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Stavanger Breast Cancer Research Group
Stavanger Breast Cancer Research Group (FFB) is assembled across departmental borders, but along the treatment trajectory of the breast cancer patients. The following research fields are represented: molecular biology, pathology, radiology, medical oncology, breast and endocrine surgery, plastic surgery, nursing researcher, patient representatives and medical humaniora (cultural studies researcher). Together, we create the pillars of the group’s motto: From molecule to the whole human being.
Our goal is to diminish over –and under treatment of breast cancer patients by improving diagnostics through a combination of fundamental and translational research. At the Department of Pathology most studies are based upon the archive material from breast cancer patients diagnosed between 1989- 2004. These studies include a combination of classical pathology with digital quantitative immunohistochemistry and molecular biology. At Department of Hematology and Oncology, the translational research was initially focusing on minimal residual disease in bone marrow of early breast cancer patients, and in this patient cohort we now have a median follow-up of 12.5 years. However, in the recent years the research has been more on detection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) from plasma as prognostic markers and as monitoring tool for treatment efficacy. The unit for breast –and endocrine surgery has the responsibility for the Prospective Breast Cancer Biobank (PBCB), a huge undertaking that aims to collect blood from 336 breast cancer patients. Blood and urine is collected every 6 month over a period of 10 years, while extensive PROM-data is collected every year. All patients are stadium I and II.
Group leader Emiel Janssen, PhD, Stavanger University Hospital. Photo: Svein Lunde.
Group leader Håvard Søiland, MD, PhD, Stavanger University Hospital. Photo: Svein Lunde.
Web editor Lisa Gregusson Svartdal
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BonTerra Intersects 64.3 g/t Gold Over 2.0 m in Rivage Gap; Strike Length of Gladiator Deposit Extended by 500 m to 1,200 m
Vancouver, BC – December 8, 2016: BonTerra Resources Inc. (TSX-V: BTR, US: BONXF, FSE: 9BR1)(the “Company” or “BonTerra”) is pleased to announce that the first two drill holes targeted within the “Rivage Gap” successfully located new high-grade gold mineralization, resulting in the addition of over 500 meters of strike length to the Gladiator Deposit. Drill hole BA-16-40 intersected 64.3 g/t over 2 meters at 130 m below surface while drill hole BA-16-42 intersected 8.7 g/t over 3 meters at over 300 meters below surface.
The “Rivage Gap”, with an approximate length of 500 meters, is an untested section beyond the western extension of the Gladiator gold zone. The successful intersection of gold mineralization in the Rivage Gap provides Bonterra confirmation that the strike length of the Gladiator Deposit has now been increased to over 1.2 kilometers from its previously drilled length of 700 meters and joins the Rivage Zone with the main Gladiator Zone.
Nav Dhaliwal, President and CEO of BonTerra, commented: “A re-interpretation by our geological team of the orientation of the Rivage Zone relative to the main zone has resulted in the confirmation that the Rivage is simply a strike extension of our Gladiator Deposit. This first attempt at joining the two zones has resulted in a significant strike extension to the Gladiator Gold Deposit. The “Gap”, noting its 500 meter strike length and being open to depth, provides an excellent opportunity to continue expanding the dimensions of the Gladiator Gold Deposit.”
Highlights and Observations:
2.0 m of 64.3 g/t Au in Hole BA-16-40 and 3.0 m of 8.7 g/t Au in Hole BA-16-42 in the “Rivage Gap”, an untested 500 meter extension of the Gladiator Deposit to the west.
The Rivage Zone is now joined with the Gladiator Gold Deposit, indicating a current drilled strike length of 1,200 meters. The Gladiator Gold Deposit has been outlined to a depth of 650 meters below surface.
The Rivage Zone was previously interpreted to be an isolated parallel zone with very limited information consisting of surface sampling and four drill holes.
Core axis angles of the intersection contacts and surrounding rock units average 55 degrees.
Hole From
(m) To
(m) Length
(m) Grade
(g/t Au) Zone/Area
BA-16-40 152.0 154.0 2.0 64.3 Rivage Gap
BA-16-42 507.0 510.0 3.0 8.7 Rivage Gap
*Stated lengths are core width as drilled, true widths have not yet been determined.
Please visit www.bonterraresources.com for updated long section and maps.
BonTerra Resources Quick Facts:
7,563-hectare (Gladiator Project) in the Urban-Barry Camp in Québec containing:
Using a 4 g/t Au cut-off grade, the project currently contains an inferred resource of 905,000 tonnes, grading 9.37 g/t Au for 273,000 ounces of gold. Of note, ~90% of the worlds operating mines have an average gold grade less than 8 g/t. Mineral Resource Estimate and technical report filed July 27, 2012, Snowden Mining Consultants.
2016 Exploration Program underway – up to 25,000 meters utilizing minimum of two drill rigs at its 100% owned Gladiator Gold Project to expand current gold resource.
2,165-hectare (Larder Property) in the Cadillac-Larder Break camp in Ontario (refer to March 17, 2016 news release highlighting historical gold resource).
Dale Ginn, P.Geo. has approved the information contained in this release. Mr. Ginn is a Director and Vice-President Exploration for BonTerra and is a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
Nav Dhaliwal, President & CEO
BonTerra Resources Inc.
Todd Hanas
E: todd@bonterraresources.com
This press release contains “forward-looking information” that is based on BonTerra’s current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections. This forward-looking information includes, among other things, statements with respect to BonTerra’s exploration and development plans. The words “will”, “anticipated”, “plans” or other similar words and phrases are intended to identify forward-looking information. Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause BonTerra’s actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such factors include, but are not limited to: uncertainties related exploration and development; the ability to raise sufficient capital to fund exploration and development; changes in economic conditions or financial markets; increases in input costs; litigation, legislative, environmental and other judicial, regulatory, political and competitive developments; technological or operational difficulties or inability to obtain permits encountered in connection with exploration activities; and labour relations matters. This list is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect our forward-looking information. These and other factors should be considered carefully and readers should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking information. BonTerra disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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2.1 Primary Features
2.1.1 Patent
2.1.2 Messages
2.2 Automated Vending
2.3 Demise?
2.4 Current Remediations
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In use; 1935
On September 9, 1932, The London Times printed an article following up on a “correspondence in The Times proposing that British railway stations might, like those in Japan, provide facilities for messages from one person to another to be displayed.” An electrical engineer had written to the paper, agreeing, and noted a device that he had heard of; an “automatic machine…to be installed at stations and other suitable sites, and on the insertion of two pennies facilities were given for writing a message that remained in view for two hours after writing.”
The Notificator
The notificator consists of a six to seven foot tall, shallow case with a glass face wide enough to display three approximately three by five inch wide columns that extend from the mid section of the machine to the top. Fixed to that mid section is a protruding “small desk or shelf…a glass window in the desk and a roll of paper or thin cardboard beneath.” For two pennies, “the window can be slid aside and a message written, which will then be turned onward, the window be closed ready for the next user. Each time a fresh message is written the shutting of the window will move a ratchet—the only mechanism embodied in the invention—and so place the column of messages one space higher” (Times 09/32). An attendant or owner of the device would only need to replace the roll of paper when needed. The height of the screen allowed a message to ostensibly remain for two hours, but the ratcheting mechanism means that this figure would be affected by how steadily the device was in use. Usage in many sites could relate to a variety of factors such as weather and time of day; a malfunctioning or rarely used notificator would presumably retain the same messages and display them as a constant.
August 1935 issue of Modern Mechanix & Inventions Magazine: "To aid persons who wish to make or cancel appointments or inform friends of the whereabouts, a robot messenger carrier has been introduced in London, England. Known as the "notificator," the new machine is installed in streets, stores, railroad stations or other public places where individuals may leave messages for friends... The machine is similar in appearance to a candy-vending device."
As indicated above, an apparently functioning Japanese train station system of publicly posting personal communications inspired The London Times to call for the institution of a similar system, resulting in their reporting on this device.
The notificator was provisionally patented in June of 1932 by Govan Gee of Winchmore Hill, London, England. Govan Gee also holds U. S. patents for an “apparatus for delivering change” filed in 1934 and a “means for extinguishing cigarettes, matches, and the like” filed 1938.
Without the examination of any actual notificator scrolls, it is not possible to speak conclusively on the machine's tensions in practice or the messages' literal content. Did the length of the page or the posture inducing structure of the machine generate certain handwriting tics or abbreviations? Did the machine buck certain graffiti laws? A notificator's optimum placement has been described as high traffic public places; the posting of potentially immoral or politically subversive messages may have upset members of certain classes. How personal could the notes be, if they never have private existence? Were codes ever employed? Cancellation or site change of meetings is mentioned as a potential use; did the notificator serve as a mechanized collection of excuses? What was done with the scrolls or cards after use has special implications in the possibility of answering some of these questions.
The notificator seems to embody a kind of self consciousness for an author and reader found in similar communications with a public/private tension, such as postcards, certain internet communications (the U.S. government currently treats all email like a postcard), or collections of letters as an biographical document. The New York poet Frank O’Hara writes in his 1959 manifesto for “Personism” that while composing a poem for a companion “I was realizing that if I wanted to I could use the telephone instead of writing the poem…It puts the poem squarely between the poet and the person,” although the poem is actually published and distributed as such. Conversational tones and characters referenced on a first name basis are frequent components of O'Hara's poems; as an outsider begins to make sense of the people and places in the texts, they may feel a growing sense of inclusion and empathy with the text. For the notificator, this may have affected communal relations positively or negatively.
Automated Vending
Hero (or Heron), a C1 greek mathematician, describes and depicts "a coin-operated device to be used for vending sacrificial water in Eygptian temples" in his Pneumatika, though none may have been produced (Segrave 3). Vending machines were introduced in the United States as early as 1880 and became a popular means of providing comestibles or services automatically in the mid-1920s stocked with groceries, candy, coffee, and most popularly, cigarettes. Kerry Segrave indicates that from 1929 through the 1931, industries and the media believed strongly in an automated future; that "robots could sell just about everything" (21).
The notificator does not appear to have been used in the United States.
Demise?
It is unclear if a link exists between Govan Gee's notificator and a company called Notificator Development Limited, but a connection may help explain the device's seeming lack of popularity or use by introducing possible legal woes. Court case listings by The London Times document multiple occurrences of Aircraft Patents Ltd. v. Notificator Development Ltd. from late October through December of 1937. On December 21, a Mr. Justice Simonds orders “in the usual form…for the compulsory winding-up of Notificator Development Ltd.” If a company undergoes compulsory winding up, courts have appointed a liquidator to properly deal with all debts and affairs before the company ceases to exist.
Current Remediations
Although scrolls have long been a method of presenting documents, the ratcheting mechanism breaks the typically smooth roll into discrete units with a set exchange value of two pennies and a limited time in which it can be in use. The vertical movement of the screen and the short nature of the communications obviously seem to be related to current internet message boards, which many online bloggers have also picked up on. Contemporary airports may have constantly updating digital boards where individuals can post certain information to help their companions find them at their gates in the often massive complexes. Graffiti continues to serve public/private communication purposes on a local level as well.
Bloggers' notes
The Modern Mechanix blog posts digitalized finds from back issues of Modern Mechanix and Inventions Magazine; on April 30, 2006, the notificator article appeared online. Postings on two separate message boards discussing the notificator article from the Modern Mechanix blog (http://blog.modernmechanix.com/), while being anecdotal sources, make interesting contributions which may eventually provide further information on this concept.
"Sarah Lipman," posting on the blog Pasta&Vinegar in June 2007, suggests that these types of communication methods were in heavy use among European and Jewish survivors of World War II: "I’ve seen it mentioned in many (10+ books) where when Jewish survivors tried to track down any remaining friends, relatives or neighbors, they would go to their old town or to a Displaced Persons’ Center, where names would be written up on notes all over the walls. They’d add their name, some identifying information, and contact information, and then read every single note trying to find names they recognized. They would also return frequently to check new "listings" (http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/06/25/twitter-like-device-from-1930/ [date]6/27/2007). These message centers also appeared in the period of confusion immediately following the 2001 tragedy in New York City and have been used by nomadic or homeless communities. The public nature of these notices has the potential to activate oral communications among a dispersed community, increasing the chance that a posting would reach an individual member.
Self described "Tube bore and lover of London's history," "Simon Greenwood's" post at the MobHappy blog (http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/07/05/localised-personalised-notes/), July 2007; "Not to say that this doesn't exist but...I have genuinely never heard of this, and it looks like the sort of thing that the Museum of London or the London Transport Museum would have in its stores. My guess is that there might have been one set up as a demo somewhere, perhaps in the West End, but that it wasn’t adopted by the Underground, the railways or whoever wanted to put street furniture out in London." Although the notificator does not seem to have been in wide use, the outdoor setting of the first image of this page, if it is not staged, implies at least some use at a public site.
The dispersal of the notificator image and description from the Modern Mechanix blog to other web sites and message boards put bloggers in a position to be some of the first to draw connections between this device and some of its modern counterparts such as online community message boards and blogs or new technologies that allow one's mobile device to leave or find digital public notes in physical places.
Segrave, Kerry. “Vending Machines: An American Social History.” McFarland & Co, 2002.
"Law Notices." The London TImes. Oct. 29, Nov. 3, Nov. 29, Dec. 20, 1937.
"Mr. Justice Simonds." The London Times. Dec. 21, 1937.
"Robot Messenger Displays Person-to-Person Notes In Public" Modern Mechanix & Inventions Magazine. Aug, 1935.
"Under The Clock: Machine To Show Messages In Public Places." The London Times. Sept. 9, 1932.
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Andy Croft and Amarjit Chandan
Andy Croft reports on his recent visit to Basra, for the Al-Marbed international poetry festival.
I have never seen so many people at a poetry festival before – or so many Kalashnikovs. A few weeks ago I was in the southern Iraqi city of Basra with my friend the Punjabi poet Amarjit Chandan. We were guests of the Iraqi Writers Union for the thirteenth annual Al-Marbed international poetry festival.
‘Poetry is the Present and Future of Basra’ read the banner over the stage in the main hall of the Basra International Hotel where most of the readings were held. Dedicated to the late Iraqi poet and communist Mehdi Mohammad Ali, the festival attracted almost a hundred poets, from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Iran, Kuwait, Sudan, Iraq, Assyria, Lebanon, Syria and the Iraqi diaspora scattered across the world.
During a crowded week of readings and debates, poetry and music, food and friendship, we visited the birthplace of Basra’s most famous poet Badr Shakir al Sayyab, as well as the Basra international football stadium. There was a showing of the film Samt al-Rai/The Silence of the Shepherd introduced by its director Raad Mushatat. One of the festival readings took place on a river cruise on the Shat al-Arab waterway.
The British poetry world likes to think it is popular, with its prizes and awards and celebrities. But this is nothing compared to the role of poetry in Arab culture, where TV shows like Million’s Poet and Prince of Poets regularly attract more viewers than football. Although six million Iraqis – 20% of the population – cannot read or write, the idea that poetry is a publicly-owned, shared and common language somehow persists across all classes. At some of the evening readings, there must have been a thousand people, men and women, young and old. One of the most striking performances was by a six year old boy reciting, entirely from memory, a ten minute long poem comparing Iraq to a beautiful woman.
Although Amarjit and I did not know the literal meaning of many of the poems, we were able to concentrate on the richness of their different cadences and rhythms. Thanks to our hard working translators we were also introduced to the work of some fascinating poets, including Iraqi poets Abdulkareem Kasid and Chawki Abdelamir, Hani al-Selwy from Yemen, Mojtaba Al Tatan from Bahrain, Sabah Kasim, Najah Ibrahim, and Souzan Ibrahim from Syria, and Al Wathiq Younis from Sudan.
But of course the festival was taking place in a deadly context. Iraq is still at war. The billboards by the side of the roads advertise, not consumer goods, but the faces of young men killed fighting Daesh. Each night I was woken by the sound of gunfire to mark the repatriation of local boys killed fighting in Mosul. A notice outside the new shopping centre in Times Square solemnly reminds shoppers, ‘No smoking. No weapons’.
With a heavily armed security presence at most of the readings, it was hardly surprising that the festival was a serious-minded affair. There were no stand-up poets, comics or performance poets. Instead most of the poets recited long poems usually about the suffering and grief of the Iraqi people.
An old man read a poem about the death of his son, killed fighting in Fallujah. One poet compared Iraqi children to a forest of young trees cut down before they are full grown. Another observed that every Iraqi child grows up with an older brother called Death. There was a long poem about a local teacher injured by a Daesh car-bomb; although she managed to crawl out of the car, her clothes were on fire (which meant that her modesty before God was threatened) so she climbed back into the burning car to die. Another poet described the poor of the world as the fuel that keeps the fires of war burning. The prayers of the religious, he said, do not belong to God, only the tears of a mother grieving for her dead child.
It is more important than ever that we understand as much as we can about our neighbours on this small planet. Despite the commercial, ideological, cultural and political pressures to emphasise our uniqueness and our separateness, the differences between us are not very great. The Al-Marbed poetry festival is a brave and important reminder that poetry is one of the ways in which we can enjoy and explore those differences and at the same time assert our shared humanity.
This article was first published in the Morning Star.
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Andy Croft
Andy Croft has written and edited over 80 books, including poetry, biography, teenage non-fiction and novels for children. He writes a regular poetry column for the Morning Star, curates the T-junction international poetry festival on Teesside and runs Smokestack Books. He lives in North Yorkshire.
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Russian Senator Slams Police Crackdown on Moscow Protests as ‘Illegal’
An ex-special forces commander and current Russian senator has called a recent police crackdown on protests in Moscow “illegal and incompetent” while the Kremlin has voiced support for the tough response.
Russian authorities detained hundreds of people and launched criminal cases against dozens at a series of election protests in Moscow over the past month. Video footage of violent arrests has stirred anger among critics who say the authorities used excessive force.
“As a former special forces commander, I believe the actions of those forces involved in maintaining public order were illegal and professionally incompetent,” Vyacheslav Markhayev, Irkutsk region senator, said Monday.
Markhayev wrote on Instagram that the turnout of 50,000 at last Saturday’s rally, as well as that at previous rallies, “speaks to the fact there’s no other way [for protesters] to be heard by the authorities.”
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“Bad authorities fight those who are discontent while good authorities fight the causes of the discontent.”
Markhayev’s criticism stands in stark contrast with the rest of Russia’s political establishment and his own party leadership. When asked why he decided to break ranks, he told the Meduza news website that “silence might lead us to unpredictable consequences.”
Markhayev was tasked with setting up an anti-riot police unit in his native region in the mid-1990s and served at its helm until his promotion in 2000.
Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday said the tough police action at the rallies had been justified. Individual cases of police excess as well as alleged violence by protesters against police were being looked into, he said.
“We believe firm action by law enforcement to curb public unrest was absolutely justified,” said Peskov, adding that he believed the police were fulfilling their duty to uphold law and order.
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A school in Far East Russia is being investigated after a teacher reportedly punished students for being tardy by forcing them to sit through the rest of class in gas masks.
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Zack Zeraldo
The Jaguar’s quirks are quickly forgotten once you’re actually out on the road with it.
With just a touch of spring starting to grace the city, the minds of enthusiasts everywhere are starting to turn away from crossovers and onto more engaging vehicles for the warmer weather. Garage doors are cracking open for the first time in months as some toys venture out for their first ride of the season. As a bit of a British car enthusiast myself, I too am growing anxious to dust off my MGB for a nice spring drive. I am also a fan of classic Jaguars, having parted with my Jaguar XKE this past fall. A week with a modern Jag might just help ease the tension, and I was appropriately assigned this 2018 Jaguar XF Portfolio 35t.
Like most Jaguars, the XF carries great presence from the front with the signature mesh grill prominently adorned with the legendary Jaguar logo. The lines flow well and hint at Jaguar’s sporting heritage, which compliments the aggressive stance and gorgeous optional 19” split-spoke wheels. Overall, it’s arguably one of the best-looking cars in the midsize luxury sports sedan segment, except from the rear. Either way, it’s a decently styled car and the exterior fit and finish is outstanding with high quality paint work, near-perfect panel gaps, and tasteful details everywhere.
Opening the door reveals a stunning interior and while all XFs come with pretty posh cabins, the top-line Portfolio like our test car takes it to the next level with miles of finely finished and stitched Windsor leather. The heated and ventilated seats are finished in the same with a fluted pattern and with 20-way adjustment ability, anyone can find themselves in absolute comfort. The designers at Jag have clearly taken a lot of time to make sure the interior looks fantastic, as you can have your choice of neatly inlayed wood grain accents, and the Portfolio sports a proper suede headliner.
Continuing the focus on aesthetics, the rotary dial gear selector rises up out of the center console, and the dashboard air vents reveal themselves from behind their automatic covers. The rear seat offers plenty of head and leg room even for adults, and gets its own digital climate control display. The trunk in this sedan is very deep, meaning it easily handled the weekly grocery run, but it is rather shallow which could pose a problem with bulkier items. Fortunately, the split rear seats fold to reveal a large pass-through, adding some flexibility.
Of course, this loaded XF comes with a long list of luxurious features; heated steering wheel, adaptive cruise control, automatic climate control, a huge glass sunroof, and Jaguar’s fully heated windshield which is a god-send on frosty mornings. The problem is that using a lot of these features can be a bit tricky since most of the controls in the XF are far from intuitive. The InControl Touch infotainment system lacks modern integration tech like Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, but more so is extremely cumbersome to use.
The heated/cooled seat controls are also awkward in that there is a single button on the dash which brings up the touchscreen menu, which you need to interact with in order to turn the power on and set the level of heating or cooling you want. Something used as frequently as heated seats should require no more than one or two pokes at a button.
The Jaguar’s ergonomic shortcomings though are quickly forgotten once you’re actually out on the road with it. Jags tend to have a very certain poise on the road; a balance between comfort and control that few cars can match, and thankfully the XF feels true to this. Cruising along the XF is silent and the ride remains comfortable and composed regardless of the conditions. Get into the twisties and the XF surprises with its aggressive steering response and flat cornering abilities that make it easy to forget that you’re behind the wheel of a 4,000-pound sedan. Steering feel is positive with good feedback from the road and the all-wheel-drive system does a great job of keeping the XF going where you want it to.
The powertrain options for the XF are where things get a bit tricky. For 2018, Jaguar lists a base price of $58,900 and at that price you’ll get the entry level 2.0L turbocharged four cylinder gas engine with a respectable 247 horsepower. For $2,000 more you can get into the 2.0L diesel (reviewed here) which only puts out 180 horsepower but makes up for it with 318 lb-ft. of torque. Step up another $500 and you can have a hotter version of the 2.0L gas burner (badged 30t), now putting out 296 horsepower.
If that’s not enough, you can get yourself into an XF S (reviewed here), starting at $74,500, which among a long list of optional performance oriented equipment comes with a heart-pulsing 380 horsepower supercharged 3.0 V6. All of these engines come attached to an eight-speed ZF automatic with paddle shifters that has no problem keeping up the pace and compliments the XF’s composed handling qualities.
So what engine does our tester have? None of these, actually. Despite being as a 2018, the test car is equipped with the 340 horsepower version of the 3.0L supercharged V6, known as the “35t” that appears to have been removed from the menu midway through 2018 in favor of the four cylinder options. It’s a peach of an engine with a sweet growl on start-up and heavy acceleration, an extremely linear power curve and 332 lb-ft. of torque at 3,500RPM, more than enough to toss you firmly back into your seat. The engine’s character suits the car so well it’s a shame that it’s no longer available, leaving only the even zestier “S”.
The supercharged V6 really brings the car to life, and while I am sure that the four cylinder motivators are adequate, I’d still likely be putting my money on the V6. Even then, the V6’s fuel economy is very palatable, with the weekly average after mostly rush hour commuting coming to 11.3L/100km on premium fuel.
While you can get a nicely equipped four-cylinder powered XF for somewhere in the mid $60,000 range, a very fair value in this segment, the top-line Portfolio like our test car starts at $79,900 and comes out to $85,290 after you add the $3,680 Driver Assistance Package, $410 for the heated windshield and $1,530 for the beautiful wheels. At that price you’d be getting the 296 horsepower 2.0L. Personally, I’d forego some of the luxuries linked to the Portfolio package and give the “S” and its powerhouse 380-horsepower V6 some serious consideration.
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‘Infinity War’ review: Marvel’s greek tragedy you’ll tearfully watch a thousand times
26 Apr 2018 Posted by etcetera
Chris Evans reprises his role as Steve Rogers/Captain America in “Avengers: Infinity War.” Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures.
By DAVID SILVA
@DavidSilvaETC
Let’s be real. No matter the number of positive or negative reviews that come out about “Avengers: Infinity War,” you’re going to watch the crap out of that movie anyway. It’s too massive, too ballsy and just way too much of a cinematic novelty to be ignored.
And you shouldn’t try to ignore it. The film lives up to its hype, presenting a devastatingly consequential storyline that doesn’t pull any punches.
As movie lovers, comic book nerds or just fans of overwhelmingly attractive lead characters punching things and cracking jokes, we get so much from this Anthony and Joe Russo-directed epic.
[READ MORE: ‘Blockers’ not worth ticket price]
The action and fight scenes are endless yet always have a lot at stake. The character team-ups, particularly one that was teased in the trailers including Iron Man, Spider-Man, Star-Lord and Doctor Strange, are out of a childhood dream.
The banter among the different characters is mostly charming. If you’re not a fan of Marvel humor during serious moments, this is not the movie that’s going to win you over. Close your eyes and cover your ears when Star-Lord says anything.
Thanos is easily the best Marvel villain to date, despite us getting very well received Marvel antagonists lately in the form of The Vulture in “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and Erik Killmonger in “Black Panther.”
“Infinity War” features a ensemble cast of past MCU characters. Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures
Thanos just has it all. He can fight toe to toe with every single one of our heroes. His presence feels dangerous. He begins the film as a seemingly one-dimensional figure obsessed with power, but slowly develops layers of depth (and dare I say a hint of justification?) in the form of his relationship with Gamora and the motivation behind his mission for slaughter. His monologues are spine-chilling every single time.
Once the film begins to fixate more and more on the mad titan, the story begins to feel like a Greek tragedy, one that seems to get more and more hopeless.
Despite all the character arcs we get and different journeys we embark on, in an effort to defeat him, Thanos is still playing puppet master. He is consistently diminishing the chances to defeat him and is only limited by his own “sacrifices.”
But let’s back up before I say too much.
As unprecedented and in many ways phenomenal as this movie is, it isn’t without its flaws. Some may say that the film feels incomplete while others argue that it’s too crowded. Of the former: this is what we should have expected in a way.
[READ MORE: ‘Panther’ carries itself like the cultural movement it’s destined to become]
Audiences and critics should have known when the films were originally titled “Avengers: Infinity War Part One” and “Avengers: Infinity War Part Two” that this was going to be an arc that is ultimately resolved over two films. Marvel changing the names should have fooled no one.
The only issue I had with the film is the latter. Because of sheer size, it does take a moment to get everyone settled, to know where each one of our heroes is at and what they’re up to (cue location font). Once we get about halfway through the film, this isn’t much of an issue. So yeah, I know you’re going to watch it, and I know you’re going to enjoy it.
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Max Suzuki has posted a video of his trip to Las Vegas for the Nathan's qualifier which includes a visit to the Heart Attack Grill to attempt the "Octuple Bypass Burger" challenge.
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Congratulations on your Nathan’s Qualifier win, Max. Welcome to the big event.
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His hairstyle is very Takeru style.
This is the pic showing his hairstyle that I was referring to: https://twitter.com/FReeMax1027/status/990567333574799360
Compared to Takeru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd08TSoJ0vE
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http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/04/barbara-dickson-review.html
The new issue of Gonzo Weekly is out now. It features - amongst other things - Julian Lennon, Clepsydra, Michael Des Barres, Sex Gang Children, Auburn, The Dalai lama, Keith Levene, The Psychedelic Warlords, Goldfrapp, Barbara Dickson, Auburn and the Dalai Lama, and more news, reviews, views, interviews and Gilbert's potoroos (OK, no ground dwelling marsupials that look like pointy nosed guinea pigs, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
Read it at http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2014/04/gonzo-weekly-73.html or http://www.gonzoweekly.com/
But I have an update for you all: The cover story is about the triumphant return of Swiss prog band Clepsydra last weekend. But look what I have found: If you look on YouTube there is actually some footage of last weekend's gig.
Read the last few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 72 (Judge Smith cover)
Issue 71 (Andy Colquhoun cover)
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2014/03/gonzo-weekly-71.html
Issue 70 (Tim Blake cover)
These issues (and the current one) can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!
KEW GARDENS UNDER THREAT
Globally important conservation and science under threat at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew due to UK Government cuts - £5M deficit will lead to loss of over 120 posts
By Julie Flanagan
Globally important conservation and science under threat at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew due to government cuts - £5M deficit will lead to loss of over 120 posts
The UK Government need to urgently reverse the existing cuts to Kew’s annual operating grant in aid funding, and to cancel the proposed and any further future cuts.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with sites at Kew Gardens, London and Wakehurst Place, Sussex is a world-leader in conservation and botanical science, with over 250 years of historical excellence in these fields.
Never before has Kew faced such a significant threat to its future. It now needs your help to ensure its globally-important plant and fungal collections can continue to be used to support plant and fungal science and conservation around the world.
In 1983, 90 per cent of Kew’s funding came from the UK Government as grant in aid. The current amount has dropped to below 40 per cent as of this year. Funding was reduced by £0.9M in 2009-10, £1M in 2010-11, and by an extra £0.5M year-on-year thereafter (see here).
Kew has now been told to expect further cuts of at least another £1.5M before the end of 2016.
Under the 1983 National Heritage Act, the UK Government committed to ensure that Kew is adequately resourced to fulfil its statutory obligations, which include: research; providing advice and education; plant-related services including quarantine; caring for world-renowned scientific collections, as national reference collections available for study; and as a resource for the public to gain knowledge and enjoy. The UK Government is no longer fulfilling its role to allow Kew to meet these obligations.
Kew has been dramatically increasing income from non-government funding streams through the work of their partner charity Kew Foundation, and via commercially-generated income, consultancy work, and research funding. Although there are plans to extend these efforts, they are no longer able to keep up with the rate of cuts in government funding and many areas of Kew’s work are not easily resourced externally.
Due to the cuts, Kew has announced that with a £5M deficit for this year, over 120 posts will be axed. The majority of posts will be lost in the areas of science and public engagement (report here.) In specialist careers measured in decades of experience, Kew will lose dedicated, expert staff, and whole areas of work are likely to be halted.
As Sir David Attenborough was recently quoted as saying:
"Kew has an absolutely crucial role in looking after our botanical heritage and our botanical future. The important thing to remember is that it is the premiere botanical gardens in the world scientifically. People who think it is just a place to go to look at pretty flowers and flower beds are mistaking the importance of Kew Gardens. The Seed Bank is of world importance and it should be supported by the Government like a proper institution or university and the continuing idea that Kew Gardens is merely a playground and that you just put up the prices to look after it is a misguided assessment of the value of Kew. The Government and the scientific departments should recognise that and support it properly."
Please show your support for Kew, and their continuing work for future generations, by signing this petition, and please encourage others to do the same.
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Filmcore critics Armani Barron and Alex Kirschenbaum go medieval on Netflix’s “The King” in the latest Critical Exchangecore. In the film, directed by David Michod and written by Michod and co-star/co-producer Joel Edgerton, we follow Hal (played by “Call Me By Your Name” breakout star Timothee Chalamet), the classic prince bad boy with an affluenza affliction. Though wholly uninterested and undeserving of the English throne, he soon finds the crown thrust upon him after the deaths of his war hawk younger brother, Thomas (Dean-Charles Chapman), and his father, King Henry IV (Ben Mendelsohn). Now rechristened King Henry V, Hal must navigate the literal game of thrones that has become his life.
Armani: First thoughts, this is a beautifully shot film. Adam Arkapaw, the Director of Photography behind “True Detective” Season 1 and “Top Of The Lake,” masterfully navigates between intimately lit dinners and sweeping battle sequences. However, a well-composed scene can’t make up for the dialogue in it. I felt that the actors worked their way through the dizzying dialogue but I found the superfluous fancy wordplay often unnecessary, and a condition that made the occasional F-bombs even more jarring than they otherwise would have been. Screenwriters try to make historical source material more approachable by modernizing the vernacular used by people at the time, but often I find they go to far. I feel like “Marie Antoinette” (2006) actually did a great job of balancing this, but “The King” falls short, except for an intriguing final scene with Lily-Rose Depp.
One big thing I wanted to applaud was the lack of nudity. It seems like the most they did with that R rating was spilt on the battlefield and they left the low hanging fruit that is scantily clad chambermaids on the branch.
Alex, I’m going to put the ball in your court (hehe) now. First thoughts?
Alex: This was abject trash. Yes, it was pretty trash, and yes, it was well-cast trash. And, fine, there wasn’t a lot of nudity. But that doesn’t excuse the utter joyless slog that was this painfully boring narrative mess. I could have seen this coming, having deeply loathed Michod and Edgerton’s prior collaboration with Robert Pattinson, “The Rover.” Pattinson, who played a mentally handicapped person in “The Rover,” here plays the imbecilic French prince Louis, Duke of Guyenne. Just as in “The Rover,” he is prone to pseudo-inaudible mumbling throughout the film, though his glowering skills are solid. Armani, I would concur with you that most of the dialogue that was audible felt like an uncomfortable mix of modern and medieval.
Timothee Chalamet, the pretty but vacant star of this nonsense, also possesses excellent staring skills. But he isn’t given a whole lot else to do here. His character starts life here as a bored, disaffected, sex and booze-crazed pacifist who hates his dad. As soon as his dad passes, a lackluster assassination attempt is staged and Henry V immediately changes tacts, becoming a brutal warmonger who wants to eviscerate the French. It turns out (spoilers, but also who cares?) that the “assassination” attempt was staged by a bloodthirsty advisor (Sean Harris) with designs on dominating France. These are some major, major character pivots, and yet almost no change is registered on Chalamet’s face. Yes, he sometimes yells. But he’s pretty much always raging against some kind of machine. He never even seems mildly competent at his job, essentially happy to follow the advice of the Edgerton character, fallen knight Falstaff, or the duplicitous Harris character, William.
Why are we supposed to care about any of this stuff when our hero doesn’t seem to? There are three significant character shifts that the movie barely addresses, choosing instead to linger on under-lit frames of people glaring at each other. The undercooked script and understated acting, plus some overstuffed, under-edited and under-lit sequencing, killed this thing for me.
Armani: It has been pretty apparent that Netflix has really been cementing itself as a staple in the feature-length space, but it’s not only for entertainment purposes (see “Birdbox”), but for genuine Academy Award grabs. Before the film’s release, it was obvious that Netflix was pushing this piece around the festival circuit, placing a lot of their chips on Chalamet’s performance. I’m not sure if this is going to get the kind of award nods that they were hoping for, actually I’m pretty sure it won’t be getting any (for performances at least), but it’s reassuring to know that Netflix is still game to take a gamble on more niche dramas and content.
It is a bit worrying that they seemed more concerned with glam and star power than a compelling script. The story itself is pretty insane, a young English king united all of France and England in a single battle, yet it never feels as important as it should.
Alex: I agree! Chalamet’s disaffected take on Henry V effectively disengages us from caring about that long, extended battle against the petulant Pattinson prince. On the one hand, I will concede that it’s nice to see Netflix affording creators apparent carte blanche for esoteric dramatic projects with significant budgets (this movie would have gotten a big-screen, 3500-theater domestic release with talents of a similar level even a decade ago). On the other, maybe a little creative oversight could have helped! Armani, what would you rate this out of the four-star scale? I would award this * 1/2 out of **** stars.
Armani: I mean this movie is just really proving the point that as the battle of the streaming services rages on, they are just going to keep pumping out premium content. Even if it’s just a glossy hollow shell. I’d give this one a * 3/4 out of **** stars. I wouldn’t recommend to a friend, but I respect the cast and crew enough to acknowledge its existence. Even if the screenwriters didn’t.
By Armani Barron
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Russell Brand Admits He Still Cares About Katy Perry: I Feel ‘Warm’ When I See Her
Russell Brand, 41, and Katy Perry, 32, have both moved on with their lives after their tumultuous divorce. However, the comedian shockingly admitted that he still has positive feelings towards his former flame during a candid interview on the W Channel last week. “Katy was obviously very, very occupied and very busy. I was very occupied and very busy—not to the same degree, I recognize,” he revealed. “The marriage didn’t last for a very long time, and I think that is to do with the undulated nature of fame and that, living in those conditions and what was happening.”
“But it meant, I think, that [for] the sanctimony of marriage, which is a very private thing really,” Russell continued. “I supposed we perhaps—intuitively or explicitly I don’t know—understood that we better protect this thing.” Even though their rocky romance is a thing of the past, he still holds fond memories of the passionate love they once shared. “But I have come away from that experience,” he said, discussing their 2011 split. “I still feel very warm towards her. I feel like, when I hear about her or see her, ‘Awe, there’s that person. There’s that person in the world.’”
He continued, “I sort of recognize it as a part of my life that was for a clearly delineated piece of time.” Fans are elated to hear Russell’s new perspective, since the actor once admitted to “detesting” his life with Katy. He said she was a “vapid, vacuous celebrity” before the pair divorced after 14 months. This was mentioned in his documentary, Brand: A Second Coming.
Fast forward to now, Russell is dating Laura Gallacher. The couple recently welcomed their first child, and he revealed that he feels a “candid, plain, all-encompassing love” for his daughter Mabel. Katy has also moved on romantically, so we’re glad to see them both in happier places!
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frank sidebottom started his fantastic show biz career 25 years ago in his garden shed in timperley. with his stupid puppet little frank, big frank became the greatest semi-professional entertainer the village of timperley had ever seen! Frank made regular appearances on granada telly in the late 80s and 90s, and became a disc jockey on various radio stations, broadcasting radio timperley with his show biz pals. frank often toured the country, doing ace concerts, lectures and puppet shows for his fans.
he released records, including tracks such as panic (on the streets of timperley), timperley blues, and timperley sunset. not forgetting his cover versions of some of his favorite songs. mark e. smith of manchester band the fall once said that frank's version of hit the north was better than his own!
frank starred in his own telly shows, frank sidebottom's fantastic shed show, and more recently, frank sidebottom's proper telly show in black and white. in 2007 frank put on an art exhibition at the chelsea space gallery in london. matthew higgs selected the exhibition frank sidebottom: chelsea space is ace as his 3rd best show in art forum december 2007 issue.
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What is the Duck Dynasty family worth?
'Redneck' Millionaires Built 'Duck Dynasty' in Duck Call Business
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For Phil Robertson, the ear-splitting squawk of a duck call is the sweet sound of success.
A former college quarterback from Monroe, La., Robertson gave up a coaching career for his love of duck hunting when he discovered he could whittle a better duck call than any on the market - a move that eventually made him millions of dollars and earned his family their own reality TV series.
For 25 years, Robertson said he stood in his dilapidated shed and handcrafted duck calls out of cedar trees native to Monroe-area swamps.
"I'd drive up to these Walmarts and they'd run me out, 'you think we're gonna buy old duck calls off the street?' I said, 'Hey man, Colonel Sanders started with one chicken and... that's good chicken, man, " Robertson said.
His first year, Robertson said he sold $8, 000 worth of duck calls, and his wife Kay somehow managed to feed four boys on that salary.
"Miss Kay says 'I've been poor with you and I've been rich with you. Rich is better, '" Phil Robertson said.
"But I stayed with you through both, " she added.
Today, Robertson's company Duck Commander has sales in the millions, with contracts in outdoor stores across the United States. For the past decade, the Robertsons' third son Willie has been their CEO, which his parents say was an obvious choice.
"He was about 10 or 11, junior high, they called us from school, he had to set up a concession stand, selling candies, and he absolutely shut down the school's whole snack shop, " Kay Robertson said.
"I said, 'he's our CEO, '" Phil added.
The company is still very much all in the family, with roughly 80 percent of its employees being related one way or another to the Robertson clan. Jase Robertson, another one of Phil and Kay's sons, also hand-makes duck calls for the company.
"I try to produce the sounds of the ducks I have heard in my ears, into this call. That's what I do all day long, " he said.
This rags-to-riches story of a down-home family business with a heavily bearded band of hunting experts was too much for reality show producers to pass up. The Robertsons are the stars of the new A&E show, "Duck Dynasty, " which airs on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT, but it was rough going at the start for these self-described "rednecks."
"When the Los Angeles people come down here first and we sorta clashed, " Phil Robertson said. "I don't know who was the most shocked, the L.A. people or us. We're looking at them like 'man, I tell you what' and they are looking at us like, whoa I tell you what, somewhere in there is a television show. It's America, let it rip.'"
The show mostly follows Willie and his beautiful wife Korie - who claims Willie was "preppy" when she married him but she hasn't seen his face without its long beard in 30 years - as the couple tries to keep up the business his father built from scratch.
And this actually isn't the Robertson family's first soiree into television. Back in the '80s, Phil Robertson produce Duck Commander videos that featured his best duck hunts. His brother Jep still edits them.
"We were pre-reality TV, early 1980s, " Phil said. "We had a reality show, but it was just a bunch of rednecks shooting ducks."
Those videos and especially their long breads made the family minor celebrities in the hunting world.
"The Robertsons have always been an open book, " Willie Robertson said. "We've always invited folks in-and been hospitable. This way it's just more hospitable. We just invite the cameras and say, this is how we do it-like it or not!"
However, the family says the bigger message they portray on "Duck Dynasty" is that they are a brood that stays together and enjoys each other's company.
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Sunday 16, April 2017 05:39 PM from Garrett Brown
@Garrett Brown: What is family? I think a lot of people lost the concept of it.
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Palestinians arrest, torture convert to Judaism. @HRW silent, as it ALWAYS is for Muslim and Arab antisemtiism.
YNet reports:
A Palestinian from the West Bank who converted to Judaism in Israel was inexplicably arrested by Palestinian Authority forces security forces over two weeks ago and has been held in custody ever since. He claims to have been tortured during that time on multiple occasions, which left his limbs badly burned.
The 50-year-old is Hebron resident who worked at a supermarket in the Jerusalem area. He converted on the eve of Rosh Hashanah three weeks ago at a strict Haredi court in the city of Bnei Brak by Rabbi Nissim Karelitz, who passed away on Monday.
Prior to his conversion he studied at Machon Meir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, an institution strongly associated with nationalist politics and settler movement. He was in the process of having his conversion recognized by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel before he was arrested, which would have allowed him to apply for Israeli passport.
On the eve of Yom Kippur, the man traveled to an area of the West Bank under Palestinian security control, just beyond the section of the territory under Israeli security control. There, he was supposed to meet with one of his nine children, who along with their mother are all Muslim.
During the family reunion, a white Skoda vehicle carrying four men approached the 50-year-old. The men got out of the car, dragged the Palestinian into the vehicle and drove away. Later, the man was dropped off at a police station in Hebron by the four.
Haim Perg, the leader of the Jewish community in Hebron, is helping the Palestinian with his legal troubles and according to him, the 50-year-old is the grandson of a Palestinian man who helped save Jews during the 1929 Hebron massacre.
"As far as I'm concerned, he's like my son, and I will shake up the world for somebody to come and save him," Perg said. "The man's grandfather rescued 26 Jews during the events in Hebron. Now that he is in danger, we have a commitment to help him."
Perg added that he spoke by phone with the Palestinian who told him he was being badly beaten and had even had his hands and feet burned during the torture he’s had to endure.
This story has been out in English for 24 hours, and tweeted to Human Rights Watch. Yet even though they tweet lots about Israel, this story somehow is not important enough to even tweet.
The reason, of course, is that to HRW, Arab and Muslim antisemitism is a topic that must never be mentioned or hinted at.
Look at this article from a HRW researcher about antisemitism in Europe in 2015 after a spate of mostly Muslim attacks on Jews:
In January, four Jewish men were killed in a kosher supermarket in Paris, two days after the brutal attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead. Last week, a man attacked a synagogue in Copenhagen, killing a Jewish man as he guarded the building during a Bat Mitzvah celebration.... Last May, a man shot four people dead in a Jewish museum in Brussels. In 2012, a man and three children were shot dead at a Jewish school in Toulouse.
Not once is the fact that these were Muslim attacks mentioned. And if you would come up with that conclusion on your own, HRW doesn't want you to take any guesses that perhaps Islamists have a problem with Judaism:
[T]he factors which drive some to commit violence are complex too; some attackers may have been exploited and coerced, while others may have acted more out of frustration than deep-seated hatred.
HRW is bending over backwards to excuse Islamist antisemitism!
But when the synagogue in Halle was attacked on Yom Kippur, then HRW mentioned "right wing extremism." That can be named, Islamic and left wing extremism cannot be.
Interestingly enough, the German report on extremism linked to by HRW has separate sections on right-wing, left-wing and Islamic violence. But HRW only mentions one of them and does everything it can to erase the other two.
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Welcome to the Youth and Family Services Department. As with all Elk Grove Township Departments, the Youth Services Department is committed to efficiently and professionally meeting targeted needs of Township residents. The Youth Services Department provides sliding fee based counseling services to Township youth and their families, while also offering “life skills” building groups through its Challenge Program.
To inquire about these services, call 847-981-0373 or visit the links below for further information.
Download our printable brochure.
Download our parental permission form.
Clinical Director – Dean Reschke, M.S. LMFT: Mr. Reschke is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Dean has a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from George Williams College and has been the Clinical Director since 1983. Dean is married and has two daughters.
Family Therapist/Social Worker – Robin Wilson, MSW LCSW: Ms. Wilson has a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Robin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has been providing therapy and social work services since 1986. Robin is married with two daughters.
Challenge Program Coordinator -Renee Dorn, B.A: Mrs. Dorn has a bachelors Degree in Sociology from Northeastern University. Renee has been on staff since 1989, initially as a course facilitator and now as the coordinator of the Challenge Program. Renee is married with three children.
The Challenge Program helps children develop social skills and leadership through experiential learning in small groups. We offer groups for ASD children, children who have trouble making friends, for girls (girls empowerment), bullying prevention, and others. We also offer team building for groups such as boy scouts, girl scouts, sports teams, and church groups. Please contact Program Coordinator Renee Dorn (RDorn@ElkGroveTownship.Com) for more information.
Other Programs Offered:
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Girls Empowerment Groups
Girls Empowerment Groups – Spanish
Managing Emotions – Anger Management Groups for Teens
Boys Expedition Groups
Super Stars Groups
Super Stars Groups – Spanish
Bullying Prevention Program in Schools
Gang Prevention in schools
Parenting Seminars
How to Talk to Your Kids About Alcohol Use (video)
When Mom receives a text from her 10-year-old daughter, Luci, asking to go to a friend’s house for a sleepover, she realizes she needs to talk to her about the dangers of underage drinking. But where does she begin? Listening to Mom’s thoughts, we catch a glimpse of the sometimes difficult and awkward process most parents go through when trying to initiate a conversation about drinking. Mom finally seizes the moment to talk with Luci on the stairs of their home and advises her to say “no thanks, not my thing” if a friend ever offers her alcohol. Although it seems as if Luci is not listening, like most children, she really does hear what Mom is saying. Click here to begin the video “Talk. They hear you.”
The “Discussion Starter” is the newest product for SAMHSA’s “Talk. They Hear You.” is set on a within a community setting showcasing a variety of situations that parents and caregivers could have a conversation about alcohol, and culminating into and school basketball court where 12- to 13-year old boys are playing a Saturday morning game. The parents (Bill and Diane), arrive after the game is underway, and sit down with other parents in the stands. Each parent is engaged in conversation with other parents, and then engaged in a discussion in the car that leads the parents (Bill and Diane) recognition that they needed to talk with his own son (Tim) and younger daughter (Katie) about alcohol use. Click here to begin the video.
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Sibyl Colefax
Lady Colefax began decorating in 1930. She was well-connected and also ahead of her time: her circle of friends and acquaintances provided her with clients and she became a very successful businesswoman. British diplomat Harold Nicholson wrote in his diary: ‘Lunch with Sibyl Colefax at Boulestin. She tells me that she has made £2,000 last year by her own efforts. She gets up by candle-light and fusses till midnight. A brave woman’.
Sibyl’s talent for creating comfortable interiors that were stylish but never pretentious was the secret of her appeal to her influential clients. She was friendly with royalty, including the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson, with entertainers such as Charlie Chaplin and Cole Porter, and with much of the British aristocracy. When, in 1938, her services were so in demand that she needed to expand, she asked a rising young star of interior decorating, John Fowler, to join her in her business at Bruton Street in Mayfair. In 1939, the company name was changed to Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler.
Violet Trefusis with Sibyl Colefax, fashionable interior decorator and hostess, and Cecil Beaton courtesy of Martin Wood
The library of Sibyl Colefax's house at Lord North Street
John Fowler
Through the 1920s and into the 1930s John Fowler had developed his decorating skills at the London firm of Thornton Smith and then in the decoration studio of Peter Jones, where he learned techniques such as painting Chinoiserie wallpaper by hand. By the time Sibyl Colefax invited him to join her he had been working for a few years under his own name from premises on the King’s Road. Lady Colefax’s business provided John Fowler with the introductions he needed and the partnership prospered. His talent for creating glamorous interiors on a comparatively modest budget was to prove a sought-after ability in due course, in post-war austerity Britain.
At the beginning of 1944, Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler Ltd moved its business to 39 Brook Street (once the home and office of distinguished early 19th century architect, Sir Jeffry Wyatville). On the day the new shop opened, John Fowler noted in his diary: ‘Lovely day and lots of people. Good sales’.
Fowler’s decorative flair and scholarly eye were behind the company’s continuing success and its reputation for beautifully fashioned draperies, convivial and comfortable seating arrangements. A sense of relaxed elegance grew. He later went on to work with the National Trust, conserving Great Britain’s most important historical houses; significant commissions included Clandon Park, Lyme Park, Sudbury Hall, Claydon House and Uppark House. His exceptional skills prompted his friend the late Duchess of Devonshire to describe John Fowler as ‘the prince of decorators’, a sobriquet that stuck.
Top floor at 292 King's Road showing John Fowler's rustic style
Watercolour by Serebriakoff of the sitting room in John Fowler's Hunting Lodge © Stanley Falconer
The American heiress Nancy Lancaster had long been settled in England with a reputation amongst those who knew her of having the ‘finest taste of anyone in the world’. In 1948, she bought the country’s best-known decorating firm from her friend Sibyl Colefax. Nancy Lancaster’s impressive social connections brought the company into a grand new era, and her transatlantic links incidentally enabled her to establish a working relationship with Sister Parish Design in New York.
In 1954, Nancy Lancaster bought Haseley Court, a large country house in Oxfordshire. She and John Fowler worked closely together on its restoration and decoration, and the beautiful rooms they created there together epitomised the English country house style for which Colefax and Fowler became celebrated.
In 1957, Nancy Lancaster sold her London house and took a 25-year lease on a set of rooms 'over the shop' at 39 Brook Street. John Fowler persuaded her to paint the large drawing room a startling, glossy yellow. Original and innovative at the time, the Yellow Room proved to be a source of inspiration for many over the following years, becoming perhaps the best-known and most influential interior in the history of English interior decoration. 39 Brook Street and its decoration, including the Yellow Room, is now Grade II* listed.
Nancy Lancaster and John Fowler’s business partnership lasted over 20 years and was tempestuous at times, prompting her aunt, Nancy Astor, to refer to the pair as ‘frankly the most unhappy unmarried couple I have ever met’. Their talents and tastes were complementary; combined, they made a truly formidable decorating duo. His association with Nancy Lancaster opened doors at the very highest level for Fowler, enabling him to work, for example, at Chequers, the official country residence of the Prime Minister, or on the Audience Room at Buckingham Palace, for Her Majesty the Queen.
Entrance Hall, Haseley Court © Horst P Horst
Audience Room, Buckingham Palace
Tom Parr
In 1960, Tom Parr, who had previously been in partnership with David Hicks in a decorating business in Knightsbridge, acquired a significant shareholding in Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler Ltd and was subsequently appointed chairman. John Fowler, by now increasingly involved in his role as adviser on historic properties to the National Trust, was winding down his work for private clients and was content to leave the leadership of the company to Tom Parr.
Parr’s combination of business acumen and decorating experience gave Colefax and Fowler a new sense of direction. Under his guidance, the number of decorating teams within the company expanded. Alongside Parr himself, Imogen Taylor (who had been John Fowler’s assistant for many years) ran her own team, and they were soon joined by Stanley Falconer, Chester Jones, David Laws and subsequently Wendy Nicholls (who is today the managing director of the company’s decorating division, Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler), Vivien Greenock and Roger Banks-Pye.
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John Fowler retired in 1971, a significant departure for the company. Tom Parr therafter initiated the diversification of the decorating business into the retailing of fabrics and wallpapers. In 1973, The Chintz Shop, on Ebury Street, was opened, launching Colefax and Fowler’s first off-the-shelf fabric collections. The first range to include wallpapers was The Brook Collection, in 1982. These early collections gave the company greater visibility to people other than its traditionally elite private clientele, and developed the firm’s historic identity to make it accessible to a wider market, inviting customers to take home with them a piece of English country house style.
George Oakes, the talented artist who had worked closely with John Fowler on many private commissions, led the textile design studio, besides continuing to be responsible for the company’s painted works. His chintzes drew on mid-to-late nineteenth-century documents alongside occasional Regency and 18th-century patterns, and undoubtedly greatly influenced fabric fashions in the 1970s and 1980s. The first collections included the renowned Bowood and Fuchsia chintzes, which retain their popularity and have remained in production ever since.
George Oakes's mural decoration at Sezincote, Gloucestershire
The Brook Collection launched 1982
1980s – Present
David Green was appointed Chief Executive of Colefax and Fowler in 1986 and became Chairman a decade later, on Tom Parr’s retirement in 1996. His arrival heralded a period of great expansion for the company as it extended its global reach and was listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Under David Green’s guidance, Colefax and Fowler acquired the US textile firms Cowtan and Tout (a brand sold only in the US, founded in 1924 and acquired in 1988), the British textile brand, Jane Churchill (founded in 1982 and acquired in 1989), Jack Lenor Larsen (founded in 1952 and acquired in 1997), the French fabric house Manuel Canovas (founded in 1963 and acquired in 1998), and the British furniture maker Kingcome Sofas (founded in 1971 and acquired in 1989).
The interior decorating business continues to flourish, reverting to its original trading name of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler in the 1990s.
The number of staff of the small company founded by Lady Colefax, which had totalled 19 when Nancy Lancaster bought it and reached 70 by 1984, today exceeds 300. In keeping with its heritage, the company’s head office remains in the heart of Mayfair.
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Erika Wurth celebrates the release of her newest book, Crazy Horse's Girlfriend (Curbside Splendor Publishing), Saturday, Sept. 13 at City Lit Books, 2523 N. Kedzie, at 5pm.
Wurth, an Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee raised outside of Denver, is a teacher of creative writing at Western Illinois University. Her debut poetry collection, Indian Trains, (West End Press) is about small town Indians, mixed-bloods of multiple tribes. In Crazy Horse's Girlfriend Wurth returns to explore the modern preconceptions of what it means to be Native American.
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The AoFk is pleased to report that the so called "Vassalization Fleet" of the the empire of the false earth has bean brushed aside whit few casualty's then the attrition faced by the fleet in moving to reclaiming the handful of worlds that were lost in the initial assault. and with the destruction of approximately 1/6 of there jumpfleat the AoFK is will to let the Imperium surrender with the fallowing terms for now
1) The renaming of there capital to Mote, and the revocation of all calms said planet being earth. all enlightened minds know that the true home of humanity is under AoFK control.
2) The return of Londor District to The Saxophon Traders Union, such a peaceful and kind people should not have to suffer such needless cruelty.
3) the ceding of all reaming clusters to the Aofk, her ally's, Vassal's, and any other power that that might join in to scavenge from the corrupted bloated carcass of the Imperium.
the rejection of this treaty, will be meat whit stronger demands as time passes.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
~Will Rogers
Wayward Device
Militia Lieutenant
...Delineating Targets
...Aligning Polaron Beam
...Aligning Entangled Pairs
....Begin Transmission
Hear the words of the Auroran Hegemony:
Behold, the terrible face of war when two great powers clash:
True to its word, the Hegemony has struck a blow against the Imperium, destroying 3 million Eldritch and damaging the ship producing worlds in the Imperium's outer clusters. The Imperium soon surrendered and attempted to negotiate a new non aggression treaty. Since the Imperium has proved unable to keep to a treaty, the Hegemony will take a different approach. The Hegemony will now publicly states that it will not launch an attack against the Imperium so long as it keeps to the following terms demanded in the surrender:
- The Imperium will stay North of the Great Rift
- The Imperium will stop trying to turn minor powers against the Hegemony
- The Imperium will respect the sovereignty of the AHGHN worlds.
The Hegemony will enforce these terms with the only thing the Imperium respects, raw force. The Hegemony will not be the first power to kill trillions by starting an all out galactic war to the death, but it will be the ones to finish it.
Despite it's recent defeat, the Imperium has managed to somewhat recover its fleet loses by looting the rotting carcass of the Gospel of a New Century, bringing their jumpleet up to 4 million Eldritch and an impressive 7 million Minotaurs. With it's proven history of warmongering and still powerful fleet, it is well to remind the galaxy that the direct translation of the Auroran word for peace is "period of rearmament before the next war."
In other news, the Auroran Hegemony now has an official flag, making it superior in yet another way to all the other flagless powers:
Here end the words of the Hegemony, return to your designated work tasks or be killed slowly over several cycles by experts.
L.W., Windsor
Location: Beneth some surface... OH! YES HEX!
Report of 4388
Empire Report:
War has returned to the Galaxy. After a slow start the Alince of Free Kingdoms picked up a few viruses along the way and their systems began to fall one by one to the onslaught of electronic warfare. Today has been a blood day. The Hegemony attack under false pretense of defending the Alince, but it was only a ploy to close some gaps in their defenses and build another cluster in the Western part of the Galaxy. None too tricky, but what can be done at the moment. Perhaps disaster has been averted, perhaps not. Time will tell.
