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Toronto International Festival of Authors
Canada's largest and longest-running festival of words and ideas.
A Part of Something: Feeling Less Alone in the Company of Writers
semi-prose podcast co-hosts Max Arambulo and Kristina Chin interviewing author Cherie Dimaline
TIFA’s Delegate Programme is an opportunity for local authors and journalists to enrich the level of discussion throughout the Festival. Delegate Melanie Mah shares her experience at #FestofAuthors19 below.
By Melanie Mah
Early in October, I was feeling pretty down. It was a down most writers are familiar with – the I can’t get anything done and haven’t gotten anything done for a while and will I ever get anything done in the future and what have I ever done as an artist anyway? kind of down. If you’re lucky, it’s the kind of thing your friends and partner try to talk you out of. And I am sometimes lucky, I guess.
You’re really good at what you do, my partner Terry might say, sometimes tacking on a list of my accomplishments: publications, grants, an award and a shortlist nod, a bit of notice in the press, my agent. I may reply that I’ve just been lucky, had an awards jury amenable to my work, know people who work at literary journals. He will persist, and in the best case scenario, his words help for a little while, for five or ten minutes or, with any luck, for the rest of the day. In the spring and summer, all I need is to get to the end of the day, and to fall into the renewing embrace of sleep, after which the next day is usually better. This isn’t true for everybody. See how lucky I am?
Or am I? The problem with relying on luck is that it’s sometimes fleeting. Owing to my chronic illnesses, falls and winters are hard for me. As days shorten and symptoms intensify, I feel more pain, my mind fogs up, and I start sleeping worse, feel more self-doubt, sometimes begin to think Everything I have is an accident. Most writers belong to a club I don’t belong to.
What a time to assume an official capacity at one of my favourite book events all year, the Toronto International Festival of Authors. I’d been going almost every year since moving to Toronto in 2004. But things had changed in the last few years. My first book was released in 2016 and some people in the writing community knew me, so I wouldn’t be able to just blend in, to go to events by myself and feel alright in the dark, basking in the brilliance of other writers. Not only that, but my role as Festival Delegate meant that it would be my job to ask questions at events, to post on social media about the Festival, and that I would have access to the Festival’s hospitality lounge where other writers and bookish types would be – quite an opportunity if I could only find a way to take part.
Cut to the first day of my Festival involvement, when in the fancy penthouse suite of The Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, the hospitality lounge, I saw Thomas King and said out loud to no one in particular, “My goodness! There’s Thomas King!” Smooth. (Spoiler alert: he did not talk to me.)
That moment was strange, embarrassing, but over time, a stronger memory from the day began persisting in my mind, that of sitting in an audience hours earlier at the launch of the Best Canadian Poetry 2019 anthology, while poet Katie McGarry stood at the front of the room, inviting us to participate in the reading of her flowchart poem, “r u ok.” The poem is a choose your own adventure tale about a breakup. Every second or third bubble is a question, while the other bubbles say either yes or no. McGarry asked the audience to call out our answers. I don’t remember the exact paths her readings took us on, but it could have happened like this:
“did u like her fb post, then unlike it, then like it again” Yes. Next bubble.
“do u dream about them” Yes. Next bubble.
“is he all yr passwords” Yes. Next bubble.
“r u ok” Yes.
Pure commiserative sunshine and inventiveness. How can you feel alone, uninspired, after something like that?
And on the Festival went. The week and change consisted of a few more lows – moments of seeing more famous writers I’ve met in the halls of Harbourfront Centre without a look of recognition in their eyes or feeling too shy myself to go up to writers I know, being so engrossed by an event’s discussion that I forgot to come up with a question – but, at a time when it was hard to produce work of my own, events were inspirational, the closest I could come to writing without actually writing. Going to events, I was reminded that people do this job every day and many do it with thoughtfulness and panache. And of course, other writers falter. Imagine my surprise after being told by a writer much more accomplished than I that he, too, has doubts. (So strange how my own doubts sometimes feel like fatal flaws, while those of other writers illustrate the duality so common and necessary, even, to those with our profession: the doubt that says, “Is my thought, as is, worth the space inside someone else’s consciousness? Should I communicate it better, or communicate a different thought, full stop?” and the confidence that says, “Yes, this thing inside me is worth sharing.”) And imagine my surprise when Cherie Dimaline, one of the most acclaimed and accomplished writers in my circle, greeted me with a giant hug after her event, the last one of the Festival. Bestselling, much-lauded author Cherie Dimaline asked me what I was working on and when would it be done and was there any way she could help me? I was floored. I am floored. She and others over the course of the week provoked many thoughts about form and themes and the writing life, showed me that I am part of this community after all, showed me that there is someone out there, maybe one or two people, maybe more, looking forward to my next book, and to me, that’s pretty crazy.
So thanks, TIFA. Thanks, Cherie. Thanks, Katie. And thank you to everyone I spoke to at the Festival. You made me feel seen and a part of something, and this was such a gift, one I’ll take into these dark next few months for times when it seems my luck is running out.
Stay tuned for more Delegate-penned pieces about #FestofAuthors19!
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Fletcher and Co
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Break the internet with Tim Maughan’s INFINITE DETAIL
Tim Maughan’s “dynamic, sprawling, post-postmodern cyberpunk debut” is out today and we cannot wait to get the book into the hands of his eager readers.
A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet
BEFORE: In Bristol’s center lies the Croft, a digital no-man’s-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic aspirations that have overrun the rest of the world. Ten years in, it’s become a center of creative counterculture. But it’s fraying at the edges, radicalizing from inside. How will it fare when its chief architect, Rushdi Mannan, takes off to meet his boyfriend in New York City—now the apotheosis of the new techno-utopian global metropolis?
AFTER: An act of anonymous cyberterrorism has permanently switched off the Internet. Global trade, travel, and communication have collapsed. The luxuries that characterized modern life are scarce. In the Croft, Mary—who has visions of people presumed dead—is sought out by grieving families seeking connections to lost ones. But does Mary have a gift or is she just hustling to stay alive? Like Grids, who runs the Croft’s black market like personal turf. Or like Tyrone, who hoards music (culled from cassettes, the only medium to survive the crash) and tattered sneakers like treasure.
The world of Infinite Detail is a small step shy of our own: utterly dependent on technology, constantly brokering autonomy and privacy for comfort and convenience. With Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan makes the hitherto-unimaginable come true: the End of the Internet, the End of the World as We Know It.
“A singular speculative debut, Infinite Detail asks crucial questions about the nature of our relationship to technology. A lively and provocative novel particularly equipped for the challenges of our moment.” ―Jeff VanderMeer, author of Borne and the Southern Reach trilogy
“Says something important and thought provoking about such hot-topic issues as privacy, the interconnectedness of the world’s population, and class structure; but, thanks to Maughan’s rigorously developed characters and his ability to tell a compelling story, the book is never preachy. A seriously good page-turner with plenty of meat on its bones.” ―David Pitt, Booklist
“Maughan’s dynamic, sprawling, post-postmodern cyberpunk debut . . . is an energetic novel about civilization as it races toward the ultimate overload.” ―Publishers Weekly starred review
“The characters are compelling, and it’s worth reaching the end just to find out how Maughan wraps up this Byzantine puzzle box. An original and engaging work of kitchen-sink dystopia.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“Maughan conducts a masterclass in the thrill and contradictions of counterculture, the uses and abuses of networks, the ways that capitalism can bend and flex to adapt, until, suddenly, it breaks. This is a stunning debut.” ―Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
“On its face, the internet kill switch is such an on-the-nose science fiction premise that it’s a wonder Maughan is the first author to get it to market. Luckily, in his hands, the broad-stroke concept trickles down into weird and unexpected crevices: sage futurism, political treatise, and mournful meditation on the violence of technological dependency. Maughan writes in a swift, almost breathless present tense, as if he needs to get this out as quickly as possible.” — Elvia Wilk, Bookforum
“It’s one of those rare novels that, if you enjoyed it the first time, you’ll want to re-read it… Maughan offers one version of the world, and it’s one that I’m eager to read about again but not eager to experience—if the time ever comes.” – Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica
Read an excerpt here: https://www.tor.com/2019/03/05/excerpts-infinite-detail-tim-maughan/
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Welcome to the Linux universe, one and all!
Linux has finally hit the mainstream; so much so that the first question I get from people these days is no longer, "What is Linux?" but rather, "What do I have to do to get Linux on my system?" For those who may want some clarification nevertheless, Linux is a fully multitasking operating system based on UNIX, although technically, Linux is the kernel, the master program that makes running a Linux system possible. That kernel, by the way, was written by a young Finnish student named Linus Torvalds. On August 25, 1991, Torvalds posted this now famous (perhaps legendary) message to the Usenet group comp.os.minix:
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: What would you like to see most in minix? Summary: small poll for my new operating system Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-) Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi) PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-hard disks, as that's all I have :-(.
Much has happened since then. Linus somehow captured the imagination of scores of talented programmers around the world. Joined together through the magic of the Internet, they collaborated, coded, tweaked, and gave birth to the operating system that is now revolutionizing the world of computing.
These days, Linux is a powerful, reliable (rock-solid, in fact), expandable, flexible, configurable, multiuser, multitasking, and completely free operating system that runs on many different platforms. These include Intel PCs, DEC Alphas, Macintosh systems, PowerPCs, and a growing number of embedded processors. You can find Linux in PDA organizers, digital watches, golf carts, and cell phones. In fact, Linux has a greater support base (in terms of platforms) than just about any other operating system in the world.
What we call the Linux operating system is not the work of just one man alone. Linus Torvalds is the original architect of Linux its father, if you will but his is not the only effort behind it. Perhaps Linus Torvalds's greatest genius lay in knowing when to share the load. For no other pay but satisfaction, he employed people around the world, delegated to them, worked with them, and asked for and accepted feedback in a next generation of the model that began with the GNU project.
GNU, by the way, is a recursive acronym that stands for "GNU's Not UNIX," a project of the Free Software Foundation. This project was started in 1984 with the intention of creating a free, UNIX-like operating system. Over the years, many GNU tools were written and widely used by many commercial UNIX vendors and, of course, system administrators trying to get a job done. The appearance of Linus Torvalds's Linux kernel has made the GNU dream of a completely free, UNIX-like operating system a reality at last.
Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!
Authors: Marcel Gagnu00e9
Absolute Beginner[ap]s Guide to Project Management
Building a Project Plan
Common Project Control Challenges
Identify, Protect, and Track: The Principles of Managing Work Products
Power of Servant Leadership Approach
Best Practices of Effective Project Communicators
A+ Fast Pass
Domain 1 Installation, Configuration, and Upgrading
Domain 2 Diagnosing and Troubleshooting
Domain 4 Motherboard/Processors/Memory
Domain 5 Printers
Domain 1 Operating System Fundamentals
Clusters and Replicated Persistence
Using WebLogics RMI
WebLogics Wrapper Drivers
Controlling Message Delivery
Systematic Software Testing (Artech House Computer Library)
Analysis and Design
Test Implementation
The Software Tester
The Test Manager
Appendix B Testing Survey
Hack 30. Calculate the Maximum of Two Fields
Hack 48. Prevent an SQL Injection Attack
Hack 55. Import Someone Elses Data
Hack 63. Generate Rows Without Tables
Hack 88. Test Two Values from a Subquery
What is Lean Six Sigma
Key #1: Delight Your Customers with Speed and Quality
Key #4: Base Decisions on Data and Facts
Beyond the Basics: The Five Laws of Lean Six Sigma
The Experience of Making Improvements: What Its Like to Work on Lean Six Sigma Projects
Six Things Managers Must Do: How to Support Lean Six Sigma
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The real difference between the left and the right
sherb wrote: »
Nice deflection. You said TR and the rest of the progressives were all about power to the people, when they clearly were not.
Actually I demonstrated that he was.
Let's not forget that it was a social democrat president, that kicked ****'s ****.
1) I think the Russians might have an argument about that.
2) And the only guy who saw it coming was a Tory.
3) It's not like FDR had much of a choice.
Nice deflection. You said TR and the rest of the progressives were all about power to the people, when they clearly were not. But since you mention it, Bernie is pretty close to a bona fide progressive, with his faith in the power of government. Keep in mind that wants to raise taxes for the sole purpose of reducing income inequality. He wants to turn the US into a Scandinavian country, for Chrissakes. He literally said as much. That's a bridge too far even for Hillary. I can't think of anything more technocratic than that. And the minimum wage is clearly a progressive innovation, as evidenced above.
Are the Scandinavian counties not constitutional democracies?
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Actually, that was Stalin.
If he was not against Darwinism, why did he want to jail a man for teaching it?
Actually, I think the only person interested in jail was Scopes himself. And of course all of the sympathetic chamber of Commerce Progressive types in Dayton who supported his prosecution so that they could highlight the stupidity of Tennessee's statute.
FDR saw it coming, he just couldn't sell American involvement to the American people.
Buffco wrote: »
ha. to put it crudely, The Wehrmacht ran out of bullets before the Russians ran out of bodies.
Well you got to admit it is capitalism at its finest.
This is so wrong, it's scary. How does slavery jibe with the free movement of capital and labor (which is pretty much the very essence of capitalism)?
Was Bryant not the prosecutor in that case?
If the market supports paying someone nothing but room and board, how is that counter to capitalism?
You know, this is an underappreciated fact. Churchill was a conservative. What did he know? Something about human nature, perhaps?
One of them. The county had a prosecutor. But it was a big production.
the person most interested in prosecution was John Scopes. For real, go look it up.
He was, quite literally, the one person in the world that **** worried about.
I have already seen Inherit the Wind.
And he was right about so many things.
The railroad in Plessy v. Ferguson interpleaded on behalf of Homer Plessy. Segregation was costing them money. As Steven would say, its inefficient.
They may not support race based slavery. But if they could get away with paying nothing, they would.
You and Sherb have spent so much of your life disparaging liberalism that you never really bothered to understand it in anyway other than how William F Buckley would define it.
Which makes Sherb's constant refrain that conservatives understand liberals better than liberals understand conservatives utter horse ****.
By the way, this is wrong. I was a liberal for a good part of my life.
This is scarier. The market (and I'll assume you mean the free market) needs people to be able to voluntarily contract for goods and services. Did a child born to slave parents in Georgia in 1820 voluntarily contract his labor?
And while you say I may not understand it, Both of the original articles I linked were written by liberals. Its much easier to understand left-liberalism than it is conservatism, because liberalism is baked into the American experience in a way that conservatism is not.
Then I don't understand how it is you consistently mischaracterize their positions.
But this is pretend. Because somebody would pay to get these laborers, because such a transaction would be profitable to them.
We could pretend that every employer in the country could get together and agree to pay next to nothing, but that wouldn't be the market either.
There are no liberals that want to replace the existing constitutional order with a technocratic elite that would be better able to manage the idiosyncracies of modern life. Not even Bernie, who simply wants to tax the wealthy a small percentage more than they currently are in order to pay for a better educational and health system.
I don't think I have. What have I mischaracterized?
This is what they are doing now. The minimum wage is the only thing preventing them from paying less.
Have you been reading my posts?
I think you are confusing liberals for Ed.
yes. You keep asking me which liberals hold the positions of the charter members of the progressive movement. And that's not what I was addressing. I was addressing the goals behind the progressive movement itself. Modern left-liberalism, following numerous electoral disasters such as McGovern and Mondale, has more or less made peace with markets, especially Hillary. I've never said any different. Bernie would I think upend the apple cart if he could, but its pretty obvious which direction the DNCC wants to go (look at the debate schedule Debbie Wasserman-Schultz put together. It clearly favors Hillary).
BUT. . . .the DNCC is only a vehicle for promulgating liberal ideas, and is separate and distinct from liberalism itself. So it doesn't really countermand my point to ask which candidate favors progressive ideas. The candidates have to get elected, not liberalism.
Somehow, this doesn't jibe with the fact that less than 4% of hourly workers make minimum wage or less. Some 74 million hourly workers make more. In your world, no hourly worker should make more.
Okay that is this stupidest thing I have ever read. Which goes back to my point, when it comes to understanding liberals all you want to do is disparage and never to understand.
But how many Republicans say the minimum wage is too high?
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/donald-trump-wages-215812
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DT Pro
Thread: DT Pro
chriss1958
Hi all, don't know where to post this, so I will leave it here.lol
What I saw in the announcement board was great. But I hope it will stay a free /donate programm. For sure that like ALL other favorite software it will be soon on the P2P networks. So please be mercy on us folks from Daemon Tools and let it be free!
:twisted: :lol:
LocutusofBorg
no. it will not be free, but you can use the "light" (the current version) for free.
What concerns p2p, feel free to get it on p2p-networks if you like. DTPro needs
regular updates and service anyway, and I can assure you, we take precautions
that even StarForce would be envious
Originally Posted by LocutusofBorg
we take precautions that even StarForce would be envious
Y'know, a lot of us use DT because we don't like the protection systems such as Starforce. If DT pro starts pulling crap like that, I strongly suspect you'll get a lot of paying customers complaining. With that in mind, what sort of 'precautions' are you talking about? Are they transparent to the user? Do they require an internet connection (once, or multiple times)? What do you mean by 'regular updates and service'?
I am wondering if there will be a trial version of DT Pro. How else can people try out all the new features of the Pro version before buying?
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I would think instead a free version would consist of DT v4, but not the Pro. The Pro would have more features I would think. Something like that is usually what demo is like, but I'm not a dev so I do not know for sure, and well I registered DT so it doesn't matter to me since I'm still entitled to the Pro.
NetSoerfer
Originally Posted by Stauf
Well, you cannot really compare CD Copy Protections with a registration system for a program like Daemon Tools. You have the right to make backups of your games, but the publishers try to prevent that. But Daemon Tools' registration system only ensures that you've paid for what you're using - you're not hindered to do anything you're legally allowed to.
Have you ever used Alcohol 120%? It has a very efficient mechanism to ensure it's not used without registration; as far as I know, all attempts to crack it or provide serial numbers on the internet have failed for the current version so far. (But I have to admit, I haven't really been looking.) That system is transparent to the user, you just enter your key to unlock the program. Everything else will go unnoticed.
I assume that DT Pro's registration system will be similar. Does that answer your question?
"I was inappropriately blunt, wasn't I? Sorry, I do that a lot."
Kitna
A cracked version was available the same day the current version was released.
Goodnight Brave Warrior, Goodnight Monster-land..
It is similar to Alcohol's registration, yes
Well, we're not talking about restrictions that the CUSTOMER will feel!!
Make as much copys as you like! How could anyone believe something
It's not a COPY-protection, it's a SERIAL-protection, what else did you expect?
Of course it's not so easy to bypass that serial as you maybe noticed in
other products. The skills to bypass it is as high as StarForce, if not higher.
And I hope you don't want to discuss with me about warez/piracy here,
or I must again paste our board-rules here.
EVERYTHING can be cracked, only a matter of time. We know that. But if people can't afford the price for DT Pro, they can still use the FREEWARE-
version of DT. This is MORE than fair.
I really don't see the problem here, except that some people
want everything for free. There are always people out there that think the
world owns them
@Kitna: yes, you're right. DT Pro will be available as cracked version, too, but I doubt it will be the first day. Maybe the second
@Stauf: like explained above, we don't plan to annoy our customers with
CD-checks and btw: most of our customers are happy to receive a
serial now
Was there any thoughts on how much DT Pro was going to cost?
I think 5-10 USD would be a reasonable price, give 1 years free updates, and you can pay for another year's updates (but the program wont actually 'expire' as such)
Mauro Rosati
I'll be the first to buy it. Your software rock, you rock guys.
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Ed Vaizey MP and John Lewis' Katrina Mills announced for Drive to Digital 2018
Digital Radio UK is delighted to confirm that the Rt Hon Ed Vaizey MP and Katrina Mills, Audio and Connected Home Buyer, John Lewis, have joined the conference lineup of Drive to Digital 2018: The future of radio sponsored by Arqiva.
John Lewis is the leading electrical and home technology retailer in the UK and has a major role in defining the new audio market and the future of radio at retail. Katrina is a passionate presenter and this session is a must see for anyone in radio.
The Rt Hon Ed Vaizey MP, former Culture and Digital Minister and now co-chair of the All Party Commercial Radio Group, will present the awards to the nine Digital Radio Hall of Fame Inductees, together with Dianne Fuller, Global Sales Director, Roberts Radio.
Further new speakers added to the agenda are Travis Baxter, Content & External Affairs Consultant, Bauer Media; Laurie Patten, Director of Strategy, Ventures, Product & Marketing, Arqiva; Jacqueline Bierhorst, Vice President, World DAB; and Tom Wrathmell, Head of Radio & Education Strategy, BBC. Tom will be representing the BBC replacing Bob Shennan who, unfortunately, is no longer able to attend.
Ford Ennals, CEO Digital Radio UK, said:
“We are in the middle of a radio revolution with the majority of radio listening now being digital and the introduction of smart and voice technology. We are very fortunate to have Katrina Mills from John Lewis speaking at Drive to Digital to help us make sense of the new audio market and what the future holds for radio at retail. It’s also great to welcome Ed Vaizey back to Drive to Digital. Ed has been a passionate advocate of digital technology and remains a strong supporter of the radio sector.”
Gethin Jones, acclaimed broadcaster and co-presenter of the new Hits Radio Breakfast Show, will host the conference.
Drive to Digital 2018 - The Future of Radio, is free to attend and takes place on the afternoon of Tuesday 25 September at the British Museum Conference Centre in London, and is proudly supported by headline sponsor, Arqiva; reception sponsor, DTS Connected Radio; and event sponsor, Pure.
The event is unmissable for anyone who wants to know what is coming next in radio’s digital future with sessions covering policy, content, automotive and retail.
When: Tuesday 25 September 2018, from 12.30pm
Registration and exhibition from 12.30 - 1.25pm
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Where: The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG
How: To reserve your FREE place please contact lucy.forster@digitalradiouk.com
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Keep an eye on RadioToday, our media partner, for regular updates on the Drive to Digital line up.
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John Frieda’s HAIRraising appeal raised £2m for GOSH
Melanie May
March 3, 2017 9:00 am March 2, 2017 7:02 pm
Home | News | John Frieda’s HAIRraising appeal raised £2m for GOSH
Posted by Melanie May on 3 March 2017 in News
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John Frieda and the hairdressing community have raised £2 million for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity through the HAIRraising appeal.
The HAIRraising appeal was founded by John Frieda in 2010 with an initial target of raising £1 million for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital and has just ended. It brought together members of the UK hairdressing industry to fundraise for the charity in events such as the annual Round the Island Ibiza Cycle Challenge and in-salon fundraising.
The money raised has supported the redevelopment of the hospital, including helping to fund new operating theatres, which opened in 2012, and a new respiratory unit, which will officially open next autumn.
John Frieda said:
“We are absolutely thrilled to have raised £2 million for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. From bike rides and challenges to in-salon fundraising, I’m so proud of everything we’ve achieved for such a worthy cause and I’d like to thank everyone who has supported us and donated over the years.”
Tim Johnson, chief executive at Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity said:
“An enormous thank you to John Frieda and everyone in the British hairdressing industry involved in the HAIRraising appeal for raising a phenomenal £2 million for the hospital. The new specialist spaces this has helped create in the hospital has, and will, improve the quality of care and increase the number of children we can treat.”
Image: John Frieda in the Round the Island Ibiza Cycle Challenge
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Toys ‘R’ Us recalls 6,000 clay craft kits over mold risk
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Toys “R” Us is recalling about 6,000 “totally me!” clay craft kits after mold was discovered in the clay, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday.
There have been three reports of mold in clay and no reported injuries. Consumers should stop using the clay craft kits immediately and return them to any Toys “R” Us or Babies “R” Us store for a refund or store credit.
Mold found in this product poses respiratory risks and infections to people who have “compromised” immune systems, lung damage or a mold allergy, according to the safety commission.
After confirming reports of mold in Australia, the US and Germany, Toys “R” Us reported the finding to the commission, the company said. “While it was small number of consumers affected, we took the incidents seriously and quickly removed the products from our shelves.”
The “totally me!” kits were sold by Toys “R” Us and Babies “R” Us stores and online throughout the United States from January to October for just over $10. Model number AD11244 is printed on the bottom of the box. They were manufactured in China.
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Instructions from Robert Dinwiddie, 30 October 1753
Instructions from Robert Dinwiddie
[Williamsburg, 30 October 1753]
Instructions for George Washington Esqr.
Whereas I have receiv’d Information of a Body of French Forces being assembled in an hostile Manner on the River Ohio, intending by force of Arms to erect certain Forts on the said River, within this Territory & contrary to the Peace & Dignity of our Sovereign the King of Great Britain.
These are therefore to require & direct You the said George Washington Esqr. forthwith to repair to the Logstown1 on the said River Ohio; & having there inform’d Yourself where the said French Forces have posted themselves, thereupon to proceed to such Place: & being there arriv’d to present Your Credentials, together with my Letter to the chief commanding Officer,2 &, in the Name of His Britanic Majesty, to demand an Answer from him thereto.
On Your Arrival at the Logstown, You are to address Yourself to the Half King,3 to Monacatoocha4 & other the Sachems of the Six Nations; acquainting them with Your Orders to visit & deliver my Letter to the French commanding Officer; & desiring the said Chiefs to appoint You a sufficient Number of their Warriors to be Your Safeguard, as near the French as You may desire, & to wait Your further Direction.
You are diligently to enquire into the Numbers & Force of the French on the Ohio, & the adjacent Country; how they are like to be assisted from Canada; & what are the Difficulties & Conveniencies of that Comunication, & the Time requir’d for it.
You are to take Care to be truly inform’d what Forts the French have erected, & where; How they are Garrison’d & appointed, & what is their Distance from each other, & from Logstown: And from the best Intelligence You can procure, You are to learn what gave Occasion to this Expedition of the French. How they are like to be supported, & what their Pretentions are.
When the French Commandant has given You the requir’d & necessary Dispatches, You are to desire of him that, agreeable to the Law of Nations, he wou’d grant You a proper Guard, to protect You as far on Your Return, as You may judge for Your Safety, against any stragling Indians or Hunters that may be ignorant of Yr Character & molest You.
Wishing You good Success in Yr Negotiations & a safe & speedy return I am Sr Yr hble Servt
Copy, P.R.O., C.O. 5/1328, f. 47; copy, P.R.O., C.O. 5/14, f. 76; copy, P.R.O., C.O. 5/1344, f. 199; copy, House of Lords, Record Office.
For background to this document, see the editorial note to Commission from Robert Dinwiddie, 30 Oct. 1753.
1. Logstown was an Indian village on the banks of the Ohio River about 18 miles below its confluence with the Monongahela. Settled by Shawnee and Delaware, it attracted Indians of various tribes and soon became a major trading post. It was a frequent site for Indian conferences.
2. Pierre Paul de La Malgue, sieur de Marin, was commandant of the French fort-building expedition until his death at Fort Le Boeuf in Oct. 1753. He was succeeded by Jacques Le Gardeur, sieur de Saint-Pierre, to whom GW delivered Dinwiddie’s letter at Fort Le Boeuf, about 20 miles south of Lake Erie.
3. The Half-King (c.1700–1754), or Tanacharison, a Seneca chief, was a prominent negotiator and adviser on Indian affairs to the British. He assumed a leading role as a representative of the Ohio Indians at the Logstown Treaty in 1752. By Oct. 1753 the Half-King, firmly opposed to the French incursion into the Ohio country, had already sent a delegation to the French warning them they were trespassing on Indian lands. Although GW was occasionally suspicious of the Half-King’s loyalty, the chief remained a faithful supporter of the British when many of the other chiefs defected to the French after the surrender of Fort Necessity. A few days before his death in Oct. 1754 he remarked that he “wou’d live and die with the English” (Pa. Arch., Col. Rec. description begins Colonial Records of Pennsylvania. 16 vols. Harrisburg, 1840–53. description ends , 6:183).
4. Monacatoocha, or Scarouady, a pro-English Oneida chief ranking second only to the Half-King in authority, had represented the Six Nations at Logstown.
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Valiant effort to finish season
Adams secured nine of 10 targets for 138 yards during the Packers' 37-20 loss to the 49ers in Sunday's NFC Championship Game.
Analysis: A significant chunk of Adams' production came on a 65-yard grab in the fourth quarter, a play that saw him impressively beat Richard Sherman on a go route. Otherwise, Adams mostly generated his game-high reception total on short completions, averaging just 9.1 yards on his other eight catches. Adams finished with four 100-yard efforts over his last five games, including the postseason, a stretch during which he also recorded four receiving touchdowns. Adams is under contact for two more seasons…read more
Published: Sun, Jan 19 at 7:21pm by Rotowire.com
Carries offense in win
Adams caught eight of 11 targets for 160 yards and two touchdowns during Sunday's 28-23 divisional-round win over the Seahawks.
Analysis: Adams averaged an impressive 20.0 yards per catch, as he accounted for nearly two-thirds of Aaron Rodgers' passing yardage. The duo connected for a 20-yard touchdown in the first quarter while adding an electric 40-yard score in the third. Adams also helped put the game away with a beautiful 32-yard over-the-shoulder catch in the final minutes of the fourth quarter. The talented wideout is averaging 118 yards per game with four touchdowns over his last four contests, and he'll look to continue…read more
Ends regular season with score
Adams hauled in seven of his 13 targets for 93 yards and a touchdown in the team's Week 17 win over Detroit.
Analysis: Adams once again served as Aaron Rodgers' primary receiver and benefited by racking up at least 13 targets for the third straight game. Thanks to that tremendous volume, Adams fell just three yards short of his second consecutive 1,000 yard season -- an impressive feat given that he was active for only 12 games. He and the Packers will be in action next in the divisional round of the playoffs, and he should again be at the forefront of the offensive gameplan. Looking to the future, Adams is…read more
Stellar showing in critical win
Adams brought in 13 of 16 targets for 116 yards in the Packers' 23-10 win over the Vikings on Monday night. He also lost a fumble.
Analysis: Adams was in vintage form during the critical victory, posting a season high in catches and his second straight 100-yard effort. It was also Adams' seventh double-digit target game in the last eight. There's little doubt that Adams will see plenty of attention from Aaron Rodgers in Week 17 against a vulnerable Lions secondary, a game which Green Bay will need to win to clinch a first-round bye in the postseason.
Finds end zone vs. Bears
Adams caught seven of 13 targets for 103 yards and a touchdown during Sunday's 21-13 win over the Bears.
Analysis: Adams received a whopping 39 percent of the team's targets on the day, topping the 100-yard mark for the fourth time this season. He also scored a 29-yard touchdown to get his team on the board in the first quarter, giving him four TDs in his last four games. Adams is thriving after a rough first half of the season and will look to take advantage of a vulnerable Vikings secondary next Monday.
Ready for NFC North battle
Adams (toe) doesn't have an injury designation for Sunday's game against Chicago.
Analysis: Adams was a limited practice participant Wednesday through Friday, with the Packers managing his reps to reduce the odds of any complications from the toe injury that cost him four games earlier this season. The wideout has been productive - but perhaps a bit less explosive - since his return to the lineup, averaging 6.2 catches for 61.4 yards and 0.6 touchdowns on 9.8 targets in five appearances. Sub-freezing temperatures at Lambeau Field won't be optimal for passing/receiving production, but…read more
Published: Fri, Dec 13 at 1:18pm by Rotowire.com
Listed as limited Thursday
Adams (toe) was limited at Thursday's practice.
Analysis: This marks the first time Adams has been anything but a full practice participant in the month of December. Having said that, the Packers may be taking a cautious approach with the wideout in the stretch run of a season in which his toe issue has followed him since his return to action in Week 9. Friday's practice report will be telling with regard to his availability Sunday against the Bears.
Published: Thu, Dec 12 at 2:27pm by Rotowire.com
Quiet in Week 14 win
Adams brought in four of six targets for 41 yards in the Packers' 20-15 win over the Redskins on Sunday.
Analysis: Adams checked in second in receptions and third in receiving yardage for the Packers on the afternoon, but on a day when Aaron Rodgers threw for less than 200 yards, that didn't amount to much. The star wideout has now failed to hit the 100-yard mark in three consecutive contests, but he's partly made up for modest yardage tallies over that span with three touchdown grabs. He'll look to bounce back in a divisional face-off with the Bears in Week 15.
Has two-touchdown day
Adams caught six of 10 targets for 64 yards and two touchdowns during Sunday's 31-13 win over the Giants. He fumbled during the game, but the offense maintained possession.
Analysis: Despite a snow-covered field, Adams managed to strike twice against the Giants. First, he capped off the Packers' opening drive with an eight-yard touchdown in which he found a hole in the zone and plunged into the end zone. He struck again in the fourth quarter on a 17-yard catch in the back of the end zone on a free play. Adams, when healthy, has been prolific, with at least six catches in six of eight games, but scoring has been the issue. He now has three touchdowns in his last two games…read more
No designation for Week 13
Adams (toe) doesn't carry an injury designation into Sunday's game against the Giants.
Analysis: Adams never advanced beyond limited participation in practices this week, but those restrictions were likely just maintenance-related rather than indicative of a setback with the toe injury that previously cost him four games. In his three outings since returning to action, Adams has caught 21 passes for 202 yards and a touchdown across 33 targets.
Published: Fri, Nov 29 at 1:14pm by Rotowire.com
Limited Thursday
Adams (toe) practiced in a limited fashion Thursday.
Analysis: Adams isn't in danger of missing Sunday's road game against the Giants. Instead, the Packers continue to cap his reps in practice to make sure his toe is ready for game day. In three appearances since four consecutive DNPs, he's totaled 21 receptions (on 33 targets) for 202 yards and one touchdown.
Limited in practice Wednesday
Adams (toe) practiced in a limited capacity Wednesday. "I'm feeling like myself now," Adams told Matt Schneidman of The Athletic on Wednesday. "The lack of numbers has nothing to do with my toe."
Analysis: Adams' listing on the injury report belies his comments, at least in the sense that the toe he sprained back in Week 4 is to blame for his cap in practice reps. In three appearances since returning from a four-game absence, Adams has received a whopping 33 targets and scored his first touchdown of the season, but his peripheral numbers (6.1 yards per target and 63.6 percent catch rate) leave much to be desired.
Published: Wed, Nov 27 at 3:12pm by Rotowire.com
Seven catches plus score
Adams had seven receptions (12 targets) for 43 yards and a touchdown in Sunday's 37-8 loss to the 49ers.
Analysis: Adams -- like many Green Bay offensive options -- was bottled up by San Francisco's stout defense for the majority of the contest. The 26-year-old was able to salvage a pedestrian day with a short touchdown reception late in the third quarter. It was surprisingly Adams' first touchdown reception of 2019 after he posted double-digit totals in three consecutive seasons. Missed time has certainly cut into the star wideout's scoring production, but a stronger commitment to the run under Matt…read more
Clear for Week 12
Adams (toe) doesn't have a designation for Sunday's game at San Francisco, Olivia Reiner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Analysis: After the Packers' Week 11 bye, Adams remained limited in practice due to the toe injury that forced DNPs from Weeks 5 through 8. Still, it won't stop him from suiting for a third consecutive contest versus a 49ers defense that has conceded just 6.7 yards per target and nine total touchdowns to wide receivers in 10 games this season.
Still has cap on practice reps
Analysis: The Packers are taking no chances with Adams' lingering toe, even after their bye week. Still, there's been no indication Adams is in danger of missing the Sunday night showdown at San Francisco. Expect the team to clarify Adams' standing on Friday's practice report.
Limited practice Wednesday
Adams (toe) was listed as a limited participant on the Packers' injury report Wednesday.
Analysis: Despite having the benefit of a Week 11 bye, Adams continues to deal with the toe injury that forced four consecutive absences from Weeks 5 through 8. In the two games before the Week 11 respite, he racked up 14 catches (on 21 targets) for 159 yards and no touchdowns. Previously a TD machine, Adams has yet to reach the end zone this season, but he'll attempt to change that Sunday against a 49ers defense that has allowed nine total touchdowns in 10 contests this season. That's assuming he gets…read more
Contributes 118 receiving yards
Adams caught seven of 10 targets for 118 yards during Sunday's 24-16 win over the Panthers.
Analysis: Adams torched a tough Panthers pass defense for 16.9 yards per catch as he delivered his third 100-yard receiving game of the season. He looked much more like himself after struggling a week ago and seems to be past the toe injury that cost him four games earlier this season. Adams has drawn double-digit targets in each of his last three games and will look to build on this effort in Week 12 against the 49ers after the upcoming bye.
Ready to go Sunday
Adams (toe) doesn't have a designation for Sunday's contest versus the Panthers, Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Adams followed an LP/LP/LP practice regimen for the second week in a row, but his toe injury won't follow him into the weekend this time around. He'll thus be able to take aim at a Carolina defense that has given up 180 receiving yards per game and six total touchdowns to wideouts in eight games this season.
Published: Fri, Nov 8 at 1:20pm by Rotowire.com
Limited again Thursday
Adams (toe) was limited at Thursday's practice, Olivia Reiner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Analysis: After missing four games with a right toe injury, Adams earned a typical 83 percent of the offensive snaps this past Sunday against the Chargers. His production was below average -- seven receptions (on 11 targets) for 41 yards and no TDs -- and he also emerged with some discomfort in the toe, per Mike Spofford of the Packers' official site. As such, Adam's activity level so far this week is no surprise. Expect his Week 10 status to experience some clarity upon the release of Friday's practice…read more
Published: Thu, Nov 7 at 2:10pm by Rotowire.com
Limited Wednesday
Adams (toe) was a limited practice participant Wednesday.
Analysis: Adams returned from a four-game absence this past Sunday against the Chargers, logging 83 percent of the offensive snaps en route to collecting seven catches (on 11 targets) for 41 yards. Afterward, coach Matt LaFleur relayed Adams didn't suffer any setbacks with his toe injury in the process, but the Packers aren't taking any chances to kick off Week 10 prep. Adams has two more sessions to upgrade to "full" in advance of this weekend's contest against the Panthers.
Published: Wed, Nov 6 at 2:33pm by Rotowire.com
No setbacks in return
Coach Matt LaFleur confirmed Adams (toe) suffered no health setbacks in his return from a four-game absence in Sunday's 26-11 loss to the Chargers, Zach Kruse of the Green Bay Press-Gazette reports.
Analysis: A game-time call heading into the contest, Adams proceeded to start and play 83 percent of the Packers' offensive snaps in the loss, finishing the afternoon with seven catches for 41 yards on 11 targets. While the Packers' passing game couldn't get much going in Los Angeles, the improved health of the team's top target should yield better performances moving forward. With Adams' case of turf toe now seemingly in the rear-view mirror, fantasy managers can use him with confidence in the Packers'…read more
Published: Tue, Nov 5 at 9:45am by Rotowire.com
High volume in return
Adams caught seven of 11 targets for 41 yards in Sunday's 26-11 loss to the Chargers.
Analysis: The receiver led the Packers in targets in his return from a four-game absence -- in fact, no other Green Bay WR saw more than Allen Lazard's four -- but Aaron Rodgers didn't have time to let his favorite option run any deep routes due to the Chargers' pass rush, and Adams' longest grab went for only nine yards. He didn't appear hampered by his toe issue, however, and a healthy Adams stands a good chance of posting better numbers next week against the Panthers.
Published: Sun, Nov 3 at 6:18pm by Rotowire.com
Returns from four-game absence
Adams (toe) is active for Sunday's game against the Chargers in L.A., Jason Wahlers of the Packers' official site reports.
Analysis: Subject to a pregame warmup, Adams has overcome his questionable tag and ended his absence at four contests. During Week 9 prep, coach Matt La Fleur was reticent to guarantee Adams' return to action, especially because the wide receiver still felt some pain while pushing off his right foot. In the end, the Packers' medical staff has determined Adams can handle the rigors of an NFL game, but the team also wouldn't shock anyone if it capped his snap count. Whatever he's allowed to take on, he'll…read more
Published: Sun, Nov 3 at 11:58am by Rotowire.com
On track to play Sunday
Adams (toe) is expected to be available for Sunday's game against the Chargers but will still likely go through a pre-game workout to test his availability, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports.
Analysis: Adams has been sidelined since Week 4 due to the toe injury and was deemed a game-time decision by coach Matt LaFleur on Friday. Despite him being expected to play, the 26-year-old remains somewhat of a risky proposition for fantasy managers given Sunday's 4:25pm ET kickoff. The Packers will officially post their inactives about 90 minutes prior to kickoff.
Published: Sat, Nov 2 at 8:31pm by Rotowire.com
Deemed game-time decision
Adams (toe) is listed as questionable for Sunday's game against the Chargers, with coach Matt LaFleur saying the Packers will wait until 90 minutes before kickoff to announce their decision on the wide receiver, Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Analysis: The 4:25 p.m. ET kickoff thus becomes a source of frustration for fantasy managers, though Adams at least appears to be trending in the right direction after three consecutive limited practices this week. Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com notes that the wide receiver looked good at Friday's session, leap-frogging a staff member during a warmup drill. Of course, a single explosive movement isn't the same thing as doing it snap after snap for three hours, so the Packers presumably will put Adams through a…read more
Spotted at practice again
Adams (toe) is practicing Friday, Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: A limited participant the previous two days, Adams seems to have avoided any setbacks but nonetheless appears uncertain to make his return. The Packers' Friday injury report will reveal the extent of his practice participation as well as his official designation for Sunday's game against the Chargers.
Published: Fri, Nov 1 at 9:32am by Rotowire.com
Limited participant again
Adams (toe) was a limited practice participant Thursday, Matt Schneidman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: One day removed from getting an official practice designation that wasn't DNP, Adams maintained his activity level. While he's inching closer to a return to action, it's uncertain whether he'll be able to do enough this week to get clearance for game action. Notably, coach Matt LaFleur said the Packers will evaluate Adams "day by day," telling Ryan Wood of the Green Bay Press-Gazette that the wide receiver has "a significant injury. It's one that most people probably don't understand how…read more
Published: Thu, Oct 31 at 3:18pm by Rotowire.com
Practicing in pads Thursday
Adams (toe) was spotted in a helmet at Thursday's padded practice, Matt Schneidman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: The Packers won't reveal how much work Adams was able to handle until they release Thursday's injury report, but he seems to be taking the next step after practicing Wednesday for the first time since sustaining a toe injury Week 4.
Published: Thu, Oct 31 at 10:55am by Rotowire.com
Gets 'limited' tag Wednesday
Adams (toe) was listed as limited on Wednesday's practice estimate, Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Adams put in some on-field work last week, but this marks the first time he received a designation other than DNP since suffering a toe injury Week 4. He's missed four games in the process and still feels some discomfort while pushing off his right foot, according to Matt Schneidman of The Athletic. Coach Matt LaFleur told Ryan Wood of the Green Bay Press-Gazette that the Packers are taking Adams' situation "day by day," and there are "no guarantees" that the wideout will return to play Sunday…read more
Published: Wed, Oct 30 at 4:27pm by Rotowire.com
Practicing Wednesday
Adams (toe) participated in the portion of practice open to the media Wednesday, Ryan Wood of the Green Bay Press-Gazette reports.
Analysis: The Packers seem to be going through a walkthrough, but Adams looked to be almost back to normal while hauling in a pass, per Matt Schneidman of The Athletic. The Packers offense hasn't suffered much since Adams suffered a toe injury Week 4, but if he's able to return Sunday against the Chargers in L.A., he'll provide a dimension to the unit that it hasn't had the past four contests.
Not suiting up, as expected
Adams (toe) is inactive for Sunday's contest in Kansas City, Jason Wahlers of the Packers' official site reports.
Analysis: Adams got back on the field this week, but despite some light jogging and even catching passes Friday, he was listed as a non-participant on every Week 8 injury report. Ultimately, his designation of "doubtful" forecast a fourth consecutive absence, but Adam Schefter noted Adams likely will return to action next Sunday against the Chargers in L.A. For one more week, though, Marquez Valdes-Scantling will lead a Packers receiving corps that otherwise includes Jimmy Graham, Geronimo Allison, Allen…read more
Not expected to play Sunday
Adams (toe) isn't expected to play Sunday night against the Chiefs, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.
Analysis: Adams is listed as doubtful so he was never truly expected to suit up Sunday, but Schefter indicated he is likely to be available for next week's matchup with the Chargers. Marquez Valdez-Scantling, Geronimo Allison, Allen Lazard and Jake Kumerow all figure to be in the rotation at wide receiver for the Packers in his likely absence.
Published: Sat, Oct 26 at 9:32pm by Rotowire.com
Doubtful for Sunday night
Adams (toe) is listed as doubtful for Sunday's game against the Chiefs, Matt Schneidman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Adams did some light jogging and caught a few passes without pads or a helmet Friday morning, but he was listed as a non-participant throughout the week, unable to join his teammates for any significant level of work. His likely absence for the Sunday night matchup leaves Marquez Valdes-Scantling as the Packers' top downfield threat, with Geronimo Allison, Allen Lazard and Jake Kumerow also in the mix for snaps at wide receiver. Adams said he's been making good progress, so a return for Week 9…read more
Published: Fri, Oct 25 at 1:09pm by Rotowire.com
Not ruled out yet
Adams (toe) was considered a non-participant in Friday's practice, but coach Matt LaFleur isn't ready to rule the wide receiver out for Sunday's game in Kansas City, Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Adams did some light jogging and caught some passes during the open portion of Friday's practice, but it apparently wasn't enough to be listed as a limited participant. He's at least showing clear signs of progress, considering he was ruled out on Fridays the past couple weeks. On a less optimistic note, LaFleur said Adams won't play in Sunday's game if the medical staff believes that doing so would put him at risk of further injuring his toe, per Ryan Wood of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. The…read more
Limited to jogging at practice
Adams (toe) was limited to light jogging and catching passes without a helmet or cleats during the open portion of Friday's practice, Matt Schneidman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Adams was limited to stretches and warmups the prior two days, ultimately labeled as a non-participant on the practice report. He appears likely to miss a fourth straight game Sunday night in Kansas City, but the Packers might list him as questionable. Adams mentioned Thursday that it's still difficult for him to run routes at full speed.
Published: Fri, Oct 25 at 9:26am by Rotowire.com
Still no reps at practice
Adams (toe) was held out of practice Thursday, Matt Schneidman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Adams went through a similar routine for the second straight day, taking part in stretches and warmups before heading indoors at the start of position drills. After the session, he elaborated on his recovery from a toe injury. "I'm a little limited right now, but for the most part I can do a lot of different footwork stuff," he told Schneidman. "It's just the full-speed routes right now that are a little tougher for me. So I'm trying to fight through that, but I'm in a really good spot right…read more
Officially doesn't practice Wednesday
Adams (toe) was a non-participant in practice Wednesday, Matt Schneidman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Adams provided a glimmer of hope that he was taking another step in his recovery, taking part in warmups before leaving the field at the start of position drills, per Schneidman. The latter should have been an indication Adams would have DNP next to his name on the Packers' ensuing injury report, but coach Matt LaFleur kept the door open for a return on Sunday night at Kansas City. "I think it could go right up to game time, to be truthful," LaFleur told Ryan Wood of the Green Bay…read more
Warms up Wednesday
Adams (toe) took part in Wednesday's pre-practice warmup, Matt Schneidman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Once the Packers moved on to position drills, Adams left the field, so it's unclear if he'll elevate from to some activity for the first time since he sustained a toe injury Week 4. Wednesday's practice report will reveal whether or not he took the next step in his recovery.
Ruled out again
Adams (toe) has been ruled out for Sunday's game against the Raiders, Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Speaking to the media after Friday's practice, coach Matt LaFleur acknowledged that Adams won't be able to play but did say the Packers still have 48 hours to evaluate Marquez Valdes-Scantling (knee/ankle) and Geronimo Allison (chest/concussion). It sounds like the other wide receivers could come down to game-time decisions before Sunday's 1:00 p.m. EST kickoff. Adams mentioned Thursday that his sprained toe is feeling much better, so he could be back in the mix as soon as Week 8 in Kansas City.
Absent at practice again
Adams (toe) isn't practicing Friday, Matt Schneidman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Adams mentioned Thursday that his sprained toe is feeling much better, but there hasn't been any concrete evidence pointing toward a return for Sunday's game against Oakland. With Marquez Valdes-Scantling (ankle/knee) and Geronimo Allison (chest/concussion) also missing practice again Friday, the Packers may have to roll with Jake Kumerow, Allen Lazard, Ryan Grant and Darrius Shepherd at wide receiver.
Not practicing, but improving
Adams (toe) wasn't present Thursday for the Packers' practice session, Matt Schneidman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Though Adams was a spectator for the Packers' second consecutive practice of Week 7, the wideout noted after the session concluded that his sprained right toe feels "a million times better" compared to when he initially got injured Sept. 26 against the Eagles, per Schneidman. That said, Adams wasn't willing to speculate on when he might return to action, suggesting he's likely trending toward a third straight missed game Sunday against the Raiders.
