rockish pop and song scenarios R. Kelly might happily call his own). Show opener Ashley McBryde chose a Grateful Dead shirt – and, frankly, any stylistic connections between that and her music eluded me.
The point is that the artists setting up last night’s Boom episode showed considerable stylistic disparity that often drifted far from what even progressive fans might call country music. All of that made headliner Brad Paisley – dressed in logo-less black – sound decidedly old school in comparison.
Paisley, once a Rupp regular but now an infrequent guest playing his first show at the venue in over six years, plotted a course for the familiar – meaning amiable and largely upbeat songs (the introductory “Mud on the Tires” and the unlikely roll-in-the-cosmopolitan-country-hay yarn “Ticks”) dressed with equally sunny vocal leads.
But with Paisley, everything always comes down to the guitar work. No other arena-level country artist can match his level of musicianship (although Keith Urban comes close at times). For songs like “Last Time for Everything,” his playing sounded like a hybrid of Nashville picking tradition a la Chet Atkins beefed up with the bravado of Britain’s more schooled and tasteful fretmen (Mark Knopfler and Richard Thompson come to mind). Sure, the overall playful aspects of Paisley’s performance – the feux cell phone duet with Carrie Underwood on “Remind Me,” the video pastiche with members of the veteran country troupe Alabama for “Old Alabama” and even the more sobering video showdown with John Fogerty on “Love and War” – added to show’s balance. But Paisley sounded best, by far, when his fingers did the talking.
Owen’s preceding set took top honors for boundless energy. Lyrically, songs like “Beachin’” and “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” leaned toward the pedestrian. But there was such a marked and consistent physical drive to Owen’s performance – which included a brisk lap around the arena floor – that it was tough to knock the audience friendly feel of his set. The singer upped that mood with a solo acoustic reading of the late Kentucky country star Keith Whitley’s “Don’t Close Your Eyes.”
Before that came Kane Brown, a singer with a back story of childhood strife no country song would dare depict (save for his own autobiographical “Learning”). Curiously, tunes like “Found You,” “Hometown” and especially “Pull It Off” were really modern dance-pop party pieces with a vocal cool that bordered on the automated. Last night’s audience of 8.500 ate them all up. But any serious country elements were, to these ears, undetectable.
A preceding set by Rice sounded almost as foreign. Bolstered by a pair of guitarists that favored warp-speed Eddie Van Halen riffs and the type of coerced headbanging that seemed more a product of Spinal Tap than Metallica, Rice let his lack of concern for stylistic pigeonholing be known during the royal come-on song “Ride” and the outlandishly rockish “Lions.”
McBryde, in her second Rupp outing in under a year, delivered the earthiest set of the evening, recounting tales of rural country misadventure (“Rattlesnake Preacher”), broader social myth-busting (“American Scandal”) and hapless domestic displacement (“Tired of Being Happy”) with a vocal command as natural, insightful and arresting as her material.
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ASCAP News Summary — Week of Sept. 11
by Elias James | Sep 29, 2017 | Business Ideas, Education/History/Traditional Skills, Electronic Music, MIDI Instruments, Music Marketing, Tour Business
MTS.org-curated picks from last week’s ASCAP Daily Briefs
Tuesday, Sept. 11 —
College Market: How college students are discovering and listening to music.
Wednesday, Sept. 12 —
Fans, not Family: How to get more people to your live shows.
Country Tragedy: Troy Gentry of Mongomery Gentry, killed in helicopter crash.
Thursday, Sept. 13 —
Health and Music: TOKiMONSTA’s struggle to regain her musical abilities after ultra-rare brain condition.
Innovation Inspiration: Digital, pint-size guitar embodies simplicity and modern design.
Being Memorable: Six ways to make a name for yourself, on tour and in social media.
Friday, Sept. 14 —
Copyright: Why parodies are fair game, but satire isn’t.
Artificial Composer: Google slaves over Magenta AI as it fails to create convincing musical structure and puns.
History: Infographic showing who influenced whom, regarding five of the biggest acts in history.
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Security Threats Within Pakistan
February 11, 2008 by TMO
By Zeeshan Bakhsh
Ethnicity, sectarianism and economic instability are fundamental variables of internal security threats to Pakistan. The claim of religious extremism creates a poor image of Pakistan in the eyes of the rest of the world and has affected the country adversely. Also, inter-provincial grievances could cause serious damage to Pakistan. The biggest cause of these grievances is the need for resources in the provinces even though these resources are being produced in different areas of the country. Each province believes that their share is being given to others; causing conflict and hostility. The people of the different provinces then accuse each other and show violent behavior towards each other.
Despite recent economic recovery and sound macro economic policies, the absence of genuine socio-economic development has provided ethno-sectarian elements and regional forces grounds to exploit and weaken Pakistan internally. The Pakistani stock market has therefore crashed. We had a historical boom of our stock market last year and then due to security threats we saw the biggest fall. This stopped development and caused unemployment, poverty and inflation.
The Pakistani Government is claiming their foreign reserves have increased in the past years. Is this the reality or just the fudging of facts? What do Pakistani people think about it? Are they getting the basic needs at their door step or do they have to go to great lengths to find them? Do they feel secure in Pakistan or is there any element of insecurity among them especially after the current wave of suicidal attacks in the country? What are they planning for the future? Do they still want to stay here or want to leave at their earliest convenience?
Lahore, Punjab; also known as peace, liberty, sovereignty, freedom and harmony, also known as the land of saints and Oliya Karaam. The same place now presents the picture of terrorism, violence, intimidation, aggression, hostility, instability, and insecurity. This panic and chaos started from our Northern areas after 9/11 when we started helping the allied forces. Our tribal leaders refused to work in favor of the allied forces and they started a movement against them and in favor of the Taliban. Therefore, when our government started targeting tribal public along with their well wishers, they stood against the government as well. This was the start of suicidal attacks in Pakistan. This wave of fear came in Punjab after effecting tribal areas N.W.F.P, Karachi and then the Federal Capital Islamabad. But now Punjab is under the same threat especially after the suicide blast outside the Lahore High Court.
10th January, 2007 was a day of fear and panic for the people of Lahore who were not used to such things before. 25 people died and around 70 were injured in this suicide attack in front of the Lahore High Court. The objective of the attackers is still in question as to whether its target was law enforcement agencies or the lawyers. Moreover, this could have been done to create terror in the city.
There was a time when mothers proudly sent their sons to work but now days after seeing them off they sit on the prayer rug start praying for their safety. The shopkeepers used to keep their shops open until late hours but now they feel apprehensive to continue their businesses into the night; they prefer to lose significant business rather than their lives. At the time the customers feel anxious and avoid shopping until absolutely necessary because of the current security situation. For example Karachi is our industrial and economic hub from where we have earned huge foreign reserves. Unfortunately after the incidents of May 12th and October 18th, 2007 the karachittes have to think hard on how to make Karachi light up again.