War Report (short):
The war with the Alince has gone well. Windsor scouts report such an abundance of Hexacarbide that we will not need any worlds outside of the war region. Spectators place the estimates at over 500 Million Hexacarbide. I am positive their numbers are on the low side because not all of the worlds have been assessed. As a result, the empire of Windsor and L.W. Windsor accept the unconditional surrender of the Alince of Free Kingdoms and will cease our attacking of worlds within the greater Alince empire. Those worlds within the war zone are now under the control of Windsor, in order to be properly solidify the empire. We shall now proceed to ignore the indistinguishable crease of fear that grows thick upon the brow of the Hegemony and continue to build the HIC. Warmongering tactics will not dissuade us from our Hexacarbide ambitions.
Galactic Report:
The Bugs seem to have returned. Although I heard a faint rustle of something a few days ago, I dismissed it as the leaves on the trees. I'm sure that is what is was, just wind in the trees, because so far I have seen no bugs. Maybe the empire of Windsor is only nieeve, but never the less we will prepare in some way... Perhaps bug zappers at Star-Mart?
The H in H2O is Hexacarbide. The H in Hexacarbide is Hexacarbide. Heaven is made out of Hexacarbide!!!
--Imperator--
Terran Propaganda Broadcast III and Declaration of War:
It is the 47th Cycle of the Imperium's foundation, and dark times are now upon us. Greater powers once again threaten our sovereignty, and we stand ready to answer the call to arms. It is said that history repeats itself: true words indeed as on this day, the Imperial Legions again assemble to rain destruction down upon those who would seek to do us harm.
This cold war with the Hegemony is over. They have attempted to curb the exponential growth of Imperial fleet power by attacking our shipyards, out of fear that their long-time rival would ascend from being merely the second greatest power to displacing them as the Apex Predator of the galaxy.
Heed this warning: the Hegemony is a tyrannical oppressor, its bloated mass occupying over a quarter of the galactic volume south of the Rift. Not to mention their so-called Galactic Highway Network looming menacingly over every smaller power's capital. The Auroran regime claims to promote order and stability in the galaxy, but in reality promotes only their Hegemonic dominion above all. Placing jumpbeacons throughout space in such a manner as to encroach on every single empires' territory, providing them instant access to core worlds while those same empires have neither similar access nor the means to challenge them, is simply an injustice that can no longer be tolerated.
This ends today. So begins the Last Great War, the War To End All Wars. I, Imperator Eternal, Highlord of Terra and all her colonies, Lion of the North, and Liberator of the Galaxy, do solemnly and officially declare a state of open warfare between the Imperium and the Auroran Hegemony.
It will NOT be a war of annihilation. We will capture a number of capitals and hubs to drive our point home, but will not seek to capture every single sector capital. The Imperium's grievances have been made clear in our casus belli, and we will accept nothing less than an unconditional surrender:
1. This war will continue until the Hegemony relinquishes claim on all AHGHN worlds. Anything outside of a cluster is forfeit and must be either surrendered to the Imperium, or to a lesser power.
2. The Hegemony's domain shall be confined to the South East. Their two clusters: Citadel of the Dawn and Serpent Gate north of it are forfeit, as is all the territory to the West they conquered from the late Q. These must all be offered as gift worlds to other empires.
3. Nothing resembling a galaxy-spanning network of beacons with infinite reach shall ever be constructed again.
The building of this "highway" all over space is a travesty and a menace to true peace and stability. We are returning to the barbaric ways of past Eras where an empire lives or dies by the strength of its jumpfleet alone. How can other empires be assured in their dominions with the everpresent threat of Hegemony jumpships lurking in the shadows? The AHGHN will be demolished, and balance restored. I shall make it so.
AURORA DELENDA EST.
TheBugKing
Location: Somewhere between U and V
HERE ARE THE WORDS OF THE BUG KING.
Fire, Fire, Fire;
Streaks of golden light,
Rays of cosmic waves crashing through still dead night.
Here are some meaningful words spoken unto the Auroran Hegemony.
The Bug King, King of the Bugz and Emperor of Aelion does hereby decrees Auroran Hegemony, who is Wayward Device, you may have no more than 500 worlds, till era 4. George knows when that is.
We the Bugzzzzzzz have returned from the underside of the Universe, it was a bit chilly, and with the superior might of the combined forces of Imperium and Bugz threw you down. You are down.
Aururan Hegemony, you are charged with having Hegemony. Bad.
You are charged with having highways. Bad.
You are charged with having free citizens. Also bad.
From this day until the 4th era you will be subjected to Imerpiums decree or else be spanked, and by spanked I mean have your fleets turned to chard carbon, your worlds bombarded into oblivion and your "free citizens" banished to the corner until they apologize for being free!
As the rare occasion permits, we are allied "temporarily" the Imperium. We will not destroy your empire or aspire to do such. Unless you abdicate, then we will be gleeful. Otherwise, you are permited to subsist on what worlds are left of your tattered remains of an empire.
You are officially banished from the Nebula.
You are officially banished from the West.
You are officially banished from the NE above the rift.
You will remain with no greater than 500 worlds.
Failure to comply will assure destruction. Fleets in the Bugshpere will be eliminated with extreme prejudice.
We will go now, upon our return, if you have more than 500 worlds there shall be no place in the galaxy for you to hide. There will be one term: extinction.
The Bug King
The first Cycle of the Great War was a resounding success. Imperial legionaries conducted themselves admirably on the field of battle, unwavering as the formidable Auroran forces broke upon their lines.
Total casualties on the Imperial side add up to some 500k Helions and 100k Minotaurs. In contrast, the Hegemony has lost 500k Undines, 100k Gorgos and 50k Megatheres in direct combat alone. The count of fleet losses from civil war, rebellions and defections remain unknown, but are estimated to be staggeringly high.
In an astonishing turn of events, the Imperium's "ally" Windsor revealed themselves to be led by the Bug King, who even created a separate persona as L.W. Windsor to add authenticity to the deception. Very impressive! This far surpasses all the underhanded tactics employed by the Imperium to date. Whether this conflict was planned and prepared for all along, or even instigated by them is unknown. The motives are clear, though: revenge for the destruction of Mercutio many cycles past. The old saying, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" has proven true on this day.
This situation places the Imperium in a precarious position, however. We had hoped for a swift conclusion to the conflict and planned to accept the Hegemony's unconditional surrender within the cycle. But the Bug King/Windsor advocated for the total and complete destruction of the Hegemony, and only recently amended terms to limiting them to 500 worlds.
The Imperium does not condone genocide. It is reasonable, despite being uncompromising in its quest for ultimate dominion. We have achieved our goal of weakening the Hegemony's economy to the point where they can no longer hold the position of Alpha Wolf, while ensuring their AHGHN was also demolished. Now, our fleets shall withdraw to fortify Terra against the coming storm.
We will seek peace with the Aurorans under the (non-negotiable) terms outlined above. If they accept, then this Imperium formally withdraws from the Great War and leaves Aurora to fight Windsor if they so desire. We will not participate in a war of annihilation. If they accept the Bug King's much harsher terms as well, then there will be peace overall. If, however, the Hegemony unwisely decides against surrendering at all to either set of demands, and elects to strike back at the Imperium instead, then we have no other recourse but to purify the entire Southeast with cleansing fire.
VIVAT IMPERIUM AETERNA.
Greetings from the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Systems, Marshal Fred Longsword!
We come in peace.
The motion to ratify the edict of agreement to the invitation to the Galactic Forum has just been approved by the Counsel of the Soviets, and I hereby notify this to you eminent and honoured diplomatic envoys of all the civilised worlds of the galaxy.
I guarantee that all the red tape, modules and procedures to come to this conclusion were expedited as hastily as our bureaus could handle the file, and our overseer office could check on the work done by the first level bureaucrats, and our supervision commission could examine the scrutiny of the overseer office on the procedure.
The most renown products of our glorious industries include vodka, rocket engines, caviar and red tape: we are leaders in the galactic production of mouse-printed paperwork, we have a form for anything you could possibly imagine.
Average efficiency over all the systems has skyrocketed to 15% during the course of the current Quinquennial Plan, a stratospheric result that shows the greater achievements of the united proletariat under the enlightened rule of the Communist Party, the organised avantgarde of the Revolution.
You may have heard of pockets of rebellion on some planets, but I deny these false allegations coming from imperialist propaganda. We have evidence that the ringleaders of the so called rebel forces are drug lords, leading armies of mercenaries and criminals, instigated by foreign powers to hamper the people's efforts to improve the living standards in our lands, through sabotage and other offences, in a conspiracy aimed at stunting the success of the 5-years plan.
Marshal Fred Longsword - General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Systems.
Terran Propaganda Broadcast IV:
Here is a galactic map as of cycle 4404.
In the 61st year of the Imperium's foundation, the might of Terra reigns absolute and unchallenged throughout the galaxy. The Imperium has undoubtedly replaced the Hegemony as the True Great Power: its dominion of a thousand worlds shall stand eternally in pride and glory.
Every single Imperial world now contributes to reinforcing our prime industry: military strength. At present, the sum of our standing forces total 90k Megatheres, 600k Gorgos, 22M Minotaurs (!), 1.6M Cerberus, 2.2M Undines, 4.5M Adamants, 6M Eldritch, 12M Helions and 900k Warphants. This Grand Imperial Navy enforces Terran authority over all, bringing both minor and major powers in check. No beacons will be established where they shouldn't be, no worlds colonized beyond where we permit. Given these numbers, it is supremely improbable that Terran might shall ever falter: no single empire possesses the fleet power necessary to present anything more than a laughable threat, barring a Grand Alliance of all other empires... which would then only be a close match.
The events of the Great War shattered the once mighty Hegemony jumpfleet, being reduced to a mere 80k Undines, 500k Eldritch, 4.3M Adamants, 2.2M Helions and 4.4M Warphants. The sum of their offensive forces lies barely above the minor powers, while being outmatched by the Saxophon Traders altogether. Interestingly, they have opted for an all-in defensive doctrine to even further reinforce their still formidable starfleet of 1.7M Megatheres, 3.3M Gorgos and 4.3M Minotaurs.
The brief alliance with Windsor has dissolved, following their abdication after an unsuccessful ploy to sow chaos as the two Great Powers battled for supremacy in a War In Heaven. Their actions have only replaced one hegemony with another. How fitting. We commend their actions as a valuable ally and cunning opponent.
Having survived for 347 cycles, the ancient Saxophon Traders Union remains a beacon of stability in the south. While not warlike in nature, they nevertheless still possess a powerful fleet of 350k Gorgos, 1.6M Minotaurs, 1.8M Adamants and 2.6M Eldritch. Imperial officers wonder if this fleet will ever be put to good use, as it stands they are pacifistic in nature to the point of not resisting the ongoing Imperial occupation of the northern Londor District.
There are two newcomers in recent cycles: the Grome Collective in the south neighbouring the Saxophons, who have initiated diplomatic contact with the Imperium. And the mysterious empire of O3 in the north, presumably some kind of ozone-based sentients actively colonizing the small buffer zones between the Imperial Capital Complex and its outer clusters.
The minor powers of AOFK, Soviet, Meklon, NEWBIE and Aelion still stand, and all have recognised Imperial authority as paramount. Any past diplomatic influence of the Hegemony is long ended, and the future galactic rule of law shall be shaped on Terra alone.
All hail the New Order!
ikeaj
It is with great pride that the Empire of Sol announces our arrival as an independent and autonomous people.
Once under the control of the oppressive Imperium, we have successfully claimed independence. We, citizens of New Mars, were rapidly able to spread the message of enlightenment to surrounding worlds, before realizing a potentially fatal dilemma: New Mars was not on the outskirts of Imperium territories, as propaganda had foretold, but was rather directly in the center of Imperium territory. It would seem Imperium uses this trick to fool their people into accepting what can only be described as "pioneer-esque conditions and amenities," despite being a mere 150 light years from the legendarily luxurious capitol planet, Terra, also known as Old Earth.
Putting our past differences aside, the citizens of New Mars and the collective Empire of Sol would like to extend an offering of peace and free enterprise between ourselves and Imperium. We need time to grow and solidify our meager holdings, and once proper arrangements are made, shall send our best and brightest out into the unexplored void to colonize and enlighten the untamed worlds beyond Imperium space.
Until such an expedition is prepared, we merely ask to not be annihilated.
With respect,
Executive President of the New Martian Government and Grand Emperor of the Empire of Sol,
Geegaw Washingburg
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Robyn Rhudy help 'at' fishpondinfo.com http://www.fishpondinfo.com
I was laid off from my full time job at the end of 2011 after 14 years when they moved to Iowa. I worked part time for the same employer through 3/23/12. I got a part time job in February of 2013 and a full-time job in June of 2013.
The version you see below has personal information removed. To see my cover letter, a short version of the resume, and a long complete version, please contact me.
SCHOOL NAME OMITTED
MS in analytical chemistry awarded May 1996
Final GPA: 3.68
BS in chemistry and minor in French awarded May 1994
Final GPA: 3.83 (Magna Cum Laude, academic and departmental honors)
Honors & Awards:
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, 1994-1996
The American Institute of Chemists Foundation Student Award for excellence in the chemical sciences, May 1994
Distinguished Scholarship in Chemistry, April 1994
Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry, 1993
Presidential Scholarship, $10,000, 1990-1994
Honors College Scholarship, $2,000, 1990-1994
Certificate of Merit, June 1990
President's Academic Fitness Award, June 1990
Northeast Conference Award for Excellence in Language Study (French), June 1990
Bausch and Lomb Science Award, 1989
NAME OMITTED (environmental laboratory):
Full Time Wet Chemist, May 27, 2014 to present
Test for/with the following with lots of quality control: Solids (TS, VS, TSS, VSS, TDS, VDS, SS), two electrodes (pH, conductivity, salinity), an AQ1 Seal Discrete Analyzer (ammonia, alkalinity, cyanide, hexavalent chromium), a Dionex system for anions (similar to HPLC), and four lamp systems (COD, chlorine, total organic halides (TOX), turbidity, and hexavalent chromium on soils).
Full Time Sample Login Coordinator, June 18, 2013 to June 4, 2014
Processed environmental soil and water samples
Used Oracle-based LIMS
NAME OMITTED (grocery store):
Part Time Deli Associate, February 11, 2013 to June 21, 2013
Made and served lunch meat, cheese, sandwiches, subs, bread, pizza, etc.
Part-Time Author, 2001 to 2012.
Non-fiction - Robyn's Pond Book and contributions to various e-newsletters.
See http://www.fishpondinfo.com/book.htm for more information.
NAME OMITTED:
Outsourcing Coordinator (transitional position after chemistry was shut down)
Part Time, April 2011 to September 2, 2011
Full Time, September 6, 2011 to December 30, 2011
Part Time, January 3, 2012 to March 23, 2012
Examined received chemistry samples, determined test codes, packed and shipped samples to other labs, communicated with the other labs, reported results in LIMS, altered reports as needed by clients, composited chicken, tested for flavomycin via microassay, and more.
NAME OMITTED (food testing laboratory):
Full Time Senior Chemist (Head HPLC Chemist), December 9, 1997 to September 2, 2011
Tested for food additives, contaminants, etc. via HPLC and other methods; for example (not all listed), aflatoxins, anions, aspartame, aspirin, Vitamin A and beta-carotene, beta-cryptoxanthin, capsaicins (Scoville Heat, my speciality), malachite green, minocycline, erythromycin, flavonoides, furazolidone, nitrofurazone, metronidazole, nalidixic acid, sulfonamides, theobromine, theophylline, MSG, organic acids, ethoxyquin, BHA, BHT, polyphenols, sulfa drugs, cephalosporins, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, sugars, sugar alcohols, vanillin, vanillic acid, four other compounds found in vanilla extract, tetracyclines in meat and feed, caffeine, saccharin, benzoic acid, various acids (citric, ascorbic, erythorbic, propionic, etc.), patulin, HMF, Vitamins B (B1,2,3,&6), C, D, E, and K, acesulfame-K, glycyrrhizic acid, indole, lutein, lycopene, penicillins, styrene, sucralose, limonin, nicarbazin, virginiamycin, EDTA, and more more via HPLC; arsenic, hardness, alkalinity, aflatoxin, juice authenticity, melamine, etc.; used centrifuge, vacuum systems, lots of wet chemistry, etc. (see below under skills for equipment used)
NAME OMITTED.
Assistant, June 23, 1997 to July 7, 1997
Did temporary work xeroxing, faxing, using spreadsheets, and other office work
Analytical Chemist, December 30, 1996 to June 20, 1997
Worked in the TSM4 office in the environmental analysis lab using equipment such as the Hewlett Packard 4500 ICP-MS, Hewlett Packard 5970 and 5890 GC-MS, Midi-Vap Model MCV100-3 Midi-Cyanide Distillation System, CEM MDS-8ID, and Milton Roy Spectronic 301 to test various fresh and salt water samples and metal samples for metals, organics, cyanide, etc. as well as performing many other assignments
Sales Clerk, Aquarium Store, October 9, 1996 to November 18, 1996
Helped to maintain over 500 fish tanks, advised customers, sold live animals and supplies, and performed miscellaneous tasks as needed
SCHOOL NAME OMITTED.
Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA), August 1994 to June 1996
Oversaw organic chemistry and then instrumental analysis laboratories
Intern, June to July 1993
Conducted biotoxicity tests using cultured minnows and daphnia and some chemical water testing
SCHOOL NAME OMITTED, Chemistry Tutorial Center
Tutor, September to December 1992
NAME OMITTED (non profit that works on streams).
Worked on stream and watershed surveying, cartography, identifying aquatic macroinvertebrates, etc.
NAME OMITTED (magic store).
Sales Clerk and Demonstrator, June to August 1988
Demonstrated and sold magic supplies and helped keep shop
Professional Magician, December 1984 to October 1989
Performed 33+ shows (9 paid, 24 volunteer)
Post-Masters Seminars and Courses:
Waters HPLC Forum '98 - 4 hours, 5/6/98.
Chromatography Institute of America, Normal and Reverse Phase HPLC - 18 hours, 4/22/99 and 4/23/99.
Shimadzu HPLC Preventative Maintenance Course - 16 hours, 6/17/04 and 6/18/04.
Work well in a chemical laboratory setting.
Love to work behind a desk and on the computer.
Communicate efficiently and able to teach others.
Can write reports, memos, procedures, etc. very well. Author of Robyn's Pond Book sold at Author House.
Familiar with instruments including but not confined to LC, GC, GC-MS, AA, UV-VIS, PV, CV, ICP-MS, CN- distillation, refractometer, pH and ion meters, Vicam Series 4 Fluorometer (for aflatoxin),etc.
Familiar with the following: graduated cylinders, beakers, Erlenmeyer flasks, Buchner funnels, volumetric flasks, reflux systems, analytical balances, centrifuges, steam baths, wrist shakers, hot water shake baths, vortexes, sonnicators, venturis (for de-gassing and vacuum filtering), pipettes (all sorts), and most other things found in a chemistry lab.
Specific liquid chromatographic equipment utilized at Strasburger and Seigel:
Pumps = Beckman 110A,Waters 501, Waters 510, Shimadzu LC-10AT, and Shimadzu LC- 20AD
Auto-Injectors = Shimadzu SIL-10AD and SIL-20AHT (all other machines were manual injection).
UV Detectors = Waters 481, Shimadzu SPD-10AV and SPD-20AV
Fluorescence Detectors = Shimadzu RF-530, RF-551, and RF-10AXL
RI Detector = Erma ERC-7510
ELSD Detector = Shimadzu ELSD-LT
Conductivity Detectors = Waters 431 and Shimadzu CDD-10A
Integrators = Shimadzu CR601, Spectra Physics 4400, Shimadzu C-R8A, Hewlett Packard HP3396, and Waters 740
Controllers = Shimadzu SCL-10A and CBM-20A
Oven = Shimadzu CTO-20AC
De-gassers = Shimadzu DGS-14 A and DGU-20A3
Client Server (software for newer machines) = Shimadzu Class-VP
Excel in environmental tasks.
Love caring for animals (100's of fish in 5 fish tanks and 6 ponds,15 other permanent pets, and dozens more pond and temporary animals).
Voted smartest female in graduating 1990 class with difficult coursework, 3.5 years straight A's, top 5% of class, and perfect attendance.
Speak French almost fluently (yearly classes 1984-1994) and capable of basic translation.
Can use both IBM and Apple/Macintosh.
Computer Languages (on simple level): Basic, Fortran, HTML
Programs (all versions/years): Windows, WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, Excel, Lotus, Paint Shop, Cricket Graph, PSI Plot, Microsoft Outlook, Genesis (NLEA labeling), LIMS (DOS-based and internet-based laboratory management software), and more
Moderate to fast typing.
Experience designing, writing (in HTML), and maintaining my large web site.
Computer Games:
Helped to create a few computer games including a graphic adventure using an interface created by my brother and worked on the pictures, sounds, and error checking for the well known shareware game
Learn new computer languages, skills, and programs very quickly
Created these web pages with virtually no training (just a handful of commands)
Honors College, SCHOOL NAME OMITTED, 1990-1994
Phi Kappa Phi honor society, March 1993-1994
French Honor Society, 1989-1990
NAME OMITTED (magicians' society), September 1986-early 1990's
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Paraphyletic group of plants
Informal paraphyletic group of vascular plants that reproduce by spores
Division: Pteridophyta
A pteridophyte is a vascular plant (with xylem and phloem) that disperses spores. Because pteridophytes produce neither flowers nor seeds, they are sometimes referred to as "cryptogams", meaning that their means of reproduction is hidden. Ferns, horsetails (often treated as ferns), and lycophytes (clubmosses, spikemosses, and quillworts) are all pteridophytes. However, they do not form a monophyletic group because ferns (and horsetails) are more closely related to seed plants than to lycophytes. "Pteridophyta" is thus no longer a widely accepted taxon, but the term pteridophyte remains in common parlance, as do pteridology and pteridologist as a science and its practitioner, respectively. Ferns and lycophytes share a life cycle and are often collectively treated or studied, for example by the International Association of Pteridologists and the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group.
2 Taxonomy
2.1 Phylogeny
2.2 Subdivision
Description[edit]
Pteridophytes (ferns and lycophytes) are free-sporing vascular plants that have a life cycle with alternating, free-living gametophyte and sporophyte phases that are independent at maturity. The body of the sporophyte is well differentiated into roots, stem and leaves. The root system is always adventitious. The stem is either underground or aerial. The leaves may be microphylls or megaphylls. Their other common characteristics include vascular plant apomorphies (e.g., vascular tissue) and land plant plesiomorphies (e.g., spore dispersal and the absence of seeds).[1] [2]
Taxonomy[edit]
Phylogeny[edit]
Of the pteridophytes, ferns account for nearly 90% of the extant diversity.[2] Smith et al. (2006), the first higher-level pteridophyte classification published in the molecular phylogenetic era, considered the ferns as monilophytes, as follows:[3]
Division Tracheophyta (tracheophytes) - vascular plants
Subdivision Lycopodiophyta (lycophytes) - less than 1% of extant vascular plants
Sub division Euphyllophytina (euphyllophytes)
Infradivision Moniliformopses (monilophytes)
Infradivision Spermatophyta - seed plants, ~260,000 species
where the monilophytes comprise about 9,000 species, including horsetails (Equisetaceae), whisk ferns (Psilotaceae), and all eusporangiate and all leptosporangiate ferns. Historically both lycophytes and monilophytes were grouped together as pteridophytes (ferns and fern allies) on the basis of being spore-bearing ("seed-free"). In Smith's molecular phylogenetic study the ferns are characterised by lateral root origin in the endodermis, usually mesarch protoxylem in shoots, a pseudoendospore, plasmodial tapetum, and sperm cells with 30-1000 flagella.[3] The term "moniliform" as in Moniliformopses and monilophytes means "bead-shaped" and was introduced by Kenrick and Crane (1997)[4] as a scientific replacement for "fern" (including Equisetaceae) and became established by Pryer et al. (2004).[5] Christenhusz and Chase (2014) in their review of classification schemes provide a critique of this usage, which they discouraged as irrational. In fact the alternative name Filicopsida was already in use.[6] By comparison "lycopod" or lycophyte (club moss) means wolf-plant. The term "fern ally" included under Pteridophyta generally refers to vascular spore-bearing plants that are not ferns, including lycopods, horsetails, whisk ferns and water ferns (Marsileaceae, Salviniaceae and Ceratopteris), and even a much wider range of taxa.[clarification needed] This is not a natural grouping but rather a convenient term for non-fern, and is also discouraged, as is eusporangiate for non-leptosporangiate ferns.[7]
However both Infradivision and Moniliformopses are also invalid names under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Ferns, despite forming a monophyletic clade, are formally only considered as four classes (Psilotopsida; Equisetopsida; Marattiopsida; Polypodiopsida), 11 orders and 37 families, without assigning a higher taxonomic rank.[3]
Furthermore, within the Polypodiopsida, the largest grouping, a number of informal clades were recognised, including leptosporangiates, core leptosporangiates, polypods (Polypodiales), and eupolypods (including Eupolypods I and Eupolypods II).[3]
In 2014 Christenhusz and Chase, summarising the known knowledge at that time, treated this group as two separate unrelated taxa in a consensus classification;[7]
Lycopodiophyta (lycopods) 1 subclass, 3 orders, each with one family, 5 genera, approx. 1,300 species
Polypodiophyta (ferns) 4 sublasses, 11 orders, 21 families, approx. 212 genera, approx. 10,535 species
Subclass Equisetidae Warm.
Subclass Ophioglossidae Klinge
Subclass Marattiidae Klinge
Subclass Polypodiidae Cronquist, Takht. & Zimmerm.
These subclasses correspond to Smith's four classes, with Ophioglossidae corresponding to Psilotopsida.
The two major groups previously included in Pteridophyta are phylogenetically related as follows:[7][8][9]
Tracheophyta – vascular plants
Euphyllophyta
Polypodiophyta – ferns
Spermatophyta – seed plants
Gymnospermae
Angiospermae – flowering plants
Subdivision[edit]
Pteridophytes consist of two separate but related classes, whose nomenclature has varied.[3][10] The system put forward by the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group in 2016, PPG I, is:[2]
Class Lycopodiopsida Bartl. – lycophytes: clubmosses, quillworts and spikemosses; 3 extant orders
Order Lycopodiales DC. ex Bercht. & J.Presl – clubmosses; 1 extant family
Order Isoetales Prantl – quillworts; 1 extant family
Order Selaginellales Prantl – spikemosses; 1 extant family
Class Polypodiopsida Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm. – horsetails and ferns; 11 extant orders
Subclass Equisetidae Warm. – horsetails; 1 extant order, family and genus (Equisetum)
Order Equisetales DC. ex Bercht. & J.Presl – 1 extant family
Subclass Ophioglossidae Klinge – 2 extant orders
Order Psilotales Prant – whisk ferns; 1 extant family
Order Ophioglossales Link – grape ferns; 1 extant family
Subclass Marattiidae Klinge – marattioid ferns; 1 extant order
Order Marattiales Link – 1 extant family
Subclass Polypodiidae Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm. – leptosporangiate ferns; 7 extant orders
Order Osmundales Link – 1 extant family
Order Hymenophyllales A.B.Frank – 1 extant family
Order Gleicheniales Schimp – 3 extant families
Order Schizaeales Schimp. – 3 extant families
Order Salviniales Link – 2 extant families
Order Cyatheales A.B.Frank – 8 extant families
Order Polypodiales Link – 26 extant families
In addition to these living groups, several groups of pteridophytes are now extinct and known only from fossils. These groups include the Rhyniopsida, Zosterophyllopsida, Trimerophytopsida, the Lepidodendrales and the Progymnospermopsida.
Modern studies of the land plants agree that all pteridophytes share a common ancestor with seed plants. Therefore, pteridophytes do not form a clade but constitute a paraphyletic group.
Ecology[edit]
Pteridophyte life cycle
Just as with bryophytes and spermatophytes (seed plants), the life cycle of pteridophytes involves alternation of generations. This means that a diploid generation (the sporophyte, which produces spores) is followed by a haploid generation (the gametophyte or prothallus, which produces gametes). Pteridophytes differ from bryophytes in that the sporophyte is branched and generally much larger and more conspicuous, and from seed plants in that both generations are independent and free-living. The sexuality of pteridophyte gametophytes can be classified as follows:
Dioicous: each individual gametophyte is either male (producing antheridia and hence sperm) or female (producing archegonia and hence egg cells).
Monoicous: each individual gametophyte produces both antheridia and archegonia and can function both as a male and as a female.
Protandrous: the antheridia mature before the archegonia (male first, then female).
Protogynous: the archegonia mature before the antheridia (female first, then male).
These terms are not the same as monoecious and dioecious, which refer to whether a seed plant's sporophyte bears both male and female gametophytes, i. e., produces both pollen and seeds, or just one of the sexes.
Embryophyte
Fern ally
^ Schneider & Schuettpelz 2016.
^ a b c Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group 2016.
^ a b c d e Smith et al.2006.
^ Kenrick & Crane 1997.
^ Pryer et al. 2004.
^ Kenrick & Crane 1997a.
^ a b c Christenhusz & Chase 2014.
^ Cantino et al. 2007.
^ Chase & Reveal 2009.
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New NREL and Georgia Tech Collaborative Appointment Program Launched
Partnership Will Advance Energy Technologies and Cultivate a New Pipeline of Future Scientists
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Georgia Institute of Technology today announced a new joint appointment program as part of an effort to enhance research collaboration between the lab and universities, foster the exchange of ideas, and promote the advancement of science and future collaborations.
The agreement, which was announced by NREL Director Martin Keller at a Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute event, establishes an official avenue for the exchange of Georgia Tech faculty and NREL employees across both institutions. Samuel Graham, the Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. school chair of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering, will be the first appointee under this new program.
NREL Laboratory Director Martin Keller spoke at Georgia Tech on April 16, 2019 and met with Tim Lieuwen, executive director of the Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech, to celebrate the new joint appointment program. (Photo: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)
The purpose of the program is to attract rising stars in scientific and engineering fields and to enhance the quality of the science, technology, education, and industrial development in the regions surrounding Georgia Tech and NREL. This mutually beneficial relationship will combine the expertise and leadership of both the university and the lab in the pursuit of innovative research and help prepare the next generation of future scientists through scholarly excellence.
"Under this joint agreement, NREL and Georgia Tech open up an avenue for significant research collaboration to explore opportunities for advanced energy technologies in a wide range of energy efficiency and renewable energy applications," said Johney Green, associate lab director for Mechanical and Thermal Engineering Sciences at NREL. "NREL researchers are excited to continue collaborating with Graham and his team and benefiting from the expertise of a prestigious educational institution like Georgia Tech."
The formal collaboration between Georgia Tech and NREL will initially focus on the fundamental research and development of advanced wide bandgap (WBG) technologies used in electrical power transfer applications—such as vehicle drive systems, building technologies, and solar inverters. This unique arrangement will allow NREL to leverage the extensive expertise that Georgia Tech has in thermal energy sciences. Working with Graham, NREL's vehicle electrification and advanced manufacturing research programs aim to advance WBG materials science and develop low-thermal-resistance power electronics packaging. The goal is to make devices and components smaller, more efficient, and higher-performing compared to present-day silicon-based component packaging.
"Given the breadth and depth of Georgia Tech and NREL's expertise in renewable energy, this partnership is very exciting," said Tim Lieuwen, executive director of the Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech. "This agreement will facilitate the continued growth of our relationship and existing partnerships."
The NREL Buildings Program will also benefit from this exchange as the lab works to strengthen its research capabilities with emphasis on optimized energy use, generation, and storage in the built environment at multiple scales. Georgia Tech's Heat Transfer, Combustion, and Energy Systems Research Group is one of the largest thermal and energy science groups in the country, with a focus on cutting-edge basic and applied research that ranges from nanoengineered materials to large thermal energy systems.
"We're excited for how this agreement significantly expands our research capabilities," said NREL Buildings Laboratory Program Manager Roderick Jackson. "Georgia Tech has a reputation for being leaders in this research space, which we can now leverage as we transform energy through building science."
Learn more about NREL's research organization partners and how to work with them.
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TV host Abdel-Rehim Ali taken off air after Sawiris remarks
Black Box on Al-Qahira Wal Nas satellite channel, which has aired private phone calls by political activists over the past year, claimed business tycoon Naguib Sawiris funded terrorism in Sinai
Zeinab El-Gundy , Monday 18 Aug 2014
Abdel-Rehim Ali (L) and Naguib Sawiris (R)
Egypt's interior minister says ministry had nothing to do with activists' leaks
Egypt rights groups slam activist phone tap 'leaks'
Controversial TV programme Black Box has been taken off air on Sunday evening.
The show's host, Abdel-Rehim Ali, accused business tycoon Naguib Sawiris of being behind the suspension.
Sunday's episode was pulled by hosting Al-Qahira Wal Nas channel, which later announced the show had been suspended.
Ali, who is also editor-in-chief of Al-Bawaba news website, claimed the channel was giving into pressure from Sawiris.
Ali had claimed he was going to air phone calls proving Naguib Sawiris had funded the pro-Muslim Brotherhood Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Nahda protest camps, as well terrorist operations against army and police targets in the Sinai Peninsula.
A war of words between Ali and Sawiris started last Thursday when the latter said via Twitter that he could no longer watch the show and accused Ali of being "an informant."
“Watching another episode from that informer Abdel-Rehim Ali’s show will turn me in to a Muslim Brotherhood sympathiser," Sawiris said.
Last Thursday, Ali aired phone calls which he claimed were of Brotherhood leaders trying to buy weapons from arm dealers for use at the Rabaa and Nahda sits-in, which were dispersed on 14 August last year leaving hundreds dead.
On Sunday, Ali accused Sawiris of failing to fulfill his pledge to donate LE3 billion to the "Long Live Egypt" fund, set up by President El-Sisi, and of donating LE7 billion to the Muslim Brotherhood.
"The Muslim Brotherhood used the seven billion to buy weapons and kill our sons from the army and police in Sinai," he claimed in his Al-Bawaba column.
In March 2013, Orascom Construction Industries, which is owned by the Sawiris family, paid LE7 billion to the Egyptian government after a tax dispute.
In the same column, Ali shared the alleged transcript of a phone call between former vice president Mohamed ElBaradei and Naguib Sawiris from March 2013. During the call, Sawiris and ElBaradei discussed their meetings with EU officials as well the situation in Egypt.
Ali also hinted that Sawiris had accused then-defence minister Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi of being a member of the Brotherhood.
Sawiris is a founder of the liberal Free Egyptians Party, which joined the National Salvation Front formed during the presidency of the Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi to oppose his policies.
In statements to Al-Watan newspaper website on Sunday, Al-Qahira Wal Nas owner Tarek Nour denied Sawiris had influenced the decision to suspend the show.
“Sawiris did not call the channel or interfere to get the show suspended. The channel administration had to suspend it after Ali violated the rules and policies set up by the channel.
"Ali turned the discussion of general matters into a discussion of his own personal vendettas to defame people.
“We agreed to air the phone calls because we thought they served the current national security demands and policies, especially because Egypt is currently at a very critical moment.”
In the past Ali used to speak about movements, such as the April 6 Youth Movement, and not particular people, Nour added.
The show began airing private telephone conversations of activists and politicians in December 2013. They included calls by Wael Ghonim, Asmaa Mahfouz, Mostafa El-Naggar, Mohamed ElBaradei, April 6 founders Ahmed Maher and Mohamed Adel, as well leading Brotherhood members.
Ali claimed the calls proved the activists had been plotting to bring down the state since the January 2011 revolution.
Several activists filed lawsuits against Ali and Al-Qahira Wal Nas for violating the constitution and the law, while a number of human rights organisations called for the prosecutor-general to open an investigation into how Ali acquired the recordings.
In early January, the interior ministry denied any connection with the leaks.
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Sources: Egypt will not escalate response to Israeli killing of Egyptian soldiers
An informed source reveals behind-the-scene efforts to calm the sticky diplomatic quagmire caused by Israel's killing of five Egyptian soldiers Thursday night
Dina Ezzat , Saturday 20 Aug 2011
Demonstration outside of Israeli Embassy in Cairo, Photo: Mai Shaheen
Peace treaty with Israel should be renegotiated after Israeli killings: Egyptian presidential hopeful, Bastawisi
Sit-in continues at Israeli Embassy in Egypt
Minister of information annouces decision to recall Egypt's ambassador from Israel
Egyptians protest outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo
"At the moment we are inclined to summon our ambassador in Tel Aviv for consultations, but I don’t think we will go very far beyond this; the ambassador will come for a few days or a couple of weeks and then he will go back," said an informed Egyptian official.
The official acknowledged some attempts from influential Western capitals to dissuade Egypt from an overly harsh, angry reaction over the killing of Egyptian soldiers on the borders with Israel Thursday night. The soldiers were killed in the wake of an Israeli attack on the besieged Gaza strip that spilled into Egyptian border and territories.
Egyptians have been protesting in front of the Israeli embassy demanding, among ther things, to expel the Israeli ambassador from Egypt and cut off relations.
Conversely, the message that has been coming from some capitals, including Washington, according to this source, is that Israel had warned Egypt of conspicuous tunnels being dug between Gaza and the eastern Egyptian borders that are being used to smuggle weapons.
Egypt had already received an Israeli agreement to upgrade the military presence on the borders between Egypt and Israel beyond the limitations of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. It was intended to raise Egypt’s control of the situation in Sinai in the wake of infiltration of some militants from Gaza into Sinai through the tunnels.
"We shared information with Israel to the effect that these militants are only pockets of a radical militant group in Gaza; and I am not talking about Hamas," said another Egyptian official. "We had been sharing concern about the situation in Sinai and the Israelis know very well through the consultations of the past few days that this situation is [just as much] a reason for our concern as it is for theirs," he added.
Cairo has been trying to keep its relations with Tel Aviv in order since the end of the Hosni Mubarak regime on 11 February. They sent clear assurances to Tel Aviv, Washington and other capitals that the end of the Mubarak regime would not entail any change in the nature of peaceful relations with Israel.
Cairo, according to the same officials, is not planning to bring up the issue of re-negotiating the details of the Egyptian military presence in Sinai, as specified by the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.
"This is not planned for now; what we are working on now is to contain the situation and restore order," said the informed Egyptian official.
He added that Cairo is still expecting to keep the upgraded military presence in Sinai within the current range that has been agreed upon with Israel.
According to a Sinai-based security source, security measures are being firmly stepped up.
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17:59 Honduras formally declares Hezbollah a terrorist organization
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Altaf Merchant, Ph.D.
altafm@uw.edu
http://altafmerchant.webs.com/
Interim Gary E. & James A. Milgard Endowed Dean; Professor of Marketing
Dougan 401B
Dr. Altaf Merchant is Interim Gary E. & James A. Milgard Endowed Dean and Professor of Marketing at the Milgard School of Business. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Lorraine, and the Aix-Marseille University in France, Senior Research Fellow at the King’s College (U.K.), and Distinguished Professor in Residence at MICA School of Strategic Marketing in India. Dr. Merchant serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Advertising Research and Program Co-Chair of the 2019 Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference. He has published over 28 peer reviewed articles and made over 60 scholarly presentations worldwide. His research focuses on advertising, branding, cross-cultural and nonprofit marketing issues. Prior to teaching, Professor Merchant was a brand/marketing manager for several global brands for over ten years. Working with Glaxo Smithkline, Reckitt Benckiser and Sara Lee, he coordinated marketing teams and launched products and campaigns internationally across several countries in Asia, Europe and Africa. He currently also serves as Director on the Board of Sound Credit Union, Tacoma.
• Nostalgia
• Brand Heritage
• Cross-Cultural Issues
• Family issues and prosocial behaviors
2019 Academy of Indian Marketing-American Marketing Association Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Distinguished Faculty
2018 UW Leadership Excellence Project participant (2018-2020)
2018 MBA Faculty of the Year Award, Milgard School of Business
2015 Recognized among ten most influential research on Children and Advertising (1972-2015) in the Journal of Advertising
2014 Dean’s commendation for Outstanding Teaching Performance, Milgard School of Business
2013 Great Mind Award from the Advertising Research Foundation for best paper published in the Journal of Advertising Research
2013 Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Annual Meeting
2013 Most Inspirational Faculty Award, Milgard School of Business
2008 Best Paper Award, International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing
2007 Fellow, American Marketing Association-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium
2007 Love of Learning Award, Phi Kappa Phi
2002 Glaxo Smithkline Spirit Award for business excellence for outstanding performance as a brand manager
1997 Dandekar Trophy, Bombay Management Association
1996 Khandelwal Trophy, Faculty of Management, University of Mumbai
Academy of Marketing Science
Program Co-Chair: 2019 Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference (Vancouver, BC): 22 tracks, 44 track chairs.
Co-Chair, Academy of Marketing Science Doctoral Colloquium, 2014 - 2020
Journal of Advertising Research (impact factor: 2.034)
Associate Editor: 2017 - till date
Member, Editorial Advisory Board: 2014 - till date
Journal of Business Research
Managing Guest Editor (Special Issue): 2019-2020
Member, Editorial Review Board : 2016 – till date
Strategy + Business (9th March 2018) , "When Cookie Monster Goes On a Diet", https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/When-Cookie-Monster-Goes-on-a-Die...
• Introduction to Marketing
• Marketing Management
• Innovations Management
• Strategic Brand Management
• Retailing
Altaf Merchant CV 2019 Sept.pdf 215.54 KB
Jain, Varsha, Altaf Merchant, Subhadip Roy and John Ford (2019), “Developing an Emic Scale to Measure Ad-evoked Nostalgia in a Collectivist Emerging Market, India,” Journal of Business Research, 99, 140-156.
Ford, John B., Altaf Merchant, Anne-Laure Bartier and Mike Friedman (2018), “The Cross-Cultural Scale Development Process: The Case of Brand Nostalgia in Belgium and the United States,” Journal of Business Research, 83, 19-29.
Merchant, Altaf, Kathryn Latour, John B. Ford and Michael Latour (2018), “Should Cookie Monster Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle or Continue to Indulge? Insights into Brand Icons,” Psychology and Marketing, 35(1), 64-78.
Pecot, Fabien, Altaf Merchant, Pierre Valette Florence and Virginie DeBarnier (2018), “Cognitive Outcomes of Brand Heritage: A Signaling Perspective,” Journal of Business Research, 85, 304-316.
Merchant, Altaf, Gregory Rose, Sunmee Choi and Drew Martin (2017), “Cross-Cultural Folk-Tale-Elicitation Research on the Perceived Power, Humanistic and Religious Symbolisms, and Use of Money,” Journal of Business Research, 74, 113-119.
Mei Rose, Gregory Rose and Altaf Merchant (2017), “‘Is Old Gold? How Heritage “Sells” The University to Prospective Students,” Journal of Advertising Research, 57(3), 335-351.
Merchant, Altaf, John B. Ford, Christian Dianoux and Jean-Luc Herrmann (2016), “Development and Validation of an Emic Scale to Measure Ad-Evoked Nostalgia in France,” International Journal of Advertising, 35(4), 706-729.
Rose, Gregory, Altaf Merchant, Ulrich Orth and Florian Horstmann (2016), “Emphasizing Brand Heritage: Does it Work? And How?” Journal of Business Research, 69(2), 936-943.
Davalos, Sergio, Altaf Merchant, Gregory Rose, Brent Lessley, and Ankur Teredesai (2015), “The Good Old Days” an Examination of Nostalgia in Facebook Posts,” International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 83, 83-93.
Salvador, Rommel, Altaf Merchant and Elizabeth Alexander (2014), “Faith and Fair Trade: The Moderating Role of Contextual Religious Salience,” Journal of Business Ethics, 121 (3), 353-371..
Merchant, Altaf and Gregory M. Rose (2013), “Effects of Advertising-Evoked Vicarious Nostalgia on Brand Heritage,” Journal of Business Research, 66(12), 2619-2625.
Merchant, Altaf, Kathryn LaTour, John B. Ford and Michael S. LaTour (2013), “How Strong is the Pull of the Past: Measuring Personal Nostalgia Evoked by Advertising,” Journal of Advertising Research, 53(2), 150-165. (THIS PAPER WAS AWARDED THE BEST PAPER PUBLISHED BY THE JOURNAL IN 2013).
Rose, Gregory M., Altaf Merchant and Aysen Bakir (2012), “Fantasy in Food Advertising Targeted at Children.” Journal of Advertising, 41(3), 75-90 (Showcased among 12 most important research papers published on Children and Advertising in the time period 1975-2015).
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Dutch Design Week: Northern Europe’s biggest design event
Over here is an extraordinary next-generation driverless car from Renault. Over there is a what looks like a huge she-wee but which is an underground “ground fridge”. Upstairs is some bonkers work-in progress from first year students.
Welcome to the glorious chaos that Dutch Design Week. Each year in late October over 300,000 art and design enthusiasts visit Eindhoven for this vast celebration and Tim Burke was invited along to take an all-too-brief look.
Some 2,600 designers from around the world come to the spiritual home of Dutch design to exhibit their work and engage in debate. Eindhoven, main city of the province of North Brabant, is where tech giant Phillips set up home and is the place where the CD was invented and where 80 per cent of the chips that power your devices were developed. The next big thing could just be here now – and what fun to dig around for it.
Arriving at the train station you immediately realise how design has taken over this town for a week. Big queues are forming at the booths dispensing wristbands that will get you into everything – it’s no exaggeration to call this the Glastonbury for creatives.
Strijps
It’s then a short walk up to the Strijps area – huge, long buildings that once housed Phillips production lines and are now home to a vibrant mix of innovative retail outlets, bars, restaurants and of course design businesses and education facilities.
Our little group’s first visit is to the Growing Pavilion – described by its designers as “an ode to the beauty and power of bio-based materials” . It showcases building materials that are grown, not made. These guys are serious about sustainability, with a floor made from bulrushes, benches made from rice straw and walls made from mycellium, the kind of fungal substrate from which mushrooms bloom. Indeed everyday they would harvest mushrooms from the walls and give them out to visitors.
Growing Pavillions
Mushroom Harvest
The building used a third as much C02 as conventional building materials, but factor in the CO2 calculations from growing the materials, which are reuse after the life of the pavillion, and then there is a negative CO2 balance of 10 tonnes.
We then decide to split so everyone can just explore on their own. The next few hours are taken up with finding out about 3D printed food, talking barbecues and fast-charge electric racing cars set to take part in Le Mans in 2023. The displays are collected in “design routes” ranging from “future living” to “bio design” to digital, new materials and architecture. There’s a crackle and buzz about the whole city as punters rush to take as much of it in as possible, shooting around on buses or special electric taxis for the event, free to wrist band holders and each featuring a rooftop design icon.
StillLeven
What made the biggest impact for me was in the Art and Collectibles strand – Rocco Verdult’s StillLeven (Still Life) exhibition. To mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the province of Brabant from Nazi occupation, Verdult interviewed 75 locals about their wartime experiences. He then made tiny dioramas replicating key events, all in white (or black for night-time happenings) with only the key characters in colour. Each of these 75 tableaux are displayed on plinths around a vast room, enabling visitors to walk around and grasp the storytellers perspectives. Together they form a hugely moving, humanistic tribute to the bravery of an occupied people.
So then it was time to retire to a watering-hole to discuss what we had seen. We chose Kaserne a remarkable bar set in old police barracks that also serves a leading design exhibition space all year round and a smart restaurant and boutique hotel. For DDW, it really comes into it’s own, packed out with many of the diaspora Dutch designers who return home for this unmissable week.
Chef Cas Pikaar
Brabant is famous in Holland for the quality of its hospitality and the region has an astonishing 21 Michelin stars. Tonight we’ve got a hot ticket for the restaurant widely seen as being the next on that august – Restaurant Doyy. Chef Cas Pikaar offers us more cutting edge design, this time on a plate.
Pikaar is a local lad with Azerbaijani heritage, and his cuisine is a thrilling mix of contemporary Dutch produce with hints of the Steppes. In particular the restaurant is now producing the finest caviar in Europe, having set up their own sturgeon farm in massive tanks in Eindhoven. We are treated to a healthy dollop of dreamy oscietra caviar, consumed in traditional style off the back of the hand. It has unbelievably pure flavour, but maybe its chief joy is its texture – the thrill as it sensually dissolves on the tongue is truly disconcerting. It’s no surprise they are now supplying many of Western Europe’s top restaurants.
Restaurant Doyy
Then follows an impeccable series of modern classics – a cornet of silky goose liver topped with a ginger sorbet, mackeral tartare with tigermilk (a Peruvian marinade for ceviche), eel with an apple foam, a matcha tea desert with flavours of passionfruit, coconut and yoghurt.
We had a few hours at DDW. You’d need a few days to do much more than scratch the surface, but even one day gives a terrific insight into the state of modern European design. And in case you are wondering – almost all information is in English as well as Dutch and virtually everyone speaks good English.
Brabant is great to visit at any time, but why not start planning your visit for DDW 2020 right now?
Dutch Design Week – www.ddw.nl/
Visit Brabant – www.visitbrabant.com/en
Kaserne –www.kazerne.com/en
Restaurant Doyy- www.doyy.nl/
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DR.. MUHAMMAD QASIM
Institute of Sustainable Halophyte Utilization
University of Karachi, Karachi.
E-mail: mqasim@uok.edu.pk
Detailed Curriculum Vitae
PhD (Botany-ISHU-2015) Antioxidant properties of medicinal plants form coastal Pakistan Adviser: Prof. Dr. M. Ajmal Khan Institute of Sustainable Halophyte Utilization, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
M.Sc (Botany- Plant Ecology- 2006) Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan (Stands 3rd) Thesis: "Comparative effect of NaCl, sea salt and PEG on germination of coastal halophytes” Adviser: Prof. Dr. M. Ajmal Khan
B.Sc (Botany-2005) Department of Botany University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
Working as an Research Officer (BPS-17). Institute of Sustainable Halophyte Utilization, University of Karachi.
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS
First Prize in poster competition: International Conference on major Environmental Constraints to Plants: Assessments & Reclamation, held on March 28-30, 2016 at Department of Botany, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Received a scholarship (split Ph.D.) from Higher Education Commission through "International linkage between University of Karachi, Pakistan and University of Tsukuba, Japan for completion of Ph.D. research work.
Indigenous Ph.D. scholarship from Higher Education Commission, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Stands 3rd in M. Sc., Department of Botany, University of Karachi.
Tayyab, M. Qasim, M. Azeem, N. Ahmed and R. Ahmad. 2016. Salt stress responses of Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) on growth, yield and some biochemical attributes. Pakistan Journal of Botany (Accepted Manuscript).
Qasim, M., I. Aziz, B. Gul and M.A. Khan. 2016. Effect of extraction solvents on polyphenols and antioxidant activity of medicinal halophytes. Pakistan Journal of Botany 48 (2): 621-627.
Ehsen, S., M. Qasim, Z. Abideen, R.F. Rizvi, B. Gul, R. Ansari and M.A. Khan. 2016. Secondary metabolites as anti-nutritional factors in locally used halophytic forage/fodder. Pakistan Journal of Botany 48 (2): 629-636.
Tayyab, M. Qasim, M. Azeem and R. Ahmad. 2016. Effect of sea salt on plant growth, yield potential and some biochemical attributes of Carissa carandas L. Pakistan Journal of Botany 48(3): 853-859.
Abideen, Z., M. Qasim, R.F. Rizvi, R. Ansari, B. Gul and M.A. Khan. 2015. Oilseed halophytes: a potential source of biodiesel using saline degraded lands. Biofuels 6 (5-6), 241-248.
Abideen, Z., M. Qasim, A. Rasheed and M.A. Khan. 2015. Salinity effects on polyphenolic content and antioxidant activities in halophyte Phragmites karka (Retz.) Trin. ex Steud. Pakistan Journal of Botany 47(3): 813-818.
Qasim, M., Z. Abideen, M.Y. Adnan, R. Ansari, B. Gul and M.A. Khan. 2014. Traditional ethno-botany uses of medicinal plants from coastal areas of Pakistan. Journal of Coastal Life Medicine, 2 (1) 22-30.
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Catching up with D.I.Ypsi’s movers & makers
Anyone that loves buying handmade and local creations won’t have a hard time finding those perfect gifts for friends and family this year. There are quite a few excellent shows springing up all over Michigan!
On December 11th, the Handmade Detroit crew will be heading out to D.I.Ypsi at The Savoy in Ypsilanti, Michigan! I scoped out the recently launched D.I.Ypsi site for all the show info and press goodies, but wanted to ask co-founder Marcy Davy a few more questions about her and her team.
Sherri Green Carroll has been selling her work and traveling the country show hopping for years. 3D collages are where it’s at for her these days. And Cre Fuller’s the talent behind those shiny, irresistable tin men remade and rewired by tearing about found junk – old percolators and food processor blades and stuff. Cool, right?
Marcy Davy is a true talent. Her prints caught our eye and her kindness forged a team friendship that thankfully has seen her helping out at HD events. Marcy comes from a big family that’s been quilting, wood-working, painting and maple syrup-making for years! Handmade holiday gift exchanges go way back in family traditions. When printmaking was introduced to her in collage she became addicted to the process.
I asked her if she’d had a first indie craft show moment that sparked her in any special way that maybe was a peek into the future. “I was totally unprepared for and blown away by that day. I didn’t really even know that much about the handmade movement in Michigan at the time, and I had just opened an Etsy shop a month before. The sheer number of shoppers, all people choosing to buy locally made goods that were beautiful, well-constructed treasures — it absolutely blew my mind. I left that day filled with possibilities and for the first time, feeling like I was part of a community of makers who were all so incredibly talented and kind.”
A few more years of designing, selling and show-hopping of her own has passed, and the mission of her latest venture, D.I.Ypsi, states it best: “D.I.Ypsi was created out of a love for our community and the artists that work and live here. We have worked very hard to create a show born out of a great collaboration with friends, fellow makers, and people who are passionate about establishing and nurturing a creative class here in Ypsilanti.”
Handmade Detroit is a proud sponsor of D.I.Ypsi.
D.I.Ypsi runs 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11 at The Savoy in Ypsilanti. More info at dyipsi.com
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THE SEVENTY WEEKS AND THE GREAT TRIBULATION
A Study of the Last Two Visions of Daniel and the Olivet Discourse of the Lord Jesus Christ
(REVISED EDITION)
by Philip Mauro
"I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days." (Dan. 10:14)
Principles Governing the Interpretation of Prophecy
Nothing Should be Based upon Surmise--Proofs Should be Drawn from the Scripture Itself, which is the only Authority in Matters of Interpretation--But History Must be Appealed to in order to Show Fulfilment of Prophecy. BIBLE CHRONOLOGY: The Bible Contains its own Chronology.-"DANIEL THE PROPHET"--An Exact Time-Measure to the Coming and Crucifixion of Christ--Special Features of the Prophecy of The Seventy Weeks.
The Commandment To Restore and To Build.
Differences of opinion as to the Starting Point of the Prophecy Arising from Disregard of Bible Chronology--The Defectiveness of all Systems Based on the "Canon" of Ptolemy--Martin Anstey's Chronology Based on the Bible Alone. THE DECREE OF CYRUS THE GREAT---Isaiah's Prophecies Concerning Cyrus. Josephus' References to Cyrus--Decrees by later Persian Kings--Nehemiah's Work on the Wall.
Details of The Seventy Weeks
The Six Predictions of v. 24. The Division of the Period into Three Parts--"To Finish the Transgression."--"To Make an End of Sins"--"To Make Reconciliation for Iniquity"-"To Bring in Everlasting Righteousness"--"To Seal up Vision and Prophecy"--"To Anoint the Most Holy Place."
"Unto The Messiah The Prince"
The Terminal Point of the Sixty-Nine Weeks; The Baptism and Anointing of Jesus--The Manifestation to Israel, the Beginning of the Lord's Ministry--Proofs which fix the Terminal Point of the 483 Years--The Prince.
Messiah "Cut Off"
The "Time" and the "Hour"--The Lord's Earthly Ministry--The Judgment: "The Prince that Shall Come"--Different Opinions as to the Time of His Coming--Titus, Son of Vespasian, was the Prince (or Commander) of the Roman Armies which Destroyed the City and Desolated the Land-The Terms of the Prophecy Forbid its Application to a Future Personage.
The Seventieth Week
The Interpretation of verse 27--Who is the Person Referred to? What "Covenant" is it? And what Sacrifices?--"For One Week"--The Septuagint Rendering.
Are The Seventy Weeks Consecutive?
The Idea of a Detached and "Postponed" Seventieth Week Examined--Various Proofs that the Seventy Weeks are a Continuous Measure of Time--The Past Fulfilment of verse 27 Proves this--Many Bands that Clasp the Seventieth Week Firmly to the Other Sixty-nine--Why the Entire Period is Divided into Three Parts--The Overspreading of Abominations--The Decree of Cyrus Again--The Remainder of the Seventieth Week--God's Prophetic Time Measure.
Daniel's Last Vision
Outline of the Visions of Daniel 7, 8, and 9--How the Last Vision Came to be Given--The Prophetic History of Daniel l 1--The "Latter Days"--The "Thing" Revealed to Daniel--The Persian Era--The Macedonian Era--Alexander the Great and His Successors--Ptolemy Philadelphus--Antiochus the Great--Ptolemy Epiphanes--Antiochus Epiphanes (the "Vile Person")--His Persecutions of the Jews--The Uprising of the Maccabees, and their "Exploits." CONTENTS
Various Attempts to Identify this Personage--The "Break" Theory--Proofs that the Prophetic Narrative is Continuous--"Herod the King"--Herod's Dynasty Filled Out the Last Stage of Jewish History "Until the Indignation"--"According to His Will"--Exalting and Magnifying Himself--"The Desire of Women ..... The God of Forces"--The Testimony of Josephus as to Herod--The Time of the End--Farquharson's Commentary--Defeat of Antony and Cleopatra by Octavius Caesar--Edom, Moab and Ammon--The Treasures of Egypt--Tidings from East and North--Herod "Troubled"--His Outbreak of "Great Fury"--His Palace and His End.
The Time Of Trouble
Michael the Great Prince--A Time of Trouble such as Never Was--Many Awakened--They Who Make Wise-Many Shall Run To and Fro--How Long the End?--A Time, Times and a Part--The Taking Away of the Daily Sacrifice--The Period of Three and a Half Years in Scripture.
The Wise Shall Understand
Who are "the Wicked" and "the Wise" ?--Many Purified and Made White, and Tried--False Prophets--Have These Prophecies a Future Application?
The Lord's Olivet Prophecy
Christ's References to the Approaching Destruction of Jerusalem--The Importance of that Event in History, and in God's Dealings with Mankind--Prophecies Concerning Jerusalem--Wrath to the Uttermost--Future Troubles for Mankind--Concerning Antichrist.
