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Geek Review: Have Your Casabakes Pie And Eat It Too
We don’t know many guys who enjoy whipping up a hearty meal, let alone run an online business that delivers warm meat pies to our doorsteps. But you haven’t met 33-year-old Kenny Chow, the owner of online venture Casabakes who has been tirelessly pursuing his culinary dream.
May the slice be with you
Kenny’s interest in bringing people together through food started in his grandmother’s kitchen, where he spent most of his time as a kid helping out during special occasions like the Dumpling Festival.
“My grandmother, who taught me how to make my first traditional rice balls, greatly influenced me during those times,” recalls Kenny.
After completing National Service, Kenny enrolled himself at At-Sunrice GlobalChef Academy, a certified institution that cultivates global chefs and F&B professionals. One and a half years later, he graduated and worked in an Italian restaurant where he spent long hours cooking pastas, baking pizzas, cleaning kitchens and taking stocks. This lasted for another year and a half, before he went on to work in a gastropub which served beer, wine and food.
Looking back at the hectic days, Kenny says: “Even though it was hard work, I found my work enjoyable and my days fulfilling. I felt like I was finally living my dream.”
Things came to a halt when Kenny suffered an asthma relapse in the kitchen, and the doctor told him that he should take a break and switching to a job that is less tiring.
Kenny re-evaluated his options and pursued a degree in Marketing and Tourism. Following that, he took up a post-graduate internship in the hotel industry, before helping his father run a family business in the construction industry.
However, Kenny never stopped thinking about his culinary dream. While studying, he would work part-time in the kitchen. To fill the void, he also baked pies for family and friends to enjoy.
Kenny’s life took another direction when a friend suggested that he should consider setting up a business as the pies he made were of “professional standards”.
He says humbly: “I didn’t take it seriously at first, but after talking to a few of my close friends and doing a little bit of research, I decided to give it a shot.”
Life is what you bake of it
Casabakes started business in March last year, and Kenny admits that the journey hasn’t been easy: “During the first year, business was slow and I questioned myself if I made the right move.”
There were endless considerations for Kenny as he had to figure out how to source for quality ingredients at great value, while going through months of research and food testing before getting the menu up. He also had to handle deliveries himself. During those times, he had to put many other plans on hold.
Kenny considers himself fortunate because of his supportive family members who would avail themselves to provide manual labour. Kenny is thankful for this source of motivation: “I pressed on and lived by the encouragement from my loved ones. I continued to look for new clients and new recipes.”
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Bake the world a better place
Things started picking up about six months, and Kenny managed to garner a pool of repeat customers through word of mouth. He also gets bulk orders from businesses.
Having to personally manage the administration aspect of Casabakes, Kenny feels that he has grown a lot over since starting the business: “I have become bolder, more steadfast, matured in my mindset, responsible, prudent and more organised.”
He adds: “It’s one thing to pursue a passion. It’s another to make a business out of your passion.”
That said, he admits that the best part of starting a business comes from receiving compliments from customers.
Kenny laughs: “A repeat customer told me that she was a home cook herself, and that her family preferred my minced beef pie to hers.” This is definitely something different from the days when he was working in a kitchen environment where he did not have face-to-face interactions with diners.
Since Casabakes is a home-based business, it gives Kenny the flexibility to tweak his recipes as desired quickly. He always makes it a point to ask for and listen to feedback regarding pricing, delivery or taste.
Currently, the well-mannered Kenny is looking into making his pies at a lower cost and higher speed. He is also experimenting with smaller serving size portions and planning to release seasonal pies – look out for his Christmas pie this December!
Like a wise Jedi Master, Kenny sums up his thoughts: “Food is a language that brings people together. In order to speak that language, one must first learn to listen.”
Baked to pie-faction
Here are our verdicts of Kenny’s minced beef and tuna pies after a taste test.
Easily a favourite with the masses, the minced beef pie contains generous amounts of finely minced beef covered in delicious meaty gravy. What makes this pie stand out from other pies is its gorgeous topping of buttery mash sprinkled with parmesan, mozzarella and cheddar cheese. If you love beef stews and cheese, then this signature Chow’s Cheese Pie with beef is a must-try.
The tuna pie is comfort food for the soul. With tuna chunks mixed with finely diced onions and mayonnaise, this is what home-cooked bliss feels and tastes like. The topping of buttery mash and cheese is perfected with garnishing of Riso, a rice-shaped Italian pasta. We learnt from Kenny that this tuna pie is what kicked off Casabakes. From a humble family recipe from his grandmother, he made some adaptations into the version today.
Other items on the menu include the tomato-based chicken pie and truffle mash, a side dish that Kenny took two months to perfect.
All pies are cooked the day before delivery or pickup. This is to ensure freshness of the pie and to let the flavours set in. Right before each delivery, the pies will be heated again so that they are ready for consumption.
You want a piece of me?
Place your order and get in touch with Kenny via WhatsApp at +65 8170 6692.
Minced Beef/Tuna/Chicken pies: S$25 per tray (serves 4 to 5)
Truffle Mash: S$9 per small tray (serves 1 to 2), S$16 per normal tray (serves 3 to 5)
Photos by Brandon Tan.
John believes there is another world waiting for us. A better world with Blu-ray discs, CDs, fast food, beer and Happy Meal toys. And he will be waiting for you there.
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Family Carols
BBC One London, 23 December 1973 18.50
for Choir and Audience
Selections from this year's programme at the Royal Albert Hall The Bach Choir with the PHILIP JONES BRASS ENSEMBLE Organist RICHARD POPPLEWELL Conductor DAVID WILLCOCKS
For over 30 years, each Christmas the Bach Choir has sung carols with a family audience in the Royal Albert Hall. This year's programme includes two Carol Competition winners - as well as the children's special items.
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Evanescence Premieres Video For Cover Of ‘The Chain’
9. January 2020 Ashley Perez Hollingsworth 0 Comments Cover Song, Evanescence, Fleetwood Mac, Just Released, Music Video, New Music, Rock Music, Video Game
Evanescence traverses through a post-apocalyptic wasteland in their new music video for their cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” recorded for the Gears of War 5 soundtrack.
Directed by P.R. Brown, the clip features the band performing the song under harsh red lights and a smoky atmosphere. Footage from the video game are interspersed throughout. The video ends with the band’s drumkit catching fire, which is oddly similar to a recent incident at Knotfest Mexico.
“The goal of the video is to show the bond of this band as they deliver a powerful take on a classic song,” said Brown in a statement. “The tie in with Gears 5 presented an opportunity to combine the game world together with the band performance in a post-apocalyptic setting. The band emerges from the ashes to come together. We wanted to bring these worlds together and feel both the force of the band and the game.”
Evanescence is currently working on a new album, which is due this year. They’ll embark on a European tour in April. See all their dates here.
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This Week's Top Comedy Video: Waffle Assault
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Waffles or pancakes? You have to pick waffles, right? Only people who eat vanilla ice cream would swear by pancakes. Waffles are delicious! Waffles are perfect! Waffles make everything better. Unless you're in a police lineup, then you should stay away from the waffles.
The rest of this week's top comedy videos, including Alyssa Milano, getting cut from Iron Man 3 and being a modern comedian, can all be found over at Splitsider.
Other highlights from the week in comedy:
Chris Hardwick signed on to host a new Comedy Central late night show with Tom Lennon and Ben Garant as showrunners.
HBO renewed Veep for a third season, and Adult Swim renewed The Eric Andre Show for a second one.
We checked out Marc Maron's new book Attempting Normal, looked back on some of the best episodes of his podcast, and talked with the man himself about his new IFC show Maron.
Inspired by Maron, we picked ten comedy podcasts that would make great TV shows.
We talked to Matt Walsh about HBO's Veep, to Bo Burnham about his new MTV show, and to stand-ups Nikki Glaser and Dan Soder about their Comedy Central Half Hour specials.
The Blue Collar guys are opening a $200 million theme park.
We gave you a guide to Toronto's comedy scene.
Twitter and Comedy Central held an online comedy festival, beginning with Judd Apatow moderating a discussion between Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks.
Kurt Braunohler debuted a podcast on the Nerdist Network.
We looked at Comedy Central's new series Inside Amy Schumer, profiled stand-up Ardie Fuqua, considered our begrudging respect for Rob Schneider, and published one writer's call for backup.
We recommend the week's best podcasts, which includes Todd Barry's new show and Todd Glass's 100th episode, and this week in funny Vines, featuring Key and Peele, Nick Swardson, and Maria Bamford.
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The Future of Motivation at Work: Management Video - keynote speaker on better ways to motivate teams
Futurist Keynote Speaker: Posts, Slides, Videos - Make Change Happen Faster - Motivational Speaker
How to make great things happen: motivation at work. How to lead more effectively, win the war for talent, build strong teams. Over 340,000 views of this video - recorded some time ago by sharply relevant today - from a presentation to 500 of MTN's leaders.
Surveys show there's a huge crisis of motivation in most large corporations, which is why they continue to spend billions of dollars each year on motivation courses, training in motivation, meetings to boost motivation, incentives to strengthen motivation, meetings to analyse problems in workforce motivation, tools to measure motivation, mission statements and so on. Problems in recruitment, productivity and retention, problems of commitment to teams and corporate agendas.
But the motivation gap is fundamental. People are passionate - but mainly about life outside of work. Indeed the very phrase "work-life balance" tells us that most people think that work is the opposite of life. So how did we get to be in such a motivational crisis?
Need a world-class motivational keynote speaker? Phone Patrick Dixon now or email.
Motivation has moved on and left most corporations behind
One thing is clear: motivation is changing. Just look at the current obsession with work-life balance, which is now a powerful force in every corporation, number one or two career priority for the majority of executives in the US, UK and Japan. Forget the old days when ambition meant rushing up the career ladder. Today the great dual ambition is to have a satisfying job and a fulfilling personal life.
Or take the growing motivation for community action: 60% of all US workers give time each year to work for causes they passionately believe in. The average time gift is 200 hours. If each hour given by a US citizen was charged out at the average industrial wage, you would be talking about an industry as large as 4.5% of GDP or 12% of the Federal budget.
And other countries are similar, whether people are rich or poor, in Western Europe or East Africa. Despite all the gloomy pundits some years back, community motivation remains very much alive. But these motivation changes are rarely reflected in corporate policy - or if they are, in a very superficial way. That's because CEOs and senior teams are still over-influenced by last-century management ideology about efficiency, bottom-line profit, shareholder value, return on equity and other motivation - killing fixations.
"How you make a difference to people - why shareholder value is a lousy motivator"
Video of event for fund managers - many fund managers are typical of those in other industries. They lack passion for what they do because they don't understand the impact they have on other people's lives - in their case helping pensioners / savers.
Management Gurus – high priests of confusion ?
You’ll find that management theory is still mainly built on two things: psycho-theories from one or two centuries ago and also case histories of organisations. Both are rooted in the past, can be based on subjective interpretations of data, and rarely concentrate on motivation. Case histories rapidly date as our world changes – just look at old business books and count the case examples of companies that now don’t even exist, or are basket cases, or riddled with recent scandal - and the old psycho-theories raise many questions. Life in the third millennium has moved on a long way from unproveable nineteenth century introspections about unconscious motives and desires.
You’ll find great business ideas formed often many decades ago about the nature of organizations, team management, excellence at work and the rest. All vital and important things without which no business can survive, but very little that grabs you by the throat when it comes to passion, commitment and motivation.
Hey – if there was, we wouldn’t all be in this mess.
Without management experts we would all be the poorer, with lower productivity, inefficient structures, bad organizations and wasted resources. However it is a historical fact that management fads come and go faster than ever – often in less than a decade - leaving tens of thousands bruised, bashed and confused by each one that sweeps into their organization. You just have to look at a list of business titles published over the last five decades to see that. And these fads actually undermine motivation.
Bashed by all the latest fads
Core competencies, empowerment, balanced scorecard, adhocracy, action learning, 360 degree appraisals, the learning organization, career anchors, champions, decentralization, vertical integration, quality management, re-engineering, down-sizing, psychological contract, mission statement, portfolio working, management by objectives, managerial hierarchies, just-in-time, lateral thinking, emotional intelligence and work/life balance.
First are four top turn-of-the-century gurus: Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Michael Porter and Gary Hamil. Each has had a huge impact on business thinking today but are not so strong on motivation..
Between them these giants of corporate thinking have contributed a huge amount to corporate efficiency, productivity and effectiveness, generating wealth for millions, contributing to the economy and to society.
What about passion for living?
Great leaders, great visionaries, passionate about their messages – but what do they tell us more generally about human passion for life?
What do they tell us about why people act as they do? The choices they make? The things they feel strongly about? The culture we live in and the changing lifestyles choices people are making?
Of course, all of them have addressed every topic under the sun at one time or another on platforms or in writings, but what happens when you look at the main thrust of their influence?
The problem is that Drucker says everything about managing a corporation but far less that captivates the human spirit. Almost nothing about managing personal life as a whole – or about work / life balance or broader motivation issues.
Tom Peters talks of excellence in companies, and also talks about passion in leadership but says almost nothing about excellence of personal quality of life, why personal commitment to workplace goals is falling and why for most people, their strongest sense of motivation is for the work they are not paid to do, the things they do outside of work, simply because they believe those things are worthwhile.
Michael Porter talks of being competitive, but people are more than links in a value chain. He has a good understanding of company survival, but a relatively poor understanding of personal survival and of what people are looking for in life. Motivation is hardly at the heart of what he writes or says.
Core competency has become a widely accepted concept, encouraging corporations to focus on strengths. However, finding a company’s core competency, or even changing future corporate history does nothing to motivate me to get out of bed in the morning.
The world’s leading management gurus, on whom hundreds of thousands of management consultants base their work, are relatively silent when it comes to motivation, and are nowhere when it comes to finding one single unifying factor that drives all human action.
And we find the same when we review dozens of other widely respected gurus of management theory. Here are a few more popular buzz-words:
Actions are not the same as understanding passion that drives these actions. Strategy does not necessarily provoke personal motivation. Leadership can encourage motivation but only if it understands what makes people passionate. What's the point of a balanced team if people can’t care less? Leaders doing the right thing is often not the same as having a fired-up workforce. Passion is based on more than mere ideas. Since when did anyone at work get really get excited about a structure? Quality of products and services is hardly the core motivation for individual life, for what we do or what we buy. Re-engineering of the corporation is not the same as re-engineering people’s motivation. Objectives do not provide people with meaning and ultimate sense of purpose. Team psychology is almost irrelevant to question of personal passion and aims in life. “Company-wide quality management” is not the same as connecting with what people feel strongly about. Global branding does nothing to motivate. There is more to motivating people than having great style.
Most recognised authorities on management score low on motivation with the exception of Charles Handy, Edward Schein, Elton Mayo, Elspeth Ross Kanter, and Douglas MacGregor. And most of those who scored high are dead, or retired, and most of their works were published decades ago.
Why corporations have been given such a narrow view of motivation
Why the problem? Well one obvious reason is that he who pays the piper calls the tune and management consultants by definition are asked in by corporations to improve their bottom line profitability, not to massage the inner needs and motivation of their employees, except as a profit-enhancing exercise.
So its hardly suprising that we get on the whole a very narrow view.
One thing is clear: there is one mega black-hole of fresh thinking about motivation, about what really makes people tick, about why people act as they do.
Harness all the passions people have and they will follow you to the ends of the earth.
For a different approach altogether to motivation - look at this recent presentation. Discover the secret of the Four Circles of the Human Heart.
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Swimming and Diving Posts Strong Times at Three Invitationals Friday
David Pfeifer finished fourth on the three-meter board (Keith Miller).
AUSTIN, Texas, IOWA CITY, Iowa & ATHENS, Ga. – It was a full day of action for the Harvard swimming and diving program as it had competitors in the pool and on the diving boards in three invitationals across the country Friday. Swimmers from both teams finished up day two of the Texas Invitational, while the women also sent a contingent to the Hawkeye Invitational in Iowa. The divers were in action at the UGA Invitational.
TEXAS RECAP – Men's and Women's Swimming
Sonia Wang and Geordie Enoch were at it again Friday for the women's team, beginning the Friday finals session with NCAA 'B' cut times in the 400 IM. Wang took fourth overall in the event at 4:13.92 while Enoch was third in the 'B' final at 4:18.39. In the men's 400 IM, Christian Yeager, Daniel Tran and Koya Osada took third, fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 'B' final, each with 'B' cut times.
Kendall Crawford qualified for the 'A' final in the 100 butterfly with her 'B' cut mark of 52.89 and then took eighth in the finals. Brittany Usinger was the second finisher in the 'B' final after scoring a 'B' cut time of 54.37 in the prelims. Max Yakubovich clocked the top mark of the 'C' final on the men's side at 47.50, good for a 'B' cut.
Harvard's women collected two more 'B' cut qualifying times in the 100 backstroke when Danielle Lee recorded the top time in the 'B' final at 53.18 and Crawford touched the wall in 55.08. Jack Manchester put up a 'B' cut time for the Crimson men, finishing third in the 'B' final in 48.29, while Yakubovich took the top mark in the 'C' final with his qualifying cut time of 48.47. The men concluded the day with a seventh-place finish in the 200 medley relay made up of Osada, Sebastian Lutz, Yakubovich and Paul O'Hara.
UGA RECAP - Diving
Harvard's women had an impressive day on the one-meter board, placing three divers in the top 10. Junior Elina Leiviskä put together the top score for the Crimson with a 242.15 to earn fifth overall. Sophomore Hannah Allchurch was right behind her in sixth with a score of 238.00 and Mikaela Thompson took eighth at 231.10.
Sophomore David Pfeifer led the way for the men on the three-meter board, taking fourth overall with his mark of 343.25 which topped the current 'A' qualifying standard. Classmate Bobby Ross claimed 11th at 292.95, while freshman Luke Martinez posted a score of 288.40.
HAWKEYE RECAP- Women's Swimming
In Friday's finals, Harvard's 200 freestyle relay squad got things start with a seventh-place finish in 1:33.90. Comprising the team was Victoria Chan, Holly Christensen, Kristina Li and Gabrielle Sims. Freshman Claire Pinson earned a fifth-place showing in the 500 free finals at 4:54.89, while sophomore Regan Kology garnered seventh in 4:55.65. Junior Margaret Chory was the second finisher in the 'B' final with a mark of 4:56.35.
Daniela Johnson secured another quality finish for the Crimson in the 200 IM finals, touching in fifth in 2:01.93. Chan and Sims were both in action in the 'B' final of the 50 free, placing 13th and 14th overall.
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Vegetable-Driven Le Jardinier Opens in NYC
Dining Out 1 minute 21 May 2019
The chef at the helm is a 21-year Robuchon vet.
new opening NYC
Citizens of New York, behold: there’s a fancy new bi-level restaurant from Joël Robuchon veteran chef Alain Verzeroli opening in Midtown Manhattan today. Le Jardinier, located on the corner of East 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue, puts a laser focus on vegetables, making this a bit of a diamond in the Midtown-dining-scape rough.
Le Jardinier is the first restaurant for Verzeroli, who was director of culinary operations at Château Restaurant Joël Robuchon in Tokyo, which earned three MICHELIN stars for 11 years in a row. Designed by Joseph Dirand, the space houses 62 seats, an indoor garden, green marble walls and floor-to-ceiling windows. As for the food, “I created the concept for Le Jardinier based upon the way I like to eat and what I’ve seen diners gravitating towards—more vegetable-focused, with smaller portions of protein,” says Verzeroli. “I wanted the menu to be light and refined, but also unpretentious and approachable.”
The aforementioned vegetable-driven menu includes dishes like heirloom tomatoes paired with stone fruits and burrata; Montauk fluke crudo with Persian cucumber and crispy black rice; and Dover sole for two with lemongrass and leeks. Desserts, by pastry chef Salvatore Martone (of two-MICHELIN-starred L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon New York), include lemon meringue tart with citrus marmalade and warm rhubarb pie with rhubarb buttermilk sherbet. "He specifically focuses both on organic ingredients and more 'organic' presentations," adds Verzeroli. "What’s most important is clarity of flavors—for example, if it’s a strawberry dessert, all of the preparations of that ingredient and the additional components should work to heighten and accentuate the purest strawberry flavor." As a bonus, five out of the seven desserts are gluten-free.
There’s also an entirely gluten-free bread program at Le Jardinier by master baker Tetsuya Yamaguchi (also of L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon New York). It’s a first for him—it took five months to recipe testing to perfect a unique bread basket. The ancient grain baguette is a mixture of buckwheat, brown rice flour, white sorghum, teff and rice flour, while the mini Parker House rolls consist of Japanese rice flour and white sorghum. “I use the Japanese [flour] because it’s different than the US rice flour—it’s very very fine and the method to make the flour is very different,” Yamaguchi says. “Japan is a rice culture rather than wheat—they study how to work with rice. It gives it an airy texture—not so chewy—and makes the bread moist and fluffy.”
Originally, the second floor of the space was supposed to house chef Robuchon’s iconic and eponymous fine-dining restaurant. “The concepts have changed completely over the past year,” says Verzeroli. “Upon chef Robuchon’s passing last August, we made the decision not to move forward with opening his Joël Robuchon Restaurant. This was both out of respect to chef Robuchon as well as looking at the current New York dining scene and wanting to offer an elevated experience, but at a slightly lower price point than that concept commands.” The second level will be home to the contemporary French-meets-Japanese restaurant Shun, inspired by Verzeroli’s years of living in Tokyo, slated to open in June. “Shun is the Japanese philosophy that each food should only be eaten in its proper season, at the peak of freshness,” he adds. “Le Jardinier is a bit more casual, while Shun will be fine dining.”
Le Jardinier is located at 610 Lexington Avenue and open for dinner on Monday through Thursday from 5:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Photos by Nicole Frantzen.
Written by Abbe Baker
Abbe Baker is the Digital Editor for the United States of the MICHELIN Guide digital platform. Always on the move, Abbe is either seeking out the next good eats or running long distances—both of which merit a fine glass of wine immediately following.
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20 Best Tourist Attractions in Hannover, Germany
January 1, 2020 by Linda J. Leave a Comment
Proof that Hanover isn’t all buttoned-down firm are the Baroque Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen, about 5km north of the town centre, which are thought of as among the very significant garden arenas in Europe. They’re a great place to slow down and smell the roses for a couple of hours on a moment. Two of the four gardens are all free entrance; visit the two using a combo ticket.
An on-site museum recounts the history of this Hanoverian rulers who generated the gardens. East of the Grosser Garten, outside a tiny canal, that the lake-dotted Georgengarten counts the Wilhelm Busch Museum one of its own paintings.
The Sprengel Museum is held both for the building’s style as well as for your art housed inside. Its interior spaces are all perfectly suited to displaying its modern abstract, figurative and conceptual art, including works by Léger, Picasso, Alexander Calder and Louise Bourgeois. At the core of the collection are 300 works by Niki de Saint Phalle, founder of Die Nanas; a selection is normally available on show. Check the web site for exhibitions.
A superb solution to have your bearings in Hanover is always to visit the Neues Rathaus (built 1901–13) and ascend 98m in the curved elevator (the only one of its kind). It’s shaped to go the cover of the building dome, at which you can find four observation platforms offering panoramic views so far. So expect queues the cottage can take five people at a time
From the expansive marble lobby downstairs, four city models portray Hanover from the Middle Ages the sombre 1945 model indicates the extent of the harm done by Allied bombing in WWII.
Grosser Garten
The gem in the crown of the Herrenhäuser Gärten is both grand both in format and history, having been laid out under the tutelage of the landscape architect Martin Charbonnier as being a Baroque garden in 17 14. The garden contains statues, fountains, and a maze and also the coloured tile walls of the Niki de Saint Phalle Grotto, creator of the city’s much-loved Die Nanas sculptures. The Grosse Fontäne is currently Europe’s greatest fountain, jetting up water .
The summer that the synchronised Wasserspiele water fountains always pull a bunch, as do nightly garden illuminationssummer vacations and fireworks contests. Dates and times vary: check that the’Events’ area of this site for details.
Eilenriede Forest
More than 640 hectares (almost twice the magnitude of NYC’s Central Park), Europe’s largest city woods, Eilenriede, can be known as Hanover’s grüne Lunge (green lung). Beginning about northeast of this Hauptbahnhof, it frequented and beloved by locals, who picnic, cycle and play through the forests, luminous green in summer time. Here, it’s easy to assume you aren’t in the midst of an area of a thousand people.
The oldest botanical garden in Germany is redolent with a range of worldwide flora — including glasshouses for tropical plants and orchids, cacti — also features 300-year-old lime trees liner a route leading to some mausoleum holding the remains of George I of England.
Kestner Gesellschaft
It’s Definitely worth checking to Your Own Kestner Gesellschaft in listings. Founded to bring advanced artworks to Hanover from musicians, the society exhibited works by Wassily Kandinsky, Georg Grosz, Otto Dix and Paul Klee till they became famous; now this renowned gallery still curates shows that later excursion Europe. Its assumptions were a bath house.
Museum Schloss Herrenhäusen
The Schloss Herrenhäusen, a palace destroyed by bombing in 1943, re opened in 2013 after being spectacularly reconstructed to the plans. It includes a genuine facade and a interioremployed for events and high-end conferences. This small museum is the sole region of the complex open to people. It comprises displays (with English signage) on the era and the fascinating span in Hanover’s history once the British Empire was ruled out of here.
This artificial lake, built by the jobless in one of those most early endeavors, is a favourite spot for boating and swimming. It’s undoubtedly the very fundamental, in just 30 minutes’ walk away from the Hauptbahnhof and directly alongside the HDI Stadium , Hanover’s football arena. Ferries — some solar-powered — ply the lake from Easter to October in weather that is good, and there are pedal also sailing and rowing boats for hire.
Marktkirche
The redbrick Gothic Marktkirche St Georgii et Jacobi (1349–5 9 ), located in the Market Sq, is Hanover’s largest Lutheran church. Its foundations date back into some Romanesque predecessor from around 1125; it rebuilt in 1952 and was damaged during WWII. Even the linden-wood altar, that displays the Passion of Christ in 2-1 arenas, was carved around 1480. Public tours (with Language accessibility ) are offered every Saturday at noon, January through November.
This hot swimming pool can be found on the southeast shore of the Maschsee, Hanover’s sizable lake, where you’ll also find in-line skaters gliding from the shade of tropical trees. The nearest stop is Döhrener Turm about the lines 8 and 1, 2 . You can also walk fifteen minutes across the lake from Maschsee/Sprengel Museum prevent (bus 100).
Aegidienkirche
This former church (dating from 1347) was never repaired or reconstructed when it had been bombed in 1943, and today stands as a reminder of the horrors of war. In the ruin could be that your Peace Bell, given by sister-city Hiroshima. Every 6 August in 8.15am, the date and time of this atomic detonation in Hiroshima, a delegation from both cities matches here to ring the bell.
Wilhelm Busch Museum
Contains a wealth of cartoon and caricature art, including functions greats Busch, Honoré Daumier and William Hogarth, in addition to celebrity Ronald Searle and bits. No more English signage.
Die Nanas
When these three earth-mama sculptures were installed with all the Leine River in 1974, the city mothers and fathers of Hanover were overwhelmed with almost 20,000 letters of complaint. The voluptuous and fluorescent-coloured’Sophie’,’Charlotte’ and’Caroline’ are among the most recognisable, and loved, landmarks of the city. Their creator, the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle, has been appointed an honorary citizen of Hanover in 2000; in gratitude she donated 300 of her artworks into the Sprengel Museum.
Historische Museum Hannover
This museum of history had just one exhibit hall open at research time; it’s now under going renovations due to open in October 20-19. The memorial offers an exceptional skyline view (via 81 steps) at the top of this 23m-high Beginenturm (attached to the back of the construction ), the sole medieval city-wall tower remaining in Hanover.
Museum August Kestner
Arts through the ages will be the focus of the Kestner Museum, where you will see from cutlery into an impressive assortment of antiquities. There’s some signage during the exhibits, too.
Oskar-Winter-Brunnen
Make a wish and also turn the little brass ring embedded in the ironwork of this ornate 1896 fountain three times and — according to legend — your wish can become a reality.
Erlebnis Zoo
Enclosures drift at this 22-hectare century east of the centre, although knowledge will not feel particularly worth the steep price tag. Be ready to jostle through hordes of all stroller-pushing families if you go at the weekend. Kids under age 2 are admitted free.
Leibnizhaus
Even the Renaissance facade of the Leibnizhaus is a reconstruction but your house was formerly the home of mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716).
Ballhof
Originally built for 17thcentury games very similar to badminton, the Ballhof (1649–64) was modernised inside in the 1970 s and today acts as a place for youth theater and opera. It’s located inside the Altstadt (old town).
1 Herrenhäuser Gärten
2 Sprengel Museum
3 Neues Rathaus
4 Grosser Garten
5 Eilenriede Forest
6 Berggarten
7 Kestner Gesellschaft
8 Museum Schloss Herrenhäusen
9 Maschsee
10 Marktkirche
11 Strandbad
12 Aegidienkirche
13 Wilhelm Busch Museum
14 Die Nanas
15 Historische Museum Hannover
16 Museum August Kestner
17 Oskar-Winter-Brunnen
18 Erlebnis Zoo
19 Leibnizhaus
20 Ballhof
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The European Amateur Championship – 2018 Preview, Reports & Results
Robin Dawson (Silver), Nicolai Hojgaard (Gold) and Jerry Ji (Bronze)
(Photo: European Golf Association / Ronald Speijer)
Nicolai HOJGAARD (DEN) won the 2018 European Amateur Championship at Royal Hague today.
A final round 73 (+1), which included a double bogey 7 on the 18th, was good enough for a 281 (-7) total and a 1 shot win. The victory comes with an exemption to the 2018 Open Championship to be played at Carnoustie Golf Links in three weeks time.
Nicolai Hojgaard’s Scorecard (Photo: European Golf Association / Golfbox)
Norwegians Viktor HOVLAND and Kristoffer REITAN both recorded best of the day 67’s (-5) in Round 4 to finish the event strongly.
Hovland finished tied 2nd on 282 (-6) alongside Robin DAWSON (IRE), who himself shot a 68 (-4) today, Jerry JI (NED) and Mitch WAITE (ENG). In accordance with the competition rules Dawson and Ji won the silver and bronze medals based on a 36, then 18, hole count back.
Robin Dawson’s Scorecard (Photo: European Golf Association / Golfbox)
Mitch Waite’s Scorecard (Photo: European Golf Association / Golfbox)
Dawson’s compatriots Conor PURCELL and Rowan LESTER also finished the Championship well and can be pleased with their 6th and tied 7th place finishes respectively.
Here is a list of the GB&I final results (only players who made the T60 54 hole cut): –
T2 Robin DAWSON (IRE) 71 72 71 68 282 (-6)
T2 Mitch WAITE (ENG) 72 69 68 73 282 (-6)
6 Conor PURCELL (IRE) 74 69 71 69 283 (-5)
T7 Rowan LESTER (IRE) 70 73 71 70 284 (-4)
T16 Matthew JORDAN (ENG) 74 70 69 73 286 (-2)
T21 Alex FITZPATRICK (ENG) 75 69 71 72 287 (-1)
T21 Euan WALKER (SCO) 72 71 70 74 287 (-1)
T21 Jack GAUNT (ENG) 70 72 69 76 287 (-1)
T29 Jamie STEWART (SCO) 72 73 72 71 288 (Ev)
T37 Rory FRANSSEN (SCO) 77 70 71 72 290 (+2)
T44 Andrew WILSON (ENG) 75 68 76 73 292 (+4)
T49 Bailey GILL (ENG) 71 77 71 74 293 (+5)
T49 Ben JONES (ENG) 75 71 73 74 293 (+5)
T49 Ben CHAMBERLAIN (WAL) 72 73 72 76 293 (+5)
T54 Tom SLOMAN (ENG) 72 69 72 81 294 (+6)
T59 Robin WILLIAMS (ENG) 78 68 73 76 295 (+7)
T59 Nick POPPLETON (ENG) 71 72 75 77 295 (+7)
To view the detailed final scores click here – 2018 European Amateur Championship Results
Nicolai HOJGAARD (DEN) leads the European Amateur after 54 holes with a 208 (-8) total. The 17 year old identical twin of Rasmus (who is tied 15th) shot a 68 today.
A number of British players moved nicely into position on Friday. Mitch WAITE (ENG) also shot 68 to move into sole second on -7 and Jack GAUNT (ENG) a bogey free 69 to start Day 4 in tied 3rd on -5.
Matthew JORDAN (ENG) 69, Euan WALKER (SCO) 70 and Tom SLOMAN (ENG) 72 all finished their third rounds strongly to end the day on -3, tied 8th.
Irish trio Conor PURCELL, Robin DAWSON and Rowan LESTER all recorded 71’s and are now tied 15th on -2. Dawson and Lester are paired together tomorrow at 11.20am so will hopefully drive each other on to good finishes.
63 players, including 17 from GB&I, made the top 60 and ties cut which fell at 220 (+3). Mark POWER (IRE), Joe PAGDIN (ENG) and BEN HUTCHINSON (ENG) were amongst the 8 players who just missed out on +4. It was particularly hard on both Power, who had fought back well from a first round 79, and 16 year old Pagdin who shot a brave 69 in Round 3.
Australia’s Charlie DANN went out in a blaze of glory recording a 67, the best round of the day. Unfortunately it could only lift him to +5 for the Championship and hence he still missed the cut by two shots.
Whilst Thursday was hot and sunny throughout unfortunately it proved to be a day of two halves with regard to the wind. This morning saw wind speeds of 10mph but this afternoon they were generally stronger gusting up to 30mph.
Inevitably this had an impact on the scoring. The first 72 players out today, teeing off between 7.00am and 11.17am (local time), had an average score of 72.39. The next 72, teeing off between 11.32pm and 3.49pm, were 1.47 shots higher at 73.86.
Blake WINDRED (AUS) finished with 4 birdies in his last 6 holes to post his second 69. He leads on 138 (-6) from overnight leader Perry COHEN (SUI) whose even par 72 left him on 139 (-5).
Giovanni TADIOTTO (BEL) bounced back from a first round 80 with a 66, the best of the week so far. He finished the day tied 51st nicely within the top 60 cut line which will be applied tomorrow.
Mitch WAITE (ENG) and Tom SLOMAN (ENG) who have been pretty inseparable in recent weeks both shots 69’s to move up to tied 5th on 141 (-4).
Jack GAUNT (ENG) is the only other home player in the top 10. He produced a good 72 playing late this afternoon to stay on -2 and tied 8th.
Andrew WILSON (ENG) produced the best GB&I round of the day with a 68 (he’s T19). Conor PURCELL (IRE) had a 69 (also T19), notable as he is the first player to deliver a bogey free round in the Championship to date.
Switzerland’s American-based Perry COHEN leads the European Amateur at the end of Round 1 after a superb 67 (-5). After bogeying the 1st hole the recent graduate of St. Mary’s California University produced an unblemished round featuring three birdies on each side.
Jack GAUNT (ENG), Alex GLEESON (IRE), Rowan LESTER (IRE) and Tom PLUMB (ENG) were the best of the 36 Great British and Irish players competing at Royal Hague. Their 70’s (-2) represented a very creditable start to this prestigious amateur event.
Gleeson had more birdies (7) than any other player in the field in Round 1 and will clearly have been disappointed to tarnish a great day with a double bogey 7 on the home hole.
Robin DAWSON (IRE), Bailey GILL (ENG) and Nicholas POPPLETON (ENG) are also under par for the championship after shooting 71 (-1) today.
Congratulations to Alexander HERRMANN (GER) who recorded a hole-in-one on the par 3 12th in his round of 69.
The average score on Day 1 was 74.39 (+2.39) so anything around par represented a solid start.
The field of 144 players will be cut to the top 60 and ties after 54 holes so there is still lots to play for.
The 31st International European Amateur Championship starts tomorrow at Royal Hague Golf & Country Club in Netherlands.
This prestigious Championship is run by the European Golf Association (EGA), assisted each year by the host nation; this year, the Royal Netherlands Golf Federation.
Royal Hague G. & C.C. 18th Green and Clubhouse (Photo: rcedejong)
The European Amateur is a 72-hole stroke play competition. 18-holes are played daily over four days.
A cut will take place after 54 holes with the 60 lowest scores and ties qualifying for the final round on Saturday 30th June.
A 3 hole aggregate score play off will decide the winner in the event of a tie. If this doesn’t separate the players then a sudden death play-off will commence over the same holes.
144 players will contest the Championship this week.
All of the players must have handicaps of 0.0 or better with an entry ballot applied based on the World Amateur Golf Rankings.
Exemptions were also available to the defending champion, a single nomination from each EGA member nation, four nominated players from the host nation, Netherlands, competitors in the most recent Bonallack Trophy, St. Andrew’s Trophy and Jacques Léglise Trophy matches, the 2018 South American Amateur champion and the 2018 European Mid-Amateur champion.
Most of the leading European and Great Britain and Irish (GB&I) players will be on show. There are 36 GB&I players in total competition at Royal Hague.
There are 17 of the current Scratch Players World Amateur Ranking’s Top 100 competing. These are Viktor HOVLAND (NOR) #7, Matthew JORDAN (ENG) #11, Robin DAWSON #16, Lorenzo SCALISE (ITA) #30, Frederik NILEHN (SWE) #35, Kristoffer REITAN (NOR) #41, Mitch WAITE (ENG) #52, Ryan LUMSDEN (SCO) #56, David HAGUE (ENG) #71, Stefano MAZZOLI (ITA) #66, TOM SLOMAN (ENG) #79, Gian-Marco PETROZZI (ENG) #82, Alex GLEESON #86, Victor PASTOR (ESP) #87, Conor PURCELL (IRE) #92, Laird SHEPHERD (ENG) #93 and Shae WOOLS-COBB (AUS) #100.
Stefano Mazzoli is a past champion having won the event at Penati Golf Resort in Slovakia in 2015.
Round 1 starts at 7.00am local time (BST + 1)
Click here to view the – 2018 European Amateur Championship Tee Times
Click here to view the – 2018 European Amateur Championship Leaderboard
I will be providing a short report after each day’s play on this webpage throughout the Championship.
Royal Hague Golf Club
The 2018 Championship is being staged at Koninklijke Haagsche Golf & Country Club in Wassenaar, Netherlands. Better known to us in English as Royal Hague.
It is generally acknowledged to be the best course in Netherlands and one of the most challenging in Europe.
15th hole, Royal Hague G. & C.C. (Photo: Frank Pont / Infinite Variety Golf Design)
Founded in April 1893 the Club is celebrating it’s 125th anniversary this year.
The current course was designed by Englishmen C. Hugh Alison and Harry Colt and opened for play in 1939.
Since 2008 Dutch architect Frank Pont has been engaged on an extensive course restoration project. He has reviewed all of the greens, bunkers and tees greatly improving Royal Hague’s playability and presentation.
Located on the famous strip of Dutch links land, just north of The Hague city centre, the course lies a couple of miles inland from the North Sea. Uneven stances on an undulating dune landscape, with a few blind shots thrown in, are very much the order of the day here.
A standard par 72 championship course it stretches to 6,844 yards with two very even nines.
It is going to play firm and fast this week albeit I understand the upturned saucer greens have been watered and are therefore holding well struck approach shots.
A hot and sunny week is forecast for Northern Europe and conditions should be very good over the four competition days. Winds tend to increase in speed here as the day goes on.
Weds 27th June – Sunny. Wind 15 mph (NNE). Max. 23°C / Min 14°C.
Thurs 28th June – Sunny. Wind 17 mph (NNE). Max. 24°C / Min 14°C.
Fri 29th June – Sunny. Wind 20 mph (NNE). Max. 23°C / Min 13°C.
Sat 30th June – Sunny. Wind 16 mph (NNE). Max. 24°C / Min 16°C.
Gold, silver and bronze medals are awarded to the Top 3 finishers.
More importantly the champion receives an exemption into this year’s Open Championship at Carnoustie Golf Links in Angus, Scotland. Last year Alfie Plant used his exemption to go on and win the low amateur Silver Medal at Royal Birkdale G.C.
The Championship Trophy is held by the winning player’s national golf authority.
2017 European Amateur Championship
England’s Alfie PLANT won the 2017 European Amateur Championship on the Old Course at Walton Heath Golf Club in England.
Alfie Plant, 2017 European Amateur Champion (Photo: GolfBible)
Alfie overcame Italian duo Luca CIANCHETTI and Lorenzo SCALISE on the fifth play-off hole after all three had tied on -15 for the 72 holes of stroke play.
Luca had won the 2016 European Amateur in Estonia after seven play-off holes with Norway’s Victor HOVLAND so a trend appears to be developing.
Click here to view the – 2017 European Amateur Championship Results
The competition was first contested in 1986 at Eindhoven G.C. Initially it was held biennially before moving to an annual fixture from 1990.
2018 will be the second occasion the Netherlands have hosted it. It has been held in 18 different countries in total.
Former winners who have gone on to enjoy very successful professional careers include Stephen GALLACHER (1994), Sergio GARCIA (1995), Gregory HAVRET (1999), Carl PETTERSSON (2000), Rory MCILROY (2006) and Victor DUBUISSON (2009).
In addition to Gallacher and McIlroy other GB&I past winners include Jim PAYNE (1991), Paddy GRIBBEN (1998), Stephen BROWNE (2001), Brian MCELHINNEY (2003), Matthew RICHARDSON (2004), Rhys PUGH (2012) and Ashley CHESTERS (2013 and 2014) and Alfie PLANT (2017).
Ashley Chesters is the only two-time winner and the only player to have retained the trophy.
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The Open Championship’s Silver Medal
July 2019 Update
The Silver Medal is awarded to the leading amateur at The Open Championship, provided they make the cut and complete all 72 holes.
It was first awarded in 1949 and in the 71 Championships since has been won 51 times by 45 different players. Prior to World War II amateurs were often amongst the leading competitors so a separate prize was not considered necessary.
Here’s some background on the Silver Medal and a full list of the select group of past winners.
The Open Championship was first played on 17 October 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland.
It is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf and the only one played outside the United States.
In July 2019 the 148th Open was played at Royal Portrush Golf Club. It was the second time the course and Northern Ireland had staged the Championship.
Amateurs In the Field
Nowadays the field is made up of 156 players. These are mainly professionals but there are always a handful of amateurs too.
Exemptions to both categories are given by The R&A based on previous wins / performances and world rankings. There are currently 27 exemption categories that provide c.110 players.
There are five amateur exemptions which are awarded to: –
– The Amateur Champion (current year).
– The European Amateur Champion (current year).
– The Asia-Pacific Amateur Champion (previous year).
– The Mark H. McCormack Medal Winner – Men’s WAGR (previous year).
– The United States Amateur Champion (previous year).
The remaining c.46 players have to play in The Open Qualifying Series (11 International events) or Regional (13 GB&I events) and Final Qualifying (4 GB events) to earn their places. Additional amateur players often come through these latter events.
Best Amateur Performances
Bobby Jones (USA) was the last amateur to win The Open Championship in 1930, his famous Grand Slam year. Jones had previously won the event in 1926 and 1927.
Prior to that The Open had been won by just two other amateurs – Englishmen John Ball (1890) and Harold Hilton (1892 and 1897).
Frank Stranahan (USA) finished runner-up in 1947 and 1953, behind Fred Daly and Ben Hogan respectively.
Reid Jack (SCO) finished tied 5th in 1959 before more recently Justin Rose (ENG) tied 4th in 1998 and Chris Wood (ENG) tied 5th in 2008.
Finally, who can forget Paul Dunne’s (IRE) performance at St. Andrews in 2015. Dunne was tied for the 54 hole lead after rounds of 69, 69 and 66 before sadly a final round 78 saw him slip down the field for an undeserved tied 30th finish.
Alfie Plant – Winner of the 2017 Silver Medal (Photo: @GolfMonthly)
The Silver Medal Winners
In the 71 Championships from 1949 to 2019 the Silver Medal has been won by 45 players on 51 occasions (all in bold in the table below).
The Medal has not been awarded on 20 occasions during this period when no amateur was able to make the cut.
Frank Stranahan (USA) won it four times in its first five years. He was also the low amateur in 1947 before it came into existence.
Joe Carr (IRE), Michael Bonallack (ENG) and Peter McEvoy (ENG) are the only other multiple winners, having each won it twice.
Since 1972 a Bronze Medal has also been awarded to any other amateurs who complete all four rounds.
Here is the complete list of Silver Medal winners: –
Year Venue Winner
1949 Royal St George’s Frank Stranahan
1950 Troon Frank Stranahan (2)
1951 Royal Portrush Frank Stranahan (3)
1952 Royal Lytham & St Annes Jackie Jones
1953 Carnoustie Frank Stranahan (4)
1954 Royal Birkdale Peter Toogood
1955 St Andrews Joe Conrad
1956 Royal Liverpool Joe Carr
1957 St Andrews Dickson Smith
1958 Royal Lytham & St Annes Joe Carr (2)
1959 Muirfield Reid Jack
1960 St Andrews Guy Wolstenholme
1961 Royal Birkdale Ronnie White
1962 Troon Charlie Green
1963 Royal Lytham & St Annes Not awarded
1964 St Andrews Not awarded
1965 Royal Birkdale Michael Burgess
1966 Muirfield Ronnie Shade
1967 Royal Liverpool Not awarded
1968 Carnoustie Michael Bonallack
1969 Royal Lytham & St Annes Peter Tupling
1970 St Andrews Steve Melnyk
1971 Royal Birkdale Michael Bonallack (2)
1972 Muirfield Not awarded
1973 Troon Danny Edwards
1975 Carnoustie Not awarded
1976 Royal Birkdale Not awarded
1977 Turnberry Not awarded
1978 St Andrews Peter McEvoy
1979 Royal Lytham & St Annes Peter McEvoy (2)
1980 Muirfield Jay Sigel
1981 Royal St George’s Hal Sutton
1982 Royal Troon Malcolm Lewis
1985 Royal St George’s José María Olazábal
1987 Muirfield Paul Mayo
1988 Royal Lytham & St Annes Paul Broadhurst
1989 Royal Troon Russell Claydon
1991 Royal Birkdale Jim Payne
1992 Muirfield Daren Lee
1993 Royal St George’s Iain Pyman
1994 Turnberry Warren Bennett
1995 St Andrews Steve Webster
1996 Royal Lytham & St Annes Tiger Woods
1997 Royal Troon Barclay Howard
1998 Royal Birkdale Justin Rose
2001 Royal Lytham & St Annes David Dixon
2003 Royal St George’s Not awarded
2004 Royal Troon Stuart Wilson
2005 St Andrews Lloyd Saltman
2006 Royal Liverpool Marius Thorp
2007 Carnoustie Rory McIlroy
2008 Royal Birkdale Chris Wood
2009 Turnberry Matteo Manassero
2010 St Andrews Jin Jeong
2011 Royal St George’s Tom Lewis
2013 Muirfield Matthew Fitzpatrick
2015 St Andrews Jordan Niebrugge
2016 Royal Troon Not awarded
2017 Royal Birkdale Alfie Plant
2018 Carnoustie Sam Locke
2019 Royal Portrush Not awarded
Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are the only Silver Medal winners to go on and become ‘The Champion Golfer of the Year’ too.
Hal Sutton (1983 P.G.A. Championship), José María Olazábal (1994 and 1999 Masters) and Justin Rose (2013 U.S. Open) are other Silver Medal winners to have subsequently secured a major Championship.
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My Review Of GB&I Men’s Amateur Golf In 2017
As we come to the end of 2017 I thought I would record the more memorable performances that we have seen from Great British and Irish (GB&I) amateur golfers throughout the year.
When one reads through the months below it’s hard not to conclude that the year has generally been another successful one, with many highs and just a few lows.
An unusually large number of players have turned professional in the last 3 months (‘Amexit’) but I think we can take comfort from the positive signs already emanating from the next generation of players coming through.
The year started with various touring parties heading off to events in the Southern Hemisphere.
Evan GRIFFITH (quarter finals) and Robert MACINTYRE (semi-finals) enjoyed good runs in the Australian Men’s Amateur.
Jack DAVIDSON and Conor O’ROURKE finished 4th and tied 7th at the South American Amateur in Argentina.
Jack SINGH BRAR and Bradley MOORE finished 2nd and 3rd in the Avondale Amateur in Australia.
Scott GREGORY delivered GB&I’s first major win of 2017, beating compatriot Marco PENGE by 1 hole in the Final of the New South Wales Amateur.
Robin DAWSON (2nd), Dan BROWN (3rd), Liam JOHNSTON (5th) and Craig HOWIE (7th) made good starts to their seasons with high finishes in the South African Stroke Play Championship.
Back in Europe Josh MCMAHON (2nd), Gian-Marco PETROZZI (T4), David BOOTE (T4) and Bailey GILL, George BLOOR and Tiarnan MCLARNON (T7) all showed early season form at the Portuguese International Amateur.
Robin DAWSON (2nd) lost a play-off to South African star Garrick Higgo in the Cape Province Open. Stuart GREHAN and Alex GLEESON finished T4 in the same event whilst Craig HOWIE was T9.
Dan BROWN (-15) was co-medalist in the South African Amateur. Dan sadly lost the play-off for the Proudfoot Trophy on the 4th extra hole albeit his second round 63 at Humewood GC will no doubt live long in his memory. He was 6-under after his first 5 holes having eagled two par 4’s. Liam JOHNSTON and Joe LONG made the Quarter-Final when the Championship match play got going.
Liam Johnston (Photo: Ernest Blignault)
Liam JOHNSTON didn’t have to wait much longer to get his name up in lights. The following week he went on to win the African Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Leopard Creek CC. In a good week for Scottish Golf Connor SYME (2nd), Jamie STEWART (3rd) and Craig HOWIE (5th) also finished high up.
Ben AMOR (ENG) turned Pro in February.
Jack DAVIDSON got the European season underway by winning the Spanish International Amateur. Interestingly Jack was the final stroke play qualifier after Chris MACLEAN had pipped Stuart GREHAN to medalist honours. Nevertheless he soon got to grips with EL Saler ultimately beating Marco PENGE 4&3 in the 36 hole final.
In an event with little GB&I support David HAGUE popped up with a T7 result at the Italian International Amateur. Even more surprisingly Sean CROCKER the highly rated US College golfer turned up and ended up winning the Championship comfortably by 5 shots.
A superb opening day’s play from Bailey GILL, where he shot two 65’s, helped the Yorkshireman literally blow the field away at the subsequently weather shortened Darwin Salver.
Scott GREGORY re-affirmed his match play credentials with an impressive 1st Extra Hole win over Australia’s 2016 US Amateur champion Curtis LUCK in the pre-Masters Georgia Cup match.
WALES, represented by David BOOTE, Jack DAVIDSON, Joshua DAVIES and Owen EDWARDS, won the European Nations Cup Team competition at RCG Sotogrande in Spain. WALES’ total of +13 was 11 shots better than second placed IRELAND (+24) and 21 shots better than fourth placed SCOTLAND (+34). An out of sorts ENGLAND (+61) finished a disappointing 12th.
Jack DAVIDSON won the Individual European Nations Cup title by 4-shots. Rounds of 70, 70, 70 and 73 (-5), which included 20 birdies and 2 eagles, gave him his second major title in less than a month.
Charlie STRICKLAND, who was runner-up to Bailey GILL at the Darwin Salver, then came to the fore, winning two 72 hole events in consecutive weeks. First came the Duncan Putter – which will be moving to three days at Southerndown in 2018 – and quickly following it up with the U18 Peter McEvoy Trophy at my home club, Copt Heath.
Charlie Strickland with Peter McEvoy (Photo: @GolfBible)
The 2016 US Mid-Amateur champion, Stewart HAGESTAD, won the Silver Cup at The Masters following rounds of 74, 73, 74 and 73 (+6). His tied 36th finish saw him comfortably win low amateur honours. Our Amateur champion, Scott GREGORY, missed the cut after rounds of 82 and 75 (+13).
The Scottish Boys Open Championship, disappointingly scheduled directly against the Peter McEvoy Trophy, was won in style by John PATERSON who came past runner-up Jamie STEWART at Monifieth with an exceptional final round of 67.
The Hampshire Salver again proved a popular weekend for competitors. Jack SINGH BRAR won Saturday’s Selborne Salver and Jake BURNAGE Sunday’s Hampshire Hog at North Hants. Singh Brar beat Burnage by 1shot for the combined 72 hole Hampshire Salver.
Up in Scotland Craig HOWIE, the clear favourite at the start of play, dominated the Craigmillar Park Open shooting rounds of 66, 66, 66 and 67 (-15) and winning by 8 shots.
Barry ANDERSON won the West of Ireland Amateur Open Championship at County Sligo beating Jack PIERSE 3&2 in the Final. Earlier Conor O’ROURKE had edged out fellow Naas member Jonathan YATES to secure medallist honours in the 36 hole stroke play qualifier.
Chile’s Joaquin NIEMANN started his rise to the top of the Men’s World Amateur Golf Ranking by winning the prestigious Junior Invitational at Sage Valley in the United Sates.
Owen EDWARDS (-3) won the West of England Stroke Play after a strong final day’s play at Saunton left him as the only player under par. David HAGUE (+1) was 2nd and Will POOLE (+3) tied 3rd.
On the same weekend Connor SYME won the Battle Trophy at Crail. Despite giving the field a chance with a final round 79 the Drumoig man still won by 5 shots.
Meanwhile in South Wales Matthew HARRIS won the Carmarthenshire Open at Ashburnham and Callum MORRIS the Golden Eagle at Tenby. However, it was Luke HARRIES who won the Trubshaw Cup for the best 72 hole score over the weekend.
May saw the focus return to Great Britain and Ireland with our leading amateur events now starting to be played.
Jack SINGH BRAR won the Lytham Trophy helped in no small part by a superb first round of 68 achieved in strong winds when the rest of the elite field struggled (CSS 79). Charlie STRICKLAND and Jake BURNAGE finished 2nd and 3rd in what proved to be a very good week for England Golf with 7 of the top 10 coming from the home nation.
Just down the road George RAITT and Conor GOUGH finished 2nd and tied 3rd respectively in the Boys’ Fairhaven Trophy. However, Sweden’s Ludvig ABERG was in a class of his own that week winning by 9 shots.
Having come close in the West of England a few weeks’ earlier Will POOLE found Kent’s links courses even more to his liking winning the South East of England Links Championship.
Peter O’KEEFFE won the Irish Open Amateur Championship holding off a strong field at Royal County Down GC. A posse of English and Scottish players made Peter work for it with Chris MACLEAN and Tom SLOMAN ultimately finishing 3 shots back in tied 5th.
David HAGUE won the Lagonda Trophy by 12 shots. An astonishing 62 63 final day finish on the 6,367 yards par 70 Old Course blitzing the field.
David Hague (Photo: Kevin Diss)
Josh HILLEARD won the Murat Cup at the French International Amateur beating the home junior Pierre PINEAU on the second play-off hole. Both players came through the field in the final round of the 72 hole contest at Chantilly; Hilleard shooting 64 and Pineau 66.
In what proved to be a successful weekend for England Golf Gian-Marco PETROZZI secured the Welsh Amateur Open Stroke Play title at The Vale Resort. Gian-Marco (-13) won by 9 shots from fellow Staffordshire player Jack GAUNT (-4) and local favourites Jack DAVIDSON (-3) and Owen EDWARDS (-1).
Woodhall Spa staged the 2017 Brabazon Trophy with South Africa’s Kyle MCCLATCHIE beating Jamie STEWART, Jake BURNAGE and Jack SINGH BRAR by 1 shot to secure the prestigious English Men’s Open Amateur Stroke Play title and beautiful gold plated trophy.
In what proved to be a generally disappointing US Collegiate season for GB&I players Braden THORNBERRY won the NCAA Division 1 Individual Stroke Play before OKLAHOMA secured the Team title in the subsequent Match Play stage.
Sam HORSFIELD (ENG) turned Pro in May 2017.
June started with England’s Max MARTIN picking up the Welsh Open Youths Championship at Prestatyn.
Liam JOHNSTON won the Scottish Men’s Open Championship at Western Gailes, holding off an in form Matthew JORDAN (2nd) by 2 shots and fellow Scottish Internationals Craig HOWIE (T3) and Connor SYME (5th).
The East of Ireland Amateur went to Reece BLACK whose final round 66 at County Louth was needed to hold off a fast finishing Robbie PIERSE (69).
Matthew JORDAN finally got the win his outstanding play in May and June deserved when he picked up the St. Andrews Links Trophy. Two late bogeys on the Old Course from Matthew enabled Ireland’s John Ross GALBRAITH, who birdied two of his last four, to finish 1 shot back, making the result tighter than it really should have been.
Somewhat ominously, given September’s Walker Cup match, USA ran out easy winners against Europe in the Arnold Palmer Cup played at the Atlanta Athletic Club. Driven on by unbeaten Doug GHIM, with Maverick MCNEALY, Collin MORIKAWA and Norman XIONG all featuring, USA won easily 19.5 – 10.5. The Arnold Palmer Cup match moves to a new mixed format in France next July.
One of the highlights of the year was Harry ELLIS’ magnificent win in The Amateur Championship staged at Royal St. George’s and Princes in Kent. 4 Down with five holes to play Ellis somehow fought back, helped in no small part by Dylan PERRY bogeying four of these remaining holes. The Hampshire man ultimately won on the second extra hole when the Australian could do no better than a 6 on the par 4 2nd hole. The win secured Harry his place in history but also this year’s Open Championship and the GB&I Walker Cup team. With a trip to Augusta National in April 2018 still to come it really is the Championship that keeps on giving. A quick word also for medallist Caolan RAFFERTY whose 62 on Day 2 at Prince’s, even with a bogey on the last, was one of the amateur stroke play rounds of the year.
Ben JONES won the U18 Boys Sir Henry Cooper Masters by 10 shots at Nizels G&CC, separating himself from his peers after a 9-under, bogey free, 63 in round 3. In a stellar year for the competition the outstanding Lily May HUMPHRIES won the Girls event by 12 shots.
The 2017 Berkshire Trophy was won by Adam LUMLEY who finished on -18, 7 shots ahead of JACK CLARKSON. David HAGUE and Billy MACKENZIE finished tied 3rd.
Mark Power (Photo: Castleroy GC)
Mark POWER retained his Irish Boys Amateur Open Championship title at Castleroy GC, the first person to do so since Paul Dunne a few years ago. He and England’s Jack COPE finished on -5 before Mark ended a topsy-turvy three hole play off in style by holing a 129 yard wedge on the 18th.
Kevin LE BLANC (IRE) turned Pro in June.
July 1st saw Alfie PLANT memorably win the European Men’s Amateur at Walton Heath GC. A near tap-in birdie on the 72nd hole helped the man from Kent draw level on -15 with Lorenzo SCALISE and defending Luca CIANCHETTI, helped in no small part by both Italians bogeying the same hole. With a place in The Open Championship on the line Plant went on to birdie the Old Course’s 2nd hole, winning the sudden death play off on the fifth extra hole.
Alfie Plant (Photo: GolfBible)
Greg DALZIEL won the Scottish Boys Amateur Championship at Scotscraig, beating Australian-based Josh GREER by 1 hole in the Final.
A week later The Scottish Boys U16 Open Championship at Fairmont Kittocks went to 13 year old Calum SCOTT, younger brother of Scottish Men’s International Sandy. Josh GREER finished tied 2nd four shots back. Equally of note were the 7th and tied 12th place finishes of Max HOPKINS and Aidan O’HAGAN, new names that would come to mean more as the year unfolded.
The North of Ireland Championship was played at Royal Portrush GC with Caolan RAFFERTY winning the stroke play qualifier on -10. Caolan fell to Colin FAIRWEATHER in the semi-finals before Rowan LESTER beat Colin by 2 holes in the final.
DENMARK won the European Boys Team Championship at La Manga beating SPAIN 4-3 in the Final. ENGLAND (T4) and IRELAND (8th) both qualified for Flight A but found little success in their three matches.
ENGLAND (1st), SCOTLAND (5th) and IRELAND (6th) all made Flight A in the Men’s European Amateur Team Championship which was played concurrently with the Boys’ at Diamond CC in Austria. In a closely fought match SPAIN beat ENGLAND 4-3 in the final.
Estonia’s Joonas TURBA was something of a surprise winner at the MacGregor Trophy (Boys’ U16 Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship). English propsects Max HOPKINS and Robin WILLIAMS were second and third respectively.
Noah GOODWIN (USA) beat Matthew WOLFF (USA) 1Up in the final of the US Junior Amateur at Flint Hills National GC in Kansas.
Alfie PLANT collected the Silver Medal for the low amateur at The Open Championship after rounds of 71, 73, 69 and 73 (+6) secured a T62 at Royal Birkdale GC. Connor SYME (73 76, +9) and Harry ELLIS (77 75, +12) both missed the cut.
Jake BURNAGE beat a fast finishing Jack YULE to win the South East of England Amateur Championship played on the New and Old Courses at Walton Heath GC. The Club have recently announced that the event will be renamed as The Walton Heath Trophy from 2018.
Jake Burnage (Photo: GolfBible)
Andrea ROMANO from Italy beat France’s Jean BEKIRIAN in a play-off to secure the Carris Trophy (Boys’ U18 Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship). English trio Jack COPE, Taylor STOTE and Robin WILLIAMS all finished in the Top 5 at West Sussex GC.
Conor GOUGH (-5, 7th), Barclay BROWN (+1 T14), Lily May HUMPHRIES (-2, 1st) and Annabell FULLER (Ev, T3) collectively won the Team title at the European Young Masters with a -12 total score in Oslo.
The 2017 South of Ireland Open Championship was won by James SUGRUE at Lahinch. After the North champion Rowan LESTER had won the 36 hole stroke play qualifier James worked his way through a strong field before beating Conor O’ROURKE 3&2 in the final.
Evan GRIFFITH dominated stroke play qualifying in the Wales Amateur Championship at Aberdovey GC with two rounds of 68 and 64 (-10) seeing him achieve medalist honours by an impressive 6 shots. However, Wales’ player of the year Jack DAVIDSON got the better of him in a tight semi-final before going on to beat Tim HARRY in the 36 hole final by 8&7.