Remains out at practice
Adams (toe) was estimated as a non-participant on Wednesday's injury report, Matt Schneidman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Adams has yet to practice since sustaining what has been termed a turf toe injury in many corners but not officially touched on by the team itself. No matter: Until he suits up and makes an impact on the practice field, he won't be a candidate to return to action. If he ends up missing Sunday's game against the Raiders, Adams will be logging his third absence in a row.
Not playing Monday night
Adams (toe) has been ruled out for Monday's game against the Lions.
Analysis: It was only a matter of time before this was confirmed, as Adams failed to practice all week while nursing a turf toe injury. His timetable for a return remains unclear. Marquez Valdes-Scantling and Geronimo Allison will once again operate as the top two options in the passing game for the Packers this week.
Published: Sat, Oct 12 at 10:33am by Rotowire.com
Still not practicing
Adams (toe) is not taking part in Saturday's practice, Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: With Adams officially not participating in practice at all this week, it seems very unlikely that the wideout is going to suit up Monday night. This should become official later Saturday, but look for Marquez Valdes-Scantling and Geronimo Allison to lead the way again for the Packers' receiving corps this week.
Published: Sat, Oct 12 at 9:25am by Rotowire.com
Not practicing
Adams (toe) isn't practicing Friday, Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: This doesn't come as any surprise after Adams acknowledged Thursday that his toe isn't improving the way he had hoped. Saturday will mark his final chance to practice before Monday's game against the Lions.
Heading toward another absence?
Adams (toe) may be trending toward another absence Monday versus the Lions, Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com reports. "It doesn't feel how I want it to feel at the moment," Adams said Thursday.
Analysis: The Packers kicked off preparation for their Week 6 matchup Thursday, but Adams remained sidelined as a result of his right toe injury. His comment also goes against one from coach Matt LaFleur earlier Thursday. Speaking about Adams, LaFleur told Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the wide receiver is "feeling better and better" by the day. The team likely will take a wait-and-see approach with Adams over the next few practices, at which point a decision could be made about…read more
DNP to start Week 6 prep
Adams (toe) remained a non-participant at Thursday's practice, Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Adams has yet to take the practice field since suffering an undisclosed toe injury during a Week 4 loss to the Eagles. Prior to Thursday's session, coach Matt LaFleur put a positive spin on Adam's status, telling Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the wide receiver is "feeling better and better" by the day. Still, Adams likely needs to get some on-field reps Friday and/or Saturday for the Packers' medical and training staffs to give him the all-clear to play Monday versus…read more
Sitting out Week 5
The Packers have ruled Adams (toe) out for Sunday's game against the Cowboys, Matt Schneidman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Even with the benefit of some extra recovery time after the Packers lost to the Eagles on Thursday Night Football last week, Adams wasn't able to overcome his bout with turf toe. Adams was a non-participant in practice Wednesday through Friday, making it an easy decision for Green Bay to withhold him from action Sunday. With his top wideout sidelined for Week 5, Aaron Rodgers will distribute targets to a receiving corps consisting of Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Geronimo Allison, Jake Kumerow,…read more
Published: Fri, Oct 4 at 12:41pm by Rotowire.com
Not practicing Friday
Analysis: A report from Ian Rapoport of NFL Network suggested Adams would need to practice Friday in order to play in Sunday's game at Dallas, though the Packers haven't confirmed that's actually the plan. Rapoport also mentioned that the wide receiver's injury isn't expected to require a long-term absence, with his case of turf toe not considered to be too severe. Another update on Adams will come through when the Packers release their final injury report Friday afternoon.
Published: Fri, Oct 4 at 9:19am by Rotowire.com
No practice yet
Adams (toe) missed Thursday's padded practice, Ryan Wood of the Green Bay Press-Gazette reports.
Analysis: Adams likely doesn't have to practice at all to be ready to go on game day, so his continued absence isn't too much of a concern. Still, he'd improve his chances to play Sunday at Dallas with some reps at Friday's session. If Adams eventually is ruled out, the Packers receiving corps will be composed of Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Geronimo Allison, Jake Kumerow, Darrius Shepherd and Allen Lazard.
Published: Thu, Oct 3 at 11:10am by Rotowire.com
Held out Wednesday
Adams (toe) was a non-participant at Wednesday's practice, Matt Schneidman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Instead, Adams was spotted working with the training staff, performing lateral lunges and squats, per Schneidman. There's a chance Adams doesn't press his luck and take part in practice this week as he tends to the toe injury that he suffered last Thursday against the Eagles. On the other hand, an appearance would provide a glimmer of hope as it pertains to his availability this weekend at Dallas.
Published: Wed, Oct 2 at 11:01am by Rotowire.com
Not practicing Monday
Adams (toe) didn't practice Monday, Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: That's no surprise, given that Adams left this past Thursday's loss to the Eagles with what's been described as a case of turf toe. Initial reports regarding the wideout's injury suggest that it's not a serious issue, but Adams' status for this Sunday's game against the Cowboys is unclear at this stage.
Gets good news from MRI
Following an MRI on Friday, the Packers are optimistic Adams (toe) avoided a serious injury, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports.
Analysis: The wideout referred to his injury as "turf toe" after he was removed from Thursday's 34-27 loss to the Eagles. It sounds like he'll have a shot to avoid any additional missed time, with the Packers enjoying a long break before a Week 5 matchup in Dallas next Sunday. Adams' practice participation leading up to the game will be closely monitored.
Published: Fri, Sep 27 at 1:42pm by Rotowire.com
Afflicted with turf toe
Adams, who missed the final 10 minutes of the Packers' 34-27 loss to the Eagles on Thursday due to injury after recording 10 receptions for 180 yards, says he is suffering from turf toe, Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Adams was unable to don a shoe on his affected right foot during postgame interviews and eventually limped out of the locker room. The star receiver was hurt on his 10th and final catch of the night, souring what was a career-best performance. Adams' presence was arguably missed the most on the Packers' final drive, which ended when Aaron Rodgers was unable to connect with Marquez Valdes-Scantling at the Eagles' one-yard line, a pass that was ultimately tipped and landed in the waiting arms of…read more
Dealing with toe injury
Adams (toe) is questionable to return to Thursday's matchup with the Eagles.
Analysis: Adams had 10 catches for 180 yards before exiting the game. It's unclear how serious the injury is, although it's obviously enough of a concern to keep him sidelined for at least a few drives.
Published: Thu, Sep 26 at 8:31pm by Rotowire.com
Perfect on the day
Adams caught all four of his targets for 56 total yards during Sunday's 27-16 win over Denver.
Analysis: The Broncos played off on Adams, endeavoring to limit Adams' effectiveness downfield -- though he still managed a 22-yard grab. Green Bay has been feeding Adams the ball to start the season, averaging seven targets per game, but he's yet to find the end zone on a Packers offense that has had more than its fair share of late-game struggles. There won't be much time to correct with the Eagles in town on Thursday.
Fine for Sunday
Adams (personal) is expected to play in Sunday's game against the Broncos, Ryan Wood of the Green Bay Press-Gazette reports.
Analysis: Adams was excused from practice Friday to attend to a personal matter. It doesn't sound like a threat to his Sunday availability, but he does have a tricky matchup with potential shadow coverage from Chris Harris, who helped limit Chicago's Allen Robinson to four catches for 41 yards in Week 2. Of course, Adams is always a good bet to lead the Packers in targets, and he's gotten the better of some quality cornerbacks the past few years, including Minnesota's Xavier Rhodes last week.
Excused from practice
Adams is absent from Friday's practice due to a personal matter, Matt Schneidman of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: There hasn't been any suggestion of Adams missing Sunday's game against Denver, but we should know more Friday afternoon when the Packers release their final injury report. The wide receiver could be looking at shadow coverage from Broncos cornerback Chris Harris this week.
Tops 100-yard mark
Adams caught seven of nine targets for 106 yards during Sunday's 21-16 win over the Vikings.
Analysis: Adams comfortably paced the team in targets, catches and yards despite facing a strong Minnesota secondary. He posted a long gain of 39 yards and averaged 17.6 yards per catch in a nice bounce-back effort after he totaled 36 yards in the season opener. Adams will face a third consecutive tough matchup next Sunday at home against the Broncos, but his status as Aaron Rodgers' main target should still afford him plenty of opportunities to produce.
Quiet in season-opening win
Adams brought in four of eight targets for 36 yards in the Packers' 10-3 win over the Bears on Thursday.
Analysis: To label Adams' final line a disappointment would be a significant understatement, as the 26-year-old generated a mediocre 50.0 percent catch rate while notching a game-long reception of just 11 yards. Adams' yardage total was his lowest since Week 7 of the 2017 season, a testament to how underwhelming his performance was. Naturally, the caliber of coverage Adams faced does have to be taken into account, as does the relentless pressure Aaron Rodgers faced on many of his dropbacks. Adams will…read more
Published: Thu, Sep 5 at 9:28pm by Rotowire.com
Held out Thursday
Adams won't play in Thursday's preseason game against the Raiders.
Analysis: The Packers are playing safe Thursday with a host of their key players, so we'll presume that Adams' next game action will wait until Week 1 of the regular season.
Published: Thu, Aug 22 at 4:59pm by Rotowire.com
Targeted once versus Ravens
Adams couldn't haul in his lone target in Thursday night's 26-13 preseason loss to the Ravens.
Analysis: Adams played very sparingly, with his lone look coming on an unsuccessful fourth-down attempt to end Green Bay's opening drive. That throw was off the mark from quarterback DeShone Kizer, who started with Aaron Rodgers (back tightness) sitting out as a precaution. It's possible Adams and Rodgers will get some work together in next week's exhibition tilt versus the Raiders.
Expected to make preseason debut
Adams is expected to play "about a quarter" in Thursday's preseason game against the Ravens, according to Matt Schneidman of The Athletic.
Analysis: Adams -- like most of the Packers starters -- did not play in their exhibition opener, but it appears he will take the field for the first time in preseason play Thursday night. It's unlikely the Packers will announce a specific number of plays Adams and the first team will play Thursday night, but based on the estimate in the report, he -- and presumably the rest of the starters -- figure to get at least a couple drives.
Published: Thu, Aug 15 at 7:52am by Rotowire.com
Not suiting up Thursday
Adams won't play in Thursday's preseason contest against the Texans, Ryan Wood of the Green Bay Press-Gazette reports.
Analysis: Adams will join Aaron Rodgers in street clothes, keeping the Packers' top connection out of commission. It remains to be seen when they'll both be on the field for their first foray in new coach Matt LaFleur's system, but Rodgers is hoping to suit up for both the second and third exhibitions.
Has Rodgers' confidence
Aaron Rodgers said he wants to throw to Adams even more this season, ESPN.com's Rob Demovsky reports.
Analysis: Adams led the NFL at 11.3 targets per game last year, with only a Week 17 absence preventing him from becoming the first player since 2015 to draw 175 or more targets in a single season. Realistically, there isn't much room for volume growth, but there is room for improved efficiency (8.2 YPT) if new coach Matt LaFleur proves to be an upgrade on Mike McCarthy. The Packers focused their offseason personnel changes on the defensive side, relying on better coaching and renewed focus from Rodgers…read more
Published: Fri, Jun 7 at 6:57am by Rotowire.com
Returns to field
Adams (undisclosed) returned to practice Wednesday, Michael Cohen of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: The Packers withheld Adams from action during the first week of OTAs due to the minor injury. Now back on the field a few days later, Adams appears ready for live reps as the entire Green Bay offense adjusts to life under new head coach Matt LaFleur.
Published: Wed, May 29 at 11:40am by Rotowire.com
Held out of OTAs
Adams was held out of Tuesday's practice with an undisclosed injury, Michael Cohen of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Adams is present in Green Bay but is being held out for reasons coach Matt LaFleur deemed as "precautionary." The wide receiver could be back in the fold within the next few weeks of OTAs or perhaps for mandatory minicamp in June. In any case, Adams' momentary absence creates an opportunity for the Packers to let some of their younger wideouts distinguish themselves during an offseason in which Green Bay opted against pursuing a more high-profile No. 2 receiver.
Published: Wed, May 22 at 2:29pm by Rotowire.com
Ready for some slot snaps
Adams expects to handle more snaps in the slot under new coach Matt LaFleur, Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. "(They) may not want to travel so-and-so with me inside," Adams said Wednesday. "If that will take their No. 1 off me, and I can get some mismatches maybe on the backer or the safety or anybody else, I think that is beneficial."
Analysis: In addition to moving around the formation more often, Adams expects the new offense to place a heavy emphasis on crossing routes, whereas Mike McCarthy's scheme relied on receivers winning one-on-one battles outside. The 26-year-old obviously did just fine in the old system, but he's yet to top 8.2 yards per target in a season, so there is some theoretical room for growth beyond last year's 111-1,386-13 receiving line in 15 games. With Randall Cobb leaving for Dallas and no replacement signed…read more
Published: Fri, Apr 12 at 7:28am by Rotowire.com
Plays in Pro Bowl
Adams (knee) caught two of four targets for 41 yards in the Pro Bowl on Sunday.
Analysis: Adams didn't need much time to recover from the knee injury that caused his Week 17 absence. He'll now head into the offseason healthy, locked in as the far-and-away No. 1 option in a pass-catching corps that could soon get a makeover. The 26-year-old wideout said new head coach Matt LaFleur made a great first impression, giving Adams an easy path to transition into an offense that will move him around more often and place a greater emphasis on crossing routes, per Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com.
Published: Mon, Jan 28 at 6:34am by Rotowire.com
Won't play in finale
Adams (knee) is inactive Sunday against Detroit.
Analysis: Adams was listed as a non-participant in practice all week, though it was still thought he had a chance to play because the team technically didn't hold practice Friday. Instead, he'll end up as the latest casualty in a banged-up receiving corps that is in line to be led by Randall Cobb and Marquez Valdes-Scantling, as Equanimeous St. Brown (concussion) is also being held out for the regular-season finale. Adams had been in striking distance for franchise records in both receptions and…read more
Officially deemed questionable
Adams (knee) is listed as questionable for Sunday's game against the Lions, Michael Cohen of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Adams was listed as a non-participant throughout the week, though Green Bay didn't actually practice Friday. Coach Joe Philbin said the team will evaluate Adams on Saturday before making a decision on the wideout's status for Week 17. The Packers don't have any chance at a playoff appearance or even a .500 record, but Adams could make a push to play if he cares about taking a swing at the single-season team records for catches and receiving yards. Randall Cobb (concussion) and Jimmy Graham…read more
Week 17 decision not expected Friday
Head coach Joe Philbin said Friday morning that the Packers will see how Adams (knee) fares on the practice field Saturday and make a decision on his Week 17 availability after that.
Analysis: It's not clear if Adams will get in any work Friday after sitting out the previous two days, but it looks like, regardless, a final call on his Week 17 availability will not be made for at least another day. Adams' status will be updated further after the Packers release their final injury report of the week following Friday's practice.
Published: Fri, Dec 28 at 7:30am by Rotowire.com
Works on side Thursday
Adams (knee) didn't practice Thursday and instead worked with Green Bay's training staff on the side, Wes Hodkiewicz of the Packers' official site reports.
Analysis: The activity is a step up from Wednesday's session, when Adams was seen on a stationary bike in the portion open to the media. It remains to be seen if he'll elevate from DNP to limited, but he seems to be taking a step toward his prediction that he'll be available Sunday versus the Lions.
Expects to play Week 17
Adams said he missed Wednesday's practice with a knee injury but still expects to play Sunday against the Lions, Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Adams was spotted on a stationary bike during Wednesday's practice, so he at least managed some level of physical activity. The Packers seem determined to finish out their disappointing season on a high note, and it doesn't hurt that Adams is within striking distance of single-season franchise records for catches and receiving yards. A return to practice Thursday and/or Friday would put him on track to suit up Week 17.
Published: Wed, Dec 26 at 12:32pm by Rotowire.com
Not at practice Wednesday
Adams was held out of practice Wednesday for an undisclosed reason, Josh Tolentino of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Adams was working out on a stationary bikes as a member of a rehab group that included Randall Cobb (concussion), Equanimeous St. Brown (head) and Jimmy Graham (knee/thumb). The nature of Adams' issue is unclear and may not be known until the Packers' first Week 17 injury report is released.
Published: Wed, Dec 26 at 10:27am by Rotowire.com
Catches OT winner
Adams turned 18 targets into 11 catches for 71 yards and a touchdown in Sunday's 44-38 overtime win over the Jets.
Analysis: Adams saved his biggest play for last, ending the game in overtime with a 16-yard touchdown. Aaron Rodgers' favorite receiver heads into a Week 17 meeting with the Lions having already reached career highs across the board with 111 catches for 1,386 yards and 13 touchdowns.
Adams caught eight of 13 passes for 119 yards and a two-point conversion during Sunday's 24-17 loss to Chicago.
Analysis: Adams tied the game up late in the third quarter, cutting across the field on a slant for a two-point conversion. It was the fourth consecutive game and 11th time this season that Adams scored points for the Packers. The Fresno State product has topped 80 yards in four of his last five games and has been a bright spot in a Green Bay season that has had few of them. The Packers don't have much to play for down the stretch, but Adams can keep it going next Sunday against a Jets pass defense…read more
Finds end zone in win
Adams caught seven of 11 targets for 81 yards and a touchdown in Sunday's 34-20 win over Atlanta.
Analysis: Adams did most of his damage in the first half, with six receptions for 61 yards and his 12th touchdown of the season as the Packers built a 24-point lead early in the second half. The 25-year-old has been a model of consistency regardless of any of the Packers' offensive struggles, and he's exceeded 80 receiving yards or scored a touchdown in every game this season. Adams has 93 catches for 1,196 yards through 13 games, though a more difficult matchup awaits against the stingy Bears defense in…read more
Putting together finest season
Adams caught eight of 13 targets for 93 yards and a touchdown in Sunday's 20-17 loss to the Cardinals.
Analysis: Adams scored his 11th touchdown of the season from 13 yards out in the second quarter. Not only does the 25-year-old wide receiver have double-digit scores in each of the past three campaigns, but Adams also has career highs in catches (85) and yards (1,155) already this season. Owners who have ridden him to fantasy playoff contention are primed to benefit from Adams' favorable Week 14 matchup against the porous Falcons defense.
Hits paydirt in loss
Adams had five catches (eight targets) for 69 yards and a touchdown in Sunday's 24-17 loss to Minnesota.
Analysis: Adams put together a solid fantasy line, but an uncharacteristic overthrow by Aaron Rodgers in the fourth quarter robbed fantasy owners of a two-touchdown day. Still, the 25-year-old converted his 10th score of the year, also hitting the 1,000-yard mark for the first time in his career. Adams will draw a tough matchup against lockdown corner Patrick Peterson in Week 13, but he has become a must-start receiver in fantasy this year. Those in DFS formats may want to evaluate Adams' price tag,…read more
Explodes in Week 11 loss
Adams brought in 10 of 12 targets for 166 yards in the Packers' 27-24 loss to the Seahawks on Thursday.
Analysis: Adams unsurprisingly paced the Green Bay receiving corps in receptions, targets and receiving yardage, and he turned in a game-long 57-yard catch early in the fourth quarter to set up a Mason Crosby field goal as well. The 25-year-old saw double-digit looks for the first time since Week 7, with Randall Cobb's absence due to a hamstring injury certainly playing a part in Adams' increased involvement. Adams did see a modest two-touchdown streak end, but he'll look to get back in the end zone in…read more
Scores two touchdowns
Adams caught four of seven targets for 57 yards and two touchdowns during Sunday's 31-12 win over the Dolphins.
Analysis: Adams tied for the team lead in targets, but his yardage totals were held in check by an underrated Miami secondary. He still managed to make a splash from the fantasy perspective, however, thanks to touchdown receptions in the first and third quarters. Adams now has nine touchdown receptions in as many games this season, making him a top fantasy option even in weeks when his yardage totals may not be at their highest. He'll look to continue his prolific scoring pace Thursday against the…read more
Finds end zone in loss
Adams caught six passes (nine targets) for 40 yards and a touchdown in Sunday's 31-17 loss to the Patriots.
Analysis: Adams was unable to extend his streak of 100-plus yard games to four, but a trip to the end zone helped salvage an otherwise quiet night. The touchdown brought the 25-year-old's total up to seven on the year, putting him on pace to reach double digits in the category for the third consecutive year. With 730 receiving yards through eight games, Adams is on his way to realizing the bullish fantasy projections made for him this preseason. Miami's 23rd-ranked pass defense is on tap for Week 10.
Published: Sun, Nov 4 at 11:48pm by Rotowire.com
Davante Adams gets open with wicked route for 20-yard TDSun, Dec 29 at 12:44pm
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Davante Adams gets open with wicked route for 20-yard touchdown.
Rodgers hits Davante Adams in stride for 33-yard receptionSun, Dec 29 at 11:27am
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers hits wide receiver Davante Adams in stride for 33-yard reception.
Rodgers slings it to Adams for 17 yardsSun, Dec 29 at 10:43am
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers slings it to wide receiver Davante Adams for 17 yards.
Davante Adams shows outstanding balance on sideline tightropeMon, Dec 23 at 6:56pm
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Davante Adams shows outstanding balance on sideline tightrope.
Eric Kendricks secures fumble No. 2 after Harrison Smith jars ball freeMon, Dec 23 at 6:38pm
Minnesota Vikings linebacker Eric Kendricks secures fumble No. 2 after safety Harrison Smith jars ball free.
A rare sight! Aaron Rodgers' third INT of 2019 goes to Anthony HarrisMon, Dec 23 at 6:09pm
Minnesota Vikings safety Anthony Harris displays wingspan on fingertip INT vs. Rodgers.
Can't-Miss Play: Davante Adams sprints past Bears' CB for fourth-down TDSun, Dec 15 at 1:24pm
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers burns the Chicago Bears again on fourth down, with a 29-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Davante Adams.
Davante Adams' wicked route sets up 34-yard gainSun, Dec 15 at 11:46am
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers completes a 34-yard pass to wide receiver Davante Adams against the Chicago Bears.
Aaron Rodgers catches Giants with 12 men on field, finds Davante Adams for TDSun, Dec 1 at 12:29pm
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers threw a 17-yard touchdown pass to Davante Adams on a free play against the New York Giants.
Aaron Rodgers finds Davante Adams to cap off opening drive TDSun, Dec 1 at 10:36am
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers tossed an 8-yard touchdown pass to Davante Adams against the New York Giants.
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Severe Pakistan Floods Destroy Millions of Crop Acres
On Aug. 18, 2011, The Express Tribune reported that the city of Badin in Pakistan’s Sindh Province had disappeared under five feet of flood water.
New Observation Satellites to Track Deadly Pollution
Scientists at the University of Leicester are developing advanced satellites to track and map invisible airborne pollutants the World Health Organization says are responsible for 2 million premature deaths a year.
USGIF Scholarships Total Nearly $100,000
The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation announced the recipients of its 2011 Scholarship Program, contributing $94,000 to students studying geospatial intelligence-related fields.
Stratospheric Drones on the Drawing Board
The new generation of unmanned aerial vehicles—or drones—will come in all shapes and sizes and behave more like Earth-observation satellites than airplanes.
Antarctic Mosaic Comprises More Than 3,000 RADARSAT-2 Images
MDA's Information Systems Group released a detailed new image of Antarctica for use in applications such as global climate change, shipping and transportation, exploration and environmental science.
Italy’s Mount Etna Rumbles On
With a series of paroxysms, Mount Etna has reclaimed its status as one of the most active volcanoes on Earth.
Lockheed Martin Micro Drone Inspired by Nature
The seeds that drop from maple trees are the inspiration for a new kind of flying machine that could be useful for Earth observation.
Bordeaux Winegrowers Harvest Infrared Imagery
With only a month to go before the first harvest begins in France’s Bordeaux region, winegrowers will make key decisions based on Astrium’s infrared satellite imagery of their vineyards.
“Beach Ball” Observation Drone Flies in Japan
A beach ball-size drone can fly down narrow alleys, hover, take off vertically and even bounce along the ground—all while transmitting live images from a video camera.
Algae Study: Uncertain Carbon Cycle Change Possible
Scientists have for the first time examined on a global scale how calcified algae react to increasing acidification due to higher marine uptake of carbon dioxide.
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Casualty - Season 34 Episode 14
The everyday lives of the people frequenting the frenetic Accident and Emergency department of Holby City hospital.
Actor: Catherine Shipton , George Rainsford , Crystal Yu , Lloyd Everitt , Jamie Davis , Tony Marshall
Director: Jeremy Brock , Paul Unwin
Episode: 14/285 eps
Season 28 - Casualty
1 "Bedside Manner"
"New trainee doctor Lily jumps straight in to investigate a disastrous robbery on the open road, while Dixie builds a bond with a game old bird to help her carry out a romantic mission."
2 "Once There Was a Way Home: Part One"
"Nurse Rita is late for her first shift as she contends with an injured neighbour whose hoarding has got out of control, while Jamie bonds with a failed asylum seeker too scared to tell the authorities he's gay."
3 "Once There Was a Way Home: Part Two"
"Jamie almost brings the whole ED to a standstill as he becomes embroiled in attempts to assist an Iranian immigrant, meanwhile Sam's maternal skills are revealed as she rescues the baby of a broken family."
4 "What You Believe"
"Ash and Jeff are forced to dive into the sea to save a teenager who's been tombstoning, while Fletch and Rita treat a boy who is claiming to be the reincarnation of an elderly lady's brother."
5 "Waiting for a Star to Fall"
"Lily is assigned to an emotional case involving a teenage cancer patient in order to learn some empathy, while Charlie investigates an act of heroism as a bus crash unravels a web of deceit."
6 "Scars"
"Treating two brothers who come to blows with a drug dealer tests Iain and Jeff's ability to get on, while Jamie susses out that a patient is faking it to get his mother's attention."
7 "Gloves Off"
"Rita and Ash look after a young girl who is keeping secrets from her charming boyfriend, and Fletch is worried about two sisters who are struggling to look after each other as they get older."
8 "The Longest Day"
"Iain helps a teenager caught up in a fatal car crash to face up to the truth, while Fletch decides to shoulder the blame for Tess's mistake."
9 "Love Hurts"
"Tess has to confront her own problems when a pregnant woman is involved in a road traffic collision, and Robyn and Jamie witness the effects of a batch of bad pills on the Holby nightlife."
10 "The Memory of Water"
"Ash and Tess work to discover why a mother and daughter are so at odds about how far the team should go to save the father's life, while Jamie accidentally helps crack open a love triangle."
11 "Crush Syndrome"
"Rita's day with the paramedics brings her close to a patient in a serious entrapment, and Big Mac is able to make a real difference with a destitute man."
12 "Three's A Crowd"
"Jeff helps a father and his sons after they get into trouble over a hidden bag of cash. Sam treats a bride, not knowing that Tom intends to propose."
13 "Badge of Honour"
"Iain is deeply affected by two police officers who stir up his memories of army life and Charlie tries to help a young family keep hold of their little girl."
14 "Rock and a Hard Place"
"Lily suspects steroids are to blame for a violent dispute between rugby players while Sam and new porter Max help a policeman in pursuit of the truth."
15 "Between the Cracks"
"The pressure is on Fletch who's trying to balance responsibility with helping a vulnerable boy and Jamie unwittingly gives Lily a lesson in patient care."
16 "There's No Place Like Home"
17 "What a Wonderful Life"
"Fletch has to rescue a child from danger when two brothers are involved in an accident, and Sam realises the truth about her own relationship when she re-starts the heart of a patient."
18 "Away in a Manger"
"A young couple are forced to take refuge at a farm for the birth of their baby, while a man is electrocuted by a Christmas tree, disrupting Sam and Tom's wedding plans and causing Fletch to be arrested."
19 "For Auld Lang Syne"
"An explosion in a bar leads to a disastrous New Year's Eve for Fletch, and Robyn helps a silent singer find his voice."
20 "Bad Timing"
"Lily and new doctor Ethan diagnose teacher Alice with a rare disease, while Zoe and Tess fight to save the life of Dixie's girlfriend."
21 "Brothers At Arms"
"New doctor Cal goes to the rescue of a girl in a limo hanging precariously off a bridge, while his brother Ethan uncovers the truth about an art student whose sight is endangered by flying glass."
22 "Keeping Schtum"
"Dixie's accused of assault after a man she and Rita think is a rapist trips and hits his head. Ethan and Cal strive to help a little boy get his voice back."
23 "Blood is Thicker than Water"
"Rita helps a rape victim gain the courage to press charges, while Zoe treats an eccentric ex-Tiller girl who must tell the truth about the daughter she put up for adoption."
24 "Once in a Lifetime"
"On his last day at the ED, Jamie helps Cal and Ethan uncover abuse between a stepfather and his family while Dixie and Jeff help extract a man sinking in mud."
25 "Valentines Day Mascara"
"Iain defies orders and runs into a burning building to save a man searching for his new fiancee, while Lily steps into the breach as a magician's assistant when pensioner Yvonne gets injured."
26 "The Great Pretender"
"Fletch's daughter runs away from home and lands herself in danger, while Robyn has to discover why a teenage girl is lying."
27 "The Last Chance Saloon"
"Lily makes a special connection with a new mother with learning disabilities. Robyn is intrigued when she discovers mysterious intruder Lofty hiding in her house, but is he really as kind and friendly as he appears?"
28 "Survivor's Guilt"
"Iain tries to help a distressed ex-army friend and his wife, while Lofty's keen eye helps save a young man who must learn to stand up to his brother."
29 "Gravity"
"Big Mac and Iain are held hostage by an angry ex-soldier, while Charlie must learn the identity of a patient so the team can race to save her son."
30 "The Lies We Tell"
"Ethan's conscience is tested when an activist asks him to hide his secrets, while Rita and Zoe help a desperate prisoner repair his relationship with his mother."
31 "Valves to Vagrants"
"New consultant Connie Beauchamp saves a man from prison on her first day at the ED, while Ash takes his wayward daughter in hand."
32 "The Quiet Man"
"Connie, Zoe and Lily pull together to treat a father and his daughter, who has ADHD, while Charlie helps an old biker come to terms with his wife's dementia."
33 "Only the Lonely"
"Jeff, Rita and Lily help a morbidly obese man access the help he needs while Dixie bonds with an angry young motorcyclist."
34 "When Nothing Else Matters"
"Fletch builds bridges between a father and son estranged by drugs. Cal tries to discover what is wrong with a man who thinks he has a brain tumour."
35 "Carrot Not Stick"
"Dixie risks her job to take a patient to see his dying mother, while another patient's unusual birthday treat to herself goes awry when she sniffs cocaine."
36 "Who Cares"
"Dixie is given three months suspension by the Ambulance Trust and Connie makes Zoe question whether there was another procedure she could have tried in order to save a patient's life."
37 "Games for the Boys"
"Ash realises the truth about his daughter when a patient's experience with drugs turns sour, while Fletch fights to repair a broken family on a couple's wedding day."
38 "The Family Way"
"Cal tries to help a family torn apart by sibling rivalry, while Tess tries to help a pregnant teenager stand up to her controlling father."
39 "To Yourself Be True"
"Connie tries to help a father come to terms with his son's sexuality, while Cal helps treat a severely paranoid patient."
40 "The Dying Game"
"Rita finds herself in a difficult situation when a fire breaks out in an elderly care home, while Lily helps a man with toothache realise the true extent of his problem."
41 "Unhinged"
"The ED struggle with increasing numbers, Connie fights to save a man with dementia, and Ethan and Rita work to convince a bulimic teenager that she needs help."
42 "Falling: Part One"
"Zoe sticks up for the ED when the press turn up, but a horrific helicopter accident is the last straw that pushes her to make a difficult decision."
43 "Falling: Part Two"
"Tess is involved in a horrendous crash and Fletch sacrifices everything to save her."
44 "In the Name of Love"
"A cross-country obstacle race accident brings together a father and son as well as Jeff and his new love interest."
45 "First Impressions"
"Connie helps an ill man tell his wife the truth, and a leukaemia survivor comes to realise that she isn't ready for a family yet."
46 "The Love You Take"
"Rita receives a visit from her past which jeopardises her future, and Lofty and Cal bring a family back together with a bit of creative thinking."
47 "The Sicilian Defence"
"Cal and Ethan work together to solve a medical mystery, while Rita helps a patient come to terms with a secret."
1 "Learning to Fly"
"Jeff finds himself in a dangerous situation when Samantha's secret turns up, whilst Max helps a young couple stand up to their families."
2 "Fallen Stars"
"Rita loses her temper when a patient turns out to be dishonest, Cal helps a schoolgirl come to terms with her HIV after being bullied at school and Max helps a rock legend come clean."
3 "Home"
4 "Go Out and Get Busy"
"Robyn and Ethan assist the paramedics when a floor collapses at a wedding. Max bonds with an unhappy teenager, while Lofty thinks creatively to help a deaf woman come forward about her abuse."
5 "Born Lucky"
"Connie decides to take a select number of her staff out on a day following the hospital's recent success, but when Ethan takes his eyes off the road for a second too long the team are embroiled in a horrific road traffic collision - with devastating consequences for one character."
6 "The Last Call"
"A few old faces gather as an emotional day arrives for the staff. Ethan leaves his bed to attend the funeral, while Dixie distracts herself. Iain returns, while a new Tea Lady, Honey, catches the eyes of Noel."
7 "The Index Case"
"A man dies from a mysterious injury, leaving Connie wondering whether she missed something, and Cal and Ethan discover a rare virus that connects two patients."
8 "Return to Sender"
"A familiar face returns to the ED, Lofty treats a boy sick of being stopped and searched and Dixie and Ash clash."
9 "Entrenched"
"On local derby day, a pre-match fight ends with tragic consequences."
10 "Deadfall"
"A suspicious death leads Lily on a murder mystery investigation that nearly costs her life."
11 "Asylum"
"Lofty helps an asylum seeker, Ash loses it in resus and Ethan struggles with a diagnosis."
12 "Losing Grip"
"Ash is angered by a patient's lifestyle choice, Big Mac treats an old lady who seems confused after foiling a robbery on a shop and Ethan has a breakthrough. Connie is forced to bring her daughter into work"
13 "Feeling Good"
"Ash disagrees with Dylan about how to treat a suspected overdose. Cal treats a patient with a large abscess, and Zoe gets annoyed when Cal flirts with her patient."
14 "Solomon's Song"
"Hospital drama. The team deal with an incident at the cathedral, Lofty helps a patient who thinks he is Jesus and Honey reveals her secret."
15 "Next Year's Words"
"New Year approaches with New Years resolutions being made but Connie's personal life causes problems."
16 "Clinging On"
"A demanding patient is forcing Connie to spend less time with Grace as Zoe starts to realise life can be short."
17 "Muddling Through"
"Connie finds herself in a showdown with Hailey Blake as Robyn decides to set up a hospital food bank."
18 "The Last Goodbye"
"Rita has a blast from her past when Mark turns up but concern grows when Grace goes missing."
19 "What a Difference a Day Makes"
"Now that Grace has left, Connie throws herself into work as Big Mac tries to help a man after he gambled his brother's money."
20 "Front Line"
"The ED is facing an inspection but Connie is unaware to problems that lay ahead as a soldier training day suffers an explosion."
21 "Sweetie"
"Connie suggests that Dylan applies for the vacancy of Consultant as the team's professionalism is tested by a criminal."
22 "Sweet Little Lies"
"Lofty and Dylan bond over a patient with a big secret. Connie helps a teenage girl."
23 "Something to Live For"
"Dixie convinces a father to not give up on himself. Connie finds a friend in a patient."
24 "Excess Baggage"
"Lily helps a wife to be honest with her husband, and Rita helps a man change his attitude."
25 "Toxic Relationships"
"Lily is involved in an accident, and a couple risk losing their baby."
26 "The Road Not Taken"
"Zoe reflects on her decisions and wonders what she would do with a second chance."
27 "Something Borrowed, Something Blue"
"A man tries to protect himself from his past, while a young woman tells a dangerous lie."
28 "Under Pressure"
"Connie helps a confused young mum, and Ethan gives advice to a vengeful bullied schoolboy."
29 "The King's Crossing"
"Connie's heroic day comes to an unexpected end, while Cal gets a blast from the past."
30 "The Rita Supremacy"
"Connie needs to prove her innocence in the Alfred case."
31 "The Department of Secrets"
"Connie's trial begins. Rita helps a young girl get bittersweet justice."
32 "Exile"
"Charlie and Connie embark on a mission to save Louis which takes them to Bucharest."
33 "Against the Odds"
"Lily helps a mother and daughter escape a difficult situation."
34 "Fix You"
"Cal and Ethan help a son come to terms with the seriousness of his mother's illness."
35 "The Way Home"
"Dylan and Zoe get to the bottom of how a team-building exercise went so wrong."
36 "The Golden Hours"
"Dixie helps a grieving mother to let go, and Cal and a leukaemia patient work together to raise money for charity."
37 "A Moment of Clarity"
"Dylan has another bad day, Charlie tirelessly tries to help Louis through his withdrawal, and Cal convinces a mum to come clean to her daughter."
39 "Holby Sin City"
"Ethan falls for a woman, but she brings nothing but trouble."
40 "If You Could Bottle It"
"An unlikely hero leads the team to a crucial diagnosis, and Rita helps a desperate man."
41 "The Next Step"
"Jacob proves his powers of persuasion when a lie nearly costs a girl her life."
42 "Dark Horses"
"Charlie helps a cowardly dad do the right thing for his daughter."
43 "The Long Haul"
"Dylan is shaken up by an unwanted patient, and Jacob shows his romantic side."
44 "Knock Knock Who's There?"
"Jacob unveils the truth about a patient. Tess has to make a difficult decision."
45 "Forsaking All Others, Part One"
"The team help a daughter and father. Ethan convinces a man to confess to his girlfriend."
46 "Forsaking All Others, Part Two"
"It's Max and Zoe's wedding day, and someone's got cold feet."
1 "A Child's Heart, Part One"
"Jacob institutes emergency protocol after gang violence takes a deadly turn."
3 "Objectum Sexual"
"It's a big day for Louise as an unusual romance flourishes at Holby ED."
4 "Cradle to the Grave"
"There's a new doctor in the ED as life and death hang in the balance."
5 "Belief"
"Terror comes to Holby, and the innocent get caught in the crossfire."
6 "All the Single Ladies"
"Iain and Dixie are pushed to the limit, but their rewards are many."
7 "Rules of Attraction"
"Cal's back on an even keel. Can things only get better?"
8 "Flutterby"
"Charlie helps a father and daughter deal with their grief."
9 "One Shot"
"Jacob helps a harassed teacher to accept help, but can he take his own advice?"
10 "Best Served Cold"
"Things get fishy when an unlikely patient comes into the ED."
11 "Avoidable Harm"
"Alicia is pushed to her limits and proves she's a brilliant doctor, but will it be enough?"
12 "Strangers"
"Dixie is forced to ignore her gut feeling, and Cal faces every parent's nightmare."
13 "Estranged"
"A young couple have their wedding torn apart by an unsupportive father."
14 "Maybe This Year"
"The harsh conditions of the season bring some people together, but others are torn apart."
15 "Silence Speaks"
"Connie dismisses Jacob's correct instincts."
16 "Home for Christmas"
"It's Christmas Eve and spirits are high, but not everyone is feeling merry."
17 "A Life Less Ordinary"
"Cal struggles with his recent discovery but discovers he's much braver than he thinks."
18 "Lie to Me"
"Dixie steps up as the hero but is left feeling bittersweet."
19 "Black Alert"
"The ED is pushed to the limit, but the team pull together under difficult circumstances."
20 "Shame"
"Jacob teaches a hopeless man how to approach his crush, while Ethan becomes disillusioned."
21 "The Good Life"
"Dixie helps a man face the truth but will she make the right decision about her own life?"
22 "Step Right Up"
"Ethan is back in full swing, but his world is about to be shaken."
23 "Hearts and Flowers"
"It's Valentine's Day and not everyone is feeling the love."
24 "Just Do It"
"Connie needs to step up and prove her love for Grace, but the clock is ticking."
25 "Fatal Error: Part One"
"As Lofty gets the hang of his new role, could a fatal error make his victory short-lived?"
26 "Fatal Error: Part Two"
"Lofty has to make a statement. With his friends' support, what will he decide to say?"
27 "High Tide"
"Lofty faces the consequences of his actions and has a life-changing decision to make."
28 "Sweet Child of Mine"
"Connie's ready to say yes to love, but there's just one person she needs to tell first."
29 "Buried Alive"
"Connie is faced with the prospect of never seeing Grace again."
30 "Hopelessly Addicted"
"Jacob takes it upon himself to track down a dangerous drug dealer in Holby."
31 "Survivors"
"Rita gets the shock of her life when a ghost from her past arrives at the ED."
32 "A Clear Conscience"
"Big Mac's secret is getting on top of him."
33 "Tangled Webs We Weave"
"Fate forces Max and Zoe to work as a team, whilst a poisonous spider gets loose in Holby."
34 "Hello, I Must be Going"
"A new doctor starts at the emergency department and she is about to get a baptism of fire."
35 "Chain Reaction"
"Dylan gets a nasty surprise when a familiar face arrives asking for forgiveness."
36 "This Life"
"Big Mac struggles to hide the toll his addiction is taking."
37 "The Best Day of My Life"
"Elle is forced into a corner after a shocking discovery."
38 "You Make Me Sick"
"Can Big Mac overcome his demons and help a young girl in need?"
39 "History Repeating"
"Elle tries to save the life of a mother and her unborn child."
40 "What Lies Beneath"
"Jacob shows some uncharacteristic nerves, while Rita gets caught up in her own lies."
1 "Too Old for This Shift"
"As Charlie celebrates his 30th anniversary, the department is thrown into chaos."
2 "Fall on Me"
"Elle attempts to rally the troops, and Alicia discovers an uncomfortable truth."
3 "Strike Three"
"Jac comes down to the ED to perform an emergency operation."
4 "Pride Comes Before a Fall"
"Ethan and Alicia are thrown together in a rescue operation."
5 "Schoolboy Crush"
6 "Party Pooper"
7 "Too Much Love Will Kill You"
8 "The Big Day"
"Elle calls Connie's ability to focus on the job into question following her recent brush with death, and Robyn's plans for the future take a sudden, unexpected turn."
9 "Night of the Loving Dead"
"Robyn faces a difficult decision, while Ethan passes up the chance of happiness for the sake of his brother."
10 "Shock to the System"
11 "Thirty Years"
12 "About My Mother"
"An undercover inspection pits the doctors against the nurses, as Connie struggles to come to terms with Grace's condition"
13 "Not In Holby Anymore"
"After a disappointing review, Jacob, Charlie and Duffy decide to challenge the team, questioning if Noel, Louise and David have the heart, brains and courage to do their jobs. Meanwhile, Alicia writes Ethan a touching biography for his online dating profile. But does any other woman understand him like she does?"
14 "All I Want For Christmas Is You"
15 "Bah Humbug"
16 "New Me, New Year, New You"
"Rumours spread about Sebastian's accusation against Dylan, While Ethan decides it is time to stand up to Cal."
17 "What Lurks in the Heart"
"Dylan becomes the source of gossip after Seb's allegations, while Alicia and Ethan are forced to face the consequences of their actions."
18 "Back to School"
19 "Little Sister"
20 "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
21 "The Stag, the Dog and the Sheep"
22 "You Are Your Only Limit"
23 "Binge Britain"
24 "Slipping Under"
25 "It Starts with the Shoes"
"David prepares to hand Ollie over to his aunt, who will be taking him back to Rosa in Spain. With their separation imminent, father and son spend one last day together - in the ER. Iain suspects Gem is up to her old tricks when she short-changes a customer at the coffee shop, and Dylan presents himself to the board to pitch an idea to raise awareness of alcohol abuse. However, when his presentation fails to hit the mark, Louise takes matters into her own hands, and drags the board members into the corridors of the ER to witness firsthand the pressure binge drinkers are placing on the hospital's resources"
26 "The Good Samaritan"
29 "Sleeping With The Enemy"
"Alicia wakes up in Sam's bed, while Iain and Gem's relationship is tested when they spend the day together on the rig and Iain is confronted with his biggest fear. Evie is confronted at home by a masked intruder who attacks her and ransacks the property, and when Evie manages to escape, she is hit outside by Susie's car"
34 "Break Point"
1 "Episode 1"
"As some of the team head to France to help aid efforts at a refugee camp, their experiences leave lasting impressions. At the ED, Connie's world is rocked by sudden news."
"Conditions at the refugee camp cause a member of the ED team to take drastic action. In Holby, recent events are taking their toll on Jez."
"Ethan struggles to put the past behind him, while Iain meets Lily's family, and Dylan's moral compass gets him in a tight spot."
"Dylan's plan to reunite Sanosi with his uncle doesn't turn out the way he would have hoped, and Alicia begins her driving lessons with Elle, giving her a crash course."
"A familiar face returns under a different guise, while Elle questions how happy she is being a single mother."
"An anxious Connie focuses on Ethan's consultancy revision while waiting for the results of her tests. Elle meets a potential love interest."
"Connie struggles to deal with the results of her scans and what it means for her future. Dylan is forced to bring Sanosi into the ED."
"Connie's denial about her condition reaches crisis point, and she forces Ethan to help her. Alicia's driving test approaches at speed."
"Dylan's secret starts to unravel around him as more people get drawn in. Lily's jealousy of Sam threatens her budding relationship with Iain."
"A near miss with the discovery of Sanosi leaves Dylan at breaking point. David desperately tried to stop his friend making a terrible mistake."
"A new face joins the ED team, while Lily has to make a choice between career and love."
"Ethan wrestles with his guilt, while Connie makes a drastic decision over her treatment."
"Elle panics when she walks into Blake's bedroom in the morning to find he has stayed out all night. Blake arrives at the ED with Miles, his bully, who has sustained a serious head injury. Elle treats Miles while Jacob talks to Blake; he learns that Blake is high and was responsible for Miles's injuries. Elle and Jacob argue over Blake's welfare, while Blake is arrested when Miles tells the police that it was an unprovoked attack and Blake was in possession of illegal drugs. Ethan goes for his consultancy interview, and is surprised when Connie is on the panel of judges. He fears he has messed up when he uses Connie as an example of a patient where he has gone beyond his role of a doctor to treat someone, although he is later informed he has been promoted. Dylan quits his role of acting clinical lead and turns to alcohol once more to get through his shift."
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We are working for the same thing…to continue the legacy of this great body of work for future generations to come to know and enjoy.
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There is a grassroots group you may know of, led by vocalist and producer Ron Kaplan. It’s called the American Songbook Preservation Society…Very admirable; no one (save perhaps Michael Feinstein) could be more eager than I to see the brilliant work of the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Frank Loesser and their ilk, protected and performed ad infinitum.
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Fashion Must Fight the Scourge of Dumped Clothing Clogging Landfills
Posted on August 4, 2017 Updated on August 3, 2017
By Lucy Seigle
Every year millions of garments are discarded as consumers ditch fast-fashion styles for a new wardrobe. At last the industry is acting – but more has to be done
Stella McCartney’s winter 2017 collection was modelled against the backdrop of a landfill site. Photograph: Harley Weir and Urs Fischer for Stella McCartney
Facebook users will be familiar with the On This Day feature. From time to time it greets you with a blast from your relatively recent past. Some find it unnerving, especially if it’s a picture with an ex, for example. But my eye is always drawn to the clothes. Whatever happened to that handbag? Do you still wear those jeans?
If it’s an image from more than three years ago, then the answer is probably “no”. According to a recent report from Wrap (the Waste and Resources Action Programme), the average piece of clothing in the UK lasts for 3.3 years before being discarded. Other research puts the lifespan of UK garments at 2.2 years. For a younger demographic, you can probably halve that. A UK-based fashion company tells its buyers to remember that a dress will stay in the owner’s wardrobe for only five weeks.
The way we get dressed now has virtually nothing in common with the behaviour of previous generations, for whom one garment could be worn for decades. Wrap estimates that we purchased 1.13m tonnes of new clothing last year in the UK. While an estimated £30bn-worth hangs about gathering dust – Tinie Tempah’s refrain “I have so many clothes, I keep some at my aunt’s house” was spot on – an unpalatable quantity goes in the bin. A survey commissioned by Sainsbury’s last spring found that 235m items ended up on landfill sites as people readied their wardrobes for summer. Surely we can do better than this?
