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THE PLAYERS AND THE PLAYS: Bard 2013 Gets Ready to Trod The Boards!
(All times and slotting subject to revision before the event begins because, well, you know that real life happens while you are making virtual plans!)
Beginning Sunday, August 25th at Noon SLT - Pacific Time
Approximate running time: 2 Hours
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Nowhereville/75/177/22
Donations benefit War Child North America
~~ Scenes from The Merry Wives of Windsor (Act II, Scene 1) and King John (Act II, Scene 1): with Ada Radius and Avajean Westland
~~ Sonnet Break!: with Freda Frostbite
~~ "The Duke of Bridgewater presents his interpretation of Hamlet's Soliloquy" from Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: with BigRed Coyote
~~ A Midsummer Night's Dream (Act II, Scene 1): with Ada Radius and Avajean Westland
~~ The Merchant of Venice (Act I, Scene 2): with Ada Radius and Avajean Westland
~~ The Merchant of Venice (Act I, Scene 3): with Yunus Nyn (In Spanish, English translation provided)
~~ Titus Andronicus (Act III, Scene 1): with Kayden Oconnell
~~ Hamlet (Act III, Scene 3): with Caledonia Skytower and Em Jannings
~~ As You Like It (Act III, Scene 2)"Rosalind and Orlando Make Deal": with Bhelanna Blaze and Roberic Unplugged
~~ MacBeth (Act I, Scene 7): with Gyro Muggins
~~ Scenes from Much Ado About Nothing "How Two Wayward Wits Fall in Love": with Caledonia Skytower and Kayden Oconnell
~~ Prospero's Epilogue from The Tempest : with Crap Mariner
Followed by THE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE SONNET CHALLENGE
Audience will be invited to shout out a random number from 1 to 154, and the panel of thespians will cold-read the corresponding sonnet.
Then, the audience will choose who performed it the best. The thespian who scores the most wins shall be... THE MASTER THESPIAN!
(No big prize other than applause, and a whole lot of fun!)
NO Gift Shop, but we have a Snack Bar!
ADA RADIUS & AVAJEAN WESTLAND bring their considerable professional experience from FL to the virtual world as members of the Avatar Repertory Theater and in other creative projects across the grid.
This year they share a banquet of great two-handed scenes from several plays:
Merry Wives of Windsor: Mrs. Page (AJ) and Mrs. Ford (Ada) discover that Falstaff wrote the same love letter to each, and vow to take revenge.
King John: The catfight between Queen Elinor (Ada) and her daughter-in-law Constance (AJ), over whether Arthur, Constance's son, should succeed to the throne.
Merchant of Venice: Portia (AJ) whines and old Nerissa (Ada) scolds while they talk about Portia's suitors and her father's will.
Midsummer Night's Dream: Puck (Ada) and a Fairy (AJ) wax poetic about his exploits and talk about Oberon and Titania's quarrel.
FREDA FROSTBITE is Stephanie Mesler in The solid world. A life long person of size, she shares a love of Shakespeare as this year's festival by presenting sonnets form the huge canon written by the Bard. She is also a published author, most recently having published a book of her own poems, Soul Hill Lullabies, and a modern re-envisioning of the traditional princess story, Ermengarde the Expansive. Her newest work, Adventures and Confessions of a Fat Lady Who Sings, is scheduled for release this fall.
BIGRED COYOTE is the Second Life Name for a retired high school math teacher. The Big Red part is from the First Infantry Division in which he served at Ft. Riley, Kansas. The coyote part comes from the animal spirit traveler that has been with him since he was 15 years old. He collects and tells coyote stories.
After 20 years in the United States Army, 10 years as a computer consultant and programmer, and 10 years as a teacher he now devotes himself to writing and telling stories.
YUNUS NYN is a writer, actor, director, and artist from the South of Spain. In Second Life (c) he is the co-founder of the TALIA Theatre Group, along with actress Malli Ansar. In 2012 he created and performed in TRES VIRTUDES Y UN DESEO, a drama in two acts based on the adventures of three misses in the 18th Century. He continues his work as a dramatist and performer with his work in progress CELIA Y SUS VISITAS, and has taken part in the ROUTE OF COMEDY event as well as plastic artist Noke Yuitza's TEARS IN RAIN. Amidst his many other accomplishments, he continues to work with the Brothers Alvarez Quintero as an actor and director, representing them in SANGRE GORDA, GANAS DE RENIR, and most recently in EL CUARTITO DO HORA.
KAYDEN OCONNELL is an experienced voice and machinima actor, who also adds significant stage time in FL to his many theatrical accomplishments. In addition to being a member of Avatar Repertory Theater, he also makes frequent appearances at the Seanchai Library in Second Life (c). This year he will be performing singly a selection from Titus Andronicus, in addition to sharing a scenes with Caledonia Skytower (a frequent reading partner at Seanchai Library - listed separately) from Much Ado About Nothing.
EM JANNINGS is a member of Avatar Repertory Theater where he serves the company as an actor, director, adapter of scripts, and a dramaturge. He adds to his experience on the stage virtual, and considerable wealth of knowledge and experience in FL as a scholar and teacher. He will be sharing a scene from Hamlet with Caledonia Skytower (listed separately).
BHELANNA BLAZE: Flash Fiction Writer, Playwright, Voice Actor, Director, Dramaturge, and Founder of Cold Shot Play Readers and Cold Shot Flash & Dash for Playwrights in Second Life (c).
Current Weekly Projects in 2nd Life:
- Cold Shot Play Readers--Cold table readings of 10-minute plays & short scenes
- Cold Shot Flash & Dash for Playwrights--Dash for writers of all kinds to experience speed writing Flash plays and scenes
- Open Mic Performer of Prose Poetry & Flash Fiction at many venues in 2nd Life, including the Blue Angel Poet's Dive on Kolor
Upcoming Productions:
Open Mic Performance of her Original Flash fiction & Prose Poetry at DNA, Art & Music Fusion in 2nd Life, 9.15.2013, coming out as an eBook in FALL 2013
Founder & Host of Study Buddies in SL, a weekly motivation group for writers, artists, students, and business professionals for breaking through productivity and creativity blocks.
Personal Productivity and Personal Development Coach in 2nd Life.
Follow on Twitter @BhelannaBlazeIC
Behlanna will be performing a scene from As You Like It with scene partner Roberic Unplugged (bio and photo unavailable)
GYRO MUGGINS is a frequent contributor as a member of the staff of the Seanchai Library, where he shares his enormous library of, and love for Classic Science Fiction. But that's not all! A steampunk inventor and irrepressible explorer, Gyro is always discovering something new, and enthusiastically learning each and every moment. It's a big metaverse out there! So much to find out!
CRAP MARINER is best known for his 100W Stories Podcast and his Weekly Challenge. Long ago, he swore an oath to write a 100 word story every day until the day he died. He's not dead yet.Always unpredictable and irreverent, no subject is too sacred, no cow too holy for Crap not to pull it out, examine it, and bang it on the table a few times before putting it back where he found it - albeit slightly crumpled. Yet Crap is a man of many talents, and brief writing is only one part of that. He has been a constant supporter of StoryFest Events and the Seanchai Library, as well as many other artful endeavors in Second Life (c). Crap tells it like it is, usually in 100 words or less. There is Beauty in brevity!
CALEDONIA SKYTOWER is certifiably insane! What on earth was she thinking in starting StoryFest three years ago and thinking it was just a one time thing?! Seriously, Cale has a knack for organizing, as well as for writing and a certain skill at performing. A twenty five (plus) year veteran theatrical designer, production manager, and producer, she has learned a thing or two about presentation over the years. She is the staff lead at the Seanchai Library, and member of the Avatar Repertory Theater, Independent Ballet, as well as the owner of the Stories Unlimited! subscriber group and StoryFest Events. In FL she is also a budding indie author/publisher of short stories and other fiction. You can learn more about THAT part of her life by Clicking Here.
The sun sets on a day of sand-raking preparations for BARD 2013
War Child North America is based in Toronto and is part of the War Child International network of children’s advocacy charities. War Child’s mission is to work with war-affected communities to help children reclaim their childhood through access to education, opportunity and justice. War Child takes an active role in raising public awareness around the impact of war on communities and the shared responsibility to act.
War Child's vision is for a world where no child knows war.
NOTE: Bard on the Virtual Beach is not endorsed by, nor an official representative of War Child North America . Donations collected are made as a private donation on behalf of the event, and other similar activities in Second Life (c). For further information, Contact Caledonia Skytower.
Labels: Bard on the Virtual Beach 2013, Nowhereville Beach, Shakespeare, Stories Unlimited
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Alex Rodriguez Ready to Challenge MLB in Appeal
Photo by AP Photo/Gene J. PuskarThe New York Yankees failed to make the playoffs, so their season will end on Sunday. Since there are no more games for the Yanks, Alex Rodriguez’s 211-game suspension appeal will start Monday. After being penalized for so many games, the third baseman has been telling reporters he is looking forward to going through due process and will fight the Major League Baseball decision.“Let’s get it on,” said Rodriguez as he talked to reports Saturday. “It starts on Monday. We’ve got to face it head on … I’ll be there every day. I’m fighting for my whole life, my whole legacy. I hope everyone is there.”The appeal process is expected to go on for months, and a decision may not be made until November or December. Frederic Horowitz, who will be a mutual arbitrator, will have the power to uphold, overturn or reduce Rodriguez’s suspension.The league suspended A-Rod for his alleged ties to Biogenesis and an alleged attempt to interfere with its investigation. Biogenesis of America, is a debunked Florida anti-aging clinic accused of distributing banned performance-enhancing drugs to several MLB players. The company was reportedly responsible for giving 13 MLB players, including Rodriguez, PEDs and masking them to prevent the athletes from failing their drug tests. read more
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Lego Movie 2 not as awesome as the first but its pretty
Culture: Your hub for everything from film and television to music, comics, toys and sports.Movie Magic: The secrets behind the scenes of your favorite films and filmmakers. 2019 movies to geek out over Post a comment 2:14 1:46 Movie reviews Lego Tags TV and Movies Now playing: Watch this: 77 Photos 0 Now playing: Watch this: Share your voice The characters and sets still come complete with scarred and pitted texture on their surfaces, just like real plastic, for an authentic stop-motion look. But whether it’s a space battle between various kinds of Lego or a vampire DJ with the voice of Noel Fielding or a startling detour into crayon, the humour is completely unfettered by such boring adult concerns as logic or physics. The result is a trippy treat for kids and adults.In the first film, everything was awesome for a young boy playing in his basement with Lego bricks. But now everything’s been ruined by the arrival of his sister and her Duplo blocks. Anyone with kids will recognise the younger one’s unstoppable urge to be up in the older sibling’s business, and the ructions that can cause. The older brother asserts himself against his sister’s childish ways by adopting a tough, cynical tone, complete with dark, gritty brooding — so much brooding. Batman, voiced by Will Arnett, loves this darker tone, but it’s clear all is not right in Lego world.Enlarge ImageChris Pratt, who starred alongside velociraptors in Jurassic World, encounters familiar chums in The Lego Movie 2. It’s just that kind of flick. Eric Charbonneau The only ray of sunshine in this blasted heckscape is Emmet, the perennially cheerful hero of the first movie with the bouncy voice of Chris Pratt. His fellow adventurer, Lucy Wyldstyle (voiced by Elizabeth Banks) has taken to the darker tone like a goth to mascara, but Emmet won’t give up his sunny disposition. Until sinister aliens kidnap his friends, that is, and he blasts off into space determined to toughen up and get grim ‘n’ gritty too. Enlarge ImageBatman, Wyldstyle and the gang return. Eric Charbonneau Right from the off, the action is as colourful and epic as the first movie. It’s dizzyingly kinetic, zapping along at breakneck speed as hilarious gags fly thick and fast. None of the songs quite measure up to the first movie’s earworm anthem “Everything is Awesome” — even the self-consciously needy “This Song’s Gonna Get Stuck Inside Your Head” — but they’re upbeat and fun. And if in all the chaos you miss a joke, or a song doesn’t connect, there’ll be another one along in about a millisecond.In his quest to break through the Stairgate to the Systar system, Emmet is aided in his quest by Rex Dangervest, an action hero so masculine his crew are velociraptors and his spaceship is shaped like a literal fist. Unlike Emmet, Rex doesn’t build — he breaks. And Emmet begins to think he’ll have to break stuff to save the day. Enlarge ImageRex Dangervest, action hero, gives Emmet a new role model. Warner Bros. He’s wrong, of course, which might be a level of dramatic irony too far for younger viewers. But this is one semiotically complex movie. In the past, you might have a kid getting sucked into Lego world and trying to get back. But this is 2019, where movies operate on a whole other level of meta-textual sophistication. The Lego Movie 2 works as a meta-narrative switching between the “real” world and the Lego world, which also includes characters from other pop culture narratives, who are both unaware of the real world and yet somehow also aware of their position in the zeitgeist. And it’s a musical. With time travel. On top of that, the film is based on a real-life children’s toy, and then the characters and vehicles created for the film become real-life toys, in shops now.Seriously, the whole endeavour is a crazy moebius strip of postmodern recursive metatextuality. With songs.Jeez, just because kids can work an iPad at six months old, apparently they’re expected to get Baudrillardian simulation theory. But whether the youngsters parse the postmodern juxtaposition or just dig the tunes, there’s also a pretty clear message about getting along with people and staying positive even when things look bleak. As the young boy from the first movie ages into a teenager, it’s suggested he should resist cynicism. In fact, you don’t have to squint very hard to see the film address boys on the verge of being radicalised into cynical or extremist beliefs. Listen to the Lego Movie, kids, and don’t swallow the red pill. Life lessons, jokes, celebrity cameos — it’s all here. The Lego flick schtick is such catchy pop fun you’re guaranteed to have a great time. Sure, the Lego Movie 2 might not be as innovative as the first part, but it never lets you catch your breath long enough to realise that. Yup, this is how you build a sequel. Lego Movie 2: Everything to know The Lego Movie 2 builds a dizzying, gloriously silly… Remember when everything was awesome? The first Lego Movie from 2014 was a colourful — well, mostly yellow — and giddy explosion of enthusiasm, humour and spectacular animation. Now The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part has arrived, and things are a lot more complicated.One thing the first movie had was novelty. Five years and two spin-offs later, the sequel doesn’t pop with quite the same freshness. It doesn’t help that the opening act is set in a parody of Mad Max: Fury Road, which isn’t the freshest gag in the world. But The Second Part does have the trademark Lego movie combination: It’s exuberant, dynamic, eye-popping and, above all, gloriously, unrestrainedly bonkers. read more
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No chance on Merci EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 03/21/2011
No chance on Merci
The plenary vote at the House of Representatives on whether or not to impeach Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez on Monday would be more about the fate of the Liberal Party (LP) at the legislature rather than Merci’s future in government service.
The crucial vote would be a test on the clout of Noynoy’s party where it should be exerting it, at the 284-member chamber that has as its Speaker also a member of the party. At stake are major legislative initiatives of Noynoy to push his supposed reform thrusts forward.
Merci, nevertheless, would be a key battleground for the LP since Noynoy and every partymate of his has been committed to her removal since the day Noynoy stepped into Malacañang.
The LP, heeding the voice of Noynoy, has considered Merci as a major hurdle in Noynoy’s vow to prosecute Gloria since they perceive that Merci will invariably favor Gloria in any case that will be filed against her..... MORE
Uncertain vote FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/21/2011
Uncertain vote
Bullying tactics are being resorted to by Noynoy and his boys in getting Merci Gutierrez impeached by the House on a plenary vote, and there appears to be strong proof of this threatening stance of the Palace occupant and his House lapdogs.
A threatening text message from Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya has made the congressional rounds, the gist of which is that those congressmen who will abstain, or absent themselves, or vote no to the impeachment complaint in plenary will not be given their pork barrel. The pork barrel given was still that of last year, and the 2011 pork barrel is still being dangled by Noynoy.
It certainly looks like the Liberal Party, despite its boast of having well over 150 yes votes to impeach Merci, may not have the numbers at all, which is why Noynoy’s LPs reportedly are in a panic mode these days.
Abaya, LP’s secretary general, according to the text message that has been circulated among lawmakers, stated that it should be made clear to “LP and non-LPs” that “those who will vote no or absent/abstain on impeachment will get ‘0’ as in zero.”
“At least there should not be any blame laid that there was no forewarning,” Abaya’s reported text message in Taglish said..... MORE
From moving clouds to sowing crops, Chernobyl can help Japan focus 03/21/2011
From moving clouds to sowing crops, Chernobyl can help Japan
MOSCOW — From seeding clouds to reviving agricultural land, Moscow’s experience after Chernobyl can be used by Japan as it tries to contain damage from its quake-hit nuclear plant, Russian experts said.
Concerns have grown over the unraveling crisis at the Fukushima power station as Japan struggles to cool down nuclear fuel rods after cooling systems were knocked out by the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
While the scope of the catastrophe is not likely to reach the levels of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster under the Soviet Union, Russian experts said Japan could minimize damage by using its experience like seeding clouds and recultivating agricultural land.
“The experience of Chernobyl should be used,” said Alexey Yablokov, a radiobiology expert and former environmental advisor to Russia’s first President Boris Yeltsin..... MORE
Nepal sisterhood tackles lecherous trekking guides focus 03/21/2011
Nepal sisterhood tackles lecherous trekking guides
POKHARA — When Nepal’s Chhetri sisters started their all-female trekking agency in the mid-1990s, the idea was so alien to local people that many thought it must be a cover story for a brothel.
For Nepalese women to set up in business was unusual enough. For them to venture out onto remote Himalayan trails, often for weeks at a time and in the company of strangers, was completely unheard of.
But if their compatriots in this conservative, majority-Hindu nation were initially shocked by the three women’s venture, the rest of the world’s reaction to their 3 Sisters trekking agency has been overwhelmingly positive.
Lucky, Dicky and Nicky have won international awards for sustainable tourism from the likes of National Geographic, and rave reviews on travelers’ Web sites such as TripAdvisor..... MORE
Call of the times SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 03/21/2011
Call of the times
With all the natural and man-made calamities inundating the world these days, it has seemed to me that our kababayans abroad have been forced to find their way back to the motherland, notwithstanding their reasons for leaving in the first place.
The situations in Egypt, then Libya, Bahrain and Japan have, in turn, pushed the Philippine government to act, and act fast, on repatriating Pinoys.
Overseas workers’ organizations, however, have observed (nay, complained loudly) about one thing through all the worldwide ruckus: the slowness and vagueness of concerned agencies in seeing to the needs of Filipino citizens.
Now nobody wants to criticize unduly here, but we have seen how the world has been shaken and stirred to awareness and action in the last few weeks alone. If anything, the recent events are an indication that things are changing, and changing fast — old ways are no longer acceptable, and new attitudes are being born..... MORE
Where to, Noy? HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 03/21/2011
Where to, Noy?
Michael Salvador of San Fernando, Pampanga had his passport ready in the event of luck smiling his way. He wanted to work overseas, where at 25, it isn’t late yet to find his fortune that could build him a house, buy him a decent car, and start a small business once he settles back home after five or 10 years.
But his dreams crumbled in his face on June 30 last year, when the TSI manpower agency which had deployed him as a promotions merchandiser for one of the leading electronics firms in the country suddenly terminated his contract.
It was his stepping stone to finding a job abroad.
But worse, he claimed to have been forced to sign a cessation of employment form, with a demand that he could not work in another agency that would supply manpower to the same electronics firm, or he would face legal action if he does so..... MORE
Agnotological war DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 03/21/2011
Agnotological war
Agnotology is a neologism on the study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, particularly as this relates to the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data. And since the press and media shape 70 percent of what’s known to be culture and knowledge today, it would be more accurate to also include media-induced ignorance through their selective information and news.
In the three literally burning issues of the day, many problems in people’s understanding of the truth are symptomatic of the agnotological conditions perpetrated by news media and the dominant information system hegemonies of the world. From the Fukushima crisis in Japan, to the Libyan struggle in North Africa, to the pro- and anti-nuclear as well as the pro- and anti-Merci impeachment debates in our own setting, the deliberate inducement of ignorance have all led to adverse consequences for people everywhere.
In the nuclear fall-out crisis stemming from the Fukushima reactors’ failures and radiation emissions, we find a culturally-induced ignorance of the Japanese people toward complacency with regard to their authorities’ abuses and unreliability. Japanese power plant officials, for one, kept everyone ignorant of very vital information.
In the first few days, no one was given an inkling as to the enormity of the problem. It was only when one nuclear reactor after another gave way that a clear admission that at least four of them were in really serious trouble came out. Despite this, the Japanese continued to be very trusting of their nuclear authorities, even after threatening radiation levels reached beyond the 20 to 30-mile radius.
What we’re witnessing here is a case of “structured ignorance.” It took criticism from cultures less trusting of authorities against Japan’s niggardly crisis updates to alert everyone of the mortal dangers in this unfolding crisis. Still, this hasn’t been the worst of the lot.
In the case of Libya , where media-induced ignorance through blatant misinformation and disinformation are being used to justify a foreign-backed coup d’etat and eventual Nato oil and land grab, so-called “Allied” fighter jets are now pounding on Tripoli as of posting time.
Al Jazeera was at the forefront of this disinformation and misinformation campaign, starting with its unsubstantiated reports (and later proven false by Russian satellite monitoring) of Gaddafi forces and war planes mowing down unarmed civilian demonstrators. In all video docus from Libya I have seen, the anti-Gaddafi forces were always heavily armed. While there are those who see Al Jazeera as an alternative to CNN and BBC, it actually plays a complementary role through its more subtle information subversion as it appears to be less pro-West than it actually is.
Al Jazeera, for instance, pumped up demonstration casualties to “thousands,” even when these later turned out to be only over a hundred. Such exaggeration was especially blatant considering the fact that even as the turmoil in Libya entered its third week, with a full scale battle in the city of Misrata, the real casualty figure there numbered only 25.
By and large, Al Jazeera’s interviews and panel discussions hardly ever feature the side of Gaddafi or the voices of pro-Gaddafi people on the ground. And as the Gaddafi counter-offensive gained ground, it became clear, too, that the alleged “total loss of popular support” for the Libyan strongman was completely false.
Yet, Al Jazeera’s on-site reporters kept on annotating their news with a blatant anti-Gaddafi virulence.
One of the most obvious lies Western media and the anti-Gaddafi forces tried to foist on the world in the first week of the conflict was that the Libyan opposition movement abhors foreign intervention even to support its cause. But not long after Gaddafi’s counter-offensive successes and before the UN “No Fly Zone” resolution, the anti-Gaddafis in Benghazi were literally begging for it and jubilated when Nato promised to start arming them and bombing pro-Gaddafi Libyans for a grand bloodbath of Arab blood.
With Nato and monarchist anti-Gaddafi forces collaborating, an oil and land grab that will “Balkanize” Libya isn’t too far in the horizon. But more devastation will follow, just as what invading forces did to Iraq.
As the world continues to be kept ignorant of the systematic destruction of the cultural heritage and infrastructure of Iraq by its occupying forces, this is the crux of what Felicity Arbuthnot wrote in a recent article about Libya: The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly to the day of the 18th anniversary of the beginning of the destruction of Iraq, 19th March (in Europe). Libya, too, will be destroyed — its schools, education system, water, infrastructure, hospitals, and municipal buildings. There will be numerous “tragic mistakes” and “collateral damage,” involving mothers, fathers, children, babies, grandparents, the blind and the deaf, and so on. And like the wonders of past empire’s remains, as with these nations’ rich histories (Iraq and Afghanistan), Libya’s, too, will be gone… forever.
Finally, let’s apply this agnotology to the Philippine setting: The debates between pro- and anti-nuclear power advocates, same with pro- and anti-Merci Gutierrez impeachment proponents simply reveal that both sides are wrong. In the former instance, all of them are all deliberately leaving out geothermal power in their discussions. This, despite a 2010 report by the World Geothermal Congress that total potential of the world for geothermal energy “…is equivalent to 40,000 GW while the total world energy demand (today) is equivalent to 15,000 GW.”
Both the pro- and anti-nuclear power lobbies are definitely creating ignorance of the only true alternative — geothermal energy, of which the Philippine has limitless potential.
Meantime, in the Merci impeachment moro-moro, the nation is being kept ignorant of the fact that both sides are similarly corrupted and will never work to sustain the “Rule of Law” when they all threw this away and resorted to the “Rule of Force” in the case of President Joseph Estrada.
Truly, the facts are there for all to see; and only an agnotological media will continue to befuddle the issues to the people’s detriment.
(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 6 to 7 p.m. on 1098AM dwAD; TNT with HTL, Tuesday, 8 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable Channel 8, on “Energy Futures;” visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus select radio and GNN shows)
Impeach dead in water after Noy ally miscues By Gerry Baldo 03/21/2011
IGLESIA NI CRISTO LOBBY CLAIM, TEXT THREAT
Impeach dead in water after Noy ally miscues
The impeachment bid against Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez is all but dead after the unnecessary disclosure by Iloilo Rep. Niel Tupas Jr., chairman of the House committee on justice, of the Iglesia Ni Cristo’s (INC) alleged lobbying in favor of Gutierrez and the supposed “no impeachment, no pork barrel” threat through a text message on lawmakers, several legislators indicated yesterday.
Legislators viewed the twin strategies as an admission of defeat on the part of the pro-administration Liberal Party and other pro-impeachment solons, bolstering wide perception that the impeachment case against Gutierrez was weak and that the House may have a hard time convincing the Senate to convict her.
The impeachment complaint is scheduled to be put into a vote in plenary either today or tomorrow.
“Congressman Tupas’ going public on the alleged ‘calls of INC’ raises doubts on the strength of the basis of impeaching Merci,” Agham Rep. Angelo Palmones said in a text message to reporters..... MORE
Western allies pound Libya; China, Russia express ‘regrets’ 03/21/2011
Western allies pound Libya; China, Russia express ‘regrets’
US, British and French forces hammered Libya from the air and sea, prompting leader Moamer Kadhafi to warn yesterday of a long war in the Mediterranean “battlefield” as Tripoli reported dozens of deaths.
China, however, expressed regret over the multinational air strikes, saying in a foreign ministry statement that it opposed the use of force in international relations.
“China has noted the latest developments in Libya and expresses regret over the military attacks on Libya,” the statement said.
Russia also issued a similarly worded statement in which it called for a ceasefire as soon as possible..... MORE
2,300 Pinay nurses stay behind in Libyan hospitals amid attacks By Michaela P. del Callar 03/21/2011
2,300 Pinay nurses stay behind in Libyan hospitals amid attacks
At least 2,300 Filipino nurses have refused to be evacuated even after the United Nations approved military strikes against Libya.
Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said the nurses, 2,000 of whom are based in capital Tripoli and 383 in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, opted to stay following request from the Libyan government, which promised to increase their pay significantly if they remain.
“We have not received any request to come and provide transport so they can leave Tripoli,” Del Rosario said. “They feel safe being in a hospital and there’s nothing safer than being in a hospital.”
But if the situation worsens, he said the government can arrange another ship to pick them up. The government has ended its evacuation in Libya and has moved to safety some 13,000 Filipinos..... MORE
Military rocked by new ‘torture’ video 03/21/2011
Military rocked by new ‘torture’ video
The Armed Forces of the Philippines was rocked yesterday by a fresh “torture” video purporting to show troops abusing train-ees as it moved to cleanse its ranks of rogue soldiers.
The 14-minute video uploaded on Youtube showed soldiers beating a group of young recruits using ropes and sticks as loud screams could be heard in the background.
The military admitted that the video was taken during an “escape and evasion” training exercise three years ago in Pili, Camarines Sur, but stressed the painful hazing had already been outlawed and was a “thing of the past.”.... MORE
Death toll in Visayas, Mindanao rains rises to 11; 30,000 families displaced 03/21/2011
Death toll in Visayas, Mindanao rains rises to 11; 30,000 families displaced
The death toll brought about by continuous heavy rains in some parts of Visayas and Mindanao rose to 11 people while four others went missing as the number of the flood-affected residents increased to almost 30,000 families, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported yesterday.
Latest reports from the NDRRMC showed that two fatalities came from Sierra Bullones in Bohol province, one from Palo in Leyte while eight, including seven members of a family whose house was buried by landslide, came from Tacloban City..... MORE
Ex-solon disputes allegations Lanao Norte ‘unsafe province’ 03/21/2011
Ex-solon disputes allegations Lanao Norte ‘unsafe province’
Former Rep. Abdullah Dimaporo disputed the allegations made by the Philippine National Police (PNP) that Lanao del Norte is one of the “unsafe places” based on the survey conducted by the government-owned Philippine News Agency (PNA)recently.
The report was fed by PNP to police reporters and carried out by the reporters’ newspapers publications nationwide and even globally through its Web sites.
According to Dimaporo, the report was damaging to Lanao del Norte province as the province itself is generally peaceful and even peaceful as compared with Metro Manila. Of course, there were crimes committed by unlawful persons in Lanao del Norte but it happens everywhere either in provinces or in Metro Manila.
“How can you conclude that Lanao del Norte is one of the unsafe places based on the 19 percent out of the 1,161 respondents in 51 provinces during polls? And why peace should be based on elections when we know that polls period the candidates of every party are very hot and they try to outdo their rivals only to win the elections?” Dimaporo asked..... MORE
Uncle guns down actor Apacible 03/21/2011
Uncle guns down actor Apacible
Actor John John Apacible was gunned down by his uncle early yesterday morning in Cainta, Rizal after a heated argument.
Initial reports said Apacible was shot by his uncle when they had a heated argument during their drinking bout.
Apacible succumbed to two gunshot wounds in the chest.
Apacible’s uncle was identified as Armando Rustia Sabado..... MORE
Finance chief urged to reject BIR’s AIR circular, or else... By Charlie V. Manalo 03/21/2011
Finance chief urged to reject BIR’s AIR circular, or else...
A member of the House of Representatives yesterday bared they will summon Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima to appear in its Question Hour if he does not accede to the recommendation of Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Jacinto-Henares to withdraw Revenue Regulation 02-2011 requiring certain individual citizens, resident aliens and non-resident aliens engaged in trade or business in the country to file their Annual Information Return (AIR).
Valenzuela Rep. Magtanggol Gunigundo made the manifestation for Purisima’s appearance in the Question Hour during the hearing of the House committee on ways and means on Tuesday on the controversial AIR regulation issued last March 1.
“It is a caveat, a manifestation that if the secretary of Finance does not approve the recommendation of the BIR commissioner to withdraw RR 02-2011, then we will proceed with the Question Hour. We will ask him to come here not just to attend a public hearing on RR 02-2011, but we will invoke the right of Congress to require members of the Cabinet to appear before the House under the Question Hour provisions of the rules of the 15th Congress as well as of the Constitution,” Gunigundo said..... MORE
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Evo Morales, the coup and popular resistance
A combination of local capitalist forces and US imperialism lies behind the coup in Bolivia. But, as Andy Brown explains, the picture is more complicated, with Morales’s own political aims being partly to blame for his lack of support, giving the right the opportunity to overthrow him.
Evo Morales, the first indigenous person ever to be elected as president in Latin America, is today in political asylum in Mexico. He has been forced from office by the Bolivian armed forces higher command, the police and a cabal of right wing politicians, who have claimed irregularities in the recent presidential election and mobilised against him.
Read more about Evo Morales, the coup and popular resistance
Letter from Bolivia
Letter from
Roger Cox
The Bolivian government is launching a counter-offensive against the very successful and popular campaign of the indigenous peoples from Isiboro Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park (Tipnis). This is a massive rainforest in which a number of indigenous nations either live or depend on.
With money from the Brazilian government a road is being built connecting Brazil to the Pacific Ocean. The route of the road goes through this important environment. It is estimated that a million trees will be destroyed.
Read more about Letter from Bolivia
Mass revolt against poverty in Bolivia
Jeffery R Webber
The streets of the city of Potosí, 600 kilometres south east of the capital, La Paz, are desolate, distended with the uncollected garbage of 18 days of general strike and popular revolt against poverty.
Stores are closed and public and private institutions boarded up, along with schools, markets, and banks. Cash machines are out of money, supplies of food and fuel are low, and inflation is lifting the prices of remaining basic commodities into the clouds. Only vehicles authorised by Potosí's Civic Committee are permitted to navigate the streets.
Read more about Mass revolt against poverty in Bolivia
Revolutionary Horizons
Joseph Choonara
Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson
Some years before the French Revolution, Bolivia's indigenous masses, the Aymara, the Quechua and others, rose up. The names of the heroes of the 1780-1 rebellion - Tomás Katari, Tupaj Amaro and Tupaj Katari - still echo through Bolivia, where two thirds of the population define themselves as indigenous.
Read more about Revolutionary Horizons
No saviours or substitutes
In perspective column
Chris Harman
The words of the Internationale strike a chord for all socialists who believe society can only be transformed from below. It is a message that could not be more urgent than for today's working class in Venezuela and Bolivia.
No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer.
So runs the second verse of the socialist anthem the Internationale. It is rarely sung in Britain. But the message is very important.
socialism from below
Read more about No saviours or substitutes
Bolivia: Right Wing Threatens Morales
Third World Report (Latin America)
The fledgling left wing administration in Bolivia faces growing challenges to its programme of reforms.
Recent weeks have seen "strikes" coordinated by business organisations and renewed demands for regional autonomy in the east of the country. The growing tensions flow from the attempts by the new government to reconcile competing demands from different sections of Bolivian society.
Read more about Bolivia: Right Wing Threatens Morales
The Bolivian Uprising
July / August 2005
The actuality of revolution in the 21st century. That was what was on display on the streets of Bolivia's capital, La Paz, last month.
Reports paint a picture like that of Petrograd in the summer of 1917, Berlin in January 1919, Barcelona in the autumn of 1936.
Read more about The Bolivian Uprising
Bolivia: Standing Tall in El Alto
Mike Gonzalez
Bolivians are fighting to protect their natural resources.
Bolivia may be the second poorest country in Latin America (after Haiti), and one of the least known outside the region, but in the struggle against neoliberalism it is playing a key role. In 2000, in the town of Cochabamba, a mass movement of small farmers, market traders, workers and indigenous community groups reversed a government decision to sell off the regional water supply to Bechtel.
Read more about Bolivia: Standing Tall in El Alto
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Best Wishes For A Happy And Healthy New Year From Roosevelt Island - Goodbye 2013, Welcome 2014 With Peace, Love And Understanding
Best Wishes to all for a Happy And Healthy New Year in 2014.
You Tube Video of Bottle Band Auld Lang Syne Performance
There's no better way to party out the past year then with a traditional last song from Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes together with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band .
We're havin' a party
Everybody's swinging
Dancing to the music
So listen, Mr. DJ
Keep those records playing
'Cause I'm having such a good time
Dancing with my baby
You Tube Video of Southside Johnny and Bruce Springsteen Having a Party in 1978 - Lyrics are by Sam Cooke.
Here's hoping for some 2014 Peace, Love and Understanding from Elvis Costello.
Labels: new years eve
Roosevelt Island And Upper East Side NY State Assembly Member Micah Kellner Sanctioned For Sexually Harassing Staff Members - Details In Letter From Speaker Sheldon Silver
Reported last July 24 that Roosevelt Island/Upper East Side NY State Assembly Member Micah Kellner (who was running for NY City Council at the time and lost)
Image of Micah Kellner From NY State Assembly
was accused of sexual harassment by a junior member of his Assembly staff. At the time Mr. Kellner responded to the charges by saying:
Over four years ago, for a few weeks while I was still single, I exchanged instant messages with a female member of my staff that were flirtatious. It was inappropriate. I was wrong and it was stupid. When I was told that my staffer felt the messages were unprofessional, I immediately stopped and regretted placing her in that position. I was sorry then and I am sorry now.
The NY Times reported yesterday:
A state assemblyman from the Upper East Side of Manhattan was sanctioned on Monday after an ethics investigation found that he had sexually harassed staff members.
The assemblyman, Micah Z. Kellner, a Democrat, was stripped of his position as chairman of the Committee on Libraries and Education Technology and will be forbidden to hold leadership positions in the future. He will also be barred from having interns and will have the size of his staff reduced over time, the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, said...
According to the NY Daily News Daily Politics:
... In banning Kellner from any future leadership posts and freezing his staff allocations - effectively reducing Kellner’s staff through attrition - Silver went beyond the punishment recommendations made by the ethics committee.
In a letter to Kellner, Silver said his behavior was “intolerable” and “inconsistent with the standards of conduct to which members of the Assembly should be held.”...
Capital New York adds:
... "The findings of the Assembly Ethics and Guidance Committee concerning the conduct of Assemblymember Kellner are deeply disturbing and I am immediately implementing all of its recommendations," Silver said in a statement. "Let me be clear – this type of behavior is not to be tolerated."
A review by the Ethics Committee, which has an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, substantiated the complaints and said Kellner's conduct was “unbecoming of a member of the Assembly and reflects poorly on the entire body.”...
Capital New York provides the full letter sent from Assembly Speaker Speaker Silver to Mr. Kellner admonishing Mr. Kellner for his actions.
I asked Mr. Kellner for a comment and will update if received.
The NY Daily News also asked Mr. Kellner for a comment and report:
Reached on cell phone Monday night, Kellner declined to comment, saying he and his lawyer were still reviewing the ethics committee report.
UPDATE 7:10 PM - A spokesman for Assembly Member Kellner replied:
Assembly Member Kellner does not accept the Ethics Committee’s and Speaker Silver's findings. The letter sent by the Committee was factually inaccurate and the investigation was flawed. Assembly Member Kellner will appeal the ruling in accordance with the Assembly’s 2009-2010 Assembly Sexual Harassment Policy, Article VI, mandating that a hearing officer be designated to conduct a public hearing concerning these findings. At a hearing, sworn testimony must be taken from all witnesses permitting the fundamental right to cross examine the accuser and the evidence that exists. Perhaps then the real facts surrounding this matter will be heard.
NY State Governor Andrew Cuomo issued the following statement:
The latest reports of sexual harassment in the Assembly should be the last straw.
This pattern of behavior is repugnant by every standard and directly contradicts the policies the Assembly has advanced for the last 20 years.
Assemblymember Micah Kellner's conduct, confirmed by the Assembly Ethics and Guidance Committee's investigation, has no place in New York State government. It is time for him to immediately deny these allegations or resign. Likewise, Assemblymember Dennis Gabryszak must immediately deny the allegations against him or resign. If they do not resign, the Assembly must send a clear message that they do not tolerate this abuse of women and should seriously consider moving to expel them if they seek to return this coming session.
Enough is enough. It’s a new year; let’s start with a clean slate.
Labels: elected officials , Kellner , sexual harassment
Roosevelt Island Resident Seeking Your Help In Recovering Stolen Bicycle
Roosevelt Island resident Rossana Ceruzzi had her bicycle stolen last Saturday evening and is seeking help in its recovery.
According to Ms. Ceruzzi:
It's a Raleigh C40/ Red / bicycle with a basket on the front.
Image of Ms. Ceruzzi's Stolen Bicycle
It was parked for 5 minutes last Saturday night between the two entrance doors of the Roosevelt Island Duane Reade store where there are two cameras one of them at eye level.
A report has been filed with the NYPD and the Duane Reade tech will send a copy of the footage (reviewed by an officer) to both PSD and NYPD.
If you see Ms. Ceruzzi'a bicycle or have any knowledge of its theft, please contact the Roosevelt Island Public Safety Department at (212) 832-4545.
Hopefully, Ms Ceruzzi will be as fortunate as this Roosevelt Island bicycle owner who had a stolen bike recovered.
Labels: bicycle , Bicycle theft , Bike
Limo Driver Nearly Crashes Car Into Roosevelt Island Riverwalk Building Lobby Sunday Morning
A limo nearly crashed into the Roosevelt Island 425 Main Street Riverwalk building lobby yesterday morning. A Roosevelt Island resident shares this photo
and reports:
a photo of the drunken limo driver who took out a few pylons and just missed 425 Main Street front door.
According to the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC) 24 Hour Public Safety Blotter:
12/29/13 - 0749 - 425 Main St. - Vehicle Accident - PSD/NYPD responded. NYPD arrested subject
Fortunately, there were no injuries.
Labels: Accident , Riverwalk , traffic accident
Union Protest Against Use of Non Union Labor At Roosevelt Island Hudson Related Southtown Construction Site - Scabby The Inflatable Rat Joins Protest, Resident Arrested Today For Menacing Protester With Knife
Roosevelt Island resident Karen LichtBraun asked earlier today:
What is up with the strike at the construction site? They have a large plastic rat on the side of the road
Image of Scabby The Inflatable Rat at Roosevelt Island Construction Protest from Karen LichtBraun
There have been ongoing union demonstrations protesting use of non-union labor for construction of Hudson Related's Southtown Riverwalk Building 7 recently.
Rendering of Hudson Related Riverwalk Building 7
Last Friday, the union brought over Scabby the Inflatable Rat to join the protest.
The Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC) Public Safety 24 Hour Blotter reported
12/27/13 - 1100 - 475 Main St - Union Demonstration - PSD respond - Report taken.
No arrests were made at the demonstration on Friday.
An arrest was made at the union demonstration today. Apparently, a Roosevelt Island resident was disturbed by the noise coming from the union demonstration this morning and threatened a protester with a knife. According to a NYPD Press Spokesperson, the Roosevelt Island resident was arrested for "menacing".
Also, Ed McWilliams, a representative from NYC Carpenters union sent the following letter to RIOC President Charlene Indelicato:
PROJECT: 480 MAIN STREET MANHATTAN Block: 1373 Lot: 8
Dear Ms Indelicato,
It has come to our attention that RNC INDUSTRIES LLC may be currently seeking to perform work on one or more of your projects. Please be informed that the New York City District Council of Carpenters has a labor dispute with RNC INDUSTRIES LLC because they do not meet area labor standards. RNC INDUSTRIES LLC does not pay the area standard wages to all their employees including providing or fully paying for health benefits and pension.
The New York City District Council of Carpenters has made a solid commitment of personnel and resources to protect and preserve area standard wages, including providing or making payments for family health care and a dignified retirement for all area carpentry craft workers. Therefore, we are asking that you use your managerial discretion to not allow these non area standard contractors to perform any work on any of your projects unless and until they generally meet area labor standards for all their carpentry craft work.
We want you to be aware that our new and aggressive public information campaign against RNC INDUSTRIES LLC will unfortunately impact all parties associated with projects where they are employed. That campaign will include highly visible lawful banner displays and distribution of handbills at the jobsite and premises of property owners, developers, general contractors, and other firms involved with projects involving a non area standard contractor. We certainly prefer to work cooperatively with all involved parties rather than to have an adversarial relationship with them but cannot sit idly by while these entities condone and/or support the non-area standards contractor.
If you agree to comply with the request we have made in this letter, or if our information about a non area standard contractor being involved with any of your projects is incorrect, please call the undersigned immediately... Doing so will provide the greatest protection against your firm becoming publicly involved in this dispute through misunderstanding or error.
Will ask Ms. Indelicato for a response and post an update if received.
Also, the Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) has invited the Carpenters Union representative, Mr. McWilliams, to speak at the January meeting of the Common Council. At least one RIRA member has objected to inviting the union representative to the monthly RIRA meeting but suggested that if the union member is invited, so should a representative from the building contractor/developer.
UPDATE 12/31 - RIOC President Indelicato responds:
RIOC does not not dispute anyones right to free speech, however, any such demonstrations must be done in an orderly and legal manner which will not infringe on the rights of others in the community.
We at RIOC hope that 2014 will be a year of cooperation, growth and prosperity for Roosevelt Island.
Labels: Hudson Related , Riverwalk 7 , Riverwalk 7 thru 9 , Southtown , Union Protest
Wedding On The Roosevelt Island Tram Yesterday - Congrats To The Lucky Couple
Despite the nasty rainy weather yesterday, the Twitterverse reports that the Roosevelt Island Tram hosted a wedding on Sunday.
At a wedding on the tram pic.twitter.com/72jhEGaQSM
— Lauren Goode (@LaurenGoode) December 29, 2013
Congrats and Best Wishes to the lucky couple.
A marriage officiant describes another Roosevelt Island Tram wedding:
I married two fantastic women on the Roosevelt Island Tram. I had fun. They had fun. And the view? Better than Empire State Building. And better than Top of the Rock. I swear-- the views are fabulous, and you really can just take the Tram back-and-forth. (At the cost of a metro card, it's also infinitely cheaper the Empire or TOR.)...
and here is a wedding proposal I witnessed on the Tram in 2012.
Roosevelt Island is for lovers.
Labels: Marriage Proposal , ROOSEVELT ISLAND TRAM , wedding , wedding proposal
Roosevelt Island Bar Owner Chased Down By Local German Shepherd - Everyone's A Food Critic
A tipster shares Twitter link to videos showing Riverwalk Bar & Grill Owner Jonathan Hoo being chased down Riverwalk Commons next to the Roosevelt Island F Train station by a German Shepherd.
Video from outside Riverwalk of me being chased by a German Shepard. Owner was able to keep his hat on… http://t.co/E9Kc9soyRp
— Jonathan (@JonathanHoo) December 28, 2013
Another angle o m being chased from last night. Lmfao http://t.co/eENBHX7bRx
Fortunately, neither bar owner nor dog were injured.
Dog evasion is a skill you learn growing up on the streets of Brooklyn. @bombermoran
Labels: Dogs , Riverwalk Bar and Grill
How Long Can It Last? Roosevelt Island F Train Subway Service To And From Manhattan Again This Weekend, That's Five In A Row
Are you starting to get used to Roosevelt Island F Train service to and from Manhattan on weekends? How long can this last? Well, for at least one more week.
According to the MTA Weekender Page there will be Roosevelt Island F Train service
to and from Manhattan this weekend. That makes it five in a row.
Hope it continues in 2014.
Roosevelt Island Winter Sunset As Tram Crosses East River
How lucky are we
Roosevelt Island Tram and setting sun: http://t.co/KdO1T0KhZL #NYC
— Robert Wright (@RKWinvisibleman) December 27, 2013
to experience this every day!
UPDATE 9:30 PM - Mitch Elinson shares the same view at night
adding:
Even the camera on my phone loves this view.
Wow - just gorgeous.
Labels: photographers , ROOSEVELT ISLAND TRAM , sunset
Santa's On His Way To Roosevelt Island Ho Ho Ho - Merry Christmas, A Wonderful Festivus And Chinese Food For The Rest Of Us
Reports are coming in of Santa Claus sightings from all around the world. You can even track him with the aid of Google's Santa Tracker and a Santa Tracker from NORAD.
Santa will arrive on Roosevelt Island in a couple of hours. When he does, it may be on his specially designed, Reindeer powered, Roosevelt Island Tram sled using one of the old Tram cabins.
Roosevelt Island Reindeer Driven Tram Card From Marty Atkins (more info here)
Hope you've taken Bruce Springsteen's advice and were good this year.
You Tube Video of 1978 Springsteen Version of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
If you're interested in the history of Santa, here you go:
and then there's Festivus
and Chinese food for the rest of us.
Don't forget to leave some cookies out for Santa tonight. MERRY CHRISTMAS - Ho HO Ho!!!!!!!!
Labels: Christmas , Santa Claus , Seinfeld , Springsteen Video
Please Donate To Roosevelt Island FDR Hope Memorial Sculpture Depicting President Franklin D Roosevelt Sitting In His Wheelchair - Help Show The Disabled Are Enabled
You Tube Video of FDR Hope Memorial Rehearsal Mock Up Interview
Are you looking for a last minute Christmas present idea or to make a contribution to a worthy Roosevelt Island cause? If so, please consider making a donation to the FDR Hope Memorial.
FDR Hope Memorial Chair and Roosevelt Island Disabled Association (RIDA) President Jim Bates explains:
RIDA adds:
The FDR Hope Memorial
We are enabled.
Help us build the first memorial to FDR that focuses on his disability. We need to build this monument because people with disability, while loved, are pitied because it's believed they cannot achieve anything substantial or independently. We need to dispel this belief which can even afflict people who are disabled themselves.
We are a group of people who live or work on Roosevelt Island in New York City — some of us are disabled, some are doctors, therapists, and others involved with the disabled. We have come together under the auspices of the Roosevelt Island Disabled Association to create a monument to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who is a hero to our community: a man who, despite being crippled by polio, became a four-term president of the United States.
We have reached the following milestones and now ask for your support which we need to bring this project to fruition.
We have been awarded a site for our monument in Southpoint Park as you approach Four Freedoms Park.
We have raised $263,000 from Four Freedoms Park, New York City and New York State.
We have commissioned artist Meredith Bergmann and approved a design based on half-height figures.
The artist is now working on the full-size figures which will be cast in bronze; the finished monument will be beautiful and inspiring.
You will be helping us erect a monument not just to what one man has done but to what all of us --enabled not disabled-- can do.
Why Portray FDR as disabled?
FDR hid that he had polio because he didn't want his disability to limit himself or his aspirations to change the world. We live today, in part thanks to him, in a different kind of society, and portraying his disability honors him today in a way in which it couldn't in the 1930s.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of the greatest presidents of the United States of America. FDR served four terms and presided over the war that shocked the world: World War II. FDR had polio - a life-threatening and physically mauling disability.
The message of his life is that regardless of the struggle, the disadvantage, the disability, you can do great things. Through our memory of his life the disabled are enabled. The purpose of this memorial is to remind and inspire all, especially those with disability: You can do great things. You are enabled and free to pursue your dreams. The purpose of this call for support is to make this memorial on Roosevelt Island a reality and raise a beacon of hope and truth for years to come. Please give.
We need to get to $300,000. We are asking for gifts of any size: $10, $20, $100, $350,or even ten thousand. But even it it's a dollar, and you add your name to the list of people who support this project, your support will be invaluable. You will inspire us, and show other people we approach for help that our dream has won the support of many people...
Click here for more information and to make a donation.
More information on the FDR Hope Memorial at previous post.
Labels: FDR Hope Memorial Committee , fdr wheelchair memorial
Smoke On The Water - Epic Fog On East River Covers Roosevelt Island Today Reports Twitterverse
Did you see the fog covering Roosevelt Island this morning? The Twitterverse did and reports:
Smoke on the Water NYC style #streetshot #fog #EastRiver #59thSteetBridge @Rooseveltisland pic.twitter.com/7Pf5yGObtr
— Trevis Dane Wimer (@TDaneNYC) December 23, 2013
Epic fog coming off the East River (which is technically not a river) @ Roosevelt Island http://t.co/vyGWG1RZcU
— Stephen Forte (@worksonmypc) December 23, 2013
@worksonmypc @Rooseveltisland was nice, right? My contribution: pic.twitter.com/vuP1Ndm3DJ
— Nicolas Robine (@notSoJunkDNA) December 23, 2013
Queensborough bridge and Roosevelt Island in the mist. @riraonline @Rooseveltisland @newyorkphoto pic.twitter.com/4BZdPAcpyi
— Karel van Oosterom (@KvanOosterom) December 23, 2013
Roosevelt Island in the mist - weather in #NewYork special these days. @riraonline @Rooseveltisland pic.twitter.com/ZICauALDsX
Labels: EAST RIVER , fog , photographers
Enjoy The Outdoor Christmas Light Shows From Dyker Heights Brooklyn And The Empire State Building - The Season's Upon Us It's That Time Of Year Sing The Dropkick Murphys
One of the best things about the Christmas season are the brightly colored outdoor lights displays. We have a little bit of outdoor Christmas lights here on Roosevelt Island, but not alot. We could do much better, maybe next year.
One place that does a great job of outdoor Christmas Lights is the Brooklyn neighborhood of Dyker Heights. The Bensonshurst Bean show us how its done.
Are you in the mood for some more Dyker Heights Christmas Lights? The Bensonhurst Bean has it for you.
We do have a great view of the Empire State Building Christmas Light Show from Roosevelt Island. Here's a close up view with music.
As the Dropkick Murphy's sing, The Season's Upon Us, It's That Time Of Year.
Ho, Ho, Ho.
Labels: Christmas , christmas lights , Dyker Heights , holiday lights
Roosevelt Island Hope Church Christmas Candle Lighting Service & Community Dinner 4:30 PM December 22 At Good Shepherd
Roosevelt Island resident Drew Hyun reports that the Hope Church Roosevelt Island will be conducting a Christmas candle lighting and community dinner on December 22 at the Good Shepherd Chapel (4:30 PM).
More information on the Hope Church Roosevelt Island available at their web site.
Labels: Christmas , Hope Church , Religion
Spring Like Weekend Weather Brings Saturday Local Law 11 Facade Work For Roosevelt Island Manhattan Park Buildings - Management Apologizes To Residents For Any Inconvenience And Informs No Parking On River Road During Work
Image Of Manhattan Park Local Law 11 Facade Work
A Manhattan Park resident shares this announcement received late this afternoon from the Manhattan Park Management:
Dear Residents:
Due to the inclement weather this week, we have not been able to proceed with the Local Law 11 construction.
We are expecting "spring like" temperatures this weekend, and will be able to take this opportunity to proceed in bringing this project closer to completion.
In order to expedite this, the construction crew will be working this Saturday, December 21, 2013.
Also please note, Parking on River Road will not be permitted during this period.
We understand the inconvenience, and we do apologize, however we must take advantage of the weather conditions in order to complete this project.
Once again we apologize for any and all inconveniences you may have encountered during this period.
Manhattan Park Management
NYC Local Law 11 concerns:
... inspection of the exterior walls of buildings greater than six stories in height....
Labels: facade work , Manhattan Park
Q102 Bus Accident This Evening At Roosevelt Island's Blackwell Turnaround - No Injuries Reported But Boulder Stuck Underneath Bus
A MTA Q102 Bus heading south on Roosevelt Island's Main Street was involved in an accident as it was attempting to drive around the Blackwell turnaround this evening at approximately 4:30 PM. The back wheel of the bus is up on the sidewalk curb with a large boulder stuck underneath the bus.
According to this Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC) advisory received just before 5 PM:
NYPD/FDNY activity at location, southbound lane obstructed, northbound lane partially obstructed due to accident, traffic moving slowly.
A Roosevelt Island resident shares this picture
At the turnaround at the end of main street flagpole Mta bus with woman trapped on stuck wheelchair lift. Lots of island security hanging around.
The wheelchair passenger was safety taken off the bus.
No report yet on the reason for the Q102 bus accident at the Blackwell Turnaround nor of any injuries.
UPDATE 12/23 - Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC) Interim Public Safety Director Jack McManus explains what happened:
Driver error.
The driver was intending to bear left at the fork and missed the turn. He the proceeded to attempt to make the tight left turn around the triangle and it was too tight. The left side of the bus mounted the triangle, dislodged the boulder which got stuck between the bottom of the bus and the pavement and pulled over on the right hand side of the road when he realized the boulder was stuck underneath the undercarriage of the bus. No reported injuries.
Labels: Accident , Blackwell Turnaround , Q 102 , Q102 Bus , traffic accident
Roosevelt Island F Train Subway Service To And From Manhattan Again This Weekend, That's Four In A Row
Pinch me to make sure that I am not dreaming.
to and from Manhattan this weekend. That makes it four in a row.
How long can this good news last?
Labels: evening subway disruption , F Train , MTA
Roosevelt Island Home Town Boy And Global Travel Blogger Greg Goodman Get's Lost In Korea On National Geographic Reality Travel TV Show
Greg Goodman grew up on Roosevelt Island to become a successful photographer and global travel blogger at Adventures Of A Goodman.
According to Mr. Goodman:
I was raised on RI and although I haven't lived there in quite a few years, it will always be my home. I'm also an unofficial international Roosevelt Island ambassador, as I tell people all about our little sliver of heaven every chance I get in every country I visit. A photo I took of the old tram is even on my business card... which is perfect to give people after describing RI.
Greg is the star of a National Geographic Channel TV Show, Get Lost In Korea.
Image of Greg Leaving For Korea From Adventures Of A Goodman
Here's a preview.
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NYC Mayor Bloomberg Transfers 12 Acres of Roosevelt Island to Cornell NYC Tech Today - Cornell Will Pay RIOC $400,000 Annually For 55 Years, NY State Will Pay RIOC Approximately $22 -24 Million By December 31 2018
Rendering Of Roosevelt Island Cornell NYC Tech Campus
This notion seemed far fetched and utterly ridiculous, if not impossible, back in February 2011:
Will Roosevelt Island Become Silicon Island? Stanford, MIT, Cornell & Other Top Universities Express Interest In Proposed New York City State Of The Art Applied Sciences School - And It May Be Right Here At Coler Goldwater Site
Well, almost three years later the notion proved to be entirely doable.
Earlier today, exactly two years to the day in 2011 when Cornell University was selected to build the NYC Applied Sciences & Engineering School and following the withdrawal of Stanford University from the competition as well as many, many many community meetings, I watched NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Cornell University President David Skorton sign a 99 year lease for the new Roosevelt Island Cornell- Technion Engineering School campus on the site of the former Goldwater Hospital.
Cornell Right Now: David Skorton & @MikeBloomberg signing the lease to @cornell_tech future home on Roosevelt Island pic.twitter.com/twce0qUjCV
— Cornell University (@Cornell) December 19, 2013
Here's a look at what Cornell is bringing to Roosevelt Island by 2017.
As previously reported Cornell will also be paying the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC) $400,000 annually for the next 55 years. Also, NY State will contribute payments to RIOC of approximately $22 - $24 million no later than December 31, 2018.
Here's the Cornell NYC Tech lease signing Press Conference
and Press Release from Mayor Bloomberg's office.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Cornell University President David J. Skorton, and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology President Peretz Lavie today formally executed a 99-year lease between the City of New York and Cornell Tech, which will pave the way for construction of the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, exactly two years after Cornell and academic partner Technion were named the first winners of the City’s Applied Sciences NYC competition. Cornell Tech is a revolutionary model for graduate-level technology education and is establishing itself as a world-leading institution, conferring graduate degrees and conducting research that drives technology, innovation, commercialization and the creation and retention of businesses and jobs in New York City. The land transfer will allow for groundbreaking on the campus to begin in January, with the first classrooms on Roosevelt Island set to open in 2017. Cornell Tech students began classes this fall in space donated by Google at their Chelsea headquarters on Eighth Avenue. Construction of the entire 2 million square foot build-out, which will span 12 acres on Roosevelt Island and house approximately 2,000 students and nearly 280 faculty and researchers, will be completed by 2043. New details and renderings for the first phase of the full campus were also released today, revealing how the physical campus will be designed to support Cornell Tech’s focus on innovation, entrepreneurship and collaboration between academia and industry. Mayor Bloomberg and President Skorton signed the lease documents at a City Hall ceremony to finalize the official land transfer to Cornell Tech, where they were joined by President Lavie, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert K. Steel, New York City Economic Development Corporation President Kyle Kimball, U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney, Council Member and Borough President-Elect Gale Brewer, Council Member Jessica Lappin, Cornell Tech Vice President Cathy Dove, Cornell Board Chair Robert Harrison, Cornell Provost Kent Fuchs, Cornell Tech Dean Daniel Hutenlocher, Forest City Ratner Companies President and CEO MaryAnne Gilmartin, and Hudson Companies Principal David Kramer.
“Our goal has been to make New York City the global capital of technological innovation, and this new campus on Roosevelt Island is a central part of our strategy for achieving it,” said Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. “It is one of the most ambitious and forward-looking economic development projects any city has ever undertaken, and it’s going to help add thousands of new jobs to our economy in the decades ahead.”
“The State was proud to work closely with the Mayor’s Office, RIOC and Cornell because we strongly believe that the path to New York State’s continued economic growth will largely be defined by partnerships that start with our State’s academic institutions,” said Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. “This project leverages two of the world’s most notable institutions in a way that will help foster technological innovation within New York State, while creating jobs and spurring business investment.”
“Cornell Tech is the proof that government and universities can work together to innovate and support economic growth, and we will be forever grateful for Mayor Bloomberg’s leadership in making this campus possible,” said Cornell University President David J. Skorton. “The Roosevelt Island campus is being built for the future, to be the place that generates the next big ideas, the new companies and extraordinary talent that will change New York and the world.”
“Thanks to Mayor Bloomberg’s vision, New York City is fast becoming a leading global center of innovation,” said Technion President Peretz Lavie. “Through the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute, our international partnership with Cornell Tech, we look forward to helping to further the city's future as the technology capital of the world.”
Applied Sciences NYC was launched by Mayor Bloomberg in 2011 in an effort to capitalize on the considerable recent growth and even larger opportunity for future growth in technology-related jobs and businesses in New York City, and builds on the Bloomberg Administration’s record of creating a more diversified economy for the City’s future. In July 2011, NYCEDC issued an RFP seeking a university, institution or consortium to develop and operate a new or expanded campus in the City in exchange for City capital, access to City-owned land and the full support and partnership of the Bloomberg Administration, and subsequently received seven responses from 17 world-class institutions from around the globe. Cornell Tech was the first of four Applied Sciences projects to be announced by the City in an effort to strengthen New York City’s global competiveness – including its growing technology sector – and ensure that the City establishes itself as a worldwide hub of science, research, innovation and urban solutions for the digital age and the information economy. Cornell Tech was selected for this initiative based on its innovative model for graduate technology education and its emphasis on the intersections between academia and industry and forward-thinking areas of study. When completed, the new Roosevelt Island campus alone will nearly double the number of full-time, graduate engineering students enrolled in leading New York City Master’s and Ph.D. programs.
The four Applied Sciences NYC projects that have been announced by the Mayor include:
· Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island
· The Center for Urban Science and Progress in Downtown Brooklyn, operated by an international consortium led by New York University
· The Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering at Columbia University
· Carnegie Mellon University’s Integrative Media Program at Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Collectively, the four Applied Sciences NYC projects are expected to generate more than $33.2 billion in nominal economic activity, over 48,000 permanent and construction jobs, and approximately 1,000 spin-off companies by 2046, fulfilling the initiative’s goal of dramatically transforming the City’s economy for the 21st century. These institutions are already strengthening the City’s position as a hub of science, research, innovation and world-class urban solutions in a global economy driven by technological fluency and innovation.
“Mayor Bloomberg’s Applied Sciences initiative will transform the City’s economy, doubling the number of engineering faculty and graduate students in New York City. These are the skills we need to compete in the knowledge and information economy of the 21st Century,” said Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert K. Steel. “The closing of the Cornell Tech lease is a major step toward that goal and I congratulate Presidents Skorton and Lavie on this critical moment in the arc of Cornell and the Technion’s history.”
“Over only two years, thanks to an unprecedented model of collaboration across City and State government, top academic institutions, and the private sector, we have transformed Applied Sciences NYC from a visionary idea into a physical reality that is already reshaping our City,” said NYCEDC President Kyle Kimball. “Since selecting Cornell and the Technion as our first winners, in partnership with the Health and Hospitals Corporation we have built and opened a new hospital in Harlem that is currently serving former Coler-Goldwater patients; secured all necessary approvals for the Roosevelt Island campus; selected three additional Applied Sciences winners; and launched classes. Thanks to Mayor Bloomberg’s leadership, this initiative will create jobs, businesses, and technologies, resulting in transformative economic activity that will help secure the City’s future.”
“Cornell Tech is extremely grateful for the unwavering support of the Roosevelt Island community throughout the public review process and we are committed to being great neighbors during construction and beyond,” said Cornell Tech Vice President Cathy S. Dove. “We are also fortunate to have such extraordinary development partners in Forest City Ratner and Hudson/Related to help us make this vision a reality.”
“We are thrilled to be working with Cornell and so many great partners to help create a truly extraordinary new place on Roosevelt Island,” said Forest City Ratner Companies President and CEO MaryAnne Gilmartin. “Under Mayor Bloomberg’s watch the City’s tech sector has grown enormously and we are well poised as a company and as a project to continue with that growth at Cornell Tech.”
“With Mayor Bloomberg’s vision guiding the way, Cornell Tech will be at the leading edge of the next generation in tech and applied sciences,” said David Kramer, partner of The Hudson Companies. “We look forward to bringing out-of-the-box thinking to a best-in-class building on the forefront of design and sustainability.”
“I am pleased to join Mayor Bloomberg for this monumental step toward making the Cornell Tech campus a reality. I have strongly supported bringing Cornell Tech to Roosevelt Island from the very beginning of this process,” said U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney. “The campus holds great promise for Roosevelt Island and for New York City, attracting future leaders in the technology and engineering industry. Many of the amenities included in the plans will be open and available to the public, including areas of park space. I commend Cornell for its transparency during the planning process and commitment to being a good neighbor to Island residents.”
“Cornell Tech will generate opportunities and innovations for generations to come, and today we take a step closer to our city's future,” said Council Member Jessica Lappin.
“I applaud Mayor Bloomberg, Cornell Tech, and the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation on their historic lease signing to build a new applied sciences campus on Roosevelt Island,” said Manhattan Borough President-Elect Gale A. Brewer. “This partnership will play a key role in the growth of New York City’s tech sector in the coming years, and will attract new development to Roosevelt Island. I look forward to working with all parties to ensure the success of this venture.”
Academic uses of the campus are anticipated to include classrooms, laboratories, teaming areas, and lecture halls, as well as start-up incubator/accelerator space to encourage entrepreneurship. The remainder of the space in the campus will be devoted to corporate co-location space designed to facilitate the interaction between academia and industry, residential uses, an executive education center, and ancillary uses, such as retail in support of the faculty, staff and students on the campus, as well as the creation of new open space.
While planning is underway for the opening of the permanent campus in 2017, Cornell Tech is already operating in temporary space in Manhattan. The campus master plan, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill with James Corner Field Operations, includes a number of innovative features and facilities across a river-to-river campus with expansive views, a series of green, public spaces, and a seamless integration of indoor and outdoor areas. Cornell Tech will combine cutting edge technologies to create one of the most environmentally friendly and energy-efficient campuses in the world, not only employing, but developing new environmental technology.
A sustainable and innovative academic building will be designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architects and, in a significant departure from traditional academic facilities, take its cue from the tech world by offering open-plan space and extensive collaborative workspaces. The phase one academic building, if completed today, would be the largest net-zero energy building in eastern United States, with all of its power generated on campus.
A corporate co-location building, designed by Weiss/Manfredi and developed by Forest City Ratner Companies, will bring together corporate innovators, world-class researchers and energetic start-ups under one roof, a concrete reflection of the campus’ mission of fusing academia and industry to encourage innovation for the public good. Cornell Tech will be an anchor tenant. Renderings of this building and the academic building were released today, and are available at tech.cornell.edu/press/.
Ensuring that the campus is active 24/7, a residential building, designed by Handel Architects and developed by Hudson and Related Companies, will be built to provide convenient and affordable campus housing for students, faculty and staff. It will rely on passive sustainable design features to reduce energy usage and further advance the campus’ sustainability goals.
Plans are also under underway for an Executive Education Center and Hotel, which will help ensure that Cornell Tech is a magnet in New York City for innovation by providing conference, executive program and academic workshop space along with a hotel and destination restaurant.
The 12-acre footprint of the Cornell Tech campus includes the site of the former Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility, which has been replaced by the new state-of-the art, 365-bed, $300 million Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital in Harlem, built by NYCEDC, which is operated by the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation and provides world-class medical care for New Yorkers in need of highly specialized, complex treatment. Former Goldwater patients were relocated to the new hospital last month. The campus footprint also includes property formerly controlled by the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation. Cornell Tech has spent the past year working with the Roosevelt Island community on plans to minimize the impact of construction on residents, including deployment of the largest barging program in New York City to remove demolition materials from the site.
Cornell Tech classes began earlier this year in space donated by Google in Chelsea. The school now includes masters and Ph.D. students, world-class faculty and established collaborations with dozens of industry-leading organizations contributing to graduate study in areas such as Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Information Science, Operations Research and Business. Cornell Tech also launched its commitment to partnership with New York City’s public school students earlier this year, working with numerous organizations to bring tech education to a diverse audience. A director of K-12 education for Cornell Tech will be announced early in 2014.
Beginning in January, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute at Cornell Tech will welcome a number of postdoctoral students to the current campus. Later in 2014, the Jacobs Institute will launch a master’s degree program in Connective Media designed to educate the entrepreneurial engineers and technologists needed in the media sector to steward the continuing digital transformation of the industry. Students in this two-year program will receive degrees from both Technion and Cornell. Also in 2014, Cornell Tech will launch a Johnson MBA that will combine business, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship in a fast-paced, hands-on learning environment.
Cornell Tech will host entrepreneurs-in-residence, organize business competitions, provide legal support for startups, reach out to existing companies to form research partnerships and sponsor research, and establish a pre-seed financing program to support promising research. In addition, the campus will structure its on-site tech transfer office to facilitate startup formation and technology licensing. Cornell Tech will also invest $150 million that will be solely devoted to start-up businesses in the City.
In keeping with the focus on community involvement contained in the RFP, the Cornell Tech proposal outlined a number of areas in which the universities will touch the lives of New Yorkers -- the type of involvement to which both schools have been committed for many years in their primary campus communities. Plans for community involvement in New York City include the creation of education enhancement programs that will impact a minimum of 10,000 New York City students and 200 New York City teachers per year. Cornell Tech also intends to work closely with PS/IS 217 on Roosevelt Island to enrich their curricula and participate in STEM-oriented programming. They will also work to meet the goals of the City’s HireNYC employment program and develop partnerships for job placement and training. In furtherance of its community outreach goals, Cornell Tech will offer significant programming on and off its campus designed to engage with residents of Roosevelt Island and the larger City. Cornell’s campus plan will further create new public open space on the campus.
Labels: Cornell , Cornell EDC Lease , Cornell RIOC Negotiations , Mayor Bloomberg , proposed engineering school
FDR Four Freedoms Park Explains Why It Was Closed For Snow Last Saturday Disappointing Roosevelt Island Visitor - Will Try To Keep Park Open Whenever Possible This Winter Even If Southpoint Park Closed They Say
Roosevelt Island got a little bit of snow last Saturday when resident Trevre Andrews tried to enter the FDR Four Freedoms Park (FDR Park) but was:
to be greeted by a closed gate
Image From Trevre Andrews
and signage that said the Park was closed
due to weather (the sign actually said the park was "close").
I asked Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC) President Charlene Indelicato and the RIOC Directors:
On Saturday during the snow storm, a Roosevelt Island resident sent me the two attached pictures showing the FDR Four Freedoms Park closed during the day.
The resident was very disappointed in not being able to enter the park during the snowstorm.
According to the sign on the closed gate to the FDR Park, the Park was closed due to the weather.
No other NYC parks were closed during the snowstorm including Roosevelt Island's Southpoint Park.
Why was FDR Park closed?
Does RIOC have any policy or requirement regarding the times that the FDR Park is open to the public?
Ms. Indelicato responded that the FDR Park was not within the jurisdiction of RIOC. Not sure if that is completely accurate but will explore the issue later.
I also asked representatives of the FDR Park why the park was closed on Saturday during the snow. Suzy Brown, Director of The FDR Park Visitor Experience, responded:
Although we hope to keep the Park open as much as possible this winter, we will always have to close the Park if weather conditions cause visitor safety concerns. Since the Memorial was constructed out of a very particular type of granite and is situated in a very specific location surrounded by water, we cannot simply follow the closure advisories of NYC Parks or NYS Parks.
We are able to clear the Park of snow, but since we can't use salt on the granite we have to be very careful if we feel that icy conditions are developing. Saturday was a particularly challenging day and very specific weather challenges were faced by many different locations throughout the City.
The 9/11 Memorial had to close early in the afternoon on Saturday, and the High Line was unable to open until after 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. Our onsite staff felt that it was safest to close on Saturday. I apologize that we did not send out a notification, and that we had to use a makeshift sign. However, as I mentioned in my email, going forward we will be sure to send out email notifications about closings as soon as we have made the decision.
I am happy to report that we have also made arrangements with RIOC to keep our Park open whenever possible, regardless of whether or not Southpoint Park is closed. Unfortunately, there were many days last year when we had cleared our Park and were ready to open but Southpoint Park was not cleared and was kept shut, restricting access to our Park. This winter, even if Southpoint Park remains closed due to heavy snowfall, if we are able to clear the Four Freedoms Park sufficiently, our staff will then clear a path in Southpoint Park from the back East gate allowing pedestrian access into our back East gate until RIOC staff is able to clear all of Southpoint Park and open the front gate and Southpoint Park fully to the public.
Ms. Brown added:
Please note that the Four Freedoms Park will be closed on Christmas Day, Wednesday, December 25th. Regular winter hours of 9:00 to 5:00 (closed Tuesday) will resume on Thursday, December 26th.
Going forward, the Four Freedoms Park will send e-mail notices to this contact list if the Park is closed or opening late due to inclement weather. Notification will be posted on the website and through social media and, whenever possible, signage will be posted at the Park.
Roosevelt Island Historical Society President Judy Berdy is concerned about the FDR Park workers. According to Ms. Berdy:
It is most unfortunate that the humanitarian legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt is not being executed by the administration of the FDR Four Freedoms Memorial Park.
In recent weeks, as well as last winter, the park staff sit huddled in a tiny unheated vehicle while on duty. There is no shelter for them as they stand at the windblown south end of the Island, speak with visitors and maintain the austere and pristine granite of the site.
The park is never closed due to inclement weather. Countless visitors to the park remark on the situation of the staff when they enter the RIHS Visitor Center.
It is well known that architect Louis Kahn died before completing his plan for the memorial. He may have intended to provide (seating and shade for the public and even) shelter for the park staff. Certainly, there is plenty of space on park property to provide an enclosed heated shelter for the comfort of staff and visitors.
The callous indifference of the influential and wealthy members of the FDR Four Freedoms Park speaks louder than the desire to maintain the architect's unknown intent.
Just in case the park administration says they are a poor not for profit, here is a listing of their Board:
John Dyson, Chairman of Millbrook Capital Management, Inc., Jack Rosenthal, President-Emeritus of The New York Times Company Foundation;, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher of The Nation, Warren Hoge, Senior Adviser for External Relations to the International Peace Institute; and William Whitaker, ex officio, Curator of The Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, Ambassador vanden Heuvel; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; Barbara Shattuck Kohn, Carl Weisbrod; Sally Minard; William R. Griffith, Secretary & Treasurer; James Polshek; and Gina Pollara.
Labels: FDR Park , FDR rules , snow
Coach Scot's Main Street Sweets On Roosevelt Island Celebrating One Year Anniversary Today - $1 Ice Cream, Coffee, Popcorn And Cookies Now and Thru Weekend, Yum
Coach Scot's Main Street Sweets
Image From Main Street Sweets
on Roosevelt Island is celebrating its One Year Anniversary today and through the weekend. Owner Scot Bobo reports:
Today marks the Main Street Sweets 1 year anniversary.
We are celebrating with $1 coffee, $1 ice cream, $1 popcorn and $1 cookies today through the weekend.
Congrats Main Street Sweets!
Labels: ice cream , Main Street Retail Master Lease Agreement , Main Street Sweets , Retail
Take A Walk Over Roosevelt Island Bridge To Melting Pot Caribbean Restaurant On Vernon Boulevard - We Love Astoria Likes It Very Much
Have you ever tried the Melting Pot Caribbean restaurant on Vernon Boulevard and 36th Avenue just over the Roosevelt Island Bridge?
Image From Google Maps
We Love Astoria did and wrote a very positive review of the restaurant. An excerpt:
Melting Pot Cuisine, the neighborhood’s only source of Jamaican cooking, is perched on the neighborhood’s southwestern corner, abutting the Roosevelt Island Bridge at the intersection of 36th Avenue and Vernon Boulevard. They deliver everywhere in the neighborhood, but it’s worth trekking down there to enjoy a meal in their sunny dining room....
... The curry chicken roti is good bet on a cold day. It’s a huge griddled flatbread, filled with chicken on the bone and hunks of potato stewed in fragrant spiced gravy....
Chicken Roti. Photo credit: Anne Noyes Saini via We Love Astoria
Click here for the entire review of Melting Pot from We Love Astoria.
Give it a try and let us know what you think.
Labels: Astoria , Long Island City , Melting Pot , Restaurants
Roosevelt Island Women's Health Organization Last 2013 Seminar On December 18 - Holistic Nutrition, Blood Pressure Screening And Meditation
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The Roosevelt Island Women's Health Organization (RIWHO) sends the following invitation to women 18 years and older for its December 18 Monthly Seminar.
COME AND JOIN THE ROOSEVELT ISLAND WOMENS HEALTH
ORGANIZATION (RIWHO)
Our Last Seminar for 2013
Date: Wednesday 12/18/13
Place 546 Main St. 12th floor
Let us end 2013 feeling functional and fresh
Our speaker is
Ms. Magella Samory
She is a certified Holistic Nutritional Consultant
and Spiritual Healer
She will speak on Holistic Nutrition
Blood Pressure Screening: Eileen Sheehy
Meditation: Sheryl Glenn
And a Grab bag give away
Please come and join us
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Remembrance Of Nelson Mandela From Roosevelt Island Resident Ike Nahem - "You Become Special When You Fight For Freedom" Said Mandela To Nahem
Reported last December 5 on the life and death of Nelson Mandela. He was buried on December 15.
Roosevelt Island resident Ike Nahem shares his thoughts on the struggle against South African apartheid and personal memories of meeting Nelson Mandela.
According to Mr. Nahem:
Image from The Things We Say
Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.
-- Nelson Mandela
The incredible outpouring of human emotion and dignified appreciation that has met the passing of Nelson Mandela on December 5, 2013, has flowed like a raging river from every nation and people on the planet. It was a grief tempered by a jubilation and wonderment at the life of this great and humble human being.
While it is certainly true that the death of Mandela is felt most viscerally and genuinely by his own people and by the oppressed and exploited overwhelming majority of humanity who toil, think, and struggle for a better world, a world with more freedom, justice, and equality it is also true that he was admired and loved by countless millions from all social classes and walks-of-life with any democratic and anti- racist ideals who were sincerely touched by his amazing life, his example, and his deeds.
I had the unforgettable experience -- and the thrill of a lifetime -- to meet, shake hands, and exchange a few words with Nelson Mandela.
It was June 1990 in the so-called VIP reception area of Washington's National Airport. (Surreally to me the airport was later renamed for President Ronald Reagan who notoriously vetoed legislation mandating economic sanctions against apartheid South Africa that was overridden. Less well know is the fact that the Reagan Administration with bipartisan support, allied with apartheid South Africa in a series of devastating wars -- fought overtly by the apartheid South African army and covertly by the CIA -- against newly independent southern African states that were supporting Mandela's African National Congress. In Mozambique and Angola reactionary tribal groups -- RENAMO in Mozambique, UNITA in Angola -- were armed and trained under South African and CIA direction. Over a number of years through the 1980s they laid waste to the southern Africa lands, killing some 1.5 million people by most credible accounts.)
I had gotten an invitation as a longtime activist and organizer in the anti-apartheid movement. Since I had first heard of it as a teenager affected by the US Civil Rights Movement, I had always hated the apartheid system and state and wanted to do something about it. In college at Indiana University I had helped organize a big conference which featured anti-apartheid South Africans. But in the late 60s and early 70s, as the Vietnam War raged on, the racist apartheid state was implacable and seemed invulnerable. In truth it was entering its last period as history started to accelerate.
Endgame for the Portuguese Empire
In 1974 the centuries-old Portuguese Empire in Africa collapsed as the quasi-fascist Salazar dictatorship was overturned by a group of progressive-minded military officers. The floodgates of long-suppressed mass, democratic action opened up in Portugal and among other things it was a sentiment that wanted nothing to do with maintaining colonies in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau against growing independence movements.
The former Portuguese colonies that were adjacent to apartheid South Africa were about to form governments dominated by the liberation forces who were longtime friends and allies of Mandela's African National Congress (ANC). On the eve of its formal transition to full independence Angola found itself invaded by a powerful, highly mechanized South African army marching, practically unopposed by the badly outgunned Angolan forces, on the capital Luanda aiming to install a puppet government. The new Angolan government urgently appealed to the Cuban government for help and got it just in in time. (A wonderful account of the Cuban mobilization is given by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez called Cuba in Angola: Operation Carlotta, which can be found online and on Amazon.com). Fidel Castro's government dispatched thousands of volunteer soldiers and heavy equipment without even telling the Soviet government which they knew would oppose it as too risky and a provocation to Washington, with whom they were pursuing a "detente" in Cold-War tensions following the end of the Vietnam War and US Watergate crisis. These considerations were of little importance to the Cuban leadership who saw clearly the worldwide ramifications for progressive humanity of a unbridled victory for the South African racists.
At any rate the Cuban army arrived, usually going directly from port or airfield directly to combat in the front lines and soon drove the apartheid invaders out of Angola. This was a political and psychological game changer in Africa. For the first time the white South African army (there were a number of white-officered conscripted African troops as well) were beaten in frontal combat by troops that were largely of color. The mystique of white superiority and domination was being broken.
In June 1976, in no small part inspired by these events, the Soweto student uprising took place. This insurrectionary student revolt that began against the mandatory instruction of the Afrikaner language of the racist regime, was the greatest-ever mass challenge to the apartheid regime since the 1950s. It was drowned in blood with many hundreds gunned down and murdered, to the utter revulsion of world public opinion.
I was living in New York when the Soweto uprising occurred. Two of the central leaders of the uprising, Tsietsi Mashanene and Khotso Seatlhoho, managed to escape South Africa and the death warrant on their heads. Anti-apartheid activists fought like hell to get them a US visa for a nationwide speaking tour. We finally succeeded and it was a big success. When they got to New York we gave them the grand tour, the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, and the then-overwhelmingly seedy and decadent Times Square of long ago. I'll never forget the wide-eyed, 18 year-old Mashanene, who had an almost childlike gentle demeanor that combined with a visceral intellectual and political intensity, astonished reaction to the Times Square of the late-1970s. With that distinct South African accent and inflection, he said to me, "My God, in New York you have not only X movies but XXX. I do not understand." I really had no answer to that.
After the tour both young warriors went back to Southern Africa for military training at an ANC camp. Years later I heard that both of my friends had died in combat. When my wife Erin and I first visited free South Africa in 2010, friends took us into Soweto, to the Memorial for the martyred youth
Images From Ike Nahem
and saw a tribute to my friends. We also visited Robben Island, off Cape Town and saw the cell where Nelson Mandela spent the big majority of his prison time.
Free South Africa Movement
In the mid-1980s, leading up to the crumbling of the apartheid regime, there burst onto the scene spreading from Washington, DC, the Free South Africa Movement. It was initiated by the DC-based group TransAfrica , led by Randall Robinson. It was decided to start daily picket lines in front of the South African Embassy, which was right in the middle of DC's opulent, serene, and fabled Embassy Row. The protest featured selective people engaging in non-violent civil disobedience and getting hauled away for a day in DC's jails.
As word spread of this happening, the protests grew bigger every day. A solidarity ritual took hold. Every day a new group would take the lead, mobilize some of their folks, and get arrested. Hundreds every day; on some special days thousands. Every day. Sculptors Against Apartheid, Punk Rockers Against Apartheid, Jewish groups, Muslim groups, so many churches, atheists and Buddhists, practically every trade union in the DC area -- grizzled looking old white guys who fit some biased anti-union stereotype brought their folks to the picket line --college students every day from a different campus, high school students from elite private schools, feminists, gays and lesbians. One day I couldn't believe my eyes there was a downright militant, chanting delegation of Accountants Against Apartheid! Pretty soon even the politicians got on board.
We had a movement on our hands. Campuses and banks were coming under heavy pressure to divest from South Africa. The forked-tongue Reagan Administration policy of "Constructive Engagement" began to collapse.
It was amazing. It was inspiring. And it told me that the apartheid state was doomed...and probably sooner rather than later.
A few years later Fidel Castro's Cuban Army led a military force including Angolans, South Africans, and Namibians (a former German colony ruled by the apartheid state) routed the South African army in the Battle of Cuito Cunavale, forcing a retreat back to South Africa where, now, the African townships were in open, permanent, mass rebellion. Endgame for the racist regime.
Namibia won its independence. Nelson Mandela and all the political prisoners were freed. The ANC and all the banned anti-apartheid organizations were legalized.
And Nelson Mandela was coming to the United States! It was the second country he visited since winning his freedom, in recognition of the strong, unstoppable anti-apartheid movement here. His first stop was Havana and Cuba to speak before hundreds of thousands embracing his close friend Fidel Castro and thanking the Cuban government and people for what he called their crucial, even decisive part in his release from prison and breaking the back and the morale of the apartheid state. (For the full speech of Mandela in Cuba see www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=3044)
Meeting Mandela
I was feeling pretty humble standing there in the VIP Lounge among the dignitaries, politicians, diplomats, Secret Service Agents, media and other celebrities, with my fellow activists. His flight touched down, taxied, and Mandela, the living legend, entered the room. As I approached him I teared up. My tiny piece of the struggle was a big piece of my life. I caught that amazing smile and thought to myself, What a burden it must be to have people blubbering all over the place when they meet you. But I guess he's used to it. I shook his hand and gave him some copies of a pamphlet with several of his recent speeches -- always clear, precise, and elegant -- published by Pathfinder Press which I was helping to widely distribute. They were very attractive and professionally done and he seemed very pleased.
I managed to blurt out, "It's an honor to meet you." He replied, "Well it's an honor to meet you." "But I'm nobody special," I protested. Mandela looked me in the eye, smiled and said, "Well you become someone special when you fight for freedom."
The Struggle Continues
South Africa, a ravishingly beautiful land where we met so many warm and friendly people, is still far from overcoming the brutal legacy of apartheid. It remains starkly unequal and there is growing unrest and turmoil, especially from industrial workers and agricultural laborers. Corruption among the small, emerging layer of newly-rich Africans who have gained entry into the still-white dominated business and financial summits, has shocked and disgusted the many who still lack running water or decent housing, or who are among the 25% -- 50% among Black African youth -- who are officially unemployed. Police violence is rampant, as exemplified by the cold-blooded murder of 34 striking platinum miners by police last year.
Nelson Mandela and his generation of revolutionaries like Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Joe Slovo, Ruth First and so many others, are almost all gone now, but what they fundamentally accomplished by destroying the structures and prerogatives of apartheid, was to lay the foundations to advance around questions such as land reform, education, access to medical care, women's rights, and decent housing. The destruction of apartheid established the democratic and political space, the rights for working people to move about freely, to associate, and to organize in their interests, which they are doing every day, in the ongoing fight for social justice and social equality. The struggle, personified by Madiba, the Xhosa name by which Mandela was affectionately known, conquered dignity and democratic freedom, the prerequisite for the previously oppressed majority to win a good and better life, to pursue happiness.
The ideas and example of Nelson Mandela will never die as long as human beings live and fight for freedom, justice, and equality by any means necessary.
