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Wishing they were April Fool’s Day jokes
Published on Monday, 14 April 2014 03:52
Written by Filipino Express (LF)
We wish these three reports were April Fool’s Day jokes:
One, Spin busters saying goodbye.
In its April 1 entry titled “Silly blog concedes writes 30”, the media watchdog wrote, “There’s no going around it, beating around the bush, and running in circles. With bitterness, sadness, and deep regret, we have decided to shut down The Spin Busters. For good.”
Except for the fact that the persons behind the witty blog were anonymous (and therefore deliberately avoiding accountability) I like their scathing criticisms of media.
I will miss it.
Two, BIR request to block Facebook, Twitter over tax.
An April 1 entry in Yugatech’s blog said the Bureau of Internal Revenue sent a request to the National Telecommunications Commission and Internet Service Providers to block several international websites for failure to remit proper taxes from operating within the Philippine internet domain.
Facebook and Twitter are among the top destinations of Filipinos earning for the Philippines the description as “the social media capital of the world.”
BIR Commissioner Kim Henares is not happy that P350 million in advertising and other businesses have been transacted thru Facebook and Twitter since 2009 have escaped their collection net.
Henares was quoted to have said,”The Bureau has been monitoring Facebook and Twitter for the last three fiscal years. It is within our authority to look into their operation and request the proper agencies like NTC to block them if they do not cooperate.”
Please tell me, it’s an April Fool’s Day joke.
Three, President Aquino chastising the captor of Delfin Lee, Globe Asiatique founder who turned into nightmares the dreams of many working middle class Filipinos to have their own house.
The President, with his usual pasaring(sniping, making a sly or petty verbal attack which only fishwives do) said at the Philippine National Police’s Araw ng Parangal sa Kapulisan:
“This person was not getting a bad position. At sabihin na natin nagpakita siya ng gilas, which he should be rewarded and acknowledged. But at the same time, pumasok sa kaisipan ko: ‘Aba, OK to, goes out on media, says this and that, keeps quiet then goes out again on a media tour.“
Everybody knows that he was referring to Senior Supt. Conrad Capa, who was sacked as head of Task Force Tugis a week after his men arrested Lee .
Capa was excluded from the list of police personnel honored at Camp Crame on Tuesday.
Lee, accused of syndicated estafa for allegedly defrauding the Pag-ibig Fund of P7-billion in housing loans through fake documents and applicants (his name was removed from the PNP’s list of wanted criminals for mysterious reasons), had eluded arrest despite a long standing warrant of arrest until March 6 when he was arrested by Capa’s team at the Hyatt Hotel in Malate, Manila.
After Lee’s arrest Capa was re-assigned to Cebu Regional Police Office to serve as a deputy regional chief for operations. Capa said it was not a promotion and he is being sent there to “rot.”
It was revealed later that Oriental Mindoro Governor Alfonso Umali, a close ally of the President and treasurer of the Liberal Party, tried to block Lee’s arrest.
Aquino said the police officer whom he didn’t name “does the service a disservice. Pinahamak niya yung institusyon na pagka tagal-tagal ng buhay niya at pinaglingkuran niya.”
Huh??? An April Fool’s day joke?
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The Rocky Balboa Movie Power Rankings
Note: This list was originally published on December 9th, 2015, but has been modified to include and rank the recently-released “Creed II.”
So, as I really hope you know by now, the “Rocky” series has the most inspirational trailers in the history of time. I highly recommend you watch them before an intensive workout or any kind of exciting life event — a nice dinner with a significant other, perhaps. You could also just find the training montages online, because they’re all fucking amazing (outside of “Rocky V”). And, yes, there might be a future Listcore of my Top 5 “Rocky” Movie Training Montages. Fairly soon.
I should clarify one thing before we get started — Bill Simmons tackled this well when he was doing his own “Rocky” series appraisal. I’m not going to rank these movies by order of quality, necessarily. Rather, I will rank them based on which was the most entertaining. “Rocky III” and “Rocky IV” are not strictly “better” movies than “Rocky II” or “Creed,” the two most (relatively) realistic “Rocky” follow-ups who staid tonally truest to the one that started it all. But I definitely like them more. “Rocky III” and “Rocky IV” are the ridiculously bombastic product of a gratuitously ‘roided-out mind. Rocky beats up a guy who weighs 50-60 pounds more than he does! Rocky and Apollo Creed race and hug it out on the beach! Adrian yells “YOU CAN’T WIN” a whole lot! Rocky topples the Soviet Union by chopping firewood! They’re dumb movies, sure. But for what they are, they’re very effective (and affecting, because Stallone keeps killing off great characters in them).
8 “Rocky V” (1990) —
You really don’t need to watch this, the trailer explains the entire movie. And the entire movie is the only serious misfire of the whole series. “Rocky V” isn’t un-watchable or anything (the way, say, “Rhinestone” is), because it’s still fun to hang out with Rocky, Paulie and Adrian in their little hardscrabble Philly universe, and it does have some decent boxing footage and a passable training montage or two. BUT its plot is microcosmic in scope or arc and so boring that, by the end of it, you’ll be asking yourself, “Why the fuck did they make this?” Basically, Rocky suffers severe head trauma from his definitive bout in “Rocky IV” with Ivan Drago, and is ruled out of boxing again (why this doesn’t come up in “Rocky Balboa” is anyone’s guess, but I’d assume it’s because even Sylvester Stallone hates “Rocky V”). He quickly goes broke and has to move out of his sweet mansion and into a working class Philadelphia neighborhood, where he opens up a little restaurant. So he resigns himself to training a new up-and-comer with a great mullet, Tommy Gunn (Tommy Morrison). Tommy’s career blows up under Rocky’s tutelage, and soon enough he’s getting offers for big-time fights. But Rocky doesn’t think he’s ready yet, aggravating his weird-haired disciple. Rocky’s is a low-budget operation, and soon enough, Tommy is seduced away from the good-hearted, mildly brain-damaged Rocky by a big-money Don King stand-in, George Washington Duke (Richard Gant). After some really boring family stuff (Rocky’s son Robert has been jealous of the attention pops has paid to Tommy), we get the riveting conclusion. Which is a low-key back alley fight between Rocky and Tommy. No promoters, no purse, nothing. Just pride. Rocky wins, of course, even though Stallone was 43 when they shot this and Morrison (a pro fighter in real life, who at 6’2″ dwarfs the 5’10” Sly) was 20. Stupid.
7. “Rocky Balboa” (2006) —
I don’t mind Adrian being dead by this one, honestly. Wasn’t totally necessary, but whatever. Her character was little more than an appendage after “Rocky II.” I know she was even a divisive figure way back during the first “Rocky,” but I thought that love story worked. The loser loan shark meat-head falling head over heels for the precocious pet store clerk. It’s hooky. That ice-rink scene especially is pretty damn cute. I’m glad Stallone didn’t cut bait with Jason Schwartzman’s mom after the first “Rocky” movie, but he has trouble giving her much to do apart from being a nag. I’m glad Ryan Coogler opted not to give Rocky some kind of cute love subplot with a 40 year-old nurse in the hospital or something (remember, Sly was 68 years old when he shot “Creed”). Sadly though, Sly lacks that restraint in “Rocky Balboa.”
He gently, chastely (there’s a fairly painless smooch, but that’s as far as they go) hooks Rocky up with the “Little” Marie character (Geraldine Hughes, who was 35 when Stallone was 59 filming the flick), a neighborhood bartender who grew up around Rocky in Philly when he was just starting to take off, around the time of the first movie. Not a terrible character or anything, but I just totally didn’t buy their relationship and it took me out of the rest of the movie. Actually, whenever she showed up I just wanted to see more of Paulie so… okay, maybe she wasn’t that great a character. But Adrian “You Can’t Win” Balboa was no peach herself by “Rocky III.” The main fight was good, the primary training montage was top notch — Sly really has a command of the Philly boxing atmosphere by this point, and DP J. Clark Mathis abets the cause with some great high-shutter action. It is, of course, completely ridiculous that Rocky could go the distance against reigning World Heavyweight Champ Mason “The Line” Dixon (the 6’2″ Antonio Tarver, 2003 World Light Heavyweight Champ, now a cruiserweight fighter), 37 at the time of filming. But in the moment, you can almost buy it.
6. “Creed II” (2018) —
Decent, fun fights, mired by head-scratching training regimens (Adonis Creed trains in a brutal desert heat with middling facilities to get his “edge” back, a la Rocky’s training in an isolated log cabin within the Russian wilderness), and a severe overemphasis on treacly family time (the #5 film on this list falls for that trap as well). The biggest issue, of course, was a title bout between a light heavyweight/cruiserweight fighter (Creed, played by 6′, 175-pound Michael B. Jordan, who was trying to hit 195 pounds for the film) and a heavyweight (Viktor Drago, played by real-life 6’4″, 250-pound heavyweight boxer Florian Munteanu) where the significantly smaller guy wins somehow. The fight scenes, helmed by Steven Caple Jr., didn’t look nearly as impressive as Ryan Coogler’s gorgeous battle choreography in the original 2015 “Creed” (more on this below).
Why did Dolph Lundgren only get to speak a few lines? Why didn’t we get to see more Drago overall? I found myself more invested in the dark Drago family drama than the relatively happy, stable, first world problems of the Creed clan. I also missed the clever Cold War allegorical politicking of the otherwise-dumb “Rocky IV.” Why was there so much of an emphasis Creed’s relatively normal, drama-free relationship with Bianca (Tessa Thompson)? Why is everyone’s son in this (including the son of Creed’s trainer Duke)?
Also — WHY ARE THERE NO PATRONS AT ADRIAN’S BAR, EVER?
5. “Rocky II” (1979) —
I fucking love the beginning of this thing, with Rocky and Creed in their wheelchairs yelling at each other. I don’t care for the heavy downer that is the rest of the movie, as Rocky systematically gets beaten down: first he combats his serious risk of blindness (he suffered a detached retina during the fight); then he can’t read the cue cards for his various commercial endorsements (nowadays they’d just have a, um, less verbose athlete do what they do best and read a voice-over at the tail end of the commercial); Rocky mishandles his cash, loses a lot of it, and struggles to find non-boxing employment; even when Rocky decides to fight again, Adrian gets preggers and really pushes Rocky against the eventual re-match that he is half-heartedly training for. THEN, though, we get a juiced-up variation of the original “Rocky” fight, and that’s pretty great.
Sly has taken over directorial duties from the Academy Award-winning “Rocky” helmer John Avildsen (the man mysteriously responsible for the best AND worst “Rocky” movies), and his eye for action is pretty on-point. Carl Weathers is 6’2″ and listed at 220 lbs., and the the 5’9″ Sylvester Stallone (playing a 6’1″ Rocky) is listed at 190-200 lbs., so the end result of their second bout (Rocky beats a guy who in real life would NOT be in the same weight class) still feels… highly improbable. Technically, Sly would be fighting light heavyweight and Weathers would be battling at normal heavyweight (200+ pounds). That aside, objectively speaking, this is one of the better “Rocky” flicks. SUBJECTIVELY speaking, it’s not nearly as fun an experience as some of its dumber follow-ups. See below.
4. “Creed” (2015) —
WHY DID PAULIE HAVE TO DIE, COOGLER?
Also, MAN it took a long time for them to bust out that famous Bill Conti theme song. They really had me worried for a second there.
Don’t let this ranking fool you, “Creed” is really good, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. One of my favorite movies of 2015 thus far, although to be fair, 2015 has been light on classics. It’s not a great movie, though. Let me tell you why: basic character motivation for our titular hero. So “Creed” is about Adonis Johnson (later to go by Adonis Creed), Apollo Creed’s illegitimate son, who was raised in foster care until he was 12, then raised by his pop’s widow (Mrs. Cosby, Phylicia Rashad). After getting a great education on his dead dad’s dime, living in a baller house in LA, and working at some kind of sweet financial job (while notching a 15-0 boxing record in Mexico on weekends), Adonis (Michael B. Jordan) decides to quit his job and box full-time.
Based on the movies’ chronology, Adonis is probably 29 here. He would have had to be 12 in 1998 (the movie doesn’t tell us that), because Apollo Creed died in 1985 — so we’ll have to assume that he got Adonis’s mom, who was Apollo’s mistress or one-night stand, pregnant more or less right before he got killed by Ivan Drago. So… 29 is fairly old to embark on a full-time professional boxing career; Mexico in the movie is kind of treated like a minor-league circuit, so at best it’s semi-pro. So, yeah… why would this dude want to fight, exactly? Especially after 17 years of Adonis’s adoptive mom telling him DON’T FIGHT IT KILLED YOUR DAD (at one point, she shares a TMI bathroom anecdote that feels intimate and brutal and would turn me right the fuck off from ever wanting to box, were I Adonis Creed).
So when he quits the cushy gig, and his mom tells him “I HATE THAT YOU’RE FIGHTING” (I’m paraphrasing), he… moves to Philadelphia and bugs Rocky until the Italian Stallion agrees to train him. Writer/director Ryan Coogler also generates some hokey conflict in the middle of the movie after Adonis discovers that Rocky has lymphoma. Rocky getting cancer is quite poignant and handled with grace and real feeling (and gets kind of intense, so have your hankies at the ready — I’m not saying they kill Rocky, necessarily, but I AM saying that the cancer stuff is hard to watch), that’s not the problem. The fact that Rocky refuses to get chemo at first (because Adrian went through it when she had cancer and it didn’t help her) is not the problem. The problem is the flimsy way Coogler tries to show Adonis being immature in handling the diagnosis. He lashes out at the important people in his life in a way that’s almost antithetical to his personality and behavior in the rest of the movie. It’s pretty flimsy. Fight realism note — Michael B. Jordan is 5’11.5″, Tony Bellew is 6’2.5″ with a 6’2″ reach, BUT they were around the exact same fighting weight. Jordan put on 24 pounds to get to 176 lbs., and Bellew is listed at 175. The weight/height disparity isn’t nearly as severe as the Sly/Weathers or Sly/Dolph issues.
Great fight scenes though, fun characters outside of the aforementioned issues, beautifully shot. Sly finally acts his age (way less jet-black hair dye than in “The Expendables,” “Rocky Balboa,” or “Rambo”), and he wears it well. There’s a decently handled love story too, although they kind of relegate the girlfriend (the great Tessa Thompson, of “Dear White People” fame, playing a musician with a bittersweet handicap) to the background in the second half of the movie. The conclusive fight, in particular, is quite spectacular, and surprisingly moving. DID I CRY DURING THE SCREENING OF “CREED?”
I NEVER CRY. I AM AN UNFEELING ROBOT WHO BARELY REACTS WHEN ROCKY BALBOA VOMITS FROM CHEMO TREATMENT.
Fine, fine. There was some welling-up, okay? Just a little. MINOR WELLING. I’m very glad to not be the only Filmcore-er to report this sensation. Especially at the end, in the 11th round, when our Adonis hits the mat. And it could be over. Or he can get the fuck up and keep fighting. Even though we know what’s going to happen, it doesn’t really matter. It’s quite the moment. And it’s quite the movie, warts and all.
3. “Rocky III” (1983) —
WHY DID MICKEY HAVE TO DIE, SLY?
SO THAT COACH APOLLO COULD REIGN. Because man oh man, does this one have a wacky training montage or five. Chicago’s own Mr. T, actually a somewhat size-appropriate competitor for the Italian Stallion (5’10” to Stallone’s 5’9″, although Mr. T weighs maybe 40 pounds more), roared onto the screen in his film acting debut, playing the brilliantly-named Clubber Lang. A former bouncer and bodyguard, the future B.A. Baracus is a great, intimidating opponent, charismatic and cruel (“No, I don’t hate Balboa, but I pity the fool”), a kind of next-gen up-and-coming Creed-esque baddie. This one is really fun, much more streamlined and to-the-point than its two predecessors, if also excessively dumber and more contrived. But let’s run a quick Ted Turner Test on this baby: let’s say you see that “Rocky II” is on TBS or TNT (or, uh, CNN). How long do you sit through Rocky’s baby mama drama, his poignant struggles acting in commercials, his debilitating retinal re-attachment surgery, just to get to like 30 minutes of cool stuff? Now, on the other hand, you see that “Rocky III” is on. And you just know that you’re gonna be glued to that couch for two hours. I mean, come on, the theme song for this one was “Eye of the Tiger.” Nobody can resist “Eye of the Tiger.”
Sure, there’s an annoying “YOU CAN’T WIN” scene on the beach with Adrian, but outside of that, we get lots and lots of drama: the rise of the challenger, Clubber Lang, who sort-of kills Mickey by violently pushing him and inducing his eventually-fatal heart attack (thank goodness Mickey holds on long enough to say his goodbyes, though, huh?); the softening of Rocky as a competitor now that he’s finally gotten his money right (a much more entertaining outcome than him becoming destitute again in “Rocky II” — and, later, “Rocky V”); Rocky’s defeat at the hands of Lang; his complicated relationship with Apollo Creed deepening; less Adrian; the aforementioned sweet training montages (third-best in the series after our #2 and #1 movies, actually); AND glorious last-reel retribution.
AND, of course, that last, secret Rocky-Creed III fight. I mean, come on, what a cool set-up: “I didn’t hear no bell.” “Ding, ding.” AND FREEZE. Happily, Stallone keeps our big question (WHO WON THE FIGHT?) a secret for several “Rocky” installments. We wouldn’t find out for 32 years, but it turns out that, yeah, it was the greatest fictional boxer of all time, Apollo Creed.
2. “Rocky IV” (1985) —
WHY DID APOLLO HAVE TO DIE, SLY?
In a lot of ways, I think the task of gauging the “Rocky” movies’ quality is quite comparable to breaking down the James Bond movies. “Casino Royale” is (relatively) understated and realistic, whereas “Goldeneye” has a character named Xenia Onatopp who kills men by crushing them between her thighs mid-coitus (I’d like to die this way, please). “Rocky IV” is really, really stupid, and makes only the slightest of efforts at feigning realism. But fuck it, the stakes are real, the motivations are clear, the characters, though cartoons, are engaging and realized, the pace is good, the boxing scenes look great, and HOLY FUCK THOSE MONTAGES.
I’m pretty sure that “Rocky IV” can actually boast the BEST single ’80s training montage. And yes, I’m counting the “Real Genius” montages (Exhibit A and Exhibit B) as training montages. They’re great, no doubt (and their music is superior), but, I mean, come on, dude, “Rocky IV” all the way. BEAR WITNESS TO ITS GLORY (there are two training montages in there, and they are tied for first place in the Great ’80s Montages hierarchy). “DRAAGOOOOOOOOOO.” We also get my favorite “YOU CAN’T WIN” from Adrian.
Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) and his icy wife and handler Brigitte Nielson (Ludmilla Vobet Drago) are fun, formidable Soviet villains — pure cartoons, more a joint oppressive immovable force (kind of like their government, get it? DO YOU NOT SEE THE SYMBOLISM??) than two fleshed-out characters. But they’re really not allocated a ton of character-building screen time, so it doesn’t detract from the heart of the movie, which is Rocky. Realism notes: Drago was 261 pounds and 6’5″ in the movie, and Rocky had to be 200+ to fight as a heavyweight (again, he was 6’1″ in the movie). Lundgren in real life was somewhere between 235-245 pounds, and Sly was probably closer to 190 (and, again, 5’9″ or 5’10”). So, yeah, Sly (38 at the time of filming to Dolph’s 27) stood absolutely zero chance of victory. Still, though.
1. “Rocky” (1976) —
Please note: even though, clearly, I hold a special place in my heart for “Rocky” and all its offspring not named “Rocky V” (which even Sly himself doesn’t like, according to Adonis Creed), it DID NOT deserve to win the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1976. In fact, it was only the third best NOMINEE to come out that year.
You don’t believe me, do you? Well check out the 1976 Academy Award nominees for Best Picture:
– “Network”
– “Bound For Glory”
– “Rocky”
– “All The President’s Men”
– “Taxi Driver”
Four of these movies (i.e. everything not named “Bound For Glory”) are generally regarded as being all-timers. That being said, I happen to disagree about “Network” even being good. It’s an overwrought Message Movie so proud of its argument that it forgets to have any fun with its heightened comic satire or develop any characters outside of the power-mad Faye Dunaway; it’s incredibly predictable, and it’s a screeching two-dimensional mess. “Taxi Driver” is one of my 10 favorite movies ever, “All The President’s Men” one of my 15. The original “Rocky” is somewhere in my top 100. “Rocky” was a wonderful, welcome return to many great traditional cinematic tropes, an old-school boxing picture that somehow felt new. “All The President’s Men” is the single-greatest newspaper movie ever made, and it’s so rich with texture (in its character, its plotting, its atmosphere — all supplied to us courtesy of director Alan J. Pakula, writer William Goldman, and producer/star/apparent ghost-director Robert Redford) that you could watch it 50 times and never get bored. I can attest to this personally. “Taxi Driver” was so fantastically unique, such a pioneering cinematic singularity, that there’s no way it was ever going to win Best Picture. The masculine anger, the raw nihilistic violence, the hellish seedy underbelly of Midtown, the deep romantic discomfort. Gorgeous, brilliant, special movie. Anyway, I guess the point of all this is… 1976 was a hell of a year to love movies.
Anyway, I kind of went on a huge tangent there. I fucking love the original “Rocky.” The set-up is so great, a familiar boxing underdog story even in 1976, but really effectively handled. A nobody gets a shot against a fictionalized Muhammad Ali. And Apollo Creed was a terrific foil for Rocky before they were allies: he’s not a bad guy at all, nor is he painted that way. He’s an arrogant, flashy bad-ass, a champ looking for a fresh PR angle. But he’s not some ruthless murderer or pseudo-murderer, or some disloyal punk, as several series antagonists have been (the baddies in “Rocky III”-“Rocky V,” and “Pretty” Ricky Conlan in “Creed,” who’s about to go to jail for 7 years for an undisclosed violent crime). Rocky is one of the great cinematic underdogs, and he needs an intimidating, true professional for the match to really be realized. A loan shark who moonlights as a mediocre bottom-feeding amateur boxer, the 30-ish (i.e. too old) Rocky Balboa has never gotten a fair shake. This movie is about a man finally realizing his potential, pushing himself (THE EGGS SCENE! THE MEAT LOCKER SCENE!) beyond the limits he had previously imposed. He gets the girl, he gets the trainer (iconic stick-man Burgess Meredith, playing his trainer Mickey Goldmill) after the famous “You’re a bum!” confrontation (“It’s a living.” “It’s a waste of life!!”), and he gets his dignity in going toe-to-toe against an all-time great. And, of course, we the audience get the single-most inspirational training montage OF ALL TIME.
By Alex Kirschenbaum
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The Edithorial
Adventures in Classical Theatreland
One of the best things about my job is involvement in exciting productions of classics-related plays. Right now I’m getting down and dirty with three creative teams. They’re doing a Greek tragic trilogy, a comedy based on the Roman plays of Plautus, and an English tragedy based on part of Virgil’s Aeneid respectively.
50 Terrified Egyptian Suppliant Maidens
The Actors’ Touring Company’s Suppliants of Aeschylus was a runaway hit at Edinburgh Festival last year, with a chorus of local citizens, and is currently playing in Manchester. Last Saturday I got stars in my eyes when I was invited at five minutes’ notice to perform the opening libation to the theatre-god Dionysus, and am now expecting an Oscar nomination.
ATC are bringing the production to London, and are expanding it by adding new material to reconstruct the other three plays with which it was performed in its original group. So I’m thrilled to be helping them with the fragments and other evidence. It will open at the Young Vic on November 13th so get it in your diaries!
Fun with Plautus at the RSC
Meanwhile, I met the hilarious cast of Vice Versa, a new comedy by Phil Porter based on Plautus’ Braggart Soldier, opening in Stratford next month. The delights include a talking monkey, fake twin prostitutes, an exceptionally clever slave and lots of updating. Since the obscenity is confined to Latin swear-words I provided being muttered in asides, it is a perfect introduction to Roman ribaldry for all the family.
As one of those weird people who prefer Marlowe to Shakespeare, I couldn’t be happier than to be made official consultant on Dido, Queen of Carthage, directed for the RSC by the innovative Kimberley Sykes. Opening on 15th September, this promises to be an unsettling, noir-ish experience complete with Carthaginian iconography.
With Tony Harrison, Jane Harrison & Sian Thomas
in the Greek theatre at Sebastopol
And to take the biscuit, Tony Harrison’s long-awaited Iphigenia in Crimea, with which I’ve been involved from its inception, is at last to be broadcast by BBC Radio on April 23rd. There is a Greek proverb ‘The Greeks Are Everywhere’. They—and the ancient Romans, Egyptians, Carthaginians and Crimean Taurians—are certainly going to be unavoidable this year in British theatreland.
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Rejoinder to a Self-Appointed Policeman of Privilege
Strapline: LATIN FOR IDIOTS
This week saw the publication in the Spectator of a splenetic piece of propaganda by one James Delingpole, who makes his living from peddling archly controversial far-right views on climate change and immigration. This time he dilates, with mind-blowing ignorance, on the topic of classical education. The single most serious problem affecting British education, apparently, and one which the Spectator believes it is worth giving airspace to someone of Delingpole’s lousy journalism skills to discuss, is that there are TOO MANY STATE-EDUCATED UNDERGRADUATES READING CLASSICS AT OXFORD.*
I quote: ‘Take, for example, the right-on enthusiasm for recruiting Greats candidates from schools that don’t do Latin or Greek. The theory goes that by the fourth year, these eager state-school kids will have attained the same proficiency as private-school ones who have been hothoused on classics since they were eight or nine. But I gather that only the Oxbridge classics tutors who have drunk the social justice Kool-Aid actually believe this has worked in practice. The rest are worried about declining long-term standards and are also a bit frustrated: if you’re an Oxbridge classics don, you want to teach Oxbridge–level classics — not catch-up for beginners.’
Is this the best Classical Edification can offer the 21st Century?
As an ex-Oxford Classics don (1995-2001), I can confirm that the last sentence was, at least then, sadly, true. Amongst my former colleagues were too many who took applicants from the private sector in numbers wholly disproportionate to their status as only 7% of the school-leaver population.
Things have certainly changed for the better since 2001. But this matters little if state-educated people think that Classics remains a snobbish subject, and are too scared to apply to Oxford anyway. This is hardly surprising when Oxford produces arrogant alumni with ropey cognitive skills like Delingpole, who boasts, ‘it really did shape my intellect in a way for which I’ll be eternally grateful.’ Enough said.
But Delingpole’s premise that a life-transforming Higher Education in Classics is only possible after training, from primary school, in Latin and Greek languages, is daft. Not only can people learn Latin and Greek to a dazzling standard fast, but the most precious aspects of the Greeks' and Romans' culture can be learned without any ancient language at all.
They had some bad ideas, including the inevitability of slavery and the inferiority of women. But they also conceived superb ideas, including democracy, freedom of speech, accountability of officials, the social contract, trial by jury, tolerance of a wide range of sexual relationships, rational science, philosophical logic, world-citizenship, cultural relativism, training in public speaking, and the profound responsibility of the makers of art and entertainment to society.
The failure to include classical subjects taught in translation—Classical Civilisation or Ancient history—in every secondary educational institution therefore deprives our future citizens of access to educational treasures which not only enthral, but fulfil what Jefferson argued in Notes on the State of Virginia (1782) was the true goal of education in a democracy—to enable us to defend our liberty. The past, he argued, is the subject which makes citizens so equipped.
To stay free requires also comparison of constitutions, utopian reflection, fearlessness about innovation, critical, lateral and relativist thinking, advanced epistemological skills in source criticism and the ability to argue cogently. All these skills can be learned via English translations of the succinct, entertaining, original works produced by the lively minds of the authors of the classical past.
Delingpole has needlessly insulted every individual who has ever studied the ancient Mediterranean world wholly or even partially in translation—the thousands who take CC/AH qualifications in state schools, the majority of classics undergraduates in other British universities, not to mention adult learners, autodidacts, and everyone who has ever read a Penguin Classic. He has done so with puerile, ill-informed, oligarchic hauteur. If this has made you as cross as it did me, then please read this article in the Guardian and join my new campaign, ACE, to get classical subjects into every state school in the land. Now I’m off to the People’s History Museum in Manchester to research workers’ campaigns for access to Higher Education.
*I did have a photograph of Delingpole in bathing shorts here but have taken it down after someone quite rightly pointed out that I was stooping to 'body shaming'. I agree and apologise for any offence caused.
Charon's Ferry Fare & Escaping a Criminal Record
'No I don't take credit cards!'
There were no separate first- and second-class seats on Charon’s ferry. Kings and slaves paid the same tiny obol fare for the same wooden seats. Death, as the Greeks knew all too well, was the best leveller of all.
More than my Jobsworth
They did invent steam power, but not railway trains, and so the myth of Charon’s ferry fare provides the nearest ancient parallel I can identify to the predicament from which I have just escaped. A train company has decided not to argue in court that I should be given a criminal record, as they had previously proposed.
One evening just before Christmas I could not get the seat in Second Class for which I possessed a ticket from London to my home station. I sat in First Class. Since train overcrowding is a national scandal, this has often occurred before. On all previous occasions, when the ticket inspector appeared, one of four things happened, depending on whether s/he was a human or an officious zombie:
1) S/he officially declassified First Class;
2) S/he ‘let off’ myself and my fellow malefactors and turned a blind eye;
3) S/he accepted my offer to pay the difference between the second- and first-class fare;
4) S/he required me to pay a full first-class fare but advised me I could apply to be reimbursed for the second-class ticket.
Not that night. I was asked to buy a first-class ticket AND pay a large on-the-spot fine for Being Such a Naughty Girl. I refused. What gives a business the right to inculpate and fine a customer when it has not provided the service (a second-class seat) for which the customer has paid?
A barrage of personal questions—why was I on the train? what had I been doing in London? with whom did I live and for how long?—violated my civil liberties. A police officer was hailed who said he would arrest me and put me in a cell until I provided my name and address. So I reluctantly did.
Soon a letter arrived. I was about to be summoned to a Magistrate’s Court, being charged with ‘intent to avoid a rail fare’ under the Regulation of Railways Act 1889, s.5 (3). The operator always pressed 'for the heaviest penalties'. These included 12 weeks in prison, a 4-figure fine, and the need to disclose forever to any employers or embassies that I had a criminal record for ‘dishonesty’.
Being just about able to afford a lawyer, I did. I could produce medical proof that I have an arthritic knee. I won a moral victory, too, since the matter was settled out of court by paying the ticket and not the fine. But what happens to people without cash available for legal fees? It is iniquitous.
While waiting to hear if this Kafkaesque prosecution had been dropped, I dealt with my fear of prison etc. by researching the 3 ways ancient Greeks said you could cross Lake Acheron without paying Charon AT ALL:
1) Attack him with your club and take over the rudder (Heracles did this, and it appeals, but today it would risk an additional legal charge for Assault).
2) Run round the lake instead (Xanthias, Dionysus’ enterprising slave in Aristophanes’ Frogs does this, but my knee would make it difficult).
'Free Transport for All!'
3) Move to the town of Hermione near Argos. Here the ferry fare was entirely waived by Demeter in gratitude when she recovered her daughter Persephone nearby. She was clearly not only a feminist but a socialist who believed in the principle of free public transport for all. Sadly, this is a pipe dream in our current profit-driven society.
Aeacus, Transport Magnate
Just like the ticket inspector and his fine-taking credit-card machine, Charon was a minion of the powerful and didn’t even get to profit personally from the ferry fares. He had to hand them over to Aeacus, concierge of the dead and--ehem--a part-time judge. It was Aeacus rather than Charon who was therefore the equivalent of the rapacious privatised railway companies of Britain.
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Greek Doctors in Britain Ancient & Modern
Aesculapius and Hygieia
The GMC says there are nearly four thousand doctors trained in Greece working for the National Health Service. This is far more than from any other country in Europe except Ireland.
An affable and highly skilled Greek doctor from Thessaloniki recently conducted what could have been an unpleasant and frightening procedure on me with the utmost tact and efficiency. My mistake was to tell him I spoke some Greek, which meant that he asked me informed questions about archaeology. I was in no position to answer these sensibly. I had been sedated and had a camera on a hosepipe up my rear.
Hermogenes' Altar Dedication with Greek Characters
What interested him was the information that Greek doctors had been practising in Britain two millennia ago. Inscriptions honouring the healing god Asclepius/Aesculapius in Greek rather than Latin have been found in several places in the north of England, including Lanchester near Durham and Maryport in Cumbria.
At Chester, near what is now the telephone exchange, a doctor named Hermogenes once dedicated a votive offering in well-shaped Greek lettering of the early 2nd century AD. It read ‘Hermogenes the physician (iatros) has set up this altar to the all-powerful preservers (sōtersin hupermenēsin)’, almost certainly meaning Aesculapius and his companion goddess Hygieia (Health).
Chester Legio XX Reenactment Society
Perhaps Hermogenes was official doctor to the 20th Roman legion, who built and resided in the camp at Chester. But it so happens that the doctor who looked after the dying Emperor Hadrian was named Hermogenes. This famous Greek had good credentials, since he seems to have been trained in the medical school of the peerless anatomist Erasistratos. Erasistratos, who came from Kos, the island where Hippocrates himself had practised, was Aristotle’s grandson, no less.
Cassius Dio 69.22 tells us that when Hadrian was dying slowly from dropsy, Hermogenes helpfully pointed out to him the place on his chest which, if an attendant struck a blow, would allow him to die fast and painlessly (in the event Hadrian could persuade nobody to help him out, and ended up eating and drinking himself to extinction).
My own friendly Greek doctor, in the best tradition of Greek hospitality, ended up inviting me and my whole family to a meal any August we found ourselves in northern Greece. The embarrassing nature of the procedure I underwent means I am unlikely ever to accept the invitation. But if he happens to read this blog, I would like to record my gratitude. I hope there will still be such excellent Greek doctors practising in Britain in another two thousand years’ time.
The Lyceum Goose Mystery
Athens Lyceum Mural
Two weeks ago I gave a speech in the great hall of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens, a spectacular neoclassical building. I used the occasion to explore a question which has bugged me since my first visit to Greece, when I was nineteen—why, on the famous mural in the porch, was Aristotle painted waving a knife at a goose? In no other picture of his Lyceum, for example the mural of similar date by Gustav Adolph Spangenberg, in the University of Halle, is a goose part of the narrative.
No Goose on Halle Uni Mural
Geese were certainly important in ancient Greece. They were farmed, domesticated as pets, and associated with heroines and she-gods: Penelope, Aphrodite, Athena, Kore/Persephone, Artemis/Hecate, Nemesis and later Isis. They are involved in another ancient mystery tale, the Goose Plot in Greek comedy. Two vases show an otherwise unknown play or plays in which a goose figured prominently—one alive (in Boston), one dead (in New York).
Goose Plot in Greek Comedy-Live Goose by Basket
One possibility is that the mural designer, Carl Rahl, knew how important medicine was to Aristotle’s philosophy. Aristotle’s father Nicomachus had been a doctor, and doctors and medical analogies abound in all his works. Goose fat and other goose products were ubiquitous in ancient Greek medical preparations, and mentioned often in the texts of Hippocrates. Rahl will have been aware that Medicine was one of the original four faculties of this university.
Yet geese, unusually intelligent birds, do have weird connections with ancient philosophy. Aristotle’s Cypriot disciple Clearchus (who also happens to feature on the mural) wrote a book about sexual pathology called Erotica. It mentioned a goose who was infatuated with a boy (fr. 27). Aristotle’s friend Theophrastus’ On Eros also mentions a goose infatuated with a beautiful boy called Amphilochus. But sadly I don’t think the mural suggests that Aristotle, angry with his followers for their obsession with goose-human relationships, killed a goose in revenge.
More promising is what Pliny Senior writes about such love affairs. A beautiful youth from a town in north-western Peloponnese attracted a goose's passion, as did a young woman named Glauke who was harpist to King Ptolemy. Pliny remarks, ‘one might almost be tempted to think that these creatures have an appreciation of wisdom (sapientia): for it is said, that one of them was the constant companion of the philosopher, Lacydes, and would never leave him, either in public or when at the bath, by night or by day.’
Lacydes' Goose Reads Nicomachean Ethics
Another version of the story, by Aelian, adds that Lacydes was a philosopher of the Peripatetic school—that is, an Aristotelian. The sapient goose was devoted to its keeper: when Lacydes went for a walk, it went too; when he sat down, it would remain still and would not leave him for a moment. And when it died Lacydes gave it an expensive funeral as if it were a family member.
Aristotle is on the mural's right-hand end
But I suspect that the true explanation is that Carl Rahl believed that Aristotle had dissected a goose. In the History of Animals, a goose appears in Aristotle’s discussion of male reproductive anatomy in animals which have blood. Because he says here that the goose’s reproductive organ is difficult to see except straight after copulation, most scholars infer that a goose was one of the numerous different organisms he dissected. This seems even more likely since in Generation of Animals he claims that no bird has a penis. He has discovered it in the goose by careful laboratory observation.
Jan Weenix, 'Dead Goose' (1700)
Carl Rahl, Designer of the Mural
This goose, however, is just one in a list which includes fish, snakes, ring-doves, partridges, lizards, turtles, tortoises, dolphins, elephants, hedgehogs, and pigs. Theoretically, at least, we could have had any of these portrayed on the mural. And this is where Rahl's tastes came in. I think he chose a goose from that list because, like all European painters then, he had been trained in the Dutch ‘Still Life’ tradition and liked painting the feathered wings of dead game birds. It is a shame, though. A hedgehog, pig, or elephant would have made the mural far more fun.
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The Friends of Victoria Park, Stretford [FOVPs] was formed and formally constituted in March 2002. The group had Norman Law as the Chairman and Ian Trickett was the Trafford Council Parks Development Officer and we had bags of enthusiasm – we were going to transform the park and it would probably take us about one year, Ha ha ha – what did we know!!
It soon became apparent that things move very, very slowly within the Council and that there was very little, if any, money available to carry out improvements. Public meetings were “whinge fests” where everyone came to moan about how bad the park was, but did not want to seem to help us change things or have any good ideas as to how it could be improved. We held our meetings in the Veterans building, which was not ideal, as we did not always feel welcome and it never felt like we were appreciated by the Council or the veterans/bowling fraternity, and we were reliant upon their goodwill to open up the building for us. We were in negotiations with the Council from fairly early on to get access to our own building within the park. There are two main buildings within the park – what was the ladies bowling hut and the men’s/veteran and bowling hut. Both buildings were incredibly under utilized. The ladies hut was only used for a couple of afternoons per week during spring/summer and the men’s/veterans building was again only used during afternoons – but most days.
The Council paid all the bills for these buildings. We as a group felt it was unfair that the whole community were paying for these resources for such a small section of the community to use exclusively. We had the backing of the local Councillors and the parks department. What we proposed was that the men and women joined forces and shared the largest of the buildings and that the ladies hut which was much smaller and less glamorous was made into a community building with a permanent base for the FOVPs and open access to other groups.
Again, we had no idea how long this would take to come to fruition – 6 years later – the ladies moved out of their building and into a custom made separated building within the larger veterans building – with all new facilities paid for by S.106 monies. Yes, even in 2008 men and women bowlers did not want to share a building!
The ladies bowling hut then spent a year lying empty for the most part as the Council were unable to sort out a formal agreement with the FOVPs group. During this time we only used the building for our meetings and our Christmas event – but our plans for the building continued to grow – and the roof continued to disintegrate! The ceiling finally gave way in January 2009 and was replaced in December 2009 in time for our Christmas event. Storage of our equipment was also a sticking point with the bowlers – especially as the years went by and our “stuff” grew.
We currently use the “lock up” which is the old bowling green shelter. We have approximately a third of the building and have never used more or less of it as we have improved our storage arrangements over the years by supplying and fitting industrial shelving to accommodate our equipment. The bowlers feel that this is their area and would love it if we went away and took our “stuff” with us! This will not happen – our “stuff” has all been bought by donations or fund raising and ensures that we can hold our fun event programme and each year these events get bigger and better and we are very proud of them.
Ian Trickett was replaced as our Parks Development Officer Sasha Essuah-Mensah after approximately one year, and he was with us until the end of 2008 [when he moved to Preston]. Sasha was an incredibly good PDO with boundless enthusiasm and tireless patience. He was a steadying influence through some of our wilder ideas and he gave the group food for thought and advice on many occasions – never failing to take or return a call or shirk responsibility.
Bob Walton took over as PDO after Sash left and he seems to be helpful and responds well to my nagging!!
I took over as Chairperson of the Group when Norman Law retired. Norman led the Group for the first two years and established it as a fine bunch of like-minded people. He set the ground rules and took a lot of criticism from the general public about the park at the beginning – but by the end of his “reign” people were seeing the fruits of our labours and began the praise, and started to believe in us.
A Green Flag award [more info about this in links] was something we wanted as soon as we heard about it, and so we entered in our second year and we got it. The judges recognised the improvements we were making and the enthusiasm of the Group for the tasks ahead. We were all proud. We have kept this Green Flag year on year as we have been able to show improvements and progress each year and long term commitment to the park. Trafford Council may be moving away from this national award standard by implementing its own “Star Award” scheme – but we as a Group feel the Green Flag is a more robust and less biased award and as such we want it to continue as the benchmark for how good our park is.
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Finnish Young Minds
The First Month
May 10th, 2016 in Uncategorized
Tuesday 29.3.2016 was a remarkable day. The preparatory work done by The Finnish Physical Society and few students paid off as the Finnish Young Minds section was succesfully founded at the 2016 Physics Days at Oulu, Finland. The founding meeting was followed by a panel discussion titled ”What Comes After Graduation?”, where five senior scientists shared their views on e.g. how to get original ideas and handle domestical life while at the same time pursuing an academic career. At the Physics Days one could sense a positive and an genuinely intrested atmosphere towards the Finnish Young Minds organisation
For the first officers of the section four eager recent or soon-to-be graduates were selected, all of whom had been part of the planning comittee formed last fall. Olli-Pekka Tikkanen from University of Eastern Finland was selected for the chair of the organisation with Anu Tuomela from University of Oulu acting as his right hand and vice-chair. The duties of the treasurer and secretary were given to Joona Havukainen and Anton Saressalo, respectively, whom are both students from the University of Helsinki. As can be seen the board is a fairly diverse cut from the finnish universities that do give degrees in physical sciences. Students from both Aalto university and University of Jyväskylä also showed interested to participate in the activities in the section.
The month of April and the start of May has seen the new board to hold two meetings. So far the Finnish Young Minds section has been officially accepted as a Young Minds section of the European Physical Society and the board as come to agree how it can accept members in accordance to the bylaws of the section. Now it is actually possible to become a member of the section provided that the applicant is a member of the Finnish Physical Society, European Physical Society or one of it’s member organisations.
Activity-wise the board has started to prepare few events. One of which will hopefully be organized in Helsinki in early June and one which which will happen at least in Helsinki, Oulu and Kuopio in the fall. The best way to keep up with the information about on-going activities is to follow us on twitter and like our facebook page where the most recent information will be distributed. Stay tuned.
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House Of Blues, Anaheim, CA, US
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SeratoRox Posted: 10-04-09 11:38
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I must first say that I've been a fan of Travis since 1998. I've also seen them live a hand full of times. They are bar none the best live band I've ever seen. They never disappoint. Sadly enough, I can't say the same for last night's show at the HOB, Anaheim. There were some highlights, however. I really enjoyed the "Mash-up" that they did with the songs "Side" and "Eyes wide open" that was brilliant. Really enjoyed when Fran went off stage to the crowd during the song "Falling Down". Also, when Andy went to the bar whilst playing his guitar. Now, for the less enjoyable part of the show. First off, There was no dramatic intro; they just suddenly showed up on stage, kinda' like an opening act. They went went right into the first song, then the second, third, fourth, fifth, and I believe that's when Fran spoke his first word by saying his salutations to the crowd. My main complain was that the concert seemed hurried. Fran was not really that talkative. No crowd interaction, and no Band introductions, which is always fun to see. When he did "I kissed a girl" it was good comic relief, but it was much too corny. The Britney Spears cover is 100 times better. All in all the show was mediocre at best. The band played well, and Fran sang well, but we all know that playing well, and singing well is not the only reason why we love Travis. We love them because they're always so personable, talkative, and funny. I guess all bands have their off night, and I'm sad to say that Thursday was Their off night.
alyrtle Posted: 11-04-09 6:26
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Hello Travis-darlings!
This has been my 3rd show that I've seen of them and I personally do not think they disappointed. I do agree with the post below that I felt the show was rushed a bit, but hey, it's Disneyland, they're stricter on policy than other venues in LA/hip places, I'm assuming. Audio was also not so great at the start either, but they seriously blew it out of the water anyway!!
I went with a close cousin of mine, and also a close friend, which made it a lot of fun. My cousin has been a fan "since the beginning" but this is only the 2nd show he's been able to go to. So that was really nice to see him so happy. The opening band, The Republic Tigers, was actually REALLY impressive!! They had some really great melodies and the singer was humorous. Their Blondie cover was hilarious, too. Then Travis went on, and omg, everyone was screaminggg and jumping (at least I know I was!) They really played a great setlist--mixing up a good amount of songs from all their different CDs. I thought that was great. The setlist flowed really seamlessly, I felt. (Oh! They also played all my cousin's favorite songs that he "absolutely needed to hear"..So that was awesome!) For Falling Down, Fran walked down off the stage and into the audience. Cue crowd cheers and the sea of fans parts like only Moses could do back in the day!! Fran stood RIGHT next to me and my friend/cousin and other people as we circled around him and gawked at him singing..right there..RIGHT in front of us! It was SO beautiful, I almost fell to my knees at least 5 times!! He was singing Falling Down and he was mimicing a fall during specific lyrics. I thought that was the end for me. Too bad I was behind him, so he didn't see me. He chose one extremely lucky woman to dance with him. Oh how I wish he danced with several of us, but that's ok! It was still amazing. I got some pictures but they're all blurry because I was shaking. How funny. :) Anyway, after that point, the show REALLY took off and was amazing. I think energy spiked. The crowd was singing beautifully, and for a while, Fran just let us sing. It was mostly women, so yknow, of course we rocked it ;) I loved how happy the band looked after they heard us sing. It was truly a moment we all connected. Man. Some really great songs were played. The crowd was kinda older so they didn't dance around/yell/put arms in the air so much, but it was still great. For the Encore, Fran came back and the first song he played was Sarah (sp?). It was lovely. Got it all on tape, baby! After the band came back, they played some more and eventually said Good Night. They tossed out some items, and somehow, SOMEHOW, Dougie tossed out a guitar/bass pick, and I didn't see it, but I felt it hit my foot/lower leg!! Omg!! The pick TOTALLY landed BETWEEN my feet. So lucky because if it didn't, the guy in front of me probably would have taken it off the ground before me!! Soo happy that happened :) I'm not sure if the band came out after the show for signings/photos, because I had to leave :( So sad, because I waited successfully after the past two shows and got pictures and stuff with them. But that's ok. There's always next time (I hope) :) I love Travis and how they just win all of us over everytime no matter the technical difficulties and even if you're in a sullen mood!!! I love them for the love they give! Man, thank you Travis and everyone for a great night :) Peace.
pmorris1274 Posted: 12-04-09 5:40
I do have to agree with the other posters that the show did seem kind of rushed. It is true that Fran loves to chat it up with the audience and that was an element that was missing in this show. I had the feeling they were trying to get in as many songs as possible with what time they had allotted to play. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but more connection to the audience would have been appreciated, as one poster stated. Anyway, I flew in from Salt Lake City (I bought those tickets before I knew they were coming to Salt Lake because they NEVER come to Salt Lake) and went with my sister to this show. I grw up in SoCal and my sister still lives in LA. Anyway, we were lucky enough to score 2nd row standing room, and about fainted when Fran decided to jump into the audience right in front of us. My sister and I got to pat him on the back! And, Dougie was his flirty best with all the ladies he could make eye contact with in the audience. That man cracks me up with his flirty ways. He's a ton of fun! Keep it up, Dougie! You sure know how to make us ladies smile! Anyway, I do wish as one other poster said that Fran would have done more band member intros like he usually does. He kind of did with Claus, but not anyone else, really. It was funny when he acted quite put out when Dougie scored a gin and tonic. (from an audience member?) Also, I was a bit disappointed as well that they did not do a dramatic entry of some sort, either. On the Boy With No Name tour, I loved the Rocky-themed entrance on that tour, and was hoping for something as equally cool. The opening band was really quite enjoyable, and we ended up buying one of their cd's because we liked them so much.
Anyway, I fly back to Salt Lake on Monday, and am lucky enough to be able tocatch the Salt Lake show on Tuesday! I can't wait to catch some more Travis, especially since I don't think they have ever come to Salt Lake before.
Travis, keep on rocking, and I will see you in Salt Lake on Tuesday! If you're reading this (I doubt they are, but IF they are) Please play Blue Flashing Lights if you can! Hugs!
carebear Posted: 12-04-09 6:45
This was my 5th Travis show in So Cal and second HOB experience. I knew from previous experience they ban camera so I sneaked one in on the sly. I was able to get off a few photos which I have posted, but most turned out bad because I was hiding from security who were right in front of me. I was lucky enough to record several full length songs before security guard on a power trip threatened to throw me out - whatever a-hole! Anyway, the boys ROCKED it. HOB is such a small venue compared to some other places I have seen them like Irvine Meadows and Universal Ampitheatre. Seeing them up close was a seconddream come true! There was less interaction/conversation at the start, true. But they settled in mid show and we got some great moments from the band like Patty mentioned the whole gin and tonic shtick between Fran and Dougie - hilarious! The new songs sound so good live! Great show. The only thing I can say is Travis makes me happy. Cheers!
outofthesinking Posted: 07-05-09 5:11
I know I'm a little late, but I haven't been on here in awhile... This was my second Travis show. And I had just as much as great time as I did last time they played HOB in Anahiem.
They also played a few songs that they normally don't play.
I was a little bummed that they didn't do the whole Flowers In The Window bit where they are all helping Fran play the guitar, but they played different material which didn't make me bummed anymore. Haha.
Last year Dougie pointed at me during "Turn" when I pointed at him. And this year he pointed at my friend Katie and I when we both pointed at him.
katylovestravis Posted: 29-05-09 11:09
This was my very 1st Travis show EVER!!!! Can you believe that!? I was introduced to Travis back in 2005 by my bestie, Cristina. Thanks forever Cris! Anyway, they were absolutely amazing! We got there a little late and by that time they were already performing so we tried to force our way through the crowd-which was not going to happen! So we took off to the far right side and before you knew it we were so close.....only on the side.....but thats cool.....we totally enjoyed the hell outta ourselves! Franny's voice it ah-mazing and I had the greatest time ever! I hope to attend another concert in the near future....
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26 House Of Blues, Boston MA, US
25 Webster Hall, New York NY, US
24 Theatre of Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA, US
23 9:30 Club, Washington, DC, US
21 The Sound Academy, Toronto ON, CA
20 House Of Blues, Cleveland OH, US
18 Vic Theatre, Chicago, IL, US
15 Gothic Theatre, Denver CO, US
14 The Depot, Salt Lake City UT, US
12 House Of Blues, Las Vegas NV, US
10 Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, US
09 House Of Blues, Anaheim, CA, US
07 Zellerbach Auditorium, Berkeley CA, US
05 Showbox Sodo, Seattle, WA, US
04 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, CA
31 Arena Monterrey , Monterrey, MX
29 Arena VFG, Guadalajara, MX
27 Foro Sol, Mexico City, MX
01 Olympic Hall, Seoul, KR
27 International Forum, Tokyo, JP
25 Club Diamond Hall, Nagoya, JP
24 Zepp, Osaka, JP
13 Macumba, Madrid, ES
12 Razzmatazz, Barcelona, ES
10 Casino De Paris, Paris, FR
09 Mousonturm, Frankfurt, DE
08 Muffathalle, Munich, DE
06 Huxleys, Berlin, DE
05 Docks, Hamburg, DE
04 Live Music Hall, Cologne, DE
Party At The Palace, Linlithgow, UK paul_c
Trollrock, Beitostolen, NO babbelerik
Teatro Diana, Guadalajara, MX monichor
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Extra pics of the Butchart Gardens? Why, no...
Despite the fact that both Ken and I couldn't be less interested in gardening and yard work, we tend to keep buying houses that require a ton of maintenance and/or expertise in the "yard arts." The funny part about buying and moving into this house with an elaborately established landscape was that every plant that blooms is a surprise. Since they were dormant and all "sleeping" back in December, we had no idea what color things were or even what they were. Luckily we have great help from Box of Rain Landscape on keeping the garden healthy, well laid-out, mulched and properly pruned. And then the rest of the time we just wander around the garden gaping at it all. There is also a bit of fruit planted as well: blueberries, raspberries, Italian plums, grapes & figs. We still need to figure out when to harvest that stuff. It's ridiculous.
Things said in this household since the Spring:
"The front rhododendrons are pink! And the ones in the backyard are lavender!
"We have Bearded Iris."
"We have Tiger Lilies."
"We have Calla Lilies."
"We have a ____ load of figs."
"Roses, hello!"
"What are all these little purple flowers?"
This is a peony. My Facebook friends told me so.
1 of 2 massive fig trees. I've never eaten a fresh fig--that will soon change.
Ken endeavors to plant some pea plants he's sprouted for Sidney which could be the gateway to a vegetable garden. This ought to be interesting.
Victoria BC aka “Extreme This Vacation,” Day 2
The previous day set a pretty high bar of fun but took a lot out of us. Because I was recovering from a cold prior to our arrival in Victoria, being on the scooter all afternoon set me back a little. All morning, I sequestered myself in our room to rest up for what we had planned Saturday. And I was going to need it. In keeping with doing things that are unexpected and possibly unwise, Ken and I arranged to do something called Wild Play. Both of us had done Ropes Course team building exercises in the past so when Ken saw this as the #4 recommended thing on Trip Advisor for Victoria, we signed up.
According to the pamphlet, we were in store for “thrill-filled circuits of rope swings, wobbly bridges, tightropes, ladders, swinging logs and zip lines [that] create [an] exhilarating, suspended obstacle courses for all ages.” All this while strapped into a harness and strung up 60 feet in the air. It was liberating. Like ski slopes, they had blue, green, red and black levels to denote the level of difficulty and distance from the ground. I do have a fear of heights which makes this activity that much more exhilarating. Most of the time I focused on the tree ahead of me and where the safety line was lashed/bolted to the tree. Looking down made it worse so I just tried not to do it.
This is my bad ass look.
The most difficult "game" was the crossing (pictured below) with the alternated hanging nets. That required a lot of upper body strength and was in the black (last and most difficult) section of the course. I was getting tired by then and it put me over the top. Unfortunately there is no exit from that point so I just had to keep going forward. Much of it was mental too. Shortly after that, there is a rung of 6 monkey bars to cross to get to a nearby tree. When I was in 3rd grade, I'd swing all day on something like that but at 37 with a lot more weight and much less upper body strength, I was getting really psyched out by the idea of crossing them. Our guide shouted up to me to grab the 3rd rung in and swing my legs to the next platform. That was so simple but I couldn't see it through my anxiety. Interesting how the mind does that.
This challenge was the hardest for me to navigate. Zapped a lot of strength.
The zip lines are basically where you take a break from the hard stuff and trust your equipment. They got longer and higher as the course progressed. Those initial few were quite a challenge for me because it's not like you are sitting in a sling. There is a "pulley" that is thethered to your harness and you clip that on to the line as well as your safety clips. But that's it--your butt is just hanging out there and you have to sit back, extending your legs and arms as you rocket into a cushion attached to the tree.
I know this sounds ridiculous but when I got scared or doubtful, I just remembered that I'd given birth to another human being so this obstacle course was a cake walk comparatively. I definitely felt braver once I internalized that. (Not that everyone has to have a baby to know what they're capable of but it really helped me.)
We successfully navigated the entire course.
After returning to the hotel and getting cleaned up, we wandered out to the harbour where on a barge was a stunt bike exhibition. While rave-like music blared from the stage, riders jumped and flipped through the air. We were dressed up for dinner and didn't quite fit in with the crowd filled with grungy, overtly tattooed 20-somethings with a thirst for Molson Beer.
We concluded our night with a quiet celebratory dinner at a quaint Italian restaurant called Cafe Brio. It was cool because they did half orders of the entrees so you could try more than one thing. Stay away from the duck, too dry and salty, but the Beef Pasta dish was sublime.
Our trip to Victoria was wonderful in every way. Ken will tell you it was too cold but I would say the 60 degree temperature was just right and no precipitation--so perfect. Canadians are super nice and I love the way they say "sorry" with the long 'o'. On the Victoria Clipper ride back, we sat next to some retired vacationing Australians who hit it off with Ken and chatted about Australia and computers. Other than being completely exhausted, I was mentally refreshed and can't wait for our next adults-only trip.
MyPublisher.com Woes
While self-publishing & photo book creation has come a long way with the advent of the Internet, sometimes things go astray. Technology can be vexing and even more so when the humans behind it act as cold and heartless as their software. Here is a heartbreaking tale of such a scenario about MyPublisher.com from my friend Sarah.
Hi Kali,
Do you have the ability to post a review far and wide somehow? I just had the most horrendous experience with one of the companies that was highly reviewed in the online posting you sent. (Which was a great article!) I have no idea how to "get the word" out about this online, but if there is a good way that doesn't take too much time, please let me know.
After sinking HOURS and HOURS of time into Mika's Father's Day project, the software hit a glitch and erased everything I had been saving along the way. I just spent the last ten minutes crying my eyes out like a little girl since time is something I haven't had a lot of recently, and so to lose something that will take me months to build again is just devastating.
Here's what I just wrote about it to the guy who posted the review you sent me.
I really appreciated the detailed and thoughtfully written review of photo books. Thanks! Based on your article, I selected MyPublisher for a large project I am working on. Near the end of the project after I had invested MANY long hours, the program froze momentarily. Then, 99% of all my work disappeared. It didn't quit. I didn't get error messages. I contacted MyPublisher immediately (spoke with supervisor Scott) and was told that "it sometimes does that" on computers with less than 2GB of RAM.
I use many page layout and audio sound editing programs on this computer without problems. No where on the website was it made clear of the system requirements for MyPublisher before I got started. There was no way to recover all I had lost. In addition, MyPublisher was unwilling to work with me in any way to make things right. They did offer to "extend a coupon" for a discount I would have already been receiving had their program not crashed, but they wouldn't do anything beyond that. It's the same discount anyone can get - and I would have, too, if their program hadn't lost everything on my computer today - so I didn't feel it was appropriate level of "we're sorry" for the massive amounts of time, heartache, and missed deadlines their software has caused me.
I was hoping they would print my project - a single book - free of charge. No deal. After that, I asked that they disclose the 2 GB issue more prominently on their web page to save other people this outcome. They did not offer a comment or agree to do so to. I am extremely disappointed by this company. I would love it if you could post my experience as a follow up on your blog so that other people might use my experience as an additional tool for evaluating if MyPublisher is really the right choice for them. Thanks so much for considering.
Labels: Frauds and Scams
Victoria BC Trip aka “48 hour abdication of all parental responsibilities,” Day 1
I’ll be honest, I was little nervous about my first overnight trip away from Sidney but it all soon evaporated when we left the house in the wee hours Friday morning to catch our boat. Mother and Cindy were kind enough to come up from Portland and stay with Sidney for the weekend. It was in honor of our 6th wedding anniversary that we officially celebrate later this month. I “Grouponed” out and found deals on the Victoria Clipper and the amazing Marriott Victoria Inner Harbour which is right behind the famed Empress Hotel.
During the three hour mostly-smooth Clipper boat ride, we saw a Humpback Whale breach--that’s when I knew this would be no ordinary vacation. With the freedom of movement and the ability to do anything we wanted, this trip suddenly became the gateway to a magical world called Canada. The weather in Victoria is basically just like Seattle and luckily it was partly sunny and in the 50/60’s which as far as I’m concerned is perfect. Ken definitely wishes it was hotter and definitely wishes he brought a better coat.
If I may make a sweeping generalization, Canadians have to be the nicest people in the Northern Hemisphere if not the world. There are so many positive interactions we have had, they even drive “nice.” But we are on Vancouver Island in Victoria so maybe it’s particular to this specific area but I get the feeling Canadians are pretty chill and why wouldn’t they be? They all have healthcare. Anyway, our room which was a “Groupon coup d'état” scored us a killer deal on a high floor room which overlooks the harbor and access to the coveted concierge lounge (free food). Since Sidney, extravagance has been kept to a minimum so this is a big deal.
We found out there was going to be the first ever Freeride Mountain Bikers Jumping Event this weekend and watched ramps constructed as we ate some delicious fish and chips for lunch at the Flying Otter on the Wharf. “Flying otter” is what they call seaplanes.
We decided that we needed to go see the Butchart Gardens right then and wanted to have the most flexibility with the least cost. Public transit would take almost 2 hours each way--nope, chartered motor coach had such limited hours of service--nope, renting a car was too easy--eye roll. I know! Let’s rent a motorcycle, no even better, a motor SCOOTER because (as in holding with one of the core tenants of our trip) it’s more economical. (Fun fact: Motor scooters with 2 people on them hit a top speed of about 40 mph so don’t get on a highway/freeway with them.)
We “Roman Holiday-ed” up to the Garden and took a picturesque but in hindsight ridiculous tootle along windy roads and much faster traffic. The gate staff at the Gardens kindly held their giggles to a minimum when we pulled up to the park entrance to pay. And then the scooter wouldn't start for a bit so we were almost freaking out that we’d have to call the scooter rental place to come pick us up--but alas it started up again.
A bit windblown and saddle sore, we strolled through the magnificent gardens. And this comes from a person who doesn’t much care about gardening or yards or flowers. This place is absolutely breathtaking. According to one of the onsite staff, 50-75 full time gardeners are constantly working year-round. It’s varying terrain and garden types are surprising and magical.
They even have a replica of Porcellino the bronze Florentine boar whose nose you rub for good luck. Ken and I did this in Florence in 2004 when we visited and evidently the Butchart family had a replica made and installed in their garden. Many of the flowers were in bloom so it was very colorful. Unfortunately none of the roses were out---I guess that’s not until July. But they have a rose garden that would teach Portland (the Rose City) a few tricks. You can just tell that in full bloom that place must be stunning and so fragrant.
Reluctantly we got back on our scooter and braced ourselves for the many hills awaiting us. For good measure we leaned forward when cresting. The Marriott staff kept their giggles to a minimum as well as we arrived back and parked the scooter overnight in the garage. About that time, Game 5 for the Stanley Cup had started between the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins. It’s a best of 7 series and they were tied 2-2. This game was being played in Vancouver. All day we had seen people (including statues) wearing green, blue and white colored hockey jerseys (the same color palette as the Seahawks btw). And you could tell people were psyched up. But we caught the last half of the game and then went out to see how the Canadians celebrate winning a hockey game. Crazy times!
The next and possibly last game of the series if the Canucks win will be in Boston Monday. We later asked a waitperson about what it was like when the Canadians played the Americans for Olympic gold. It was crazy he said, people filled the downtown streets in Victoria. But then he said, “But the Stanley Cup win is more important.” #Canadian Culture Lesson
With a hopping nightlife and celebratory crowd mingling around the harbour and streets around the Empress Hotel, we took it all in until it became a bit crisp and I wanted to get a little bit more to eat. Even though I had to wait 45 minutes for it due to a kitchen error, I had the best gourmet clam chowder I’ve ever eaten in the lounge at the Marriott Victoria. Smoked paprika, yukon potatoes, cream, ham and clams. Unbelievable.
Bliss: getting the evening report on Sidney & not having to pick up toys for once.
Evening in Victoria Harbour
So if you think this day was full of fun, wait until you hear about Day 2.
Immunize
The other day, as I perused the Seattle Times Online, I came across a starling story about how Washington State has the HIGHEST number of vaccine exceptions for children in the nation. So 6% of the kindergardeners in this state do not have some or all of their immunizations. Lovely.
I will admit when we were first pregnant with Sidney, I heard about the so-called link between autism and immunization. I had friends who swore that immunization was highly dangerous and I listened to them because as a soon to be parent, you obviously want to make all the right decisions. I started to think we should consider an alternative immunization schedule. Not to completely give up on vaccines but to space them out. Then I read "Baby 411" written by a doctor, started looking at the CDC website and remembered that I believe in science.
Third world countries are falling all over themselves to get vaccinations for deadly & disfiguring diseases that still exist in the world. Because the US has nearly eradicated some of these from our daily lives, within a generation or two, we've become forgetful, stupid or both. The immunity to small pox, chicken pox, measles, mumps, polio, etcetera doesn't continue unless you get the shots. So when parents who have issues with the vaccines withhold them from their own kids and then put my child, myself and my community in danger of contracting one of these diseases--well that is just selfish and stupid. The concept of herd immunity only works if everyone does it. From my understanding, the vaccines themselves create a barrier to the disease but it's really the combined barrier of the complete group that keeps a disease from getting a foothold and spreading. This is especially true for the very young who can't get immunizations until certain ages. For instance the MMR shot is not given until 1 year of age. Until then, they are dependent on all around them to be healthy.
I just can't understand how we got here: turning down such a life-saving breakthrough of science like we're turning down an appetizer at a dinner party. These should not be optional. And if it's really that much of a problem for someone, perhaps they should go live in the woods, home-school their child and never expect to come into contact with any other human being.
Labels: Sidney
Gifts of uh...Love?
I just picked up Tina Fey's book Bossypants with the unsettling cover of her head Photoshopped on a large man's upper torso. Once you get past that the contents are quite funny and heartwarming, as you would expect from her. I'm really looking forward to her comments and observations about motherhood. But I'm not that far in, maybe on the 3rd or 4th chapter. At this point, she talks about her eleventh grade boyfriend who gave her a box of microwave popcorn and a used battery tester for her 17th birthday. She added, "Like you give someone when you're in love." It also sounded like he broke up with her soon after.
That story totally hearkened me back to my late 20's when I received a similarly vexing but ominous gift from a boyfriend. To set the stage, Joe (not his real name) and I had just gone for a long weekend to Boston to visit his family after dating for a few months. He sort of sprung the trip on me since a gloomy cloud of "this will likely not work out" settled over our relationship. But I was encouraged by this gesture and found his initiative romantic so I set that feeling aside. We traveled in early December and it was a nice trip so when we got back I bought him a number of Christmas gifts like a sweater and other cliche' relationship-y bobbles. The week before Christmas he came over and I presented him with the wrapped and bowed boxes and he stared at them dumbly.
"I didn't get you anything," he said.
"Oh, that's okay," I said. "I know you're busy."
I was really confused because hadn't I just been visiting his parents and sister on the other side of the country two weeks ago? (Oh and I had paid for my own plane ticket so that couldn't have been considered a gift.) But I tried to shake it off and have fun that night anyway. I left the next day to go down to Vancouver alone for an extended vacation with my family.
When I returned, there was a medium sized Amazon.com box waiting for me. I tore it open with desperation and hope that it might be from him. Maybe he needed some time or space to come around and get into the spirit of the holiday. Not that I needed expensive or fancy stuff but some THING (a card even) to show he cared. Inside, I found an invoice stating his address in the billing box (which was the only indication of where this had come from) and a fully stocked toolbox & socket set. Wow, definitely practical. Too bad I already had a fully stocked toolbox and he knew it too because he fixed the sink a few months ago. The date of purchase was 12/26 and it had been one of these "gold box deals" that Amazon used to do where they'd deeply discount one item for a whole day. I must say, he got it at a good deal on it--so kudos to him.
As I tried to feign some semblance of appreciation, my ridiculous female mind desperately clutched onto the quickly disappearing tendrils of hope that this relationship would last much longer. What kind of a jackass gives you a toolbox for Christmas? Especially one you don't need.
At least someone benefited from Joe's cringe-worthy attempt at lame reciprocation: for a New Years present I gave my brother a brand new toolbox and socket set.
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Following is a sample of what might be said in general terms about shows in a given decade: The decade of the *1990s* was a decade of consolidation, change, and high quality shows. The Phoenix Theatre in Burwood was the main venue, with some interesting programming included in this decade with The Beauty Stone and The Emerald Isle and The Rose of Persia.
Link to Archive
1991(1) Cox and Box 19, 20, 26, 27 April Phoenix Theatre, Burwood Peter Hirst Peter Leech Link to Archive
1991(1) HMS Pinafore 19, 20, 26, 27 April Phoenix Theatre, Burwood Peter Hirst Peter Leech Link to Archive
1991(2) The Sorcerer 28, 29 June, 4, 5, 6 July Phoenix Theatre, Burwood Robin Halls Philip Smart Link to Archive
1991(2) The Zoo 28, 29 June, 4, 5, 6 July Phoenix Theatre, Burwood Diana Hatch Philip Smart Link to Archive
1991(3) Ivanhoe 8, 9, 14, 15, 16 November Union Theatre, University of Melbourne Richard Burman Peter Leech Link to Archive
1992(1) The Mikado 27, 28 March 2, 3, 4 April Phoenix Theatre, Burwood Diana Hatch Trevor Henley Link to Archive
1992(2) Ruddigore 26, 27 June 2, 3, 4 July Phoenix Theatre, Burwood Robin Halls Greg Hannan Link to Archive
1992(3) The Yeomen of the Guard 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 November The Union Theatre, Melbourne University Richard Burman, Diana Hatch Michael Loughlin Link to Archive
1993(1) The Gondoliers 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 March Phoenix Theatre, Burwood Diana Hatch Trevor Henley Link to Archive
1993(2) Patience 25, 26 June 1, 2, 3 July Phoenix Theatre, Burwood Rosemary Chapple Nick Bailey Link to Archive
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Each decade summary will include an introduction to the decade by someone who has an interest in or knowledge of the work of the Society in that decade. Those currently available are samples produced by the Administrator and are not necessarily a true reflection of the Society's work in that decade. This is a work-in-progress.
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Coming from across the waters, Model Aeroplanes will be bringing their alternative rock sound to the stages of Toronto. We had a quick chat with them about their upcoming show at Canadian Music Week.
Model Aeroplanes: Canada seems to have a really cool scene of new bands and artists giving a different spin to new music. Homegrown talent seems really important. It comes across quite original and organic. Hopefully our music comes across quite well because of this! Really, we just try and forget that Nickleback exist.
Model Aeroplanes: We're still wondering that ourselves! We couldn't believe it when the offer came in, we've always wanted to come to Canada and it's only the second time we've left the UK as a band so it's all still really new and exciting to us.
Model Aeroplanes: We have the idea to absail down the side of the CN Tower performing our new single, 'Something Like Heaven'. Either that or move the CN Tower into the venue and have a huge, damage light show. We're yet to pitch this to our team but hoping it'll be banging!
Model Aeroplanes: We just hope that everyone's into the music and we're really hoping it's the first of many trips to Canada. If one person enjoys our shows, it's a worthwhile trip. Hoping just to come across with some good vibes!
Model Aeroplanes: Loads! We're kicking about the UK some more before coming to visit Canada. We're currently working on another release and cannot wait to share it all with you. We're heading out on a few tours and will be visiting a load of festivals!
In the meantime, check us out on the links below to keep up with our antics.
www.facebook.com/modelaeroplanes
www.twitter.com/modelaeroplanes
www.soundcloud.com/modelaeroplanes
Instagram - modelaeroplanes
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCERXyFbi9sUM6D-dxcsGClA
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/6pRhh4bqV7XtCWbNAONmay
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Review: Savage RIFTS SWADE Updates
Posted October 9, 2019 Scott Marchand Davis
The finalized versions of the new Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (SWADE)-compatible Savage RIFTS books just dropped, so I thought I’d give my impressions. The current Savage RIFTS campaign running on the Happy MonsterCast started with homebrew adaptations, but as soon as the playtest documents dropped, I started using those.
Updates to Existing Material
Of course, many changes to the existing books are designed to align with SWADE. While the Adventure edition didn’t make major changes to Savage Worlds mechanics, it made a LOT of minor ones. For example, Charisma was eliminated, Streetwise was changed from a skill to an Edge, and the quickness and speed powers were combined. More significant changes like power modifiers also needed inclusion. The result was a lot of minor changes to the existing content in the RIFTS books. In the Tomorrow Legion Player’s Guide, Cyber Knights, who formerly had a Charisma bonus, now has a +1 to social checks and Reactions start 1 level higher than normal. Quickness is no longer on the powers list for any framework, obviously, and the MARS City Rat now has the new Streetwise Edge.
The updates to the existing RIFTS books aren’t limited to SWADE compatibility. Rather than specific gear for each Framework, there’s a standard set of starting gear with substitutions to fit specific Frameworks (like adding a Wilk’s Laser Torch and Field Repair Kit for the MARS Operator). Other small changes are littered throughout the books. One notable change is that the Glitter Boy Boom Gun is no longer an area effect weapons. The MBT characteristic was removed – but the damage dealt by this fearsome weapon also increased, and it has the same Innocent Bystanders risk as a shotgun. It’s not completely clear, but it seems like Pinnacle put in a number of changes to promote play balance and likely included feedback from playtesters not limited to the SWADE changes.
Kickstarter backers for the SWADE edition also received four new books: Blood and Banes, Arcana and Mysticism, Empires of Humanity, and the Tomorrow Legion Field Manual. Arcana and Mysticism provides more detail about the mystics of the New West (including Native American nations), the Federation of Magic, the legendary city of Psyscape, and the dragon-dominated city of Lazlo, the Legion’s strongest ally. Traditional fantasy races like Dwarves and Elves are re-statted for RIFTS, and new races like the truly weird Cactus People and Psi-Ghosts are added. Arcana and Mysticism also adds four new Iconic Frameworks (Dragon Juicer, Elemental Fusionist, Nega-Psychic, and Zapper) as well as 9 new MARS options like the Psi-Slinger, master of psionic gunplay. For each major area, the book includes a short adventure as well as recommendations for encounters when traveling in the region. A mini-Plot Point Campaign is also provided with five adventures themed around Psyscape and their struggle against a mysterious entity from another dimension.
Blood and Banes dives deep into three of the biggest threats to RIFTS North America – the Vampire Kingdoms of Mexico, the alien hive warriors of the Xiticix, and the Calgary Monster Kingdom. The mutant lands of Madhaven (formerly Manhattan) and the Dinosaur Swamp of the Southeast are also covered. (Disney fans will recognize the mysterious Jungle Castle in former Florida!) Like Arcana and Mysticism, each area has an adventure and a mini campaign is included. New Iconic Frameworks include the noble Knights of the White Rose, Necromancers (good for villains or dark heroes), Shifters, Heroic Vampires, and Werecats. Four new MARS options are also included, as well as the Centaur and Sasquatch races. Because who doesn’t want to play a Bigfoot pyrokinetic?
Empires of Humanity goes deep into the Coalition States and their allies, as well as the human denizens of the New West. Much of this material was missing from the earlier Coalition Field Manual, and is a welcome addition for campaigns venturing into the repressive dictatorship. Empires of Humanity also discusses how to run a Coalition-centric campaign as an alternative to the normal Tomorrow Legion setting. As is appropriate for the gearhead Coalition, this book has the largest section of new gear, but it also includes MARS options for Coalition soldiers and Western cowboys, and two new Iconic Frameworks – the Intelligent Construct and the demon-hunting Momano Headhunters. Mutant Animals and Psi-X Aliens (think Close Encounters) are also included as new races.
The last book, the Tomorrow Legion Field Manual, is more of a resource book. It provides new options for both players and GMs. Four new variant dragon hatchling breeds, new Edges, new MARS options, and more gear choices are there for the players, while the GM gets new rules for journeys and barter, as well as some additional bestiary entries. Last but not least, stand-alone adventures released under the previous edition like Murderthon or A Fine Solution are updated for SWADE.
Overall Reaction
Clearly a lot of work went into this conversion; the layout and art are beautiful, and there’s a ton of new content. I can’t speak to the faithfulness to Palladium RIFTS lore, but the SWADE team are clearly making an attempt to include as much as possible. The transition for my Savage RIFTS game has been fairly seamless; I’ve already been able to incorporate material from Arcana and Mystricism, and Empires of Humanity is next on the docket.
My only negative is that Edges are spread through several books now, which makes it that much harder to weigh options for character creation and advancement. I’d love to see a consolidated Edges document to make it easier on both player and GM.
If you like over-the-top gameplay in a world where anything from giant mechs to balrogs goes, Savage RIFTS is a must-buy.
⟵Happy MonsterCast Episode 13: Zel
The Legion of Liberty is on the March!⟶
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Frank Lampard photoshopped into New York park ad
By wpadmin | September 8, 2018
Ex-England star Frank Lampard has been superimposed onto a promotional image for a new state park in New York, sparking ridicule on social media.
New York governor Andrew Cuomo released pictures imagining what the Shirley Chisholm State Park will look like when it is complete.
One image shows Lampard, 40, taking a jog on a waterfront bridge in his old football training kit for New York City FC.
The original photo of the Derby County manager was taken in 2015 when he was on a jog in Central Park with a personal trainer during his spell playing in the city.
Image: Frank Lampard now manages Derby County
The image has also been flipped, resulting in the New York City FC crest appearing on the wrong side of the shirt.
It didn’t take very long for social media users to catch on, with many mocking the heavily-edited photos combining real people with generated backdrops.
One Twitter user wrote: “There’s some pretty epic Photoshop skills on show here. See-through people!”
Others were confused over why Lampard was chosen to promote the park.
Feroze Ali said: “As if they photoshopped Lampard in the 3rd pic to promote a park!?”
Another said: “I don’t quite understand why Frank Lampard is in the photo, nor do I know why there are transparent people on that beach”.
Sky News has contacted Mr Cuomo’s office for comment.
Lampard made 429 Premier League appearances during a 13-year spell at Chelsea, before moving on to Manchester City and then New York City FC.
He was the first New York City player to score a hat-trick as he struck three times against the Colorado Rapids in July 2016.
Lampard announced his retirement from playing last year, and has since become the manager of Championship club Derby County.
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The Best and Worst Gluten Free Beef Jerky
Most of us know jerky as a gas station junk food loaded with tons of sodium, nitrites, MSG and ingredients that look like they’d be found in a chemistry lab. Besides having many of the horrible ingredients, wheat being just one of them, please look into the other ingredients you want to avoid.
BY OLIVIA TARANTINO [eatthis.com ]
But there’s no reason jerky should only be a gas station snack. When you need metabolism-revving, hunger-satisfying protein after a workout—or just a healthy snack on the road—beef jerky is a great go-to. The drying process is beneficial in two ways: it requires getting rid of excess fat (as it could go bad without refrigeration) so you’re left with a low-fat product, and the water lost concentrates the protein in the meat to nearly double its amount in the same portion of uncured meat. As the all-natural, grass-fed beef trend converges with the emerging artisanal product market, athletes, and health-conscious snackers are turning to jerky as a satiating alternative to munchies like chips or bars without being restricted to additive-laden gas station products.
To separate themselves from the jerkies of the past, many brands claim they don’t contain added nitrites or MSG, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the jerky is nitrite- or MSG-free.
Cured meats contain sodium nitrates and nitrites to make the meat look appealing, preserve it, and keep it free of harmful bacteria. Natural sources like celery powder can also be used and still allow a product to claim “All Natural” as well as “No Nitrites Added.” Lisa Moskovitz, RD, CDN, explains, “Whether it’s the synthetic version or from celery powder, it’s basically the same thing.” She also explained there’s still no verdict on whether nitrites are harmful or safe. In this case, we prefer the undebated alternative: instead of chemical or naturally-occurring nitrites, jerky can simply be cured with just salt and vinegar.
The issue with MSG, or monosodium glutamate, is a bit different. Because glutamate is an amino acid, it is found naturally in many foods—cured meats, tomatoes, or fermented foods—and it is what contributes that “umami” or “savory” taste. When a bag says, “No MSG added,” it means there’s no monosodium glutamate, but there can still be ingredients that contain glutamate—hydrolyzed vegetable protein, autolyzed yeast, and soy sauce—and will have the same effects as MSG. What are those effects exactly? According to a study published in BMC Neuroscience, glutamate activates taste bud cells that release the “happy” hormone serotonin, so when you eat MSG or any glutamate-containing food, that feel-good feeling increases your desire to continue eating. When food scientists add it to your chicken nuggets or Doritos, they’re hacking MSG’s brain-signalling properties that would typically tell your body you’re eating a healthy protein. Instead, you’re eating highly-processed junk.
If the naturally-glutamate-rich food is a high-protein, nutritionally-sound piece of jerky, the effects aren’t as disastrous. However, the adage still stands: too much of anything is a bad thing. Moskovitz reiterates, “While a food product labeled MSG-free may still contain free glutamate, as long as you’re eating it in small portions it should not pose any harm.”
HOW WE RANKED IT: When we looked at nutritionals, to earn a spot on the best list we wanted to see jerky lower than or equal to 400 mg of sodium and 5 grams of sugar. Because all jerky is typically rich in protein, protein levels were not as much of a deciding factor (unless it otherwise came to a tie) as the source of that protein: the beef. Jerkies were awarded points for using grass-fed, organic, and hormone-free varieties because they have five times as much heart-healthy omega-3s and twice as much anti-inflammatory conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) than grain-fed beef.
Jerkies with nitrites either from celery or chemicals were given deductions, as was the case with MSG. While the glutamate in monosodium glutamate might be indistinguishable from that in soy sauce, we preferred seeing jerky flavored with naturally-occuring glutamate as well as spices like metabolism-boostingcayenne pepper rather than just MSG.
FIRST…THE WORST for your gluten free beef jerky.
Three Jerks Jerky Filet Mignon Beef Jerky, Original
Nutrition: 100 calories, 3 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 370 mg sodium, 6 g carbs, 0 g fiber, 6 g sugar, 12 g protein
Ingredients: filet mignon, tamari soy sauce (water, soybeans, salt, alcohol, rice vinegar, lactic acid), worcestershire sauce (distilled white vinegar, molasses, cane sugar, water, salt, onions, anchovies, garlic, cloves, tamarind extract, natural flavorings, chili pepper extract), evaporated cane sugar, natural hickory smoke flavor, garlic powder, onion powder, spices, cayenne pepper
You no longer have to go to a five-star restaurant to get your filet mignon fix. Just pick up a bag of Three Jerks Jerky! This artisanal jerky is made without artificial ingredients and boasts one of the highest amounts of protein. The only issue is that it’s a little high in the sugar department, which is why we had to knock it back compared to its low-sugar peers. We’re also moderately skeptical of their use of “natural flavorings” and “spices,” which can be used to cover up the use of MSG.
Chef’s Cut Real Steak Jerky, Original Recipe
Nutrition: 100 calories, 2.5 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 390 mg sodium, 6 g carbs, 0 g fiber, 6 g sugar, 12 g protein
Ingredients: beef, soy sauce (water, vinegar, salt, hydrolyzed corn and soy protein, caramel color, lactic acid), sugar, worcestershire sauce (distilled white vinegar, molasses, sugar, water, salt, onions, anchovies, garlic, cloves, tamarind extract, natural flavorings, chili pepper extract), horseradish (horseradish roots, vinegar, salt and mustard oil), liquid smoke (water, natural hickory smoke flavor, vinegar, molasses, caramel color and salt), celery powder, sea salt, black pepper, red pepper
Yes, this jerky is high in protein and low in fat, but we’re calling Chef’s Cut’s bluff when they claim they use “only the finest real ingredients – just like you would find at your favorite steak house.” We’re not sure you’d find hydrolyzed corn and soy protein (MSG) or caramel color—which can carry a possible carcinogen, 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI), that forms during the manufacturing of some kinds of caramel color—at your steak house or your kitchen. And if you’re steering clear of nitrites, heads up. This jerky contains nitrite-containing celery powder.
Oberto Original Beef Jerky
Nutrition: 80 calories, 1 g fat (0.5 g saturated fat), 410 mg sodium, 6 g carbs, 0 g fiber, 5 g sugar, 13 g protein
Ingredients: beef, sugar, water, salt beef stock, spices and natural flavorings, natural smoke flavor, vinegar
It’s a fairly simple ingredient list for one of the largest name brand jerkies, but we’re not completely sold. “No MSG” only means they didn’t add monosodium glutamate, but it’s been known to hide in “spices,” “natural flavoring,” and even “natural smoke flavor.” Besides their sneakiness, we could really only ding them for their high sodium levels and obscure source of “beef.” Other than that, Oberto jerky has the second highest amount of protein of the bunch.
Krave Original Sea Salt
Nutrition: 100 calories, 1.5 g fat (0.5 g saturated fat), 340 mg sodium, 11 g carbs, 0 g fiber, 10 g sugar, 9 g protein
Ingredients: Beef, Cane Sugar, Gluten Free Soy Sauce (Water, Soybeans, Salt, Alcohol), Honey, Contains 2% or Less of the Following: Sea Salt, Granulated Garlic, Onion Powder, Paprika, Spices.
Yes, Krave’s jerky is made with an impressive list of all-natural, minimally-processed ingredients, but this tiny one-ounce serving has a whopping 10 grams of sugar in it. A third of every gram of jerky is sugar. For comparison, a fifth of each gram of a glazed Krispy Kreme donut is sugar.
AND THE #1 WORST GLUTEN FREE BEEF JERKY IS…
Matador Original Beef Jerky
Nutrition: 80 calories, 1.5 g fat (0.5 g saturated fat), 670 mg sodium, 6 g carbs, 0 g fiber, 5 g sugar, 11 g protein
Ingredients: beef, sugar, salt, brown sugar, flavorings, natural smoke flavor (natural smoke flavor, maltodextrin), monosodium glutamate, water, citric acid, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite
This Matador certainly raises some red flags (pun intended). For starters, it has upwards of 700 milligrams of blood-pressure-raising sodium, which is more than four times what you’d find in the same serving of chips. It’s also one of the only brands that uses MSG and not much else to flavor it besides smoke flavoring and sugar. And finally, this is the only jerky that contains purified nitrites. Under conditions of high heat or stomach acid, sodium nitrite reacts with amines to form cancer-causing chemicals called nitrosamines. Luckily, this reaction can be hindered by the addition of citric acid, which Matador includes in its recipe. Also, because jerky isn’t cooked like nitrite-containing bacon and hot dogs are, the risk of forming these carcinogens is lower.
AND NOW… THE BEST GLUTEN FREE BEEF AND POULTRY JERKY
Country Archer All Natural Beef Jerky Original
Nutrition: 70 calories, 1 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 280 mg sodium, 4 g carbs, 0 g fiber, 4 g sugar, 7 g protein
Ingredients: Grass Fed Beef, Gluten Free Tamari Soy Sauce (Water, Soybeans, Salt, May also contain Alcohol and Sugar), Organic Brown Sugar (Organic Sugar, Organic Molasses), Garlic, Pineapple Juice, Liquid Smoke (Water, Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor), Organic Worcestershire (Water, Organic Vinegar, Organic Gluten Free Tamari [Water, Organic Soybeans, Salt], Organic Evaporated Cane Syrup, Salt, Organic Spices), Black Pepper
We love Country Archer’s commitment to supporting local farms and using local ingredients when they can. It ensures that the jerky is made with fresh ingredients and not health-harming preservatives or artificial additives. It’s low in sugar and sodium, but unfortunately, it’s also low in muscle-building protein.
Nick’s Sticks’ Traditional Beef Jerky
Nutrition: 70 calories, 1.5 g fat (0.5 g saturated fat), 250 mg sodium, 5 g carbs, 0 g fiber, 5 g sugar, 9 g protein
Ingredients: grass-fed and finished beef, soy sauce (water, soybeans, salt, alcohol), brown sugar, lemon juice, black pepper, granulated garlic
Nick’s Sticks, or in this case, Nick’s Jerky is made with a short, simple list of ingredients for a clean, healthy piece of jerky. It might be nearly identical in nutritionals to the jerky above it, but we ranked it higher because Nick uses 100% grass-fed beef and Country Archer only uses extra-lean USDA-inspected beef that typically has saturated fat levels 3-4 times higher than grass-fed beef because of the filling corn feed.
Field Trip All Natural Beef Jerky, Original
Nutrition: 80 calories, 1 g fat (0 g saturated fat), 390 mg sodium, 4 g carbs, 1 g fiber, 3 g sugar, 14 g protein
Ingredients: Top Round Beef, Gluten Free Reduced Sodium Soy Sauce (Water, soybeans, salt, alcohol), Apple Juice, Brown Sugar, Pineapple Juice, Water, Natural Hickory Liquid Smoke, Rice Wine, Black Pepper, Granulated Garlic, Red Wine Vinegar, Ginger, White Pepper, Granulated Onion
Field Trip was founded by three guys who were fed up with the fact that fitness programs claimed beef jerky was a good snack, but the only options were those with processed meats and chemicals. The result is the highest protein beef jerky of the bunch made from top round beef, no preservatives, no artificial ingredients, and no MSG. They even use creative ways to sweeten the meat, like using pineapple juice and apple juice rather than used refined sugars like high fructose corn syrup.
The New Primal Grass-fed Beef Jerky Original
Nutrition: 90 calories, 2.5 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 240 mg sodium, 5 g carbs, 0 g fiber, 3 g sugar, 12 g protein
Ingredients: Grass-Fed and Grass-Finished Beef, Pineapple Juice, Coconut Aminos, Honey, Lemon Juice, Apple Cider Vinegar, Less than 2% of: Smoked Sea Salt, Garlic, Onion, White Pepper, Smoked Paprika, Ginger, Black Pepper
Low in sodium and sugar, and packed with protein, this beef jerky might raise an eyebrow with its high fat levels. Don’t be alarmed. Because The New Primal uses grass-fed beef, that fat is full of healthy omega-3s and CLA. CLA, or conjugated linoleic acid, isn’t as present in grain-fed cattle because the CLA comes directly from the grass. This fatty acid contains a group of chemicals that provide a wide variety of health benefits, including improved blood sugar regulation, maintenance of lean body mass and reduced body fat.
Think Jerky Sweet Chipotle Grass-Fed Beef Jerky
Nutrition: 66 calories, 1.3 g fat (0.3 g saturated fat), 224 mg sodium, 2.6 g carbs, 0 g fiber, 2.6 g sugar, 10.5 g protein
Ingredients: Grass-Fed Beef, Water, Cane Sugar, Raspberry Juice Concentrate (Red Raspberries), Sea Salt, Smoked Chipotle Pepper Powder, Ancho Chili Pepper Powder, Smoked Paprika, Black Pepper, Cayenne Pepper
Joshua Buchbinder, M.S. and Fitness Manager at 24 Hour Fitness Super Sport in Aurora, Colorado says that he enjoys snacking on some beef jerky after a long, high-intensity workout, “The proteinin the jerky aids muscle repair and provides a good deal of salt, an electrolyte lost through sweat that reduces soreness and speeds recovery.” It’s even better when that protein is 100% grass-fed and finished like this Think Jerky is.
AND THE #1 BEST BEEF JERKY IS…
Brooklyn Biltong
Ingredients: Beef and Marinade (Marinade: Apple Cider Vinegar, Water, Sea Salt, Coriander, Black Pepper, and Allspice)
Biltong is a jerky that has a specific recipe: It’s dipped in a vinegar marinade, sprinkled with coriander and other spices, and then air dried for 3-6 days. The process is just as simple as its ingredients, resulting in a piece of beef that’s more tender than jerky and certainly very healthy.
Gluten Free TERIYAKI Beef Jerky
Country Archer Teriyaki Beef Jerky
Ingredients: Grass Fed Beef, Organic Brown Sugar (Organic Sugar, Organic Molasses), Gluten Free Tamari Soy Sauce (Water, Soybeans, Salt, May also contain Alcohol and Sugar), Organic Seasoned Rice Vinegar Dressing (Organic Rice Vinegar, Organic Sugar, Water, Salt), Water, Pineapple Juice, Garlic, Organic Worcestershire (Water, Organic Vinegar, Organic Gluten Free Tamari [Water, Organic Soybeans, Salt], Organic Evaporated Cane Syrup, Salt, Organic Spices), Black Pepper, Ginger
Teriyaki refers to an ancient Japanese method of grilling meat, and usually includes soy sauce, brown sugar, sake, and ginger. It should not include fructose or 5 versions of MSG (hydrolyzed corn protein, monosodium glutamate, modified food starch, “flavorings,” and disodium inosinate) as it does in Matador’s version. For a more traditional taste and less sodium, go with a preservative-free brand like Country Archer, and if you’re in need of a quick fix, gas-station-brand Oberto will fit the bill.
Gluten Free BARBEQUE Beef Jerky
Jack Link’s KC Masterpiece Beef Jerky
Ingredients: beef, water, brown sugar, sugar, less than 2% KC Masterpiece® barbecue sauce [tomato puree (water, tomato paste), high fructose corn syrup, molasses, vinegar, less than 2% spices, natural hickory smoke flavor, natural flavors, modified food starch, salt, xanthan gum, dried onion, dried garlic, caramel color, turmeric, paprika extracts], salt, flavorings, tomato powder, natural hickory smoke flavor, citric acid
If you didn’t already know, barbeque sauce can have a surprising amount of added sugar, as demonstrated by Jack Link’s KC Masterpiece beef jerky. While not unreasonably high, it still has 5 grams more than what you’re getting with Uncle Andy’s BBQ, and those 5 grams contain belly-busting high fructose corn syrup. Uncle Andy’s gives you all the flavors of BBQ without the sugar because they use a Memphis-style blend of natural spices that starts off sweet but finishes with a cayenne kick.
EAT THIS! The New Primal Spicy Beef Jerky
Ingredients: Grass-Fed and Grass-Finished Beef, Pineapple Juice, Coconut Aminos, Honey, Lemon Juice, Apple Cider Vinegar, Jalapeno Peppers, Cayenne, Smoked Sea Salt, Garlic, Onion, White Pepper, Smoked Paprika, Ginger, Black Pepper
NOT THAT! Krave Sweet Chipotle Beef Jerky
Nutrition: 90 calories, 1.5 g fat (0 g saturated fat), 350 mg sodium, 12 g carbs, 0 g fiber, 11 g sugar, 8 g protein
Ingredients: Beef, Cane Sugar, Gluten Free Soy Sauce (Water, Soybeans, Salt, Alcohol), Honey. Contains 2% or Less of the Following: Garlic Powder, Paprika, Chipotle, Spices (including Celery Seed), White Vinegar, Citric Acid
You’d think that spicy jerky would be all heat, right? Wrong. When it comes to Krave’s sweet chipotle beef jerky, the emphasis is certainly on the “sweet.” This meat has some of the highest levels of sugar in all jerky products. It’s as if you’re eating two milano cookies, some of the Worst Cookies in America. When you want to go spicy, go all the way with The New Primal’s jerky. It’s gluten-free, uses omega-3-rich grass-fed beef, and is teeming with metabolism-boosting spices like paprika, cayenne, and jalapeno peppers.