The Scottish Amateur was played at Prestwick and was won by Sam LOCKE. Sandy SCOTT and Calum FYFE were the leading qualifiers. LOCKE played superbly in the match play stage ultimately beating Ryan LUMSDEN 9&8 in the 36 hole final.
The English Men’s Amateur was contested at The Berkshire. The story from the stroke play stage was medalist’s David LANGLEY’s superb 61 on the Blue Course on Day 1. However, it was Todd CLEMENTS who prevailed in the match play eventually beating Jack GAUNT 2&1 in the final.
Like the Brabazon Trophy earlier in the year it was a South African who won the Reid Trophy, awarded to the winner of the English Boy’s U14 Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship. Casey JARVIS (-4) held off fast finishing Spaniard Jose BALLESTER at the Manchester GC. For those looking for potential GB&I stars of the future Rory MCDONALD-O’BRIEN (ENG), George DURKAN (ENG), Joshua HILL (IRE), Joseph BYRNE (IRE) and Jack BIGHAM (ENG) all finished in the top 10.
ENGLAND won The Boys’ Home Internationals at St. Anne’s Old Links. Toby BRIGGS, Conor GOUGH, Joe PAGDIN and Robin WILLIAMS all compiled W5 L1 H0 records during the week. Whilst SCOTLAND came last they did provide the highlight of the week; the unbeaten foursomes pairing of 13 year olds Calum SCOTT and Aiden O’HAGEN.
Calum Scott and Aiden O’Hagen (Photo: GolfBible)
Andrew WILSON (-4), the only player to finish under par for the 72 holes and helped on his way by a 62 in round 1, won the Lee Westwood Trophy at Rotherham GC. Charlie THORNTON and Olly HUGGINS (Ev) were tied 2nd.
IRELAND continued their superb run at the Men’s Home Internationals winning the Raymond Trophy for a fourth consecutive year at Moortown GC in England. Caolan RAFFERTY (W5 L1 H0), Paul MCBRIDE (W4 L0 H1) and Colin FAIRWEATHER (W4 L1 H0) starred in a strong team performance.
The 2017 Boys’ Amateur Championship was played at Nairn GC and Nairn Dunbar GC. Home player Darren HOWIE (-8) was medallist with Alex FITZPATRICK (-7) tied 2nd and Danny DANIELS (-6) tied 4th. However, it was Portugal’s Pedro LENCART SILVA, who had qualified in tied 6th on -4, who came through the match play stage to win. He beat defending champion Falko HANISCH (GER) 5&4 in the 36 hole final.
Played at the magnificent Riviera CC and Bel-Air CC’s in Los Angeles Doc REDMAN won the U.S. Amateur Championship in stunning fashion. Hayden WOOD (-9) achieved medallist honours in the stroke play qualifying. Jack SINGH BRAR (-2) T8 led the way for GB&I, with Connor SYME and Robert MACINTYRE (both +2) T35 following him into the match play stage. Syme went furthest at Riviera ending up losing 2&1 in the quarter finals to Doug GHIM. Ghim went on to reach the final where he found himself 2Up with two to play and just over the back of the green in two on the par 5 17th. With Redman just on the green in front of him easily 50 yards away from the hole he could be forgiven for thinking the Havemeyer Trophy was his and for allowing his mind to wander to the first tee of Augusta National in April 2018. Unfortunately the golfing gods stepped in. After Ghim had left his chip 6 feet short Redman stepped up and at pace holed the most amazing right to left downhill putt of the year, or for that matter almost any year, for eagle. Redman then followed it up with a superb birdie on the uphill 18th from 6 foot with Ghim only managing a scrambled par. With the match now All Square, Redman hit a perfect drive to the front of Riviera’s short 315 yard par 4 10th, the first extra hole. Visibly shocked at what was happening in front of him Ghim then hooked his drive and having hacked around for a while before securing a 6 conceded Redman the Championship. An unbelievable finish to amateur golf’s premier event.
The North of England U16 Boy’s Championship was won by Callum MACFIE at Pannal GC. Matthew JACKMAN was one back with Max HOPKINS a little further back in 3rd place.
The Irish U16 Boys Amateur Open Championship was played at Rockmount and was won by Mullingar’s Adam SMITH. Odhran MAGUIRE, the younger brother of Leona and Lisa, was 2nd.
Down at Sundridge Park GC Liam BURNS (-5) defenced the Waterford Trophy. A 67 66 final day finish was required by the man from Chiselhurst to hold off Nick PANTING by 1 shot.
The U16 Welsh Boys was won by Bryn THOMAS at Cradoc GC. Thomas’ final round of 67 helped him to a 9 shot victory over Tom PEET.
The Irish Amateur Close Championship was won by Jamie FLETCHER at Galway GC. Peter KERR and David BRADY were seeded 1st and 2nd after both recorded 138 (-2) in the stroke play stage. In a tight 18 hole final Fletcher beat David KITT by 1 hole.
Richard MANSELL (ENG), Bradley MOORE (ENG), Marco PENGE (ENG) and Sean TOWNDROW (ENG) all turned Pro in August.
The CONTINENT OF EUROPE won the annual Jacques Léglise Trophy U18 Boys’ match against GB&I at Ballybunion GC by 15.5 – 9.5. Unbeaten pair Pedro LENCART SILVA (W3-L0-H1) and Eduard ROUSARD SABATE (SWE) helped the away side to a second successive win. Ben JONES (W2-L1-H1) and Robin WILLIAMS (W2-L1-H0) put up the best defence for GB&I.
The Walker Cup result was an even more sobering experience for GB&I the following week. Craig WATSON had to step down as GB&I captain on the eve of the match but with Andy INGRAM a very capable deputy I am sure this in no way contributed to what followed at Los Angeles Country Club. Whilst the final result was not unexpected the manner of the 17-9 defeat was. Only Jack SINGH BRAR (W3-L1-H0), Robert MACINTYRE (W1-L1-H1) and Scott GREGORY (W2-L1-H1) really came away with any credit from the match. From the USA side Captain Spider Miller had clearly learned a few lessons from Royal Lytham in 2015 and backed up by superb performances from Doug GHIM, Maverick MCNEALY, Colin MORIKAWA, (all W4-L0-H0) and Norman XIONG (W3-L0-H1) the one sided result felt inevitable as soon as the Day 1 singles were concluded.
The USA Walker Cup Team (Photo: GolfBible)
Ben JONES won The Duke of York Champions Trophy at Royal Liverpool GC by 8 shots from Sweden’s Oscar TEIFFEL. John PATERSON, who shot a 69 in round 2, the best of the week, finished 7th.
David BOOTE (WAL), Dan BROWN (ENG) Jack DAVIDSON (WAL), Tom GANDY (ENG), Scott GREGORY (ENG), Evan GRIFFITH (WAL), Cameron LONG (ENG), Alfie PLANT (ENG), Craig ROSS (SCO), Conor O’ROURKE (IRE), Jack SINGH BRAR (ENG), Connor SYME (SCO), Will WHITEOAK (ENG) and Jack YULE (ENG) all turned Pro in September.
David HAGUE (+1) won the North of England Amateur Open Stroke Play Championship at Alwoodley GC. Andrew Wilson (+3) was 2nd with Harry GODDARD and Nick POPPLETON (+4) tied 3rd.
Joshua DAVIES (WAL), Owen EDWARDS (WAL), Colin FAIRWEATHER (IRE), Stuart GREHAN (IRE), Liam JOHNSTON (SCO) and Robert MACINTYRE (SCO) all turned Pro in October.
A birdie, eagle finish helped China’s LIN YUXIN to the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship title at Royal Wellington GC in New Zealand. We can therefore look forward to seeing him in action at The Masters in 2018.
14 year old Max HOPKINS (-2) became the youngest ever winner of the Boys’ Telegraph Vitality Junior Golf Championship at Quinta do Lago in Portugal. Ben JONES (+1) was 2nd and Alfie FOX (+3) 3rd.
Jamie CLARE (ENG), John Ross GALBRAITH (IRE) and Chris MACLEAN (SCO) all turned Pro in November.
Sam HORSFIELD won the Final Stage of the European Tour Qualifying School at Lumine Golf & Beach Club in Spain. His final -27 score, with all six rounds in the 60’s and a best of the day final round of 63 (-8), saw him win the 108 hole event by an impressive 8 shots. Amongst the other players to pick up a 2018 Tour card were Connor SYME, who finished tied 9th on -17 and Jonathan THOMSON, who finished tied 18th on -14.
Ben JONES (-12) finished tied 2nd at the South Beach International Amateur in Miami. In an event which enjoyed the 5th strongest field of the year it was also pleasing to see Harry HALL (-7) and Joe PAGDIN (-4) record impressive results; tied 10th and tied 19th respectively.
Ben JONES finished tied 28th at the Boy’s Junior Orange Bowl Championship in Miami, 22 shots behind runaway winner Jerry JI from The Netherlands. Lily May HUMPHRIES enhanced her growing reputation by winning the Girls event by 9 shots.
Mason OVERSTREET (USA) won The Patriot All-America in Arizona. The six GB&I players struggled to make an impression with George BURNS (T38) recording the best finish.
Josh HILLEARD (ENG) turned Pro earlier in the month.
If you want to review the detailed results of any of the above competitions then please take a look at the GolfBible Results Page where you will be able to find links to nearly all of those mentioned above.
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European Tour Q-School – 2017 First Stage Preview & Results
September / October 2017
The First Stage QSchool Results can be found at the bottom of this article.
The 2017 European Tour Qualifying School started on Tuesday 12th September.
A new Far East First Stage Qualifying competition had been scheduled to be played at Saujana G&CC in Malaysia on 5th September. However, the Tour cancelled this on 23rd August due to a lack of interest.
The First Qualifying Stage consisted of eight separate 72-hole events which were split into four Sections, A, B, C and D. The final Section D events of the series came to a conclusion on 6th October.
There were 54-hole cuts at each of these Qualifiers. Only those players who were within 7 shots of the final allocated qualifying place at this point played the final rounds.
2017 saw a record First Stage entry with a total of 838 competitors signing up. 45 countries were represented with England contributing the most with 211 players.
The leading five Q-School entrants as at 23rd August 2017, up to a limit of 15th place, in the World Amateur Golf Rankings were exempted into the Second Stage. This year Scott GREGORY (ENG), Connor SYME (SCO) and Robert MACINTYRE (SCO) were therefore not required to contest the First Stage.
The European Tour Q-School entrance fee is €1,800. Each First Stage Qualifier has a prize fund of €5,000 with the winner being allocated €1,800.
At the end of the series 176 players were allocated places in Second Stage. That’s 21% of the entries received.
The Second Qualifying Stage consists of four separate 72-hole events that will be played concurrently in Spain on 3rd-6th November 2017.
The Final Qualifying Stage consists of 108 holes at Lumine GC which has taken over from PGA Catalunya Resort this year. This competition will be played on 11th-16th November 2017.
As in previous years I am following the Q-School series, specifically focussing on the amateur and recently turned pro entries from Great Britain & Ireland.
Check out all the First Stage results below: –
FIRST QUALIFYING STAGE RESULTS
SECTION D – BOGOGNO GOLF CLUB, ITALY (3-6 October)
QUALIFIED (24 players at -7 or better)
No GB&I AM / new PRO qualifiers
DID NOT QUALIFY
Richard MANSELL (ENG) T25 (-6)
Seb CROOKALL-NIXON (ENG) T83 MC
Owen EDWARDS (WAL) T96 MC
Click here for the full – Bogogno Q-School Results
SECTION D – FRILFORD HEATH GC, ENGLAND (3-6 October)
Joe DEAN (ENG) 3rd (-7)
Colin FAIRWEATHER (NI) T5 (-4)
David BOOTE (WAL) T10 (-3)
Sam HORSFIELD (ENG) T10 (-3)
Dermot MCELROY (IRE) T10 (-3)
Jonathan THOMSON (ENG) T19 (-2)
Henry SHERIDAN-MILLS (ENG) T19 (-2)
Kyle MCCLATCHIE (RSA) AM T21 (-1)
Conor O’ROURKE (IRE) T21 (-1)
Paul KINNEAR (ENG) T24 (Ev)
Adam CHAPMAN (ENG) T29 (+1)
Alex STUBBS (ENG) AM T29 (+1)
Billy SPOONER (ENG) T37 (+3)
Craig LAWRIE (SCO) T42 (+4)
Harrison ENDYCOTT (AUS) AM T42 (+4)
Travis SMYTH (AUS) AM T49 (+5)
Dan BROWN (ENG) AM T58 (+7)
Tomasz ANDERSON (ENG) T65 MC
Cameron MORALEE (RSA) AM T65 MC
Stuart GREHAN (IRE) T65 MC
Luke TURBETT AM T71 MC
Patrick RUFF (ENG) T73 MC
Ben AMOR (ENG) T79 MC
Freddie SHERIDAN-MILLS (ENG) T92 MC
Kevin LE BLANC (IRE) 97th MC
Click here for the full – Frilford Heath Q-School Results
SECTION C – HARDELOT, FRANCE (26-29 September)
Ben ROBINSON (ENG) T64 MC
Callum MACKAY (ENG) AM T92 MC
Click here for the full – Hardelot Q-School Results
SECTION C – RIBAGOLFE, PORTUGAL (26-29 September)
Jack SINGH BRAR (ENG) T3 (-12)
Jack DAVIDSON (WAL) T9 (-10)
Alfie PLANT (ENG) T15 (-8)
Robin DAWSON (WAL) AM T33 (-3)
Albert VENTER (RSA) T51 (+2)
Jamie BOWER (ENG) T78 MC
Click here for the full – Ribagolfe Q-School Results
SECTION B – STOKE BY NAYLAND GOLF & SPA, ENGLAND (19-22 September)
Dan BROWN (Yorkshire, ENG) 5th (-7)
Josh HILLEARD (ENG) AM T6 (-6)
Ashton TURNER (ENG) T21 (-2)
Will ENEFER (ENG) T33 (+1)
James WALKER (ENG) AM T33 (+1)
Evan GRIFFITH (WAL) T43 (+3)
Jay BEISSER (ENG) AM T45 (+4)
Oliver CLARKE (ENG) T49 (+5)
Tom GANDY (IOM) T52 (+6)
Jack YULE (ENG) AM T60 (+10)
Lewis PEARCE (ENG) AM T72 MC
Jordan FORSTER (ENG) AM T84 MC
Delon HAU (ENG) AM T94 MC
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SECTION B – EBREICHSDORF GC, AUSTRIA (19-22 September)
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SECTION A – FLEESENSEE G&CC, GERMANY (12-15 September)
Craig ROSS (SCO) T2 (-9)
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SECTION A – ROXBURGHE HOTEL & GC, SCOTLAND (12-15 September)
Liam JOHNSTON (SCO) AM T4 (-9)
Craig HOWIE (SCO) AM T8 (-7)
Jamie CLARE (ENG) AM T8 (-7)
JR GALBRAITH (IRE) AM T11 (-6)
Will WHITEOAK (ENG) T27 (-3)
Sean TOWNDROW (ENG) T47 (+2)
George BLOOR (ENG) AM T76 MC
Tom DOLAN (ENG) AM T76 MC
Chris MACLEAN (SCO) AM T82 MC
Bradley MOORE (ENG) T100 MC
Marco PENGE (ENG) RETIRED AFTER RD 1 MC
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U.S. Amateur Championship – 2017 Preview, Daily Reports & Results
Doc REDMAN came back from 2 Down with two holes to play to beat Doug GHIM in the 36 hole U.S. Amateur Final at Riviera Country Club.
Redman eagled the 17th and birdied the 18th to force extra holes. Ghim, presumably in shock, then made a mess of the tricky short par 4 10th, the 37th hole played, and having made a bogey conceded Redman his birdie putt and the Championship.
Doc Redman, 2017 U.S. Amateur Champion (Photo: USGA)
Click here to review the full Stroke Play Qualifying Match Play results – U.S. Amateur Championship Live Scoring
Final Preview
Doug GHIM (21) will play Doc REDMAN (19) for the Havemeyer Trophy in today’s 36 hole U.S. Amateur Final at Riviera Country Club. The Final will tee off at 7.45am (3.45pm GMT).
The champion will also receive a Gold Medal, whilst the runner-up a Silver one.
Both finalists are now exempt in to the 2018 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills G.C. The champion will also be exempt in to the 2018 Open Championship at Carnoustie Golf Links and can expect an invitation to play in the 2018 Masters at Augusta National G.C.
Finalists Doug Ghim (l) and Doc Redman (r) with the U.S. Open Trophy (Photo: USGA)
Both players are US College students; Ghim plays for the University of Texas and Redman for Clemson University.
Doug Ghim is ranked 1st in the SPWAR (updated as at 19/08/17) and 7th in the WAGR (as at 13/08/17). Ghim has enjoyed a very strong season and was already a very likely Walker cup pick for the U.S.A.
Doc Redman is ranked 7th in the SPWAR (as at 19/08/17) and 70th in the WAGR (as at 13/08/17). Redman has come on strong in the last few weeks. He was runner up in the Final of the Western Amateur a couple of weeks ago and has now backed it up with a great run at the U.S. Amateur. He must therefore be right in the Walker Cup picture too.
Sophia Schubert, who won the U.S. Women’s Amateur last week also studies at Texas. Whilst I am sure Doug Ghim won’t be thinking too much about it never in the history of the USGA have their reigning men’s and women’s amateur champions attended the same College.
Saturday 19th August 2017
Semi-Finals (4)
Doug GHIM (USA) beat Theo HUMPHREY (USA) 2&1
Mark LAWRENCE Jr (USA) lost by 1 hole to Doc REDMAN (USA)
Quarter Finals (8)
In a game where neither player was at their best Connor SYME eventually lost 2&1 to Doug GHIM (USA) in the Quarter Final match.
Connor was 5-over par for the 17 holes played, albeit a double bogey on the 16th hole makes this appear worse than it really was. A single birdie on the 8th only produced a half for the Scotsman and against an in form and confident Ghim this was unlikely to be enough.
In his post round interview with the USGA Connor said “I just didn’t quite have my best stuff today. I was grinding away as much as I could. It was a good Championship but I’m obviously disappointed to lose today.”
Nevertheless a great week for Connor and he can now positively look forward to the Walker Cup down the road at Los Angeles Country Club.
Hole-by-Hole Scores (Photo: USGA Scoring)
Match Play Quarter Finals Qualifying Hole Locations (Photo: U.S.G.A.)
PM – Match Play Round 3 (16)
Connor SYME beat Norway’s Kristoffer VENTURA by 1 hole in their Round of 16 match.
In the previous round Ventura beat Stroke Play medalist Hayden WOOD (USA) 3&2.
In a tight match it took a forty yard chip in on the 18th hole for Connor to come out on top.
What a way to close out a match. Connor Syme is in the #USAmateur quarterfinals. https://t.co/pQLfhrz145
— USGA (@USGA) August 17, 2017
Connor was 1-under par for the round and continues to play very well.
After the round Connor spoke with Shane O’Donoghue on Fox Sports.
Watch @connor_syme‘s post round interview with @ShaneODonoghue on @FOXSports. https://t.co/7IJ2Nfy7q9
— Golf Bible (@GolfBible) August 18, 2017
AM – Match Play Round 2 (32)
Connor SYME beat Ricky CASTILLO (USA) 4&3 in a very impressive performance. Teeing off at 7.25am Connor wasted little time in taking the lead, birdieing the 493 yard 1st. A sequence of birdies on holes 6, 7 and 8 put the Scotsman 4 Up and cruising. The match finished on the 15th with Connor -4 for the holes played and bogey free. Let’s hope he can maintain that kind of form for a little while longer.
Robert MACINTYRE lost 3&1 to Dawson ARMSTRONG (USA) in their Round of 32 match. Robert made a great start – two birdies helping him into a 3Up lead after four holes. However, Armstrong, one of USA’s strongest players, won the 5th with a birdie before winning five holes in a row between the 7th and 11th to lead 3Up. Unfortunately he didn’t have to work too hard for this match turning run as MacIntyre bogeyed four of the five. The end of the line for Robert but he can take comfort in a good Championship which must surely have secured his GB&I Walker Cup place.
Match Play Round 2 (32) & Round 3 (16) Qualifying Hole Locations (Photo: U.S.G.A.)
Wednesday 16th August 2017 – Match Play Round 1 (64)
The day started badly for GB&I with Harry ELLIS losing out in the play-off on the famous short par 4 10th hole at Riviera Country Club. His double bogey 6 in the second group out sadly saw him fall out of contention quickly.
Some better news was to come when the Round of 64 started in earnest.
Connor SYME beat Maverick MCNEALY (USA) 2&1. Connor won his match around the turn, winning the 9th with a par, the 10th with a conceded eagle 2 and the 11th with a birdie 4. 3Up at this point he was able to see out the match, albeit bogeys on 13 and 14 gave McNealy some hope. However, the American then proceeded to bogey the short 160 yard 16th and after shared birdies on the par 5 17th the match was over. Connor finished 2-under for the 17 holes played.
Fellow Scot Robert MACINTYRE then beat Cameron YOUNG (USA) by 1 hole. In what appears to have been a high class game our man from Oban had to be at his match play best to overcome Young who battled all the way to the finish line. Robert finished 2-under for the 18 holes played.
In the final GB&I match to finish Jack SINGH BRAR lost by 3 & 1 to Joey VRZICH (USA). As can be seen from the scores below Jack had a bad day at the office, starting very poorly and not really improve. He finished 7-over par for the 17 holes played. Worryingly in the context of the forthcoming Walker Cup this is the second time in three weeks, following the English Amateur, that Jack has qualified easily in stroke play before falling to a relatively unknown player in the first round of match play.
Here are the hole locations for the Round of 64 Match Play at Riviera Country Club: –
Match Play Round 1 (64) Qualifying Hole Locations (Photo: U.S.G.A.)
Tuesday 15th August 2017 – Stroke Play Round 2
Jack SINGH BRAR, Robert MACINTYRE and Connor SYME have all qualified for the Match Play Stage of the U.S. Amateur Championship.
Harry ELLIS will contest a 13 player for 8 spots play-off tomorrow morning to see if he can join them.
Here are the Round 2 GB&I scores from the U.S. Amateur Championship which started today.
GB&I Round 2 Scores (Photo: USGA US Amateur Scoring)
The Stroke Play Medalist was Hayden Wood who broke the U.S. Amateur Championship 36-hole qualifying record with a total of 131. Wood followed his 64 at Riviera with a 67 at Bel-Air to beat the 132 shot by Hank Kim (1994), Gregor Main (2011) and Bobby Wyatt (2012).
Wood said. “To play that way these last two days has been good. I like where my game is. I feel comfortable on this course (Riviera) and it fits my game. I am looking forward to it because the tournament starts tomorrow.”
Monday 14th August 2017 – Stroke Play Round 1
Here are the hole locations for the 36 hole Stroke Play Qualifying at Riviera Country Club and Bel-Air Country Club: –
Stroke Play Qualifying Hole Locations (Photo: U.S.G.A.)
The 117th U.S. Amateur Championship starts tomorrow in Los Angeles, California.
This year the championship is being staged at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades and Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles. Administered by the United States Golf Association (U.S.G.A.) the U.S. Amateur is the most important and prestigious competition in the amateur golf calendar.
On Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th August all of the contestants will play 36-holes of stroke play, one at Riviera and the other at Bel-Air.
The Top 64 qualifiers will then move forward to the match play stage of the competition. Ties for the last qualifying place will be resolved by a sudden death play-off.
18 hole match play rounds will then be played between Wednesday 16th and Saturday 19th, culminating in a 36-hole Championship Final on Sunday 20th August. Extra holes will be played to resolve any halved games.
2017 Field
A field of 312 players from 29 different countries will contest this year’s Championship.
251 players are from the U.S.A. with Australia (11) and Canada (7) the next best represented countries.
This year 100 (2015: 99) 36 hole Sectional Qualifying events were held in July across the USA, with one each in Canada and Mexico too.
The introduction of a European Sectional Qualifier, like the U.S.G.A. stage for the U.S. Open Championship, is long overdue. Perhaps it could be rolled into the South of England Open Amateur Championship ? Walton Heath have staged the U.S. Open one for many years so I am sure they would be pleased to extend their relationship with the U.S.G.A. further.
This year’s average competitor age is 22.39 (2016: 22.29).
The oldest player being George ZAHRINGER (64, b. 23rd April 1953), who successfully came through Sectional Qualifying and will be playing in his 19th U.S. Amateur.
The youngest Alec NACHMANN (15, b. 27th March 2002) will be one of three 15 year olds competing. One of them Karl VILIPS (AUS), who is certainly one to watch, turns 16 on 16th August.
There are nine GB&I players competing this year. There were 11 in 2016 at Oakland Hills.
Here is a list of them with their exemption category or sectional qualifying event noted: –
David BOOTE 22 (WAL) – QF 2016 U.S. Amateur, Top 50 WAGR 21/6/17
Harry ELLIS 21 (ENG) – 2017 Amateur Champion
Scott GREGORY 22 (ENG) – 2016 Amateur Champion, 2017 U.S. Open Qualifier, Top WAGR 21/6/17
Stuart GREHAN 24 (IRE) – Top 50 WAGR 21/6/17
Robert MACINTYRE 21 (SCO) – WAGR 21/6/17
Alfie PLANT 25 (ENG) – Top 50 WAGR 21/6/17
Jack SINGH BRAR 20 (ENG) – Qualifier at New City, New York (07/07/17)
Daniel SUTTON 21 (ENG) – Qualifier at Iowa City, Iowa (17/07/17)
Connor SYME 21 (SCO) – Top 50 WAGR 21/6/17
2017 Stroke Play Qualifying Draw
The draw for the 36-hole Stroke Play Qualifying competition was confirmed yesterday and can be viewed here – U.S. Amateur SP Draw
Interestingly the two Scots in the field, Robert MACINTYRE and Connor SYME, have been drawn together.
Host Courses
7,284 yards, Par 70.
Opened 1927.
Designed by George C. Thomas and William P. Bell.
Riviera has hosted one U.S. Open (1948 Ben Hogan), two P.G.A. Championships (1983 Hal Sutton & 1995 Steve Elkington) and one U.S. Senior Open (1998 Hale Irwin) as well as serving as the perennial host of the US PGA Tour’s Northern Trust Open.
Riviera Country Club (Photo: California GOLF)
Bel-Air Country Club
Opened 1926
Designed by George C. Thomas and William P. Bell, assisted by Jack Neville.
Bel-Air has previously hosted the U.S. Amateur (1976 Bill Sander) and 2004 U.S. Senior Amateur (2004 Mark Bemowski).
Bel-Air Country Club (Photo: U.S.G.A.)
Weather Forecast (as at 7.00pm 13th August 2017)
Stroke Play Stage
Mon 14th Aug – Sunny. Wind 8mph (N). Temp. Max. 26°C / Min 18°C.
Tues 15th Aug – Sunny. Wind 8mph (N). Temp. Max. 23°C / Min 17°C.
Match Play Stage
Weds 16th Aug – Sunny. Wind 7mph (N). Temp. Max. 25°C / Min 15°C.
Thurs 17th Aug – Sunny. Wind 7mph NW). Temp. Max. 27°C / Min 15°C.
Fri 18th August – Sunny. Wind 7mph (W). Temp. Max. 28°C / Min 16°C.
Sat 19th August – Sunny. Wind 7mph (NW). Temp. Max. 27°C / Min 17°C.
Sun 20th August – Sunny. Wind 7mph (NW). Temp. Max. 26°C / Min 17°C.
As one would expect in California in August the weather is expected to be perfect for golf all week.
UK Television Coverage
Sky Sports normally take the US television feed, via the Red Button, over the final weekend.
The 2017 U.S. Amateur Champion will receive the following (assuming they remain amateur): –
a) A Gold Medal and custody of the Havemeyer Trophy for the ensuing year.
b) An exemption to play in the 2018 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills G.C.
c) An exemption to play in the 2018 Open Championship at Carnoustie Golf Links.
d) An invitation to play in the 2018 Masters at Augusta National G.C.
e) An exemption to play in the 2018 – 2027 U.S. Amateurs; and no doubt
f) Invitations to play in a variety of PGA Tour and European Tour competitions.
A Silver Medal is awarded to the runner-up and Bronze Medals to the two losing semi-finalists.
The original silver Havemeyer Trophy was presented to the U.S.G.A. on March 1895 in honour of the Association’s first President Theodore A. Havemeyer. This was lost in a fire at Bobby Jones’ home club, East Lake, in 1925.
A new gold trophy was produced in 1926. This was retired in 1992 with a copy of the trophy being produced and passed from champion to champion ever since.
Sadly the original gold trophy was stolen from the USGA Museum in 2012 and has never been seen since.
The 2016 U.S. Amateur Championship
The 2016 U.S. Amateur Championship was played at Oakland Hills Country Club near Detroit.
Curtis LUCK (AUS) won beating Brad DALKE (USA) 6&4 in the 36-hole Championship match.
Curtis Luck (Photo: U.S.G.A.)
Alex SMALLEY (USA) earned medalist honours in the Stroke Play Qualifying. His 133 (-7) total came after two impressive rounds; a 65 on the North Course (NC), followed on Day 2 by a 68 on the tougher South Course (SC).
In the Stroke Play 56 players scored +1 or better to progress. A further 23 players finished with a +2 total and were required to participate in a sudden death play-off to determine the final 8 qualifiers.
Collectively Great Britain & Ireland (GB&I) enjoyed a relatively successful Championship. Six of our players progressed to the Match Play Stage including one from each of the four home nations.
Here is a summary of the GB&I performances (in order of success): –
David BOOTE (WAL)
MP – Brad DALKE (USA) won 3&2 in the Quarter Finals.
SP – Tied 57th, SC 70 / NC 72 (+2)*
Sam HORSFIELD (ENG)
MP – Dylan MEYER (USA) won 19th hole in Round of 16.
SP – Tied 11th, NC 66 / SC 72 (-2)
Scott GREGORY (ENG)
MP – Nick CARLSON (USA) won 19th hole in Round of 32.
SP – Tied 6th, NC 69 / SC 68 (-3)
Connor SYME (SCO)
MP – Dylan MEYER (USA) won 2Up in Round of 64.
SP – Tied 30th, SC 70 / NC 70 (Ev)
Bradley MOORE (ENG)
MP – Dawson ARMSTRONG (USA) won 1Up in Round of 64.
SP – Tied 57th, NC 71 / SC 71 (+2)*
Jack HUME (IRE)
MP – Bryson NIMMER (USA) won 1Up in Round of 64.
SP – Tied 41st, SC 72 / NC 69 (+1)
Jack SINGH BRAR (ENG)
MP – Did Not Qualify
SP – Tied 80th, SC 71, NC 72 (+3)
Ewen FERGUSON (SCO)
SP – Tied 80th, NC 72, SC 71 (+3)
Robert MACINTYRE (SCO)
Grant FORREST 23 (SCO)
SP – Tied185th, NC 73, SC 75 (+9)
Jamie BOWER (ENG)
SP – Tied 243rd, SC 74, NC 77 (+11)
* David BOOTE and Bradley MOORE both birdied the 11th in the Stroke Play Qualifying play-off to progress to the match play stage, holing putts of 20 and 45 yards respectively on the 465 yard par 4.
To review all of the U.S. Amateur Championship results click this link – 2016 U.S. Amateur Results
U.S. Amateur Championship History
The U.S. Amateur is the oldest golf championship in America and this will be its 117th playing.
It was first played in 1895, the winner being Charles B. Macdonald.
It has always been decided by match play save for an 8 year period between 1965 and 1972 when the winner was determined solely by stroke play.
Former US winners include Walter Travis (1900-01-03), Jerome Travers (1907-08-12-13), Bobby Jones (1924-25-27-28-30), Francis Ouimet (1914-31), W. Lawson Little (1934-35) Arnold Palmer (1954), Jack Nicklaus (1959-61), Deane Beman (1960-63), Lanny Wadkins (1970), Craig Stadler (1973), Mark O’Meara (1979), Hal Sutton (1980), Phil Mickelson (1990), Justin Leonard (1992), Tiger Woods (1994-95-96), Matt Kucher (1997), Ryan Moore (2004), Peter Uihlein (2010) and Bryson DeChambeau (2015).
British players have won the Championship on six occasions but just twice in the last 100 years – H.J. Whigham (1896-97), Findlay Douglas (1898), Harold Hilton (1911), Richie Ramsay (2006) and Matthew Fitzpatrick (2013).
Matthew Fitzpatrick (Photo: U.S.G.A.)
Italy’s Edoardo Molinari (2005) is the only player from the Continent of Europe to have lifted the Havemeyer Trophy.
Future U.S. Amateur Venues
2018 – Pebble Beach Golf Links, California.
2019 – Pinehurst Resort & Country Club, North Carolina.
2020 – Bandon Dunes, Oregon
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Alfie PLANT (ENG) today won the European Amateur Championship on another beautiful day for golf on the perfectly presented Old Course at Walton Heath.
With his win Alfie earned an exemption into this month’s Open Championship at Royal Birkdale and certainly made a very well timed and strong statement with regard to his inclusion in the 2017 Great Britain and Ireland (GB&I) Walker Cup team.
Scheduled the week after the Amateur Championship in nearby Kent the field was the strongest it has ever been, helped by a high number of non-European entries. The SPWAR expects to rank it the 5th strongest event in 2017, after the NCAA Division I Championship, The Amateur and the forthcoming Western Amateur (US) and US Amateur.
All in all what a win for Alfie, the biggest of what has been a very good amateur career.
“It’s been a rollercoaster of a year. You’ve got to take the highs and the lows and I know I’ve been playing really good golf so it was only a matter of time.” said Plant beside the 2nd green as he reflected on what had largely been a disappointing season to date. “I can also have a few days off now as I don’t have to go up to Hollinwell tomorrow” where he had a 6.45am tee time in Tuesday’s Final Qualifying event for The Open.
Luca CIANCHETTI (ITA), Afie PLANT (ENG) and Lorenzo SCALISE (ITA), who had all tied on -15 for the 72 holes of stroke play, qualified for the play-off.
Plant, who is probably the best supported amateur golfer in the world, had the strong backing of ‘Alfie’s Army’ who were certainly out in full force for what was a ‘local’ event for them. In a family affair his brother Albert was also caddying for the Kent man.
Alfie’s Army (Photo: @lad_golf)
A 3 hole aggregate score play off over holes 1, 2 and 18 was the order of the day. If this proved to be insufficient to separate the players then a sudden death play-off would commence over the same holes.
So off we went. Last year’s Championship took 7 play off holes to decide and with three experienced players contesting the 2017 version no one expected this one to be over quickly.
On the 235 yard par 3 1st hole Plant and Scalise both found the heart of the green but Cianchetti pulled his tee shot well to the left, short siding himself and finding a poor lie in long grass thirty feet from the green. Cianchetti hacked out well on to the green but was ultimately unable to save his par. Plant misjudged his long first putt allowing it to run well past the hole. Scalise who was last to play, and foreseeing an early advantage, lagged his effort down the hill to comfortably secure his par. In what would prove to be a critical moment Plant bravely stepped up and holed his 10 footer back up the hill to huge cheers from the spectators.
On the 472 yard par 4 2nd hole, a sweeping down and up right handed dog leg the players all pared. However, this was the moment you felt Cianchetti’s race may be run. He had played a superb second shot up the hill leaving himself a short four footer for birdie and the opportunity to regain parity with his playing partners. It was an unexpectedly bad miss in the circumstances.
On the 404 yard par 4 18th Plant found the green, albeit some distance from the flag, as did Cianchetti who was much closer. Scalise was unfortunate to bounce through the back with his approach. The Tennessee University man was unphased however playing a beautifully judged chip which ended up a matter of inches from the hole. Plant two putted to ensure that at least he and Scalise would progress with their Even par scores. Cianchetti’s birdie putt was hit too firmly and missed the break. He bravely holed for his par putt but at +1 he had to step down.
Cianchetti’s consolation being that he had already qualified for the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale via his 2016 win. Last year’s Championship in Estonia was played in August after The Open was staged at Royal Troon. The European Golf Association, in conjunction with The R&A have subsequently brought the Championship forward so in the future the winner can enjoy their Open exemption almost immediately.
Meanwhile, Plant and Scalise crossed the road back towards the clubhouse to play the 1st hole again, this time in a sudden death format. Both players found the green. Plant putted first and having learned from his near identical putt half an hour earlier was unlucky to lip out, a tad too much pace preventing the ball from dropping. Scalise had a bit of a rush of blood to the head with his first effort, misjudging the slope as Plant had done earlier, and needed to bravely hole from four feet to allow the fun to continue.
Alfie Plant Lips Out On The 4th Play-Off Hole
Both players found the fairway on the 2nd hole, albeit Scalise pulled his drive, leaving a slightly longer approach than he would have liked. The Italian came up just short of the green. Plant seized the advantage and played his iron into the centre of the green, about 15 feet from the flag. Scalise putted up to 6 feet leaving the stage free for the Englishman. Plant prevented Scalise suffering the ignominy of potentially losing the play-off with a bogey by confidently holing his left to right putt for a winning birdie.
The cheers from Alfie’s Army were long and loud and continued all the way back to the clubhouse where the celebrations could properly begin.
Alfie Plant Holes The Winning Putt On The 5th Play-Off Hole With Brother Albert Watching
Alfie Plant, the 2016 Lytham Trophy winner, who also holed England’s crucial silver medal winning putt at the World Amateur Championship in Mexico, once again showed nerves of steel. He birdied the 18th to put pressure on the Italian leaders before outlasting them, by simply not missing a shot, in the play-off.
After bogeying his first hole of the day our winner Alfie PLANT produced an unblemished card with five birdies to shoot a fine 68. He saved his best hole till last though. Knowing he needed a birdie on the par 4 18th to have any chance of making a play-off he played a magnificent approach to 4 feet and calmly holed the putt.
He had just watched his playing partner Lorenzo SCALISE (ITA) bogey the hole, unable to recover from a drive into the left hand fairway bunker which required a sideways chip out. Scalise, who shot 69, had something of a rollercoaster round littered with 6 birdies and an eagle but sadly for him five bogeys.
In the final group the defending champion Luca CIANCHETTI (ITA) looked well placed after he eagled the par 5 14th and birdied the 15th to move onto -16. However having watched Scalise bogey in front of him he was unable to secure the par he needed to win the 2017 Championship. His approach to the elevated 18th found a tricky spot on the greenside bank above the left bunker. A slightly clumsy chip left him 10 feet for the title but he missed.
Luca Cianchetti Misses His Putt On The 72nd Hole
A few groups further back Victor PASTOR (ESP) had made a late run for the title. He stood on the 17th tee in Round 4 on -15, -7 for his round, but again fell foul of the 18th. His bogey left him on -14 after a 66 and a tie for 4th place.
Robert MACINTYRE (SCO) also shot a final round 66. His bogey free effort lifted him up to -14 where he set the early clubhouse mark before Pastor joined him. Robert must surely have secured his Walker Cup spot now.
GB&I’s most in form player Matthew JORDAN (ENG) once again delivered on the big stage. His final round 66, which included a holed mid-iron from the fairway of the 485 yard par 4 4th, finished on -13 and tied 6th. Interestingly he had failed to par the 4th, dropping four shots in the process, during the first three rounds.
John-Ross GALBRAITH (IRE) and Jack SINGH BRAR (ENG) also enjoyed strong finishes, tieing for 7th place. Both players shot 8 birdies in their rounds with Galbraith recording a best of the day 65 and Singh Brar a 66.
Sandy SCOTT (SCO) 70 and Daniel O’LOUGHLIN (ENG) 68 tied for 10th place on -11. Both of these young lads have big futures.
View the Results here – 2017 European Amateur Championship Results
At the end of 54 holes Luca CIANCHETTI (ITA), Jeremy GANDON (FRA) and Lorenzo SCALISE (ITA) share the lead at the European Amateur, tied on -12 (204).
Lorenzo SCALISE and Zan Luka STIRN (SLO) both shot best of the day 7-under 65’s on another day of very good scoring at Walton Heath GC.
Alfie PLANT (ENG) backed up his 66 of yesterday with a 67 today. On -11 he is well placed to make a push for the title in tomorrow’s final round.
Rory FRANSSEN (SCO) 69 -10, Joshua MCMAHON (ENG) 70 -9, Sandy SCOTT (SCO) 67 -9, Daniel BROWN (ENG) 66 -9 and Conor O’ROURKE (IRE) 70 -9 are Great Britain and Ireland’s (GB&I) other leading players.
Jack SINGH BRAR, who this week chose to has pass on the European Amateur Team Championships to try and qualify for the US Amateur, shot 66 to move up to tied 21st on -6. Connor SYME (SCO) 67 -6, JR GALBRAITH (IRE) 66 -5, Scott GREGORY (ENG) 66 -5 and Owen EDWARDS (WAL) 67 -4 were the other GB&I players to enjoy their rounds.
Sean CROCKER (USA) finally sorted himself out and shot a 66 to move onto -3 (tied 45th), securing himself another round and no doubt an even higher finish.
The Top 60 and Ties cut fell at -2 (214) highlighting the standard of play this week. 64 players achieved this mark or better.
Notable players to miss the cut included James WALKER ENG, 2015 champion Stefano MAZZOLI ITA, Alex GLEESON IRE, Min Woo LEE AUS, Marco PENGE ENG (all -1), Josh HILLEARD ENG (Ev), Harry HALL ENG (+4), Jack DAVIDSON WAL, Charlie STRICKLAND ENG, Jamie STEWART (all +5) and Craig ROSS SCO (+11 Rd2 WD).
Day 2 ended at Walton Heath GC with a three way tie for the European Amateur lead. Victor PASTOR (ESP), Jeremy FREIBURGHAUS (SUI) and Dylan PERRY (AUS) shot 64, 66 and 69 respectively to all move onto -9.
The best round of the day, and for that matter the week so far, came from Matthias SCHMID (GER). His 63 (-9) included two eagles and seven birdies.
Defending champion Luca CIANCHETTI (ITA) shot a 67 in Round 2 and is nicely placed in tied 6th on -7.
Despite this strong start from a number of the overseas entries there is still plenty of hope for the Great Britain and Irish players in the field.
England’s boys from the Wirral Matthew JORDAN (-8) and Joshua MCMAHON (-7) lead the way. Jordan shot a second 68 whilst McMahon went one better with a 67. Compatriots Alfie PLANT (-6) moved into contention on -6 after a 66 today whilst Daniel O’LOUGHLIN (-6) held firm after a 71.
Scotland’s Liam JOHNSTON (-7), Rory FRANSSEN (-7), Robert MACINTYRE (-6) and Craig HOWIE (-5) as well as Ireland’s Conor O’ROURKE (-7) and Paul MCBRIDE (-5) are also doing well.
After tomorrow’s third round there will be Top 60 and Ties cut.
Italy’s Lorenzo SCALISE leads the European Amateur after Day 1. The University of Tennessee student shot a bogey free 64 (-8).
On a day of generally low scoring 61 players in the field of 144 recorded under par scores in Round 1.
Toby BRIGGS (ENG) and Keegan DE LANGE (RSA), both of whom had eagles in their round, are both one shot back on -7.
Daniel O’LOUGHLIN (ENG), who played well at The Amateur last week, continued his form at Walton Heath. His 67 (-5) saw him finish the day in tied 6th place with Conor O’ROURKE (IRE) and Rory FRANSSEN (SCO) for company.
Daniel BROWN (ENG), Matthew JORDAN (ENG), Robin DAWSON (IRE), Robert MACINTYRE (SCO) and Liam JOHNSTON (SCO) all shot 68’s in Round 1. Their -4 scores leaving them nicely placed in tied 9th with 54 holes still to play.
The 30th European Amateur Championship starts on Wednesday 28th June at Walton Heath Golf Club in Surrey, England.
This prestigious international Championship is being run by the European Golf Association (EGA), assisted this year by England Golf.
The European Amateur is a 72-hole stroke play event. 18-holes are played daily over four days.
A 54-hole cut will be in force with the 60 lowest scores and ties qualifying for the final round on Saturday 1st July.
Exemptions were also available to the defending champion, a single nomination from each EGA member nation, competitors in the most recent Bonallack Trophy, St. Andrew’s Trophy and Jacques Léglise Trophy events as well as four players from England, the host nation.
All of the leading European and Great Britain and Irish (GB&I) players will be on show. Luca CIANCHETTI (ITA) will be defending the title he won in Estonia last August and new Amateur Champion Harry ELLIS (ENG) will also be competing.
Whilst some of the Australian and South African touring parties have now returned home a number of their top players are entered at Walton Heath, notably Min WOO LEE and Albert VENTER respectively.
Amongst the United States entries are highly ranked Sean CROCKER, who made the cut at the BMW International on the European Tour last week, and Jimmy STANGER. Stewart HAGESTAD had entered but withdrew prior to the event commencing.
Walton Heath Golf Club
The 2017 Championship is being staged on Walton Heath’s famous Old Course.
16th hole, Old Course, Walton Heath GC (Photo: Walton Heath GC)
This heathland masterpiece in Surrey, known for it’s superb turf, heather fringed bunkers and large greens, has hosted many major amateur and professional golf events in its illustrious history.
The par 72 championship course stretches to 7,406 yards, as the scorecard below shows, and is noted for it’s strong finishing holes.
Old Course Scorecard (Photo: Walton Heath GC)
A generally dry week is forecast in the south east of England this week (as at Tuesday 27th June 7.00 pm): –
Weds 28th June – Showers. Wind 9 mph (SW). Max. 22°C / Min 13°C.
Thurs 29th June – Showers. Wind 5 mph (NW). Max. 19°C / Min 12°C.
Fri 30th June – Showers. Wind 7 mph (NW). Max. 23°C / Min 13°C.
Sat 1st July – Cloudy. Wind 12 mph (N). Max. 23°C / Min 14°C.
The winner also receives an invitation to compete in this year’s Open Championship at Royal Birkdale in Lancashire, England.
Luca CIANCHETTI (ITA) beat Viktor HOVLAND (NOR) on the seventh play-off hole to win the 2016 European Amateur Championship.
Luca Cianchetti (Photo: Italian Golf Federation)
Both players were tied on -16 at the end of the 72 hole stroke play event which was taking place at the Estonia Golf & Country Club.
Scotland’s Robert MACINTYRE (SCO) -13 and Connor SYME (SCO) -12 were the best of the GB&I players, finishing 4th and 5th respectively. Gian-Marco PETROZZI (ENG) -9 finished tied 9th.
The competition was first contested in 1986.
It has been hosted in 18 different countries to date.
2017 will be the seventh time it has been played in GB&I and the second time in England. The previous courses to host the event being Hillside (1991), Dalmahoy (1993), Celtic Manor (1999), Nairn (2003), Carton House (2012) and The Duke’s St. Andrews (2014).
In addition to Gallacher and McIlroy other GB&I past winners include Jim PAYNE (1991), Paddy GRIBBEN (1998), Stephen BROWNE (2001), Brian MCELHINNEY (2003), Matthew RICHARDSON (2004), Rhys PUGH (2012) and Ashley CHESTERS (2013 and 2014).
Chesters is the only player to have won the Championship twice.
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The Brabazon Trophy – 2017 Preview, Reports & Results
28th May 2017 – Round 4 Report
South Africa’s Kyle MCCLATCHIE today celebrated his 20th birthday by winning the English Men’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship and lifting the famous Brabazon Trophy.
Kyle shot 71 (-2) today with five birdies, including one on the last, offsetting three bogeys. His -10 score was good enough for a narrow 1-shot win.
He follows in the footsteps of four previous South African winners of the Brabazon Trophy – Neville Sundelson (1974), Richard Kaplan (1986), Craig Rivett (1989T) and Charl Schwartzel (2002).
Kyle McClatchie (Photo: Ernest Blignault)
If that wasn’t enough the victory also took McClatchie to the top of the Scratch Players World Amateur Rankings (SPWAR). He is the first South African to hold the No. 1 spot in this ranking. However, with the NCAA Division I National Championships currently being played this status is likely to be short lived (at least for the time being).
Jamie STEWART (SCO), Jake BURNAGE (ENG) and Jack SINGH BRAR (ENG) all finished on -9 to tie for second place.
Jamie Stewart had a superb weekend shooting the lowest two scores on both days. He followed yesterday’s 67 (-6) with a 68 (-5) today. Having dropped two shots in his first three holes he reeled off 7 unblemished birdies over his remaining 15 holes. He will surely take huge confidence from a 5 birdie 32 on his finishing 9 holes.
Jake Burnage continued his rich vein of form too. Having finished 3rd at the Lytham Trophy he put together a very consistent 71, 70, 70 and 72 at Woodhall Spa. I was particularly impressed with his three birdies in a row finish in the heat of battle. He has moved up to 98th in the SPWAR and must now firmly be in the GB&I Walker Cup mix.
Jack Singh Brar also shot 72 for another excellent finish in 2017. He continues to look in complete control of both himself and his golf game.
Matthew JORDAN (ENG) shot a final round 70 (-3) to finish 5th. He has now finished in the Top 10 at the Lytham Trophy, Irish Amateur Open and the Brabazon in the last month which clearly tells you he is starting to fulfil his potential and that he now sits firmly amongst our finest amateurs.
It was also good to see Dan BROWN (ENG) finish in 6th place after rounds of 72, 68, 75 and 72. Hopefully he can use this as momentum to put together a string of good results in the coming weeks.
David BOOTE (WAL) finished 7th and Connor SYME (SCO) tied 8th. Both started poorly today but showed their experience in grinding out good scores at the end of the day. Boote was 4-over after 5 holes before securing 4 birdies on the way back home to record a very creditable par 73. Syme (71) was 2-over after 3 holes before he turned his day around with 3 birdies and an eagle on the par 5 14th.
Both Boote and Syme will travel south tonight to Walton Heath GC to join the other three amateurs competing in tomorrow’s 36 hole US Open Sectional Qualifying event. Good luck to them all.
Click here to see the full Brabazon Trophy Results
After another windy day at Woodhall Spa Jake BURNAGE (70), Jack SINGH BRAR (74) and Kyle MCCLATCHIE (75) share the 54 hole lead on -8.
The trio have a 4 shot lead over a group of five players on -4. Jamie STEWART (67) and Matthew JORDAN (68) produced the best two scores of the day to join David BOOTE (72), Conor O’ROURKE (72) and Dan BROWN (75) as the leading chasers.
Having played in Wednesday’s Pro-Am at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Harry GODDARD‘s disrupted preparation and long journey up to Lincolnshire haven’t affected his performance. Rounds of 72, 70 and 74 (-3) have left him in striking distance with 18 holes to play.
David HAGUE (73 73 71 -2), who won the Laguna Trophy so impressively last week, continues to creep up the leaderboard too. He’ll start the final day in tied 12th place.
After his disappointing 78 in the opening round Connor SYME recorded his second successive 70 to move up to -1 and tied 16th place.
South Africa’s Kyle MCCLATCHIE matched the best round of the week (66) to move into the 36-hole lead on -10 on a pleasant but windy day at Woodhall Spa.
Craig ROSS (67) and Jack SINGH BRAR (70) are tied for 2nd place on -9.
Dan BROWN (68), Mitch WAITE (69) and Tom THURLOWAY (69) all enjoyed good days and went into the weekend nicely placed in the top 10.
A little further down the leaderboard just three other players broke 70 on Day 2. Rowan LESTER (67), David BOOTE (69) and Alisdair MCDOUGALL (69).
The 36 hole cut saw 63 players on +4 and lower qualify for the final 36 holes on Saturday and Sunday.
Ben CHAMBERLAIN (76 75 / +5) just missed the cut but left Lincolnshire with the consolation of having scored the Championship’s fifth hole-in-one on the 5th hole.
Josh HILLEARD (74 77 +5), Robin DAWSON (68 83 +5), Marco PENGE (79 73 +5), Owen EDWARDS (74 78 +6), Colm CAMPBELL (73 79 +6), Charlie STRICKLAND (75 80 +9), Charlie THORNTON (75 81 +10) and Liam JOHNSTON (79 77 +10) were amongst the more notable, in form players to miss the cut.
Playing in near perfect conditions a course record 66 (-7) gave Braintree’s Todd CLEMENTS the Round 1 lead at the Brabazon Trophy. His only bogey came on the par 4 2nd hole before he reeled off eight birdies including six on the back nine to finish with an inward score of just 31.
Clements’ 31 was matched by Jack SINGH BRAR the recent winner of the Lytham Trophy. Jack had just the one bogey in his round of 67 (-6) on the tough Woodhall Spa heathland course.
Frenchman Alexandre FUCHS (-6) is tied second having hit something of a purple patch on Woodhall’s fourth and fifth holes. His 2-1 scores, two eagles and four under the card, clearly went along way to making him the the early clubhouse leader in Round 1.
Robin DAWSON, Robert MACINTYRE and Jacob OAKLEY followed Fuchs in on the short 5th, playing 163 yards to a back pin. Amazingly four holes-in-one were recorded on this hole during round 1. Dawson and MacIntyre went on to deliver 68’s (-5) and therefore were tied 4th after Day 1.
Other players to make solid starts to this 72-hole stroke play championship included Craig ROSS (-3), George BLOOR (-3), Alfie PLANT (-2), James WALKER (-2), Jake BURNAGE (-2), Kevin LE BLANC (-2), Conor O’ROURKE (-2), John Ross GALBRAITH (-2), Gian-Marco PETROZZI (-1), Jack DAVIDSON (-1), Daniel BROWN (-1) and Matthew JORDAN (-1) all of whom are nicely placed in the Top 25.
England international Bradley MOORE withdrew after 10 holes.
The English Men’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship for the Brabazon Trophy will be played at Woodhall Spa Golf Club this coming week.
The 71st playing of this event takes place between Thursday 25th and Sunday 28th May on the Lincolnshire Club’s Hotchkin Course.
Woodhall Spa G.C. (Photo: WoodhallSpaGolf.com)
The competition consists of 72 holes of stroke play golf with 18 holes being played each day.
A 36 hole cut will take place with only the leading 60 competitors and ties progressing to the two weekend rounds.
In the event of a tie for the Championship on Sunday, there will be a sudden death play off.
150 competitors will start the 2017 Championship.
The 2017 start sheet for Rounds 1 and 2 can be viewed here – Brabazon Trophy Start Sheet.
88 players were exempted into the field based on their previous accomplishments with 62 coming through a qualifying process.
Two Qualifying Competitions were held last week; the North at Sandiway G.C. in Cheshire and the South at Littlestone G.C. in Kent, with 31 players progressing from each one.
Sam BROADHURST (-5) of Atherstone G.C. was the medalist at Sandiway. Click here to view the full North Qualifier Results
Matt TURNER (-5) from Burnham & Berrow G.C. led the qualifiers at Littlestone. Click here to view the full South Qualifier Results
16 of the 21 Great Britain & Ireland (GB&I) Walker Cup Squad players will be competing at the Brabazon. These are David BOOTE (WAL), Dan BROWN (ENG), Colm CAMPBELL (IRE), Jack DAVIDSON (WAL), Robin DAWSON (IRE), Owen EDWARDS (WAL), Alex GLEESON (IRE), Craig HOWIE (SCO), Bradley MOORE (ENG), Robert MACINTYRE (SCO), Conor O’ROURKE (IRE), Marco PENGE (ENG), Alfie PLANT (ENG), Craig ROSS (SCO), Connor SYME (SCO) and James WALKER (ENG).
Sandy SCOTT (SCO) had entered but withdrew before play commenced.
Barry HUME (SCO), Stuart GREHAN (IRE), Scott GREGORY (ENG) and Paul MCBRIDE (IRE) are the four that are missing. Gregory is playing in The Memorial Tournament and US Open Championship in early June so has travelled over to USA this week.
Liam JOHNSTON (SCO) and Jack SINGH BRAR (ENG), who by rights should also be in the Squad based on their 2017 performances, are also competing at Woodhall Spa.
Other players on show who have been doing well this year and could easily feature at the top of the scoreboard are Jake BURNAGE (ENG), David HAGUE (ENG), Josh HILLEARD (ENG), Matthew JORDAN (ENG), Chris MACLEAN (SCO), Gian-Marco PETROZZI (ENG), Charlie STRICKLAND (ENG), Charlie THORNTON (ENG) and Sean TOWNDROW (ENG).
In 2016 the Scratch Players World Amateur Ranking (SPWAR) listed the Brabazon Trophy as it’s 24th most important amateur competition in the world based on the strength of it’s field.
The Winner receives the magnificent gold Brabazon Trophy shown in the centre of the photo below.
The Brabazon Trophy and Other Prizes (Photo: London Golf Club)
Prize vouchers will be awarded to those players finishing in the top six.
Two other prizes are connected to the Brabazon Trophy competition. The George Henriques Salver is awarded to the leading GB&I player in the Championship under the age of 20. The Philip Scruton Jug is awarded later in the year to the player returning the best aggregate scores in The Brabazon Trophy and The Berkshire Trophy (which will be played on 24th and 25th June).
Woodhall Spa Golf Club
Situated in Lincolnshire Woodhall Spa’s Hotchkin course is one of England’s finest heathland layouts.
From the blue Championship tees it plays to 7,080 yards with a par of 73. Here is the scorecard: –
* The 12th has been extended to 176 yards since the above card photo was taken so the course now plays to 7,084 yards in total.
Golf in Woodall Spa dates back to 1890 with the Hotchkin opening for play in 1905. Harry Vardon (1902), Harry Colt (1911) and the Hotchkin Family (1920-1995) all playing a part in the course’s development since.
The Hotchkin family sold the facilities to the English Golf Union in 1995. Over time an impressive National Golf Centre has been developed with a second course, The Bracken, also opened in 1998.
The Hotchkin Course is currently in the middle of a three year refurbishment programme by Renaissance Golf, with the work being overseen by their acclaimed lead architect Tom Doak.
The weather forecast (as at Tuesday 23rd May) is currently positive for all four competition days.
Thu 25th May – Sunny / Wind 4 mph N / Temp. Min. 12°C, Max. 22°C.
Fri 26th May – Sunny / Wind 10 mph SE / Temp. Min. 12°C, Max. 21°C.
Sat 27th May – Sunny / Wind 12 mph SE / Temp. Min. 15°C / Min 24°C.
Sun 28th May – Cloudy / Wind11 mph SE / Temp. Min. 12°C / Max. 21°C.
It is worth remembering that Rounds 1 and 2 will see players tee off the 1st from 7.00am right through until 3.40pm.
The 2016 Brabazon Trophy
Jamie BOWER won the Brabazon Trophy last year at the London Golf Club with a total score of -12. He pipped Cameron DAVIS (-11) on the final green after a rain delay with Ryan LUMSDEN (-10) and Gian-Marco PETROZZI (-9) finishing third and fourth respectively.
Jamie Bower (Photo: London Golf Club)
Click this link to view the 2016 Brabazon Trophy results – Results
History, Past Winners and Records
The English Amateur International Trophy competition was first played in 1947.
In 1957 the official title was changed to the English Men’s Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship.
The current trophy was donated by Lord Brabazon of Tara in 1948 and the event has come to be widely known as the Brabazon Trophy.
Here is a list of all of the past winners, their scores and the Championship venues: –
The first player to successfully defend the title was Ronnie WHITE who won at Birkdale in 1950 and nearby Formby in 1951.
Shortly afterwards Philip SCRUTTON won the Brabazon three times in four years (1952, ‘54 & ‘55).
Sir Michael BONALLACK has four wins to his name. The first came at Royal Cinque Ports in 1964 and the last at Hillside in 1971. At Moortown in 1969, with play-offs having been discarded at this time, he shared the title with Rodney FOSTER.
Other well known British winners of the Brabazon include Gordon Brand Jnr, Sandy Lyle (2), Peter MCEVOY, Ronan Rafferty and Ronnie SHADE (3).
There have been several overseas winners over the years. South African’s Neville SUNDELSON (1974), Richard KAPLAN (1986) and Charl SCHWARTZEL (2002) have all won. Other notable European winners include well known pros Ignacio GARRIDO (1992) and Peter HANSON (1998).
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By Chris October 23, 2019 11:43am
Mark Petkovsek a former first-round pick, pitched nine seasons at the MLB level
VICTORIA, B.C. — Add it all up, and the Victoria HarbourCats coaching staff now has 14 years of MLB experience, along with a current MLB scout.
The HarbourCats are extremely excited to announce the addition of Mark Petkovsek (pet-KYE-zek) to the leadership group for the 2020 season. Petkovsek, 53, is a former first-round MLB draft pick out of the University of Texas who went on to pitch for Texas, Pittsburgh, Anaheim and St. Louis with 396 appearances, a 46-28 record, including two seasons of double-digit wins (11-2 in 1996 for the Cardinals, and 10-4 in 1999 for the Angels).
Petkovsek was selected 29th overall in 1987, the same first round that saw Ken Griffey Jr. and Craig Biggio enter pro baseball. HarbourCats Head Coach Todd Haney was taken in the 38th round that same year. His record over his three years at Texas, under head coach Cliff Gustafson, was an impressive 29-3.
Petkovsek also pitched in seven games in the post-season for the Cardinals in 1996. He threw summer collegiate ball for two summers for Chatham in the Cape Cod League and was inducted into the Cape Cod hall of fame. Petkovsek threw no-hitters at the NCAA and AAA pro levels. For the past four years, Petkovsek has been head coach and pitching coach at Monsignor Kelly Catholic High School.
Petkovsek joins Haney, another former star at the University of Texas, who went on to play five seasons at baseball’s highest level. Hitting coach Curtis Pelletier, from Victoria, is a scout for the Miami Marlins. Troy Birtwistle and John Schnaderbeck round out the coaching staff at this time, with one other addition likely.
“I know Mark well from playing with him at the University of Texas where he led us to the College World Series before his selection in the 1st round of the MLB draft,” said Haney, entering his second season as head coach of the HarbourCats. “Mark was a true pitcher and is a passionate teacher. Our pitchers will benefit greatly from his knowledge and experience in the game. This is a tremendous step in achieving our championship goals for the 2020 season.”