(Ike Nahem has lived in Westview since 1999 with his wife Erin and son Andrew. He activism against apartheid goes back to the late 1960s. Ike is an Amtrak locomotive engineer and member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, a division of the Teamsters Union. He drives high-speed trains from New York to Washington, DC.)
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Roosevelt Island Roads And Streets May Freeze Over From Today's Snowstorm, RIOC Advises To Drive And Walk Very Carefully - Also, Tram Station Elevator Currently Out Of Service
The weather is cold and nasty outside today. The Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC) advises:
The National Weather Service is calling for 1 to 4 inches of snow for the NYC Metropolitan area today. With temperatures below freezing, the roads may freeze over rather quickly. Please take every precaution while driving and walking about. It would be prudent to drive at a much slower rate of speed while allowing for ample distance between you and the vehicle in front of you. Please pay particular attention when approaching pedestrian and school crossings. Have a safe day.
RIOC also advises that:
Please be advised that the Manhattan Tram Station elevator and wheelchair lift are currently out of service. An advisory will be sent out once they are back in service.
Be careful out there.
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Donate A Warm Winter Coat To The Roosevelt Island New York Cares Winter Coat Drive - Drop Off At Public Safety Department 24 Hours A Day Thru December 23
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It is starting to get cold on Roosevelt Island and the rest of New York City. If you have a warm winter coat that will not be used, please consider donating it to the New York Cares Roosevelt Island Winter Coat drive.
According to Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC) Public Safety Director Jack McManus:
The Public Safety Department is once again participating in the NY CARES WINTER COAT DRIVE. This program has brought warmth to many of the needy during our frigid winters. Last year, several hundred coats were donated. We look forward to your continued generosity.
Donated coats will be accepted thru 12/23/13. Donations can be brought to:
The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation
Please help keep one person warm this winter.
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Cornell NYC Tech Announces Joint Venture With Hudson Related To Build Residential Building On Roosevelt Island Campus - The 350 Units Are A Critical Piece To Attract Best Talent Says School's Dean Dan Huttenlocher
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According to this Press Release just received from Cornell NYC Tech:
Cornell NYC Tech today announced the formation of a joint venture with The Hudson Companies and The Related Companies to construct the first residential building on its Roosevelt Island campus. The residential building will employ innovative new approaches to sustainability and bring the 24/7 activity vital to creating a vibrant community when the campus opens in 2017. Construction of the campus is set to begin in early 2014, with construction of the residential building slated for 2015.
The building will include approximately 350 housing units for students, staff and faculty, with a mix of micro units, one bedrooms, two bedrooms, and three bedroom suites. Planned amenities include a gym, bike room, lounge, roof deck, multi-purpose, collaboration, and media rooms for residents.
Aligned with Cornell Tech’s mission, the residential building will aim to set a new standard for high rise residential design, technology and innovation with a “best in class” approach to all building systems. It will rely on passive sustainable design features to achieve extraordinary reductions in energy use and carbon emissions.
“With Hudson and Related, Cornell Tech has added a development partner with enormous experience on Roosevelt Island to deliver one of the campus’ most important buildings,” said Cathy Dove, Vice President of Cornell Tech. “This is another example of a leading private sector partner excited to join Cornell in the early stages of the campus development, making Cornell Tech’s ambitious plans achievable on an aggressive timeline.”
“The residential building is a critical piece of Cornell Tech’s ability to attract the best talent by creating a 24/7 community of graduate students and faculty, with outstanding on-campus residential facilities that complement the leading-edge academic environment,” said Cornell Tech Dean Dan Huttenlocher. “Cornell Tech is centered around innovation, and this building will break new ground with its approach to sustainability and building systems design.”
“Hudson and Related could not be more excited for the opportunity to play a role in this once-in-a-lifetime development, which will bring immense growth to New York’s tech sector for generations to come,” said David Kramer, partner of The Hudson Companies. “This dynamic campus is a welcome addition to the Island, which we have gotten to know over the past 16 years. We plan on pushing the envelope for this building. The goal is to set a new standard for high rise residential design, technology and innovation.”
For the past 16 years, Hudson and Related have worked together with the community to develop quality housing and retail on Roosevelt Island, including Riverwalk, which comprises six completed residential buildings, one under construction and two more planned. Hudson and Related have also almost completed a major renovation project along Main Street that includes placing new retail uses on the Island’s commercial thoroughfare.
For the Cornell Tech residential building, Hudson and Related have put together an all-star team to assist in planning the building. These new partners join an impressive Cornell Tech development and design team working on various aspects of the campus, which includes Forest City Ratner Companies, Morphosis Architects, Weiss/Manfredi, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and James Corner Field Operations. The building is being designed by award-winning New York architecture firm Handel Architects. Buro Happold, world-renowned sustainability experts and engineers, are assisting with the low-energy strategy for the building, which will include state of the art mechanical system design.
“This building has the potential to be a game changer in residential design, combining high performance/passive technologies with a high degree of user control and accountability,” said Gary Handel, Handel Architects. “It’s a perfect fit for the campus’ ambition and we are looking forward to working with Cornell Tech, Hudson, Related and Buro Happold to make it a reality.”
“Buro Happold is thrilled to be working with Hudson, Related, Cornell Tech, and Handel Architects to design this next-generation, high-performance residential tower,” said Craig Schwitter, Principal, Buro Happold. “We’re proud to collaborate on a project that will prioritize passive design practices and maximize energy efficiency.”
Cornell NYC Tech is a revolutionary model for graduate tech education, forging a new intersection between academia and industry. It’s a staging ground for what’s next, fueling ground-breaking research and entrepreneurial thinkers who will create the technology that reinvents the way we live.
This is another major milestone for the campus. Classes began earlier this year in space donated by Google in Chelsea. Cornell Tech now includes a masters program in Computer Science, Ph.D. students in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Science, a world-class faculty and active collaborations with dozens of industry-leading organizations. Cornell Tech also launched its commitment to partnership with New York’s public school students, working with numerous organizations to bring tech education to a diverse audience.
Beginning in January, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute at Cornell Tech will welcome a number of postdocs to the campus. Later in 2014, the Jacobs Institute will launch its first degree program in Connective Media. Students in this two year program will receive degrees from both Technion and Cornell. The innovative program is designed to educate the entrepreneurial engineers and technologists needed in the media sector to respond to, and drive, the digital transformation of the industry. Also in 2014, Cornell Tech will launch a Johnson MBA. The program will fuse business, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship in a fast-paced, hands-on learning environment.
The City's Applied Sciences NYC initiative was designed to capitalize on the considerable growth presently occurring within the science, technology and research fields in New York, and builds on the Bloomberg Administration’s dedication to creating a more diversified and competitive economy for the future. In December 2011, the Cornell and Technion partnership was selected by the City as the first winner of the Applied Sciences competition. When completed, the Roosevelt Island campus will house approximately 2,000 full-time graduate students.
As reported last Friday, the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC) approved the transfer of RIOC controlled land for the Cornell NYC Tech Roosevelt Island campus contingent upon NY State signing the agreed upon funding memo.
UPDATE 12/17: According to Josh Sirefman, Sirefman Ventures, who is leading the negotiations on the real estate for Cornell NYC Tech:
Cornell pursued a unique arrangement for this project to ensure that a great residential building would be built to enliven the campus 24/7 and that the university could provide affordable housing to its faculty, students and staff.
--Cornell and the partnership of Hudson/Related will co-own the building.
--Cornell will sublease land to the joint venture, and the JV will construct the building.
--The units will be restricted to Cornell faculty, students and staff, and because of Cornell’s investment, can be priced on the low-end of market.
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Episode 2: "The Party Fish" (recap) Original airdate: 7/18/1991 Brandon is befriended by a rich douchebag who's a prominent member of the Beverly Hills Beach Club, and is dismayed to learn that this middle-aged man is carrying on a sordid affair with the cute young waitress he was hoping to become more than friends with. The fact-checkers, whose work is more and more important for those who prefer facts over lies, police the line between fact and falsehood on a day-to-day basis, and do a great job. Today, my small contribution is to pass along a very good overview that reflects on one of Trump’s favorite overarching falsehoods. Namely: Trump describes an America in which everything was going down the tubes under Obama, which is why we needed Trump to make America great again. And he claims that this project has come to fruition, with America setting records for prosperity under his leadership and guidance. “Obama bad; Trump good” is pretty much his analysis in all areas and measurement of U.S. activity, especially economically. Even if this were true, it would reflect poorly on Trump’s character, but it has the added problem of being false, a big lie made up of many small ones. Personally, I don’t assume that all economic measurements directly reflect the leadership of whoever occupies the Oval Office, nor am I smart enough to figure out what causes what in the economy. But the idea that presidents get the credit or the blame for the economy during their tenure is a political fact of life. Trump, in his adorable, immodest mendacity, not only claims credit for everything good that happens in the economy, but tells people, literally and specifically, that they have to vote for him even if they hate him, because without his guidance, their 401(k) accounts “will go down the tubes.” That would be offensive even if it were true, but it is utterly false. The stock market has been on a 10-year run of steady gains that began in 2009, the year Barack Obama was inaugurated. But why would anyone care about that? It’s only an unarguable, stubborn fact. Still, speaking of facts, there are so many measurements and indicators of how the economy is doing, that those not committed to an honest investigation can find evidence for whatever they want to believe. Trump and his most committed followers want to believe that everything was terrible under Barack Obama and great under Trump. That’s baloney. Anyone who believes that believes something false. And a series of charts and graphs published Monday in the Washington Post and explained by Economics Correspondent Heather Long provides the data that tells the tale. The details are complicated. Click through to the link above and you’ll learn much. But the overview is pretty simply this: The U.S. economy had a major meltdown in the last year of the George W. Bush presidency. Again, I’m not smart enough to know how much of this was Bush’s “fault.” But he had been in office for six years when the trouble started. So, if it’s ever reasonable to hold a president accountable for the performance of the economy, the timeline is bad for Bush. GDP growth went negative. Job growth fell sharply and then went negative. Median household income shrank. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by more than 5,000 points! U.S. manufacturing output plunged, as did average home values, as did average hourly wages, as did measures of consumer confidence and most other indicators of economic health. (Backup for that is contained in the Post piece I linked to above.) Barack Obama inherited that mess of falling numbers, which continued during his first year in office, 2009, as he put in place policies designed to turn it around. By 2010, Obama’s second year, pretty much all of the negative numbers had turned positive. By the time Obama was up for reelection in 2012, all of them were headed in the right direction, which is certainly among the reasons voters gave him a second term by a solid (not landslide) margin. Basically, all of those good numbers continued throughout the second Obama term. The U.S. GDP, probably the single best measure of how the economy is doing, grew by 2.9 percent in 2015, which was Obama’s seventh year in office and was the best GDP growth number since before the crash of the late Bush years. GDP growth slowed to 1.6 percent in 2016, which may have been among the indicators that supported Trump’s campaign-year argument that everything was going to hell and only he could fix it. During the first year of Trump, GDP growth grew to 2.4 percent, which is decent but not great and anyway, a reasonable person would acknowledge that — to the degree that economic performance is to the credit or blame of the president — the performance in the first year of a new president is a mixture of the old and new policies. In Trump’s second year, 2018, the GDP grew 2.9 percent, equaling Obama’s best year, and so far in 2019, the growth rate has fallen to 2.1 percent, a mediocre number and a decline for which Trump presumably accepts no responsibility and blames either Nancy Pelosi, Ilhan Omar or, if he can swing it, Barack Obama. I suppose it’s natural for a president to want to take credit for everything good that happens on his (or someday her) watch, but not the blame for anything bad. Trump is more blatant about this than most. If we judge by his bad but remarkably steady approval ratings (today, according to the average maintained by 538.com, it’s 41.9 approval/ 53.7 disapproval) the pretty-good economy is not winning him new supporters, nor is his constant exaggeration of his accomplishments costing him many old ones). I already offered it above, but the full Washington Post workup of these numbers, and commentary/explanation by economics correspondent Heather Long, are here. On a related matter, if you care about what used to be called fiscal conservatism, which is the belief that federal debt and deficit matter, here’s a New York Times analysis, based on Congressional Budget Office data, suggesting that the annual budget deficit (that’s the amount the government borrows every year reflecting that amount by which federal spending exceeds revenues) which fell steadily during the Obama years, from a peak of $1.4 trillion at the beginning of the Obama administration, to $585 billion in 2016 (Obama’s last year in office), will be back up to $960 billion this fiscal year, and back over $1 trillion in 2020. (Here’s the New York Times piece detailing those numbers.) Trump is currently floating various tax cuts for the rich and the poor that will presumably worsen those projections, if passed. As the Times piece reported:
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Student-athlete and 2017 NJCAA All-American awardee, Zellie Charles, received a scholarship to attend the 4- year Towson University, in Maryland USA.
Zellie is the 2015 recipient of a scholarship under the sports component of the Marigot Development Corporation (MDC) "Study in the US Programme".
Charles was recruited by the Towson Tigers based primarily on her outstanding performances, both on and off the field, at Essex County College. There she had secured several accolades to include the NJCAA All-America 2017 Indoor Track & Field and 2016-2017 Essex County College Athletics- Women's Outdoor Track and Field -Most Valuable Runner.
Zellie has moved up from the NJCAA to the NCAA Division 1 track and field circuit. At Towson University she will continue her studies in biological sciences and she will compete in the 100metre, 200metre and long jump events.
Zellie is excited to be able to work towards her bachelor's degree and to participate in the competitive Division 1 system. She is very grateful to be able to chase her childhood dreams and for all the support from her family and her friends, especially her sister Zarah Charles. Zellie attributes her successes to date to her strong faith and hard work, the persistent support of family and the opportunities and guidance provided by MDC.
Michael Pascal, the Coordinator of the MDC "Study in the US Programme" says he is very proud of the strides that Zellie has made. He believes that she sets a great example of what can be achieved with focused determination and belief. She makes the MDC, the Marigot community and her family very proud.
At this time, Zellie is preparing for the 2018 NCAA Division 1 Out-door Championship, as a member of the Towson University Tigers.
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Thomas Ellis m: 9th Apr 1616 St Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook, Kent Sarah Foster
b: c 1595 b: c 1595
Elizabeth Elizabeth Margaret Jane William
b: 1619 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 22nd Aug 1619 St Laurence Church
d: May 1621 Hawkhurst, Kent
bur: 5th May 1621 St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst, Kent b: 1624 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 12th Dec 1624 St Laurence Church b: 1627 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 14th Oct 1627 St Laurence Church b: 1632 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 6th Sep 1635 St Laurence Church
Great-Great-
William Ellis m: 7th Jun 1663 St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst, Kent Mary Pembleton
ch: 6th Sep 1635 St Laurence Church b: c 1640
Mary William Elizabeth
b: 1670 Cranbrook, Kent
ch: 3rd Apr 1670 St Dunstan's Church b: 1674 Cranbrook, Kent
ch: 24th May 1674 St Dunstan's Church
d: 1741/42 Hawkhurst, Kent
bur: 2nd Feb 1741/42 St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst, Kent b: 1677/78 Cranbrook, Kent
ch: 24th Feb 1677/78 St Dunstan's Church
Great-
William Ellis m: 23rd Feb 1700/01 St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst, Kent Constance Quaife
bur: 2nd Feb 1741/42 St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst, Kent b: 1685 Ticehurst, Sussex, twin
ch: 4th Sep 1685 St. Mary the Virgin Church
d: November 1758 Hawkhurst, Kent
bur: 17th Nov 1758 St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst, Kent
William Thomas Mary John Martha Elizabeth Richard Edward
b: 26th Nov 1702 Cranbrook, Kent
ch: 25th Dec 1702 St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst, Kent
d: September 1786 Hawkhurst, Kent, aged 84 years
bur: 11th Sep 1786 St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst, Kent b: 18th Mar 1704 Cranbrook, Kent
ch: 16th Apr 1704 St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst, Kent b: 31st Jul 1707 Cranbrook, Kent
ch: 10th Aug 1707 St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst, Kent
d: 1772 Hawkhurst, Kent b: 11th Oct 1709 Cranbrook, Kent
ch: 25th Dec 1709 St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst, Kent b: 1711/12 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 10th Feb 1711/12 St Laurence Church b: c 1717 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 14th Apr 1718 St Laurence Church
d: May 1784 Hawkhurst, Kent, [speculation]
bur: 3rd May 1784 St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst, Kent, [speculation] b: c 1717 Hawkhurst, Kent
d: August 1785 Hawkhurst, Kent
bur: 24th Aug 1785 St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst, Kent b: c 1718 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 3rd Aug 1718 St Laurence Church
Edward Ellis m: 18th Oct 1742 All Saints Church, Mountfield, Sussex Sarah Waters
b: c 1718 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 3rd Aug 1718 St Laurence Church b: c 1720
Sarah William Ann John Richard Frances Thomas George
ch: 28th Aug 1743 St Laurence Church b: 1748/49 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 5th Jan 1748/49 St Laurence Church b: 1752 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 19th Apr 1752 St Laurence Church b: 1755 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 26th Dec 1759 St Laurence Church b: 28th Aug 1763 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 28th Aug 1763 St Laurence Church b: 1765 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 29th Jul 1765 St Laurence Church b: 7th Aug 1767 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 31st Aug 1767 St Laurence Church
Mary Elizabeth Edward Jane Constance
ch: 3rd Oct 1745 St Laurence Church b: 1750 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 1st Jul 1750 St Laurence Church b: 1754 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 5th Oct 1754 St Laurence Church b: 1758 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 2nd Feb 1758 St Laurence Church b: 1761 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 11th Nov 1761 St Laurence Church
Thomas Brook m: 26th Oct 1774 St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst, Kent Anne Ellis 1st marriage
ch: 19th Nov 1749 St Laurence Church, son of John and Anne Brook
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bur: 14th Jan 1781 St Laurence Church, Hawkhurst, Kent b: 1752 Hawkhurst, Kent
Ann Thomas Elizabeth Mildred Duke
ch: 3rd Sep 1775 St Laurence Church, daughter of Thomas and Ann Brook b: 1777 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 23rd Feb 1777 St Laurence Church, son of Thomas and Ann Brook b: 1778 Hawkhurst, Kent
ch: 29th Sep 1778 St Laurence Church, twin, daughter of Thomas and Ann Brook b: 1778 Hawkhurst, Kent
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James Samuel May William Charles
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Marta Pacek live, John Otway, Dandelion Festival!
great show this week on the Thursday Morning Special Blend on CKCU - 93.1 FM! Marta Pacek will be live in studio, I'll be speaking with the legendary John Otway, and Meredith Luce will be telling us all about the Dandelion Festival. Tune in to CKCU, the Mighty 93.1 FM!
League of Wolves live in studio + Ottawa Folk Fest!
Tomorrow ust after 8:00, Saskatoon indie band League of Wolves will be live in studio! Later, I will be talking to Mark Monahan about the awesome Folk Fest lineup.
Tomorrow: The Power live + The Bros. Landreth!
On tomorrow's show, tune in for a live performance from The Power featuring Billybilly Boone and a chat with David Landreth of The Bros. Landreth!
CD Review - Fiftymen s/t - Well Worth the Wait!
One of the saddest mysteries of the musical world is why the Fiftymen wait so damn long to release a new record. But it’s no use complaining. Let’s just be thankful that their latest, self-titled effort is finally out. Yes, Fiftymen are back, with their tried and true outlaw country/honky tonk/rock (and a tinge of psychedelia). Play this loud.
As if to announce a return from the dead, the record starts with a rocking up-tempo riff, and then the band tears through “Wedding Band”. This is classic Fiftymen, with some awesome fiddle accompaniment, as the band takes us through a middle American ride. Shifting gears into “Laureen”, Fiftymen explore adolescent love, sentimental sounds and all, putting all of us in mind of summer love, the freedom of the car, and the power of your parents. Again, the strings here are a lovely complement to a classic slow burn love song. There’s a theme of love and loss to this record, for sure. “Don’t Cry” is a traditional country tune, with lyrics to match. Lovely harmonies underline the sadness in the song, and the fiddle takes on another strong role. Whiskey all around.
But enough with that. Fiftymen are most exciting when they are rocking, and “Shake It (Like It’s On Fire)” will get the dead to dance. Locomotive beat, bass line unrelenting, the lyrics here reflect the soul of band: “She got soul and rhythm, she got wild wild desire.” But it almost seems like the band is teasing us with its old personality, as it shifts again into more thoughtful territory: “Diesel Fuel and Kerosene” tells the story of a hometown fire, but the message is more subtle: small towns stifle, constrain and engender a sadness that can’t be escaped. The fiddle here cries for you. And even though some may escape, they are still tied to that place. JJ Hardill’s baritone nails the mood exactly with the refrain: “It’s all falling down around me and I’m not really sure if I’ll remain forever changed.” Definitely a standout track.
“The Fastlane” starts out slow, with a distorted jangly guitar, a slow build up over time, and lovely organ touches. The love and loss theme pops up here again: “I guess it’s easy to forget what you had once you lost it.” This is 70s style southernish slow rock. It’s hard to make this music without sounding recycled; Fiftymen tackle it fantastically, especially with the strings. “That Look On Your Face” is another standout track on this record, and a good indication of where Fiftymen could go with their sound. The song definitely evokes sixties psychedelia a la Doors, but there is something more here. I hear a little grunge, a little Sonic Youth, a little edge with the band pushing its traditional country based music. I look forward to more of this. To continue the somewhat experimental phase, Fiftymen shift gears into “Already Gone”. Although the surf style is not unfamiliar territory for a band that mines traditional rock sources, the band adds some subtle touches with horns and strings. Clearly Fiftymen are looking for other musical areas to explore. “Fiftymen” wraps up with “I Always Get What I Want”, a slow, sad burner about hitting the bottom and the bottle. Nice harmonies and more horns add grace to this thoughtful closer.
Fiftymen are not full time musicians. Clearly, they are passionate about their art, and that is reflected in this latest release. The production is polished, and the music carries you across a great spectrum of country and rock music, sometimes slow, sometimes fast, but always with that heartfelt Fiftymen intensity that those who know the band love so much. Twin guitar, a great rhythm section, and Hardill’s steady voice carry it all like a train. Fortunately, the band is doing more live shows these days and hopes to hit the festival circuit in the summer, including a spot at the Ottawa Bluesfest on July 3rd. While “Fiftymen” is a great, outlaw country record, Fiftymen are best seen live, and preferably in the most divey place you can think of. Wherever it is, you won’t be disappointed.
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Return of
U 67 – Return of
Introduced in 1960, the U 67 was the quintessential studio workhorse
throughout the formative years of modern music. Today, more than ever,
its inimitably smooth sound continues to be in high demand.
Now, for the first time in decades, Neumann’s legendary tube
microphone is back in production, built to the original specifications.
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U 67 FAQ
Q: What determines the cost of the U 67 Set?
A: The U 67 is considerably more costly to manufacture than other Neumann microphones. It includes some very expensive components such as a large custom designed output transformer, a premium quality tube, which must be specially selected from large batches of tubes, and a redesigned power supply with a large toroidal mains transformer.
The microphone itself is very intricate. The circuit board layout dates from the 1960s and does not lend itself to modern manufacturing methods. The “new” U 67, therefore, is built just like the old ones: The entire microphone is handwired. Currently, there are only three specially trained employees who are qualified to build a Neumann U 67 microphone. Like all Neumann microphones, the U 67 is made in Germany, which, of course, is more expensive than outsourcing the production to lower wage countries. However, the expertise and dedication of highly qualified staff is well worth the additional cost as our ambition is to deliver the best quality possible.
Q: What’s in the box?
A: The Neumann U 67 reissue comes in a handsome vintage case and includes a Z 48 shock mount, the new NU 67 V power supply, a UC 5 high quality multipin cable. All included parts, including the case, are made in Germany.
Q: How long is the cable?
A: The UC 5 multipin microphone cable, which connects the U 67 microphone with the NU 67 V power supply, measures 10 meters (32.8 ft.). The cable is very flexible and double shielded for best immunity against RF interference. The same high quality cable material is used for all Neumann tube microphones. The multipin connectors are fully compatible with all older U 67 microphones.
Q: Are new and old connectors and cables compatible?
A: The U 67 has a special connector insert rotated by 30°, compared to the normal configuration commonly used by German broadcasters in the 1960s. This was done for safety reasons, to prevent misconnections between microphones and supplies. This special connector version has been out of production since the early 1990s.
For the 2018 reissue, we mechanically modify and rotate all four connector inserts on microphone, cable and power supply, so they are 100% compatible with all vintage equipment. We even rework the inner diameter of the female cable connector, to accommodate 1992’s slightly thicker housing sockets.
Q: I’d prefer to store the microphone separate from the case. Where can I get a wooden box?
A: The wooden box for the U 87 Ai also fits the U 67. You can order it as replacement part #071247 from your Neumann distributor. This box also fits U 77, M 269, M 367, U 397, U 497 microphones.
Q: How close is the current U 67 reissue to the old U 67 microphones of the 1960s?
A: It is important to understand that the new U 67 is not a copy or clone. It is an original Neumann U 67 microphone, made to the exact same specifications. Key parts such as the output transformer are manufactured according to the original documents and production drawings from the Neumann archive. The most crucial part, the K 67 large diaphragm condenser capsule has always remained in production, as it was later used in the U 87 Ai. While the current K 67 differs from old specimens in minor cosmetic details, its acoustic design and build quality have remained unchanged over the decades.
There are no intentional changes or modifications, either. The current U 67 is engineered to sound exactly like a U 67 microphone from the original production period. The tube circuit and the component values are identical. The frequency response of a new U 67 microphone matches that of an old U 67 made from 1960 to 1971 to the point that you could use them as a stereo pair (provided the old one is in good shape).
Please note that the limited production run of 1992 was adjusted for a slightly brighter response.* This was not repeated with the current reissue. The new U 67 has the same essentially linear response as U 67 microphones from the 1960s.
*Note: The 1992s version response can be adjusted to the linear response by one minor adjustment by any Neumann service station.
Q: Were there different versions of the U 67?
A: The U 67 circuit saw only minimal adjustments, over the decades:
In 1965, the -14 dB attenuator was changed to the current -10 dB configuration.
Since the 1970s, the capsule heads have an additional Pin7, providing a second ground connection to the capsule head. For using current KK 870/67 capsule heads on old U 67s, Pin7 may need to be cut off.
Note: KK 87 capsule heads of the U 87 (1967-1986) are mechanically and electrically not compatible with the U 67.
The U 67 output transformer can be wired to 50 ohms or 200 ohms output impedance. 200 ohms was the European standard, with a minimum load of 1 kohms, according to the principle of “impedance bridging”, which is the worldwide standard nowadays (as described in the international standard IEC 61938). In contrast, U.S. equipment of the 1960s was often designed for lower impedances, and “impedance matching”. Accordingly, most of the microphones shipped to the U.S. and Canada were wired to 50 ohms. This also resulted in 6 dB less sensitivity, helpful with U.S. legacy equipment, which was often designed for the low sensitivities of ribbon and dynamic microphones. Additionally, the power supply version NU 67 u, for the U.S., further reduced the signal level for the above reasons, with a resistive attenuator.
The 2018 reissue of the U 67 is wired to 200 ohms. The NU 67 V has no signal attenuator.
Q: Is the current Neumann U 67 reissue a limited edition?
A: The Neumann U 67 reissue will be produced as long as there is sufficient demand. However, due to the U 67’s labor-intensive construction, the output of microphones per month is limited.
Q: What is the difference between the Neumann U 67 reissue and U 67 style microphones from other manufacturers?
A: The Neumann U 67 is not a copy or “clone”, nor is it a “tribute” or “revival” microphone that merely looks like the real thing. It is a true original. With the experience of the 1992 limited production run, the complete original development documentation of 1959/1960, and all production drawings from the Neumann archive, the original and current manufacture were meticulously evaluated and compared.
Q: What’s important when comparing the U 67 reissue to an old U 67 microphone?
A: First of all, make sure the old U 67 is still in good shape. Many vintage microphones do not conform to their original specifications anymore, either because of defects or because of third party modifications. The U 67 has a very delicate circuit, and minor changes may result in audible sound differences. Another crucial part is the capsule. If it was re-skinned by non-Neumann personnel, it is not likely to sound like a genuine K 67 anymore. The proper way to service a defective Neumann capsule is to have it replaced with an original Neumann capsule. Note: Neumann service does not re-skin capsules.
Apart from that, the usual rules for sound comparisons apply: Place both microphones so that their capsules are as close as possible. Depending on the source and the room, the small offset between both capsules may still produce more sound difference than the microphones themselves. This is particularly true for complex sound sources such as acoustic guitar, where the sound changes audibly within a few inches.
Also, make sure the recorded levels are identical for both microphones. It is not enough to dial in the same amount of gain as the microphones may differ in sensitivity. Keep in mind that small level differences are often not recognized as what they are, but perceived as sound differences. A slightly louder file will usually be preferred as “fuller sounding.” Therefore, it’s essential to match the RMS level (not peak level!) of the files you want to compare. Studies have shown that a level difference of 0.2 dB was enough for participants to choose the slightly louder file as “better sounding” – even though the test files were otherwise identical.
Finally, we tend to perceive what we expect to hear. Follow the principles of blind (or double-blind) testing, where the test subject (and the test supervisor) is not informed which file he is currently listening to.
Q: Why was the power supply redesigned?
A: The new NU 67 V follows the classic circuit design of the NU 67 A (1992), with a large toroidal mains transformer. The tube voltages are finely regulated and filtered. Maximum filament current capability is higher than in the older supplies to accommodate the slightly higher current draw of today’s tubes.
For user convenience and protection, the NU 67 V was upgraded with a voltage sensing circuit which automatically adapts the power supply to the local power setting (100–120 V / 220–240 V, 50–60 Hz). Furthermore, the NU 67 V accommodates today’s much stricter worldwide safety regulations.
Q: Is the new NU 67 V a switch mode power supply?
A: No, like older power supplies for the U 67, the NU 67 V is a linear power supply with a large toroidal mains transformer, just like 1992’s NU 67 A.
Q: Can the new NU 67 V power supply be used with older U 67 microphones?
A: Yes, the NU 67 V is fully compatible with all older U 67 microphones. With its higher filament current capability it still only supplies as much current as the tube requires while keeping the filament voltage constant.
Q: Can the old NU 67 (1960s) and NU 67 A (1992) power supplies be used with new U 67 microphones?
A: Today’s tubes require a slightly higher filament current which cannot be provided by the unregulated NU 67 supplies. These supplies would underheat the new tubes significantly, which may result in excess noise, either immediately or slowly rising during operation.
The 1992 NU 67 A supply version can be modified by your Neumann service station, to provide the higher current requirements.
Q: Can I use the new Neumann-selected EF86 tubes in my vintage U 67 microphone?
A: Yes, but only in connection with the new NU 67 V power supply. Older power supplies would underheat the new tubes significantly, which may result in excess noise, either immediately or slowly rising during operation.
Q: Can I use new old stock (NOS) EF86 tubes in the U 67 reissue?
A: Yes, of course, you can. The new power supply will not overheat older tubes; it only supplies as much current as the tube requires while keeping the filament voltage constant. However, keep in mind that not every EF86 tube is fit for microphone use. For lowest noise and optimal sound, tubes must be tested and selected for various characteristics. This involves complex measurements and a “burn-in” process. Usual tube testers, as used by many tube resellers, can only tell you if a tube works (e.g. in a radio or guitar amp) but not if it is good enough for a studio microphone.
NEUMANN – THE ORIGIN OF ALL STUDIO MICROPHONES
Many products introduced in the history of the company have become milestones of professional audio technology. It is no accident that when listing their equipment, audio studios almost always put Neumann microphones at the top of the list – they are a recognized sign of a highly professional operation.
Microphones with highest sound quality
Neumann gives the customer the certainty of acquiring a product with unsurpassed sound quality, reliability and lasting value, an investment that usually survives several generations of audio engineers. Although Neumann microphones certainly are not cheap, professionals know from their daily experience that they are worth the cost. Many owners of home recording studios also dream of having “a real Neumann” of their own.
Neumann U 67 – Return of the Legend
We are very proud to announce the re-issue of the Neumann U 67 tube microphone, one of the most famous and desired microphones in recording history. Sonically, the current reissue is identical to the U 67 made from 1960-1971. It uses the same capsule and electronic design. Key parts, such as the BV 12 output transformer, are meticulously reproduced according to original documentation. EF86 tubes are carefully selected for optimal characteristics and lowest noise in a dedicated measurement facility. The power supply was redesigned to meet today’s strict safety requirements and to accommodate the slightly higher filament current of newer premium grade tubes. The new power supply NU 67 V is fully compatible with older U 67 microphones.
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The “Troma Institute for Gifted Youth” Presents Dylan Greenberg
By Tromeo DAmbrosio
Troma Institute for Gifted Youth Inductee
18 Year Old Dylan Greenberg
Premieres New Music Video Today,
“Hey, Shut Up” by Matt Ellin
on Troma Movies YouTube
New Yo rk, New York. January 6, 2015. -Greetings from Tromaville!
The Troma Institute for Gifted Youth has welcomed their second inductee, 18 year old Dylan Mars Greenberg, into their honorable institution alongside 19 year old Kansas Bowling (director of BC Butcher), it was announced today by Lloyd Kaufman, prexy of Troma Entertainment and creator of “T he Toxic Avenger”. The induction marks the release of the already experienced director Greenberg’s newest release, music video for Matt Ellin’s, “Hey, Shut Up”.
Matt Ellin’s recent release of his EP, “Hey Nice” includes the track, “Hey, Shut Up” the inspiration song for Greenberg’s
newest music video release
Dylan Mars Greenberg got an early foothold into the art world; by the time she was 15 she was performing in East Village clubs and dive bars, releasing a full length synth pop album as “Disck” and ending up with a photo spread in NY Times Magazine. When she was 17, she directed her first feature film “Glamarus’, produced by veteran art film director and actor Scott Shaw. She followed this with her art-horror film Wakers and then almost immediately began production on another film called Dark Prism, which ended up generating massive press attention in Pitchfork, NME, Flavorwire, SPIN. and the AV Club. Greenberg’s style has been compared to Andy Warhol’s factory, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and David Lynch. She has worked with major figures in the entertainment industry such as Mac DeMarco, Matt Katz-Bohen, and Jacob Reynolds, underground art icons like Lloyd Kaufman, Reverend Jen, and Robert Prichard, and up and coming young people such as Sofe Cote, Blessing C.S., Sara Kaiser, Chandani Smith, and Max Husten. Critics have called the films of Greenberg everything from brilliant and nightmarish to awful and headache inducing. Regardless, Greenberg continues to be one of the most prolific young filmmakers in New York City.
Today’s release of another magnanimous project, a music video she directed for fellow prodigy, 16 year old singer/songwriter Matt Ellin called, “ Hey, Shut Up”, is available now on Troma Movies YouTube Channel . Matt Ellin is truly the real thing – at age 16 he is already an incredibly prolific musician with a growing following. His oddball and sometimes even unsettling charm are displayed for listeners in his first EP, “hey nice” containing 7 pieces of music, including his underground hit single: “Hey, Shut Up” and his song “it’s easy to be (a pylon like me)” which was featured in the studio feature film “Dark Prism”.
Dylan’s video for, “Hey, Shut Up”calls on a nightmarish hallucinatory experience that is in part influenced by a fondness for the Tromatic sense of the grotesque without losing her unique and eerie style. Bizarre images, deployed with carefully crafted editing, juxtapose the seemingly sweet but mysterious vibe within the song. The collaboration between Greenberg and Ellin can be seen on Troma Movies YouTube, and the “Troma Institute for Gifted Youth” continues to uphold the highest standards for young filmmakers with its second inductee.
At just 18 years old Dylan Mars Greenberg (above) has directed three feature length films.
The music video is available on Troma Movies Youtube channel , along with other videos and features directed by Kaufman.
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Established in 1974 by Yale friends Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, Troma Entertainment is arguably the longest-running independent movie studio in North America, and it’s one of the very few genuine brand names in the industry. World famous for movie classics like Kaufman’s “The Toxic Avenger”, Trey Parker’s “Cannibal, the Musical”, “Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead”, “Class of Nuke ’em High”, Charles Kaufman’s “Mother’s Day” and “Tromeo & Juliet”, Troma’s seminal films are now being remade as big-budget mainstream productions by the likes of Brett Ratner, Richard Saperstein, Akiva Goldsman and Steven Pink. Early work of many of today’s luminaries can be found in Troma’s library of 1000 films, cartoons, TV shows and shorts. Jenna Fischer, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Costner, Fergie, Vincent D’Onofrio, Samuel L. Jackson, James Gunn and Eli Roth are just a few. Troma’s latest in house productions are “Return to Nuke ‘Em High: Volumes 1 & 2”. Troma’s Blu-rays, DVDs, books, t-shirts and movie merchandise can be purchased at Tromashop. Please visit Troma at www.troma.com , www.lloydkaufman.com , www.twitter.com/lloydkaufman,
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Horrorcore RAP – Insane Clown Posse (ICP)
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17 Year-Old Kansas Bowling’s “BC Butcher” Set to be Released on TromaNow VHX, Friday Janurary 8th
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NHRC petitioned to probe Pushkaram stampede
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has admitted a plea seeking compensation of Rs 30 lakh for each of the families who lost a loved one in the Godavari Pushkaram stampede in Rajahmundry on Tuesday.
High Court advocate and human rights activist P. Sai Krishna Azad filed a petition under Section 12 of the Protection of Human Rights Commission Act, 1993, to the National Human Rights Commission in New Delhi, making Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and collector of East Godavari party to it.
Mr. Azad said he appealed to the commission to direct the Andhra Pradesh Government to pay ex gratia of Rs 30 lakh and constitute a committee to probe the incident and register criminal cases against those whose negligence led to the death of pilgrims.
Mr. Azad said his petition was admitted by the commission and it would soon call for a hearing on it. The NHRC has the power to direct the State Government to enhance ex gratia. Under Article 21 of the Constitution, everyone was entitled to the right to life.
The death that occurred in the stampede was caused by administrative failure and thus violated the right to life, he said.
Article by The Hindu news paper
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Funding · Tagged: financing, Funding, General Catalyst, North Bridge Venture Partners, rPath, Series C, venture capital, venture financing, virtualisation, virtualization, Wakefield Group
rPath, which got on our radar thanks to some high-profile customers, today announced that the company has closed a $10M round of venture financing. The Series C round was led by rPath’s existing backers, General Catalyst, North Bridge Venture Partners and Wakefield Group. The company says it plans to use this new capital to increase its leadership in enabling cloud computing.
“As the demand for cloud computing continues to explode, rPath is in a unique position to drive adoption as the fastest and most scalable approach for delivering applications to cloud computing environments such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Citrix’s XenServer, and VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure,” said Billy Marshall, rPath founder and CEO.
Since the beginning of 2008, rPath has seen a surge of interest in its technology resulting in an increase of over 100% in new customers, including 3SP, Avinity Systems, CERN, Cynapse, Department of Energy, DigitalStakeout, Firescope, VIP Tone and Webalo.
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Ideal equilibria in noncooperative multicriteria games
Voorneveld, Mark
Tilburg University.
Dufwenberg, Martin
Grahn, Sofia
Stockholms Universitet.
2000 (English)In: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, ISSN 1432-2994, E-ISSN 1432-5217, Vol. 52, no 1, p. 65-77Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Pareto equilibria in multicriteria games can be computed as the Nash equilibria of scalarized games, obtained by assigning weights to the separate criteria of a player, To analysts, these weights are usually unknown. This paper therefore proposes ideal equilibria, strategy profiles that are robust against unilateral deviations of the players no matter what importance is assigned to the criteria. Existence of ideal equilibria is not guaranteed, but several desirable properties are provided. As opposed to the computation of other solution concepts in noncooperative multicriteria games, thecomputation of the set of ideal equilibria is relatively simple: an exact upper bound for the number of scalarizations is the maximum number of criteria of the players. The ideal equilibrium concept is axiomatized. Moreover, the final section provides a non-trivial class of multicriteria games in which ideal equilibria exist, by establishing a link to the literature on potential games
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LOS ANGELES — A woman who said she witnessed Wednesday’s fatal officer-involved shooting in the Crenshaw District is claiming that the victim was being chased by police officers with guns drawn before the officers fired three shots.
Courtyana Franklin, 21, told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday that she witnessed the shooting through a side mirror and rear window of her vehicle, which was parked in an alley near Marlton Avenue and Santo Tomas Drive.
“I do know for a fact she was not charging at them,” Franklin said of the dead woman, who has not been identified. “Those police were running. They were not trying to get away from her.”
Police have said the woman was armed with a knife, and that a knife was recovered at the scene.
Cmdr. Andy Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department told the newspaper that Franklin’s account was at odds with the initial investigation into the shooting, though he did say officers chased the woman down the alley.
Smith said investigators had spoken with at least one other witness and want to interview Franklin to find out what she saw. He added that police are seeking any video evidence that might exist, though officers were not wearing body cameras and it was unclear what was captured by their patrol car cameras.
The victim, believed to be in her 30s, was shot after officers were dispatched to the 3700 block of Santa Rosalia Drive on a robbery report at about 1:40 p.m. Wednesday, according to the LAPD’s media relations office.
Around 2 p.m., officers saw a woman matching the description of the suspect in an alley west of Marlton Avenue, said LAPD Officer Nuria Vanegas.
“Officers tried to detain the female, at which time an officer-involved shooting occurred,” she said, adding that a Taser was deployed before the shooting and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Times reported police found a Taser cartridge in the alley, which they said was an indication the device had been used.
At a press conference Thursday morning near the shooting scene, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, said the department should quickly explain why the shooting happened and if other tactics could have been deployed.
“Make this a high-priority investigation. Answer some of the questions people have about the shooting,” Hutchinson told NBC4.
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1. I was conceived during a new year’s break in 1944, when my dad was on leave from the Air Force during World War 11.
Although I’m often called a “post-war baby boomer,” I beat the boom by several years, and was therefore more in touch with the high hopes and idealism of the War, and less influenced by the easier affluence that later boomers enjoyed.
In the absence of convenience food and TV, I grew up with good but simple home-cooked food eaten around a very cheerful table — still precious memories for me. I absorbed a mood that hard work and fun times went together, which accounts for the fact that I’m a prankster who insists on good cheer to this day. And I’ve never lost my childhood faith that people and governments can mobilize to accomplish great things and overcome destructive forces.
2. Both my parents were super-bright, but had their dreams for education dashed by the 1930s Depression, which forced each of them to quit school at 14. They got their first break when the government offered war veterans the choice of free university or a half-acre of land to build their own home, with enough of a lot to grow their own food.
They took the half-acre and started building their own home, which still wasn’t finished when I moved out; that was the installment plan of those days – add a room when the money was saved. This model of government programs — giving poor people resources to make their own opportunities — is deep in my bones, and accounts for the stress I put today on enabling programs that give people the tools and resources they need to help themselves.
3. Almost all the people I grew up with on Oakridge Drive in Scarboro were from veterans’ families like mine. Talk about salt of the earth! Someone had a block party of some kind every week. The moms had coffee every day. If anyone ran out of food, they opened your door and shouted out “I’m borrowing your sugar.” I didn’t learn to lock car or house doors until I left home. These memories explain my support for “neighbourhood-based food infrastructure” in the Toronto Food Strategy.
Almost all the families on our street built their own homes, helping each other when the work required more skill or strength than dad, mom and kids. The “can-do” and “we’re in this together” feel and assumption of those days seem so far away from the “can’t do” and “what’s this got to do with me” assumptions of today, but my childhood experience of “let’s roll up our sleeves and do it” continues to determine my first reaction to any problem.
4. Typical of Depression-era youth, my parents were on the far left of politics. I was what was called a “red diaper baby.” This accounts for my instinctive readiness to take on the rich and powerful on behalf of the disadvantaged. I’m pretty happy with that upbringing, but it made me a late learner in terms of the Big Thinkers who framed my recent thinking on the importance of spirituality and meaningful personal relations within social change movements.
As in most families of that era, it was assumed that I would have some kind of part-time job at a young age. I tried but didn’t like being a newspaper delivery boy. But in grade 7, I began working Saturdays on bicycle delivery for Caruso’s grocery store for 50 cents an hour – 15 cents an hour more than the more prestigious job of bicycle delivery of orders from the drugstore next door. A premonition that I would end up in the food biz?
5. I was a happy but relatively shy and undistinguished kid. My gang in high school was called the Knaves — all mischief-makers. I am pleased enough with the results that I believe parenting in the early years is mainly about making kids happy; that’s probably why I emphasize relationships around food, friends and play as more important to good parenting than providing electronic gizmoes and extra cramming courses designed to give kids an edge in school and career – rather than an edge in life.
6. I finished high school with a 75.7 average, enough to squeak into Toronto’s Glendon College with free tuition. Governments of those days believed in investing in human capital – they paid for our education when we needed help, and we repaid with higher taxes for the rest of our lives when we were making good money; that was the deal. It’s a win-win deal that I still believe in; I see food as a place where people and governments can learn to make such winning deals again.
Glendon was a small college that transformed me into a person in love with Big Ideas because so many profs gave so generously of their time. I believe neither I nor others would ever have found my hidden abilities in a bigger, more anonymous setting, and so I instantly understood Small is Beautiful in later years.
I just had a vivid reminder of the spirit of those years when Lori and I dropped off our daughter at King’s College in Halifax in the midst of Hurricane Earl. The mood of the students was so upbeat and they made such fun of teaming up to get new students into residence during the storm that it reminded me how team spirit can turn a lot of tough things into a blast. Unfortunately, our society leaves most people facing hard times to deal with their lack of goods and services in “quiet desperation” on their own, instead of sponsoring projects that support positive, uplifting group-based actions that build solutions.
My commitment to “bread and roses too” in dealing with the needs of people in need/people with ability comes from youthful experiences such as that.
7. In 1965, I won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship that I could take anywhere in the world. I chose Berkeley, California, where I got an MA in history and a real education in mass protest actions. Just before returning to Toronto in 1967, I participated in weeks of struggles for Peoples Park, which put urban ag on the activist agenda on par with the more rural back to the land movement. I loved my life in Berkeley so much that I didn’t return until 2009 for fear I would be disappointed. How silly of me.
Ever since my years there, I’ve enjoyed working with American activists, admired their spunk, righteous outrage and zest, and have tried to import some of that spirit into Canada.
8. I returned to Toronto to study Canadian history at U of Toronto and Ezekiel Elliott Jersey moved into married student housing. When the landlord, Ontario Housing Corp, tried to build stores on the children’s playspace, tenants with young kids protested, and I got involved. Before long, I was leading about 600 families in the biggest and longest rent strike in Canadian history. When stores were eventually built on the playspace some years later, the compromise was that outdoor space was provided on the roof over the stores — one of the first uses of rooftops for green space. That memory stayed with me and helps explain my ready championing of green roofs 20 years later in the early 1990s.
9. I got my PhD in Canadian history in 1978 with a thesis on the Canadian labour movement of the early 1900s when many workers were still artisans. I found their pride in their craft and their involvement in society very appealing — they seemed so much like my dad and uncle — admiration which carried over into my food years when I have championed the rebirth of artisanal work methods and values in the emerging local and sustainable food system.
10. I had always looked forward to being a dad, but my experiences with Jaime, born in 1978, exceeded all my fantasies. She really awoke my emotional side, legitimized my playful side and nurtured my sense of the importance of protecting the future, all of which have helped me understand the deeper meaning of the environmental, sustainability and food movements. Jaime was not an sound sleeper, and many’s the night I spent an hour with her at 2:00 in the morning, watching TV and holding back the tears as I watched the baby-centred ads for donations to fight world hunger; it takes a child to raise a world of village-scale compassion.
Lori and I just became “empty nesters” in the fall of 2010 when my second daughter, Anika, went to university in Nova Scotia. That means I’ve been an active dad for 32 years, a long stretch, which has kept me young in spirit and given me a deep sense of the importance of parenting — and the importance of food and mealtime to a society that supports parenting, the joyful commensality of the table and a sense of familial connection to the well-being of all.
11. In the late-1970s, I had a dream job as the first academic teaching mainstream university courses in Canada’s first labour studies programme, at McMaster U in Hamilton. Hamilton had a smart, activist and socially conscious labor movement which I enjoyed working with, and did a lot of writing about. But I got bitten by the prospect of freelance and popular writing at a time when universities were stodgier about that than they are now, and so left for greener fields in 1982.
12. I had some great freelance gigs that gave me the equivalent of two post-graduate degrees. I got into radio broadcasting and did a nationally-syndicated weekly column of mini-documentaries for CBC Radio morning shows called “Rank and File,” and a long series on social history with the great Peter Gzowski of Morningside. That’s where I learned to write in a style and with an attitude I used to call “disco populism,” and where I learned the importance of story-telling to make a point — a style and attitude I still work at. With the help of producer Karen Levine, I learned that our job was not to educate, expose, radicalize or rant, but to communicate to millions of ordinary people through stories they could figure out an analysis of by themselves — as in the media rule “show don’t tell.” That’s why the powerpoints I use in talks today always feature pictures, not text, and why my pictures evoke empowering stories, not analysis.
Some people in the Ontario labor ministry liked the popular touch of my CBC columns, and that landed me a dream job as editor of a magazine called Quality of Working Life, which promoted Swedish-style industrial democracy – it’s still hard to believe that a North American government would ever do that. That’s where I learned the importance of social and workplace engagement to good decisions, mental health and vibrant democracy — which I now see as one of the social mandates of the food movement. It’s also where I learned about “turbulent environments” and “chaos theory” that require deep-going “deliberative democracy,” which I also see the food movement as fostering — especially through food policy councils.
13. While working for the government, I re-met my boyhood friend, John, the labour ministry librarian, who got me active in the union of civil servants to support James Clancy, a grassroots candidate for union president with a deep commitment to social and community unionism. Starting in 1984, I worked as Clancy’s assistant, and had a front-row seat on some huge shake-ups and positive changes for free speech of civil service whistleblowers, equal pay for women, employment equity for people with disabilities, protection of people released from psychiatric hospitals and institutions for people with mental disabilities, workplace health and safety, boycotts of apartheid-South African products in Ontario institutions, and more – including a major legal campaign to defend union rights to take active roles in social causes, a three-year battle that pitted us against the far-right National Citizens’ Coalition and their lawyer, Steven Harper.
Through this intense union experience, I learned how to think about issues as a negotiator and problem-solver, and to work through difficult changes with a combination of conflict and cooperation. I also learned to learn how to develop messages that intervened in — not just commented on or analyzed — today’s issues, and to advance what we used to call a “transitional program” to allow people to deal with an issue as they saw it, while opening themselves up to more deep-going solutions in the long run. This training made me the kind of food animator I am today.
14. Union work was all-consuming and exhausting, and when Jaime turned 10, the peak of the golden years of youth, I wanted to bank as many good times and as much quality time as I could before the teen years set in. So I left the union to become a freelancer. I wrote a weekly column for NOW Magazine, Toronto’s alternative paper (my editor was my ex-, Ellie Kirzner) and three books on labor history and politics by 1993. As things turned out, those were my last projects connected to the leftie politics of my youth.
The political and personal direction of my life unintentionally changed as a result of my dream of sending my kids to have the experience of wilderness camping, which I had missed out on due to financial limits of my family. In the late-80s, I sent Jaime to a camp in Temagami in northern Ontario; to be nearby in case of any homesickness problems, I went canoeing up there with an old work friend, Shea Hoffmitz, and totally fell in love with the area — home to the last old-growth pine forest in North America and site of spectacular wilderness canoeing. The next summer, I heard there was going to be a blockade to stop logging in the park, and I headed off to be arrested. Red Squirrel Road in Temagami’s old growth became my road to Damascus.
15. While arguing with a logger at the blockade, I decided it would be my life’s work to develop an economic strategy that provided good jobs in a green economy to workers facing unemployment as a result of green priorities. I became negotiator for the blockaders, and we tabled a decent alternative economic plan for the region to some senior government officials, which may have helped convince the government to cancel further logging.
After that, I worked with Helen Armstrong and Greenpeace to develop a green jobs alternative that would make it possible to end uranium mining in Saskatchewan. We worked first to develop relations with Saskatchewan peace and health activists so we wouldn’t be seen as typical Greenpeace outsiders coming into an area to slam the local yokels get a media hit. I had the great pleasure of joining leading anti-nuclear organizer Nette Wiebe, in the cab of her combine as she took her first drive handling a combine, and we talked for about two hours in a hot dry cab filled with wheat dust, talking about how healthy farming could form the basis of a new economy. Later, Helen, my wife Lori, and I joined an occupation in northern Saskatchewan with Rod Murphy, the mayor of a Metis town called Green Lake. The occupation was a protest against government moves to privatize services in the North, and it gave me the opportunity to develop a relationship with Rod, one of the most respected leaders of the Metis community in the Saskatchewan North, by serving as his negotiator with the government — very exciting times, though a visionary deal we worked up with the NDP government tragically went off the rails.
That’s where I really got a chance to think about how a green economy could create jobs galore and liberate people, while also saddling people with responsibilities they had to be prepared for. I’ve championed the growth of NGO’s ever since, since they are schools for learning how to lead and manage solutions, not just campaign against problems.
The recession of the early 1990s hit Ontario very hard, and the social democratic premier put out a call on TV asking people for advice – should we cut services or cut the debt, he wanted to know. I worked with prominent Liberal environmentalist Gary Gallon, well-known New Democrat city politician Jack Layton, and heroic Greenpeace founder Bob Hunter to form a Coalition for a Green Economic Recovery to lobby for a plan that created 100,000 new conservation jobs saving the government money and protecting the environment. There was no need to choose between going into debt and keeping services; we could fashion a win-win solution for the environment and economy, we argued. The very brashness of this claim made a huge splash and two major proposals were almost immediately adopted — one by the city (an energy efficiency office) and one by the province (a green communities project). Then the New World Order of government staying out of the economy took hold, and the lean, mean days for greens of the mi-90s began in dead earnest.
16. In 1992, my daughter Anika was born, and that grounded me in two ways — kept me home while my wife worked a nightshift as a prominent national radio broadcaster, and returned me to the delights of raising a little girl. I got very enthusiastic about breastfeeding, which I somehow linked into the kind of direct action for a green economy that people can take when they work on food issues. The enthusiasm for breast-feeding is prominent in my 1995 book, Get a Life! and in our 1998 book, Real Food Ezekiel Elliott Authentic Jersey for a Change.
This emotional experience of parenting, plus several meetings with Steve Hall, a student of social ecologist Murray Bookchin, got me going down the road of a green economy based on zestful direct action on the local scene — without much reliance on either Big Government or Big Business. Don’t ask what government can do for you, but what you can do without government, I used to say. That spirit led me, with Susan Brandum, to write and self-publish “Get a Life! How to make a good buck, dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you’re at it” in 1995. For the next five years, I tried to make a living by selling, speaking on and consulting or teaching about that book. The book is still too far ahead of the times, but it shows my out-of-the-box thinking, my can-do, just-do-it, if-life-gives-you-a lemon-make-lemonade approach – what used to be called attitude — that became the foundation of my reputation in both the environmental and food movements.
17. My wife Lori worked an evening shift, which was rough on her, me and Anika. As we were casting about for options, we got to talking with Rod MacRae about doing a food version of Get a Life; next thing, we had a contract and advance with Random House, Lori quit her job, Wally Seccombe invested in us, and we were off to the races with a new tri-authored book, “Real Food for a Change.” Lori had always been into food but became a green, I was green and became a foodie, and Rod was a leading food wonk who became brash. I probably changed more than anyone as a result of working on the book. I gained a sense of the spiritual connections that food tapped into. Food also offered me a way to think of people exercizing their power through government by voting, but also through their local economy by buying, through their communities by sharing and co-producing, and within themselves by taking power and responsibility.
Real Food for a Change got rave reviews and sold okay, but nowhere near enough to justify the lack of steady income for Lori and me during two years of work on the book, so both Lori and I needed jobs pronto. Just then, by sheer luck, Rod left his job at the Toronto Food Policy Council, I applied for it, got it and was given the opportunity to be Ezekiel Elliott Womens Jersey a fulltime food activist on the government payroll. If that job hadn’t come along, I could have ended up anywhere. Do you see why I consider myself an accidental foodie?
18. I was walking on air when I started at the TFPC and never lost my sense that the job, and what it allowed me to do, was a blessing. Consequently, I was a Dr. Polyanna and wasn’t prepared to take much grumbling, which alienated me from the civil service and leftie culture. “We’re the most blessed people in history and across the world, so find a way to do something” was my attitude.
I found a way to act on this approach by making food the key word in food policy. There are slim pickings for anyone who wants to work on policy to move government policy these days, but food gives the chance to work with individual champions and inspired groups and drag government along by the hair — bootstrap social policy, I call it. I practiced that for most of my ten years at the TFPC, going wherever I was invited and working with anyone willing to do something real and positive. I got away with this because of a fabulous office manager, Leslie Toy, two terrific citizen chairs of the TFPC, Kathryn Scharf and Janice Etter, a Council made up of madcaps and geniuses, and several higher-ups who saved me from myself and others, and allowed me to get away with begging for forgiveness, not asking for permission — Connie C, Barbara E, Liz J, Mary-Anne M, Carol T and the late great Dr. Sheela Basrur. At my retirement party, Kathryn said the city had provided a “wayne-shaped space.”
I was surrounded by women in those days — two daughters and a wife at home, a woman editor at NOW, mostly women staff at Toronto Public Health, mostly women leaders of the food movement, and women taking bootcamp workout classes at the gym after work. How this affected me I’m not sure, but I am sure I owe a lot to this. When I was a grad student, I wrote a lot about maternal feminism –- one of my articles was called “Rocking the World for the Cradle” — which was really about my mom, a leader of Voice of Women; she had a loving mother’s view of social and peace issues, quite a tribute to her, because she was orphaned at 14 years of age, and I guess that’s how she knew what it meant to have a society that was properly mothered. I have an intuition that the modern food movement is a 21st century expression of maternal feminism.
The TFPC resulting from these multiple energy sources was quirky, but we moved mountains — or at least big hills. The TFPC became one of the leading groups of the new food movement, respected around the world, and responsible for many of he food councils elsewhere in North America. For our Toronto impact, check out “Cultivating Food Connections,” the Medical Officer of Health’s report, finalized just a few weeks before I retired — there’s nothing quite that comprehensive but doable anywhere else.
19. In 2002, I was chosen as the Canadian rep of grassroots groups at the World Food Summit in Rome — a life-changing experience. Until then, I’d always been very North American in my travel and thinking. In Rome, I met the global south — heroic peasant leaders who had suffered torture and dire poverty, unlike me, and people who were angrily opposed to organic and food security and militantly for the new concept of food sovereignty.
This was my second Road to Damascus, and I pledged to always include a global element in my work — if we don’t understand why we must deal include those most in need, we don’t understand the depth or breadth of the movement, I realized. As a result, I worked with Amber McNair and James Kuhns to publish foodforethought.net/ to develop new thinking on global food policy, and tried to turn World Food Day into an annual event in Toronto and elsewhere.
I also teamed up with the brilliant and charismatic Michael Sacco, founder of ChocoSol and his visionary mentor, Gustavo Esteva. My family toured rural Mexico with them, collecting local chocolate, coffee and spices from a traditional Indigenous village in Oaxaca, and learning from the Zapatista – for whom Gustavo was an important mentor and negotiator — in Chiapas. As a result of that trip, I am working to develop several ideas, including what Michael and I call Subsistence Plus, a new approach to ending hunger and impoverishment while protecting small-scale farmers and the environment.
Because of this inspiration from global thinking, all new to me, I wrote the No-Nonsense Guide to World Food in 2008, have since run a facebook group trying to encourage discussions on its global themes, and have joined the board of the Unitarian Service Committee, which specializes in issues related to seed diversity, women’s rights and food sovereignty.
20. The holidays I took during my TFPC days were also life-altering. We started to spend a lot of times when visiting Lori’s hometown of Montreal at the Shivinanda Yoga centre north in the Laurentians. I spoke there several times when a visionary Swami Kertikaya was in charge; she was a fan of Get a Life!, which led her to build their lodging as the largest strawbale structure in the world. She saw social justice and environmentalism as linked to a new Yoga, and encouraged me and Lori to explore Yoga connections to spirituality. Lori later trained to be a Yoga instructor there. My screwed-up back and tight hamstrings keep me from most of the Yoga poses, but my time there after joining TFPC taught me the peace of mind that allowed me to succeed in food organizing.
Our family also “woofed” for four summers, two in beautiful Saltspring, where my close friend George Ehring is a councillor and force of nature in local green and food policy, and in lovely Prince Edward Island, where our great friends Walt and Alison show us around. Woofing — which stands for world-wide opportunities in organic farming — is a fabulous way to see and learn about the world, and has taught me many things, starting with deep respect for all food producers, including conventional ones. These woofing experiences are where I picked up two of my signature themes within the food movement — the need for food activists to win respect for farmers and food producers and thereby help bridge the urban-rural divide; and the need of food advocates to work in such a way that they contribute to a united Big Tent movement.
21. Most people see me and Lori as the odd couple, or Beauty and the Beast. She is physically dexterous and graceful, while I am a clod. She does all the home, car and computer repairs because I am a klutz. She is well-organized, which few people think I am. She is cultured and I ain’t. She is diplomatic where I tend to be polemical. Other than that, we’re pretty similar.
In our personal life, her generosity to all, her caring and love for our two kids, her deep searching for meaning in life, her boundless and innocent optimism and cheeriness make my heart sing every day. In her public life, she is an incredible combination of a hard-headed and visionary who’s built a remarkable organization called Local Food Plus, which champions local and sustainable food.
My home life allows me to approach public life as a happy and grounded and giving person with a minimum of axes to grind. I like to think of that as my trademark, but one I give all the credit for to my parental and present family and great friends.
22. In the summer of 2010, Lori and I went on a week-long canoe trip led by my old friends Debbie, David and Martha and joined by close friend Harriet. It was a beautiful and at times challenging trip along the old fur-trading route on the French River and we had tons of fun and great meals.
As a new retiree, the trip had a special meeting for me. I learned so much from my companions — about canoeing, wilderness safety, food history and bedding (Martha’s business), to name a few of the topics we discussed — that I came to understand deeply that growing old is more about growing than it is about old. I don’t want to just retire or just give back; I want to and need to keep growing in new ways. I think that should become a theme for boomer retirees who are about to repurpose. It will keep us from being a burden on society; even if we don’t make money, we can make lots of crucial contributions.
That was my “senior moment” which led me to think of doing something special to speak and write on age-old themes – which ones exactly, I don’t know yet.
23. My friend Jim Harris, former Canadian leader of the Green Party, intro’d me to thinking about our Western Society have-do-be syndrome, as in “if I had a million dollars, I would do things like go to Florida all winter, and then I would be happy.” We need to revere that and move to be-do-have if we want to be happy and sustainable, Jim says.
As a result of him teaching me about the right order of these three words, I’m struck by how many people, including myself, ask what I will do when I retire, rather than what I will be.
Anyway, so far what I do is write a weekly column for NOW, and speak to public meetings, and serve on bodies of FoodShare, Food Secure Canada, Unitarian Service Committee, Sustain Ontario, Canadian Urban Institute and more, and work on my blog, facebook sites and two forthcoming books.
What I will be and consequently do and have “when I grow up” remains to be discovered.
24. I started typing this random review of my life passages into my blackberry at a coffee shop in Montreal, while Lori was at a meeting and my two daughters were spending a special afternoon together before little sister Anika left home for university.
I am both a retiree and empty nester now. So I should try to figure out…..
25. What’s next?
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Anders Olof Olsson: Andrew Olson
Andrew Olson, undated.
Photo from the UAF Polar Archives.
Andrew Olson was born Anders Olof Olsson in Krokvag, Sweden in August 1885 to Olof and Karin nee Edlund Olsson. An older sister, Justina (Ellen) was often Andrew's best friend and confidante when he was motherless. Karin Olsson died at Andrew's birth. Andrew and Ellen's maternal grandmother Justina, called Mormor by the young Olssons, raised the orphaned children at the large family farm at nearby Backen.
By 1891, America Fever was strong in Sweden. It was often fanned by returning adventurers. At Backen, six-year old Andrew sat at the feet of roving sailor Nils L�vgren and heard tales of sailing the Seven Seas and prospecting for gold in America and Siberia. Beside the tales, L�vgren passed on a simple morality to Andrew: honesty and no liquor or cards. The early teaching stuck as did the memories of adventures. Andrew told his father, "I will sail away to America and dig gold just like L�vgren. With a rucksack on my back and a pick in my hand, I will search for big gold nuggets." Olof discouraged Andrew's youthful dreams but finally could not dissuade Andrew from immigrating. With $100 from his mother's estate, eighteen-year-old Andrew embarked for America in 1903. He had only a few years of formal schooling but knew farming and was experienced in logging skills. Andrew first settled in Stanwood, Washington where his father's brother, John Olsson, had established a home.
Olof, Andrew's father, had discouraged his son's dreams of America, but in 1905, following several poor years on the farm, Olof brought the rest of family to America. He had remarried after the death of Karin, and Andrew and Ellen had seven half brothers and sisters who would soon locate in the New World. Olof and family settled on a farm at Matsqui, British Columbia.
Andrew was ready to begin his gold mining career. The rugged young Swede attracted the attention of miners from Fairbanks who offered him a job. Andrew made the 400-mile trip from Valdez to Fairbanks by foot, and soon was making $7 a day plus room and board, good wages for the time. His first mining tools were pick, shovel, and wheelbarrow. Andrew's first employer was David Strandberg, who taught Andrew to prospect and later hired him again at his Flat operation.
Strandberg, who had arrived early in the Fairbanks gold rush and had a mine at Ester Creek, began to notice Olson's inventiveness. Andrew was familiar with gin-poles used to yard timber in northwest Washington and reasoned that with suitable rigging, the gin poles could cast large boulders out of the pits, replacing many hours of hard hand labor. Andrew also designed a system for dumping placer ore from horse drawn carts directly into the sluice boxes.
After Andrew returned to Washington from Fairbanks in the fall of 1908, he was run down by a team of horses. Injuries were severe and convalescence took almost two years, surprising his doctors who doubted that Olson would work again. As he recovered, Andrew helped around the farm but he resolved to return to Alaska in 1912. This time Andrew and his cousin Daniel Olson walked from Seward to Flat, then at the height of a gold rush. In the meantime, David Strandberg moved his operation to Flat and was ready to put the hard-working young Swedes back on the payroll.
World War I was hard on the Alaska placer mines. There was a scarcity of men and equipment, but by constant work, combining farming, logging, and mining Andrew Olson was becoming established. In the late winter of 1919, he resolved to return to Sweden to see family, especially Mormor, who was approaching her ninetieth birthday. Within a few weeks of his arrival in Sweden, Andrew made the acquaintance of an attractive cousin, Karin Hansson, who enjoyed taking walks and listening intently to Andrew about his life in Alaska. By the time Andrew returned to Alaska for the summer of the 1919 mining season, he knew that he would return to Sweden the following winter with an eye on marriage.
Andrew's dreams of marriage were shared by Karin, but only if Andrew agreed to return permanently to Sweden, something that Andrew was not prepared to do. But he was ready to increase his knowledge both in agriculture and mining. At this time, Andrew and many young idealists were attracted to socialism and were eager to share the Russian experiment. In 1922, Andrew went to Russia where he worked for a time on a collective farm and signed up for mining studies in Moscow. As part of his geological studies, Andrew visited the Ural Mountains. At Ektarinberg, once headquarters of English mining companies in Russia, Andrew watched the efficiency introduced by mechanization of the mines. He also visited a northern placer mine where he first observed mining of platinum metals. On his return to Sweden in late 1923, Andrew proposed to Karin but he was rejected.
On returning to Washington, family and friends enticed Andrew to a church smorgasbord. The cook was Frida Tilly Stromberg, who was in America working to support two young sons, Alf and Bertil, in Sweden. After the meal was over, Frida listened to Andrew's story, then told him hers. Andrew solo mined in Alaska again in the summer of 1924, but on December 24, 1924, Andrew and Frida were married. In the spring of 1925, Andrew and Frida sailed for Alaska, leaving Alf and Bertil with Frida's sister, Emma.
In earlier years in Alaska, Andrew had worked with his half-brothers, cousins, or for experienced mining men like David Strandberg and Frank Manley. By the late 1920s, Andrew was ready to take the next step forward. Andrew, with fellow immigrants Tony Lindstrom and Axel Palmgren, formed Olson and Company and, in 1928, bought the mining rights on Happy Creek at Flat from pioneer storekeeper Mrs. Fullerton for $15,000. They also bought a 1.5 yard dragline, a considerable size for that time, in the Iditarod district, and a large pump from the Nothern Commercial Company. The partners constructed an elevated sluice and pioneered a substantial mining operation. A slotted dragline bucket, invented by Andrew, served as a movable grizzly effectively separating large barren boulders from the finer-grained ore. An elevated trestle sluice, also invented by Andrew and his partners, simplified disposal of tailings. The dragline was used for both stripping and feeding the elevated sluice. It was an ideal system for the thawed ground at Flat and pioneered the operations that were used at Flat through the 1980s. The Happy Creek project expanded, and in 1931, Andrew brought up his Edward and Fred Olson to help with the operation, Edward with the dragline and Fred in the shop. Further expansion was accomplished in 1932. Olson & Company brought in Edward's former employers from the North Bend Timber Company as active and investing partners in Northland Development Company. By this time Edward was an experienced and creative placer miner capable of guiding the operation at Flat, allowing Andrew time to consider other ventures.
In 1933, on a train trip between Anchorage and Seward, Andrew Olson met Walter Culver, a prospector and entrepreneur. Culver was very familiar with a mining area at Goodnews Bay, where platinum had been discovered in 1926. Small operators were eking out a living with hand mining, but the ground was deep and needed mechanization to be worked profitably. Andrew was intrigued by the new district, and authorized Culver to begin quietly consolidating the ownership of claims. Culver acquired the claims based upon his knowledge of the known platinum-bearing creeks and a sure feeling of the location of richer deeply buried deposits. Culver and Andrew Olson trusted each other, and by the time Andrew could leave Flat in the fall and visit Goodnews, Culver had the district tied up and ready for assignment to the Northland Development Company, the successor of Olson & Company. In late fall of 1933, famed bush pilot Oscar Winchell flew Olson to Goodnews. A dragline-mining outfit, similar to that developed at Flat, arrived at Goodnews on July 10, 1934. Mining operations began on the east flank of Red Mountain. Dragline operations on Squirrel and nearby creeks continued through 1936. A prospecting program to assess the larger potential of the area also began in 1934 with a six-inch churn drill. Exploration guided by Andrew in 1935 and 1936 indicated a major deep reserve of placer platinum in the Salmon River valley east of Red Mountain.
In 1935, Goodnews Bay Mining Company (GBMC) was incorporated under the laws of the Territory of Alaska to consolidate and operate the holdings of Northland Development Company. The reserve was sufficiently documented that the GBMC received a $600,000 loan from the depression era federal Reconstruction Finance Corporation to purchase and install a large dredge on the property. The components of the dredge, a Yuba eight cubic foot bucket line dredge, arrived by steamship in early August 1937. The parts, in total weighing 1,400 tons were lightered ashore and hauled along shore to the mouth of the Salmon River, then up the Salmon to the first mining site. Assisted by experienced dredge constructor Jack Turnbull, erection of the huge floating plant was completed on November 10, 1937. The task was accomplished in a remote area served only by one or two steamships each summer and by occasional non-scheduled bush plan flights. The machine was huge and the men had to accomplish the timely freighting and building of the dredge from its component parts. Unusually mild weather allowed the dredge to operate until December 22, completing the RFC-required thirty day acceptance period.
The GBMC's operation became ever more efficient as the crew adjusted to the large-scale dredging operation. On December 7, 1941, shortly after the operation shut down for the season, Japan struck America throughout the Pacific, and Andrew worried about the future of the operation. Knowing of the uses of platinum metals in oil refining and iridium in aircraft spark plugs, Goodnews petitioned the government. Their petition was answered quickly. Because platinum was a strategic metal for the U.S. War Effort, the GBMC was allowed to keep their work force and the call to military duty was rescinded. In fact the government mandated that the GBMC must continue to operate. A list of GBMC employees was sent to the draft board so that the employees would be removed from the upcoming draft orders. The government's decision relieved one of Andrew's burden, but he soon had a much more serious one. Andrew's wife, Frida, always strong, weakened rapidly and by the time a stomach cancer was diagnosed, the cancer was inoperable. Andrew's constant companion died on March 31, 1942.
Andrew still had work to keep him occupied, but he slept poorly. In 1944, Andrew's widowed half-sister Martha moved into the big Washington home. Martha remembered a young lady named Dee Dodge who had worked in the kitchen at Goodnews in the 1930s. Martha's matchmaking skills paid off in April 1945 when Andrew married the much younger Dee Dodge.
During his years at Goodnews, Andrew was joined by his brother Edward, thirteen years his junior. Andrew was the president of Goodnews Bay Mining; in later years, Edward took over direct operations as General Manager, then assumed presidency of the company. The company continued prospecting and a second major ancient paystreak was discovered in the Salmon River valley. As ground deepened, the company brought in a 7-yard walking dragline, one of the two largest in Alaska, to strip ahead of the floating dredge. The company, including its direct predecessor Northland, produced platinum metals continuously from 1934 until November 1975. Total production was approximately 650,000 ounces of placer platinum.
The Olsons' camp at Goodnews Bay was famous throughout Alaska for its amenities and hospitality. The camp had motion pictures and a 2-lane bowling alley. The amenities and style of management paid off for the company, as there was very little employee turnover for almost 40 years. With his Flat partners Tony Lindstrom and Axel Palmgren, Andrew also had placer operations at Deadwood and Harrison Creeks in the Circle District. Company offices were maintained in the White Henry Stuart Building in Seattle.
Andrew Olson lived into his 9th decade, alert and innovative to the end.
By Charles C. Hawley and Karen Olson, 2005
Bundtzen, Tom, and Inouye, Ron, 1996, Names of early miners carved into history: Heartland Magazine, supplement to Fairbanks Daily News Miner July 21, 1996, H-6, H-16.
Fisher, J.F., 1990, History of discovery and development of Goodnews bay Platinum district: Journal of the Alaska Miners Association: Vol. 18, no.11, pages 13, 18
Lindstrom, Jan Olof G., and Olson, Karen, 2004, "The Platinum King - Andrew Olson's Story", Book Publisher's Network, Bothell, WA.
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An aurora at Mawson station:
Open video: An aurora at Mawson
The twisting of auroral rays and bands in this image is caused by the dynamic interaction of electric currents and magnetic fields in the upper atmosphere. (Photo: Tony Bojkovski)
Aurora is the name given to light emitted when the upper atmosphere is hit by energetic charged particles, principally electrons from the solar wind, which travel along the Earth’s magnetic field lines.
When these energetic electrons collide with gases such as oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere, the gases emit light, producing predominantly green, red and violet colours. The combination of green, red and violet emissions may give aurora a white appearance – the process is similar to that occurring in a fluorescent tube or neon light.
Aurora occurs in an oval around the magnetic poles in both hemispheres. It is called aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere and aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere.
Seen from the ground, aurora are often aligned east-west and appear in the form of a shimmering curtain. If a sharp lower border to the ‘auroral form’ can be observed, the aurora is at an altitude of around 105 km. The aurora may extend hundreds of kilometres above this lower border.
Colours of aurora
There are thousands of individual colours in the aurora, each resulting from the movement of an atmospheric atom, molecule or iron from a high energy state to a lower energy state. At lower altitudes (about 100–110 km up) green emissions from atomic oxygen dominate, while at about 250 km up, red emissions from oxygen dominate. Throughout the aurora violet emissions from a molecular nitrogen ion are significant.
Shape of auroral forms
Aurora usually form a band aligned in a magnetic east-west direction. If sufficient numbers of energetic electrons are impacting the upper atmosphere, bands may have shimmering rays extending upwards from them. These rays define magnetic field lines along which the auroral electrons travel into the atmosphere.
The twisting of auroral rays and bands results from the dynamic interaction of electric currents and magnetic fields in the upper atmosphere. In active displays, multiple bands may be visible, and these may break into small arcs.
The active phase of an auroral display will last 15 to 40 minutes and may recur in two to three hours. Auroral band features may persist all night.
Where to see aurora
The aurora australis is more commonly seen in Australia around the time of maxima in the ≅11-year cycle in solar sunspot occurrence. Tasmania is the Australian state from which the aurora australis is most commonly seen, as it is closest to the normal location of the auroral oval.
The global distribution of auroral activity is an oval around the magnetic poles in both hemispheres. As the level of magnetic disturbance of the Earth’s magnetic field increases, the oval of auroral activity expands equator-ward. At times it expands over Tasmania. The most dramatic displays will most likely be observed when the aurora is overhead at around midnight. The earlier in the evening an auroral display is seen in the southern sky, the more likely it is that the display will be more spectacular and more overhead (or even to the north) at around midnight.
The chance of observing an aurora in Tasmania, on a clear night, averages out at around 1% to 2% and is strongly correlated with the sunspot cycle. Auroral displays are more common near the equinoxes (late March and September), but this does not preclude the occurrence of aurora at other times.
Office of the Chief Scientist – auroras explained
Time lapse of an aurora at Davis station
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Photo gallery of some of the atmospheric phenomenon that can be seen in the Antarctic.
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Surah 29. Al-Ankabut
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Period of Revelation
This Surah was revealed shortly before the Muslims' migration to Habash during the middle stage of the Prophet's residence at Makkah during extreme persecution of the Muslims.
Major Issues, Divine Laws, and Guidance
Allah tests the Believers to see who is truthful and who is a liar.
Be kind to parents but do not obey them in matters of shirk (associating anyone else with Allah).
Those who say: "Follow us, we will bear your burden on the Day of Judgement," are liars.
The Prophet Nuh admonished his people for 950 years not to commit shirk.
The Prophet Ibrahim admonished his people not to commit shirk, for which they tried to burn him alive, but Allah saved him.
The Nations of 'Ad, Thamud, Madyan and Fir'on rejected the Rasools of Allah, as a result Allah destroyed them all.
Parable of those who take protectors other than Allah, is that of the dwelling of a spider and the fact that the weakest of all the dwellings is the dwelling of a spider.
This Surah strengthens the faith of sincere Muslims and admonishes those who were showing weakness in their faith. This Surah also addresses those questions which some young men were facing in those days, whose parents were urging them to abandon Islam and return to their ancestral religion.
The Muslims are instructed: "If you feel that the persecution has become unbearable for you, you should give up your homes instead of giving up your faith. Allah's earth is vast: seek a new place where you can worship Allah with full peace of mind."
The disbelievers are urged to understand Islam. The realities of Tawhid (Oneness of God) and the Hereafter are presented with rational arguments, shirk is refuted, and their attention is drawn towards the signs in the universe; they are told that all these signs conform to the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
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The Las Vegas Bowl most recently became the Maaco Bowl Las Vegas or Maaco Las Vegas Bowl. The annual college football bowl game will now be sponsored for at least 3 years (until 2011) by Maaco, which was announced earlier in 2009.
Before the name change, this post-season college football bowl game has been played annually since 1992. The Maaco Bowl Las Vegas gets to choose either the 4th-place or 5th-place Pac-10 team to meet its MWC opponent. While in Las Vegas, try out their newest buzz: The Las Vegas MealTicket- Get Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for 1 Low price at a number of Las Vegas Restaurants! . The Las Vegas MealTicket™ is the most exciting new product for Las Vegas visitors and the best value available for dining in Las Vegas! For one low price, you receive breakfast, lunch, and dinner at any of a number of the most popular Las Vegas restaurants. And better yet, no reservations are required. The host hotel for the Pac-10 representative for the 2010 game was - again - The Venetian , also home of the Blue Man Group . The host hotel for the MWC representative often is Planet Hollywood on The Strip.
2011 Maaco Las Vegas Bowl
The 2011 Bowl game, its 20th edition, was played on 12/22/2010 at 5pm local time (8pm EST) in front of 35,720 spectators at Sam Boyd Stadium, matching-up the Boise State Broncos from Boise State University and the Sun Devils, representing Arizona State University. This is the 2nd straight year for Boise State to play in the Bowl, finishing 11-1 overall and 6-1 in the MWC. After 2007 (Holiday Bowl), ASU returned to the Bowl again. Throughout the whole game, there was no doubt, that Boise State will be the victorious team again, raising the winning count of the MWC to 5-4 vs. the PAC-12.
The 2010 Bowl game was played on 12/22/2010 at 5pm local time (8pm EST), matching-up the Boise State Broncos from Boise State University and the Utah Utes, representing the University of Utah. The game was televised on ESPN and be heard throughout the country and overseas on the Sports USA Radio Network. With six turnovers and relatively low-octane scoring output, this has been a largely forgetful game, but do take away one lesson: It's no longer safe to count on Boise State fielding a WAC defense. Not even in 2011. Highlights are a little hard to come by. The only one that really sticks out was WR Austin Pettis' pass to...himself: On a reverse near the goal line, Pettis tried to get the ball in the end-zone. Instead, it was tipped by one of Utah's defenders. From there it went right back to Pettis, who caught it and ran forward two yards. On the day, Pettis grabbed 12 catches for 127 yards with a touchdown. It was the final game of his college career, which has seen Boise win 51 of 53 games.
The 2009 Maaco Las Vegas Bowl on December 22nd, 2009 featured BYU Cougars vs. Oregon State Beavers. The 2009 Maaco Bowl in Vegas attracted the game’s 5th straight sellout crowd (40,018). The 2006 game welcomed a state-record 44,615 fans.
Since 2006, the Bowl gets first choice of the MWC (Mountain West Conference) teams. This would normally be the conference champion unless that team qualifies for the BCS. The Bowl gets to choose either the fourth-place or fifth-place Pac-10 team to meet its MWC opponent. The history of the bowl goes back to 1981 when it was called 'California Raisin Bowl', which was played in Fresno from 1981–1991. In 1992, the game reorganized and relocated to Las Vegas when it took on its current name.
Sam Boyd Stadium is originally known as Las Vegas Stadium. The name was changed to the Las Vegas Silver Bowl in 1978 and then Sam Boyd Silver Bowl in 1984 and finally in April 1994 to Sam Boyd Stadium. The seating capacity was 15,000 from 1971 until 1977. The capacity was raised to 32,000 in 1978 and then to 36,800 in 1999.
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Previous games included these line-ups:
2011: Boise State 56 - Arizona State 24
2010: Boise State 26 - Utah 3
2009: BYU 44 - Oregon State 20
2008: Arizona 31 - BYU 21
2007: BYU 17 - UCLA 16
2006: BYU 38 - Oregon 8
2005: California 35 - BYU 28
2004: Wyoming 24 - UCLA 21
2003: Oregon State 55 - New Mexico 14
2002: UCLA 27 - New Mexico 13
2001: Utah 10 - Southern California 6
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RTS Portfolio Updated as of Close of Friday 8/20/2010
SGS is Short (SGS went short as of close of Friday 8/13/2010).
RTS Current Portfolio Return =(0.3%) (8/16/2010 to Present)
vs. SPX = (0.5)
RTS Total Return =55.6% (11/07/2007 to Present)
vs. SPX = (29.3%)
RTS Ave. Annual Return = 20.0% (11/07/2007 to Present)
Current RTS 20100816 Short Portfolio is shown below:
Past RTS Portfolios
Disclaimer: The views expressed are provided for information purposes only and should not be construed in any way as investment advice. Furthermore, the opinions expressed may change without notice.
RTS Portfolio Updated as of Close of Friday 8/27/2...
RTS Covering MRVL and Selling Short MDT on Wed 8/2...
SGS Went Short as of Close of Friday 8/13/2010
Nasty Move Down Might Have Just Started
RTS Portfolio Updated as of Close of Friday 8/6/20...
Final Update for RTS 20100517 Short Portfolio
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Fri, 01/17/2020 - 11:04 -- Paul Crompton
The non-binding letter of intent (LoI) with Hebei Yanshan Vanadium and Titanium Industry Technology Research (a subsidiary of HBIS Group Chengsteel Chengsteel— the world’s third largest vanadium producer), was announced by AVL on 15 January.
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Battery materials miner opens research laboratory to speed up process
Wed, 11/27/2019 - 16:05 -- Paul Crompton
Battery metals firm American Battery Metals Corporation has opened a chemistry and research laboratory to analyse data on its vanadium and lithium mining claims and drill sites.
The Nevada, US, miner will conduct in-house research and analysis before, during, and after its work in the field.
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Canadian firm in vanadium R&D deal with US lab
Mon, 02/05/2018 - 12:06 -- John Shepherd
Canadian junior mining firm Golden Share Resources Corporation has signed an agreement worth an estimated $906 million with a US government laboratory for R&D into novel vanadium based solid-state battery technologies.
Golden Share said it had signed the deal with Battelle Memorial Institute, which runs the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for the US Department of Energy.
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Historic moment as flow battery and vanadium companies signs MoU
Mon, 07/25/2016 - 11:59 -- Paul Crompton
US flow battery maker Vionx Energy has entered into a nonbinding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Canadian vanadium producer Largo Resources.
The MOU outlines the principal terms upon which Vionx will base a final deal in which it will use Largo’s vanadium electrolyte in its Vanadium Redox Battery (VRB) systems.
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Yellow Rock undergoes name change as it ups vanadium focus
An Australian vanadium supplier has identified so much potential in the supply of vanadium for electrolytes that it has changed its name to reflect its future direction.
Formerly Yellow Rock Resources, the company now called Australian Vanadium is pushing exploration in the remote Gabanintha area in Western Australia, where there is a sizeable deposit of vanadium.
Although Australian Vanadium has copper, gold and uranium prospects in Australia, vanadium has become its priority
The company has hired Emeritus Professor Maria Skyllas-Kazacos of the University of New South Wales for her expertise in assessing the global market for vanadium electrolyte and to identify the best way to process the material for this market.
Skyllas-Kazacos was instrumental in inventing the all-vanadium redox flow cell battery in 1985, and has continued developing the technology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
She oversaw the installation of the Gildemeister Cell Cube 130kWh vanadium flow battery on the campus earlier this year, which was the first major installation of a large vanadium redox battery in Australia.
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SunEdison buys 1000 flow batteries for Indian microgrids
U.S. energy storage system developer SunEdison is buying 1,000 vanadium flow batteries from Imergy Power Systems as it moves into the Indian market.
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Imergy to supply flow batteries to US Navy
Wed, 12/03/2014 - 16:22 -- Laura Varriale
US energy storage firm Imergy Power Systems (Imergy) has been selected by Foresight Renewable Solutions to provide three of its flow batteries to a smart microgrid project in California, US.