Gluten Free POULTRY Jerky [Chicken, turkey and the like]
Epic Currant & Sesame BBQ Chicken
Nutrition: 90 calories, 2.5 g fat (0.5 g saturated fat), 290 mg sodium, 8 g carbs, <1 g fiber, 6 g sugar, 9 g protein
Ingredients: natural chicken, organic currants, sea salt, garlic, onion, sesame seeds, sesame oil, ginger, black pepper, red pepper flakes, red pepper
Lorissa’s Kitchen Ginger Teriyaki Chicken
Ingredients: chicken breast, brown sugar, cane sugar, tamari soy sauce (water, soybeans, salt, sugar), chicken broth, water, less than 2%: salted sake (water, rice, salt), sesame seeds, sea salt, ginger, garlic powder, natural flavor, pineapple juice
Krave Lemon Garlic Turkey Jerky
Nutrition: 90 calories, 0.5 g fat (0 g saturated fat), 350 mg sodium, 10 g carbs, 0 g fiber, 10 g sugar, 10 g protein
Ingredients: Turkey Breast, Cane Sugar, Gluten Free Soy Sauce (Water, Soybeans, Salt, Alcohol). Contains 2% or Less of the Following: Lemon Juice, Granulated Garlic, Spice.
Most poultry jerkies are even lower in fat than beef or pork because of their naturally low levels of fat, making them a great option if you’re steering clear of fat. Although every one of these brands is using all natural, simple ingredients, you can’t overlook the sugar levels of Krave’s Turkey Jerky. When picking poultry, go for the bloat-banishing bites from Lorissa’s Kitchen, the Ginger Teriyaki Chicken, or the sweet and spicy barbeque pieces from Epic, the Currant & Sesame BBQ Chicken Jerky.
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Robin Thicke is a Big D— … and Other Horror Stories From This Week's Tabloids
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by Molly Lambert
Robin Thicke Cheats on Paula Patton: Despite his constant boasts about his marriage to high school sweetheart Patton, Thicke is a dog. After a photo taken at NYC club 1 Oak went viral that shows Thicke palming a mystery blonde’s ass, the blonde has come forward. Her name is Lana Scolaro, and she says that Robin “whispered dirty things, like, ‘You don’t understand what I’m going to do to you.'” That sounds very American Psycho of you, Robin Thicke. “He’s a player. That’s for sure.” Well then why bother being married, ya dumbass? “Lana, 20, reveals that after Robin’s security guard snapped the telling photo, the ‘Blurred Lines’ singer whisked her away to a private afterparty at his suite at the Greenwich Hotel, where he kissed and groped her until she left at 8 a.m. even though his wife, actress Paula Patton, was there the whole time!” Maybe it’s an open marriage? “We hooked up,” says Lana. “Things got a bit out of control.” #blurredlines! “I came out and Robin was standing there. He turned out the lights so no one could see us and started making out with me. He was grabbing me and putting his hand on my bum. I kind of pushed him away, even though obviously I was like, ‘Wow, I’m hooking up with Robin Thicke!'” I KNOW YOU WANT IT. “They could have been caught at any moment.” Lana goes on, “We were against the wall in the hallway. It was so risky. I was like, ‘Whoa, you have a wife! What are you doing?'” Robin told her to relax. “He said he and his wife are very chill. He was like, ‘Be nice to her, she’ll love you. But just make sure you’re nice to her, because things could get ugly.'” Patton’s rep denied any of this went down. Lana “can’t get over how open Robin, 36, was about it all. And how oblivious — or accepting — Paula seemed.” She spills, “I’m still shocked about the whole thing.” Robin and Paula have a 3-year-old son, Julian, together. And apparently a very laissez-faire attitude about monogamy! What rhymes with polyamory?
Snooki: “I’m a closet nerd. I love anything sci-fi related and I’m obsessed with learning about astronomy.”
Liam Payne Tells Taylor Swift to Move on From Harry Styles: “Hashtag get over it.” NEVER!
David Schwimmer’s Town House Vandalized: Rapscallions painted “ROSS IS NOT COOL” on the property that Schwimmer demolished and rebuilt, overriding preservationists who wanted to protect the “irreplaceable historical building.” Another tag read “Fuck you and your ugliness.” Hahahaha ROSS IS NOT COOL.
Blake Shelton: “Got stung in the hand by a wasp yesterday. My hand is swollen 2x too big. Been trying to get stung in the dick for the last 11 hours.”
Liam Hemsworth to Dump Miley Cyrus?: “There it was again: Miley Cyrus’ backside on display for the whole world to see.” AND SO WHAT? “Miley is not the same person Liam first met when they shot The Last Song in 2009. Now she’s wild to the extreme.” AND … SO … WHAT? “No one is more disappointed — or disgusted — than Miley’s fiance Liam Hemsworth. After a year of her increasingly desperate grabs for attention, the Aussie movie star, 23, has had enough. He’s mortified by her raunchy, classless VMA performance.” PSHHHHH. “She may have finally gone too far.” After the VMAs “They had a fight about her performance. He’s now giving her the silent treatment.” A source says, “I remember when they first began dating, and he was obsessed with her. He would literally stare at her like he was a little boy, so in love. I honestly don’t recall the last time I saw him look at her that way.” PSHHH. “He’s very unhappy. They’re not in a good place. She’s desperately trying to get his attention, but in the wrong way. If she keeps it up, they’ll be over for good.” PSHH!
Gwen Stefani Is Pregnant at 43: “She’s in the early stages, and she’s having a hard time with morning sickness. But she and Gavin Rossdale couldn’t be happier.”
Misc/Etc: “He said it was regarding my audition and asked me very private questions [about my sexual history]” “We didn’t have a shot and we just imploded.” “I don’t even recognize her.” “WHOSE NEW BABY HAS THE CUTER NAME?” “The 2-year-old busied herself by feeding candy to her hunky dad” “With their auburn locks” “With those pecs, Dan, you can harvest our produce anytime!” “Maybe cross eyes, but that is about the extent of his goggle eyes!” “Being beautiful is only the fifth or sixth thing that’s amazing about her.” “promotes a positive message and flaunts her killer body” “Best selfie ever!” “BURY ME IN STRIPPER BOOTS”
Clint Eastwood’s Divorce a Wife Swap? “The plot thickens! Just two days after Clint Eastwood’s wife of 17 years, Dina, told Us the duo was separated in June 2012, the Oscar winner, 83, was photographed in L.A. with a girlfriend, mom of two Erica Tomlinson-Fisher. Here’s where it gets crazy: Clint’s flame, 42, was wed until 2012 to Dina’s friend of 33 years, University of Hawaii basketball coach Scott Fisher! After Scott and Erica divorced, Erica was sure Scott was romancing Dina. Erica called Clint’s office last February to discuss her suspicions — then he fell for her!” While Dina and Scott weren’t actually cheating, as soon as Clint and Erica hooked up, Dina and Scott started casually dating. Dina says, “I am saddened to see photos of Clint with Ms. Tomlinson-Fisher. I look forward to new beginnings.” High school never ends in Hollywood (or anywhere else, for that matter).
Fergie Gives Birth: What did she and Josh Duhamel name their first child? Axl Jack, naturally, “likely named after Mom’s rock idol — Guns ‘N Roses frontman Axl Rose.” Ferg legally changed her name from Stacy Ferguson to Fergie Duhamel. “They are all using this quiet time to bond with Axl.” Sweet child o’ mine?
Selena Gomez: “We’re not afraid to just be confident in who we are, and if a gentleman can’t handle that, then that’s not my problem.” I wish Selena and Taylor Swift would date.
Kelly Osbourne Hates Grills: “The stupid faces they have to pull to show it off + breath like pennies is really unappealing to me!” Is there anything you DON’T hate, Kelly Osbourne?
Blake Lively: “My hair is my security blanket … I like having a lot of it, like a curtain.” Shake your hair cape, Blake!
Anderson Cooper Sunburned His Eyes: “I didn’t even know you could do that. And these baby blues, they’re my moneymaker.”
Misc/Etc: “It’s a slippery slope” “She’s obviously exhausted, but her excitement is overwhelming” “I’d love to have a mini of my man!” “The f-bomb was being dropped” “Just keep livin’ … back in the 1860s!” “his boyish doppelganger” “J is for jorts” “Dance involving thrusting and a squatting stance” “An intense, typically nonsexual admiration felt by one woman for another” “I could eat breakfast for every meal” “On not being a sporty kid” “They’re trying to pretty-cry?” “Miley Cyrus channeled Gwen Stefani” “tight … same as me and Britney” “prim teacher turned vigilante” “She rolls deep with him, for real, and he’s very loyal to her” “I have big boobs now!” “Makeout sessions! Wedding pressure!” “a serpentine manner”
Jen & Angelina: Now it’s Angie’s turn to cry. “Jennifer Aniston is happy and engaged and finally over Brad Pitt. But it seems the woman he infamously dumped her for can’t do the same. According to a source, Angelina Jolie is weirdly determined to forever remind Jen that she now has her man.” Why doesn’t Angelina just stand outside Jen’s window with a boom box playing “BOOM! I FUCKED YOUR BOYFRIEND” on repeat? Jolie “recently requested Jen’s favorite L.A. hotel room to have an all-night sex romp with Brad, complete with sex toys and rubber sheets, on a getaway from their kids!” Man, it’s a hundred degrees in L.A. right now and rubber sheets sound like a special kind of hell. They did it at the $2,500-a-night Sunset Tower suite, where Jen stayed while she and Justin Theroux were house-hunting. “Angie likes people to think that Jen isn’t even on her radar. But the truth is, she will never stop being curious about her.” Is that because Theroux is much hotter than Brad Pitt?
Whither Kim Kardashian? “Kim refuses to leave the house and gets so bored that she spends all her time shopping online for Nori. She mostly buys white items, and she buys multiples of the same thing because they get dirty so easily.” Kanye prefers to dress baby Nori in all black. “Whatever the color, the clothes all have one thing in common: an over-the-top price tag.”
Simon Cowell vs. Gordon Ramsay: “Forget the baby mama drama — Simon Cowell is more concerned about regaining his post as Fox’s top moneymaker.” After the failure of The X Factor, he was “livid when he read a glowing article about fellow TV hothead and Hell’s Kitchen star Gordon Ramsay that declared Ramsay the network’s ‘golden boy.'” He’s just blond, jeez Simon. “Simon is competitive, and the business at hand is making money and keeping the title of America’s love-to-hate TV personality. He likes to remind the executives that people know him by just his first name, but if you say ‘Gordon,’ everyone has to ask ‘Gordon who?'”
Kris Jenner’s TV Show’s Crew Happy Kris Got Kanceled: “We could not wait for the end of the show’s six-week trial period. Working with Kris was absolutely unbearable. She would show up on set hung over and demand her beauty team to fix her up and make her look stunning. Kris would give goody bags to the audience, but instead of giving the crew some too, which is typical, she insisted that she take them home to her family. Talk about tacky!”
Kristen Stewart & Zac Efron? “While insiders say Zac is excited at the prospect of hooking up with Kristen, don’t expect the two to be Hollywood’s next It Couple. He’s a bit of a playboy, so he wants to keep his partying lifestyle intact. He is not looking for anything emotional, and Kristen doesn’t want anything serious. This could work out great for both of them!” Famous last words, but I’d sure watch that rom-com!
Justin Bieber Not Allowed to Drive: “The accident prone star has been banned from driving in California. Turns out he never had a license!” Ha! Sounds right.
Misc/Etc: “He just wants to live out his life enjoying the things he’s always loved: seeing friends, watching the Lakers, and of course chasing women!” “She’s The Boss” “She signed a lucrative contract to continue deejaying in Ibiza next year” “she can never be skinny or glamorous enough, and worries that other women will catch her husband’s eye and tempt him to stray.” “The 31 year old’s thighs look like they’ve aged three times faster than the rest of her” “Beyonce channeled her inner daredevil” “got playful with a baby snow leopard” “He’s never too old to party” “It may not be the greatest outfit, but at least she’s wearing clothes!” “Nothing says summer comfort like a full-body leather jumpsuit” “Celebrity CELLULITE SHOCKERS!” “Translation? Mad Men it ain’t” “It’s frighteningly unfunny”
Kimye Want Another Baby Already? “Kanye would love a son. One of each would be perfect.”
Katy Perry & John Mayer: “He’s going to pop the question as soon as he gets the ring. Katy knows it’s coming, so she’s been doing some preliminary wedding planning.” The purported guest list includes Taylor Swift, who will show up dressed as Maleficent and put a curse on the marriage. Although Mayer probably doesn’t need any outside help at making his relationships fail. Speak now!
Blue Ivy’s First Birthday: Jay-Z and Beyoncé gave their daughter an “$80,000 diamond-studded Barbie doll” for her first b’day. Fuck Barbie though, for real.
Miley for Catwoman? “In our eyes, Miley passed the audition live on MTV’s VMAs by showing the world she’s got all the moves — and the tight plastic outfit! It’s her destiny.” I am so into this idea, obviously.
Russell Crowe: When he fronted a New Zealand pop band in the ’80s, Crowe went by the even sillier pseudonym Russ le Roq.
Misc/Etc: “She may need clothes — she’s barely covered up at all!” “Taylor is very strong. She doesn’t care what people think and she inspires me.” “Blake Lively plans to grow old gracefully without plastic surgery” “tired and a little restless” “enjoyed one of her last days as a single woman” “He’s the sweetest pup” “It’s not your money. You have the right to spend it any way you choose — even if it seems extravagant and wasteful to others.” “But now he has sex with her instead (and is losing weight!)” “Even though a bunch of beautiful models were standing around” “They were super close to each other. Their bodies were in sync.” “Green juice.”
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Smith was arrested and charged following police investigations into the allegations made by his daughter.
Sporting long plaits, and represented by Attorney-at-law Keavon Bess, Smith has pleaded not guilty to incest and indecent assault.
The trial is ongoing before Justice James Bovell-Drakes and a mixed jury at the Demerara Assizes.
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According to her, “My dad fingered me, threatened me with a knife, and had sex with me with the aid of petroleum jelly.”
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Hospitals and Health Networks, November 2013
Always thought to be on the edge, AMCs face real financial threats from health care reform. But new models, like the one at Stanford, offer promise.
By Ian Morrison
The pinnacle of American health care delivery is the large academic medical center (AMC). Envy of the world, they are at the confluence of excellence in clinical service, medical education and research. Just 141 medical schools and their 400 affiliated hospitals comprise the “triple threat” institutions that account for only 6 percent of hospitals but deliver 25 percent of the clinical care in the United States, 40 percent of the charity care, and the vast majority of specialized services such as comprehensive cancer care, trauma centers, burn units and pediatric intensive care. In addition they train 80,000 resident physicians annually and they conduct almost half the National Institutes of Health spending on research. They are a big deal.
Yet, AMCs seem to be constantly predicted to be in trouble. Precarious financing through elaborate cross-subsidies, town and gown clashes, lack of market relevance, tensions with other stakeholders, and uneven standards of performance have been mentioned in countless academic and industry reports over the decades. For example, one multinational effort in 2005 (the International Campaign to Revitalize Academic Medicine) brought together leaders from around the globe and engaged them in a sophisticated scenario planning effort that made us futurists drool. It pointed to all the ways academic medicine could stumble if it did not change.
More recently, high-profile academic articles and scores of consulting reports point to AMC vulnerabilities in a changing environment, even though many of them seem to be doing remarkably well. Is this time different?
This Time Is Different
Dr. Zeke Emanuel, distinguished oncologist and bioethicist, Obama health care advisor and now professor at the University of Pennsylvania, pointed out in an interview that AMCs confronted real change during the Clinton health reform years (when Emanuel was also closely involved), but reverted to their past behavior as the huge threats of managed care receded. “Absolutely, this time is different, precisely because of the impact of the [Affordable Care Act] and the market dynamics it creates through greater cost visibility to consumers through exchanges….AMCs are not going back this time,” Emanuel told me.
Emanuel is not alone in his assessment. McKinsey & Co.’s Brendan Buescher, a practice leader who works closely with flagship AMCs, points to the key vulnerability of what he terms the “soft underbelly of AMCs,” namely community-level clinical services that are being delivered at inflated prices to sustain the cross-subsidy to other mission-related functions such as teaching and research.
Buescher told me: “As the market moves more toward a retail value decision for purchasers and consumers, AMCs will have to adjust to the potential volume loss or present a significantly improved value proposition particularly for the 80 percent of services that community hospital competitors deliver at lower cost and with imperceptible differences in quality.” I will explore this key factor in more depth.
The Triple Threat Meets the Triple Aim
Traditionally, AMCs all have the same generic mission statement: “to be excellent in clinical service, training of new health professions and advancing medical science through research.” These are three big, hairy, audacious (and expensive) goals.
But the funding streams for these inter-related activities are all under assault, ironically in some cases, because of the broader pressures of the triple aim (better care, better population health and lower per capita costs).
Research (public purse). Historically, public opinion polls showed that Americans strongly favored increased spending on medical research. Indeed, NIH budgets basically tripled from $9 billion at the start of the Clinton administration to $30 billion by the end of the Bush administration. However, as Emanuel pointed out in a recent Journal of the American Medical Association editorial, as science becomes more of a polarized partisan issue, this broad amorphous goodwill toward medical research may not translate into sustained political support for NIH budgets. As the recent Washington debt ceiling lunacy revealed, Washington pols certainly don’t want to be seen to be cutting money off for kids getting cancer care at the NIH that particular morning, but they may be less interested in funding some obscure stem cell scientist’s megabillion-dollar lab for the next decade. By the same token, the staunch political defenders of AMCs in Congress (the Moynihans, Porters, Specters and Kennedys) are all gone. All that is left is sequestration and tough choices.
Research (private purse). AMCs often look to big pharma and big device manufacturers as “partners” (code for “send checks”) to help support the cause. Venture capital and technology licensing deals also have provided sources of income. But, as these industries deal with their own price pressures and value demands from customers, the funding may not be as generous. I live in Menlo Park, ground zero of venture capital, and most of the VC money in health care is moving away from expensive clinical innovation toward “better, faster, cheaper” solutions for a more value-conscious market.
Education (public purse). AMCs will likely have to fight a rearguard action to defend against graduate medical education cuts and to restore disproportionate share funding and its derivatives to offset the fact that half the country is not expanding Medicaid as planned. Polls show that regarding Medicare reform, the popular path is to cut provider rates, not raise taxes or cut benefits. Graduate medical education payments will be vulnerable.
Education (private purse). AMCs are at the intersection of the two highest priced services on the planet: American health care and American higher education. Both are likely to receive a dose of disruption over the next decade. Universities are wary of Kahn Academy–type innovations
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and the host of massive online open courses (MOOCs) that have emerged. Sophisticated start-ups such as Coursera and Udacity are piloting business models to bring the Ivy League to the global masses and are growing rapidly. I am not saying your heart surgeon of the future will learn it all by MOOC, but you have got to believe that her undergraduate chemistry and her continuing medical education credits will not involve sitting in an expensive classroom or attending at a bedside in an AMC. Indeed, pioneers such as the Hofstra University in partnership with North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System in New York are launching a new medical school that brings contemporary learning and teaching techniques (such as simulation and case-based learning in the ambulatory setting) to develop a much more applied approach to the medical education curriculum.
Clinical service (public purse). Demographic and economic forces will create more (not less) dependence on government payment for clinical services. Medicare and Medicaid will grow substantially as a share of all patients with the increased pressure that will bring on overall margins for AMCs. Most health care leaders see these changes and exhort their institutions to “learn to live on Medicare level of reimbursement,” but for AMCs that may be an impossible “aspirational” goal requiring 30 percent to 40 percent cost reductions.
Clinical service (private purse). The biggest single threat to AMCs may be the shift to a more retail model of care in which patients will have significant incentives to pick sites of care based on value. The three biggest factors likely to impact private payment for AMCs are the growth of exchanges, reference-pricing initiatives and accountable care organizations’ direct strategies.
The impact of exchanges. With so much media attention paid to the computer failures of the federal exchange launch, the public and the media have not yet become fully aware of how skinny the networks are underneath the exchange products. In California, only Anthem Blue Cross is including the University of California AMCs in their network, and Cedars-Sinai is not included in any exchange offering. If exchanges grow over the longer haul, as many (including me) believe they will, this will put significant pressure on price outliers like AMCs. In Harris Interactive Surveys consumers say they are willing to trade off lower premiums for narrower networks that exclude prestigious institutions (even patients with chronic conditions or those with cancer declare those preferences when they are asked if they would pay $100 to $200 more per month in premium). We will find out as the exchanges unfold over the next two to three years whether these stated preferences are reflected in the market place choices consumers actually make.
Reference-pricing payment models. The reference-pricing models such as the CALPERS joint replacement reference-pricing scheme focus consumers’ attention on price outliers such as AMCs. As these models are extended to other shoppable conditions such as maternity care, diagnostics and routine imaging, price outliers will come under greater scrutiny. Similarly, many private purchasers (particularly self-insured employers and their administrative services only [ASO] partners) are becoming much more sophisticated in managing and negotiating out-of-network costs with institutions that often charge five to 10 times Medicare rates for services delivered outside of contracted networks.
ACO direct strategies. But perhaps the greatest disruptive force will come from AMCs that recognize and embrace the shift from volume to value and are willing to be at risk for the populations they serve, as a cornerstone of their emerging strategy. The recent case of Stanford University is an excellent example of an AMC going direct (in its case with its own employees and the employees of the university) as a plank in its strategy for the future.
The Stanford Healthcare Alliance Story
In a recent interview, Stanford Hospitals and Clinics CEO Amir Dan Rubin told me about the new Stanford Healthcare Alliance, an ACO-like offering to the hospital’s own employees and to the university-covered population as a whole. Historically, Stanford’s benefits offerings to university employees have followed the “managed competition” teachings of the great Alain Enthoven. As a result, the contribution strategy has favored the low-cost plan, namely Kaiser. For individuals this has meant zero contribution from individual employees for the Kaiser option, with contributions rising with more open-ended preferred provider organization choices (such as those that included Stanford’s own providers) that cost employees several hundred dollars a month. In the past this has resulted in almost half of all Stanford employees picking Kaiser. However, starting in the next open enrollment cycle Stanford employees will still have the Kaiser choice, but there will be another low-cost plan stepping up to compete on a head to head basis: the Stanford Healthcare Alliance. Stanford has built an ACO-based product that uses its own network of physicians, the hospital and clinic infrastructure, as well as related delivery partners crafted with the help of its ASO administrator, Blue Shield of California. Stanford Healthcare Alliance will operate on a shared risk basis with an agreed risk-adjustment formula to protect against adverse selection. Stanford is stepping up to “eat its own cooking.”
Stanford’s Rubin sounds confident and excited at the prospect of competing in a value-based way. He frames the decision to aggressively step forward in accountable care as consistent with taking advantage of the assets in Stanford’s four “strategic domains”: complex clinical care, the growing network of ambulatory care, virtual care (Stanford’s Health Cloud initiative) and accountable care. The Stanford Healthcare Alliance is clearly in the fourth domain but will employ the expertise of the other three and will work with partners to develop and apply sophisticated population health, virtual visit and care management tools. This is not just about giving a professional courtesy discount on a fee-for-service basis and doing nothing to change the business model. This is going at risk and going into head-to-head competition with an experienced integrated system like Kaiser. And Stanford wants to succeed at this, not just survive the experience.
AMC Strategies for the Future
Stanford’s new initiative is being emulated across the country in different forms and flavors. But there are several other different strategies being pursued.
The big front wheel strategy. McKinsey’s Buescher uses a tricycle metaphor to describe the triple threat mission of clinical service, research and education. He says that “Some AMCs like Cleveland Clinic and Mayo have made it really clear that the big front wheel is complex clinical care, the other two are in support behind. In this model there is more alignment and integration and fewer competing interests.” In pursuit of this strategy both Mayo and Cleveland in different ways have built partnerships and networks of referral that support the growth of complex clinical care event though the mother ship is located in a city with declining volumes.
Triple threat regional giants. Some AMCs are simply so market dominant that they seem impervious to the obvious threats that skinny networks and tight public purses would imply. Many have war chests and momentum that will see them through sequester and value consciousness, if they exert enough self-discipline to redirect care to the lowest cost parts of their empire and manage their portfolios toward sustainable consolidated financial returns.
Special delivery. Some institutions that have a special niche may hit on the right combination of philanthropy and regional referral networks that keeps them in the phone book. But there may be fewer of them and some like the independent children’s hospitals that fall in this category may be swept into larger consolidated regional organizations. Or maybe there is a Louis Vuitton or Fortune Brands play in health care where all the boutique brands get economies of scale through one über brand? We’ll see.
Big Sophisticated Systems at Risk
Many of us believe that we are headed to an American health care delivery system that consolidates into only 100 to 200 very large integrated regional systems of care that are at risk for populations. They will be reimbursed on a capitated basis where consumers pick networks through Medicare Advantage–like products on an exchange. Many AMC and non-AMC health care systems are pursuing this vision. It is not yet apparent whether being an AMC is an advantage or a disadvantage in this race. But let’s be clear. This time is different; AMCs need to learn to play a new game.
Ian Morrison, Ph.D., is an author, consultant and futurist based in Menlo Park, Calif. He is also a regular contributor to H&HN Daily and a member of Speakers Express.
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Effect of Added Succinylated Fish Gelatin on the Textural Profile of Stored Sardine Surimi Gel
Mohamad Ikhwan Nazmi Bahar, Benedict Oludare Omosebi, A Ardiansyah, Nurul Huda
Gelatin is a biopolymer with unique functional properties that are very useful in food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and photographic applications. Low quality gelatin such as that from fish has limited application because its gels have inferior rheological and functional properties. However, researchers are looking for ways to use this abundant resource. In this study, the effect of adding succinylated fish gelatin to stored sardine surimi was investigated. Changes in the physicochemical properties of surimi gels depended on the degree of succinylation of the fish gelatin. As the degree of succinylation increased, expressible moisture and water holding capacity of surimi gels increased from 0.56 to 18.07% and from 2.86 to 20.45%, respectively. The lightness value of surimi gels also increased. Addition of succinylated fish gelatin had no effect on gel folding test results, but it did improve texture of the gels. With increasing succinylation of fish gelatin, hardness of the gels increased from 11.11 to 77.78%, springiness from 0 to 20.83%, cohesiveness from 0 to 67.5%, gumminess from 9.38 to 200%, and chewiness from 8.7 to 265.22%. In summary, addition of succinylated fish gelatin improved the physicochemical properties of surimi gels.
Keywords- Fish gelatin, surimi, succinic anhydride, texural profile, water holding capacity
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Hong Kong start-up Tink Labs ends Handy smartphone service to nearly all markets
Tink Labs, which provides hotel guests with smartphones to use for free, is terminating its services in several markets following the cessation of operations.
The Hong Kong-based company on Wednesday informed hotels in certain markets, such as Morocco and Thailand, that it will no longer be providing its Handy smartphone services and that mobile services to the handsets will be terminated within hours.
Handy is a smartphone service operated by Tink Labs that equipped hotels globally with handsets in their rooms for guests to use, and at one point had its devices in over 82 countries and 600,000 hotel rooms.
The company became one of Hong Kong’s few start-ups to have commanded a valuation of more than US$1 billion. Established in 2012, Tink Labs was founded by its chief executive, Terence Kwok, and attracted investors including Lee Kai-fu’s Sinovation Ventures, Meitu founder and chairman Cai Wensheng and Foxconn subsidiary FIH Mobile.
Since its inception, Tink Labs has raised US$160 million in funding from investors, and a TechCrunch report last November quoted sources stating that the firm was planning to raise a fresh US$300 million round of funding.
The company had also previously announced to employees internally on July 11 that certain markets, such as China, Denmark, Indonesia, Philippines and South Africa, among others, will cease to have Handy services.
“We recently wrote to notify you that, due to operational changes, Tink Labs will no longer be supplying or servicing Handy smartphone devices in your geography,” read the email sent out to Thailand and Moroccan hotel clients on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Blue's clues, Blue's biggest stories
Caillou, Caillou's family favorites, Cinar ; PBS
Charmed, The complete third season, Spelling Television
Go, Diego, go!, Diego saves Christmas!, Nick Jr
How the Grinch stole Christmas!, Dr. Seuss Properties
Lois & Clark, the new adventures of Superman, The complete first season, Gangbuster Films, Inc. ; a Roundelay production in association with Warner Bros. Television ; produced by Mel Efros [and others] ; written by Deborah Joy LeVine [and others] ; directed by Robert Butler [and others]
Lois & Clark, the new adventures of Superman, The complete fourth season, developed for television by Deborah Joy LeVine ; executive producers, Eugene Ross-Leming & Brian Buckner, Robert Singer ; in association with Warner Bros. Television
Lois & Clark, the new adventures of Superman, The complete second season, December 3rd Productions ; Warner Bros. Television ; developed for television by Doborah Joy LeVine ; written by Tony Blake [and others] ; directed by Randall Zisk [and others]
Lois & Clark, the new adventures of Superman, The complete third season, December 3rd Productions ; Warner Bros. Television ; developed for television by Deborah Joy LeVine
Pok?mon, Diamond and Pearl, Nintendo, Creatures, Game Freak, TV Tokyo, Shopro, JR Kikaku
Pokemon elements, Vol. 3, Water
The Backyardigans, Surf's up!, Nick Jr. ; Nickelodeon
The Smurfs, Season one, volume one, Hanna-Barbera and Lafig S.A. ; Studio Peyo S.A
The Venture Bros, Season one, Cartoon Network
The vampire diaries, The complete first season, Warner Bros
True blood, The complete second season, HBO Entertainment presents ; produced by Mark McNair, Raelle Tucker ; created by Alan Ball
Yo gabba gabba!, The Dancey Dance Bunch!, GabbaCaDabra, LLC
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Charmed, The complete third season
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How the Grinch stole Christmas!
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Lois & Clark, the new adventures of Superman, The complete fourth season
Lois & Clark, the new adventures of Superman, The complete second season
Lois & Clark, the new adventures of Superman, The complete third season
Pok?mon, Diamond and Pearl
The Backyardigans, Surf's up!
The Smurfs, Season one, volume one
The Venture Bros, Season one
The vampire diaries, The complete first season
True blood, The complete second season
Yo gabba gabba!, The Dancey Dance Bunch!
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2008-09-24 : That Reminds Me
...Of something I said on the Forge a long, long time ago.
The real cause and effect in a roleplaying game isn't in the fictional game world, it's at the table, in what the players and GM say and do.
If you want awesome stuff to happen in your game, you don't need rules to model the characters doing awesome things, you need rules to provoke the players to say awesome things. That's the real cause and effect at work: things happen because someone says they do. If you want cool things to happen, get someone to say something cool.
from page 6 of [Bronze] magic and 'magic items', in the now-archived Indie Game Design forum.
1. On 2008-09-24, Vincent said:
If your rules model a character's doing cool things, and in so doing they get the players to say cool things, that's great. I have nothing against modeling the cool things characters do as such.
Just, if your rules model a character's doing cool things, but the player using them still says dull things, that's not so great.
2. On 2008-09-24, Olivier Brunet said:
The converse would be really fun, that is if the player says really cool things while his character does dull things, like turn on the tv, smash the potatoes, brush his teeth.
3. On 2008-09-24, Mo said:
That's funny and timely, too V.
Brand and I talked on this very idea for about three hours just last night after I pitched an idea to handle a new solo game we're thinking of playing together. I suggested where instead of rolling dice that represented anything to do with the character, that we figure a way to roll dice that represented the investedness of the active player (or players, where contested).
4. On 2008-09-25, Ron Edwards said:
That's pretty much The Pool, isn't it?
Hi Ralph,
Could be, never played it.
6. On 2008-09-25, Christoph said:
Indeed! Nicely put.
Hmm... lumpley's law... of cause and effect... yes...
Geez! Sorry about the name, Mo.
8. On 2008-09-25, Brand Robins said:
You should have seen me last night being like "Where did Emily post, I can't see it!" And then Mo looking and laughing and saying "He's talking to me."
Anyway, as to what Mo and I had been talking about vis a vis the Pool—yes, there are strong similarities. Its kinda like the Pool minus character traits and with less resource risk. (Its also still much in transition as Mo and I have fights about it and hurl dice at each other.)
Ron, No prob, I take being mistaken for Emily to be a compliment. ;)
10. On 2008-09-26, John Adams said:
Vincent, once again you said exactly what I needed to hear to move my game design forward. Between this and the "kill your darlings" post my head is swimming with new ideas.
Oliver: if you pulled off the awesome/boring combo you'd have a gripping psycho-drama, if you didn't pull it off you'd have a Lifetime movie-of-the-week. =)
11. On 2008-09-27, Callan said:
I'd think the last thing you'd want to do is get someone to say something awesome.
That pivots on you, the speaker, telling them to say something you think is awesome, rather than what they think is awesome.
I think instead you'd probably them to say something they think is awesome, rather than what you think is awesome.
Of course one can feel shy saying what one thinks is awesome, but I think we can all tough that one out amongst friends.
Of course their awesome might not match yours, so the sessions fun can't be carried on the back of 'say awesome things'. I think to be viable, it should be carried on the back of 'Get excited about getting to hear what my fellow players think is awesome'. Which sounds fun to me - it's a sort of getting to know you session, at its heart. Or is that toooo meta?
12. On 2008-09-28, Vincent said:
Callan, sure. You want your rules to actually GET them to say cool things. Turning to them like "okay say something cool. Well? Well?" is a crappy way to go about that, it doesn't work.
No, what you have to do as designer is organize the game behind the scenes, like, so that what the players say without really thinking, what they say just naturally, are cool things.
13. On 2008-09-28, Jenskot said:
My friends refer to Dogs as the game where you say cool things and are forced to actually roleplay.
I don't think the rules cover this one from the speakers side - this is about the listener (though rules can cover this side...I'll get to that).
People, unless they are trying to second guess what is cool, will soon enough say something that is cool to them but not to you, being prompted to do so by the rules.
So I think it's in the listener, not the rules that govern what can be spoken. Someone who's listening for/expecting cool things to be said in game, will think the other person is 'playing the game wrong' even though the other person thinks what they said is cool.
Someone who is listening for what the other person thinks is cool, will hear it, not think it's cool themselves, but think 'Yes, got to hear what they think is cool...good! :)'. And indeed, I think when your friends find something cool but you don't, sometimes after hearing it you may warm to it...but that's a subject for another post!
We think of saying something as an act, but listening as a passive. But what you listen
is just as much an act as running, jumping or speaking is.
I suppose I'm just suggesting having rules for the act of listening, not just for the act of speaking.
I'm talking about what I think is cool. I design games to get you to say things that I think are cool. So should you, if you design games.
My supposition is that you and your friends all agree with me about what's cool. If you don't, you won't pick up my games in the first place. (Which is fine. If you don't think is cool what I think is cool, you won't like my games, please don't bother.)
If you don't even agree with each other about what's cool, I've got absolutely nothing for you. Are you sure you should be playing games together in the first place?
Seriously. I'm categorically uninterested in roleplaying, theory or practice, when the players' agreement about what's interesting isn't a rock-solid given. Any theorizing where you have to attend to "the speaker thinks it's cool but the listener doesn't," no thanks. I'm out, good luck and god bless.
17. On 2008-09-29, Ron Edwards said:
Is there any useful distinction to be drawn between "cool," and "cool enough?"
I ask in order to understand your point better, Vincent. I would like to agree with your first post/quote hands-down, but I look back on my role-playing history and am not certain it'd be honest to do so.
Some friends were over yesterday and we were talking about "traits," based on the discussion Markus began at the Forge. We talked about how there was an ongoing group-based, but GM-centric standard for when abilities could be used to augment other abilities. "When relevant and fun" seems like a good guide, but what does that really mean?
Maura had been notorious in that game for justifying a ton of abilities to use to augment the main one, and so was the typical target for that standard (whatever it was). She referenced one point in play when we all threw up our hands and cheered, though, at her choice of abilities when her character was buried in a huge wave of earth. I can't remember what the basic ability she used was, perhaps something like "tough" or similar, but she decided to augment it with another ability, "can talk for hours." "Yes!" we all shouted, and part of the pleasure of the moment came from a bit of frustration at how, until that point, Maura had been such an ability-grubber. This time it was so cool and worked so perfectly and was so *right* for that character (a voluble sort).
And the point being that our collective reaction was part of the system. It wasn't just about her enjoying the coolness of her choice, and it wasn't just about us happening to think it was cool too. That confluence of mutual coolness-recognition was part of what *allowed* her to use that ability! (As opposed to a collective groan for trying to shoehorn in God-knows-what in a previous conflict.)
So, um, there's something there. Something about the shared quality of the coolness that's beyond the automatic "we like the same stuff" that we did share in that group. And something about how that sharedness is *judged* at the table.
I think that it has a lot to do with whether and when I enjoy playing Dogs.
Best, Ron
I'm like, if you're designing a game and you want it to include cool car chases, making rules where cars have ACCEL., HANDLING, TOP SPEED and MASS isn't enough or necessary. You gotta get the players to say about car chases. (And Callan I thought you were like, "what if not everybody in my group thinks car chases are cool?" and I was like, "...that doesn't make the least difference.")
But then, okay, at a whole different scale, a whole different topic, there's the fact that roleplaying is like a soap bubble, a momentary stability in the creative tensions of working with other people, made possible by the creative constraints of your current local system.
At least I THINK it's a whole different topic. There are connections between them, obviously, but the former is so fundamental that insights about the nuances of the latter don't really have any purchase on it.
I suppose I'll start a new thread for you, Callan and Ron. Hold on.
19. On 2008-09-29, Jonathan Walton said:
Vincent: Do you really think there are a large number of play groups out there were people actually agree on what's cool? In my experience, that doesn't happen that often. Like, sometimes, if you draw Venn diagrams, you can find areas of sufficient overlap and try to focus the game on those parts. But, generally, I think most people have very different ideas of cool. This difference of perspective, perhaps, may be the root of some of our recent confusion.
Oh man. Saddest ever.
Sometimes people are like "I was psyched to play your game, Vincent, and I finally managed to talk my friends into it, but they weren't REALLY into it and it wasn't any fun." Sometimes they tell me which of their friends would have enjoyed it, except that which of their other friends really sabotaged it for everyone.
It mostly doesn't happen. Most of the time, in most of the groups I hear about, any one player's enthusiasm will get the other players genuinely on board, or else they'll never even try the game out. But it does happen sometimes.
So yeah, I figure that most groups are able to come to good working agreements about what's cool. Sometimes it's just a subset of what any given member of the group thinks is cool, but it's at least a solid subset. Otherwise, we're back in "no roleplaying is better than bad roleplaying" territory, aren't we?
Honestly, I suspect that there are a lot more groups that have the former experience, but they are just, due to their experiences, less likely to post about them. But maybe it's better not to think about that and assume most people are having fun?
I just had a long chat with John Harper on this issue. Honestly, I think my Mo-diagnosed social socket may interfere with me getting at some of this stuff, because when I'm playing a game I'm primarily there to be with the people. The game, from my perspective, is simply an interesting way to structure our social interactions and if it ends up being less fun than hanging out would be, I end up disappointed.
Also, because I can enjoy hanging out with people who have very different ideas of what's cool, the place where social experience and game experience overlap can be really weird for me. Like, I often enjoy being with people even when the game seems pretty mediocre, which can make it hard to diagnose problems (is it the game? the people? me?).
Ha ha ha! Yep. "Most roleplayers aren't having much fun," Ron says, and now you say. "I think most roleplayers are having fun," I say. It's one of the few ways - maybe the only way, Ron, yeah? - that I'm actually generous with my faith in roleplayers, not a stingy old bastard.
For me, I think it depends on the last game session I had. If it had issues, I'm with Ron; if it was totally awesome, I'm with you.
I posted more thoughts on your "Seriously, I'm out" line of reasoning over here, as a polite disagreement:
http://thouandone.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/they-will-play-your-game-wrong/
Can we design games that facilitate play groups in finding their own bliss, as opposed to synchronizing their bliss with the designers' (while still avoiding the "infinite options! all white bread" problem)? I'm optimistic, actually.
Disagreement? I don't get that.
You made quite a leap there, from "do you really think there are a large number of play groups out there were people actually agree on what's cool? In my experience, that doesn't happen that often" to your optimism about "games that facilitate play groups in finding their own bliss." I can't follow it.
Sorry, my train of thought went like this:
1. V says groups that don't share his bliss shouldn't play his games.
2. Is there room for a play group finding a bliss that is different than the designer's bliss, using the designer's game, by building in certain flexibilities? Basically, are there ways to build in options for drifting the game?
I am led down this patch because the overlapping Venn diagram of shared bliss in some of my play groups is fairly specific, because our tastes are more dissimilar than in other groups I play with. As such, less compatible play groups are stuck playing the same couple games together, ones in which our shared, uh, "bliss space" overlaps with that of the game. Honestly, this is sometimes what leads me to hack games so much, to make them actually work for specific audiences.
One solution is the oft-stated "play with people with more compatible tastes," but it also seems like drift could be a worthwhile goal in some cases, stripped of the stigma it used to have in some Forge conversations. After all, even a lot of fairly dissimilar groups aren't dysfunctional all the time, just when playing a game that doesn't work for everyone.
Is that clearer?
Yet another undeserved, off-hand slam at the Forge. I call foul.
Drift was proposed and recognized as a *functional* correction that people had to make, given incoherent texts and weirdo social contexts.
At most, it was also recognized as a habit that could unnecessarily be brought to better texts, serving to obscure understanding of the text. But as itself, Drift was never called a bad thing.
Your point about the "bliss space" is valid and relies entirely on the legacy/foundation of Forge discourse. That qualifying comment is graceless and ungrateful.
(Ron's right.)
The games that come to my mind, Jonathan, are Shock: and Universalis. I know that you're after player-adapted dynamics, not necessarily content, and those are both noted for their open content. It happens that they're also both games where within the rules the players have a lot of control over the dynamics of play.
You may know all this already, I don't know whether you've played them, but just in case:
In Universalis (and correct me if I'm off, Ralph, I haven't played with this feature), changing the dynamic of play is just a matter of doing it, same as introducing a character or setting element. Want a GM? Make one. Want victory conditions? Set some.
In Shock:, changing the dynamic of play would mean choosing Praxes very carefully, not necessarily intuitively, and then maybe adopting guidelines for the audience's d4s. It'd be more limited, but I think it'd be an interesting challenge and you could get some really cool effects, if you undertook it.
Like, imagine playing with Praxes "with an internal monologue VS with outward action only," and "because it's what I would do VS to illustrate a point." Playing with Praxes that are meta- like that would totally change the dynamic of play.
Anyhow, I'm not saying this to say "ha, we've already solved that problem." I don't think any design problem is EVER solved for good and all; there should always be more games, more solutions, more variety, more fun. I'm saying it to back up my non-disagreement, and to say that I think your optimism's demonstrably well-founded.
28. On 2008-10-01, Kuma said:
The emphasis on dynamic player interaction is, in itself, a flavor of 'teh cool'. I'm very interested in mixing up inter-player dynamics, but that's my bag, not necessarily everyone else's. What needs to be more fundamentally addressed is player empowerment - creating games that allow each player to take their passion for the game at hand and use it effectively in all of the different spaces of the game.
It sounds like a joke: A wargamer, a drama junkie and a Star Wars freak meet in a bar. How do you create, mechanically, the means for all three to create a single narrative that they'll enjoy? Mostly by granting different brands of authority to players, and balancing those authorities in metamechanical ways. The wargamer manipulates the widgets, the drama junkie creates positive interplayer tension and the Star Wars freak keeps a rein on the thematics and color of the SIS.
Ron, I wasn't trying to bash the Forge; quit jumping on me. Every time I can remember hearing the word "drift" (on the Forge, on SG, etc.) it was in a negative context. If that doesn't fit with that you were trying to say, that's cool, but the way the word was commonly used overwhelmed any other potential meaning for me. I appreciate the correction, but I don't appreciate you treating me like an ungrateful child. I totally acknowledge that taxonomies of player desires are something I first encountered in the Forge tradition.
Vincent, cool. Your points about Universalis and Shock: are well taken (I've played both). Where Universalis leaves rules gimmicks open-ended, leaving it up to the players to make sure their gimmicking doesn't fuck up the game, it seems like there would be room for a bit more guidance there, yeah? Some plug-and-play or at least suggestions on how to formulate gimmicks that are helpful? Defining praxis on the meta-level is a neat thought. Seems like you could do that with IAWA too, yeah? Like what if "for myself" refers to the player, not the character?
30. On 2008-10-01, Valamir said:
That's right Vincent.
Early on there were lots of pretty dramatic gimmicks flying around but the ones that got the most use were the more subtle dynamics ones.
In the core rules you have to pay a Coin to take over my Component in order to do something with it. There's a "friendly takeover" gimmick that essentially says that if I don't mind what you're going to do with it, I can let you have it for free.
String a bunch of those type of gimmicks together and you can really change the whole dynamic of play...making it either more squishy consensus driven or more cut throat.
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Prosecutor's Office of Minsk region to check compliance with legislation on road safety
First batches of Belarus-made cartridges sold abroad
The first batches of Belarus-made cartridges have already been delivered to the customer, Director General of the State-Owned Foreign Trade Enterprise Belspetsvneshtechnika Aleksei Skraga told the SB. Belarus Segondya newspaper.
The work to build a cartridge factory in Orsha District began about two years ago. The facility is still under construction, therefore, Belspetsvneshtechnika is implementing the cartridge production project through its subsidiary enterprise BSVT-New Technology. This is an entire production complex incorporating storage facilities for component parts and a system of their delivery to the production site, manufacturing premises, packaging and registration facilities, laboratory testing and warehouses for finished products. There is a dozen machines. Some of them can roll out 2,400 cartridges per hour, others produce 3,550.
“The first batches of cartridges have already been produced and delivered to the customer. These are 7.62х54, 7.62х39 and 9х19 cartridges for sporting and hunting rifles. The customer is happy. Another big batch of products will be shipped soon. I will tell you more: nearly every week we receive foreign delegations.
They study our cartridges and many place orders. I will not reveal the details, but we have orders for years ahead. The lineup will be expanded based on customer needs; we have everything in place for that,” Aleksei Skraga said. The first batch of over 5 million cartridges was shipped to one of European countries. According to Aleksei Skraga, this cartridge production facility can meet Belarus' needs for all kinds of cartridges, including cartridges for sporting and hunting rifles, firearms, and if needed, blanks.
“Our ammunition has a world-class quality, but for a number of reasons it is much cheaper for domestic consumption and more attractive for foreign customers,” the director general said. The company has certified production of sporting and hunting cartridges.
“The certification of cartridges for firearms is nearing completion. All the necessary conditions have been met; some minor formalities are left. In other words, the country has established its own cartridge production industry,” Aleksei Skraga underlined. At present component parts are bought from Russia. “Import substitution is on the agenda now. We are working on it. We have plans to launch cellulose nitrate production. We are also considering construction of a gunpowder factory.
Our metallurgy industry is also up to par. With eight metallurgy industry giants in the country, there will be no problem to launch production of cartridge components. The question is whether it will make economic sense,” the company chief said. He added that discarded R-27 missiles were stored in the place where cartridges are now produced.
“After a thorough examination of the missiles our specialists suggested repairing them. As a result, they provided the Armed Forces with over a hundred restored and ready-to-use missiles. Each of them costs more than $900,000 on the international market. This is not a single order; there are substantial reserves of these and similar missiles that can be restored and even upgraded; they are in demand on the market,” Aleksei Skraga added.
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Reckless – directed by Victor Fleming. Dramedy. 97 minutes Black And White 1935.
The Story: A Broadway musical comedy star is in love with her producer who is too above it all to propose, and tragedy ensues.
This was the product of David O Selznick during his brief stint at MGM while Irving Thalberg was recuperating from a heart attack in Europe, and it reveals two things plainly. One is how well-produced the film is, and Two is how ungainly his story ideas were. For the screenwriter is actually an alias for Selznick himself, and the story falls into traps which are fascinating to behold the actors climb out of or fail to climb out of. It’s worth seeing in all respects.
Selznick was L.B. Mayer’s son-in-law, and Thalberg had not been told of his replacement, so there is a certain shame before us here. The plot also hinges on a matter unspoken. Selznick resigned before long; he went into independent production, produced Gone With The Wind, using Victor Fleming to direct it; Thalberg returned to MGM and never trusted Mayer again.
What we have is a handful of terrific actors playing out a sophisticated backstage comedy, which turns violent. It was based on the Libby Holman scandal. And it starts with William Powell, that master of insouciance, playing a gambler with Damon Runyan sidekicks. He has backed the career of Jean Harlow as the actress. In a superb proposal scene you see Powell at his comic best; in a too-long drunk scene you see him ill served.
From the start, everything depends upon the skill of the playing of every actor before us. As a substitute for the absence of reality in the story, each must perform at the pitch of their talents, and they do.
Harlow is exuberant, convinced, lithe, and on target. Her grandmother is played by May Robson, and fortunately given a lot to do. Franchot Tone as the millionaire playboy is almost too good in the role. If he had been a bad actor the film might be better, but he isn’t. His is a portrait of a balloon bursting. Henry Stephenson as his father is a mystery of probity; is he kind; is he cruel? Rosalind Russell plays the jilted fiancée with a nobility so humorous you cannot but root for her. And Mickey Rooney as a child is so alive on the screen, you don’t wonder Spencer Tracy called him the best actor in Hollywood.
None of these players can extract the rotten tooth inflaming this material, which is a front-page story of the sort Warners did better. Fleming is a dynamic director; he never shows too much when he can help it. But you can just hear Selznick whispering those logorrheac memos over his shoulder. Still, Harlow triumphs in a closing closeup. Her voice is badly placed but her energy is winning. There is a wonderful moment she has picking up a hat and tossing it back. Watch for it. Audiences loved her not because she was sexy and didn’t wear underwear, but because she was so alive! She still is.
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Posted in ACTING STYLE: HOLLYWOOD CRISP, DIRECTED BY Victor Fleming, DRAMEDY, Franchot Tone, Henry Stephenson, HOLLYWOOD HEYDAY 1930 - 1950, Jean Harlow, May Robson, Mickey Rooney: ACTING GOD, Rosalind Russell: SCREEN GODDESS and ACTING GODDESS, William Powell
Suez –– directed by Allan Dwan. Historical Epic. Ferdinand de Lesseps struggles to build the Suez Canal. 104 minutes Black and White 1938.
He struggles to dig, he has a setback, a woman encourages him, he struggles to dig, he has a set back, a woman encourages him, he struggles to dig, he has a setback, a woman discourages him. The monotony of the story is supposedly counterbalanced by the beauty of the stars and the production values. And the costumes. Except that the film is over-costumed, so you cannot believe for a minute that anyone ever wore any of those clothes to anyplace but on the way to a movie set. Loretta Young is so dressed, she not only looks like the bride on the wedding cake, she looks like the cake itself.
How did people ever go the bathroom in those clothes?
Well, that’s not the sort of question you were supposed to ask of such films. In those days, you were supposed to be humbly and unquestionably grateful for and trusting of the validity of the “history lesson”. Right now all one can say is that Mister de Lesseps was somehow involved in the excavation. The digging itself was easy, since the isthmus in ancient days was navigable. It was the sand of preparation that had to be continually cleared away, and that is what makes up the story here. But we are given two wonderful big-time special effects, a fatal sandstorm and an avalanche set off by those Islamic terrorists again. They still don’t know when to stop. The director Allan Dwan sure keeps things chugging along, though.
A big and experienced supporting cast cannot breathe life into the dialogue which is as stilted as the men’s high collars, although Nigel Bruce, as usual, somehow manages it. The cast is headed up by Our Lady Of The Holy Wood, Loretta Young, and by Tyrone Power. They made delightful comedies together earlier on the 30s and were a popular duo.
Tyrone Power was a man so beautiful you become rapt to see what his face will do next. Since he is an actor of natural discretion, what you see is always authentic, although how he achieves it, given the lines, is impossible to guess, except that his modesty never rises to the level of the vulgarity of them. With Tyrone Power, what you see is what is made gettable by the fact that behind that face lies the quality that made him a great star, his kindness, sense of fun, his gentlemanliness. He’s not vain and he doesn’t have a mean bone in his body. He was inhumanly beautiful but not inhumanely beautiful.
The third star is Annabella, who was soon enough to become Tyrone Power’s first wife. While a good deal older than Power, she is perfectly convincing as a hoydenish teenager. She is French, which makes her seem odd and out-of-place, since, while everyone else at court is French, she is the only one in the cast who actually is so. She is a gifted and very fine screen actor and is wonderful to watch, although might prove irritating to watch much longer.
Anyhow, this is a typical historical Hollywood contraption of the period. It is a showcase. It was a crowd pleaser. And Power and Young when young still are enjoyable to behold.
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Red-Headed Woman
Red-Headed Woman — directed by Jack Conway. A gold-digging vamp seduces her way to the top. 79 minutes Black and White 1932.
This is Harlow’s tenth principal role, and by this time she sure knows a thing or two, and one of the things she knows is Don’t Hold Back One Inch. She plays this fiery tart without a blush of shame, and it’s a treat to see. Harlow is in her early twenties here, and her hair is not the platinum blond it was to more or less remain. She is being thrust forward by MGM as a sex symbol, which annoyed her and baffled her, as it did Marilyn Monroe later on. Both women realized it was quite unreal and unnatural, that nobody was really like that. Several things militate against our respecting Harlow, but being a sex bomb was not one of them. In fact, aside from apparently wearing no undergarments, she is neither sexy nor pretty. Her face is boxy and her lips are puckered with rouge; her nose is from some other face; her voice is completely untrained, grating, and badly placed. As to her being sexy, well, that may have been so at the time to those who were of her own generation and were in their twenties when she was, and saw her first in Wings, where she is quite remarkable and quite unlike her later incarnations. One has to set these things aside to notice her range and how robust an actor she could be. She drives this uncompromising story forward like a steam engine, plowing every cow off the tracks before her. As an actress, she never asks permission. Gentlemen prefer redheads is what she says and she acts on it roundly. Chester Morris is the stolid mid-western millionaire she finagles into marriage, and bounds on from to score all the money in the world. In fact, if there could be such a thing, she is a female bounder. Una Merkel plays her lemony sidekick, and the great Charles Boyer in an early film appearance, plays the chauffeur who becomes her tidbit. The movie is pre-code, and delightfully impenitent as such. Lewis Stone is the first of many fathers-in-law. Henry Stephenson is one of her willing victims – later to be remembered as the speech therapist around whom Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor dance in the “Moses Supposes His Toeses are Roses” number in Singing In The Rain. Liela Hyams plays Morris’s wife in a lovely and giving performance. May Robson plays the society dame who warns her son too late. Paul Bern one of Harlow’s husbands produced it. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the first screenplay and Anita Loos the last. The film caused a scandal in America, and Britain refused to show it. It was a huge financial success for MGM.
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Lebanese election Results - in Detail
Good Mews from Lebanon - for a change. It's not great news, because Hezbollah still gets to vote with AK-47s, but at least the pro-West, moderate coalition maintained, and perhaps expanded, its majority. Michel Aoun's courting of Hezbollah cost him seats. Likewise, Walid Jumblatt, once stalwart in defense of Lebanese independence, shocked his audience of party faithful by declaring, in the last days of the election, that they would have to bow to the "inevitable" and accept Hezbollah hegemony. He too lost votes. A key thing novices have to know about Lebanese politics is this: "Everyone" supposedly knows that March 8 or M8 is the pro-Syria and pro-Hezbollah alliance, while March 14, or M14 is the pro-West, anti-Syrian bloc that coelesced around Saad Hariri, son of the popular Rafiq Hariri who was assassinated either by Syria or the Hezbollah. Tony Badran has the story. But what he is not saying is that the Lebanese election law still seems to discriminate against the Shi'a, who are probably a majority (Lebanon has not had a census in a long time) and in favor of the Christian minority, many of whom have fled abroad. Another thing to keep in mind is that Hezbollah has a way of reduing the parliamentary majority of the government - it seems to murder MPs it doesn't like. Someday murders them, at any rate.
Mapping Out the Election Results
Tony Badran
Let's run through what seems to be the final result of the election. It seems, with the preliminary results, that the March 14 coalition and its independent allies have won 71 seats, adding one seat to their current total, despite what March 8 thought would be an electoral law advantageous to them (the 1960 law adopted in the now-defunct Doha Accord). This puts to rest the myth that in 2005, M14 won because of its alliance with Hezbollah and the gerrymandering of the electoral law of 2000. M14's victory is clear. It ran unified lists and wherever M14 won, the lists won in total without any breaches.
Who are the winners and losers?
Obviously, M14 as a coalition emerges victorious. The independents add a couple to the total number but M14 still maintains a majority on its own. It's a decisive majority trashing once and for all Bashar Assad's "imaginary majority" and "transient few" snide remarks.
Hariri reemerges with the biggest bloc and thus keeps his position as head of the parliamentary majority. The Future Movement sailed through in the north, Beirut, the Western Bekaa and Zahle, and swept two seats in Sidon. The Lebanese Forces performed very strongly in Koura and Batroun, with M14 sweeping both, and eliminating Aoun's son-in-law Gebran Bassil in what is a major symbolic victory.
Walid Jumblat sacrificed from his share for the sake of the M14 alliance, and he emerges with a slightly diminished bloc as a result.
On the other side, Michel Aoun took a hit with the loss of his son-in-law, and saw his huge margin in Keserwen dwindle down drastically to about 2,000 votes, with Mansour al-Bone and his list performing ably.
Furthermore, this was done with Aoun's preferred electoral law, which he had been bragging about since the Doha Accord saying that he "forced" it on the other parties, and that it would "liberate" the Christian vote, especially in places like Ashrafiyeh, and that he would expand his bloc to over 30 MPs. Well, his list was demolished in Beirut 1 (Ashrafiyeh), where M14 swept all five seats.
Also, his allies in Zahle (Elie Skaff and the "Popular Bloc") got smashed, with M14 performing very strongly there.
Nevertheless, Aoun scored big in districts with large Hezbollah votes, namely Baabda and Jbeil. While a victory in Jbeil was expected, the sweep in Baabda is a net win. Aoun also maintained his sweep in Keserwen, despite a dramatically narrower edge. He also did well in the Metn, winning 6 (in alliance with the Armenaian Tashnag party) out of 8, with Michel Murr and Sami Gemayel getting the other two. As such, Aoun will still claim he is the strongest in the Maronite heartland. Nevertheless, the win is very obviously a lot shakier than the "tsunami" of 2005, and nothing made it clearer than his son-in-law's big loss in Batroun. Batroun, whose citizens lost an Army pilot, shot down in his helicopter by Aoun's Hezbollah's allies, threw out the Aounists completely.
In effect, the Christian vote, as always, is still split. Aoun and his allies (Frangieh, Tashnag) will still have the largest Christian bloc (the seats in Jezzine will not be counted because they were never in play for M14, and they were gifts from Hezbollah -- and, incidentally, a setback for Berri).
The Tashnag Party, which huffed and puffed (and was puffed up by Western journos) mightily before the elections, ends up with a dud, getting only two seats (keeping the seat in Metn, and gaining a seat in Beirut 2). The other Armenian seats (Zahle, Beirut 1) went to M14.
Similarly, Michel Murr didn't pull off the kind of performance many thought he would, keeping only his seat in the Metn. He fielded a candidate in Baabda (Gharios) who lost. His companion in the Metn, Sarkis Sarkis, also lost.
Similarly, the so-called centrist bloc that was touted before the elections, comes out decidedly smaller than even initially thought. The bloc was supposed to be affiliated with the President, Suleiman, with candidates close to him, or effectively putting themselves in his corner, not breaking through: Nazim Khoury in Jbeil, al-Bone and Farid Haykal Khazen in Keserwen, Edmond Gharios (and even perhaps Pierre Daccache) in Baabda, and even Murr himself. Although there are others who did make it (people like Robert Ghanem, etc. can still support the President), the bloc as initially conceived did not quite materialize.
This balance of power will now be transferred to the battle over the cabinet formation. M14 has a clear victory, and so will pick the Prime Minister. The battle, however, will be over the heresy of the "veto third" -- which has no existence in the constitution or the Taef Accord. Hariri has been consistently rejecting its continuation in the future cabinet, and he got support today from Jumblat as well, who called it a "fallacy." M14 will agree to a national unity government, though its principled position now is that it rejects the "veto third" formula. They are making plenty of noise about giving a boost to Suleiman, and how that will materialize remains to be seen. M8 is almost certainly going to reject it and will cite the relatively weak performance of the so-called independents/centrists as support for their position. This is a potential looming crisis on the horizon, as I argued in my pre-election briefing, especially since Hezbollah and the March 8 groups have shown themselves to be anti-democratic and violent forces who wouldn't hesitate to paralyze the country and ultimately attack people in their homes to get what they want.
Let's see how this plays out.
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Title: HUB5 Mandarin Telephone Speech Corpus
Access Rights: Licensing Instructions for Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/obtaining
Bibliographic Citation: HUB5 Mandarin Telephone Speech Corpus LDC98S69. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1998
Description: LDC98S69 - Speech data LDC98T26 - Transcripts *Introduction* This release of HUB5 Mandarin training data consists of 42 calls derived from the CALLFRIEND Mandarin Chinese Mainland Dialect (Language ID) collection. The transcribed data is intended as additional training data in support of the project on Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition (LVCSR), also sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense. The transcripts cover a contiguous 5-30 minute segment taken from a recorded conversation lasting up to 30 minutes. LDC has released HUB5 Mandarin Telephone Speech and Transcripts Second Edition (LDC2018S18), which combines the speech and transcripts and make some updates to the release. See catalog entry for more details. *Data* Speakers were solicited by the LDC to participate in this telephone speech collection effort via the internet, publications (advertisements) and personal contacts. A total of 200 call originators were found, each of whom placed a telephone call via a toll-free robot operator maintained by the LDC. Access to the robot operator was possible via a unique Personal Identification Number (PIN) issued by the recruiting staff at the LDC when the caller enrolled in the project. The participants were made aware that their telephone call would be recorded, as were the call recipients. The call was allowed only if both parties agreed to being recorded. Each caller was allowed to talk up to 30 minutes. Upon successful completion of the call, the caller was paid $20 (in addition to making a free long-distance telephone call). Each caller was allowed to place only one telephone call. They were given no guidelines concerning what they should talk about. Once a caller was recruited to participate, he/she was given a free choice of whom to call. Most participants called family members or close friends. All calls originated in North America and were placed to various locations within North America. *Updates* There are no updates at this time.
Extent: Corpus size: 1056360 KB
Format: Sampling Rate: 8000
Sampling Format: 2-channel ulaw
Identifier: LDC98S69
https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC98S69
Language (ISO639): cmn
License: LDC User Agreement for Non-Members: https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/license/LDC%20User%20Agreement%20for%20Non-Members.pdf
Medium: Distribution: Web Download
Publisher: Linguistic Data Consortium
Publisher (URI): https://www.ldc.upenn.edu
Relation (URI): https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/docs/LDC98S69
Rights Holder: Portions © 1998 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Type (DCMI): Sound
Type (OLAC): primary_text
Archive: The LDC Corpus Catalog
Description: http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.ldc.upenn.edu
OaiIdentifier: oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC98S69
Citation: n.a. 1998. Linguistic Data Consortium.
Terms: area_Asia country_CN dcmi_Sound iso639_cmn olac_primary_text
http://www.language-archives.org/item.php/oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC98S69
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1 NCAA National Championship
Play for NMU
Locker Project
Football Honors Seniors on Senior Day
Northern Mich.
Saginaw Valley (5-5) 21 21 14 0 56
Northern Mich. (1-8) 0 10 0 0 10
Pa: Ryan Johnson - 58
Ru: Keshawn Howard - 113
Rec: Benjamin Loutsis - 71
Pa: Ryan Conklin - 319
Ru: Nate McCrary - 151
Rec: Chad Gailliard - 175
MARQUETTE, Mich. – The Northern Michigan University Football team honored their seniors prior to Saturday's home season finale with Saginaw Valley State University but dropped the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference matchup 56-10.
CELEBRATING THE SENIORS
The Wildcats celebrated players who were playing in their final game inside the Superior Dome. Those honored included Gabe Baumann (Rockford, Mich.), Nick Barnes (Chicago, Ill.), James Brown (Menominee, Mich.), Latrell Giles (Chicago, Ill.), Alex Hamilton (Chesterfield, Mich.), Ryan Knight (Grand Rapids, Mich.), John Kwiecinski (Plymouth, Mich.), Garret Lundteigen (Petoskey, Mich.), Gunnar Lundteigen (Petoskey, Mich.), Logan McHone (Pleasanton, Calif.), Jeremy Stats (Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.), Billy Tithof (Mt. Pleasant, Mich.), Demarious Wright (Delray Beach, Fla.).
GOOD FROM 50
Sophomore Daniel Riser (Ada, Mich.) hit a career high 50-yard field goal to put the Wildcats on the board in the second quarter.
Taking over from the NMU 48 after freshman Tyquan Cox (Chicago, Ill.) took a kickoff 45 yards, freshman Tyshon King (Kankakee, Ill.) rushed for three yards to get NMU past midfield. Sophomore Sebastion Toland (Jackson, Mich.) carried for two yards before the end of the first quarter.
After the quarter break, redshirt freshman Keshawn Howard (Rochester, N.Y.) completed a pass to sophomore Benjamin Loutsis (Aurora, Ill.) for 11 yards to put the Wildcats on the SVSU 36. Howard then gained three yards on two carriers, but an incomplete pass brought up 4th and 7 from the 33. Riser came out on fourth down and nailed the 50-yard field goal through the uprights on a kick that could have gone longer to make the score 21-3.
A BIG THROW
After an SVSU touchown, the Wildcats put together a big pass play to narrow the gap.
Starting the drive on their 41, Toland ran for a one yard gain. On the next play, sophomore Ryan Johnson (De Pere, Wis.) hit Loutsis down field who was able to finish the play in the end zone for his second reception touchdown of the year. It was Johnson's eighth TD through this year.
The touchdown made the score 28-10 but NMU would be unable to score the rest of the game as SVSU took a 56-10 victory.
Howard led the offense with 116 yards rushing, averaging 5.5 yards per carry. Loutsis tallied 71 yards on three catches to lead the receivers.
As a team, NMU averaged over 23 yards per reception and finished with 196 yards on the ground.
Cox averaged 28.3 yards in the kick return game and posted a long of 45 yards.
Junior Brady Hanson (Kewaskum, Wis.) led the defense with 14 tackles. Redshirt freshman Antonio Howard Jr. and sophomore Anthony Ladd (Columbus, Ohio) both notched five tackles. Howard also recorded his first career interception.
McHone and Statz both posted a tackle for loss.
NMU will wrap up the 2019 season next Saturday with a trip to Ashland University.
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Baseball Hall of Famer Randy Johnson Receives a Replica Neil Peart R30 Drum Kit at Jersey Retirement Ceremony
Randy Johnson, aka "The Big Unit", the former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher who played from 1988 to 2009 for six teams, primarily the Seattle Mariners and Arizona Diamondbacks, had his Arizona jersey number, 51, retired in a ceremony yesterday.
During the ceremony, Johnson received a very special gift - a replica Neil Peart R30 Drum Kit. Johnson, who is a drummer himself, is friends with the band, particularly Geddy Lee, and was seen in numerous venues throughout the R40 tour as the unofficial band photographer. A video of the entire jersey retirement ceremony is available via the embedded viewer below, or directly at this LINK.
Johnson receives the drum kit at the 5-minute mark and his expression as it is revealed to him is, in a word, priceless.
Thanks to Denis Naranjo and Joe Pesch for the news.
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The Compass Obituaries
The Compass is a community newspaper
for the Conception Bay North/Trinity Bay areas.
It is published weekly on Tuesday.
ABBOTT, Cecil Gerald - Passed peacefully away at the Carbonear General Hospital on Friday, May 23, 2008, Cecil Gerald Abbott of Spaniard's Bay, aged 81 years. Predeceased by wife Dorothy in 2002. Left with fond and loving memories, his children: daughter: Veronica Walsh (Keith), St. John's; sons: Gerald Wayne (Marlene), Spaniard's Bay, Austin (Belcus), Inuvik, James (Brenda), Chamberlins and David, St. John's; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; and a large circle of relatives and friends. Rested at Young's Funeral Home, Spaniard's Bay. The Funeral Service took place Monday, May 26 at Holy Redeemer with interment followed at Maultree Hill Cemetery, Spaniard's Bay. In His memory donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation. The family wishes to express their sincere gratitude to Dr. Uthman and the ICU staff at the Carbonear General Hospital.
BROWN, Maxwell - Passed peacefully away at Health Sciences Center on Tuesday, May 13, 2008, of South River, aged 79 years. Predeceased by parents: James and Stella Brown (nee Earle); brother-in-law: Harry Pike. Leaving to mourn, wife: Ruth Brown (nee Hussey); two sons: Allan Maxwell (Phyllis) Brown, Wallace David (Sonia) Brown; one daughter: Sharon (Paul) Dwyer; sister: Olga Pike; four grandchildren: Scott, Julianna, Kimberley, Jason and Christa Brown; three great-grandchildren: Jessica, Nathan and Mackenzie Brown; and a large circle of other relatives and friends. Father Gerald Westcott conducted the funeral service at The Anglican Parish of the Resurrection, South River on Saturday, May 17. Interment was at All Saints Anglican Cemetery, Salmon Cove, South River. Hononery Pallbearers: William Dwyer, Frank Harvey. Pallbearers: Lawrence Dicks, Fred Drover, Kenneth Russell, Dave Barrett, Dave Condow, Bill Smith. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Moore's Funeral Home, Clarke's Beach.
BUTT, Alfreda - Passed peacefully away at the Harbour Lodge Nursing Home, Carbonear on Wednesday, May 7, 2008, Alfreda Butt of Carbonear, age 77 years. Predeceased by son: Barry; grandson: Brent; brothers; Max and Albert. Left to mourn, husband: Herman; four daughters: Lillian (Allan) Clarke, Victoria, Anne Deering, Carbonear, Sheila (Brian) Gear, Carbonear and Wanda (Terry) Yetman, Bryant's Cove; two sons: Ronald (Philomena), Burnt Point and Paul (Gladys), Freshwater, Carbonear; daughter-in-law: Brenda Butt, Fort MacMurray, AB; eleven grandchildren: Stephen, Tracey (Ed), Scott (Tracey), Dennis, Jennifer, Corey, Rhonda, Megan, Barry Jr. (Carmel), Blaine (Tracey) and Bradley (Denise); eight great-grandchildren; one sister: Lillian Burke, Toronto, ON; sister-in-law: Helen Penney, Victoria; also a large number of other relatives and friends. Rev. Jesse Bown conducted the funeral service on Friday, May 9 at the United Church and Cemetery, Freshwater, Carbonear. Donations in her memory may be made to the United Cemetery, Freshwater, Carbonear. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the care of Noel's Funeral Home, Carbonear. Please visit www.noelsfuneralhome.com to sign the memorial guest book.
BUTT, Lorna Ann - Passed suddenly away at her residence on Sunday, May 25, 2008, Lorna Ann Butt of Carbonear, age 61 years. Predeceased by parents: Albert and Martha Burke; sisters: Gertie, May and Linda; brother: Sam; brothers-in-law: Kevin and Albert 'Ab'; sister-in-law: Dorothy. Left to mourn, husband: Michael, daughter: Valerie (Jamie) Slade, Victoria; two sons: Albert (Darlene Smith), Carbonear and Michael (Maureen), Calgary, AB; five grandchildren: Morgan, Hailey, Ryan, Matthew and Michaela; five brothers: Art (May) Burke, Victoria, Don (Anne) Burke, Bishop's Falls, Gord (Betty) Burke and Bob (Linda) Burke, both of Gander and Al (Frances) Burke, Victoria; sisters-in-law: Mary Power, Labrador City, Cheryl (Bob) Batten and Ella (John) Day, both of Carbonear; brother-in-law: Milton Noseworthy, Bay Roberts; also a large number of other relatives and friends. Monsignor E.T. Bromley conducted the funeral Mass on Thursday, May 29 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Carbonear. Interment took place in the Interfaith Cemetery, Carbonear. Donations in her memory may be made to the Lorna Ann Butt Memorial Fund. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the care of Noel's Funeral Home, Carbonear. Please visit www.noelsfuneralhome.com to sign the memorial guest book.
DROVER, Myra - Passed peacefully away at the Harbour Lodge Nursing Home, Carbonear on Friday, May 16, 2008, Myra Drover of Upper Island Cove, age 88 years. Predeceased by husband: Archibald; parents: Mark Lundrigan and Elizabeth Elsie (Smith); sisters: Mabel, Lydia (nee Lundrigan) Reid; brothers: John, Edward (Scotland), Ian, William, John (baby); sons-in-law: Cecil Stone, Patrick Hammond. Left with fond and loving memories, two sons: Joe (Carol), North River and Ray (Maureen), Upper Island Cove; daughters: Susie Hammond, Spaniard's Bay, Mabel Stone, Bryant's Cove, Marina Edgar Allen, Port-aux-Basques, Barbara Drover, Upper Island Cove; brother: Ray (Bertha) Lundrigan, Upper Island Cove; sisters-in-law: Jessie Osbourne, Upper Island Cove and Edith Lundrigan (nee England), England; 14 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren; also a large number of other relatives and friends. Rested at Young's Funeral Home, Spaniard's Bay. The funeral service was conducted Monday, May 19 at St. Peter's Anglican Church and Cemetery, Upper Island Cove. In her memory donations may be made to the Trinity Placentia Conception Health Foundation. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the care of Young's Funeral Home, Spaniard's Bay.
GREENE, Robert William - Passed peacefully away at the Carbonear General Hospital on Thursday, May 22, 2008, Robert William Greene of Western Bay, age 96 years. Predeceased by parents: John and Sarah Greene; brothers-in-law: Eric Perry, Fred Perry and James McConnell; sister-in-law: Julia Sickle. Left to mourn: wife: Tryphenia; daughter: Wendy Greene, Toronto, ON; son: Fred Greene, Western Bay; brother-in-law: James (Helen) Perry, Winnipeg, MB; sisters-in-law: Phyllis McConnell, Toronto, ON and Shirley (Ross) Steele, St. John's; also a number of nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends. Rev. Roscoe Cole conducted the funeral service on Sunday, May 25 at McDowell United Church, Western Bay. Interment took place in the United Cemetery, Western Bay North. Donations in his memory may be made to McDowell United Church. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the care of Noel's Funeral Home, Western Bay. Please visit www.noelsfuneralhome.com to sign the memorial guest book.
HORWOOD, Chesley F. - Passed peacefully away at the Pentecostal Senior Citizen's Home, Clarke's Beach on Friday, May 2, 2008, Chesley F. Horwood of Carbonear, age 89 years. Predeceased by wife: Marion; parents: Samuel and Mary; brothers and sisters. Left to mourn six daughters: Mary (Ron) Fowler, Colorado, USA, Elaine (Vernon) Muise, Yarmouth, NS, Sylvia (Theo) Mitchelmore, Fort McMurray, AB, Mildred (Ron) Wilson, St. John's, Beverley Gaudet, Toronto, ON and Marilyn (Brian) Gibbons, St. Vincents; two sons: David (Margaret), Prince George, BC and Lloyd (Lee), Kamloops, BC; eighteen grandchildren; sixteen great-grandchildren; sisters-in-law: Mildred Bennett, Dartmouth, NS and Jessie Horwood, Carbonear; loving caregiver: Hughena Rideout and special friend: Pastor George Rideout, both of Carbonear; also a large number of other relatives and friends. Pastor George Rideout conducted the funeral service on Monday, May 5 at the Calvary Pentecostal Church and Cemetery, Carbonear. Donations in his memory may be made to a charity of one's choice. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the care of Noel's Funeral Home, Carbonear. Please visit www.noelsfuneralhome.com to sign the memorial guest book.
HOYLES, Capt. Jacob A. - Passed peacefully away at the Carbonear General Hospital on Friday, May 9, 2008, Capt. Jacob A. Hoyles of Harbour Grace, age 65 years. Predeceased by parents: Joseph and Rosanna; brother: John; father-in-law: Edmond Beaudoin. Left to mourn, wife: Sandra M.; two sons: Jacob E. (Nancy) Clarenville and Gary (Judy), Carbonear; five grandchildren: Nicole, Joshua, Victoria, Matthew and Hailey; six sisters: Verna Canning, Gander, Helen Stewart, Ann Hoyles, Selma Beaudoin and Joan (Harold) King, all of Carbonear and Bernice Hoyles (Jesse Johnson), Colbourg, ON; mother-in-law: Johanna Beaudoin, Windsor, ON; also a large number of other relatives and friends. Fr. F.J. Aylward conducted the funeral Mass on Monday, May 12 at Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery, Harbour Grace. Donations in his memory may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the care of Noel's Funeral Home, Harbour Grace. Please visit www.noelsfuneralhome.com to sign the memorial guest book.
MURRAY, Philip - Passed peacefully away at the Carbonear General Hospital on Saturday, May 17, 2008, Philip Murray of Carbonear, age 78 years. Predeceased by daughter: Shari Ann; parents: William and Sarah; brothers: Michael and Joseph. Left to mourn, wife: Dorothy M.; two daughters: Maria and Shanea, both of Carbonear; one son: Philip, Carbonear; three brothers: William (Mary) and Andrew (Mary), both of Carbonear and John (Ethel), Harbour Grace; three sisters; Carmel George and Catherine Crawford, both of Carbonear and Jane Granaman, Iowa, USA; seven sisters-in-law: Angela Murray, Rita (John) Gear and Brenda (Dominic) Curran, all of Carbonear, Denise (Maxwell) Harris, Fort MacMurray, AB, Gertie March, Mount Pearl, Loretta Brent and Ann (Maurice) McDonald, both of Botwood; also a large number of nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends. Fr. F. J. Aylward conducted the funeral Mass on Tuesday, May 20 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery, Carbonear. Donations in his memory may be made to the Alzheimer Society or the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the care of Noel's Funeral Home, Carbonear. Please visit www.noelsfuneralhome.com to sign the memorial guest book.
NOSEWORTHY, Richard - Passed peacefully away at the Harbour Lodge Nursing Home, Carbonear on Saturday, May 31, 2008, Richard Noseworthy of Spaniard's Bay, age 86. Predeceased by sisters: Mildred Cumby and Marcella Kennedy. Left with fond and loving memories, wife: Eileen of 51 years; sons: Mark Noseworthy, Spaniard's Bay, Lewis Noseworthy, Gander, Brad Wilcox, Spaniard's Bay; daughters: Pearl Noseworthy, Spaniard's Bay, Sharon Pike, Harbour Grace, Karen Noseworthy, Spaniard's Bay; brother: Bernard Noseworthy, Spaniard's Bay; six grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren; and a large circle of relatives and friends. Rested at Young's Funeral Home, Spaniard's Bay. The Funeral Mass took place Tuesday, June 3 at Holy Redeemer Church with Cremation after the funeral service. Inurnment to take place at a later date. In his memory donations may be made out to the Richard Noseworthy Fund.
OSMOND, Irene - Passed peacefully away at the Carbonear General Hospital on Saturday, May 31, Irene Osmond, age 83. Predeceased by husband: Stanley Butt, second husband: George Osmond; grandsons: Neivelle, Ronnie and Carlson. Left with fond and loving memories, sons: Calvin (Viola), Jack (Marilyn), Clarence (Mabel). Bill (Mabel), Stanley (Linda), Clayton (Ethel), Raymond (Violet) and Derrick (Sharon); stepson: Jim (Francine) Osmond; daughter: Roma (Ron) Gosse; stepdaughters: Shirley (John) Pike, Judy (Chris) Coombs; brothers: Jack Reid (Hursla, deceased), Eddie (Bernice) Reid; sisters: Mary (Clayton) Rumbolt, Loraine (William, deceased) Framton; 30 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren; and a large circle of relatives and friends. Rested at Young's Funeral Home, Spaniard's Bay. The Funeral Service took place, Tuesday, June 3 at Holy Redeemer Church, Spaniard's Bay.
SWEETLAND, Mary - Passed peacefully away at the Interfaith Citizen's Home, Carbonear on Friday, May 9, 2008, Mary Sweetland of Harbour Grace, age 101 years. Predeceased by husband: Edward; son: Raymond; parents: George and Alice Lynch; three brothers: Mike, George and Dave; three sisters: Laura, Ethel and Frances; two step-brothers: Jack and Walter. Left to mourn, daughter-in-law: Daphne Sweetland, Carbonear; three grandchildren: Rae (Jim), Edward (Virginia) and Keith (Heather); five great-grandchildren: Lucas, Andrew, Christopher, Noah and Halle; step-brother: Selby (Mildred) Lynch, Shearstown; step-sister: Alice (William) Adams, Brampton, ON a number of nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends. Rev. Frank King conducted the funeral service on Monday, May 12 at St. Paul's Anglican Church and Cemetery, Harbour Grace. Donations in her memory may be made to St. Paul's Anglican Church Restoration Fund, Harbour Grace. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the care of Noel's Funeral home, Harbour Grace. Please visit www.noelsfuneralhome.com to sign the memorial guest book.
WHALEN, Elizabeth (Bessie) - Passed peacefully away at the Carbonear General Hospital, Carbonear on Saturday, May 17, 2008, Elizabeth (Bessie) Whalen of Spaniard's Bay, age 91 years. Predeceased by husband: William; infant son: Gerald and son-in-law: John Dawson. Left with fond and loving memories, daughters: Eileen Dawson, Agnes (Bill) Butler and Alice Dunne (Wayne Luther), all of Bay Roberts; sons: Jack (Jean) Whalen, St. John's, Bill (Frances) Whalen, Spaniard's Bay, Ray (Maureen) Whalen, St. John's; 13 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren and her friends at the Callingwood Downs and The Pentecostal Citizens Homes; and a large circle of relatives and friends. Rested at Young's Funeral Home, Spaniard's Bay. The funeral service was conducted Tuesday, May 20 at The Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery, Spaniard's Bay. In her memory donations may be made to the charity of ones choice. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the care of Young's Funeral Home, Spaniard's Bay.
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Economy and Policy
Is the Fed Building Another Stock Bubble?
Randall W. Forsyth
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Is the Federal Reserve letting the stock market party like it’s 1999?
777彩票地址Several savvy observers see similarities between shares’ recent levitation on the heels of the central bank’s aggressive provision of liquidity to calm the repurchase-agreement market and the days when it pumped in billions to stave off the looming specter of Y2K and, in the process, inflated the dot-com bubble.
Of course, the modern world didn’t come crashing down when the calendar flipped from 1999 to 2000. But just in case the Cassandras might be right, the Fed supplied about $120 billion to the market through repos to prevent any financial disruptions. That figure was on par with what the central bank pumped in during the financial crisis in 2008 and significantly more than it provided in reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks, according to Jim Bianco, the eponymous head of Bianco Research.
In 1999, there was certainly circumstantial evidence of the Y2K funding’s impact on stocks, writes Julian Brigden, chief economist at Macro Intelligence 2 Partners. “Immediately following the Fed’s launch of its special fund facilities, the equity market accelerated higher,” he notes. At the time, the biggest momentum play, the Nasdaq Composite777彩票地址, already was up 100% from its level a year earlier. When the Fed started boosting liquidity, the tech-led index went parabolic, he observes.
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777彩票地址This time, the Fed has expanded its balance sheet by $400 billion in four months—a $1.2 trillion annual clip, according to Evercore ISI. 777彩票地址 “have gone on a tear” since the bank announced on Oct. 11 that it would begin buying Treasury bills. The timing of the move was similar to 1999’s, but the magnitude was more modest, Bianco notes.
As they were two decades ago, momentum stocks appear to be the most obvious winners, MI2’s Brigden observes. “To some extent, this precisely is as it should be, because the Fed is not trying to pick winners,” he writes. “That’s the market’s job. The Fed is just there to keep the party going. And they do seem to have been successful.”
Exhibit A is Apple (ticker: AAPL), which he noted “has surged 38% since the Fed’s repo program started and is now breaking out of a well-established channel” on a price chart stretching back to 2015. “Another potential winner is Tesla777彩票地址 (TSLA), where the Fed’s intervention may have helped resolve a multiyear battle between bulls and bears by encouraging short covering.”
To be sure, “there is no such thing as a one-factor model to explain the stock market,” Bianco writes. “Metrics such as the Fed’s balance sheet, repo, etc., cannot explain the stock market’s movements in isolation.
777彩票地址“That said, when the Fed injects money, funds generally flow to the best-returning market. During the financial crisis, it was the bond market. Today, as was the case in 1999, it is the stock market.”
777彩票地址Moreover, as the Fed has been spiking the punch bowl to avert any bank funding problems, investors’ mood has been ebullient. CNN’s Fear & Greed Index hit a euphoric high of 97, a recent peak, on Thursday. After news of the U.S. strike to kill the powerful Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani, stocks on Friday fell only fractionally, as initial sharp overnight losses in S&P 500 futures were pared by about a third. edged down only slightly.
Oil prices rose, but oil shares tracked by the Energy Select Sector SPDR777彩票地址 exchange-traded fund (XLE) dipped slightly. Even the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, the market’s fear gauge, couldn’t manage to climb above 16, despite the potential for an escalation in the conflict between the U.S. and Iran. That indicates that Fed liquidity can dampen volatility.
777彩票地址But what happens if Powell & Co. stop supporting the repo market? History isn’t encouraging. Bianco points out that the Nasdaq crashed 25% from April 7 to April 14, 2000, the week during which the Fed’s Y2K facility closed.
Brigden sees four scenarios for the Fed’s current liquidity operation:
The monetary authorities could let the repo program wind down once they think that risks have subsided. Or they could keep it and maintain flexibility, perhaps charging a penalty interest rate to tap it. Either course would essentially make the market end its liquidity fix cold turkey, risking a “2000-style carnage,” he says, making those options less likely.
777彩票地址Alternatively, the Fed could hold its balance sheet steady. Or it could keep ramping up liquidity, providing the market with “the opportunity to engage in an orgy of leverage. Until the bubble pops,” Brigden concludes. Meanwhile, party on.
Write to Randall W. Forsyth at randall.forsyth@barrons.com
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360 Degrees of Text: Using Poetry to Teach Close Reading and Powerful Writing
Through Eileen Murphy Buckley's 360-degree approach to teaching critical literacy, students investigate texts through a full spectrum of learning modalities, harnessing the excitement of performance, imitation, creative writing, and argument/debate activities to become more powerful thinkers, readers, and writers.
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Learn about and write acrostic poems, a poetry form that uses the letters in a word to begin each line of the poem. All lines of the poem relate to or describe the main topic word.
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This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.
A Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for "The Tell-Tale Heart"
What's that sound? Students participate in a Directed Listening–Thinking Activity (DLTA) using "The Tell-Tale Heart," make predictions, and respond in the form of an acrostic poem or comic strip.
Aim for the Heart: Using Haiku to Identify Theme
Using haiku, students focus on themes in literature and demonstrate their understanding of an author's message. Writing haiku to accompany an analytical paper hones analytical skills and fosters creative expression.
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Alliteration in Headline Poems
Students will be introduced to the term alliteration and create a headline poem consisting of 25 words that contain at least three examples of alliteration.
Analyzing Advice as an Introduction to Shakespeare
Popular culture provides an introduction to Shakespeare's poetic devices in this lesson, which asks students to explore an excerpt from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Animate that Haiku!
Following the traditional form of the haiku, students publish their own haikus using Animoto, an online web tool to produce slideshows that blend text and music.
Appreciating Audiobooks
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Cincinnati, OH—January 24, 2014. One week after the execution of Dennis McGuire, attorneys representing the McGuire family are seeking injunctive relief in federal court. The lawsuit aims to prevent the state of Ohio from carrying out future executions. The execution of Dennis McGuire of Preble County on January 16, 2014 sparked a national debate that […]
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Adoption of a rule directing that the trial judge is the appropriate authority for the appointment of experts for indigent defendants. The rule should further provide that the decision pertaining to the appointment of experts shall be made, on the record, at one of the prescribed Pre-Trial Conferences.
If defense counsel requests, the demand for appointment of the expert shall be made in-camera ex parte, and the order concerning the appointment shall be under seal.
Upon establishing counsels’ respective compliance with discovery obligations, the question of the appointment of experts (including determination of projected expert fees based upon analysis of expert’s time to be applied to the case as well as consideration of incremental payment of expert fees as case progresses) would be decided by the court, which decision would be subject to immediate appeal, under seal, to the appropriate Court of Appeals. The trial court judge shall make written findings as to the basis for any denial. Although concerns have been raised as to the ability of the Appellate Court to provide the anticipated, necessary expedited hearing within a reasonable time-frame, the Joint Task Force suggests that this issue be elevated to the status of a final appealable order and that the necessary expedited appellate process be spelled out in the statute.
Should the present process of appointment of indigent counsel by the judiciary continue, the main objective should always be to assure the best educationally experienced and qualified candidate, who is available (within the county or outside the county), and who is otherwise willing to take on the responsibilities associated with the case for an appropriate fee and accompanying expenses, is appointed. A uniform fee schedule for such services across the State of Ohio must be a necessary consideration to assure the equal protection and due process for the accused in a capital case.
Adoption of reporting standards to provide complete transparency of record, including requirements to ensure better record keeping by the trial judge and the provision of additional, detailed resource information necessary to assure strict compliance with due process, which information shall be submitted to the Supreme Court upon completion of the case. Such resource information may include unique Constitutional issues, unique evidentiary issues, significant motions, plea rationale, pre-sentence investigation, and any additional information required by the Rule 20 Committee or the Supreme Court of Ohio. Additional types of resource information could be developed as part of the mandated educational process conducted by the Ohio Judicial College.
The Joint Task Force believes that some of the recommendations above could be accomplished by the adoption of a separate Criminal Rule for Capital Cases. The Joint Task Force recommends that such a rule be adopted and provide for the mandatory training of attorneys and judges (Recommendation 49), the selection and appointment of indigent counsel in capital cases (Recommendation 51), and the enforcement of the ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases and the Supplementary Guidelines for the Mitigation Function of Defense Teams (Recommendations 11 and 12).
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Researcher explores how urbanization affects wildlife, spread of Lyme disease
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As communities across the U.S. replace forests and woodlands with housing developments and other new construction, researchers are noting an increase in Lyme disease. To help prevent the spread of Lyme disease, Dr. Ivan Castro-Arellano, a disease ecologist and wildlife researcher at Texas State University, is exploring how urbanization and its effects on mammals impact the spread of pathogens.
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Lyme disease, which spreads from animals to humans, is one of the fastest growing zoonotic diseases in the United States. Counties considered high-risk for Lyme disease grew 300% between 1993 and 2012. Caught quickly, Lyme disease is easily treated with antibiotics, but if it goes untreated it can lead to chronic issues such as Lyme arthritis, facial palsy and impaired memory.
Many such zoonotic diseases have been increasing globally, researchers say, partially because of the displacement of animals. While medium- and large-sized mammals are displaced or eradicated by the removal of forested areas, white-footed mice and deer thrive in small patches of green space. Mice and deer are contributing to favorable conditions for an increase in the ticks that spread the pathogens causing Lyme disease.
Read more at Texas State University
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Back to School for Pensacola area residents August 13, 2018!
It seems like it was just yesterday that the Principal was playing “School’s out for summer” over the intercom on the last day of school. Escambia County School district has made the most of its summer with the release of school grades, finalizing the opening of two new schools, and offering free meals to ALL schools in the district because of the Community Eligibility Provision program.
2017 Escambia County- Pensacola, Florida area school grades
School grades for Escambia County were released in June and overall grade for Escambia went up to a B this year. Congratulations!
Some schools who made improvements were Pine Forest High, Warrington Elementary, A.K. Suter Elementary, Myrtle Grove Elementary, and Scenic Heights Elementary. Please review the entire list of grades for each school above.
Escambia County Schools that received an A score include: Hellen Caro Elementary, N.B. Cook Elementary, Cordova Park Elementary, Scenic Heights Elementary, A.K. Suter Elementary, Molino Park Elementary, Pensacola Beach Elementary, Brown Barge Middle, and West Florida High School.
You can view both Escambia and Santa Rosa County school grades on the Florida Department of Accountability webstie here: http://www.fldoe.org/accountability/accountability-reporting/school-grades/
The Escambia County School district welcomes two new schools this year, Kingsfield Elementary and Beulah Middle School. These schools were built to offset some of the growth in the 9 Mile Rd. area with the expansion of Navy Federal Credit Union. The schools have already had Parent Teacher Associations established and meetings held. I was told that Kingsfield Elementary will have over 400 students transferred from the Pine Meadow Elementary. Both facilities are state of the art and tours are encouraged before the school year starts.
Free Lunch via the Community Eligibility Program
In the past, in order to receive free or reduced lunch, parents had to fill out an application to qualify based on income. In recent years, ALL public middle and high schools went to FREE lunch for ALL students. In most schools if 50% or more students were on free/reduced lunch then the whole school automatically went to FREE lunch but according to WEAR news 3 article, all schools are now eligible for free lunch. Schools that will be participating in this new program called Community Eligibility Provision program are:
Elementary Schools:Jim Allen Elementary, Bellview Elementary, Bratt Elementary, Brentwood Elementary, Byrneville Elementary, Ensley Elementary, Ferry Pass Elementary, Global Learning Academy, Holm Elementary, Lincoln Park Elementary, R.C. Lipscomb Elementary, Longleaf Elementary, McArthur Elementary, Molino Park Elementary, Montclair Elementary, Myrtle Grove Elementary, Navy Point Elementary, Oakcrest Elementary, Pine Meadow Elementary, Pleasant Grove Elementary, Scenic Heights Elementary, O.J. Semmes Elementary, Sherwood Elementary, Warrington Elementary, C.A. Weis Elementary and West Pensacola Elementary.
Middle Schools: Jim C. Bailey Middle, Bellview Middle, Ernest Ward Middle, Ferry Pass Middle, Warrington Middle and J.H.Workman Middle.
High Schools: Escambia High, Northview High, Pensacola High, Pine Forest High and Booker T. Washington High School.
Alternative Education/Centers:
Camelot Academy, Capstone Academy, Escambia Westgate School, George Stone Technical College (Phoenix Initiative Program), Jacqueline Harris Preparatory Academy, Judy Andrews, Lakeview Center and McMillan Pre-K Center.
If your school is not listed then you will need to fill out application to know if your child qualifies.
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President Shavkat Mirziyoyev receives chairman of Russia’s State Duma
Today, September 16, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev received a delegation of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, headed by its chairman Vyacheslav Volodin.
Warmly welcoming the guests, the head of our state noted with deep satisfaction that the regular and fruitful dialogue at the highest level facilitates a completely new dynamic in the relations of strategic partnership and alliance between the two nations, and their enrichment with concrete substance.
In this respect, the current visit by the State Duma’s high delegation is yet another confirmation of the shared desire to build up the multifaceted cooperation.
In turn, Vyacheslav Volodin expressed sincere gratitude to Shavkat Mirziyoyev for the warm welcome and conveyed the greetings and best wishes of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
The meeting served for an exchange of views on furthering the political dialogue, enhancing the practical interaction in the trade, economic, investment, transport and communications, scientific, technical, educational, cultural, humanitarian and other fields.
Particular attention was paid to the importance of continuing intensive inter-parliamentary contacts and exchanges, including with the effective use of the existing mechanisms of cooperation between the two houses of our countries’ parliaments.
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Chairman of the State Duma reaffirmed commitment to deepening the inter-parliamentary ties in order to bolster the Uzbek-Russian comprehensive cooperation.
In conclusion, the distinguished guest wished success in the organization of the forthcoming elections to the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan and local representative bodies later this year.