If the situation remains the same the foreign investors will lose their interest and at the same time we will also lose the confidence of foreign donor agencies. As a cause of this fright our imports and exports are also decreasing rapidly. Another dilemma is strikes that have disturbed the whole economy of the country. Internal growth is also tripping over due to scarcity, inflation and idleness and these things cause inferiority complex among the people which they exhale in the form of violence. These are not the actual threats in the country but because of the lack of these we are facing security threats. The immediate requirement is to introduce political, economic and educational reforms and take bold initiatives to obviate present and future threats.
Government should make sure the implementation of the rule of law, Proper recovery of taxes also try to illuminate regional disparities.
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Good nature is stupid. Nature is mean, don't let her fool you. Being merry is another story altogether. We all grew up in the forest, it was beautiful. Our adolescence was where they began to take hold of our innocents. They were very influential. We knew they outnumbered us so we just gave in!!!
All Good Artists Seem the Same
Through the narrative technics of Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, we are introduced to Jane and Emma, two nineteenth century God-fearing girls, maturing into ambitious, knowledgeable and productive women of the future. By thrusting strong hearted, risk taking, fierce female characters into the position of the protagonist in their novels, both authors helped push together the lines of inequality between men, women, the rich and the poor. Their intent to develop and reinforce the audience’s sense of class and distinction strengthened their relevance in the world of arts and education then and now. Embarking on a mission to inform their 19th century patronage of their well read, educated, and informed ideas allowed future contributors to flourish, in turn opening and inspiring minds of generations of readers to come. While Austen uses courtship and Bronte turns to the imagination, both writers call upon their intended demographic to internalize their fiction and from it grow.
Whether manufacturing herself useful towards a Harriet, or advertising in the “shire Herald” the heroin of the twentieth century novel in surging with a longing to overcome boredom. Emma lives to play matchmaker, a position that gives the author room to develop a series of interpersonal connections that expand our landscape of her world. Jane Eyre decides to reach out beyond her horizon and risks everything to unravel the mysteries of life inside the mind of Charlotte Bronte. Emma never ceases to amaze with opinions on social etiquette and class, “Dear Harriet, I give myself joy of this. It would have grieved me to lose your acquaintance, which must have been the consequence of your marrying Mr. Martin.” (52.Austen) Her deluded sense of entitlement is seen here doing a good job notifying readers of that naiveté; spoiled little girls try to enrich themselves through a vanity, that can be defined, conceived in much the same manner throughout time. Miss. Eyre isn’t found in the same aristocratic position as Austen’s hero. Bronte cleverly attributes the growth of her character to her thinking process, which she makes clear in the narrative.
I desired liberty: for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it and framed a humbler supplication. For change, stimulus. That petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space. ‘Then,’ I cried, half desperate, ‘grant me at, least a new servitude!’ (102Brontee)
Both characters are young and energetic, alive with the passions of life, a mix of characteristics that are bound to alleviate boredom and expose them to the real world, the one without boarders.
Influenced by a hierarchical environment both authors were forced to introduce ways in which their protagonist were to actualize themselves in a respectable manner. Austen’s Emma comes from money, she’s had everything she’s ever wanted handed to her on a silver platter, leaving her vulnerable to become full of herself. Fortunately for women of her day there were Mrs. Elton’s. Emma considers manners above other things,
’Insufferable woman!” … “Worse then I had supposed. Absolutely insufferable! Knightly!—I could not have believed it. Knightley!—never seen him in her life before, and call him knightley!—and discover that he is a gentlemen.(259Austen)
Mr. Elton’s wife paints us a beautiful picture of what it means to have money without class. Emma is inherently aware of how to behave and she is being scrutinized as closely as Mrs. Elton. Austen entrust the reader to realize that what makes a character great is their ability to integrate all the good virtues of humanity without manifesting any degradation to those around them. Jane Eyre is a governess materially owning next to nothing. Using her wit alone she hooks the heart of the Master of Thornfield. Yet Miss. Eyre chooses to peruse a relationship with Rochester even after she hears
’And Miss Eyre, so much was I flattered by this preference of the Gallic sylph for her British gnome, that I installed her in an hotel; and gave her a complete establishment of servants, a carriage cashmeres, diamonds, dentelles, etc. In short, I began the process of ruining myself in the received style, like any other spoony. (165Bronte)
Jane’s keen sense of her own individuality allows her to look past her boss’s predispositions to do evil, and still relate to the Noble man he is inside. Acting above the status quo is the matter in which the female protagonists raise themselves above the pre-conceived notions of their society. Allowing the reader glimpses of a bird’s eye view of the true character of the hero.
A portrait of truth that accurately defines the nineteenth century world can be directly associated within the narrative landscape of Jane Eyre and the vocalized opinions of Emma. Austen is as relevant today as she was a hundred years ago because she was very capable of depicting the irony between reality and the way we think we know it. Austen cunningly allows us into the mind of Emma.
Mr. Knightley and Harriet!- It was an odd tete-a-tete; but she was glad to see it.—There had been a time when he would have scorned her as a companion, and turned from her with little ceremony. Now they seemed in pleasant conversation. There had been a time also when Emma would have been sorry to see Harriet in a spot so favorable for the Abbey-Mill Farm; but now she feared it not. (338Austen)
Harriet is nowhere neared to a favorable spot at the Farm then Robert Martin, but in Emma’s mind they’re going to be married almost within weeks. Of course she ends up Mrs. Knightley, and Harriet Mrs. Martin. On the other hand Bronte remains so powerful to a modern audience because she insisted on exposing her nineteenth century readership to the will of Jane Eyre,
But, then, a voice within me averred that I could do it, and foretold that I should do it. I wrestled with my own resolution: I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and Conscience, turned tyrant, held Passion by the throat, told her tauntingly, she had yet but dipped her dainty foot in the slough, and swore that with that arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony. (343Bronte)
She leaves Thornfield that night! Here drastic leap of faith proves to pay off of course. It’s as inspiring now as it would have been a couple hundred years ago. A still found to be totally an uncommon act, to have faith in one’s inner voice, and it works. Both authors establish a firm foundation of how the human mind makes its way into salvation. Through trial and error Jane and Emma produce outcomes to their lives that we can still all relate to in the 21st century.
Looking back at Jane Eyre, we get inspired to peruse our passions, and while scrutinizing the adolescent thought process of Emma we find that we are often no better at judging where we stand then a girl raised in the 19th century British aristocracy. We all do it though, move forward in time, realizing the reasons things happen around us through experience. Female authors like Austen and Bronte defined class through individual’s, and their abilities to grow with distinction, and separate the truth from fiction. Their perseverance and drive to create content within their own individualized form separates them form the rest. Then they stood out pushing their context into modern classrooms. We are still learning about courtship and we still honor our imaginations without really understanding either. Jane Eyre and Emma allow us to experience their growth. Push us to understand our tendencies to make rash decisions, naturally, and hopefully in a way that makes us happy in the end.