Petkovsek is from Beaumont, Texas, but lives most of his time now in Bradenton, Florida, with his wife Heather and youngest son Jack, a high school senior. Older son Mark Jr. is a junior outfielder playing baseball at Millsaps College in Mississippi.
The pitching coach role came open when Ian Sanderson, who was with the team for two seasons, was hired as head coach of the WCL’s Wenatchee AppleSox.
“I am honoured to have been added to Todd Haney’s staff for the HarbourCats 2020 season,” said Petkovsek. It will be exciting to work with young pitchers in the highly competitive West Coast League. I am looking forward to assisting them in reaching their full potential, both on and off the field. To be in the beautiful city of Victoria, coach baseball and see the beauty of Canada will be a tremendous experience.”
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Sophomores Kaidi Dai and Sara Lynn Sullivan exude energy at a rehearsal for the Korean pop, or K-pop, dance routine.
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The curtains open, revealing a group of dancers posed in their beginning positions. The audience eagerly stares at the silhouettes of the dancers, while the bright lights being casted from above reflect against their excited expressions. An upbeat Kpop song starts playing in the background, and they begin dancing to the beat of the intense piano keys as they seamlessly flow through their movements.
The upper school will be hosting the annual talent show, Hoscars, on Mar. 23, featuring acts ranging from comedy to dancing. Unlike previous years, this year’s show will take place in the Rothschild Performing Arts Center’s Patil Theater. As a result, Hoscars will consist of two shows because of the limited capacity.
“It’s going to be underclassmen and upperclassmen so there will be a whole lot of logistical challenges,” ASB secretary Katherine Zhang (11) said. “Each assemblies going to be an hour so that’s probably going to be the biggest change.
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Junior Christopher (Chris) Gong demonstrates an illusionary magic trick involving cards. Chris also auditioned for the Hoscars talent show as part of a dance act.
“I’m really looking forward to seeing all the auditions as of right now and definitely seeing the whole show coming together,” Katherine said. “It’s probably one of the biggest things that we do so I’m really excited for the underclassmen to see it, and the upperclassmen also are really excited to see it come back again because they already know how much fun Hoscars can be.”
Gloria Guo (12) and Grace Koonmen (12), plan to do a K-pop dance routine hope with a group of friends. In preparation for their audition, they have been rehearsing every long lunch to ensure a spot in the show. Additionally, they hope to continue the tradition of dancing in Hoscars.
Senior Gloria Guo practices the K-pop routine with the members of her dance group.
“Grace and I were in the hip hop act that was in the show two years ago for also Hoscars, so I think it’s exciting for the two us to coordinate our own one this time and to lead of bunch of people who want to do it and just to perform it onstage and have fun,” Gloria said. “We did it our sophomore year and we had so much fun, and last year we didn’t do it because of all the issues with the spacing. This year we really wanted to do it,” Grace said.
The group looks forward to being able to dance in the Patil Theater. They think that new performing arts center will be one of the highlights of their experience.
“Honestly I think honestly the final performance is just gonna be really fun when we will be able to do the whole thing onstage together, especially since we’ll be in the new theater which will be so cool,” Gloria said.
Alex Chen (12), who is auditioning with a vocal cover of Frank Ocean’s “Thinkin Bout You,” hopes utilize this opportunity to show his peers what he does outside of his schoolwork.
“I am planning on doing a vocal cover for Hoscars. I’m very, very excited for it,” Alex said. “I think that it’s just that it’s a really fun opportunity. You kind of get reveal aspects of yourself that maybe some people that haven’t been exposed to.”
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Home Digital HD ‘The Equalizer 2’ Early Digital Release is $20: All Formats
Digital UHD
‘The Equalizer 2’ Early Digital Release is $20: All Formats
Dave McCarty
Denzel Washington in “The Equalizer 2” © Sony Pictures
If you can’t wait until The Equalizer 2 releases to Blu-ray and 4k Blu-ray on Dec. 11 there are plenty of options for the digital version of the film. And, most popular services have it available in 4k UHD — a format that offers 4-times the amount of resolution of traditional HD.
What’s sort of untraditional is The Equalizer 2 digital purchase is $19.99 no matter what format: SD, HD or UHD. Why anyone would purchase the lowest resolution for the same price is a mystery, as most software and devices will allow you to set a preferred streaming resolution anyway, depending on bandwidth and Wi-Fi or Cellular connection.
The Equalizer 2 in Digital 4k also features HDR, a format that expands the color depth (therefore providing more detail and contrast in images) as well as the increase in resolution. HDR is only available on supporting TVs and devices.
Bonus features with the digital purchase of The Equalizer 2 include featurettes, audio commentaries with Denzel Washington and director Antoine Fuqua (Retribution Mode), deleted and extended scenes, and more. Purchasing from Movies Anywhere appears to give you all the extras, although we’re not sure if each partnering movie service will play the bonus material because Google Play, Fandango and Amazon don’t include extras in their product descriptions.
By the way, Walmart’s Vudu has a pretty good deal for anyone who wants the early access but also wants the film on disc. For $22.99 or $27.96, Vudu customers will also get the Blu-ray or 4k Blu-ray disc combo editions shipped upon release date.
Here’s where you can buy The Equalizer 2 in digital formats and what it costs.
The Equalizer 2 Digital Release
Amazon Prime Video – $19.99 (SD/HD/UHD)
Apple iTunes – $19.99 (SD/HD/UHD) + iTunes Extras
FandangoNow –$19.99 (SD/HD/UHD)
Google Play – $19.99 (SD/HD/UHD)
Microsoft Video – $19.99 (SD/HD/UHD) + 1 Extra
Movies Anywhere – $19.99 (SD/HD/UHD) + Bonus Content
Vudu (Walmart) – $19.99 (SD/HD/UHD)
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Witcher 3 Developer Responds To Modkit Controversy
August 16, 2015 Laura Ward
Earlier this week The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt received official modding support in the form of a “Modkit”. This Modkit was created for people with modding experience. It is a basic toolsuite that allows players to modify the game in many ways, and is designed to make creating mods easier and faster. However some fans are saying that this is too difficult to use, and that it isn’t enough.
It appears that when CD Projekt Red announced that they were releasing the Modkit, fans assumed that it would be a newer version of their previous “REDkit”, a more fleshed out package that is currently only available for The Witcher 2: assassins of Kings.
This is a completely understandable assumption as in January 2014, the CD Projekt Red CEO Marcin Iwinski said that they were “looking to release the REDkit sometime after [The Witcher 3] launches for the modding community.”
Due to this, the community manager of CD Projekt Red, Marcin Momot has spoken out on Twitter, saying that the developer has no plans for releasing a new version of the REDkit for The Witcher 3.
Fans have reached out to voice their discontent over the current Modkit. One fan asked, “Any ETA for a Full Featured TW3 REDkit? Maybe after the AddOn’s? Or is this (no offence) everything we get?” Momot replied: “This is the mod support for the Wild Hunt. At the moment, we are not planning to release anything else”.
We will continue to follow this story and report any new information that we find.
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NOTICE: Activation key must be used on a valid Steam account. Requires an internet connection.
After his car hit a tree in a stormy night, Peter wakes up in an old abandoned mansion, somewhere in England.
He can´t remember why and how he got here, but soon he realises that the house is not as abandoned as it seems. While trying to find a way out of the house, Peter has to uncover the dark secrets of what has happened in this place.
As he tries to find his way out, Peter discovers hints which indicate that he has already been here before. But by the time he’s starting to put the pieces of the puzzle together, something evil has picked up his trail… Solve puzzles to find out how you are connected to the mysteries of this place. But be careful: Something evil lurks in the cold, dark masonry and it has already started hunting you…
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An atmospheric horror experience: photo-realistic and detailed graphics bring the interior of an old abandoned mansion to life. Dark passages, a brawly thunderstorm, paranormal activities and a thrilling story will provide you with complete immersion into the game, accompanied by an eerie soundtrack and English voice overs.
Story-Exploration-Game with puzzle- and action elements: find out the mysteries of a huge mansion and the history of its inhabitants. Solve puzzles to gain entry into locked areas but...
...beware the dangers lurking in the dark. This evil you cannot fight - run for your life or find a place to hide: Experience an intense feeling of horror as you try to escape from the monster chasing you down.
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The True Cost of Two-Day Shipping
Eleanor Greene
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Amazon continues to grow in popularity for its low prices and fast delivery. But warehouse workers behind the scenes are paying for it all with bottom-level salaries and back-breaking work.
In cities across the country, people are waiting with bated breath to see where online retail giant Amazon will build its planned second headquarters, because they’re hungry for the 50,000 jobs the company says it will add as part of the expansion.
Amazon has already busted out of its headquarter city of Seattle. It has 75 fulfillment centers across the US employing 125,000 full-time workers, according to company reports, with hundreds of other locations and hundreds of thousands more employees around the world. But what goes on behind the closed doors of those fulfillment centers—and thousands like them owned by other companies—is a dangerous business.
Temporary Workers, Permanent Problem
After the labor movement of the 1940s and ’50s, warehouses jobs were stable, paid enough to support a family, and offered benefits. But in the following decades, costs fell as companies outsourced manufacturing, and box stores saw they could increase profit by paying US warehouse workers less, too.
Temporary workers are now standard in the industry—an organizer in Southern California says up to 40 percent of warehouse jobs in the state’s Inland Valley region are temporary, and in Chicago, organizing group Warehouse Workers for Justice estimates more than 60 percent of the city’s 80,000 warehouse jobs are temporary. Chicago and L.A. are the biggest shipping hubs in the US.
Temporary workers provide companies with a more flexible labor force requiring fewer benefits than full-time, salaried employees. They are also a more “vulnerable workforce with unclear lines of accountability for health and safety,” states a 2018 report from the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (COSH).
The way companies like Amazon and Walmart fulfill temp positions is through staffing agencies, which find, hire, and pay workers. This system prevents unionization—because not all jobs in one warehouse are for the same staffing company—and helps corporations save on health insurance and other costs.
Sheheryar Kaoosji is executive co-director at the Warehouse Worker Resource Center in Ontario, CA, a nonprofit that aims to improve working conditions in the Inland Valley of California, home to a large warehousing industry.
“There’s 80,000 jobs available [here], but because of the temp system, there might be 200,000 people flowing in and out of those jobs—they’re not fully employed,” explains Kaoosji. “It’s a key part of the ‘working poor’ economy in our region.”
He says workers who move to the Inland Valley, because of the lower cost of living and many job opportunities, end up scrambling to make ends meet.
“The warehouse worker population is almost entirely people of color, and it’s lots of people who are new to the community,” Kaoosji says. “It’s a lot of people ... who are trying to hang on and make a life for themselves. This region was promised that these jobs would be the future of the economy, and it’s not turning out to be that way.”
Humans Treated Like Machines
Ten percent of the warehouse jobs in the Inland Valley are at Amazon warehouses. Kaoosji says people must pay attention to Amazon because it draws in workers with wages a few dollars higher than minimum wage, and as one of the country’s largest retailers, it impacts how other companies treat their workers. [Editor’s note: Green America has a campaign pressuring Amazon to clean up its coal-powered cloud operations.]
Recently, workers have spoken out anonymously to various news sources about the bad conditions in Amazon’s warehouses. As orders come in via the Amazon website, workers called “pickers” retrieve items for orders from stocked warehouse shelves, putting them onto giant shopping carts and delivering to a boxing station. Amazon holds pickers to a steep piece rate, reported to be from 85-300 items per hour.
Pickers can be and have been fired for not making rate, and these workers complain of back and joint pain from bending, reaching, and being on their feet all day. Some workers report walking more than ten miles per shift through huge fulfillment centers.
Roberto Jesus Clack is an organizer with Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ) in Chicago. He says that Amazon’s goal is to provide the same instant gratification as department stores.
“Really, its goal is to be able to get people as many products as possible within the day, or even within a few hours of ordering,” Clack says. “There’s a ton of pressure on the workforce to always speed up, speed up. [WWJ is] really concerned about safety issues, and whether [workers are] being compensated appropriately for the value they add.”
Other reports make Amazon’s warehouses seem like sweatshops. Security checks to prevent worker theft are included in break times, so half-hour lunch breaks and timed bathroom breaks end up being shorter than promised. Employees have reported being written up for not showing up for overtime hours, which should be voluntary by law.
Since 2013, there have been seven fatalities among Amazon warehouse workers. In 2013, picker Jeff Lockhart Jr. died after collapsing during his overnight shift. A cardiologist who reviewed his autopsy said it was likely from overexertion. And last year, two workers were crushed by warehouse vehicles, calling into concern the safety procedures of both drivers and ground staff.
The Associated Press reported in November that Amazon could face $28,000 in fines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for safety violations that led to last year’s deaths, including a $7,000 fine for failure to provide training.
Earlier this year, Amazon made headlines when it was approved for a patent for a wristband that tracks workers’ movements. The wristband will buzz when a worker’s hand is close to the item they’re reaching for, to help reduce the time needed to locate the correct item on a crowded shelf.
Kaoosji, says the wristband is just the latest push in the company’s efforts to improve its employees’ piece rates.
“Amazon has a specific kind of problem that stems from its obsession with metrics, and because of technological advantages, their surveillance regime is about as good as it can get,” Kaoosji says. “They’re surveilling employees to watch exactly what they’re doing and how quickly they’re moving.”
That kind of constant pressure to meet ever higher fulfillment quotas has created a culture at Amazon warehouses where stressed-out employees forgo bathroom breaks or urinate in bottles, out of fear of being disciplined or losing their jobs, according to journalist James Bloodworth, who went undercover in a UK Amazon warehouse, the subject of his new book Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low Wage Britain (Atlantic Books, 2018).
Dangers of the “Lower-archy”
Many warehouse workers are afraid of losing their jobs if they report a safety violation or complain about conditions. Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, co-executive director at National COSH, describes the people who feel least comfortable speaking out, and who are the lowest-paid workers as a “lower-archy.”
“The lower you are, the fewer job options you have, the more that you risk if you speak up about a labor violation—be it health and safety or not being paid—and the less likely you are to feel comfortable speaking up,” Goldstein-Gelb says. “There’s a few factors that make you vulnerable: if you don’t speak English, if you’re younger, if you lack a union, if you’re a temporary worker. If you’re in a day-to-day situation where you could be fired for speaking out, then your life is at risk.”
National COSH and its regional groups are trying to make workplaces safer by training employees on what to look for to assess workplace safety, how to speak up if their workplaces aren’t safe, how to work with unions, and how to talk to communities about the importance of having strong safety laws and standards.
Consumers can help by telling their Congressional representatives to press for adequate staffing at OSHA, Goldstein-Gelb says. This federal agency can make workplaces comply with regulations for worker safety by sending in investigators who cite employers for violations. However, nearly 50 investigator positions have opened up and not been rehired since the beginning of Trump’s presidency. Goldstein-Gelb notes it would take the current number of investigators 140 years to look into all complaints that are on file right now (with no new ones added).
“In the ideal world, employers would simply want to have safe workplaces and do it on their own without any need for enforcement, but too often, we find that employers are cutting corners and trying to make a quick buck at the expense of workers,” Goldstein-Gelb says.
Support Warehouse Workers
Across the country, warehouse workers are organizing for better working conditions. Here’s how you can amplify their efforts:
Support unions. Shopping at stores where the workers are unionized supports fair wages and safer workplaces. Instead of buying groceries at Amazon or Walmart, try union stores like Kroger or Albertson’s. Find one at ufcw.org/grocery. Find union-made products at unionlabel.org.
Shop green and local. Avoid big-box and online retail giants like Amazon when you can, and shop with local, green businesses instead. Find those near you at GreenPages.org. And read our “11 Greener Options Than Amazon.”
Support campaigns at warehouse worker organizations. Stay informed through Warehouse Workers for Justice, the Warehouse Workers Resource Center, and the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health.
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Mike Bloomberg on Gun Control
Mayor of New York City (Independent)
80% of NRA members support background checks
Q: 100 days after the Newtown massacre, the assault weapons ban has been taken out of the Senate bill. Here's what you said right after Newtown:
[Video] BLOOMBERG: The NRA's power is so vastly overrated. The public want to stop this carnage. And if 20 kids isn't enough to convince them, I don't know what would.[End]
Q: Do you fear that the moment that was created by Newtown has been lost?
BLOOMBERG: It would be a great tragedy if it is lost. I am cautiously optimistic. You have an issue where 90% of the public, 80% of NRA members even, say that they think we should have reasonable checks before people are allowed to buy guns--they all support the 2nd Amendment, as do I. But we have to stop the carnage.
Do you think the assault weapons ban is going to pass?
BLOOMBERG: We've been fighting since 2007 to get a vote. And if we were to [pass] background checks only, it wouldn't be as good as if we got both, but we're going to get the vote for sure on assault weapons. Source: Meet the Press 2013 interviews: 2016 presidential hopefuls , Mar 24, 2013
Background checks do work, and should be highest priority
Q: It looks like Congress won't ban assault weapons, but might get better background checks on the sale of these weapons.
BLOOMBERG: The truth of the matter is only about 400 people a year get killed with assault weapons or high-capacity magazines. That is 400 too many, but you compare that to handguns, pistols, this year, are going to kill 12,000 Americans. There are 14 states that have background checks required for all sales. 14 states have closed the federal loophole, and in those 14 states the suicide rate is half the national average and the number of women that get killed in domestic violence is 40% less than in other states. So background checks do work.
Q: Why is it so hard to get the Congress to do it?
BLOOMBERG: Because, up until now, it has only been the NRA that has been talking about guns to the public & to Congress. And I'm trying to level the playing field and bring out the facts. The truth of the matter is the NRA itself, a few years ago, was in favor of background checks. Source: CBS Face the Nation 2013 series: 2016 presidential hopefuls , Mar 10, 2013
2006: Created Mayors Against Illegal Guns; now 600 mayors
In 2006, Menino and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg created Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a coalition that advocates for stricter gun-control laws and now includes more than 600 mayors from 40 states. Menino touted the Boston's recent success in this area, telling reporters that police have taken more than 360 illegal guns off the streets. Source: Alex Katz in Boston Globe, "Stricter Checks" , Nov 15, 2011
Sued out-of-state gun dealers for selling illegally in NYC
Building on his first term, Bloomberg broadened his scope and once again thought big and bold. He sued out-of-state gun dealers, accusing them of illegally selling handguns that were later used to commit crimes in NYC. He did battle against weak federal gun laws, created a national coalition of mayors to fight illegal weapons -useful to raise awareness, although really effective gun control demands national legislation.
His suits were often settled and drew the fury of the National Rifle Association, whose magazine pictured the mayor as a menacing octopus and held a "Bloomberg Gun Giveaway" to help dealers pay the legal fees defending against Bloomberg's lawsuits. His demonization by the NRA was priceless in liberal NY. Source: Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics, by J.Purnick, p.158-159 , Sep 28, 2010
Enact common-sense measures to keep guns away from criminals
Gillibrand used to irritate liberals. On the day she was appointed to the Senate, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg attacked her opposition to gun control: "She has actively opposed the efforts of New York City, and cities around the state and nation, to enact common-sense measures that keep illegal guns out of the hands of criminals. For instance, she has voted to keep critical data needed to track illegal gun traffickers from law enforcement, has voted to tie the hands of the ATF, and has also voted to protect dealers who sell guns illegally."
But as a new senator, Gillibrand was transformed from a rabid opponent of gun control--with a 100% rating from the National Rifle Association--to a cosponsor of gun control legislation. In 2007, she had sponsored a bill to delete background check information after twenty-four hours; now she suddenly voted to repeal her very own bill. Source: Take Back America, by Dick Morris, p.183 , Apr 13, 2010
Put the issue of illegal guns back on the national agenda
This year, we�ll also use technology to fight the #1 public safety threat in our city--and in all cities: illegal guns. Our bi-partisan coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns has put the issue of illegal guns back on the national agenda--beating back federal legislation that would have made it easier to traffic in illegal guns. Convincing the federal ATF to release some of the critical trace data our officers need to track the flow of guns across state lines. Source: 2008 State of the City Address , Jan 17, 2008
2nd Amendment doesn�t prevent keeping guns from criminals
Illegal guns is an example of cities leading where Washington has not. Those in Washington prefer talk to action. On illegal guns, they extol the virtues of the Second Amendment, but let�s get serious: protecting the Second Amendment does not stop you from keeping illegal guns out of the hands of criminals. It�s just a political duck-and-cover that allows legislators to escape responsibility for fixing a serious problem and innocent people--and police officers--are dying as a result. Source: Keynote Address to the US Conference of Mayors , Nov 2, 2007
Founder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Bloomberg is a strong advocate of gun control and made it a major issue of his administration in his second inaugural address. Bloomberg once said, �I don�t know why people carry guns. Guns kill people.� Bloomberg is also a co-chair and founder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, an organization of 210 mayors who claim to work only towards eradicating the use of illegal firearms by criminals. Source: Wikipedia.org entry, �Michael_Bloomberg� , May 2, 2007
It�s not about gun control, it�s about crime control
Every day, nearly 30 people are murdered in the US. We ask ourselves, what can be done to stop this kind of gun violence? As mayor, I have asked myself that question many times. In NYC, we�ve cut murders by 40%. The fact is that most crimes are committed with illegal weapons--and that is where the new gun debate is, or at least should be, centered. In New York, we aggressively go after these guns, but no city can stop the flow of illegal firearms alone. These are national problems that require national leadership.
Unfortunately, in recent years, combating gun crime hasn�t been a priority of this Justice Department or Congress. Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1% of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn�t the federal government going after them?
There�s common ground on this issue for anyone who is willing to look at it honestly, not ideologically. This isn�t about gun control. It�s about crime control. Source: By Michael Bloomberg in Newsweek: �The Changing Gun Debate� , Apr 30, 2007
Sued New York City gun dealers to control guns
Bloomberg supports gun control, has raised taxes, backs same-sex marriage and signed a law banning the use of trans fats in fast-food restaurants. The mayor once filed suit on behalf of the city against two dozen gun dealers. Source: Michael D. Shear, Washington Post, p. A1 on 2008 election , Mar 25, 2007
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WEDNESDAY WORDS! TOP 20 BOOKS OF THE WEEK!
HEROIC TIMES Top 20 Books list is a new weekly installment that ranks the 20 most interesting, intriguing books of the week (old, new, reissues, digital, etc). Contributors represent a variety of genres and sources. Each book includes Title and publisher blurb.
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Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister Brain [Hardcover] by A. Lee Martinez- Emperor Mollusk- Intergalactic Menace. Destroyer of Worlds. Conqueror of Other Worlds. Mad Genius. Ex-Warlord of Earth.Not bad for a guy without a spine.But what’s a villain to do after he’s done . . . everything. With no new ambitions, he’s happy to pitch in and solve the energy crisis or repel alien invaders should the need arise, but if he had his way, he’d prefer to be left alone to explore the boundaries of dangerous science. Just as a hobby, of course.
Retirement isn’t easy though. If the boredom doesn’t get him, there’s always the Venusians. Or the Saturnites. Or the Mercurials. Or . . . well, you get the idea. If that wasn’t bad enough, there’s also the assassins of a legendary death cult and an up-and-coming megalomaniac (as brilliant as he is bodiless) who have marked Emperor for their own nefarious purposes. But Mollusk isn’t about to let the Earth slip out of his own tentacles and into the less capable clutches of another. So it’s time to dust off the old death ray and come out of retirement. Except this time, he’s not out to rule the world. He’s out to save it from the peril of THE SINISTER BRAIN!
And Their Memory Was a Bitter Tree – As one of the three most important American pulp fantasy authors of the 1930s (with Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith), Robert E. Howard captivated readers with his indomitable, battle-scarred barbarian hero Conan. Though Howard’s life ended prematurely in 1936 at the age of 30, Conan lives on as one of the genre’s most enduring icons. This beautifully designed collection contains nine essential Conan stories along with a full-length Conan novel. Also included is The Hyborean Age, Howard’s fascinating history of the raw, blood-drenched world Conan inhabited, an alternative Earth that preceded Tolkien’s Middle Earth. And Their Memory Was a Bitter Tree features a color map of this realm and an interior painting by cult artist Brom, along with a series of Frank Frazetta’s seminal Conan paintings, appearing for the first time with the stories for which they were created.
Creepy Presents Richard Corben [Hardcover]- Over 300-pages of timeless terror from a master storyteller! Horror comics visionary and coloring pioneer Richard Corben has been a voice of creativity and change for over four decades. For the first time ever, Corben’s legendary Creepy and Eerie short stories and cover illustrations are being collected into one deluxe hardcover! With an informative foreword by artist and comic-book colorist Jose Villarrubia – who also provides color restoration – this volume features Richard Corben’s original stories, Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, and collaborations with comic-book writers Bruce Jones, Bill DuBay, Doug Moench, Gerald Conway, and others! – I love the art and stories of Richard Corben, particularly from this period. And to have 300 pages of it collected in one place in Hardcover format? Sign me up. The output of Dark Horse Publishing continues to be top notch and abundant. And this is another winner from them..
Caravaggio: The Complete Works – Hardcover: 306 pages. Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc (December 1, 2009)Language: English, ISBN-10: 383650183X, ISBN-13: 978-3836501835, Product Dimensions: 19 x 13 x 2.2 inches
Negative Space – As an artistic device, ?negative space? refers to an artist?s rendering of a subject by relying on the space that surrounds the subject to provide shape and meaning. Of course, the term also refers to any topic that conjures feelings of unease and discomfort. Furthering the partnership begun with the publication of Guess Who? internationally acclaimed illustrator Noma Bar has compiled his newest collection of work, Negative Space.
Art of the Modern Movie Poster: International Postwar Style and Design [Hardcover]- Critically authoritative, visually stunning, and physically massive, Art of the Modern Movie Poster is the first and last word on post-WWII film poster design. Showcasing fascinating examples from 15 nations, this collection of more than 1,500 exemplary designs is a must-have for film buffs, design and poster aficionados alike. The posters are organized by country of origin, offering an intriguing glimpse into each region’s unique visual sensibility and sometimes unexpected takes on familiar films. Gathered from the renowned collection of the Posteritati Gallery in New Yorkone of the largest holdings of international film posters in the worldthis volume is the definitive survey of both film and popular graphic art in the modern era.
Black Seas of Infinity: The Best of H.P. Lovecraft [Hardcover]- The book is 536 pgs and contains 19 stories. Also includes the following: Introduction by editor Andrew Wheeler by Lovecraft. Appendix A-History of the Necronomicon by Lovecraft. Appendix B-Notes on Writing Weird Fiction by Lovecraft. Appendix C-Some Notes on Nonentity. Appendix D: Chronology of the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
Parallel Tracks: The Railroad and Silent Cinema – In wide-ranging and provocative analyses of dozens of silent films—icons of film history like The General and The Great Train Robbery as well as many that are rarely discussed—Kirby examines how trains and rail travel embodied concepts of spectatorship and mobility grounded in imperialism and the social, sexual, and racial divisions of modern Western culture. This analysis at the same time provides a detailed and largely unexamined history of the railroad in silent filmmaking. Kirby also devotes special attention to the similar ways in which the railroad and cinema structured the roles of men and women. As she demonstrates, these representations have had profound implications for the articulation of gender in our culture, a culture in some sense based on the machine as embodied by the train and the camera/projector. Ultimately, this book reveals the profound and parallel impact that the railroad and the cinema have had on Western society and modern urban industrial culture. Parallel Tracks will be eagerly awaited by those involved in cinema studies, American studies, feminist theory, and the cultural study of modernity.
Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology [Paperback] by Milton J. Davis (Editor), Charles R. Saunders (Editor)- Publication Date: August 7, 2011- Magic. Myth. Warfare. Wonder. Beauty. Bravery. Glamour. Gore. Sorcery. Sensuality. These and many more elements of fantasy await you in the pages of Griots, which brings you the latest stories of the new genre called Sword and Soul. The tales told in Griots are the annals of the Africa that was, as well as Africas that never were, may have been, or should have been. They are the legends of a continent and people emerging from shadows thrust upon them in the past. They are the sagas sung by the modern heirs of the African story-tellers known by many names – including griots. Here, you will meet mighty warriors, seductive sorceresses, ambitious monarchs, and cunning courtesans. Here, you will journey through the vast variety of settings Africa offers, and inspires. Here, you will savor what the writings of the modern-day griots have to offer: journeys through limitless vistas of the imagination, with a touch of color and a taste of soul.
Omens [Hardcover]Richard Gavin- Omens is a collection of twelve haunting tales by Richard Gavin, whose work is reminiscent of the subtle supernatural tales of Robert Aickman, and also of the eerie and unsettling tales of Thomas Ligotti. — I like collections. I think the short story format can, when done well, offer variety and freshness, that can sometimes be hard to sustain over the course of a novel. Some of our most acclaimed writers, those who remain relevant generations on, Poe, Lovecrat, Howard, etc., do so because of their short stories. Because of their ability to in scant words get to the heart of a story and of ourselves. Richard Gavin does that in these stories, that while it has beeen alluded to Aickman or Ligotti, the stories are more visceral than Aickman and more satisfying than Ligotti, are uniquely Richard Gavin.
An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers [Paperback]- This book offers a sneak peak into the wildly creative imaginations of 50 top illustrators, designers and artists. Included are sketchbook pages from R. Crumb, Chris Ware, James Jean, James Kochalka, and many others. In addition, author Danny Gregory has interviewed each artist and shares their thoughts on living the artistic life through journaling. Watch artists – through words and images – record the world they see and craft the world as they want it to be. The pages of An Illustrated Life are sometimes startling, sometimes endearing, but always inspiring. Whether you’re an illustrator, designer, or simply someone searching for inspiration, these pages will open a whole new world to you.
The Green Hornet Chronicles [Paperback]- Introducing the long-awaited return of the Green Hornet and Kato, and their rolling arsenal, the Black Beauty! With his faithful valet Kato, Britt Reid, daring young publisher, matches wits with the Underworld, risking his life so that criminal and racketeers within the law may feel its weight by the sting of the Green Hornet. Featuring stories by the likes of Harlan Ellison, Greg Cox, and Robert Greenberger, The Green Hornet Chronicles is the first anthology featuring all-new, original crime fiction tales of the man who hunts the biggest of all game – public enemies that even the FBI can’t reach! — Harlan Ellison writing a Green Hornet story? Wrap it up, I’ll take it! 🙂
Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes [Hardcover]- Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes is the first-ever original novel set in the continuity of the classic 1968 movie. Conspiracy tells the story of what happened between the scenes of the first film, exploring the adventures of the Astronaut John Landon, Chimpanzee scientists Dr. Milo and Dr. Galen, and Gorilla Security Chief Marcus. Written by Andrew E.C. Gaska, and adapted from a story by Gaska, Rich Handley, Christian Berntsen and Erik Matthews, the book contains illustrations from the top talents in the industry, including: Jim Steranko, Andrew Probert, Timothy Lantz, Joe Jusko, Mark Texeira, Dave Dorman, Chris Scalf, Brian Rood, Chandra Free, Dan Dussault, Ken W. Kelly, Colo, David Hueso, Miki, Matt Busch, Dirk Shearer, Barron Storey, David Seidman, Sanjulian, Chris Moeller, Thomas Scioli, Scott Hampton, Leo Liebleman, Lucas Graciano, Erik Gist, and Patricio Carbajal.– Again not a PLANET OF THE APES devotee, but I’ve heard great things about this series, and the list of artists alone makes it worth a buy.
Wally Wood’s EC Stories Hardcover (Artist Edition, Volume 1) – IDW proudly presents WALLY WOOD’S EC STORIES: ARTIST’S EDITION, collecting more than a dozen complete stories by the great Wally Wood, plus an exceptional cover gallery. Each page is scanned from the original art, same size as drawn, and in full color (in insure the best possible reproduction). Since Wood’s originals were larger than modern size comic art, measuring 12 x 18 inches, plus the paper, this Artist’s Edition will be a GIGANTIC 15 x 22 inches! –
Okay I admit this installment is a bit artbook heavy, but these are what are galvanizing my attention this week. And the funny thing about artbooks is they have the annoying habit of selling out. IDW has released other books in their ‘Artist’s Edition’ series, I have no interest in them. But this… It’s over a 100 pages of Wally Wood’s scifi horror artwork of the 1950s.. at full size. Duh! Can you say no brainer? Outside of buying the original artwork for thousands per page, you’re not likely to see this. It’s an easy contender for art-book or art collectible of the year. The first printing is sold out, but IDW is releasing a new printing this June. At $125 it’s not cheap, but considering the first printing sold out in a matter of weeks and was commanding nearly $300, $125 isn’t looking that expensive. :). You can pre-order here or if you can’t wait till June get a first printing here: Wally Wood’s EC Stories Hardcover (Artist Edition, Volume 1)
Cédric Delsaux: Dark Lens [Hardcover]- In Dark Lens, Delsaux transports Darth Vader and the whole gamut of Star Wars iconography to a post-apocalyptic, urban-suburban landscape of endless parking lots, highrises and wasteland interzones, vacant of ordinary human life. Delsaux’s “mythology of banality” (as he describes it) produces images that are not just funny or preposterous, but also weirdly compelling; in their photographic plausibility they successfully incorporate Star Wars into an everyday reality that we can all recognize, but in ways that make both worlds seem strangely real and absurdly false. Delsaux’s Dark Lens will captivate both film and photobook fans alike with its fantastically bizarre recasting of Star Wars on planet Earth after the apocalypse.–I don’t own a single Star Wars book. I’m not really a Star Wars guy. I like the movies well enough, but that’s as far as it goes. I’m not interested in making a mythology of them. So typically, most merchandising or books etc, I could care less. But this book works as an art book first, which is why I like it.
THE JAMES BOND OMNIBUS by Ian Fleming – James Bond, the world’s most famous secret agent, has thrilled audiences for over fifty years with his globe-trotting adventures. THE JAMES BOND OMNIBUS collects eleven of Ian Fleming’s original daily comic strips for the very first time in a mammoth omnibus edition.
DILLON AND THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN BELL by Derrick Ferguson – The author of The Nuclear Suitcase, Joel Jenkins, describes Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell as “James Bond meets Cthulhu” and you’ll want to check out this heady mixture of the spy thriller and horror genres.
THE ARTIST WITHIN by Greg Preston – The culmination of more than fifteen years of photography by renowned photographer Greg Preston, this book is a living history of the men and women who have shaped the imaginations of countless millions of people around the world through their work in the fields of animated cartoons, comic books, comic strips and editorial cartooning. The list of more than two hundred artists includes such luminaries as Frank Miller, Al Hirschfeld, Joe Barbera, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Moebius, Walter and Louise Simonson and many more, all in photographs exclusive and shot expressly for this book.
ATLAS OF HUMAN ANATOMY AND SURGERY by Jean-Marie Le Minor – Anatomically correct We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797?1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ever published in any language. In 1830, having received his doctorate in medicine three years prior, Bourgery began work on his magnificent atlas in cooperation with illustrator Nicolas Henri Jacob (1782?1871), a student of the French painter Jacques Louis David. The first volumes were published the following year, but completion of the treatise required nearly two decades of dedication. 15.5 lbs and 19.2″ x 12.6″ x 3.5″.714pgs.
THE SHADOWS GALLERY by L.R. Giles – You’ve been invited to the opening of a grand exhibition, a show unlike any you’ve ever seen. Inside you might find your greatest joy or your worst fear on display. But be warned, it can be difficult to tell which is which when you’re looking through the shadows… Award-winning author L.R. Giles brings forth a collection of tales that take you to the limits of imagination and beyond.
Well gals and guys hope you enjoyed that.
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WEDNESDAY WORDS: TOP 20 BOOKS OF THE WEEK #2!
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The Complete Slayers: Fast One and the Complete Short Stories of Paul Cain [Hardcover]- This collection features the novel Fast One and the complete short fiction written by Paul Cain for Black Mask and other pulps. This is the first time that many of them have been collected in book format. Lynn Myers and Max Alan Collins have written an outstanding introduction with new research into Cain’s life. – It hurts me to list this, for the simple fact I haven’t bought my 2nd copy yet, and I know you guys are going to jump on this like rabid dogs, and it will be all sold out. Oh well. ‘I am a river to my people’. 🙂
[the first person who contacts me with what film that quote comes from wins a hardcover copy of Valerie Wilson Wesley’s EASIER TO KILL Mystery novel, use the contact form, put ‘contest’ and it won’t get posted, but will come right to me. :)]
Korean Eye: Contemporary Korean Art [Paperback]- The most influential and significant work on Korean contemporary art and artists to date. Following the huge success of Korean Eye: Moon Generation, the first international exhibition of Korean contemporary art, Skira publishes a book featuring sixty of Korea’s most renowned contemporary artists, selected by a curatorial team which consists of a mix of Korean and international art curators. The book also includes background information on the art scene in Korea and references to the major art fairs, symposia, exhibitions, galleries, museums, and events throughout the year.
ECHO NOUVEAU The Art and Life of a Working Girl: 1995-2010 [Hardcover]- This book is much more than a collection of fifteen years of artwork by the renowned and award winning art nouveau advertising illustrator, Echo Chernik. In this book, Echo answers the question “What’s it like to be an advertising illustrator?” She addresses the topics of portfolio creation, contract negotiation, and the process involved in becoming a successful commercial artist. As an instructor of Graphic Design and Illustration at Pratt Institute and Skidmore CCI, and one of the industry’s most in-demand advertising illustrators, Echo has designed this book not only as a collection of previously uncompiled illustrations, but also as a conduit for dispensing years of accumulated knowledge and advice to fledgling and hopeful young illustrators. Through a stunning visual tour of published works, Echo divulges hints and tips on how to navigate the business. She also shares often humourous stories about working on individual projects. The Studio of Echo Chernik is the combined efforts of Echo and Lazarus Chernik, both graduates of Pratt institute in New York. Echo’s clients have included over the years: Trek Bicycles, Miller, Camel, Coors, Nascar, Mattel, The Bellagio Casino, Celestial Seasonings Teas, Sears, K-Mart, Arlo Guthrie, The Dave Matthews Band, and many more. Echo has been the recipient of numerous “Best In…” awards, Gold awards, Silver awards, Cover awards and Fan Favorite awards, including HP’s Best In Show. Echo has also been featured in three publications of Spectrum to date. —It was seeing her lavish and lovely, exquisite even, drawings in the annual SPECTRUM art collection that made me interested in this book. She’s a staggering artist.
Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War [Paperback]- Beginning in prehistoric times and building toward a near and disturbing future, the reader is taken on a journey of innovation and depravity. Award-winning science writer Jeffrey A. Lockwood begins with the development of “bee bombs” in the ancient world and explores the role of insect-borne disease in changing the course of major battles, ranging from Napoleon’s military campaigns to the trenches of World War I. He explores the horrific programs of insect warfare during World War II: airplanes dropping plague-infested fleas, facilities rearing tens of millions of hungry beetles to destroy crops, and prison camps staffed by doctors testing disease-carrying lice on inmates. The Cold War saw secret government operations involving the mass release of specially developed strains of mosquitoes on an unsuspecting American public–along with the alleged use of disease-carrying and crop-eating pests against North Korea and Cuba. Lockwood reveals how easy it would be to use of insects in warfare and terrorism today: In 1989, domestic ecoterrorists extorted government officials and wreaked economic and political havoc by threatening to release the notorious Medfly into California’s crops. A remarkable story of human ingenuity–and brutality–Six-Legged Soldiers is the first comprehensive look at the use of insects as weapons of war, from ancient times to the present day.
Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes – Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions of black racial identity and symbolic political meaning are presented. Adilifu Nama sees the value–and finds new avenues for exploring racial identity–in black superheroes who are often dismissed as sidekicks, imitators of established white heroes, or are accused of having no role outside of blaxploitation film contexts. – I hate the term African American, so not having that in the title predisposes me to like this book. Add discourse on superheroes (how the heck does Marvel and DC trademark that term?) and myth building and I’m there. 🙂
RADIOACTIVE:MARIE & PIERRE CURIE: A TALE OF LOVE AND FALLOUT – In the century since the Curies began their work, we’ve struggled with nuclear weapons proliferation, debated the role of radiation in medical treatment, and pondered nuclear energy as a solution to climate change. In Radioactive, Lauren Redniss links these contentious questions to a love story in 19th Century Paris…Whether young or old, scientific novice or expert, no one will fail to be moved by Lauren Redniss’s eerie and wondrous evocation of one of history’s most intriguing figures.
DREAMSCAPES 2010: CONTEMPORARY IMAGINARY REALISM – Publication Date: April 28, 2011 | ISBN-10: 9490668028 | ISBN-13: 978-9490668020 The greatest practitioners of imaginary realism are presented in this lavish overview of dreamy, surreal and beguiling paintings and sculptures! This large-scale, beautifully produced book features artwork by modern favorites like Michael Parkes, Daniel Merriam, Kinuko Y. Craft and many others. Vibrant paintings feature psychedelic dreamscapes populated by fairies, nymphs, gods and golems. Loaded with symbolism and often jarringly original, this showcases the best fantasy artists working today.Buy Direct from Publisher Here.
FULL DARK, NO STARS by Stephen King – Like Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which generated such enduring films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, Full Dark, No Stars proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.
SHERLOCK HOLMES CONSULTING DETECTIVE Vol III – The Baker Street Sleuth returns in five new original mysteries told in the classic style of Arthur Conan Doyle. Here are tales by Aaron Smith, Ian Watson, Joshua Reynolds and Andrew Smith guaranteed entertain any mystery fan. Throw on your deerstalker cap and load your pistols, there’s murder and mayhem about and the game is afoot once more.
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WEDNESDAY WORDS: TOP 20 BOOKS OF THE WEEK #1
HEROIC TIMES Top 20 Books list is a new weekly installment that ranks the 20 most interesting/intriguing books of the week (old, new, reissues, digital, etc). Contributors represent a variety of genres and sources. Each book includes Title and publisher blurb.
Open City: A Novel by Teju Cole- A masterful command of narrative voice distinguishes a debut novel that requires patience and rewards it.
THE PRAGUE CEMETERY by Umberto Eco – Publication Date: November 8, 2011- Nineteenth-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to the notorious forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if, behind all of these conspiracies both real and imagined, lay just one man? What if that evil genius created the most infamous document of all?
THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins: Girl takes sister’s place in a real world survivor game in a post-apocalyptic U.S.. (P, Scholastic)
THE STREETLETHAL OMNIBUS by Steven Barnes – Rumors alone of a collected omnibus edition containing the entire acclaimed three part STREET LETHAL series (similar to the excellently designed Chester Himes HARLEM CYCLE omnibus), hitting shelves soon is reason enough for this sci-fi/action-adventure classic to make anyone’s list.
SAUL BASS by Jennifer Bass, Pat Kirkham – This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th Century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work. With more than 1,400 illustrations, many of them never published before and written by the leading design historian Pat Kirkham, this is the definitive study that design and film enthusiasts have been eagerly anticipating.
THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES: A Novel – by Roberto Bolaño In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes–the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself–on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.
ASSUMPTION A NOVEL by Percival Everett – A wild ride to the heart of a baffling mystery, Assumption is a literary thriller like no other.
MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN by Ransom Riggs. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.
THE MORNING AFTER by David Drebin(English, German, French, Italian and Spanish Edition) – A talented photographer without equal, David Drebin is above all a storyteller. His brooding and glamorous works tell tales of lust and voyeurism–as well as seduction and escape. Not afraid to be daring, Drebin also tantalizes us with subtle allusions. His sweeping cinematic images feature the majestic backdrops of such world cities as Berlin, Paris and Rio de Janeiro. These photographs pulse with a charged sensuality, using color and light to maximum effect. Dangerous seductresses play a central role in Drebin’s work. Bursts of saturated Technicolor explode against stone and gray cement. In this, he hints at Hitchcock at his finest. We’re left with a tinge of regret amid the sensual excess.
Use Once, Then Destroy USE ONCE, THEN DESTROY by Conrad Williams- In this spellbinding collection of his best stories from the last ten years, award-winning writer Conrad Williams offers the kind of horrors that move subtly into you, like pain, or love, or regret. They are stories that explore the scarred outposts of desperation and desire, sickness and death, sex and decay. Within these pages you will also find the acclaimed novella Nearly People.
EXILES FROM A FUTURE TIME: TRINITY OF PASSION: THE FORGING OF THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERARY LEFT – With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.S. Literary Left from the 1920s through the 1960s. Exiles from a Future Time, the first volume of a trilogy, focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. Exploring writers’ intimate lives and heartfelt political commitments, Wald draws on original research in scores of archives and personal collections of papers; correspondence and interviews with hundreds of writers and their friends and families; and a treasure trove of unpublished memoirs, fiction, and poetry… Focusing on the formation of the tradition and the organization of the Cultural Left, Wald investigates the “elective affinity” of its avant-garde poets, the “Afro-cosmopolitanism” of its Black radical literary movement, and the uneasy negotiation between feminist concerns and class identity among its women writers.
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BLODSGARD – Monument
Wait. Are you sure I got the right album. This is black metal. I thought I was suppose to get the power metal / melodic death pack. No, I’m not complaining. Actually, this is wonderful.
While the majority of albums reviewed on this site fall in line with the epic/melodic/power/symphonic crowd, there have been exceptions. Most were the product of blackmail and high ransom, but that is not the point. I mean, how did you think Paysage D’hiver got here. Though the concept of black metal is pretty far from what is considered epic, its execution could silently and undeniably hit the point. Take the first release from Norwegian’s Blosgard and whatever charts and graphs you could possibly need and tell me I am right.
Monument is a sturdy full length after three or so demos that you probably haven’t heard of. Despite this misstep, Monument comes on the wings of mid-fi black metal similar to bands like Absu and Marduk. Whenever I use the term “mid-fi black metal” it always sounds like a criticism despite the absolute charm in hearing drums and depth in the low end. Black metal has many qualities and Bodsgard’s Monument is another decent entry in the ever growing mid range of the style. It retains edges of raw power but never forgets about the aesthetic of a well crafted record. True Norwegian Balanced Black Metal.
When I discuss the album’s versatility, I want to point to examples like the album’s title track. For the most part, Monument, the song, lingers in whispers and trailing guitar licks. This whole atmosphere only precedes an organ arrangement and gurgling chants in what sounds like a waterlogged crypt. No where in this song is there any trace of traditional song, rather the title track takes its time in stopping the album midway through to make a spectacle. If there were any doubts about this band and their ability to make mood driven black metal, please allow the hammering sounds of organ sooth you. Monument’s title track represents an important point in the album as it is perhaps the start of the album being interesting and one step beyond adequate.
While the first half of Monument, the album, is nowhere near terrible, the later half is a dream to listen to, often filled with genuine emotion, thematic costume, and effective horror used in dazzling ways. Trading in blast beats for elongated structures, the back half of Monument straddles precariously between bizarre and stunning. “Svart Blod Flyter” is filled with Gothic cantering, leaning against a doomed landscape while “Kaoskonstruksjon” is a traditional black metal track with almost 10 times the ferocity of the first half. By the end of the record one thinks how in the world they ended up here.
Monument’s success rests in not only its effective execution but its ability to surprise the hell out if its listener. The end and the beginning come from two separate worlds but they both meet somewhere in the middle. I finally get why I had to listen to this record and why it belongs on this site. Congratulations gentlemen, you moved me to tears. Well, water filled gasps at the bottom of said subterranean crypt. Same thing.
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RUNNING WILD – Resilient
Casual Magic: The Philosophy of Group Hug
APSULOV: End of Gods
The Lord Weird Slough Feg – New Organon
The Hobbit – The Desolation of Smaug
KAMELOT – Haven
Fantastic Dreams: The Immersive World of Verminaard
Probably Archery
DARK FORTRESS – Venerial Dawn
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VOIVOD – Target Earth
By Jeff K
The innovative Canadian quartet known as Voivod faced almost insurmountable odds going into the creation of their newest release, “Target Earth”. To begin with, the band had expended the last of founding guitarist Denis D’Amour’s leftover recordings during the creation of their 2009 release “Infini”. These demos, recorded by Denis prior to his departure from this world in 2005, were, admittedly, not really indicative of the “classic” Voivod sound, but to many people he was the man most responsible for that sound and a Voivod without him was inconceivable. Additionally, the band had been struggling with lineup changes and aimless genre experimentation for almost two decades. This is to say nothing of the band’s age, of course. Voivod were a band in the twilight of their career, or so I thought.
It became clear to me quite soon that the band was aware of the stakes and was serious about proving themselves. The band wastes little time unleashing the full scope of their late-80s arsenal upon the listener, leaping between disparate tech-metal outbursts during the opening title-track before settling into an uneasy 6/8 and some apprehensive groans of “a few more hours…” from Denis Bélanger. “Kluskap O’Kom” answers “Target Earth”s disorder with a relentless, pummeling drum line from Michel Langevin, the band’s only constant member. The song is notably simpler but no less powerful, and Denis sounds genuinely desperate and paranoid as he snarls lyrics about “running in the woods”. Perhaps even more impressive than their demented thrashing on this album is the way they handle the quieter textures in songs like “Warchaic” and “Resistance”. The band sounds hungry again, perhaps due to the return of original bassist Jean-Yves Thériault and the involvement of their new guitarist, Daniel Mongrain. The Martyr guitarist does an unbelievably good job balancing flawless imitations of D’Amour with his own ideas and delivers blistering guitar solos that almost put the late guitarist to shame.
Like the menacing warrior that adorns the cover, the music of “Target Earth” is precise and powerful. While they do retread some ground on the second half of the album, they demonstrate that they are not has-beens trying to reclaim former glory but, rather, a team of passionate artists who still have something important to say.
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WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM – Celestite
SEPTICFLESH – Codex Omega
DUNGEON SYNTH DIGEST XXX
Dungeon Synth Compilation IV: Artifacts From The Shadow Realm
ALMURIC
TINY BARBARIAN DX
HAMMERFALL – Built To Last
Watchtower IV
Witchlords – Demons in the Dark
CIRITH UNGOL – King of the Dead
Rotting Christ – The Heretics
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2019 Final Words
Each year we sit down with graduating seniors and retiring staff members to get their Final Words. Check back this week as we will add a new one each day during the last week of school.
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Lincoln Southwest High School Graduating Senior
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A sore throat (the second this year and it’s only March) and disturbed sleep, left me decidedly unready to get up at the normal time this morning.
My farmer suggested I stayed in bed and I did.
When I woke two hours later the throat was still sore but I was feeling much more ready to face the day.
Today I’m grateful for the opportunity for extra sleep.
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Soothly – in truth; truly.
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Shearers sharing their skills – Sally Rae:
Ryan MacLean came to New Zealand last year “to learn how to shear a sheep and grow grass”.
The young Scotsman arrived in October to work for a Napier-based shearing contractor before heading south in January to work for Warren White, of Waimate Shearing.
From a sheep and beef farm, Mr MacLean (20) has always wanted to be a farmer and he also enjoyed shearing.
The aim of his New Zealand trip was to increase his tally. . .
Why farmers pay higher interest on loans – Stephen Franks:
Specialist farm lending can be very profitable. Competition does not seem to wipe out the premium farmers tend to pay compared to other mortgage lending. It has puzzled economists from time to time.
Andrew Little’s stupid threats reported on Stuff this morning remind me why good farmers pay too much for their mortgages. I suspect he has just helped ensure more years of super-profits for farm lenders.
I’ve seen no recent study, but the farm sector interest margin was estimated to average over half a percent over many years when I was a lawyer for various farm financing institutions and a director of Wrightson and its finance company arm. . .
Fonterra ‘needs to be good corporate citizen’ – agribusiness professor:
Waikato University professor of agribusiness Jacqueline Rowarth says farmers are concerned about the way Fonterra is treating the suppliers. Prof Rowarth says the farmers want their co-operative to be a good corporate citizen.
There have been suggestions that by cutting supply costs, Fonterra will be able to fund additional interest-free loans for farmers.
“This is ridiculous. Farmers do not want an interest-free loan,” says Prof Rowarth. “They want Fonterra to do a good job as a corporate citizen, as a marketing and processing arm, for its good product.” . .
No Bailouts – Offsetting Behaviour:
Low dairy prices bite harder in New Zealand than elsewhere; dairy is a bigger part of our economy than it is elsewhere.
And so pressure for bailouts is potentially larger here than elsewhere. And so today’s “Things I love about New Zealand”: our Finance Minister’s response to dairy prices: . .
Riding the milk roller coaster:
Dairy farmers are being urged to take a second look at their budgets against the background of a plummeting payout.
Fonterra now is forecasting a $3.90 payout per kg of milksolids, $1.75 below the average cost of production, and there’s fears that next season may be just as bad.
Farmers, who have already gone through their budgets to make savings, are being urged to get together with one another and farm consultants, to see what else they can trim.
Dairy farmers who move now stand more of a chance of riding out the milk roller coaster’s latest descent further into the trough, said Hayden Dillon New Zealand’s head of corporate agribusiness for accounting and advisory firm Crowe Horwath. . .
Predicted Growth Will Provide Challenges for Marlborough Wine Industry:
The Marlborough wine industry is so optimistic about the future that predictions are for an increase in producing vineyards of nearly 25 percent in the next four years.
But with that growth will come challenges, according to a Wine Marlborough, New Zealand Winegrowers, and Marlborough District Council labour market survey.
Undertaken last year, the survey shows that the industry is set to grow by 6,444 hectares by 2019/2020. Currently Marlborough has a total production area of 23,619 hectares, the predicted growth will take those productive hectares up to 29,270 – a 24 percent increase. . .
Fourth Grand Finalist Confirmed in FMG Young Farmer of the Year:
Tony Dowman is the fourth Grand Finalist to be named in the 2016 FMG Young Farmer of the Year.
Tony is a 30 year old Farm Business Manager who took first place at the East Coast Regional Final in Dannevirke on 12 March.
Mr Dowman went home with a prize pack worth over $10,000 including cash, scholarships and products and services from FMG, Massey University, Ravensdown, Meridian Energy, AGMARDT, Silver Fern Farms, Honda, STIHL and Vodafone. Tony also won the Massey University Agri-growth Challenge, Silver Fern Farms Agri-sports Challenge and the Ravensdown Agri-Skills Challenge.
The last time Tony competed in the Contest was in 2012. . .
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Farmers don’t want return to subsidies
Finance Minister Bill English has ruled out a Government bailout for struggling farmers to prevent widespread foreclosures.
“The Government has in place a system for dealing with hardship because you are going to see, for a small number of dairy farming families, some real distress.”
That is appropriate, a bailout isn’t.
The Government’s role was to provide a stable framework, such as low interest rates and favourable changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA), he said.
The dairy downturn is a short term problem. A stable framework provides a long term foundation which enables businesses to survive and prosper.
“If the opposition want to support the dairy industry they should vote for the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) and the changes in the RMA.” . .
These won’t alleviate the short term pain of the low milk price but they will improve the medium to long term outlook.
Opposition MPs have other ideas:
Labour leader Andrew Little has called for banks to be “stiff armed” into not forcing dairy farmers off their land, warning that could see more farms fall into overseas ownership.
That is the sort of irresponsible and stupid behaviour you might expect in a banana republic.
Banks and farms are private businesses and government has no business meddling in them.
Some farms were subject to forced sales when the milk payout was above $8.
There will be some now it is so low but that is a matter to be sorted out by the banks, the farmers and their advisers.
His call came amid calculations by the Reserve Bank that in a worst case scenario up to 15 per cent of the $40 billion in dairy farm debt – equivalent to more than $5 billion – could be lost to the banks. . .
That is very much a worst cast scenario.
Predictions in the mid to late 1980s that large numbers of farmers would be forced off their farms were wrong.
Banks knew that a flood of forced sales would depress land and stock values, further eroding equity and making the situation worse for lenders and borrowers.
That hasn’t changed.
A few of the worst cases will end in forced sales and those businesses which haven’t already acted to reduce costs and/or find other income will be on a very tight rein.
But banks will be prepared to let most businesses get through this. When, as it will, the milk price improves they will start addressing structural issues with those businesses which have them.
Something that appears to have escaped Little, is that small businesses which service and supply farms are probably more at risk than farms and no-one is suggesting they be bailed out.
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Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight. – Emily Murphy who was born on this day in 1868.
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March 14 in history
44 BC – Casca and Cassius decided, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
313 – Emperor Jin Huidi was executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
1381 – Chioggia concluded an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice.
1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sold her kingdom to Venice.
1590 Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeated the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
1647 Thirty Years’ War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden signed the Truce of Ulm.
1681 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer, was born (d. 1767).
1757 Admiral John Byng was executed by firing squad, on-board the HMS Monarch, for neglecting his duty.
1794 Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1804 – Johann Strauss, Sr., Austrian composer, was born (d. 1849).
1833 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first female dentist in the United States, was born (d. 1910).
1844 – King Umberto I of Italy, was born (d. 1900).
1864 – Casey Jones, American railroad engineer, was born (d. 1900).
1868 – Emily Murphy, Canadian women’s rights activist, first female magistrate in the British Empire, was born (d 1933).
1869 – Defeat of Titokowaru.
1879 – Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, was born (d. 1955).
1900 The Gold Standard Act was ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
1903 The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, was ratified by the United States Senate.
1905 Chelsea Football Club was founded.
1910 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
1914 – Bill Owen, British actor, was born (d. 1999).
1915 Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing theBattle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden was abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
1933 – Sir Michael Caine, British actor, was born.
1936 – Sir Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer, was born.
1939 Slovakia declared independence under German pressure.
1942 Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
1945 World War II – The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
1945 – Walter Parazaider, American saxophonist (Chicago), was born.
1947 – Pam Ayres, British poet, was born.
1948 – Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian, was born.
1951 Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recaptured Seoul.
1958 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco, was born.
1964 A jury in Dallas, Texas found Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1968 – Megan Follows, Canadian actress, was born.
1972 Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli was killed by an explosion.
1976 – Daniel Gillies, Canadian born New Zealand actor, was born.
1978 The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
1979 A Hawker Siddeley Trident crashed into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
1980 Split Enz reached No 1 with I Got You from their True Colours album.
1980 A plane crashesd during final approach near Warsaw killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt.
1989 General Michel Aoun declared that he will act for the liberation of Lebanon.
1994 Linux kernel version 1.0.0 was released.
1995 Astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
1998 An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hit southeastern Iran.
2005 Cedar Revolution: hundreds of thousands of Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon and against the government.
2007 – The Left Front government of West Bengal sent at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash left 14 dead.
2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
2012 – The International Criminal Court in The Hague issued its first verdict in the case of Prosecutor vs. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. At issue was the military use of children. Unanimously, the Trial Chamber, led by Sir Adrian Fulford, found Lubanga guilty of the war crime of conscripting and enlisting children under the age of 15 and using them in his rebel army The Union of Congolese Patriots.
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Home Schools High Schools Hoover High Library to host book sale
Hoover High Library to host book sale
The Hoover High School Library is hosting a book sale that will help make way for new furniture, work and charging stations in conjunction with Hoover City Schools’ Engaged Learning Initiative. The sale is open to the public and will last until all books are sold.
Book inventory includes thousands of titles deselected from the library’s catalog as they move to a more digital collection. Shoppers may stop by anytime between 7:45 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. on school days. Hardbacks are $1 and paperbaacks are 25 cents. All proceeds will be reinvested in the library’s program budget.
Hoover High School is located at 1000 Buccaneer Drive, 35244 and can be reached at 439-1242. For more information on the sale, contact School Librarian Sonya Jordan, sojordan@hoover.k12.al.us.
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Afghan Taliban release new video series “Men who have been sincere”
Published By ITCT News Desk On : November 25, 2018
Another U.S. servicemember killed in Afghanistan
Islamic State takes control of a village near Lake Chad
Afghanistan: On Sunday Afghan Taliban’s al-Emarah Studio released the first episode of a new video series titled “Men who have been sincere”.
The first episode of the new Taliban video series is dedicated to Jalaluddin Haqqani of Haqqani Network and features story of his life and jihadi activities. The video has been produced by Taliban’s al-Hijrat Media.
Enterprises, journalists and researchers can request the full video by sending an email at info@itct.org.uk
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by Dave Altavilla — Friday, July 27, 2018, 11:25 AM EDT
Lenovo Smart Display Review: Google Home Assistant Grows A Head And It’s Great
The First Google Smart Display To Put A Head On Google Assistant Lenovo Smart Display Software, Experience And Review Summary
The First Google Smart Display To Put A Head On Google Assistant
The Lenovo Smart display is the first in an assault of Google Assistant-enabled devices set to hit the market this year. They will take on Amazon's Echo Show in a battle for smart home assistant technology, with not only a set of ears, but also a set of eyes and a display face to complete the experience. Priced at $249.99 for a 10-inch version and $199.99 for an 8-inch variant, with identical hardware specs except for the display, these are a new breed of smart home devices that have the potential to give Google and its OEM partners a leg-up on Amazon. Since they're part of the "Android Things" ecosystem, Android users will have direct access to their data and media on Google's many services that are coupled with Android. That tight coupling across platforms and services is one advantage Echo devices can't currently match, except for Amazon's powerful shopping engine of course.
Lenovo Smart Display - 10-Inch With Bamboo Finish
As Amazon's Bezos will attest to, you have to experiment and be willing to fail to innovate. So here we are with the first Google Assistant device with a head on it, you might say. Then again, with AI and search squarely in Google's wheelhouse, devices like the Lenovo Smart Display with Google Assistant seem like more of a natural evolution. And actually, the first device out of the gate feels right at home, so to speak...
Lenovo Smart Display With Google Assistant
Specifications & Features
Find the Lenovo Smart Display At Lenovo.com
Let's talk about the hardware first. The 10-inch Lenovo Smart Display offers an elegant design that some might find a little quirky in spots, but we think will look great on many a kitchen counter or living room end table. The 8-inch version looks similar but instead comes with a soft-touch gray backing that's a bit more subdued. The controls on the device are rather minimalistic, similar to its physical design, in traditional Google form. The intent here is for you to interact with the device audibly, more so than physically.