Vivienne Westwood – never one to miss an opportunity to call her legion of fans to action – thinks we can. “It’s about quality, not quantity – not landfill,” she said recently at one of her own shows. Hot on her heels, Vetements, very much the “it” brand of our times, made its own statement last week. The label filled the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue in New York – one of the commercial hotspots of global fashion retail – not with its latest collection, but with waste garments en route to a recycling charity.
But it was Stella McCartney who really upped the ante, electing to shoot her latest collection on a Scottish landfill site. Models lay across the rusted husks of old cars and languished on top of household waste. From a sustainability perspective, Stella McCartney is the luxury Kering group’s top-performing brand. Much of this success is based on McCartney’s own personal resolve. It’s clear that the landfill backdrop is not just an interesting aesthetic to her.
Now there’s an obvious contradiction between selling fashion and instructing us to buy less, but what these designers are calling for is some sanity in an industry now rated as the fifth-most polluting on the planet.
The fashion industry has developed a pretty terrible reputation – not least for exploitation of human capital, outsourcing production to the world’s lowest-wage economies. Four years ago, 1,133 garment workers were killed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, while producing clothing for high-street brands and their subsidiaries. After that, many worried what was next.
For those in and around the industry, garment waste has long been rumoured to be the next big scandal. Globally, levels of production and consumption are forecast to increase as fashion waste becomes an environmental crisis to rival plastic pollution in oceans. This is a tale of over-production and supply, powered by the relentless “fast fashion” system of production that over the past three decades has revolutionised both the way we dress and the way clothing is produced – and not often for the better.
Much of the waste in the fashion industry is hidden along a chaotic supply chain and doesn’t make it into the environmental accounting that underpins a Wrap report. Perhaps the worst of it comes in the form of readymade garments, assembled and sewn but discarded because of an order mistake or an issue with the colour. According to industry insiders, this waste represents 3-5% of every factory’s inventory (and a large factory in Dhaka can produce 240m pieces a year).
There is no verified figure for the amount of clothing produced globally each year (predominantly in low-wage textile hotspots like Dhaka without waste management systems) but my own research puts it between 80bn and 100bn garments. That means a lot of hidden fashion waste.
Stella McCartney: according to parent company Kering, her brand is its best-performing subsidiary from a sustainability perspectiv. Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty Imaages for P&C and Fashion ID
Where it becomes highly visible is on the outskirts of big production areas, such as the garment districts of Dhaka. This is where the production waste leaves the factories and is absorbed by the air and earth in the local community. Waste from the cutting room (called jhut) often ends up in so-called go-downs. These makeshift sorting operations are the stuff of legend in Dhaka, with fires a regular occurrence. But what happens to all the rest?
“You don’t even want to know,” says Estonian designer and clothing waste researcher Reet Aus, who spends a lot of time following unwanted garments out of factory gates. “You see it by the side of the road being sold, or just dumped, but a lot is burned,” she says. “I know a brick factory near the garment district where the main fuel is garment waste. You can’t really see anything around there, the pollution is terrible. Remember that thanks to the chemicals and finishing agents, used textile waste is basically toxic waste.”
Meanwhile, the urge to buy grows stronger as clothes shopping takes on a quasi-addictive quality. And let’s be honest here, are the fast-fashion corporations with their extraordinary profits likely to do anything about consumption, the driver of waste and the driver of the industry’s impact? Their business model, after all, depends on it.
Increasingly these brands are signposting a way of allowing us to have our cake and eat it. They are buying into recycling schemes and investing in competitions to close the loop on textile fibres. The idea is that if they can collect waste garments and regenerate fibres to be used in new garments, the impact of fast fashion can be negated.
The trouble is, it’s hard to buy into. I have been critical of brands overclaiming in this area before, particularly when I looked at the numbers around H&M’s recycling week in 2016. In truth, there are quite a few technical barriers to closing the fashion loop – that is, regenerating fibre from an old, unloved outfit, spinning and making it into something else, all within a timeframe and quality that’s interesting to the consumer.
“Every fabric is different,” says Aus, “so one garment might contain a blend of different fabrics. On top of that, you have to strip out the zippers and buttons inherent in post-consumer fashion waste.” So while a consumer may believe that a loved jumper or sundress is going to be magically regenerated into a new item, in practice your old T-shirt is probably going into a well-worn recycling network.
She and her team have developed software to keep track of potential garment waste data during production, which she is trialling with a large manufacturer: Beximco in Bangladesh. By getting information about the volume and material of leftover textiles, she can design that material back into a product before it becomes waste. “I’d rather not produce waste in the first place,” she reasons. “Plus, this is a better system for large brands who find recycling and regeneration difficult. That is easier for smaller, more agile companies.” This means some of fashion’s big lessons about its waste may come from unlikely parts of the apparel world. For once, the smaller companies have a chance to steal.
Tom Kay, the founder of Cornish outdoor brand Finisterre, is addressing a waste problem highly relevant to his customer and doesn’t care that it might seem niche to the rest of us. “The average neoprene wetsuit only lasts two years,” he says. “We’ve redesigned with wider seam tape and better stitching but it still only lasts probably for three. It would be disastrous for these things to be dumped, but there’s nowhere for them to go. That’s why you see them piled up in people’s garages.”
Last week, he launched an intriguing job advert in partnership with Exeter University: a £26,000-a-year position, paid by Finisterre, to be filled by a materials scientist who shares his dream of making wetsuits from wetsuits. “We don’t know how it will go, but I’m excited,” he said.
The Figures
■ Last year 1,130,000 tonnes of new clothing was purchased in the UK – an increase of 200,000 tonnes since 2012.
■ Fashion in the UK lasts an average of 3.3 years before a garment is discarded.
■ Extending the life of a garment by an extra nine months reduces its environmental impact by 20-30%.
■ Providing one tonne of clothing for direct re-use by giving it to a charity shop or selling it online can result in a net greenhouse gas saving of 11 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.
*This story first appeared on The Guardian
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Anchorage Port Commission seeks petrol tariff increase to support cement terminal repairs
US: The restoration of Anchorage Petroleum Cement Terminal in Alaska to fully functioning docking capabilities for oil well cement offloading operations after its ruin in an earthquake of 30 November 2018 will cost US$81m. At a special meeting on 23 October 2019, the port Commission voted to petition the Anchorage Assembly for a progressive tariff increase on all petroleum imports over 10 years to US$399/t from US$116/t.
The works are scheduled for completion by January 2021, with the possibility of a reduction in the rate of tariff increase subject to grants received from the state.
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China Gezhouba Group enters production in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: China Gezhouba Group has inaugurated a 0.9Mt/yr clinker production plant in the Kyzylorda region. Central Asia News has reported that the plant will produce nine types of cement, with oil well cement its major product. This is aimed at diminishing the Kazakh oil industry’s dependence on cement imports. China Gezhouba Group chairman Li Ming said: “the alignment of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Kazakhstan’s Bright Path economic policy brings great prospects for the China-Kazakhstan cement production capacity.”
The new cement plant is the first in the region and will employ 260 people.
Repsol Sinopec Brazil, Ouro Negro and PUC-Rio develop cement quality-check tech for oil wells
Brazil: Repsol Sinopec Brazil, Ouro Negro and the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Centre of Science and Technology at Rio de Janiero’s Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio) are working together on a through tubing logging profile tool to assess cement quality in lined wells. Arbolas has reported that, where current technologies allow only for observation of anomalies located directly around the tool, the sought-after solution will facilitate detailed recording of the integrity of the adjacent layer. Ouro Negro Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Eduardo Costa has described the proposal to incorporate its TTilt technology into the Wellrobot, yielding continuous data feedback and thus reducing well interventions. The companies say that the prospect of reliable seal integrity testing for plugging and abandonment operations on fluid-bearing formations is of enormous economic and environmental import to numerous industries.
GICA’s Aïn el Kebira cement plant gains American Petroleum Institute certification
Algeria: Groupe des Ciments d’Algérie’s (GICA) Aïn el Kebira cement plant in Setif has been certified by the American Petroleum Institute (API) to produce oil well cement products. It has been award two certificates following a one-year audit, according to the El Moudjahid newspaper. Djamila Tamazirt, Minister of Industry and Mining, who was on a tour of the unit, said that the development would help the country to stop importing oil well cements. The country imports an estimated 0.2Mt/yr of oil well cement at a cost of nearly US$30m.
GCC’s half year results hit by poor weather in US
Mexico: GCC’s results for the first half of 2019 have been negatively affected by poor weather in the US. Its net sales grew slightly by 1.3% to US$404m from US$399 in the same period in 2018. Sales fell in the US but they rose in Mexico. Its earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) fell by 5% to US$109m from US$115m.
“While GCC’s US operations continued to be adversely impacted during the second quarter by an above average precipitation, below-average temperatures and construction labour shortages, the substantial backlog at our US operations underscores strong demand for our products. We’ve begun to reap the benefits early in the third quarter, as the US weather has finally cleared,” said Enrique Escalante, GCC’s chief executive officer (CEO). He added that the group had ‘successfully leveraged’ its new Trident plant in Montana and improved production levels at its Rapid City plant in South Dakota following a stabilisation process. Oil well cement shipments from its Chihuahua Plant to new terminal at Fort Stockton in Texas have also started.
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US: Trabits Group and Brookhaven National Laboratory have been selected to present joint research papers at two scientific geothermal forums on the self-repair ability of the FlexCem Lightweight Variable Density well cement product. The first presentation will be at the September 2019 meeting of the Geothermal Resources Council (GRC), which will be held in Palm Springs, California, US. The second presentation will be at the World Geothermal Congress (WGC), which will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland in April 2020.
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31 days of gratitude, extremely abridged grumpy edition (days 13 to 20)
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I just want to say, in my defense, that for the past week I have been full of gratitudes of various sorts. I think grateful thoughts all day long, as I visualize myself making it down to the computer and writing about those thoughts. I’m grateful I don’t blog for a living, with a deadline and a fussy editor. I’m grateful that I can just shove this blog to the side when other matters of the day take over, without feeling particularly bad about it.
EXCEPT FOR THIS MONTH, WHEN I PROMISED MYSELF I WOULD BLOG EVERY DAY ABOUT GRATITUDE.
So, as I probably should have anticipated, a commitment to daily gratitude has kind of dragged me down, the same way positive affirmations and up-beat music take me down.
Never mind. I offer you the following data dump of various grumpy gratitudes, and I invite you to chunk them out and assign them as you see fit to days 13 through 20.
This morning I settled down on the sofa after making Nick’s breakfast and school lunch. The dogs sat all over me, and Nick was in an armchair nearby. I opened a casual game called Archero on my phone. Some months ago, Nick introduced Anthony and me to this game, which is basically slightly more complicated dodge ball. The hero player moves around the screen and dodges enemy attacks, while randomly throwing out her own projectiles at the enemies and destroying them before she runs out of HP, which I just had to google so that I could tell you it means “health points.”
Nick quit playing after a few days, but Anthony and I remain hooked. We’ve been tracking our way through the levels of this game slowly, upgrading our respective heroes and monitoring each other’s progress, and also occasionally throwing in a little smash mouth. Anthony was ahead of me for a while, probably because he was playing the game more obsessively. But I’ve caught up as of a couple days ago, and I announced as much this morning.
“Can you believe I’ve caught up to dad??” I issued a jaunty chuckle.
Nick, staring down at his own device, spoke in a matter-of-fact and supportive voice, “That should not be surprising to you.”
What curious, articulate, grown-up phrases come out of the mouths of 10-year-old kids. I replied, “Why not?”
He looked up at me and shrugged. “Because you’re MOM.”
Jesse came down later in the morning. She’s been on a very short school schedule for a little while now, and she gets to sleep in. She saw me making coffee with this stovetop device.
She looked at me. She looked at the pot. She looked back at me, her eyebrows raised, her eyes hiding a laugh.
“Mom. Does that say Grouch?”
She didn’t need to say aloud that she feels it suits me.
I love my kids, both of them. I love being put on a parenting pedestal now and then, even if it’s slightly weird. I also love being fed humble pie; that goes down much easier because it fits into my natural self-loathing more easily. I’m grateful for the honesty of my children, who see me with such fresh eyes, and who offer me insights every day into all the ways I amaze them and let them down.
(I’m also thankful that Anthony and I can sit happily next to each other playing silly iphone games. Very little beats light chatter about how Archero is going, after a long day.)
It’s not only and all about electronic devices in our house, though they do tend to take more of our time than I’d like. Nick made me go running with him yesterday, and apparently he’s decided to harangue me into doing so most days. Yesterday, he wanted to re-create a cross country practice. So after we walk/jogged with the dogs, Nick made me stay outside and do a full cross country practice with him. We started with stretches, sprints, lunges, something involving weird sideways crab running with legs crossing over like bad dancing, power skipping, knee-ups and leg-ups. He didactically informed me that his coach had explained the warm-ups are the hardest part. Then he made me head out on a closing jog.
It’s great when your ten-year-old son gives you the exercise what-for. I’m not wheezing this morning, but there’s a reason I’m sitting in front of this computer screen typing instead of hitting the gym. I need to save something up for Nick, who’s going to be coming at me about running when he pops out of school this afternoon.
I’m thrilled that Nick has finally found something physical that he loves. He says running feels like “an instinct.” He has a work rate that I cannot match without dislocating a hip, his feet pitter-pattering down the road efficiently. I’ve explained to him that I’m 53 years old and quite overweight right now, so running doesn’t come so easy to me. He’ll always be faster than me, because he’s still growing stronger and stronger, and I’m at the age of entropy. It’s hard for him to see that, I guess, because I’m MOM and apparently that means I can do anything. I’m thankful for his faith in me, and I hope to reward it with effort and more effort.
Much gratitude that the ninth and final (yeah right) episode in the Skywalker saga is finally out, and that I’m going with Anthony to see it on Sunday. We’ll see it a second time with the kids a couple days later, but we deserve to see it first without any attendant parenting obligations. No pee breaks!
The original Star Wars movie, Episode 4, came out when we were just ten years old! So we will hit the theaters Sunday with our marital inner child on full display.
Luke was always a whiny snowflake who I wanted to slap upside the head, and the Ewoks were so annoying, and poor Leia had to wear those outfits — but the first trilogy was still good. Then episodes 1 through 3 came along, and we learned that Anakin could be even more annoying than Luke — a feat I had believed to be unattainable, until I saw it with my own eyes (for 6+ horrible hours). By the time episode 3 came out, in 2005, I had endured the tragedy of the incredibly awful Matrix sequels as well, and the so-so-ness of Terminator 3, and I abandoned all hope for excellency in cinematic sequels.
Nonetheless, 43 years after Star Wars was first released, I find that I have really enjoyed the latest round of Star Wars movies. I love the new characters, Rey and Finn and Poe and Rosie and Kylo Ren. I’ve enjoyed where the story is headed. Still, I’m ready for it to end, and I’m looking forward to a final resolution — though I would guess even episode 9 will leave some wiggle room for further sequels. It’s become just like one of those endless sci fi/fantasy novel cycles — the Game of Thrones series (up to 6 books so far) or Wheel of Time (fourteen books so far!) or Dragonriders of Pern (well over twenty books). How many versions of a death star can we face before it just gets old? Move on already, creators. Make money some other way.
But still, grateful. Anthony and I have seen a million movies together over a million years, and going to movies with Anthony is one of my very happiest of things. So, gratituding heavily for my movie date with Anthony on Sunday.
Speaking of making money, if you’ve been reading my blog recently, you’ve probably seen the incredibly gross ads WordPress has been throwing up. I have nothing to do with them, except that I’ve been cheap and have been maintaining this as a free WordPress site.
Look at these ads, which WordPress has been relentlessly wedging in among my own lovely photos and incredibly brilliant prose:
WTF WORDPRESS. What is that hand holding?
I literally wince and flinch when I see these ads. Because ew. What is it about grumpiness that makes WordPress think my readers want to see this stuff? Do my readers suffer from toenail fungus and enjoy handling unidentifiable greasy little balls of shriveled… something?
Well. I did a quick sweep through WordPress settings and learned that for 8 dollars a month I can get rid of those ads. So I holiday-gifted myself an upgrade just now and the ads should officially be gone. Thank you, WordPress, for offering me the chance to pay you actual money to get rid of the grossest ads you were able to find for my blog! And for this wonderful follow up screen display after you took my money.
My blog is doing somersaults in excitement? My eyes just rolled up in my head. Awkward.
For 98 bucks a year, I get a lot of PREMIUM stuff, “best for freelancers,” not just no ads. Look at all these other goodies:
Yay! If I want, I can give even more data to Google! I’m sure my visitors would love to have Google take an in-depth look at them. Thinking about it… thinking about it… No.
But Google is tenacious. I also can get a $100 credit with Google!
As long as I spend $25 bucks first on ads. Thinking about it… Nope.
I can MONETIZE my site.
Oh now that’s tempting. I think Anthony would like that. Would you like to advertise here? Give me a call or drop a note, and let’s see what we can work out – you will be reaching the same audience that looks forward to toe fungus and ear wax ads. It’s a niche audience, what can I say.
Grateful to have a niche, but also grateful that I don’t yet have toe fungi or excessive earwax, and ditto Anthony. Much gratituding about Anthony today.
I’m still not done telling you about all the amazingness arising out of my PREMIUM WordPress plan. Two more things.
Ooooh I get a jetpack??? That is definitely worth $98 a year.
But no. It’s just the site security and stuff like that. That is a really unfair tease. Not grateful at all.
And finally for the win:
I’m sorry, but when I saw this one, it took me over the edge. A Happiness Engineer.
Who comes up with a name like that? What does Happiness have to do with blogging? What kind of stupid euphemism is that?
Just stop, WordPress, because if you throw one more piece of PREMIUM stupidity at me, I am going to move to another blog site. Put your Happiness Engineer, which I assume is a faux AI, in a dark hole and turn the key. Carla isn’t having it.
(Grateful I can ignore the Happiness Engineer and carry on with grumpiness.)
Rummaging around in IMDB to find the specific dates for movie releases I discussed above, I was reminded how much I adore Keanu Reeves. Grateful for Keanu. Grateful for the John Wick movies so far, which have renewed my faith in the possibilities of good sequels. Grateful that, despite my adoration of Keanu, he was not cast as Kylo Ren, because no, just no.
And finally [she whispers with misgiving]: I see that Keanu is signed up to make a fourth Matrix movie.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. Possibly grateful. Possibly not.
But I can definitely be grateful for that emoji right there, because it captures pretty much how I feel for a majority of each day. I just don’t get life, I don’t get people, I don’t get systems and institutions, I don’t get family, I don’t get any of it.
And yet… I have life, and people, and systems, and family; and I’m (pretty much) grateful for all that. Despite all the grumpy, despite the way people suck all the time, I continue to breath, and I still have a strong hope that my children will outlive me and go on to fight for mother earth and social justice, and I’m lucky to still be so in love with my Anthony, and my blood pressure is well-controlled most of the time, and I know I don’t have calcified arteries thanks to a $50 CT scan that took three minutes. So that’s all good. It’ll be fine. I’m fine.
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Justin Bieber Quits Music Due to Mental Health Issues
By Barbara Sobel on March 26, 2019 No Comment
Justin Bieber posted on his Instagram on March 25, 2019, that he would be leaving music to focus on his mental health.
On Instagram Bieber said he understood his fans wanted a new album from him. He also said he was touring his entire life from the time he was a teenager until his early 20s.
Bieber continued by saying he knew his fans saw that he was unhappy during his last tour and he does not deserve that, and the fans do not deserve it. He felt fans pay and attend a concert to have fun and he could not provide that during the final shows of his tour.
Bieber said he had many issues which were deep-rooted issues that he wanted to spend time focusing on them. He did not want those issues to affect his marriage, and he wanted to be a good father.
Continuing, he said music is important to him, but nothing was more important than family and health. He promised to record an album as soon as he could and would return to music when ready.
In 2015 Bieber released his album “Purpose.” Two years later, his tour abruptly ended early due to circumstances beyond his control.
Written by Barbara Sobel
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By Zach Metkler September 20, 2016 September 7, 2017
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After the retirement of Heath Miller, the Steelers needed an identity at tight end. They might have found their guy in Jesse James. Zach breaks down James' progress from his rookie year.
By: Zach Metkler, GZ Sports Report Writer
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In the offseason, the Steelers made a splash signing by bringing in the uber athletic tight end Ladarius Green. So far, Green has blown fans away with the following stat line: 0 receptions, 0 yards, 0 touchdowns.
That was sarcasm for those of you who couldn’t tell.
After an onslaught of media attention for injuries questions that even Sherlock Holmes couldn’t figure out, Green was sidelined for the entire offseason and preseason and has yet to play a single snap for the Steelers. After the retirement of Heath Miller, the Steelers expected Green to be the savior at tight end and to give them another vertical option to add to their already loaded offense. Regardless if it is concussion symptoms or an ankle injury that is keeping him off of the field, Greens absence has led to the emergence of another player.
Jesse James.
Let me take you back a bit. James spent the first half of his rookie year inactive, serving as a spectator, learning the ropes and continually developing. Many athletes might have let the frustration of not playing get to them, but James saw it as an opportunity to work harder in practice, study his playbook more, and prove to the coaches that he was ready to play. James admitted during the offseason that he could have played during that time to relieve Heath Miller, but says that it would not have been the best performance and likely would have hurt the team.
Entering the league, James was put into a situation where he was able to learn from veterans like Matt Spaeth and Miller to see how they played with the Steelers offense. James’ time finally came in Week 9 of the 2015 season against the Raiders when Spaeth was inactive with a knee injury. James’ stats weren’t huge, totaling only two receptions for 13 yards but was able to score his first NFL touchdown, which was a redzone target. While it might not seem like it, that game was the first game that James began to show his mantle as a player and how he wasn’t just another late-round pick.
As the season went along and the offseason came, James began to show more confidence as the game appeared to begin slowing down for him. Like with most players, confidence isn’t just an individual task. You also have to earn the confidence of your teammates and coaches, which isn’t always an instant process for players in the NFL.
Over the offseason, the Steelers parted ways with Spaeth and Miller walked off into the sunset into retirement. While many fans were calling for the Steelers to sign a veteran tight end to give the offense some life, James went about his business through offseason workouts and training camp, working harder than ever. Since the preseason, James has shown development each and every week as a player. James has shown substantial improvement as a run blocker and made very veteran-savvy moves consistently that help Ben Roethlisberger immensely. Jesse James is also in much better shape this season compared to last year and has filled out his frame nicely.
Heath Miller had always been Big Ben’s trusted target over the duos 10 years of playing together. While James has a long way to go before he becomes another Heath Miller, he has already began to become a reliable target for Roethlisberger, totaling 8 receptions for 60 yards and a touchdown on 12 targets through the first two games. These numbers won’t blow anyone away but what James is doing for the Steelers goes far beyond the stats. He is creating opportunities for an offense that needs weapons in the passing game that are not named Antonio Brown. Through the 1st two games, James has been a go-to target for Roethlisberger in the redzone, as indication that the team is trying to utilize James’ 6’7″ frame and create mismatches where it counts the most. Two games into the post-Heath Miller era, James has began to make his mark on offense in a similar way as Miller. On pivotal 3rd-down plays, Roethlisberger has looked for James to get the easy check-down reception for the 1st-down, much like what he would do with his trusty target Heath Miller.
Jesse James is not Heath Miller. But few players are.
Heath Miller was the greatest tight end in franchise history and just as it always is with “greatest players in franchise history”, it is hard to say if another player of that caliber will come around anytime soon. However, the Steelers don’t need that kind of player for their offense to click. They just need James to continue to improve each week and continue to be a steady presence for their future Hall of Fame quarterback.
James’ biggest knock as a player coming out of college and even through his rookie season was is inconsistency as a blocker, both in running and passing situations. These concerns seem to be disappearing, though, as he is always seen pushing players downfield and making crucial blocks for DeAngelo Williams to run through. His pass blocking remains a work in progress but working with the other linemen like Marcus Gilbert (one of the best right tackles in the game) has helped in that development.
James has had pressure on him all season and that pressure only rose further when Green became unavailable to play. That is a lot for a 22-year old player to handle but he answered the call better than most expected. James has begun putting to rest questions like “What if Ladarius Green is out for most or all of the season?” Or “What if Ladarius Green never plays a down for the Steelers and we have no one?”
There is no denying that Green is the superior athlete and a much more refined pass-catcher. But to be honest, there have been times while I have been watching the games where I forgot that Green was even on the roster because of the confident presence that James has brought to the table. James can catch and block, making him the all-around tight end. It is still early to say what type of player James will be in the long-run.
It might not be Heath Miller.
But it will be Jesse James. And that is perfectly fine with me.
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Tags: Antonio Brown Ben Roethlisberger DeAngelo Williams Heath Miller Jesse James Ladarius Green Marcus Gilbert Matt Spaeth Pittsburgh Steelers
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Zach is the co-founder and co-owner of GZ Sports Report, where he is the lead Steelers and NFL writer. He is a recent graduate of Allegheny College in Meadville, PA, where he double majored in Neuroscience and Psychology with a minor in Global Health Studies in a pre-medical track, while also being an offensive lineman for the Gators’ football team. He currently attends Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH to earn his Master of Science in Medical Physiology before going on to medical school. In addition to GZ Sports Report, Zach is also a Steelers contributor to The Point of Pittsburgh and steelernation.com. Zach also serves as the Social Media Director of GZ Sports Report, where he is in charge of all of the website’s social media pages, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Zach can be contacted via Twitter @GZSports_ZM. View all posts by Zach Metkler
William Gebrosky says:
I feel that Jesse James will make fans forget about Green.He’s bigger, faster and he can jump. He can reach higher than most recievers. If Green ever gets to play, we could have two TEs in plays. Jesse will end up number one.
Chico French says:
Athletically James isn’t on Green’s level but few are. With Steelers Oline being as good as it is I think James could blossom into a fantastic fit/TE starter in our offense. Miller type TE’s are a thing of the past right now. James has the opportunity to be a very high impact player for the Black & Gold.
SID MCGUIRE says:
first and foremost, you people need to stop talking about heath miller!!! he was “alright”, but he wasn’t great or a superstar TE, jesse will be fine until green comes along, in fact, (BOTH) jesse and green will give the steeler’s a “hardcore” TE tandam, maybe the best in the NFL 😉
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Mark O’Mara engineers snipe hunt to avoid responsibility for publicizing irrelevant evidence
Good afternoon:
NBC News reported late yesterday:
A Florida judge ruled Tuesday that George Zimmerman’s defense team cannot mention Trayvon Martin’s suspension from school, prior marijuana use, text messages or past fighting during opening statements at next month’s trial.
Judge Debra Nelson said that during the trial she will consider motions to admit details as evidence on a case-by-case basis, outside the presence of jurors who will decide if Zimmerman is guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Martin.
Although this statement is technically correct, it also is misleading because Judge Nelson actually concluded that the evidence was irrelevant and inadmissible. That is why she granted the State’s motion in limine to prohibit the defense from mentioning any of those things during jury selection and opening statement.
The only reason she might change her mind is if the State were to open the door by introducing evidence of good character. That is not going to happen because Trayvon’s character, whether good or bad, is not an issue in this case. BDLR has no reason to introduce evidence of good character and I am certain that he was not planning on doing that because he knows that good character evidence is irrelevant. Since the defense cannot rebut something that does not happen, the jury will not hear any of this information.
That is not the end of the story, however, because the irrelevant information in question was obtained from Trayvon Martin’s phone and it is the subject of a defense motion for sanctions and request for a judicial inquiry that Judge Nelson has scheduled for June 6th, the same day as the Frye hearing regarding the admissibility of expert testimony identifying the person who uttered the terrified death shriek.
I do not believe Judge Nelson is going to find that BDLR withheld evidence from the defense. The evidence was recorded on Trayvon’s phone in binary code and a copy of that raw data was disclosed to the defense sometime in late January. O’Mara did not hire an expert or purchase a software program that can translate that code into plain English.
A few weeks ago, O’Mara was contacted by an attorney who represents Ben Kruibdos, the Director of Information Technology for the Fourth Judicial Circuit. The attorney is Wesley White.
The Miami Herald reports:
White led the Nassau County state attorney’s office before resigning in December, citing differences of opinion with Corey. He is now in private practice.
White said the photos Kruidbos retrieved were of a hand holding a gun and one depicted drugs. The content of the text messages wasn’t specified.
“I’m an officer of the court and I’m obliged to inform the court of any misconduct or any potential misconduct coming before the court. Whether it’s by the defense or prosecution,” White said.
Apparently, Kruibdos extracted the two photographs and possibly the text messages from the binary code and gave them to BDLR who did not pass them on to O’Mara.
Does that constitute a discovery violation or a tempest in a teapot?
I believe it is a tempest in a teapot, so long as BDLR turned over the raw data.
Judge Nelson has already ruled that the evidence is not relevant or admissible and it certainly is not exculpatory.
We will have to wait and see how the hearing turns out, but this looks like another snipe hunt instigated by O’Mara to distract everyone from holding him accountable for publicly disclosing information that should not have been disclosed.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 at 3:17 pm and is filed under Bernie de la Rionda, Blaming the Victim as a Defense Strategy, Breitbarting, Character Assassination, Contempt of Court, Defense Strategy, Discovery, George Zimmerman, Mark O'Mara, Raw Data, Sleazy tactics, Trayvon Martin, Trying the Case in the Court of Public Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
315 Responses to Mark O’Mara engineers snipe hunt to avoid responsibility for publicizing irrelevant evidence
charlieh says:
Let me start by say to Mr. Leatherman: I enjoy the site and the analysis which you bring to the case.
I have three questions regarding this whole cell phone data kerfuffle:
1) If the prosecution withheld the cell phone data, then how did O’Mara end up with all those photos and texts that he posted online? Isn’t the fact that the defense had this information in their possession proof that the prosecution turned it over to them?
2) Upon rewatching the April 30th hearing, although it is made clear that the prosecution had previously turned over the raw cell phone data to the defense, de la Rionda also explicitly claims in response to a question from Judge Nelson he had no further information regarding that data beyond what had already been disclosed. While I think the disclosure of the raw data covers any alleged discovery violations, is de la Rionda in any danger of sanctions if it is determined he did in fact receive additional information, regardless of its exculpatory nature? I agree this whole thing is a snipe hunt, but I’d hate to see the defense score points over a semantic issue.
3) Anyone see a link to Orlando Sentinel from last night that indicated the alleged video of Martin recording his friends beating a homeless man had been released? This was the tease to the story: “Video released today by George Zimmerman’s trial attorneys depicts what they say is Trayvon Martin laughing while he video-records a fight between two homeless men. It shows something far different than what defense attorney Mark O’Mara described …”. However, the link leads to nowhere! And a search of the Sentinel’s site yields no results for that story. Very frustrating, because it appears O’Mara and team were lying in open court about what the video depicted.
Thank to anyone who can help with these questions, and keep up the good work Mr. Leatherman!
-Charlie
Mark O’Mara should be sanctioned by the Court
What has been yet ANOTHER elephant in the Fogen Room is the idea, spread by the defense and the Outhouse (which both smell the same to our “sniffing dogs”) is the idea that RTL was Fogen’s TURF and he had a right to keep Trayvon Martin OFF “his” turf by any means necessary.
Strangely, the subtle apologists who have been holding up Fogen without realizing how inappropriate their illogical “false equivalencies” are have no problem identifying this kind of thing as wrongful when it is done by REAL authorities such as courts and police. They just find it OK to excuse this same conduct because it was done by a person WITHOUT official authority acting on his own impulses. That is, these same folks (Dersh, Turley, Jeralyn) would be horrified if a cop had shot and killed Trayvon Martin that night having only found him to be “suspicious” and they would be calling for prosecution to the utmost and a national upheaval.
Look, for instance, at this:
http://jonathanturley.org/2013/05/30/texas-court-declares-over-dozens-individuals-public-nuisances-and-bars-them-from-neighborhood/#more-64921
Professor Turley clearly identifies the wrongness of official decisions that certain people NOT CHARGED WITH CRIMES are to be prevented from being where other certain people do not want them.
Hello, hello, hello!
Indeed. And these are the very same folks who, when Fogen is convicted, will howl about railroading and the “BGI”. They talk about how they only follow the evidence and facts of the case but seem to not grasp many of these facts and ignore evidence they don’t like.
They’re also good at plain making shit up……Read the other day about Trayvon’s swollen knuckles………..And then about him being involved in beating up a homeless man….
OH ….and he’s still 6’3″ 189lbs
Where do these people come from?…….Is this shit is an indication on how these people perceive reality?…….What do they do for a living?
“…What do they do for a living?”
Don’t know for sure but every time I tell a Zidiot he has a flat tire on his house, I never get a denial, hell……….I don’t even get a reply back. Most have at least one flat and 2 burned out tail lights. Some even have a rusty hitch !!
Easy now….the core of this cabin is a trailer…..hitch cut off…..wheels off…..sitting on a concrete foundation…..
Did anyone else catch what the State said at the hearing,they said O’mara wanted that expert voice witness first but did not like what he had to say about the voices on the 911 calls. Now O’Mara is trying to make this expert witness look bad. What O’Mara is saying if you are not on my side I will try to destroy your reputation.
He’s an azz
Tomorrow’s hearing in Sanford in the George Zimmerman case has been canceled.
Media agrees not to photograph George Zimmerman jurors at trial
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/trayvon-martin/os-george-zimmerman-trial-hearing-canceled-20130530,0,5962020.story
On Tuesday a lawyer for several media companies, including The New York Times, CBS News, NBCUniversal and The Miami Herald, indicated they’d fight for the right to photograph jurors, something Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson said she would prohibit.
She then ordered attorneys back to court tomorrow to discuss the dispute, but the media group lawyer, Scott Ponce, today filed paperwork, saying there was no dispute, that his clients would abide by a ban, provided it applied only to the courtroom and ended when the trial concludes.
Rachel Fugate, an attorney for The Orlando Sentinel, wrote a letter to the judge today, echoing that sentiment.
Both attorneys, though, object to another request by Zimmerman’s attorneys – that the names of jurors be kept secret.
Defense attorney Mark O’Mara asked for that, saying he’s afraid journalists and others might hound panel members
Fugate on Tuesday said the judge could, for a time, withhold from the public the names of jurors but could not make it permanent.
In paperwork filed with the court today, Ponce agreed.
Nelson on Tuesday ordered attorneys and court personnel to refer to potential jurors only number once the trial starts June 10. She did not make a final decision.
Yesterday, Zimmerman’s lawyers announced they had run out of money and made a plea via the Internet for $120,000 in donations. Today they announced that donors had already responded with $12,000 in gifts. — Orlando Sentinel
Wonder if this gift grab total is even remotely true …
It’s for the FFF
fogen food fund……………………….
I posted a link to the complete hearing, by user Trayvon George on Youtube.
Now I find that this youtube user, has a caption on a video with the message to support the gz legal defense fund with url. Viewers can click the ‘z’ to remove the message during the video playback, so it’s not part of the video itself, but added.
Trayvon George appears to be a GZ legal affiliate. And hwo knows if somehting is edited out, could well be, in the hearings videos.
Here’s an example of the support caption–
Oh well Dersh has been a little more careful here than previously, perhaps trying to salvage his reputation. “Let’s say Trayvon was beating Fogen to death” is a silly comment for him to make. Go ahead and say it, big-mouth. Can you imagine there’s any way the defense can try to get your “let’s say” into evidence?
He then goes on to say that even if Fogen was “wrong” to start with, his big “let’s say” about Trayvon being about to kill Fogen would kick in to excuse Fogen’s kill shot? Uh… Dersh says, as if he were the judge and jury in this case, “The law says it was [OK for Fogen to kill Trayvon Martin].” As if that’s fact.
It is not fact.
In fact, that would mean that an armed person could start a battle of any kind with an unarmed person and at the point when the armed person chose to feel that his life was in danger, he could kill and get away with it.
Let’s see how that would work.
Guy approaches a woman for a wrong reason. Let’s say he just wants sex with her and she doesn’t want sex with him. Let’s say his wrong reason makes him grab her and throw her on the ground and rip off her clothes. Let’s say she’s trained in self-defense and she throw him OFF HER and gains the upper hand and he realizes she’s really GOOD at her self-defense and she might kill him. He’s free to shoot her dead, right?
Try again Dersh. We’re not going for that one on the basis of “the law says” — we say, instead, “I think we’ll wait for the movie.”
Pee Wee Herman as o’mara
optimize assets – Fogen goes back to jail thereby freeing up bail money
cut costs – rent, ankle bracelet, food, other security
While it may cut costs, it won’t free up the bail money. Fogen did not pay a cash bond. He paid 10%, which is the bondsman’s fee and non-refundable. That money is gone.
His family would get their secured assets back, but whether they would mortgage or secure loans with them to fund his defense, given they can count as well as anyone else, and know how he blew through the almost half mil he already had, is an open question. Though it’s doubtful they could do it fast enough to make a difference, unless they went to CA$HCALL, or some such loan entity.
I’m thinking he and SheLie don’t really “comparative shop” like I do. You know, look at the left side of the marker on the shelf for that item that says “Price per lb, oz. gal” etc.
“Oh look pookie…..this frozen pizza is $26.35 !!
“Great, make sure it has extra…um, everything”
“And don’t forget those Johnsonville Brats”
“Okay……and Brownies……make sure you get at least 6 or so of those 2 pounders”
She wuz prolly thinkin’ of Mr. Johnson’s “brat” which in turn made her think of “brownies”………..
U can still call me Ray 🙂
Pretty clever……we’re sorry Professor.
wut he sed Prof…………
I forgot that the 10% was non-refundable. My bad.
He still could cut expenses.
He could still cut and run too…………
If he doesn’t?…I owe Cielo $40.00 @ 2:1
tinytruthseeker says:
Bail money is not released ever…. Zimmerfool has donated that $100,000.00 to the bailbondsmans put my kids through college fund!
Bettykath/ bail money is gone. It will never be returned. It’s the bondsman’s fee. However, GZ could indeed save significant funds on food alone.
Yesterday they were out of money, put a plea out on the internet and now have $12,000.00??
That does it. I’m putting up a begsite for me.
Homer already did it with the autodialer….
“Send one dollar to Happy Guy”
It’s BS. They are back to the “Goooooo with a winner” crap.
BTW Race……..greaser car nut………… 🙂
Why was lovers lane called Firestone Blvd. back in the day?
If my Hot Rod memory serves me correctly, there is a highway in the L. A. area that is remote and it crosses Firestone Blvd. I don’t belive Firestone Tires have anything to do with it however.
But becasue this is remote, the young un’s would go there and watch the “Submarine Races”
There may be other Firestone Lanes, but I vaguley remember hearing this like 35 or so years ago.
“The name that’s known is Firestone……Where the rubber meets the road”
Yeah sub races too………….good times 🙂
I believe they’re accurate – I see no reason for GZLC to pad numbers. Fogen supporters are posting and reposting the link to the defense fund like crazy this week. However, the site was down yesterday with excess bandwith – don’t know whether too much access, but could also have been a DOD attack. THey’ve had some DOD attacks in the past. The site was down late last night Pacific time but is up this AM.
It’s not. Once again they’re doing that “Go with a winner” thing.
Judge wants four alternate jurors for George Zimmerman trial
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/os-george-zimmerman-trial-jury-selection-20130529,0,2098457.story
SANFORD – Six jurors will decide whether George Zimmerman is guilty of second-degree murder, but during jury selection at his trial, attorneys will pick a panel of 10, four of them alternates, according to Seminole County Clerk of Courts Maryanne Morse.
Normally at a second-degree murder trial attorneys pick six jurors and two alternates, but in this case Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson is apparently building in extra protection by adding more alternates.
They typically sit in the jury box with other jurors and listen to the evidence then are released when the others go into a closed room and begin deliberations.
But they’re sometimes called to step in if a juror is unable to finish the job, for example if he gets sick or is kicked off the panel for violating one of the judge’s rules, such as discussing the case with someone or surfing the Internet for news accounts of what happened.
Zimmerman’s trial begins June 10 at the Seminole County criminal courthouse. He’s the 29-year-old former Neighborhood Watch volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old, Feb. 26, 2012, in Sanford.
Prosecutors say Zimmerman is guilty of profiling Trayvon, assuming he was about to commit a crime, following and murdering him.
Zimmerman says he shot the Miami Gardens teenager in self-defense.
Yesterday, Zimmerman’s lawyers announced they had run out of money and made a plea via the Internet for $120,000 in donations. Today they announced that donors had already responded with $12,000 in gifts.
As for jury selection, the judge asked Morse to summon 500 potential jurors for the trial. Those jury service notices went into the mail May 1.
All 500 people will not show up the first day of jury selection, Morse said. On Day 1 it will be 100 to 200 people, she said, and each day after that about 100 new prospective jurors.
“The objective of the court is basically to spread them out over the five-day cycle,” Morse said.
Potential jurors will be required to fill out a questionnaire then will be questioned individually, outside the earshot of other potential jurors.
They’ll be asked about their jobs, family, experience with police and the court system and what they’ve heard about the case.
Morse said she hopes jury selection can be completed during the first week. Defense attorney Mark O’Mara earlier predicted it would take two to three weeks.
Interesting that the jury selection may go fast. With any luck, the trial may be over by mid-July.
Come on June 10th!
Hot town . . .
The way Judge Nelson runs things I predict she has all 10 jurors found in 2 days….
Tam Tyler says:
If White was motivated to “do the right thing” by notifying the proper authorities as an officer of the court, why would he have contacted Mark O’Mara? Same with Kruidbos. If Kruidbos felt information was being withheld that should have been made public, he SHOULD have taken his grievance up with Rionda or Corey. Instead he hired a lawyer who also happened to have been a disgruntled ex-employee of Corey’s. That tells you his motives were not justice but retribution. And White should have notified the Court, not a defense attorney for the defendant. It seems like this is a smear campaign that’s designed to get maximum media coverage, tainting the jury pool with inadmissable evidence that otherwise never should have been in the public domain.
@Tam Tyler –
Re: “It seems like this is a smear campaign that’s designed to get maximum media coverage, tainting the jury pool with inadmissible evidence that otherwise never should have been in the public domain.”
Exactly. And it is up to BDLR to decide if any of that was admissible, not Kruidbos, the IT guy. Kruidbos should have stuck to his technology, and let Bernie carry the legal load.
That’s Bernie’s job.
NO PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT
Really? Mr. White?
RULE 4-8.3(a) Florida Rules of Professional Conduct states as follows:
“A lawyer who knows that another lawyer has committed a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct that raises a substantial question as to that lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer in other respects shall inform the appropriate professional authority”.
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that BDLR assumed that O’Mara, by requesting raw data, has the means to read raw data (as he should). Let’s also assume for the sake of argument that BDLR assumed that by providing O’Mara with the raw data as requested by O’Mara, he (BDLR) believed that he has provided every “information” to him (O’Mara) and as a result told the Court that he has not received additional information since then.
The question that the arises is this one: ‘how in world does that constitute:
(a) Professional Misconduct that raises
(b) Substantial questions as to
(c) BDLR’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer?
There is no Misconduct of any kind and if there is any, it is not such that raises any question, let alone substantial question, as to BDLR’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer. I just can’t understand why someone of O’Mara’s age and experience turns every case into a personal witch hunt. I simply don’t understand all these petty bitterness.
I predict that they who will ultimately suffer from this “tempest in the tea cup” are (a) Kruidbos and/or (b) Mr. White himself. Kruidbos may be excused for seeking legal advice. HOWEVER, if Mr. White talked to O’Mara with Kruidbos’ permission, he (Mr. Kruidbos) is in serious trouble. He will most likely be fired and the Whistleblower Act will not protect him (only specific information are protected by this act). If Mr. White talked to O’Mara without Kruidbos’ permission, he risks disbarment (for violating attorney-client privilege).
The “resignation” may be a forced “resignation” and rooted in the Sexual Misconducts of Mr. White. What an irony.
http://www.fbnewsleader.com/articles/2011/05/09/news/00newswrongfultermination.txt
Just read it….
WOW X2
It’s a fun challenge to keep up with the players in this side-circus. Am counting on O’Mara to somehow rope Trayvon into this one … as if he were orchestrating alleged Nassau County sexual harrassment from Miami while toting around his empty baggie.
Don’t forget the always lethal picture of a pistol. If the going gets tough, ball up the picture and toss it at ’em…..or throw Skittles.
Wow squared. And this guy has the nerve to “step forward?”
White is taking the high moral ground yet…
says nothing about Fogen or Omara or West’s actions
@Searching –
Have been looking forward to your comment on this latest hearing, Searcher, and it’s one nuclear missile. Wow!
My take on this is that the IT guy Kruidbos was so thrilled to be able to “unlock the secrets” of Trayvon’s cellphone (or even be in the same room when the reports showed up) but as a technology guy, NOT as a prosecutor trained in the law, he ASSUMED what was there was “evidence” without a clue as to whether it would be ADMISSIBLE evidence, and he was SO ticked off (“ticked off” is not quite the phrase I’d like to use) that Bernie wouldn’t go for that nonsense. (There was, for example, no “exhibit” that showed up of Trayvon texting how he was going to lure the dopey Neighborhood Watchman into a brawl and beat the tar out of him.)
Bernie may have been a little brusque with him, because likely Bernie suffers fools badly. Kruidbos was probably miffed that his new “legal insight” was being sloughed off.
Looks like a case of “a little learning is a dangerous thing.” Kruidbos knew technology, but not the law. He did not want to accept Bernie’s viewpoint of what is “evidence” and what is not. The agreement not to exploit contents of cellphones meant nothing to Kruidbos.
What he saw was the possibility of being a star, and when it didn’t happen, he turned rogue.
Kinda like Zimmerman – supposed to be the Neighborhood “Watch” guy but that wasn’t enough to earn him hero status. So h turned rogue, chased down an imagined “suspect” who was really an unarmed juvenile minding his own business – and when the encounter didn’t yield Zimmerman “a collar,” he shot the kid.
Two rogues don’t make a right.
THANK YOU, Searcher!
I think Kruidbos was put on administrative leave not for consulting an attorney, I think for talking about confidential State matters to someone who was not entitled to know about them.
I suspect he did not “hire” White, I suspect they gossiped, hated Corey mutually, and then cooked up this scheme to “get rid of her”.
An IT professional is qualified to determine if this was “evidence” or not. He was given directives for his job…find “X” on the cell phone…he took off pictures and revealed them externally and made his own unqualified judgement on what they were.
He deserves to be fired. He would from ANY organization for that.
Brandi, missouri says:
Mr Leatherman,
I read Trayvon’s text messages posted on the defense site. I understand that gz’s text messages had been pulled why haven’t they been published as well? BDLR had mentioned some nasty remarks about Trayvon’s dad and others on gz’s texts.
I don’t think Trayvon’s texts prove anything I’m sure many parents have seen or heard their kids saying things they don’t do or mean to fit in especially teenagers. If one was to look at my sons Facebook or texts they would probably think he was straight hood when he is more like malibus most wanted.
I don’t want to see my son’s facebook comments in my news feed. I scroll right past them.
My nephew posted that girls always compliment him on his “large” lips. His mom immediately shut down his account.
Well mine is grown so I can’t shut down his page. I’m friends with my kids on FB b/c when I started the page they wanted to be my first friends. 🙂
I really don’t see how anyone could believe Facebook posts would speak to a teenagers true character.
I know! Teenagers love to show off for their friends.
Surrealdreamer says:
Ok I am a little bit confused as to what is going on. I just went over to the conservative nut house and was totally appalled at what these people are commenting. No one deserves to die the way Trayvon died. The nut house would beg to differ and they are blatantly stating it.
This is the first time I have ever heard anything about Trayvon beating up a homeless guy, that is the big discussion over at the nut house. He was also supposedly friends with someone that killed their mother so Trayvons mother should realize how lucky she is that her thug son is dead because she might have been next. I am sorry but what the Hell?
If Trayvon had beaten Fogen so bad why is there no Fogen DNA on Martin? That fact right there pretty much proved to me that this was a senseless Murder not a self defense killing.
Those text released over the weekend, my first thought was they were talking about one of those fighting video games like UFC or whatever. I have 3 boys that have been playing those games since they were 16 and when talking to their friends online and through text it sounded just like they had beaten someone up. I freaked out and then was informed that they were talking about the Cage match in some stupid game.
I agree that is disgusting I don’t get how any texts or pics warrants him being murdered in such a brutal manner. I got the impression that he may have been referring to a game in a few texts as well.
The texts on report 2, 3 and 6 are not from his phone. They are from social media sites and have not been authenticated as belonging to Trayvon.
Same for some of the videos. O’Mara didn’t just put information out there that shouldn’t have been there, he put photos and texts out there claiming they are Trayvon or from Trayvon without being able to deliver any proof that that information is true.
Exactly, Amsterdam. He’s got a mix of stuff from the phone and stuff that the Treestump has promoted for over a year.