Austen, Jane "Emma". London:Penguin Classics, 1996. Print.
Bronte, Charlotte “Jane Eyre”. London:Penuine Classics, 1996. Print.
Just to chill!
I've been really hard done by, she broke me. I was fixed on seeing myself as her equal, but then we crashed. I had no idea she was in it to gain such big steps in life. We were working on this project together. I couldn't help but look at her feet. She was all over the place. We were a good match, at least I thought... at first.
"Where you going?" the questions started the moment we needed to leave. I was having high anxiety issues. People were starting to stare.
"Why don't we just stay here then honey?" He was never happy to see me act this way, especially in front of others."You know you can't stay here alone don't you?" He knew I was afraid to be alone, the sun was going down and the traffic lights were beginning to to hover over head with ambiance. "We're on the street." I looked around, helpless. He started to walk away.
"Where you going?" my voice echoing, the others clearing out, harassed by our shrill. The cool autumn air tightened our backs, he shivered. "Why can't we just stay here, it's not that cold yet." I didn't want to leave, mom and dad had been fighting again. He was cold. He wanted to watch T.V, we'd been watching it for a long time, I wanted things to change, he wanted them to stay the same. We had to leave. "I don't want to go!" He got on his bike and rode away. The sun was following him along the horizon, I was watching him gain momentum as his shadow fell forwarded. It made me laugh. Eventually I couldn't see him anymore.
Traffic kept up for the first little bit, the lights cooled me, their thought. I was waiting for someone to find me. "What are you doing here?" He asked me so quietly, he had a deep voice. He was wearing a thick coat. A white jacket.
"Waiting!" I surprised him. He jumped, he thought I was going to be scared but I figured my parents were right behind him. "How long you been here little one?" more questions I thought.
"I didn't want to go home! I've decided that I didn't want to watch anymore T.V like my brother." I remembered my brothers silhouette forcing it's self forward through the dusk. "He didn't want to go home, but he went back anyway" it came out as a laugh. He laughed too.
"They almost always go back when they don't want to." The wind picked up forcing his voice forward. I was sitting silently, watching the moon fancy herself finding herself on the incline. He watched me smile over the rising. The traffic made noise's. "I find the sound of the sirens soothing, like a calling out to me." An ambulance slowly blew in singing, the distance distorting it, it made us both laugh, we couldn't even see it hurling itself to some fate we couldn't fathom. "He's a goner!"
"You think?" My questing stunned him. He was alert, we were alone, I wasn't scarred of anything. He knew that, the creases over his brow bent sorrow over his eyes, the bright yellow leaves were the last flickers of highlight over shadowed by the night.
"The sun's gone! What we gonna do?" He was so soulful, young too.
"We're not here to play hopscotch!" I was right.
"How we gonna do this?" I could see he didn't know what we were suppose to do. His thick jacket was keeping him warm though, I was getting cold.
"Come closer!" The sense I got from it was welcoming but I hesitated, and he saw that.
"But you're cold!" we laughed, and I fell into his arms. The clouds sought significance form us. And my heart was still, we sat almost laying there until the morning fell. My brother came back with a bat.
He said she said!
Christopher Sly, a nomadic, audacious and intentional fellow found in a stat of unconsciousness, lying almost dead in the ditch outside of Marian Hacket's Wincote Tavern, only to be foreseen by Shakespeare to be pronounced as a tool of intervention between the rivaling classes of his day and age. Sly being subject to a vanquished social rank is given an opportunity to take a second look at himself through the eyes of our thoughtful yet roguish author. Through the viewing of The Taming of the Shrew Christopher Sly is meant to come to find his higher calling, much like Katharina finds herself the unselfish obliging wife. The story line is created to questions ones position in society and life, to take risks, harness the indecision's set forth and to take hold of the reigns that give us access to that luster and to shine like the gentry. William Shakespeare settled in his ways of gentle persuasions leaves us wondering if it was all so unintentional.
Alone, a body lies carelessly thrown, lost and forgotten by the side of the Milcote road, only to be stumbled upon by the local aristocracy and given the right to be played a joke on by the jovial Nobility. This jest in practice takes our unfortunate hero out of misfortune and places him directly in the heart of pure wealth. In giving the drunkard access to his Royal pleasures, his Honor, the Lord, must abandon the appearance of his social rank to help maintain the suspension of belief amongst his serfs. This unique vantage point lets the Lord maintain his position as an observer and jester. It also allows him close access to Sly, the Lord often enlisting himself to reflecting openly Sly’s true (false) calling. “Heaven cease this idle humor in Your Honor! Oh, that mighty man of such descent, of such possessions and so high esteem, Should be infused with so foul a spirit!” (Induction.2.13.18). Allowing Christopher such a sly perspective point to reflect upon the play also gives him the opportunity to whiteness himself through the eyes of a member of the gentry.
While watching The Taming of the Shrew the audience can’t help but realize they are watching a play within a play, adding a heightened point of view of the event as a whole. It starts with Sly, but it ends with Katharina sharing her gained insight into womanhood. Her shrewish behaviors and feelings of resentment have changed and she wants to convince the other women to “Unknit that threatening, unkind brow And dart not scornful glances,” (5.2.140.42) Observing this scene would be Sly himself and the audience beyond that would be observing Sly. Shakespeare framed the plot around an open-ended illusion, gently nudging the gentry to uphold their position as keepers of people, by indoctrinating Katharina as being the voice of Gentile reason. Upon her final speech Katharina communicates the theme of the whole Meta story
for thy maintenance commits his body
To painful labor both by sea and land,
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
And craves no other tribute at thy hands
But love, fair looks and true obedience—
Too little payment for so great a dept.
Such duty as the subject owes the prince, (5.2.152.59)
Katharina’s final speech encompasses the entirety of Shakespeare’s project, her voice being the evocation of the Lord’s though to playing the jest on the drunkard.