Outline of the Olivet Prophecy
The Three Main Purposes of the Discourse--The Great Tribulation or the Days of Vengeance--The Sign to Flee-The Three Parallel Accounts of the Olivet Prophecy-"When Ye Shall See"--Self-Inflicted Sufferings--Tribulation "Such as Never Was."
Mark's Account of The Olivet Prophecy
The Question of the Four Disciples--The Stones of the Temple--The General Warnings--The Sign of the Approaching "Desolation"--Those Days to be "Shortened"-False Christs and False Prophets--Proof that the Three Evangelists Refer to one and the same Tribulation--The Siege and Dispersion Foretold by Moses--The Abomination of Desolation was the Roman Armies, not an Idol in the Sanctuary--Luke's Account: Is it the Same Discourse? Israel's Last Probation--The Time of Jacob's Trouble-The Great Tribulation of Revelation VII.
Josephus' Description of the Siege of Jerusalem
The Days of Herod Agrippa II and His Great Oration--Felix and Festus--The Sicarii--False Prophets--"That Egyptian"--Three Million at the Passover--The Cruelties of Florus--The Strange Retreat of Cestius--The Days of Vengeance--Josephus Taken Prisoner by Vespasian--Titus Succeeds Vespasian in Charge of the Roman Armies--The Internal Strife in Jerusalem--The Cruelties of the "Tyrants" --The Last Passover--Famine, Blood, and Fire--Unspeakable Sufferings--The Capture of the City and Dispersion of the Nation.
Edersheim on Matthew XXIV--The Four Divisions of the Prophecy--The Beginning of Sorrows--A Strong and Illuminating Contrast--The Two Illustrative Parables: The Fig tree and The Man Taking a Far Journey--Signs in the Sun, Moon and Stars--The Times of the Gentiles.
NOTE from Historicism.com:
The author, Philip Mauro, is not writing from a traditional Historicist perspective: he differs from the position that we hold in several areas. Among these differences are his teachings concerning the millennium and the symbolic meaning of the three-and-a-half years. This work is very valuable nonetheless. The focus of opinion in this book--regarding the seventy weeks and other visions in Daniel--is shared by many well known Historicist teachers of the past few-hundred years.
THOUGHTS on the Great Tribulation, by Dr. George Dawe!
Exploring the Prophecies of Moses and Daniel as Corroborating Authority for the "Great Tribulation" of Matthew 24, by Dr. Oral Collins
Rejection, Desolation and Restoration, by J. L. Haynes
Index - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - Appendix
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Talk:Señor
Something really glitchy is going down with Señor; please oh please oh PLEASE write his name as either "Senor" with no tilde or:
Señor
Anything else glitches the Wiki! And I don't know how to fix it! --Jay 11:45, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)
See Talk:Se�or for discussion on this topic. -- Tom 12:22, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)
It's lucky it doesn't have the same effect on Recent Changes. Can anyone edit redirects properly? (P.S. That line break thing wasn't intentional. Filmography still needs changing, and I seem to have got it locked in bold type. Any help? (P.P.S. You might need to change that link, it won't show up)) Venusy 19:26 9 Mar 2005 (GMT)
Yeah, I fixed the redirect. See Talk:Se�or (or Talk:Se%F1or) for further discussion on this topic. -- Tom 12:30, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)
[edit] redirect
Should Señor Having A Little Trouble redirect here? — talk Bubsty edits 23:31, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Yes it should but I don't know how to make it do that. NBBB(Talk · Contributions) 15:44, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
I know. — Elcool (talk)(contribs) 15:46, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Beans?!
Are those beans behind him on the first picture on this page? Brittany 03:32, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Yes, as noted in Remarks on Strongest Man in the World. - Qermaq - (T/C) 03:51, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bubs.
Is it possible that he was maybe the original Bubs? They're both blue & have the stripe.
In what way is that hard evidence? We cannot just make stuff up and put it in this wiki. You can speculate all you like, but that's all it will amount to. - Qermaq - (T/C) 08:29, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
No... I see you havent been to the museum before... it shows the original sketches of Bubs, and the original Bubs from, well, original bubs, with the spiky hair. Senor is not Bubs... he is strictly Senor Havin A Little Trouble. Parrothead1 23:33, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
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It’s not just about marine mammals anymore: How ocean noise can harm marine ecosystems
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Editor’s note: We’ve all read about how ocean noise can harm marine mammals. New research reveals that it can have profound impacts on lower trophic levels as well, with likely consequences for marine ecosystems. Catch up on the latest research with this month’s Skimmer.
A little background on sound in the ocean
As we get started discussing how ocean noise affects marine animals (and marine ecosystems), there are some critical points about sound in the ocean to keep in mind:
Sound is a “compression wave that causes particles of matter to vibrate as it transfers from one to the next.” How loud or soft a sound is perceived to be is a function of the amplitude or intensity of the wave[1] and the receiver’s hearing. Sound waves with higher amplitudes/intensities are perceived to be “louder” than sound waves with lower amplitudes/intensities.
Sound travels a lot faster and farther in seawater than through the air. Sound travels nearly five times faster in seawater than on land (1500 vs 340 m/s) and can travel hundreds to thousands of kilometers in seawater versus tens of kilometers on land. As a rule, lower frequency sounds travel farther than high frequency sounds because lower frequency sound waves lose energy (“dissipate”) more slowly. In addition, higher amplitude/more intense/louder sounds travel farther than lower amplitude/less intense/softer sounds because they have more energy to start with.
In the ocean, vision is limited to tens of meters at best, and sense of touch even less than that, while smell and taste are greatly dependent on local environmental conditions such as water currents. Consequently, many marine animals – including invertebrates – use sound as their principal way of sensing the environment. They use sound for finding food, finding mates, locating offspring and other community members, finding appropriate habitat, avoiding predators, navigating, and more.
Sound in the ocean has two components: a pressure component that acts in all directions at once and a particle motion component that has directionality. While mammals primarily sense the pressure component of sound, marine fish and invertebrates primarily sense the particle motion component of sound.
The “silent oceans” are anything but silent. The oceans have rich natural soundscapes from both abiotic and biotic sources (e.g., rain, waves, earthquakes, animal vocalizations). Sound does not travel well across the ocean-atmosphere boundary, however, giving outside observers the false impression of relative silence.
“Noise” is simply sound that is unwanted, unpleasant, and/or disruptive. If you think back to that list of things that marine animals use sound for (i.e., finding food, finding mates, locating offspring and other community members, finding appropriate habitat, avoiding predators, navigating, and more), manmade sounds have the potential to disrupt all of them. Given that manmade sound has intensified over a very short period of time in evolutionary terms (50-100 years) and most animals have not had time to adapt to these new sounds, it is assumed that most anthropogenic sound in the ocean is indeed “noise” to marine animals.
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Breaking Bad Season 5, Episode 15 Recap: Waiting Out the End in 'Granite State'
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by Andy Greenwald
If last week’s “Ozymandias” snapped and cracked like a hangman’s noose, Sunday’s “Granite State” was the long, slow walk to hell. Not any conventional hell, mind you. This is still Breaking Bad. Even now, science reigns. The binaries that matter aren’t good and evil, but rather action and reaction, cause and effect.
I didn’t do that well in chemistry, so I can’t say for sure if there’s a textbook that accurately traces the downward trajectory of this fascinating and deliberate penultimate episode of Breaking Bad. With apologies to Mr. White’s no doubt carefully curated curriculum, what last night did remind me of was something I once read in English class: No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre’s infamous bottle episode of a play. No need to get too in-depth — do you know what they call a spoiler in France? — but the gist is this: Three sinners arrive in the afterlife expecting Sisyphean torture, but instead find a room. With no punishment in sight, the three continue to deny their guilt before falling into bitterness, self-pity, and ennui. Eventually they realize the truth: No God or devil could ever devise a worse fate for them than the one they’re bound to make for each other.
For Walter White to end up where he did, 2,200 miles from home, with the desert sands replaced by hard-packed snow and frost, was the cruelest kind of joke — which is to say, the kind that’s not the slightest bit funny. The unnamed vacuum cleaner repairman — played, in a brilliant and sly piece of casting, by classic knockaround guy Robert Forster — had sucked Heisenberg out of the certain disaster he had made for himself and transported him across the country inside a gas tank. But when the newly christened Mr. Lambert arrived at his prepper cabin in New Hampshire, he looked anything but flammable. He looked exhausted. His legend had gone viral, but he was too sick to notice. It turns out living free and dying aren’t mutually exclusive after all.
This was a wonderfully ironic look at the real cost of getting away with it. Walt had $11 million — less his vacuum repair bill — for company, but nowhere to spend the money, and worse, no one to spend it on. Remember last year, when Walt and Flynn watched Scarface, and Walt, an almost orgasmic smile playing on his face, mused “Everyone dies in this movie, don’t they?” Yes, there’s still an episode to go — and a Holly-size machine gun left to be fired — but “Granite State” served as a sobering buffer between the internal reality of Breaking Bad and the sweet escape of fiction … or the grave.
Walt’s scream was internalized and silent, but he spent the majority of the episode like Jesse, yelling at the Nazis to get it over with and shoot him already. (Jesse’s own attempt to escape was no less cinematic — do paper clips really open handcuffs anywhere else than in the movies? — and, eventually, far more cruel.) What Walt wanted was a blaze of glory — any kind of blaze, really, other than the tepid warmth of his woodstove. Instead, what he got was two copies of Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, an occasional gin-rummy partner whose pity costs $10,000 an hour, and an ocean of time to obsess over how everything went wrong. Sartre wrote “Hell is other people,” but sometimes one man is more than capable of being his own worst enemy.
There was a perfectly awful bit of metatextuality early on in the episode, when Uncle Jack and the rest of the gang watched Jesse’s confession video the same way you or I might watch an episode of Breaking Bad: five to a couch, hooting and hollering at every other line. But the actual story — stripped of its derring-do, its drama — played a lot differently on the Nazis’ TV than it did on ours. “Does this pussy cry through the entire thing?” Uncle Jack asked incredulously, just as I was beginning to wonder if there was any other logical way to react to it all.
So much of this final season, in true scientific fashion, has been about systematically removing any of our hopes and expectations — let’s call them impurities — as an audience and instead letting things play out dispassionately, the way they would in a test tube. Jack is oddly poetic about his own desires: “The heart wants what it wants,” he tells love-struck Todd, quoting either Emily Dickinson or Woody Allen, though I have a hard time deciding which is more unlikely. He wants to watch something more flattering to his own point of view, something with more action and less regret. It’s a rough, unfair comparison, but he’s basically the worst-case scenario for Emily Nussbaum’s “bad fan” of Breaking Bad. For Jack, the show’s snowballing consequences have created a viewing experience that just isn’t good enough. For us, it’s hard to imagine it getting much worse.
With Walt on deep freeze in New England, a narrative that had been circling the drain was free to finish its flush unimpeded. Nazis ran wild through the once-inviolate homes of our protagonists. Marie — speechless, clad in black — was mercifully not home when the Schrader residence was tossed. Skyler wasn’t nearly so lucky. Credit new Emmy winner Anna Gunn, or credit the lumpy, unpredictable shape of an episode that stretched several months and the length of a continent — and felt like it — but the moment when Skyler discovered her baby’s room swarming with balaclava-clad toughs was legitimately terrifying. Just a minute before, she had been oddly calm: aware of her dire situation, but apparently resigned to it.
(Fascinating to see that Walt’s phone call, the source of so much online debate, ended up being both cut-and-dried and profoundly soggy: His intent was clear, but it didn’t really work. Like most things Heisenberg did, when he appeared to be taking on the burden for others, he was really just building a monument to himself.)
Yes, the cops were outside, but at least the darkness had been scrubbed from within Skyler’s household. The jarring transition from her relative serenity, drinking vodka and chain smoking on the couch, to her unspeakable fear was like that panicked moment in a swimming pool — something Skyler knows plenty about — when you suddenly can no longer feel the bottom. The drop was far more precipitous than Skyler ever could have imagined.
We didn’t see much else of the remains of the White family: the house seized and boarded up, Holly being raised part-time by a neighbor, Skyler working as a taxi dispatcher and avoiding the press by using her maiden name, which her husband has also taken as his alias up in New Hampshire. Saul’s collapse was played partly for laughs and, because of that, his presence was brief. Still, it was a remarkable scene down in Mr. Clean’s sleepover dungeon: Walt, pacing like a captured animal, his former attorney — stripped of his powers and his utility — quivering like a chicken dropped into the cage. Ironically, it was precisely now that Saul’s advice actually became legal: “Stay. Face the music. How much time have you got left? You walk in with your head held high.”
But Walt, the stubborn, bad scientist to the end, contradicted his own teaching at the start of the series. Chemistry is the study of change, he once said. But now, with his circumstances altered beyond all recognition, the teacher had become the failing student: “This changes nothing!” he raged. Which left it to the guy with the fake name and the faker hair to tell the truth. “The fun’s over,” Saul said as he gathered his sky-blue luggage. “I’m Mr. Low-Profile, just another douchebag with a job and three pairs of Dockers.”
(Forget the Saul prequel, by the way. I say own the story and make it a straight sequel about Bob Odenkirk in Omaha. Get Alexander Payne to give up some of his Nebraska film contacts. Call it Cinnabuddies and have it on the air in time for Christmas.)
What Saul knows is that there is more than one way to disappear completely. There’s the unexplained trip to Belize (where I can only hope Mike Ehrmantraut and Hank Schrader are drinking fruity cocktails on the beach, toasting to the better times and trading scalp moisturizing tips). There’s the unavoidable detour to the Cornhusker State. And then there’s the really bad kind of disappearance, the kind where the earth swallows you up but reveals two rows of razor-sharp teeth in the process. Earlier in this half-season, I referred to Jesse Pinkman not as a “Problem Dog” or a “Rabid Dog,” but as an abused rescue dog: a sensitive soul grown accustomed to absorbing all the kicks the universe had to offer. Even so, his current predicament was unspeakably inhumane: locked in a far worse cage than Walter White, forced to cook drugs for ice cream–slurping neo-Nazis. No one knows where he is. Fewer people care.
Death has played such a large part in Breaking Bad that it’s likely listed on the show’s IMDb page. Even so, I’m not sure a killing has unsettled me more than Todd’s hideous dispatch of Andrea. Unlike Krazy-8 or Victor or Gus or even poor, home-brewing Hank, Andrea truly was an innocent, a single mother in recovery whose greatest mistake was accepting kindness from the wrong hoodie-clad millionaire. Others have been dissolved in acid, but seeing Andrea reduced to a puff of red mist was simply devastating. It was something even worse for Jesse. Stripped of dialogue and devoid of all hope, Aaron Paul’s performance in these episodes has morphed into something primal and animalistic; I wouldn’t be surprised if his end-stage dialogue, such as it is, is written solely in punctuation marks and emojis. His post-gunshot howl was the opposite of lifeless: It was the hoarse and rattling sound of someone who has been alive too long. Unlike Jack, Jesse isn’t a passive viewer of this waking nightmare. He’s a part of it all.
Awful as this murder was, I have to point out the karmic similarities between the horror show Jesse watched and the one in which he played a starring role. Tellingly, it was the same part of the Breaking Bad story that Uncle Jack found so maudlin: Jesse’s “nothing personal” execution of Gale Boetticher. Here again was another late-night knock on the door, another guileless victim all too eager to undo the locks and let in the unimaginable horror waiting on the other side of the threshold. Jesse didn’t “deserve” to watch Andrea die, just as she didn’t deserve the bullet. But unlike Walt, who still rages and self-justifies against the dying of the light, Jesse’s moral ledger is never anything less than immaculate. For every bad thing he’s done, something even worse has happened to him or to those around him. That’s why, even as his existence redefined the word “bleak,” my confidence in his ultimate survival only rose. Making it out of this show alive isn’t the same as “winning,” but it’s still a result worth rooting for. The universe Vince Gilligan created is based on balance, not cruelty.
If that’s the case, though, what are we to make of Todd? Of all the devious stunts pulled by Breaking Bad over the years, the casting (and corruption) of Jesse Plemons in this role has to be among the most memorable. On Friday Night Lights, Plemons’s features — as wide and open as the Texas prairie — were perfectly suited to play the boy next door. Now, they’ve been perverted: He’s the boy next door only if your neighbor happens to be a Supermax prison. Jesse described Todd best as an “Opie, dead-eyed piece of shit.” But what Peter Gould gently teased out in his script last night was that Todd — vicious and murdering, gentle and polite — is the logical conclusion of Heisenberg’s quest for the perfect son and heir. He does what he’s told, he’s motivated by love and science, and he’s able to cleanly segregate the unspeakable things he does from the (in his mind) justifiable reasons for which he does them.
When he meets Lydia in her favorite, awkward café, Todd sips tea and suggests that the two of them make a “good team.” He’s not wrong. Sure, one is high-strung and the other has the vibrant, inner emotional life of a cinder block, but they’re ideal co-conspirators: 92 percent purity, 100 percent avarice. The market decides what’s best for both of them; anything that gets in the way, be it a Czech tariff or a single mom, is what soldiers call collateral damage and what capitalists call a write-off.
In comparison to these two automatons, even Walt begins to look borderline human again. It helped that Heisenberg died last night. First at the end of the driveway, when a long walk to nowhere seemed like a final destination. And then again, in pieces, across a long winter and a brief phone call. I’ve noticed already some slight grumblings about Forster’s role in all of this, some amateur online criminologists wondering why a guy who makes people disappear for a living would agree to keep showing up. This didn’t bother me. I loved the character for a number of reasons, primarily because every slow boat to Hades needs a greedy Charon. But also because his continued presence — and the cost of that presence — was a cutting reminder of the limits of wealth. Throughout the 75 minutes, Walter kept insisting that all of his money was for his family. But as Flynn loudly established, they don’t want it. (Flynn especially has every reason to reject his awful inheritance. Walt using his son’s beloved Aunt Marie as bait was proof that the cancer still hasn’t managed to penetrate his monstrous ego.) The barrel of blood money can buy almost anything, it seems: silence, loyalty, DIY chemotherapy, and an hour’s worth of company. But it can’t buy back what it cost Walt to earn it in the first place.
In that awful phone call with his son, Walter wanted to be lauded for things he tried to do and absolved for everything he actually did. “The reasons were always … ” he stammered. “Things happened that I never intended … ” This doesn’t make him a hero, but nor does it make him a villain. It’s possible to pity someone without forgiving him. (In Albuquerque, as in life, RTs do not = endorsements.) With Heisenberg buried in the snow, only the original heat of Walter White’s burning resentment is enough to melt away the accumulated ice and ignite Breaking Bad’s final chapter. The Charlie Rose ex machina seemed a bit much, but Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz had to return, if only to remind both the audience and the character that losing his life’s work is Walter White’s life’s work. The business of his death is the only thing still unwritten: how Walt will go, and whom he’ll take with him. Last night, the man formerly known as Heisenberg had the distinct misfortune of learning exactly how he’ll be remembered. Now it’s up to Walter White to make sure his enemies, real and imagined, never forget.
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Join us at the Historic Newport Casino
Real Tennis Exhibition & Cocktail Reception to welcome Oxford & Cambridge Tennis Players
Monday 8th August 6-8:30pm
Enjoy a lovely summer’s evening at the Newport Casino / International Tennis Hall of Fame with a Real Tennis exhibition and then cocktails and light hors d'oeuvres on the upper porch overlooking the grass courts which were the site of the first US Tennis Championships in 1881.
Welcome the young men and ladies of Oxford and Cambridge on their bi-annual, trans-Atlantic contest for the Prentice and Seabright Cups and witness an exhibition of Real Tennis by the reigning world champion, Camden Riviere, and World Ranked #10 player Nick Howell of Australia at the historic Newport Casino.
In 1921 a joint team of tennis players from Oxford and Cambridge was invited to the Newport Casino to challenge a combined team from Harvard and Yale and a tradition of collegiate competition, interchange and friendship was born which continues to this day. The Prentice Cup is now played every two years and alternates from England to the United States and in 2016 the matches are to be played on "our side of the pond." The Prentice Cup was the first international intercollegiate tennis event ever held and stands today as the oldest truly amateur tennis competition played on an international scale.
The famed grass courts of the Newport Casino hosted the first US. National Lawn Tennis Championships in 1881 and continue to host the only professional tennis tournament played on grass in the US every summer.
Location: 194 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI 02840
RSVP: Ross Cann (401.849.5100 / RCann@A4arch.com) before August 1.
Hosts: The hosts of the event are the National Tennis Club, the Yale and Harvard Clubs of RI, the Oxford Cambridge Society of New England and the English Speaking Union Chapter of Newport.
6:00PM - 8:30PM Mon 8 Aug 2016 ( Timezone: Eastern )
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Situated at the foot of Chamundi Hills, Mysore is the most famous tourist attraction of not just Karnataka, but entire India. Previously, the state of Karnataka was called Mysore and this area was the capital of the state. Even after that changed, Mysore, also known as ‘The Palace City’, remains to be the tourist capital of the state, as well as the country. Attractions in Mysore are so many and so varied, they attract tourists from worldwide. The world famous “Mysuru Dusshera” is unparalleled by any festival celebrations in the world. The New York Times recently listed Mysore as one of the 31 must-see places on Earth for two consecutive years.
The Chamundi Hills
Located at a height of 1000 metres, the Chamundi hill is a major attraction of Mysore. Alongside housing an infamous temple and commercial street atop, the hills provides a panoramic view of the entire city of Mysore, including most of its other attractions. The view of the town is exceptionally beautiful during Dusshera, when the entire city seems illuminated.
St. Philomena’s Church
Influenced by the architectural style of Germany, this church was built in 1956 in Neo Gothic style. The foundation for this church which was built in the memory of St. Philomena, was laid in 1933 by the then Maharaja of Mysore. The historic relic of St. Philomena is preserved in this church.
St. Bartholomew’s Church
This church has a political history besides religious. The St. Bartholomew’s church was built on the land donated by Krishnaraja Wodeyar III. The church was constructed by civilians and militarymen in 1832. It was affiliated to Anglican denomination, before being passed on to the Madras government.
The Infant Jesus Shrine
This is the most architecturally and artistically magnificent church in Mysore. The Infant Jesus Shrine is located 5 kilometres away from the Mysore palace, in Naidu Nagar. The church has a life size statue of infant Jesus at the gate itself, and a number of carving on the three teakwood doors. The altar and stained glass windows add to the aesthetic appeal of the place.
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Erringden Parish Council
Picture House vacancies
The Picture House has vacancies. Here are the details, first for two Ushers and, below, for a Duty Manager.
Two Ushers (6 Hours Per Week)
Post Grade: Grade 1b (SCP 6 - 8) £16,394 – 16,626 pro rata
(equivalent to £8.50 - £8.62 per hour, and with Living Wage Supplement enhanced to £8.75 per hour)
Hebden Royd Town Council is seeking to recruit two committed, motivated people to join our Front of House Team at the Hebden Bridge Picture House, to each work six hours each weekend plus occasional overtime hours (covering other staff members' hours on a casual basis for holiday and sickness absence and working a share of additional shifts e.g. matinees during school holidays).
Responsible for serving the public at film screenings and live events at the Picture House, under the supervision of the Duty Manager, the Usher role's duties include:
ensuring the safety and enjoyment of all patrons of the cinema.
selling food and drink via the kiosk and bar, including serving alcohol, cashing up and stock replenishment and counting.
working as part of the front of house team to ensure that all the Front of House standards for the Hebden Bridge Picture House are fulfilled.
liasing with our customers both face to face and over the telephone.
playing a part in ensuring Licensing Legislation, Health & Safety Legislation and Security procedures are adhered to.
Role A: 6 hours per week covering (A) Saturday evening (1.00pm – 4.00pm) AND (B) EITHER Sunday matinee (1.00pm – 4.00pm) OR Sunday evening (7.15pm – 10.15pm)
Role A: 6 hours per week covering (A) Saturday evening (7.15-10.15pm) AND (B) EITHER Sunday matinee (1.00pm – 4.00pm) OR Sunday evening (7.15pm – 10.15pm)
Shift times are approximate and vary by film length and programmed start times. We would be willing for the two post holders to work on a two week agreed rota should shift variance be preferred by the successful candidates. Candidates should state which of the 4 shifts they would be willing to work when applying and whether they would prefer Role A or Role B or have no preference. As alcohol sales are involved you must be over 18 years of age.
An application form and further details can be obtained from and returned to:
The Town Clerk, Hebden Royd Town Council, The Town Hall, St Georges Street, Hebden Bridge, HX7 7BY or by email to info@hebdenroyd.org.uk
Applications to be received by noon Thursday 14th June 2018.
Interview date Wednesday 20th June 2018.
Role to commence immediately.
One Duty Manager (3.5 hours per week)
Post Grade: Scale 3 (SCP 17) £18,672 pro rata, Equivalent to 9.68 per hour.
Hebden Royd Town Council is seeking to recruit a proactive and experienced duty (shift) manager for the Hebden Bridge Picture House, to work on a 3.5 hour per week basis (working on a Sunday evening each week) plus occasional overtime hours (covering other staff members' hours on a casual basis for holiday and sickness absence and working a share of additional shifts e.g. matinees during school holidays).
Responsible for managing screenings and live events at the Picture House in the absence of the Picture House Manager, particular responsibilities will include:
managing projection and ushering staff.
running the Picture House Box Office, supervising the kiosk and bar sales, accounting and end of shift reporting procedures.
dealing with members of the public face to face, over the telephone and by email.
ensuring Licensing Legislation, Health & Safety Legislation and Security procedures are adhered to.
The Picture House is a seven day a week operation and evening and weekend work is standard.
Interview date Thursday 21st June 2018.
Hebden Royd Town Council
St. George's Street
HX7 7BY
Email: info@hebdenroydtowncouncil.gov.uk
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First satellite map of Haiti earthquake
Published: Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 12:49 in Earth & Climate
SERTIT - CNES - International Charter
A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on 12 January, causing major casualties and damage. The quake was followed by several aftershocks with magnitudes over 5.0. Such a powerful earthquake can make current maps suddenly out of date, causing additional challenges to rescue workers on the ground. Earth observation satellite images can help rescue efforts by providing updated views of how the landscape and the infrastructure have been affected.
Following the event, the French Civil Protection authorities, the Public Safety of Canada, the American Earthquake Hazards Programme of USGS and the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti requested satellite data of the area from the International Charter on 'Space and Major Disasters'. The initiative, referred to as 'The Charter', is aimed at providing satellite data free of charge to those affected by disasters anywhere in the world.
To meet the requirements of the rescue teams in Haiti, Very High Resolution imagery is needed from both optical and radar sensors. Through the Charter, the international space community is acquiring satellite imagery as quickly as possible. Currently, data are being collected by various satellites including Japan's ALOS, CNES's Spot-5, the U.S.'s WorldView and QuickBird, Canada's RADARSAT-2 and ESA's ERS-2 and Envisat.
Satellite imagery acquired immediately after the event are used to generate emergency maps to provide rescue services with an overview of the current state of the area. These can be compared with situation maps generated from archived satellite data to identify major changes on the ground caused by the disaster.
Comparison of the maps from before and after the event allows areas that have been hit hardest to be distinguished and identify passable routes for relief and rescue workers. Additionally, they can help to identify areas which are suitable for setting up aid camps where medical support and shelter can be provided to people.
Radar satellites are able to peer through clouds, which is an asset when weather conditions prevent the use of optical satellite instruments. Radar imagery can be used to identify hazards such as landslides that may be triggered by earthquakes. In the long term, radar data can also be processed to map surface deformations caused by earthquakes to help scientists understand better seismic events.
The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security's SAFER project is collaborating with the Charter to provide a specialised capacity to produce damage maps over the area. SAFER's value-adding providers SERTIT from Strasbourg and the German Aerospace Centre's (DLR) centre for satellite-based crisis information (ZKI) from Munich are currently working on this.
In the framework of SAFER, other user organisations, including the German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance and the UN World Food Programme, have requested damage-mapping services. Based on the collaboration between the Charter and SAFER, the first space-maps derived from crisis data acquired on 13 January were produced by SERTIT within 24 hours as rapid situation maps to help locate damaged areas with up-to-date cartographic material.
Together with ESA and CNES, the Charter, founded in 2000, currently has 10 members: the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Argentine Space Agency (CONAE), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the British National Space Centre/Disaster Monitoring Constellation (BNSC/DMC), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Via the Charter mechanism, all of these agencies have committed to provide free and unrestricted access to their space assets to support relief efforts in the immediate aftermath of a major disaster.
The Charter also collaborates with other satellite damage-mapping initiatives within the UN such as the UNITAR/UNOSAT team who is receiving support from the U.S. government to analyse satellite imagery to be provided to the Haitian government, UN sister agencies and NGOs.
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Put children in jail or send them to be killed.
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keycocker
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:59 pm Post subject: Put children in jail or send them to be killed.
We just shot the first child crossing the border. It wasn't one of my kids but it might have been.
Perry the Drunk is sending thousands of armed men to the border to shoot them.
Nearly all of these children are searching for Border Patrol to turn themselves in as soon as they cross.
The Security Crisis is an invention of the worst Governor Texas had ever had.
He thinks a violent confrontation with confused dehydrated unarmed 12 year olds will give him a shot at becoming the worst President in US history.
As usual Tea Party leader Bachman is leading the charge to kill a few kids who naively think children are safer in the US.
Why are they coming? Bush signed a bill with good intentions that lets children stay with family until their immigration case comes up in court. The kids are actually asking Border Patrol to get them a court date, which they call a permiso. Bush did this to empty the overflowing fed.jails of children who were taken from human traffickers.
Location: The eye of the universe, Cen. Cal. coast
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 4:56 pm Post subject:
But why the all of a sudden influx, that we've been seeing just this year?
If the main reason is a law that Bush signed in 2008, what took it so long for the flood to begin?
Maybe it's because you forgot to include something in your post.
In the summer of 2012, President Obama announced that he would use executive power to grant provisional legal immigration status to the estimated 800,000 illegal aliens who entered the United States as minors. With this action, Obama unwittingly created powerful new incentives for illegal migration by people under the age of 18. And once a young person established some kind of legal residency in the United States, they might gain additional rights to sponsor family members they had left behind.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/07/an-immigration-crisis-we-brought-on-ourselves/374491/
Naa, that wouldn't have anything to do with it.
isobars
nw30 wrote:
You know, as I do, that 95.2% of the kids polled cited Obama's reported promise as the reason.
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Sonia Nazario has spent more than 20 years reporting and writing about social issues, most recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She has won numerous national journalism and book awards tacking some of this country’s most intractable problems: hunger, drug addiction, and immigration.
In 2003, her story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S., entitled “Enrique’s Journey,” won more than a dozen awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, the George Polk Award for International Reporting, the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence.
Expanded into a book, Enrique’s Journey became a national bestseller, won three book awards, and became required reading for incoming freshman at 62 colleges and scores of high schools across the U.S.
2003!!!!!!!!!!!
mrgybe
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 10:10 pm Post subject: Re: Put children in jail or send them to be killed.
keycocker wrote:
How many children do you have?
Perry the Drunk is sending thousands of armed men to the border to shoot them.........As usual Tea Party leader Bachman is leading the charge to kill a few kids who naively think children are safer in the US.
You just shake your head and thank God you weren't behind the barn door when the brains were handed out.
Location: Berkeley, California
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 11:50 pm Post subject:
The response of the Republicans, from the Cruz clones, to the masked and armed militia, to the snark of mrgybe, is disgusting. Isobars and NW make it up, and mrgybe celebrates.
To go back to principles and values. Most Democrats don't want an open border, not even one as open as Saint Ronnie left it. The relatively open border of the last immigration bill was intended to 1) provide migrant workers, at lower prices, to work in California agriculture. Those workers soon moved to other states, and some of them had children who are citizens, and some of them stayed. The second purpose of the relatively open border was to depress labor prices and reduce the clout of labor unions, particularly the agricultural unions. No wonder Chavez opposed them. Successive Republican administrations looked the other way while businesses--hotels, packing houses, etc., hired undocumented immigrants. They replaced African Americans in service jobs in many (most?) cities.
It is impractical to identify and remove from this country the 12 million who are here without immigration papers. It is difficult, and perhaps impossible, to completely lock up the border. But there can be a legitimate debate about how much you spend.
Instead the Republicans have indulged in hateful language, and behavior, about Hispanics, children, and Obama--not necessarily in that order--without rolling up their sleeves and working on a real piece of legislation. They have allowed bigots in the party to dominate the discussion, and have encouraged rather than disowned them. And they are not ashamed. But I am.
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:02 am Post subject:
You got to admit Gybe is an arrogant pr$;ck in most of his posts.
I thought for a while he would keep his mouth off me , but when he had nothing worthwhile to say he just fired off a reminder of how much smarter he is.
And how little informed.
Hey jibe my buddy lets chat just a little. I am glad you were so eager to talk things over. I don't get much chance to talk with a person with your brains and upper class manners.
How does a genius like yourself feel about the National Guard showing up fully armed to combat this huge threat?
Got nothing?
Well then explain about brains and barn doors. That was impressive. You think that up yourself?
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I said nothing at all about the why of this NW.
That is not the point of my post.
Did you get the point at all or is attacking Obama really the only thing about these children who matter?
It is the only thing that matters to the GOP.
pueno
Not sure I'd be so complimentary.
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Tourism not hurt by advisory – Bartlett
Published:Wednesday | March 13, 2019 | 12:15 AMPaul Clarke/Gleaner Writer
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Edmund Bartlett (left), minister of tourism, speaks with Nardia Angus of GoldenEye and Kingsley George Blake of Round Hill Hotel and Villas, who were both among the 19 finalists named for the 2018 Tourism Service Excellence Awards on Tuesday. The event was held at Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston.
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says that there is no discernible negative impact from the latest United States travel advisory issued last week for Jamaica.
He said that the Government has brought in respected tourism consultant Dr Peter Tarlow, who is expected to engage various interests and partners in the sector, as well as embassies, in crafting a plan to develop an overall programme for safety and security across the hospitality sector.
Bartlett said that the US State Department-issued level-two advisory for Jamaica, which tells travelers to “exercise increased caution” on their visit to the island because of sexual assaults at all-inclusives.
He told The Gleaner, however, that context was important when trying to address the issue, pointing out that while Jamaica has been placed in level two, there were many other jurisdictions with higher categorisations. Level one indicates that travellers should “exercise normal precautions”, while level two means that persons should “exercise increased caution”. Level three means that persons should “reconsider travel”, while level four states that the citizen should not travel to the designated country.
Bartlett said that source countries periodically carry out these travel-safety evaluations and that they have categorised other countries in various levels.
“We recognise that ours is a continued improvement of the safety and security arrangements to enable our source markets to eventually not issue any advisory at all. And so we are always concerned when there advisories are sent out, and we are working harder to make sure that in every instance, they are eliminated.
“So, we are not unaware that there are issues. The good thing is that costumer-value proposition that Jamaica offers is at such high levels that the visitors come with certain knowledge that they are going to be safe and secure, because our record of visitor safety is exemplary,” Bartlett insisted.
Jamaica, he said, outshone its sister countries in the Caribbean, citing positive visitor arrivals.
“As a matter of fact, this year, so far, is the highest level of growth that we have had from the United States market. We are running 20 per cent and that’s phenomenal, and it’s also a big part of the million visitors we have had in Jamaica in nine weeks,” noted Bartlett.
He was speaking with The Gleaner after delivering his presentation at the announcement for the 19 finalists for the 2018 Tourism Service Excellence Awards at the Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston yesterday.
The Service Excellence Awards Programme is a project of the Tourism Product Development Company Limited (TPDCo). The programme is aimed at recognising and rewarding both individuals and organisations that exemplify service excellence in the Jamaican tourist sector. Milhaila Robinson and Hyatt Ziva and Zilara won the 2017 individual and organisation awards, respectively.
The final of the award ceremony will be held on Saturday, March 30, at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, Rose Hall, St James.
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Trevor Keezer, Idiot
Posted by Brian S at 5:00 PM
What else to say, really, about a person who claims to have been fired for wearing a pin which said "One nation under God" on his Home Depot work apron? Let's see how this really played out, shall we?
Earlier this month, he began bringing a Bible to read during his lunch break at the store in the rural town of Okeechobee, about 140 miles north of Miami. That's when he says The Home Depot management told him he would have to remove the button.
Keezer refused, and he was fired on Oct. 23, he said.
"It feels kind of like a punishment, like I was punished for just loving my country," Keezer said.
Well, when you put it like that, it sounds like Keezer is being treated unfairly. What's that?
A Home Depot spokesman said Keezer was fired because he violated the company's dress code.
Oh, so he isn't. He decided that his right to wear a particular pin superseded the store policy which said "only company-provided pins and badges can be worn on our aprons."
Fishel said Keezer was offered a company-approved pin that said, "United We Stand," but he declined.
Oh, so Keezer had a chance to keep his job, and was even given another pin to choose from, but decided not to take it. I don't call that being fired; I call that quitting. If my employers decide it's a condition of my employment that I wear a necktie (please don't ever do this to me, okay?) every day, then I can either wear a necktie or I can lose my job. That's the way it works.
Here's the payoff line, though. "Keezer said he was working at the store to earn money for college." Might want to work on those critical thinking skills while you're hunting for another job. And don't expect much out of that lawsuit either. A blanket policy like Home Depot's is pretty hard to touch.
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Live Reporting: Holyoke Council to Vote on Gary Rome Hyundai Zoning Bid
The unanimous vote of a committee last week could signal approval from the City Council Tuesday (May 19) of a zone change for a $10 million Gary Rome Hyundai dealership.
Follow along as live coverage of the 7 p.m. meeting at City Hall is posted in the comments section under this story.
The council Ordinance Committee voted 4-0 last week to recommend that the full City Council grant Rome a zone change for nearly 19 acres of vacant property on Whiting Farms Road. The Planning Board also recommended Rome get the zone change.
To build an auto dealership, Rome needs a zone change to Business Highway from the current Business General. The property is on the part of Whiting Farms Road across from Autumn and Lynch drives.
Rome has agreed to buy the property from the Holyoke Gas and Electric Department (HGE) for $2,050,000, contingent on getting the zone change.
The new dealership will produce 50 new full-time and some part-time jobs along with thousands of dollars a year to the city in property taxes, Rome said.
The Gary Rome Hyundai at 1000 Main St. will stay open regardless of what happens with the Whiting Farms Road site, he said.
At a crowded public hearing on the zone-change petition March 31, most speakers urged approval of the zone change for Rome. Speakers included Mayor Alex B. Morse, the Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce and several Rome employees.
But an accompanying zone-change petition the City Council also will vote on Tuesday tells a different story about the Whiting Farms Road site.
Residents, including former councilor Helen F. Norris, Gayle Keith and Terri Laramee, are seeking a different zoning designation for the same property Rome is targeting. They want the zone changed to RM-20, which stands for Multi-Family Residence at 20 units per acre. The uses are generally housing with limited commercial uses like bed and breakfast, funeral home, hospital and nursing home.
Such uses are more compatible for the neighborhood and less of an intrusion into residents' quality of life than an auto dealer, they said.
The Ordinance Committee at the May 12 meeting voted 3-1 to recommend against adopting the RM-20 zone change.
Also watch for:
--City Council consideration of a 5-0 recommendation from the Ordinance Committee to grant a zone change to James P. Lavelle Jr. to allow for auto sales at the family-run JP's Restaurant & Sports Bar at 200 Whiting Farms Road.
Lavelle needs a zone change to Business Highway from the current Business General. He said he would sell a maximum of four used vehicles at a time.
--A proposal from Councilor at Large James M. Leahy and other councilors to give a proclamation to Lawrence Jackson Sr. who retired Thursday after nearly 36 years as a firefighter. Jackson, 59, was the city's first black firefighter. His first day was Aug. 8, 1979.
--Councilor at Large Rebecca Lisi's proposal to establish an ordinance to give to Planning Board members the $4,000-a-year stipends the city had been paying to each member of the board of directors of the Holyoke Geriatric Authority.
The authority was a nursing home at 45 Lower Westfield Road that closed last year. It was overseen by a board of seven, which consisted of three members appointed by the mayor and three by the City Council, with those six voting in a seventh.
"The dissolution of the Geriatric Authority frees up a small sum of money that may be used to compensate the (volunteer) members of the very active and labor intensive Planning Board," Lisi said.
The Planning Board has five members and an associate member. Board members are appointed by the mayor.
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The school looks the same as I remember it, from 20 years ago. It’s a slit-faced red brick structure with tall narrow windows that don’t open, giving the place a fortress-like feel. The building folds inward, modern and stale at once, mired in 1971, a silent witness to white flight and the slow steady march of poverty, joblessness, and loss of hope.
The architect Paul Voinovich, who designed the school in the early 70’s, was the father of the soon-to-be mayor and now Senator George Voinovich. The building, with its fluorescent lighting and bright linoleum floors, is no longer half-empty as it was in 1980, when many parents of deaf children sent their youngsters to private schools to avoid the trials and tribulations of the city schools.
Today, I learn later, only some of the school is ‘deaf.’ Now there are classes for hearing children, too.
Walking upstairs in a waking dream, I weave into the main office. I half expect to see Laverne, the sassy opinionated young woman who held the place together as a secretary back in the early 80’s. Instead two other black women sit behind the high counter. One is occupied on the phone; the other looks at me with a wary expression and asks if I need some help.
“I have an unusual request,” I say, explaining my history as a young teacher in this very school and my desire to look around. “I’ll have to check with our principal. Just wait there.”
“She wants to see you,” the woman says a minute later and I am summoned toward a corner office on the other side of the secretary’s counter, trying to shake the feeling that I am in trouble, have done something bad or improper.
I’d wanted to see Mrs. Newsome, the heavy-set and honey-voiced woman who served as Assistant Principal years ago, who counseled me patiently during my first nerve-wracking year of teaching. But she’s probably long since retired, replaced by this small woman who shakes my hand without enthusiasm, a dead fish against my palm.
I’m a writer, researching a setting for a story, I explain. A writer who used to teach at this very school. A fictional story, I emphasize, about a deaf school. It’s true, I am trying to hatch a story, but I don’t share my background as an ‘op ed’ journalist for a Boston paper, or the fact I’m taking notes about her, and the few other people who populate this building on a quiet Friday afternoon, when the students have been dismissed early.
“Most of the teachers are in a meeting. But I’ll get the technology teacher. He’ll escort you around. So you’re just looking for impressions, just a feeling?”
“Exactly. The story is about a first year teacher of the deaf and his struggle to learn the ropes.” I don’t mention that my main character is gay–like me–or that the ‘story’ is nothing more than a vague impression in my mind. I don’t imagine that she cares, just so long as it’s fiction.
I thank her and a middle-aged man with a wide Slavic face and pale complexion comes in. He looks at me, scanning, rewinding files of memory, and nods in my direction. “Hi Rick,” I say, reintroducing myself as Bruce, a name I no longer use, part of my history like my memories of this school. The Principal smiles, too, for the first time. I realize she hasn’t given me her name–doesn’t want to end up as a character in my piece.
Rick was a shop teacher–with skinny white legs I remember from the student-staff volleyball game and thick coarse black hair, pasted on his head like a helmet. His hair is still thick, and he’s thickened around the waist, too, and sports a modest gut. Walking around the U-shaped second floor, he leads me to my former classroom, where I struggled to teach groups of junior-high aged deaf children about Math and Science, replacing a woman who had been at A.G. Bell for twenty-five or thirty years, who seemed older than my grandmothers.
There are no traces of me or my former students, “kids” who would be 36 or 38 today. Still, I’d recognize most of them on the street, I’m sure, their bored formerly-adolescent faces lined by life, but expressive, open, the way deaf people often are.
We walk into a resource room, stuffed with pictures of smiling kids–mostly brown and black faces. I ask him about white children–half the school’s population 20 years ago, and now, Chuck says, about 10 of 300. I look for a picture of this absent teacher I knew as a green eyed sharp-tongued woman of 30, with long reddish hair and a smile that sparkled in the school’s fluorescent light, but can’t find one. I wonder how life has touched her–gently marked her face or scratched and clawed her as experience and time often do.
The moments pass quickly–15 minutes or 30–and I feel the present calling me back, shifting plates of tectonic time, two decades sliding together and breaking apart. Chuck doesn’t say anyone has died, even Mrs. Brown, the supervising teacher who retired at the end of my first year and seemed ancient, even then. How lucky we all are.
We shake hands–I’ve taken up too much of his lunch period. Walking out through the dark glass doors I inhale and taste a hint of spring in the February air. I think of that sharp-tongued woman and Rick, and others I’ve almost forgotten, who’ve taught in this sealed box while I’ve changed careers, and hometowns, restless as the teenagers I tried to teach.
Pulling out of the parking lot, I head east, knowing I was one of a hundred transients passing through, leaving less of an impact on this building than the winter winds, which swirl past the slatted bricks and stingy windows, leaving no impression.
©2003 Judah Leblang
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Why Kibaki And Raila Must Go
What is ODM? What is PNU? What do those strange abbreviations mean?
There was a time in the 10th parliament when things were pretty predictable. If ODM voted in a certain direction, you would be sure that PNU would vote in the opposite direction. So if the two principals wanted something done they rallied their troops and then came to parliament and everybody would obediently rubber stamp what they wanted done. That is how the crucial Anan bills were passed in record time.
Now all that is ancient history. The only place where people are still divided along those old party lines is here in Kumekucha. Go out and talk to the Kenyan people on the ground and you will quickly discover that "ODM" and "PNU" are very very dirty words these days.
Yesterday the 10th parliament embrassed the two principals by defeating a constitutional amendment bill in their faces, whose intention was to establish a local tribunal to try post-election violence suspects. Some MPs have been heard saying that Raila and Kibaki should prepare themselves for more nasty surprises and embarassments. This was only kionjo.
I hardly ever agree with what Mutula Kilonzo says. However what he said yesterday I agree with 1000%. He said that Kibaki and Raila should now resign because their troops have lost all confidence in them. Mutula was being kind because what we saw in parliament was a clear message from the people of Kenya. They are tired of impunity and they want justice. They want big names behind bars for their crimes and they do not not trust the local justice system. And most of all they are tired of the grand coalition government.
I would go further and say that a government as divided as the grand coalition government is at the moment is a serious threat to our national security. Do you have any idea how dangerous it is for us to approach the threats against our country with a divided multi-agenda-laden cabinet? What kind of things to these guys get involved in individually in private to further their own selfish motives?
If Kibaki and Raila really loved mama Kenya, they would heed Mutula's call and resign right away, paving way for us to look for a way to hold general elections ASAP.
Fresh elections are the only way we can avert disaster which hangs like a dark and persistent cloud over our country.
Let me end by saying that the way the politics in Kenya is shaping up, anything can happen and the 10th parlaiment looks like the parliament most likely to move a successful vote of no confidence in this government and thus send themselves back to the electorate for a fresh mandate. Naturally any MP who appends their name on such a motion would guarantee their place in the 11th parliament.
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Lest you take comments in Kumekucha too seriously;
What I said 2 weeks ago;
Excerpts;
It is sad reading through the comments in this blog daily where well-educated Kenyans are still thinking in terms of PNU and ODM (and the gods they worship, namely Kibaki and Raila) when the vast majority of Kenyans have already moved on. More so when it looks like even most legislators have moved away from those tribal groupings as was seen yesterday in parliament...
Of great interest are the new political re-alignments that are now emerging and more interestingly the motivation behind them...
Many other legislators who had nothing to do with the post-election troubles have a lot to gain by blocking the bill and causing all the suspects to end up at the Hague. It will obviously eliminate a lot of the competition for their grand ambitions.
I doubt whether most of the political class conecerned slept well last night. You see the game plan was to have a local tribunal and then intimidate all the witnesses from coming to give evidence (already a number of key Waki witnesses have received death threats). Now it seems that the Hague beckons for sure...
What a Kumekucha commentator said about the post;
Chris, Please come back from fairy land. The bill will be passed and there will be a local tribunal.
Posted by Chris at 2:43 AM
No Raila No peace!
Ok, Chris. Lets assume Kibaki and Riala resigns today, who is ready to lead this country?
I tell you what; none of the leaders we have today is worth leading Kenya! I mean NONE.
This so called grand coalition was doomed right from the start. It was based on a LIE. Ati 50%-50% power sharing.... The reality is that it is 90% power for Kibaki and 10% power for Raila - lets face it guys, Raila does not have any real power in this government, you can tell this from the the dominant "culture" that prevails and is practiced in the GCG; it is very Kibakiesque: Lack of direction, endless crisis after crisis, contempt, lack of discipline, massive corruption, massive tribalism and endless grumblings due to poor leadership right from the top - by Kibaki.
This was and is not a goverment of equals. It is a government where one party (PNU) has continually been usurping all the power for its own selfish interest while at the same time continuously undermining its partner (ODM). This kind of FRAUDULENT arrangement can not work, it can only produce what we have been seeing since it was formed: FRAUD, DECEPTION and THEFT. One cannot not plant cactus and expect to reap strawberries, it can not work. Cactus with all its thorns is all that you will reap.
Chris, this has been my opinion since i saw the election being stolen in broad daylight and the fraudulent and deceptive activities that have been going on since then upto now. Anthing built on a foundation of lies, fraud, deception and theft cannot not survive and will not yield good "fruits"
Anon 4:48 AM, you are the archtypical example of those still stuck on PNU/ODM mentality.
What happened today, you don't have the usual youtube video you normally carrying in your pocket about "election theft"?
When Mutula Kilonzo was suggesting that Kibaki and Raila should step down what, and folks remember that this is a very mischievious fellow, he most likely had in mind was for Kalonzo "msaliti" Musyoka to take over. Naughty, naughty, naughty....
You asked for it. Here goes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DmEdBZcJgKkQ
Ruto should go into exile in Zimbabwe before the net closes in with him.
You say..
...and the 10th parlaiment looks like the parliament most likely to move a successful vote of no confidence in this government and thus send themselves back to the electorate for a fresh mandate
This is highly unlikely. Kenyan MPs are too selfish to sack themselves for whatever reason. Throwing out the local tribunal motion was the usual "kicking the can down the road".
That said, i support taking these folks to the Hague. One might say it will take over 15 years to convict them, but i ask, how long ago were Tom Mboya, JM Kariuki, Julie Ward, Ouko and the rest murdered?
Joe Msenge@ 5:23 AM, nilikuabia jana uende utafute elimu ya ngubaru.
Did you ever go to school?
How many kenyans have been killed and have never seen any justice? Or those few selected names are the only that deserve justice.
There is a God of justice and God will avenge for all those who were killed by ODM stone-throwers like you. Ngoja your payback is coming soon. You will regret it.
Simon Makonde @ 4:33 AM said
"none of the leaders we have today is worth leading Kenya! I mean NONE."
Then what? These leaders are just a reflection of us. When you look at them you see what Kenyans are. We are no better. In fact we could be even more corrupt and more evil.
Look at what our very educated Kenyans some with MBA's (some of them could even be very religious, strict church goers, and saved - "washed" with the blood of Jesus christ) do the us when we buy shares at the Nairobi Stock Exchange:
Tiny elite at NSE fleece investors
The Nairobi Stock Exchange is in a total mess. That is the stark message from a forensic audit report on the troubled Nyaga Stockbrokers, now under statutory management.
It is a long tale of cases where money from clients’ shares are sold without their knowledge, where officials of the Central Depository and Settlement Corporation (CDSC) collude with brokers to postpone updating clients’ accounts and where prices are routinely manipulated by stockbrokers.
Nearly all institutions in the trade — including the watchman of the industry, the Capital Markets Authority — is engaged in an elaborate game of deception presided by a tiny elite with tentacles in almost all segments of the business.
The forensic audit report was conducted by Pricewaterhouse Coopers and handed over to the Capital Markets Authority in November last year.
The report is a catalogue of damaging allegations on the part of CMA, Nairobi Stock Exchange, Treasury officials and the CDSC. According to the report, the investing public lost Sh1.3 billion,
By the time it was put under receivership early last year, Nyaga Stockbrokers had about 70,000 retail and corporate investors. The report has dealt the biggest blow so far to the reputation of the NSE, adding injury to the already waning investor confidence in the bourse.
According to the report, Nyaga Stockbrokers would exploit loopholes in the law to falsify its accounts and, therefore, mask its blemishes.
The forensic audit reveals that massive rip-off of investors’ funds was accomplished through unscrupulous manipulation of clients’ accounts.
The auditors concluded that what happened at Nyaga Stockbrokers was a collusion by the main players to loot public resources.
The scheme, according to the report, cut across from junior officers who received bribes to facilitate forgery and senior managers who failed to use their positions to stop the theft.
Two managers of well-known investment banks are accused of being part of the gravy train. In addition to the evidence of false financial reporting, the document also sets out a careful scheme orchestrated on individual clients’ accounts.
“This happened in a number of different ways depending on the suspect’s objective at the time,” it says. Among the tricks used by the brokerage firm to defraud the clients included a process referred to as “uploading of the prices”. This happened in instances where clients’ shares were sold without their authorization and then repurchased, usually at a loss.
More startling in the report is the role played by two senior investment banks whose owner-managers at time had a say in the NSE boardroom. These powerful individuals used their positions to perpetuate and cover up for the activities of the beleaguered stockbroker, lending it money recklessly in what looked like a cheque-kiting scheme.
The report recounts how when a meeting of the NSE board decided to rescue Nyaga Stockbrokers by advancing it Sh100 million, the money ended up being used to pay the firm’s debts to these investment banks.
Apart from this, the two banks are also said to have benefited from Sh269 million and Sh76 million from the troubled broker on diverse dates between November 1, 2007, and March 5, 2008.
The NSE itself is heavily censured in the report. The auditors say that interviews with officials of the bourse suggested that the managers were overly protective of Nyaga Stockbrokers and its managers.
On the part of the CMA, the report has indicted former chief executive Edward Ntalami. It alleges that the former CEO had knowledge of the irregularities at the brokerage firm.
Indicating diverse dates, the auditors put Mr Ntalami on the spot for failing to act decisively on financial irregularities committed by the stockbroker.
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/528076/-/u1xwf7/-/index.html
Anon@5:38
You say....
There is a God of justice and God will avenge for all those who were killed by ODM stone-throwers like you. Ngoja your payback is coming soon. You will regret it
Very well. But before God dispenses justice, there is something we can do to help. By making sure justice is served right here on earth. That is what i am talking about. That is why i want them to be taken to the Hague.
Now i have to ask. Can you actually read?
Mutula Kilonzo's mischief knows no bounds. What he said may have sounded reasonable, but you can bet your last shilling that his intentions were not all that innocent.
I do Know one thing, and this you can take to the bank, Mutula Kilonzo was one of the many high flying lawyers who were anticipating to make a very big kill representing suspects were the tribunal to be held in Kenya, and because parliament took matters to the Hague, he is a very disappointed man for very selfish reasons.
Chris, you may have read the mood of the House correctly re rejecting the tribunal bill but dont kid yourself about the matter going to the hague. Ruto's people were initially for the local tribunal because they feared being taken to the hague as the media kept on saying BUT then they (ruto's people) later realised the hague was just an empty threat. That is why most kalenjin mps "voted for hague".
You idiots forget about god. He never disappoints by doing nothing.
Joe Msenge @ 5:50 AM,
I don't mean you have to wait till we get to heaven. Payback is here and NOW! You will suffer terrible curse, and eventually all ODMers will begining to drop like a flies.
wewe Ngoja utaona...
has anyone taken akeen look at the list of the MPs who voted aganist the motion?pliz do and you will find that the so said guys in the waki envelop had their cronies voted aganist,so you tell me if this guys really want to send their masters to hague,the truth is that both kibaki and raila wanted the bill deafeated,but on the otherside they wanted to be seen to do somethin by the internatial community thus their lobbyin and their presence in the hse,THEY VERY WELL know that hague may come eariest past 2014 so it wont interfere with the succession politics
Kibaki and Raila resigning wont help anything at all. I dont understand Kenyans at all, here we have MP's who vote against the bill, essentially adding twenty years before compelling evidence that Kenya is incapable of administering justice is collected.
And then, by that time half will probably be dead or too ill to be sentenced properly. When will Kenyans learn? Doing this just screams that we are incompetent and therefore have to turn to the West to even determine for us what is right and wrong. Wake up, we must start solving our problems at home, refusing to do this is stalling, all those damn MP's that are mentioned in the Waki list have lawyers who told them that doing this would probably reduce the chances of them being indicted, look at Bashir in Sudan, isnt he supposed to be at the Hague right now?
International Law is much more complex than the mwananchi has been led to believe, for them to try those guys the Kenyan state must be proven to be totally incompetent, and so far in the Hague, it has been mostly countries that have experienced civil wars.
The only way we can overhaul our justice system is by starting to try these guys at home, we can get in foreigners as arbitrators but it must be a people driven process, and in the Hague it is not going be that,we must stop throwing our problems to someone else to solve, every country that does that does it at a massive cost, and it definetly isnt worth it.
can't see how mps who vote for big salary for themselves vote in the intersts of kenyans......???
We are willing to try these killers at home. But, its not up to us. Are the bigwigs willing? How many powerful people have ever been convicted in a Kenyans court? Kenya law favours the rich and punish the poor.
You could rob someone milk to feed your family and the big man can kill a pedestrian while under the influence of alcohol, but I tell you, you are more likely to end up in prison while the killer walks free.
Who could trust the auditing firms?..they used to give perfect reports to ENRON; to ensure auditing firms get their large fees they usually slant the report to the favour of the company that is paying them - usually that is the firm they are auditing such as ENRON. So in this case it looks like the Capital Market Authority is paying for the report? - somebody there has an ulterior motive.....perhaps after some NSE executives or out to destroy Kenyas reputation...
this problem of auditors independence - is well studied in North American universities..the same place I learned the whole story about the mau mau...
1 for eg:
http://www.vccircle.com/500/news/what-happens-price-waterhouse-the-auditor-for-satyam
Price Waterhouse, the auditors to Satyam, is facing the flak for not detecting the accounting fraud.
Price Waterhouse has been the statutory auditor for Satyam Computer Sevices for last six years now.
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/28/business/fi-price28
June 28, 2002 in print edition C-3
WASHINGTON – PricewaterhouseCoopers, the largest accounting firm, agreed Thursday to make a “substantial payment” to the Internal Revenue Service for promoting abusive tax shelters and will tell the tax collector about clients who used them.