Then how is he allowed to represent them as if they are truly his texts. I am not a lawyer but to me these actions just seem wrong on so many levels.
I said the same thing. Many of those “texts” and pictures are NOT from his phone…but somehow they were represented that way. I was hoping for a BLDR “look I have jail tapes” smack down in the hearing last week on that….
1. Trayvon’s parents can file a complaint with the Florida Bar against O’Mara and request for sanctions – including disbarment of O’Mara
2. Organized groups could also start collecting signatures and petition the Florida Bar to investigate and sanction O’Mara – including disbarment of O’Mara. This is the kind of petition that make tangible difference.
Anything short of the above would be just NOISE to the ears of a dishonest fellow who has already hardened his heart and blocked his ears, and is knowingly lying to the public. O’Mara & Co. intended to damage Trayvon, his family and “their handlers (?!!?)”. To a significant but irrelevant extent, O’Mara & Co. succeeded. If you are angry about what O’Mara did, then pls. organize, fight back and hit him where it hurts: take his license from him. This daily crying without really hitting back hard is getting me infuriated.
Should the signatures be fron Floridians only?
Searching Mind- hmmm… A change.org petition might be in order.
The people at the tree house are wasting time discussing irrelevant information that will never come up at the trial.
WFTV has two photos on their latest article, on of sheepish big fogen, and the other, Trayvon with his gold jewellery.
That is making a point about each person, almost shifting the roles of killer and victim.
I think that’s a form of mental masturbation that the tree-slummers are comforting themselves with right now. Come to think of it, hatred and bigotry are well known dysfunctional self-comforters. Those who indulge in it (a) become addicted to it because it calms down their sense of outrage and anger (usually accumulated since their childhoods either due to abuse or other environmental causes) to be able to “offload” onto someone who can’t “offload back”; and it goes even further than pornography into (b) making them feel like the powerful people they are NOT.
The Treestump goes temporarily insane several times a year with their paranoid and fanciful suppositions.
It’s called lying
It’s what the Tinfoil Hat are doing
Let me guess they have a really blurry video from their “sources” or any other unauthenticated method they are using to claim it’s Trayvon
2 can play at that game
Fogen molested his cousin and tried to rape her
Never mind, that’s not made up, it’s actually true
hotheadpaisen says:
There was a mentally disturbed kid who went to Martin’s school who did indeed kill his mother. He was a year ahead of Trayvon and there is no evidence whatsoever that they knew each other. I don’t visit the ctreehouse, but many of their nuts post about that kid on Huff, and say he was Martins friend. Some of them use his face as their sock avatars. I’m always happy to help them get deleted. Utterly reprehensible individuals.
Won’t the defense be allowed to call Witness 8 even if the state doesn’t and won’t they be able to break into the ‘good character’ ground with her fairly easily by going into areas of her phone conversations that night and going into the ‘anger’ or fight with her on the phone which she might want to deny or explain? Or otherwise prompt her to say something about Trayvon’s good character, nice person?
Witness 8 was deposed for over a day, they must have found out how she felt about Trayvon.
The defense cannot open the door by soliciting good character evidence about Trayvon from a witness and then claim that it can trash Trayvon’s character.
Can I ask if JN can report omara and west to the Florida bar or sanction them or whatever the procedure is without doing it in the court room.
Thank you for explaining, I so appreciate it. I was worried about the case being dismissed. what bothers me the most is; why did White report it to the Defense Team? If I seen something wrong I would’ve gone to right authorities. Even though White had a problem with Corey, he should of gone to the Florida Attorney General’s office. I don’t understand why he went the way he did. This move to me looks like retaliation on his part against Corey. I don’t think he followed procedure for an attorney. Somebody needs to file a complaint against him through the Florida State Bar. But I may be thinking wrong.
Eh, there’s no way this case will be dismissed. Fogen supporters are dreamin’ large these past few days.
Frank Taaffe is an expert in marijuana, THC addictions, other drugs. The defense had their expert all along.
http://www.hlntv.com/video/2013/05/28/trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-nancy-grace-defends-school-suspension
LOL good one ay2z.
Here’s proof of Taaffes’ experience in ‘swaying’ techniques:
Thanks for posting that, ic2,
I’ shocked that Nancy Grace is still using this guy, and that they cut off their clip as she compliments Taaffe on his work with drug afflicted children.
Taaffee diagnoses Trayvon as quote “going through withdrawal” that night and he cited the deposition of the toxicology state expert to support his theory, and he quoted from the autopsy about a ‘nano litre’ of blood drawn from Trayvon’s chest.
What the hell? Nancy Grace scraping low for guests these days, and allowing them to run the show?
Wanna know why?
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Your welcome ayay2z.
I was under the impression she was finished interviewing Taaffee. Does she choose and decline who to interview even though the show name is hers?
Up jumped those ratings.
Geez, let’s hope state expert is not a friend of states IT Director Ben. If so then we know CTH roots grow deep.
So that is really Frank Taffee?
Yep….a real role model for those black teens he says he mentors in the THC withdrawal program. I guess he gets them off THC and into booze..
Party on Fogen ~ Party on Frankie
Sure is, watch the whole video. When you watch the video you’ll hear him speaking, one of a kind voice.
Here is a link to the article in OS wrtten by Stuzman, notice even she wrote bout Taaffe swaying:
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-08-29/news/os-frank-taaffe-dui-video-20120829_1_george-zimmerman-trayvon-martin-neighborhood-watch-volunteer
Police shoot video of Frank Taaffe, George Zimmerman’s friend, during DUI stop
3:37 p.m. EST, August 29, 2012|
By Rene Stutzman, Orlando Sentinel
SANFORD – During roadside sobriety tests, Frank Taaffe, one of George Zimmerman’s most ardent supporters, swayed from side to side and staggered when he tried to walk a straight line heel-to-toe, video of his arrest shows.
@ic2 –
IC, if I were George Zimmerman’s friend, I’d wanna stay drunk for the past two years, too.
Good to see you PiranhaMom!
All this going on I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t keep a flask in his pocket and a bottle close by to keep it full.
* No_Swagger_Francis *
ahahaha!!!!!
Please go to the 2:54 mark.
i did try to post the video beginning at 2:54 mark, well now that didn’t work.
However its’ a quite interesting piece of footage…..
This demo from Fogen’s Swayer Supreme pal is hilarious … except when we consider that this drunken jerk could have caused a fatal accident.
Thank goodness he was stopped before he caused an accident.
If only he, durr-Mara and Joonyer could be stopped by a gag order from making public appearances spewing twisted tales and lies. Guess I’m asking too much, ay.
That’s the unedited video. She cut hip off twice and went to commercial and the part where she said “I applaud that..” was not aired along with a few other things.
A repost of an e-mail i plan to send tomorrow to some news organizations to correct spelling and typos…Dear news person. Why are you so sympathetic to a murder suspect? Did you not read the evidence.It’s been all over the net for over a year. His head was never repeatedly slammed into the sidewalk for nearly a minute. if it had been he would never have been in any condition to be able to aim and fire a gun.
while trayvon was supposedly doing that he also tried to smother him while at the same time beat him in the face 12 times or 30-40 times.Take your pick.To believe his story,first you would have to believe he couldn’t fight back or just laid there and let him do it.
He had no defensive wounds,his hands had no injuries from trying to fight back his arms have no bruising from blocking blows.Did you ask his lawyers about that,no. You seem to have forgotten trayvon ran from him and thought he had lost him.ZIMMERMAN CHASED AFTER HIM THAT MAKES HIM THE AGGRESSOR.Did you forget that little detail?
You focused on trace amounts of THC in trayvon’s blood. You made no mention of his lack of Zimmerman DNA on his hands or under his finger nails.no blood on the sleeves of his hoodie.The only blood was his own.Despite the fact Zimmerman suppoosedly had blood all over his head and face.Trayvon’s hands were almost pristine no swelling no bruising just a tiny abrasion on his ring finger. That means since you have ignored it,Trayvon never laid a hand on him he made no effort to hit him at all.
Trayvon wasn’t perfect,did you miss the memo he was a teenager? He was a good kid.He wanted to get a gun. did it occure to you that maybe he was mugged once or someone in his family was? I was mugged twice once when i was 16 he threatened to kill me because all i had on me was $1.50. If a police car hadn’t come down the street i might not be sitting here typing this. A few years ago i was mugged on the way to work i thought about getting a gun but i never did because i would never have the heart to shoot anyone.I suspect he would have been the same way.
you don’t have people coming out of the woodwork with nasty things to say about trayon,unlike zimmerman.
You seem to have totally ignored the evidence,including the contradictory nature of Zimmerman’s statements.and obvious lies.
He said he was scared of Trayvon.If so,why did he get out of his truck and pursue? He wasn’t afraid Of trayvon,and he knows it. You don’t chase people you are scared of. If that was the case the guy who beat me up must have been terrified of me.He actually took the time to intercept me even though i had taken a different route home to avoid him.
He said during his NEN call that Trayvon was walking around looking about,which made him suspicious.I guess people aren’t allowed to walk around that neighborhood.Then during one of his statements he said trayvon was looking at all the houses.then he said Trayvon was standing next to a house looking into windows.
During the reenactments he said trayvon was suspicious because he was walking in the rain and wasn’t running to get out of it. We know trayvon took shelter from the rain when he could. If walking in the rain is suspicious then we all are suspicious because because we’ve all been caught in the rain before including Zimmerman.
The fact remains Trayvon was not looking into houses thats a lie.The fact remains Trayvon was not acting suspicious,he was acting like a normal teenager.The fact remains Trayvon was not the aggressor,aggressive people don’t run away.The fact remains the only one actng suspicious that night was zimmerman.the fact remains the only one being aggressive that night was zimmerman
He could not answer why he had no defensive wounds.He could not answer why he thought something was wrong with Trayvon.He could not answer why did Trayvon go off and supposedly beat him up.He could not answer why they heard only one voice screaming.even though Zimmerman said Trayvon screamed shut the fuck up.Which you do not hear on that 911 call. The most prominent voice on that call besides the caller and the dispatcher is Trayvon.
There is no truth to any of his stories except the fact that he shot Trayvon to death.He did not go looking for an address. He was looking for trayvon.Trayvon never said you’re gonna die tonight mother@#$%$ after seeing the gun. Trayvon never tried to take his gun.Trayvon never repeatedly slammed his head to the sidewalk and Trayvon never repeatedly punched him in the face. Being repeatedly punched in the face would preclude you being able to scream.i know because i’ve been beaten up before.
The autopsy report. no bruising or swelling to the fingers or knuckles just a tiny abrasion on his ring finger. the wound track direct front to back.1inch left of midline half inch below the nipple. The holes in his shirts are in the upper chest,near his shoulder.
They show stearlate tearing which shows the shirts were stretched when the bullet tore into them. Zimmerman was holding onto Trayvon’s shirts when he killed him. Trayvon never touched him. But if he had he would have been within his rights to do so.
We teach our kids to run or defend themselves. Trayvon ran Zimmerman instead of going back to his truck decided to hunt for him after he disappeared into the darkness. He said “call me and i’ll tell you where i’m at.” Despite his claims to the contrary he was not going back to his truck.
He said he was able to unholster his weapon aim and fire into Trayvon’s chest,while Trayvon was mounted on him beating him. His gun was on his waist at his right rear hip,he was laying on it.He’s going to have to explain how he got his gun. the only way he could get his gun like he claims is if he knocked Trayvon off stood up pulled his gun and killed trayvon,which would negate his self defense claim.
During a confrontation that lasted less than a minute,he said trayvon repeatedly slammed his head into the sidewalk for nearly a minute while at the same time TRAYVON TRIED TO SMOTHER HIM WHILE ALSO PUNCHING HIM IN THE FACE 30-40 TIMES. He is going to have to explain. How would Trayvon have done that? Did he grow an extra set of arms? Was Trayvon super kid? He is going to have to explain why he only had scratches. no facial bruising no busted lips and of course despite his claims no broken nose and no black eyes. You do not escape with just scratches when you are punched in the face like he claims.I know from personal experience.
About Those injuries. I have enlarged those photos of scratches on his face. They are consistent with the type of scratches you get from running into tree branches or stumbling into bushes. They are not the injuries you get from someones fist repeatedly slammimng into your face. Notice whats missing in those pictures. There is no swelling on his nose. It’s almost pristine except for a couple of scratches. Even a closed fracture will have swelling which will not disappear less than an hour later. There is no facial swelling. There is no busted lips. AND NO BLACK EYES.there is no facial bruising. We will never know how he got those injuries but we know from the evidence he didn’t get them from trayvon.Evidence you people didn’t read.
Those injuries on the back of his head. One round puncture wound and an inch long cut.THOSE ARE NOT THE INJURIES YOU GET FROM REPEATEDLY BEING SLAMMED INTO A SIDEWALK. HE GOT THOSE FROM A METAL OBJECT. HE DID NOT GET THOSE INJURIES FROM A SIDEWALK.If his head had been repeatedly slammed into a concrete surface. he would never have been in any condition to be able to aim and fire a gun.
Trayvon made no effort to defend himself at all during the confrontation that ended his life. He simply tried to escape. In fact he never touched Zimmerman.He made know effort or even attempted to hit Zimmerman at all
the evidence shows Trayvon being held by his shirts when he was murdered.Again you can’t claim self defense when you prevent the escape of the person you kill. the only way trayvon could have done what Zimmerman claims is if he couldn’t fight back.Or he just laid there and let trayvon beat him.Obviously that didn’t happen. Zimmerman was not disabled in anyway. His injuries were less than minor. I’ve had worse injuries falling on ice.
Those screams,you’ve heard those screams just like everyone else. Dont give me any crap about experts you should be abe to recognize the panicked voice of a teenager when you hear it. A man with a gun will not scream like that.Trayvon wasn’t just screaming he was crying literally crying. He was also being interrogated.He screamed i don’t know at least twice.
Zimmerman has done nothing but lie From the second he killed an unarmed kid.Every time he has gotten himself into trouble he has lied his way out of it or people have lied for him.He knows trayvon never touched him so does his lawyers.he knows he never screamed for help or begged for his life so does his lawyers. He knows Trayvon never touched him so does his lawyers.He knows he killed trayvon after becoming enraged and losing his temper.So does his lawyers.Trayvon was literally begging this so called man for his life.Zimmerman knows that so does his lawyers
I don’t care if Trayvon smoked weed. If smoking weed was a justification for murder then we better kill half the teenagers in this country.In fact there are 96,illion adults in this country who should be dead now.If getting into a couple of fights was a justification for murder we better kill most of the teenagers and most of the adults including Zimmerman.
Trayvon wasn’t perfect just like the rest of us. and he like most teenagers and adults as well would sometimes screw up. He like most of was a good kid who was still trying to make his way in the world. And like most of us he screwed up along the way and he deserved to live and learn from those mistakes like we have all done.
He Deserved grow up and become a responsible adult. instead he met up with a man with anger issues and a habit of aggressive behavoir against people he watched and then followed Trayvon then when trayvon ran he got out of his truck to pursue. the rest is history. He was the aggressor not trayvon. If he had gone back to his truck after saying “ok” like he claimed.he would have never seen trayvon again and trayvon would be alive instead of lying in a crypt
Your continued sympathy for this man is disgusting. i usually have a lot of respect for most reporters because generally most of you get the facts straight in this case not so much.Do you really think Trayvon said you’re gonna die tonight #$$%*@ after seeing the gun.No unarmed person would say that they would back off or try to get away from the person with the gun.I mean really come on now.
When RZ jr went on a racist rant on twitter you should have called him out on it.Some of you barely gave it a mention which i find intersting since they claim not to be racist. When RZ jr gave an interview to a man who runs a racist website you never said any thing. RZ sr regularly posts on the conservative treehouse a site frequented by racist You should have call him out on it. JR goes on racist rants his parents regularly post on racist websites. they regularly post on racist wesites you should have them called out on it,when they claim zimmerman didn’t racially profile trayvon..Why didn’t you?
You always want to interview the murdereres family. but you Pratically ignore The martin/fulton family.They have been put through the wringer for over a year now being called names.
people making up lies about them. And worst of all People saying Trayvon deserved to die and should burn in hell. Trayvon did nothing to deserve a death sentence. He had every right to be where he was.
It’s time for you to actually look at the evidence. You are the ones who sued under Floridas sunshine law to keep it from being sealed in the first place.listen to those screams. Those are not the screams of a 28 year old adult.As previously stated,a man with a gun will not scream like that.A man repeatedly being punched in the face will not be able to scream like that. I know fron experience. A man whose head is repeatdly slammed onto the sidewalk or other hard surface will have inuries to his hands from trying to shield his head from the sidewalk or any hard surface.Stop the sympathy and those softball questions.
KELLY D. PAYNE
tonya B says:
love it……. please be sure to send one to the Orlando sentinel
As a FL gunowner, I sometimes feel I am the only one in FL pro-Trayvon and anti-Zimmerman. As the former manager of an indoor gunrange and a firearms dealer, I have met dozens, if not hundreds of Zimmerman types . They all are inexperienced, wannabe cops, or at least wannabe “I’ll use my gun to enforce they law” types. They are deeply engaged in a fantasy life in which they are heroes while in reality they have no training and no skills. They tend to be legends in their own minds. However, Zimmerman has polarized gun owners and most in FL support him because they do not understand the issues and are still rationalizing that he was “trying to help” and was “attacked”. Politics and race also play a huge part. Law enforcement usually knows who the legend-in-their-own-mind guys are, since they are like Zim, calling 911 frequently and trying to insinuate themselves into policework. Usually they are considered harmless fools who complicate the job for the real police and in this case, 911 gave him much more leeway than they would an unknown 911 caller. Zim had no tactical training; if he had, he would not have displayed his gun where Martin could have grabbed it, if that even occurred. Martin had every right under FL law to defend himself against an armed stranger who accosted him. Even though I am tactically trained, I would never volunteer to follow someone I “thought” “might be” “possibly” “looking for a residence to burgle” or “didn’t belong” in the neighborhood. I can’t imagine even calling 911. Zim needs to be convicted of the crime for which he is guilty and everyone needs to quit speculating about whether Martin smoked weed or had been reprimanded at school. And LE needs to start looking at the wannabes they consider jokes for what they are: delusional and dangerous
Commenter from Capehearts WP opinion
today at 4:13am
“mscolt1911”
Wow, that’s a powerful comment and it rings true.
I posted that because it confirmed one of my fears, there are many other Zimmermans out there. Armed, they have friends in high places. They are walking around armed looking for a fight. They are losers sitting by their windows looking for garbage in the driveway or code violations. Some are racists, some may not be.
Scary stuff.I am not a gun grabber. I care not what you do in your own time. My aim is to work towards making sure the Zimmermans of the world don’t walk around armed with multiple firearms.
I was very pleased to see one decent gun owner. I’m sure there are more out there. Thank you “mscolt1911.”
I live in a state that doesn’t allow CCW except for people who can show need, like detectives, security, etc.. I think that’s a good start – it tends to keep guns at home where they belong, and of course, in the hands of criminals, but that’s a dead giveaway when someone starts brandishing a gun in public.
Studies show that civilians who carry tend to do exactly what Fogen did – they put themselves in situations they shouldn’t get into, plus they tend to be more angry and more aggressive than non-carriers.
Colorado is an “open carry” state…….Meaning one can walk down the street with a firearm as long as it is visible….no special permits required…
The only time for me is hiking, camping or backpacking……..Critters in these forests ya know.
@Shari,
Cogent, succinct and right on target! Written from experience.
Brilliant and well organized comment. The description of the wannabes is excellent.
Shari~ TowerFlower is also a gun owner on Team Trayvon. As far as RESPONSIBLE gun ownership goes, gz is NOT an example of that. Too bad that “delusional wanna-be’s” aren’t blacklisted for firearm purchases.
X2……….even if most of the guns here are antiques….like me 🙂
I am a gun owner and I have been horrified by Zimmerman’s attitude and actions since Day One.
I consider the ownership of my guns a privilege, not a “right,” a privilege that I was qualified for by Los Angeles PD, with repeated approvals by the LA Sheriff and the Mexican Federal government (which was the toughest of al three agencies to get approval from).
I do not carry “concealed.”
Zimmerman and his kind and their actions are definite threats to future gun ownership by responsible hunters, marksmen, collectors, and those concerned with personal protection.
At some point, America will rise up and say ENOUGH!
All gun owners need to realize that. If we do not police ourselves, we will be policed.
Gun owners must respect reasonable public safety requirements and support legislation that provides protection to the general public.
We must as individuals NOT equate guns with “manhood.” A pistol is not a penis, nor a substitute therefor.
THANK YOU thank you thank you…..
In high school we had a shooting team…..it’s an Olympic sport the same as archery….
I have no problem with requiring a license to own weapons….no different than driving a car…….training….testing….and passing grades…
What percentage of gun crimes are committed by illegally owned weapons?
@MountainMan –
I should have added that a strong element to responsible gun ownership is safe and secure storage of one’s weapons.
I see the day when there will be a home insurance policy rider requiring declaration of guns owned, requiring report of any loss to both the lead law enforcement agency (in CA it’s the County Sheriff’s Dept.) and the insurance company – and a special premium paid by gun owners. (Modified premium for those taking recent safety training.)
P-Mom: I support that suggestion 100%!
MMP- here in Redneckistan, most gun violence is is done by guns legally owned by drunk or abusive assholes.
Shari, like cielo said I am a gun owner and on Team Trayvon and I live in Florida. I live in the same news coverage area that covers Sanford. Have faith, there are gun owners that live in Florida who do not support GZ or his ideals.
Like cielo said GZ is not an example of a responsible gun owner, he violated the basic KSAs that the NRA teaches…..Knowledge, Skill, Attitude. He went in with a poor and wrong attitude, incorrectly assuming wrong and profiling a person and carried that gun not for personal protection against a loose dog (imo) but as an extension of what he perceived to be “his job” as a NW and “protector” against all what he perceived to be wrong (as evident from his carrying everywhere except work). Wannabe cops do not possess the Knowledge, Skills, or Attitude as a cop.
I will argue forever Fogen has the attitude “My gun is useless if I don’t find a way to use it on somebody”
It’s not like when I buy new tools…..I buy them because I need them. He ‘s a lying fraud, he didn’t need a gun and I covered that last year during “The Big Boi Defense” phase.
have even ONE of them checked the autopsy??????
there was no fight……
have even ONE of them listened to the 911 calls?????
NO physical fight can be heard on those tapes!
it amazes me how so many lawyers can be so utterly WRONG on such a simple case…….these folks on HLN are a joke so far.
ughhhh I got so mad watchin hln after hours……. a joke
looolooo says:
Even the usually objective and well informed Judge Alex Ferrer stated (as though it were fact) that fogen had a broken nose and several bleeding gashes on his head. WTF! I’m shocked the HE would say such a thing when there is NO proof of a broken nose, and his two minor abrasions bled briefly before cloting.
I only saw the last 12 minutes of the show, but by the end, almost everyone seemed to think that the defense has the upper hand. REALLY? Didn’t hear him give his opinion, but, what did Vinnie Politan have to say? I hope that he’s not a fan of kool-aid.
What a disappointment hearing about Judge Alex 😦
How come I only scream at my TV’s when someone on the Fogen case is babbling like that. Most of the commentators on HLN are pro Trayvon & Justice but some of these expert guests are a joke.
Oh no, I admired Judge Alex! I will never watch his show again. Thanks for the heads up because I missed that one.
A preview of an e-mail i plan to send tomorrow. I would send it tonight but it took me forever to type it…..Dear news person. Why are you so sympathetic to a murder suspect? Did you not read the evidence.It’s been all over the net for over a year. His head was never repeatedly slammed into the sidewalk for nearly a minute. if it had been he would never have been in any condition to be able to aim and fire a gun.
While trayvon was supposedly doing that he also tried to smother him while at the same time beat him in the face 12 time or 30-40 times.Take your pick.To believe his story,first you would have to believe he couldn’t fight back or just laid there and let him do it.
You seem to have totally ignored the evidence,including the contradictory nature of Zimmerman staements. and obvious lies.
He said during his NEN call that Trayvon was walking around looking about,which made him suspicious.I guess people arent allow to walk around that neighborhood.Then during one of his statements he said trayvon was looking at all the houses.then he said Trayvon was standing next to a house looking into windows.
during the reenactments he said trayvon was suspicious because he was walking in the rain and wasn’t running to get out of it. We know trayvon took shelter from the rain when he could. If walking in the rain is suspicious then we all are suspicious because because we’ve all been caught in the rain before including Zimmerpunk.
The fact remains Trayvon was not looking into houses thats a lie. the fact remains Trayvon was not acting suspicious,he was acting like a normal teenager.the fact remains Trayvon was not the aggressor,aggressive people don’t run away.The fact remains the only one actng suspicious that night was zimmerpunk.the fact remains the only one being aggressive that night was zimmerpunk
He could not answer why he had no defensive wounds.He could not answer why he thought something was wrong with Trayvon.He could not answer why did Trayvon go off and supposedly beat him up.He could not answer why they heard only one voice screaming.even though Zimmerpunk said Trayvon screamed shut the fuck up.Which you do not hear on that 911 call. The most prominent voice on that call besides the caller and the dispatcher is Trayvon.
There is no truth to any of his stories ecept the fact that he shot Trayvon to death.He did not go looking for an address. Trayvon never said you’re gonna die tonight mother@#$%$ after seeing the gun. Trayvon never tried to take his gun.Trayvon never repeated slammed his head to the sidewalk and Trayvon never repeatedly punched him in the face. Being repeated punched in the face would preclude you being able to scream.i know because i’ve been beaten up before.
About Those injuries. I have enlarged those photos of scratches on his face. They are consistent with the type of scratches you get from running into tree branches or stumbling into bushes. They are not the injuries you get from someones fist repeatedly slammimng into your face. Notice whats missing in those pictures. There is no swelling on his nose. It’s amost pristine except for a couple of scratches. Even a closed fracture will have swelling which will not disappear less than an hour later. There is no facial swelling. There is no busted lips. AND NO BLACK EYES.there is no facial bruising. We will never know how he got those injuries but we know from the evidence he didn’t get them from trayvon.Evidence you people didn’t read.
Those injuries on the back of his head. One round puncture wound and an inch long cut.THOSE ARE NOT THE INJURIES YOU GET FROM REPEATEDLY BEING SLAMMED INTO A SIDEWALK. HE GOT THOSE FROM A METAL OBJECT. HE DID NOT GET THOSE INJURIES FROM A SIDEWALK.If his had been repeatedly slammed into a concrete surface. he would never have been in any condition to be able to aim and fire a gun.
he Deserved grow up and become a responsible adult. instead he met up with a man with anger issues and a habit of aggressive begavoir against people he watched and the followed Trayvon then when trayvon he got out of his truck to pursue. the rest is history. He was the aggressor not trayvon. if he had gone back to his truck after saying “ok” like he claimed.he would have never seen trayvon again and trayvon would be alive instead of lying in a crypt
Your continued sympathy for this man is disgusting. i usually have a lot of respect for most reporter because geneerally most of you get the facts staight in this case not so much.Do you really thinkTrayvon you’re gonna die tonight #$$%*@ after seeing the gun.No unarmed person would say that they would back off or try to get away from the person with the gun.I mean really come on now.
When RZ jr went on a racist rant on twitter you should have called him out on it.Some of you barely gave it a mention which i find intersting since they claim not to be racist. When RZ jr gave an interview to a man who runs a racist website you never said any thing. RZ sr regularly posts on the conservative treehouse a site frequented by racist You should have call him out on it. JR goes on racist rants his parents regularly post on racist websites. they regularly post on racst wesites you should have them called out on it when they claim zimmerman didn’t racially profile trayvon..Why didn’t you?
people making up lies about them. And worst of all People saying Trayvon deserved to die and should burn in hell. Trayvon did nothing to deserved a death sentence. He had every right to be where he was.
It’s time for you to actually look at the evidence. You are the ones who sued under floridas sunshine law to keep it from being sealed in the first place.listen to those screams. Those are not the screams of a 28 year old adult.As previously stated,a man with a gun will not scream like that.A man repeatedly being ounch in the face will not be able to scream like that i know fron experience. A man whose head is repeatdly slammed onto the sidewalk or other hard surface will have inuries to his hands from trying to shield his herad from the sidewalk or any hard surface.Stop the sympathy and those softball questions.
KELLY D. PAYNE.
2dogsonly says:
That is one of the most cognizant, well articulated posts I have read. It is very nearly a perfect closing statement. Thank you for your time you took to clearly explain the evidence and events of 2/26/12.
Kelly, I hope you cut and paste this to many other blogs so many others can read your beautifully crafted blog post.
Thanks for all your hard work, Kelly.
Kelly, your post is excellent!
Hi Kelly, I made a few suggestions. If you want to put this on Googledocs, I will help you edit. I made a couple of suggestions on the first 2 and last 2 paragraphs. A preview of an e-mail i plan to send tomorrow. I would send it tonight but it took me forever to type it…..
Dear news person. Why are you so sympathetic to a murder suspect? Did you not read the evidence? It’s been all over the net for over a year. The suspect’s head was never repeatedly slammed into the sidewalk for nearly a minute. If it had been he would never have been in any condition to be able to aim and fire a gun.
While Trayvon was supposedly slamming the suspect’s head into the pavement and simultaneously, smothering him. at the same time, Trayvon was allegedly beating the suspect in the face 12 times or 30-40 times. It takes more than two hands to accomplish such a feat. To believe the suspect’s story,first you would have to believe he couldn’t fight back or just laid there and let him do it. Take your pick.
According to the medica examiner’s report, Trayvon had no defensive wounds, his hands had no injuries and his arms had no brusing. There was no evidence that Trayvon fought back or attempted defensive maneuvers to protect himself.
Did you ask his lawyers about that,no. You seem to have forgotten trayvon ran from him and thought he had lost him.ZIMMERMAN CHASED AFTER HIM THAT MAKES HIM THE AGGRESSOR.Did you forget that little detail?
Journalists prefer to interview the murderer’s family. but pratically ignore the martin/Fulton family. Trayvon’s family has been put through the wringer for over a year now. The grieving parents are called names, lied on, taunted and ridiculed. The epitome of inhumanity is that people laugh about the senseless murder of Trayvon and say he deserved to die and should burn in hell. Trayvon did nothing to deserved a death sentence. Trayvon has as much right to be at Twin Lakes as George Zimmerman.
Trayvon was a guest and George Zimmerman was a delinquent renter.
Media has a responsibility to be unbiased in reporting actual facts. Editorial comments should not be reported as news. It’s time for you to actually look at the evidence. Media sued under Florida’s sunshine law to keep evidence from being sealed in the first place. Listen to the screams on the 911 call. Those are not the screams of a 28 year old adult. As voice experts have stated, a man with a gun will not scream like that. A man repeatedly being punch in the face will not be able to scream like that. I know from personal experience. A man whose head is repeatedly slammed onto the sidewalk or other hard surface would have defensive wounds on his hands will from trying to shield his head from the sidewalk or any hard surface. Stop the sympathy and those softball questions.
Where is there evidence that Trayvon wanted to get a gun?
Fabulous, thank you thank you Kelly D. Payne! ❗
That’s a really great letter, Kelly. I hope you send it to everyone you can think of and they take a hard look in the mirror, as a result. Well Done!
NAIL ‘EM KELLY! NAIL ‘EM!!
Love it Kelly! It makes me so angry that Trayvon had to go through this and his family has to mourn their kid in the public. When this first hit the airwaves, I was mad at myself for not being able to help him as I live in Ohio. After weeks of sobbing, as if this were my own child, I was finally able to release the guilt that I felt for not being able to help him.
I kept telling my sister that he would be arrested for murder because she did not think her would be. I told her that my God has spoken to my heart and he was arrested. My God has also informed me that he will go to jail for that 25 to life sentence that he deserves and I believe in my heart of hearts that he will. I have some people that I connect with on Facebook and even Skype with one that does not live in the USA about this case. I tell them that I do not want to hear that the murderer will be acquitted so do not speak that language when communicating with me. WE WILL NOT SPEAK THAT INTO EXISTENCE!
In another month or so, he will be handed his long deserved sentence and we will all celebrate and rejoice that this maniac is off the streets!
J4T 6.10.13
They are talking about Trayvon case on HLN After Dark right now.
>^..^<. Drooping whiskers. Trying to catch up.
Mark O’Mara on FOX 35 May 29 2013
So sorry that George ORWELL is long dead; he’d have had such great observations to make about Mark O’Mara’s statements.
Since O’Mara say he is not getting all the evidence from the State,could someone let him know that witness change his story and said he could not see who was on top because it was to dark.
O’Mara keeps repeating that MMA style BS. I can hardly take it. Lord, help me to get through this trial. The lies, hate, disrespect and smears about a dead child is just too much!
Oh yes, and sometimes he even said TRAINED MMA fighter. He disgusts me to no end.
You know, I hate this guy (MO’M) more each time I see him. Ughhh!!!
They sure live in a whole different world, don’t they?
Did you all notice the suggestion that the killer “might” testify? O’Mara waters that down, though.
I have read a couple of arrivals where mom says fogen will testify. Not!!
The article quoted O’ Mara saying “..he’s ready and willing…” willing to what ?? “Self Conviction Continuation” I call it.
Off topic but so relevant for Crane and Fred.
Crane, story of a Sandhill with a prosethetic leg.
Fred, our dedicated, eithical and all ’round good human being, I found headlines on today’s The Provnce newspaper from Vancouver Canada.
“Check your Inbox, You’re Being Sued: Brian Burke wins key ruling in legal fight against internet trolls.”
with inside page title:
“Burke can serve papers online”
“Lawsuit: Unique circumstances leave no alternative, Supreme Court master says.”
The inside page has a photo of lawyer Robert Grant in his office in Vancouver on Tuesday. “The lawyer for ex-Canucks general manager Brian Burke has won the right to serve ‘papers’ to online posters of allegedly defamatory aterial about his client
I bought the paper, and will read through the article tonight, but thought of you immediately and the ‘B’ troll who has attacked you online.
Let them be warned!! Burke is not in the USA, but there may be something for those bothered by such trolls in the US.
Beware, B-fogen.
Seems there’s a wave of dissent against GZLC building –
GZ’s Relevant Past –
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/05/28/george-zimmermans-relevant-past/
Thanks so much, tstas.
And a credible author, Jonathan Capehart. Quoting a bit from the article:
George Zimmerman is the one who stands accused of second-degree murder. He, not Trayvon Martin, is the one on trial starting June 10. And who Zimmerman is more relevant to the proceedings than who Trayvon was.
Follow Jonathan Capehart on Twitter.
I’m going to check out Jonathan’s Twitter.
Crane, I found a video and online story for you, easier than the grey text of newsprint.
http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/ID/2358216331/
Text story:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/03/24/bc-sandhill-crane-prosthetic-leg.html
You must have lived near their flyways, I did, they are wonderful to hear passing so high overhead in circling dots that can be heard before seen.
above post, I have to get used to these new glasses, they are the pits! Post belongs below.
Here’s another article from Jonathan Capehart.
Pictures put Trayvon Martin on trial
By Jonathan Capehart, Published: May 28, 2013 at 9:22
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/05/28/pictures-put-trayvon-martin-on-trial/
Thx, elcymoo.
Kllypyn it doesnt matter to me about the weed, the fighting, gun, or videos..
the truth of how and why his life was ended is all that is important to me…
weed has been around since america came into play, the pilgrims smoked weed and sniffed cocaine, cocaine was once a main ingredient in coca cola soda.
boys were taught to use guns in grade school at one time,back then is was to protect their land from their neighboring robbers.
children fight, and some adults fight far more than the childern.
and that video crap, half the time the media wouldn’t have a story if is were not for an iphone video from a bystander…so to me its all BS.
we all make bad decisions. trayvon’s main bad decision was smoking weed. his history of fighting is what 2? where apparently he WAS ON THE LOSING END OF. come on.
It is debatable about whether or not smoking weed is bad. Several students told me they do better on tests when they smoke. It helps them concentrate.
Of course they do!! LOL. Just like people say they bowl better and drive better too. That doesn’t make it true. But that has nothing to do with it. We don’t shoot people for smoking pot. Heck, where I live it is even legal. If course you have to be over 21, but it is still not okay to shoot people under 21 for smoking pot, no matter if it IS good or bad.
I mean people say the drive better and bowl better if they have a couple beers too.
Casting away doubt will come by explaining the truth, if the time comes to explain any negative characteristics of Trayvon Martin his parents, friends, siblings, and other relatives can simply state what they know is the truth good, bad, or indifferent.
Trayvon was not perfect he was a growing 17 year old male, testing the waters of life like every other human being living in this world.
although all of his decisions were not the right decisions those decisions did not earn him a death sentence to be accomplished by the hands of George Zimmerman.
There will not be one juror sitting in the jurors box who has never made a bad decision, regardless of the type of error made in his or her life that turned his or her world into a spiralling downward mess.
The biggest difference will be they each are still alive being held with the responsibility to decide on the factual evidence being present in this case.
No one killed them for their individual mistakes or misjudgements. Trayvon deserved the same, George Zimmerman took away those options from Trayvon when he ended Trayvons life.
George Zimmerman made a decision on the night of Feb. 26, 2012, that decision was life or death, in so making that decision he failed to calculate the reprecussion of his actions 25 years to LIFE.
Although he is still alive he must now reap the punishment of his wrong decision.
Good, Bad or Indifferent, now has come the time for George to live what he “claims” to have fought so hard for others; the injustice of an abused victim (Trayvon) at the hands of a criminal mind (george).
anyone can take the past events of both parties and place them in the weight scales of the law there will be an embalance yet who will have the greater weight of that embalance?
GEORGE….the whistles are blowing, the train is come, the bells are tolling!!!!!!
ONE Judge, SIX Jurors, and YOU….THE BOX IS WAITING…Phase two of “GODS PLAN” is Patient, Just and Generous.
JUNE 10, 2013 HOODIES UP TRAYVON MARTINS LIFE WAS NOT IN VAIN and SHALL NOT DEPART THIS EARTH WITHOUT A VICTORY…I BELIEVE IT, I RECEIVE IT, I CLAIM IT…..AMEN
Speaking of decisions …. I found it quite annoying on Tuesday when O’Mara referred to “Trayvon’s decision.” Even yammering about his “bad decision.”
What? Exactly what decision was that?
I would have liked for JN to have nailed him on such gratuitous commentary. The only “decision” Trayvon made after leaving the store, it could be argued, was to walk home while black. That’s Fogen’s notion of a bad decision. O’Mara seems eager to spread the thought.
Such malice and/or stupidity from an attorney should not be allowed in the courtroom.
We don’t even know that. We don’t have any EVIDENCE of his decisions. We have EVIDENCE of: His school administration’s decisions (never appealed, never explained); his parents’ decisions (normal and natural); and a bunch of other stuff. We have no real evidence of Trayvon Martin’s decisions except for the following:
1. He chose to purchase items at a 7-11 and to pay for them with cash.
2. He chose to go back to his father’s place after that purchase.
3. He made a decision to “run” away from Fogen.
The rest of it is conjecture and speculation and can never be tested by the methods we call “due process” because Trayvon Martin is dead.
Wow, I’ll agree to disagree with you and leave it at that.. enjoy your weekend, Professor thank you for all of your knowledge, i’ve enjoyed your site. Peace to you all
there is no reason for her to be called as a witness, she wasnt there……the prosecution does not need any comment on Trayvon’s character, they only need to present the physical evidence, which shows clearly that zman followed martin outside his car into an area pretty far away from his car, and shot Martin through the heart from straight on, then told the police he DID IT!
how can the defense rebut any of those FACTS?
as Frederick has been saying for a good while now, the defense simply has NO DEFENSE.
the state tells the well known FACTS, turn out the lights the partys OVER!
the only remaining question is WHY, and only fogen can answer that, then turn the lights back ON, because the worst defendant ever testifying will be one for the record books…..because his own words given in various statements CONTRADICT any new story he could attempt on the stand.
BillT, I only used his mother as an example. I still have the same question. Is it possible for the door to opened by a witness? (I’m not a lawyer and only want to understand the whole opening the door issue).
not a lawyer here either, and please it is my direct manor of posting that gets misunderstood often and it is my fault…..i in no way was being critical of your post, was just using it to explain why they dont need that type witness……based on how they have behaved so far i think the prosecution knows what they are doing and know they have a simple case to present, no frills needed.
BillT…… No worries, I thought you just misread my comment and only assumed I was taking about Sybrina.
Stray comments made by witnesses that are non-responsive to questions actually asked can be stricken and if stricken they do not “open” any doors for anything else. Questions asked on cross that are not related to questions asked on direct can be objected to and the judge can sustain the objection. I don’t think there is a chance of “uh oh somebody said something good about Trayvon by accident and now he’s in for it” happening except in the fevered imaginations of the “kill-the-dead-kid-again” crowd. Judge Nelson knows how to run a trial.
The Keep It Simple, Stupid approach seems best for this case … if for no other reason than to prevent it from becoming an Arias-style circus. Just the facts should make things clear enough for a reasonable jury, one would hope.
Thank you SearchingMind,BillT yes I get it now It’s just about what happened that night.That makes absolute sense.The defense team was trying to turn the trial into a circus like they have the hearings.As for Trayvon’s family having to remain silent fogen,his handllers and family should have remained silent.They have only made themselves look depraved imho by lying and begging.I’m thankful to have Mr Leatheman ,his wife and everyone here to put things in perspective although I do believe omara and westie accomplished their goal somewhat yesterday just not sure at what cost to their personal and professional reputations.To get money and try to corrupt the jury was the purpose of all that BS and they don’t feel any shame.
They “don’t shame easy.”
I have a question. While I understand the part of the State not opening the door to the defense, could it be possible that it is opened by a witness? Say Sabrina is on the stand and says something like “TM hates fighting.” Could the door then be opened from this?
I would hate to see it open by a comment from a witness.
It could theoretically happen, but it is unlikely because BDLR will not ask a question that opens that door and he will instruct his witnesses to only answer his questions.
Thank you Professor, if the Defense is doing the questioning, I’m assuming that BDLR could object before an answer is given and stopping it before it happens, correct?
Why haven’t we seen gz’s texts yet?
Because the prosecution is abiding by Judge Lester’s order not to publicize any information obtained from GZ’s phone.
The defense claims that it was “forced” to publicize information obtained from Trayvon’s phone because it had to use it as an exhibit in support of its motion for sanctions against the prosecutor for withholding information.
Time for me to change from hip boots to chest waders……….gettin’ really deep…….stinks too 😦
Question……….Can mom & skeletor dump fogen, or ask to be removed as airyass’s lawyers tried?
airyass’s were public defenders, so I can understand the states refusal……..fogens nightmare team is private….even though pro bono.
They cannot withdraw without the Court’s permission and Judge Nelson is unlikely to grant permission this close to trial.
So I understand that the attorney can not withdraw, but can Fogen fire them? If he were to do that, would the date then change for the trial?
No, Judge Nelson will not let them out this close to trial, even if he fires them, unless the defendant makes an unequivocal demand to represent himself.
Thanks professor! J4T 6.10.13
That would be a hoot….fogen defending himself…..
He does have an AA in criminal justice………well he had a party for it anyway….
Had the party! Ate the cake! Got the cap and gown! Walked in the ceremony! Possibly got the t-shirt! Got the degree – NOT!
re: “That would be a hoot….fogen defending himself….. He does have an AA in criminal justice………well he had a party for it anyway….
Pat, expect Fogen to claim he was “admitted to the bar” — when in fact, he simply strolled over and picked up that Budweiser from the bar at his graduation bash (and without paying for it).
For all I be…..This Buds for me…….Just spent the afternoon hauling up a half ton of shit for the garden….Unloaded with a bottle of VO….and sum Buds……..
Ya know Llama shit is the best you can get as fertilizer…..and a lot of people up here raise Llama’s…..Wouldn’t mind having one myself as a pack animal……
The pic of Trayvon on horseback struck a nerve….
HOODIES UP
MMP OUT
Will the prosecution bring out fogens use of Adderall or his past violence.,Can the black man who lived in the complex and said he had to jog somewhere else because of fogen testify .Or does that open the door for omara to bring up something about Trayvon.I was somewhat confused but from what I’m getting from the Professor it is only if the prosecution has a witness say good things about Trayvon.I’m disappointed I wanted DeeDee to be able to repeat that he was funny,a mama’s boy so the jury could get a better sense of who he was.Mr. Crump said they have asked Trayvon’s family not to comment now.God how horrible that would be to not be able to defend your deceased son.Imagine he called his Mother cupcake.I realize now the trial is about forensic evidence,nen call, 911 calls ,fogen’s statements to police,the screams,etc.just the facts.Wow what does that leave mutt and jeff.Their whole defense went to hell in a hand basket yesterday
Pat, ‘Silence’ is golden. Under circumstances as in the present situation ‘Silence’ communicates more and better than actual words. Ms. Fulton’s silence is in front of O’Mara telling him: ‘you are a fool, sir’! That Silence was validated by Judge Nelson’s Epic Smack-Down (professor’s phrase) of O’Mara and West.
IF the defense puts on evidence of an affirmative “self-defense” theory then the prosecution, on rebuttal, can put on ANY WITNESS THEY NEED to rebut what was put on during the defense’s turn to present their case. So Ibrahim Rashada could easily testify as a rebuttal witness; so could whoever the person is who was “escorted out” of the March 1, 2012 HOA meeting for complaining that his or her reports to police of Fogen patrolling with a gun were ignored. So could anybody whose information would tend to show that the self-defense theory was wrong. I believe. Correct me if I’m wrong, attorneys.
I’m working on an email i’m sending to certain news organizations. I will, post a preview when i’m done.
There was nothing wrong with his character.smoking weed does not make him a bad person. wanting to get a gun does not make him a bad person. Maybe he was mugged once,i know i was. and getting into a couple of fights does not make him a bad person.
he not the first kid to get into a fight or 2 it happens with most kids. getting in trouble in doesn’t make him a bad person he was a good kid who sometimes screwed up like most of us.he deserved to from those mistake like most of us have and to teach his kid not to do the same thing.
What about Zimmermans character. a man who attacked a female police officer a man who threw a woman across a room. a man who chased someones 8 year old son home. a man who harassed coworkers a man who harassed some of the residents in that neighborhood.
the only thing relevant is what happened during the night of 2-26-2012. trayvon was just walking talking on the phone with a girl. he was not doing any thing that night to warrant the police being called. but since they were called he should have waited for them.He instigated to whole sequence of events which led to trayvon’s death. when trayvon started screaming rather than trying to calm the situation he put a bullet in his chest instead.
Trayvon wasn’t a bad kid he screwed up a few times like most of us but he wasn’t a thug. i know a bad kid.he likes to try to pick fights with everyone in the neighborhood even the adults. He even tried to star something with me. i walk with a permanent limp do to an infection which nearly killed me and weakened both of my legs. I told him go on before i put my shoe up his #$%^$#. . i predict he will mess with the wrong person and endup dead or it’s jail. i could call him the black Zimmerman. i’m tired of their crap.
Just an FYI the officer Zimmerman was arrested for assaulting was not a female. he was special agent Paul Fleishman of the Florida’s Alcohol Beverage and Tobacco division.
reports said it was a female. my mistake.
The trial will start on time, unless the defendant flees to avoid prosecution, suffers a medical emergency that requires hospitalization, or dies.
As for the rest, the defense has no defense.
That’s quite a choice!!! lol!
Since quacks abound in Florida, some late-breaking gastrointentestinal emergency — necessity of an appendectomy, perhaps — would not surprise me. Seriously.
meant gastrointestinal. … Once trial starts, can he halt it with claiming various maladies, or can things proceed without him, as with Tuesday’s hearing?
“The Suicide Defense” How Innovative.
Professor Leatherman, in your honored opinion, can you think of any conceivable way that the trial will not start on time? If Fogen has a medical emergency, could and would that delay the trial? I do suppose if he were to try to run to Peru that would be a valid reason. I am just having a hard time understanding how MOM and West could be so incompetent as to not even be remotely ready for this trial despite having over a year and more than enough available financial resources to prepare. There has got to be some sort of good reason for what they are (are not) doing…. Perhaps they are going to wait till the very last moment and throw Shellie under the bus by having her confess to the murder? Or maybe MOM will have West confess to the murder (I wonder how long it will take West to process that?)….
West is one slow processor … who knows!
‘sumtin wrong with him’, ‘he’s high on drugs or sumtin’, now hes’ jus starin at Judge Nelson, yep sumptin wrong with West….
“…he just keeps looking about…out of all the windows…”
Heaven forbid if he starts skipping
“…shit…..he’s skipping…….” “…..he skipped….” just doesn’t really have that thug image…….just sayin’
I’ll try it on my shop walkway……..hold on a minute…….