By creating “The Taming of the Shrew” in such an open-ended format the author crucifies anyone watching, from Sly to the actual audience. We the reader are subjected into believing that if Katharina can recreate her reality to cater to her true calling more appropriately, so can you, so can I, and in addition Shakespeare’s positioning of Sly in the beginning of the play is because he needs to use him as the antagonistic “good guy”. The author leaves himself vulnerable to his own devices as well, by making way to the possibilities that a bum can uphold himself in respect to the aristocratic tendencies. To protect himself from possible outbursts of outrage from the audience, Shakespeare leaves the inductions open to discussion. He couldn’t have Sly leave the theater a merry old honorable Lord. The Gentry and the Aristocrats would go mad, he couldn’t have the beggar go through such a dynamic change only to go back a bum, because the bourgeois and trades people would not leave the theater conscious in the manner the author intended. Shakespeare’s intent was to have the audience become a participant in the suspension of belief. Shakespeare wasn’t thinking about just anyone, but everyone. He wanted to infatuate his audience with the possibility of more, more for the homeless and weak, more for the rich and powerful. His plan was to afford the participants in the act of realizing the drama in their lives to overcome transparent obstacles and be the best they can be. This places each individual in a position where they must martyr themselves, much like Katharina does when she say’s “that seeming to be most which we indeed least are. Then veil your stomach, for it is no boot, And place your hands below your husband’s foot, in token of which duty, if he please, My hand is ready; may it do ease.” (5.2.179.83). Her unorthodox approach to her new husband shocks everyone into believing they’re little charade, making it real, as well as winning Petruchio the bet. Shakespeare bet on the fact that the aristocracy wouldn’t realize he was sacrificing the bed of the Honored Lord to cater to the commoners.
After reading through The Tamming of the Shrew we find the author an intentionally sly audacious fellow. Shakespeare risking his reputation by thrusting a “mounstrous beast”(Induction.1.33.) into the life of a noble man does the world as a whole, justice. By focusing on the peoples he finds within his own community the author remains authentic to his beliefs. These beliefs revolved around the opportunity for equality and the chance to change. Sly as he may be Shakespeare was always found to be honest enough in his work, to reflect his understanding accurately. He believed in equality, and he produced it within his dramatic fiction.
Works cited.
Shakespeare, William. The Taming of the Shrew. The Necessary Shakespeare third Edition. David Bevington. Chicago: 2009.
God Of phuauk!
I had this idea that my dreams could come true. That I could bring my will into material existence. That I could have the vision of the world I hold in my mind come into my life on the outside, into existence in this reality. The first thing I did while in pursuit of my dreams was get a girl pregnant. That grounded me, told me that my dreams weren't going to be achieved without consequence. The consequences of fulfilling what my mind desired were important steps toward understanding what it was I myself desired to accomplish during my existence in my body.
At that point I understood that I wanted to be a good father, that understanding overcame my desire to worship the God of Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll. I started making choices that would ensure my dreams of being a good father came true. I did everything in my power to create an environment that would welcome my son into this world in a positive way. My dreams didn't have anything to do with the regular 9-5 job though. To have my environment running the way I wanted it to, I needed to make sure I felt good and positive about myself. I wanted my son to know that I was happy doing what I was doing. I didn't want my boy watching his father going out into the world doing dead end things he hated. So I went back to where I loved to be, I went back into the church of Sex Drugs and Sin and started pushing hack. I was amazed at how I felt right on track driving people who were under the influence of sin and sex, drugs and alcohol home. The success I felt after every night I came back to my family happy to have done a job I loved made me feel like a King. That feeling also made me want to share my success with others.
I was working full time, but it never felt like it. It felt like I was making money doing what I loved. Sharing and communicating my dreams with people who paid me. I needed more, I needed people to know how I felt, so I started to go online and write about my nights behind the wheel of an Edmonton taxi. The blog was such a success for me, in gratifying my minds existence. After I started writing it I no longer went to work for money, but to find content for my next great story. I published one every night for the next two years.
Going to work to write a blog that no one paid to see paid off. I learned how to make something from nothing, I learned that money is a by product of dreams, I learned that I was here to tell stories and live life to the fullest. Then the recession hit and I found that the circumstances around my success where forcing me to change, and I did. I needed to stay happy to be the best father I could be. So I went back to school. I also used my student loans to buy a camera, I took a material risk, it was like having the baby, it paid off. The consequences of choosing to follow your dreams, to claim that you can be whatever you want to be are rough, but they also ground you, and inform you that there is hope, and that it's hard. But if you think about it, if you know it's hard, then you'll know that those seemingly scary obstacles along the way are actually road signs that tell you where to turn next.
Now I'm going to school, I used my time at school to learn to take photographs. I did it by catering to the institution itself. I came to Concordia because I felt I could talk about subjects outside of this reality. I felt I could talk about my dreams and where they come from. This has been making me happy. Happy because with every decision I make to move toward my goals I bring them closer to materializing. I know that it's not necessarily ever going to be exactly what I envisioned but that's because those dreams keep getting bigger and better, and I know all I have to do is pursue my ideas and that's how I'll bring my dreams into light.
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A rich man poor man, drunk man found.
A rich nobleman found drunk, passed out, drooling in front of the bar, unwilling to pay his debt to his hostess! How does that even happen? It doesn't or dose it? Shakespeare's know to be a little sly and cunning in his undertaking of the truth; he knew that portraying it accurately may make him look like a rogue. Christopher, a bright young Master, or Lord, lying in a ditch disgracing his honor. How did Shakespeare address the issue of alcoholism amongst the aristocracy? Well we find that drunken character sitting watching the unfolding of a play within a play, a counterfeit copy, a replication and revision of the ideal illusion set to a permissible standard, set to help someone wake, re access themselves and rehabilitate.
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Messages of Solidarity and Support - GLOW in the Dark Protest Celebration
Adjustments to JPP Protest Celebration Programme 21 November 2015
The Johannesburg People’s Pride Movement is excited and proud to announce its third annual progressive protest-celebration for justice. We have come far since that seminal moment in September 2012, when our Black sisters and leaders in this queer revolution for justice interrupted the white Johannesburg Pride Parade in the leafy suburbs of Rosebank to demand the observation of a moment of silence to contemplate the state and scope of injustice that especially operates on those of us whose bodies are Black, woman, disabled, migrant and poor, and were beaten, driven over and expressly told to “go back to [our] lokshins.
It was in that moment that we named white-supremacist, capitalist and patriarchal exclusiveness in queer organising spaces as an aberration in our struggle for justice. We were categorical then, as we still are now, that in all our work, we would be led by feminist, anti-racist, anti-ableist and anti-capitalist politics. At our inaugural protest celebration in 2013, as well as our second in 2014, we asserted and proved that our politics must and can be infused with enjoyment, and our enjoyment suffused by our politics, because the personal is political.
Regrettably, we have to announce that owing to unforeseen technical difficulties, our post-march Queer Celebration Concert, at which celebrated queer and allied artists and performers including Nothende, Moshe Ndiki, and Nakhane Toure were confirmed, must be postponed to mid-December.
We will, however, be proceeding with all planned activities leading up to and including the GLOW in the dark march.
Activity 1: Picnic and Edutainment at Constitution Hill (14:00 – 16:00)
There will be a picnic and edutainment programme beginning in the late afternoon. The edutainment programme will consist of Writing/Poetry, Photography/Video Making, Banner/Placard Making, T-shirt Printing, Drawing/Painting, and the pre-march rally call with readings of messages of support.