3. for eg
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/pwc-.htmlives-16315m-penalty-for-involvement-in-transtec-affair-428405.html
Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) was landed with a £1.5m penalty for its involvement in the TransTec affair yesterday, after an accountancy tribunal found it guilty of failing adequately to carry out its auditing responsibilities
4 for eg
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article1082862.ece
PWC told to pay £1m over BCCI auditing
By Liz Chong
The 800-strong partnership at PWC will pay the Joint Disciplinary Scheme a £150,000 fine and £825,000 in costs.
The JDS said the fine reflected the “substantial financial penalty” that PWC has faced since BCCI collapsed in 1991 with £9 billion of debt.
Disgraced accountancy firm Arthur Andersen has been handed the maximum penalty allowed under US law for its role in the collapse of Enron.
Arthur Andersen was fined $500,000 (£322,000) and sentenced to five years' probation.
Kenyatta said forgive but do not forget...kenya thrived
Mugabe said I will get them....Zimbabwe is not thriving
Anon@6.17, you make a valid point, but right now they know they will get away with it because international law does not currently allow for prosecuting perpetrators of violence unless the state agrees to expadite them. If they are in the government, how will that happen? At what cost?
Either the public will revolt and cause a problem far worse than the post-election violence, or they wont be expadited and will just remain in Kenya or seek exile somewhere until they die. There has been no precedent with this, Kenya is not in a civil war, and it would be the first time that this type of case would be undertaken.
What Kenyans have to remember is that the problem wont disappear, the greatest danger is amongst us, we have to engage each other, yes, our current justice system is corrupt, but you can set up a tribunal that has observers from abroad, and you can make it as transparent as possible. I feel this is a much better option than waiting another 15 years before getting a decision.
Judging by tribunals such as the one for Rwanda, it wont take any shorter to try them.
I do not agree with what Mutula Kilonzo is saying. There should be a clear separation of powers between the Presidency and Parliament. And this is something we need to learn as Kenyans. When we went to the polls, we elected Members of Parliament to represent us without looking over their shoulders to see what anybody else thinks about their positions. In other words, I support MPs voting with their conscience and not caring what those two other MPs think. MPs are not sheep to be "coordinated and supervised". What they did yesterday was an example of what they should do with any other bill that comes to the floor of the house. That is, afterall the essence of democracy, no?
About these never ending calls for dissolution of government and a return to the ballot, when shall we ever get it? We should now all put a handful of stones in our pockets, collect our raping gear and sledge hammers for uprooting the railway line and then flood to the streets. We should demand that the constitutional affairs minister, the chairman of the Parliamentary-select commitee on the constitution and the Attorney-generals office begin taking a serious look at what needs to be done to achieve a comprehensive review of the constitution within the shortest time possible.
I don't get it; Can anyone be said to be sane when they challenge MPs to pass a vote of no confidence in the govt and expect to be voted back solely on that one undertaking? Have we not all been baby-crying here day in day out about the rot in Parliament? Is more not expected of these Parliamentarians? And if we go to the elections right now, what cushions do we have against repeating the same mistakes that continue to haunt us? Folks let us demand a swift enactment of an agreeable constitution then go for elections.
Let us fix what we know is wrong in our constitution, you know that which leads these politicians to torture democray for their own selfish interests. After that, let us now head for the ballot right from the civic unit to the Presidency. Let us even be prepared to hold a Presiddential runoff if the candidate who gets the most vote does not exceed the 50% mark. That way now we can form a government that is both confident and has the confidence of the people. Such a government hopefully will be focussed solely on solving the country's problems as opposed to the constant bickering that has come to define previous governments.
Anon 5.54, Mutula Kilonzo is the MP elected by the people of Mbooni. He has the right to express his opinions just like you. As an MP, he has the priviledge to vote as he pleases on any issue. After all, he is among the 103 MPs who voted YES, are those others lawyers who were expecting to reap from the potential legal windfall that a local tribunal would have brought?
Look here, Mutula had nothing with the chaos that happened. If you have to direct your bitterness to someone, then direct it to those who organized and finaced the chaos. And while at that, remember that your little opinions are not superior to anybody else's. It is time we became tolerant to the opinions of others. As for me, i pray that God gives me the wisdom to know the things that i can change and learn to live with those I cannot change. Amen.
Kimi Raikkonen said...
Sudan President Bashir was named a genocide suspect Feb 2007, indicted July 2008 and arrest warrant issued Feb 2009. Where did the idea it will take 10 years to get justice from the Waki suspects come from? They will be served what they deserve soon enough, then Kenyans can slink back to their ethnic cocoons appropriately chastened and wiser.
My worry is: Assuming these fellows are indicted and arrest warrants issued, will our weak leadership promptly hand them over? Will they not fall back to the well tested "our tribe is being unfairly targeted" mode?
Tomorrow is st. Valentine's day, have you got something for your woman?
Let the bad leaders resign.
KIBAKI is the culprit No. MOJA.
Before anyone is invited to Hague Kbaki will be forced to go there. He was at the helm when oll these happenned.
Fish starts stinking from the head.
Nimesema!!!
Chris & Co.,
None of our warlords will ever be sent to Hague; at least not for the PEV. If we don't set-up our tribunal, that is it, the world is not going to hunt them down for us. The Hague has more urgent/serious fish to fly. The warlords know it and that is why they authorized their errand boys to vote the way they voted.
So get real and learn to scratch your fleas, the world is not there to do it for you, Chris.
FACT: The Nairobi Stock Market is a sham simply because it is infested with Kikuyus!! I tell you these Kikuyus steal coffins from the grave!! Nuff Said!!
A few questions for you:
Why do you refuse to accept the basic fact that Kenya is a multi-party democracy?
Are you implying that MPs rejected the amendment bill solely because they disagree with the two coalition political parties?
DO you honestly believe MPs can pass a NO-CONFIDENCE vote on this government?
Lastly, are you aware the same MPs who rejected this bill have approved a previous amendments that led to the publishing of this one, and it is only because 'cabinet' amended the bill to let ministers mentioned in the Waki envelope retain their portfolios until after they are found guilty is what contributed to the rejection of this bill because potential successors to the cabinet positions felt slighted?
Anyway, you are entitled to your opinion. Those of us on the ground also know what we know.
I notice that despite of the heated debate, you have conveniently avoided advising us which option you (or the common man) prefers and why: ICC or STK?
PS1. Mutula Kilonzo obviously forgets he was at KICC urging his tribesman Kivuitu to announce the loser as the winner, and that his party ODM-K strongly resisted calls by ODM for a re-run of the presidential poll. Now he has the audacity to tell us we go for elections after having been in a team that recommended and endorsed the disolution of the ECK. You can see the man's undertanding of democracy means everyone voting in the same direction. The word democracy is alien even to some in this blog. What a tragedy..
Sio kwa ubaya. Just asking, so please no need to create a main post to answer me.
PS2. For once, Kimi is talking sense. Well said.
I always find you nauseating!
This blog is always better without your output! You stink!
Anon 7:38,yeah ave got a big one for her and ave always got it and she likes it so no big deal about valentines.Sucker!
deroo said...
My take on democracy is that there is a thing called majority wins. It was displayed yesterday when the majority won in the Kenyan parliament. It stops there!
That the so-called principals could not whip the required support to win a simple vote-count, does not demonstrate their inability to lead thence their resignation, it only meant that people had differing opinion and takes on the matter at hand. That is the democracy that I have read along the way.
Chris, as you have indicated in between your post, that people are applying myopic advances in the problem at hand, I will tell you that the current situation was a product of avarice advocated by the ODM regime, in their wild thoughts that they would defeat the PNU brigade within the precincts of the Kenyan parliament.
As said in another post yesterday, this will be the trend of voting and likewise, if the constitution is not changed by June next year, be sure that 2012 election is going to be held under the current archaic one.
Yes, ODM, in their imaginations of being penned in the domain of power, accepted all that came from the so-called Annan talks in Serena to accept every word that was contained in the accord. They, in their thoughts found it wise to believe that by being closer to Kibaki and his thieving ilk (If they are as talked about on this blog) would be able to command, though sympathy and other means, the ability to rise to the greasy pole.
As it turned out, even after the shouted the praise of Waki appointment, they failed to realise that the commission was subject to politicking and from what many gather; the findings were squarely detrimental to the ODM charade.
True, ODM is more affected by the findings that anybody else. Not left untouched, is Uhuru Kenyatta while the man many love to hate Kalonzo Musyoka is untouched, and thus the shouting that comes from the ODM end on any matter that comes up bad. That ODM-K did not participate in the balkanisation, massacre and the destruction of Kikuyu property across the country means that every OMD-K leader is seen as standing apart form the madding crowd that is PNU-ODM. Why did they ever agree to join-up? Ole Wao!
Back to the post, and in the interest of democracy and fair representation, the government lost, with Raila and Kibaki at the top. But let us all remind ourselves of the threats that ODM MPs were served with at the beginning of last year. If you vote against the tide, you will be defrocked from the mirage that Raila Odinga will one day lead Kenya.
True, let us now see what happens to those ODM Mps who voted against the wishes of their self-appointed god. Sack them or what? Raila cannot touch the poisoned chalice now. He is between a rock and a hard place and for any reason, he is better off as a Prime Minister than a leader of people going to be dragged to The Hague. God forbid.
On Mutula Kilonzo, I tend to differ. On a few reasons. That they resign? No, not that way. They should learn to live with the fact that as a government they are not capable of delivering anything, including promises that they have been shouting from the rooftops about.
On another point Chris and this is one thing I will drum for as long as I can, is that we cannot hold elections in the country now. The treasury has not recovered from last year’s elections and its knock-on effects that will be felt well into the coming year. I believe that Kenya needs dialogue, gelling and above all, a purposeful drive.
Chris, I support Raila and his ODM sycophants on this. Kenya cannot go to the polls with the electoral register still having 1.2 million dead ‘voters’. Kenya cannot head to an election with all those displaced people living in football stadia. Kenya cannot go to the polls with the peace still in its current fragile state.
We cannot go to the polls without an ECK! That means that Kibaki will appoint another unilateral board that will be condemned by me, you and all. Kenya’s economy and including those who spent Sh300m is still not ready for another round of politicking. Let the president enjoy his term and Raila enjoy the closest he will ever be to power.
Finally, I imagine Raila Odinga scratching the dark walls of the deep hole he dug himself into. I imagine that he was livid yesterday and totally miffed by the fact that he lost in parliament, even after trying to marshal the support of the MPs and after he has traversed the country telling people about the power that he wields.
Honestly, life can be very unfair at times, but, that is life. Life is such that you have to make sacrifices and undertakings that at times leave you ruing at your decision to do all that.
-Derek-
anon6:03 AM
Wrong again- the Mungiki warlords will be falling like flies
you want me to remind you??
1. Uhuru Kenyatta(name in waki list
2. Kibaki(name in waki list
3, Saitoti ( name in Waki list)
4. Ngenga Karume(name in waki list)
5. Martha Karua name in ( waki list)
6. Michuki (name in waki list)
7. Kabondo waKabondo (name in waki list)
8. Njenga MP name in (waki list)
The above are the main Central Province Funders who met at statehouse and in Kibaki's resident with the Mungiki murdering thugs to Plan the Nakuru and Naivasha Massacre ( beheading, burning alive, and slaughtering of innocent kenyans)
THEY MUST ALL FACE THE HAGUE OR BE HANGED LIKE SADDAM HUSSEIN..PERIOD!!!
Yup I imagine Phil's truth posts makes you feel that way..
Truth is the truth....
kenyans are more clued than you think:)
Kilanzo is a dog with wrong heat.. shame on him.
Have a nice weekend. Ponder Sana. Kesho rugby, FA Cup and many more. Have a payukaring weekend. Vikii, email...
Sack all the contributors and bring on Vikii and Derek ASAP!!!
Jaluos are mashogas. 31.8% of men in Kisumu prefer man to man sexual orientation and 25.9% of women in Kisumu prefer woman to woman sexual orientation.
Deroo,
If deep in your heart you believe the majority won yesterday, then you have a conspicuous misunderstanding of democracy.
make sure you make love to your women properly not just on valentine's day.
Amazingly, 98% of Kenyan men don't satisfy their women.
IN TANZANIA< THEY CANE TEACHERS!!
The Tanzania Teachers' Union is taking legal action after 19 primary school teachers were caned.
The teachers were caned by a police officer, some in front of their pupils, after an investigation into poor exam results at three schools.
Ativus Leonard, a 33 year-old teacher at Katerero Primary School, 20 miles outside the regional capital Bukoba, and one of the victims of the caning, told the BBC what happened:
On Wednesday morning, the District Commissioner came to our school. He met with the head teacher and called a staff meeting.
Once we were gathered, the DC told us that they had been keeping track of the teachers who arrived late for work.
He read out the names of the teachers in question. I was one of them. I had been late for work twice in the last month.
He asked each of us our reasons for being late. I told him there were different reasons. It could be family problems, or if I had been feeling unwell.
The DC said our lateness was causing the school to fall behind and that it was unacceptable. He said he was going to punish us now.
'Inferior'
At first I assumed he was joking. I told myself that it could not be possible.
I have not been able to teach since this happened
But once they locked the doors of the staffroom and made everyone line up to receive their strokes, I knew that they meant business.
Seven of my female colleagues took strokes of the cane on the palms of their hands.
When it was my turn, a police officer ordered me to lie down and receive my punishment. I refused, so he kicked me and I fell down.
Once I was lying on the ground, he carried on kicking me. He brought out a big cane and beat me with it.
He hit me everywhere; my legs, my chest, my arms, my hands. When it was over, I went to the hospital for treatment. I was given medicine but I still have a lot of pain in my chest.
My legs were also injured. But worst of all, this has affected me psychologically.
This has made me feel ashamed to meet my pupils. They did not see me take the beating but they know about it.
I have not been able to teach since this happened. I feel inferior to the children now.
I am married with four children. My wife is also a teacher at a different school. She is furious that they have done this to me.
Right now, I'm still very angry. But I'm also stunned and amazed at what has happened.
The DC must be punished for what he has done. Caning teachers must be against the law. I am seeking financial compensation from the government for what I have suffered.
UrXlnc @ Anon 12:13 PM My God! Why are you using anon to address Deroo?
You don't think we know your writing? For God sake no wonder people call you hypocrite here! You change whenever something suits you.
I hope people here come to know your an illiterate good for nothing bastard that change opinions to fool people around.
ODM thug!
Please don't for a moment mention mutula 'build castles in the air kilonzo. Everything he does and says is with the intention of propping up fellow coward Kalonzo. We can smell these status quo fuata nyayo clowns from afar.
seems some of our memories are short these findings will come in handy at the ICC am sure just as will the Waki report
and an academic view point
Phil, if you really cared for objectivity, you would realise that i try to talk sense most of the time. I do not begrudge you your fanatical support for Raila, that is your right, no matter how misguided i think that is.
However, in the larger scheme of things, it is quite obvious to clear eyed political observers that much as Raila is an effective politician, he is hopeless as a leader. Consider this:
1. What has come out of the numerous talk shops he has held since becoming PM? Can you, Phil, tell us his achievements?
2. Why did people fail to show up on the third day of his much hyped 'Kenya We Want' conference?
3. Why has he done nothing about corruption perpetrated by his ODM sidekicks like Ruto? Where is the zero tolerance?
4. Why is he asking, nay commanding, public servants who earn over 100k to contribute 10% of that salary to a proposed famine relief fund, yet he won't compel, at the very least, ODM MPs to pay taxes? He could set the example by paying the taxes himself, so why hasn't he made such an obvious and unselfish act of leadership?
Am i making sense so far?
The above is but a microcosm of Raila's incompetence and the sooner you dump the 'shades za mbao' the better. They don't make you look cool, they make you blind to reality.
Phil, you should by now have become more like Mama, the ex-ODMer whose luminous intelligence and graceful elegance comes out in her eloquent prose on this blog. Well done, Mama, you are truly an honest and patriotic Kenyan.
@ raikonnen
...and moronic zunguz hiding in kenya can slink back to europe with nothing better to do after africans regain their senses...and resign to breeding dogs and working on the "obesity art".
hee heee.
Chris, Allow me also to make up a list of the politicians behind the dec 2007 killings.
1. Raila odinga (in waki list for ethnic hatred speeches, funding looters, and murder in kibera and looting of property countrywide)
2. Ruto (in waki list, for murder of kids in Kiambaa church)
3. Bett ( in waki list, for murder in kericho)
4. Sally Kosgei (in waki list funding of the burning of houses and killing of innocent people)
5. Phil. (not in waki list, but well known for tribal hatred articles in the internet)
These gangsters shoul be hanged like saddam hussein.
Veritas said...
http://www.sfo.gov.uk/news/prout/pr_606.asp?id=606
This is worth checking out. If Kenya wants to move forward then it needs to help the UK Serious Fraud Office to conclude its investigations and put away the men responsible for trying to defraud the Kenyan people out of billions of dollars that was meant as International aid in the Anglo Leasing Affair. Githongo started this ball rolling and it's time these men were brought to justice. Why is the Kenyan government protecting these criminals???
i believe tribunal will become a crobber. let the PEV suspects go to the Hague. secondly we should also be told why the election thieves will not be punished. how could kibaki have won in only two provinces and be declared winner. most kenyans outside Central Kenya are bitter over the blattant cooking of votes. let the world know that unless the truth is exposed, 2012 may be an apocalypse. what about the role played by the police in shooting dead over 400 protestors? what about the distribution of resources and opportunities which is skewed in favour of Central Kenya. we need majimbo once and for all. KIM
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Home Page / Investor Relations / Lands' End Celebrates 2nd Anniversary as the Official Outfitter of The Weather Channel Television Network
Lands' End Celebrates 2nd Anniversary as the Official Outfitter of The Weather Channel Television Network
Partnership Applies Field Learnings to Garments Available to the Public
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Posted on October 9, 2019 by A Cunt Who Cunts Cunts
Ex-BBC director general Mark Thompson is getting antsy that the BBC isn’t able to mind-control the British public to sufficient degree thanks to alternative broadcasters, particularly Netflix and their ilk:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49812965
The fucking cunt! Who the fuck does this controlling little Marxist twat think he is? Who the fuck does he think we are – mindless little automatons that need Big Brother beamed into our living rooms to make us behave like the tyrannical, lefty cuntrags that the Ministry of Truth decree is acceptable?
That organisation is basically already on everyone’s shitlist here. Let’s cheer the fact the worms that use the public broadcaster to further their self-righteous PC socialist agenda are squirming!
Nominated by ShagawotZ
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Cunt’s Mate Cunt on October 9, 2019 at 6:23 am said:
Surely if the BBC are as good as they claim to be then they would be able to compete in the free market? Then they wouldn’t have to listen to the government or pretend to be neutral. And on that day Satan will go to work on ice skates.
Watched the British news for the first time in a couple of weeks this morning (got out of the habit during the school holidays) and it was exactly the same shit – twats talking bollocks about Brexit. I’m pretty sure the UK will still be a member when I arrive in less than eight weeks.
I was feeling nihilistic after watching the Joker fillum so I wrote this…
https://mikesplace2017.wordpress.com/2019/10/09/the-depravity-of-the-ruling-class-update/
Guzziguy on October 9, 2019 at 8:33 am said:
Your first sentence sums up the situation perfectly.
Lord of the Rings on October 9, 2019 at 1:56 pm said:
Over-paid, stuck-up, deluded, has-been, shit-smelling fucking CUNT
I rest my case ….
dingly on October 9, 2019 at 10:55 pm said:
Take this cunt organisation of cunts down.
Bastards.
Earl Kravdath of Bumholia on October 9, 2019 at 6:23 am said:
Bald Guardian reading middle class Corbynite.
Off to the tower for this cunt.
Miserable northern cunt on October 9, 2019 at 6:36 am said:
Is that him?
Well in the film about him on netflix hes black?
Oh the irony, oh the infamy,
Infamy,infamy, theyve all got it in for me…
Technocunt on October 9, 2019 at 6:44 am said:
I really do hope the BBC turns to rubble in the next decade – no more public funding to support their Marxist agenda, or giving massive payrises to undeserving cunts like Linecunt; or sending hundreds of staff to far-off places to report on things like the World Cup, the Olympics and all that “expenses paid by the licence payer” bollocks!
The quicker they have the cushy rug pulled from beneath their pampered feet the quicker they will sink in the free-market arena.
Fuck them!
Lana Del Cunt on October 9, 2019 at 8:07 am said:
they also run a ‘charidy’ called BBC Media Action – which is a subversion organisation that sends people into other cuntries to subvert the population by offering ‘western values’ and causing mayhem – see that Nazaneen woman – she was in media action – no wonder she ‘s in gaol – where thay all should be – cunts
I nom’d nazinine ziggy ratface and her soft hugh Grant husband but it never got through.
Yes, the woman has only herself to blame for her situation and yet her husband expects the U.K. Government to move heaven and earth to secure her release. He is aided by the BBC periodically revisiting the story; this week it was sending the daughter to the U.K. for her education. My view is ‘ Step outside of the country and you are on your own’.
Spanky Mc Spank on October 9, 2019 at 8:51 am said:
I know, his whining and protestations of her innocence are sickening.
No doubt when she returns from her little holiday she will get a multi-cultural cooking show or antique hunting series.
Both cunts but that’s just my opinion and I hope she stays there a few more years, maybe a lesson to other harridans who think they can push their big “do good” noses into other peoples affairs.
HBelindaHubbard on October 9, 2019 at 11:47 am said:
Antique-hunting sounds alarmingly like “anti-cunting”…
We need to be alert.
The EU needs lerts, dontcha know ?!
Leave here banged up there, that’s what you get for being an oh so clever busy body in a country that doesn’t take prisoners….well apart for this trollop of course.
Who the FUCK would travel to a country like Iran?
I’ve done a lotta reading of books mate – all for charidy of course.
Unkle Terry on October 9, 2019 at 6:53 am said:
The more the BBCihore fills the squeeze the happier I become.
The sooner their cosy liberal dooshka mooslim bubble is well and truly burst the better.
Everything they do is poison of one type or another.
Complete degenerate cunts.
Get fucked.
Excellent cunting.
Fuck me I can’t type for toffee.
Paul Maskinback on October 9, 2019 at 6:53 am said:
The BBC are doing a great job itself in turning the UK into a ‘cultural airstrip’.
More of a cultural desert in the BBC’s case, complete with goats, bombs, prayers to Allah, transbenders, wimmin and Um Bongo quaffers.
Piss off baldy.
Their recent adaptation of David Copperfield with some Asian bloke playing the lead, is the final fucking straw for me!
Cultural Appropriation only seems to be allowed one way, and now the BBC are opening the floodgates for more classic dramas to be “historically cleansed & reinterpreted”
Cunts to a man (and woman, and all the cunts in-between)
Lord Cuntingdon on October 9, 2019 at 9:09 am said:
Yes – they held out until the last minute regarding the German peaceful truck killer recently. Only at the last moment did they admit it was a peaceful trying to kill people (as usual).
Freddie the Frog on October 9, 2019 at 7:05 am said:
This cunt has got to be joking. The BBC’s shameless attempt to subvert democracy and sell this country to her enemies will never be forgotten. They are cunts, total cunts and they can’t fall quick enough and far enough for me.
Never forgive, never forget.
WokeUpTodayAndRealisedWhatACuntIAm on October 9, 2019 at 7:32 am said:
Just as a neatly tucked away to be inconspicuous story appears in the DM that targets for race, gender, sexuality etc will now have to be met in order to qualify for BAFTAs. It’s never been easier to be a Marxist since the great unwashed have been placated with a 24/7 diet of brain-rotting dross on their hand-held telescreens.
Dick de Pfeffel Foxchaser-Fiddler on October 9, 2019 at 7:35 am said:
Come the revolution,I’m going to take over Countryfile,make endless programmes about huntin’,shootin’ and fishin’ and the correct etiquette for Farmers travelling on single-track roads by tractor (refuse to yield to anything,one indicator permanently on,roar past any spots where you could pull in and let people pass but slow up and drift alarmingly from side to side of the road on any straight sections,always check that your tyre treads are full of shite before leaving base and have a collie in the cab who sits with a mocking look as it watches the queue build up behind)
It’s about time that Auntie Beeb made programmes that instruct without patronising and I’m sure that The Plebs would have more patience if they understood just how many things a Farmer has to remember before taking to the road.
To be fair Dick you cunts drive like that anyway!
Komodo on October 9, 2019 at 8:40 am said:
Perfect. A dedicated edition of the Highway Code might accompany the production, underlining these important points. It could also cover agricultural machine transporters on singletrack roads, partly-unfurled spray rigs, and leaking slurry tanks.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Cunt on October 9, 2019 at 10:09 am said:
I lived in Devon as a kid near a shit ton of farms. I lost about 3 years of my childhood (like Greta, ‘How dare you!’) due to being stuck in the family car behind a tractor. Tractor tailbacks were an every day occurrence back then. I remember it was unlucky to look at the hay bales on the back of tractors. No idea what all that was about, but it had me convinced. I don’t think it was the same tractor holding us up every time though.
Unless it was you, of course?
DCI Gene Cunt on October 9, 2019 at 10:41 am said:
And I’d make it law that any ambulance you cunts call when you drop your wallet on your foot should travel at the same speed a fucking tractor travels when there’s a queue behind it!!!
Bertie Blunt Ubercunt on October 9, 2019 at 12:51 pm said:
I see that farmers are joining the Extinction Rebellion protest. If that’s true, we really are fucked. The NFU say they are going to cut greenhouse gases in farming from 10% to net zero in the next 20 years. This guy shown here is a “buffalo” farmer. He’s obviously seen a business op as buffalos are fartless. What a fuckin’ cunt he is, rearing such a magnificent beast for meat.
Oh, forgot the link . . . .
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-hampshire-49932589/hampshire-farmers-join-extinction-rebellion-climate-protest
Miserable northern cunt on October 9, 2019 at 4:21 pm said:
Yeah saw that on the gnus….
Dick de Pfeffel Foxchaser-Fiddler on October 9, 2019 at 6:00 pm said:
I’m thinking of joining Extinction Rebellion myself, Bertie. Can’t be long until Greta Thundercunt puts in an appearance and I want to see if I can tie her pigtails around my waist.
c/o Sickipedia.
Bertie Blunt Ubercunt on October 9, 2019 at 6:07 pm said:
Can’t see you having much in common with a Hampshire buffalo farmer Dick but I can see the appeal of some fresh young meat!
from the nyt after the bbc for 30 years – what a cunt – has he ever had a real job – cunt
he’s also a common poypuss cunt
Wanksock on October 9, 2019 at 8:16 am said:
At the time of Jeremy Clarkson twatting the little shit who forgot to get his dinner organised there was a story about Mark Thompson biting someone on the arm, and drawing blood, for some misdemeanour in the newsroom when he was BBC news editor. Thompson was promoted and Clarkson sacked. I guess one of them was the wrong side of the political divide.
I wish he’d bitten me on the arm.A splendid excuse to rearrange his sensibilities.
Permanently.
Sixdog Vomit on October 9, 2019 at 8:16 am said:
Fuck the BBC, it doesn’t produce great content, it pushes progressive agenda.
If it can’t cope on 5 billion a year boo fucking hoo.
Netflix etc gained popularity because they offered content people prefer to the ropey old tripe the BBC serves up.
Spoonington on October 9, 2019 at 10:21 am said:
Five billion pounds a year?! Forking heel!
I wouldn’t know what to do if I had that much money.
I’d take out a few contracts, obviously NOT for lunchtime sarnies…
Cuntry Walker on October 9, 2019 at 8:31 am said:
What a bubble all the BBC staff work within – no wonder they themselves call it ‘Auntie’ – so cozy with guaranteed income from its captive customers whether the customers like the deal or not —- — any organisation working on this basis would breed utter fuck wits for this reason alone. One can only wonder at the difficulty a ‘normal’ person would have trying to fit in, the moment the BBC virtue signalling, ‘right on’ leftie liberal turd head employees discover one of their number does not embrace their ‘group think’. Probably be sent to Coventry pretty fast and immediately branded a Nazi. The
BBC, once pretty even handed politically ( ok so about 40 plus years ago) are a complete disgrace and those who contort and slime around working within it are a shower of shit.
As you can imagine I am a big fan of the BBC like most ISAC’s.
Wanksock on October 9, 2019 at 11:35 am said:
Frederick Forsyth wrote his autobiography “The Outsider”, an interesting read. He worked for the BBC during the 1960s and they were at it then. Complete support for any government provided it was Labour. He quit because of the censorship of his reports on the Biafra/Nigeria conflict, which didn’t follow the Labour government’s policy.
Cuntry Walker on October 9, 2019 at 2:27 pm said:
Fair point – perhaps I was being generous to them 30 + years ago!
Cunty Chops on October 9, 2019 at 11:36 am said:
“Probably be sent to Coventry pretty fast and immediately branded a Nazi.”
I’m livin’ that dream. 🙁
Your poor thing Mr Chops — you have all our sympathy . It’s good to know however that some real people reside within the BBC .
Seriously, I agree with him that cultural domination by the US and global media are a threat. He does appear to be saying that. But cultural dilution by the BBC is an equal threat. What sticks in my craw is this: “A society which fails to provide its different communities and groups with the means to listen and come to understand each other’s pasts and presents shouldn’t be surprised if mutual incomprehension and division are the consequence.”
Which is tendentious bollocks, pure and simple. “Mutual incomprehension” (etc) is neatly avoided by insisting that immos speak decent English and are discouraged from living in separate communities. The BBC needs to return to a one-nation outlook and stop pandering to social special-needs cases.
He has been so anti-Trump at the NYT. The global leftist elite look after their own and keep cunts like these living the champagne style to which they have become accustomed. It’s the same with Cram and Ratcliffe and. God forbid, anyone should say that Saint Mo of Farah took drugs, despite his coach being fingered fro it and the head of the GB Athletics resigning. Fuck me – of course Farah is implicated. I hope the moaning plastic Brit goes down and loses his knighthood – then gets deported back to Somalia. That would be better than winning the Euromillions (what’s the chance of the winner being a peaceful or dooshka?).
Marvellous Mechanical Cunting Machine on October 9, 2019 at 9:32 am said:
Spot on cunting. This authoritarian baldy Libturd deserves a public flogging. Since he took over the New York Times it’s become a Brit bashing organ constantly turning out ludicrously Ill informed anti- Brexit propaganda. Hell doesn’t have a cavern deep enough for this cunt.
Fuck off.
Cuntflap on October 9, 2019 at 9:37 am said:
This guy is a fucking arse.
He can shut his fucking cakehole whilst his beloved bbc has helped the likes of jimmy fucking saville.
The bbc of today could be as pure as the driven snow, but with that in their past they are as good as criminal and as good as dead.
It’s been 74 years and clear thinking people still eye the germans with suspicion, what fucking chance does the bbc have?
The right thing for British people to do is vote with their money and stop paying the license fee. When they ask for all that cash, all of jimmy’s gold springs to mind. And how many more culturally enriched people are dripping in that same gold?
The bbc are in the business of reducing people and their humanity. When people pay the license so they can watch a bit of football, or a bit of saturday night telly hosted by a drunk driver, or clap like a seal to strictly they are saying “it’s ok for ped os to get all my lovely money so long as I can have a nice time”.
The bbc, those that work for them, those that support them and the people that give them money make me sick as a fucking dog.
Good fucking morning.
George W Bamboo on October 9, 2019 at 9:50 am said:
I don’t know much about this pompous prick but what I read I don’t like.
The problem with these type of people is they think they are super intellectual and above normal folk who they look down on. I have a problem with the BBC in that it’s funded by the license payer ie you and me and these twats are totally unaccountable I don’t want someone like this cunt looking down his nose at me or paying the likes of Linicunt 1.7 million to host match of the day. The BBC the sooner it’s dismantled the better stop wasting our money and get into the public domain sink or swim.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Cunt on October 9, 2019 at 9:58 am said:
Linekunt and co are under threat now. A lady of the peaceful variety now hosts MOTD2.
And she’s fucking awful. Obviously got all her presenting tips off Alan Partridge. Job given entirely on merit, of course.
Let’s see how much Linekunt likes diversity when this bint takes his job off him.
Sent me to Defcon 1, that did.
As you say, she got the job on merit, of course…
I love Alan!
Does she begin the show with “Welcome to Match Of The Day Two, A-HA!” ???
Da wimmins are taking over everything sacred.
They might as well just miss out the games altogether and talk about their dry fannies or how da wimmin players should get the same pay. Then just flash the results of the Premier League games on the screen for a second.
There was absolutely no need for the BBC to send a team on an all expenses jolly to the World Athletics Championship. The IAAF had the whole thing covered live with English commentary and presenters on YouTube. It wasn’t available online in the UK (without a VPN) only because the BBC had paid for the rights, the dickheads.
Absolute waste of license fee money just to send a few dozen out on free jolly, the cunts.
Bertie Blunt Ubercunt on October 9, 2019 at 10:25 am said:
Since when have fuckers like Thompson and his ilk been interested in protecting all other aspects of “British culture?”
You can fuck right off and take your sister Emma with you.
I don’t pay licence fee as I don’t watch broadcast television. I gave up watching ages ago.
I don’t know whether to suggest to others to do the same.
Baron Bastard on October 9, 2019 at 11:31 am said:
Blew the licence out 3 years ago. Never regretted it…
Sheik Yafanni Begum on October 9, 2019 at 10:39 am said:
The answer is simple. Don’t watch their archaic shite. Don’t pay for a license to support the paedophile loving bastards & tell any cunt they send to your house to fuck off cunt.
It was the P word that did it.
You’d simply angered the grammar police by misspelling ‘license’.
Remember it’s a c for a noun and s for a verb.
Admin, why am I in moderation? Every word I said about the BBC is the truth.
You used a trigger word, however the trigger word was in context with the cunting and has been legally proved so crack on.
Cuntamus Prime on October 9, 2019 at 11:38 am said:
How it should be written; ‘Ex-boss admits to BBC’s increasing cultural irrelevance’.
Good riddance to the establishment propaganda arm the BBC. I give it 5 years.
EVENING STAR on October 9, 2019 at 8:20 pm said:
Just looking at his picture tells you all you need to know, self satisfied, conceited cunt, if a picture could paint a thousand words
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President Schaitberger addressing the WSCFF Convention
He talked a lot about pending elections. Where the IAFF has been involved, we've been successful in beating back legislation and candidates who seek to scale back worker's rights.
Stated how ALEC used the 2008 Recession to turn workers against workers - channeling their anger, which should have been directed toward ALEC and their allies, against other workers.
Said that the IAFF historically made strides in benefits by saying, "Hey, we want what those guys have." Then we worked to achieve it. Now, Republicans have been successful at reversing this, getting others to say, "Hey, those guys have something we don't. Take it away from them."
Stressed that if Republicans gain Senate, that new committee heads have already stated their desire to take away what you have and destroy what we've built. That is their goal and they have said so.
If GOP wins they will take us back 100 years. 100 years ago, 10 families controlled our nation. Then there was the Workers Rights Movement and democracy. This took power away from the few wealthiest in our nation. They are going to take it back from all of us, if we let them.
Spokane Firefighter Combat Challenge Team Qualifies for World Championships!
Casper, Wyo. – Over the weekend, seven off-duty members of the Spokane Fire Departmentcompeted as individuals and teams in a national Firefighter Combat Challenge competition and qualified a team for the 2012 Scott Safety World Firefighter Combat Challenge Championships.The multi-day, multi-event competition was held in Casper, Wyoming on Friday and Saturday.
The Combat Challenge seeks to encourage firefighter fitness and demonstrate the profession's rigors. Wearing "full bunker gear" and the SCOTT Air-Pak breathing apparatus, pairs of competitors race head-to-head as they simulate the physical demands of real-life firefighting by performing a linked series of five tasks including climbing the 5-story tower, hoisting, chopping, dragging hoses and rescuing a life-sized, 175 lb. dummy, or "victim" as they race against themselves, their opponent and the clock.
Members of the Spokane Fire Department’s team competed individually on Friday before heading into the team relay and tandem races on Saturday. The relay team consisting of Jason Keen, Jeff Baxter, Darin Neiwert, Jeremy Mulvey, and Jeff Webb excelled, finishing the course in a time of 1 minute and 48 seconds, which was good enough to earn them a spot at the 2012 World Challenge Championships in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina later this year.
Three of Spokane’s tandem teams competed on Saturday; the tandem team of Baxter and Webb placed 2nd in the tandem relay for the over 40 category. Keen and Neiwert finished in the top 10 of the general tandem category.
“The Spokane Fire Department values physical fitness and wellness – obviously it is a necessary component of being able to complete the physical demands of our job day in and day out. A competition like the Combat Challenge is a great way to inspire individual firefighters to work out, take their health to a new level and represent our department. I couldn’t be more proud of what our team has accomplished this weekend and we are looking forward to representing Spokane at the international level this fall,” said Team Captain Darin Neiwert, who is a Lieutenant on Spokane’s Ladder 2.
Each year, the Combat Challenge attracts hundreds of firefighters from municipal fire departmentsto competitions at more than 25 locations around the world, including New Zealand, Germany, Argentina, Chile, and South Africa. ESPN provides regular coverage of Challenge events.
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South Hill Residence Fire
Issuing Officer: AC Schaeffer
A persistent effort by Spokane firefighters spared the majority of a South Hill residence this afternoon from fire damage.
The Spokane Fire Department was dispatched at 12:03 PM on June 27, 2013 to find fire throughout the attic of a single story house at 4228 East 16th Avenue. Due to a number of simultaneous large scale emergencies (water rescue and hazardous material response), three engines, one ladder and a chief were dispatched from the remaining available companies in the City. When the first company arrived, the officer reported heavy smoke showing from the eves and roofline of the structure. The call was then upgraded to a working incident, which added an additional engine and AMR ambulance to support the alarm.
Companies were successful in laddering and ventilating the structure’s roof under fire conditions within minutes of arrival. Simultaneously, members from arriving engine companies immediately stretched hose lines to the fire’s origin above and prevented it from consuming any more than one-third of the entire structure.
The fire was extinguished in just 45 minutes, and one firefighter injury occurred (minor injury, first aid only). Spokane Fire District 8 provided breathing air support at the scene due to the SFD's Heavy Rescue being commited to another incident.
The cause remains under investigation by the Fire Department's SIU.
Damage is limited to the structure's attic and roof; additionally there is smoke and water damage in limited areas. The only occupant was outside when the fire was discovered and was not injured.
Fire District 8,
North Battalion Basement Fire
Incident #: 2013027882#
Issuing Officer: Battalion Chief Bill Donahoe
On June 27, 2013 at 01:09 AM, 6 Companies of Spokane Firefighters, 1 Senior Ladder, 4 Engines, 1 Heavy Rescue under direction of Battalion Chiefs Donahoe and Moline were dispatched to a reported basement fire at 1520 North Post with all the occupants reported to be out of the building.
Spokane Engine 3 from the West Central Neighborhood arrived on scene within 4 minutes and reported a fire visible through a window in the basement of a story and a half wood framed structure. Engine 3’s crew then made an aggressive interior attack on the fire. The first arriving Chief then upgraded the incident to a working fire due to the potential of flame spread from the basement up the walls of the balloon framed structure. This brought another dedicated ladder company, an ambulance and an investigator to the scene. Companies were assigned to attack and confine the fire, search for extension, complete a primary search and ventilate the structure. The fire was declared knocked down within 5 minutes and confined to a pile of bedding next to the dryer in the basement. All occupants were confirmed safe outside the structure and there were no injuries to civilians, pets or firefighters. Damage was confined to the pile of bedding with no structure damage. There was slight smoke damage throughout the home.
The single family dwelling was released to the building owner after the atmosphere was deemed safe and the burnt bedding was removed from the home.
The Special Investigation Unit has determined the cause of the fire to from oil soaked bedding that had been ran through the washing machine and then ran through the dryer which added heat to amplify the process of self heating of the oil soaked fabric which had been bagged up and left on the floor. The occupants were very fortunate to have had a working smoke detector in the basement that alerted them of the fire in the incipient stage. The basement had a heavy fire load and could have had a much different outcome without the notification.
The bedding involved was a complete loss along with light smoke damage throughout the home
Dollar Loss: $ 1,000.00
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Bill Logan
Dr Bill Logan has been practising subluxation based, wellness chiropractic since graduating from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa in 1975. Since 1978, he has given dedicated service to the South Australian community, working in main practices in Glenunga, Kent Town and his current state of the art chiropractic centre in Norwood, with satellite practices in Moonta, Cummins and Littlehampton.Canadian born, Dr Bill at first was unsure of his life path so he studied social work whilst working in an Mental Health facility in Alberta. It was during this time a friend encouraged him to attend an information night presented by his chiropractor, and it was then Dr Bill realised his calling.
Dr Bill has continually studied throughout his career, bringing cutting edge technology to his patients, becoming a Diplomate and teacher of Sacral Occipital Technique (S.O.T.) and Craniopathy, extensively studying Chirodontics with its founder and researcher, Dr Bob Walker, as well as mastering other chiropractic techniques. After the latest research revealed actual correction of the spine was possible, Dr Bill dedicated himself and his practice to Chiropractic Bio Physics (CBP), the most researched chiropractic technique in the world today. He studies with researcher and teacher, Dr Deed Harrison, and has totally transformed his office to provide his patients with the most up to date corrective procedures available.
Dr Bill's practice purpose is to educate and adjust as many families as possible toward optimal health through natural chiropractic, and he and his wife, Susan, are very proud of the education and care offered at the Logan Corrective Chiropractic Centre at Norwood.
Palmer College of Chiropractic, Davenport, Iowa - Graduated March, 1975
Memberships and Associations:
Chiropractic Association of Australia
International Chiropractors' Association
Team WLP, Australia (Ambassador)
World Chiropractic Alliance - Australia
Sacro Occipital Technique Organisation Australasia
Susan Logan
After a whirlwind romance, Susan and Dr Bill married in July, 1987. Prior to her marriage, Susan worked extensively in the advertising industry, gathering experience in radio and media, as well as in business management. During the past 25 years, Susan has worked on and off with Dr Bill, taking time off in the early years to have two delightful children - Billie and Georgia - as well as to run her own businesses. When Dr Bill decided to transform the office early in 2003, he asked Susan to come back and work full time, bringing with her a wealth of experience in chiropractic management, advertising and staff training. Currently, Susan is rarely in the office. As well as raising 4 gorgeous grandchildren, Susan is busy with her volunteer work, with the Primary School, coaching school basketball and being on the Board of the Kensington Cardinal baseball club. She is often quoted as saying she doesn't have time to work! Billie and Georgia have also added to their families and two delightful granddaughters (Georgia and Ben have Elliot and Billie and Matt have Piper) delight both Bill and Susan as very hands-on grandparents!
Ella Hill
Chiropractic Assistant
Ella works for both Dr Bill and Dr Brandon and has worked within the chiropractic industry for several years. Her commitment to chiropractic and her love for the patients is second to none. Ella is extremely creative, and all of the artwork and flyers you see at the office is a result of her amazing talents!
When Ella isn't at work, she is busy caring for her beautiful baby daughter Millie, studying a Bachelor of Business Management and spending time with her loving portner Marty and their dogs Odin and Phoenix.
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Dinings, 22 Harcourt Street, Marylebone, London W1H 4HH
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Ambika P3
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35 Marylebone Road, Marylebone, London NW1 | 9 minutes walk from Dinings
Located within the University of Westminster - Marylebone's campus, the vast 14,000 foot P3 exhibition and performance space - a former concrete-testing facility - is... More
Art Work Space: The Hempel Hotel
31-35 Craven Hill Gardens, Paddington, London W2 | 17 minutes walk from Dinings
Art Work Space is an independent art gallery on the lower ground floor of The Hempel hotel, showcasing emerging artists working in a variety of... More
All Souls Church Langham Place
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2 All Souls Place, Fitzrovia, London W1B | 18 minutes walk from Dinings
All Souls Church was the creation of the Prince Regent's favourite designer, John Nash. It was erected in 1824 and formed the pivotal point for... More
Apsley House
149 Piccadilly, Hyde Park Corner, Belgravia, London W1J | 24 minutes walk from Dinings
Originally the London residence of the first Duke of Wellington, Apsley House was designed and built by Robert Adam between 1771 and 1778 and retains... More
Albert Memorial
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Kensington Gardens, 27 Princes Square, South Kensington, London W2 | 26 minutes walk from Dinings
This 180ft Victorian bronze gilt statue in Kensington Gardens is a tribute to Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, and was erected following his death through... More
Architectural Association School Of Architecture
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36 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1B | 28 minutes walk from Dinings
The Architectural Association School of Architecture, the UK's oldest school of architecture, was originally set up in 1847 and moved to Bedford Square in 1917.... More
Alan Cristea Gallery
43 Pall Mall, Mayfair, London SW1Y | 30 minutes walk from Dinings
Alan Cristea Gallery is the largest publisher and dealer of artists' prints and editions in Europe. Set up by Alan Cristea, who brings with him... More
Admiralty Arch
The Mall, Westminster, London SW1A | 34 minutes walk from Dinings
Admiralty Arch, a grade I listed building just off Trafalgar Square, was commissioned by Edward VII in memory of his mother, Queen Victoria. The inscription... More
407 St John Street, Clerkenwell, London EC1V | 2.6 miles from Dinings
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Alma Enterprises
38-40 Glasshill Street, SE1 | 3.1 miles from Dinings
After five years at 1 Vyner Street Alma Enterprises, the project-space which began as a base for successful young artists' collective 'Land', moved to this... More
All Hallows by the Tower
Byward Street, City, London EC3R | 3.8 miles from Dinings
All Hallows, the oldest church in the City of London, is 1300 years old with a crypt museum, Roman pavement and Saxon and Roman artefacts.... More
Alexandra Palace Ice Rink
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Alexandra Palace Way, N22 | 5.4 miles from Dinings
The biggest (it has a total capacity of 1,250) and best permanent ice rink in London, Alexandra Palace Ice Rink within Alexandra Palace is an... More
Avenue House
17 East End Road, N3 | 5.5 miles from Dinings
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Olympic Park, Stratford, E20 | 6.6 miles from Dinings
Presiding over the former Olympic Park the Anish Kapoor-designed ArcelorMittal Orbit observation tower, was described by Mayor Boris Johnson as that "something extra" needed to... More
APT Gallery
Harold Works, 6 Creekside, SE8 | 6.8 miles from Dinings
Charity organisation and gallery A.P.T. in Harold Wharf, on the banks of Deptford Creek, was set up in 1995 by a group of artists to... More
Annex East
Unit 2, Hutchins Close, Stratford, London E15 | 6.9 miles from Dinings
Annex East is a warehouse arts centre located just 100 metres from London's Olympic Park. The space will incorporate an exhibition space, a bespoke bar... More
Alphabetti Spaghetti
Caxton Works, E16 | 7.7 miles from Dinings
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A & D Gallery
51 Chiltern Street, Marylebone, London W1U | 8 minutes walk from Dinings
Opening its doors in 2000, the A & D Gallery in Marylebone was an early champion of what is now called 'Urban Art'. The gallery... More
49 Dorset Street, W1U | 8 minutes walk from Dinings
Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum
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St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, Paddington, London W2 | 9 minutes walk from Dinings
Visit this surprisingly humble laboratory in which Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. Now restored to the musty, dusty cramped conditions of September 1928, visitors can retrace... More
Arte Vista Gallery
17 George Street, Marylebone, London W1U | 10 minutes walk from Dinings
After seven years in Amsterdam, Jan Van Der Heijden's perky Pop Art gallery arrives in new Marylebone premises. Dealing in only the top end of... More
Asia House
63 New Cavendish Street, Marylebone, London W1G | 15 minutes walk from Dinings
Asia House occupies a Grade II* listed building, originally planned by Robert and James Adam as part of the Duke of Portland's Marylebone Estate in... More
The Arts Gallery
University of the Arts London, 65 Davies Street, Mayfair, London W1K | 15 minutes walk from Dinings
This gallery is part of the University of Arts which includes top arts college Central Saint Martins among the six places of learning under its... More
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3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, London NW89AY | 20 minutes walk from Dinings
This legendary building sits inconspicuously in the exclusive area of St. Johns Wood. Steeped in Rock‘n’Roll history, the Beatles infamously bashed out 80% of... More
All Saints Margaret Street
7 Margaret Street, Westminster, Fitzrovia, London W1W | 22 minutes walk from Dinings
This church is the most influential of all the buildings of its architect, William Butterfield, being the first important example of the constructional use of... More
Adam Gallery
24 Cork Street, Mayfair, London W1S | 23 minutes walk from Dinings
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Alison Jacques Gallery
16-18 Berners Street, Fitzrovia, London W1T | 24 minutes walk from Dinings
This architecturally designed space for the Alison Jacques Gallery, opened in 2007, is an improvement on the previous location on Clifford Street. Artists represented include... More
55-57 Great Marlborough Street, Soho, London W1F | 24 minutes walk from Dinings
Albemarle Gallery
49 Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London W1S | 25 minutes walk from Dinings
One of the best small galleries in London, the Albemarle has a tradition of supporting controversial artists, and of beautifully mounted, carefully curated exhibitions. ... More
Alexia Goethe Gallery
5-7 Dover Street, Mayfair, London W1S | 25 minutes walk from Dinings
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Jerusalem Quartet
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Corus inks new Teletoon development deals
Captain Cornelius' Cartoon Lagoon (pictured) and Invasion of the MooFaLoo! are two new indie series in development with Teletoon Canada.
By Julianna Cummins
Portfolio Entertainment and UK-based Giggle Media are currently developing the animated comedy series Invasion of the MooFaLoo! for Corus Entertainment-owned Teletoon in Canada.
The series will target kids aged six to 11, and will feature 26 x 11-minute episodes. The series is created by Steve Garratt, and it follows three rocket-powered sheep as they try to protect the world from a race of alien monk cows called the MooFaLoo.
This latest development deal comes about four months after Portfolio announced it had opened a 9,000-square-foot animation studio in Toronto and landed a commission from Teletoon for the animated series Freaktown.
Teletoon has also signed a deal with Canada’s marblemedia and Atomic Cartoons (recently acquired by Thunderbird) for a second animated comedy series, Captain Cornelius’ Cartoon Lagoon. The series tells the story of the adventures of Captain Cornelius and his crew as they search the lagoon floor for the best and worst cartoons ever made.
The series will include a number of different animation styles in the form of original shorts, clips and sketches. The project is based on a web series by Pat-Man Studios, which is represented by Michael Goodman. The distribution of the series will be handled by Distribution360.
Captain Cornelius' Cartoon Lagoon, Corus Entertainment, Invasion of the MooFaLoo!, Portfolio Entertainment, Teletoon
Corus/Teletoon deal approved by CRTC
Corus unveils Teletoon integration plan
Corus Entertainment posts higher Q2 earnings
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Islamic & Peace Studies at Oberlin College
مطالعات اسلامی و صلح در دانشگاه اُبِرلین
The Focus of My Scholarship
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Friendship Circle
Islamic Mystic Traditions and Literature
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For my final research paper, I decided to interview people in the Oberlin community on their different beliefs surrounding the idea of friendship. I decided on this research format for a few key reasons. First, a lot of my work outside the classroom at Oberlin has involved interviewing. For the past two years, I’ve been(…)
The complicated case of friendship in online gaming communities
What defines good friendship? Is good friendship the only type of genuine friendship? These are the questions that Alexander Nehamas sets out to answer in his work, On Friendship. He outlines several main points on modern friendship and states disagreements with historical philosophers such as Aristotle, specifically the claim the virtuous friendship is the best(…)
Decolonial and Anti-Neoliberal Friendship
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American School of Osteopathy Record Book, 1903 - 1924
218 ¶ by the Board. He shall give or cause to be given notice as required of all meetings of stockholders and of the Board of Directors. He shall also sign all contracts and all warrants drawn by the Treasurer; shall arrange for the collection of all tuition and other fees or debts due the corporation; and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors, under whose supervision he shall at all times be. ¶ Article XI ¶ The Treasurer shall have the custody of the public funds and warrants, and shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the corporation, and shall deposit all moneys and other valuable effects in the name of and to the credit of the corporation in such Banks as the Board may direct. He shall make monthly reports to the Board of Directors at their monthly meetings, or whenever they may require an account, of all his transactions as Treasurer and the financial condition of the corporation. He shall also make a like report to the stockholders at each annual meeting. He shall disburse the funds of the corporation as may be ordered and directed by the Board of Directors, taking proper vouchers and receipts for such disbursements.
Collection Name American School of Osteopathy Collection
Title American School of Osteopathy Record Book, 1903 - 1924
Accession Number 1986.1226.02
Author American School of Osteopathy Board of Directors
Citation American School of Osteopathy Record Book. 1903 - 1924. [1986.1226.02] Museum of Osteopathic Medicine. Kirksville, Missouri.
Description Record book (1903-1924) from the Board of Directors / Trustees of the American School of Osteopathy in Kirksville, Missouri. The material falls into three groups: Part A (12 pp) consists of official documents and Board minutes from the years 1903 - 1904; Part B (256 pp) is Board meeting minutes 1904-1924; and Part C (12 pp; 1922-1923) is loose material relating to Part B, inserted at the end of the book. See individual section descriptions below.
Subject American School of Osteopathy; American School of Osteopathy -- Finances; American School of Osteopathy -- Governance; Osteopathy -- History; Osteopathic Education; Andrew Taylor Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery; Des Moines Still College of Osteopathy; Osteopathic Publications; St. Louis (Missouri) Sanitarium; Still, A.T. (Andrew Taylor); Still, Charles Edward; Laughlin, George Mark; Hamilton, Warren; Campbell, Myers D.; Fout, William G.; Murrell, C.E.; Brott, Eugene Crandall; Still, George Andrew; Hamilton, Mae DeWitt; Still, Ardella Dockery; Turman, B.D.; Bunting, Henry Stanhope; Chiles, Harry L.; Condit, Fred W.; Dixon, Fred W.; Gerdine, L. van Horn; Grozinger, Fred; Hain, H.S.; Halladay, H. Virgil; Hamilton, Arthur; Hamilton, R. Emmett; Henry, E.H.; Hulburt, Ray G; Lane, Michael A.; Pratt, Frank Preston; Rieman, Martin; Still, Harry Mix; Waggoner, John N.; Waggoner, R.A.; Citizens National Bank (Kirksville, Missouri); First Presbyterian Church (Kirksville, Missouri); YMCA (Kirksville, Missouri); YWCA (Kirksville, Missouri); International Shoe Company (Kirksville, Missouri); Big Creek Coal Company (Adair County, Missouri); Link, Eugene C.
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Transcription 218 ¶ by the Board. He shall give or cause to be given notice as required of all meetings of stockholders and of the Board of Directors. He shall also sign all contracts and all warrants drawn by the Treasurer; shall arrange for the collection of all tuition and other fees or debts due the corporation; and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors, under whose supervision he shall at all times be. ¶ Article XI ¶ The Treasurer shall have the custody of the public funds and warrants, and shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the corporation, and shall deposit all moneys and other valuable effects in the name of and to the credit of the corporation in such Banks as the Board may direct. He shall make monthly reports to the Board of Directors at their monthly meetings, or whenever they may require an account, of all his transactions as Treasurer and the financial condition of the corporation. He shall also make a like report to the stockholders at each annual meeting. He shall disburse the funds of the corporation as may be ordered and directed by the Board of Directors, taking proper vouchers and receipts for such disbursements.
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Madonna della Gamba, Desenzano di Albino, Valle, Italy
Commemorated on October 9
On October 9, 1440 the Virgin Mary appeared in Ventura Bonelli, a farmer of 11 years, daughter of Andreolo de 'Bonelli, fifteen months with the left leg was seriously ill, so that the doctor had decided to amputargliela for that day. In the night between 8 and 9, the vehemence of the pain, the girl stood up and pulled up to the threshold of his house.
Here, in a blinding light, Mary apparsale suddenly knelt down in front of them, discovering the diseased leg, then toltasi from the breast a white diaper, wrapped in which he held the ground, picked it up, the kneaded with the spittle and anointed him limb, then fasciandolo with cloths. Our Lady told her that morning, perfectly healed, he had to show himself to his fellow citizens to spread the miracle, asking about the place was built a sanctuary.
In 1468 was completed the construction of the first sanctuary, called the Ripa. In 1599 it was opened a second, built on the site of the house in Ventura. From the remake of this, around 1740 was born the current sanctuary.
Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin of the Miracle: The Miracle
"In Christi appointments amen.
Puella quaedam fuit Bergomensis, Ventura appointments, annorum undecim, born patre Andriolo de Bonellis de Disenzano Vallis Serianae inferioris, admodum pauper, et Egena, et crure left in quindecim menses serious disease laboravit, dies quo in increasing intra genu crus ipsum totum arefactum east, nec vivebat in eo quicquam, excepto quodam nervulo, here tibiam cum copulabat genu ... ".
This is the beginning of the deed witnessing the appearance that it could be so made today:
In the name of Christ, amen.
There was in Desenzano, in Bergamasco, an eleven year old girl named Ventura. She was the daughter of Andreolo of Bonelli Desenzano, of poor economic condition.
From fifteen months he suffered excruciating pain in his left leg, and the bad got worse every day, to the point that now, from the knee down, the leg he had lost all feeling and remained alive for only a small nerve that connected the knee with the tibia ...
One day in October, the mother brought her to the village of Desenzano Comenduno to be cured, but doctors suggested as the only remedy for leg amputation. The girl's mother was opposed and humiliated by poverty and overcome with grief, took upon his daughter on his shoulders and took the road to Desenzano. Shortly after, exhausted by pain and fatigue, stopped in the church of St. Peter, halfway between Desenzano and Comenduno. The daughter began to comfort his mother, and together they found solace in God and in B.Vergine.
Meanwhile, night had fallen and the mother left alone by the church to gather herbs. But he was attacked by a black and horned beast which caused a great fright and tore off a piece of robe, letting it fall in a field not far from the church. Then the mother took her daughter on her shoulders and took her home. They had already made nearly ten o'clock at night and the pain did not give peace in Ventura. Crawling up to the front door, he saw a great light in the sky and I was surprised.
And he saw a lady approaching her noble appearance, who told her to lift her dress and discover the wounded leg. Ventura remained motionless with surprise. Then the lady lifted her dress, passed his hand on the leg, foot, and toes, and then he took from his breast a white bandage: it took place, took a pinch of earth, bathed in saliva, and smeared it on his leg wounded .