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NORTH QUEENSFERRY, FERRYHILLS ROAD, NORTH QUEENSFERRY STATION INCLUDING FENCE AND FOOTBRIDGELB9979
Circa 1890. Single storey, rectangular-plan station and timber footbridge to S over railway. Later 20th century single storey flat-roof rectangular plan shed (to W of rail line) with commemorative Forth Bridge centenary mosaic (1990) to W elevation. Timber-built station on brick base. E elevation: 8 blind painted windows and cill course. S elevation: 2-leaf timber boarded doors with moulded architrave and large round-arched fanlight. W (platform) elevation: 3 timber panelled doors, timber framing (former central windows boarded up); full-length cantilevered awning with decorative valance; triangular roof ventilators to left. Pitched roof; graded grey slates; overhanging eaves with exposed rafters; coped brick ridge stacks; circular clay cans. Timber picket fencing along railway lining E and W platforms. Timber and steel-trussed footbridge to S.
INTERIOR: 3 rooms to platform consisting of ladies waiting room; general waiting room; ticket office with original counters and storage shelves. Classical motif chimneypieces to ticket office and ladies waiting room with cast-iron fireplaces. Tongue and groove panelling to dado height throughout.
The station was erected by the Forth Bridge Railway Company originally as a pair of ranges on opposite platforms. Only the East block now survives. Similar station buildings were re-built (by the North British Railway Company) at Inverkeithing. The station at North Queensferry forms part of the North Approach Railway and was built as part of the Forth Bridge (see separate listing) construction master plan. The North Approach Railway is just over 3km in length commencing from the abutment at the N end of the Forth Bridge and terminating at Inverkeithing at the former junction with the North British Railway. The N approach also includes the large viaduct at Jamestown (see separate listing). In the late 1980s, the remaining station building was closed and the platform window openings boarded up. It now operates as an unmanned station (2002).
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map (1896). J Hume, INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY, Vol 1 (1976) p136-137.
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Light Station Restoration Diary
As written by the people working on the restoration.
Unless otherwise identified, the diary author is Linda Nenn,
co-chair of the Restoration Project
It began so inauspiciously just one week ago. Sunday, cold, blustery. Rick had come and gone from the Light Station, fitting in family responsibilities with cleaning and sundry other mundane tasks. Larry Foust was quietly caulking nail holes, preparing the door and window trim for priming and painting. Ron Mans may have stopped in as he usually does every day. Mary Flierl stopped in and left for home. I can't really remember what I was doing. The previous days had been spent collecting tools from around the Station. Organizing and preparing. A flurry of emails had been received and answered. Expectations. Questions.
I know I was upstairs, second floor or attic. Larry called out, "Linda, your visitors are here." My visitors? I came downstairs and was met by six men standing in the foyer. The Luxembourgers had arrived.
Handshakes. Greetings. I recognized Mario Mutsch and Bernie Schmitz from their previous visit to the Light Station. How many months had passed since that hurried visit? As I had with my students of by gone days, I tried to put names and faces or mannerisms together. Marc, Edgar, Manfred and Guido. I said their names out loud to help me remember.
Questions: How was their flight? Did they just arrive? Were they checked into the hotel? Did we have the right tools? Had they eaten? Questions, answers, more questions. The day I had been waiting for, for a year and a half, had arrived with the arrival of these six gentlemen.
We went to the Harborside Motel and checked in. Luggage had been left behind in Paris. Phone calls. More questions, this time to Air France. First things first. More calls, to Mary Flierl and Bea Krier. We had guests that needed to be tended to.
Lunch across the street at Smith Bros. Bea arrived and I took my leave. Syl Weyker and his wife had joined the group. Back to the Light Station. Mario had indicated they wanted to start removing the hundreds of screws from the shipping containers. Those wonderful containers that had sat at our doorstep for almost a month. I panicked for only a moment. The containers couldn't be opened today, Sunday. TV and newspapers were set to record the opening on Monday. Mario put my worries to rest. Only some of the screws would be removed to hasten their work on Monday. At the Station I once again checked our tools. Yes, we were ready.
Back to Smith Bros. It had been decided the only way the luggage could be retrieved was to drive back to O'Hare and pick it up in person. But, a welcome dinner was planned for 6 o'clock. More phone calls. Once more the names, as they sat around the table. I would learn them, finally, as the work commenced. The six take off for Chicago. Without telling them, I take the lead in my van and they intuitively follow me back to the freeway. I lead them onto the highway and they speed past me, a wave of the hand letting me know they're on their way.
Mary calls and tells me Air France has called and the luggage may not clear customs until 5:30 p.m. I call Mario and hope he understands the message. Unbelievable. We are less than 100 miles apart but my cell phone call is routed to Luxembourg and then back to Chicago.
Another call from Mary. Will the six be returning to the dinner or going to the hotel? Call Luxembourg/Chicago. Yes, they will go to the restaurant. We should eat without them.
No dinner for me. I must rest and be ready for Monday. No anticipated birthday, no unopened Christmas gift, could ever compare to this sense of wonder I took with me to bed and into my dreams that night.
Monday 22 April 2002 Arrived at the Light Station around 7:30 a.m. The Luxembourg workers, assisted by some of our volunteers, had already opened the container holding the lantern room and were working hard on the other containers. Some were up in the attic, opening the roof and preparing the area to receive the tower. A nice size crowd was gathering and Jim Fowler was on hand with slide camera, digital camera and camcorder. I went around greeting the workers, giving Mario what would be the first of many hugs. My cameras were soon hanging from my neck and I joined the fray. Every time I tried to take a picture of Edgar, he'd look up and cue me on his name, quietly. Edgar, I'll always remember your quiet smile. Maybe someday you can bring your wife and children to see the wonderful project you were a part of.
TV channel 6 showed up and began filming. I was introduced to the reporter, but had decided today would be a day that others would be the focus of attention, so I wandered off and left the media details some of the other very deserving society members. Kevin Wester and his parents, Bert and Verena, did an excellent job. Thanks to all.
Ozaukee Press was also on site for most of the day. The coverage was great! Thanks, Bill and Kris, for staying with us. The Wednesday edition, excellent!! Anyone that wishes a copy of the paper, let me know. I would guess $2.00 will cover the cost of the paper and postage.
Once the containers were opened the real work began in earnest. AZCO crane, of Appleton, which had donated their services, showed up with a mammoth yellow crane. Joe and his colleague immediately assessed the situation with Mario and Bernard. The first lift would be the tower. Completely assembled within its container, it was ready for lifting except for cutting the new 8 x 8 beams of the tower and the old, cedar beams in the attic. The beams had to be notched so they could be sistered together. As Mario later said, "Like Legos."
I had a doctor's appointment to attend to, so I took my leave, raced to the doc's office, and returned just in time to see the tower set in place. The expertise of the Luxembourgers, combined with the skill of the crane operator and his partner, resulted in a perfect lift. Bernard, Manny and Marc worked on securing the tower in place, while Edgar and Guido moved on to part two, the platform. Mario was the director and video recorder. Like an orchestra conductor, he brought harmony to the work.
The wooden platform with its copper decking was in two containers. The AZCO crane gently lifted one half and set it down next to its mate. Copper flashing was bent back so that it could be joined, eventually sealing the deck. I believe it was Edgar that crawled underneath to bolt the pieces together. Six to 10 others pushed, lifted and pulled to get the two half exactly in place. That accomplished, the second major lift took place. Attached straps hoisted the platform and my heart skipped a beat or two as I watched the parapet make its way skyward. The men on the scaffolding that surrounding the newly set tower stood waiting for their prize. Once again AZCO performed its task admirably. This job took more time than the tower, as the platform had to be turned and fitted over protruding corners of the tower. This was a slight deviation from the original blueprints drawn by Jim Woodward. It was done to assure stability to the joint that melded the platform to the tower. Once in place, and it was a precise fit, the platform needed no further adjustment. 142 years ago the platform would have been built piece by piece on top of the tower. The method used today resulted in a perfectly squared and balanced platform.
On to the base of the lantern. The nine sided lantern base was "choked" with straps and hoisted up to its new roost. Copper flashing joined the deck to the wooden sides and cast iron framing and it was bolted in placed. Meanwhile, on the ground, preparation were underway to lift the nine sided lantern. The plans, historically accurate, had been provided by Jeff Shooks, of Michigan. Jeff, you have to come to see this!
The copper ventilator ball was attached to the cowling of the roof. On the ground it looked huge! The distinctive copper lightning rod was fastened and the lantern was ready to go skyward. 2 Four by fours were run through the windowless lantern, straps attached, and the lift began. As with the other parts, adjustments were made so that the piece lifted without a tilt.
Oh, I almost forgot. In the midst of this exciting day, the Lux workers and several of the volunteers took time off for lunch with the local Rotary Club. Steve Schowalter of the Port Washington State Bank was their host. Thanks, Steve. The State Bank is our biggest local benefactor with a $15,000 challenge grant issued last year. Lunch occurred between the platform and lantern lifts, so I passed on the luncheon invitation, climbed up the extension ladder through the tower, and savored the magnificent view from the platform. I flashed back on an old photo we have of Capt. Charles Lewis standing on the original platform around the turn of the last century. At that time there were no trees or ten story high-rise to obstruct his view of the lake. But I think I have a sense of what he must have felt looking over his domain.
My solitude was broken by the return of the crew and entourage. The lantern room lifts occurred after lunch. As with the first lifts, each success was heralded by cheers from the Luxembourgers and onlookers. With the major parts in place, work commenced on securing the whole package together. Long bolts ran from the cast iron ledge of the lantern down through the base and platform. Bolts now hold the old and new beams together.
It was time to quit work for the day. After the onlookers had dispersed, "bier" appeared on site and a congratulatory toast was offered. It was only later that I found out another toast had been made up on the tower platform. Well deserved. Only six hours of work had elapsed. Unbelievable.
I called Cathy at the Harborside Motel and asked if the bar could be opened early. Time to celebrate. Rick and I joined the group for a short while. After Rick headed home, Mario and I had time to talk about the project. He and Bernard had bid on the work as equal partners. Because of their fine reputation in the Grand Duchy, Georges Calteux had approached them to do the work. I can see why. Talk about a work ethic. They are rightfully proud of their workmanship. Before shipping the tower/lantern to America, the men had assembled it in Luxembourg to make sure everything fit perfectly. It had taken them 3 hours then, but we added another ingredient to the recipe.
That ingredient was the weather. Before departure from Europe, Mario had inquired about the weather. Remember the week of the 15th? Several days in the 70's and 80's. Mary Flierl had shared with Mario a Wisconsin saying that is particularly true in Port Washington. "If you don't like the weather, wait ten minutes." Monday the 22nd proved to be the perfect day to test that saying. In the course of 8 hours we had snow, sleet, hail, rain and even some brilliant sunshine. The only thing that gave us a break was Sunday's wind had diminished. By late in the day, Mario said he now knew exactly what we meant in the earlier communiqué.
Tuesday dawned cold but dry. Less onlookers but much work yet to do. The volunteers had dwindled to Lloyd Croatt and Ron Mans. Angle iron reinforcements were added in critical locations. Glass was installed. Caulking was applied. As no beacon will shine from our lantern, glass panes were put in all nine openings. Originally 4 panels were zinc coated plates, designed to limit the beacon's effect on the citizenry of Port Washington. The workers were guests of Schooner Pub for lunch and Kiwanis Club for dinner. By Tuesday I was able to utter more words than "amazing, unbelievable and wonderful." Wester Electric showed up to run the ground wire from the tower. Old photos were checked for proper placement of the ground. PBS out of Madison, WI visited the site thanks to Nancy Mersereau's diligence. Monday's media coverage was slim as the Mayor of Milwaukee chose that day to have a press conference concerning an alleged infidelity.
I beat the Luxembourgers to the site on Wednesday. This was to be the day to "polish the apple." Screws and bolts were checked and double checked. Glass was cleaned. And, the rains came once again. Nothing like Wisconsin in Spring time. Bea Krier, President of the Luxembourg Society in Wisconsin, headed a motor tour northern Ozaukee County, showing the historic sites to our visitors. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the first Luxembourg settlement in America was just north of Port Washington in a small hamlet named Holy Cross. Larry and I spent most of the afternoon putting together photo albums to accompany our visitors when they returned home.
Wednesday night the Luxembourgers were feted again, this time by the Lion's Club. After dinner we headed downtown to celebrate the completion of the tower project. On the way there I called Rick to see if he and his wife could join us. He informed me he had been at the Light Station because the tower was leaking! When I shared that information with Mario, he said, "That is not possible!" The next thing I knew, Bernie, Mario and Edgar were heading out the door to return to the Station. It was after 9 o'clock. The wind was blowing strong and the rain coming at us from the west, diagonally.
I found a trouble light and we climbed the extension ladder to the lantern room. Water had forced itself up under the window ledge and was coursing its way down the bolts on the west side of the lantern. Not a fault of the workmen. Rather, a fault of Wisconsin weather. As Mario stated, "In Luxembourg the rain falls down. In Port Washington it falls down and (he motioned) every other way." This design fault in the 1860 lantern room may have been part of the reason the design was subsequently changed. Later plans that I have, show numerous casting and engineering changes. Mario had talked with me regarding issues in the lantern design that he would have changed if given the opportunity. As the Light House Establishment and later the Light House Board came to realize, building lighthouses on the Great Lakes proved particularly challenging because of the weather unique to this area. Building designs had to be modified to withstand temperature variations that could exceed 120 degrees Fahrenheit from summer's heat to winter's below zero cold.
So, Thursday's departure time was delayed. Marc, Manfred and Guido showed up to do additional caulking and sealing. Then the rest of the crew appeared and goodbyes were exchanged. I'm not a hugging type of person, but they all received their share.
Into their van and away they went. Headed back to Chicago for some well deserved rest and relaxation. Donald and Gerday Hansen, of the Luxembourg Consulate in Chicago, hosted the men for the remainder of their stay. Scheduled to take in a Cub's baseball game, I wonder if the weather co operated.
Only 96 hours elapsed from the time "my visitors" arrived and "my friends" departed. So many others made their stay a memorable one I can't begin to thank each of you personally.
The crowds are now gone, but our work here continues. There is still much work to be done inside and outside the Light Station before the 16 June 2002 dedication. The generator building now sports a new red roof. The reroofing of the Light Station began Friday with the tear off of the flat roof on the sunrooms. Ron, Larry, Rick and I continue to work inside. First thing Thursday morning, Ron began building the watch room platform. Ladders and stairs have to be built and the lamp room constructed. First floor restoration may or may not be completed by June.
Fund raising must go forward. Wisconsin Energy Corp. Foundation's $15,000 matching grant is about 2/3's met. As contributions come in, we will be able to pay the roofers at the completion of their task around 01 May. Stallion Doors of St. Cloud, Minnesota, through the generousity of its president, Dan Wright, is donating the interior and exterior doors. Stallion produces only the doors, so we'll have to purchase the jams and hardware and probably do the painting and staining of the doors ourselves. We still have a $12,000+ heating and plumbing bill to pay. Tuck pointing and brick repair has yet to be started and will only be done as funds permit. All exterior wood needs to be painted, especially the windows which also need to be reglazed. Work, work, work, but oh so rewarding.
To Mario, Bernie, Edgar, Marc, Manfred and Guido, I'll never forget you. To all the volunteers, especially Ron Mans, Lloyd Croatt and Rick Smith, that worked so hard side by side with the Luxembourgers, I can't thank you enough. To the individuals and groups that hosted us, my gratitude as well as the gratitude of the Port Washington Historical Society. To Mary Flierl, thanks for keeping your sanity as our primary connection to Luxembourg. To Bea Krier, for being such a great hostess and preserver of the Luxembourg heritage in this little corner of Wisconsin.
I've never tried to write my life story, but I've thought I'd call it Growing Up Small in a Big World. Small because I've spent my life in "small town" America with small town values that stress honesty, trust and community sevice. Small because I'm still a dreamer and idealist and one who doesn't always see "the big picture." Well, since Rick Smith and I were asked to head the Light Station Restoration work, I've come to realize that I'm growing up large in a very small world. This restoration project has brought in donations from almost every state in America. Companies that are located near and far from our doorstep have come forward to donate their goods and services or offer them at reduced rates. And, of course, the biggest thing that shows how small our world has become, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, so many kilometers and an ocean away, rebuilding the tower and lantern for our 1860 Light Station in honor of those hardy immigrants that found their way here 150 years ago and in tribute to the Americans that liberated their country in WWII. As Mario put it, "This will be talked about by my children and my children's children." Now if that isn't "large" I don't know what is.
Keep the lights burning.
Twelve days until the Luxembourg workers arrive! It's driving me nuts not being able to peek into the shipping containers to see the tower and lantern. But we've waited this long, so I'll manage to contain my curiosity.
In the course of filling in the trench left by the burying of the electric service, Rick uncovered a rare treasure. There among the clay, stones and dirt he found a round, flat object that upon closer inspection turned out to be a Light House Establishment button. Gentle cleaning showed L.H.E. and the U/S symbol on the front cover and a back plate with Horstmann Bros. & Co. Phila. This information tells us the button was made 1959-1863 according to my button book, "Record of American Uniform and Historical Buttons" by Alphaeus H. Albert. Yes, I have a button book. Don't we all?
Francis Pierron and Lloyd Croatt showed up Monday past and along with Ron Mans installed 90% of the new pine 5/4 flooring. It looks wonderful! The back kitchen floor still needs to be laid, but first we have to tear up the 1934 oak flooring. I began that task on Friday morning with Rick continuing Sunday. About a third of the floor to go before I call Lloyd to let him know we're ready for the remaining floor to be laid. Thanks, Lloyd, for all your help. And pass a thank you on to Francis.
New volunteer showed up last Monday. Larry Foust, a new Port resident, left a message with Nancy M. that he wanted to help. Larry is now spending 3 or 4 hours a day painting. Really nice to have more volunteers working. It makes the Light Station seem more alive.
Just called the Light Station to check if another new volunteer had showed up. Lou Tackes, of Belgium, WI, 80 years young, has offered to assist with the window and door casements. He and Ron are hard at work right now. Lloyd Croatt is responsible for finding Lou and Francis to help. Once more, Thanks Lloyd.
Paulus construction was back on site tuck pointing the foundation below the kitchen. Joe, one of the masons, did a great job filling in places where time and the chemical cleaning had washed out or loosened joints. Pete Paulus stopped by later in the week and said he try to get the whole foundation done when time permits. He'll also do some work on the brick. I don't think there will be an additional charge for this work. Cross your fingers.
Called Azco crane to let them know that another crane source had offered their services free of charge. Karl White, of AZCO, indicated they wouldn't charge for their work, either, so it looks like we will stay with AZCO. Nice position to be in with two companies vying to donate their work.
I may have come up with a source for our five panel doors at a fraction of the cost of new doors. I made some phone calls on Friday, to Laib Restoration of Oshkosh, WI. Terry Laib was one of the first people interested in our restoration plans over 5 years ago. Terry also did a lot of work on the Rock Island restoration. Ended up speaking with his son, Matt, who said he'd look through their inventory of salvaged doors. I decided I couldn't wait, so I drove to Oshkosh. Matt put me in touch with Jay, a full time police detective and part time salvager. Jay is currently moving his stock from Manitowoc to Oshkosh, so I couldn't hunt through his entire cache. He is also salvaging a farm house in Manitowoc County, he's sure the house has all five panel doors. He'll let me know later this week what he has.
Lange Bros./Randy Lange of Milwaukee has some balustrades that almost match the ones we believe were used on the stairs leading to the second floor. Randy said he thought he could donate the spindles to the project. On Saturday I met with Vern Frier of Oostburg who has a lathe at home. He's going to try to re turn the spindles to match the profile we want. I need to check to see if they will be long enough for our stairs, as the rise is quite steep.
Pat Poole, Donna Hunsicker, Ardy and Doug continue to paint. Rick picked out a slightly off white paint to be used on the trim. Ardy, no way was I making that selection! Doug is also cleaning all the window hardware, removing the old paint so the hardware will show its brass once more. Thanks to all of you. Eileen Johnstone, our former tenant, has also begun showing up to paint. Eileen's favorite spot in the caretaker's apartment was the sunroom. Once you see it, you'll know why. Sitting there, gazing out at Lake Michigan, its glorious.
Our www.portlightstation.org website now includes PayPal, a method of making credit card donations to the Restoration Project. Tom Hudson, our webmaster, made the arrangement. He'll write checks to cover any donations that come to us that way and I'll send on the checks and names to Nancy M.
Our Red Roof Campaign continues to bring in donations. Most are for just one shingle, but some for more. Verena Wester is still hitting the pavement, stopping in at local businesses and leaving forms for donors.
A correction, my fault, regarding the Wisconsin Energy Foundation Matching Grant. The kick off date was March 7, 2002. Not March 1 as I erroneously reported. To all the Light House organizations that receive this update: Could you put out the word about our roof campaign. Time is drawing nigh when the roofers will begin their work. Schaus Roofing may be on site as early as April 15th, preparing the roof for placing the tower.
June 16, 2002 dedication plans continue in force. This evening is an "Invitation" meeting. Hopefully my list of those that have helped on the restoration from a construction standpoint is complete. Nancy M. and crew are putting in long hours regarding the dedication. Thanks to one and all.
The Ozaukee County website and Port Light Station website have yielded some interesting, historically significant information. Jim Doran, of San Clemente, CA wrote to tell us about his descendents, the Kehoes. Like many surnames, Kehoe was spelled several different ways. Of particular note is Patrick Kehoe, Lightkeeper of the Port Washington Light, 1866-1874. Patrick was a Civil War veteran. He was born in Massachusetts in 1834, and served in the 16th Infantry, Wisconsin from 1861-1865. He was wounded at Atlanta and returned to live in Port Washington. In the 1870 census it lists Patrick as Lightkeeper, wife Margaret and a daughter, Ellen. My references to Patrick's tenure as Lightkeeper are scant. When he showed up in 1866 to claim his position, questions were raised as to the authenticity of his appointment papers. The questions must have been resolved, as he served until 1874 when he was removed and replaced by Capt. Charles Lewis, Sr. The reason for his removal from office was not stated in the small Milwaukee Sentinel article I uncovered. At the time of his removal, the paper lamented his leaving, implying politics had a role in the decision to replace him with a Milwaukee man.
Ran into Frank Gahan, Easter Sunday. The Gahans lived to the west of the Light Station in the early 1940's. Frank recalls a family named Carpenter living in the Station during the war years. Also, the Cornells. We've heard from the Cornells, through a son-in-law.
Tom Griesch has made contact with a son of Charlie Graham. Charlie was the last Coast Guard "keeper" to serve in Port Washington. I'm hoping we can get some more info and photographs of the Graham family to add to our Keepers file.
Another bit of history. In 1899 photos of the light station a wood fence is clearly present. The fence boards appear to be fairly wide, with no gaps such as one would find in a picket fence. Wooden fence also visible in the 1884 photo we have. But, in a March 4, 1898 letter from the 9th District, Light-House Establishment, Office of Engineer, Ninth and Eleventh Districts, a work order for "Repairs at Sundry Stations," the material list for Port Washington includes, "550 1 1/4" x 1 1/4" x3' pickets, cost: $11." This work order also includes "cement washing dwelling." Wonder if the picket fence was ever erected? This also seems to be when the cement wash was applied to the Light Station. More pieces of the puzzle that makes up the history of our Station.
Well, if I were the keeper today, I would have the fog horn blowing its mournful dirge. The fog has lifted somewhat since daybreak, but visibility is less than a quarter mile.
Remember, now's the time to buy a shingle or a dozen shingles like Dan Smith of Florida and Port Washington. Thanks, Dan. Your Grandfather, Delos Smith, would be proud of you. Delos served a short stint as assistant keeper in Port. Still waiting for Dan to show up on our doorstep to lend a hand. No white washing to do, or lamps to be cleaned, but I'm sure we could find something for you to do! Bet you miss the fog and April dampness that chills you to the bone. Yeah, right.
If anyone receiving this update plans on attending the Sunday, 16 June Dedication and recognition dinner in the evening, motel rooms are available at Best Western, Harborside; Country Inn and Suites at the edge of town, and a Super 8 Motel, Saukville, WI. Cost of the dinner, I think, is $30. Check the website, as more info on the Dedication should be posted soon.
Keep the lights burning!
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Nigeria, South Africa’s relationship: apartheid to xenophobia
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Since a finish of apartheid in South Africa in 1994, South Africa and Nigeria have never had an easy relationship. Over a years, as opposite presidents have come and gone, a dual countries have mostly been during loggerheads for opposite reasons.
But this was predated by Nigeria’s clever oneness with black people when South Africa was still underneath apartheid rule. After obtaining autonomy from Britain on 1 Oct 1960, Nigeria mounted vigour on a apartheid regime to stop oppressing a black majority. The Nigerian supervision even went as distant as commanding a special tax to lift supports for a ransom cause.
In a inserted decades, and after a finish of apartheid, a attribute has seen some severe patches. The many diligent was between 1983 and 1998 – a second duration of troops order in Nigeria.
During this duration Mandela became boss in South Africa and took a tough position on tellurian rights. The attribute strike a new low in Nov 1995 when Mandela criticized a designed unresolved of playwright Ken-Saro-Wiwa, by a troops regime led by General Sani Abacha. Relations softened after Nigeria’s lapse to democracy in 1999. But underlying tensions have always remained. The many new trigger was a Sep 2019 attacks by South Africans opposite other Africans—including Nigerians. There were similar outbreaks of violence in 2008 and 2015. A series of African countries have been influenced by a periodic attacks on immigrants. But Nigeria has taken a quite clever stance. The backlash behind home was amply assertive that boss Muhammadu Buhari was forced to visit South Africa to revitalise considerate tactful family between a dual countries.
The limit between presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Buhari was cordial. In a main, it focused on how a dual countries should strengthen their economic, domestic and amicable family underneath a ensign of a bi-national commission, as opposite to focusing essentially on a attacks.
Following this meeting, and after envoys from both countries hold tactful talks, family between a dual countries are now behind to normal.
The Mandela era: 1994-1999
When Mandela became a initial democratically inaugurated President of South Africa he indicated early on that a country’s post-apartheid unfamiliar process would be formed on tellurian rights protection.
Mandela’s position didn’t prophesy good for destiny family with Nigeria. The nation was going by a violent time following a preference by General Sani Abacha to cancel a outcome of a 1993 presidential elections which, by all accounts, had been won by Chief Moshood Abiola. Abacha systematic Abiola’s arrest.
Relations run-down even serve after Abacha systematic a detain of activists from Ogoniland in Eastern Nigeria. Ken Saro Wiwa, who had been instrumental in a arrangement of a Movement for a Survival of a Ogoni People, became Abacha’s primary target. Abacha had him arrested with 8 others. All 9 were tried and condemned to death.
Despite tellurian calls for their lives to be spared, Abacha had them executed. Mandela swayed a Commonwealth and a afterwards Organisation of African Unity to ostracize Nigeria. He also called on a general village to boycott Nigerian oil.
Apart from Namibia’s Sam Nujoma and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, not all African leaders concluded with Mandela’s proceed to a Nigerian crisis. South Africa was a visitor in democracy, and Mandela was indicted of branch opposite his own.
Armed with this multiplication in a Commonwealth, Abacha gained certainty to continue unabashedly with his tellurian rights abuses. This worsened family between a dual countries.
The finish of troops order in Nigeria in 1998 non-stop a new chapter.
The Mbeki era: 1999-2008
In 1999, new people took over as heads of state in both countries.
President Thabo Mbeki took over as president in South Africa while in Nigeria president Olusegun Obasanjo took over a reins.
The lapse to municipal order in Nigeria augured good for family between a dual countries. In addition, a dual leaders had famous any other given a apartheid years. Both group prioritized an African agenda. Thanks to this common purpose, shared family between Nigeria and South Africa softened significantly.
It was during this time that a bi-national commission was established. The aim was to work together on mercantile and domestic issues, including trade relations.
The thought was that, as a mercantile powerhouses on a continent, a dual countries could work together for a raise of Africa.
The Zuma era: 2009-2018
In May 2007, boss Umaru Yar’adua took over from Obasanjo. He was reduction famous by a world, including South Africa. He was also unwell, and died in office in 2010. President Goodluck Jonathan took over as president.
There were changes in South Africa too during this period. In 2009, boss Jacob Zuma took over as conduct of state.
Relations between South Africa and Nigeria in a Zuma/Jonathan epoch were lukewarm. In 2012, South Africa’s preference to deny 125 Nigerians entry during Oliver Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg triggered a tactful deadlock between a dual countries. The Nigerians were denied entrance since they had shabby yellow heat certificates.
In retaliation, Nigeria deported 56 South African businessmen from Lagos.
In 2013, Jonathan paid a state visit to South Africa. The dual presidents concluded to revitalise their bi-national elect meetings, and to ascent them to embody other heads of state.
The approach forward
After Ramaphosa took over as conduct of state in Feb 2018 a wish was that family between South Africa and Nigeria would improve.
The new attacks on foreigners threatened to chuck that off course. Buhari’s state revisit was an try to lay down with Ramaphosa and plead how a identical occurrence could be avoided in future.
Going forward, a dual countries contingency terminate from noticing any other as competitors if they wish to forge a cultivatable and pacific relationship. They need to work together for a raise of a continent. Nigeria is a vital actor in West Africa while South Africa is a vital actor in a Southern African Development Community region. Sustained tensions would be to a wreckage of both countries – and Africa as a whole.
Bheki Mngomezulu, Professor of Political Science, University of a Western Cape
This essay is republished from The Conversation underneath a Creative Commons license. Read a original article.
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Qatar Population: 2,363,569
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Ruled by the Al Thani family since the mid-1800s, Qatar within the last 60 years transformed itself from a poor British protectorate noted mainly for pearling into an independent state with significant oil and natural gas revenues. Former Amir HAMAD bin Khalifa Al Thani, who overthrew his father in a bloodless coup in 1995, ushered in wide-sweeping political and media reforms, unprecedented economic investment, and a growing Qatari regional leadership role, in part through the creation of the pan-Arab satellite news network Al-Jazeera and Qatar's mediation of some regional conflicts. In the 2000s, Qatar resolved its longstanding border disputes with both Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and by 2007 had attained the highest per capita income in the world. Qatar did not experience domestic unrest or violence like that seen in other Near Eastern and North African countries in 2011, due in part to its immense wealth. In mid-2013, HAMAD peacefully abdicated, transferring power to his son, the current Amir TAMIM bin Hamad. TAMIM is popular with the Qatari public, having prioritized improving the domestic welfare of Qataris, including establishing advanced healthcare and education systems and expanding the country's infrastructure in anticipation of Doha's hosting of the 2022 World Cup. Recently, Qatar’s relationships with its neighbors have been tense. Following the outbreak of regional unrest in 2011, Doha prided itself on its support for many popular revolutions, particularly in Libya and Syria. This stance was to the detriment of Qatar’s relations with Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which temporarily recalled their respective ambassadors from Doha in March 2014. TAMIM later oversaw a warming of Qatar’s relations with Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE in November 2014 following Kuwaiti mediation and signing of the Riyadh Agreement. This reconciliation, however, was short-lived. In June 2017, Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE (the "Quartet") cut diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar in response to alleged violations of the agreement, among other complaints. This impasse continues.
The peninsula occupies a strategic location in the central Persian Gulf near major petroleum deposits
Location: Middle East, peninsula bordering the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia
Geographic coordinates: 25 30 N, 51 15 E
water: 0 sq km
Size comparison: almost twice the size of Delaware; slightly smaller than Connecticut
Land Boundaries: total: 87 km border countries (1): Saudi Arabia 87 km
exclusive economic zone: as determined by bilateral agreements or the median line
contiguous zone: 24 nm
Climate: arid; mild, pleasant winters; very hot, humid summers
Terrain: mostly flat and barren desert
Natural resources: petroleum, fish, natural gas
Land use: agricultural land: 5.6% (2011 est.) arable land: 1.1% (2011 est.)
permanent crops: 0.2% (2011 est.) permanent pasture: 4.3% (2011 est.) forest: 0% (2011 est.)
Natural hazards: haze, dust storms, sandstorms common
Current Environment Issues: air, land, and water pollution are significant environmental issues; limited natural freshwater resources are increasing dependence on large-scale desalination facilities; other issues include conservation of oil supplies and preservation of the natural wildlife heritage
International Environment Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution
Nationality: noun: Qatari(s)
adjective: Qatari
Ethnic groups: non-Qatari 88.4%, Qatari 11.6% (2015 est.)
Languages: Arabic (official), English commonly used as a second language
Religions: Muslim 67.7%, Christian 13.8%, Hindu 13.8%, Buddhist 3.1%, folk religion (2010 est.)
Population: 2,363,569 (July 2018 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 12.7% (male 151,888 /female 148,186)
15-24 years: 12.12% (male 205,242 /female 81,297)
25-54 years: 70.67% (male 1,391,192 /female 279,256)
55-64 years: 3.44% (male 62,683 /female 18,731)
65 years and over: 1.06% (male 16,295 /female 8,799) (2018 est.)
elderly dependency ratio: 1.3 (2015 est.)
potential support ratio: 78.1 (2015 est.)
Birth rate: 9.5 births/1,000 population (2018 est.)
Net migration rate: 11.5 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2018 est.)
Major urban areas - population: 633,000 DOHA (capital) (2018)
Maternal mortality rate: 13 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
Infant mortality rate: total: 6 deaths/1,000 live births male: 6.3 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 79 years male: 76.9 years
Contraceptive prevalence rate: 37.5% (2012)
urban: 98% of population (2015 est.)
rural: 98% of population (2015 est.)
total: 98% of population (2015 est.)
urban: 2% of population (2015 est.)
rural: 2% of population (2015 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: <500 (2017 est.)
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.)
total population: 97.3%
male: 97.4%
female: 96.8% (2015 est.)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24: total: 0.5% male: 0.2% female: 2% (2017 est.)
Country name: conventional long form: State of Qatar
conventional short form: Qatar
local long form: Dawlat Qatar
local short form: Qatar
etymology: the origin of the name is uncertain, but it dates back at least 2,000 years since a term "Catharrei" was used to describe the inhabitants of the peninsula by Pliny the Elder (1st century A.D.), and a "Catara" peninsula is depicted on a map by Ptolemy (2nd century A.D.) note: closest approximation of the native pronunciation is gattar or cottar
Government type: absolute monarchy
Capital: name: Doha
etymology: derives from the Arabic term "dohat," meaning "roundness," and refers to the small rounded bays along the area's coastline
Administrative divisions: 8 municipalities (baladiyat, singular - baladiyah); Ad Dawhah, Al Khawr wa adh Dhakhirah, Al Wakrah, Ar Rayyan, Ash Shamal, Ash Shihaniyah, Az Za'ayin, Umm Salal
Independence: 3 September 1971 (from the UK)
National holiday: National Day, 18 December (1878), anniversary of Al Thani family accession to the throne; Independence Day, 3 September (1971)
Constitution: history: previous 1972 (provisional); latest drafted 2 July 2002, approved by referendum 29 April 2003, endorsed 8 June 2004, effective 9 June 2005 amendments: proposed by the Amir or by one-third of Advisory Council members; passage requires two-thirds majority vote of Advisory Council members and approval and promulgation by the emir; articles pertaining to the rule of state and its inheritance, functions of the emir, and citizen rights and liberties cannot be amended (2016)
Legal system: mixed legal system of civil law and Islamic law (in family and personal matters)
Executive branch: chief of state: Amir TAMIM bin Hamad Al Thani (since 25 June 2013)
head of government: Prime Minister ABDALLAH bin Nasir bin Khalifa Al Thani (since 26 June 2013); Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defense Affairs KHALID bin Mohamed AL Attiyah (since 14 November 2017); Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs MOHAMED bin Abdulrahman Al Thani (since 14 November 2017)
cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the amir elections/appointments: the monarchy is hereditary; prime minister and deputy prime minister appointed by the amir
Legislative branch: description: unicameral Advisory Council or Majlis al-Shura (45 seats; 30 members directly elected by popular vote for 4-year re-electable terms; 15 members appointed by the monarch to serve until resignation or until relieved; note - legislative drafting authority rests with the Council of Ministers and is reviewed by the Advisory Council or Majlis al-Shura
elections: last on 17 June 2016 (next in 2019); note - in 2016, the amir extended the Advisory Council's current term an additional 3 years
election results: NA; composition - men 41, women 4, percent of women 8.9%
Judicial branch: highest courts: Supreme Court or Court of Cassation (consists of the court president and several judges); Supreme Constitutional Court (consists of the chief justice and 6 members) judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court judges nominated by the Supreme Judiciary Council, a 9-member independent body consisting of judiciary heads appointed by the Amir; judges appointed for 3-year renewable terms; Supreme Constitutional Court members nominated by the Supreme Judiciary Council and appointed by the monarch; term of appointment NA
subordinate courts: Courts of Appeal; Administrative Court; Courts of First Instance; sharia courts; Courts of Justice; Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Center, established in 2009, provides dispute resolution services for institutions and bodies in Qatar, as well as internationally
Political parties and leaders: political parties are banned
International organization participation: ABEDA, AFESD, AMF, CAEU, CD, CICA (observer), EITI (implementing country), FAO, G-77, GCC, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, LAS, MIGA, NAM, OAPEC, OAS (observer), OIC, OIF, OPCW, OPEC, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
National symbol(s): a maroon field surmounted by a white serrated band with nine white points;
national colors: maroon, white
National anthem: name: "Al-Salam Al-Amiri" (The Amiri Salute)
lyrics/music: Sheikh MUBARAK bin Saif al-Thani/Abdul Aziz Nasser OBAIDAN
note: adopted 1996; anthem first performed that year at a meeting of the Gulf Cooperative Council hosted by Qatar
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador MISHAL bin Hamad bin Muhammad Al Thani (since 24 April 2017)
chancery: 2555 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20037
consulate(s) general: Houston, Los Angeles
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires William GRANT (since 1 August 2018)
embassy: 22 February Street, Al Luqta District, P. O. Box 2399, Doha
mailing address: P. O. Box 2399, Doha
telephone: [974] 4496-6000
FAX: [974] 4488-4298
Qatar’s oil and natural gas resources are the country’s main economic engine and government revenue source, driving Qatar’s high economic growth and per capita income levels, robust state spending on public entitlements, and booming construction spending, particularly as Qatar prepares to host the World Cup in 2022. Although the government has maintained high capital spending levels for ongoing infrastructure projects, low oil and natural gas prices in recent years have led the Qatari Government to tighten some spending to help stem its budget deficit. Qatar’s reliance on oil and natural gas is likely to persist for the foreseeable future. Proved natural gas reserves exceed 25 trillion cubic meters - 13% of the world total and, among countries, third largest in the world. Proved oil reserves exceed 25 billion barrels, allowing production to continue at current levels for about 56 years. Despite the dominance of oil and natural gas, Qatar has made significant gains in strengthening non-oil sectors, such as manufacturing, construction, and financial services, leading non-oil GDP to steadily rise in recent years to just over half the total. Following trade restriction imposed by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt in 2017, Qatar established new trade routes with other countries to maintain access to imports.
GDP - per capita (PPP): $124,100 (2017 est.) $127,700 (2016 est.) $134,200 (2015 est.)
Gross national saving: 50.2% of GDP (2017 est.) 42.4% of GDP (2016 est.) 47.4% of GDP (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 24.6% (2017 est.) government consumption: 17% (2017 est.) investment in fixed capital: 43.1% (2017 est.) investment in inventories: 1.5% (2017 est.) exports of goods and services: 51% (2017 est.) imports of goods and services: -37.3% (2017 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 0.2% (2017 est.) industry: 50.3% (2017 est.) services: 49.5% (2017 est.)
Agriculture - products: fruits, vegetables; poultry, dairy products, beef; fish
Industries: liquefied natural gas, crude oil production and refining, ammonia, fertilizer, petrochemicals, steel reinforcing bars, cement, commercial ship repair
Industrial production growth rate: 3% (2017 est.)
Unemployment rate: 8.9% (2017 est.) 11.1% (2016 est.)
Population below poverty line: n/a
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 41.1 (2007)
Budget: revenues: 44.1 billion (2017 est.)
expenditures: 53.82 billion (2017 est.)
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March
Current account balance: $6.426 billion (2017 est.) -$8.27 billion (2016 est.)
Exports: $67.5 billion (2017 est.) $57.25 billion (2016 est.)
Exports - commodities: liquefied natural gas (LNG), petroleum products, fertilizers, steel
Exports - partners: Japan 17.3%, South Korea 16%, India 12.6%, China 11.2%, Singapore 8.2%, UAE 6.4% (2017)
Imports: $30.77 billion (2017 est.) $31.93 billion (2016 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, food, chemicals
Imports - partners: China 10.9%, US 8.9%, UAE 8.5%, Germany 8.1%, UK 5.5%, India 5.4%, Japan 5.3%, Italy 4.3% (2017)
Debt - external: $167.8 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $157.9 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $36.29 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $35.31 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $59.33 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $57.63 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares: $142.6 billion (31 December 2015 est.) $185.9 billion (31 December 2014 est.) $152.6 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
Exchange rates: Qatari rials (QAR) per US dollar - 3.64 (2017 est.) 3.64 (2016 est.) 3.64 (2015 est.) 3.64 (2014 est.) 3.64 (2013 est.)
Electricity - production: 39.78 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - consumption: 37.24 billion kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - installed generating capacity: 8.796 million kW (2016 est.)
Electricity - from fossil fuels: 100% of total installed capacity (2016 est.)
Electricity - from other renewable sources: 1% of total installed capacity (2017 est.)
Crude oil - production: 1.5 million bbl/day (2017 est.)
Crude oil - exports: 1.15 million bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - imports: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: 25.24 billion bbl (1 January 2018 est.)
Refined petroleum products - production: 273,800 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Refined petroleum products - imports: 12,300 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Natural gas - production: 166.4 billion cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - consumption: 39.9 billion cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - exports: 126.5 billion cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - imports: 0 cu m (2017 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves: 24.07 trillion cu m (1 January 2018 est.)
Cellular Phones in use: total subscriptions: 3,913,809
Telephone system: general assessment: modern system centered in Doha; notable efforts to deploy 5G wireless technology; steady LTE networks; one of the most connected markets in the Middle East with broadband penetration; ADSL, Fibre-to-the-Home (FttP), wireless and mobile services (2018)
domestic: fixed-line 19 per 100 and mobile-cellular telephone subscribership 169 telephones per 100 persons (2018)
international: country code - 974; landing point for the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) submarine cable network that provides links to Asia, Middle East, Europe, and the US; tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and the UAE; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; retains full ownership of two commercial satellites, Es'hailSat 1 and 2
Broadcast media: TV and radio broadcast licensing and access to local media markets are state controlled; home of the satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera, which was originally owned and financed by the Qatari government but has evolved to independent corporate status; Al-Jazeera claims editorial independence in broadcasting; local radio transmissions include state, private, and international broadcasters on FM frequencies in Doha; in August 2013, Qatar's satellite company Es'hailSat launched its first communications satellite Es'hail 1 (manufactured in the US), which entered commercial service in December 2013 to provide improved television broadcasting capability and expand availability of voice and Internet; Es'hailSat launched its second commercial satellite in 2018 with aid of SpaceX (2019)
Internet country code: .qa
Internet users: total: 2,129,360
Airports: 6 (2013)
Airports (paved runways): total 4
Pipelines: 288 km condensate, 221 km condensate/gas, 2383 km gas, 90 km liquid petroleum gas, 745 km oil, 103 km refined products (2013)
Roadways: total 7,039 km
Merchant marine: total 140
by type: bulk carrier 10, container ship 5, general cargo 6, oil tanker 7, other 112 (2018)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Doha, Musay'id, Ra's Laffan LNG terminal(s) (export): Ras Laffan
Military branches: Qatari Amiri Land Force (QALF), Qatari Amiri Navy (QAN), Qatari Amiri Air Force (QAAF) (2019)
Military service age and obligation: conscription for males aged 18-35; compulsory service times range from 4 months to up to a year, depending on the cadets educational and professional circumstances; women are permitted to serve in the armed forces, including as uniformed officers and pilots (2019)
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
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What Wine, What Film 2014
Matching wine with food? That’s SO old school. Apparently.
Now, it’s all about pairing it with music, art, books and (in my case) film.
So, for this year’s EE British Academy Film Awards best picture nominations, here are my suggestions for what wine goes with what film…
A free black man sold into slavery in pre-Civil War America and rescued by a chance meeting with an abolitionist. What a good match for Carmenere. Here’s a grape that was snatched from France and sent to the Chileans, under the disguise of Merlot. For years they thought it WAS a type of Merlot. But the abolitionist, in the shape of DNA testing, revealed its true identity and Carmenere was liberated. Now considered Chile’s signature grape, it can – like the film – be hard-going at times if not allowed to ripen properly. In the right hands, though, it can make sweet music. A bit like Solomon Northup and his violin.
The 1970s crime caper is an easy match. Retro. That means only drinking what was the height of sophistication four decades ago. Cheap Chianti in a wicker fiasco. Mateus Rose. Blue Nun. All still available, people. But if you want something drinkable, then choose Soave. It’s image may be as bad as Bradley Cooper’s perm, but there are some great ones out there that are as breathtaking as Amy Adams’ plunging neckline. Try Pieropan and Suavia.
For some reason, a man held to ransom by pirates makes me think of Bordeaux. Not that I am accusing any producer there of anything remotely nefarious, of course! But think about it. Such is the cachet of the place, there is an awful lot of overpriced, mediocre stuff swilling around that gets away with tastebud murder simply because the label says Bordeaux. Then there are the renowned chateaux – the growths – whose stratospheric prices mean that most of us will never get to liberate the contents from the bottle into our mouths. Unless we hand over an awful lot of cash….
Stunning visuals, a gripping plot and a contribution from cinematographer and wine producer Michael Seresin. What could be a better match than one of his Marlborough Pinot Noirs? They’re the sort of wines that blast Pinot lovers (like me) into orbit. They are attractive, charming and suave. A bit like George Clooney. And get this – Seresin Estate even has a Pinot called Sun & Moon. How perfect is that? Check Armit for stockists.
Despite the chirpy poster, this is a sad, poignant film. Based on the true story of an Irish woman searching for the son she was forced to give up as a teenager by nuns, it needs something warm and comforting. Something you feel guilty about liking, but shouldn’t. Like cream Sherry. The very notion conjures up images of maiden aunts and crusty old dowagers. But a good cream Sherry, an Oloroso sweetened with Pedro Ximénez (PX) instead of sugar, is a dark, rich, simple pleasure. It hugs you from the inside, and makes you feel that, despite all the cruelties in the world, there is some succour. Try Lustau East India Solera Sherry to see what I mean. Do serve it lightly chilled.
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Concept: Magnetism
Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field
Published about 6 years ago
Several mammalian species spontaneously align their body axis with respect to the Earth’s magnetic field (MF) lines in diverse behavioral contexts. Magnetic alignment is a suitable paradigm to scan for the occurrence of magnetosensitivity across animal taxa with the heuristic potential to contribute to the understanding of the mechanism of magnetoreception and identify further functions of magnetosensation apart from navigation. With this in mind we searched for signs of magnetic alignment in dogs. We measured the direction of the body axis in 70 dogs of 37 breeds during defecation (1,893 observations) and urination (5,582 observations) over a two-year period. After complete sampling, we sorted the data according to the geomagnetic conditions prevailing during the respective sampling periods. Relative declination and intensity changes of the MF during the respective dog walks were calculated from daily magnetograms. Directional preferences of dogs under different MF conditions were analyzed and tested by means of circular statistics.
Concepts: Magnetic field, Earth's magnetic field, Magnet, Earth, Dynamo theory, Magnetism, Solar wind, Magnetosphere
Direct dynamic imaging of non-adiabatic spin torque effects.
Published over 7 years ago
Spin-transfer torques offer great promise for the development of spin-based devices. The effects of spin-transfer torques are typically analysed in terms of adiabatic and non-adiabatic contributions. Currently, a comprehensive interpretation of the non-adiabatic term remains elusive, with suggestions that it may arise from universal effects related to dissipation processes in spin dynamics, while other studies indicate a strong influence from the symmetry of magnetization gradients. Here we show that enhanced magnetic imaging under dynamic excitation can be used to differentiate between non-adiabatic spin-torque and extraneous influences. We combine Lorentz microscopy with gigahertz excitations to map the orbit of a magnetic vortex core with <5 nm resolution. Imaging of the gyrotropic motion reveals subtle changes in the ellipticity, amplitude and tilt of the orbit as the vortex is driven through resonance, providing a robust method to determine the non-adiabatic spin torque parameter β=0.15±0.02 with unprecedented precision, independent of external effects.
Concepts: Magnetic field, Angular momentum, Fundamental physics concepts, Torque, Magnetism, Magnetic moment, Force, Sound
Porous silicon/Ni composites of high coercivity due to magnetic field-assisted etching.
Nanoscale research letters
Ferromagnetic nanostructures have been electrodeposited within the pores of porous silicon templates with average pore diameters between 25 and 60 nm. In this diameter regime, the pore formation in general is accompanied by dendritic growth resulting in rough pore walls, which involves metal deposits also offering a branched structure. These side branches influence the magnetic properties of the composite system not only due to modified and peculiar stray fields but also because of a reduced interpore spacing by the approaching of adjacent side pores. To improve the morphology of the porous silicon structures, a magnetic field up to 8 T has been applied during the formation process. The magnetic field etching results in smaller pore diameters with less dendritic side pores. Deposition of a ferromagnetic metal within these templates leads to less branched nanostructures and, thus, to an enhancement of the coercivity of the system and also to a significantly increased magnetic anisotropy. So magnetic field-assisted etching is an appropriate tool to improve the structure of the template concerning the decrease of the dendritic pore growth and to advance the magnetic properties of the composite material.
Concepts: Magnetic field, Magnet, Paramagnetism, Magnetism, Ferromagnetism, Composite material, Hysteresis, Boeing 787
Supercurrent enhancement in Bloch domain walls.
Conventional spin-singlet Cooper pairs convert into spin-triplet pairs in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions in which the superconductor/ferromagnet interfaces (S/F) are magnetically inhomogeneous. Although much of the theoretical work describing this triplet proximity effect has considered ideal junctions with magnetic domain walls (DW) at the interfaces, in practice it is not easily possible to isolate a DW and propagate a supercurrent through it. The rare-earth magnet Gd can form a field-tuneable in-plane Bloch DW if grown between non-co-linearly aligned ferromagnets. Here we report supercurrents through magnetic Ni-Gd-Ni nanopillars: by field annealing at room temperature, we are able to modify the low temperature DW-state in Gd and this result has a striking effect on the junction supercurrent at 4.2 K. We argue that this result can only be explained in terms of the interconversion of triplet and singlet pairs, the efficiency of which depends on the magnetic helicity of the structure.
Concepts: Magnetic field, Fundamental physics concepts, Magnet, Paramagnetism, Magnetism, Ferromagnetism, Antiferromagnetism, Domain wall
Establishment of a method to determine the magnetic particles in mouse tissues
This work is aimed to evaluate a method to detect the residual magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) in animal tissues. Ferric ions released from MNPs through acidification with hydrochloric acid can be measured by complexation with potassium thiocyanate. MNPs in saline could be well detected by this chemical colorimetric method, whereas the detected sensitivity decreased significantly when MNPs were mixed with mouse tissue homogenates. In order to check the MNPs in animal tissues accurately, three improvements have been made. Firstly, proteinase K was used to digest the proteins that might bind with iron, and secondly, ferrosoferric oxide (Fe3O4) was collected by a magnetic field which could capture MNPs and leave the bio-iron in the supernatant. Finally, the collected MNPs were carbonized in the muffle furnace at 420[degree sign]C before acidification to ruin the groups that might bind with ferric ions such as porphyrin. Using this method, MNPs in animal tissues could be well measured while avoiding the disturbance of endogenous iron and iron-binding groups.
Concepts: Magnetic field, Hydrogen, Magnetism, Sodium chloride, PH, Chlorine, Magnetite, Ferric
The non-random walk of chiral magnetic charge carriers in artificial spin ice
Published almost 7 years ago
The flow of magnetic charge carriers (dubbed magnetic monopoles) through frustrated spin ice lattices, governed simply by Coulombic forces, represents a new direction in electromagnetism. Artificial spin ice nanoarrays realise this effect at room temperature, where the magnetic charge is carried by domain walls. Control of domain wall path is one important element of utilizing this new medium. By imaging the transit of domain walls across different connected 2D honeycomb structures we contribute an important aspect which will enable that control to be realized. Although apparently equivalent paths are presented to a domain wall as it approaches a Y-shaped vertex from a bar parallel to the field, we observe a stark non-random path distribution, which we attribute to the chirality of the magnetic charges. These observations are supported by detailed statistical modelling and micromagnetic simulations. The identification of chiral control to magnetic charge path selectivity invites analogy with spintronics.
Concepts: Electron, Electromagnetism, Electric charge, Magnetic field, Magnet, Magnetism, Magnetic monopole, Topological defect
Gold-Coated Iron Composite Nanospheres Targeted the Detection of Escherichia coli
International journal of molecular sciences
We report the preparation and characterization of spherical core-shell structured Fe3O4-Au magnetic nanoparticles, modified with two component self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) consisting of 3-mercaptophenylboronic acid (3-MBA) and 1-decanethiol (1-DT). The rapid and room temperature synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles was achieved using the hydroxylamine reduction of HAuCl4 on the surface of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA)-immobilized iron (magnetite Fe3O4) nanoparticles in the presence of an aqueous solution of hexadecyltrimetylammonium bromide (CTAB) as a dispersant. The reduction of gold on the surface of Fe3O4 nanoparticles exhibits a uniform, highly stable, and narrow particle size distribution of Fe3O4-Au nanoparticles with an average diameter of 9 ± 2 nm. The saturation magnetization value for the resulting nanoparticles was found to be 15 emu/g at 298 K. Subsequent surface modification with SAMs against glucoside moieties on the surface of bacteria provided effective magnetic separation. Comparison of the bacteria capturing efficiency, by means of different molecular recognition agents 3-MBA, 1-DT and the mixed monolayer of 3-MBA and 1-DT was presented. The best capturing efficiency of E. coli was achieved with the mixed monolayer of 3-MBA and 1-DT-modified nanoparticles. Molecular specificity and selectivity were also demonstrated by comparing the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectrum of E. coli-nanoparticle conjugates with bacterial growth media.
Concepts: Bacteria, Gut flora, Nanoparticle, Escherichia coli, Chemistry, Magnetism, Proteobacteria, Magnetite
Room temperature organic magnets derived from sp(3) functionalized graphene
Materials based on metallic elements that have d orbitals and exhibit room temperature magnetism have been known for centuries and applied in a huge range of technologies. Development of room temperature carbon magnets containing exclusively sp orbitals is viewed as great challenge in chemistry, physics, spintronics and materials science. Here we describe a series of room temperature organic magnets prepared by a simple and controllable route based on the substitution of fluorine atoms in fluorographene with hydroxyl groups. Depending on the chemical composition (an F/OH ratio) and sp(3) coverage, these new graphene derivatives show room temperature antiferromagnetic ordering, which has never been observed for any sp-based materials. Such 2D magnets undergo a transition to a ferromagnetic state at low temperatures, showing an extraordinarily high magnetic moment. The developed theoretical model addresses the origin of the room temperature magnetism in terms of sp(2)-conjugated diradical motifs embedded in an sp(3) matrix and superexchange interactions via -OH functionalization.
Concepts: Oxygen, Magnetic field, Magnet, Chemistry, Magnetism, Ferromagnetism, Chemical element, Carbon
Formation of charged ferroelectric domain walls with controlled periodicity
Charged domain walls in proper ferroelectrics were shown recently to possess metallic-like conductivity. Unlike conventional heterointerfaces, these walls can be displaced inside a dielectric by an electric field, which is of interest for future electronic circuitry. In addition, theory predicts that charged domain walls may influence the electromechanical response of ferroelectrics, with strong enhancement upon increased charged domain wall density. The existence of charged domain walls in proper ferroelectrics is disfavoured by their high formation energy and methods of their preparation in predefined patterns are unknown. Here we develop the theoretical background for the formation of charged domain walls in proper ferroelectrics using energy considerations and outline favourable conditions for their engineering. We experimentally demonstrate, in BaTiO3 single crystals the controlled build-up of high density charged domain wall patterns, down to a spacing of 7 μm with a predominant mixed electronic and ionic screening scenario, hinting to a possible exploitation of charged domain walls in agile electronics and sensing devices.
Concepts: Fundamental physics concepts, Magnetism, Theory, Hysteresis, Electrical engineering, Electric and magnetic fields in matter, Electronic engineering, Domain wall
Giant Controllable Magnetization Changes Induced by Structural Phase Transitions in a Metamagnetic Artificial Multiferroic
The realization of a controllable metamagnetic transition from AFM to FM ordering would open the door to a plethora of new spintronics based devices that, rather than reorienting spins in a ferromagnet, harness direct control of a materials intrinsic magnetic ordering. In this study FeRh films with drastically reduced transition temperatures and a large magneto-thermal hysteresis were produced for magnetocaloric and spintronics applications. Remarkably, giant controllable magnetization changes (measured to be as high has ~25%) are realized by manipulating the strain transfer from the external lattice when subjected to two structural phase transitions of BaTiO3 (001) single crystal substrate. These magnetization changes are the largest seen to date to be controllably induced in the FeRh system. Using polarized neutron reflectometry we reveal how just a slight in plane surface strain change at ~290C results in a massive magnetic transformation in the bottom half of the film clearly demonstrating a strong lattice-spin coupling in FeRh. By means of these substrate induced strain changes we show a way to reproducibly explore the effects of temperature and strain on the relative stabilities of the FM and AFM phases in multi-domain metamagnetic systems. This study also demonstrates for the first time the depth dependent nature of a controllable magnetic order using strain in an artificial multiferroic heterostructure.
Concepts: Magnetic field, Fundamental physics concepts, Spin, Paramagnetism, Magnetism, Ferromagnetism, Magnetic moment, Permeability
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New South Wales, Australia - budget for anti-smoking advertising cut.
August 28, 2010 - Spending on anti-tobacco advertising, described by New South Wales's (NSW) chief cancer officer Professor David Currow as "pivotal" to reducing smoking rates, has been slashed by more than $5 million because of a budget requirement that government advertising expenses be cut by 25 percent.
The cuts have led to a 37 per cent fall in the frequency and number of anti-smoking ads placed by the Cancer Institute NSW, official figures show.
But state-owned corporations including NSW Lotteries, Sydney Water and EnergyAustralia were exempt because their advertising brings in customers and money for the state.
Greens MP John Kaye said the advertising cuts would see smoking rates increase, and made no economic sense. More young people would take up smoking, while fewer would quit, he said. "In May this year, the state's chief health officer released a study showing that the most recent estimate of the social costs attributable to tobacco in NSW is $6.6 billion annually," Dr Kaye said. "The 5.1 per cent cut to smoking rates achieved so far have cut the total social costs by more than $300 million each year.
"In economic terms alone, the advertising campaign pays for itself many hundreds of times over within a year."
But Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer) Frank Sartor said the effectiveness of the Government's anti-smoking campaign could not be measured in spending. "The best measure of any control program is its effectiveness and results, rather than a focus on campaign spending," Mr Sartor said in a statement. "In NSW, adult smoking rates are now at a record low of 17.2 percent, down from 18.4 percent a year earlier. Female smoking rates fell by 3 percent last year to 14.2 percent."
Anne Jones, Chief Executive Officer, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Australia and recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia, called for the Cancer Institute to be added to the list of government agencies exempt from the advertising cuts.
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The Trans Alaska Pipeline Coins
The Trans Alaska Pipeline Coins were the brainchild of Mac Turney who, during the 1960’s and 1970’s, lived in Fairbanks and who has been back and forth between Alaska and the Lower 48 several times. Mac and his wife Monica currently own businesses and properties in Alaska and they are pursuing yet another venture that will be good for all Alaskans by creating jobs and by bringing hundreds of visitors to Alaska each year.
The Trans Alaskan Pipeline had been on the drawing board since the 60’s and the initial estimate to construct it was only around nine hundred million dollars but after years of bureaucratic haggling and court litigation it was finally getting started in 1974 with a cost that ended up being eight times the initial estimate – over $8,000,000,000.00.
Mac thought about a Commemorative Coin commemorating the Trans Alaska Pipeline and sketched out his idea for the coin based on a photo he had showing a worker in a hard hat and the start of the pipeline in 1974.
Mac decided that the coins should be made using .999 pure silver so he made contact with a gentleman out of Colorado that was selling silver through an ad in the News-Miner around the same time who put him in contact with a private minting firm in California.
He then sent his sketch to the mint and they arranged for a local artist to draw the Artist’s Depiction of the coin which was mailed back to Mac for his approval. After a couple corrections and another approval the final artist’s depiction for the coin was complete. The drawing for the 1974 coin was done by the famous artist Barbara Hyde. The other coins in the series were done by either Barbara or another famous artist Boris Buzan.
The mint assured Mac that the first order of coins could be completed and delivered to Fairbanks in time for Christmas 1974.
With their assurances in hand Mac wired them the money for 1,000 of the 1974 coins which are to be made in one ounce .999 pure silver and went to work laying out a newspaper add for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
Let me digress and explain the process of actually making a coin in the 70’s:
First Step: The artist would form clay into a round disk about 12” in diameter and about 2” thick and with small tools they would carve the design for the coin in intricate detail in the clay. This first step would be a “positive” of the design (“positive” means: the design is exactly as it will appear once the actual coin is produced). This “positive” was then approved – or changes were made – by Mac. Once this “positive” was finished and approved the clay was allowed to dry and harden;
Second Step: The artist would then coat the clay with a non-stick coating and place it in a mold formed out of Formica that would fit snuggly around the clay disk. This would be placed on a perfectly level table and the mold would be filled with plaster and the plaster would be allowed to dry and harden. Once it has hardened the artist would separate the clay from the plaster but the clay would be destroyed in the process. Then the artist cleans any remaining clay from the plaster and carves more details into the plaster using small tools. This plaster rendering has been transformed into a “negative” of the artwork (“negative” means: everything is reversed – the design, including all words, is backwards);
Third Step: Once the plaster rendering is approved the artist then coats it with a non-stick coating and places it in a mold formed out of Formica which fits snuggly around it. This is placed on a level table and the mold is then filled with fiberglass which is allowed to dry and harden. The fiberglass rendering is separated from the plaster but the plaster is usually destroyed in the process. The fiberglass rendering is then cut at four precise locations on the outer edge so that it will mount on a “pantograph machine” which makes the die(s). The fiberglass rendering is now a “positive” of the artwork for the coin;
After a die (see below) has been made from the fiberglass rendering it is preserved for future use. Over time, as the coins are being minted from a die, the die will wear out or sometimes crack and become unusable so a new die must be made from the fiberglass rendering with a pantograph engraving machine, polished, hardened and re-polished to continue making the same coin.
Dies – how they are made: A solid round 2 1/2” to 3” bar of soft steel is cut to a specific length to be made into a coin die (around 3” long). The round bar is machined to the shape needed for the minting machine being used (there are several styles). The machining process takes precision and considerable time;
Fourth Step: Once the round bar has been cut and machined to fit the coin press the fiberglass rendering and the bar meet at a machine shop where they are attached to a pantograph engraving machine. The fiberglass rendering is attached on one end of the machine where a small feeler will trace every detail and cut the detail into the bar located at the other end of the machine where a very small diamond cutting bit cuts every detail into the bar. This takes from 24 to 48 hours – depending on cutting speed – and the bar (now a coin die) is ready for the next step. The die is a “negative” of the coin artwork;
Fifth Step: The die is polished or finished with a texture that is desired by Mac or whoever is ordering the coins from the mint. Once this is finished the die is sent to heat-treating which hardens the die so that it will stand up to the heat and pressure of the minting machine. After heat treating and hardening it is again polished or sand-blasted or finished according to the order;
Now we’re ready to mint coins – right? Not yet! This is only one side of the coin and every coin has two sides. The entire process – from sketch to artist to molds to dies to pantograph to striking the coins at the mint – has to be done for each side of the coin…..
Sixth Step (or eleventh step after both sides of the design have been made into dies): The dies are placed into a coin minting press and aligned so they line up and they are tested on a lead blank (sometimes aluminum) and re-aligned as needed. The pressure required to strike (make) the coins varies depending on the hardness of the metal used for the coin. Brass, copper, tin, zinc and other metals are harder than say silver or gold. Set up time can take a few hours to get the coin press set up perfectly.
All of this effort to make just a single coin can take days, weeks or a month to complete. In addition, as you can imagine, the cost is from several to many thousand dollars for a single, good quality, bas relief (detailed), coin.
Cheaper (lesser quality) coins do not go through this lengthy and expensive process. A lot of the recent coins are made and designed by computer – which weren’t available in the 70’s and the quality of today’s coins may be lacking in comparison to the older coins.
Back to Mac and the first – 1974 – Trans Alaska Pipeline Coin:
With the ad design in hand (using only the final artist’s depiction for the coin along with the wording for the ad) Mac went to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and placed an order for an ad depicting the 1974 Trans Alaska Pipeline Coin with a guaranteed delivery in time for Christmas 1974.
The ad came out and the orders from the News-Miner ad for the Trans Alaska Pipeline Coin were great. The coins came in from the mint via Alaska Airlines in a lead sealed five gallon metal bucket and Mac went to work filling the orders by sending the coins to individuals via the Post Office using Certified Mail. All orders were delivered in time for Christmas 1974! However, orders continued to come in after Christmas.
Mac revised his plan for the coins. He decided that he could design, produce and distribute a coin every three months depicting the progress of the Trans Alaska Pipeline. While Mac was busy mailing orders that were still coming in for the 1974 Trans Alaska Pipeline Coin he went to work on ideas for designing the second coin and setting up retailers (jewelry stores, gift shops, coin dealers and others) to sell the coins.
The first coin was dated 1974 and was minted in December commemorating the start of the Trans Alaska Pipeline after years of delays and at a budget eight times the original estimate;
The second would be 1975m (m=March) showing semis hauling the 80' sections of 48" pipe using the Yukon River Ice Crossing;
The third coin: 1975j (j=June) showing the first sections of the pipeline completed across the Tonsina River;
The forth coin: 1975s (s=September) showing elevated section of above ground pipe being installed;
The fifth coin: 1975d (d=December) commemorating the bridge across the Yukon River;
The sixth coin: 1976m (m=March) commemorating the Hover Platform crossing the Yukon River with material and crews;
The seventh coin: 1976j (j=June) commemorating President Ford visiting Pump Station #8;
The eighth coin:P 1976s (s=September) commemorating welding of the 80' sections of the 48" pipe;
The ninth coin: 1976d (d=December) depicting a carrier moving sections of pipe;
The tenth coin: 1977m (m=March) commemorating an AIA Hercules C130 used to haul material and supplies to the North Slope;
The eleventh coin: 1977j (j=June) showing the ease of Caribou migration across the buried sections of the Trans Alaska Pipeline; and,
The twelfth coin: 1977s (s=September) commemorating the loading of oil into the first oil tanker in Valdez Alaska. This coin coincided with the date scheduled for completion of the Trans Alaska Pipeline and the date they would be loading oil into the first tanker ship to transport oil to the lower 48 states.
The Trans Alaska Pipeline Coins are .999 fine silver. However, there are many sets that were struck in bronze, as well as sets in 18kt gold and sets in 22kt gold.
If you are fortunate enough to own one of these sets you have a souvenir collector’s item that commemorates one of the greatest historic events in American history. Look up the Trans Alaska Pipeline on Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_System you will be amazed at the reality, challenges and the impact on the US, of this project. Don’t forget - if you like Wiki and want to keep it free you may make a donation.
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Mural of Sandra Bland Defaced with "All Lives Matter"
#BlackLivesMatter July 29, 2015
Artists Kalkidan Assefa and Allan Andre painted a tribute mural in Ottawa, Canada to honor Sandra Bland, a recent victim of police brutality.
In early July, members of Ottawa groups BlakCollectiv and Black Lives Matter Ottawa painted the words "Black Lives Matter" on a large section of a legal graffiti wall. The original mural was defaced within hours.
"My understanding is there was a certain sense of [territory] with this wall,. The longtime artists and writers that come here felt that maybe people should have asked them for permission or asked to collaborate in order to get the message out rather than take the space up." Assefa told Ottawa Morning on Tuesday.
In response to the defacement of this wall, Assefa and Andre decided to create a tribute for Sandra Bland.
"I really wanted it to be a celebration of her life and her spirit," Andre said.
Yet again, the mural was defaced. This time, the words "All Lives Matter" were painted in white over Bland's name.
Later, a group of Black, Indigenous and white allies came together to fix the mural.
Watch the report via CBC News below.
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2000 years ago in bronze age Palestine, there were a lot of poor people. Really a whole shitload of poor people, and not just poor but desperately impoverished. Now I don't want to give the impression that I'm any sort of authority on this topic, I'm certainly not, but this sort of stuff is fairly common knowledge. Remember the scene in apocolypto where they first get into the city, and every one's all sick and fucked up? Like that but bigger. To top it off, you're taught from birth a whole lot of spooky nonsense by all the other ignorant animals around you, so you're not only bored, hungry, sick and miserable, but these people have to heap on a whole lot of fear, guilt and confusion too.
2000 years on and not much has changed. Health standards have improved (thank you secular science), choices for entertainment have expanded (thank you secular and non secular entertainers, writers etc, as well as secular science), people now have more food than ever (big thanks to science on that one, specific shout out to Norman Borlau, the man that saved a billion lives) and miserable people can now seek therapy (pretty much science), go do something fun (science and capitalism) or you can just take drugs (illicit or prescription, both with many thanks to science). Yet even with all these improvements in the quality of life, we still seem to be not much more than a pack of blind animals with too much power to understand, and no one there to explain anything useful. But there is one more big difference. In the past 50 years the ability to communicate has been improving at a blindingly fast rate, and now these people are in a position where there ideas are free to flow like piss from a drunken horse, into the ignorant animal brains of all the other little people out there. Hence we have the "New Age".
Back to 2000 years ago they didn't have no fancy mobile phones or Internets. But what they did have was a hole shit load of the miserable people crammed into a space stumbling blindly about this thing they called life, with not much better to do than just talk shit to each other. Consider that back then the age new to them. It's pretty easy to imagine these people having there own, specifically very weak, but generally very strong memes that spread among the poorer classes, serving as a replacement for real understanding. These would have been the new agers of the time. It's like this, they flung a whole lot of shit at the wall, and I mean a lot of shit, each generation is throwing shit of a different color, (specifically weak), but they're are all still flinging shit, just the way they're parents told them (generally strong). Think of it as a shit based memetic organism with an extremely high mutation rate and ever changing artificial selection pressures. So you get big shits, small shit, black shits, green shits, shit of every concievable variation to suit the new age dipshit's personal apetite, no two shit's quite the same and each shit very different to it's parent shit, but ultimately, it's all still shit.
One particular shit monster happened to take hold by a series of unfortunate events leading to a more consistant selection pressure and a mild decrease in the rate of mutation, and now we have Christians, spewing the same ignorant shit that these old new agers pulled out of they're ass 2000 years ago. Now I'm not here today to argue the historicity of the bible. I find it to be pretty laughable whether it's all bullshit or just most of it, (to my way of thinking if God wrote it, there should be a mutation rate of zero, because firstly it wouldn't be hard for an omnipotent being to try and not confuse the shit out of his people by having 4000 slightly different versions of the same fucking book and secondly because if the God wrote a perfect book any change no matter how slight can only be Satan fucking with the original script. So there you have it, most Christians are worshiping the false idol of a Satanic text, explains a lot) the point I'm trying to make is that the new agers then, are the same as the new agers now. They are spiritually hungry people, confused by the world and they're place in it. Cynical of established convention and it's ability and willingness to take advantage of them. They're realities are distorted by miss guided notions like faith and "open-mindedness" (as if there was ever an open minded new ager, there's a difference between just accepting anything you like, rejecting what you don't and existing in your own tautological epistemological paradigm, and actually being open to all ideas, and assessing them PROPERLY to see which ones hold water and then accepting the truth in spite of what you might prefer to be true, in other words, a skeptic). Yet it's from this confused counter culture this figure of a mangod came that went on to become the very essence of European mythology and later the accepted religion of one third of the world. It became a symbol, not of rebellion, but of the system itself.
So what's my point? People just refuse to learn this lesson. These people have been making up new ways to intellectually fuck people since probably the dawn of time. Anytime there's enough of them in a small enough space, you've got yourself a "new age" group that's going to leave more intellectual waste in the meme pool for everyone else to have to clean up. Meanwhile, every time we do manage to scrape one of the shit monsters out of the pool these people just keep pouring more and more in. But why are they still here? Why do these god damn new ager, religionist nut jobs still get to pump all there bogus, fear driven insanity in the well and no one is going to call them on it. We've got raliens, scientologists, anti-vaxers, homeopaths and God knows what else. These are just the latest in a series of serious attacks on the human intellect, as if we needed any more heaped on, and they are all a result of modern new agers.
So what's so dangerous about it all, where's the threat exactly? Well even now, wealthy christian groups usually without realising it are funding wars and supporting soldiers, including children, to fight and kill Muslims, who are themselves being supported by wealthy Islamic groups and trained to kill christians. This is the legacy of the old new age and that one shit monster that happened to stick to the wall. Why would you want to risk that sort of shit just so you can have this new age fantasy and keep coming up with garbage, especially given the fact that we actually are in a position to know so much more about the world than we did even 200 years ago, let alone 2000. Back then you could really right it off to unavoidable ignorance. There was just no one there to tell anyone what to do, God being conspicuously un-present. But now in spite of everything we actually have the scientific tools to try to discern the difference between what's real and what is not. Ignorance has made the transition from unavoidable to understandable to willful and it's getting pretty close to unforgivable.
Put simply if you allow yourself to accept that something can be accepted without being tested, you risk taking actions based on corrupted data, and that ladies and gentleman is how Cancer works. Unproven, discredited ideas are intellectual cancer, and one day they will kill us.
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1999 US Open: Andre Agassi beats Todd Martin, wins 2nd US Open title
August 16, 2019 · Leave a Comment
With Sampras out due to injury, Andre Agassi was the man to beat at the 1999 US Open. Agassi dropped only two sets en route to the final: to Justin Gimmelstob in the third round and Yevgeny Kafelnikov in the semifinals. In the other side of the draw Todd Martin defeated Slava Dosedel in the quarterfinals and Cédric Pioline in the semifinals to advance to his second Grand Slam final.
From Agassi’s autobiography, Open:
I’m on the verge of being number one again. This time it’s not my father’s goal or Perry’s or Brad’s, and I remind myself that it’s not mine either. It would be nice, that’s all. […]
In the final I face Martin. I thought it would be Pete. I said publicly that I wanted Pete, but he pulled out of the tournament with a bad back. So it’s Martin, who’s been there, across the net, at so many critical junctures.
At Wimbledon, in 1994, when I was still struggling to absorb Brad’s teachings, I lost to Martin in a nip-and-tuck five-setter. At the US Open the same year, Lupica [1] predicted that Martin would upend me in the semis, and I believed him, but still managed to beat Martin and win the tournament. In Stuttgart, in 1997, it was my appalling first-round loss to Martin that finally pushed Brad to the breaking point. Now it’s Martin who will be a test of my newfound maturity, who will show if the changes in me are fleeting or meaningful.
I break him in the first game. The crowd is solidly behind me. Martin doesn’t hang his head, however, doesn’t lose any poise. He makes me work for the first set, then comes out stronger in the second, taking it in a tight tiebreak. He then wins the third set – an even tighter tiebreak. He leads two sets to one, a commanding lead at this tournament. No one ever comes back from such a deficit in the final here. It hasn’t happened in twenty-six years. I see in Martin’s eyes that he’s feeling it, and waiting for me to show the old cracks in my mental armor. He’s waiting for me to crumble, to revert to that jittery, emotional Andre he’s played so often in years past. But I neither fold nor yoeld. I win the fourth set, 6-3, and in the fifth set, 6-2, and walk away knowing I’m healed, I’m back, exulting that Stefanie [2] was here to see it. I’ve made only five unforced errors in the final two sets. Not once all day have I lost my serve, and it comes as I capture my fifth slam. When I get back to Vegas I want to put five hundred on number five at a roulette table.
In the press room, one reporter asks why I think the New York crowd was pulling for me, cheering so loudly.
I wish I knew. But I take a guess: They’ve watched me grow up.
Of course fans everywhere have watched me grow up, but in New York their expectations were higher, which helped accelerate and validate my growth.
It’s the first time I’ve felt, or dared to say aloud, that I’m a grown-up.
[1] Mike Lupica, journalist
[2] Steffi Graf. They were at the beginning of their relationship.
Filed under Books, US Open · Tagged with 1999, Andre Agassi, Brad Gilbert, Cedric Pioline, Justin Gimmelstob, Open, Pete Sampras, Slava Dosedel, Steffi Graf, Todd Martin, usopen1999, Yevgeny Kafelnikov
The 1995 Davis Cup final by Pete Sampras
From Pete Sampras’ autobiography, A champion’s mind:
After the [semifinals] tie, the US team room was awash with the usual assortment of friends, family, USTA types, ITF types, and garden-variety hangers-on. At one point, I glanced across the room and made contact with Tim [Gullikson]. His face by that time was starting to hollow out and his eyes – an intense blue to begin with – were practically burning. For a second, we looked at each other, and each of us knew what the other was thinking: this should be our moment. All these other people are extraneous. This is about the two of us, and nothing can take away what we’ve accomplished, or the trust we have. I’ve never forgotten that moment or that look. It’s with me to this day as my enduring memory of Tim.
So it was on to Moscow for the November final, and I knew how much Tim wanted to see me lead the squad to a triumph. It was a tough ask, because the Russians, predictably, held the tie on very slow red clay, indoors. For them, it was th right move, even though Jim Courier and Andre Agassi could be as tough on clay as anyone. There was only one hitch – Andre was still nursing his chest injury. We hoped until the eleventh hour that Andre would be good to go, meaning that my job would be a manageable one: making sure we won the doubles, while Andre and Jim could do the heavy lifting in singles. I had confidence that we would win the doubles – I liked playing Davis Cup doubles with Todd Martin and, as ambivalent as I was about clay, I played doubles on it happily, with confidence.
We arrived in Moscow on a Saturday, six days before the Friday start. Andre had sent word that even though he couldn’t play, he would attend the tie as a show of team spirit and solidarity. That sealed the deal. Tom declared that I was going to play singles unless, of course, I felt like I was the wrong man for the job, and made enough of a fuss about the decision. How’s that for an awkard spot? What was I going to do, say, “Nah, Tom I’m not up for it. Let Todd or Richey go out there?” I could see all the makings of Lyon revisited – a full-on disaster.
Filed under Books, Davis Cup · Tagged with 1995, Andre Agassi, Andrei Chesnokov, daviscup1995, Jim Courier, Pete Sampras, Richey Reneberg, Russia, Tim Gullikson, Todd Martin, Tom Gullikson, USA, Yevgeny Kafelnikov
2014 US Open: Pat Cash/Todd Martin defeat Patrick&John McEnroe
September 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Enjoy these exclusive pictures of Pat Cash and Todd Martin win over the McEnroe brothers in the Men’s Champions Doubles final:
Filed under I was there, Seniors, Slider, US Open · Tagged with 2014, John McEnroe, Pat Cash, Patrick McEnroe, Todd Martin, usopen2014
1994: first US Open title for Andre Agassi
August 23, 2014 · 1 Comment
Excerpt from Andre Agassi’s autobiography Open
Going into the 1994 US Open, I’m number 20, therefore unseeded. No unseeded player has won the US Open since the 1960s.
Brad (Gilbert) likes it. He says he wants me unseeded. He wants me to be the joker in the deck. You’ll play someone tough in the early rounds, he says, and if you beat them, you’ll win this tournament. […]
Because of my low ranking, I’m under the radar at this US Open. (I’d be more under the radar if Brooke weren’t on hand, setting off a photo shoot each time she turns her head.) I’m all business, and I dress the part. I wear a black hat, black shorts, black socks, black-and-white shoes. But at the start of my first-rounder, against Robert Eriksson, I feel the old brittle nerves. I feel sick to my stomach. I fight through it, thinking of Brad, refusing to entertain any thought of perfection. I concentrate on being solid, letting Eriksson lose, and he does. He sends me sailing into the second round.
Then – after nearly choking – I beat Guy Forget, from France. That I take out Wayne Ferreira, from South Africa in straight sets. […]
Then I walk into a classic Chang buzz saw. He’s that rare phenomenon – an opponent who wants to win exactly as much as I do, no more, no less. We both know from the opening serve that it’s going down the wire. Photo finish. No other way to settle it. But in the fifth set, thinking we’re destined for a tiebreak, I catch a rythm and break him early. I’m making crazy shots, and I feel him losing traction. It’s almost not fair, after such a back-and-forth fight, the way I’m sneaking away with this match. I should be having more trouble with him in the final minutes, but it’s sinfully easy.
At his news conference, Chang tells reporters about a different match that the one I just played. He says he could have played another two sets. Andre got lucky, he says. Furthermore, Chang expresses a great deal of pride that he exposed holes in my game, and he predicts other players in the tournament will thank him. He says I’m vulnerable now. I’m toast.
Next I face Muster. I make good my vow that I will never lose to him again. It takes every ounce of self-control not to rub his head at the net.
I’m in the semis. […] Martin, who just beat me at Wimbledon, is a deadly opponent. He has a nice hold game and a solid break game. He’s huge, six foot six, and returns the serve off both wings with precision and conviction. He’ll cane a serve that isn’t first rate, which puts enormous pressure on an average server like me. With his own serve he’s uncannily accurate.[…]
Still, as the first few games unfold, I realize that several things are in my favor. Martin is better on grass than hard court. This is my surface. Also, like me, he’s an underachiever. He’s a fellow slave to nerves. I understand the man I’m playing, therefore, understand him intimately. Simply knowing your enemy is a powerful advantage.
Above all, Martin has a tic. A tell. Some players, when serving, look at their opponent? Some look at nothing. Martin looks at a particular spot in the service box. If he stares a long time at that spot, he’s serving in the opposite direction. If he merely glances, he’s serving right at that spot. You might not notice it at 0-0 or 15-love, but on break point, he stares at that spot with psycho eyes, like the killer in a horror movie, or glances and looks away like a beginner at the poker tables.
The match unfolds so easily, however, that I don’t need Martin’s tell. He seems unsteady, dwarfed by the occasion, whereas I’m playing with uncommon determination. I see him doubt himself – I can almost hear his doubt – and I sympathize. As I walk off the court, the winner in four sets, I think, He’s got some maturing to do. Then I catch myself. Did I really just say that – about someone else?
In the final I face Michael Stich, from Germany. He’s been to the final at three slams, so he’s not like Martin, he’s a threat on every surface. He’s also a superb athlete with an unreal wingspan. He has a mighty first serve, heavy and fast, and when it’s on, which it usually is, he can serve you into next week. He’s so accurate, you’re shocked when he misses, and you have to overcome your shock to stay in the point. Even when he does miss, however, you’re not out of the woods, because he falls back on his safe serve, a knuckleball that leaves you with your jock on the ground. And just to keep you a bit more off balance, Stich is without any patterns or tendencies. You never know if he’s going to serve and volley or stay back at the baseline.
Hoping to seize control, dictate the terms, I come fast out of the blocks, hitting the ball clean, crisp, pretending to feel no fear. i like the sound the ball makes off my racket. I like the sound of the crowd, their oohs and aahs. Stich, meanwhile, comes out skittish. When you lose the first set as quickly as he does, 6-1, you instinct is to panic. I can see in his body language that he’s succumbing to that instinct.
He pulls himself together in the second set, however, and gives me a two-fisted battle. I won 7-6 but feel lucky. I know it could have gone either way.
In the third set we both raise the stakes. I feel the finish line pulling, but now he’s mentally committed to this fight. There have been times in the past when he’s given up against me, when he’s taken unnecessary risks because he hasn’t believed in himself. Not this time. He’s playing smart, proving to me that I’m going to have to rip the trophy from him if I really want it. And I do want it.
So I will rip it. We have long rallies off my serve, until he realizes I’m committed, I’m willing to hit with him all day. I catch sight of him grabbing his side, winded. I start picturing how the trophy will look in the bachelor pad back in Las Vegas.
There are no breaks of serve through the third set. Until 5-all. Finally I break him, and now I’m serving for the match. I hear Brad’s voice, as clearly as if he were standing behind me. Go for his forehand. When in doubt, forehand, forehand. So I hit to Stich’s forehand. Again and again he misses. The outcome feels, to both of us, I think, inevitable.
I fall to my knees. My eyes fill with tears. I look to my box, to Perry and Philly and Gil and especially Brad. You know everything you need to know about people when you see their faces at the moments of you greatest triumph. I’ve believed in Brad’s talent from the beginning, but now, seeing his pure and unrestrained happiness for me, I believe unestrainedly in him.
Reporters tell me I’m the first unseeded player since 1966 to win the US Open. More importantly, the first man who ever did it was Frank Shields, grandfather of the fifth person in my box. Brooke, who’s been here for every match, looks every bit as happy as Brad.
Filed under Books, US Open · Tagged with 1994, Andre Agassi, Brad Gilbert, Brooke Shields, Gil Reyes, Guy Forget, Michael Stich, Open, Robert Eriksson, Thomas Muster, Todd Martin, usopen1994, Wayne Ferreira
Wimbledon 1994: Pete Sampras defeats Goran Ivanisevic
Excerpt of Pete Sampras autobiography A champion’s mind:
“During the grass-court season, Todd Martin won two tiebreakers to beat me in the final at Queen’s Club, and I moved on to Wimbledon to defend my hard-earned title. I lost just one set, to Todd, as I served and volleyed my way to the final opposite Goran Ivanisevic.
I had my hands full with Goran, as I would on grass during my entire career. A great deal of Goran’s juice at Wimbledon came from being a left-hander. That natural edge made his first serve even better and more effective than mine; I really believe it was. When Goran’s serve was on, it was pretty much unreturnable on grass. He was the only guy I played regularly who made me feel like I was at his mercy. I never felt that against that other Wimbledon icon, Boris Becker.
But my second serve was better than Goran’s, and the key to beating him for me always was getting hold of and punishing his second serve. Goran put tremendous pressure on my service games, because he usually held so easily. I felt that if I played one shaky service game against him and was broken, the set was gone. Very few people were able to make me feel that way, once I’d figured out the grass game. That was very tough, mentally. Goran’s serve also gave him a huge advantage as a returner – he could afford to take huge, wild cuts with his return. If he happened to tag two of those in a row, I was down love-30 – and from there anything could happen.
The final was incredibly fast tennis, played on a hot day, with balls flying all over the place at warp speed. It was a gunfight, both of us dodging bullets we could barely see, hoping to connect with a semiluck return here, or tease out an error there. That kind of tennis calls for a firm hand and intense focus. I proved slighly more steady in the crapshoot tiebreakers, and after I won two of them, Goran folded up. I won 7-6 7-6 6-0.
The match marked the high point in the growing debate about grass-court tennis. A growing chorus of critics charged that Wimbledon tennis had degenerated into a serving contest between two giants who almost couldn’t lose serve, but couldn’t break each other, either. Goran and I personified the trend, never mind that neither of us was the biggest guy around. Our big serves and our desire to end points quickly added up to a perfect storm of Wimbledon controversy.
Tennis at Wimbledon, some pundits said, was in danger of becoming irrelevant, because ongoing technologies had produced more powerful rackets that buried the needle on the power meter deep in the red. Even the tabloids got into it, running pictures of prominent politicians and others in the Royal Box sleeping soundly. Ostensibly, that had something to do with the way the game was being played.”
Filed under Books, Wimbledon · Tagged with 1994, A champion's mind, Boris Becker, Goran Ivanisevic, Pete Sampras, Todd Martin, wb1994
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BOTH U.K. AND U.S. IGNORED SIGNS OF JIHADI TAKE OVER OF IRAQ…….
Iraq obamablunders
At least for Obama, he couldn’t have cared less.
Britain and US ‘neglected alert to Iraq jihadist takeover’
Head of Kurdish intelligence in Iraq says MI6 and CIA were warned of impending Isis-Baathist attack on Mosul and Baghdad but British and US governments failed to act
President Barack Obama who has recently rejected calls for early intervention in Iraq Photo: AP
By Richard Spencer, Khanaqin, on the Iraq-Iran border
10:31PM BST 22 Jun 2014
MI6 and the CIA were handed intelligence outlining the planned takeover of northern Iraq by jihadists and their allies five months ago but the British and American governments failed to act on it, senior officials in Iraq have told The Telegraph.
The head of intelligence for the autonomous Kurdish regional government, which has links with the West, said he had repeatedly tried to send warnings both to the central government in Baghdad and to its allies, Britain and America.
But despite repeated attempts to impress on Washington and London the seriousness of the unfolding situation, he said there was no response from either government.
The claims were made as it emerged that as many as 500 British-born fighters have travelled to the Middle East in recent months to take up arms with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (Isis).
The families of three young men from Cardiff on Sunday night pleaded for them to come home after two of them appeared in an Isis propaganda video urging British Muslims to join them in their holy war.
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By wtd Jun 23, 2014
Both US and UK ignored it – just like the UN ignored the genocide between the Tsutsi/Hutu tribes of Rwanda?
How much influence does the OIC have in the world, again?
By James Boom Jun 23, 2014
ISIS knew they wouldn’t be touched before they off for Bagdad. Petro $ at work is my guess.
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Carolyn Heilbrun: When Men Were the Only Models We Had
When Men Were the Only Models We Had:
My Teachers Barzun, Fadiman, Trilling
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002)
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun may have mentioned Whittaker Chambers only a few times in passing in her 2002 memoirs When Men Were the Only Models We Had, but she sheds more light on Chambers and his contemporaries than many others.
For instance, though she clearly disdains Chambers (p. 84), she can admit confidently that, “As an agnostic, I find Maxim’s [Chambers’s] one of the best definitions of spirit I have ever heard” (p. 85). (The quote from Trilling’s novel is “Suppose we say God is the Being to whom things are rendered that are not rendered to Caesar.”)
For those interested in issues such as 1930s American intellectuals (“the New York Intellectuals“) and 1950s anti-Communism, Heilbrun’s books may be easy to miss but is nevertheless essential read. Her observations are important markers of her time — a graduate student in the late 1940s and in the 1950s, then professor (1960-1993). Heilburn was an academic leader of the generation following her “models”: her comments are revealing. For instance, she expresses mere surprise at Trilling’s 1975 description of Chambers as a “man of honor.” She said that many people found Trilling’s description “puzzling, since Chambers was a spy” (p. 84) — a mild condemnation condemned to her more politically oriented, liberal peers. Yet, why should she feel any different, given her observations that, first, Communism held little interest for her and, second, “no single issue was so central as communism to Trilling’s generation” (p. 76)?
Though Heilbrun did not set out to review The Middle of the Journey, one can only wish that, as an important, early feminist, she had. She examines only the character of John Laskell, touching little on Gifford Maxim and almost not at all on Arthur Croom and wife Nancy Croom. This is our loss.
Her reminisces are important for understanding changes in women’s self-perception in the 20th Century. Snuck among other contributions is a thoughtful essay on Lionel’s wife Diana Trilling, which contrasts quite sharply with Trilling’s public wars with Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman.
Heilbrun starts her book with Clifton (“Kip”) Fadiman — who used to his good fortune at Simon & Schuster to help Chambers (among many others). (In Chambers’s case, Fadiman got him translation work, starting with his most famous effort, the translation from German of Bambi.) Fadiman inspired her career, followed now by his daughter, Anne Fadiman. Her two final essays on Jacques Barzun are warm tributes to the only model who became a friend.
(Mentions appear on pages 75, 76, 84-85 — the name “Whittaker Chambers” does not appear in the index.)
Tagged: Anne Fadiman, Carolyn Heilbrun, Clifton Fadiman, Diana Trilling, Jacques Barzun, Lillian Hellman, Lionel Trilling, Mary McCarthy, Whittaker Chambers, Whittaker Chambers - Mention
Monex says:
Later in her days as a graduate student at Columbia it was Trilling who would have the most powerful intellectual effect upon her formulating as he did the tensions inherent in the desire to salvage what was of worth from a sad almost moribund culture even if he frankly admitted to no interest in teaching women or in considering their destinies beyond the domestic sphere. To a younger generation all three of Heilbruns mentors Jacques Barzun Clifton Fadiman and Lionel Trilling might need identification though they once loomed over the American literary and academic scene. Indeed the English department denied Fadiman a teaching position because Trilling his classmate was the chosen Jew and one was quite enough.
Carolyn Heilbrun: When Men Were the Only Models We Had « Whittaker Chambers in Books says:
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article by Elizabeth Marston
edited by Gabriella Aubut
A controversial question, “Do lockdowns really work?” When you actually put thought into it, you start to wonder. Considering every child in a public school has performed at least one school lockdown, almost every person in America knows the drill, therefore knows where their targets are. Although traditional lockdowns require students to sit down and huddle in a corner while the teachers shut the blinds, lock the doors, and cover up the window on the door, does this really help?
If a child from a public school is the one carrying out shooting the school, he or she already knows the drill. They obviously know where the kids are, and it doesn’t help that the rooms are surrounded by non-bullet proof windows. With all the kids in the classroom squeezed together in one tiny corner, it, in all reality, makes the job easier for the shooter, unfortunately. So, do lockdowns really save lives? As much as we shouldn’t have to worry about anyone shooting up schools, we do. It’s a fact that we, as students, teachers, and staff, have to worry about. The purpose of the lockdown puts the students and staff out of view of a potential shooter and creates an environment where all doors to classrooms are locked and with covered windows, so a potential shooter would not know where the students would be located, delaying any action and limiting targets.
School should be a place where everyone feels safe, and while our school makes its best effort to keep us safe, if it came down to it, would their plans actually work? Chances are, in an actual emergency situation, it is difficult to say how safe the procedure would be.
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Fair is fair EDITORIAL 07/07/2010
Fair is fair
Curiouser and curiouser it is that there is today talk from Malacañang of the probability of having the claimed Truth Commission probe not just former President Gloria Arroyo, but former Presidents Fidel Ramos and Joseph Estrada for alleged irregularities.
It was also just as curious that this suggestion came from Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales who, along with his bishops, has been noticeably actively meddling in politics, even as the bishops’ body had earlier claimed that the Catholic church will not be meddling in politics.
Still, it may be a good idea for the Davide-led Truth Commission to include all previous administrations, which should include the Cory Aquino administration and not just the Ramos and Estrada administrations, as the probe should show that the Cory administration was hardly as clean and sainted as the yellow media then portrayed it.
In the case of Estrada, the probe, if done objectively, would show that there were no irregularities committed by him or his Cabinet members, and would serve to clear him of all those allegations the anti-Erap media threw at him, in their bid to demonize him.... MORE
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Unprepared, undecided and unaware FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 07/07/2010
Noynoy Aquino and his team appear to be very unprepared for the presidency and a full administration organization, which is pretty strange, considering that he had all of a month and a half — more actually — to prepare appointees to his Cabinet, sub-Cabinet, bureaus and agencies, if only to hit the ground running from Day One. They appear to be hitting the ground...stumbling.