The batteries will be deployed at the US Navy’s mobile utilities support equipment facility in Port Hueneme. The project, which focuses on developing applications and use-case scenarios to optimise power consumption at military bases, industrial parks and other institutions is, sponsored by the California Energy Commission (CEC).
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Imergy launches low-cost flow battery
Tue, 10/28/2014 - 12:09 -- Laura Varriale
US-based flow battery developer Imergy Power Systems (Imergy), known as Deeya Energy, has introduced a vanadium flow battery that costs $300/kWh.
According to Imergy, the 50kW battery comes with a minimum 20-year cycle life and can store up to 200kWh of electricity. The storage duration can be extended by increasing electrolyte concentration and volume. The ESP30 battery can be used at up to 131°F (55°C).
REDT installs flow battery system in Portugal
Fri, 10/18/2013 - 12:16 -- Ruth Williams
Energy storage technology firm REDT (Renewable Energy Dynamics Technology Ltd.) has installed a 5 kW vanadium redox flow battery system with 12 hours (60kWh) storage capacity at the University of Evora, Portugal.
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Jurong Cold Store
JCS Group, Singapore
ICE Inc.
Strategy, identity, content and website design for Jurong Cold Store (JCS), a fast-growing cold chain logistics and warehousing services company for the food & beverage industry in Singapore. With three decades worth of experience, JCS operates an 11-storey fully-automated cold storage warehouse that offers a 24/7 efficient service solution. Their vision: to create a holistic environment where perishable foods can live up to their fullest quality potential — in terms of freshness and value. With the logistics landscape in Singapore evolving, Jurong Cold Store aims to stay on top of it — investing a S$30 million automated logistics system within a new multi-story warehouse facility which will be completed in early 2017.
The remit for this rebranding exercise was to help them capture and convey their innovative and pioneering spirit and democratic approach, through a new brand identity system. Inspired by the vernacular of the thermometer, the bulb is defined within the swash of the letter ‘J’. The dot, now replaced by a solid stroked ring serves to connote the celsius symbol and to visually link the relationship of frozen temperatures.
The brand slogan ‘The Freshness Keepers’ was devised, articulating the passion and performance that is supported by a state of the art vertical cold storage facility, enabling technology and the good old fashioned high standards of service. The deliverables went on to include business cards, stationery, brochure, print advertising, wayfinding graphics and website design.
Scope—Brand Strategy / Creative Direction / Art Direction / Design / Copywriting / Typographer
Site development: Digital Folks
Photography: Sean Lee
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CBA Immigration Law Section
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The Atlantic Immigration Pilot: A new option for immigrating to Atlantic Canada
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Great news! There is a new option for employers wishing to hire immigrants and for immigrants wishing to immigrate to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. The Canadian government and the governments of the Atlantic Canadian provinces have recently announced a new three-year Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program.
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After approximately 20 months as a pilot program, the province rebranded its PNP as "Opportunities Ontario,” making changes to expand the program from a cap perspective and in various other respects (such as the elimination of the occupation list).
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Mario D. Bellissimo
With the passage of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), the impact of criminality in immigration cases has intensified and almost eight years later we are still learning to what extent.
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Burger Yacht Sales, Inc.
1535 SE 17th St #107
, United States
To tell the story of Burger?s history one must go back to when Simon and Margaretta Brauburger left their home in Bad-Homberg-Ober-Erlinbach, Deutschland and emigrated to the United States with their five children, including their youngest son Henry, then 7 years old. After arriving in the New World, the family shortened their name to Burger and established their home in Jeffersonville, Sullivan County, New York where they resided for about ten years. Since the climate and topography of the upper Midwest of the United States was so similar to their home in Europe, the Burger family relocated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where a large number of German, Dutch, Norwegian, French, Polish and Scandinavian immigrants had settled. It was in Milwaukee, at the age of 18, that Henry began honing his skills by apprenticing as a shipbuilder at the Wolf & Davidson Shipyard. In 1863, while the United States was in the midst of the American Civil War, Henry at the age of 24 moved approximately 80 miles north of Milwaukee to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, a small community on the western shore of Lake Michigan. There he married Mary Esslinger, the daughter of a prominent German businessman and formed the H. Burger Shipyard to produce small, 20' to 30' Mackinaw fishing boats for local commercial fishermen. His expertise and penchant for building extremely high quality vessels quickly became known throughout the Great Lakes. Between 1866 and 1869 Henry, and his small group of boat builders, built and launched several vessels including the scow MENOMONEE, the schooner FLEET WING and the schooner S.A. WOOD. In 1870, during the heyday of wooden sailing ships, Henry B. and Mr. Greene-Rand consolidated their Manitowoc shipyards to form the Greene-Rand, Burger Shipyard?building among many others, the Schooners CITY OF MANITOWOC and J.I. CASE. This partnership continued until Mr. Rand?s death in 1885. In 1886, Henry took his nephew, George B. Burger, into partnership forming the Burger and Burger Shipyard and in 1887, envisioning the decline of new wooden sailing ships; they purchased the only dry dock in Manitowoc to begin a ship repair business. In 1888, the Burger yard launched the LIZZIE METZNER, an 80' three-masted schooner, built of blue oak. That same year, the 171' steamer PETOSKY, was launched defying all superstitions about Fridays being unlucky days for boats. The keel was laid on a Friday, she was launched on a Friday and her maiden voyage was on a Friday. She was very successful, but met with ill fate in 1935 when she was destroyed by fire in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin while being converted into a barge. In 1889, Burger launched CORA A, the last full-rigged schooner built on the Great Lakes. In 1890, Burger built and launched the 201' ferry INDIANA for the Goodrich Transportation Company, the largest and by far the most successful passenger steamship company on the Great Lakes. The combination of new construction and ship repair was the formula that made Burger prosperous during the 1890?s when many other shipyards struggled. As there were no dry docks between Detroit, Michigan and Manitowoc, Wisconsin and none on Lake Superior the Burger shipyard had a steady stream of customers with eight to ten ships waiting to come in for repairs at any given time. The company also maintained a large wrecking tug, the JOHN GREGORY that often brought in profitable repair jobs. The yard boasted a 337' graving dock which could handle vessels of 2000 tons. In addition, Burger had a set of boxes which would lift vessels of 350 tons and a large stock of spars and a spar derrick. Between 1870 and the turn of the century, the Burger brand name appeared on almost 100 new vessels including steamers, tugs, scows, schooners and barges. Without question, the Burger name was synonymous with quality and craftsmanship. In 1902, Henry B. & George B. Burger, after almost 40 years in business, sold their shipyard to the Manitowoc Dry Dock Company. This company has evolved into the current Manitowoc Company, the world?s largest builder of cranes and commercial ice makers. Henry B., then known as Henry Sr., retired, but the Burger shipbuilding tradition continued. However, ten years earlier, in 1892, nephew Henry B. Burger Jr. formed a company in his own name, Henry B. Burger Shipyard, just across the river from his uncle. It is on this site that the current Burger Boat Company has evolved. Henry Jr. was very innovative and a true visionary. While continuing to build small sailing and fishing vessels, Henry Jr. quickly recognized the potential advantages of the newly developed gasoline engine and began installing engines produced by Kahlenberg Brothers of Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Burger?s first motor launch was the 85' cruiser, VERNON JR., built for Vernon Siever of Chicago, Illinois in 1901. Within ten years, the company was building many 80', 90' and 100' wooden cruisers and had established a reputation for building the finest custom motor yachts anywhere. When Henry died in 1914, his wife and four children, Henry C., George M., Walter and Caroline assumed ownership and management of the shipyard. In 1915, they incorporated as Burger Boat Company. During World War I, Burger Boat Company?s tremendous reputation for wooden shipbuilding was such that the U.S. Navy ordered several wooden minesweepers, sub chasers, tugs and rescue craft. Burger also built thirteen 90' wooden tugs for the U.S. Army Emergency Corps. The years following World War I saw many large luxurious wooden cruisers and sailing yachts built for the pleasure market. However, technological developments spurred additional innovation. With the advent of electric arc welding, Burger developed techniques for the construction of all welded steel hulls for pleasure craft. In 1938, Burger built the country?s first all welded steel auxiliary ketch, the 81' TAMARIS. During the depression years, Burger Boat Company specialized in the construction of steel gill net fishing vessels as these proved to be far more practical than luxury yachts at the time. Burger started another trend that gained immediate popularity when, in 1940, it launched the first flush deck cruiser, the 65' PILGRIM. To this day, PILGRIM has been fully restored and can be seen cruising the waters of the Great Lakes and the eastern seaboard. With the advent of World War II the U.S. Army and Navy ordered 55 vessels over a five-year period from Burger Boat Company. Utility craft, steel tugs, crash boats, rescue boats, minesweepers and sub chasers slid down the ways in rapid succession. After the war, Burger devoted its efforts to producing pleasure yachts. Luxury cruisers and auxiliaries were built and a line of custom and semi-custom yachts were introduced in 1949. In 1951, the Navy once again ordered seven craft, two 138' wooden minesweepers and five 170' wooden minesweepers. Because of Burger?s reputation for being innovative and for building America?s finest yachts, the Reynolds family of Reynolds Metals Company approached Burger in 1952 to work with an experimental new material, aluminum. With the development of MIG and TIG welding, the collaboration produced America?s first all welded aluminum vessel, the 36' cruiser VIRGINIA, in 1956. In 1957, the first all welded aluminum, shoal draft, centerboard yawl, the 58' DYNA, was built for Mr. Clayton Ewing. Designed by Sparkman & Stephens, DYNA was the first yacht built in the Great Lakes to win the 635-mile biennial Newport to Bermuda race finishing in just five days, one hour 40 minutes and 34 seconds, a new course record. DYNA went on to win many races and establishing numerous records due to weighing 8,600 pounds less than a comparable wooden hull and 10,000 pounds lighter than a comparable steel hull. In 1959, the company was reorganized. The son of President Henry C. Burger, Henry E. Burger, became president and George M. Burger, who was Vice-President, stepped aside for his son-in law, Elias Gunnell II. Eli?s father was President of Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company and inventor of the rivet gun. Caroline continued as Secretary-Treasurer and oversaw accounting. The company became Burger Boat Company, Inc. In the early 1960?s, the company?s primary focus was the design and construction of luxury aluminum motor yachts. The heyday of flush decks, cruisers, houseboats, raised and semi-raised pilothouse motor yachts continued through the sixties, seventies into the eighties. During this period, Burger worked with such notable naval architects as Sparkman & Stephens, J.B. Hargrave, C. Raymond Hunt, and Donald O?Keeffe. In 1976, Henry Burger bought out Elias Gunnell and became the sole shareholder of Burger Boat Company. The largest aluminum yacht ever built in the U.S. was launched by Burger in 1977, the 125? ARARA for the Illinois Tool Works. Burger?s tradition of building high quality aluminum yachts continued. However, in October 1986, due to declining health, Henry E. Burger sold the company to John McMillian, a then current customer building an 86' yacht. Burger continued to prosper and for the period between 1985 and 1990, 47% of all the registered motor yachts over 80 feet built in the U.S. were built by Burger Boat Company. In April 1989 McMillian sold Burger to United Shipbuilders of America, a newly created subsidiary of Tacoma Boat building Company. Fresh out of Chapter 11 reorganization itself, Tacoma?s strategy was to expand operations beyond its diminishing military shipbuilding by acquiring Burger and entering the pleasure boating market. Unfortunately, the unexpected loss of several large naval contracts, along with the newly instituted luxury tax, caused a struggling Tacoma to abruptly suspend operations and on Friday, November 30, 1990, the closing of Burger was ordered. A group of 167 skilled craftspeople and dedicated employees banded together as the Former Burger Workers for the purpose of staying in communication with each other in hopes their company, their pride and their boat building heritage would someday continue. Fortunately, on Friday, February 5, 1993, 26 months after the closure, the Burger brand was reborn when businessmen David Ross and Jim Ruffolo purchased the assets of Burger Boat Company and reopened the shipyard, continuing the tradition started in 1863, that of building custom yachts 200' (60m). The first yacht under the new management was the 91' Raised Pilothouse Motor Yacht WINDRUSH. This eagerly anticipated yacht was so highly acclaimed at the 1994 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, that it was directly responsible for Burger Boat Company receiving three additional yacht construction contracts. Since its reopening, Burger has experienced tremendous growth and to date has built 34 new yachts that can be seen in ports around the world. In addition, the Burger shipyard has been completely transformed and now features a state-of-the-art manufacturing complex and a 50,000 square feet. (4645 square meters) joiner shop with a custom built dual station router and machining center, a highly efficient spray booth and drying center. In 2006 a new 500 metric ton capacity MARINE TRAVELIFT? and launching well were erected making the historic Burger shipyard into a world renowned showpiece, also a new 20,000 square feet (1858 square meters) corporate headquarters building was acquired. In 2006 Burger launched the much acclaimed, the 144' (43.9m) MIRGAB V. MIRGAB V won the 2006 Yachts International World Yachts Trophy for Best Custom Yacht Between 40m and 50m award and the 2007 Showboats International Best Semi Displacement Motor Yacht over 40 Meters award. Displayed at the 2006 Monaco Yacht Show, MIRGAB V was recognized on the world stage as a showpiece of Burger craftsmanship and design. With such tremendous growth and expansion, Burger University was initiated in 2006 to provide new and ongoing training in all trades and all departments. Several ?mentoring? positions were added to complement the initiative of Burger University. In addition to this skill training, a heavy emphasis has been placed on safety training with frequent company-wide meetings to heighten the awareness and emphasize the importance of safety throughout the shipyard. In 2007 Burger again made a major commitment to training and employees retention by instituting LEAN Construction Practices throughout its operation. In 2007, another first for Burger was achieved, the launching of the first set of identical twins, Hull 505 and 506, for a client who wanted to have a vessel on each side of the Atlantic. Again, these two vessels were met with much acclaim and have been nominated for several industry awards. On August 16, 2007 Burger Boat Company announced the retirement of David Ross, Co-President. Then current Co-President James (Jim) M. Ruffolo undertook the full responsibility of President. In 2008 Burger launched two yachts; INGOT a 153' (47m) Tri-Deck and T?-KAL?N a 101' (31m) Enclosed Bridge Motor Yacht. T?-KAL?N, a contemporary-styled custom Enclosed Bridge Motor Yacht, is built for speed for an experienced yachting family from the United States. The Burger Design Team joined forces with Cor D. Rover Design as the exterior stylist and Donald L. Blount & Associates to develop a vessel that is both elegant and technologically advanced. T?-KAL?N incorporates extensive use of strong, lightweight materials and carefully calculated design and engineering parameters. INGOT premiered at the 2008 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show and was extremely popular at the 2009 Monaco Yacht Show. In 2009 Burger launched SYCARA IV; a 151' (46m) Fantail Motor Yacht. Imagine going back to a time when people actually knew how to relax and enjoy the simple pleasures of yachting. Owners of SYCARA IV were committed to exactly that?recapturing the splendor, grace and charm of an era gone by?when SYCARA IV was designed. This was their inspiration for SYCARA IV, a beautiful traditionally styled, early 1920?s era, Fantail Cruiser. Launched in 2010 were the 140? (42m) Motor Yacht SEA OWL and the 140? (42m) LADY GAYLE MARIE. SEA OWL was a collaboration effort between the Burger Design Team, Vripack in the Netherlands and Andrew Winch Design from the UK while LADY GAYLE MARIE was the third new Burger build by the current owner. Burger is currently building Hull 510, a 103'-6" (31.5m) steel and aluminum explorer yacht designed by Luiz de Basto of Miami Florida. Hull 510 will be delivered in the Spring of 2017 and her owner plans to cruise the world's sportsfishing hot spots. Burger also took a look back in its history and determined that there was a market for high quality commercial vessels and projects. Since reinstituting commercial vessel construction in 2010, Burger has delivered several new vessels including the all welded aluminum R/V COREGONUS to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources; two all welded steel passenger vessels CHICAGO?S LEADING LADY and CHICAGO'S CLASSIC LADY as well as the all welded steel R/V ARCTICUS for the US Geological Survey. In the summer of 2015, Burger delivered the steel passenger vessel LUCIA. For one to realize that Burger is a true custom builder is to look at the variety of yachts and commercial vessels that have been built since it's founding in 1863. Working with in-house designer and engineers, as well as highly acclaimed designers from around the world, Burger continues to raise the bar in quality and innovation. Since 1863, Burger has been the foundation of the American Yachting experience and the oldest, most respected custom yacht builder in America, spanning three centuries.
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The original story can be found at http://www.bpnews.net/52805/filipinos-to-stress-partnership-church-planting
Filipinos to stress partnership, church planting
by David Roach, posted Friday, April 26, 2019 (9 months ago)
Tags: Filipino Baptists2019 SBC Annual Meeting preview2019 SBC Annual Meetingethnicity in the SBC
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- "Partnership in the Gospel" will be the theme and church planting a main emphasis when the Filipino Southern Baptist Fellowship of North America convenes in conjunction with the 2019 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Birmingham, Ala.
Pastor Felix Sermon Jr., vice president for the East Coast Filipino Southern Baptist Fellowship, prays for Pastor Alvin Camota of Suffern, N.Y., at the 2018 SBC annual meeting in Dallas. Camota was elected vice president of the Second-Generation Asian American Fellowship.
BP file photo by Kathleen Murray
The fellowship will shift its traditional Tuesday meeting time to Monday so fellowship members also can participate fully in the SBC annual meeting, which convenes June 11-12. Filipino Southern Baptists will gather Monday, June 10 from 1-5 p.m. in East Ballroom B at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex.
Guest speakers will include Allen Hill, director of missions for the Appalachee Baptist Association in Monroe, Ga., and Rick Wheeler, lead missional strategist for the Jacksonville (Fla.) Baptist Association. Hill, a former missionary to the Philippines for more than 20 years, will address the meeting's "partnership in the Gospel" theme while Wheeler will present a seminar on servant leadership.
Fellowship president Dan Santiago hopes the emphasis on partnership will inspire new levels of commitment by Filipino churches.
"Our fellowship is kind of loose," said Santiago, pastor of Covenant Christian Church in Jacksonville. But last year, "we started gathering membership for the fellowship so we can have a clear commitment from churches. We were able to gather about 50 churches out of the 200 [total Filipino Southern Baptist congregations]. We're still trying to reach out to them."
One aim of the fellowship's call for increased commitment, Santiago said, is to raise $36,000 for partial support of three new Filipino church planters. Already, plans are underway to plant a church in Dallas in conjunction with Biblical Community Church in Richardson, Texas, and the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
Locations for the other two new church plants will be determined based on requests from Filipino congregations, Santiago said, noting there are about 4 million Filipinos in the United States. The national fellowship's plants will supplement church planting efforts by local coalitions of Filipino churches, as have occurred in New York and California.
To better assist churches, Filipino Fellowship leaders have attended North American Mission Board training sessions on church planting, coaching and replanting, Santiago said.
"We can do the church planting work if these individual churches will participate," Santiago said. His goal is for 30 churches each to commit $100 per month for church planting.
In other business, the fellowship will elect a new slate of officers to serve for the next two years. Filipino Baptists also will recognize new church planters as well as pastors who have served for at least 20 years.
To register for the annual meeting, email Santiago at drsantyago@gmail.com. The fellowship has a Facebook page and will post updates on the June gathering as it approaches.
David Roach is chief national correspondent for Baptist Press, the Southern Baptist Convention's news service. BP reports on missions, ministry and witness advanced through the Cooperative Program and on news related to Southern Baptists' concerns nationally and globally.
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China off US list of 'currency manipulators'
By Zhao Huanxin in Washington, Scott Reeves in New York and Chen Jia in Beijing | China Daily | Updated: 2020-01-15 02:57
Spokesman says Washington's conclusion in line with facts, international consensus
The United States removed the label of "currency manipulator" from China on Monday, a move that a leading US expert called "just recognizing reality" and will be welcomed by investors.
The US Treasury Department said in a report to Congress that no major US trading partner currently meets the relevant legislative criteria for currency manipulation.
Noting that the department assessed developments over the last few months with China and its currency practices, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that "China has made enforceable commitments to refrain from competitive devaluation, while promoting transparency and accountability".
The announcement came after the Trump administration designated China a "currency manipulator" in August.
China has never used and will not use the currency exchange rate as a tool to deal with external disruptions such as trade disputes, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a news conference on Tuesday, after the US reversed its decision to label China a currency manipulator.
China has never manipulated its currency, Geng said, adding that the conclusion reached by the US on Monday is in line with the facts as well as international consensus. China has clarified many times that it will not engage in competitive currency devaluation, he said.
China remains committed to deepening exchange rate marketization and improving its exchange rate system to keep the RMB exchange rate "basically stable at a reasonable and equilibrium level", he added.
"China has not been manipulating its currency, so this is just recognizing reality," said David Dollar, senior fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution.
Sheng Songcheng, a former official at the People's Bank of China, the nation's central bank, said that the US Treasury's removal of the label will contribute to easing of trade and economic relations between the countries.
"China has never resorted to competitive devaluation," said Sheng, deputy head of Shanghai-based CEIBS Lujiazui Institute of International Finance. "The market plays the main role in determining the exchange rate of the RMB."
In early August, the RMB depreciated to beyond 7 per dollar, but that was because of the escalation of Sino-US trade frictions, which triggered market panic, and it was not the result of any manipulation, he told China Daily.
Even when the Chinese economy soured in the third quarter, the country had not resorted to currency devaluation to boost exports and growth and the RMB remained quite stable at that time, he said.
Sheng suggested that a currency exchange rate coordination mechanism should be established.
"While a floating exchange rate regime helps offset external shocks, excessive exchange rate fluctuations will hurt the corporate sector and stable economic development."
The US dropped the currency manipulator designation the same day that a Chinese trade delegation, led by Vice-Premier Liu He, arrived in Washington for the signing of a phase-one trade deal at the White House, scheduled for Wednesday.
Andrew Karolyi, a professor of finance at Cornell University, said investors will welcome the action largely because it appears to be tied to an impending agreement set to normalize trade relations between the two major economies.
"These steps individually and together help to reduce global trade policy uncertainty, something markets have been craving for months," Karolyi told China Daily.
"It is more than just symbolic, as lower trade policy uncertainty likely means more trade flows and greater cross-border portfolio and corporate investment flows, all of which stimulates more economic growth," he said.
Mark Sobel, US chairman of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, an independent think tank, said China should never have been designated as a currency manipulator. "Designation was a blatant/errant political act," Sobel said on social media on Monday.
On Tuesday, the RMB rose to around 6.87 per dollar, the strongest in five months. "It is difficult for the RMB to depreciate back to 7 and beyond, given the weaker US dollar index after the peak in the third quarter last year. But the room for RMB appreciation is limited," said Huang Jun, chief China analyst at Forex.com, a global foreign exchange platform.
Zhou Jin contributed to this story.
Contact the writers at huanxinzhao@chinadailyusa.com
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The Garden City, Christchurch New Zealand. Christchurch City easily wins the heart of visitors with its reputation as New Zealand's Garden City.
The Garden City
Christchurch City easily wins the heart of visitors with its reputation as New Zealand's Garden City. The Avon River and gently undulating topography of the central city and its surrounds encouraged the city's leaders to recreate 'the best of botanical British'.
Hagley Park and the Botanic Gardens
The Garden City’s crowning glory is Hagley Park, which offers 165 hectares (407 acres) of mature introduced tree plantings, beautifully thought-out walkways meandering past the river, permanent and evolving garden features and installations, extensive sports grounds, and a small golf-course.
Riccarton House & Bush
The historic homestead of Riccarton House lies a short drive from the centre of town. The house sits on the bank of the Avon River, beside nearly 16 acres of original native bush. The mostly made up of 400-600 year old trees, and is considered to be the longest protected piece of natural land in the country. You can take a tour of the house and stroll the bush track, have a coffee in the garden setting, and while you’re there take a peek into the Deans Cottage, the oldest building on the Canterbury Plains. If you’re there on a Saturday, check out the farmers market selling fresh, gourmet local produce.
This elegant Victorian homestead was built at the turn of the 20th Century in the Arts and Crafts style, reflecting the Tudor houses of England. Surrounding it are 5.5 hectares of beautifully crafted traditional lawns and gardens, with the Avon River meandering through the middle. The building is now used a restaurant and cafe, and the Gardens are open to the public. If you like you can take a relaxing punt down the Avon.
Ellerslie Flower Festival
Christchurch has claimed its status as the jewel in the crown of New Zealand's horticultural and landscaping recreational and design sector by securing the much sought after Ellerslie Garden Show. The five-day show, which made its Christchurch debut in March 2008, features a host of exclusive New Zealand Horticultural and Landscape designers featuring their showcases at Christchurch's Hagley Park. Helping to welcome the show into its Christchurch context was internationally renowned Wearable Horticultural Art designer Jenny Gillies, who prepared over 40 new pieces for a special event at the show.
Every year, the north east end of Hagley Park will host events over a large, specially designated area, while directly adjacent to the Garden Show the Christchurch City Botanic Gardens will also have a number of events and features.
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Discover the Fontanelle Cemetery
The Fontanelle cemetery in Naples can be discovered for free: the entrance is always free.
The better way to visit the Fontanelle cemetery is with a guide.
Mainly because if you visit alone you’ll see only skulls and bones: without any explanation you won't discover the history and curiosity around that special skulls, their story, their past.
Secondly because is beautiful to share this tour with a neapolitan guide who love this place and in particular love the Sanità - Vergini district
From various associations that offer a guide tour for discover the Fontanelle Cemetery, we suggest Insolitaguida Napoli famous for its professionality and cordiality.
The phone number to contact Insolitaguida Napoli and book a complete tour of Sanità-Vergini district and Fontanelle cemetery in Naples is +39 338 965 22 88
How much is the entrance to the Fontanelle Cemetery
Very often people are asking how much is the entrance to the Fontanelle Cemetery in Naples and we always answer that the entrance to the Fontanelle Cemetery is free: there is no ticket to pay!
The Fontanelle Cemetery is opened for free!
We will never tire of repeating.
Even thought
Although there are the usual sharks who are trying to turn it into a small possession; for now (and hopefully forever) the Fontanelle Cemetery has no tickets; therefore the cost of the ticket for entrance to the Fontanelle cemetery is zero Euros.
If someone offers you the admission fee to the Fontanelle Cemetery do not be afraid to let us know: we will do everything possible so that the scammers are exposed!
Is possible to take pictures in Fontanelle Cemetery
Everyone want to take pictures or make videos in Fontanelle Cemetery.
Is possible to take pictures only without flash.
There is no limitation about videos.
These rules are for private use.
If you want to make professional pictures or videos you must contact Comune di Napoli and ask an authorization
The phone number to call si +39 081 19703197
Opening times - Timetables of Fontanelle Cemetery
Here the timetable with open days and closed days of Fontanelle Cemetery of Naples
The Fontanelle Cemetery of Naples is opened every day from Monday to Sunday.
Last entrance 30 minutes before closing.
For official details you can call Napoli Servizi at + 39 081 19703197
Don' forget that the entrance to the Fontanelle Cemetery is free: there is no ticket fee.
Beware of tour booking with ticket fee included in the price.
The history of Fontanelle Cemetery
The Fontanelle cemetery in Naples is a charnel house, an ossuary, located in a cave in the tuff hillside in the Materdei section of the city. It is associated with a chapter in the folklore of the city. By the time the Spanish moved into the city in the early 16th century, there was already concern over where to locate cemeteries, and moves had been taken to locate graves outside of the city walls. Many Neapolitans, however, insisted on being interred in their local churches. To make space in the churches for the newly interred, undertakers started removing earlier remains outside the city to the cave, the future Fontanelle cemetery. The remains were interred shallowly and then joined in 1656 by thousands of anonymous corpses, victims of the great plague of that year.
Sometime in the late 17th century—according to Andrea De Jorio, a Neapolitan scholar from the 19th century, great floods washed the remains out and into the streets, presenting a grisly spectacle. The anonymous remains were returned to the cave, at which point the cave became the unofficial final resting place for the indigent of the city in the succeeding years—a vast paupers' cemetery. It was codified officially as such in the early 19th century under the French rule of Naples. The last great "deposit" of the indigent dead seems to have been in the wake of the cholera epidemic of 1837.
Then, in 1872, Father Gaetano Barbati had the chaotically buried skeletal remains disinterred and catalogued. They remained on the surface, stored in makeshift crypts, in boxes and on wooden racks. A spontaneous cult of devotion to the remains of these unnamed dead developed in Naples. Defenders of the cult pointed out that they were paying respect to those who had had none in life, who had been too poor even to have a proper burial. Devotees paid visits to the skulls, cleaned them—"adopted" them, in a way, even giving the skulls back their "living" names (revealed to their caretakers in dreams). An entire cult sprang up, devoted to caring for the skulls, talking to them, asking for favors, bringing them flowers, etc. A small church, Maria Santissima del Carmine, was built at the entrance.
The cult of devotion to the skulls of the Fontanelle cemetery lasted into the mid-20th century. In 1969, Cardinal Ursi of Naples decided that such devotion had degenerated into fetishism and ordered the cemetery to be closed. It has recently undergone restoration as a historical site and may be visited.
We need to book the entrance to the Fontanelle Cemetery?
Very often people asks if you must book to enter to the Fontanelle Cemetery of Naples.
Is not possible to book the entrance to the Fontanelle Cemetery, even thought for big groups.
So if someone ask money to make a reservation or book the entrance of Fontanelle Cemetery, beware of them!
When is open the Fontanelle’s cemetery?
The first question that everyone make is "When is opened the Fontanelle Cemetery?" or "What is the opening hours of Fontanelle Cemetery".
Here is the question about timetables of Fontanelle Cemetery.
The Fontanelle Cemetery has the following timetable:
Dont't forget that is the entrance is possible until 30 minutes before of closing time.
If you want more information, call the + 39 081 19703197
The entrace to the Fontanelle Cemetery is totally free.
Beware of guided tour with ticket fee for the Fontanelle Cemetery.
Where is the Fontenelle cemetery in Naples?
The Fontanelle Cemeterery is located in via Fontanelle 80, Napoli - in Sanità district.c
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CHINA - ITALY SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION PROGRAM - 中意科技创新规划
PROGRAM FRAMEWORK
COOPERATION AWARD
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CENTRE
A NEW JOINT DECLARATION SIGNED BETWEEN THE TWO MINISTERS
The technological and scientific partnership between Italy and China got a strategic value over the years thanks to the consolidation of the structured dialogue tool centered on the “Innovation Week” which has become a stable platform for fostering dialogue between Italian and Chinese Governments on research and innovation, focusing on the continuity of the program, that represent a basic and fundamental meaning especially for China.
On the occasion of the “Innovation Week”, on November 14th, the Joint Statement was signed between the Minister of Science and Technology of the PRC, Wan Gang, and the Minister of Education, University and Research, Valeria Fedeli. The statement focuses on all current actions of our country towards China, from the support to the Italy-China Technology Transfer Center to the exploration mission in China of the National Technological Clusters, to the startup internationalization platform.
To read the full text, download the Joint Statement
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5 Tips for Mindful Eating
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Ever watch TV with a bag of chips in hand? The next thing you know, half the bag is gone and you don’t even remember munching away. Distractions are a big reason we overeat, says Reshmi Srinath, MD, assistant professor of endocrinology, diabetes, and bone disease at the Icahn School of Medicine and director of the Mount Sinai Weight and Metabolism Management Program in New York City.
Luckily, you can train yourself to focus on your food, which will help you eat a reasonable amount, says Barbara Lohse, PhD, RD, CDN, professor of health sciences and head of the Wegmans School of Health and Nutrition at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Be mindful of chewing. “Chew every food carefully, up to 10 to 20 chews per bite,” says Srinath.
Focus on how you feel. “Pay attention to yourself when you’re eating,” says Lohse. Focus on your food, how you feel, and how the food feels and tastes. Ask yourself, “Am I enjoying this? Do I feel satisfied?”
Trust yourself. “Give yourself permission to eat the foods that you find satisfying,” says Lohse. This requires having the discipline to choose foods that are good for you, or eat just a little bit of the less healthy foods you enjoy. “Don’t deprive yourself when you are really hungry,” she says.
Understand portions. If you struggle to put the fork down, knowing what makes for an appropriate portion size can help. “Having particular measuring cups can tell you what a quarter or half cup of cooked rice looks like,” Srinath says.
Eat on schedule. “One of the biggest factors that can help people to not overeat is to have regular meals and snacks that you know you’re going to get,” says Lohse. You’re less likely to eat unhealthy foods between meetings or overeat at dinner if you didn’t skip lunch.
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Safer Internet Day prompts smart online choices
By Jack Derricourt Feb 5, 2019 in Internet
This year’s Safer Internet Day forces us to recognize that, for all the wonderful things the internet has brought to humanity, our safety online is not as secure as it could be.
Headlines continually remind us about the state of internet safety: massive data breaches; elaborate phishing scams; and the dangerous world of cyberbullying.
“Together for a better internet”
Safer Internet Day started in the EU in 2004 in order to promote safer behaviour online. The initiative works to emphasize the need for safer internet use, especially for younger users. The yearly event is now held in almost 140 countries, and brings together a host of organizations to emphasize education and awareness around safe behaviour online.
#SaferInternetDay in 🇧🇬Bulgaria kicked off with the launch of a new campaign in which young #cyber #heroes make the internet a better place! #ГероятСиТи
Fighting #HateSpeech and #online #hate with good & #positivity!
📽️https://t.co/V8Z7uKcg68 https://t.co/9am9iSDH9i
— Safer Internet Day (@safeinternetday) February 5, 2019
In a recent survey of Google’s users, one in five Canadians gave themselves a failing grade when it came to their personal internet safety. And only 30 percent of respondents said they use two-factor authentication, one of the easiest methods of boosting your security online.
To mark Safer Internet Day, Google distributed some basic security tips for internet users:
1) Keep your software up-to-date
2) Use unique passwords — or even a password manager
3) Set up a recovery phone number or email address
4) Protect your accounts with 2-Step Verification
5) Take the Google Security Checkup — if you’re a Google user, that is.
Evolving threats
Brett Caraway, Associate Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, at the University of Toronto Mississauga spoke in an interview with Digital Journal about why the need for better internet safety is only increasing in 2019.
“As the Internet has become an increasingly ubiquitous component of our daily lives, there are a variety of concerns that have arisen. Chief among these have been concerns about cyberbullying, online threats, defamation, social isolation and vague concerns about addictive behaviours.”
On #SaferInternetDay2019 let's remember that every 30 second a woman is abused or harassed on #ToxicTwitter.
The violence and abuse these women experience online is having a detrimental effect on their right to express themselves equally, freely and without fear. #SID2019 pic.twitter.com/5QRIWQYQMK
— Amnesty New Zealand (@AmnestyNZ) February 4, 2019
The safety and security of our data is a key concern, said Caraway.
“While it’s difficult to point to just one potential threat, I would argue that data security may be among the most serious issues. Data security is implicated is so many relationships — everything from banking, shopping, healthcare and democratic governance. This is why breaches of security can have such severe repercussions in everything from personal privacy to democratic elections.”
Young people face hightened threat of abuse online
These developing threats often take on a particularly ugly aspect in relation to young people’s actions online. As reported by UNICEF, digital harassment affects 70.6 percent of young people (between 15 and 24) online around the globe. This comes in a variety of forms, including cyberbullying.
“We’ve heard from children and young people from around the globe and what they are saying is clear: The Internet has become a kindness desert,” said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore. “That’s why this Safer Internet Day, UNICEF is inviting everyone, young and old, to be kind online, and calling for greater action to make the Internet a safer place for everyone.”
And those elements of cybercullying can remain online forever, necessitating better education about the dangers of content shared on social media and online.
Caraway detailed the many ways that children find themselves is unsafe situations online, and the kinds of threats parents should be aware of.
“Cyberbullying, online stalking, and invasion of privacy are all things that parents must pay attention to. I think that it is critical for parents to maintain a transparent and open dialogue with their children about their online activities. It’s very difficult for children today to find safe harbour from social media forums. These unwanted and aggressive forms of behaviour follow children home, amplifying the potential impacts on young people who are still in their developmental years.”
On Tuesday's #SaferInternetDay, young people share what it’s like to grow up online - the good and the bad. #ENDviolence online. https://t.co/r1P0t9N7sd via @UNICEF pic.twitter.com/zXs0XrFFFu
— United Nations (@UN) February 5, 2019
So who should be the agent of change in this matter of internet safety? The users themselves, or the organizations proliferating internet services and features?
“Typically, I think the onus to protect children should fall on the firm or organization providing the social forum or technology in question,” said Caraway. “But social media firms have to strike a difficult balance of providing their users with a space where they feel safe to participate while not overly impinging on the ability of others to speak and express themselves freely.”
Safety encourages innovation
Google is taking this issue of safety to heart. The company is working through its Chrome browser to better inform users about their security choices online, and to prompt them to be more aware about the sites they visit.
Adrienne Porter Felt, Senior Engineering Manager at Google, discussed the need for safety in Google’s products in an interview.
“Security and privacy, and in general safety on the web, are a foundation for people’s willingness to use technology. On Chrome, security has been one of the core principles since the browser was started. The reason why that’s been the case is that if people don’t feel safe and comfortable using the technology, then no matter what other features you build, no matter what else you invent, people might not be willing to experiment with it.”
Felt indicated that Chrome UI has been improved to encourage safer user behaviour, including browser bar alerts when users access an HTTP website — which is inferior in terms of privacy and security compared to HTTPS, the widely recognized secure encryption of URLs. Chrome is also working on building new types of notifications to warn people about homograph attacks — phishing websites impersonating sites that users are trying to visit.
Google has also created a password checkup extension for Chrome that can help you determine if your current passwords are up to date and sufficiently secure.
More about Safer Internet Day, Internet, Internet Safety, Safety, Cyberbullying
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HP confirms Full Compatibility for Caldera V11
HP has announced that the Caldera V11 RIP suite has passed the variety of print tests needed to achieve certification for use with the HP Latex 500 series of wide-format printers. The scheme is designed to reassure users that, as an approved vendor, all components of their Caldera RIP will be compatible with investments in HP hardware from this product line, including the popular and recently added Latex 560 and Latex 570.
“V11 users can be fully confident that their Caldera software is designed to achieve the best from HP Latex 500 series printers,” states Arnaud Fabre, Product Manager, Caldera. “The testing demonstrates that owners can count on Caldera to transfer all their print instructions and data to their Latex printer faithfully. Choosing a Caldera RIP means choosing an independent, multi-vendor software system optimized for performance on Linux or Mac that is guaranteed to achieve the best graphic results.”
The HP Latex 560/570 RIP Certification Program tests RIP software in a controlled environment over a number of specified print tests, involving a selection of TIF, JPEG, EPS, PDF and PNG image files. The certification applies to the whole V11 suite, which includes GrandRIP+, VisualRIP+, TextilePRO and many others. What this means in practice is that Caldera V11 has proved it can be relied upon to produce what’s shown on screen, and that its data transfer and color reproduction is accurate. It will also report back system errors and print issues for timely resolution.
Caldera V11 is the latest version of the renowned software, launched at SGIA Las Vegas in September as a landmark 25th anniversary edition. This new release includes a number of improvements to enhance usability, including incorporating the latest version of Adobe PDF Print Engine (APPE4) and practical advances in image and business control options. It also introduces a new feature called True Bleed. This allows operators to clone pixels around the edge of an image regardless of its shape to create better edge finishing for applications such as print-and-cut, textiles and canvas – all applications well suited to the HP Latex 500 series.
One of the main benefits of this rapid HP accreditation is that users can be sure that Caldera V11 supports ‘print clusters’. Its new Sync & Deploy feature provides the ability to run the same RIP settings across different printers and locations. The result is reduced installation time, as the configuration is sent to multiple stations, and consistency across devices. The main benefit of this is that it allows users to utilize a group of printers to speed up productivity without the need to invest in a much larger or faster machine. Caldera sees HP’s Latex series printers as one of the major technologies for this approach to print production.
www.caldera.com
Oct 11, 2006 Olivia Cahoon
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Sunil Narine lifts Kolkata Knight Riders with a bang – 1st match vs. Delhi Daredevils
Zia Rana April 3, 2013
Kolkata Knight Riders 4-129 (Gautam Gambhir 42, Jacques Kallis 23, Shahbaz Nadeem 2-22) beat Delhi Daredevils 128 (Mahela Jayawardene 66, David Warner 21, Sunil Narine 4-13) by six wickets.
The star bowler in the IPL 2012, Sunil Narine, of Kolkata Knight Riders threatened the rest of the teams in the tournament again by destroying the Delhi Daredevils.
Delhi Daredevils were bowled out for 128 runs in the required 20 overs and Kolkata Knight Riders smashed 129 for the loss of just four wickets and eight balls to spare.
Sunil Narine – Excellent bowling figures of 4-13
Sunil Narine (Kolkata Knight Riders) was declared ‘Player of the match’ for his excellent bowling figures of 4-13 in the match.
The inaugural match of the Indian Premier League was played on Wednesday, April 3, 2013, at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, and that was witnessed by a capacity crowd.
Earlier, Gautam Gambhir, the skipper of Kolkata Knight Riders, won the toss and asked Delhi Daredevils to bat first. The decision paid dividends as the stumps of Unmukt Chand were shattered by Brett Lee on the very first ball of the innings and the captain of Delhi Daredevils, Mahela Jayawardene, joined in with David Warner. The duo found it easy to score the boundaries, they reached 26 after three overs and the latter hit a couple of fours in the next over. The score was taken to 44 in 5.5 overs when Warner became the first victim of Sunil Narine for 21 off 19 balls with 4 fours.
The Kolkata Knight Riders bowlers became unplayable and Jayawardene was the only notable batsman who faced the rival attack bravely as the wickets kept on crumbling from the other end. Delhi Daredevils were reeling at 6- 98 after 16 overs as Mahela Jayawardene attained his fifty in the following over with 2 fours. He was the 8th batsman who went back to the dressing room after scoring 66 from just 52 deliveries with 1 six and 8 fours as the innings of the entire Delhi Daredevils was folded back for 128 runs on the last ball of the innings.
Sunil Narine was the main destructor with four wickets, Brett Lee and Rajat Bhatia shared two each whereas Lakshmipathy Balaji claimed one wicket.
Kolkata Knight Riders lost their first wicket cheaply at five when Manvinder Bisla was gone for just four runs as Jacques Kallis got together with Gautam Gambhir. The pair opted to attack and added 15 runs in the third over with 1 six and 2 fours followed by another 2 boundaries from each batsman in the next two overs. The score went past the 50 runs mark in the seventh over as Kallis was caught by Chand at midwicket off Shahbaz Nadeem for 23. Manoj Tiwari walked in next and opened his account with a four and the tempo was carried on by Gambhir at the other side.
The score ascended to 93 in 13 overs when Gambhir was declared leg before wicket for 42 off 29 mere balls with 1 six and 5 fours. Tiwary followed him six runs later for 23 as Eoin Morgan scored 14 while Yusuf Pathan posted 18 and they accumulated 30 runs for the fifth wicket. The two batsmen remained unbeaten as the target was achieved by powering 129 runs in 18.4 overs.
Shahbaz Nadeem was the highest wicket taker with two whereas Ashish Nehra and Johan Botha ended up with one wicket each.
Kolkata Knight Riders clinched the match comprehensively by a big margin of six wickets and earned two vital points.
Tags: David Warner, Delhi Daredevils, Gautam Gambhir, IPL 2013, Jacques Kallis, Kolkata Knight Riders, Mahela Jayawardene, Shahbaz Nadeem, Sunil Narine
The No.1 Delhi Daredevils slipped as Kolkata Knight Riders jumped into the final
Kolkata Knight Riders grasped top spot by pushing down Delhi Daredevils
Next target South Africa – Shikhar Dhawan
Chris Gayle demolished Mumbai Indians
dumbbell upright rows April 10, 2013 at 4:00 am
An impressive share! I’ve just forwarded this onto a coworker who was conducting a little research on this. And he in fact ordered me breakfast because I stumbled upon it for him… lol. So allow me to reword this…. Thank YOU for the meal!! But yeah, thanks for spending time to discuss this issue here on your internet site.
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Air Marshal Govind Chandra Singh Rajwar
Service No & Branch 8103 F(N)
Date of Birth: -- --- -- Commissioned: 31 Dec 1963 Course: 26 NAV Course Entry Mode : Airmen
Service End: Retired on 31 Dec 2003 Superannuated
Fg Offr : 31 Dec 1964 Wg Cdr : 01 Nov 1982 Gp Capt : 30 Jun 1986 Acting Air Cmde : 13 May 1991
Air Cmde : 01 Oct 1991 AVM : 01 Oct 1996 Acting Air Marshal : 28 Jan 2002 Air Marshal : 01 Dec 2000
Google the Bharat Rakshak Website for : "G C S Rajwar"
Air Cmde
Air Mshl
01 Dec 1985 - 30 Sep 1986 Gp Capt Air Head Quarters Delhi DD Works (P&C)
14 Oct 1986 - 11 Sep 1987 Gp Capt 6 Wing Barrackpore Station Commander
01 Apr 1988 - 31 Dec 1990 Gp Capt Air Head Quarters Delhi JDPO(B)
07 Jan 1991 - 02 Jan 1994 Air Cmde Air Force Records Office New Delhi Air Officer Commanding
01 Jan 1995 - 30 Jun 1996 Air Cmde Southern Air Command Trivandrum Senior Officer-in-charge Administration
01 Jul 1996 - 17 Aug 1998 AVM Western Air Command Delhi Senior Officer-in-charge Administration
18 Aug 1998 - 30 Nov 1999 AVM HQ NCC Delhi Additional Director General (A)
01 Dec 1999 - 31 Dec 2000 AVM South Western Air Command Gandhinagar Senior Officer-in-charge Administration
01 Jan 2002 - 31 Dec 2003 Air Marshal Integrated Defence Staff New Delhi DCIDS (Doctrine, Org, Trg
Vishist Seva Medal
Flt Lt Govind Chandra Singh Rajwar 8103 F(N) Award Date 26 Jan 1971 Announced 26 Jan 1971
Flight Lieutenant Govind Chandra Singh Rajwar (8103) General Duties (Navigator) was commissioned in the Indian Air Force in December 1963. For his accuracy and precision work, he was selected to join an important operational unit of the Air Force which carried out very special tasks.
During his stay at the unit, he has undertaken a number operational sorties both by day and night over inhospitable terrain at high altitudes which require a high degree of navigational skill and presence of mind. In all these flights he contributed significantly to the accomplishment of the tasks were assigned to the unit.
Flight Lieutenant Rajwar's devoted services and high professional skill has been a source of inspiration to other officers in the unit.
Unit : 106 Sqn
Reference : GoI19710126
Vir Chakra
Flt Lt Govind Chandra Singh Rajwar 8103 F(N) Award Date Announced 17 Dec 1971
During the operations against Pakistan in December, 1971, Flight Lieutenant Govind Chandra Singh Rajwar, he undertook a large number of hazardous missions and completed them successfully. The information obtained on these missions contributed to a large extent towards our planning and successful execution of operations.
Throughout, Flight Lieutenant Govind Chandra Singh Rajwar displayed gallantry, professional skill and devotion to duty of a high order.
Reference : Gazette of India , 29th July 1972 - No.92 - Pres/72 dated 18th July 1972
Ati Vishist Seva Medal
Air Cmde Govind Chandra Singh Rajwar 8103 F(N) Award Date 26 Jan 1993 Announced 26 Jan 1993
Air Commodore Govind Chandra Singh Rajwar was commissioned in the Indian Air Force on the 31st Dec., 1963. During his service career of more than 29 years, he has acquitted himself in an exemplary manner. He has held the appointments of Air Force Examiner at aircrew Examining Board, Nav Leader Air HQs Communication Squadron, Station Commander of a Wing and JDPO at Air HQ. He is a graduate of the RAF Staff College, Bracknell, U.K.
Air Commodore Rajwar took over the Air Force Record Office in January 1991. The task of Air Force Record Office (AFRO) is enormous being responsible for the cadre management of a large number of airmen. It deals with their postings, placements, promotions, career planning and record maintenance and continuous updating of data. Despite numerous constraints such as streamwise utilisation, shortages of manpower, trained status, resource crunch and related problems associated with human endeavour, Air Commodore Rajwar ensured that the operational need of the field units are fully met. He has initiated a number of organisational and procedural changes within the Air Force Record Office to enhance its effectiveness to match the requirements of service and the needs of the personnel.
From December, 1991 onwards for almost eight months, Air Commodore Rajwar has also officiated as Director Personnel Administration at Air HQ in addition to his job of AOC AFRO. Inspite of the fact that both these appointments are very high pressure and full time assignments, he has performed exceptionally well and worked relentlessly for prolonged hours with total involvement and dedication.
Air Commodore Govind Chandra Singh Rajwar, VrC, VSM has, thus, rendered distinguished service of an exceptional order.
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Delightful Girl Chun-hyang
197 December 17, 2010 January 24, 2016
Delightful Girl Chun-hyang: Episode 1
by javabeans
New feature: First Episode series!
Time constraints keep us from being able to write “classic recaps” for older dramas, but I thought it would be a fun idea to revisit old dramas to recap just the first episodes. It’ll give us a chance to reminisce on old favorites while also providing an introduction to the shows.
To aid in navigation, I’ve created a new tag (use this: first episodes) so you can sort through all the Episode 1 recaps on this site. (Also, if you’ve missed it, we do have a Tag Index on the site, linked on the bottom of the page.)
For the inaugural post in this series, I’ve decided on a drama I’ve often referenced as one of my emotional favorites, 2005’s Delightful Girl Chun-hyang. We all have those dramas that occupy a special place in our hearts — whether it’s because of a particular character, storyline, or where we were in our lives when we first saw it. This one’s mine.
In case you’re unfamiliar, this is the first series written by the Hong sisters (Hong Mi-ran, Hong Jung-eun), who would go on to reteam with this director in My Girl. They followed that with 2007’s Fantasy Couple, 2008’s Hong Gil Dong, 2009’s You’re Beautiful, and 2010’s My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho. Yeah, they’re busy.
Delightful Girl Chun-hyang (also called Sassy Girl Chun-hyang, which has nothing to do with the movie My Sassy Girl), aired on KBS from January through March 2005. It actually remains the highest-rated of the Hong sisters dramas, enjoying ratings starting in the high teens and culminating at 30%.
Delightful Girl Chun-hyang OST – “자유로와” (Come free) by Jiny. I think this song gets across right from the get-go how energetic and fun this drama is. [ Download ]
STORY & PREMISE
Fusion sageuks are all the rage now, but when Chun-hyang first aired, the fusion concept was, if not completely novel, much fresher. The story is a loose modern reinterpretation of the folk tale of Chun-hyang, which has been made into several movies (notably 2000’s Chunhyang) and was parodied in the goofy Story of Hyang Dan.
In the original story, Chun-hyang and Mong-ryong are young lovers in Joseon times who undergo lots of trials and tribulations before ending up happily ever after. Among the problems that besiege the young couple: class differences (he’s a magistrate’s son, she’s the daughter of a gisaeng entertainer, and therefore they Cannot Be), a secret marriage (which includes a separation as he goes off to study in the capital and leaves her behind), and an evil magistrate (who, in hubby’s absence, tries to win her over and punishes her for remaining faithful to her husband).
When Mong-ryong returns to his hometown, he hears of his wife’s straits. He is by now a state official, dressed undercover as a beggar to investigate corruption in the government, and finds the magistrate guilty of many misdeeds. The couple is reunited and Chun-hyang is honored for her virtuousness.
(In the aforelinked Hyang Dan minidrama, the writer plays with the question of Mong-ryong falling in love with Chun-hyang’s servant girl instead of Chun-hyang herself in a hilarious spoof.)
To this end, DGCH incorporates parody sageuk segments at the end of each episode — the series is modern otherwise — which poke fun at the themes of the current episode. The parodies don’t affect the main plotline, but are cute skits that riff off the main events.
EPISODE 1 RECAP
We start off in a scene from the Chun-hyang folktale: the virtuous SUNG CHUN-HYANG (Han Chae-young) has resisted the advances of the evil Magistrate BYUN HAK-DO (Uhm Tae-woong), to that man’s ire. Pressed into a fit of jealous rage, Magistrate Byun vows, “If I can’t have you, no one will!” as he holds Chun-hyang prisoner.
Chun-hyang clings to her faith that her loyal husband, LEE MONG-RYONG (Jae Hee), will come for her. He is the young son of a nobleman who has gone off to Seoul, leaving his wife vulnerable to the whims of the magistrate while he studies for the civil service exam.
Mong-ryong lives up to his wife’s faith in him and returns as a government official, and hears of Chun-hyang’s predicament. He gathers his men to storm Byun’s quarters and save her, and an elaborate fight sequence ensues…
…and when he enters to rescue her, he finds her doing just fine on her own, thankyoumuchly. She’s got her captors subdued and shamed, on their knees with their hands raised in the air like errant schoolboys.
And right away we know this isn’t going to be your standard damsel-in-distress-y kdrama. Chun-hyang turns to her bewildered “saviors” and says nonchalantly, “Oh, husband. You’re back?”
With the tone established, we zip forward to “real life”:
Now in modern times, Sung Chun-hyang is a plucky, smart high school student who works multiple side jobs to help support herself and her mother. (Mom’s a well-meaning but flighty cabaret singer, and Chun-hyang is really the mother in this relationship. Mom was a gisaeng in the original tale, and nightclub singing is their way of modernizing her lowly status.)
One of Chun-hyang’s jobs is delivering newspapers; another is a side gig at the famed Gwanghallu Garden in her hometown, the southern city of Namwon. She and her friends take gimmicky tourist photos with visitors, but that’s technically prohibited, so she gets chased out of the gardens by a guard.
A few hours north in Seoul, a troublemaking Lee Mong-ryong gets into one last fight to cap off his Seoul experience. He may be decent at the core, but he always manages to attract trouble, and he’s been kicked out of numerous schools.
His fighting skills and laid-back James Dean attitude probably account for why guys like to pick fights with him — they want to wipe the smirk from his face, but he’s too good a fighter and usually ends up winning. For this reason, his family is moving to Namwon.
Mong-ryong tries to avoid the inevitable fight, but he can only hold back for so long, and he gets caught up in the fight. Mong-ryong’s father is particularly disappointed in his son’s constant imbroglios, not least because he happens to be a police chief. Understandably, he does not take this latest fight well.
Mong-ryong is rich, spoiled, too cool for school, fashionable, and a bit conceited. To a spoiled Seoulite like him, moving to Namwon is the same thing as being exiled to a remote backwater.
He’s most bummed about leaving behind HONG CHAE-RIN (Park Shi-eun), who is his neighbor, family friend, and first love. Pretty and rich, she’s a year or two older than him, and Mong-ryong tries to make his move and confess his feelings. Alas, he arrives at her place just as she’s being dropped off by her boyfriend, and he loses heart.
Off to Namwon it is. Mong-ryong tours the dumpy town with derision. At Gwanghallu, he starts shooting a video with his phone to send to Chae-rin.
Just then, a figure shoots up over the wall and into the air… and crashes down on him. It’s Chun-hyang, here at the gardens to resume her side job (she’s climbed over the wall to avoid paying an entrance fee).
She lands on top of him, and as they both catch their breaths, she hears a clicking sound. It’s Mong-ryong’s cell phone, and he’s inadvertently taken upskirt photos. Oopsie.
Chun-hyang grabs his phone to see the damage, calling Mong-ryong a pervert. He defends himself, but when she sees how bad the shots are, she stomps on his phone in retaliation. Infuriated, he demands recompense for the damage, to which she snorts that he’s got no grounds for complaint given his perverted behavior.
Both kids have done questionable things and would rather not take this to the police, so Mong-ryong resigns himself to a broken phone. He demands the use of hers so he can at least call home; she owes him that much. Distrustfully, Chun-hyang hands it over, and Mong-ryong calls his mother… while inching closer and closer to the curb.
At the last minute, he hops into a taxi. Chun-hyang chases after him but has to give up and calls from a pay phone (remember those?). He tells her smugly to call him once she’s gotten his cell phone fixed — till then, he’s holding her phone hostage.
Thing is, Namwon’s a pretty small town, so it’s not long before Chun-hyang locates him. She sees him first, and calls him with her friend’s cell phone. Mong-ryong, feeling smug, taunts her some more, not realizing that she’s walking just a few paces behind him.
A chase ensues, and Mong-ryong barely makes it home before being caught. Fuming, Chun-hyang has no option but to take his phone in for repair.
Once it’s fixed, she calls Mong-ryong to meet at Gwanghallu. Over the phone, Chun-hyang strokes his vanity by telling him that his gadget is pretty neat — it’s got all these extra features, and she didn’t even have to pay to get it fixed because it was covered by his plan.
Mong-ryong’s smug smile disappears when Chun-hyang informs him that he can keep her cheap phone. She’ll use his.
Instantly, tables are turned, and it’s Chun-hyang’s turn to gloat. She makes taunting faces at him, safe from the busy highway that separates them, and boards a bus to escape. Ha!
Mong-ryong’s first impulse is to get even; he starts making long phone calls to rack up her phone bill. Then he hears from a friend that Chae-rin tried calling him — only to get some strange girl on the line — and Mong-ryong is suddenly upset. Not his Chae-rin noona!
This. Will. Not. Do. Immediately, he calls Chun-hyang’s friends to track her down. Her best friend Dan-hee is appropriately suspicious and gives away nothing, but the good-natured and slightly dense Ji-hyuk tells him they’ll be at a nightclub that night, celebrating Dan-hee’s birthday.
Mong-ryong arrives at the club, disdainful of the rural bumpkins’ idea of partying, sneering at Dan-hee and Ji-hyuk’s moves as they compete in a dance contest. The sight of a pretty girl on the dance floor has him momentarily intrigued — until he recognizes that it’s Chun-hyang, that shrew. (Note: The dancing is awful, but supposed to be good. Some suspension of disbelief necessary.)
They go outside and switch phones. Chun-hyang is horrified to see how many phone calls he’s made — she didn’t make a single call on his — but Mong-ryong is fixated on Chae-rin. He calls her right away to assure her that the girl who answered the phone is a nobody, just someone who found his phone. It’s immediately clear, even to Chun-hyang, that he’s in love with Chae-rin, but that she isn’t in love back.
They go their separate ways, intent on never seeing each other again. But of course that’s a silly thought; don’t they know they’re in a kdrama?
Morning roll-call at school. A new kid zooms in late on his motorcycle, eliciting lots of whispers from the students (admiration from the girls, jealousy from the guys). Chun-hyang realizes to her shock that she recognizes the punk — Mong-ryong.
Both Chun-hyang and Mong-ryong are called into the admin office — she to help the teachers, he to be scolded on the rules prohibiting motorcycles at school. Used to getting into trouble, Mong-ryong is indifferent to the lecture. He is, however, surprised at how sweet and dutiful Chun-hyang is to the teachers. She smirks to hear that his class ranking is #280 — out of 300. She, on the other hand, is used to being #1.
Ji-hyuk recognizes Mong-ryong as the guy who harassed Chun-hyang at the club, and sticks up in defense of his friend. Ji-hyuk challenges the newcomer, but as we’ve seen, Mong-ryong certainly isn’t one to back down from a challenge. News spreads quickly of the impending brawl.
The fight commences, both sides doing a pretty good job of holding their own, until Chun-hyang arrives to break up the scene.
She shouts at Ji-hyuk not to fight at school… but trips on her mop and goes down. Taking Ji-hyuk’s pants with her.
The sight of a de-pantsed Ji-hyuk stuns everyone into silence. The humiliation is made worse by the fact that Ji-hyuk is in love with Dan-hee, and she saw the whole thing. (It’s a one-sided thing; Dan-hee merely sees Ji-hyuk as an adoring puppy.)
Mong-ryong feels so bad for his opponent that he finds himself, ironically, being the guy who comforts Ji-hyuk in the aftermath, and the way he awkwardly consoles Ji-hyuk is one of my favorite things ever. There’s something about abject humiliation in front of a girl that evokes a sense of male solidarity.
Inadvertently, the fight has become a bonding experience for the boys. Therefore, while Mong-ryong is not met with a warm welcome by his new classmates (new alpha male in their midst!), Ji-hyuk invites him to sit next to him. Friendship sealed!
In the girls’ class, Dan-hee (and all the girls, save Chun-hyang) is impressed with the new guy and eager to learn more about him.
That night, Chun-hyang is off to collect Mom from her job at a local nightclub. A gang of roughnecks intercepts her in the parking lot and starts to make leering passes. Chun-hyang holds her own, but she’s outnumbered and the situation looks like it will escalate… which is when Mong-ryong sees the scene and pulls up on his motorcycle.
He pulls Chun-hyang away and tries to avoid confrontation, but the guys don’t take kindly to their fun being interrupted. They escalate the fight, and Mong-ryong lashes back in self-defense.
It’s this brawl that greets Mong-ryong’s father and Chun-hyang’s mom as they come outside. (Dad is inspecting the club as the new police chief.) Both are embarrassed to see that their kids are involved.
Immediately, Chief Lee assumes his son has caused more trouble and yells at him. Indignant at being unjustly accused, Mong-ryong storms off, while Chun-hyang speaks up and tells Dad that Mong-ryong was helping her. Dad is mollified by her earnest defense that Mong-ryong was blameless, and a bit impressed with her mature response, too.
At school the next day, Chun-hyang thanks Mong-ryong for helping her, and they strike a truce of sorts. Mong-ryong unknowingly makes a barb about her father, then finds out that he’s dead, which makes him feel guilty. But she waves it off easily, and this exchange shows the first sign of thawing on both their parts.
Now for Byun Hak-do. Although Byun is an outright villain in the folktale, this real-world version is slightly more complex as the president of an entertainment company, which makes him rich and powerful. He’s cool and smart, and very good at his job.
He’s also working on a new film project that will take him to Namwon. Cue the coincidence-o-meter…
Having worked out their differences, Mong-ryong visits Gwanghallu again, where Chun-hyang is working another job fishing leaves out of the pond. In his boyish, pestering way, he shakes leaves into the pond, enjoying annoying her to get her attention.
On the other hand, Chun-hyang doesn’t take kindly to him having fun at her expense. She stands up in anger as though to come after him, only to remember she’s in a boat. Splash! She topples into the pond.
This time Mong-ryong feels really bad (he meant to poke, not actually cause trouble), particularly when she informs him, teeth chattering, that while he came here to goof off, she came to earn money. He defends himself lamely, but gives her his jacket.
He feels even guiltier as he’s hanging out with Ji-hyuk later, and hears that Chun-hyang is now bedridden with a cold.
Mong-ryong prods Ji-hyuk into visiting Chun-hyang so he can tag along, and sheepishly checks on her. She’s laid up in bed with a fever, and Dan-hee is spending the night because Mom is off to a gig that’ll keep her away till tomorrow.
The kids wind up playing Go Stop while Chun-hyang sleeps, and get caught up in their card game. Thirsty, Mong-ryong rummages in the fridge for a drink, finding an unmarked bottle and drinking the whole thing, not realizing it’s homemade wine. While Dan-hee and Ji-hyuk continue playing games, Mong-ryong starts feeling sick; he curls up outside and falls asleep.
The others make so much noise that Chun-hyang kicks them out, telling them to go home. Not seeing Mong-ryong, they assume he already left.
Sometime in the middle of the night, Mong-ryong half-awakens from the cold, and stumbles inside groggily.
Meanwhile, the nightclub roughnecks find Mong-ryong’s spiffy motorcycle parked outside Chun-hyang’s house, and decide to take it for a joyride. They tear through town, spying an easy mark outside a hotel, and snatch his bag — President Byun’s.
When Chief Lee hears that the thieves were on Mong-ryong’s bike, he practically has an aneurysm. Mong-ryong’s parents attempt to contact him all night, but as he is knocked out from the wine, they get no response.
In the morning, Chun-hyang’s mom arrives home and checks upon Chun-hyang… and starts screaming when she sees the boy lying next to her, half-naked.
In the confusion, Mong-ryong is chased outside, grabbing his clothes on the way, trying to avoid being hit by Mom’s broom of fury while Chun-hyang shouts, “Nothing happened, I swear!”
It’s this scene that greets Mong-ryong’s parents, Ji-hyuk, and a schoolteacher when they arrive at Chun-hyang’s house to trace Mong-ryong’s whereabouts.
END PARODY
The lovely maiden Chun-hyang enjoys being pushed on a swing by her servant girl Hyang-dan (Dan-hee in modern times). From a distance, the young nobleman’s son, Lee Mong-ryong, catches a glimpse and is intrigued; he instructs his servant Bang-ja (modern-day Ji-hyuk) to fetch the girl.
Despite her demure appearance, Chun-hyang is fully aware of the young lord’s presence and is doing this deliberately to gain his attention. Spying Bang-ja approaching, she smiles in satisfaction: “Lee Mong-ryong, I’ve got you now!”
Before this drama, Han Chae-young had a few secondary roles (Autumn Fairy Tale, Beijing My Love), but this is the vehicle that shot her to mainstream appeal. The director went against type and chose to strip Han of her trademark “sexy” image, reinventing her as a resilient, plucky, cheerful character instead. (He was successful in this, because Chun-hyang’s character, while very pretty, never strikes me as overtly sexy, unlike almost all of Han’s other roles.) Jae Hee had a number of films in his bag (notably Kim Ki-duk’s 3 Iron); here he demonstrated not only his awesome angst-emoting skills, but also his gift for comedic timing and a whole catalog of hilarious facial expressions. Unfortunately, I don’t think he’s been as good since, which I blame on bad project choices.
I used to credit PD Jeon Ki-sang for giving this drama a lively energy with its directing and editing, but after the atrociousness of Witch Amusement and Boys Before Flowers, I have since revised my opinion; perhaps Chun-hyang owes its visual appeal to his co-director or a skilled AD.
Plus, the Hong sisters do romantic comedy like nobody’s business. This drama remains my favorite of theirs; with DGCH, they struck the right tone of young-love sweetness undercut with a constant stream of comedy, which keeps it from getting too sugary-sweet.
I’m not sure what it would feel like to watch this drama for the first time now, because the context is different. Some plot points that have become common cliches were less familiar back in good ol’ 2005; when I watched DGCH, I wasn’t bothered by some points that might elicit different reactions today.
But more than anything, I find myself being forgiving of DGCH because of the very premise — a modernized retelling of a famous story (and I’m a sucker for updated folk and fairy tales). Being an adaptation doesn’t excuse poor storytelling (e.g., Boys Before Flowers), but it does make me more understanding of a few stretches once I realize that they’re built into the premise. For example:
Some SPOILERY bits for future episodes (though no big ones):
The entire drama is predicated on the fact that these two kiddos marry young, which is a key point in the folktale. And forcing high schoolers to marry requires a lot more plot maneuvering than the original story had. Knowing this, I’m satisfied with how the drama brings about this result, and willingly accepted that as a basis for the drama.
Then there’s Byun Hak-do (Uhm Tae-woong), whose character in DGCH is more sympathetic than the wicked magistrate of the original story. In the first half of the drama, Byun is charming and dashing and totally won me over — I rooted for him for a while, preferring him to Mong-ryong’s immaturity. Some people find the age difference creepy — he’s around 30, she’s 20 through most of the drama — but you can imagine how that gap wasn’t such an issue several hundred years ago.
As the romance progresses, the story requires Byun to cling to Chun-hyang, and that’s where things get exaggerated. Even knowing he had to be that way, there are points when he gets way too possessive; I chalk it up to him being a faulty adaptation more than anything.
What I love about this drama is its bright sense of humor, zippy pacing, and endearing characters. A particular favorite story thread is the relationship that develops between Chun-hyang and Mong-ryong’s stern father; he’s at his wits’ end about his wayward son, but sees the goodness in her and senses that she can straighten Mong-ryong out.
Mong-ryong and Chun-hyang’s romance is more of the bickering kind than the lovey-dovey kind, but it’s also one of the better examples of bickering courtship that I’ve seen, peppered with wonderful chemistry and a healthy dose of humor. The problem with this kind of dynamic comes when the couple fights excessively and ends up yelling at each other all the time (Full House), or when they don’t fight or engage enough so you have periods of coldness separating them (Playful Kiss). Here, there’s always a reason for the bickering, and that thread of emotion — whether it be concern, jealousy, embarrassment, guilt — keeps it grounded and enjoyable.
I don’t think it’s spoiling things to say that DGCH has one of my favorite endings for a rom-com drama. It’s got enough happiness to give you the warm fuzzies, but isn’t so fanservicey that it feels out of step with logic (ahem, Sungkyunkwan Scandal).
On top of that, this is probably the Hong sisters drama with the least slapstick comedy — I find that the Hongs (as much as I love them) overdo broad comedy in their later dramas, but here they’re more restrained. It’s a big plus in my book. There’s no romance between an older couple, which is a relationship featured in almost every other Hong sisters drama (minus Hong Gil Dong), and while I appreciate the sentiment that romance doesn’t stop at 40, their handling of the secondary couple tends to take that extra step into ridiculous. Leaving that out here streamlines the narrative and focuses on the couple we really care about.
Caveat: If you’ve seen other Hong sisters dramas, you’ll probably recognize a few of their favorite tropes in this one, which may affect how you feel about this. For instance, My Girl will always come in after DGCH in my books because they did that drama after this one, so the elements they chose to recycle feel… well, recycled. I suspect that you’d feel that way about whichever one you saw later.
But no matter; Delightful Girl Chun-hyang remains in my list of favorites, and is always a go-to for a rewatch. In fact, I think I’ll go watch more of it now.
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Tags: Delightful Girl Chun-hyang, featured, first episodes, Han Chae-young, Jae Hee
1 rainbowstarrs
omg! i know you had mentioned you wanted to do this but when nothing came of it I figured it was let go.
but omg
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
thank you so much! I adore this drama
birdscout
My thoughts exactly! This is the first kdrama that I ever marathoned three and a half years ago and I haven't looked back since! Thanks for bringing back the memories, javabeans! Can't wait for the next installment of this new feature!
Hooray! So glad to see a recap of this, after hearing so much about it. Maybe Sam-Soon is next? ;)
Oh yeah Sam Soon...the best one i ve seen so far! ^_^
Anvesha
I hope so too.. Samsoon next!
I want to watch it again even though I finished it only a year ago
stars4u
I was wondering if you would really do a "classic" recap and here it is!!!
yay!!! fist Hong Sisters drama!
omg jae hee looks SO young its so ridiculous i forgot how he looked like 5 years ago LOL
pabo ceo reom
Easily one of my favorite dramas One of the very few that I actually rewatch from time to time. :)
sorry for double posting but just had to say
uhm tae woong looks the same. cept dare i say his skin looks a little bit better.
this is one of the series that i always wish i had watched but am too lazy to go back toooo @[email protected]
GrandmaFran
he strangely looks hotter and younger these days
I watched it recently, and I'm too regretted why not watch it early!!!
4 koreandramalover/kay
wow!! wow!! WOW!!!
how much more cool and awesome can you possibly BE, javabeans?!
you have fulfilled one of my deepest desires connected to Kdramas !! ;)
and i did not even have to ask for it!! ;)
thank you!!! thank you!!!! thank youuuuuu!!!
bless you! ;)
and now for the ride!!!
wheeeeeee............
5 brookeeve
OMGOMGOMG! I can't believe you're doing this! Happy Christmas me! THankyouthankyouthankyou!
You are THE original awesome! As in fly like a pelican!
6 twylah
awwww.... i missed this drama and i was really really surprised that it is being recapped (well, even just first eps). this is indeed a very great idea. way to go nostalgic.
serenity56
ONE OF THE BEST KOREAN DRAMA I'VE WATCHED SO FAR...
PLUS, I AM SO INLOVE WITH JAE HEE.. I FELL IN LOVE THE MOMENT I FIRST LAID MY EYES ON HIM. AND I AM DEFINITELY INLOVE WITH HIM UNTIL NOW...
THANKS FOR THIS!!!!
7 danna
Yay!!!...my first kdrama eveaaaaaa.......thank you soooo much jb....yes this calls for a rewatch for me too.....maybe next week though....i almost forgot how funt his was....i bet if i watched any other kdrama first i wouldnt be as hooked as this was eaily amon the most fun i've ever watched
also we need Jae Hee back in dramas pronto!...and they better not be like his last few
8 jully moue
awww... nice thing for classic dramas. can you do my girl next? with like gong chan and yoo rin. hahaha. why not recap the classic dramas like the whole season once in a while when you've got time?
9 KNG
This drama got be hooked to Kdramas so it has a special place in my heart as well.....
10 rayray
ommmeegoooodness!! squee! double squee! so exciting! this was my 2nd kdrama ever hahahaha!
its gonna be loads of fun revisiting it. Thanx alot javabeans!
11 Annie
This brings back a lot of good memories. Althugh DGCH has never been one of my favorite Hong Sister drama, It is still has a very special place in my heart. I really wish Jae Hee would come back to the small screens soon. I do miss him.
12 ktb
Finished finals today and am about to embark on a kdrama bingefest. I also cheated through this series (started watching on episode 5) so I've never seen this. I'm off to watch this drama starting from the very beginning! Thanks for the suggestion!!!!
13 jm126
OMG Memories!
I remember begging my mom to let me stay up past 12 just so I could catch it on cable :)
14 Mish
Wow.... I'm really excited for this new series! I'm always up for another good Kdrama and I really trust your taste Javabeans. Thank you so much for starting this series and I can't wait to find a few more good Kdramas to watch ^.^
oh where can i download this drama
16 Eleven11
Yay! I watched this drama last year and loved it - I'm so glad you chose to write a bit about it because I get to relive the pure awesomeness that was this drama.
Also, seconded on the sweetness of the relationship between Mong-Ryong's dad and Chun-Hyang - the sword and the apple made me "D'aww" every time.
17 ChS
this is the drama that made me fall in love with korean dramas... It aired every friday night for an hour (on tv) after about the 9th episode I was streaming it on the computer, and started staying up reeallly late just to squeeze in a episode or 2. AHH I think Im going to rewatch the series now.
kaigou
Same here! I've seen several of the other Hong Sisters stories (and plenty of other dramas) since watching DGCH, but watching this first... I missed a lot of the fusion-saeguk cliches, since they were new-to-me anyway, so it was all fresh and wonderful and full of awesome.
The drawback? It really raised the bar on just about everything I watched after that.
Sobia
Yes, I feel that watching Kim Samsoon and DGCH as my first kdramas really set my expectations high, and it has been difficult for other dramas to even come close. These two shows are very hard to top!
Informantxgirl
Yes, this is the one that got me hooked. I just streamed it randomly after watching My Little Bride and loving that and voila, ten minutes into ep 1, I was in! I became an addict. It's still my go-to drama when I don't have anything else to watch or just want to unwind.
I think it's kind of unique among kdramas because the characters actually have a pretty equal relationship, and are friends first, lovers later. Which to me is a huge plus. So many romances are between uneven characters, like in terms of finances (Boys Over Flowers) or intellect (Playful Kiss) or something, where one person (usually the guy) has the upper hand, but I always felt that the two leads here were well-matched and gave something to each other. Yes, MR has money and power, but CH had the brains and the ambition, and they completed each other well. I love that.
It was the first TV show to make me cry, ever. {SPOILER ALERT} CH goes off with the president to Japan (or gave that impression) and MR follows them to the airport and begs her not to go, he loves her - I bawled like a baby. Jae Hee killed it in that scene. {END SPOILER}
Thank you for this first episode recap!
18 RunLolaRun
::sigh:: Reading this recap actually made me a bit emotional. So many memories. :-)
I remember going crazy when Jae Hee and Han Chae Young made a cameo in 'My Girl'.
19 sunshine
As much as you've ranted about this drama in random previous posts, I haven't been sold, but now I'm watching episode 2 of the series!
20 karen`
ahjusshhhiii !
deekutudrama
Back then, I don't know that ahjusshi means uncle / older man. It kinds creepy to know if some uncle are interested in me.
I like how fast moved this drama. In first episode, there is so much too tell. Not like someone who stayed out all the night. :)
Thank you for recapping this one, Javabeans. Make me want to watch again, especially the 'original' story at the end of drama.
21 Natalie
I watched My Girl before DGCH so I preferred it over DGCH, especially since the characters and actors in My Girl were more endearing for me.
But DGCH was also really fun, light and fresh, and Jae Hee and Han Chae Young were lovely actors with great characters.
22 pohonphee
I can only say OMO, OMO
This drama OST is awesome and Chun-hyang's father always be my favorite father in k drama land..
pohonphee
oh no Mong-ryong's father, I mean. See how long time since the last time i watched this series...
23 okitokki
i read the title and squealed. and then i read "first episode series." but HEY, its better than nothing <3 and besides, this is a great way to help pick new dramas to start. thaaanks [:
24 jaja
wow! DGCH is defintely my favorite of all the korean dramas i've watched even now! i've replayed this a couple of times already but still it never gets me bored unlike others! this drama is so full of cute expressions! plus, this drama introduced me to jae hee oppa and from then on he's been my no.1 crush! keke! i also super love han chae-young unnie! i don't think there's anyone who could perfectly portray chun hyang than her! ^^
thanks for doing a recap on this JB! i've been wishing for this to happen and now it came true! this is a very wonderful gift for Christmas!
25 badtanline
Good times, good times!
26 Lucky
OMG!!! DGCH!!! My all-time fav rom-com <3! It made me have a HUGE Jae Hee crush back then, and this is the drama that I will never get tired of. I usually watch dramas max 2-3 times, but I've watched DGCH at least 6 times. Still love it.
27 chriskk
wow, this recap came at a surprise. I had no idea you were planning to do it! good one! thanks =)
OMG! YOU'VE JUST RECAPPED ONE OF MY FAVORITE DRAMAS OF ALL TIME!
Thank you for the recap! DGCH vies with My Name is Kim Samsoon for favorite drama of all time. Man, they all looked so young and fresh back then. I rewatched the series back in 2008 and it was still fresh and awesome. I think I appreciated it more the second time around. DGCH was probably like the 4th or 5th drama I've watched. And when 2008 rolled around, I've seen enough dramas to feel that DGCH is something really special. Sure the second leads could have used some work, but everything else came together to make this wonderful concoction. Also, I was totally haunted by the music- the sweet As One song with the really long name and that one really dramatic song that was so evocative of the epic nature of the Chun-hyung and Mong-ryong romance. This was a romance that was years in the making. The payoff at the end was really good. The ending with the interspliced shots of their modern and ancient selves was beautiful.
29 Anri
Oooh, I'm glad you guys decided to recap older classics of kdrama because I've wanted to watch them but got sidetracked by the newer dramas nowadays. And also because yknow.. I wanted to "know them" so when things come up in conversations with fellow kdrama fans, I'm not just a "newbie" since I only know the newer stuff.. loll. But this seems interesting! Will be looking forward to future recaps!
Oohhh, just re-read the "first episode series" description... ahh.. so no recaps for the whole thing, aw.. but still, will add this on to my mental note of dramas to one day watch when time is available :P
30 ilukd
thanks Javabean ... well this drama is one of the first drama which made me hook to K-drama world till today ... i love it so much ... it is funny ...love the OST too ...
31 Gork
Omg Delightful Girl Chun Hyang brings back such GREAT memories!!! this was when I started to get into Kdramas and it was such a refreshing, adorable, funny story....I miss those days!
Han Chae Young and Jae Hee made such a perfect OTP in this drama! loved them to bits <333 now I may have to rewatch it too...
32 alison
i don't know why but i never really got into this drama. maybe it was because i tried to watch this after my girl but something about han chae yong just kind of aggravated me. maybe i'll check it out again sometime...
33 aprodithe
i love this drama...in fact this one is one of the rom-com favourite drama...thks for recapping this one
34 myweithisway
I'm going to love this series of recaps, totally awesome!!!
35 Jeanie65jh
Thank you for doing this! You have mentioned this drama so often I was curious about the details. Now I am going to seek this out and give it a try.
36 LL
I agree with you on so many things, javabeans, but I will never understand your attraction to this drama. It was one of my earlier kdramas (when I first got into them 2-3 years ago), and I barely made it through. After the first few episodes, Chun-hyang lost all of her pluck, and the story became so repetitive and wearying.
Jae Hee was a delight, though, and the only reason I watched it to the end.
You summed it up perfectly!
37 Jobz
Wow it's been a while since I saw this drama. It's one of my favorites and I'm glad you decided to recap this. It'd be great to read this over the holidays ^^
i watched this after your recommendations in the drama ratings page....i liked the beginning and marathon-ed 10 episodes and then the cliches kinda stopped me ...though if i had watched it then i think i would have enjoyed it more
39 autumnscribbles
i gotta say, DGCH is one of my least favourite Hong Sister dramas, though that's really not saying much since i absolute adored their other dramas. it was overall cute, fun and charming with a lot of heart, plus it was where i discovered the awesomeness that is Jae Hee. *squeal*
can't wait to see what other dramas you will add to your "1st ep" series.
p.s. whatever happened to CH's mum? i remember her running away from loan sharks or something and was never seen up again. O_o
40 tildy
I must say I let out the most embarrassing squeal when I saw this. Thanks, jb!
41 DGCH
I'd watched it three years ago, and I just finished a marathon of the entire series again! We were laughing and throwing things at the screen like nobody's business. It's always great fun! and there will never be any regrets for the hours spent unlike some series :)
42 Infiniti512
I have to admit, I couldnt finish this drama and I think you pointed out the reason why. I didnt watch this until two years ago, after I had seen My Girl and many others, so it felt like things were being repeated. The acting was great and it was funny, but after the millionth time that noona caused a misunderstanding, I couldnt take anymore of it. (Same reason why it was difficult to get through parts of My GF is a Gumiho) I do adore Jae Hee's acting and stomached 11 episodes of Witch Yoo Hee just for him, I just wished that I could have watched this in 05 when it was first recommended to me. I think I would have loved it.
Thanks for this new idea! I look forward to more posts!
43 Sara
watched Chun Hyang years ago, enjoy it but not one of my favorite dramas
hoping for a recap of an episode of MNIKSam Soon next.... my love for Secret Garden and Hyun Bin make me rewatch the whole thing again
44 maechan
I was like "is this real, what I'm reading!"
Thank you javabeans! :D you're awesome!
45 spuf
My first drama was Sorry, I Love You. Though I honestly wish I'd seen this instead, lol. Thanks for the recaps.
46 serendipity
Yay, you managed to resurrect this after all! GREAT First Episode recap, capturing all the fun flavour of DGCH. Helps that the first episode really WAS a good one; a First Episode that set the standard for "how to set up plot and be hugely entertaining at the same time".
I was just thinking about DGCH recently. That it was one of my first reviews for Thundie's Prattle, and currently highlighted on our home page as my recommendation. Not terribly high-brow, eh?
And the funny thing is, when people say "The plot was repetitive, Jae Hee over-acted, and the comedy was too broad", I don't even disagree! But for all its flaws, it was terribly fun and I loved it very very much and am still fond of it, so I shall hold my head up high. :-)
47 starlight
NO FREAKING WAY JB
I SWEAR I emailed you about this around last year asking you to do this and you said maybe if you found time and yesterday i was thinking of asking you AGAIN and here it is
i fregan love you. the end.
48 rrock
can i see more recaps on this?? hahaha XD its endearing to watch again!
49 sora
I think I’ll go watch more of it now, too. My favorite line was always when she would say "mind ur own business" It sounds soooo funny the way she says it and he repeats it hahahaha
50 conan
This is one of my most FAVORITE dramas forever! The story is great (many different emotions played out amazingly), the chemistry is undeniable (I actually wished the two could be together for real, at least at the time). It's a drama that made me fall head over heels with K-dramas. The soundtrack is a great one too. I haven't watched too many Hong sisters dramas (only Sassy Girl Chunhyang and our beloved My Girlfriend is a Gumiho) but by far I'm impressed. One of the signs that a drama/movie is awesome is that every time you watch it, you get the exact same emotions and that happened with me and SGCH. I've watched it roughly 3 times already and I'm never bored! I always end up laughing my head off or crying like a baby, every time in the same scenes. This drama never gets old.
I'll be looking forward to more First Episodes posts! So much fun ;D
AMEN to what you have said. If you have watched it 3 times, i watched it the nth time. Lost count to how many time I have reminisced the chemistry of Chae young and Jae Hee.
I have never felt excited in a drama like this one nowadays, you know the feeling that it started and ended just perfectly. I love how the characters grow to love each other, mature and fight for what they are meant for.
Thanks for the recap.
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Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland
Title: Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland
Subject: Count Lennart Bernadotte of Wisborg, House of Bernadotte, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Dukes of Södermanland, Charles de Champs
Collection: 1884 Births, 1965 Deaths, Dukes of Södermanland, Dukes of Swedish Provinces, Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, House of Bernadotte, Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Falcon, Knights of the Order of the Norwegian Lion, Recipients of King Haakon VII's Cross of Liberty, Recipients of the King Haakon VII Freedom Cross, Recipients of the Order of the Black Eagle, Swedish Princes
Prince Wilhelm
Duke of Södermanland
Prince Wilhelm of Sweden and Norway
(1884-06-17)17 June 1884
Tullgarn Palace, Trosa, Sweden
5 June 1965(1965-06-05) (aged 80)
Stenhammar Palace, Sweden
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia
Prince Lennart, Duke of Småland
Carl Wilhelm Ludvig
House of Bernadotte
Gustav V
Victoria of Baden
Swedish Royalty
Charles XIV John
Oscar I
Charles XV
Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland
Oscar II
Princess Eugenie
Prince August, Duke of Dalarna
Lovisa, Queen of Denmark
Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland
Gustaf V
Prince Oscar, Duke of Gotland
Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland
Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
Margaretha, Princess Axel of Denmark
Märtha, Crown Princess of Norway
Astrid, Queen of Belgium
Prince Carl, Duke of Östergötland
Gustaf VI Adolf
Prince Vilhelm, Duke of Södermanland
Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland
Ingrid, Queen of Denmark
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland
Prince Carl Johan, Duke of Dalarna
Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler
Birgitta, Princess Johann Georg of Hohenzollern
Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld
Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson
Carl XVI Gustaf
Crown Princess Victoria, Duchess of Västergötland
Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland
Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland
Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland
Princess Leonore, Duchess of Gotland
Prince Nicolas, Duke of Ångermanland
Prince Wilhelm of Sweden and Norway, Carl Wilhelm Ludvig (17 June 1884 – 5 June 1965), Duke of Södermanland, was the second son of King Gustav V of Sweden and his Queen consort Victoria of Baden and authored a large number of books (primarily in Swedish) as Prins Wilhelm.
Royal role 3
Honours and awards 4
Ancestry 5
Wilhelm was born at Tullgarn Palace.
On 3 May 1908, in Princess Alexandra of Greece, and was a cousin of the reigning Russian tsar, Nicholas II.
Wilhelm and Maria had only one son Bernadotte af Wisborg (1909–2004).