Then he said to the girl to be the Virgin Mary, and ordered that the next day at sunrise, come back in the field where the beast had dropped the piece of garment of the mother, the resumption and threw in the ossuary of the cemetery, on the Churchyard. Then depose the bandage smeared with earth into the slot on the leg of a round rock to Ripa, just above the church of S, Peter, and that there did build a kiosk, and there was painted a picture of her and of her Son , and did you know the miracle in the surrounding area.
Ventura stammered that the condition of the leg did not allow this. Our Lady replied:
"Do not worry, you'll be completely healed."
And it was really so, as Our Lady had said. But when it was day, the thing became known and confirmed by all the neighbors miraculous healing.
In the presence of the eyewitnesses: Concino of the Lords of Comenduno, Franchino Borelli of Desenzano, Benedict was Gataldo of the Lords of Comenduno, Stefanini Mafiolo Marinoni of Desenzano, the Perolino was Perolino of Marinoni, Peter Mafiolo of Solari, Martin of Marinoni Desenzano, and many others, the notary Gabriel was Joseph Borelli of Desenzano stretched out the deed.
A witness to the miracle of the Virgin then sort Venturina Bonelli on the bank overlooking the parish church of St. Peter was built newsstand. In a short time the people of Desenzano, Comenduno, Albino competes with offerings of all kinds because it satisfied the desire of the Virgin.
In Desenzano al Serio (City of Albino) in the province of Bergamo is surrounded by mountains, a shrine known as the Sanctuary of "Madonna della Gamba" in reference to the miracle that gave rise to its construction.
"Venturina Brats, a girl of twelve years old, should have been subjected to amputation of a gangrenous leg that went.'s Mother took her daughter before the altar of the Virgin in the Church of Ripa. Mother and daughter prayed and wept. Was the 8 October 1440. The poor girl was brought to his house, at the center of the country, after a few hours had the Appearance of a stately lady who smiled amiably, claiming to be the Mother of God took her sick leg, and placing a white diaper on his wounds, healed her. To express gratitude to Heavenly Mother, the Bonelli family and the people they provided to expand and decorate the church of Ripa and to invoke Mary as Our Lady of the Miracle. "
Only in 1579 the house where the apparition took place was transformed into a church. The first sanctuary was built in seven years (1592-99), the current one was finished around 1740, three hundred years after the apparitions, rebuilt from the ground up. The main festival occurs October 9, the anniversary of the apparition, preceded by a novena of prayer.
At this shrine come many people who are suffering limb or that must be made for the Virgin Mary to intercede for them.
I remember one Saturday in June took her to the sanctuary thirty participants in our prayer group that did not know him. While we were praying in the crypt heard a woman, who was there before us, burst into tears pouring down. The worried wondered what had happened to her and, still sobbing and leaning with her husband, said that for years he suffered a leg and despite repeated operations could not use the affected limb. But there, in the sanctuary, was suddenly healed and told him while still walking with tears of joy. We called the pastor to whom we told what had happened that she immediately came down to talk to the lady and her husband who, then, came to lunch with us.
After one year while I was in a seaside resort abroad with my wife, we met a group of Bergamo, who lived at Albino. Of course, the conversation turned on the shrine of the Madonna della Gamba and some told us that the sacristan, which made the name a few years before had witnessed a touching scene to the point that when told it was moved again. A mother used to bring the child in a wheelchair, paralyzed because of the lower limbs, lying in front of the Madonna in the crypt of the Shrine. The sacristan he remembered it well as he noted the difficulties of the mother to make the wheelchair down the stairs. One day, while he was checking the church, she saw the child suddenly get up and start walking, arousing the emotions of the mother. Our Lady rewarded the faith of her mother and had healed witnessing Jesus' promise: "Ask and you shall receive, seek and find, knock and it shall be opened, because everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened . Who among you whom if his son ask bread, will give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will give him a serpent?
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him "(Mt 7,7 f.)
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Couple accuse troopers of excessive force
By Nathan Duke
Federal lawsuit filed over man's 2017 arrest
Nathan Duke Eagle Staff Writer
August 8, 2019 Local News
A Brady Township couple have filed a federal lawsuit against the state police troopers who arrested the husband at their home in 2017, alleging that the three officers used excessive force.
According to the couple's federal court complaint, which was filed Tuesday by Butler's Lindsay Law Firm, a National Guard helicopter reported to Trooper Michael Lewis that a marijuana plant was spotted in Danny and Sheri Pollock's backyard on July 29, 2015.
Upon being questioned, Danny Pollock told Lewis that two marijuana plants were being grown in the backyard of their Muddy Creek Drive home to provide pain relief for his wife, who had chronic back pain from a motorcycle accident, according to the suit.
Pollock told the trooper that his wife was allergic to narcotics and other pain killers prescribed to her, so he was growing the plants to help mitigate her pain.
Lewis seized the plants and told the Pollocks they would not likely hear from the police again, according to the complaint.
But the suit alleges that on July 26, 2017, criminal charges were filed stemming from the 2015 incident, and an arrest warrant was issued the following day.
However, Danny Pollock said he heard nothing about the case between the time of Lewis' original visit and Aug. 20, 2017, the suit says.
In response to a request, a state police spokesman said the department does not comment on pending litigation.
On Aug. 9, 2017, Danny Pollock had a heart attack and was taken to Butler Memorial Hospital, where treatment included the stenting of one of his arteries.
Around 5 p.m. on Aug. 21, 2017, three troopers — Gregory Bogan, Nathan Spangler and Matthew Kephart — showed up at the couple's home to serve an arrest warrant, according to the suit.
Sheri Pollock greeted the troopers on the front porch, and the complaint alleges that Bogan made his way from the rear of the property to the front porch, ran up the stairs and shouted at Danny Pollock that he was under arrest.
The couple alleges that the officers used excessive force, despite Pollock and his wife telling the officers he had recently been released from the hospital after a heart attack and that medication he was taking made him disoriented and confused.
According to the suit, the troopers refused to specify the cause for the warrant or show proof of its existence. Spangler allegedly grabbed Pollock's left arm and placed a handcuff on his wrist.
Danny Pollock, who was not wearing shoes, allegedly was denied a request to get his shoes from inside the door of his house.
At this time, Sheri Pollock reiterated the seriousness of her husband's medical condition, and Bogan is alleged to have called her an “(expletive) liar,” according to the complaint.
The couple alleges in the suit that Bogan then “bull-rushed” Danny Pollock, slamming him against his house.
Bogan and Spangler allegedly threw Danny Pollock to the ground; smashed his face into a porch swing, breaking two of his teeth and causing damage to his right eye, according to the suit.
Pollock alleges he was held face-down on the ground, where he was kicked, punched, kneed in the groin and elbowed as officers handcuffed him. Kephart allegedly threatened to Taser him, the suit says.
Sheri Pollock was troubled by blood coming from her husband's face and head since he was on blood thinners due to his recent surgery.
According to the complaint, Danny Pollock complained of chest pain at the time of the incident, and his wife alleges she was not allowed to check on him for hours after he was transported to BMH following the incident.
While waiting in the emergency room and in Sheri Pollock's presence, Bogan asked a nurse to consult Danny Pollock's records to determine whether the couple was being truthful about his recent operation, the suit says.
When the nurse confirmed Pollock's hospital stay, Bogan is alleged to have said to Spangler, “Oh (expletive), 11 days ago,” according to the complaint.
The complaint alleges that Danny Pollock remained in the hospital from Aug. 21 to Aug. 23, 2017, to undergo evaluations, which included a heart catheterization to ensure the grafting and stents that were implanted 12 days earlier remained in place after the alleged assault.
Pollock's treating physician documented his observation of multiple bruises on Pollock's body, including one on the back of his head, another on his right lower extremity and one on his right wrist, the suit says.
Danny Pollock was released in a wheelchair from the hospital on Aug. 23, 2017, and transported by state police officers to the Butler County Prison, where he remained incarcerated for 15 days.
According to the suit, Pollock's injuries from the alleged use of excessive force included acute chest pain; numbness in his right arm; lower back pain, which forced him to walk with a cane; damage to his right eye, including blurred vision and obstructed peripheral vision; recurring neck and head aches; and damaged teeth, one cracked and two others chipped.
Max Roesch, an attorney for the Pollocks, called the troopers' alleged behavior “inexplicable,” and didn't know why police waited two years to arrest Danny Pollock.
“The clients feel very wronged by this,” Roesch said. “They've always held good feelings toward police and law enforcement. They want somebody held to account for this thing that nobody deserves, especially over two marijuana plants two years prior.”
Eagle staff writer Alex Weidenhof contributed to this report.
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The mirror of architecture: or The ground-rules of the art of building, exactly laid down by Vincent Scamozzi, master-builder of Venice. Whereby the principal points of architecture are easily and plainly demonstrated for the benefit of all lovers and ingenious practitioners in the said art. With the description and use of a joynt-rule, fitted with lines for the ready finding the lengths and angles of rafters, and hips, and collar-beams, in any square or bevelling roof at any pitch; and the ready drawing the architrave, frieze, and cornice in any order. With other useful conclusions by the said rule. By John Brown. The fourth edition. Whereunto is added a compendium of the art of building. Giving a brief account of the names, natures, and rates of all the materials, belonging to the erection of an edifice: and what quantity of each sort will be needful for the building of any house. Whereby estimates, valuations and contracts may be made between builder and workman, without damage to e, (electronic resource)
The Resource The mirror of architecture: or The ground-rules of the art of building, exactly laid down by Vincent Scamozzi, master-builder of Venice. Whereby the principal points of architecture are easily and plainly demonstrated for the benefit of all lovers and ingenious practitioners in the said art. With the description and use of a joynt-rule, fitted with lines for the ready finding the lengths and angles of rafters, and hips, and collar-beams, in any square or bevelling roof at any pitch; and the ready drawing the architrave, frieze, and cornice in any order. With other useful conclusions by the said rule. By John Brown. The fourth edition. Whereunto is added a compendium of the art of building. Giving a brief account of the names, natures, and rates of all the materials, belonging to the erection of an edifice: and what quantity of each sort will be needful for the building of any house. Whereby estimates, valuations and contracts may be made between builder and workman, without damage to e, (electronic resource)
The item The mirror of architecture: or The ground-rules of the art of building, exactly laid down by Vincent Scamozzi, master-builder of Venice. Whereby the principal points of architecture are easily and plainly demonstrated for the benefit of all lovers and ingenious practitioners in the said art. With the description and use of a joynt-rule, fitted with lines for the ready finding the lengths and angles of rafters, and hips, and collar-beams, in any square or bevelling roof at any pitch; and the ready drawing the architrave, frieze, and cornice in any order. With other useful conclusions by the said rule. By John Brown. The fourth edition. Whereunto is added a compendium of the art of building. Giving a brief account of the names, natures, and rates of all the materials, belonging to the erection of an edifice: and what quantity of each sort will be needful for the building of any house. Whereby estimates, valuations and contracts may be made between builder and workman, without damage to e, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries.
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Brown, John, (Philomath)
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London, printed for Richard Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1700
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Details for: Geographies of an imperial power : the British world, 1688-1815 /
Geographies of an imperial power : the British world, 1688-1815 / Jeremy Black
By: Black, Jeremy .
Publisher: Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2018Description: xvii, 308 p.ISBN: 9780253031570.Subject(s): Imperialism | British colonies | Geography | Imperialism DDC classification: 325.341 090 3 Online resources: Click here to access online
Accumulating knowledge -- The spatial matrix of military and political power -- Territorialization and the mapping of authority -- The public sphere -- The debate on tourism, religion, and culture -- Responding to novelty -- Responding to the transoceanic world -- Responding to coal and commerce -- Geographies in retrospect -- Conclusions.
Summary: "From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration of Britain in the 18th century, Jeremy Black explores the interconnected roles of power and geography in the creation of a global empire. Geography was at the heart of Britain's expansion into India, its response to uprisings in Scotland and America, and its revolutionary development of railways. Geographical dominance was reinforced as newspapers stoked the fires of xenophobia and defined the limits of cosmopolitan Europe as compared to the 'barbarism' beyond. Geography provided a system of analysis and classification which gave Britain political, cultural, and scientific sovereignty. Black considers geographical knowledge not just as a tool for creating a shared cultural identity but also as a key mechanism in the formation of one of the most powerful and far-reaching empires the world has ever known"--Provided by publisher.
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"From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration of Britain in the 18th century, Jeremy Black explores the interconnected roles of power and geography in the creation of a global empire. Geography was at the heart of Britain's expansion into India, its response to uprisings in Scotland and America, and its revolutionary development of railways. Geographical dominance was reinforced as newspapers stoked the fires of xenophobia and defined the limits of cosmopolitan Europe as compared to the 'barbarism' beyond. Geography provided a system of analysis and classification which gave Britain political, cultural, and scientific sovereignty. Black considers geographical knowledge not just as a tool for creating a shared cultural identity but also as a key mechanism in the formation of one of the most powerful and far-reaching empires the world has ever known"--Provided by publisher.
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Chapter Nine: The Twelfth Day of Christmas
The children are distraught because they’re forced to have a three-day break from Gondalling over the weekend. Nicola thinks them “all quite mad” but doesn’t say so because she “was enough of an outsider as it was”.
The sixth of January – Twelfth Night, the Feast of the Epiphany – dawns and it’s Ginty’s fifteenth birthday. She celebrates with a long ride on Catkin, eagerly anticipating the hunt the next day, while madly Gondalling about Rupert/Patrick dying in Crispian/Ginty’s arms (“It was odd how real it became after a while”). Then she goes home to monopolise the bathroom, while everyone else is trying to get dressed for the Merricks’ party, and suddenly she realises – she’ll have to wear the Bridesmaid’s Horror! It’s her own fault for choosing to Gondal rather than go shopping for a new dress, but typically, she blames everyone else:
“Ann’s crassness in saying she could: Doris’s infamy in offering to do the dress when she couldn’t: her mother’s neglectfulness in not making her go into Colebridge and get a new one–”
But Doris has brought the altered dress back and it’s “perfect”. Mrs Marlow, as astonished as Ginty by Doris’s skill, gives Ginty a necklace to wear, then they go downstairs to show it to Doris. It’s probably because I was thinking of the slave thing, but this scene rubbed me the wrong way. Did they even pay Doris for her work in advance, or at all? Doris had to buy boning for the bodice and other materials, presumably with her own money. Mrs Marlow says, without saying please, that Doris should make dresses for all of them, and Doris says, “I’d love to. Thanks ever so,” as though the Marlows are doing her a great favour. Doris is like Cinderella, doing all the work, but while she gets to go to the ball, she still has to slave away in the kitchen instead of getting to dance with the prince. Then when Ginty idly asks if Doris makes clothes for herself, Doris says,
“Oh no, Miss Ginty,” said Doris matter-of-factly, “it’d be waste of time. I wouldn’t repay the trouble. ’Sides, I’ve got a cousin in service in Bristol. She always passes on the things her lady gives her when she’s done with them herself.”
I didn’t need to read the (very interesting) biography of Antonia Forest in the front of this book to realise she was a “lifelong Conservative” – it’s so apparent in her writing. This scene in particular is so very “The rich man in his castle/The poor man at his gate/God made them high and lowly/And ordered their estate.” Imagine how different it would have been if it’d been written by Monica Dickens or even Noel Streatfeild.
However snobby this chapter is, I still can’t resist a party-in-an-English-country-house scene and this is a good one. When the Marlows arrive, the infants’ party games are still in progress and Karen and Ann go off to help, while the others “stood rather stiffly and shyly against the wall and hoped no one was going to suggest they should join in”. Patrick is being his usual anti-social self and his mother is clearly fed up with him. She sends him off to check the chapel is locked before the Hide-and-Seek game starts and Ginty goes with him.
“Nicola looked after them, hesitating. But she hadn’t been invited…”
Nicola would have been a bit of a third wheel, because when Patrick sees Ginty in the chapel, “the candlelight falling on Doris’s dress and her mother’s necklace, her bare shoulders and fair hair shining through the black lace of the veil”, he offers her “the greatest compliment in his vocabulary at the moment”, saying she looks like a Gondalian. So they decide to have a secret Gondalling session right then inside the locked chapel, with Rosina/Ginty, the daughter of Alcona, in love with Rupert/Patrick even though her father wants her to marry Jason. Of course, they can’t tell the others about this Gondal development because the others are “too young”. Patrick expresses some doubts:
“I don’t know if I can do this very well,” he said after a moment. “I don’t really know how people talk when they’re in love.”
But clearly he manages to work it out, because he and Ginty spend the entire night flirting with one another. Poor Nicola, in her unflattering dress, stuck with Oliver Reynolds as dinner neighbour and dance partner, notices Patrick and Ginty “were behaving–oddly”. Suddenly she realises that Patrick is wearing his “Rupert face”, even when he’s dancing with Nicola. Patrick denies he and Ginty are being “Rupert and Crispian” (which is perfectly true, but misleading) and then Nicola overhears him calling Ginty “Rosina”.
“Since she despised Gondal and all its works, it was hard to say why this discovery should make her feel hollow inside…”
Poor Nicola, she’s having a terrible holiday. First she’s forced into Gondalling, then Sprog dies, then Patrick, her friend, abandons her for her pretty older sister. The other Marlows are having a slightly better time at the party. Peter achieves his aim of dancing “with every passable female” who isn’t his sister; Rowan is offered a horse for the hunt the next day; Karen dances with Ronnie, a handsome young Merrick cousin; Ann is a wall-flower and chats with the elderly guests, which is probably her idea of a good time; and Lawrie gets drunk with a mob of disreputable young adults. At least someone spills coffee on Nicola’s awful dress, so she probably won’t ever have to wear it again.
But then, as the party ends, Patrick and Ginty are discovered to be missing. Mrs Marlow takes her usual passive approach to parenting and decides “to hope they would turn up by the time the rest of the family were ready to go”. I pictured it as like the video for Avalon, if Bryan Ferry had “golden eyes” and Sophie Ward had been wearing peacock chiffon:
Patrick and Ginty turn out to have been outside having a romantic time watching geese fly overhead. Poor Nicola:
“Rosina was bad enough: but Rosina or no, the geese should have been hers.”
EDITED TO ADD: I’d incorrectly said it was Ginty’s sixteenth birthday, when she was really turning fifteen. Thanks for pointing this out, Elizabeth!
Next, Chapter Ten: Hounds are Running.
Posted on July 15, 2018 July 15, 2018 Author MichelleCategories 1950s and 1960s, books, young adultTags Antonia Forest
21 thoughts on “‘Peter’s Room’, Part Five”
Back in End Of Term Patrick watches Lois reading in the Christmas play and muses on how ‘what people are’ has to be separated from ‘what people can do’ (or words to that effect) and I often feel this is true of Antonia Forest herself. I’m sure if I’d have met her in real life I’d have hated her politics, opinions, views on religion etc. and yet Nicola Marlow and by extension the rest of the characters are my favourite fictional people and her books among my most favourite books.
Another example of the way the servants are treated by the likes of the Marlows and Merricks – Mrs Bertie goes to the Twelth Night party ‘to help out’ and Mrs Marlow is thanked by Mrs Merrick for lending her. Then she has to get up at the crack of dawn to cook a big breakfast early enough for them to all go off hunting. I always hope that she gets a bit of sleep later in the armchair in the kitchen while they’re all off hunting. Oh, and that she had a really good gossip with her own friends while she was behind the scenes at the party.
When I imagine future worlds for the Marlows I always hope they get away and meet lots of different people and distance themselves from their own background.
I feel the same way about writers like Nancy Mitford – she sounds as though she was a total snob and a really nasty human being, but her novels are brilliant. I can usually make allowances for long-dead authors having dated views on life, as long as their writing is good and they have a sense of humour.
And yes, poor Mrs Bertie! And the way Peter puts on a regional working-class accent that’s meant to be hilarious…
Ginty turns fifteen, not sixteen, on her birthday. Peter’s Room, Girls Gone By Edition, p. 71. Patrick is slightly older than her (discussed in Attic Term) although they are closer in age than Patrick and Nicola. The Trennels that is apparently built partly on slave trade profits is the eighteenth century country house, not the original Tudor farm house. Peter’s Room, Girls Gone By Edition, p. 65. The Marlows were originally yeoman farmers, before they got into sailing and the Navy. I personally don’t think don’t think Antonia Forest meant to be snobby or certainly racist; she may have just been a bit different in the way she approached some things – a little like Patrick, and you probably can’t separate a writer entirely from the way they see the world as a writer. But others disagree I guess. I like a lot of the summary and the Avalon video.
Thanks for your correction about Ginty’s age, Elizabeth – you’re absolutely right. I think I got confused because I assumed getting a horse as a present was such a big deal that it must have been her sixteenth birthday.
I think, even for her time, Antonia Forest was racist. At the same time Antonia Forest was casually using ‘nigger’ in her Marlow books, Noel Streatfeild was writing “the person who believes in the equality of men is never in any danger of rapping out the word ‘nigger’ whether the nearest coloured person is in the next chair or a hundred miles away.” But I also think it’s possible to enjoy books even when you disagree with the author’s perspective on life, especially if the books were written decades ago and the author is dead.
Maybe I am wrong, but where does Forest use nigger at all, let alone casually. I know Agatha Christie certainly did, without I think the racist intention that would be meant today, but I can’t remember the use of the term anywhere in Forest, although I have certainly read all the books. Maybe it is used somewhere in reference to a book title or something but I certainly don’t remember this. Having possibly dated attitudes in some areas does not necessarily make someone racist, and I have never thought of Forest as being racist.
Casual racist comments come up in a few of the books I’ve read so far. For example, I just had a quick look at The Marlows and the Traitor. On p 81, Peter says Nicola “would have made a very good Little Black Sambo” if there’d been coal in the coal cellar and on p 113, “Lawrie said with a chuckle: “You do look funny, Peter. Like a not-quite nigger minstrel.” I’ve got the Girls Gone By edition with the original text, though – perhaps those references were changed in later editions?
I should point out that I’m not white, so I’ve had a lifetime of dealing with racist slurs – and so I’m going to be more sensitive about the issue and more likely to notice racist comments in a book. But I don’t think that people who read and enjoy these books are racist. When I come to the racist bits, I just roll my eyes at it and then ignore it. If I boycotted every author or book that was racist or sexist or classist, I’d be missing out on a huge chunk of twentieth century English literature!
And I have to add that I personally do think that racism is a serious issue, and if I completely disagreed with a writer’s perspective on the world and additionally thought that they were a casual racist, I actually would not want to read the writer’s books and probably wouldn’t care if they were forgotten. But I never thought this was true of Antonia Forest.
Kate C says:
Love, love, love Avalon! Perfect (and surely the mansion is an accurate representation of the Merricks’ house). I was about Ginty’s age when it was released and it was the soundtrack to many a daydream scene… And it’s even got hawks!!
The treatment of Doris and Mrs Herbert is definitely wince-inducing. Wait till you see how Patrick talks to his social inferiors in The Thuggery Affair — talk about born to rule. Actually The Thuggery Affair might be an apt place for a thorough discussion of race and class in Forest.
That Avalon video, along with the BBC series of Brideshead Revisited, is pretty much responsible for the Montmaray books! I watched both of them at an impressionable age…
The Thuggery Affair is the next book, isn’t it? The one with the drug-dealing pigeons and no Nicola? You’re not making it sound very appealing, Kate.
Avalon, Brideshead, Love in a Cold Climate, Lord Peter Wimsey… I think we may have been impressionable at the same time, Michelle. No wonder I loved Montmaray so much 🙂
I would class The Thuggery Affair as an ambitious but flawed experiment — still worth reading though, and it will definitely spark some debate!
Alas, I’ve never taken to Lord Peter Wimsey or Harriet. I only tried one Dorothy Sayers book and that was more than enough. But perhaps I started with the wrong book.
Yes, I didn’t remember this, and seem to be a very unfortunate comment that does not reoccur I am still sure. I never much liked The Marlows and the Traitor and I agree that I must not have read it carefully. And use of these words in the past, while very unfortunate, was not necessarily meant in the same way as now. Conrad’s ‘The Nigger of the Narcissus’ is still published, and I don’t think the title has been changed. However, I still think that casual racism is a major charge, and I am not aware it has ever been made against Conrad. Although, yes I have read some Conrad, and having attitudes of the time, yes. Agatha Christie’s use of the rhyme ‘ten little niggers ‘ was changed, and she later may have regretted the use of the word nigger.
Conrad’s book was published in 1897, long before the era we’re discussing, and yes, a recent edition changed his title (and it was originally published as The Children of the Sea in America anyway). The Marlows and the Traitor was first published in 1953, just two years before Streatfeild wrote that polite people would never think of using the word ‘nigger’ (and Streatfeild wasn’t exactly a radical progressive).
I’ve come across some other casual racist slurs in Antonia Forest’s books, but I’ve only read five of them and I’m certainly not an expert in her work or her life. I provided the evidence you asked for and I’m simply discussing my thoughts about what I’ve noticed in her books. It’s interesting that you think it’s far worse for me to call Antonia Forest racist, than it is for her to have used words like ‘nigger’.
And yes, I did notice, and like, that she addresses English anti-Semitism through Miranda in End of Term. Of course she was concerned about anti-Semitism – she was Jewish (until she converted to Catholicism) and I’m sure she did experience anti-Semitism, especially before the war. But it’s still possible for someone to be Jewish and have experienced bigotry – and yet also have bigoted or ignorant beliefs about people with brown or black skin.
Anyone else have comments on this issue? What do you think?
I am sorry for the racist slurs you have experienced, but Miranda West experiences racist comments related to being Jewish, and I still don’t think there is any evidence that Antonia Forest didn’t take such comments seriously. Possibly she occasionally experienced them herself.
Lawrie is not a particularly polite person, but yes, I am sorry that once she does say ‘nigger’, and I am also aware of the controversies in Mark Twain etc. but it is true I do not like a writer I admire being called a racist because of one use of the term and although she was not a Victorian she did grow up in a different era.
There’s also a dog which gets named LBS in one of the books you haven’t got tot yet, Michelle, although by the last book in the series that name seems to have been dropped because it’s just called Sam by then. I can’t think of any other examples.
I don’t know if this has anything to do with it, but Streatfield had travelled quite a bit, and also lived in London when London was becoming more culturally diverse; whereas Forest lived in Dorset – rural, and 100% white. The occasional use of racist language in her books is depressingly and embarrassingly typical of her generation – think of Prince Philip – but I would suggest that it is a case of ignorance rather than active bigotry, if that makes sense?
That’s more or less my take on it too. To my recollection, it’s the characters who occasionally use racist language. That doesn’t absolve Forest, and she certainly doesn’t seem to question or criticize it in the same way she does anti-Semitism. But I would say that on the spectrum of racist/offensive writing, it’s not nearly as bad as the author/narrator using those slurs (as, for example, G.K. Chesterton does) or building racism into the narrative through the use of ethnic stereotypes. And I don’t find it to be unrealistic language for characters growing up in a lily-white part of England in the 1940s and 50s. The characters make casual references to minstrel shows and Little Black Sambo because all this language is completely abstract to them – they don’t connect it to actual people who they might meet. That level of cluelessness is a problem in itself, and there’s no indication that Forest realizes it’s a problem, but is it realistic for white kids of that time and place? I think so.
Maybe I just read a lot of racist writers (I majored in Victorian lit) but I tend to distinguish between the thoughtless use of language that can be lifted out of the text without leaving a mark and the more systemic, malignant kind of bigotry that informs a writer’s whole approach to character development and world-building. At her worst, I think Forest is only guilty of the first, not the second.
But then, I’m not exactly objective; I first read these books as a kid, and I’m Jewish, so the school stories always made me feel represented – it’s hard to take a step back and think of how they would look to a new reader.
Um. Except Forest grew up in Hampstead, and only moved to Dorset as an adult. And, speaking as a Dorset-dweller, although it’s not as culturally diverse down here as it is in major cities, we do consume the same media and we are subject to many of the same influences as people elsewhere. It’s not a hotbed of antediluvian ideas now, and I don’t see why it would have been 60 years ago.
I’m inclined to agree with Ann that it might be a case of ignorance rather than malice. Unthinking racism is sadly still a feature of a certain generation and class of rural England (not just there of course) as I can attest from my own relatives, who in other respects are generous and thoughtful, and despite vigorous and horrified attempts at consciousness-raising by their own more progressive children. Hopefully those attitudes are dying out. But it’s a battle that needs constant fighting.
I was an English 40s child and the n word was severely taboo in our family – so I was shaken when my mother was looking at swatches of something to see one designated “nigger brown”.
Alas, we were surrounded by casual use of the word in a mainly white society. USA – did you ever notice the final crowd scene of A Face in the Crowd?
Little Black Sambo was simply an accepted story book *at the time* (and oh, we loved the tiger butter!) – of course it was later pointed out that it was Indian, not African (see tigers).
Purely by the way, at a very early age I decided I was Indian (Native American) when the rest of the world was Cowboys.
Thanks for all your thoughts, everyone. I mostly agree with those who are saying that Antonia Forest’s racism was thoughtless, rather than malignant. I mean, she wasn’t Enoch Powell or Oswald Mosley, actively promulgating hate speech. (By the way, Enoch Powell was furious when people called him racist – or ‘racialist’, as the term was then – after his Rivers of Blood speech. Racist people almost never accept that they’re racist. Even Pauline Hanson, the Australian politician who’s made a career out of being racist, also claims she’s never said anything racist.)
But ignorant, careless racism is still racism. It still hurts the people it’s aimed at, because it tells them that they aren’t worthy of the same respect and dignity that white people take for granted. Antonia Forest, an intelligent, thoughtful writer, chose to use racist slurs in her books. Yes, children like the Marlows probably would have used that language in the 1950s and 1960s, but other children’s authors of her era chose to avoid words like ‘nigger’ because they understood it was hurtful and rude.
Still, as I said, it doesn’t stop me enjoying the good parts of these books. I just sigh a bit when I get to the racist slurs, then move on.
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The Dragon Tree Spell Book Part III
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Welcome back to the third part of my walkthrough of the Arduin-ish spell book supplement from Dragon Tree Press, a book of spells named, rather correctly, the Dragon Tree Spell Book. Part I is here, and if you like this sort of thing, first, seek professional help immediately, and second, while you’re waiting for them to reject your insurance, look at the Necromican!
Affect Orbit: This is a druid spell that lets them casually disrupt global ecosystems. For every three levels, they can advance or reverse the moon’s phase by one full day, thus screwing up tides (and all the biological cycles associated with them), and confusing the hell out of werewolves. This spell is simultaneously over- and under- powered. Overpowered because it gives a mid-level character control over a fundamental natural process with planetary consequences, and underpowered because it’s hard to see how this lets you kill more orcs. (I guess it could be useful in some fights with were-beasts, if the GM rules shifting the moon’s phase could force them to change instantly.)
Alter Tensile Strength: Looking back at “Alter Friction” and “Alter Stickiness”, I am starting to suspect this series of spells was written by an engineer. (As a side note, I once played a Mage in the White Wolf game of the same name, and coming up with spells like this (and arguing with the Storyteller over the exact effect) was pretty much what you did if you had dots in Matter.)
Brother Betrtam’s Body Bag: Sounds like a good name for a goth band that plays at the local non-chain coffeehouse on Friday nights. It also serves to protect a corpse from decomposition for a long period of time… a useful effect, one that eventually became a core second level spell in later editions of D&D. On reflection, I see why it was higher level here… at the time this was written (I’m presuming 1981, with the Second Edition I’m working from being a reformatting w/better typography but not a significant content revision), RPGs often had a slightly more adversarial approach to life and death, and being able to counter a GM who had set up things to make it hard to keep a corpse intact long enough to find a high-level cleric would be a more powerful effect.
Cold Fire: Creates a fire that’s cold, not hot, and which does not burn fuel. The spell description itself notes its mundane utility at chilling beverages for parties. It can also be used to create “cold torches” which can damage fire creatures at 1d6/caster level. Creative players could come up with other uses. I can also see a debate on if this could create an area effectively “blacked out” to infravision, if the party stayed close to the “flame”, or if the cold would create a field of obvious “darkness” below the ambient temperature. I’d rule something like the latter, the IR-using creature wouldn’t make out many details but would know something was odd.
Combination Spell: This is an oddity to me. It allows a caster to cast a second spell while “maintaining” an already cast one. Why an oddity? Because rules limiting “active” spells were not part of AD&D1e (I just reviewed both the PHB and DMG, as it’s often the case such rules were buried in obscure paragraphs, and, if they were, they escaped by notice even on this review). The example in “Combination Spell” mentions Animate Object as a spell which could not be maintained if a second spell was cast, but nothing in that spells description in the PHB indicates it requires any action to maintain normally or limits further spellcasting in any way. So it seems, tentatively, this spell is useful only under some house rules that forbid casting one spell if another was still in effect.
Container of Holding: Turns any bag, box, and so on into a “container of holding”, granting tenfold capacity for 1 hour/level. It is silent on what happens when the spell expires. Does the excess cargo vanish, like tears in the rain, or explode violently out of the container? Either one could be fun.
Fumble Cause: Causes the next spell cast by the target to fumble, which presumes one is using a system where that is possible. The text says this spell must be case before the target announces to the DM what spell they are casting — implying it’s only useful in PVP situations, which in turn says a lot about the nature of games the Dragon Tree crew must have been playing. This spell is followed by a list of specific variants, such as “Cause Fumble-Too-Much”, which causes the forced fumble to be “double effect” or “Cause Wrong-Target-Fumble” (meaning should be obvious).
Gjosaf’s Spell Of The Stealthy Fagin: Along the lines of Invisible Servant and Invisible Accountant, this spell is effectively “Invisible (well, foggy) Thief”, creating an animate rogue of half the caster’s level which can pick pockets, disarm traps, or even perform a backstab. It has some limitations, such as not being able to communicate or share senses, and must be concentrated upon to control (see “Combination Spell”, above), but it’s otherwise a very nice concept that’s level-appropriate and could be easily converted to modern D&D variants in a balanced fashion.
Instant Baroque: A powerful bard spell that conjures forth a harpsichord, that… no, wait. This rather specialized spell causes any long, straight, material to twist into decorative curlicues. Yes, I know that sounds like the joke description. But it’s the actual spell. It will also unbend any object which was twisted decoratively, but not one merely crushed or bent in an unaesthetic manner. Again, really, that’s what it says.
Instant Gothic: Would you believe this spell causes the target to put on black eyeliner, black clothes, and write existential poetry? No? How about “causes tall vertical pieces of material to bend towards each other in [an] attempt to form Gothic arches”? Yeah, I liked the first idea better, too. Why not “Instant Heavy Metal”, that caused all armor to triple in mass, or “Instant Hip-Hop”, that makes everyone in the area jump around? (“Instant Country” is a 10th level spell that creates a demi-plane that encompasses a new nation of the caster’s devising.)
Minao’s Magical Arm: Creates an invisible arm that acts as the caster’s normal arm but can “pass through anything that is alive”. The spell description gives no indication that the arm can float or move; it’s implied that it remains attached to the character’s body, it’s just invisible and can reach through other living creatures. I am not sure what one does with it. How often is the chief obstacle to a mid-level caster that they just can’t reach through someone standing in front of them, and they wish they had a fourth-level spell to let them do exactly that? About the only purpose I can see is reaching into a still-living dragon and plucking some treasure from its guts, but it’s hard to work out a scenario which this spell is more useful than one which would let you kill the dragon.
Transparency: Turns opaque materials (or people) transparent. This gives living beings a +2 attack and a -2 to be hit, which is nice, and it’s “not an illusion but a change in the index of refraction”. I am guessing that means it’s not affected by spells which dispel invisibility?
Wishful Thinking: Causes anyone spying on the subject, or intercepting a message, to see what they want or expect to see, not what’s actually said/written. I am unsure this is as useful as the author seems to think it is.
“You are under arrest, traitor, for all the king’s court heard you plotting treason when the king’s vizier, who has long suspected you of such, opened a magical scrying window!”
“But I’m innocent! He’s lying!”
“Nay, we all heard it. You said exactly what he claimed you would say!”
Fifth Level Spells
Brother Samuel’s Armor Creation: Creates a suit of normal, non-magical, plate armor around a single target… which can’t be removed without cutting the binding straps, as the spell creator was not an armorer. Said cutting makes the armor useless until repaired, of course. Given the “Water Shape” second level spell discussed previously, which can do this for a sufficient duration to meet most adventuring purposes (or, given that it’s water-based, adventuring porpoises), it’s difficult to see the utility.
Druid’s Teapot: Today, in “Fifth level spells that would make good cantrips”, we have this enchantment that causes a normal vessel to boil water. Yeah. That’s it. At circa 9th-10th level, when other PCs are casting Raise Dead and Teleport, some Druid said, “You know what’s just as good? Boiling water!”
Jireen’s Illusion Of Armor: Makes the target believe they are wearing plate armor, and not feel any damage the “armor” would prevent (but they still take it), while suffering all the other effects such as weight, reduced dexterity, and so on. It’s unclear if this also keeps them from casting spells if they’re of a class that cannot cast while armored. Probably. Potentially useful in some narrow circumstances, but very specialized and underpowered for a fifth level spell. Other fifth level illusionist spells of the era could summon a shadow to fight for you, or cast quasi-real illusions of powerful magic-user spells.
Murphy’s Law: Causes any attack on the target creature to fail, if it possibly can – a sword breaks, a spell misfires. Because of the vagueness of “if it can go wrong”, this spell could be grossly over- or under- powered depending on if the GM is sufficiently bribed. (For example, most spells don’t have a ‘to-hit’ roll for targeting, or target an area. Can such a spell still “miss” when there was no need to see if it “hit” in the first place?)
Shadow Switch: In this case, the “shadow” refers to the Amber concept of alternate universes, and allows the caster to switch a creature with some alternate form of itself that might theoretically exist somewhere, such as swapping a rampaging troll who is about to kill you with one who is a trained pastry chef and just wants to make some tasty cupcakes. Again, the utility is based on what the GM will let you get away with. (I should also note this means the caster has unleashed a vicious troll into some bakery somewhere in the multiverse, an action which might have repercussions down the line.)
Wood Light: Continuing the theme of “Druids just don’t get it (except from dryads, as noted in a prior article), do they?”, we have a fifth level spell that make a log… glow. You know, like a first level light spell. But, hey, it also makes it “give off heat”, presumably like a normal torch. So, it’s a piece of wood that gives off light and is hot… so you can’t hold it… but it’s not “consumed”, making it very slightly unlike a torch, and totally worth a fifth level spell slot because it’s not like there’s a half-dozen lower-level spells that provide light, or, for that matter, can create mundane objects like torches by the sometimes-literal ton.
And so, we come to the end of another article. Let’s see if I can keep up the semi-regular updates, at least until GenCon comes around.
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GUI design and large rotary selector from the CDJ-2000NXS2
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Open water habitat
It looks like empty space to us, but the open water between the mainland and the islands, and between the islands and the reef, provides habitat to many species. For some it is home, others a highway, nursery, breeding ground or feeding ground. What looks like just empty water to us, offers many different resources and is anything but monotonous blueness!
Drag and zoom on the map below to explore openwater habitat.
Patchiness
Tidal currents force water around reefs and islands, making eddies and swirls that can temporarily hold nutrients and plankton in one place. Salty water is denser than freshwater, so fresh, nutrient laden water from heavy rain will stay in a layer at the surface until the wind mixes it up.
Some of the bits of slimy stuff that spoil your underwater photos when underwater visibility is bad are 'marine snow'. Marine snow is made of bacteria, slime, poo and the remains of tiny living things. Marine snow that doesn't get recycled by being eaten by something, will sink to the bottom, taking its nutrients with it. Colder water is denser and tends to sink below warmer water, so once nutrients sink into this cooler, darker bottom layer, they tend to stay there, unused and out of reach of the plants at the sunlit surface.
At the surface, wind pressure creates convergence zones, places where water and wind movement concentrate floating objects and plankton in long bands. These are the 'windrows' of flotsam and drifting algae that can stretch for hundreds of metres along the surface. These are places where life gathers; the possibility of food, and a place to hide among floating objects, attracts everything from plankton and juvenile fish to jellyfish. This makes convergence zones a hunting ground for mobile predators like pelagic fish and seabirds.
All of these effects make the 'open water' a patchy, constantly shifting habitat for the plants and animals that spend all, or part, of their lives there.
Scarce nutrients
Tropical waters are very clear because they are mostly low in nutrients. Anytime nutrients arrive in the brightly-lit surface waters, they are quickly used up by fast growing plankton. Pulses of nutrients come from heavy falls of rain, cyclones, blooms of Trichodesmium sp. algae and periods of strong, south easterly winds.
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Long spells of strong south easterly winds push lots of water across the continental shelf. It gets replaced by water that wells up from the depths, off the edge of the outer shelf break. This upwelling brings up colder, denser, nutrient rich water, that stays below the surface and and moves in patches right across the continental shelf. These 'blobs' of nutrient rich water feed the fast growth of 'plant-like' plankton, or phytoplankton, which then feeds the growth of 'animal' plankton, or zooplankton.
Plankton is the name for the whole mass of life that drifts in the surface waters of the sea. The name comes from the Greek 'planktos', which means 'drifting'. It is made up of a bizarre mixture of single and multi-celled plants and animals, as well as a lot of things that don't neatly fit into either category. There are permanent residents and temporary blow-ins, and the juveniles of animals that eventually grow up and leave to live in other habitats.
These 'plant-like' plankton, or phytoplankton, are the primary producers of the sea, turning sunlight into sugars by photosynthesis, so that they can make more of themselves. They are so good at it that these tiny, microscopic plants provide about 70% of the primary production on the Great Barrier Reef. This group includes the zooxanthellae that can also live inside corals and other animals.
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'Protist' is a name given to many different, unrelated groups of creatures that are somewhere in the no-mans land between the categories of 'animal' and 'plant'. This includes marine algae, so there are lots of protists in the plankton.
One that grabs attention is Noctiluca scintillans, a dinoflagellate that feeds on phytoplankton and produces the beautiful phosporesence that lights up the surface of the sea on dark nights.
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It blooms in calm, sunny, warm conditions and the rapidly multiplying cells stick together in clumps that you can see floating just under the surface of the water. This earned it the name 'sea sawdust'. When the Trichodesmium cells have used up all of the available trace elements in their patch of surface water, the party is over and they die and decompose. This makes them float to the surface in big, smelly and very colourful slicks, which can be mistaken for oil slicks and other kinds of pollution, or even coral spawn. These slicks are food and habitat for zooplankton.
It may seem to be a smelly rotten nuisance, but Trichodesmium does an important job. It 'fixes' nitrogen from the air into a form that marine plants can use to grow. Slicks of dead Trichodesmium are spread around by waves and currents, fertilising patches of new plankton growth in surface waters where it is usually all used up. Trichodesmium may be providing up to half of the useable nitrogen in the world's oceans!
The 'animal' plankton, or zooplankton, can be anything from minute crustaceans, to worms and big fat jellyfish. They include tiny grazers that eat the phytoplankton and predators that eat other zooplankton. In the zooplankton you find diverse 'herds' of millimetre long, shrimp-like copepods, minute predatory monsters like the sabre-toothed arrow worms, and seasonally, masses of larvae of fish, crustaceans, molluscs, corals and more. Zooplankton can increase their numbers wildly whenever food, in the form of phytoplankton, blooms.
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Although they don't swim long distances, plankton do migrate up and down in the water column. For phytoplankton the daily commute means moving up to the brightly lit surface at dawn, then down into the depths at night. Many zooplankton do the opposite, leaving the surface to hide in the depths all day and moving up again at night to feed.
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Smaller predators include the 'jellyfish', a name that encompasses several different groups of animals, and even a planktonic mollusc, Glaucus marginata, a nudibranch that not only eats bluebottles, but manages to keep their stinging cells to protect its own body. Amongst the jellyfish are the harmless moon jellies, blubber jellies and comb jellies. The first two are truly jellyfish, but comb jellies belong to an unrelated group called the ctenophores, which catch prey using sticky mucus, not stinging tentacles.
Siphonophores are not jellyfish, nor even a single animal, but rather a colony of relatives of the jellyfish, the hydroids, with each individual specialised to do a different job. Some are surface specialists, like the bluebottles, the beautiful Porpita porpita and the by-the-wind-sailor Velella velella. The sails of Velella velella allow them to travel by the wind.
The biggest eat the smallest
Plankton provide food for some of the largest creatures in the sea, including manta and devil rays, whale sharks and baleen whales. They also feed juvenile fish, bottom dwellers like corals, and multitudes of small 'bait' fish, that provide the link between the plankton and the larger predators like seabirds and pelagic fish.
Down below the surface, there are vast plains of sand and mud, dotted with 'islands' of life, in the form of inter-reef gardens of sea fans, sea whips and sponges. These filter feeding animals provide the rest-stops on the blue highway, for the many species that move across the continental shelf from the mainland to the outer reef. Many fish species make this journey during their lives, including the Red Emperor, Lutjanus sebae. Crustaceans like mud crabs (Scylla serrata) and tropical crayfish (Panulirus spp.) also make the risky journey across the shelf to breed. These patches of habitat provide animals with the food and shelter that they need to survive the journey.
Importance to protected species
Openwater habitat is used by whales and dolphins throughout the year, and becomes very busy with migrating Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) during the winter. Green sea turtles, (Chelonia mydas), Hawksbill sea turtles (Eretomochelys imbricata) and flatback sea turtles (Natator depressus) move across open water as they go through different stages of their life cycles, and as they migrate between their feeding and breeding areas. Dugong (Dugong dugon) also cross open water as they move between feeding areas. Seabirds fly over open water, feeding on creatures that live at the water's surface.
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Threats to openwater habitats
Sediment, nutrient and chemical runoff from agriculture, development sites, sewage outfalls and urban drains
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How you can help look after openwater habitats...
Join a local conservation group!
Avoid littering the marine environment: pick up litter when you visit the coast, even if it isn’t yours!
Water quality begins at home (and at work...)! Remember that the chemicals you use will ultimately end up in the sea. Use environmentally friendly chemicals; avoid artificial herbicides and pesticides if you can. If you have to use harmful chemicals, follow the instructions on the label carefully and avoid uses that might let chemicals wash into drains or waterways.
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GBRMPA Tropical Topics: Stories from the Blue Highway
GBRMPA Tropical Topics: The Nutrient Desert
MarineBio.org: Waves, tides and currents
MarineBio.org: Continental shelves
Australian Museum: Plankton images
NOAA: Marine Phytoplankton
Oceans Alive: Plankton
Queensland Museum: Plankton
AIMS: Baited Remote Underwater Video Camera research
AIMS e-atlas: Influence of zoning (closure to fishing) on fish communities of the Great Barrier Reef (BRUVS)
Reef Water Quality Protection Plan
Reef Catchments Mackay/Whitsunday
ABC Science, The blue highway
Reef CRC: Water Quality
Reef Plan First Report Card - Mackay Whitsunday region
AIMS: Water Quality
GBRMPA: Water Quality
Reef CRC: Seabed biodiversity on the Continental Shelf of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
James Cook University: Inter-reef vertebrate communities of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park determined by baited remote underwater video stations
CSIRO Wealth from Oceans: Impacts of cliamte change on Australian marine life
GBRMPA: Offshore and foraging pelagic seabirds, A Vulnerability Assessment for the Great Barrier Reef
Geosciences Australia: Great Barrier Reef sedimentology revealed
GBRMPA: Environmental Status, inter-reef areas
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Palau dengue outbreak closes in on 200 cases
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In a follow-up on the dengue fever outbreak in Palau, the Palau Ministry of Health reported an additional nine cases last week, bringing the total 196 cases since December 2018.
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There have been 117 serotyped cases of DENV-3. The last recorded cases of DENV-2 in Palau were
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There have been no reported deaths attributed to dengue infection during this outbreak.
Dengue is a viral infection transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito. There are four closely related but antigenically different serotypes of the virus that can cause dengue (DEN1, DEN 2, DEN 3, DEN 4).
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Dengue Fever (DF) – marked by an onset of sudden high fever, severe headache, pain behind the eyes, and pain in muscles and joints. Some may also have a rash and varying degree of bleeding from various parts of the body (including nose, mouth and gums or skin bruising).Dengue has a wide spectrum of infection outcome (asymptomatic to symptomatic). Symptomatic illness can vary from dengue fever (DF) to the more serious dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF).
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) – is a more severe form, seen only in a small proportion of those infected. DHF is a stereotypic illness characterized by 3 phases; febrile phase with high continuous fever usually lasting for less than 7 days; critical phase (plasma leaking) lasting 1-2 days usually apparent when fever comes down, leading to shock if not detected and treated early; convalescence phase lasting 2-5 days with improvement of appetite, bradycardia (slow heart rate), convalescent rash (white patches in red background), often accompanied by generalized itching (more intense in palms and soles), and diuresis (increase urine output).
Dengue Shock Syndrome (DSS) — Shock syndrome is a dangerous complication of dengue infection and is associated with high mortality. Severe dengue occurs as a result of secondary infection with a different virus serotype. Increased vascular permeability, together with myocardial dysfunction and dehydration, contribute to the development of shock, with resultant multiorgan failure.
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Actress CLAIRE LANAY Seeks a Scoop on All-New Episode of CW’s Prime-Time Soap ‘DYNASTY’
Also Appears in Pilot of New NBC Drama Series ‘COUNCIL OF DADS’
LOS ANGELES (May 14, 2019) – As the second season finale grows near, actress Claire Lanay is seeking a scoop on an all-new episode of The CW’s prime-time soap, DYNASTY, airing May 17th. Lanay also landed a role in the pilot episode of newly announced NBC drama series, COUNCIL OF DADS.
In the DYNASTY episode “Thicker Than Money,” Fallon's (Elizabeth Gillies) pursuit of a game-changing deal for Femperial is complicated when Blake (Grant Show) asks her to mentor Adam (Sam Underwood) in all things Carrington and help him retain control of the Atlantix. Meanwhile, a rift arises between Blake and Cristal (Ana Brenda Contreras) when he asks her to choose between her family and his. Lanay steps into the story as Kathleen, an eager reporter on the hunt for a juicy story.
Lanay was excited at the opportunity to be part of the hit reboot of such an iconic show, sharing "Even though I didn't get to wrestle anybody in a fountain like Joan Collins, I still had a blast. I got to work with some terrific people and I'm glad I had enough restraint and professionalism not to run up to Grant Show and say 'hey my mom used to watch you on Melrose Place!”
Coming later this year, Lanay emerges as a nurse in the pilot episode of NBC’s newest drama series COUNCIL OF DADS, from Joan Rater and Tony Phelan, Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Universal TV. The project stars Sarah Wayne Callies, Clive Standen, Tom Everett Scott and J. August Richards and was inspired by Bruce Feiler’s best-selling memoir about the upheaval he and his family are thrown into after being diagnosed with rare, life-threatening cancer.
Born in Hawaii and raised in Eugene, Oregon, this daughter of two Vietnamese immigrants has been building a solid resume in recent years. Film fans will recognize Lanay as the hellacious party girl in Joe Carnahan’s action comedy feature, Stretch starring Patrick Wilson, Ed Helms, Chris Pine, Brooklyn Decker and Jessica Alba. On the small screen, she appeared in the Fox comedy, Ben & Kate, and Antoine Fuqua’s Fox TV pilot Exit Strategy. She also earned big laughs in comedy sketches for TBS’s late-night show Conan, and in the web-series Callbacks created by and starring Toks Olagundoye (Castle). In addition, she recurred on the daytime drama General Hospital and its SoapNet spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift. Her first major on-screen role was as the lead in the indie horror/thriller Lockout, directed by Ricardo Islas.
Claire Lanay is represented by J Pervis Talent Agency (Atlanta).
For more about CLAIRE LANAY visit: www.ClaireLanay.com
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Wrestling with the 90's
By: Hoju Koolander
It had to happen eventually, Hulk Hogan went from a shining golden warrior, to a dirty, scruffy thug, and with that, my experience of watching tough guys mix it up in the squared circle was forever changed. To me, this was the defining moment of the 90’s wrestling scene and before I knew it, I was forced to choose sides between the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling on Monday nights. I know a lot of you were right there with me in claiming an allegiance to your preferred wrestling promotion, so let me tell you how I ended up carrying a WCW flag and waving it high.
Here’s the thing, from 1982 to 1996 my whole view on pro wrestling was shaped by televised bouts between WWF Superstars like Mr. Perfect, Ted DiBiase: The Million Dollar Man, Tatanka and of course, Hulk Hogan. I had the toys, I watched the cartoons, and rented the VHS tapes as was well documented in my previous article “When Wrestling Rocked”. But by my freshman year of high school in 1996 I was really only watching by accident, if I happened to land on Monday Night RAW while flipping channels. Wrestling seemed kind of tame by this point, since a new bad boy, the Ultimate Fighting Championship or UFC had hit the scene.
I remember 2 separate occasions of my buddies inviting me over to watch the UFC pay-per-views with promises of, “They really beat each other up in a steel cage!” “There’s like blood and stuff!” “One guy’s eyeball popped out!” As I recall, what made the original group of UFC shows cool was that that they had different fighting styles squaring off against each other. A sumo would be fighting a jujitsu instructor or a boxer would square off against a Greco-roman wrestler to see whose discipline was superior. So basically it was a live action Street Fighter II. This sounds awesome, but when we actually sat down to watch, it was basically a lot of ground fighting with guys on top of each other trying to throw punches through raised fists. In a word, lame. It clearly lacked the entertainment value of pro wrestling, but as luck would have it I was about to hop back in the ring for some fun.
My high school friends and I were a bunch of drama kids, hardly athletic and not very macho. Most of our time hanging out (which was about an hour before school and then every weekday evening) was spent watching movies and coming up with goofy in-jokes. So while it may seem an odd fit for us to start tuning in to TNT to watch renegade WWF stars mix it up with rising ‘rasslers like Chris Jericho, I totally see the connection now. After all, pro wrestling at its core is about 30% athleticism and 70% theater. Nobody cares who is throwing punches at who if there’s no story behind it. A viewer needs something to motivate the violence, so you can choose who to root for.
Really the fight could be for any reason, “My tag team partner betrayed me during a match with our arch-rivals, now it’s time to settle the score with a spine-buster.” or “You put a cobra in one of my wedding gifts and it’s scared my new bride half to death, now I will destroy you.” That is some Shakespearean drama right there and at the time there was nothing more dramatic than Hulk Hogan’s previously mentioned “heel turn” to join the N.W.O. or the New World Order.
I think what really got my group of friends to switch over from re-runs of Mystery Science Theater 3000 was the revelation that, “Hulk Hogan’s a bad guy now!” How could the ultimate boy scout become the ultimate bad guy? Apparently by hanging out with Diesel and Razor Ramon aka “Big Sexy” Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, a pair of wrestlers who abandoned Vince McMahon’s WWF to crash WCW as The Outsiders. With their help “Hollywood” Hogan became the leader of the group, ordering hits on other wrestlers like Sting or Randy Savage. Soon they were recruiting other wrestlers on the roster to join their crew by putting on the infamous black and white of the N.W.O. It seemed like everyone looking to get some street cred was wearing those N.W.O. shirts from 1997-1999, without even knowing it was related to wrestling.
Though my best friend, Jeff, idolized Kevin Nash and enjoyed when he and Hall split-off to become the rival N.W.O Wolfpac with a red logo, most of my buddies identified themselves with the non-conformists like Diamond Dallas Page aka DDP. My favorite wrestler was the always itchy, Kidman who was a part of The Flock. But because I was more heavy set in those days I was forced to accept my role as The Giant (aka The Big Show in WWE). The fact that he had a cameo as Captain Insane-O in The Waterboy starring Adam Sandler was a small consolation to me at the time. What’s even funnier were my schoolmates who forever trapped me in the role, out of their sheer hilarity.
Kwong and Ian were the Beavis and Butt-Head of our high school. They were always together and both spoke in low, monotone voices that would break into breathy laughs whenever they thought they got a good insult off at somebody. Plus, they were HUGE wrestling fans. During lunch they could be seen practicing clotheslines by bouncing off invisible ropes and Ian even messed-up another friend’s neck attempting a piledriver during some backyard wrestling. They referred to each other as Kwong “Bond” Hogan (because he always looked like a spy who was up to something) and Ian was “Macho King”, but it was the wrestling names they came up with for other people that really cracked me up.
My buddy Jeff and I had a weight-lifting class with Kwong and Ian where we would talk wrestling in between reps. Much like my friends, these wrestling fanatics decided I was obviously The Giant, but they had a very low opinion of his wrestling skills, so every time they passed me on campus I heard, “Giant Sucks”. After a while it just became a reflex for them. If either one happened to catch sight of me across campus they would shout out, “Giant Sucks!” and it cracked me up every time. In Jeff’s case, he once mentioned his appreciation for bearded weird-o, “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan which got a hearty laugh out of our resident wrestling critics. They took to calling him “DOO-gin” and snorting in disdain every time he arrived to do dead-lifts. There was a less P.C. name they came up with for him as well…
Since Kwong and Ian knew me better than Jeff, they actually never spoke directly to him, only in the 3rd person. “Giant, tell DOO-gin that Kevin Nash is a loser”, was usually the type of message that I was supposed to relay to the man standing 2 feet away from them. One day Jeff was going on and on about something non-wrestling related which was boring Kwong and Ian to tears, suddenly Ian shouted out, “Giant, tell the gay-guy to SHUT UP!” Jeff looked over his shoulder, turned to me and said, “Who’s the gay guy?” to which I could only respond, “YOU are!” Flabbergasted, Jeff (who was constantly chasing girls, by the way) just stood there speechless. Kwong and Ian weren’t very open-minded or politically correct, but they did manage to shock the laughs out of us quite a bit.
After school, we would get on the WCW website on this still pretty new thing called “the internet” to get the latest rumors on Goldberg or pass the time playing WCW/N.W.O. World Tour and WCW/N.W.O. Revenge on the Nintendo 64. Hours were spent making CG versions of Ric Flair and “Big Poppa Pump” Scott Steiner battle for supremacy with high-flying maneuvers off the top rope. We even got wrestling related gifts for each other on our birthdays. I specifically remember getting a The Giant toy whose action feature was to vibrate. Yeah, you pushed a button on the side and the thing started buzzing. What did that have to do with wrestling?! Of course Jeff saw an opening to modify Kwong and Ian’s “Giant Sucks” chant into the equally nonsensical, “Giant Vibrates”. It didn’t catch on.