To this day, he has not even completed his Cabinet and he has not as yet decided whether to have a press secretary or a communications director to take charge of his media needs, or even have a press secretary that would be under the supervision of the communications director.
A secretary with Cabinet status functioning, not under the president but under a communications director?
There is also the unfilled Department of Interior and Local Government post, which he said he is taking on in a concurrent capacity. Lord knows how he can manage the DILG when he can’t even seem to manage the presidency, taking off three days after his official takeover of the presidency, and again, taking the weekend off..... MORE
Private detectives: A pre-nuptial priority for some in India FEATURE 07/07/2010
NEW DELHI — The wedding, to be celebrated in sumptuous Indian style, was due for June and everything was progressing smoothly until the groom suddenly lost interest.
Suspicious of an affair, the bride did what increasing numbers of anxious lovers and nervous families are doing in India: she rang a private detective to find out why.
In a country where nine out of 10 marriages are still arranged and modern social pressures are putting the institution under pressure, the industry of snooping on lovers has expanded fast over the last five years, say insiders.
In this case an investigation by the agency AMX — “marriage is a gamble,” says its Web site — revealed that the groom had recently discovered he was HIV positive.
The discovery was made by an attractive female undercover agent sent by the agency, who befriended the groom and found his medicine.
The wedding was eventually called off, like 20 percent of cases after a probe, AMX boss Baldev Kumar Puri told AFP.
“A pre-matrimonial investigation is your duty,” Puri said. “A post matrimonial investigation is much more costly.”
Puri and others, like Kunwar Vikram Singh, director of the New Delhi-based Lancers agency, are in a growth industry being driven by social changes and the way in which weddings are arranged.
In cities, families are relying increasingly on small advertisements in newspapers and Web sites or specialist dating agencies to find the perfect match for their children.... MORE
Good moves C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 07/07/2010
It is good that newly appointed Energy Secretary Rene Jose Almendras has deferred any action on the proposed sale of the government’s 10 percent stake in the multibillion-dollar Malampaya gas project. That gives one and all, including the old set of directors which failed to firm up a decision on the matter until it was unceremoniously changed toward the end of the term of the previous administration, to come out with their suggestions on how best to handle this issue. As Almendras himself correctly noted “...it is best that the board issues be resolved first then we will study how the Malampaya approach is going to be, or even ask the question: Do we really want to sell Malampaya if it’s generating revenues for the government today...” Which is how it should have been worked out in the first place. For if truth be told, the sale of assets such as the revenue rich Malampaya stake, considered one of the remaining “crown jewels” among government properties, should really be as deliberate as can be.... MORE
A-ha! HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 07/07/2010
Wang-wang stories have fed tabloid (and even broadsheet) headlines for a week, with reactionary law enforcement agencies taking President Aquino’s order to rid our highways of siren-equipped cars which have become more of a curse than a simple menace to law-abiding motorists, like you and me.
I have no problems with Noy’s order, however. If that’s what Noynoy wants, then he deserves to get it, as it is primarily the thrust of his inaugural speech. President Aquino only wanted to drive home a point, and there was no better way than to stir his crowd of common folk to an applause by providing a simple solution to a simple problem, which our law enforcement agencies could not seem to address, except perhaps for a short period of time when Erap was president (and Ping Lacson his Chief of Police), but it also led to Erap’s downfall when he intended to silence Chavit Singson’s siren, which proved to be louder than anybody else’s wang-wang during Gloria Arroyo’s ambitious drive to power..... MORE
Uh-oh SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 07/07/2010
Now that the excitement of “newness” has begun to ebb and the Aquino administration is buckling down to work, one can’t help but wonder about some early “slip-ups” and brow-raising moves that have reaped their share of reactions.
Philippine media, which have often been regarded by the objects of their eagle eyes as a living, breathing being that tend to bite and breathe noxious fumes, were the first to raise an “issue,” if one may call it that.
On President Noynoy’s first day at work, the Malacañang press corps got all confused over Memorandum Circular No. 1, which declared “all non-career executive service positions vacant as of 30 June 2010 and (extended) the services of contractual employees whose contracts expire on 30 June 2010.” This was then revised but still signed as Memorandum Circular No. 1, but now declared “all non-career executive officials occupying career executive service positions to continue to perform their duties and responsibilities and extending the services of certain contractual and or casual employees whose contracts expire on June 30.”.... MORE
Luisita massacre case closed—Palace By Aytch S. de la Cruz 07/07/2010
Ombudsman already cleared Noynoy—spokesman
Luisita massacre case closed—Palace
By Aytch S. de la Cruz
For a presidency that calls for closure — even through a special Truth Commission — this is easily claimed to have closure when it comes down to a case involving President Aquino and his Cojuangco relatives pertaining to Hacienda Luisita. To Aquino and his Palace, the hacienda case is a closed case that should not be questioned or investigated further.
Malacañang yesterday said the long-standing issue on the plight of the victims in the 2004 Hacienda Luisita massacre should be regarded as a “closed case” following the resolution supposedly executed by the Office of the Ombudsman which absolved then Tarlac congressman now President Aquino of any accountability in the massacre of the farmers.
This acquittal of Aquino must have been recent, since this issue was a campaign issue against him yet his camp never stated that then Senator Aquino had already been cleared by the Ombudsman.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda made this statement in response to a reporter’s question on how Aquino plans to address the continuing cry for justice of the relatives of the farmers who were killed in the outskirts of the Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac while fighting for their right to just compensation from the Cojuangco-Aquino clan.
“That (Hacienda Luisita massacre issue) has been investigated. There was already an Ombudsman report way, way back and it has already cleared then Congressman Benigno Aquino III. So it’s an old issue,” Lacierda said.
“That’s been a closed issue…that has been a campaign issue before and we have already answered that—that the charges against then Congressman Benigno Aquino were already dismissed,” he reiterated in an apparent bid to quickly end a discussion on the matter.
Lacierda also mentioned that the protracted land row dispute in the HLI between the farmers and the Cojuangco-Aquino clan will be addressed by newly-appointed Agrarian Reform Secretary Gil de los Reyes but he said the case will be treated just “like any other ordinary case.”... MORE
Noynoy eyes line budgeting, slashed pork
Miriam claims Villar already has Senate presidency in the bag
Comelec into cover-up on folder scam—ex-employee
Widened ambit seen to weaken truth body
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Noynoy eyes line budgeting, slashed pork By Gerry Baldo 07/07/2010
By Gerry Baldo
President Aquino’s popularity could be short lived in the Senate and the House of Representatives, with his Liberal Party (LP) allies disclosing yesterday that the ruling party is now eyeing to itemize the budget and slash the pork barrel, euphemistically called Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), into something that is just enough for each congressional district.
Quezon Rep. Lorenzo “Erin” Tañada III, LP spokesman, said each department would have to depend on its budget and not on the congressional allocations from the pork of the lawmakers.
“It has always been mentioned during the campaign that President Aquino favors zero budgeting, which means each department would have to depend on its actual budget.”
Tañada explained that Aquino wants to find out if there is really a need to increase the budget.
“This is because we might say that we need a P1.6 trillion or P1.7 trillion budget, but that the reality is that we may just be needing only P1 trillion,” Tañada said, adding that a big cut in the pork barrel could drastically reduce the budget deficit.
Citing the recent decision of the G20 heads of government during their Toronto Summit on June 26 and 27, 2010 to reduce their deficits, Tañada said Aquino’s move would augur well with the move of the world’s biggest economies.
Miriam claims Villar already has Senate presidency in the bag By Angie M. Rosales 07/07/2010
By Angie M. Rosales
While senators engage in a psy-war to gain the needed numbers to seat a new Senate president when Congress opens late this month, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago said the support being contested is already in the bag for Sen. Manuel Villar Jr.
Santiago disputed conflicting claims on who among the senators will support to replace Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and gave hints that Senator Villar, one of the frontrunners, already has secured the commitment of 12 of them.
This, she said, was long before another aspirant, Liberal Party (LP) bet Sen. Francis Pangilinan, started courting senators for support.
“There are some who are mistaking their dream for the reality. They’ll wake up on July 26 (Congress’ opening),” the senator said in twitting Villar’s so-called rivals during a phone-patched interview with reporters.
Santiago, who already made earlier pronouncement on Villar securing the commitment of some of their peers, said immediately after the May 10 elections, where Villar lost in his bid for the presidency, he had managed to seal the support of 12 senators for the Senate leadership.
This would mean having 13 of the required votes, to include Villar himself, according to Santiago.... MORE
Comelec into cover-up on folder scam—ex-employee By Marie A. Surbano 07/07/2010
By Marie A. Surbano
Commission on Elections officials, evidently, even the Comelec commissioners, are allegedly into a cover-up of the P700-million budget translated into 1.8 million ballot secrecy folder scam, with their refusal to even put under suspension those poll officials mentioned in the poll body’s law department probe findings.
This was the charge aired by former Comelec employee Melchor Magdamo, the whistleblower, who has called for the immediate suspension of the people behind the botched P700-million secrecy folder acquisition during the May 10 polls.
Magdama said by not suspending the poll officers named in the probe report, there is no one to prevent the pieces of evidence in the case from possible “disappearances.”
Magdamo stressed that all those implicated in the controversy remain in position and it has become only too obvious that the Comelec high officials are planning a cover up.
He particularly cited Comelec executive director Jose Tolentino who he stated in his affidavit as the poll official who had approved the specifications of the ballot secrecy folder that was given to the winning supplier OTC Paper Supply.
“The mere fact that Tolentino (and others) are still there, it is obvious that there would be a cover up. They (their superiors) should have placed under preventive suspension all those involved to prevent them from getting the evidence…,” Magdamo said in Filipino during an interview at UNTV.
Magdamo noted that this is not the first time that evidence in cases in the Commission disappears.
A highly reliable source in the Comelec, told the Tribune that on top of the list of poll officials involved in the folder scam is Tolentino, who was also under fire during the congressional probe of the automated polls as well as the Congress during the presidential canvassing, for having issued last minute memos and changing rules, thus opening the auto polls open to electoral fraud.... MORE
Widened ambit seen to weaken truth body 07/07/2010
Expanding the scope of the so-called Truth Commission to include alleged irregularities and abuses committed during the Ramos and Estrada administrations could only muddle, if not weaken, the purpose of the body and affect its initial expressed purpose of giving closure to issues raised against former President Arroyo.
Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago also expressed pessimism over the competence of the fact-finding body under the helm of former Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. in taking up unresolved cases supposedly committed in the last three adminis-trations.
“That is justified under the circumstances but it might have a problem building up a case or finding evidence to sustain the charges against (former) President Arroyo. We might be asking too much from it,” she said in a phone-patched interview with Senate reporters.
Some church leaders have urged Malacañang to expand the mandate of the body and not focus solely on Arroyo but to include past presidents.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said the Palace was open to this idea but clarified that it is up to Davide to decide on this matter given his authority to oversee the commission.
“For me, the magnitude of the task makes it impossible. You’re talking the presidency. There are so many layers of bureaucracy that insulates the president. So it’s very hard to prove that the (former) president was first liable for an official act of the State. That’s why if the investigation against all other prior presidents are conducted at the same time as the investigation against (former) President Arroyo, that is the best way to dilute the limited resources of government and in effect, stymie the proceedings,” she pointed out.... MORE
Malacañang sees nothing wrong in extension By Michaela P. del Callar 07/07/2010
By Michaela P. del Callar
Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo defended yesterday his directive to extend the terms of 21 political diplomats appointed by former President Arroyo, saying there is nothing irregular and illegal about it.
In a media interview, Romulo said the extension of terms of political envoys has been a common practice by previous presidents such as Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos and Joseph Estrada.
“During the time of transition from President Ramos to President Estrada, they were extended for six months from July 1 to Dec. 31. During Cory’s time, they were also extended,” Romulo was quoted as saying.
Under the Constitution, the President has the power to appoint or re-appoint officials and diplomats, but not extend their terms and, therefore, a Commission on Appointments confirmation is needed.
In a separate interview with the same network, former congressman Apolinario Lozada, who used to be a career diplomat, branded as “questionable” the extension of the envoys.
Lozada pointed out that political diplomats cease to represent the Philippines once the President who appointed them steps down. “They aren’t representatives of (President) Noynoy (Aquino). That’s illegal,” Lozada said.
He added that the envoys should have tendered their courtesy resignation on or before June 30 and turned over the operations of the embassies to their deputies.
Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. said in a statement that he and Romulo have jointly recommended to Aquino to allow a three-month extension of the terms of the ambassadors, whose terms were deemed to have ended with that of Arroyo on June 30. If approved, the terms of 21 ambassadors should expire on Sept. 30.... MORE
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Giving the US-backed MILF its substate EDITORIAL 08/31/2011
Giving the US-backed MILF its substate
With the Moro Islamic Liberation Front panelist talking, certain points during that “secret” meeting in Japan between Noynoy and MILF chieftain appear to bear out suspicions that Noynoy did promise the MILF certain things, including a substate for the BangsaMoro government, and a lot more besides, since some Cabinet officials representing the very departments that are excluded in the substate version of the MILF were also present.
The MILF was pretty upbeat after the secret talks with Noynoy, and its leaders were already talking as though the substate proposal they spoke about was a done deal, with merely a final accord making it official.
Obviously too, with the Budget Secretary Butch Abad also in the picture, money — and a lot of it — not just a measly P5 million to keep the MILF happy — was part of the secret meeting topic.
The talk apparently had already revolved around a substate, with a BangsaMoro authority granted a lot of state power and with the government of the Philippines having the authority over national defense, foreign relations, currency and postal services and would still be exercised by the central government..... MORE
The power of money — and control FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/31/2011
The power of money — and control
Noynoy and his budget boy show clear signs of making the Supreme Court (SC) toe the Malacañang line.
It has become much too clear that Noynoy wants to control the high court, to the point of having slashed the SC’s budget last year, and again this year, with Malacañang insisting that P1.25 billion in the judiciary’s budget should be under the executive department’s control, using the mantra of “judicial transparency.”
The problem is that under the Constitution, the judiiciary is protected by its fiscal autonomy, besides which, Noynoy and his administration can hardly claim, in all honesty, that they are transparent, especially about the funds. To this day, Noynoy has not accounted for the expenses made on his 2011 P400-million intelligence funds, as well as his expenses in the matter of the funds in his presidential social fund (PSF). No project has been announced thus far that he had assisted though his PSF.
Today, despite the utter lack of Palace transparency, Noynoy even has added another P200 million to his inteligence fund, for a 2012 total of P600 million in intelligence fund alone, even if his office is strictly not into intelligence gathering, which is the reason he cut off intel funds in other departments..... MORE
Tough times ahead for Japan’s Noda, say analysts ANALYSIS 08/31/2011
Tough times ahead for Japan’s Noda, say analysts
TOKYO — New Premier Yoshihiko Noda faces a struggle to stop Japan’s revolving door of political leadership, analysts warn, jeopardizing his chances of tackling the world’s biggest debt burden.
The hawkish finance minister replaced Naoto Kan as prime minister Tuesday to become the nation’s sixth new leader in five years after the ruling Democratic Party of Japan chose him as its new president over rival Banri Kaieda.
Noda, who likens himself to a marine bottom-feeder rather than a glittering goldfish, has stressed his credentials as a responsible, moderate and middle-of-the road leader at a time of national crisis.
But there is skepticism that will be enough, with his immediate priority the passing of a third budget to pay for post-March 11 quake reconstruction as he looks to revive an economy that has contracted for three straight quarters..... MORE
Valueless C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 08/31/2011
Valueless
Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, she of the acerbic tongue and matchless wit, is at her fightingest mode all over again. She has scored her colleagues’ propensity to undertake “inquiries-in-aid-of-legislation” instead of buckling to actual legislative work and policy making. She admitted that most of the time the probes do not really serve their purpose and, worse, turn senators into two bit investigators and prosecutors. Herself a darling of media, she decried the fact that the medium has actually turned legislators into actors doing everything possible to get into the news and bring attention to themselves rather than the topic at hand. She called the hearings which are usually covered live on TV and radio as variously “inquiries-in-aid-of-election” or “inquiries-in-aid-of-public adulation.”
Said Santiago: “These inquiries-in-aid-of-legislation or public hearings or public investigation of the Senate are actually useless. It is valueless because the most that we can do is refer the case to the Ombudsman or the Department of Justice for them to study if there is probable cause to conduct preliminary investigation. If we have the power of preliminary investigation that would justify the time spent in these proceedings, we become investigators and fiscals. But that is not the case..... MORE
Cambodia’s activist monk fights on despite threats focus 08/31/2011
Cambodia’s activist monk fights on despite threats
PHNOM PENH — His saffron robe a rare beacon among protesters, Cambodia’s most outspoken monk has been banned from temples and risked arrest for challenging rights abuses — but he vows not to be silenced.
“The more they threaten me, the more I stand up for our rights,” said the Venerable Loun Sovath, also known as the “multimedia monk” for filming forced evictions and distributing the footage.
In a country where Buddhist monks are hugely respected but rarely seen standing shoulder to shoulder with those fighting abuses, his peaceful activism has attracted praise from rights groups — and condemnation from authorities.
“Seeing a monk among the crowd lifts the spirits of people defending their human rights,” the bespectacled holy man told AFP during a recent interview in the capital, where he joined a rally against deforestation..... MORE
US opposes VFA review —Wikileaks By Michaela P. del Callar 08/31/2011
US opposes VFA review —Wikileaks
The United States had opposed the review of the controversial Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the Philippines even as the Philippine government pointed out “defects” in the defense accord, a US Embassy cable released by online whistleblower WikiLeaks said.
Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs Richard Lawless, who visited in Manila in 2007, told Department of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Rafael Seguis in a meeting that there is no need to review the agreement since it is working well for both countries.
Manila is spe-cifically against a vague provision granting the US primary custody of American military personnel ac-cused of breaking Philippine laws. Surrendering erring American troops to Philippine authorities would mean they would have to be incarcerated in a local jail, touted as one of the worst prison cells in the world, and join other Filipino inmates, a move the US government strongly objects.
This situation was put to a test when Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith was accused of raping a Filipina off military hours..... MORE
Bad performance did Alvarez in — Palace By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 08/31/2011
NOY REMAINS TIGHT LIPPED ON REPLACEMENT
Bad performance did Alvarez in — Palace
Bad performance did in former Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez, and not his claim of bad publicity which Alvarez insinuated to have been orchestrated by smuggling syndicates, the Palace stated yesterday.
Bad publicity was not the reason for President Aquino’s decision to sack Alvarez, deputy presidential spokesman Abigail Valte said yesterday.
But even as Aquino declared that he had already given the walking papers to Alvarez, Valte claimed Aquino’s aides are being kept in the dark on his replacement.
She is also uncertain when the actual turnover would take place..... MORE
RP backs new Libyan government By Michaela P. del Callar 08/31/2011
RP backs new Libyan government
The Philippines yesterday finally withdrew its support for Libyan strongman Moammer Kadhafi and announced that it is officially recognizing the opposition-backed National Transitional Council (NTC) as the legitimate government in Libya.
As members of the Kadhafi family departed Libya and sought refuge in neighboring Algeria, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) referred to the NTC as the “legitimate representative of the Libyan people” and urged it to “lead the country toward peace and security.”
“The Philippines recognizes the National Transitional Council as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people during this period of transition in the country,” a DFA statement said.
Manila’s support for the NTC indicates the country’s new policy toward Libya after it had hesitated in the past to immediately shift sides as Kadhafi’s grip on power waned to safeguard hundreds of Filipino workers from possible retaliatory attacks..... MORE
Solon urges GSIS to restore pension of Napocor retirees 08/31/2011
Solon urges GSIS to restore pension of Napocor retirees
Newly installed Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III yesterday asked the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) to restore the monthly pensions of nearly 9,000 National Power Corp. (Napocor) retirees that the state-run pension agency stopped last April, allegedly in compliance with a Supreme Court ruling.
Pimentel urged GSIS chairman Daniel Lacson and GSIS president and general manager Robert Vergara to liberally interpret the laws in favor of its members or beneficiaries.
“If, under our Labor Laws, a fair day’s pays for a pair day’s work is a long accepted doctrine, the same should equally apply to retirees who look at their retirement benefits as a financial refuge in their old age,” Pimentel said.
Pimentel said Napocor retirees have made invaluable contribution to the development of the Philippine electric power industry and deserve due recognition for services rendered..... MORE
Lawmaker mulls people’s initiative vs oil deregulation law 08/31/2011
Lawmaker mulls people’s initiative vs oil deregulation law
Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares yesterday called on consumers to launch a people’s initiative to repeal the Oil Deregulation Law considering that it has caused so much price increases in oil products and has not served its purpose of lowering its cost.
This will be a parallel initiative to Congressional action on bills filed by Bayan Muna and the progressive block in Congress to repeal the Oil Deregulation Law.
“It is about time the people take “the law into their own hands,” said Colmenares. “Actions within and outside Congress could help push the eventual repeal of the law that has allowed spiralling fuel prices in the country.”
Colmenares said that “an “Initiative” is the power of the people to propose amendments to the Constitution or to propose and enact legislations through a petition of 10% of the registered voters.”.... MORE
PRC scraps mass oath-taking of newly registered nurses 08/31/2011
PRC scraps mass oath-taking of newly registered nurses
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz yesterday said the Board of Nursing (BoN) of the Professional Regulation Commission has scrapped the usual mass oath-taking of newly registered nurses beginning with the successful examinees of the July 2011 Nursing Licensure Examination.
Baldoz said the move is in response to the Aquino government’s call for prudent budget management.
She said Commission ChairmanTeresita Manzala reported to her that the BoN has decided to do away with the mass oath-taking of successful examinees, citing the current socio-economic condition being experienced by Filipino families, especially the income class where majority of the nurses belong.
“While the oath-taking is a requirement of law, the Board [of Nursing] decided to simplify it to save on costs and other expenses relevant to the holding of the traditional mass oath-taking. The oath-taking ceremony, however, will still be undertaken either individually or by groups upon their registration for nurse licenses with the PRC,” Manzala explained..... MORE
Noy’s bag of surprises EDITORIAL 08/30/2011
Noy’s bag of surprises
The nation hasn’t yet recovered from the surprise that Noynoy pulled in that secret meeting held with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chairman, Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, in Japan that many saw as a revival of the scuttled Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD) which sought to create the unconstitutional Bangsamoro Juridical Entity (BJE), now Malacañang has sprung another whammy in the $50-billion joint exploration agreement that may be brought up in Noynoy’s visit to China starting Aug. 30.
The agreement sounds like another rerun of another controversial past deal. The Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking Agreement with China during the Arroyo administration was assailed as being grossly tilted toward China’s since it allowed the exploration of areas which are not part of the disputed territories. The Senate then said that going through with the agreement would be an impeachable offense on the part of the President.
The Palace has not released any details on the agreement, merely giving an assurance that the administration would assure that the agreement would be fair on the benefits to be derived from it..... MORE
Impossible dream FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/30/2011
Strange are truly the ways of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) — despite the country being under a claimed honest and transparent Aquino administration.
One would have thought that, having Noynoy appointees to head the Comelec, the electorate can now hope to have a clean poll body and clean polls.
But it appears that no such thing is likely to happen — especially as the 2013 senatorial polls loom, with, no doubt, Noynoy wanting to ensure the victory of his senatorial bets — which means bets largely coming from the Liberal Party ranks.
While a joint probe body headed by both the Department of Justice and the Comelec will be conducting hearings on the alleged 2004 and 2007 election fraud and the designated members named, the Comelec chairman apparently had a change of mind and pulled out its former law department director Ferdinand Rafanan as member of the joint Comelec-DoJ panel..... MORE
Not a peep NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 08/30/2011
Not a peep
Outside of typhoon talk, last week’s usap-usapan centered mostly on three topics: Negros Occidental Rep. Ignacio Arroyo once again covering up for Kuya Mike, Zambales Rep. Mitos Magsaysay’s heated exchange with Communications Secretary Ricky Carandang, and an Agusan-based priest’s alleged rape of a female minor.
Recall that we never really hear anything from Iggy Arroyo. Not a peep, on issues big or small. He just really creeps out of the woodwork whenever there’s need to defend the bro’. And look here, for this time around, he’s not even well, there’s talk about a serious ailment that needed to be treated all the way in London. Yet he broke free from the treatment, albeit momentarily, to confer with lawyers, and thereafter issue statements clearing utol of anything and everything, along the lines of “Whatever it is, it ain’t Jose Miguel whodunit, I dunnit.”
So, ‘ayan. The helicopters Sen. Ping Lacson’s witnesses say were actually owned by the former First Gentleman and used in his wife’s 2004 campaign and then sold to the Philippine National Police as brand new? Ex-FG knew nothing about that, because it was all Iggy’s doing. And then Iggy proceeds to tell an unlikely tale of choppers not really owned by them, but merely leased. So on and so forth, ad nauseum, with Iggy clearly expecting us to believe him..... MORE
There is an alternative AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 08/30/2011
There is an alternative
This outsider has it on good authority that in the recent past, former president Joseph Estrada has developed an admiration for Claro M. Recto, who over the course of his career evolved from traditional politician to consistent nationalist. Had Recto’s nationalism begun to work its magic earlier, there would have been no question of Mr. Estrada attempting to remove the nationalist safeguards from the Constitution during his abbreviated presidency. It would seem, however, that son Jinggoy has yet to fall under the Recto spell, for he is calling for the “outdated charter” to be amended.
Another senator supporting a review of the economic provisions is Antonio Trillanes IV. According to the Philippine Star report of Aug. 16, his main interest seems to lie in securing a reduction in domestic shipping rates (presumably by the introduction of foreign competition, although this is far from clear). He also argues that Congress should discuss and vote on the amendments one by one, in the same manner as normal legislation, thus obviating the need for a constitutional convention or constituent assembly, either of which might be railroaded into a sweeping revision of the Charter.
It is surprising to see Trillanes’ name associated with revision or elimination of the economic provisions because he is held to be a staunch nationalist. Indeed, when I interviewed Sonny Melencio earlier this year for my current book project (the third and final volume of a history of the Philippine left; the first volume was published by UP Press in 2007 as Forcing the Pace, while the second, A Movement Divided, will be issued by the same publisher very shortly), he recalled how, when he had visited Trillanes in detention, the latter had expressed opposition to socialism on the grounds that it was “foreign.” So too, Melencio pointed out, is nationalism, meaning that some ideologies, although originated in specific geographical/historical circumstances, can have universal application.
Armstrong relives historic moon landing FEATURE 08/30/2011
Armstrong relives historic moon landing
SYDNEY — It’s more than 40 years since Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, but his memories of the historic flight remain as undimmed as his passion for further exploration of space.
The Apollo 11 commander, now aged 81, relived the 1969 mission that enthralled the world as he watched Google’s new high-definition images of the moon in Australia last week.
The pictures, available on YouTube since May but which Armstrong said he had only just seen, show Apollo 11’s landing spot, including the fuel cell left behind which it also used as a launch pad.
“So for the sceptics about whether we ever landed on the moon — this is a pretty good indication that somebody’s done it,” he quipped to a business audience that had paid hundreds of dollars to hear him speak..... MORE
PPP: Once again — with feeling VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 08/30/2011
PPP: Once again — with feeling
There was this recent disappearing act of no less than the President of the Republic: It was called a “visit.” It was done “abroad.” It was held “secret” in nature and objective.
Thus it came to pass that there was a time when the country had a President who could be then rightfully considered “missing” by the People of the Philippines — until the rare phenomenon was eventually brought to their attention. The cat is out of the bag. The issue is big. The implication is profound.
Briefly said, true or false, the distinct occasion brought to fore a distinct concern about the distinct matter of a “substate” in Mindanao — or something the like. The reactions were serious and immediate. Those indirectly concerned registered their reservations. Those directly concerned came up with their own convictions.
Thus came to pass the huge and shrieking headline of a well-known national daily echoing the choice occasioned by the said “visit.” In other words, some kind of an alternative was given to the Malacañang occupant: “Popularity or Peace.” Translation: Disregard the establishment of the “substate” and remain “popular.” See to it the “substate” becomes a reality and “peace” would be the fruit thereof..... MORE
Kato rattles saber as MILF queries gov’t offer for peace By Mario J. Mallari 08/30/2011
Kato rattles saber as MILF queries gov’t offer for peace
A supposed renegade member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Ameril Umbra Kato vowed yesterday to destroy peace efforts between the government and the secessionist group as the main MILF negotiators questioned the government’s offered formula of a “Bangsamoro Commission” in its proposed draft peace agreement, claiming such does not provide real autonomy to the Moro people.
Surrounded by a small band of ragtag but ruthless followers, hardline Muslim rebel commander Kato vowed to destroy the latest peace efforts.
Decades of fighting have neither wearied nor diluted the resolve of the Saudi Arabian-educated guerrilla, and he warns he remains willing to kill and die in his quest to achieve an independent Muslim homeland in the resource-rich Mindanao.
Jun Mantawil, head of the MILF peace panel secretariat, meanwhile, said the government of the Philippines’ (GPH) proposed draft agreement was not meant to allow Bangsamoro people self-determination being pursued by the MILF..... MORE
Alvarez already sacked, says Noy By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 08/30/2011
EX-CUSTOMS CHIEF BLAMES SMUGGLERS BEHIND BID TO OUST HIM
Alvarez already sacked, says Noy
Earlier denials of an impending top-level revamp at the Bureau of Customs (BoC), notwithstanding, President Aquino yesterday announced that he had sacked Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez who came under fire following the disclosure that 2,000 container vans vanished into thin air right under the nose of the Customs chief.
In pre-recorded interview over Radio Mindanao Network, Aquino disclosed that he had fired Alvarez and had found a replacement for him without giving a name, bolstering lingering speculations the President’s action has long been a done deal although he tried very hard to deny it.
Aquino’s announcement came a day before his scheduled five-day state visit to the People’s Republic of China.
Alvarez, meanwhile, said he will start packing his bag after Aquino confirmed his dimissal..... MORE
Saudi Arabia extends ‘Royal Amnesty’ to overstaying Filipinos 08/30/2011
Saudi Arabia extends ‘Royal Amnesty’ to overstaying Filipinos
Filipinos who are overstaying after performing “Umrah,” a form of pilgrimage, are given until Sept. 14 to leave Saudi Arabia, the largest Islamic state in the Middle East and where the two Holy Mosques are located, without being penalized, according to a Filipino migrants right group.
Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona said last April 27 the Saudi Ministry of Interior announced that a Royal amnesty was granted to expatriates who have violated residency rules and overstayed as reflected on their ‘umrah’ visas on Sept. 22, 2010 for a period of six months or up to March 23, 2011. This has been extended up to Sept. 14, 2011.
“Filipinos who were overstaying after performing ‘Umrah’ have barely 15 days to avail themselves of the Royal pardon. They could leave Saudi Arabia without any corresponding penalty, monetary and weeks of detention at the deportation center till Sept. 14,” Monterona added.
Monterona said overstaying Filipinos can directly proceed to any Saudi international airports and will only be required by Saudi immigration authorities to present his or her passport along with the expired ‘umrah’ visa and airplane ticket..... MORE
Bill seeking to video-tape all gov’t transactions filed By Angie M. Rosales 08/30/2011
Bill seeking to video-tape all gov’t transactions filed
A proposition has been laid down in the Senate where government procurement transactions are being required to be video-taped, in the hope of preventing and discouraging corruption.
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV proposed to make mandatory the video recording of all the meetings and proceedings starting from the level of the bids and awards committee (BAC) to ensure transparency and honesty in the execution of government policies.
Five years since the enactment of the Government Procurement Reform Act or Republic Act 9184 is still plagued with collusion, abuse of discretionary criteria, malfeasance, misfeasance, and other forms of corruption, the senator noted.
“It is high time that we use video recording in all the procurement transactions of the government to prevent corruption issues like the anomalous purchase of helicopters by the PNP (Philippine National Police) officials,” Trillanes said..... MORE
Philpost stops free ‘snail mail’ service to judicial system By Benjamin B. Pulta 08/30/2011
Philpost stops free ‘snail mail’ service to judicial system
In a sign of the times, postal officials yesterday said its cash- strapped operations could no longer provide free “snail mail” service to the country’s judicial system and asked the Supreme Court (SC) to formally review the “franking privilege” it enjoys.
Despite recent rules allowing electronic evidence and other advances in paperless documentation, the bulk of pleadings before the courts are still paper-based copies sometimes requiring up to 11 copies of a single pleading.
The Philippine Postal Corp. (Philpost) is now asking the high court to share in the cost of transporting the franked mail by air..... MORE
Multinational firms behind push for RH bill — solon 08/30/2011
Multinational firms behind push for RH bill — solon
Multinational companies manufacturing condoms and other contraceptives are behind the push for the passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) bill, a lawmaker from Manila said yesterday.
According to Manila Rep. Amado Bagatsing, the multinational companies, mostly American pharmaceutical firms, are expected to earn some P200 million every day from the sale of contraceptives in the country.
“Hindi naman ang RH ang isyu dito eh. Gusto lang kumita ang mga Kano kaya sila ang nasa likod niyan,” Bagatsing said.
Bagatsing, a member of a congressional bloc opposing the bill, said the Philippine government is being dictated upon by the United States through the Millennium Development Goals. He added the Philippines has nothing to gain from the bill, except to buy and give out condoms and other contraceptives..... MORE
Evil ‘Transformers’ DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 08/29/2011
Evil ‘Transformers’
No, it’s not the sci-fi action flick we are writing about. It’s about the real “Transformers” in our world — those giant, steel-hearted, mechanical monsters roaming the boardrooms of power companies that “transform” public utilities into humongous profit machines. It’s about power companies that transform the public’s need for electricity into an unimaginable nightmare for millions of Filipino consumers.
Once the Lopez Group, the Philippine Electric Corp. (Philec) and the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) are both seen in this light. One supplies actual power transformers and related equipment to the other at what many consider as massive transfer prices of up to 500 percent or more. Our source, who will only testify in public once Congress musters the courage to conduct an honest-to-goodness investigation, claims to have the goods on this.
For a time, as Meralco transitioned from the old guard to the new, sanguine hopes about the eventual dissolution of the tight embrace between the two said companies were raised. It was even claimed that power prices will be brought down since that kind of a set-up will end with the change in management.
It has been pointed out by industry watchers that these so-called “sweetheart deals” form a major component of Meralco’s capital base submission to the state regulatory body, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), upon which the past 12-percent Return-on-Rate Base (RoRB) and the current 15.8-percent Performance Based Regulation (PBR) rate setting schemes are computed. If the supplies and equipment — from transformers, electric poles, to project costs of installations such as substations or plants — are overpriced by exponential percentages, then so are our electricity rates.
The source of this news has, in fact, gone directly to the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of Philec which price power transformers for each mega volt-ampere (MVA), similar to horsepower in engines.
In the Taiwan OEM plant visited by our informant for the purpose of getting the real bottom price, for instance, a quote of P250,000/MVA was given — far less than the P600,000/MVA reported in the Philippines, even if the usual discounts of 30 and 15 percent given to buyers, including most Philippine electric cooperatives, were to be deducted.
Further, if a high-end Japanese brand is preferred, which the Taiwanese plant also officially produces, then a simple expedient of tacking on the Japanese brand’s steel plate for it to be priced higher is resorted to. Is this what Meralco does?
In claiming the need for a top-of-the-line variant, it uses the Japanese name plate to increase the quote as well as its capital base with the ERC — which the regulating agency unfortunately approves without as much as a whimper — to the tune of P1,600,000/MVA!
When the Lopez Group sold control of Meralco, there was indeed that opportunity to cut the monopolistic relationship between the two inextricably linked power firms, with hopes that rates will go down in spite of the already escalating bent of the onerous PBR. But nothing has changed. Filings made for the power distributor’s capital expenditures continue to be based on vastly overpriced claims; hence, its 80 to 90 percent yearly profit increases.
Fortunately, power consumers all over the country have begun to understand more comprehensively the massive swindle that is the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Epira), or the post-Edsa II power privatization law that has spawned many “monsters:”
From the ERC that is believed to be captured by Meralco; to the state holding firm Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (Psalm) that is petitioning for consumers to shoulder the Universal Charge that will pay for $18 billion (still!) in National Power Corp. (Napocor) debts, which were promised to have been paid with privatization but never were; to the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) that wants to raise rates to pay for damages caused by typhoons “Ondoy,” “Basyang,” etc., leaving its multi-billion insurance untouched; to the Philippine Electricity Market Corp. (Pemc) that wants to raise rates for “administrative modernization” (a euphemism for raising officers’ salaries); to its adjunct, the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (Wesm), which averages rates based on the highest (instead of the lowest) fluctuations, there are certainly more Epira monsters to discover — and decipher.
What puzzles is that Congress, which is into every sort of investigation imaginable, has not touched on the festering and oppressive electricity scams being perpetrated right before our very eyes. It seems the likes of Rep. Henedina Abad and Sen. Serge Osmeña, who head their respective chamber’s energy committees, are oblivious to appearing as stooges of these power giants.
Given this, will anyone else take the cudgels for the suffering Philippine economy, our industries, and our people? Or is everyone just too scared of the Philippines’ very own, steel-hearted, steel-fisted “Transformers”? The answer need not be more than meets the eye.
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China and Gloria EDITORIAL 08/29/2011
China and Gloria
The long held view that the United States had resented the expanded ties between China and the Philippines during the administration of former President Arroyo was challenged by recent leaked cables from the whistle-blower Web site Wikileaks.
Instead of condemnation, the US post in the country considered the warming up of relations in both trade and political spheres as a natural consequence of the expanding influence of China in the region and the thrust of the US government then against terrorism which was perceived as incompatible to the country’s goals.
The communication did not hide the fact about perceptions that most of the Chinese contracts with the government are tainted with corruption, but the overriding interest of the US was obviously how the dealings with China would impact on the traditional role of the Philippines as its closest ally in the region.
The encompassing message from the leaked cable was that China is using its new found economic strength to buy off influence in the region and that the botched National Broadband Network (NBN) project awarded to Chinese supplier ZTE was one of such efforts..... MORE
Opaque government budget FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/29/2011
Opaque government budget
The rationale behind the scrapping of intelligence funds in many government departments, so claimed Budget Secretary Butch Abad, was that these were not involved in any intelligence gathering, which does sound logical.
But it then must be asked why Noynoy has increased his intelligence funds by P200 million, bringing a total budget outlay for 2012 to some P600 million in intelligence funds for him alone, since the Office of the President certainly is far from being engaged in intelligence gathering.
At the same time, the intel budget for the Nica (National Intelligence Coordinating Agency), which is an intelligence agency and presumably into intel gathering, was slashed. So was the military intelligence budget when the Armed Forces of the Philippines, at least through the Intelligence Service of the AFP or Isafp, is into intelligence gathering. What then is the justification of slashing the AFP intel budget, while increasing the Philippine National Police and related agencies’ intelligence budget?
Even more glaring is the fact that while Noynoy had his intel budget increased by P200 million, it was reported that the Office of the Vice President’s intel budget was completely scrapped. Why then, if the Office of the President needs an additional P200 million for Noynoy’s intelligence funds, is the Budget secretary scrapping the intel funds of the Office of the Vice President?.... MORE
DOTC Sec Mar Roxas backs MRT fare hikes, increasing penalties, PPPs
Mar Roxas’ proposed budget slashed by 38-percent the government subsidy on MRT for 2012—from P6.9 billion ($162.7 million) to P4.29-billion ($101.15 million), despite reports of annual increases in passenger load.
MANILA – Transportation secretary Mar Roxas is earning the ire of Filipino workers and people, said the progressive labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) in a statement, as Roxas defended the privatization of the MRT and LRT and, according to KMU, also justified the hiring of strike-breakers in PAL (Philippine Air Lines).
Privatizing the railways and subsidizing the profits of private contractors, like what is happening now, has been blamed by various peoples’ organizations as the reason behind the looming fare hikes in MRT and LRT.
“We don’t think this is the best way to prepare for the next elections,” warned Elmer “Bong” Labog, chairman of progressive labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), to Mar Roxas who is perceived as gearing up for the next presidential elections.
Begrudging subsidies for mass transport
In the budget deliberations in Congress, Roxas said that if the budget would be raised to increase the government’s subsidy per train passenger, then they (the DOTC) would not run out of funds for subsidies and so they would not have to consider “burden-sharing,” or increasing the MRT and LRT fares.
Roxas and other DOTC officials at the budget hearing in Congress.(Photo by Marya Salamat / bulatlat.com)
Roxas’ proposed budget slashed by 38-percent the government subsidy on MRT for 2012—from P6.9 billion ($162.7 million) to P4.29-billion ($101.15 million), despite reports of annual increases in passenger load. Asked by Anakpawis Partylist Rep. Rafael Mariano if the cut meant there would be fare hikes, Roxas replied that they will not be sourcing all the resulting budget shortfall on fare hikes alone.
Roxas asked the Congress to “realign” the country’s tax-based spending because, he said, reminding the lawmakers that it was they who had pointed it out, “only the Metro Manila train riders have been enjoying a train ride that’s P55-subsidized per rider, when the rest of the country who are not in Metro Manila and not riding these trains have also been paying taxes.”
Roxas said it is the taxpayers in other regions who are “losing” in the railways’ operations and not the government. Such imbalance in using public money was not invoked, however, for the rest of the DOTC’s proposed P26.5-billion ($625million) projects in 2012 to build or upgrade airports, ports and lighthouses. Many of which would facilitate the operations of foreign investments in its covered districts, said some lawmakers who asked Roxas to fast-track or improve the said projects.
Roxas emphasized in the budget deliberation and in media interviews the need for “burden-sharing” between the government and the commuters in financing the operations of MRT and LRT.... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/08/28/dotc-sec-mar-roxas-backs-mrt-fare-hikes-increasing-penalties-ppps/
Can America be trusted? C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 08/29/2011
Can America be trusted?
The question being asked as P-Noy prepares for his five-day state visit to China tomorrow is not so much the possible outcome of this trip. It is clear that despite the heated exchanges over the Spratlys including the misplaced and insensitive issuances spewed out by administration officials on the Luneta hostage tragedy, the Chinese will ever be the gracious hosts they have always been known to be. I am sure they will do all they can to give P-Noy and his huge entourage (is it true some 200 businessmen will accompany him on this trip?) all the courtesies and perks befitting a head of state. Thanks to their solid understanding of historical ties, the Chinese will shower P-Noy with loads of bacon in terms of investments, trade, aid and tourism packages as well as directed people-to-people exchanges.
But the test, the real question which will definitely hang over this visit, is whether P-Noy can summon the courage and the stamina to acknowledge that our country’s future will require balancing his decidedly pro-American tendencies with that of enhancing proper and responsible fraternal relations with China — our big neighbor and the world’s other emerging power. Which is precisely why in a previous column we noted that P-Noy and his advisers may be misreading the wave of the future by unduly hyping the Spratlys issue which is widely seen as a US induced “problem” while down playing if not totally ignoring the more immediate and, yes, solvable issues on hand such as those related to the Luneta fiasco. That is a No-No by any measure..... MORE
De Castro, ex-subordinates not yet off the hook — solon By Angie M. Rosales 08/29/2011
FOR APPROVING GLOBE ASIATIQUE LOANS
De Castro, ex-subordinates not yet off the hook — solon
Former Vice President Noli de Castro and members of the board of Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF), also known as the Pag-IBIG Fund, during his term are not yet off the hook regarding a P12-billion housing loan scam and could also be charged over the multibillion-peso anomaly as they were the ones who approved the loans that defrauded the government.
Sen. Sergio Osmena III said the possibility of the former Vice President and Pag-IBIG officials being indicted along with Globe Asiatique Realty and Holdings Corp. executives is not remote considering the role they played in approving the release of the loans made by alleged fictitious borrowers.
Last Wednesday, the Department of Justice (DoJ) recommended the filing of syndicated estafa charges against officials of Globe Asiatique led by Delfin Lee, its president and chief operating officer, and four others in connection with loans granted to it by HDMF through “special buyers” and “ghost borrowers.”.... MORE
‘Mina’ death toll rises to 8; over 100K people affected 08/29/2011
‘Mina’ death toll rises to 8; over 100K people affected
Super typhoon “Mina” killed at least eight persons and left flattened bridges and blocked roads in its wake as it moved away from the Philippines and churned toward Taiwan, officials yesterday said.
The toll of dead and missing is likely to rise as officials assess the full impact of the storm, the strongest to hit the country this year, Emilia Tadeo of the Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) damage report section said.
“After the rains have subsided, that is only when we find the additional casualties and damage, when the local responders submit them to us,” Tadeo told Agence France Presse.
Five were killed by landslides, including two children, buried by an avalanche of rubbish at a tip in the northern mountain city of Baguio, the OCD said..... MORE
MILF to push Bangsamoro bid despite deadlock By Mario J. Mallari 08/29/2011
MILF to push Bangsamoro bid despite deadlock
Despite the “deadlock” in the peace negotiation with the government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) would still push with its proposed establishment of Bangsamoro substate to address the decades-long Mindanao conflict.
MILF chief negotiator Mohagher Iqbal said that the government’s counter proposal was way behind the MILF expectations, citing previous agreements by the peace panels, including the “reframing” of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD) which was junked as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2008.
The MILF negotiator stressed that he does not know if the government could reconsider its proposal “but the MILF would push through with our proposal.”
Iqbal, however, admitted being “frustrated” by the GRP’s counter proposal which meant that the long years of negotiations went back to scratch..... MORE
House panel approves P1.816-T budget for 2012 By Gerry Baldo 08/29/2011
House panel approves P1.816-T budget for 2012
The House committee on appropriations has approved the P1.816-trillion proposed national budget next year and is expected to deliberate on the measure in plenary on Sept. 6.
According to Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio Aguinaldo Abaya, chairman of the panel, the House is right on track in the budget deliberations even the 2012 budget would be ready for signing by the President before the year ends.
“We passed the committee report last Friday. We will sponsor the general appropriations bill in the plenary on Sept. 6,” Abaya said yesterday.
Abaya added the proposed budget, which was approved by his committee, was no different from what Malacañang had proposed and that it included the controversial P39.4 billion allotment for the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)’s conditional cash transfer..... MORE
DepEd announces NCAE moved to Sept. 28 By Jason Faustino 08/29/2011
DepEd announces NCAE moved to Sept. 28
By Jason Faustino 08/29/2011
The Department of Education (DepEd) announced over the weekend it had moved the National Career Assessment Examination (NCAE) from August 31 to September 28.
Changes will also be made as Education Secretary Armin Luistro said the NCAE will now be administered for third-year high school students both in public and private secondary schools.
“We deem it better to administer the NCAE to third year high school students to give them sufficient time for comprehensive career guidance before they enter the tertiary level,” Luistro said.
Also expected to take the NCAE are fourth year high school students applying for scholarship programs of the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda).Under DepEd Order No. 28, fourth-year students who will take the NCAE for Ched and Tesda scholarship should belong to the top 10 percent of each secondary high school regardless of school size..... MORE
Solons want blood donors strictly monitored By Gerry Baldo 08/29/2011
Solons want blood donors strictly monitored
Members of the House of Representatives yesterday urged the Department of Health (DoH) to strictly monitor its blood donation program in the light of reports that some donations may have been tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV-AIDS).
Citizens Battle Against Corruption party-list Rep. Sherwin Tugna stressed the DoH must strictly monitor blood donation in the country so as not to jeopardize the lives of so many people and stop the spread of the virus.
“We have to closely look at blood donation scheme in the country because the possibility of serious HIV spread is always there, especially if the system is left unchecked,” Tugna said.
Tugna also stressed the need for the other concerned government and private agencies to intensify the information drive on the fight against the spread of HIV-AIDS..... MORE
Grand Old Lady of Katipunan’s remains to be transferred to her birth place By Arlie O. Calalo 08/29/2011
Grand Old Lady of Katipunan’s remains to be transferred to her birth place
Exhumation of the remains of the Grand Old Lady of the Katipunan, Melchora Aquino, from Himlayang Pilipino for transfer to the Tandang Sora Shrine now has a good chance of gaining congressional approval after the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) backed Quezon City’s claims to have the remains transferred to the heroine’s birth place on Banlat Road in Tandang Sora.
The non-inclusion of Himlayang Pilipino in the list of NHCP’s national historical shrines and the failure of the memorial park’s administration to provide the city government with valid documents supporting claims that Tandang Sora should remain buried there, have bolstered QC’s interest to pursue the transfer of the heroine’s remains which has long been requested by her family.
Tandang Sora’s remains were transferred to Himlayang Pilipino in 1970.
“QC is not giving up its claims to exhume Tandang Sora’s remains. Nothing will be more timely and fitting than to have her rightfully buried in her original birthplace during the commemoration of her bicentennial year on Jan. 6, 2012,” said Mayor Herbert Bautista during a meeting with members of the QC Task Force Tandang Sora..... MORE
A taste of Philippine justice EDITORIAL 08/28/2011
A taste of Philippine justice
Libel cases are usual fares for newspapers for solely doing its bare function of writing stories as they are. The daily grind is to gather stories up to deadline hour and then write these faithfully the way an event happened or that of the story related to the reporter.
The Tribune is a magnet for libel cases since it never wavered on printing stories as they are, no embellishment, no fear, no favor.
One of the more influential names in the country recently became the subject of a story printed in The Tribune merely quoting the content of government documents recommending his arrest and the complaint of the individual that sought a legal remedy on him that law enforcers were not acting to implement an order for his detention.
The result was one libel case filed in multiple courts that was clearly intended to harass the newspaper’s editors. Of the eight or so different court venues for the libel case about five were dismissed owing to grounds having to do with no-jurisdiction as well as multiplicity of suits, which would be no different from multiple forum shopping..... MORE
A slap on their faces FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/28/2011
A slap on their faces
A kind of a message seems to have been sent by the Court of Appeals (CA) to the Senate, as well as to the House of Representatives when it granted the habeas corpus plea of petitioner, Rollie del Rosario, husband of then detained former LTA Inc. bookkeeper, Rowena del Rosario, a day after the Senate freed her from detention.
The CA could have easily dropped the habeas plea, since the detention issue was already moot, but the court didn’t. Instead, the court granted the habeas plea, which gives the impression that this grant was a message for any future abusive action on the Senate’s power to immediately order the arrest and detention of any invited guest as resource person, or “witness” merely because that resource person fails to give the answers senators want to hear, which answer senators wanted would prove their “case” against whoever they accuse of whatever crime..... MORE
Rhino bloodbath surges on S. Africa’s private reserves FEATURE 08/28/2011
Rhino bloodbath surges on S. Africa’s private reserves
TOUWS RIVER — The giant rhino slumps to the ground with haunting cries as it fights for its life, a bloodied, fleshy pulp in the place where poachers sawed off its horn.
The critically injured male is one of the latest victims in South Africa’s rhino bloodbath, which is surging on privately owned reserves as criminal syndicates target easier prey for the Asian black market.
“I’m at war,” exhausted owner Searl Derman told AFP before heading out again with a veterinarian to try to treat the highly stressed animal.
It’s an expensive battle: Derman has racked up bills for tracking helicopters, vets and 24-hour anti-poaching measures, but is competing with hunters who are chasing horns that fetch half-a-million dollars a kilo..... MORE
Another big-time BoC scam; billions lost N.O . N.O.N.S.E.N.S.E Jacinto 08/28/2011
Another big-time BoC scam; billions lost
N.O . N.O.N.S.E.N.S.E
More than 2,000 containers disappeared on its way to the Port of Batangas, with government losing billions in forgone revenues, we had written earlier. But there is again talk that another 1,470 containers have again been diverted from MICP to fake warehouses with government losing several more billions.
How can this happen right under the very noses of the Commissioner of Customs and his officials? How could they release these 1,470 container vans filled with resins with an estimated value per container of P3 million without paying a single centavo as tax and duty to the government? It is mind boggling how Customs officials can conspire to perpetrate this very big scam.
The scam allgedly occurred when 1,470 container vans loaded with resins were transferred to the Port of Manila from MICP but were diverted by the consignee in connivance with Customs officials to fake and fictitious bonded warehouses instead of arriving at the port of destination which is the Port of Manila. The 1,470 containers loaded with valuable and highly dutiable goods were allegedly all consigned to only one company, Xurich Corp., which must be filthy rich to import an estimated P5 billion worth of resins. Can you believe that this Xurich Corp. is allegedly a fake one, and yet the BoC headed by Angelito Alvarez was able to accredit the said corporation as an Industry-Specific Bonded Warehouse (ICBW) despite the absence of a mayor’s and business permit being submitted to the BoC. Talk is that the address presented to the BoC which is Unit 206 Joncor Bldg. at 1362 A. Mabini St. Ermita, Manila, turned out to be fictitious as the existing occupant of the said address is a travel agency and not a bonded warehouse, which was what Xurich claimed. It’s non-existence at Joncor building was certified by the building administrator stating that no Xurich Corp. ever occupied any room in the building in the last 15 years. Who could be behind this Xurich as its capitalist?.... MORE
‘WOW Philippines’ JUST remembering VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 08/28/2011
‘WOW Philippines’ JUST remembering
So brief but many intriguing possibilities it said. So plain but pleasant thoughts it evoked. So plain but big wonders it caused. This was the combined precious and loaded message that “Wow Philippines!” very well delivered and so long remembered. Foreign tourist came. Foreign income increased. And everybody was happy: The tourists themselves. The Tourist Agencies and Organizations. The Tourist Industry in general. The Tourist guides and many others, included.
A new administration came. A new tourism leadership emerged. A new tourism come-on was invented. The former proverb “Wow Philippines!” was nonchalantly shelved. A supposedly new and better tourism slogan was invented: “Pilipinas Kay Ganda” — or something the like. Certain perplexing questions came to fore: Was the invention in effect inspired by foreign consultants? Did the invention simply copy some tourism figures from this or that country? Is it true that so much expenses were incurred from the making to the launching of the invention?.... MORE
Pleasure of Noy, displeasure of the people TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 08/28/2011
Pleasure of Noy, displeasure of the people
The most recent victim of the rumored internal great divide in Malacañang is Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB) official Nelson Laluces. Rumor mills are rife over a Laluces fiasco involving the approval of the sale and transfer of franchise of BLTB Co. (a bus company) to Del Monte Bus Co. owned by Narciso Morales, who was said to be a distant relative of Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa. Recently, from his hot seat, Tourism Secretary Alberto Lim also bailed out and tendered his resignation over rumors of under-performance, since it has been a year now and it seems that he is still groping in the dark over his post.
He started off with the infamous tourism campaign Pilipinas Kay Ganda. And in one presidential spur of the fast tongue P-Noy lashed out on him as one of those secretaries who regularly brings him “headaches.”
A little far back, a bejeweled “Cory original,” former Transportation and Communications Secretary Jose Ping de Jesus resigned over the rumored telecommunications row between Globe and Smart and amid the DoTC’s deliberations on whether to raise the fares of the Light and Metro Rail Transit (LRT/MRT) systems. Retired General Ernesto Diokno of the Bureau of Corrections, also a certified Cory general came next over a rumored coddling of convicted murderer, former Batangas Gov. Antonio Leviste..... MORE
Wikileaks: Power dynasties at work in Meralco battle 08/28/2011
ARROYOS, ABOITIZES VS LOPEZES
Wikileaks: Power dynasties at work in Meralco battle
The United States subscribed to the view that dynastic families that included the Arroyos, the Aboitizes and the Lopezes, waging a protracted war against each other was behind the bitter board room struggle between the Lopez family and the state pension fund Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) for control of dominant electricity distributor Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) toward the end of the previous administration of President Gloria Arroyo, leaked cables from the US Embassy showed.
The cable which was among some 3,071 communications of the US diplomatic post in Manila released the other day by whistle-blower site Wikileaks said “the conflict, which some analysts see as a feud between the Arroyo and Lopez families, has eroded the appearance of stability that Philippine economic managers want to project, and may give foreign investors qualms about the Philippine power sector.”
The US Embassy viewed the struggle for control of Meralco as highlighting the role of prominent families in business and government and creates uncertainty that could damage efforts to attract investors.
“Lack of additional investment into the power sector will almost certainly leave Filipino consumers more vulnerable to power disruptions,” it noted..... MORE
RP gov’t hesitates on recognizing Libyan rebels 08/28/2011
RP gov’t hesitates on recognizing Libyan rebels
Malacañang yesterday said it was hesitant about recognizing Libya’s rebels, with the welfare of some 1,600 Filipino workers in the north African country still its foremost concern.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said the government was monitoring the situation in Libya as the regime of longtime leader Moammar Kadhafi collapses in the wake of a series of rebel victories.
“What is important for us in the Philippines is the protection of our own Filipino workers. That is our primary consideration now (over) whether or not to recognize Libya’s (National Transitional Council, or NTC),” he told reporters.
On Wednesday, the Libyan Embassy in the Philippines defected to the rebels’ side, raising the red, black and green flag of the anti-Kadhafi forces..... MORE
Private employee working on Aug. 29, 30 will receive 200% pay — DoLE 08/28/2011
Private employee working on Aug. 29, 30 will receive 200% pay — DoLE
The Department of Labor an Employment (DoLE) yesterday said that private workers who will report for work on Aug. 29 and 30, which was declared as non-working holidays are entitled to 200 percent pay.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said August 29 is a regular holiday by virtue of Proclamation No. 84 that President Aquino issued on Dec. 20, 2010, while August 30 is also regular holiday by virtue of Proclamation No. 234 in celebration of the Eid’l Fitr.
“The purpose of the celebration of National Heroes Day is to accord fullest honors to the greatness, first of all, of our heroes who offered their sweat, blood, and lives so we may attain our freedoms, and second, to the resiliency of ordinary Filipinos who continue to love their country and endeavor to live honorable lives that honor our heroes and our countrymen,” the labor chief said.
“On the other hand, we share our brothers and sisters, the Muslim Filipinos, in their celebration of Eid’l Fitr, or the Feast of Ramadhan, which falls on August 30,” Baldoz said..... MORE
Climate change mitigation will benefit farmers, regenerate environment, says Angara By Charlie V. Manalo 08/28/2011
Climate change mitigation will benefit farmers, regenerate environment, says Angara
The government, in cooperation with the global community, must come up with a long-term blueprint for programs that would mitigate the impact of climate change on man and the environment, Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara said yesterday.
“Disasters like floods, droughts, forest fires and the increase in tropical cyclone have caused too much lives and material losses amounting to billions of pesos,” Angara said, adding in pursuing carbon finance in the forestry sector, the role of government cannot be underestimated.
Referring to a document by the Congressional Policy and Budget Research Department (CPBRD), Angara strongly endorsed that the Philippines seriously consider mitigating climate change through the so-called “carbon sequestration” which refers to the capture and storage of carbon.
Plants, especially trees or forests, are effective natural means (by photosynthesis) of converting carbon dioxide into organic compounds, especially sugars, using sunlight..... MORE
‘Koko’ prods Comelec lawyer to follow example of Zubiri By Angie M. Rosales
‘Koko’ prods Comelec lawyer to follow example of Zubiri
“Do a Zubiri!”
This was the call made by Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III yesterday to a lawyer at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) who was appointed as law department chief despite his being dragged in the P700-million ballot secrecy folder scam last year.
Pimentel urged lawyer Allen Francis Abaya to turn down the appointment and spare the poll body from further condemnation even as he bared plans of filing a resolution in the upper chamber to probe his reported “re-appointment” after having been suspended for six months.
Abaya, along with six other Comelec officials, was meted the suspension for approving the alleged highly overpriced ballot folders that were supposed to be used during the May 10, 2010 presidential elections.
“As a victim of electoral fraud myself, I am extremely wary of election officials whose record has been tainted in any way by involvement in election irregularities,” the senator said..... MORE
No lifting of HK black ban EDITORIAL 08/27/2011
No lifting of HK black ban
Noynoy refuses to apologize to the Hong Kong hostage victims and relatives of the slain tourists, because he insists that the “Manila massacre” that occurred on Aug. 23, 2010 was the work of one deranged individual, and that the state, not being responsible for the slaughter, has no need to apologize.
At the same time, however, Noynoy, through his spokesman, said he wants Hong Kong’s travel blacklist on the Philippines lifted, as he called this unfair, especially since his administration has already made improvements in securing tourists.
Evidently, to this day, Noynoy and his boys fail to realize just what added damage they have inflicted on the country’s tourism through that botched hostage rescue operation, made even more damaging with his rejection of an apology to the victims and their relatives, as Noynoy refuses to accept responsibility and accountability for the Manila massacre.
But he forgets that days or weeks after the botched rescue operations, with public and Hong Kong pressure mounting, Noynoy did say, and on record, that he was responsible for the botched rescue. He did say something to the effect that “at the end of the day,” he was responsible for it. And that is on record.... MORE
Too good to be true FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/27/2011
Something just doesn’t smell right in what the Moro Islamic Liberation Front leaders are saying with regard to the rebel group’s placid rejection of the Noynoy government peace panel proposal, which cancelled out any move to create a substate that the MILF is demanding from Noynoy.
The group even went to the extent of saying that there is hope as long as the peace talks continue, as well as claiming that the MILF’s rejection of the government’s expanded autonomy offer won’t result in the same way the MILF reacted violently to the rejection of the Supreme Court of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD), where the group of Ameril Umbra Kato launched several bloody attacks in areas populated by both Moros and Christians.
A report said that despite the MILF’s rejection of the government proposal in the peace negotiation, the MILF leadership does not see a repeat of the 2008 massive atrocities in Central Mindanao which killed hundreds of civilians triggered by the SC’s declaration of the MoA-AD as unconstitutional.
MILF spokesman Von Al Haq stressed the MILF leadership has not monitored any disgruntled group within the organization except for the group of renegade commander Ameril Umbra Kato, who was declared “bughaat” or rebel by the MILF Central Committee..... MORE
India’s Anna Hazare: ‘Gandhi Lite?’ focus 08/27/2011
India’s Anna Hazare: ‘Gandhi Lite?’
NEW DELHI — He may dress, talk and fast like his hero Mahatma Gandhi, but critics say anti-graft activist Anna Hazare has only managed to co-opt the style, not the substance, of India’s independence icon.
The figure of Gandhi looms large — and literally — over Hazare’s anti-corruption campaign, with a giant photograph of the apostle of non-violence providing the backdrop to the 74-year-old’s public hunger strike.
Hazare’s speeches are peppered with Gandhian references to a “second freedom struggle” and his own diminutive, bespectacled appearance, and preference for simple white clothing, all serve to reinforce the link in the public mind.
If the effort to embrace Gandhi’s legacy is sincere, it is also conscious and calculated, and observers say it has paid dividends by tapping into a national yearning for an inspirational leader..... MORE
17-year old girl accuses priest of rape
-17-year old girl accuses priest of rape
“I was so afraid and confused. He is a priest; I attended mass and received communion from him. After that first time I saw that he was not at all what he showed the world to be,” she said.
She believed him to a be a man of God, but he turned out to be the one who would abuse and torment her.
Seventeen-year old “Leah” is currently under the protection and custody of women’s group Gabriela as she and her family begin their fight for justice against what has been done to her by a priest in Tubay, Butuan City.
The 17-year old girl is accusing 47-year old priest Fr. Raul Cabonce of repeatedly sexually abusing and raping her while she was under his care in his parochial residence in Butuan. Leah was one of Cabonce’s two wards. She began staying in the priest’s official residence after he made an offer to Leah and her family that he would help send her to school. A mutual acquaintance and Leah’s neighbor facilitated Leah’s transfer to the priest’s parish.
In a detailed affidavit, Lead described in full and incriminating detail how the priest began to show interest in her and how the interest escalated to sexual abuse and rape. According to Leah. Cabonce first abused her on September 2010.
Seventeen-year old “Leah” wants her abuser and rapistpunished so “He won’t do what he did to me to other children, other women.” (Photo by Ina Alleco Silverio / Bulatlat.com)
“I was cooking dinner when he walked up close to me and began touching me. I was shocked and very alarmed when he began touching my breasts and waist,” she said.
It was not the first time that Leah saw the priest conducting himself in such a way.
“I had previously seen him touching Rachel (not her real name); and when seated he would pull Rachel to his lap and touch her just about everywhere. I felt very uncomfortable and ill whenever I saw him do that to her, but I was afraid to say anything.”
When she brought it up with Rachel, the 20-year old told her that “it didn’t matter.” She told Leah that she and her family were very indebted to the priest for all the help he had given them since Rachel was a fifth grade student.
Leah said she first believed that what Cabonce did to her did not really mean anything and so she resolved to put it out of her mind. Her hopes that it would not be repeated were immediately put to an end by February 27, 2011 when Cabonce made further advances.
On that date, Cabonce made Leah give him a massage and ,in the process, forced her to have oral sex. The minor was almost paralyzed with fear especially after the priest allegedly threatened to kill her and her family if she said anything to anyone about what happened. The priest reportedly owns three guns — two of them short arms, and Leah has seen all of them.
Leah also found out that the priest has a girlfriend, supposedly an older girl who attended college also in Butuan. She often saw the girl in the convent and she stayed with the priest in the parish house.
“There was also a time when I was able to read the sent box of her cellphone and I saw also Fr. Cabonce’s messages to her. It was obvious from the messages that they have a relationship,”she said.
Leah and Rachel by then had practically ceased to have contact with the outside world. Whenever Cabonce was in the parish, he ordered them to stay indoors and not communicate with anyone, not even through their cellphones..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/08/26/seventeen-year-old-girl-accuses-priest-of-rape/
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Fearing the HK inquest EDITORIAL 02/15/2011
Fearing the HK inquest
Hong Kong’s Coroner’s Court opened yesterday its inquest on the Manila hostage tragedy that killed eight of its residents.
What will be obvious in that inquest would be the total absence of Filipino officials and officers who snubbed the Hong Kong invitation to testify before this court, that, among others would seek whether the Hong Kong victims were killed by friendly fire, or by the hand of the hostage-taker.
The odds, however, are that the court in conducting the inquest, would delve into the whys and wherefores of the botched hostage crisis, which may just prove embarrassing to the Noynoy government and his officials and police officers. But then too, in digging deeper, Hong Kong may just uphold the Incident Investigation and Review Committee’s first report, but may seek answers on why no one was being held accountable by Noynoy after the IIRC report was watered down by his legal counsels after a review.
A recent Hong Kong radio report said that the survivors and relatives of the victims are likely to form the bulk of the witnesses who are to testify in court, since Filipino officials and police officers who were invited to testify before the coroner’s inquest have snubbed the invitation..... MORE
Unchartered Egyptian waters FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 02/15/2011
Unchartered Egyptian waters
Egypt’s revolt that lasted 18 days ended with the Egyptian military taking control of the so-called transition government, which only cements the fact that no “people power” revolt can succeed without the military going over to the people’s side.
Yet the Yellows refuse to admit that the 1986 Edsa revolt largely succeeded in toppling the Marcos regime because, in the end, the military supported the people, with Marcos losing control of his military.
The Yellows, to this day, even refuse to credit Johnny Ponce-Enrile for serving as trigger in the Edsa revolt. Yet it was because of Enrile’s position to hand over power to Cory Aquino, instead of taking power for himself and his rebel soldiers that civilian rule came into being again.
The Edsa rebels could have taken power easily. They were very popular then, and they had the arms. Few, if at all, would have crabbed if they took power and installed a transition government for say, four to six months, after which general elections would have been held..... MORE
What’s a senator to do? NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 02/15/2011
What’s a senator to do?
Soon after the news of Angelo Reyes’ death hit media came the blame game, a timely indicator of who standing on what side of the political divide, with some perhaps simply caught in-between.
Never mind the uninformed, who forward the most improbable of theories, like, “What if the exposé is not ‘in aid of legislation’ but actually an act of treason to bring down these two institutions (the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine Military Academy) and destroy democracy?” Never mind the illogical as well, like, “What’s all the fuss now to give this man a hero’s burial? Incongruous? No, it is overwhelming guilt for maligning a person so casually ‘in aid of legislation!’”
To the first statement we merely apply an old Filipino saying, “Ang nagsasabi ng tapat, nagsasama ng maluwat.” We allow the truth about all goings-on in the AFP to come out in order to ensure that such does not happen again, and we’re actually moving to have them guys in uniform around for much longer than they actually deserve.
Notice I’m not lumping the AFP and the PMA together, for as most PMA graduates aver, including whistle-blower Lt. Col. George Rabusa, in the PMA one is trained toward being an “officer and a gentleman” over and over again. The phrase is planted in the plebe’s mind from the first day he dons his cadet’s gray uniform, all the way to when he graduates. The temptation is when he joins the AFP..... MORE
Meddling in Latin America AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 02/15/2011
Meddling in Latin America
President Barack Obama rarely fails to disappoint. Such disappointment is not confined to domestic policy where, even before the Republican victory in the congressional elections last year, he was moving steadily to the right.
On the international front, there were hopes of a clean break with the past. Remember his inaugural speech? “To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.”
This gave the impression that, more that just a new administration, Obama’s arrival in Washington would usher in a new era in foreign relations in which the USA would cast off its previous practice of supporting those who trampled on human rights. We now see, as Washington was quite comfortable with the vice presidency of Egypt being occupied by Omar Suleiman, a man whose fist has for years been clenched in the service of the USA as his intelligence department has tortured suspects “rendered” into his hands by the CIA, that the fine words were worthless..... MORE
US ponders future of military ties with Egypt focus 02/15/2011
US ponders future of military ties with Egypt
WASHINGTON — With the fall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime, the United States holds sway over Egypt’s political future thanks to its strong ties with a military it helped build over three decades, experts said.
Egypt watchers said the massive $1.3-billion annual US military aid package to the country has largely paid off over the years — yielding cooperation on counterterrorism, the Middle East peace process and safe passage through the Suez Canal. Many warned against bowing to calls for freezing the US funds.
“There are tremendous risks,” said Andrew Exum of the Center for a New American Security.
“At the very least, you need to keep military to military exchanges and contacts because you never know how valuable those relationships might be in the future.”.... MORE
Valentine’s Day: Desecrating the sacred VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 02/15/2011
Valentine’s Day: Desecrating the sacred
Instead of celebrating it as something noble and sacred; instead of fomenting the exalted intention and exalting spirit that launched the “Day,” it is sad to know that there are certain individuals and organized groups apparently bent on making it but carnal in nature and egoistic in context. And this is exactly the case of associating Valentine’s Day with condoms — whether they are given away free or sold at half their price. Thus it is that the “Day” becomes associated with but sex, contraception and motels.
The objective reality is exactly the opposite: Valentine’s Day is the affirmation of human love, the distinction of the affection reigning between a man and a woman. And rightly so. Even those people, who are avidly pro-contraception and/or pro-abortion, precisely came to life because of the consummate conjugal love between their fathers and mothers. In fact, anyone who is anti-life can only be such because of the life they already have through their parents..... MORE
Gunning for Garcia’s ‘protector’ not priority—Noy By Aytch S. de la Cruz and Angie M. Rosales 02/15/2011
Gunning for Garcia’s ‘protector’ not priority—Noy
Nothing, or so it appears, is a priority for President Aquino, as he yesterday told the media that even as he already has an idea of the identity of the “powerful person” behind retired military comptroller, discharged Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia, going after that powerful person is not his priority.
He said there are much too many cases going on, and “it has gotten to a point that you really have to choose (which one to focus on and file the case.”
“We’re in the stage where we are collating not just on this issue but on so many issues. It has come to the point where you really have to choose (which one) in the face of so many cases to be filed. It’s like the resources of the administration are being diluted, which means the personnel, the people who are responsible — if we have to have to focus on all the cases simultaneously,” Aquino said, by way of explaining why filing a case against the Garcia protectors cannot be his priority.
In many instances where sensitive issues crop up, Aquino always claims that such issues are not his priority,
Aquino always claims that such issues are not his priority, and has admitted that he can’t only focus on one issue at a time..... MORE
Prosecutors: Garcia deal a ‘judgment call’ By Arlie O. Calalo 02/15/2011
Prosecutors: Garcia deal a ‘judgment call’
State prosecutors who entered into a plea bargain with former Armed Forces comptroller Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia that reduced his plunder case to direct bribery, which is a bailable offense, maintained the agreement with Garcia was a judgment call and that Sen. Franklin Drilon’s statement they all can be hauled to court for gross negligence was not a “proper approach to the problem.”
Standing pat on the propriety of the plea bargain agreement entered into with Garcia, Assistant Ombudsman Jose Tereso de Jesus Jr. also said the Office of the Special Prosecutor had submitted a manifestation before the Sandiganbayan to hold its ruling on the plea bargain deal in abeyance following revelations by ex-public auditor Heidi Mendoza and ret. Col. George Rabusa during the hearings called by both upper and lower chambers “in aid of legislation.”
“For the good senator to press suit against our prosecutors for their judgment call he only happens to hold a contrary opinion, even before the Senate and the House of Representatives can craft the needed legislation, which is supposedly the avowed purpose of their separate hearings on the matter, may not be the proper approach to the problem,” De Jesus said.
He stressed that a manifestation has been submitted before the anti-graft court to give the prosecutors time to find any such material and relevant evidence which would be sufficient for them to change their stand on the issue, if ever,..... MORE
AFP: UN RP contingents’ accomplishments the issue, not aging equipment By Mario J. Mallari 02/15/2011
AFP: UN RP contingents’ accomplishments the issue, not aging equipment
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) yesterday maintained that despite “aging” equipment being deployed with its peacekeeping troops to United Nations missions in various parts of the world, Filipino contingents have performed very well and above expectations.
AFP spokesman Brig. Gen. Jose Mabanta Jr., however, downplayed Tribune reports of sending dilapidated AFP equipment to UN missions abroad but admitted that AFP equipment could be “aging.”
“That is the real state of the AFP, but that is not the issue here, the real issue is that — are we capable of attaining the mission? Have we accomplished the missions? Did we perform credibly in the tasks given by the UN? Looking at our records, we did perform very well,” declared Mabanta.
On Monday, The Tribune reported a Commission on Audit (CoA) report in 2009 citing the AFP Peacekeeping Operations Center’s (AFPPKOC), based in Capas, Tarlac, description of equipment deployed with AFP.... MORE
Noy says no emissary yet but to come from private sector 02/15/2011
Noy says no emissary yet but to come from private sector
President Aquino yesterday said he will appoint a “private citizen” who will act as government emissary to Taiwan that will address pressing diplomatic concerns over the Department of Justice’s (DoJ) decision to deport 14 suspected Taiwanese fraudsters to mainland China, angering Taiwanese officials.
Speaking to reporters in a chance interview after an event at the East Avenue Medical Center, Aquino said he is still in the process of convincing one of the persons he has in mind who, he said, is a private citizen.
“As you know there are restrictions under the One China Policy. I haven’t chosen (him yet). I talked to the person I have in mind, he’s dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s just to make sure there are no other attendant issues. He hasn’t agreed yet and we’re still looking for others who might be, to determine who is the best to convey all the details of the incident,” Aquino stressed.
He added that the potential emissary he would be sending to Taiwan used to work in government but is now a private citizen..... MORE
Inquest on Manila hostage fiasco opens in HK 02/15/2011
Inquest on Manila hostage fiasco opens in HK
An inquest into the Manila bus hijacking in August that left eight tourists dead opened in Hong Kong yesterday, six months after a diplomatic row erupted over the Philippines’ handling of the incident.
The 25-day hearing before Hong Kong’s Coroner’s Court is due to hear from witnesses, including survivors and families of the Hong Kong hostages killed in a botched police rescue attempt aired on live television around the world.
Staff from thea trip’s tour operator were slated to testify at the inquest, but none of the 116 Philippine witnesses — including police officers, the bus driver, and a reporter who spoke to Mendoza — had confirmed their attendance.
Department of Justice (DoJ) Secretary Leila de Lima confirmed that no Filipino witness will testify in the investigation being conducted by the Hong Kong government in connection with the Quirino Grandstand hostage-taking incident..... MORE
Ex-Govs Reyes, Carreon charged with murder By Benjamin B. Pulta 02/15/2011
Ex-Govs Reyes, Carreon charged with murder
Former Palawan Gov. Joel Reyes and several others have been charged with murder in connection with the death of Palawan-based broadcaster Gerardo “Gerry” Ortega on Jan. 24 in Puerto Princesa City.
Accompanied by lawyer Harry Roque, widow Patricia Gloria “Patty” Ortega, wife of Gerry, personally went to the Department of Justice (DoJ) to file the complaint.
In a five-page sworn statement, the widow also named former Marinduque Gov. Jose Carreon, former Palawan provincial administrator Romeo Seratubias, Coron, Palawan Mayor Mario Reyes and several others, namely, Marlon Ricamata, Dennis Aranas, Valentin Lesias, Arturo Regalado, Armando Noel, Rodolfo “Bumar” Edrad Jr., and other John Does and Jane Does.
Edrad surrendered to the authorities last weekend and confessed being the one who hired the gunman upon orders allegedly coming from Reyes. Roque said charges against Edrad may still be dropped once he is turned into a state witness..... MORE
Army awaits gov’t panel’s go signal to suspend offensive against NPAs By Mario J. Mallari 02/15/2011
Army awaits gov’t panel’s go signal to suspend offensive against NPAs
Guidelines have already been in-placed for possible reciprocation by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) of the ceasefire declaration of the communist group in observance of the formal peace negotiations between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
AFP spokesman Brig. Gen. Jose Mabanta Jr., however, said the military is awaiting directive from the government’s peace panel for the implementation of the guidelines on the possible suspension of offensive military operations (Somo).
“At this point, we cannot really make any statement. We are awaiting the guidance and instructions from our peace negotiating panel but there are already guidelines that we are preparing but we cannot announce them until there is an announcement of finality regarding the suspension of military operations,” said Mabanta.
In a statement dated Feb. 12, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) declared ceasefire for the duration of the formal peace negotiations starting on Feb. 15 to midnight of Feb. 21. The talks are scheduled in Oslo, Norway..... MORE
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Noy, prosecutors’ savior EDITORIAL 02/29/2012
Noy, prosecutors’ savior
Malacañang and its prosecution team certainly know that they have failed to prove their charges against Chief Justice Renato Corona, despite their claims that they already have sufficient evidence with which to convict the Chief Magistrate.
But they are probably convinced they will be able to convict Corona because the prosecution team has the President of the Republic ready to assist the congressman-prosecutors get a Senate court conviction of the Chief Justice, for hundreds of millions of reasons that will be flowing again when the time comes for a Senate vote.
How else could the prosecutors have obtained the bank account numbers as well as the dollar account copy of the Chief Justice, whether from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) or the Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank), unless they had some very powerful from Malacañang to get the Corona account for them?.... MORE
800 EU banks get 529.5 bln euros in ECB emergency loans
European Banks have sucked up €529.5bn in cheap money from the ECB. It’s the second auction by the European Central Bank in its Long Term Refinancing Operation (LTRO).
The money will help improve liquidity in the market. Stock markets have reacted positively. Analysts also expect that over €100 billion of the new LTRO are likely to be used to refinance current debt, while a significant sum will be deposited at the ECB..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/business/news/euro-ecb-crisis-loan-cheap-503/
Assad could be classified as a war criminal – Clinton
With the US labeling the Syrian President as a “war criminal” and France calling for his prosecution in the International Criminal Court, the West appears to be ratcheting up its rhetoric against the Syrian government.
On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified before a Senate subcommittee on the State Department's budget. Pressured by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) into answering whether she thinks Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad fits the definition of a war criminal, Clinton said: “Based on definitions of war criminal and crimes against humanity, there would be an argument to be made that he would fit into that category.”.... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/clinton-assad-war-criminal-455/
Iran ready to be paid in gold, national currencies for oil
Tehran announced Tuesday that it is ready to receive payment for oil supplies in gold as well as the national currencies of importer countries. That’s according to Mahmoud Bahmani, Governor of the Central Bank of Iran.
In trade operations with foreign countries Iran does not limit itself to dollars, and any state is free to use its own currency, Bahmani is quoted as saying by Russia's Itar-Tass news agency. He also added that if any client state wants to pay in gold, Iran would accept it without hesitation..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/iran-gold-currencies-oil-453/
Goodbye, First Amendment: ‘Trespass Bill’ will make protest illegal
Just when you thought the government couldn’t ruin the First Amendment any further: The House of Representatives approved a bill on Monday that outlaws protests in instances where some government officials are nearby, whether or not you even know it.
The US House of Representatives voted 388-to-3 in favor of H.R. 347 late Monday, a bill which is being dubbed the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. In the bill, Congress officially makes it illegal to trespass on the grounds of the White House, which, on the surface, seems not just harmless and necessary, but somewhat shocking that such a rule isn’t already on the books. The wording in the bill, however, extends to allow the government to go after much more than tourists that transverse the wrought iron White House fence..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/348-act-tresspass-buildings-437/
Palawan river poisoned with cancer-causing chemicals- Kalikasan PNE
Environmental groups are pointing an accusing finger at irresponsible mining operators for the worsening state of the Palawan river.
According to the Friends of the Earth Japan (FoE-Japan) and the Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE), nickel mining operations in Palawan Island is to blame for the contamination of the Palawan river system. They said the river is already poisoned with unsafe levels of carcinogenic or cancer-causing chemicals.
During a recent present conference in Quezon City, the groups presented findings from an environmental field research study conducted in a river located downstream near the Rio Tuba Nickel Mining Corporation’s (RTNMC) mining operations and the Coral Bay Nickel Processing Plant’s operation.
The study, which started in 2009, analyzed water samples and revealed that present levels of hexavalent chromium (Cr-VI), a toxic and carcinogenic chemical, had already exceeded safe levels in the Togupon River. It showed that present levels of Cr-VI contamination in water samples from the Togupon River ranged from 0.1 to 0.3 milligrams per liter (mg/L). This exceeds the Philippines’s Cr-VI effluent standard of 0.1 to 0.2mg/L.
In the meantime, the levels of Cr-VI contamination in water samples taken from the Togupon River’s estuary ranged from 0.05 to 0.15mg/L—exceeding both the Philippine’s Cr-VI environmental standard of 0.05 to 0.1mg/L and the Japanese environmental standard of 0.05mg/L by one to three times over.
A researcher from FoE-Japan Hozue Hatae said the water contamination originated either from upstream mining or refinery operations.
Togupon River runs through the area where the nickel mining operations of RTNMC and the nickel processing facility of Coral Bay Nickel Corp. (CBNC) are located. Both projects are financed and pursued in partnership with Japanese multinational corporations and institutions, such as the Japan Bank for International Cooperation and the Nippon Export and Investment Insurance..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/02/25/palawan-river-poisoned-with-cancer-causing-chemicals-kalikasan-pne/
P-Noy’s 2nd evaluation report CROSSROADS Jonathan De la Cruz 02/29/2012
P-Noy’s 2nd evaluation report
Last week, we highlighted the findings of the psychiatric evaluation of then patient 084 Benigno C. Aquino III by noted psychologist and Ateneo de Manila University professor Father Jaime Bulatao, S.J., which I downloaded from the blog goodmorningclass @wordpress.com.
Conducted 33 years ago on Aug. 9, 1979 when Aquino was just 19 years old that the first report revealed a lot about the patient, i.e., over all profile and characteristics as well as his “fears and ambitions” many of which remain valid up to this day. As a result of its printing in our column I received a load of additional information about the patient one of which is a psychiatric evaluation conducted by the Ateneo de Manila University Department of Psychology some 16 years ago when he was 36 years old.
My staff tried to get a certified true copy of this report from the said department but as of this writing I have been unable to secure one. Meantime, in the interest of transparency and good conduct, I am excerpting parts of this second evaluation report for our readers’ benefit. Here goes:
“Patient Name: Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III.... MORE
Prosecution drops 5 raps; panel rests case vs Corona By Gerry Baldo Angie M. Rosales and Benjamin B. Pulta 02/29/2012
Prosecution drops 5 raps; panel rests case vs Corona
By Gerry Baldo Angie M. Rosales and Benjamin B. Pulta 02/29/2012
In a surprise move, the prosecution panel, led by Rep. Niel Tupas Jr., announced before the Senate impeachment court that it is dropping five Articles of Impeachment and has rested its case against Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona but reserved its right to present evidence on the bank accounts of Corona in the event the temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by the SC on the bank deposits of the CJ is lifted.
In an open court manifestation, Tupas told the impeachment court that the prosecution is resting its case, saying that the prosecutors have already presented 25 witnesses and 397 pieces of evidence that would be sufficient to convict the Chief Justice.
The surprise move taken by Corona’s accusers was announced by Tupas after hearing from SC that the high court was not waiving its judicial privilege on pending cases, which means that the high court did not allow the participation of two of its employees in the impeach proceedings..... MORE
Iglesia rally draws 1M in clear show of force By Fernan J. Angeles 02/29/2012
Iglesia rally draws 1M in clear show of force
In a rare massive assembly, nearly 1 million members of the influential Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) religious group congregated at the Quirino Grandstand in Rizal Park yesterday that many described as a tacit show of force amid perceived political tension with its once staunch ally President Aquino.
Yesterday’s INC rally was significant since the religious group does not usually call its members for an assembly other than during its anniversary celebration in July.
Despite the religious group’s claim that the rally had no political tinge, who were invited or not among political personalities were the subject of public discussion. For instance, known to have been invited to the assembly were all justices of the Supreme Court, except for three justices who are known to be allies of President Aquino, who himself did not receive an invitation from the INC..... MORE
Senate shoots down call to probe Pagcor chief By Angie M. Rosales 02/29/2012
Senate shoots down call to probe Pagcor chief
Senate leaders are not keen on probing the alleged bribery charges against Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. chairman and chief operating officer (CEO) Cristino Naguiat Jr. filed by Las Vegas-based Wynn Resorts Ltd., owned by American casino magnate Steve Wynn.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile dismissed any significance on Wynn’s charges on Naguiat’s alleged receipt of $110,000 worth of accommodations and cash gifts, including a $20,000 shopping and gaming money, during a recent visit to Wynn Resorts in Macau in 2010 hosted by Japanese businessman Kazuo Okada.
“Investigate? For what?” asked Enrile.
Whether the allegations against Naguiat are true, the Pagcor official cannot be made to face charges in the Philippines but in the country where the supposed crime was committed, the Senate leader said..... MORE
2 soldiers killed, several others wounded in separate NPA attacks against troops 02/29/2012
2 soldiers killed, several others wounded in separate NPA attacks against troops
Two Army soldiers were killed while several others were wounded during separate landmine attacks launched by communist New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in the provinces of Compostela Valley and Eastern Samar on Monday, reports reaching Camp Aguinaldo said yesterday.
Army spokesman Maj. Harold Cabunoc said the elements of the 25th Infantry Battalion (IB) were conducting routine security patrols along Barangay San Vicente in Montevista, Compostela Valley around 5:30 p.m. when they hit a landmine.
Cabunoc said the explosion was immediately followed by heavy gun fires coming from the NPA rebels, numbering about 15..... MORE
DND urges government to expedite military upgrade to protect Spratlys By Mario J. Mallari 02/29/2012
DND urges government to expedite military upgrade to protect Spratlys
The Department of National Defense (DND) yesterday maintained that the Department of Energy’s (DoE) oil exploration programs in the disputed West Philippine Sea has no security implication, stressing the projects are within the country’s territorial waters.
DND spokesman Peter Paul Galvez, however, stressed the need to expedite the ongoing capability upgrade of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to enhance the country’s maritime security.
There is none (security implication). All those service contracts are within the jurisdiction of the Philippines, Galvez said..... MORE
Malacanang not endorsing sin tax amendments solon 02/29/2012
Malacanang not endorsing sin tax amendments solon
Despite the fact it is being proposed by the Department of Finance (DoF), a senior official of the House ways and means committee yesterday revealed that Malacanang remains non-committal to the proposed unitary or single tax system for tobacco and alcohol products.
Rep. Eric Singson Jr., ways and means committee vice chairman, made the disclosure even as University of the Philippines Prof. Leonor Briones, a prominent economist and social scientist, reminded government that in pushing the approval of the bill, it should not ignore the more urgent need to address the plight of people who will suffer severe economic dislocation in case the bill is approved.
We need revenue generating measures but we also need to make sure that they will eat, Briones told congressmen during the hearing of the ways and means committee yesterday..... MORE
Shift of corruption to IT projects bared 02/29/2012
Shift of corruption to IT projects bared
Western Samar Rep. Mel Senen Sarmiento yesterday said with the rapid demise of huge filing cabinets and tons of paper in data storage and document processing and management in government agencies due to digitization and full computerization of government database and document processing systems, corruption and “gunder-the-table” negotiations now appear to be also shifting to government contracts involving multimillion-peso Information Technology (IT) projects.
“What makes corruption in IT projects nearly undetectable is the fact that with the exception of those employed as IT professionals, the technical intricacies in IT such as software and hardware specifications, are almost alien to most non-IT people, and that includes heads of the country’s government agencies that rely heavily on IT-driven services,” Sarmiento said..... MORE
BSP watches over PEPs EDITORIAL 02/28/2012
BSP watches over PEPs
The hearing yesterday of the Senate committee on banks, financial institutions and currencies seeking to establish the source of the possible leaked Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) documents of Chief Justice Renato Corona revealed the disturbing fact that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is in the habit of peeking into bank accounts of certain citizens even without court orders.
For PSBank alone, it was established that 112 bank accounts were looked into by the BSP, not the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) that the law authorizes to probe into suspicious bank accounts, but a so-called BSP anti-money laundering specialist that appears to have been done to skirt the Anti-Money Laundering Law (AMLA) that required the AMLC to secure a court order or the authorization from the account holder before a bank account can be opened.
The BSP undertakes the surreptitious examinations of accounts in the guise of an audit and majority of the targets are so-called politically exposed personalities (PEP) who are generally government officials and politicians or institutions that have a certain association with a PEP..... MORE
89% vote in favor of new Syrian Constitution
Syria’s Interior Minister has announced that 89 per cent of those who took part in the referendum have voted in favor of a new constitution. The new law puts an end to five decades of one-party rule among other reforms put forward by President Assad.
Interior Minister Ibrahim al-Shaar announced the results of the referendum at a press conference on Monday.
According to the minister, out of 14,580,000 Syrians eligible to vote some 8,376,000, or about 57 per cent, actually came to the polling stations and voted, RT’s Maria Finoshina reports from Damascus..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/syria-referendum-constitution-results-307/
Occupy London camp destroyed by police in riot gear (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
The Occupy London camp outside St Paul's Cathedral was destroyed early Tuesday. Hundreds of officers converged on the camp just before midnight local time and began to dismantle what had been home to around 70 activists.
Bailiffs in high-visibility jackets dragged tents and their contents to garbage trucks and dumpsters where they were crushed. Police in riot gear formed cordons to keep protesters and their supporters out of the camp. Activists say the police were met with peaceful resistance. However, media reports say around 20 protesters have been detained.
Several dozen protesters have been camped on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral since October last year. It was one of the longest-surviving encampments inspired by the New York “Occupy Wall Street” movement against corporate greed..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/occupy-london-camp-evicted-357/
Of families and winners NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 02/28/2012
Of families and winners
And this was what family talked about last Sunday, at dinner, on account of the 84th Annual Academy Awards due to air Monday morning, yesterday. “Palagi na lang impeachment ang pinag-uusapan natin,” my nephew Ponchit commented. “Ibahin naman natin, hapon pa iyong sa senado, let’s go Hollywood!”
Or, what is generally referred to by cinephiles, worldwide, as the night of the Oscars. The award is officially “the Academy Award of Merit,” but as legend has it, the trophy got the affectionate nickname in 1931, when one of the Academy’s secretaries exclaimed it looked liked her “Uncle Oscar.”
There’s another version that says it was film actor Bette Davis who looked like it after her first husband, the band leader Harmon Oscar Nelson, but what’s what, no one will never know, kasi sa totoo lang, it no longer matters, basta Oscar na siya, tapos..... MORE
The persistent professor and burial barongs AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 02/28/2012
The persistent professor and burial barongs
As oxymoronic as this might strike the ear, there are probably honest property developers in Metro Manila, but someone of my acquaintance — let’s call him The Professor — reckons there are several of the other kind as well. Along with fellow unit-owners in the condo tower where he resides, he has complaints about the developer and its contractor, and arising from this he, in his words, “without even trying have been made aware of five other cases where there have been serious complaints/legal actions by residents who did not get what they thought they signed up for.”
Those complaints range from “what appear to be shady or questionable practices (misrepresentation) in selling to customers, to illegal practices and the ignoring of the law regarding building plans, environmental issues, worker health and safety, lack of transparency and accountability, etc.”
In his own case the problems started when the developer announced that a third tower would arise on a site where residents were under the impression when they bought their units that there would be only two. A group of them put together a campaign, some members of which were then hit with a libel suit brought by the developer which, in due course, was thrown out by the prosecutor..... MORE
Something is wrong VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 02/28/2012
Would that everything were all right with the Philippine Government, with Philippine democracy, with the people of the Philippines! Would that the Legislature enact needed and relevant laws, the Executive ably and satisfactorily implement them, and the Judiciary accordingly act on its violations! Would that there be equality and separation of power — in truth and in fact — among the said three branches of government! Would that the Philippine Constitution be not merely a nice paper to read but really a basic document for the government to abide with and for the people to live by! Then, the Philippines would be a blessed country and the Filipinos a fortunate people — and thus probably become the big envy of the world.
But something is wrong — here and now! The Philippine government is not of the people, by the people and for the people — but of the politicians, by the politicians and for the politicians. The Legislative Department rests primarily immersed in but partisan politics and pursuant political alliances. The Executive Department remains disabled and incompetent in its mandatory agenda for the common good and public welfare of the citizenry. The Supreme Court is anything but supreme in the interpretation and application of the laws of the land. To say that such an adverse composite phenomenon spells social disaster for the country and misery for people is one big understatement..... MORE
RP gov’t defies China, to bid out 15 oil, gas areas By Michaela P. del Callar 02/28/2012
RP gov’t defies China, to bid out 15 oil, gas areas
Ignoring China’s protest, the Department of Energy (DoE) will continue to offer 15 maritime offshore territories for oil exploration, including two areas near the province of Palawan being claimed by Beijing.
Energy Secretary Jose Almendras said the Philippine government hopes to award the service contracts to winning bidders next month amid opposition from China, which asserted that two of the 15 areas are part of the disputed South China Sea.
“We offered these service contracts which the Republic of the Philippines believes are within its territorial claims,” Almendras told reporters at the sidelines of the 1st European Union-Philippines Energy Meeting.
China maintains “indisput-able sovereignty” and historical rights over the vast sea that straddles one of the world’s vital.... MORE
Exiled Joma says no deal with Noy government By Mario J. Mallari 02/28/2012
Exiled Joma says no deal with Noy government
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Ma. Sison yesterday denied that he is already in the country after striking an agreement with President Aquino, blaming supporters of detained former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo for spreading the false information.
In a rare broadcast interview over dzRH, Sison stressed that he is still in Utrecht, The Netherlands where he is in self-exile.
“I am here in Utrecht, and only yesterday (Sunday in Manila) I was a public speaker in Amsterdam,” Sison said.
Earlier reports circulated about the homecoming of the exiled CPP founding leader. There were also reports that Sison was offered a Cabinet position by the Aquino administration..... MORE
Court slams prosecutors’ bid to force SC confrontation By Angie M. Rosales 02/28/2012
JUDGES REPRIMANDING HOUSE PANEL TOOK MOST OF DAY’S PROCEEDING
Court slams prosecutors’ bid to force SC confrontation
The House prosecution panel remains nowhere near substantiating any of their eight allegations on impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona as they again suffered a severe blow yesterday with Senate judges issuing a barrage of lectures and reprimands on their efforts to pit the impeachment court with the Supreme Court (SC) through their pleadings that would impinge on the independence of branches of government.