………….naaaaaa, I just can’t make a thuggish skip happen. The best is I still can’t do a suspicious walk.
Fogen (in court hallway at noon recess) “……um, Mark, where’s Don??”
Moron O “I think he skipped down to them men’s room, in fact, it’s um, undisputed”
Fogen (thinks, it could happen, always breaking my balls)
…now he’s walking toward Judge Nelson. wait a minute he;s swaying’. whats wrong with his mouth? it keeps opening and closing like a hooked fish…..
snark 😛
You guys are in rare form……
Don’t know what his deal is …
Or maybe MOM will have a baez moment
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury,
I said I would give you and explanation of why Jorge Zimmerman
is not guilty, and you would say, Now I get it. Although Jorge admitted shooting a pblaack boy Travon Martin, It was an accident. He was molested for years.
Well, I did have the rest of the story, but the Mr, said well skip to the end. I guess you’ll have to read it in the next book that comes out.
Yes, several days ago his brother came out and said he was gay, and it was Jorge who told him it was going to be okay. He said the murder charges need to be dropped, he need to bring Jorge back home.
bydesign2010 says:
Wasn’t George also on drugs that night? Didn’t George also have a history of violence AND problems in school? Pot, meet Kettle. It’s laughable to see how people how can attempt to bring fourth all of these nonsensical ramblings about Trayvons so-called thugish behavior but neglect any mention of George’s. The fact remains that despite his disciplinary issues, Trayvon was never arrested. George was and his history of vigilantism and arrogance is well known and documented, yet disregarded. It’s disgusting.
@ bydesign2010
Anybody who has heard GZ’s NEM call on 2.26.2012 would have to admit he sounded high as a kite. Drugs or pills or alcohol or a combination of all three.
Wonder whether SPD collected any of that blood he slathered all over his nose and mouth so they could test it? Was it even his blood-or did he rub some of Trayvon’s blood on his face? Is this why he asked one of the witnesses whether there was any blood on his face? And is this why one of the first things he asked to do when he got to the police station was “permission” to wash the blood off his hands?
The possibilities are endless. There are MANY co-conspirators in this case.
I thought I saw an early report that the EMT cleaned blood off his face AND hands at the scene. Since the pic in the police car doesn’t show blood smeared on his cheeks, it’s possible that Z used his hands to wipe his head and face before he was examined by the EMT. I think he probably rubbed his head hard while he was ‘washing’ at the SPD, and started the blood flowing there again before the rest of the pictures were taken. Nothing else makes sense to me.
I don’t think it was Trayvon’s blood, because there didn’t seem to be much of that on his hoodie or sweatshirt – more evidence that his heart stopped beating almost as soon as he was shot.
I thought his arms were also said to have had blood on them. As he is OCD, I am sure he scrubbed it all off in the SPD men’s room.
@Leisa
LIke Lady MacBeth: Out, out damn spot! Will all the perfumes of Arabia never sweeten this little hand?
The witness that took that picture was there before the police and EMT arrived. The EMt is obviously lying about the murderer having 45% of his face covered in blood. They had no idea that the 1st witness on the scene had snapped that picture of the murderer before anyone else got there. It was the same fellow that called Shellie to “just tell her that I shot someone” that had taken the picture. EMT does not scrub a injured person clean anyway. Certainly not that clean as if you just showered. That EMT is a liar and was the only one to get on the stand to testify to that even though he was not involved with the “clean up” of the murderer.
@Nelie –
Re: “EMT is a liar and was the only one to get on the stand to testify to that even though he was not involved with the “clean up” of the murderer.”
Every word in your post is correct.
And the EMT, Kevin, was so arrogant with that I’ll set them straight attitude, he’s buzzard bait if he’s called.
45 % covered in blood……he didn’t have 45% of his mustache covered in blood. Was he recalling the same event??
trayvon’s main issue was cuttting classes
Many, many kids love to cut class. Unfortunately some try to hang out in my room for entertainment.
I remember cutting class when I was in school over 10 years ago…
Trayvon bled mostly internally according to the autopsy report his chest was filled with blood. that’ why his lungs collapsed. they basically imploded. you will notice not a lot of blood on his shirts. he didn’t bleed out much at all. he basically died from severe internal bleeding.
The heart being stopped by the impact of the bullet would have led to a lot less bleeding also………basically the pump was shut off….
Then he climbs on Trayvons back and spreads his arms……yeah just like in the movies…..
I work to avoid using the word “hate” (unless it’s in reference to liver)
The depths to which I despise & loathe this “person” knows no bounds…
Zimmerman’s too. I mean, he didn’t get a 0.5 GPA by actually GOING to class…
Love it !! 😆
Pot, meet Kettle.
The man has panic attacks and I do not understand how that is not relevant to his reactions that night.
Should have said actions.
It is textbook confirmation bias.
I don’t even think that what O’Mara released should be referred to as ‘evidence’. A picture of a gun isn’t evidence that TM ever had or fired one. Pictures of pot plants aren’t evidence that TM grew any. References to a fight that he lost, which probably was just one of those staged ones, and a fight that he ‘watched’ aren’t evidence of violent or aggressive behavior.
I found it interesting that although O’Mara released several ‘tweets’ that referred to pot, guns or fighting, he didn’t include a single one to substantiate that he and DD had exchanged ‘hostile’ exchanges that day.
It wasn’t “evidence” — it was evidency-type-stuff.
Like “truthiness.”
We need to coin a new word or phrase.
OH I KNOW: Evidentiabilitinessationalism. Yeah. Yeah, that’s right, like THAT.
I like evidenceness
Malisha – you’re too much!
Evidentiabilitinessationalism !!! = #GZLC 😀 😀 😀
For anything presented by Team Fogen, I favor eviduncy or evidunciness.
😆 Yeah, like THAT!
Reminds me of “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”!
That’s a great coinage Malisha. Although these long words are not easy to read. Even we Germans are allowed lately to hyphenate compounds if the contain 3 or more different words. 😉
It’s an “Exhibit” until it is admitted by the Court as “Evidence” and O’ Mara is specifically stating a “..we have evidence….” that has not been verified as anything, let alone admitted. In one of the civil trials I was involved in the Plaintiff, who was a fraud from the word go, and his lawyer would drag exhibits in every morning that had not been on the exhibit list and to appease them, the Judge allowed us to look at them. Then when they went to mark Exhibits as Evidence, not 1 piece was allowed. The last laugh….you betcha !!
I believe the Professor had a blog on this last year in fact.
Interesting, racer. Thanks. Unfortunately he can claim he used the word loosely, not in its strict juridical sense. But now that you told me, I’ll pay more attention to how he uses it in interviews. 😉
He thinks he “Slick Willie” the way he words things. I watch / listen to HLN on the TV in my shop most of the day and when they talk and say stuff like that, I’m “..no Moron, it’s an exhibit” “No stupid, that’s not undisputed, God are you a fool” “Damn ! no Taaffe, nobody looked in your window” all day long.,
come on, everybody knows a teen boy and girl would NEVER argue about anything…..NEVER disagree on anything at all….if they argued clearly both of them are THUGS, shocking they havent already arrested DD and charged her with conspiracy to assault fogen!
The texts are also really mild and Omara is twisting hard with it
I personally do not see any fight tweets like Omara claims
The texts could honestly be about a video game match
The video they claim is Trayvon does not prove that Trayvon is violent, let alone it was even him in the video due to the fact the video is hearsay and unauthentic
It’s more schemes and scams from Omara
the person in the striped shirt in the video has a tattoo on his left arm, Trayvon Martin had no such tattoo…..in other words that is NOT Trayvon in the video.
I saw just a few of the texts, in it he talks about how he was suspended for fighting. We know this is not true and to me it only proves that TM lied in his posts trying to make himself look “better” to his friends. This type of exaggeration is not uncommon to many teens.
The fight text is not from the phone, it’s from fb and unauthenticated.
@BillT
Whether Trayvon or not, and whether it proves Trayvon is violent, which as Jun notes it does not, and I add, not even by a long shot, I have parsed the video frame by frame and in my professional opinion there is no tattoo on the left arm of the person purported to be Trayvon. Much as I admire and respect LLMPapa for his acute observations, his acerbic and cutting, videos focussing GZ’s discrepancies, and the huge amount of work he has done for this case, the dirty mottled effect on the upper arm of the alleged Trayvon visible in the still LLMPapa used for his video from the defence’s disclosure, and which resembles a tattoo in that frame, is IMO noise and concordant with the abysmal quality of the recording, and on the majority of frames, where the left upper arm of the subject is also visible, there is only clear skin.
@ gbrgsb – I don’t get it. What are you saying? Is there a tattoo on the left arm in the image(s), or not? And did Trayvon have a tattoo on his left arm, or not?
I noticed “fb” before, quite frequently it seems, but I never managed to get the meaning.
But I wondered about that, didn’t O’Mara claim Trayvon took a video on his phone? He seemed to refer to the discovery in that context. Stutzman leaves this message at the end of her short article in the end, thus reinforcing earlier arguments about fights in this context:
In court Tuesday, O’Mara mentioned for the first time new pieces of evidence damaging to Trayvon’s reputation: that the teenager had shot video of his buddies beating up a homeless man; that Trayvon had served as referee in another fight; and that he had won one fight after punching his opponent in the nose.
this is in the discovery:
Two videos from Trayvon Martin’s phone (redacted)
towerflower, he claims in exchanges with several people he was suspended for something he did not do. He writes, he watched a fight and the teacher accused him of having hit “them”, which he denies. Nelson alluded to this context. Somehow like, does that mean everybody that watches a fight is basically violent?
Strictly you have friends that share your basic tendencies. If you are violent and love to fight you surely would boast about it, but would you deny you did something? Apparently none of these people are very concerned about school suspensions, so why would he lie to them?
The other fight I somehow understand. It was about a snitch, and I do not like them either. I find this interesting since he was going to meet another one and again he was falsely accused. With the outcome we know. Problem is, GZ did not even give him a chance to understand why he was following him. No, I don’t have a problem. Wouldn’t quite work to connect the new scenario with the old one in Trayvon’s mind, add to that he did nothing wrong. Or had to fear anything. So what was his motive?
The story that puzzles me is the videotaping of the beaten up homeless guy. One would need to see it, what I am not sure about is, if one can really interpret it without further information.
Basically it is a similar technique like using the images of his cousin in whatever type of peculiar wear as reference to Trayvon. Is this supposed to be some type of martial sports “costume”? Is the necklace Trayvon wore on some photos the same?
Now we have some different guys beating up someone else and it is meant to show us whoever Trayvon was, or was prepared to do to a much larger extend for no reason at all?
@ elcymoo
A Black hand holding a gun is NOT evidence. A pix of alleged marijuana plants is NOT evidence. A video of SOMEONE in an alleged fight is NOT evidence. Details of a teen’s suspension from school [which did NOT result in any arrests] in this era of zero telerance of everything is NOT evidence. Text messages and pix on a twitter page that is known to have been hacked after owner of page has been killed is NOT evidence. Presenting said text out of order to mean something other than original intent is NOT evidence.
In other words-they got NOTHING.
Evidence is not evidence until it’s admitted in a court of law.
They might not even be pot plants. My mother grew Vitex (aka Chaste tree) which has the same sort of composite leaves as pot plants– it also has an attractive purple-blue flower spike– but the leaves sure gets people sniggering.
Japanese cut-leaf maple also has those leaves.
They are real pot plants but unless they can prove it is Trayvon’s planter forget it. Lol.
I am 100% positive those are pot plants. But so what? There is nothing illegal about having a picture of pot plants. It isn’t even like having paraphernalia. It is a picture and it means NOTHING. Even if he said it was a picture of HIS pot plants, does that prove it? He could have looked up a picture of pot plants on a computer, taken a picture of the screen, texted them to friends and said they were his plants, but anyone can say anything – and anyone who has kids with My Space or Facebook knows that.
People with pictures of pot plants are not allowed to walk in RTL? Shouldn’t there be a sign up?
Hostile exchanges?
I’ve seen those same pictures on the net when i was looking up info on pot back in 0ctober 2011
evi-Dunce / evi-Duh (i.e. O’Mara’s “evidence”)
“$5” for each good answer.
a. Is the “gun” real or toy?
b. Is the hand holding the (toy? real?) gun Trayvon’s or someone else’s?
c. Is the MJ “plant” ‘real or plastic’?
d. Is the (plastic? Real?) MJ plant Trayvon’s or someone else’s?
e. Is having a pic of (plastic? Real?) MJ plant on your phone somehow criminal or immoral? What are the standards for determining that?
f. Is the person on the fight video Trayvon or someone else? Is it not a form of racism to think that the person on the fight video COULD be Trayvon simply because Trayvon is Black (@ Gbrbsb)?
(Professor could you pls. remove the former post with the same content. I hit the send button by mistake prematurely)
George Zimmerman defense fund is nearly broke
http://on.thegrio.com/17u8upg
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman’s defense fund is almost depleted with less than two weeks until the former neighborhood watch leader goes on trial in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.
Zimmerman’s attorneys posted on their website Wednesday that the fund had less than $5,000 left. The fund had almost $315,000 in January.
The attorneys say they calculate that Zimmerman needs another $120,000 to put on a good defense or even another $75,000 to give him a fighting chance.
Attorneys Mark O’Mara and Don West say they haven’t been paid a cent and many interns are working on the case without pay.
They say they will need the money in the coming weeks to pay experts and for transcripts of depositions.
Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder. He is pleading not guilty.
Isn’t that interesting how this is always publicized just after OM does some brazen publicity stunt?!
You nailed it.
Hmmmmmm. funny you mention that.
Ain’t that the truth. Those stunts’ have ran their course like a head cold, donations are dried up
They’re counting backwards now. Giving Fogen his last gravy train bowl and hay for da’ dog house. Gas up the rides, pay the staff. My estimate durr-fense will be broke by noon 2morrow.
hmmmm, who will keep paying to keep the website up and running?
SoulSisterWoo says:
They did not think that the DEFENSE FUND would need to be used for GZ’s defense back in March when the fat $500,000 Peter Pan account was started… they have had more than enough to fund a defense.
They are SO LUCKY their supporters are a bunch of Imbeciles … Because anyone in their right mind would not donate another cent to this fraudulent welfare fund.
I can understand that people will have their opinions no matter how cuckoo and that people will support Fogen. But they’re being systematically led to believe that he is innocent and his case can be won and I’m convinced that OM and West both know he’s guilty and that they can’t win this case. Not that this is unusual – what’s unusual is that they’re playing this out in public, tampering with the jury pool, and soliciting money all at the same time.
Oh – and demonizing the victim all at the same time . . .
For the longest time on HP, I’d shut a Zidiot up that was spewing lies with this one….”Have you donated to his defense fraud, er, fund today…..after all, he’s counting on you”
The entire defense, and that includes the client, the lawyers, family and their supporters disgust me… It makes my stomach weak to know that a person is being “REWARDED” a financial windfall of upwards of a half a million dollars for killing a 17 year old black kid.
This is sick!
Is it too late for fogen to back to jail and free up the bail money? As pointed out it would also cut the expenses of rent, food, ankle bracelet, etc. He’s violating the basic rules of begging for help: first do what you can to help yourself.
If he goes back to jail, I believe the bail bondsman gets the money until this is finished…I could be wrong however.
The bondsman gets the $95K or whatever the percentage was that was paid for the bond to keep……..That’s his charge, profit and income for posting the bond……..and no longer have any lien on any property used to secure it…….
So fogen has nothing to gain by going back to jail to get the bond money……….He will gain 3 hots and a cot……..FREE security…….and exercise running from Ramrod Jenkins….
I was 1/2 right….I forgot he gets 10% period.
Bettykath- nope. The nail money is just a percentage of the million pledged. That is the bondsman’s fee. No matter what, GZ is out all that cash.
There’s no bond money coming back to Fogen. The percentage paid is the cost of doing business — the bonding agency had to front the million bucks. What got posted by Fogen goes to the bonding agency for debt service and fees.
It might have been a different deal if Fogen or his lying family had put up property as collateral for the second million-dollar bond — but they didn’t.
Such a pity, Fogen thought he was being so smart when he had his Missus lie under oath about his beg fund profits. This stupidity has cost them a bundle in a jacked up bond and a whole lot more.
Of course that will be water under the bridge when Fogen goes off to the pen, squeeling like a pig about how others are to blame.
And yet they keep donating…. by the hundreds …240 people since this vile begging stunt took place….what was it that the professor posted awhile back?
Anyone who supports George Zimmerman is a racist…
Anyone who sends him money is a stupid racist…
I agree completely….
Hey now…..I’m one of those 240 people…..I donated 2 cents…..3 times….for a total contribution of 6 cents…thru Paypal…..and received a personalized thank you card for each….
He even called me his friend……Shucks….That made my widdle black heart bweed purple Panther piss…
And you cost him money each time you donated…. which makes YOU a HERO!!!!
I know someone else who suggested we all donate 2 cents in a flurry… causing fees that would actually put the peterpan fund in the red! I would have done this but just couldn’t make myself (or get my Grandparents permission) to even go to the site… I get nauseous just thinking about it…
That was the whole idea….giving him my 2 cents….and YES the cards were personalized (defense fund money) and the stamps he used?…The US Flag stamp with Justice printed across it !!!!!!!!!!
So….$.30 Paypal + $.46 postage + price of card $? – $.02 = – $.74 + -? (for card)….prolly a buck to the negative each time……
Yup…YOU are another one of my heroes…. Thank you pat!
Even more sickening is the fact that George rarely worked hard when he did hold a job. From what I have read about him is that he has been irresponsible for his entire life, mooching off others and using the government for financial aid under the pretense of going to school. That he found another scam to “to live the good life” from “Peter Pan” once he used his evils to kill a teenaged boy as he begged for his life. You just can’t get any lower than this, but then again, nothing would surprise me.
Trayvon had more money in his pocket than the murderer had in his bank account at the time he was slaughtered by this disgusting being walking around looking normal. He has mental health issues that were never addressed during his 28 years. Hell, even Jr has mental health issues that need attention.
There is no defense and the scam was started so that he could leave the country with a quarter million in his pocket and go somewhere where he thought he’d live in peace. So much for that plan. Now that he has lived the good life where he has been able to eat non stop, he will have his trial and will then be sent to prison where he will stay a minimum of 25 years. He will get his and I am going to remain confident that their tricks will fail and they will disgust the jury from the start!
There are six business days left until the start of the trial, and MOM now needs money to hire “experts”? He needs money for transcripts now? I wonder if what he is doing is giving a Fogen a valid excuse for a retrial because of incompetent representation? Not even a poor divorce attorney would be this stupid, would they?
O’Mara is making a mockery of our justice system.
I will not donate even 1 cent of my hard earned dough to a murdering scum sucking lying dirt bag. i will keep my 2 cents thank you.
If you ask me that 5,000 is to much to defend him,anyway he need to get use to that prison food go buy him some spam and pork-n-beans.
: D
Ramen Fogen can buy a 5-pack of Ramen for a buck, and swallow his spit when he get’s thirsty….
And what about Jorge, Shellie, family and friends? Jorge needs to put that killer mobile for sale and if they have a second car sale that too.He probably won’t need it, and neither will wifey. Ever her of the Bus. And sell everything else. All the family does is beg. Sell your shit, he’s your corn. Have a bake sale, get your church involved, and Shellie, get your fat ass up and get a job, nobody is out to get you, get a job at Chucky Cheese, they’re always lookin for rats. Jorge would be so proud. What about your white token friend, I thought all the proceeds from the book were going to the def. Should have been a best seller with all your thousands of AA friends and wild bill and the outlaws. And Taffee, I thought a lemonade booth, but you been holding out with that experience mentoring all those kids on drugs. Shoot, go round em up, all thoose black teens that have been robbin your neighborhood, they need some mentoring, cause black=thugs on drugs, and hey, you don’t even need to plant that corn, it’s already home grown!!!Jr it’s no surprise about you coming out, yearly, you’re not helping Jorge out, but I do commend you with your public speaking skills, alittle winey, might I suggest you give Ru a call, I love watching that show, I think you’d do well. Come on friends and family, help a decent American.
I love the expression on her face – she looks like she’s biting her tongue. She looked that way yesterday while interviewing OM too.
She seemed to like Mr. Crump very much…. Very big smile for him.
No, no. Not “George said”! “George said and Junior repeated and Robert Senior said ‘absolutely’ and Chief (oops, ‘then chief’) Billy Lee believed”! Got that? In*con*tro*vert*i*ble.
Remember “Fifty Thousand Frenchmen can’t be wrong”?
Well THREE Afro-Peruvians and an ex-cop … well … um…
The only people who witnessed the actual altercation, after Fogen stalked and terrorized Trayvon via car foot and firearm, were witness 8 and 18 and they both place Fogen as the aggressor
There’s also no DNA transfer whatsoever on Trayvon to show that his claims occurred so that’s really low brow to try and frame a dead kid
No lawyer can be this dumb,O’mara is up to something he know he have know case. O’mara took this case for the money and fame.
And he is failing at both!
The issue is, it is all a money raising scheme.
Notice, it works…he raised 30K plus in two days…
There is no denying, lies and deceit make money…it just rots your soul and eliminates your integrity…but it surely is financially successful in the short term…
That is all they cared about. Guaranteed, MOM can’t stand GZ any more than the rest of us can.
Does he not know the the evidence shows Trayvon never touched him,although since zimmerman followed and chased him he would have been within his rights to pop him one if he chose.
George said??
in the words of the gun fumbing, fashionista extrordinaire…..
“ThassssRIght!!”
It seems to me anyway that if he turned over the raw data, he turned it over. What MO’M wants to do with it from there is up to him. IMO, he should have hired an expert to interpret the data, just as he would when the 911 call with screaming is heard in the background. Why should the state have to hire their own specialists and experts and MO’M then use them and even in some cases try to tell them how much they should be charging for their services. What is wrong with the guy?
I know he knows full well what he is doing and he just “wants to get this out there,” but doesn’t he know how ugly it is and how it makes him and his client look even less truthful and believable? Does he REALLY think this helps his client?
Actually I heard the guy was fired around Dec 2012, so he can only testify up to a certain date of what he witnessed plus he could be blowing hot air because he’s mad he got fired
From what I remember from the hearing
There were cell phone forensics done and Bernie said most of the raw data is irrelevant but if he wants them, he can have them, or that some of it was work product
Omara asked for a report and Bernie was not sure of which report but Bernie said he would try to find whatever report Omara is seeking and the judge ruled that the defense can go to FDLE and ask for anything they feel they need, baring objections from FDLE
I think it’s more hot air
GZLC has been heavily soliciting $5 donations from Fogen supporters since this brazen display of nonsense, which sort of proves the point that his dramas are mostly about funding the defense.
So that’s their angle? If they lose, it is everyone else’s fault for not sending them enough money?
Ewwwwww
This is why greed traps you inside a golden hell
If Omara would have simply closed the fund shown all the paperwork for the money used, he could have gotten state funding and everything would have been paid for and a defense would have cost them nothing
Instead they beg for blood money and then do not even bother spending it on a defense or perhaps the most noble would be to donate it to a real charity and apologize to the Martin family
Jun – “perhaps the most noble would be to donate it to a real charity and apologize to the Martin family”
Maybe there’s still hope!
If they had claimed indigence, what would fogen have lived on?
Maybe the Missus would have needed to get a job. By declaring indigence his defense would have been paid for, and by checking into the Seminole County Jail, he could have gotten three hots and a cot plus free medical care. H e wouldn’t need to pay the roughly $10 per day for his ankle monitor.
So why did they play it this way, and blow through the $300,000-plus? Because the dummies (that would include O’Mara) thought the gravy train would keep on keepin’ on.
Once the NRA and other gun nuts realized Fogen was an unsuitable poster boy for their cause, the cash flow dwindled to less than a trickle. All the while Fogen kept ordering extra cheese and pepperoni on his jumbo pies.
@ Jun, re:
Actually I heard the guy was fired around Dec 2012, so he can only testify up to a certain date of what he witnessed plus he could be blowing hot air because he’s mad he got fired.
I read the same thing – but it pertains to Wesley White, the guy who testified yesterday. But White’s client, the one who will testify on June 6th and/or 7th, is a different story. I get the impression that that guy currently works for Angela Corey’s office – and may have been placed on administrative leave yesterday.
Do you have any scoops on White’s client (the one who will testify NEXT week)? Thanks.
Well it still means nothing nonetheless
Bernie covered that a while back
He gave the raw data
He said it’s not his job to connect the dots for the defense and it’s work product
and Bernie was not sure what report Omara wanted and he said he was not sure he had the report
O’Mara is scum.
Is there any chance at all, Professor, that the court will sanction GZLC for violation of the rules of evidence?
I think Judge Nelson is disgusted with O’Mara and West.
I do not know her and have not appeared before her, so I do not know if she will do that.
So there’s nothing that requires her to do so if an attorney gets out of line? She has the option to ignore GZLC’s violations of FL protocol?
I would have thought that the “publication” by West of in-chambers discussions that were not supposed to be disclosed might have led to a contempt order by the judge. But it didn’t.
In your experience, are contempt orders typically issued only for VERY egregious or outrageous behavior during trial?
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Ukraine’s problems have remained constant in the long-run; staggering home-grown corruption, economic stagnation, and the ongoing war in the East are all factors. Russia certainly plays a part in these difficulties. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin fought to ensure Ukraine remained bound to Moscow. The Euromaidan revolution in 2014 signaled a blowback against long years of misrule. This was led by fervent masses of nationalists, youth, westernized activists, all desperately seeking new hope. Moscow-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych was quickly deposed. Russia’s infamous annexation of Crimea followed. The war which ensued in Donbas is now officially recognized as the longest and bloodiest on European soil since the end of WWII. It has claimed the lives of over ten thousand people to date.
The Candidates for Ukraine
Petro Poroshenko, the fiercely anti-Russian incumbent took charge following 2014’s Maidan movement and implemented a number of reforms. Most notably granting autocephaly to Kyiv’s patriarchs and rebuilding the army from scratch. He also secured historic freedom of movement agreement for all Ukrainians within the EU. At the center of his campaign is a renewed effort to stamp out corruption and tighten the military. All framed under the heavily nationalistic banner of “army, language, faith”. However, despite early promises, Poroshenko too has fallen foul of embezzlement allegations. Eighty-four percent of all voters in the first round stage voted against their current leader.
Volodymyr Zelensky, the largely EU and Russia friendly maverick says he wants to harness the potential of Ukraine’s people. His plan is to devolve greater powers to local authorities and combat the unaccountability of Kiev’s elite. However, his political credentials are questionable, as he is best known for playing Ukrainian TV’s foul-mouthed answer to Jed Bartlet. The real Zelensky is a TV comedian who continues to attract criticism for his “vague” grasp of serious policy. His absence in official, televised debates only stirs further doubt.
The real question remains — who stands behind Zelensky? And what agenda will he pursue if he wins? That spotlight falls currently on Igor Kolomoisky, multi-billionaire and subject of multiple criminal investigations both at home and abroad. Why he chose Zelensky specifically is unclear, but his motivation may lie in Poroshenko’s recent reforms to banking and low-cost airlines. These have seriously damaged Kolomoisky’s business interests; Privatbank, Ukraine International Airlines and Ukrnafta above all.
Strong judicial and electoral systems serve as the linchpin for any democracy. Ukraine’s current electoral system is riddled with injustice. Half the MPs are chosen from single-member constituencies in a first past the post system. Many of those elected come through a closed party-list representation system. Today, Ukraine ranks 120 out of 188 in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. Government and security officials are regularly embroiled in extortion scandals. The elite group of perpetrators behind civic activist Kateryna Handzuik’s horrific murder was a case in point. Corruption flourishes in all developing nations, but calls to cleanse the judiciary and dismantle the oligarchs’ stranglehold across sectors are mounting. Contrasts with neighboring Poland demonstrate just how far Ukraine could have come since the fall of Communism.
Ukrainian Economy
Despite positive signs of growth in recent years Ukraine still holds little allure for foreign investors. This leads to a lack of competitiveness in the market and a monopoly on state assets by powerful tycoons. If Ukraine demonstrates efforts to reduce its $20 billion dollars external deficit then it would be in western interests to offer support. This would also consolidate the West’s influence in Kyiv going forwards. However, without these measures, Europe does not need further crisis on its borders.
Energy too features heavily on the agenda. When the existing transit contract with Russia ceases in Winter 2019, it is likely that Moscow will terminate the majority of gas flow through Ukraine. Whilst the shift threatens to diminish Ukraine’s geopolitical stature, Gazprom will still need Ukraine’s biggest pipes. New negotiations will present the successful candidate with an opportunity. Of the two, Poroshenko is more likely to abide by progressive EU rules as opposed to the old unfavorable close-door deals. Continued efforts to bolster domestic production are also key.
Recent progress involves improved taxation, more efficient exploration and production rules, and greater transparency of the processes involved in hydrocarbon development. However, most of these benefits will only be felt in the years to come. Ukraine’s resources have the potential to transform the country into Europe’s third largest energy provider. Corruption, low investment, and Russia’s dominance of the sector thus far prevented that. Any such move which promises to boost job creation and increase cooperation between the regions connected by the pipeline would be a strong step towards prosperity.
Defense and an End to the War in Donbas
The outcome of this month’s election will determine the next phase of the conflict. If Kyiv continues its new European trajectory under Poroshenko, then Russia’s support of Eastern Ukraine’s bloody militias will intensify. It is for this reason that Poroshenko’s campaign hinges so heavily on defense and the need to accelerate accession both to the EU and NATO. According to experts the proposed timeframe by 2023 is unrealistic, especially for NATO. However, if Ukraine can demonstrate compliance with key EU member criteria in the short term, then the promise of future NATO membership would serve as a strong incentive to stay on track.
Regarding the military, investment and capacity building are a high priority. Until 2014 Russia and Ukraine enjoyed close military cooperation which ceased abruptly when the war began. The sudden loss of funds and resources left Ukraine dangerously exposed and it was this crucial moment that Moscow exploited in Crimea and Donbas. Other post-Soviet nations that are under Russia’s imminent threat have successfully acceded to NATO. Ukraine likely poses a uniquely vulnerable (and valuable) asset.
Election Forecast
On a positive note, initial results indicate a genuine endorsement for EU integration. The strongest pro-Russia candidate, Yurii Boiko, scored only 10%. The fact that all is still to play for is a nice homage to Ukraine’s emerging democracy. However, with a TV comedian at the helm, the country’s future appears fragile. The prospect of someone so unversed in key matters of national interest plays squarely into Russia’s hands. If Poroshenko is to turn the tables then his hopes either lie in undemocratic means of voter suppression and unearthing more kompromats. Or alternatively in playing the dignified ‘commander in chief’ which is what he appears to be doing in agreeing to face Zelensky in an official televised debate. This next stage will be the period of behind the scenes deal-making. Whether or not Ukrainians hold their nerve and oust Poroshenko’s ‘safe pair of hands’ remains to be seen.
Rebecca Emerick works at Global Risk Insights. Previously, she spent three years living and working in Russia following a degree at the University of St Andrews. Article as originally appears https://globalriskinsights.com/2019/04/kazakhstan-nazarbayev-central-asia-new-dawn/
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Kona coffee hui catches Safeway breaking label vow
A national grocer said it has changed its label on packages of Kona coffee blends, making good on a promise it made last year to a group of Hawaii coffee farmers.
But the Kona Coffee Farmers Association said Thursday that Safeway hasn’t fully honored that promise.
Last year, Safeway agreed to change the label on Kona coffee blend products sold on the mainland to add the phrase “10 percent minimum Kona blend.” That was after the association called for a boycott of the company’s 1,700 stores nationwide because farmers said the labels were misleading and degraded the reputation of Hawaii’s famous coffee.
Safeway doesn’t sell the coffee blend in any of its Hawaii stores, so it wasn’t subject to a Hawaii law that requires labels to reflect the percentage of Hawaii-grown coffee, which needs to be at least 10 percent for the state designation.
Instead, the state Department of Agriculture asked Safeway to voluntarily comply with Hawaii’s law.
The Pleasanton, Calif.-based grocery chain agreed and promised to begin selling 100 percent Kona coffee in some California stores.
The Kona Coffee Farmers Association has been watching Safeway closely for these changes. The association said in a letter to Safeway that members have seen the old packaging in mainland stores and is disappointed the company hasn’t started selling pure Kona coffee.
“Given the product shelf life, packaging used before the (changes) may still exist on store shelves or elsewhere in our distribution chain,” said a letter from Brian Dowling, Safeway vice president of public affairs, adding that the company doesn’t plan to destroy or dispose of those products.
Dowling’s letter said that Safeway hadn’t been able to sell 100 percent Kona coffee, but still planned to do so. He blamed the berry borer, a beetle that has destroyed coffee crops in Kona and rocked an industry that generates $30 million in annual sales.
“Yes, there’s a reduction in the coffee output … but it’s a relatively minor percentage,” said Bruce Corker, a member of the association’s board of directors. “There is 100 percent Kona coffee available. It’s not that it can’t be purchased.”
Safeway spokeswoman Teena Massingill said the company is surprised by the association’s response.
The farmers’ battle against the supermarket giant inspired a $5 million class-action lawsuit in federal court in Northern California claiming Safeway profited off the reputation of Kona coffee while selling an inferior product containing very little Hawaii-grown coffee.
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October 2016 Hay Pellets
Oct. 25, 2016 08:00 AM
By Hay and Forage Grower
· USDA’s Milk Production report revealed a year-over-year production gain of 2.3 percent. Milk production in the 23 leading dairy states during September totaled 16 billion pounds.
· The number of milk cows on farms was 8.67 million head, 36,000 head more than September 2015, but 2,000 head less than August 2016.
· Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 10.3 million head on October 1. The inventory was slightly above one year ago, according to USDA’s Cattle on Feed report.
· The same report noted that placements in feedlots during September totaled 1.91 million head, 2 percent below 2015 and the lowest for September since this metric started being tracked in 1996. Marketings of fed cattle during September totaled 1.73 million head, 5 percent above 2015.
· W.D. Hoard said it over 100 years ago: “The dairyman is in commercial relations with the cow in two places, first, as to the character of the cow, and second, as to the character of her feed.”
· BREAKING NEWS: Here are the results of the Southeast Hay Contest, which were announced at the Sunbelt Ag Expo in Moultrie, Ga.
· John Deere recently announced a joint development agreement with Scherer Design Engineering Inc., based in Tea, S.D., to develop and commercialize kernel processors for their self-propelled forage harvesters.
· USDA’s October Crop Production report pegged corn production at 15.1 billion bushels, up 11 percent from last year but down slightly from the September forecast. Corn yields are expected to average 173.4 bushels per acre, down 1 bushel from the September forecast but up 5 bushels from 2015. If realized, this will be the highest yield and production on record for the United States.
· Purdue agricultural economist David Widmar reports that fertilizer prices have been softening considerably in recent months; this could translate into another year of lower fertilizer prices for producers. Says Widmar, “The declining prices have created the potential for another round of significant per acre cost reductions in fertilizer expenses.”
· The U.S. Department of Commerce reports August alfalfa exports totaled 247,888 metric tons (MT). That’s up about 10 percent from July and 37 percent higher than August 2015. China continued to lead the pack of export partners with 124,179 MT for August. Japan was a distant second place at 43,762 MT.
· W.D. Hoard said it over 100 years ago: “If the last growth of alfalfa is left standing, the alfalfa winters better. What it does is to shade the crown from the winter sun, help hold the snow better, and thus afford what might be called a winter mulch.”
· Registration is now open for the American Forage and Grassland Council Conference that will be held January 22 to 24 in Roanoke, Va.
· The USDA Food Safety Inspection Service recently clarified the “Grass Fed” label on beef, requiring that animals must solely consume grasses (forage). Animals cannot be fed grain or grain by-products and must have continuous access to pasture during the growing season until slaughter. Written documentation will be needed.
· At last week’s World Dairy Expo, DuPont Pioneer announced the availability of two new alfalfa varieties with the HarvXtra reduced-lignin trait. They will join several other seed marketers that have already announced having unique HarvXtra varieties available for 2017 planting.
· As of October 2, the U.S. corn harvest was 24 percent complete. This is the same as 2015, but slightly behind the five-year running average, according to USDA’s Crop Progress report. Recently, significant rainfall has hampered the corn harvest in many areas.
· W.D. Hoard said it over 100 years ago: “Corn silage and good alfalfa hay about solve the problem of a cheap ration for cows. It needs but a small amount of grain to keep them in full flow of milk.”
· World Dairy Expo kicks off today in Madison, Wis. Over 70,000 people are expected to attend with visitors from nearly 100 different countries.
· Winners of the World Forage Analysis Superbowl will be announced at a luncheon being held on Wednesday.
· Some of the worst pasture conditions in the U.S. are still being reported from the Northeast.States such as Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts report well over 50 percent of their pastures are in Poor or Very Poor condition.
· The National Alfalfa & Forage Alliance’s 2016 Intensive Alfalfa Training Seminarwill be held in Boise, Idaho, November 15 to 17. For more information, click here.
· W.D. Hoard said it over 100 years ago: “As farmers, we must constantly keep in mindthat there is no animal on the farm that possesses the power to transform coarse forage and grain into the highest order of human food like the cow. But the lesson for us to consider is how we can best aid this wonderful animal in her transforming power.”
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Employee’s comments on Facebook did not bring employer into disrepute
An employee who posted moderate, respectful comments about gay marriage on his personal Facebook profile neither brought his employer into disrepute nor acted in a way likely to offend colleagues or customers, the High Court has ruled.
A manager commented on Facebook that he thought gay marriage was equality gone too far. His Facebook profile made it clear who his employer was, and he had 45 work colleagues as ‘friends’. His comment could be seen by his 201 friends and their friends.
His comment offended a colleague who told their employer. The employee was subject to a Code of Conduct and Equal Opportunities Policy requiring him, among other things, to:
• maintain a positive image of his employer
• act in a non-confrontational, non-judgemental way with colleagues and customers
• avoid bringing his employer into disrepute
The employer took disciplinary action against the manager, finding him guilty of gross misconduct and demoting him, following a failed appeal. His pay was reduced from over £34k to around £21k. The manager claimed breach of contract.
The High Court allowed his claim and ruled that the test of whether he had breached his contract /the Code was an objective one: what a reasonable observer would think. It should not be driven by the fact that one or more colleagues had actually taken offence. On that basis, the court decided he had not breached his employment contract or the Code of Conduct by posting his views on gay marriage on Facebook, as they did not bring his employer into disrepute.
They were moderate views, not about his employer or colleagues, posted on his personal Facebook profile (which was inherently non-work related), out of working hours, not ‘thrust … upon his work colleagues’ (as, say, an email to them might have been), and unlikely to cause anyone who saw them to think less of his employer.
The court also ruled that the employee’s comment was not “judgmental, disrespectful or liable to cause upset or offence”, and had not breached his obligations to colleagues or customers.
Particularly, the court said he plainly and visibly used his Facebook profile for the expression of personal views about matters which had nothing whatsoever to do with his work. It was “an aspect of his social life outside work, no less than a pub, a club, a sports ground or any other physical (or virtual) place where individuals meet and converse”.
Employers should:
Take care to limit restrictions on their employee’s online activities to those carried out at, or in relation to, their work. Where an employee expresses a personal view on Facebook that can be seen by work colleagues, and where the employer is identified, that is not sufficient, in itself, to make the activity work-related.
Take particular care how they phrase and enforce policies prohibiting employees from bringing their employer into disrepute, or damaging its reputation.
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New CID director ‘naive’ about Australian law, says Zahid
March 5, 2018 Hakam_intern2
Source: Free Malaysia Today
The deputy prime minister says he accepts Bukit Aman CID director Wan Ahmad Najmuddin Mohd’s explanation about his funds in Australia.
PETALING JAYA: Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi says Bukit Aman CID director Wan Ahmad Najmuddin Mohd may have been “naive” about Australian laws concerning remittances to fund his children’s education.
“This issue of remittance surfaced back in 2016. Wan Ahmad has already given me his explanation on the matter, and I am confident of his honesty.
“However, he might have been naive about laws surrounding the remittance, because although the money was acquired from the sale of a house, it exceeded A$10,000, which is the limit set by the Australian government,” Berita Harian quoted Zahid as saying. Read more →
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Malaysia: Australian police say they are taking part in probe on 1MDB scandal
January 10, 2017 Coordinator
Source: Asian Correspondent
Men walk past a 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) billboard at the fund’s flagship Tun Razak Exchange development in Kuala Lumpur March 1, 2015. REUTERS/Olivia Harris
THE Australian Federal Police (AFP) said on Tuesday they are working with international law enforcement agencies to investigate companies associated with Malaysia’s scandal-hit sovereign wealth fund.
1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), founded by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, is the subject of money laundering investigations in at least six other countries, including Switzerland, Singapore and the United States.
Civil lawsuits filed by the U.S. Department of Justice allege more than US$3.5 billion was misappropriated from 1MDB. The lawsuits seek to seize US$1 billion in assets allegedly siphoned off from 1MDB and diverted into luxury real estate in New York, Beverly Hills and London, valuable paintings, and a private jet. Read more →
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#NeverTrump Files: Bret Stephens and the Underpants Gnomes
August 11, 2016 August 11, 2016 HAMMER biotechnology Politics Bret Stephens, Election 2016, GOP, Hillary Clinton, NeverTrump, Politics, Trump, Wall Street Journal, WSJ
Today, the first in what is likely to be a series on the quixotic oddities of the #NeverTrump movement.
Ace at the Ace of Spades blog has an excellent (and appropriately acerbic) post on the distressing turn some prominent members of #NeverTrump have taken and their increasingly bizarre reasoning. On Tuesday the Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Page’s Bret Stephens assailed Sean Hannity (among others) and includes the following;
This is the reason I’ve consistently argued that the only hope for a conservative restoration is a blowout Hillary Clinton victory, held in check by a Republican majority in Congress. If Mr. Trump loses the election narrowly, the stab-in-the-back thesis will have a patina of credibility that he might have won had it not been for the opposition of people like me. But a McGovern-style defeat makes that argument impossible to sustain except among the most cretinous. We can count on Mr. Hannity for that.
So, let’s get this straight: the path to restoring ‘conservative’ principles lies first in… a crushing Democratic victory? One that leaves the White House (and thus certainly the Supreme Court) in the hands of progressive Democrats for four to eight more years (vastly longer for the Court)? So elegant a plan, yet also so familiar…
For those insufficiently well versed in South Park episodes (or internet memes) the ‘business plan’ of the Underpants gnomes (world domination through underoos monopoly!) which has become shorthand for any plan where the initial steps seem completely disconnected from the final goal. A shorthand Stephens is well familiar with. Unfortunately, familiarity with the concept does not seem to have aided Stephens, for he seems to embrace a plan that not only seems unlikely to succeed, but a scenario where the first step makes the final step all but impossible.
Stephens’ thoughts on the subject are a deep well to plumb, but let’s focus on just a few problems that stand between Steps 1 (Hillary in the White House) and 3 (Conservative Triumph).
One is immediately struck by how #NeverTrump is presented in two, mutually incompatible, forms. On the one hand it is a movement so small and so lacking in influence that their opposition cannot reasonably be blamed for a loss by Trump. On the other hand the NeverTrumpers seem to harbor no doubt that their influence and leadership is sufficiently potent that they will be able to seize hold of the levers of power in the GOP in a post Trump environment.
To be fair one may object to my characterization: perhaps it is not that the NeverTrumpers believe they have such power now, no no. Rather they imagine that, after their prophesied ruin of Trump, they will be hoisted on the shoulders of the GOP, a GOP repentant and chastened by shattering losses. In other words, they may be powerless now, but just you wait, when this worm turns they will be on top of the world!
Putting aside that little wrinkle, there is a vastly greater problem. Buried in the vituperation against Mr. Hannity is a small and very revealing remark, almost offhand, but which gives perfect voice to the insuperable problems in the 3-step #NeverTrump plan (emphasis mine);
Mr. Hannity’s other goal is to preserve the fiction—first cultivated by Ted Cruz and later adopted by the Trumpians—that a wan GOP “establishment” and its “Acela corridor” voters sat on their hands while Mr. Obama traduced the Constitution and sold us out to the enemy.
For a moment, let’s take Mr. Stephens at his word: he truly believes that a Hillary presidency is the key to a “conservative restoration”. If that’s the case, what exactly is the conservative movement that Stephens and his colleagues at the WSJ editorial page interested in restoring?
It’s not exactly ancient history when the WSJ had precious little regard for conservatives such as Ted Cruz and Mike Lee. In an article at Truth Revolt from December of last year, pithily titled The Wall Street Journal Hates Ted Cruz. Here’s Why., Aaron Bandler runs through the many, many objections the WSJ has raised to Senator Cruz’ attempts to enforce conservative principles;
Time and again, the Journal‘s editorial board attacks conservatives for trying to fight against the leftist agenda. When Cruz and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Ut.) attempted to defund Obamacare, the Journal accused them of simply wanting “fund-raising lists or getting face time on cable TV.” The Journal also came out against conservative efforts to defund the baby-dismembering Planned Parenthood and Obama’s illegal executive amnesty. What good are the Republicans if they can’t even fight against those two issues?
Also, Bret Stephens, who is on the Journal‘s editorial board, wrote a snarky column called “Let’s Elect Hillary Now” in which he accuses conservatives like Levin and radio host Laura Ingraham of having purity tests for Republican candidates that will guarantee a win for likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. The column was light on substance, but heavy on elitism.
That same day Ben Shapiro dissected Stephens’ ‘Elect Hillary Now’ article in depth on Truth Revolt;
In fact, Stephens calls Cruz as unpalatable as Trump with this nasty slur:
Mr. Cruz is happy to be on any side of an issue so long as he can paint himself as a “real Republican”—the implicit goal here being the automatic excommunication of anyone who disagrees with him. Naturally, he’s rising.
What absolute, self-serving hogwash. Cruz has been incredibly consistent, far more so than Rubio. In fact, Cruz and Trump were both leaders on one of Stephens’ chief priorities, stopping the Iran deal that Stephens’ beloved GOP establishment allowed to breeze through Congress.
But that doesn’t matter. In order to demonstrate that they aren’t the whiny pick-up-the-political-football-and-go-home types, however, the GOP establishment must insist that Mitt Romney didn’t lose because they picked him – no, it was somehow the base’s fault. And it will be the base’s fault again if Cruz or Trump gets the nomination.
Shapiro remarks that Stephens “mocks”, “snarls” and insists “the only reason to disagree with him is a collective political death wish”. Ben Shapiro has been one of the most prominent (and during the Michelle Fields affair, most strident) public conservatives associated with #NeverTrump, yet there seems little room for either Ted Cruz or Mr. Shapiro in this new, ‘restored’ conservative movement Stephens imagines.
So, if Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Ben Shapiro et al are insufficiently representative of the ‘conservative’ movement the WSJ wishes to restore, what does actually inform the WSJ’s conceptualization of ‘conservatism’? Again, from Bandler’s article at Truth Revolt;
To really get an idea of the mindset of the Journal, one simply needs to look back to their editorial on July 3, 1984 called “In Praise of Huddled Masses” in which they called for open borders.
“If Washington still wants to ‘do something’ about immigration, we propose a five-word constitutional amendment: There shall be open borders,” the editorial read.
This stance by the WSJ editorial page has remained constant.
In his articles Mr. Stephens explicitly denies the very idea of an ‘Establishment’ GOP. He has openly denigrated conservatives in the mold of Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee. Two years ago it was the libertarian conservative Senator Rand Paul that Stephens was denigrating. In that article Stephens seems to reserve his warmest regards for such conservative stalwarts as… Governors Jeb Bush and Chris Christie. Winners, respectively, of 0.92% and 0.18% of the GOP primary vote. They really are representing the 1% (well, 1.1%)!
Stephens inadvertently illustrates that whether Trump or Hillary occupies the Oval Office next year, the conservative movement and the GOP face dark times ahead. As Myron Magnate observes, the voters are angry, animated by “the sense that the U.S. government no longer belongs to the people and no longer represents them“, a sense that “reflects the real state of affairs”. By this December we will be well into the question of what the conservative movement actually is and what it seeks to conserve.
Unfortunately for us all, it seems there is no shortage of people that someone wants out of the movement. What remains to be seen is if anyone at all will be left.
Trump takes the GOP Back to School
September 15, 2015 September 15, 2015 HAMMER biotechnology Uncategorized 2016, Election 2016, Failure Theater, film, GOP, Media, Politics, Pop culture, Republican Primary, Republicans, Trump
It seems that the Donald Trump phenomenon is something that pundits and commentators can’t seem to stop talking about, but also something they can’t seem to actually understand. One particular remark on Special Report Online struck me: Dr. Charles Krauthammer wondered how it was that a man born in wealth and with a tremendous fortune, how can he connect with middle and lower economic class voters?