By '97-'98 Monday nights were reserved for WCW Monday Nitro and later in the week, the lesser WCW program Thunder. What’s crazy to me is that we literally never even flipped the channel to watch Monday Night Raw. It was totally off our radar. So we missed out on all the wackiness with The Rock, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and Mankind. We were fully plugged in to Sting battling the N.W.O.’s various factions in his Crow make-up and trenchcoat. We could even identify N.W.O. Sting, who was an imposter that would dress in his signature clothes to attack other wrestlers. One of my favorite comedic moments was when a wrestler named Raven, who had a grunge rocker gimmick, got really depressed and would just slump down in the corner at the start of his matches saying, “What about me? What about Raven?”.
Another ridiculous, but entertaining “wrestler” was a guy named Ernest “The Cat” Miller, who was supposedly a "3 time world karate champion", but would never show it off. “The Cat” would walk into the ring and tell his opponent, “I’m gonna give you to the count of 5 to walk out of this ring, before I whup ya!” He would then proceed to turn his back, count to 5 and inevitably when Ernest turned around the other wrestler would start pummeling him, leading to a quick 1-2-3. I just loved his bravado and the fact that he obviously had no wrestling ability to back up his big talk.
From 1999-2000 WCW really won the "Monday Night Wars" as they came to be known, by recruiting my 2 favorite bands of all time to get in on the wrestling game. First to step in the ring was Jerry Only of the newly re-formed Goth-Punk band the Misfits, who were promoting one of my favorite all-time albums, Famous Monsters. Jerry wasn't a seasoned grappler by any means, but by partnering with Vampiro and with a little interference from his bandmates during matches, he at least got some screen time. The Misfits even worked the wrestling angle into their live stage show by battling Frankenstein's monster with chair shots and choke slams, which I witnessed several times during those years. My only regret is that they didn't get a chance to play any of my favorite songs on the show, unlike my other favorite band, KISS.
Oh yeah, KISS sponsored a wrestler named The Demon who wore Gene Simmons make-up and managed to lose every match he entered. His reveal was about the only awesome thing The Demon was ever involved in. At the end of one Monday Nitro KISS lip-synched "God of Thunder" with all their usual fire and make-up until The Demon emerged from a literal Iron Maiden at the end of the song. My friends knew of my love for KISS, so you better believe they didn't let me live down his less than stellar record. Still, can Bruce Springsteen fans lay claim to a wrestler? No way!
Gimmicks like this pretty much spelled the end for WCW as my friends and I lost interest in the total lack of wrestling. We may have gotten into it for the theatrics, but pretty soon that's all they seemed concerned with. The Mexican luchadores like Rey Mysterio, Jr., Psychosis and even El Dandy or Silver King always had energetic matches, but even they became one of the many factions of the N.W.O. (which had really overstayed it's welcome by this point), dubbing themselves the Latino World Order or L.W.O., it was just a mess. My friends and I quickly lost interest and eventually substituted wrestling night for role playing games in the vein of Dungeons and Dragons, if you can believe it.
Still, I would buy wrestling magazines a few times a year to stay in touch and even found myself tuning in to the WWF when they bought out their rival to combine the companies. In retrospect, the hype and madness of WCW was really pretty hollow, but man did they constantly surprise us on a weekly basis. I didn't even mention the time that David Arquette became the legit World Heavyweight Champion to promote a movie starring the WCW roster, Ready To Rumble. Say what you will about the film (which is actually pretty funny, in my opinion), but it was my last fond memory of the time spent as a wrestling fan in the 90's.
So tell me, what was your Monday Night Appointment television from 1996-1999? Who was your favorite wrestler?
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optimus87 Posted on Dec 28, 2019 at 09:17 AM
I love wcw and and sting is the best
egome2 Posted on Mar 18, 2018 at 07:44 PM
best wrestler ever for me is Goldberg
Retro King of the Land Posted on Apr 04, 2015 at 07:12 PM
Gordon Solie was the man. RIP.
Mr Magic Posted on Mar 13, 2015 at 09:22 PM
Hogan was a heel you just loved to hate.
I mean he was a heel in the early 80s, but it was nothing compared to his NWO persona.
Vaporman87 Posted on Mar 13, 2015 at 09:07 PM
I think, at first, I looked at Hogan's transformation into "Hollywood" as a bit of a joke. It seemed like something thrown out there just to rock the boat, and nothing more.
But as time went on, it really seemed to fit. Hogan could do the heel almost as well as the face.
Hoju Koolander Posted on Mar 11, 2015 at 11:55 PM
@thecrow174 Glad to hear you enjoyed Ready to Rumble too, "Crown me, King!" There was definitely a competition on merch between Goldberg and Stone Cold during those few years, but Austin;s legacy burns brightest in retrospect. Still, I love Goldberg's catch phrase, "Who's next?!"
@comic_book_fan Razor Ramon was such an iconic character. To this day, I can't pick up a toothpick without wanting to flick it in somebody's face and call them "Chico". During his Scott Hall days, my favorite bits were when he started his promos with, "Hey yo, survey time..."
comic_book_fan Posted on Mar 11, 2015 at 02:58 PM
i flipped between raw and nitro but my favorite wrestler on raw atleast in the early days was razor so when i saw scott hall on nitro and go face to face with sting who was my favorite on wcw i lost my mind in 1999 wwf got better than nitro but from 1995 through 1998 nitro was better and i always enjoyed wcw better as far as the wrestling went but wwf's craziness was to much to pass up.
I think I started watching Raw around 1994, but I started watching it regularly beginning in summer of 1997. Bret Hart was a heel at the time, which was weird because he was always a fan favorite. But yeah, I was so committed to watching Raw since then. But I also watched Nitro as well. They were both equally good imo. I never stuck with with just one wrestling product. When 2000 came though, I mostly watched Raw. Mainly due to the McMahon/Helmsley storyline. That was some good stuff. There were some other things that made Raw really worth watching too.
You know, I don't care what anyone says, Ready to Rumble was a decent film. The wrestling fan in me liked it.
As for who my favorite wrestler is, I would have to say Bill Goldberg. Not just because of his very, very, VERY long undefeated winning streak, but because of the fact that he was a Georgia Bulldog in college. Go Dawgs! I had a great deal of Goldberg stuff: Shirts, a cap, an action figure and other stuff.
But anyway, well done article.
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Return of the Ténéré legend
The name Ténéré has been synonymous with off road adventures ever since the original dual sport machine was first launched in the early 1980s.
Developed from Yamaha’s highly successful Dakar race-winning factory bikes, the original Ténéré models built up a huge following of loyal owners during the 1980s and 90s.
With an unrivalled reputation for durability, strong on and off road performance, high levels of long-distance comfort, and the ability to handle hostile off road terrain, the machine was one of Yamaha’s best-selling models and a favourite for tackling harsh conditions.
Such was its ‘go-anywhere, do-anything’ reputation, that it became the machine of choice for numerous round-the-world travellers, and to this day the original Ténéré and its successors have probably clocked up more orbits of the earth than any other single-cylinder motorcycle. And at the same time as being the number one choice with adventure-seekers, the original Ténéré also became a favourite with riders looking for a tough, reliable and stylish all-rounder that could perform well in almost any environment.
The XTZ660 Tenere is designed to offer a new generation of adventure-seeking riders the opportunity to explore a new world of possibilities. True to the original ‘go-anywhere’ design philosophy.
*Images are shown for reference only, product specifications and data are subject to change without notice.
High-torque 660cc liquid-cooled engine
Yamaha has more experience in the design of rugged and reliable large-capacity 4-stroke single-cylinder engines than any other leading manufacturer. The famous Dakar Rally was inspired by the original XT500 model way back in the 1970s, and since then Yamaha has been at the forefront of big-single design. Powering the new XTZ660 Ténéré is a 660cc liquid-cooled 4-stroke single cylinder SOHC engine tuned to deliver strong low to midrange power. This gutsy powerplant makes the Ténéré 660 a strong performer in a wide range of riding situations, from urban commuting through to highway touring and off road exploring. Equipped with a highly efficient 4-valve cylinder head with a 10:1 compression ratio, and featuring bore x stroke dimensions of 100mm x 84mm, the new fuel-injected Ténéré engine delivers excellent throttle response for lively off-the-line and roll-on acceleration. The smooth-shifting 5-speed transmission is equipped with carefully chosen gear ratios that are designed to optimise the bike’s strong low to mid-range torque output, and the 2.9 litre transmission oil capacity ensures efficient engine operation even under severe conditions.
Rugged dual-purpose frame
The XTZ660 Ténéré is equipped with an all-new chassis whose rugged, go-anywhere character perfectly complements the bigsingle engine. The extremely strong yet new light semi-double cradle frame is compact and slim, and has been designed to offer an optimum balance of strength and rigidity for good handling qualities on and off road.
Long travel suspension with aluminium swinging arm
In order to deliver high levels of rider and passenger comfort, and to be able to take handle a variety of off road terrain, the new Ténéré is equipped with long-travel forks which give 210mm of front wheel movement. Complementing this rugged front suspension is a lightweight aluminium swinging arm, which reduces unsprung weight for enhanced rear suspension performance, and offers 200mm of rear wheel movement that’s designed to soak up the bumps. This generous amount of suspension travel at the front and rear not only makes the Ténéré one of the most comfortable machines to ride in any situation – it also ensures good handling performance over poorly maintained roads and across pure off-road terrain.
Long-range fuel tank
Underlining the machine’s serious long-distance potential is a largecapacity 23-litre fuel tank which blends seamlessly with the beautifully sculpted front cowl. Despite its generous capacity, the width and height of the fuel tank is kept to a minimum by extending the fuel tank beneath the rider’s seat, which has the added advantage of helping to centralise mass for neutral handling characteristics.
Wind-cheating screen
With its upright riding position and long dual seat, the Ténéré is an extremely comfortable machine, whatever the journey, whether it’s from home to work or across a continent. To help reduce rider fatigue on long journeys this rugged new all-rounder is equipped with a stylish front cowl and tall screen which deflect wind away from the upper body. For a distinctive new look, a new dual-bulb headlamp assembly with a vertically stacked low and high beam is used. As well as projecting a powerful beam, this new ‘over and under’ assembly keep the cowl’s frontal width to a minimum for improved aerodynamics.
Dual 298mm front discs
For efficient stopping power the new Ténéré is equipped with dual 298mm discs gripped by 2-pot calipers. This high-specification system ensures strong and controllable braking performance, as well as offering plenty of feel.
Bodywork and engine protectors
With its class-leading go-anywhere abilities, the XTZ660 Ténéré is ready to encounter rugged terrain, and in order to handle the most severe conditions the new model is equipped with a range of lightweight protectors. The front screen features durable protectors on either side of the bodywork which help prevent accidental damage, while the engine is also equipped with lightweight guards on either side of the cylinder. And to help prevent damage when riding off road, the engine cases are also fitted with compact guards. Each of these protectors can be easily replaced if they are damaged, allowing the owner to keep their machine in first class condition.
Wide range of high quality accessories
Yamaha has also developed a comprehensive range of accessories for the new Ténéré, allowing riders to enhance the specification of their bike to suit their own requirements. Riders wishing to enhance the luggage carrying capacity of their bike have the option to fit genuine Yamaha side cases or a top case, as well as a tank bag. Hand guards, engine guards and a skid plate are available for owners looking for extra protection on their riding adventures – while the wind deflectors help keep hands warm and also act as brush guards when riding off road. An optional main stand is available to facilitate tasks such as wheel removal when repairing punctures on long trips, and a tank pad is available to help prevent the minor scratching to the paintwork that can sometimes be caused by zips and buckles. And finally, riders wishing to give their new Ténéré an even gutsier exhaust note may wish to fit the slip-on Akrapovič muffler offered by Yamaha.
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Constant mesh, 5-speed
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Swingarm (monocross)
Dual discs, 298
Single disc, 245
90/90-21 M/C
130/80-17 M/C
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A superb defender who spent four season as the lynch pin in the Barnet defence while adding some glamour with his boy band looks.
The promotion season of 2005 was won not only for the quality of a midfield containing Bailey, Lee, Sinclair, Graham and Strevens or the scoring record of Grazioli but also from a secure back line containing the calm and coolness of Simon King.
Simon Daniel Roy King was born in Oxford in April 1983. “I started at Whitney Vikings FC before being spotted by Oxford United scouts”. While with Oxford United he made 4 first team appearances.
“Martin Allen watched me in a couple of reserve games and I jumped at the chance to move to London and Barnet” he recalled. Martin officially introduced Simon to Barnet FC at the Supporters AGM in July 2003 and had signed him on a free transfer. “It was a huge step up for me, I was just a kid really, out of my comfort zone for a while, but it was exciting arriving at Underhill sitting next to Ian Hendon at the meeting who was great. I soon got really close to Strevs and Graz and we are still close friends today” says Simon.
King made his debut in the following Barnet line up at home to Telford United Saturday August 8th 2003;
Danny Naisbitt, Ian Hendon, Simon King, Danny Maddix, Chris Plummer, Guy Lopez, Mark Rooney, Tony Taggart, Joe Gamble, Ben Strevens, Giuliano Grazioli. Subs: Lee Pluck, Lee Roache, Soloman Henry, Lewis Hogg and Mark Williams.
Won 2-0 (Strevens and Own Goal) Attendance 1,319
The conclusion of that first season, in which King made 40 appearances, was agony as the club narrowly lost out in the Play-offs to Shrewsbury Town but by then Paul Fairclough had taken the reins as Manager and immediately saw Simon's potential as a centre back. Simon took his position alongside Ismail Yakubu, Ian Hendon and Simon Clist the for the first game of the 2004-5 season and that foursome produced outstanding performances week in and out to help win the club the GM Vauxhall Conference. “That was a very very good side and I have some fantastic memories from that season”
In the 3-1 win over Halifax Town at Underhill, that game that saw the club win the Conference Trophy, King fittingly scored one of the goals, putting the icing on the cake of a fine season personally. “ I was on the same score sheet with my mates Strevs and Graz that was very special”. He would have won Player of the Season had it not been for Grazioli's goal scoring feats but he was to collect that award two years later. Simon had made 42 appearances scoring 4 times. “I didn't score many but my all time favourite was in the 2-1 win against Plymouth at Underhill in the League Cup”. I ventured that the fans all time favourite was the last minute screamer scored at the Aldershot Recreation Ground in the 3-2 win November 2004!
Paul Fairclough selected him for England National C team and he won three caps for this country scoring the winning goal on his debut against Italy. “That was a real honour to play in an England shirt and the trip to Italy was a fantastic experience, the facilities and the way we were treated was unbelievable”.
King continued to impress the following year in the Football League including playing in the side that lost at Old Trafford to Manchester United in the Carling Cup. “What an experience that was, so exciting”. He made another 37 appearances, scoring once. In 2006-7 he made 48 further appearances with two goals.
His final appearance was in the following line up at home to Wycombe Wanderers Saturday 5th May 2007;
Lee Harrison, Ian Hendon, Simon King, Joe Devera, Adam Gross, Dean Sinclair, Nicky Bailey, Jason Puncheon, Barry Cogan, Adam Birchall, Oliver Allen. Subs: Ross Flitney, Liam Hatch, Nicky Nicolau, Giuliano Grazioli, Magno Viera.
Won 2-1 (Sinclair, Viera) Attendance 2,707
King was hot property and happy with life at Underhill but the club, to cut their losses, allegedly transferred listed in him May to avoid a free transfer the following season. Good business? Well the facts are that Gillingham came in with a £200,00, 3 years deal offer and Simon was gone!
The same commitment and flair was soon being witnessed and appreciated by Gills fans where Simon made 112 appearances in all winning a Wembley Play-off medal in 2008/9 whilst being voted Player of the Season. The 1-0 win over Shrewsbury, must have been very gratifying and coincidently was made alongside five other future Bees – Albert Jarrett, Josh Wright, Barry Fuller, Stewart Lewis and Curtis Weston. A further honour followed with a place in the PFA Football League 2 team of the season.
Unfortunately Simon missed the next 18 months of football due to a serious ankle injury which was to plague the rest of his professional career. “I don't know how I got through that period but it is then you realise the value of your family and friends to spur you on to get through the bad times”.
In August 2011 Simon was loaned to Plymouth Argyle before being released by Gillingham in May 2012. In July 2012 after a pre season training stint with Barnet he briefly joined Inverness Caledonian Thistle and made 5 appearances in the SPL for Manager Terry Butcher. “A beautiful place to live and work, I loved it in Scotland but I injured my other ankle and started to struggle at what was very high level”. Sadly at still only 29 Simon had to retire from Professional Football shortly afterwards. Taking a break for a year in August 2013 he was approached by Mark Stimson and joined Thurrock FC in the Isthmian League. “I lost the weight I had put on fairly quickly picked up a training routine again and I can tell you the ankles are holding up OK though a bit sore on a Sunday” he laughed. “I train hard two days a week while trying to develop a career in Personal Training”. Simon is currently living just outside Brentwood in Essex.
Simon was blessed with boyish good looks, was always extremely well groomed and was a regular after game presence in the social club at Underhill comfortably mingling with fans. Talking to him now he still retains that effervescence and freshness and has promised to visit us at the Hive soon. You will be made very very welcome young man.
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Georgia Southern Traditions
October 5, 2017 By Brooke Thompson
Traditions are what allow us to remember where we came from while striving to become who we want to be. Georgia Southern was founded in 1908, and with over 100 years of history comes the traditions that we have all come to know and love. While GS has many traditions, we have decided to focus on three of our favorites.
Marrying Your Sweetheart
Legend has it that if you and your significant other walk around Sweetheart Circle three times, you will get married. With Sweetheart Circle being the site for many marriage proposals and weddings, our campus’s gorgeous circle is bound to attract at least a few lovebirds.
Tyson Neurath and Jackson Corbin, who both come from a long line of Eagles, have proven this legend as true. The engaged couple are former high school sweethearts and they always knew they were meant to come to Georgia Southern.
Corbin said, “I think we both always knew that we were going to go to Georgia Southern eventually.” He had heard about the legend in a walking class and on a hot day in the winter (the usual for South Georgia), the two decided to sweat out their walk around Sweetheart.
Neurath said, “We always heard you had to do it with a willing heart, so I was trying so hard to be like my heart is willing to do this.” The two completed the three laps around Sweetheart Circle and offered some advice for relationships in college. Neurath said, “Be patient with one another and support one another… support each other no matter what the other wants to do.”
Corbin says communication is also key in a relationship especially since college is a time where schedules can be different and rumors can get started. The two are getting married in October so it shines true that Eagles can turn into lovebirds.
Freedom’s Flight
One of Georgia Southern’s symbols is our eagle, specifically Freedom. Kicking off a football game with Freedom is a crucial part of our game day experience. While an eagle first appeared at a GS football game in 1998, Freedom has been flying high with us since 2007.
Samantha Shultz, a sophomore multimedia film production major, has been watching Freedom’s flight since she was a child. She said, “As a student, it fills me with pride, not every university has [this].” Students of GS look forward to seeing Freedom, and the roar of the crowd, when he flies is like not other. Freedom is not just a symbol for our school, but he is a symbol for the students as well.
GEORGIA! SOUTHERN!
When someone yells “Georgia” in a crowded place, it’s a given that some soul will yell “Southern” back. It is a testament of a true fan and school spirit. This phrase is not just yelled in public, but it is also chanted at football games.
Lane Dasher, freshman exercise science major and cheerleader, said, “There is no greater thrill than the Georgia Southern fans showing school spirit by chanting our university’s creed, Georgia Southern!” Dasher knows first hand how the crowd reacts when the signs are brought out, and it is time for the crowd to show they are True Blue fans.
Our traditions at Georgia Southern are what make us unique. You just can’t get this kind of history and atmosphere anywhere else!
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Brooke Thompson
Brooke is an English major and is from the two-traffic-light town of Glennville, Ga. When she’s not writing essays or reading literature books bigger than the dictionary, Brooke enjoys binge watching Netflix, adding to her makeup collection and all things “Frozen” (she may or may not have an Olaf pillow pet…). She is currently the Print Editor for the Reflector.
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Rocket Probes February Playlist
Adrian Utley's Guitar Orchestra - In C Preview from Mintonfilm on Vimeo.
Music O Tunya
(Nice reissue of some fuzz filled afro rock)
Jakob Riis & Bill Hoirst – The Cessation Elegy
(The ex Magic Musician of Bukake Bill Horist and Jakob Riis take you on a very listennable journey of noise and drones using a myriad if instruments. On the great Lava Thief)
Jakob Riis
Pye Audio Corner – Black Mill Tapes Volumes 3 & 4
(Lovely analogue beats n soundscapes)
Pye Audio Corner
Terminal Cheesecake - Pony Boy
(Full on fuzz wah attack off their Angels In Pigtails album)
Terminal Cheesecake
Anasrenaria – Music for Fire Walkers
(Thanks to Teeth of the Sea's Mike Bourne for reccommending this great album of field recording repetition)
Anasrenaria
Container - Adhesive
(More kraut inspired industrial techno from the same label that brought us Powell's (game changing) track 'Fizz')
Ride - Smile
(Their fuzz noise pop has never sounded so good)
Various - Travel Expop #2
(Contains some stunning drones from Ben Nash and one of the best Mugstar tracks we have heard…on the great Hands in the dark)
(Kaleidoscopic psyche-pop)
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Acid Death Picnic
(Tim Gane of Stereolab’s Kraut Disco side project)
Cavern of Anti Matter
Toy - Conductor
(Part ‘Krautrock' by Faust with a little disco groove thrown in)
Low Point X - Some Truths
(Modular synths)
Low Point X
The Litter - Emerge
(Great 60’s garage fuzz pop)
The Litter
Shit & Shine SxSW poster revealed
As reported here Shit and Shine are playing some shows at SxSW and here is a cool poster for it.
And don't forget, Teeth of the Sea are also playing SxSW, more info here
Teeth of the Sea introduces 'The Last Man' live soundtrack
Following A Field In England, Doomsday, 2001 and Flash Gordon, Teeth of the Sea are writing and performing a live soundtrack to another film.
This time it is the movie '1984' and it is being perfumed live at the legendary CERN in Geneva, Switzerland as part of the CineGlobe festival on Thursday March 20th
The festival says:
British Band Teeth of the Sea perform live their original, CineGlobe commissioned, audio-visual musical interpretation of George Orwell’s 1984, 30 years after the legendary date.
The Last Man resonates thematically with the theme of the festival-Beyond The Frontier. A visual interpretation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, in conjunction with an entirely original score, this will draw parallels between the totalitarian nightmare of Orwell’s Oceania and the information-saturated modern age, questioning the abilities of the individual to find passage through the blizzard of data that constitutes twenty-first century life. The titular character of Winston Smith herein represents both a cipher for identity in a landscape evolving to ever more automated and anonymous realms, and a glimmer of hope for humanity itself.
Teeth Of The Sea, in collaboration with director and visual artist Benjamin Barfoot, will attempt to take the intensity, austerity and atmospheric landscapes of Nineteen Eighty-Four to transcend the text’s cultural ubiquity and render it freshly potent. Yet this is no aesthetic Newspeak, rather a portrait of a dehumanising world surrounding us that continues to prove the universal power of Orwell’s message.
Watch this space for more news on this event as it come in.
In the meantime, more information and tickets can be found here: CineGlobe
What The Future Sounded Like
What The Future Sounded Like from Closer Productions on Vimeo.
Here is a great short documentary on EMS that you need to watch.
This the description:
Post-war Britain rebuilt itself on a wave of scientific and industrial breakthroughs that culminated in the cultural revolution of the 1960’s. In this atmosphere was born the Electronic Music Studios (EMS), a radical group of avant-garde electronic musicians who utilized technology and experimentation to compose a futuristic electronic soundscape for the New Britain.
What The Future Sounded Like colours in a lost chapter in music history, uncovering a group of composers and innovators who harnessed technology and new ideas to re-imagine the boundaries of music and sound. Features music from Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Roxy Music and The Emperor Machine.
Goat to play Paredes de Coura Festival
Goat have been announced to play Paredes de Coura Festival in Portugal on 23 August.
For more info and tickets, visit: Paredes de Coura Festival
Multiple Exposure Vol: 4 – Marlene Ribeiro (Gnod / Negra Branca)
Welcome back to Rocket's irregular blog feature 'Multiple Exposure', where we ask various artists what their favourite pieces of 'repetitive' music are. This feature, we have Marlene Ribeiro from Gnod and Negra Branca
THE NECKS - SEX
(I've decided to start with the most repetitive piece of music that comes to mind. This trio from Australia released this amazing album in 1989, it's an hour long mantra, subtle jazz style drumming and a two-note Double Bass drive the thing the whole way through, it's incredible and sedating in many ways. If only sex was this good)
THIS HEAT - PAPER HATS
(This is one of my favorite bands. This album, Deceit (1981) really shows to be a reflection of the times in the UK. Heavy, noisy, fear mongering, cold and mental. I love what they were doing instrumentally, live and in the studio. Hayward's drumming seems erratic at first but then you realise he's a genius. The same goes for his singing style, they created really odd harmonies. Tapes were used live, creating loops and sounds along to whatever they were doing. Most tracks seem not to have any real or standard structure, to me it's a collage of sections that make sense in its own chaos, clearly anti-repetitive. Still, with this track you get a bit of both, around 2.40 min in, after the chaos, it goes into a loop that never resolves)
This Heat
SUN RA and his MYTHIC SCIENCE ARKESTRA, (The Paris Tapes 1971) - SOMEBODY ELSE'S IDEA
(This track, recorded live at Le Theatre du Chatelet , it's beautiful and very minimal, the main hook is a melodic vocal harmony that lingers in the background over the whole track, while tribal drumming, percussion and wind instruments float around it. Topped off with a choral of voices and harmonies, chanting the same words over and over again, It's fucking great, could listen to this one for ever)
SHIT $ SHINE - FUCK YOU FOLK SINGERS
(Exactly what it says on the tin, one of my favourite Shit $ Shine tunes, although it's very hard to decide between their best tracks , this bass loop is something else, so heavy, fucked up and dubby that i do not recommend playing it at a house party. Specially if your neighbour is a manic crack addict and owns an hammer)
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NORA DEAN - AY AY AY (Angie La La)
(I've become a bit obsessed with this track recently, This is a track that features in Reggae compilations, recorded in 69 and sang by the great Nora Dean. It's not traditional Reggae though, the rhythm, bass and guitar remind me a lot of Afro Rock, it's jagged, the same groove is played over and over, only not for long enough! It's only 3 minutes long! Nora's vocal is amazing on this, she makes bird like sounds, moans, noises and sings beautiful melodies. I'm considering mixing a 10 minute version of this myself, just so I don't have to keep replaying it)
Nora Dean
DRUNK IN HELL - HUNGRY FOR BLOOD
(This band from Middlesbrough is the sludgiest band i've seen live, they just seem to write the heaviest most simple and amazing riffs, with the dirtiest sounding guitars. It makes you wanna pull your hair out or just head butt the person next to you. Their performances seem to send the whole place into a mosh pit even before they even start playing. REPEAT)
Drunk In Hell
STRANGER SON OF WB - PLANE TO BELGIUM (sloow tapes version)
(These guys are based in Manchester and been going on for years, Chris and Paddy (Gnod) have been part of some of many of their line-ups back in the day, this is one of my favourite tracks of theirs. This track has a slow progressing bass line while most of the other instruments stay virtually the same over the top of it, with Gareth's vocal being mono-tonal speech-like. It's dense, dark but with a light at the end of the tunnel. It's a trip alright)
LOVE CULT - A PLACE TO GET LOST IN
(This duo (Anya Kuts and Yvan Afanasyev) from the Republic of Karelia, have been making some amazing music for a few years, releasing mostly on cassette labels and their own label "Full Of Nothing". This amazing LP is called Fingers Crossed. This track is a builder, it gets to full overload by the end of it)
Love Cult
GNOD - TONY'S FIRST DISCO
(I was battling with myself here whether to add this track to the list or not. But due to the nature of this list i think it certainly belongs here. As the name might or might not suggest, this track is a homage to the spirit of "Outside the Dream Syndicate" sessions. I can't quite put it into words what goes on when we play it live but the outcome always shows what is the power of repetition)
Goat announce new show on their 'Wandering Westward US Tour' – plus reveal exclusive tour poster and t-shirt design
Goat have announced another show on their April West Coast 'Wandering Westward US Tour'. The band will play Pappy and Harriets in Pioneertown on April 10th
Also the great Adam Pobiak has designed the exclusive poster and Tshirts for the tour.
The ltd Tshirts come in two colourways and can only be purchased at the following dates:
Pappy & Harriets
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
Rickshaw Theatre
The above poster design will be made available as ltd screenprints for sale on Adam's site here: Pobiak
Introducing Teeth of the Sea’s 'A Field In England: Re-Imagined’ Record Store Day release
Swiftly following the release of their successful third album MASTER, Teeth of the Sea are proud to present a limited Record Store Day LP release of their re-imagined score to Ben Wheatley’s metaphysical midnight movie A Field In England. This work sees London’s most
adventurous and intrepid psychedelic adventurers allying motifs and psychic spectres from Jim Williams and Blanck Mass’ music and reinterpreting them to their own ends, arriving at a bold and richly atmospheric transmission that takes the rites and revelations of the original work into pastures new.
Originally spurred into action by a commission for Cork Film Festival in November 2013, Teeth of the Sea worked on the audio-visual reworking with their long-standing visual collaborator Benjamin Barfoot (who also created the jaw-dropping Reaper video last year and worked on the band’s previous ‘Beyond The Transfinite’ piece, which debuted at Bestival in 2012).
The first performance of A Field In England: Re-imagined, in the converted church venue Triskel in Cork in November 2013, was a resounding sell-out success, as was a repeat performance at the enormous screen one at Hackney Picture House in January 2014.
Inspired by this reaction, the band entered Lightship95, the studio housed on a converted ship on the Thames where they also recorded MASTER, to record the music to this half-hour travelogue. In the process, they found themselves travelling down unforeseen sonic
avenues- taking a notably more melodic and pastoral approach, these three tracks find them channelling influences like Flying Saucer Attack, Bobby Beausoleil, Popol Vuh and ‘La Novia’ era Acid Mothers Temple to mercurial and transformative effect.
Teeth of the Sea’s goal was to take the mind-games, the malevolence and the magick of the film as fuel for a work that exists on a parallel dimension to the earthen realm on which the protagonists carry out their actions. Housed in a sleeve featuring all-new artwork by
Rocket Recordings seer Johnnyo, and available in a limited edition on thick red wax,
A Field In England: Re-imagined represents that psychic quest made gloriously manifest.
Open Up, And Let The Devil In.
Shit & Shine to play two shows at SxSW
The mighty Shit and Shine are joining Teeth of the Sea and playing this years SxSW (sadly not on the same stage though).
S&S are playing Obsolete Industries on 13 March with none other than King Buzzo and more.
S&S are also playing Arturos bakery on West 17th street on Friday 14 March.
Also playing this show will be Rusted Shut and Bludded Head.
It will be very special performances, as this incarnation of S&S will include the legend that is King Coffey (Butthole Surfers and Rubble).
Get yourself down there!
Gnod to play Austin Psych Fest
After the news that Teeth of the Sea are playing Austin's SxSW, another Rocket band has been announced o be invading Austin and this time it is the mighty Gnod who are playing Austin Psych Fest.
Aren't you American's very lucky people!!!
More info here: Austin Psych Fest
Eindhoven Psych Lab 2014 Video #1
Eindhoven Psych Lab 2014 #1 from Liverpool Psych Fest on Vimeo.
As reported recently here we at Rocket are very excited to announce our involvement at the Eindhoven Psych Lab on the 6th June.
We are curating a stage called 'The Counterblast Experiment presented by Rocket Recordings' which will feature live sets by Teeth of the Sea, Gnod, Terminal Cheesecake, Anthroprophh, Lay Llamas and (hopefully) one more.
The 2 day event features many bands + dj’s, visual art, design and experiments t.b.a.
Tickets + more info: www.eindhovenpsychlab.com
2 days / 30+ bands / 2 indoor stages and a garden / location: Effenaar Eindhoven
Multiple Exposure Vol: 3 – Tom Furse (The Horrors)
Welcome back to Rocket's irregular blog feature 'Multiple Exposure', where we ask various artists what their favourite pieces of 'repetitive' music are. This feature, we have the one and only Tom Furse from The Horrors.
Nina Simone - The Ballad Of Hollis Brown (live)
I’ve never tracked down a recorded version of this but the live version is mesmerising. Pained vocals, the tight beats that were later referenced by techno and two-chord minimalism make this something of a prescient piece, peering into the future of loop-based music. With Simone's pained vocal topping it off this is probably my favourite live performance I’ve ever found. Perfect.
William Onyeabor - Body And Soul
Onyeabor is experiencing something of a resurgence of late with the excellent Luaka Bop comp. I had heard of it sometime earlier via the also excellent Flash Strap blog. I loved it from the first play. That beat, that guitar, those keyboards.. Africa has much to teach us.
William Onyeabor
Anything of J Dilla’s Donuts
Absolute hands-down one of my favourite records of all time. The way Dilla takes a tiny snap of music and morphs it into something else is astounding. It really inspired me to go into my own records and see what nuggets could be pulled from within them. Essentially, he helped me see that a record can be an instrument too.
Stereolab - Space Moment
It’s hard for me to pick out a Stereolab song but this ones fairs fairly well in the repetition department. I think they’re on the most consistent bands of all time, I think there’s one song of theirs that I don’t love. Everything else I could listen to all day long.
Jan Hammer - Don’t You Know
Such a great song. Deceptively there’s not much going on but the harmonic interaction is so beautiful. I think this one’s a lost No.1.
David Axelrod - Holy Thursday
Predictable choice of his, probably his best known work (apart from the various famous samples). Based mostly on a simple movement between two adjacent chords, it’s a remarkable exercise in keeping the chords simple, something I’m really interested in. The playing on the track is superb too, Wrecking Crew players realising a genius.
Pulp - Common People
It’s the same fucking riff the whole way through and it’s magical. Perfect pop music.
Talking Heads - Born Under Punches
I recently read David Byrne’s ‘How Music Works’. I was really interested in the way they would just do jams on one chord and build up songs that way. Sometimes one chord is just what you need, but what they do within it is really special, a kind of warped funk taking into consideration music from all over the world.
Brian Eno - The Big Ship
Eno is a big inspiration for me, he keeps it simple but in such an interesting way, particularly when it comes to harmony and the core melody, which is usually something of an ear worm. This track always really grabs me and holds my attention.
Neu! - Fur Immer
This was my first knowing exposure to Neu!. I was blown away really, totally suckered in from the first listen. I have a notion that what Neu! did was realise a totally new form of music. Away from sub-genre’s and krautrock, this is actually a whole new way of people playing music together, in the same way that blues or jazz is. If you get in a room full of people and someone starts playing that beat, we all know what to do. You jam on one chord and make the most you can of it, it’s so simple yet can be so transcendent.
Add N To (X) - Plug Me In
I remember seeing the video for this when I was kid, I seem to remember it verging on hardcore pornography. This band was my gateway into the world of synthesis, and really there’s never been anyone else quite like them. Barry from Add N To (X) exposed me to a lot of great stuff and was hugely encouraging in my early synth endeavours.
Add N To (X)
Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir - Like A Ship
I’m not a religious person in any way, but I find some gospel very moving. It’s just so full of raw, triumphant soul. There’s something so pure about that, it’s just singing, the natural music of man.
Pastor T.L
Infiniti - Game One
I try and make music like this and 90% of the time it just falls flat on it’s face. It’s tracks like these that mean I always buy a Metroplex record if I see one.
LCD Soundsystem - All I Want
I’m a fan of songs with one riff the whole way through, I think if you can make it work it just leads to an insistence you can’t get from traditional chord structures. That lends itself well to a catchy melody, so if you can find the right one that doesn’t drive you insane after minute 2 then chances are everyones going to be humming it after they hear it for it for 6 minutes. While Eno and Bowie might have done it earlier, who gives a shit, this is just as good.
David Bowie - Heroes
And I guess this leads me on to the last track. Triumphant minimal pop at it’s absolute finest.
Nothing is showing its teeth
We have a great special guest at this months 'Nothing is…'. Mat Colegate from Teeth of the Sea will be bringing a bag of his favourite cosmic disco tunes to keep you all entertained.
Full line up is:
Nothing is...
Cage & Aviary (Internasjonal/DFA)
Cherrystones (Brutal)
Little Dirty (Hed Nod)
Rik Motor (Rocket Recordings)
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Mat Colegate (Teeth of the Sea)
The Alibi – Dalston/London
Please show your love here: Nothing is…
Teeth of the Sea to play this years SxSW
That is right, Teeth of the Sea are heading to America for ONE show only.
They will play Austin's Soho Lounge on March 13th
So we highly recommend you get yourselves to the show as we don't know when the band will be back.
The band recently said on Twitter:
"Excited to relate we're heading to Austiin for our first ever show in the USA, Soho Lounge. March 13th. TOTS Into America!"
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Evolution launches RNG Table Games as Live Casino Add-On
On March 23, 2018 posted by Grameister777 in Mobile Casino, Reviews/News, Slots and Games No Comments
Evolution abandons ‘exclusive live casino’ model, adding RNG table games with instant ‘Go LIVE’ option.
Evolution Gaming is the Live Casino supplier of Royal Vegas, which, as you probably know, is my #1 iGaming operator of choice. I was happier than anyone when Royal Vegas chose to dump Microgaming‘s live dealer tables, installing the far-superior, award-winning technology of Evolution in its place.
Don’t get me wrong – I love Microgaming’s colossal portfolio of digital gaming titles. But honestly, their live casino offering leaves a lot to be desired!
One of the reasons Evolution has earned so many awards – like EGR Live Casino Supplier of the Year, 8 years running – is because of its exclusive approach to live gaming. Since its inception in 2006, the company has focused solely on the live dealer aspect. That is, until now…
Evolution Introduces RNG Table Games
At the industry’s premier ICE Totally Gaming expo in London last month, Evolution Gaming did something I never thought they would do. They abandoned their exclusive live casino model, choosing to incorporate electronic, RNG-based (random number generator) table games into their line-up.
They call it ‘First Person Gaming‘, or FPG for short. That fancy name is perfectly fine, but these games hardly differ from the RNG tables found everywhere else; at least, in terms of game play. They are single player games where all card shuffling is handled by sophisticated computer software; not a live dealer.
What sets Evolution’s FPG tables apart from all the others, however, is the integration of a ‘Go LIVE‘ button. At any time, players can press Go LIVE, and they’ll be instantly whisked away to a live casino table that feature’s the exact same game, rules and paytable as the one they were previously playing in FPG mode.
RNG and Live Casino Tables for All Devices
Keeping true to form, Evolution has developed its latest FPG software to work seamlessly on all major operating systems and devices. Players can access the new tables (and all of the old ones) on any desktop, laptop, smartphone or tablet.
Evolution is providing its mobile casino partner, LeoVegas, with exclusive ‘Day 1‘ access to its FPG / RNG table games. For the moment, that’s the only place you’ll find them. The company will soon launch them across all Evolution Gaming licencees, including Royal Vegas Casino, with more games to be added throughout the year.
Why convert to Live Dealer / RNG Mix?
I must admit, I’m a little concerned by Evolution’s choice to expand its portfolio beyond live studio gaming. After all, it’s been their focus for more than a decade, and is the primary reason why their live tables are so strongly preferred over every other brand.
The streaming quality of their video and audio services are, without a doubt, unmatched, and their dealers are the most professional and friendly in the business. I can only hope that branching out won’t effect their quality in years to come.
Evolution Gaming’s Chief Product Officer, Todd Haushalter, shed some light on the company’s choice to incorporate RNG tables into its line-up.
“Going into RNG table games felt very natural for us,” he says. “We serve millions of table game players online and we have learned so much about what they like. This was an opportunity to leverage the latest tech and couple it with all we know of table game players to give them a new way to enjoy our table games.”
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2005 RV Travels
We started 2005 in Hesperia, CA and ended in Fort Myers, FL. The motorhome traveled 9,424 miles and we stayed at 82 different camping spots. We put 17,811 miles on the Honda CRV in 2005. We added the Canadian provinces British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario to places we have camped.
January 1 to 7: Hesperia, CA and then Ramona, CA with a visit to the San Diego Wild Animal Park (#1 to #3 on map)
January 8 to 18: Redlands and Indio, CA including FMCA Western Area Rally (#4 to #5 on map)
January 19 to 28: Quartzsite, AZ (#6 on map)
January 29 to February 8: Gila Bend, AZ - Elk-A-Rang, RV2WaySat rally, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (#7 on map)
February 9 to 20: Yuma, AZ (#8 on map)
February 22 to March 10: San Diego area, including the Zoo, Wild Animal Park, Birch Aquarium and Anza-Borrego State Park (#9 and #10 on map)
March 11 to 19: Indio, CA including Joshua Tree National Park (#11 on map)
March 20 to 24: Spring Escapade in Imperial, CA (#12 on map)
March 25 to April 10: North from Imperial CA to Portland, OR (#13-#19 on map)
April 11 to May 10: Tumwater, Poulsbo, Fall City, Bothell, and Rochester, WA (#20 to #24 on map)
May 11 to May 25: Black Diamond, Seattle, Mount Rainier (#25-#26 on map)
May 26 to June 22: Monroe, Moses Lake, Fall City and Rochester, WA - Diane gets a CPAP (#27 to #30 on map)
June 23 to June 29: Seaview and Long Beach, WA (#31 on map)
June 30 to July 6: Copalis Beach, WA and Ocean Shores (#32 on map)
July 7 to 10: Forks, WA including ocean beaches, Cape Flattery and the Hoh Rainforest (#33 on map)
July 11 to 19: Chimacum, Port Townsend, Sequim, day trip to Seattle/Bellevue (#34 on map)
July 20 to 26: Poulsbo, WA and 2005 Family Gathering (#35 on map)
Washington July 27 to August 14: Getting ready for Canada, visiting Fall City, Rochester and LaConner (#36 to #38 on map)
British Columbia Aug 15-17: Hope, Kamloops, Canyon Hot Springs each for a night (#39 to #41 on map)
Lake Louise, AB Aug 18-21: Yoho and Banff National Parks (#42 on map)
Drive across Central Canada Aug 22-30: Calgary, Regina, Brandon, Riding Mountain National Park, Winnipeg (#43 to #48 on map)
Thunder Bay, ON Aug 31-Sept 6: Thunder Bay, Kakabeka Falls, Fort William Historical Park (#49 on map)
Schreiber, ON and Pukaskwa National Park Sept 7-9: Pukaskwa was a real find (#50 to #51 on map)
Eastern Lake Superior Sept 10-12: Wawa and Sault Ste Marie, ON (#52 to #53 on map)
St. Ignace, MI Sept 13-14: Back in the U.S., St. Ignace, Mackinac Island (#54 on map)
Michigan Lower Peninsula Sept 15-28: Lake Leelanau, Mears and Charlotte (#55 to #57 on map)
Indiana and Kentucky Sept 29-Oct 19: Elkhart, IN, Newmar service, friends, Kentucky Horse Park (#58 to #63 on map)
Tennessee Oct 20-25: Cumberland Gap and Great Smokey Mountains National Park (#64 on map)
Alabama Oct 26 to 28: Sequoyah Caverns (#65 and #66 on map)
Florida Panhandle Oct 29-Nov 8: Fort Walton Beach, Carabelle and Lake City for new AGM batteries. (#67 to #69 on map)
Dunedin to Jacksonville Nov 8 to 25: A visit to Tampa Bay, two rallies and some time in Jacksonville (#70 to #74 on map)
Hanna Park in Jacksonville Nov 26 to Dec 5: Fort Caroline, visiting, getting a new internet dish (#75 on map)
Ormond Beach Dec 5 to 12: Daytona Beach, St. Augustine, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge (#76 on map)
Vero Beach and Kennedy Space Center Dec 12 to 20: Two days at the Space Center is not enough (#77 on map)
Fort Myers Dec 20 to Dec 31 (leaving Jan 3): Visit friends and enjoying Fort Myers (#78 on map)
Previous Year Next Year Back to Main RV Travels
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First Henley on Torrens Regatta held
Centenary Celebrations Regatta
A special regatta for the Centenary Celebrations was held on 31 December on the River Torrens, it concluded with fireworks.
On Christmas Eve 1910 the Chronicle newspaper reported that ‘never before has our pretty little river Torrens presented such a brilliant and charming appearance as it did on Saturday [17 December]’ when the first Henley-on-Torrens Regatta was held. In homage to the Henley-on-Thames Regatta in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom and inspired by the Henley-on-Yarra Regatta that had recently become popular in Melbourne, Mr E Doswell of the Adelaide Rowing Club had proposed this festival event of decorated boats and feats of rowing skill. The Register reported that the South Australian Rowing Association hoped that the carnival would ‘draw to the riverside many people who would not be attracted by a racing programme alone’. The event was a resounding success. Despite considerable differences between the wide and deep Yarra and the ‘dear little stream’ of the Torrens, as the Chronicle noted, the ‘matter was thought out well, and the idea materialised charmingly’ on the day.
The summer day was somewhat overcast, but this did not hinder the enjoyment of the crowds who made their way along the new paths and over the velvety green grassy banks to the rowing clubhouses on the riverside. Rowing races were held throughout the day, with tough competition in the contest for the Webb Memorial Cup and in the Public Schools Race with St Peters College facing Port Pirie High School. During a break in racing in the afternoon, thousands of spectators assembled to watch the carnival procession of ornately decorated pleasure craft. ‘One after the other the artistically and effectively decorated boats made their appearances, the saucy breezes occasionally catching the decorations and keeling them perilously to one side’ recorded the Chronicle.
The procession of boats, and an afternoon of tea and music
The procession of boats was led by the mayoral launch, Defiance, with Lord Mayor Lewis Cohen and members of the City Council aboard. The Defiance was decorated with ‘a charming floral scheme of scarlet poppies and butterflies mingled with fern asparagus’. Then came two row boats covered in wheat ears and poppies, with ladies aboard in matching poppy-laden white hats. Many other boats came in ever more elaborate designs. One of the most popular and artistic was Mr Doswell’s boat, covered in flowers shading from pale yellow to deep orange, topped with an enormous white swan.
Cash prizes were awarded for the best and most ornamental boat designs, and the fashions of the day were noted. Of particular interest to the Chronicle were the women wearing the new style ‘tub frocks’, less formally structured dresses in modern, machine-washable fabrics, that ‘struck a much more harmonious note than the damsel who tripped down in the glories of silk and satin’.
Afternoon tea served to the huge crowd at the Adelaide Rowing Clubhouse was accompanied by fluttering flags in lines along the path and music in the air. The celebrations and mingling continued for hours with the Orpheus Society playing from the balcony of the clubhouse and a brass band performing in the Elder Park Rotunda.
However, beneath the frivolity of the day was a serious note. Several boats for the procession had been stranded at Port Adelaide because of a South Australian Drivers Union protest at labour conditions and wage rates. According to the Advertiser, the transport workers were the ‘worst paid workers in the State’. The drivers’ strike, which had been going on for some days, also interrupted the supply of electricity for lighting the evening for the regatta. The Chronicle commented a little snidely, ‘the electric light festoons were conspicuous in their absence, owing to a little unpleasantness in the workman’s world’.
Despite the problem, the boats and crowds made do with other forms of illumination, and the sight of lighted boats drifting up and down the river in the light of the full moon was ‘restful and satisfying’.
Regattas over the years
The Henley-on-Torrens Regatta immediately became one of the most popular events of the Adelaide calendar. Boat decorations were incredibly ornate, and teams spent months preparing them. Patriotic themes were often included in the designs, particularly during wartime. The glamour and charm surrounding the regatta even saw British starlet Sabrina visit when in Adelaide with her new stage show in 1959.
The tradition of the Henley-on-Torrens Regatta continues in the twenty-first century. Adelaide Rowing Club hosted the event in November 2014, and it proved an exciting day of racing. The regatta commenced early in the morning and featured a new obstacle: the new and as-yet unnamed Torrens footbridge. Rowers commenced racing from beneath the Morphett Street Bridge, before proceeding under the new bridge (which featured neon lights on its side to indicate racing lanes) and finishing about 50 metres beyond it. The current Henley-on-Torrens course is named for Adelaide native Kate Slatter OAM, who is widely regarded as the most successful female rower in Australian history.
By Corinne Ball, Migration Museum
Uploaded 6 December 2013
Corinne Ball, Migration Museum, ‘Henley-on-Torrens Regatta’, SA History Hub, History Trust of South Australia, http://sahistoryhub.com.au/events/henley-on-torrens-regatta, accessed 21 January 2020.
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Advertiser, 12 December 1910, ‘Drivers' strike’, p9
Advertiser, 17 December 1910, ‘General news’, p10
Chronicle, 24 December 1910, ‘Adelaide’s first “Henley”’, p20
Chronicle, 24 December 1910, ‘Henley-on-Torrens’, p54
Guerin-Foster, ‘History of Australian rowing’, http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/club-histories/adelaide/17-1.php accessed 6 December 2013
Register, 17 December 1910, ‘Henley-on-Torrens’, p13
Turnbull, Richard, Adelaide Rowing Club Review, Winter 2009, 'Sabrina visits', pp14-7
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Specialty: Cardiology, Cardiothoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery
Preventive Cardiology (Dyslipidemia, Tobacco Cessation, Hypertension, Diabetes, etc.)
Metabolic Syndrome: Obesity
Acute Coronary Syndrome
Anti-Anginal Treatment for CAD
J. Thomas Heywood, M.D., FACC
Director of Advanced Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support
Treatment of HF with Reduced EF
Treatment of HF with Preserved EF
Treatment of Shock
Left Ventricular Assist Devices
Amyloid Heart Disease
Jason William Ryan, M.D.
Division of Cardiology
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
How to Interpret a Positive Stress Test
EKG Basics
Preventing Readmissions for Heart Failure Patients
Evaluating Patients with Chest Pain
Kalyanasundaram Venkataraman, M.D.
Chair, Medical Specialties
Chief, Division of Cardiology
Cardiology for the PCP
Ko Yamada, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Cardiology
Cardiac Stents
Michael D. Shapiro, D.O.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Radiology
Director, Preventive Cardiology and Atherosclerosis Imaging
Director, Cardiac MR CT Program
Preventive Cardiology: Lipids or Cardiovascular Imaging?
Cholesterol Guidelines, Detection and Management of Hypercholesterolemia, Medical Therapy of Dyslipidemia
Advanced Lipid/Lipoprotein Testing: Refining Risk Estimates for CAD: Novel Risk Markers; Clinical Trials in Clinical Lipidology
Science of HDL, New Compounds in Development in Lipid/Lipoprotein Modification: Combination Lipid Modifying Therapy
Atherosclerosis Imaging: Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring: Coronary CT Angiography: Cardiovascular Imaging
Whats New in CV Disease Risk Stratification: Utility of Cardiac CT and More
Morton J. Kern, M.D., FSCAI, FAHA
Chief of Medicine, VA Medical Center Long Beach
UCI School of Medicine
Valvular Heart Disease
P. K. Shah, M.D.
Shapell and Webb Chair in Clinical Cardiology,
Director, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center and Atherosclerosis Prevention and Treatment Center
Cedars Sinai Heart Institute
Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Acute Coronary Syndromes: Unstable Angina, Acute Myocardial Infarction
Atherosclerosis, Plaque Rupture, Coronary Thrombosis
Risk Factors, Lipids, Lipid Lowering
Androgenesis
Pathophysiology of Atherothrombosis
Vulnerable Plaque: Pathophysiology and Treatment
HDL Based Therapeutics
Gene-Based Therapy of Atherosclerosis
Robert P. Giugliano, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Womens Hospital
Antiplatelet Therapy
Anticoagulant Therapy
ACS Guidelines
Lipid Therapy for Coronary Heart Disease
The TIMI Study Trials – 25+ Years of Clinical Trials
Spencer D. Kroll, M.D., Ph.D.
National Lipid Association
Director, The Cholesterol Treatment Center and Prometrix Clinical Research Center
Lipid Management: Guidelines and Beyond
Controversies and Advances in Treatment Guidelines for Cholesterol Management
New Therapies and Discoveries in Cardiovascular Risk Management
The Relationship Between Statin Usage and Diabetes
The Clinical Conundrum of Statin Intolerant Patients
Biography: Spencer Kroll MD PhD FNLA is a board certified lipidologist and a fellow of the American Board of Lipidology. Dr. Kroll sits on the Board of Directors of the Northeast Lipid Association. He is also board certified in Internal Medicine. He is a graduate of the George Washington University School of Medicine and did his residency at Georgetown University. Before this, Dr. Kroll was a Howard Hughes Scholar at Mount Sinai School of Medicine where he completed his PhD in Pharmacology.Dr Kroll hosts the podcast series “This Week in Cholesterol”. He is also the Principal Investigator for Prometrix Clinical Research Associates. He has authored many research articles and has appeared as a guest on ReachMD – The Channel for Medical Professionals as an expert on lipids and diabetes. He is a contributing author representing the National Lipid Association for Sharecare, Dr. Mehmet Ozs website for connecting patients with medical experts.
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HomeEuropean LeaguesPSG president claims to have snubbed Hazard chance
PSG president claims to have snubbed Hazard chance
January 29, 2014 January 31, 2014 Paul Meadows Leave a comment 274 views
Paris St Germain claim they could have signed Eden Hazard in 2012, but decided against it as they didn’t want to damage their relationship with Chelsea.
The Belgian international is currently enjoying perhaps the best season of his career to date, as he plays a key role in Chelsea’s quest to win the Premier League, UEFA Champions League and FA Cup treble. Hazard has scored 10 goals and assisted eight more in all competitions, and is already a leading contender for Player of the Year.
Jose Mourinho is of the opinion that the 23-year-old can reach the same levels as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in the future, and the former Lille man himself admits he has ambitions of such. Under contract at Stamford Bridge until 2017, the Blues will hope the player remains on their payroll when he does reach his peak.
But according to Nasser Al-Khelaifi, it could have been a different story altogether. The PSG president has claimed that his club had the chance to sign Hazard in the summer of 2012, before he completed his £32million move to Chelsea. However, the reason they declined the opportunity was because the English club were already deep in negotiations.
“Eden Hazard is an amazing player and, in my opinion, the best player of Chelsea. But we never talked with him,” he told L’Equipe. “In 2012, before he left for England, we had the opportunity to sign him, but we did not. Chelsea were in an advanced stage of negotiation and, as we don’t want to have any bad relationship with any club, we stopped there.”
Whilst Hazard will still have another three years left on his deal after this season, his ambition to match the likes of Messi and Ronaldo could make the Blues somewhat nervous. The Portuguese ace, for example, felt he had to leave Manchester United to take his career onto the next stage, and eventually joined Real Madrid for £80million.
Although Hazard earns huge money and is challenging for the top honours during his time at Stamford Bridge, there is always the fear that he too could decide to follow Ronaldo and test his quality for a club such as Real. Should this be the case, though, at least Chelsea know they would make a handsome profit on the £32million they paid for him.
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Microsoft set to launch new gaming console today
All, Games, Technology
Today, Microsoft is set to unveil the latest generation of its Xbox console in Richmond, Washington eight years after the last version Xbox 360.
Potential names for the new console have been varied, with each backed by credible-but-inconclusive proofs. ‘Xbox Fusion’ has been suggested after a slew of domain registrations; the codename ‘Project Durango’ was supported by an early leak last year, ‘Xbox Now!’ (exclamation mark mandatory), Xbox 720 and even Xbox Infinity.
Most analysts agree that the new console will sport an eight-core CPU from AMD running at 1.6ghz. This will be supported by 8GB of DDR3 RAM, supplemented by 32MB of ‘ESRAM’ – specialised RAM connected directly to the graphics unit. A Blu-ray drive also seems a given, as well as USB 3.0 connections and a 500GB hard drive as standard. Oddly enough, the interesting point about these specs is how unremarkable they are.
According to rumors, the company could introduce single-code activations for games that would effectively lock games to this new console.
This means gamers will no longer be able to lend second-hand games to friends, trade them in, or sell them on.
A long-held rumour that the new Xbox would be ‘always-on’ has been quashed by the leak of an internal email, but no-one doubts that internet-based services will stand front-and-center tomorrow and Redmond.
Users can already get Netflix through the Xbox, and Microsoft recently started its own studio to produce exclusive content, meaning the new device is a gateway to much more than games.
“I think they’re going to try to have their cake and eat it too – they will try to get casual people for entertainment while keeping the hardcore gamers interested,” said McCaffrey at IGN.com. “They want their console on all the time, whether it’s a mom watching Amazon video, the son playing a game and the dad watching (Major League Baseball) TV on another app – that’s their goal.”
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Too little, too late? EDITORIAL 11/10/2010
Too little, too late?
One undesirable trait found in many Filipino officials is their penchant for closing their eyes to many cover-ups and other criminal activities being done by their superiors, and in many instances, cover-ups made by the Malacañang tenant and aides.
Despite their knowledge and awareness of such cover-ups, they say nothing and go along with whatever is being covered up, then, when their superiors are out of power and position, they blow the whistle — too late.
This appears to be the case of the Glorietta blast that occurred in 2007 and where a retired military colonel and bomb expert, Allan Sollano, now confesses that the mall’s explosion was set off by a bomb, and not methane gas as concluded earlier.
Sollano’s superior then is now the Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff, Gen. Ricardo David Jr., which tends to indicate that David also kept his mouth shut and went along with the cover-up, if such will be proven a cover-up..... MORE
Wrong way to go FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 11/10/2010
Wrong way to go
Honestly, it is difficult to understand why the Department of Justice (DoJ) keeps on publicly calling for the alleged suspects in the Bar exams grenade attack to come out and air their side while at the same time threaten to file cases against them, saying the investigation has been done by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
As the Justice chief told the media, the two members of the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) fraternity who are today’s suspects in the Bar exams blast are also connected to two previous grenade attacks at La Consolacion College and the University of Perpetual Help.
She then called on the two other APO members who she said were involved in the Sept. 26 Bar blast to surface and explain themselves before the NBI and then threatens to file charges against them.