The court also ruled against seeking SC Associate Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno’s testimony personally or in writing that was topped off by another reprimand from presiding justice Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile after they appealed for a clarification on the court’s rejection of a witness.
The move of the Senate impeachment court to deny Sereno’s testimony was due to the decision of Senator-Judge Antonio Trillanes IV to “withdraw” an earlier motion to send her written questions to shed light on the
prosecution’s alleged partiality of Corona to former President Gloria Arroyo in the issuance of a temporary restraining order (TRO) that would have allowed Arroyo and her spouse, Jose Miguel Arroyo, to leave the country last November..... MORE
House panel declares Wynn persona non-grata, clears Pagcor on bribery raps 02/28/2012
House panel declares Wynn persona non-grata, clears Pagcor on bribery raps
The House committee on good government yesterday effectively banned contro-versial American casino magnate Steve Wynn from doing business in the Philippines after the panel declared him persona non grata for allegedly bes-mirching Philippine Amuse-ment and Gaming Corp. head
Cristino Naguiat and the country regarding his bribery accusation against the Pagcor chairman.
This even as the panel lauded Wynn’s corporate rival, Japanese gambling mogul Kazuo Okada, for his continued faith in the prospects of the Philippines as the next gaming and entertainment center in Asia.
At the committee hearing, panel chairman Manila Rep. Amado Bagatsing virtually cleared Naguiat of any wrongdoing when he was hosted by Okada during a visit to Wynn Resorts..... MORE
Taiwan gov’t extends OFWs’ term to 12 years By Mina Diaz 02/28/2012
Taiwan gov’t extends OFWs’ term to 12 years
The Department of Labor and Employment said that Taiwan government has extended the cumulative stay of foreign workers in their country from nine to 12 years, which would benefit Filipino caretakers, domestic workers, factory workers, nursing aides and fishermen.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said that Taiwan ’s parliament has amended the provision of the island’s Employment Service Act extending the previous cumulative stay limit of nine years for foreign workers, including Filipinos from nine to 12 years.
OFWs in Taiwan number about 90,000, of which around 15 percent are caregivers and domestic helpers, while the remaining are factory workers..... MORE
Oreta’s nephew takes over Malabon mayoral post By Arlie O. Calalo 02/28/2012
Oreta’s nephew takes over Malabon mayoral post
Malabon City Vice Mayor LenLen Oreta has formally taken over the post of his ailing uncle Mayor Canuto “Tito” Oreta.
In a huddle with some members of the media, the younger Oreta, who is first cousin of President Aquino whose late father was the elder brother of ex-Sen. Tessie Aquino-Oreta, the vice mayor’s mother, confirmed that he has assumed the city’s top post.
Asked on the health condition of his uncle, who has been undoubtedly well-loved by most residents and even some political rivals for his kindness and being too caring to them since the time he was Barangay Maysilo chairman and barangay league president for years, Acting Mayor Lenlen said he was slowly recovering.
“He is on leave and he is recovering but he needs complete rest,” said the younger Oreta on his ailing uncle..... MORE
Gatdula asks court to secure evidence on NBI exec’s ambush By Benjamin B. Pulta 02/28/2012
Gatdula asks court to secure evidence on NBI exec’s ambush
Beleaguered former National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) chief Magtanggol Gatdula has filed a suit before a Manila Court seeking a protection order against his former subordinates and boss.
In a 14-page petition, Gatdula sought an amparo writ against Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, NBI deputy director Reynaldo Esmeraldo and acting NBI officer-in-charge Nonnatus Rojas.
Gatdula filed the petition in connection with allegations that he was behind the ambush on Esmeralda’s convoy last week which De Lima and Esmeralda stated that it was linked to the case of a Japanese national who claimed that Gatdula’s men extorted money from her in exchange for her liberty..... MORE
IPPs owe public $9.99B DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 02/27/2012
IPPs owe public $9.99B
Much as this space would like to tackle the myriad other issues bedeviling the nation, we are constantly dragged back to the electricity or power plunder that continues to ravage this country to this day. We have repeatedly highlighted the anomalous fact of the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (Psalm) Corp. and National Power Corp. (Napocor) debt staying at $18 billion despite over 10 years and almost 90 percent of the state’s power assets being “sold off” to the private sector since the start of the power privatization program under the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Epira) of 2001. It is as if money from the sales vanished into thin air.
Last week, one clue was given by the state agency that manages these assets. When its top honcho, Emmanuel Ledesma Jr., said, “Psalm is yet to collect $9.99 billion in additional proceeds from the transfer of IPP (independent power producer) contracts to private administrators as of September 2011,” what it says is that taxpayers and power consumers are to be charged what the IPPs should have paid for but didn’t.
As for the other half of that $18-billion debt, Ledesma claims it as “$8.44 billion in debts assumed from” Napocor. Now wasn’t the privatization of Napocor assets supposed to cover all these? Where did proceeds from the sale of diesel-fired to hydroelectric and geothermal power plants go? How about the latest $4-billion privatization of the TransCo (the erstwhile state-owned transmission grid) to the private sector operator, National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP), that has also not been collected after two years?
In June 2011, it was reported that “government may use the receivables from the concession contract of the NGCP” on the pretext that “selling the receivables ahead of the scheduled payment of NGCP may help in the efforts to reduce the universal charge (UC).”
Wait a minute: TransCo was earning P18 billion a year when it was sold off; now it’s not even paid while the NGCP is already earning; hence, we now even have to rediscount the receivables? What name can you give to such a deal if not “historic swindle?”
I am just aghast at the magnitude of this scam and the impunity with which it continues to be perpetrated before the eyes of 95 million Filipinos. With the silent blessings of four Edsa administrations (Cory Aquino, Fidel Ramos, Gloria Arroyo, and now PeNoy), this national swindle rages on because of the silent consent of the entire Senate and Lower House of Congress, in collaboration with all government electricity agencies — from Psalm to the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC).
What is the power behind these power plunderers that all government institutions are cowed into compliance, even as we ordinary folk see their dictates as an unconscionable swindle?
What are we, the people of this nation, to do when our supposed representatives in government stand idly by as our pockets are looted and our economy is systematically laid to waste by the garrote of high electricity prices and a progressively failing economy over years and years of power plunder?
The latest statements of the Psalm chief only reveal how helpless government authorities really are in the face of the IPPs and power plunderer-privateers. Instead of pressing for these companies to pay up what are clearly debt obligations to government and the Filipino people, our supposed leaders continue to find ways on how to unburden these companies — to the detriment of the public.
With deceitful intent, Psalm has been trying to pass on these debts of the privateers via piecemeal transfers: P140 billion to be paid from the national budget and assumed by taxpayers; P0.39 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) as UC, shouldered again by power consumers over 20 years; with another bulk to be charged to Malampaya’s earnings; and only God knows what else.
If they were to pass these on as one lump sum to each electricity bill, it would amount to an additional P5/kWh over 20 years, which means up to 35 percent of added cost to each power consumer, who will fork out over P100 billion in power payments annually.
Congress has not approved such piecemeal schemes just yet because the ploy is too blatantly oppressive and dishonest; but it has done nothing to resolve the power plunder for the nation’s welfare either.
Malacañang, for its part, has only played deaf and dumb to the issue and the pleas of all sectors of society. At the rate the situation is developing, it is apparent that government has been made inutile, with the implication being that, at some point, all these debts will finally be transferred to us when we are at our most vulnerable — perhaps under another “revolutionary government” dictatorship a la Cory — so that the IPPs and power plunderers will never be made to pay the $18 billion anymore, thanks to Edsa I, Edsa II, and PeNoy.
Meanwhile, the power crisis in Mindanao is growing unabated despite an overabundance of capacity from hydroelectric dams that were deliberately sabotaged. The NGCP now projects an average shortfall there of 179 megawatts (MW) next month and a high 345 MW in April, even when just one facility, the Agus-Pulangi hydroelectric complex, already has 727 MW of installed capacity — this despite its production of only 467 MW today due to seemingly deliberate maintenance deficiencies.
Two Napocor power barges, 117 and 118, privatized to Aboitiz’ Therma Marine Corp. can, as well, generate 200 MW; but the rates are so high that the 33 Mindanao electric cooperatives refuse to buy from them.
Four power barges of Psalm, 101 to 104, lying idle in Luzon are being asked by the Mindanao Business Council to be deployed there to provide emergency power. But this cannot be done allegedly because it would violate the Epira’s ban on government from participating in power generation, even if it is just to help the people. How twisted, indeed, have our country’s laws become? Yet some twisted minds still have reason to celebrate Edsa?
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An important lesson in history FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 02/27/2012
An important lesson in history
United States Supreme Court’s Associate Justice Samuel Chase’s impeachment trial appears to be eerily similar to that of the impeachment of Philippine Chief Justice Renato Corona’s.
It was also a US president, Thomas Jefferson, who disliked Chase and his Federalist views, and wanted him and other Federalist justices, among whom was the US Chief Justice Marshall, impeached, fearing that the high court would become too powerful.
Jefferson directly encouraged Congress, which was then dominated by Republicans, to impeach Chase. And he was so impeached, no differently from Noynoy’s direct intervention of the impeachment of Corona.... MORE
US pressures India to give up Iranian oil
“Anyone but Iran,” is what the United States is telling India, as America attempts to persuade the country to go elsewhere for its oil needs.
There are currently no sanctions that would restrict India from continuing to do business with Iran, but any disruption in their relationship could cause the Iranian economy to be impacted significantly. Traditionally, India purchases around 12 percent of all its crude from Iran, a transaction that is worth around $12 billion each year. As the US continues to warn Iran to abandon its nuclear program or face the consequences, America is getting creative in finding ways to get them to crack.
Sources close to the matter tell Bloomberg that the US is considering getting involved in India’s oil trade and could offer assistance in broker deals with outside suppliers. At least three sources with inside knowledge have discussed the deal with the news outlet, but did so under condition of anonymity as details of the matter are intended to be kept confidential..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/us-india-oil-iran-159/
Smartphone users give total access to spying apps
Every time you use your smartphone app your personal information – emails, phone numbers and even photos – is sent off to dozens of Internet companies all over the world. And you are the one who is allowing them access.
Most users are aware that Internet companies like to collect information on their clients so that they can target their adverts better. But the sheer extent of their spying is shocking. And it’s all buried in the small print of the license agreement few bother to read. Often the information collected has nothing to do with function of the application.
Despite being a social network, Facebook reads your text messages, while photo application Flickr raids your contact book. In turn, video portal Youtube can access and download all of the users’ photographs..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/smartphone-internet-privacy-spying-261/
China lashes out at Google’s lifting censorship (W/ Video)
China lashes out at Google’s lifting censorship
China has accused the world's leading search engine of breaking the promises it made when entering the market, after Google stopped self-censoring search results in the country.
It is now re-directing visitors to its unfiltered Hong Kong site.
However, not all results will still be accessible inside China, as government filters restrict the links people can click on..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/google-china-censorship-scandal/
Gabriela to CBCP: Do not bear false witness against women’s health
We continue to say, ‘yes’ to a comprehensive and pro-poor reproductive health bill and ‘no’ to population control.” – GWP Rep. Emmi de Jesus
MANILA — The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines has charged the Gabriela Women’s Party of allegedly admitting that that the Reproductive Health (RH) bill pending in both chambers of Congress, is “ neither pro-poor nor pro-women.”
In a report posted on the official CBCP website last February 20, the CBCP said that Gabriela has made the admission in a note on its own Facebook page. It referred to a note made by Gabriela declaring that “the RH bill cannot be genuinely pro-poor and pro-women for as long as it espouses population control, which blames poverty on women’s bodies, fertility and population.”
The somewhat misleading news story has prompted Gabriela Rep. Emmi de Jesus to call on the CBCP to “stop bearing false witness against women’s health.”
“GWP believes that House Bill 4244, popularly known as the RH Bill, has made positive strides for women. Gabriela Women’s Party has successfully included in the consolidated bill substantive provisions from its own bill, HB 3387. Among these are reproductive health care programs and services throughout one’s life cycle, services to address breast and reproductive tract cancers, and protection against chemicals injurious to working women,” De Jesus said.
According to de Jesus, her group also lobbies for prenatal leaves for women workers and pro-bono services especially for low-income and indigent pregnant women, as stated in the RH bill.
“On top of this, population or demographic targets were thrown out of the bill, and desired family size was made neither mandatory nor compulsory,” she said. “We need to remind CBCP not to distort the truth in its campaign against the RH bill. While it is true that GWP has consistently opposed the population control agenda, it does not mean that the GWP stands beside the Catholic Church hierarchy in blocking the passage of a legislation that calls for the promotion of women’s right to health.”.... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/02/22/gabriela-to-cbcp-do-not-bear-false-witness-against-women%E2%80%99s-health/
P-Noy on Naguiat: Innocent until proven guilty? CROSSROADS Jonathan De la Cruz 02/27/2012
P-Noy on Naguiat: Innocent until proven guilty?
P-Noy has declared that his close friend and classmate Cristino “Bong” Naguiat is innocent until proven guilty. Which is how it should be. Not the other way around. That is, nobody can and should be declared guilty until and after he has been apprised of his crime, has confronted his accuser and the witnesses against him, afforded all the opportunity to prove his innocence and judged in the proper court with all the attendant protection of the law. That is how due process and the rule of law should be applied in a democracy.
“There is a presumption of innocence until proven guilty,” P-Noy intoned in defense of Naguiat, “so in this particular instance, we should afford him also the benefit of hearing him out before we make any judgment.” OK so far. Then came the breaker. “This constitutional presumption,” P-Noy continued, “is also being applied to Chief Justice Renato Corona.” What?! How?!.... MORE
Purisima’s financial papers show income, networth disparity 02/27/2012
Purisima’s financial papers show income, networth disparity
Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima, the economic lieutenant of President Aquino, appears among the public officials who have not been properly disclosing his true financial worth based on various documents obtained by the Tribune, including his statement of assets, liabilities and networth (SALn).
During his confirmation hearings last year with the bicameral Commission on Appointments (CA), the discrepancy between Purisima’s declared assets and income from 2006 to 2009 was already raised.
The CA, in a report then, said Purisima declared an income of P22 million in his tax return against a P35 million networth in his SALn..... MORE
CPP brands Edsa People Power rites as ‘stale, uninspiring’ 02/27/2012
CPP brands Edsa People Power rites as ‘stale, uninspiring’
The failure of the Aquino government to address the social problems plaguing the country at present was “stale and uninspiring,” said the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) yesterday as the country celebrated the 26th anniversary of the Edsa People Power I.
The CPP, in a statement, said that the Aquino administration failed to address the grave social problems like landlessness, unemployment, poverty, hunger, social injustice and worsening inequities.
“The Aquino regime is now responsible for the perpetuation of the acute social ills that plague the Filipino people,” the CPP said.”Aquino has sought to draw from the spirit of the Edsa people uprising to generate support to his regime but miserably fails to inspire the toiling masses whose grave social conditions continue to deteriorate under his anti-people and pro-imperialist policies.”.... MORE
House panel junks probe into colleagues role in CJ ‘leaked’ bank accounts By Gerry Baldo 02/27/2012
House panel junks probe into colleagues role in CJ ‘leaked’ bank accounts
The House ethics committee yesterday rejected the move to cite two lawmakers in connection with their alleged participation in the disclosure of the questionable bank accounts of impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona.
According Bohol Rep. Erico Aumentado, chairman of the House committee on ethics, he will start with the investigation for possible violation of the Bank Secrecy Law only after the impeachment case of the Chief Justice has been resolved.
The House minority has asked Aumentado to have Oriental Mindoro Rep. Reynaldo Umali, a public prosecutor, and Quezon City Rep. Jorge “Bolet” Banal, a member of the prosecution’s secretariat, investigated for alleged involvement in the disclosure of Corona’s bank accounts..... MORE
Malacaang vacillates on need to evict Arenda settlers By Fernan J. Angeles 02/27/2012
Malacanang vacillates on need to evict Arenda settlers
President Aquino, who has been boasting of his administrations sensitivity on the need to fast-track socialized housing program for the poor, is now made to choose whether to render some 50,000 families homeless or to let them stay in a 270-hectare reclaimed parcel at the border of Pasig City and Taytay town in Rizal.
Malacaang doesnt appear keen on getting them out of the danger zone despite stern warnings based on recent findings manifesting the 270-hectare lakeshore community in Barangay Sta. Ana in Taytay, Rizal, isnt fit for human settlement.
In a statement issued to Palace reporters, the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) said that the government has already put in place remedial measures designed to minimize liquefaction of an area that is now referred to as Lupang Arenda..... MORE
Stradcom mouthpiece lambasts P7.9-B DoTC Road Transport IT project By Charlie V. Manalo 02/27/2012
Stradcom mouthpiece lambasts P7.9-B DoTC Road Transport IT project
Why spend when it could have everything for free?
With the government aggressively trying to cut down on unnecessary expenditures and enjoining private enterprise to invest in so-called private public partnership (PPP) programs , the intention of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC) to procure P7.9-billion hardware and software to construct the IT infrastructure of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) contradicts the very essence of the administration’s advocacy of a true and ideal PPP.
Stradcom spokesman Margaux Salcedo made the observation as she reiterated the call urging DoTC officials to study and reconsider first the plans of Stradcom for a renewed contract before total and outright rejection of the IT firms proposal which, according to Salcedo, will put to waste almost P8 billion of taxpayers’ money for a project which the government could get for free..... MORE
Ona to Noy: Air we breathe today ‘far more risky’ 02/27/2012
Ona to Noy: Air we breathe today ‘far more risky’
While President Aquino has claimed that pollution level in Metro Manila significantly went down when he assumed office, Health Secretary Enrique Ona said otherwise, hinting that the air we breathe today is far more risky.
Portraying a role of an environmental expert, deputy presidential spokesman Abigail Valte at a radio press briefing insisted the conflicting claims are similarly factual and consistent even as she cited other factors that should be considered, one of which is the onset of the summer season.
Valte, who is neither an environmental specialist nor a physician, had a lengthy technical explanation designed to reconcile what appears to be totally opposing claims made by Ona and the President at the Pulong Bayan ng Pangulo in La Consolacion College in Manila..... MORE
Solon wants life term imposed on participants in frat hazing By Angie M. Rosales 02/27/2012
Solon wants life term imposed on participants in frat hazing
Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III has sought the amendment to the Anti-Hazing law by imposing the penalty of life imprisonment on all those found to be participants in a fraternity-related violence.
The upper chamber leader is proposing to have Republic Act 8049 an absolute imposition of reclusion perpetua or life term, on those who will be found guilty of the crime, whatever the condition of the victim.
The present law provides for a graduated level of penalty, depending on the harm that the victim suffered..... MORE
US blocking Philippine bid to regulate rice imports – KMP
MANILA — The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) is outraged against what it described as the United State government’s attempts to blackmail the Philippines.
The US is standing against the petition of the Philippines to the World Trade Organization for the extension of the Quantitative Restriction (QR) on rice in retaliation over the issuance of Department of Agriculture (DA) AO 22, which provides technical requirements, such as proper labeling, in the packaging of frozen meat.
“The US’ opposition on our bid to extend the QRs on rice betrays US arrogance and underscores the need for the Philippines to withdraw from the WTO,” said KMP secretary general Danilo Ramos.
According to recent reports, the United States is opposing the Philippines’ petition for the World Trade Organization (WTO) to stop the continued entry of imported rice into the country. This was revealed to the media by Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/02/25/us-blocking-philippine-bid-to-regulate-rice-imports-kmp/
Let her come forward FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 02/26/2012
Let her come forward
It is almost certain that Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Lourdes Sereno will either face the impeachment court to testify, or submit herself to the “interrogatory” as proposed by a junior member of the Senate court and so moved by his senior comrade in arms.
What appears to have puzzled presiding officer, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, was the fact that a junior senator, Sonny Trillanes, who is not even a lawyer, proposed the interrogatory for Sereno. The interrogatory is said to be an alternative mode of gathering evidence through a written list of questions sent by the court to a witness.
It is also curious that another non-lawyer, Sen. Panfilo Lacson, moved for such an alternative mode, although the explanation of both Trillanes and Lacson was that since Justice Chief Leila de Lima testified on hearsay evidence basis, needed was Sereno to testify about what she had written in her dissenting opinion, where what she bared were allegedly “irregularities” in the issuance of the temporary restraining order (TRO) during a closed-door en banc session of the justices, which is definitely a violation of the rules covering judicial executive sessions..... MORE
Syria holds referendum amid bloodshed
War-torn Syria is holding an unprecedented referendum on a new draft constitution on Sunday that would put an end to five decades of single-party rule. But the opposition is calling on the population to boycott the vote.
Millions of Syrians are expected to vote on their country’s new constitution. Posters and banners calling on people to come and vote are everywhere in the capital and all around the country, RT’s Maria Finoshina reports from Damascus. For the first time in the country’s history the Interior Ministry is urging people to come and vote without actually telling them how they should vote, she says..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/syria-referendum-vote-constitution-211/
Egypt tries foreign-sponsored activists despite US pressure
The trial of NGO workers suspected of illegally using foreign funding and fomenting unrest starts in Cairo on Sunday. Washington is pushing Egypt to drop the charges and release the activists, 16 of whom are American citizens.
Thirteen Egyptian defendants were in the courtroom filled with hundreds of lawyers and reporters. None of the accused Americans were in court for the opening session..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/egytp-ngo-trial-us-237/
Pumping arms: Pentagon’s bigger stick to beat Iran
Pentagon wants $100 million extra to be prepared for a war with Iran. The money, requested from the Congress, is to beef up US military presence in the Persian Gulf and rapidly upgrade weapons to more effectively combat Iranian armed forces.
US Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Gulf region, wants them prepared to defeat the Iranian fleet and shore artillery. They also want additional drone capabilities and mine swiping equipment to clear the Strait of Hormuz, should Iran act to set mines there as it threatened to, reports The Wall Street Journal..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/pentagon-upgrade-persian-gulf-201/
Hepatitis C kills more in US than HIV
Studies show that deaths from hepatitis C (HCV) infection among US adults outnumber AIDS fatalities. And while greedy pharmaceutical giants advertise new drugs that cost a fortune, Oxford dons claim success in developing anti-HCV vaccine.
Hepatitis C virus, or HCV, causes serious liver infection which can eventually lead to fatal liver scarring (cirrhosis) and liver cancer. It usually passes with infected blood, and therefore, most people contract the disease in medical facilities through improperly sterilized medical instruments or while injecting drugs with shared needles..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/hepatitis-treatment-hiv-vaccine-231/
Clear and imminent danger VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 02/26/2012
Clear and imminent danger
\"Danger” means the reality of a threat or a hazard, a pending disaster or something ominous and sinister. The danger is said to be “clear” when it is already distinct and felt, when it is somehow now simply expected but probably even in fact experienced. Ultimately, the same danger is qualified as “imminent” when it is perceived as probably forthcoming and wherefore already impending. Though sad to take note of and think about, it is however good to face the truth that there is a clear and imminent danger poised against the People of the Philippines — taking into realistic account the composite significance and implications of but the three following signal political plus economic plus social fast building up liabilities in the country.
First and foremost, there is the gradually most noticeable propensity — akin to an obsession — of the present administration to continuously flex its muscles in demonstration of its defining resolve to acquire progressively more power and the pursuant exercise of gradually greater influence in the exercise of governance. The key sign of this fearful phenomenon is the now ongoing impeachment process precisely lodged by Malacañang. In other words, the Commander-in-Chief is manifestly flexing his muscles not only in making the Legislative function according to plan but also to eventually run the Judiciary as well. This is why there are already some people who go to the extent of saying that there are already signs of a “dictatorial” behavioral pattern on the part of the Chief Executive..... MORE
Religious mutiny TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 02/26/2012
Religious mutiny
The late Ferdinand Marcos was booted out of power by a military coup d’etat. President Joseph Estrada was illegally overthrown by a combined elitist force of businessmen and the so called civil society and some elements of the Church.
If guesses could be rated accurate then some guesswork could rank in higher percentages than the others. Well, rank this wild guess: That the present resident of Malacañang and his cohorts would have to go by way of a “religious mutiny.” All “guesses” are pointing to one direction on the scheduled “bible exposition” of the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) on Tuesday at the Quirino Grandstand, where some two million religious warm bodies would possibly crowd to the tills the 50 hectare Rizal Park.
There are many religious groups who have claimed millions of members littering every square kilometer of Manila’s prime park, but were short in estimates. However, INC is known to deliver well on its promise, especially in mobilizing its members. They have the crowd and loyalty on their beck and call. We have witnessed this during the National Day of Prayer of Nov. 12, 2000 during the incumbency of President Estrada where over 1.5 million attended, mostly from the INC, El Shaddai and some other Christian religious groups including Muslims and Buddhists..... MORE
Thin crowd, drab Noy speech mark Edsa rites By Charlie V. Manalo 02/26/2012
NO CELEBRATION WITH HIGH PRICES, ABSENCE OF CHANGE
Thin crowd, drab Noy speech mark Edsa rites
A sparse crowd, failed promises and President Aquino’s uninspiring speech stood out yesterday in the 26th anniversary of the People Power revolt of 1986 where Aquino spoke more of his crusade to oust Chief Justice Renato Corona than what he intended to accomplish in terms of improving the Filipinos’ lives.
Amid the unabated oil price hike, power rate increases along with the prices of other basic commodities and the rising unemployment, nothing is there to celebrate in the 26th Anniversary of the first Edsa People Power, a militant solon said yesterday.
“Nothing is celebratory about the 26th Edsa People Power anniversary. Nothing is celebratory about incessant oil price hike, power rate hike and increases in the price of basic good and commodities, and lack of basic social services for the marginalized Filipinos,” Gabriela Rep. Emmi de Jesus said..... MORE
Pinoys warned vs working illegally in Egypt 02/26/2012
Pinoys warned vs working illegally in Egypt
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has reminded Filipinos who are seeking employment in Egypt to obtain a working visa/permit prior to departure for that country.
“The public is advised not to believe recruiters who are offering tourist visas which could allegedly be converted to a work permit upon arrival in Egypt. Irregular workers, or those who do not have proper documents, do not have the same rights as regular ones and could become victims of abuse or unlawful practices. Penalties can also be imposed by the Egyptian government on all violators,” the DFA said.
It added the public is encouraged to apply through agencies accredited by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) and to abide by all the rules and regulations of both the Philippines and the host country..... MORE
Flash floods destroy two houses, displace 93 families 02/26/2012
Flash floods destroy two houses, displace 93 families
Two houses were destroyed and displaced 93 families by flash floods brought about by low pressure area (LPA) in Lanao del Norte province on Feb. 15, said Lyndon Calica, Lanao del Norte provincial government public information office chief.
Calica said the destroyed houses were located in Barangay Kawit Occidental, Kauswagan town. Another 11 houses also were damaged by the flash floods which hit seven barangays of Kauswagan, he added.
Affected barangays were Libertad, Tacub, Kawit Oriental, Tugar, Bagumbayan and parts of Poblacion..... MORE
Hapinoy, Xavier University light up Cagayan de Oro village with solar energy 02/26/2012
Hapinoy, Xavier University light up Cagayan de Oro village with solar energy
The Hapinoy program has launched another community-oriented project in partnership with Xavier University of Cagayan de Oro City that benefited more than 500 families in the Xavier Ecoville village in the city who were among the victims of tropical storm “Sendong.” The project involved the distribution of eco-friendly solar lamps that lighted up the streets in the community.
Ecoville is a resettlement project for victims of Sendong which killed over a thousand people and destroyed billions of pesos worth of crops and property.
The lamps were provided by the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development-Business Development Services (CARD-BDS) and are powered by charging the lamp batteries with solar energy during the day..... MORE
‘Bistek’ warns owners of industries, comm’l firms vs violating clean water law 02/26/2012
‘Bistek’ warns owners of industries, comm’l firms vs violating clean water law
The Quezon City government has vowed to impose stronger punitive actions on owners of industries and commercial establishments whose business operations are potential sources of water pollution.
This was declared by Mayor Herbert “Bistek” Bautista as he emerged from a conference hosted by the city’s Environmental Protection and Waste Management Department (EPWMD) held at the Philippine Social Science Center on Proper Wastewater Disposal for a Healthy Business Environment.
He called on the business sector in the city to comply with the provisions of Republic Act 9275 or the Clean Water Act, particularly the requirement that establishment owners must install waste treatment facilities..... MORE
Fires hit Tondo, Navotas City; 10-year-old boy dies, 20 hurt By Pat C. Santos and Arlie Calalo 02/26/2012
Fires hit Tondo, Navotas City; 10-year-old boy dies, 20 hurt
By Pat C. Santos and Arlie Calalo 02/26/2012
A 10-year-old boy died while 20 others were injured in fires that hit Tondo, Manila and Navotas City yesterday.
Fire authorities identified the boy who perished in the Tondo fire as John Stephen Lesigue whose body was found inside a comfort room and the injured as John Kennedy, John’s twin brother, and his elder brother Fredlyn, 12, who both sustained serious injuries during the incident.
Investigation showed the fire started at 4 a.m. from a residential house on Herbosa Street in Tondo..... MORE
Computing the oligarchy’s plunder DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel
Computing the oligarchy’s plunder
As I continued my pencil pushing on the power plunder that has raged on for over 10 years — now with a particularly renewed ferocity in Mindanao, I realize that the P80,000 per electricity consumer I computed in my last column speaks only half the story.
The Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (Psalm) Corp. debt today stands at $18 billion (P800 billion), despite 10 years of privatizing National Power Corp. (Napocor) assets by almost 90 percent. As it is, authorities are now in a quandary as to how to charge this to us consumers without blowing the lid on the swindle of the century. Their latest attempt, therefore, is to charge 20 percent of this to government, which, of course, means the taxpayers. As for the rest, well, the shysters at Psalm are still working with Congress on passing this on to consumers via a so-called Universal Charge. In short, they will try to make 10 million electricity customers pay for all this by hook or by crook. But that’s not all.
The other half of the story involves the oligarchs who got these $18 billion worth of Napocor assets that we as taxpayers and power consumers paid for since the state power company was established by government in 1936.
What Filipino power consumers have really been plundered of is not only P80,000 per paying customer and, to a lesser extent, per individual taxpayer (as even the consumption of candies, diapers etc. have VAT included). Because we are being made to pay for P80,000 through the various surreptitious means that Psalm is devising with the corrupt bureaucracy, including Malacañang, the Upper and Lower Houses of Congress, the Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Judiciary, the oligarchs on the other hand are already enjoying cash flow benefits and profits from collections on power generating assets they have taken over.
Since the private conglomerates now “owning” our erstwhile public assets took them over on credit, based on sovereign guarantees and guaranteed payments from consumers, we are also actually paying for those assets now in list of acquisitions. This is a classic lagaring Hapon on us as each consumer is actually going to pay double the amount at P180,000!
Some of these asset transfers — such as the national transmission grid that used to be under the National Transmission Corp. but now in the hands of the private National Grid Corp. of the Philippines, which was supposed to have brought in $4 billion for Psalm and the government — have not been paid since their turnover in January 2009.
In fact, we, the taxpayers, have had to foot the bill for Psalm’s operations to the tune of P75 billion to P85 billion each year since the state agency has had to borrow for its operational funds, with the approval of Congress.
You see, we are being cooked in our own fat while the oligarchs are fattening themselves, also on our monthly payments.
And while we are computing and discovering the mounting sums which the oligarchs and their corrupt political agents in government are plundering from the nation’s electricity consumers and taxpayers, Mindanaoans are at present beginning to feel the full force of the power swindle in their area.
“Power curtailment” of four to eight-hour brownouts regularly hit parts of Mindanao today. I have been receiving reports from our colleagues there, particularly Mr. Jojo Borja, early this week that Mindanaoans are now up in arms over the situation since the rains have not stopped and the hydro-electric plants that include the vast Agus-Pulangui complex should already be supplying enough power.
At the same time, Mindanaoans are well aware that there are four emergency power barges with Napocor that can immediately be deployed to supply emergency power there. Yet, the Department of Energy and Psalm refuse to do so, as both await the privatization of these barges by March.
Confirming Borja’s report was the appeal aired last Sunday by the Mindanao business community and the island’s 33 electric cooperatives (led by the Association of Mindanao Rural Electric Cooperatives) to look into the region’s power crisis. They say that it is not only due to the reduced capacity of the hydro-electric plants which have not been maintained properly but also because of the “derating” or control of other power plants in Mindanao.
The two power barges privatized to the Aboitizes in 2009 are not generating power because the electric cooperatives cannot buy from them through NGCP as the grid’s power rates are not affordable to Mindanao consumers. The ECs, thus, bear the brunt of power consumers’ anger when they pass on the generation charge from Therma Marine Corp., also of the Aboitiz Group.
Meanwhile, Malacañang, the Senate, and the House merely display their grandstanding antics in the Corona impeachment hearings.
When Pampanga Rep. Aurelio Gonzales Jr. came out with a bill against what he calls the negative typecasting of Philippine solons as crooks, I remembered asking: What was the vote of his fellow congressmen on the Electric Power Industry Reform Act? Weren’t they reported to have each received a P500,000-payola for the onerous law’s approval, as exposed by Rep. Rene Magtubo in 2001? How about the P10-million National Electrification Administration projects per congressman ordered released by Gloria Arroyo to those who voted favorably for the measure?
Another one of Gonzales’ harebrained colleagues, sadly, seconded him, saying there are many “crabs” among the public dragging the reputation of congressmen down out of envy. These legislators should instead look at themselves and see that they are the ones dragging the entire country down with their constant scrambling for huge scraps of pork and other large morsels from the national budget for themselves. We challenge these whining solons to a face-to-face debate anytime, anywhere on who the crabs really are — the public or their ilk — so that they can be put in their proper places.
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Gabriela launches petition, vows more mass actions against price increases
“I know that the government is spending so much on the impeachment case. But the government should not forget that there are also other people, mostly poor, who are in need.” – Zenaida Espiritu, vendor
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
MANILA — While Zenaida Espiritu, 49, was tending to the plastic bags she sells for a living along the busy stretch of Carriedo, she stops for a while to check on what was happening near the LRT station. A member of the women’s group Gabriela approaches her and, soon, she found herself signing a petition paper.
“I can hardly provide a decent meal to my children because of the continuing price hikes,” Espritu said, when asked why she decided to sign the petition paper.She has five children. Two are already married and one has stopped going to school. The two youngest are still studying, one in second year high school and the other in Grade 4.
Espiritu has been a vendor in Carriedo since she was 16 years old. She said her life became harder each passing year. Her capital for the products she is selling has increased through the years. “When I started selling these bags, I bought them for only $0.37. But now it increased to $0.46,” she said, “Then, people would ask for discounts.”
She goes home with only $2.79 after a day of hard work from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Her husband does not have a steady income as a construction worker. Their meager income, amid the increasing prices of staple goods and services, is not enough for her children. “That is why I signed the petition paper. I hope that my signature could reach our government and heed our call.”
Gabriela, the country’s largest women’s group, has launched Altrapresyo(n): Alerto sa Pagtaas ng Presyo Network, a consumers campaign network that aims to secure one million signature to repeal the oil deregulation law and the E-VAT on oil products and basic goods and services. The group aims to submit the petition before the House of Representatives to oblige the lawmakers to listen to their demands.
Zenaida Espiritu signs the petition paper against increasing prices (Photos by Janess Ann J. Ellao/ bulatlat.com)
“If the Aquino government cannot do anything to address the consumers’ problems regarding the increasing prices of basic goods, women would do all possible means from protesting in the streets to the Congress,” Lana Linaban, secretary general of Gabriela, said, “We would call the attention of the Aquino government because our impoverished conditions and hunger would never be acceptable.”
Signing the petition
Along with the petition signing, Gabriela also conducted a free blood pressure reading. It goes well with their campaign Altapresyon, which literally means high blood pressure.
Espritu said she often has high blood pressure whenever the increasing prices of staple food never seems to stop. “My children’s school supply, gas, sugar and rice,” she added, “Before I only spend $0.58 for a kilo of rice. But now I spend $0.88.”.... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/02/10/gabriela-launches-petition-vows-more-mass-actions-against-price-increases/
Syria would not send troops to protect protesters at OWS – envoy to UN (Video)
Syria would not send troops to protect protesters at OWS – envoy to UN
UN is applying double standards towards Syria, the country’s envoy stated while addressing the General Assembly. He said that his country, like any sovereign state, has exclusive responsibility for maintaining security on its national territory.
“Every sovereign state represented here bears an exclusive right to protect its citizens,” Bashar Ja’afari said, addressing the assembly. “We in Syria could not imagine sending soldiers to defend OWS [Occupy Wall Street] protesters. Neither we nor any other government can imagine sending troops to protect demonstrators in London or Paris.”.... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/syria-envoy-un-assembly-221/
Anonymous describes the destruction of CIA.gov (VIDEO)
Following Friday’s crippling of the CIA’s official government website, an alleged member of Anonymous has uploaded a video explaining how the collective crushed the agency’s online presence — and why the CIA should have been ready.
A distributed denial of service, or DDoS attack, brought CIA.gov down for hours late last week, in one of the longest-lasting assaults credited to the online hacktivist group Anonymous — and also an attack on perhaps the collective’s largest target yet. With a DDoS assault, a website’s server is flooded with an onslaught of requests, essentially overloading its capacity and rendering it nonoperational. In a video uploaded to YouTube over the weekend, a member claiming allegiance to the loose-knit hacktivist group explains that the assault on the CIA’s servers is now out of their control and even apologizes for the attack, but adds that the move has generated attention towards something much more serious than just the cybersecurity status of the agency..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-attack-video-cia-219/
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Fancy a quick scuba lesson before going on a last-minute trip to Hawaii? Paying in cash for a snorkel? Just shaved mustache because it doesn’t go with a dive mask? Big Brother will spot a terrorist: “See something, say something” policy in action.
The 25 flyers issued by the FBI and the Department of Justice give no mere Orwell creeps. Every area seems to be bursting with bombers: airports, beauty shops, construction sites, banks and internet cafes. Your tattoos master meets a bunch of them every day. Terrorists have taken to your favorite shop with train models across the street – remember how you pressed your nose against the glass after school? Now press harder: see something, say something, do something for your country..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/fbi-terrorists-guide-security-171/
Danger: Democracy-builders at work AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 02/14/2012
Danger: Democracy-builders at work
In late December, security forces in Cairo raided US-financed groups, including the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI). The raids were part of an investigation into illegal financing. In public, Washington made disapproving noises and, according to an administration official cited by the New York Times, issued a much stronger message through private channels.
A month later, Egypt prevented Sam LaHood, Egypt director of the IRI, from boarding a flight to Dubai. In all, five IRI employees (three of them American) and six from the NDI (including another three Americans) were prevented from leaving the country. Obama had already warned Field-Marshal Tantawi, the Egyptian leader, that military aid ($1.3 billion per year) would be at risk unless the military regime took steps to democratize the country, referring specifically to the criminal investigation into the US-funded groups. After the travel ban, this warning was made public..... MORE
SM has it all NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 02/14/2012
SM has it all
Entering Week 5 of the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, and my attention is called to an “incident” at the SM Mall in Cebu. This, amid rising talk about an impending “coup” at the Senate, which I can’t, as of this writing, comment on until, and if, it really takes place.
Anyway. Currently screening at the SM City Cebu, all the way up to Feb. 16, is the much-touted Cinema One Originals Festival. It was supposed to have been a “powerful line-up” with the multi-awarded Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria (best Asian feature film award, Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival in Indonesia; Cinemanila 2010 Best Picture, Southeast Asian Category; and 34th Gawad Urian Best Picture),” other Cebuano-made films such as ’Di Ingon ‘Nato, My Paranormal Romance, Confessional and Imburnal, yet another Visayan-dialect film, but made in Mindanao. Plus, the 2011 Cinema One Originals Festival winners Ka Oryang, Six Degrees of Separation from Lilia Cuntapay, Mga Anino sa Tanghaling Tapat, Castas de la Soledad, Sa Kanto ng Ulap at Lupa, Sa Ilalim ng Tulay and Big Boy..... MORE
Restitution VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 02/14/2012
With the reality of a good number of thieves entrusted with public offices supposedly for public service plus the fact of many racketeers, especially in the multinational corporate world, and with the well-known wealthy political dynasties, not to mention the known gambling agencies with their big-time gambler patrons, it is but right and proper not only to know, but to remember well the mandate of restitution of stolen goods — be this in kind or in cash.
And the imperative of restitution is not merely a fundamental ethical norm but also a basic moral principle. Otherwise, people would have a country and a world that would provide a haven for burglars and crooks, swindlers and racketeers — thereby making honesty a joke; integrity a farce..... MORE
CJ’s dollar records fake —PSBank’s Tiongson By Benjamin B. Pulta and Angie M. Rosales 02/14/2012
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CJ’s dollar records fake —PSBank’s Tiongson
By Benjamin B. Pulta and Angie M. Rosales 02/14/2012
Annexes attached by the House prosecution panel in its request for a subpoena by the Senate Court on the Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) as “evidence” against the head masgistrate were admitted to be fake documents by the bank’s branch manager, who said the records presented by the prosecution to obtain the subpoena of the dollar accounts allleged to be owned by Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona were not the same as the bank documents the bank has, although the numbers al-legedly corres-pond to Corona’s dollar accounts.
The illegally-obtained document which later turned out to be a fake copy of a bank paper was slipped by the House prosecution panel in its request for a subpoena from the impeachment court on the bank papers of Corona..... MORE
CJ: Noy committed impeachable offense 02/14/2012
CJ: Noy committed impeachable offense
Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona yesterday accused President Aquino of having committed impeachable offenses, as he charged, in a press statement, that the impeachable violation of the Constitution came when he came out swinging by openly urging the senator-judges to disobey the fundamental law, or the Charter, whihc the president has personally sworn to uphold.
In the same statement, the Chief Justice denied having committed any wrongdoing saying that “throughout (his) public career,” and that he has never been involved in any anomaly or scandal. “Whatever assets my wife and I have acquired are products of 45 years of toil and honest work.
My wife and I have been privileged to come from families of comfortable means. We grew up some of the best exclusive schools in the country. I went on to earn several postgraduate degrees, including a Master’s degree in Harvard Law School. Our parents provided well for our future. Family resources continue to be available to us anytime.”.... MORE
Noynoy ignores impeach rap filed against him By Fernan J. Angeles 02/14/2012
Noynoy ignores impeach rap filed against him
President Aquino is not bothered about an impending impeachment bid filed against him by a “lowly citizen” in connection with what had been reported as an anomalous sale of a 3.4 hectare parcel in Baguio City to the SM Investments Corporation.
In an ambush interview with Palace reporters, Aquino cited reasons why he wouldn’t bother to think on the reported impeach bid against him by one Danilo Lihaylihay who had already asked the minority congressmen to initiate impeachment proceedings against him for culpable violation of the Constitution, high crimes, and betrayal of public trust for the alleged anomalous sale of the 3.4-hectare government property known as “Governor’s Park” along Session Road, Baguio City in September.
“Inasmuch as I wanted to, I would rather not mind it considering that this person did nothing but to press charges against practically all the people in the government,” Aquino said..... MORE
SC upholds CA ruling over SMC’s claim of Malinta Estate ownership By Benjamin B. Pulta 02/14/2012
SC upholds CA ruling over SMC’s claim of Malinta Estate ownership
A ruling by the Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the ruling of the Court of Appeals (CA) in favor of the San Miguel Corporation (SMC) over the ownership of more than 8,000 square meters in Valenzuela known as the Malinta Estate.
In its decision by Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo, the high court’s First Division upheld the CA decision of April 21, 2006 decision on the case.Chief Justice Renato Corona and Associate Justices Teresita Leonardo-de Castro, Martin Villarama, Jr. concurred.
The CA had affirmed the trial court’s judgment, which dismissed a complaint for the nullification of the title of SMC predecessor-in-interest, Ramie Textile , Inc., over Lot 1131 of the Malinta Estate and granted Ramitex’ prayer for the cancellation of petitioner Leoncio Oliveros’ title over the subject property..... MORE
Pestao lawyer disputes claim insisting on suicide angle 02/14/2012
Pestao lawyer disputes claim insisting on suicide angle
The accused in the Pestao case are trying hard to divert public attention from the murder charge filed against them by the Office of the Ombudsman for the killing of naval Ensign Philip Pestao in 1995.
There are circumstances in the killing of Pestao and certain acts that indicate not only the involvement of the accused in the murder but also in the subsequent cover-up of the crime.
Their assertion that Pestao committed suicide was belied by forensic experts local and international who were presented by the parents of the victim before various investigative agencies over the course of the last 15 years since the murder was committed..... MORE
All structures in Caloocan can withstand strong earthquake — Echiverri 02/14/2012
All structures in Caloocan can withstand strong earthquake — Echiverri
The administration of Caloocan Mayor Enrico \"Recom\" Echiverri yesterday assured the residents that it has been maximizing its resources by conducting regular inspections of all buildings and other similar structures in the city to determine if they can withstand a strong earthquake.
Echiverri issued the statement in the wake of the recent tragedy that struck the Visayan region that resulted in scores of casualties and damages to property.
Just the same, the Caloocan chief executive has directed anew the members of the City Engineering Office to make sure that all buildings in the city are thoroughly checked on their structural integrity and compliance with the building code..... MORE
Manila gov’t stops add’l financial aid to teachers 02/14/2012
Manila gov’t stops add’l financial aid to teachers
Manila City Hall authorities yesterday clarified that the additional monthly financial assistance being given by the city government to the teachers had to be stopped after the Commission on Audit (CoA) questioned its legality.
This clarification was issued by Ric de Guzman, chief of staff and media bureau director, who cited a memorandum dated Nov. 21, 2011, questioning the grant of the said allowances to teachers and other national employees stationed in Manila which was issued by city auditor Chito Ramires.
De Guzman said that the P2,000 regular financial assistance is being given to the teachers on an updated basis and the only one was questioned by CoA was the P500 being given additionally on top of the P2,000..... MORE
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E3 2014: What to Expect from Ubisoft
D Salcedo | On June 8, 2014
Ubisoft is entering E3 with supreme confidence: and rightly so. New IP Watch Dogs has been a huge success, and with new versions of Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry planned for this fall they’re sure to have a very merry Christmas. But this year’s E3 is an opportunity for them to show that they can break the mold: that they can do more than remake the same open world game with slightly different window dressing. Will we see true innovation from them this year, or will we see the first glimpse of their franchises going stale? Here’s what we’re expecting.
Assassin’s Creed Unity: First Look at Gameplay, Reinvention of the Series?
The latest Assassin’s Creed title, Unity, was announced recently with a brief teaser trailer, and you can bet your ass that we’ll be seeing a lot more of it at E3. This is the first truly next-gen Ubisoft title: it will only be coming to new consoles, and that makes it a good pivot-point for the franchise. Although we’re not expecting any sailing mechanics a la Black Flag, we think that we’ll see an updated and refined version of the gameplay that you’ve come to know and love. Expect the combat to undergo significant redesign, for one thing. We’ll also see more of the French Revolution setting that Ubisoft have chosen for this year: it wouldn’t surprise us to see a couple of other countries thrown into the mix as well.
Likelihood: 100%
Far Cry 4: Innovation, Or Playing It Safe?
It’s been two years since the excellent Far Cry 3 was released and now it’s making its return: ditching the tropical island setting in favour of a Himalayan open-world. All we’ve seen so far is the box art, depicting a Chinese antagonist and suggesting that we’ll be getting a deeply political storyline about the Chinese/Tibetan conflict. There have also been rumours of a Tibetan protagonist, which would go a long way to dispelling the “white saviour” complex of FC3. Whatever the story, we’ll be getting a closer look at the gameplay in the E3 conference: expect to see rideable elephants, a huge open world and tons of explosions. We wouldn’t hold out hope for much tweaking of gameplay: FC3 was pretty refined as it was, and Ubisoft won’t want to mess with their perfect formula.
Likelihood: 90%
AC Comet: The Last Hurrah For Old Consoles?
Whilst Unity will be pushing the AC series forward, the rumoured Assassin’s Creed: Comet may be Ubisoft’s chance to capitalise on the success of Black Flag. That title was praised for it’s great sailing mechanics, and thus a pirate focussed version of the franchise could make a lot of sense. No assassinations: just naval warfare. This is just speculation, however: other rumours talk of a trip to the gladiatorial era of Rome, and the leaked concept art (image on left) seems to support that theory. All we know for certain is that Comet will only be on previous gen consoles (360/PS3), and that we’ll more than likely be getting a look at it at E3.
The Division: Release Date, More Gameplay?
Since its reveal at E3 last year, not much has been heard regarding The Division. That will all change at this year’s conference when we’ll be getting an in depth look at the newest use of the Tom Clancy name? Ubisoft will be bigging up the seamless multiplayer and will probably show off more of that beautiful new Snowdrop engine. The Division is their chance to finally compete with Call of Duty and Battlefield, and E3 is their only opportunity to show off what this dystopian shooter can offer. Expect gameplay demos and, most likely, a release date. Fall 2015 sounds like a safe bet…Oh, we’ll probably also get that weird video about the plague from last year again as well. That’s something to look forward to!
New IPs?
We normally wouldn’t be so confident about the reveal of a new IP, but we’ve heard from people deep inside the industry that we’ll be seeing something new from Ubisoft at E3. We have virtually no idea as to what this might be: another open world game would be a safe bet, or perhaps a return to the music genre. Whatever it is, we think we’ll be seeing at least one new Ubisoft franchise at E3.
Watch Dogs 2?
Watch Dogs is a somewhat flawed title, but it’s done well for itself financially, setting records for most successful new IP all over the world. The fact that Ubisoft have found yet another golden goose in this hacking-centric franchise means that a sequel is inevitable: the only question is timing. Whilst it’s way too early to get a full look at the followup, we have a feeling that we’ll be seeing a teaser: even if it’s just the briefest of looks at a logo or concept art. Certainly don’t expect any more than that, however.
Whether Ubisoft blow us all away with new IPs or play it safe with sequels, the conference is sure to be one of the most interesting of the night. It’s hard to know what to expect from Ubi: nevertheless, we’ll be covering the whole conference. Make sure to stay tuned to the Talkingship E3 Hub for full coverage of all the press conferences.
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OPINION – LIVING ON A YELLOW SUBMARINE IS CREATING SOME FINE MOMENTS FOR SUPPORTERS
Norwich City are flying high, eight games remain of this season and a Premier League return is seemingly in their grasp. Will Jennings takes a look inside the terrace, where he finds some Beatles classics.
The year was 1966, and John Lennon and Paul McCartney were sitting down to write a song.
It was never intended to be one of their classics. Indeed, it isn’t one of their classics, a song that lacks any form of melodic innovation but nevertheless makes up for it in what it provides in catchiness, charm and joy.
The truth is, Yellow Submarine isn’t actually a good song. It really isn’t. Even the most cursory delve into The Beatles’ discography will reveal that in an instant, an unrivalled collection of timeless tracks featuring the haunting A Day in the Life, the joyful She Loves You and the idiosyncratically spectacular I Am The Walrus.
However, as of February 10, 2019, Yellow Submarine became a track I adored.
I’d heard its tune sung on the terraces before. It was audible among a minority at Ewood Park in December. It gained traction at The Hawthorns in the middle of January after Jordan Rhodes’ brilliant late finish. It was embraced by a few more during that historic evening at Elland Road on February 2.
But it was the following weekend, when Paul Lambert’s Ipswich Town came to visit the Fine City, when Lennon and McCartney’s track came to indelibly penetrate the minds of all those present at Carrow Road that day.
‘City’s going up and the scum are going down’, we sung in unison, a set of lyrics that are admittedly as basic as they come but ones that perfectly capture the fate of East Anglia’s respective teams. As a season ticket holder in the South Stand, the sight of the Barclay in that second half was utterly magnificent.
And on it went.
The decibels continued to gather strength at Bolton, Millwall and – most memorably – Rotherham, when those 3,000 City fans packed in that end behind the goal roared their heroes onto another season-defining victory.
#NCFC 🙌🏼
Ipswich👇🏼
👋🏼📉⚰️ pic.twitter.com/4AUfeYnAZS
— Chris Reeve (@ChrisReevo) February 10, 2019
The arm movements provide a visual display of City and their rival’s various directions this season. All sung together, I don’t remember a chant that I’ve found as cathartic nor enjoyable as a football fan.
But our rendition of Yellow Submarine is far from the only example our fans’ lyrical creativity this season. Think Farkelife, think Emi Buendia, think the brilliant – albeit adapted version of Manchester United’s creation – Farke’s on a Horse.
The point is, City’s atmosphere – both at home and away – has been the antithesis of what we were forced to endure at times last season, a cacophony of yellow and green noise that has axiomatically contributed to our rise to the Championship’s summit. It’s been a joy to be a part of, and has provided me – and multiple others – with some of my favourite days over the past few years.
Yesterday, it was announced that City fans had snapped up the much-publicised 5000 tickets available for our trip to Wigan on April 14, a remarkable figure given its televised nature and geographical inconvenience. Granted, tickets were cheap, but bringing such a considerable contingent to the north-west constitutes a remarkable achievement for a club that only took 400 to Preston in a game at at the same stage last season.
I was there that day. It wasn’t pleasant.
People can talk about bandwagon fans, those who travel more than others, and the totally nebulous nature of what constitutes ‘commitment’ as a football fan, but quite frankly I couldn’t care less. Regardless of how far you’ve travelled or how long you’ve supported City for, what matters this season is that our growing away support is providing our fans – and players – with memories they will forever cherish.
And it’s had a tangible role on the pitch, too. Listen to the precocious Max Aarons’ post-match interview after the Millwall game, when he alluded to the awe-inspiring nature of walking out in front of that yellow wall. These were more than mere soundbites – these were sentiments from a player who was genuinely felt our support, heard all the songs, and has been spurred on by fans to achieve greatness.
That’s what this season’s been all about. It’s been about unity. It’s been about undying believe in our heroes. It’s been about passion, been about emotion, been about joy.
Whatever happens in our remaining eight games, that’s what the class of 2018/19 will be remembered for. Lennon and McCartney would be looking on with pride.
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What is the Athletes' Commission?
Gymnastics Australia (GA) established an Athletes' Commission with the view to providing a process to promote open communication with and feedback from, athletes. Gymnastics Australia believes, like most other sports, that athletes, present and past, can make a very valuable contribution to the sport.
The Athletes' Commission is:
A non-political group which can offer advice and assistance to GA on matters and issues of relevance to athletes
A promotional tool available for the purposes of promoting the sport to sponsors, the media and the general public
A resource for GA to enable athletes to be drawn on to provide advice and feedback on matters relevant to athletes
A group that can facilitate and promote high standards of sportsmanship and ethical performance when competing/participating at the national or international level
A group that can relate immediately to athletes competing at the highest level and establish relationships to promote feedback to GA on matters concerning elite athletes.This group will have a national focus and deal with national and international matters.
Roles and responsibilities of the Athletes' Commission
The roles and responsibilities of the Athletes' Commission are:
Establish open lines of communication with athletes to identify issues relevant to the various gymsports that need to be addressed by the Commission
Examine the GA Business Plan and give feedback to the Board on areas of improvement and/or concerns that require input from athletes
Assist in the formulation of policy for athlete support programs
To provide support for athletes to achieve their personal best
Assist athletes in their retirement from competition/participation in the sport and ensure that they receive the appropriate recognition and assistance through this stage
Ensure the Roll of Honour is maintained
Provide regular reports and recommendations to the GA Board on issues of relevance to athletes
Assist in promoting and delivering the Ambassador Program
Undertake special projects that may be relevant to the Commission and their Terms of Reference.
Note: This is not a conclusive list and roles and responsibilities may be changed from time to time as determined by the Board.
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Posted on September 1, 2019 by TC Editors
A Midsummer Tale ~ First Place
Felicia Sanzari Chernesky
Photo Credit: mwms1916/Flickr (CC-by-nc-nd)
Elle had started saving them the summer Dad died, just before the start of school.
This morning, to celebrate another return to household peace and quiet, she was counting up the cash she’d set aside from emptying her pockets of change at each day’s end. Rolling those coins and turning them in for paper money twice yearly, standing before bank tellers who lately seemed to grow younger with every exchange, was a tradition she’d kept a delicious secret since she was a teenager.
Tucking the bills into one of an ancient pair of rainbow toe socks stuffed in the back of her unruly underwear drawer was half the fun. They never amounted to a figure so big it provoked guilt—but big enough to treat herself to something special that could also go unnoticed. This year Elle was planning to buy bulbs.
Not the common kind packaged in a big colorful bag sold at the local Home Depot, but “rare and unusual” Dutch bulbs purveyed by one of the oldest and most prestigious flower bulb importers in the country, who also happened to run his small storefront two towns away.
These were pedigree-bearing blooms with names like “Black Parrot” and “Kingsblood” and “Tulipa Kolpakowskiana,” whose fantastical size, shape, and hue were nothing short of spectacular. And nothing like the sturdy pink carnation service station bouquets Jay sometimes picked up for $9.99 on his way home from work.
“I hate pink and I hate carnations!” she’d confessed to Mom over the phone after another stressful day managing the wellbeing of Linny and the twins, all under the age of four at the time. “I’d rather he do a load of laundry or empty the dishwasher.”
“Well, I for one would never complain if a man brought home flowers,” Mom had chided, “especially after a hard day’s work as the family breadwinner.”
Grinding her teeth, Elle vowed she’d never confide in Mom again.
Things shifted a little after she and Dad came to live with them, after Dad got too sick to work and they could no longer manage the house or cover their bills. Surely Mom could see for herself that juggling a house, spouse, kids, church, community, and volunteer commitments today wasn’t as easy as it might look. Not to mention navigating the current perpetual strident invasive flood of information without drowning in it! Even packing a school lunch now meant taking a stand on saving the planet—or furthering its destruction. Despite helping Elle with the cooking, Mom took Jay’s side in every household activity that she and Dad were now direct witness to or integrally involved in, from child-rearing to car care. After all, “what man takes in his wife’s parents with such gracious calm?”
In reality, it’s the little things that build you up or break you. Elle had just initiated a step-by-step return to pre-kids career, the plan being to add some welcome funds to the Bank of America account and make a little more head space for herself. The move-in turned life upside-down. Now Elle was responsible for five children, her newest charges proving disruptive and unmanageable. Adding chauffeured library and specialist visits to Scout meetings and acro-ballet lesson runs, appeasing demands for favorite brands and special care items, listening to daily La-Z-Boy diatribes on the fallen state of the union, telling nightly bedtime stories, Elle tried to block out the sound of Fox News blaring from a back room all day long. She’d even become an intruder in her own kitchen! Life came from every direction—and all too much at once. But Elle kept those thoughts, like so many others, tucked away.
Instead she’d grown addicted to acquiring authority status on carefully selected household plans and projects, in this instance planting a bed of tulips that would bloom brilliant and strong each new April.
She’d read every word about selecting and storing the heirloom bulbs on the importer’s website. She had researched bulb size and horticultural zone hardiness, which meant when to plant the bulbs. Even more important to blooming success, however, was preparing the plant site. Never plant bulbs in previously diseased soil! Never use top dressings (compost) and soil additives that are not PH neutral! And above all never cut stems for bouquets! If they are happy where planted and left undisturbed many tulips will bloom year after year. The secret was to create a separate bed, to be replanted yearly, for cutting tulips in bloom.
As Dad always proclaimed, knowledge is power. And it was empowering to know what to do, but Elle also knew not to bother talking to Jay about separate beds, planting depth, fertilizer, or fall mulching. If she wanted to see these bulbs she was planning to buy actually sown, this meant a few holes dug where there was room in the front yard, after the mowing and weed-whacking were painstakingly completed, dropping them in—at least make sure they’re planted pointed end up!—topping them with lawn dirt, a healthy dose of H2O from the garden hose, and Que sera, sera.
Elle had learned to accept that that was the way things worked most peaceably at 49 Maple Lane. Most days she felt that for the sake of peace and general prosperity that she had given herself away, piece by piece by piece. But how could she complain? She had made these choices of her own free will. And as Mom often pointed out, few spouses went about their day as cheerfully as levelheaded Jay. The neighborhood loved him. Part of her delight, therefore, was derived from something other than the secrecy of saving coins. It came from educating herself in the things she wanted to know. So what if it was “useless” knowledge. In the long run, she often asked herself, how much of what we have, or know, is essential anyway?
Think about it, she’d argue, in a day and age when we know what the latest duck-lipped debutante eats for dessert—hell, we can even watch her ingesting it—we are gorging ourselves on the information available to us in every platform imaginable. I might as well take the opportunity to learn something that matters, so what does it matter to you if I steal a little time to learn some classical Greek or how, properly, to prepare paella or wallpaper a tiny half-bath?
What does it matter? Elle found herself asking a hundred times a day.
“It doesn’t” seemed to be the answer—as long as it doesn’t
cost too much
take up too much time
conflict with other plans
cause the eyebrow raise—
meaning: “Keep it under the radar, Elle.” Which was getting harder and harder to do.
Hence the increasing joy delivered every time Elle was able to keep her secrets truly secret.
Too bad her secrets were so ordinary. Jay wouldn’t blink an eye about the tulips, apart from questioning why she’d go to the trouble and expense—what’d it take, a quarter tank of gas for the trip?—to handpick some finicky bulbs when the Depot has them on sale for $17.99 a bag?
Mom would have agreed with Jay, which only made Elle miss Dad, frequent ally to her “impractical” way of thinking, even more.
Ah, what does it matter? Elle mused. He’s gone now.
But ways and habits linger. Elle thought about how what she kept hidden in the other toe sock started when Dad died, after Elle helped Mom clean out his things from the first-floor rooms she and Jay had converted into a bedroom and living room for them when they moved in. Keeping that secret had been so easy she’d gotten good at it—especially when Mom started getting “frustrated.” Eventually it was the only action Elle took that made her feel powerful. And it had become the only thing that made her feel safe.
Elle recognized the irony of it. Despite her “frumpiness” (Mom’s term), Elle had never been the type of girl to stash sweets. Her only journal was stored on a shelf inside her head. But this was a secret indulgence she knew to be so dangerous it could destroy everything and everyone who cared about her.
Or maybe not.
“For heaven’s sake, you’re not the center of the universe, Elle,” Mom still reminded her, when she could remember.
She could already picture the autumn “discussion” about the bulbs she hadn’t even bought in the worst withering heat of late summer.
“If we keep putting it off it will be too late, Jay. Don’t forget I have to run to Independent Living Manor at 3:00 to check on Mom.”
“All right, Elle. It’s just that I promised Tucker I’d help him work on his shed this weekend. Joanie’s been after him to finish it so he can move all his summer tools and make room for her car and the snow plow in the garage.”
“I understand all that, but you’ve been promising to help me plant those bulbs for over a month. Soon it’ll be Halloween and—”
“I know, but there’s always so much to do and never enough time.”
“You know what, Jay, don’t worry about it. It doesn’t matter.”
“Elle, don’t be that way. Do you think we can get it done in an hour? That way I can make everybody happy.”
Just once, Elle sighed, angry months in advance, I wish he wanted to make me happy most. And then she felt rotten. Jay was a great guy. He helped everyone. I made my choices. I have everything I need, she reprimanded herself. What’s wrong with me that I can’t be more grateful?
And content, Elle heard Mom adding.
She was just about to back out of the driveway when her cell rang. It was the school nurse’s office.
“I’m glad I caught you, Mrs. Salter. Linny has a slight fever. Can you come pick her up?”
Elle sighed and cranked up the car’s AC. The best laid plans of mice and mothers of school children…
Once a droopy Linny was buckled up in the back seat, Elle handed her the stainless steel water bottle she’d originally filled for herself.
“I’m tired,” Linny whimpered, “and my tummy hurts.”
Elle put a hand to Linny’s forehead. Definitely warm, but not burning. “I’m sorry you’re feeling icky.”
Linny was prone to fevers—and weeping, as Mom often pointed out. “You really do have to be extra careful with a sensitive child, Elle. Don’t indulge her displays of emotion. She needs to toughen up. Of course, you’ll do what you think best, but that’s the approach Dad and I took with you.”
Elle climbed into the driver’s seat and started the car. She was about to back up but stopped to study Linny in the rearview mirror as she took a long sip of water, then lay back against the headrest and closed her eyes. She seemed to fall asleep instantly, her lashes fluttering like dark feathers above her rosy cheeks.
Elle’s heart swelled with love for her daughter. And then, at the school exit she decided to turn left instead of right, which would have led them back home. It’s a fifteen-minute drive, Elle reasoned. If she wakes up, I’ll turn the car around.
When she pulled into the bulb importer’s small gravel lot Linny was snoring. Elle parked in the space facing the building’s double French doors, which had been thrown open wide to showcase the array of bins containing flower bulbs in a tempting range of shapes and sizes.
Elle turned off the car and waited. In the rearview mirror she could see that Linny continued to sleep. Elle had never left a child in the car, although many of her friends confessed to running into a shop or back into the house—for just a moment!—with a napping infant or toddler strapped in a car seat. Yes it was a hot day, she could already feel her armpits dampen and sweat bead at her hairline, but Elle intended to be only a few minutes. She had parked so that she could see the car from inside the shop. Plus, the register was on a counter just inside the doors.
She cracked the windows and got out, locking the car with one more backward glance at Linny.
Elle had planned to savor this clandestine excursion, stopping to examine the varieties of bulbs, asking questions of the helpful and informed clerk, choosing her selection with shape and color and hardiness in mind. Instead, like on so many shopping trips, her nagging conscience rushed her through the aisles. Picking out hurried handfuls of bulbs with only the most cursory glance at name—price and varietal details neatly chalked on signs attached to each bin—Elle raced to the register, mumbling yes, thanks, when the clerk asked if she’d found everything she needed.
“Do you have any questions?” he added, handing her change and her bag of bulbs.
Can you tell me how to stop feeling squeezed out of my own life? Elle thought, chirping “No—thanks again!” instead.
Back at the car Linny was awake and sobbing softly. “Where did you go, Mommy? Why aren’t we home?”
“I’m so, so sorry, honey. I just had to pick something up. We’ll be home in fifteen minutes. Why don’t you shut your eyes?”
On the road, once she was certain Linny had fallen back asleep, Elle cried until her nose ran.
Selfish, Mom huffed, and didn’t even offer her a tissue.
Linny awoke just as Elle was pulling into the driveway and threw up violently. “Mommy!”
“Stay put!” Elle cried, stopping the car. She jumped out and ran to grab the roll of paper towels she kept in the trunk. Throwing open the passenger door she tried to clean and calm Linny, who was covered in pink vomit and wailing.
“I hate throwing up!”
“I know, Linny, I know. Let’s get you tidied up, and then you can have a bath and climb into bed. How’s that sound?”
“Can I have ginger ale? With two straws?”
Elle dashed back in a sweat to the open trunk, frantically rooting for her stash of yellow ShopRite bags. She needed two—one for the sodden paper towels she’d dropped on the driveway, the other for Linny’s spew-soaked clothes, which Elle would throw in the wash after she’d gotten her daughter settled.
Sweat dripped off Elle’s nose. Despite the heat, she’d just have to worry about cleaning the car thoroughly later. Why are my hands shaking? she kept wondering. Jay was not the type of husband to stress about keeping a car’s interior perfect. He was understanding when it came to the kids. So why can’t I swallow my panic? Elle could not stop thinking about what she had hidden in the other toe sock. Nevertheless, she couldn’t hide the true answer from herself: She didn’t want Jay to find out. She didn’t want Linny to tell her father that her mother had gone to buy flower bulbs instead of taking their sick child straight home. Linny would not have thrown up in the car if you weren’t so self-absorbed—
“Stop!” she cried aloud in a voice so harsh it halted the elderly neighbor padding past the house in her tracks.
“Oh my goodness! Do you need some help?”
Elle nearly jumped out of her skin. “Oh, Mrs. Blieck. I’m sorry for startling you. My daughter just got sick in the car. I’m trying to clean up the mess.”
At the risk of being rude, Elle ran back to Linny, still slumped and buckled in her seat.
Mrs. Blieck followed after Elle, her cane making gentle but deliberate clicks on the driveway. She stood and watched as Elle struggled to clean the fussing Linny before peeling off her soiled, now stinking shirt and wrapping a weathered beach towel she’d found in the trunk around her shoulders. “You also have twin boys, yes? Ah, I remember those days.” Mrs. Blieck’s accented voice sounded wistful.
You never had a sibling, Elle. I would think you’d be grateful to have three children, Mom added.
Elle could only manage to nod.
Mrs. Blieck studied Elle. “You know, I just had nineteen inches of my colon removed.”
Elle stopped to stare at her, unsure of how to respond.
“I was on my back for several weeks. I was so tired! I admit I felt like giving up. My son had to come from the city to take care of me. But then Dr. Cohen said, ‘Ruth, you need to get up and start taking a little walk. Every day. You have more living to do.’”
Tears made their way down Elle’s burning cheeks.
Mrs. Blieck continued speaking. “And so I realized that he was right. If Hitler didn’t succeed, why let a little sickness stop me?” She turned to address Linny. “Not feeling well?”
Linny smiled shyly. “I just threw up all over.”
“I can see that,” Mrs. Blieck commented. She looked back at Elle. “You know, no one talks much about the Dutch apart from Anne Frank, but that bastard tried to get rid of us, too. We had to hide my husband under the floorboards.”
Elle wiped her eyes.
“And we only had electricity for a few hours every day. We never knew when it was going to go out, or for how long. But the worst of it was that my milk dried up. I had nothing left to feed my babies. Imagine what it was like, listening to them cry from hunger in the dark! There was nothing for anyone to eat. I was so skinny after the war I had to have all my teeth pulled. Every last rotten one.”
Linny was now staring open-mouthed at Mrs. Blieck, who paused to smile at her. “But you know what?” she whispered conspiratorially.
“No,” Linny leaned forward to whisper back. “What?”
“We got him,” Mrs. Blieck cackled. “He’s gone, and we survived! And here I am today, Oma Ruth—an old lady with false teeth, minus nineteen inches of my colon. I guess I didn’t need it.”
Elle watched Mrs. Blieck continue on her walk, a tiny steel-plated survivor impeccably dressed in white cardigan, linen slacks, pearls, and sensible shoes. She seemed undeterred by her recent surgery or the dog day August heat. Elle waited, but Mom had nothing to add.
Elle thought repeatedly of Mrs. Blieck after their encounter. She had managed to restore order that day—moving the twins from bus stop through chores and homework, tending to Linny, who vomited three more times, even walking and feeding Millie, taking a cool shower herself, and calling Joanie before Jay returned from work in time for a home-cooked dinner—although it took multiple cleanings to get the stain out of the car’s upholstery.
Jay never complained about the lingering smell.
And now, almost two months later, they were finally planting the pricey Dutch bulbs she had decided to buy rather than bring a queasy Linny straight home from school. It was just Elle and Jay. He had dropped Luke and Noah at soccer practice and it was too early by several hours to pick Linny up from Aliyah’s birthday sleepover, then run to sit with dozing, distant Mom.
Elle considered this her last act of a specific kind of daring—doing it right under Jay’s nose. From now on no more toe sock secrecy. She had already enlisted the kids to help decorate a coin jar. The growing collection would go toward a family outing—based on a private vote—although no one else in house was any good at keeping things to themselves.
She and Jay had decided over morning coffee that he would dig the holes and she would place the bulbs—root-side down so the budding stems would break through the surface of the dirt and bloom in the right direction. Then they would fill the holes together.
“Ready to roll?” he’d asked, kissing her forehead. “I told Tucker I’ll help him finish his shed tomorrow.”
Now, before placing a bulb in a hole, while Jay wasn’t looking Elle would reach into her pocket, pull out a few of the pills she’d been sock-stuffing since Dad died, and drop them into the dirt. She’d forgotten whose household prescriptions were whose, and for what condition, illness, or injury, but she had continuously figured, particularly in her wildest and most desperate moments, what does it matter? As long as once planted and watered the pilfered pills, though varied in shape, size, and color, did their collective job. But Elle understood now that she never needed to stash and plan to swallow them all at once. The only thing left in her pocket was the card listing the date and time of her next visit with the counselor Joanie recommended the day Mrs. Blieck had shown her a way to hang on, move forward. What mattered was that Elle wanted to see the tulips bloom next spring.
And the spring after that.
Felicia Sanzari Chernesky is a longtime editor, published poet, and author of six picture books, five of them rhyming, including From Apple Trees to Cider, Please! (Albert Whitman, 2015) and The Boy Who Said Nonsense (Albert Whitman, 2016). Email: fchernesky[at]gmail.com
Posted in Issue 19:3 | Tagged A Midsummer Tale, Contest Winners, Felicia Sanzari Chernesky, Fiction
Beaver’s Pick
CJ Maughan
Photo Credit: malouette/Flickr (CC-by-sa)
Krista finally found them. Kneeling on the orange department store carpet, she pulled the black shoe box from the shelf and brushed the dust off the top. The lid flapped open and revealed the size eight shoes that she was searching for.
There were ruby gems embedded in the heels and there were pink stripes lapping at the tongue. Stars, rainbows, and sunlight danced along the sides. These images were the solemn promise of Velcroed possibilities. Yes, you can jump higher, run faster, longer, better than all the things. These shoes are made of magic. These shoes will make you magic.
Krista unzipped her windbreaker, tossing it aside, and slipped her feet into the shoes. The lights in the heels flickered as she stood. She wiggled her toes. There was room to grow and room to run. It would require a test, of course, and there was only one way to know their true power.
The fresh rubber squeaked, leaving a black mark where she ground her toe into the white tile of the store aisle for good luck. Heels to the block, knees to the ground, elastic in her veins—she took off.
Pumping her arms as the shoe lights flashed along the whites of the floor. Reflecting through eternity in the long store wall mirror. She saw a glimpse of herself, a blur of lights and a white shirt. Her hair billowing behind her. Her legs strong and quick.
She ran down the walkways and the aisles. She skirted around registers. She darted around strollers and jumped through clothing displays. She spun through jewelry racks and sashayed across the escalator track.
She didn’t see the ruby-lipped, ice-haired girls stepping off the elevator. The shoes were fast; they only knew two speeds: fast and faster. They did not know how to stop once started, but still, she tried.
Krista locked her knees; the ice queens watched, wide-eyed and jagged, but it was too late. Together they entered the realm of confusion, slamming into each other with a force greater than each of their lives. Blackness reigned. Terror threatened. Voices cried out. The ceiling was the floor. The floor was the ceiling.
Krista bravely jumped first to her feet. Her lungs sore, her knees scraped, but her pride intact. “Sorry,” she said, wanting to run away, but schoolyard lessons kept her locked in place.
The less-blonde girl helped the other blonde girl up from the floor. “Jesus Christ, watch where you’re going, kid.” They bent and gathered the impossibly tiny hangers that held the impossibly tiny clothes.
“Are those for your dolls?” Krista asked.
The girls held up the hangers and looked at each other. “They’re bras, kid. Haven’t you ever seen one before?”
“God, the dumb kid has never seen a bra before. How old is she you think?
“Eleven?”
“Barely.”
Krista didn’t understand.
The girls looked down at Krista, closely inspecting her white shirt. “Hey kid,” the more-blonde girl said. “You’re giving the boys a free show, you know.”
Krista shifted her feet nervously and the lights danced across the floor once more. And then there was the worst sound of all: laughter.
“Oh my god, I just saw. She’s wearing light-up shoes!”
“They still have the price tag on them!”
“Are you shopping with Mommy today? Maybe if you’re good, she’ll buy you a pretzel.”
“I think I was five the last time I wore those.”
“I know, right? What a baby.”
Krista looked down, surprised by her own feet. The lights flickered as she moved.
“See ya later, little kid,” the girls said. As they swung their hips away, Krista watched the big, bold words they left behind in their wake. She reached and touched each of these words. They were words that she never before thought about. Boys. Too old. Free show. Bra.
But there were also other words. Krista looked around, surprised to realize that she didn’t see them the first time. Embarrassed. Naked. Under-dressed. Unable and undeserving.
Ugly.
Krista crossed her arms across her chest. She didn’t understand why, but she wanted her jacket. She wanted her mother and she wanted to go home. The lights on the shoes were now a dim glow of their shadowy past.
She passed the tall mirror again and watched herself walk past. Slowly now, a distinct shape took form. Yellow hair that frizzed into a triangle. A stomach that rounded the edges of her jeans and something, two somethings, up top that she hadn’t noticed before.
“There you are,” Mother said. “I turn for one minute and you run off. I’ve been looking everywhere.”
Krista stared at the shoe box on the ground, its lid turned open like the soft pages of a book.
“Take those off,” Mother said, pulling out her cellphone as it rang. “Hello? Yes, I’m still here. Just shopping with Krista. She’s being impossible.” Mother pointed at Krista’s feet. “I’m serious. Take those off. You’re way too old for those. Yes, yes we’ll be home soon. I just need to get her a bra and then we’ll be done. No, her teacher said something. She said the boys in the class…”
Krista didn’t hear the rest. She didn’t need to know. She pulled the shoes off one by one and slowly closed the box on her childhood. The lights from the shoes flickered as she stuffed the box on the shelf. She didn’t bother looking back to watch them stop.
CJ Maughan is a former chemist who realized she was much better at writing fiction than lab reports. She is oddly fascinated with melancholy and tends to prefer stories that are depressingly beautiful. Her debut novel, Eighteen, won the 2018 League of Utah Writers Golden Quill award for adult fiction. Twitter: @CJ_Maughan Email: hello[at]CJMaughan.com
Posted in Issue 19:3 | Tagged Beaver's Pick, C.J. Maughan, Editor's Picks, Fiction
The Crow’s Chuckle
Sonia Trickey
Photo Credit: Guy Beauchamp/Flickr (CC-by-nc-nd)
Interviewer: And finally, your greatest regret?
David Goodwin: Losing a decade’s worth of compositions in my mid-twenties in Cambridge. It was such a fertile time—I was like—I don’t know—the angels were singing to me?
Interviewer: And it was all lost? What happened?
David Goodwin: A girl. Of course. (laughter). I wasn’t as careful with young girls’ feelings as I might have been. She was fragile. Perhaps, I was insensitive. Anyway, she stole my laptop and floppy discs, everything I’d worked on for nearly ten years and she chucked it all in the river.
Interviewer: Gosh—that’s criminal.
David Goodwin: Ha. Maybe. Hard to prove. The formidable feminists at Newnham closed ranks. But in some ways I’m grateful now.
Interviewer: Grateful?
David Goodwin: I suppose it’s driven me forward. I don’t know if I’ll ever recover what I composed—but it’s always on the edges. It’s like I’m haunted by those lost arias.
Interviewer: Well—hell hath no fury. I’m sure she regrets it now as much as the rest of us—
I snap the lid down on my laptop and the sound cuts out.
I don’t regret it at all. If I could have pecked all of the music out of his brain, drawn it out through his ears, the gore of grey matter catching in chunks on the long barbed wires of his genius, I would have done it. If I could have lugged him from his bed, drowned him in the silky waters of the Cam and stowed him under a punt, I would have.
Perhaps going to the David Goodwin Choral Evensong was a mistake.
His success has pursued me for twenty years: he’s always on the BBC, Radio 4, bio-documentaries, Desert Island Discs—and the publicity campaign for this Choral Evensong has been relentless: Music for a secular age; School of Life endorsed; British Humanist Society seal of approval; music is the new religious experience; all proceeds to the Dadaab Refugee complex in Kenya. He’ll receive a knighthood for humanitarian works someday, or the Nobel Peace Prize. He’s a national treasure.
I slipped into the shadows at the back of King’s College Chapel just before the Evensong started. He was standing by the altar looking fatter and less sculpted than in his publicity shots. He had the look of someone who is defying middle age by squeezing into a jacket which would have given him panache twenty years earlier. I found my seat, closed my eyes, and took deep meditative breaths, hoping that his music had also gone to seed.
The opening chords of the organ reverberated through the chapel; a hard wave of sound bouldered through the nave sweeping us all into its tumbling kinaesthesia. It wasn’t just his composition: it was the architecture, the acoustic, the archangels, the history; he has the full weight of God backing him up. The flesh is willing, but the spirit is weak. I couldn’t help it; I was moved.
That pissed me off.
You hope that anger will mellow with age but sometimes it intensifies.
I couldn’t face going home afterwards, so I came here, to my ivory tower.
From my turret window I look down at the young women flying past on their bikes and wonder whether it’s different for them. Do my seminars on challenging heteronormative hyper-masculinity change anything after three cocktails with some chancer in a well-tailored suit?
Sometimes I imagine that I am an avenging angel, amber immolation in my eyes, great feathered wings mantling at my back, but I’m probably more of an old crow: dull feathers, dodging falcons, scrapping with pigeons. I launch myself from my window and flap until I’m hovering above the spires, then I swoop down across thirty years and this is what I see.
Lucy is slipping through cloistered passages. With her long black gown, closely bobbed hair and purposeful stride, she might be the ghost of medieval novice, observing early morning devotions. Elaborate tracery frames her as she flickers across the Bridge of Sighs, momentarily vanishing behind fluted columns then reappearing in each lancet arch. She hesitates, disoriented by the confusion of passages with their uneven paving but then recognises St John’s First Court. Flitting past the neo-Gothic grandeur of the chapel, she arrives breathlessly at the Porter’s Lodge.
The Porter, an ex-military man in his early sixties, dressed in a three-piece suit and tie is seated in post. At this time in the morning, the main gate is locked. Lucy stands before the pane of sliding glass and taps on it even though he can see her and even though he knows what she wants.
The Porter sees a pretty girl, not much older than his daughter’s kid. His eyes sweep over her unbrushed hair, last night’s make-up, then drift down her short black dress to the ladders in her tights. She is draped in a gown and in her hands there is a scarlet snarl of shoes. “For a clever girl,“ he thinks, “she’s not got much sense.”
“Good morning,” chirrups Lucy. “Could you unlock the gate, please?” She stares at him unsmilingly. Eventually, he slides the window shut, carefully unlocks the office door, shambles round to the ancient wooden gate, unlocks it and heaves it open.
“You might want to put your shoes on, luv.”
Lucy steps out onto the greasy cobbles of Trinity Street and drops her shoes into the nearest bin.
I’d only worn the shoes on Nina’s encouragement and Nina had only been in my room because I’d closeted myself away for ten hours to wrestle with an essay on Beckett and Brecht. It was the last one for my feminist supervisor at Newnham who I loved almost as much as I loved constructing essays up in my tiny room, wedged into the eaves of the nineteenth-century red brick building. A worn white oak desk had been built into an alcove that spanned the lead paned mansard window. Through the thick, uneven panes of glass, I could look down into the glow of Queen’s ancient library and imagine kinship with the scholars of ages. God, I was reverential.
When Nina knocked on my door at six, she found me tired-eyed, immersed in paper and cross-references.
“Jesus, Luce. We need to be there in an hour.”
She bustled in, retrieved a corkscrew from the bedside table wedged between a cheap blue bra and a library copy of Lacanian Readings of the Oedipus Cycle, uncorked a bottle of Le Piat D’or (“Only the best for us Luce!”) and sloshed it into the two filmy wine glasses that had burrowed their way under my bed.
“Have you eaten anything? Have you showered?”
“I was just about to. It took longer than I thought—“ It dawned on me, as I swallowed a mouthful of the wine, that I’d eaten nothing more than a bowl of cornflakes and an apple that day.
“Get in the shower and I’ll make you some beans on toast. Have you got any cheese?”
“Maybe—just steal some from the fridge—no one’ll mind.”
I trailed down the narrow staircase, my head shimmering with Brecht, Beckett, and half a glass of wine to the ancient bathroom with its enamel tub, speckled brass taps, and cheap electric shower screwed amateurishly into the old tiling. The monastic asperity kept ablutions brisk and soon I was tripping barefoot back up the narrow staircase, in my underwear, wrapped in a scratchy towel.
As soon as I got back to my room, Nina handed me a plate of baked beans on cheese on toast, replenished our glasses and surveyed the thin pickings of my wardrobe, a cigarette in hand.
“That black dress from New Look. It’s a bit short but it’s all I’ve got in black. I’ll wear it with some opaques.”
“Shoes?”
“Those?” I always went for my black trainers.
“Oh-la-la. What about these?”
Nina drew out a pair of red velvet strappy heels from the back of the wardrobe.
“Oh, those.” My mother had insisted I buy them for formal dinners. “I can’t really walk in those. I don’t know why I bought them.”
“They’re not for walking in, Luce.”
“What about David Goodwin?”
I agreed to wear them mainly because Nina had made dinner and brought round wine and because I didn’t want to talk about my crush on David Goodwin who was a post-doc at the time, back from some conservatoire, running the choral ‘collective’ we were both involved in. And we needed to be in King’s College Chapel in less than twenty minutes, and my hair was still wet, and David had a nasty temper.
Shoeless but in tights, Lucy meanders down Trinity Street: a huddle of square oriel windows, roof turrets, scrolled brackets, slate rooves, tiled rooves, buff brick, red brick, mottled brick, ashlar brick, ancient hidden doorways, elaborately tiled entrances and six wall-mounted Richardson candles. Reaching round to the baroque frontage of Gonville and Caius, Trinity Street is quintessential Cambridge, usually filled with undergraduates chattering and dodging jangling bicycles. But now, it is silent.
She rounds Gonville and Caius and makes her way over the biscuit-coloured slabs of Senate House Passage with its tunnelling yellow walls, Tudor roses, and gargoyles. She is retracing her steps from the night before as though she might find the thing she has lost glinting quietly in a shaft of morning light.
When we had wheeled round the corner towards King’s College the previous evening, it had been drizzling. The bulk of the chapel has a primordial thickness, like a demented Old Testament God. We slipped in through the North Entrance where the choir was only just assembling, and fell in line.
The exterior colossus of King’s College chapel belies the hall of light it encases. A regiment of flying buttresses shoulders the magnesium limestone wall forcing the chapel upwards creating a supernal acoustic. Singing in such surroundings is as close as I’ve ever come to God. That evening’s programme had a watery theme, a celebration of the chilly waterways that bound the city. There were Icelandic discords, which shivered through space like spicules of ice; English ballads, still meres of sound pooling in the calm of the chapel; the lucent riff of a negro spiritual, meandering its way past the saints of ages; all building to an arrangement of a Gaelic fishing song. It began with a swell of tenor and soprano voices singing a familiar melody in a robust two-part harmony that recalled simpler times—the shores of home. Then the chorus: alto voices tumbled onto the melody in syncopated arpeggios that split and repaired like the veins of a river valley. Next, a subterranean tremor of basses rumbled in while the soprano voices skated over the top, a creaking sweetness leaving the hollow tenor voices holding the melody. The whole chapel seemed to give itself over to an impossible fragmentation of voices until suddenly we plunged into a swooping two-part harmony that closed the set. Finally, the voices ceased and an echo hung audibly in the air. Then silence.
In the milky light, Lucy looks at a locked wrought iron gate. She removes her gown and shivers in the chill of the early morning. Overwhelmed by nausea she retches into the storm drain but her stomach is empty and all she brings up is thin yellow bile. She soothes her head against the cold Norman masonry and rests for a few moments before standing back up and placing the canvas bag with laptop, floppy discs and camera between the railings. Shaking, she hitches her dress up to her waist and clambers up the gate using the latch and hinges as footholds. She negotiates the row of finials spearheading the top before dropping down inside the boundary of King’s College. She retrieves her bag and gown.
The rising sun is throwing perpendicular stripes across the path where she stands. Lucy resumes her quick walk towards the river. Her feet are beginning to numb and there is a spasming in her stomach which is making her headache worse. Once she arrives at the bridge she leans over the flat balustrade and looks upstream to Clare Bridge, older than the English Civil War. Mist hangs like gossamer over the spangling river. Lucy imagines a swallow diving off the bridge.
Then she draws out the contents from her canvas bag and places them on the balustrade. She pushes one of these objects off the bridge and follows its fall into the water. Globes of light rise to the surface and burst.
We only went back because Nina had forgotten her scarf. It was a gift from her counter-revolutionary Iranian grandmother: a vermillion liquid silk with a burst of ochre exploding in the middle. Sometimes she wore it as a hijab if she was feeling super-Iranian. It was definitely a scarf worth turning back for so we retraced our steps and hurried towards the shadowy entrance.
David Goodwin and his friends were just closing up:
“Forgotten something?” He was less intense than usual.
“My scarf. It was a gift. Can I just run in and get it?”
David was uncharacteristically amiable. He told his friends to go on without him, pushed the heavy door back open, accompanied us through the porch and even found the light switch.
Nina ran over the smooth monochrome tiles, the slap of her feet sounded through the empty chapel, while I stayed with David, awed in the presence of genius. David raked me over with his eyes until he came to rest on my shoes. I felt ridiculously embarrassed, like I needed to explain them, distance myself from their coquettish suggestiveness.
“They’re absurd,” I gabbled. “Nina made me wear them. We were in a rush. Now I can hardly walk.”
“You look lovely,” David said warmly. More absurd than the shoes was how much I basked in his approval. He smiled and looked me directly in the eye:
“Did you enjoy it? The singing?”
“Oh yes. It was amazing. It came together sublimely. Your arrangement, this space—it was astonishing, truly.“
The ease with which he accepted this scattergun praise should have warned me.
“But those trills in the Icelandic piece, bars 90 to 96. They weren’t quite right.”
“I’m sure the audience didn’t mind.”
There was a pause while I scrambled for something clever but not too sycophantic. I discarded: “God, sometimes you just don’t come through,” because I didn’t think he’d appreciate irony. Or listen to Tori Amos. Instead I reached for Leonard Cohen: “There is a crack in everything?”
Perfection: he smiled. I was so pleased with my mastery in this game of getting David Goodwin to notice my existence that I indulged a surge of optimistic abandon that characterises burgeoning infatuation. He was divine: tall, dark, intelligent, intense, elusive, and pulsing with musical talent.
Nina was making her way back, scarf in hand and I held his glance, looked meaningfully into his eyes and hoped he remembered my name. He did one better: with a quick glance at my tits and then back to my eyes, he asked, “We’re having a few drinks back in my rooms at John’s. Why don’t you both come along?”
I thought about my essay that was still unfinished and about the Sunday of contemplative study I had planned, and hesitated. Nina took charge. “That sounds lovely.”
When I woke up nine hours later I was lying on an unmade up mattress under a scratchy tweed blanket. I was also naked apart from my shoes, shivering and struggling with a headache that cut through my temples right to the back of my head like razor wire. I had no memory of how I had arrived in this room. “I’ve been date raped,” was my first thought. Date rape: an absurd term that had currency during the nineties, a category of date on which you might get raped as opposed to a date where you might find a long-term boyfriend or a date where you might have casual sex. “I must have been date raped.” I’m not sure who I was trying to convince.
The light was streaming in through the small window illuminating the uneven starkness of the white walls. There was a threadbare crimson Persian rug on the floorboards and motes twinkled in the sun stream. Perched on the bottom of the bed were my clothes, folded in a neat pile.
The primness of the folding kicked me into heaving rage. I’d been date raped by some exacting, academic pedant who prided himself on his neatness. I don’t know why that mattered. Perhaps I’d always imagined being raped by a cave man and felt less of a woman for having been overpowered by a cerebral sensitive type.
I sat up and kicked off my shoes. I was also furious with the shoes. They had walked me into this mess.
I pulled on my underwear and my tights and it wasn’t until I was zipping up my dress that I realised I might not have been date raped after all. I didn’t feel as though I’d had sex let alone been raped; presumably I’d be able to tell?
The blankness in my memory was terrifying. I’d arrived at the party, I’d accepted a drink, and then a disorienting emptiness. I needed to leave.
Cautiously opening the door, I peered into the main room. The room, at least, I remembered. Last night, David Goodwin had been transposing Spice Girls hits on the baby grand while swigging from a bottle of Absolut vodka. Now the closed lid was covered in a scattering of glasses, pizza boxes and a sprinkling of white pills. David Goodwin, the musical talent of his generation, was nowhere to be seen.
Despite the horror and bleakness of the moment, in the immediate aftermath my instincts were lucid and destructive. It is the nature of trauma to haunt and amplify. On that morning, in that room, I had not even begun to understand what had been done to me. I still believed in justice and retribution. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
I looked around for stuff to pillage and loot. I wanted to inflict serious and lasting damage. I found a canvas bag and put his laptop inside. Then I stuffed all the floppy discs I could find in with it. Anything else? There was a camera on the piano. I dimly remembered him having told us about it at a rehearsal the previous week. It was a digital camera from Japan, a gift from an admirer. No one owned digital cameras yet: it was 1998. I picked it up. Before I stuffed it into the bag with the rest of my loot, I wondered whether it might have photos of the night before, something to give me some inkling where memory should be. I flicked it on like Pandora unlocking the box, or maybe like Eve eating the apple.
The first thing I found was five still images of me wearing nothing but my red shoes on a white mattress. They were arty shots, like something that might appear in a trendy magazine. Porn was fashionable again and we were all trying to be cool about it. I was looking at tasteful porn of me wearing shoes that I hated. I looked hot. I flicked further back through the camera. There were more porn photos of more hot girls wearing nothing but shoes. I recognised a couple of them: Christine (emerald green wedges) who had dropped out of the choir at Christmas and Eloise (fuchsia kitten heels) who was now one-night-standing her way through the tenors.
How many women, I wondered had found themselves here, in these rooms, naked under a scratchy blanket? How many of them even knew they had been photographed? How many of them had slunk back to their rooms to try to sleep off the hangover, hand in their essays late and never mention anything to anyone, even themselves? Brush it under the carpet, chalk it up to experience, drop out of choir, become slutty: lipstick feminism.
I turned off the camera and put it in the bag with the laptop and the discs, placed the bag over my shoulder and picked up a voluminous postgraduate gown from the floor which I put on as I left the room.
About three days later I was summoned by the Senior Tutor at my college. A rising musical star, David Goodwin of John’s College, was alleging that I had stolen his laptop and sixteen floppy discs. Together, they constituted a decade’s work and study. Luckily the University Library had a hard copy of his thesis but the work on the laptop and the disc were irreplaceable. A tragic loss. The camera was never mentioned.
I denied everything. It came down to his word against mine. Anyone could have taken the laptop. I wasn’t the only person there. I never mentioned the memory loss, the nakedness, the photographs. The porter testified that I had nothing in my hands other than a pair of red shoes when I left through the main gate at 5:38 that morning. The CCTV supported his story and mine. There was a furore. I held my ground.
I alight back into my room, old dull feathered crow, and start pecking at the keyboard.
When I showed the 68 photographs of naked girls to my supervisor at Newnham, she counselled against going to the police or the university: “It will damage you more than it will damage him.” She also advised me to give him back his laptop and discs. She was helpful, pragmatic. She’d internalised the patriarchy.
Peck, peck, peck.
So I told her that I’d dropped the laptop and discs into the river and publically denied everything. Everyone loves a crazy woman and a river.
Now all that data fits onto a single memory card, which I slide into my laptop. I open the files and I look at the photographs of me, naked on the bed. Was I ever that smooth? Was that body ever really mine?
I think about the interview I just heard with David on the radio and his sublime choral Evensong. I look at the photographs of twelve girls. naked in their shoes and I wonder where they are now: mothers, CEOs, head teachers, barristers.