There will be no braai, sale of food or drinks. Alcoholic beverages of any kind are strongly discouraged and neither JPP nor the management of Constitution Hill will be held responsible for any arrest, injury or any criminal or civil liability for unauthorised consumption on site. Please do not bring any alcohol into the march and preceding activities.
Activity 2: Queer Tour Queer History Tour of Braamfontein and Hillbrow (14:30 - 16:00)
Activists familiar with the queer history of Braamfontein and Hillbrow will congregate 2 groups of 20 people each at Constitution Hill. These two groups will be led on a one-hour walking tour of Braamfontein and Hillbrow. To manage the size of the groups, the tour will be pre-booked.
Activity 3: March (16:00 – 17:30)
The march will leave from and return to Constitution Hill with a route through Hillbrow and Joubert Park and will include guerrilla theatre as a key feature.
ALL ACTIVITIES WILL CEASE AT 17:30
Tomorrow, we will be proceeding with our third protest-celebration. We will be reclaiming the streets of Hillbrow and the night. We will be marching to demand justice for all bodies that occupy this unjust society. We will be drawing particular emphasis to the struggles and resilience of trans-bodies in South Africa and the continent. We will be stomping our feet in celebration of queer anti-apartheid activist, Simon Nkoli, and those Black progressive leaders of the Gays and Lesbians of the Witwatersrand (GLOW) who, in organising that first ever Queer Pride march in Africa in 1992, on the route we will be marching on, knew then what we know now: that none of us can be free unless all of us are free.
Issued by the Working Group of the Johannesburg People’s Pride Movement
Kwezilomso Mbandazayo
kwezi.mbandazayo@gmail.com
Sekoetlane Phamodi
mrphamodi@gmail.com
Facebook: /JHBPeoplesPride
Twitter: @jhbpeoplespride
CALL TO ACTION: Glow in the Dark Night Revolution
The time has come again for all progressive bodies in Johannesburg to reclaim Pride and their streets. We call on all of you who are queer, and all of you who are Black, and women, and landless, and economically marginalised, and every single one of you who demand justice for all bodies now to join us in the third annual Johannesburg People’s Pride protest celebration on 21 November 2015.
The theme of this year’s protest celebration is a Call to Action under the theme of ‘GLOW in the Dark: Night Revolution’. In the context of sustained violence perpetrated against us, we who are queer and Black, women, migrants, landless and dispossessed suffer a constant and fear to inhabit our streets freely after dark, the theme expreses a desire to reclaim the night and assert our right to celebrate and be free from violence while doing so.
This year’s theme is also an homage to Simon Nkoli and the Gays and Lesbians of the Witwatersrand (GLOW) organizations, which made large contributions to the struggle for freedom for LGBTIAQ people in South Africa. We commemorate GLOW for it was they who, more than twenty years ago, formed the foundation for a united struggle against all injustice led by queers, as we do today.
This year, we also highlight our solidarity with and support for trans bodies in South Africa, the continent and the world over who continue to suffer stigmatisation, marginalisation and erasure from society - even within gay and lesbian communities. We recognise that all of our respective freedoms are intimately bound up in each other's, and that it is crucial to the strengthening of our movement and the realisation of our vision for a just and free society that we unite against the multiple oppressions that operate on every single one of our bodies.
This year we will assert once again our rights to gather freely, we will join the ongoing call for the decolonisation of institutions of higher learning. We assert our rights to free education and an end to the exploitation of workers. Again we exclaim:
ALL FREEDOMS FOR ALL PEOPLE, NOW!
The GLOW in the Dark protest celebration will have of three main activities around Constitution Hill:
Activity 1: Queer History Tour of Braamfontein and Hillbrow (15:00 – 17:00)
Activists familiar with the queer history of Braamfontein and Hillbrow will congregate 2 groups of 20 people each at constitution hill. These two groups will be led on a two-hour walking tour of Braamfontein and Hillbrow. To manage the size of the groups, the tour will be pre-booked.
There will be a picnic and edutainment programme beginning in the late afternoon. The edutainment programme will consist of Writing/Poetry, Photography/Video Making, Banner/Placard Making, T-shirt Printing, Drawing/Painting, Performance Art, Music/DJs and Activist Speakers and a braai and party. There will be food and drinks vendors, and participants will be allowed to bring their own food and refreshments.
The march will leave from and return to Constitution Hill with a route through Hillbrow and Jobber Park and will include guerrilla theatre as a key feature.
Activity 4: Queer Celebration Concert (19:00 – 00:00)
A live music concert will be held at Constitution Hill. Queer singers, performance artists, and DJs will be invited to share the stage throughout the evening
Issued by: JPP Working Group
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Quantum Gravity 2020
Monday, July 13, 2020 (All day) to Friday, July 17, 2020 (All day)
Quantum Foundations
The conference “Quantum Gravity 2020“ has a deliberately broad scope. We aim to include participants from all current approaches to quantum gravity, as well as researchers working on the phenomenology of quantum gravity. The main goal of the meeting is to assess the progress made and to constructively and openly discuss open questions in our understanding of quantum gravity.
A second goal is to work towards combining the insights gained in the various approaches. In its overall goal as well as the format, this conference will differ from more specialized meetings that focus on specific quantum-gravity approaches.
We hope that this inaugural conference “Quantum Gravity“ can make a contribution to bridging the gaps between quantum gravity approaches, and bring the entire community together for a constructive and fruitful exchange.
To register for this event, please click here.
Sponsorship for this event has been provided by:
Freddy Cachazo, Perimeter Institute
Clifford Cheung, California Institute of Technology
Netta Engelhardt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland
Renate Loll, Radboud University Nijmegen
Hermann Nicolai, Albert Einstein Institute
Alejandro Perez, Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy
Frank Saueressig, Radboud University Nijmegen
Sumati Surya, Raman Research Institute
More speakers to be announced
Scientific Organizers:
Bianca Dittrich, Perimeter Institute
William Donnelly, Perimeter Institute
Astrid Eichhorn, University of Heidelberg & University of Southern Denmark
Steffen Gielen, University of Sheffield
Robert Myers, Perimeter Institute
Scientific Advisory Committee:
Glenn Barnich, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Emil Bjerrum-Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute
Robert Brandenberger, McGill University
Steve Carlip, University of California, Davis
Fay Dowker, Imperial College London
Laurent Freidel, Perimeter Institute
Razvan Gurau, Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Veronika Hubeny, University of California, Davis
Stefano Liberati, SISSA
Etera Livine, École normale supérieure de Lyon
Donald Marolf, University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniele Oriti, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Roberto Percacci, SISSA
Harvey Reall, University of Cambridge
Mairi Sakellariadou, King's College London
Ralf Scheutzhold, Helmholtz Zentrum, Dresden Rossendorf
Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute
Andrew Strominger, Harvard University
Tadashi Takayanagi, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
Herman Verlinde, Institute for Advanced Study
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Jordin Canada, Jewell Loyd lead Seattle Storm past Minnesota Lynx
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Canada pulls hesitation crossover out of her bag of tricks (0:19)
Jordin Canada pulls the ball back, then uses a head fake to blow by her defender for the layup to increase the Storm's lead. (0:19)
Kevin PeltonESPN Senior Writer
Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus series
Formerly a consultant with the Indiana Pacers
Developed WARP rating and SCHOENE system
EVERETT, Wash. -- On a night when Seattle Storm MVP candidate Natasha Howard was held to two points and WNBA 3-point percentage leader Alysha Clark made only one triple, Seattle turned to the backcourt for scoring punch in Wednesday's opening-round playoff matchup against the Minnesota Lynx. Jordin Canada and Jewell Loyd delivered, combining for 48 points as the Storm won a matchup of the past two WNBA champions 84-74 to advance to the second round.