And there-in lies the first rub, but it's a small one really. There's actually no way to power down the Lenovo Smart Display, unless you physically unplug its small AC adapter from the wall or the back of the unit. And you can't ask Google to just power down. No big deal but an oddity none-the-less. Fortunately, from there, you do have a lot more control over your experience, as well as a few buttons to play with.
There are a set of two dual-array microphones on the edge of the unit that do a really nice job of picking up your commands from across the room or even in an adjacent room. During the course of our testing and producing the video above, we often activated Google Assistant unintentionally from a voice track on a video clip. It works that well but responds to "Hey Google" or "OK Google" only. Anything even remotely close to that was thankfully ignored. Also on board for controls is a volume rocker, as well as both a camera privacy shutter and a microphone mute button, the latter of which, when engaged, Google will let you know "the microphone is muted." All of these simple controls work quite well and give you a sense of privacy, should you not want the help of your beloved robot overlord listening in, or watching for that matter, with its infrared-capable camera that you see blinking in our video demo above.
Quality Visuals And Audio Are Key - Fortunately, That's What You Get
Then there's the display. A smart display wouldn't be too smart if its display wasn't that hot. Thankfully, the 10-inch version sports a crispy 1920x1200 IPS display with a 16:10 aspect ratio. The 8-inch version is strapped with a 1280x800 resolution panel, also at 16:10. From what we've seen, the 10-inch display is vibrant, bright and offers solid viewing angle capabilities at 86º as specified. Since this device is intended to be seen from across the room from various angles, it better perform and thankfully Lenovo's panel is excellent in this regard. It's also reasonably responsive to touch gestures as well. Another nice touch is that Lenovo equips the device with rubber skids on the side edge as well for portrait orientation, with the speaker on the bottom and the display on top. Unfortunately, there are very few apps that operate in this mode currently, including the home screen, but you can at least make Google Duo video calls, in portrait mode. More on this later.
Finally, with respect to audio fidelity, one might surmise that with a single 2-inch driver (1.75-inch in the 8-inch model Smart Display), you can't possibly drive big sound, but that would be a sincere under-estimation. The Lenovo Smart Display in fact can get loud and do so without clipping its amplifier much, if at all. In fact, we were thoroughly impressed with its sound output, volume-wise. From an acoustics standpoint, its performance is also relatively impressive. Highs are crisp and accurate, radiated from a pair of passive tweeters, along with great midrange for vocals. Bass was ever so slightly thin for our liking in spots but generally satisfying as well. Generally speaking, we would describe the Lenovo's Smart Display's sound reproduction as "natural." If you're a fan of big boom bass, that's not here but it doesn't fall short in low-end response either. Regardless, color us impressed, Lenovo. This Smart Display can kick out the jams just fine.
Let's move on to the user interface experience and the current state of the Android Things ecosystem, along with interacting with Google Assistant and Google Home, next...
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Glasgow is Scotland's largest city, a cosmopolitan and modern metropolis with an ornate historical facade. It's an architecture buff's dream, with an array of preserved Victorian and Edwardian buildings to marvel at. Chief among these is the grandiose City Chambers, constructed in the late 19th century in the theatrical Beaux-Arts style.
It certainly serves as a dramatic counterpoint to recent additions to the skyline like the space-age SEC Armadillo auditorium. Once the sun goes down, Glasgow really heats up, with bustling bars and clubs catering to everyone from art school hipsters to real ale connoisseurs.
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Jean went into hiding in 1991 out of fear for her life and the lives of her informants. It’s really pathetic that Doug Thompson not only claims that he’s responsibility for “running Jean Duffey out of the state,” he says 6 years later that it’s his proudest accomplishment as a reporter. If Thompson’s goal is to be a mediocre reporter, he hasn’t gotten there yet. Thompson was interviewed in 1997 by freelance journalist, documentary filmmaker, and book author, Daniel Hopsicker, to whom Thompson proclaimed his fame, but Hopsicker was predictably not impressed. Thompson made it clear just how much contempt he had for Duffey with no regard for journalistic integrity. Immediately after leaving Thompson’s second floor cubical, Hopsicker recorded his recollection of the startling statements Thompson made. Later Hopsicker made the below video clip. Additionally, Hopsicker was so astonished of such behavior from a journalist, he tells about it on talk show appearances. Below the video is the partial transcript of Michael Reagan (President Reagan’s son) interviewing Daniel Hopsicker.
https://idfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Doug-Thompson-Video-Clip-with-Hopsicker.mp4
Michael Reagan Interviews Daniel Hopsicker
Excerpts from Michael Reagan’s interview with Daniel Hopsicker
Reagan: “The Secret Heartbeat of America” is the just completed two hour TV special that may never air in America because of its explosive contents – the courageous crusade of a mother who lost her child. Linda Ives lost her child, and Jean Duffey, an equally courageous prosecuting attorney who wouldn’t let their murders go unsolved.
Let me bring in Daniel Hopsicker. Daniel, tell me about your history because you are the producer-investigative reporter on this . What are your credentials?
Hopsicker: Mike, I’m in the television industry. I produce a business TV show called “Global Business” internationally and on NBC. It has been airing for about 18 months.
I went out to do a pilot for a half hour show called “Conspiracy.” I wanted to do an “In Search of the Paranoid 90s.” And, like In Search of, each show would have an appetizer, a main course and a dessert. The train death was going to be the main course, or the serious story on our pilot half hour episode.
Then I went down to Arkansas and met Mrs. Ives. But, the first thing that happened is that I met Jean Duffey in Houston.
Reagan: Jean Duffey who, I believe, is the deputy District Attorney.
Hopsicker: And she speaks very much as a lawyer speaks, you know what I mean?
Reagan: Yes.
Hopsicker: Very studied in her mannerisms and very deliberate in her speech. OK? So, I interviewed her and the next day I flew into Little Rock (Arkansas) and the first person I see in Little Rock is a reporter with the Arkansas Democrat who had followed the train deaths for seven years.
The first thing the reporter said to me is, looking me straight in the eyes is: “Jean Duffey is crazy. She belongs in an insane asylum.” It was one of the shocking moments of my life. He didn’t know that I had already talked with Jean Duffey when he told me that.
It was one of the most shocking moments of my life, because I realized someone was deliberately lying to me. This was misinformation coming from a reporter who had been friendly to me when I had approached him asking questions.
Reagan: Yeah.
MORE OF THE TRANSCRIPT
Doug Thompson Proves His Continued Loyalty To Dan Harmon
Dan Harmon won Gary Arnold’s position as prosecutor and took office January 1, 1991. Harmon wasted no time orchestrating a smear campaign against Duffey, using Doug Thompson, who was already an experienced member of Team Harmon. The Arkansas Democrat article below was Doug Thompson’s first opportunity to show his continued loyalty to Harmon. Duffey was never contacted to respond to that article, nor any of the nearly 50 other slanderous articles that followed that continued to churn out from Thompson and Lynda Hollenbeck.
Jean Duffey responds to Doug Thompson for the first time:
The above article is the first of more than 50 others that Doug Thompson wrote for the purpose of smearing and discrediting me. I chose to respond to this article because it clearly establishes himself on Team Harmon. I was never contacted by Doug Thompson to respond to any of his articles and I’m not interested in spending time responding now to all of his outright lies. With that said, here’s my response to this one article, which is typical of all the others.
Doug Thompson reports that Harmon said, “There is no room in my administration for Jean Duffey.” Doug Thompson wrote that Harmon said there has not been much prosecution in the district for years, but he couldn’t have been talking about me, because the convictions rates in the courts where I prosecuted increased by almost 30%. Harmon says that I prefer to prosecute animal abuse cases, when in fact of the more than 200 DWI cases I prosecuted with a 90% conviction rate, I only had the opportunity to prosecute 2 animal abuse cases.
Doug Thompson reported that I wasted task force money on automatic rifles and surveillance equipment, when in fact I bought no weapons of any kind and only bought very basic surveillance equipment.
Doug Thompson wrote, “Harmon and Duffey, publicly and often held each other in mutual disdain.” Certainly not true. I had a low stress job prosecuting primarily in municipal and juvenile court and never had reason to get worked up over Harmon, although he touted a puppy mill abuse case I attempted to prosecute. Harmon claims that I had to return all the animals. Again, not true. Municipal Court Judge Pete Lancaster made it clear in a pretrial hearing that he was not going to allow me to try the case and ordered me to return all the dogs. I told him I would not return the puppies and dogs that were critically ill. Lancaster repeated himself, banged his gavel, and said to follow his order by the following Monday or show up in court with my toothbrush. Come Monday, I showed up with my toothbrush and a news reporter who had filmed the raid and the condition of the dogs. Lancaster revised his order for me to “keep the dogs and return the cages to Harmon. That, I did.
Interesting note: When I was finally called to testify before the federal grand jury who were investigating public official corruption in Saline County, U.S. Attorney Chuck Banks only asked me about the animosity I had for Harmon because I had to return the dogs. I was stunned. Did Chuck Banks read Doug Thompson’s article and actually try to impeach me over the puppy mill incident? A grand juror raised his hand and wanted to ask me about things my task force reported. Banks cut him off and told the jurors that I would return for that. I was never called to return.
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Dec 04, 2018 — Rosborg Food Holding, Denmark's largest producer of herbs and miniature plants, uses a collaborative robot in its packaging operations to pick up pots of herbs from a conveyor belt and place them in cartons. The robot is also used to pick up and position cardboard boxes in place for another machine to insert pre-packaged salad
The use of herbs was already common in Babylon about 4,000 years ago. The ancient Egyptians and Greeks developed and refined the cultivation of herbs for the up-and-coming art of healing and as a culinary delicacy. In the 21st century, it is robotic technology that increasingly provides us with herbs as a fragrant, tasty food.
In Odense, Denmark, Rosborg Food Holding’s greenhouses cover around 120,000 square metres. Mint, dill, tarragon and other delicious plants as well as miniature roses thrive in a state-of-the-art production facility. Here, a total of 130 employees produce, pack and sell 28 million herbal plants and 12 million miniature plants, which go by product names such as Gloria Mundi, Økologihaven or Eurostar. The Danish plant breeding company has been producing spices and mini flowers for retail and catering sectors since 1980. However, it can only meet the constantly growing demand for its broad product range subjected to a high degree of seasonality by comprehensive rationalization and automation measures.
Better working conditions with higher productivity
“We are continuously working to improve the productivity and efficiency of our processes,” says Henning Jørgensen, partner and plant manager of Rosborg Food Holding. “By finding automation solutions for monotonous, physically demanding tasks, we can relieve our employees. At the same time, it helps us to reduce the number of overtime hours and the employment of temporary staff”.
OnRobot’s collaborative grippers can be put into operation according to the plug & play principle, © image: OnRobot
The executives at Rosborg were looking for a way to increase available capacities in day-to-day operations to be able to double production at peak times such as Christmas, New Year’s Eve or Easter without losing revenue due to overtime and replacement workers. “So far, our profit margins have been shrinking at such times with high production volumes. That’s why our employees have a positive attitude towards the prospect of using collaborative robot technologies as production support in order to work more efficiently and reduce overtime,” Jørgensen describes the situation.
In 2013, a new owner initiated a fundamental modernization process of the company’s entire production. 37 million Danish crowns were invested in new, highly efficient greenhouses equipped with automation technology and robots. At the same time, Rosborg has expanded its product range to meet the growing demand for herbs other than those traditionally used in Scandinavian cuisine. In addition to robots and employees, ten different types of useful insects operate in the greenhouses to keep pests away from the plants.
Robot hand with a sense of touch
One of the latest automation investments is a flexible packaging line with a so-called “Cobot” from Universal Robots, a collaborating robot equipped with an RG6 gripper from OnRobot. The two “fingers” of the robot gripper feature intelligent, advanced technology, that mimics the human sense of touch when intuitively gripping and moving objects.
“We were looking for a gripper that could gently lift the herbs and flowers without crushing them,” explains plant manager Jørgensen. “We chose an R6G gripper, which is characterized by gentle and careful gripping movements as well as precision and flexibility. Our new solution automates the folding of packaging cartons and the placement of herbal fine cuts in the folding boxes.”
The new generation of collaborative robots places extremely diverse demands on the robot hand at the end of the robot arm. “What the gripper needs to be capable of depends entirely on the selected task,” says Enrico Krog Iversen, CEO of OnRobot. “The more user-friendly, flexible and careful the gripper is, the greater the variety of tasks that can be automated, and the faster the robots and grippers pay off for the buyer.” This is also confirmed by Jørgensen: “When choosing our solution, the best possible payback period was of course a crucial factor.”
A playful and successful start
Rosborg Food chose a playful, interactive approach for the introduction of robotics in Denmark. “Before we even knew what exactly we wanted to automate, we purchased a robot arm and a gripper via the MELCNC integrator,” says Jørgensen. “We’ve experimented with it and invented some funny applications.” In this way, the employees got to know the robot arm and gripper right from the start as an easy-to-use, helpful tool. “Once we programmed the Cobot so that it could write the boss’s name on a blackboard on his birthday. And at the official inauguration of a new greenhouse, the robot handed over the scissors to Jane Jegind, member of Odense City Council, so that she could cut the red ribbon,” recalls the plant manager.
OnRobot’s new collaborating gripper RG6 can move loads of up to six kilograms with an adjustable force between 25 and 120 Newton, © image: OnRobot
Configurating the applications and the automated packaging solution is so intuitive that even employees without prior experience can do it. It is sufficient to simply adjust the settings on the touch screen of the robot arm, for instance to configure the application for packaging other types of products. The software for controlling the RG6 gripper is extremely user-friendly, too. At the touch of a button, it can be installed on the robot arm like an app on a smartphone.
Henning Jørgensen is already planning the next steps regarding the automation of Rosborg Food Holding: “The next project will be the acquisition of a further collaborating robot with a gripper suitable for equipping a cutting machine for the herbs.” Perspectively, arm and gripper are supposed to carefully pick up the plants, turn them and then place them on the conveyor belt to the cutting machine.
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July 17, 2019 October 18, 2019 Leave a comment afrorithmAihioarvo partContemporaryElectronicExperimentalFela KutiginetteHelsinki Philharmonic OrchestraIlpo JauhiainenInstrumentalJon HassellMinimalismMusicMusica novaOutlandspan sonicpetteri makiniemi
Aihio – Outlands
My collaborative album with musician, composer and instrument maker Petteri Mäkiniemi has been finally released.
The album is called ‘Outlands’ and it’s released under the name Aihio, our new musical duo. Aihio is a Finnish word meaning musical motif, sketch, a work in progress – or in my mind now “a space where new ideas can emerge and develop”.
The album consists of 11 instrumental pieces that weave elements and influences from minimalism, experimental electronic music and West African musical styles into an impressionistic and atmospheric sound of their own. The composers and artists whose work has inspired the music include Arvo Pärt, Cluster, Fela Kuti, Jon Hassell and Pan Sonic, to name a few.
The music features Petteri on Ginette (an electronic musical instrument designed and built by him and based on the French electronic instrument ondes Martenot, developed in 1928) and me on Afrorithmics (afrobeat + algorithmic composition). The pieces have been improvised and recorded live in the studio with no overdubs; they have emerged during two rehearsal sessions when we were developing material for the Musica nova 2019 festival’s Tribute to Pan Sonic concert, to which we were invited to present new work with musicians from the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra at the Helsinki Music Centre, February 2019.
I can only describe the album as a journey through varied terrains while immersed in the landscape, wondering the universe above; or orbiting the Earth and seeing the patterns of geologies and civilizations unfold without borders (no experience of that however); or travelling across galaxies and soaking up some stardust (some previous experience of that); or just watching a deer wander across a nocturnal meadow engulfed by mist and a golden midnight sun.
The French music blog The Black Box has been the first to note the release, calling the album “a musical curiosity”. The review is in French, but here’s the main segment translated by Google:
“A strange mechanical rhythm seems to support the album, like the hum of an engine, or the timing of a machine tool. Yet behind it is well long organic synth tracks that shape the rest of the pieces. This duality is present throughout the album almost, forcing the listener to take his trouble in patience, to listen carefully to the music to detect all that is hidden there, namely a universe. So simple album? Movie soundtrack? Video game? It’s a bit all at once, and more.”
I rather like that description “to listen carefully to the music to detect all that is hidden there, namely a universe”, because that’s what I felt when mixing the pieces in the studio: it felt often as if I was looking at this world from a higher orbit, or gazing up at the stars, or being immersed in rich and varied terrains, outlands. It’s quite rare to have this kind of impressions when working in a more technical and objective mode, but that’s what Petteri’s playing always did to me. It’s also a great compliment when you don’t know exactly how the music was made, what constitutes the elements, which instruments have been used. It takes the music slightly back to that condition of appearing “as strange and mysterious to you as the first music you ever heard” (from Brian Eno).
Peter van Cooten from Ambientblog reviews the album and writes:
“Outlands is a highly original album, in sound as well as in its background concept. Even in the ‘experimental’ electronic genre, many sounds and processes are alike. Aihio manages to step outside the box and create their own unique sound. Literally!”
He wonders about the inclusion of Fela Kuti in our list of inspirations though. It was actually Brian Eno who said that the closest form of popular musics to ambient and generative music was Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat: they all evolve from a loose set of rules and ingredients, proceed organically through the layers of interlocking rhythms and elements, balance discipline and freedom, and create immersive environments – music as places. Naturally we didn’t try to imitate Fela’s Afrobeat but to use some of the textures, sounds and aesthetics, and transform them into new kinds of rhythmic terrains and, well, outlands.
The Bandcamp release includes higher quality audio and additional album artwork. The album will be available on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal and all the other digital music platforms from Aug 2 onwards.
I hope you’ll enjoy this journey and landscape as much as Petteri and I have. It’s been an adventure.
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Spring Makes Noise
Spring makes noise – and certainly so in the studio! A short update on what’s kept me busy and inspired recently.
I’m currently working on three different albums which will be released this year. The process of finishing them is slower than usual since I’m also researching and writing my Master’s thesis at the same time: it’s a philosophical adventure about generative music, complexity and “new future environments” but let’s not go into that now…
The first, still untitled album is my collaboration with Petteri Mäkiniemi which will be out in June. It combines Petteri’s self-designed and -built instrument Ginette with my “afrorithmic” system, and the result is rather beautiful and human, new kind of electronic music, mostly thanks to Petteri’s playing and the sound of Ginette (I’m just trying to hide in the background as much as possible). Musically it’s inspired by artists like Arvo Pärt, Cluster, Fela Kuti and Pan Sonic, to name a few.
The second one is my follow-up to Flash of the Spirit (2018) which will be out in July. It builds on the discoveries I’d made on that album as well as on Shimmer & Bloom (2011) and Arrival City (2013). 10 melodic and rhythmic ‘electronic contemplations’ of (the complexity of) the world. Somewhere between Seun Kuti’s Afrobeat, Aphex Twin’s electro, Kraftwerk’s pop, Erik Satie’s piano compositions and Grace Jones’ funk…so hard to define. (it’s basically me failing to make pop music that sounds like ‘pop music’ and ending up somewhere different 😉)
The third one is my experimental “World” album, currently titled Earth Variations. It started originally as a more extensive sound art project about migration, conflicts and borders, but since I wasn’t able to secure funding for its realisation, the initial sketches gradually evolved into instrumental compositions of their own. It still carries those themes at its core but in more abstract forms. The music builds on the ideas touched on Pulses / Radiance (2017), and is inspired by Jon Hassell’s Fourth World, Ben Frost’s industrial music and Steve Reich’s ensemble pieces among others. It’ll be released in October.
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Serendipity, surrender and the return of Afrorithm
Afrorithm in the house. I’m currently preparing for this special concert with a good friend of mine (and very talented musician) Petteri Mäkiniemi, at the Helsinki Music Centre next February. The concert will be a tribute to the pioneering Finnish electronic music duo Pan Sonic, and it’ll form part of the Musica Nova Helsinki contemporary music festival 2019.
Our idea is to create a new kind of music in which the aesthetics of Arvo Pärt and Olivier Messiaen meet those of West African musics, through the minimalist and sometimes brutalist aesthetics of Pan Sonic (we are also inspired by Jon Hassell’s musical concept known as Fourth World). Petteri plays his self-built instrument Ginette, which is based on the ondes martenot (and which appears on my album Pulses / Radiance), while I play my generative system called Afrorithm (Afrobeat + algorithmic composition). We’ll be joined on stage by a cellist and a bass clarinettist from the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.
So far we’ve had two rehearsals. While these began as innocent jam sessions for the concert only, we soon realized that we’d created an album’s worth of beautiful, new kind of music – less polished and produced, more spontaneous, candid and human; pastoral, orchestral, African and futuristic (the word ‘evergreen’ keeps also coming to mind). After six extensively crafted studio albums it feels invigorating to arrive somewhere fresh and fully formed so effortlessly, as if we had simply channelled this music onto the tape. Our plan now is to bring this serendipitous album out into the daylight early next year, possibly around the time of the concert…
The film composer Hans Zimmer said that music is at its best when it’s about people playing together in a room. I agree with him. As a music producer you mostly release your long crafted labours of love as digital downloads and streams only, and the work then drifts in isolation in an obscure world of internet clouds and distant servers. It’s all fine as a distribution model (barring the energy consumption of those servers) but you rarely get to hear and feel how the listeners react when they listen to your music; the function and purpose of your music, if any, remains mystery. But when it’s just even two people playing together in the same room, immersed in the moment and moved by each other’s sound and playing, you remember why you love music, and why it has become such an important tool for you to explore and understand this complex world pulsing with new possibilities.
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Investors Hub Criminal Proceeding Update: The
Investors Hub Criminal Proceeding Update:
The contempt motion now scheduled for Nov. 7, 2011 will include a full hearing on the issues, which have resulted in a criminal proceeding against Investors Hub (iHub). The Contempt Order rule in Ontario allows MMG to also move the order against any officer or director if the corporation is found to be in contempt. Despite Robert Zumbrunnen and Matt Brown's denial of involvement with iHub, Sonya Branstine and any other officer or director may also be liable for contempt in Ontario.
This is a Judgment against the Divines (Stratey Stock Basher)
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Mina Mar Group Inc. v. Divine, 2011 ONSC 1172 (CanLII) — 2011-02-22
In this case the plaintiffs are Mina Mar Group Inc., of Toronto, Canada and and Miro Zecevic, the principal of Mina Mar. Mina Mar business was in providing investor relations services for publicly traded companies. In 2006 and continuing to date, by profuse postings on Internet bulletin boards and websites, particularly the website of InvestorsHub.com Inc. , the Defendants, James Divine and Catherine Divine have frequently defamed Mino Mar and Mr. Zecevic. The Defendants’ postings, were authored under pseudonyms describe the plaintiffs as thieves, crooks, sham artists, liars, dishonest, corrupt, incompetent, and immoral. As a consequence of the defamatory statements, Mina Mar has lost clients and opportunities for new clients. The judgment included a permanent injunction restraining the Defendants from disseminating, posting on the Internet or publishing further defamatory statements concerning the plaintiff, and the plaintiffs were also entitled to costs.
02/22/11 Internet Defamation Judgment against James & Catherine Divine (PDF – 7 pages)
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Home Schooling in Iowa [updated]
Mike Wiser has a three-part series on home schooling and home schooling law changes starting today (I’ll update on Monday and Tuesday):
New laws relax oversight of home-schoolers: new rules get mixed reaction from advocates, critics
The Quad-City Times version includes a pdf of Certified Enrollment showing the number of CPI applications compared to the number of students enrolled in each district in Iowa.
Technically, home schooling in Iowa has been known as Competent Private Instruction (CPI) and is now known as Private Instruction, which includes Competent Private Instruction and Independent Private Instruction options governed largely by Iowa Code Chapter 299A (which, incidentally, has not yet been updated on the Iowa Legislature website, so you’ll want to check the HF 215 Conference Committee Report for the new language).
The Department of Education has issued a chart comparing the different private instruction options.
The enrollment numbers are interesting, with the statewide total of 10,732 home-school students coming up short of the official estimate of 30,000 home-school students. It is hard to know how accurate the numbers are, however, with Marion Independent School District reported by the DE at 11 while The Gazette reported 860 enrolled in the Marion Home School Assistance Program earlier this year.
With that in mind, here are some reported numbers from local districts:
Cedar Rapids: 149 (0.8% of enrollment)
Clear Creek Amana: 24 (1.4% of enrollment)
Iowa City: 340 (2.6% of enrollment)
Mid-Prairie: 348 (27.6% of enrollment)
Solon: 24 (1.9% of enrollment)
Monday Update:
Quarter of Mid-Prairie district’s students are home schooled (Quad-City Times) and Home-school outliers (The Gazette)
Mike Wiser reports today that 27.6% of Mid-Prairie district’s students are home-schooled based on the DE calculations. As discussed yesterday in the comments, I don’t think those percentages are properly calculated. Any student not enrolled in either the HSAP or dual enrolled will not be counted in the certified enrollment at all, all other homeschool students will be counted only as a fraction of a student in the certified enrollment. Which means that the 280 students in the HSAP were possibly counted as only 84 students in the certified enrollment and 58 of the students weren’t counted at all. Making adjustments to count them as full students in the certified enrollment, we get something closer to 23% (which is still in the ballpark).
However, we also learn from the article that nearly half of the HSAP students are open enrolled in from other districts. So, while Mid-Prairie resident parents homeschool at a higher rate than the state average, if we adjust our calculations to exclude open enrolled students, it seems that they homeschool at a rate closer to 15% and it is likely that homeschool rates for the sending districts are lower than they might otherwise be.
What’s the point? That it is useless to make data-driven decisions in education if we aren’t going to be careful about data collection and analysis so that we are comparing apples to apples.
If we are going to measure homeschooling rates by district (rather than determine which districts may just have better HSAP programs than others), we probably need to look at homeschool numbers by sending districts rather than receiving districts and compare the homeschool numbers to actual district enrollment rather than weighted enrollment numbers.
A second point I’d like to make is this, while nine million dollars sounds like a lot to spend on home-schooled students, any student who is enrolled in an HSAP program and/or dual enrolled is a public school student.
Monday Update 2:
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier published the article (under the headline Rural district a hotbed for homeschooling) along with a chart showing the number of HSAP students and amount of funding for HSAP programs per district. There seem to be discrepancies in the numbers (possibly HSAP students are counted in their resident districts even if open enrolled into another district’s HSAP?), but here are the totals:
1,472.4 weighted enrollment in HSAPs
4,908 actual HSAP students (which represents slightly less than 46% of Iowa homeschool students reported in Sunday’s article)
$9,012,560 funding for HSAP programs
$1,836 per HSAP enrolled student
Tuesday Update:
Homeschool advocates score major victory in Iowa (at the Quad-City Times)
Today’s article is full of unsurprising news, namely that people who are persistent sometimes score legislative victories (aka squeaky wheels get the grease) and that the DE was not supportive of homeschool law changes.
Despite skepticism, homeschool advocates score major victory in Iowa 3rd of 3 parts #iaedfuture http://t.co/W4sYYOW0K7 via @qctimes
— Mike Wiser (@WiserMike) September 10, 2013
I think this Tweet could be rewritten “Despite skepticism, accountability advocates score major victory in Iowa.” After all, HF 215 leaves open the door for tying teacher evaluations to student test scores.
Perhaps “despite lack of interest” might be better wording. How little interest? A quote from Jason Glass gives us a hint:
“We underestimated how much Speaker Paulsen and the House Republicans, their interest in the homeschool components versus the accountability components,” Glass said during an interview before he left for his new job in Colorado. “Turns out they were really interested in moving those homeschool elements; they were not as interested in moving those accountability elements.”
That’s the part of the story that I find most interesting, that there was little interest in the accountability components but they were passed anyway. And the most important, because the accountability components will affect far more teachers and students in this state than the homeschool law changes will.
This entry was posted in DE, HF215, un-blogathon on September 8, 2013 by Karen W.
The Elusive Clear Majority
In the public debate around the closure of Hoover Elementary, there have been efforts to dispute the notion that a majority of the community favors keeping all existing schools open.
Here’s Eric Johnson in the comments of a Press-Citizen piece written by Chris Liebig (also published at A Blog About School here):
Chris makes some good points here, but there are a few other things to consider on each one:Responsiveness to public input: The “public” that Chris claims made its views clear during the visioning process consisted of about 450 unique people total. So, the claim that the mind of “the public” is known on this quite a stretch.
I have seen other comments to this effect, that workshop results do not represent the view of the majority, and that commenters at school board meetings do not represent the view of the majority.
This could very well be true but I don’t think we can really know what people think who don’t speak up, so I reject the assumption that everyone who didn’t show up to speak supports closing Hoover but were too intimidated to say so. It is just as likely that they aren’t paying attention, don’t care either way, or thought their view point was capably communicated by the workshop participants and commenters who spoke out against closing schools so they very reasonably stayed home.
I do think that it is striking that no campaign has the slogan “Equity, Excellence, and parking lots where elementary buildings used to stand.”
[Save Hoover: Where is your Big Yellow Taxi spoof video? I’m humming “They paved Hoover School and put up a parking lot” to myself as I write this.]
Instead we’re hearing talk about moving forward and being team players.
But I digress, because my main point is this: We’re never going to know for sure what “a majority” thinks about anything under Eric Johnson’s standard; school board elections are notorious for low voter turnout.
2011: 5.96% or 4492 “unique people total”
The 450 “unique people total” who participated in the workshop is just shy of the 515 voters who participated in the 1992 school election–0.96% turnout!–and no doubt that, despite the low turnout, the election counted and the duly elected candidates were seated on the school board.
Elections matter.
Elections matter even if the turnout is low and doesn’t constitute an actual majority of the registered voters in the community.
The majority of the people who cast ballots ultimately get to “speak” for the majority, no matter how small the actual number is, so if you care about whether or not Hoover Elementary is closed to make way for a City High parking lot or athletic field (or about any other issue in your school district that might be determined by school board members), this is the time to show up and be heard. Polls close Tuesday, September 10th at 8 pm.
This entry was posted in elections, school boards, team player, un-blogathon on September 7, 2013 by Karen W.
Who Works For Whom? 2
A parent pushes back against homework expectations and directs teachers to follow through on enforcing house work and extra-curricular expectations during the school day that could not be completed in non-school waking hours of her children’s days.
This entry was posted in un-blogathon on September 6, 2013 by Karen W.
Who Works For Whom?
Chris made a great point in a comment on the previous post: why ask superintendents what they think of their school boards rather than ask school boards what they think of their superintendents? Who works for whom?
I’ve written previously on this blog about the utility of confusion or uncertainty about responsibility to parties who wish to escape accountability. It is convenient for superintendents to blame school boards and school boards to blame superintendents–and for everyone to blame NCLB and consultants–when there is a failure to resolve issues or decisions that will be unpopular with someone are to be made.
Getting school board governance right is essential; school boards are entrusted with public money to provide educational programs and facilities to the school age children in our communities. Iowa spends in excess of five billion dollars on public K-12 education each year; school boards have an obligation to their communities to ensure it is well spent.
This entry was posted in elections, local control, school boards, un-blogathon on September 6, 2013 by Karen W.
A Few Discouraging Words
While school board candidates are in Hills for a forum tonight, I thought I’d share a few discouraging words about school boards.
Not Much Confidence in School Boards
From The Gallup Blog, reporting that administrators have little confidence in their governing boards:
The results are similar for superintendents of K-12 districts. Only 3% of superintendents strongly agree that school boards in the U.S. are well governed, while 37% strongly agree their own boards are well governed, according to a Gallup-Education Week Superintendent Panel survey.
Ouch. School boards are viewed even less favorably than Congress.
I won’t hazard a guess about how local administrators may feel about their school boards, but I can’t get on board with the author’s disdain for election of school board members by popular vote.
The Only Kid You Can Save Is Your Own
Slate had an article last week about people choosing private schools for their kids being somewhat just shy of murder-bad. The article wasn’t worth reading, but it spawned an interesting–and lengthy–comment thread over at Apt. 11d, which turned at times to the likelihood of parents being able to meaningfully change their neighborhood public schools for the better and school boards. A sample of comments from the thread:
Hush: Middle class parents want power and connections? Get elected to the local school board. It’s still no guarantee.
Cranberry: Local school board members are also limited by laws and contracts. They hire/fire the superintendent, and set the budget. That’s about it. Setting policy does not mean they oversee how their policies are implemented. A school board member in our state had to FOIA records from her own school.
Amy P.: That’s exactly right. Both my dad and my uncle were on our town school board when I was in school, and that was precisely their experience as well. After he’d done his time, my dad said that what he’d learned from it was that the only kid you can save is yours.
I think this is a major structural weakness of the public school system, that everybody within it feels powerless, and whoever you are, it feels like everybody else has more power than you do (the teachers, the parents, the kids, the principals, the superintendent, the school board, the voters who turned down the last levy, etc). Moving a school system can feel like pushing a shopping cart with a couple of broken wheels. The nice thing about a private school is that the administration can figure out where they want to go, and then everybody who wants the same thing can hop aboard.
On that note: Thanks to the candidates for taking the time to run and publicly debate the issues. For the rest of us–if you choose to vote, choose well, don’t expect too much, and however the election turns out, don’t feel bad about doing what is right for your own kids.
This entry was posted in elections, school boards, un-blogathon on September 5, 2013 by Karen W.
Thinking Beyond Buildings: “It’s the curriculum, stupid”
Dan Willingham has posted a review of The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley.
I don’t know how good the book is (Willingham says “It’s pretty darn good.”), but I do think the review is worth a read (go ahead, and then come back).
The local school board often seems to operate almost exclusively as a facilities management organization with little attention paid to the details of the education program offered by the district. Even talk of magnet schools seems to be driven very little by an interest in specific educational programming.
I would like to see the school board take more of a public interest in curriculum and instruction issues, which might involve reading and talking about books like Amanda Ripley’s.
Other books I’d like the board to read and discuss:
Why Our Children Can’t Read And What We Can Do About It and/or Early Reading Instruction: What Science Really Tells Us about How to Teach Reading by Diane McGuinness
Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science by Louisa Moats
When Can You Trust the Experts?: How to Tell Good Science From Bad in Education by Dan Willingham (previously written about on this blog here)
Why Don’t Students Like School? by Dan Willingham
The Academic Achievement Challenge: What Really Works in the Classroom? by Jeanne S. Chall
This entry was posted in beyond buildings, elections, school boards, un-blogathon on September 2, 2013 by Karen W.
Proper Role of the School Board
Some candidates have suggested that school board decisions, once made, should not be revisited, and that board members should be team players who back whatever decisions have already been made.
This makes no sense at all to me, after all, what is the point of elections if no decision could ever be revisited? If no policy could ever be revised?
I think it does raise an interesting–and important–question though: what do candidates understand the proper role of the school board to be?
Important, because it points to how the candidates are likely to respond to issues that arise during their tenure on the board. Think PBIS and the not-less-than-fifteen minutes for elementary lunch issues, for example.
When a board member or candidate declares that something is not a board issue, what does that mean?
I think it could mean a number of things.
It could be an incomplete description of the governance method by which the board sets policy and delegates authority to the superintendent to carry out the details of the board policy, in which case, perhaps they mean (and should say so clearly!) either 1) we are satisfied with the superintendent’s exercise of the delegated authority (or a past board’s decision) so we’re not interested in taking up the issue at the board level (again) or 2) we believe that the teacher/principal/superintendent need an opportunity to address and resolve this issue before we take it up at the board level and we believe that hasn’t happened yet.
But it could also mean: we don’t want to take responsibility for this issue, we believe that we must be absolutely deferential to the superintendent (or past boards), or we don’t want to micromanage.
I think many issues are potentially school board issues: the school board bears the ultimate responsibility for both the facilities and the education program of the school district. Any board that confines itself to facilities management is only doing part of the job. Any board that acts as though, having adopted policy, it has fulfilled it’s obligations is only doing part of the job.
I think it is obvious that a school district could not operate if every decision were required to be made at the board level; delegating authority to the superintendent is essential. But having delegated that authority, the school board retains the ultimate responsibility for the education program and the facilities of the district which requires not just monitoring, but actual oversight on behalf of the community–which may sometimes mean revising the terms of the delegation of authority.
This requires a willingness to do the work to become independently informed on issues, to think critically–ask questions and insist on satisfactory answers–and to revise policy as needed; not just more or less passively accept information from and the recommendations of the administration.
There is a difference between micromanaging and providing effective oversight, and there is a difference between providing effective oversight on behalf of the community and “not being a team-player.” In my opinion, we need school board members that can tell the difference.
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Home | Technology | Reconstructions in floodhit areas begin today under interior minister’s supervision/ Iran’s floods the worst historic test for US administration
Reconstructions in floodhit areas begin today under interior minister’s supervision/ Iran’s floods the worst historic test for US administration
Stating that the recent floods have posed many problems for the people, the President said, People in the floodstricken areas must not be concerned about the compensation of their losses.
Speaking at the meeting of the cabinet on Wednesday, Dr Hassan Rouhani said, The government will work hard to repair the damages and we will rebuild the destructions better than before by joining hands.
He also went on to say, Reconstructions in the floodhit areas will begin today under the supervision of the interior minister.
The President referred to the restoration of Lake Urmia, adding, This means that the lives of 15 million people is saved, because if the lake dried out, the entire northwestern region of the country would be affected by salt dust.
Appreciating the hard work of executive bodies during the floods, he said, Some of the work that was done by executive bodies was unprecedented in the world.
Dr Rouhani went on to appreciate Supreme Leader's positive response to the government for using credits from the National Development Fund to repair the damages.
Very good work has been done by the first vicepresident, interior ministry and other bodies for preparing the preliminary estimates of the damages done, he said.
President Rouhani added, Some departments such as ministries of Roads and Urban Development, Interior, Energy, Agriculture Jihad, Foreign Affairs, and Petroleum have done great job.
Stating that Iran's floods was the worst historic test for US administration, he said, The heads of US' regime showed their true nature. If they were wise, they would have announce that they would suspend sanctions because of the floods. Then the people may have believed that they were not against the people of Iran.
If the US did such as thing, it would be proved that what we said about the United States' malignancy and hostility towards the Iranian nation, but they did not let other people around the world to send their aids to Iran, said the President.
The continued, The recent floods and the hard work of the government and the armed forces to help people, and the people helping each other, as well as the US' reaction proved that we need to stand on our own feet for solving the problems and turning them into opportunities.
Source: Presidency of Islamic Republic of Iran
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A Demi Moore education: ‘Blind’ premieres in New York
Demi Moore at the 2014 LACMA Art + Film Gala in Nov. 2014, in Los Angeles. Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty Images for LACMA.
“It’s always difficult to put on a new hat,” Demi Moore declared at the New York premiere of “Blind” on Monday night. “I think the great thing about having Alec, Dylan and I is that we’ve done a lot, and it was super collaborative. We could all bring everything to the table, and he was open enough to receive anything that we had to offer.”
The actress was describing working with first-time director Michael Mailer. While the director may be new, Moore — and her costars Alec Baldwin and Dylan McDermott — were able to offer some guidance. Mailer noted that he appreciated working alongside such experienced actors.
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Biju Janata Dal celebrated birth anniversary of Biju Patnaik
Admin | March 5, 2015 | Odia News
Biju Janata Dal (BJD) today celebrated the 98th birth anniversary of late Odisha Chief Minister Biju Patnaik in Bhubaneswar.
The celebration was marked by the inauguration of a blood donation programme by chief minister Naveen Patnaik.
The CM also flagged off a mini marathon in which the participants covered a distance of six km from the Biju Patnaik Park to Kalinga Stadium, organized by the Sports and Youth Affairs department.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to Biju Patnaik on his birth anniversary, saying he was an “outstanding personality” whose contribution to the state and the country will always be remembered.
Biju Patnaik, father of current Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, was born in 1916 and passed away in 1997. He was a two-time Chief Minister of Odisha. He also served as a union minister in the Morarji Desai government from 1977 to 1980.
After a brief truce, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supremo Naveen Patnaik was today back to doing what he knows best: bashing the Centre for its alleged ‘step-motherly’ attitude to Odisha.
The occasion for the revival of this tried and tested formula of political survival was a function organised at the BJD headquarters here to mark the birth anniversary of Biju Patnaik after whom the party has been named.
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The ethics of testing and research of manufactured organs on brain-dead/recently deceased subjects
Brendan Parent1,
Bruce Gelb2,
Stephen Latham3,
Ariane Lewis1,
Laura L Kimberly1,4,
Arthur L Caplan1
NYU Medical Ethics Working Group on Research on the Recently Deceased
1Division of Medical Ethics, New York University School of Medicine, New York City, New York, USA
2Transplant Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York City, New York, USA
3Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
4Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, NYU School of Medicine, New York City, New York, USA
Correspondence to Dr Brendan Parent, Medical Ethics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; brendan.parent{at}nyu.edu
Over 115 000 people are waiting for life-saving organ transplants, of whom a small fraction will receive transplants and many others will die while waiting. Existing efforts to expand the number of available organs, including increasing the number of registered donors and procuring organs in uncontrolled environments, are crucial but unlikely to address the shortage in the near future and will not improve donor/recipient compatibility or organ quality. If successful, organ bioengineering can solve the shortage and improve functional outcomes. Studying manufactured organs in animal models has produced valuable data, but is not sufficient to understand viability in humans. Before risking manufactured organ experimentation in living humans, study of bioengineered organs in recently deceased humans would facilitate evaluation of the function of engineered tissues and the complex interactions between the host and the transplanted tissue. Although such studies do not pose risk to human subjects, they pose unique ethical challenges concerning the previous wishes of the deceased, rights of surviving family members, effective operation and fair distribution of medical services, and public transparency. This article investigates the ethical, legal and social considerations in performing engineered organ research on the recently deceased.
allocation of organs/tissues
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Twitter @parent_brendan, @arthurcaplan
Collaborators NYU Medical Ethics Working Group: Luis Angel, NYU Langone Health; Scott Briggs, Touro College of Medicine; James Childress, University of Virginia; Nancy Dubler, NYU Langone Division of Medical Ethics; Moshe M Cohn, NYU Langone Health; Jared Eckman, NYU Langone Division of Medical Ethics; Sandy Feng, UCSF; Sander Florman, Mt Sinai; Kyle Ferguson, NYU Langone Division of Medical Ethics; Susan Gunderson, LifeSource; Megan Kitts, NYU Langone Division of Medical Ethics; Olivia Scheyer, NYU Langone Division of Medical Ethics; Tamar Schiff, NYU Langone Health; Laura Siminoff, Temple University; Brigitte Sullivan, NYU Langone Health; Angela Turi, NYU Langone Division of Medical Ethics; Stephen Wall, NYU Langone Health.
Contributors Each author was responsible for drafting a different primary content section. BG and SL were responsible for editing all sections down to meet word length requirements. BP is responsible for overall content as guarantor.
Funding This study was supported by United Therapeutics Corporation.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent for publication Not required.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
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Miranda Bogen is a Senior Policy Analyst at Upturn, where she focuses on the implications of machine learning and artificial intelligence for civil and human rights, and particularly on the intersection of digital technology, automated decisions, and economic opportunity. She has conducted research and authored work on issues including global data ethics, the governance of AI and automated decisions, commercial transparency practices, and consumer protection and corporate accountability in the digital age.
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For the past 25 years, Rob has been instrumental in starting, funding, and growing high growth companies. He has been an executive or founder in numerous companies including Monster.com, Bullhorn, Manugistics, Parsortix, and Avention. He was a principal at Austin Ventures, a multi-billion dollar venture capital fund.
Rob is a member of the Society of Kauffman Fellows, a selective leadership-training program organized by the Kauffman Foundation. He has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and is a cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College.
Rob has authored two best-selling books- Never Too Late to Startup: How Mid-Life Entrepreneurs Create Wealth, Freedom, & Purpose and Entrepreneur Rocket Fuel: How Startup Founders Recruit World-class Talent and Build Culture to Transform Their Business.
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Maureen Johnson’s ‘The Name Of The Star’
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
The day Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London marks a memorable occasion. For Rory, it’s the start of a new life at a London boarding school. But for many, this will be remembered as the day a series of brutal murders broke out across the city, gruesome crimes mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper in the autumn of 1888.
Soon “Rippermania” takes hold of modern-day London, and the police are left with few leads and no witnesses. Except one. Rory spotted the man police now believe to be the prime suspect. But she is the only one who saw him. Even her roommate, who was with her at the time, didn’t notice the mysterious man. So why can only Rory see him? And more urgently, why has Rory become his next target? In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, full of suspense, humor, and romance, Rory will learn the truth about the secret ghost police of London and discover her own shocking abilities.
Aside from some slightly jarring scenes at the beginning involving the school (for one thing the school seems massively out-of-place and oddly run from the perspective of a Londoner who went to a similarly posh London school) this was a fantastic book that I ripped (sorry) through in ONE EVENING. It is great stuff. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good supernatural-tinged romp – though the central character feels oddly vague and insubstantial at times she is a marvellous vehicle for the reader and really comes into her own by the rather tense climax. I respected her and enjoyed her company by the end, and there’s no higher praise than that for a first person narrative.
I won’t rehash the plot, but suffice to say it isn’t a simple Jack the Ripper retelling, nor is it trying to give us a new view of the historical murders – it’s an original plot and concept using very popular tropes (the Ripper murders, the “otherness” of London, young adult genre, secret groups operating with the government) that still feels fresh, even to the point of freaking me out about the murders even after reading much more gory and bloody (and excellent) books like Alan Moore‘s From Hell and Kim Newman‘s Anno Dracula. A true testament to how, sometimes, less can be more. (Also I read this at night, when all of this is 200% freakier than during daylight hours, I know this through SCIENCE.)
I’d recommend this book to people who enjoy London in fiction, tense YA crime/thrillers, who enjoy Torchwood-like groups waging secret wars against the nasty unknown, or who simply want a solid, swift read that though it begins slowly and a bit oddly warms up tremendously once the (gory and unsettling (I feel a lack of sleep looming tonight)) murders begin. I’ve seen a few comments complaining about the ending, but I thought it was very well done and wrapped up a crackling, entertaining and at times spine-tingling read with a tantalizing suggestion of what Johnson has in her clearly devious and brilliant mind.
Can’t wait to read more.
This entry was posted in Book Reviews and tagged american author english setting, first person perspective, ghosts, Jack, Jack the Ripper, London, Maureen Johnson, paranormal, secret groups, supernatural, ya fiction, young adult on 11/01/2012 by ewasr.
Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer
I stayed up until 4am reading Life As We Knew It. Once I’ve written this I’m getting more coffee. Yes, this is a read-in-one-sitting book. It’s not hard and it’s quick and it’s compulsive.
This is not a dystopian novel. I saw it being described as such in a review (I forget where) and it’s absolutely in no way a dystopian setting for reasons that bloggers have discussed at length elsewhere – this is straight-out apocalyptic. Not even post-apocalyptic – this book charts the end of the world via the diary entries of a sixteen year old girl, Miranda, so we’ve got a ringside seat for the End of the World.
And oh man. It’s unsettling. I loved it.
Bush-era Pennsylvania. Welcome to Miranda’s diary! Miranda likes figure skating. A lot. Miranda and her two best friends have drifted apart since they lost a friend to illness. Miranda’s younger brother Jonny is a massive fan of baseball while her older brother Matt is studying at Cornell. Miranda’s parents are divorced. Miranda’s dad’s new ladyfriend is expecting a baby and has asked Miranda to be the godmother. Miranda’s excited but wary. Miranda is sixteen, normal, and an extremely likeable protagonist – she’s not overly bratty (except for moments, understandable moments!), her point of view has emotional weight, and Pfeffer’s writing is extremely teen with moments of gorgeousness and depth that adds a real resonance, like this excerpt from the run-up to the asteroid collision:
“I guess Ms Hammish thinks this moon thing is historical, because in history that’s what we talked about. How people throughout history have looked at the moon and comets and eclipses. Actually, that was kind of interesting. I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it’s the same moon Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at. Not to mention all those zillions of people I’ve never heard of. All those Homo sapiens and Neanderthals looked at the very same moon as me. It waxed and waned in their sky, too.”
— p.13
That hasn’t got the air of impending doom about it at all, does it? No, not a hint.
There’s so much I want to say about this book. It’s about isolation and fear and life without all the modern amenities we’re used to – running water, reliable (or any!) electricity, communications, stores, fuel, even social lives and fresh air. It’s about family, about the connections between people when they’re strained and when we need to rely on other people for our own survival, and that point at which it’s not about us individually making it through, but making sure the people we love make it through (on that note Miranda’s mother is an absolute hero and there should be a mother like her installed on every street in case of emergencies). It’s about the responsibilities that come with growing up and becoming an adult, running a home, supporting other people. It’s about the waxing and waning of hope in dire circumstances and what it does to people, whether it breaks them or weakens them and what it takes to endure without losing it.
Miranda’s diary is excellent, full of everyday details that make every facet of this impossibly scary world from the mundane to the insane (the passage where her mother talks about the volcanoes actually made me shudder) feel so realistic, I actually had to look up from the book and out of the window at the night sky to make sure it wasn’t real every few chapters. It was the early hours, don’t laugh. Everything feels more real after 1am when you’re alone in the dark! We also see something of an unreliable narrator at work – her perspective is great but one can’t shake the grim knowledge that there’s a lot in what she’s not saying, what she doesn’t know, that is utterly chilling. Her mother’s reactions and behaviour is as informative as Miranda’s notes. From the moment the tidal waves sweep in we know this family isn’t experiencing the worst of it (anything but!) and Pfeffer leaves out just enough detail for these events to loom over them in their apparent absence like the ash clouds themselves. For such an uneasy read Miranda’s not actually in danger that often – an excellent approach because we know she makes it because it’s a DIARY and it goes ON.
SLIGHTLY SPOILERY PARAGRAPH BUT ONLY SLIGHTLY! Ignoring the sequels for a moment (I can’t wait to get to the second – the protagonist is right in the chaos that’s NYC, and I’ve never read a book with a Puerto Rican main character before so that’s two elements I’m very interested in), the first person perspective got me wondering a few times if Miranda’s not hallucinating, or lying, especially towards the end, or with the sickness that she miraculously didn’t get. Moments that we suspect are too good to be true feel actually far too good. I got an actual rush of relief at one point, and bearing in mind the book actually ends it suggests the end of the diary itself for whatever reason – and I liked the idea that she started making her entries up as things got too bad to write about, using fiction to escape the awfulness, pretending there’s a glimmer of hope. I suspect this is because I’ve always mistrusted first person narrations since Tyke Tiler. ALL’S COOL slightly spoilery bit over.
And there’s more I want to say. Layers of fiction and history and she’s called Miranda like Miranda from The Tempest who was stranded too with an over-protective but damned wise parent and how it’s got a bit of an American pioneer feel to it without being overly American and how claustrophobic it felt and I need other people to read it and talk about it. I love apocalyptic fiction, I really do.
Forget dystopias for a bit. They’re epic tales of teenage angst against the system and they’re marvellous but this is a YA novel in the vein of The Day Of The Triffids, The Stand and various classics, except without the science fiction moral lessons and faintly supernatural air; this a straight-on account of a family at the end of the world struggling to survive. It had such atmosphere it was a relief to finish and look out of my window to see dawn creeping in (4am! FOUR AM!). It’s a hell of a book that actually makes you thankful for what you have. Can more teenagers read it? And more adults? Please?
Just don’t read it at night. Read it when you can look up and be reassured that you can still see the sun, or that the moon’s the right size.
This entry was posted in Book Reviews and tagged apocalyptic fiction, diary, dystopian, first person perspective, life as we knew it, moon, post-apocalyptic, susan pfeffer, United States, ya fiction, young adult literature on 18/07/2011 by ewasr.
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Fresh Faves: Batch 42
by Howard
This week’s Fresh Faves, chosen by readers over the weekend, are reviewed by special guest Howard Gorman, editor-in-chief at ppsf.co.uk – the website dedicated to Putting Performers and Stand-ups First. Welcome on board, Howard!
Well it’s everyone’s least favourite day of the week until about this time of the day when the Fresh Faves are unleashed. It’s always a pleasure to see voters commenting on having suffered serious cases of fave overload syndrome making it nigh impossible to choose only 5 from thirty one first-rate tracks. It just goes to show that submissions are brimming with quality and Team Freshnet sure know how to pick ’em. After everyone’s umming and ahhing the votes have been counted so let’s crack on with this week’s Fresh Faves.
ABBE MAY – Karmageddon
With the Mayan calendar reaching it’s bitter end, if you believe that kind of thing of course, this week’s Fresh Faves rather aptly begins with a track which the Australian electronica/doom queen ABBE MAY suggests the end of the world sounds like. Karmageddon is the first single to be lifted from her new album ‘Kiss My Apocalypse’ which is set for an April 2013 release date, should the world keeps turning. The internet celebrates her guitar shredding which took me back a bit as Karmageddon is quite the opposite with weirdo pop taking over from heavy guitar riffage. May and her best friend, regular cohort and producer, Sam Ford, condemned themselves into the studio to take things back to the drawing board and experiment with a mellotron and a drum machine.
The resulting concoction is more effective than anything even Breaking Bad’s Walter White could come up with. It’s the trippy beats and buzzing bass lines that prick up the ears here. It came as no surprise that May’s previous long player “Design Desire” was awarded a place in the top five Australian albums of the year in The Australian Music Prize. If the thought of Kylie on Ketamine and Beyonce in the microwave proclaiming the death of love lights your musical candle (and how couldn’t it?) then this is certainly one to consider.
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DEATH RATTLE – Fixer
I read the book before looking at the cover for this one. What I mean to say is that I heard the track before looking up what a death rattle actually was. If you haven’t already Googled it it’s “a medical term that describes the sound produced by someone who is near death when saliva accumulates in the throat.” If that’s the case then my fear of death has just been cured. London Electro duo Death Rattle’s ‘Fixer’ doesn’t stray too far of the beaten path from where Abbe May’s track left us, with the band describing their sound as Electronic gloom pop.
The track features on their HE&l EP with the video completing a trilogy. What first drew me into this song were the crashing drums and their unique song structure with the chorus stripping things down to the bare essentials – less frantic drumbeats and a simple 80s Casio keyboard feel – whilst remaining as contagious as hell. It’s a surprisingly slick approach that may not appeal to you on paper but, if you haven’t already heard it, I strongly recommend you give it a try.
KID GALAHAD – Never Let You Fall
OK, so would you like the bad news or the good news first? Probably best to get the bad out of the way first. Kid Galahad aka Morph aka Lemon Incest aka The Furze, not to be confused with the artist formerly known as Prince, are no longer with us. The good news? Although their latest project, The Furze, haven’t released anything since 2007, it looks like their hibernation period could be coming to an end as they recently re-issued their Skeleton EP over on bandcamp. These chaps hail from Maidenhead and have been recording together for over a decade.
They’ve had the pleasure of supporting the likes of Oasis and Supergrass, to name but a few, and Never Let You Fall certainly roused my dormant memories of Supergrass’s earlier, laid back acoustic numbers. The dust has been blown of this hidden treasure as one of this week’s Faves thanks to 360 records. They came across it whilst rummaging through their vaults and thought it was worthy of the full remastering treatment, and so rightly so. Let’s just hope it gets The Furze, or whatever reincarnation they have on the cards, in the mood for picking up where they left off.
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LIZ LAWRENCE – Bedroom Hero
‘Bedroom Hero’ is the new single from the 22 years young British songwriter Liz Lawrence. After hearing Bedroom Hero I was bemused to discover that, growing up in the Midlands, she started out playing guitar in a number of punk and ska bands. This week’s Fave just grows and grows with each play thanks to the instruments being seamlessly introduced to us to slowly build up the song.
A simple acoustic guitar starts off the proceedings and it just keeps on growing in all senses of the word. The strings, piano and marching drums and brass section are all cleverly held back until just the right moment. With the whole band playing, the likes of Mumford and Sons and Young Rebel Set spring to mind whilst Liz’s fantastic feisty vocals play the perfect complement. The track has already gained praise and support from Amazing Radio and Absolute Radio so it comes as no surprise that it’s a Fresh Fave this week.
Although her songs give a very personal view of her world, as seen from her bedroom, I don’t think it will be long before we’ll be singing along to lyrics about her views from various hotel windows around the world. I definitely hope so.
MOTHERS DAY – Shoulder Soldier
Shoulder Soldier is a song by Mothersday, a band hailing from Baltimore, Maryland. It’s lifted from their the upcoming album ‘Tree Houses’. Despite almost undecipherable vocals and muddy production, the militia guitar tones and ticking percussion will have you pressing replay not just to try and comprehend the mysteries behind the lyrics but to peel away the onion-like layers present on the track. I’m not sure if indecipherability was all part of their master plan but it works a treat and if anyone does manage to fathom out the lyrics if you could bring me up to speed that would be much appreciated. Right now I’m just Googling how to play mp3’s backwards.
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ROO PANES – Know Me Well
It comes as no surprise that this track made the grade this week. His songs on YouTube have already received more than a whopping half a million views so followers of FOTN are by no means the only one’s backing this fine fellow. Roo says he was introduced to music at a tender age from his grandmother, a classical concert pianist, and the hymns and psalms of the local church he attended with his mum and dad.
‘Know Me Well’ certainly attests to his upbringing with a tip of the hat to more contemporary sounds. The moment Roo begins singing I was quick to draw comparisons with Editor’s Tom Smith. This is a beautiful, simply structured track with violins, that would have faired well on the ‘Far and Away’ soundtrack, coupled with a sparse yet resounding piano melody. Mix in Roo’s delicate acoustic plucks and his ever-surging vocals, demonstrating the expansive range he is more than capable of, and this hits just the right spot.
Roo is currently preparing two EPs which are set to feature a plethora of the musical friends he has met so far on a journey that I’m sure is only just beginning.
ROSE BETTS – Dreamland
Rose Betts is a London songstress boasting a voice as delicate and ethereal as it is strong, demonstrating an angelic, pitch perfect range on this track. The voice takes centre stage here, and rightly so, whilst the simple backing keyboards, reminiscent of early Keane, complement her voice perfectly. It’s just the right combination as it would have been a major mistake to drown out the best instrument at play here. This is a great pick-me-up track for these icy cold winter mornings we’re having and I’m sure Rose’s haunting vocal will be haunting you for some time to come, in the best sense of the word of course.
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THE PORTRAITS – Validation
This is yet another great icy cold winter soundtrack. The intro had me grasping at straws trying to guess where it was heading for but it turns into a blinding orchestrated number. I’m quite the sucker for string sections and ‘Validation’ is about as tight as it gets on so many different levels. This, coupled with simple acoustic strumming makes for a perfect blend, giving Starbucks a run for their money, and let’s face it, they’re going to need every penny right now. It’s not just the actual instruments that work so well together either. I was seriously impressed by how perfectly the choir-like backing vocals and instruments to and fro with the lead vocals.
Given the tightly bound sound they have accomplished I was amazed to discover that up until only last year The Portraits had been an acoustic duo (piano, guitar 2 voices) before making an impromptu decision to find another three members so as to take to the stage at last years Glastonbury Festival. Rash decisions don’t always pay off but ‘Validation’ is just one great example of how well the five gelled instantly. I look forward to catching these guys live as I’m eager to see all the cogs and gears in motion. A line in ‘Validation’ states “Success is everywhere except here” but here’s to hoping they’ll have to change that line sooner rather than later.
THE SON(S) – If I Hear You Talk Apostrophes Again
Last but not least are/is The Son(s). Apologies for the are/is ambiguity but all the info I found was a little confusing for this one. Apparently The Son(s) were three. Two are gone. Now there is only one. From what I was able to uncover, the only active member is a chap named Karl. If this is so, this is a one man band that shouldn’t be missed.
Apparently the latest EP ‘Leviathan’, from which this weeks Fave is lifted, was recorded in an old, cold, echoey flat in Edinburgh, slap bang in the coldest winter there for over 50 years. ‘If I Hear You Talk’ would have you believe none of the above, with the intro inducing flashbacks of my “I Am The Passenger/Trainspotting” youth.
A comment on the soundcloud timeline quite rightly states that this has a Queens of the Stone Age feel to it, particularly the vocals. This being one of my personal Faves this week I dived into their latest EP with great enthusiasm. Although this week’s track is a romping stomping rocker, there’s so much more to this/these guy(s) as they also dig their teeth into folk and Americana; vice-versa, or something completely different entirely. I can’t recommend their latest EP enough.
As a side note, as it’s the season to be jolly, they have a Christmas cracker of a song available on the Olive Grove Christmas EP available here: all profits are donated to charity.
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Fresh Faves reviewed this week by
Howard Gorman from ppsf.co.uk
Originally from Huddersfield and now residing somewhat more than a stone’s throw away in Bilbao, Howard Gorman is the founder and editor-in-chief of the UK-based entertainment website Comedy Chords. A translator by day - and budding entertainment journalist by late, late night - Howard has always been fervently committed to championing fresh music and comedy. His current writing credits include Consequence of Sound, MusicOMH, Lyric Lounge Review, Faded Glamour and blogging for the comedy section of The Huffington Post. http://comedychords.com Follow Howard on Twitter @HowardGorman
December 10, 2012 at 2:05 pm ·
Thanks Howard for a wonderfully generous set of reviews for our readers’ faves this week. It’s been a pleasure to work with you 🙂
My thanks to you too Tom. It was a pleasure to be treated as a “special” guest 🙂 and really enjoyed finding out a little bit more about all this week’s Faves. Well done to all 9 here but all 31 were great and, as I said, everyone had a serious dilemma in breaking those down into just 5 faves.
Johnno Casson
Great reviews Howard and some most excellent work on show here and as Howard says-on the listening post too.
Good weeks turn into great ones.
Mr Smallfish
I had the honour of working with the mysterious Son(s) – I am sworn to secrecy – on Leviathan and the eponymous debut album. It’s great to see this very special body of work being shared. They remain the highpoint in my journey of musical discovery over the last few years.
Sandra Smith
December 11, 2012 at 5:19 am ·
I always enjoy reading your articles and reviews Howard,and this week with Fresh Faves you’ve done it again,a great set of reviews.