The problem, it seems to me, may be that Dr. Krauthammer is a great intellect (and avid fan of baseball), but it seems he doesn’t watch enough movies. Because, as Ace of Spades explains, politics has become a a movie, analyzed in terms of a heroes journey and the sensibilities of plot, pacing and motivation. But how does that help us figure out the Trump phenomenon?
There are a lot of theories among pundits: some think he panders, some thing he simply shoots from the hip, some point out his crudity, borderline vulgarity and so on. All of that has some merit, but none of them capture the whole picture: Donald Trump is Thornton Melon.
Back to School is a great comedy, and a big part of the success is the ensemble cast. That’s because, just like Donald Trump, Rodney Dangerfield’s Thornton Melon is a man we root for in part in spite of himself. The thing is that if take away the loathsome, hidebound, patrician economics professor, the cartoon jock villains and the unctuous dean, and we’re left with Melon… who’s kinda an insufferable schmuck.
Insufferable perhaps, but a snappy dresser.
At the risk of fantastically over-analyzing a light 80’s comedy, Thornton Melon would be nearly intolerable in real life: he is constantly breaking the rules and suffering no consequences because he throws large amounts of cash at problems, he’s unashamed about being crooked and simply bribing public servants, he’s a womanizer, a coward and, most significant to the plot, he’s a cheater.
In Back to School we don’t root for Melon because he’s a hero, we root for him because he’s not actively a villain. Once we realize that, and that Paxton Whitehead‘s acerbic and patronizing performance is as important to the movie as Dangerfield’s own, we understand Trump and his role in this film.
Because if Trump is Melon, who has been cast in the role of the uptight, head-up-his-ass professors that everyone wants to see get their comeuppance?
Heirs to the legacy of Lincoln, or two putzes in need of a pie to the face?
Since putting in the Republican Congress Republican Voters have been subject to one episode after another of what Ace aptly terms failure theater. No principle seems too big to sacrifice on the alter of expediency, no favor to donors too imbecile to come through on. The Republican base is appalled and feels betrayed. They’ve delivered both houses of Congress to their party only to be told ‘oops, turns out nothing worthwhile can be done without the White House too‘. The Republican leadership is running a con job on its voters, and they have noticed. In other words, the base has collectively decided that it’s time to do something futile and stupid.
Enter Trump, stage right.
America, Israel and Impossible Walls
August 18, 2015 HAMMER biotechnology Uncategorized American-Mexican Border, Border Fence, Border Security, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Illegal Aliens, Illegal Immigration, Israel, Politics, Presidential Race, Trump
So Donald Trump is promising to wall off the southern border. Whether you think this is a worthwhile endeavor or not depends on a great many things, but one strain of argument that has popped up is not so much that this is a bad idea, per se, but rather that it’s an idea beneath consideration, patently foolish and something no rational person would consider.
The response I have seen to this is very interesting and it often takes the form of “Israel has a border wall, why can’t the United States?”
What makes this question “Israel has X, why can’t we” so interesting is what it reveals, both about Israel and about the gulf between her and the other Western nations. It seems that Israel, alone among the Western nations, must engage in this kind of exercise in exclusion. Although England, at least, may soon be regretting the loss of their great moat against mainland Europe… The rest of Europe looks at such nationalism, such exclusion and shudders. Though, to be fair, European nations have more reason then most to rue forceful expressions of national pride.
This in turn fuels a feeling for some on the Right that Israel is the last truly Western nation, in the sense of being a nation that is distinctly modern and patriotic yet retaining its own cultural identity. In other words, that Israel is the last Western nation that is Western in the American sense. This would seem to be supported by the reviling of Israel in the most anti-American quarters of the Left, who despise Israel for precisely the characteristics that are admired by the right. The patriotism, seeing self-defense as a virtue and religiosity that the Right value are all characteristics far out of favor on the left.
Others will contend that a fence is useless, offering more picayune objections: citing tunnel infiltration and the abduction of Gilad Shalit. ‘Surely the wealthy Mexican cartels can surely replicate Hamas’ tunnel network?’, they declare. But this rebuttal would seem to miss the point; no one would seriously entertain the idea that condoms are useless because they have a (very small) failure rate. Yet to a certain kind of critic, the idea that the Israeli border walls are not 100% efficacious is the equivalent of them being useless.
In this way the Left is at least consistent: for years we were told that missile defense could never be practical. Which is true.. so long as you keep ratcheting up what constitutes “practical”. It’s also reminiscent of the attempt to ‘debunk the success’ of the Iron Dome system in the recent Gaza conflict.
This, I think, ties into the other reason the left find the question “Israel has a wall, why can’t we” so vexing: Israel has a wall because it retains a sense of self and a sense of sovereignty. European nations retain (with varying degree of success) distinct identities, but there is a terrible shame seen among the ‘elites’ in taking any pride in this. Israeli pride in Israeli identity is an uncomfortable reminder to many on the left, especially in Europe, of a time they want to forget.
There is also a rather amusing and circular argument and it goes like this;
“You can’t build a fence that won’t be scaled, or a wall that can’t be tunneled under.” Claims the opponent of a border barrier.
“Well,” goes the reply, “then we’ll put up X.” Where X is an ever increasing level of security, going from barbed wire topped fences to noveu-Berlin Wall affairs. As each new level is proposed, it is dismissed, until a point of security that everyone understands would be effective is proposed.
“Okay, may that would work,” admits the opponent, “but it would be sick. But I guess you want to see migrant children blown up by landmines/impaled on punji sticks/eaten by moat alligators?”
It’s a bit like the old example of a man that kills his parents then asks the court for mercy on the grounds that he is an orphan. The opponents of a border wall insist that innocuous measures will be ineffective, and effective measures would be too terrible for civilized people to actually deploy… oh, and you’re a dope if you propose innocuous measures, and a bloodthirsty savage for proposing the measures opponents understand would work.
Catch-22: it’s a way of saying ‘yes’ to the question “does a sovereign nation have the right to refuse access to non-citizens?” while at the same time ruling out any way to restrict access.
It seems in the end what is really being discussed is: if a nation will not put its own citizens before non-citizens, if it will not show loyalty first to its citizens, what loyalty then does that nation deserve from its citizens?
In the contrast of Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, many Americans (especially on the right) see one leader that they feel, outside of any evaluation of competency, truly loves his country and is doing all he can for it. The other leader would be President Obama.
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THE DANCE OF DEATH. 61 PLATE XXV1LTHE GAMESTERS. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matt. ...
Show more THE DANCE OF DEATH. 61 PLATE XXV1LTHE GAMESTERS. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matt. xvi. 20. The Devil and Death are disputing which of them shall carry off the losing Gamester. It is a contest, if we may say so., frightful as well as ludicrous, so much the more so, that the second Gamester, interesting himself in the fate of the first, is addressing fervent prayers to the Devil on his behalf; but the third is doing still better, taking the advantage of this moment of trouble and terror, to gather in the money that is lying on the table. PLANCHE XXVILLES JOUEURS. Le Diable & la Mort se disputent qui des deux emportera le Joueur qui a perdu. C'est un combat, s'il est permis de le dire, aussi effroyable que comique, d'autant plus que le second Joueur, s'interessant au sort du premier, addresse de fer-ventes prieres au Diable en sa faveur ; mais le troisieme fait encore mieux, & profite de ce moment de trouble & d'effroi, pour ramasser Tar-gent qui se trouve sur la table.
THE DANCE OF DEATH. PLATE XXVIILTHE OLD MAN. My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. Job, xvii. 1. Here we see Death leading away, playing on a psaltery, an Ol...
Show more THE DANCE OF DEATH. PLATE XXVIILTHE OLD MAN. My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. Job, xvii. 1. Here we see Death leading away, playing on a psaltery, an Old Man to the brink of the grave* bent under the load of years, and verging to the last degree of frailty. The Old Man allows himself to be carried off, with that calmness and tranquillity, which are the effects of wisdom, and the fruits of a good conscience. PLANCHE XXVIILLE VIEILLARD. L'on voit ici la Mort qui conduit sur le bord de sa fosse, en jouant du psalterion, un Vieillard courbe sous le poids des annees, & parvenu au dernier degr de la caducite, Le Vieillard se laisse emmener avec ce calme & cette tranquillite qui sont Papanage de la sagesse, & les fruits d'une bonne conscience.
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THE DANCE OF DEATH. PLATE XXIX.THE OLD WOMAN. Death is better than a bitter life, or continual sickness. Eccles. xxx. 17. The grim countenance of this good old Dame does not indicate the same...
Show more THE DANCE OF DEATH. PLATE XXIX.THE OLD WOMAN. Death is better than a bitter life, or continual sickness. Eccles. xxx. 17. The grim countenance of this good old Dame does not indicate the same resignation as appears in the former subject. Wholly occupied in mumbling her rosary, she pays no attention to the sound of a dulcimer,, on which one of her conductors is playing. The other skeleton, impatient of the slowness of the Old Woman's march, is employing menaces and, blows to make her advance. : PLANCHE XXIX.LA VIE1LLE. Le visage rechigne de cette bonne Vieille n'annonce pas la merne resignation que dans le sujet precedent. Toute occupee a marmotter son rosaire, elle ne prete aucune attention au son du timpanon dont joue Tune de ses conductrices. L'autre squelette^ impatient de la lenteur que la bonne Vieille met dans sa marche, emploie les menaces & les coups pour la faire avancer.
64 THE DANCE OF DEATH. PLATE XXX.THE CHILD. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and co...
Show more 64 THE DANCE OF DEATH. PLATE XXX.THE CHILD. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Job, xiv. 1. If under the roof of poverty there is any comfort, it is in having children, by whom we may hope one day to be solaced. This is the case with this poor widow ; but Death is of a different opinion,, and is come to carry off her youngest Child, unmoved by her prayers and lamentations. PLANCHE XXX.L'ENFANT. Si sous le toit de la pauvrete il y a quelque consolation, e'est d'avoir des enfans dont on peut esperer d'etre un jour soulage. C'esl le cas de cette pauvre veuve, mais la Mort n'est point de cet avis, & vient de lui enlever le plus petit sans se laisser flechir, ni par ses prieres ni par ses lamentations. END OF THE DANCE OF DEATH-
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THE DANCE OF MACABER. JOHN LYDGATE, a monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury in Suffolk,, flourished in the reign of Henry VI. He was an uncommon ornament of his profession., his genius being ...
Show more THE DANCE OF MACABER. JOHN LYDGATE, a monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury in Suffolk,, flourished in the reign of Henry VI. He was an uncommon ornament of his profession., his genius being so lively, and his accomplishments so numerous, that it is hardly probable the holy father St. Benedict would have acknowledged him for a genuine disciple. After a short education at Oxford, he travelled into France and Italy, and returned a complete master of the language and the literature of both countries. He chiefly studied the Italian and French poets, particularly Dante, Boccaccio, and Alain Chartier ; and became so distinguished a proficient in polite learning, that he opened a school in his monastery for teaching the sons of the nobility the arts of versification, and the elegancies of composition. Yet although philology was his object, he was not unfamiliar with the fashionable philosophy; he was not only a poet and a rhetorician, but a geometrician, an astronomer, a theologist, and a disputant. He made considerable addition to those amplifications
68 THE DANCE OF MACABEIi. of our language, in which Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve led the way, and is the first of our writers whose style is clothed with that perspicuity in which the English ...
Show more 68 THE DANCE OF MACABEIi. of our language, in which Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve led the way, and is the first of our writers whose style is clothed with that perspicuity in which the English phraseology appears at this day to an English reader. His muse was of universal access, and he was not only the poet of his monastery, but of the world in general. If a disguising was intended by the Company of Goldsmiths, a mask before his Majesty at Eltham, a Maygame for the Sheriffs and Aldermen of London, a mumming before the Lord Mayor, a procession of pageants from the creation, for the festival of Corpus Christi, or a carrol for the coronation, Lydgate was consulted, and gave the poetry. Mr. War ton, from whose elegant History of English Poetry the above account of Lydgate is extracted, further informs us, that he translated Macaber's Dance of Death from the French, at the request of the Chapter of St. Paul's, to be inscribed under the painting of that subject in their cloister; but it appears from the verses themselves, that he undertook the translation at the instance of a French clerk. Lydgate's poem is neither a literal or complete translation of the French version from Macaber* : and this he himself confesses, " Out of the French I drough it of intent " Not word by word, but following in substance." * This French translation has been erroneously given to Michael Marot, who was not born at the time when it was first
THE DANCE OF MACABER. 69 Again, the number of the characters in Lyd-gate is much less than in the French,, being only thirty-five,, whilst the other contains seventy-six, and he has not only...
Show more THE DANCE OF MACABER. 69 Again, the number of the characters in Lyd-gate is much less than in the French,, being only thirty-five,, whilst the other contains seventy-six, and he has not only omitted several, but supplied their places with others; so that if these lines were inscribed under the painting at Saint Paul's, it must have differed materially from that at Saint Innocent's at Paris. Stowe, upon whose sole authority all the information concerning this painting depends, says, that on the north side of Saint Paul's church was a great cloister, environing a plot of ground, of old time called Pardon Church-yard, whereof Thomas More, Dean of Saint Paul's, was either the first builder, or a great benefactor, and was buried there. About this cloister was artificially and richly painted the Dance of Machabray, a Dance of Death commonly called the Dance of Paul's; the like xvhereof was painted about St. Innocent's cloister at Paris. The metres or poetry of this Dance were translated out of the French into English, by John Lydgate, Monk of Bury. He adds, that this was done at the expence of Jenken Carpenter*, in the reign of Henry the Vlth, so that the poem and the painting appear to have been finished about the same time. printed. See De Bure Bibliog. Instruct. No. 3109, and War-ton's Correct, and Add. to Vol. II. of Hist, of Engl. Poetry. * This Jenken Carpenter was town-clerk of London, 1430, and executor of Richard Whittington. Weever's Funeral Monum. p. 379, fo edition.
70 THE DANCE OF MACABER. In the year 1549, on the tenth of April, the whole of this cloister, together with the Dance of Death, the tombs, and monuments, was begun to be pnlled dow...
Show more 70 THE DANCE OF MACABER. In the year 1549, on the tenth of April, the whole of this cloister, together with the Dance of Death, the tombs, and monuments, was begun to be pnlled down by command of the Duke of Somerset, so that nothing thereof was left but the bare plot of ground, which was afterwards converted into a garden for the petty Canons *. All the ancient Dances of Death, though evidently to be deduced from one original, differed very materially in the number and design of the characters. They uniformly appear to have been accompanied with Macaber's verses, or more probably with imitations of them. * Stowe's Survey. FINIS. London: Printed by 15. M'Millan, 3 ttow Street, Covent Garden.
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Plans Moving Forward to Change Crenshaw & Slauson to Nipsey Hussle Square
The intersection of Crenshaw Boulevard and Slauson Avenue took a step forward to being renamed after the late rapper Nipsey Hussle. The office of South LA councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson told NBC News that they’re making plans to rename the intersection “Nipsey Hussle Square.”
The motion to rename the area will occur this Friday, before potentially moving forward before the LA City Council for a final vote.
The councilman is confident he has the full support of the other council members to make the big change in honor of Nipsey who helped revitalize the city by bringing businesses and jobs to the legendary intersection.
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NBA is fixed Apr 10, 2019 at 09:23
If this is successfully done, can we rename the street where Notorious B.I.G. was murdered, Biggie Smalls Square?
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😝
Maria Conchita Apr 10, 2019 at 15:57
Former gang member Nipsey invested into the community, owned businesses and provided jobs. Nipsey was semi famous, underground for a long time before his breakout album. Do to his business acumen he was able to sale his own cassette tape (Jay Z bought a copy) for $100 each.
Biggie was out from what, 93 to 97 and I believe he put out one or two albums. How did he give to his community???
@Maria, speak on that sh*t.
DJ Ritty Apr 10, 2019 at 19:55
MAN I liked Nipsey from DAY ONE…because of his name. NO ONE knew who he was. I’ll bet 90% of his fans don’t even know the reference. Loved that NAME. WHY is every comment here just hateful name calling…y’ALL a bunch of BITCH-ES…lol
Maria Conchita it was a joke.
it wasn’t funny Dick.
Off topic: Ebony magazine has filed for bankruptcy!
Don’t care. They were garbage anyway.
Didn’t they put a white on the cover?
No disrespect but this is really getting stupid how are we moving forward if we have a street name after a gang members and I am not speaking like I live somewhere else I live not to far from this area and that’s very dumb to do don’t uplift this crap like it’s something that became a positive movement
STFU Bitch.
He’s done more for that community than YOU, Any Politician or group has EVER Done and if the people in that community want to show appreciation for that…good for them.
These Idiots decided to rename rodeo ~ obama blvd…like he did anything for the community, which is BS…At least this man ACTUALLY did something for the area they want to rename.
Oh I am so sorry I forgot that your kind would love something like this stupid ass
Fuck You, You Raggedy Out of Touch Tramp.
I get what you’re saying, but the way forward isn’t to point out his flaws, unless it’s a phony like TI.
We need to recognize more men like this, and celebrate this commitment to OUR interests.
What if every bad neighborhood had 10 Nipseys? Yes, he banged, but he wasn’t born into money, and you should know that in a lot of neighborhoods, you’re FORCED to join. Let me say that one more time. In a lot of neighborhoods, they make kids and teens join. They threaten them and family.
And some of these bangers have no one. They have no support system or a bad one. The gang feeds, clothes, shelters, pays, and protects them. Don’t be mad at the symptom, be mad at the disease. Poverty and crime are engineered. It’s not an accident.
You know how the Chinese went from a big crackhouse to halfway decent in such a short period of time? They incarcerated or EXECUTED a bunch of rich, powerful people running the country into the ground and making their people starve.
Don’t try to school this Ignorant Bitch…
People like this just have to complain about Everything and Hate Everybody… No matter how Positive an Impact they made.
This Bitch hates itself to be so Ratchet as to ONLY point out negative instead of embracing the positivity this Man bright to people.
bright=brought
And who the fuck are you mother Teresa? Yeah he gangbanged but so what. As someone else mentioned he didn’t come from money you don’t know what he had to do in order to survive or what he all went through in his life. So stop with the judgement. He was a very good man who wanted to help black people instead of like you, Tear them down.
Holland Course Apr 10, 2019 at 17:30
Stop arguing make peace. God Bles Nipseys Soul
Blacks only make 8% of the population in los Angeles. Gentrification is going on left and right forcing blacks elsewhere.
Ridiculous. Use his real name IF it happens. His name is a PARODY. Honor him properly and don’t insult Nipsey RUSSLE(‘s legacy) either.
Nipsey Hussle is easier to spell & pronounce.
missfitts Apr 10, 2019 at 20:36
Not to take anything away from his incredible life but he’s not the only Black man that has helped out in the community they grew up in. Local businessmen that got their basic education or graduated from college, government workers, lesser-known entertainers and others have given back to Leimert Park, Inglewood, Compton, Watts and other areas the media sees as oppressed. These people don’t rhyme, have a sexy babymomma, or drive an Italian sports car but still do the thing without fanfare.
Did you complain when they renamed rodeo to obama who actually did NOTHING for that area…NO..
This Man did something for the area they are renaming, so if this is who the people who live their want to honor that is their biz…
missfits Apr 12, 2019 at 11:17
Obama may not have done anything directly for that area but neither did MLK. My point is there are many men and women who willingly give back to their neighborhood. Some of these people had the same or worse struggles as this young man, and remain humble enough to contribute without conditions. If more people got back to creating villages, they would realize that many residents, young and older, have the power to make their communities stronger.
Your point doesn’t matter to that community… they are honoring who they choose, so you can shut up about it.
I don’t have to shut up about a damn thing. If you don’t like what I have to say, leave it be. You’re just mad because you don’t have a real counterpoint. BYE!
LMAO… You Never had a point Bitch… so there b is nothing to counter you Dumb MF…LOL!
Dude really resemble a young Snoop Dogg in that pic
Yeah he does. I’ve seen a few of his interviews and there r times he sounds like Snoop.
All of black hollywood and black media are talking about Nipsey Hussle. Nobody is talking about the white boy Kristap Porzingis allegedly raping a black woman. That’s a damn shame!
Because that’s what WHITE media wants. NHs death is very sad indeed. But this is all a smoke screen to take the attention off them. By the time we wake up from NHs death no more mention wiil be made about Harvey Weinstein, Spacey & the rest of the pedophiles.
The only reason mainstream media is giving so much attention to NH death is because the powers to be will be/are gaining something out of this. When have they EVER given this much attention to a Black person. Especially one that was doing something positive for his community.
Well on the flip side, they gave us a little rope. We can either really come together. Or like poison ivy going on a tree, keep suffocating each other to death.
Black women should honor the legacy of Nipsey Hussle. They should also protest against Kristap Porzingis. How in the fuck can a seven foot white boy in the NBA rape a black woman and sistas don’t say shit.
Last thing, to honor Nipsey Hussel and all of the black community, I’m going to buy black. I’m going to Hawkins House Of Burgers and buy a double cheeseburger with onion rings. They I’m going to EsoWan Book Store to buy Hidden Colors Volume 4. That’s how I recycle black dollars. Rest in peace Nipsey Hussle. #BuyBlack
^^^^ A man that killed only black people and then tried to improve the community he and his gang destroyed. And then you have the NERVE to talk about corrupt cops and politicians. Make it make sense. The black community IS CORRUPT TO ITS CORE. It supports, defends and looks up to pimps, murderers, rapists and pedophiles, but don’t you dare be disrespectful to Nipseys, baby mama. TRASH.
Reformed Apr 11, 2019 at 13:32
@NBA, I’m not sure what u r talking about when u say that Black women should honor NH. U need to clarify that.
Secondly, the story about Porzingis was suppressed by mainstream media. As was stated earlier, the focus has been on NH, which is a smoke screen to keep the outrage about the rapes and pedophiles.
Crazychris Apr 12, 2019 at 11:48
Hell blacks will forever be dissed and talked about
Where was all the positive things nip did when he was alive
The white founding fathers of america killed and raped and enslaved blacks and yet they heroes
Look at all the chaos and madness whites caused but you wanna critize nipsey
At least.nip had a business
Ok he was in a gang
Sinatra a white italian singer was in the mafia
White gangsters amd serial.killers are idolized like jegfrey dahmer and ted bundy
Manson had women writing him live letters and he married a fan
^^^^LOL
SO YOU BASS WHO IS GOOD OR BAD ON THE STANDARDS WHITE MEN HAVE SET…..LOL. PROVING BEYOND A DOIBT THAT THE BAR FOR BLAXK MEN IS IN HELL.
He didn’t like black women and was homophobic so, as guess that’s enough to make him great. He also only dealt with mixed race, white man And Ancient Woman s daughter, which automatically gives him a connection to the so called devil…..and did i mention he hated dark skinned Ancient women, the Mother of All. That only gets him into the club. All praise be to our new savior…..
Abiy Gebrehaber Apr 28, 2019 at 23:11
He looked more Eritrean being 50% than Eritreans. Jeez.
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The application of characteristic scores and scales to the evaluation and ranking of scientific journals
W. Glänzel
Characteristic scores and scales (CSS) were introduced by Glänzel and Schubert in 1988. CSS can be applied to analyse the citation impact of any subset of a system in comparison with citation patterns of the complete system. In this present study, CSS will be applied to individual subfields as systems and journals and papers as corresponding subunits. CSS are used as parameter-free tools to identify top journals within science fields, to identify highly cited papers within fields and journals and to compare the rank frequency distribution of highly cited papers over journals with the journal ranking according to traditional impact measures. The second part of the study is devoted to the possible normalisation of journal impact. In this study, threshold values of CSS are used to re-scale the journal-impact distributions. The underlying methodology and the outcomes for different subfields representing the life sciences, engineering and mathematics are discussed.
Journal of Information Science
https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551510392316
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Glänzel, W. (2011). The application of characteristic scores and scales to the evaluation and ranking of scientific journals. Journal of Information Science, 37(1), 40-48. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551510392316
The application of characteristic scores and scales to the evaluation and ranking of scientific journals. / Glänzel, W.
In: Journal of Information Science, Vol. 37, No. 1, 02.2011, p. 40-48.
Glänzel, W 2011, 'The application of characteristic scores and scales to the evaluation and ranking of scientific journals', Journal of Information Science, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 40-48. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551510392316
Glänzel W. The application of characteristic scores and scales to the evaluation and ranking of scientific journals. Journal of Information Science. 2011 Feb;37(1):40-48. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551510392316
Glänzel, W. / The application of characteristic scores and scales to the evaluation and ranking of scientific journals. In: Journal of Information Science. 2011 ; Vol. 37, No. 1. pp. 40-48.
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Thoughts from poetry winners
By Karen Crofts | Newcastle Poetry Prize, News, Poetry at HWC
The 2018 Newcastle Poetry Prize winners are listed on our competition page
The 2018 anthology, BUYING ONLINE, is on sale here
Here are thoughts from our winners:
If poets can be said to have careers, then winning this prize is definitely an enormous career highlight. Its status as the major prize for a single poem in Australia and the substantial amount of money awarded make it a huge honour to have won. The fact that the competition encourages the longer poem is also very significant, as it’s not easy to get longer poems, or sequences of poems, published at all. To publish thirty or so really high quality long poems in such fine anthologies every year is itself a great contribution made to the poetry world.
Ross Gillet, winner.
I have been aware of the central position the Newcastle Poetry Prize holds since the early Eighties when it was the Mattara Prize. I entered frequently then and since then I’ve seen it evolve into undoubtedly the pre-eminent poetry prize in Australia. As such I regard it as of immense significance to Poetry in general, and to me — since in my case I have been somewhat reticent about my work and winning or appearing in the anthology has been highly important personally. I recognise many of the contributors over the years simply by their repeated appearances, so that we share a kind of collegiality. In the perilous community of poets the NPP is a life-line and an anchor.
John Watson, 2nd Prize.
Writing poetry can feel like slogging away in a one-person show with no audience. While the Newcastle Poetry Prize provides a generous financial incentive to persevere, the opportunity to have work read by such eminent judges is a gift in itself. Receiving an award and being published in the NPP anthology encourages me to continue, with fresh resolve, an exciting, exhausting endless game of hide-and-seek with words.
Joanne Ruppin, Commended
To be commended in the Newcastle Poetry Prize is to be judged worthy by one’s peers, and this might be the best kind of acknowledgement. The prize provides opportunity for the longer poem, a chance to reward a sustained aesthetic effort seldom found elsewhere. What poets do is mostly done in isolation. Attending the awards ceremony put me in the company of fine poets and their work—and fine conversation, too—and I sense the rejuvenating desire to improve my craft. I’m standing on more solid ground, I think, looking forward to the road ahead.
Kevin Smith, Commended
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Written by Robert Lepage • Written by Marie Michaud • Illustrated by Fred Jourdain
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Robert Lepage • Marie Michaud • Fred Jourdain
In this stunning graphic-novel adaptation of Robert Lepage and Marie Michaud’s play, the personal meets the political, East meets West, and old meets new. Claire, a Quebecoise art dealer, arrives in China to adopt a little girl. There she visits her ex-husband, Pierre, who after fifteen years in China has begun to question the new directions his adopted country is going in. Claire and Pierre’s lover, the young Chinese artist Xiao Ling, become fast friends. Through this classic love triangle, The Blue Dragon examines aging, cultural confusion, fertility, and creativity, and emerges as a fascinating examination of some of modern China’s most intriguing paradoxes. Fred Jourdain’s gorgeous, colourful, and cinematic drawings do full justice to the story’s genesis as one of Robert Lepage’s most dazzling theatrical constructions. A feast for the mind as well as the senses, The Blue Dragon is an extraordinary graphic novel for grownups.
ROBERT LEPAGE is a multidisciplinary artist and founder of creative company Ex Machina. A talented director, playwright, actor, and film director, Lepage has been hailed by international critics, for his highly original theatrical works that incorporate the use of new technologies and defy boundaries.
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HILLCROFT PARK WINS PRESTIGOUS 2018 AWARD FOR ITS WASHROOMS
We are delighted to have won the Platinum Loo of the Year Award in the 2018 search to find the ‘best away from home’ washrooms in the UK.
Our entry was in the Holiday Park Sector.
The Loo of the Year Awards and Associated Washroom Cleaner of the Year Awards for cleaning staff have been identifying the best washrooms in Britain since 1987 and are recognised as standard setters for all those who provide ‘away from home’ facilities for staff, customers and visitors.
Every entry received an unannounced visit from a Loo of the Year Awards Inspector and was assessed against 101 judging criteria – including signage and décor, fixtures and fittings and overall standards of cleanliness and management. Every washroom receives a grading ranging from Bronze to Platinum and the Gold and Platinum winners are shortlisted for one or more of several National Awards covering England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
The 2018 Loo of the Year Awards were sponsored by Clos-o-Mat , Dolphin Dispensers, and Dyson Airblade Wash + Dry.
Thousands of toilets were judged this year, across the sixty one separate entry categories of the completion, with many first time entries from establishments joining the increasing number of providers who submit their washroom facilities for an annual, independent assessment.
Thank you to all who supported our Coffee Morning we have raised
£511.61 for this very worth while cause.
New Games Room
The Games Room opens at 10.00am on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and Closes at 9.00pm. All times are at the Park’s Discretion.
The New Shower Block
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On Wednesday 4 April 2018, the much-loved comedian, Johnny Vegas returned to Hillcroft Park to open an impressive, new facilities block. Hillcroft Park became Johnny’s Lakeland ‘Home from Home’ for six weeks in 2017 during filming for the BBC series ‘Home from Home’ which will air soon on BBC1.
Johnny opened the brand new facilities building including a shower block that must be one of the most impressive in the UK when it comes to camping bathing facilities. Many of the fixtures and fittings would not be amiss in a luxury bathroom at home! Not content with high quality showers, basins, taps and tiles – campers will also be able to enjoy panoramic Lakeland scenes thoughtfully installed within the facilities themselves as well as a custom made Lakeland soundscape of dawn chorus, sheep and of course, water.
For families who prefer a little more privacy, we also have two private bathrooms that can be hired for the duration of guests’ stay that include generous bath and walk in showers.
If you’ve enjoyed a holiday with us recently, we’d like to ask a favour? Please would you vote for Hillcroft Park to be in the TOP 100 sites in the UK for 2018? It’s very simple – just click here and follow the steps, it only takes a couple of minutes. Many thanks in advance for your support.
The Hillcroft Park Team
POPULAR LAKELAND BISTRO CELEBRATES ASTONISHING FIRST YEAR!
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A recent addition to the Ullswater Valley food scene is celebrating an astonishing first year of business. 1863 Bar Bistro Rooms in Pooley Bridge opened its doors to guests in May 2016 with a flourish of Victorian-inspired chic and a keen young Head Chef eager to make waves on the Cumbrian food scene.
For over 150 years, 1863 has quite literally been a cornerstone of the village. The property is set in the heart of Pooley Bridge, a short walk from the shores of Ullswater. It was built first as the village blacksmith’s and later became the post office. Now reimagined for the 21st century, 1863 features a bar, bistro and seven elegant bedrooms. A family business, they say they enjoy getting the little things just right, welcoming guests back time and again to share in a slice of Lakeland paradise.
Twelve months on and ‘the proof’ as they say ‘is in the pudding.’ Over 10,000 locals and visitors from as far away as Hong Kong and New Zealand have enjoyed dinner in the Bistro while over 3500 have used 1863 Bar Bistro Rooms as a base for a short break to discover the beautiful Ullswater and Eden Valleys and of course the wider Lake District.
Meanwhile, over in the the Kitchen, the team is almost unrecognisable. One year ago, Head Chef, Phil Corrie was holding the fort on his own. Today, thanks to a lot of hard work and skill, Phil (25) is joined by four other chefs with a combined mean age of 19.6 years! Between them they’ve worked with 21 local, regional and national suppliers to create 104 different dishes plus 46 flavours of ice cream and sorbet. That equates to over seven menus in 1863’s first year, or put another way, one new dish served every three days!
Head Chef Phil commented:
“To have the chance to be involved in a new business venture right from the off is on most Head Chefs’ bucket lists. I’ve enjoyed every moment of the last year and am so proud of all we’ve achieved together. I’ve particularly enjoyed the opportunity to create innovative, seasonal menus using produce that really is as local as it could be – Jean’s fantastic kitchen garden veg, Henry’s pungent mint and my mum’s raspberries!”
When asked what year two holds, Phil’s not resting on his laurels. The young chef and graduate of Kendal College is focussed on building and expanding 1863 Bistro’s reputation both with customers and critics while pushing and developing his young team on the technical front.
Previously known as Elm House Bed and Breakfast, 1863’s owners, Mark and Anne Vause, moved to the area from Blackburn in 2008 and spent eight years running the award-winning B&B. In November 2015, the entrepreneurial couple had already made the ambitious decision to close to undertake a £300,000 refurbishment project and relaunch in early Summer 2016 as 1863 Bar Bistro Rooms. Despite the dreadful storms of Winter 2015/16 and ensuing challenges, the establishment opened on time and on budget in late May.
Mark commented:
“Quite honestly – it’s been astonishing. You always hope that people are going to like what you’ve created but we’ve just been so taken aback at the support and appetite (!) our customers have for 1863. But perhaps beyond the welcome, the food and the rooms, I think maybe they appreciate that we’re a close knit team, we work hard and are constantly looking to the future and ways to make their visits to us unexpected and even more enjoyable.”
With a brand new summer menu out now, a newly expanded wine list due out in early July, two new luxury suites available from late July plus a series of popular Tasting Evenings throughout the year, there’s no sign that the 1863 pace is going to abate anytime soon.
1863 is open year round; the bar opens at 2pm with a ‘Bite to Eat’ menu, the bistro opens at 6pm daily. Booking is strongly advised for the Bistro. To book a table call 017684 86334.
For further information and the latest menu visit www.1863ullwater.co.uk.
For further information or images please contact Sam Bunting on
07866 492 891 or at sam_bunting@hotmail.com
Notes to the Editor
• INVITE TO JOURNALISTS: If you’d like to come and review our Bistro, please contact Sam on 07866 492 891 to arrange a suitable time
• A selection of images is available here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uai1kkqkehl3nzx/AAA4MV4LM_TyAXdwxjhe3zB8a?dl=0
• Mark and Anne Vause are available for interview. Please contact Sam on 07866 492 891 or at sam_bunting@hotmail.com to arrange a suitable time
Euphoria as Lake District becomes a World Heritage Site
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The Lake District has become a World Heritage Site joining iconic locations such as the Taj Mahal, the Great Barrier Reef and Grand Canyon as a place of international acclaim.
Today’s announcement in Krakow has led to jubilation among 25 organisations in the Lake District National Park Partnership who had put the bid together for UNESCO recognition in the cultural landscape category.
Chairman of the Partnership, Lord Clark of Windermere, described the prestigious status as momentous and will bring great benefits for locals, visitors, tourism, businesses and farming. It now joins just over 1,000 World Heritage Sites worldwide.
Three key themes underpinned the bid for World Heritage Site status, recognising the Lake District National Park as a cultural landscape of international significance. These include world ranking examples of identity – the dramatic farmed landscape; inspiration – art, literature and love of the place. This in turn sparked the birth of conservation – people fought and invested to look after this special corner of England.
Lord Clark explained: “It is this exceptional blend which makes our Lake District so spectacularly unique and we are delighted UNESCO has agreed. A great many people have come together to make this happen and we believe the decision will have long and lasting benefits for the spectacular Lake District landscape, the 18million visitors we welcome every year and for the people who call the National Park their home.”
Lake District National Park Chief Executive, Richard Leafe, said there was great excitement over the achievement.
Richard said: “The Lake District is an evolving landscape that has changed over time and will continue to do so. Improving landscape biodiversity and looking after our cultural heritage underpin the Partnership’s management plan which sets out how, together, we will look after the National Park as a World Heritage Site for everyone to enjoy.”
The bid was submitted by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Historic England as the UK’s only submission in 2016. Following the 41st UNESCO committee meeting held in Krakow, John Glen, Minister for Arts, Heritage and Tourism said:
“The Lake District is one of the UK’s most stunning and ancient landscapes and I am thrilled it has been granted World Heritage Site status. It is a unique part of the world, that combines a vibrant farming community with thousands of archaeological sites and structures that give us an amazing glimpse into our past.”
He added: “This decision will undoubtedly elevate the position of the Lake District internationally, boosting tourism and benefitting local communities and businesses.”
Join us! Locals and visitors across the Lake District are being invited to celebrate the UK’s latest World Heritage Site this weekend by coming together for a Picnic in the Park! Marking the first weekend as a UNESCO World Heritage Site (15 and 16 July) lovers of the Lake District are encouraged to take a trip to their favourite picnic spot, café, garden, fell or iconic lakeside view in the National Park and share their photos using #WeAreTheLakes, which will appear on the World Heritage website. For ideas on where to go this weekend, visit: lakesworldheritage.co.uk
Hillcroft Park gets fresh new look
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Visitors to the popular Pooley Bridge holiday park, Hillcroft are in for a pleasant surprise as the team unveil a fresh new look for 2017…
Cumbria Life Home and Garden Show 2020 at 13th January 2020
Extended Season for Tourers, Motorhomes and Pods at 27th November 2019
Winter Reception Opening 2019 at 8th November 2019
*** Road Closure *** at 27th August 2019
Relax and Enjoy a Private Bathroom at 15th July 2019
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=== Border Crossing ===
There are three border checkpoints with [[Syria]]. One in the west of the country (towards [[Damascus]]) and two in the north. There is also a checkpoint to [[Israel]], but it's not open.
There are three border checkpoints with [[Syria]]. One in the west of the country (towards [[Damascus]]) and two in the north.
* Aaboudiye checkpoint: Checkpoint in the north of Lebanon and north-west of Syria, might be a choice if you come from [[Tripoli (Lebanon)|Tripoli]] going towards [[Tartus]], [[Homs]] or [[Aleppo]]. The bus from [[Beirut]] to [[Aleppo]] goes this way. Small border checkpoint, very bad condition of the roads, mostly taxi's and buses around here. Not much traffic at all. Take care! [[User:Platschi|Platschi]] recommends to take the Masnaa checkpoint, which in fact is much further away (if going to Hama/Homs or Aleppo), but also possible to hitch in one day from Beirut. If you're lucky (as many tourists are, as there are in fact not many traveling this checkpoint), officers might give you even a 30 days visa for '''Lebanon''' for free.
* '''Aaboudiye checkpoint''': Checkpoint in the north of Lebanon and north-west of Syria, might be a choice if you come from [[Tripoli (Lebanon)|Tripoli]] going towards [[Tartus]], [[Homs]] or [[Aleppo]]. The bus from [[Beirut]] to [[Aleppo]] goes this way. Small border checkpoint, very bad condition of the roads, mostly taxi's and buses around here. Not much traffic at all. Take care!
* Masnaa checkpoint: The only open checkpoint with [[Syria]] on the eastern border. It is located directly on the highway [[Beirut]]-[[Damascus]] and is very easy to hitch. Get a ride to the border, where many cars will wait to get over the controls. Just talk to people who have an empty car and get a ride to Damascus, where nearly everyone here goes. The passport checks are in a nearly collapsing building on the right side (if coming from Lebanon). When entering from Syria, try to get a 48-hours transit visa for free, if only staying in the country for 2 days. Even if officers don't want to give you this visa, it's still available and you have a right the get it. [[User:Platschi|Platschi]] experienced this, and also heard of other people having the same problem at this border checkpoint. Otherwise, a 15 days visa costs you 25,000 LBP (July 2008). There is no bank around, so make sure you have some Lebanese Pound with you in advance, or at least to know the latest exchange course to change your money with the strange guys on the street in the no-man's-land between the two countries.
[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] recommends to take the Masnaa checkpoint, which in fact is much further away (if going to Hama/Homs or Aleppo), but also possible to hitch in one day from Beirut. If you're lucky (as many tourists are, as there are in fact not many traveling this checkpoint), officers might give you even a 30 days visa for '''Lebanon''' for free.
* '''Masnaa checkpoint''': The only open checkpoint with [[Syria]] on the eastern border. It is located directly on the highway [[Beirut]]-[[Damascus]] and is very easy to hitch. Get a ride to the border, where many cars will wait to get over the controls. Just talk to people who have an empty car and get a ride to Damascus, where nearly everyone here goes. The passport checks are in a nearly collapsing building on the right side (if coming from Lebanon). When entering from Syria, try to get a 48-hours transit visa for free, if only staying in the country for 2 days. Even if officers don't want to give you this visa, it's still available and you have a right the get it. [[User:Platschi|Platschi]] experienced this, and also heard of other people having the same problem at this border checkpoint. Otherwise, a 15 days visa costs you 25,000 LBP (July 2008). There is no bank around, so make sure you have some Lebanese Pound with you in advance, or at least to know the latest exchange course to change your money with the strange guys on the street in the no-man's-land between the two countries.
There is also a checkpoint to [[Israel]], but it's not open. And considering the tense situation between the countries it doesn't like like it's going to be open to travelers any time soon.
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Lebanon is a small country in the Middle East. It borders to Syria in the north and east and with Israel to the south.
Hitchhiking in the mountains and near/towards the beach might be quite easy, while hitchhiking inside cities (like in Syria) is definitely not possible.
There are three border checkpoints with Syria. One in the west of the country (towards Damascus) and two in the north.
Aaboudiye checkpoint: Checkpoint in the north of Lebanon and north-west of Syria, might be a choice if you come from Tripoli going towards Tartus, Homs or Aleppo. The bus from Beirut to Aleppo goes this way. Small border checkpoint, very bad condition of the roads, mostly taxi's and buses around here. Not much traffic at all. Take care!
Platschi recommends to take the Masnaa checkpoint, which in fact is much further away (if going to Hama/Homs or Aleppo), but also possible to hitch in one day from Beirut. If you're lucky (as many tourists are, as there are in fact not many traveling this checkpoint), officers might give you even a 30 days visa for Lebanon for free.
Masnaa checkpoint: The only open checkpoint with Syria on the eastern border. It is located directly on the highway Beirut-Damascus and is very easy to hitch. Get a ride to the border, where many cars will wait to get over the controls. Just talk to people who have an empty car and get a ride to Damascus, where nearly everyone here goes. The passport checks are in a nearly collapsing building on the right side (if coming from Lebanon). When entering from Syria, try to get a 48-hours transit visa for free, if only staying in the country for 2 days. Even if officers don't want to give you this visa, it's still available and you have a right the get it. Platschi experienced this, and also heard of other people having the same problem at this border checkpoint. Otherwise, a 15 days visa costs you 25,000 LBP (July 2008). There is no bank around, so make sure you have some Lebanese Pound with you in advance, or at least to know the latest exchange course to change your money with the strange guys on the street in the no-man's-land between the two countries.
There is also a checkpoint to Israel, but it's not open. And considering the tense situation between the countries it doesn't like like it's going to be open to travelers any time soon.
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Ford muscles in on Tesla with electric Mustang SUV
Jill Petzinger
Jill Petzinger, Germany Correspondent, Yahoo Finance UK
Yahoo Finance UK 18 November 2019
Ford reveals its first mass-market electric car the Mustang Mach-E, which is an all-electric vehicle that bears the name of the companys iconic muscle car at a ceremony in Hawthorne, California on November 17, 2019. Photo: Getty Images
Ford made its big electric debut night ahead of the opening of the Los Angeles car show, presenting its new Mustang Mach-E crossover vehicle. The Mach-E will be the flagship of Ford’s electric push, an $11.5 billion investment into electric and hybrid models up until 2022, as well as a shot across the bows of electric-car leader Tesla.
The all-electric SUV will start at a tick over $44,000 for the basic version — cheaper than that for the customer after the EV subsidies are applied— and will ship in Spring 2021, according to the company.
Still sporting the pugnacious, muscular Mustang nose, the Mach-E will come in a host of different variants, delivering between 210 miles and 300 miles of range on a full charge, Ford said.
The top Mach-E GT Performance model will pack around 459 horsepower and do 0-to-60 mph in 3.5 seconds — that puts in in the same paddock as the Tesla’s upcoming Model Y crossover vehicle, which is expected to be available towards the end of next year.
READ MORE: Tesla's Berlin pick for European factory sparks German 'euphoria'
Ford chief executive Jim Hackett told Bloomberg TV that even though electric vehicles tend not to be profitable, the Mach-E crossover vehicle will make money right from the start because it taps into people’s passion for Mustangs.
In 2018, Ford announced it would stop making sedans and small cars, including the Taurus, Fusion, and Fiesta, as part of a sweeping cost-reduction plan and to focus on the lucrative and fast-growing SUV and crossover market in the US.
It has a hybrid version of its bestselling F-150 pick-up truck in the works, which is expected to be a huge hit. The pickup is expected to make its debut in 2021.
Ford said it will build the Mustang Mach-E in its plant in Mexico to begin, for capacity reasons, but says it will be able to make them in the US at a later date.
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Canberra Tuesday July 16, 2019
AFP sought reporter fingerprints before media leak raid
Press freedom is again in the spotlight after fresh revelations federal police sought finger and palm prints of two ABC journalists under investigation over leaked documents.
AFP officers leave the ABC's Sydney headquarters after a raid in June. Photo: AAP/David Gray
Dan Oakes and Sam Clark are facing Australian Federal Police scrutiny over their involvement in stories about Australia’s special forces allegedly carrying out unlawful killings in Afghanistan.
A letter from the Australian Federal Police to the journalists was emailed on April 1 – two months before AFP officers raided the ABC’s Sydney headquarters seeking leaked documents relating to the stories.
The ABC said the email stated the AFP was “requesting your consent to a forensic procedure being the copying of your finger and palm prints”, with the two journalists being suspects in relation to three alleged offences.
The broadcaster’s head of investigations John Lyons said the revelation proved the men were police targets as part of the investigation.
“I haven’t ever heard of journalists being asked for fingerprints,” he told ABC News.
“This quite shocks me because it’s the sort of thing that if someone has burgled a house, people try to get fingerprints to find out who was the thief.”
The ABC declined to comment further on Monday, beyond confirming the AFP request had been received.
The revelation followed a report in the Sydney Morning Herald which said the AFP had sought from Qantas the travel details of Oakes.
The ABC’s managing director David Anderson has asked for the investigation to be dropped and is pursuing legal action to declare the search warrant involved in the raid invalid.
It is also seeking a permanent injunction stopping the AFP accessing the electronic files removed from Ultimo on a sealed USB stick.
Labor’s home affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally blamed the coalition for not doing enough to protect press freedom.
“If journalism is not a crime in Australia, why is the Morrison government treating journalists like criminal suspects?” she said in a statement.
The parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security has begun an inquiry into the impact of the exercise of law enforcement and intelligence powers on the freedom of the press.
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January 13, 2020Alternative Dispute ResolutionComments: 0Radhika Saxena
Alternative Dispute Resolution: It is known to all that are present judicial system is extremely expensive and time-consuming. The parties to the dispute have to wait for justice for years .this naturally reduced the faith in the judicial system. This weakness of the judicial system has given birth to alternative remedies for the disposition of disputes. when alternative remedies provide fast justice with their use is increasing day by day.
Prior to proceeding further, it shall be appropriate to state hair that alternative dispute resolution system is not an option to the official judicial system but it is supplementary to it.
Alternative dispute resolution techniques
The following main techniques are used for the settlement of disputes:
Negotiations: The first alternative dispute resolution technique is negotiation. it is the most simple and less expensive mode of disposition of disputes. both the party sit together to discuss the dispute and trying to find the solution of the dispute mutual decision does not involve the reference of the third party. if parties discuss with clear heart and patience it increases the possibilities of achieving a solution. the mutual decision required a harmonious atmosphere. if a party does not make the dispute a question of its prestige then the solution is easy.
Conciliation and Mediation: Alternative dispute resolution technique is conciliation and mediation. When the party’s failure to solve their dispute by mutual decision then third person help is taken. Search the third person is called conciliator or mediator. He is Sachin important person who is not related in any way to the dispute. He makes perfect for discussion or conciliation between the parties. He makes recommendations to dispute and assists the conflicting parties to find out a solution to the problem .he also use his virtuous disposition and his influence.
Med-Arbitration: The third alternative dispute resolution technique is med arbitration. Where in the settlement by negotiation is failed then the conflicting parties authorised III independent person to adjudicate upon the subject matter of dispute and the decision of such third person is binding upon both the parties? This mode is not controlled by the arbitration act and there is no formalities the reference of the dispute is also made informal way under it.