"We got great guard play," Storm coach Dan Hughes said. "You've got to really like the guard play that we had today."
When the Storm began training camp in May, Canada was expected to back up veteran All-Star Sue Bird. That changed when the team learned days before the start of the season that Bird would undergo surgery that eventually ended her season. Thrust into the starting role, Canada rode out ups and downs to emerge as contender for the league's most improved player award.
"What she did this year enabled Seattle to get through their difficult situations in losing players, a great player like Sue Bird," Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve said. "For Jordin to take over the team and play both ends as well at as she has ... she's just grown through the season. Her trajectory is upward."
Throughout the season, Seattle has been at its best when Canada has been a scoring threat. The Storm went 9-2 during the regular season when Canada scored in double figures. She came out aggressively Wednesday, knocking down a rare 3-pointer in the opening minute of the game -- her first since July 17, also against the Lynx -- and never looked back. Canada's 26 points were a career high, and according to ESPN Stats & Information research she set season highs for scoring in a half in both the first and second halves.
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It has been a trying season for Loyd, who figured to step forward in the absence of Bird and 2018 WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart. The Storm's third All-Star last season struggled with scoring efficiency early in the campaign, then suffered a sprain of and bone bruise to her right ankle in late June that sidelined her for nearly a month. A shadow of her All-Star self upon her return, Loyd returned to the bench for four games in August.
Since late last month, however, Loyd has been on fire beyond the arc as the Storm finished strong to secure the No. 6 seed and home-court advantage against the Lynx. She made 13 of 20 3-point attempts over the last five games of the regular season, then carried that over by knocking down all three of her first-quarter 3s on Wednesday. Loyd finished with 22 points, her first time scoring 20-plus since the injury.
"We need her to be this," said Hughes, whose guard duo outscored their Lynx counterparts 48-1. "It's her time of year. She looks ready to me. She's had to go through an injury and then come back from it, and there's lots of examples in the league where that's hard. She's really, really pivotal to us and she showed that today with her play -- especially coming out of the gate."
More than just her scoring, Loyd contributed crucial plays that helped Seattle keep Minnesota -- which never led after the first two minutes of the game -- at bay. In the second quarter, she battled through multiple Lynx opponents to secure an offensive rebound that led to a trip to the free throw line, then drew an offensive foul on Damiris Dantas. And in the fourth quarter, Loyd dove to tie up Dantas, though the Lynx forward won the ensuing jump ball. The Storm's guards controlled the game at the defensive end of the court, helping take Minnesota out of its offense. The Lynx, the league's most turnover-prone team during the regular season, committed 18 of them in this game. And Minnesota's backcourt of All-Star Odyssey Sims and Danielle Robinson could get nothing going as scorers. Neither made a field goal in only five attempts, with a Sims free throw accounting for their only contributions in the points column.
Seattle guards Jordin Canada, above, and Jewell Loyd outscored their Minnesota counterparts 48-1 to lead the Storm into the second round of the WNBA playoffs. Joshua Huston/NBAE via Getty Images
"We knew coming in that Odyssey Sims was going to be a tremendous part of their team," Canada said, "and so we talked about it in practices -- how we were going to play her, being aggressive. I think we did a great job of that tonight, no matter if it was me, AC [Alysha Clark] or Jewell. We all stuck to the game plan and tried to get her outside her comfort zone and frustrate her as much as possible."
Despite shutting down the backcourt, the Storm couldn't shake the Lynx for much of the game. When Minnesota could get the ball inside, the frontcourt of Napheesa Collier, Dantas and Sylvia Fowles proved tough to stop. Both Collier, in her playoff debut (19 points, 10 rebounds), and Fowles (14 points, 11 rebounds) posted double-doubles. Collier's strong second half helped the Lynx pull to within three early in the fourth quarter, a surge that didn't surprise the Storm.
"Sue talked about it at halftime in the locker room," Canada said. "Minnesota's a veteran team, they've been here before. They're going to go on a run, and when they go on a run we're going to have to stay poised and keep our composure."
With Canada and Loyd still resting, reserve guards Shavonte Zellous and Sami Whitcomb provided key scores early in the fourth quarter to help the Storm push the lead back to double digits. Then Seattle's guards took back over late, with Canada and Loyd combining for 12 of the team's final 13 points to cap a dominant performance.
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OSU aquatic veterinarian is the good doctor for fish in captivity.
By: Tiffany Woods
Dr. Tim Miller-Morgan wiggles his fingers into surgical gloves. They snap against his wrists like rubber bands. On the operating table in front of him, a sedated patient lies on her back. She was diagnosed with a parasitic infection a week ago, so she has been undergoing treatments. Today, she’s in for a checkup.
Her name is Pebbles, and she’s a 3-foot-long, pointy-nosed wolf eel with a ribbon-like tail that ripples like a flag in the wind. She lives at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport.
Miller-Morgan gently probes her beet-red gills where microscopic flukes had previously hindered her breathing. He snips off a speck-sized piece of tissue that he will later examine under a microscope to see if any flukes remain.
Suddenly Pebbles stops breathing. Worried, Miller-Morgan quickly lifts her out of the sedative-laced bath and puts her into water without the tranquilizing drug. Time seems to stand still as Miller- Morgan gently holds her head. “She’s slowed down more than I like,” he says. Then ever so slightly her mouth opens and closes. Everyone relaxes. Pebbles will be fine. And the flukes, it will turn out, are gone.
"You're kidding!" A visitor reacts as Tim Miller-Morgan introduces her to friendly koi at the Hatfield Marine Science Center Teaching Lab in Newport. Photos: Lynn Ketchum
Welcome to the watery world of Miller-Morgan, the aquatic veterinarian with Oregon Sea Grant Extension at OSU. He’s a busy guy. As the head of OSU’s Aquatic Animal Health Program, he teaches importers, retailers, hobbyists, college students, and veterinarians how to care for underwater pets. He has no shortage of people to educate. In the United States alone, 14 million households own 183 million fish, according to a recent survey by the American Pet Products Association.