Said Justice Secretary Leila de Lima: “We have the names. I want to relate to them an ultimatum. We know who they are…We know where they are working. We are challenging them to surface otherwise the NBI will be constrained to file charges.”.... MORE
Italian government faces collapse — experts ANALYSIS 11/10/2010
Italian government faces collapse — experts
ROME — Italy’s government faces collapse after a call by Speaker of parliament Gianfranco Fini for his arch-rival Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to resign and form a new coalition, experts said on Monday.
Fini’s scathing attack on Sunday on his coalition partner and one-time ally is not likely to force Berlusconi to resign but the Speaker will ultimately bring down the government and could trigger elections, experts agreed.
“A political chapter that has now lasted more than 15 years is ending in dramatic fashion,” Corriere Della Sera said in an editorial, referring to the early 1990s when media tycoon Berlusconi burst onto the political scene.
La Repubblica, a left-wing newspaper that has been virulently opposed to Berlusconi, said: “It’s a question of hours, days at most.”.... MORE
SC should take pause C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 11/10/2010
SC should take pause
Nobody should be surprised that the House of Representatives approved P-Noy’s first budgetary proposal en toto given the ruling coalition’s super majority in the chamber. Of course, we had half expected that some revisions would be forthcoming given the ferocity of the debates, especially on the controversial conditional cash transfer (CCT) program. There was also the question of the billions in lump sum appropriations which was already in direct violation of P-Noy’s pledge to end the practice and inaugurate a zero based, line item budgeting for ease of implementation and transparency. How the administration planned to finance the P1.6 plus trillion budget given the fact that early on P-Noy announed there would be no new taxes to be imposed was also brought to fore. Then, part of the debate focused on the seeming budgetary bias in favor of certain agencies especially those headed by Liberal Party stalwarts and the lingering problems of funding those basic services such as education, health and infrastructure which have been the bane of almost every administration. The debates were impressive while it lasted for in the end the majority coalition managed to wangle enough carrots and muddle the issues, if we believe the critics, to pass this budget in the manner Malacañang wanted it passed. Oh, well. What matters now is whether the executive has the political will and the capability to execute this budget as planned, given the many obstacles coming its way foremost being the diminishing funding sources, the thinning public patience in the wake of the lingering global economic crisis and the emnity triggered by the never ending battles centered on the so-called sins of the past. We await with bated breath how 2011 will unfold..... MORE
Clarification LETTER 11/10/2010 Dear Editor:
We refer to the commentary that was published in the Nov. 5, 2010 issue of The Daily Tribune which raised the issues on the supposed assassination plot on President Aquino and the terrorist threat in the country as contained in the Travel Advisory warnings of at least five countries.
On the assasination plot which we have disclaimed earlier and which came out in the 28 September 2010 issue of The Daily Tribune, we would like to reiterate that there was never any official statement on the part of the Secretary with regard to any threat on the life of the President. The Department of National Defense (DND) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) however maintain that President Aquino, just like any head of state, is always a possible target of such assassination plots and it is more prudent to have that frame of mind at all times, in order to ensure that our President is safe all the time..... MORE
Techno HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 11/10/2010
As expected, things have sobered up several days after Mai Mislang’s Vietnam caper. And while Mislang, President Aquino’s speechwriter, may have found her new “fame” unwanted, she would need a major, major rebound before she can recover from the ordeal of becoming the center of the nation’s hate.
Mislang was even called a “national embarrassment” in a Facebook page created to give her many haters an avenue to vent their ire.
There are various contending Mislang accounts in Facebook, many for those who express their disgust over Mislang’s uncouth behavior while she joined the President trip to Vietnam, and one openly expressing his support to Noynoy’s beleaguered assistant secretary.
The main anti-Mislang page has attracted nearly a thousand followers already, the others have hundreds to their accounts. The pro-Mislang page has only 49 followers to date.
And there’s one playfully raising a peso for each follower to be able to buy Mislang her ticket back to Vietnam, where more beautiful men and women abound, or so they claimed, to ridicule Mislang’s own Twitter post which went: “Sorry pero walang pogi dito #Vietnam.”.... MORE
Twitting the team SHE SAID Malou E. Rosal 11/10/2010
Twitting the team
Malou E. Rosal
No matter how chummy they are outside of their official capacities, some of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s staff should not be acting in such a cavalier way. Such is the lesson learned from P-Noy’s speech writer’s faux pas in Vietnam, which unfortunately is still getting some people riled up.
It’s basic manners, really, some say. How can one publicly disparage someone (or, in this case, the country) hosting one’s stay, and at an official capacity, at that? Many people have already expressed their varying opinions about this, as Facebook (“hate” posts) and Twitter (twits) have revealed. The individual in question, Assistant Secretary Carmen “Mai” Mislang, has undoubtedly learned some lessons the hard way – that one should be more prudent about one’s words and actions, and that being in the public eye does not just entail having a public position or being in showbiz.
In some cases, she may have reflected recently, unwanted attention comes from just being in the periphery or in the team of a bigwig. In President Noy’s case, more than the usual attention is directed his way (including and especially those who are around him) because of the last decade of excess and cynicism caused by his predecessor in Malacañang..... MORE
Noy’s budget faces rough sailing in Senate By Angie M. Rosales and Gerry Baldo 11/10/2010
MANY SENATORS OPPOSE DINKY’S P21-B CCT FUNDS
Noy’s budget faces rough sailing in Senate
By Angie M. Rosales and Gerry Baldo 11/10/2010
The proposed P1.6-trillion 2011 national budget faces rough sailing in the Senate as a number of upper chamber members are coming out in the open opposing the appropriation of P21 billion in the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of Aquino administration.
While Palace allies in the Senate are ready to defend it, even assuring approval of the item under the budget of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Sen. Edgardo Angara yesterday discounted the possibility of the CCT being approved without any cuts.
Angara himself is insisting on a slash by as much as P6 billion on the so-called anti-poverty instrument of the Aquino administration.
Angara said his colleagues are not opposed to the CCT program in itself but they are likely to move for a cut as the proposed P21-billion allocation is a huge jump from the current year’s figures at P10 billion which is more than a hundred percent increase.
“That’s almost P1.8 billion a month. That’s a lot of money and a lot of warm bodies because they have to provide 2.3 million families. I believe in this program. It can be an effective poverty fighter but it should be manageable, not wasteful spending,” said Angara in an interview with reporters..... MORE
Solon twits Noynoy on public displeasure with US By Angie M. Rosales 11/10/2010
Solon twits Noynoy on public displeasure with US
It just isn’t done by presidents and world leaders.
An opposition senator yesterday twitted President Aquino’s public admission of his displeasure at the tack taken by the United States government in denying the Philippines any intelligence information on alleged terror attack threats, claiming that as an ally of the western world, it is but right and fitting for the United States to treat the Philippines as its ally by providing the Philippine government with intelligence reports on such threats in a timely manner.
Aquino earlier had complained that when he met with US Ambassador Harry Thomas, all their discussions were focused only on the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA)’s review, and not once did the envoy mention concerns about the looming terror alert to the country which is now the subject of travel advisories of six other countries.
“President Noynoy (Aquino) shouldn’t be making such comments. Did we hear (British) Prime Minister (Tony) Blair or (French President Nicolas) Sarkozy or (Spain’s President Jose Luis Rodriguez) Zapatero or (German Chancellor Angela) Merkel complain when there was a Europe-wide terror alert?
“There was none because matters like that (are) very sensitive and very, very alarming. It can cause panic,” Sen. Edgardo Angara said..... MORE
De Lima links APO to 2 more grenade blasts in schools By Benjamin B. Pulta 11/10/2010
De Lima links APO to 2 more grenade blasts in schools
Two other members of the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) fraternity are having second thoughts about cooperating with the government investigation into last September’s Bar exam blast, prompting Justice Secretary Leila de Lima to threaten them with charges that would be promptly filed against the two APO suspects without the benefit of hearing their side.
She called on the two alleged suspected Bar examinations bombers to come forward and appear before the National Bureau of Investihgation (NBI), then threatened them, saying that she knows who they are and where they work and would have cases filed against them, if they don’t show up.
“We have the names. I want to give them an ultimatum. We know who they are…We know where they are working. We are challenging them to surface, otherwise the NBI will be constrained to file charges,” she said.
“This is also an opportunity for them if they are really not the right guys. After several days, the NBI will file a case against them,” she added.
The experience of the first APO suspect, Anthony Nepomuceno, a call center worker, showed that even after surfacing and having himself interrogated by the NBI, cases were filed against him anyway, despite his claim of having an alibi, which he said proved that he was nowhere near the Bar exams blast site..... MORE
Former VP not off hook in Pag-IBIG fund mess By Angie M. Rosales 11/10/2010
Former VP not off hook in Pag-IBIG fund mess
Senate probers suspect a “high-level” cover-up by some Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG) Fund officials in the P7-billion housing fund mess involving property developer Globe Asiatique Realty Holdings Corp.
“There’s (a possible) cover-up in this case. It could go up to the highest level. But I would refuse to name names at this time until we get more solid evidence and testimonies,” said Sen. Sergio
Osmeña III.
The lawmaker is not ruling out the possibility that former Vice President Noli de Castro being implicated in the loan mess since the policy was approved by Pag-IBIG Fund’s board of trustees.
De Castro served as the housing czar in the previous administration. The senator, chairman of the Senate committee on banks, financial institutions and currencies, which is handling the probe on the matter, said his panel is set to resume its probe Thursday next week.
“I intend to question the Board of Trustees on why they allowed such a dangerous policy..... MORE
Vice mayor eyed as key witness in massacre case 11/10/2010
Vice mayor eyed as key witness in massacre case
A former town vice mayor is being eyed by prosecutors as a key witness in last year’s Maguindanao massacre, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima confirmed yesterday.
Former Vice Mayor Sukarno Badal of Sultan sa Barongis town has agreed to meet with De Lima today in Sultan Kudarat where Badal is being detained in a military camp.
Badal, also known as Commander Uka, surrendered to authorities over the weekend. He was caretaker of some 500 assault rifles allegedly owned by former Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. of Datu Unsay town in Maguindanao. Badal hails from the town of Sultan sa Barongis.
“I will personally assess his value as a potential state witness. I understand from sources and those who worked on his surrender that he has very valuable information not
only with respect to the massacre but also to some other operations of the Ampatuans,” she explained..... MORE
PAL hits labor union over spinoff rumors By Mina Diaz 11/10/2010
PAL hits labor union over spinoff rumors
Labor-strife plagued Philippine Airlines (PAL) accused officers of the PAL Employees Association (Palea) of peddling lies while asking them to produce documentary proof to show alleged links between PAL chairman
Lucio Tan and three service providers that will take over PAL’s Inflight Catering, airport services and call center departments under a contested spin off plan that received government approval.
“The best proof is the corporate records of these companies. However, PAL is under no obligation to disclose them. As the one making baseless and malicious claims, the burden of proof is on Palea,” PAL said in a statement.
PAL president Jaime Bautista had stressed that third party service providers like PLDT e-Ventus for Call Center/Reservations is owned by PLDT while Sky Kitchen for Catering and Sky Logistics for Airport Services are both owned by Cebu-based businessman Manny Osmeña. These service providers are not owned by Tan or any of his family members.
PAL added that its lawyers are currently studying the airline’s legal options and whether it can sue Palea officers for spreading false information..... MORE
Aquino okays new guidelines for using social networking sites 11/10/2010
Aquino okays new guidelines for using social networking sites
All ordinary employees and officials of the government shall have to bear the consequences of the diplomatic blunder committed by President Aquino’s speechwriter as Malacañang yesterday announced that they are no exception to the new guidelines imposed by the Communications Group with respect to the use of social networking sites.
Deputy presidential spokesman Abigail Valte disclosed to reporters that these guidelines have already been approved by the President but they cannot release it in public yet pending the result of the ongoing consultations they have with the other agencies that would look into the legal aspects of such policy citing its possible implications on the people’s right to free expression.
Valte, however, clarified that this new policy neither denies any employee access to these social networking sites, particularly Facebook and Twitter, nor are they being prohibited to say something negative against the government but is merely trying to remind them on “what is acceptable to be said” in the online portal.
“We should all bear in mind that our online persona, especially if one is an employee of the government, (what he or she) says in public is also reflective of the government (he or she works for). So we should just take the necessary caution,” Valte said..... MORE
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Filipinos working abroad fuel real estate boom at home 12/16/2010
Filipinos working abroad fuel real estate boom at home
MANILA — The Philippines’ famous diaspora of overseas workers is fuelling a boom in the real estate market back home as they snap up houses and apartments to safeguard their futures.
Property prices have recovered strongly since the global financial crisis of 2008, with investments from the nine million Filipinos toiling away in foreign lands a significant factor, industry figures say.
“Overseas workers are moving the market. Properties now are selling and when there is demand, prices go up,” Emily Duterte, head of the Real Estate Brokers Association of the Philippines, told AFP.
Industry sales nationwide this year are estimated to hit P300 billion ($6.9 billion) compared with about P100 billion each in 2009 and 2008, according to Claro Cordero from Jones Lang La Salle, a global real estate consultancy firm..... MORE
Reason and the heart By Ronald Roy 12/16/2010
Reason and the heart
By Ronald Roy 12/16/2010
Smart kid, this grandson of mine. I just found out that Jack, who wants to be a lawyer a la Perry Mason, occasionally browses over my 50-year-old law textbooks with marginal scribbles. He stunned me when he said, “Gramps, I don’t see how the (Gloria) Arroyo people can claim Executive Order No.1 is an act of vindictiveness and discrimination. The President simply wants to know if they committed serious crimes, so what’s so wrong with that?”
Then he dropped a bomb: “Maybe the Supreme Court is the one being vindictive because the President clipped its budget — well, it is not quite like that, Jack — for austerity reasons.” Hmm, a little ahead of his age, this kid, who manages to keep abreast of current news. Well, I’d like to share the following insights drawn from my conversations with Jack regarding the constitutional guarantee of the equal protection clause (EPC).
Shorn of suspected ill motives shrouded in highfalutin legalese and specious reasoning, the EPC is an uncomplicated common-sense principle that nobody should be discriminated against for such reasons as relate to gender (e.g. homosexuals and lesbians being denied employment opportunities), color (e.g. Ilocanos being segregated at a restaurant section away from fair-skinned Visayans), religion (e.g. public transport facilities banning members of a particular non-Christian church), and physical disability or defect (e.g. denial by public amusement places of entrance for the handicapped)..... MORE
Webb, et al. lawyers to sue Alfaro, RTC judge By Benjamin B. Pulta 12/16/2010
AS DOJ EYES NEW VIZCONDE PROBE
Webb, et al. lawyers to sue Alfaro, RTC judge
Defense counsel Jose Flaminiano says their camp is eyeing the possibility of filing criminal charges against Jessica Alfaro, the prosecution’s “star” witness in the Vizconde massacre case, for perjury. The defense lawyers are also looking at filing a serious administrative coomplaint based on plagiarism against the Parañaque Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge Amelita Tolentino who had convicted Hubert Jeffrey Webb and six others in connection with the Vizconde massacre case.
Flaminiano stressed that Tolentino’s decision, when compared with the memorandum submitted by the prosecution, doubts are also raised over her evaluation of the evidence presented since she merely copied the prosecutor’s opinion.
“We cannot let this pass. She does not deserve to be a Court of Appeals Justice,” Flaminiano said..... MORE
US, China praise Gloria — WikiLeaks By Michaela P. del Callar 12/16/2010
US, China praise Gloria — WikiLeaks
American and Chinese officials were impressed with former President Arroyo’s leadership but were bothered by a lack of transparency and the corruption that hounded her administration, according to classified documents released this week by WikiLeaks.
Beijing was impressed with Arroyo’s firm leadership, calling her “a good leader,” while American officials appreciated her economic reforms and “extremely successful” US-backed counter-terrorism campaign in Mindanao, WikiLeaks quoted Hu Zhengyue, former director general for Asian Affairs of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as saying.
“Beijing sees Arroyo as a good leader because she has shown that ‘she is in control.’ DAS John agreed Arroyo has stabilized Philippine leadership and enacted strong fiscal and economic policy,” the March 5, 2007 cable, which originated from the US Embassy in Beijing, said, citing a meeting between Hu and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Eric John.
But John “stressed that Beijing and Washington must encourage Manila to continue working hard to promote transparency and good governance,” according to WikiLeaks.
China has recognized that corruption was the second most significant problem under Arroyo after poverty, John cited Hu as saying, according to the leaked cable that mentioned the Philippines..... MORE
Senate drops safeguard provision on CCT savings By Gerry Baldo 12/16/2010
Senate drops safeguard provision on CCT savings
The House minority bared yesterday the removal of a provision in next year’s budget that would prevent the unused portion of the massive P21 billion budget for the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) from turning into savings the use of which would be under the discretion of the Office of the President the following year.
Without the provision, savings from the CCT could easily become part of the President’s own “pork barrel,” Zambales Rep. Milagros Magsaysay told reporters.
During a House interpellation before the ratification of the budget, Cavite Rep. Joseph Abaya, House appropriations committee chairman, indicated that Sen.Franklin Drilon, a staunch ally of President Aquino, insisted on removing the provision, saying it is unconstitutional.
Drilon, who is Senate finance committee chairman, supposedly said removing the provision would “limit the constitutional power of the President to declare savings and likewise realign them.”.... MORE
Noy to announce alternatives to truth body By Aytch S. de la Cruz 12/16/2010
Noy to announce alternatives to truth body
President Aquino is set to announce his decision next week on the legal recourse Malacañang is going to take in saving the Philippine Truth Commission (PTC) following the Supreme Court’s (SC) nullification of his Executive Order 1 (EO 1) which created that body.
Speaking to reporters in Occidental Mindoro yesterday, Aquino said meetings are being held daily by the members of his legal team to arrive at the best solution to resolve this matter.
“There are many ways (to defend PTC). We are going to announce (our decision) by next week. The legal panel has been meeting everyday to determine what the next step will be. The evidence is already coming in and the method or process is the only aspect being discussed (right now),” Aquino said, stressing that debates are being conducted among his counsels who are assessing the available options, including the amendment of EO 1, the creation of another body, or that which was suggested by his adviser for special concerns, Magdangal Elma, to just have the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) handle the PTC’s job..... MORE
Gov’t to resolve massacre; Jinggoy wants compensation law By Aytch S. de la Cruz and Angie M. Rosales 12/16/2010
Gov’t to resolve massacre; Jinggoy wants compensation law
Malacañang yesterday acknowledged the Aquino government’s responsibility in resolving the Vizconde killings, with the authorities back to square one after the Supreme Court (SC) acquitted the primary suspect and the six others in the Vizconde massacre case which spanned 15 years.
Following Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Raul Bacalzo’s announcement that the Vizconde massacre case will be reinvestigated, deputy presidential spokeman Abigail Valte said it goes without saying that the national government has to support this move to bring the real perpetrators to justice.
“That is the duty of the government — to close these cases and to make sure that the accused are brought to justice,” Valte told reporters at a press briefing yesterday.
Valte said President Aquino has not as yet given any official directive to the government’s law enforcement agencies on this, after issuing a statement the other day, asking his officials to prepare a briefer on this issue
Military beefs up intel ops on terror threats reports 12/16/2010
Military beefs up intel ops on terror threats reports
The military’s Eastern Mindanao Command (East-mincom) has intensified intelligence operations to thwart any possible attacks by terrorist groups following the spread of text messages regarding bomb-making training of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militants in Liguasan Marsh.
Eastmincom chief Maj. Gen. Arthur Tabaquero said he is not taking any chances on this as he ordered his troops to validate the information that the group of JI militant Abdulbasset Usman are now conducting training on bomb-making, apparently for a future plot.
Tabaquero said that text messages regarding Usman’s activities circulated through text messages all over Mindanao, particularly in Maguindanao and General Santos City, starting Sunday.
“We cannot outrightly dismiss this kind of information so as part of pre-cautionary measures I have ordered intensified intelligence operations to validate the report,” said Tabaquero..... MORE
House scraps P20-million budget to buy condoms, contraceptives By Gerry Baldo 12/16/2010
House scraps P20-million budget to buy condoms, contraceptives
Advocates of the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill in the House of Representatives yesterday suffered a big setback even as the P200-million budget for the purchase of condoms and contraceptives was removed from the budget.
Parañaque Rep. Roilo Golez said that the pro-RH groups suffered a devastating defeat following the decision of the bicameral conference committee to scrap the budget for contraceptives.
“The pro-RH group was defeated in the first encounter on contraceptives and condoms. The House ratified yesterday the bicam report on the budget where theP200-million budget for condoms and contraceptives was removed on the initiative of the pro-Life group in Congress and the ‘noisy’ pro-RH group could not do anything about it,” Golez said yesterday.
Golez said that the removal of the budget for contraceptives shows that the bill does not have the support of a majority of the members of the panel which is composed of members of both Houses of Congress..... MORE
Pag-IBIG execs liable for Globe Asiatique’s billion-peso scams By Angie M. Rosales 12/16/2010
Pag-IBIG execs liable for Globe Asiatique’s billion-peso scams
Senate probers hinted at possible liability of top officials of Home Mutual Development Fund (Pag-IBIG) in the multibillion-peso housing mess with Globe Asiatique Realty Corp.
Sen. Sergio Osmeña III, chairman of the committee on banks, financial institutions and currencies, said axe will likely fall on the board of trustees of Pag-IBIG at the time of the supposed transaction and former Vice President Noli de Castro will not be spared, if proven that he was at the helm of the project then.
As the panel wrapped up its inquiry into the case and take up remaining matters in a series of technical working group (TWG) before the committee prepares its report, Osmeña said those to be held accountable are those “at the policy and operational level” of Pag-IBIG.
“At the policy level, the board of trustees (will likely be held responsible) because they opened a new lending window for GA and this information was held from the other interested parties..... MORE
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Chapter 285: Encircled!
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The black horses were going insane, galloping around and neighing. Lin Feng and his two friends were way too strong, each of them were monstrously strong. Each time they attacked, someone would die.
That amazing woman was particularly strong, if anyone got too close to her, they got the impression that they were going to freeze on the spot. She was clearly a cultivator of the Xuan Qi layer.
That man wearing a bronze mask was the weakest of the three of them, but he had still broken through to the seventh Ling Qi layer. Besides, he could control a shocking amount of blade force. Lin Feng was usually relaxed, carefree and enigmatic, but in any case, he was monstrously strong.
Very quickly, outside of the Celestial Mountain Restaurant, a mountain of corpses appeared. Apart from a few people who managed to escape early, the others were all dead, just like Tu Jiu. They had come in an imposing and domineering fashion, but this would be their final resting place. Including the vice leader of the Condor Castle Organization, who was a cultivator of the Xuan Qi layer.
“How powerful.” Thought the crowd when they saw Lin Feng. They could barely believe their eyes, they did not think that Lin Feng and his friends would be that strong, killing each and every single person who dared to enter the restaurant.
No wonder he was in no rush to run away! He already had such terrifying strength, which is why he wasn’t afraid of any opponents coming to fight him.
Lan Jiao’s eyes were flashing, she looked at Meng Qing. What a pure and holy looking woman. She looked so lithe and graceful. She was a rare beauty. Her heart was beating slightly faster when looking at Meng Qing, she wanted to see her face.
“No wonder that……” Her lips vibrated. As if she was thwarted in love, Lan Jiao’s heart was filled with hidden bitterness. No wonder she did not manage to seduce Lin Feng, he already had such a beautiful woman at his side.
Lin Feng stopped looking at the corpses and immediately went back into the restaurant. Meng Qing and Ba Dao followed him closely. The three silhouettes once more disappeared from the crowd’s sight.
The crowd looked at the restaurant, they had already killed so many people from the Condor Castle Organization, including their vice leader. The next people sent from Condor Castle would definitely be even more brutal.
“What an irresponsible guy, you think that you can rely on the strength of three people to defeat the Condor Castle Organization?”
Lan Jiao was cursing at Lin Feng in her heart. Lin Feng surprisingly didn’t intend to leave. It seemed like he wanted to annihilate the entire Condor Castle Organization, and if he didn’t, then he would regret it.
Lin Feng was sitting inside the restaurant, his eyes closed as he calmly breathed in and out. He was in fusion with the earth. His heart was in fusion with his body and thus, his heart was also in fusion with the earth itself. Lin Feng, no matter where he was or what the circumstance, could always enter a ideal mental state for cultivation.
He was surrounded by pure Qi light. A vast quantity of pure Qi was unceasingly moving towards Lin Feng’s body. At the same time, Lin Feng entered into an ideal state of meditation, emptying his heart and mind. His body was recovering and regaining the vitality which his soul had consumed.
Lin Feng could use pure Qi, it didn’t have too much effect on him but, when he used the strength of his soul he had to recover quickly because without it, it would impact his fighting ability.
When Lin Feng used his purple energy to attack, or made a gigantic dragon appear, he also had to use the strength of his soul. If he didn’t have a strong soul, the purple spirit wouldn’t be able to leave his body to attack. The stronger his soul was, the farther he could attack using his purple energy.
While Lin Feng and his friends were recovering inside of the restaurant, the crowd outside still had not left. They were still looking at the restaurant, waiting for some other people from the Condor Castle Organization to come. They wanted to see how this entire story would end.
After a while, rumbling noises spread through the atmosphere. The ground started shaking again. That time, the ground was shaking even more intensely than last time. The noises were so loud that the people in the crowd had the impression that they were going to become deaf.
Very quickly, a gigantic army of black armored-horses appeared, it seemed like there were more than a thousand of them. People’s hearts started pounding.
Tu Jiu, who was at the peak of the Ling Qi layer, and the vice leader in the Xuan Qi Layer, had both been killed. A hundred other members of the organization had been killed as well. That made all the other members of the Condor Castle Organization furious. The whole nest had come out to attack.
“They are here!” The crowd saw the group and moved far away from them. The newcomers were extremely strong. The crowd was too scared to be too close, attacks might hit them if they were.
The one leading them was a bald man. He looked tall and sturdy, with a huge scar on his face. He looked monstrous and hideous. A single glance was sufficed to see that he was anything but a saint.
The bald man was carrying a broadsword on his shoulder. A deadly Qi emerging from his body. He had an impressive bearing and a commanding presence. He was one of the vice-leaders of the Condor Castle Organization. The great leader and him were the core of the organization. The great leader was the strongest cultivator of the Condor Castle Organization, he was mysterious. Very few people had seen him. It was said that a few years ago, he invaded the castle of the organization alone and had made everyone submit to him. He was extremely strong and had broken through to the third Xuan Qi layer. He had replaced the previous leaders and became the great leader of the organization.
The cavalry, on their black horses, were galloping at full speed and they immediately encircled the restaurant. The leader looked at the corpses on the ground and then at the restaurant. His eyes looking bloodthirsty.
“Come out!” Shouted the leader extremely loudly and aggressively. His voice was so imposing that the windows of the restaurant were shaking.
Lin Feng and his friends just ignored him. Why would they willingly come out of the restaurant? That was impossible.
The leader’s facial expression was sharp and ice-cold. Sounding like a demon, he said: “For having killed my people, I will torture you to death. Everybody, stay in position and wait for them to come out, then kill them!”
“Roger!” Shouted the cavalry while releasing some deadly Qi.
The leader didn’t have the same plan as the other leader a moment ago. He didn’t want to enter the restaurant, he wanted to Lin Feng to suffer from fear!
But how hard was it going to be for Lin Feng? In the earth fusion dimension, his heart stayed focused and he just continued practicing cultivation. His heart was like flowing water. The things around him did not affect the earth and therefore they did not affect him, otherwise, why would it be called earth fusion?
The leader jumped off his horse and walked to the other leader’s corpse. An evil facial expression appearing on his face.
How cold. The leader’s body was frozen and melted. His blood had frozen entirely. His muscles had stopped working.
“What a powerful ice energy.” The leader raised his head and looked at the Celestial Mountain Restaurant. He was convinced that the dead leader should have waited for them to arrive before he entered.
Even though that leader looked rude and stupid, people close to them all knew that he was much wiser than the leader who died. His aggressiveness and tyranny intrigued people.
That person was also much more cold-blooded than the previous leader. He had brought a thousand people along. He wasn’t willing to take risks. Those who were inside the restaurant had killed the other leader, which meant that they were probably strong enough to kill him as well. He didn’t feel like gambling with his life. Even though Lin Feng was surrounded by an army of one thousand men, Lin Feng was too difficult to kill. If the situation was too dangerous, they couldn’t afford gambling, they had to be careful and vigilant.
Outside of the Celestial Mountain Restaurant, the atmosphere was absolutely calm, but it seemed like the situation could explode at any moment. The thousand men surrounding the restaurant patiently waiting.
Time passed very slowly. The silence in which the atmosphere was drowned was oppressive but the crowd did not leave. They were standing in the distance, waiting for a battle to start.
However, they had just been waiting for a whole day. The troops of the Condor Castle Organization had been waiting there for a whole day. They had not attacked and besides, the crowd had also been there for a whole day as well, it was as if they weren’t tired.
The atmosphere was, as before, extremely calm.
However, at that moment, in the distance, a sound emerged in the atmosphere and the ground slightly shook.
Besides, that sound was becoming louder and louder and the ground was shaking more and more violently.
Horses were coming, even more people were arriving.
The crowd was stupefied. They were looking into the distance and immediately, they saw a group of snow-white horses moving towards them. The cavalry were dressed in white and were releasing some piercingly-cold Qi.
It seemed like ice and snow were appearing on the ground as they passed by.
“The people of the Ice and Snow Mountain Village have come.”
The people in the crowd shrank their eyes and guessed who these people were.
Bing Yuan, the prodigy of the Ice and Snow Mountain Village had been killed, the Ice and Snow Mountain Village was way too strong to ignore such an insult.
“They’re galloping so fast!” The crowd was astonished. This time, Lin Feng was definitely going to die. The people of the Condor Castle Organization and the people of the Ice and Snow Mountain Village both had come, they would definitely manage to kill him.
“Piss off!” Shouted a voice coming from the very front of the cavalry when he saw that in front of him was the bald leader.
The crowd was astonished, the person from the Ice and Snow Mountain Village was so aggressive. He was so strong that, the bald leader of the Condor Castle Organization was not even put in his eyes.
The bald leader looked at him and said: “What is your social status within the sect of the Ice and Snow Mountain Village to talk to me that way?”
“Bing He Teng.” Said the newcomer sounding indifferent. The crowd frowned. Bing He Teng had personally come, he was a Great Elder of the Ice and Snow Mountain Village.
Chapter 284: The Massacre
Chapter 286: The Sharp Light
Akashi •
Happy new year! Thanks for the chapter!
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Thanks for the chapter! Happy new year everyone !
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Now all we need to wait for is the blademaster’s clan to come and we have a trifecta of clans courting death. Thanks for the chapter!
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Happy new year!!! Thank you so much for the chapter, may you have a excitinig and fullfilling 2016!
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that guy who went to gather the ingredients to concoct pills will probably come soon and go like “LIN FENG IM HERE” sees the encirclement “WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!? ANTS” proceeds eliminate them all.
would be hilarious if this actually happens xD
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Best comment I’ve seen xD I so hope this happens now xD
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Thanks so much much for the chapter , happy new year!
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Thank you for another chapter.
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Happy new year and thanks for the chapter!
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Now it’s time to destroy 2 great powers XD
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will this be a case of the enemy of my enemy will be my enemy and then the enemy will wipe them both out? xD
ok that was a bit confusing lol.
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To all the people saying this is repetitive, SUCK IT. this, this is new and so awesome
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Well it IS repetitive but it doesn’t mean we don’t like it.
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Happy New Year!! Thanks for the update.
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They need to form a line … if they want to have a shot at killing Lin Feng.
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More people came to die
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Immune Study Adds to Evidence Of Body-Wide Problems With Energy Production in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
anaerobic, CD24, glycolysis, senescence
Increased expression of CD24 …could thus reflect abnormalities in maintaining appropriate ATP generation (in ME/CFS). The authors
Numerous studies suggest problems with energy production exist in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The huge energy needs exertion places on the muscles and brain suggest they’re an obvious place for energy production problems to show up. Ramping up to fight off pathogens also places extreme demands on energy production in immune cells. Now comes a study which suggests that energy production problems in a subset of B-cells could be setting people with ME/CFS up for problems with inflammation and autoimmunity.
B-cells and ME/CFS
The first couple of successful Rituximab trials brought renewed interest in the immune cells most effected by the drug – the B-cells. The last, large Rituximab trial unfortunately failed – the drug does not work in ME/CFS – but the Rituximab effort succeeded in other ways.
First off, it brought two creative and dedicated researchers, Oystein Fluge and Olav Mella to the field and energized ME/CFS research in Norway.
A B-cell producing antibodies to fight pathogens
Secondly, the B-cells – which play a huge role in immunity (and autoimmunity) – finally got some study in ME/CFS. Keeping with ME/CFS’s time-honored tradition of falling between the cracks in medicine, several studies found no indication of altered levels of “classical B-cell markers”.
Something unusual did, however, pop up, in an extended analysis, which went well beyond the classical markers usually explored. In 2015 a study found that a molecule called CD24 was highly expressed in a group of B-cells.
CD24 is an adhesion molecule which turns on various signaling networks – it basically tells cells what to do. It is most highly expressed on early stage or transitional B-cells as they emerge from the bone marrow.
During the normal transition from immature to mature metabolically active B-cells, early B-cells are tested again and again for evidence that they may be turning into autoantibody producing cells and many are removed. Over time, as these cells transform themselves into mature B-cells, the CD24 molecule gradually disappears from their surfaces. High levels of these molecules in people with ME/CFS suggested that a problem with B-cell maturation might be present.
Since antibody producing B-cells play a major role in fighting off infections, having a bunch of immature B-cells hanging around the immune systems of ME/CFS patients could constitute a problem.
Plus there’s evidence that the CD24 molecule plays a role in several diseases. CD24 polymorphisms (genetic variants of CD24) have been associated with increased risk for and accelerated progression of autoimmune diseases including multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and systemic lupus erythematous. CD24 can also be over‐expressed in many cancers, including B cell lymphomas.
In short, it’s not a molecule you want to ignore.
Energy Production Problems in the Immune System
Front Immunol. 2018 Oct 22;9:2421. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.02421. eCollection 2018. CD24 Expression and B Cell Maturation Shows a Novel Link With Energy Metabolism: Potential Implications for Patients With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Mensah FFK1, Armstrong CW2, Reddy V1, Bansal AS3, Berkovitz S4, Leandro MJ1, Cambridge G1.
In a 2018 study, a UK and Australian group took B-cells from ME/CFS patients and healthy controls, stimulated them and then monitored what happened. As before, they found an increased frequency of CD24+ B-cells in ME/CFS patients.
What made the increased frequency of these naïve CD24 packed B cells in ME/CFS so interesting, though, was their mode of energy production.
Examining the metabolism of the ME/CFS patients’ cells, the researchers found a “strong(ly) positive” association between the amount of glycolysis and lactate produced and the expression of CD24 molecules on ME/CFS patients’ B-cells. Put another way, the more glycolysis was used to produce energy and the greater the lactate production (a by-product of glycolysis) – the more the CD24 molecule showed up on ME/CFS patient’s B-cells.
Findings suggesting that a body-wide problem with energy production are present in ME/CFS are piling up.
Lower levels of mitochondria in these cells suggested one reason ME/CFS patients’ B-cells may be stuck in this mode. Not surprisingly, the authors found this more prominent B-cell subset in ME/CFS was also largely unresponsive to stimulation.
That suggested that not only do the energy problems in ME/CFS extend to the immune cells but that they could be impacting immune functioning – in this case by keeping ME/CFS B-cells in a naïve state – that may be associated with disease.
Plus increased levels of the CD24 molecule have also been associated with a damaging state called “senescence”. Instead of undergoing a process called autophagy during which a cell’s contents are safely recycled, during senescence – which is often associated with aging – damaged mitochondria cause cells to slowly deteriorate while producing scads of pro-inflammatory factors.
An exercise physiologist, Graham Salmun, recently reported that his exercise study results suggest senescence is indeed occurring in ME/CFS. He believes problems with aerobic energy production are a) impairing ME/CFS patients ability to produce energy and b) creating a senescent state that is causing chronic inflammation.
Anaerobic Thresholds, Fatty Acid Problems and Autophagy: Dr. Klimas’s Exercise Study
This study provided an intriguing metabolic snapshot of the immune system. The fact that increased expression of the CD24 molecule has been associated with autoimmune disorders and cancer makes the CD24 finding in ME/CFS interesting, but the metabolic connection the researchers found may be more important.
Their findings suggest that the same problems producing energy found elsewhere in ME/CFS may also be occurring in their immune cells. Plus the findings suggest that a state of senescence, chronic inflammation and cellular unresponsiveness may be present as well. The possible penalties of having an immune system with a broken aerobic energy production system could go beyond fatigue and pain and extend to problems with autoimmunity, and perhaps in rare cases, cancer.
Studies finding an increased reliance on anaerobically produced energy in the muscles, the brain, in neutrophils and now in some of the B-cells all suggest that a body-wide disruption in energy production may be present in ME/CFS.
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MAIT Immune Cell Findings Unite U.S. and U.K. ME/CFS Researchers
MAIT, NK cell, T-cell, Unutmaz
The US and the UK are said to have a “special relationship”. That special relationship hasn’t generally extended to ME/CFS research, given a decidedly different focus on ME/CFS in the two countries – a strong focus on biological research in the US and more of a focus on CBT/GET in the UK. That might be changing, though.
Derya Unutmaz at Jackson Labs and Jacqueline Cliff of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | LSHTM appear to have both independently landed on the same immune cell in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Given the multitude of immune cells found in the body, that has the potential to be rather special.
A large NIH funded UK Biobank enabled these researchers to produce one of the largest ME/CFS immune studies done.
The specialness doesn’t stop there. The samples tested by these two teams – all 300 of them – come from the UK ME/CFS Biobank – which since 2014 has received major funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US. (The Biobank has also received funding from The ME Association, Action for ME, and ME Research UK.) Plus, the NIH provided most of the funding for the Cliff project.
The UK ME/CFS Biobank is big. It contains serum, plasma, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), red blood cells/granulocyte pellet, whole blood, and RNA samples from over 500 ME/CFS and multiple sclerosis patients and healthy controls. Plus, it includes an extensive dataset of 700 clinical and socio-demographic variables.
The Cliff study focused on the immune system – a natural system to target given the infectious onset many experience and the symptoms common to all patients. An immune “hole” could give a pathogen time to do more damage, set off an autoimmune response, or alter immune functioning in some other way.
Immune studies in ME/CFS are not uncommon, but the Cliff team researchers (sounding very English at least to my ears) described their results as “discrepant” and inconclusive. Interesting research findings have not been reproduced in ME in part, they asserted, because of small study sizes, varied research methods, and sometimes a less than stellar quality of the studies.
This Biobank study is different, they believe. A large study with a well characterized patient group, they clearly believe its results will stand the test of time.
Front Immunol. 2019 Apr 16;10:796. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.00796. eCollection 2019. Cellular Immune Function in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). Cliff JM1, King EC1, Lee JS1, Sepúlveda N1,2, Wolf AS1, Kingdon C3, Bowman E3, Dockrell HM1, Nacul L3, Lacerda E3, Riley EM1.
The Patients
The Cliff study examined the samples from over 400 patients and controls (251 ME/CFS (54 severely affected and 197 mild/moderate), 46 multiple sclerosis, 107 healthy controls.)
The patients met either the Canadian Consensus Criteria or the 1992 Fukuda Criteria (or both) and were mostly recruited via the UK National Health Service. The patients were determined to meet either criteria after their responses to a Symptoms Assessment form were fed into a computerized algorithm that maps their symptoms onto the different ME/CFS study case definitions.
Since the Fukuda definition does not require post-exertional malaise – the core symptom of ME/CFS – it was surprising to see the group potentially accept patients who only met that definition. It wasn’t clear from the study what proportion of patients, if any, met only the Fukuda criteria, though. Severely ill patients were mostly home or bed bound. Their blood samples were taken during home visits.
People who had taken antiviral medications or drugs known to alter immune functioning, had a recent history of vaccination, had a history of other chronic diseases such as tuberculosis, cancer, uncontrolled diabetes, etc., had a severe mood disorder, or who had been pregnant or breastfeeding in the past 12 months were excluded.
One part of the study focused on natural killer (NK) cells – key players in the early, innate immune response. Given the NK findings in ME/CFS, the group’s decision to analyze NK cells was not a surprise, but they gave their analysis a twist. Because cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections have such profound effects on our NK cells (and the rest of our immune system), the relationship between CMV infections and NK cells was assessed to determine whether a past CMV infection could be responsible for the NK cell abnormalities seen in ME/CFS.
The Next Big Thing in Immune Research? MAIT cells Pop Out Again
The big news from the Cliff study is the increased frequency of the CD8+ mucosal associated invariant T cells or MAIT cells. The UK authors noted that an increased frequency of MAIT T-cells has not been published before, which is true, but Derya Unutmaz, leader of the NIH ME/CFS Research Center at the Jackson Labs, has been talking about them in ME/CFS for several years.
MAIT cells form a bridge between the gut and the immune system. (From Dr. Oh’s NIH Conference presentation)
Unutmaz reported finding high levels of MAIT cells in ME/CFS patients. Unutmaz’s findings suggest that the MAIT T-cells have been repeatedly activated in ME/CFS and that they evidence the same activated/burned out pattern he’s found in other T-cells. He and Dr. Oh at Jackson Labs are trying to determine which stomach bacteria has turned them on and then find a way to eliminate or reduce it.
MAIT cells are known for the role they play protecting the lining of the gut against toxic bacteria. Their name – mucosal invariant T-cells – derives from the high levels of these cells gathered around the mucosal surfaces of the gut (e.g. the lining). In effect they are the gut’s innate immune cells – sentinels guarding the gut wall which can, in contrast to other T-cells, react immediately to invaders.
They’re different from other T-cells which get activated after being triggered by an antigen from a pathogen. Instead, they’re activated by fats and vitamin B2 metabolites produced by plants, bacteria (E. coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumonia, L. acidophilus, S. aureus, and S. epidermidis, C. albicans, C. glabrata, and S. cerevisiae ) and fungi. Because cytokines produced by viral infections can activate them as well, the high degree of MAIT cell activation is not necessarily due to bacteria in the gut – but it’s the most likely scenario.
MAIT research only started popping up after 2010, when studies revealed these unusual cells were able to detect bacteria and fungi and respond with pro-inflammatory cytokines. Since then many studies have suggested that MAIT cells play an important role in infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases and cancer. MAIT cells are not always pro-inflammatory, but increased levels, particularly of cytotoxic MAIT cells, are believed to be associated with pathogenic states.
In contrast to Unutmaz’s apparent (but unpublished) findings of high levels of MAIT cells in ME/CFS overall, this study found a high proportion of MAIT cells only in the severely ill ME/CFS patients. They noted that a small number of the severely ill patients were reported to have “exceedingly high” frequencies of these cells.
Most of the MAIT cells in the severely affected ME/CFS patients (as well as in the MS patients) were in their cytotoxic (killing) form. They’d probably been activated by a bacterium in the gut and were apparently on the prowl, ready to pounce. While the increased proportion of MAIT cells only weakly discriminated the severe ME/CFS patients from the healthy controls, the high percentage of killer T-cells (cytotoxic T-cells) found was moderately discriminative.
Interestingly, the Cliff study authors pointed out that peripheral MAIT cell levels in healthy volunteers can increase 2-fold following exercise. Finding similarly high levels of MAIT cells in the severely ill patients suggested they were in a similar post-exercise state without having engaged in any exercise.
Slight Increase in ESR Surprises
Interestingly, symptoms associated with inflammation/infection were more common and more severe in the ME/CFS cohort than in the MS cohort (go figure!). Perhaps that’s not a surprise, since ME/CFS has been shown to impact functioning to a greater degree than MS.
The slight raise in erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) – an inflammatory marker – in mild/moderate cases of ME/CFS compared to the other groups (Including the severe ME/CFS group) was surprising, though, given that very low ESR’s are thought to be typical in this disease.
Laboratory studies. These tests can be used to exclude other diseases associated with fatigue. The most consistent laboratory abnormality in patients with CFS is an extremely low erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), which approaches zero. Typically, patients with CFS have an ESR of 0 to 3 mm/h. A normal ESR or one that is in the upper reference range suggests another diagnosis. https://www.consultant360.com/content/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-update-diagnosis-primary-care
As the Cliff study introduced a new factor into ME/CFS research (MAIT cells), it took a hatchet to the last big immune finding in ME/CFS – natural killer cells. The study found no significant differences in NK cell proportions, types, KIR receptors or activation markers before or after they stimulated them.
Some NK markers did stand out, but only in patients who had been exposed to CMV. The authors suggested a past CMV infection in some of the ME/CFS patients had likely caused the NK cell abnormalities in ME/CFS – not ME/CFS.
The Cliff study, however, used a different test of NK cell functioning than some groups have used in the past. The British group assessed both T and NK cell functioning by determining how the cells responded to stimulation; i.e., did they produce distinctive markers and/or start producing cytokines. The ME/CFS patients’ cells apparently whizzed through that test – they perked up and started producing cytokines, leaving the authors to report that no functional issues with these cells are present.
The Cliff study suggested that the NK cell findings in ME/CFS may be due to patients with past CMV infections. They did, not, however, use a NK cell functional test used by others in the past.
Dr. Klimas, however, uses a more direct functional NK cell assay which measures the number of target cells killed. Plus, instead of the PBMC’s used in the Cliff study, she uses whole blood – possibly a critical factor, given Ron Davis’ and Fluge’s findings that something in the plasma is affecting the cells. In fact the first hint of a blood-borne factor in ME/CFS showed up in NK cell studies. That idea that something in the blood was impacting functioning first showed up when Dr. Klimas realized that a study which found no evidence of problems with NK cell functioning had not used whole blood in its tests.
The UK study authors noted that small study sizes have hampered immune results in this disease, but size was not an issue for the 2011 Klimas/Fletcher study (176 ME/CFS patients, 230 healthy controls) which found significant declines in NK cell functioning, and those declines were associated with increased fatigue levels. In an Australian study, Brenu also used a target cell killing test to show reductions in T-cell functioning. The UK study authors did not allude to other possible functional tests or the whole blood issue in their manuscript.
Exhausted T-cells?
The UK study authors did find a number of T-cell abnormalities: increased proportions of effector memory CD8+ T cells, decreased proportions of terminally differentiated effector TEMRA cells, and some minor changes elsewhere – whose effects are unclear. The UK authors suggested, though, they could be due to “ongoing antigenic stimulation” due to an unresolved infection or autoimmunity.
Either could presumably produce a state of “immune exhaustion” which some have hypothesized is present in ME/CFS.
Derya Unutmaz focused on key players in autoimmunity and inflammation called TH17 cells in his U.S. study. He wasn’t surprised to find high levels of TH17 cells – which are regulated by the gut – but he was shocked to find low levels of the IL-17 cytokine they produce. That finding also suggested that the immune cells in ME/CFS might be in a state of exhaustion.
The Cliff study’s IgG antibody tests found no evidence of increased herpes virus reactivation in ME/CFS, and some evidence of it in MS. The group didn’t close the book on the possibility of herpesvirus reactivation in ME/CFS, though, stating that other antibody tests for EBV might produce different results.
The Cliff study was a large UK Biobank study using both Fukuda and/or Canadian Consensus Criteria to identify its patients. The study’s finding of moderately increased ESR levels in the mild/moderate patients was surprising, given past reports of low ESR levels in ME/CFS.
Except in patients who have been exposed to cytomegalovirus (CMV) in the past, the study found no evidence of natural killer cell issues in ME/CFS. The researchers did not, however, use a functional assay used successfully in the past which more directly measures NK or T-cell killing capacity.
The study’s major finding was a significant increase of specialized T-cells called MAIT cells in the severely ill patients. MAIT cells are found across the body but are most known for the role they play protecting the gut lining from toxic bacteria. High levels of MAIT cells have been associated with infectious diseases, autoimmunity and cancer.
This is the second recent and, it should be noted, independent report of high levels of MAIT cells in ME/CFS. In fact, these two reports are the first time MAIT cells have been implicated in this disease.
Dervy Unutmaz and Dr. Oh of the Jackson Labs are currently trying to isolate the bacteria triggering the high levels of MAIT cells they’ve found in ME/CFS.
The Cliff study did find moderate T-cell anomalies which could possibly reflect a state of chronic T-cell activation caused by an infection or autoimmune response. Derya Unutmaz also recently reported he’d found evidence of immune cell exhaustion in his T-cell studies.
“The Subset Maker”: Lipkin Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study Highlights Energy Issues In Gut Subset
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Looking for clues to the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), Ian Lipkin has, over the years, poked his fingers into a number of different areas. His 2012 XMRV study showed that the virus was not infecting people with ME/CFS. (It was a contaminant). His pathogen studies (unpublished) found no evidence of a viral infection in ME/CFS.
Lipkin may have uncovered more potential subsets than any other researcher and has long emphasized the need to break ME/CFS up into its constituent parts.
Lipkin believes identifying subsets is critical to the progress in this field
Lipkin and Mady Hornig’s 2015 cytokine study which found the immune system going gangbusters early in ME/CFS but then pooping out, exhausted, later identified two possible subsets (early and long duration patients.) Lipkin then teamed with the Simmaron Research Institute to document similar findings in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients’ spinal fluid. Dr. Peterson, Lipkin and the Simmaron Research Institute then uncovered an atypical ME/CFS subset (the “Peterson subset”.)
In an email Lipkin emphasized the critical need to identify the subsets he believes must be present in this disease.
ME/CFS is not a single disorder and is unlikely to have single cause or a single treatment. As we learn more about ME/CFS, we are beginning to define subtypes. This is critical to understanding how people become ill and developing practical solutions for management. The challenge is not unique to ME/CFS. It is representative of the Precision Medicine initiative that is sweeping clinical medicine and public health. Just as there is no one cause or cure for all cancers, all forms of heart disease, or all infections, there will be more than one path to ME/CFS and more than one treatment strategy.
Over the past couple of years Lipkin – who has been intensely interested in the role that gut bacteria plays in this illness – has been digging into an ME/CFS plus irritable bowel subset. We’ve learned in the past ten years just how influential the gut is. Gut bacteria and the metabolites they produce don’t stop at the gut. If they leak out of the gut they can directly affect the immune and central nervous system functioning. Some of the metabolites showing up in ME/CFS metabolomic studies originate in the gut.
Last year Lipkin’s group published the most comprehensive gut bacteria study in ME/CFS yet done, which incorporated immune and clinical findings. This year he repeated the gut bacterial analysis and added metabolomics and clinical findings to the mix. The man clearly likes large, complex studies.
The 2017 Gut Study
The large 2017 Nagy-Szakal/Lipkin gut study was notable for it’s size (n=100) and it’s breadth – it included patients from no less than six ME/CFS practitioners including Dr. Peterson. It found, amongst other things, increased levels of bacteria from a family (Clostridiaceae) known for its abundance of toxic and disease causing bacteria.
One of the few gut studies that’s actually been able to identify individual bacterial species, the study found increased abundances of several bacterial species (Faecalibacterium & Coprococcus spp.) that have been associated in other studies with IBS-like symptoms, including colonic pain, bloating, and GI discomfort.
Using a type of data analysis called topological data analysis (TDA) which is able to incorporate metagenomic, metabolic pathway, immune and clinical data, the Lipkin group found that the presence of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) was having a major effect on disease severity, gut microbiota, and immune profiles.
That finding led the Lipkin group to split the ME/CFS patient cohort into ME/CFS with IBS and ME/CFS without IBS subsets and examine the differences in microbiota (gut bacteria).
The gut bacteria in the ME/CFS plus IBS subset was different from the ME/CFS only group and the healthy controls
The results were astonishing. A dissimilarity measure found that gut bacteria differed as much between the ME/CFS + IBS patients and the ME/CFS – IBS patients as between the ME/CFS group as a whole and the healthy controls. That analysis suggested that the guts of the ME/CFS patients with and without IBS featured significantly different bacteria.
The cytokine data in the study did not add to the analysis but the microbiome analysis revealed a number of interesting possibilities,
Metabolic pathway analyses revealed the ME/CFS + IBS and the ME/CFS – IBS groups differed in some important ways. Both groups featured enriched metabolic pathways that produced Vit. B6, but an important part of the energy production process (the pyrimidine ribonucleoside degradation pathway) was enriched in the ME/CFS only group. That same pathway was hit hard in the ME/CFS plus IBS group.
Plus, the abnormalities found in the urea cycle, which is closely linked to aerobic energy production (Krebs or TCA cycle) occurred mostly in the ME/CFS + IBS group.
The data suggested that people with ME/CFS and IBS group had different bacterial gut makeups and might have more problems with energy production than people with ME/CFS, and it set the stage for Lipkin’s next effort.
The 2018 Gut and Metabolomics Study
Sci Rep. 2018 Jul 3;8(1):10056. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-28477-9.Insights into myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome phenotypes through comprehensive metabolomics. Nagy-Szakal D1, Barupal DK2, Lee B1, Che X1, Williams BL1, Kahn EJR1, Ukaigwe JE1, Bateman L3, Klimas NG4,5, Komaroff AL6, Levine S7, Montoya JG8, Peterson DL9, Levin B10, Hornig M1, Fiehn O11, Lipkin WI12.
After striking that rich vein, the Lipkin group expanded their research effort – incorporating metabolomics for the first time into their studies. (Lipkin and the Simmaron Research Foundation are also currently engaged in the first metabolomics spinal fluid study.) Once again incorporating a wide variety of doctors from different locations (Peterson, Bateman, Klimas, Levine, Montoya) and using a fairly large sample set (n=100) Nagy-Szakal/Lipkin, the Lipkin group fused together blood metabolomic, fecal bacterial metagenomic, and clinical data to paint a new picture of ME/CFS.
The study represented the first attempt to meld two potentially important fields in ME/CFS – metabolomics and gut microbiome findings- together. Lipkin and Hornig have proposed that the gut issues play an important role in ME/CFS, and several studies have found evidence of dysbiosis (pro-inflammatory gut bacteria) in ME/CFS. Unutmaz is chasing down a T-cell gut connection, and past studies have suggested that bacterial leakage from the gut could help explain at least some of the post-exertional malaise present.
Given the group’s past gut findings – that significant differences in gut bacteria, immune profiles and possibly energy production exist between ME/CFS + IBS patients and ME/CFS patients without IBS, it made sense for the Lipkin group to once again split the ME/CFS group into subsets with and without IBS and analyze the heck out of them.
Energy Production Problems Highlighted
The study confirmed past general findings of decreased levels of phospholipids and sphingomyelins – two important findings by Naviaux- and increased levels of triglycerides (TG’s). (Triglycerides have been associated with metabolic problems and hypothyroidism.)
That both the ME/CFS + IBS group and the ME/CFS without IBS group had reduced levels of metabolites associated with the choline-carnitine energy pathway suggested that both groups had similar core metabolic problems. (Carnitine participates in the TCA cycle, ATP production and energy metabolism).
More Was Better
The Lipkin group’s decision to integrate metabolomics, microbiome and clinical data worked. Not only did incorporating all this data together illuminate a possibly important subset – the ME/CFS IBS subset – but it also allowed the group to better differentiate ME/CFS patients from controls. It suggested that studies which combine multisystemic data together will do a better job in describing this multisystemic disease.
As with the 2017 study, having or not having IBS was the biggest driver in determining the kind of bacterial profile (and bacterial metabolic pathways) present. This time the study found that the metabolomics of the ME/CFS + IBS group were significantly different from the ME/CFS only group as well. That suggested these two subsets of ME/CFS patients might be quite different indeed.
In contrast to Naviaux, the study did not find a “consistent decrease” in ceramide metabolites – the most commonly disrupted metabolite Naviaux found in his ME/CFS group. When Lipkin controlled for IBS, he found increased levels of ceramides in the ME/CFS plus IBS group but decreased levels of ceramides in the ME/CFS only group. That suggested that key metabolites in ME/CFS might be different in these two ME/CFS subsets.
The Core Problem in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Identified? Naviaux’s Metabolomics Study Breaks Fresh Ground
Bacterial Toxins Highlighted
Nagy/Lipkin suggested that increased levels of bacterial toxins (IBS connection) in ME/CFS may be triggering an enzyme called sphingomyelinase to produce the ceramides which then may damage the gut lining and possibly interfere with energy production.
The metabolomic analysis suggest unique metabolic problems may be present in the ME/CFS plus IBS group
Ceramides are waxy fats that figure in a number of processes that may be important in ME/CFS. Not only can they produce many free radicals (reactive oxygen species) that can damage the gut lining (the IBS connection), they can also interfere with electron transport (the energy connection) as well as contribute to insulin and leptin resistance (metabolism issues).
The authors also proposed that the higher mannitol levels found in the ME/CFS could reflect the breakdown of two important barriers in the body: the gut barrier and the blood-brain barrier.
Several studies suggest a breach in the gut barrier could be contributing to systemic inflammation in ME/CFS, and one suggests that exercise may further widen that breach. Several researchers, including Jarred Younger and Avindra Nath, have also postulated that the suspected neuroinflammation in ME/CFS results from immune cells entering the brain through a weakened blood-brain barrier.
The Gut Shines in Distinguishing ME/CFS Patients From Healthy Controls
Interestingly, for all the focus on metabolomics, a network analysis using differences in gut bacterial abundance was better able to distinguish ME/CFS patients from healthy controls than did metabolomic results.
That suggested that gut bacterial differences may be more prominent than metabolomics differences in ME/CFS patients. That was a surprise, and we’ll see how this all turns out. It stands to reason that the closer we get to the core of the problem, the more striking the differences we’ll see between healthy people and people with ME/CFS. (Will the gut play a bigger role than we thought?)
Possible Treatment Options
The group suggested that their findings, if validated, could present some possible treatment options. They included using SMAse blockers to reduce ceramide levels and giving carnitine supplementation to increase the low levels of metabolites in the choline-carnitine pathway. One open-label study found that carnitine supplementation helped over half of ME/CFS patients.
Given the unrevealing cytokine data from Lipkin’s cytokine data and his recent turn to metabolomics I asked Lipkin how important a role cytokines were likely to play in future ME/CFS research and treatment. Lipkin felt they may yet play an important role in ME/CFS indeed:
“Cytokine disturbances can result in fatigue, cognitive and other disturbances. The observation that other biomarkers such as metagenomic or metabolomic profiles are highly associated with disease does not diminish their (cytokines) importance. There may be people who would benefit from drugs, including antibody therapies, that modulate cytokine responses.”