Medola: When the party fails to reach any settlement of the dispute by mediation then the process of Medola beings. In this method, the person who doing mediation occupies the place of the arbitrator . This person impartially picks up the dispute points from the proposal taken between the parties during the negotiation. Dispute. So pick up by that third person is binding upon the parties. That person keeps the agreed point aside and the dispute. Are taken up so as to settle the dispute by taking a middle course to the satisfaction of the parties in dispute.
Mini-trial: The mini-trial is also an important alternative dispute resolution techniques. This is different from a formal case trial. In this method, the party have the freedom to select and impartial and honest person of undisputed integrand the parties can present their case in a summarised form. That person on the basis of submission of the parties considers the positive and negative point concerning the parties and thereafter he renders advice to the parties and makes effort to get settle the method by the parties. The parties believe in such a person and negotiate on such advice because such a person is an impartial and honest person and Standards his advice after hearing both the parties.
Arbitration: Arbitration is an effective alternative dispute resolution techniques. Parties to disputes referred the disputes to arbitration. The arbitrator is also appointed by the parties to dispute. Arbitrator passes an award after giving an opportunity of hearing to both the parties. Search a word on being final has a binding effect over the parties like a decree of a court. The arbitration and conciliation act 1996 provide only for arbitration. One form of arbitration is a fast track arbitration. Init the arbitral proceeding are conductive very fast and the dispute is solved within a few days. It is generally used to solve trade and commercial disputes.
Pre-trial conciliation: The mode of pre-trial conciliation is also increasing in these days. It was first used in the state of Himachal Pradesh and now most of the state of following it. In this conciliation is attempt before commencing the trial. Provisions in this regards have also been made in the Legal Aid authority act 1987.
Lok Adalat: Lok Adalat is the most popular alternative dispute resolution techniques. Now the LokAdalat have obtained a legal form. Numerous cases are being settled expeditiously and with less expensive by way of Lok Adalat. They are the oldest form of the resolution process. Lok Adalat is not a new name in India . from ancient time LokAdalat have prevailed in one way or the other. There was a time when in village disputes of society and family where being settled by the reputed person of society and family such person were made 500 mediator for solving disputes this word letter known as PanchParmeshwar the decision of these 5 and mediators were accepted by all and work binding on all. Disputes were of often solve at chaupal of the village the pants and mediators did justice before the public at this chaupal and Justice was like equity justice and good consigned this tradition of judicial Addajudication continue and become famous in modern time is Lok Adalat.
Lok Adalat provide sufficient opportunity of hearing to both the parties. Section 19 of the legal service authority Act 1997 provides the Lok Adalat. The Lok Adalat was conducted by the judicial officer advocate and social workers. It attempts to achieve compromise or settlement between the parties and award passed by Lok Adalat is equivalent to a decree of Civil Court. Of forms which solve the dispute between the parties through compromise or settlement is Lok Adalat. The concept of Lok Adalat is extremely ancient. It was known in pass S PanchParmeshwaraur justice at chaupal.
Permanent Lok Adalat:
The amendment of 2002 in the legal service authority act 1987 provides the permanent Lok Adalat. These are constituted by a judicial officer of Higher Judicial Service of the rank of district judge and two other members. This LokAdalat finalizes the cases related to public utility service:
Award passed by permanent Lok Adalat:
Shall be final
Is binding over parties
Shall be equivalent to the degree of a Civil Court
Is not capable of challenging in any civil suit application or execution proceeding. (Section 22 two of the legal service authority act 1987 provides the public utility service).
The benefit of alternative remedies
The growing importance of alternative dispute resolution system has variation reason like-
It is an extrajudicial proceeding
The technical rules of code of civil procedure and Evidence Act does not apply over it
Then lead to quick disposal of disputes
It is left the expensive system
Advocate are not required in it
Parties themselves appoint conciliator and arbitrator so that they reduce the chance of biases and corruption.
All these proceedings are conducted in harmony see atmosphere so that the relation of parties remains good.
The solution neither leads to loss and win of any party it is said the to this extent regarding LokAdalat that summary of Lok Adalat now wins no loss.
This system reduces the burden of courts.
Its importance in India
Alternative dispute resolution system has great importance in India here, Numerous cases are pending in the court which required a lot of time for the disposal and are also expensive. On 25th fact 2001, it has been stated by the law minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament that there is 2 crore 34 lacs pending cases in courts for decision. Alternative modes for their resolution are required for their quick disposition.
It also showed the main reason of introducing present arbitration and conciliation act 1996 due to the reason of an increase in a number of cases in court delay in the trial extremely expensive system except the alternative dispute resolution is required to be promoted. Also, India is an agricultural country there is a majority of farmers and villagers most people are illiterate and poor hence because of this reason is the alternative dispute resolution system could be a boon for India.
The custom to solve disputes by way of arbitration and conciliation is being off allowed from the past. Disputes where solved in village weather at chaupal or by negotiation of prestigious people. Before the beginning of formal administration of justice arbitration and conciliation where are the major source of administration of Justice. Arbitration is a good method of solving disputes bhaiya selected person with the mutual consent of both the parties to disputes in which such selected person act as judge. With the passage of time Panchayat was created and a group of 5 persons started providing justice later this system was called arbitration. Regulation of various provisions that is regulation of Bengal, China and Mumbai had the place for this system. The Bengal regulation of 1793 provided a system of referring the disputes with the consent of the parties to the arbitrator or adjudicator. Letter on the provisions for the appointment of an arbitrator was made in the civil procedure code 1859 and arbitration act 1899. Under the Bengal regulation of 1822 powers to arbitrate were also delegated to the revenue courts. Slowly with time, the system of arbitration kept on increasing. In 1940 arbitration act was enacted which was applied equally throughout India. With the passage of time, this act was also criticized and its defects started to come into knowledge. It resulted in the passing of a new act in 1996 called arbitration and conciliation act.
Arbitration is an easy or simple platform to solve disputes. Solving disputes through arbitrator is an ancient custom. In the past when any dispute arose in the village it was solved by the help of punches. Such a path where the reputed person of the village and there was faith and confidence over them. Their decision was binding overall. With the passage of time, it’s adopted the nature of law and was being called arbitration. Not only this it was provided International nature by Geneva Convention 1927 and New York convention 1958.
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That Damn Doll Is Back in the New Trailer for Brahms: The Boy II
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Filed to:Brahms: The Boy II
It’s all for you, Brahms.
Image: STX Entertainment
Though it’s a new year, the era of Peak Creepy Doll is still upon us. Make room on the toy shelf, Annabelle and Chucky, because Brahms—of The Boy fame, also of “not really just a doll” fame—is back with his very own sequel, finally making its way to theaters after several months of delays.
Katie Holmes (whose previous horror credits include Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, The Gift, and Disturbing Behavior) stars as the mom to a troubled kid (Gotham’s Christopher Convery) who makes a strange new friend when the family moves to a cottage adjacent to the palatial Heelshire estate—which, as we learned in 2016's The Boy, is a place where some very sinister things have happened...and will happen again.
Since The Boy made it very clear that both Brahms and his creepy-ass doll were still around at the end, a sequel was pretty inevitable—though this continuation of the story seems to suggest that this time, the doll will be infused with some unambiguously supernatural powers.
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New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in June #StirNewTheses
July 5, 2019 July 5, 2019 clare Academic staff, Library News, Open Access, Researchers, STORRE
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during June. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately:
From Language Policy to Pedagogic Practice: Elementary School English Education in Japan. By Brian Gaynor http://hdl.handle.net/1893/29671
The Saudi interpretations of capacity, public policy and awards being set aside in the country of origin in the refusal of arbitral awards under Article V of the New York Convention 1958, With Reference to French and English Legal Systems. By Osama Rabah http://hdl.handle.net/1893/29683
Inter-Day Reliability and Feasibility of an In-Shoe Plantar Pressure System for the Measurement of Balance Variability in Healthy, Non-Concussed Athletes. By Kathryn Schulze http://hdl.handle.net/1893/29700
Framing Bahrain through public diplomacy: a qualitative analysis of frames communicated by the Bahraini government during the 2011 crisis. By Rana Alomari http://hdl.handle.net/1893/29821
The other theses are embargoed for a period to allow the authors time to write up work for publication:
Preventing Youth Crime in Scotland: The Practices of Early Intervention and Diversion under ‘Whole System Approach’ Implementation. By Nicola Benbow http://hdl.handle.net/1893/29670
Literature survey of chemotherapeutic agents for re-purposing to treat amoebic gill disease caused by Neoparamoeba perurans. By Cyril Henard http://hdl.handle.net/1893/29820
Clare Allan
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Stirling’s Top 5 most mentioned publications in June
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Crystal Yacht Expedition Experiences Enter the West Indies
December 1, 2016 by Amanda Brooks
Sponsored by Crystal Cruises
Crystal Yacht Expedition Cruises is redeploying its ultra-luxury yacht, Crystal Esprit, to the islands of the West Indies beginning in November of 2017 and all of 2018. The relocation is the result of overwhelming feedback from Crystal’s savvy guests and valued travel partners.
“The decision to reposition Crystal Esprit to the West Indies is one that was made with our guests’ expressed wishes in mind, as more luxury travelers seek curated adventure with the seamless ease and convenience that Crystal’s attention to detail provides,” says Crystal’s CEO and president, Edie Rodriguez. “While long coveted by celebrities and other selective travelers, the West Indies remain largely exclusive, hidden gems that will almost certainly top Crystal guests’ bucket lists.”
Crystal Esprit Itineraries
Sailing round-trip on Sundays from Marigot Bay, St. Martin, two distinct seven-day routes will alternate for easily combinable extended vacations. The ports of call are decidedly in line with access unique to a boutique yachting experience, with visits to the idyllic harbors of destinations long favored by travelers.
British Virgin Islands & Saint-Barthélemy Yachting Escape
Marigot Bay, St. Martin; Gustavia, St. Barthélemy; Anegada, Scrub Island (overnight), Jost Van Dyke, Great Harbor (overnight), Salt Island, Tortola/Road Town, Peter Island (overnight), The Indians, Virgin Gorda, Gorda Sound (overnight), British Virgin Islands
West Indies Yachting Explorer
Marigot Bay, St. Martin (overnight); Sandy Ground, Anguilla; Saba, Netherlands Antilles; Falmouth Harbor, Antigua & Barbuda; Nevis; Gustavia, St. Barthélemy (overnight); Orient Bay, St. Martin
Crystal Esprit Experience
Crystal Esprit carries just 62 guests in 31 suites, all of which are at least 223 square feet in size. The vast majority of suites onboard the ship – the 28 Yacht Suites – clock in at 280 square feet, while a single Category OS Owner’s Suite on Deck 2 will provide a roomy 515 square feet of space; a size unheard of on most expedition ships.
For a ship that’s only 269 feet long, Crystal Esprit really packs in the features. To start with, the ship boasts a gym with state-of-the-art Technogym fitness equipment; an outdoor pool; a marina and watersports platform with complimentary equipment for guests to use – including water skis, wakeboards, jet skis, kayaks and snorkeling equipment.
Crystal Esprit also includes two 10-passenger Zodiac rafts in order to get passengers ashore in remote locations, and bicycles are also available for personal excursions when ashore.
If that’s not cool enough, you might want to go for a ride in Crystal Esprit’s very own submersible, which holds three guests and one crewmember, and can descend to a depth of 1,000 feet below the surface. Crystal plans to offer guests 30-minute underwater tours on the submersible. Complimentary, no less.
When sailing aboard Crystal Esprit, guests are treated to expand their culinary tastes in a variety of venues:
The Yacht Club Restaurant serves contemporary and classic specialties as well as innovative tasting menus created by Crystal’s award-winning chefs, all using the finest and freshest local ingredients available; serving breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The Terrace and Patio Caféoffers freshly prepared and, where possible, regionally inspired presentations of small plates, creative salads, gourmet charcuterie, cheeses and pastries; serving breakfast and lunch. (indoor/outdoor)
The Grill features a menu of burgers, wraps and, location permitting, “global street food” served tapas-style to reflect the destinations visited.
The Pantry is the “go-to” self-service bistro and wine bar open 24 hours a day with a curated selection of coffees, vintage wines, light snacks and freshly baked pastries; the perfect indulgence to satisfy your craving day or night.
Crystal Esprit All-Inclusive Features
The host of amenities included within each voyage is striking:
Complimentary select fine wines, champagne and premium spirits throughout the yacht
Open-bar service throughout the yacht
Gratuities for all shipboard staff throughout the yacht
Non-alcoholic beverages including bottled water, specialty coffee drinks, soft drinks, fresh juices and Afternoon Tea service
Welcome champagne
Bookings started in November for these new sailings, so don’t delay!
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By John Hilton
The Department of Labor moved today to delay phase two of the controversial Obama-era fiduciary rule by 18 months, until July 1, 2019.
Phase two of the rule deals with exemptions, which regulate the sale of annuities sold with retirement funds. In particular, the Best Interest Contract Exemption, which requires a financial institution to accept liability for each contract and gives clients the right to sue over investment advice.
Documents were filed today with the Office of Management and Budget to delay phase two from Jan. 1, 2018, until July 1, 2019. The OMB will review the submission for publication in the Federal Register, which, barring any complications, makes the delay official.
Phase one of the DOL rule took effect June 9. It requires advisors and agents to act as fiduciaries, make no misleading statements and accept only “reasonable” compensation.
Still, opponents are far more concerned with phase two rules that establish a class-action right to sue. Without the latest delay, the BICE will be required to sell fixed indexed and variable annuities beginning Jan. 1, 2018.
In addition, the DOL said the delay will apply to two other exemptions, PTE 84-24 and PTE 2016-02. The latter exemption applies to advice to individual retirement accounts and employee benefit plans.
Potential Changes
As for potential changes during the delay, Bradford Campbell said last month that the BICE is likely to be weakened. Counsel at Drinker Biddle & Reath. Campbell previously led the DOL department responsible for the fiduciary rule during the Bush administration.
The BICE requires significant disclosures, and a signed contract with the client. That contract forms the basis of litigation liability.
Removing the class-action lawsuit from the BICE is a good possibility, Campbell said, basing his opinion on statements the DOL has made so far. If the class-action right isn't scratched, it will cause problems in the courts, he predicted.
A delay will make even more likely the DOL and the Securities and Exchange Commission end up working together on a fiduciary standard the industry can live with, Campbell added.
InsuranceNewsNet Senior Editor John Hilton has covered business and other beats in more than 20 years of daily journalism. John may be reached at [email protected].
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An Islamic Reformation?
06 Sat May 2017
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al-wala’ wa-l-bara’, Al–Sahwa al-Islamiyya, bida', hakimiyya, Hizb ut-Tahrir, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, Islam, jihad, manhaj, qisas, Salafi, Salafi-Jihadism, sharia, Shiraz Maher, takfir, tawhid, terrorism
Maher, Shiraz. Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2016. 292 pp.
The most pressing problem occupying world leaders today is the threat of Islamic terrorism and domestic radicalisation. The realm of analyses, however, has become a toxic and vitriolic cacophony of voices that say more about the source than the subject. Amidst the deluge of Islamophobic drivel, politically correct inanities, and unconscionable apologiae for regressive, barbaric acts, Shiraz Maher’s Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea comes as a breath of fresh air. Rather than attempt to explain the entire panoply of beliefs and customs under Islam, Maher restricts his analysis to the singular idea that has caused the most disruption in the international community – Salafi-Jihadism.
Maher’s work is the result of his research at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King’s College, London, and it certainly benefits from his rare qualification – among researchers – of having been a member of a pan-Islamic organisation, Hizb ut-Tahrir, that supports the strict implementation of sharia law and the establishment of an Islamic caliphate. His familiarity with the sources, debates, rhetoric, and volksgeist is, therefore, as an analyst as well as a former practitioner.
Islamic schools of thought are described with a delicacy that has not been a common feature of public discussions. The author, for example, separates Salafis from the larger body of Muslims and proceeds to distinguish between a quietist strand and a violent faction. Salafi, by the way, is derived from the Arabic salaf, which means ancestor and refers to the first three generations of Muslims; Salafism wishes to recreate society in the image of those early days of Islam. In essence, while all Muslims are not necessarily terrorists, all Salafis are, by definition, regressive. Regardless, it is possible to be a Salafist and non-violent as much of the Saudi Arabian clergy has been, particularly the Al–Sahwa al-Islamiyya Movement. This group advocates for the implementation of its world view through engagement with state institutions and, sometimes, even democratic practices.
It is the violent Salafists that have held the world’s attention and are the subjects of Maher’s study. Five key concepts define salafi-jihadists from other Muslims: jihad, takfir, al-wala’ wa-l-bara’, tawhid and hakimiyya. Some of these, like tawhid (unity of God) are common across Islam but Salafist interpretation ties it to manhaj (method by which Truth is reached). According to one of the icons of Salafism, the 13th century Islamic scholar Ibn Taymiyya, the first obligation of a Muslim, after iman, is the repulsion of the enemy aggressor. Thus, jihad becomes an inseparable companion to tawhid.
Maher demolishes the argument that jihad only means an inner struggle by demonstrating the externally aggressive interpretations of the term throughout history, starting from Mohammad himself. The breadth of his arguments also put to rest any attempts to dissociate Islam from the actions of those who commit terrorism in its name. The justification for the acts of terrorism are repeatedly given with the support of scripture and Islamic jurisprudence. As a result, it becomes that much more difficult for apologists to cling to the view that the violent chaos in the Middle East and Central Asia has nothing to do with Islam. Wisely, the author does not wrangle with whether a certain view is “correct” – he leaves that to the theologians and philosophers, instead sticking simply to precedent and historical, juridical, ideological, and political connections between tawhid and jihad.
The violence of jihadists against fellow Muslims is explained by takfir, the process by which a fellow Muslim is declared outside the fold of Islam. For Salafi-Jihadists, enormous sections of civilian society are takfiris – secularists, democrats, nationalists, Ba’athists, and communists. The Shia especially are eternal enemies of Islam who are linked via the Safavids to Ali. Takfir, as Maher observes, homogenises the faith by shutting down all debate.
Yet what makes some of the Salafist-Jihadists so exceptionally brutal? Why did they, for example, burn a Jordanian pilot when the Qur’an is clear that the use of fire for punishment should only be left to God? Maher states that the answer can be found in the Salafist interpretation of qisas, the law of equal retaliation. He explains how the West, in toto, is seen as the enemy for their role in supporting tyrannical or insufficiently Islamic governments in power over Muslims. Additionally, since Western governments are democracies, their policies imply the consent of their people and thus, their civilians are also legitimate targets in the struggle for an Islamic world order.
In conjunction with al-wala’ wa-l-bara’, Salafi-Jihadists become a sect incapable of compromise. The Arabic term, loyalty and disavowal, allows for a clear separation between Muslims and the ‘Other.’ Since any understanding or coexistence with the ‘Other’ opens one up to accusations of takfiri, Salafi-Jihadists are able to maintain the purity of their faith.
Finally, hakimiyya demands the securing of political sovereignty for God. Effectively, this pits Salafi-Jihadists forever in battle against the kuffar for it is inconceivable to universalist faiths that there be a limit to the domain of their deen – religion – and coexistence with others, even if they are only ahl al-kitab – people of the book, namely Christians and Jews. It is no coincidence that the negative experiences of colonialism, an imposition of modernity, and Cold War alliances fuelled resentment against the West.
The real test of theory is when it meets reality, and Maher is the first to admit that many of the Salafist doctrines are evolving due to changing conditions on the battlefield. There appears to be a divide, however, more between theorists and practitioners rather than between the various terrorist factions. The irony of this situation is, as the author points out, that bida’, or innovation, is anathema to religious purists.
Reading Salafi-Jihadism, it is difficult not to get the deeply uneasy feeling that Salafi-Jihadism is perhaps what an Islamic Reformation may look like. The furious debate between the Islamic scholars that Maher extensively cites are reminiscent of John Calvin’s Geneva, and one remembers only too vividly what followed over the next hundred years. This is a sad note for those who hope to see liberalising reforms come from within the Islamic fold.
Perhaps one aspect that might have preemptively answered a question readers are bound to wonder upon reading this book is the point at which quietism transitions into violent jihad. Furthermore, what are the implications – in terms of stability and security – to the international community of living with a radicalised yet quietist Salafist state? A clash between the universalist and interventionist impulses of the Left and such a state seems inevitable, especially given the recent fads in international relations such as the Right to Protect (R2P) .
Salafi-Jihadism balances scholarship with an ease of access that will endear it to both, the lay reader as well as specialists. The author’s harsh yet honest appraisal of the role of Islam, albeit one specific strand, in inspiring the unending brutality and violence is a must-read for anyone seeking to be better informed about the crisis of our times.
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Polarised Electorates
The Election Season
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India and the Bomb
Nationalism Restored
Jews and Israel, Nation and State
The Asian in Europe
Modern Political Shibboleths
The Death of Civilisation
Hope on the Korean Peninsula
Diminishing the Heathens
The Writing on the Minority Wall
Mischief in Gaza
Politics of Spite
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Never Again (As Long As It Is Convenient)
Earning the Dragon’s Respect
Creating an Indian Lake
Does India Have An Israel Policy?
Reclaiming David’s Kingdom
Not a Mahatma, Just Mohandas
India’s Jerusalem Misstep
A Rebirth of American Power
The Myth of India’s Hindu Nazis
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Nice Price Or Crack Pipe
For $79,000, Is This Pulled-From-Storage 1970 Porsche 914-6 A Sick Six?
Rob Emslie
Filed to:Nice Price or Crack Pipe
Nice Price Or Crack PipeIs this used car a good deal? You decide!
The seller of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Porsche calls it “probably the most significant 914-6 find in recent years.” He’s certainly priced it as such, and we’ll now need to decide if we find that price to be too significant.
Are you old enough to remember when popular entertainment offered up the habitual alcoholic as comedy fodder? There was Otis the drunk on The Andy Griffith Show, and Foster Brooks, a comedian who made a career out of playing a lush. Hell, even Dean Martin, the Italian crooner, used to host his TV show as though he was functionally lit.
That’s all way in the past though and today I don’t think many people find drunks all that funny, and definitely not behind the wheel. Yesterday’s 1987 Ford Bronco was on the market owing to a teenager’s DUI, and while there’s nothing funny about that, a lot of you found cheer in the classy truck’s price, which earned it a 60% Nice Price win to kick the week off.
Have you ever heard the phrase “nobody’s perfect?” It’s pretty common and addresses the fact that pretty much everyone and everything exhibits some flaw. The hamartia may be something small, and in fact, may add character and nuance to whatever it blemishes. Alternatively, it might be huge and ultimately relationship-nullifying like being a neo-nazi or fervent supporter of supply-side economics.
In the case of the VW/Porsche 914, the major flaw was the VW side of the equation and the engine that implied. Pulled from the 411 the fuel injected 1.7-litre that powered the four cylinder edition of the car at its introduction was admittedly a bit lackluster. The Porsche version, powered by a 109-bhp 2-litre flat six, offered go that was better matched to the design’s impeccable handling. It too however, was tainted by being almost indistinguishable from the lesser four-pot version, at a price that played far too near that of 911 territory.
All told, Porsche built a little over 118,000 914s over the course of its seven years. Of those, only about 3,300 of them were the mostly Porsche 914-6 models.
Here we have one of those 3,300, a 1970 914-6 and one that’s described as all-original and matching numbers. The seller even points out that it carries its original tools and era-correct blue and gold California plates. That all being said, the 160,000-mile car is maintained to have been in storage for years, and it shows.
The exterior presents the best. The bodywork looks straight and the panel gaps appear even. I don’t know what’s going on with that big black swath on the left rear, however. Five-lug Fuchs underpin it all, which, by the way, is one way to tell an original six cylinder car from a four. Another way is by the ignition switch placement—on the dash to the left of the wheel on the sixes, and on the right-side of the column on the fours.
The key here is where you would expect it on this six, and that’s about all there is to like about this interior. There’s an icky floor covering, cracked and moldy dash cap, and seats that are in need of recovering. In fact, pretty much everything inside needs attention. At least the adjustable foot brace (for the non-movable passenger seat) is still with the car.
On the plus side, the ad notes that the car is rust-free, which is a big deal on 914s of either ilk. There is no shot of the battery tray or “hell hole” but the pics of the frunk and trunk show what appears to be a solid car. Does it run? According to the ad it not only runs, but “runs well.”
The engine shot shows a complete mill with no apparent major flaw visible and very sexy sextet of stacks over the Weber 40 IDF carbs. Assumed is that the air cleaner housing is simply removed for the pic and is not missing. By the way, there’s no rain tray on a 914-6 as there’s no room for one with the down-draught carbs.
Okay, so this is a restoration project albeit one that seems to be a pretty solid foundation for such a venture, just what should something like that cost in today’s world of crazy Porsche prices? Well the asking here is $79,000, which is a hell of a lot of Benjamins, maybe in fact all of them.
As point of reference, there’s a place in East Los Angles called the Beverly Hills Car Club and they have a 1971 runner for less than half this car’s price. Now, they say that one has a 2.7-litre engine which is either a typo or an indication that it doesn’t have its original mill, but suffice to say unless it’s a fright pig or a scam, it’s a better deal than this one.
But, does all that make this car and its $79,000 asking price a Crack Pipe fait accompli?
Los Angeles Craigslist, or go here if the ad disappears.
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For $7,900, Would You Horse Around In This Eddie Bauer Edition 1987 Ford Bronco?
For $11,500, Be Rude, Loud, And Obnoxious
The Porsche 914: A History
Rob Emslie is a contributing writer for Jalopnik. He has too many cars, and not enough time to work on them all.
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Music: Pink-So What
Heirs to the House of El: I'll Be Home With Bells On (Part One)
Not cold, not cough, not awful and disgusting sinuses will stop me from posting my chapter! Now to enjoy another Christmas Eve with the Kents, though one different than the ones we've seen before...
“I see you have both applied yourselves to the study of Kryptonian history,” Jor-El said, “although your knowledge, Jon-El, is not as extensive as that of your sister.”
Kala couldn’t resist grinning at her brother, and he narrowed his eyes at her. “Thank you, Grandfather,” he replied evenly. “I shall improve.”
You’d better, Kala mouthed at him, and he had to stifle the urge to swat her – or laugh. They’d been speaking formal Kryptonese, what Kala liked to call the High Speech, for the past hour, and her sudden departure into English was a sharp contrast.
“Attend me, Kala Kal-El,” Jor-El said. The use of her full name made the girl wince; it was worse than Jason being abbreviated into Jon-El. Lois hadn’t known about Kryptonian naming conventions when she’d chosen Kala’s name, but it was still an annoyance.
“We are in high spirits, Grandfather,” Jason said, by way of explanation. “An important holiday draws near.”
“Yes,” Jor-El said. “This frenzy of rampant consumerism known as Christmas.”
The English word sounded strange coming from him, particularly when both twins knew he could speak the language perfectly when he chose. Kala’s head came up at that remark, her brow furrowing. “Grandfather, I think you may have drawn an inaccurate conclusion,” she said. “Christmas means a great deal more than that.”
“It is the consummate holiday of the American calendar,” Jor-El replied, “and as such it is also logically the consummate reflection of American culture. Thus it comes as little surprise to me that this Christmas is celebrated with so much unbridled greed. After all, materialistic disregard for the consequences of one’s actions is the defining note of much of human culture, but most particularly that of the nation in which you reside.”
“You are wrong.” Jason spoke clearly and distinctly, his chin lifted slightly and his blue eyes steely. “The defining note of American culture is not greed but hope. True, blind hope may become folly, as in the wastefulness of our people – we hope that the resources we use so recklessly may be endless, and when we begin to see that they are not, we hope that someone else will rescue us, rather than making changes to our accustomed lifestyles. But when we are clear-eyed, it is our hope that the world can be a better place that drives us to our greatest feats. For if we were purely rational, we would see the world around us as it is, and we would despair.
“It has ever been so; this nation was founded upon the hope that the poor, the oppressed, and the disenfranchised could make something better of their lives here. The same hope that brought hundreds of thousands of immigrants to this land when it was wild and untamed, now gives us the strength to face our plight and attempt to save ourselves. And while there are many who dilute the true spirit of Christmas with their greed, it is also meant to be about hope. For a child, it is the hope that a longed-for toy may be wrapped up beneath the Christmas tree. But for those old enough to reason, the true meaning of the holiday is the hope that, if the past year has been a poor one, the next year will not be so. And if the last year was satisfactory, the new one will be better. Perhaps this will be accomplished by means of a savior, who comes to redeem us all from our folly and wickedness, but on that day each individual shares in the spirit of the holiday, and becomes for a little while one who brings joy and peace. For one day, we all strive to be the best of what we know we can become.”
He could feel Kala staring at him, but Jason held firm, looking at the holographic image of Jor-El. Such eloquence was generally unlike him, but the Kryptonian elder had struck a deep chord in his essentially American soul. Never mind that he had been born in Paris, or that his father was not born on this planet at all. In his heart of hearts, he was defending not just his culture, but his mother.
“You speak well, and your point is duly made,” Jor-El said at last. “It is true that these people have within them the capacity for greatness. But it disturbs me to hear you say ‘we’ and ‘our’ in reference to American culture. My grandson, you are not entirely human – this is only a part of your heritage.”
“As are these lessons,” Jason retorted. “I am not entirely Kryptonian, either, Grandfather. The same challenge my father faced, to reconcile his human upbringing with his Kryptonian legacy, is mine to face anew. In my case, it is not merely a matter of cultures, but of fundamental biology; I am part of both worlds in my very DNA. I can only hope I master it as well as he has.”
“Jon-El, I ask you to consider your favorable bias toward humanity in this matter,” the hologram said carefully.
“I will do so, Grandfather, if you will consider your negative bias toward them,” Jason replied. “You are the one who so despised the notion of diluting the pure Kryptonian bloodline that you counseled my father to surrender his powers if he wished to marry a human woman. And yet, had he not defied you, you would not now be tutoring the heirs of the House of El, and there would be no one to carry your legacy onward past the name of Kal-El.”
That seemed to surprise Jor-El; perhaps he hadn’t considered that his son would tell the children the whole truth of everything that had happened around the time of their conception. After a long silence, in which the hologram looked thoughtful, Jor-El spoke again. “Perhaps you are correct, Jon-El,” he said slowly. “I shall give the matter some thought. In any case, it is now time for your individual lessons. Kala, if you would like to practice your Kryptonese composition?”
Kala bit her lip, and Jason suppressed a grin. As much as she claimed to love the language, she hated writing in it. All those intricate symbols didn’t make it easy to write fluidly and swiftly, and she frequently complained about how laborious it was. So far Jor-El had firmly discouraged her attempts at developing Kryptonese shorthand.
“See you soon, Kal,” Jason said, and she rewarded him with a quick grin on her way out the door. Then he was facing Jor-El alone, and Jason squared his shoulders. I am Jon-El, scion of the House of El, the noblest of all the ancient houses of Krypton. So why do I feel so out of place and awkward before my grandfather?
Jor-El regarded him thoughtfully. “We have long since passed the point of memory exercises, son of my son. Something weighs upon your mind; ask, and I shall do my best to answer.”
All of Jason’s silver-tongued lucidity seemed to desert him. “There is … an issue which concerns me,” Jason said slowly. “But it is one which, I fear, you will categorically disapprove of.”
“You mean to say ‘one of which you will categorically disapprove,’ I suspect,” Jor-El said, unable to resist correcting his grandson’s grammar. “What concerns you concerns me also. Please, speak.”
Jason sighed heavily. This was not going to go well. “It is about … my future.”
Jor-El’s eyebrows rose a little. “Jon-El, you have shown the desire and the aptitude to aid your father in his mission. Surely that is not the issue?”
“No, Grandfather, it is not,” Jason replied, suppressing the urge to sarcastically announce he’d decided to run off with the circus. “Rather, I am considering my … personal life. I am worried about my search for a companion.” He realized how dryly scientific that sounded, and amended with a chuckle, “I am sixteen years of age, Grandfather, and like many boys my age, I am thinking of girls. One in particular.”
“Human girls?” Jor-El asked, startled.
“There are not many other kinds on this planet, Grandfather,” Jason said.
“You know me well, Jon-El,” the hologram said. “And you are already aware of my feelings on the continued intermarriage of the House of El with humans.”
“I do not see another option, Grandfather,” Jason replied quickly. “Only one Kryptonian woman is known to have survived the destruction of Krypton, and she was the ally of General Zod. In any case, she perished some years ago while attempting to escape prison.” Deciding to drive his point home, he added, “The only other is Kala, and she is merely half-Kryptonian – and wholly my twin sister.”
That gave Jor-El pause. It was unthinkable; Kryptonian society forbade marriage between first cousins or closer relatives. The advent of the birthing matrix had eliminated the occurrence of twins on Krypton, so he could not understand the depth of the bond between Jason and Kala, but he recognized that it was even closer than ordinary siblings. Unless some other survivor of the doomed planet could be found, Jason could never find a suitable Kryptonian wife.
Jason watched these thoughts flicker across Jor-El’s face, waiting for the hologram’s response. It wasn’t unexpected. “There is the choice of celibacy.”
“And let the House of El die out?” Jason asked.
“You ask me to choose whether my legacy should peter out until our blood is thinner than water and we are become mere mortals, or whether it should end abruptly with one in whom the greatest traits of our people are so clearly shown,” Jor-El mused. “I am inclined to say that, since an end must come to the House of El as I know it, I would choose to end it in glory rather than merely allow it to trickle away.”
“Is there truly no glory in joining our fate once and for all to the destiny of our adopted planet?” Jason countered.
“Tell me, then, why you are so convinced of your need to marry into humanity,” Jor-El said. Jason sighed; when the hologram abruptly took a different tack like that, he was feeling pressed, and would likely grill Jason relentlessly until the original point was lost. I guess asking Grandfather about girls was pretty stupid, he thought, as he mustered his arguments. Considering that there was no sex on Krypton, and virtually no touching – the amount of hugging and handshaking and backslapping that goes on at school would permanently traumatize Jor-El – he may not be the best person to go to for advice. But then, he did ask what was on my mind.
And it was little surprise that Giselle was on his mind. She’d been deeply disappointed about not coming to Christmas in Smallville, especially since she’d already missed the family celebration at Thanksgiving. After some persistence, Jason had managed to finagle an invitation for her to the New Year’s Eve party at the Lane-Kent penthouse. Kala was allowed to go out clubbing with Sebast, provided she got home by midnight, so it just made sense for Giselle to come over. Even better, with Kala not home, there wouldn’t be any quarreling between his girlfriend and his sister. All in all, a perfect New Year’s Eve.
Jor-El paused, and Jason quickly returned his attention to their conversation.
Kala’s individual lessons had been shorted – as usual. But then, since Jor-El refused to discuss the heroic stuff with her and learning about Kryptonian womanhood from a man seemed counterproductive, she didn’t exactly miss it. Although, she did resent the way the hologram lavished attention on Jason; she was by far the better scholar in all things Kryptonian, yet she never received praise unless it was to motivate Jason to catch up to her.
Still, there was one thing about trips to the Fortress that never failed to please her. The moment Kal-El returned from his evening duties, she took her leave of Jor-El and raced out into the Fortress’ grand hall.
Jason was already putting on his gloves, getting ready for the flight home. Kala raced up to her father, eyes agleam, and said one word: “Please?”
“Oh, no,” her brother groaned. “No way. I am not riding through that again.”
Kala looked heartbroken at that, and Kal-El sighed. “Kala, it isn’t fair to ask that of your brother.”
“Didn’t you already say we were getting a little too much to fly together?” Kala asked cunningly. “Not weight-wise, but having to manage two people on a long flight. It’s not as if two trips would take much longer than one.”
“Pushy,” Jason muttered. “Kala, I don’t want to wait up here while you go make a fool of yourself.”
“Fine, chicken, you can have the first flight home,” Kala replied sharply. She turned a winning smile on her father before adding, “Please, Daddy?”
“All right,” he sighed, and held out a hand to Jason. The boy sighed, rolling his eyes, but he went without further commentary.
That left Kala all alone in the Fortress. She knew her father would be back soon, but couldn’t resist strolling around a bit, imagining what it would be like to come here on her own, whenever she wanted. Wasn’t this place part of her personal history as well? Maybe one day, when she was older, she could come and listen to poetry in Kryptonese, or pore over the history of the doomed planet.
The Fortress echoed with Kal-El’s footsteps when he returned. “Jason says I spoil you,” he told her.
“He’s just too chicken to go solo and hates admitting it,” Kala replied. She hurried to her father’s side and held tightly to his arm as he spiraled up through the Fortress’ interlocking-crystal roof and into the Arctic sky. Higher and higher, until the stars seemed close enough to touch and the world was a blue-white blur below, the air so thin and cold it burned Kala’s lungs to breathe it. She looked out, not down, thrilling to the distant curve of the horizon and the inky darkness of the night sky. This, oh, this, for this I would do anything, bear anything, learn anything, for this beauty and glory that only the few of us know, those who can fly and those lucky enough to be their passengers.
“Ready?” Kal-El asked softly, smiling at her. He knew how she felt up here; the same wild joy that made her eyes gleam had to be racing through his veins.
Kala nodded her assent, too excited to speak, and Kal-El let go of her hand. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and slid her hand out from the crook of his arm.
It was like a sudden gust of wind, at first. The sense that she was falling, faster every second, came only after she opened her eyes again. Gently, Kala let herself lean forward, and her fall slowed a little as she moved into the typical skydiver’s position with maximum surface area. For a little while, she could almost believe she was flying.
The steady loss of altitude proved her wrong, of course. Rather than simply fall down on her belly, she shifted her center of gravity further forward. Now Kala was falling headfirst, arms back behind her, and she went faster with less surface area to slow her down. This was what flying was like, all power and speed, the slightest gesture of one hand altering her course through the cold air. The sole difference was that she could only go down.
She tried making herself to level out and accelerate; closed her eyes and focused all of her considerable willpower on one object: a moment of true, unaided flight. It wasn’t a muscular thing, Dad had told her that much, but her shoulders tensed and her legs trembled from the mental effort she was making. One second, one instant, to pull herself out of the steep dive…
It never came; it never had. Of all the powers Kryptonians possessed on Earth, Kala wanted this one the most, and so far she hadn’t shown an inkling of it. Her father had had all of his powers, though in reduced intensity, by his late teens, and the window for Kala and Jason to develop new ones was narrowing.
Oh well, she thought, stretching out her arms and letting the cold air buffet her. I can’t fly yet, but for now there’s this, and I love it. While few sane people would define ‘fun’ as plummeting toward the Arctic tundra at something over a hundred miles and hour, Kala found it exhilarating. But even she began to notice that the ground below was looking quite a bit closer than it had the last time she’d done this.
“Daddy?” she called, the wind tearing the words from her mouth. He usually caught her far above the ground, farther up than this. Kala could see hills below her now, and called louder, “Daddy!”
No answer. Fear tried to creep up her spine, but she forced it away. Her father was Superman. He could fly almost as fast as the speed of light. There was simply no way he’d forget about her and let her fall. Not possible. Not unless something really bad happened to him…
The fear came roaring back, and Kala shuddered, trying to look over her shoulder. Where was he? Had something happened? And if it had, why hadn’t she seen or heard anything? She couldn’t have been that drunk on speed… And on the low hills below her, Kala could actually make out the tracks of a polar bear across the snow. “Daddy!” she screamed.
Trying to look around had unbalanced her, and Kala was tumbling through the air instead of diving straight down. The earth and sky seemed to flip past each other, the ground getting closer and closer and…
…suddenly zooming along, a strong arm around her waist, and the snow mere yards below. Kala heaved a sigh of relief and twisted around to glare at her father. “I thought you forgot me!”
“I didn’t forget you,” he told her, smiling as they rose skyward again. “You always say you want to fall for a long time, so I let you do that.”
Kala scowled, but the fear had worn off, replaced by elation. She couldn’t help grinning at her dad. “Nice catch,” she said at last. “But next time, wait another fifteen feet or so.”
Kal-El groaned. “I was hoping you wouldn’t want me to drop you anymore after this, Kala.”
She only shrugged and leaned against his shoulder. “I guess that’s enough for one day. Thank you. You’re the best daddy ever.”
“And you’re the most spoiled-rotten little girl ever,” he teased back gently, and flew her home.
In order to be at the airport early enough to go through security, the Lane-Kents had to leave the house at four in the morning. Kala had been bright-eyed and chatty at three in the morning, while Jason lumbered around like a hibernating bear that had been rudely awakened. Both of them were already packed, however, and got dressed and ate breakfast in a reasonable time. At five minutes to four, the whole family was in the car, with Bagel snuffling at the front of her carrying bag as Clark drove the Audi out of the parking garage. Lois merely sipped coffee and tried to keep her eyes open, letting him pilot her car for once.
Clark and Lois talked a little about the next couple days, the things they both needed to accomplish at work before they left on vacation. Actually, Clark was doing most of the talking, Lois mainly just nodding in the right places while she waited for the caffeine to seep through her.
After a while, Lois turned to glance into the backseat to check on the kids. Jason and Kala had both been noticeably silent. One glance made Lois smile warmly, her hand stealing to the locket she wore. “Clark, look,” she whispered.
He glanced into the rear view mirror. Jason had fallen back asleep braced against the door, and Kala’s initial wakefulness had ebbed away. She was now leaning on her brother’s shoulder, snoozing with her legs curled up on the seat. “Do you remember when they were little enough that they’d both curl up on the same side of the car?” she whispered, watching them.
“I remember,” Clark murmured. “I remember having to carry them out of the car and put them to bed like a couple of oversized dolls.”
“When they were ten,” Lois quipped, and they both chuckled.
“Do you remember the time we told them to be quiet and not bother us for an hour unless someone was bleeding, and we forgot to turn the thermostat up?” Clark asked softly. “They got chilled, snuck into our room, and borrowed my cape.”
“Before we made the false back in the closet for your uniforms,” Lois remembered. “I wish I could’ve taken a picture of them wrapped up in the cape, asleep on the couch.”
“With our luck, someone would’ve found it and published it,” he replied.
“True,” Lois sighed.
The rest of the trip was spent in silence, both parents glancing into the backseat to see if the twins intended to wake up anytime soon. They both slept until the car was parked, when Bagel’s chuffing woke them. “We’re here?” Kala asked blearily.
“Fi’ mo’ mints,” Jason grumbled, thinking he was still in bed at home.
“C’mon, son, we’re at the airport,” Clark said. With a little encouragement, he and Lois got the kids woken up and out of the car. Jason had reverted to his sleepy-bear shamble, while Kala managed to summon a little wakefulness, even if she did yawn prodigiously several times. Clark helped them with their luggage, and Lois walked ahead of the group with Bagel’s carrier, looking for Lana’s red hair. The terminal wasn’t crowded this early, and if anyone in the family would be bright-eyed at this hour, it would be Lana. She, Richard, and Kristin were supposed to accompany the twins to Smallville…
Lois eventually spotted a gleam of bright auburn, but it was Kristin, being carried by Richard. The reporter laughed, seeing that the little girl had simply rested her head on her father’s shoulder and fallen asleep that way. At his feet rested another carrier like Bagel’s, and in it was Dusty, bright eyes watching the forest of legs around him. Walking up to her former fiancé, Lois couldn’t help teasing, “Red’s refusing to be seen in public with you again, and from the looks of things you had to tranquilize Little Red to keep her around. Richard, your luck with women really is awful.”
She expected him to joke back, but he just sighed heavily. “Yeah, right,” Richard replied. “Lana got called back to Italy this morning. Some huge emergency with the company. She’ll fly in to Smallville as soon as it’s over, but it’ll probably be Christmas Eve before I see my wife again.” He glanced past Lois to grin roguishly at Clark. “Mind if I borrow yours?”
Clark just smiled, sliding an arm around Lois’ shoulders affectionately while she swatted at Richard, laughing. “I don’t think so, Richard. Lois is staying right here in Metropolis with me.”
“Wait a minute, you’re going to deal with all three kids and two dogs by yourself on the flight out?” Lois asked. “At an hour when we both know you’re more likely going to bed than waking up?”
“Hell no,” Richard replied instantly. “I’m going to sleep on the flight out and let Jason and Kala take care of Kristin.”
Lois looked over at her kids; Jason was swaying slightly on his feet, eyes open just enough to make him look like a deranged zombie, and Kala was yawning again. “You wanna rethink that plan, flyboy?” Lois asked.
Richard surveyed them, and shrugged. “What the hell. We’ll all sleep. Even if the little one wakes up, it’s not like she can really go anywhere.”
“As long as I don’t have to explain to Lana why the flight crew wants to adopt her baby girl,” Clark said warningly.
“Don’t worry, we’ll be okay,” Richard said. “I promise.”
They decided to take him at his word, and everyone exchanged hugs and the occasional kiss before Richard headed off down the concourse with still-sleeping Kristin in his arms, the twins following. Lois leaned against Clark, watching them get into the line for security with a slight frown, and she was holding the locket again without being aware of it. She sighed, and Clark slid his arm around her shoulders. “We’ll be there with them in two days,” he reminded her.
“I know,” she murmured. “I just…”
Whatever she meant to say was cut off by Kala turning around, walking backwards for a few steps. She waved to them and put both hands to her lips, blowing extravagant kisses the same way she had when she was about five years old. Jason turned too, waving, and almost shyly blew a kiss to Lois.
Biting her lip, Lois pretended to snatch those kisses out of the air, and pressed her palm to her cheek. Both teenagers laughed, and then they turned the corner behind frosted glass.
Clark hugged Lois, kissing her temple. “It’s okay,” he said. “You’re being silly and you know it, love.”
“I know,” Lois said quietly.
“Let’s go home,” he murmured, nuzzling her hair. “You can go back to bed for a while … I might join you for a bit, then I’ll go take care of the rest of the world.”
Lois yawned again, feeling the effect of too little sleep and too little coffee. “Sounds like a good idea to me, hero,” she replied.
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31 year old Afika Mbandazayo, 2ndof 5 children, born in the eTholeni village in Butterworth has created a nationally recognised brand of hair and beauty services.
After matriculating at Westbank High school in East London, Afika went on to study towards an LLB degree at UNISA, attending lectures at the Pretoria campus. Though she had a liking for the law Afika knew her destiny lay elsewhere “I’d walk onto campus and all I’d notice would be people who’s hair needs to be done” Afika says as she reminisces. Her love for doing hair started back home where she’d watch her sister do people’s hair for pocket money, she followed suit and realised she had quite a talent.
Afika dropped out of law school a year later and returned to East London where she lived with her childhood best friend in Belgravia, and started operating her hair business there. Because many people didn’t know about her little business, she took it upon herself to market her business “I started by going door to door and offering my services to people around the complex, then progressed to handing out flyers around Southernwood” said the budding entrepreneur
When the business began to blossom, she decided it was time to find her own space but was still sceptical about renting. So she opted for a two bedroom flat at Sohco flats in Amalinda, turning one of the rooms into a make shift saloon with all the necessary salon furniture.
Things were going well and Afika business was growing one plait at a time, she now had established a client base. With the influx of customers, Afika found herself swamped with work and having no time to sleep, and sometimes falling asleep while taking a bath. Besides needing a bigger working space to accommodate all her clients, Afika realised that her customers needed more than just their hair done, so she decided to further her skills at The Beauty Academy in Berea. There she studied nail therapy, eyelash extensions and massages. She also enrolled at Hair Image for her hair training.
Qualifications in hand Afika continued with her business at home, until she was approached with an opportunity to share salon space with a lady in Berea. Until one fateful day they were shut down with clients in the salon. Not long after the incident a friend from beauty school suggested she take up her lease and business was rolling in no time. To help with the running of the salon, Afika employed two ladies one would do nails, and the other hair.
In 2013 her Landlord informed her that he’d be selling the building, Afika had no choice but to put her equipment in storage and go back to working from home. At that time the young entrepreneur had been around 3 months pregnant, she gave birth in April the following year and a month later she went back to work.
Having acquired her current hair salon in Vincent, in January 2014, the tedious task of having to renovate the building to fit her taste started, on it’s completion she started to vigorously market, making people aware of her quarters.
Though the new space gave her and her clients stability, she needed more room to render all of the other skills she had acquired during her training. And in 2016, she expanded her business to 1 Lancaster Rd in Vincent (which she hopes to own soon), with the promise of grants and funding from government (that didn’t materialise). The strain of having to maintain two properties requires her to sometimes not even take a salary.
With a salon and a new Beauty Spa, Afika was grateful for the mentoring programme she had won through the SAB foundation. Where she was taught valuable business handling skills; from HR and marketing to handling her costing and pricing. SAB also helped with the renovations on Lancaster Rd. In 2018 this awe-inspiring entrepreneur, won the Business Women’s Association of South Africa award for Regional Business Woman of the Year.