I do have some power now; I could ruffle some feathers. I attach one of the images to the email I’ve been composing but I hesitate before I press send. Eventually, I save it to drafts and start scrolling through the music files. I open one at random and an aria plays. For a while I lose myself in the arrangement of voices and strings. It is a rough recording, work in process but I can only imagine how it might have sounded, brought to fullness, released and allowed to soar in some domed cathedral.
With the music still playing, I resume my vigil over the street below. It’s later now and fewer people are passing. A young woman looks up, catches sight of me and waves. I wave back.
To my surprise, underneath all the anger, I feel the pull of tenderness, maybe something approaching regret.
And then, deep inside me, something releases and bubbles up uncontrollably. At her perch, the old crow is chuckling.
Sonia Trickey started writing again in 2018 after attending the Cambridge University creative writing summer programme. Since then she has had short stories accepted for publication by Fictive Dream, Litro and Calyx Arts. She was had a notable entry in the Disquiet short fiction prize. When she’s not writing, she is teaching English in a secondary school in Cambridge. Twitter: @stickytrewart Email: stickytrewart[at]gmail.com
Posted in Issue 19:3 | Tagged Fiction, Sonia Trickey
Rita Pecos
Photo Credit: teofilo/Flickr (CC-by)
If these walls could talk, they would have a deep, booming voice. They would speak for the house and do his bidding. They would tell you that the name of the house in which they stand is Roak, so named by the first family that lived there. When the father built the house they had six children. The third born, Terry, who was six years old, had asked where they were moving to and the father had said, “To the new O’Rourke house.” Terry had repeated it, “The new Roak house,” and the name stuck, magically linking the father and Roak for all time. Through the years the family grew to 12 children and they filled the house with their lives.
Roak witnessed all family discussions and meals. He quietly observed the family; he watched their daily activities and witnessed their arguments. He even painfully tolerated their abuse of one another. He was long tempered and compassionate. He was sturdy and dusty, yet he smelled of popcorn, bacon, and bizcochitos, with a hint of tobacco and coffee.
Roak stood proudly on the corner of Comanche and Palomas in the high desert of the sunny southwest at the very edge of the city limits. With windows for eyes, Roak watched the children play in the yard, and the mother prepare her family’s meals, which the family shared over long conversations and debates. He had eyes in every room, in every window. He watched the family’s budding sycamore tree grow to towering heights and magnificent width. He could see all the way into the Albuquerque valley from the living room window and he had a lovely view of the Sandia Mountains from his own kitchen eyes.
From the living room he watched many soccer and football games in the park across the street, that is, after the city finally built the park. Prior to that it was all mesa as far as his eyes could see, the only thing north of the house being Old Man Montgomery’s barren land. Often the children would walk westward, out onto the mesa, with a glass jar of water for hydration, pitch a tent and camp out. Roak could see only a speck in the distance to keep track of them, not having access to any pipes reaching out that far at the time. He worried about them, as Old Man Montgomery had been known to shoot at trespassers. It would not be beneath the children to taunt him.
Roak knew the family’s deepest, darkest secrets. He had witnessed their most intimate moments and he was the most trusted confidant, keeping holy all that was told to him in private. When he saw the children break the rules he felt sad, and sometimes mad, but he did not tell the parents. He never broke that trust within the world of humans. But he was the record-keeper for this family and was required to regularly report the goings on to the house council, cataloguing every detail.
There was much love in the house. Roak eagerly waited for the family to return from their frequent summer camping trips so that he could hear the stories of their hapless adventures. Like the year the family went to Hopewell Lake and returned with everything covered in mud. The father had decided to move the campsite to Lower Lagunitas, a tiny New Mexico mountain lake, pond really, set at an elevation of 10,400 feet. The father said the lake was accessible only by navigating a treacherous path that some had the gall to call a road. The father attempted to drive his old 1962 Blue Bird school bus, which he had converted into a camper, up this steep, precarious road. In dry conditions it would have been dubious; just to make things a bit more lively, and because the father attracted a certain kind of luck to his every endeavor, an explosive monsoon deluged the area. The father had one chain and put it on the right rear tire. Most of the family got out to help push the bus, including the myriad of cousins and friends the children had brought along, trying to keep it from sliding over the edge into the deep ravine. This story was told over and over again along with many others.
Roak particularly enjoyed the frequent slide shows the father hosted. All the family would sit in the living room, or on the back porch on cool summer nights, on metal folding chairs, eating popcorn and watching the slides the father lovingly prepared and organized. The family laughed and joked so loudly that Roak could laugh too, “Harumph!” and his noises would not even be noticed.
Roak also enjoyed the family’s Sunday night tradition; after a huge meal of fried chicken or rabbit—the latter of which the father raised himself—mashed potatoes, corn, green beans, and biscuits the family gathered in the living room and watched The Wonderful World of Disney. Roak enjoyed Old Yeller most of all. And no matter how full the family was from their feast, Roak was awestruck at how they still managed to eat mountains of popcorn, an aroma he loved dearly.
Roak rarely interfered with the family, but when he saw a strange man intent on harm darken the door late one night he groaned such a groan as to wake the father. “Katchoom!” he hollered in his deep booming voice. He only slightly bent house rules in that event and the father chased the evil man away. Roak had heard, through his network of pipes and electrical connections and his high standing with the house council, of houses that acted very strangely indeed, scaring and causing harm to families that displeased them, but these were rare instances. Roak disapproved of such behavior. One did not break house rules.
However, Roak opened his connections when Vivian practiced her violin, sharing the lovely sound through his party line of pipes with his neighborhood friends. They listened and hummed along as she played Brahms, Vivaldi, Beethoven, and Bach, and they marveled at the progress and improvement she made over the years. He had a special connection with Vivian, the last born. There were rare individuals who could commune with a house. When Vivian was only six years old she walked inside the wall between the boys’ and girls’ bedrooms, which was not six inches wide as one would imagine, but more like a whole other room. She entered through the mirror in the girls’ room, mirrors being the doorway into the world of houses, and spent many hours playing there with her stuffed animals.
He knew the family history he documented would one day be transferred to her and she would tell the story to the world. Being the youngest, she could not know all that transpired before her birth, nor all that happened outside her awareness, but Roak could transmit messages to her through her dreams driving her to jump out of bed first thing in the morning and start writing.
In his reports, Roak admonished two of the younger boys, Dennis and Pat, for smoking pot in their bedroom; they foolishly think they are getting away with something, he dutifully reported, but the father and mother are simply too tired to do anything about this behavior. But, in truth, Roak secretly reveled in this, vicariously enjoying the high like a kite in the breeze.
The family often amused Roak. When Pat was a little boy, the hapless mother could not keep him in shoes. Roak learned that it was not that they could not afford shoes, it was that the incorrigible boy hated to wear them. “Please, get your shoes on,” the mother would holler for the umpteenth time. “You’re going to be late for school!”
“I can’t find them,” Pat would protest.
“Well, did you look for them?” Eventually she would shoe the boy and send him off to school. But occasionally he would get sent home for the egregious indiscretion of being barefooted. “Oh, they must think I’m a terrible mother,” she would cry, “sending you to school with no shoes. Where are your shoes?”
Roak wondered why the mother worried so much about shoes when she clearly had much bigger worries, what with Dennis chasing MaryKay down the hall with a butcher knife, having been pushed to madness by her constant teasing and ridiculing over his inability to read. And MaryKay occasionally using Roak against Theresa, like the time she slammed the bedroom door as Theresa chased her, and caught Theresa’s arm in the door during one of their frequent fights. That was going too far, Roak thought, there is no need to damage my parts, or hers.
One night, Roak watched when Kevin, at 18 years of age, came home drunk. He walked in the door, and scolded Theresa and Vivian for being up so late. He then staggered to his room and closed the door. The girls snickered. Minutes later Kevin came running out in his T-shirt and tighty-whities screaming, “The house is on fire! Get the kids out of the house! The house is on fire!” He ran outside, turned on the water hose and sprayed it into his bedroom through the broken window. He had struck a match on the window to light a cigarette and caught the paper thin curtain on fire. In an attempt to put it out he crashed his hand through the window, and when he pulled it back the shattered window ripped the skin off of his thumb and forefinger like a peeler on an unsuspecting potato.
Kevin ran back into the house, screaming again to get the kids out. Roak trembled in fear. By this time the whole family was awake; the floor was covered in water and Kevin’s blood, and he slipped and fell, weeping and hollering. He had succeeded in putting out the fire and saving the kids and the whole family, and Roak too. But his injury was serious and he never did regain the feeling in the tip of his thumb and forefinger. Roak never took his life for granted having escaped certain death that night.
Roak documented many happy times, before the alcohol took hold of the father. He told of neighbors, family, and friends who often sought the father’s advice. Once, the father, a simple journeyman pipe-fitter, as well as carpenter, welder, and jack-of-all-trades, taught a teenager next door two fundamental principles of fluid mechanics, the hydraulic paradox, and Torricelli’s theorem. While sitting at the humble kitchen table—a fourteen-by-six-foot piece of plywood, laid atop a Formica kitchen table, covered with a modest table cloth and sandwiched by two six-foot-long handmade wooden benches—the father described the complex concepts to the young man and sketched them out on the back of a napkin. The young man later became a civil engineer and occasionally put those principles to use impressing his colleagues, though he always gave full credit to the father. Neighborhood children sought solace at the O’Rourke house, too, knowing they would be welcomed, fed, housed for days if need be if their present circumstances were too unbearable to return to their own homes.
But, as the years wore on, the father increasingly snuck swigs of Jim Beam in the darkness of the garage, numbing his once-sharp intellect and ingenious creativity. During these heartbreaking years, Roak sadly watched as the father sat in his chair at the head of the kitchen table muttering incoherently to himself. Woe to the hapless family member who inadvertently walked into the kitchen at such times. Usually it was the naive mother. The father would pounce on her vulnerability, like a cat on a mouse, telling her she was fat, a lousy cook, or whatever popped into his shriveling mind. He was relentless, unaffected by her tears. Pat would often come to her defense, skirting dangerously, “Dad, why do you have to pick on her so much? She’s doing the best she can. You should be ashamed of yourself.”
Roak knew, at least in part, why the father sought solace in the drink. Through their connections, all houses had access to the entire city and more, anywhere there was plumbing or electricity; they could even reach into the yards through water hoses and sprinkler systems to keep tabs on their particular family. Through this system he became aware of information he could not ignore, which sparked many heated arguments with the house council about the Queen of Heavenly Gates Catholic Church. When Vince, second-born child and first-born son, was an altar boy, he was hired to do yard work for the rectory, to help pay for his tuition. The mother and father were very pleased that their family would be honored in this manner, as the Catholic belief was this was a special privilege. When Terry was old enough he joined Vince and assisted with the work. On Terry’s first day, Vince instructed him, “If you ever see Father Purgot coming, I need you to climb this tree, hop the fence, and hightail it outta here.”
“Why?” Terry demanded.
“Just promise me.” Vince grabbed Terry by the collar and yanked his face close. “You run and don’t look back, no matter what! You understand me?” he hollered.
“Okay, okay!” Terry shook lose of Vincent’s grasp. “Geez, you don’t have to get huffy about it.”
“Now show me,” Vince insisted.
“Do it!” Vince ordered, “Climb the tree and hop the fence so I can see that you can do it.”
Roak fumed. “Surely exceptions can be made,” he pressed the house council. “This priest must be punished!”
“And what would you have us do?” the house master countered. “You, sir, are not some naive cabin; you know what happens on this continent every day. We cannot interfere. Do you know what would happen if we did?” he queried. “Mayhem, that’s what!” he hollered at Roak, answering his own question. “No, we cannot consent. House rules,” he scolded. Roak shook so violently that he cracked the front walkway of the O’Rourke home in three places.
When Vince was arrested for indecent exposure at fifteen years of age, the father muttered to no one in particular, “Where did I go wrong?” He shook his head. “How did this happen?” Even with his sharp intellect it was beyond his skills to help his son or fathom why Vince started to behave in this way. The father’s only solace was tucked away in a dark corner of the garage in a brown paper bag.
When Terry left for his four-year stint in the army he saw his budding dreams of college and hopes of a successful career through bright blue eyes. He was clean-shaven, good-looking, gifted in math, and sociable. But when he returned, he, too, was changed, having suffered at a minimum a head injury from a car accident while serving. No one believed the accusations Theresa and MaryKay made. Only Roak saw him, now straggly-bearded and cloudy-eyed, staggering down the hall, dripping wax on the floor as he snuck into their bedroom. The next morning the mother would scold, “Who spilled wax all over my floor?”
He had watched this, his first family for 50 years. He had listened to their lectures and arguments, their confessions and problems and he felt helpless, for his help was forbidden. He could only creak or groan, moan or whisper when he wished to exaggerate a point.
When the drink finally caught up with the father, and he writhed in pain and vomited blood, Roak patiently waited and marveled at his ability to give it up for good. In what seemed like a miracle to Roak, the father transformed back into the loving husband and father that Roak fondly remembered and sorely missed. The family enjoyed many more happy and joyful years, but these golden years inevitably came to an end when the father became very ill with a sickness that, even with his fortitude, he could not combat.
The family cared for the father as best they could. His cancer raged. Like a mutant laryngitis it stole his speech, and his ability to eat and swallow. Roak watched the mother and grown children weeping, talking, comforting each other. He wished he could console them, comfort them, warm their hearts. In the throes of his illness the father neglected Roak. Autumn leaves lay on the ground where they fell. Cold air crept in through cracked windows. Broken cupboard doors hung loosely on their hinges. Roak missed the tender touch of the father’s gentle hands. The sons attempted to keep up with the repairs, but it was not the same to Roak.
Roak loved the father; he felt a kinship with him; like Roak, he was the wall all the other walls leaned on. Roak wept when he learned of the father’s impending death, the tears of the house staining the ceiling yellow above the stove. He watched the father as he walked in and out of the other world. Only Roak saw what the father saw, the long dead relatives, the white lights, the dark shadows, and the souls of the dead begging him for help.
One morning, the mother and Vivian were sitting at the kitchen table—now modern, yet simple, but store-bought—drinking coffee when Vivian said the words Roak loved to hear. “I love this old house, Mom.”
Roak beamed with pride; the overhead light glowed a little brighter.
“Me too,” the mother replied.
“Will you stay here?”
Roak waited anxiously for the response; the light grew dim.
“Oh, of course, I couldn’t leave. This is my home. This is where I belong.” Then she continued, “You know, Dad built this house when Joe was born. He built all the houses in this neighborhood.”
Vivian smiled a tender, patient smile. “Yes, this house will stand forever.”
Roak knew that, despite the mother’s intentions, there was a possibility that this family would leave him, and although he would be sad he would not interfere. He remembered the Salases, a family with five boys who lived down the street. On one of the frequent occasions that Mr. Salas beat his wife, the Salas house, known only to the house council as Palo123, did interfere, dropping a large mirror on Mr. Salas’s head. Roak, as general commissioner of the house council, understood why Palo123 did this, but it was against house rules. Roak issued an executive order and Palo123 was without electricity for a week, in spite of the efforts of the power company. Over the years Palo123 became a very dark and unhappy house and never attracted a loving family to shelter. No, Roak would not interfere with the father’s illness. He knew it would be futile to even ask permission.
The family had brought in hospice so the father could be in the presence of his family in his own home. There, they kept him comfortable with the flannel quilt the mother had made for him thirty years before. Roak remembered watching her make it, tediously, carefully matching each seam, lovingly crafting her gift to her husband.
The inevitable day came when the father passed away and Roak was there to watch as always. Roak wept again and this time his tears permanently stained the living room ceiling.
It was a source of pride for Roak that the solemn, yet joyful wake would happen inside of his walls and he glowed with warmth and love. Roak listened intently as Uncle Art told a legendary story about Dad and one of his poorly executed plans. “I loved your dad,” Uncle Art said, “he was a real sweetheart. But he could attract some of the worst luck I have ever seen. We were all going hunting, Uncle Frank, your dad, me, and several others. Your dad, being clever, decided to go early and get a good camping spot, get rested up and enjoy the day before the hunt. I was a little naive in those days and I thought that sounded like a good idea. Well, naturally it rained, and to get to the site, we had to climb a steep, muddy hill. I mean we worked all day to get the vehicle up the hill. We got stuck in the mud several times. Finally, we succeeded and set up camp. We settled in long before dark, and waited for the rest of the group to show up. We were feeling quite smug, and when they got there your dad kind of snickered, ‘They’re never going to get up that hill.’ But when the other group arrived they drove straight up without a snag. The mud had frozen solid.” Roak could not help himself; he let out a laugh, “Harumph!” as he heard this and other stories.
He felt tenderness at this family’s bittersweet grieving, and he felt helpless about the sorrow he sensed in them. He wanted to do something, then a very strange thing happened; the father spoke to him from the beyond.
“Roak, I need a favor,” said the father.
“Of course, anything.”
“Popcorn,” said the father.
The exhausted family sat at the dining room table quietly reminiscing about the father. It was already ten o’clock; it had been a very long day and some of the guests, aunts and uncles, mostly siblings of the father, still sat chatting and drinking coffee. “Quit serving them coffee,” Sheila told Eileen, “these people are never going to leave.” They shared a guilty laugh. Suddenly, they got a whiff of a very familiar scent. Joe mentioned it first.
“Do you smell that?” he asked.
“Someone’s popping corn,” he told his siblings.
“Yeah, I smell it, too,” Kevin replied. “I’m going to supervise and make sure they’re doing it right.” Kevin popped corn almost as good as the father.
“Mmm, it smells so good,” commented Sheila, and the others agreed.
A few minutes later, Kevin returned. “No one’s popping corn,” he said. “Must be the walls talking.”
Rita Pecos hosts the monthly Prose Workshop for the Albuquerque Writers’ Workshop (AWW). She has been published in The Gnu, Bus Conversions Magazine, and Natural Harmony and has an MFA in Creative Writing from National University. She writes when she’s not working her day job, taking care of her aging mother, or subletting her spare rooms. Email: rpecos76[at]gmail.com
Posted in Issue 19:3 | Tagged Fiction, Rita Pecos
The Birthday Buzz
Kelly Murashige
Photo Credit: University of Missouri/Flickr (CC-by-nc-nd)
The buzzing starts as soon as you take off your headphones, the metal cold beneath the pads of your fingers. You’d keep them on during class if you could; you have them set to only block out the ambient noise, and besides, your chemistry teacher lectures so loudly that you could wear your headphones with full noise cancellation and still hear her. The school administration would never let you, though. For a “progressive” high school, it isn’t all that progressive.
You scuttle into your assigned seat, the one beside your lab partner, Brinn. Of all the lab partners you’ve had, she’s your favorite. When your chemistry teacher declared that you would be her partner, she didn’t make a face or flick her eyes to you with something like disgust or pity. She looked over her shoulder and smiled. It wasn’t a You’re just the person I wanted to be with smile, but it wasn’t a Because I’m more popular than you but I have half your brain cells, I’m going to make you do all the work smile either. It was the kind of smile you’d never seen before.
You liked it.
Other students trickle into the classroom, taking their seats and pulling out their coffee-stained composition books. You don’t drink coffee because it’s too much of a stimulant, but you like the smell. You’d ask if you could take a whiff of everyone’s notebooks if you didn’t know better.
Brinn arrives two minutes before class begins, but for once, it’s not her footsteps that give her away. Mylar balloons, big and pink and blue and purple, hit the sides of the hallway as she approaches. A crown has been placed on her head, and the fake rhinestones glitter under the yellow lights.
“Happy birthday,” someone shouts from his locker thirty feet away. His voice slices through the buzz around you, and you have to keep yourself from visibly wincing. Everyone’s always shouting.
“Thanks,” she calls out to the guy, turning back for a second to wave.
It’s her birthday today. You didn’t know, of course. You don’t speak to her, really, unless it’s to tell her a measurement or ask her about a post-lab discussion question. You tell yourself it’s okay. It’s not like she knows yours either. It’s not like this makes you a bad person.
It’s her birthday today.
You should say something.
You shift in your seat, your fingers freezing from the frigid air of the lab room. It’s Brinn’s birthday today. The buzzing keeps going, even when you put your palms over your ears. You bring your hands back to your lap. You don’t want to draw attention to yourself.
Brinn enters the room. A few more happy birthday, Brinns burst out from the room like popcorn kernels. She thanks each person who speaks. As she gets closer, you steal a glance at her and find that she’s carrying a bouquet of pink roses. You like roses.
When you were little, people made a big deal out of birthdays. The richer, popular kids had their moms—young, with curled hair and false eyelashes—bring cupcakes just after lunchtime. You couldn’t ever get yourself to eat one. You felt like everyone would be watching you. Besides, what if you got a sprinkle stuck between your teeth? That’s what happened at the class Christmas party, and you spent the rest of the day knowing that everyone was laughing at you once you turned your back.
High school just made the disparity between popular and unpopular worse. It wasn’t that people bullied you, exactly. It was more that people didn’t realize you were there. You were the one who got hit by stray footballs. You were the one who let birthdays pass without any fanfare, who watched as a popular guy with the same birthday as you got serenaded by his girlfriend.
Brinn’s voice drifts closer. The scent of roses, like sweet but tepid water, grows stronger. It’s her birthday. You should say something. The balloons bump against each other, giggling in the air. You should say something.
She sits down beside you and says hello, as she always does. You wave, as you always do, and your hand catches on the string of a balloon. You untangle yourself so quickly that she doesn’t notice, but your face burns anyway.
It is her birthday.
You should be saying something.
When you spoke in the first grade, people listened. You were shy, so people thought that made whatever you did say more important. When you spoke in the fifth grade, people spaced out. You were most likely saying something nerdy. When you spoke in the eighth grade, people waited for you to mess up because you always messed up when you spoke. That’s what you know is true, even when your parents say it’s all in your mind.
Here you are, in the tenth grade, and people are waiting for you to say something.
“We don’t have much time today,” your chemistry teacher screeches, “so let’s just continue where we left off.”
Students disperse, some wishing Brinn a happy birthday. One has even said it before. He’s just saying it again because maybe she’ll like him more. That’s your theory.
Brinn stands, still smiling, even though you haven’t said anything. She’s waiting for you.
You pause. You stand. There are a thousand words inside you—BrinnhappybirthdaythankyouforbeingtheonlyonewhohaseverunderstoodmeeventhoughitfeelslikenoonedoesbecauseIknowIamweirdandquietandIweartheseheadphonesbecauseeveryoneelseistooloudanditwasneverlikethatbeforebutasIgrewuppeoplegotlouderandIgotquieterandnowwearebothhereandIcannotmakemyselfsayanythingtoyoubutyoustillsmilehowdoyoustillsmilehowcanIbelesslikemeandmorelikeyou—and you think you’re going to cry.
She opens her mouth, and you know she’s going to yell at you. Her lips part, and she asks, “Are you ready?”
She’s still smiling.
You close your eyes for a second, move your headphones to the edge of your desk, and face her, your heart pounding in your ears.
“H-happy birthday,” you whisper.
At first, you think she doesn’t hear you. Then her eyes soften, the cellophane around her roses crinkling.
“Thank you very much,” she says to you, and for a second, the buzzing stops.
Kelly Murashige is an English major and Political Science minor. She would like to give a very quiet but wholehearted shout-out to all the people who struggle with social anxiety and extreme introversion. Email: kmura7[at]hawaii.edu
Posted in Issue 19:3 | Tagged Fiction, Kelly Murashige
Fragile Duck
Greg Metcalf
Photo Credit: Dubravka Franz/Flickr (CC-by-nc-nd)
Cyndi stood in the study section of the dorm room with tears in her eyes and a bag of bread in her hand. “Are they out there?”
“No one’s there.” Jenn closed the door to the outlying suite room they shared with four other women.
“We have to feed the ducks.”
Jenn moved forward and hugged Cyndi. Jenn was cold and damp from being outside, but Cyndi pressed in close, wrapping her arms over Jenn’s shoulders, dangling the bag of bread down her back.
“All the ducks are getting cold and wet.”
So far that fall the weather had been perfect. Even when it rained, the rains were warm like the summer rains the girls remembered from home. It was late in autumn, though, and the cool and the rain had combined. Jenn had been caught in it unprepared after a long lecture and quick-walked back to their dorm without a jacket. She was still shivering. “Let me get dressed.”
“Hurry.”
Jenn went through another doorway into the sleeping section of their dorm room and changed into a dry shirt. She pulled a coat out of the closet for the first time since she’d put it there the day of freshman orientation when they’d moved in. She put on a hat that was so light red it was nearly pink, circled by a flimsy brim. Jenn knew the hat looked a little silly, but she didn’t care when she pulled it tight over her wet hair and felt an aura of heat squeeze down around her head.
When she came back out, Cyndi was turned toward her. Fresh tears drowned her eyes and the bag of bread dangled against her leg. “We have to feed the ducks.” Cyndi laughed. When she laughed, she blinked, and when she blinked tears fell.
“Okay, okay.”
Surprisingly, the suite was empty. Their suitemates weren’t crowded around like they owned everything, the way they usually were. Cyndi noticed, though, a new poster they had put on the wall—Justin Bieber without his shirt on. A cute boy, no doubt, Cyndi thought, but they probably like his music, too.
Outside their dorm, the rain still fell heavily but in tiny drops making it seem like a light rain though it quickly soaked Cyndi’s hair since she hadn’t worn a hat. Their shoes squeaked through the grass as they walked toward the cover of a thin stretch of woods that lined the bank of a wide, slow-moving river. Cyndi led Jenn a short way till they reached a path that led to a pavilion on the river’s bank.
Cyndi stood still and reached back for Jenn’s arm, pulling her close. “Look.” In a little inlet, over a dozen ducks floated, huddled together, in still water that appeared to lift up in a mist from the splashing of the fine rain. “They’re getting all wet.”
“They’re ducks,” Jenn said.
“It’s so cold.”
The ducks, tamed by years of exposure to animal-friendly college students, flew-hopped out of the water and onto the grass before Cyndi even opened the bag of bread. Cyndi handed Jenn a few slices then quickly went to work shredding the bread into small pieces which turned wet in her hands. The ducks billed mouths gaped open. Cyndi tossed chunks of bread into the air, watching carefully to be sure no duck went without. “They were so hungry.”
“Come out of the rain.” Jenn had moved under the pavilion and a group of ducks had followed. She sat on the table of the picnic bench and rolled her bread into spheres then aimed at a duck mouth and shot, cheering herself and the duck when one went in.
“No, I want to get wet with them.”
After Jenn threw her last ball of bread into a mouth, her ducks were still quacking. “I need more.”
Cyndi looked into the bag of bread. It was more than half gone and her ducks were still quacking and crowding at her feet, brushing against her legs. She could feel the heaviness of their wet feathers through her jeans. She pulled out three slices and carried them over to Jenn who stepped down from the bench and reached out from under the pavilion for them. “Don’t go too fast.”
“Why? Will they get stomachaches?”
“We’re almost out.” Cyndi had to lure her ducks back to her spot on the grass as they’d followed her over and joined Jenn’s ducks. She waved a whole slice to get their attention, then started shredding it into even smaller pieces than before. Cyndi was worried about a couple of timid ducks who hadn’t gotten their share, so she used a diversion strategy. She scattered a few small pieces onto an empty patch of grass. When the more aggressive ducks hopped ahead for them, she threw a couple of large pieces back behind that the timid, trailing ducks could have for themselves. One of the timid ducks, though, must have also been stupid because it continually went without, too slow to get to the food first and unable to catch onto Cyndi’s plans no matter how much she coddled to it. She tried walking straight for it, but while the other ducks barely noticed her walking through, it would get frightened by her and hop away.
“I’m out again,” Jenn said.
“I’m out, too.” Cyndi said which was nearly true because the bag was empty and all she had left were the three pieces in her hands.
The little duck Cyndi was trying to feed looked almost exactly like the other ducks. It was slightly smaller and had a rattling little quack, but Cyndi had to keep her eye on it to not lose it in the group. By then, the whole pack of them had wandered quite a way down the river bank: Cyndi chasing her little duck that would look back, quacking its rattling little quack for food, but hopping away from her, and the rest of the ducks, quacking, following at her feet.
She only had one chance left. She took her last piece and cut it in half, held one half in her mouth and shredded the other half into a bunch of pieces. She tossed two handfuls back behind her toward the pavilion where Jenn was sitting, watching. All the ducks chased the bait. The timid duck would have had to pass Cyndi to get to the food and was too frightened, so it was left alone. Cyndi threw the half of a slice practically right on top of it. The little duck hopped out of the way, but then turned back, recognizing the food. Cyndi watched him get several nice nibbles before the other ducks caught on and stole it away.
“I got him,” Cyndi said, joining Jenn under the pavilion.
“I saw.”
“He was scared of me. I had to trick him.”
“You’re soaked.”
“Should we buy more?”
“No, they have duck food they have to eat. We should get dry.”
Landing on the roof above them, the rain sounded heavier, the drops seemed to have fattened. It looked like a long way back to the dorm. Cyndi wiped drops of moisture from her arms and hugged herself. She was beginning to shiver. “Let’s wait until it lets up a little.”
“You were just standing in it.”
“But I’m cold.”
“I have a great idea. Let’s go straight to the cafeteria and warm up with hot chocolate before we eat.”
Cyndi said nothing but hugged herself tighter.
“C’mon, we’ll run.” Jenn jumped off the picnic bench and grabbed hold of Cyndi’s hand. Jenn pulled her out into the rain and started running toward their dorm. Cyndi let herself be tugged along.
They had three cups of hot chocolate each that Jenn had to keep refilling because Cyndi refused to move from their table in the back of the cafeteria after realizing she smelled like wet duck. Jenn had to make two trips to bring over trays for dinner after Cyndi made the firm argument that since Jenn had sat up on the bench where it was dry and the ducks hadn’t touched her, she didn’t smell like wet duck near as much.
After dinner, a pair of boys, one of whom was wearing a band uniform and towing a humongous instrument case, tried to catch their elevator, but the girls, knowing their wet-duck scent would fill the cramped enclosure, repeatedly tapped the door close button so they could go up alone. They giggled the whole way about having to close the doors practically in the two boys’ faces but stopped when they opened the suite room door and found Anne and Leslie, two of their suitemates, inside.
“Hi Jenn. Hi Cyndi,” Anne said.
“Hi.” Jenn and Cyndi both said, and moved slowly in.
“We were just headed down to dinner.”
“Oh. We just got back,” Jenn said. Anne and Leslie sat, side by side, at the study table. A shirtless Justin Bieber stared out from the wall between them. “We were feeding the ducks.”
“In the rain?” Leslie said.
“That’s why I’m wet,” Cyndi explained, pressing her shoulder into Jenn. Jenn couldn’t hold Cyndi back. She told the two girls to enjoy their dinner and walked past them to the room with Cyndi nodding and following behind.
Cyndi and Jenn sat at their respective study tables, their backs to each other. They allotted two hours every weeknight after dinner to studying, but Cyndi had trouble focusing with Anne and the others gathering in the suite room to go down to dinner. Even after they left and the suite room quieted, Jenn’s mouse-like movements: shuffling papers and lifting books, kept Cyndi distracted. Much as Cyndi loved her, Jenn just didn’t understand how college friendships worked. If she hadn’t pushed on her back, Jenn might have spent hours after dinner discussing feeding the ducks with them—as if it were any of their business. Jenn didn’t understand that suitemates weren’t the same as roommates. She had been the same way in high school, thinking she had to be friends with everyone. Cyndi was civil with the other girls in the suite like she would be with anyone, but that was enough. Like she told Jenn, there’s a reason why they give out separate keys, one for the suite room and one for the room just the two of them shared. Cyndi decided she’d have to discuss the matter with Jenn again after their study time, and deciding that, calmed her enough to get her work done.
Later, behind their locked door, Cyndi and Jenn were sitting together in their bedroom watching an old Friends episode on TV. “What do you think they think of me?” Cyndi asked during a commercial.
“Our suitemates.”
“But what do you think?”
Jenn shrugged. “They don’t really know you.”
“They don’t really know you, either.”
“Do they talk about me?” Cyndi stared at Jenn.
Jenn didn’t look over. “Nothing mean.”
“What do they say?”
“Cyndi, don’t start getting mad. They just wonder why you don’t talk to them.”
“I talk to them.”
“I do talk to them.”
“I don’t want to fight, Cyndi.”
“Oh my God. You’re friends with them.”
“Well, I don’t need to be friends with them. I only need to be friends with you.” Cyndi turned back to the TV. She put her feet up on the dresser. Then she got up and went to sit on her bed. She was trying not to cry.
“Cyndi, you’re my best friend. I hardly even talk to them, just a little.”
“It’s fine. It’s really fine.” Cyndi sat on her bed looking around for something to occupy herself, a book to look through or a magazine, but nothing was near. She crossed and uncrossed her arms. Jenn came over and sat next to her. She put an arm around her. Cyndi began to laugh and when she laughed, she blinked. When she blinked, tears fell.
Jenn hugged her. “You’re my best friend.”
“I know.” She tried to laugh again but laughing kept making her cry. She ducked her head into Jenn’s shoulder and pressed in close. “Besides,” Cyndi said, remaining pressed in under Jenn’s arm, tasting the cloth of her sweater and feeling her heat on her open lips, “just because some computer threw us all into the same dorm doesn’t mean anything.”
Cyndi lifted her head up. “It just means we share a bathroom.” She wiped her eyes, stood up, grabbed her toothbrush kit from the top shelf of her closet, and left. While she was in the bathroom brushing her teeth, one of the other girls came in, and nodded at Cyndi so that Cyndi had to nod back, rejuvenating Cyndi’s irritation, so that when she walked back into the bedroom and saw Jenn, she scowled.
Jenn grinned and left the room with her toothbrush in her hand, a dollop of white paste already squeezed onto its bristles. Cyndi was already lying in bed when Jenn returned. “You’re not mad, are you?” Jenn took off her shirt and bra and pulled on the long T she slept in.
“Are you sure?” Jenn changed into her pajama pants.
Jenn reached over and grabbed her pillow. “If you’re not mad, then I’m coming over.”
“I’m not mad.”
As Jenn walked by and flipped off the room light, Cyndi reached over to turn on her bedside lamp. The old lamp had a thick, dark green shade. It had seemed very retro and clever when she and Jenn picked it out at a vintage furniture store on campus but turning it on and off required Cyndi twisting her arm into a pretzel to get under the rigid shade. Then she had to pinch the greasy knob that was just larger than a toothpick, all without touching the bulb which could burn enough to leave a mark. During the flash of black between the one light going off and the other going on, Jenn materialized at the side of the bed and now appeared in dark green. Cyndi pulled open the covers and slid over.
“What should we listen to?” Jenn crawled under feet first.
“You pick.”
Jenn looked over at Cyndi and grinned in the green dark. When Cyndi picked, the music was liable to be anything, but Jenn always picked Yanni, her favorite music for sleeping. Anytime Cyndi said “you pick” it meant she wanted to listen to Yanni, too. As the music began, Jenn turned the light off. When the electric violins kicked in, the two girls were lying back, and the room had reappeared out of black, illumined by the faint star and campus light that seeped in through the blinds.
Cyndi slid her feet into a more comfortable spot.
“When you move your feet,” Jenn said, “it makes me miss Patches, my kitty from home. She would sleep on my bed all night. She would stand up and stretch, then curl right back up against me.”
“You shouldn’t talk about missing your cat while you’re sleeping with me.”
“It might hurt my feelings.”
“I love you more than my cat.”
“You shouldn’t say you love me while we’re in bed together.”
“What about if I just give you a kiss on the cheek, then?”
“Why don’t you go give one of your other friends a kiss on the cheek?”
Jenn tipped her head to the side. Cyndi blinked up at the ceiling, faint traces of light shined in her eyes. “Are you being jealous?”
“I’m not jealous. Have all the friends you like, I’m only having one.”
“I think a kiss is just the thing to keep you from being jealous.”
“Don’t tease me; I’m not jealous. And no kissing, not while we’re in bed together.”
“Why? I kiss my mom. I kiss my dad. I kiss my cat.”
“Do you tell your cat you love her?”
“You’re not supposed to do that.”
“Because, it’s not a person.”
“You’re a person.” Jenn could see in the shadows of Cyndi’s face that she was trying not to grin.
“I’m your friend.”
“So? I still love you, don’t I?”
“It’s not the same.”
“Well, just let me.” Jenn leaned up onto her elbow. “I need to kiss something.”
“Something? Is that supposed to make me feel good?” Cyndi squeezed closer to the wall as Jenn’s face stretched toward her. “Stop it,” Cyndi said. “Look, I know we’re in college and we’re supposed to try being gay so we can say we did it later, but I’m not trying with you. You’re my friend.”
Their giggling filled the quiet as one Yanni song ended and then another began.
“We’re not trying being gay if I kiss you just on the cheek.”
“Isn’t it enough that we sleep together almost every night?”
“Exactly, so why can’t I kiss you?”
“That doesn’t make any sense. That didn’t add anything to your side of the argument. You’re just acting like it did.”
“Okay. So can I?” Jenn said.
“Fine. But don’t make a sound at the end.”
“Just put your lips on my cheek, then take them off.”
“Why can’t I make a sound?”
“Because, I’ll laugh.”
“I’m making a sound at the end.”
“No! Then I don’t want you to do it. If you do it, then it’s rape.”
“It’s not rape if I steal a kiss.”
“Eww. Don’t say ‘steal a kiss.’ Oh my God. That was so gross.”
“Well, I have to make a sound at the end. Otherwise it’s not a kiss.”
“I don’t even know why you need to kiss me while we’re fighting.”
“We’re not fighting. Besides, I still love you even while we’re fighting.”
“Now you can’t kiss me because you just said that you love me again.”
Jenn grabbed hold of Cyndi’s head with a hand on top and one under her chin. She pressed her nose and lips against the side of her face. Cyndi did not pull away, as a full, slow refrain of mingling violins and keyboards played. Jenn puckered her lips and made a loud popping sound that left Cyndi’s cheek tingling.
“I can’t believe it,” Cyndi said, leaning her head against Jenn’s. “You just raped me, a little.”
“Wasn’t that a nice way to end the day?”
“Whose turn is it?” Jenn asked.
“Really? It doesn’t seem like it’s your turn again.”
“Well, it is.” Cyndi turned onto her side toward Jenn and slid down the bed. When Jenn didn’t move, Cyndi picked her arm up and wrapped it around her head, then wrapped her own arm around Jenn’s waist and squeezed her face in under Jenn’s arm. Jenn still hadn’t moved, so Cyndi reached over again and, grabbing Jenn’s forearm, began pulling her hand through her hair. Finally, the hand started moving on its own, softly petting its way from her forehead, through her hair, down to her neck, and across her shoulder. Cyndi squeezed in comfortably against Jenn.
“I’m only doing it for a little while,” Jenn said.
“Okay. For a long little while, though.”
Greg Metcalf is the author of Flowers on Concrete, a novel; Hibernation, a YA thriller; and the memoir Letters Home: A WWII Pilot’s Letters to His Wife and Baby from the Pacific. He has four other completed novels, unpublished to date. His short fiction has appeared at Boston Literary Magazine, Toasted Cheese, and is forthcoming in Confrontation. Email: hershelaa[at]aol.com
Posted in Issue 19:3 | Tagged Fiction, Greg Metcalf
Ewa Mazierska
Photo Credit: TonalLuminosity/Flickr (CC-by-nc)
When Daniel and Ida met for the first time, Daniel was only twenty. He was the leader of a band which started to gain some traction on the Budapest rock scene and was about to release its first LP. He looked like a cross between a rocker and a Gypsy. His raven-black hair was long and untidy, he wore a crumpled hat, tattered discoloured sweatshirts, and cowboy boots. He was a bit inarticulate and did not look straight into the camera when interviewed by journalists. Everybody agreed that he was cute, but amateurish. At the same time, when dealing with the other band members, he had the adult demeanour of somebody who from an early age had to support himself and look after others. This was true; his musician parents abandoned him before he started school and subsequently they had new families and six more children between them.
Ida was twenty-three and was studying architecture and fine arts. She wore her auburn hair loose and liked soft baggy jumpers worn with trousers of contrasting colours, hats and sunglasses. Her unaffected, slightly hippie appearance betrayed her living among things which were of high quality and achieved without effort. She was the only child of a couple of affluent architects whose ancestors lived in Budapest for many generations. They included some of the most famous people living in this city: craftsmen, writers, politicians. Some people called them the Hungarian Buddenbrooks, except that they didn’t squander the family fortune; most of it was taken by the communist government and nationalised. Ida was a popular girl, despite being rather quiet, although not because of shyness, but a sense of her value and a conviction that she didn’t need to impress anybody. Maybe for this reason, she was still single, while all her female friends by this point had serious boyfriends.
Daniel and Ida were introduced by somebody who knew both of them, during a festival, where Daniel’s band was performing. It took only seconds for them to realise that they wanted to be together. Daniel suggested that after the gig they go for a drink and afterwards Ida went to his tent. They talked for a couple of hours and then made love. There was no questioning of their motives, no worry that he would find her ‘easy’ or desperate to get laid and that he was a ‘Casanova’ preying on naïve female fans. They knew they weren’t any of that. The next day Daniel and Ida were inseparable and before the festival was over, they were talking about moving in together. By this point Ida was still living with her parents and Daniel was staying in an apartment which belonged to his friend. In fact, he’d been staying with friends since he was sixteen. Before that he lived with his grandparents, whose house was over a hundred kilometres from Budapest.
Ida suggested that they move to an apartment which her parents bought for her a long time before (one of several properties which they owned), but were renting out, as at that point she had no reason to live there. Daniel, however, had a better idea—he knew about a family who were moving abroad and needed somebody reliable to look after their house when they were away. It had a garden and a grand piano, which was ideal for Daniel. The rent was low, and would be even lower if each of them paid only half of it. This solution would also prevent Daniel from feeling like a guest in somebody else’s place, as this was how he’d felt for the last four years. Ida agreed, even though she was worried that her parents might disapprove. It turned out they were fine with this plan because they warmed to Daniel immediately. They were impressed by somebody who was so industrious and successful at such a young age. There was also poise and inner equilibrium about him.
‘He might be a rocker,’ said Ida’s mother, ‘but there is something about an accountant about him too.’ Moreover, she told Ida that she wasn’t aware one could find such an attractive man in Hungary. ‘Of course, character is more important than beauty, but beauty can reveal something about character,’ she said.
Ida had to explain to her that he was so handsome because he was only half-Hungarian. His second half was Spanish or even more complicated than that, as there were traces of Colombian and Mexican blood in his veins.
Ida was slightly disappointed about her mother’s enthusiasm for Daniel, as she felt that it undermined her own value. She even thought, Buddenbrooks-style, that her parents should consider the fact that there was a huge gap in their economic status and make sure she didn’t end up like Tony from Mann’s book. But they didn’t think in such terms. Times had changed, obviously.
It took Daniel and Ida a couple of months to move their things to the new place, not least because during the summer Daniel was working non-stop, mostly playing at festivals outside Budapest. It was September when they started their new life. Before they moved in together, Daniel cut his hair very short and bought a painting by Ida’s favourite Budapest painter, on which he spent half of his savings. It was meant to be a gift for both of them. Only when Ida saw it, it occurred to her that she should also contribute something, but then it was too late.
Ida’s mother once said to her daughter that ‘the best way to find out if the man suits you is through checking what he does when you move to a new place. The less he wants to change, the better’. Daniel practically did not want to change anything and he brought little to their abode. Most of his belongings were musical instruments: two guitars, a drum set, and some rattles he made himself. He put them next to the grand piano which was the main piece of furniture in a large salon.
‘You can put your easel here and stuff for painting,’ he said as he turned to Ida, showing her the opposite part of the room. I can play when you paint.’
‘But I’m not sure if I can paint when you play,’ she replied. She didn’t like anybody observing her work, not even her parents, because she didn’t like to be judged on the basis of something which wasn’t finished.
As there were many rooms in the house, over the following days Ida arranged her study in one of them, so they could both work undisturbed. Yet, Daniel liked visiting her, to be close to her and to find out what she was doing. When she reluctantly showed him her painting in progress, he asked: ‘Why have you chosen these colours? How have you mixed these paints?’ If it was an architectural project, he inquired: ‘Why is this building these dimensions? Why are you using these materials?’
He didn’t want her merely to explain, but to show him how she did things and he immediately tried to repeat the motions and was remarkedly good at it.
‘You are a living proof of the uselessness of higher education, as what I have learnt studying fine arts and architecture for four years, you have mastered in one month,’ she kept saying half-jokingly.
‘I’m sure there are many things one can learn at university which I will never learn, like theory. I don’t know any theories. But you are right that university education must be slow, while I had to be a fast learner to survive.’
It was the last year of Ida’s study, so she was spending most of her time at home, working on her final project, which was meant to be a design of a concert hall. Daniel, on the other hand, was away a lot, as he didn’t want to miss any chance of performing and earning money and he was finishing working on his next LPs. One day he was playing with the band, another day solo, then with some electronic musician, then he went to the studio. He was also learning DJing and using synthesisers, and bought himself an accordion.
When Daniel was playing in Budapest, he returned home as soon as the gig was finished and he and Ida had supper together, which she cooked, following recipes from cookery books which her mother collected but never used. Daniel did not have high expectations in regards to food. He liked almost everything, as long as the meal was enriched by large quantities of olives, pickled peppers and dried tomatoes. Although he lived all his life in Hungary, he had a distinctly Mediterranean taste, as if his genes were stronger than his culture. Whatever Ida prepared following this simple rule, Daniel praised. Ida was first thinking how easy it was to please him, unlike all the other men she knew, including her own father, but later it occurred to her that it had less to do with his actual pleasure and more with him not being used to complaining.
After a meal they smoked cigarettes, drank coffee or wine, and Daniel told Ida about his gig. Usually it went well. When it didn’t, it was because the audience was too small, but he wasn’t put off by it and with each month he had more fans. Daniel also asked Ida what happened when he was away, but usually she had little to report. On occasion, she met her girlfriends and went to the cinema or an exhibition, or visited her parents. Mostly, however, she stayed at home, worked on her project and waited for Daniel. Although she was tired by the time he came back, she couldn’t fall asleep without him.
Daniel did not cook, not because he regarded it as a woman’s preserve, but because he never before had his own space—he lived with other people, who prepared meals for him or expected him to eat out. He ate whatever was available or nothing at all; he could go for days without a proper meal, when he had no money or was immersed in music.
To make up for his lack of contribution to their shared meals, Daniel took responsibility for cleaning the house. His habit to keep everything clean and tidy was, again, a legacy of being a tenant, used to cleaning rotas and to living in a limited space, which shrank even further if one was chaotic. In cleaning Daniel was very methodical. He never left anything dirty because dirt, he learnt, was infectious—one dirty thing made the whole room dirty. Conversely, when something was very clean, it could stay this way for a long time. Unlike Daniel, Ida was disorganised. When she was drawing or painting, pieces of paper flew in all directions and could be found in the furthest corners of the house. When she was cooking, she needed to put pots and food on chairs and the floor, as there was not enough space on the countertops and the table. When Daniel caught her in such disorder he smiled, not with admonition, but admiration and nostalgia. For him, Ida’s disorder was a sign that she belonged to a world of plenty, of surplus, of slack, which he was denied and could only taste now, indirectly.
After they settled in the house, Daniel suggested that they travel abroad together. He had always wanted to visit places, but first he had no money and then no company. He’d only been to Spain once, when he was seven or eight. He travelled with his grandmother to visit his mother in Barcelona. The purpose of the trip was to persuade his mother to return to Hungary to take care of him and his two sisters. But the mission was in vain; Daniel’s mother never returned. He always wanted to go back to Spain, although he wasn’t sure whether to recreate or erase the taste of the first visit. They thus decided to go there first.
They flew in late October for two weeks in Andalusia. It was still warm and they managed to spend a couple of days on the beach near Málaga. Ida noticed that people looked at them, especially Daniel, and some discreetly took photographs when he emerged from the waves.
‘I’m the whitest boy on the beach,’ he said to her in English, when he noticed two middle-aged men taking a photo of him.
‘Of course you are, but don’t make too much of it,’ said Ida. She expected him to reciprocate, but he didn’t.
The rest of the trip they spent in the cities: Málaga, Granada, Cordoba and Seville. Ida had visited most of these places before, but it was a new experience for her, as before she usually travelled with her parents and she never had sex in hotels. Moreover, Daniel had a special gift for spotting unusual posters, graffiti, road signs and, of course, music and street noises. He memorised them and juxtaposed with things which he saw or heard before. She called him a ‘mental magpie,’ but he corrected her, saying that he was a ‘mental remixer’.
In the galleries Daniel could spend long hours. He didn’t just admire art, but wanted to learn how the painters painted, how the sculptors sculpted, designers designed. Everywhere he took photos and sometimes made sketches. He had particular affinity for the modernists: Picasso, Magritte, Miró, Gris. He was proud to be Spanish like Picasso and that they shared a name—as Daniel’s middle name was Pablo.
‘This is great,’ he kept telling Ida, when they saw this or that work by Picasso or Miró.
‘Don’t say such things,’ said Ida. ‘It is like saying that the sky is blue or the sun is yellow. The sky is blue, but everybody knows it.’
‘For the person who looks at the sky for the first time, it must be a surprise that the sky is blue,’ he replied.
When they returned home, Daniel started playing with motifs which he noticed in the galleries, drawing, colouring, making cutouts, to come up with a design for his band’s first LP, posters and to make his own art. When he showed his work to Ida, she told him that they were too similar to the originals; they were imitations, not reworkings; they lacked a personal stamp.
‘Hm,’ he said. ‘You are probably right. But it is how great art begins—with imitation. You want to repeat what you admire and you keep repeating till you are able to add something to it. This is how we started the band, by covering songs of Beirut and other bands. Then we started writing our own songs and they were different from those we covered and today nobody remembers that we started trying to be the Hungarian Beirut.’
Ida was thinking that with her it was different. She never wanted to imitate. Even if she loved a painting or a building, she immediately thought about how would she paint and design it differently. Maybe for this reason she wasn’t prolific and she was unwilling to share her work with others. Living with Daniel only reinforced her secretiveness, because his taste for mimicry made her extra-sensitive towards her failures to be original. This slowed her down considerably. Sometimes the whole day passed with her unable to achieve anything tangible. This made her resentful towards Daniel, even more so, as his methods worked for him. When he played her his new songs, they didn’t sound like anything which she heard before and were good in their own right. Daniel also shed the remnants of his Gypsy look and created his own style, with a penchant for patterned shirts, bright-coloured trousers and matching jackets made of soft materials.
During the first year of Ida and Daniel’s life together they visited four countries, Spain, France, Italy and Portugal. Ida liked travelling with Daniel, because they were happiest when seeing new places and staying in hotels—every trip felt like a honeymoon. But they had a different effect on them upon returning. Daniel went straight back to work, to make up for the time spent on pleasure and to take advantage of what he learnt during travelling. He was in a hurry and had little time for Ida. When she was telling him something, he was often yawning, although this was due to tiredness rather than boredom. He also often fell asleep as soon as he went to bed and slept like stone up until the very minute when he needed to get up.
Ida, by contrast, needed a lot of time to return to the rhythm of work after each trip and it took her longer, the longer they were away for. She didn’t sleep well and the smallest thing distracted her. At night she was replaying in her head the moments when Daniel was abrupt or mentally absent with her. She also thought about all his trips to visit his grandparents and sisters, which took place always when she wanted them just to be together, doing nothing. One day she also realised that the amount of her photos on Daniel’s Instagram had decreased. Unlike at the beginning of their life together, when every second one posted was of her, by the end of their first anniversary she was reduced to pictures taken during holidays, as if she was only his part-time girlfriend. When she raised it with him, he told her that he hadn’t noticed and apologised. A couple of weeks later he arranged a professional photo shoot for them, ‘in case we wouldn’t have wedding photos any time soon,’ he said.
The photos turned out very well and thousands of people ‘liked’ them on their Instagrams, but Ida was not satisfied. She thought that Daniel’s responses to her complaints were always mechanical—he limited himself to dealing with the manifestation of their problems, not their root causes. There was also a certain hastiness about his reaction—he wanted to deal with them as soon as possible, rather than using them as a springboard to a better understanding of each other. She said this to her mother, but rather than showing Ida sympathy, her mother said: ‘Rather than pondering on what he is doing or not doing, pull yourself together. Otherwise you will lose him.’
Such words made Ida angry: ‘I don’t care about losing him. Maybe he should be worried that he might lose me,’ she said.
‘You might never again meet somebody like him, who is hardworking, loyal, and willing to pay half of the rent.’
‘Mum, I’m only twenty-four. There are billions of men on the planet. There are even millions in Hungary.’
‘Yes, millions of losers. Winners are few and far between.’
Ida had to agree that Daniel was a winner. During the time they stayed together, he recorded two LPs: one with the band and one solo. For the second he got an award for the best Hungarian record. Daniel thought it was the best year of his life. He told Ida more than once that she was his lucky star. She couldn’t reciprocate, because not everything was so lucky in her life. She was losing her girlfriends, because she had little time for them, always being with Daniel, or waiting for him at home, as a faithful Penelope. Most importantly, she couldn’t finish her final project. Her supervisor was unhappy with her work and Ida had to apply for an extension. He asked her to give up on designing a concert hall and try something simpler, like a holiday cabin, taking an existing design and changing a couple of elements, enough to make a plausible claim that it was her own work.
‘We have to be pragmatic, you know. Better to get a degree than not. It would hurt your parents badly if you failed. They put a lot of faith in you and I’m sure that in the fullness of time you will flourish.’
Ida felt ashamed, and her supervisor humiliated her even more by being friendly and considerate: ‘I also know about your boyfriend, as my daughter is his fan. Love does not help creativity as it takes a lot of time and energy, but try not to be distracted.’
Ida was not sure if she should tell all of this to Daniel, but she said the first part, omitting the suggestion that he was a distraction, and he replied: ‘You have a great supervisor. I wished somebody took the trouble to guide me in my work. I also think he is right. Designing a holiday cabin is the right to do. It is a small and useful thing—I can pay for the prototype and we might get an allotment on the outskirts of Budapest to put it there, or keep it in my grandparents’ garden. The earlier you finish, the more time we will have for travel.’
‘I will not design a cabin. I would rather give up my studies.’
‘You shouldn’t. You cannot be an architect without a degree.’
‘Maybe I won’t be an architect.’
‘So what will you be?’
‘Maybe I will be nothing, or better squander the family fortune.’
‘You wouldn’t like it. Your parents wouldn’t like it.’
Listening to Ida, Daniel was thinking that her sulking reminded him of something buried deeply in his memory. Eventually he realised it was his mother, when she was talking to grandma. As his grandma told him, his mother always wanted what she couldn’t get and was not interested in what she had, most importantly her kids.
‘Just deal with it,’ said Daniel in the end. ‘When it will be over, you will be free and can start something else. And we will go to Israel to escape the cold.’
In the end Ida finished her project. It was late January when she handed it in and couple of weeks later she defended it. Like everybody predicted, the world felt brighter when her study was over, even though the days were still short and Budapest was covered in snow.
Daniel, with his Mediterranean genes, didn’t like such weather. For over a week he was shivering and spending most of his days in bed, burying himself in quilts and covering his ears with headphones.
One morning, when he was still in bed, Ida went out and built a snowman in their garden. It wasn’t an ordinary snowman, but really a sculpture of Daniel made of snow. He had a slightly bent nose made of a carrot, button eyes, eyebrows made of black beads, and a mouth from pieces of a tangerine. She also gave him a small guitar fashioned out of a large squash and pieces of rope and put on him Daniel’s old clothes, including a hat which Daniel wore when they met for the first time. She was very proud of her creation. She even thought that it was the best artefact she had created since she moved with Daniel, superior over her architectural works, paintings, and drawings.
She went twice upstairs, asking Daniel to go outside and see his alter ego, but he didn’t want to leave his bed. When he went out to check the next day, there was practically nothing left of the snowman—it had melted and its decorations made a miserable pile—like human remnants found in a coffin opened after centuries. Ida put them in the bin and told Daniel that his doppelganger had died. Daniel apologised, but halfheartedly, saying: ‘There will be many more snowy winters in our lives. And more instruments. Next year you can make a snowman with an accordion. You will need a giant turnip for that.’
Two more days passed and then Daniel got up and disappeared for three days, only telling Ida that he had something important to arrange and that he didn’t know when he would be back. When he returned, he said that he had had a screen test. He was approached to play in a television series, a kind of Hungarian version of Riverdale.
‘They needed somebody young, who can play a teenager, and be able to sing and play guitar. They couldn’t find anybody suitable through the normal casting process and then somebody showed my picture to the director and he decided that I fit the bill, as far as appearance goes. So I went to see what’s on offer and it looks like they want to cast me. I didn’t want to tell you about it when you were still finishing your project, in case it would upset you.’
‘Why do you think it might have upset me?’
‘Because if I decided to go for it, it would be like signing my life away for a year or more. I will have even less time for us. But I will earn enough to buy us this house and an apartment for my sisters so that they can move to Budapest. So, what do you think? Should I go for it?’ he asked Ida.
‘Sure, go for it. But it doesn’t matter for me anymore,’ said Ida. ‘I’m moving out. I have already packed my things, but didn’t want to take them, when you were away.’
‘Why are you leaving?’
‘I just don’t like to be here anymore. I need my own space.’
‘I thought there is enough space here for both of us. I thought we were happy together.’
‘You were, perhaps, but not me.’
And she left. For the next couple of months, Daniel continued posting photos from their travels on his Instagram, in part trying to capture what went wrong with them and partly to woo Ida back. He also phoned her several times, asking if she wouldn’t change her mind. Eventually he gave up, because there were fewer and fewer good photos of Ida in his collection and the festival season began. This was meant to be his last festival before starting working on the series, so he didn’t want to miss any opportunity.
One day Daniel went to a café with some guys from the band, to have coffee and ice cream as the day was very warm and he didn’t like drinking alcohol during the day. He noticed that they were served by a pretty waitress. She had very dark hair and large dark eyes. There was grace in her movements and melancholia on her face. She looked ethereal and slightly exotic, although in an indefinite way, probably the same way he looked exotic. Maybe she was Jewish. He thought that she was in the wrong place, as she belonged to a ballet or a troupe of travelling mimes, not a café full of noisy kids and tourists. But if she felt it, she didn’t want to show it, being very polite, although not in a pushy way. On a couple of occasions their eyes met and he knew that she liked him. By this point he was told many times that every girl in Budapest fancied him, but this felt different; it felt like her eyes reached his soul, the sadness he carried with him.
He couldn’t concentrate on the conversation with his friends, because he couldn’t take his eyes off the girl. He wanted his pals to leave, but there was no way to tell them this, so he stayed for as long as it took to finish their sweets. He left with them, but when they all were outside, he told them that he needed to go back, because he left his cigarettes and lighter on the table. They did not contradict him, as they never did. Back inside he caught the ‘ballerina’ (as he called her in his mind) carrying a tray of milkshakes.
‘What’s your name?’ he asked.
‘Eszter,’ she replied.
‘Are you free after work? Would you like to go for a drink?’
‘I don’t drink alcohol,’ she replied, ‘as I’m allergic to it, but we can go for a smoothie.’
‘Sure,’ he said. ‘Let’s go for a smoothie. I’m not much into alcohol myself. When do you finish?’
‘At seven,’ she replied.
‘So I’ll come pick you up here at seven.’
‘Fine.’
At home, Daniel spent some hours at the piano. Then he had a shower and put a new shirt on and his favourite yellow jacket. On the way to the café, he bought a small bunch of yellow roses.
When he arrived, Eszter was already waiting for him and she gladly accepted the flowers.
Walking to the smoothie bar, which was nearby, Daniel was thinking that he had just started a new cycle of love. It should last longer this time. After all, he was a fast learner.
Ewa Mazierska is historian of film and popular music, who writes short stories in her spare time. She published over thirty of them in ‘he Longshot Island, The Adelaide Magazine, The Fiction Pool, Literally Stories, Ragazine, BlazeVox, Red Fez, Away, The Bangalore Review, Shark Reef and Mystery Tribune, among others. Ewa is a Pushcart nominee and her stories were shortlisted in several competitions. She was born in Poland, but lives in Lancashire, UK. Email: EHMazierska[at]uclan.ac.uk
Posted in Issue 19:3 | Tagged Ewa Mazierska, Fiction
Aunt Nettie
Charmaine Braun
Photo Credit: galaxies and hurricanes/Flickr (CC-by-nc-nd)
They told me to beware. I didn’t listen. I should have listened.
I looked up from the diary and squeezed my tired eyes shut, took off my glasses and pinched the bridge of my nose. The tiny slanted handwriting was hard to decipher and I had to keep my face close to the book. I stretched my neck and heard a crack. The current entry was dated March 15, 1926. This could be it, I thought.
A conversation with my mother about ten years ago started the search. I asked her about our family tree and she began to rattle off names and dates as I frantically scratched them out on paper. When she got to Aganetha Hiller—Great Aunt Nettie to me—I was at a loss. I had never heard of her. I had dabbled a bit in genealogy, mostly by asking random relatives about their family, but no one had ever mentioned Nettie before.
I was curious. I signed up for a genealogy website and typed in the names. I found a birth record for her but after that she disappeared from history. When I asked relatives about her they would either say they didn’t know anything or change the subject. I was so annoying about it, after a brief hello and a hug the only relatives that talked to me were less than two feet tall and mostly said mama or dada.
After years of hounding every relative I saw, weird cousin Larry slipped an old red, tattered book just small enough to fit in a pocket, in my hand last night at his sister’s wedding, telling me, “you didn’t get this from me.”
I hid it in my jacket and said my goodbyes before heading back to the hotel.
I entered the hotel, kicked off my shoes and started reading. When I opened the book five hours ago I was excited to find out that it was a diary and even more when I read the name written on the first page. Now am elated that I might finally find my lost aunt. I rubbed my eyes, put my glasses back on and started to read again.
Everyone told me not to be stupid. I know my other entries are dull. No one cares about shopping or people they never met. This was supposed to stay a secret. I wasn’t going to write about it but I want my family to know what I saw if something happens to me. I have a run tonight and I don’t know if I will make it back.
I worked at the hotel. No, not as a chippy, I served drinks when I met him. Legs. I liked him right away. He was gorgeous and had money to burn. He was keen on me too. We started to spend more time together. About three weeks later he asked me to do the first run.
It made sense. Who would expect a woman?
The money was great and I got to drive a fast car. A really fast car. So what if it was a little illegal. The law couldn’t catch me.
I dressed ritzy, in some of the most beautiful dresses I have ever seen. Nobody would recognize me. They had the car ready for me and I just drove it down. If the law got wind and started to chase, I just put the pedal to the floor and left them in the dust. I love those cars. I haven’t been caught yet and don’t plan to be.
About a week ago, the last run went all kinds of wrong. It started the same as always except the big boss from the other side of the border was there to ‘check out the operation.’
When he saw me he blew his top. ‘Who’s the dame?’ he yelled and grabbed me by the neck of my dress. I’m glad he didn’t rip it, even if I don’t get to keep them.
I told him I was the driver. He said dames don’t drive. I told him I was the one doing the driving for the last four months and he always got his stuff on time. He pushed me away. ‘Who said you could drive?’
I didn’t say anything. He pulled out his gun and looked at the boys gathered around. Legs told him. The boss said, ‘Let’s see if the broad can drive.’
I got into the car and the boss got in beside me. He kept the gun in his hand. Drive, he said. So I did.
I always took the trip by myself. It was easier. He made me nervous. He didn’t talk. He just stared out the window. As we crossed the border, the lights and sirens started and the coppers gave chase.
They were good. I’m better.
I stomped on the gas and we jumped forward. We were leaving them behind when the boss leaned out the window and the shots began. I had never been shot at before. The boss fired back and one car spun off the road and into the ditch. The other kept coming. The boss fired until his gun was empty. He sat back in his seat and yelled at me to go.
Go! I was already going as fast as the car could go. The bullets were still hitting the car and I started to swerve and then turned the car around so we were facing the coppers. I drove at them without letting up. The boss was screaming at me and hitting the dash. Our cars were getting closer and I settled in. When we were almost even, the cop swerved to one side and I swerved with him and hit the front of his car with ours. Their car tipped into the ditch and rolled over. I turned the car around and drove to the meet. The boss gripped the seat so hard I thought he was going to rip it in two.
I switched cars at the meet like usual and changed my clothes and headed home.
The next morning the newspaper said that two cops were shot and killed. The two in the car that I pushed off the road were fine.
That night when I came back with Legs, one of the boss’s boys was in my house. He was sitting in my kitchen. He had his gun on the table. He rushed at me when I walked in the room and pushed me up against the wall. He pushed the gun into my cheek. Legs tried to pull him off, but the other guy was bigger and shoved Legs to the floor. The lug grabbed my face and told me ‘you didn’t see nothing.’ I nodded. He spit on Legs as he left the house.
The next morning the newspaper said that the other two cops got bumped off in an alley. No one saw nothing.
They told me to be ready to drive tonight. I’m frightened. What if they decide to get rid of me too? I’m no snitch!
I’m hiding this in a safe spot that only Pete knows about. He’ll come get it if no one hears from me in a couple of days.
Brother, I want you to give this to Mom and Dad and tell them I’m sorry. I hid the money in the spot where we saw that bird that time. I love you. I hope I’m being a Dumb Dora and you never have to find this.
The diary ended and I flipped through the last empty pages. A folded envelope fell out. I opened it and pulled out a slip of paper. A yellowed newspaper clipping fell into my lap. I set the clipping aside and read the paper.
So, cousin, you finally get the answer that you were looking for. She was a bootlegger. And by her account damn good at it. You can see why no one wants to talk about her, but I thought you should know. You can finally stop with all the questions. I found the clipping in the same box. I think that Pete might have cut it out. I thought you might want to look at it.
I set the paper aside and picked up the short clipping.
YOUNG WOMAN FOUND IN LAKE
An unidentified dead woman was found on March 24 in Milk River. Two fishermen found the woman in only her undergarments floating in the river. Police suspect foul play and request that anyone who has any information contact them.
Charmaine Braun lives in Edmonton, Alberta. She has recently rediscovered her love of creative writing and had finished one (unpublished) novel. She is currently working on a fantasy trilogy. Email: charmainebraun[at]hotmail.com
Posted in Issue 19:2 | Tagged Charmaine Braun, Fiction, Three Cheers and a Tiger
Beware: A Prue Klatter Mystery
Cayce Osborne
Photo Credit: Jorn van Maanen/Flickr (CC-by-sa)
Diary of Prue Klatter
March 15, 1952 (aka my 30th birthday)
They told me to beware. I mean, not in so many words. That’s not how these things work. I’ve only worked for the FBI six months, but I’ve learned that much.
The voice on the tape actually said: “If you’re hearing this, you’re in danger. If I had another way…” The next words were lost underneath a noise, something familiar. “I need your help, you’re the only one I can tell. I saw something I shouldn’t—”
The recording cut out.
Usually, the tapes I transcribe are boring. I know I’ve gushed about my job on these pages and at first it seemed like a dream, but every day is the same: I sit at my desk in a long row of other transcribers. Lawrence is the central facility, so tapes are sent by agents in the field, from all over the country, then distributed among us girls in the dictation pool.
All we get to hear are snippets. Sometimes I’ll get a tape marked 2/3 and my friend Laurel, who sits next door, will get 1/3, and neither of us ever gets to see 3/3. I try to get details out of her on our walk home sometimes, to fill in the holes, but she likes to “leave work at work.”
I can keep my mind from wandering by piecing together clues. Each tape is marked with an alphanumeric code to match the agent who is speaking and the field office he is working out of, to the case. And yes, it’s always a he. No girls allowed in Eddie Hoover’s clubhouse.
That’s how I knew today’s tape was special: the voice being piped into my ears through my headphones belonged to a woman.
I must’ve listened to her fifty times. Until the floor matron noticed I wasn’t typing and scolded me. I started clacking randomly at my typewriter keys, the purple mimeo ink recording my gibberish onto the duplicate pages. It looked enough like work, I could concentrate on the voice and what had interrupted it.
I knew that sound.
I just needed to figure out how.
Tuna fish. That’s what I was eating when it came to me. I’d made my tuna salad too wet, and it’d sogged the bread something terrible. Chewing it, there was a nauseating chomp and slosh sound. Laurel glared at me so hard her cat-eye glasses slipped down her nose. I tried to chew quieter. She slid farther down the lunch table bench.
The sound was almost a slosh and swish, like the sound the SuperMat laundromat makes. I walk by it each night on my way home from work, so I hear it a lot. That’s what was on the tape: a symphony of washing machines, overlaid with some sort of long, high whistle.
“What’s got you so moony?” Laurel asked.
“I’m not,” I mumbled, swallowing the last of the tuna fish.
“You still sore about tonight?”
We’d planned my birthday celebration at The Flamingo Club weeks ago, but her cousins decided to come to town so dinner was off. I haven’t had the heart to write about it, which is why I’ve been lax in my diary entries. I’m over it now, mostly. Thirty isn’t such a big deal. Certainly not compared to whatever the woman on my tape got herself into.
“It’s not that. It’s the case I’m transcribing. You ever hear something that’s made you… worry, or need to know more?”
She fought back a smile. I thought she was laughing at me.
“So-and-so went to this address at this time and was driving this make of car? No way. It’s all so dullsville! I know you want to be an agent someday, but me? I’d rather marry one of those men than be one.” She finished drinking her coffee. “Something good on your tapes today?”
She slid back down the bench. Humoring me, only asking because she knows I like to follow the cases on my tapes. But if there was a reason to beware, I didn’t want to say too much. I also wanted to keep the intrigue to myself a bit longer. Laurel would talk me into flagging it for supervisor review, as we were trained to do with unusual recordings.
I waited for a group of other girls to pass before answering. “No, nothing good.”
Laurel didn’t seem put off by my lie. She patted my hand, wished me happy returns, and went to wash up before lunch hour was over. I hurried back to my desk and pulled out the slim notebook I’d taped to the underside. That’s where I note the alphanumeric codes I’ve managed to decipher.
P24 at the beginning of a code means the tape came from the Philadelphia field office, for instance. I discovered this when local landmarks were referenced on recordings all marked P24. When I recognize recurring voices, I can tie agents to the cities I’ve already identified. I don’t know them by name, of course, only by code. I hide my discoveries using a simple substitution cipher (the same one I use in this diary, actually) in case anyone finds my notes.
I thought if I could match the ID code on the mysterious tape to one of the agents or field offices I’ve already identified, I’d be closer to figuring out the rest. After the floor matron passed my desk, I examined the code inked on the tape’s label: S38-BV93.
I’d noted in my book S38 was the code for the Seattle office. BV93 was not an agent I’d been able to place. But the city was a start. I looked up to see Laurel watching me. Pretending to need a new sheet of paper, I leaned down to my desk drawer and slid the notebook back into hiding.
When afternoon break came, instead of meeting Laurel at the coffee pot as usual I ran to the pay phone across the street, scrounging in my purse for a nickel. By the time I got my sister on the line, half my break was over.
“Susan! I need your help. Does the Lawrence Library have any Seattle telephone directories? I need to know if there are laundromats near the Seattle train station.” I waited while she put me on hold, left the circulation desk, ran to the stacks, and returned with the answer.
“There are two within a mile.” She rattled off their addresses, breathless. “Are you going to tell me wh—”
I hung up before she could finish, hurrying back to my desk.
“Bad tuna fish,” I told the matron when I returned late. I tried to look nauseous. I almost was, but with excitement.
When the five o’clock bell sounded, I looked for Laurel to excuse myself from our usual walk home, but she’d already left. I went to the corner store for change and then to the phone booth, not wanting to make my calls from home. (As I’ve noted many times in these pages, Ms. Rainey who runs my boarding house has trouble minding her own business. Thankfully, she hasn’t the sense to understand my cipher.)
The first call was answered right away, by an elderly woman with a creaky voice. I engaged in some light conversation until I was satisfied it wasn’t the laundromat from my tape. The machines in the background were too whiny, like they needed a tune-up. The next call was a failure as well. When the train whistle blew, it was deafening, masking the sound of the machines.
I gave myself a pep talk on the walk home. Real investigative work isn’t easy: lots of footwork, lots of phone work, lots of… work. If I ever want to become an agent, I need to make peace with that. Before leaving work, I’d stuffed the tape back down to the bottom of my stack so I’d have more time with it. There must be other clues, and I was determined to find them.
As my resolve rehardened, the SuperMat came into view. Maybe I’d just stop in, I thought, to see if being there jiggled any inspiration loose. It was silent inside as I tugged the door open, no customers in view. The minute my feet hit the linoleum, life exploded. Laurel and the other girls from the dictation pool. My sister Susan. A few friends from high school. My parents, for heaven’s sake! They all jumped from behind the washing machines, tossing streamers and confetti my way.
“Happy Birthday!” they called in unison.
The B&L coal train, which passed through town twice a week, whistled in the distance as if it too wished me well.
Cayce Osborne is a writer and graphic designer from Madison, WI. She currently works in science communication at the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been a staff writer at Brava Magazine, and her fiction has been published in Exposition Review and the Dread Naught but Time short story anthology from Scribes Divided Publishing. She also collects her work on her website. Email: cayce.osborne[at]gmail.com
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An Unapparent Suicide
Miguel A. Rueda
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They told me to “Beware.” Warned me to “Let dead men stay dead.”
The anonymous posts starting popping up on my Facebook business page—Max Haas. Bonded Private Investigator.—the day after I accepted the gig.
I’m not good at remembering random dates: my ex-wife’s birthday, my second ex-wife’s wedding anniversary, but the day the messages began stuck with me, March fifteenth, the Ides of March. Together with the use of the word, “beware.” Yikes.
Not that I’m superstitious but I’ve been known to call off a stakeout if a black cat wanders between me and my suspect.
I did a quick sign of the cross and knocked on my desk, y’know, just in case.
Misty Magnussen had hired me to investigate her late husband’s death. Two weeks earlier, her now-late husband, Lance, took a header out of a back window on the second floor of their brownstone. He landed on the patio in their backyard.
If the plan were to do yourself in, a two-story fall isn’t usually fatal, unless you’re lucky enough to land on the top of your head.
Lucky Lance.
Misty didn’t believe he’d done it. She said the police wouldn’t tell anyone what the note said until their investigation was over. I guessed that her husband’s self-inflicted homicide meant she’d get zip of a fairly hefty life insurance policy.
She told me how they met—she was working a party at his posh Upper West Side home—and that they were making plans for a family. It’s why the note didn’t make sense.
I told her my fee and she pulled a wad of bills from the matching purse she was carrying. In hindsight I should have asked for double.
Lance didn’t have a social media presence, but I did find the public info about him: his obit, how he made his money—investment banker, that Misty was the latest in a long line of brides for Lance; she was his fifth. I guess the rich can afford to keep a priest on retainer.
In contrast, Misty was the proverbial open (Face)book. Although her profile was set to private, I sent a request and she accepted immediately.
A quick look showed that she had the art form down, she had selfie game.
The posts went back to high school. Prom photos, cheerleading… she got a job working catering for high class parties. In one of those, I recognized Lance with his arm around a woman who must have been his previous wife. The couple was standing behind Misty and she was looking over her shoulder at him. Maybe this is when she first set her sights on bagging him.
Photos dated just six months later were of Misty and Lance on a beach together, and two months after that, together at a lavish wedding.
Her last posts were somber, and although her attire didn’t show any real bereavement, maybe that’s just Misty the party girl. Sadness never gets in.
I did everything I could online; I had to get into the house.
Yellow police tape was strung across the front doorway and a blue-and-white NYPD cruiser sat in front of the house. I recognized the officer, Patrolman Daniel Hulkenberg, and knocked on the window.
After exchanging enough small talk to make it appear that I wasn’t plying him for information, I asked about the investigation and he confirmed what the widow had told me and said closing off the house was merely a formality. He had been the one to respond to the frantic calls from neighbors about a body with a pool of blood in the backyard.
Hulkenberg said that the body had been there all night.
Thanking him, I asked that he AirDrop me the info for the lead investigator and if he minded if I looked around a bit.
He shrugged, tapped his phone a few times and waved me off.
My phone chirped as I walked up to the door and I saw two drops. One from Hulkenberg and one from an unknown sender.
I clicked on the second.
It was close-up photo of Lance’s bloody skull and the single word: “BEWARE.” Dude was definitely into drama.
An AirDrop meant the sender was within Bluetooth range, couple hundred feet at best.
Looking down the street, the only thing out of place was a pearl white Saleen Mustang. It’s a rare car; it stood out among the nondescript sedans and SUVs. I didn’t see anyone in any of the parked cars.
Hulkenberg had said he had to break down the door because both it and the rear door were locked and chained from the inside. All of the windows, except for the one Lance took his swan dive through, were latched.
I headed up to the second floor. A gem-encrusted dream catcher hung askew from above the window. Unknotting the strings let me see that one spider-web shaped piece was missing.
I walked out the back door and looked up. It wasn’t that far a drop. Lance had to be dead set to die, forgive the pun, in order to jump head first. He’d be more likely to end up a vegetable, than a corpse.
The townhouses ringing the block created a private park for the residents. I walked around, not looking for anything in particular, when I noticed an extension ladder against the back of another house. As I got closer, something glinted in the sunlight. I walked around—not under, I’m not stupid, knock on wood—climbed up and found the source of the reflection, the missing piece of the dream catcher.
That’s when I knew who killed serial-groom Lance.
When I nonchalantly asked Hulkenberg for the address, he didn’t ask if I had found anything or why I needed to see the ex-wife. I then asked him about the note.
He said it was the one thing that struck him as odd; Lance apologized to his former wife, the ex, not the widow. He was sorry he had betrayed her and had made a mistake.
She lived just outside the city in a neighborhood with big lawns and bigger tax bills. I noticed the rear end of a car just visible in one bay of the three-car garage. The taillights of a pearl white Saleen Mustang.
I thumbed the safety off my .38, sent out a quick text with a dropped pin, and knocked on the door.
It was answered by a woman who resembled the one I had seen standing in the photo next to Lance, but she appeared different than in the picture; she had definitely taken up a workout regimen. Lance’s ex was buff.
She invited me in as though I was expected.
I had to play the game as though she knew everything I knew, which of course she did.
I talked about the neighborhood and the weather a bit before offering my condolences. She said she had made peace with it since he had apologized for betraying her in the note.
Casually, I mentioned it was unusual for the police to release a note since the investigation was still ongoing.
She smiled a bit, and that’s when all hell broke loose.
She was on me like a shopper on the last new game console on Black Friday.
I didn’t even have time to pull my gun and she had me in a headlock and was flinging me around the room. My adrenaline kicked in just in time to keep my face from smashing a mirror.
If a woman kicks my ass in a fair fight so be it, but seven years of bad luck? No, thank you.
Everything was going dark when the front door busted in and my new best pal Hulkenberg was standing there, gun drawn, barking for her to drop me. Which she unfortunately did.
Right into the mirror top table. Dammit, almost made it out unscathed.
Hulkenberg got my text and pin and raced into the suburbs at full lights and siren speed.
Lead Detective berated me for not calling her, and after I shared the who and the how of Lance’s unapparent suicide, she told me the why.
Lance had a habit of providing for his ex-wives and their children in the event of his death by splitting up his fortune between all of them. Whoever his current bride was would only get his life insurance, nothing else.
Ex number four decided that she was good with that arrangement and decided to stage his death. And it turns out that in addition to being a gym rat and a tad homicidal, she was a big fan of Shakespearean plays. Tragedies mostly, what with all the murder and whatnot.
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Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus) are uniquely adapted to the rugged mountain ranges of northwestern North America from Alaska through Washington, Idaho and down through Colorado.
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2013–14 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team
2013–14 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball
NCAA Tournament, Elite Eight
2013–14 record
27–9 (13–3 SEC)
Gary Blair (11th season)
Kelly Bond-White (11th season)
Bob Starkey (2nd season)
Amy Wright (2nd season)
Reed Arena
← 2012–13
2014–15 →
2013–14 SEC women's basketball standings
#8 South Carolina 14 – 2 .875 29 – 5 .853
#3 Tennessee † 13 – 3 .813 29 – 6 .829
#15 Texas A&M 13 – 3 .813 27 – 9 .750
#10 Kentucky 10 – 6 .625 26 – 9 .743
Florida 8 – 8 .500 20 – 13 .606
Georgia 7 – 9 .438 20 – 12 .625
LSU 7 – 9 .438 21 – 13 .618
Vanderbilt 7 – 9 .438 18 – 13 .581
Auburn 7 – 9 .438 19 – 15 .559
Alabama 7 – 9 .438 14 – 16 .467
Arkansas 6 – 10 .375 19 – 11 .633
Missouri 6 – 10 .375 17 – 14 .548
Mississippi State 5 – 11 .313 22 – 14 .611
Ole Miss 2 – 14 .125 12 – 20 .375
† 2014 SEC Tournament winner
As of 10:03, 1 April 2014 (UTC); Rankings from AP Poll[1][2]
The 2013–14 Texas A&M Aggies women's basketball team represented Texas A&M University during the 2013–14 college basketball season. The team was led by 11th year head coach Gary Blair, and played their home games at the Reed Arena in College Station, Texas as second season members of the Southeastern Conference. They finished the season 27–9 overall, 13–3 during SEC play, and finished in a tie for second place. As the No. 2 seed in the 2014 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament, they advanced to the semifinals, where they were defeated by Tennessee.
The team received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament as a No. 3 seed in the Lincoln Regional. They defeated North Dakota in the first round, James Madison in the second round and DePaul in the Sweet Sixteen to advance to the Elite Eight. There, they lost to eventual national champion, and the No. 1 ranked UConn Huskies 54–69.
2 Schedule and Results
Roster[edit]
Last college or high school
1 Courtney Williams F/G 6–1 So. Houston, Texas North Shore
3 Taylor Cooper F 6–0 So. Shawnee, Oklahoma Oral Roberts
5 Cristina Sanchez-Quintanar G 5–7 Sr. Campo de Criptana, Spain Maryland
Ministry of Science/Education
10 Allison Chu G 5–6 So. Plano, Texas Plano
11 Curtyce Knox G 5-7 RS Fr. Humble, Texas Atascocita
12 Jada Terry C 6–3 Fr. Cedar Hill, Texas Cedar Hill
13 Chelsea Jennings G 5–9 So. Fort Worth, Texas North Crowley
14 Kristen Grant G 5–9 Sr. Arlington, Texas Lamar
15 Tori Scott G 5–10 Jr. Marrero, Louisiana John Ehret
23 Rachel Mitchell C 6–7 So. Houston, Texas Atascocita
24 Jordan Jones G 5–6 So. DeSoto, Texas DeSoto
32 Tavarsha Scott F 6–0 Jr. Ringgold, Louisiana Northwest Florida State College
33 Courtney Walker G 5–8 So. Edmond, Oklahoma Santa Fe
34 Karla Gilbert C 6–5 Sr. College Station, Texas A&M Consolidated
35 Achiri Ade F 6–1 Jr. Baltimore, Maryland Midland JC
Seton Keough
Schedule and Results[edit]
time, TV
Rank#
Opponent#
High rebounds
High assists
Site (attendance)
November 3, 2013*
5:00 p.m., 12thManTV No. 16 Oklahoma City W 103–60 -
18 – Gilbert 8 – Gilbert 7 – Jones Reed Arena (3,585)
7:00 p.m. No. 16 at North Texas W 67–48 1–0
14 – Ade 8 – Ade 5 – Jones The Super Pit (1,791)
7:00 p.m., 12thManTV No. 16 Prairie View A&M W 76–27 2–0
15 – Gilbert 7 – Gilbert 10 – Jones Reed Arena (4,053)
3:30 p.m. No. 16 at Houston W 63–51 3–0
19 – Walker 11 – Ade & Williams 6 – Jones & Walker Hofheinz Pavilion (942)
5:00 p.m., TGVN.tv No. 12 vs. Memphis
Paradise Jam Tournament W 69–59 4–0
19 – Scott 14 – Gilbert 4 – Jones Sports and Fitness Center (N/A)
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
5:00 p.m., TGVN.tv No. 12 vs. Texas
Paradise Jam Tournament L 58–69 4–1
15 – Walker 7 – Gilbert 3 – Knox Sports and Fitness Center (N/A)
7:15 p.m., TGVN.tv No. 12 vs. Syracuse
26 – Walker 7 – Gilbert, Ade 3 – Knox Sports and Fitness Center (N/A)
7:00 p.m., 12thManTV No. 23 San Diego State W 72–35 5–2
16 – Gilbert 12 – Williams 10 – Jones Reed Arena (4,023)
7:00 p.m., 12thManTV No. 23 Washington W 74–68 6–2
13 – Williams 15 – Gilbert 8 – Jones Reed Arena (4,169)
1:00 p.m. No. 24 at No. 12 Penn State L 58–66 6–3
20 – Walker 10 – Gilbert 7 – Knox Bryce Jordan Center (4,777)
University Park, PA
11:00 AM, 12thManTV No. 24 Nicholls State W 73–39 7–3
14 – Williams 8 – 2 tied 5 – Walker Reed Arena (7,188)
10:00 AM, ESPNU vs. St. John's
Maggie Dixon Classic L 70–72 7–4
15 – Gilbert 6 – Walker 7 – Walker Madison Square Garden (5,468)
7:00 p.m., 12thManTV Louisiana Tech W 80–52 8–4
22 – Williams 10 – Williams 13 – Jones Reed Arena (4,544)
7:00 p.m., 12thManTV Arkansas State W 80–62 9–4
27 – Williams 10 – Ade 8 – Jones Reed Arena (4,172)
6:00 p.m., 12thManTV UTEP W 74–58 10–4
21 – Williams 8 – Ade 9 – Jones Reed Arena (4,052)
2:00 p.m., 12thManTV Alabama W 73–58 11–4
(1–0) 23 – Williams 12 – Ade 4 – 4 tied Reed Arena (5,385)
6:00 p.m., CST at LSU W 52–48 12–4
(2–0) 17 – Williams 7 – Williams 4 – Jones Pete Maravich Assembly Center (2,786)
1:00 p.m., SEC TV at No. 25 Georgia W 58–44 13–4
(3–0) 16 – Walker 16 – Ade 7 – Jones Stegeman Coliseum (3,420)
7:00 p.m., FSSW+ No. 25 No. 8 South Carolina W 67–65 OT 14–4
(4–0) 18 – Walker 9 – Williams 7 – Jones Reed Arena (5,778)
2:00 p.m., 12thManTV No. 25 Mississippi State W 73–35 15–4
(5–0) 16 – Walker 10 – Gilbert 9 – Jones Reed Arena (5,318)
College Station ,TX
7:00 p.m. No. 17 at Missouri W 62–57 16–4
(6–0) 21 – Walker 9 – Walker 4 – Jones & Knox Mizzou Arena (1,185)
3:00 p.m., ESPN2 No. 17 No. 11 Tennessee L 55–76 16–5
6:00 p.m. No. 17 at Auburn W 71–54 17–5
(7–1) 17 – Williams 10 – Ade 6 – Jones Auburn Arena (2,780)
1:00 p.m., FSSW No. 17 at No. 16 Vanderbilt L 69–71 17–6
(7–2) 26 – Gilbert 12 – Gilbert 8 – Jones Memorial Gymnasium (3,483)
1:30 p.m., FSSW No. 19 No. 16 LSU W 72–67 18–6
(8–2) 22 – Walker 7 – Ade & Walker 9 – Jones Reed Arena (5,926)
7:00 p.m., FSSW No. 14 Georgia W 78–73 OT 19–6
(9–2) 25 – Walker 8 – Ade 6 – Jones Reed Arena (4,757)
12:00 p.m., FSSW No. 14 at Alabama W 71–46 20–6
(10–2) 15 – Gilbert 7 – Ade 10 – Jones Foster Auditorium (2,359)
6:00 p.m. No. 16 at Ole Miss W 73–61 21–6
(11–2) 26 – Williams 10 – Gilbert 6 – Jones Tad Smith Coliseum (557)
Oxford, MS
1:00 p.m., ESPN2 No. 16 No. 15 Kentucky L 74–83 21–7
(11–3) 26 – Walker 10 – Walker 8 – Jones Reed Arena (7,343)
7:00 p.m., FSSW No. 17 Arkansas W 77–54 22–7
(12–3) 19 – Jones 10 – Jones 10 – Jones Reed Arena (6,631)
12:00 p.m., CSS No. 17 at Florida W 83–72 23–7
(13–3) 23 – Gilbert 5 – Scott 14 – Jones O'Connell Center (2,779)
2014 SEC Tournament
7:30 p.m., SPSO No. 15 (3) vs. No. (6) Auburn
Quarterfinal W 86–54 24–7
25 – Walker 7 – Gilbert 11 – Jones Gwinnett Center (5,232)
1:30 p.m., ESPNU No. 15 (3) vs. No. 6 (2) Tennessee
Semifinal L 77–86 24–8
26 – Walker 6 – Jones 10 – Jones Gwinnett Center (6,306)
Mar 23, 2014*
7:00 p.m., ESPN2 (3 L) No. 15 (14 L) North Dakota
First Round W 70–55 25–8
19 – Walker 8 – Walker & Gilbert 11 – Jones Reed Arena (6,075)
8:30 p.m., ESPN2 (3 L) No. 15 (11 L) James Madison
Second Round W 85–69 26–8
23 – Williams 15 – Gilbert 16 – Jones Reed Arena (7,095)
6:00 p.m., ESPN (3 L) No. 15 vs. (7 L) No. 23 DePaul
Sweet Sixteen W 84–65 27–8
25 – Walker 7 – Williams & Ade 6 – Jones Pinnacle Bank Arena (9,585)
8:30 p.m., ESPN (3 L) No. 15 vs. (1 L) No. 1 UConn
Elite Eight L 54–69 27–9
14 – Walker 7 – Jones 3 – Ade Pinnacle Bank Arena (7,169)
*Non-conference game. #Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. L=Lincoln Region.
All times are in Central Time.
2013–14 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
2013–14 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings
2013–14 Texas A&M Aggies men's basketball team
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^ "2014 NCAA Women's Basketball Rankings - AP Top 25 Postseason (Mar. 17)". ESPN. Retrieved 11 Apr 2014.
^ "SEC, A&M announce women's basketball schedule". The Battalion. Archived from the original on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
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My favorite time period is historical because it’s during a time when men defended a lady’s honor and treated women with respect. The women, on the other hand, were not frail by any means. I love strong women characters who fight for what they believe. I love to write stories with a mixture of romance and adventure. My favorite loves stories are about a man and woman who know they are meant for one another, even though there are trials along the way.
The Rebel Series is a Historical Mystery/Adventure Romance set in the 1700s. Many people have asked me why I wrote a story about rebels. Simple! I love a rogue who fights for justice and for the people. It was a bunch of rebels who fought for their freedom in America. They wanted to be free from the dictatorship of a king. How about Robin Hood? He and a bunch of men did the same thing as they helped the needy and poor. Liberty is something that I cherish. So I decided to write about a small country that struggles to be free.
THE REBELS OF CORDOVIA: “This creative take on a Robin Hood-like story is charming and touching, and teaches some great morals about agency and choice. It reminded me of childhood fairytales of good versus evil, with a nice romance weaved into it.” --Author Charissa Stastny
In The Rebels of Cordovia, Robin’s Rebels realize they must fight against the tyranny of a wicked king and help the people survive the oppression. In this battle for freedom, a tender love story begins to blossom. Daniel, a rogue and a leader of the Freemen, doesn’t realize that the sweet feminine woman he has met and is falling for happens to be the leader of Robin’s Rebels. Realizing the importance of uniting all the rebel groups, Daniel tries to recruit Robin’s Rebels but they refuse. Now he has to find a way to convince them. When he finds out the leader is actually a woman, what will his reaction be?
To watch a Book Trailer for The Rebels of Cordovia, click on the link below:
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THE HIGHWAYMAN OF CORDOVIA: “Austin and Christine had been friends, as youth, and separated through the years. As their paths cross again after many years, things spark up between them. Yet their lives do not appear to be headed in the same direction. The twists and turns will keep you turning the pages.” --Sunnie Reivews
In book 2, The Highwayman of Cordovia, the people enjoy their new-found liberty, but all is not well. A group of powerful men plan to take over the small country and replace the leader with a king. With the help of a bold highwayman and a pastor’s daughter, they try to save their country from being taken over by a power-hungry leader. As they strive to stop the Kingmen and thwart their plans, Christine finds herself falling in love with Austin Knight. The only problem with their relationship is that she thinks he is her knight in shining armor instead of a highwayman. If she finds out his trade, what will her reaction be? As a pastor’s daughter, will love override her values?
To watch a Book Trailer for The Highwayman of Cordovia, click on the link below:
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THE FOX OF CORDOVIA: “I loved this book. It is full of adventure, drama, intrigue and suspense. We've got kidnapping plots, pirate ships, daring rescues and romance. The author weaves an exciting tale and a sweet romance together in a way that will appeal to all readers.” --Inishowen Cailín
In book 3, The Fox of Cordovia, a sinister plot has just been uncovered and its up to a former patriot and a young nurse to discover who is behind it. Caroline is engaged to the future mayor of Laketown, a man of influence and greatly respected. But all that changes when she overhears a conspiracy behind closed doors. After being discovered, she runs for her life. Caroline needs to report her findings, but whom can she trust? When she asks Jesse Conover for help, the adventure begins.
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I love research. When I did some research about the “waltz” for The Highwayman of Cordovia, I was surprised at what I found. The peasants were the first to dance the waltz. It was such fun that bored noblemen would sneak out and go to the country-dances. The Oxford English Dictionary back then called the waltz “riotous and indecent.”
In a 1771 German novel, someone complains about the “newly-introduced waltz” among the aristocrats. He wrote: “When he put his arm around her, pressed her to his breast, cavorted with her in the shameless, indecent whirling-dance of the Germans and engaged in a familiarity that broke all the bounds of good breeding—then my silent misery turned into burning rage.” I was so intrigued by this description. The waltz finally became fashionable when the wife of a Russian ambassador endorsed it.
To read a sample chapter from each of my books in The Rebel Series, go to http://www.lindaweaverclarke.com/historicalromance.html and click on the TITLE.
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About Author: Linda Weaver Clarke was raised among the Rocky Mountains of southern Idaho and now lives among the red mountains of southern Utah. Linda is the mother of six daughters and the author of 23 books. She has written in several different genres, which include: historical romances, romantic cozy mysteries, a mystery suspense series, a children’s book, and non-fiction. All her books are family friendly. She has also traveled throughout the U.S. and taught audiences how to write their family history, giving more than 500 workshops.
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UPDATE: Judge Blocks Building Sale By Greedy Relatives In Gay Senior Man’s Estate Battle In New York City
Will Kohler November 10, 2016
In a promising first step for a gay man fighting to keep the Village home he shared with his late partner for 53 years, a Surrogate Court judge has blocked the property’s sale by the dead man’s relatives and ordered them to show cause why Tom Doyle, as their uncle’s “surviving spouse,” should not be declared the “sole heir.”
On Nov. 1, Judge Nora Anderson issued a temporary restraining against four nieces and nephews of William Cornwell selling the 69 Horatio St. townhouse he bought in 1979. Anderson’s order gave them until Nov. 18 to “show cause.”