In his autobiography, Lennart tells of how his grandfather, the King, insisted that the servants call Maria by her correct style Your Imperial and Royal Highness, to some dismay of her husband, who was merely a Royal Highness. The marriage was unhappy. Maria later told people that her husband was a homosexual, though that is not known to be true. The couple divorced in 1914.
Wilhelm had a relationship, which was not publicly known, with Jeanne de Tramcourt from that year until 1952. They lived together for more than 30 years on the estate Stenhammar near Flen. This was at a time when cohabitation was very unusual and not officially allowed to occur among royalty. Jeanne de Tramcourt was therefore called his "hostess" at Stenhammar. On January 2, 1952, she died in a car accident in a snowstorm near Stjärnhov in Södermanland, when they were on their way to Stenhammar after visiting Wilhelm's son Lennart. Wilhelm was driving when the accident took place. After this tragedy, he is said never to have recovered.
As Prins Wilhelm he was a noted photographer and the author of several books.[1][2]
Following the murder of Kaj Munk on 4 January 1944 the Danish resistance newspaper De frie Danske brought condemning reactions from influential Scandinavians, including Wilhelm.[3]
He died in Stockholm, aged 80.
The simple grave of Prince Wilhelm and his first daughter-in-law Karin (Nissvandt) Bernadotte in Flen
Wilhelm's coat of arms as prince of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Södermanland 1884 to 1905 Wilhelm's coat of arms as prince of Sweden, Duke of Södermanland after 1907
Royal role
Knight, Order of the Seraphim
Grand Cross, Order of the Sword
Knight, Order of Charles XIII
In 1904 Prince Wilhelm was appointed a Knight of the Norwegian Lion by King Oscar II. The order was never abolished, but discontinued after Norway became independent in 1905.
Grand Cross, Order of the Netherlands Lion - July 1901 - during a visit to the Netherlands[4]
Knight Grand Cross, Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) - June 1905 - on the occasion of his visit to the UK for the wedding of his brother Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden to Princess Margaret of Connaught
Grand Cross with Collar, Order of St Olav
Knight, Order of the Elephant
16. Charles XIV John of Sweden
8. Oscar I of Sweden
17. Désirée Clary
4. Oscar II of Sweden
18. Eugène de Beauharnais
9. Josephine of Leuchtenberg
19. Princess Augusta of Bavaria
2. Gustav V of Sweden
20. Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg
10. William, Duke of Nassau
21. Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg
5. Sofia of Nassau
22. Prince Paul of Württemberg
11. Princess Pauline of Württemberg
23. Princess Katharina Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen
1. Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland
24. Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden
12. Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden
25. Luise Karoline Geyer von Geyersberg
6. Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden
26. Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
13. Sophie of Sweden
27. Frederica of Baden
3. Victoria of Baden
28. Frederick William III of Prussia
14. William I, German Emperor
29. Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
7. Princess Louise of Prussia
30. Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
15. Augusta of Saxe-Weimar
31. Maria Pavlovna of Russia
^ Amerika från estraden 1928
^ Känner du landet 1950
^ "KAJ MUNK IN MEMORIAM".
^ "Court Circular" The Times (London). Saturday, 6 July 1901. (36500), p. 12.
From Paul Theroff's An Online Gotha:
Royal House of Sweden and Royal House of Norway
Imperial House of Russia
Born: 17 June 1884 Died: 5 June 1965
Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland Duke of Södermanland Succeeded by
Swedish princes
The generations indicate descent from Gustav I, of the House of Vasa, and continues through the Houses of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, Holstein-Gottorp; and the Bernadotte, the adoptive heirs of the House of Holstein-Gottorp, who were adoptive heirs of the Palatinate-Zweibrückens.
1st generation
King Eric XIV
King John III
Prince Magnus, Duke of Östergötland
Prince Karl
Prince Sten
King Charles IX
King Sigismund I
Gustav, Prince of Uglich
Prince Henrik
Prince Arnold
Prince Ludwig
Prince Gustav
Prince John, Duke of Östergötland
King Gustav II Adolf
Prince Charles Philip, Duke of Södermanland
Władysław IV Vasa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania#
Prince Christopher#
Prince John Casimir#
John II Casimir Vasa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania#
Prince Alexander Charles#
John Albert, Prince-Bishop of Warmia and Kraków#
Prince Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Opole#
Prince Sigismund Casimir#
Prince John Sigismund#
King Charles XI
King Charles XII
Prince Ulrich
Prince Friedrich
Prince Charles Gustav
King Frederick I~
King Adolf Frederick*
King Gustav III
King Charles XIII
Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland
King Gustav IV Adolf
Prince Carl Gustav, Duke of Småland
Prince Carl Adolf, Duke of Värmland
Crown Prince Charles August*
King Charles XIV John*,**
Crown Prince Gustavus
Prince Carl Gustaf, Grand Duke of Finland and Duke of Småland
King Oscar I**
Prince Louis of Vasa
King Charles XV**
Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland**
King Oscar II**
Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland**
King Gustaf V**
Prince Oscar, Duke of Gotland**,^
Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland**
Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke**
King Gustaf VI Adolf**
Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland**
Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland**
Prince Carl, Duke of Östergötland^
Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland^
Prince Carl Johan, Duke of Dalarna^
Prince Lennart, Duke of Småland^
King Carl XVI Gustaf
Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland***
* prince through adoption or election
** also prince of Norway
^lost his title due to an unequal marriage
#also prince of Poland and Lithuania
~Prince of Sweden by birth and marriage
*** Prince of Sweden by marriage only
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Knights of the Order of the Norwegian Lion
Recipients of the Order of the Black Eagle
Recipients of the King Haakon VII Freedom Cross
Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Falcon
Dukes of Södermanland
Swedish language, European Union, Finland, Denmark, Lithuania
House of Vasa, House of Savoy, House of Bonaparte, House of Habsburg, House of Oldenburg
Sweden, Södermanland County, Provinces of Sweden, Stockholm County, Västmanland County
Isle of Man, India, Canada, European Union, British Overseas Territories
Oscar I of Sweden
House of Bernadotte, Paris, Stockholm, Sweden, Charles XIV John of Sweden
Count Lennart Bernadotte of Wisborg
House of Bernadotte, Sweden, Germany, Stockholm, Lake Constance
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
Sweden, House of Bernadotte, United Kingdom, Gustaf V of Sweden, House of Vasa
Charles de Champs
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Obama Seeks Reforms in Financial Supervision This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.On Wednesday, Pr
Obama Seeks Reforms in Financial Supervision
On Wednesday, President Obama proposed major changes to rebuild government supervision of the financial industry.
BARACK OBAMA: "So today, my administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system, a transformation on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression."
The current economic downturn grew out of a culture of irresponsible lending and borrowing and "a failure of the entire system," he said. He says a new system is needed to meet the speed and complexity of a twenty-first century global economy.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says the financial crisis developed in part because the existing system let some companies "shop for the weakest regulator." He discussed the plan before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday.
One goal is to increase supervision of big companies whose failure could threaten the financial system. The Federal Reserve would gain new powers. The central bank would work with a proposed Financial Services Oversight Council to decide which companies are too big to fail.
The idea is to identify troubled companies early. But the Fed would now have to seek permission from the Treasury to carry out emergency lending.
The administration also proposes a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. It would be responsible for protecting people from unfair and abusive practices with borrowing and investing.
The administration also supports another proposal. Lenders would have to keep five percent of the home loans they would normally group together to sell as securities. The idea is that lenders will be more responsible in making loans if they might not be able to pass off risky mortgages to investors.
Democratic leaders in Congress say they hope to pass a bill for the president to sign by the end of the year.
Some groups were dissatisfied with the proposals. Insurance companies hoping for simplified rules will continue to deal with different supervisors in every state. And there is almost no effort to combine the numerous federal regulatory agencies into a single financial regulator.
An industry group, the Financial Services Roundtable, says it supports many of the administration's proposals -- but not for a consumer protection agency. It opposes separating the regulation of a company from its products, saying each regulator will only have half the information. The industry "does not necessarily need more regulation," it says," but rather more effective regulation."
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The News Pauper: The Year 2009
Posted on December 31, 2009 by W.B. Dunne 3 comments
By W.B. Dunne
The News Pauper hails the departure of a very bad year! This pathetic span that has just passed has stood alone in its grotesque ridiculousness. From the advent of the Sarahcuda to the appropriation of the word teabagging for something nowhere near as fun as what the original indicated2009 held its own as king of the aughts! The New Year’s Eve eve news that Rush Limbaugh was hospitalized just seems too contrived to be realthe story of the Nigerian with the unfortunate handle the underpants terrorist also stinks of conspiracy. Do I smell yellowcake?
It is a season of reflection and prognostication for the whole of humanity. It bears tolerance then, for my first prediction, which is not really a prediction at all, but mere common sense. The NP thinks that El Rushbo shall be ministering to his Dittoheads in record time. He will reap a huge surge of ratings and reclaim his share from the upstart Beck. This entire affair is as sleazy a ratings game as ever has been. I await with great anticipation these two massive vanities, two titanic Asses, vying for the action in the footlights. Diva a Diva. Rushs first show back will feature the crucifixion of the liberal website commenters. He will claim that the left is as vicious as the right and that he is justified in hating first, due to the (earned) hatred in the remarks of his detractors regarding his attack. I will watch with intense delight, because the fight that ensues will occur between the teabaggers themselves, and will weaken them further.
There are other indicators that the NP sees with his swell-trained eye. The idea that the next decade of the millennia will surpass the last in its degeneracy has already been brought up, so the NP feels little compunction in calling bullshit! It will get worse alright, for the dinosaurs of the last century that cling to life along the margins of the aged and under-informed. There is a new day dawning for responsible leadership and the involvement of the populace that it will spawn. We are witnessing the passing of the retrograde fearmongering and incompetence, and the reversal of the degradation of our discourse.
Our economy has been showing some signs of life, our congress has been showing some fear of reprisal. Our corporations have shown some pangs of conscience, our discourse has shown some progress. The distance we have come in one short year with a president in office who, in spite of the task, demonstrates a level of diligence his predecessor wouldnt comprehend, gives the NP such hope and succor that is hard to be grateful enough. The way that this leader measures up when the tough calls of the past year have had to be made, reinforces my belief that America will absorb the lessons of the past decade and thrive from the rejection of the policies of hypocrisy espoused by those who would happily destroy her. Our enemies are not without; they are within.
Finally, it would be an oversight not to make a hopeful new year wish that something comes along to silence forever the maw that is Dick Cheney. If any one man deserves the burden of the blame for all the hardship this American ideal has experienced it would be him. His avarice and ambition has landed him in an ideological prison as secure and inescapable as any Supermax. His servitude to the Bush familys depraved dealings earns him his own special mark. He is Gollum, and into the fire he must eventually go.
Remember dear readers, that in spite of what TMZ says, in spite of the false flags and the fried pipers, progress marches along imperceptibly until we all arrive in the utopia of true harmonyfailing that we shall all be hit by a massive asteroid.
Contact the author at WBDunne@ltsaloon.org
2009 WB Dunne. All Rights Reserved.
TSA Chief Urges Underwear Ban on Some Flights
Posted on December 31, 2009 by RS Janes One comment
By Rance Sidhanes
AP Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — At a press conference this afternoon, Transportation Security Administration Acting Director Wilton Pohl told reporters he would “favor a ban on underwear” on domestic flights lasting over one hour and all international flights to protect Americans from future terrorist attacks.
“It would be a simple and inexpensive matter to enforce,” Pohl said, reacting to the alleged Christmas Day airliner bombing attempt by suspected al-Qaida operative Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. “Passengers could either arrive at the airport without underwear, or TSA marshals could collect their underwear in sanitary bags at the point of departure, and the passengers would get their underwear back at their destination.”
Asked if some Americans might stop flying if they had to do so without underwear, Pohl replied, “I don’t think this will be a major problem I often go without wearing underwear myself — but for those passengers who feel uncomfortable, we would issue temporary paper underwear. Once the people are aware of how vital this program is to our national security, I’m confident any objections will cease.”
Questioned as to what undergarments would be banned, Pohl said, “Boxers, briefs, pantyhose, long john’s, anything where a bomb could be concealed. Thongs, I don’t know they may be too small to worry about, although, for the sake of consistency, they will be prohibited too.”
Contacted for comment, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said, “Mr. Pohl’s credentials in this area are spotless. If he says we need this, then I take him at his word. Though it may sound funny to say, it’s true: we can’t have any more exploding underwear incidents aboard our airliners. Mr. Pohl’s program would make sure of that.”
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) objected to the proposal, “This is more of Obama’s socialism marching right into your underwear. Next the Democrat Party will have Americans taking airplanes buck-naked. We need a change in this country, but not of our underwear.”
The in-flight underwear ban, which does not require a full Congressional vote, could go into effect as early as February 2010, if approved by the House and Senate Homeland Security committees.
2009 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
Posted on December 31, 2009 by Ana Grarian 2 comments
Herd About It?
by Ana Grarian
Yesterday afternoon I made my comments to the NYS DEC draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) for potential natural gas drilling activities in the Marcellus Shale formation.When you go to the website you are able to highlight the type of concerns you have, for instance, air quality or water quality. I chose to comment on community impacts.
I had intended to speak about pollution concerns, but just seeing the choice “community impacts”, made me realize there were some issues I had not considered.
My town has fewer than 2000 people. That’s men, women and children. Yes – some farmers have more cows in a single barn – than there are people in the whole town. Read more
Herd About It
The Tattlesnake Odd Quotes at Year’s End Edition
Posted on December 31, 2009 by RS Janes Leave a comment
Random blips on the mental radar selected randomly, with commentary in brackets:
“One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people’s money to help prevent there to be a crisis.”
— George W. Bush, Jan. 12, 2009. [Translation to English from Bushspeak: ‘I used your money to bailout my family and wealthy friends on Wall Street and in banking because my administration didn’t do its job of properly regulating them.’]
“Um, you guys said that we, um, did this for the show.”
— Falcon “Balloon Boy” Heene, to his parents during a TV interview, Oct. 15, 2009. [This should be the motto of the Republican Party.]
“I think we all have a screw loose in this business.”
— Kyra Phillips, inadvertently speaking the truth on CNN, Oct. 9, 2009. [This should be the motto of the US national media.]
“Give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney, and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.”
— Jesse Ventura, former MN Gov. and Navy SEAL, on CNN, May 11, 2009.
[This line should be emblazoned across the bottom of the screen every time a clip of Cheney speaking is shown.]
“I don’t know anything about cars.”
— Edward E. Whitacre, Jr., when he took over as CEO of GM, June 9, 2009. [‘Gee, how could we be going bankrupt?’]
“You can’t convince me that the founding fathers wouldn’t allow you to secede.”
— Glenn Beck, April 14, 2009. [They might make an exception in Beck’s case.]
“So you need to get deep into why he is what he is, instead of just saying, ‘Well, he’s a homosexual so how do I handle him, and how do I be Christian?’ Well, I think you ought to tell him, ‘Listen, son, you know, here’s what the Bible says about this, and it’s called an abomination before God, so I’ve got to tell you the truth because I love you.’ That’s what I think.”
— Pat Robertson’s advice to the parents of a gay son, on CBN’s “The 700 Club” June 9, 2009. [Right after this broadcast, Pat ordered out for a BLT.]
“An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ ‘No,’ said the priest, ‘not if you did not know.’ ‘Then why,’ asked the Inuit earnestly, ‘did you tell me?'”
— Annie Dillard
“Ted Kennedy’s dad, by the way, Joe Kennedy, sympathetic to Hitler, sympathetic to the Nazis.”
— Rush Limbaugh, as quoted by Simon Maloy at Media Matters’ LimbaughWire, Aug. 8, 2009. [George W. Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush, helped finance the Nazis even after WWII began, and was forced by the US government to stop. Whatever Joe Kennedy’s sympathies, he never contributed financial backing to Hitler’s Third Reich.]
“The Army, the Marines do not have uniforms that fit that big an ass.”
–The always classy Limbaugh again, commenting on Hillary Clinton, Sept. 22, 2009, also via Media Matters. [This from the manly Lard Lad whose ‘anal cyst’ was too big to allow him to wear the uniform.]
“Nearly half of all US children, including an overwhelming majority of black children, will eat meals at some point during their childhood paid for by food stamps, an indicator of poverty, a study showed Monday.”
— AFP, “Half of US kids depend on food stamps during childhood: study,” Nov. 2, 2009. The study was done by the American Medical Association’s Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. [Out of a population of about 300 million, 66 million Americans now collect food stamps, a record high number. Nearly 50 percent of US children need food stamps to eat regularly.]
“The urgent necessity is to make a decision — whether or not it is right.”
— David Broder’s sage advice to Obama on Afghanistan, proving once again why Uncle Fudd is the dean of doomed Washington punditry, from the Washington Post, Nov. 13, 2009. [Say, Dave, if your life were on the line, would you be this cavalier about whether Obama’s decision was wrong or right?]
“The white Christian heterosexual married male is the epitome of everything right with America!”
— Michael Savage, from his radio show June 17, 2009, as quoted by Media Matters. [Okay, so when does the former Michael Alan Weiner come out of the closet?]
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Australia is tackling multiple bushfires that have broken out across New South Wales and Queensland over the past few days.
In this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 8 September, fires burning in the Yuraygir National Park and Shark Creek area are visible. Fires are also burning to the north and south of the villages of Angourie and Wooloweyah. See the image at its full resolution to zoom in on the area.
The flames, which were said to have been whipped up by strong winds, have now been contained. More than 600 firefighters have been deployed to tackle the fires, and multiple homes and outbuildings have been damaged.
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Film Gate Reviews
Movie reviews: Hollywood and Indie, specializing in independent comedies, dramas, thrillers and romance.
Joshy: Movie Review
Engaging characters shine through in a dark comedy balancing humour and tragedy.
Joshy’s tagline “The wedding’s off. The party’s on.” might make you think of a pure comedy born from a romantic comedy-styled break-up. You would probably be forgiven even though that’s not it. However, it is the type of movie where the less you know going in, the better it is. So I’ll just say, it’s a dark comedy. It starts dark, it gets funny, and then it gets heavy. And I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. 2016
Directed by: Jeff Baena
Screenplay by: Jeff Baena
Starring: Thomas Middleditch, Adam Pally
It is also true to its independent roots. The opening is bare and a little muddled – like you're a little kid who has just been thrown into the deep end with no floaties and you’re struggling to find the side of the pool to hold on. And when you finally do get your fingers on the edge, when you finally feel that you have been sufficiently introduced to Thomas Middleditch as Joshy and Alison Brie as his fiancée Rachel, you’re thrown back in again with a very startling turn of events. And then the film tries to present itself as a more middle-of-the-road bachelor weekend party.
Boys will be boys, guns will be played with, drugs will be taken, girls will be flirted with, and hot tubs will be dipped into. This is the main part of the film and also where the deep, deep cast of talented comedians comes in.
It can seem at times, especially early on, that this film was just an excuse for funny guys to hang out and tell some random jokes that they think are funny, not necessarily that an audience would find funny. But these comedians are not just being comedians there is some solid character work going on here. And before I knew it, I was fully engaged with these characters, I was invested in their stories, and their jokes became a whole lot funnier.
It can take awhile to get to know these characters, but once you do, they can become very endearing, and all with their fair share of faults - which just makes them all the more real. And just like people in real life, it can take you a little while to get to know them, to understand them, and to get used to their sense of humour, but once you do, you have a whole group of people you want to hang out with and laugh with, and heal with.
For a pseudo-bachelor-party weekend, Joshy has invited his friends to a rented house in Ojai, California. Adam (Alex Ross Perry) shares Joshy’s geeky side, who can experience pure enjoyment from staying in and playing a new board game; Eric (Nick Kroll) wants Josh to have fun, but his idea of fun is getting drunk, getting high, inviting over strippers and sex workers, and getting laid; Greg (Bret Gelman) doesn’t actually know Josh, he’s Eric’s friend, and as such can be very inappropriate since he doesn’t know the real reason why they’re gathering for the weekend. And I have saved the best for last. Ari (Adam Pally) is arguably Josh’s closest friend, arguably the one closest to normal, which also means he genuinely cares about Josh and wants to help him, and doesn’t really know how, and meanwhile he has his own personal dilemma.
Pally really grounded this film into a group of people to actually care about, and along with love interest Jodi (played perfectly and hilariously by Jenny Slate) added a lot of the comedy, and most importantly, he connected the guys-weekend-styled comedy with the darker and heavier themes that the film deftly explores.
The independent feel of Joshy along with its dark and melancholy subject matter juxtaposed with the type of comedy that belongs in a pot-fuelled frat movie, can be disjointed, but eventually the brilliance of the writing comes through. There are endearing and engaging characters here, some very funny scenes, along with some thoughtful meditations on how to deal with the tragedies of life.
About Alex (2014) - About an ensemble that gives a new generation a film to call their own.
Before We Go (2014) - A simple conversation becomes fun, funny and romantic with two great characters.
Obvious Child (2014) - Surpassing the romantic comedy genre with hilarity.
Written by Anne Campbell
Labels: 400 Word Reviews, 8 Star Movies, Comedy, Dark Comedy
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Absolute Bowie bring their award winning show to Southampton in January
Saturday, January 11 2020, 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
The Brook, Southampton | MAP
Winners of the 'Best Bowie Tribute' and 'Best Band in the UK' at the Agents Association of Great Britain Awards 2018. Absolute Bowie are, without a doubt, the best and by far the most popular David Bowie tribute in Europe and now in their 12th year.
There will only ever be one David Bowie, he was unique in every way and an inspiration to millions. Absolute Bowie continue to celebrate the life and music of the Starman with a spectacular show uniting Bowie fans across the UK.
"Lovingly crafted Bowie show" NME
Absolute Bowie has been voted one of the best tribute bands in the UK with their energetic (and theatrical!) stage show. Prepare to be taken from A to Z (Absolute Beginners to Ziggy!) with Stations to Station in between.
"Unmissable tribute Act" Mail On Sunday
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Digital Metal Detector Market Projection By Dynamics, Trends, Predicted Revenue, Regional Segmented, Outlook Analysis & Forecast Till 2025
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PROGRAMMING UPDATE
This week I'm at the most wonderful place in the world – a mid-level academic conference! Your heart would burst to learn how much fun it is. Kidding aside, I am looking forward to spending a week around people who speak in sentences, occasionally read books, and do not patronize Golden Corral. Accordingly, content will be provided haphazardly this week. I do hope to bang out a few real posts between now and Sunday, but today you get salad. Delicious, leafy salad, loaded with croutons of knowledge.
1. Boy do I feel bad for anyone stuck living in Kansas, aka Brownbackistan. Sam Brownback is a crazy person, as evidenced by his residence with a creepy cult of ultraconservative Christians called "The Family" during his tenure in DC. Can you believe that the least insane name they could come up with was "The Family"? Me neither. Anyway, now-Governor Brownback is showing that the Romney/Ryan campaign strategy that worked so well in 2012 has staying power; rather than bothering to concoct a rationale for his actions and beliefs, he's simply lying his ass off. Kansas schools are badly underfunded and, in major cities, closing? No they're not! Just…tell everyone they're not. Because fuck it, that's why. This amusing Wichita Eagle editorial explores the differences between the Kansas described by Brownback in his role as a Republican Heavyweight (of last resort) and the actual Kansas inhabited by Kansans. The GOP is really embracing this Just Lying strategy. So much easier!
2. You've probably seen this NPR piece about the rise of disability – more accurately, the assignment of SSI disability benefits – in the U.S. over the past decade. Having worked in a field involving a lot of indigent people, I was aware that disability benefits can go to people who, by any vernacular definition of the term, are not disabled. It is staggering, though, to see the growth of SSI benefits in recent years as a sort of secret, de facto unemployment dole. It has become a place where we stash people who lack, or no longer have, marketable job skills and for whom the next step down on the socioeconomic ladder is homelessness or the illicit economy. I intend to say a lot more about this piece when time permits.
3. Look! Political science that isn't useless! Larry Bartels and colleagues have started to release some of the findings of their multi-year study of the attitudes and opinions of the super-wealthy. I had the good fortune of hearing Bartels talk about this project during the planning stages but not enough good fortune to get involved with it. It was clear from the beginning that this would end up being remarkably interesting. Indeed, some of the findings are exactly what you'd expect, but others paint The 0.1% in a more pragmatic, less Evil light than we often see. Here's a brief summary or, for masochists, the whole article from Perspectives on Politics2.
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Thank you, Ed, that article on disability was an eye-opener for a bleeding-heart Socialist, who will worry just a bit less about people now…
Middle Seaman says:
1. Brownback scares me with his middle ages religious conviction.
2. The series on disability was told from a centrist's perspective. The economist consulted was associated with the rightwing AEI. In a socially backward country like ours, finding a way to support people through disability is a miracle.
3. What is missing is the fact that most of the rich Americans are Democrats. For example, in 2008 Obama got 70% of the votes in Aspen Colorado. Being Democratic explains much of the finding.
I recently read this nsfwcorp article about the NPR piece: https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/unfit-to-report/6d0a9d3f16f62acb0acfabdf008d7bc9b6df2874/ Would be interested to hear what you think of that as well.
Gabriel,
The American Enterprise Institute economist that the report repeated include tells you that the piece was right of center. The reporting itself was also quite mediocre
Before you get all crazy on that disability story, you ought to read this: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/from-welfare-queens-to-disabled-deadbeats/
Most of the rise in disability claims is demographics. A small part of it is liberalization of the criteria. A small part of it is is people who are encouraged to apply because they have no job and no money, and fuck it, what do they have to lose. And yes, as NPR notes, there aren't sit-down jobs for these people. 250-lb woman with diabetes, high blood pressure, and bad knees? You're either on your feet for 8 hours straight (no breaks in right-to-work states, sorry) or you're not working.
But whatever it is, it's not a "nation of moochers" or whatever the right-wingers are calling it nowadays.
The average disability payment is a little over $1,100/month, about $13,000/year. The entire SSI disability program costs $120 billion per year. But of course these are disabled WORKERS – they've been paying into the insurance program for their working lives. I'm not sure why it is mooching to pay for insurance and collect on it.
Major Kong says:
My neighbor is missing a kidney and has something like 35% function left in her remaining kidney. They're actively searching for a kidney donor for her.
She has been trying to get on SSI disability and has had her application rejected. From what I understand this is pretty common and it may take multiple appeals before she gets approved.
c u n d gulag says:
Governor D. Evolution Silverback, and his Christo-Crypto-Fascist followers in Kansas, see their state in Conservative Jesus-land Technicolor hues, as if it's Oz.
Everyone else sees a worsening Manichean, Black & White, Kansas – soon to be even more of a Banana Republic sh*thole.
The reality in Kansas is that things are getting worse.
So Governor D. Evolution Silverback needs to colorize it, so the suckers, rubes, fools, bobo's, marks, idiots, morons, imbeciles, and religious idiots (but I keep repeating myself) continue to fall for his grift – that he's Oz, "The Great and Powerful" Christian Savior- so that he can plan his run for President in 2016, where, laugh as we might at the prospect, if he's elected, people in the rest of the world will ask, "Never mind Kansas. What's the f*ck's the matter with the whole United States?"
PS: I have a lot to say about the SSDI issue, since I'm 55 and trying to get it – but I'll save my word-turds for that subject for when Ed writes a dedicated post to it.
Mingent Whizmaster says:
The summary says there were 83 individual Chicagoans surveyed,
with a median worth of $7.5 million. I am going to say therefore
that most of these persons were not members of 'the 1%'.
Dave Dell says:
Another good critique of the NPR disability article.
http://lancemannion.typepad.com/lance_mannion/2013/04/disability.html
It's good to know I'm not the only one who found the NPR article lacking in substance and clarity.
I give a side-eye to the disability article, as well. Like Major Kong, I have anecdata: a college-educated, profesional-career neighbor, worked for 30 years, developed a debilitating bone wasting disease, is unable to stand or sit for any length of time…and has been denied a couple of times now (not sure how many) for disability.
DH says:
I couldn't make it through 15 minutes of the This American Life version of the disability piece. Joffe-Walt's shock that the work available to poor people in the rural south is physically demanding was just ridiculous. At one point, a woman talks about how she is on disability because she had herniated discs in her back, and Joffe-Walt says something like, "My editor has a herniated disc, but he works. Who decides when that makes you disabled?" She then makes a big show of being shocked to learn that jobs sitting all day and typing on a computer are not available to non-educated poor people in remote rural areas. I didn't think she was trying to call those on disabilities as "moochers"–if anything, it was the opposite–but her pains to position herself as the centrist everyman in recounting of her reporting and the absurd naivete–either real, or put on for effect–about what these people struggled with was frustrating.
Jimcat says:
Thanks to those who provided links to alternate perspectives on the disability article. At the root of things I think there is a problem with not enough people being able to find jobs on which they can support themselves. But it's always good to look at more than one source when investigating specific issues like how many people are going on disability and why.
CaptBackslap says:
Another perspective on SSDI, from one of the most reliably "is this guy crazy or brilliant, or both?" sites on the web: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/04/the_terrible_awful_truth_about_5.html#more
I was also going to mention that The Last Psychiatrist has a fascinating (and educational) take on SSI.
My tl;dr take on his version is that SSI is federally funded and Welfare is state funded. Move them off of Welfare and onto SSI and everyone's happy.
As a law student I worked briefly on disability cases (2 semesters) and the commenters here disputing the accuracy of that NPR piece are right on — there are systemic and disturbing reasons that incredibly poor and uneducated people get stuck with SSDI as a last resort, and there are also incredibly perverse denials for people clearly unable to functionally produce anything but despair and heartbreak in the working world. Naturally there are also some who just want a payout, and moochers, just as anywhere, but the rise in disability is probably for exactly the reason Jon says above — it shifts to the federales and states can forget about the needy and claim "balanced" budgets (or other fantasies). What struck me about the minimal controversy was that Ira Glass claimed the piece was "fact-checked" so carefully — the facts weren't the problem, though, it was the creepy slant they gave to them, which he totally pretends isn't there.
WTF dude? Please don't harsh on my Golden Corral.
Phire says:
I see I'm not the only one taking issue with the NPR reporting of the SSI story – this is the link that I found the most comprehensive in terms of compiling the critiques of other experts across the board. Joffe-Walt glosses over a LOT of things, not the least of which are the stringent criteria that determine whether someone qualifies for SSI. It's certainly not as simple as "my back hurts".
The TAL piece on disability was great. This blog also references it. http://www.statisticsblog.com/2013/03/minding-the-reality-gap/ Seems like our data could be better.
Phire says (above) "… It's certainly not as simple as "my back hurts"."
True. But some places it's tougher than others. We have a local Chief Administrative Law Judge awarding SSI who rarely awards SSI for any disability that isn't immediately obvious to him. If you have something wrong that he can't see, it will often require several appeals and more extensive medical documentation–which most SSI applicants can't afford because they don't exactly have health insurance, either. Needless to say, the rest of the ALJs would love to "vote him off the island…"
Tim H. says:
One more thing to consider, NPR hasn't exactly been liberal media for 25~30 years.
@Ruthie, yes, it does seem that some places are tougher than others. Everyone seems to know someone who's milking the system, and everyone seems to know someone who is legitimately disabled who has to file multiple appeals. That's not snark, that's a plain statement of fact.
Meanwhile, the rightwing with their black-and-white thinking has cast anyone on any form of disability as a lazy "welfare queen", and their black-and-white-thinking followers have taken that message to heart.
anotherbozo says:
Ed, you should read this if you haven't already. A secondary school social studies teacher resigns and gives reasons for it. "I am not leaving my profession, in truth, it has left me."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/133658678/Gerald-Gerald-Conti%E2%80%99s-retirement-letterConti-Letter
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acer says:
@CaptBackslap:
My take on TLP is "one-of-a-kind prose stylist, well informed, intellectually rigorous, and generally on a raging rum bender whenever he posts these days."
Oh, gawd. Yet another two-minutes-of-hate about the Planet Money/This American Life disability piece, and yet again from people who appear not to have listened to any of it. If you listen to that hour of radio and really come away thinking its message was "lazy moochers pretending to be disabled," the problem wasn't with the transmission but the receiver. The comments of Jimcat, Jon and Greg reflect observations that are precisely noted in the PM/TAL broadcast. DH, if you can't tell irony from genuine shock, I can't help you. Lance Mannion, whom I generally love, appears to have missed the point entirely—Joffe-Walt wasn't denying or ignoring that disability is serving as a last-ditch welfare program by people who've been left behind by an economy that won't make room for them, she's explicitly making that very point.
Phire, yes, the medium demands certain simplifications, and they only had an hour. But your summary is simply unfair. It's definitively not as simple as "my back hurts." And TAL just did not say that it was.
Paul Krugman, as usual, gets it precisely right. But notice what he says! Not that disability claims aren't rising, but that in context of demographics it looks less dramatic.
And The Last Psychiatrist is a half-wit. Outside of Newt Gingrich a better example cannot be found of a stupid person's idea of what a smart person sounds like.
Nick Z says:
After clicking through to the brief summary, the ads for me on LGM are 'Single? Meet Local Millionaire Singles. Join now!' Barf.
Alan C says:
I laughed at Ed's Golden Corral comment but must share this. My father-in-law met his second wife at the Golden Corral and they had the wedding there (at 85 and 75, respectively). We all went to the buffet line for lunch afterwards. It was actually very nice.
ZeroInMyOnes says:
Prof Taco and Commenters, thanks for a great site. You always give me some real banter to think about, and some good laffs. I wouldn't mind running in to you at a conference, if someone would just invite me…
And now I can't wait for the summer when I have time to cruise the highways with my honey. We are going to have to check out that Golden Corral for ourselves…
Karlo says:
Humph, I am a masochist so I went to the full article. Table 8 shows rich folk at 73% on increased government spending in a recession versus 31% of the general public. Interesting how the rightists (or as my friends like to call them, the Party of Hate) have driven the message of austerity as the solution to recession down to the masses, while those with money (and presumably those who did not sleep through macroeconomics) realize that Keynesian economics would favor a government spending its way out of a recession (and what a time to do so – debt can be incurred for almost nothing and the totality of the infrastructure is crumbling). Sigh.
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New Entrepreneur Immigration Program opens in British Columbia, Canada
Posted on Jul 8th, 2015 By Leticia Siu
Categories: Canada, Canadian Immigration, Employment
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British Columbia’s Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) reopened its doors for business immigrants to Canada on July 2, 2015. In a landscape of unfriendly federal business immigration programs and preference for employer-driven individual immigration programs, the new BC PNP Entrepreneur Immigration program is extremely attractive for prospective business immigrants to Canada.
No minimum English language skills required
Minimum of 33 percent business ownership only
Low thresholds for minimum net worth (CA$600,000) and investment (CA$200,000)
Low initial registration fee of CA$300
Looking closer
It may sound too good to be true, because it probably is. BC PNP is attracting as many applications as it can so it can choose the best. In fact, BC PNP will now have a Pool of applicants competing to get as many points (maximum 200) as possible—however, only 200 applicants are accepted into the Pool each month. BC PNP will then make periodic draws from the Pool to award applicants holding the highest scores with an Invitation to Apply for the Entrepreneur Immigration program. So while the bar seems to be set low, applicants will need a competitive score to be successful.
A competitive score can come from increasing individual points as much as possible for each category:
Points category Points
Net Worth 12
Personal Investment 30
Adaptability 18
Business Concept 80
This could mean having greater management experience, higher net worth, significant investments, English language skills or even choosing a better business. For instance, an eligible business for the Business Concept must, at minimum, contribute to the province’s economic growth. However, there is also a list of business types that offer significant economic benefits and those would presumably be more valuable on the points system.
Other requirements for the program, like its predecessor, include:
Business or management experience;
Active management of a new or improved existing business located in British Columbia;
Intention to reside in British Columbia; and
Introduction of at least one full-time job for a Canadian or permanent resident.
Undoubtedly, the BC PNP Entrepreneur Immigration program will reopen doors of opportunity for prospective business immigrants to Canada.
Canada, employment authorization document, investment programs
LMIA Exempt Work Permit Applications – New Procedure
Posted on Feb 16th, 2015 By Helen Park
Categories: Canada, Canadian Immigration, Compliance, Cross Border, Employment, Government, Immigration, Immigration Services, Media and Entertainment, Visa, Workforce
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Effective February 21, 2015, there will be changes to the work permit application process for categories that are currently exempt from obtaining a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) and employer specific. The changes follow amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations focused on employer compliance in the employment of foreign workers.
As a result of the regulatory amendments, most work permit applications will now require a 2 step process:
Step 1. Either an LMIA application to Service Canada OR a new procedure involving an application form to be submitted to Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) for LMIA exempt categories (Form IMM 5802 – Offer of Employment to a Labour Market Impact Assessment Exempt Foreign National) with an additional $230 employer compliance fee.
Step 2. Work permit application.
This new procedure is applicable to all LMIA exempt work permits that are employer specific including work permit extension applications, visa office applications, port of entry applications. The new procedure will apply to most LMIA exempt work permit applications including work permits under NAFTA, intra-company transfers, PNPs, signficant benefit, etc. (Note: step 1 is not required for open work permit applicants, however, open work permits will be subject to an additional $100 privilege fee).
The new IMM 5802 Form and online fee payment (through their current CIC online fee payment site) will be available on Wednesday, February 18, 2015. The new form will require general corporate information about the employer (including contact information), the terms of the offer, information supporting the LMIA exemption and an attestation by the employer on the terms of the offer of employment.
Third party representatives will be able to submit the IMM 5802 Form for employers as long as the employer contact has signed a Use of Rep form (IMM 5476). The process requires that the IMM 5802 be completed by employers and submitted with the $230 payment to CIC.
Once the IMM 5802 Form is submitted to CIC, a confirmation will be generated by CIC. This confirmation along with a copy of the IMM 5802 Form and the $230 fee payment must be provided to the foreign worker to make an application for a work permit (i.e. at the visa office, online or at POE etc.)
There is not an advance “adjudication process” for the IMM 5802 Form before the work permit application is processed. For example, although proof that the IMM 5802 Form was submitted is required for an applicant to apply for a work permit at the POE, it was indicated that this could be done 5 minutes prior to arriving at the port of entry, as long as the applicant had a copy of the submitted IMM 5802 Form and payment confirmation with their work permit application.
There will also be a process for receiving a refund of the $230 employer compliance fee (and $100 privilege fee) if a work permit application is refused
More information will be posted by CIC this week and the link to the CIC site can be found at: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/temp/work/admissibility/specific.asp
Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Intracompany Transfer, Labour Market Impact Assessment
Canadian government removes visa requirements for Chilean nationals
Posted on Nov 24th, 2014 By Helen Park
Categories: Canada, Canadian Immigration, Government, Immigration, passport, Visa, visa-free regime, Workforce
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On November 22, 2014, the Canadian government announced the removal of the requirement for Chilean nationals to obtain temporary resident visas to travel to Canada. As such, Chileans may now travel on valid passports to Canada for business and pleasure travel without the requirement of first applying for a travel visa to enter Canada. Coupled with the Canada –Chile Free Trade Agreement and the fact that Chilean nationals do not require medicals, Chilean nationals will be eligible to apply for work permits at the port of entry, including Chilean Professionals as outlined in the Canada-Chile FTA: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/temp/work/international/chile.asp
This announcement is a welcomed development for employers seeking skilled workers to Canada and promoting greater global mobility.
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Canadian Government Revamps the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Posted on Jun 20th, 2014 By Helen Park
Categories: Canada, Canadian Immigration, Compliance, Cross Border, Employment, Government, Immigration, Immigration Services, Workforce
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With the government’s focus on “Canadians First” for Canadian jobs, the requirements to hire temporary foreign workers were revamped to make the hiring of foreign workers, and in particular low skilled / low wage foreign workers, more difficult for employers.
For employers that utitlize labour market opinions (now known as labour market impact assessments – LMIA), one of the biggest changes is the increased application fee that is now $1000 per position (up from $275) with the potential of an additional $100 “privilege fee” to be added. For those employers wishing to employ “high skilled / high wage” foreign workers, a Transition Plan will need to be submitted with LMIA applications. For those employers wishing to hire “low skilled/ low wage” foreign workers, the ability to hire foreign workers will be tied to the unemployment rate in the region they wish to hire the foreign workers and there will be caps placed on the number of such applications an employer can request. The duration of LMIAs issued for such workers in Canada will also decrease to one year increments.
For employers that utilize the LMIA exempt work permit categories (now known as International Mobility Program) including work permits under international agreements such as NAFTA or GATS, there will be additional application fees that will take effect in the summer of 2015. These include the Employer Compliance fee of $230 for employer specific work permits and $100 privilege fee for open work permits. There will also be a requirement for employers to submit these job offers directly to Citizienship and Immigration Canada (CIC), however, the logistics of this requirement are still not known for those foreign workers eligible to apply at the port of entry. The provincial agreements with the Canadian government which have allowed for specific positions in certain provinces to be LMIA exempt will also be phased out and/or reassessed early next year.
The government will ensure employer compliance to the foreign worker programs with frequent audits and investigations by Service Canada (ESDC), CIC and Canada Border Services Agency and the government will heavily sanction employers found to be abusing the system.
Although more specific details will be provided in the coming weeks on the practical implications of the programs, a detailed summary of the changes can be found on the Government of Canada’s website at: http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=859859&_ga=1.156784699.1455899918.1369168661
Stay tuned for more details to come…
Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Labour Market Impact Assessment, Service Canada, temporary foreign workers
You May Not Be That Specialized – New guidelines for assessing Intra-company Transfer – Specialized Knowledge work permits
Categories: Canada, Canadian Immigration, Compliance, Cross Border, Immigration, Immigration Services
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On June 9, 2014, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) announced expanded guidelines for immigration and border service officers to follow when assessing work permit applications under the intra-company transfer – specialized knowledge category. What’s Different?
Changes in interpreting what qualifies as “specialized knowledge”
Minimum wage requirement as set by Employment and Skills Development Canada (ESDC)
Specialized knowledge means that applicants must have both a high degree of proprietary knowledge and advanced expertise. This includes abilities that are unusual and uncommon in the industry and within the company, knowledge and skills that are difficult to transfer to another person but are required by the Canadian business, expertise that would be difficult to recruit for in the Canadian labour market and knowledge that only a small percentage of the company’s employees would hold.
To find the minimum mandatory wages please go to ESDC’s www.workingincanada.gc.ca site where low, median and high wages are listed for occupations using the Canadian National Occupation Classification (NOC). The mandatory minimum wages to be paid to intra-company transfers – specialized knowledge workers will be the median wages listed for each NOC occupation on this site. Please note that although the mandatory minimum wages do not apply to those applicants under NAFTA or other Free Trade Agreements with Canada, wages will be a factor that is considered by officers, as wages paid can be an important factor when assessing the expertise of a specialized knowledge worker.
Please note that the changes are effective immediately. CIC’s full Operational Bulletin can be found at: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/bulletins/2014/ob575.asp
As more pressure is placed on Canadian employers to look to the Canadian labour market before hiring foreign workers, we anticipate greater scrutiny and further changes to the temporary foreign worker program in the coming months.
Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, foreign employees
Employment and Social Development Canada Minister Jason Kenny announces moratorium on the Food Service’s Sector’s access to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Posted on May 16th, 2014 By Shawna Vogel
Categories: Canada, Canadian Immigration, Employment, Government, Workforce
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Recent media coverage in Canada showed certain fast food restaurants misusing the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. In response Canadian Employment Minister Jason Kenny announced an immediate moratorium on the Food Services Sector’s access to the program. Effective April 24, 2014, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) stopped processing any new or pending LMO applications related to the Food Services Sector, and any unfilled positions related to a previously approved LMO were suspended.
No word on when the moratorium will end, as it will remain in effect until the Temporary Foreign Worker Program has been reviewed.
Read this complete article to learn more.
Canada, Employment, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), Food Services Sector, Immigration, Labour Market Opinions, temporary foreign workers
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Anna Kendrick Sings About Gay Midgets And Former Strippers In “A Summer In Ohio”: Listen
Mike Wass @mikewassmusic | February 13, 2015 12:32 pm
Anna Kendrick Raps To Iggy Azalea
'Pitch Perfect' star Anna Kendrick sang – and rapped to Iggy Azalea, no less – on 'SNL.'
Anna Kendrick‘s starring role in Pitch Perfect led to an unexpected hit single when “Cups (Pitch Perfect‘s When I’m Gone)” climbed all the way to number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold triple platinum. Her latest detour into the music business comes via the soundtrack of new movie The Last Five Years — a big-screen adaptation of Jason Robert Brown‘s Tony Award-winning musical.
The 29-year-old contributes 10 songs to the film including “A Summer In Ohio.” The oddball anthem/lead single is a jazzy little number with some highly unusual lyrics. “I could have a mansion on a hill, I could lease a villa in Seville,” Anna sings merrily. “But it wouldn’t be as nice as a summer in Ohio with a gay midget named Karl.” I’ll take her word for it. Listen to the quirky jam, which also references a former stripper and a snake, below.
Anna Kendrick’s “A Summer In Ohio”:
Does Anna have another hit on her hands? Have your say in the comments below.
Get an eyeful of even more pop music coverage, from artist interviews to exclusive performances, on Idolator’s YouTube channel.
Tags: Anna Kendrick
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Teacher Misconduct Project
Forums > Welcome! > Daily Arrest Blotters >
Arrested Teachers in the News 3 Jan 2014 (Friday)
Discussion in 'Daily Arrest Blotters' started by TMP, Jan 5, 2014.
TMP Himself
Sex abuse, female perps:
Additional news items for:
Brianne L. Altice, Kaysville, Utah (arrested Oct 2013)
Guilty: Jillian Clementi Cooper, Wood-Ridge, New Jersey (arrested May 2012)
Sex abuse, male perps:
Paul Joseph Johnson (Backus, Minnesota), 48, math teacher at Voyageurs Expeditionary School, Audubon Center of the North Woods, Bemidji, Minnesota, "charged ... with having sex with one of his female students "
Paul Joseph Johnson, Bemidji, Minnesota (arrested Jan 2014)
Daniel Poussart (born Sept 26 1985), 28, drama teacher at Overbrook High School, Pine Hill School District, Pine Hill, New Jersey, "alleged inappropriate relationship with a student"
Daniel Poussart, Pine Hill, New Jersey (arrested Jan 2014)
Randy Gene Majors, Fruita, Colorado (arrested Dec 2013)
Jason Stubbs, Jurupa Valley, California (arrested Aug 2013)
Sonny Dewaine Tibbs, Vina, Alabama (arrested Nov 2013)
Other sex stuff:
Jamie Mathew Crisp, 33, teacher and football coach at J.L. Mann High School, Greenville County Schools, Greenville, South Carolina, "arrested in an undercover prostitution operation"
Jamie Mathew Crisp, Greenville, South Carolina (arrested Jan 2014) [prostitution sting]
Andrew Johnson Ray Jr. (Warrensburg, Missouri), 52, substitute teacher at Holden Elementary School, Holden R-III School District, Holden, Missouri, "25 counts related to child pornography possession"
Andrew Johnson Ray Jr, Holden, Missouri (arrested Oct 2013)
Paul Joseph Johnson, Bemidji, Minnesota, Backus, Voyageurs Expeditionary School, Audubon Center of the North Woods, Jamie Mathew Crisp, Greenville, South Carolina, J.L. Mann High School, Greenville County Schools, Daniel Poussart, Pine Hill, New Jersey, Overbrook High School, Pine Hill School District, Andrew Johnson Ray Jr, Holden, Missouri, Warrensburg, Holden Elementary School, Holden R-III School District, Randy Gene Majors, Fruita, Colorado, Fruita 8/9 School, Mesa County Valley School District 51, Jason Stubbs, Jurupa Valley, California, Eastvale, Jurupa Valley High School, Jurupa Unified School District, Fontana Unified School District, Fontana, Sonny Dewaine Tibbs, Vina, Alabama, Hamilton, Vina High School, Franklin County Schools, Brianne L. Altice, Kaysville, Utah, Davis High School, Davis School District, Wasatch Elementary School, Clearfield, Sunset Junior High School, Sunset, Jillian Clementi Cooper, Rutherford, Wood-Ridge High School, Wood-Ridge School District, Wood-Ridge
TMP, Jan 5, 2014
bishop bell church of england school
clark county school district
cyril wengert elementary school
david schlomann
east sussex county council
hillsborough county public schools
houston isd
jefferson county public schools
jeremy forrest
magnolia elementary school
megan stammers
melvyn sprowson
miami-dade county public schools
st. lucie public schools
val verde unified school district
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Rapid prototyping: An innovative technique in prosthodontics
Aboobacker S Akhila1, B Nandakishore2, Mathew Miriam2, Subash K Anil3, Mohan Abhinav3, Aboobacker Fares3
1 Post Graduate, Department of Prosthodontics, Mahe Dental College, UT of Puducherry, India
2 Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, Mahe Dental College, UT of Puducherry, India
3 Senior Lecturer, Department of Prosthodontics, Mahe Dental College, UT of Puducherry, India
Dr. Aboobacker S Akhila
Mahe Dental College, UT of Puducherry
DOI: 10.4103/INPC.INPC_16_19
The first method for rapid prototyping was introduced in the 1980s in the field of engineering for the fabrication of a solid model based on a computed file. The innovation of digital technology have revolutionized dentistry, and this digitized medical treatment. Rapid prototyping is a type of computer aided manufacturing that make physical objects from computer data. It is a technology that is capable of making physical objects directly from 3D computer data by adding a layer upon layer and 3D physical structures are known as rapid prototypes. These includes steriolithography, selective laser sintering, 3D Printers and fused deposition modeling. Rapid prototyping are used in various branches of prosthodontics like Implantology, fabrication of cowns and bridges, mold for complete dentures and in maxillofacial prosthodontics. Fabrication of prosthesis by these technologies have reduced reliance on human variables and thus have overcome the limitations of conventional method which requires considerable human intervention. RP techniques are increasingly playing an imperative role in dentistry and will become one of the mainstream technologies for digital fabrication of dental prostheses in near future.
Keywords: Computer-aided design–computer-aided manufacturing, rapid prototyping, stereolithography
Akhila AS, Nandakishore B, Miriam M, Anil SK, Abhinav M, Fares A. Rapid prototyping: An innovative technique in prosthodontics. Int J Prev Clin Dent Res 2019;6:46-8
Akhila AS, Nandakishore B, Miriam M, Anil SK, Abhinav M, Fares A. Rapid prototyping: An innovative technique in prosthodontics. Int J Prev Clin Dent Res [serial online] 2019 [cited 2020 Jan 20];6:46-8. Available from: http://www.ijpcdr.org/text.asp?2019/6/2/46/267800
The first method for rapid prototyping (RP) was introduced in the 1980s in the field of engineering for the fabrication of a solid model based on a computed file. The innovation of digital technology has revolutionized dentistry, and this digitized medical treatment has now become an integral part of dentistry.[1] RP techniques, the so-called generative manufacturing techniques,[2] have overcome the drawbacks of subtractive digital techniques.
RP has proposed various applications in dental fields, such as fabrication of implant surgical guides, zirconia prosthesis and molds for metal castings, maxillofacial prosthesis and frameworks for fixed and removable partial dentures, and wax patterns for the dental prosthesis and complete denture. Prosthesis should be customized precisely when attempting to restore a face with prosthesis; the prosthesis should restore the anatomy as closely as possible.[3] Fabrication of prosthesis by these technologies has reduced reliance on human variables and thus has overcome the limitations of conventional method which requires considerable human intervention and manipulation of materials that may exhibit inherent processing shrinkage/expansion.[4],[5]
What Is Rapid Prototyping?
RP is a type of computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and is one of the components of rapid manufacturing. It is a technology that is capable of making physical objects directly from three-dimensional (3D) computer data by adding a layer upon layer.[6] First, slicing of the digital model is done, and then through an automated process of layer-by-layer construction, transverse sections are physically produced. These 3D physical structures are known as rapid prototypes. Rapid prototypes contain mobile parts with complex geometry that is impossible to be made by other construction techniques.[3],[7] In addition, before definitive fabrication of prosthesis, this technique allows visualization and testing of objects, which reduces costs.[8]
Fabrication of models in surgical planning, simulation[9],[10] in implantology,[11] neurosurgery,[12],[13] orthopedics,[14] prosthodontics and orthodontics.
The frequent technologies that are adopted in dental practice are:
Selective laser sintering (SLS)[15]
Inkjet-based system (3D printers [3DP])
Fused deposition modeling.[16]
Various materials that can be employed in these technologies are wax, plastics, ceramics, and metals.[17]
Dental Applications of Rapid Prototyping
The use of dental implants has evolved rapidly over the past decade since the advent of the concept of osseointegration.[18] Development in the field of oral implantology has led to the development of successful and predictable restorative options for partially as well as completely edentulous patients. Correct placement of the implant is an important phase.[19] Improper implant placement can have a detrimental effect on the long-term predictability and success of the implant-supported prosthesis.[20]
The use of computer-aided design (CAD)/CAM technology has gained popularity in implant dentistry.[21] Application of RP in implantology pertains to 3D imaging and using 3D software for treatment planning.[22] Surgical guides are fabricated using additive RP, while fabrication of all-ceramic restorations is done using subtractive RP.[23] RP technology allows for industrial fabrication of customized 3D objects from CAD data.[24]
Automatic wax-up construction is possible with the introduction of RP technology.[22] After fabrication of the wax pattern by RP, the traditional lost-wax process is still needed. In comparison to the laser melting or sintering direct manufacturing processes, which is financially unattainable for most dental laboratories, this process is more affordable.[20]
Direct dental metal prosthesis fabrication
For the quick fabrication of high-precision metal parts, RP technologies including selective laser melting (SLM) and SLS technology are used.[23] Dental prostheses processed by employing SLS/SLM technique are very appropriate regarding their complex geometry and their capability to be customized without the extensive manual pre- or postprocessing steps.[23]
All-ceramic restoration fabrication
For the fabrication of green zirconia, all-ceramic dental restoration direct inkjet fabrication process has been anticipated using a slurry microextrusion process.[2] This innovative method is a favorable CAD/RP system with great ability to produce all-ceramic dental restorations with high precision, cost competence, and minimum material intake. This method is still in the experimental phase.
Mold for complete dentures
In the field of complete denture, there is limited literature available which reveals that advanced manufacturing technologies have not been successfully implemented yet.[24] For parameterization positioning of artificial teeth, a 3D record is taken, which yields 3D data of edentulous models and rims in centric relation. Using 3DP, physical flasks (molds) are fabricated, but finishing the complete denture is done using a traditional laboratory procedure.[25]
Patients suffering from facial deformity due to congenital defect or defect due to trauma or ablative surgery are treated by maxillofacial units using a variety of surgical and prosthetic techniques so that the defect can be restored to normal function and appearance.[26]
In maxillofacial prosthetics, RP is being used for:[27] (i) fabrication of obturators, (ii) production of auricular and nasal prosthesis, (iii) manufacturing of surgical stents for patients with large tumors scheduled for excision manufacturing of lead shields to protect healthy tissue during radiotherapy treatment, and (iv) fabrications of burn stents, where burned area can be scanned rather than subjecting delicate, sensitive burn tissue to impression-taking procedures. Duplication of existing maxillary/mandibular prosthesis is especially crucial when an accurate fit to natural teeth or an osseointegrated implant is needed.
With advancements in various RP systems, this technology is becoming portable and more pervasive. The availability of this technology is growing as well. Nowadays, CAD and RP technologies are being used in various fields of medicine and dentistry and have had a considerable impact, especially on the rehabilitation of patients with head-and-neck defects. With newer innovations currently, these systems are also being used for presurgical planning in dentistry, treatment planning and placement of implants, fabrication of facial prosthesis, fabrication of cranioplasty prosthesis, contouring of reconstruction plates before mandibular resection and reconstruction, sophisticated reconstruction of the maxilla, and a variety of other purposes.
The drawbacks or limitations of the RP technology include complicated machinery and dependency on expertise to run the machinery during production and the high cost of the tools. Familiarization with these new tools, to employ them in an appropriate manner and to effectively evaluate innovations as they are introduced, is necessary for the clinician. RP techniques are increasingly playing an imperative role in dentistry and will become one of the mainstream technologies for digital fabrication of dental prostheses in the near future.
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Ciocca L, Fantini M, De Crescenzio F, Corinaldesi G, Scotti R. Direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) of a customized titanium mesh for prosthetically guided bone regeneration of atrophic maxillary arches. Med Biol Eng Comput 2011;49:1347-52.
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Do you feel like a copy?
2022 AD. In the retro near future of an alternate Earth timeline, a plague has swept across the planet, killing almost 50% of the population. Governments of the largest nations react by removing obstacles to human cloning. Thanks to these clones, humanity survives.
2097 AD. Seventy five years later, in any first world country, it is legal for an “original” human to license clones of themselves to work, then sit back and make a tidy profit. Licensed clones are now a controlled-class of citizens called bio-copies or “bios”. They are created with a short life span and are heavily monitored. However, there is a thriving black market in unlicensed clones, created from bio-hacks. Victims of these hacks are often the very last to learn that their identities have been stolen.
Hunter Sterns is a copyright investigator whose job is to track down illegal bio-copies of original humans. Although Hunter himself is a bio-copy, he has forced himself to become numb to the trouble he brings to others of his kind.
His new client, Carol Hall, who does not realize Hunter is a bio, attempts to impress him with a traditional Japanese tea ceremony while he interviews her. After explaining that she believes the up and coming artist Jeri Moon is an illegal bio-copy of hers, she is embarrassed to discover that Hunter is not an original. She threatens to report him for leading her on, then demands that Hunter find the illegal Jeri Moon copy and destroy it.
Unless Carol is satisfied with the investigation, Hunter’s boss will remove his license. That means death to a copy. Using the information Carol gave him in the interview, Hunter tracks down her bio-copy, sacrificing everything he holds dear in the process.
When he finds Jeri Moon, she is living with a partner in an outlying suburb of the city. Before he can kill her, he realizes Jeri is being treated like an original by everyone she interacts with. Suddenly unsure if he is doing the right thing, Hunter follows Jeri back to her home and forces her and her partner to meet with him. He quickly realizes that Jeri has no idea what she is, but discovers Jeri’s partner has a secret she would do anything to protect.
Nebraska Filmmaking
I Belong to Me was created for the 2018 Prairie Lights Film Festival Science Fiction Anthology. Locations included Turbine Flats, Trago Park and a private residence in Lincoln, as well as alleys in Omaha’s downtown area and several access hallways in Omaha’s Oakview mall. From pre-production through principal photography, I Belong to Me provided creative opportunities and work experience to over twenty Nebraska-based actors and artists. Produced by Unfiltered Entertainment, Inc., a Lincoln-based production company celebrating its eleventh year in business, this short was made possible by the generosity and creativity of Nebraska’s filmmaking community.
Tea set photo credit: Mike Johnson
All other photos: Greg Kubitschek
Actors featured in photos Top to Bottom:
Melissa Wilson & Cody O’Grady
Melissa Wilson
Amos Sterns, Cody O’Grady & Andrea Erickson
Cody O’Grady
Copyright 2018 Unfiltered Entertainment, Inc.
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#9 NC State vs #16 Cornell Dual Preview
This Saturday, November 23, 2019, the Cornell Bears will host the NC State Wolfpack at 1 pm EST. This dual has so many interesting storylines from coach Koll’s decision to Olympic Redshirt 3 of his top wrestlers, to Darmstadt’s return against a junior world medalist in Trent Hidlay, to Colton Yapoujian’s debut against the #1 wrestler in the country. Take a look at the projected lineups below.
#9 NC State at #16 Cornell Projected Lineups:
125: Jakob Camacho (NC State) vs Dom LaJoie (Cornell)
133: Jarrett Trombley (NC State) vs Chas Tucker (Cornell)
141: Tariq Wilson (NC State) vs Noah Baughman (Cornell)
149: A.J Leitten (NC State) vs Hunter Richard (Cornell)
157: Hayden Hidlay (NC State) vs Colton Yapoujian (Cornell)
165: Thomas Bullard (NC State) vs Adam Santoro (Cornell)
174: Daniel Bullard (NC State) vs Brandon Womack (Cornell)
184: Trent Hidlay (NC State) vs Ben Darmstadt (Cornell)
197: Tyrie Houghton (NC State) vs Jonathan Loew (Cornell)
285: Deonte Wilson (NC State) vs Brendan Furman (Cornell)
Following Vito Arujau’s decision to take an Olympic redshirt, Cornell slid in Dom LaJoie (4-1 on the season). Pat Popolizio brought in a high level recruit in Camacho, who is a big question for the Wolfpack fans. Camacho is 3-1 against common opponents while LaJoie is 2-2 (LaJoie lost to Camacho’s backup 125, Charlie Lenox). This matchup definitely favors Camacho, who many predict to be an All-American this year, but LaJoie’s ability to find a pin in his matchups gives him a fighting chance. Despite that fact, I’m going to take Camacho to take this match in a decision, giving the Wolfpack a 3-0 lead over Cornell.
This match, again, is fairly one-sided with U23 world team member, Chas Tucker of Cornell, who is currently ranked #6 vs #23, Jarrett Trombley, of NC State. Chas Tucker sat out for Cornell’s first event at Jonathan Kaloust Bearcat Open, so this will be his season debut. Tucker is heavily favored in this match, and naturally he will be my pick. However, Tucker wrestles extremely tight, and Trombley is a solid wrestler, so I am predicting a tight match, tying the dual at 3.
As I mentioned, the Coach Koll is valuing the Olympic year, and Olympic redshirting three of his top wrestlers including 2x NCAA champion, Yianni Diakomihalis. This redshirt slides Noah Baughman into the starting lineup for the Big Red. On the side of NC State is NCAA All-American, Tariq Wilson, who took 3rd place at the 2018 NCAA tournament at 133. Tariq is a freak of nature whose neutral offense is extremely vast. Just like the previous two matches, this match is heavily leaning one way. Naturally, my pick to take this match is Tariq Wilson by major, giving the Wolfpack a 7-3 lead.
This is one of the only matches that we have seen before. Hunter Richard beat AJ Leitten 6-3 at the 2018 National Collegiate Open. Since then, Leitten has been on somewhat of a tear. He is 9-3 on the season and earned bonus points in ⅓ of his matches. However, Richard has not been dormant since their last meeting. He won his last tournament this season, earning him a 4-0 record this year. Richard is the slight favorite in this match and a win from him would put the team score at 7-6 in favor of the Wolfpack.
Hayden Hidlay, a 2x NCAA All-American for the Wolfpack, will take on Cornell’s blue-chip freshman from Colorado, Colton Yapoujian. This will be a HUGE first test for Yapoujian in the Newman Arena. Hayden Hidlay is the favorite to win this year’s NCAA tournament after his impressive run in the last two years, making the finals once and almost taking out Jason Nolf in the other. NC State will look to the older Hidlay brother for bonus points for the dual. Consequently, Hayden will be my pick for 4 team points making the score 11-6 for the Wolfpack.
165 brings in the first of the Bullard brothers for the Wolfpack to the mat. Thomas Bullard is a 2x NCAA qualifier for NC State. He is heavily favored over Santoro. However, don’t count Santoro totally out of this match. Rob Koll has the uncanny ability to develop his wrestlers for big matchups. Regardless, I will still pick Bullard to win this match by decision, thus extending the Wolfpack’s lead to 14-6.
Thomas Bullard’s brother, Daniel, has an extremely large test in Cornell senior, Brandon Womack. Womack is 12-8 against common opponents while Bullard is 9-13. The Cornell senior is a 3x NCAA qualifier and is currently ranked #11 in the country. As you can see, Womack is clearly the favorite in this match, but Bullard has an extremely high ceiling and has a fighting chance in this match. Nonetheless, my pick is still Womack by decision, hence closing the gap of the team score to 14-9 in favor of the Wolfpack.
This is the marquee matchup of the dual. Junior world medalist, Trent “Hoagie” Hidlay, vs NCAA All-American, Ben Darmstadt. Strength vs length. All eyes in the Newman Arena will be focused on this match. The NC State freshman has two top 3 matchups on November 23 alone! His first is against #3 Ben Darmstadt. Hidlay’s underhook game is incredible, even on the college level. (The second is in NC State’s dual vs Binghamton later in the day.) Surprisingly, this freshman is able to muscle his opponents who have many years on him. Despite the strength of this phenom, I am going to take the Cornell veteran in this matchup. This further closes the gap of the team score to 14-12.
The team score will come down to these last two matches. Despite the fact that Cornell and North Carolina State don’t specialize in their heavier weights, this dual will come down to 197 and 285 (if they start at 125, which I hope they don’t). NC State will likely roll out sophomore, Tyrie Houghton while Cornell has Jonathan Leow. This match will slightly favor Leow, yet it will be a practical coin flip. They have never had a head-to-head match and no common opponents, so there is very little information between these two. My pick is Leow by decision, giving Cornell the lead 15-14.
The dual will most likely come down to this match. Brendan Furman of Cornell vs Deonte Wilson of NC State. This is Furman’s first year as a starter for the Big Red while Wilson started last year as a true freshman. This match, just like 197, is practically a coin flip. Both are 1-0 against common opponents with similar points scored. I’m going to give the “Home Mat Advantage” to Furman in his first ever dual for the Big Red, and pick him for this match and Cornell for their first dual of the season.
All this action takes place on ESPN+ at 1pm EST. Make sure to tune in to witness these great matchups!!
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Doctor's Buggy
Purchased at auction by Peggy Cambridge in 2007.
Pony Meadowbrook Cart
This Ash Meadow Brook was custom made for Peggy Cambridge by Hafemann Carriage Co., Philadelphia N.Y. Originally constructed for Duey, several of HDA's driving ponies can be hitched to it.
Baby’s Meadowbrook Cart
This custom meadow brook was made for Tania Cambridge and Baby in 2003 by Hafemann Carriage Co. Baby has won many ribbons with it.
Basket Side Pony Trap
This basket side pony trap is unique in that it is cut-under (which allows the front wheels to turn sharply). Made circa 1900, this trap was purchased by Bower Powers Sr., of Pierrepont N.Y., for his daughter Helen in 1934. A reward for getting the potatoes dug on time, the package deal of pony, tack, carriage and pony sleigh (see Pony Wang below) was bought from a banker in Canton, N.Y. The carriage was used in parades in Canton. The Cambridges had it restored by Hafemann Carriage, Co. in 2003, with the wicker work done at Willowtree Florist, Potsdam, N.Y.
Extension Top Surrey
This extension top surrey was made by Durant Dort Co., Detroit, Mich. and shipped on January 11th, 1910. The following year, Durant Dort discontinued the line of carriages and by 1914, it became Buick. The unused carriage was traded for services rendered by Dr. Sapson of Canton, N.Y. The carriage is in restoration. Traditionally surreys were like the original automobile. They were mass produced and came in black. Surreys were used as a family town vehicle.
Natural-finish two-seat wagon built by Hafemann Carriage Company. Tania purchased this cute wagon from a local farmer in 2006. It is usually set up single, but can also be set up for a small team of ponies.
Pony Hitch Wagon
This wagon was purchased off ebay by Tania Cambridge in November 2007. Similar to the Budweiser hitch wagon this Robert Carriage Hitch Wagon is pony sized. Snickers and Humbug can pull it, but it is a better size for Dodger and Fagan.
Grocery Delivery Sleigh
This delivery piano-box sleigh was owned by George E. and J.B. LaSelle Groceries of Canton. Around 1870, they had a grocery located on the island in Canton. (George E. LaSelle owned one of the large mansard houses on West Main St.). The Cambridges' purchased the sleigh in 2005 and restored it for use.
Mail Delivery Sleigh
This piano box sleigh was used to deliver mail from Colton to Canton and used as an early mode of public transportation in the winter. Owned by Roger and Anne Huntley of Pierrepont, N.Y., it is graciously on loan to HDA's collection. During the off season, it can be seen in Grandpa's Museum at the Huntley's.
Piano Box Sleigh
Similar to the other two sleighs only smaller, this sleigh was purchased by the Cambridges in 2005 and came from Foxtail Farm near Horseheads, N.Y. The history of this sleigh is unknown.
Pony Wang
This pony sized sleigh originally came as part of a package with the basket side pony trap (see above). Acquired by the Cambridges' in 2004, it has yet to be restored.
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Serj Tankian – Elect the Dead
Posted October 25th, 2007 / By Klaus Van Persie in Albums, Music
{mosimage}Singer Serj Tankian launches his solo debut album, free of System of a Down's guitarist's Daron Malakian's influences. He is also touring and promoting the album with a new backing band that he calls the FCC: Flying Cunt of Chaos.
Many fans of System of a Down were not much happy with Malakian´s late attitude of taking a bigger role in the vocals parts of System of a Down. Now they can feel happy with Tankian's first solo album, introducing again in plenitude the unique Serj's vocal talents. Do not expect in any case bigger changes from SOAD´s style. The album is similar in many aspects to works like Mesmerize, but obviously with a more personal touch by Tankian. Furious, politically involved and combative and with Tankian´s elastic and expressive vocals flooding the album in every song.
The album enjoys some glorious moments like in Saving us or the final track Elect the Dead, but part of the magic that you could find in SOAD is lost here. It seems that Tankian wanted to satisfy the old fans while trying to create something a bit different, but at the end got disoriented in the middle of the crossroad and the result gets overcooked; his shouts can turn from dynamic into annoying. Not a bad effort though, since the songwriting is brilliant and the rebellious attitude continues at its top.
Tankian shows why he has more balls than most of the people in the American musical industry, with a praising balance of quality and dignity. While SOAD takes a break, Elect the Dead is a good choice to await until Malakian and Tankian will rejoin forces.
Rating 3/5
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Collaboration ‘strongest weapon against slavery’
By Maxine Perella on Nov 17, 2016
Ikea, John Lewis and The Body Shop are among the companies that are going beyond audits
The companies leading the battle against modern slavery are going far beyond auditing and working in collaboration with others to tackle it deep in their supply chains, anti-slavery groups say.
Phil Bloomer of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre says companies that perform audits where suppliers are given weeks to prepare will almost guarantee that any human slavery that exists will not be picked up by auditors. “More and more [announced audits] can only be seen as an excuse for turning a blind eye to the risks of slavery,” he says.
But unannounced audits are not enough. Bloomer emphasises that companies need to identify salient risks through research, develop action plans to address them, and send strong messages down their supply chains that slavery will not be accepted.
“Crucially, there has to be collaboration,” he told Ethical Corporation’s Supply Chain Summit last month. “Each company on its own at the second or third tier has very little leverage. They [the suppliers] are producing for everyone. But if there is collaboration between companies, that’s where they can take concerted action.”
Focus on recruitment fees
In the UK and wider afield, such platforms are starting to spring up. These include Stronger Together, a multi-stakeholder initiative to tackle hidden labour exploitation that involves all of the UK’s nine major supermarkets, and the Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment (LGRR). The latter is focused on eradicating the practice of workers paying fees to recruiters, which turns them into bonded labourers, by promoting the Employer Pays Principle, something that has been integrated into the electronics industry’s code of practice for suppliers. The LGRR is convened by the Institute for Human Rights and Business and has Unilever, Ikea, The Coca-Cola Company, HP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise as founding members.
“Our vision is a world where no worker has to pay fees to secure employment,” says Ikea’s sustainability policy manager and head of stakeholder engagement, Simon Henzell-Thomas. He adds that Employer Pays Principle builds on Ikea’s own supplier code of conduct IWAY, which looks to ensure that suppliers and sub-suppliers are respecting workers’ rights.
Asked how Ikea will be working with its own suppliers to enforce this principle in practice, Henzell-Thomas points to a recent project working with the International Organisation for Migration to map a recruitment corridor from suppliers in South-east Asia back to the workers’ home countries.
“We are using these findings to continue improving our standards and ways of working, and support our suppliers to do the same.”
Stronger Together was launched in 2013 to help supermarkets deal with human rights issues in their supply chains. Jantine Werdmuller von Elgg, who leads on strategy, policy, partnerships and communication, told Ethical Corporation that Stronger Together’s toolkits provide guidance on high-risk areas such as labour provision by third parties and its training sessions have been attended by 1,900 people from 1,000 businesses
“Later this year we will roll the programme out into the construction industry, together with the Chartered Institute of Building – that’s a key focus as construction has been identified as high risk for modern slavery. Plus international expansion of the programme because retailers have identified this programme as a model that could be used in other countries and we’ll be working with them to work out what the next steps are.”
Waitrose, part of the John Lewis Partnership, has used resources and toolkits from Stronger Together to educate employers and labour providers in its supply chain. Benet Northcote, John Lewis Partnership’s director for corporate responsibility, did not want to talk about how one of its suppliers in West Yorkshire was found guilty of using trafficked Hungarian workers but he told Ethical Corporation that the company did a detailed review of its approach to respecting human rights last year. This involved mapping potential risks in both the John Lewis and Waitrose supply chains, using a range of external insight and extensive stakeholder engagement to aid the process.
“Through this we identified the partnership’s salient issues and focused our business priorities and programmes accordingly. Two examples of the programmes that we are running are Waitrose’s collaboration with the Wilberforce Institute [for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation] at Hull University to better understand supply chain risks, and John Lewis pilot programme with the UK furniture supply chain to help suppliers improve conditions for workers.”
John Lewis has done a detailed review of its approach to human rights
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Asked how companies should respond if they do find evidence of modern slavery among their UK suppliers, Northcote replies: “My main advice would be to focus on the people within your supply chain and put their best interests first, don’t think about reputation. Discuss your strategy, activities and concerns openly with stakeholders and seek both advice and constructive feedback, including from experts, NGOs or multi-stakeholder groups like the Ethical Trading Initiative.”
He adds that John Lewis is a founding member of a new collaboration, called Fast Forward, which aims to measure and improve labour standards, drive transparency, prevent exploitation and provide access to remedy for vulnerable workers. “What is great about both of these initiatives is that they are raising awareness of labour standards and modern slavery. It also means that messages being delivered are consistent across the industry.”
But seeking industry partnerships is not enough. Cindy Berman, head of knowledge and learning at the Ethical Trading Initiative, says companies need to see modern slavery as not just as a risk to be managed, but as a core part of how they conduct business.
The Body Shop has recently set up a modern slavery committee, recognising that human and labour rights issues need to be integrated across the spectrum of the business. “We’ve done a lot of training to raise awareness, the obvious one being with our buying team. But we’ve also done a few sessions on modern slavery at our distribution centres for example,” says the company’s ethical trade project manager, Audrey Blancart.
The Body Shop has recently set up a modern slavery committee
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She adds that the committee will define specific action plans for different departments. These might task human resources with employee awareness raising, procurement with developing supplier/buyer workshops, and the legal department with external engagement on compliance matters.
Berman applauds this approach and says it is one that companies are increasingly taking. “We are starting to see a real sea-change, but I wouldn’t say by any means it is across the board.”
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Nestlé takes natural capital approach to make UK dairy farming more sustainable
By Angeli Mehta on Mar 18, 2018
Nestlé is paying a premium to UK farmers to try out interventions such as planting hedgerows, reports Angeli Mehta
Nestlé is taking advantage of partnerships to develop the sustainability of its raw materials in the face of risks like climate change, erosion of top soils and species decline. In the UK, there’s also Brexit to contend with, and potential threats to farm incomes.
As part of the Natural Capital Impact Group, Nestlé has been looking at interventions farmers could make to increase productivity, cut costs and protect the natural capital that the dairy industry depends upon.
We’re applying the principles of natural capital valuation, although the thinking around that is still evolving
“We’re applying the principles of natural capital valuation, although the thinking around that is still evolving ... in effect we’re using risk and opportunity as a proxy in the short term,” explains Andy Griffiths, head of environmental sustainability for Nestlé UK and Ireland. That’s a language business understands, he adds.
Nestlé’s farmers produce 1% of the UK’s total milk output: that’s some 110m litres that goes into KitKat, Yorkies, and Nescafé pre-packaged drinks. Now they’re getting a price premium per litre for trying out a range of natural capital interventions.
Sustainable sourcing lead Robin Sundaram, pictured above, says work with the First Milk dairy co-operative revealed that “farmers were probably already doing stuff, but not in structured way”. Surveys provided a baseline for how many hedgerows, and stone walls they had on their land. Farmers made upfront investments in interventions such as hedge planting, and fencing restored hedges and watercourses. This year, Nestlé’s farmers will tackle soil and water specific interventions.
1% of UK milk output goes into KitKat and other Nestlé products. (Credit: aperturesound/Shutterstock)
Have they been able to measure actual benefits so far? The answer is that it is hard to measure impact at the farm level. “We believe it’s having an impact but it’s difficult at this stage to explicitly report against, because we need more effective measurement.”
Which is why Nestlé is now part of a four-year project – the N8 AgriFood programme – which aims to make the UK dairy industry more sustainable. The work, led by Newcastle University, has a range of partners and is funded by three UK science research councils. The project is itself part of a wider effort to address challenges of global food security, and will look at multi-functional benefits of interventions across animal health, habitat, water, soil quality and CO2 emissions, to see what works at scale.
Natural capital valuation drives insights, but to get interventions at scale you need collaboration
“Our project asks: do things work ... and what are the benefits and trade-offs?” says Mark Reed, who leads the research project. “What is the magnitude of effect: is it worth a price premium?”
Nestlé and Newcastle University have been working closely with sustainability advisers 3Keel to develop a Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) model. The approach, says Reed, “looks at all the natural capital benefits across the landscape and matches them to buyers who might benefit, then pools resources from across those buyers”.
Griffiths adds: “Typically you’d choose a particular commodity or product as a gateway in, for analysis.” Here it’s dairy. “You start to identify where natural assets are and when you understand those, you understand what functions they deliver and then the risks ... Once you start to get into assets and functions you’re going beyond dairy, and then you can identify other interested parties or beneficiaries – like water companies.”
This year, Nestlé’s farmers will tackle soil interventions. (Credit: Sharon Kingston/Shutterstock)
Natural capital valuation, he says, “drives insights but to get interventions at scale you need collaboration.” Nestlé is, he says, “very focused on sharing the insights and outcomes to engage more partners”.
Nestlé is currently funding the price premium for its dairy farmers, but as others come on board they might be persuaded to put their hands in their pockets if evidence of the benefits can be demonstrated.
“The project signifies a change in tone of debate around natural capital ... [which has] remained stuck for some time as a form of CSR,” says Reed. “Only when companies begin to see how important [it is] for increasing resilience against future shocks will it become possible to make the business case for investment in natural capital.”
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Indonesia-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement
This page provides answers to some common questions about the Indonesia-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement, FLEGT licensing, Indonesia’s SVLK timber legality assurance system and the EU Timber Regulation.
Part One: Background and basics
Part Two: How Indonesia verifies the legality of timber and timber products
Part Three: How to recognise legal timber products from Indonesia
Part Four: Outcomes of the VPA
Part Five: Ensuring effective VPA implementation
What is the Indonesia-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA)?
The VPA is a legally-binding bilateral trade agreement that aims to improve forest governance and promote trade in legal timber from Indonesia to the EU.
VPAs are among the key tools of the EU Forest Law Enforcement, Government and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan of 2003. As of early 2018, besides Indonesia, five African countries are implementing VPAs they have agreed with the EU.
Under the Agreement both parties commit to trading only in legal timber products.
Among other things, the VPA describes a timber legality assurance system capable of verifying the legality of timber products and issuing FLEGT licences to shipments of verified legal products exported to the EU.
Since 15 November 2016, Indonesia has been exporting to the EU only verified legal timber products accompanied FLEGT licences to accompany Indonesian exports of verified legal timber products to the EU.
The EU will only allow Indonesian timber products covered by the VPA to enter the EU if they are accompanied by a valid FLEGT licence. FLEGT-licensed timber is considered as meeting the requirements of the EU Timber Regulation, which prohibits EU importers and domestic producers from placing illegally harvested timber and timber products on the EU market.
FLEGT licensing is an important goal of the VPA but it is not the only one. The VPA process has already led to improved transparency, participation, capacity, accountability and other aspects of forest governance.
The VPA includes commitments to public disclosure of information and further improvements to forest governance. The VPA also includes a framework for overseeing, monitoring and evaluating implementation of the VPA and the economic, social and environmental impacts of the VPA.
Learn more about VPAs in VPA Unpacked. Learn more about the Indonesia-EU VPA in this Background. Read the text and annexes of the Indonesia-EU VPA.
Is the Indonesia-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement available online?
Yes, you can read the full agreement and its annexes here. You can read the revised annexes here.
This document presents answers to questions about the Indonesia-EU VPA. Each answer includes a brief response followed by a series of supporting bullet points.
Keywords: vpa implementation flegt-licensed timber
Country/Region: Indonesia, Asia
Authors: EU FLEGT Facility
How was the Indonesia-EU VPA negotiated?
Indonesia and the EU negotiated the VPA through a process that involved input from stakeholders representing the Indonesian government, private sector and civil society. In addition to participating in consultations about the VPA, each of these stakeholder groups was represented in the team that negotiated with the EU on Indonesia’s behalf.
While the VPA was negotiated between Indonesia and the EU, much of its content was negotiated among stakeholders within Indonesia before being discussed in the bilateral negotiations.
Negotiations began in 2007 and concluded in 2011. Indonesia and the EU signed the agreement in 2013 and ratified the agreement in 2014. The VPA came into force in May 2014.
What is the relationship between the SVLK and VPA?
SVLK is the name of Indonesia’s timber legality assurance system, a central component of the VPA.
Indonesia began to develop the SVLK before VPA negotiations started and the SVLK passed into law before VPA negotiations ended.
The SVLK forms the basis of the VPA. Meanwhile, VPA negotiations and implementation have influenced reforms of the SVLK.
When the SVLK is operating as described in the VPA, Indonesia can begin issuing FLEGT-licences to verified legal timber it exports to the EU. FLEGT-licensed timber automatically meets the requirements of the EU Timber Regulation, which prohibits EU importers and domestic producers from placing illegally harvested timber and timber products on the EU market.
The VPA contains more than just the timber legality assurance system. For instance, it includes commitments to transparency and a mechanism to monitor impacts of its implementation.
Indonesia has revised the SVLK has several times to accommodate stakeholder needs and improve efficiency. This triggered a revision of three VPA annexes in 2014/2015.
Why has the VPA process taken so long?
Meaningful change takes time. The VPA process took the time necessary to build a consensus among national stakeholders and to design, revise and implement a timber legality assurance system that is robust and credible.
Although it has taken longer than expected for Indonesia to deliver FLEGT-licensed timber, many other gains have resulted from the VPA process and its underlying national process already.
These benefits include improved transparency, legislative clarity, human and technical capacity, accountability, stakeholder participation and other aspects of good forest governance.
The VPA process has involved an unprecedented level of stakeholder participation.
According to Chatham House research, Indonesia’s timber legality assurance system and reforms to the forest sector have cut the proportion of logging that is illegal, from 83% in 2001 to 40% in 2010.
Independent research from Chatham House concluded that the EU- Indonesia VPA had contributed to a decline in illegal logging and an improvement in forest governance.
When will FLEGT licensing start?
Indonesia will begin FLEGT licensing on 15 November 2016. When FLEGT licensing starts, all Indonesian exports to the EU of timber products covered by Indonesia’s timber legality assurance system must be accompanied by FLEGT licences.
What was the issue with the P89 timber export regulation?
In October 2015, the Ministry of Trade issued a new regulation (P89) for timber exports. This regulation allowed exporters of furniture covered by the Agreement to choose to export without legality verification under the timber legality assurance system (SVLK)
Such a provision fundamentally contradicted the VPA, which requires that all exports are covered by the SVLK and its related licensing scheme. In other words, under the VPA, all consignments composed of timber products listed in Annex I of the VPA (on product scope) should be accompanied with an export licence (FLEGT licence for EU market and V-Legal Document for any other market).
In April 2016, the Ministry of Trade issued a new regulation which restored the requirement for exports of all products listed in Annex I of the VPA to be verified legal by the SVLK. By bringing the domestic regulation in line with the VPA, Indonesia cleared the last main hurdle before FLEGT licensing.
What products does the Indonesian FLEGT-licensing scheme cover? How do the types of products compare with the types of products covered by the EU Timber Regulation?
During the VPA negotiations, Indonesian stakeholders from government, the private sector and civil society reached agreement on which types of timber products to include.
Products covered by the Indonesian FLEGT licensing scheme include all those for which the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) requires due diligence. You can check the products covered by the EUTR here.
In addition to the minimum requirements of the product scope of a VPA, the Indonesian FLEGT licensing scheme also covers furniture, fuel wood, wooden tools, wooden packing material, builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, wood pulp, paper and paper products, kitchen and tableware, and other products. See the revised Annex I of the Indonesia-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) for details.
The VPA also describes products that cannot be legally exported from Indonesia, such as logs and large dimension sawn timber. These products cannot be FLEGT licensed. Products made from rattan or bamboo (non-wooden materials), or paper made from recycled material, are excluded and don’t need to be FLEGT-licensed because they are not covered by the timber legality assurance system.
What do Indonesian private sector actors think about the SVLK and VPA?
Associations of Indonesian private sector actors include: APHI, APKINDO, ISWA, APKI, ASMINDO, AWKMI, and AMKRI.
There is widespread support for the SVLK and VPA among these associations and their members. This support is the result of continuous private-sector engagement with the SVLK and VPA processes. Some timber processing companies have even financed SVLK certification for their suppliers.
In 2014, some members of one of the associations of furniture and handicraft producers, AMKRI, advocated for small and medium furniture producers to be exempted from SVLK requirements and controls. In 2015, some AMKRI members said transitional SVLK exemption measures for small and medium enterprises and low-risk timber should be extended to all industries and applied permanently, limiting the scope of the SVLK to timber production and trade that precedes initial processing.
These views were, however, not shared by all AMKRI members. Many AMKRI members are also members of ASMINDO, which supports the SVLK.
The newest export regulation, issued in April 2016, made it clear that all sectors, including furniture, are fully in the scope of SVLK for export.
How do the EU and Indonesia make information about their formal meetings available?
Indonesia and the EU publish summaries of meetings, called Records of Discussion, of the Joint Implementation Committee and its subsidiary body, the Joint Expert Meetings. The Joint Implementation Committee also publishes an annual report. All of these publications appear on the Ministry of Environment and Forestry’s SILK website and the website of the EU delegation to Indonesia. In addition, some documentation and other information are made available on the website of the Multistakeholder Forestry Programme (MFP).
How important is the trade in timber products from Indonesia to the EU?
The EU is a key market for Indonesian forest products. In 2014, the value of Indonesian timber products exported to the EU was US$645 million, up from US$593 million in 2013 (source: Indonesia-EU VPA Joint Implementation Committee Annual Report May 2014-April 2015).