One of the best ways to see his impact is to visit the annual Northwest Koi and Goldfish Show in Portland. Koi shows are like dog shows, except the fish don’t look like their owners. A couple of years ago, Miller-Morgan and his assistant, Dennis Glaze, were asked to inspect the hygiene and handling practices at the show to prevent the spread of disease. Hygiene is important at shows because koi are big business. Miller-Morgan once performed abdominal surgery on one valued at about $5,000; and he recalls one person paying $70,000 for a single koi.
“They look at it as living art, as if they’re purchasing a living Picasso,” he says, explaining why someone would fork over a down payment on a house to buy a fish.
Of particular concern to koi owners is the contagious and deadly koi herpes virus, which inhibits breathing and can wipe out entire ponds. “It’s nasty. If it gets into your pond, any surviving fish are infected for life,” Miller-Morgan says. Because koi can have the virus but not show symptoms, he and several OSU colleagues are trying to indentify tissue in which the koi herpes virus hides, the genes expressed during latency, and factors (perhaps temperature) that activate the virus. They aim to develop a test that would indentify carriers by looking for the DNA of the virus.
“The OSU team is doing some of the best koi herpes virus research in the country,” says koi judge Grant Patton, of South Carolina, who sits on an Associated Koi Clubs of America committee that awarded OSU the funding for the research. If successful, their work would make koi buying less risky. Miller-Morgan recalled how one man lost his entire koi collection, worth $250,000, when he added a single fish that had not been screened for the virus. It was Miller-Morgan’s colleagues at OSU’s veterinary diagnostic laboratory who made the difficult diagnosis.
Pebbles the wolf eel undergoes a thorough exam to remove flukes from her gills. The good, the bad, and ugly receive equal care in OSU's Aquatic Health and Husbandry Teaching Lab. Photo: Lynn Ketchum
Miller-Morgan’s expertise is recognized throughout the country and abroad. He has taught seminars in about 25 states as well as in Australia, India, Indonesia, and Israel. He helped write the curriculum for a yearlong online course called the Koi Health Advisor program, which trains volunteers across the nation to care for koi and teach hobbyists how to properly care for their own fish. He’s traveled around the country to teach the hands-on part of the course. Along those lines, he also helped develop the aquarium science program at Oregon Coast Community College, where he also teaches.
Many of the most popular ornamental fish species are collected in tropical waters far from U.S. shores. How those fish are handled during their transport from reef to aquarium greatly affects their health and survival. Miller-Morgan has seen reef fish in Indonesia sit on a boat in plastic bags of water for up to three weeks before they’re sent to an export facility. That’s useful reconnaissance for U.S. buyers so they don’t shell out money for stressed-out, malnourished fish that die shortly after touching down on American soil.
Miller-Morgan collaborated with Sea Dwelling Creatures, an ornamental fish wholesaler in Los Angeles, to develop methods for safely transporting healthymarine ornamental fish. He helped them take blood samples, track water quality, and study how shipping impacted the fish. Working with the in-house veterinarian, he developed handling procedures that give the fish more time to acclimate to the water in their new tanks and eliminate unnecessary use of certain chemicals. He also accompanied staff members to Indonesia to work with suppliers there to improve the health of the animals. “Dr. Tim is awesome,” says co-owner Eric Cohen.
As any good doctor, Miller-Morgan can be found making weekly rounds of his patients, in his case at the Hatfield Marine Science Center and the nearby Oregon Coast Aquarium. With clipboard and flashlight in hand, he checks the vital signs of snooks, wrasses, red drums, anemones, hairy hermit crabs, jellyfish, and the rest.
It’s hard to miss him. Silhouetted against the floor-to-ceiling tanks, his 6-foot-5-inch frame towers over most visitors in the dark exhibit rooms. He’s a relaxed man with a gentle touch that can put sharks in a sleep-like trance. Maybe it’s all the years watching fish peacefully float by in aquariums that have given him such a calm demeanor. Yes, aquariums are good stress-relievers, he says, as long as you’re not the one maintaining them. Although he doesn’t own any fish, he does have a favorite: the spiny lumpsucker, an inflatable, golf ball-sized cutie with fins that stick like Post-It notes. And his favorite fish to eat is tuna. Just don’t tell his patients.
One Tuesday morning finds him at the Oregon Coast Aquarium checking out a tank of tetras. Earlier, some tetras had died in this tank; he’s trying to nail down the cause. He’s looking for physical and behavioral abnormalities: ulcers, tattered fins, changes in color. A fish that’s swimming with its mouth open could mean gill problems, or one that rubs its belly along the tank bottom could have skin parasites.
Detective work is part of his job. Earlier this year, Miller-Morgan and an aquarist noticed that Deriq, a 40-pound octopus at the Hatfield center, was barely breathing or moving. They took him to the hospital ward where he soon died. Deriq the octopus was the star attraction at the center and had developed a fan club thanks to a webcam in his tank that streamed live video of him onto the Internet. He even had his own Facebook page, which listed his interests as swimming, changing color, eating, playing with toys, and taking things apart. The day after his death, his Facebook page was filled with condolences.
Did metals leach from the camera in the tank? Was it something in the water? Miller-Morgan autopsied Deriq and lab work revealed that a parasite had infected his liver, intestines, and heart. Working with colleagues at the OSU School of Veterinary Medicine, Miller-Morgan suspects that the parasite came in on crabs that Deriq ate.
Finished with the tetras, Miller-Morgan moves on to a tank where a dozen sea pens should be displaying their orange plumes like peacocks. Instead, “they have an unhappy, ‘I’m itchy’ look,” he says. Earlier, flea-like amphipods had been chewing on the sea pens, and now protozoans are pestering them. Irritated, the sea pens have retreated into the sand. Miller-Morgan recommends to the aquarist that he put them in a different tank where they can be washed in a mild formaldehyde mixture and then run fresh water through their display tank.
Miller-Morgan's international work has resulted in improved practices for the multimillion-dollar ornamental fish industry and increased health of ornamental fish. Photos: Lynn Ketchum
Next, he walks to the aquarium’s warehouse-like hospital ward. A few years ago, an Animal Planet television crew filmed him there, gluing a contact lens onto the ulcerated eye of a rockfish, inserting a feeding tube into a sea dragon, and tending to a skate with a sore on its back. This time his patient is a rockfish with a half-inch-deep gouge on its snout. Miller-Morgan had treated the wound earlier and now, strapping on a headlamp, he checks his patient’s progress. The sedated fish looks at him, helpless. But Miller-Morgan knows to be careful: the spiny dorsal fin is a weapon. Yes, his job is not without risks. He was once bitten by a skate. “I was demonstrating how jaw movement returns before respiration—and it did,” he says.