As Back2Stonewall reported last month Cornwell and Doyle began their relationship in 1958. Cornwell bought them wedding rings after New York legalized same-sex marriage in 2011. According to Doyle, Cornwell’s declining health kept them from going to the city Marriage Bureau before Cornwell’s death in 2014.
Cornwell left Doyle the building in his will, but it had only one witness, not the required two. But Cronwell’s family refused to honor the will and instead claimed that the two men were “just good friends” and entered into contract with a buyer to sell the brownstone for more than $7 million, the cousins offered to let Doyle, 85, stay there for five years and pay him $250,000 from the building’s sale.
Attorneys Arthur Z. Schwartz and Jamie L. Wolf filed suit claiming the men’s vacations in Pennsylvania made them common-law spouses there.
“The temporary restraining order by the surrogate,” Schwartz said, “indicates that, at least, based on our papers, she believes we have made a plausible legal case that they were married.”
READ the original story here: Greedy Relatives Try To Seize Elderly Gay Man’s Home After Partner Of 55 Years Passes Away In NYC
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How to Prepare Your Workplace for Generation Z
AUTHOR: Carson Design Associates - Indy POST DATE: 10. 15.18
From Boomers to GenXers to Millennials and Gen Zers, each new generation enters the workforce with their own set of workplace design and cultural expectations — based on their unique opportunities and challenges.
Today, Generation Z steps into the workforce, bringing a whole new way of thinking about the design of an office environment. How well are you prepared?
Get to Know Generation Z
Generation Z, also known as Centennials, consists of anyone born between the mid-1990s and early 2000s and encompasses 60 million people between elementary and college age — including 25 percent of the overall U.S. population, which outnumbers both Millennials and Baby Boomers.
Initial research characterized Gen Z as the most self-reliant, tech savvy, and ambitious generation to date. They’re also known to be self-aware, innovative, and goal-oriented. While Gen Z shares many characteristics with Millennials, research shows Gen Z as more money-conscious, entrepreneurial and individualistic than the Millennial generation; however, Gen Z has also proven to be less focused and less likely to be educated.
Designing the Workplace for Generation Z
In order to prepare your business for this generation’s new demands, here are our top tips for designing the workplace for Generation Z:
Reimagine the Open Office Space
Generation Z has grown up amidst the sharing economy, aligning with open and collaborative work places. However, Gen Zers also have a tendency to multitask, which means an open office could prove difficult for them to be efficient and productive.
Gen Zers aren’t quite as collaborative as Millenials have proven to be. Instead, Gen Zers enjoy having their own spaces where they can retreat to and work privately without distractions, whenever needed. While Gen Zers don’t completly shy away from collaboration, they also value independence and use competition as motivation, and may need encouragement from managers to work in groups when necessary.
As a result, companies could benefit from reimagining the open office space by continuing to include open environments, while also offering options for privacy and independence.
Structured, Yet Flexible Environment
Gen Z puts a lot of value on boundaries and personal space. To cater to this generation, we recommend designing your workplace to include individual workstations, mobile desks, small team rooms, large conference rooms, lounge areas and relaxed community spaces. Finding a way to balance a flexible space with structured options for heads-down work and private meetings will be key to attracting and retaining Gen Z employees.
Additionally, Gen Zers value flexibility, craving the ability to work remotely when needed and on a flexible schedule. It’s important for employers to understand that Gen Z has grown up in a digital space where work can be done anywhere, and that combined with their high levels of motivation will allow them to thrive in a flexible work environment.
Embrace a Tech-Centered Workplace
Because electronic devices always existed in their everyday life, Gen Z will require connectedness to powerful technology in order to work most efficiently. Upgrading your office technology and staying up-to-date with technology trends will be a requirement when attracting and retaining members of Generation Z.
Support Entrepreneurial Spirit, Not Party Culture
While Millennials may be dazzled by ping-pong tables and beer kegs, Gen Z will put a higher value on growth and learning. Gen Z desires stability, competitive salaries, and supportive managers. Instead of adding more fluff to an office to make it appear “fun,” employers should be thinking about how to create designated spaces that encourage a start-up mentality, provide support for internal hackathons, and offer workshops for continued learning.
Infuse Company Values Throughout the Workplace
Seventy-five percent of Generation Z want their work to have meaning and prioritize making an impact in their career. Companies should start thinking about how to bring their values to life in the workplace. Consider writing them on walls, naming meeting rooms after each value, printing them on collateral, including them on presentations, and creating shareable graphics for social media.
Prioritize Health and Wellness
Generation Z prioritizes a healthy lifestyle more so than any other generation and desires support in the workplace. Forty-one percent of Generation Z said they are willing to pay a premium for “healthier products” in the workplace. Investing in ergonomic chairs, nap rooms, standing desks and allowing dogs to come to the office are all great ways to add healthy perks. Consider also incorporating more natural light in the office in order to enhance productivity and energy levels.
Additionally, think about how you can incorporate more color into your design, such as calming greens, stimulating greens, and creative yellows. Mindfulness in the workplace can also help employees alleviate stress, focus on the present and increase happiness levels.
Well-designed workplaces of the future should foster collaboration, connection, and community, while providing a private and structured balance for the upcoming wave of professionals from Generation Z.
If you are curious to learn more, or looking for ideas for how to reimagine your workplace, don’t hesitate to reach out. We’d love to help!
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SENSOR SWEEP: Literary Shovelware, Useless Detail, Beautiful Technicolor Weirdness, and Magic Spinning Belly-button Jewels
Monday , 23, October 2017 Jeffro Sensor Sweep 7 Comments
Is Something Happening? Is Something at Stake? (Not Pulp Covers) The Diabolical Miss Hyde — “But what about the actual cover image itself? Why is it so boring, and what could be done to make it better? The obvious answer is to show some action, something happening. This is the classic pulp cover technique. Show someone being threatened or fighting or being carried away or attacked by a leopard or whatever. Planet Stories was particularly fond of this style of cover. See? Much less boring! They are fighting aliens and tentacles! Of course you want to read it!”
Appendix N (Playing at the World) Spellcasting before D&D in Midgard — “The Midgard spells are derived from Jack Vance — though this does not mean that magic in Midgard was ‘Vancian’ in the memorization sense familiar from D&D. What it does mean is that Vance’s Dying Earth spells with names like the ‘Excellent Prismatic Spray’ and ‘Phandaal’s Mantle of Stealth’ became part of the Midgard system way back in the summer of 1971. “Prismatic Spray” would not enter the D&D lexicon until Aronson’s ‘Illusionist Additions’ in The Dragon #1, five years later.”
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (Cirsova) Kirkus Withdraws a Review (and that’s a big deal!) — “Originally, Kirkus gave a positive review for Moriarty’s book. It was apparently even reviewed by a Muslim woman who ‘is an expert in children’s &YA literature and well-versed in the dangers of white savior narratives’, and ‘she found that American Heart offers a useful warning about the direction we’re headed in as far as racial enmity is concerned.’ So, ironically, Kirkus has chosen to silence a Muslim woman because people disagreed with her review. They’ve backpedaled and thrown up this new review calling the book problematic.”
Comics (Gaming While Conservative) A Man Ahead of His Time — “It might be literary shovelware rammed out the door faster than Weinstein chasing an underage actress with a gaping hole in her heart where a father should be, but if you want to see the future of anti-SJW comic books, and wrapped up in a hot pink sausage wrap bursting with fatty goodness, you can find it here. Right here in the pages of this third masterpiece written by the man who inspired all the copycats out there with their 40,000 subscribers and successful Freestarters and kids who respect them and good hygiene regimens. I don’t mind them standing on my shoulders. Maybe the shuffle of their feet as they do their victory laps will help keep the dandruff flakes from accumulating.”
Comics (Walker’s Retreat) Narrative Warfare: Alt-Hero Is Where The Superhero Comic Action Is Now — “That’s the sort of superhero that DC and Marvel used to be openly proud of publishing, because both companies knew their markets and–being competent at business–marketed to it good and hard. That is still the superhero comic audience, which is why Rebel (imagine Daisy Duke as a superheroine) hit like the fist of an angry God.”
Traveller (Tales to Astound) Classic Traveller Rules In Action, But Not In Space — “I handed out an index card to each player for characters: ‘Assign the values 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 to STR, DEX, END, INT, EDU, and Social Status. Add +2 to two of those, or a single +4 to one. Give yourself a profession and write that on the top of the card. You character can do all thing things that that profession can do. Then add three more skills, the things you are really good at, which might tie to your profession or be something else. Assign a +1, a +2, and a +3, respectively to each of the skills as you see fit. Tell me who your character cares about in the village. Tell me about the god your character pays homage to. Give your character a name.'”
Adventure Design (Ten Foot Pole) Dungeon Magazine – Final Retrospective — “Dungeon Magazine is an abject failure in this regard. It is VERBOSE. Mountains of backstory, mountains of room text. All of it fights the DM running it at the table. If you are including something in the main text then it has to be directly useful for play. If it’s not then it needs to be removed or moved to an appendix where it can be ignored. Dungeon Magazine didn’t do this. It reveled in useless detail. A LONG room description that describes a trophy room, all of the trophies and accomplishments, and then ends ‘but it was long ago looted and now nothing remains but dust.’ Backstory, history, detail that doesn’t apply to play, a verbose writing style … these were the hallmarks of most Dungeon Magazine adventures.”
RPGs (Cyclopeatron) Erol Otus’ Gamma World — “My personal favorite approach to Gamma World, however, is best illustrated by Erol Otus’ illustrations in the first edition supplements. Beautiful technicolor weirdness more along the lines of early Heavy Metal and Epic Illustrated magazines than Saturday Morning cartoons. In particular, look closely at Otus’ colorful ref screen illustration. The sky is clear and blue – not a dark and gritty scene at all. Green tress, mountains, dragons, mushrooms. I like the punked out warrior babe with the Dead Kennedys amulet and the crazy techno-wand – I want to be her friend. The mutants are really weird and fantastic. Soooooooo awesome! I’ll take Otustown over Bartertown any day!”
The Pulps (Erotic Mad Science) Appendix C: Mayor LaGuardia Loses It — “There are so many accounts of New York City mayor La Guardia’s infamous explosion upon seeing a particular Spicy Mystery cover in 1942 — and so much impact on the shudder pulp industry attributed, probably falsely, to the incident — that it seems sensible to accumulate all of the anecdotes in one place for comparison and contrast of details. It’s worth pointing out that the the shudder pulps in general were well into their terminal decline at this point and that any fallout or follow-through from this incident would not have been La Guardia’s first attempt at censoring pulp magazines in NYC; those began at least as early as 1934.”
From the Comments (Kairos) Space Opera vs. Mil-SF — “Most authors don’t do as Mr. Walker says (and why I don’t tend to read much of the genre) is because they’re still operating under the Silver Age mentality that SF is separate from Fantasy and romance of the old definition. To get a truly wondrous old fashioned Space Opera story, there has to be a shift in mindset away from the Silver Age and toward the superversive. What I got from reading Galactic Patrol is nothing I have ever gotten from any other Space Opera novel and that is because Smith had a love that almost transcended the page.”
Comics (Electric Lit) What Wonder Woman Meant to Her Earliest Fans — “However, redemption usually only came for white villains. The Japanese Princess Maru reoccurs frequently as a non-repentant foe, and Yasmini, an Egyptian princess, dies rather than reforming. No matter the gender of the opponent, non-Western cultures in Wonder Woman often match the sensitivity of Mickey Rooney’s role in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Racist lingo, like ‘Nip,’ jars the modern reader during any battle against the Japanese. Marston was far from the only comic or cartoon purveyor to use such language during the time period. The exoticism of the villains is both exploitative and audience-driven. After all, as comic books began to replace pulp magazines, they offered a cheap version of escape. Wonder Woman not only served a patriotic cause with its red, white, and blue spangles, but served to feed into the idea of American exceptionalism.”
The Dung Age (The Emerald City) Have I gone off fantasy? — “I hate to name particular examples, since a book that did nothing for me might be your best-beloved, but one that I can’t resist dissing is The Girl of Fire and Thorns. As well as my least-favorite titling trend, A of B and C, this features a pseudo-religion that completely misrepresents the purpose of prayer, a character arc that seems designed as an advertisement for a weight-loss regimen, and a magic spinning belly-button jewel (???). Oh, and a scene in which the heroine uses a sheepskin to start a fire. Apparently the author did not know that wool is naturally flame-resistant and that this would be quite difficult to do with a tinderbox.”
Books (Vintage Novels) The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey — “By now, almost seventy years after it was written, The Daughter of Time is recognised as one of the great detective stories of all time, and must have created thousands of passionate Ricardians (or so Richard III’s current-day apologists are called). And yet, it somehow does this while defying a whole heap of tested story conventions. The stakes, for instance, are low to nonexistent. There are no villains lurking in the corners of Inspector Grant’s hospital room, and he’ll suffer no more than a slight injury to his pride if he fails to vindicate Richard. The case is cold, and I don’t believe the scene ever shifts out of Grant’s hospital room, where he lies in bed looking at books and his ceiling and having conversations with occasional visitors. It’s not what you’d expect to form the raw material of a gripping detective yarn. And if Josephine Tey was such an avid Ricardian, you’d expect her to write a weighty non-fiction tome instead of trying to shoehorn all the evidence and scholarly debate into a light detective novel. And yet she does it.”
Rewrite All the Things! (Tor.com) Star Trek, Harry Mudd, and the Power of Personal Narrative — “These jokes are a product of their time, to be certain. The nagging wife, the cad who can’t seem to pass a day without doing something illegal, the eternity lambasted by the specter of a woman left behind. But the question that no one seemed to ask was simple enough—was Harry telling the truth about Stella at all?”
D&D (Black Gate) The Expedition Into the Black Reservoir: A Dungeon Adventure at Greyhawk Castle by Gary Gygax — “The story appeared in the fanzine El Conquistador in 1975, and runs about four pages. The title is ‘The Expedition Into the Black Reservoir; A Dungeon Adventure At Greyhawk Castle’ and was authenticated by Gary himself as being a story he wrote to promote the new game, Dungeons & Dragons, which is also advertised in the same issue. The issue also ran a review of D&D, along with another article by Gygax elaborating the idea and themes of D&D. This story has never been re-published, and as far as I know is perhaps the first ever Greyhawk-specific short story ever published. It is also very rare, having been published in a small-print run zine having to do with play by mail Diplomacy and wargaming campaigns. Gary said that he no longer has a copy either, having donated it to WOTC a few years back along with other personal items he had.”
caleb says:
We really need some sort of viable alternative to Goodreads.
deuce says:
Ain’t that the truth.
I know of Tey from a relatively old, but good, How to Write Mysteries book I own – the title escapes me right now, but I read it quite a bit. One of the writers in the book used to gush about Tey. It always made me roll my eyes, because instead of using Dorothy L. Sayers or Agatha Christie as her models – actual legends of the field – she would use Tey as her “this how you should write” model.
It also made me think “That’s great and all, but if I want to write mysteries everyone thinks are great and that will be popular wouldn’t it make more sense for me to emulate actually famous writers like Christie and Sayers?”
James Schmidt says:
Awesome links as usual! Thanks!
Salamandyr says:
So it seems Star Trek Discovery chooses to erase the cliches of the past and update them with cliches of the future. Good for them! After all the rest of their “re-imagining” showing some narrative consistency now would be truly disappointing.
That’s a good post from Cirsova.
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The Murray Seminars on Medieval and Renaissance Art present current research by emerging and established scholars. Seminars are held three times a term and take place at 5.00pm in the History of Art Department (43, Gordon Sq., London WC1H 0PD) in The Keynes Library (Room 114), unless stated otherwise.
Talks finish by 5.50pm to allow those with other commitments to leave, and are then followed by discussion and refreshments. These talks are supported by the Murray Bequest in memory of the Department’s founder Peter Murray, and are open to all. No booking is required. If you wish to join our mailing list, please contact Laura Jacobus.
Michael Carter on Relics and Monastic Identity in Late-Medieval England - This paper analyses the importance of relics in the construction of monastic identities in late medieval England.
Petr Uličný on The Origins of Renaissance Architecture in Bohemia - This seminar considers the leisure architecture of Central Europe in the Renaissance by exploring how two kings of Bohemia, Mathias Corvinus and Vladislaus Jagiello, hired foreign architects to bring the fashion for Renaissance architecture to central Europe.
Dorigen Caldwell on Prayers, Purgatory and Politics in Post-Tridentine Rome - This seminar will examine the imagery employed in the chapel as an expression not only of the fashionable artistic tastes of early modern Rome, but also of the particular preoccupations of these 'cardinali tedeschi'.
Luca Palozzi on The Holy-Water Basin of San Giovanni Fuorcivitas - This paper explores this object’s surprising materiality, considering Nicola and Giovanni Pisano's daring technical and artistic experimentations with stones and minerals scarcely used in monumental sculpture from the period.
Reading an Ancient Monument in Renaissance Rome - This paper will examine these and other aspects of the Septizodium’s rich and diverse architectural fortuna, and explore how interpretations of the monument determined the reuse of elements of its design in Renaissance building projects.
Jerusalem and Rome on the Rhone? Alexandra Gajewski considers one of the most enigimatic paintings made in fifteenth-century Europe. Please note this seminar will take place in the Council Room at Birkbeck's main building in Torrington Place (London, WC1E 7HX).
Sandy Heslop and the Tiberius Psalter - Sandy Heslop discussed the significance of The Tiberius Psalter, notable for its collection of drawings and two painted pages.
Peter Fane-Saunders on Reading an ancient monument in Renaissance Rome - Peter Fane-Saunders examined aspects of the Septizodium’s rich and diverse architectural fortuna and how interpretations of the monument determined the reuse of elements of its design in Renaissance building projects.
Marie-Louise Lillywhite on Blood is thicker than water - Lillywhite explored how relationships impacted artistic production in Venice for better or worse.
Jana Gajdosova on Sculpted Genealogies - This seminar explored the fascination Charles IV had with re-imagining and visualizing his role and the effigies of Přemyslids rulers he commissioned for Prague Cathedral.
Lisa Monnas on Vestments and Textiles - Monnas re-examined the vestments and textiles in the newly conserved panels, assessing their ‘realism’ and their contribution to the heavenly scene.
Dr Luca Palozzi and Dr Bergkvist present a cross-disciplinary study of lion paw prints in Giovanni Pisano's Pisa Pulpit - This paper presented the initial results of a joint art historical and anatomical study of the Pisa paw prints.
Emmanuele Lugli on Chasing Absence - A seminar focused on the singular devotion for the 'mensura Christi,' or the act of praying with objects that reproduced the height of Christ.
Carol Richardson on Britons and Anglo-Saxons in Sixteenth-Century Rome - A seminar focused on the earliest part of the fresco cycle in the English College, which survives as printed images, in light of this deliberate historiographical choice.
Cecily Hennessy on ‘Mary Magdalene in Byzantium’ - A paper which examined the Early Christian and Byzantine imagery of Mary, exploring some eastern texts that contributed to forming her identity and endeavoured to understand why the two traditions, east and west, were so distinct.
Zoe Opacic ‘From Sacroscape to Cityscape: Images of Central European Towns in Late Medieval Sources’
Kim Woods on Speaking Sculptures - Many statues and works of sculpture made in the late Gothic and Renaissance period are represented with mouth open, as if caught in a mid-utterance. These ‘speaking sculptures’ have received remarkably little comment from art historians. What are these speaking statues meant to be saying? And what, as viewers, are we meant to ‘hear’ and respond? The aim of this paper is to begin to unravel this illusion of speech and the agency it implies.
Robert Maniura on Decoration and Innovation in 15-century Iberian art - Maniura considered the output of Jaume Huguet, the most prominent painter in Barcelona in the later fifteenth century, whose elaborate and heavily gilded works conspicuously depart from these familiar patterns. He argues that his paintings reveal a sensitivity to and creative exploitation of his materials every bit as noteworthy as that of his more famous contemporaries.
Dorigen Caldwell on Seeking Immortality in Cinquecento Rome - Caldwell examined debates in literary and artistic circles in mid sixteenth-century Rome around portraiture and the encapsulation of the individual. Taking as her point of departure a portrait bust of Pope Paul III, she focused in particular on the highly erudite circles which gathered around the Farnese court, exploring themes of paragone, materiality and the perpetuation of memory.
Joanna Cannon on redating the Frescoes by the Maestro di San Francesco at Assisi - Cannon revisited her often-quoted article of 1982 to argue against some of her earlier conclusions, and to explore the implications of this change of mind. Were the Franciscans always the artistic innovators in thirteenth-century Italy, or did the Dominicans sometimes lead the way?
Paul Davies on 'Saving the soul of Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici: Function and design in the old sacristy' - This paper asks whether he believed interment in a sacristy might help save his soul and went on to consider whether this notion affected how the sacristy was designed.
Pippa Salonius on 'Authority, Nature and the Image' - In a society where the word of God reigned supreme, visual reminders of this chain of command were of vital importance. Images, after all, were the lingua franca of medieval Christendom, but given the abstract nature of the message, Salonius explores how its meaning was best conveyed.
Laura Slater on Art and political opinion in early 14th-century England - Slater explored the role of art and architecture in challenging political ideas and opinions in early fourteenth-century England, focussing on the activities of Queen Isabella of France during the 1320s.
Clare Vernon on Pseudo-Arabic in medieval southern Italy - Vernon examined the use of pseudo-Arabic motifs in the region of Puglia in southeast Italy over the course of the eleventh century.
Bernd Nicolai on Modes of artistic expression and representation - Nicolai examined the late-gothic west facade of Bern Minster and its extraordinary sculpted portal, considering the power of change in this and other church-building programmes in imperial cities during the fifteenth century.
Paula Nuttall on Low life in high society: on dance and low-life subjects in drawings by Verrochio
Tom Nickson on Light and Gothic architecture - Nickson looked at the significance of light and its subsequent obscuration in Gothic Architecture: 1260, 1860, 1960 and now.
Zuleika Murat on ‘I have not seen more precious tombs and burials with greater pomp’: Guariento and the Tomb of Doge Giovanni Dolfin in Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice - Dr. Murat proposed a new hypothesis and a visual reconstruction of this important monument in one of Venice’s most significant locations.
Juliana Barone on Leonardo, Poussin and Errard - Barone explored new ideals in the editio princeps of the Treatise on Painting.
Robert Maniura on Portraiture and Flesh - A talk which discussed Rogier van der Weyden’s famous image of St Luke drawing the Virgin Mary, exploring its implications for the understanding of contemporary portraiture.
Laura Jacobus on Four Weddings and a Funerary Chapel - Jacobus explored five generations of women who worshipped in the Arena Chapel in Padua, asking what insights we can gain when we place them at the centre of our enquiry.
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Romaan: Behind The Scenes-“Assassin”
Resident for the famous COYA group, Romaan is surely becoming one of the most exciting names in the House and Tech House scene. With over 50,000 listeners online Romaan is becoming more and more in demand. Some of his most popular releases include tracks such as “Groovin,” “Sumbatra” and now “Assassin,” we caught up with Romaan to find out some exclusive behind the scenes information.
What was the inspiration behind “Assassin?”
Romaan: I wanted to make a track that’s more intriguing and slightly darker than my previous tracks. I wanted the listeners to feel the anxiety and the excitement of the drop at the same time.
How would you describe ‘Assassin’ to those who haven’t heard it yet?
Romaan: Close your eyes and imagine that someone is following you, you can’t see his face, as everything around you is dark, the only thing you know is that you have to escape. You are going through the crowd in a nightclub; you can’t see anything, stuck between darkness and flashing lights.
How was your experience creating this track? Did you face any difficulties?
Romaan: I found the vocals and it inspired me the track. It’s always tricky to make a production that will be appreciated by the public. I always start with a beat I like and then I rearrange it to make it sound more pumping.
What was it like working with PinkStar Records?
Romaan: I was super happy that they decided to sign the track. They are extremely professional. I’ve had amazing exposure thanks to them, EDX played “Assassin” twice on his radio show and I’m so thankful for that.
Do you have your eye on anyone for a collaboration at the moment?
Romaan: I’m already working on a project, so no time for any collaboration yet!
How would you say your music has evolved over the last year?
Romaan: The thing is, I love every single type of music, especially the emotion that comes with it. I produce music every day and it ends up being so different each time. Obviously I produce mainly House and I love to keep a groovy drop to get people moving.
Have you got any gigs coming up soon?
Romaan: I’m resident in COYA London (Mayfair and Angel Court), I play every week and every weekend. As the brand is based also in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Monaco, I’m also traveling around the world to DJ too!
Tell us a little bit more about your new duo project?
Romaan: My new project is a duo called The Lords. My friend Tony Cortez and I decided last year to work together, we wanted to have common project as we’ve known each other for ages. We wanted to produce and play together. You can follow us on the social media at @thelordsaroundme.
Can you give us an exclusive for what you are working on next?
Romaan: Of course! Actually, I’ve been working on an EP for COYA music label; the feel of it is much more Down Tempo. It was released on the 18th of July!
Finally, where can people go to purchase “Assassin?”
Romaan: On all download and streaming platforms: ITunes, Apple Music, Beatport, Spotify… And I really hope you guys will like “Assassin!”
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DR curriculum is composed of comprehensive training in all areas of diagnostic imaging including neuro-radiology, cardiac imaging, abdominal imaging, ultrasound, emergency radiology, pediatric imaging, interventional radiology, breast imaging, women’s health, nuclear medicine, GI fluoroscopy, chest imaging, and musculoskeletal imaging. DR training will be completed in PGY2-4 years with the exception of nuclear medicine. During the first 3 months of PGY 2 year, the R1 residents rotate in 2 week blocks to gain working familiarity. After the first three month, R1 then rotate in 4 week blocks.
IR curriculum is composed of comprehensive training in vascular diagnosis, vascular interventions, and non-vascular interventions. The curriculum consists of peripheral arterial disease, interventional oncology, women’s health, GI/GU interventions, trauma interventions, MSK interventions, pain management, lower extremity venous reflux disease, and neuro-interventional radiology including acute stroke interventions. ICU and research blocks are also important parts to the curriculum. IR education is facilitated by outpatient, inpatient, hospital based, and office based settings including outpatient IR office. Clinical care of the IR patient is a key component of the education and is facilitated by inpatient admitting and consult IR services and a free standing outpatient IR office.
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The curriculum for the one year IR fellowship is a comprehensive training in vascular diagnosis, vascular interventions, and non-vascular interventions. The curriculum consists of peripheral arterial disease, interventional oncology, women’s health, GI/GU interventions, trauma interventions, MSK interventions, pain management, lower extremity venous reflux disease, and neuro-interventional radiology including acute stroke interventions. Involvement in research is encouraged. IR experience involves outpatient, inpatient, hospital based, and office based settings including outpatient IR office. Clinical care of the IR patient is a key component of the education and is facilitated by inpatient admitting and consult IR services and a free standing outpatient IR office.
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More Thunder from eMeg’s Right; Carla Held Hostage
Little noticed among all the Ken und John Sturm und Drang came another right-wing whack at Meg Whitman’s campaign prevarications, from a less cacophonous, but arguably more consequential, conservative quarter.
Peter Foy, a Ventura County supervisor and a favorite of Tea Party and other hardline precincts, took eMeg to task in a SignOnSan Diego piece (h/t Jon Fleischman) for her flip-flopping flexibility on immigration and climate change, a post showing that conservative dismay with Our Meg is not limited to the yakkers and shouters on the AM band.
Foy played a high-profile role in sinking Governor Schwarzmuscle’s budget plan in last year’s special election, characterizing both Whitman and Steve Poizner as “squishy” on that and other fiscal matters in an interview with Calbuzz at a time when he was taking a semi-serious look at running for the big job himself.
In his new piece, Foy declared himself “a Whitman supporter,” but was unstinting and surgical in slicing her in the very spots where she was pounded last week on talk radio.
It’s troubling that Meg Whitman – the billionaire first-time candidate seeking to become California’s next governor – is running the most conventional of too-clever-by-half campaigns. If she stubbornly continues this aloof tactical venture she will almost surely lose and won’t deserve to win…
While Whitman and her advisers understand the need to reach out to diverse constituencies, ham-handed efforts to woo Latinos (and other favored groups) are likely to both fail to launch and even blow up in their face…
They are likely to see this for the kaleidoscopic approach it is – inviting people to see what they want to see – and could punish Whitman even more severely than they would a different politician.
Here’s why. Whitman obviously has special appeal and the independent, outsider profile many voters say they are looking for. But if she’s simply going to advance the most expensive version of a bargain-basement campaign, Whitman is literally inviting voters to view her as calculating and even manipulative. While this is dangerous for a veteran politician, it’s lethal for a newcomer.
Over at Fox and Hounds, the estimable Joe Mathews argues that Meg’s appearance on John and Ken was a “Sister Souljah” moment that will help her image among independent voters by showing she’s not afraid to stand up to the most raucous elements of her party. We say: Not so much.
Unlike the talk show boys, Foy is a well-starched, perfectly respectable, establishment arch-conservative. As a political matter, it’s significant that he not only sounds the same themes as John and Ken but also echoes the argument, made by independent voices like ours, plus progressive sites like Calitics, that Meg’s tell-everyone-what-they-want-to-hear pattern of behavior is most troubling, not as a policy issue, but as a character flaw.
…Their hearts and minds will follow: Maybe eMeg should stop with all the too clever by half moves and be more like Linda McMahon in taking a more ballsy approach.
Just askin’: Has there ever been a goofier idea by a news organization than the Chronicle’s effort to goose print circulation by delaying for 48 hours the posting of some of its best stories on SFGate?
A half-baked hybrid version of Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to force readers to pay for content one way or another (which itself is not exactly off to a roaring start) the Hearst Chron’s strategy of holding its own Sunday edition journalism hostage seems to be having three main effects:
1) it keeps some of the best work of its reporters out of the real-time conversation that drives the 24/7 news cycle;
2) it gives more eyeballs to the competition, as folks in search of new news head to the L.A. Times or SacBee to find it;
3) it drives traffic to aggregation sites which find and post the Chron’s stories despite the paper’s delusional notion that it can exercise singular control over the flow of online information.
For example, this Sunday the Chron kept Willie Brown’s column off the web, so readers in search of his latest take on the governor’s race (“Nerdy Jerry Brown a Formidable Opponent,” read the good hed, which was all a reader could read) was directed to this note:
This story is exclusive to the Chronicle’s Sunday print edition and will not appear on SFGate.com until 4:00 AM on Tuesday, August 10. To buy an electronic version of the Sunday paper now, go to…Print subscribers can go to…to sign up for free e-editions.
Hold your horses, Maude! Let’s forget that picnic and hike in the Berkeley hills – I really need to spend half the day navigating the Chron’s web site to read “Willie’s World.”
Readers encountered a similar M.C. Escher-like maze if they clicked on Carla Marinucci’s Sunday blog post (hopefully through the link on the Calbuzz Blogroll of Honor) where she offered a sketchy version of Jerry Brown’s just-released jobs plan, then appended this sad little lose-friends-and-don’t influence people note:
UPDATE: Check today’s San Francisco Chronicle for a “print-only” exclusive analysis of the jobs proposals being offered by both gubernatorial candidates, Brown and Whitman, as well as the candidates for U.S. Senate — Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer and GOP challenger Carly Fiorina. The “print only” exclusive will be released to the web on Tuesday morning…
Rather than wait until Tuesday morning, however, political junkies who cared found the very good, “exclusive analysis” of the jobs issue, which Marinucci co-wrote with boy wonder Drew Joseph, over at Jack Kavanagh’s Rough & Tumble , where it was posted more than 24 hours before it appeared “exclusively” on SFGate.
While the pathway the story took to R&T is not entirely clear, at least one key thing is: keeping information barricaded behind walls is kind of like running the 100-yard dash with water cupped safely in your hands.
Update 7:41 a.m. Rough and Tumble’s Jack Kavanagh checks in with this on the Chron/48-hour delay imbroglio:
I never link to Chronicle stories that are being withheld from the Internet on Sunday.
I only link to items readily available on the Chronicle site or the Chronicle politics blog.
The story you referenced by Carla was either available on the site or on the blog.
By the time the stories that are withheld by the Chronicle on Sunday are released on the following Wednesday, I generally ignore them mainly because by that time they are generally pretty stale.
Emphasis in original. We rest our case.
Memo to Frank Vega: Great Cesar’s Ghost, man! Free Willie, Carla, Drew, Phil, Andy and all political prisoners!
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Reflections On The S.F. Chronicle
By Jerry Roberts
I started working at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1977, as a temporary, vacation relief general assignment reporter, and left a quarter-century later, after serving five years as the paper’s Managing Editor.
For most of my Chronicle career, the paper was owned and operated by the descendants of Charles and Michael de Young, who founded it as the Daily Dramatic Chronicle in 1865. In 2000, the family sold out to the Hearst Corp., which struggled with the paper’s finances from the day they bought it; two weeks ago, Hearst executives announced they would shut down The Chronicle unless employee unions made massive concessions, starting with the disappearance of at least 150 jobs.
The financial woes afflicting the Chronicle mirror those of once-flush metro dailies across the country; the rapid economic and cultural changes shaped by the internet shattered their business model of aggregating a general interest, geographically discrete, mass audience to sell to local and national advertisers at premium rates.
For a newspaper junkie who spent more than half my life in daily newsrooms before moving to academia in 2007, the decline of the Chronicle and of the industry is heart-breaking to watch. Here are my own two (three, actually) cents on what’s happened and where things may be headed:
1-The future for newspaper journalists lies in fully understanding – and truly accepting, once and for all – that the value of the product is the news, not the paper, then moving full speed ahead on some version of web-to-print publication that merges daily breaking news coverage with a one-to-three day-a-week print product focused on analysis, opinion and explanatory journalism.
2-News organizations, regardless of platform, should concentrate intensely on three fundamental value propositions:
a) Local news, which comprehensively covers, uncovers and demystifies the information that is most directly and immediately relevant to folks in their communities – public safety, schools, government actors and actions, arts and entertainment, for starters – as consumers, taxpayers and citizens (as sites like Noozhawk and independent.com do in Santa Barbara)
b) Collaborative investigative reporting that bulds on and fulfills the traditional watchdog responsibilities of public service journalism, by aligning and strengthening the organization’s own reporting resources with the expertise, passion and reporting power of online communities (as the Sun-Sentinel did in its Pulitizer short list investigative series on FEMA mismanagement of hurricane disaster relief).
c) Intelligent aggregation and synthesis that brings clarity to the vast mass of daily information that pounds each of us all day, every day, by discovering and highlighting the most important and revealing online reporting and commentary (with models that RealClearPolitics, Huffpost and Daily Beast, among others, are in the process of developing hourly).
3-The current, webwise conventional wisdom that newspaper executives and editors were stubbornly blind to the huge implications of the digital revolution for their businesses is just wrong. Every news organization and editor I know, going back 10 years and more – does anyone at the Chron remember the 39 Steps of the Change Project? – were working hard to reinvent and reposition their products for an era of radical transformation.
It is true that most of these efforts inadequately foresaw the full scope and speed of the coming change; however, they fell short in larger part because the executives and editors charged with finding and navigating the New Media pathways to change were under simultaneous, unstinting demands to ensure that the Old Media legacy products continued to serve, maintain and expand existing, aging audiences in the fullest possible way.
Under the insistent demand for short-term results and profits, the Production Imperative of putting out the best damn daily paper possible inevitably trumped the Mandate for Change, so that rethinking and reinvention mostly remained timid tweaking around the margins.
However, the problem was less a failure of imagination of what the future would look like, as the lofty thinkers of the web world smugly argue, than a failure to bite the bullet, by cutting loose and redirecting critical mass amounts of resources, in the form of time and labor of substantial numbers of reporters, editors and business side employees.
This both/and proposition meant that the short-term, daily deadline driven Sisyphean slog up the hill always took precedence over the long-range necessity to provide the luxury of time needed to experiment, discover and, yes, even fail, in properly exploring ideas, platforms, operations and organizational structures required to forge the right strategies and goals to adapt Old Media forms to New Media realities.
These four links offer an up-to-date, if disheartening, overview of the rapidly moving transformation of the news media landscape.
The East Bay Express details how Hearst in San Francisco has made a take it or leave it offer to the Newspaper Guild to accept the loss of 150 of 460 jobs at the Chronicle – and fast – or suffer the loss of 225 instead.
In Seattle, Hearst is moving to turn the print editions of its Post-Intelligencer into an online only product,
Over at his newsosaur blog, my old city editor Alan Mutter provides the best, smartest and most fact-based real time coverage of newspapers in transition, including a recent two-parter about paid online content (featuring a discussion of the situation in Santa Barbara).
Finally, the Times today has a takeout on the feasibility of the non-profit model for print products, using Mother Jones magazine as a case study, another financial alternative now being widely discussed.
Tags: East Bay Express, Hearst Corp, Jerry Roberts, Mother Jones magazine, New Media, newsosaur, Post-Intelligencer, San Francisco Chronicle, watchdog responsibilities, web-to-print
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Best Gigs Ever
Hmm, having no joy tracking down the full 100 of Time Out's best london gigs chart they did last issue, but prompted by a thread on PopExcellent I've had a think about my top five gigs... I'm sure I'll think of more later and strike these out...
Blur @ Goldsmith's College, New Cross, That London, Reading warmup 1999 (I think) - BLIND drunk, fell in a bush in front of my new boss, and you can see me getting dragged out of the photo pit by security on the South Bank Show Special that was filmed there.
The Revolting Cocks @ London Astoria, January 1991 - they had strippers on stage, you can see me stage diving on the bootleg video of the gig.
Wolfsbane @ The Marquee, October 1990 maybe? Can't remember too much about it, but I know I always put this gig on my list, even though I went there on my own. More stagediving.
Belle & Sebastian, Union Chapel, July 1997 - Partly just because Idleberry popped up again here and I know she's a monster fan. We paid way over the odds from a tout to get in, but just had to see them. Got into the after show in the back bar, there was no-one there but a few of my friends and Jarvis Cocker, it was ace. No stagediving.
Suede, Camden Electric Ballroom, July 2002 - Fan club gig, first we had to yawn and drink through the new album, but then they played a hits set (which they'd been not doing for a while), then a set where they had a "wheel of fortune" on stage with all the songs they NEVER play, so we got some of their best stuff including "My Dark Star" and "The Living Dead"...
Hmm, I have no local gigs here, from my many years in Portsmouth and Southampton, mostly because I can't remember much about them, what a shame... Also none from gigs by my fave bands that I've seen, like Pixies, AC/DC, Motley Crue, and KISS. Also I have no Darkness gigs here, even though I've seen them 40 times or more. maybe just because I'm slightly down on them right now. It's time to threaten to go through all the old ticket stubs again and put all these old gigs in my online calendar!
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Physical Pre-Contact Indicators of a Violent Attack/Engagement
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“We think conscious thought is somehow better, when in fact, intuition is soaring flight compared to the plodding of logic. Nature’s greatest accomplishment, the human brain, is never more efficient or invested than when its host is at risk. Then, intuition is catapulted to another level entirely, a height at which it can accurately be called graceful, even miraculous. Intuition is the journey from A to Z without stopping at any other letter along the way. It is knowing without knowing why.”
“You are an animal of nature, fully endowed with hearing, sight, intellect, and dangerous defenses. You are not easy prey, so don’t act like you are.” - Gavin De Becker.
INTUITION/GUT FEELING/THAT LITTLE VOICE: IT IS THERE TO PROTECT YOU- IT IS PURE INSTINCT- DO NOT TRY TO OVERCOME AND DISMISS IT! Animals operate on instinct, they do not question it like humans do. INTUITION IS KNOWING WITHOUT KNOWING WHY. Retention of knowledge is a skill- intuition is innate.
Humans try to justify a feeling that seems “irrational” by saying “I’m being silly/paranoid/overreacting”. Intuition shows itself as a feeling rather than a concrete thought, Ex: “I just felt there was something off about him” “I can’t put my finger on it, but I just knew I had to get out of there”. More often than not you will hear “I knew I shouldn’t have gone with him.” “My gut told me not to but I ignored it.” We were all born with intuition, we condition ourselves to ignore it. DENIAL of intuition has never saved a life.
PRE-INCIDENT BEHAVIORS/MANIPULATIONS
These are manipulative tactics predators will use to try to convince you they are “nice guys”, trustworthy, and “safe”. According to Gavin De Becker, author of The Gift of Fear (highly recommended reading/listening):
-Forced Teaming: This is when a person implies that he has something in common with his chosen victim, acting as if they have a shared predicament when that isn't really true. Speaking in "we" terms is a mark of this, i.e. "We don't need to talk outside... Let's go in." Well looks like we missed the bus, what are we going to do?” “We don’t want to get stuck in the rain.” “We need to get this tire fixed.”
-Charm and Niceness: This is being polite and friendly to a chosen victim in order to manipulate him or her by disarming their mistrust. Charm (even when it does not have malicious intent) is a purposefully chosen way of behaving to influence people’s perception. This is usually accompanied by an uneasy feeling you can’t quite put your finger on, and therefore tend to ignore dismissing yourself as being irrational, and he is “just trying to be nice”. You will hear this many times after the fact “He seemed so nice.”
-Too many details: If a person is lying they will add excessive details to make themselves sound more credible to their chosen victim. “I can walk you home because my ride didn’t show up. My friend Danny is such a flake. My car is in the shop or else I would be driving myself- transmission went out, won’t be ready until Wednesday.”
-Typecasting: An insult is used to get a chosen victim who would otherwise ignore one to engage in conversation to counteract the insult. For example: "Oh, I bet you're too stuck-up to talk to a guy like me." The tendency is for the chosen victim to want to prove the insult untrue. “You are way to pretty to be interested in me.” “I bet you think you are too strong to accept help from a man.” “I bet you wouldn’t even give a guy like me a smile.”
-Loan Sharking: Giving unsolicited help to the chosen victim and anticipating they'll feel obliged to extend some reciprocal openness in return. Ex; taking grocery bags from you to “help” carry them even after you insist you are ok, lifting that heavy object in the parking lot even though you told him you’ve got it.
-The Unsolicited Promise: A promise to do (or not do) something when no such promise is asked for; this usually means that such a promise will be broken. Unsolicited promises are designed to diminish uncertainty. For example: an unsolicited, "I promise I'll leave you alone after this," usually means the chosen victim will not be left alone. Similarly, an unsolicited "I promise I won't hurt you" usually means the person intends to hurt their chosen victim. Other examples: “I am a nice guy, I promise.” “I will just help you to your car and then leave.” “I promise I’m not a bad guy.” “I will help you fix XYZ and then leave- promise.”
-Discounting the Word "No": Refusing to accept rejection. A genuinely nice person with no ulterior motives who is in their right mind, thinking clearly, has no REASON to discredit, brush aside, and ignore your “NO”. A genuinely good guy is very aware that women tend to be wary of strangers and will not force himself into your situation when you have said “NO”. A guy who is focused on getting to his desired outcome is more concerned with inserting himself into your situation as an “in”, hence he ignores your “NO”.
“WHEN A MAN SAYS NO IT IS THE END OF A DISCUSSION. WHEN A WOMAN SAYS NO IT IS THE BEGINNING OF A NEGOTIATION.” -Gavin De Becker
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Mohammed Abdel-Haq: Why preventing the Prevent strategy isn’t an option
By Mohammed Abdel-Haq
Julian Brazier: Volunteers can help protect us from terror
Iain Dale: How Harry and Meghan sunk Barry Gardiner’s Labour leadership bid
Rachel Wolf: Where education reform has succeeded – and where it has failed
Daniel Hannan: Revolutionary Iran is a threat to our national security – not just regional stability. It must be confronted and defeated.
We need strategic clarity. What poses the greater danger to Britain – Iranian aggression abroad or Sunni extremism here?
Professor Mohammed Abdel-Haq is Director of the Centre for Islamic Finance at the University of Bolton.
During the Easter weekend, delegates at the National Union of Teachers annual conference in Brighton voted overwhelmingly to back a motion to scrap the UK government’s Prevent strategy.
Prevent is one of the four strands that make up the wider UK counter-terrorism strategy CONTEST, and on 1st July 2015 the Prevent Duty was created which placed a legal obligation on teachers (among others) to help ‘prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’.
Much criticism has been levelled at the Prevent strategy. Many people claim that Prevent is Islamaphobic in nature, that it encourages racial profiling and stereotyping, and that it stops people from speaking about radicalisation for fear they will be reported to the authorities.
These claims are reductionist and over simplify the current counter-terrorism challenges facing Britain.
However, these criticisms are not made unanimously. In schools, colleges, charities and other organisations around the UK, the Prevent Duty has been readily adopted and front line workers are now more confident in their abilities to respond to these very real threats.
Is it therefore sensible to call for the total scrapping of a strategy that has the stated aim of helping to prevent terrorism?
The challenge of extremism
The despicable recent terrorist attacks in Brussels, Paris, Iraq, Pakistan and others demonstrate all too plainly that prevention must be seen as the priority aim of any Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) effort.
It is important to remember that preventing violent extremism does not have a simple solution and that the evolution of Prevent was always going to be an iterative process. It is certainly the case that addressing all forms of violent extremism requires sensitivity, in order to avoid antagonism and exacerbation of these volatile threats.
There are a minority of voices from within our society who advocate extremism and who work relentlessly to spread a message of fear, mistrust and hatred to anyone who is willing to listen.
This must not be allowed to go unchallenged, and in keeping with the Prevent strategy there are a great many people and organisations throughout the UK who are working to ensure that this challenge is made.
It is therefore essential that these positive efforts to counter violent extremist narratives are given the support that they need from all other sections of our society – including teachers.
Appropriate referrals, interventions, and mentoring of at-risk individuals are all positive activities that rely on discretion and tact to help them succeed. Inflammatory headlines, careless language, bad advice and refusals to engage with the wider Prevent picture do nothing to help these discreet efforts.
As described last week by Ben Clayson (Managing Director of Victvs Ltd.) a culture of wilful ignorance about the risks of terrorism in the UK is in danger of becoming commonplace if these types of responses are not redressed.
The answer to the question of who can challenge violent extremism lies with all of us.
A whole-society response
Violent extremism and radicalisation are dangers that are ever-evolving and that can affect each and every one of us.
This does not mean that we should all strive to become counter-terrorism experts, or that we all need to spy on each other’s every move.
But what is required is for the whole society to extend the concept of duty of care to cover extremism and radicalisation.
We need all citizens – not just teachers – to realise the importance of raising concerns about these issues, and for them to feel that they are able to do so in a safe environment.
Preventing Prevent is not an option. People tend to assume that an act of violent extremism ‘couldn’t happen here’, yet the threat posed by violent extremists is evolving and changing at an unprecedented rate. What alternative to Prevent do we have?
When the Prevent Duty does become accepted as a safeguarding obligation – not only in front line professions but also in wider civil society – then perhaps we will be able to present a more unified, supportive and structured response to the extremist narratives that threaten to destroy the lives of vulnerable and innocent people both at home and abroad.
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Antony Mullen: Why Sunderland is backing Newcastle to be the new home of CCHQ
Julian Knight: The Culture Select Committee should act as its own Royal Commission on the BBC’s future
Theo Clarke: Investing in Africa will be key to achieving a Global Britain
Johnny Leavesley: What Johnson should do to help boost business
Ali Demirbag: A post-Brexit visa regime must encourage the brightest and the best to travel to the UK on business
Eddie Hughes: Our values must drive CCHQ. That means moving it to a town or small city – not a big one.
Rebecca Ryan: Help us to get Big Ben bonging for Brexit
Edward Parson: Keep the International Development Department. But scrap the 0.7 per cent aid target.
Festus Akinbusoye: The scandal of rising assaults on police officers. And what must be done to help reduce them.
Robert Alden: CCHQ should be relocated to Birmingham
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Representational work ended up being of course essential, but because the work that is practical of embassies
Posted on December 27, 2019 by Renfrew
Legations and consulates overseas increased considerably into the very early century that is twentieth particularly after World War I, it became more obvious why these missions could maybe not run with no ever-increasing quantity and number of clerical and miscellaneous support staff, including stenographers, rule clerks, notarial clerks, short-hand typists, messengers, and chauffeurs, all used by the U.S. State Department.11 It had been difficult to get clerks of these missions offshore. The pay had been really low, without any reimbursement for travel, together with ongoing work ended up being usually uninspiring. Eager for workplace assistance, some chiefs of objective just started to employ their spouses or daughters to help keep the objective paperwork flowing.12 Gradually, as need increased, more feminine clerks, often university graduates that has currently gained employment in the state dept., started initially to be relocated into international articles, often on short-term assignment, as required. Some made themselves indispensable. In Lisbon, Portugal, in 1912, whenever brand new United states Minister Cyrus Woods arrived, he depended in the clerk that is american Kirk to describe the brand new filing system inaugurated beneath the final chief, showing him the mission correspondence, as well as to offer him the secrets to the home he would occupy. Kirk had gained a qualification at Swarthmore university in 1889, and taught at an exclusive girls’ college in Rio de Janeiro from 1893 to 1895, where she first began to discover Portuguese. She then struggled to obtain 36 months during the Brazilian Legation in Washington, D.C, before getting into a clerical place during the state dept. into the Bureau of American Republics. She ended up being on temporary project to Lisbon when Cyrus latin bridges Woods arrived. After a few months face to face, he requested because she was performing her job well and because she was proving especially adept at her language study that her assignment be extended, both. Kirk lived with a Portuguese household, so she ended up being immersed when you look at the language, making her a really valuable asset into the US objective. She worked in Lisbon until 1915.13
how many US ladies hired to serve offshore as clerks proceeded to boost through the 1920s and 1930s and the Department delivered them to articles all over the globe.
Nevertheless the challenge of choosing and keeping workers that are efficient even yet in extremely available, non-hardship posts, persisted. Whenever William Phillips found its way to Ottawa, Canada in 1927, he composed nearly instantly towards the State Department to report that “the current staff that is clerical . . is inadequate.” Phillips had only one clerk, a female, to act as stenographer for himself as well as 2 extra officers and then he required an extra stenographer who may also do filing and “general workplace work.” usually the one clerk that is female staff “is overburdened,” he had written, “and has been obliged to get results at evening as well as on Sunday. The Mission could be at a standstill. if she should always be sick or absent for just about any explanation” The Department reacted quickly, appointing another clerk that is female but she lasted not as much as three months, moving through the Legation to “accept a company offer,” presumably at greater pay.14
7 Subordinate staff in US missions were additionally, after 1924, susceptible to inspection by representatives sent down to your field by the state dept.. In 1924, the Rogers Act reformed, modernized and partially reorganized the U.S. Foreign provider in various ways. One consequence of this legislation had been that the formerly haphazard, incomplete and frequently perfunctory examination of US missions abroad became more arranged and organized. Through the rest for the 1920s and to the 1930s, State Department inspectors frequently visited and reported regarding the operation of United states missions, including frank assessments associated with expert staff (the foreign solution officers on their own), their spouses, together with staff that is clerical. On their inspection that is grand tour 1936, J. Klahr Huddle visited Venice, where he finished a study on clerk Virginia Hall. In the good region of the ledger, he discovered Hall to be “ladylike” and noted approvingly that she “conducts herself in a seemly manner.” Gendered expectations about behavior and outward perceptions dictated these significantly obscure findings which expose absolutely absolutely absolutely nothing about Hall’s work performance that is actual. Nevertheless Huddle concluded far more negatives to his report than positives. He discovered Hall become “somewhat garrulous” and, a lot more troubling, noted she might be chatting. that she“does not necessarily work out discernment into the people with whom” This observation reflects extensive gendered worries about women’s incapacity to help keep secrets, or their expected habit of gossip, in addition to growing issues when you look at the turbulent 1930s concerning the perils of sharing an excessive amount of idle talk. All things considered, People in america could be reminded repeatedly throughout the wars years that “loose lips sink vessels.” Huddle further described Hall as an individual who ended up being “somewhat impulsive, strong willed woman that is young of a lot more than typical cap cap cap ability, whom does not recognize her own shortcomings.” Hall, he proceeded, had been “obsessed with great aspiration.” He claims that Hall had wished to go into the profession solution. He provided no proof or reason why she might have believed it had been easy for her to go from the clerical place to a professional consular or diplomatic place without going right through the assessment procedure. The final outcome he could draw, nevertheless, had been that her desire to have this type of move ended up being further proof of her inappropriate aspiration, that is, ambition inappropriate for a female.
Huddle further noted that Hall ended up being “apt to neglect her work as a result of outside basic interests,” from her work, or what work she neglected though he does not indicate what interests kept her. He concluded, finally, that the arrival of a fresh US counsel to take control on the job could possibly re solve “the issue,” but only when this new chief surely could start and enforce “new legation guidelines.” Simply put, the implication right here had been that the existing counsel in charge had permitted Hall to have away with improper behavior. He previously not merely did not get a handle on their subordinate staff that is clerical but he had clearly did not get a handle on their subordinate female staff. a brand new chief would are able to enforce the appropriate workplace behavior, but just, he warned, if Hall’s “feminine ego” would allow her to “subordinate by by by herself to him.”15 Likewise, in 1932 during the Peking Legation, an inspector discovered the chief that is american be “ineffectual” and not able to manage “squabbles and distinctions regarding the type he’s got to cope with.” Because of this administration that is“weak” the female clerical staff had not been suitably respectful of these male boss.16
A few of the negative assessments of feminine clerks, along with occasional complaints about spouses
Whom “overstepped their roles” in some manner assist to contextualize the proceeded resistance inside the U.S. Foreign provider establishment to your entrйe of females into expert diplomatic jobs. Increasing stress from women’s teams lead to a protracted debate over the suitability of females as official representatives regarding the U.S. government, in place of their present jobs as clerical staff. The State Department reluctantly started initially to allow a finite wide range of females authorization to make the Foreign Service examinations.17 under sustained pressure from women’s groups in the wake associated with the passing of the woman suffrage amendment, and trying to avoid negative promotion or fees of discrimination against newly enfranchised ladies Lucile Atcherson, a graduate of Smith College, had been the very first girl to pass the exams, in 1922.
10 your decision had been unpopular in the State Department. Officials had regularly resisted the inclusion of females to the service that is professional keeping that as a bunch, whether or not ladies might contain the “technical qualifications” when it comes to work, they’d never be with the capacity of doing the particular work of representation. One official wondered whether females is in a position to exemplify “good standing in the communities where they” could be posted as Foreign Service officers.18 Your head for the consular solution, Wilbur J. Carr, wondered if females consular officers will be effective at “gathering commercial and governmental information,” because a great deal information ended up being acquired by “mingling freely . . . in a choice of club, basic social or company groups.”19 The “club life” he referred to was of course solely male, the places where males collected to take in and conduct business, and where “a woman wouldn’t be in a position to work into the time-honored method to which guys are accustomed.”20 There was here additionally the recommendation that the current presence of a female when you look at the clubhouse would cause males to alter their comfortable habits while the fear that is unarticulated, at the same time whenever females had been breaking through formerly solid sex obstacles in several components of the planet, guys could be losing still another of the “male-only” bastions.
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Azhar Mahmood wrecked Hampshire as Auckland won
Auckland Aces 2-123 (Azhar Mahmood 55*, Martin Guptill 38, Chris Wood 1-21) beat Hampshire 8-121 (Michael Carberry 65, Sean Ervine 16, Azhar Mahmoud 5-24) by eight wickets.
A sterling all round performance by Azhar Mahmood put Hampshire in the corner as Auckland Aces humiliated the rival team and made their way to the group stage.
Hampshire scored 121 runs for the loss of eight wickets in the scheduled 20 overs. Auckland thrashed 123 runs with eight wickets in hand and 33 balls to spare.
Azhar Mahmood – Sterling all-round performance
Azhar Mahmood (Auckland) was declared ‘Player of the match’ for his excellent all round performance. He grasped 5 wickets for 24 runs, that was his career’s best performance with the ball and he remained unbeaten for 55 runs.
The qualifying match of Pool 1 in the Champions League Twenty20 was played at SuperSport Park, Centurion, on Wednesday, October 10, 2012.
Gerath Hopkins, the captain of Auckland, won the toss and opted to field first keeping in view his team’s bowling strength. Hampshire opened the innings with Michael Carberry and James Vince in a typical T20 style by getting nine runs in the first over with a six from the latter. Vince hit 1 six and 1 four in the coming overs but lost his wicket for 11 runs as Azhar Mahmood struck twice in that over.
Hampshire was 2-23 in four overs as Shahid Afridi became the third victim of Azhar Mahmood without scoring any run after the addition of five runs to the total. Sean Ervine joined in next with Carberry, both tried to mend the damage and the first fifty was attained in the 11th over. They enhanced the score to 64 in 12 overs as Ervine lost his wicket for 16 runs.
Michael Carberry displayed a fine innings as the wickets kept on tumbling from the other end at regular intervals. He achieved his 11th T20 fifty in the 18th over and was dropped by Azhar Mahmood at his own bowling for 56 on the last ball of the next over. Carberry remained unbeaten for 65 off even balls with 1 six and 8 fours as Hampshire was restricted to 121 with two wickets in hand when the last ball of the 20th over was bowled.
Azhar Mahmood was the most furious bowler and grabbed five wickets, Ronnie Hira held two and Michael Bates claimed one wicket.
Martin Guptill and Lou Vincent started off cautiously as the latter was dropped on the last ball of the third over at seven runs by the wicketkeeper Michael Bates off Dimitri Mascarenhas. Guptill opened up in the next over by adding 15 runs with 1 six and a couple of fours. Vincent joined him in the following over by dispatching 3 fours but lost his wicket on the fourth delivery of the sixth over for 19.
Azhar Mahmood associated with Guptill and they accumulated 14 runs in the eighth over with 2 sixes. Azhar had some different plans in mind and hit two sixes in the 11th over bowled by Liam Dawson. The duo added 41 runs in 33 balls and took the score to 90 in 11.1 overs as Martin Guptill was caught by Kabir Ali off Shahid Afridi for 38 scored from 31 balls with 2 huge sixes and 3 fours.
Azhar Mahmood stole the show single handedly and hit 2 fours in the 13th over as first hundred of the innings was also displayed on the board. He smashed his 12th T20 half century on just 29 deliveries with a massive six on the last ball of the 14th over. Azhar Mahmood stood firm at his crease by scoring 55 runs off 31 mere runs with 4 giant sixes and 5 fours as Auckland hammered 123 runs for the loss of just two wickets in 14.3 overs.
Auckland Aces won the match in a commanding manner with a galactic margin of eight wickets and have qualified for the Group Stage by winning both their pool games.
Tags: 2012 Champions League Twenty20, Auckland Aces, Azhar Mahmood, Chris Wood, Hampshire, Lou Vincent, Martin Guptill, Michael Carberry, Ronnie Hira, Sean Ervine
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Oracle applications – blending cloud with on-premise
Cat Yong
on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 12:58:48 am
According to Oracle Corp.’s Executive Vice President of Applications Product Development, Steve Miranda, “Near 100-percent of our customers are taking different components (of their on-premise apps) and moving them to cloud piece by piece.”
What Oracle does is ensure apps are connected with tactical integrations into not just Oracle suites of cloud apps, but also third-party apps that are on-premise and/or in the cloud.
“So, you can move apps to the cloud and (have your apps) live in Oracle and third-party ecosystems,” Miranda said.
Work from scratch
All these interoperable and seamless capability is possible because Oracle had built modernised versions of their on-premise apps, ensuring that they would be supported by cloud, mobility and social capabilities, while also being whole, complete, secured and embedded with intelligence.
Oracle APAC’s VP of Applications, Adrian Johnston admitted that this had been a disruption for Oracle with work also done differently from how it used to be. For example if before, Oracle had software releases based on what it thinks is good customers, it is the other way around now.
But more crucially, Johnston views that two challenges have emerged for businesses in recent times: the speed of change of business processes, and how to apply the right level of talent to respond to the speed of change.
“There is lack of (this) talent in Asia Pacific right now,” he observed.
Momentum, nevertheless
The talent gap aside, or maybe as a result of this talent gap, start-ups want to focus on business growth, without having to worry about technology and the skills needed to manage them.
RedMart, a large Singapore supermarket, for example, has chosen Oracle’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud to fuel its growth.
RedMart’s Head of Finance, Jim Boland said, “Being a startup, business priorities tend to change quickly to respond to the competitive needs of the market.” He admitted that technology is at the heart of their business which utiltises an e-commerce platform for customers to buy groceries, household products and more. Since launching in 2011, RedMart’s growth has doubled, each year.
Oracle’s cloud-based ERP systems allows the supermarket to collaborate with suppliers over a common platform, effectively reducing costs in the long-term through better negotiation and compliance processes.
Johnston said, “RedMart wanted to invest its dollars it innovation, and it wanted a modern, agile, Tier 1 cloud ERP solution.”
The Southeast Asia mix
But not all businesses in this region are like RedMart. “There are different levels of maturity in moving to modern applications and investing in technology,” said Johnston who also added that despite the Southeast Asia (SEA) environment being conducive for new start-ups like RedMart, SEA also still has a large install base of legacy applications.
“Oracle believes in a hybrid, coexistence model. A lot of organisations will remain hybrid (on-premise and cloud) for many years to come, either due to regulation, internal acceptance levels or because of security or uniqueness of the organisation,” Johnston concluded.
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Cat Yong is Editor-in-Chief of Enterprise IT News.
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The conflicts of Danny Dankner
During the 1990s, the Dankner family was an economic power in Israel. They owned the controlling interest in Salt Industries, which does make salt and which also owned a controlling interest in Hapoalim, Israel's biggest bank. They owned Dor Chemicals and Dankner Investments, a holding company.
Ten years later, most of the family members have fallen from their former status and riches. There are two notable exceptions: Nochi Dankner, who built himself a completely separate empire through the IDB group, and Danny Dankner, a man in the middle of an unprecedented conflict between the bank that employs him and the Bank of Israel.
Dankner owns 12.8% of Elran Investments, which seems to be nearing the end of its road. And he's the chairman of Hapoalim, still the largest bank in the country.
Being simultaneously the chairman of Hapoalim and a controlling shareholder in a company that's desperately scrabbling about for funding resources has led Danny Dankner into sticky situations and potential conflicts of interest. All speculation aside, it is known that Hapoalim paid generous compensation to a company that, at roughly the same time, came to the rescue of a company in which Dankner was involved, by buying its assets.
A close look at the manner in which Bank Hapoalim bought its controlling interest in the Turkish bank C-Kredi ve Kalkinma Bankasi Anonim Sirketi drives home the point about the potentially conflicted chairman. Figuring the Israeli market was largely saturated - it already was the biggest bank in the land, with the most branches - Bank Hapoalim sought to expand into developing and emerging markets. It chose Turkey as a target market.
In December 2005 Bank Hapoalim inked the agreement, to acquire a 57.55% controlling stake in C-Kredi, now known as BankPozitif, for $100 million. The investment was completed a year later, in November 2006.
C-Kredi's price was based on a shareholders equity value of $66 million plus a 1.7% premium.
But Hapoalim didn't dive into Turkey all by its lonesome. It linked hands with RP Explorer Master Fund, a company registered in the Cayman Islands and owned by Rafael Berber and Petr Kellner. RP was to purchase 7.45% of the Turkish bank for $15 million.
Under the investment agreement, RP also received a 12-month option to buy some of the shares in BankPozitif that Bank Hapoalim was buying. The option covered a sum up to $15 million, and up to 7.45% of the bank's stock.
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- with PM
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walks, rides, trips and tours
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London: Walks, Rides, Trips and Tours – for PM
Sample Routes.
High Points.
Protected Views.
Sometimes it is better to travel than to arrive. For people in project communities this can be very true. There can be enjoyment, satisfaction and achievement within and across the project stages, as well as, or instead of, at the final destination. That is despite, or as well as, possible lessons learned exercises, results, feedback and official or unofficial celebrations. In fact project managers and project team members may have moved on to other opportunities and situations before the project is fully completed and / or the benefits realised.
So this module is about journeys, tours and movement which are to be encouraged, savoured and appreciated just in themselves - when in London - with some time to spare. Naturally along the way some of the destinations, stage points or milestones may be significant or even magnificent - and worth a visit inside or for a while (see Section on Places to Visit - for Project Managers on site map) - and so in this journey linear movement may be interpreted for visits briefly, in depth or passed by - to maintain momentum on the journey.
Just as on projects so it is with these PM tours in London. There will be distractions, variations, difficulties in keeping the group together, on the route, focussed and awake to achieve the targets - hopefully on time and within budget.
Pre-arranged trips.
London has many pre-arranged trips; and special trips with guides can also be readily arranged. Transport forms for trips can include: walking; cycling; public and private (open top) buses / coaches; cars, taxis (black cabs), mini-cabs, Uber; plus on rail as trains, underground, light railways and trams; on rivers and canals; via helicopters and aeroplanes; cable cars and big wheels; and obviously in combinations; and by day and by night.
London Walks (www.walks.com) is an organisation with an enthusiastic collection of guides covering a wide range of walks pre-organised and timed - at £10 per person plus travel costs and some entry fees; for every day of the week and weekends; plus private bookings for groups; plus day trips and seasonal visits; with foreign language guides by arrangement.
The web is full of specific prearranged trips and facilities for bookings of possible interests to project managers such as: Royal Opera House tours; Albert Hall tours; Barbican Architectural Tours; Sports stadia tours; photography tours; and many others. Tourist buses with pre-recorded or live commentaries can be useful and interesting - and relatively inexpensive.
Outside London.
Trips to remote locations outside London are also extensively promoted - some with project management connections - to such as: Stonehenge; Windsor and Eton including Windsor Castle; Oxford; Cambridge; Canterbury; Bath; Cotswolds; Hampton Court Palace; Leeds Castle; Salisbury; Winchester; St Albans; Portsmouth; "Downton Abbey" Highclere Castle stately home; theme parks; the seaside; etc.
Guide books on this theme include "Escape London" by Yolanda Zappateria - days out within easy reach of London - Francis Lincoln - £9.99.
Here are a few sample routes for walks and tours which have project and project management features. Trips that are self-organised, focussed to personal interests and well arranged in advance can be the best value for money, flexibility and enjoyment.
South Kensington Area walk with Exhibition Road and Museums of Science, V&A, Natural History; with imperial College; Albert Hall and Albert Memorial; moving into Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens.
Regents Park Canal walk - from Little Venice at Paddington Basin to Camden Lock and on to Limehouse Basin - in stages.
South Bank walk from Waterloo to Tower Bridge, and beyond, taking in the South Bank Centre of Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall, National Poetry Library and events, moving onto the National Theatre, Globe Theatre and much more with views, calling in at City Hall to see the floor map of London. This is part of the much longer Thames path from source to mighty ocean.
'Old' Westminster walk taking in Victoria and Victoria Street, Parliament Square, Whitehall, Downing Street, Cabinet War Rooms, Buckingham Palace, the Mall, Trafalgar Square with galleries, and parks.
Greenwich as a village, with the Cutty Sark tea clipper; with National Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory, Queens House and more; including the spectacular Naval Hospital which became the Naval College and is now part of University of Greenwich; the Greenwich Meridian - as "Time's Headquarters"; with "The best air, best prospect, best conversations in London" (and when you are there check its exact location with your GPS - it may be found to be 100m or so to the east of the line on the ground); and near to Blackheath also, with the Greenwich foot tunnel to the north bank from close to the Cutty Sark.
Docklands and Canary Wharf - the old and the new.
Notting Hill with Portobello Market on Saturdays.
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park walk.
River Thames Boat Trips - with fares.
Bus Trips - for tourists or on public transport - with fares. And more tours - most with charges or fares.
Project managers like to have a high level view of what is before or ahead of them, and possibly what is past or behind them. Remember, as they say on an aircraft: "Your nearest exit may be behind you".
As well as protected views there are high points with views to take in London from above including:
Cable Car across the Thames from O2.
Tower Bridge near Tower of London - from high level walkway.
The Monument - very near the site of the Great Fire of London of 1666.
Arcelor Mittal 'Orbit' in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, E20 2AD - 115m high - designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond - with slide.
Coca-Cola London Eye - on South Bank near Waterloo, designed by Marks Barfield.
O2 - walk over roof.
Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG - top floor with views of the City of London.
On Waterloo Bridge - from the centre of the bridge with viewing for 360 degrees.
Tall buildings with public viewing platforms - some for a fee, others are free - including: The Shard, SE1 9SG - with a view of 40 miles on a clear day; Tower 42; Heron Tower; Sky Garden; etc.
London is fortunate to have arrangements to protect certain views and vistas of panoramas, river prospects, linear views and townscapes in and across London which are open to the public and are worth a visit to take in the views and appreciate the city - as long as the weather is agreeable. There are 27 cherished views and 13 protected vistas.
St Paul's from Westminster Pier.
St Paul's from Greenwich Park.
Westminster from Serpentine Bridge.
Tower of London from Queens Walk.
St Paul's from Blackheath Point.
St Paul's from Alexandra Palace.
St Paul's from Kenwood House.
St Paul's from Parliament Hill.
Westminster from Parliament Hill.
St Paul's from Hampstead Heath.
St Paul's from Primrose Hill.
Westminster from Primrose Hill.
The Original Keyhole. St Paul's from King Henry's Mound.
For illustrations of these views please see pages 68 to 73 of "London The Information Capital" by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti.
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Another Music Video From Saheer Is On It’s Way!
This Janmashtami, Get Ready For The First Ever Hindi Rap track On Krishna!
By Deepa Unnikrishnan
Sonny Digital Gives Shoutout To Pak-Man's "Proper Credit"
US based rapper Saheer has dropped his album ‘Soul Purpose’ in association with DesiHipHop.com. We have been giving you a gist of Saheer’s work as he released back to back music videos. He has been making music since his early teens. His music is layered and complex, reflecting who he is as a person. And now he is all set for his next release!
Saheer’s next drop is going to take everyone by surprise. While other artists take their time after album releases, this San Jose rapper has no plans of resting. Wild West (Down 2 Roll) ft. Saheer will drop sooner than you think! The video is Directed as well as Edited by Adi Parige. While Deep Singh has shot and colour graded it. Wild West is set to release on August 8th, 2017 exclusively with DesiHipHop.com!
Saheer stated, “‘Wild West’ refers to how the combination of California and Gujarat, India has paved the way for my artistry. My sounds represent my experience growing up in an Indian family where Hip-Hop was never played openly, let alone considered a viable career option. My music in present day combines flavors of my parent’s homeland with some of my own. “Wild West (Down 2 Roll)” is a testament to combining what I chose to do with what I was meant to do.“
The rapper is surely on a roll here as he released two kick-ass music videos recently viz. “Trapt” and “Green Venue”. “Trapt” is the lead single off of his album Soul Purpose that released worldwide on July 20, 2017. Saheer stated, “‘Trapt’ is a song that reinforces the repetitive grind of dedicating ourselves over and over again to perfect our craft. We’re not content with mediocrity, and we’re “Trapt” on the path to achieving greatness.”
As a matter of fact, “Green Venue” was awarded Best Music Video at the 2016 Golden Gate International Film Festival. The track is a fun ode about burying fading relationships and focusing on culling new ones. All this music has been distributed worldwide by DesiHipHop in association with High Rize ENT.
Stay with us for more updates on the release of Saheer starrer “Wild West (Down 2 Roll)”. Till then read the exclusive interview with the rapper, where he opens up about his passion for music.
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the band:
DJ DAD SHIRT is a Las Vegas based musical collective known for their long, improvised jams that draw from electronic, rock and jazz instrumentation. Guest musicians are a regular feature of their performances, from either the local scene or out of town. Core members Terbo, Jonah and Justin have extensive backgrounds in electronic music, but also love and understand the value of players interacting on instruments in front of a live audience.
Formed almost by accident, the band arose out of ad hoc jam sessions onstage in the Las Vegas Arts District, literally friends from the scene- with a shared passion for playing- filling in dead stage time at a venue favored by local artists and musicians. This laid-back, creative environment is the backdrop for the eclectic post-dance fusion that constitutes the group's evolving sound. Quickly the band established a Saturday night residency in the area, playing over three dozen shows in its first half year of existence.
The group is on an endless journey to define what constitutes an actual "Dad Shirt." Much of this discussion takes place with followers of the band, who are known to wear their own interpretations of 'Dad Shirt' themed outfits at shows.
Terbo Ted, hardware electronics
Infamous for being the first person ever to DJ at the then-unknown Burning Man Festival in 1992, Terbo was nicknamed "Mayor of the Techno Ghetto" and helped popularize that event in its formative years on the Black Rock Desert. Since then, Ted has DJ'd on four continents, released seven solo albums and performed with various rock bands as a singer and lead guitarist.
Jonah Shulman, trap kit
Drummer for Las Vegas original indie rock trio Dead Money. Their sound is often described as ska without a horn section, and they're not averse to playing a country standard from time to time. DM bassist Jordan Kiermeier describes Jonah's playing style as "lead drums." While not wowing people with arm windmills and endurance onstage, Shulman is a mild-mannered university professor, teaching courses on Artificial Intelligence and Multicultural Mathematics.
Justin Sojourner, lead winds/strings/synths
At a relatively young age, Sojourner has become a highly experienced player on the local Las Vegas music scene. An accomplished DJ and event promoter, he can spin in a variety of styles at a professional level. Anderson is also a seasoned street performer, has sat in with countless bands spanning many genres, and often plays two or more shows per day. Sax, flute and ocarina are all part of Anderson's woodwind arsenal, but they are also known to perform with a menagerie of uniquely hand made PVC woodwind instruments spanning low to high registers. A multi-instrumentalist, Justin also plays vocoder, synthesizer, a Roland Aerophone and electric ukulele with DJ Dad Shirt.
Guitarists Woz Supposedly and Kaimu Dew have been regular, repeat guests with the group onstage, delving into swirling, effect-laden psychedelic soundscapes.
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David E. Rutter on CNBC’s Squawk Box
January 10, 2020 /0 Comments/in Home, News, R3 /by ChatsworthCommunications
Great to see David E. Rutter, founder and CEO of R3, on CNBC’s Squawk Box this week, discussing his predictions for blockchain in 2020 and beyond.
Click here to watch the interview
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Tradeteq and Pragma win American Financial Technology Awards
December 4, 2019 /0 Comments/in Home, News, Pragma, Tradeteq /by ChatsworthCommunications
We’re delighted that two of our clients, Tradeteq and Pragma, have been recognised in this year’s American Financial Technology Awards, run by Waters Technology.
Tradeteq, the electronic trading platform for institutional trade finance, picked up the award for the ‘Best Collaboration Initiative’. The accolade recognises their efforts to work with over 20 banks, financial institutions and trade associations to close the $1.5tn trade finance gap through the Trade Finance Distribution Initiative (TFD Initiative), for which it is the distribution technology provider.
Additionally, Pragma has won the ‘Best Front-Office Initiative’ accolade for its innovative multi-asset, broker-neutral algorithmic execution platform, Pragma360. The platform enables front-office professionals to create a unique algorithmic trading suite under their own corporate brand.
Christoph Gugelmann, CEO of Tradeteq, commented: “Winning this award recognises the transformative change Tradeteq is bringing to the trade finance market. By partnering with some of the leading trade finance banks, we hope to transform this market into one that is operationally efficient, scalable and easily distributable. Through the use of our credit scoring AI and electronic trading platform, the TFD Initiative’s members can boost trade finance distribution and contribute to closing the trade finance gap.”
David Mechner, CEO of Pragma, was extremely pleased to win the award, stating: “In recent years, the front-office has focused on regulators’ calls for more transparency around execution quality and market impact. Winning this award is recognition of Pragma’s efforts to help front office professionals respond to this mandate using the most-advanced trading and execution tools.”
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Tradition facilitates first ever, bilaterally-brokered AUD/USD swap trade using LCH SwapAgent
November 21, 2019 /0 Comments/in Home, News, Tradition /by ChatsworthCommunications
Tradition, one of the world’s largest interdealer brokers in over-the-counter commodity and financial products, has facilitated the first, brokered AUD/USD cross-currency swap trade using LCH SwapAgent.
The AUD/USD trade was executed between Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) and another counterparty on 20 November 2019. Tradition’s global presence, market knowledge and connectivity ensured it was the ideal partner to facilitate this trade.
SwapAgent is a service designed to simplify the processing, margining and settlement of non-cleared derivatives. It benefits from LCH’s expertise in serving and managing risk for the cleared Rates and FX derivatives market.
Nathan Ondyak, Global Head of LCH SwapAgent, comments: “Since launching in 2017, customers trading non-cleared derivatives have utilised SwapAgent to gain many of the efficiencies that they have become accustomed to in the cleared market. We are delighted to welcome MUFG as one of our newest members to the service. The completion of the first brokered AUD/USD trade between bilateral counterparties using SwapAgent is an important milestone for participants trading cross-currency swaps.”
Amit Kantaria, Director in the Rates Trading Group at MUFG, EMEA, added: “MUFG is pleased to have been able to participate in the first brokered AUD/USD cross currency swap through SwapAgent. We believe that this is the first step towards an exciting future, and look forward to this evolution of the uncleared derivatives market.”
Mike Hayter, Manager of the cross-currencies broking desk at Tradition, comments: “Tradition is delighted to facilitate the first, brokered bilateral AUD/USD swap trade using LCH SwapAgent. This is a crucial service that improves standardisation, introduces efficiency and reduces operational and credit risk counterparties in the non-cleared derivatives market.”
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Limeglass announces new investment from J.P. Morgan
November 12, 2019 /0 Comments/in Home, Limeglass, Market Data, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
Limeglass, the financial research innovation company, today announced that J.P. Morgan has invested in the company. Limeglass’s technology automatically analyses the paragraphs in research documents in real-time, taking into account the underlining context and structure. The Limeglass ‘Research Atomisation’ solution uses proprietary rich Natural Language Processing (NLP), AI, machine learning and their comprehensive cross-asset and macro taxonomy to smart-tag each paragraph in context.
Limeglass recently completed J.P. Morgan’s In-Residence Program, which incubates emerging technology companies to develop production-ready solutions solving for critical wholesale banking problems. Limeglass’s technology enables banks to personalise their research product for both internal and external audiences, maximising the value for users and ensuring that the correct research reaches the correct audiences.
Rowland Park, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Limeglass, said: “The volume of financial research, and the lack of innovation in how it is delivered, mean that market participants can spend hours searching through their email to find information on the trades they are considering. It is all too easy to miss vital information buried deep in large documents, wasting time and valuable research insights. Limeglass cuts through the noise, providing users with only the relevant paragraphs in their financial research with a simple search.”
Hussein Malik, Head of Transformation & Implementation across Sales & Research at J.P. Morgan, said: “The insights our Research teams produce daily are a huge source of value to our clients. We are continuously investing in technology to help deliver industry-leading content and to help us and our clients further mine that value.”
Simon Gregory, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Limeglass, said: “Having worked in research for all my life, I was always surprised at how much research was being missed by users. We looked at the research consumption and distribution workflows from first principles and realised that the document centric approach was limiting access to the content. Using cutting edge technology to analyse the unstructured data in research documents, we’ve created a whole new way for market participants to engage with financial research.”
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Wematch strengthens team
November 6, 2019 /0 Comments/in Home, News, Wematch /by ChatsworthCommunications
Wematch, the global multi-asset-class, web-based matching and negotiation platform, has appointed Jack Jeffery as Chairman of its Board.
With more than 35 years’ experience in financial markets, Jack was previously CEO at electronic fixed income platform MTS and also at EBS, the spot FX electronic broking platform. Jack served 11 years at Citigroup, where he was Global Head of FX options.
Jack has previously served on the Bank of England and US Federal Reserve Foreign Exchange committees and hisappointment follows Wematch’s recent funding round, which saw banking titans J.P. Morgan and Société Générale – both users of Wematch – invest in the fintech. There are now 40 banks and more than 750 traders using Wematch’s platform, with more currently onboarding.
Wematch provides technology to transform how traders match, negotiate and manage trades. This brings the audit and control benefits of electronic tools to trading, delivered as web-based software-as-a-service technology. This significantly cuts costs and, enhances the orderly execution of processes for traders, enabling seamless settlement.
Despite the growth and benefits of e-trading, in some markets institutional investors still conduct most of this activity over the phone, or through interdealer brokers. It is estimated that more than 80% of structured products and 80% of FX derivatives are still transacted by voice. To put it into context, the interest rate swaps market is worth $2.1 trillion a day, with more than 70% of that business handled by phone negotiation.
Jack Jeffery, Chairman of Wematch, said: “The Wematch platform represents an extraordinarily significant step forward in the world of inter-bank trading. Its proprietary architecture enables enhanced efficiencies, providing enormous cost benefits as well as improving regulatory compliance. As a neutral platform that is constantly developing to the markets’ needs, Wematch is reshaping the trading market. It is the right product at the right time.
“Having built my career bringing electronic innovation to the capital markets, I am thrilled to be part of a team that is leading such a profound transformation in the market.”
Joseph Seroussi, co-CEO of Wematch, said: “The voice market remains robust and an integral part of the trading process – its continued usage is a demonstration of its fundamental importance to participants’ business. But it is time that traders have the best technological tools to facilitate optimal trading with confidence. Jack Jeffery’s experience will be invaluable to Wematch as we work to bring the benefits of electronic trading’s auditing and transparency to traders across capital markets.”
Gregory Mimoun, co-CEO of Wematch, said: “Jack has an impeccable track record of steering technical innovation across multiple asset classes which have benefited those markets enormously.
“His appointment is a significant vote of confidence in our technology and our business. We are delighted to welcome him to Wematch as we move to the next exciting chapter in our vision to transform trading markets.”
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CordaCon 2019 – developers and business leaders pack out London event
October 25, 2019 /0 Comments/in Home, News, R3 /by ChatsworthCommunications
R3 momentum increases as ecosystem swells to over 350 firms
Annual conference attracts over 1,100 attendees
CEO predicts traditional business models and technology must change or face extinction
Traditional business models remain under threat across the full value chain as enterprise blockchain continues to gain momentum, according to R3 CEO & Founder, David E Rutter
His comments came during R3’s annual CordaCon event, attended by over 1,100 developers, business leaders and industry experts in the heart of London’s financial district. The event drew a significant increase on previous years.
Since inception four years ago, R3 has risen to become a key player in blockchain-inspired technology to enhance a range of business processes including trade finance, insurance and financial services. R3’s global blockchain ecosystem has now grown to over 350 companies.
Among the announcements at CordaCon included a strategic partnership with Accenture and SAP, for R3’s Corda platform to enable two of the tech industry’s major players to provide a real-time gross settlement token-based exchange, with instantaneous settlements to reduce friction throughout the transaction chain.
Mr Rutter added: “Traditional business models are under threat across the full value chain. We will see the continued convergence of traditional Financial Market Infrastructure and broker businesses such as SIX, NY Stock Exchange, and Nasdaq with the crypto exchange world, such as Coinbase and Binance. We’ll also see new players emerge and the nimblest will win.”
Many of R3’s early adopters were at the event to talk about the work they are doing on Corda—such as TradeIX with Marco Polo, CryptoBLK with project Voltron, The Institutes Risk Alliance, SDX, B3i and ABI Lab to name a few.
Mr Rutter is a financial services veteran, having served as CEO of ICAP’s electronic broking division, before forming R3 and US treasuries platform LiquidityEdge, in the process of being acquired by MarketAxess in a USD 150 million deal
Mr Rutter added: “Corda’s longer term product strategy includes delivering capability on settlement and value transfer because we fundamentally believe we are embarking upon the beginning of a ‘tokenization of everything’ era. Digital Assets or tokens will reimagine how value is moved and managed and will fundamentally change the nature of business.
“Security tokens are squarely now under the purview of the regulators and will fall under global securities regulation. I believe long-term success and sustainability of tokens must rely on compliance with key principles pushed by the maturing regulatory framework. We will need a strong, well balanced ecosystem, regulatory framework, innovative mindset, and know-how from existing market infrastructure, as well as the right enterprise technology.
“We expect to see further enterprise blockchain consolidation. A year or two ago there were dozens maybe more platforms aspiring to be enterprise blockchains and we are already down to two real contenders in Corda and Fabric, with many other still trying to make Ethereum work at scale with proper privacy protections.
“On Interoperability, as applications go into production the need for seamless interoperability becomes more evident, so the surviving platforms need a rock solid interoperability story. I believe what we call “business network operators” the solution providers and of course their customers know that there won’t be just one solution for say Trade Finance so being able to send obligations to other customers on other BNO becomes an absolute necessity.
“The second order of this would be interoperability between blockchains and I think I was first asked about this over four years ago and the story for me is the same. While I think that may be important over a longer time frame it’s not a next year crucial deliverable. And for us anyway we are just looking to further solidify our interoperability story and I am pleased we have been focused on this for some time now.”
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Forex Broker FXCM Launches Basket of 5 Cryptos for Retail Investors
October 14, 2019 /0 Comments/in FXCM, Home, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
Foreign exchange trading platform FXCM Group has launched a basket of five cryptocurrencies aimed at retail investors.
Dubbed CryptoMajor, the basket product includes bitcoin (BTC), XRP, litecoin (LTC), bitcoin cash (BCH) and ethereum (ETH), which are equally weighted to protect against market volatility, the firm said in an announcement Monday. The five cryptos are already traded on its platform.
Speaking on launch, CEO Brendan Callan said the product simplifies crypto investment for retail users:
“Trading a basket of cryptocurrencies means our users are freed from the hassle of constantly monitoring the markets. CryptoMajor therefore streamlines the trading process and protects our customers from unanticipated and adverse market movements.”
The product is targeted at customers seeking to enter the nascent crypto market, Callan said, but who “don’t want to risk too much overexposure.”
Under its previous owner, Global Brokerage, Inc, FXCM notably lost its license with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in addition to receiving a $7 million fine, for trading against its own customers in 2017, according to the Financial Times.
After two of the company’s founders were banned from the U.S. financial industry, the London-based company exited the U.S. market. It’s now majority owned by Leucadia Investments, part of the Jefferies Financial Group, according to the FXCM website.
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LiquidityEdge licenses Mosaic MSX analytics platform
September 26, 2019 /0 Comments/in Home, LiquidityEdge, Mosaic Smart Data, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
Liquidity Edge, the electronic US Treasuries trading venue, has signed a deal to license Mosaic Smart Data MSX platform to provide venue analytics across its portfolio of marketplaces.
Mosaic Smart Data will give LiquidityEdge a package of analytics that will help the latter to monitor and compare liquidity in the markets to ensure smooth market operation, better trading efficiency and growth facilitation.
These additional analytics will help in comprehending the transaction flow and behaviour of market participants and calculation of market impact, as well as transaction costs. The MSX platform has anomaly detection tools that are built on machine learning tools, that will point to any abnormal market activity that may trigger a rising issue. So, once such an action is detected, preventive measures will be taken to maintain normal market operations.
Market liquidity in fixed income decreases and this creates an obstacle for trading venues to acknowledge possible challenges in their platforms in advance and fix the issues, so solution to fix this problem are constantly sought after.
The deal between LiquidityEdge and Mosaic Smart Data is the result of long collaboration between the two to develop analytic tools for trading operations. The service will be first used by LiquidityEdge on the back-end to get insights on the performance of the trading venue, and afterwards – for insights for market participants.
LiquidityEdge will serve as a SaaS feature with the MSX platform fully managed by Mosaic Smart Data.
This is what the CEO of LiquidityEdge, Mr. Nichola Hunter said:
“We built LiquidityEdge to challenge existing market structures and ‘business as usual’ in the Treasuries market. So, we’re always on the lookout for innovation which will enable us to deliver a better experience to our users. The MSX platform harnesses the power of our order book to deliver finely grained analysis and actionable insights delivering performance improvements for LiquidityEdge and our users.”
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FX post-trade network Cobalt goes live
September 23, 2019 /0 Comments/in Cobalt, Home, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
Blockchain-based post-trade processing network Cobalt has gone live with Deutsche Bank, XTX Markets and Saxo Bank.
Cobalt is among a clutch of firms bidding to use shared ledger technology to drive down reconcilliation costs and improve operations in the post-trade space. The firm’s platform, set up by by currency trading veterans Andy Coyne and Adrian Patten, delivers a private peer-to-peer network that aims to slash back office costs in FX markets by providing a single, shared view of a transaction to trading counterparties.
By creating a single, standardised view of each transaction, users can manage services such as aggregation and netting via a single platform, thereby reducing duplication and position exposures. From analysis using executed trade data, Cobalt claims to have been able to provide clients over 50% in cost savings across the FX lifecycle.
Russell LaScala, Co-head of Global FX at Deutsche Bank said: “The two biggest business issues banks face today are managing risk and the scaling of their business with the rise of smaller tickets. Cobalt’s solution ensures we can reduce operational risks associated with legacy systems and slash the cost of processing tickets for our entire FX business using a single platform.”
There are currently 20 beta participants waiting to onboard the network, including Citadel Securities and Citi, which became a Cobalt investor in 2016.
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JP Morgan and SocGen invest in Wematch
September 18, 2019 /0 Comments/in Home, News, Wematch /by ChatsworthCommunications
JP Morgan and Societe Generale have invested in fintech firm, Wematch, as the company advances its plans to transform traditionally voice-traded financial markets.
Wematch provides technology which augments how traders at banks match, negotiate and manage trades. This brings the audit and control benefits of electronic tools to voice trading, delivered as web-based software-as-a-service technology.
There are now 40 banks and more than 750 traders on Wematch cross assets with more onboarding and billions of dollars in deal flows matched using its technology.
Despite the growth and benefits of e-trading, in some markets institutional investors still conduct most of their trading over the phone, or through interdealer brokers.
Wematch delivers the benefits of the newest web technologies to traders at banks, improving the matching and negotiation process, cutting costs for banks and increasing efficiency and reducing conduct risk for traders.
Wematch came through J.P. Morgan’s In-Residence Programme and Societe Generale’s Global Markets Incubator to foster the expansion of the fintech’s offer across asset classes and instruments.
The funding takes J.P. Morgan’s and Societe Generale’s relationship with Wematch from users to investors, with the banks already active on Wematch across all existing platforms.
There is enormous potential for Wematch to help the capital market industry in further adopting digital solutions across multiple markets globally, and to adapt this awarded technology to internal and client-facing solutions.
Despite pressure from regulators for more trades to be conducted on electronic trading venues, it is estimated that over 80% of structured products and FX derivatives are still transacted by voice.
The interest rate swaps market is worth USD 2.1 trillion a day, according to the Bank for International Settlements, with over 70% of that business handled by phone negotiation.
Gregory Mimoun, co-CEO of Wematch, said: “Wematch is delivering the next generation in trading protocols, with intuitive GUIs and workflow tools to give voice trading professionals the edge. Everything we build is designed to support the trader’s decision, giving them the tools to make the right call with confidence and certainty.”
Joseph Seroussi, co-CEO of Wematch, said: “Wematch is leveraging on the latest available technologies and the traders’ community permanent feedbacks and inputs to develop its capital market solutions. Our objective is to have a significant impact on the bottom line expenses of Financial Institutions by rolling out the Wematch technology on all markets, internal, or dealer-to-client activities.”
Pasquale Cataldi, Head of Markets Lab, J.P. Morgan, said: “J.P. Morgan was an early supporter of WeMatch. As a member of our InResidence Programme, the platform showed real potential to transform the interbank interest rate dealing market through automation, resulting in audit and control benefits. The level of market adoption has already been encouraging and we’re delighted to continue the journey with them.”
Albert Loo, Deputy Head of Sales for Global Markets at Societe Generale, said: “Societe Generale is excited to contribute to the Wematch development after a successful collaboration within our Global Markets Incubator. Innovation in trading technology will drive efficiencies for market participants and we strongly believe that Wematch can sustainably improve dealing processes across asset classes.”
Wematch launched its interest rates offering in June, with 10 banks matching and negotiating Euro IRS curves, butterflies, basis and gadgets structures, with single stock & Index options to follow in the coming months.
This was built on existing Wematch services for securities lending and equity derivatives and the firm now plans to build out services to more asset classes and instruments.
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Mastercard, R3 to Develop Blockchain Cross-Border Payments Platform
September 11, 2019 /0 Comments/in Home, News, R3 /by ChatsworthCommunications
Payments giant Mastercard is to develop a blockchain-powered cross-border payments platform in partnership with enterprise-focused blockchain firm R3.
In an announcement on Wednesday, Mastercard said the two firms have inked a deal to “develop and pilot” the payments solution. It will initially be aimed at connecting faster payments schemes and banks backed by Mastercard’s clearing and settlement network.
The platform will be built on Corda Enterprise, the commercial version of the platform, as opposed to the open-source Corda Network, R3 told CoinDesk.
The partnership is planned to merge R3’s expertise at developing blockchain solutions with Mastercard’s existing payment systems and network. Ultimately, the firms hope the new platform will help tackle industry issues such as costly payments processing, liquidity management and a paucity of standardization and connectivity between banks and domestic clearing systems.
R3 CEO David E. Rutter said:
“All institutions – large or small – rely on the ability to send and receive payments, but all too often the technology they rely upon is cumbersome and expensive. Cross-border payments can be a particular pain point. Corda was designed specifically for enterprise use cases such as this, and we look forward supporting Mastercard in bringing blockchain-enabled payments businesses across the globe.”
Citing its July acquisition of international payments firm Transfast as a boost to its network, Mastercard said the deal to utilize Corda Enterprise will further expand its capabilities in the payments arena.
The news of the partnership also comes just days after Mastercard joined the Marco Polo trade finance blockchain network founded by R3 and TradeIX.
Peter Klein, executive vice president of new payment platforms at Mastercard, said in the announcement:
“Developing a new and better cross-border B2B payments solution by improving worldwide connectivity in the account-to-account space is central to Mastercard’s ambition. Our goal is to deliver global payment infrastructure choice and connectivity as demonstrated through our recent strategic acquisitions and partnerships, including our relationship with R3.”
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FX Operations and Credit: Hampering Liquidity, Raising Costs (White Paper)
July 7, 2019 /0 Comments/in Cobalt, Home, News, Uncategorized /by ChatsworthCommunications
The FX market currently looks like the ultimate mismatch. Front office processes have been transformed to accommodate the realities of electronic trading – operations and credit haven’t. This is acting as a drag on FX liquidity, as well as imposing an enormous cost burden: ~£20bn per year for the top global investment banks and buy-side institutions. Fortunately, as Anoushka Rayner, Global Head of Sales and Business Development at Cobalt explains, there is a simple and readily achievable remedy: centralised standardisation.
The FX market has a proven track record for acting on its own initiative to ensure that trading is always orderly and unnecessary risks are curtailed, with the creation of CLS an obvious example. There is now a pressing need for it to act in similar fashion to address the issues of post-trade processing and credit management.
Operational Drag
The FX front office has evolved to accommodate the shift from a voice brokered market – resulting in transparency, efficiency, liquidity and consistency – by bringing counterparties together so they can interact more effectively. In doing so, all participants have benefited from lower frictional costs and greater transparency.
Sadly, the same cannot be said of FX post-trade processing, which still uses much of the same basic infrastructure it used to support voice broking. In two decades, it has remained essentially unchanged, resulting in legacy processes/practices that are wholly unsuited to supporting electronic trading as conducted in today’s FX front offices. These processes/practices are also excessively costly, to the extent that post-trade costs can now even exceed the potential profit from the execution of a trade.