Scheibenbogen is pursuing antibody therapies in ME/CFS, and Nancy Klimas is reportedly using Enbrel (etanercept) – a cytokine (TNF) blocker – plus mifepristone in her Gulf War Illness trial. Other biologics are available and more are coming on the market. Recent findings in POTS suggest that antibody drugs will probably play an important role in that disease as well.
Since the study also found that taking Vit. B supplements was associated with higher levels of pantothenic acid and lower fatigue scores, taking Vit. B supplements may be a good idea.
The 5-MT Question
Decreased levels of 5-MT, a metabolite associated with tryptophan, serotonin and melatonin metabolism could reflect problems with serotonin/melatonin conversion. This finding, however, was confounded by the high use of antidepressants (50% of the ME/CFS group) which could have produced the decrease.
Correlation studies do suggest, though, that low 5-MT levels could contribute to problems with cognition, sleep and fatigue. Larger studies are needed to determine if the low 5-MT levels are associated with those symptoms in ME/CFS – and if they are – if it might be beneficial to modulate that pathway using drugs in ME/CFS.
Next Up for the Simmaron Research Foundation and Ian Lipkin
The next phase in the Simmaron Research Foundation’s ongoing collaboration with Ian Lipkin is an expanded study which will, for the first time in ME/CFS, analyze the metabolomics of ME/CFS patients cerebral spinal fluid. The study, which will also include immune analyses is the third Simmaron/Lipkin CSF study to date. The first two studies found dramatic evidence of immune activation and the presence of a potential new subset.
Simmaron’s Spinal Fluid Study Finds Dramatic Differences in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Lipkin also reported rapid progress from his new NIH research center and a new collaborative effort with ME/CFS researcher and NIH ME/CFS research center leader Derya Unutmaz. The idea of two top labs in the country collaborating in a complementary fashion is an exciting one – one we will hopefully see much more of in this field.
Lipkin and Unutmaz are merging their respective strengths in a collaboration – something we could use much more of in ME/CFS.
We are completing analysis of saliva, blood, and feces for bacteria, viruses and fungi from ME/CFS and control subjects using powerful new sequencing methods. This will be the largest and most comprehensive study to date on the microbiome in ME/CFS. We will soon begin metabolomic, proteomic, and transcriptomic analyses of ME/CFS and control subjects before and after exercise. We are deeply grateful to the patients who are contributing to this work despite the implications for their health. They are true heroes.
We have begun a new collaboration with Derya Unutmaz and Jackson Laboratories that builds on the complementary expertise of our teams in cellular immunology and molecular microbiology and biochemistry.
Dana March and Tony Komaroff are building an app to help ME/CFS subjects and their caregivers track their status. We have had great support in this effort from people in the community.
In the past three years Lipkin’s identified three potential subsets (early/late duration patients, the “Peterson subset”, ME/CFS + IBS subset) and his explorations into the ME/CFS IBS subset continues to reap dividends.
Dr. Ian Lipkin, Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University
His metabolomic study found signs of energy production problems in all ME/CFS patients, but when Lipkin separated out the ME/CFS + IBS patients, he found altered, even at times opposite metabolic findings that could suggest a different source of fatigue was present in the ME/CFS + IBS patients. His earlier study suggested more severe energy production problems may be present in ME/CFS patients with IBS.
The importance of the gut bacteria in ME/CFS perhaps rose to a new level of significance when a network analysis found larger differences in gut bacteria than metabolites. Lipkin’s ability to better differentiate ME/CFS patients from healthy controls using gut bacteria, metabolomic and clinical data suggests that large studies which tie together multiple systems will be the most helpful.
In short, the latest study from the Lipkin group indicates that the gut does matter in ME/CFS and that in those with gut problems it may matter more than we think.
The Simmaron Research Foundation and Lipkin are employing metabolomics in the study of cerebral spinal fluid for the first time, and Lipkin has launched a new collaborative ME/CFS effort with fellow NIH ME/CFS Research Center leader Derya Unutmaz.
Montreal ME/CFS II: Stopping PEM, the Antibody Subset and Unutmaz’s Big Surprise
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The second part of a several part series on the Montreal ME/CFS conference focuses on the immune system.
Part 1: The Montreal ME/CFS Conference: Metabolism and Exercise can be viewed here.
Dr. Nancy Klimas: From Biomarkers to Modeling and Clinical Trials; GWS and ME/CFS
Years of work appear to be coming to fruition for Dr. Klimas. Her ability to hook into GWS funding has made a huge difference in her ability to test out her modeling protocols. It’s remarkable to see the Dept of Defense lay down $40 million per year for the vets affected during the Gulf War 27 years ago, while ME/CFS gets so little. The vets undoubtedly deserve it and they deserve more – many lives were shredded as a result of the war and they’ve fought for years to get recognition. However, the disconnect between the way the feds have treated GWI and ME/CFS – a disease which affects far more people – is startling. The Dept of Defense hasn’t done great by its vets, but it’s been much more responsive to them than the feds have been to ME/CFS and fibromyalgia.
Years of work appear to be coming to fruition for Dr. Klimas
Dr. Klimas noted that the more we look, the more immune abnormalities are being found. Cytokines may not tell us what is causing ME/CFS, but they sure could help us find drugs to combat it. Klimas is comparing the immune signatures she’s seeing in ME/CFS with those of other diseases and then checking out what’s working in those diseases. The good news is that immune-affecting drugs are big business now, with more and more coming on the market. If ME/CFS is, at its heart, an immune disorder, or if the immune system plays a large role – as many think it does – drugs developed for other diseases may be able to help.
Dr. Klimas and her researchers have been asserting for years that ME/CFS patients are stuck in a kind of suboptimal, self-reinforcing homeostatic space; i.e. their systems have been rewired to produce a new normal.
That idea doesn’t seem to be all that far from Naviaux’s belief that people with ME/CFS are stuck in a Dauer state or Dr. Cheney’s report that while he could push patients towards health, something would pull them back. Both Klimas and Naviaux believe a series of structured moves will be needed to move the system back to normal. Neither believes it’s easy; Klimas says real “force” will be needed to move the system back into health.
Klimas should know – she’s been intensively charting how ME/CFS patients’ systems go off the rails during exercise for several years now. She’s measured every cytokine, neuropeptide, etc. she can at 8 timepoints before, during and after exercise in 50 women with ME/CFS, 25 women with FM, 50 men with ME/CFS and 50 men with GWI.
She’s gathered a vast amount of data and that data is telling her that ME/CFS patients’ immune systems basically go nuts during the first 15 minutes of exercise. Four hours later, oxidative stress kicks in and the autonomic nervous and endocrine systems and metabolism get hit — but it’s the immune system that kicks everything off.
The big surprise is how different chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is from Gulf War Illness. The metabolism gets hit hard in ME/CFS – everything gets shut down – but in GWI, all the pathways are ramped up. They’re two completely different illnesses which from the outside look exactly the same.
Dr. Klimas and her team have been running sophisticated modeling techniques on supercomputers to figure out how to get our systems back to normal. Initially, they ran into trouble with women who, no surprise, have much more complex systems than men. Back to the drawing board they went. In the end, Dr. Klimas’s team was able to create a virtual clinical trial in GWS. First, they brought down brain inflammation using etanercept, and then readjusted the HPA axis with a glucocorticoid receptor blocker, mifeprestone.
It worked on the computer – their virtual GWS patient returned to health system – but the big test came with their Gulf War Syndrome mouse model. When the drug combo was able to return the GWS mouse to health they really knew they were onto something. An open label phase I trial in GWS is under way as we speak.
Her team has used supercomputers to create virtual clinical trials
Dr. Klimas noted that the $30 million the DOD is providing for GWI has made a big difference where the rubber meets the road in medicine – in ten clinical trials that are underway. That’s in a disease that effects fewer people than ME/CFS but which receives federal funding for clinical trials. That’s not true for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) – federal funding for clinical trials is pretty much blocked.
Researchers can apply for clinical trial funding at NINDS and other institutes, but ME/CFS doesn’t have a chance against diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. The big issue is that the program announcement for ME/CFS – which lists subjects researchers can apply to study – doesn’t allow them to submit clinical trials proposals.
Dr. Koroshetz’s promise last year to get that language embedded into the ME/CFS PA hasn’t paid off yet. Getting that wording embedded into the PA for ME/CFS could open up funding for clinical trials. That would be a big step forward.
Dr. Klimas doesn’t have a mouse model for ME/CFS but she’s been doing the same computer modeling she used in GWS on ME/CFS. It’s clear that nobody at this point understands more about what happens during exercise in ME/CFS than Dr. Klimas. Nobody has been able to translate mountains of exercise data into virtual clinical trials. Nobody has proposed a staggered two-drug approach to ME/CFS, and nobody probably has a better shot at stopping PEM than her. This is new stuff not just for us but for the medical field in general. Let’s hope it works out.
The GWS trial is underway and she hopes to get her chance at halting the PEM in its tracks in ME/CFS in a small trial later this year. Getting funding, of course, will be crucial.
ME/CFS rather suddenly has several drug/drug trial possibilities: they include Cortene, Dr. Klimas’s drug combo, immunoadsorption (see below), Fluge and Mella’s Norwegian cyclophosphamide trial, Ampligen and Dr. Kaiser’s Synergy drug-nutrient combination – and, of course, Rituximab is still surely in the picture for a subset of patients.
Carmen Scheibenbogen
Scheibenbogen is a mover and shaker. She’s published six papers on ME/CFS in the past three years, is a leader in the Euromene Group, has been talking to pharmaceutical companies about drugs, and is organizing a fatigue conference in Germany to get some good networking going.
Dr. Rowe called Dr. Scheibenbogen’s antibody findings one of the most exciting ME/CFS research findings in years.
Peter Rowe called her recent autoantibody papers one of the most exciting recent developments in the field. Scheibenbogen, interestingly, got the idea to do those studies from similar recent findings in POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome).
Scheibenbogen rattled off some of the commonalities between autoimmune diseases and ME/CFS. Both predominantly affect women, both are often triggered by an infection and she’s found a high family history of autoimmunity in ME/CFS. Plus, Epstein-Barr virus – a common trigger in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) – invades B-cells which are the main drivers of autoimmunity. The difficulty ME/CFS patients and others have fighting off the virus when exposed to it later in life apparently gives the immune system plenty of opportunity to make a mistake and begin attacking our own tissues.
Check out a recent breakthrough in EBV-associated autoimmunity
The Autoimmune Virus? Groundbreaking EBV Finding Could Help Explain ME/CFS
Rituximab is used to treat autoimmune diseases. The Rituximab ME/CFS trial’s main endpoint failed but Scheibenbogen asserted that we shouldn’t count Rituximab out at all. She believes, and she would know, because she’s studied Rituximab patients, that Rituximab will be shown to be effective in a subset of patients. An effective treatment in a subset of ME/CFS patients would be a big deal – particularly for those patients.
Scheibenbogen found increased levels of antibodies in about 40% of ME/CFS patients, and Bergquist’s study that is currently underway thankfully had similar results. At least right now it appears that the 40% figure is solid, but the search for antibodies in ME/CFS is not over. When I asked Scheibenbogen if other antibodies might be involved, she said, yes, other antibodies probably will apply. If that’s so, that 40% number could go up. Scheibenbogen noted that the B2 and muscarinic antibodies that have been showing up in ME/CFS are part of a larger network.
Interestingly, these are not autoantibodies; they’re natural antibodies which affect breathing, the circulation and the gut. Their high levels in ME/CFS appear to be throwing those systems off.
Immunoadsorption
Immunoadsorption is another possible immune treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Immunoadsorption, which is similar to, but more effective than plasmaphoresis, removes IgG autoantibodies from the blood. It’s an expensive treatment – about $20,000.
Like Rituximab it will probably be effective in a subset of patients. Scheibenbogen’s small immunoadsorption trial of ME/CFS patients with specific autoantibodies found that the treatment did what it was supposed to do – it significantly reduced antibody levels for at least six months.
Symptoms improved in most patients and some patients completely recovered. Three are still in remission a year after the treatment ended. One person completely recovered for 6-7 weeks but then relapsed. After she relapsed, she could hardly walk again. The trial suggested that Scheibenbogen is on the right track with her autoimmune studies. The fact that POTS is so prevalent in ME/CFS and has similar autoantibody issues suggests that the outcome is not such a surprise.
The trial was small and carefully curated to those with high antibody levels but most patients improved and some recovered
A follow-up study is beginning. If that works out, Scheibenbogen hopes for a big trial that will settle the issue definitively. In a good sign, she reported that the company that produces the immunoadsorption treatment (not available in the U.S.) is quite interested in ME/CFS.
(Even if the treatment is not available in the U.S., a successful trial could do a couple of things: it could prompt the company to make the treatment available in the U.S., and it would surely enhance autoimmunity research. We’ll see what happens, but if we can come up with several treatments – each of which is effective in a subset of patients – we’ll start to whittle the disease down.)
As she left for the airport, Scheibenbogen said she hopes that in the next five years ways to diagnose and treat ME/CFS will be found. Let it be so…
Guidelines to Biomarker Produced
Euromene, the new ME/CFS European research group Scheibenbogen is working with, recently laid out a step-by-step pathway to develop a biomarker. She noted that we have lots of interesting findings, but none that are unique to ME/CFS. Plus, the findings we do have overlap too much with healthy controls.
In short, we haven’t found that key signature – that key physiological mark – which says a person has ME/CFS. (That may not be a surprise: until we find the core of ME/CFS, we may not be able to find a unique biomarker). Scheibenbogen did wonder, however, given Maureen Hanson’s recent inability to find subsets in her metabolomic data, if the biomarker for ME/CFS will be metabolic in nature.
Unutmaz’s Big Surprise
Ron Davis has noted things often don’t work out the way researchers expect them to. Apparently, Derya Unutmaz feels the same way. Unutmaz got a T-cell result that pointed straight at the gut and then was pleasantly shocked when a look at the gut confirmed his findings. He was expecting a few more twists and turns from the body! It’s not usually so easy.
He noted that over the past decade a tremendous amount of work has been done on the effects the gut microbiome (gut bacteria) have on the immune system. It’s now clear that a shift toward more inflammatory bacteria in the gut can result in inflammation in other parts of the body. In fact, Unutmaz reported that just about every disease is associated with a change in gut bacteria. The bacteria play such a vital role that oncologists can even determine how effectively patients will respond to immunotherapies by assessing the kind of bacteria they carry in their guts.
That makes sense for ME/CFS, since every gut bacteria study has thus far found substantial alterations in the bacteria in ME/CFS patients’ guts.
Unutmaz is a T-cell guy. He knows that bacterial metabolic by-products trigger unusual T-cells called MAIT T-cells (Mucosal associated invariant T cells) to get into action. Once these cells, which are found in our gut lining, liver, lungs, etc., come across those metabolites, they secrete pro-inflammatory cytokines. Those cytokines turn monocyte cells into hairy monsters called macrophages which then gobble up the bacterial-infected cells.
MAIT cells, then, play a key role in turning on our immune response to the bad bacteria that can live in our guts. They apparently lurk in the gut lining as a kind of last line of defense against those bacteria getting into our blood stream and invading the rest of the body.
Unutmaz’s findings suggested that T-cells in the ME/CFS patients’ guts had been repeatedly exposed to bad bacteria
Unutmaz found that a high percentage of MAIT cells had been repeatedly activated in ME/CFS patients – suggesting a plethora of bad bacteria was present. In true ME/CFS fashion, Unutmaz also found that ME/CFS patients’ MAIT cells were activated — but “punked out” at the same time. (A wired and tired immune cell?). Seemingly exhausted by the continual stimulation, they (like their natural killer cell cousins) had problems killing infected cells. That hearkened back to the Lipkin/Hornig immune finding of activated immune systems in early-duration ME/CFS patients and depleted immune systems in longer- duration patients.
Unutmaz is now trying to identify which bacteria are tweaking ME/CFS patients’ MAIT T-cells so much as to possibly burn them out. If he’s successful, he may have found a target that could quiet down a possibly overworked and burnt-out immune system and allow it to rejuvenate.
Are Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Fibromyalgia Immune Exhaustion Disorders?
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Scene and Sequel: Making them work together
“Scene and sequel” doesn’t have to be mysterious writer talk. This simple formula will help you create the lean exciting plotlines readers crave. By mastering this technique, you can cut out all the dead weight and unlock your story’s true potential.
What is Scene and Sequel?
Scene and sequel is a popular technique for creating a logical sequence of cause an effect in novels. This concept was first described by Dwight Swain in his Techniques of a Selling Writer (1965) In this book he breaks down a plot points into two halves.
In the scene, you have three parts: goal, conflict, and disaster. These provide the motivation for the characters. As you create your scene (which can also be described as action) make sure you can answer these three questions:
Goal: What is the point-of-view (POV) character’s goal? In other words, what does she want at the beginning of the scene, or what is she trying to accomplish? If your POV character doesn’t have a goal, you don’t have a scene. You have useless filler that isn’t going anywhere. Either give her a problem or move on to the moment she gets a problem.
Conflict: What stands in the way? Your scene needs conflict. Without conflict, there is no story. No one wants to read about a woman picking up her kids in carpool. They want to read about a frazzled mom trying to get her kids to put on their damn seatbelts while she’s stuck on hold with the insurance and trying to mop the spit-up off the baby’s last clean outfit. See, conflict.
Disaster: What are the results? Why must there be a disaster? If the character gets what she wants, the story is over.
The disaster can happen in two forms:
The conflict resolved, but it’s caused a new problem.
The conflict is unresolved, and the stakes have gotten higher
Yes, it must be one of these two options. If you don’t have a new problem, then the story is over. If you don’t raise the stakes, then the scene changed nothing and served no purpose in the story. If you do this correctly, then your scene will end with a dark moment/new question. You are now ready to begin your sequel.
The sequel is the POV character’s response to the new problem. It consists of three parts:
POV Character’s Reaction: This is where your character shows his character. What is his initial response to the news? Does he mope? Run around smashing things? Does he shut down?
Dilemma: In the dilemma, he thinks through the problem. If he stops now, what will happen?
Decision: This is where he decides on a new course of action (external motivations) or learns something important (internal motivations.)
The sequel ends when the character has a new goal. This becomes the goal of the next scene. By following this sequence, your plot will flow in a logical pattern, and it will keep the story’s agency with your POV character.
Scene and Sequel example
In the movie Inside Out, the first pinch point occurs when Bing Bong loses his rocket. At the beginning of the scene portion,
Joy’s goal is to make Bing Bong feel better so that they can continue their journey. She begins by taking action toward this goal: performing a silly dance.
This goal meets with a conflict: Bing Bong is not a child so Joy’s silly behavior is ineffective.
These result in a disaster: Sadness steps in to help, directly conflicting with Joy’s belief that happiness is always best. Here, we see the three parts of the scene coming together to create the pinch point for Joy’s lie.
The sequel also has three parts: reaction, dilemma, and decision.
First, she will react: Joy was surprised when Sadness was more effective.
Then, she will have a dilemma: Joy isn’t sure why Sadness succeeded when she failed. (This conflicts with her lie.)
The sequel ends with her decision to ask Sadness “How did you do that?”
This shows that Joy is beginning her process of changing her lie.
Scene and Sequel work together as a single unit. One builds to the next, establishing a chain of causes that leads the reader through the character’s story. They are two sides of the same coin. Bring them together and make them both work for you.
This article was inspired by Secrets of the Selling Writer (1965) by Dwight Swain available here (Affiliate link)
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Have You Heard About UZ? It’s New On My Radar.
On Saturday, while walking across Howard Street in downtown Manhattan, an unusual store caught my attention. No identification outside but the interior had a futuristic vibe. Two guys, standing outside told me their wives had been in there for a while shopping. They encouraged me to check it out.
As it turns out it’s the flagship of the newest J-Beauty sensation, UZ, a highly unconventional Tokyo-based lip, and eyeliner brand. The founder started in beauty eight years ago with a company called Flowfushi that is now defunct.
The staff at the flagship is super cool and wear that eyeliner really well. Plus, they’re incredibly nice and helpful.
Here’s what the founder recently told Allure:
“Our products are often subcategory-defining products. They’re always launched through fun, unconventional campaigns that are groundbreaking and generate huge crowds and enormous buzz.”
Hiroshi Imamura, Founder UZ
And Here’s what I learned from spending 30 minutes in the store:
It’s not a pop-up but it closes every few months, for an indeterminate period of time, before re-opening with a new product. These “openings” are called Phases. This current one is Phase 3 and it opened on 11/15 and will close on 12/31/19.
They claim the Tokyo-based owner has a long lease on the building. The first-floor space, pictured above, is exquisitely restored (see more photos below). No expense has been spared to make sure every detail from the display cases to the brickwork is perfect.
But here’s what puzzles me
They only sell two products – an eyeliner and a self-moisturizing lip product that they claim works even when you’re not wearing it (?). Supposedly it’s the #1 lip treatment in Japan.
The price for the lip product is a mere $20.
Their eyeliner, which comes in various colors, including 7 shades of black, is $16.
I also learned that their blackest black eyeliner was created specifically for NYers who had requested it using those space-age phone booths (photo above) that were designed to let customers communicate directly with the founder about their product wants and desires.
J-Beauty is clearly up-and-coming but how does UZ make money? Unless they’re using crazy VC money none of this makes sense.
How can 2 products at these low price points support this flagship?
Especially when Glossier, which is just around the corner, has 100 young women standing in line outside of their store and UZ had at most 10 customers at any one time – many, from what I overheard, coming in to check out the futuristic, spacey decor (as I did).
Bottom Line.
I love the aesthetics of this brand. And am intrigued by UZ and its founder – even though I don’t get how they’re making any money. Maybe this is a side gig for Imamura? It’s interesting that he’s been in business for 8 years and yet there is virtually nothing on him besides two articles, one in Allure, and one in Vogue. He’s playing it very close to the vest and every article features the same talking points.
That said, he’s picked the coolest street in Manhattan for his first store. So kudos to him for knowing where the cool kids go to shop.
And a heads up for any of you who might be looking for a quick tip sheet on where to find the most creative and influential retailers in NYC. I recommend you head to this 4-block stretch of Howard Street. I wrote about it two years ago and it’s all still true.
If you make it down to UZ, I also suggest you check out Madhappy at 25 Howard St. Their concept is mental health positivity which just got them $1.8 million in funding from LVMH. Howard Street is also where you’ll find style-obsessed skater boys at Palace Skateboards. And the two brands that initially put the street on the map are still going strong as well: Opening Ceremony and Rick Owens.
Scroll down for photos from my visit to UZ.
Amazing eyeliner expertise by two UZ staffers
The eyeliner room
And big thanks to these two gentlemen (and their wives) for putting UZ on my radar
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Meet Barbara Turf, Ceo, Crate and Barrel
Crate Expectations: A profile of Barbara Turf
By Tiffany Meyers | December 2008
If not for a few details – the cash registers, the sales associates – I’d swear I was a guest in Barbara Turf’s home getting a tour of the rooms she’s lovingly decorated.
Strolling through the Crate and Barrel home store adjacent to suburban Chicago’s Northbrook Court shopping mall, near the company’s headquarters, the new CEO and I stop intermittently to admire the things she loves most – textiles from India, a French table of solid oak. As in any home, her relationship to these pieces, many of which hold reminders of her family, is deeply personal. “My daughter just bought this sofa for herself,” Turf says as we sink into the Huntley, a couch with clouds instead of cushions. “You’ll have to tell me if you think it’s comfortable.”
Of course, in many ways, Crate and Barrel is Turf ’s home, one she helped build over the last 40 years. In one of the highest-profile succession stories of the year, Gordon Segal, who opened the first Crate and Barrel in 1962 with his wife, Carole, named Turf the company’s new CEO in May.
In one of the highest-profile succession stories of the year, Gordon Segal, who opened the first Crate and Barrel in 1962 with his wife, Carole, named Turf the company’s new CEO in May. With eight new Crate and Barrel home stores up and running this year, including the first international foray, Turf is leading with the same commitment to innovation that’s prompted Segal to describe his longtime No. 2, now the company’s No. 1, as nothing short of a “retail visionary.”
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The Rise of the She-M.O.
By Tiffany Meyers
In a business of predominantly male pilots, mechanics and engineers, Joanne Smith has had to shout over more than the din of aircraft engines in the course of her marketing career. The vice president of marketing for Delta Air Lines recalls a meeting at another airline a short decade ago, when she tried to convince a roomful of men not to cut hot towel service on flights as a way to save money. When she added that, in fact, the hot towels should be scented, her former CEO tossed a quarter across the table and quipped, “Call someone who cares.”
Contemporary boardrooms are hardly free of chest-puffing antics like these, but Smith believes such an incident probably wouldn’t happen today. “Not so much because it’s rude behavior,” she says, “but because I think women [marketers] have forced the point that consumers do care about these kinds of things.”
At Delta, Smith often finds herself reminding colleagues that the concepts of “safe, clean and on time” are merely the price of entry. “In a male-dominated industry, I find that I sometimes have to be a very loud voice that says, ‘If operations is all we focus on, we’re going to lose an opportunity to engage customers in a brand connection beyond those things.'”
Such sensibilities among women in marketing are earning more respect in corporate America – and giving women execs a boost up the career ladder. A quick scan across the business vista shows that in marketing, women are thriving in the most senior roles – making the CMO into the “She-M.O.,” as it were.
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How to Motivate Your Sales Team
Sales force stuck in a rut?
Top women managers tell how attention to individuals builds a more productive team
By Tiffany Meyers | February 2008
When it comes to motivating talent, there’s no one-size-fits-all strategy. But in sales – which teems with naturally driven, highly independent professionals – the value of a customized approach redoubles. “Everything you do in terms of recognition and reinforcement needs to be meaningful to the individual,” says Jill Eichwald, sales effectiveness consultant at Maritz Inc., a sales and marketing services company.
When Maritz conducted a national study on employees’ favorite rewards, results showed that each of six employee types – described and organized according to what they find inspirational, from praise to bonuses – split rather evenly across gender lines. “We were amazed to learn that from a gender standpoint, there’s not a lot of difference,” says Jane Herod, president of Maritz Motivation, a division of Maritz Inc. It’s further proof, she adds, that recognition programs need to be individually customized.
While motivation incentives appear to be gender-neutral, many of the qualities of effective sales managers – who have to light a fire under each seller and cultivate collaboration among competitive types – seem to come more naturally to women. Experts point to the attributes of empathy, consensus-building and intuition more often exhibited by women managers – which are precisely the qualities that result in several best practices in sales motivation.
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This entirely textile-based, bacteria-powered bio-battery could one day be integrated into wearable electronics. Credit: Seokheun Choi
The research team, led by Binghamton University Electrical and Computer Science Assistant Professor Seokheun Choi, created an entirely textile-based biobattery that can produce maximum power similar to that produced by his previous paper-based microbial fuel cells. Additionally, these textile-based biobatteries exhibited stable electricity-generating capability when tested under repeated stretching and twisting cycles.
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BONNYBRIDGE, WW1
The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project Forum Index -> Stirling & Central Scotland - Civic Memorials
David McNay
Location: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:12 am Post subject: BONNYBRIDGE, WW1
From this thread in the forum, with Anne's permission I've split the photos into separate topics for each one.
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:22 pm Post subject:
Listings for both WW1 & WW2, Bonnybridge.
Last edited by apanderson on Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:01 am; edited 1 time in total
Bonnybridge WW1 memorial.
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject:
There are 2 brothers named on this memorial who also appear on skerray War Memorial in the Highlands.
3771 Private Alexander Mackay 5th Seaforths
S/6048 Private Murdo Mackay 11th Argylls
They are named on Skerray War Memorial as they had an Aunt there who they visited in 1915 after her husband Robert was lost at sea.
Another brother James (1404 Private James Mackay 5th Royal Scots) killed in action on the 29th of June 1915 at Achi Baba Ridge Galliploi is not named on Skerray War Memorial and appears to be missing from Bonnybridge Memorial where he should appear beside the names of his brothers.
There was also a cousin (6529 Private William Mackay 11th Argylls) who was killed in action on the same day as Murdo Mackay on the Somme.
If anyone would like any more data on this family I have a lot about them.
Ali Sutherland
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I have just spotted a James Mackay under Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:16 am Post subject:
alasdair wrote:
He's listed as James Mackey in Anne's list above but it is Mackay on the memorial
Sorry about the error folks - now fixed!
All 3 Mackay Brothers are listed on one of the two War memorials in Bonnybridge St. Helen's Parish Church.
I haven't posted photos of these - they are on my list to go back and try to get photos which are at least legible enough to transcribe properly.
When I spoke to the Minister, he was unsure which Memorial belonged to the original Bonnybridge Parish Church (the one in which they are both now housed) and which one belonged to St. Helen's.
Alasdair - I'd love anything you have on these brothers, Bonnybridge is 'ma hame toon'.
No problems Anne. The info is in my book 'Never More' if I pm you my e-mail can you send me yours and I will e-mail you the relevant pages. I may have a photograph of some of the brothers I'm not sure.
Did you know that Murdo Mackay won his DCM on the Somme for attempting to rescue a wounded man. His cousin William was in the same battalion and died on the same day. I wonder if Murdo was trying to rescue William.
A number of men from my home village of Tongue also served beside them in the 11th Argylls. James Mackay died in Gallipoli my new book (at publishers at the moment) 'Awake for Morning' tells the story of a machine gunner in the Royal Scots at that time and the fighting in Gallipoli
I've been doing a wee bit of checking up on some of the names on the WW1 Memorial and I noticed that I'd wrongly transcribed one of them. I've transcribed him as Mw Devlin instead of Wm Devlin (Hussars).
Is the following from CWGC the correct one, even though the surname has an 'e' at the end?
Name: DEVLINE, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars
Service No: 5954
Additional information: Son of Hugh and Isabella Devline.
And from SNWM:
Surname DEVLINE
Firstname William
Service Number 5954
Place of birth Edinburgh
Other 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars.
SNWM roll COMMANDS AND STAFF; CAVALRY (EXCLUDING GREYS AND SCOTTISH YEOMANRY)
Rank L/Cpl
Theatre of death F.& F.
LEITH Brothers
Two of the men listed on this memorial are brothers Duncan Campbell Leith and Peter Leith.
Name: LEITH, DUNCAN CAMPBELL
Initials: D C
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Additional information: Son of Peter and Catherine Campbell Leith, of Unitas Terrace, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire.
Grave/Memorial Reference: V. E. 55.
Cemetery: BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
Name: LEITH
Initials: P
Regiment/Service: Glasgow Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal)
Grave/Memorial Reference: Old ground.
Cemetery: KILSYTH CEMETERY
Both brothers are also listed on Kilsyth Civic Memorial.
Peter, who was a member of Kilsyth Public Band is listed on the Kilsyth Bandstand Memorial Plaque, located on the Bandstand in Burngreen Park, adjacent to the Civic Memorial and is buried in Kilsyth Churchyard (listed on CWGC as Kilsyth Old).
See: http://scottishwargraves.phpbbweb.com/viewtopic.php?t=215&highlight=leith&mforum=scottishwargraves
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:24 am Post subject: Capt. John Andrew Ure
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
Ure, John Andrew. Captain
(Glasgow Herald 11th Dec 1914)
"Considerable anxiety is being expressed in Bonnybridge for the safety of Captain John Andrew Ure, 3rd Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who was officially reported as missing on October 21. It is thought he is a prisoner of war in Germany. Captain Ure is a son of Mr George R. Ure, Hopepark, Bonnybridge."
Name: URE, JOHN ANDREW
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 3rd Bn. attd. 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: J. 13.
Cemetery: LE TROU AID POST CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX
Additional Information: Son of George Reid Ure and Harriet Dudley Smith Ure, of Hopepark, Bonnybridge.
Surname: URE
Firstname: John Andrew
SNWM roll: THE ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS
Rank: Capt
Last edited by DelBoy on Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:17 pm; edited 2 times in total
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:33 am Post subject: Pte. William Gentles
ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS
Pte. Wm. Gentles
The memorial lists him as in the Irish Fusiliers when it should be the Inniskilling/Enniskillen Fusiliers.
The war return puts him in the 2nd Btn. Inniskilling Fusiliers aged 33 and his M.I.C. also puts him in the Royal Munster Rifles.
"Mr Adam Gentles, Barleyhill, Bonnybridge, has received official information that his son, Private William Gentles, 1st Royal Enniskillen Fusiliers, has been killed in action in France. Private Gentles who was 33 years of age, was a reservist, having served four years with the colours. He went through the South African War. A Moulder to trade, he was employed for a considerable period in Bonnybridge Foundry (messrs Smith and Wellstood Ltd.), where he served his apprenticeship, but prior to the outbreak of war was employed in a Birmingham Foundry. He was a native of Falkirk, and leaves a wife and three of a family."
Name: GENTLES, WILLIAM
Regiment/Service: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 2nd Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 5.
Memorial: PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL
Surname: GENTLES
Firstname: William
Service Number: 6445
Place of birth: Falkirk
Other: 2nd Bn.
SNWM roll: SCOTTISH CASUALTIES EXTRACTED FROM IRISH REGIMENTS
Rank: Pte
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 10:46 pm Post subject: Pte. Alexander Durham
Pte. Alex. Durham
(Glasgow Herald 8th of Feb 1915)
"Mrs Kane, High Bonnybridge, has received a letter from her husband, Private Peter Kane, of C company 1st Black Watch, in which he states that Private Alexander Durham, a Bonnybridge man in the same regiment, had been killed in action at La Basse. Private Durham was a reservist, and prior to the outbreak of war had been employed for about five years by Messrs James Dougall and sons (Limited) Bonnyside, Firebrick works, Bonnybridge. He was 40 years of age, unmarried, and a native of Edinburgh. During his 16 years' connection with the Army he had seen much service. He went through the entire South African campaign, and was also for a time stationed in India and Egypt."
DURHAM, ALEXANDER
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Panels 24 to 26.
Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Alexander Durham.
Surname: DURHAM
Firstname: Alexander
Service Number: 3/3091
Place of birth: Edinburgh
Other: 1st Bn.
SNWM roll: THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL HIGHLANDERS)
Rank: L/Cpl
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:23 pm Post subject: L.Cpl. William Devline
apanderson wrote:
Yes Anne, he is the correct one
(Glasgow Herald 17th March 1915)
"Intimation has been received by Mrs Boutcher, Chapel Buildings, Bonnybridge, that her brother, Corporal William Devline, of the 11th Hussars, has been killed in action in Northern France, Corporal Devline, who was 28 years of age, and a native of Edinburgh, was a reservist, having served nine years in the regulars."
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Article's author: Svetlana Nesterovich
"Dukhovskoy Kruglik" – a guest from the past.
Walking through the center of Vitebsk, we cannot catch our look of the building of Exhibition Hall "Dukhovskoy Kruglik". Near modern Summer Amphitheatre, it looks like a guest from the past, although it has successfully disguising as modern. That wind has brought it here?
The building of "Dukhovskoy Kruglik", now the exhibition hall, begins its history in the Middle Ages, the middle of the XIV century, Prince Olgerd times. The construction of this tower was completed in 1351; it was one of the seven defensive towers of the Lower Castle and at different times was called "Narozhnaya", "Navugolnaya"... The towers were brought out of the stone castle, located along the eastern and northeastern borders of the city and had, of course, very specific purpose – protection against possible attack. In fact, the loopholes of Vitebsk towers also faced to the east, while the Russian tower "looked" to the west. It is clear from whom Vitebsk residents constantly felt the threat…
Originally "Navugolnaya" tower was built of boulder stone, large brick and chalk; it was rectangular, with wall thickness of 1.1 to 1.8 meters and height of about 12-13 meters, not more than three layers. The bottom of the tower was strengthened with trapezoidal counterforces (lateral walls). But in its original form it had been a short period of time, repeatedly destroyed, completed with wood and had even been made entirely from wood...
The building of "Dukhovskoy Kruglik", which we can see now, next to Freedom Square in the city of Vitebsk, cannot be called a copy of the watchtower, built in the times of Olgerd. This is an artistic reconstruction of a typical tower of the XIV century. People familiar with the medieval architecture of Vitebsk, will see some specific features, the same counterforces, monumentalism of the building... But this is an entirely new cultural object in Vitebsk: a high (27 meters), five-level building, huge windows with glass units (the progress does not stand still), an observation deck under a glass dome of the tower, a very light in any weather and spacious building... "Dukhovskoy Kruglik" became such in 2007 by architect Ruslan Lyadenko. Saving the characteristic form of a watchtower, he made it modern, live, just decorating the views of Vitebsk.
Start you tour in Vitebsk from "Dukhovskoy Kruglik", because it is located near many other worthy attractions of Vitebsk. Certainly visit City Hall, still it is a symbol of the independence of the city and just a very interesting place where you can spend the whole day. Yakub Kolas Drama Theater, one of the most famous theaters in Belarus, the Art Museum, the Museum of Private Collections - all is located just a ten minute walk from "Dukhovskoy Kruglik".
If you want to learn more about the history of Exhibition Hall "Dukhovskoy Kruglik", to see the breakdown of the old foundation of the guard tower with you own eyes, just come to the address:
13A/1 Frunze Avenue, Vitebsk.
Works on any day except Monday and Tuesday (though these days you can visit the exhibition hall, preliminary agreed by making a call +375 212 358138) from 10.00 AM to 6.00 PM.
«"Dukhovskoy Kruglik"»
- Building of the Former Land-Peasant Bank -
- Shopping Mall "Marco-City" -
- Summer Amphitheatre -
- Yakub Kolas Drama Theatre -
- City Hall -
- "Dukhovskoy Kruglik" -
- Building of the First Power Station -
- Vitebsk State Medical University -
- Central Sports Complex "Vitebsky" -
- Ice Sport Palace -
- Railway Station Building -
- Region Philharmonic Hall -
- Governor's Palace -
- Salt Warehouses -
- Palace of Children and Youth Creativity -
- Building of the Former District Court -
- Cultural and Business Centre "Vitebsk" -
- Building of the Region Executive Committee -
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The Amazing Love Story Of Katie Hill and Arin Andrews
The Amazing Love Story Of Katie Hill and Arin Andrews . A Boy who was a Girl and a Girl who was a Boy, Fell In Love after they both had gender reassignment surgery.
Andrews and Katie look like every young couple, although the young adults’ love story has an exceptional twist.
The Tulsa, Okla., teenagers have been dating for more than a year. They hit it off at a transgender support meeting whilst they were each changing to the opposite sex, and it did not take long for them to fall in love.
The duo has lots in common. From a tender age, they both felt not fitting in their bodies and had to tolerate harassment in school. It emerged, what Andrews had, Katie desired, and the other way round.
Katie, who is 19, was born “Luke,” and fought with gender personality from a tender age. The brown-haired woman held she was disheartened and humiliated all through her formative years. She first attempted committing suicide while she was 7 years old. While she was 15 years, she admitted to her mom that she was transgender and solicited for her assistance in turning into a girl.
For Andrews, it was the reverse. He was born a young woman named “Emerald” who participated in shows and took part in dance concerts. However, Andrews held he felt like he ought to have been putting on pants rather than dresses.
Both have gone through surgery to change their outer looks. Katie moved to California some days following her 18th birthday for sex reassignment operation. An unidentified donor paid the almost $40,000 in expenses.
Andrews had his breasts surgically taken out in June.
Following years of hurting, the duo appears to have at last found joy, with each other and with themselves.
On Facebook : Arin Andrews
source : dailymail
British woman has been jailed for trolling herself
Woman woke up at her own funeral and died
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Demeanor for .NET, Enterprise Edition
Obfuscator features
Demeanor for .NET, Enterprise Edition provides the most sophisticated obfuscation and optimization available for your .NET applications. Demeanor for .NET performs three categories of obfuscation - symbol obfuscation, metadata obfuscation and control flow obfuscation. All forms of obfuscation are lossy. In other words, the process throws away information making it unavailable for a decompiler.
Demeanor for .NET is the most powerful and the easiest to use .NET obfuscator. Demeanor always maintains application compatibility when obfuscating an assembly. It never obfuscates types and members in such a way as to violate an assembly's public interface to other assemblies. Unlike other obfuscators, Demeanor for .NET does the "right things" without tedious configuration. It just works, right out of the box. With Demeanor for .NET, you never have to set hundreds of XML configuration entries in order to use the product.
Works on all your code, regardless of programming language
Demeanor for .NET properly obfuscates your .NET applications regardless of the programming language you use. You can develop in any .NET programming language and Demeanor for .NET can obfuscate your assemblies. Unlike other obfuscators, Demeanor for .NET can obfuscate assemblies written in all of the Microsoft managed languages including C#, C++ with Managed Extensions, CIL, J#, and VB.NET.
Works on all your code: single- and multi-module assemblies
Of course, Demeanor for .NET can obfuscate your single file dll or exe assembly. However, in many ways, that is a trivial case. Some developers choose to build an assembly as a multi-module assembly for two common reasons: they want faster incremental assembly download or they have a multi-language assembly.
As far as we know, Demeanor for .NET is the only obfuscator that properly obfuscates a multi-module assembly.
Works on all your code: multi-assembly applications
Demeanor for .NET can obfuscate your entire application. Normally, when you obfuscate an assembly, the obfuscator must not change the names of any types and members that are accessible from outside the assembly. For example, a client application (an .exe) binds to the public types and members of its dependent assemblies (typically .dll's) using the names of the types and members.
However, quite often, an application may use one or more DLLs exclusively. In this case, you can request entire application obfuscation and Demeanor for .NET will remove all the original symbolic information from all of your assemblies.
Works on all your code: multi-cultural applications with satellite assemblies
Many applications today must support multi-cultural environments. The .NET Common Language Runtime makes developing such an application much easier than it was previously due to the Runtime's support for managed resources and satellite assemblies.
Most obfuscators blindly rename symbols in an assembly without considering all the effects the renaming has upon the correct operation of your code. Demeanor for .NET understands the relationships between an assembly and its associated satellite assemblies. When Demeanor for .NET obfuscates each primary assembly, it also makes the appropriate changes in all of the assembly's satellite assemblies.
Incremental obfuscation
You may want to ship a new version of an assembly that was obfuscated with entire application obfuscation. With entire application obfuscation, assemblies reference types in other assemblies using their obfuscated type and member names. In order to ship a new version of a single assembly that was obfuscated as a set, an obfuscator must insure that types and members in the new version receive the same obfuscated names as they had in the previous version. Demeanor for .NET can maintain assembly compatibility by reusing the same obfuscated names during incremental obfuscation.
Command line utility
Many developers build their product using makefiles or NANT. They want an easy to use command line utility version of an obfuscator. With Demeanor for .NET, obfuscating an entire application including the .exe file, all of its dependent assemblies, and, for each assembly, all of the 202 possible associated satellite assemblies is as easy as:
Demeanor -app -sa MyApp.exe
Visual Studio .NET integration
Other developers prefer to work exclusively within the Visual Studio .NET environment. Demeanor for .NET includes Visual Studio .NET integration. When you build a solution, Visual Studio .NET builds each project in the solution and obfuscates it as desired. You set the obfuscation properties for each project using a Visual Studio .NET property page.
Assembly optimization as well as obfuscation
While testing Demeanor for .NET against many .NET assemblies, it averages an 8-12% *reduction* in size. For example, Microsoft's System.Windows.Forms.dll assembly is 2 MB before obfuscation and 1.8 MB after obfuscation. This causes an obfuscated .NET assembly to download faster (as it's smaller), to load faster (for the same reason) and to run more efficiently in memory (as it occupies fewer pages). Approximately 1/2 - 2/3 of the size reduction comes from the fewer symbols present in the metadata. The remaining size reduction comes from Demeanor for .NET's smarter and more efficient code and metadata generation.
Obfuscation techniques
Symbol obfuscation
The metadata in a .NET assembly contains the original source language symbolic names and types for all your classes, interfaces, methods, fields, properties and events. In fact, there are only two types of source file information that aren't also present in the binary assembly, your comment statements and the names of your local variables.
To someone trying to steal your intellectual property, these symbolic names are the most useful and valuable information present in the assembly. Removing as much of this symbolic information as possible greatly increases the effort (and therefore cost) required to reverse engineer your application. If you've ever tried to debug a program without debug symbols, you've seen this difficulty first hand. However, there are two crucial aspects to symbol obfuscation that many obfuscator vendors seem not to understand.
First, an obfuscator must discard the original symbols. Some first-generation obfuscators compute the replacement symbol using the original symbol. For example, such an obfuscator might simply encode or permute the original characters in the symbol. This technique provide zero intellectual property protection. A decompiler targeting that obfuscator can simply retrieve the original symbolic names by reversing the transformation. By discarding the original name and selecting an independent replacement name, a decompiler cannot retrieve the original name. Another way to state this is that the symbol transformation must be lossy.
Second, given a lossy symbol transformation, any replacement symbol choice is as good as any other choice with respect to its obfuscation value. Specifically, you get no more obfuscation by assigning as many items as possible the same name than you get from assigning every item a different name. In other words, there is no obfuscation benefit to symbol overloading.
The goal of obfuscation is to modify an application so that it is harder to reverse engineer. This requires the obfuscator to make more difficult both human and automated attacks. An obfuscation difficult for a human to understand is often easy for an automated tool to handle, and vice-versa. A quality obfuscator should use techniques difficult for both kinds of attacks.
Symbol overloading is a trivial obfuscation. A decompiler can undo the overloading by simply assigning new names to all symbols during decompilation. Note therefore that it doesn't matter what name an obfuscator gives a symbol once it has discarded the original symbol. Any choice is as good as any other choice because a decompiler gets to choose last.
That said, symbol overloading isn't a bad technique. It's just no better than any other replacement symbol algorithm in terms of its obfuscation benefit. However, there is a reason to overload names as much as possible. It minimizes the number of names in the metadata tables thus allows a .NET assembly to be smaller.
It's ironic that some second-generation obfuscators overload symbol names for the wrong reason and get a positive benefit as an accidental result. These obfuscators take advantage of the fact that many languages let you overload method names. For example, in C# and VB.NET, you can give multiple methods the same name as long as the method signatures are different. Most programmers only overload related methods. Second-generation obfuscators overload unrelated methods in a misguided attempt to increase the confusion factor of the code and in a valid attempt to reduce the number of symbols. Here's an example of how such an obfuscator might overload method names in two classes:
internal class d { internal class e {
private void a() { } private void a() { }
private void a(int a) { } private void a(string a) { }
private int b; private int b;
private double c; private double c;
} }
However, Demeanor for .NET far out-performs such simplistic name overloading algorithms. We at Wise Owl have devising a unique Name-Signature overloading algorithm that allows far more overloading of all symbol names - types, fields and methods - than method overloading. This, in turn, means that Demeanor for .NET greatly reduces the number of symbols in the metadata of your application and that reduces your application's size. For example, Demeanor for .NET will obfuscate the above example as follows. Note the following isn't legal C# but is a faithful representation, using C# syntax, of the obfuscated metadata declarations.
internal class a { internal class b {
private int a; private int a;
private double a; private double a;
Even in this simple case, the original example has five symbols while the Demeanor for .NET technique only requires two symbols. As a more influential example, when Demeanor for .NET obfuscates the Microsoft assembly System.Windows.Forms.dll, it throws away ~10,000 symbols and replaces many of them with a single symbol.
Metadata obfuscation
Demeanor also obfuscates your application's metadata. Some of the metadata present in a .NET application is not used by the Command Language Runtime during program execution. It is used only during development and by programming tools, like Visual Studio .NET, and compilers such as C# and VB.NET.
For example, the runtime understands fields and methods, but in many senses, knows nothing about properties and events. Properties and events are higher-level abstractions used by programmers and tools but which are actually implemented in terms of methods. Demeanor for .NET removes the metadata that describes your properties and events, renames the property and event methods to meaningly symbols, and removes the association that relates a property's or event's to one another.
For example, assume that your application contains a single obfuscatable property called 'AccountBalance' that has two related accessor methods called 'get_AccountBalance' and 'set_AccountBalance'. After obfuscation, your application contains no properties and two methods with meaningless names like 'a' and 'b'. This is a lossy transformation. A decompiler cannot regenerate the property and it cannot determine that the two methods have related functionality.
Demeanor for .NET also performs many other metadata obfuscations. For example, in many cases, it can discard the original accessibility of fields and methods. A decompiler no longer knows how accessible to declare your members. Generally, it has no alternative other than to declare the members using public accessibility. Lots of public fields and methods makes code harder for a human to understand.
String literal encryption
The string literals in an application often provide extremely useful information to someone atempting to reverse engineer the application. For example, a developer could disassemble or decompile an application, search for all uses of the string "password", and concentrate on understanding only the code that uses the literal.
Demeanor for .NET can encrypt all your string literals and inject the necessary code to decrypt the strings at runtime. You do not need to make any changes to your source code to support this functionality. Demeanor for .NET 's string encryption technique works with compilers, such as some Microsoft compilers, that occasionally use identity tests to determine string equality. This user-controllable feature slightly increases the size of your application and the generated code runs slightly more slowly due to the need to decrypt the literals during execution.
Directly obfuscates your binary assembly
Does not try to round-trip using ILDASM and ILASM
Demeanor for .NET makes a copy of all modules of your original binary assembly, then directly obfuscates the binary modules. Because Demeanor for .NET directly modifies the assembly's .DLL and .EXE (portable-executable) files, it can improve the memory layout of your application. In fact, Demeanor for .NET reorganizes the contents of your assembly to be considerably more memory-efficient than the assemblies currently produced by all Microsoft tools. This causes your assembly to load more quickly, execute faster and use a smaller virtual memory working set.
Other less capable tools do not have the ability to perform such optimizations to your assemblies. Some disassemble your assembly using Microsoft's ILDASM utility, then obfuscate the IL source file, then attempt to compile the IL source file using ILASM. There are constructs that can be present in an assembly that will not survive a disassemble, then reassemble, round-trip. Obfuscators using this approach can potentially break your application. In addition, such tools have no ability to optimize the structure of the assembly like Demeanor for .NET does.
Selectable symbol exclusion
You may need to exclude certain types and members from obfuscation. For example, when explicitly using Reflection or when using late binding in VB.NET (which internally uses Reflection), you access a type or member by its original, unobfuscated name. Because Reflection occurs at runtime after you've obfuscated the assembly, it's critical that you not obfuscate the name of any members accessed via Reflection.
Demeanor for .NET allows you complete control over the obfuscation process. You can specify that a particular type, method, field, event or property is excluded from obfuscation. Alternatively, you can use one or more regular expressions to describe the names of the types and members that Demeanor should not obfuscate.
Control over obfuscation via configuration file or custom attributes
Some developers prefer to leave their source code unchanged and specify all obfuscation options, such as excluding a symbol from obfuscation or the specific name to use when obfuscating a particular type or member, via a separate configuration file. Demeanor for .NET allows you to control all obfuscation options via a separate configuration file.
Other developers prefer to place obfuscation directives directly in their source file. Demeanor for .NET allows you to provide a custom attribute attached to a type or type member that specifies whether to obfuscate the type or member and, when obfuscating it, various obfuscation options.
We license each copy of Demeanor for .NET to a specific developer. Our license allows a licensed developer to install Demeanor for .NET on up to two computers as needed for the developer's sole use. However, you must purchase a separate license for each developer that will be using Demeanor for .NET.
For example, when ten developers produce a product protected by Demeanor for .NET, but only two of the developers will be using Demeanor for .NET to obfuscate the product, then you must buy two licenses.
We decided we'd rather not charge a per-copy-sold royalty for software protected with Demeanor for .NET as that's quite cumbersome for you and for us. Similarly, we also decided not to price Demeanor in other sales volume related ways.
Due to the success of our recent special promotion, we are now offering Demeanor for .NET, Enterprise Edition at the new, lower price of US$ 799 per license. This is a great discount from the original price of US$ 1,450.
A license for Demeanor for .NET entitles you phone and email support for 90 days as well as free updates to your licensed version. For example, when you license version 3.0, you are entitled to all updates to version 3.0 free of charge with no time limitations. We believe you should get any bug fixes we produce to your licensed product without your having to pay an annual maintenance fee. In addition, owning a license for any major version of Demeanor for .NET entitles you to purchase a license for a higher major version of Demeanor for .NET at the reduced price of US$ 599.
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Feature Friday: Leah Cypess
Regulars: There's a change in entry requirements, make sure you read them!
Leah Cypess used to be an attorney living in New York City, and is now a writer living in Boston. She much prefers her current situation. When she is not writing or chasing her kids around (or doing both simultaneously), she is usually... well, let's be honest; sleeping. But in her rare moments of spare time, she enjoys reading, biking, hiking, and drawing.
A.L.:
What piece of advice would you give to a budding author?
Leah:
Primarily, to read and write. A lot. I know that's old, standard advice, but it's standard for a reason! Also: don't allow your hopes and ambitions to get too tied up in any one manuscript. As soon as you're sending a book out for publication, start something new.
What's your favorite book and why?
I can't say I have a favorite book, but if I was going to pick the favorite book I've read recently, it would be Tandem by Anna Jarzab, a really original parallel-worlds story with both a high fantasy and a science fictional feel. I can't wait for the next book in the trilogy!
Where did you get the idea for Death Sworn?
I got it while reading The Elenium by David Eddings, which featured a sorceress who served as tutor to a military order. I started wondering what would happen if the sorceress and the knights didn't get along as well as they did in Edding's book, and several twists or turns later, I had the basic idea for Death Sworn.
Did you hit any snags while writing Death Sworn? What were they and how did you fix them?
Several! Writing the master, in particular, was very difficult - it was hard for me to get the right balance of omniscient plotter, charismatic leader, and utterly terrifying puppet-master. I ended up asking my facebook friends to recommend books and movies with terrifying villains, and that - along with my editor's insightful comments - helped me finally get the character onto the page.
Which one of the characters in Death Sworn is your favorite and why?
Ileni is absolutely my favorite! (Which isn't always the case - sometimes, a secondary character is more interesting - but in this case, I really felt for Ileni every step of the way in writing this book.)
Can you tell us a little bit about your journey as an author?
I've always known I wanted to be an author - I have it on record that I informed my grandmother of this fact when I was 8 years old. I got my first short story professionally published when I was 15 (in a long-gone magazine called Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine). But it wasn't until 15 years after I sent my first book to a publisher that I managed to get a book deal. My first book, Mistwood, was actually the fifth manuscript I had completed and submitted to publishers.
What are you working on now? Sequel? Something new?
Primarily on the sequel to Death Sworn, yes! Though in between revision deadlines, I do have a few secret projects I'm really excited about. :)
Why do you chose to write fantasy over other genres?
I don't think I've made that choice, actually - I am completely open to writing other genres. But the ideas that appeal to me, and that stick with me long enough for me to turn them into books, have so far all been fantasy ideas.
If you could only pick one of your main female protags to be your best friend would it be Isabel, Derri, or Ileni?
Interesting question! I'd have to go with Isabel - she'd be a fantastic person to have in your corner. As long as there was no potential for a friend-breakup, which would be terrifying.
If you had to be an ice cream cone, what flavor ice cream and what kind of cone would you be?
In my household, I think I'd have to be pistachio... that way I would never get eaten. (My husband and I like vanilla, and my kids would never touch green ice cream!)
Leah is giving away a personalized hardcover of DEATH SWORN to one lucky winner (US).
Death Sworn: When Ileni lost her magic, she lost everything: her place in society, her purpose in life, and the man she had expected to spend her life with. So when the Elders sent her to be magic tutor to a secret sect of assassins, she went willingly, even though the last two tutors had died under mysterious circumstances.
But beneath the assassins’ caves, Ileni will discover a new place and a new purpose… and a new and dangerous love. She will struggle to keep her lost magic a secret while teaching it to her deadly students, and to find out what happened to the two tutors who preceded her. But what she discovers will change not only her future, but the future of her people, the assassins… and possibly the entire world.
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CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: 22 February 2016) 11th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asia Studies
This forum is organised by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore; with funding support from the Henry Luce Foundation, USA.
The Asia Research Institute (ARI) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) invites applications from postgraduate (master’s and PhD) students who are engaged in research on Southeast Asia to attend the 11th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies on 12-14 July 2015.
This three-day forum, the eleventh of an annual series of forums for graduate students who work on Southeast Asia, will be organised thematically. Themes broadly reflect (though not limited to) the core research strengths of the Asia Research Institute, including the Asian dynamics of religion, politics, economy, gender, culture, language, migration, urbanism, science and technology, population and social change. Keynotes will be delivered by professors J. Neil Garcia (University of the Philippines), Mary Beth Mills (Colby College), and Henk Schulte Nordholt (Leiden University, KITLV).
Post-graduate students working on Southeast Asia are invited to submit abstracts based either on work in progress that is at an advanced stage (i.e. already completed data collection and analysis), or on completed work. NUS students are encouraged to take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to interact and exchange ideas with students from ASEAN as well as those from other regions whose interests focus on Southeast Asia.
Partial or full funding may be available for students whose proposals have been selected. Funding will cover board and lodging for the duration of the three-day forum, and in selected cases, air travel to Singapore by the most economical means.
This event coincides with the Asian Graduate Student Fellowship Programme 2016, which brings some 35 graduate students to ARI for a two-month period. These students will also participate in the Graduate Forum.
SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSAL
Graduate students should submit a 300-400 words abstract of their proposed paper to Ms Tay Minghua at minghua.tay@nus.edu.sg no later than 22 February 2016. Please click here for the Application Form. The abstract should clarify the substantive issues which your paper will address and be firmly grounded in your own research project. Please include information on objectives, methods, and findings, as well as explain the original contribution the research makes to the field of study. One confidential letter of recommendation from a supervisor should also be forwarded along with your form by the same date.
Successful applicants will be notified by mid March 2016. Those selected will have to submit full-length papers, of around 4,000-5,000 words in length, by 1 June 2016.
Date : 12-14 July 2016
Venue : National University of Singapore
Website : http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/upload/events-pdf/20160712_GraduateForum_CW.pdf
Dr Michiel BAAS, Asia Research Institute, NUS (Chair)
Dr Michelle MILLER, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Dr Maria Wendy PLATT, Asia Research Institute, NUS
A/P Titima SUTHIWAN, Centre for Language Studies, NUS
Dr Amelia FAUZIA, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Dr Bernardo BROWN, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Dr Celine CODEREY, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Dr Marie Anne Madeleine GIBERT, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Dr Nurfadzilah YAHAYA, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Dr Rita PADAWANGI, Asia Research Institute, NUS
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