December 11, 2012 at 11:09 pm ·
How refreshing to read Howard Gorman’s reviews, hope he visits here on a regular basis.
LesterNiece
Rock and a hard place: artist’s prerogative to disseminate lyrics vs. selfish hoarding of beautiful art by me, the audience…
I will solve this quandary by giving you one morsel of lyric. From the artist personally, not conjecture. At one point in the song ‘Shoulder Soldier’ the word “trying” is sung. That’s it, nothing more to divulge. Listen closely 😉
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Juul’s Vape-and-Switch of Boston Herald in Ad Blitz
As the hardreading staff has previously noted, Juul Labs – the company that owns 75% of the e-cigarette market – has locally run ads like these exclusively in the Boston Herald.
Now, though, faced with numerous lawsuits, Juul Labs is in Defcon 2 as our kissin’ cousins at Campaign Outsider have deftly noted, not to mention this piece by Lachlan Markay and Sam Stein in The Daily Beast.
Juul Spins Vaping as ‘Criminal Justice’ Issue for Black Lawmakers
The company has embarked on a massive lobbying campaign designed to reach the Congressional Black Caucus.
The vaping industry’s unrivaled leader, Juul, is making a huge push to ingratiate itself with America’s communities of color, hoping that doing so will win it critical allies within the Democratic Party who can help it navigate a high-stakes legislative and regulatory minefield.
The company has hired lobbyists and consultants with deep ties to prominent black and Latino lawmakers, steered money to congressional black and Hispanic caucuses, and made overtures to leading civil rights groups. It has enlisted the services of a former head of the NAACP, a board member of the Congressional Black Caucus’s political arm, and the Obama White House’s top civil rights liaison. And it’s sought the support of National Action Network chief Rev. Al Sharpton.
Two Daily Town rule of thumb (pat. pending): Whenever Al Sharpton is involved, kindly walk – do not run – to the nearest exit.
Given all that, Juul has now embarked on a full court press of full-page ads in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Globe.
But not the Boston Herald.
Your condolences for the thirsty local tabloid go here.
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Stop & Shop to Boston Herald: Eat Your Heart Out
Now that the Teamsters have gone out in sympathy with the nearly 31,000 Stop & Shop workers who went on strike three days ago, management is apparently looking for some sympathy of its own. Thus, this full-page ad in today’s Boston Globe.
Here’s their website if you want more of management’s side. One thing they do not address is why they didn’t run the ad in the Boston Herald.
Afraid the readership is too union-friendly and an ad addressed to them would be a waste of money? Or just oblivious to the thirsty local tabloid, like so many others in this town.
Whatever, let’s hope those readers stop shopping at Stop & Shop. For good.
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MA Treasurer Didn’t Stiff Herald on Lost Property List
As the hardreading staff pawed through yesterday’s Boston Globe, we came upon this “Notice of Names of Persons Appearing to be Owners of Unclaimed Property” – a 54-page free standing insert produced by the Office of the State Treasurer and Receiver General.
It’s the state’s semi-annual list of tens of thousands of people who might have unclaimed funds in the possession of the Massachusetts Treasury.
Not to get technical about it, but that’s no Amy – as far as we can tell it’s the very talented local actress Celeste Oliva, about whom our kissin’ cousins at Campaign Outsider have written several times.
Regardless, imagine our total lack of surprise when we turned to the Boston Herald and found – no unclaimed property list in the thirsty local tabloid. Free standing insult.
So we called the office of Treasurer Deborah Goldberg to ask why she skipped the Herald, whose readers are for the most part a) Massachusetts residents, and b) easily as forgetful as Globe readers.
Deputy communications director Emma Sands was kind enough to straighten us out: The insert will run in the Herald this coming Sunday; this is the second time the Treasurer has run the insert in the two Boston dailies on consecutive Sundays; and the insert will run in a variety of regional papers in the coming weeks.
Office of the Treasurer: An equal-opportunity advertiser.
P.S. The hardsearching staff did not find its name on the list, alas.
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National Grid Gives Globe the Ad, Herald the Air
From our ever-expanding Local Dailies DisAdvantage desk
The four-month National Grid lockout of over 1,200 union gas workers has not only cost the state 1) millions in lost tax revenue and 2) more than $13 million in unemployment benefits according to this WCVB report, it’s also cost the company tens of thousands of dollars for this full-page ad in today’s Boston Globe.
(Gas Workers Must Be Nuts graf goes here)
Something the ad failed to note: There’s movement at the State House to “force National Grid to restore health benefits to all locked out workers until contract talks are resolved,” according to WCVB’s report. That could ratchet up the cost of the lockout for the gas company.
Something National Grid failed to note: There are two dailies in this town. Boston Herald readers also have a nickel in this quarter. Time to give the thirsty local tabloid some love, eh?
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Musicians Note Mistreatment in Plea to Josh Groban
Chalk one up for the thirsty local tabloid.
The multi-talented Josh Groban is coming to town, as Isaac Feldberg’s interview with him in today’s Boston Globe informs us.
“Bridges” is a fitting title for Josh Groban’s latest album, considering how many he has crossed in recent years . . . [S]etting out on a nationwide arena tour this fall in support of “Bridges” — with Tony-winning “Wicked” star Idina Menzel opening — feels to Groban something like slipping into a familiar old suit and discovering it still fits him neatly. Ahead of the “Believe” singer’s TD Garden stop Friday, Groban spoke from his Los Angeles home — where he was happily savoring the last days of a much-needed “staycation” with his longtime canine companion, Sweeney — about how the recent side ventures informed one of his most dynamic discs to date.
Not so sunny-side-up, however, is this full-page ad from today’s Boston Herald.
The We-Get-Peanuts graf:
From his Twitter feed, at least, it seems Groban can’t imagine any of it. (Don’t bother checking the Boston Musicians Twitter feed – it has all of three followers.)
If any of you splendid readers goes to the Groban shindig tonight, let us know how the vibe onstage is, wouldya? We’re guessing not too harmonious.
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Los Angeles Dodgers to Boston Herald: Drop Dead
In an apparent attempt to demonstrate that they’re not sore losers, the LA ball team bought page 3 of today’s Boston Globe to run this ad.
The sure loser? The Boston Herald. Dem Bums gave the thirsty local tabloid an intentional pass.
And it wasn’t just LA that gave the Herald the air. The island of Aruba also ran a Globe-only ad today.
The tagline: One Happy Island.
Just like One Happy Daily.
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Columbia Gas: No One in Lawrence Reads the Herald
Columbia Gas, which oversaw the destruction of roughly 80 homes; the death of Leonel Rondon, a student at Phoenix Charter Academy; over two dozen injuries; and the disruption of thousands of other lives, promises to restore service to Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover by November 19th.
The company is also hedging its bets, as yesterday’s full-page Boston Globe ad from Columbia Gasbag Joe Hamrock indicates.
Nuts to deadlines graf.
Notice first that Columbia Gas is outsourcing part of its responsibility for the recovery to “local, state and federal officials and other dedicated people and organizations.”
Also notice that there’s no mention of the November 19th deadline.
Also also notice that the ad did not run in the Boston Herald, yet another example of Boston institutions overlooking the thirsty local tabloid.
No wonder we’re destined to be a One-Daily Town.
P.S. It’s entirely coincidental that this is the front page of today’s Herald
and this is Metro Page One of the Globe.
Entirely.
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On the sidelines of the greater debate about freedom of speech and limits to state power, there is a tango of polemics going on regarding patriotism and nationalism. This is a recurring exchange in India, the latest round of sonic warfare being sparked by the drama at Jawaharlal Nehru University; an earlier episode occurred when a junior minister was perceived as chest-thumping about an Indian incusion into Burma in pursuit of terrorists. The hanging of terrorists Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru in November 2012 and February 2013 also stirred this topic, albeit in the background of a debate on the death penalty.
In this rather boring dispute, the lazy thinking of one side is matched only by the inarticulate stumbling of the other. Patriotism, we are to understand, is the love of one’s country without harbouring ill-will or hatred against any other country. Nationalism, on the other hand, is an aggressive monster we should all know better than to indulge in after the horrific lessons of early 20th century Europe. The implicit re-verification of Godwin’s law not withstanding, this strikes as a rather restricted view. First, it assumes under patriotism, questionably, qualities of the nation in their milder and more positive manifestation, and second, it limits nationalism to only its extreme elements, making it easier to dismiss intellectually by making the fringe mainstream .
What does ‘love of one’s country’ mean? Strictly speaking, ‘country’ implies land or territory. With no additional implication of culture or bonding with other citizens in an imagined community, patriotism comes off as cold, impersonal, and somehow incomplete. What is there to love about a land without its people? Does an Italian patriot love the boot-shaped geography of his land or the words of Boccaccio and Dante, the wines of Piedmont, and the music of Verdi that bind him to that land incidentally? Furthermore, a loyalty to territory alone comes off as anachronistic in a globalised and multicultural world wherein international bodies, corporations and other non-governmental organisations increasingly exist fluidly across borders.
A phrase that is sometimes thrown up is constitutional patriotism. Coined by German philosopher Jürgen Habermas in the mid- to late 1980s, it essentially holds that people should form a political attachment to liberal democratic principles rather than to the cultural nation. Patriotism, understood thus, is not nationalism-lite: it is a political grouping of an entirely different dynamic, one that is not rooted in the historical specificity of a group but is an imposition of values marketed as universal.
Such ideas of civic nationalism are not new – the American Revolution and Revolutionary France were among the first to declare such ideals. However, practice was different from theory and the new universalism found few takers; Napoleon’s Jewish emancipation was reversed and the United States controlled immigration and maintained slavery. Today, it is only in the Americas that citizenship is by jus soli – place of birth – rather than jus sanguinis – bloodline. In this, they were aided by genocide and a whole new hemisphere in which to settle without the ties of the Old World to influence new beginnings. Most states, however liberal, have found cultural ties of language, faith, and ethnicity to be better bonds between citizens than abstract principles. Constitutional patriotism would take us further into abstraction to jus constitutio which is unlikely to find any subscribers.
Nationalism, on the other hand, is a feeling of group identity based on kinship, faith, language, or other cultural markers. These nebulous sentiments are made concrete not just via the cultural creation of the nation – the national anthem, the national flag, national epics, national heroes – but also mundane and quotidian acts such as the recitation of the Saraswati vandana in school, the casual display of the national flag on buildings and in offices, sporting events and national teams, and interactions with other shared symbols such as currency, stamps, and road names.
Nationalism has suffered from a negative reputation, perhaps a tad unfairly. Though the catastrophe of two world wars has been indelibly imprinted on the world’s psyche, the body count of other -isms, arguably far more horrendous, has received a generous wave off. There is no reason for the intellectual opprobrium towards nationalism alone given the nastier tendencies of other political and cultural movements. In the fear over its explosive divisiveness, the power of nationalism to bring people together is completely overlooked, a power so profound and overwhelming that it inspires solidarity among strangers and even sacrifice. It is doubtful if a modern state can be built on less.
Historically, a community of ideas has not been able to wrest belonging from the nation. Lenin famously claimed that he was betrayed by European communists on the eve of World War I as they gathered under nationalist banners. Mao had a similar grievance with Soviet communism post Stalin, that Moscow’s belief in its leadership of the Communist movement stemmed from Russian nationalism rather than any true internationalism. Today, the European Union struggles to fashion Europeans out of Englishmen, Netherlanders, and Czechs. Interestingly, the EU is also an example of how it has been easier to share sovereignty than dilute national identity – despite repeated rumours of its demise, the supranational grouping has clung on as an important yet secondary identity, perhaps bound by common history and faith more than the memoranda out of Brussels.
In India, the Leftist fear of nationalism is that the country’s overwhelmingly Hindu past would have to be conceded. For a state that has so far extended special privileges to select communities in the guise of minority rights, this would fundamentally alter the idea of India, so much so that it might even be called the birth of the Second Republic. Though it is stated with pride that multiple nations reside within the Indian state, it ought to be considered how many such experiments have been successful in the past – none come to mind. Perhaps the weakness of Indian democracy lies in the inevitable and constant pandering to these national identities?
Instead of trying to be fashionably post-national, it is better to harness the communitarian nature of nationalism to forge a more stable union wherein no group is threatened but neither is any given special dispensation. A confident nation will be a mature state, one which may not only see better governance at home but also be a more valuable member of the international community. As for the excesses of nationalism in the past, what idea have men not abused? Perchance the fault is not in our stars or ideas, dear Brutus, but in ourselves.
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Rich in vitamin C, cranberries are good in sauces.
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Excellent source of vitamin C and a good source of fiber.
Look for cranberries that are shiny and not shriveled. A brown or a deep red color signals freshness. A good, fresh berry should be hard and bounce if dropped on a hard surface.
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Cranberries are unpleasantly tart on their own, but they're excellent for flavoring a sauce, adding to stuffing or in cakes and breads.
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Some Republican lawmakers are growing concerned that a loss of financial support from the powerful Koch brothers’ network could hurt the GOP’s chances in the November midterm elections, NBC News is reporting.
The Koch network spends about $400 million each election cycle on politics and policy, NBC News noted. In the past, a large percentage of the money has gone to elect Republicans to Congress.
Charles Koch now oversees the network since the retirement of his brother David.
But it has announced the group is pulling back its political support and “raising the bar” for a candidate to be endorsed, NBC News noted.
The Koch network and President Donald Trump are divided on the issues of tariffs and immigration, NBC News said.
Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., said he is “very concerned” about the Koch network’s new policy.
“We need all the help we can get right now because the left is very clear because the presidential candidate they’re going to put up in 2020 is going to be very liberal,” Perdue said.
Chris Wilson, director of research, analytics and digital strategy for the Ted Cruz presidential campaign, added: “There are honest disagreements within the GOP on some topics, tariffs and trade obviously being one of them. And the Koch’s strong free market ideology doesn’t fit well with the current set of policies being pushed by the White House.”
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The Great Food Search: Chain Diners
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Our roving food critic Terrance Mc Arthur continues his search for great food in Sanger and the surrounding communities.
Where do you eat when you don’t want to cook? Where do you go when you want good, old-fashioned food that isn’t in a paper bag? There are the family-style diners, where you can get bacon and eggs or a steak dinner, open up to 24 hours a day. This Food Quest explores a sampling of these restaurants. The goal was to choose simple, basic food that would show the strengths and weaknesses of each chain.
We went to Denny’s, Brooks Ranch, Perko’s, and IHOP (International House of Pancakes). There are other places we could have gone (I’m rather fond of the Black Bear Diner), but time and money were factors, here (I didn’t make it to Carrow’s; also, Kings River Life had previously reviewed the Blossom Trail Diner near Sanger, which had been considered as another place to go). At each one, we ordered a breakfast platter of two eggs (over easy), hash brown potatoes, link sausages and toast (boring, perhaps, but we weren’t looking for something out of Iron Chef America), and a chicken-fried steak entrée.
DENNY’S (536 Academy Ave., Sanger):
Started by Harold Butler in 1953 as Danny’s Donuts, Denny’s has more than 1,700 worldwide branches. Using the Build Your Own Grand Slam option, I received two over-easy eggs, hash browns, two sausage links, and two slices of whole wheat toast for $6.49. The Country Fried Steak was offered with “rich country gravy” and two sides (in this case, grilled Red-Skinned Potatoes and Sautéed Spinach [no longer on the menu, but our server offered it as an option]) and Dinner Toast for $11.59. Because I am now older than I ever planned to be, I received a 20% AARP discount.
The Country Fried Steak from Denny's in Sanger.
The eggs broke open nicely with a soft yolk and the hash browns were deemed soft, dreamy and yummy. The meaty-tasting sausage was tangy, but not too spicy. The country-fried steak was not soggy, but it could stand up to lotsa gravy, and there was lotsa gravy. The beefsteak’s edges were a little crunchier/crispier than necessary, but the potatoes were seasoned to perfection, and the Dinner Bread had a rich garlic taste. The spinach was buttery and colorful; Popeye would have loved it!
BROOKS RANCH (1620 E Manning Ave., Reedley):
In the past, I’d had some disappointing experiences at Brooks Ranch, so I came in with low expectations. I was surprised and pleased. The Country Mornin’ Breakfast for $8.45 included two eggs, potatoes, four strips of bacon or four sausage links, and a choice of pancakes, biscuits, or toast. The Chicken Fried Steak for $10.45 came with soup or salad, a potato choice, hot vegetable and Ranch Toast.
This hearty barley soup is from Brooks Ranch in Reedley.
The Beef Barley Soup oozes down your throat with onion and carrot flavor sunk into it, a comfort food that truly comforts. The gravy with chunks of sausage has a subtly peppery taste over a crunchy coating which conceals soft, delicate meat. Friendly corn (the server had said the vegetable would be green beans) sits next to a very soft baked potato, and the thick oval of toast is good for mopping up the gravy. It was a carbohydrate festival, which is why a green vegetable would have been nice. The eggs were good, the sausage peppery and the hash browns were soft and buttery, with a yellowish glow. Could they have been made with Yukon Gold potatoes? There were four types of jelly to slather on the rye bread: Yum!
PERKO’S (625 S Clovis Ave, Fresno):
Perko’s has changed to a newspaper-style menu that is hard for some people to follow, but Black Bear Diner fans will enjoy it. The secondary dining area has televisions showing sports, and a set mounted toward the main area has rotating views of the parking areas, so you can watch your car while you eat. There is an ice cream counter by the checkout where you can get a cone for the road. The restaurant seems geared more to the senior trade. The food was all right, but I would happily like to mention that the breakfast had four sausages, not just two (Carnivore alert!).
IHOP (1100 Shaw Ave., Clovis):
Enough jokes have been made about the International-ness of the House of Pancakes for me to not bother with them. The Quick Two Egg Breakfast for $9.29 offered two eggs (oddly enough), hash browns, two bacon or sausage, and toast. The Country Fried Steak was eight ounces of beefsteak “smothered in gravy,” mashed potatoes and Steamed Broccoli for $10.99. We added a salad for $1.99.
A basic (yet hearty) breakfast from the Clovis IHOP.
The hash browns were crispy on the outside, with a soft interior. The eggs were good and soft and the sausages were lightly spicy. The salad featured HUGE tomatoes and airy croutons that were easy to stab, although the near-opaque Italian dressing should be applied in small amounts (strong stuff!). The coating of the spreading-all-the-way-across-the-platter steak had a hearty crunch, but was not overcooked and the tender meat still had life to it. The gravy outshines the potatoes, even though it can be hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.
What can I tell you? These are not places for special-occasion cuisine. They serve food in a timely manner at a reasonable price. I was pleased by the Denny’s staff offering an off-menu option, the size of the meat at IHOP, being able to get rye bread at Brooks Ranch, and Perko’s Parking-Lot Cam for the Paranoid. The place that would bring me back for the test dishes is…Brooks Ranch, although I admit to sneaking into IHoP for Chicken Florentine (or Garden Stuffed) Crepes. Happy eating!
What’s up next? Donut shops! Which ones would you recommend?
Check out more food articles and more of Terrance’s Great Food Search column in our Food Fun section.
Terrance V. Mc Arthur is a California-born, Valley-raised librarian/entertainer/writer. He lives in Sanger, four blocks from the library, with his wife, his daughter, and a spinster cat.
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Heart Failure With Midrange Ejection Fraction in Patients Admitted for Acute Decompensation: A Report from the Japanese Multicenter Registry
MAKOTO TAKEI, S. H.U.N. KOHSAKA, YASUYUKI SHIRAISHI, AYUMI GODA, Y. U.J.I. NAGATOMO, ATSUSHI MIZUNO, YASUMORI SUZINO, TAKASHI KOHNO, KEIICHI FUKUDA, TSUTOMU YOSHIKAWA
Department of Internal Medicine (Cardiology)
Background: Patients having heart failure with midrange ejection fraction (HFmrEF: 40% ≤ EF < 50%) are increasingly being considered a new subset of the population with heart failure. Despite recent advances in heart-failure treatment strategies, the prognosis of these patients has not improved substantially over time. In addition, the significance of this new phenotype in hospitalized patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), another population whose prognosis has not improved, also remains poorly understood. This study aimed to describe the clinical characteristics, prognosis and treatment responses of patients with HFmrEF hospitalized for ADHF. Methods: On the basis of consecutive inpatient data from a multicenter ADHF registry, 651 of 3572 patients (17.1%) were classified as having HFmrEF. Prognostic factors predicting composite outcomes, defined as all-cause death and heart failure readmission, as well as all-cause death alone, were analyzed. Results: In the median follow-up duration of 724 days, both composite endpoints and all-cause death alone were comparable in those with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, HFmrEF and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. Age, anemia, hyponatremia, elevated blood urea nitrogen, chronic kidney disease, and elevated plasma brain natriuretic peptide levels were significant predictors of composite outcomes in HFmrEF. Conclusions: Roughly one-sixth of the patients with ADHF had HFmrEF. The long-term prognosis of patients with HFmrEF was not significantly different from that of patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in the population with ADHF. Risk factors for adverse outcomes in HFmrEF were also similar to those for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and HFmrEF in the hospitalized population with ADHF.
Journal of Cardiac Failure
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2019.05.010
Brain Natriuretic Peptide
Chronic Renal Insufficiency
acute decompensated heart failure
Heart failure with midrange ejection fraction
TAKEI, MAKOTO., KOHSAKA, S. H. U. N., SHIRAISHI, YASUYUKI., GODA, AYUMI., NAGATOMO, Y. U. J. I., MIZUNO, ATSUSHI., ... YOSHIKAWA, TSUTOMU. (2019). Heart Failure With Midrange Ejection Fraction in Patients Admitted for Acute Decompensation: A Report from the Japanese Multicenter Registry. Journal of Cardiac Failure. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2019.05.010
Heart Failure With Midrange Ejection Fraction in Patients Admitted for Acute Decompensation : A Report from the Japanese Multicenter Registry. / TAKEI, MAKOTO; KOHSAKA, S. H.U.N.; SHIRAISHI, YASUYUKI; GODA, AYUMI; NAGATOMO, Y. U.J.I.; MIZUNO, ATSUSHI; SUZINO, YASUMORI; KOHNO, TAKASHI; FUKUDA, KEIICHI; YOSHIKAWA, TSUTOMU.
In: Journal of Cardiac Failure, 01.01.2019.
TAKEI, MAKOTO, KOHSAKA, SHUN, SHIRAISHI, YASUYUKI, GODA, AYUMI, NAGATOMO, YUJI, MIZUNO, ATSUSHI, SUZINO, YASUMORI, KOHNO, TAKASHI, FUKUDA, KEIICHI & YOSHIKAWA, TSUTOMU 2019, 'Heart Failure With Midrange Ejection Fraction in Patients Admitted for Acute Decompensation: A Report from the Japanese Multicenter Registry', Journal of Cardiac Failure. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2019.05.010
TAKEI MAKOTO, KOHSAKA SHUN, SHIRAISHI YASUYUKI, GODA AYUMI, NAGATOMO YUJI, MIZUNO ATSUSHI et al. Heart Failure With Midrange Ejection Fraction in Patients Admitted for Acute Decompensation: A Report from the Japanese Multicenter Registry. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 2019 Jan 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2019.05.010
TAKEI, MAKOTO ; KOHSAKA, S. H.U.N. ; SHIRAISHI, YASUYUKI ; GODA, AYUMI ; NAGATOMO, Y. U.J.I. ; MIZUNO, ATSUSHI ; SUZINO, YASUMORI ; KOHNO, TAKASHI ; FUKUDA, KEIICHI ; YOSHIKAWA, TSUTOMU. / Heart Failure With Midrange Ejection Fraction in Patients Admitted for Acute Decompensation : A Report from the Japanese Multicenter Registry. In: Journal of Cardiac Failure. 2019.
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"Mom called me!" Behavioral and prefrontal responses of infants to self-names spoken by their mothers
Masahiro Imafuku, Yoko Hakuno, Mariko Uchida-Ota, Jyun'ichi Yamamoto, Yasuyo Minagawa
Department of Sociology, Psychology, Education and Human Sciences
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Development of a sense of self is a fundamental process needed for human social interaction. Although functional neuroimaging studies have revealed the importance of medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in self-referencing, how this function develops in infancy remains poorly understood. To determine the cerebral basis underlying processing of self-related stimuli, we used behavioral measures and functional multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure prefrontal cortical responses in 6-month-old infants hearing their own names. We also investigated the influence of a mother's voice on name perception in infants - an ability that plays a crucial role in the recognition of social signals. Experiment 1 measured the behavioral preferences of infants for their own names and for other names, spoken either by their mothers or by strangers. Results showed that infants significantly preferred their own name to other names, regardless of speaker type. Experiment 2 examined hemodynamic responses to the same four conditions in the prefrontal cortex. Compared with other names, hearing their own names, especially when spoken by their mother, elicited greater activity in the infant's dorsal mPFC. Furthermore, the magnitude of the cerebral response correlated with the degree of behavioral preference only when involving their mother's voice. These findings suggest that, particularly in the context of their mothers' voice, the dorsal mPFC of infants is already sensitive to social signals related to self at 6. months. At the same time, familiarity and affection related processing are also discussed as possible factors modulating dorsal mPFC activation at this age.
NeuroImage
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.08.034
Published - 2014 Dec 1
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Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
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Imafuku, M., Hakuno, Y., Uchida-Ota, M., Yamamoto, J., & Minagawa, Y. (2014). "Mom called me!" Behavioral and prefrontal responses of infants to self-names spoken by their mothers. NeuroImage, 103, 476-484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.08.034
"Mom called me!" Behavioral and prefrontal responses of infants to self-names spoken by their mothers. / Imafuku, Masahiro; Hakuno, Yoko; Uchida-Ota, Mariko; Yamamoto, Jyun'ichi; Minagawa, Yasuyo.
In: NeuroImage, Vol. 103, 01.12.2014, p. 476-484.
Imafuku, M, Hakuno, Y, Uchida-Ota, M, Yamamoto, J & Minagawa, Y 2014, '"Mom called me!" Behavioral and prefrontal responses of infants to self-names spoken by their mothers', NeuroImage, vol. 103, pp. 476-484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.08.034
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AU - Yamamoto, Jyun'ichi
AU - Minagawa, Yasuyo
N2 - Development of a sense of self is a fundamental process needed for human social interaction. Although functional neuroimaging studies have revealed the importance of medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in self-referencing, how this function develops in infancy remains poorly understood. To determine the cerebral basis underlying processing of self-related stimuli, we used behavioral measures and functional multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure prefrontal cortical responses in 6-month-old infants hearing their own names. We also investigated the influence of a mother's voice on name perception in infants - an ability that plays a crucial role in the recognition of social signals. Experiment 1 measured the behavioral preferences of infants for their own names and for other names, spoken either by their mothers or by strangers. Results showed that infants significantly preferred their own name to other names, regardless of speaker type. Experiment 2 examined hemodynamic responses to the same four conditions in the prefrontal cortex. Compared with other names, hearing their own names, especially when spoken by their mother, elicited greater activity in the infant's dorsal mPFC. Furthermore, the magnitude of the cerebral response correlated with the degree of behavioral preference only when involving their mother's voice. These findings suggest that, particularly in the context of their mothers' voice, the dorsal mPFC of infants is already sensitive to social signals related to self at 6. months. At the same time, familiarity and affection related processing are also discussed as possible factors modulating dorsal mPFC activation at this age.
AB - Development of a sense of self is a fundamental process needed for human social interaction. Although functional neuroimaging studies have revealed the importance of medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in self-referencing, how this function develops in infancy remains poorly understood. To determine the cerebral basis underlying processing of self-related stimuli, we used behavioral measures and functional multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure prefrontal cortical responses in 6-month-old infants hearing their own names. We also investigated the influence of a mother's voice on name perception in infants - an ability that plays a crucial role in the recognition of social signals. Experiment 1 measured the behavioral preferences of infants for their own names and for other names, spoken either by their mothers or by strangers. Results showed that infants significantly preferred their own name to other names, regardless of speaker type. Experiment 2 examined hemodynamic responses to the same four conditions in the prefrontal cortex. Compared with other names, hearing their own names, especially when spoken by their mother, elicited greater activity in the infant's dorsal mPFC. Furthermore, the magnitude of the cerebral response correlated with the degree of behavioral preference only when involving their mother's voice. These findings suggest that, particularly in the context of their mothers' voice, the dorsal mPFC of infants is already sensitive to social signals related to self at 6. months. At the same time, familiarity and affection related processing are also discussed as possible factors modulating dorsal mPFC activation at this age.
KW - Infants
KW - Mother's voice
KW - Near-infrared spectroscopy
KW - Self-name
KW - The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)
U2 - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.08.034
DO - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.08.034
JO - NeuroImage
JF - NeuroImage
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.08.034
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Carbonate Effects on Hexavalent Uranium Adsorption by Iron Oxyhydroxide
Wazne, Mahmoud; Korfiatis, George P.; Meng, Xiaoguang
URL: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es034166m
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es034166m
Carbonate dramatically affects the adsorption of uranium (U(VI)) onto iron hydroxides and its mobility in the natural environment. Batch tests, zeta potential measurements, and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic studies were utilized to characterize the nature of U(VI) adsorption on ferrihydrite. Adsorption isotherms demonstrated that carbonate had a negative effect on U(VI) adsorption on ferrihydrite at pH >6. Zeta potential measurements indicated that U(VI) was adsorbed as a cationic species (SO−UO2+) in the absence of carbonate and as anionic U(VI) complexes in the presence of carbonate at neutral pH. FTIR spectroscopic measurement of adsorbed U(VI) suggested that it was retained as uranyl carbonate complexes in the presence of carbonate. An increase in carbonate concentration caused a shift in the antisymmetric stretching vibration of the uranyl (UO22+) U−O bond toward lower wavenumbers, which indicated an increasing carbonate effect in the adsorbed uranyl carbonate complexes. The adsorbed U(VI) species were successfully incorporated into a surface complexation model to describe the adsorption of U(VI) by ferrihydrite from artificial solutions and contaminated water.
Wazne, M., Korfiatis, G. P., & Meng, X. (2003). Carbonate effects on hexavalent uranium adsorption by iron oxyhydroxide. Environmental Science & Technology, 37(16), 3619-3624.
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“Move forward, for life wasn’t meant to be traveled backwards” ~ Anonymous
MONTHLY QUIZ: Prior to moving in, Tenant performs a walk-through of the property and asks Landlord about the driveway, which is on an incline and includes several broken pieces of asphalt. Landlord states he will either “patch [it] or replace it.” The lease is silent as to the driveway. Tenant claims that she requested driveway repairs “at least five [more] times” over the ensuing year. Tenant falls when a piece of the driveway about the size of a football breaks under Tenant’s foot. Tenant sues, alleging Landlord is negligent for failing to warn Tenant about the condition of the driveway, failing to repair the driveway, and permitting the driveway to exist in a “state of disrepair.” Landlord moves for summary judgment, asserting a lack of duty and arguing that the condition was open and obvious and the broken piece of asphalt “de minimus.” Tenant responds that Landlord was in control of the driveway, since he made a promise to repair the driveway, and that Landlord voluntarily undertook a duty to repair the driveway. Was Landlord bound by his alleged oral promise to repair the driveway? Should the yet unbroken driveway piece that broke be considered open and obvious if the driveway is in a poor overall condition? You be the judge. (Answer below).
TENANT OWES NO DUTY TO PROTECT CUSTOMER FROM INJURY ON SIDEWALK OUTSIDE STORE: Plaintiff was standing on the sidewalk outside a storefront owned by Owner-Landlord and leased by Tenant. Driver sped into a parking space facing the store, but then accidentally pressed the accelerator rather than the brake, causing the car to jump the curb and injure Plaintiff and her husband. Trial Court granted Tenant’s summary judgment motion. In affirming the dismissal of Tenant, the Appellate Court reasoned that although Tenant owed a general duty to provide a reasonably safe means of ingress to and egress from the store, such duty did not include the common area which, by virtue of the lease and the facts, was owned, maintained, and exclusively controlled by Owner. Held: the duty to protect Plaintiff from the risk of being struck by an out-of-control vehicle while Plaintiff was standing on a common area did not extend to Tenant.Hougan v. Ulta Salon Cosmetics and Fragrance, Inc., 2013 IL App (2nd) 130270 (Nov. 18, 2013)
INCIDENT REPORTS WERE NOT PRIVILEGED, MUST BE DISCLOSED IN DISCOVERY: Defendant-Hotel withheld four incident reports that Hotel’s employees prepared and forwarded to Hotel’s risk management group when hotel guests reported an accident in connection with their stay. Hotel asserted that the attorney-client and work-product privileges protected the incident reports since they were prepared - pursuant to corporate policy - in anticipation of litigation and to aid in possible future litigation. In determining that reports were not protected by the attorney-client privilege, the Court indicated that while the reports were forwarded to Hotel’s risk management group, Hotel did not provide evidence that the reports were forwarded for the purpose of seeking legal advice, that the reports were submitted in confidence, and that the reports would be kept confidential. Hotel failed to provide the Court with evidence tending to show that Hotel’s attorneys directed Hotel’s employees to prepare the reports, or that the information contained in the reports conveyed an attorney’s thought processes and mental impressions. Nelson v. Intercontinental Hotels Group Operating Corp. et al, 1:12-cv-08485 (N.Dist.Ill., Nov. 1, 2013)
INSURANCE LAW - “SUIT” NOT REQUIRED TO TRIGGER INDEMNITY OBLIGATION:Insured General Contractor built a grain storage facility for Customer. When construction was 99% complete, several trusses in the facility sunk, causing the concrete walls in the center of the facility to bow outward. Insurer denied General Contractor’s claim on several policy grounds. Insured General Contractor settled with Customer by agreeing to pay for property and consequential damages, and then sought indemnification from Insurer. As a result, no pleadings were ever filed by Customer against Insured in any forum. In the ensuing declaratory action, Insurer moved to dismiss Insured General Contractor’s claim for indemnification since no “suit” (i.e. which the Policy defined as “a civil proceeding,” “arbitration” or “other alternative dispute resolution”) was ever filed against Insured. In reversing the Trial Court’s dismissal of Insured’s suit, Appellate Court stated that the only reference to “suit” appeared in the sections of the policy referring to Insurer’s duty to defend. Thus, without that limiting language in the indemnification provision, the Policy did not require the filing of a “suit” before Insured could seek indemnification for the settlement it paid. Selective Insurance Company of South Carolina v. Cherrytree Companies, Inc., 2013 IL App (3d) 120959 (Nov. 04, 2013)
ANSWER TO QUIZ: Landlord wins. Construing facts in favor of the Tenant, the Court must assume that Landlord made such a promise and that the driveway was in a dangerous condition. However, Tenant admittedly knew about the driveway’s condition and continued to use it. Given the overall poor condition of the driveway, which was open, obvious and known, Tenant was under an obligation to use ordinary perception, intelligence, and reasonable care for her own safety – which would have led a reasonable person to understand and appreciate that walking on a driveway with broken asphalt as an indication the driveway may continue to deteriorate and give way, resulting in a fall. Though Landlord may have promised to repair the driveway, Tenant was aware of the driveway’s condition and continued to walk on it. Case dismissed. Nida v. Spurgeon, 2013 IL App (4th) 130136 (Oct. 30, 2013)
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"There was a barrister in the room, and Mrs Dobbs Broughton ought to have known better..."
Posted Friday morning, December 27, 2019.
Detail from “A Woman of Ambition” by James Tissot, circa 1883-1885. Via Wikimedia Commons.
"A woman situated as was Mrs. Dobbs Broughton cannot altogether ignore these terrible rules..."
"I am very glad to have the opportunity of shaking hands with you," said Crosbie; and then he retired, as it had become his duty to wait with his arm ready for Mrs. Dobbs Broughton. Having married an earl's daughter he was selected for that honour. There was a barrister in the room, and Mrs. Dobbs Broughton ought to have known better. As she professed to be guided in such matters by the rules laid down by the recognized authorities, she ought to have been aware that a man takes no rank from his wife. But she was entitled I think to merciful consideration for her error. A woman situated as was Mrs. Dobbs Broughton cannot altogether ignore these terrible rules. She cannot let her guests draw lots for precedence. She must select some one for the honour of her own arm. And amidst the intricacies of rank how is it possible for a woman to learn and to remember everything? If Providence would only send Mrs. Dobbs Broughton a Peer for every dinner-party, the thing would go more easily; but what woman will tell me, off-hand, which should go out of a room first: a C.B., an Admiral of the Blue, the Dean of Barchester, or the Dean of Arches? Who is to know who was everybody's father? How am I to remember that young Thompson's progenitor was made a baronet and not a knight when he was Lord Mayor? Perhaps Mrs. Dobbs Broughton ought to have known that Mr. Crosbie could have gained nothing by his wife's rank, and the barrister may be considered to have been not immoderately severe when he simply spoke of her afterwards as the silliest and most ignorant old woman he had ever met in his life. Eames with the lovely Miss Demolines on his arm was the last to move before the hostess. Mr. Dobbs Broughton had led the way energetically with old Lady Demolines. There was no doubt about Lady Demolines,—as his wife had told him, because her title marked her. Her husband had been a physician in Paris, and had been knighted in consequence of some benefit supposed to have been done to some French scion of royalty,—when such scions in France were royal and not imperial. Lady Demolines' rank was not much, certainly; but it served to mark her, and was beneficial.
---from “The Last Chronicle of Barset” by Anthony Trollope.
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PLACE: Can land rights for farmers save Ghana’s cocoa sector?
Photo by: Rena Singer
The industry regulator has encouraged farmers to clear away old trees but under traditional agreements, a farmer's land rights are tied to the crops he is growing
The following is an excerpt from an article posted on Thomson Reuters Foundation PLACE. Follow the link for the full article.
By Nellie Peyton
NYAME NNAE, Ghana – Since Emmanuel Agyekum took over a decade ago as chief of Nyame Nnae, a poor cocoa farming village in western Ghana, people’s incomes have fallen and his worries have increased.
The cocoa trees planted behind wood-plank houses are getting old, and produce only a fraction of what they used to.
Last year, money ran out between harvest seasons and people struggled to buy food.
“The cocoa trees are dying and it is a worry to us all,” said Agyekum, sitting in a plastic chair in a dirt yard.
Cocoa yields are declining across Ghana, the world’s second-biggest producer after neighbouring Ivory Coast, where about 800,000 family farmers supply cocoa beans to chocolate companies such as Hershey’s and Nestle, according to the government.
In Nyame Nnae, The Hershey Company, cocoa supplier ECOM and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) tested a possible solution.
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Why I Refuse to Get Upset By Subtly Deceptive Advertising
Last weekend I was lured to an online calendar website with the following promise: “Everything up to 60% off!”
Sixty percent!
While I was visiting there I found a calendar that was on sale for $13.49 — $1.50 off the regular price of $14.99.
Now, after taking a couple of minutes to do the math, I became a bit put off because, let’s face it, that’s only 10% off — not 60%.
That’s when I realized the website had pulled a fast one on me.
The advertisement said everything was up to 60% off. And there’s a big difference between “up to 60% off” and “60% off.”
The truth is, if I had paid closer attention, I wouldn’t have fallen for one of the oldest advertising tricks in the book, which is why I really can’t be too upset. They got me fair and square.
Besides, I like pulling fast ones myself; I always have.
When I was about eight-years-old, I woke up early one morning and put salt in the sugar bowl. I’ll never forget watching my dad spit his first gulp of coffee that day all over the kitchen table.
As a dad, I love pulling pranks on my kids too. Of course, now that they’re both teenagers, being a successful prankster isn’t as easy as it used to be. The days of watching them jump out of their pants after they open an envelope of “rattlesnake eggs” are long gone.
Years ago, an old girlfriend and I bought a lottery ticket after the jackpot had reached some ridiculous sum. No, I can’t remember exactly how big the grand prize actually was — but let’s just say it was a billion bucks. Or so. Whatever it was, it had to be an enormous figure because as we all know, playing the lottery is a sucker’s game.
Needless to say, I knew we were going to lose before we bought the damn ticket, but I was determined to get my dollar’s worth anyway.
The next morning, while I was at the table eating breakfast and reading something called a newspaper (if you’re under 30, ask your parents), I went into action.
“Hey, look!” I said to my flame, feigning mild surprise. “Here are the winning lottery numbers. Get our ticket, Sweetheart, and let’s see if we won!”
“Yeah right!” she said. “We never win anything.”
“You’re probably right, but let’s see.”
And with that, my girlfriend grabbed our lottery ticket off the counter and then waited for me to read her the winning numbers.
Of course, instead of reading the actual winning numbers printed in the newspaper, I began announcing our ticket numbers which, unbeknownst to her, I had written down while she was still sleeping.
“16,” I said.
“Then we just won $5,” I said.
“Good, keep going.”
“Shut. Up!”
“That ticket’s gotta be worth at least $100!” I said.
By now it was obvious that my girlfriend was completely duped. So much so that I immediately considered fessing up and begging forgiveness — but I quickly came to my senses.
This time my steady just looked at me and smiled.
“I said ’45.'”
“No way!” I said. “If that’s true we’ve probably won at least $10,000.”
With an almost maniacal laugh, my girlfriend gave a one-word reply: “Way!” At this point in the ruse, I swear to you that her brown eyes had turned emerald green and, if I’m not mistaken, her pupils morphed into dollar signs.
I decided to double down on the deception. “If you’re pulling my leg, I’ll …”
“I’m not pulling your leg, Len. Look –”
“Whoa! Are you crazy?” I said, raising the newspaper up to shield my eyes from our “winning” lottery ticket. “Don’t show me that ticket now. For God’s sake! You’ll break our string of luck.”
I then gave my girlfriend, one last dramatic stare before I called out the last number, phrasing it as a question for added effect. “Forty-nine?”
And with that, my girlfriend was, without question, the happiest girl on Earth. Unfortunately, that only lasted for about 200 milliseconds.
Then reality set in.
Before I knew it, she had grabbed the newspaper out of my hand and was checking the real lottery numbers for herself.
A few seconds after that, I was wearing a half-eaten bowl of Cap’n Crunch atop my head.
I know what you’re thinking: In the end, was the milk-and-cereal bath you received really worth it?
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That’s a good wheeze!
Where I work, we recently sent one of our admin girls into town to the local branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland to change a scottish ten pound note. Completely unnecessary as Scottish notes are perfectly legal tender in England 🙂 Easy fodder really, as the same girl thinks Hitler was australian…
“Hitler was Australian…”
Now that’s funny, Matt! 🙂
Lance@MoneyLife&More says
Haha that is a great story. I considered buying a power ball ticket but decided against it. It is fun to dream though… although captain crunch baths probably aren’t quite as fun.
Dominique Brown says
I can imagine you laughing so hard at your then girlfriend as you troll’d her on the winning lottery numbers.
At least no one will believe you when you win the Powerball, eh?
I love to put people on too, but the consequences are usually more harmless. I usually do not put people on about money, you can see the consequence with the cereal.
Crystal @ Prairie Ecothrifter says
You’re so lucky you only ended up with a bowl of cereal on your head! I think my husband would have had physical pain to deal with…you don’t mess with a money girl about money… 😉
Charlene says
Loved this! 🙂
I have a feeling we now know why the girl in this story is an “ex”. Funny story though!
AverageJoe says
I thought you were about to tell me the calendar was 60% off because it only included 40% of the days….
Hey now … I do all the comedy here, Joe. 😉
John@MoneyPrinciple says
Nice one! Having kids is real fun though.
Mine still fall for some of my little tricks and occasionally they get me back. And their friends also suffer!
It’s sometimes quite educational but we say that we have kids in order to embarrass them as teenagers because they sure as hell embarrassed us when they were younger. So we are just getting our own back – and probably ensuring that we won’t end up in a nice care home!
Seriously though jokes and humour are what keep us all sane and I don’t think that has ever changed.
Derek Knight - Freeat33 says
Couldn’t help but notice you aren’t with her anymore? What happened! Maybe it ended with the bowl of cereal on your head?
Adam Kutner says
I’m totally with you here, but a suggestion to first time or newly initiated pranksers, always start while the subject is at least 10 feet from a knife or other weapon, and does not have a history of seeking revenge while you are asleep…
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The Threat to Reading
December 21, 2016 by Samuel D. James
One of the most widely quoted sentences of Sir Francis Bacon–it comes from his essay “Of Studies”–concerns the reading of books: “Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” This is usually taken as a wise or sententious general comment about the worthiness of various texts, but Ann Blair shows that Bacon was making a very practical recommendation to people who were overwhelmed by the availability of books and couldn’t imagine how they were going to read them all. Bacon tells such worried folks that they can’t read them all, and so should develop strategies of discernment that enable them to make wise decisions about how to invest their time. I think Bacon would have applauded Clay Shirky’s comment that we suffer not from “information overload” but from “filter failure.” Bacon’s famous sentence is really a strategy for filtering.
Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, p. 110-111.
This is such an important, and liberating, point. You can’t read it all, and almost certainly shouldn’t try. Indiscriminate buying of books to fill out one’s “personal library” looks great on Instagram, but in practically every circumstance, it undermines the very intellectual pursuit it mimics. We instinctively guard the reading life against the threats of internet, TV, et al. But for some of us, the bigger threat to our intellectual formation may be our own vanity. Reading 1 book a month won’t buy many retweets. But between someone who digests 12 pleasurable, meaningful books a year, and someone who reads 1/6 of 50 different books, is there really a question which one is the actual “reader”?
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Maybe I have misunderstood this last statement “But between someone who digests 12 pleasurable, meaningful books a year, and someone who reads 1/6 of 50 different books, is there really a question which one is the actual “reader”?”
It seems to me that it is highly likely that when one reads 1/6 of a book, they may have gleaned from it what was important and realized the remainder of the book is just a rehash of what was to be properly digested.
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Leung Mong Sum
Digital and Transcendental, Death and Light, 2019
Eventually Obsolete, 2018
Untitled (A Mark/ Self-Portrait), 2017
The Flag Of Hong Kong, Waving In Wind, 2016
Celestial, Lake Michigan, 2017
A Conversation with Gabriella, 2017
When My Mind is Clear but My Body is Weak, 2016
Untitled (Blue), 2016
I Picked This Up So When I’m Not Here,
You Can Look At It, 2016
“Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb”, 2015
b. 1995, Hong Kong
Joseph Leung Mong-sum is a Hong Kong-based artist who graduated from the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong with first class honors, and went on an exchange program at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University in New York. He was subsequently enrolled in the MFA program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Leung’s research explores our existence in the contemporary and digtial milieu. He co-founded an artist-run space called the Negative Space located at the artist village of Foo Tak Building in Wanchai, Hong Kong. Recently, Leung has been shortlisted for the 24th ifva Awards (Media Arts category), Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize 2018 and the WMA Masters Photographic Awards 2017/18.
His works had previously been shown in the United States, India, Switzerland and Hong Kong and are privately collected.
Master of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Bachelor of Art (Hons) in Creative Media (First Class Honors), School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
Exchange program, College of Visual and Performing Art, Syracuse University, New York
Digital and Transcendental, Death and Light, Cheng Ming Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Eventually Obsolete, Cheng Ming Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Joint Exhibition
We Weren’t Here, Floating Project, Hong Kong
CINEMA 2.0 Media Arts Exhibition: Acrylic Dreams, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize, The Hive Spring, Hong Kong
HKFOREWORD 2018, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
WMA Masters and WMA Film Exhibition - Transition, Hong Kong central library exhibition gallery, Hong Kong
MATLAB & Guests. Drawing & Painting: (Trans)medial experiments, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
Julian Lee Asia One Photographic Awards: Thoughts, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong
October School 2017, Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi, India
Fine Art Asia 2017, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong
First Smash 4 Art Exhibition, Art Experience Gallery, Hong Kong
The SCM Annual 2017: Unfold, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong
Happily Ever After, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
Untitled, Comstock Art Facility, Syracuse, New York
The SCM Annual 2016: Lossless, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong
PhotoSynth, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong
Award/ Grant
The 23rd ifva Awards - Media Arts Category Finalist, 2019
Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize 2018 Shortlisted, 2018
WMA Masters 2017/2018 Finalist, 2018
First Smash 4 Art Project Finalist, 2017
Julian Lee Asia One Photographic Awards, 2017
Postgraduate Studentship, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2017
HIII International Photography 2016 Merit Award
Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation Exchange Scholarships (2016 - 2017)
HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund – Talent Development Scholarship (2014-2015)
Hopeful Rubber Group Scholarships (2014-2015)
LEUNG MONG SUM © 2018. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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“I get the sense that a lot of bands today are designing themselves to get a good review in the hip blogs, and that is probably the safest and most cowardly thing you can do as an artist.” – Trent Reznor in The Daily Record
I posted this on my Facebook page and got a lot of interesting comments, some ragging on Trent Reznor, but many equally frustrated with the current decline of rock.
Rock music is extremely stale, especially considering that the bland, commercial-ready, bluesy 60s retread of The Black Keys seems to be the most widely respected contemporary rock (Go listen to Cream instead – better songwriting.) In fact, The Black Keys were a chief inspiration for calling Libel’s last LP “Music For Car Commercials” – a significant portion of their blowup seems to have to do with their appearance in a slew of advertisements.
But bands designing themselves to get good reviews on hip blogs?!? Sounds like mainstream acts perfecting their sound to appeal to the A&R man. Except “blog” here is code for “smaller music publication,” the ones that are supposed to champion the independent underdogs but increasingly seem to write about the latest Beyonce hoopla (better clicks and pageviews, because those are what drive ad revenue in digital media). No, the “blogs” seek out raw talent keeping it real, pushing their own sounds and styles… Don’t they?
Indie/alternative critics (by which I mean those not focused on mainstream, major label-produced pap) are more concerned with categorization these days instead of criticism. How does this group fit into the narrative of this genre? It’s similar to how news and political reporters try to manipulate the most recent events into their overarching view of the world – the narrative. That has happened because real-time technology has killed the idea of “breaking news,” or really news itself. Most newswriting now is news analysis.
The massive ocean of music being released now – thank you, digital democratization – is daunting for all of us, not just critics. In order to work their way through it and supposedly separate the wheat from the chaff, the critics employ narratives for segmenting artists – shoegaze, grindcore, witchhouse, etc. These genres also have built-in audiences, listeners who actively associate themselves with these labels. In turn, the critics are feeding their audiences, and preferably making the music sites money by smacking their eyeballs all over their pages.
So the artists who correspond best with these genres/narratives (preferably with some kind of marketing schtick to differentiate) get attention while the ones that don’t (perhaps because they blend genres in unexpected ways) are ignored. Take CHVRCHES – MOR 80s-style synth pop that seems to have stood out because of its singer’s Scottish lilt (I once read it described as adorable – not condescending at all).
It’s not surprising then that you see smaller groups who are desperate for attention designing themselves to fit into these critical narratives. “Indie” musicians (I mean this as musicians more concerned with their art than making money) used to (and many like myself still do) seek out music outlets that show preference to a similar sound, but Trent is complaining about bands that do the exact opposite.
More than cowardly, I find it lame – of course we expect major-label, cash-hungry artists to modify their sounds to sell more, but acts searching for the tiniest amount of recognition doing the same to appease “bloggers” (who are themselves trying to drive pennies from digital advertising) are downright disheartening. Even more so when they actually get attention or build buzz – theoretically they’re squeezing out artists pushing boundaries by doing their own thing.
I personally know artists who admit they’re doing this, some who are witnessing success. In a time where the music industry is facing serious economic constraints, wagging the dog is certainly a way to go. But this is a vicious circle that discourages creativity and risk-taking – commercial success becomes about rehashing what came before, not building on it to break new ground. Thus, the music is dull and unmemorable because it’s mere retread. Rock becomes increasingly marginalized and serves as background music, because listeners can’t wade through the sonic morass and lose faith in their guides – the critics.
I could say small record labels have the opportunity to pick up the slack, but I think they too are stuck in a low-risk mindset (keep a defensive posture during a downturn), and worse – they’re following the lead of the critics.
This entry was posted in rant and tagged blogs, critics, genre battles, music industry, The Black Keys, Trent Reznor on May 13, 2014 by libelmusic.
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How To Size the Image Used for an Image Target
How To Define Image Target Parameters
Image Targets represent images that Vuforia Engine can detect and track. Unlike traditional fiducial markers, data matrix codes, and QR codes, Image Targets do not need special black and white regions or codes to be recognized. The Engine detects and tracks the features that are naturally found in the image itself by comparing these natural features against a known target resource database. Once the Image Target is detected, Vuforia Engine will track the image as long as it is at least partially in the camera’s field of view.
Common uses of Image Targets include recognizing and augmenting printed media and product packaging for marketing campaigns, gaming, and visualizing products in the environment where the product was intended to be used.
Supported Images
Image targets can be created with the Vuforia Target Manager using JPG or PNG images in RGB or grayscale. The size of the input images must 2 MB or less. Features extracted from these images are stored in a database, which can then be downloaded and packaged together with the application. The database can then be used by Vuforia Engine for runtime comparisons.
Image Targets should be viewed under moderately bright and diffused lighting. The surface of the image should be evenly lit.
Working with Image Targets
There are two phases to developing with Image Targets. You first need to design your target images and then upload them to the Vuforia Target Manager for processing and evaluation.
Designing Target Images
Image Targets can use any planar image that provides sufficient detail to be detected by Vuforia Engine. The following articles will help you select appropriate target surfaces and provide guidelines on how to design and evaluate target images.
See: Optimizing Target Detection and Tracking Stability
Uploading and Managing Image Targets
Image targets can be incorporated into your apps using either an embedded Device Database or an online Cloud Database. The Vuforia Target Manager creates image targets. It processes images to generate both data and visual representations of the target features. It also provides the target's expected detection and tracking performance rating. Image targets can also be created for use in cloud recognition databases.
See: Comparison of Device and Cloud Databases
The Image Targets sample shows you how to implement and configure Image Targets in an application. You can customize these samples with your own targets and content.
The Cloud Recognition sample shows how to use Image Targets with the Vuforia Cloud Recognition service and how to develop apps that execute and respond to queries to the service.
Using Extended Tracking with Image Targets
Extended Tracking improves tracking robustness by using features of the environment surrounding the target. It enables you to use larger models and to place them farther away from the face of the target. Use Extended Tracking when your target will be staged in a stable environment and won't be moved by the user. Moving the target or changing its environment when Extended Tracking is activated can corrupt tracking.
Using Virtual Buttons with Image Targets
Virtual Buttons enable you to know when a specific area of the target image has been covered by the user. They provide a way to make Image Targets interactive. The following articles explain how to define and configure Virtual Buttons and how to add them to an Image Target.
See: How To Implement Virtual Buttons
How To Access and Modify Targets at Run Time
How To Modify the Dataset Configuration XML File
When the image is being uploaded to the Target Manager, we recommend scaling the image to be uploaded to 320 pixels or larger width. During the resizing process, anti-aliasing is performed on the uploaded image. This action is perfectly acceptable for photos; however, this action may not always be desirable.
To avoid experiencing the anti-aliasing impact, you can ensure that the uploaded image is at least 320 pixels in width. Stretching and softening in the image due to a server-side scaling step results in a lower feature count and worse local contrast in the image. This may not be visible immediately, but such targets can result in poor target detection and tracking.
The parameters of an Image Target are defined in the Target Manager, according to the following specifications. The Virtual Buttons parameter can be added to the config.xml file returned by the Target Manager with the target's dataset.
Target size
Actual size of the image target in 3D scene units.
Developer must specify the target size when creating the target online or in the Database Configuration XML file. The Database Configuration XML file is generated by the Target Manager, but once created, it can be modified by the developer.
The target size parameter is important, since the pose information returned during tracking will be in the same scale. For example, if the target image is 16 units wide, then moving the camera from the left border of the target to the right border of the target changes the returned position by 16 units along the x-axis.
(x, y) - Target size in scene units measured along the horizontal and vertical axes of the rectangular target.
Note: The size of the image target can be changed at runtime. This offers flexibility in defining or updating the scale of the target in your 3D scene.
Note: Developers looking to use image targets in combination with Positional Device Tracker should specify the target size in meters.
Virtual buttons
Image targets can have one or more virtual buttons.
Developer can query the target for the number of associated buttons, cycle through a list accessing each individual virtual button, and check their associated status.
Virtual buttons can be added and deleted dynamically at run time. See How To Create and Destroy Virtual Buttons at Runtime feature overview section for more details.
Unique target ID
A system-wide unique identifier (string) to identify image targets across the whole cloud and any other datasets.
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Everything Old is New Again: The Music of Dead Combo
April 10, 2013 · by Charlie Crespo · in ART. ·
Dead Combo (gongaz – photobucket)
To put it simply, Dead Combo is an obscure (at least for Americans) Portuguese band. Obscure, yes, because they are relatively unknown stateside. But also obscure in a musical sense.
When you listen to Dead Combo, made up of Tó Trips (guitars) and Pedro Gonçalves (double bass, electric guitar, keyboards) it’s hard to pin down exactly what they do. Add in The Royal Skulls Orchestra they sometimes play with — consisting of a piano player, drummer and three-piece horn section — and the task becomes even more formidable.
Part of the reason for Dead Combo’s obscurity is the sheer amount of musical genres they incorporate into their style. And yet, this myriad of genres is also part of what makes them so innovative.
At their roots, the band is grounded in Fado, a traditional music genre from Portugal, characterized by mournful tunes and sentiments of resignation and fatefulness. But Fado is only the musical base for the group, a jumping off point. From there the band blends in styles as diverse as jazz, alternative and world music. Dead Combo’s musical sensibility is even clearly inspired from the music of spaghetti western films. In a sense, then, their innovation comes from taking the old and making something new out of it.
Still, the obscurity (and innovation) doesn’t end with the music. According to their website, Dead Combo’s two main members “incarnate two characters that could have come from a comic: a caretaker and a gangster.” Just what they are trying to accomplish in these roles is anybody’s guess.
Their albums are filled with cryptic references to the Lisbon of the past and the art world, with a special emphasis on the cinema. This almost visual-like aspect of their music can especially be seen when accompanied by their music video for “Quando A Alma Não É Pequena.”
And yet, even though you aren’t exactly sure of what you are supposed to be thinking or feeling as you listen to Dead Combo, you are sure that it is good music. Although it’s not easy to understand or categorize, the music allows you to let your mind wander and create its own scenes and characters as the band provides the soundtrack to your thoughts.
Although Dead Combo seems destined to remain in obscurity in America due to the nature of their music, it doesn’t seem to matter to them. The band has been awarded “Record of the Year” and “Record of the Decade” in Portugal and has played all the major festivals and venues in their homeland.
Perhaps part of the reason Americans won’t latch onto Dead Combo is because their music is so heavily invested in Portuguese culture, a culture that most Americans simply aren’t that familiar with. But whether or not they realize it, Americans do appreciate the idea of taking something old and making it new, especially in music, which is the precise territory that Dead Combo is working in.
Hip hop is based on sampling old music and making something new out of it — think Kanye West sampling Curtis Mayfield’s “Move On Up” in “Touch the Sky.” The blues rock revival sound of bands like Alabama Shakes and The Black Keys wouldn’t exist without groups like Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones and those bands wouldn’t have existed either if not for bluesmen like Robert Johnson and Howlin’ Wolf.
The idea of taking the old and making it new is just about as old as music itself.
And these days, nobody is doing it quite like Dead Combo.
Charlie Crespo (@Little_Utopia) is the editor-in-chief of Little Utopia.
Previously from Charlie Crespo:
♦ Welcome Back, Landon Donovan
♦ Lionel Messi Battles the Robot Keeper
♦ Beertopia: Rogue’s Bacon Maple Ale
♦ Kim Kardashian is Really Bad at Acting (But She Doesn’t Care)
♦ How Did “This is the End” Get So Many Famous People in One Movie?
Tags: art, Dead Combo, Fado, music, Portugal
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Bulgaria to Delay Analogue Switch-Off over DTT Assistance
Business | August 7, 2013, Wednesday // 16:01| views
The analogue switch-off in Bulgaria was scheduled to be wrapped up by September this year. Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria's government will seek to extend, yet again, the deadline for the analogue switch-off, set for September 1, 2013, citing delay in tenders for free DTT receivers.
Bulgaria will not switch off analogue broadcasting of television signals by the September 1 deadline, according to the Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications (MTITC).
“The delay in the switch-off however does not mean a delay in the country’s transition to digital broadcasting,” Minister Georgi Todorov commented on Wednesday.
"Our main goal is to make sure that all underprivileged people receive free DTT receivers before we shut down the analogue signal,” Todorov said.
In May this year Bulgaria's telecom watchdog awarded the license for what will be the country's public service DTT multiplex to Bulsatkom company.
Bulgaria decided at the end of December 2011 to hold a tender for yet another multiplex, its seventh, a surprising last-minute decision, which local experts slammed as a mere eye- wash for Brussels, which referred the country to EU court over the assignment of digital broadcast spectrum.
The European Commission demanded that Bulgaria publish the conditions of the tender as soon as possible, so that potential new entrants can prepare their applications, be selected and enter the market before the date set for the analogue switch off, September 1 2013.
The Commission said it will monitor that the tender conditions are in line with the Directives and allow effective entry into the digital terrestrial broadcasting infrastructure market.
The seventh multiplex will be just a collection of frequencies and its holder - in a much more disadvantaged position than Hannu Pro and Towercom, which have already grabbed the lion's share of the market, according to experts.
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Ready 10 March 2012
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.
Cheetahs on the look out for prey in the Maasai Mara reserve | Dai Kurokawa/EPA
… ready in a heart beat. 😉
1. Madman in the Marketplace - 10 March 2012
Walker sets up legal-defense fund
Gov. Scott Walker announced Friday that he has set up a legal- defense fund to help pay expenses incurred as a result of the John Doe investigation of activities during his time as county executive.
Walker’s campaign released a statement from the first-term Republican saying he would use the defense fund – called The Scott Walker Trust – to pay his two criminal defense lawyers “to review documents and assist me in cooperating” with the secret probe. He can transfer unlimited funds from his campaign to the defense fund as long as he has the contributors’ consent.