At the core of the problem are the fragmentation, replication and complexity of internal processes. This is hardly surprising given that at least 23 services are usually involved in managing current FX post-trade activities, which inflates both costs and operational risks. Multiple vendors are needed, as are multiple copies of the same trade (20+ is not untypical). At the same time, existing legacy processing technology cannot keep up with market evolution and so requires additional outlay to pay for the manual processes needed to cover its shortcomings.
In some cases, extremely costly processes persist. These could be dispensed with altogether in a more efficient processing environment. A case in point are confirmations, the costs of which at some top tier FX banks – just for their EB and PB businesses alone – run to nearly USD5mn per year.
Attempts to respond to changes in the front office by changing post-trade methods have also made the situation worse, as new substandard processes are layered on top of an already fragile and inefficient process stack. Each new process added therefore effectively exacerbates an already suboptimal process flow, in terms of both cost and risk.
These issues apply across all FX-related instruments, which when one considers that volume in uncleared FX derivatives (a market approximately twice the size of spot) totaled ~USD88trn at 2018-year end, illustrates the sheer magnitude of the problem. In fact, for FX derivatives, the risks and costs of these operational limitations are even more acute, as the processes involved are more complex than for spot.
These issues are collectively hampering the FX market’s overall efficiency and growth. This applies across bank to client, bank to bank and prime brokerage segments. In some cases, it is already causing market distortion, such as driving participants to review their position in FX prime brokerage. Given the FX market’s established reputation for resolving structural issues of this nature, it should be possible to find a solution internally, rather than directly involving external bodies, such as regulators.
A related area that is also creating unnecessary cost and risk – as well as damping liquidity growth – is credit management. Given the large trading volumes now conducted via API and at high frequency, FX is probably the market least tolerant of latency. Yet despite this, antiquated and fragmented credit management processes still persist, causing significant practical problems. Workaround remedies have emerged in an attempt to address these but create different problems instead. Credit kill switches are a case in point, because they can create disputes when clients find themselves having to reduce positions at unfavourable prices and also requiring a manual unwinding process, exposing both clients and banks to further issues.
Credit-related risks, such as over-commitment, still remain stubbornly high, while workaround remedies actually reduce credit efficiency, such as over-allocating to accommodate localised management of credit within venues. Costs are also an issue in credit management, with top tier banks spending considerable amounts unnecessarily on redundant/inefficient credit processes and technology.
The good news is that a solution is already entirely achievable at technical level. The obvious remedy is a single centralised shared ledger platform using standardised data that can handle all the necessary post-trade activities (plus credit) in one solution. It would mean that compliance with many of the principles in the GFXC’s FX Global Code of Conduct could become an achievable and immediate reality rather than merely being aspirational. A case in point is the principle relating to real time monitoring of trading permissions and credit provision
A centralised industry shared ledger platform would deliver multiple practical benefits across the market place. The most obvious would be to eliminate duplication and cost saving. Instead of running multiple versions of inadequate processes, participants could handle trades using a single set of consistent industry-standard processes. In the long term this could deliver cost savings of up to 80%, with ~50% possible in the medium term.
An additional benefit is cost transparency. In the current environment, with the accumulation of multiple layers of legacy operations and credit technology/processes, it is often extremely difficult to determine the post-trade cost of a transaction. A central standardised process would by contrast make the measurement and monitoring of post-trade costs straightforward and potentially deliver the same degree of transparency as already available for FX execution costs.
This shared ledger approach would also deliver various credit management benefits. For instance, the availability of near real time credit data would enable more efficient credit processes, such as:
Preventing erroneous credit cut-offs (thus improving client relations)
Making more efficient use of available lines
Avoiding over-commitment risks
Alleviating balance sheet pressure
Centralising credit management using a shared ledger enables more dynamic control across all types of trading relationship (bilateral, tri party and quadri party). This will dispense with the need for over-allocation and rebalancing in order to accommodate localised management of credit within venues. Those issuing credit will also be taking control of it (as is the case in equity markets) and will therefore be able to recycle it back into the market in the most efficient manner (a key consideration for non-CLS currencies and non-CLS members). Ultimately this will result in venues receiving business because they offer the best price, not because there is residual credit left at them.
In operational terms, workloads will also reduce when using this sort of solution, as less remediation will be required. Efficient credit management and automated processing will drive a reduction in failed trades, thereby also reducing the need for manual intervention and repair.
Liquidity and Regulation
The cost and efficiency benefits delivered by a centralised industry shared ledger platform have important implications for liquidity and market participation. Trading volumes in G7 pairs have been declining in recent years for a variety of reasons, but operational/credit inefficiencies are clearly playing some part if they are cutting trade margins to near zero.
If individual ticket processing costs decline significantly, then logically this will boost existing participants’ willingness to trade, both in general, but also potentially in smaller transaction sizes. By the same token, new participants may be encouraged to join the market once they can see that the processing cost burden and operational risks have been alleviated.
Finally, there are also prospective regulatory advantages to the FX market adopting a centralised shared ledger solution. Some regulators are already clearly aware of the issues, as shown by the FCA and BoE’s convening of a ‘Technology Working Group’ to reform post-trade processing so as to reduce complexity, encourage innovation, and improve systemic resilience. A shared ledger platform could support this initiative in various ways, but one of the most obvious is with regulatory filings.
At present, participants (often using manually intensive processes) incur substantial costs collecting trade data and submitting it to regulators. Market-wide adoption of a shared ledger solution would instead make it possible for participants to submit regulatory filings far more easily, plus do so in a consistent format. This would enable better monitoring of any potential systemic risks, plus delivering lower regulatory costs for all concerned (including regulators). Central banks could send a strong message here by adopting a shared ledger solution for their own trading activities, which would also serve as a clear signal to the organisations they regulate.
Adopting a single centralised utility for FX post-trade functions based on a common data standard ticks numerous boxes for all market participants. These include considerable cost savings, reduced credit/operational risks and better use of balance sheet, which in turn also facilitate greater trading activity and more diverse participation, as well as enhanced price discovery and lower regulatory overheads. Finally, it will also reinforce the FX industry’s existing reputation for innovating in the common interests of all market participants.
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Five more banks and financial institutions join the Trade Finance Distribution Initiative
June 24, 2019 /0 Comments/in Home, News, TFD Initiative, Tradeteq /by ChatsworthCommunications
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), ABN Amro, London Forfaiting Company, Crown Agents Bank and Natixis have joined the Trade Finance Distribution Initiative (TFD Initiative).
They join ANZ, Crédit Agricole CIB, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING, Lloyds Bank, Rabobank, Standard Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation as members.
The TFD Initiative is an industry-wide drive to use technology and standardisation for the wider distribution of trade finance assets. Since launching earlier this year, a growing number of banks, institutional investors, trade associations and trade finance service providers have joined as members.
Trade finance presents a compelling multi-trillion dollar investment opportunity for institutional investors seeking sources of long-term, low-risk returns based on the tangible flows of goods and services. However, there is no scalable market infrastructure in existence to facilitate the exchange of trade finance assets between banks and institutional investors.
This has led to the creation of the TFD Initiative. Its members will work together to utilise and adopt a common infrastructure powered by Tradeteq, the global trade finance distribution platform. Tradeteq’s technology allows banks and institutional investors to efficiently connect, interact and transact. It uses machine learning technology for supply chain predictive analysis, transaction level credit scoring, risk management, reporting and portfolio composition.
Anne-Cécile Delas, Global Head of Trade & Treasury Solutions at Natixis, said: “The distribution of our trade finance assets is key to better serving our clients. Networks like the TFD initiative, gathering banking, regulatory and buy-side sectors, will help to make trade finance assets more accessible to a wider range of investors, in a standard and processed way.”
Sylvain Labattu, Executive Director in Global Commodities & Trade team at CBA, said: “We view the TFD Initiative as a crucial process in the opening up of risk distribution in the trade finance asset class. Staying at the forefront of industry-wide technological and process developments enables us to better connect with and serve both our domestic and global corporate client base through excellence in structuring and distribution, access to data and analytics, and best in class corporate digital offering.
Simon Lay, CEO at London Forfaiting Company, said: “We are pleased to become a member of the TFD Initiative and help shape the use of enhanced technology in our industry. The interest in this forum signals that there is growing interest to establish trade finance as a liquid and scalable asset class to a new investor pool. We all stand to gain by increasing collaboration, leveraging new technologies and adopting standardised processes in the trade finance space.”
Robert Pothoven, Associate Director at ABN Amro, said: “We look forward to collaborating with other members of the TFD Initiative and believe bringing the industry together offers a great opportunity to drive forward adoption of more efficient technology throughout the trade finance market.”
Duarte Pedreira, Head of Trade Finance at Crown Agents Bank, said: “The TFD Initiative has the potential to reshape the trade finance market. By opening up the asset class and making it more accessible outside of the traditional banking world, the TFD Initiative is, in essence, creating a fairer playing field, where non-bank investors can also benefit from the excellent risk/reward opportunities presented by trade finance assets. Crown Agents Bank is proud to work alongside our peers to optimise the benefits of trade finance to our clients.”
André Casterman, Board Member at Tradeteq and Chair of the Fintech Committee at the International Trade and Forfaiting Association, adds: “We are pleased to welcome our latest members. The existing trade finance infrastructure that institutions rely on is outdated, and the industry is on the cusp of change. This is a truly international, collaborative effort that includes the banking community, institutional investors, trade associations and other service providers.
“Our members have told us how the benefits of greater trade finance distribution will be felt along the entire trade finance supply chain, from issuers providing letters of credit right through to corporations seeking cross-border funding. By working together, we are one step closer to achieving our objectives.”
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Renowned Professor, Rama Cont, joins Mosaic Smart Data as Scientific Advisor
June 9, 2019 /0 Comments/in Home, Mosaic Smart Data, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
Mosaic Smart Data (Mosaic), the real-time capital markets data analytics company, has appointed Oxford University Professor of Mathematical Finance, Rama Cont, as Scientific Advisor.
Professor Cont’s role will be to help Mosaic Smart Data utilise the latest academic quantitative finance research in the development of its machine learning, artificial intelligence and data analytics capabilities. Professor Cont will work directly with Mosaic Smart Data’s data science team to make the latest in data science technology available to Mosaic’s customers, as well as guiding Mosaic’s R&D activities.
In addition, he will contribute to Mosaic’s quant talent recruitment and develop links with the broader research community.
Professor Cont was appointed Professor of Mathematical Finance at St Hugh’s College Oxford in 2018. Previously, he held the Chair of Mathematical Finance at Imperial College London and has 20 years of experience working with the financial markets.
Rama Cont said: “What intrigued me most about working with Mosaic Smart Data was the opportunity to take the theoretical work we are doing on the academic side and demonstrate its practical application in the cut and thrust of the capital markets. Mosaic Smart Data’s customer base, with some of the world’s top financial institutions, provides an unparalleled opportunity to apply this academic research for the best of the best.
“By bringing together Mosaic’s team of highly experienced data scientists with our own world-class researchers, we have an incredible opportunity to bring the most advanced data science ideas to real-world applications. This will strengthen both the Mosaic platform and academic research efforts.”
Matthew Hodgson, CEO and founder of Mosaic Smart Data, said: “The firms that succeed in tomorrow’s markets will be those which can harness their data most effectively, extracting the most useful insights in real-time to drive productivity and performance. Our mission is to provide the tools to make that happen.
“We’ve been working with the scientific community since our beginnings and in 2018, Mosaic became the first fintech to collaborate with the European Space Agency. By working with Rama, we will have direct access to the most promising research being developed at the world’s top institutions to ensure that Mosaic Smart Data’s analytics is always at the leading edge of what’s possible in the capital markets.
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London maintains its grip on global FX market
January 31, 2019 /0 Comments/in Finance, Home, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
London has become a hub for Chinese yuan trading and continues to solidify its role at the centre of the global FX markets – even with the spectre of Brexit looming on the horizon – according to the latest data from the Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee (FXJSC).
Chaired by the Bank of England, the FXJSC’s semi-annual turnover survey is considered a benchmark for the health of the UK’s wholesale FX market. The numbers for the six-month period leading up to October 2018 were published earlier this week and showed a sharp 17% rise in yuan turnover compared to the April 2018 results.
In particular, USD/CNY turnover increased to a staggering $73 billion per day, its highest absolute turnover to date, and overtook EUR/GBP as the seventh most traded currency pair in London. The UK government has made a concerted effort to promote yuan trading since its internationalisation began and the FXJSC numbers indicate that the hard work is now paying off, according to Pragma Securities, an algorithmic trading technology provider.
This marks a notable moment for what is arguably the most important emerging currency to the global economy. By promoting free use of the yuan, the Chinese monetary authority is enabling Chinese corporates and financial institutions to develop their businesses overseas, which in turn is leading to a continued rise in the currency’s market share.
FX – the largest and most interconnected of global markets – is the crowning jewel of London’s financial services industry and the City is a natural hub for the yuan as it continues its path to internationalisation.
More broadly, the FXJSC survey pegged average daily UK FX turnover at USD 2,611 billion in October 2018, the third largest turnover figure on record for the survey. While this represents a fall of 4% from the record high of $2,727 billion reported in April 2018, it still makes for promising reading in the uncertain macroeconomic and political climate.
In particular, FX spot activity rose to $775 billion, its highest level since April 2015 and a year-on-year increase of 11%. This growth in spot activity was also seen in data released by the Fed in New York, and is reflective of the bouts of volatility which spurred higher trading volumes on electronic platforms such as ParFX.
With the March 29th Brexit deadline fast approaching, the UK could find itself in a very different position when the results of the next FXJSC survey are published, but the signs look overwhelmingly positive for the UK maintaining its tight grip on the global FX market.
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Sibos London – plan ahead with military precision to get the best results
January 28, 2019 /0 Comments/in Home, News, Sibos 2019 /by ChatsworthCommunications
It’s that time of year when the great and the *good of global finance converge to hobnob and sell to each other in an exclusive global venue.
No, not Davos. That’s all after-parties, skiing and Leo DiCaprio…we’re talking about Sibos, SWIFT’s annual payments summit.
This year it’s in London. In September. Take away the dead summer months and that’s not far off.
With its frequently brilliant Innotribe sessions and a solid line-up of speakers and panellists, the event has become an unmissable fixture in the financial year for both established and challenger financial firms
Over 7,500 delegates attended Sibos in Sydney last year. Expect that to increase substantially, as London is such a sweet spot as a financial technology hub.
Thousands of financial professionals are going to visit this year.
Chatsworth’s advice? Start planning and booking now. Side venues, hotel rooms, camels, whatever you need. It’s going to be a busy one.
We’ve been covering Sibos for many years, helping our clients make an impact with their investment. We cannot emphasise enough the need to plan from now to maximise your investment.
Don’t commit the funds and then scrabble around two months beforehand. Think about your content. Plan your marketing and PR like a military campaign.
Sibos creates an ocean of announcements, deals and commentary. The media attendance at Sibos is pretty good, but these poor folks get slammed with press releases and announcements.
Make sure you craft your news for optimal market relevance. Got data/analytics? Share it. Contextualise your story. Make your announcements and data market relevant.
So how do you create cut-through when hundreds of other firms are looking to do precisely the same?
Plan your meeting schedule with military precision. And speak to the Sibos team – they are helpful, experienced and will advise you.
Smart social media. Obsess over the conference schedule – map your content to the speaker sessions and your organisation’s view.
Don’t just bang out pointless posts saying something is ‘interesting’ or ‘insightful’ and never reduce yourself to only liking other content. Engage in the debate. If you have a position, share it and build your audience.
And importantly, don’t forget about the people who are not there. More people read about Davos than attend it. The same goes for Sibos; communicate outside of the goldfish bowl.
Overall, get on the case now – don’t wait until August. If your organisation is attending, this will likely be one of your largest marketing and communications investments this year.
Fail to plan, plan to fail. As a US four-star general once said: “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
*it’s all relative
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Using effective infographics to frame your business narrative
January 22, 2019 /0 Comments/in Home, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
The old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words is a vast underestimation. In fact, the human brain processes visual content 60,000 times faster than it does text.
Communication is 93% non-verbal, even in the virtual online space. The brain sees in pictures and that’s how you can easily access your memory.
Images communicate. They make us curious and stimulate our minds as we view them. Visual content works and infographics, in particular, offer a highly effective way in conveying complex information in a simple and concise way.
Infographics are great for breaking down research and multiple data points into a digestible format. As a result, they are one of the most used B2B marketing tools where concepts are often complicated and benefit for a clear visual structure.
They are also excellent at fostering engagement. Infographics are liked and shared on social media x3 times more than other types of content. Speaking of engagement, people following text directions alongside illustrations perform with 300% more accuracy than with no pictures. Clearly, Ikea and Lego are onto something here.
Chatsworth employs our understanding and experience to deliver effective infographics which explain complex structures and ideas with clarity and context. Get in touch and we’ll help bring your narrative to life.
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Briefing: FX, the world’s largest and most liquid financial market
January 17, 2019 /0 Comments/in Cobalt, FX Global Code, Home, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
The foreign exchange (FX) industry is now emerging from a difficult period of scandal. Following the resulting increased scrutiny, which culminated in the creation of the FX Global Code, the global USD5 trillion-a-day market finds itself at a crossroads.
The Code’s efficacy is yet to be tested, but adoption continues and is strong. Why does any of this matter? Well for one, foreign exchange remains the world’s largest and most liquid market and plays a critical role in enabling international trade and investment.
Currencies provide a bell-weather for economic health, and short-term sentiment and speculation of course, but also a tool for hedging and the genuine flow of business and goods across borders.
Trust in its operation has to be restored, not just for investors but for the broader reputations of the institutions with FX operations.
A handful of banks, and non-bank trading firms – still mistakenly referred to as “the buy-side” – now dominate FX completely. This concentration was built over two decades and these global franchises have also been the first to adopt new technology and models, from prime brokerage to really maxing out on their API trading strategies.
A common muttering on FX street is that the banks have been distracted by regulation, paving the way for non-banks to steal clients from underneath the noses of the banks. Fair comment or sour grapes?
Meanwhile, in the post-trade space, there is a growing consensus for a shake-up of the current model, which is expensive and outdated. Demands for instant settlement continue to grow and more participants are backing DLT/blockchain-based platforms.
Many of the post-trade giants of today were established more than 20 years ago, as is their technology, so there is certainly scope for disruption. New entrants such as Cobalt are shaking up the post-trade FX landscape, while incumbents sensing their dominant position under threat, are eyeing the roll-out of DLT-based systems and – in some cases – investing in start-up systems.
The move towards automation and straight-through processing began many years ago. Lower costs generally translate into lower barriers to entry, and we have already seen new entrant establish themselves as key market players. This will gather pace and will open the door to a new wave of market players to enter the FX market.
We would most certainly not bet against the blockchain, despite the inevitable kickback to the hype cycle. Cloud computing went through a hype cycle and subsequent trough of disillusionment before becoming a ubiquitous part of the IT landscape on what Gartner calls the slope of enlightenment.
The past is the key to the future of FX. The winners will continue to innovate using technology and will meet the challenges of adopting big data and analytics, distributed ledger technology, cloud computing, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) head on.
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Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Chatsworth Christmas Charity Appeal
December 20, 2018 /0 Comments/in Home, News, Personal /by ChatsworthCommunications
This year, Chatsworth is donating to Crisis to support work helping homeless people in dire need during the winter months.
Crisis is a practical, front-line organisation providing accommodation, food, haircuts, access to doctors and dentists, and advice on benefits, housing and finding jobs.
Please spare a few minutes to listen to and share the podcast with the brilliant Chris O’Dowd and Anne-Marie Duff.
Written by award-winning screenwriter Regina Moriarty and directed by Virginia Gilbert, Baby It’s Cold Outside, is a thought-provoking journey, finding humour in the darkness whilst hitting home the impact of homelessness.
This season is a good time to reflect on all we have and those who may need our help.
Happy Christmas – wishing you and yours the very best for 2019.
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Crisis public relations and issues management
December 18, 2018 /0 Comments/in Home, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
When it gets stormy, Chatsworth’s special situations service helps protect and enhance your reputation, ensuring we tell your side of the story and mitigating potentially negative news which could impact your reputation. Our team has decades of experience advising organisations and individuals with intelligence and discretion.
Working with full confidentiality, Chatsworth delivers strategic and tactical PR advice and support when our clients need it most. We give leaders informed advice whether they are facing a potential crisis or in the midst of an existing one, helping them to prepare for and manage the communications challenges which affect their organisation’s reputation, ability to operate or valuation.
Chatsworth has extensive expertise in litigation support – managing the communications process during the course of any legal dispute or adjudicatory processing to protect the client’s reputation. We work closely with in-house and external counsel, leveraging our media relationships to counteract negative publicity, interpret often complex legal issues.
From positive story formulation to rapid rebuttal and response. Chatsworth will move the compass needle your way.
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Andy Bria joins LiquidityEdge as Chief Operating Officer
September 4, 2018 /0 Comments/in Home, LiquidityEdge, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
Electronic US Treasuries (UST) trading venue LiquidityEdge today announced that Andy Bria has joined as Chief Operating Officer, based in New York.
Since launching in September 2015, LiquidityEdge has rapidly grown its UST market share and volumes, establishing itself as an alternative model for fixed income. Following the success of the platform, LiquidityEdge has selected Andy to drive further growth and lead LiquidityEdge’s expansion plans.
Andy joins LiquidityEdge from NEX Group, where he held multiple senior roles across client services for both the flagship EBS and BrokerTec brands for over 13 years. Andy was Head of Client Services for six years and in 2011, successfully managed all client-facing aspects of the BrokerTec technology platform refresh.
Andy’s extensive experience in electronic trading and client relations, combined with his expertise in capital markets, ideally places him to help lead LiquidityEdge’s strategy and operations.
Nichola Hunter, CEO of LiquidityEdge, comments: “We’re delighted to welcome Andy to the team and believe his experience in electronic trading will be invaluable to LiquidityEdge in the years ahead. Andy’s strategic guidance will be greatly beneficial as we move into the next phase of growth and we look forward to working with him.”
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UK Holds the Crown for Worldwide Fintech Investment
July 31, 2018 /0 Comments/in Home, News, Personal /by ChatsworthCommunications
The UK has received more investment in its fintech sector than any other country in the world, according to KPMG’s latest Venture Pulse Report.
With over US$16.1bn of inbound investment during the first half of the year, the UK is firmly ahead of China (US$15.1bn) and the United States (US$14.2bn).
Europe currently stands as the leading continent for fintech investment ($26bn), with the UK accounting for over half of this. Moreover, four of the ten largest European fintech deals were conducted in the UK. This includes the US$250m raised by Revolut in April and US$100m by eToro in March of this year.
KPMG also predicts that the UK will retain its crown in the second half of 2018.
The report cites artificial intelligence (AI) as one of the main sectors responsible for attracting fintech investment in the UK. Hot startups such as Previse and Mosaic Smart Data are utilising the technology to revolutionise areas as diverse as late payments and data analytics in wholesale financial markets.
With the shadow of Brexit looming large, it is a timely reminder of the importance of the UK to the global fintech community. In a keynote speech at London Fintech Week earlier this month, our CEO Nick Murray-Leslie noted how finance and technology are almost indivisible; nowhere comes close to London in terms of dominance as a financial centre and, by extension, a fintech hub.
The strong data also dismisses the notion that Brexit is affecting the way investors think about the City and the rest of the UK. Our view is that Brexit is not the biggest risk to London; rather, it is the risk that the UK, and London in particular, becomes a victim of its own success and unaffordable or unattractive for people.
This city has been undergoing its own version of what scholars of US cities have termed “the Great Inversion”. This is the return of people, high-end housing and highly-paid jobs to city centres. If it becomes too expensive these people will go elsewhere and there may soon be only two types of people left: the wealthy and those who are in social housing. This will be a problem.
Beyond the UK, fintech as an industry has sky-rocketed this year. Worldwide global fintech investment this year has already exceeded the whole sum value of 2017, proving why it’s crucial for the UK to remain at the forefront of this vital sector.
Chatsworth has been working with a number of award-winning start-ups and established fintechs such as Previse (late payments), Mosaic Smart Data (data analytics), R3 (blockchain), and can personally avow for how London can support a fintech business of any size, better than any other city in the world.
Looking forward to the third-quarter of the year, tax reforms in the US, a significant amount of dry powder and the continued flow of funding into the VC world are expected to keep the fintech investment market strong over the next quarter.
AI and data analytics are expected to remain high on the radar of VC investors. It is also expected that companies in maturing sectors, such as e-commerce, will continue to broaden their offerings and investments in order to access new or adjacent verticals.
But as KPMG notes, an area that may be one to watch over the next quarter will be valuations – particularly for companies with no tangible assets, where investors are focused on what the company might do in the future. The level of assumption and risk involved in these types of valuations is quite high and it is still to be seen if these valuations will be substantiated.
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London’s Fintech Scene Greatest Threat Is Not Brexit
Finance and technology are almost indivisible. Nowhere comes close to London in terms of dominance as a financial centre and, by extension, a fintech hub.
Activity in the sector has really exploded in the last half decade. Inward investment to London has doubled since 2014 and it was the leading sector for investment in 2017. UK fintech attracted a record £1.34 billion VC funding, double the amount of any other European country.
That is why some of the most exciting fintech companies in the world, like R3, a consortium of over 200 banks and funds building a blockchain for finance and business, are building right here, in London.
Why London?
This city has been the beating heart of international finance for centuries. The Bank of England was the second central bank in the world and provided the financial flexibility which would be the foundation of the Empire’s power and which has pertained to this day.
Towards the turn of the millennium, the “Big Bang” reforms of the 1980s complimented the infrastructure and expertise which had evolved from running the Empire and led to London becoming the model for global financial administration. Only in a city with London’s concentration of intellectual capital would this have been possible.
So while our cousins across the pond had to deal with the bureaucracy and the restrictive regulation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, we didn’t. Companies simply decided to avoid the hassle by conducting their business in the US and listed their stocks in London where the people and skills were ready for them.
London also holds a unique position in terms of our legal environment, M&A expertise and even our timezone which, even today, remain important factors.
Financial professionals are redefining fintech
Fast forward and these advantage carry over into the fintech sector. There are now legions of financial market professionals and traders moving into fintechs, working with the designers and coders.
Many of my clients are former desk heads or former heads of market data – they have had successful careers but had spotted opportunities to apply technology to improve what they do. These people are bringing their knowledge of the markets, instruments and the complexities of international regulation to the table.
Just because London is the undisputed home of fintech today, doesn’t mean that is always going to be the case. I see a couple of threats on the near horizon that need dealing with to stay on top.
Brexit is an obvious concern. We simply must make sure that we remain open for business and be seen to be open for business. I do not agree with the former Foreign Secretary’s reported view that business should go “reproduce” with itself.
If the final deal jeopardises the status of London in the global markets there’s more at risk than just transactions going elsewhere. This is about a concentration of talent and access to capital. The way the UK makes relationships with other countries and structures its own agenda in the run up to Brexit will be key to its success.
London’s talent pool
So Brexit is clearly a risk, but I don’t actually think it’s the biggest risk to London. I think the biggest risk is that it becomes a victim of its own success and unaffordable or unattractive for people.
This city has been undergoing its own version of what scholars of US cities have termed “the Great Inversion”. This is the return of people, high-end housing and highly-paid jobs to city centres.
Inner London’s growth was in part fostered by the ability of creative people from various fields to cluster together and share ideas.
If inner London becomes too expensive these people will go elsewhere. In inner London there may soon be only two types of people left: the wealthy and those who are in social housing. This will be a problem.
London needs to be good for both business and for people and their families. That means ensuring individual and corporation tax is sensible and that families can afford to live in a capital with effective services.
Word to the risk takers
Some final words of tribute to the fintech risk takers who have put their time, their own and their investor’s money, plus a whole lot of coffee and sleepless nights into their concept, design and build.
If you’re doing it in the wholesale markets space, you’re competing for attention in the face of an established tech infrastructure, highly resistant to change. It’s tough, but ultimately the USP of your platform or offering will do the talking. Never give up. Get it right and you will change a – part of this business world for the better.
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London FX turnover hits record high
July 25, 2018 /0 Comments/in Home, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
The results of a new survey released by the Bank of England have revealed record-breaking FX turnover in the UK during April this year.
The survey, compiled with the responses of 28 London-based institutions, shows that daily FX turnover during the month was a staggering $2,727bn – up 15% on October last year and 14% on April last year.
The Bank of England says this represents the highest reported turnover on record, beating the previous peak of $2,711bn set in October 2014.
Turnover in FX swaps accounted for the largest increase, growing by 18% compared with October last year. There was an 18% increase in turnover in the sterling-dollar currency pair, an 11% increase in euro-dollar trading and a 13% increase in dollar-yen.
In particular, London’s turnover in the British pound rose to a record $351 billion, up 18% from October 2017 and nearly doubling from last year. This was driven largely by traders dumping the pound against the dollar when the Bank of England declined to raise interest rates.
The survey results reflect London’s continued position as the epicentre of the global currency markets, despite ongoing debate about the UK’s future trade arrangements post-Brexit. The UK growth rate in turnover also overtook US data revealed today by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which showed a 5.2% increase on a six-month basis and 11.7% year-on-year, with turnover only around one-third of that in London.
As ever, volatility has been the major driver for the increase in turnover. After years of ultra-low interest rates across the globe, central banks are beginning to diverge again in terms of where they set their policy rates. Growing concerns over a global trade war and political turmoil in the Eurozone have also contributed significantly to this volatility.
FX trading remains one of the City’s most profitable industries, and the Bank of England’s survey is a timely reminder of the dominance of the UK’s FX providers in a period of significant political and economic uncertainty for the country.
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Chatsworth delivers opening keynote at London FinTech Week
July 16, 2018 /0 Comments/in Home, News, R3 /by ChatsworthCommunications
To Westminster, where Chatsworth’s CEO Nick Murray-Leslie was the opening keynote speaker at this years’ London FinTech Week.
The event brought together the best and brightest FinTech firms, individuals, developers, and entrepreneurs.
FinTech is a truly global sector, with focussed hubs developing in both developed and emerging markets.
Nick’s speech focused on London as a FinTech hub, how London had gained traction as a global fintech hub and what it must do to retain that critical position, from attracting investment and venture capital, the talent pool, expansion opportunities and the impact of Brexit.
He also introduced Richard Brown, CTO of R3 for a deep dive into how a major banking technology consortium chose London for its technical and operational HQ and how the city’s talent pool and unique position in the intersection of finance, timezones and continents contributed to its success.
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Deepwell enters new phase with 7 major hires across three continents
June 26, 2018 /0 Comments/in DeepWell, Home, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
DeepWell Liquidity Management, the global financial markets intermediary for the buy-side community, has added seven senior market professionals to its team across three continents as it eyes further growth and expansion into different asset classes.
DeepWell launched in September 2017 and offers global coverage across a range of OTC and exchange-traded FX products, including spot, forwards, options and futures.
The company’s new hires experience range from the who’s who of the banking world, from, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank to RBS, with more than century’s worth of experience between them.
In an interview with Finance Magnates, Deepwell CEO Richard Leighton spoke on the purpose of the hirings, “These additions will allow us to continue meeting the demand we are experiencing for our services and will help us to grow our market share in FX. Growing our capacity also enables us to service more institutions and investors and look at expanding other markets and products.”
These hiring’s have evidently taken place with a larger goal in mind. In the same interview, Leighton went to explain, “We took the strategic decision to set up offices in three of the biggest FX hubs in the world as we believe these have the greatest growth potential. We expect to grow our team at each of these locations as we continue to increase our market share in FX and expand into new asset classes.”
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Mosaic Smart Data & Previse named in Europe’s 50 Hottest Fintechs
June 19, 2018 /0 Comments/in Home, Mosaic Smart Data, News, Previse /by ChatsworthCommunications
Last week, Fintech City unveiled the sixth annual list of Europe’s top fintech50 companies. The list is selected by a panel of internationally renowned figures across finance and technology from a long-list of 1,800 companies. We were very proud to see Mosaic Smart Data and Previse added to the list this year for the first time.
Drawn from both B2C fintechs and those aimed at the institutional market, the list includes a wide range of business models and technologies.
Mosaic Smart Data and Previse lead a strong contingent of data analytics and machine learning companies. Both companies have had huge success targeting these technologies at specific, previously unsolvable, business problems.
In the case of Mosaic, it is enabling institutions to, for the first time, see their fixed income, currencies and commodities business in real-time. It uses advanced analytics to enable sales teams to generate useable insights to boost their performance and improve client servicing. In the last twelve months, Mosaic announced its first client, secured funding and expanded its team.
Previse is using machine learning to enable large businesses to have their suppliers paid instantly. It has made it onto the list in just its second year of business after securing funding from the Scottish Government and welcoming senior business figures such as John Gildersleeve and David Tyler to its advisory board.
As well as analytics companies like Mosaic Smart Data and Previse, a big trend in the 2018 list are blockchain companies. The list includes businesses applying the technology to a range of fields, from wholesale payments settlement to digital identity and cybersecurity.
Data analytics and blockchain are moving beyond theory and are now actively transforming global finance. It is, therefore, no surprise that these technologies feature strongly in this list of the most exciting financial technology companies.
We are proud to be working with some of the companies in the vanguard of these changes, both in Europe and the United States.
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Creative Clerkenwell shows its true colours during CDW 2018
May 21, 2018 /0 Comments/in Home, News, Personal /by ChatsworthCommunications
Clerkenwell Design Week 2018 kicked off this week, showcasing the area’s creativity and innovation with a programme full of thought-provoking exhibitions and must-see installations.
Thousands of people from around the country have descended on Clerkenwell to attend or take part in the world-class A&D festival.
Chatsworth Communications is pleased to support the 9th edition of the Clerkenwell Design Week 2018. We look forward to this event every year and in 2018, we provided data which was used for one of the installations.
Being based in Clerkenwell Close has meant we have seen the heart of the action. One of our favourite parts was in the picturesque grounds of St James Church which featured ‘Design Fields’, a showcase of leading furniture, lighting and product design from around the world.
There was also a lot of interest in Platform, a show that recognizes some of the world’s most exciting up-and-coming design talent.
New for 2018 was ‘Light’, an installation which took over Fabric nightclub. The former cold-store turned nightclub hosted within its brick vaults an exhibition dedicated to top international lighting brands with spectacular stand alone lighting installations.
The last events take place tonight, so drop into Clerkenwell to avoid missing out on the colourful creativity on display before the remarkable fixings are put away for another year.
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UK Remains at the Forefront of the Fintech Revolution
April 16, 2018 /0 Comments/in Finance, Home, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
Despite fierce competition, the UK remains at the forefront of the fintech revolution according to the ‘Finance for Fintech’ report, launched recently by London Stock Exchange Group and TheCityUK.
The independent survey, carried out by YouGov, interviewed over 400 fintech companies across eight countries, all of which have had at least Series A funding rounds or above, and provided interesting insights into the global fintech scene.
Bullish UK fintech scene
UK fintechs are bullish about their growth prospects.
The research highlighted that fintech companies operating in the UK expect to grow by 88 per cent over the next three years, 8% higher than the overall average.
Vital to this growth is raising finance and this process is reportedly more straightforward for UK fintechs in public markets than those operating in other countries, making it an attractive location for fast-growth companies. Chancellor Philip Hammond recently supported this view, pointing out that investment in UK fintech more than doubled last year, outpacing the funding of EU rivals such as Germany.
Interestingly, fintechs surveyed placed the UK as the third best location for businesses seeking to grow their international footprint, only behind the US and China.
Fintech Revolution in Europe?
That said, competition is heating up.
Europe increasingly seeks to strengthen its position as a regional fintech hub. On 8 March, the European Commission announced an action plan on how it will do just that; new rules that will help crowdfunding platforms to grow across the EU’s single market.
The impact of this will be interesting as one of the primary barriers to fintech growth is competition according to 43% of those surveyed.
Fintechs require a supportive global regulatory environment to flourish.
You have to applaud the FCA’s exploration of a potential global regulatory sandbox following the success of its UK version. The UK version, launched in 2016, helped fintechs to test innovations with real customers in the live market but under controlled conditions.
The global sandbox could allow firms to conduct tests from London into different jurisdictions at the same time, enabling regulators to collaborate to solve cross-border problems.
This has the potential to strengthen London’s position as a destination for global fintech companies as they can come from all around the world to test their products and find out how they can expand internationally.
Fintech is by definition without borders.
The research shows that fintechs across the world are becoming increasingly cross-border in their growth aspirations with 72% of the 400 companies surveyed planning to expand into new countries. 73% believe they will need to move into new or develop existing market sectors in order to achieve this growth and almost three-quarters believe long-term growth will be driven, at least in part, by new technologies.
It is worth noting that those who have reached Series D rounds or above have the biggest appetite for expansions and anticipate achieving a monumental growth of 320%.
While fintechs seek global expansion, it is important they don’t lose sight of the importance of being located close to the core financial hubs as crossover will, by and large, determine their success.
It is clear that in order for fintechs to thrive and continue to transform the global financial services sector, they need access to finance, a supportive global regulatory environment and proximity to the global financial services sector. The UK currently offers all three.
The report demonstrates that while the UK remains at the forefront of the fintech revolution, it must continue to innovate and work collaboratively in order to maintain its leading position, especially with Europe hot on its heels.
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Banks Are Prioritising Digital Transformation
April 9, 2018 /0 Comments/in Home, Mosaic Smart Data, News, Previse /by ChatsworthCommunications
Fintech has barely even got started if a new report from EY is to be believed. Less than 20% of banks believe they are doing enough as a business to invest in technology, according to EY’s Global Banking Outlook study. This, despite some substantial leaps forward in technological capability and significant investment.
To combat this, more than half of banks surveyed in the report expect budgets for technological investment to rise by 10% this year, and more than half of banks aspire to be digitally maturing or digital leaders by 2020. Banks appetite to invest and partner with fintech firms may in part explain why last year was a bumper year for fintech VC funding, with $1.8 billion raised by UK firms.
This new investment opens up major new growth opportunities for the already thriving financial technology market.
The impact of fintech is being felt in every part of finance, from retail banking to back-office compliance. But one of the key focuses for banks over the past few years has been using technology to try to deal with stringent compliance and regulation, which slows down, complicates and adds expense to transactions.
Solving this is one of the key promises of distributed ledger technology (DLT) which is being touted as a new way to create trust between institutions, lower compliance costs and create information sharing efficiencies. This year, we are likely to see the first examples of DLT moving from proof of concept into market operation.
Data analytics and machine learning are likely to be another hotspot of activity this year. Many banks have begun announcing project designs in all kinds of areas of the bank, from back-office automation to the use of machine learning to improve execution quality.
For example, JP Morgan is working with UK based data analytics company Mosaic Smart Data to unlock insights from its internal FICC data to improve client handling and FICC performance.
In trade finance, Previse is looking to end late payments for SME suppliers with its advanced machine learning and innovative finance model which creates opportunities for buyers, sellers and banks alike.
The last few years have seen an explosion in financial technology. However, emerging technologies begin to mature, and banks continue to strive to be more efficient and effective, it looks like the fintech surge is only just beginning.
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SWIFT GPI Reduces Cross Border Transactions To Minutes & Seconds
March 5, 2018 /0 Comments/in News, SWIFT /by ChatsworthCommunications
The cross-border payments industry has seen a revolution in speed and transparency over the past decade or so. A generation of new companies are eyeing the role of incumbents and exploring new technologies such as blockchain to transform existing processes.
However, examples of genuine innovation are beginning to emerge amongst both new providers and incumbents. Once such example is the global banking messaging giant SWIFT, which revealed that users of its Global Payments Initiative (GPI) service, are receiving payments within minutes, and even seconds.
SWIFT GPI
Nearly 50% of SWIFT gpi payments are credited to end beneficiaries within 30 minutes, and almost 100% of payments within 24 hours. With all payments fully traceable, there have been fewer enquiry-related queries, reducing costs for banks by as much as 50%.
SWIFT has set the international standard for cross-border payments for over four decades, and this week’s announcement directly addresses the perception that its payments are slow and cannot keep up with the new upstarts.
To the contrary, SWIFT gpi continues to gain significant traction; traffic already accounts for nearly 10% of total SWIFT cross-border payments, and over USD 100 billion is being transacted every day by 150 banks across more than 220 international corridors.
Blockchain?
SWIFT has made it clear that the service currently does not incorporate blockchain technology – making the speed of payments ever-more impressive. Yet, it’s important to note that blockchain is not a panacea; any payment service must offer speed, transparency, industry-wide connectivity and have appropriate regulatory oversight. SWIFT gpi incorporates all of these without incurring huge costs for banks and their customers.
Harry Newman, SWIFT’s Head of Banking commented on today’s announcement, “Thanks to SWIFT GPI, banks are able to credit payments within minutes and even seconds, while their customers are facing shorter supply cycles and able to ship goods faster. This is a very significant step forward for banks and for their customers” says. “In addition, banks receive fewer queries and have told us their inquiry-related costs are reduced by as much as 50% when they use SWIFT GPI. This is a major service improvement to end-users and a considerable cost saving for the industry.”
It is clear that gpi service has transformed the way cross-border payments are sent and received, and further enhancements appear to be in the pipeline for 2018. As more banks use the service and integrate it with their corporate offerings throughout 2018, the number of corporates will continue to grow rapidly.
With SWIFT already playing a key role in delivering the New Payments Platform in Australia and introducing real-time payments to Europe later this year, it seems 2018 is shaping up to be a key year for the cooperative and its members.
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Carillion collapse shines spotlight on late payments issue
February 7, 2018 /0 Comments/in Home, News, Previse /by ChatsworthCommunications
The collapse of construction giant Carillion has focused media and government attention on the global issue of payment terms after it was discovered the group paid subcontractors with a 120-day delay. These delayed payments meant many suppliers had to resort to expensive bank finance to stay in business while others are now facing bankruptcy.
Recognising the importance of ending the culture of late payment, two FTSE 100 chairmen have joined the advisory board of Previse, a UK based company which uses artificial intelligence to solve slow payments for the entire supply chain.
Chairman of supermarket chain J Sainsbury, David Tyler and chairman of property group British Land, John Gildersleeve have joined the company as investors and advisers.
Previse’s AI technology is designed to enable large firms to pay suppliers on the day they receive an invoice. The London-based firm’s technology calculates a buyer’s likelihood of paying an invoice, before deciding which invoices will be paid, so small suppliers can be paid instantly.
David Tyler said: “The length of time it can take for suppliers to be paid hurts not only them, but the large companies buying their products and services as well.” He believes that Previse will bring benefits to the entire supply chain and that the company has a bright future ahead of it.
Mr Gildersleeve, who is also deputy chairman of telecoms company TalkTalk, told the Financial Times that Previse could tackle an issue that has, “infected British business forever.”
Lengthy payment terms and the prevalence of slow payments by large buyers, which affects three in five SME suppliers, cause 50,000 UK SMEs to close each year. Previse’s artificial intelligence technology allows even very small suppliers to receive payment the day they issue their invoice by instantly identifying if an invoice is correct and allowing a funder to pay the supplier immediately based on this information.
“I am proud to be able to welcome our new board members who represent incredible senior experience across such a wide range of industries with significant supply chains.” Said Paul Christensen, CEO of Previse. “I think this shows the deep understanding across industry that slow payments are a real problem, and confidence in our approach to tackling the problem.”
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Foreign exchange in 2018: David Puth speaks to FX Week
January 3, 2018 /0 Comments/in CLS, Home, News /by ChatsworthCommunications
Technology and regulatory guidance and principles will shape the foreign exchange (FX) market’s structure in 2018, according to David Puth, CEO of CLS, in an exclusive interview with FX Week.
2017 saw the publication of the FX Global Code, and a number of leading financial services and technology institutions confirmed their commitment to adopting and instilling its principles. This trend, Puth says, will continue in 2018 as the Global Foreign Exchange Committee publishes its final guidance on Principal 17 covering “last look”.
2018 will also be a year in which CLS expands its role offering new solutions to improve efficiency and reduce risk in the FX market.
“We are becoming more than a settlement utility. While delivering the risk mitigation that comes with safe settlement is our primary mission, we continue to focus on delivering products that solve client problems,” says Puth.
These include a same-day settlement service for five of the world’s most liquid currencies, and its much-anticipated distributed ledger technology (DLT) enabled netting service, CLSNet.
These technologies will likely have a significant impact on FX market structure, helping it to become more efficient and speed up the movement of currency around the world.
For more on what 2018 holds for FX, including David’s thoughts on the dollar and bitcoin, read the full interview here.
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January 22, 2004 Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the year of the Monkey, and since Cherokee’s rebirth is spring of ’04, she shares traits with the monkey – agile, quick, and smart. She can get in and out of tight places, and plays well with humans. Keith Rittmaster, head of the NC Maritime Museum’s Cape Lookout Studies Program, snapped this shot of Cherokee off the Cape New Year’s week.
Huckins Sighting off Cape Lookout
Meanwhile, back at the berth, Bryan and Chris laid the galley flooring and trim. Below left they’re placing the last bit of trim, and right shows the completed floor. The empty area to the right is where the refrigerators go.
Laying Down the Groove
Galley Gleaming
The Varnish Vixens are working their way through the galley trim, sanding and sanding in preparation for many coats of varnish. Sharon and Caroline are padding about in socks, keeping everything scratch free and pretty. Below right, Carolyn’s mother Margaret is in the facility sanding a galley cabinet. Speaking of the facility, it’s no longer a gaping void since the Cherokee launch. Lloyd Pigott had George lift the CBCII (Core Banks Club), an old ferry boat, into the shed whereupon it’ll get converted into a houseboat (see bottom photo).
Sanding, sanding, sanding
Tom Parker Fitting Stateroom Shelf
Tom Parker, above, is building a storage cabinet in the forward stateroom over the bunk. Bryan and Chris glued the teak on the first hatch of the cockpit, and attached the hinge. They and Leonard are shown below fitting it in place.
Cockpit Hatch Placed over Generator
Chris and Bryan started the cockpit stairs, designed to be used to enter the cockpit from the aft-deck or the dock. Once completed, the stairs will have teak treads and white risers. Below Bryan and son James check it out.
Behold the dogfish – neither a dog nor a true fish, but a kind of mini-shark. The spiny dogfish, or Squalus acanthias, is the most abundant shark species, and smallest in size. It only grows to about 35 inches, and tends to travel in schools segregated by sex and age. Commercial fishermen considered dogfish “trash” until the little sharks got popular in Europe for fish and chips. National Marine Fisheries Service and environmental groups became concerned about harvest increases, so restrictions took effect in 2000, cutting the take from about 40 million pounds per year to four million pounds. North Carolina fishermen, who had been the second largest harvestor of dogfish, were cut out from the fishery entirely because Massachusetts caught the entire year’s quota before the dogfish appeared in NC waters. Then in 2003 the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission divided the quota between the north and the south, giving Tarheel fishermen a shot at 2 million pounds. Trouble was, the dividing line was established below Massachusettes, making the “southern” region Rhode Island to Florida! And setting the quota so low increased the amount of discarded dogfish, caught as bycatch to gray trout, croaker, etc. Last year scientists calculated that in addition to the four million pounds of dogfish that were landed, a whopping 19 million pounds were tossed overboard, about half of which were dead! “Wasting fish is not conservation,” said fish dealer Willie Etheridge of Wanchese. “Increase the quota so we can at least utilize our bycatch!” Fishermen report a burgeoning population of dogfish since the quota was set, making it hard to avoid the little sharks. Scientists, however, say stocks aren’t projected to recover for another 23 years. Fishermen fear that the discard problem will be addressed not by allowing them to keep dead dogfish, but by shutting down all the other fisheries that result in dogfish bycatch. “Meanwhile we’re losing our industry’s chance to harvest these fish to Canada,” said NC fish processor and fisheries commissioner Tilman Gray. “It makes no sense.” The latest twist in the dogfish saga is a permit fiasco. Tarheel fishermen can land 2,000 pounds of dogfish per day in North Carolina during the winter season only by cancelling their federal permit which limits them to 300 pounds. After the season, NMFS invites them to reapply for their federal permit. “North Carolina has to step up and do something!” said Gray. Either fight for equity and non-waste of the resource, or issue straight-jackets to the fishermen, because dogfish management is driving them crazy! Signing off for now, Barbara “Fish Doctor” Blake
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Looking for somewhere to take family, friends or colleagues for a fun yet active trip out? At AMF Bowling we offer a safe and exciting environment for kids and adults alike with bumpers and ramps for younger members, plus a range of fun filled activities for older children and adults. Bowling has never been so fun!
More Info Balamory
Tobermory with it's colourful waterfront was chosen by the BBC as the location of the popular children's television series Balamory. The houses are situated in Tobermory apart from Archie's Castle which is now a hotel called Fenton Tower in North Berwick and the Nursery shots were taken in Glasgow. Please note that Josie Jump's House is a...
More Info Barshaw Park
In the early years of the 20th century, Paisley Burgh Council was looking for a site for a park which would be suitable for use by the public for recreational purposes. Extensive grounds at Barshaw, which covered some 55 acres, were bought from the Arthur family in December 1911. The Arthur family was well known in Paisley and owned several firms...
More Info Belziehill Farm - Bellshill
FUN FACTORY (Indoor Play Building) OPENING TIMES Sunday - Thursday 12noon - 8pm. Friday & Saturday 12noon - 9pm. TOTS TIME Friday 10am - 12mn. PARTY PACKAGES Please ring for details on party packages. Private parties with exclusive use of fun house are available. CHARGES Playtime £2.00 per child per hour. Tots Time £2.00 per...
More Info Benmore Botanic Garden
In a magnificent mountainside setting on the Cowal Peninsula lies Benmore, an enchanting Garden steeped in history and surrounded by dramatic scenery. Benmore’s 120 acres boast over 300 species of rhododendron; Bhutanese and Chilean plantings and a spectacular avenue of Giant Redwoods.
More Info Bilcos Adventure Play - Hamilton
If you like slides then you'll love Bilcos. They have three great slides, all of them different. Dare you try the drop slide, or get dizzy on out helter skelter. Bring a friend and challenge them to a race on the wave slide. If you take a break from sliding, dodging, bouncing, squeezing, climbing or swinging, why not test your skills with the air...
More Info Bothwell Castle
Bothwell is Scotland’s largest and finest 13th century castle. Part of the original circular keep survives. Location At Uddingston off the B7071. Region - Glasgow, Clyde and Ayrshire. Grid reference NS 688593. Postcode G71 8BL. Cycle Routes - Site on the National Cycle Network Public Transport By bus - Take bus no 255 from...
More Info Braehead Bowlplex
It’s hard to find things to entertain the whole family, especially if you have toddlers, stroppy teens and Grandma and Granddad to consider as well. The problem is, teens like gaming and eating, toddlers like places like Cheeky Charlie’s Fun House and Play Wear, and Grandma and Granddad would rather just spend time with the family....
More Info Broadwood Stadium - Cumbernauld
A new £9m sports and leisure facility has opened at the Broadwood stadium in Cumbernauld. The leisure centre has a state of the art gym overlooking the football pitch, fitness studios and sports hall. The new facility will be a venue for next summer's International Children's Games, which will see over 1,500 young people come to...
More Info Brodick Castle
Features Native woodlands with a superb network of trails A stunning castle with a superb history and stunning collections of art, furniture, silver and more. Dramatic gorges with water-carved shapes in the rocks About the property Brodick Castle and Country Park is unique in being the only island country park in Britain. The Castle...
More Info Buchanan Gate - Glasgow
FUN FACTORY (Indoor Play Building) OPENING TIMES Sunday - Thursday 12noon - 8pm. Friday & Saturday 12noon - 9pm. PARTY PACKAGES Please ring for details on party packages. Private parties with exclusive use of fun house are available. CHARGES Daily £2.00 per child per hour. ...
More Info Cafe Ceramico
Cafe Ceramico is a family run, family oriented, creative environment for ceramic painting. Alongside the pottery painting we have a free soft play area and a cafe serving tea, coffee, snacks and light lunches. We also provide birthday parties, craft classes and ceramics tuition both in house and to local council and other...
More Info Calderglen Country Park
Calderglen's scenic landscape and range of facilities and services promise to make the park a great family day out with lots of fun things to do. The main visitor attractions and facilities are centred around the historic Torrance House which hosts a visitor centre and a great little shop packed full of gifts and goodies. Also at Torrance House is...
More Info Castle House Museum
The Museum was set up through the enthusiasm and vision of the late Arthur Allan. It is operated by a Trust and is a Registered Charity. A recent legacy from Miss Josephine Bennett, a founder member, has allowed the Trust to extend the range of exhibits and develop its service to the local community. The first venture was a limited exhibition,...
More Info Chatelherault Country Park
Chatelherault Country Park, a five star visitor attraction under the Visit Scotland grading scheme, has been described as a Jewel in the Landscape. Exhibitions gallery, displays, gift shop, cafe, walks and wildlife, children's playground.
More Info Cheeky Monkees Softplay - Clyde Valley
Cheeky Monkees is a soft play area for children of all ages. As well as the 3 level main play area there is a separate toddler’s area. There are various slides, ball pits and climbing nets and at the top there are air cannons so that you can fire foam balls at your fellow adventurers! While your children play in safety you can sit back watch...
More Info Citadel Leisure Centre
The Citadel Leisure Centre is a multi activity sports and entertainments facility. The Main Hall (34m x 27m) can be used for a variety of sports including football, basketball, badminton, hockey and netball. The flexibility of this space also makes it ideal for conferences, trade events and concerts. Swimming Facilities at the Citadel...
More Info Climbzone Xscape - Glasgow
Xscape Braehead houses one of the largest freestanding climbing walls in the UK! With over sixty roped 10 metre high climbs of varying difficulty, Climbzone is the ideal place to take your first steps into the vertical world. Our experienced instructors will ensure your safety, leaving you free to concentrate on the climbing! Suitable for...
More Info Craft Daft
You pay a £4.00 Studio Fee (£3.50 at boat) which covers the cost of paint, brushes, bottom on seat then choose the piece you wish to paint, make or decorate and add this to your Studio Fee. (pieces start at 50p) Sessions last for up to 2 hours and hot & cold drinks and snacks are always on sale. Both our studios offer drop in...
More Info Craignethan Castle
An important early artillery fortification with an exceptional residential tower and fine setting, Craignethan dates back to around 1530. The oldest part is the tower house built by Sir James Hamilton of Finnart, and the castle’s defences include a caponier, a stone vaulted artillery chamber, which is unique in Britain. The castle sits in...
More Info Creepy Crawlies - Irvine
Indoor adventure play area bursting with creepy crawlie fun. Multi level indoor soft play is a clean, safe and colourful environment provided for physical family fun and children's parties. Located within Irvine town centre, we are only minutes from the main bus route and offer ample free car parking. This exciting new addition to our indoor...
More Info Dean Castle Country Park
Dean Castle Country Park is a fantastic free day out for all the family. The country park, covering over 200 acres, is nestled in the heart of Kilmarnock and offers something for the whole family to enjoy. The Country Park boasts beautiful woodland walks, and a fantastic 14th century castle, currently undergoing restoration. You can explore the...
More Info Dip 'n Doodle
Dip 'n Doodle 6 Gallowgate Lane Largs Strathclyde KA30 8BE Telephone: 01475689728
More Info Dollan Aqua Centre - Glasgow
Following a multi-million pound refurbishment, East Kilbride's well known and much loved Dollan Aqua Centre re-opened its doors on Saturday 28 May 2011. The Dollan Aqua Centre, built in 1968 and extended in 1994, is one of the Council's key strategic leisure assets and is operated on behalf of the Council by South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture....
More Info Drumpellier Country Park
Situated within North Lanarkshire, to the west of Coatbridge and east of Glasgow, the park was formerly a private estate. The land was given over to the Burgh for use as a public park in 1919, and was designated as a country park in 1984. The main entrance to the park is from Townhead Road, Coatbridge and the Visitor Centre is located here,...
More Info Duart Castle
One of the most spectacular and unique sites on the West Coast of Scotland, the position of Duart was well chosen. The castle stands on a crag at the end of the peninsular jutting out into the Sound of Mull at the intersection of the sound of Mull, Loch Linne and the Firth of Lorne and within view of the neighbouring castles of Dunstaffnage,...
More Info Dundonald Castle
Dundonald Castle is one of those monuments to our history that is testimony not only to the past toil and skills of the locals but to those of its present neighbours. Dundonald Castle is in its own renaissance period. The castle has been transformed over the past ten years and more into one of the must visit attractions in Ayrshire. Situated on...
More Info East Kilbride Ice Rink - Glasgow
General skating Learn to skate Curling 50+ skaters session Friday freeze
More Info Eglinton Country Park
Spring, summer, autumn and winter, the beauty of Eglinton Country Park is on your doorstep. Eglinton Country Park gives you the space and freedom to enjoy a wide range of pursuits. There are tranquil country pursuits, walking, horse riding, fishing on the lochside or simply watching the world go by. Or there's a full programme of organized...
More Info Elderslie Swimming Pool
Elderslie Leisure Centre A small 25 metre pool which offers a range of leisure services with a great community atmosphere. Ideal for all age groups. As well as the pool, the centre also has its own Sauna and Dance Studio and is only a 5-minute drive from Johnstone. Elderslie Leisure Centre has ample parking and is situated within the small...
More Info Erskine Community Sports Centre
Erskine Community Sports Centre This excellent modern community sports centre offers a multi sports surface 4 court main hall, dance studio and meeting room as well as a magnificent well appointed function suite with unrestricted view over the Clyde and caters for a range of social functions from weddings to corporate entertainment. Erskine...
More Info Erskine Swimming Pool
Erskine Swimming Pool A 25m community pool nick named the ‘Friendly Pool’ by the local population. Erskine pool has been designed with a deep water area in the middle and shallow water at both ends. The leisure centre also offers sauna facilities. With easy access from Glasgow via the Erskine Bridge the pool has ample parking and is...
More Info Falls of Clyde Wildlife Reserve
Located within the World Heritage Site of New Lanark, the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s fun four-star Visitor Centre allows people of all ages to learn more about the Falls of Clyde waterfalls, woodlands and the animals that live there. Highlights include: The Peregrine Experience - watch live footage of nesting peregrines ...
More Info Funky Monkeys Indoor Play - Coatbridge - Glasgow
Funky Monkeys welcome you to the jungle of fun activities in our indoor soft play centre. Explore a jungle kingdom of climbing frames, ropes, slides and soft obstacles for kids up to the age of 8 (and under 4ft 5”) and parents alike. Play Let your imagination run wild when visiting funky Suzie at her house, racing the ride-ons at...
More Info Funworld Leisure Play Centre
Our indoor Family Entertainment Centre is one of the largest in Scotland and packed full of fun for everyone. Parents can join their children on the giant Pirate ship ‘The Giggling Racara’ and whiz down the 4 lane astro slide or try out their target practice with the air cannons. We also have the UK's first inflatable Superclimb which...
More Info FUZZY ED'S @ Bobbin Mill - Paisley
FUZZY ED'S FUN HOUSE Come and meet the Fuzzoids (Indoor Play Building - for children up to 4ft tall) OPENING TIMES Sunday - Thursday 11am - 7pm. Friday & Saturday 11am - 8pm. Last admissions 1 hour before closing time. PARTY PACKAGES Party packages available. Please ring for details....
More Info Galleon Centre
As well as providing facilities for swimming it houses an ice rink, bowling hall, two sports halls, squash courts, a sauna/solarium suite, a superb fitness room and two bars. It is therefore a complex for the whole family to enjoy.
More Info Garscube Playrooms - Glasgow
The “Place to Play” for any parent or carer with a child under five. Open 5 days a week Mon - Fri , we offer activities to suit babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers, in a great friendly atmosphere. Our three big bright play rooms open from 10am – 3.30pm mean you can drop in and play at a time that fits in with your...
More Info Geronimos Indoor Soft Play Centre - Glasgow
Sunday - Wednesday 11AM - 6PM (please call to check) Thursday - Friday 10AM - 8PM (please call to check) Saturday 10am - 8pm (please call to check) Toddler Sessions Monday - Friday 11AM - 3PM After School £4.20 for 2 hours play (From 3PM) Weekends and Holidays £4.20 for 2 hours play Toddler Sessions £3.20 unlimited play (10AM -...
More Info Glasgow Fort Creche
Big Adventure Play Stucture, Ball Pool and Slide, Interactive Electronics, Non Violent PlayStation & PC Games, Toys, Games, Playdough, Home Corner and many other activities to keep your young minds active, giving your Mum and Dad the time to get on with their shopping in peace, knowing that you are having fun.
More Info Glasgow RIB Cruises
Exhilarating informative wildlife and thrill boat trips on our offshore RIBS (Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats). Experience Argyll, the Clyde and the beautiful isles of Cumbrea, Bute and Arran. Breathtaking scenery, unique history and abundant wildlife - seek out Basking Sharks, Seals, Dolphins, Porpoises, Otters, Sea-Eagles and majestic seabirds in...
More Info Glasgow Science Centre
Glasgow Science Centre is one of Scotland's must-see visitor attractions - presenting concepts of science and technology in unique and inspiring ways. Glasgow Science Centre is an independent Scottish Charity (SCO30809) the aims of which are: To create interactive experiences that inspire, challenge and engage to increase awareness of...
More Info Glasgow Ski and Snowboard Centre
Glasgow Ski & Snowboard Centre is the place to ski and board in the West of Scotland. In Bellahouston Park, only minutes away from central Glasgow, you will find a club with four modern floodlit dry slopes, unrivalled instruction, and snowsport activities for every taste.
More Info Glasgow Transport Museum
The Riverside Museum: Scotland’s Museums of Transport and Travel is now open. Glasgow’s well-loved Museum of Transport has relocated to this spectacular waterfront landmark that was designed by internationally-renowned architect, Zaha Hadid. The Riverside Museum is her first major public building in the...
More Info Gleniffer Braes Country Park
The country park lies to the south of the town of Paisley on the Gleniffer and Brownside Braes. It is approximately 480 acres in area, three miles long and one mile wide. It is an upland park, mainly of moorland but it also has woodland parts and hill farming areas. Cattle are used in the Country Park to control the vegetation, preserve...
More Info Hamilton Water Palace
Since opening in 1995 Hamilton Water Palace has become South Lanarkshire Leisure's most popular swimming pool boasting an average of over 1,000 visits a day. The centre's swimming facilities range from a 25m competition pool to leisure waters containing a flume, lazy river, tyre slide and uniquely a shallow under 8's pool boasting an impressive...
More Info Happy Days Adventure Play - East Kilbride
The UK’s highest indoor slide, Drive In cinema, Baby Park and quality restaurant. All under the same roof as EKPark – Scotland’s most exciting indoor skatepark. Situated in East Kilbride at Playsport – a brand new multi-sport leisure complex with 9 hole tribute golf course, 51 bay driving range, 5-a-side football and...
More Info Heads of Ayr Park
At Heads of Ayr Farm Park - whatever the weather - you'll find plenty to see and do, with activities for all ages. We've almost 50 different types of animal, each with its own particular charm. Meet them, touch them, feed them! And You could play all day at our farm park. It's packed with fantastic activities like indoor and outdoor play areas, an...
More Info Inveraray Jail
Inveraray Jail is a living museum and top Scottish visitor attraction where real people portray life in a 19th century prison. Interact with costumed characters, watch courtroom trials, talk to the prisoners, meet the Warder, go to jail and witness cell life, sample the punishments, browse the exhibition of prison artefacts, then make your...
More Info James Hamilton Heritage Park
James Hamilton Heritage Park is a 4 Star Visit Scotland accredited activity centre. The park features a 16 acre loch which provides beautiful and tranquil suroundings for our exciting range of water sports, from canoeing to windsurfing. Taster sessions are available so that you can get a feel for various water sports and both junior and adult...
More Info Johnstone Swimming Pool
Johnstone Swimming Pool A traditional 25 metre pool, the deepest pool in Renfrewshire with a depth of 3 meters. Johnstone Swimming Pool offers a separate learner’s pool as well as the main pool and is the main swimming competition venue within Renfrewshire Leisure as home of the REN 96 Swim Club. The centre also offers its own Gym. The...
More Info Junglee Fun Play Centre - Uddingston
Junglee Fun Play Centre 71/73 Old Mill Road Uddingston Strathclyde G71 7PF Telephone: 01698 811301
More Info Jurassic Jungle - Glasgow
Jurassic Jungle is Glasgow's amazing Indoor Adventure Soft Play Centre. Unique dinosaur themed environment Giant Soft Play frame for children from 3 - 12 years old Separate Toddler's Soft Play frame for the under 3's Modern 'Jungle Cafe' offering a relaxing place for parents to catch up while their children enjoy their play Open 10am - 6pm daily.
More Info Kelburn Castle & Country Centre
The family home of the Earls of Glasgow, Kelburn has long been an inspiration for adults and a paradise for children. The castle, dating back to the 13th century, still lived in by the present Earl and family, is open to the public in July and August and provides an impressive background to exotic gardens, famous trees and many features of...
More Info KID'Z PLAY
Kid'z Play is a purpose built jungle theme indoor play centre for children. Let your child's imagination run riot on the snake slides, tube slides, activity towers, ball pool and soft play area for toddlers. Equipment that lets your child play in safety while you watch from the comfort of our cafe. Just arrive, let the kids go, sit down and relax...
More Info Kilchurn Castle
Colin Campbell, 1st of Glenorchy. Much enlarged in 1693 it incorporates the first purpose built barracks in Scotland. The substantial ruins are some of the most picturesque in the country with spectacular views down Loch Awe. Open summer only. Regular sailings to Kilchurn by steamer from Loch Awe Pier.
More Info Lagoon Leisure Centre
Lagoon Leisure Centre The Lagoon Leisure Centre is the Flagship Centre of Renfrewshire Leisure, and offers activities to suit everyone! At its heart is a free form Leisure Pool with an area for lane swimming and it boasts the only wave machine and flume within the Renfrewshire area. The centre also has a recently enhanced Fitness Suite with...
More Info Lamont City Farm
Lamont City Farm is a vibrant community project located in Erskine, Renfrewshire. Our farmyard opens 7 days a week, 10.30am to 4.30pm summer, and 11.00am to 3.30pm winter. At Lamont Farm, you can meet a wide variety of domesticated animals, including sheep, goats, horses, ducks, hens, llamas and rabbits. We have a tea room and shop for your...
More Info Lazer Planet Ultimate Laser Tag - Glasgow
Lazer Planet Ultimate Laser Tag ScotKart Indoor Kart Racing 33 John Knox St Clydebank Glasgow Strathclyde G81 1NA Telephone: 0141 641 0222 Option 2
More Info Linwood Sports Centre
Linwood Sports Centre Linwood Sports Centre is one of the most diverse sports centres within Renfrewshire Leisure with an activity list ranging from badminton and football to athletics and basketball. With two 4 court multi sports indoor halls with a large capacity for seating as well as outdoor floodlight Tennis Courts, Floodlight Astro-Turf...
More Info Loch Lomond Bird Of Prey Centre
Loch Lomond Bird of Prey Centre is located within the boundaries of the first National Park in Scotland, Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park. The centre is just 30 minute drive from Glasgow, easily reached by car, bus, or train. So, if you are looking for a Bird of Prey encounter, why not come along and spend a few hours in the company...
More Info Lochranza Castle
A fine tower house, probably a 16th-century reconstruction of an earlier building.
More Info Magnum Leisure Centre
Harbourside Irvine KA12 8PP Tel: 01294 278381 K:A Studio: 01294 317468 Download Leisure Guide Facility Opening Times Monday 9.00am – 9.00pm Tuesday 9.00am – 9.00pm Wednesday 9.00am – 9.00pm Thursday 9.00am – 9.00pm Friday 9.00am – 9.00pm Saturday 9.00am – 5.00pm Sunday 9.00am – 5.00pm N.B. The Magnum...
More Info MandD's Scotland's Theme Park - Motherwell
With 5 terrifying white-knuckle rides, over 20 kids' rides, 18 hole miniature golf, 'glow in the dark' indoor bowling, a massive indoor complex including a gigantic soft play area, bars and restaurants and My Pawfect Bear Factory. You can also discover AMAZONIA, Scotland's only indoor tropical rainforest packed with exotic animals, birds and...
More Info McMaster Sports Centre
McMaster Sports Centre A small community indoor sports hall with grassed football park, the McMaster Centre offers a venue for sports services and activities to meet the need of the local population. For details contact Linwood Sports Complex. McMaster Sports Centre currently runs 5 different activities.
More Info Monkey Madness - Clydebank
We are an established premium play centre who have been in the area for twelve years. We have an impeccable safety record. The kids experience two hours of fun activities which can be extended using our special deals. Adults and children can enjoy our selection of home made food and snacks, we also have a delicious selection of home baked cakes...
More Info Monkton Lodge - Prestwick
FUN FACTORY (Indoor Play Building) OPENING TIMES Monday - Thursday 12noon - 8pm. Friday -Sunday 12noon - 9pm. PARTY PACKAGES Please ring for details on party packages.Private parties with exclusive use of fun house are available. CHARGES £2.00 per child per hour Having an indoor...
More Info Mugdock Country Park - Glasgow
Mugdock Country Park is a country park and historical site located partly in East Dunbartonshire and partly in Stirling, in the former county of Stirlingshire, Scotland. It is to the north of Glasgow, next to Milngavie. The park includes the remains of the 14th-century Mugdock Castle, stronghold of the Grahams of Montrose, and the ruins of...
More Info National Sea Life Centre Balloch
As well as helping millions of people to discover the marvels of the marine world the SEA LIFE network has an important role to play in helping safeguard our seas and their inhabitants for the future. As well as fostering conservation through enhanced awareness, SEA LIFE regularly makes a more direct contribution towards conservation and marine...
More Info New Lanark Mills World Heritage Site
Welcome to the website for New Lanark World Heritage Site, a beautifully restored 18th century cotton mill village in Southern Scotland, close to the Falls of Clyde and less than an hour from Edinburgh and Glasgow. On this website you will find details of our award-winning Visitor Centre and Hotel in the village, which is one of Scotland's top...
More Info North Ayrshire Heritage Centre
Built in 1776, the former parish church in Saltcoats, houses our principal museum collection. With an artefact collection of local, regional and national importance, many objects are displayed on a permanent basis along with regularly changing temporary exhibitions. The collection includes: a stone sarcophagus, thought to be one of the finest...
More Info Palacerigg Country Park
Set in the hills to the south-east of Cumbernauld, Palacerigg Country Park is well signposted from the town centre road network. It is less than half an hour's drive from Glasgow, Motherwell, Stirling or Falkirk. Established in the early 1970's, Palacerigg has been developed around the objectives of conservation, environmental education and...
More Info Pandamonium Play Centre - Erskine
Pandamonium Play Centre is the newest family entertainment centre in the West of Scotland following our launch in November 2012. All housed under the one roof we have a state of the art soft play area, Little Pandas Children’s Nursery and Alan Thomas Hair and Beauty Salon! The soft play area is split in to two designated areas – a...
More Info Peel Park - East Kilbride
FUN HOUSE - Indoor Play Building for children up to 4ft 9ins tall OPENING TIMES Daily 10am - 8pm (last admissions 7pm). PARTY PACKAGES Range of Party Packages with exclusive parties available Saturday & Sunday 9am - 11am. CHARGES Unlimited Play £2.50 + £1.00 additional...
More Info Pirate Pete's Playcentre
The activity centre has been established since 2004. There is plenty to see and do whatever the weather. We have Scotland’s biggest indoor adventure play, Scotland’s first mini championship putting course. A traditional seafront tearoom and kids outdoor funpark. All you need for a great family day out rain or shine.
More Info Pollok Country Park - Glasgow
The Park is Glasgow’s largest park and the only Country Park within Glasgow. Its extensive woodlands and gardens provide a quiet sanctuary for both visitors and wildlife.
More Info Rainforest Adventure
Rainforest Adventure is an exciting new indoor soft play centre for children. Rainforest Adventure provides a completely unique experience for children and parents. Delve into the rainforest with its state of the art play facilities, comfortable seating, excellent restaurant serving hot and cold drinks, snacks and delicious meals. Facilities...
More Info Rainforest Adventure - East Kilbride
Welcome to Rainforest Adventure, we are an exciting indoor soft play centre for children, based in East Kilbride, Central Scotland. Rainforest Adventure EK provides a completely unique experience for children and parents. Delve into the jungle with its state of the art play facilities, comfortable seating, excellent restaurant serving hot...
More Info Renfrew Leisure Centre
Renfrew Leisure Centre This excellent new sports facility opened its doors to the public in June 2004 and has become hugely popular with the people of Renfrew thanks to its range of programmes offering sport and leisure opportunities to suit every age and ability. The centre offers a 4 court multi purpose sports hall flexible to host a wide...
More Info Renfrew Victory Baths
Renfrew Victory Baths Renfrew Victory Baths is an Edwardian 25 yard pool with a great sense of history and tradition. Just being in the pool can experience this history. ‘Dip back in time’ with the baths old style 1920’s layout of cubicles around the pool, arched doorways, memorabilia and viewing gallery. The pool has a great...
More Info Rothesay Castle
Built to an unusual circular plan, Rothesay Castle had a long and close association with the Stewart Kings of Scotland. Location In Rothesay, Isle of Bute. Ferry from Wemyss Bay on the A78. Region - Glasgow, Clyde and Ayrshire. Grid reference NS 088645 Post code PA20 0DA. Cycle Routes - Site on the National Cycle Network ...
More Info Runamok Softplay - Glasgow
The play area is equipped with an uniquely "jungle" themed play frame. We have a wave slide, a giraffe slide, ball pool, climbing frame, monkey cargo nets and a fantastic sports court that allow you to play football and basketball. There is also a dedicated area for toddlers with a mini slide, climbing frame and interactive...
More Info Scottish Maritime Museum - Denny Ship Model
A maritime museum where you can see the world first commercial ship model experiment tank, enter a ship designers office and find out how to design your own ship, take a guided tour of the building, test different hull designs in the mini experiment tank with its own wave making machine and try smoothing and carving a real wax hull model. ...
More Info Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre - Glasgow
Our building is a mini cultural complex with studio theatre (100 seats), foyer, standing exhibition of masks and puppets from around the world, cafe, shop, box office, seminar room with extensive library and audio-visual collection, office complex with archive and documentation section, guest rooms, textile studio, and production and design...
More Info Sea Life Surveys
Sea Life Surveys, established over twenty five years ago in 1982, was the first and is now the most experienced whale watching, porpoise, shark and dolphin watching, marine survey, and education programme in the UK. Establishing the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust in 1992, Sea Life Surveys is still actively conducting a research programme...
More Info Sma Shott Cottages
The Sma' Shot Cottage complex is unique in Scotland, providing visitors with the opportunity to see two distinct periods in Paisley's weaving history. From Shuttle Street you will enter the Weaver's Cottage and be transported back in time by nearly 250 years. After Experiencing life in the late 1700's you will cross a yard behind the cottage...
More Info Sox And Slides Indoor Playcentre
We take pride in the fact that we are one of the very few play centres in the UK that own their own ball-pool cleaning machine. We aim to clean the pools every two weeks. This, of course, may be more often depending on how busy we are, e.g. holiday weekends etc.
More Info Summerlee Heritage Park
The Summerlee Heritage park is a museum of social and Industrial history. "The aim of the Museum is to preserve and interpret the history of the local Iron, Steel, Coal and engineering industries and of the communities that depended on them for a living"
More Info The Big Adventure - Paisley
With five levels of slides, climbs, tubes and spinners, THE BIG ADVENTURE is the ultimate fun experience and will test your skills to the limit.
More Info The Bubbles Factory - Carluke
Welcome to the Bubbles Factory indoor soft play and cafe where you'll be fascinated and flabbergasted by the fun on offer for families & friends! At The Bubbles Factory we are committed to providing an outstanding experience. Our state of the art, purpose built building and children's play frames provide a stimulating, safe and...
More Info The Cotton Mill
From the beer garden of this traditional Brewers Fayre pub we overlook a green field - a pleasant place to sit and have a drink while the children play in the outdoor play area.
More Info The Culzean Experience
Culzean is one of Scotland's best loved Castles, offering something for everyone to enjoy. Situated on the South Ayrshire coast, just off the A719, Culzean Castle is located 12 miles south of Ayr and 4 miles west of Maybole. Culzean is one of Scotland's best loved Castles, offering something for everyone to enjoy. Situated on the South...
More Info The Glasgow Police Museum
The Glasgow Police Museum provides an insight into the people, events and other factors which contributed to the founding, development and progress of Britain's first Police force, the City of Glasgow Police from 1779-1975. Also included is an International Police display of uniforms, headgear and insignia from EVERY country in the World. Entry...
More Info The Hunters - Glasgow
Set on the edge of a residential area we are in a fantastic location only 100 yards from the Scottish Museum of Country Life, close to the James Watt Heritage Park and a mile from Kings Gate Retail Park. The Heritage Park has water sports, ducks and walks making an ideal option for burning off one of our hearty meals!
More Info The Meadow Leisure Centre
Situated on Dumbarton Common, right next to Dumbarton Central railway station and just a few minutes walk from Dumbarton's main shopping area. The Meadow Centre complex offers a wide range of facilities and activities for all age groups, including a large leisure pool, complete with wave machine and a water slide. We have an eight badminton court...
More Info The Observatory
Gifted to the people of Paisley by Thomas Coats and designed by Glasgow Architect John Honeyman, Coats Observatory opened in 1883 and has been welcoming everyone with an interest in astronomy ever since. The observatory also has a planetarium which gives visitors a tour of the night sky without having to leave the comfort of their chair. Coats...
More Info The Peoples Palace - Glasgow
The People’s Palace tells the? story of Glasgow and its people The People’s Palace, set in historic Glasgow Green, tells the story of the people and city of Glasgow from 1750 to the end of the 20th century. Explore the city’s social history through a wealth of historic artefacts, paintings, prints and...
More Info The Play Drome
Welcome to the Play Drome, a major leisure facility in the centre of Clydebank. Located next to Clydebank Shopping Centre and Clydebank Central railway station, we are only 20 minutes from the centre of Glasgow and just 10 minutes from the Erskine Bridge. The Play Drome boasts the largest leisure pool in the north of Glasgow area, complete...
More Info The Scot's Bonnet
The restaurant has a deck for enjoying fine weather and external kids play area but if the weather is less friendly then younger children can have fun in the tots TV room (for pre school kids).
More Info The Scottish Maritime Museum
Scotland's influence on the maritime history of the world from the eighteenth century to the modern day has been enormous and out of all proportion to the size of the Country. The three sites operated by the Scottish Maritime Museum contain the exhibitions and collections that tell the story of that great maritime tradition. On two of the sites...
More Info The Scottish Sealife Sanctuary
Nestling in a mature spruce forest on the shores of beautiful Loch Creran the Scottish Sealife Sanctuary enjoys one of the most picturesque settings in Britain, and is home to some of the UK's most enchanting marine creatures. In crystal clear waters you can explore over 30 fascinating natural marine habitats containing everything from Octopus to...
More Info The Time Capsule
The Time Capsule Monklands Trust Limited is the brainchild of the former Monklands District Council and represented the local authority's commitment to developing tourism in the region. The Time Capsule was designed by architects from Limbrick Grayson Associates and is one of Scotland's most prestigious leisure facilities, and located...
More Info The Zone
The Zone is a unique family entertainment centre offering 3 great activities. With Lasertag, Softplay and Trampolines all under one roof, we offer a great place to come and play or party for a wide age range. Our customers include birthday parties, school outings, groups of friends, youth club events, corporate groups, families, and...
More Info Tollcross Park and Leisure Centre & Farm
Park with Glen Nature Walk, Childrens Farm and Courtyard Visitor Centre plus an adjacent Leisure Centre which has a state-of-the-art pool, baby splash pool and cafe. Tollcross Park (37 hectares/91 acres) is internationally famous for its unique Rose Garden and impressive Winter Gardens. The park has many hidden gems including the Glen Nature...
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A visit to Torosay Castle and Gardens set on the magnificent Island of Mull is an experience not to be missed. We welcome you to a place whose beauty we hope to preserve for future generations, and we invite you to share in its delights with us.
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The Vale of Leven Swimming Pool has had many improvements to meet the ever changing leisure requirements of our customers. The pool, located close to the Vale of Leven Hospital and the popular Lomond Galleries, provides much more than swimming in its 25 metre competition and teaching pools. The 'dance studio' is the venue for the centre's...
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Vikingar! is located on Greenock Road, across from the seafront, towards the north end of the Prom. The main attraction is the Viking Experience, which has interactive exhibits with storytellers telling Viking tales and myths, and a 20 minute film about Vikings. LEISURE FACILITIES Barrfields Theatre See Entertainment...
More Info Waterfront Leisure Complex
The Waterfront Leisure Complex is ideal to get away from it all. Come along and enjoy a great day out with the whole family. A leisure centre with a unique combination of water and ice. With everything from a 25metre training pool to a tropical wave pool and ice disco.
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Whale Of A Time Indoor Playcentre 1273 Pollokshaws Road Shawlands Glasgow Strathclyde G41 3RR Telephone: 0141 649 5455
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Come and visit our wonderful Hawks, Eagles, Owls, Falcons and other exotics at Scotland’s largest and most extensive Bird’s of Prey collection. World of Wings situated in the village of Luggiebank just on the outskirts of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, and easily accessible from Glasgow, Stirling, Falkirk and Edinburgh. Our...
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Olympic theme highlighted at 2020 'Meet in Beijing' int'l arts festival
Chinaculture.org | Updated: 2020-01-09 15:14
Chinese and Japanese musicians perform under the baton of Japanese conductor Michiyoshi Inoue in Beijing on Jan 6, 2019. [Photo provided to Chinaculture.org]
With the chorus of Ode to Joy echoing in the concert hall of the National Center for the Performing Arts, the opening concert of the 2020 Meet in Beijing International Arts Festival reached its climax on Monday night, kicking off a month-long extravaganza of music, plays, art and cultural activities in the capital.
Through Feb 4, theatergoers and art lovers in Beijing will be exposed to more than 60 performances and three theme exhibitions presented by more than 700 artists from 12 countries and regions. From music and art exhibitions to plays, dance shows and gourmet festivals, the 20th edition of the annual "Meet in Beijing" event will have classical and contemporary cultural elements, as well as Olympic-themed activities, on offer.
The opening concert was jointly staged by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and Tokyo Opera Singers. Under the baton of Japanese conductor Michiyoshi Inoue, Chinese tenor Shi Yijie, Chinese mezzo-soprano Zhu Huiling, Japanese baritone Takaoki Onishi and Japanese soprano Eri Takahashi joined together to perform the choral finale. Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No 9 was one of the masterworks played at the concert to celebrate Beethoven's 250th birthday.
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Kickstart The Week: Kickstarter Board Game Night!
Saturday night we played 3 games that originated on Kickstarter, 2 of which are still going strong.
We started out with what we thought would be a light game of a print-and-play version of For The Win, then jumped right into a game of last year's hugely successful Dice Hate Me game Carnival, and then closed the night by destroying each others crops in our pre-release version of Farmageddon.
Click through the jump for the full recap:
With about 40 hours left of it's Kickstarter campaign, For The Win has definitely accomplished one major thing… it has people talking about it. Whether it's an online review of the print-and-play version (nice touch!) or it's people praising/complaining about Tasty Minstrel's Kickstarter strategy of basically giving the game away for free, but not giving away twice as much for free, this game has been a huge topic of discussion over the past two weeks. It's just under $25,000 and at this rate, should hit that mark before the campaign ends.
I've played this game twice before, <a href="http://www.fruitlesspursuits.com/2012/01/for-win-tasty-minstrel.html">but both times it was over a webcam</a>… so it wasn't the exact same experience as you would get playing in person. Over the internet you not only had to focus on taking your turns, but there was also the challenge of taking your opponents turns and paying enough attention to everything just to make sure the process works.
In person, I was able to forget about all of that. Did it make it less of a brain burner? Just a little. But this game is a serious thinker. You can take up to two actions (sometimes 3 if you're slick) during your turn, and there are 5 options for each of those turns. Multiply that times the pieces you have on the board, and one of those actions has 5 different choices, etc..
So there are a LOT of options, and determine which is best can be quite a challenge. It's definitely a good thing if you like that kind of game (which I do), but it's going to take lots and lots of sessions for me to really get a hang on my play style and strategy, and with every opponent this will vary so much. Here's hoping for an eventual iOS version so I can get lots of games in without the need for a human opponent.
For The Win on Kickstarter (ends February 8 at 12AM)
I sadly missed Dice Hate Me's Carnival when it was on Kickstarter (I had no money for most of 2011), but thanks to The Compleat Strategist's awesome game selection, I was able to pick up a copy at retail. Just as I opened the box, I was able to see the quality of the work involved. The graphic design is superb. A tiny but wonderfully executed detail example: The flags with white tips are removed in 2-3 player games. No need for long rules on which cards to remove, and no need for additional iconography. The rest of the package is really nice too.
The game is quick, and fun. You can push your luck with the die rolls, and use tickets to modify the dice in your favor. Lots of stealing from opponents too. I lost pretty badly, but it was a good time, so it didn't even matter.
I really regret not picking this one up on Kickstarter. The extras were real nice (sweet dice, cool wild cards, and even a mini dice game), and I can see this game coming to the table a lot in my house. Looking forward to what a 3 or 4 player game is like.
Carnival is now available at Game Salute.
January 15th was my luckiest day in years. I won two big things that day, and one was a pre-release copy of Farmageddon. It's a little different than the final game, but the form is all there. 5th Street Games and designer Grant Rodiek's Kickstarter campaign is just about a week in, and well on it's way to a success.
We played with two players, so my first impression may vary (as the rules vary just slightly), but it was a quick fun planting / screwing with your neighbor's plants game. At some points you even have to help your neighbor, but it's only because you are forced to. You draw quite a bit of cards each turn, and use a lot of them as well, but it still happens very quickly. The game was over before we knew it, and I destroyed my opponent. :)
Even though I destroyed him, this game still has a very family friendly feel to it. The card art is really nice and enjoyable, and the game is quick to learn. I'm really looking forward to the additional cards that were revealed as an overfunding goal on Kickstarter. I can see them changing the game up quite a bit. This game has so much room for growth beyond the solid initial system.
Farmageddon on Kickstarter (ends March 4 at 10:01AM)
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Novato USD | BP 1113 Community Relations
District And School Web Sites
To enhance communication with students, parents/guardians, staff, community members and the public at large, the Board of Education encourages the development and ongoing maintenance of district and school web sites on the Internet. Web sites shall support the educational vision of the district and shall be consistent with the district's plans for communications and media relations.
(cf. 0440 - District Technology Plan)
(cf. 4040 - Employee Use of Technology)
(cf. 5124 - Communication with Parents/Guardians)
(cf. 6010 - Goals and Objectives)
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The Superintendent or designee shall develop guidelines regarding the content of district and school web sites which shall include standards for the ethical and responsible use of information and technology. These guidelines shall be consistent with law, Board policy and administrative regulation.
District and school web sites shall not include content which is obscene, libelous or slanderous, or which creates a clear and present danger of inciting students to commit unlawful acts on school premises, violate school rules or substantially disrupt the school's orderly operation.
Any links to external sites shall follow the same guidelines applicable to district and school web sites.
The Superintendent or designee shall ensure that copyright laws are not violated in the use of material on district or school web sites.
(cf. 4132/4232/4332 - Publication or Creation of Materials)
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The Superintendent or designee shall ensure that web site content protects the privacy rights of students, parents/guardians, staff, Board members and other individuals.
No personal information about students or their parents/guardians, including phone numbers, home addresses or e-mail addresses, shall be published on a district or school web page. Student directory information shall not be published if parents/guardians have requested that it be withheld.
(cf. 4119.23/4219.23/4319.23 - Unauthorized Release of Confidential/Privileged Information)
(cf. 5125 - Student Records)
(cf. 5125.1 - Release of Directory Information)
Photographs of students shall be used only with written permission from the students' parents/guardians.
Home addresses or telephone numbers of staff members shall not be posted.
District and school web sites shall not post the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official without the prior written permission of that individual. (Government Code 6254.21)
No public safety officer shall be required as a condition of employment to consent to the use on the Internet of his/her photograph or identity as a public safety officer for any purpose if that officer reasonably believes that the disclosure may result in a threat, harassment, intimidation or harm to the officer or his/her family. (Government Code 3307.5)
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The Superintendent or designee may establish standards for the design of district and school web sites in order to maintain a consistent identity, professional appearance and ease of use.
Staff and students may submit materials for web site publication to the district or school webmaster who shall ensure that the content adheres to district guidelines and policies.
35182.5 Contracts for advertising
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The Secrets of Crittenden County #2
by Shelley Shepard Gray
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray continues her Secrets of Crittenden County series with The Search—a page-turning romance novel that’s tinged with mystery, set in Kentucky Amish country. One of the most popular writers of Christian romantic fiction with Amish themes—a much beloved romantic storyteller who stands alongside such notable novelists as Beverly Lewis, Wanda Brunstetter, and Cindy Woodsmall—Gray returns once more… (more)
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray continues her Secrets of Crittenden County series with The Search—a page-turning romance novel that’s tinged with mystery, set in Kentucky Amish country. One of the most popular writers of Christian romantic fiction with Amish themes—a much beloved romantic storyteller who stands alongside such notable novelists as Beverly Lewis, Wanda Brunstetter, and Cindy Woodsmall—Gray returns once more to a small devout community rocked by the murder of a young, black sheep neighbor. An unforgettable tale of romance, faith, and duty, The Search tells the story of a love that blossoms between a young woman who’s guarding shocking secrets about the victim, and the dedicated “Englisher” homicide detective who has arrived from the outside world to investigate.
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Why Dylan O’Brien is Kind of Excited for the End of ‘Teen Wolf’
September 8, 2017 Anne Catherine Demere 0
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By the end of the month, Dylan O’Brien will officially have spent six years as the quick-witted, kind-hearted sidekick on Teen Wolf. And while you might not be ready to see the last of Stiles Stilinski, Dylan is actually pretty excited to move on.
He recently told Vulture,
“I’m excited to see what comes my way, see what I’m interested in next, and just see what happens.”
He added,
“It’s good, though, to not have that safety net.”
Plus, O’Brien is probably a bit relieved to have a break. Between Teen Wolf and the Maze Runner films, his life has been a bit of a juggling act the last few years.
“I’m excited to have more balance going forward. Like, I’m not somebody I don’t think who’s going to do three or four movies a year and feel like I have to constantly pump them out.”
And he doesn’t have to be. With the pressure studios and agents put on actors to crank out project after project, it can sometimes lead to lower quality performances and films. Not to mention that with O’Brien’s accident recovery lasting well over a year, he’s not interested in doubling his IMDB credits anytime soon.
As much as we’ll miss Stiles’s endearing attempts at flirtation with Lydia and his one-liners that have the power to save sub-par Teen Wolf episodes, we can’t wait to see Dylan’s rare talent introduced to the rest of the world.
The series finale of Teen Wolf airs September 24 at 8 PM.
Anne Catherine Demere
Anne Catherine Demere is an intern with Femestella. She is almost too passionate about pop culture and the entertainment industry and she loves to write about it. One of her favorite things is when feminism and pop culture overlap. She’s either starting a new TV show or in class, there’s no in between. And those two rarely coincide.
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Smart Missile Colt Leads Way at MM Sale
A colt by first-season sire Smart Missile sold for $220,000 (US$169,605) at the Magic Millions Adelaide yearling sale March 9 in Morphettville, Australia, highlighting an opening session that saw declines in gross, average, and median.
There were 67 horses sold for total sales of $2,342,000 ($1,806,616), off 10% from last year’s opening session when 70 horses changed hands.
Average price declined 9% to $34,940 ($26,952), and median dipped 6% to $25,000 ($19,282).
The clearance rate came in at 76.2%, compared with 80% at the corresponding session in 2014
The session-topping Smart Missile colt, secured by trainer Tony McEvoy, was one of four horses to sell for six-figure prices Monday evening.
The youngster is the second foal out of the winning Dubai Destination mare Goldfinger, a half sister to Australian multiple group winner Thump. He also is the first yearling to be offered at auction by Hong Kong businessman Pan Sutong’s new South Australian operation, the former Lindsay Park Stud now known as Goldin Farms.
“I’ve looked at all of the Smart Missiles at the sales this year. I believe he’s really going to make it as a stallion,” McEvoy said of the multiple group-winning son of Fastnet Rock who stands at Arrowfield Stud.
“He throws a tremendous type—good-bodied horses, and this fellow was no exception. He’s a good walking horse—a good style of horse. I had to fight a bit to get him, but I was very pleased we got him.”
Also selling for six figures Monday was an Artie Schiller colt out of Heavenly Wonder for $100,000 ($77,157). an Al Maher colt out of Hey Rosie for $110,000 ($84,857), and a Choisir filly out of Brightlands Star for $105,000 ($81,015).
Day two of the three-day Magic Millions Adelaide yearling sale will be March 10.
Source: http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/90548/smart-missile-colt-leads-way-at-mm-sale
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Higher Wages for American Workers
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They are a preposterous political pairing: lanky Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate whose name for half a century has been synonymous with liberalism, and diminutive Grover Norquist, the anti-tax crusader who has been a much-feared enforcer of purity among conservatives.
But there the two men were Tuesday afternoon, bantering playfully as the normally dour Nader hosted Norquist at a gathering exploring areas of “convergence” between left and right.
“Contrary to libertarian philosophy, there is such a thing as a free lunch,” Nader teased, inviting Norquist to stay and eat after their joint appearance at the Carnegie Institution.
Norquist accepted. “It’s not free,” he said. “It’s just somebody else paid for it.”
Nader, 80, made some quixotic detours late in his career, most notably his third-party candidacy that very likely cost Al Gore the presidency. But in his latest venture, Nader has regained his mojo. He is seeking — and finding — conservative allies to help him with some of his favorite causes. The left could learn much from the effort, particularly how to borrow the language of the right to advance liberal causes.
Nowhere is this clearer than on the topic of raising the minimum wage. Democrats have made the argument that an increase is morally right and that the only thing standing in the way is corporate greed. That may be so, but it hasn’t won them enough Republican support to get the increase through Congress. But what if Democrats were to make a free-market argument that a higher minimum wage would shrink the federal government and reduce the welfare state?
That’s the argument Ron Unz made to Nader’s gathering. Unz, a wealthy businessman known for his 1994 Republican primary challenge to California Gov. Pete Wilson and his fight against bilingual education, has serious conservative credentials, most recently as publisher of the American Conservative magazine. But now he’s leading a ballot measure in California to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour.
“The government spends over $250 billion a year in social welfare programs aimed at the working poor,” he said, addressing the group via Skype. “If we simply made the working poor much less poor by raising their wages to a much more reasonable level, a lot of that money would be saved, probably in the range of $40 to $50 billion a year.” The $250 billion spent on welfare for the working poor, Unz said, amounts to a “massive subsidy for businesses” that are paying less than a living wage and “forcing taxpayers to make up the difference.”
But what about the Congressional Budget Office study this year predicting that increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 would cost 500,000 workers their jobs? Actually, Unz argued, the study found that 98 percent of minimum-wage workers would benefit from a wage increase, while only 2 percent would lose their jobs. Further, he said, the higher minimum wage would mean a reduction in Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” — those who, Romney said, won’t consider voting Republican because they don’t pay income taxes — as these new taxpayers become “open to a traditional Republican conservative economic message.”
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