The main timber products destined for the EU are paper, paper board, wooden furniture and plywood.
Indonesia does not export unprocessed products such as logs and rough sawn timber.
The main destination markets within the EU are Germany, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain and Italy.
For more information on trade flows see website and reports of the FLEGT Independent Market Monitor
How much of Indonesia’s timber production does the SVLK cover?
Indonesia is rolling the SVLK out nationwide. By mid-2016, it had certified more than 2,700 companies operating in the timber industry and more than 22 million hectares of forests. Between 1 January 2013 and 1 May 2016, Indonesia had issued 404,902 V-Legal Documents to timber exported to 199 countries and worth a total of USD 26.3 billion.
To date (April 2016) all active natural forest concessions, all industrial forest plantations with production and all plantations managed by PerumPerhutani are legally certified. Also 96% of all registered exporters (1800 timber producers and traders) are SVLK-certified. For more data see the SILK website.
In October 2015, the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Commission (KPK) said Indonesia’s reported timber production was far less than what is actually harvested from natural forests. It suggested that Ministry statistics captured only 19–23% of total timber production. Does this mean the VPA and SVLK account for less than 25% of total Indonesian timber production?
The KPK report [PDF] covers the period 2003-2014. It is based on expert estimations, not on field work or remote sensing. As a response to the report’s findings, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry is developing an integrated production data management system for all sources of timber. The system’s development is among the list of actions in the Indonesia-EU VPA action plan up to the end of 2017. A module that captures in real-time the production in natural forests and plantations by forest concessions is already in place (see http://puhh.dephut.net/itts/home_default). The KPK analysed natural forest production until 2014. Today, however, plantations and smallholders on private lands account for most of Indonesia’s timber production. Indonesia’s VPA timber legality assurance system covers all sources of timber. In 2016, therefore, the majority of Indonesia's total timber production comes from SVLK sources.
How useful is the VPA, given that a significant portion of Indonesia’s timber products go to less scrupulous markets than the EU?
Indonesia’s timber legality assurance system (SVLK) and related regulations apply to all markets.
Indonesia regulated that the SVLK apply to all markets. With this commitment, Indonesia requested that the VPA apply to all exports, not only those bound for the EU. FLEGT alone cannot stop trade in illegal timber, especially if major markets remain less regulated. Indeed, under the FLEGT Action Plan, the EU seeks to work with other major timber consumers to develop a more comprehensive framework to reduce imports of illegally harvested timber.
China, which is the world’s largest importer of tropical timber and also the main buyer of Indonesian timber, is developing its own legality assurance system and there are efforts to link it to FLEGT under the EU-China Bilateral Coordination Mechanism on Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG). Bilateral and trilateral exchanges (China-Indonesia-EU) on timber legality occur and/or are planned.
Other markets have implemented or are designing measures to eradicate illegal timber from their imports. These markets include the United States, Australia, Japan and South Korea.
What is the timber legality assurance system, or SVLK?
Indonesia’s timber legality assurance system, or SVLK, is designed to verify the legality of timber from the forest or the point of import through the entire supply chain to the point of final sale or export. See Annex V of the VPA.
The application of SVLK is mandatory for all forest management units and industries, traders and timber depots, and for all export destinations.
Indonesia developed and has revised its timber legality assurance system through a multistakeholder process that, after 2007, coincided with the VPA process.
The SVLK entered law in 2009. Its export licences, which are called V-Legal Documents, became compulsory for some product types in 2013, and for all products covered by the VPA on 1 January 2015.
A temporary exemption for products from small and medium furniture producers was introduced in late 2014 and was due to end on 31 December 2015. The exemption was extended indefinitely by a new export regulation issued in October 2015 by the Ministry of Trade which has hampered VPA implementation (see related question above).
The newest export regulation, issued in April 2016, as a revision to the Trade Regulation No. 89/2015, confirms that the SVLK applies to furniture products, in line with the product scope of the VPA.
As in all VPAs, the timber legality assurance system has the five essential components listed below. Civil society monitoring is also an integral part of Indonesia’s timber legality assurance system.
Legality definition: The legality definition clearly states the aspects of Indonesian law for which the timber legality assurance system will systematically seek evidence of compliance. Indonesia has different legality definitions for different kinds of rights and permit holdings
Supply chain control: The purpose of supply chain control is to ensure that unverified products do not enter the supply chain.
Verification of compliance: This detects whether timber products comply with the VPA’s legality definition and supply chain controls and are therefore legal. In Indonesia, independent private companies called Conformity Assessment Bodies (mandated by the Government of Indonesia and controlled by the national accreditation body, KAN) verify compliance with the legality definition. In Indonesia’s system, this is called ‘legality verification’ or ‘legality audit’). Some exemptions for small scale operators exist. Overall oversight remains the responsibility of the government.
FLEGT licensing: To date (November 2016), Indonesia has 22 FLEGT licensing authorities. The FLEGT licensing authorities issue FLEGT licences for consignments of timber products, if the verification system has evidence consignments are legally compliant. FLEGT licensing began on 15 November 2016.
Periodic evaluation: In Indonesia’s VPA, independent audit is termed ‘periodic evaluation’ to distinguish it from the independent Conformity Assessment Body audits mentioned above. The purpose of periodic evaluation is to regularly check that all aspects of a legality assurance system are working properly. An annex to the VPA provides terms of reference for the evaluator. Evaluations must take place no more than 12 months apart. The evaluator will produce reports for the Joint Implementation Committee and a public report. In other VPAs this independent evaluation function is called ‘independent audit’.
How does the timber legality assurance system work in Indonesia?
The VPA includes different legality standards for timber and timber products from different types of permits and rights holders. For each legality standard, the VPA lists criteria, indicators and verifiers that can be used to prove compliance. In addition, the underlying Indonesian legislation describes agreed upon verification methods. See Annex V of the VPA and the SILK website’s page on regulations.
Auditors called Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs) verify the compliance of timber producers, traders, processors and exporters with the relevant legality standard. Operators that pass the audit are issued with a legality certificate.
The legality certificate is valid for three years for large companies and for up to ten years for small-scale operators or low risk operators. Surveillance visits take place every year (large companies) or every two years (small-scale operators or low risk operators).
Licensing authorities issue FLEGT licences to accompany each consignment of verified legal timber exports from registered operators that hold a valid legality certificate.
This assessment and licensing are continuously monitored and informed by civil society actors acting as independent monitors of the timber legality assurance system.
In addition ‘periodic evaluation’ (termed ‘independent audit’ in other VPAs) will assess the functioning of the legality assurance system at least once a year.
To get certified, timber-based industries, timber depots, traders including exporters, and small-scale privately owned (household or cooperative) forests must conform to the relevant legality standard.
An alternative procedure called Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity (SDoC) can be used to enter SVLK supply chains under certain conditions. This alternative procedure is only open to small and medium enterprises and smallholders who deal only with low-risk timber from privately-owned forests and/or SVLK-certified plantation timber from state-owned company (Perhutani).
A sustainability standard is also mandatory for state owned forests managed by companies (natural and plantation forest concessions). Companies must conform to this standard no later than the end of the three-year validity period of their first legality certificate.
All operators working on the basis of permits included in the VPA need to be SVLK certified (or provide a Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity), regardless of whether they export or place timber products on the domestic market. Only exporters need also to have a V-Legal Document for each consignment or a FLEGT licence if the export is destined to the EU (once FLEGT licensing starts).
Are public summaries of the independent SVLK audits available?
Yes. Public summaries of all audits and surveillance visits are available on the Ministry of Environment and Forestry’s SILK website and the respective sites of the Conformity Assessment Bodies.
What is a Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity (SDoC)?
Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity is a procedure introduced under the SVLK in 2014 to enable small and medium enterprises and smallholders to access trade in legal timber as, previously, many of these operators found it hard to meet the costs and requirements of SVLK certification.
The Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity (SDoC, or DKP in Bahasa Indonesia) allows small and medium enterprises and smallholders to enter SVLK supply chains by declaring the origin and destination of their timber or timber products.
The use of SDoC is strictly restricted to the operators dealing exclusively with timber from privately-owned forests considered as low-risk timber, and/or SVLK-certified plantation timber from state-owned company (Perhutani).
The SDoC procedure entails internal checks carried out by the buyers of the timber and timber products covered by SDoC.
In case a certified operator buys timber covered by an SDoC, the auditor will verify that he/she carried out and documented these internal checks confirming the validity of the information declared by his/her supplier in the related SDoC.
Timber products covered by an SDoC cannot be exported directly. Only certified operators can get export licenses (V-Legal Document or FLEGT licences).
If a primary or secondary industry mixes SDoC declared timber with timber from state forests, the industry needs to hold SVLK certification.
What is legality verification of raw material (VLBB)?
VLBB (Verifikasi Legalitas Bahan Baku) is a transitional measure allowing SVLK-certified secondary industries or exporters to source timber products from industries which are not yet SVLK certified.
Under VLBB, the certification body ensures that timber or timber products supplied to its auditee all originate from SVLK verified sources (either SVLK certified or covered by SDoC) by checking on the not-yet SVLK-certified supplier.
This measure is time bound (until the end of 2017) and is strictly restricted to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It aims to allow SMEs to trade in legal timber before they can access SVLK certification.
How does the VPA deal with the wood Indonesia imports?
The Ministry of Trade and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry have developed regulations and procedures for verifying the legality of timber imports, with the participation of Ministry of Industry. The new legal requirements are reflected in the VPA, in its annex on the timber legality assurance system. See the SILK website’s page on import regulations.
Only designated importers (traders) and processing operators can import timber and/or timber products into Indonesia. They must hold information on due diligence procedures they apply to their imports to minimise the risk of illegal timber entering the Indonesian supply chain.
The information on due diligence procedures encompasses data collection, risk analysis and risk mitigation. Procedures are carried out using the SILK online system of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry.
The Ministry of Environment and Forestry issues an import recommendation to the Ministry of Trade after assessing each operators’ information on the due diligence process prior to import.
The operators must complete a declaration to provide information such as HS codes of products, bill of lading, countries of harvest, country of origin, proof of timber legality, and port of export.
Conformity Assessment Bodies carry out a document review of the due diligence system applied when conducting audits of the importing operator.
Detailed procedures for the due diligence system and related checks are provided in Ministry of Environment and Forestry’s timber legality assurance system guidelines and related import regulations by the Ministry of Trade such as the regulation of Director General of Sustainable Production Forest Management P7/PHPL-SET/2015.
Do companies that hold voluntary certification (such as FSC, PEFC or LEI) also have to follow the SVLK system?
Yes. Operators that hold voluntary certification will be subject to the same SVLK requirements as non-certified operators. All exporters need to get V- Legal Documents or FLEGT licences to export timber products.
Under SVLK, legality certification is mandatory for all operators dealing with timber from state forest. In addition, for all forest concessions on state-owned land (plantations or natural forests), sustainable forest management certification is mandatory and must be obtained, before the initial legality certification expires.
Under SVLK, legality certification is mandatory for all operators dealing with timber from state forest. In addition, for all large-scale operations on state-owned land (natural forest concessions or timber plantations), SFM certification is mandatory and must be obtained, at the latest, before the initial legality certification expires.
Operators dealing exclusively with low-risk timber from privately owned land or forest, and/or SVLK-certified certified plantation timber from state- owned company (Perhutani) can use the Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity (SDoC) mechanism to enter SVLK supply chains.
Note that an SVLK certificate is not the same as a V-Legal Document (or FLEGT licence), which is an export licence issued through the SVLK system.
Why do the VPA’s legality definition requirements appear less detailed compared to other VPAs ratified to date?
The SVLK implementing guidelines provide more detail than the VPA’s five legality standards. The EU has refrained from putting that much detail into the VPA, but made reference to these guidelines). The guidelines further separate the VPA’s five legality standards into ten standards and contain means of verification on verifier level. See Annex II of the VPA.
What is a V-Legal Document?
V-Legal Documents are Indonesian export licences attesting legality.
Companies that comply with the timber legality assurance system (SVLK) need to attach a V-Legal Document to their consignments for export to any international market. The V-Legal Document specifies that the timber products being shipped comply with the legality and/or sustainability standard and the supply chain control requirements as stipulated in Indonesian regulations and the VPA. Thus the V-Legal Document provides assurance that timber or timber products are legal. V-Legal Documents are issued by bodies authorised by the Indonesian government to act as licensing authorities.
When the timber legality assurance system is fully working as described in the Indonesia-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), Indonesia will issue V-Legal Documents as FLEGT licences for timber bound for the EU. See Annex IV of the VPA to see the format of the FLEGT licence.
What does the FLEGT licence from Indonesia look like and how does it differ from a V-Legal Document?
The FLEGT licence looks like the template in Annex III of the Indonesia-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA). It looks similar to the V-Legal Document, but has ‘FLEGT licence’ clearly stated in the top right of the licence.
From 15 November 2016, the FLEGT licence replaced the V-Legal Document for exports to the EU of products listed in the VPA.
What is the difference between a V- Legal Document and the V-Legal logo?
A V-Legal Document is an export licence for legal timber products. The V- Legal logo is a mandatory logo on a timber product, product package, or document that demonstrates on-product compliance with the requirements in the SVLK system, either through SVLK certification or the SVLK Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity mechanism. On-product conformity marking is not required under the VPA.
Is SVLK enough to prove the legality of the wood?
Yes. SVLK is the name of Indonesia’s national timber legality assurance system, which is a mandatory certification system built on a national multistakeholder consensus. Under Indonesian law, SVLK certification and related documents (SVLK certificates and export licences called V-Legal Documents) constitute proof of legality for Indonesian timber products. Until the start of FLEGT licensing, Indonesian products with a V-Legal Document that are exported to the EU will have to go through the normal due diligence process under the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR). Once FLEGT licensing starts, FLEGT-licensed products automatically meet the EUTR requirements, meaning that no due diligence is required.
Indonesia already has SVLK legality certification and export licences called V-Legal Documents. How do these relate to FLEGT licences? Are FLEGT licences better than V-Legal Documents?
Indonesia’s timber legality assurance system (SVLK) has been in force since 2013 and applies to all Indonesian operators and timber products. Before FLEGT licensing starts, the SVLK allows legality verification and attests to the legality of all Indonesian timber and timber products through the issuance of SVLK legality certificates and V-Legal Documents for exports.
Under Indonesian law, SVLK certification and V-Legal Documents constitute a proof of legality for Indonesian timber products. A FLEGT licence will attest to the legality of Indonesian timber in exactly the same way as a V-Legal Document. When Indonesia begins to issue FLEGT licences, they will replace V-Legal Documents for all exports to the EU of product types listed in the revised Annex I of the Indonesia-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA).
Indonesia will issue V-Legal Documents for exports to non-EU markets for the products covered in the VPA. The Indonesia-EU VPA Joint Implementation Committee serves as a joint monitoring and decision making body. The Joint Implementation Committee responds to any problems stakeholders bring to its attention, thereby contributing to continual improvement of VPA implementation.
What is the link between SVLK, FLEGT licensing and CITES in Indonesia?
Exports of products from species listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) need both CITES documentation and the relevant export licence (V-Legal Document or FLEGT licence). Conformity Assessment Bodies verify CITES documentation during SVLK audits. The requirement is covered in the SVLK legality standards, except in the case of round logs or rough sawn timber as Indonesia prohibits exports of such products so they can never have CITES documentation nor be FLEGT licensed.
How are FLEGT licences issued?
Licensing authorities issue FLEGT licences to accompany consignments of verified legal timber that registered operators with valid legality certificate wish to export to the EU.
FLEGT licences are issued at the point at which the consignment is consolidated prior to export. What follows is a summary of the procedure. For full details, consult the revised Annex V of the Indonesia-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA):
To obtain a FLEGT licence, the exporter applies in writing to the licensing authority with which it holds a contract. The exporter attaches the following documents to demonstrate that the timber raw materials in the product originate only from verified legal sources:
A summary of the transport documents for all timber/raw materials received by the factory since the last audit (up to maximum of 12 months)
Summaries of Timber/Raw Material Balance-Sheet Report, and Processed Timber Balance-Sheet Report since the last audit (up to maximum of 12 months)
The licensing authority verifies the validity of the operator's legality certificate by reconciling the data provided and, where necessary, conducting a field visit to ensure consistency with the information to be specified in the FLEGT licence.
For the licensing authority to issue a FLEGT licence, all suppliers in the exporter's supply chain that make up the consignment must have been covered by a valid legality or sustainable forest management certificate, or a Suppliers Declaration of Conformity (SDoC).
If the operator complies with legality and supply chain requirements, the licensing authority issues a FLEGT licence in the format presented in Annex IV of the VPA. If an operator does not comply with the legality and supply chain requirements, the licensing authority will issue a non-compliance report instead of a FLEGT licence. The non-compliance report halts the movement of the related timber and/or timber products.
Indonesia follows the same procedure to issue V-Legal Documents for exports to non-EU markets for the products covered in the VPA.
The licensing authority logs FLEGT licences in the Ministry of Environment and Forestry’s SILK system, which is linked to Indonesia’s online trade and customs systems to allow for fast approval of export and clearance of consignments. Competent authorities in EU Member States have access to SILK, or the licensing information unit (LIU), as regulated in the VPA.
Who are the Licensing Authorities?
Licensing authorities are independent organisations registered with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, which lists them on the SILK website.
Independent private certification bodies, called conformity assessment bodies (CABs), are accredited by the National Accreditation Committee (KAN) and mandated by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to carry out legality verification functions nationwide. To date (June 2016), 22 of the CABs have also been accredited and mandated as licensing authorities.
The licensing authorities issue their customers (exporting companies) with V-Legal Documents, and in future will issue FLEGT licences, to accompany shipments of verified legal timber products exported to the EU. The licensing authorities are supervised by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, and use the SILK online information management system managed by the Licence Information Unit (LIU).
What is the Licence Information Unit?
The LIU is a service of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in charge of overseeing the licensing function. In the case of questions about a licence or a licensing authority, the LIU is the main source of information in Indonesia. Visit the SILK website for information on the licensing authorities and V-Legal Documents (and in future FLEGT licences) that have been issued.
How long does it take Indonesia to issue a FLEGT licence following an application from an exporter?
The lead time is three days for a licensing authority to issue a FLEGT licence after an application by an exporter, as set out in the SVLK Guidelines. Note that the licensing authority can only issue export licences (V-Legal Documents or FLEGT licences) to exporters that are SVLK certified.
How can EU competent authorities access relevant information on the FLEGT licences they receive?
EU competent authorities can access the SILK database managed by the Licence Information Unit (LIU) in the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and can validate any information in the licence. If specific questions arise, the competent authorities can contact the LIU in Indonesia directly. Competent authorities need to sign a memorandum of understanding with the LIU.
Will Indonesian port authorities stop a consignment from being exported if it has no FLEGT licence?
Indonesian port authorities shall stop (at port) consignments from being exported to the EU if the products fall within the scope of the VPA and the consignment has no FLEGT licence. For other destinations, Indonesian port authorities shall stop (at port) consignments that lack V-Legal Documents.
How can an EU operator be sure a FLEGT licence is genuine? Will Indonesia check to ensure that its FLEGT licences are genuine? Could a licence be counterfeit?
It would be difficult to counterfeit a FLEGT licence, as a valid FLEGT licence can only be issued using the Sistem Informasi Legalitas Kayu (SILK) online system operated by Indonesia’s Licence Information Unit (LIU).
The system generates a unique, secure barcode for each licence, and stores information about each licence in its database. SILK is a secure online system of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. It connects in real time directly with the secure INATRADE online system of the Ministry of Trade, and with the National Single Window Customs system of the Ministry of Finance.
All licences are recorded in this system. Indonesian customs officials and EU competent authorities have direct access to the SILK system, so they can check that a licence is valid and not a counterfeit. To be valid, all the information in the FLEGT licence must match the information recorded in the SILK system.
Once an EU competent authority confirms it has received a FLEGT-licensed consignment, SILK will automatically update the FLEGT licence’s record, ensuring that the same licence cannot be recorded again. The requirements and technical specifications of the FLEGT licence are described in Annex IV of the Indonesia-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA).
The Indonesian timber legality assurance system and the VPA also include powerful safeguards such as an independent audit (termed periodic evaluation), which aim to detect any systemic failures and report them to the VPA joint implementation committee (JIC). In Indonesia civil society also plays a crucial role in carrying out independent observation (or independent monitoring) and informing organisations and decision makers about potential individual frauds and system loopholes.
How will the impacts of the VPA be monitored?
The EU and Indonesia made a joint commitment to monitor the social, economic and environmental effects of the agreement.
VPA impact monitoring: The Joint Implementation Committee established a multistakeholder technical working group to develop and test a national VPA impact monitoring system. The Joint Implementation Committee (JIC) is responsible for endorsing the system. By early 2016, the initial system was developed with inputs from stakeholders from all over Indonesia. Once operational the VPA impact monitoring system will inform the JIC about any corrective measures to be taken to mitigate possible adverse impacts.
Independent Market Monitoring: The European Commission has appointed the International Tropical Timber Organization as the FLEGT Independent Market Monitor for all VPA countries. The market monitor will assess the trade in timber products between Indonesia and the EU, and the impacts of FLEGT licensing on this trade. A baseline report was published in 2015.
How does the VPA benefit Indonesia?
The VPA will bring economic, social and environmental benefits to Indonesia.
The VPA will strengthen the market position of verified-legal timber products in the EU and elsewhere.
FLEGT-licensed timber will automatically meet the requirements of the EU Timber Regulation so will be exempt from any due diligence assessment process, saving time and money. This will increase EU importer confidence in Indonesian timber products and make their products more attractive compared with products without FLEGT licences.
The VPA will increase government revenues by blocking access to export and domestic markets for illegal operators who do not pay appropriate taxes and fees.
The VPA will make it easier for Indonesia to manage forest resources in a sustainable way notably through better monitoring and data.
The VPA will help smallholders and small or medium enterprises to gain international market access.
The VPA will raise the international profile of Indonesia as it will highlight Indonesia’s efforts to improve transparency and governance in one of its main economic sectors.
How has the Indonesia-EU VPA improved forest governance?
The VPA has improved accountability, transparency, participation, technical and human capacity, legislative clarity and other aspects of forest governance.
Participatory decision-making: The level of stakeholder participation in the VPA process in unprecedented. Representatives of civil society and the private sector participated in the negotiations and have seats in the Joint Implementation Committee. The VPA process is therefore a vehicle for addressing the needs of different stakeholders and for including many people who have never before had a voice in decision-making. Stakeholder consultations are increasingly becoming a standard for the development of legislation in the forestry sector.
Enhanced capacity: The VPA process has strengthened the capacity of government, private sector and civil society stakeholders to work together to address illegality in Indonesia’s forest sector. To strengthen capacity for SVLK at all levels, training has been provided to nearly 15,000 local government supervisors, sustainable forest management technicians, staff at regional forests management offices and heads of villages. However, given the size of the country, and the scale and variety of timber sector operations, more capacity building is still needed.
Transparency: The VPA includes an annex on public disclosure of information that lists the information the Government of Indonesia commits to making available, in line with Indonesia’s freedom of information act. During VPA negotiations, civil society representatives requested that the annex ensures that they have access to data that enables meaningful independent monitoring. This access has recently been granted. Requests for information are progressively being met as transparency improves.
Legislative clarity and reform: The VPA process has made legality in the forest sector much clearer in Indonesia. More than 900 laws and regulations applied to the forest sector at the start of the VPA. Multistakeholder processes in Indonesia identified a subset of laws and regulations that together provided a legality definition that met their immediate interests. The VPA provides indicators, verifiers and verification measures that auditors working for Conformity Assessment Bodies must use to assess legality. The SVLK is based on a national regulation, introduced in 2009. Amendments to that regulation in 2011-2015 reflect stakeholder views and VPA requirements. This represents a major reform of the law as it allows for independent oversight of the entire forest sector by professional audit companies (Conformity Assessment Bodies and the periodic evaluator) and civil society.
Is the VPA fair to small-scale operators in the sector?
Indonesia has provided direct support and introduced new measures to help small-scale operators comply with the VPA, including through revisions to the SVLK regulation.
These measures include options to apply for group SVLK certification or to use, under certain circumstances, a self-declaration of legality called a Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity.
In addition to nationwide awareness campaigns, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry launched in 2015 a programme to accelerate the certification of small and medium enterprises and smallholders, joining efforts by the Ministry of Industry. The programme has deployed focal points in 18 provinces and developed a database to monitor progress in group certification.
How can the VPA address corruption?
The VPA has led improved transparency, accountability, legislative and institutional clarity and the capacity of civil society to hold government and the private sector to account. These all help to address corruption.
Corruption is considered to be a special crime in the Indonesian legal system which requires the KPK (Corruption Eradication Commission) or the Attorney General’s office to determine that a corruption crime has been committed and individual suspect(s) named.
Within this context, SVLK cannot be expected to become a rigorous anti-corruption tool by revoking licences of companies or industries whose executives have been suspected or convicted of corruption. This is because the legal subjects in this crime are individuals, not institutions. SVLK is an administrative certification procedure, not a legal measure that determines the status of a company. As companies are often established by several shareholders and owners, the status of the company will be determined by these shareholders. However, if a company was identified as using corruption it would lose its SVLK certificate and would not be able to receive V-Legal Documents/FLEGT licences.
However, KPK or the Attorney General’s office may use findings generated by the timber legality assurance system for prosecution in corruption cases.
How does the VPA protect community rights?
The Indonesian government’s commitment to protect and promote community rights is reflected in Article 12 of the VPA, on ‘social safeguards’.
This is a commitment by both parties to monitor the impacts of the VPA implementation in the long term including its impact on livelihoods and vulnerable groups.
In addition, the SVLK contains a special legality standard for timber from permit areas for community or private forest plantation, community forest management, and village forest management.
How does the VPA deal with the rights of indigenous peoples?
The rights of indigenous peoples are mentioned in one of the articles of Indonesia’s SVLK regulation.
The VPA (as well as the SVLK) refer to the ruling by Indonesia’s constitutional court, stating “Changes in the procedures for utilization and / or administration of timber from Customary Forests, to address implementation of Constitutional Court Decision (MK) No. 35/PUU- X/2012, shall be introduced after the adoption of related implementing legislation.” This could happen by, for instance, categorising land of indigenous peoples as privately-owned forest (communal ownership) or by developing specific legality standards.
In the case of overlap with an existing concession, by law, once legally recognised, the areas shall be excluded from the concession. The concessionaire may cooperate with indigenous peoples to manage such areas (with clear benefit-sharing and management plan).
Under the Sustainable Forest Management standard of the SVLK, communities surrounding concessions (including surrounding indigenous peoples) are required to be part of the free, prior informed consent process.
How does the VPA address conversion of forests, such as for agriculture?
Within the VPA, the timber legality assurance system is intended to ensure that timber and timber products originating from forests/lands can be traded nationwide or exported only if verified-legal.
The timber legality assurance system does not address the land allocation process and decisions about forest conversion. However, the right to use timber originating from natural forest conversion is regulated by the SVLK and a specific legality standard in the VPA.
Certification audits ensure that the conversion activities have been lawful, based on an environmental impact assessment and the correct forest classification, and that timber extraction is in compliance with the related technical and social legal requirements.
The most recent version of SVLK regulation made SVLK certification a pre-condition for any new permits for the use of timber from converted forests (IPK/IPHHK permits). Any operator applying for an IPK/IPHHK permit must demonstrate that they are engaged in a SVLK certification process. SVLK certification on IPK/IPHHK permits covers field assessment and one surveillance visit after six months (IPK permits are usually only valid for one year).
However, if no timber is (legally) sold or commercially traded from a conversion area there will be no application for an IPK/IPHHK permit and the conversion area will therefore not be part of any SVLK controls. In fact, nowadays, the amount of IPK/IPHHK timber is relatively small.
Other initiatives or processes in Indonesia, such as REDD+, address more specifically the issue of deforestation and natural forest conversion.
Changes from natural forests to forest plantations are not classified as forest conversion under Indonesian law. They are dealt with under the VPA legality standard for forest plantations.
Are there any areas or contexts in Indonesia in which the risk for illegal timber to be laundered would increase?
Under a strict implementation of the SVLK there should not be any permit type or area in Indonesia where the risk for illegal timber to enter into supply chains is higher, since the system provides for higher verification intensity (more frequent audits and stricter legal requirements for natural forests) in contexts where illegal logging could occur more frequently.
However, the risk may be greater in areas where numerous conversion operations take place, in particular if such areas are not (yet) SVLK-certified. Note that SVLK certified operators can only deal with SVLK timber, or need to apply clear separation/segregation if they also receive impounded timber (products made from impounded timber cannot be exported). The source of timber is one of the verifiers the SVLK auditor will check in the first audit and in every surveillance audit, or in the case of a complaint filed by independent monitor(s).
The introduction of the Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity procedure allows all operators along the supply chain, apart from exporters, to produce, process and trade timber products without being SVLK certified.
But this specific procedure applies only to timber and timber products originating from privately-owned forests and lands, considered to be low- risk sources. As soon as a company has a timber supply originating from natural forests, this company must be SVLK-certified. Timber species planted/growing in privately owned forests are easily recognizable.
If an exporter, or another SVLK-certified company, uses “SDoC timber”, the Conformity Assessment Body will check that this operator has verified the information declared by its direct supplier(s), through field inspections when needed.
Thus the main risk for illegal timber to be traded probably lies in cases where the whole supply chain is not SVLK certified i.e. timber/timber products being traded exclusively in the domestic market. Consistency of the data declared along the supply chain will be checked by the Periodic Evaluator (termed ‘independent auditor’ in other VPAs) after FLEGT licensing has started. A new online data management system will also help to capture timber flows in almost real time. Indonesia has issued a public procurement policy that will also promote SVLK use in the domestic market.
What if problems emerge? Who has oversight of the VPA?
A Joint Implementation Committee (EU-Indonesia) oversees implementation of the VPA and will respond to any concerns about problems in implementation as they arise. Implementation therefore improves as it proceeds. See Article 14 of the VPA.
The VPA also gives Indonesian civil society organisations, individuals and communities a role as independent monitors as an integral part of Indonesia’s timber legality assurance system. This gives civil society unprecedented oversight of private sector and government performance. See Annex V of the VPA.
Independent monitors can report if SVLK audits are flawed or if companies do not comply with the Indonesian legality standard. They can file complaints about operators, audit companies, government agencies, the independent periodic evaluator, the licensing authorities or the accreditation body.
The ‘periodic evaluator’ in the Indonesian VPA (termed ‘independent auditor’ in other VPAs), will regularly assess whether the timber legality assurance system functions as described in the VPA and will report to the Joint Implementation Committee. See Annex VI of the VPA.
How does the VPA address grievances?
The VPA includes a mechanism to resolve grievances. Under the agreement, stakeholders in the forestry sector in Indonesia can raise issues with the EU-Indonesia Joint Implementation Committee through the Periodic Evaluator or by putting matters of concern on the agenda for Joint Implementation Committee meetings.
Who is the periodic evaluator?
The periodic evaluator is an independent evaluator (with auditing qualifications following ISO rules) whose role is to regularly assess whether the timber legality assurance system functions as described in the VPA. The periodic evaluator reports findings to the Indonesia-EU Joint Implementation Committee.
A specific annex in the VPA describes the status, skills and tasks of the periodic evaluator. The team assigned to carry out periodic evaluation shall not be directly engaged in the TLAS implementation and demonstrate auditing experience. See Annex VI of the VPA.
Indonesia recruited the periodic evaluator in consultation with the EU. The process to appoint the periodic evaluator started in early 2015 and ended in December 2015 with the signing of a first and renewable one-year contract by PT Sucofindo - SBU LSI.
Who are the independent monitors?
The VPA defines independent monitors and their rights and responsibilities. The VPA states that Indonesian civil society organisations, communities and individuals can act as independent monitors of the timber legality assurance system. The corresponding SVLK regulation details the independent monitors’ tasks and their access to information.
To perform this task, Indonesian civil society organizations formed an independent forestry monitoring network (JPIK – Jaringan Pemantau Independen Kehutanan) whose members include more than 300 individuals and 60 organisations.
Civil society organisations in Sumatra also established an independent forestry monitoring association (APIKS – Asosiasi Pemantau Independen Kehutanan Sumatera), with more than 80 individual and 20 organisational members.
Other civil society networks, such as the Anti Forest-Mafia Coalition (Koalisi Anti Mafia Hutan) and Eyes on the Forests also conduct forest monitoring.
Individuals can also act as independent monitors.
What complaints have independent monitors made and what were the outcomes?
Until June 2015, 38 formal monitoring missions have been carried out by independent monitors leading to 13 complaints in 2014. One of these complaints filed to KAN (Indonesia’s National Accreditation Body) led to the revocation of the accreditation of one Conformity Assessment Body in November 2013.
What will happen to FLEGT licensed timber that is shown to be illegal?
If a FLEGT-licensed shipment is reported to be illegal in Indonesia before it leaves the country, the relevant licensing authority shall cancel the licence, which will stop the shipment. The Ministry of Environment and Forestry, through its Licensing Information Unit, can also tell the relevant licensing authority to cancel the licence, which will stop the shipment.
If a FLEGT-licensed shipment is proven to be illegal in Indonesia after it leaves the country, the Licensing Information Unit would inform the relevant EU Competent Authority. If the Licensing Information Unit can contact the EU Competent Authority before the shipment is released by Customs in the EU, the shipment would be seized and would not be placed on the EU market.
Enforcement actions would be taken against the companies involved in the production and trade of the related timber in Indonesia. Authorities in the EU may also take action against the importer(s).
If the Licensing Information Unit can only contact the relevant EU Competent Authority after the FLEGT licensed timber has been released by customs in the EU, the Competent Authority would investigate and try to intercept the timber. Both Indonesia and the relevant EU member state would take enforcement actions against implicated companies.
What happens when the legality assurance system fails to detect illegal timber?
If and when illegal timber is shown to have passed through Indonesia’s timber legality assurance system undetected, this will provide opportunities to strengthen the system to avoid a reoccurrence of the breach.
The VPA is part of a holistic yet gradual improvement of forest governance in Indonesia.
The VPA will not eliminate illegal logging overnight.
The timber legality assurance system is adaptive and subject to continuous improvement, informed by regular reports from SVLK auditors, independent monitors, and the periodic evaluator.
The Joint Implementation Committee conducts the oversight of the agreement and will take remedial actions if systematic failures are identified.
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The Almighty Johnsons Season Two, Episode Two: Frigg Magnet
Axl is sitting in a restaurant when he is approached by a woman selling single roses. He tells her that he doesn't want a flower because he is not on a date and is waiting on a guy. Realising how this might sound, Axl quickly makes it clear that he is waiting for his brother. There was absolutely no reason for this scene, and the writers might as well had Axl scream no homo. As soon as the woman leaves, Agnetha enters and Axl is not happy to see her.
At Ty's, he is trying to leave, but Eva does not want him to leave. When she won't give up, he is forced to tell her that Agnetha is his mother. Stacey says, "no way, having that cow for a mother. That is so surreal." Eva reminds Ty that Agnetha walked out on him when he was 14 and suggests that maybe she wants to use him and suggests that he stay there with her. She then handcuffs herself to him saying that he has to take her with him, or take her there and they begin to make out.
Back at the restaurant, Agnetha asks what is wrong with her having dinner with her sons, and Axl reminds her that she tried to have him killed. Agnetha tells him to forget about it and that it is all in the past. She assures him that she really is his mother and is only trying to mend a few bridges.
Zeb and Mike are playing chess and Mike is blindfolded. Zeb cheats and Mike warns him that it is not going to help and asks him what part of God of games he is not understanding. When Axl returns, Mike asks how the dinner that he was not invited to went. Zeb leaves saying that he has experienced anal leakage. Axl admits that Ty probably didn't want him to be there because it was a dinner with their beloved mother. Mike is concerned and reminds him that they agreed to forget about her. Axl admits that Ty didn't show up and he stayed for the free food. He tells Mike that Agnetha wants him to stop looking for Frigg.
In a flashback scene to the dinner when Axl asks if Frigg should come to him, Agnetha agrees. Axl says that maybe Agnetha wants to actually help, unlike some. Mike says that often what people say and what they mean are often different things and points out that he found Kvasir. Axl is not happy with that because all he got was a riddle and Mike points out that this is Olaf's territory. Axl says that he is screwed and that he is looking for a sign that someone knows what is going on with his life.
Axl approaches Ty who is fixing a truck and says that they agreed not to communicate with the woman formerly known as their mother. Ty answers that when he heard her speak, it was like when he was a kid. Mike is not impressed that Ty left Agnetha alone with Axl, and he knows that whatever she wants will end in tears. He demands that Agnetha says to Ty be reported to the whole group.
Axl is back in school and their guest speaker at the lecture is Colin. The professor is in shock as Colin tells the class that being a self employeed builder will lead to bankruptcy
Agnetha shows up at Ty's house and Stacey is not impressed by her. When she learns that Ty isn't there, Eva makes and appearence and tells her that last night that Ty was so happy, he didn't see the point of seeing her. Agnetha says that Ty deserves better than Eva, but Eva counters saying that Ty gets unconditional love from her to the end. Agnetha walks out and calls Ty instead. Ty says that he doesn't think it's a good idea for them to meet, and that she needs to respect that. Agnetha responds that she is looking after Anders affairs while he is away and that Dawn is fragile and weepy. Agnetha digs deeper and tells him that Dawn cares deeply about him and that this is sad for Dawn.
As Colin leaves, Axl follows him to ask if his appearance is a sign. Colin answers that his firm does business with the university and he is just giving something back. When Axl calls him on it, Colin says that it was a message about not messing around with a trade because he could help them all ascend. He tells Axl if he wants to be a God that he should think about becoming a man. Axl answers that is exactly what Kvasir told him, to which Colin replies, "man up to God up." I know that Axl is really simple, but why does he believe a single word coming out of Colin's mouth, when he knows that Colin is Loki and therefore cannot be trusted?
Posted by Renee at 8:45 AM
Labels: 3.5 Fangs, gods, New Zealand, norse mythology, television, The Almighty Johnsons
Alphas Sneak Peak!
Posted by Sparky at 3:00 PM
Labels: Alphas, sneak peak, Syfy
Review: Where Angels Fear to Tread by Thomas Sniegoski, Book 3 of the Remy Chandler Series
Remy Chandler, private investigator and seraphim, is still in a rut from the death of his wife, fighting both depression and his angelic nature that flares more strongly with his loneliness. Even his friend is beginning to worry about him – and not much worries the veteran cop.
He also has a new case – a man has run off with his daughter without the mother’s consent, and she is desperately worried for her child. More, this child, Zoe, seems capable of seeing the impossible including both the future and Remy’s true nature.
She has a power inside of her, a power that isn’t meant for humanity but is highly desired. Remy is faced with the challenged of finding the child with what erstwhile allies he can gather, while both the soul-consuming seductress Delilah (yes, of Samson and Delilah) and the long weakened god Dagon both seek the same prize for their own reasons – and that doesn’t include the welfare of the child.
I’ve said before that there’s a lot of research that goes into this series and it really does show. It has a very rich, wide and broad world with a lot of weight to it. Everything is solid, non-contradictory and holds up well and still brings in a vast amount of information and different legends. The introduction of Samson and Delilah was nicely done with their lives after the Biblical legend. It was another level of richness and depth to this world.
It’s also interesting to see the depiction of deity – because it does seem to be the ultimate personification of a righteous – but incredibly harsh and unforgiving god. After all, the plot here revolves so much around Delilah trying to escape her excessively cruel punishment. I am curious where this is going to go – because it does fit very well with what we’ve seen of Remy’s Seraphim side and the other angels. Just, right, powerful, determined to fight evil – and utterly lacking in any kind of mercy, compassion or empathy. Yet, at the same time, the scene with the reclaimers suggests the powers that be have at least some level of compassion. I’m curious and I definitely want to see more and how it fits.
Posted by Sparky at 12:00 PM
Labels: 3.5 Fangs, Angels, deities, detective, gods, remy chandler series, thomas e sniegoski
Teen Wolf: Bromance is easier than Inclusion
On Fangs for the Fantasy we’ve covered some of the many ways to dodge around actual inclusion of minorities in TV shows and books - usually the writers just throw tokens at us, or erase us entirely. But when it comes to GBLT inclusion there is a new crafty tactic on the horizon - the suggestive Bromance. And no show has mastered this more than Teen Wolf. Teen Wolf has already set itself apart because it is one of the few shows on television wherein the male characters are overtly sexualised and the women are not. This, in addition to being an excellent twist on the gender roles we see, unfortunately also gives perfect fodder for these Bromances and faux inclusion seen through “slash goggles.”
What is slash? Slash is fiction, usually fanfiction, which places two male characters into romantic/sexual relationships usually for the purposes of fetishization. “Slash goggles” is a term developed to refer to watching a show and looking for hints of anything (a touch, a gesture, a look, anything) that would back up these characters being a couple.
So, what is the problem with this? Well, aside from the problem of fetishisation, appropriation and homophobia that are unfortunate issues within slash, there’s a huge problem with ambiguity encouraging erasure.
For too long, writers have been using character ambiguity as an excuse to avoid including GBLT chaarcters. Rather than overtly say a character is GBLT, they can imply it - and get praise for inclusion from people desperate for inclusion (or desperate to see hot guys get it on) when they haven’t actually included anyone, or only made the slightest gestures of inclusion.
Teen Wolf doesn’t just subtly cater to this - but is probably the most blatant in pandering to it. Don’t believe me? Look at this little video made by Dylan O’Brien and Tyler Hoechlin.
You can google an image search of “stiles and derek” if you want to see more. I’m not responsible for the fanart you will see.
Posted by Sparky at 9:00 AM
Labels: bromance, grimm, lgbtq, slash, Supernatural, Teen wolf, the Friday discussion, True Blood
Review: Blue Moon by Laurell K Hamilton, Book 8 of the Anita Blake Series
Anita is awakened by a phone call from Richard’s brother – Daniel. Richard has been arrested on charges of rape. Anita is more than a little doubtful of the charges and, naturally, having police and legal connections, she drops everything and makes the flight to Tennessee, despite Jean-Claude’s insecure reservations.
Travelling as a human servant and Lupa is not simple, however, and she quickly finds herself embroiled in local pack politics and in conflict with the local master of the city, who fears and invasion and the power of Jean-Claude’s triumvirate in his territory. Having to dance to werewolf politics and being openly at war with the local vampires complicates things a little.
But then there’s the reason they’re there. Richard has been opposing the sale of land that an endangered troll species inhabits – but the person doing the buying is far more dangerous than he imagined. With his full resources – both mundane and mystical – he is determined to make Anita and Richard leave, but this is a battle they cannot walk away from.
To complicate things further, there’s also Anita’s relationship issues – namely that she left Richard after sleeping with Jean-Claude. Between that and Richard’s exes, there’s a lot of tension to navigate.
The plot is actually really involved and written. We start with a simple mission – to save Richard and find out what’s happening. This quickly escalates not only in to a perplexing mystery (why go to this much effort to evict the trolls?) but then adds a layer of epic to become a fight that Anita simply cannot avoid. As the book says, when evil draws a line in the sand, good can’t just walk away. The depiction of Niley and Linus, their backstory and the books’ descriptive style establishes them as EVIL with a capital E. This lends a strong sense of epic to the story and the sense that there is no way Anita and Richard could just go home and let the trolls get on with it. There’s more depth and strength to it – more hangs on it than a simple local land issue and it gives and extra urgency and power to Anita’s actions and those of her enemies.
The book also continues one of the strength of many of the Anita Blake novels, there are several plots running alongside each other yet, at the same time, linked. We have Verne’s werewolf pack, the vampire and their fear of Jean-Claude, there’s Anita’s regular power hiccoughs – and there’s the core plot, Niley and his nefarious plots and the influence he spreads. All of them run together, they’re all well paced, none dominates the other and they all come together in a really neat fashion. None of them feel like distractions so much as the actual consequences in the supernatural world of moving out of state. It’s not a case of simply focusing on the plot line and the rest of the world conveniently fading into the background (except Anita’s job – which regularly seems to be cancelled at short notice without damaging Anita’s income at all).
I also like the book’s portrayal of police corruption – and how Anita and Richard are both very dependent on both their extensive connections and the fact they have lots of nice, upper class, respectable witnesses to prevent the worst of the Sherriff’s excesses. It’s made clear that these are the only things holding the corrupted police at bay – and also just how much power a crooked sheriff in a small town can actually have.
Labels: 3.5 Fangs, anita blake series, Demons, Laurell K Hamilton, magic, necromancy, sorcerer, vampires, wereleopards, Werewolves
Blood Ties, Season 2, Episode 5: The Devil You Know
After the death on his door step last week, Henry is doing a role call of all the vampires he can think of in the city – to see if he really does have Christina on his doorstep. And Vicki arrives, of course, irritated that he’s trying to freeze her out. She’s irritated he went to Celluci and not her, angry that he’s pushing her out and demands he acknowledge it’s Christina moving in on his territory – the vampire who made him. Henry is far from responsive.
And there’s another body, 2 in fact – which Celluci blames on Henry. He’s convinced it’s Christina and demands Henry sorts it out. Henry, though is both angry that Vicki told Celluci and convinced it’s not Christina because the death is too public, too blatant to be a vampire, certainly one of Christina’s age. 600 year old vampires don’t get that way by being so open. He leaves, annoyed that Celluci is so fixed on Christina they’ve dismissed other options.
Henry takes a brooch from the crime scene and goes hunting – smelling another vampire he shouts dramatically at it and has a Christina flashback
At the same time, Vicki and Celluci are eating Chinese, discussing vampire territorialism and who Christina is (yes, it’s a well done info dump) – and realising that Henry took the brooch. Now they have to question whether they can trust him.
And to add fuel to that fire, Henry returns to his home to find Christina in his bed. Vampire hormones go, lots of snarling follows and recriminations about the past (Henry says he “loved” her past tense and they mention a time she nearly killed him for encroaching in her territory) and finally we reach the dead models – which Christina says were killed by Alexander, another vampire. A vampire who has been hunting Christina and she brought him to Toronto to involve Henry.
Henry is, unsurprisingly, not best pleased but insists Christina speak to Celluci about the model murders to at least take some of the heat of Henry. His territory, his rules. She leaves when it’s over and he grants her territory she may hunt in.
Henry calls Vicki to explain everything – including his instincts and trust for Christina, the instinct to hunt, fight and love – but the conversation is interrupted by Christina arriving at Vicki’s. She’s arrived to be all pally and friendly so they can be strong women together. Hah, no, course not. She talks about Vicki’s relationship with Henry and how Vicki can’t possibly understand him blah blah, strong women jealous over same men, blah, Vicki cannot possibly like another woman who isn’t subservient, blah, blah.
Get some pictures of Alexander off Coreen (who lampshade’s Vicki’s jealousy – this isn’t a show for subtlty) Time to go to the morgue and fill in Celluci. Mohadevan the awesome gives them the usual vampire schtick – drained of blood etc etc, but the marks on the bodies show hesitation – incompetence, inexperience which you certainly wouldn’t expect from Christina. We also run into Dave! Remember Dave? I almost didn’t – he was Celluci’s token Black sidekick for odd flashes of season 1.
Labels: 3.5 Fangs, blood ties, lifetime, vampires, victory nelson
Q&A With Alphas Ryan Cartwright
Bill Brennan: Hi everyone thank you for joining us today. We will get right to it.
I just want to introduce Ryan Cartwright who plays Gary Bell on Alphas and Alphas premiers.
Ryan Cartwright: Hi.
Bill Brennan: So we're ready to open it up for questions.
Operator: And our first question comes from the line Kyle Nolan with No (R)eruns.net. Please proceed with your question.
Kyle Nolan: Hi Ryan thanks for taking time to talk to us.
Ryan Cartwright: You're welcome.
Kyle Nolan: Your portrayal of Gary is my favorite part of the show. Could you talk about how you decided on his mannerisms, his cadence and his accent and how you prepare to get into character?
Ryan Cartwright: Yes sure. Well I had luckily I was in a good position whereby I had a like a good month and a half from getting the role to actual production so I had plenty of time to do as much research as would make me feel comfortable stepping into Gary's shoes.
And it was great, it was really good fun just looking at a part of the world that you'd never seen before and also with autism if you research it enough you end up appreciating looking at the world through their eyes as well.
Basically I started with lots of documentaries, lots of movies and lots of like online blogs and stuff from autistic people talking about how they experience things and just reading the books like from (Daniel Pampett), (Temple Grandin) and (Oliver Sachs) and stuff. And the firsthand account stuff from autistic people in its true form really helped because it helped me understand the neurology behind it which gave me the grace to come up with the mannerisms and stuff myself knowing the reason I'd be doing them as opposed to just meeting someone and copying mannerisms.
Like towards the end they invited me to - I was invited to like go to meet a group of autistic people in the day like a camp or whatever but by that point I kind of didn't need to do it because I had already figured out Gary on his own and knew the reasons I would do certain things so it was really nice.
And I would just like pad around Toronto when I got up here, kind of walking around as Gary and doing the voice and stuff and reading poems and repeating things that people would say like with the (unintelligible) an stuff so yes it was just a really nice time to - it was a luxury to have all that time to get comfortable in his skin so that I'm super comfortable doing it now.
Kyle Nolan: Can you talk about some of the changes that we'll see with Gary this season?
Ryan Cartwright: Yes he's still petulant which I'm sure everyone will enjoy. He's still outspoken, I don't think that will ever change. But he's kind of making some different life decisions that affect that other alphas quite substantially like I think everyone knows now he flies the (Brewster) gang not just working at the office but he decides to move his mother's nest and descend on the office 24/7 and tries to make it his new home.
And also his continuance of trying to keep Anna's voice alive because when she died at the end of the last season it affected his deeply and made him question his place within the alphas and also kind of people's motivations which he's not very good at figuring out but it definitely once she died it made him question Dr. Rosen and the whole alpha phenomenon and his place within it and he wants to keep her voice alive and her message because it seemed to inspire him and seemed a bit more holistic to him.
Kyle Nolan: Great thanks, looking forward to the new season.
Ryan Cartwright: Cool I hope you enjoy it.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Renee Martin with Fangs for the Fantasy, please proceed with your question.
Renee Martin: Hi Ryan, thanks so much for taking time out today.
Ryan Cartwright: That's all right.
Renee Martin: I was wondering, there's been a big push by this Disability Rights Activist, to have disabled people actually play disabled roles because there's so few opportunities within the media. So I was wondering did any of that come in to play or did you consider this at all when you were thinking about taking on the role of Gary?
Ryan Cartwright: Well, I believe, I believe it was - there was an autistic person who auditioned for it. I think, I mean I think it depends on the role, you know, I mean, this is, you know, just being cast in a role and the business of getting a role and everything it's never fair to, you know, to anyone. I think that, you know, that does need to be, I think it did start, you know, like I say with this group since - I believe everyone deserves the opportunity to audition and to go in, but you know, I think the producers and stuff felt that I was right for the role.
Yes, I guess, I don't know it's a tricky one I think. I think you can have a little bit of both and, you know, if someone's a really good actor and they can do it then why not? But, at a certain point it's the business and the industry that would have to change and I guess why I feel good about it in a way, portraying Gary is that, hopefully it will open the flood gates for more, you know, neurodiverse people and disabled people to be considered. Because before it was - a lot of the autistic roles I've seen portrayed before were pretty much one note. And were, there were, you know, there was a lot of clichés out there.
So, I think that showing Gary that it's not - you don't have to write it like (unintelligible) every single damn time, hopefully people will just think about writing for more autistic people and, you know, disabled people as well. If there are other roles like that - that are being taken good care of.
So, I think the first step, that I guess Alpha's is helping is just showing a different side to autism and just more of a truer face to it. So, hopefully it will just - it will just create more - in roles I think that's where it would have to start. And then a lot of it's just, you know, if you're a good actor, if you can do it, then yes, everyone should have a chance, but then you got to get the role man. I'm always auditioning against skinny white kids, that's my battle.
Renee Martin: Thank you, I just have one more question. In the first season, Gary faced a lot of ableism and (unintelligible), particularly from Bill, but one of the things I like about it is that he always had a comeback and he was sure and assertive. Did you have anything to do with the fact that Gary always stood up in the face of the so-called benign oppression that he played?
Ryan Cartwright: No, there was a lot of it already there in the script. There was one specific moment last year that I was quite adamant about. When he was being bullied at school and the kid pushed him and called him a retard. And I think the original comeback that was scripted was just to say, "Oh, I'm not a retard…I'm autistic." And I was quite adamant that Gary should call him a retard back, because you live with those curses that you get off other people. And an autistic person should be able to fight fire with fire. The bully uses the R word. He’s the dickhead in that situation and he should have the same curse flying straight back at him.
I always wanted him to be just as confrontational and just as robust and throw it right back in their face. You know, because fuck them if they're going to lower themselves to that disgusting level. Then an autistic person should be able to fight back blow for blow.
I don't want him restricted, I guess because there's that danger people think, oh, he - if he's offensive himself then, you know, or that's what he's like.
Well no, he's a good guy. Good guys can swear too. So, I just felt a lot more comfortable making sure that he did stand up for himself and not just stand up for himself in an apologetic way. Let him be rude.
Renee Martin: Thank you.
Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of (Kathy Huddleston) with (Blaster).com. Please proceed with your question.
(Kathy Huddleston): Hi Ryan thank you for doing this.
Ryan Cartwright: Hey, you're welcome.
(Kathy Huddleston): So when the season starts Gary's in a unique place, he's in prison and all this stuff is happening. It's really kind of a Gary story. What do you want to tell us about where Gary starts this season?
Ryan Cartwright: Yes he's in a worst place than prison. He's like in Building 7 and he's pretty much comatose because to control alphas who are bad there's a lot more moral flexibility that people believe they can take with them so they put like these chips in their heads which make them completely comatose and devoid of any personality and sense so they're pretty much like these neutered brain-dead zombies who just sit around and drool which is my natural state normally.
So yes he's in Building 7 for he was a little bit too disruptive because they wanted him to go and work with the other people over there, the government agents, but they didn't appreciate Gary's idiosyncrasies and he ended up lashing out and got in trouble. None of the other alphas knew for awhile until they have a little visit and they can just see him sitting there kind of gawping at the floor so Gary needs rescuing.
(Kathy Huddleston): So what would you say your biggest challenge was this season so far?
Ryan Cartwright: I just think keeping the consistency of the character and kind of not coming out of the character to get laughs because, you know, Gary he does change as time goes on but in a different way to everyone else and it's a lot more subtle.
So kind of Gary's arc has to be a little bit more concentrated and mainly just keeping his voice the same, the dialog and just how he would react to these different situations, just keeping a close eye on that like once again not wanting to abuse Gary's personality and where he is on the autism spectrum.
And then once he's like taken care of that and you know that he's character consistent then it's just all about coming up with funny lines on the day. I have to try to make the other actors and alphas laugh and just having - once you know he's like grounded then you can like inflate him with all this hot air and just watch him ascend and annoy everyone. So yes just that.
(Kathy Huddleston): Thanks a lot.
Ryan Cartwright: Oh you're welcome.
Labels: Alphas, interview, science fiction, Syfy, television
Review: Thirteen by Kelley Armstrong, Book 13 of the Otherworld Series
After the events of the last book, the supernatural world is devolving into chaos. Split along the lines of those who want to reveal the supernatural and those who wish to remain concealed, there is a war fighting on every plane of existence. Not just Earth, Angels are turning against Angels, Lord Demons are mustering against each other. In the confusion, all rules are being broken, demon beasts are manifesting in the real world, Angels are taking flesh, demi-demons are possessing humans, even children, against all established laws and treaties.
People are panicking, in one move against the reveal movement, a group of anti-revealers are taking extreme measures to convince people it’s a bad idea – unleashing drugged, frenzied werewolves, manifested demons and starving vampires among groups of humans to show how bad it could be – leaving a horrendous mess and piles of bodies in their wake.
And Giles, leader of the reveal movement, is getting desperate. Harried by the Cabals, the anti-reveal movement, the interracial council and with his laboratory destroyed in a explosion, he is losing control. He tries to tighten his fist on defectors and to wave his carrot of immortality – but his serum isn’t ready – and the people who take it are becoming savage monsters. It doesn’t stop him trying to use it widely among the potentially influential.
Then there’s the Lord Demons – who are quite willing to possess without summoning, recruiting, looking for their offspring – and setting Cabals into civil war.
Chaos.
That sums up this book – everything is falling apart and all the rules are being broken – and it’s so excellently well done. Between the Lord demons and the Cabal squabbling and random possession and demon beasts, they run from event to event with each and every one of them being something that SHOULD NOT BE. We get a really strong sense of both the desperation and the sheer uniqueness of how completely wrong everything is.
Labels: 4.5 Fangs, Angels, Demons, ghosts, Kelley armstrong, magic, necromancy, otherworld series, sorcerer, thirteen, Werewolves, Witches
Alphas Season Two, Episode Two: The Quick and the Dead
This episode opens with an Alpha using his super speed to drag someone out of a restaurant. What is interesting is that before he dragged him, he seemed to be able move around water.
It then moves to Cameron getting his grove on with Rosen's daughter. It's only now that Rosen is back he is concerned about what Rosen will think. At the office, Gary has a tantrum because someone has used his shelf and taken his pudding. He throws things about and even shoves people. It is worth noting that there seem to be a lot of new people in the office all of a sudden and this is probably overwhelming to him.
Clay says that the new people are there to keep an eye on the team. Rosen is drawn to the train explosion and because there was no signature, he believes that the culprit is Stanton Parish. Clay suggests that Parish is a delusion, but Rosen says he is very real and very dangerous.
The team gets called to the scene where the man was kidnapped and discover how quickly Eli was moving. They trace his scent to a factory and when they open a freezer, they find the kidnapped victim. When the team gets back to the office, Bill is surprised to see that Rachel has not taken a break but Rosen breaks in to say that he believes Rachel can handle herself. It turns out that not only suspect Eli super fast, he is aging at an advanced rate.
Gary is busy guarding the fridge, when Nina and Cameron enter. It seems that despite the tension last week, the two are getting along, until Gary points out that Cameron has six unanswered text messages. Nina quips that he never answers his texts and walks out. Gary in the meantime has started to read Cameron's texts: "this morning was yummy." Gary assumes that this is about him having something yummy like pancakes for breakfast. When he reads that the message is from Dani, Cameron gets upset and promises to kill Gary if he tells anyone. It seems that Gary expects others to respect his boundaries but has no qualms about ignoring the privacy of others.
In her office, Nina is hanging an actual Van Gogh, when Rosen shows up to tell her that her life is out of control. He asks if she plans on pushing the person who shows up there to reclaim the painting, and informs her that she has to show up to work on time, and avoid pushing people unless it's absolutely necessary, or he cannot have her on the team. Before Nina can respond, Rachel enters to say that Bill needs help interviewing the victim's wife.
Nina and Rosen enter, and Nina starts to push the woman asking if she is hiding anything and she starts to list things like her affair, the fact that she masturbates, a failure to pay taxes etc,. Nina and Rosen leave and he runs into Gary yelling at the FBI agents again. It turns out that Gary has found another abduction and it happened eight minutes ago. Rosen realises that the victim may still be alive.
Eli is questioning Dr. Casey trying to force him to admit that he treated him, when Bill and Hicks show up. Hicks shoots the knife out of Eli's hand and Eli takes off. Bill amps up to chase Eli and just misses him. Back at the office, they question Dr. Casey, who doesn't understand why Eli kept saying that he had treated him. It turns out that the doctor was experimenting on children.
Dani is helping a woman who is terminal with her pain, as Staton Parish watches on. It turns out that the woman is Parish's last grandchild, though she only knew him as a distant cousin. Parish turns the conversation to Rosen, and Dani uses her power to show him how Rosen is feeling. Dani suggests that he reach out to Rosen and explain how things should be, but Parish says that Rosen has to get there on his own. Parish then asks about Cameron and Dani says that he is a nice guy and Parish responds, "I hope that you two can remain friends. With your father back, you cannot afford to lose control of your emotions."
Cameron and Dani meet on the street and she tells him that she likes him but because her father is back that things are too complicated and they need to end their relationship. Cameron asks where this is coming from and says that they have a connection. She tells him that every guy she has ever been with has said the same thing and walks off leaving him standing in the rain.
Posted by Renee at 3:55 PM
Labels: Alphas, Syfy, television
Being Human U.K Season Four, Episode Seven: Making History
This episode begins with a flashback to 1950. Hal is it seems is in some legal troubles for illegal gambling and dog fights (which I highly suspect have to do with the werewolves). He tells Cutler that he is going to be their new representative and that he will achieve great things. We learn that Hal was Cutler's maker.
In the present day, Cutler is making a speech about the coming of the old ones and it is interrupted by Hal, who is clearly surprised to see him.
The older Eve tells Annie that she died and went back through her own history to make contact with her, but Annie is not buying it, she is also highly uncomfortable with the adult Eve calling her mom. When Annie demands to know what this is all about, Eve tells her that she has to show her, her present and Annie's future.
Back at the warehouse, Cutler hugs Hal, clearly glad to see him and Hal of course becomes stiff as a board. Even if Hal weren't OCD, hugging vamps just don't seem right. Hal wants to know about the body of the coroner which was found in the exact same place where the two used to bury their corpses. Hal also wants to know why the coroner filed a report saying that human flesh was found in the stomach of the box tunnel killer, but Cutler wants to know why they are talking about this after not seeing each other for 55 years, and calls for two glasses and a decanter.
Cutler introduces him to the fellow vamps as his maker and tells them that Hal is a monster. When Hal hesitates, Cutler asks him what is wrong. Hal just barely manages to fight the compulsion and leaves promising to return. At home he jumps on the exercise bike. Tom walks in holding Eve asking about Annie and where he plans on taking Alex on a date. Hal says they are meeting at a bar and then going for supper. Tom hands over the baby and Hal agrees to watch her for an hour.
We get another flashback to Cutler digging a grave for a body. Hal tells him, "you're becoming the drunk who never buys a round. All we require is everything."
It turns out that Tom left the baby to go see Cutler. Cutler says that the old ones are going to be there tomorrow and he wants Tom to transform and kill them all. Tom says no because all of his life he felt like a weapon, "something blunt and simple." He reads off of cue cards to express his desire to be human. Cutler screams that the old ones a different and that there are people who need to see him do this. When Tom still refuses, Cutler changes tactics and invites him out to diner.
In the future, Annie learns that mostly everyone is dead. Eve says that days after the old ones arrived in town, they killed the Prime Minister on national television. Fearing for Eve's safety, they ran but vampires started killing people. Eve tells her that she didn't stop the downfall of humanity because of Annie.
Cutler returns to the vamp gathering place to find Cutler looking desolate. Cutler says that he dropped the coroner where he did because it was an homage and he is still pissed that Hal left him behind. Cutler says that Hal can go straight back to the top and all he wants "is a mention, a statue and maybe Brazil". Cutler pours another glass of blood and offers it to Hal for old times. Hal asks if he drinks it, if Cutler will tell him what is going on.
We get another flashback to Cutler's shaking hand reaching for a glass of blood and being stopped by Hal. It seems that Hal wants Cutler to kill his wife in order to end his connections to humans. When he refuses, Hal leaves saying, "I had such high hopes for you." In the present Hal drinks the blood.
In purgatory, Annie asks why Eve is looking at her like that and Eve responds that she hasn't seen her since she was 18 and that she missed her. When Annie asks what happened to her, Eve says that it doesn't matter and then opens another door.
Hal shows up at the bar to meet Alex who immediately starts rambling. He starts telling her that he likes her mouth and neck and she is truly getting creeped out. When she tells him to be nice, he says that he is not nice and he stars at her trembling. In frustration, Alex walks out.
Annie asks about Tom and Eve tells her that he died right where they were standing in a dog fight. Annie learns that after everything fell apart and she lost friend after friend, she just "drifted apart, like smoke on a breeze."
When Hal gets back to the flat, Tom is getting ready to go out. He asks how Hal's date went and tells him that Annie has not turned up yet. Before he leaves, Tom tells Hal that the old ones will be in town tomorrow. Tom's shirt is absolutely horrendous and evidences his working class background.
In purgatory, Annie sits down and refuses to go any further and she and Eve quickly get into a typical mother/daughter argument.
At the restaurant, Cutler gives Tom a tie to wear on order of management, and Tom is forced to admit that he has never worn a tie, and that he doesn't know how to tie one. Cutler wants to know if Tom's change of heart has to do with Allison, but Tom says that he is going to fix himself up and get all proper, but Cutler is quick to plant doubt about this. Cutler gets more evil every episode.
Labels: 4 Fangs, Being Human UK, ghosts, television, vampires, Werewolves
Warehouse 13: Season 4, Episode 2: An Evil Within
Last episode, Artie used the Astrolabe to set back time by a day to save the Warehouse, save the team and stop Pandora’s box ending the world. There’s going to be a downside to this, of course, but compared to the alternative? Well, let’s just say the downside better be pretty damn horrendous to justify going back to it.
In Philadelphia, in a diner someone has locked the patrons inside and released a YE GODS OF MERCY THAT’S UGLY! On them. The patrons attack it desperately since there’s no way out – the police arrive. And they find they’ve just beaten up a poor innocent guy called Joe.
At the Warehouse, Artie is sad about Claudia’s absence and worried about the consequences of using the Astrolabe to save the world – something only he remembers. He sends Pete and Myka to Philadelphia to deal with the mob (and has a little twitch moment when Pete makes a “turn back time” comment). They leave and Artie has another twitch moment when a priest from the Vatican – one of the Astrolabe guys (who was killed in the brief alternate time-line, though only Artie remembers that) shows up.
He wants to report that Magellan’s Astrolabe has been stolen and *gasp* used. And he wants Artie to find it so they can find the thief and make them undo the time reset they did – because it’s the only way to get rid of the formidable evil using it unleashed (I say again formidable evil vs Destroyed Pandora’s box – scales still point pro-evil here). Poor Artie nearly swallows his own tongue several times.
Claudia, meanwhile, has had a major make over and is infiltrating the regents and their eye-of-Horus tattooed guards (rule 1 of secret societies? They shouldn’t have openly displayed secret symbols). She does a great job of infiltrating the building most excellently though she has to resort to tesla-ing people when Artie grabs her wrist – busted.
Claudia is determined to get the metronome and bring Steve back. And she asks Artie, if he could use an Artefact to set things right, to undo a huge, stupid tragedy, wouldn’t he do it? Yeah, there goes the tongue swallowing again; but Artie is adamant, it’s dangerous to use Artefacts. But then Regent Janeway arrives – the decision has been made, they’re allowing her to bring back Agent Jinks – something Artie adamantly opposes and storms off. And goes to see the priest to try and narrow down what kind of evil he’s facing from the Astrolabe – he just knows it’s unimaginable and personal. The last time it was used during the French Revolution and caused the reign of terror.
Posted by Sparky at 11:00 AM
Labels: 3.5 Fangs, magic, sci-fi, speculative fiction, Syfy, warehouse 13
Teen Wolf, Season 2, Episode 10: Fury
It’s time to see what happened in this series through Matt’s eyes, in particular how he found out about Jackson being the weregecko and how he became its master
First of all, when Jackson borrowed the camera from him so he could film himself shift, Matt was in his car streaming the video (I do rather wonder WHY Matt was doing this) Jackson recorded. It was then he saw Jackson shift and had his first little binding moment through the car window, followed by the killing of Isaac Leahy’s father.
Stiles and Scott have the fun job of trying to convince Stiles’s dad that Matt is the actual killer, which he doesn’t buy it. Scott just assures him that he has to trust them (yeah, that works real well in criminal cases). The sheriff would really like to know if they have a motive for Matt to kill the swim team and its coach. Which they don’t have. They beg to see the evidence – but that’s in the police station where he doesn’t actually work any more. Stiles asks to be trusted – his father refuses, but he’s willing to trust Scott. Ouch, poor Stiles.
They check CCTV footage from the hospital where the pregnant woman was killed since it was the only time he killed someone himself, and they see Matt, albeit from the back which isn’t useful – but they do catch him talking to Scott’s mother – who does recognise him as Matt because she stopped him for tracking mud through the hospital. Which strikes another insight because they found muddy footprints at one of the scenes that they can try and match. And they had a receipt signed by Matt for an oil change at the garage where the mechanic was killed.
Apparently this constitutes enough evidence for a warrant. They call in Scott’s mother to get an official ID from her and Stiles runs to the front desk to tell the woman there to let her in. Except she’s dead – and Matt is there with a gun. Well you have some better evidence at least, guys!
He has the sheriff handcuffed to a pole and takes Scott and stiles on a police station tour of all the many many police officers he’s killed. Apparently the fun thing with being a weregecko master is that you just think about someone being killed and the gecko does it.
Meanwhile, last week we saw Derek being used by Lydia to raise Peter Hale, the last Alpha. This week he’s awakened from his gratuitous shirtlessness by Dr. Deaton using a dog whistle (hah) and letting him know that he fails as an Alpha – though he still is one. He finally tells us why he’s helping Derek so much, kind of anyway. Apparently advising the Hale family used to be an important part of his life, he promised Derek’s mother he’d look after him and he used to adviser Derek’s sister. And he has some advice for him – that he needs to not trust Hale even if he does offer him a deal to try and take down Gerard (hey, if it will kill an Argent, I’m all for team Hale!) and that he should be trusting Scott in helping him take down Gerard’s (that’s granddaddy Argent) master plan.
Labels: 4.5 Fangs, hunters, MTV, shapeshifters, Teen wolf, Werewolves
Review of Save the Pearls Part 1 of Revealing Eden by Victoria Foyt
We normally put a cover of the book at the beginning of every review, but I think that the following video better illustrates this book.
As you can see, Eden Newman, the protagonist is a White woman who wears blackface. Eden does ths because from a post apocalyptic earth, where Pearls (read: white people) are oppressed by Coals (read: blacks). Because of the higher levels of melanin, Coals were better able to survive the harmful suns rays.
Of course, the dark races got The Heat too, but not nearly as often. The higher amounts of melanin in their skin protected them from the sun's radiation. Since their numbers hadn't been decimated in the Great Meltdown, as the other races had, they now ruled the planet. [page 14]
I cannot begin to tell you how horrifying the very concept of this book is. How this White woman thought this role reversal would read as anything more than appropriation and racism is absolutely beyond me.
Foyt even goes as far as to include a scene where Pearls perform in White face.
"On the main stage a band of Coals performed in Whiteface. Eden's sensors told her their name: The Lost Caucasian Tribe. [page 40]
So it's not bad enough that we have a protagonist tromping through the majority of the book in Blackface and whining about the fact that she is White and no-one sees the real her, but Foyt decided to appropriate Blackface. In this scene, those performing weren't othered and it did not read as a minstrel show. There was no historical meaning to this supposed whiteface and it only served as yet another reminder of Hoyt's racial ignorance.
Asians are referred to as Ambers, which essentially calls their skin colour yellow and is offensive. We are told on page 11 that Pearls is the racist name for Whites, yet this is the word that Foyt uses for the entire book to describe White people. They are also referred to as "earth-damned Pearl" and "White death." Suddenly this reversal of power means that there are racial slurs which effect White people and futuristic or not, this flies in the face of human history. It is further troubling that though we are told that the term Pearl is indeed a slur, so is Coal. This tells me that Foyt has no idea how a slur really works. A dominant group is not effected by a slur and the fact that she chose to give slurs to every racial group, undermines the supposed superiority that Coals have. If Coals were the oppressive force that they are supposedly cast as, Coal would not be considered a slur, just as honky, gringo, cracker and paleface aren't slurs today.
Labels: 0.5 Fangs, cannot unsee what has been seen, dystopian, racism, Victoria Foyt, why am I reading this fuckery?
Sinbad Season 1, Episode 4: Old Man of the Sea
Guess what? They’ve run out of supplies AGAIN. Someone needs to look at packing a bit more supplies since they do seem to stop to load up every other day. How far away is Barooq anyway? I’m Because the length of time they’re sailing and the number of times they have to stop for supplies makes me think they’ve sailed out of Basra and are heading for Australia.
They’re dehydrated, so much so that Cook is actually hallucinating. So, thirsty, hungry and hallucinating, Sinbad and Rina decide to row out to investigate a neighbouring ship because it has a spooky light. After all, it’s not like they’ve run into lots of mystical crap that might make you just a little leery of that and, maybe, want to wait until daylight.
They row through the dark and eerie sea, full of dead fish (and probably big neon signs screaming “you don’t want to go there!”) to the ship. The ship is silent, the sails are ragged and the planks rotten – even the neon signs yelling “go back you fools! Go back!” are flickering. Inside there’s a dinner table set for a wedding feast, covered in dust, spider webs and maggots. Faced with this, Sinbad and Rina agree to leave (yay sense!) the room and go check the hold for supplies (because the dust, spider webs and rot are so encouraging). And in the hold they find an unconscious man. Ah well , no supplies, guess it’s time to return to the Providence empty handed.
Hah, no, of course they bring the man back with them. Cook promptly, and sensibly, loses his shit over them bringing the only survivor of a deserted ship that may have been wiped out by plague onto the Providence. Cook also has a hallucination of the man with plague markings all over him.
Next day dawns and the ship is missing – though Anwar assures Sinbad it’s just a mirage and it’s still there. Gunnar checks on the unconscious man and he speaks “I see the blood on your soul” before falling unconscious again – which causes Gunnar to leave all freaked. He wakes to talk to Sinbad and Anwar, revealing his name is Anicetus, that he’s seen Sinbad before and avoiding all of their questions.
Labels: 3 Fangs, death, fantasy, historical fantasy, magic, sinbad, sky, television
Continuum Season One, Episode Nine: Family Time
Once again this episode begins with a flashback to Kierra blowing up a building in which Kellog is in. His sister is seriously injured and she gives Kellog something to get to Kagame and begs him to leave but she refuses.
In the present, Kiera goes into the country to talk to Roland and she is excited to be in the country. Once again we are given a reminder that in the future, wildlife like this does not exist. Kiera wants to know about the purchase of sodium nitrate and Roland points out that he is a farmer and needs it for fertilizer. When Alec sees Kiera,, he is shocked and forgets to pretend that they don't have a relationship. Roland wants to know his connection to Kiera, and Alec quickly covers by saying that he recognizes Carlos from the paper.
Alone, Kiera tells Alec that she is there to check out the shipment of fertilizer and Alec takes her out back to show her his set up in the back. When Kiera finds a gun, she wants to know if he has a license. Kiera then pushes the envelop to ask about Roland's involvement and then scans Alec. When Alec realises that he is being scanned he asks where the trust is. He is right to ask, considering how Kiera is treating him. Alec has done nothing but support her in everything that she has asked, respected her boundaries and tried to help her acclimate but yet Kiera treats him like a common suspect.
When Carlos sees the paperwork, it shows that Roland only ordered 400 kilos and not 1500. When Carlos asks to see the fertilizer, Roland is not impressed. In the meantime, Julian is listening to a broadcast by Kagame on his computer. Then Roland asks if either Alec or Julian know about extra fertilizer, but Julian counters asking if Carlos has a warrant. It turns out that there is a new lock on the barn and no one knows how it got there. Inside the barn is a van with a bomb and armed teens, who come out barn demanding that Carlos drop his weapon. Roland asks them to think about what they are doing.
Kiera targets one of the boys and takes away his gun. The boys drop to the ground but Julian pulls a gun out of his back pocket and shoots Carlos. He threatens to kill Caros if Kiera does not immediately comply.
They hold Carlos and Kiera in the kitchen and Alec comes in and knocks over one of the boys with the medical aid kit. Kiera asks how he is doing and Alec says that he is fine and that he is not leaving his mother. The boys tells Roland that this is the next logical step and believe that what they need is revolution. Roland assures them that if they continue down this path, they are going to be stopped before they can start. Alec runs interference as Kiera sneaks Carlos out of the house, but before they can get to the car, the boys realise what is going on and corner them again. In the kitchen, Alec's mom grabs her phone, dials 911 and stuffs it in her pocket.
Labels: 3 Fangs, Continuum, science fiction, Showcase
Fangs for the Fantasy Episode 78
This week we discuss the 101 plots of True Blood, most of which we dislike and how we want the Ifrit to win. We discuss the return of Warehouse 13 and Alphas – and further rooting for the villain in Continuum. We catch up on Sinbad and bring it up to date. We’re surprised to find that Teen Wolf is our favourite show at the moment and Renee is dedicated to reviewing Continuum until the show is cancelled.
We also discuss the issue with being expected to support minority work even when we don’t like it.
Our book of the week is Grave Witch by Kaylana Price.
Our next books of the week:
31/7-6/8: Kate Locke: God Save the Queen
6/8- 13/8: Chloe Neil: Biting Cold
13/8-20/8: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
20/8-27/8: Night Shifted by Cassie Alexander
Labels: Alphas, book of the week, Continuum, grave witch, kalayna price, podcast, sinbad, Teen wolf, True Blood, warehouse 13
Grave Witch (The Alex Craft Series #1) Kalayna Price
Alexis Craft is a Grave witch, a witch with powers over the dead and their remains. She’s just entering into a ground breaking case where a shade can be used as a witness in court – which promises a much more steady income, a major concern of hers.
Or it was, that was before people started trying to kill her. And curse her. And kidnap her. Because there’s another case she’s been dragged into – the murder of the governor. A murder that left magical traces on his body that only she seems able to sense. A murder that may be linked to a series of other brutal murders across the city – also with magical signs that are invisible to even the most sensitive witch, but not her.
With her family closely involved with the governor, she also finds herself being dragged back into her family circles despite a long estrangement – and perhaps they’re even more closely involved than she expects. Between family, a murdered ghosts, a mystery gun man, kidnapping fae and a soul consuming curse, she has a lot of pressure to solve this case and precious little allies: only Death who is acting severely out of character, and a police officer she’s just met and has no idea if she can trust.
The plot was fun, well paced and an actual mystery that was mysterious. There were a couple of times I got a little lost because of the size of the world and the sheer number of side characters and suspects, but I did pick it up again quickly. There was a lot going on but it all added to the character, the world and the story as well as the ongoing mystery that wasn’t revealed until the end of the book when things finally came together. I think the culprit was a little out of left field, I didn’t see it coming but nor do I think anyone could – because he was such a minor character that the reaction was less “HIM?! I never saw that!” so much as “Who is that again?”. But the journey was still interesting and kept me glued just to see Alexis fit into her world and try to take the many many elements of this mystery and bring it together
We have a very large world here, the fae were slowly being reduced as technology reason and disbelief took over – so they decided to reveal themselves to humanity. In the sudden surge of belief, the fae grew back to their old levels of power. Not just the fae – but fae lands were opened again, access to faerie and “folded land” opened up, expanding the Earth. They were joined by witches – the wyrd – who seem to have inherent magical talents and can learn more, seemingly at schools and by organisations. We seem to have different courts of the fae, many many different kinds of fae and a whole raft of political and legal issues arising from the fae and the witches. We have death – actually deaths, soul collectors who only Grave Witches can see, bars that lead to fae realms and a plethora of spells and charms on the market.
It’s rich, it’s diverse, it’s complex and there’s a lot of meat to it. The reference to law and politics suggests there’s a lot of behind the scnees world building and we’re not just looking at word dropping “hey let’s include this,” without any real substance – I think there’s a lot of work gone into making this world rich and internally consistent.
Labels: 3.5 Fangs, alex craft series, book of the week, book review, fae, kalayna price, magic, necromancy
True Blood Season Five, Episode Eight: Somebody That I Used to Know
True Blood opens at the hospital where the man Sam caught is being taken away from the hospital by Andy in handcuffs. Luna is extremely upset because to her, they are everywhere. Sam tries to calm her by saying that he is on it that she has police stationed outside her door, and then leaves for the station. This does not calm Luna down and she shifts into Sam and promptly passes out.
The vampires are still higher than hell from their night of debauchery, save Eric who is looking at them in a shocked state. He has to ask Bill what happened and Bill tells him that they saw Lilith, but Eric is not convinced because they are high.
Jason confronts Sookie who says she is dumping all of her fairy light because she is a freak and wants to be normal. Jason tells her that if she were normal that she would never have met Bill and he points out that they had real love, which is something not everyone gets. He reminds her that she got to talk to their grandmother one last time and that doesn't happen to normal folk. He even points out that her fae power is a legacy of their parents and that nothing is going to feel right until they find out who killed them. Once again, someone is there to save Sookie from herself. I know that he is her brother, but at the same time, it irks me that someone is always there for her when she is resistant to spending even two second focusing on someone else. Given her penchant for getting into trouble, how much sense did it make to get rid of the one thing that gives her power?
Back at the hospital, Luna is coming to and is shocked to see herself as Sam. She walks out of the hospital telling the cop to mind his own God damned business. When Sam Trammell is given the opportunity to try something new on the show, he really invests in it. Watching him sashay out of the hospital actually had me cracking up a little bit.
At Fangtasia, Jessica is doing her thing, when a man starts to come on to her, tempting her with his blood. I still very much like this new naughty Jessica, who is in control of her wants and needs.
At the authority compound, the vampires are discussing how they never really believed in Lilith until last night. Of course, Russel steals the moment by saying "God has the most beautiful tits I've ever seen." He then declares that he is born again along with Steve Newlin. Salome believes that this is a sign that Roman's death has been sanctioned by God. Steve is sent off to gather up a few humans and Eric bows out saying that he has had enough fun for one night. Before leaving, he and Bill share a very pointed look, but Bill remains with the other vampires.
Alcide is very busy getting his wolf thing on and can I say that I am impressed with the fact that True Blood actually decided to depict cunnilingus, because this is an act that is highly erased from sex scenes in the media. Sex is often portrayed strictly from the male gaze, and this often precludes acts which give women pleasure.
Salome sets up a late night snack for Bill and when he refuses, she demands that he feed on this woman as God has commanded. Bill says that he has fathered children and cannot take this woman away from them, but Salome counters with the fact that he didn't make them vampire and keep them with him forever. We get a flashback to Bill's daughter's deathbed. She asks him to make her like him, because she does not want to die, but Bill says that he cannot because immortality is a curse. She cries that she can feel herself rotting and begs him, as Bill pulls away from her. Salome says that God chose to make vampires in his own likeness to transcend human notions of morality and that to refuse God's gift is blasphemy. Bill decides to drink from the woman, as Salome says a prayer of thanks.
Hoyt arrives at the hideout of the human shifter killers and finds that Jessica has been silvered to welcome him to the group. Apparently, they targeted Jessica because she broke Hoyt's heart. They show her a gun with six shots of wooden bullets and then hand the gun off to Hoyt. They start to pressure Hoyt to kill Jessica, saying that it will feel good and then walk out of the room, leaving him alone with her.
Sookie and Jason head to the fae club hoping to find the vampire who killed their parents. When they are resistant, she asks loudly if they have any idea what it is to have someone you love murdered by a vampire. Umm hello, Claude's sister was killed by Eric last season -- of course they know -- but Sookie cannot be sensitive when she wants to get her own way. Claude tells them that they have a bond and that he cares about her. I for one have no idea why he would actually give a damn about little Miss Self Important. They agree to meet at the bridge where her parents where murdered.
Lafayette is driving back and sees the wounds on his lips from them being sewn shut. When he pulls out the first aid kit behind the visor, he finds that the kit has a picture of Jesus on it. With tears in his eyes, he pulls out some V and applies it to his lips so that they can heal. Jesus appears in the car beside him and he says thanks. When Lafayette asks if Jesus is real, Jesus says it doesn't matter and offers him his hand. This scene was so brief, but it touched me because it reminded us of everything Lafayette lost and how deep his pain goes.
At the station, Sam and Andy are questioning the suspect but when he refuses to talk, Andy asks for a minute alone with him. Andy says it's illegal but he leaves anyway. When Sam starts to undress, the man says "I ain't no fucking homo" and Sam responds, "neither am I," before turning into a snake. I guess it would have been too much to ask for True Blood to just have one stinking episode without some homophobia thrown in.
Posted by Renee at 12:23 PM
Labels: 3.5 Fangs, fae, HBO, shifters, television, True Blood, urban fantasy, vampires, Werewolves
Sinbad: Season 1, Episode 3: House of Games
Sinbad is pushing his boat to race another boat – and I, like Nala, wonder why. Leading to Nala complain about Sinbad’s irresponsibility and Sinbad complain about her lack of fun. I suspect this may be the theme of this episode.
It’s time for another stop for supplies, this time at an apparently deserted dock, with Sinbad’s usual worries about stepping foot on land, and meeting up with the ship they were racing. Desperate for supplies they approach the other captain, Abdul Fahim, for food and water – though they have little to offer and are pretty much reduced to begging. The captain has an offer for them – wager with him for supplies
In the hold, Rina starts going through Nala’s things – watched, disapprovingly by the Cook (who still may be the most awesome character) who comments on her not changing her thieving nature and how it will end with her being alone.
Returning to the ship, the crew look for items of value they can wager with the captain – and Nala notices both Rina and her jewellery are gone (probably the only item they had they could wager). Anwar returns to the captain to tell him they have nothing to trade – Fahim suggests the ship. And even if they lose he will provide them with mules and supplies to walk across the desert. Anwar, incredibly foolishly, agrees without consulting the others (he’s easily lead)
Guess what happens? Yes they lose the ship and no, no-one is very happy with poor Anwar. This is when Sinbad also tells Anwar about his curse and why walking through the desert is not the best bet for him. Running to Fahim, Anwar learns he had gone to the palace of games – which Sinbad sees as his best chance, to beat him at the games and win the ship back before the next sunrise. He also concludes that if he can beat him at a boat race, he can beat him at the gaming tables. Yes, Sinbad and logic don’t quite go together.
At Team Evil Taryn is sacrificing chickens for dark magic, as you do (y’know, I can’t get over the fact that Taryn is played by Orla Brady who plays Mrs. Sherringham in Eternal Law). After making the potion, when she drinks it she can see Sinbad and where he is. Taryn continues to make potions, but none of them work while Sinbad is in the gambling palace. Angry at her failure – Akbari banishes her from Basra.
Sinbad and co go to the palace of games, which is a series of bowls of water that open a portal when you drop a coin in them. He goes through the portal – just as Akbari drinks Taryn’s seeing potion, preventing him from seeing Sinbad. Nice timing. He wanders around the casino before being banished by a man with no eyes and a pair of brothers who run the place for not being pretty and prosperous enough. A quick visit to the merchant’s camp to steal some swaths of cloth, and the whole team is more appropriately attired to the dress code.
Labels: 2.5 Fangs, fantasy, historical fantasy, magic, sinbad, sky one
Sinbad, Season 1, Episode 2: Queen of the Water-Thieves
Cook is giving the inexperienced sailors a crash course in how to actually sail a boat – including the importance of being able to tie good knots if you don’t want your head crushed by a boom.