Several election lawyers said creation of the defense fund serves as a tacit acknowledgment that Walker is under investigation for election law violations.
“If you create a legal-defense fund, you are either being investigated, being charged with or have been convicted of a criminal violation of Chapter 11 or Chapter 12,” said retired state election lawyer George Dunst, referring to the statutes dealing with campaign finance and election fraud.
But Walker spokeswoman Ciara Matthews disputed that notion late Friday, saying the fund was set up “under the guidance of the GAB.”
“We reiterate that Gov. Walker has been told that he is not a target of this investigation,” Matthews said.
Her statement did not make clear who exactly informed the governor that he is in the clear.
Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf, who is overseeing the John Doe investigation, declined to comment on Matthews’ statement. He said he was unaware that Walker had set up the defense fund.
“For nearly two years, Milwaukee County officials have been examining issues related to former employees of the County,” Walker said in the statement. “I have repeatedly pledged my cooperation with that inquiry. I also made it clear that no public money has been used, or will be used, to pay for the attorneys needed to review documents and assist me in cooperating.
“To fulfill my commitment, I have today formed a legal fund to pay for the expenses incurred in cooperating with the inquiry. The fund will operate in accordance with the Wisconsin law authorizing these accounts, which was passed almost thirty years ago.”
The fund is registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a political organization.
State election law makes clear that a candidate can set up a defense fund in limited circumstances.
“Wisconsin Statutes permit a state government official who is being investigated for or charged with a violation of campaign finance laws or prohibited election practices to establish a ‘legal defense fund’ for expenditures supporting or defending the candidate while that person is being investigated for, or charged with, or convicted of a violation of those chapters,” says a summary of the statute posted on the Government Accountability Board website.
Nearly a decade ago, several state lawmakers – including former Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen, a Republican, and ex-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Chvala, a Democrat – set up defense funds to help pay for their lawyers after they were charged criminally during the legislative caucus scandal.
Kevin Kennedy, executive director of GAB, declined to discuss details of the governor’s defense fund.
“We don’t know what status he’s at,” Kennedy said, regarding the criminal probe. “I think that might be a question ultimately down the road that you would look at.”
Kennedy said he couldn’t say what advice his agency had given Walker’s lawyers.
Michael Maistelman, an election lawyer who is representing former Walker aide Tim Russell in the John Doe investigation, said people could draw conclusions from Walker’s decision to create a defense fund.
“The only way you can set that up is if you are under investigation or being prosecuted,” Maistelman said. “One can only draw the conclusion that either one of those two things is happening.”
marisacat - 10 March 2012
hmm Sounds like ‘Best of Luck’ Walker.
Madman in the Marketplace - 10 March 2012
just in time for the recall to really heat up.
2. diane - 10 March 2012
I think Glenn Greenwald makes very valid points here: Dennis Kucinich and “wackiness”; ….. though I’ve had absolutely no ‘faith’ in Dennis ever since I realized his wife looks and sounds like an Abrahamic ™ concubine trophy, not to mention the creepy Orwellian concept of a Department of Peace: ™. …. Yeah .once a government starts creating and titling: exclusive, members only, groups, ….titled/MARKETED . after what they know are the innate concerns for the majority of those governed, …that government is heading towards enslavement of the voiceless governed.
Kucinich was just a much, much lesser harm to my mind, but still a harm – a filled with himself, and his maleness ™, dupe, in what appears to be a not so grand plan and direction …to say the least.
IMO he was just one more Democrat. He always gave them cover, created diversion or colluded.
Maybe maybe maybe years ago, he did a few things in Cleveland, but it was long ago. Oh, and!!!, just one more Catholic. The wife spouted New Age mumbo jumbo at a speed rate. Growing up in Cali I have heard it all, in that department. Snooze.
diane - 10 March 2012
… always gave them cover, created diversion or colluded.
yup, just like: Al [be] Gore; Babs, the Dem (with the highly focused resolution to give multinational corporations (most especially in Sly Con Valley), a totally free ride and then some); and Teddy, etc.
ugh Ted was alloed to make too many core decisions as some de facto leader of the party, for all the Kennedy suffering.
(sorry about the “period”s before once, and after marketed, … I should have taken more time to edit, before posting it.)
Madison Politiscope: Tens of thousands rally against Gov. Walker at the Capitol
“We’re baaaack,” shouted Phil Neuenfeldt, president of the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, to kick off what was likely the largest labor demonstration since last spring, as tens of thousands converged on the Capitol Square Saturday to commemorate the year-long fight against Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union agenda, as well as to show support for the recall effort against him, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four Republican state senators.
Organizers claimed the turnout was as high as 65,000, although official estimates from the Department of Administration are not yet available.
It was a scene reminiscent of the rallies that dominated Madison a year ago, with thousands of protesters clad in union apparel milling about the Square and spilling onto State State and into area eateries. Ian’s Pizza, which last year offered free slices to protesters for days after it was flooded with donations from around the world, was once again jam-packed with hungry demonstrators.
Neuenfeldt was followed by a lineup of other speakers from union leadership, including Mary Kay Henry, president of Service Employees International Union, and Mahlon Mitchell, president of the Wisconsin Association of Professional Firefighters.
State Sen. Jen Shilling, D-La Crosse, who unseated Republican Sen. Dan Kapanke in the first round of recall elections last August, said her victory was only the beginning of an effort to oust Republicans.
“We are not done yet,” she said. “Thanks to you we will continue to hold our elected officials accountable.”
Perhaps the most powerful symbol of that continued effort was Lori Compas, a Fort Atkinson free-lance writer and mother who organized a recall drive against Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, the GOP Senate majority leader. Although Fitzgerald’s district leans strongly Republican and political professionals did not initially plan to try to unseat the incumbent, who has been in office since 1995, Compas’ grass-roots effort was successful and she recently announced her candidacy for the seat.
“Last night I saw a pair of sandhill cranes flying low above the cornfields outside our town,” she began. “Every year their return reminds us that even after the most difficult winters, new life is stirring and new beginning are under way. And all of us have to come together today … not so much to mourn what happened but to celebrate what happened next. Change is in the air, I can feel it, can you?”
Afterward, in an interview, Compas acknowledged that she was the underdog in the race, and says she is not sure whether the campaign will have enough money to run ads on TV. Nevertheless, she also says her inexperience in politics is not an insurmountable barrier, and points out that Fitzgerald had never run for office before when he won the seat 17 years ago.
When Compas first filed papers to recall Fitzgerald, not even her own husband was aware, but since then, she says, support in the community has come from unexpected quarters, including from conservatives.
“We had a tea party member carry petitions for us,” she said. “[The tea party member] said ‘I support the Constitution, and every time Scott Fitzgerald opens his mouth he spits on the Constitution.'”
“We had a tea party member carry petitions for us,” she said. “[The tea party member] said ‘I support the Constitution, and every time Scott Fitzgerald opens his mouth he spits on the Constitution.’”
whatever works!!
People up here, even though they support a lot of really horrible winger media, like to maintain the illusion that WI is more “civil” and “decent” than everyone else, and they LOVE procedural stuff that “proves” it (this is the state that gave the country Feingold and Proxmire, after all). Walker and the Republican legislature threw over all pretense of “civility over the last year. I think it was too much for a lot of people.
Would love to see a simliar focus against Jerry Brown in Cali, …. who, just for one recent offense, appointed a banker as a jobs czar…..(Gov. Jerry Brown appoints jobs czar –
California’s new jobs czar, former Bank of America and GMAC executive Michael Rossi, will serve as a liaison for businesses, labor and Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration.)
If I’m not mistaken, the Demrats and Rethugs have more seamlessly combined in Cali, than in any other state.
Would love to see a simliar focus against Jerry Brown in Cali
no one will…
and it is true about the seamless conjoin….
yep, it appears everything will be, and has been, done to prevent focusing on Cali “Leadership,”… predominately against those with no prior criminal records whatsoever.
of course, I’m sure a lot of that has to do with California being the eighth largest economy in the world, despite/due to? …. the stunning levels of austerity, incarceration and brutality, …. going on within its boundaries. ….
we used to flip back and forth with France… I have no idea where Cali stands lately tho. 😆 NOR France….
yeah … I keep reading Cali = the eighth! :0) (who the fuck knew? ..ok, ZuckerFuck! in the Ghetto of East Menlo Park, Cali!… ) recently, soz I went with it! siiiigh …
Seriously though, I wouldn’t doubt Cali is at least the eighth ‘domiciled’ corpgovthug cloister, in terms of money making it into an elite group of pockets.
I think one year we jockeyed back and forth between 5th and 6th…
who knows, could be 5th Empire still, and it’s being downplayed in “sympathy” and “sensitivity” with it having the 2nd highest unemployed rate and the fact that STATE Colleges/Universities now cost as much, and then some, as the Historic Ivy Leaguers.
Cali doesn’t rate sysmpathy…. nor sensitivity. A recent report out put us as one of the 5 most disliked (they may have used “hated”) states.
Ninety-eight major advertisers—including Ford and Geico—will no longer air spots on Premiere Networks’ ‘offensive’ programs. Insiders say the loss will rock right-wing talk radio.
While I’ll be thrilled to see this shit go away after decades of it being pretty much unchallenged, I can’t help but suspect that the corporate Powers-that-be have decided to keep Barack O’Nixon around for four more and they’re removing a possible source of trouble.
Profiles In Cowardice
ugh how naive IS Charles Pierce? The way Breitbart doctored the vid was way too hot for Punahoe school boy Slob to deal with. They closed ranks at the WH immediately. Went out on a limb for old friend Henry Louis Gates, but did not bother to make a few calls for SS….
I cannot go find it at the moment, but considering what …think it was a member of another Cvil Rights family, Innis, posted at Cpunch, I cannot weep for Sherrod. Waste of my time…. Then after years of accepting on its face, of course why whould I not?, the suit from the black farmers against some arm of the Dept of Ag… shoot, I went shuffling online thru the Pigford case, an exercise in rooting thru a mess.
I’m always fascinated to find people who are surprised by this shit …
6. BooHooHooMan - 11 March 2012
Breaking…..shattering, …
NYT –
American Held After Shooting of Civilians in Afghanistan
By TAIMOOR SHAH and GRAHAM BOWLEY 56 minutes ago
A U.S. service member walked out of a military base on Sunday and opened fire on three nearby houses,………..
…Killing.
WaPo-
U.S. soldier fires on Afghan civilians; 10 killed
An American service member is detained after walking off a checkpoint in the Kandahar province and opening fire on civilians in two villages, according to officials. At least five were wounded.
And only days after Barry Love Peace Prize was whippin up the butter fried fretful in deep fried lies, happily consumed, about how he is happy to report~ah that American Troops are no longer serving … {whatever Slobrama’s weasel word descripto } ..in IRAQ.
WAR CRIMINAL. War Criminal in Chief now may I remind all retrenching Death Squad Dems out there. By all means, bring all argument, apologia, evidence to the contrary on the way to the morgues
More killed under his regime’s single term than two terms of Bush and Cheney combined.
Barry Love Peace Prize,
Love Him, LOVE ..HIM, chillin and killin and with
LOVE like Kim-jong-Illin. Oh he Loves you back.
Oh you know, Remember to vote Democrat.
You know, on principle, all perceptive cerebral sorts –
Remember to vote Democrat…
.. after burying the record and erasing the tape….
WAR CRIMINAL….. War Criminal in Chief AGAIN may I remind all retrenching Death Squad Dems out there.
Bring d’ exhonoration with you. Bring it. Bring it on….
I just heard an update…. as many as 16…
Something like this was bound to come…
BooHooHooMan - 11 March 2012
Yes, the latest disaster.
Long way till the Fall…. elections.
Not so long to the blowback and Spring counteroffensive.
With the exception of Tapper (who tried to introduce the factual errors in the Kony 2012 vid, but was cut off by Stephie) the various R and D consultants and pundits all sounded weak this morning on TW.
Best of Luck (as in Fuk U) to them all….
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — An American soldier was arrested in southern Afghanistan after walking off his base and opening fire on civilians early Sunday, killing 16, in an attack described by Afghan president Hamid Karzai as “unforgivable.”
Well ornament he is, Karzai has his moments, prolly moments to live as the country explodes, but, ya know..
“When Afghan people are killed deliberately by US forces this action is murder and terror and an unforgivable action,” Karzai said in statement. “The government and the people of Afghanistan demand an explanation from the United States government of this incident.”
Among the victims of the attack were nine children, killed when the shooter went from house to house at 3:00am local time.
Eleven of the victims were killed in one home, four were killed in a second home and one other person was killed in a third home, Sky News reported, citing unnamed sources. Five people were wounded in two other houses.
The shooter was a Staff Sergeant, the report said, without providing further details.
A joint Afghan-coalition investigation is underway into the shooting, and it remains unclear what the shooter’s motives were or whether he had previous contact with his victims.
US Air Force Captain Justin Brockhoff, a coalition spokesman in Kabul, said numerous civilian casualties were being treated in coalition military facilities.
via ….NY Post
I think Karzai just wants to avoid assassination, by Afghanis OR US mil…. I read long ago he has no private, as in his own, security, he relies on the US contractors for his personal security. Must be really reassuring to be protected by some arm of Eric Prince. Or whomever…
Geesh. Good Luck!, Man in the Astrakhan HAt.
I think Karzai just wants to avoid assassination,….
He better get avoidin’ then. This shouldn’t take long now.
yeah. Send lilies…
And, politically now anyways, Barry The War Effort President is going to need a few bouquets of his own.
Flashpoint incident. like you said: bound to happen.
IMO I don’t think there is anything inthe last ten years that will match the kind of blowback to come with this.
But you know.~~.Barry, the Progressive.,
This is the point I believe where ‘Mrka gets run the fuck out.
This is the point I believe where ‘Mrka gets run the fuck out
OK!, Expanded list:
Exit Helicopters
Our Collaborators storming the locked gates of the US Embassy in Kabul
(Have I missed anything?)
I suggest Paris.
oh so funny… I was just wondering if there is a Mme Karzai… then quickly realised she probably lives in Paris.
Drudge and Bloomberg have moved it quickly off their front page headline. Drude has replaced it with a feature humping Israel shelling Gaza.
7. marisacat - 11 March 2012
Whoopsie!
UPDATE, among the 16 dead in Afghanistan …,
NINE are children. Several women…
Protesters and Family Attempt to Reoccupy Home of Recently Deported Mother; Police Respond in Riot Gear
Terrible story.
Earlier this week Occupy L.A., foreclosure advocates, family members, and local community, gathered at the Southern California home of Blanca Cardenas to protest her recent eviction and deportation. Police responded in full riot gear, but in the end, there were no arrests made.
Protesters broke into the Cardenas home Tuesday evening demanding that Blanca Cardenas be returned to her family. She was arrested last week when she refused to leave her home. She and her husband had recently won ownership of their home from Bank of America. However, during the legal proceedings, the bank had sold the home to an investor. The investor declared a citizens arrest on Cardenas and LAPD took her into custody.
Police discovered Cardenas did not have proper immigration papers and turned her over to ICE. She is currently staying with relatives in Mexico. The judge ordered that she not return to the states for 20 years.
Even tho I think we are in a completely screwed up place on immigration, legal, illegal and work visas… The whole thing is a fucked mess… THIS, this arrests, deportations, breaking up of long term resident (illegal members among legal and born here) of families and the huge sweeps is absolutely horrific.
It is more than draconian, its demonic.
it’s theft from the powerless by the force of law
Lilies and helicopters on the way!
Few in U.S. sense Afghan support for war, according to Post-ABC News poll
Most Americans sense a lack of broad Afghan support for U.S. efforts in that country, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Some 54 percent of Americans want to withdraw U.S troops even if the Afghan army is not adequately trained to carry on the fight. . . . .
Wash Po
10. diane - 11 March 2012
Trust.org/(Reuters) is reporting that witnesses are saying it was more than one US Lone Wolfer.
“I saw that all 11 of my relatives were killed, including my children and grandchildren,” said a weeping Haji Samad, who said he had left his home a day earlier.
BLOOD-SPATTERED WALLS
The walls of the house were blood-splattered.
“They (Americans) poured chemicals over their dead bodies and burned them,” Samad told Reuters at the scene.
Neighbors said they had awoken to crackling gunfire from American soldiers, who they described as laughing and drunk.
“They were all drunk and shooting all over the place,” said neighbor Agha Lala, who visited one of the homes where killings took place.
“Their (the victims’) bodies were riddled with bullets.”
Susie Madrak posted from an earlier version she found: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/western-forces-kill-16-civilians-in-afghanistan-kabul-govt/ , which no longer links, and has been since airbrushed by Reuters (see link at top).
Well… they can try… but it’s nto like they can cover up what the killers did… esp there, on the ground.
It’ll be ‘interesting to read the evolving nooz …heard a ghastly blurb on KGO earlier about how the Afghanis were informed by rumor versus truths , yup, already prepping to downplay the facts coming out of the mouths of those who were born and live there.
The UZ certainly wouldn’t want any more evidence of the fact that the $UZ$ Domiciled MIC has perfected an industry that turns its own[ed] country’s, unconnected and thoroughly neglected, citizens into psychopathic murderers, through systemic, class based, white gloved: psychological abuse and economic deprivation.
At the rate we medicate and I would guess test medications on soldiers n the field in the war zones, I think we have no fucking clue what is going on over there….
Mad Max war, I would think…. like all wars.
Plus I read years ago, after strange stories in the US press that Iraqis were consuming amounts of Arak to dull their senses during the early bombing raids, later I read that much of what is available here only by script is easily obtained there… (as in more than a few countries).
I am not excusing anything or anyone, the crimes are horrific. But I’d like to live long enough to get the truth of what is really happening in theatre.
France used an attack on their forces to frame their early (if it was) withdrawal and iirc the UK did the same soon after…
I just heard that the single soldier they are using … was at Fort Lewis in Washington… and first tour in Afghanistan, but his 4th in 8 years.
Some good follow up here; specifically, on the evil and sadistic, Pysocpathic Psyche/$Pharma$ treatment of $R$ Troops ™ and the Lone Wolfer SUSPECT!!!! ™.
From day one though I have felt this very subtle push to deny any long term mental/emotional problems that any of them would have. And I will never forget what an a$$hole that psychologist was to me when my family really needed someone to hear what was happening and give us a little help.
The country has had issues with mental health care forever. it’s only gotten worse.
I’ve been watching the Berkeley hills murder case, as it is, to the extent it is reported in any detail, interesting both on mental health care available and not to the poorest of the poor even, but to the grandchild of a former Berkeley mayor with two living and involved parents… Dewitt is the killer, think the dx was the usual (no idea if accurate) paranoid schizo/bi polar… AND with the middle of the night heavy handed visit to a Berkeley blogger by the cops.
Except for the beating death of an old man, Cukor, a long time resident in the Berkeley hills and the mess that the Dewitt family finds itself in… it would be almsot a comedy routine. With the Keystone cops. IN the supposed land of free speech using intimidation tactics on a blogger….
Yup, and I personally think that $NAMI$ ™ is an enormous part of the problem. It’s absolute insanity to believe that horrid experiences, including a lack of vital nutrition and rest from STRESS and FEAR (no I’m not referring to Micky O.’s My Plate! Plan ™ ), have nothing to do with people cracking; … from what I’ve read, that appears to be their over $Medicating$ Philosophy.
$NAMI$
NAMI = The National Alliance on Mental Illness ™
I don’t know anything about them…
BTW: what does THIS stand for $R$ ???
IMO stress is the single biggest killer. Right along with a wide swath of illnesses that can be (or, could be) tracked to environmentl issues. IMO cars would rate as high as if not higher than cigarettes.
I just don’t and nver have bought into most of the bullshit. Esp the minute bullshite becomes RELIGION. When that happens, I am off the wagon train.
NAMI is a ‘household word’ in the Mental Health $Industry$.
$R$ = a derogatory substitute for the word our, when the word is used by politicians, and other bloodsuckers on the take, to imply the citizens of the US, as if they have a say in anything.
Oh, so true about <<<<<<>>>>>>>>!
(fucking HTML!!!! … siiiiigghhhhhh, just imagine the word STRESS in the center of : <<<<<<>>>>>>>>! )
that was an interesting sub thread, thanks for that… I see Military Tracy took over… LOL. Till SHE goes nutz (again) but at least her comments are links and clips.
Oh yeah, the fuckin med abuse and testing ground, …and honestly, the Suicide and Rape rate among ‘the troops’ speaks volumes as to the horrors we’re not privy to.
Uggggh, … re the vicious Trans Pacific “Treaty” we never hear squat about:
Trade pact reveals US hunger
By Neena Bhandari
Civil society groups, academics and trade unions have also expressed concerns about the US proposal that corporations be empowered to sue governments over broad social, economic and environmental policies.
“A number of the demands made by US multinational corporations [MNCs] in submissions on the TPPA have become official US government positions in the negotiations.. For the US, it seems a zero-sum game between their MNCs and the rest of the world – either they win large, or nobody wins at all,” Sanya Reid Smith, legal advisor and senior researcher at Third World Network, told IPS.
Doctors Without Borders (or Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) has also expressed profound concern over the impact this agreement would have upon their health programmes.
Over 80% of all medicines used by MSF are generic and MSF has warned that losing access to this source of medicine will result in literally millions of deaths.
As Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, a prominent US consumer organization, told IPS, “The reason these negotiations are so extremely secret and there is such a rush to get it [done] quickly is that the content is so extremely biased towards increasing corporate power at the expense of most of us.
“There are so many outrageous specific proposals that if people knew the details then the whole process would get derailed by widespread outrage.”
Thank goodness, he appears recovered and has returned to red up the room, Who is IOZ:
Oh, Shit. This IS What Democracy Looks Like.
On the question of Grand-Slam’s larger impact, Glenn seems to be of the opinion that he is a molar, ingrown, subtly undermining the rest of those mean chompers:
For one, enacting legislation is not the only way to have an important impact on our political culture. Shining light on otherwise-ignored issues, advocating rarely-heard political positions, using one’s platform to highlight the corruption of those in power and to challenge their warped belief systems are all vitally important functions. Advocacy of that sort may not produce immediate, tangible successes, but it is a prerequisite for changing prevailing political mores and persuading citizens to think differently.
I have a hypothesis that the word citizen is, for many minds, a safety word; what was whipping along at a fine pace comes to a swift and sudden halt, lest it do any actual damage. Is this what Dennis Kucinich was doing? See, here, well, um, I have long been under the impression that what Dennis Kucinich was doing was providing a reliably quote-unquote liberal outlier, a lonely tentpole on the far, far side of the bombing range where the Democratic party pitches its big tent, around which the sort of folks who overpay for yoga instruction and carry their own bags to the grocery store could crowd, having convinced themselves that its slender shadow is the shade. A few paces to its left is a single, well-occupied dining room chair, upon which rest all of Ron Paul’s supporters; it’s their seat at the table, get it? Look, people within institutions serve institutional functions, whether the like it or not, whether they know it or not. Does Dennis Kucinich help you to continue to believe that you are an, oh, god, citizen? That by speaking out you are “changing prevailing political mores”? Maybe all isn’t lost . . . maybe . . . maybe I ought to continue to participate . . . it may not produce any immediate, tangible successes, but, given time . . . attitudes change . . . people change . . .
And this is how you end up reliably offering your consent to one or other gang of murdering psychopaths. So who’s crazy, here, the murdering psychopaths, or the fella who keeps handing them the keys to the gun cabinet? The old saw about the real definition of insanity is the truth: it consists of the endless repetition of the same action with the expectation of a different result. If the Democratic party can contain a Kucinich, it must be less evil than the evil rethuglican menace, right? If the Republicans have a Ron Paul, they must be at least somewhat, marginally more committed to some kind of reasonable limits on the reach and scope of the federal government, right? No, wrong, wrong! If a fucking candy bar contains real coconut, that does not make it a fruit; if you fruits drink enough Miller Ultra Lite, you will still get fat.
(and speaking of good health, are you okay honey? … you’ve been kind of quiet.)
yup, IOZ has that right… it’s a game. Marquee names and fringe idols… Both Kuc and R Paul operate well within their parties.
Pied Pipers.
Oh I am fine, I’ve been having a lot of connection problems for some time, it comes and goes but was problematical this morning, for some reason….
so glad you’re okay honey, . and wasn’t this just precious:
… [Dennis] is a molar, ingrown, subtly undermining the rest of those mean chompers…
;0)
sorry, to be totally clear, should have posted the full:
… Glenn seems to be of the opinion that he is a molar, ingrown, subtly undermining the rest of those mean chompers: …
well Glenn is often quite useful… but iirc he used to be a R, has lied on his CV about his work history as an atty (claimed or implied an associate spot at a firm where he was a summer intern) and he lives outside the US. I am not aware that he regularly goes back and forth. I’ve had the impression its rare. And I just remembered he had somewhat icky sweetheart deals for his first two books…
He has to be taken with spoonfuls of salt.
13. marisacat - 12 March 2012
hmmm I was looking around the Safeway online site starting to pull together a delivery for next week….
and BUTTER shot up right in front of me. Over a dollar rise, for 16 oz.
I had heard, or read, but it certainly was not widely reported, that the US had an immense slaughter of dairy cows, last year or maybe it was late in 2010, in order to raise the price of milk products.
Land of the Free!. Home of the slaughterers….
All dairy shot up. Eggs, Milk and cream as well.
Isn’t it just stunning …. all of the basics skyrocketing with no concurrent logical, or humane, reason; …. pink goo, lean ground beeph at $5 a pound (on sale!)……. they really do want a vast majority to just go somewhere and die ….
they are demonic, I think …..
Yes wandering around the site, almost everything has gone up… and not by 10, 20, 30 c but by 1, 2, 3 dollars.
Things shot up slowly but regularly over the past two years … but this is a single huge leap.
Uh oh, BREAK[danc]ING!!!!….. a threat to $R$ FLAG!!!!!!. …. not much time to spread the terrerist alert, so a somewhat raw, copy crudely, via curser, then dump paste (after minor MSHTML!!!! highlighting):
Mar 12, 3:44 PM EDT
US-flagged ship on fire off Greece’s Piraeus port
Buy AP Photo Reprints
Violent protests in Greece
ATHENS, Greece (AP[P]) — Greek authorities say a fire has broken out on a US-flagged vehicle carrier ship
…. the Alliance Norfolk [Virginia (Naval Base)]. There are 23 crew members and five passengers on board.
The 57,000-ton, 200-meter (yard) vessel was en route from the United States to Saudi Arabia with a consignment of cars and had moored for an inspection just off Piraeus, the port of Athens.
jeesh, fires ever which where ….tough luck ….where’s that hanky ….
(sorry, linky, Associated Press: US-flagged ship on fire off Greece’s Piraeus port)
SOS!!!!!! come out, come out! … wherever you are! …. BooHooHooMan! …
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A Devotional Study For a Married Couple
The following is a devotional study for a married couple. It is on the issue of showing mutual respect as a husband and wife:
Devotional Study: Showing Mutual Respect
Husbands, in the same way be considerate a you live with your wives, and treat them with respect the weaker partner. (1 Peter 3:7)
And the wife must respect her husband. (Ephesians 5:33)
A man told me recently that he rarely cusses. When he does cuss, it’s only in front of his wife.
A woman speaks with courteous hospitality to her boss when he calls her at home. When she hangs up, however, a fusillade of angry criticisms pours forth for the extra work he wants done.
In marriage we can find the most relaxed relationship on earth. We feel a comfortableness with our spouse like no other —an altogether wonderful state. Unless we guard ourselves, though, we can wound the spirit of our mate. As the saying goes, familiarity breeds contempt.” We must strive to show each other respect.
There are two problems for the man who cusses around his wife but no one else. First, the quality of our character is most revealed in little things, not big things. Christianity finds its truest test in traffic, when the car breaks down, when an appointment suddenly cancels at the last moment, and in the confines of marriage. Our spouses will decide if Christianity is true for us based upon how we live when we think they don’t notice.
The Truth Behind the Curtains
We may think of ourselves as altogether righteous. We think, If I can’t let off a little steam with my mate, where can I? The problem is the report the other spouse would have to give. How we are behind the tightly drawn curtains of our own private castle is how we really are. By taking his wife for granted, the “cussing husband” has shown a lack of respect for his wife. And he damaged his Christian testimony with the very person for whom he has the most responsibility.
The second problem for this husband is that there must be nothing in his behavior to make the wife stumble in her faith. Another example will further illustrate. A friend was to play in a golf tournament for his company. The sponsor, however, had hired the scantily clad waitresses from a local bar to act as hostesses. His wife was deeply disturbed. She didn’t want him to play. This man cannot simply ignore her concerns and tell her, “I have to play. It’s business.” He must treat her with considerations and respect as the partner God has given him.
Study Mutual Responsibilities
In this case, they had a wonderful opportunity to study the Scriptures together to determine their mutual responsibilities. And, also, they study to build more trust into the relationship. To do less is to take each other for granted and fail to show mutual respect. Incidentally, he decided not to play after all.
The husband and wife are to respect each other, not take each other for granted. The respect she renders is like awe or reverence (not, of course, in the same sense as she would revere God). The respect he renders is esteem of the highest degree, dignity, and honor.
Marriage magnifies imperfections. In the intimate space of marriage we must be alert to represent our Lord to each other. Marriage is the most important place to live for Christ. We must do nothing to make each other stumble. We must not assume our spouses understand where we’re coming from when others raise our ire. Don’t take each other for granted.
Both answer:
Do you act “un-Christ-like” around your spouse? In what ways? Why do you think it happens?
Talk out the areas in which you take each other for granted. Commit to be more self-aware and to live like Christ before your mate, not just your acquaintances.
Either or both, as applicable:
Lord Jesus, I confess that I have lived an overly casual life before my mate. I have mistakenly thought that behaving in a Christ-like manner wasn’t as important in my marriage as in other places. I can see that I was wrong. Help me to live with integrity before my mate. Amen.
These devotional thoughts come from the book, Devotions for Couples: Man in the Mirror Edition: For Busy Couples Who Want More Intimacy in Their Relationships, written by Patrick Morley. Patrick Morley is a business leader, speaker, and the best selling author of 12 books. This includes the book, The Man in the Mirror. He lives in Orlando, Florida. This book is published by Zondervan Publishing House.
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28 responses to “A Devotional Study For a Married Couple”
Mickey from United States says:
This was a very good read and makes several great points. I hope it would be okay to reference this at my church as we have a young couple talking about marriage.
Cecil from United States says:
Thank you for the inspiration. You have truly humbled my spirit. I now want to be a true Christian with my wife. Praise The Lord for your ministry.
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Pseudo-nevi blu negli artigiani della filigrana d'argento
: Blue nevi-like lesions in silversmiths
D. Stradini, C. Gambini, G. Desirello, F. Crovato
Background. The aim of this work was to verify the incidence and peculiarities of an unusual clinical picture in silversmiths, previously described in the literature in a case with blue nevi-like lesions. Methods. A wide clinical research has ben made at Campoligure (the cradle of silver filigree manifacture in Italy): 65 silversmiths have been considered on the whole. In a case, a skin biopsy removed a big lesion of the thigh. Results. In more than half the cases, the presence of blue nevi-like lesions have been noticed; the seats more often involved were hands and forearms, and the size of the lesions varied from few millimeters up to half centimetre the most. The biopsy confirmed a picture of localized occupational argyria. Conclusions. The review of the literature on this subject has permitted to better define its histogenesis and to point out its main interest. In the fact, a few microns microsplinter of silver filigree can produce skin lesions up to half centimeter large, due to a process of centrifugal elimination of metal granules. These ones, dragged by the interstitial fluid, flow along the elastic fibers towards the small blood vessels and the eccrine sweat glande, where they stay entrapped in anional seats in the basement membranes, and cover a surface much larger than the starting fragment.
Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia
Blue Nevus
Elastic Tissue
Extracellular Fluid
Basement Membrane
Stradini, D., Gambini, C., Desirello, G., & Crovato, F. (1999). Pseudo-nevi blu negli artigiani della filigrana d'argento. Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia, 134(1), 3-6.
Pseudo-nevi blu negli artigiani della filigrana d'argento. / Stradini, D.; Gambini, C.; Desirello, G.; Crovato, F.
In: Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia, Vol. 134, No. 1, 1999, p. 3-6.
Stradini, D, Gambini, C, Desirello, G & Crovato, F 1999, 'Pseudo-nevi blu negli artigiani della filigrana d'argento', Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia, vol. 134, no. 1, pp. 3-6.
Stradini D, Gambini C, Desirello G, Crovato F. Pseudo-nevi blu negli artigiani della filigrana d'argento. Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia. 1999;134(1):3-6.
Stradini, D. ; Gambini, C. ; Desirello, G. ; Crovato, F. / Pseudo-nevi blu negli artigiani della filigrana d'argento. In: Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia. 1999 ; Vol. 134, No. 1. pp. 3-6.
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DNA and buffers: The hidden danger of complex formation
Nancy C. Stellwagen, Cecilia Gelfi, Pier Giorgio Righetti
IRCCS Policlinico San Donato
The free solution electrophoretic mobility of DNA differs significantly in different buffers, suggesting that DNA-buffer interactions are present in certain buffer systems. Here, capillary and gel electrophoresis data are combined to show that the Tris ions in Tris-acetate-EDTA (TAE) buffers are associated with the DNA helix to approximately the same extent as sodium ions. The borate ions in Tris-borate-EDTA (TBE) buffers interact with DNA to form highly charged DNA-borate complexes, which are stable both in free solution and in polyacrylamide gels. DNA-borate complexes are not observed in agarose gels, because of the competition of the agarose gel fibers for the borate residues. The resulting agarose-borate complexes increase the negative charge of the agarose gel fibers, leading to an increased electroendosmotic flow of the solvent in agarose-TBE gels. The combined results indicate that the buffers in which DNA is studied cannot automatically be assumed to be innocuous. (C) 2000 John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
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Stellwagen, N. C., Gelfi, C., & Righetti, P. G. (2000). DNA and buffers: The hidden danger of complex formation. Biopolymers, 54(2), 137-142. https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-0282(200008)54:2<137::AID-BIP6>3.0.CO;2-I
DNA and buffers : The hidden danger of complex formation. / Stellwagen, Nancy C.; Gelfi, Cecilia; Righetti, Pier Giorgio.
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2011 Dodge Durango — All-new, Three-row SUV With A Soul
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November 15, 2010 Dodge introduces the new 2011 Dodge Avenger, the perfect sedan for the customer who wants an enthusiastic driving performance and exceptional fuel economy. The 2011 Dodge Avenger provides more standard content than others in the segment, high-tech features that keep them connected and the safety features consumers expect, all at an excellent value.
The New Chrysler 200 Sedan Provides Customers Craftsmanship, Elegance and Value
November 15, 2010 Chrysler introduces the new Chrysler 200 mid-size sedan. Offering consumers exceptional craftsmanship inside and out, a refined and spirited driving experience, innovative technology, an abundance of standard safety features and an extraordinary level of standard content, the 2011 Chrysler 200 is an exciting alternative for customers that want style and substance, all at a surprising value.
All-new 2011 Dodge Charger: World-class Performance, Precision And Technology With An Iconic Soul
November 15, 2010 With its iconic character, contemporary fastback four-door coupe proportions, world-class performance, craftsmanship and refinement, and state-of-the-art connectivity features, the all-new 2011 Charger is the Dodge brand’s flagship, and it proudly delivers premium, world-class E-segment sedan precision at an incredible value.
New 2011 Chrysler Town & Country Delivers Exquisite Innovation, Driving Families Safely to Their Destination
November 15, 2010 The new 2011 Chrysler Town & Country minivan delivers great American design, innovative technology, unparalleled functionality and all the standard safety features a family aspires to have in a vehicle, at a surprising value.
Chrysler Brand Replacing Entire Model Lineup in ’11
November 15, 2010 The Chrysler Brand is experiencing a rejuvenation, and product is at the heart of it, replacing its full lineup with either all-new or significantly improved vehicles in just the next few months. As a sign of that change, the recently introduced all-new Chrysler winged badge logo will rightfully adorn all this new metal as it rolls out to the public.
Living Life and Loving It: Dodge Enters a New Era of Performance, Launching Six New or Redesigned Vehicles, Sponsoring New Events and Running New Ads with a Humorous Bent
November 15, 2010 The Dodge brand is on a tear for the 2011 model year, redefining itself with six all-new or significantly redesigned vehicles, introducing new lifestyle packages designed to better meet the needs of its customers, launching catchy new ads that have started conversations in the mainstream media, actively participating in new events and sponsorships and developing relationships with its long-loyal enthusiast base, as well as reaching out to new customers who want cars that leave them wanting more.
Mopar® Introduces Industry-first Owner-information Apps; Industry-first Jeep® Camper Trailers; Electronic Vehicle Tracking System (EVTS); Online Ordering System; Brand-specific Toll-free Customer-care Phone Numbers
November 16, 2010 The Mopar® brand is full-speed ahead. “Whether it’s service, parts or customer care, we are fully leveraging the Mopar brand at every turn,” said Pietro Gorlier, President and Chief Executive Officer – Mopar, Chrysler Group LLC. “The Mopar brand has tremendous equity and we are building on it by continuing to offer cutting-edge technology, innovative accessories, authentic proven parts, and quality customer service.”
Chrysler Group LLC to Showcase Moparized Vehicles in Los Angeles; Company Will Also Demo Industry-first Owner-information Apps and Electronic Vehicle Tracking System (EVTS)
November 12, 2010 Mopar® will be on display in L.A. Chrysler Group LLC will feature four Moparized vehicles at the upcoming Los Angeles Auto Show, which takes place Nov. 19 – 28 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Mopar-modified vehicles on display will include Ram 1500, Chrysler Town & Country, Jeep® Wrangler Sahara and the Mopar ’10 Challenger. In addition, Mopar will demo industry-first features including owner-information mobile phone apps and its new Electronic Vehicle Tracking System (EVTS).
Live Webcasts of Chrysler Brand, Dodge and Fiat Product Reveals at 2010 LA Auto Show
November 10, 2010 Chrysler Group LLC will be unveiling a more than a half dozen new and refreshed vehicles at the 2010 Los Angeles International Auto Show, including the new Fiat 500, during media previews on Nov. 17 and 18.
2011 Chrysler 200 2011 Chrysler Town & Country Press Kit: 2011 Dodge Avenger Press Kit: 2011 Dodge Durango 2011 Dodge Charger 2011 Dodge Grand Caravan 2011 Dodge Challenger SRT8 392 2011 Dodge Challenger
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Apple Stores vs. Microsoft Stores: how they compare
1 month ago by Joshua Fruhlinger in Big Tech, Retail
When Microsoft ($NASDAQ:MSFT) opened its first two Microsoft Stores in Scottsdale, Arizona in 2009, comparisons to the Apple ($NASDAQ:AAPL) Store concept were inevitable. Wide-open spaces, sparse tables adorned with products to touch and try, and Geniuses — err, "Advisers" — wearing branded t-shirts waiting to ring customers up all combined to make Microsoft stores a clear homage to Apple's successful retail approach.
It's not just the browsing and shopping experience at Microsoft Stores that make them so Apple Store-like. It's their locations, when mapped out and compared to those of Apple stores, that reveal Microsoft's retail strategy.
It goes something like this: Open near an Apple Store.
The map above shows 85 Microsoft stores compared with 274 Apple Stores. While those numbers themselves are lopsided, it's when we isolate Microsoft's location strategy that things become awfully clear.
On average, there is one Apple store within one mile of every Microsoft Store.
Proximity data for the 85 Microsoft stores tracked here shows exactly how Microsoft chooses where to launch new stores. It turns out that for every Microsoft store, there is one Apple Store within a mile. When running the same analysis against Apple stores, there are 0.36 Microsoft stores within one mile of the 274 Apple Stores, on average.
Exactly 82 out of 85 Microsoft Stores are within 1 mile of an Apple Store
The reason the above average is so high is that almost all of the Microsoft Stores are within a mile of an Apple Store. Of the 85 Microsoft stores, 82 are within one mile of an Apple store.
75 Microsoft Stores are within .5 miles of Every Apple Store
Of the 85 Microsoft Stores, 75 are within a half-mile of an Apple Store. This face becomes evident when looking at a closeup of a high-density area like the Tri-State Area, where shoppers always have the option to head down the street, or a half-mile, to the nearest Microsoft Store.
62 Microsoft Stores are within 0.25 miles of every Apple Store
For those on foot, say, in malls and shopping districts like New York City and Toronto, Microsoft Stores are often just down the block or even across the street. Of the 85 Microsoft Stores tracked here, 62 are within just a quarter-mile of an Apple Store.
The strategy, at least so far, for Microsoft Stores is abundantly clear when its locations are compared to those of Apple Stores. It goes something like this: always be an option. For those in the market for a laptop or tablet, for instance, a quick look at an iPad can be followed up by a gander at a Surface tablet. And as we enter the holiday shopping season, being an available option is half the battle.
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Thinknum tracks companies using the information they post online - jobs, social and web traffic, product sales and app ratings - and creates data sets that measure factors like hiring, revenue and foot traffic. Data sets may not be fully comprehensive (they only account for what is available on the web), but they can be used to gauge performance factors like staffing and sales.
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Pure Value: The English Forward Story
Rob Toth
May 6, 2019 · 9 min read
How A Learn English Forum Grew Into The Largest English-Topic Q&A Site and Online Community, With Over 292 Million Individual Visitors Served, Half-Billion Page Views Loaded, 2 Million Question and Answer Posts, Used As A Reference Tool By Language Schools Globally — Without Any Staffing or Labor Costs, With $0 Spent On Advertising, No Marketing Activities and $0 in Venture Capital
A website that launched in March 23, 2003 recently turned 16 years old…
In itself: unexciting.
Although, given that the entire World Wide Web is 29 years old (and more practically in terms of mainstream usage, roughly 24 years old)… that’s a lot of history.
This website though, one that started as “a web forum for the parents’ English school” has never had a marketing team, no ad spend, no growth hacking, no sales and not a dime in venture capital or angel investor funding …
It was built as a “utility” for English learners and English language industry professionals and focused on a single principal: value to the user.
Here’s some of what that once little community accomplished:
190,000 registered users on a platform that never required login or registration
Combined audience of 500,000 (including the various social channels that sprung up from the community)
Reached Alexa Top 5000 ranking
Served nearly 300 million unique, international visitors — without any ad-spend or marketing
2 million user-generated content, Question and Answer posts
100% volunteer moderators team (no labor costs) to clean and maintain the community
Recognition, testimonials and thanks from international schools that use the site as a reference for their students
Google favored and historic strong relationships with Google
Now serves academic learners (students), professional (career, work, business) and native speakers (grammar, sentence structure) and industry professionals.
100% organic traffic, 100% organic content (user-generated), 100% user moderated.
Select posts on the site have seen 4million+ views (for a single article).
Select members have contributed 100,000+ question/answer posts.
Entirely free to use.
Year to Year Cumulative Visitor Totals — EnglishForward.com
10 Year Traffic Stats — EnglishForward.com
| The Backstory: Francis West and English Forums
Francis West is an engineer, a code “architect”.
He has been programming since age 6 and worked on enterprise level applications at age 11. His programming career is 36 years of veteran experience.
Frank’s parents, for years, operated a successful language school in Malta, Elanguest. They’ve since sold that business. Students traveled in from various European and international locations to study English there.
Malta itself is a well-established hub for “learn English” schools. Many of today’s learn language and English education brands are based out of or have a presence in Malta, including: EC English, Eurocentres, ELA (English Language Academy), ACE English, EF (Education First) International Language Schools, Berlitz Language Centre among many others.
To provide a way for students to interact while in class and even after, Frank built a community discussion forum for his parents’ business.
In the years since, discussion forums are not only outdated but are as simple to setup as installing a script on a server. It wasn’t as push-button in those early years of the internet. [ reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum ]
I’m a former-Vancouverite — I liken Frank’s then-named “English Forums” to another community that also launched in 2003: Plenty Of Fish.
Vancouver (Canada) based Markus Frind, founder of PlentyOfFish.com draws parallels to Francis West: quiet, not a show-man, rarely seen in media or events, engineer with a preference for simple, clean utilities.
Plenty Of Fish (POF) was known as “the ugliest online dating community” — with a very minimalist design but a fast-loading, simple platform that users could easily navigate and interact with. And, like English Forums, it was entirely free.
It too was pure value.
In its first years, POF was run entirely by Markus. He started hiring and building the site as a company only 5 years after its start. [reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlentyOfFish ]
It became one of the largest sites in the world, with 100 million registered users and 2 Billion page views per month.
POF now has an estimated $100 million in revenue. In 2015, it was acquired for $575 million USD by the owners of Tinder, Match.com and OKCupid: IAC.
Vancouver enterpreneur, Markus Frind’s PlentyOfFish.com sold. Another “ugly”, high-utility site, that started the same year English Forums (now English Forward) started — exited for $575 Million 12 years after launch.
Aside: IAC or InterActiveCorp also owns the Q&A site Ask.com (the search content of which they licensed to Google for $3.5 Billion) and the other English Forward comparables: Dictionary.com, Reference.com and Tutor.com
Unlike POF, English Forums never pursued a business model.
Frank’s philosophy and passion for building open and free resources for all put revenue or “monetization” of EF as an always second if not a 20th priority.
Upon the repetitive and almost annoying insistence of a personal friend, Frank agreed to incorporate AdSense into the website — back in the AdSense early days.
Even this step sat uneasy with him…
He agreed to weave in just two ad blocks on the site and only for non-logged-in users.
That was the full and complete “business model” for the former English Forums for nearly a decade.
While it produced a very respectable personal income and really ran hands-off for years, it’s a far cry from what is needed in today’s landscape to scale.
These days start-ups, like pop-singers, are pushed with brute financial force.
Millions in funding doesn’t guarantee their success, as that hinges on 1001 other variables — but it more or less guarantees that any valuable project that doesn’t have enough financial ammo, will be buried by the noise created by this “competition.”
Of course, funding, scaling, unicorns and Lambos weren’t anywhere remotely on Frank’s agenda.
His inspiration comes from creators, inventors, builders and philosophers.
In 2016, Francis recognized that he had brought EF as far as his own interests and skill-sets would allow.
He decided to sell.
To get that done, he connected with me and my firm, OODIENCE.
Click image for original press release on VentureBeat announcing the sale of the, then, English Forums.
My company OODIENCE works specifically and exclusively with “specialized audience” (OODIENCE is a play on ‘audience’) media channels, community and p2p marketplaces.
Which was important because based on a financial multiples model, the business would have had an unfair and inaccurate valuation.
And without OODIENCE’s real understanding of proven revenue-models and growth opportunities for these particular business models, it would have been more challenging for prospective Buyers to see where it could go.
| SOLD: English Forums
I flew out to Malta to meet Frank and learn more about what he had built.
My meeting and recorded video conversation with Frank West in Malta
After signing in late 2016, we took English Forums to market early 2017.
After a couple of months of campaigning, Frank asked me to pause.
While we generated demand and I was holding conversations with qualified strategic-Buyer parties, as Frank was exposed to the same sales materials we created for presenting the business acquisition opportunity — he asked to hold it for a little longer after recognizing the many opportunities that remained untapped for his English Forums.
So the work was paused and EF was no longer on the market.
That was early 2017.
2017 was also the year all-things Blockchain (and crypto) exploded.
Frank had been involved in the pioneering talks, engineer community discussions and exploration of Blockchain from the early days…
While he recognized English Forums could be a lot more, Blockchain, or more specifically, decentralization became his legacy pursuit.
(plug: look for Francis West’s upcoming and much anticipated book on Decentralization — hitting bookstores soon.)
And so… EF went back on the market November 2017.
Again, I presented and talked to previous and new strategic buyers: comparable learn language platforms, learn English app companies, language schools, global education brands, edtech investors and similar …
This included dialogue with CEOs of billion dollar “learn English” authorities, well-known serial EdTech investors, recently funded 9-figure valuation competitors and more.
A couple of months later, we found a new home for it with education-system evangelist, serial entrepreneur and hotelier Mitch Rankin and signed papers early February.
An email Frank received after the sale of the former English Forums was announced.
| Advancing Forward: Mitch Rankin and English Forward
Mitch Rankin is a South Africa based entrepreneur and investor. He believes that the education system can use more upgrading and improvement.
English Forward is his legacy business.
Take a look at this profile video I coordinated to introduce Mitch to the EF community:
Mitch Rankin, CEO and Founder of the new English Forward. (click image for video)
His local residence is South Africa, where the percentage of the population that is unbanked or operates entirely from a mobile phone gives him an understanding of the need for English Forward to be a mobile-first platform and to also incorporate digital tokens (crypto) for payments to reward contribution.
Mitch has been part of many hotel development projects internationally, including Hollywood — this has further shown him how much language for effective communication (whether for hotel guests or for hotel business development) matters.
When Mitch acquired the former English Forums, he brought the assets into a new Malta-based corporation and under a new brand.
He began the work to turn the former English Forums community and “utility” site into the new “English Forward” education technology company.
He developed a business model and growth strategy and brought on the core team:
All of these are important foundation-building steps … but the real focus is in expanding the Q&A and discussion community into a new, all-round, English language portal with a peer-to-peer marketplace, powered by Blockchain and shifting everything to a mobile-first model.
Post-acquisition, I worked with Mitch to develop the new brand and logo strategy for this new company: English Forward.
English Forward (formerly English Forums) — new logo, new brand.
We retained the EF initials (from English Forums to English Forward) for consistency.
The dated “forums” was swapped to “forward” suggesting progress not just for the site itself, but, more so, for any student or professional wanting to forward advance their language proficiency.
We moved from the blue and often tech-associated logo colors to orange, the color most often used for content, publishing and education brands.
The new logo font was bolded — to represent a bold and ambitious goal.
The forward arrow was worked into the logo icon to visually represent the same “forward” and progress concepts.
The negative space in the icon can be recognized from mobile devices as the home icon. This is, again, in-line with the company’s goal of “mobile first” and to further indicate that English Forward is for everyone in your home.
A mascot was also introduced.
The current “version 1” of “Ella the English Forward Elephant” is already live …
Ella, the English Forward Elephant
The elephant was selected for its symbolism of wisdom and knowledge.
Ella will take-shape and become more present on the upcoming revised site designs and in the educational videos that will follow.
Converting English Forums into an operational and scalable company is comparable to acquiring a valuable piece of water-front land, with all piping and electrical work already in place — but still needing to develop the luxury hotel onto the land and getting all services ready for customers.
For English Forward — this includes: SEO related rebrand, new site build, mobile app development, UX and user registration flow improvement, partnerships with educators and industry professionals, activating the company’s first-ever advertising, growth and marketing initiatives… it’s all taking shape:
English Forward screenshots.
One of the primary company focuses is the Blockchain code and p2p marketplace continued development with the technology partners as the English Forward story continues …
Investors and Learn English, Learn Language, EdTech Brands:
English Forward is exploring opportunities and meeting with investors and strategic brand partners for this next level growth. These conversations and presentations are being coordinated by our M&A and Fundraising firm. Business development and investment enquiries: contact@oodience.com.
Learn Language / Learn English Comparables, Competitors and Industry Intersection
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CEO @ OODIENCE.com | M&A, Exit Advisory, Business Sales for Media Channel, Blog, Hyperlocal Media and P2P Marketplaces. | Toronto. Canary Islands.
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Do you need a wellness coach to lose weight?
By Meg Jordan
Some new research from StayWell Health Management supports the notion that it takes a village (or at least a coach) to make the kind of lifestyle change that most people say they want, but can’t seem to accomplish. Participants who completed a telephone-based, health coaching program lost an average of 3 pounds, compared to 1 pound for those who did not complete the program. Others in a study from Duke University not only scored higher on goals compared to the non-coached group but they retained new health behaviors beyond the study.
Coaches assist you to not only set goals, but make sure your goals are yours, and not imposed by significant others or employers. For example, some companies have attempted to set body composition (BMI) standards on employees, citing that obese individuals cost more in loss productivity and higher absenteeism. But coaches know that a goal imposed from an external source has a strong chance of back-firing. You feel discouraged and give up too soon. Coaches hold their clients in positive regard, never attempting to “fix” them, but instead building supportive alliances that demystify the change process.
Plus, wellness coaches receive special training in nutrition, weight management, fitness, motivational psychology, and stress reduction. They warn you when you’re about to embark on a nonsense diet (“I think I’ll just eat grapefruit for a week”) or keep you from spending money on some worthless exercise gimmick (“…but the Fat Vacuum was seen on TV!”).
Finally, a knowledgeable wellness coach can help design a comprehensive approach to weight loss that fortifies you with strategies that are cutting-edge and evidence-based. I teach graduate students in a masters program to critically analyze health studies, and learn the difference between an adaptogenic herb like red reishi that has the benefit of thousands of years of safe human usage, versus a short-term clinical trial of the latest weight loss pill with unknown side effects. Adaptogens can help you reduce stress levels, which in turn, modulate cortisol levels, a hormone that promotes abdominal girth, the unhealthiest fat. Coaches link you to resources and allies.
More than anything, coaches stretch you to draft a vision for your life that works for the long-term. A greater sense of well-being emerges because you’re no longer fixated on short-term results. Coaches reinforce and acknowledge your success along the change path. The average study participant at StayWell who teamed up with a coach lost an average of 15 pounds—and had a built-in buddy to celebrate with.
Dr. Meg Jordan, PhD, RN, CWP, is a medical anthropologist known as the Global Medicine Hunter®. She is an integrative health specialist, international health journalist, and a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
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The writeup of this sounds hilariously Stepford-Wives-y: https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article239282433.html
"'Even during 9/11, we didn;t do anything like this,' House Democratic Leader Tom Sawyer, a Wichita Democrat who has been in office three decades, said. 'Totally not routine.'
"But, after returning from Forbes more than two hours later, Sawyer painted a more benign picture.
'It was just a routine kind of security briefing, kind of an update on how they're trying to keep Kansas safe,' Sawyer said."
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Landolt-Börnstein - Group II Molecules and Radicals
1456 Diamagnetic susceptibility of C32H28NiN2O2
This document is part of Subvolume A ‘Diamagnetic Susceptibility and Anisotropy of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds’ of Landolt-Börnstein II/27 ‘Diamagnetic Susceptibility and Anisotropy’, Group II ‘Molecules and Radicals’.
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Bank nominee directors and corporate performance: micro evidence for India
Nachane, D M and Ghosh, Saibal and Ray, Partha (2005): Bank nominee directors and corporate performance: micro evidence for India. Published in: Economic and Politcal Weekly , Vol. 40, No. 12 (19 March 2005): pp. 1216-1223.
MPRA_paper_2707.pdf
Banks and financial institutions play a major role in governance of non-financial companies in India through the mechanism of nominee directors. This paper probes two allied issues: firstly, the isolation of the firm specific factors which determine the presence of bank nominee directors on boards and secondly, whether companies, with bank nominee directors exhibit better performance/governance than companies with no banker representation on their boards. A Probit model estimated over a cross-section of Indian manufacturing firms for 2003, indicates that bankers on boards seem to exert a healthy impact on the companies. In fact, large public limited companies are likely to exhibit banker representation, primarily in their role as expertise providers. The evidence from Tobit model reconfirms these results.
Economic and Political Weekly
Banker; corporate governance; debt equity ratio
C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C3 - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models ; Multiple Variables > C35 - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models ; Discrete Regressors ; Proportions
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Memorial Day Video: Liberation of a Concentration Camp, from Band of Brothers
We hope everyone at the Neighborhood is enjoying their Memorial Day weekend.
This piece from the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers demonstrates why it is so important to celebrate holidays like this one. It shows Easy Company, 506th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne division as it inadvertantly liberated a concentration camp in Germany.
Now this is obviously my opinion, but I have strong feelings about our men and women in uniform. Say what you will about the reasoning of our wars; I will not broker disrespect of the troops in our armed forces.
Many people may question how our military is used, and the abuses it may have inflicted in its long history. We used ragtag guerrilla tactics, genocidal ruthlessness and foreign assistance to defeat our colonial masters. We vanquished our southern neighbor in order to seize half of its territory. We systematically corraled the indigenous population of our continent to make way for settlement and land speculation.
World War II, however, was our greatest hour. The United States, attacked by surprise and unprepared, rose to defeat two aggressive powers bent on world domination. Yet we did not conquer, we did not subjugate…on the contrary, we liberated occupied peoples and rehabilitated our former enemies.
No army on Earth ever did that before, not in all of human history.
This is why we are American. This is why we should honor our military personnel. This is why we celebrate Memorial Day.
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The “Matrix” of History-The problem with “America: The Story of Us”
Every basic cable channel in America can be summed up in one sentence.
They consist of hours of reality programming punctuated by hours of reruns of popular programs that have little, if anything, to do with the stated theme of the channel.
I’ve just described Arts & Entertainment (A&E), Bravo, Music Television (MTV), VH1, The Food Network, The Travel Channel, Fine Living Channel, Discovery, Lifetime, TLC, Home and Garden Television (HGTV), and finally The History Channel.
Oh, I’m sorry, it’s now called simply History—as its original glorious programming is relegated to the ash heap of said place.
To understand how far this warhorse of a channel has fallen, look at its most popular programs: Ice Road Truckers, Modern Marvels, and Pawn Stars. They are, in point of fact, pretty good shows. Yet with the exception of the last one, how in the hell does any history fit into them? Did the ice road truckers find fossils to substantiate the Land Bridge theory of Native migration some 10,000 years ago? How exactly does American civilization benefit from knowing how a Pop-Tart is made?
Finally, how the hell is there so much 17th-19th century ordinance in Nevada? Those guys on Pawn Stars collect enough antique guns to field a squad of minutemen against the pit bosses at the Flamingo.
The old-school history-heads like myself, who loved to watch Luftwaffe dogfights ad nauseum on the old A&E before the advent of the History Channel, felt cast off and abandoned. Which is why we were so excited at the beginning of History’s new miniseries America: The Story of Us.
Yet even here, it seems that the whiz-bang pace of reality shows and video games have infiltrated American history.
I won’t go into detail about the number one offense of this show: the relentless parade of celebrities that have absolutely nothing to do with American history. Let’s show the battle of Saratoga and “poof!” out comes Michael Douglas with some platitude about the American spirit. Last night’s use of former NY Giant Michael Strahan in the 1938 Louis-Schmeling fight was particularly dreadful: the only German Strahan ever pummeled was maybe Ben Roethlisberger on a good day.
Instead, I feel the great injustice of this series is but one: the Matrix-like bullet shot.
We all are at least somewhat familiar with the Matrix series of films: a sci-fi (sort of) trilogy of films long on special effects and short on any believable plot. The defining moment of the series is a scene where the main character, Neo (played by “cough” master thespian Keanu Reeves) dodges bullets in slow motion through an acrobatic arc of his body—probably computer generated.
Ever since, the bullet shot has become a staple in action films, either missing or hitting their targets. America, to my chagrin, also decided that to lure the young, high-testosterone set required not one, but multiple shots of the Matrix-variety at a couple of points in our history.
At Lexington and Concord, for example, the low-velocity, non-spinning, handmade, misshapen musket ball is seen from the barrel, hurtling towards its target—the shoulder of a Massachusetts minuteman. Fast forward to Saratoga, and a Continental sniper fires three shots, two misses and a hit, at British general Simon Fraser. The framing, slow musket ball shots, and stop-motion zoom seem right out of a video game. Believe me, a musket ball to the chest is not as fun.
Even more insidious is the bullet shot during the Civil War scenes. Before the Minie ball flies out of the Model 1861 Springfield musket towards an unsuspecting Reb, there’s a shot of a Union soldier sighting his target as if he were using a fucking Norden bombsight. Yankee soldiers on the attack rarely had the time to scope their targets with such accuracy, especially with the crappy stick sights on the muskets.
The one point of honesty in the whole process is the computer-generated X-ray footage of what a soft lead low-velocity bullet does to the human body. The Minie ball was a little bulldozer, obliterating bone, sinew and muscle, making any real recovery impossible. To put it in comparison, a single round from a modern M16 rifle has a steel jacket at a high speed, which slices through you like a scissor. Neither of these are very pleasant, but chances are better you’ll recover from the latter.
(Modern sanitation, oodles of anesthesia and a pharmaceutical industry that doesn’t double as a distillery certainly help, too.)
Let’s face it, America: The Story of Us was an ambitious project attempting to show individual important events in the 400 years of American history. It’s a big mess. The writers can’t decide to go in depth or with a broad brush—if that brush happened to be a roller. Even as a survey of our history, it falls flat. Jamestown, then a quick 170 years later we’re in New York defending a British invasion, then we’re on the frontier with wagon trains, then the rails, then the skyscrapers: this was a dog that bit off more than it could chew.
Why the celebrities, for Chrissakes? We loved those tweedy, slightly awkward professors and historians in previous shows because not only did they provide more context, but in an interesting, fun way. Who doesn’t love Kenneth Jackson’s Tennessee drawl on the Erie Canal, or Thomas Fleming’s Jersey wharf accent as he describes the “beautiful box” that is the siege of Yorktown.
Yet above all, America fails because it attempts to get to a younger students’ level with time, visual effects and violence. Through use of “wicked cool” kill shots, America takes the long, often tedious process of 18th-19th Century warfare and accelerates fast enough so that you can collect enough lives to reach the next level before Mom sends you to bed. You may think this helps kids get a better understanding of history.
In fact, it gives them the wrong impression that historical events were lightning quick, slickly edited and awesome. There was little awesome in real history: just lots of everyday life broken up by moments of terror.
I know there’s a trend to making every subject “kid friendly” by making interactive games that move in 15-minute intervals to match the little shit’s TV-addled brain, but I’m holding the line in history. A student has to understand what time meant to early people, and thus realize how they responded to everyday life. That’s why we have so many brats that ask if George Washington is still alive (yes, I still get that question.)
Besides, if students are to become good historians (or good college students, for that matter), they have to interact with primary documents on their terms. That means put down the controller, boys and girls, and actually SIT for a period of time and READ something.