He runs his hands down the side of the fish to check its muscle mass. The thrashing animal splashes water on his shirt. It’s losing equilibrium, the doctor explains. Fish in this phase can jump out of their containers. He jokes that the probability of a fish jumping out of its tank is directly proportional to the value of the fish, which means this one is very likely to stay put. He dabs at the wound with a piece of white gauze. “We’re seeing some good healing but you’re looking at a year to a year and a half,”he says. “It could be six months before this fish is back on display.”
Rockfish can be easily caught off the coast and purchased at the grocery store, but Miller-Morgan treats this one with the same tender care as he does with more expensive or exotic species. From tiny tetras to snake-like wolf eels to human-size sharks, all of his patients get equal treatment.
“They’re animals, and when we bring them into captivity we have an obligation to take care of them no matter what they are,” says Miller-Morgan, who has a framed copy of the veterinarian’s version of the Hippocratic oath on his office wall. He tucks his headlamp into his paramedics bag. He’s headed back to the Hatfield center to brief a room of concerned volunteers on the death of Deriq the octopus. It’s just another day at the office for the OSU fish doctor.
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Find Specific System Preference Panels & Options in OS X Quickly with Search
Nov 28, 2012 - Leave a Comment
Whether you’re new to the Mac or just can’t figure out where a specific preference option is buried, you’ll love the convenience of the built-in search function in OS X System Preferences. This is an often overlooked feature that can prevent a lot of frustration when looking for some less-than-obvious settings panels, and it’s very simple to use:
Open System Preferences from the Apple menu as usual
Type what you are looking for into the Search box
Either select the preference panel icon, or, select the item from the search box to jump directly to options
System Preferences will cast a shadow over the preference panels that don’t contain what you’re looking for, and a very obvious spotlight onto the preference panels that do contain the terms. Even better, you can actually navigate in the search box to jump directly to the preference option, even if it’s buried several options and tabs deep within a panel.
In the example screen shot, we’re searching for “DHCP”, which is set through a tab in a sub-preference panel for TCP/IP, something that if you’re new to the Mac you may not know. This works with a wide variety of things that are both obvious and not obvious, and it will even find non-exact phrases like “Lock Screen”, which will match up to the security panel where the “Require password for sleep and screen saver” feature is enabled, despite not even coming close to sharing the searched phrase.
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Pakistan News Home -> PakTribune Authors -> Author Detail
Sobia Nisar
PakTribune Columnist
Implications Of Indo-Us Nuclear Cooperation Sobia Nisar
India Using Maoists Against Nepal Sobia Nisar
Bahadur
RAW is enemy of Pakistan and Nepal, Bangaladesh
RAW is enemy of Bangaladesh, China, Nepal and Pakistan Dr. Sabitri Chaudhary - I..K. Gujral, former prime minister of India and Nepal's friend, was sent off to Russia during the late Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi's era. He was trained under the Russian Communist ideology and was assigned to look after a project called RAW whose objective was to build a strong Indian spy network in Asian and achieve Indian stronghold in the region. The modus operandi of RAW was to interfere in the neighboring nation's internal affairs in such a way that they are engulfed in their won internal affairs and India could freely interfere in their internal affairs; encroach their border as well. The recent publication of a false report on the Internet against Nepal and Pakistan shows how unprofessionally this organization is operating. Though the Indian government has denied any official bearing on the report, when over it comes in terms to the issue related to Nepal, the Indian foreign policy makers, ruling parties, opposition parties and the media unite together share a common negative perspective against Nepal. This way, it can never be accepted that the India government had no hands in publicising the report. The fabrication of fictional characters and their terrorist activities are woven with such a lie that any civilized and democratic nation anywhere in the world would find it amusing to see the seasoned Indian propagandists lose so much of their credibility. RAW interfered in Sri Lanka affairs and the impact it created is still disturbed the peaceful country, was almost split in to two nations. As the saving goes, "he who's the witch acts as the witch acts as the witch doctor himself", the present Indian BJP government has now allotted USD $ 10 million as aid to the Sri Lanka government which is a paradox. Bhutanese refugee problem in Nepal was also formulated by RAW from which Nepal is suffering a lot. RAW is also assisting the Nepali Maoists movement in supplying weapons and conducting guerrilla training and identifying remote and inaccessible 22 districts like Rolpa, Rukum, and Jajarkot for easy Maoists operation. Though Sri Lanka has been granted economic aids, the BJP government on the other hand neither takes any initiative to solve the root cause there nor does it speak anything against the Tamil Nadu leader Karuna Nidhi of DMK to stop his activities in Sri Lanka. India is also not free from the risk of being split up from problems with ULF As and Kashmiries. But to cover it all up, to put an illusion on its own citizens, the government is performing all these theatrical gestures like providing donations to Sri Lanka. Unlike the Himalayan Blunder of 1962, the late Prime Minister Rajeev Gandhi had to enforce his military force into Sri Lanka to settle problems which India itself had created earlier. Later, the Indian army was compelled to pull out in defeat bearing a loss of more than 1500 army personnel. As the saying goes: "those who plan poison tree well later be eaten up by the same tree", Rajeev Gandhi was assassinated by the Tamils themselves. Likewise, late Indira Gandhi also had planted a poisonous tree in the name of Saint General Singh Vindarwala. The interference of the Indian forces in the holy Punjabi Golden Temple in Amritsar, the killings of the separatists all added up to the assassination of Indira Gandhi. It is because the poisonous tree she had planted earlier had grown old and she couldn't uproot it. This is the price the Indian are paying for separating Bangladesh from Pakistan. The Pakistanis are now in possession of nuclear weapons. Maybe they didn't succeed in making Punjab and independent nation, but they won't let Kashmir issue passes away easily. Like 'tit for tat' the Pakistani Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) is there to counter the RAW. There are so many spy networks working under-cover of diplomatic mission. But still Nepal has not been able to carry out any action against Raw. On the other hand, the situation in Bangladesh is also not stable. The People's Republic of China is also fighting Muslim separatists and it is being extra sensitive to the Indian politics. Down south, the military government of Burma is also facing separatist power though they are suppressing their people by military rule. What I want to point out from all the above scenarios is "What is the sole element responsible for such instability? The ultimate cause is the infamous organization RAW and its unethical activities. Because of not only the Bangaladesh and Pakistan are are suffering but also even Indian herself is in a big trauma and has already started explaining about cross border terrorism.
Pakibuster
Give me a break, Maoists are banned in India. India is biggest victim of Maoists than any other contry. Pakis are support Maoists against all contries as mentioned in this article.
Wasif Ausaf
Recent attack of Maoist on Indian Parliamentarian
No doubt the article is written well and if i consider it a Pakistani cuisine it is rightly cooked for our people but Miss Sobia didn't pay attention on one recent attack of Maoist on Indian Parliamentarian, which killed him, I hope she may bring some new thought about it and give us a pro-Pakistani outlook on this incident.
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