After the crash course and over lunch they discuss exactly what they want to do. Anwar, the doctor, and Sinbad are all for adventure – they have their own ship, time to see things. Nala wants to go her own way and return to her own life and Rina and Gunnar point out they have nothing in common and have their own things to do. Cook, who seems to be the practical one of the whole group, says they go to shore because they need food and water – and the charts point to the nearby island of Sind, abandoned of people with only wolves inhabiting it.
That night on the boat, a child sneaks aboard to eat. Nala catches him in her cabin, but is tricked into lowering her knife by the child’s fear, seeking to reassure him instead. At which point the kid pulls a knife on her. On deck, Sinbad is ambushed by another who knocks him out
The next day, they wake and the whole crew has been captured (except Cook) and held at knife point by children, though they are joined by a few adults who row them, and the ship’s supplies, to the island. There is an ancient, partially ruined city of step-pyramids – and Sinbad worries about his grandmother’s curse. He cannot set foot on land for more than 1 day.
The Cook is still on board, with 2 guards and his emergency supplies – and he is cooking for them. I think Cook may actually be awesome, he’s rapidly becoming the most amusing character.
They are taken before the Razia, Queen of the Water Thieves, who singles out Gunnar and orders the rest caged – before Sinbad, of course, speaks up and convinces her to take him instead (by amusing her with his bravado). She rewards her people by feeding them bread (which they scramble over wildly from a trough) and promising them meat (yes, not ominous at all).
Sinbad is delivered to her chambers where he meets her pet (a massive bird of prey), learns that overpowering her would be… difficult to say the least and gets a lecture on leadership. He claims he’s the leader of the crew but misfortune brought them together – she says misfortune binds people together and a real leader sacrifices and risks for their people. She has a lot to say about the costs and burdens of leadership before bringing Sinbad to her bed.
After a visit from Razia’s son he’s given an extreme lesson on how ruthless Razia is and how impossible it is to earn her favour – she shows no favour to her son and killed both his father and her other lovers.
The rest of the crew are in cages and discussing Sinbad. Nala is disgusted and thinks he’s going to save his own neck, though Rina says she’d do the same in his situation. Anwar is convinced Sinbad has a plan for their rescue and Gunnar doesn’t understand why Anwar –or Nala for that matter – thinks Sinbad owes them any kind of loyalty or consideration.
Labels: fantasy, historical fantasy, magic, sinbad, sky, television
Dark Angel, Season 1, Episode 4: 411 on the DLL
Max is enjoying a wonderful ride through the night streets of Seattle, reminding us that she doesn’t have to sleep – and she’s pulled over by corrupt cops who break her lights in order to impound her bike. A great little reminder of both Max’s super powers, what she does for fun – and the corruption of the dystopian world.
And it’s going to cost her $3,000 to get her bike back from the impound yard. Poor Max – and Cindy and Herbal can’t cheer her up about the loss (and Herbal discusses his own relationship tension). There’s also a new worker at Jam Pony, Sam, hired because he’s willing to creep to Normal and call him “sir”. Which is good timing because he fires Herbal for smoking cannabis – much to the fury of the rest of the workplace, since Herbal is both a friend and a Rastafarian and, they point out, cannabis is a sacrament to him. Between his partner’s old lover staying with him and losing his job, Herbal is not having an easy time. Of course, Sam’s first day on the job with the collected hostility of the staff isn’t fun either
Logan also has a visitor – Val, his ex-wife, an alcoholic who is now sober and is on her apology tour for all the people she hurt. She begins to become part of Logan’s life again, and Max shows both curiosity – and, yes, the inevitable jealousy.
Max’s mind is taken off the drama of her bike by looking through the classifieds – and seeing her barcode in print with a time and a place to meet. It could be Lydecker – or it could be one of the other Mantecore kids.
Of course, it turns out to be neither, it’s Vogelsang, the private detective she once hired who was compromised by Lydecker. He wants $15,000 to give her information about Project Mantecore – something he’s not supposed to know. And that he knows there’s another X5 in Seattle. On a deadline, Max goes to Logan for the money (while he is continuing to spend time with his ex-wife) and he refuses – he’s convinced it’s a trap and he won’t help her walking into it.
Time to pay a visit to the place where her bike has been kept. Being an X5 makes for easy stealing and safe cracking. In one easy visit she has the money she needs and her bike back.
Work continues at a slow pace much to Normal’s annoyance, with his workers moving as slowly as possible in protest of him firing Herbal, and Sam not actually knowing his way around the city. And poor Sam is not finding it easy to make friends with Max and her hostile co-workers.
Vogelsang arranges to meet Max by phone – and to convince her he has information she wants, he tells her about a man having a barcode tattoo removed from the back of his neck – and the number is Zack’s, one of the X5s who escaped with her from Mantecore, the leader. Lydecker is also onto him, though, having an implant placed in Vogelsang’s ear so even though he took precautions they could hear what he said (albeit very muffled). When Max arrives at the meeting with Vogelsang, there’s already a crowd, he has been shot and killed. And, as Max watches, Lydecker arrives.
Labels: 3.5 Fangs, dark angel, dystopian, sci-fi, speculative fiction
Hex, Season 2, Episode 5: With a Little Help From My Friends: Part 1
After the machinations of last week, Ella ended up being sectioned as delusional and mentally ill. Her ranting in the hospital isn’t helping anything especially since, as we saw when she joined the school, the school is technically her legal guardian and has signed her other to be institutionalised for 28 days.
This she, rather naturally and honestly, blames on the very guilty Thelma.
At the school, awesome headmaster David is not happy with any of this – especially not with demon-priest Jez searching through Ella’s things and pushing for further institutionalisation. Something he’s also taking up with the governors and making it clear he is less than happy with the attempts to sweep everything under the rug. He hands in his resignation, leaving the school in Jez’s hands. He asks Leon to visit Ella to help reassure her.
The school has also arranged for Ella to have a private nurse – which, of course, Ella doesn’t trust even slightly. Thelma encourages Ella to take the chance to rest – but Ella points out they’re going to poison her while she’s there and Thelma needs to get her out. Demonic nurse is, indeed, demonic and continues to force poisonous St. John’s Wart on Ella while she’s helpless.
Roxanne, in Jez’s thrall, tries to make sure Leon and co won’t visit her or have anything to do with her. Something Leon not only disapproves of, but slaps down completely. Thelma sees this is a good sign – so decides to pay a visit to Leon’s dreams. There follows the worst attempt at seduction ever in the history of cunning romance and, after Leon’s cowering in his bed hiding from Thelma, she resorts to just talking to him and encouraging him to visit Ella (and ignore Roxanne).
Leon tries to interpret his very odd dream with Tom the next day but, despite talking himself out of it, he does visit and is fobbed off by demon nurse. Showing surprising determination, he sneaks in and catches demonic nurse taking orders from Jez banning visitors. And if he wasn’t suspicious – demonic nurse causing his note to spontaneously combust will do it. He finds Ella and sees what a state she has been reduced to – but evil nurse quickly has him evicted.
At school Jez tries to reassure and, when that fails, intimidate Leon. Of course he’s as reassuring as a politician and as intimidating as a garden gnome, so that works. Then Roxanne tries to add her own little acidic note to push him away from Ella – which Leon rebuffs and loudly comments on her having sex with Jez (much to Thelma’s immense delight).
Time for another Thelma dream – where she lays out the action plan: get Ella out (Leon’s job) and find Ella somewhere to hide (also Leon’s job, well she is a ghost). Leon has a friend who was expelled for dealing drugs who will hide her – at least Thelma’s forward planning.
She goes to let Ella know of their crafty plans – but Ella is well and truly losing it under the influence of the St. John’s Wart. To add to Thelma’s suffering, she ends up hiding under the headmaster’s desk when Jez and Roxanne have sex on it. Poor Thelma.
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PANEL-BEATER: My Comic Of The Month: Superman Unchained #1
Hey, Clark Kent and Django. Now I know issue two of this series is already out, with a brilliant building scene that may stand or fall as one of the best Superman moments ever, but for me this is still my pick of the month.
Not only have writer Scott Snyder and artist Jim Lee delivered a blockbuster matching comic with Superman Unchained #1, they created the Superman the DC52 (nay any DC universe) needed as well. This issue humanises Clark in old yet fresh ways, forming the perfect jumping on point or faith restorer in the process.
Now, you could argue taking one of the hottest writers and artists in comics and pairing them with the medium's greatest icon could only result in such, but pride has come before a fall before. Even handling Clark Kent.
With the absence of the JSA in the rebooted DC, the publisher has distanced itself from telling tales of the World Wars to a new target audience who relate more to recent conflicts. Starting this tale with the bombing of Nagasaki, sets the future threat level at a 'this is a job for Superman' high, and feels like a DC once again back to telling great Man of Steel stories people of all ages can connect to.
As satellites rain from the skies, in the present day Superman works hard to save the team trapped upon one of them. Having saved six already, we go behind Superman's cool exterior and become privy to Clark's monologue in a crisis. Reminding himself to reassure the astronauts, stressing over how to handle the onboard reactor, and passing praise back to the victims after the day is saved, encouraging them to celebrate their feat. All showing why 'super' is actually an adjective in describing this 'man'.
As Superman flies off, the next great touch comes into play. His supporting cast. Picking up from Scott Lobdell's stories of Clark leaving the Planet to be a Blogger of news from a human interest perspective, Superman hears Jimmy in his ears, contacting 'Clark' over what's on the newswire. This gives Jimmy more purpose, and explains how Superman stays updated while in the field.
With a few great pages in between set to rule Lex Luthor out of being behind the mysterious orbital failures, the attentions of Clark and Jimmy also hilariously turn to one caped-crusading alter-ego;
Then of course there's Lois Lane. Like the movie Man of Steel Lois, Scott's take is a woman in control of herself and the almost the Daily Planet. Smart and a challenge for Clark Kent, she highlights his error; Superman saved all eight satellites. He did?! Well that is news to Kal-El.
Setting out to find the mystery man or woman that he's unknowingly absorbed the credit for, if Clark thought the Daily Planet was the 'evil empire', wait till he gets a load of this one, complete with a 'Lane' whose explosive secrets may be better left uncovered.
Jim Lee, paired with his unrivalled inking buddy Scott Williams have altered their take on Kal-El since handling writer Brian Azzarello's run on Superman, and Unchained feels fresher for it. Infact this is some of Jim Lee's career best - defining why he has inspired generations of people to pick up a pencil. Scott, the same, only with ink, shows the duo's art is not as heavy as their former run. Mind you the tale isn't either.
The Dustin Nguyen drawn prelude slows down the pace from the prior page's momentum, but never the quality of the ride. In two pages Scott finishes fleshing out Perry White, positioning him has the soul of the Planet, and potentially the one to connect the mystery at the start of this issue with the repercussions at its end.
With its Justice League creative team, Superman Unchained is not only a book in the hands of master watchmakers, ticking away to something truly explosive, but a book you can shove under a non-comic reader's nose, and say 'Here try this!' And isn't that the whole point?
Posted by IADW at 8:00 pm
Labels: Comic of the Month, Jim Lee, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, Panel Beater, Scott Snyder, Scott Williams, Superman, Superman Unchained 1, Wraith
Randomnerd 5:47 am
Wow. Even the plot sounds interesting. And I like the dialogue snippets there.
Thanks Dan. Maybe I've found a Superman book I can actually read.
IADW 6:21 am
I'd say so Random. I think you can tell Snyder is saying, if this is my only Superman tale, it's gonna be everything I want to say on the character. Luckily, making characters fly has always been his strong suit.
Mr. Morbid's House Of Fun 2:33 pm
Hopefully this turns out to be better than horrible writing I've heard that Lobdell turns out lately.
But at least this one will be a beautiful disaster if it doesn't pan out.
IADW 5:24 pm
I think it will be Dale. I don't think you have to get Superman as a writer, I think you have to get Clark. Scott sure has that box ticked and with a foe that can go a few rounds with the Man of Steel too.
Boy Dan, you just said a mouthful. "You have to get Clark" So many writers forget that Clark was raised by two very human parents. Yes, he's an alien. And I'm sure he does have some very alien instincts in there. But all of his childhood memories, all of the "training", all of the teachings from ma and pa Kent were those of a human. You have to be able to write the Clark side very very well, to get us attached. Because if we do not care what he does in his personal life, or more importantly, if he does not care what he does in his personal life, then we're not going to like what he does as Superman.
Exactly Random - whether continuity has Ma and Pa Kent alive isn't really key. What is, are their lessons.
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And that is, I think I have come up with a way to quickly and easily share small tidbits of news, as they break, without waiting to pile them up in tidbits posts that turned out to be my undoing. And not just tidbits I find (since I won't always be on the lookout), but tidbits that readers pass along in the comments, as they have been doing for so many months.
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This will be an experiment--after all, my name (well, my initials) are on the masthead, and I have to be able to vouch for everything I elevate.
The JDLand rules of reporting and evaluating what is news will still apply. For instance, no rumors will be elevated. Longtime commenter/loyalists who have earned a level of trust will be more likely to see their tidbits elevated than someone who just registered. Pure advertisements will not be elevated. (Feel free to buy an ad, though!)
And I might suggest that commenters both try to keep any tidbit offerings short and sweet, and to not try to flood the zone with every little thing--you don't want to get on my bad side. And I reserve the right to do light editing when elevating content.
But if this works, it will actually succeed in making JDLand an even better destination for the latest in neighborhood goings-on than it has been in a long time. And I don't see it taking much of my time, leaving me better rested to write the longer posts on subjects I am interested in.
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JD says: (5/16/18 4:24 PM)
And when I say "keep it short and sweet," I mean, don't suddenly decide you need to write like a reporter. The way y'all have been doing it up to now is just fine. Don't go changing to try and please me.
202_cyclist says: (5/16/18 4:32 PM)
Have I earned the JD Land level of trust?
Tonight's Nats - Yankees game is also cancelled. Rain, rain, go away! In all seriousness, I ran by the waterfront this morning. Due South Dockside and Osteria's outdoor venue are going to have to worry about flooding if this rain persists until Friday/Saturday.
@202: Re: trust, I guess We Shall See!
I was considering offering a coveted JDLand t-shirt to the commenter who has gotten the most tidbits elevated at the end of the year, but I then realized it would begin an arms race.
That's right-- I never received my JD Land t-shirt...
Another M Street move happening, but a lot less exciting: WBJ says that Unity Health Care is leaving Maritime Plaza at 12th and M SE and taking 27,000 square feet at 1100 New Jersey (the CVS building at New Jersey and M). link
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I will also have to start thinking about whether to build a notification system for when tidbits get elevated, for the crazies who really want to know everything immediately.
Lots of possibilities. This is the creativity I get when I'm not feeling like a failure.
CJBabyDaddy says: (5/17/18 12:08 AM)
OMG, JD‘s got a bad side? Why wasn‘t I warned? Just the thought of it makes me want to re-read the new guidelines and find a way to behave.
JD says: (5/17/18 9:45 AM)
A Post article on affordable housing in the District says that the Parcel L project in the Yards is going to be called The Estate, and that 53 of its 264 apartments will be for tenants earning 50 or less of AMI: link Parcel L project page: link
#yardsparcell #yards #development
Mark says: (5/17/18 4:40 PM)
Charles Allen's Office (@CMCharlesAllen) tweeted "2019 budget includes funding for... a connector between Canal Park and Garfield Park..."
What is the connector between Canal Park and Garfield Park? Resurrecting the underpass skate park and graffiti gallery, once CSX is done with construction?
Wow, the Park connector, that brings back some memories. From 2007: link and link
Ampersand says: (5/18/18 10:04 AM)
Probably old news, but I biked up the newly reopened 5th St a couple of days ago. It's not great, but cars can get through again. I'm hoping 4th comes back soon!
The latest Virginia Avenue Tunnel "Coffee with Chuck" presentation has some nice photos of the progress and timelines for the rest of the cross-street closures and reopenings along with dates for the restoration of Virginia Avenue itself: link
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dude says: (5/18/18 6:47 PM)
Had Oath Pizza last night for the first time and really liked it. Staff was friendly too which isn’t always the case in DC.
VelocityChris says: (5/19/18 9:35 AM)
I'm really annoyed and disappointed the Navy Yard Wells Fargo is closing!
JD says: (5/19/18 11:40 AM)
Chris--is there a sign in the window? Some other type of notification? Take of photo of it?
Construction permit issued for Wiseguy Pizza:
PERMIT ISSUED 05/18/2018
NA / ALTERATION AND REPAIR / CONSTRUCTION
EXISTING PIZZA RESTAURANT - NEW OWNER, NEW EQUIPMENT + NEW GELATO & COFFEE SERVICE. MINOR HVAC, PLUMBING & ELECTRIC
VelocityChris says: (5/19/18 12:58 PM)
JD-yes, there are signs in the window and I received a paper in the mail. Closing in August I think (branch AND ATM!), I'll take a pic next time I walk by and post if someone else doesn't first.
Also JD-you've still got that scoop bug apparently, I just got home from a run to HT and walking past Wiseguy noticed the door propped open and sounds of a skilsaw in there but you beat me to it! :)
There was a big debate a while ago on this site about whether exterior work for the Half Street project would begin before the All Star game. The windows have been installed on the first floor.
jdc says: (5/20/18 3:10 PM)
Speaking of Half Street improvements, within the last few weeks additional light poles were being installed on the sidewalk that fronts the Metro entrance. NO actual repair to that disaster of a temporary sidewalk, though.
There is a sign at the top of the F1rst building, “8 + 92 = CROBOP” (In Cyrillic). I have a good guess what this is referring to but can anyone confirm? This reminds me of the good ol’ sign wars last year at the Camden South building.
Twitter says it's "collusion." And those are Ovechkin and Kuznetsov's numbers.
So it is referring to the Caps? They’re colluding with Tampa?
Westnorth says: (5/21/18 2:36 PM)
June 24 is the start date for the revised SE/SW Circulator: Eastern Market - Navy Yard JDLand Cap Riv - Waterfront Station - Wharf - L'Enfant Plaza.
I plan to observe the occasion with a pub crawl!
Speaking of pub crawl, when is the famous JD Land happy hour rescheduled to?
GarfieldPark says: (5/21/18 5:58 PM)
(Also) Speaking of Eastern Market, did ya'll see a Sephora will be opening on the corner there? My wife is a happy camper. "Summer" 2018.
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Trump: Pompeo met N. Korean leader, formed 'good relationship'
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U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday that his secretary of state-designate met with North Korea's leader, saying the two formed a "good relationship."
"Mike Pompeo met with Kim Jong Un in North Korea last week," he tweeted. "Meeting went very smoothly and a good relationship was formed."
The Washington Post reported earlier that Pompeo, the current director of the Central Intelligence Agency, flew to North Korea over the Easter weekend to meet with Kim and discuss preparations for a Trump-Kim meeting.
This graphic image shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (L) and U.S. President Donald Trump. (Yonhap)
A White House official clarified to Yonhap that the trip took place over Easter weekend -- March 31-April 1 -- not last week.
Trump agreed to the summit last month after South Korean officials conveyed the North Korean leader's wish to meet with him as soon as possible, as well as his commitment to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
The summit is expected to take place in May or early June.
"Details of Summit are being worked out now," Trump said in the tweet. "Denuclearization will be a great thing for World, but also for North Korea!"
The U.S. wants to see a complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of North Korea. But skeptics have questioned whether the North will abandon its nuclear weapons program, which it sees as key to the survival of its regime.
At his confirmation hearing last week, Pompeo made clear the U.S. would not reward North Korea until the regime fully dismantles its nuclear arsenal.
"It is the intention of the president and the administration not to do that this time, to make sure that before we provide rewards, we get the outcome permanently, irreversibly," he said.
Past negotiations and agreements with Pyongyang led to a temporary freeze of its nuclear facilities in exchange for economic aid. But the deals ultimately collapsed as the regime was found to be running clandestine nuclear programs.
Pompeo also expressed confidence that the administration will come up with conditions for a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue.
"No one is under any illusions we'll reach a comprehensive agreement through the president's meeting," he said at the Senate hearing. "But to set up the conditions acceptable to each side, for the two leaders who will ultimately make the decision about whether such an agreement can be achieved and then set in place, I'm optimistic that the United States government can set the conditions for that appropriately."
While his mission is to stop the North from achieving the capability to threaten the U.S. with nuclear weapons, it is not his aim to push for a regime change, Pompeo added.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected to vote on the nomination next week amid opposition from Democrats and Republican Sen. Rand Paul from Kentucky.
"I think he's going to come through," Trump said later Wednesday during a working lunch with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. "I think Mike Pompeo will go down as one of the great secretary of states. And, by the way, he just left North Korea. Had a great meeting with Kim Jong-un, and got along with him really well, really great."
The Koreas have meanwhile been preparing for their own summit on the inter-Korean border next week.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in is to meet with Kim on April 27 to talk about denuclearization and bringing permanent peace to the peninsula.
The two sides will discuss a peace treaty to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War, according to South Korean officials. The conflict ended with merely a truce, leaving the Koreas still technically at war.
Trump said Tuesday the Koreas have his "blessing" for a peace deal. (yonhap)
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S. Korea to spend over 60 pct of budget in 1st half: finance minister
집권 9년차 김정은, 올해 생일도 조용히 지나가나
U.S. says significant drop in N.K. provocations shows progress toward goals
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Korean footballers shine in Europa League
By Nam Hyun-woo Tottenham Hotspur’s Son Heung-min returned to the pitch and had an assist in his side’s 2-1 Europa League win over Anderlecht, while FC Augsburg’s Ji Dong-won scored his second goal of this season, Friday....
Uli Stielike’s S. Korean squad blanks Jamaica 3-0, now 13-1-3 for the year
Ji Dong-won shines SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea blanked Jamaica 3-0 in a soccer friendly at home on Tuesday, extending a run of solid play of late. Ji Dong-won, Ki Sung-yueng and Hwang Ui-jo each scored a...
Ji Dong-won leaves EPL for Bundesliga
South Korean soccer player Ji Dong-won has left English side Sunderland to join FC Augsburg in Germany on a permanent basis, both clubs announced Thursday. FC Augsburg, in the top-flight Bundesliga, said on its website that Ji,...
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Heroin Task Force
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Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital Ozaukee Intensive Outpatient Treatment Program:
Intake Line: 262-241-6127. Individual assessments for AODA and intensive group therapy treatment. 3 days per week, 3 hours per day. Aftercare planning and referral for ongoing support and treatment available. Suboxone Induction program available only for patients agreeing to participation in Outpatient Program for 4-6 weeks.
Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital Ozaukee Emergency and Medical Services
For patients presenting to the Emergency Department in ACUTE withdrawal with major medical symptoms of withdrawal from opiates. Patient’s assessed for immediate acute admission. Not appropriate access for patients not in acute withdrawal whose medical condition does not warrant admission to inpatient hospital for medical stabilization. Click here to view Columbia St. Mary's staff directory.
Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital Adolescent Substance Abuse Program (ASAP):
Intake Line: 262-241-6127. Assessment, screening, education and individual treatment for children and adolescents with substance abuse/addiction issues. Strong focus and screening for risk for abuse and prevention. Assessment and referrals for higher level of treatment when appropriate, such as residential treatment.
Aurora Psychiatric Hospital:
Offers a variety of services, inpatient hospitalization, partial hospitalization, residential treatment, and outpatient services. The staff is experienced in working with children, adolescents, adults, older adults, couples and families. They provide all levels of care, specialized for most behavioral health problems. Call Aurora at (877) 666-7223 or view their website by clicking here.
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One of three hospital campuses and six outpatient locations in Wisconsin offering a variety of mental health and addiction services for adults, adolescents and children. Rogers–Brown Deer provides inpatient withdrawal management, partial hospital and intensive outpatient services for heroin, alcohol and other drug addiction, as well as dual diagnosis. Residential treatment is also available at Herrington Recovery Center in Oconomowoc. Each patient receives comprehensive, evidence-based programming and an individualized treatment plan. Visit rogershospital.org or call 414-865-2500 to learn more.
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Meta House has been blazing new trails in women’s substance abuse treatment since our doors opened in 1963. The agency is noted as one of the first residential treatment facilities in the country designed specifically for women. Knowing that the women served at Meta House want to be good mothers and recognizing that the well-being of children and sobriety of mothers are linked, in 1988, Meta House became one of the first substance abuse treatment centers to include children in the residential setting. Mothers and children live together in our residential facility receiving services simultaneously. Click here to view their website. Brochure l Virtual Tour
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T. Jonathan Hargis - Director of Bands
Mr. Hargis is a native of Gloucester County Virginia & resides in the Wicomico section of Gloucester with his wife Sharon and Children Hailey, Jackson and Carson. His oldest daughter, Kendall, is married and resides in Richmond, VA. Mr. Hargis received his BS in Instrumental Music Education from Old Domonion University ('83) and a Master of Arts from VA Tech ('85) in Curriculum and Instruction. Mr. Hargis studied Saxophone with Dennis Zeisler at ODU and studied Conducting and Saxophone at VA Tech. Mr. Hargis student taught under Percy Ironmonger at Tabb High School and is currently employed with the Williamsburg / James City County Public School System. Mr. Hargis has served WJCC as Director of Bands at Lafayette HS, Warhill HS, Berkeley MS and served as the divisions Coordinator of Music. In 2014 he was reappointed as Director of Bands at Lafayette High School.
4460 Longhill Road, Williamsburg, VA 23188 (757) 565-0373
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The Centre for Marine Biodiversity wants to ensure the safety of marine biodiversity from an array of usually anthropogenic toxic substances. We believe that every product of human industrialization has effects on the health of not only humans but also other species.
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Who attended? The signup roster
Below is a list of participants in Journalism That Matters: The DC Sessions, Aug. 7-8, 2007, at The George Washington University School of Media & Public Affairs. To add link a link, simply click on the "edit" tab on the top of this page to edit and then the "save page" tab when done.
Bill Allison, The Sunlight Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Christopher Anderson, Ph.D. communications candidate, Columbia University, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Faye Anderson, citizen journalist, Anderson@Large, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Richard Anderson, founder/CEO, VillageSoup.com, Rockland, Maine
Angie Bado, president/founder, mckinneynews.net, McKinney, Texas
Robert Basler, Reuters Inc. blogger, Washington, D.C.
Paul Bass, editor, New Haven Independent/ Online Journalism Project, New Haven, Conn.
Matthew Bates, doctoral student, University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism (AEJMC)
Valery Y.R. Bates-Brown, asst. VP / professor, visual communications, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Va.
David Bennahum, president/CEO, The Center for Independent Media, Washington, D.C.
Clyde Bentley, convergence journalism professor, University of Missouri (AEJMC)
Scott Bosley, executive director, American Society of Newspaper Editors, Reston, Va.
Wally Bowen, exec. director, Mountain Area Information Network, Asheville, N.C.
John Boyer, executive director, Ilmworks Inc./Muslim Project, Annandale, Va.
Lorraine Branham, director, School of Journalism, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Steve Brant, Founder & Principal, Trimtab Management Systems, HuffPost Blogger, New York, N.Y.
Cody Brotter, student editor-in-chief, The Hastings Buzzer, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Merrill Brown, / chairman, NowPublic.com / editorial director,of the News21 Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education
Will Bunch, reporter/blogger, Attytood, and The Daily News, Philadelphia, Pa.
Patrick Butler, vice president, programs, International Center for Journalists, Washington, D.C.
Bill Buzenberg, executive director, Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C.
Jessica Bynoe, Program Officer, Youth Engagement, Academy for Education Development, New York, N.Y.
Mary Beth Callie, assistant professor, communication, Regis University, Denver, Colo. (AEJMC)
Ed Carter, assistant professor, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Sam Chaltain, Executive Director, Five Freedoms, Washington, D.C.
Sue Ellen Christian, assoc. prof. of journalism, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Jessica Clark, research director, Center for Social Media, American University and editor-at-large, In These Times magazine
David Cohn, graduate student, blogger/ Columbia Journalism School and NewAssignment.Net, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Jeff Crigler, CEO, Voxant Inc., Reston, Va.
Ingrid Dahl, Editor, Youth Media Reporter, Academy for Educational Development, New York, N.Y. Youth Media Reporter
George L. Daniels, asst. professor of journalism, Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AEJMC)
Tom Davidson, project director, Tribune Interactive, Newport News, Va.
Michael Deehan, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Bill Densmore, director, The Media Giraffe Project at UMass, Amherst, Mass.
Eduardo de Oliveira, editor, The Brazilian Journal/N.E. Ethnic Newswire / Nashua, N.H.
Neil Didriksen, publisher, Maryland Media, Lutherville, Md.
Jacqueline Dupree, JDLand and intranet editor, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
Margaret Duffy, acting dean for graduate studies, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo.
Todd Eskelsen, attorney/partner, Schiff Hardin LLC, Washington, D.C.
Guillemette Faure, U.S correspondent,Le Figaro and Rue89
Fabrice Florin, director, NewsTrust.net, Mill Valley, Calif.
Pam Foster, director, student publications, Tennessee State Univ., Nashville, Tenn.
Andrea Breemer Frantz, associate professor, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Margaret Freivogel, co-founder, St. Louis Platform, Kirkwood, Mo.
William Freivogel, acting dean, School of Journalism, Southern Illinois University, Cabondale, Ill. (AEJMC)
Lew Friedland, Madison Common co-founder and professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Paul Fucito, communications director, School of Media & Public Affairs, GWU, Washington, D.C.
Kevin Gamble, associate director, National eXtension Initiative, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, N.C.
Manuel Garcia, AME-Metro, The Miami Herald Media Co., Miami, Fla.
Robert Giles, curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Dan Gillmor, founder, Center for Citizen Media, Berkley, Calif., and Cambridge, Mass.
Bob Greiner, local news editor, WashingtonPost.com, Arlington, Va.
Tom Grubisich, OJR contributor, web editor, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Andrew Haeg,senior producer, CIJ, American Public Media, Saint Paul, Minn.
John Hamer, executive director, Washington News Council, Seattle, Wash.
Tanya Harned, ePluribus Media and ePluribus Media Timelines, Columbia, Mo.
Tana Hartman, board member/talk-show host, The Peoples Channel, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Susan Hasan collaborator, Ilmworks Inc./Muslim Project, Annandale, Va.
Arthur Hayes, associate professor, Dept. of Communication & Media Studies, Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y.
Barbara Hipsman, associated professor/news, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Peggy Holman, author, The Change Handbook and co-director, Journalism that Matters Consortium, Seattle
Brant Houston, director, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Columbia, Mo.
Cody Howard, 6News director, The World Company, Lawrence, Kansas
Anne Hoyt, master's candidate/Georgetown University, Washington correspondent, Mexico's Grupo Radio Centro / Washington, D.C.
Evelyn Hsu, program director, Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, Oakland, Calif.
Lee W. Huebner, director, School of Media & Public Affairs, the Geo. Washington Univ., Washington, D.C.
G. Patton "Pat" Hughes, CEO-editor, Paulding.com / Neomaxcom LLC / Dallas, Georgia
Paul Janensch, associated professor, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Conn. (AEJMC)
Debra Jasper, director, Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, Ohio
William Jiles, Florida A&M University (AEJMC)
Pam Johnson, executive director, Reynolds Journalism Institute, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
Linda Jue, exec. director, New Voices in Independent Journalism / exec. editor, George Washington Williams Fellowship, San Francisco
Mark Jurkowitz, associate director, Project on Excellence in Journalism, Washington, D.C.
Susan Kearney, vp-marketing, Voxant, Inc., Reston, Va.
Janet Keefer, associate professor, School of Journalism and Mass Comm, journalism, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa (AEJMC)
Janet Key, lecturer in journalism/mass. comp./American University in Cairo, Egypt
Natasha Klauss, videographer, The Documentary Center at Geo. Washington Univ., Washington, D.C.
Steve Klein, Coordinator, Electronic Journalism Program, George Mason University
Susan M. Knight, journalism professor, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
Bill Kovach, chairman/acting director, Committee of Concerned Journalists, Washington, D.C. (AEJMC)
Peggy Kuhr, dean, University of Montana Journalism School, Missoula, Montana (former Knight Chair, Univ. of Kansas) (AEJMC)
Beth Lawton, digital-media manager, Newspaper Association of America, Arlington, Va.
Tien-Tsung Lee, professor, William Allen White School, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan.(AEJMC)
Al Leeds, president and editorial director, L.A. Times/Washington Post News Service, Washington, D.C.
David Loomis, professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (AEJMC)
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-dc-Chopeta_Lyons Chopeta Lyons,] editor, ePluribus Media and ePluribus Media Timelines, Willington, Conn.
Andrew MacRae, intern,Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C.
Audrey Manring, editor, The Women's Times, Great Barrington, Mass.
Kathleen Manzo, associate editor, EPE/Education Week, Bethesda, Md.
Albert May, assoc. professor of of media and public affairs, George Washington University, Washington,D.C.
Dori Maynard, president, Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, Oakland, Calif.
Jeanne McCann, managing editor, edweek.org, Bethesda, Md.
Jen McClure, executive director, Society for New Communications Research, Palo Alto, Calif.
Meredith McCulloch, New England News Forum, Bedford, Mass.
Shawn Mcintosh, instructor, digital communications, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
Susan McKenna, master's candidate/publications director, Univ. of Illinois College of Communications, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. (AEJMC)
Ilona Meagher, writer, ePluribus Media, Caledonia, Ill.
Gabriella Meerbach, managing director Media on the Spot, Amsterdam (AEJMC)
Sara Melillo, journalism program officer, McCormick Tribune Foundation, Chicago
Rachel Davis Mersey, assistant professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.(AEJMC)
Stephanie Michelle, videographer/attorney, Stealing Joy Productions, Arlington, Va.
Amy Mitchell, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Washington, D.C. (AEJMC)
Bill Mitchell, editor, Poynter Online, The Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Lawrence Mitchell, law professor, Geo. Washington Univ., Washington, D.C.
Arlene Morgan, associate dean, Columbia Univ. Graduate School of Journalism, New York
Nikhil Moro, Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Mich.
Emily Moses, multimedia program coordinator, UC-Berkley Journalism School/Knight New Media Center, Berkeley, Calif.
Sharon Moshavi, director, digital media, International Center for Journalists
Brett Mueller, website manager, Committee of Concerned Journalists, Washington, D.C.
Angela Nelson, senior news/politics producer, Boston.com/Boston Globe, Lowell, Mass.
Chris O'Brien, founder, Next Newsroom Project / reporter, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, Calif.
Russell Okamoto, Cofounder, Public Press, Portland, Ore.
Mike Orren, president and founder, Pegasus News / Panlocal Media, Dallas, Texas
Geneva Overholser, professor, Univ. of Missouri journalism school, Washington, D.C.
Robert Park, graduate student journalism, Point Park Univ., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Michael Parks, director, School of Journalism, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles
Chris Peck, editor, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.
Dale Peskin, managing director, iFOCUS, Virginia
Nicholas Penniman, Washington director, Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, Washington, D.C.
Peter Perl, asst. managing editor/training, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
Steve Petersen, The Bivings Group, Washington, D.C.
Victor Pickard, FreePress.net and graduate student, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ill.
Vikki Porter, director, Knight Digital Media Center, Los Angeles, CA
Krishna Prasad, Citizen Journalist, Churumuri and Sans Serif, Mysore, India
Jay Rosen, NewAssignment.Net, OffTheBus, and New York University, New York
Marjorie Rouse, vp Europe/Eurasia, Internews Network, Washington, D.C.
David Ryfe, Ourtahoe.org and the University of Nevada Reno (AEJMC)
Elena Sassower, director, Center for Judicial Accountability, White Plains, N.Y.
Ali Savino, program director, The Center for Independent Media, Washington, D.C.
Jan Schaffer, director, J-Lab/The Institute for Interactive Media, Univ. of Maryland, College Park (AEJMC)
Wadim Schreiner, managing director, Media Tenor Ltd.-South Africa (AEJMC)
Carl Schierhorn, assoc. professor, Kent State Univ. School of Journalism, Kent, Ohio
Barbara Schulz, writer, ePluribus Media and ePluribus Media Timelines, Encinitas, Calif.
Barbara Selvin, journalism professor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, N.Y.
Ellen Scully-Russ, doctoral candidate, Columbia University Teachers College, Oakton, Va.
Jim Shaffer, dean, Univ. of Southern Maine business school, Portland, Maine
Michael Shanahan, asst. journalism professor, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Andrew Sherry,senior vp-online communications, Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C.
Keika Shimmyo, project assistant, School & Community Services, Academy for Educational Development, New York, N.Y.
Vjollca Shtylla, senior program director, International Center for Journalists
Stephen Silha, co-director, Journalism That Matters Consortium and past president, Washington News Council, Seattle, Wash.
Norman Sims, Media Giraffe Project, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. (AEJMC)
Maurreen Skowran, founder, Journawiki and copy editor, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.
Timothy Smith, journalism professor, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Jennifer Snyder-Duch, Assistant Professor, Carlow University, Pittsburgh, Pa.
John Soloski, professor and former dean, University of Georgia, Bogart, Ga.
Tom Stites, consulting editor, Center for Public Integrity, Newburyport, Mass.
S. Holly Stocking, assoc. professor, Indiana University School of Journalism, Bloomington, Ind. (AEJMC)
Michael Stoll, lecturer, San Jose State Univ., and director, Public Press Initiative
Federico Subervi, professor, Texas State Univ. Journalism & Mass. Comm., San Marcos, Texas
Roberto Suro, director, Pew Hispanic Center/USC-Annenberg, Washington,D.C.
Jaap Swart, retired General Manager, Radio Netherlands Training Centre, Amsterdam
Erin Teeling, New Media Associate, The Bivings Group, Washington, D.C.
Jennifer Thomas, journalist/photographer, iberkshires.com/Boxcar Media, North Adams, Mass.
Paul Thomas, writer, ePluribus Media and ePluribus Media Timelines, , Granville, Mass.
Esther Thorson, associate dean, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism
Joe Torres, goverment relations manager, Free Press, Washington, D.C.
Tony Van Witsen, independent documentary producer / formerly PBS Newshour / Boulder, Colo.
Russ Walker, asst. managing editor, nation/world, washingtonpost.com, Alexandria, Va.
Patrick Walters, graduate student, Univ. of Memphis, former Poynter Institute Naughton Fellow, Wyomissing, Pa.
Jennifer Ward, interactive media editor, The Fresno Bee, Fresno, Calif.
Tom Warhover, innovations editor, The Missourian / faculty, Univ. of Missouri J-School, Columbia, Mo.
Elin Waring, ePluribus Media and ePluribus Media Timelines, / Joomla-Open Source Matters, Bronx, N.Y.
Jiyan Wei, product manager, Vocus Inc./PRWeb, Lanham, Md.
Carol White, Book Editor, ePluribus Media, Hamilton, Va.
Josh Wilson, Newsdesk.org / also: Illuminated Media
Leonard Witt, PJNet.org, Robt. Fowler chair, Kennesaw State Univ., Kennesaw, Ga.
Jeffrey Young, web editor, Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington, D.C.
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Where are the shared icons located?
TwoPuppies
Posted: Sat 15 Sep 2018, 01:59 Post subject: gtkrefresh for Xenial
Mike Walsh wrote:
When you say 'a newer version of gtkrefresh', are you talking about a specific binary, or something similar? ...Or are we here talking about a specific script, perhaps?
Here is what I know about gtkrefresh:
The version in Lucid is a binary file, and is located at /usr/bin/gtkrefresh
No equivalent version exists in Slacko or Xenial (or presumably any other recent Puppies).
(Not to be confused with gtk-refresh, which is just a GTK stock icon.)
Its uses include the following:
If you put these three lines in a script...
sed -i '2d' /root/.gtkrc-2.0
sed -i '2i\include "/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks-Smoke/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"\' /root/.gtkrc-2.0
exec /usr/bin/gtkrefresh &
The first two lines will select the GTK Clearlooks theme "Clearlooks-Smoke", and then the third line (using gtkrefresh) will apply the theme.
In other words, line 3 has the same effect as pressing the OK or Apply buttons in Chtheme (the GTK Theme Chooser interface), but with the added advantage that it can be called from a script.
gtkrefresh is provided earlier in this thread by Mark (forum member MU). So I guess he is really the person to whom we should be talking. I have no idea if Mark is still active on the Forum. Sometimes people just seem to vanish. I am assuming that Mark created gtkrefresh, although I might be wrong about that. He provides some details about it in this post a couple of pages back. There is a download link for it here, so you can download it and have a look at it. He also provides a link to another thread where the source code for gtkrefresh can be accessed.
As I said in my first post, Mark's version of gtkrefresh does not work in Xenial, and what I am after is an up-to-date version of his binary file that is compatible with more recent Puppies (such as Xenial). If Mark did make the original we might be able to prevail on him to make us a new one.
What you really need is two puppies:
Puppy Linux, and the sort with four legs and a tail.
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mikeslr
Location: 500 seconds from Sol
Posted: Sat 15 Sep 2018, 14:58 Post subject:
Unfortunately, gtkrefresh is a compiled binary. Unlike a bash-script, you can't just change it or re-write it using whatever version of bash is currently installed on your operating system. You have to compile it; and to do so you have to obtain the source file and know what compiling instructions are needed.
Location: King's Lynn, UK.
Mm.....
Y'know, I have a sneaking suspicion, looking at it, that that source code might have been written with Puppy 2/3/4 in mind. I wouldn't even want to hazard a guess as to whether a modern gcc, compiler, bin-utils, etc, could even do anything with it, since Puppy's code has changed quite a lot since those early days.
Added to which fact Mark Ulrich hasn't been seen on the forum in years. He's still in the Members list - but all his content and other references have been wiped, so there is no way of contacting him (unless you happened to have a current e-mail addy, and were keeping in regular contact with him).
MY 'PUPPY' PACKAGES
That's a shame. Anyway, at least you have given me a definitive answer. Thanks to both of you for your replies.
Posted: Tue 09 Oct 2018, 02:37 Post subject: gtkrefresh for Xenial
OK, well after a great deal of searching it turns out that there is a more up-to-date version of gtkrefresh that works in Xenial. It's called pGtk-theme-refresh-1.1 and is provided by forum member Trio.
Here's the forum thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=811270
Download the PET:
pGtk-theme-refresh-1.1.pet
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Filename pGtk-theme-refresh-1.1.pet
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11 Sync Licensing: TV / Movies / Video Games 8 Sync Licensing: Advertising 3 Song placements 3 Exposure Opportunity 2 Publishing Deal 2 Labels / Record Deals 1 Music Blogs
18 Non-Exclusive
7 Not Available 4 $501 - $1,000 1 $1,500 - $2,000 3 $3,001 - $5,000 2 $5,001 - $10,000 1 $10,001 - $25,000
new $5,000 to $7,500 per placement on numerous streaming platforms
$5,000 to $7,500 per placement on numerous streaming platforms
Following our biggest year ever, which has seen One Night Stand Music deliver more placements and 6 figure deals most recently for bands like BrokenRail, ONS are incredibly excited to offer a number of ongoing placements with some of the biggest streaming platforms for a 2 year period.
The opp is simple but huge…
We have numerous projects (movies and series) looking for music and if selected (by us), your music will be pitched to any or all that fit. Average payments will be $5,000 to $7,500 per full / partial use and for the 2 year period this opp covers, that means numerous potential placements and huge pay-outs.
We are happy to consider Rock, Indie, Pop, Hip Hop / Rap, Christian, Blues, Jazz, Easy listening, Romantic Ballads, Metal, New Age / World, R&B, Country, Industrial, EDM, Beats, Funk, Classical and Soundtrack. As always with us, what we want is quality, quality, quality.
Remember one submission can potentially land you multiple placements at $5,000 to $7,500 per full / partial use.
So, if you want to receive $5,000 to $7,500 for each track selected then all you need to do is SUBMIT TODAY!
Yes we welcome originals and covers.
Yes this is non-exclusive so you are giving up NO rights.
Yes we are taking instrumental and tracks with vocals as well as cues, beats and partials.
Yes we welcome multiple submissions from the same artists / band / writer.
Yes you can resubmit a track or tracks if we have previously said yes or no to them. Every track will be listened to with fresh ears.
This opp is huge and the more quality music we are pitching on your behalf, the better your chances. I really would suggest submitting as much music as you can on this one – this really is a potential life changer!
Last date for submissions is the 5th of February 2020.
- Stuart Cheese / One Night Stand
Sentimental, Unconditional Love Songs Needed for Film Placement
We are in need of an emotional song that is sentimental in nature. It can be about unconditional love, loyalty, sticking through hard times, looking forward to better times. Open to all genres, but primarily looking for singer/songwriter based songs.
If we think your song may fit, we will place it on hold and contact you further if it makes it to the final decision process.
- Ric Robbins / Incorporated Elements
Compensation: $3,001 - $5,000
Top 40 type Pop Songs needed for film license
Current/Billboard top 40 type Pop songs needed for a film license. The film will release in mid to late-2019, so final decision is still a few months away. Songs can be male or female vocals. Some rap can be included, but mostly singing. Think along the lines of Camila Cabello, Ariana Grande, Post Malone, Justin Timberlake, Maroon 5, Lauv, Nicki Minaj, Shawn Mendes, Bebe Rexha, Ed Sheeran. We are open to a wide variety of artist styles, but they must fit in the lane of what you would hear on Top 40 radio and see on top Pop Spotify playlists currently.
If we think your submission may fit, we will place it on hold for further review by the entire team working on this project. If it is selected, we will contact you further with details.
Please keep in mind that this is a “submission-only” dropbox. We are looking for the perfect song for this pitch. We will not be giving detailed feedback on submissions. Either we feel the song may fit the brief or it doesn’t. We apologize for not being able to give feedback beyond whether it fits or not, but the time constraints of the nature of these projects will not allow us the time to give in-depth feedback on the song. We will, however, submit ratings on every submission.
Incorporated Elements is a company that works with songwriters, artists, producers, and DJ's to help them perfect their craft and fully realize the potential in their art. We work in the areas of production, publishing, film/TV licensing, artist development.
Similar Sounding Artists: Camila Cabello, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, Maroon 5, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Justin Timberlake, Post Malone, Lauv, Shawn Mendes, Bebe Rexha
Pop, acoustic, and Singer/Songwriter tracks needed for film placement
We are in need of songs about love and having faith in finding a lasting love. Styles can be Pop, acoustic, or Singer/Songwriter. Male or female vocals or both.
The song is needed for a film being released in late 2019, so the decision process will last a while to find the perfect fit.
Pop songs needed for Genuine Music Group artist: J Grace
Looking for Latin-leaning pop songs for new debut 19 year old female recording artist J Grace. Prefer produced tracks in line with the genre we are requesting. Please review her video at:
- J Grace - Love Me feat. Frankie J
Similar Sounding Artists: Tinashe "Superlove"
Female Indie Rock/Pop Songs Wanted
We are seeking indie rock/pop female vocal songs. A good reference would be in the style of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Big powerful vocals with 'that something really special' quality.
The songs must be 100% owned by the writer/writers.
Pop-Up Music is a PRS registered music library and publisher located in London. We pride ourselves in providing undiscovered music and bespoke music for advertising, film, TV, gaming and corporate.
Thanks, Pop-Up Music.
Similar Sounding Artists: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Pop-Up Music Worldwide Opportunity
We at Pop-up Music are seeking new tracks for an exciting new worldwide opportunity. Having inked deals with some of the most happening sub-publishers we are looking for songs to add into this exclusive catalogue and distribute worldwide.
We need URGENTLY Rock, Indie, Singer Songwriter, Folk, Blues, Jazz, Indie Folk, Soul, Electro, Electro Folk, Pop we need it all!
We look forward to your submissions
DEBUT Your Song With HHM
We are looking for SERIOUS artists to debut your track through our platform and push the music through our many connections, email marketing and through our social media accounts @HipHopMonument. We look forward to hearing you!
Searching for Music Producers/Composers for Catalog Inclusion & Placement Opportunities.
Blown Away Records, LLC. is in search of music producers/composers catalog inclusion major placement opportunities. Blown Away Records, LLC. is a full service, creative entertainment powerhouse specializing in music licensing, production, and branding. Our seasoned professional producers, songwriters, creative directors and musicians have over a combined 40 years of experience and success with Grammy nominations and award-winning placements. Other services we offer include sound packs, branding, graphic design, website development, and marketing.
- Kyle 'Rev' Miller - Owner - Blown Away Records, LLC.
Music webzine covering a wide range of artists
Please submit all kinds of music. Specializing in indie, electronic, wave and experimental. Please no covers. Music fan and music journalist. Last Day Deaf blog owner.
Music webzine covering a wide range of artists from indie to jazz and from electronic to metal...Few words...Let the music speak....
- CHRISTOS DOUKAKIS - Owner/Publisher - www.lastdaydeaf.com
Possible Site Feature, Spread your music around the world
Keep Walking Music is a Madrid based online music platform that launched in 2015, and has since showcased local and worldwide talent. We are dedicated to discovering and featuring exceptional artists that we feel deserve a platform in the public eye.
The feedback you will receive will be an honest feeling from listening to your music, and should never be taken as a personal criticism. A quick browse through the blog will give you a sense of the editorial.
- Salah EddineBenali / Keep Walking Music
Deal Type: Exposure Opportunity
Similar Sounding Artists: Lady Gaga, Adele, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Drake, Jay Z, Selena Gomez, Eminem
Seeking Pop Songs / Rhythmic Pop for Genuine Music Group
Looking for radio ready rhythmic pop songs for pitching. Demo's (good production) encouraged. Anything from Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Beibs, and Ariana Grande etc... Please make sure songs are in the current Contemporary Hit Radio space.
Similar Sounding Artists: Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, etc
Seeking Sound Designers, Producers & Artists for Licensing and Major Placement Opportunities.
Seeking Sound Designers, Producers & Artists for Licensing and Major Placement Opportunities
Seeking sound designers, producers and artists/performers for licensing and major placement opportunities. Blown Away Records, LLC. is a full service, creative entertainment powerhouse specializing in music licensing, production, and branding. Our seasoned professional producers, songwriters, creative directors and musicians have over a combined 40 years of experience and success with Grammy nominations and award-winning placements. Other services we offer include sound packs, branding, graphic design, website development, and marketing.
Deal Type: Collaboration/Sync Placement
Similar Sounding Artists: Any and All.
70's Funk, Soul, Disco - songs needed
Pop-Up Music is seeking 70's Funk, Soul, Disco - Tracks form back in the day or good quality retrospective tracks from today - as well as contemporary songs with influences from the 70's.
This opportunity is for a non exclusive contract - all submissions must be 100% owned by the writer/writers. No tracks with samples please.
We look forward to your submissions!
Many thanks, Pop-Up Music.
Compensation: TBD based on final placement / Typically $500+
Similar Sounding Artists: Average White Band, Kool & The Gang, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, Curtis Mayfield, Jackson 5, Donna Summer, Ike & Tina Turner, Funkadelic, Gladys Knight, Gloria Gaynor
Seeking Beats/Tropical Bass for Sync License
We are working on a project that requires a distinct sound - a beat-driven soundtrack - in the vein of Branko - Tropical Bass Movement. All submissions must be original and contain no samples. Vocal and instrumental versions accepted.
We look forward to your submissions - many thanks
- Mark Garfield / Pop-Up Music Uk Limited
Similar Sounding Artists: Branko
Seeking Authentic Music/Recordings
Looking for authentic music from as early as the 20s up until the 90s. Recordings have to be authentic and from these eras, NOT recordings made to sound that way. Wide range of styles from jazz, soul, funk, blues to hip hop, genuine vintage, no simulations please. If you are sending music please ensure you have the rights to the master and publishing - it needs to be cleared one-stop.
We look forward to hearing some lost treasures. Thanks!
Compensation: Negotiable Based on Placement
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Counties • Health
Improve sanitation in Murang’a town
Residents asks Municipality Board to improve sanitation in Murang’a town
By Bernard Munyao – Kna Muranga
Residents of Murang’a town and the business community are challenging the newly inaugurated Municipality Board to improve sanitation and security within the town.
Speaking during a public participation forum in Murang’a town, the residents decried what they described as deteriorating sanitation standards which were putting their lives at risk of contradicting diseases.
Increased population in Murang’a town and its environment, the participants claimed, had exerted pressure on available sanitation facilities hence the urgent need to expand the facilities.
Traders at Mukuyu open market on the outskirts of the town complained that the town has not been supplied with water for several months, something which puts locals at risk of contracting cholera among other water borne diseases.
Phyllis Waithera, a trader at the market told members of the Board headed by Ben Githinji that they have been forced to access toilet services from neighbouring residential houses after water connected to the market toilets was disconnected.
“The market is one of the main sources of revenue to Murang’a County government but it’s unfortunate the place lacks clean water!” posed Waithera.
She also challenged the Board to install security lights within the markets saying theft of their merchandise have increased in the recent past.
The residents further decried delay in collection of garbage, accusing devolved administration of not providing enough facilities and manpower towards effective collection and disposal of garbage.
“We cast our hopes to you Municipality Board in employing enough personnel to handle cleaning, garbage collection and manning of sewerage line so as we can live in clean environment,” one of the residents Peter Mwangi told the members of the Board.
Mwangi said the Board needs also to increase trucks so as to ensure the exercise of collection of garbage is done on a daily basis.
The seven-member Murang’a Municipal Board was inaugurated in February this year and has started collecting views from residents before embarking into delivering services.
The Board, will get funding from the National government through the Kenya Urban Centres Support Programme and also from the county government in effort to improve services within Murang’a town and neighbouring urban centres.
The municipality board is also entrusted to mobilize resources from donors among other shareholders towards achievement of its responsibilities.
Fielding questions from the participants, the members of the Board promised to move swiftly and provide needed services in the town.
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Love Gone Wrong 2
October 16, 2017 miraclenkwor 1,077 views Leave a comment
She opened her eyes slowly and immediately closed them as the rays of the sun penetrated the windows; and then slowly, she opened them until everything finally came into focus. From where she sat facing the window, she could see that she was not on the ground floor of wherever she was. She was still tied to a chair but she was in a different room and there was no duct tape over her mouth.
She wondered where she was. She then remembered her kidnapper pulling the trigger. She was still alive so it was obvious he had shot her father. She felt hot tears sting her eyes instantly.
Who was this man? And why in God’s name would he think she had a hand in the accident that had occurred ten years ago?
Onyinyechi Nwodo…
Chinonso Okeke, her best friend, had been dating her until her death. She had never even had an encounter with her, but Ify disliked how outspoken she had been. That was all. Chinonso had never remained the same after the incident; he was beyond help and she had not heard from him in years.
Her father had been killed because a scoundrel thought they had a hand in her death…
Instead of feeling anger, Ify felt scared.
…and then she thought of it. Why was she still alive? Where was she?
“Help” she said weakly. She was thirsty and tired. “Someone, help me” she said a bit louder than the first cry.
“If you don’t want to join your father, you’d better shut your mouth” the familiar deep gruff voice said behind her as she gasped.
“Please” she begged. “Trust me, you have the wrong person…I –” she stopped as his strong hands gripped her face from behind, holding her chin tightly that she felt her gum would bleed.
“Your denial makes my blood boil” he said as he released her and stood in front of her. Her head was bowed. “I swear you will pay for what you did…you thought you could hide forever?” he asked rhetorically as Ify bit her lips wondering for the umpteenth time why the maniac thought she was a murderer.
…and who even said she had been on the run? What was she running away from?
“You will suffer for what you did…for what you and your good-for-nothing father did” he swore angrily and squatted to be on the same eye level with her but her head was still bowed.
“How does it feel to know your father was killed and you could do nothing about it?” the malice in his voice was unmistakable. “Answer me” he yelled as she looked up angrily.
“You’re a –” she stopped as she stared in shock at her captor. “Nonny?” she called to be sure. “Nonny…you…” the tears that welled in her eyes threatened to trickle down her cheeks as she stared at her best friend who had just murdered her father.
“The sooner you stop shedding those crocodile tears, the better for you” his angry tone came again but Ify had still not gotten over the shock.
“Nonny why…what…w…how…” she stammered stupidly and realized that a million questions tried to make their way out of her mouth.
“You’re shocked…you thought I wouldn’t find you, right?” he smiled wickedly as she stared at him.
What was wrong with him?
She never knew he had also gone crazy…and that too he was very dangerous and her life was in extreme danger.
“Nonny…” she tried to sound calm. Maybe she could talk to her best friend in the maniac staring at her. “Nonny…why would you think I –”
“Would you cut the act, Ifeoma?”
“What act?”
“You had a hand in Onyi’s death”
“You’re crazy” she said seriously as he slapped her hard across the cheek and gripped her neck.
“The fact that you’re still breathing does not mean I don’t want you dead yet…” he whispered through clenched teeth as she tried to breathe and he released her while she gasped for air.
She wanted to yell at him; she wanted to tell him to kill her; but he was crazy and that meant he could kill her and probably nobody would know anything about her death.
The question came again, why was she still alive?
As if in reply to her question, he rose up from his squatting position and walked to a corner of the room and from the corner of her eye, she saw him return with a knife and a black refuse bag. Her heart raced. How would it feel when the knife would find its way into her heart? What would become of her four year old child? What would happen to the growing child in her womb? How would David cope?
“Nonny please” she began in fear as he squatted once more before her.
His angry stare replied her. “I’m very sure she was pleading for her life that day” he said as Ify gaped at him and then felt him hold her left hand tightly and cut the rope.
In surprise, she turned to her free hand and held it up but very cautiously while he cut the other on her right hand. Her wrists were chaffed but that would be the least of her problems.
“I said you’re going to suffer for what you did…I wasn’t bluffing. Even though killing you now would be so satisfying, it won’t do me any good to know you just died without going through a pain similar or even worse than she had gone though in that fire” he said and cut the ropes holding her legs to the chair.
“So what are you going to do with me?” she said as he opened the bag and brought out a towel.
“First of all, you’re going to have a bath” he was not surprised at her surprised stare as he rose up and threw the towel at her.
She did not stand up. Was she being cautious? He wondered. That would be really smart of her but would still lead her nowhere.
He pulled her up to her feet but she fell to the ground tired. He pulled her up once more and this time, led her to the en suite bathroom and sat on the seat of the toilet.
“What’s going on?” she found the courage to ask.
“You’re going to get into the bathtub, close the shower curtains and have your bath” he explained as she stared at him.
He really was crazy. “And you’ll remain here…watching me?”
“That’s not going to happen” she hoped he would not hit her again.
“Okay then…you’re not having your bath. Get out of here” he ordered immediately as stared at him and turned to leave. He was already up on his feet when his phone rang and he looked at the screen.
Ify took the chance and ran out of the bathroom, closing the door behind her and locking him in before he could reach for it.
“Bitch” she heard him cuss as he banged on the door furiously. “You’re playing with fire” he warned in a tone that scared her.
She had to get out of there. He would not be a threat to her if she was far from him…but he had kidnapped her. That meant he had his eyes on her. She could not run away from her home with her husband and child because her crazy ex-best friend was after her.
He banged on the door and she shook her head as she made for the door. She could think about that later, all she had to do at the moment was escape. She turned the doorknob but it was locked.
“Shit” she said as she hit her fist on the door and stared at the door of the bathroom in fear. The way he hit the door almost made her think he would send it crashing in minutes.
“Where are the keys?” she asked in a shaky voice as his laughter replied her.
“You really think I’m that stupid?”
With that reply, she sat down downcast on the bed. How on earth would she get out of there?
“You have five counts to open this door” he threatened as she glared at the door and looked around her; her eyes hovered around the bed looking for nothing in particular.
If he broke down the door eventually, she had to be ready to defend herself.
All that was on the bed was a small notepad with an address and time: DIVA’S PLACE; 7:00pm.
She crouched and looked under the bed and her eyes caught sight of a small box. She reached for it immediately and pulled it towards her and finally placed it on the bed.
She had to be fast. She opened the box and stared at the black gun wondering whether to take it or not.
“Four” he yelled as she took hold of the gun immediately and walked towards the door of the bathroom.
“Five” he said but nothing happened and the silence that followed scared Ify to death.
What was he doing? She swallowed hard and pointed the gun at the door, she knew how to use a gun; David had taught her and if Nonso had not caught her off guard in her home, she would have had a chance to defend herself then.
“Just one phone call and your precious David and dear Chidi will join your father”
It had not sounded like a threat, but Ify knew he was very well not bluffing.
“Nonso…please” she begged. Her voice was almost a whisper. She badly needed a drink and he was her only chance of getting one since the door was locked.
Without getting a reply from him, she cautiously and fearfully turned the key in its lock with her grip tightening on the gun.
“It’s open” she announced as he opened it and started to lunge at her but stopped as he stared at the snout of the pistol.
He looked impressed and then angry. “You can’t handle that” he said in a low voice as she scoffed.
“Try me” she said and put out her left hand. “Your phone” she ordered as he stared at her and smiled.
“Don’t be stupid” he advised. “You’ll never know where they are…you just have to give me the gun and –”
“Shut up and give me your phone as well as the keys” she said as he shrugged and put his hand in his back pocket.
Ready for any crooked move from him, she held on to the gun with both hands. She watched him throw the bunch of keys on the floor and smile at her.
She glanced at the keys and back at him. He had set a trap for her; if she bent down to pick them up, he would attack her; and if he bent to pick it, he would probably pull her legs and send her toppling to the ground. He was bigger than her and obviously smarter.
He was reading her expression; anticipating what she would do next; what stupid decision she would take. He was surprised when she took five steps backward and ordered him to pick the keys. As soon as he did, she motioned for him to open the door and he did so without hesitation.
“Turn the door handle” she ordered as he obeyed and the door creaked open.
She did not know when a sigh of relief escaped her; she was free at last. She could not suppress a smile.
“Move” she said with a frown as Nonso obediently did. She motioned for him to move farther with the gun and he did.
It was when he got to the door of the bathroom that she was satisfied. With her back towards the door and her eyes on Nonso, she began to move backward. The first thing she would do would be to get a drink and then she would go to the police.
“Not so fast, sweety” she heard a female voice say behind her and then the cocking of a gun followed. “Drop it” she said as Ify let go of the gun immediately. “Kick it towards him” she ordered as Ify obeyed quickly; her heart beating twice as fast.
Nonso picked up the gun and with a frown, walked towards her. The anger in his eyes was overwhelming that Ify wished the gun behind her would act before he got to her…but it did not.
He gripped her neck unsuspectingly and throttled her as he watched her face redden with pain.
“When I’m done with you, you’ll watch your husband and son burn before your eyes” he promised with his hand still on her neck as she struggled fruitlessly to loosen his grip. “I swear you will watch them go up in flames as I had to watch the girl of my dreams” he continued as her eyes reddened and she feared she would pass out soon.
Her face grew redder but he did not care to loosen his grip on her throat. Just as her eyes began to flutter, he realized himself and shoved her to the wall making her land on the floor with a loud thud that made the lady who had stopped her from going out cringe.
She moved weakly as she earnestly tried to gasp for air. It took a minute and a half for her to catch her breath and when she looked up at him, he had a look of satisfaction in his eyes; he was enjoying himself. He had almost killed her and that meant he would not hesitate to hurt her husband and child. She could not let them die…yet. She had to keep them alive and do whatever he wanted; she had to stick with him like an obedient dog would do to its master.
Her forehead throbbed with intense pain as she managed to open her eyes. She did not know how long she had been asleep. She looked around weakly. She was in a different room. That did not surprise her though. All she could only remember was when Nonso had throttled her to near-death and then she had become unconscious when he began talking on the phone. She tried to sit up but the pain in her head was something she had never felt before. Her body ached all over. She turned slowly to the bedside table and noticed the digital clock standing on it: the time was 1:00pm; but she had no idea what day it was.
She took in a deep breath and finally propped herself up. The pain bolted through her body. The sides of her stomach hurt her so much that she doubted it was hunger. Her unborn child was going through a lot. It felt as if it had been ages since she ate something. She finally managed to get on her feet but not without staggering for few seconds. She put her two hands to her head – how hot it felt.
“Nonny” her voice was merely a whisper and she wondered why she was even calling him.
Well she knew why. He was the only one who could help her. She needed to see a doctor. He hated her but the real Nonso she knew would care about her innocent child; just like its mother was innocent.
“Non –” she stopped as the door opened and a lady came running towards her while Nonso stood at the doorway.
“What is it?” he asked emotionlessly.
“Nonny” she whispered. “I’m pregnant…I just need to see a doctor” she requested as the lady holding her stared at Nonso whose face was completely devoid of emotion.
“I promise I won’t run” she earnestly hoped he believed that she was with child. “I just want to make sure my baby is –”
“Your baby is dead”
By Miracle Emeka-Nkwor (M. E. N)
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QK Round 1: His Little Human versus Beauty and the Crazy Kidnapper
Entry Nickname: His Little Human
Title: The Black Dragon’s Mate
Genre: Adult fantasy romance
What a dragon wants, a dragon takes. Even if it’s a girl.
Sakina Sage, twenty-five year old diplomat with a degree in Dragonology, realizes exactly how true this age-old adage is when The Black Dragon, rumored to be the most bloodthirsty beast of the Dragon Kingdom, gets his claws into her and sweeps her off her feet. Literally.
Making a deal with the dragon is easy. Resisting his cantankerous charm for two whole weeks is not. But just when Sakina’s starting to believe she might actually be the perfect match for a dragon who may or may not eat people (she doesn’t want to ask), things go wrong. An aggravating discovery made in the Dragon Kingdom stirs up old animosities. Caught in the crossfire between dragons out for blood and a Government who wants her for leverage, Sakina will have to use all the diplomatic skills she possesses to prevent carnage and save her relationship with Drake.
As for Drake, he can sum up the situation in about three words. Two, if you’re not particular about verbs. Sakina…and mine.
Excerpt from The GUAN Times (June 02, 1964)
“Today is the dawn of a new era.
The Great War has ended. The Peaceful Treaty of 1964 has been signed. This controversial treaty entitles a dragon to ‘full possession’ of any human he recognizes as a kindred ‘mate’, provided the human suffers no deliberate harm. In return, the Dragon Kingdom shall not launch an offensive on the citizens of GUAN, but may reply in like if provoked.”
Comments on The Peaceful Treaty from all around the world
“We’re aware that some of the conditions of the treaty might seem…extreme. However, the Government pleads to all citizens of GUAN to understand that in the absence of a peaceful treaty with the dragons—at the rate the war was going on—the human race might well have been annihilated.”
Official statement by the President of GUAN
“It’s barbaric. Full ‘possession’ over the human? Has the Government gone mad?”
Annie Bézure, spokesperson for Women Rights Commission (WRC)
“Oh my God. That’s so hot. Have you seen how hot they are? I mean, sure, they breathe fire but that’s only in their dragon form and anyway, it makes them even hotter. Pun unintended. They’re, like, super hot, especially when human. I wouldn’t mind being their possession.”
Katy, teen pop star from Bargh, capital city of GUAN (West Division)
“Ummmm……ummmmm. Ummmmm…..yeah. Ummmmmm…”
Andy ‘Lion’ McDonald, reporter who was delegated to ask the dragons for a formal comment on the treaty and since his return, has been in a dazed state.
Entry Nickname: Beauty and the Crazy Kidnapper
Title: Stealing Fire
Ella’s life for her father’s. It’s the easiest decision she ever made.
When Ella traces her missing father to a decaying mansion, she's shocked to find him being held captive by a dangerous but devastatingly handsome man. He offers Ella a choice: Stay with him and her father can go free.
Lucian isn't just a crazy kidnapper wrapped in eye candy. He's the head of a group of shape shifters who live as humans by day and hideous monsters by night. Desperate to discover why none of his kind have been born in centuries, Lucian stole Ella's father, a scientist who’d previously worked with Lucian’s species on the fertility crisis. When Ella shows up and is immune to Lucian's powers, he sees a chance to get answers, certain the scientist hid them in Ella’s DNA.
Ella willingly trades places with her father and becomes Lucian’s prisoner. He gives her everything she could possibly want except her freedom. The more time she spends with Lucian, the harder it is to deny he’s a ruthless monster. Even so, with every sideways glance and accidental touch, she becomes more confused and Lucian comes closer to forgetting she’s not his.
But their days together are limited. Lucian has enemies, and they’ll do anything to keep his species from expanding. As they close in, Lucian starts to understand the safest place for Ella is far away from him. But a true beast would never give up so easily.
Ella shoved open the door to the sheriff’s office, slamming it against the wall. So what if all the deputies were staring? Let them know she was angry.
Gus glanced up from his paperwork, a lazy grin planted on his face. “Ella, if you really want to see me, all you have to do is call,” he said with his signature drawl that had all the girls in the small Maine town of Pine Springs drooling.
All the girls except Ella.
“Have you found Papa?” she asked, crossing her arms over her chest.
Gus stood up from behind his desk, towering over her tiny five-four frame. “We were able to track his car down, but couldn’t find any sign of him. It’s sitting out in the middle of nowhere. He’s probably in the woods tinkering with some new invention or whatever the hell it is he does.”
Ella chewed her bottom lip. “He wouldn’t run off without telling me. I called the Lexington Hotel. He never checked in, and he was supposed to present at the science symposium last weekend. I haven’t talked to him in over seven days.”
Gus nodded like he was listening, but she recognized the glazed over look in his eyes. He’d already written her off. “Normally, that would all be quite alarming, but you can’t exactly call Dr. Murray ‘normal’.”
She clenched her fists and took a deep breath. “Why aren’t you taking this seriously?”
Gus moved to stand in front of the desk and set a hand on her shoulder.
Labels: Query Kombat '14
Michelle 4 Laughs June 1, 2014 at 8:07 AM
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Book Boyfriend Connoisseur June 1, 2014 at 1:11 PM
His Little Human:
You had me at dragons shifters! There's nothing I would change in this query. It's draws me in and definitely makes me want to read on. Unfortunately the first 250 doesn't. I personally think that this was the wrong place to start out. (or do you even need it at all?) I had to re-read it several times before I understood it was more or less a series quotes from people who I didn't truthfully care about. I love this premise too, and can really see what a good voice you have through the query, I just wish I could have met the characters first.
Stealing Fire:
More shifters, this time with a Beauty and the Beast premise. Love it. The query is good, but I've got a few concerns. The first line is great and sucks you right in. But that second and third paragraph (at least to me) need to be switched. I'm kind of confused as to why Lucian thinks Ella has the answers in her DNA. I know he mentions something about being immune to his powers, but what does that have to do with getting answers? The first 250 consists of five paragraphs, all having started with the name. I'm a stickler for switching that up so as not to sound robotic.
Victory to: Beauty and the Crazy Kidnapper
Captain Yawp June 1, 2014 at 2:45 PM
HIS LITTLE HUMAN
Okay, I love this query, but for the love of all that is human (and not), please let us know in the query that Drake has a human form. Otherwise I’m picturing dragon and human getting busy, and that is a whole other genre all together. Otherwise, I really am hooked by this query!
Agree with Book Boyfriend Connoisseur that I love the newspaper quotes, but I really want to start off in the story with your characters rather than exposition about the dragon laws. I think the quotes would be great to come a little later, but I want to be rooted in the story first.
BEAUTY AND THE CRAZY KIDNAPPER
Woohoo. Love Beauty and the Beast!
In the first paragraph you say “He offers Ella a choice: Stay with him and her father can go free.” What’s the other option? It’s not a choice if there is only one option.
At the end of the query, we know the stakes for Lucian, but what does Ella have to lose? It’s obviously her story to begin with, so we need to know what her stakes are as well.
Gahhh! I want to hear Gus’s line at the end because that will cement him as the douche we know he’s going to be. Can you shorten up the rest so we can get that last remark? Otherwise the end of the first 250 feels unfinished, like we’re waiting for the punchline. Ella’s got some great feistiness. Love this. Definitely agree on varying sentence structure and not always starting with the character’s name.
These are so close, but I have to go with HIS LITTLE HUMAN as VICTOR.
Chelsea Morning June 1, 2014 at 4:24 PM
THE BLACK DRAGON'S MATE:
Query - First off, I'm totally with Captain Yawp, please tell us Drake is the dragon AND he's in human form because, well, yikes. Other than that, the query is great. We get a taste of voice and it's such a unique premise. The last paragraph really delivers.
250 - Well written, but, again, I agree with the other judges... The newspaper quote was great, but a bit of a buzz kill after the query. Definitely use them later, but I'd rather step into the story. I would, however, keep reading.
Query: Retellings are big right now, and this looks fun. It seems you veer from Ella's story to Lucian's toward the end of the query which is hard to follow. Those details are good to know, but not necessary for the query. Maybe stick with Ella's story so the reader can relate and understand her stakes.
250: Well written, but with repetitive sentence structure as already mentioned. Something is nagging at me about it feeling really close to the original telling. I'm not sure if it's the similar names, that Ella refers to her father as papa? But I can't help picture the Disney film adaptation. I am interested and would read on, but I'm not feeling overly pulled in.
Great work and best of luck to you both. Again, a tough call, but VICTORY to HIS LITTLE HUMAN.
Silverwolf June 3, 2014 at 1:47 PM
HIS LITTLE HUMAN -- Query is fun and really captures my attention, but I too feel that we absolutely MUST know beyond a shadow of a doubt about the dragon being in human form for the, uh, romantic encounters. Also, is the book as cheeky and humorous as the query? If it is, the query works well, if not -- I would tone down the humor in the query. (Can't tell from your first 250).
First 250 words -- a clever start, but difficult for the reader to really engage immediately with the story. I wonder if you could save these newspaper headlines, etc. for breaks between the chapters and start with whatever comes after them? As it is, I just can't judge the actual start of your book by these 250 words -- they feel like "asides" or filler.
BEAUTY AND THE CRAZY KIDNAPPER -- Query: I actually think you could cut the second paragraph and maybe just hint at why Lucian wants Ella and his "special nature." You could do something like: "Ella willingly trades places with her father and is imprisoned by Lucien, the head of a group of shape shifters who live as humans by day and hideous monsters by night." Then just leave out all the father being a scientist and DNA, etc. (Maybe slip in something very short and to the point about DNA research, but don't go into the detail). Jump into the 3rd paragraph and talk about Ellla and Lucian's relationship -- but try to keep it in Ella's POV. I do agree that we need to know what the stakes are for Ella at the end -- what does she stand to win or lose if A or B happens? Does she want her freedom, or does she want Lucian? Is there a real "war" in her mind and heart over this? Is her life in danger?
First 250 words: I feel that you did bring Ella to life immediately -- I wanted to know more about her and what happened to her father. I think Gus might come off as just a bit cliché -- perhaps lose the "signature drawl" and just mention something more distinctive about him, then say that all the girls... etc. I also agree that the line about tinkering with an invention in the woods is odd -- not a likely place for modern scientists. Maybe just change it up to something like "wandering the woods thinking about his latest invention..."?
Both are great, but because I actually feel like the first 250 words launched me into a story where I am invested right away in a character, I am giving
River Tam June 3, 2014 at 4:20 PM
THE BLACK DRAGON'S MATE
The tagline doesn't really intrigue me, I think because the whole dragon-stealing-a-princess thing has already been done, so a dragon stealing a girl doesn't really come as a surprise. Maybe just skip the "Even if it's a girl" part -- keep the suspense for a bit longer about what the dragon takes?
STEALING FIRE
Interesting twist on Beauty and the Beast! But what are the powers that Ella is immune to? Is this a dual-POV novel? Because I'm not entirely sure if this query is about Lucian or Ella.
Victory to Beauty and the Crazy Kidnapper
His Little Human: I think that the voice in the query is great so I was immediately drawn to that. I was surprised that it wasn't YA because given the voice and query, I'd assumed it was. Not sure if that's a big deal--I'm not that savvy on dragon books but I think it will appeal to those that are!
As much as I enjoyed the query, I was a bit thrown off by the 250. I think the newspaper headlines are actually fun and clever but not a good fit to start and draw someone into your story, but that's just my opinion.
Beauty & The Crazy Kidnapper: I really like this query-a lot. Love The Beauty & The Beast twist and think it sounds fun. The romance aspect has me so intrigued. You've done a great job laying it out simply but showing how your story is unique. My only two nitpicks though, are important ones. I think you could really do your ms more justice if you re-work the hook and the sinker (last line).
Your 250 is pretty good--I would just take a look at structure as otters have stated. I also would do away with the question in narration in the second line. Tightening it up by omitting a little here and there (you don't have to show us there facial expression or body language with every line) will be a great way to speed things up so we can get more of Ella and Gus's dialogue.
This was a tough one call because both queries sold me. But if I have to choose, VICTORY TO: BEAUTY & THE CRAZY KIDNAPPER
xoxoSally Draper
Jenz June 1, 2014 at 4:38 PM
The query is great! Then the first 250 lose me completely. It's like unnecessary prologue. Worse, really, it's not even story. There's some cleverness in there, but I'm left without knowing what the story is going to be like because I haven't seen any of it yet.
Good query, but there's no stakes for Ella at the end.
The first 250: The line about the signature drawl is trying to do too much. Using it to set the location makes it feel like infodump. And a drawl makes all the girls drool—except for Ella. So every girl in town is a drooling fool except for our heroine. I don't think it's necessary to put down the rest of the townspeople to make us root for Ella. And if this is her point of view, it doesn't make her feel very sympathetic if she sees everyone else as being beneath her.
A moment later, Gus says "Normally, that would all be quite alarming..." and this doesn't sound remotely like someone speaking in a drawl. That's a big voice contradiction, and it makes me worried for how consistent the rest of the book is going to be.
Nicole Lesperance June 1, 2014 at 9:17 PM
His Little Human: I have to agree, I thought this was going to be the dragon version of dino-erotica when I first read your query. If you could just slip in a line about them shifting into human form, this will be a great query with clear stakes.
I think I'm in the minority here, because I actually liked the quotes. But the sense I'm getting from them is that this is going to be a very tongue-in-cheek, humorous, read, but the query makes it sound more like straight fantasy (with dragon-shagging, of course). If the rest of the book carries on in the vein of those articles, I'd suggest bringing some of that humor into the query. Ultimately, I suppose I do agree that it'd be safer for querying purposes to start in the story itself and maybe work in those quotes later. But I did enjoy them, for what it's worth.
Oops, hit publish before I critiqued the second entry. Sorry!
Beauty: This sounds like a really fun retelling, and I loved the line "crazy kidnapper wrapped in eye candy." I do agree that it sounds pretty close to the original story, though, and I'd suggest making it more clear in your query what's different and special about your version.
For the first 250, I like that you've gotten straight into the action and set up tension between Ella and Gus, and the missing father definitely makes me want to keep reading to find out what's going on. I think you could tighten a bit here and there. For example, "Gus nodded like he was listening, but she recognized the glazed over look in his eyes. He’d already written her off." If you cut that last sentence, we as readers would infer that he'd written her off. Also, things like him moving to stand in front of his desk don't feel strictly necessary. And if you cut this down a bit, then you'd have room for the douchy Gus comment we're all anxiously awaiting.
carlaR June 2, 2014 at 6:42 AM
Both stories have interesting concepts.
His Little Human: I agree with the others about mentioning that Drake shape shifts in the query. Also, "aggravating discovery" stood out to me since that makes it sound like it wasn't a huge deal, until I read the rest of the query.
For the 250: I didn't mind the newspaper quotes, but fair warning--agents may consider it as a prologue.
Beauty and the Crazy Kidnapper: In the query, I'm confused about the "answers are in Ella's DNA."
I love Ella's voice in the 250. Her frustration is very evident.
Wade White June 2, 2014 at 8:12 AM
I like the query, but will admit at first I read “Even if it’s a girl” as being a comment on the dragon’s gender (i.e., even if it’s a girl dragon) rather than a girl being the thing a dragon might take. Maybe consider rewording (tough, I know, because the rhythm of those first few sentences is excellent).
I quite enjoyed the 250 as well. It’s a bit risky—that is, opening with an article excerpt and quotes/comments—but they were sufficiently entertaining (I even laughed out loud at the final two). Could probably drop the “of 1964” from “The Peaceful Treaty of 1964” though (as in, while it might be referred to that way in the future, it seems unlikely they would do so at the time).
I like this query too, but couldn’t understand why, if the scientist had worked with these creatures before, they didn’t just ask for his help again (i.e., instead of kidnapping him). I’m sure there’s a good reason laid out in the book for this, but I tripped on it here.
I think the 250 works quite well. It starts us off right in the middle of the action and gives us an immediate understanding of the relationship between these characters. Ella seems spunky and strikes me as an interesting character to follow. I would suggesting changing “Papa” to “my father” though as the former makes her sound extremely young (to me anyway).
Best wishes to both entries!
I love your query. Love, love, love it! I’m afraid I have nothing that could improve it.
And your 250 was a unique way to start and makes me want to read your book. I’m not even into romances! But after reading this, somebody, find me a dragon! :-)
I love this twist on a fairytale. And the elements of science really drew me in! What an intriguing story line!
On the query, there are a few clichés. Devastatingly handsome. Eye-candy. Hideous monsters. Ruthless monster. I’d love to see you paint a picture for me to make it come alive.
“Certain the scientist hid them in Ella’s DNA” – what are you suggesting, that Ella’s father has genetically modified Ella’s DNA? To find answers, is Lucian going to sequence Ella’s genome? Even if he did, what would that tell him? Has Lucian isolated a gene that determines whether someone is resistant to the lure of a sexy shape shifter? Can you clarify what he’s thinking here?
I’m not skilled in this genre, but should their not be a little more sexual tension surrounding her confusion when he touches her?
The first 250 were great. The parallel to beauty and the beast may be a little too close (with Papa especially), but it starts with the action, tells me who Ella is, and what’s going on.
Excellent job to both of you. Good luck!
amhoggan June 2, 2014 at 1:50 PM
Loved the query. I agree about adding his human form earlier to avoid unwanted mental images :). The 250 is risky, and I'm not sure it's worth that risk. Also, the comments from the "pop star" seem like a modern voice, and if the story (or even just her words) is set in an alternate version of the 1960s, that doesn't work. But I'd still like to read more.
Beauty & the Crazy Kidnapper
There really are a lot of (too many?) similarities to the Disney version in this, especially the sheriff (Gaston?) and everyone else dismissing her concerns about her father because he's a crazy inventor. You expect some of that in a re-telling, but keep in mind that the Disney version isn't the original, so drawing on it too heavily stands out more than using elements common to all the versions. I like the tension of the opening and it seems like the perfect place to start to draw the reader in. One other nit: she bites her lip which makes her seem pensive or worried, but she's supposed to be mad and getting madder. I'd rather see her kick something or even swear. I can root for an angry MC, but if she goes mushy when everyone is being so jerky to her, she'll lose some of my sympathy.
Best of luck to both of you.
Just a few quick comments as overall these entries are strong and sound like tremendous fun.
HIS LITTLE HUMAN. I'd suggest dropping "Even if it's a girl." In addition to the possible confusion as to whether this refers to a dragon or its victim, girls are on the list of things I expect dragons to take. Also, I'd like a hint at why Sakina finds herself falling in love with Drake. Right now all I know is he's possessive, cantankerous, and has a limited vocabulary *BTW cantankerous charm made me think of grumpy, old men which probably wasn't what you were going for). I'm also in the minority here in that I loved the quotes - so funny. Maybe you could work them into an opening scene with Sakina. She's a diplomat, so maybe she's studying all the commentary on the treaty and reacting to it?
BEAUTY: I was also confused as to what it meant to "hide a secret in her DNA." Also, the way the fourth paragraph is written it seems like Lucian's behavior gets worse the longer she knows him and its only a physical attraction that keeps her there. That would e quite different from the original. In the 250, I would drop "papa" - it just doesn't sound like the way a modern woman would talk to a law enforcement officer. Also, if Ella's father is a geneticist/biochemist/reproductive biologist as implied in the query, I doubt even an ignoramus like Gus would assume he was tinkering in the woods. That kind of science requires major infrastructure. Maybe he thinks he ran off with a sexy scientist he met at the convention or got a last minute invitation to an international conference or let the pressure of his speech get to him and went on a bender?
Best of luck to both! I hope to read them someday.
Lindsey Duga June 3, 2014 at 11:56 AM
Query - Fangasmic. I'm hooked. I want to read about dragon shapeshifters and their lovers. My only nitpick thing would be..."aggravating discovery"? Can we use a more powerful adjective there? If it starts to incite another war I'd like to see more drama with this discovery!
First 250 - I loooooove this article-start. It's unique and fun and definitely brings us into the world without explaining too much and seeming info-dumpy. You also made me laugh with the teen popstar and it told me a lot too--dragons are HOT. Be forewarned though that a lot of agents like to see character in that first page...
Beauty and the Crazed Kidnapper
Query - Ah, nice spin on Beauty and the Beast. But because we kind of get that it's a spin on this fairy tale, maybe you can cut some of the stuff about him taking her father and really just focus on the species part? My point is that it's a little long so I think you can capitalize on the fact that we are familiar with the plot and stick to the stuff that makes it stand out.
First 250 - Nothing really to say about the opening--it's great. I like that you jump into dialogue right away and we know what the conflict is so we're already drawn in!
Emily Paxman June 3, 2014 at 2:00 PM
Query - Ditto to all the comments about "let us know there's a human form" to Drake. Especially with the limited language skills that seem to be on display at the end, I really thought he was a possessive, unintelligent beast.
250 - I'm in the "I love silly quotes" camp, but more specifically, I want this sort of thing to be what happens through the whole book. I'm kind of hoping that you're implying that periodically we'll get to read the ridiculous things the newspapers have to say about the plotline. If not, I agree it could come off as unnecessary prologue. As a small note, rather than the women's rights activist asking "what is the government thinking?" I was hoping for language that threw blame on a specific person. I think that's both truer to political discourse and also would be a nice world building moment. Be as specific as possible. Generally, love your humor. Good luck!
Beauty and the Crazed Kidnapper:
Query: Read the query and loved it. I have a very tense relationship with retellings. I LOVE them, but I'm also fussy and want them to be perfect. This one seemed like one I would enjoy.
250: My concern was somewhat flipped from everyone else's. I'm not worried it's too much like the original, but rather too much like the Disney version. The parallels are really intense, right down to the names. Gus = Gaston, Murry = Maurice, Belle = Ella. They have all the same jobs and personalities. Gus even has his chorus of fawning girls that I'm now automatically assuming are blonde. I'm really really hoping you've mixed the rest of the story with lots of elements from other versions of the story, because right now, you might be treading too close to Disney. Gaston and Maurice, in particular are Disney property characters rather than public domain. They're not really part of the original faerie tale (the father is there, but he's usually a merchant or a king. Not a scientist). Otherwise, I feel like this is a book that would have to sell to Disney Hyperion in order to completely avoid allegations of copyright infringement. I think you can get away with being inspired by Disney's take on the story, just don't tread too close. Use the original versions as much as possible to distract from the similarities. I want this book to exist and would hate to see it trip up for legal reasons!