Human existence isn’t designed with a reset button and free lives. It’s a series of one-shot chances that create a long, slow, complex narrative that must be interpreted as it is—not accelerated for quicker consumption.
History is digested slowly. Let Mario and Luigi handle the easier stuff.
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Movies for the Classroom: Triumph of the Will
If any teacher is starting, or is in the middle of, a unit about the Holocaust, you MUST include this film in your lessons.
Triumph of the Will (1935), directed by Leni Riefenstahl, is widely considered among the greatest propaganda films of all time. Riefenstahi documents the 1934 Party Congress of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), or Nazi Party. In her camera work, editing, and use of moving and close-up shots, Riefenstahi succeeds in creating a dazzling, upward movement of a people on the rise–and a leader at the forefront of that movement.
In many classrooms, students have at least a cursory understanding of the horrors of the Holocaust. However, many teachers, due to either ignorance, lack of content knowledge, etc., paint the tragedy as a simplistic moral tale: innocents slaughtered by heartless, unfeeling monsters. Here’s an experiment I do that proves this otherwise.
Play the film for the students–and make sure you don’t tell the children any more than its a movie from the 1930s. Watch and note how many times the children tap or play along to the marching music, cheer, give a Nazi salute, etc.
I then ask, “Class, you know about Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, right?” Most of my kids will probably respond about the Holocaust, about starting wars, hating Jews, or at the very least “he’s a bad guy.”
Then comes my response: “…then why did you enjoy the film so much?”
Most of the class would sit, stunned. One year, a girl started to cry. For the students, the realization that they became immersed in Nazi propaganda is a frightening experience. Its an experience that’s absolutely necessary in order to understand the Holocaust.
The slaughter of millions of people was not done by mere monsters. As shown in Triumph of the Will, an entire nation of regular people–people just like you and me–was seduced by the call of a return to glory and happiness.
Little did they realize then the horrible cost of that seduction.
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Mr. D’s History Bookshelf # 6: Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George?
A persistent problem in history instruction is the demonization of the “losers” of history.
The British were bloodthirsty savages bent on wanton destruction.
The Germans were bloodthirsty savages bent on wanton destruction.
The 1974-1976 Philadelphia Flyers were bloodthirsty savages bent on wanton destruction. (That last one may be true.)
It’s a common trap for educators. Because of our emphasis on literacy, especially elements of fiction, we tend to view historical events through the prism of the fiction story: plot, setting, protagonists and especially antagonists. Kids might not grasp the nuance of British soldiers assisting native tribes from encroachment by American colonists. They do get, however, a pack of British redcoats unloading their muskets on a group of 70 minutemen “peaceably” gathering on Lexington common.
Good guys and bad guys make a natural narrative that’s clear, convenient and memorable. It also makes for bad history.
This has been especially true of the American Revolution, one of my favorite subjects. I’ll be studying the revolution at UCLA at a Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminar in July, and the old “bad British” mentality does not fly in academia. Scholars of late have attempted to rectify the prevailing narrative with research on the Iroquois campaigns of 1778-1779, the gruesome guerrilla wars between Patriot and Tory gangs in the Carolinas, and the fate of Loyalists after the war was over.
In classrooms, we are slowly coming into contact with such material. For example, George Vs. George attempts to give a balanced account of the revolution from the two most famous “Georges”, George Washington and King George III.
Yet my favorite of these works is an old warhorse by Jean Fritz, a master of historical narrative for children. Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George? is an entertaining, balanced account of the trials of the British monarch from boyhood through the end of the revolution.
As in other books about Franklin, Columbus, Sam Adams, etc., Fritz uses historical facts and the events of the period to provide a very human, and surprising linear, portrait of complicated people. George III is shown as an awkward, troublesome boy who accidentally ends up heir to the British throne. Once in power, George endeavors to be a good king: in manners, in style, in government, and especially with his rambunctious subjects in America.
The conflict in the colonies is shown as a distant affair, a master stroke by Fritz to add realism. Remember that the revolution was occurring 3,000 miles across the ocean. Unless your family had someone in the army serving in America, most British subjects had the revolution in the distant background. Fritz shows how George fit the American war in the context of his numerous duties: very important, yet not always at the forefront of his mind.
Although a disservice to true aficionados of the period, George’s “madness” is rarely mentioned. The audience of Fritz’ work would probably not understand George’s porphyria, his well-documented mental illness. Thus, George is shown becoming more eccentric as the revolution progresses, when in reality those nervous tics were always part of his persona.
Older students should definitely couple this book with Alan Bennett’s play The Madness of George III, as well as its excellent screen adaptation, The Madness of King George.
Finally, the book debunks the myth created by our Founding Fathers that George III was a hardhearted monster. On the contrary, George was in fact an incredibly involved monarch who was careful to look after the needs of his people. Yet for any government, let alone a king, ruling a vast overseas empire is incredibly hard work, and involves leaving decisions to subordinates that may not be in the best interests of everyone. And boy, did George have some doozies of subalterns: Lord North, Charles Townshend, Lord Grenville, William Pitt the Elder (and Younger), Lord Rockingham, Lord Bute, Charles Edward Fox, and so on.
Fritz goes a long way in showing just how difficult it is to lead the British Empire. Challenge your students to see what they would do if they were in King George’s shoes. You may be surprised at the answers.
As for me, I’ll cut George III some slack.
Bobby Clarke, on the other hand, has a special place in hell reserved for him.
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You say you want a revolution…the Cuba Chronicles, Epilogue
One of many gratuitous shots of old cars in Cuba scattered throughout this post.
“What did we ever do to deserve the embargo?”
Our tour guide asked us this question in a small group on the bus one day. Since I was the resident capitalist, everyone was waiting to hear what I had to say. Sitting and squirming, my response was less than stellar. It was some sad-sack tome on the value of individual achievement and the market system and how the embargo is the most un-capitalist of measures that hurt everyone. Everyone nodded in acknowledgement of my answer.
This was not what I wanted to say.
I think he deserves a better answer. That answer can also say a lot about post-Castro Cuba—and what can, or will, happen when there is no Castro in power (Fidel, Raul or otherwise).
First of all, the question he asked is the wrong question. No one in their right mind would ever say that anyone, let alone the Cuban people, DESERVE to have their market freedom, their economy, their resources strangled by an embargo. It’s a straw-man argument that forces cheap sympathy yet does little to resolve the conflict.
This should be the better question to ask: “To whose benefit is it to keep the embargo going?”
In both Cuba and here in the States, this is a far more troublesome question, as it often brings the conflicting needs and ideologies of disparate groups into greater focus. A whole list of culprits comes to mind: US business, US military, the Cuban exiles, the Cuban government, the Cuban Communist Party, the Castros, the European corporations in cahoots with the Cuban government.
None of them are completely blameless.
The US and the Exiles
Let’s start with our homegrown suspects—and none have beaten a dead horse for as long as the US military.
For half a century, the US has enforced an economic embargo on the island in a futile attempt to “starve” Cuba into regime change. Even after an ever-flexible authoritarian apparatus and a flood of European companies filling the void, the powers-that-be still insist that this is the best way.
Contrary to what the left thinks, the great American capitalists are NOT pleased with this arrangement. Cuba is the largest market in the Caribbean, and the great US companies are shut out of that action. Granted, their Cuban infrastructure was confiscated during the Revolution, which leaves a bad taste. Yet 50 years later, after European companies managed a foothold in Cuba, shouldn’t some Yankee firms go in and play ball with the Commies if that gives them the future “advanced market entry”?
We’ve been in the embargo business since 1807, and almost all have been unmitigated disasters. Our CIA’s attempts to assassinate Castro—all 638 of them—prove that a Skulls and Bones secret handshake and a Brooks Brothers bow tie make shitty hired killers. So why has the US government not taken the hint? Why have not changed course and forged a new direction in foreign policy?
According to many, especially on the left, much of the reason lies with the powerful, and often troublesome, bloc of Cuban exiles that have come to the United States since the 1960s.
Now, I’m not going to knock the exiles. I have friends who are either exiles themselves or the children of exiles. Most of these people came here for legitimate reasons: escaping political repression, economic opportunity (largely based on the lack of economic opportunity in post-revolutionary Cuba), etc. It would be hypocritical of me to smack down another group of immigrants when I (like most Americans) come from foreign stock as well.
Yet as I look at the organizations and politicians that represent the Cuban community, something troubles me. One is the lack of realistic expectations—and often for nefarious reasons. Though not true of most groups, it’s safe to say that an “embargo industry” has arisen among the myriad groups that represent Cuban exiles. From the benign to the militant, they see the embargo not only as necessary for regime change in their homeland, but also a raison d’etre for their own existence.
Complicating this is the expectations of a post-Castro Cuba: a Cuba where the clock is turned back. This has taken form in two ways: calls for repatriation of confiscated property and nostalgia for the Batista years before 1959.
Here, I’ll be blunt. Cuba will never, and I mean never, return to the days before 1959. Too much has happened, and besides, that era had enough ill will and official malfeasance to negate any misty-eyed feelings in Miami. Whatever happens after the Castros will have to deal with the institutional remains of the Cuban Revolution, not sweep them clean.
That said, reclaiming property and businesses lost in the confiscations of 1959-1962 is a pipe dream. The return of state-run enterprises to private entities will be a slow and painful process in it of itself. 50 years later, I have serious doubts that the absentee former landlords of these properties will be welcomed back to Cuba with open arms.
Below is a Dutch documentary about how Cuban groups are preparing for a post-Castro Cuba.
There are extensive plans over what the government and society of Cuba will look like in the next phase. Yet many exiles see themselves as coming back to “govern” Cuba when the change occurs. While some Cubans may welcome them (Cubans in the US provide millions in aid to their compatriots on the island, after all), there will undoubtedly be resentment among native Cubans towards exiles who invariably had resources to leave the island, instead of suffering the consequences of the revolution as they did.
After half a century, these exiles could be seen as merely another foreign interloper. It isn’t certain, but the exiles may be more of a hindrance than a help to post-Castro Cuba.
The Cuban community, before it sets foot on its homeland again, needs to really consider what it can, and what it cannot bring to the table. This involves the inevitable conclusion that not every exile may want to go back.
The biggest assumption about the exile community, and one that has changed over time, is its homogeneity. We are now at least two generations removed from the first generation of exiles in the 1960s, and at least one generation removed from the Marielitos of the 1980s. Younger Cuban-Americans, with little, if any, firsthand knowledge of the island, must have developed attitudes and opinions that have altered the proscribed course of the “exile” mentality.
The embargo, US-Cuban relations, and other issues have divided, rather than united, Cubans of all ages to the point that they will probably no longer be the solid Republican voting bloc that politicians hoped—turning Cubans into (‘gasp!’) just another Hispanic group pandered to by Democrats ad nauseum. In fact, Cuban-Americans, over time, may possibly cease to even call themselves “exiles,” reflecting the reality of living in another country for half a century.
If less and less people want to go back, what incentive is there to open an embargo that gives your group identity, legitimacy and government funding?
The Castros, the PCC and the Euros that Love Them
So as much as there are people that want the embargo to go away (capitalists, leftists, some politicians and some Cuban exiles), there are others that benefit from the blockage (other conservatives, military establishment, most of the Cuban-American contingent in Congress and other Cuban exiles).
Yet before the Venceremos brigade and the editorial board of Mother Jones starts cheering that I’ve joined the barricades, there’s plenty of blame to spread on the other side. In fact, a lions’ share of the blame goes to the dynamic duo that started this whole mess—the Castro brothers.
It is now common knowledge that the US embargo is a huge reason—perhaps the only reason—that the Castros have remained in power for half a century. With an economic embargo, Fidel and company can blame any and all shortcomings of the regime on American aggression. Regardless of the ineptitude of the government, the embargo stands as the great Yankee bogeyman that keeps Cubans, on the surface, loyal to the Communists in general and Fidel in particular.
Don’t just take my word for it. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently stated that the Castros “do not want to see an end to the embargo and do not want to see normalization with the United States, because they would then lose all their excuses for what hasn’t happened in Cuba in the last 50 years.” Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, wrote in his 2005 book Portraits and Profiles that Castro would be out of power within three months if the embargo was lifted. Aznar’s words carry an interesting weight, considering that Spanish companies have worked extensively with the Cuban government, particularly in tourism.
Along with the Castros, the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and its apparatus of terror also benefit from economic closure. With an economic embargo comes an embargo of information, the perfect mix for paramilitary thugs to exact fear into the populace. The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs) and the Rapid Response Brigades function because the Cuban people have no independent access to information about any alternative to the status quo.
End the embargo, and the whole house of cards will come tumbling down. Woe to the government spies, snitches and CDR block captains that day. Old scores will be settled, neighbors may turn on each other, and the bloodshed may be too much to comprehend.
However, another wrinkle was added to this tale recently. In order to collect hard currency to maintain their power, Fidel and Raul threw the Communist Manifesto out the window and opened limited investment in Cuba to foreign, non-US companies agreeing to joint ventures with the Cuban government. Companies such as Spanish resort conglomerate Melia and Italian telecommunications giant Telecom Italia snaked into the Cuban economy, creating businesses and infrastructure to pump tourist cash into government coffers. How happy would they be to have an embargo lifted, and Hilton Hotels, Coca-Cola and Verizon nipping at their heels?
The Post-Castro Cuba, more questions than answers
Needless to say, lifting the embargo will be but one element in a process leading to what is widely considered a post-revolutionary Cuba.
The next step involves supplanting the Castro regime. All outside efforts to do so have failed, and the internal opposition is relatively rudderless, divided into factions that seldom work together. An interesting article in the Journal of Democracy highlights the difficulties in creating regime change, even with the lifting of an embargo.
Even with a regime change, however, the massive volume of questions that need to be answered—in a relatively short time—would confound even our founding fathers. Here is but a sampling:
Would the government maintain its current structure or change to something more in line with new ideologies?
How would elections and political campaigns work?
How would political parties organize?
What would happen to the old PCC? Would it be outlawed, like the Nazi party in Germany, or will it be reorganized as one political party among many?
Would the PCC have to dismantle its apparatus of intimidation, the CDRs, Rapid Response Brigades, etc., in order to participate in democratic politics?
What is to become of former officers of the old regime, particularly ones considered “criminals”?
Would institutions of civil order and public maintenance be maintained?
What would be the military’s role in this new system?
How would Cuba re-define its relationship to the United States?
How would Cuba re-define its relationship to allies of the former government, such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil?
How can the Cuban economy be changed to a capitalist model? Should it be changed at all, or should there be a hybrid of capitalist and socialist elements?
If government businesses are to revert to private ownership, how will that process work? Will former party leaders suddenly become billionaires as in Russia? Will workers get first crack at shares in new corporations, with full voting rights to boards of directors as well as executive management?
What is to become of the business relationships made before the regime change?
How will services like education and health care—cornerstones of the propaganda of the previous regime—continue in the new system?
How will taxation work?
Will “full employment” continue to be the goal, or will the process of job creation and unemployment change?
How open is “open”? Will information be open and accessible, or will some form of censorship exist?
What protections for basic rights will exist?
How will crime, law enforcement and incarceration be affected?
What is to be done about the “legacy” of the Cuban Revolution? Should it be written out like a Stalinist purge, denounced loudly and openly, or integrated into the narrative of Cuban history, focusing both on accomplishments and failures?
This is but a fraction of the problems that will exist in the post-Castro island. Few of them will be resolved right away, and with all regime changes comes some measure of bloodshed—some more than others. My hope is that the process of transition will be as painless as possible.
However, do not expect a Singapore or a Taiwan overnight: the socialist system will probably be weaned slowly from Cuban society, rather than risking a massive revolution with potentially catastrophic side effects.
Finally, I wanted to get back to the original question about the embargo. The tensions between Cuba and the United States, apart from strict ideology, also amount to a crisis of irrationality. Embargos have a tendency to entrench longstanding hatreds and prejudices, and Cuba is no exception.
The voices of reason and pragmatism, however, have been drowned out in the din of obstructionist rhetoric and ideological saber-rattling.
The need for regime change is evident, at least in my eyes. But I’m not naïve enough to say that a quick insurrection will make things great again. The first step is normalization between the two countries. Let reason and rationality prevail, utilizing points of political and economic convergence, and we the openings can happen sooner rather than later.
For the sake of Cuba and the United States, let’s hope and pray that reason can prevail.
And for all the Cubans in Miami and Union City, time to end with a little nostalgia. Here’s a 1932 travel film about Havana. Note the “newly” constructed Capitol building, as well as the snappy straw hats on the Prado. Enjoy.
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Videos for the (VERY mature) classroom: Drunk History featuring Nikola Tesla
CollegeHumor’s Drunk History series is now part of HBO Comedy’s Funny or Die troupe. Nikola Tesla is featured, starring John C. Reilly, with Crispin Glover as Thomas Edison. How electric!
Okay, I really deserve a beating for such a lame last line.
Maybe to make amends, I shold make a Drunk History of my own. Sometime in the near future, I’ll be doing a Drunk History of (surprise, surprise) the Cuban Revolution. Fidel would be proud. Anyone who wants to help, let me know.
No, you can’t be the drunk…I’ll take care of that.
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This Day in History 5/5: The Battle of Puebla and “Cinco de Mayo”
Let’s be perfectly clear, once and for all.
Cinco de Mayo is NOT Mexico’s independence day. That would be September 16, the day Mexico declared its independence from Spain.
And it was not an invention Corona and Jose Cuervo, either…despite what the marketing at happy hour tells you.
In 1861, Benito Juarez, president of Mexico, stopped all interest payments to Mexican loans from European countries. Most countries wished to occupy the port of Veracruz until the debt was paid. The French, however, tried their hand at occupation.
A 6,000 strong French army reached the town of Puebla, near Mexico City, in 1862. They were the cream of France’s military, including Chasseurs d’Afrique (Hunters of Africa), feared colonial troops, Zouaves, and the French Foreign Legion. The Mexican army totaled 4,500-4,600, mostly veterans of the Reform Wars, a civil war that swept through Mexico a decade earlier. Though not exactly the ragtag army of legend, the Mexicans were perceived as outmatched.
Yet the French made a grave miscalculation. They thought the local population would be friendly to the French invaders, since they were on the wrong side of the Reform Wars. Those old animosities didn’t matter anymore. After wasting their ammunition and a bad turn in the weather, the French were beaten back by the solid defense of the Mexican veterans.
462 French soldiers died, with over 300 wounded and 8 taken prisoner. The Mexicans lost only 83, with 131 wounded. It would be the last time a European army would formally (emphasis on formally) attack a country in the Western Hemisphere.
Suprisingly, even though Benito Juarez declared a national holiday for May 5, it is not considered a federal holiday in Mexico today. On this side of the border, Cinco de Mayo has degenerated further, from a celebration of Mexican culture to an excuse to get sloshed on bad margaritas and buckets of Corona.
So tonight, as you tie one on with your umpteenth tequila shot, remember why we celebrate today. The video attached, while a little crude, gives most of the important details.
The Epilogue of the Cuba Chronicles will return next time.
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Welcome to our thorough overview discussing the best way to transfer money abroad. Every single service recommended on this page has been carefully and inspected by our staff, and we welcome you to read reviews of companies like World First, Currencies Direct and OFX on their respective pages.
All overseas money transfers service offered by these companies are fee-free, with local banking facilities in the relevant region, and most importantly – safe, secured, and regulated! We look not only for the cheapest way to transfer money abroad, but also for the most reliable, trouble-free, and smoothest way of doing so.
Transferring Money Overseas, Location-Based Recommendations:
Best Way to Transfer Money from The UK
Local UK Offices:
London (+2 Global Offices)
90.6% Editorial rating
1,000+ Client Reviews
Minimum transfer:
Why Them?
Handle 135+ Currencies
Helpful Staff
No Fees from UK
Read Full Global Reach Group Review >
Best Way to Transfer Money from EU: Spain, France, Germany, Italy
EU Offices:
Ireland, Spain, France
7 000+ Client Reviews
No Fees for Our Readers
Great Online Platform
Read Full Moneycorp Review >
Best Way to Transfer Money from USA or Canada
Local USA Offices:
Orlando, Florida (+17 More Global Offices)
1350+ Client Reviews
Global Leaders moving $5bn annually
Average saving of more than 50% VS American Banks
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Best Way to Transfer Money from Singapore or Hong Kong
Singapore, Hong Kong (+4 More Global Offices)
SGD 1,000
HKD 10,000
Easy to sign up
Local offices in Singapore and HK with local staff
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Best Way to Transfer Money from Australia or New Zeland
Local Offices:
Sydney (Australia), Auckland (NZ)
Publicly Traded Company in Australia
Industry Giants 20bn in Turnoever
Expertise in Outbound Australian Transfers
90%+ Reviews Of the Firm are Positive
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Best Way to Transfer Money from Brazil
Subsidiary in Brazil
Best Way to Transfer Money from Switzerland
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Tokyo (+5 More Global Offices)
Local office in Tokyo
Strong banking connections locally
Years of experience with Yen transfers
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Local UAE Offices:
Dubai (+7 More Global Offices)
Local Offices in Dubai
No fees for outbound transfers
Operating in UAE for 10+ years
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Cape Town (+7 More Global Offices)
ZAR 5,000
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Great reviews globally and specifically in SA
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Local offices in India
Strong reputation
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Local Offices / Local Settlements
The most prominent factor on our sending money abroad comparison for private clients page is the localisation of each firm. Most companies can handle clients globally, but few companies have local offices outside of the UK (90% are headquartered there).When a certain company has local offices in any region, it is a strong signal that the sign-up process for clients from that region would be easy and comfortable, and that the support would be provided from a local employee from that office.
In addition, if a client would like to meet up in person with his trader, but the company he is dealing with do no have local offices near him, he would not be able to do so unless he travels abroad to do so. Over the past few years, companies have opened local offices in expat hubs such as UAE, Singapore, South Africa and Canada – so wherever you currently reside, you are bound to find a solution.
Most importantly, local offices translate into local payment settlements i.e. bank accounts set up in the same country that you can move your money domestically to. If you are an Australian expat living in the UK, this is how the process will look like with a company that has local settlements in both UK and Australia, eliminating on intermediary fees and recipient bank fees and allow you to know precisely how much money should be received by the recipient after the overseas money transfer is initiated: How long will this take? View our speed of international money transfers guide on the topic.
The same would apply for many other currency corridors. If you move money from Germany to USA, choose a company which is recommended in the EU, and also has American office. If you need to swap funds between UAE and South Africa, UK to Singapore, Sweden to USA, or New Zealand to Australia – just search for companies that has offices in both locales.
— Matt Di Vincere, Editor, MoneyTransferComparison
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Percentage of Readers*
Recommended Company
France, Spain, Germany, Netherlands
Less than 1%
Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia
* Approximate figures
** There are a lot more countries/ currencies which compose the remaining 15%
*** We did not list how long will it take any transfer to reach its destination, for that we have created a specific guide on the speed of international money transfers.
For Additional Information on the topic, including examples, view our FX Companies VS Banks comparison.
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Why these particular companies?
There are hundreds of companies that allow you to transfer money abroad. We reviewed the largest ones here on MoneyTransferComparison, and analysed the advantages and disadvantages of each. Our top companies have demonstrated consistent cheap rates, high quality support, true global reach, and user-friendliness all across their platform.
Every choice we have made, whether its for international transfers to Canada, Japan, Spain or New Zealand is backed up by a thorough research.
Experiencing trouble with any international money sending services listed on our website? Let us research into it. View our FX Case Investigation service we have recently started.
How Much Can you Save On An Overseas Transfer – A Comparison
Send money to Spain, France, Germany, Ireland, USA, Australia, Canada etc. with:
With Banks
With Commercial FX
£15-30 from UK |
€15-30 from Europe |
$25-50 from USA
Companies we recommend on this page incur no fixed fees.
Fixed Fees
In the UK banks are usually commission-free, while globally banks still like to charge anywhere between 0.1%-2% as commission.
There are absolutely no commissions sending funds overseas with any of the companies we recommend.
The difference between official currency rate and the Buy / Sell price. Represent an amount that could be anywhere between 1.5% on highly traded currencies pairs, to 5% in extreme cases. Want to know how much you paid? View our money transfer fee calculator.
These companies markups in comparison to the real exchange rate is far more moderate than with banks. These companies specialise at wholesale of currency, with fewer overheads than banks, and thus able to offer tighter spreads.
If you use banks to send money abroad, you will pay up to an astonishing 7% on a small transfer, inclusive of all fees, and anywhere between 1.5%-4% on larger transfers with banks.
If you use a (great) commercial firm for sending money overseas, you will pay up to 1.5% on average on a small transfer. How much you will pay for larger transfer depends on the volume you are sending, and your negotiation skills. In theory, if you are sending millions regularly, it could be as low as 0.1%.
In addition to the above, you can avoid all sorts of “surprise” fees which some banks incur. The most common one is recipient fees for accepting an international wire transfer. You can avoid them easily through using companies which have local settlements in both sending and recipient countries.
Here’s how it works in practice – Case from life
John has accumulated some savings in the past few years, and like many other Britons, he decides to invest in property abroad. It will enable him to diversify his investment profile, generate some passive income, and even have a holiday home for his vacations. In addition to that, the low interest rates will enable him to fund his mortgage almost completely via rent.
The only obstacle standing between John and fulfillment of his dream investment, is transferring money overseas, without paying thousands in fees in the process.
Banks – Are They The Best Way To Move Funds Abroad?
He can’t get a straight answer on the markups he is expected to pay, especially when “market is fluctuating”. He get no guidance or support on the subject, besides being told to re-approach for a quote when the money to be moved.
There are no specific guidelines or tips which is based on John’s individual needs. For the bank, it doesn’t matter whether John needs to move money in Europe to his sister in France, buy an asset in Australia, or move his pension back from Ireland to a bank account Singapore. It’s a “one-fits-all” service by a non-trader banker.
Commercial Money Transfers Abroad
Photo from Currencies Direct office in London
Commercial money transfer firms: When approaching one of the our top-choice companies like Currencies Direct, World First, or Moneycorp with the intent of sending money abroad in the future, John will be offered with Forward Contracts: a way to secure the current exchange rate for a period of up to 24 months from the day of the contract.
That means, if John has set aside an amount of exactly 105,000 Pounds and signed such a contract with either of the companies, he can focus on finding an asset within a clear budget (in Euros), without spending anything that wasn’t intended for this cause. Not only the quote will be remarkably cheaper, it will also prevent the sorrow of currency fluctuations.
Some companies, like Currency Solutions or Global Reach Partners, will allow John to make the currency exchange and transfer on an immediate basis, and save the money exchanged in the companies’ Euro account, until it has an address (for any period of time).
Not Only Money Moving….
John will be in contact with a dedicated dealer who has helped hundreds or thousands of clients invest, or move, abroad. Another set of eyes will never hurt. The dedicated dealer can give guidance on all aspects relating to the transaction, and put John in touch with solicitors, real estate agents and tax consultants (only the very best).
Expanding internationally: Whether john would use these services in the future, he can always call his dealer and make an international payment to almost anywhere in the world. World First supports 150 currencies! John can move his rent money from France to his bank account in South Africa, to pay for a mortgage and invest in another property in New Zealand without ever going to the bank. Sarah can send money to her sister in Ireland, every 2 weeks, using the regular transfers mechanism.
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How did you make the geographic selection?
Well, the majority of large companies we work with will take on any client as long as he passes the compliance checks, and doesn’t reside in countries that are banned for trading. Some locations, mostly in Asia, Africa and the Middle East will require a bit more documents than the UK, Australia, Canada, EU, Scandinavia or Mainland Europe.
The exception of that is the USA:
Sending money overseas from the country requires the payment facility to be regulated on a state-by-state level. Many of the companies don’t handle USA-based clients at all. The companies we have selected for sending money from the USA and Canada are the ones that handle most states.
Still, there are some variations in our company selection between different areas. Things we have put into consideration include the following:
Whether company is dealing with local currency
Whether the company has local offices in the country or nearby
Whether the site is translated to the local language
Whether we have received a clear verification from the company they have a client base in that country
Whether there are promotions/offers specific to a locale
For instance, our recommended company to move money from the UK is World First, which is headquartered in London, and able to move money abroad to 120 different regions including sending money to Australia, Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand and many more locations. The majority of its clients are UK-based or Brits abroad, and it also offers a price rate guarantee for this audience.
How does it work really?
Sending money to a bank through an international wire is something a licensed payment facility can do. In the UK, the regulatory authority is the HM Revenue & Customs, and the Financial Conduct Authority. We, of course, only recommended International Currency Transfer Companies that are registered with the FCA. Many of which are also registered with other powerful regulators like the Australian ASIC, or the Central Bank of Ireland.
The way the process works is as following:
1. Choose a company. Get to its website by clicking on the “Get Free Quote” button. You can choose several companies if you have a large transfer, and compare the costs. You will get quoted once you provide preliminary details about your identity, and before you have completely registered with the company.
2. Register. You will have to supply documentation (quite similar to the one you provide when you open a new bank account). This is imposed by the Anti Money Laundering Act.
3. Execute. Execute the transfer via an online platform (recommended for smaller transfers of up to £5,000), or via telephone (recommended for larger transfers).
4. Transfer funds domestically. You will now have to send the money in your local currency to a secured, segregated clients-only account, owned by the company you have chosen to work with.
5. Money exchanged and sent abroad. Most transfers will happen in up to 48 hours, and money will be executed on the same day. The amount of money received will reflect the exact quote you were provided with, unless the recipient bank decides to charge incoming funds (won’t happen in UK, EU, Australia or the USA, but can happen if you send money overseas to Asia).
It also works the other way around with repatriation of funds, of course.
Learn more on our FAQ
Using our website to send money abroad
MoneyTransferComaprison.com is the largest review and comparison site in this industry. In fact, we have more than 35 companies listed on our website, and over 50 apps on app page (including our own).
Our goal is to apply to the widest audiences we can. That’s why we have a special category for expatriates and immigrants, business FX, merchants and even an eWallet comparison and travel money comparison. That’s why we have listed so many different countries on this page – because our traffic is diverse and international.
Companies appearing on this page specialise at sending money abroad for purposes like property purchases, mortgage payments, luxury item buying from abroad, paying tuition fees, etc. (These are the same companies we recommend for receiving money from abroad, of course).
Be sure to check as many reviews as possible to find the companies best tailored for your needs. Do not be hesitant of contacting multiple companies to compare between their quotes, and may you find the way to transfer money abroad for your needs.
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HOW do you measure a minister? Who is a good minister? And what is the shape of success in ministry?
According to Paul, a minister has to watch closely his life and doctrine, and his teaching and ministry.
Notice the importance of taking care to ensure faithfulness in one’s inner life and outer ministry. Watch who you are becoming and what you are doing, the quality of your inner life and your public ministry, your devotion to Christ and your service for Him, the holiness of your character and your effectiveness in ministry.
Exhorting seven ordinands – three Deacons and four Elders – at the Ordination-cum-Closing Service of the 31st Session of the Chinese Annual Conference at TA2 at Telok Blangah Road on Nov 16, 2006, to “Watch Your Life and Doctrine”, the title of his sermon, Bishop Dr Robert Solomon said:
“You were brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching – trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine. You have been trained in words (theological training, etc). But words must be accompanied by the power of the Holy Spirit who alone can produce conviction and change of life in people.
“Therefore your training is not over. Ordination is not the end. It is only the beginning.
“Train yourself to be godly. You were trained, now continue training yourself, and the focus of the training is towards godliness.”
The three Deacons who were ordained were Pastor Helen Ho Chiew Ngin, Pastor Lisa Yu Li Hsin and Pastor Wilfred Leow Hui Ann, and the Elders were the Rev Teoh Kean Onn, the Rev Chew Eng Pin, the Rev Chin Yan Chong and the Rev Louis Chai Shung Chee.
What is godliness? How does it look like?
“It looks like Christ,” said the Bishop, “for He is the Model of godliness. To train yourself to be godly means to become like Christ, your Master. It means spending time with Jesus, to learn from Him, to be a true disciple of His, and to be so infused with His Spirit that the fruit of the Spirit will shine through your lives.”
All these principles also apply to the laity, said the Bishop towards the end of his sermon.
To ripples of laughter from the congregation, he said: “You are not excused. You are to also watch your life and service.
“Respect your pastors, don’t look down on them. Observe your pastors. If they are good, you will learn a lot by precept and example. If you see progress in your pastors, encourage them.”
Telling the ordinands to watch their lives, he said the focus today is perhaps too much on skills and gifts or giftings. “You can have the gifts without the graces. Gifts equip us to do the work, but spiritual fruit will last and become part of our character.
“The inner life of the pastor is of utmost importance. Mission naturally follows the life. A weak inner life will result in the erosion of the soul, and decreasing effectiveness in ministry. We may build institutions but they will never last or touch the inner lives of people. We may speak a lot of words but they would have no healing or transforming power. We may teach methods but they cannot change people deeply. We may give a lot of advice but we can never give true spiritual direction.
“Godliness helps us to discern. To the peripheral. What is important and know between that which is central and what is not. What is truth and what is not. Character is essential. “Godliness results in a life lived in hope – in the living God, the Saviour.”
On watching their ministry, Bishop Dr Solomon told the pastors that “the good minister is one who devotes his time to the reading and public teaching of the Word. This is central. “We teach not just by precept but by example. We must not only tell, but show how to live as a disciple of Christ. We must be living examples of the spiritual life, and of Christian maturity.”
He urged them not to neglect their gift, and warned that pastoral ministry could be so diluted and distracted that one neglects one’s spiritual gift which was given for the ministry. The key gift of teaching and preaching, caring for the flock, etc, can be neglected because of the distortions of modern ministry.
He also told them to be diligent. “Diligence means that we do our ministry well, whether we are observed or not. We prepare sermons well. We visit people with a real desire to minister. We give our hearts and minds in preparing and leading worship, teaching, preaching, caring, mentoring.”
Watching life and ministry is never easy. There are so many other things to do, so many distractions. “Also those who do this well often will face serious difficulties and challenges, severe spiritual attacks, because such ministers are really effective and the devil does not like this. That is why Paul uses the word ‘persevere’. Hang on. Be faithful. Fulfil your ministry.
“The result is that we will be saved ourselves. But watching our life and ministry will also save our hearers and those we minister to. It means that our ministry will really be effective, that we will really be able to touch people’s lives, and that people will really find salvation for their souls from our ministry. What a joy that would be. You want your ministry to count for eternity and not to be in vain.
“So watch your life and ministry. Keep your focus on your inner life in Christ. Faithfully discharge your key duties.”
BISHOP Dr Robert Solomon ordaining three new Elders from Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC). They are, from left, the Rev Terence Yeo Ah Sen, the Rev William Sam Kin Leong and the Rev Barnabas Chong Chien Chih.
The ordination took place at the Closing Service of the 31st Session of TRAC on Nov 23, 2006 at Living Hope Methodist Church. The 31st Session was held there from Nov 20 to 23.
The Rev Yeo was appointed Pastor of Barker Road Methodist Church while the Rev Sam was appointed Pastor of Faith Methodist Church. The Rev Chong was appointed Pastor of Paya Lebar Methodist Church.
Earlier, three new Deacons were also ordained by the Bishop. They were Mr Christopher Chin, who was appointed Assistant Pastor of Christ Methodist Church; Ms Lynette Sathiasingam, appointed Assistant Pastor of Faith Methodist Church; and Ms Wendy Watson, appointed Assistant Pastor of Wesley Methodist Church.
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Malema allegedly owes Sars R10-million
Suspended ANC Youth League president Julius Malema owes the South African Revenue Service (Sars) more than R10-million, City Press reported on Sunday.
He had been sent a tax bill of more than R10-million, apparently related to the millions deposited into his Ratanang Family Trust.
“What? That’s not possible,” he told the paper via SMS when asked for comment. He replied again later saying his accountant said the amount owed was R120-million.
It was not clear how he arrived at R120-million, or whether he was joking, the newspaper reported.
His lawyer Nicqui Galaktiou sent an SMS shortly afterwards: “Disclosure of Mr Malema’s private affairs with Sars is a violation of his right to privacy.”
According to City Press the amount owed included penalties. Money owed is usually due to income not declared or not fully declared. According to the newspaper, three independent sources confirmed Malema’s tax troubles.
The Sunday Independent reported that several of Malema’s allies had been subpoenaed to appear before a secret judicial inquiry for suspected tax evasion.
The inquiry was reportedly convened after some business people and government officials refused to cooperate with the taxman. Malema, who has not been subpoenaed, told the newspaper he did not know anything about the inquiry.
Advocate Piet PJJ Marais SC would reportedly head the inquiry, a judicial body set up in terms of the Income Tax Act. The order to hold the inquiry was granted last month by president of the high court in Pretoria, judge Willem van der Merwe, the newspaper reported.
According to documents in the Sunday Independent‘s possession, Limpopo businessmen linked to 19 companies, who were close to Malema, had been summoned. These companies included SGL Engineering Projects, where Malema was a director, Gwama Properties, and On-Point Engineers, which was co-owned by Malema’s Ratanang family trust.
The Gwangwa Family Trust, linked to businessman and Malema’s associate Lesiba Gwangwa, would also be probed during the inquiry. Gwangwa’s lawyer Mpoyana Ledwaba told the newspaper the businessman had been subpoenaed.
“Our client has always cooperated with the … authorities in the past and there is no reason why he will not cooperate this time around,” Ledwaba told the newspaper.
Another businessman Thomas Rasethaba, younger brother of Sello Rasethaba, a close friend of Malema’s, had also been summoned. According to the report Rasethaba needed to explain why his name appeared in several companies linked to Gwangwa and others.
“I used to run a company that sold shell companies, and I suspect that I might not have been resigned as a director in some of the shell companies I sold,” Rasethaba told the newspaper.
“I intend checking all the records to ensure that I have been resigned.”
Sars spokesperson Adrian Lackay could not immediately be reached for comment. However, he told the City Press he could not comment because taxpayers’ affairs were confidential.
According to another report by the Sunday Independent Malema was facing a financial crisis. Although not broke he was experiencing financial hardship. An unnamed source involved in Malema’s finances told the newspaper Malema had scaled down his lavish lifestyle.
“He has sold his Mercedes Benz and he is now very careful with [spending] money. He is not starving, but he is no longer Raditshelete [moneyman],” the source was quoted as saying. — Sapa
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We’re proud as punch to launch our latest production the ‘Supporting Women In Social Enterprise’ podcast, a commission from Flourish Together CIC, a brilliant organisation that supports women to launch or scale up their social enterprise.
We’ve been buds with Flourish for a few year’s now. We love these ladies. In fact, the foundations of MIC were born from support we received from Flourish back in 2017.
The organisation does great work, from matching women with mentors, to delivering really useful events to support social enterprise journey’s. However, what the team realised was that whilst they were doing all of this wonderful ‘physical’ stuff, there was a load of ladies who just couldn’t benefit from all this goodness, for example those with childcare responsibilities.
So what better way to share that learning in a really accessible way? You guessed it…
The resulting podcast is a magazine-style, monthly production. With each episode based around a theme, it features an interview, a panel discussions (recorded at a live Flourish event) and some mini sound bites from their soc ent network.
It’s an ambitious podcast and involves quite a bit of production, from the event recording, through to getting the founders of Flourish in the same studio, at the same time to do their voice overs (not an easy job, let me tell you!).
What’s brilliant about this podcast…
(not biased at all – ha!) is that there’s nothing else quite like this out there. They have their why and audience nailed too – now that’s a huge task – but they’ve cracked it.
The first episode is out now and it’s all about Governance and Structure – the most unsexy subject in the world, right up there with accounting. However, it’s one of the biggest discussion points in setting up a social enterprise – because there’s so much information out there – and a lot of it conflicts! This episode is useful, entertaining and enlightening! Yes, I have just described something about Governance and structure entertaining! But just trust us on this – mmk?
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New York Police Declare Their Own Safety ‘Top Priority’
NYPD Turns on Mayor, Union Pushes Action Against 'Enemies' in City Hall
Jason Ditz Posted on December 21, 2014 December 21, 2014 Categories NewsTags NYPD
A Saturday incident in which a gunmen killed a pair of NYPD officers in Brooklyn has sent the department, the nation’s largest into a flurry of panic and outrage, and has police union leaders turning up the rhetoric on anybody and everybody the police don’t like.
The biggest target appears to be Mayor Bill de Blasio, who ran for office on a platform of ending police racial profiling, and was critical of police in recent slayings. Police are now blaming him for the “anti-police” sentiment that led to the weekend shootings.
Police made a point of publicly turning their backs on de Blasio during his statement over the shootings, and union leaders urged police to use “extreme discretion” in acting against enemies in City Hall.
The police seem to be moving away from the traditional city-run law enforcement branch and toward an independent, and heavily-armed, faction which feels it can unilaterally act, or refuse to act, as it sees fit.
To that end, police leaders are telling police that their top priority is “to ensure the safety of yourselves and your officers,” and that they should avoid making arrests “unless absolutely necessary.”
The detectives’ union is urging police to travel in threes, and to wear bulletproof vests at all times, while other police union leaders are talking up the idea that they are a “wartime” police department on a military footing.
The “enemy” in this war is clearly the public protesters critical of past police killings of unarmed civilians, and police demanded that all protests against them be halted for the time being.
30 thoughts on “New York Police Declare Their Own Safety ‘Top Priority’”
RickR30 says:
Avoid arrests unless the person positively refuses to die.
Nothing new though about the policy that the life of some cop is worth lots more than that of a civilian. Giant salaries, huge egos, a gun, a badge–bad news for everyone else.
Walter Cole says:
Thanks Rick. The NYPD is obviously saturated with cowards, cowards who, as you say, carry a gun, a badge of authority, and huge egos, but who are now accusing everyone and anyone of being their enemies and are refusing to do their job if it entails danger. They, the police, thought it was fun to have all of that power, until it looked like there was real danger involved, as in making an arrest. For an entire police department to get up in arms about one crazed murderer is a true sign of the caliber of the people recruited by the NYPD. In their photo ops they try their best to look tough, but their words and deeds paint a totally different picture. Now, because of one murderer, It looks like they are declaring war on the people, but will be quick to run over to prevent the Wall Street folks from suffering any humiliation from the people protesting, because Wall Street gives donations to the Police Benevolent Association. NYPD has lost its pride.
Never forget who tries some of those people, the ultimate cowards of Israel and the IDF. You are all Palestinians now.
Joe Hill says:
"It looks like they are declaring war on the people,"
Well, at least they are finally overt about their long-running war on the rest of us.
follyofwar says:
I wouldn't go that far, Walter. Union boss Lynch may have crossed the line, but he is zealously defending his men, which is his job. I have no respect for thuggish cops, but I certainly wouldn't call the lot of them cowards. There's probably going to be more violence directed against cops nationwide, and I don't blame them for watching their backs more. Hopefully, they'll think twice about putting choke holds on any men, not just blacks, because they didn't "submit and obey" fast enough. And that would be a good thing.
John Ellis says:
Rightly understood — Law enforcement a martyr’s profession
“police leaders… top priority is ‘to ensure the safety of yourselves'”
Quite the reverse, for such a fake morality is the reason why we now have a epidemic of bigoted white cops executing innocent men for no other reason then they are black. The fake morality that actually caused the revenge that sentenced to death the two cops of the NYPD.
For the cops in Anquin California have for over half a century operated without a single gun and safety in their community has always been second to none. The cops on the beat in London England have for hundreds of years carried no guns and have the lowest rate of violence of all the big cities in all the world.
For the police have one and only one priority — public safety. Primarily and above all things the safety of the public that are in police custody, the majority of which the public would love to burn at the stake.
But, quite the reverse are the rules of engagement for the American cop, for shoot to kill is the command toward anyone who in the slightest puts a cop in harm’s way. Refuse to show your hands and it is assumed that you hold a gun and without warning you are good as dead.
It ‘s like the four year old girl who was standing next to my grocery cart and so fear struck she was shaking and crying. So her mother said to me, “For some reason she started this when the officer came in, I don’t know why?” Truth is, the girl was looking straight at the officers killing machine and she thought it was going to be used on her.
Commonsense says:
Please provide citations for your accusations.
"bigoted white cops executing innocent men for no other reason then they are black."
What? Can you prove that? In almost all instances of police killings the person was attacking the cop and blacks are far more likely to attack cops than whites are.
Sounds like the NYPD is ready for a hot war. Why not ship the entire force over to Iraq?
because they'd be facing armed opponents.
Correct – NYC residents long ago lost their rights to own firearms, and that's just the way the elites and their costumed goons like it.
Don G. says:
So if they were allowed to carry guns they would be able to fight back against the police? Right Jim, is that what you are suggesting? Why Jim, surely that's the solution to all the problems! No other solution could be so effective and quick to orchestrate! `Gawd blus murica!
luv from Canada.
Yeah, what does it say about us that our militarized police force armed to the teeth gets their kicks killing children with toys?
Don't you guys think that you are being irresponsible? Do you think cops are all "costumed goons" who get "their kicks killing children with toys?" Bet you wouldn't feel that way if you really needed one – or would you rather die on principle?
Not at all. And no, not ALL cops are.
In what scenario does anyone "need" a cop? When do they ever get there in time anyway? And as Paul Craig Roberts likes to point out, there's a good chance that calling the cops will only get you in trouble, will earn you a beating or worse. I wouldn't recommend taking the approach that the cops are your friends.
GeorgyOrwell says:
Live by the sword die by the sword?
I certainly don't condone the killing of cops. I certainly don't condone the strangling to death of some hapless dude who makes his living from selling loose cigarettes illegally.
The guy who killed the cops appears to have been some nutcase.
Now the cops will declare war on the people….oh wait, they already had declared war on the people.n of course THEIR behavior was not a contributory factor in this unfortunate revenge killing.
Two wrongs don't make a right. But first we all must recognize TWO wrongs.
Common Sense says:
What hapless dude did the cops strangle to death? How about first we recognize reality?
Wealth disparity — Root cause of police violence
A self-evident fact, if everyone had equal wealth, namely if everyone was born with an equal ability to generate wealth, there would be no need to give police a monopoly on the use of force and violence. For there would be no class warfare, as there would be only one class and everyone would have an equal ability to protect their own wealth.
And so self-evident a fact, that it makes clear as day what the highest achievers of High Society are really up to, a militarized police force to protect their record-high profits and greed driven desire for Republicans to create an austerity prison that turns all of the middle-class into slaves most impoverished.
So check it out, does not a record-high police violence correlate perfectly with a record-high disparity between the rich and poor?
The only solution — as the greater a man’s wealth the greater his greed for wealth, not until we put a limit on excessive wealth can we but a limit on austerity and an absolute limit on police using violence to plunder a bigger piece of the pie.
Maybe, then the issue is that the police with their bloated salaries belong to the rich. That aside, the wealth disparity is a world-wide phenomenon. But only in America and israel do cops kill first and don't ask questions, never lose their job, never end up in jail, or suffer any consequence from it.
a.z says:
two individuals were killed while carrying out their duty to protect the populace from any and all threats without any warning. that is the definition of injustice
and about the maxim of “to ensure the safety of yourselves and your officers,” is that not the basic tenet every individual abide by.
would anybody showing indignation about that dictate be willing to stand in front of a speeding bus so the other pedestrians have a greater chance of survival
and finally in this charged atmosphere it makes sense that your police force do not make arrests unless absolutely necessary
It is absolutely NOT the duty of police to protect the populace from any and all threats. They have ZERO obligation to do so, and numerous court rulings have solidified this from the SC on down.
Their duty is to ENFORCE the law, period. Right or wrong, just or unjust as those laws may be. They enjoy very broad immunity from the consequences of their LE actions against us so-called 'civilians'. Nothing will change until that immunity is eliminated.
If they get killed while doing it, it's an occupational hazard. If they don't like that, they can get productive jobs in the private sector.
Alec says:
I don't condone any violence unless in self defense, and the murders of the officers is sad, but it is definitely obvious that police see their safety first and foremost, not the civilians. I don't live in NYC but when I visit I am always appalled at the 1-800-COP-SHOT bumper stickers on their cruisers offering a reward for information on the arrest of someone who has shot a police officer. Shooting a police officer, unless in self defense, is inexcusable, but shouldn't the reward be for information leading to the arrest of someone who has shot a civilian?
Now everyone knows why the former loser mayors of New York City imposed anti-2nd amendment law.
Huuuuh? So people who shoot cops can/can't have guns? Surreal pal!
David4Peace says:
Hope they follow through on their no-arrest policy. Violence in NYC would go way down.
Does this mean the terrorists won?
a.z
“Two individuals were killed while carrying out their duty to protect the populace from any and all threats”
As the upper half of society is the voting majority and they threaten to hoard all of the wealth in the future, just as they have carried out that threat since 1776, will your “individuals” with their killing machines protect us from that threat?
i am sorry if i sound idiotic to you but they are working within the system to do their job and thus protecting the populace and since subjective case by case basis valuation of what constitute a threat and what is just will only bring more chaos and misfortune they cannot and should not act outside their legal mandate even if they feel the system has inherent flaws within it.
i am not saying they are all saints as the killing of a child close to a park showed but the majority of them are doing the right thing and it is the fault of the entire citizenry (if it is a democracy) if the system does not allow the law enforcement organization to truly work for the welfare of the entire citizenry and not the fault of the people who are trying to work with the faulty mandate
Stop protesting — Your in criminal violation of Empire law
BOROUGH PRESIDENT ERIC ADAMS
‘I’m asking all of those to hold off on any form of protest until these officers are laid to rest in a peaceful manner. It’s time for New Yorkers to come together.
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“I think the recommendation for no protests is truly called for, out of respect for the loss of the lives of these two gentlemen.”
Problem is, for one reason only have we been enslaved in a police state since 1776, the vast majority refuse to get involved. Surely, anyone who tries to stop our peace destroying and most hostile civil-disobedience, surely they are in criminal violation of all the laws governing a Revolution.
Cynical in New York says:
If they're so scared to do their job why dont they get jobs in a safe profession in the private sector? Oh wait there's a reason why they work for the government, because they couldnt get jobs in the private sector where they would be held accountable.
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Cultural Borrowing: The Last Brother
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Review: The Last Brother, by Natacha Appanah
Graywolf, 2010. 164 pp. $14
Do authors have the right to tell stories from a culture to which they don’t belong? That question has roiled the literary world recently, though I’m not sure why it should. I believe in freedom of expression, which includes not having to ask permission to tell a story that nobody owns anyway. Condemning any work out of hand, especially on cultural grounds, sounds like an attempt to muzzle a voice with which you fear you may disagree, but to which others, less erudite or correct than yourself, may fall prey. It’s as if the old saw, “write what you know,” has assumed the force of literary law, which one breaks at his or her peril, and that there’s only one way to know anything: by direct experience.
Port Louis, capital and largest city of Mauritius, 2011 (courtesy Peter Kuchar, via Wikimedia Commons)
Fie, I say. And yet, I also believe that if you’re going to write about anything, whether you’ve lived it or not, you’d better do your homework. That’s why The Last Brother, an otherwise accomplished novel in two important respects, leaves me shaking my head.
The premise, seemingly utterly improbable, actually isn’t. It’s 1944, and Raj, a young Mauritian boy, learns that a nearby prison contains white people, which would be strange enough, except that these prisoners seem too beaten-down and harmless to be criminals. What the reader understands, but Raj doesn’t, is that the prison serves as a displaced persons camp, and the inmates are Jews, though how they got there remains a mystery until the end.
Raj’s father, a terrifying brute, works at the camp as a servant. One day he beats the boy so badly that he must be hospitalized, and the camp possesses the only facilities. While there, Raj befriends David, a refugee from Prague his own age, the first friend he’s ever had. It’s a clever conceit, since both boys have lost everything. David’s whole family have been killed, whereas Raj’s two brothers both died in a mud slide, a tragedy that shadows him constantly. Understandably, Raj believes that meeting David gives him the chance at having another brother, hence the title.
So there’s a story here worth reading, and Appanah’s prose sings it:
For here, at Mapou, the glistening rain which falls from heaven, fine and gentle, almost like a caress, the rain that refreshes and for which one thanks heaven, such a manna did not exist. At Mapou the rain was a monster. We could see it gathering strength, hugging the mountain like an army rallying before an assault, hear the orders for battle and slaughter being given. . . We would raise our eyes toward the mountain while the dust granted us a respite, and the sighs of our elders would prepare us for the worst.
How, then, can things go wrong for The Last Brother? First (and I hate playing a familiar tune, but it’s unfortunately apt), the author chooses to tell the whole story in retrospect, starting with a prologue that falls absolutely flat. Not only does the opening give away what Raj has become and, to an extent, how, it reveals that David dies at age ten. Right away, that undercuts the tension, but it’s to serve a purpose, one I don’t agree with, but more of that in a moment. The older Raj, looking back, feels such intense grief over David’s grave that it seems overwrought, because the context only comes much later. I suspect that Appanah does this because she wanted to close with the story of how these Jews wound up interned on Mauritius, as though that were the climax, and so she turns the narrative on its head.
As for revealing straight out that David dies, I further suppose that she wants to underline what the older Raj says later. Toward the end, he observes that he coopted David as a replacement brother, completely ignoring whatever his friend must have gone through, as if the other boy existed only for him. This seems too authorial for me, interposing an adult thought in a scene narrated by a child. But that’s only half the problem.
The other half is that Appanah has borrowed the Holocaust without knowing a thing about Jews. The Holocaust gets thrown around quite a bit, and I wish it weren’t, but, as I said, I’ll defend Appanah’s use of it so long as she’s done her homework, and its evocation seems honest rather than cavalier. Unfortunately, I’m not convinced. The Jews are shadow figures at best, even David, of no significance other than their difference from anyone Raj has ever seen. The few details of dress or language ring false, and the crowd of prisoners might be anyone, as if they, like David for Raj, were a mere convenience, in this case, for the author’s purposes.
I never knew there were displaced Jews imprisoned on Mauritius, and I salute Appanah for recounting this story. I only wish she’d bothered to make them real.
Disclaimer: I obtained my reading copy of this book from the public library.
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OCR Mascot Bios - 20 more up for grabs!
By Dafydd, July 26, 2005 in Projects
Pikachu (+5000)
Lord Raptor, V2...
Lord Raptor
-Story-
Born in 1889, the Australian Lord Raptor was what one would call, less than friendly while he was alive. But his murderous life comes in handy later , as it enables him to lead a similarly deadly afterlife. Capturing the attention of Ozomu, one of the Demon Kings of Makai (the Devil World), Lord Raptor is resurrected some twenty years after his death by said Demon King. However, this gift comes at a price, for Raptor must serve Ozomu and rid Makai of Darkstalkers. Before eventually setting out, Raptor gains a couple of things. The first is a new found love for metal music, which he not only listens to, but also plays. The second, is a small blob of a sidekick named Le Malta that at times mimics, and cheers, for him. But thrashing out tunes must wait until they've fulfilled Ozomu's command.
In his battles, Lord Raptor uses his new powers to make his zombie flesh stretch and twist into unnatural appendages. Not content with simply punching and kicking, he morphs his arms, legs and even his torso into deadly weapons of flesh and bone. Long blades, rotating saws, gaping maws... they all tear into his opponents. But just as these flesh-bound weapons help serve him, so does he serve Ozomu... but for how long?
-Quote-
"What? Go to hell!? I just came back from there!!"
-Games-
DarkStalkers: The Night Warriors / Vampire (arcade 1994, Playstation 1996)
Night Warriors: Darkstalker's Revenge / Vampire Hunter (arcade 1995, Saturn 1996)
Vampire Hunter 2 (Japan arcade only 1997)
Vampire Savior: Jedah's Damnation / Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (arcade 1997)
Vampire Savior 2 (Japan arcade 1997, Playstation as Darkstalkers 3 1998 , Saturn as Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire 1998)
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GameFan Books "Night Warriors" guide
Night Warriors game manual (Saturn)
Night Warriors ending
Dafydd- I know you said you had a few problems with v2 of Morrigan's bio, so I did a little rewriting in spots. Here's Morrigan, v3...
Born somewhere in Scotland in 1678, Morrigan Aenslaed takes her name from an ancient queen of that country. A curvaceous and voluptuous green haired succubus, she's the daughter of Berial, a Demon King who's the ruler of Makai (the “Demon World”). Though she is to be the next ruler of Makai in the event of Berial's death, Morrigan has been living a carefree and fun-filled life, and sees no reason to change this by becoming the master of the Aenslaed Family. And so, it's no surprise that when Berial does pass on, the throne remains empty, and the Aenslaed Family is left masterless. After all, taking up the throne means an end to her frivolity, and that's something she's not ready to give up just yet.
Unlike the other Darkstalkers, Morrigan has no agenda or quest. She fights merely out to stave off boredom by going toe-to-toe with the other creatures of the night. In her fights, Morrigan uses her dark powers to assault her opponents with energy and her body. She also uses the actual bats that make up parts of her revealing outfit, by making them form various deadly shapes like drills and blades. All these, coupled with her suggestive attire and mannerisms, add up to a powerful fighter.
But while she doesn't have much in the way of plans, could there be others who have plans for her?
"You're energetic as ever, just don't be in such a rush."
watkinzez
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Ten years after the events of Panzer Dragoon Saga, mysterious girl Orta sits in a tower guarded by a fear known only as the Seekers. Her mind is a blank page, knowing nothing of her past, her origins, her parents- a supposed threat to the society around her. She is unknowing to the events of which are happening outside her small prison- the mighty Empire, bent on a worldwide ruling, have risen once again. They have gained new weapons, Dragonmares, bio-engineered creatures rendering the force unstoppable. It is with blissful ignorance Orta holds as these war machines approach the town she resides in, destroying anything in their path.
The young girl with pure white hair clutches the bars of her open window. The valley is engulfed in flames, a lethal attack on the seekers by their old enemies of the Empire. With little difficulty the Dragonmares swoop down to tear away the walls of the tower of which Orta survives. They are looking for something. Looking for her.
..When an enormous winged shape descends from the sky. A dragon! Such creatures were presumed long gone, disappeared with the previous battles in order to stop the Empire from achieving dominance. Orta is rescued by the beast, to which she doesn’t know why or how. She is frightened, confused, as her and the dragon desperately flee from the furious pursuit of the Imperial Army. She does not know her importance, or why the Empire desires the capture of her. It is the beginning of an epic journey of which she will find her purpose, her destiny.
What fate awaits the two? Who awaits them at their journey’s end?
Quote: “They were all afraid of me… They said that I was the harbinger of destruction…”
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Dafydd
Mascot Bio Project Co-Editor & Director
The first page is now once again up to date.
My long absence has apparently left me an impressive number of bios to comment on. Where to begin... hell, I'll comment on each post in order instead.
Mascot 107 - Naked Snake/Big Boss
While DeathbySpoon's bio was a little too short, hobo's version was the epitome of spoiler, and a rather factual, confusing and unengaging one at that. I'm not familiar with the series, so I really have little else to say about it. The second of hobo's versions is much better, but it's still full of spoilers. Limit the storyline's timespan to a point early in the first MGS and leave out stuff that the player isn't supposed to have found out until then.
...randomly sarcastic lone wolf who can't even dance.
Lol! Pun or not?
A play on Squall's awkward dance steps with Rinoa at the SeeD graduation ceremony. At one point Squall turns on his heel, acting all fed up, and Rinoa drags him back. He even bumps into other dancers, much to their annoyance and his chagrin. Classic.
Ah. I was thinking of "Dances with wolves". Heh.
Watkinzez - excellent work with Luigi and Peach. I love the sarcasm that both of these characters deserve to be described with. I think you should mention Peach's role in Super Mario Bros 2, however. In the actual bio, I mean, not only in the appearance list. Also, excellent solution in the ending of Chrono's bio.
I have to say, Polo, that your bios are excellently written. Glad you're on the project.
QFE, as they say around here. What's that in your sig image, btw, watkinzez?
Coop - good work! I've made very minor changes to the last ones you've posted. About the Morrigan bio - I still want the question that pops into my head ("why does she fight?") to be answered before it pops up, so I've changed the sentence order again. Thanks to the changes you've made, it now has much more fluency than last time. I think it's good enough now. Bring it on and post your next bio.
On a final note, I feel honored to have been given so much of your time. The project is now well beyond two thirds complete, not counting any formatting that I hope we will be able to do in August, provided all of the bios are finished by then. At this rate, I dare say they will be.
My summer isn't going to be as frivolous as I would have hoped - I've signed up for a summer course that I thought would be a piece of cake - but not so. I have to learn to recognize 350 species of animals - 125 of which are birds and 100 are fish - and the exam is before the end of this month. I'll try to avoid being away for as extended periods of time as I have recently, though.
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I'm thinking about writing a few bios (namely on the Metal Slug and Toyota Supra) but I'm curious about one thing: Should the bios focus more on the vehicles themselves, or the particular games that they came from? The Metal Slug shouldn't be too difficult, but I'm more concerned if I need to focus specifically on the Need For Speed Underground incarnation of the Supra, or if I should just write a general bio on it and include the notable games the car has appeared in.
What's that in your sig image, btw, watkinzez?
That's Morty, from Gizmos and Gadgets, a really cool edutainment game (oxymoron?). Search for the 'June is End Boss Month' thread in Unmod and you'll understand.
I think if the character of which you are writing the bio is the protagonist/mascot of their series, then some backstory of the franchise's history should be given. So for Metal Slug, its backstory within the game, how it attacks etc, and then how the Metal Slug series has impacted on gaming as a whole and how it is remembered. Different to a mascot such as, say, Lucca.
And the Toyota? That one's really a black sheep, but I was considering taking an approach similar to Polo's Marvel bios on this page. That is, not identify them as a game character and more where they originated from. So, the latter of your suggestions for the Toyota (but I don't think there's any need to go searching for its appearance in any other games besides the NSF franchise).
Way to progress, Dafydd! May your summer course give you as little trouble as possible. I do think we'll manage to get the rest of the bios finished by August.
Mai Shiranui
In many ways, Mai Shiranui is like a dual-edged knife. The cleavage-heavy femme fatale is as stealthy as her bosom is bouncy, as devoted to her grandfather Hanzo's Ninjitsu school as she is wild outside of it. Her fans, her legs, and even her hairpin serve as both show-off accessories and deadly weapons. Even her pyrotechnic-fueled, Dragon-named special moves burn like her body. She allows no boys to get close to her - except Andy Bogard.