Mrs. Malcolm Reynolds June 4, 2014 at 2:18 AM
His Little Human –
Query – I love the opening sentence. Succinct, and I get the central point of the plot.
Is Drake the dragon? Tell me that earlier.
I think the last sentence is strong, but it could feel stronger if you told me about how Sakina feels about Drake’s feelings. Does she like it? Is she afraid of him? You’ve given me the stakes and the conflict, but I would keep the focus on Sakina, because she is the center of this conflict.
First 250 –
I would not start this with an excerpt like this. It looks like plot dumping and my eyes immediately glaze over at the words I don’t understand. Excellent idea, and on the second pass I caught the voice and found it intriguing. However - as I said in the above comment about “Palm Beach”, I would not start the novel in a voice that will not last throughout the story. Take me in to the narration, let me be enveloped by the world. The jump out of this style can possibly be jarring. Remember – you don’t have a second chance at a first impression. This story is very intriguing and deserved a strong start that catches an agent’s eye!
Query –
This query is very clear, and I understand exactly what is going on. However, the parallels to Beauty and the Beast are so strong here and the market is very saturated with fairytale retellings. I would go through a few more times and make sure your voice really comes through, here. The language seems a bit bland. Give the agent a reason to believe that this story is different.
I love this twist on Beauty and the Beast. If you played up your strengths, I really think this could get some serious attention.
I love that you jump straight in to the action, but I would give me a bit more about Ella’s feelings, here. Is this the first time she’s talked the Gus? If he’s been missing for seven days, the police would be obligated to act. If they found her father’s car, why is she having to come to Gus to get that information?
Action and dialogue keep this first 250 hopping, but I need to be connected to Ella from the opening scene, and that means I need a little more with her. Getting in her head a bit would give us the perfect opportunity to give a little context. As it is now, this could be a really colorful screenplay.
Both entries are amazing! But I have to make a choice... and I think that while His Little Human has amazing points for originality, I'm awarding Victory to BEAUTY AND THE CRAZY KIDNAPPER for a strong opening that hooked me in!
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A Molecular Vision Research Article
Received 19 Jun 1996 | Accepted 28 Oct | Published 4 Nov 1996
Mol. Vis. 2:11, 1996 <http://www.emory.edu/molvis/v2/tink>
Organization, Evolutionary Conservation, Expression and Unusual Alu Density of the Human Gene for Pigment Epithelium-Derived Factor, a Unique Neurotrophic Serpin
Joyce Tombran-Tink*1, Krzysztof Mazuruk*, Ignacio R. Rodriguez*, Daniel Chung*, Timothy Linker*, Ella Englander+ and Gerald J. Chader*
*Laboratory of Retinal Cell and Molecular Biology, National Eye Institute
+Laboratory of Molecular Growth Regulation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
1Corresponding author: jtink@helix.nih.gov
PEDF is a neurotrophic serpin that promotes a neuronal phenotype and augments neuronal cell survival. The isolation, sequence and structural analysis of the human PEDF gene and its promoter along with its evolutionary conservation and expression in human tissues are now described. The gene spans approximately 16 kb and is divided among 8 exons and 7 introns, the junctions of which conform to the AG/GT consensus rule. PEDF appears to fall into the ovalbumin/PAI-2 subgrouping of serpins and is structurally far different from GDN/PN-1, the only other neurotrophic serpin reported to date. The immediate 5'-flanking region is dominated by a dense cluster of Alu repeats in which are embedded several promoter consensus sequences. A CAAT box is present at -43. The putative promoter region is also far different >from that reported for GDN/PN-1. Comparable hybridization signals of 23 kb EcoRI fragments containing the PEDF gene are observed by Southern blot analysis in all primate, mammal and avian species examined; conservation is particularly evident among the primates. Northern blot analysis confirms the presence of the PEDF transcript in a broad range of human fetal and adult tissues including almost all brain areas examined, underscoring differences with GDN/PN-1 which, in the adult brain, is only expressed in glia and a subset of neurons.
Serpins are an important family of proteins that all share a similar, basic globular structure but demonstrate wide functional diversity. Although the primary role of most serpins is in the regulation of proteolytic events (eg. a-l-antitrypsin, a-1-antichymotrypsin), others have evolved alternate functions which include hormone transport (thyroxine-binding globulin, corticosteroid-binding globulin) and blood pressure regulation (angiotensinogen) (1-4). Another well known member of the serpin family, glia-derived nexin/protease nexin-1 (GDN/PN-1) exhibits neuronal differentiative properties (5). It appears to function as a classical serpin antiproteinase by inhibition of the action of thrombin (6).
Pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) was first identified as a biological activity in conditioned medium of cultured human fetal retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells that induces neuronal differentiation of cultured human Y-79 retinoblastoma cells (7). Specifically, morphologically undifferentiated Y-79 cells extend long, neurite-like processes in response to addition of the conditioned medium. Expression of neuronal marker molecules occurs coincident with the morphological changes. Subsequently, the factor was isolated and its cDNA cloned (8,9), demonstrating it to be a 50 kDa protein exhibiting sequence homology with members of the serpin gene family. Functionally, PEDF has also been implicated in the cell cycle and aging since it is only expressed at G0 in cultured human fibroblasts (9) and disappears at the onset of senescence in both fibroblasts (10) and pigment epithelial cells of the neuroretina (11). Moreover, we have recently shown that PEDF markedly enhances the survival of neurons in culture (12).
PEDF behaves as a noninhibitory serpin in that its neurotrophic activity does not require the serpin reactive loop (13). Since GDN/PN-1 acts by inhibiting the action of thrombin (14), it is clear that, although both GDN/PN-1 and PEDF are both neurotrophic serpins, they have markedly different mechanisms of action. PEDF is also of interest since its gene is localized to human chromosome 17p (14), a region to which numerous hereditaty diseases have been mapped. We thus felt it of importance to characterize the human PEDF gene and now report its structural organization. Moreover, we have investigated the evolutionary conservation of PEDF in a number of phylogenetically-related species and determined the expression of the gene in human tissues including major regions of the brain.
Materials. Restriction enzymes, SuperScript RT and Kanamycin were purchased from GIBCO-BRL (Gaithersburg, MD). Dynabeads, Oligo dT(25) and MPC-E magnetic separator were from Dynal Inc.(Lake Success, NY). RetrothermTM RT was obtained from Epicentre Technologies, (Madison,WI). RNAsin and the Wizard PCR Preps DNA purification kit were from Promega (Madison, WI). Midi Qiagen kits for plasmid purification were from Qiagen Inc. (Chatsworth, CA.). Perfect Match DNA Polymerase enhancer, the plasmid vector pBlueScript used for subcloning, l DASH II library, Random Prime It kits and Nuctrap push columns for DNA labeling and purification were from Stratagene (La Jolla, CA). The cosmid library in pWE15 and 5'-AmpliFINDER RACE kit were from Clontech (Palo Alto, CA). Select-D G-50 columns were from 5 Prime - 3 Prime (Boulder, CO).
Total RNA from neural retina and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) was purified from human tissues obtained from the National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI, Philadelphia, PA) according to the method of Chomczynki and Sacchi (15). [32P]-a-dATP and [32P]-a-l-ATP (3000 Ci/mmol) used for labeling and sequencing respectively were from Amersham (Arlington Hts. IL). Superbroth (Bacto-Tryptone) at 12g/l, yeast extract at 24 g/l, K2HP04 at 12.5 g/l, KH2PO4 at 3.8 g/l and glycerol 5 ml/l, denaturing solution (0.2 N NaOH, 1.5 M NaCl), neutralizing solution (1 M Tris-Cl, pH 7.0, 1.5 M NaCl), 2OX SSC (3.0 M NaCl, 0.3 mM sodium citrate), 1OX TBE (1 M Tris-borate, 2 mM EDTA, pH 8.3), 5OX TAE (2 M Tris-acetate, 50 mM EDTA, pH 8.0) and 2OX SSPE (3 M NaCl, 0.2 M NaH2PO4, 20 mM EDTA, pH 7.4) were from Digene Diagnostics Inc. (Silver Spring, MD). Ampicillin was from Sigma Chemical Co. (St. Louis, >MO). Human multiple tissue RNA blots were purchased from Clonetech.
Oligonucleotide synthesis and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Oligonucleotide primers were synthesized using a DNA synthesizer, model 392, >from Applied Biosystems Inc. (Foster City, CA). The oligonucleotides were deprotected and used without further purification. 2X PCR mixes of dNTPs, PCR buffer and Taq polymerase were prepared according to specifications of Perkin Elmer (Norwalk, CT). 1 ul of Stratagene's Perfect Match DNA polymerase enhancer was added to samples containing human genomic DNA; 100 ng of each oligo was used in a 100 ul PCR reaction. Template DNA (20 ng for P1 clones, 500 ng for genomic DNA) was denatured followed by a 30 cycle program with 1 min at 950 C, 30 sec annealing (temperature between 550 and 650 C depending on the primers) and an extension at 720 for 1-5 min depending on the length of the product amplified.
Screening of genomic libraries and Southern blot analysis. The human genomic cosmid library was plated at a density of 10,000 colonies per plate on LB plates containing 150 ug/ml ampicillin and 20 ug/ml kanamycin. Nitrocellulose filter lifts of the colonies were denatured, neutralized and then hybridized with a a-[32P]-labeled PEDF cDNA insert (106 cpm/ml). This resulted in the isolation of a 7 kb cosmid clone (JT1). A lDASH II library was also screened similarly and a 7 kb NotI-NotI (JT6A) fragment isolated. A P1 library was screened by Genome Systems (St. Louis, MO) and two identical P1 clones, p410 and p147, containing the entire PEDF gene and flanking regions were isolated. Oligos used for P1 isolation were jt10UP01/jt10DP01:
5'GGGAGCTGCTTTACCTGTGGATAC3'/5'GGTGTGCAAATGTGTGCGC- CTTAG3' and 1590/1591: 5'GGACGCTGGATTAGAAGGCAGCAA3'/ 5'CCACACCCAGCCTAGTCC3' designed from the 5'-flanking PEDF sequence.
DNA from a P1 clone was subjected to digestion with a number of restriction enzymes. The digested DNA was separated on 1% agarose TBE gel using a CHEF DRII pulse field apparatus (Bio-Rad Labs., Hercules, CA) set for 10 hrs at 200 volts and 2 second pulses. A sizing ladder purchased >from Life Technologies was used for size determination.
DNA purification and sequencing. PCR products were purified using the Wizard PCR Preps DNA purification kit. P1 clones and plasmid subclones were purified using the Qiagen Midi plasmid purification kit. Sequencing of most of the intronic and flanking regions was performed by Lark Sequencing Technologies Inc. using standard sequencing techniques. Clones used were JT1, JT6A, JT8A, JT9, JT14 and JT15. Sequencing of DNA from PCR products of the P1 clones that encompassed intron-exon junctions was performed in our laboratory using an automated DNA fluorescent sequencer (ABI, Foster City, CA) to independently confirm all intron-exon boundaries and junctions across clones and to fill in gaps between subclones. Intron F was amplified from a P1 subclone and sequenced directly without subcloning. Other regions of interest or question were also independently confirmed. The ABI PRISM Dye Deoxy Terminator Cycle Sequence Kit was used following the manufacturer's protocol. Typically, 0.5 pmoles of template and 3 pmoles of primer were used per sequencing reaction. Sequencing products were purified using Select-D G-50 columns, dried and dissolved in 5 ul formamide and 1 ul of 50 mM EDTA prior to heating and sequencing. cDNA synthesis on Dynabeads oligo(dT)25. cDNA was synthesized on Dynabeads as previously described by Rodriguez and Chader (16). Dynabeads (0.5 mg) were washed with 100 ul of 10 mM Tris-Cl buffer, pH 7.0 containing 1 mM EDTA and 1 M KC1. 30 ul of total RNA (1 ug/ul in H20) was mixed with 30 ul of the above buffer and the equilibrated Dynabeads heated to 550 C for 2 min. Poly A+ RNA was annealed to the beads for 15 min at room temperature and excess RNA removed by binding the beads to an MPC-E magnetic separator. The beads were subsequently suspended in 2.5 ml buffer A (200 mM Tris-Cl buffer, pH 8.3 containing 1.0 M KC1), 2.5 ul buffer B (30 mM MgCl2 and 15 mM MnCl2), 20 ul 10 mM dNTPs (2.5 mM each), 1 ul RNAsin, 2 ul SuperScript RT, 5 ul Retrotherm RT (1 Unit/ul) and 16 ul H20. The 50 ul reaction mixture was incubated at 400 C for 10 min, then at 650 C for 1 hr. The beads were bound to the MPC-E magnetic separator, washed once with 100 ul 0.2 N NaOH, once with 1OX SSPE and twice in 1X TE. The cDNA-bound beads were then suspended in 100 ul of 1X TE.
5' Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends (RACE). 5'- RACE was performed using a modified method of the 5'- AmpliFINDER RACE kit (17). The AmpliFINDER anchor primer was ligated to the 3' end of Dynabeads-immobilized RPE cDNA. The anchor primer was used in conjunction with PEDF primer #2744 (5'CCTCCTCCACCAGCGCCCCT3') and 2 ul of anchor-ligated human RPE-Dynabeads cDNA for PCR amplification of the 5' end. Amplification was performed for 30 cycles as described above. The PCR product was cloned into pGEM-T (Promega). Several clones were selected for sequencing.
Gene expression: Northern blots containing 2 ug poly A+ RNA >from a number of human tissues, including brain, endocrine and immune-related tissues, were hybridized similiarly as for Southern analysis and blots exposed overnight at -70o C prior to autoradiography.
5'-RACE of PEDF: After 5'-RACE amplification of the PEDFcDNA, one main product was observed at approximately 230 bp (Fig. not shown). This fragment was cloned and found to extend the 5' end of PEDF by 20 bp (see Fig. 2) from the previously published cDNA sequence (9).
Sequence and structure of the human PEDF gene: The full sequence is given in Genbank, accession # U29953. Comparison of the restriction pattern between a P1 clone and genomic DNA demonstrates that the entire PEDF gene is contained in the clone (Fig. 1 Top). A scale map of the human PEDF gene is given in Fig. 1 (Bottom). The gene spans approximately 16 kb and contains 8 exons; the positions of several of the restriction sites are indicated. All splice-site junctions and junctions across clones were confirmed by two independent sequencings. The intron-exon junctions and their flanking sequences are shown in Table 1. All of the junctions obey the AG/GT rule.
Table 1. Intron-exon junctions and flanking sequences
No. bp. EXON Donor splice-site ..... Acceptor splice-site Exon No.
PROMOTER ..... ..aaaggagta GCTGTAATC 1
1 128 TATCCACAG gtaaagtag.. 4793 bp ..ttcttgcag GCCCCAGGA 2
2 92 CCGGAGGAG gtcagtagg.. 2863 bp ..tcctgccag GGCTCCCCA 3
3 199 TCTCGCTGG gtgagtcgc.. 980 bp ..ctctggcag GAGCGGACG 4
4 156 TTGAGAAGA gtgagtcga.. 688 bp ..tcttctcag AGCTGCGCA 5
5 204 ACTTCAAAGG gtgagcgcg.. 2982 bp ..tctttccag GGCAGTGGG 6
6 143 AGCTGCAAG gtctgtggg.. 1339 bp ..ttgtctcag ATTGCCCAG 7
7 211 AGGAGATGA gtatgtctg.. 444 bp ..tctctacag AGCTGCAAT 8
8 377 TTTATCCCT aacttctgt
5'-Flanking region: Few of the conventional promoter elements (eg. TATA box, sequences, etc.) are found within the putative promoter region although a putative CAAT box is present at -43 (Fig. 2). Within the immediate adjacent 150 bps, the sequence GTTAAAGTTAAC at position -62 resembles the binding consensus GTTAATNATTAAC for HNF-1, the hepatocyte nuclear factor (18). At -113, the sequence GTGCAAAT deviates by one base from the consensus sequence ATGCAAAT for the octomer (Oct) family of transcription factors (19). The sequence AGGAAG/A for PEA3, the polyomavirus enhancer activator-3, (19), is exact and present in tandem at -122, -129 and again at -141. Upstream at -654, the sequence GTGGTTATG is within the consensus sequence GTGGT/AT/AT/AG recognized by the C/EBP (CAAT-enhancer binding protein) family of transcription factors (19). Other than these, the 5 kb 5'-flanking region is dominated by a dense cluster of Alu repeats consisting of 8 complete and 3 partial Alu elements. A partial inverted Alu element (left monomer) is located relatively near to the transcriptional start site (-154 to -284) of the gene; this is closely followed by a complete inverted Alu repeat (-286 to -591) and a third Alu in the sense orientation at position -790 to about -1010. Interestingly, embedded within these Alus are sequences similar or identical to known promoter elements. The sequence TCAGGTGATGCACCTGC at -202 is very similar to the artificial palindromic sequence (TREp) TCAGGTCATGACCTGA (19). The sequence AGGTGATGCACCT at -204 contained within TREp is also similar to the developmentally-regulated retinoic acid receptor (RAR) motif whose consensus sequence is AGGTCATGACCT (19). Three possible CACCC boxes are present, one at -845 and two in the reverse orientation at -826 and -905, within the third Alu repeat along with a consensus SP-1 site (GGCGGG) at its distal border (-1030). Finally, two possible estrogen receptor-dependent transcriptional enhancers are present within the Alu repeats (see Discussion).
Evolutionary conservation. The evolutionary conservation of PEDF throughout the animal kingdom as well as among a number of phylogenetically-related higher species was examined by Southern blotting (Fig. 3). Strong homology is observed in human, mouse and chicken (left panel). No hybridization signals were detected in lower species. All the mammalian species examined show strong conservation of PEDF but with varied restriction patterns (middle panel). A large EcoRI fragment of approximately 23 kb is present in all primate species examined (right panel). The common chimpanzee, however, has an additional, strongly-hybridizing fragment at approximately 9 kb.
Gene Expression of PEDF: The 1.5 kb PEDF transcript was seen in almost all 44 human fetal and adult tissues examined (Fig. 4). In particular, intense hybridization signal is seen in both fetal and adult liver, adult testis, ovaries, placenta and pancreas. Of the 16 brain regions examined, all except the putamen and cerebellum exhibited hybridization signals (Fig. 5). An actin probe was used as a positive control to determine RNA loading efficiency in each lane (data not shown).
Serpins are an ancient family of proteins that are widely distributed in plants, viruses and animals. They exhibit a broad range of functions and are involved in numerous disease processes (20,21). Phylogenetically, Marshall (20) has divided serpin proteins into 3 main groupings; I: ovalbumin/PAI-2 type; II: a-1-antitrypsin antichymotrypsin (AAC) type and III: angiotensinogen/GDN type. The gene structures of several of these proteins have been described and range from 5 exons in AAC (22) to 10 exons in a2-plasmin inhibitor (23) and expand over areas from about 9 kb to 26 kb. The human PEDF gene is composed of 8 exons interrupted by 7 introns and spans approximately 16 kb. The simplicity of its restriction pattern (Fig. 1 Top) indicates that there is probably only one gene for PEDF. The genomic structure suggests that PEDF belongs to the ovalbumin family of serpins in which ovalbumin, plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-2) and other "ov-serpins" have similar gene organizations consisting of 8 exons and 7 introns (24). Interestingly, this organization is distinct from that reported for the only other known neurotrophic serpin, GDN/PN-1; its gene has been reported to be separated by 8 intronic sequences, most closely resembling PAI-1 (25). Characteristics of the GDN/PN-1 protein also place it in a branch of the serpin family tree separate >from the ov-serpins (20).
Although, the positions and sizes of the introns between serpins vary widely, the sizes of the introns in PEDF as well as the entire gene size appear to be relatively similar to those of PAI-2. Both genes are approximately 16 kb in length and have introns of about the same size. Both genes comply with the AG/GT consensus splice-site rule as do those of other serpins. Consistent with gene organization features of most serpins, the first exon of the PEDF gene is non-coding and the 3' UTR is not interrupted by a splice junction (26).
The 5'-flanking region of the PEDF gene is interesting since it exhibits very few of the sequence motifs recognized by known transcriptional factors but rather is exceptionally rich in Alu elements. PEA3, is one of the few complete consensus motifs present outside the Alu sequences; it occurs three times in close juxtaposition within residues -120 to -150. It is recognized by members of the ETS family of transcription factors and is thought to be involved in oncogene interactions and cellular growth responses (27). Besides a sequence recognized by the C/EBP family of transcription factors at -654, most other sequences such as those that might recognize HNF-1 and Oct proteins are not complete consensus motifs. Functionality of these elements and of the PEA3 sites remains to be determined in future experiments. Certainly, the most striking and unique feature of the first 5 kb of 5'-flanking region is the dense cluster of Alu elements which comprise 70% of the most proximal 1 kb upstream region. Although single (28) or multiple (29) Alu repeats have been detected in intronic regions of other serpin genes, this is a feature that, to our knowledge, has not been observed in other serpin 5'-flanking regions to date. These repeats belong to one of the two major Alu subfamilies, AluS (30), a family thought to have transposed ~45 million years ago. Embedded within the most proximal Alu repeat in the putative promoter region is a close consensus sequence for TREp/RAR (-202) and, in a more distal Alu, an exact consensus sequence for SP-1 (-1030). Although such sequences are generally thought to be nonfunctional, recent studies have demonstrated the functionality of a retinoic acid response element provided by an Alu sequence (31). This is a situation similar to the presence of the TREp/RAR sequence in the 5'flanking region of the PEDF gene. Moreover, Norris et al. (32) have recently identified a new Alu subclass (consensus sequence GGTCA(n)3 TGGTC(n)9TGACC) which can function as an estrogen receptor-dependent transcriptional enhancer. A sequence identical to this consensus is present in the PEDF upstream Alu repeat and a sequence different by only one nucleotide is present in the proximal Alu repeat, i.e., within 200 bps of the translational start site. As with the more classical elements discussed above, it will be interesting to determine if any of the elements embedded in the Alu repeats are functional. Finally, with recent evidence that Alu repeats may affect nucleosome formation over neighboring DNA sequences (33) and, in this way, influence gene expression, it will be important to analyze the corresponding chromatin structure with respect to normal/abnormal PEDF expression.
The promoter region of the only other neurotrophic serpin reported to date, GDN/PN-1, has been cloned (34) and is markedly different from that of PEDF. The GDN/PN-1 promoter region contains a typical TATA box, 5 SP-1 consensus sequences, 4 MyoD1 sites and a number of other putative binding sites for other transcription factors none of which are found in PEDF. In addition, the Alu cluster present in PEDF is not present in GDN/PN-1 (31), highlighting the potentially different control routes of expression of the two genes. We have previously reported that PEDF is secreted by human fetal RPE cells (7,8,11) and Pignolo et al. (10) have reported PEDF (EPC-1) to be synthesized by WI-38 fibroblast cells. Since then, Pignolo et al. (35) have reported PEDF (EPC-1) mRNA to be present in a number of cultured human cell lines. We now give evidence for the presence of PEDF transcripts in most human tissues. Our Southern blot analyses not only indicate that PEDF expression is more widespread than previously suspected but that the gene is well conserved throughout the vertebrates. For example, a 23 kb fragment is found in almost all primates; only chimpanzee exhibits an additional 9 kb band. Functionally, loss of PEDF expression has been linked to the onset of senescence in two human cell types (10,11). The phylogenetic conservation of PEDF may indicate that, at least among the vertebrates, PEDF does perform a generally important cell survival function in vivo. This notion is supported by our recent findings that PEDF is a potent neuron-survival factor for cerebellar granule cells in culture (12). The presence of PEDF transcripts in almost all regions in the adult brain might indicate that PEDF could be of particular importance in brain as an autocrine/paracrine neurotrophic factor. The fact that PEDF transcripts are very poorly expressed in cerebellum in light of our finding that PEDF exerts such a strong neuronal survival effect on cultured cerebellar granule cells although, as a secreted product, PEDF could very well be pruduced in another brain area and be transported to the cerebellum for action. Our mRNA studies also demonstrate that PEDF has a markedly different pattern of expression than does GDN/PN-1 which has a much more limited distribution of its mRNA in the adult animal (14,36). In the developing brain, for example, GDN/PN-1 is only transiently expressed in most neurons.
Availability of the genomic clones and sequence will make it possible to better study PEDF function in human tissues as well as PEDF's possible involvement as a candidate gene in human diseases. The PEDF gene maps to human chromosome 17p13 (37), a region containing many disease genes such as medulloblastoma (38) ovarian cancer (39) and inherited retinal degeneration (40). Of particular interest is the tight linkage shown between the PEDF gene and an autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (RP13) that maps to 17p13.3 (41). Finally, the unusual cluster of Alu repeats in the 5'-flanking region of the gene and their embedded putative promoter/enhancer elements may mediate novel functional control of normal or defective gene expression.
Dr. Mazuruk was supported as the John W. Kluge Research Fellow of the Foundation Fighting Blindness.
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Live-Krakow May 28, 2019 Activities101 views
We outline some of the most exciting and adventurous day trips from Krakow, with a touch of history, some wild mountainscapes, and even historic salt mines thrown in for good measure.
If the churches, squares, medieval monuments, museums, and endless basement bars sloshing with vodka and beer are getting just a little too much, then don’t worry – there are oodles of day trips from Krakow that can whisk you away to somewhere totally different but equally as awesome for a few hours. Whether you’re after a glimpse of craggy mountains, hikes through woodlands and canyons, a taste of smoky sheep’s cheese, or a splash in a lake, the list below has you covered.
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1 Ojcow National Park
2 Zakopane and the Tatra Mountains
3 Wieliczka Salt Mines
4 Częstochowa
5 Kryspinow Lake
Ojcow National Park
Poland’s smallest national park is just 20 minutes from the Main Square of Krakow. Spread over a series of small valleys just to the north of the city, it’s a stunning swathe of the Małopolska Province that brims with needle-like rock spires, carved gorges, dense forests, and babbling riverways. You can get here on a local bus connection, but that means some fiddly timetables, which is why we’d recommend a private tour with pick-up and drop-off. When you do arrive, you can explore the reserve to your heart’s content. Be sure to check out the geological area that has towers of stone called things like the Cudgel of Hercules. Get some shots on the lookout point above the local trout farm. And, of course, don’t miss the half-ruined castle, which is a haunting remnant of the medieval fortifications that once strung along these Polish hills.
A peak in the Tatra National Park
Zakopane and the Tatra Mountains
If you’ve got the time, we’d say a jaunt to the Winter Capital of Poland and is a must! The journey by bus takes between two and three hours, depending on traffic. That means you’ll need to rise early to fit this one in, but trust us, setting the alarm will be totally worth it! Just think of the moment you lay eyes on the serrated summit of the Giewont or the cloud-caressed top of Kasprowy Wierch (two of the highest mountains around).
If you’re into hiking, you can hit the trails of the Tatra National Park by strolling south out of Zakopane’s center. If you prefer shopping and views, stick to Krupowki Street and the funicular railway station on the north end of town. Come winter, this is also the go-to spot for skiing in Poland. More information on planning a Zakopane ski trip, click on through!
A carved chapel in the Wieliczka Salt Mines | JacekAbramowicz/Pixabay
Wieliczka Salt Mines
One of Krakow’s most amazing UNESCO World Heritage Sites and – you could argue – the very reason that the city looks so grand and glorious to this day, it’s the sprawling complex of the Wieliczka Salt Mines.
It’s actually doable in half a day, thanks to its proximity to the Old Town, sat just to the south-east in the suburb of Wieliczka itself. Dating all the way back to the early Middle Ages, the mines here produced fine rock salt (and still do) and brought great wealth to Krakow’s kings and nobles.
But it wasn’t only industry that went on underground. You can also wonder at whole cathedrals carved from the rock salt, see fairy-tale characters cut from stone, and stand in echoing music venues beneath the earth. It’s awesome stuff.
Historic churches in Częstochowa | uroburos/Pixabay
Under two hours’ drive to the north-west of Krakow is the hertiage-rich religious center of Częstochowa. It’s primarily famous for the revered shrine of the Black Madonna, which still reigns as one of the most important in all of Poland. That’s housed in the Monastery of Jasna Góra, attracting huge crowds of devotees throughout the year.
To see the painting, you’ll need to arrive early, as it’s unveiled in the morning and covered up again in the afternoon. However, it’s not the only pull, because majestic Romanesque and Gothic churches erupt around it, and the wide Holy Virgin Mary Avenue cuts through the heart of the city.
Kryspinow Lake
While snows and sub-zero temperatures dominate the winter months, Krakow can get darn hot during the summer. Yep, we’re talking mercury in the mid-30s most days in July and August, with some sweat-inducing humidity to go with it.
Cue this large body of water, which is one of the few possible day trips from Krakow that’ll let you swim, sunbathe, and chillax away from the hubbub of the city. Known to locals as the Kryspinow Lagoon or Kryspinow Lake, it’s only 12 kilometers from the town center. It’s home to a large, manmade beachfront, and comes fringed with grills and Polish taverns, so you can grab your pierogis and piwos, no problem.
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These are just a few of the awesome day trips from Krakow that are out there. If you’ve done any that you think should totally be on this list, we’d love to hear about them in the comments below.
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San Diego school cafeterias' new plant-based meals are a planet-saving tasty treat
NEWS // September 9, 2019
Tara McNamara, Marketing Coordinator, San Diego Unified School District, Food & Nutrition Services
The school cafeteria was buzzing as dozens of students lined up for their first lunch of the 2019-20 school year. Kiara, a third grader, perused the variety of foods on display before selecting something she hadn’t tried before – a three-bean chili. A few moments later, the verdict was in. “It’s really good!”
The savory three-bean chili she had chosen for lunch was one of the latest plant-based meals being rolled out this year at schools in the San Diego Unified School District, expanding on the district’s already-successful Meatless Mondays commitment. In addition to being tasty, the new plant-based meals make a big impact far outside the cafeteria: providing healthy alternatives to meat products may just help save the planet. Research shows that cutting back on meat consumption is an effective way Americans can reduce carbon dioxide emissions and save water as well.
In San Diego County and globally, plant-based meals are a growing trend for many reasons - nutritional benefits, dietary restrictions, and the environmental impact. Gary Petill, Director of Food and Nutrition Services for San Diego Unified, says the district is adopting plant-based foods for all of these reasons.
“We are cooking up change and trending with our students. By placing these plant-based options on the menu, we are giving students nutritious options they want, while also helping to reduce our carbon footprint. It’s a win-win” shared Petill.
In addition to the delicious three-bean chili, this year’s plant-based options include a black bean veggie burger and marinara pasta with Italian bean salad. Principal Liz Sloan says students at E.B. Scripps Elementary are fans of the variety. “Our students love Meatless Monday, especially when one of the choices is cheese pizza!”
San Diego Unified cafés have long been ahead of the curve when it comes to school food. Every day, students have access to fresh, organic produce from local San Diego County farmers on the more than 350 salad bars throughout the district. On California Thursdays, students can enjoy meals made entirely from California grown, raised and produced foods, featuring Mary’s free-range, antibiotic-free chicken drumsticks.
To top it off, the district works with Feeding San Diego to reduce food waste on a massive scale. To date, The Love Food Not Waste program has kept more than 200,000 pounds of prepared food out of landfills, provided in excess of 169,120 meals to the hungry, reduced food costs, and eliminated more than 110,107 pounds of carbon dioxide gas emissions.
Meat-lovers need not worry, as traditional protein-rich meals are still available at all schools. Families can learn more about the district’s food and nutrition programs online.
This story has been modified for brevity, the original story can be found here: https://www.sandiegounified.org/newscenter/san-diego-school-cafeterias-new-plant-based-meals-are-planet-saving-tasty-treat
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Hands On: Building Upon A Solid Foundation In Super Mario Maker 2
Making the Wii U look like a Super Mario Faker
by Alex Olney Tue 28th May 2019
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If there’s one thing that still gives the Wii U life, it’s the excellent Super Mario Maker. That’s all about to come to an end now though, at least if our time with Super Mario Maker 2 is any sort of authority. The user-created colossus is making its way to Switch, and if you hadn’t quite gathered from the previous sentence and obligatory headline, we’ve actually played the little sucker. So, does it build upon the previous game’s efforts? I mean, it obviously does, but just pretend for a moment.
The first thing we had a go at was Story Mode. In this you’re tasked with rebuilding Princess Peach’s castle - which has been mysteriously deleted - by completing levels, earning coins, and getting the nearby Toads to do all the hard work. The levels we played were from right at the start of the game, so they weren’t especially challenging on the whole, but they were all very well designed and enjoyable, as you’d expect coming from the mighty creators of the entire IP.
If you’re expecting this to be a typical mainline Mario romp however, expect something else, because instead this is really a showcase of how you can use all the elements that the game has to offer. They’re Mario Maker levels, and as such expect a level of craziness and lateral thinking that you won’t really find in Super Mario World or Super Mario Bros. 3.
Despite most of them being a borderline cakewalk, one of the later levels we tried was anything but. Using the new clear conditions function we were forced to make our way through the entire course without the ability to jump. We could jump once, absolutely, but the moment you hit the ground, you have to start over. What’s nice though is that you weren’t immediately kicked out, instead the game lets you explore as much as you like, but the flagpole won’t be there to greet you at the end.
The size of the Story Mode is unclear, we were able to rebuild 7% of the castle in our short time, but there are several screens' worth of empty space to the left and to the right of it, so there’s clearly more here than meets the eye, we just don’t quite know exactly what will fill the void just yet.
After Story Mode we dove into the real meat of the experience, the Course Maker. In handheld mode the whole level creation schtick is almost the same as it was on the Wii U, with a few tweaks here and there in the form of quality of life improvements. Instead of having to shake an enemy to reveal its alternate form, you can now just tap it, and a sub-menu will appear with all the modifiers you could possibly want for Christmas. Slap a Super Mushroom on, tie a parachute to it; the world is your oyster, and it’s now that much easier to use. As for TV mode, the interface is perfectly functional, but it’s not hugely intuitive. The controls are efficient for sure, but there’s going to be a distinct learning curve as you get your head around it all.
As for all the new inclusions, the biggest ones are probably some of the least exciting-sounding to some. Scroll Stop allows you to finally create rooms where the screen will stop scrolling if there is a full line of blocks to stop it, but it’s unclear at the moment which blocks will trigger this effect. More exciting still are the Vertical Sub-Areas, which allow the creation of giant, sprawling levels that go up or down instead of sidey-side. We’re not exaggerating either, Vertical Sub-Areas can stretch as high as 168 blocks by our count, and can be two screens wide as well, meaning you can daisy-chain two vertical areas together to get some serious height going, and Scroll Stop means you’ll never see the bit you’ve just completed either.
The most obvious star of the show is the Super Mario 3D World game style; from Cat Mario to Glass Pipes, it’s all here, and it’s all gorgeous. All the characters behave just as you’d expect Mario to in 3D World as well, because yes, you can choose whichever character you want in single player as well, wahoo! But yes, Mario’s moveset is almost untouched from 3D World, bar a few small control changes. For example long jumping is now assigned to the shoulder buttons alone, meaning if you’re expecting to crouch and then press the jump button, you’d be pressing one button too many.
Compared to all the other styles, 3D World is absolutely the most interesting visually, and really highlights just how dated New Super Mario Bros. U looks in comparison. With all its unique elements it’s fairly clear as to why it’s not compatible with other styles, which is disappointing but even so we’re happy to make that sacrifice for such a faithful representation of the Cat Mario game.
But all of those are subtle tweaks on stuff we’ve already done in the first Super Mario Maker, so what about this new-fangled multiple player mode everyone’s muttering about? Multiplayer is the jewel in Super Mario Maker 2’s presumed crown.
Co-op is very similar to previous efforts to bring multiplayer to 2D Mario games, but something about having the courses as standalone levels makes it a lot more fun in some bizarre manner. Perhaps it’s because there’s not just one person desperate to progress the game further to play a different level at long last, or perhaps it’s the promise of a virtually infinite number of courses to play that makes it so appealing. We’re not sure, we’ll have to give it a stronger go in the full game. The nice thing is that you can do this all on one machine as well, offline! It’s something we were certain would be included but nevertheless we’re happy to be able to confirm it.
As for competitive multiplayer, well that’s where things start getting serious. If the idea of four people feverishly trying to be the first to get to the end of a course doesn’t sound like the tastiest little number you can think of, believe us when we say that you’ll change your tune as soon as you play it. Tactics and dynamics that would never ever come into play solo suddenly take centre stage as you attempt to sabotage your opponents, take the reigns, or just sit back and let them do all the hard work, then swoop in to take the prize. We sadly only played a handful of levels like this, but we can say with confidence that this will be the defining factor that separates Super Mario Maker 1 from Super Mario Maker 2.
All in all our time with Super Mario Maker 2 was short, but unbelievably sweet. It’s just about everything we could want from a sequel so far, and with the promise of even more to be revealed in the future, we’ll be collectively licking the footage we took trying to get that taste back in our mouths until we get our hands on the final, full product.
How is this sequel shaping up for you? It's out in exactly a month on 28th June, so there's not long to wait to delve into all its lovely secrets. Share your excitement and/or reservations below.
Review: Super Mario Maker 2
Super Mario Maker 2 (Switch)
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Xjay
Tue 28th May 2019
Looks like Mario maker 2 is shaping up to be as good as we thought it would be.
R.I.P Wii U
CoOokie
Just... one... more... month...
Even as someone who will probably never make a single level, this all sounds so so good! Love 2d mario and having endless levels sounds fantastic.
Bunkerneath
I've been converted, with the 100 level story mode. I had to pre-order it. Wish the Steel Book came with the normal edition as already have online access, hopefully will just be able to stick it on the end of my already subscribed account.
abbyhitter
Guess I'll be playing this in handheld mode most of the time with the touchscreen controls being the best option.
quinnyboy58
can't wait for this really pleased for single machine co-op too almost bought two copies and online for my wife!
GamingTelescope
I'm so pumped for this!!!
AG_Awesome
Do we have to do the create mode or can we ignore it entirely for story and online created levels?
kobashi100
Can't play online with friends. Random only! Bad move by Nintendo
Toy_Link
GameXplain just confirmed that there’s local same screen multiplayer!
DockEllisD
So much content. I'm really looking forward to it. I'm going to wait until the end of July to get it in Japan where it's cheaper and comes with the stylus though.
HyrulePrince
This is shaping up to be such an awesome game... which I still plan on purchasing but the concept of not allowing co-op or competitive multiplayer with a friend only randoms because of leaderboards are the typical dumb ignorant moves I'm still not understanding by nintendo.
the_beaver
"The nice thing is that you can do this all on one machine as well, offline! It’s something we were certain would be included but nevertheless we’re happy to be able to confirm it."
YES! YES!! YEEEEEESSSSSS!!!
Ok, now the local multiplayer has been confirmed, I can definitely say it: Day one.
nintendolie
I am more excited for Dreams on PS4.
Media Molecule has progressed from Little Big Planet to Dreams, 2D to full 3D (VR too). Can Nintendo do that? Let us create 3D Mario Odyssey World.
Moroboshi876
I have mixed feelings about this game. I don't really like to build just for the sake of it, so Story Mode is something I very much welcome, the same way I loved Dragon Quest Builders (I've recently finished it) despite not being interested in Minecraft at all.
So far so good, right? But then I think about Super Mario Maker, in which I spent like 10 hours, and precisely because there was no purpose to building in that game, I always thought I'd save it for the future, when I was in the mood for building mindlessly... and then it comes the very much enhanced version. That's what troubles me, because I really wanted to play Wii U's entry eventually. Now there's almost no reason to do that.
On the other hand, what is this shit of not letting us play with friends, just random players online? And almost everything unlocked from the start? And no amiibo support. I think it's a missed opportunity to give those toys-to-life some... well... life after these few years, and about the other features (or lack thereof), it's a strange trend in Nintendo, seen in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (everything unlocked makes it lose a huge replayability point) and the mandatory randomness of online matches in some games I can't name right now.
Great read and video!
I'm getting more and more interested in this game you call Super Merry-Oh Maker 2!
LetsGoSwitch
@Galarian_Lassie … With a 1 hour video
Solomon18
this thing has a story mode? ok I'm interested now
Kwehst
This game is STILL on my books as a titan Switch seller. I stopped playing the original SMM roughly the same time the Switch came out, and I stored my Wii U in a box. I watch Twitch streamers play SMM almost all the time though, so I still participate in the game in essence.
This game will actually kill the Wii U for the most part. I ironically have just purchased Paper Mario Color Splash and have started playing the Wii U again! It will likely be my last Wii U experience for a long time (somewhat sadly).
MrBlacky
Does it support Joy-Con pointer controls? If not, that would major suck.😕
Jokerwolf
Same system co-op was confirmed and life is good now .
@MrBlacky Build in handheld like a normal person.
@DockEllisD Stylus is free for anyone with Nintendo online as far as I can tell.
Discipledoctor
With this and Judge Eyes coming out in the same week, June is going to be a top-tier month.
RandomLeo00
@AG_Awesome
Creation mode is optional ( well it was in the original, I suppose it hasn't changed), you can go straight online if you have a Nintendo Online subscription.
@Jokerwolf
Great answer, you.... 🙄
Yorumi
I'm guessing there's still no way to actually chain more than one level together? Even if it was just 3 or 4 levels it would be really nice to create sort of a mini game.
New_Guest
I would like to have this game but i got the first one and found it disapointing with all these "dont move" levels and i know therell be more nintendo made levels included and a filter but im not willing to pay again for the game i should have got the first time around so i'll pass
Auenegheps
Are there the mario cosplay on nes levels?
MeloMan
@Yorumi I'm wondering if we can create "worlds" too.
@Jockerwolf Can you elaborate that statement about stylus? Here in the Spanish Empire there is only one way to get the Super Mario Maker 2 themed stylus, and that's pre-ordering the game at select stores and hoping you will be lucky enough to receive one of the 3.600 available.
MysticGengar
I wonder if they saw the fabeled hammer with eyes...
@Jokerwolf I was unaware of that. Where’d you see that?
MarioLover92
Still looking forward to SMM2 - the game looks incredible! Really disappointed that the preorder bonuses aren't here in the US though... Guess I'm gonna have to order a stylus separately.
@Bunkerneath The online subscription that comes with the limited edition also adds to your current subscription.
@nintendolie lol rumour has it you can buy both! well I have anyway, it's not a competition. mario maker will have better levels right off the bat too, dreams is more of a slow burner and it could be a long while before we see a real fully fledged game that last more than a few minutes.
graysoncharles
The only game that made the wii u enthusiasts still play with the system is finally one-upped with the sequel on the switch.
@Moroboshi876 That's weird, in most places you can get the stylus by ordering the 70 euro limited edition which includes the game, said stylus and one year of NSO.
deafswin37
Ive tried it myself and so far i was cool but the Amiibo mushrooms are a must for this game
@Rafke Well, in the Nintendo Spain website even they say the method is what I've said before. I guess it's not everywhere even in Europe. I wouldn't want to pay 70 for a stylus and a steelbook anyway.
beazlen1
@graysoncharles umm Pikmin 3 says helllloooooooo
@DockEllisD I remember Nintendolife did an article on it. If you pre-order it and have an online subscription you can get one.
@graysoncharles That just means as of June 28th I have no reason to keep my Wii U un-hacked.
JLPick
Many game sequels become better. Look at Smash Bros for N64 compared to now, or even the Mario Kart series or Animal Crossing series. Heck, the original Kirby, you couldn't get enemy abilities, or even Sonic couldn't really do much in the original that he can now. Plus, it seemed like many Wii U titles were thrown out rather quickly to give it some life (the store shelves were basically dull and lacking games for it and there wasn't a whole heck of a lot coming out for it besides downloads, which the consumer wouldn't really see). I'm glad it's going to be a bigger game, as I was not really that happy with the one for Wii U...didn't seem like it was worth the $60 price tag, seemed to be a $40 or less title. Can't wait to get this title, and here's to hoping that many more of their IP's join with later games...Zelda Maker, Kirby Maker, Pikmin Maker...the list could go on!!!!
Indielink
@Moroboshi876 You are bothered that a sequel is coming out because you sat on the original for four years without playing it for more than a couple hours? That seems like a silly reason to be bothered.
@Indielink I know, right?
StooBush
The only thing I'm interested in is Story Mode. Looking forward to reviews of that experience.
Octorok385
@graysoncharles Xenoblade X still exists exclusively on the Wii U, so mine is staying hooked up for a while...
cough cough GET ON IT, MONOLITH SOFT!
Giygas_95
I need this game noooooow.
Not into MM but that looks pretty nice. Good old Nintendo 👍
It will sell like hot cakes.
sixrings
Other sites are reporting the online multiplayer is only available with randoms. Can't wait to read nintendolifes staunch online defenders. A years online costs the same as a pizza. I'd rather have a pizza.
Valdney
I want a new 2d Mario game! New art, new music, new enemies, new world themes, etc.. This Mario editor could be fun, I guess, but my 2d Mario needs are no where near satisfied by this.
GrailUK
Why? What is it that's causing such a road block with Nintendo's online community? Is it ethics? Is it infrastructure? Is it some sort of tariff shenanigans? Is it (more worryingly) an oversight and a lack of vision? They do so well with couch co-op. What's the brick wall with cloud co-op.
DAHstroy
OH GOODY, THIS GAME LOOKS GREAT!
KryptoniteKrunch
Looking really good. Story mode, more level themes and slopes are great.
AlphaElite
Based on impressions elsewhere, it looks like amiibo support is out. HUGE letdown if true. A lot of really creative levels in the original thematically depended on them.
@Jokerwolf just saw this article https://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-confirms-super-mario-maker-2-stylus-isnt-coming-to-north-america/
gwyntendo
This looks amazing. Can’t wait
rockodoodle
@Moroboshi876 I hear you. The more I see, it does seem cool and fun. But there's also a part of me that thinks I should skip this. Probably something I would play for ten hours, then put down like the WiiU version.
@beazlen1 not interested in keep playing pikmin 3
@Octorok385 yeah. I really expected xcx to be on switch as well
@rockodoodle Don't get me wrong, I'm going to buy it and this time I believe I'll play it, but mostly for its story mode. The thing is I'm angry at myself for not having played the first game as much as it deserved, and now there will be a much enhanced version available.
Wed 29th May 2019
While I am kinda bummed that the playable characters are Toad and Toadette and not: Peach, Rosalina, Wario, Waluigi, or Yoshi everything else looks pretty cool.
I have nothing against Toad, he is just boring.
kalosn
While it all looks really exciting, it's the competitive multiplayer that really shines to me. It's like playing a game of speedruner vs. speedrunner!
Combine that with the Super Mario 3D World style and wow... it's a bonus compared to the original game
https://mynintendonews.com/2013/06/15/super-mario-3d-world-excludes-online-multiplayer/
GrizzledVeteran
R.I.P. Amiibo.
Looks like after the Smash ones (and the Shovel Knight 3-pack) are released, that's the end of Nintendo's Amiibo.
I'm sure many gamer's wallets will be relieved.
michellelynn0976
This game is too sweet!!!
BadWaluigi2
@Xjay no friends online multilayer is not what I was hoping for
@nintendolie lol they got so mad that you dared to be excited for another game.
napabar
@nintendolie Nobody cares about the PS4.
To all those [removed] about not being able to play with friends online, I have a radical idea. Invite your friend over to your house.
eRaz0r
meh i would never buy that game ... a mario 3d maker - that is what i maybe would buy. but 2d mario? never!
personally i cannot understand why such a "game" (it isn't even a game in my eyes) is so successful.
this thing is worth maybe 10bucks, 15 max. - but full price for this? ouch ...
@eRaz0r Have you ever played a 2D platformer or do you just play Cod and Minecraft all day?
@Galarian_Lassie sure i have, everything on master system, mega drive, and even today - sonic mania, cuphead. but those games are both at 20bucks, that's a fair price. to pay full price for this minigame, just don't feels right for me.
but if you enjoy it, it's awesome. for me it is just like a 10 bucks android minigame.
and btw. i would never touch activision crap like cod the only good games acitivsion has ever released, was the THPS series.
@DockEllisD It comes with all sorts of crap in Europe, a diorama, stylus, note pad.
TurboTEF
Yup, my preorder is still going strong on this one!
I'm still upset that we still haven't gotten a Deluxe port of 3D World (please package it with spruced up 3D Land levels) yet.
WiltonRoots
@TurboTEF i was thinking that myself - if they combined 3d world and 3d land, that would be quite the deluxe edition...
@YANDMAN Nice, that’s pretty sweet.
@Moroboshi876 yeah, me too. But I can say the same about a lot of games. I am succumbing to the hype and will take the plunge, especially with online for $69.
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HomeArticlesOpen Christmas Letter to Pope Francis on Gaza
Open Christmas Letter to Pope Francis on Gaza
December 18, 2013 Articles, Commentary
Imagine truly if this Christmas you were were in Gaza, ‘suffering with” Gazan families. (Photo: Supplied)
By Vacy Vlazna
Your Holiness,
In desperation, in December a campaign was launched appealing to you to help release the suffering people of Gaza from the genocidal strangulation of the Israeli seven year blockade.
There is no world leader other than yourself who possesses the moral strength, the political freedom and the spiritual imperative to help Gaza. There is noone of global influence to whom the Gazans can turn except Your Holiness.
Through your words and actions, we see the same star that heralded the advent of Gandhi, of Mandela, of Jesus. It’s light – the spiritual simplicity of love for the human family, for the oppressed, for the poor, is again penetrating human hearts and consciences.
It shone bright when you went to Lampedusa, the refugee purgatory, drawing world attention to the “globalization of indifference”
“We are a society that has forgotten the experience of weeping, of “suffering with”: the globalization of indifference has taken from us the ability to weep!…..We are accustomed to the suffering of others, it doesn’t concern us, it’s none of our business…..Herod sowed death in order to defend his own well-being, his own soap bubble. And this continues to repeat itself.” (Lampedusa Homile.)
Today’s Israeli Herods have systematically made Gaza a hell on earth by imposing a blockade in violation of international law that has made Gaza an open air concentration camp imprisoning 1.7 million innocent people, half of whom are children.
As the world makes merry this festive season, the people of Gaza have deliberately been deprived of fuel by Israel for two months: they suffer in freezing temperatures, with no electricity, no light, no heat, scarcity of food, no essential services, when the waste water treatment plant stopped functioning sewage flooded the streets- then kicking families while they are down so low, Israel opened dams east of Gaza drowning hope and the last vestiges of normal life.
Imagine truly if this Christmas you were were in Gaza, ‘suffering with” Gazan families, and you have no place to run, can’t get medical help for your hungry and cold children, can’t cook, clean their clothes, keep them dry, warm, safe, happy.
Meanwhile the Christian kings of the ‘free world’, Obama, Cameron, Merkel, Hollande, Abbott will attend Christmas mass under a blaze of cameras and their own cruel hypocrisy in full knowledge that the Gaza humanitarian disaster, unlike the Philippines, is man-made. Herod-made. Nor they will lift a finger to bring the gifts of justice, compassion and love to Gaza’s immiserated manger.
Speaking of ‘manger’, doesn’t it strike you as bizarre and unChristian that Christians have for decades overlooked or tolerated that Bethlehem, the birthplace of the Divine Child, is in illegal occupied territory and surrounded by the illegal Annexation/Apartheid wall enforced by the Israeli military?
And speaking of Palestine’s military occupier, unconscionably, Israeli Herods sow death to raise the profits of Israel’s armament juggernaut. In his recent shocking documentary, The Lab, Yotam Feldman exposes how Palestinians have been dehumanised as sacrificial guinea pigs:
“I think the main product Israelis are selling, especially in the last decade, is experience… the testing of the products, the experience is the main thing they [customers] are coming to buy. They want the missile that was shot in the last operation in Gaza or the rifle that was used in the last West Bank incursion.”
Inevitably, the profits soared in 2009/10 after surgical strikes by F16s, attack helicopters drones, and phosphorous bombs slaughtered 1400 Gazans, one third of whom were children and again in November 2012. The blood and the weeping never dries up in the Gazan soul.
The blockade of Gaza is the crime of the 21st century and is integral to Israel’s 65 years of war crimes, crimes against humanity, apartheid polices, state terrorism and illegal colonisation perpetrated against the indigenous people of Palestine. Gaza/Palestine is also the great lament in the sacred heart of humanity. It is crying out. Will you respond? Please.
In your Lampedusa homily, you pose two questions that call our spirit to live in solidarity with the poor, with the oppressed, “Adam, where are you?” “Where is the blood of your brother?”. These questions are versions of the quintessential question, Who am I?
And in this instance who is Pope Francis? Whose shoes do you step into – The Fisherman’s or caesar’s?
The signs of your papacy are hope-filled.
The 1968 film, The Shoes of the Fisherman, based on Morris West’s novel, portrays a spiritually pragmatic pope of profound compassion who sells off the Vatican treasures to alleviate the lethal poverty of Communist China.
The film also drew inspiration from the Archbishop of Venice, the beloved Albino Luciani, who later became, for a shimmer of time and light, Pope John Paul I. Over the years, Luciani had condemned “the hypocrisy of the Vatican treasures”. (White Light, Dark Night, p144, Lucien Gregoire)
Of Luciani and Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II), Gregoire writes,
“During the twenty years they served as bishop and cardinal, each of their countries suffered from an immense orphan problem – about two million in each country. During that time Wojtyla built and dedicated fifty-three churches and not a single orphanage. Luciani, on the other hand, built and dedicated forty-four orphanages and not a single church.” (p 141)
Like Luciani, you, Pope Francis, mingle with your flock and criticise the ‘idolatry of money’ and the ‘new tyranny’ of capitalism.
Unlike the ultraconservative John Paul II and Benedict, who between them destroyed Latin American liberation theology and plunged the Church into the dark ages of Opus Dei fascism, you are rebuilding the church as a ‘house of joy’ and taking a path never travelled by previous popes.
Gandhi fasted and marched with humility for justice. Mandela, with humility, sacrificed 27 years for justice. So when you see the glittering lights of the Christmas tree in St Peter’s Square, may you reflect on the wretched darkness in Gaza and know that peace on earth doesn’t exist without peace in Gaza and all of Palestine. Peace for Palestinians is your and our business.
Gaza doesn’t need Vatican treasures, it needs liberation to live fully and humanly.
We, who respect justice and human dignity, have just lost the presence of Mandela but, Inch’Allah and God Willing, we have gained you, Pope Francis.
– Dr. Vacy Vlazna is Coordinator of Justice for Palestine Matters. She was Human Rights Advisor to the GAM team in the second round of the Acheh peace talks, Helsinki, February 2005 then withdrew on principle. Vacy was coordinator of the East Timor Justice Lobby as well as serving in East Timor with UNAMET and UNTAET from 1999-2001.
Dr. Eyad El-Sarraj, Palestinian Psychiatrist, Human Rights Campaigner Dies in Gaza
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Berlin Wall History Timeline from May 8th 1945 to October 3rd 1990
Categories: history, Personal, Politics
This is an updated and extended version of the historic timeline of the events about and surrounding the Berlin Wall that separated a city and it???s people for over 28 years. I posted a timeline previously on July 29, 2009. This version has much more details and I also included a lot more images to illustrate the individual events within the historic timeline.
The timeline extends beyond the events of the actual erection of the Wall on August 13, 1961 and its fall on November 9, 1989, because I believe that it is important to know the events that eventually led to the building of such a horrible thing in the first place. Events actually started with the end of World War 2 in Europe and when Nazi Germany surrendered to the victorious allies.
BEFORE THE WALL
May 8th, 1945 ??? Germany signs its total capitulation and ends the World War 2 in the European theatre.
Picture: Raising of the Soviet flag on top of the Berlin Reichstag building by soldiers of the Red Army on May 2nd, 1945
Germany is broken up into 4 zones, each governed by one of the victorious Allies: the Soviet Union, the United States, Great Britain and France. Berlin gets a special status and is also broken up into 4 zones. The three sectors occupied by the U.S., Britain and France is called West Berlin or the ???allied sectors??? and the Soviet occupied sector is called East Berlin or simply ???the zone???.
June 19th, 1948 – A new currency is introduced, but only in 3 of the 4 German sectors, the American, British and French occupied. The Soviets responded to this on June 23rd, 1948 with the blockade of West Berlin and an emergency changeover to a new currency for the soviet occupied sector. The blockade will last almost an entire year before it is lifted on May 11th, 1949.
September 9th, 1948 Ernst Reuter makes his famous speech where he appeals to the
???People of the World??? ??? ???Look at this City!???
May 23rd, 1949, West Germany or more correctly the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) is founded in the West Sectors (US/GB/FR), ???Bonn??? becomes the temporary Capital, the ???special status??? of Berlin remains. On October 7th, 1949 the second German state, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) is founded in the soviet occupied zone.
June 17th, 1953 Volksaufstand (People Unrest) in East Berlin. The uprising is triggered by an increase in Quota for Workers by the government, but fuelled by a general unhappiness with the situation in the Eastern part of Germany
June 15th, 1961 – International Press-Conference in East-Berlin
A journalist from the West German newspaper “Frankfurter Rundschau” asked the question, if the creation of a “Free East Berlin” means that a border will be erected at the Brandenburg Gate.
The East German Head of State “Walter Ulbricht” responded to this question with the following…
???I understand your question like that there are people in West Germany who wish that we mobilize the construction workers of the capital of the GDR to erect a wall, yes?
I am not aware of such intention, but that the construction workers of the capital are mainly busy with the construction of homes and that the available man power is used entirely
Nobody has the intention to build a wall.???
July, 1961, 30.415 refugees moved to West Berlin, the largest number since 1953. The border between West and East Germany was already shut close and every attempt to cross it a deadly risk. The border between West and East Berlin was the only opening left for people to escape; East Germany was bleeding out, because the people who fled were mostly the young and skilled workers, which had catastrophic consequences for the East German economy.
THE WALL IS BEING ERRECTED
August 13th, 1961 0:00AM local time, launch of operation ???Rose???. East German Army (NVA), Standing/Militarized Police Force (Bereitschaftspolizei), Paramilitary Combat Troops (Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse) severed 12 City Train and Subway connections between East and West Berlin, by 1:05AM Brandenburg Gate was blocked and by 6:00AM 193 Main and Side Streets between West and East Berlin were cut off/blocked.
Nowhere becomes the tragedy more clear than at Bernauer Strasse where the houses on one side belong to East Berlin, but the street including the curb to West Berlin.
East German could simply climb out of their Windows to flee to the west, but that was made harder quickly when East Germany started to wall up the windows, starting at the lower floors first forcing people to take much greater risks by escaping through windows in the upper floors.
This is also the reason for the Wall to claim its first victim there.
August 22nd, 1961, the 58 years old Ida Siekmann died as a result of her injuries caused by her jump out of the window at Bernauer Stasse.
October 27th, 1961 5:00PM, 10 Tanks on each side, the American and Russian faced off at the Berlin Wall for 18 hours, getting the world at the brink of World War 3. The Incident was caused because an American diplomat was forced by East German border guards to show papers, which was against his immunity status.
August, 1962 Brick Wall 7 ?? Miles, 91.7 Miles Fences, 130 Watchtowers
August 17th, 1962, the 18-years old bricklayer Peter Fechter was shot by East German border guards when he attempted to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin. He bleeds to death, lying in the death strip near the border crossing ???Checkpoint Charlie??? after crying for help for over 1 hour, in front of West Berlin Police and allied forces who were unable to help him.
1965 The brick wall is being replaced by concrete Wall
1966 Wall length 25 KM (15.5 mi), 210 Watchtowers
Between 1975 and 1980 the final and most sophisticated version of the wall was build, which was made up of 12ft high and 4ft wide reinforced concrete segments. The top of those segments was lined with smooth pipe, made of concrete as well to make it harder to climb. This new concrete wall made up 66mi of the 96mi border around West Berlin. 27mi of it was the border between East and West Berlin, with 23mi of it through residential areas. It got also 302 watch towers and 20 bunkers to make this border even more impregnable. Additional technical details: Electrified Fence: 107,5 KM (66.8 mi), Anti-Tank Trenches: 105,5 KM (65.5 mi), Metal Grating (special fence): 66,5 KM (41.3 mi)
February 5th, 1989, the Wall claimed its last victim. The 20 years old Chris Gueffroy was shot at the Wall while he and his friend attempted to cross the border to West Berlin.
May 2nd, 1989 Communist Hungary begins to dismantle the 150mi (240 km)of barbed-wire fence along its border with capitalist neighbor Austria.
August 8th, 1989 Hundreds of East Germans take refuge in West German diplomatic facilities in East Berlin, Prague, and Budapest.
August 19th, 1989 Hungarian border guards unlock a frontier gate at a joint Hungarian-Austrian friendship picnic organized by Hungarian opposition groups and Austria’s ???Pan-Europa Union???, allowing hundreds of East Germans to flee into Austria (illegally).
September 11th, 1989, Hungary legalized travel over the border to Austria for GDR (East German) citizens heading for the FRG (West Germany). ??
October 1st, 1989, West German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher announces to the 3,500 East German refugees (including 800 children) in the West German Embassy in Prague that they are permitted to leave to West Germany. More than 800 East Germans who camped at the West German Embassy in Warsaw were also permitted to leave. More than 30,000 East Germans had fled by then via the Hungarian-Austrian border already.
October 4th, 1989 East Germany allows the refugees in the West German embassy in Prague to leave to West Germany via special trains driving across East Germany (implying that those refugees are being expelled from East Germany, which makes them legal immigrants and exempts them from criminal prosecutions in absentia for violating an East German law that prohibits ???escape from the republic.”) Riots occurred in the East German cities where the special trains passed through.
October 7th, 1989. East Germany celebrates its 40th anniversary with a big parade and the soviet prime-minister Michael Gorbachev as a special guest. The Palace of the Republic where the leaders celebrated later that evening is completely surrounded and cut off by police. Outside in the streets people were demonstrating against the system. Riots erupted.
November 4th, 1989, the largest single demonstration against the regime took place in East Berlin. At least 500,000 people gathered in the center of the City to protest.
November 9th, 1989 6:00PM At the end of an international press conference in East Berlin, East German Politb??ro member G??nther Schabowski fished out a handwritten note that was handed to him 30 minutes before the conference and announced a new travel law in front of the astonished international press , quote:
???…. and therefore we have made the decision today, to institute a regulation, which permits every resident of East Germany to depart the country through any border crossing of the GDR ….???
Some members of the press asked ???When????, ???From Now????
Schabowski responded:
???This becomes active… to my knowledge… It???s now …immediately.???
Berliners from East and West could not believe their ears when they heard about this announcement in the evening news and flocked to the border to find out if this is really true. When they arrived at the border, they found the border crossings shut as usual. People were upset and talked to the border guards, referring to what Schabowski had said on national television, meanwhile people from West Berlin started climbing the Wall platform at Brandenburg Gate from the western side, which was unique and only available there.
Note: Mr. Schabowski made an error. East Germans were not supposed to be able to cross the borders to West Berlin and West Germany immediately. They were required to get a travel visa at a local police or registration office first, which were to be issued to any East German who asks for it without any restriction starting on November 10th, 1989. The issued visa would not be valid before the next day or November 11th, 1989.
People felt betrayed and some even tor their passports or IDs to pieces in protest. Eventually the guards were allowed to let the loudest of the ???trouble makers??? pass and stamped their IDs in a special way to be able to identify them later and deny access back to East Berlin, if they should decide to return. Most of them did of course, which heated the situation even further.
November 9th, 1989 11:30PM local time, PKE-Oberstleutnant Harald J??ger (PKE = Passkontrolleinheit), officer in charge at the border crossing between Berlin Prenzlauer Berg and Wedding, at Bornholmer Strasse disobeys a direct order of his superior officer Oberst Sieghorn and ceases passport check operations. The pike fell.
The impregnable bulwark of East Germany against the capitalist west lost its power over night without a single shot being fired ???to defend it???. This is a remarkable fact that should not be forgotten.
The Berlin Wall lasted 10,860 days.
THE WALL FELL
October 3rd, 1990, East and West Germany are re-united (4 days before the 41 birthday of East Germany, which was intended)
There were 136 confirmed deaths (as of 7. August 2009**) as a direct result of the Berlin Wall (and at least 251 died during or shortly after checks at Berlin border crossings**); the actual number of deaths is probably much higher. Estimates go as high as over 200 and over 1,000 deaths on the entire border between East and West Germany . East German authorities were trying to cover up any incident as good as possible, which makes it impossible to ever be able to determine the actual number of deaths caused by the Wall and the inner German border.
Break-down of the 136 confirmed deaths**:
98 East German escapees who died during their attempt to cross the border, through deadly fire by border guards, fatal accident or committing suicide.
30 people from East and West Germany without escape intentions were either shot or had fatal accidents at the border.
8 East German border guards, who were killed by a deserter, comrade, escapee, escape helper or by a West-Berlin cop while on-duty.
Figures with unknown source/not verified:
Total number of escaped persons: 218,283 using Disguise, Hand-built Aircrafts, Small Submarines, Hot-Air Balloons, Tunnels, Rudimentary Chair Lifts and other ingenious methods.
Sentences for Escapes: 60,000 with an average term of imprisonment of 16 months. Most of them were ???sold off??? to West Germany usually for the equivalent of today $75,000 US Dollars a-piece (paid in DM back then) after that time.
** Source: Joint project ???Die Todesopfer an der Berliner Mauer 1961-1989??? (The Fatalities at the Berlin Wall 1961-1989) between “Gedenkstaette Berliner Mauer” (Berlin Wall Memorial) and the “Zentrums fuer Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam” (Center for time based Historic Research Potsdam)
I wrote about the subject of the Berlin Wall already several times in the past and even created some video documentaries to illustrate the events in picture and audio. Here is the list of my previous posts:
The Berlin Wall and the Walls between Us (August 6, 2008)
The Berlin Wall History – Lessons Learned … Again (September 4, 2008)
Moments in History – The Fall of the Berlin Wall (December 6, 2008)
The Berlin Wall – August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989 (July 29, 2009)
The Fall of the Berlin Wall – Personal Account of Events (August 13, 2009) (on the day, the Wall was erected)
Berlin Wall Video Responses, Copyright and Background Information (October 5, 2009)
The reason for the increased coverage is the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 2009. This is a big event and commemorated around the world.
Born in East Berlin in 1974
Appendix A) Names and year of death of the confirmed fatalities**:
Siekmann, Ida
Litfin, G??nter
Hoff, Roland
Urban, Rudolf
Segler, Olga
L??nser, Bernd
D??llick, Udo
Probst, Werner
Lehmann, Lothar
Wohlfahrt, Dieter
Kr??ger, Ingo
Feldhahn, Georg
Schmiel, Dorit
Jercha, Heinz
Held, Philipp
Schmidtchen, J??rgen (Border Guard)
B??hme, Peter
Br??ske, Klaus
Frank, Horst
G??ring, Peter (Border Guard)
Haberlandt, Lutz
Hannemann, Axel
Gl??de, Wolfgang
Kelm, Erna
Huhn, Reinhold (Border Guard)
Noffke, Siegfried
Fechter, Peter
Wesa, Hans-Dieter
Mundt, Ernst
Seling, G??nter (Border Guard)
Walzer, Anton
Plischke, Horst
Reck, Ottfried
Wiedenh??ft, G??nter
R??wel, Hans
Kutscher, Horst
Kreitlow, Peter
Muszynski, Wolf-Olaf
M??dler, Peter
Widera, Siegfried (Border Guard)
Schr??ter, Klaus
Schulz, Dietmar
Berger, Dieter
Schultz, Paul
Hayn, Walter
Philipp, Adolf
Heike, Walter
Gneiser, Rainer
Wolscht, Norbert
Trabant, Hildegard
Mispelhorn, Wernhard
Schultz, Egon (Border Guard)
Wolf, Hans-Joachim
Mehr, Joachim
Unknown (N.N.)
Buttkus, Christian
Krzemien, Ulrich
Hauptmann, Hans-Peter
D??bler, Hermann
Kratzel, Klaus
Garten, Klaus
Kittel, Walter
Cyrius, Heinz
Sokolowski, Heinz
K??hn, Erich
Sch??neberger, Heinz
Brandes, Dieter
Block, Willi
Schleusener, Lothar
Hartmann, J??rg
Marzahn, Willi
Schulze, Eberhard
Kollender, Michael
Stretz, Paul
Wroblewski, Eduard
Schmidt, Heinz
Senk, Andreas
Kube, Karl-Heinz
Sahmland, Max Willi
Piesik, Franciszek
Weckeiser, Elke
Weckeiser, Dieter
Mende, Herbert
Lehmann, Bernd
Krug, Siegfried
K??rner, Horst
Henninger, Rolf (Border Guard)
Lange, Johannes
Kluge, Klaus-J??rgen
Lis, Leo
Wehhage, Eckhardt
Wehhage, Christel
M??ller, Heinz
Born, Willi
Ehrlich, Friedhelm
Thiem, Gerald
Kliem, Helmut
Friese, Christian-Peter
Kabelitz, Rolf-Dieter
Hoffmann, Wolfgang
K??hl, Werner
Beilig, Dieter
Kullack, Horst
Weylandt, Manfred
Katranci, Cengaver
H., Holger
Frommann, Volker
Einsiedel, Horst
Gertzki, Manfred
Krobot, Siegfried
Niering, Burkhard
Sprenger, Johannes
Savoca, Guiseppe
Halli, Herbert
Mert, Cetin
Kiebler, Herbert
Hennig, Lothar
Schwietzer, Dietmar
Weise, Henri
Steinha??r, Ulrich (Border Guard)
Jirkowski, Marinetta
Muschol, Dr. Johannes
Starrost, Hans-J??rgen
Taubmann, Thomas
Freie, Lothar Fritz
Proksch, Silvio
Schmidt, Michael-Horst
Liebeke, Rainer
Gro??, Ren??
M??der, Manfred
Bittner, Michael
Schmidt, Lutz
Diederichs, Ingolf
Freudenberg, Winfried
G??ffroy, Chris
Reik says:
Carsten I think the 4th November demonstration was not illegal anymore. This was after Krenz was put in charge. Some Politb??ro member spoke at Alexanderplatz.
Wow, this post is pleasant, my younger sister is analyzing such things, thus I am going
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Off the Kuff
Knowledge Is Good
2018 Legislative
2018 judicial
2018 Congressional
2018 Harris County
Empower Texans
No charges against Bonnen
by Charles Kuffner.
Rep. Dennis Bonnen
Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen will not be criminally prosecuted for the things he said during a secretly recorded June meeting with a hardline conservative activist, the district attorney in his hometown announced Thursday.
“As repugnant as Speaker Bonnen’s actions and statements are,” Brazoria County District Attorney Jeri Yenne said in a statement, “I do not believe there is sufficient evidence from the June 12, 2019 meeting to warrant a criminal prosecution of Speaker Bonnen for Bribery or Solicitation of a Gift by a Public Servant, therefore no criminal charges will be brought.”
A spokesperson for Bonnen said Yenne’s decision “deflates Michael Quinn Sullivan’s entire reason for going public three months ago — that, according to him, the Speaker solicited a bribe and broke the law.”
“Unfortunately, we now live in a political climate where one is guilty until proven innocent, and not only has that thrown the ability of Republicans to hold onto our House majority into jeopardy, it sets a dangerous precedent moving forward,” Cait Meisenheimer, the speaker’s press secretary, said in a statement. “While justice prevailed today, unfortunately, the damage has been done.”
See here, here, and here for the background. This was the conclusion of the Texas Rangers investigation – their report was submitted to DA Yenne earlier this week, according to the story. There wasn’t anything in the tape to suggest criminal activity, just deep stupidity, for which Bonnen will leave the Legislature and Yenne chewed him out. All things considered, I’ve got no gripes about how this turned out.
Still more Bonnen business
I don’t know how much longer we’re going to be obsessing over the Bonnen implosion, but we’re not done yet. Today’s topic is What It All Means for 2020.
“The quarterback and coach have been taken off the field,” said Bill Miller, a longtime Republican lobbyist. “It’s short notice, it’s a big leadership change, and they don’t have a lot of time. It’s problematic for Republicans.”
One of the more obvious questions is what happens to Texas Leads, the political action committee that Bonnen unveiled in July to help keep the majority — and touted in his conversation with Sullivan. Bonnen started the group with $3 million transferred from his own campaign, which saw a seven-figure flood of donations after he emerged late last year as the likely next speaker. Bonnen promised an “ongoing commitment” to the PAC, though its first campaign finance report is not due until January, so it is unclear how much more he raised since the PAC’s July launch.
In any case, the money now carries the stain of Bonnen’s scandal — “I don’t see how any of us could take any money from him,” recently remarked a member targeted in the Sullivan recording — and likely would only make a race more complicated. Still, Democrats are not taking any chances.
“I can give you 3 million reasons why Democrats are not gonna let their guard down going the 2020 election cycle,” said state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, who Bonnen referenced in the recording while talking about his rule against member-versus-member campaigning. “Speaker Bonnen’s announcement is by no way a message that Democrats can take the day off. We have a lot of work to do.”
In addition to the fate of Texas Leads, uncertainty abounds about Bonnen’s end-of-session threat of consequences for members who campaign against other members. Bonnen’s edict was already undermined by comments he made in the recording, but his decision to not seek reelection only further invalidated his self-appointed role as political disciplinarian.
“I don’t think that Speaker Bonnen — and we heard it on the tape — I don’t think he ever was sincere about that edict,” said Royce Brooks, executive director of Annie’s List, which works to elect Democratic women at the state level who support abortion rights.
Brooks and other Democrats involved in House races said Tuesday it was full steam ahead regardless of Bonnen’s political standing throughout the rest of the cycle. For Annie’s List, that means following through on its plan to have female nominees in at least 20 of the 29 seats that it believes are in play.
See here for the previous update. Honestly, I think the main effect of the Bonnen affair will be to depress and disorganize Republicans by at least a little bit. The ten Republicans who were targeted by Bonnen have every reason to be pissed off, and in being pissed off pull back a bit from being a team player in favor of focusing on themselves. Is that a difference-maker at a state level, or in the most hotly contested districts? Probably not. But it won’t help them, and this year they need all the help they can get. On the other hand, it clarifies things greatly for Democrats, and puts focus on the goal of winning the House. I’d say there was already clarity and focus in abundance, but a little more can’t hurt. It’s not much but it’s better for us than for them, and that’s good enough.
Bye bye, Bonnen
First-term Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen on Tuesday announced he will not seek reelection to the lower chamber in 2020 — completing a stunning fall for the Angleton Republican who enjoyed near unanimous support in the House just months earlier.
“After much prayer, consultation, and thoughtful consideration with my family, it is clear that I can no longer seek re-election as State Representative of District 25, and subsequently, as Speaker of the House,” Bonnen said in a statement, which included a list of 43 House Republicans — a majority of the House GOP Caucus — that the speaker said “have made clear that it is in the best interest of both myself and the House to move on.” (Bonnen’s own brother, Greg Bonnen of Friendswood, was among those on the list.)
Bonnen’s decision not to seek reelection means his seat in House District 25 will be open for the first time in over two decades. One Republican, emergency room nurse Rhonda Seth, was already running for the seat before Tuesday, aiming to take out Bonnen. The district in southeast Texas is solidly Republican.
With Bonnen’s exit, members will be jockeying among one another to become the next speaker. That election officially won’t happen until the next time the Legislature convenes, which is scheduled to happen in January 2021. In the meantime, if Bonnen remains in place until then, he can carry out typical interim duties, which include assigning issues for committees to study ahead of the next legislative session.
The race to replace Bonnen is coming ahead of a competitive election cycle for Republicans, who, after losing a dozen House seats to Democrats in 2018, are gearing up to hold onto their majority in the lower chamber. If Democrats were to flip nine seats and hold onto the dozen they picked up, they could be the party in power in the House and, consequentially, elect a member from their caucus to lead the lower chamber.
It’s unclear what role — if any — Bonnen will play in 2020 in helping to hold onto the GOP seats. In July before Sullivan’s allegations surfaced, Bonnen announced he had infused a new political action committee with $3 million to support House Republicans running for reelection. Since the speaker became engulfed with the drama though, some members have privately wondered whether Bonnen would be a help or hindrance to their fundraising efforts heading into the election cycle.
Shocking, but in retrospect not at all surprising. The day had started with this story about Republicans abandoning the Bonnen ship:
Some of the most powerful Texas House Republicans said Monday they no longer support GOP Speaker Dennis Bonnen, marking the biggest blow yet to his political future amid the fallout from a secret recording released last week by a hardline conservative activist.
Five Republicans considered senior members of the lower chamber issued a statement withdrawing support for him: State Reps. Four Price of Amarillo, Dan Huberty of Houston, Lyle Larson of San Antonio, Chris Paddie of Marshall and John Frullo of Lubbock.
“As long-serving members of the Texas House, we informed Speaker Bonnen earlier today that we no longer support him as our Speaker,” they said in a joint statement released Monday night. “It is clear that trust and confidence in the Speaker has significantly eroded among our membership, and the matter has both damaged the reputation of the House and relationships among individual members.”
All five members were closely aligned with Bonnen this year during his first session as speaker. A number of them also chair some of the chamber’s most powerful committees: Price chairs the House Calendars Committee; Huberty heads the Public Education Committee; Larson chairs the Natural Resources Committee; and Paddie chairs the Energy Resources Committee.
Later Monday night, another high-profile chair, Phil King of Weatherford, who heads the Redistricting Committee, joined the calls for Bonnen to resign. So did Sarah Davis, R-West University Place, who said on Twitter she planned to pen a letter on Tuesday to the caucus chair requesting a caucus meeting to vote on it. Even Dan Flynn of Van, who just days before had reiterated his support for Bonnen, said he could no longer support the speaker.
See here for the previous update. Clearly, things snowballed from there. Bonnen likely could have won re-election – HD25 is indeed a strong R district, where Ted Cruz got nearly 70% – as there were no big name primary challengers yet, but he was certainly toast as Speaker, and I guess he didn’t want to deal with life as a regular member again. I’d have had a hard time with that too, given all that has come out. I supported Bonnen as Speaker this year – he was hardly ideal from my perspective, but he was smart and was effective as Speaker pro tem. Dems did all right under him. I’m still shocked that he was dumb enough to trip over his own dick like this. Rick Casey summarizes it well in describing Bonnen’s ill-fated meeting with MQS as “almost criminally stupid – both tactically and strategically.” I don’t know what happens from here – obviously, Dems winning enough seats to put one of them at the podium would be best, but someone from the wingnut faction could end up on top as well – but at this point it’s hard to be sorry about what happened. Dennis Bonnen brought this on himself. He deserves what he’s getting. Good riddance. A statement from the TDP (which has also moved to dismiss its lawsuit over the recordings) is here, and Texas Monthly, the Chron, the Texas Signal, the Observer, and the Current have more.
So now what with Bonnen?
Democrats will wait and see.
On Thursday night, as Republican House Speaker Dennis Bonnen’s political fate continued to hang in the balance, some of the most influential Democrats were in El Paso for a town hall and were split on whether the first-term leader should immediately resign from his post.
“That decision, ultimately, isn’t mine,” said state Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso, a top Bonnen ally. “Like all other situations, that decision is best left up to the voters in the state of Texas. I trust them.”
“There is this urgency to respond in kind with negativity or delight in this situation,” Moody added. “[But] I am sad about this, I am disappointed in it. I don’t delight in this.”
Others were less measured.
“He’s done damage to the body,” state Rep. Celia Israel of Austin, the new head of House Democrats’ campaign arm, told a reporter for The Texas Tribune. “And for that reason, I think he should resign.” (Just months before, at the end of the legislative session, Israel said Bonnen was “the right man at this point in Texas history.”)
Those two answers — and that vast departure from where most members stood earlier this year — provide a glimpse into a caucus that’s navigating how to respond as the minority party to the drama that has dogged Bonnen over the past few months.
On Wednesday evening, roughly half the House Democratic Caucus met in Austin for a meeting that was already on the calendar. The Bonnen issue, of course, took center stage, and while no formal action was taken, multiple members there said there was talk of calling another meeting sometime soon to discuss potential further actions.
“I think there’s a desire to bring the entire caucus together with a specific agenda to have a discussion that could result in a vote,” state Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, told the Tribune on Thursday. “Certainly [Wednesday’s] discussion was clear that there was no one in the room who felt anything but anger and betrayal and disappointment.”
“The general consensus … was that people should feel free to put their own messages out there and that we should be united as a caucus moving forward,” Howard said. “So far I’ve heard nothing that would indicate that we’re not all on the same page.”
But there has been variation in Democrats’ public positions. There’s also the question of whether it would be politically advantageous for Democrats to act beyond what the caucus chair, state Rep. Chris Turner of Grand Prairie, has already said — that the latest “revelations are incompatible” with Bonnen serving another term — before Republicans have a chance to move on the issue themselves.
I don’t have any problem with deliberation, and the potential is there for the Republicans to fracture and generate some heat for us, but at some point we need to be speaking with one voice on the topic. Pick a direction and take it.
Meanwhile, the Republicans use harsh language.
After gathering behind closed doors for hours Friday, the House GOP Caucus released a statement condemning “in the strongest possible terms” language used by Republican House Speaker Dennis Bonnen and one of his top lieutenants during a secretly recording meeting with hardline conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan.
“Both members violated the high standards of conduct we expect of our members,” the statement said. “Their conduct does not reflect the views of our Caucus membership.”
“We completely and fully support the [House] members mentioned in the recording,” the statement said. “Further, the views expressed in the taped recording in no way reflect the high regard we have for our locally elected officials.”
The statement was released as members, on the tail end of their annual retreat, left the ballroom at a resort in Austin. Most of them declined to comment as they departed the meeting, which was originally scheduled for 45 minutes but lasted for just over four hours.
But soon after, a group of four Republican lawmakers from North Texas — state Reps. Justin Holland, R-Rockwall; Matt Shaheen, R-Plano; Scott Sanford, R-McKinney, and Jeff Leach, R-Plano — issued a joint statement calling on Bonnen “to work diligently to prove to all 149 House members and, more importantly, to the people of Texas, that he can rebuild trust and continue to faithfully lead the House and our state forward.
“If that is not possible, the people of Texas expect and deserve a new Speaker of the House during the 87th Legislature,” the members said.
You can see the full statement here. Like I said, there’s plenty of potential for further dissension on the GOP side, and it’s fine to give them some room to express it. Just have a strategy and a plan to execute it, that’s all I ask.
So are there any legal consequences to the Bonnen tape?
Probably not, but maybe a little. Does that help?
It was, according to his critics, “hurtful,” “vindictive” and “unbefitting of the high office he holds.” But was House Speaker Dennis Bonnen’s June 12 meeting with conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan illegal?
In June, when Bonnen met with the hard-charging Tea Party activist, he asked Sullivan to stay out of, and get into, certain electoral battles — “help us out, and maybe kill off one or two or three [moderate Republican House lawmakers] that are never going to help” — and in return offered Sullivan media credentials for the news arm of his organization — “If we can make this work, I’ll put your guys on the floor next session.”
During that meeting — a recording of which was released to the public Tuesday — Bonnen seemed to blur the line between the official and the political. It prompted the Texas House General Investigating Committee, which has subpoena power, to request a probe by the state’s elite investigative unit, the Texas Rangers.
With that investigation ongoing and little word from Brazoria County District Attorney Jeri Yenne, who is expected to make the decision on whether to bring a criminal charge, there’s been ample room for speculation — which only escalated after the secret recording was made public Tuesday morning. In Capitol circles, the rule is generally: Don’t offer official tit for political tat. But whether the smudging of those boundaries constitutes criminal activity is a case-by-case consideration, a decision ultimately made by a prosecutor and, if it gets that far, a jury.
“With just the information we know at this time, it’s not clear that a crime was committed,” said Buck Wood, an Austin ethics lawyer who helped rewrite the state’s restrictions in the 1970s after a major political scandal. “But it’s also not clear that a crime wasn’t committed.”
See here for the background. Long story short, while the DPS is still doing its investigation, it seems unlikely that any criminal charges will ever result. The law in question is narrowly tailored to be about personal financial gain, and it would take a pretty broad reading of it to try to get an indictment. Unless there’s new evidence to uncover, I don’t see any danger for the Speaker here.
What about a civil case, though?
Democrats were in court in Travis County Tuesday pressing forward with their lawsuit arguing that Sullivan’s recording revealed serious violations of Texas campaign finance law. The party, along with state Rep. Ana-Maria Ramos, D-Richardson, sued Sullivan in August, demanding the release of the full recording of the meeting.
The lawsuit was also filed against an “unknown political committee” that the lawsuit said includes Bonnen and Burrows. But the two lawmakers are not named defendants. At the hearing, attorney Chad Dunn argued for the Democratic Party that the newly released recording confirms there was discussion in the Capitol about political spending and requested the release of more documents about the meeting.
He said if the judge orders the information released, the party will use those documents to decide if Bonnen and Burrows should also be named as defendants in the lawsuit.
Under Texas election law, a political contribution can’t be made or authorized inside the Capitol. A violation of the law could result in up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine. In civil court, it could mean having to pay back targeted candidates or opposing PACs. Dunn said the recording contains “a whole lot of authorizing.”
“If we live in a state of laws, there’s not going to be private conversations with the Speaker in the people’s Capitol authorizing illegal political contributions and expenditures,” he said.
Roark said in the August memo to the Texas Rangers that there was no political contribution authorized at the June meeting, so the law was not applicable in this case.
See here for the background. I don’t have enough information to make a reasoned guess about this one. I will say, one thing the next Lege could do is review the existing laws on what constitutes bribery and political contributions, to see if they could be improved. That would never get through Dan Patrick’s Senate, but as was the case with ethics-related bills last session, it would still be worth the effort. Would be more likely to happen with a different Speaker, that much is for sure.
The Bonnen tape is out
It’s a doozy.
During a June conversation at the Texas Capitol, Republican House Speaker Dennis Bonnen urged hardline conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan to target members of their own party in the 2020 primaries and suggested he could get Sullivan’s group media access to the House floor, according to a secret recording of the conversation released Tuesday.
Bonnen could also be heard speaking disparagingly about multiple Democrats, calling one House member “vile” and suggesting that another’s “wife’s gonna be really pissed when she learns he’s gay.”
The 64-minute recording of Sullivan’s June meeting with Bonnen and another top House Republican, then-GOP caucus chair Dustin Burrows, was posted on Sullivan’s website and the website of WBAP, a talk radio station in Dallas on which Sullivan appeared Tuesday morning. The recording largely aligned with Sullivan’s initial description of that June 12 meeting — and with what certain Republicans who listened to the audio before it was public had described.
While its release prompted immediate outcry from Democrats and silence from Republicans, Bonnen said in a statement that the audio makes clear he did nothing criminally wrong in the conversation, adding that the “House can finally move on.”