When the buff, blond hunk first comes to Japan to train under Hanzo, the spoiled girl throws herself at him, dubbing him her fiancé. Because he and his brother Terry plan to settle a vendetta back in Southtown, U.S.A., Andy pushes her away, treating her like a little sister. Mai pouts, but continues to train. Once the King of Fighters tournament starts accepting challengers, Mai willingly enters, seeking Andy's affections - and having as much fun as possible along the way.
Quote: "Another blow for ninja ladyhood has been struck today. Banzai!"
Selected Game Appearances
Fatal Fury 2 (1992)
The King of Fighters '96 (1996)
The King of Fighters 2000 (2000)
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SNK Gals' Fighters (2000)
Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 (2000)
Wikipedia - Mai Shiranui
The King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Web Site - Mai Shiranui
Fighters Generation - Mai Shiranui
Now I'll see what I can do with Dracula (#61).
...I'm more concerned if I need to focus specifically on the Need For Speed Underground incarnation of the Supra
I agree with watkinzez here.
..., or if I should just write a general bio on it and include the notable games the car has appeared in.
Yes. That's what I had in mind, anyway. I think some research could be done as to what games the car has been in, though. There's more than just NSF and Gran turismo, I'm sure. If the car has played a significant part in a movie, you could mention that as well. This is the only one of the mascots that exists in real life, and it's the only one that's not "alive". How ironic.
I-No
I-No is a cryptic woman who, in Guilty Gear XX, claims to serve "that man" who created the biological weapons called Gears. She seeks to eliminate obstructions to that man's designs. Seeing the other characters as such obstructions, she deceives them and turns them against each other. She is a talented electric guitarist, and she uses her guitar as a weapon.
At any given time, I-No is either flagrantly voluptuous or mercilessly aggressive. In the former, she speaks in a sultry tone and dresses in a provocative outfit. In the latter, she is an admitted sadist and laughs at others' suffering.
In battle, I-No capitalizes on aerial attacks. Many of her special techniques begin in the air, and she rises off of the ground when dashing. She is the final boss of the Guilty Gear XX arcade mode.
Quote: "Cover songs are nice, but nothing beats the original."
Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival (2002)
Guilty Gear Isuka (2004)
Guilty Gear XX instruction manual
Wikipedia's article on I-No
Other interesting links
Hardcore Gaming 101: Guilty Gear
Official Guilty Gear Home Page
Some way to "dib" a character.
Spunodi
Claire Redfield
Claire Redfield is the sister of Chris Redfield (a main character in the original Resident Evil, known as Biohazard in Japan) and is one of two selectable characters in the sequel, Resident Evil 2. The above is official Capcom artwork for Claire's design in Resident Evil 2 which is altered slightly in the later released Resident Evil: Code Veronica, although Alyson Court remained her voice actor.
Her character is described as adventurous and having an interest in motorcycles, which is evidenced in Resident Evil 2's introduction as she rides one speedily into Raccoon City. This was her videogames debut, and the reason for her visit was to look for her brother. However, the small american town had been infected with the T-Virus and instead of finding Chris, she finds a zombie lunging towards her instead. Luckily, she is saved by rookie cop Leon Kennedy, who she forms an alliance with, however their partnership is soon broken when a tanker explosion separates them. This is where the game begins and the truth begins to unravel.
Having survived the events of Resident Evil 2, Claire then makes it her mission to take on the evil Umbrella corporation who are responsible for the outbreak. At the beginning of Code:Veronica, she breaks into their Paris Laboratory, however, she gets outgunned and captured. She is taken to Rockfort Island and held in a prison cell, yet when the island is mysteriously attacked, her captor allows her freedom and she finds another nightmare to contend with.
Claire is a very strong willed character, yet she is also the only character with no formal training to help her deal with these horrors (the other main characters have been Special Tactics And Rescue Service agents, police and mercenaries.) Although initially shocked, Claire adapts very quickly and it is clear that her instinct for survival can overcome the challenges that face her. She also has a caring and sensitive nature coupled with a strong sense of justice, which can be seen in Resident Evil 2 through her relationship with Sherry Birkin and her dealings with Annette Birkin. Her communication is very direct and if she has something to say, you can be sure that she will say it.
Currently there is no news of future appearances in the Resident Evil series for Claire, however, it is surely inevitable that she will return.
Wikipedia - Claire Redfield
Resident Evil Fan
Resident Evil 2 (January 29th, 1998 - initial Japanese release as Biohazard 2)
Resident Evil: Code Veronica X (March 22nd, 2001 - initial Japanese release as Biohazard: Code Veronica Complete)
Resident Evil Survivor 2 (November 8th, 2001 - initial Japanese release as Biohazard Gun Survivor 2)
Resident Evil 2 (February 19th, 1999 - initial Japanese release as Biohazard 2)
Resident Evil 2(November 19th, 1999 - initial U.S release)
Resident Evil 2 (December 22nd, 1999 - initial Japanese Release as Biohazard 2 Value Plus)
Resident Evil: Code Veronica (February 3rd, 2000 - initial Japanese release as Biohazard: Code Veronica)
Biohazard: Code Veronica Complete) (March 22nd, 2001 - only released in Japan)
Resident Evil: Code Veronica X (August 7th, 2003 - initial Japanese release as Biohazard: Code Veronica Complete)
Resident Evil 2 (January 14th, 2003 - initial U.S release)
(EDIT 1: Links to add and more info, formatting etc.)
(EDIT 2: Done - although it may be worth me simplifying the games list due to Capcoms shameless milking of games)
(EDIT 3: Flows better)
1986 (video games)
Historically, he was Eastern Europe's most notorious impaler. Since Bram Stoker's novel, movies and plays have contrasted his tact for seducing maidens with the painful loss of his beloved. Dracula, cult figure among vampires, further expands his fame in video games. There's the occasional cameo and/or parody platter in titles like Kid Dracula, Wai Wai World, and Ganbare Goemon 2, but more often the vampire scripts his darker, ongoing legacy in the Castlevania series.
Decked out in a tuxedo and cape, relishing bloodthirsty fangs and piercing eyes, the Count attains end boss-hood, holding supremacy over death-dealers like the Grim Reaper. With a legion of undead monsters at his command, Dracula aims to terrorize the Transylvanian populace, his first step in ruling the world. Those brave enough to answer the madman's schemes are whip-crackers of the Belmont bloodline and their allies, one of which is Dracula's estranged son, Alucard. When confronted, the Count is apt to teleport near and far, releasing three fireballs at a time from his cape. But the full extent of his power remains cloaked in mystery.
A master of deception, Dracula can assume the form of not only a bat, but a painting, a hulking gargoyle, even a draconian snake-bodied beast. Should a Belmont or other hero(ine) gain the upper hand in battle, the Count does not expect to stay down for long. Part of the vampire's nature is to rise again, and indeed, the Prince of Darkness grows stronger and more cunning with each resurrection. With cursed heroes, possessed townsfolk, and collective evil in their hearts, one has to wonder... can Transylvania ever sleep at night?
Quote: "I have waited for this moment, to be awake again."
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Vampire Killer (1986)
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (1989)
Castlevania: The Adventure (1989)
Super Castlevania IV (1991)
Demon Castle Dracula X: Rondo of Blood (1993)
Castlevania Chronicles (1993)
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Dan Hibiki
"Wow! How does Street Fighter beat other arcade fighters? It must be Capcom's "Ryu" formula!" thought rival company SNK. Like Doctor Frankensteins, they pieced together Ryo Sakazaki, a gi-toting, uppercut-flaring, fireball-tossing Ryu shotoclone who led the roster in SNK's Art of Fighting and King of Fighters series. Did Capcom file a lawsuit? No, they simply ripped off the knock-off, inadvertently adding to Street Fighter's already soaring popularity. They crafted... Dan Hibiki.
In Street Fighter Alpha, Muay Thai kickboxer Sagat is seen tossing aside a defeated warrior. Look closely and you'll spot Ryo's bright orange gi - and the head of Robert Garcia, Ryo's friend and rival. Two bitch-slaps in one heralds Dan's first appearance, his status as both a parody and a weak character exploited in subsequent games. For example, Like Ryo and Robert, Dan throws a fireball with one hand, not two, but the distance covered is pathetically short. His uppercut flies no farther, and his airborne triple-kick can be blocked easily. Dan's redeeming skill, ironically, is taunting. From in-battle poses to conceited catch phrases to SNK fighter-mocking family ties, the bumbling clown of Saikyo karate has no shortage of tauntage, which immortalizes him as a fan favorite.
Quote: "I'm not tougher than you, just better than you!"
Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams (1995)
Street Fighter Alpha 2 (1996)
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes (2000)
Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 (2001)
SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium (1999)
SVC Chaos: SNK vs. Capcom (2003)
Wikipedia - Dan Hibiki
Fighters Generation - Dan Hibiki
Dan's Super Dojo
Street Fighter Alpha 2 Game Manual (SNES)
Street Fighter Organization
Spunodi - welcome! Your bio suffers from tense changes and odd sentences. Try to look it over and make it more fluent - it feels like it's chopped up somehow, like a movie that takes quick and confusing turns. Other than that, the overall structure is fine.
Polo - nice job. Maybe there should be some mentioning that Dracula extends his legacy in other forms and in other games than just the Castlevania series - even though that might seem like common knowledge. Maybe I'm just picky.
Born in 1673, Bishamon is a noble Japanese man charged with defending his homeland, and all those who live within its boundaries. Where some men might have used only their wits and skills, Bishamon chooses to use something more... something darker. Finding a forbidden suit of armor called Hannya, the Kacchu of Hatred, and a cursed sword named Kein, the Blood-Sucking Youtou (Demon Blade), he chooses to don the items to help him fulfill the destiny he'd been given. But the moment he takes Hannya and Kein, his days of rest end. Though his heart is still noble, the cursed armor and weapon demand blood and sacrifices. However, despite not being able to control his own body when Hannya and Kein want their victims, Bishamon learns to use the cursed rage upon those whom he feels he must defeat to free himself of the sword and armor's curse... all the Darkstalkers.
In his fights, Bishamon uses surprising speed and agility for his size. His weapon enables him to have a long reach, and his ability to swing it quickly allows for rapid successions of slashes and air born lunges. Also at his disposal, are a pair of spiritual energy orbs that he can stun his opponents with, giving him a chance to easily strike with his hellish blade. When complimented by the armor's abilities of self mirroring and spectral energies, Bishamon is a deadly force confronting those touched by darkness. But will the deaths of all Darkstalkers enable him to break free of Hannya and Kein's age old grip?
"Ha ha ha ha ha! My sword slashes even the Hades apart!"
Jedah
While his true place and date of birth aren't known, Jedah is resurrected in the desolate outer regions of Makai, the Devil World. His visions of what's to become of the world around him is something he dwells heavily upon. Under the reign of Berial, the head of the Aenslaed family and true ruler of Makai, Jedah sees nothing but decay in the future of Makai. To him, it's sitting on the cusp of oblivion, and in his mind, he believes the only one that can save it is him. To do this, Jedah believes every last soul must be united into a single soul so that peace can be brought to all. But for this to work, he needs a container... one that will be strong enough to hold all the souls, and that will enable him to not make the same mistake he feels Berial did in the past. With this in mind, Jedah concocts a plan to gather up the most valuable souls, and unite them with himself in hopes of making a container large enough to safely hold all the other souls.
In his battles, Jedah is able to use his powers to manipulate not only his own body, but also the spirit world around him. Through the use of large, almost scythe-like blades, and his own talon-tipped fingers, he can slice apart or keep at bay, any who get in his way. He can also call up spirits to attack or hold his adversaries in place as he steals some of their life force. All this combines into a dark warrior that's powerful enough to bring about his plans. But in the end, is he truly a Dark Messiah, or merely grim reaper-esque mad man?
"I understand your opinion. I just don't care about it..."
GameFan Books "Darkstalkers: Jedah's Damnation" guide
Darkstalkers 3 game manual (Playstation)
Vampire Savior ending
Good work, Coop.
I'll be gone for a few days again. I'll check in on tuesday and see if there's been any updates.
Thanks Dafydd. Here's the seventh and (potentially) final bio...
Hsien-Ko
Born in 1730, Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling call the sprawling land of China, home. Though they are young and innocent, their lives fill quickly with tragedy. They become orphaned as their mother is killed by a Darkstalker (quite possibly Demitri), bringing the heartbroken and angry girls to set out and find whomever was responsible. Their search is cut short however, as they're struck down by an evil force. Their search didn't last long, for they are struck down by an evil force. As they lay dying, each makes a vow. One swears to find and free the spirit of their mother, while the other promises to hunt down the powers of the night and destroy all the Darkstalkers. With this, they each release their final breathes, and their new quest begins. They are reborn as Chinese ghosts with strange powers, giving them the ability to carry out their vows. However, their time to do this is not infinite. Slowly, Hsien-Ko and her sister are becoming the very things they hunt. If they are to free their mother and bring down the beasts of the night, they must do so before the last of what they were in life fades away.
In her fights, Hsein-Ko is able to pull a wide and wild assortment of objects from the baggy sleeves of her elaborate costume. Weights, spiked balls, blades and even explosives can all be called up to strike down those she faces. Despite the seemingly hampering outfit, she is able to swiftly move her young spectral form and vanish to both avoid attacks, and get the drop on her opponents. With all her unorthodox abilities, she is able to keep her foes off balance and bring them down. But will she and her sister be able to fulfill their centuries old vows before the darkness claims what remains of their humanity?
"Don't call me the living dead. Don't you know what scares me?"
Let me know if any of these need touching up when you get back, Dafydd.
Maybe there should be some mentioning that Dracula extends his legacy in other forms and in other games than just the Castlevania series
Sure. I added two spin-off appearances (Wai Wai World, Kid Dracula) and a random cameo (Ganbare Goemon 2). I focused mostly on Castlevania since many sitegoers know the series well (not to mention the scope of remixage).
Also, Coop, small editing nitpicks for Hsien-Ko's bio:
Their search is cut short however, as they're struck down by an evil force. Their search didn't last long, for they are struck down by an evil force.
I think you can cut one of those sentences. And
As they lay dying, each makes a vow
can read "As they're dying, ..." It sounded like an abrupt past-to-present tense change.
Btw, the summer version of Jon Talbain and the smiley is cute.
Core Design (developer) / Eidos (publisher)
When Core Design graphic artist Toby Gard goofed up on Lara's mammaries, colleagues approved of the size before he could change it, thus deciding the treasure hunter's debuting look. That slip-up sparked conflicting, in-depth analyses of the character's role as a sex object, a symbol of feminism, and all the shades in between like no video game babe before her. The growing number of women that supply Lara's voice and model her body in real life is a testament to her fan base.
Formally educated through private tutoring and a succession of schools, Lady Lara Croft finds the sheltered atmosphere of the British aristocracy stifling. An indefatigable sportswoman, she prefers engaging the great outdoors in rock climbing, skiing, archery, and the many modes of transportation including jeep, motorbike, and kayak. Lara's passion is forged into hardy survival skills when her plane crashes in the Himalayas before she can return home. Combined with her education, a new calling beckons: to excavate ruins and live to write home about them.
The Indiana Jones tomb raider sprints, leaps, rolls, swings, climbs, and dives into archaeological sites the world over, retrieving relics such as the Atlantean Scion, the Dagger of Xian, and the Philosopher's Stone, to name a handful. Dominant among the tools in her backpack and hip holsters are guns, fit for dealing with wild animals and double-crossers who race Lara for the artifacts she seeks. On her missions, the ponytailed brunette commonly sports a green latex tank top and khaki shorts to accentuate her curves and her fun.
Quote: "I don't count poison darts and triggered entombment your average child's tea party."
PLAYSTATION, PC, MACINTOSH
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (1999)
Tomb Raider Chronicles (2000)
Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword (2001)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Prophecy (2002)
PLAYSTATION 2, XBOX
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend (2006)
Wikipedia - Lara Croft
Tomb Raider News Channel
Huh. Forgot to clean up that spot after I caught myself going past tense for a sentence. Oops.
Born in 1730, Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling call the sprawling land of China their home. Though they are young and innocent, their lives fill quickly with tragedy. They become orphaned as their mother is killed by a Darkstalker (quite possibly Demitri), bringing the heartbroken and angry girls to set out and find whomever was responsible. Their search is cut short however, as they're struck down by an evil force. As they lie dying, each makes a vow. One swears to find and free the spirit of their mother, while the other promises to hunt down the powers of the night and destroy all the Darkstalkers. With this, they each release their final breaths, and their new quest begins. They are reborn as Chinese ghosts with strange powers, giving them the ability to carry out their vows. However, their time to do this is not infinite. Slowly, Hsien-Ko and her sister are becoming the very things they hunt. If they are to free their mother and bring down the beasts of the night, they must do so before the last bits of what they were in life fade away.
In her fights, Hsein-Ko is able to pull a wide and wild assortment of objects from the baggy sleeves of her elaborate costume. Weights, spiked balls, blades and even explosives can all be called up to strike down those she faces. Despite the seemingly hampering outfit, she is able to swiftly move her young spectral form and vanish to both avoid attacks, and get the drop on her opponents. With all her unorthodox abilities, she is able to keep her foes off balance and bring them down. But will she and her sister be able to fulfill their centuries-old vows before the darkness claims what remains of their humanity?
Well done, both of you. Coop, I agree on everything that Polo said about your bio, and your sig image. For some reason, the water movement in it makes it feel like a perspective change, though (as if the camera jumps every time a new wave hits the shore).
Now - whine time!
Coop, I've edited some things in the last bio for fluency and/or grammatical reasons. Read it over again, I might have been in the wrong. This bio really explains why she fights before you start talking about how she fights - good! To anyone unknowing of what a darkstalker is, it might need to be explained, but like I said before, maybe there could be a separate bio that lists the 7 characters and briefly (in maybe 5 sentences) explains what a darkstalker is, and something about the game series as such. Maybe you could write that brief explanation and post it here. When we wrap things up, we'll put it all together. What do you think?
Polo, it feels like there's a word missing in Lara's quote, between "entombment" and "your". Is there, or it is just me? I also added the word "to" between the colon and the word "excavate" in the last sentence in the middle paragraph. I was gonna do Lara myself but I ended up not doing it because I realized I knew too little about her (wow, that sentence could be read the wrong way. )
I focused mostly on Castlevania since many sitegoers know the series well (not to mention the scope of remixage).
Naturally. And you did the right thing
Doesn't sound overly taxing. I guess I could write a "What is"
But I'm not sure I understood the beginning. Are you saying I should re-read it, or that you read it again and realized it may not have need the alterations you'd done? Perhaps it's because it's 1:23 AM, but that part kind of confused me.
Sorry about that. What I meant was - I want you to read it over again and see for yourself if you can find any more grammatical/fluential issues, and mainly, if my alterations resulted in additional grammatical/fluential issues rather than solving them, or if you think I've screwed up your bio by editing it. I hope that's clear enough.
"TO excavate ruins..." Heh. That makes sense. Without the word "to" it sounds like a command rather than a calling. Thanks for the nitpick.
As for Lara's quote, you can check Google's search result. It would make more sense for it to read "I don't count poison darts and triggered entombment to be your average child's tea party," but Lara says otherwise in The Last Revelation. Perhaps you can think of it this way: "poison darts" and "triggered entombment," two small ideas that are part of a BIGGER one (the perils inside a tomb). "I don't count (BIG IDEA) your average child's tea party."
Ryu, the crowned champion of the first World Warrior tournament, finds victory over an opponent meaningless. Forever sporting a white gi, sparring gloves, and a bandanna to stay focused, he wanders, flying fists and feet sharpening his skills and perfecting his spirit. Periodically he visits Suzaku Castle, the burial ground for his master Gouken, to pay his respects - and to fight those who may challenge him.
Trained in Ansatsuken martial arts, Ryu boasts three key attacks. Channeling energy through his hands, he projects from them a wave in the form of a fireball, the Hadouken. Further defying physics is his ability to spin forward through the air, foot outstretched, creating a hurricane-like kick, the Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku. But it was the Shoryuken that stole the title of champion from Muay Thai kickboxer Sagat. Leaping to the heavens with the grace of a dragon, fist clenched in an uppercut, Ryu knocked down Sagat and scarred his chest. The accessibility of these moves, Ryu's balanced fighting style, and his character sculpt him as an iconic figure not only in the Street Fighter series, but the fighting genre as a whole.
Quote: "You must defeat my Dragon Punch to stand a chance!"
Street Fighter (1987)
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991)
Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter (1997)
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Fight for the Future (1999)
Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha (1997)
Super Street Fighter II Turbo: Revival Edition (2001)
Namco x Capcom (2005)
Wikipedia - Ryu (Street Fighter)
Fighters Generation - Ryu
Street Fighter II - The World Warrior Game Manual (SNES)
I also have Ken's bio in the works, and while I'm at it, I'll write Akuma's / Gouki's (# 43) as well.
I still think Lara's quote sounds weird, but if that's the way she says it, then that's what we'll put up here. It is a "quote", after all. Good job with Ryu! I look forward to seeing more SF bios. I've heard somewhere than "Ryu" means "dragon", I don't know if it's true, but if it is, maybe there could be some quick mention of that in the bio (as well as what Hadouken and the other attack name mean), or maybe I'm just being a nerd here.
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Oxford Labour Race Row: “All Jews Are Legitimate Targets”
After the chair of the Oxford University Labour club quit alleging anti-Semitism, other members of the organisation have come forward with fresh racism claims against fellow Labour members. The new allegations include:
Several people, all of whom have been on the committee, have been known to sing the song “Rockets Over Tel Aviv” and have specifically expressed support for Hamas’ tactic of launching indiscriminate attacks against Israel’s Jewish citizens
One member stated that it was ‘not anti-Semitic’ to allege the existence of an international Jewish conspiracy
One member, then on committee, stated that all Jews should be expected to publicly denounce Zionism and the state of Israel, and that we should not associate with any Jew who fails to do so
One member was formally disciplined by their college for organising a group of students to harass a Jewish student and to shout ‘filthy Zionist’ whenever they saw her
One member argued that Hamas was justified in its policy of killing Jewish civilians and claimed that all Jews were legitimate targets
There has been no comment from the leader’s office or the Shadow Cabinet as we enter day three of the Oxford Labour race row. Will that change today as these new allegations surface?
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The Omen (1976)
Damien - Omen II
The Final Conflict
Omen IV: The Awakening
Omen IV: Armageddon 2000
Omen V: The Abomination
The Omen (Jerry Goldsmith)
Damien-Omen II (Jerry Goldsmith)
The Final Conflict (Jerry Goldsmith)
Jonathan Sheffer
Omen IV: The Awakening (Jonathan Sheffer)
Marco Belrami
The Omen (Marco Beltrami)
Damien Thorn
Robert Thorn
Katherine Thorn
Richard Thorn
Ann Thorn
Mark Thorn
Father De Carlo
Kate Reynolds
Harvey Pleydell Dean
For the novelization, see Damien - Omen II (novelization).
Damien - Omen II (also known as Damien: Omen II and sometimes Omen II: Damien) is a 1978 American horror film directed by Don Taylor, starring William Holden, Lee Grant, and Jonathan Scott-Taylor. The film is the 2nd one in The Omen film series, set seven years after the original Omen.
A week after Robert Thorn's death in the first film, archeologist Carl Bugenhagen (Leo McKern) asks his friend Michael Morgan (Ian Hendry) to deliver a box to the new guardian of Thorn's young son, Damien. He reveals that Damien is the Antichrist and that the box contains a letter explaining who Damien really is and how to kill him. When Morgan expresses skepticism, Bugenhagen takes him down into a ruin, to Yigael's Wall, which has an ancient depiction of the Antichrist with Damien's face. As Morgan notices that the Wall's ancient depiction of the Antichrist is indeed identical to Damien, the two are buried alive as the chamber ceiling begins to give in.
Seven years later, 12-year old Damien (Jonathan Scott-Taylor) is living with his uncle, industrialist Richard Thorn (William Holden) and his wife, Ann (Lee Grant). He gets along well with his cousin Mark (Lucas Donat), Richard's son, with whom he is enrolled in a military academy. However, he is despised by Aunt Marion (Sylvia Sidney), who favours Mark and thinks Damien is a bad influence; even threatening to cut Richard out of her will if he does not separate the two boys. The same night, the appearance of a raven wakes Marion and causes her to suffer a fatal heart attack.
Through a friend, Dr. Charles Warren (Nicholas Pryor), who is the curator of the Thorn Museum, Richard is introduced to journalist Joan Hart (Elizabeth Shepherd). She was a colleague of Keith Jennings from the previous film. Having seen Yigael's Wall, she draws a link to all the deaths that surrounded Damien, including Jennings'. She tries to warn Richard, but he throws her out of his limousine. After a confrontation with Warren and Ann Thorn at the Thorn Museum, she becomes unsure as to whether Damien's face matches the painting on Yigael's Wall. Hart goes to meet Damien at his school, but, when she sees his face, she drives off in a panic. On the road, her car's engine mysteriously dies. She is attacked by a raven, which pecks her eyes out. It flies away and, blinded, she wanders into the road where she is run over by a passing truck.
At Thorn Industries, manager Paul Buher (Robert Foxworth) suggests expanding the company's operations into agriculture; however, the project is shelved by senior manager Bill Atherton (Lew Ayres), who considers Buher's intention of buying up land in the process immoral and unethical. At Mark's birthday, Buher introduces himself to Damien, invites him to see the plant, and also speaks of his approaching initiation. Buher seemingly makes up with Atherton, who drowns after falling through the ice at a hockey game the following day. A shocked Richard leaves on vacation. As Richard agreed to the agriculture project in principle and left him in charge of the company, Buher then initiates the plans on his own.
Meanwhile, at the academy, Damien's new commander, Sgt. Neff (Lance Henriksen), takes the boy under his wing and warns him not to draw any attention to himself until the right moment. He also points him to Revelation, chapter 13, in which Damien reads about the Beast. Finding its number, 666, scarred onto his scalp, he flees the academy grounds in a terrified panic, distraught at being chosen as the vehicle for Satan's will.
Another Thorn employee, Dr. David Pasarian (Allan Arbus), alerts Buher that some people were murdered after having refused to sell their land. Before Pasarian can inform Richard the next day, his is the victim of a fatal accident at work. He and his assistant are killed by toxic fumes released from machinery that mysteriously exploded. The accident injures Damien's class, who were visiting the plant. Damien alone is unharmed, but is taken to the hospital as a precaution. A doctor (Meshach Taylor) discovers that Damien's cell structure resembles that of a jackal, but, before he can report this, he is cut in half by a falling elevator cable.
Meanwhile, Bugenhagen's box has been found in the ruins and delivered to the Thorn Museum. Dr. Warren opens it and finds the Seven Daggers of Megiddo, the only weapons able to kill the Antichrist, along with a letter explaining that Damien is the Antichrist. Warren rushes to inform Richard, who angrily refuses to believe it and throws him out of the house. The next day, Richard confronts Ann with the letter, but she convinces him that it is preposterous.
Mark, who overheard Richard's altercation with Warren, confronts Damien, who first reluctantly and then proudly admits to being the Devil's son. Damien tries to convince Mark that he truly cares for him as his brother and asks Mark to join him, but Mark refuses. Damien kills Mark by introducing an aneurysm into his brain.
Shaken by his son's death, Richard follows Warren's invitation to New York City. A half-crazed Warren takes him to Yigael's Wall, stored in a cargo carrier, on which a horrified Richard sees Damien's image. Seconds later, a switching locomotive impales Charles and crushes him against the carriage, destroying the wall and convincing Richard beyond doubt that Damien is the Antichrist.
Upon his return, Richard has Damien picked up from a ceremony at the academy and argues with Ann about him. When they find the daggers in Warren's office in the Thorn Museum, Ann uses them to kill Richard, proclaiming that she "always belonged to him". Ann is then engulfed by a fire, caused by Damien who overheard the altercation from outside. Damien, now heir to Thorn Industries, exits the museum and is picked up by the family driver, Murray, as the fire department arrives.
Cast Edit
William Holden as Richard Thorn
Lee Grant as Ann Thorn
Robert Foxworth as Paul Buher
Jonathan Scott-Taylor as Damien Thorn
Lew Ayres as Bill Atherton
Nicholas Pryor as Dr.Charles Warren
Sylvia Sidney as Aunt Marion
Lance Henriksen as Sergeant Daniel Neff
Elizabeth Shephard as Joan Hart
Lucas Donat as Mark Thorn
Allan Arbus as David Pasarian
Fritz Ford as Murray the chauffeur
Meshach Taylor as Dr. Kayne
John J. Newcombe as Teddy
Leo McKern (uncredited) as Carl Bugenhagen
Ian Hendry (uncredited) as Michael Morgan
There are several rumors among fans that some of the characters in Damien - Omen II represent biblical figures:
It has been suggested by some that due to Ann's role in saving Damien so that the latter could fulfill his destiny, and the manner in which Ann died, that Ann may have been the Whore of Babylon.
A few viewers believe that four of the servants of Satan in the film may represent the biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; with Damien representing Conquest due to his destiny as the Antichrist to conquer and rule over humanity in darkness, Sergeant Neff representing War due to his military status, Buher representing Famine due to his agriculture project to buy up land for reducing global famine, and the Raven representing Death as it serves as an omen of death.
Errors Edit
When Morgan and Bugenhagen are buried alive, Bugenhagen states that the Biblical quotation he shouts out is from the Book of Revelation; when in actuality, it is from the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians.
Between scenes, the period of the film's setting switches between autumn (red and yellowing leaves on the trees and the grass still green) and winter (snow on the ground and ice on the lake).
Damien, Mark, Sergeant Neff and the majority of the cadets at Davidson Military Academy have hair longer than a military academy would allow.
The close-up shot of the Raven's eye when it is in Marion's bedroom is the same shot as in the scene in which it attacks Joan Hart; as can be seen from the background and the reflections in the Raven's eye.
When Damien is being grilled by his history teacher regarding important dates in history, he reports the date of the Battle of the Nile as being 1789, when in fact it was 1798.
The verses Damien reads in the Bible when discovering his identity as the Antichrist are supposed to be chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation. But they are actually a mixture of different verses from throughout the Bible. In order, they are Revelation 13:4 and 19:19, Daniel 8:25 and concluding with Revelation 13:16 - 18.
When Damien kills Mark in the forest, Mark's body changes position between shots.
When Damien is about to scream after killing Mark, his scream can be heard echoing before he actually does.
When Damien screams after killing Mark, fillings in his teeth are clearly visible. However, it was indicated in the first Omen film that Damien is invulnerable against normal ailments.
When Charles and Richard are at the cargo carrier containing Yigael's Wall, they are supposed to be in New York, but the skyline shot and the railroad (Rock Island) indicates that they are in Chicago.
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Take Exit 0 for America’s Oldest Seaside Resort
Posted on September 4, 2014 by Ken Dowell
As numerous comedians have pointed out, in New Jersey we often refer to where we live by our exit number (I’m 151). The Garden State Parkway runs the length of the state and if you hit Exit 0, you are as far south as you can go. At the southern tip of the state is Cape May, a town of less than 4,000, which on a summer weekend may be home to as many as 40,000.
Cape May is generally considered the country’s oldest seaside resort. Visitors, mostly from Philadelphia, began arriving there in horse-drawn wagons in the 1760’s. They came in larger numbers by the 19th century as two railroads began serving the Cape.
The heyday of Cape May as a resort was in the mid-1800’s. It attracted visitors from the northeast corridor between New York and Washington and its reputation was enhanced by visits from prominent Washingtonians. A parade of presidents including Lincoln, Grant, Arthur, Buchanan and Hayes all spent some time there.
In 1878, a five day long fire destroyed 30 blocks of Cape May including the large beachfront hotels which were the primary destinations of 19th century beachgoers. As the town was rebuilt, these large-scale resorts were often replaced by smaller inns and cottages. Built in the style of that time, this reconstruction is what gave Cape May its reknowned Victorian character.
At the beginning of the 20th century Cape May was eclipsed by Atlantic City as the playground of the rich and famous. What evolved was a greener and quainter beach town. A resort with an historic look and a small-town feel. In the 70’s it was named a National Historic Landmark City, the only whole city to have been designated as such.
In two years Congress Hall will celebrate its 200th anniversary. Built in 1816 it was originally called Big House by its proprietor Thomas H. Hughes. The locals thought it was too big to succeed and called it “Tommy’s Folly,” a name that currently adorns the hotel’s coffee and gift shop. Hughes later was elected to the House of Representatives in 1828 and it was then that he re-christened the hotel Congress Hall. Presidents Buchanan and Grant stayed there and during the administrative of Benjamin Harrison it was known as the Summer White House.
Like the other 19th century beachfront hotels, Congress Hall was destroyed in the 1878 fire. It was replaced by a brick structure that reopened in 1879.
The hotel had its ups and downs in the 20th century. Plumbing was installed in the 1920’s but it was closed during the Great Depression and fell into disrepair later in the century. New owners embarked on an extensive renovation that was completed in 2002 and it is once again a truly grand destination.
The Cape May Lighthouse
View from a porthole inside Cape May Lighthouse
This is the third lighthouse to be built at Cape May Point. The first in 1823 was sucked up by beach erosion. A replacement was built in 1847, but not very well, and it crumbled. The current structure, built in 1859, is solid as a rock and its beacon is still used as a navigational aid.
World War II army bunker built in 1942 as part of Harbor Defense Project. In Cape May Point State Park
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26 Responses to Take Exit 0 for America’s Oldest Seaside Resort
Jeri Walker-Bickett (@JeriWB) says:
What a fun place to explore and the Victorian houses are quite dashing. I’m more of a mountain and desert person, but do like getting to the ocean now and again.
Krystyna Lagowski says:
Wow, I’ve never heard of Cape May but I love the beautiful houses. I’ll bet there’s all kinds of fascinating history to discover – and it’s seaside as well? Bonus! Lighthouses have always fascinated me, imagining what those days must have been like …
Home Jobs by MOM (@HomeJobsbyMOM) says:
Thanks for the history lesson of Cape May. It looks lovely! I however am never that far up east but I hope to be one day.
Looks like San Francisco by the beach with all those Victorian era houses. Cape May looks like a gorgeous little town with an accordion-like population. Thanks for the history; always fascinating.
Lenie says:
I love the Victorian era houses – they seem to have so much character. I bet the people in Cape May look forward to the tourist season to bring in the big bucks which they can then enjoy once the tourists leave and life returns to the calm of a 4000 population town. Loved the lighthouse story – I’ve read about other ones and they weren’t always easy to build – glad they finally got it right.
Lenie
Catarina Alexon says:
Have to admit I haver never even heard of Cape May before. Looks like a nice place to visit.
jacquiegum says:
Wow! I have never heard of Cape May, but the Victorian architecture does remind me of the San Francisco area. Love the light house! What an interesting history.
Donna Janke says:
I want to visit Cape May after reading this post. I love the Victorian houses.
Arleen says:
Love going to Cape May. We stay at Angel of the Sea. There is also a real good restaurant walking distance from the hotel. Victorian style at its finest. Glad to see that there are others that appreciate New Jersey which gets a bad rap
A.K.Andrew @artyyah says:
Cape May looks fabulous! And the Victorians are fantastic. Very much like the Gorgeous Victorians in San Francisco. It’s funny how history effects our lives in the present day- if it had become the town it was destined to be originally before Atlantic city took over, what a loss it would have been.
Oh, I love Cape May! We went there on vacation several years ago. Tried to convince my family to go back again, but no interest. If I go back on my own or with my husband, I’ll spend a lot of time in the nature areas and watching the birds. It’s a major world stop for migrating birds. Your lighthouse photos bring back memories.
andleeb says:
Cape May seems to be a beautiful place. I really liked Victorians houses and the story of light house .Cape have so much to offer…. Everything has its importance but I always love to visit sea.
Beth Niebuhr says:
It looks like a great place to visit. Fabulous colors on those old houses. I enjoyed Victorians houses when I lived in San Francisco
Cape May sounds much more like my kind of place than Atlantic City, from how you describe it. Love the history and architecture. Is that army bunker open to visit and go into? It’s kind of jarring and intriguing in the middle of that beautiful beach.
Ken Dowell says:
You can walk up to and around the Army bunker but you can’t go in. It’s not really set up as a tourist attraction. The army bunker, lighthouse, beach and the bird sanctuaries are part of Cape May Point State Park.
Welli says:
Lovely place Ken, I particularly find Victorian architecture and especially that Cape May Lighthouse is quite breathtaking especially the view through the small window. Classic picture that one.
TheRecipeHunter says:
I have never had the pleasure of visiting the NE coast but would absolutely love to! Cape May sounds like the kind of place I’d love with lots of history, architecture and not so many people! I would love to do a lighthouse road trip too and visit the many along the eastern seaboard. Loved your pictures.
Deidre M. Simpson says:
Remodels and rehabs are my favorite things about old architecture. I’ve never been to a lighthouse. It sounds like a great way to spend some free time.
Tatia says:
Hi Ken. Cape May sounds a lovely place to visit! I’ll need to add it to next summer’s getaway list.
Oh I do love those Victorian houses. It would be so much fun exploring them with my camera. I used to live very close to the beach and took every opportunity to go and enjoy the wildlife, walks and the views. This really makes me miss the fact that it isn’t as close as it used to be.
Thanks. Fascinating! I learned a lot and was thoroughly entertained. Regards Thom.
Dr. Diana says:
Thank you so much for this fantastic post with pictures. I love to go beach and enjoy the picnic. ❤
jbutler1914 says:
Cape May seems like a nice place to visit. Some of the pictures reminded me of Hilton Head SC a little bit.
Hi Ken; thanks for sharing all this great local history with us. it sounds like they went through the same thing that happened here in galveston after the hurricane of 1901. the area has a lot of victorian structures and hosts one of the more elaborate dickens on the strand fairs I know of. It lasts for two weeks during the christmas season. and I’m told you could just imagine old ebeniser roaming the streets. thanks again and take care, max
I’m a big Dickens fan so that sounds pretty interesting. Will have to try to get there sometime.
Safariontheblog says:
Wow I want to visit after reading your post x
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01) Community Interviews 1: Ed Chambers
“Many people, attracted to children, are active online, on Twitter, or on a boy love or a girl love forum, or on other internet communities. I thought it a good idea to interview these people, if they want to. If this will become a huge series of interviews or not, depends on the people willing to be interviewed by me. I do hope that both the persons interviewed as the people reading this interview will like the questions and answers.
Ed Chambers is a man from the UK. He was born in Leicestershire, England, but now he lives in a town in Scotland. He is one of the few people that came out of the closet as someone with a sexual preference for children. He appeared in two documentaries, both broad-casted on television.
Here’s the interview [Marthijn Uittenbogaard] had with him.”
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“Columbia University linguist John McWhorter on the Jussie Smollett hoax, Donald Trump, and “antiracism” as a new secular religion.
When actor Jussie Smollet lied about being attacked by racist, MAGA-hat-wearing Trump supporters, Columbia University linguist John McWhorter actually interpreted it as a sign that “we have come further on race than we are often comfortable admitting.” “Only in an America in which matters of race are not as utterly irredeemable as we are often told,” he wrote in The Atlantic, would someone “pretend to be tortured in this way…[because] playing a singer on television is not as glamorous as getting beaten up by white guys.” The unwillingness of both blacks and whites to acknowledge progress on racial equality is a long-running theme for McWhorter, who in 2000 published Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America, which argued that “in most cases, [racism] is not an obstacle to people being the best that they can be.” In an influential 2015 essay, McWhorter argued that “Antiracism” had become a new secular religion in America, complete with “clergy, creed, and also even a conception of Original Sin.” “One is born marked by original sin,” he wrote. “To be white is to be born with the stain of unearned privilege.” Black people, he continued, “will express their grievances and whites will agree” that they are racist. On the right, McWhorter observed, there is a growing sense of hostility on racial issues and, according to Gallup, the percentage of Americans who agree that black-white relations are good is at a 20-year low. And for the first time since the pollster has asked the question, a majority of blacks rate race relations as bad. I sat down with the 53-year-old McWhorter—the author or editor of 20 books—to talk about his upbringing in a mixed-race part of Philadelphia, his academic focus on Creole language, and the unmistakable signs of racial progress that an increasing number of Americans seem unwilling to acknowledge. Edited by Ian Keyser. Intro by Todd Krainin. Cameras by Jim Epstein and Kevin Alexander. Photos by Jim Epstein.
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I’m not a career politician—I’m an entrepreneur who understands the economy. It’s clear to me, and to many of the nation’s best job creators, that we need to make an unprecedented change, and we need to make it now. But the establishment isn’t willing to take the necessary bold steps. As president, my first priority will be to implement Universal Basic Income for every American adult over the age of 18: $1,000 a month, no strings attached, paid for by a new tax on the companies benefiting most from automation. UBI is just the beginning. A crisis is underway—we have to work together to stop it, or risk losing the heart of our country. The stakes have never been higher.
Once I understood the magnitude of this problem, and that even our most forward-thinking politicians were not going to take the steps necessary to stem the tide, I had no choice but to act. I’m the father of two young boys. I know the country my sons will grow up in is going to be very different than the one I grew up in, and I want to look back at my life knowing I did everything in my power to create the kind of future our children deserve—an America of opportunity, freedom, equality, and abundance.
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“This thirty minute English-language radio documentary about the Age of Consent in The Netherlands was broadcasted world wide by Radio Netherlands on 12-01-1994 and 14-01-1994, and rebroadcasted on 30-03-1994. The documentary was created in 1993.
(1) Dr. Edward Brongersma (August 31, 1911 – April 22, 1998); lawyer, former Dutch PvdA senator (1946-1950 and 1963-1977), author of “Jongensliefde; Seks en erotiek tussen jongens en mannen” deel 1 en 2, SUA 1993
(2) Ron van Outsem; youth worker, author of “Seksueel Misbruik Van Jongens”, 1992, ISBN: 9062222153
(3) Rudi van Dantzig; dancer/choreographer, author of “Voor een verloren soldaat”, de Arbeiderspers 1986, (For a Lost Soldier, The story of a romantic relationship between a grown-up and a child. Set in the Netherlands near the end of WWII)
(4) Dr. Theo Sandfort; sexologist (Utrecht University), author of “Seksuele ervaringen van kinderen; Betekenis en effect voor later”, Van Loghum Slaterus 1989
(5) Marjan Sax; author of “Op een oude fiets moet je het leren: Erotische en seksuele relaties tussen vrouwen en jonge meisjes en jongens”, Schorerstichting, Amsterdam, 1992
(6) “Gonnie”; anonymous mother of an ‘abused’ girl
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01) Giants: Who Really Rules The World?
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01) Julian Assange: Hero or Villain? What You Should Know
“The 2019 arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has people debating freedom of speech & the press vs. state security. This documentary explains the full story behind everything from the embassy asylum, to human rights criticisms.”
Julian/wikileaks has been known to target MAPs in the past…so, I’m not crying about what he may personally experience…I hold him in rather low regard, as an individual human being…and I think karma has a way of revisiting people.
All the same…I don’t believe that methods and avenues by which he is currently “being gotten”, are entirely on the level themselves…
…I view this as just a whole lot of villains, eating on each other…while probably setting a horrible precedent, which may further devastate free speech and holding the powerful accountable.
So…status quo, for the usual social trend…
Yeah…sure…Julian has done some good things, despite the bad…
It’s complicated…and I have no tears to weep, for an enemy of MAPs.
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When compared to a traditional or big house, tiny houses could save homeowners a lot of money. But exactly how much you’ll save comes down to the type of living situation you want. We’ve taken a critical look at the choices that aspiring tiny homeowners often have to make, and how much each option costs when compared to living in a traditional home on a one-month to five-year scale.”
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Trucks are expected to begin removing sediment this Monday, May 13, in connection with the controversial Devil’s Gate Dam project.
Several residents this week asked the La Cañada Flintridge City Council for help regarding a number of issues involving the Devil’s Gate Dam sediment removal project, in which trucks are set to roll this Monday, May 13.
A key question raised at the council’s meeting on Tuesday night was answered in short order. It was announced toward the end of the session that Public Works Director Patrick DeChellis would be the city’s contact person for the Los Angeles County project.
In all, officials heard from six residents and two additional presenters regarding the controversial project. Resident Amy Nespor inquired, “Who do we call to express concerns about the traffic? I want to see public safety prioritized.” And resident Juliet Pappas had asked the council who would follow up on matters of air quality monitoring or changes in construction activities, and how these issues would be defined. “We also want to know how data will be shared,” she said.
On Wednesday, DeChellis told The Outlook that residents should first call the county or visit the project website at dpw.lacounty.gov/swe/devilsgate, but if they don’t receive answers in a timely manner, or don’t understand the answers, he can help.
“With my background, it does make a little bit of sense,” DeChellis said in a phone interview, adding he said he spent 42 years working with the county and retired as a deputy director of its Department of Public Works in 2016. “I know my way around a little better than the average citizen would.”
Residents can contact DeChellis at pdechellis@lcf.ca.gov or (818) 790-8882.
The meeting included presentations from LCF 4 Healthy Air co-founder and La Cañada Unified School District parent Elizabeth Krider and Steve Burger, assistant deputy director of the county Department of Public Works.
Their presentations were largely the same ones they made at an April 30 progress report meeting at La Cañada High School. That meeting was put together by Krider’s organization, which includes LCF and other area residents who aim to reduce what they see as daily safety and health risks presented by the project. LCF 4 Healthy Air started in November to respond to concerns about the impact of the project on what it says are approximately 3,000 children located within the project area.
Officials have said the project, whose first phase began in late November, is expected to include 425 daily round trips by approximately 95 diesel trucks through the intersection at Berkshire Place and Oak Grove Drive and onto the 210 Freeway in both directions. The haul trucks will meet model year 2010 emission standards, county officials said at the April 30 meeting. Sediment removal is the project’s third phase, officials said. Before the Tuesday meeting began, Burger confirmed that May 13 remained the target date. Removal will take place from 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, with hauling ending at 3:30 p.m., and no work on holidays or during major Rose Bowl events. It is to take place through November and from 2020-22.
On April 2, the county Board of Supervisors agreed to retain a consultant to place air quality monitoring devices at the site and evaluate the data publicly, among other actions. Supervisor Kathryn Barger’s office later issued a statement saying she was working with a local committee, LCF 4 Healthy Air, the California Air Resources Board and the South Coast Air Quality Management District to “adopt strategies to address the concerns surrounding air quality, environmental health, traffic and the safety of diesel trucks.”
Supervisors in November 2017 approved a project to remove 1.7 million cubic yards of sediment behind the dam at Hahamongna Watershed Park to increase flood protection and restore habitat within the Arroyo Seco Watershed. Work to clear out trees and vegetation began in late November 2018.
On Tuesday, city officials referred to a letter the council sent on April 25 to Barger that inquired about “how the county plans to ensure that the public’s health and safety will be immediately protected should an event trigger unhealthy indications.” It also asked the county to come up with an immediate action plan/focused community safety plan that would outline how data is collected and provide a measurement of potential health hazards from poor air quality, dust and traffic congestion.
After the meeting, Krider spoke about the need for such a plan.
“It’s really important,” said Krider, adding local parents and city officials have requested it. “Everybody wants it. It’s worth figuring out. I think everyone involved is making a good-faith effort. That’s encouraging.”
During his presentation, Burger said the county was aware of requests for an action plan and was working on an answer to the city’s letter with help from consultants, the SCAQMD and the Air Resources Board.
Councilman Michael Davitt added the general theme was to keep the city involved.
“I don’t want it to be shelved and in four months someone says, ‘What’s the city been doing?’” Davitt said. He said municipal officials might want to let the project start and continue for a month before they figure out the best way to address any issues.
Councilwoman Terry Walker said most of the questions were posed to the county and should be forwarded to a county representative with an encouragement to respond.
Besides addressing the Big Dig, the council also approved the first reading of an ordinance to enforce sports field closures through the use of penalties.
Division Manager Arabo Parseghian said that the purpose of the fines was to give city and law enforcement officers “teeth” to enforce the closures and that local sports teams agreed with them. He said non-permitted users, like some soccer groups, repeatedly use the fields when they’re closed.
A first violation would result in a fine of not more than $100. The second violation would lead to a fine of up to $200 and a third offense would merit a fine not more than $500. The fourth violation, and any other within 12 months, would be treated as a misdemeanor.
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Typhoon Hagupit kills 21 on Samar island-Philippine Red Cross
Reuters December 8, 2014
MANILA (Reuters) - At least 21 people were reported dead, many of them drowned as flood waters rose in Borongan, the main town in Eastern Samar, where typhoon Hagupit made first landfall, the Philippine National Red Cross said on Monday.
The Philippines had evacuated more than a million people as the powerful typhoon approached the country from the Pacific, fearing a repeat of a super storm last year that left more than 7,000 dead or missing.
"We have confirmed reports that 21 people died in Eastern Samar, 16 of them in Borongan," said Gwendolyn Pang, secretary-general of the Philippine National Red Cross.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in Manila confirmed only two dead and three injured. Two others were reported killed outside Samar, the third largest island in the Philippines, since Hagupit hit on Saturday night.
(Reporting By Manuel Mogato; Editing by Alex Richardson)
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Oriental reports solid 1Q ’12 results
Oriental approved a $3.9 million loan. (Credit: © Mauricio Pascual)
Oriental Financial Group reported favorable first quarter results. (Credit: © Mauricio Pascual)
Oriental Financial Group Inc.’s conversion into a more traditional bank following the April 2010 acquisition of the defunct EuroBank seems to be going in the right direction, as on Monday the financial institution announced $9.5 million in income for the first quarter ended Mar. 31.
That represented 0.23 per diluted share and a significant jump from the $1.9 million, or $0.04 per share, reported for the same year-ago quarter and a loss of $13.1 million, or $0.31 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2011.
The financial institution also reported pre-tax operating income of $11.3 million compared to $12.4 million in the year-ago quarter and $6.1 million in the fourth quarter.
“Our excellent first quarter performance shows our great progress so far towards achieving our goals for 2012,” said OFG President José Rafael Fernández. “The investments we’re making in our commercial banking capabilities, active management of our risk exposures, and transforming our financial model have resulted in a growing franchise with a very strong capital position.
For the quarter, OFG reported a net interest rate margin of 2.59 percent, versus 2.26 percent in the year ago quarter and 1.76 percent in the last quarter of 2011.
“Net interest margin increased to 2.59 percent sequentially due to higher yields on both loans and investment securities and lower cost of deposits and wholesale borrowings,” Fernández said. “We had strong year over year growth in banking and wealth management fee revenues, and record commercial loan production and assets under management levels.”
Loan production totaled $110.2 million, up 41.3 percent year-over-year and 2.7 percent quarter-over-quarter. The strategically significant commercial category hit a record $55.4 million in production, a more than three-fold increase from the same year-ago quarter and 16.7 percent greater than in the preceding quarter.
“We continued to move away from our reliance on our investment securities portfolio by improving interest income from our loan portfolio,” the banking executive added. “We also continued to effectively manage our non-interest expenses and share buy back program.”
Using available cash, Oriental paid off in mid-March 2012 $105 million in maturing FDIC Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program Notes with a cost of 3.75 percent.
“Complementary to our focus in growing our commercial business, we achieved a noticeable improvement in asset quality, resulting in a reduction in non-performing, non-covered loans,” said Fernández about the line item that was down 9.2 percent from the preceding quarter.
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An overall drop in the market is exacerbating JPMorgan’s losses tied to its bets on corporate bonds.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — One thing seems clear about JPMorgan Chase’s $2 billion loss. It’s no longer $2 billion. It’s likely much higher.
The number being bandied about now is closer to a range of $6 billion to $7 billion, according to several people working on trading desks that specialize in the derivatives JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) used to make its trades and from two sources with knowledge of the bank’s positions.
JPMorgan Chase declined to comment on its trading activities. Of course, it is impossible to know with absolute certainty just how high the losses are at any given moment.
But experts said there are few scenarios in which hedge funds on the other side of the bank’s giant bet will let JPMorgan Chase out of it without significantly more pain.
“The market knows roughly what [JPMorgan] has and what the sizes are,” said a source with knowledge of the bank’s positions.
Why have the losses grown since chief executive officer Jamie Dimon informed the public of them? The market’s overall slide hasn’t helped.
Since last Thursday, the U.S. and European stock markets have dropped significantly. The SP 500 (SPX) is down roughly 3.5%, and the main European indexes are down between 4% and 6%.
JPMorgan Chase’s trades were built around contracts tied to corporate bonds. Specifically, JPMorgan Chase sold huge amounts of protection on an index of 125 highly rated corporate bonds. Simply put, JPMorgan Chase’s massive trade stood a better chance to pay off if the market had continued to rally.
Now as the overall market has worsened, it costs even more for JPMorgan Chase to sell protection against possible bankruptcies on corporate bonds.
Since JPMorgan Chase is basically the only one on its side of the bet, a worsening market makes it even more expensive to keep this position and more difficult to find other places to offset these losses.
JPMorgan Chase’s main bet has been on an index, known as IG9, of 125 U.S. investment grade companies. Shares of three of the 125 companies — retailer J.C. Penney (JCP, Fortune 500) and insurers MBIA (MBI) and Radian (RDN) — have taken big hits since last week, driving up the cost of offering protection against a default.
Additionally, since Dimon’s announcement, more hedge funds have piled into the index, further driving up the cost of selling protection.
It’s clear from public data filed with The Depository Trust Clearing Corporation that JPMorgan Chase hasn’t sold any of its positions yet. The DTCC tracks trading activity and sizes of positions on the IG9 and other indexes, and there haven’t been any big moves since last week.
“Whatever the size was, it’s clearly not something that you can call one or two dealers and sell,” said Garth Friesen, a co-chief investment officer at AVM, a derivatives hedge fund that’s not involved in these trades.
As soon as it becomes clear that JPMorgan Chase is unwinding its position, it will be obvious to players on every major trading desk. Hedge funds will immediately start piling into that index and buying protection, driving up the bank’s losses.
Until then, it won’t cost the hedge funds much to sit and wait.
“There will be a stare-fest between the hedge funds and JPMorgan,” said James Rickards, former general counsel at Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund that required a $3.6 billion bailout from the Federal Reserve because of its massive losses from its trading activities.
“It will cost JPMorgan an unimaginable fortune to push the spread back in their direction,” he added.
But JPMorgan Chase may blink first. It could face pressure from U.S. government regulators to start selling some of its positions.
Both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are looking into JPMorgan’s trade. Dimon has also been called to testify before the Senate Banking Committee.
The bank’s shareholders may grow increasingly anxious as well, which could force JPMorgan Chase’s hand. Shares are down 18% nearly since the company announced the loss.
“It’s not just a battle between Dimon and the hedge funds,” said Rickards. “It’s been JPMorgan and the regulators, the FBI, Congressional committees and stock holders. It’s not clear that their tolerance for pain will be as high as Jamie Dimon.”
For now, the one thing working in JPMorgan Chase’s favor is the market’s bet that the bank is too big too fail, making it dangerous to push too hard on the other side of its trade.
But the dangers are far greater for JPMorgan Chase.
“Part of the problem of what they were doing is that they were too big in the trade to ever be able to trade out of it,” said Friesen, who is also a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s advisory group
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The Case For Military Intervention Or Not
By Ron Edwards|2019-03-01T03:00:03-05:00March 1st, 2019|
The horrendous situation in Venezuela is the result of a nation of people being hoodwinked by the government and indoctrinated in government schools. It is the same pattern that has been in motion since of the days of one of the original leftist bigots, John Dewey. Mr. Dewey and many others like him hated the concept of liberty for everyone and unalienable rights which come from God. The leftists are the harbingers of all the forms of oppression they could conjure up. The many varieties of oppression range from brutal physical oppression. The number of ways devised by leftists to bring about oppression is greater than the Heinz 57 varieties.
Whether it is slavery, eugenics, racism, Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, the ongoing assault on our God given right of self-protection, the “I’m the boss” AOC type want to control you from birth to death. They want to take guns only from law abiding sovereign citizens. But leave criminals who invade our republic illegally alone. To do whatever they want to whoever or whatever. That is why the socialist democrats are hoping to get into position so that they can defund ICE. Officially, the Democrats support illegals, but disdain you and I who were born in and want to reestablish Constitutional influenced law in our republic.
Quite often, certain people like to say that Trump does not understand federal laws. We had been governed by so called experts for decades. As a result, our nation was on the brink of economic and sovereign death after the experts and their fearful leader Obama nearly gave our nation over to the will of our enemies, both external and internal. When it comes to foreign affairs, our government has been mostly unwise, with very few examples of good decisions. Take Venezuela for example, there is no logical reason on God’s partially green earth, that one of the wealthiest countries around in our hemisphere is now one of the poorest. To add insult to injury, Venezuela represents a clear and present danger. She is now a satellite of Cuba, in hock to China, aligned with Russia. On top of that, thousands of Iranian and Cuban fighters are there to do battle, if the United States tries to physically free the Venezuelan people from their iron grip.
Personally, I believe it was retarded and almost suicidal when Obama was voted into office. But even before him, the seeds of the madness going on in Venezuela had already been sown. Ronald Reagan warned that the United States should deal with adversaries from a position of strength. He understood that enemies other than suicidal Islamic terrorists would tread more lightly against America if they knew we were powerful and willing to protect our interests. But unfortunately, for decades, the United States government refused to protect our own borders. If you are unwilling to protect you own borders, land, etc. your enemies will eventually perceive that they can get away with encroaching against you. That is exactly why Russia has constructed a military base near Venezuela, Cube runs the place, China swaggers around acting like it owns the place and thousands of Islamic militants are there to be troublesome.
If America doesn’t act in some way, we will live to regret allowing such madness to fester in this hemisphere. The question remains, to militarily intervene or not. President Trump has threatened to tighten sanctions on Venezuela, but that may be ineffective because that nation has already self destructed economically. What remains is being subsidized by Chinese loans. If there was any fear of the United States or a shred of decency, the Venezuelan regime would not be blocking international humanitarian aid for the starving people. Deadly clashes between the abused Venezuelans and government soldiers is yet another striking example of the how low leftists everywhere will go to bring arm to the people they desperately want to have complete control over.
I am normally not in favor of the United States getting entangled in foreign affairs. But in the case of the situation brewing in our hemisphere in Venezuela, there may not be any other choice. Five Americans are being held hostage. Cuba is entrenched and in the driver’s seat and is very adept at out witting the United States in such matters when it comes to preventing the United States from bringing freedom to oppressed people. Cuba remains a thorn in the side communist hell hole in our hemisphere where people live blow the level of most suburban dogs in our own nation. Venezuelan dictator Madura does not care what the USA says, because he views sees her as a paper tiger unwilling and unable to end his horrendous reign of terror. With China, Russia, Iran and Cuba aligned with him, it is easy to understand why he is so cocky. I say the time is now to bring Madura’s brutish hell on earth to a non-ceremonial close.
Do you agree with me that the United States should free our fellow Americans and the people of Venezuela? Or simply allow Russia, China, Iran and Cuba to once again have their way in our hemisphere? Let me know via www.Hub.life. Also, don’t miss a page from The Edwards Notebook radio commentary during Captain’s America Third Watch overnight talk show. Enjoy the Ron Edwards Experience talk show every Friday at 4:00 PM EST, 1:00 PM PT emanating from flagship station KCKQ AM 1180 Reno, Nevada, americamatters.us SHRmedia.com and Spreaker and 12:00 AM Sundays via the TalkAmericaRadio.us Radio Network. Check out our loyal advertising partners David E. Garrett Jewelers @ davidgarrettjewers.com and www.hub.life the social media site that won’t deny your right to fully express yourself.
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NTDs and disability: time for new thinking
Jun 21, 2016 0 Comment Post By:ccriff
When looking at the stories told by women with disabilities, we realised that violence was a recurrent theme, something women could potentially face on a daily basis. What we also recognised is that this violence was vicious and deep, meaning that it took numerous forms and shapes. We read a number of stories about mistreatment, sexual abuse, exploitation, neglect, and discrimination. We also read various stories of abandonment, rejection and stigma.
Charities also need to remember that, whether their charity is registered with us or is exempt, they must comply with charity law. Any decisions they take must be in the charity’s best interests and in furtherance of its charitable purposes. Conflicts of interest need to be managed appropriately
We know that some registered providers of social housing that are companies and registered charities are considering converting to become community benefit societies, with the aim of becoming exempt charities.
Of course it’s reasonable for charities to be concerned about the potential for increased governance and transaction costs. However, any charity considering converting to community benefit society status will need to balance these against the inevitable, potentially substantial, costs of conversion.
The likely impact of these changes has been overstated because of misunderstandings about how the Charities Act framework operates. Once the changes take effect, we expect most disposals by registered charities that are also registered providers of social housing will be eligible for self-certification under the Charities Act. Self-certification is not onerous; it involves taking appropriate professional advice but does not require an order from the commission. The steps to be taken in order to self-certify are, on the whole, basic steps that you would expect responsible charity trustees to be taking.
Charities also need to remember that, whether their charity is registered with us or is exempt, they must comply with charity law. Any decisions they take must be in the charity’s best interests and in furtherance of its charitable purposes. Conflicts of interest need to be managed appropriately. Transactions with “connected persons” – such as individuals with a close personal or business connection to the charity or its trustees – may require consent from the commission whether a charity is registered or exempt.
None of this is bureaucratic red tape. The legal framework supports trustees in making responsible and well-informed decisions about charity property, and provides safeguards to deal with conflicts of interest and protect the interests of charity beneficiaries.
These are important principles to ensure that organisations which benefit from charitable status operate in a way which sustains public confidence, and that charitable assets are properly protected.
Bola Gibson, head of community engagement at TSB, says: “Unlike large organisations, which naturally have more resources at their disposal, small local charities really struggle to get their voice heard. The lack of awareness is greatly hampering their funding and operations.”
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