Roughly nine minutes into the recording, after discussing Sullivan’s recent trip to Europe, Bonnen tells Sullivan he’s “trying to win in 2020 in November.”
“Is there any way that for 2020 we sort of say … let’s not spend millions of dollars fighting in primaries when we need to spend millions of dollars trying to win in November,” Bonnen says. “I wanted to see if we could try and figure that out. … If you need some primaries to fight in — I will leave and Dustin will tell you some we’d love if you fought in. Not that you need our permission.”
Roughly five minutes later, the speaker said, “Let me tell you what I can do for you. Real quick, you need to hear what I want to do for you.”
“I don’t need anything,” Sullivan responded.
Before Bonnen made his offer, he also disparaged a number of House Democrats. The speaker said state Rep. Jon Rosenthal, a Houston Democrat, “makes my skin crawl” and is “a piece of shit.” Bonnen, after saying he’s”begging this is all confidential,” then recounted a meeting with the freshman, after which he asked his chief of staff, Gavin Massingill, what he thought about the new House member.
“Massingill said it best,” Bonnen recalled. “Well, his wife’s gonna be really pissed when she learns he’s gay.”
The room dissolved in laughter before Bonnen turned to discuss other members of the lower chamber’s minority party.
“We’ve got Michelle Beckley, who’s vile,” he said, referring to the freshman Democrat from Carrollton who unseated a Republican in 2018. He exhorted Sullivan to help target these Democrats in competitive districts.
See here for the previous update. I kind of don’t think there’s going to be any “moving on”, except in the sense that no Democrat has any reason to support Bonnen’s re-election as Speaker now. All well and good if Dems take the House in 2020, and still theoretically possible even if they come up a member or two short. Remember, Bonnen was also targeting ten of his fellow Republicans, who may well want to keep their own options open. It’s hard to imagine a Republican in a Republican-majority House backing a Democrat for Speaker, but at this point I think we can all agree that crazier things have happened.
By the way, in regard to those ten targeted Republicans, the Rick Casey theory that they were in Bonnen’s crosshairs because they opposed a bill to ban local government entities from hiring lobbyists sure looks on the money given this quote from the tape: “My goal is for this to be the worst session in the history of the legislature for cities and counties.” Quite the sentiment, no?
Anyway, there’s plenty more out there. The Signal has some clips, the Trib – which is all over this – has choice excerpts, and other outlets like the Chron, the Observer, Texas Monthly, and the Dallas Observer are going to town. If that’s still not enough, go search the #txlege hashtag on Twitter. On a side note, the TDP claimed victory in their lawsuit now that the tape has been released, but there was still a court hearing about it. All that’s left – before the next election, anyway – is for the DPS to finish their investigation. Hope this helps with evidence collection, guys.
How’s that investigation into the Bonnen-MQS kerfuffle going?
About how you’d expect.
Found on the Twitters
If recent history is any indication, House Speaker Dennis Bonnen has little to fear from a Texas Rangers investigation into allegations he offered a bribe to a conservative activist.
Investigators who have delved into accusations of impropriety against the state’s most powerful politicians over a 15-year period delivered just five cases that led to convictions. The Rangers inherited the public integrity caseload in 2015 and have yet to secure a conviction of a lawmaker at any level, records reviewed by Hearst Newspapers show.
Experts say these cases are difficult to prove, often caught in the gap between suspicious behavior and violations of law.
“Is this really a corrupt move or was this just some stupid thing that a politician did, or a cop did, or just a normal citizen did? Usually it’s pretty clear,” said Johnny Sutton, a former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas from 2001 to 2009. “That’s why we tend to look for the real bribes, the cash-in-the-pocket type of activities, which there’s plenty of, even to this day here in Texas.”
Investigators for the Rangers’ Public Integrity Unit will have to unearth facts to help a committee of lawmakers — and possibly a prosecutor — decide whether Bonnen offered a bribe or committed offenses such as official misconduct or retaliation. But that could be a difficult case to make.
Bonnen says he has no control over whether any group receives press credentials, which guarantee access to the House floor and lawmakers while they debate and vote on bills. The Texas Scorecard, which is affiliated with Empower Texans, has been denied the credentials in the past because Empower Texans makes millions of dollars in political donations, and House rules forbid interest groups from having them. But the credentials also seem to have little, if any, monetary value — one of several potential sticking points in the investigation.
Without having heard the tape, it’s difficult to determine exactly what Bonnen said and what the understanding was, said Buck Wood, a prominent ethics lawyer of more than 50 years. But investigators don’t need a “magic word” from Bonnen to determine whether the offer constitutes a bribe or threat, he said.
“All you have to do is ask someone to do something and, ‘If you do that, I will do something for you,’” said Wood. “You don’t have to say, ‘By the way, I want to give you a bribe.’”
See here and here for the background. The rest of the story goes into the long and often unsuccessful history of pursuing prosecutions against politician peccadilloes, the transfer of the responsibility for such prosecutions from the Travis County DA to local DAs with unfunded assistance from DPS, and so forth. In short, don’t expect much (or for it to happen soon), and never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. That said, with the pending release of the tape, we may at least get a bit more clarity than we have now. The Texas Standard has more.
MQS says he will release the Bonnen tape
Well, well, well.
Hardline conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan said Thursday he will release a secret recording of his controversial meeting with House Speaker Dennis Bonnen and another top GOP member next week.
“I have been given the green light to do so by my legal team,” Sullivan wrote in his morning “Texas Minute” email to subscribers. “Later today I will announce that the audio will be released next week.”
Sullivan could share the recording ahead of an already-scheduled House GOP caucus meeting on Oct. 18, which will mark the first official Republican gathering since the head of Empower Texans accused the speaker of planning to politically target members from his own party. That allegation has, for the past couple of months, thrown the 150-member House into turmoil.
In August, at the request of a House committee, the Texas Rangers Public Integrity Unit launched an investigation to look into the allegations surrounding that June 12 meeting. It’s been unclear when that investigation could wrap up. Earlier this week, the Rangers were hand-delivering letters to House offices at the Capitol requesting members to provide “any testimony, recordings, documents, records, or other information relevant” to the investigation by Oct. 17.
Before then, on Oct. 15, Sullivan is scheduled to appear in a Travis County court as part of a lawsuit spearheaded by the Texas Democratic Party, which has sued over the recording. A couple of days later, the House Republican Caucus will be in Austin for its annual retreat, which was on the books before Sullivan’s allegations first surfaced.
See here for more on that Travis County court action, and here for previous blogging on this saga. It has always been my belief that MQS would release the tape when and if he decided it was better for him to have it out there than to have people continue to speculate about it. I still believe that, and while it’s possible that the court could have forced him to turn it over, that hasn’t happened yet, and he’s not known for walking away from a fight. So we’ll see what this means. The Texas Signal has more.
As the Bonnen turns
Drip, drip, drip…
In the hours after hardline conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan exploded his political bombshell in late July — alleging House Speaker Dennis Bonnen wanted to target some of his own GOP members in 2020 — the lower chamber’s top Republican lawmaker made a series of phone calls to assure his flock that Sullivan was lying.
“This is Dennis,” the speaker said to a House member in a 22-second voicemail soon after Sullivan lobbed his allegations. “Hopefully, you know better than to believe anything Michael Quinn Sullivan would bother to say. … I did meet with him to tell him he should not campaign against any Republican in the primary — um, obviously the opposite of what he’s trying to present.”
Now that voicemail, obtained by The Texas Tribune, is giving more ammunition to critics who say it was Bonnen — not Sullivan — who has lied and misled the people who elevated him to the powerful elected position he could be in danger of losing.
Such a response from the speaker in the aftermath of Sullivan’s allegations, multiple members say, has prompted some to wonder whether the chamber will ever fully trust Bonnen again — or if the damage that’s been done is simply beyond repair. For House speakers, who owe their job not to nameless Texas voters but instead to a few dozen fellow members they know well, trust is the coin of the realm in the lower chamber.
At least five members on the alleged 10-person political target list were told either by Bonnen or by someone on his team that Sullivan’s allegations were downright false in the hours after the news broke, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
In most cases, Bonnen batted down the allegations and questioned the credibility of Sullivan, who many state lawmakers already loathed thanks to his track record of criticizing — and, oftentimes, spending against — members in his own party.
In a statement to the Tribune late Wednesday, Bonnen’s office renewed the speaker’s call for Sullivan to release his secret recording of a June meeting from which his allegations stem.
“There is significant context missing from reports, namely, the hour long recording that has been strategically withheld from the public despite repeated calls from the Speaker, state leaders, and objective journalists for its release,” said Cait Meisenheimer, the speaker’s press secretary. “The Speaker believes that Members are owed the opportunity to draw their own conclusions based on the full context of the conversation — not the slow leak of cherry-picked information that has been used to fuel speculation.”
Since his immediate denial though, according to those familiar with the matter, the speaker hasn’t spoken with at least a few of those members who were allegedly mentioned during that June 12 meeting at the Texas Capitol between Bonnen, another top House Republican and Sullivan.
And though Bonnen has since apologized to members for saying “terrible things” during the meeting, he hasn’t directly addressed Sullivan’s allegations about a 10-member list — which has fed into a frustration that’s been simmering for almost two months among a broader coalition of Republicans.
“He’ll deny, deny, deny, a little more will come out, then he will dial back his denial and get a little more technical about it,” one person who works closely with multiple Republicans on the alleged target list told the Tribune. “It’s a constant walking back of previous details.”
There’s more, so read the rest. As a reminder, all of the reasons why Bonnen and others want MQS to release the full recording are also exactly the reasons why he won’t. MQS is in it for himself, as he always is. You can’t overstate how big a self-own by Bonnen it is to make the loathsome and sleazy Michael Quinn Sullivan look like a truth teller.
On a side note, we’ve been wondering from the beginning why Bonnen would target these particular members of the House, since they included seeming allies. Rick Casey puts forth a theory:
What did the 10 on Bonnen’s would-be hit list have in common? They all voted against one of Bonnen’s pet bills, a measure that would have made it illegal for cities, counties, school districts, and other local government agencies to hire lobbyists to represent them at the state legislature and in Washington.
It’s a very bad bill that had been pushed for years by the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation. Speaker Straus had made sure it didn’t see the light of day in previous sessions, but Bonnen signed on as a co-author.
The only Bexar County legislator on the hit list was, somewhat ironically, Straus’s successor, Allison, to whom Bonnen had made an in-kind contribution of $20,000 earlier this year. While he was a rookie in the 86th Legislature, Allison is no stranger to local government. He has served on both the Alamo Heights school board and on the VIA Metropolitan Transit board. Like Straus, he is not an ideologue. He is conservative, but he wants government to work.
Bonnen’s bill would not only have prohibited local governments from hiring lobbyists, but it also would have barred them from belonging to associations that hire lobbyists. So the school board would not have been able to belong, at a very modest cost, to the Texas Association of School Boards, which lobbies on behalf of the more than 1,000 school boards in the state. Likewise the City of San Antonio would have had to quit the Texas Municipal League unless it fired its lobbyists, considerably reducing its value to its members.
What’s stunning is that Bonnen would react by secretly asking a sworn enemy to do something he himself had so publicly criticized – working against incumbents. Being so vindictive against those who vote for the interests of their constituents rather than acceding to the speaker’s desires is, ironically, what led to the downfall of former Speaker Tom Craddick.
It’s an interesting hypothesis and Casey is the first person I’ve seen identify a common thread among the Bonnen Ten. That doesn’t mean this is the reason, but until someone comes up with a better explanation I’m willing to go with it. Every way you look at this, it’s such a bad look for Bonnen.
MQS-Bonnen secret meeting investigation update
Noted for the record.
The top prosecutor in House Speaker Dennis Bonnen’s home district has joined the probe into Bonnen’s secret meeting with a conservative political activist, in which the activist alleges he was offered an illegal quid pro quo.
Brazoria County District Attorney Jeri Yenne said Tuesday that she asked the Texas Rangers Public Integrity Unit to investigate the meeting on Aug. 13, one day after the House General Investigating Committee made the same request.
“Upon completion of the investigation by the Public Integrity Unit, the investigation will be expeditiously reviewed to determine whether any laws were violated,” Yenne said.
Yenne is the top prosecutor in Bonnen’s county of residence, so under a law passed in 2015, the investigation would ultimately have been referred to her for review if the Rangers had reasonable suspicion that Bonnen had committed a crime.
Earlier Tuesday, the Department of Public Safety, the agency that houses the Rangers, said investigators were “gathering evidence related to the meeting, to include a copy of the recording.”
“To protect the integrity of the investigation, no additional information will be provided, and we request additional questions be referred to the Brazoria County District Attorney,” the agency said in a statement.
Prior to 2015, investigations into public corruption by state lawmakers were conducted by the Travis County District Attorney’s Public Integrity Unit. But that year, state lawmakers changed the law to put the Texas Rangers in charge of those investigations. If the Rangers find reasonable suspicion that a crime occurred, they refer the case to “the appropriate prosecutor of the county in which venue is proper,” usually a lawmaker’s county of residence.
See here for the background. I have a hard time imagining criminal charges coming out of this, and even if they somehow did (if a grand jury gets empaneled, then maybe) I can’t see this ever going to trial. I mean, we may never see Ken Paxton go to trial, and that was a long time ago with a much clearer crime. I also still think the Republican vendetta against the Public Integrity Unit in the Travis County DA’s office will come back to bite them one way or another, some day. We’ll see how this one goes.
Pretty much everybody wants MQS to release the Bonnen recordings
From Twitter:
JOINT STATEMENT BY REPS. KLICK, HUBERTY, GOLDMAN AND SANFORD
“We call for the complete and unedited public release of the secretly recorded conversation between Speaker Bonnen, Representative Burrows and Michael Quinn Sullivan.”
— Stephanie Klick (@StephanieKlick) 3:53 PM – 26 August 2019
Rep. Stephanie Klick is the current Chair of the House Republican Caucus, having replaced Rep. Dustin Burrows after he resigned from that post. Burrows and several of his friends in high places, such as Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick, have also called for the release of the tape. So have some unspecified number of House Republicans. I’m sure more will add on the longer this drags out.
And I appreciate their efforts. It’s very much in the public interest for the full recording to be released. As Scott Braddock notes in an interview with Chad Hasty, “if Empower Texas really is media, which they’re suing to try to be, then they ought to act like media and publish the findings of what they say is their investigative journalism.”
All of this is unquestionably true. It’s also unquestionably true that what MQS is the rights of being classified as “media”, but without any of the responsibilities. This is when Rep. Klick and others find out that what MQS cares about is himself, and that releasing the tape would be in conflict with his own interest of keeping everyone attention on himself. So again, while I appreciate the gesture, I’m pretty sure it’s going to go unrewarded. Thanks for trying, though. The DMN has more.
The Bonnen-MQS saga makes the Times
Gotta love it when our little intramural squabbles go national.
In Texas, they are calling it the case of “The Speaker and the Creeper.”
The political imbroglio started last month, when Michael Quinn Sullivan, a conservative pit bull who routinely antagonizes establishment politicians, accused the Republican House speaker, Dennis Bonnen, of offering his organization coveted House media credentials if it would work to defeat 10 incumbent House members from Mr. Bonnen’s own party.
Mr. Bonnen denied it, and the bombshell was initially greeted with some skepticism. Why would one of the state’s top politicians court a back-room deal — to undermine his own bench — with a man Texas Monthly recently described as “one of the biggest snakes in Texas politics”?
Except there was a tape.
Now Mr. Sullivan’s accusations are at the heart of the biggest scandal to hit Texas in years, one that is throwing the state’s Republican-led House of Representatives into turmoil and threatening to bring down the speaker.
The big question many are trying to answer now in the Texas capital is why Mr. Bonnen would have approached a group about which he has been openly dismissive.
After Mr. Sullivan criticized the latest “amazing LOSER #Texlege session” on Twitter, Mr. Bonnen brushed it off. “They speak only for themselves,” he told reporters. “They aren’t worth responding to. The reality of it is, if we passed every pro-life bill filed in the history of the state they would say we have not done enough. You will never please or appease those folks and I’m sure as hell not going to waste my time trying.”
That was at the end of May. Then came the meeting in the speaker’s office, in June. Mr. Sullivan said he was expecting a “tongue-lashing” for not supporting what he called the “lackluster results” of the legislative session, but instead, according to his account, he was asked by the House speaker to refrain from further criticizing the just-ended legislative session, leave a select group of Republicans alone and target 10 others.
In exchange, Mr. Sullivan said, he was offered press credentials for Texas Scorecard, the media arm of Empower Texans — though the House speaker has since pointed out he would not have the authority to grant such credentials.
Cal Jillson, a political-science professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, said Mr. Bonnen may have been seeking to soften the “enmity” between Republican factions and head off “incoming fire” from Empower Texans and affiliated groups in the future. “What Sullivan did was lay a trap for him,” Professor Jillson said.
In a July 29 press statement before Mr. Sullivan revealed that he had taped the conversations, Mr. Bonnen said that he had “one simple reason for taking the meeting — I saw it as an opportunity to protect my Republican colleagues and prevent us from having to waste millions of dollars defending ourselves against Empower Texans’ destructive primary attacks, as we have had to do in the past several cycles.”
Mr. Bonnen has said he supported the Texas Rangers investigation and has called on Mr. Sullivan to release the statement “in its entirety.”
Texas is no stranger to scandal, and a few old hands around the Capitol still remember the granddaddy of them all — the Sharpstown stock fraud scandal of 1970-72, which centered on quid pro quo stock purchases that resulted in charges against more than two dozen current and former state officials and led to a wholesale turnover in state government.
The latest investigation, which is becoming known as “Bonnenghazi” or “Bonnghazi,” will determine whether the current speaker hangs on to power or is forced to the sideline, further casting Republicans in disarray in a race for a new leader and perhaps even giving an opening to Democrats in their perennial efforts to regain control of the House for the first time in nearly two decades.
The question of what exactly Bonnen was doing talking to MQS in the first place remains the big mystery to me. None of it makes sense, including the list of alleged targets. I’m happy to continue to stoke the flames on this, but I think we would all be well advised to maintain some skepticism until such time as the full tapes come to light. The odds that MQS has been bullshitting us all this whole time via selective editing or other trickery remain non-trivial. Bonnen deserves a heaping pile of criticism for his actions, but that doesn’t mean we should believe anything MQS says.
Rep. Dustin Burrows steps down as House GOP Caucus Chair
Rep. Dustin Burrows
State Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock has resigned as chair of the Texas House GOP Caucus, according to two people familiar with the matter. Burrows’ departure comes amid allegations that he and House Speaker Dennis Bonnen planned to politically target members from their own party in the 2020 primaries — and it marks the largest fallout yet since the accusations surfaced.
Burrows has served in the House since 2015. His resignation is expected to be announced to House Republicans sometime Friday. State Rep. Stephanie Klick of Fort Worth, who serves as vice chair of the caucus, will be elevated to chair.
Burrows has not yet publicly responded to the accusations made by Michael Quinn Sullivan, a hardline conservative activist who heads Empower Texans. Over the past few weeks, a number of House Republicans have privately expressed frustration that their caucus leader was largely remaining silent on the accusations made against him.
In a statement, Bonnen said that Burrows “was a strong leader for the caucus.” He added, “I respect his decision and I remain committed to strengthening our majority.”
Normally, this is super-deep Inside Baseball stuff, of interest to almost no one outside of the people who actually inhabit the Capitol. But these are not normal times, and Burrows is enmeshed in the current unpleasantness surrounding Speaker Dennis Bonnen and professional troglodyte Michael Quinn Sullivan. The fact that Burrows has maintained such strict radio silence is either a tribute to his loyalty to Bonnen or a measure of how deep the doo-doo is. Some day, perhaps we’ll find out which is the case.
Here come the Rangers
I don’t know where this is going to go, but it sure will be fun getting there.
The Texas House General Investigating Committee voted Monday to request that the Texas Rangers look into allegations against House Speaker Dennis Bonnen and one of his top lieutenants in the lower chamber.
The committee vote, which was unanimous, followed roughly an hour of closed-door deliberations among the five House members who serve on the panel. At issue is whether Bonnen, an Angleton Republican, and state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, offered hardline conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan media credentials for his organization in exchange for politically targeting a list of fellow GOP members in the 2020 primaries.
State Rep. Morgan Meyer, a Dallas Republican who chairs the House committee, said Monday that the Texas Ranger’s Public Integrity Unit “will conduct an investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding” that meeting between Sullivan, Bonnen and Burrows. Meyer also requested that the Texas Rangers provide a copy of its final investigative report to the committee at the end of its investigation.
See here for the background. What might happen next could get complicated.
Aside from the quid pro quo aspect of the scandal, exchanging money in the Capitol or directing expenditures from a Capitol office has been a Class A misdemeanor ever since the Legislature reacted to a 1989 public outcry over the late chicken producer Lonnie “Bo” Pilgrim handing out $10,000 checks to nine senators in the Senate chamber during a hearing on workers compensation reform.
Besides the issue of whether there was bribery involved, there are also potential election law crimes, including not disclosing the source of campaign contributions directed by Bonnen. The Texas Democratic Party filed a lawsuit against Sullivan on Thursday, alleging nine different potential criminal violations of the Texas Election Code, each a Class A misdemeanor. The lawsuit seeks to preserve evidence and damages of $100,000.
Given the potential for criminal wrongdoing, what happens next?
First, consider the dramatic changes that the Texas Legislature made to how public corruption cases are handled in Texas. Under a state law passed in 2015, the Travis County public integrity unit no longer has jurisdiction over elected officials at the Capitol. Potential criminal cases must be investigated first by the Texas Rangers. As of Thursday, the Rangers had not been asked to investigate the Bonnen/Sullivan controversy, nor had they initiated an investigation on their own, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson.
If the Rangers do investigate and decide further action is warranted, the case is referred to the home county of the public official. That means any corruption charges against Bonnen would have to be brought by the Brazoria County DA. For Burrows, it would be the Lubbock County DA. Travis County would retain jurisdiction only over Sullivan. In cases of multiple jurisdiction, the Texas attorney general’s office can take charge.
Funnily enough, Attorney General Ken Paxton is under indictment on securities fraud charges in his home territory of Collin County. Paxton is accused of failing to register as a securities agent as part of his private law practice. He claims he is innocent and that the case is politically motivated. Paxton counts among his allies the funders of Empower Texans. (The plot always seems to thicken in this scandal.)
You know what this would mean: Special prosecutors would be needed. Nothing could possibly go wrong with that approach. It’s almost as if abolishing the prosecutorial power of the Public Integrity Unit was a bad idea with all kinds of potentially unwanted consequences. We are getting way ahead of ourselves here, so let’s reel it in a bit and say we can’t wait to see what happens next. Ross Ramsey has more.
TDP sues over Bonnen-MQS secret meeting
Here’s an interesting turn.
The Texas Democratic Party is suing House Speaker Dennis Bonnen and conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan, alleging they created an unregistered political action committee and violated other state election laws.
The lawsuit, filed in Travis County District Court on Thursday, stems from a June 12 meeting Sullivan had with Bonnen and Republican Caucus Chairman Dustin Burrows in Bonnen’s Capitol office. In the meeting, Sullivan has said, Bonnen and Burrows offered to give writers at his website, Texas Scorecard, House media credentials in the next legislative session in exchange for Sullivan’s political group targeting 10 Republican incumbents in next year’s primary elections. Sullivan said he rebuffed the offer.
But Democrats allege that meeting and any agreements reached in it show a coordinated effort “between political actors intended to influence the election or defeat of specific candidates” and amounts to an unregistered political committee as defined by state law.
The Democrats also allege that Bonnen and Burrows directed Sullivan to make political contributions or expenditures at their request under his political action committee, Empower Texans, which is illegal under Texas campaign finance law. They further claim that the alleged quid pro quo Bonnen offered Sullivan of public benefits in return for targeting elected officials amounts to a violation of state law.
The complaint says any contribution proposed at the meeting violated state law because it was made in the Capitol and during the Legislature’s fundraising moratorium.
As part of their lawsuit, the Democrats request that Sullivan produce the entire recording of the June meeting and any other recordings Sullivan has of Bonnen and Burrows. The Democrats also ask Sullivan to produce a list of all the people who have listened to the June recording and any documentation relevant to that meeting.
Ramos, a Richardson Democrat, is a plaintiff in the case because the Democratic Party says she “is one of the candidates mentioned in this recording as a target of the coordinated political efforts between the Speaker and Sullivan.” It is unclear whether she was named as a target, though multiple people who have heard the recording confirm Bonnen called her “awful.”
“Texans deserve to know exactly what happened on June 12, 2019 and they deserve accountability from their elected officials,” Ramos said in a prepared statement. “There needs to be accountability for any violations of ethics or the law that occurred during a meeting between a Republican activist and the Speaker of the House.”
You can see the TDP press release here, and a copy of the lawsuit here. We know about the tape. There’s no argument I can see for keeping it secret, though I’m sure MQS will come up with something. The Texas House General Investigating Committee investigation may also serve as a way to get the tape released, though I’d put more faith in the courts to serve as a fulcrum if it comes to that. One caveat about the House investigation:
But the actions of the committee – which can issue subpoenas, hire outside investigators or tap the state’s existing criminal investigative capability, such as the Texas Rangers – may complicate matters.
Under state law, a person testifying about incriminating behavior before the Legislature may not be prosecuted or indicted for any actions about which they truthfully testify, potentially giving Bonnen, Burrows and Sullivan immunity in any further legal actions if they testify before the committee.
If we didn’t have complications, we wouldn’t have anything. That said, MQS will not be able to delete the recording while the litigation is active, either, so we’ve got that going for us. Juanita and the Trib have more.
Time to investigate
So, hey, that conversation we now know Dennis Bonnen had with MQS? The subject of that conversation, which involved a quid-pro-quo access-for-political-activity proposal, may be a violation of house rules. So, the relevant committee will have a look-see to check that out.
The powerful Texas House General Investigating Committee is set to launch an investigation into allegations that Speaker Dennis Bonnen offered a hardline conservative organization media credentials if it politically targeted certain Republican members in the lower chamber.
“Last night, I initiated internal discussion with General Investigating staff about procedure with the intention of launching an investigation. Our committee will be posting notice today of a public hearing which will take place on Monday, August 12,” state Rep. Morgan Meyer, a Dallas Republican who chairs the committee, said in a letter dated Wednesday.
He was writing to state Rep. Nicole Collier, a Fort Worth Democrat who serves as vice chair. Earlier Wednesday, Collier wrote to Meyer requesting he “launch an immediate full investigation” into “whether not there has been a violation of any policy or rules that the committee is charged with overseeing.”
Collier specifically asked for an investigation into “the allegations relating to media credentials, as well as the circumstances and events surrounding a June 12, 2019 meeting, including any and all correspondence, statements and/or recordings related thereto.”
The General Investigating Committee, comprised of five House members, has sweeping jurisdiction and holds subpoena power. A person who disobeys a subpoena by the committee may be cited for contempt or prosecuted for contempt, according to House rules, which were adopted at the beginning of the 86th legislative session in January. The committee can also meet at any time or place and has the jurisdiction to enter into a closed-door meeting if deemed necessary.
Since Sullivan revealed he had recorded the meeting, Bonnen, along with a number of Republicans and Democrats, have called for the audio to be released. Sullivan hasn’t yet indicated when — or if — he will.
State Rep. Chris Turner, a Grand Prairie Democrat who chairs his party’s caucus, said in a statement Wednesday that Collier “is right to make this call and has my full support in this effort.” He added that the committee should take up the allegations because “there are simply too many rumors about what was said or not said in this meeting for anyone who has not heard the recording to have confidence they have the truth.”
Earlier Wednesday, a member of the committee, state Rep. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, said on Facebook that, since there was a chance the allegations could come before the panel, it wouldn’t be appropriate to comment. He did, though, offer general thoughts on how he thinks the process should play out.
“We should not rush to judgment but we should not drag our feet either,” Krause said. “We should not condemn anyone arbitrarily but also must not be scared to move forward if we find evidence of wrongdoing.”
On Wednesday evening, as news of the House committee investigation spread, more people were listening to Sullivan’s recording and went public with details about it.
See here for the background. It looks like everyone agrees that the actual recording should be released, which sure seems like the logical thing to do. Whether MQS and his ego will go along with it, that’s another question. I won’t be surprised if he comes up with some weird legal pretext to decline to cooperate, in which case we’ll likely wind up in court. But maybe I’m wrong, and he thinks it’s to his advantage to play along. We’ll start to get some answers on Monday. Trail Blazers has more.
Bonnen blinks
Speaker Dennis Bonnen on Tuesday apologized to his 149 colleagues for “terrible things” he said about some of them, just hours after more details emerged about slurs against fellow House members uttered by him and his chief GOP sidekick Rep. Dustin Burrows.
“It was a mistake,” Bonnen wrote of his and Burrows’ June meeting with longtime conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan.
“I said terrible things that are embarrassing to the members, to the House, and to me personally,” Bonnen said in an email obtained by The Dallas Morning News. “You know me well enough to know I say things with no filter.”
Bonnen, whose hold on power has been rocked by Sullivan’s disclosure of the June meeting in Bonnen’s Capitol office, stopped short of admitting he has lied. Bonnen said he plans to meet individually in coming days and weeks with House members.
“I ask for your forgiveness, and I hope to rebuild your trust,” he wrote.
Bonnen acted Tuesday afternoon, more than five hours after Direct Action Texas, a grassroots conservative group critical of state GOP leaders, provided new and damning details of Bonnen and Burrows’ alleged targeting of incumbent House Republicans in a blog post.
On the Fort Worth-based group’s website, [Daniel] Greer, a former colleague of Sullivan’s, quoted Bonnen as labeling certain Democratic colleagues as “awful” and “vile,” while he said Burrows, the House GOP caucus’ chairman, derided fellow Republican Rep. Keith Bell of Forney as a “dumb freshman.”
Richardson Democratic freshman Rep. Ana-Maria Ramos “is called awful, [Houston Democratic freshman] Rep Jon Rosenthal makes the Speaker’s skin crawl … and [Carrollton Democratic freshman] Rep. Michelle Beckley is vile,” according to Greer’s account of a June 12 meeting between the two GOP House leaders and Sullivan. Sullivan secretly made the audio recording, and Greer wrote that he listened to it Sunday.
While The News could not independently confirm the account, Nacogdoches GOP Rep. Travis Clardy, who was named among the list of 10 targets and has listened to the recording, told the newspaper that the new account was mostly in line with what he’d heard.
As some House members, including Bonnen, were attending a national legislative conference in Nashville, Tenn., many were said to be discussing the Sullivan affair.
As texts and phone calls about the Greer post proliferated, Bonnen issued the apology.
See here for the previous update, and here for a copy of the Bonnen letter. There’s a lot here, so I’m going to summarize:
– My initial, hot-take reaction is that I don’t see any way forward for Dennis Bonnen to remain as Speaker. I’m not certain he can stay in the House. He’s going to have to smooth an awful lot of ruffled feathers, that’s for sure.
– But then, if Rep. Jon Rosenthal is typical – and according to Glenn Smith, he may be more typical than I’d have thought – maybe he will survive. Though I still don’t see how he can be Speaker again. Maybe that’s just me.
– By all accounts, Dennis Bonnen is a smart guy. And yet, this was galactically stupid of him in every regard. I have no idea what he hoped to gain, what he had against the members in question, why he let his guard down around a known enemy like MQS, all of it. Maybe someday he’ll spill his guts to a reporter to explain himself, but until then, boy howdy was this dumb.
– At least now we understand why Dustin Burrows has been hiding these past few days. I wouldn’t want to explain my role in this clusterfudge, either.
– As a Democrat, I almost can’t believe our luck. I do wish all of this were coming out later in the cycle, but this is going to leave a mark. I generally downplay the long-term effect of hard-fought primaries. There’s plenty of time to regroup and focus on the common goals. Here, I don’t think forgive and forget are in the cards. MQS being MQS, he’s sure not going to let people forget.
– Even after all this, it still feels like there’s another shoe to drop. At this point, all those calls to release the full tape may now work in MQS’ favor. I’m sure he will continue playing it for more people, and we’ll keep getting reactions from them. Who knows how long this will drag out?
So yeah, let’s keep that popcorn coming. The Trib has more.
UPDATE: This guy, clearly a Republican, is tracking statements of House members accepting Bonnen’s apology.
It’s all about the tape
You want to hear the recording of that conversation between Speaker Dennis Bonnen and MQS in which Bonnen supposedly trashed a bunch of Republican legislators? You can’t hear it unless MQS wants you to.
For the past week, Texas Republicans, Democrats and even Speaker Dennis Bonnen have called for the full release of audio that allegedly captures him attacking members of his party and making crude remarks about House colleagues.
But now some of those who listened to the audio are calling for the full recordings to be withheld from the public.
The fear? Mutually assured destruction.
“Any representative calling for this to be released in its unredacted, unedited form hasn’t heard it, because if you had heard it you wouldn’t want it to be released,” said Rep. Steve Toth, R-The Woodlands, who listened to the recordings last week.
Toth is among at least a half dozen people who say they’ve listened to the full audio of a conversation captured by conservative activist Michael Quinn Sullivan. He has roiled the state Capitol with accusations that Bonnen and House GOP Caucus chairman Dustin Burrows asked Sullivan to target a list of 10 Republican legislators ahead of next March’s primary.
Six people who say they listened to the audio have confirmed Sullivan’s side of the story, despite Bonnen saying publicly that Sullivan is lying. Sullivan last week began allowing Republican lawmakers, party leaders and conservative activists listen to the audio in the presence of his lawyer.
The list of supposed Republican targets includes Reps. Tan Parker of Flower Mound, Steve Allison of San Antonio, Trent Ashby of Lufkin, Ernest Bailes of Shepherd, Travis Clardy of Nacogdoches, Drew Darby of San Angelo, Kyle Kacal and John Raney of College Station, Stan Lambert of Abilene, and Phil Stephenson of Wharton.
From that list, Parker and Clardy have told news outlets they have listened to the recording, but it’s unclear how many others have listened to it. Parker declined further comment to the insider newsletter Quorum Report. Clardy called the comments on the recording “repugnant” and said it was “the most disappointing thing I’ve ever seen.”
Sullivan has denied Democrats a chance to listen to the audio, even those who he says were mentioned by name. He has also denied requests from news outlets to hear the recording.
See here for the previous update. Democrats of course want the full recording to be released, as do some Republicans, but MQS is gonna do what MQS is gonna do, and as long as only a select few get to hear it, it keeps his name squarely in the news. What more could an egotist like him want? All I know is I haven’t run out of popcorn yet.
Your daily Bonnen-MQS update
I’m just sittin’ here watching the wheels go round and round…
After a week of denying that he asked an arch-conservative to target 10 fellow Republicans in the next primary election, House Speaker Dennis Bonnen challenged Empower Texans CEO Michael Quinn Sullivan to release a secretly-recorded audio of their meeting.
But three House members who have reportedly listened to the recording said the speaker is not being truthful about the alleged list of GOP targets, rocking the Texas Republican party as it prepares for its most challenging election cycle in decades.
“It’s pretty shocking. I’ll be honest with you. It is,” said Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford. “There’s just frankly vomiting of the mouth, if you will, by these individuals and you can’t help but just kinda cringe by some of the stuff I heard … It’s beneath the office, for sure.”
Stickland, a darling of Empower Texans who is not running for re-election, said Bonnen offered media credentials to Sullivan during their June 12 conversation. Stickland said he heard on the audio that Bonnen then sweetened the deal by offering to deny media credentials to political reporter Scott Braddock of the Quorum Report. The credentials give journalists access to the floor of the Texas House when the Legislature is in session, and provide better access to lawmakers for interviews and follow-up questions.
Two other Republican lawmakers who have heard the audio have offered fewer details about what they heard, although Rep. Travis Clardy, R-Nacogdoches, confirmed the audio reveals that Burrows gave Sullivan the names of members who could be challenged in their primary elections without repercussion.
Clardy, who is on the list, said there are things on the recording that will be hurtful to some members, but each representative will have to determine for themselves “what it means and how to take it and whether they will be able to move past it.”
For his part, Clardy said he has already moved past it and wants to talk to Bonnen and Burrows, who he has yet to speak with to since news of the meeting broke last week.
See here, here, and here for the background. Let’s hear from Scott Braddock about this:
Braddock’s response on @ChadHastyRadio — “Given what was said on KFYO this morning … I am not going to comment on that until I hear the tape myself.” #txlege
— Cassi Pollock (@cassi_pollock) 10:12 AM – 1 August 2019
Fully agree with @RepDennisBonnen on this point – in fact I called for MQ Sullivan to prove his claims last week when he first made them. Playing a tape in his office only for officeholders isn’t the proof the public needs. Release the tape #TxLege
— Scott Braddock (@scottbraddock) 11:27 PM – 31 July 2019
The only Texas House member to speak out against the Speaker after hearing the tape so far is someone whose campaigns have been bankrolled by @EmpowerTexans. Gonna need more than that #TxLege
Here’s Ross Ramsey:
Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen isn’t cooked, yet — but the water is boiling.
The compact between a speaker and the members of the Texas House who elect him goes like this: Protect the members from the outside world (and from fratricidal colleagues), and in return, you get the title, the fancy corner office, the apartment in the state Capitol, and the gavel and the dais when the Legislature is in session.
Protection for power. It’s not a complicated transaction.
And the threat to that compact is why Bonnen is facing a crisis seven months after winning the job. Accused of selling out 10 of his fellow Republicans to a political operative, he’s now pitting his word with that activist threatening to make public a recording of their conversation.
As more members hear the recording — assuming they’re hearing a clean and complete rendition — they’ll compare that to what Bonnen has been telling them for the last week. If the stories don’t match, the speaker — this is the gentlest way of putting it — will have to explain the discrepancies.
In a trust-based relationship between a leader and the followers who elected him, that’s perilous.
A speaker who doesn’t have the trust of his own members isn’t in a secure spot. And one caught working directly against those members is cooked.
Plus two more Trib stories. Never let it be said that MQS doesn’t know how to get his name in the papers.
It is certainly possible that Bonnen, normally a pretty astute fellow, was dumb enough to talk to MQS and say these things he supposedly said. I don’t know why he’d do that, I don’t see what was in it for him, but maybe he was just saying the quiet parts out loud and forgot that he was dealing with a fundamentally dishonest broker. That’s the real key here, that no one with any integrity of their own should ever believe a word MQS says. If he’s got the goods on Bonnen, then put that recording out on the Internet for all of us to hear. I don’t care one way or the other what happens to Bonnen, but to me this is analogous to all of those “sting” tapes that grifters like James O’Keefe have put out over the years, supposedly showing people they don’t like saying or doing horrible things. Except that at a closer look, the whole thing falls apart, as the tape in question was heavily and dishonestly edited to make the sting subject look bad. I wouldn’t put that past MQS at all, but again, the answer here is simple. He says he’s got the goods. Let the rest of us hear it for ourselves. If MQS himself doesn’t also want that, we should wonder why.
I just can’t quit the Bonnen-MQS squabble
How much popcorn is too much? Asking for a friend.
A hardline conservative activist who has accused Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, of offering his group long-denied media access to the lower chamber in exchange for politically targeting 10 GOP lawmakers says he has a recording of their conversation — and suggested he may soon release it to the public. Bonnen has denied Sullivan’s characterization of the June 12 meeting.
“Speaker Bonnen and Rep. [Dustin] Burrows must recant their false claims. All of them. Immediately,” Michael Quinn Sullivan wrote Wednesday. “If they do not, I believe I will be obligated to release the recording—in whole or in part, I haven’t decided yet—so as to set straight the record they have tried to contort.”
Sullivan, CEO of Empower Texans, made the statement on his group’s Texas Scorecard website. Sullivan last week accused Bonnen and Burrows of offering Sullivan’s organization House media credentials if the well-funded political action committee he heads targeted 10 Republican members in the 2020 primaries. According to Sullivan, Bonnen left the room before Burrows handed over a list of the 10 members. Burrows, a Lubbock Republican, chairs the House GOP caucus.
In an email to House Republicans the day after those allegations surfaced, Bonnen disputed Sullivan’s version of events. And in a statement released Monday, Bonnen said that “at no point in our conversation was Sullivan provided with a list of target Members.” Burrows has remained silent publicly since Sullivan first made his allegations.
See here and here for the background. Everyone knows that MQS is a lying liar, but folks from Ross Ramsey to Christopher Hooks to Erica Greider are baffled by Bonnen’s weak denials and Burrows’ disappearing act. Hooks notes the claim of a recording and calls it “a potentially mortal threat to Bonnen’s speakership”. I only wish this were all happening about 14 months from now.
UPDATE: Oh, yeah.
“Mr. Sullivan, release your recording. Release it in its entirety,” the speaker said in a statement late Wednesday.
Keep at it, boys.
UPDATE: More, more, more.
Two members of the Texas House who listened Wednesday night to a recording of a meeting that has shaken up the Legislature refuted House Speaker Dennis Bonnen’s denials that he offered a list of 10 GOP representatives for a hardline conservative group to politically target.
“What I derived from the audio tape — it’s very clear — is that Speaker Bonnen was not truthful about a list not being provided,” state Rep. Steve Toth, a Republican from The Woodlands, told The Texas Tribune after he listened to a recording of Michael Quinn Sullivan, CEO of Empower Texans, visiting Bonnen’s office June 12.
State Rep. Travis Clardy, R-Nacogdoches, who is said to be on the alleged list, later told The Dallas Morning News that what he heard is “consistent with” what Sullivan has alleged.
Please never stop feuding over this.
Keep that popcorn coming
Oh, yeah.
Four days after a hardline conservative activist accused him and GOP caucus chairman Dustin Burrows of plotting to target 10 fellow Republicans in primary elections, House Speaker Dennis Bonnen forcefully denied the allegations Monday afternoon.
“Let me be clear. At no point in our conversation was [Michael Quinn] Sullivan provided with a list of target Members,” Bonnen said in a prepared statement. “I had one simple reason for taking the meeting — I saw it as an opportunity to protect my Republican colleagues and prevent us from having to waste millions of dollars defending ourselves against Empower Texans’ destructive primary attacks, as we have had to do the past several cycles.”
Bonnen also defended Burrows, the GOP caucus chairman and one of Bonnen’s top allies, by saying he asked him not to comment on the matter.
“I asked Chairman Burrows to be present as a witness to our conversation. I also asked him not to comment on this matter because this was an attack by Sullivan on me as the Speaker, and I wanted the opportunity to communicate with Members directly in an email that I sent on Friday evening,” Bonnen said. “I have apologized to Chairman Burrows for everything he has gone through — at no fault of his own — as a result of simply doing what I asked him to do.”
Bonnen’s denial and his defense of Burrows come as at least one member on the alleged target list was demanding answers.
Rep. Ernest Bailes told The Dallas Morning News on Monday morning that he was drafting a letter to seek answers from Burrows.
“I am making a formal request now to get that response from Burrows,” Bailes had told The News. Bailes, R-Shepherd, said the caucus sent members an email Monday morning asking for information about the representatives’ district events, while “completely ignoring” the allegations facing its chairman.
Burrows was accused of delivering the alleged list of 10 GOP targets. Bailes said the radio silence from Burrows was unacceptable: “That’s why he serves in that capacity.”
He did not immediately respond to a request for comment following Bonnen’s denial. Burrows did not respond to a request for comment Monday. He has not addressed the matter publicly since the allegation was made Thursday.
See here for the background. I don’t expect this squabble to last very long, certainly not all the way through next November. But I sure am going to enjoy it while it lasts. The Trib has more.
The Bonnen-MQS kerfuffle
As they say, pass the popcorn.
Less than three weeks after state lawmakers wrapped up their 2019 legislative session, an unusual meeting convened with unlikely conferees from opposite ends of the Texas Capitol power structure.
On one side: Republican House Speaker Dennis Bonnen and top ally Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, both fresh off a first session that had left lawmakers trumpeting the no-nonsense, landmark school finance and property tax legislation set to soon become law.
On the other: Michael Quinn Sullivan, a hardline conservative activist, whose Empower Texans organization had just unsuccessfully fought a number of the big measures that passed, prompting political observers to wonder whether the group’s influence within the Republican Party had hit a new low.
What happened in that June 12 meeting has become a major point of dispute, and the uncertainty surrounding it has roiled a GOP-controlled House heading into one of the most important election cycles in recent history.
On Thursday, Sullivan went public with an online post detailing his version of the story: Burrows gave Sullivan a list of 10 fellow House GOP members to target during the 2020 primary elections. In return, Texas Scorecard, an Empower Texans operation that bills itself as a news site, would receive long-denied House media credentials when the Legislature reconvenes in 2021. Sullivan linked to a letter that Bonnen sent on June 27 claiming that Sullivan, who had sent his own letter earlier that month to reject the offer, had “a misimpression of our meeting” and that no such deal had ever been on the table.
And on Friday evening, Bonnen, though he did not explicitly mention Sullivan’s allegation about the 10-member list, forcefully denied Sullivan’s version of the story — and recounted his version of how that meeting played out in an email sent to House Republicans that was obtained by The Texas Tribune.
According to Bonnen, the two ran into one another at a Houston airport after the legislative session ended. “I approached him and asked him what his problem was with the House.” Bonnen wrote. “It was a short and curt exchange, and he asked me at that time if he could meet with me. I said ‘sure.'”
You can see Bonnen’s letter to House members here, and Ross Ramsey’s recap of the situation here. The main lesson to take away from this is, of course, that Sullivan is a toxic force that should be avoided at all costs. In the meantime, Republicans are welcome to fight among themselves all they want. Now where’s that popcorn?
This was a busy week for dumb lawsuits
“Objection Overruled”, by Charles Bragg
Houston mayoral challenger Tony Buzbee followed through his pledge to sue Mayor Sylvester Turner Wednesday, claiming that donated billboards for the city’s AlertHouston! campaign violate campaign finance laws because they feature a photo of Turner.
The lawsuit, filed in the 281st state district court, names Turner and Clear Channel Outdoor Inc., the company that donated the 27 billboards, as defendants.
Buzbee’s petition claims Clear Channel is “blatantly supporting” Turner in the November mayoral race “by plastering his smiling face across this city while promoting him as a civic-minded, safety conscious leader.”
The billboards promote AlertHouston!, a system that sends alerts to Houston residents during emergency situations.
I’m not going to waste our time on the details here. Let’s refer to this earlier story for the reasons why this is dumb.
Buck Wood, an Austin-based campaign finance lawyer, equated Buzbee’s allegations to a hypothetical real estate agent who, after announcing a run for public office, would then have to take down any advertisements for their private business.
“I have never seen anything like that,” he said.
Proving the billboards are illegal, Wood said, would require Buzbee to show that the company and Turner struck a deal explicitly aimed at aiding the mayor’s re-election.
“You’d have to have good, strong evidence that they put up these pictures just for the purpose of helping elect him,” Wood said. “…You’d have to prove a conspiracy, and that’s basically impossible to do in this situation.”
Each year around hurricane season, former Harris County Judge Ed Emmett would appear on billboards, in some years directing people to the county’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management website. Emmett said he used campaign funds to pay for the billboards during election years.
I mean, I know Tony Buzbee is supposed to be a super duper lawyer and all, but maybe he might have asked another lawyer about this first? Just a thought.
Exhibit B:
Months after being denied media credentials for the Texas House, the conservative organization Texas Scorecard — a product of Empower Texans, a Tea Party-aligned political advocacy group with one of the state’s best-funded political action committees — has filed a First Amendment lawsuit arguing that its rejection from the lower chamber constitutes “unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.”
Before the legislative session kicked off in January, two employees of Texas Scorecard, Brandon Waltens and Destin Sensky, applied for media credentials in both chambers of the Legislature. In the Senate, their credentials were granted; in the House, they were denied. The two chambers follow similar rules about who is allowed special journalistic access to the floor, and both prohibit lobbyists. But the chambers’ political atmospheres are different.
House Administration Chair Charlie Geren, a Fort Worth Republican who has sparred with Empower Texans and its PAC in the past, told the group in a January rejection letter that it was ineligible for media credentials because “the organization you are employed by, Texas Scorecard, has a close association with a general-purpose political committee (GPAC) and that the organization’s website prominently displays advocacy on policy matters before the legislature.” As evidence of the group’s affiliation with the PAC, Geren cited the organizations’ shared address — but by the time Geren’s letter was issued, the lawsuit claims, they no longer shared that address.
Empower Texans PAC has backed primary opponents to Geren and has given Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who leads the Texas Senate, more than $850,000 in the last five years.
Now, Empower Texans is very likely to get a friendly hearing from the State Supreme Court, so at least from a strategic perspective, this isn’t a dumb lawsuit. It’s very likely to be a successful lawsuit. But come on. If these Empower Texans flunkies count as “journalists”, then that word has no meaning. All of us are made a little more dumb by the existence of this lawsuit.
This week on “As Collin County Turns”
I swear, the Ken Paxton case is a giant vortex of political suck, absorbing everything in its wake.
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The Collin County district judge who oversaw the grand jury indictment of state Attorney General Ken Paxton is now facing a complaint before the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
Chris Oldner – whose comments about the politically charged case have drawn attention – was accused in a filing dated last week of judicial misconduct for “disparaging” Paxton, failing to recuse himself sooner, and potentially prejudicing the proceedings.
The campaign for Oldner, a Republican who is now running for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, said the “complaint is completely without merit.”
“It’s just another just another example of how dark-money special interest groups seek to bully and intimidate ethical, conservative judges who strictly follow the law,” the campaign said. “It has to be humiliating that they had to resort to a young, low-level political operative to do their bidding.”
The grievance was filed by Aaron Harris, a North Richland Hills politico who’s worked on anti-bond efforts and other Tarrant County campaigns. Empower Texans, a conservative group that supports Paxton, first posted Harris’ complaint on Wednesday.
Harris laughed off the Oldner campaign’s response, adding that “if I’m the boogieman, that’s great.”
“It’s very telling that he doesn’t address the merits of the complaint,” he said. “And I have no idea where he gets ‘dark money’ or anything like that. … I’m not sure how a concerned citizen is a special interest group.”
They asked Tarrant County District Judge George Gallagher, who’s now overseeing the case, to quash the indictments over issues with how Oldner selected the grand jury. They also accused Oldner of leaking information about the indictment to his wife.
Oldner has said previously that he didn’t do anything wrong. And while Gallagher did not address the claims against Oldner, he denied a motion last month which raised Oldner’s actions as a reson to throw out the indictments.
Harris’ complaint echoes the concerns outlined by Paxton’s legal team. He focused on an interview that Oldner gave to WFAA-TV (Channel 8) in which the judge accused Paxton’s defense team of having “reached a desperate place.”
“As citizens, we have to hold our elected officials – judges or not – accountable,” Harris said. “And Judge Oldner’s behavior in this case is troublesome.”
See here for the background. You have to admire Aaron Harris’ ability to keep a straight face while hilariously casting himself as just plain ol’ folk doing the good work of keeping an eye on government. I mean, I could hear him twirling his mustache from here. I have no idea whether Oldner – who I remind you is a candidate for Court of Criminal Appeals in the GOP primary – crossed any lines in that WFAA interview or not. The State Commission on Judicial Conduct will sort that out in a few months. But man, this whole Paxton case is a cancer. Who else will wind up going down with his ship?
On succeeding, and defending, Ken Paxton
Ross Ramsay:
While Ken Paxton fights to avoid convictions and jail time on indictments alleging securities violations — and to keep his job as Texas attorney general — a muted and unofficial conversation about who will succeed him is already underway.
That considerable legal predicament opens the conversation about whether Paxton can survive politically. Any felony conviction, whether it involves prison or not, would cost him his law license and probably whatever remains of his term. And that could set up an appointment of his successor by Gov. Greg Abbott — his predecessor as attorney general.
That leads to this: There is a political fluster underway that most people know nothing about.
Names of possible Paxton successors are floating around in Republican circles: Supreme Court Justices Don Willett and Eva Guzman; former Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson; current and former first assistants to the AG Chip Roy and Daniel Hodge; [Dan] Branch and [Barry] Smitherman, the two also-rans in last year’s Republican primary. It goes on, picking up Education Commissioner Michael Williams and state Rep. Jason Villalba of Dallas.
The people in the preceding paragraph have a few things in common. They are Republicans. They are lawyers. They are not openly campaigning for Paxton’s job. Some support Paxton and hope he emerges without a mark. And they make up a pretty good list of viable candidates for state office, whether it turns out to be this one or something in the future. They’re from different parts of the GOP, and the infighting, should an opening occur, could be fierce.
I hope Paxton digs his heels in deep and hangs on to run for re-election even if he’s been convicted. What does he care what a bunch of insiders and establishment figures think about his “effectiveness” or “ability to govern?” They’re not the ones who elected him in the first place, and they’re not the ones who are steadfastly supporting him against all comers and all evidence. Scott Braddock explains.
Employees of Tim Dunn’s Empower Texans, a self-proclaimed conservative group, have tried to make the case that Texas House Speaker Joe Straus is somehow to blame for the legal problems Paxton now faces.
As Quorum Report publisher Harvey Kronberg has pointed out, this alleged swindling of investors amounts to the same kind of shenanigans that helped give rise to the Tea Party in the first place back in 2008 following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the subsequent Wall Street bailouts.
What’s gotten less attention is the company at the heart of the Paxton indictment, Servergy, received government economic incentives that are strongly opposed by Sen. Konni Burton, R-Colleyville, and others who claim to be as conservative as they come.
Sen. Ted Cruz – one of Paxton’s biggest supporters and the man who more than anyone put his political capital behind him in the GOP primary runoff against Rep. Dan Branch – regularly rails against government interference in the marketplace.
In his crusade against the Export-Import Bank, a top priority of many Texas employers, Cruz has called the Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar and has repeatedly used the word “cartel” to describe lobbyists who represent job creators in his home state and elsewhere.
At the time Paxton was rounding up investors for Servergy, allegedly without disclosing his financial interest in the firm, the company was getting government incentives to move to his hometown. Among the details of Paxton’s situation is the fact that Servergy received rental assistance from the City of McKinney so that it could relocate to North Texas from California.
Many of those same folks in the business community are understandably unaware of the way in which scorecards created and promoted by Empower Texans are reverse-engineered with the goal of aiding GOP politicians who have been adversarial toward Speaker Straus. Sen. Burton and AG Paxton have been beneficiaries of those tactics.
Paxton was also the recipient of at least $1.4 million in Empower Texans political money in the form of a $1 million loan and $400,000 cash as he ran for the Republican nomination.
As far as we know, Paxton is the only one of their allies who possibly gained from government economic incentives that went to a company from which he stood to profit financially.
If consistency or conservatism were the priorities of Dunn, his spokesman Michael Quinn Sullivan, and Sen. Burton they would likely be among the loudest critics of Servergy’s rental assistance.
But the name of the game for this particular cartel is control, not consistency.
Indeed, and that’s why I think any talk of who might succeed Ken Paxton is premature. Paxton knows where his bread is buttered. Until that support dries up, or until the voters actually do boot him out, I don’t believe he’s going anywhere.
The odds never favor ethics reforms
Better to keep your hopes down and not suffer too much disappointment.
Gov. Greg Abbott pledged on the campaign trail to lead the charge to improve the state’s ethics laws, and now lawmakers and advocates pushing for reform are looking to the newly elected governor to help breathe life into proposals at the Legislature.
Lawmakers of both parties at the state Capitol talk a big game when it comes to strengthening laws aimed at rooting out corruption or providing more transparency to the public. That mostly has amounted to lip service, advocates of open government say, as substantive ethics reform has continually been curbed.
This session, efforts again will include attempts to require disclosure of contracts elected officials and their families have with the public sector, to make lawmakers’ personal financial statements available online, and to slow down the revolving door of lawmakers leaving office and immediately becoming lobbyists. All have failed previously.
There also are plans to propose legislation addressing secret campaign donors.
And a package of ethics measures Abbott laid out on the campaign trail, from putting more teeth into conflicts-of-interest statutes to beefing up campaign finance reporting requirements, are expected to get serious attention this session.
“Gov. Abbott made this a large part of his campaign for a good reason,” said state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, a second-term Republican from Southlake. “People are afraid that somehow we’re working on things that could enrich other politicians.”
Tom “Smitty” Smith of watchdog group Public Citizen Texas said he remains cynical about what actually will come to fruition, noting Abbott’s plan did not include any mention of so-called “dark money” – political contributions in which the donor is not disclosed.
“Abbott has clearly signaled he wants to do some sort of ethics reform,” Smith said. “It’s more of a matter of, what is a reform?”
Bet the under, that’s my advice. It’s not even all on Abbott, to be honest, but more about the MQS mafia. Of course, they’re big backers of Abbott, who I expect will be honest enough to stay bought. Even if some form of ethics reform gets through, kneecapping the Public Integrity Unit and trimming funds for the Texas Ethics Commission will ensure that any new rules will be largely unenforceable anyway. So stay pessimistic, but hope for the best.
Expect “dark money” to stay dark
Nice recommendations, but they’re not going anywhere.
Labeling so-called dark money spending a corrupting force in the democratic process, the House Committee on State Affairs issued a set of recommendations after Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, directed the panel a year ago to dive into the topic during the interim.
Strauss and his lieutenants have been frequent targets of the state’s highest-spending politically active 501(c)(4), Empower Texas.
Nonprofits established under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(4) currently are allowed to spend money to influence elections but do not have to reveal who is funding the efforts. The groups have argued their donor lists are constitutionally protected.
Campaign cash from politically active nonprofits that do not disclose donors represents just a fraction of the hundreds of millions of dollars flowing into Texas elections.
But lawmakers on the House panel said in the report that “if we fail to act, we leave the opportunity for a growing number of entities to anonymously manipulate and control our elections, which undermines the democratic process.”
“The ability to give and spend anonymously through highly sophisticated means, often by obtaining 501(c)(4) status, corrupts the free democratic process for everyone,” the report said. “It is fundamentally vital that the legislature increase the transparency of our campaign finance system and protect the integrity of our elections, while providing for laws that meet constitutional scrutiny.”
Among the recommendations included in the report are a call for the Legislature to pass a bill to “ensure all political entities spending substantial funds to influence elections” be required to disclose donors like a traditional political action committee.
The panel also recommended lawmakers require 501(c)(4)s to provide a check box for donors to opt out of having their money used for politicking, a model that’s currently used in Utah, which was rocked by a dark money scandal in 2013.
You may recall that a bill like this passed out of the Lege last time, where it was met by Rick Perry’s veto pen. That’s the one where Dan Patrick demanded a re-vote because he didn’t realize what he had voted for the first time. He won’t make that mistake again. Expect this one to get deep-sixed in the Senate. Patrick and his minions like their money dark.
Empower Texans could have some tax problems
Schadenfreude alert:
Empower Texans, an organization at the center of the state’s far-right conservative movement, reported no political expenses on its 2012 tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service, despite showing $350,000 in campaign expenditures to state authorities, documents show.
The group, which claims to support fiscal responsibility and greater transparency in government, is best known for funding challengers going after Republicans it believes are too moderate, such as House Speaker Rep. Joe Straus, a San Antonio Republican.
“That is a very serious discrepancy, because it tends to suggest – it’s not, obviously, definitive – but it tends to suggest that the (tax return) was completed in a way that is knowingly incorrect,” said Marcus Owens, who was the director of the division of the IRS that oversees tax-exempt organizations from 1990 through 2000. “Absent some cogent and persuasive explanation of those two, that strikes me as potentially a criminal problem and certainly a civil problem.”
Another attorney well-versed in the IRS’ rules and procedures for nonprofits was equally critical.
“To the degree they are filing reports with the state ethics commission showing political spending, and they’re not showing them on their (tax returns), I find that questionable,” said John Pomeranz, a Washington D.C.-based attorney, who specializes in the law governing lobbying and political activity by nonprofits. “I’m trying to think of a way that could be justified, but I don’t really think it can be.”
Empower Texans’ nonprofit status makes its tax returns public record. Information from the tax returns reviewed from 2008 until 2012 also raises questions about whether the group has used an affiliated nonprofit, the Empower Texans Foundation, to improperly subsidize its political activity.
According to those records, Sullivan’s salary at Empower Texans fell greatly after the Empower Texans Foundation was created. However, the pay he received from the foundation more than made up the difference. In 2009, the year before the foundation was established, Sullivan made $99,600 in 2009, working 60 hours a week, serving as the president of Empower Texans.
However, in 2011, he made only $38,842 (about $19 an hour), as Empower Texans’ president. But he made $81,600 (roughly $78 an hour) serving as a director on the foundation’s board, tax returns show.
The pattern repeated itself in 2012: Sullivan, again listed as Empower Texans’ president, made $45,633 there, while earning another $81,600 from the foundation.
“That definitely suggests the (foundation) is subsidizing (Empower Texans), and the IRS doesn’t like that,” Pomeranz said.
While the IRS allows affiliated nonprofits to share staff and other costs, it requires that each organization carry its own weight, Owens said. He added that failure to do that could endanger the foundation’s tax-exempt status.
The tax returns, known as 990s, have come into the spotlight as the Ethics Commission considers adopting rules that would require nonprofits, like Empower Texans, to report their donors if at least 25 percent of their expenditures are “politically motivated.”
I know, it’s hard to believe that anyone as honest and forthright as Michael Quinn Sullivan could be playing fast and loose with the rules. Clearly, we need a nice, long, thorough investigation to get to the bottom of this.
Empower Texans to spread its virus to Houston
Try not to get infected.
Empower Texans said Sunday it will open a political outpost in Houston, a signal that the conservative political action committee may emerge as a player in upcoming municipal elections.
On Friday, Empower’s fiscal policy analyst Christopher Paxton criticized Houston’s elected officials for complaining about having to rein in government spending.
“Too many Houston politicians have decided the real problem is the limit on government growth, not endlessly growing government,” Paxton said in a blog post. “It is high time that Houstonians held their elected officials accountable and demand that the council address major fiscal challenges without raising taxes or complaints.”
That “high time” may come next year, when Houston voters will elect a new mayor and 16 city council members. Several Republicans are expected to run for the city’s top job – meaning Empower’s endorsement could help a candidate advance to the runoff in a crowded field.
Empower Texans is the astroturf group headed by Michael Quinn Sullivan, the self-appointed overlord of the state Republican Party. The one benefit to this is that Empower will provide an easy way to identify anyone that you should be sure to avoid like the plague in any election. Any candidate they endorse is just about by definition someone you should not vote for. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out for their endorsements next year. Campos has more.
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5 DIY Hardware Platforms for Physiological Computing
By Hugo Plácido da Silva | April 5, 2015
Physiological computing focuses on the use of biosignals for the development of interactive software and hardware systems capable of sensing, processing, reacting, and interfacing the digital and analog worlds. However, biosignals have specific requirements for which typical physical computing platforms are not particularly tuned. Until recently, many projects ended up hindered by high costs and limited access to suitable hardware materials. That scenario is different today, partially thanks to the following 5 DIY hardware platforms...
5 open source dashboard tools for visualizing data
By Jason Baker | November 23, 2016
To start with a confession, I like dashboards. A lot. I've always been fascinated by finding new and interesting ways to bring meaning to data with interactive visualization tools. While I'm definitely a geek for numbers, the human mind is simply much better at interpreting trends visually than it is just picking them out a spreadsheet. And even when your main interest in a dataset is the raw numbers themselves, a dashboard can help to bring meaning by highlighting which values matter most, and what the context of those numbers is...
Amida Releases Enhanced Blue Button Software Component
Press Release | Amida | September 2, 2014
Amida is pleased to announce the second release of its Data Reconciliation Engine (DRE). The DRE is a Blue Button-branded software component that supports the aims of the Blue Button Initiative, a nationwide public-private effort that enables patients and consumers to gain easy access to their own health information...
Amida Releases New Blue Button Software Component
Press Release | Amida, Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology | June 2, 2014
Amida is pleased to announce the release of its first product, a Blue Button branded software component that supports the aims of the Blue Button Initiative, a nationwide public-private effort to enable patients and consumers to gain easy access to their own health information. Amida's Data Reconciliation Engine (DRE) is the first production-ready, format-agnostic open source health record interface in the health IT market...
Better Tech Is Here for Healthcare
Brandt Welker | EMR & HIPAA | September 13, 2017
Better technology is out there serving other industries … and it can be applied in healthcare. Technology should ease administrative loads and put clinicians back in front of patients! I’ve talked about some of this previously and how we keep clinicians involved in our design process. When it came to building an entirely new EHR, the driving force behind our team researching and adopting new technologies was to imagine a clean slate...
Chromecast: Understanding its Potential beyond Video Streaming
By Rob Tweed | April 25, 2014
Google launched the $35 Chromecast into the US market in July 2013 and it became available in the UK in March 2014. It’s primarily marketed as a device for streaming video to your TV, and, as such, is usually compared with the Roku streamer, Apple TV and the new Amazon Fire TV. Once you look under the covers, you discover that such comparisons are misleading: unlike the other devices, the Chromecast is actually much more than just a streaming device for TV.
Google Joins VistA Team Proposing Open Source EHR for the Department of Defense
By Roger A. Maduro | January 28, 2015
Google has thrown its hat into the EHR ring by joining the team led by PwC which is proposing that the Department of Defense (DoD) upgrade their current EHR to Defense Operational Readiness Health System (DORHS), a customized application built for the DoD and based on VistA, the open source EHR developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...Google’s participation has enormous implications for both the DoD’s EHR and to the healthcare industry as a whole. By choosing the open source EHR team, Google...has sent a clear message to the world that VistA is the best option for the DoD.
Joyent Partners With Canonical On Customized Ubuntu As A Cloud Service
Sam Dean | GigaOM | February 20, 2014
Joyent, well-known on the cloud computing scene and a growing player in Big Data analytics, announced a partnership with Canonical today to provide customers with optimized and supported Ubuntu server images in the Joyent Cloud. Effectively, users will be able to leverage a Canonical-customized Ubuntu in the cloud. [...] Read More »
MedicaSoft to Demonstrate the Capabilities of Advanced Web Technologies for EHRs at HIMSS16
By Brandt Welker | February 5, 2016
Our team prides itself on using cutting edge software technologies that maximize everything from interoperability to speed, integration, reliability, and usability. We use Angular.js to build our user Interface. Angular.js is a technology that was invented at Google and used by Google for its own products. We use Node.js for the serverside logic. Node.js allows us to provide incredibly fast transactions and again, use technology from this decade, unlike other health IT solutions. Node.js is growing at an exponential rate in industry – well, other industries, not healthcare.
Microsoft Azure container team releases first open-source developer tool
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZD Net | May 31, 2017
At CoreOS Fest in San Francisco, Calif., Microsoft's Gabe Monroy, lead project manager for containers on Microsoft Azure, announced the release of Draft, a tool to streamline development of applications running on any Kubernetes cluster. With Draft, which Monroy said was the first open-source program to emerge from the Azure Container group, developers can use two simple commands to begin hacking on container-based applications with no knowledge of Docker or Kubernetes. "In fact," Monroy claimed, "developers don't even need Docker or Kubernetes installed to get going"...
Microsoft Open Sources Edge Web Browser's JavaScript Engine, Plans Port to Linux
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | January 13, 2016
Who says Microsoft doesn't get open source these days? On January 13, 2016, Microsoft made good its December 2015 promise to open source ChakraCore, the Microsoft Edge JavaScript engine. And, believe it or not, Microsoft will also port it to Linux. Edge is Microsoft's Windows 10 specific web brower. Unlike Internet Explorer (IE), which traces back its family tree to 1995 and Spyglass Mosaic, Edge is largely a new browser. It still traces some of its code to IE. For example, EdgeHTML, which powers Edge's HTML rendering engine, is a fork of IE's Trident Web-rendering engine...
Oroville Hospital’s Scheduler: a winning technology
By Rob Tweed | October 8, 2013
On October 3rd, the winners of the US Dept of Veteran’s Affairs’ (VA) Medical Appointment Scheduling Contest were announced. In second place was the OH Scheduler, which was the submission from Oroville Hospital in California. I’d like to expand on their press release and provide some background to the technology that was used to develop their scheduler: it’s very much a case study of everything I’ve been talking about in my blog The EWD Files. As it happens, the OH Scheduler was first and foremost designed and developed for use at Oroville Hospital. However, since their Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) is based on the VA’s VistA system, Oroville Hospital believed that it should also meet many of the key requirements of the VA and therefore submitted it as a contender for the VA’s competition. Read More »
OSEHRA 2014 Summit Shows the Future for Open Source EHR's— US Government IT Procurement
By Roger A. Maduro | September 20, 2014
The recent 2014 OSEHRA Open Source Summit: Global Collaboration in Healthcare IT, held September 3-5 in Bethesda, MD, was a huge success and clearly marks a watershed moment for open source health information technology (HIT), as well as a transformation in the way that US government agencies procure technology. The Summit featured more than 120 speakers addressing 90 separate sessions over three days. According to Seong K. Mun, President and CEO of OSEHRA, “this Summit demonstrated solid growth in both the depth and breadth of the OSEHRA Community.” Read More »
OSEHRA 2014: Modernizing the VistA GUI
By Roger A. Maduro | September 2, 2014
As we approach the 2014 OSEHRA EHR Summit, the topics of EHR Usability and EHR web enablement have become major points of discussion. This article is a quick attempt to summarize one of the key developments in this area. Sidney Tarason from Astute Semantics has produced groundbreaking prototypes for VistA that could shape the modernization effort moving forward for not just VistA, but for all EHRs based on the polymorphic MUMPS database (about 95% of all electronic health record (EHR) systems in the United States). Read More »
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Nautica store locations in Rhode Island
Below is a list of Nautica mall/outlet store locations in Rhode Island, with address, store hours and phone numbers.
Nautica has 64 mall stores across the United States, with 0 locations in Rhode Island. View Nautica stores in top U.S. cities.
Since there are no Nautica stores in malls in Rhode Island, we suggest you review the list of similar stores below, which includes other classic Men's & Women's Clothing stores in Rhode Island.
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Implementing Responsive Design with Media
By Tim Kadlec
Selectively serving images to mobile
Responsive image strategies
Responsive image options
High-resolution displays
Other fixed-width assets
It takes careful consideration and planning to give our users the best of both worlds: a beautiful experience that loads as quickly as possible. In this chapter, learn why performance matters, how to conditionally load images, what responsive image solutions are available, and their limitations, how to swap out background images without downloading multiple images, how to conditionally load web fonts, what’s ahead for responsive images, how to make embedded video scale while maintaining its aspect ratio, and what to do with responsive advertising.
Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web
Look! We’ve figured it seventeen different ways, and every time we figured it, it was no good, because no matter how we figured it, somebody don’t like the way we figured it.
—BUDDY HACKETT AS BENJY BENJAMIN IN IT’S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
When it comes to rich experiences online, we have a love/hate relationship. On one hand, beautiful images and interesting videos help to provide a deeper, more pleasant experience. On the other hand, including many images and videos on a page results in a slow loading time, which can be very frustrating. It takes careful consideration and planning to give our users the best of both worlds: a beautiful experience that loads as quickly as possible.
Using the methods outlined in the first three chapters, we’ve built ourselves a responsive site. It looks good on desktops, on tablet devices, and on smartphones. Users can resize the browser window to their hearts’ content, and the layout will adjust accordingly. If delivering a responsive approach were this easy, this book would be short indeed. There’s still plenty of room to tidy things up. The images, in particular, are an issue.
In this chapter, we’ll discuss:
Why performance matters
How to conditionally load images
What responsive image solutions are available, and their limitations
How to swap out background images without downloading multiple images
How to conditionally load web fonts
What’s ahead for responsive images
How to make embedded video scale while maintaining its aspect ratio
What to do with responsive advertising
Once we hit the final breakpoint (1300px), the images associated with the “More in Football” section look a little worse for wear. Other than that, the images appear sharp and crisp.
We could probably improve the lead-in photograph for small screens. If the small version of the image were more tightly cropped, the image would maintain its initial impact, even when scaled down on the small screen. As it is, the flag and foot start to get lost at such a small size (Figure 4.1).
Figure 4.1. On small-screens, the flag and foot in the main image start to lose their impact.
The main problem though is not in how the images look, but in how much they weigh, how much demand they place on performance. Currently, the same images are being loaded regardless of the device in use. That means, for example, the 624px lead-in image is being downloaded even on small screens where a 350px image is all that’s needed. The page performance is suffering, and that’s a big deal to people visiting the site.
Unfortunately, performance is treated as an afterthought on many projects. A quick look at the data reveals that it should be anything but.
Most of us working with the Web have faster connections than the average Internet user. As a result, we experience the Web differently. Our users, however, are keenly aware of how painful it is to use a poorly performing site.
In 2009, the major shopping comparison site Shopzilla improved its page load time from 4 to 6 seconds to 1.5 seconds. The results were stunning. The site’s conversion rate increased by 7 to 12 percent and page views jumped a whopping 25 percent.1
Mozilla found similar results when it trimmed page load time by 2.2 seconds: download conversions went up by 15.4 percent, which translated into an estimated 10.28 million additional downloads of Firefox per year!2
The situation is much more dire for mobile phones. Networks are slower, hardware is less capable, and you have to deal with the messy world of data limitations and transcoding methods. In spite of all this, user expectations remain the same. In fact, 71 percent of mobile users expect sites to load on their phones as quickly as or faster than on their home computers.3
This is bad news for our site as it currently stands. Both the logo and article lead-in photo are very large. The article lead-in photo is 624px wide and weighs around 50KB. The small-screen layout could get away with using a much smaller image (somewhere around 300px), but we’re still passing along the large desktop image instead of something more appropriate. Removing the amount of data sent down the pipe is an important consideration, and one we can’t afford to ignore.
A quick assessment of the page reveals the following images that could be optimized:
The images for the “More in Football” section. Each of these is only 300px, but they’re really not needed on the small screen. In fact, they take up a lot of screen real estate and look out of proportion with the content (Figure 4.2). On the small screen, users have a better experience if only the headlines are displayed—not the images.
Figure 4.2. The images in the “More Football” section take up a lot of precious screen real estate on small-screen devices.
The article lead-in image. The lead-in image is a whopping 624px and weighs in at just under 50KB. On small screens, an image half the size would work just as well. In addition, if the small-screen version of the image was more tightly cropped, the visual focus on the flag would be stronger.
The logo. The logo weighs in at 10KB, so it’s much lighter than the lead-in article. It is, again, about twice as big as it needs to be.
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Pole vault bolsters seniors' fitness, friendships
Unread postby Bubba PV » Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:13 pm
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For trio, the bar is high: Pole vault bolsters seniors' fitness, friendships
By Christopher Behnan • DAILY PRESS & ARGUS • November 24, 2010
On a late-fall day, three Livingston County men realize intense self-awareness charging a runway and ascending toward their target height with Michigan's Indian summer colors in the backdrop.
If asked, the men of senior-citizen age would tell you finding that sense of peace is crucial at this point in their lives.
The men are pole vaulters, in some cases national and international title holders.
Hartland Township resident Jim Roth, Unadilla Township resident Howard Booth and Brighton Township resident Terry Woodward are members of the local Tamarack Valley Pole Vault Club — an informal group of about 10 members, half of whom are over age 60.
They claim the track and field event — considered difficult at any age — has put them in the best shape of their lives.
Pole vaulting is a perfect mix of mental and physical skill: A competitor must first believe he or she can clear the bar, then have the focus and physique to make that happen.
Roth, 73, revisited the sport in 2006 following a 46-year hiatus.
On a recent trip to Vail, Colo., he traversed some of the most advanced hills on the downhill ski slopes. He hadn't skied in 20 years.
"I feel no different than I did when I was 30. There's no limit to what I can do physically," Roth said.
"At my age, I'm getting better, and it shouldn't be happening," he added.
A significant challenge in pole vaulting is getting the pole to bend properly before launching — hopefully — up and over the bar. Being able to run fast is a given.
While track and field competition includes a host of events, including pole vault, there are myriad pole-vaulting-only events, Booth explained. Arguably the largest in Michigan is the Grand Haven Beach Vault.
Dedicated pole vaulters can compete almost every weekend of the summer in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, if they so choose.
Roth and Booth met after Roth read about Booth's pole-vaulting prowess in an area publication. The other two met in competition.
The Tamarack team trains at Booth's roughly 4-acre property abutting the Pinckney State Recreation Area in Unadilla Township.
Booth developed the course in 2007. Since that time, the Tamarack men have trained once per week, all week, all summer long.
In some cases, their schedule has bled into fall. That happened this year, and the men recently hung up their poles until next summer.
Pole vault isn't a passing interest for them, and they don't do it for photo opportunities or to garner attention.
Booth, 67, is the reigning world, U.S. and Canadian pole-vaulting champion in his age division.
He bested competition from Sweden, France and Russia in March at the World Masters, an international competition in British Columbia, Canada. Booth cleared 10 feet, defeating a Swedish pole vaulter who competed in the 1972 Olympics.
"We're all pretty much serious about pole vaulting. We're serious about coaching each other," Booth explained.
"We're seriously trying to get better. It's not just club tennis," he added.
The three county pole vaulters come from diverse backgrounds.
Booth is a professor of biology at Eastern Michigan University, and is a pole-vault coach at EMU.
Booth returned to pole vaulting after a 40-year absence from the sport.
"It requires your total body. You're just defying a whole lot of logic that says, 'don't do that,' " Booth said.
Age also hasn't fazed Booth, who has become known among students for doing handstand push-ups in the lecture hall.
Roth had a heart attack in 2003, and has lost 20 pounds since that time, which he attributes in large part to pole vaulting regularly and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
He's semiretired and revisited pole vaulting in 2006, first clearing 4 feet in practice. He cleared 7 feet at the 2007 Senior Olympic Games in Louisville, Ky., placing third in his age division.
Roth runs a pole-vault clinic at Hartland High School with the school's track team during summer.
Woodward is a current State of Michigan Games pole-vaulting champion and a high school pole-vault coach.
Roth is serious about improving his game, but said the friendships he's made through the group and the companionship it has brought to his life is equally important to him.
If one of the guys gets injured, the others — all of similar age — are familiar with the ailment and can help get him back on his feet again, Booth said.
Everyone has "been there, done that" when it comes to injuries, he said, and is aware injuries at their age can sideline them from competition for months at a time.
"The group is synergistic. It is greater than just one individual," Booth said.
Contact Daily Press & Argus reporter Christopher Behnan at (517) 548-7108 or at cbehnan@gannett.com.
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Re: Pole vault bolsters seniors' fitness, friendships
Unread postby souleman » Fri Nov 26, 2010 6:26 pm
Nice story
Unread postby master » Sun Nov 28, 2010 3:08 am
Yah... nice to see some old guys get some press! Way to go!
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Образование в англоязычных странах
The are 44 universities (not counting the Open university*) in Britain.
Although the Government is responsible for providing about 80 per cent of
universities’ income it does not control their or teaching nor does it
have direct dealing with the universities. The grants are distributed by
the University Grants Committee, a body appointed by the Secretary of
State for Education and Science.
The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge date from the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries and the Scottish Universities of St. Andrews,
Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh from the fifteenth and sixteen centuries.
All the other universities were founded in the nineteenth or twentieth
centuries.
There are five other institutions where the work is of university standard:
the University of Manchester Institute of Science and technology; the two
postgraduate business schools which are supported jointly by industry and
the Government - the Manchester Business School and the London Graduate
School of Business Studies, associated with the London School of Economics
and the Imperial College of Science and Technology; Cranfield Institute of
Technology for mainly postgraduate work in aeronautics and other subjects;
and Royal College of Art.
Studies and degrees
Courses in arts and science are offered by most universities. Imperial
College, London, the University of Manchester Institute of Science and
Technology and some of the newer universities concentrate on technology
although they also offer a number of courses in social studies, modern
languages and other non-technological subjects. About 45 per cent of full-
time university students in Grate Britain are talking arts or social
studies courses and 41 per cent science and technology: about 10 per are
studying medicine, dentistry and health, and the remainder agriculture,
forestry, veterinary science, architecture and town and country planning.
University degree courses generally extend over three or four years, though
in medicine, dentistry and veterinary science five or six years are
required. The first degree of Bachelor(Master in the arts faculties of the
older Scottish universities) is awarded on the completion of such a
course, depending on satisfactory examination results. Further study or
research is required at the modern universities for the degree of Master
and by all universities for that of Doctor. Actual degree titles vary
according to the practice of each university. A uniform standard of degree
throughout the country is ensured by having external examiners on all
examining boards. In the last decades there has been a tendency for degree
courses to become more broadly based in subject matter, particularly in the
new universities.
University teaching combines lectures, practical classes (in scientific
subjects) and small group teaching in either seminars or tutorials.
Most member of the academic staff devote time to research and at all
universities there are postgraduate students engaged in research.
Admission to the universities is by examination and selection. Women are
admitted on equal terms with men but at Cambridge their numbers may be
limited by ordinance. The general proportion of men to women students is
about three to one; at Oxford it is over four to one, and at Cambridge
seven to one. Over a third of all full-time university students in Britain
are living in college and halls of residence, slightly under a half are in
lodgings, and the remainder live at home.
Despite recent expansion programmes, applications for places at
universities for arts studies still exceed the number available.
Prospective candidates for nearly all the universities apply for places
through the Universities Central Council on Admissions. The only student
who apply directly are applicants to the Open University and British
candidates who apply only for the university of Glasgow, Aberdeen and
Strathclyde.
In 1971-72 there were about 234,000 full-time university students in Grate
Britain including 43,000 postgraduates. In 1970-71 there were some 22,822
part-time students. Some 30,000 home and overseas candidates were also
registered in 1972 for London University’s external first degree
examinations.
In 1970-71 there were about 23,000 full-time university teachers in Great
Britain; about 10 per cent of them were professors. The ratio of staff to
students was about one to eight.
In England, Wales and Scotland most adequately qualified British students
can obtain awards from public funds in order to attend full-time at a
university, college of major further education establishment. In England
and Wales local education authorities provide awards. In Scotland
students’ allowances for advanced courses are granted by the Scottish
Education Department. The amount of these awards depends upon the income
of the student and his parents. Grants for postgraduate study are offered
annually by the Department of Education and Science, the Research Councils
and the Scottish Education Department. In Northern Ireland university and
postgraduate award and teacher training scholarships by the Ministry of
Education, the conditions of award being the same as those for Great
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Academics Academic Experience > Majors, Programs, and Departments > Philosophy
Requirements for the Major
Requirements for the Minor
Courses in Philosophy
Goals/Objectives and Student Learning Outcomes
Yuval Avnur
Department Chair, Humanities 207
Scripps College
yuval.avnur@scrippscollege.edu
Philosophy is a rigorous and analytical investigation into timeless, important, and perplexing human questions, such as:
What is the right thing to do?
What does it mean to really know something?
What is really going on when people try to use language to communicate with each other?
Do we act freely and responsibly?
What is the nature of existence?
Why do we believe what we believe?
Is there a god? (Do we care?)
As these questions indicate, philosophical concerns are central in the liberal arts. Its emphasis on clear reasoning and its attention to language and logic makes philosophy a particularly good major for students who are thinking about careers in law, business, publishing, and teaching. The Philosophy Department also encourages interdisciplinary majors, for example, psychology and philosophy, philosophy and law, philosophy and the arts, history and philosophy, philosophy and politics.
Scripps College offers cooperative programs in philosophy with The Claremont Graduate University, Harvey Mudd College, and Claremont McKenna College.
BA/MA Program
A BA/MA program in philosophy with The Claremont Graduate University is available for Scripps philosophy majors.
Scripps Faculty
Dion Scott-Kakures
Chair, Department of Philosophy
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Rivka Weinberg
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Susan Castagnetto
Director of Intercollegiate Feminist Center
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Home > feature > Social > ThusaKamaleswaran > SHOCKED witnesses told last night how a five-year-old girl was shot by three young gangsters riding bicycles.
SHOCKED witnesses told last night how a five-year-old girl was shot by three young gangsters riding bicycles.
March 31, 2011 feature, Social, ThusaKamaleswaran
by Mike Sullivan, Crime Editor, and Anthony France
(Courtesy: The Sun)
Hit in the chest ... little Thusa Kamaleswaran
(March 31, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) The bandana-wearing thugs - thought to be aged 13 to 15 - chased two rival gang members before the hunted pair dived into a shop for cover.
The pursuers clambered off their bikes. And one fired indiscriminately through the door of the food and wine store with a silver handgun.
Little Thusa Kamaleswaran - on a social visit with her family to the owners of the shop - was hit in the chest, with a bullet missing her heart by less than an inch.
Another innocent bystander, 35-year-old Roshan Selvakumar, was shot in the face.
The pair were taken to hospital for life-saving surgery.
Thusa had two operations and underwent a third last night. Her parents - Sri Lankans living in London - were at her bedside. Both victims were in a "critical but stable" condition.
The girl's uncle Vicknes Mahadevan, who was among the family visitors, said: "I was at the back of the shop, then heard something. I rushed out and could see the shooting.
"Thusa was hit on the right side of her chest. There was blood everywhere. She was flat on the floor. It was horrible."
The gun thugs fled on their bikes after the shootings in Stockwell, South London - chased by their intended victims.
A local man who gave his name as George said: "They looked like schoolkids and were only aged around 13 to 15."
Paramedics were called. And witness Sandra Rossetto, 45, said: "One was stroking the girl's forehead over and over. She was awake. They were pushing on her chest for ten minutes trying to stop the bleeding.
"The other person was on the floor being treated. There was a lot of blood."
A local businessman named Das said: "I went inside the shop and saw a little girl lying face down like she was asleep.
"There was a hole on the right side of her chest, up near her heart. The mum was crying and screaming."
A neighbour told how paramedics took Thusa on to the street outside the shop "and began operating on her there".
He said: "I saw an ambulance officer had something like a small piece of metal. It could have been a bullet."
CCTV footage from a nearby shop showed the two intended victims milling around the food and wine store. Occasionally, they went out into the street and walked up and down. Three minutes before the attack one of the thugs - in a dark hoodie - rolls past on a metal-coloured bike. The intended victims left the scene, only to return being chased by the gang.
The shooting of Thusa stunned the neighbourhood even though it has become hardened to tit-for-tat violence between rival gangs.
Local cycle shop owner Barney Stutter, 45, said: "The truth is the gunman is probably about 15 with a mentality of about five.
"I am sure they'll all be caught but we are disgusted at what happened."
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police's Operation Trident, which tackles gun crime in London's black community, were last night hunting the teenage gangsters.
The attacked shop and the bookmakers next door, which has a bullet hole in its front window, were cordoned off as officers searched the scene.
Anyone with information should call police on 020 8247 4553 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Twenty young men and a boy of 15 were arrested in raids across London yesterday by police targeting drug pushers linked to gangs.
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