The property on 1 Lancaster Rd, though still incomplete, is now a spa that also offers micro blading, nail therapy, eyelash extensions, make up massages, waxing and threading. With plans to branch out even further in the province, Afika is excited at the opportunity and potential the Eastern Cape Province has to offer the hair and beauty industry.
Technology has taken over many industries, and slowly but surely it’s finding it’s way into the hair and beauty industry. “The importance of constantly evolving and improving your skills is pivotal in this age of technology, there are machines that make wigs at a fraction of the time it takes to do it manually” said Afika, she went to say “In this industry you need to be creative, quick to adapt and most importantly set yourself apart from your competitors”.
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It’s Official: Michael Ray and Carly Pearce Are Married
Michael Ray and Carly Pearce are officially a married couple! The country singers wed on Sunday (Oct. 6) in Tennessee before a group of family and friends.
According to People, the pair tied the knot at Drakewood Farms, a 40-acre venue about 15 miles north of downtown Nashville featuring a 19th-century mansion, three barns and a pavilion. Although originally planning for an outdoor wedding, Mother Nature had other ideas, and rain took the wedding into one of the barns.
Pearce wore an unusual, non-traditional gown designed by Samantha Sleeper featuring long sleeves, a high neck, and a sheer lace skirt. The ceremony was officiated by Bill Cody, a country radio DJ and announcer at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, reflecting the couple's love for traditional country.
“We fell in love because of our love of classic country music and '90s country and the Grand Ole) Opry, and Bill Cody from [legendary radio station] WSM is marrying us for that real reason,” Pearce told Taste of Country during a recent interview. “We feel like it’s our duty to position ourselves in that light. We want to be remembered and we want to be a couple that had an impact on country music."
Guests feasted on such goodies as shrimp and grits and enjoyed a make-your-own burger station. There were reportedly not too many famous faces in the crowd, but Jake Owen was enlisted to deliver the first dance song, "Made For You."
The newlyweds now share an anniversary date with yet another famous country couple, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, who celebrated their 23rd anniversary the same day.
Pearce and Ray dated for several months before going public with their romance in July of 2018. They announced their engagement in December.
How'd They Get Together, Anyways?
"The man of my dreams got down on one knee earlier this week and asked me to be his wife," she posted to social media alongside photos of the proposal and her ring. "@Michaelraymusic you are the most precious example of God's timing & His love for me. WE ARE GETTIN MARRIED, BABY!"
"All in one simple 'yes,' I said 'yes; to love, 'yes' to peace, 'yes' to faithfulness, 'yes' to respect, 'yes' to kindness, 'yes' to trust, 'yes' to patience and 'yes' to never settling," she wrote on Instagram. "Michael, I would've married you the first night we hung out because I knew then you were the one."
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Schwarzschild Source: The Jewish Quarterly Review, New Series, Vol. 53, No. 1 (Jul., 1962), pp. 30-65 Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1453421 Accessed: 30/11/2009 14:37
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DO NOACHITE HAVE TO BELIEVE IN REVELATION ?
BY STEVENS. SCHWARZSCHILD
(Continued from JQR April, I962) We shall return later to the question which Mendelssohn discusses what the philosophical reasons may have been because of which Maimonides demanded belief in revelation on the part of Noachites. We quote his touching letter at this point only because it again illustrates the unsuccessful search for his talmudic authority by later Jewish teachers. Jacob Emden, it is true, in his reply offers to Mendelssohnseveral answers to this question.27Unlike Mendelssohn'sletter which is written in the fluent and felicitous Hebrew of a modern Hebraist, Emden's letter is couched in the typical talmudic style of the traditional legal disquisition. And the style also reflects the content, for Emden does not actually cite sources but ratherengagesin casuistic deductions which in his opinion justify Maimonides'stipulation. Mendelssohn,like the Kesef Mishneh,he declares,is wrong in believing that we are dealing with a novel concept peculiar to the Rambam. In fact he
proposes three solutions. I. Psalm 9 : I8 states: "The wicked shall return to the netherworld, even all the nations that forget God." Thus not only the sinners but even those gentiles who live moral lives but who forget God or do not believe in Him are condemned to perdition. 28 "Even if they fulfill all the commandments in the world it will not avail them at all because they do not know Him who commands the fulfillment of the commandments." This first derivation, whether substantively correct or not, can hardly be regarded as Maimonides' authority. It is, in the first place, a much
Io5a. Compare also Sanhed. Io7b-IIob; Aboth deR. Nathan, ch. 36, first part; Tosefta Sank. ch. 13 : I-2.
27 ib., p. 155, pp. I79-I83, 28 Cf. Sanh.
dated Altona,
I773.
blunter though perhaps equivalent statement of the case, and, in the second place, had Maimonides considered it his Biblical justification there is no reason in the world why he should not have quoted it himself in a passage in which he
quotes several other Biblical verses. 29 2. Even a Jew who
performs a Mitzvah for an ulterior purpose rather than for its own sake, lishmah, is often condemned by the talmudic rabbiswho exclaim that it would have been better had he never been born. They even go so far as to declare that "a sin committed for its own sake is better than a good deed for an ulterior motive." Now, to do a good deed for its own sake means, Emden says, to do it "because it is God's commandment, because He instituted it and ordained that His will be obeyed in this fahion." If this is true for a Jew, how much more must it be true for a non-Jew; but a non-Jew who fulfills the Noachite laws without knowingthat they constitute the revealed will of God is obviously incapable of complying with this requirement. 3. Those Jewish theologians who hold that "the commandments must always be performed with the properintention" (kavanah) would clearly have to take the same position which Maimonides represents, for one cannot have the proper intention unless one knows what the goal of the intention is to be, towit God. But even according to the school which believes that "the performance of the commandments does not require the possession of the proper intentions" (operansoperandi) a Noachite must be expected to believe in the revealed origin of the Noachite laws, for the rabbinic dispensation for those who fulfill the law without the proper intention only applies to Jews. It applies to them because two good results may be expected to be achieved by the Jew who abides by the law without doing it for the right reason: in the first place, "from fulfilling the law for the wrong reason he may learn to fulfill it for the right reason," and by being punished for fulfilling the law inade29 It might be added that R. Jacob picks one of two views to be found in Abodah Zarah 65a quite arbitrarily.
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quately he will learn his lesson and in the future fullfill it adequately. Neither of these good results can be expected from the unbeliever, for "there is not faith in him." Both these results rest on the premise that he who fulfills the law at least believes in God and His law, though he may not fulfill it for this reason, but a person who does not even believe in divine revelation can hardly be brought to fulfill the law with this fact in mind. He will do it "only for his own advantage and pleasure... All the justice and kindness which and so that their
idolators practice are sinful, because they act in this manner
only in order to magnify themselves...
temporal rule may be lengthened." 30 The only credit which Jacob Emden is willing to concede to them is that they may be able to obtain earthly credit, but they are certainly not entitled, he concludes, to "a share in the world to come." Now, whatever one may think of the religious or Jewish validity of R. Jacob's argument, one thing seems clear: the latter two reasons are not in their very nature sources or authorities; they are arguments to buttress Maimonides' position, both revolving around the indispensability of proper intention in the performanceof religious law. For all we know at this point Maimonidesmight even have agreed with the reasoning which he follows, but such reasoning does not constitute literary or legal authority. Certainly Mendelssohn, for example, must have remained completely unconvinced by R. Jacob Emden's reply. Their extant correspondence ends at this point, but we can easily imagine what Mendelssohn'sreaction must have been: in the first place, he will have said to himself that lots of men believe in God and may even act morally for God's sake without necessarily believing in the divine authority of the Torah; in the second place, he will have answered that the very purpose of the Noachite laws as the natural law valid for all human beings
Cf. Midr.
XIV,
monides' letter to R. Hasdai (cf. p. 24a) might seem to support R. Jacob's justification in terms of "the heart's intention."
34 f., 38b. Unless
read Mai-
is precisely to provide an avenue of salvation for those who do not happen to be heirs to the Jewish tradition, and, therefore, all the deductions made from this tradition cannot be believed to be valid for them. We must then conclude that also R. Jacob Emden was unable to supply an answer to the question from where Maimonides received the talmudic .authority for his statement. We must furthermoreconclude, in the absence of other proposed solutions, that the Kesef Mishneh was right in the first place: Maimonidesadded the Noachite requirement of belief in the divine authority of the Torah on his own accord. Or, if one is ready to concede that these sources may after all constitute Maimonides'authority, the problem is merely pushed one step backwards: why did Maimonides use these sources to come to his controversial conclusion when so many other Jewish interpreters who were no less acquainted with them did not utilize them for any such purpose? If our conclusion is correct, the second question which we must ask of Maimonidesgains even further in importance: what were his reasons for this dictum ? Two reasons which were suggested by Hermann Cohen in his polemic against Spinoza must be ruled out. He suggested in the first place that we must weigh the two formulations of the principle that "the righteous men of the nations of the world have a share in the world to come" in which the additional requirement is not mentioned against the one place in which this controversial sentence does occur and implies that the latter is, therefore, of little if any consequence.31 This is false reasoning. The two sentences in "The Laws of Repentance" and "The Laws of Testimony" may not explicitly state the additional requirement, but there is nothing in these two clauses which contradicts the third. In them Maimonidesmerely repeats that the "righteous of the nations have a share in the world to come," but he does not explain what constitutes such righteous men. It is perfectly consistent
loc. cit., p. 348.
for him in "The Laws of the Kings" to define what a righteous man of the nations is and then to let the student conclude that it is a person so defined who is referredto in the other two contexts. Furthermore, we must hold in mind the principle which Leo Strauss 32 lays down. Strauss assigns his place to Maimonides in the tradition of esoteric writing in which, during much of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and even in modern times, thinkers who believed that their somewhat unconventional beliefs might draw upon them the wrath of priests, rulers, or mob disguised their views in such a manner that, even while they expressed their doctrines sufficiently clearly for the comprehension of the initiates, the general reader would be oblivious to their true opinions. One of the rules of this kind of Aesopian style is, then, formulated by Strauss thus: "We may establish the rule that of two contradictory statements in the Guide or in any other work of Maimonidesthat statement which occurs least frequently or even which occurs only once was considered by him to be true." Cohen's attempt, then, to justify a virtual omission of the debated clause must be rejected for these two reasons. Cohen's second explanation of Maimonides' disturbing dictum must also be rejected. For he claims that in the two former instances Maimonides speaks generally of Noachites of whom no requirementis made beyond the seven Noachite laws, while in the statement at issue he speaks of a specific kind of Noachite, namely the ger toshav, i.e. the resident stranger-convert who is a citizen of the Jewish state. This type of gentile, now, Cohengoes on to argue, had to give some additional guarantee that he would always remain a loyal and obedient member of the Jewish society. If he agreed to the ethics of the Noachite covenant by virtue of his own reason alone he might at some future time change his mind for to him equally cogent rational reasons and thus become subversive of civil obedience and peace. This contingency could be prevented only by ascertaining that his submission to the
Persecution and the Art of Writing, Glencoe, Ill., I952, p. 73.
Noachite laws was grounded in a more lasting reason than his own calculations, namely a divine command in whose validity he believed. 33 There is only one thing wrong with this argument of Cohen's: even if his distinction between "the righteous man of the nations of the world" on the one hand and the "resident stranger-convert" on the other is correct, even if his definition of what talmudic law had in is mind in the concept of the ger-toshav valid, 34 the wording of Maimonides' disputed statement makes it indubitably clear that he regards the person who does not believe in the divine origin of the Noachite laws in the Torah not only as no resident convert-strangerbut also as no "righteous man
of the nations of the world": ". . . ., then he is not a resident
stranger-convertnor one of the righteous men of the nations of the world but one of their sages," and only the righteous men of the gentile nations have their share in the world to come. But this is precisely the point which in Cohen's argument is completely missed: even granting Cohen'sascriptionof political motives to the refusal to let a man persuaded of the validity of the Noachite laws by his own reason be considered a stranger-convert, Maimonides also refuses to consider him as morally and religiously a righteous member of the gentile nations from the point of view of Jewish law and denies him eternal salvation,-and this latter point is what disturbs so many readers of this passage. 35
loc. cit., p. 349; Religion der Vernunft, p. 386. and Benamozegh, op. cit., p. 6I8 would seem to support him on this point; also the discussion on p. 596. Also Michael Guttmann,
33 34 35 How the term "Noachite" differs from the term "residentconvert" Maimonides himself defines and in such a manner as to invalidate this argument of Cohen's: "Who is a resident-convert? A gentile who has taken upon himself not to engage in idolatry together with the other commandments which are obligatory for Noachites, eventhough he is neither circumcized nor baptized; behold, him we accept, and he is one of the righteous men of the nations of the world." (Cf. also A bodahZara 64b; "Laws of Forbidden Marriages," ch. 14 : 7) In other words, a resident-convert is a Noachite who fulfills the obligations of a Noachite.-This passage in Hilchot Issure
Das Judentum und Seine Umwelt, Berlin I927, pp. 52, 59, IIo.
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Cohen is, of course, an interested party in this dispute. He has three reasons for not wanting to believe that Maimonides could possibly have said what clearly he does say. In the first place, Cohen had unbounded admiration for Maimonides. He regards him as the by far most outstanding Jewish thinker of all times; he discusses his writings and quotes
Bi'ah goes on to make the famous and controversial statement that "resident-converts are accepted only in the time when the law of the Jubilee year is practiced," not now-which is to say, only in messianic times. (Cf. Arakin 29) The Rabad, of course, disputes this view and would restrict the acceptability of resident-converts at the present only to the extent that certain privileges which would devolve upon them in messianic times they could not now enjoy. (ad locum) If Maimonides' original statement were to be left as it first seems to present itself, the clear implication would be that only in messianic times can there be practicing Noachites, and that then the belief in Revelation would also be pre-requisite would presumably be not so much a demand as a self-evident assumption. On the other hand, it is hard to believe that Maimonides could have held that until messianic times no gentile could be "righteous." Perhaps the solution of this problem lies in Maimonides' exact wording. Ch. 14 : 7 declares: "Why is a resident-convert called 'resident?' Because we may settle him among ourselves in the Land of Israel." 14 : 8 then immediately goes on: "We do not accept a resident-convert other than in messianic times." It is possible, now, that the acceptance mentioned does not refer to the acceptance of resident-converts as such but rather more limitedly to the acceptance of his full residence-rights in Palestine which is discussed immediately previous to this sentence. (This is also true because conversion in messianic times must be suspected of ulterior, materialistic motives and would, therefore, violate 13 : I4.) This would then coincide with what Rabad calls the "strict" of the two-according to him-possible explanations. And this also sounds logical, because the practice of the Jubilee year implies residence in Palestine and economic prosperity, whereas in the conditions of exilic distress and poverty residence in Palestine is impossible by definition, and economic help is difficult. This solution would further seem to be supported by the fact that the legislation concerning Noachites is placed by Maimonides in the "Laws of the Kings" immediately prior to, and, therefore, presumably connected with, the last two chapters (II and I2) which deal with the definition of the messianic Kingdom. In the very last law of ch. Io concerned with Noachites, a few words before the discussion of the Messiah begins, Maimonides re-iterates: "for behold, we are commanded to support the residentconverts." This, then-not the acceptance of resident-converts as such-is the messianic aspect of Noachitism.
him more often than any other Jewish authority. And Cohen, therefore, is afflicted with the same problem which already Mendelssohn suffered: how could this greatest of all Jewish spokesmen teach a doctrine which neither of them could believe on the basis of their own understanding of Judaism as a rational and thoroughly tolerant faith, on the basis of their own endeavors to bridge the gap between Jews and their non-Jewish fellow-Europeans,and on the basis of their own philosophical systems of ethics and truth? The second reason why Hermann Cohen could not, as it were, believe his eyes when he saw Maimonides' dictum in "The Laws of the Kings," chapter 8, II, is that in his own system of philosophical religious ethics the Jewish concept of the Noachite as the ethical man pleasing to God purely on the basis of natural, rational moral law without religious commitment holds foremost place of pride and glory. The concept of man as possessing inherent dignity and value, regardless of race, nation, creed, or social status,-the universal dignity of human beings as the cornerstone of moral philosophy and social progress-, this concept Cohen rightly believed to have been achieved by Biblical Judaism. Neither the loftiest height of Greek philosophy with its distinction between natural-born slaves and barbarians nor the wide sway of Roman imperial sovereignty over many different nations and religions produced this concept so fundamental to the increasing freedom and welfare of the human race. Only the Bible recognized the dignity of all human beings. "Messianic mankind," Cohen proclaims, "was foreshadowed in the stranger who has equal rights." 36 "This is the great step with which humanity begins, and it begins in the form of law and state, although this state is based on the One God,
and although this alien does not profess Him." dible to Cohen.
36 loc. cit., p. 345. 37 Religion der Vernunft, p. I4I.
That Mai-
monides should infringe upon this universal concept is incre-
Finally, Cohen knew very well that Spinoza used this passage in the Mishneh Torah, as we shall see shortly, in one of his most virulent attacks on Judaism. And Spinoza was the arch-enemy to Hermann Cohen. Spinoza taught not only that nature is God rather than that God is the author of morality, he not only libeled Judaism, he identified right with might, denied freedom,- he also advocated submission to rather than conquest of reality. 38 Spinoza's attack on Maimonidesand through Maimonideson Judaism as a whole had to be annihilated at all costs. We shall also have to refute Spinoza, but Cohen's refutation by vindicating Maimonides on this score does not succeed. Another reason that has occasionally been adduced for Maimonides'position is that he held not only morality but piety, i.e. religious devotion based on religious belief, to be prerequisite to salvation, for Jews as well as for non-Jews. Though this terminological evidence does not seem to be mentioned in this connection, it is, of course, striking that the word usually translated as "righteous man" (chassid)means more than merely the good man; it is often in other connections translated as saint or pietist and is derived from the divine quality of chesed or grace. Thus, for example, the mediaeval Al-Ashkar39 interprets the Maimonideanpassage to imply that not primarilyphilosophicalwisdom but religious piety is the criterion for divine acceptability. Dr. Sonne similarly expressed himself: Maimonides, he says, held that belief in torat moshe misinai, the divine Mosaic revelation, was indispensableto salvation. This is the religious equivalent of his philosophical tenet that right beliefs are prerequisite to immortality. Now, this is obviously true; it merely re-states what Maimonides says in other words in the passage under
Cf. the famous essay "Ueber Staat und Religion, Judentum und Christentum," and many other places throughout Cohen's writings; Ernst Simon, "Zu H. Cohens Spinoza-Au fassung," MGWdJ, vol.
Socialism of H. Cohen," HUCA, vol. XXVII, pp. 421 f.
39 loc. cit.
79, 2, Breslau
I935,
pp. I81-I94;
Schwarzschild,
"The Democratic
consideration. On the other hand, it does not help us much in understanding why Maimonidesheld this view. A letter from Maimonides to R. Hasdai LaLevy, the Spaniard (of Egypt), residingin Alexandria,is extant in which the writer also refers to this problem: 40 "As for what you ask about the gentile nations, you must know that God asks for the heart, and things go according to the heart's intention. 41 Therefore, the sages of truth, our rabbis, may they rest in peace, said: 'the righteous of the gentile nations of the world have a share in the world-to-come'-if they have attained to that which it is proper to attain of the knowledge
of the Creator, blessed be He..
There is no doubt that
everyone who has improved his soul with the propriety of the virtues and with the propriety of wisdom in the faith in the Creator,blessed be He, is certainly among the children of the world-to-come, and therefore the sages of truth, our rabbis, may they rest in peace, said: 'even a gentile, when he busies himself with the Torah of Moses our teacher, may he
rest in peace, is like unto the highpriest.' . .. There can also
be no doubt that the patriarchs and Noah and Adam, who did not keep any of the words of the Torah, were not children of hell; rather, when they reached and attained to that to which it is proper to progress, they certainly were in the
high sphere."
40 Iggerot haRambam, Leipzig I859, vol. II, pp. 23 f. Prof. Altmann kindly brought this passage to my attention. Guttmann, op. cit., p. I57 also mentions it, and Mendelssohn refers to it. (cf. note II) Maimonides, in this letter, refers to the Guide; it must, therefore, have been written later. 41 Cf. Sanhed. io6b; Ber. I5af. Cf. also Bernhard Heller, "'Gott wuenscht das Herz:' Legenden ueber Einfaeltige Andacht und ueber den Gefaehrtenim Paradies," HUCA IV, 1927, pp. 365-404. 42 Comp. the Christian doctrine of the descent into hell to save these very personages: "descendit ad inferos." "La descente de Jesus aux enfers" (Dictionnaire de Theologie Catholique, vol. 4, p. 6oo): "telle est done l'explication exacte de l'oeuvre du Christ aux enfers: c'est la liberation des justes ou des saints, des Juifs principalement et meme des gentils qui accomplirent durant leur vie les preceptes de la loi de la nature ou de leur loi positive et obtinrent ainsi la grace."
It will be noted that, despite the conciliatory sound of his words, here also Maimonides insists repeatedly on the prerequisite of faith in God for the attainment of salvation. He does not say so in so many words, but he clearly leaves room for his doctrine that "the virtues" can be acquired only through revelation.
The Historic Question
We turn then to the most important question that arises out of Maimonides'famous statement. Why did he have to make it in the context of his philosophical theology? What is its place in his system? In the attempt to answer this question we may begin with the observation earlier quoted from Mendelssohn'sletter to R. Jacob Emden, that for Maimonides the recognition of good and evil was not a matter of the rational intelligence but rather of convention or statutory enactment. If this is so, Mendelssohnrightly argues, then a man who claims that he believes in the morality of the Noachite laws is not to be taken seriously, is certainly not to be relied on in the long run, for he believes in a morality which he has attained by false and illogical reasoning. And this, of course, correctly represents Maimonides' view of the matter. In his Treatise on Logic 43 he proposes that among the judgments which are known to be true without further evidence are, in the first
place, "conventions" (concensus gentilium, mefursamot) such
as "our knowledge of the fact that sexual unchastity is repulsive and that repaying someone who has benefacted us as much as we can is appropriate and right," and, in the second place, "traditions, that is anything accepted from a chosen person or from many chosen persons." It is to be noted that moral cognition as exemplified in chastity and gratitude is couched in esthetic terminology, as to this day it is commonly held that what is beautiful and ugly is a matter of personal, subjective taste. If there are to be then
43 Ed. Israel Efros, N.Y.
I938, ch. 8, pp. 39 f-Hebrew
generally accepted standards of this kind of knowledge, they cannot be arrived at by logical excogitations but rather must be attained by conventions agreed upon by any given society, bequeathed to it by past practices, or imposed by divine or human statutes. And this is exactly what the Rambam in his philosophical ethic teaches. In the Guide to the Perplexed, Part I, the entire second chapter is in effect devoted to this question. Maimonides begins by interpreting the Biblical verse "And you will become like God in that you will know good and evil" (Gen. 3: 5) very discreetly and ingeniously to mean that only God, and anyone who is like God, can discern good and evil. This knowledge, in other words, is a divine prerogative not properly bestowed upon the human intelligence. "With the reason man distinguishes between
truth and falsehood, (this is an intellectual operation) . . . but
the repulsive and the lovely (and we have already seen that Maimonides identifies moral categories with esthetic ones)
are conventions, not rational concepts... Thus in our lan-
guage we speak of that which is right and that which is not right as truth and falsehood, but of that which is ugly or lovely we speak as good or bad." Again later in the same chapter he declares: "For the necessary, intellectual existent there is no goodness or evil, only truth and falsehood." In other words, for God the moral and the immoral are not questions of goodness or evil but of rightness and wrongness; it is only for man, with his limited intelligence, that such problems cannot be resolved with intellectual, scientific finality but rather are dependent on less definite judgments which, just because of their indefiniteness, require positive enjoinments for their completion. This view of Maimonidesis, of course, an integral part of his Aristotelian inheritance. Aristotle taught: 44 "Now fine and just actions, which political science investigates, admit of much variety and fluctuation of opinion, so that they may be thought to exist only by convention and not by nature.
44 Nichomachean
Ethics, I, Io94b,
And goods also give rise to a similar fluctuation because they bring harm to many people; for before now men have been undone by reason of their wealth and others by reason or their courage. We must be content, then, of speaking of such subjects and with such premises to indicate the truth roughly and in outline, and in speaking about things which are only for the most part true and with premises of the same kind to reach conclusions that are no better." This view is shared by Maimonides.He teaches in many places that when it comes to ethics and proper human actions the intelligence can only indicate the general direction, set the broad outline, but the details and specifics which are so important if the general principles are to have any meaning whatsoever must be provided by authorities other than reason. This position is concisely summarized in the very clause which follows immediately upon the controverted clause in the eighth chapter of the "Laws of the Kings" and which strikingly is meant to explain it, though it never seems to have been put together with it by the commentators: 45so far as the six of the seven Noachite laws are concernedthat were given already to Adam, "although the reason inclines toward them, it is from the words of the Torah that we learn that they were
commanded to him." 46
An analogy can be drawn between Maimonides' position on this score and his view on the first of the 613 commandments. It is well-known that in his Book of theCommandments he lists as the first of the positive commandments the one which enjoins belief in God. This enumerationhas often been
45 ch. 9: I.
And it should perhaps be added that Hermann Cohen who was understandably so put out by the original restriction of the definition of a Noachite, rationalist that he is, does not like this Maimonidean view of the inadequate rationality of ethics any better and exerts himself to comment that this view of Maimonides implies no derogation of the autonomy of morality but a high estimate of the rigorousness of reason. ("Charakteristik der Ethik Maimunis," pp. 81-88, Moses ben Maimon, Sein Leben, Sein Werk, Und Sein Einfluss, eds. W.
Bacher etc., Leipzig I908).
disputed. For example the Great Book of the Laws (Sefer Halachot Gedolot),Zohar HaRakia (cf. Megillat Esther ad loc.) and Nachmanides take the position that this is not to be counted among the 613 commandments; rather that it is the foundation of all the other commandments and cannot, therefore, be regarded as itself one of them. But this is precisely why Maimonidesdoes include it. All the other commandments are dependent for their validity upon this one, and it must, therefore, be put at the very head of the list. Similarly, the fulfillment of the seven Noachite laws is in his judgment dependent on belief in he authority and communication of their Author, and Hermann Cohen's objection, that adding this requirement to the Noachite laws is tantamount to adding an eighth, 47 is no more cogent from Maimonides'point of view than the objection of those who do not wish to see the belief in God included among the total
list of 613 commandments.
Finally this circumstance must be taken cognizance of in this connection: in chapter Io, 9 of the "Laws of the Kings" Maimonidesstates: "The basic principle of this entire matter is that it is not permitted to create a new religion and to make laws by oneself out of one's own thinking, but rather a gentile must either become a convert (ger tzedek)and take upon himself all the commandments or he may retain his original faith, and then he must neither add to nor detract from it." On the basis of the principle implied in this clause the most interesting modern book on Noachitism was written, Elie Benamozegh's Israel et L'Humanite, Paris I9I4, a book, it might be added, which was more than a book in that at least in France it brought about a small but important movement of Christian conversions to Noachism. 48 Fundamental to this study is the theory that Noachism is the religion of the gentiles taught by Judaism, itself the religion and the laws of the Jews. In the time especially of the birth of Christia47 48
oc. cit., p. 350. Cf. the introduction
by Aim6 Palliere.
nity there existed two tendencies each of which contradicted this theory by attempting to overcome the ethnic particularism of Judaism in an opposite manner: there was the Paulinian attitude which wanted to broaden the validity of Judaism by abolishing its legal requirements not only for gentiles but also for Jews; and then there was the proselytizing attitude among Jews which intended to apply the law not only to Jews but to all men. 49But the two, Judaism and Noachism, must be kept apart and integral. Only in this way will the truth of Judaism eventually come to benefit all mankind without on the other hand impinging on the sanctity of Judaism or of the Jewish people. Noachism, then, from this perspective is what might be called "the out-patient department" of Judaism, rather than the natural law which exists outside and independent of Judaism. 50 For that reason also belief in God and in the revelation of the Torah to Israel is indispensable to the legitimate Noachite. It has been previously mentioned that Spinoza lets loose a vitriolic attack on Maimonides for several reasons, our passage being one of the most prominent in the TheologicoPolitical Tractate.An analysis of Spinoza's polemic against Maimonides'view on this question shall, therefore, represent the last episode in our review of the checkered and agitated history of this controversial clause. That Spinoza should heartily disagree with everything about this dictum in the Mishneh Torah and with all its implications cannot come as a surprise. We have seen, in the first place, that the basic philosophicalreason which compelled Maimonides to take this restrictive position toward the
50 ib., p. 483. At first glance it might appear that the established doctrine that "he who is commanded to do and does is better than he who is not commanded to do and does" (Tosefta, Abodah Zarah 8 4-8, H. Talmud Torah : 13) might here explain Maimonides' position, but this is not the case, for the Noachites are, after all, commanded the seven Noachite commandments. (Cf. Isaac Heineman,
Ta'ame HaMitzvot
49 Cf. p. 22 f.
and notes).
BeSafrut
Yisrael,
1949, vol. I, p. 25
Noachites was the fact that he had learned from his teacher Aristotle and was ready also for religious reasons to believe that ethics are not a purely rational, philosophic or scientific discipline. Only the barest outline of general ethical principles can be definedby logical methods. The substance of the matter which resides in its details can be obtained only through positive statutes, traditions, or divine commands, none of which are produced by conscious, rational processes. This was the reason, as we have seen, that Noachites could not be trusted to adhere to a system of morality at which they had arrived by philosophic considerations. Now, to the contrary, if Spinoza's system stands for anything it stands for the exactly opposite position, namely that ethics are a purely logical and scientific set of principleswhich can be elaborated in the smallest details. Indeed, the very title of his major work states as much: "Ethics, demonstrated in a geometric manner;" that is to say, from a small group of fundamental premises, similar to mathematical axioms, by means of logical deductions an entire consistent and adequate system of morality can be developed, even as every mathematical result can be obtained on the basis of the original theses and by means of strictly logical analyses. Thus on the fundamental premise of the very nature of what ethics are Maimonidesand Spinoza are worlds apart, and it cannot, therefore,take anyone by surprise that they would violently disagree. This wide divergency also expresses itself, of course, on the level of the more specific aspects of the actual content of ethics. Thus where Maimonidesteaches, as we again have seen earlier, that ethics, in orderto take on human and livable form, requires a divine addendum in the shape of actual imperatives,-that ethics must necessarily be religious ethics and involve a definite religious commitment, (for all this is clearly involved in the prerequisite of belief in the divine revelation of the Torah)-, Spinoza to the contrary teaches that any rational human being can evolve his own valid moral outlook. Furthermore, according to Spinoza, who
himself, of course, adhered to neither Judaism nor Christianity, submitting to the doctrinal or ethical yoke of a religious communion is by no means indispensable to the moral man. Anyone who practices "the virtues of charity, joy, peace, etc., whether he do so by reason of Scripture or on the basis of his own reason, is in effect taught of God." 51 Thus Spinoza strongly disagrees with Maimonides on the nature of ethics generally and on the indispensability of belief in divine revelation for the validity of ethics in particular. He must, therefore, firmly reject the clause in the "Laws of the Kings" which we have been discussing. And this he does. He goes one step further, however. He writes 52 that "according to Judaism," not just according to Maimonides, a Noachite must accept the authenticity of the Torah, and he then goes on to quote the disputed passage in its entirety and in its unemended formulation. There are two questions which must be considered in this connection: I) Why does Spinoza attribute Maimonides' view on this question to all of Judaism, whereas, as we have seen, many of the most outstanding spokesmen of Judaism themselves dissented sharply from it? 2) Was he justified and sincere in quoting the text from the Mishneh Torah in its strongest and almost certainly false form? So far as the second question is concerned, Joel 53 points out that Spinoza does not limit himself to quoting Maimonides but also refers to the little booklet Kevod Elohim in which this Maimonideandoctrine is alluded to and supported. Now it happens that this passage as quoted in this book occurs there not in the corruptform in which we have it in our extant editions but rather in the correct form, reading "but of their sages" rather than "and not of their sages." It follows then that Spinoza who used this book must have known of the correct text and willfully used the incorrect one in order
Theologico-Political Tractate, p. 80. Spinozas Theologisch-Politisches Traktat-auf
loc. cit.
seine Quellen ge-
prueft, Breslau I870, p. 56.
to incriminate Judaism more gravely. (Hermann Cohen quotes this argument of Joel's who, incidentally, had been a teacher of his during his student-days and adds that the correct text is also used in the commentary,-he must mean either the Kesef Mishneh or the LechemMishneh-,and that, therefore, Spinoza maliciously disregarded two pieces of evidence rather than one, but this is not true; these commentaries do not contain the original and correct wording.54) This circumstance alone, then, ought to make us suspicious of the cleanliness of Spinoza's motivation and of his methods of argumentation in this controversy. As to the former question, why Spinoza went out of his way in order to give the general non-Jewish public to which his Tractatewas addressed the impression that Maimonides' individual and certainly somewhat eccentric view authoritatively represented the concensus of Jewish opinion on this subject, Leo Strauss believes that this is a piece of what he indulgently calls "amazing rashness." Strauss proceeds to criticize Spinoza for it and ascribes it to the "irrelevant reason that he (Spinoza) had happened to study it closely in his youth." 55 On the other hand, we must hold more with Joel who believed that Spinoza acted in this fashion not just out of sincere though perhaps erroneous rashness and in honest ignorance of his mistake but out of a conscious and intentional desire to identify Judaism publicly with the one man who on this point happened to be the most "dogmatic" thinker. 56 In other words, we are making the claim that Spinoza knowingly and libelously distorted Jewish doctrine. And our reasons for believing this are three: In the first place, we have already seen that Spinoza must be held guilty of consciously having chosen a quotation in a text which he was awareto be corruptjust because it displayed the Jewish view on this question in an even crasserlight than would have been the case otherwise. In the second place,
54 Cf. loc. cit., p. 347. 56 op. cit., p. I5.
55 op. cit., p. I98.
throughout the Theologico-Political Tractate he pursues a
policy of what may be called malicious reductionism; that is to say, he defines religion in such a way that having accepted his definition the intelligent reader must reject it. Thus, for example, he denies to the more highly developed religions the right to engage in Biblical exegesis and insists that the Bible must be either taken literally or not at all. The anthropomorphisms which occur in the Bible, therefore, may not be understood in any metaphoric or theological sense but must either be believed ot they must lead to a rejection of the concept of God as it is embodied in the Bible. And it is on the ground that Maimonidesis, of course, the most outstanding Jewish interpreter who dissolved all forms of anthropomorphismsin as well as outside of the Bible by his theological exegesis that Spinoza polemicizes against him even much more vitriolically and frequently than on the ground of his statement in the eighth chapter of the "Laws of the Kings." 57 The point of this entire harangue is not, obviously, that Spinoza wants people to believe that God has anthropomorphicattributes but rather that he wishes them to reject the Bible, and he can accomplish this purpose in no better manner than by insisting on the literal significance of Biblical texts. Thus he reduces the Bible to its most primitive level in order on this level the more easily to be able to reject it. This is what we have called reductioad barbarum, and this is also the willful method which he utilizes in his argument against Maimonides' Noachite legislation: by identifying all of Judaism with its most radical expression he expects people to discard it the more eagerly. The third, last, and most cogent reason for believing that Spinoza intentionally misrepresented Judaism by ascribing
57 Cf. especially Tractate, pp. II5 ff.: "The falsity of such a doctrine is shown, ... for we have shown both by reason and by example that the meaning of Scripture is only made plain through Scripture itself... Therefore, the method of Maimonides is clearly useless... In conclusion, then, we dismiss Maimonides' theory as harmful, useless, and absurd."
Maimonides'view on this question to all of Jewish law is the fact that a doctrine which would exclude non-Jews from all forms of moral or social approbationfits in perfectly with the thoroughly untrue picture of Judaism which Spinoza is at pains throughout the Tractate to paint. It is a picture so flagrantly in contrast to the truth that there is even no need to refute it; merely to reproduce it is sufficient for any impartial reader to be convinced of its falsehood. For Spinoza claims that Judaism is profoundly xenophobic. Its religious rites and rituals have been devised primarily in order to distinguish Jews from non-Jews, in order, in this manner, to keep them apart and preserve them as a separate entity,. and it is this fact which accounts for the history of antisemitism, for naturally gentiles have reacted to this Jewish xenophobia by reciprocating Jewish hatred. 58 Although Jewish religious ritual was established exclusively in order throughit to mold Jews more tightly together andto strengthen their loyalty to the Jewish state, the Pharisees perpetuated it even after the destruction of the state in order to differentiate Jews from Chiistians. 59 "Nurtured by daily rites ...
the hatred of other nations ... must have passed into their
nature. Such daily reprobation naturally gave rise to a lasting hatred, deeply implanted in the heart: for of all hatreds none are more deep and tenacious than that which springs from extreme devoutness or piety and it is cherished as pious." 60 Again and again he comes back to this theme: Jewish patriotism is strengthened by a religiously indoctrinated hatred of others, contempt for all gentile fellowmen and by the singularity of one's own religion. 61 In his more oratorical moments Spinoza goes one step further. He exclaims that the very God in whose existence he does not believe, a God who can give laws and revelations, imposed religious and ritual laws upon the Jews "in his anger" in order to make sure that Jews would be held in contempt and hatred
op. cit., p. 55. ib., p. 229.
59 ib., p. 72. 61 ib., pp. 230 f.
by their neighbors and thus would not be able to preserve their own existence and the existence of their state in the face of the enmity to which they would necessarily be exposed. 62 Here he thus discreetly alludes to the Hoseanic passage which states that God gave kings to Israel "in His anger." Indeed, Spinoza continues and now echoes Paul, their laws are a constant reminder to the Jews of their defilement and their divine rejection. 63 How ideally into this mythical picture of Judaism Spinoza's version and interpretation of Maimonides' restrictive legislation concerning Noachites fits. It too seems to declare that, Judaism teaches that non-Jews, people who do not believe in the divinity of the Torah, are incapable of salvation,-that indeed, they cannot even be moral. No wonder, then, that Spinoza wants to believe that Maimonides made this point as stringently as possible and that he legitimately represented all of the Judaism which Spinoza wanted so pathetically to reject and to defame.
The SystematicQuestion
One important aspect of the problem remains to be studied, and perhaps it is the most important. Having established as far as we could what Maimonides said and why he said it, we must ask ourselves what the philosophic and religious truth is which is, also from our point of view today, embodied in his doctrine on this question. It can fairly be claimed that the fundamental problem clearly involved in the dispute between Maimonides and Spinoza is the problem of the possibility and validity of the concept of natural law. Both philosophers ask themselves within the context of their respective systems whether there is such a thing as a moral law which is known to and applied by all men, regardless of whether they are Jews or gentiles, whether they have been given the special boon of divine
62 ib., p. 232. 63 ib., p. 233.
guidance or not, and regardless of the time and the place in which they live, merely in their capacity of human beings. The traditional term for such a law is "natural law." That for Maimonidesthe question of the Noachite laws was synonymous with the question of natural law can be seen, apart from the general considerations which we have just entertained, in several ways. The Noachite laws in Judaism are known by this name precisely because, all men having perished in Noah's flood, all mankind after Noah must have descended from the only survivor of the flood. Thus Noah is, as it were, a second Adam, the forefather of all human beings, and the laws which devolve upon him and his descendants, therefore, apply to all nations, races, and religions. Maimonides emphasizes this fact by stressing that actually of the seven so-called Noachite laws six were given to Adam and only the seventh was added in the time of Noah, thus underlining the universal, "adamic" human nature of these laws, 64 although the Talmud records some rabbis who attributed as little as one Noachitic law to Adam. 65 And he inserts the statement that "the reason inclines toward these laws" after enumerating the adamic laws, before proceeding to the Noachite one. The latter and thus all of the fundamental ethical imperatives, he ends with the phrase: "Thus was it in all the world until Abraham came,"-and then, of course, various additional Jewish commandments were issued. The identification of Noachite law with natural law for Maimonides can further be realized when two corrolary sources are compared with him. Also for Averroes, whom, of course, Maimonides knew very well, natural law "corresponded roughly to the Second Tablet of the Decalogue but included the command of divine worship," 66 and such a list coincides almost completely with the Noachite list. Also for
65 Cf. Sanhed. 59b.
"Laws of the Kings," ch. 9: I.
Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History, Chicago I953, p. I58.
Thomas Aquinas, who frequently demonstrateshis familiarity with Maimonidesby quoting him, the state of nature is that state which referred to all nations prior to the Sinaitic revelation, and this, in turn, is a precise definition of the scope of Noachitic legislation. 67 At least in the definition of the problem Spinoza agrees with Maimonides.For him, too, this is the problem of natural law. All law, indeed all ethics were, of course, nature for him on the grounds of the famous doctrine of deus sive natura. It, therefore, really goes without saying that for him also the issue to be debated was whether there is or there is not such a law which all men, qua men, can know and by which they can attain to the highest good. That Spinoza was concerned with the question of natural law even in the narrower sense of the word can, however, also be demonstratedwith historical evidence. We know that he had the work of Hugo Grotius, the acknowledged founder of the modern theory of natural law and an older contemporary and compatriot of his, in his library. 68 Also for Grotius the same distinction between revealed and natural law existed which we have stipulated as differentiating Mosaic from Noachitic law: positive divine (universal) law was embodied in the Decalogue, whereas the gospels, the Christian equivalent of the Torah, were only 69 applicable to their recipients, Christians. If the issue, then, is the issue of natural law, what is it that is described by this term? The simplest and certainly also the worst concept of natural law is that concept accordingto which moral behaviour should be or is conducted by following the behavior of animate or
Cf. Van Rooyen, Servaas, Inventaire des Livres formant la
Sutmma, I, qu. 102, a. 3 ad I2.
Bibliotheque de B. Spinoza, Hague I883, pp. I47, 183.
Cf. P. Ottenwaelder, Zur Naturrechtslehredes Hugo Grotius, Tuebingen I950, p. II9. Cf. also I. Husik, "The Law of Nature, Hugo Grotius, and the Bible," HUCA II, p. 400: Grotius speaks of Noachite law; p. 406 f.: Grotius quotes our passage from Maimonides on Noachite law.
inanimate nature other than human beings. This idea has been enunciated at various times in the history of philosophy. To the greco-Romancynics this was the fundamental criterion of ethics, and since they conceded that by social standards the actions of nature would have to be judged as at best a-moral they concluded that the moral man and moral society should also act in this fashion. Under the influence of the biological doctrine of evolution such a philosophy of ethics became popular again toward the end of the Igth century. The advocates of evolutionist ethics proclaimed that even as nature progresses through the processes of the struggle for survival and the survival of the fittest, so also society in its individual as well as its collective aspects would progress toward increased goodness by adhering to these principles. There is more than a little of this belief also to be found in Spinoza. The most characteristic passage in his writings which expresses this point of view is to be found in the Theologico-PoliticalTractate: "By the right and ordinance of nature I merely mean those natural laws wherewith we conceive every individual to be conditioned by nature, so as to live and act in a given manner. For instance, fishes are naturally conditioned for swimming and the greater for devouring the less; therefore,fish enjoy the water and the greater devour the less by natural right. For it is certain that nature, taken in the abstract, has sovereign right to do anything that she can; i.e. her right is co-extensive with her power. The power of nature is the power of God, which has sovereign right over all things; and inasmuch as the power of nature is simply the aggregate of the powers of all her individual components, it follows that every individual has sovereign right to do all that he can; i.e. the rights of an individual extend to the utmost limits of his power as it has been conditioned. Now it is the sovereign right and law of nature that each individual should endeavour to preserve itself as it is, without regard to anything but itself." 70
70 p. 200.
In the second place, there is that view of the law of nature which derives moral law not so much from external nature as rather from "human nature," what the Thomists call natura humana. 71 In classic philosophy this position was represented by the Stoa. It believed that by analyzing the essential nature of man and determining what his highest good is it would be possible to deduce the principles of individual behavior and of social organization which would best serve this aim. If the cynical-evolutionist interpretation of the doctrine of natural law almost refutes itself by wiping out all differences between brute nature and humanity, by declaring that man ought to do what he is doing, i.e. ethics is not normative but descriptive, then the stoic-Thomist interpretation makes a number of assumptions which in turn cannot be maintained. In the first place, it assumes that human nature is static, determined once and for all everywhere and at all times. "Human nature is the same in all men," postulates Jaques Maritain. 72 But this is not only an unprovable theory; it is the epitome of all moral and social reaction, for it stipulates dogmatically that what man is now he must always remain, and thus it makes itself the philosophical tool of all those who have always resisted human progress by pointing to what they said was the immalleable recalcitrance of human nature. In the second place, this school of thought must always hold that there is such a thing as an essential, permanent, and reliable moral conscience in man. Thomas calls it the "synderesis, a natural habitus of the soul" by which good and evil are recognized for what they are, an irradiato divini intellectus. 73 Again, this is at best an unprovable claim. Certainly human experience would seem to demonstrate the contrary. What crimes have not been committed in the name of conscience,
71 Cf. M. E. Schmitt, Recht und Vernunft, Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion ueber die Rationalitaet des Naturrechts, Heidelberg I955, p. 8.
Cf. Schmitt, op. cit., pp. Io5 ff.
The Rights of Man and Natural Law, N.Y. 1943, p. 60.
and sincerely so! Furthermore, it dogmatically stipulates the existence of a separate moral human faculty which is rationally undeducible. When Cicero identifies the vox
naturae with omnium consensus he in effect endorses this
stoic position, and here again neither reason nor history justify such trust in majority agreements. The fact of the matter is that universally what people have believed in and wanted they have called "natural law," whatever were the real reasons for their preference. Be it slavery or human freedom, property or selflessness, birth-control or free love, authoritarianism or democracy, they all have at one time or another been identified by their proponents with the very substance of nature and reason. David G. Ritchie amusingly illustrates this truth when he observes that in our language "a 'natural child' means a child born out of wedlock; but an 'unnatural child' is not necessarily legitimate." 74 Justice Holmes said the same thing differently: "The jurists who believe in natural law seem to me to be in that naive state of mind that accepts what has been familiar and accepted by all men everywhere."75 From the point of view of social morality the doctrine of natural law has on balance wrought more harm than good, for it tends to deduce from the fact that something exists that it must also be according to nature,-for otherwise it would not be likely to exist in the first place-, and that it must, therefore, also be good. Thus the doctrine of natural law usually puts its stamp of approval on every given reality, however repulsive it may be. 76It is essentially a conservative theory. Spinoza himself illustrates such an attitude based on natural law inertia: whatever form of government a nation happens to have, be it good or bad, free or tyrannical, it is
Rights, London I895, p. 20. The Holmes Reader, ed. Julius J. Marke, N.Y. I955, "Natural Law" (32 Harvard Law Review, 40-48, Nov. I918, p. 119). 76 Cf. Schwarzschild, "The Democratic Socialism of H. Cohen," op.cit., pp. 421 f.
74 Natural
better than what a change of constitution by belligerent or peaceful means could bring about. Keep whatever you have; what you will get through a change can at best be no better and may well be worse. This is so important a principle for him that he would have anyone who violates it punished by death and condemned to eternal infamy. 77 Thus it is that Spinoza, though he opposes monarchy because he believes that it is most likely to lead to tyranny, nonetheless also opposes abolishing monarchy when and where it already exists, 78 and repeatedly he cites Cromwell's Puritan Revolution as his case in point. 79Leo Strauss correctly characterizes this attitude: "This is a sharpening of an unpolitical realism based on Spinoza's ultimate premises, an affirmation of the real out of non-political motives with later application
to politics."
This ramification of the doctrine of natural law is not a peculiarity of Spinoza's; rather it inheres in the very nature of the doctrine. Even one of its ardent latter-day defenders must admit this. He points out that the theory as propounded by Hobbes, from whom Spinoza learned most of his political science, destroys the very possibility of distinguishing between good and bad government because whatever government is in power it has been brought about by the operation of nature and is, therefore, unobjectionable. It even destroys the theoretical possibility of resisting any sovereign decree whatsoever, regardless of its possible wickedness, because sovereignty is granted unlimited sway. 81 To give only one more example, also Hugo Grotius teaches such unrestricted acquiescence to established power on the basis of the natural law: "The law of nature further teaches that everyone must be content with what is his, not only because it is otherwise
Theologico-Political Tractate, p. 242; Political Tractate, pp. 317 f. 79 e.g. Theologico-Political Tractate, p. 243. 80 Die Religionskritik Spinozas, Berlin 1930, p. 221. 81 Strauss, Natural Right and History, op. cit., pp. 192 ff.
77 op. cit., p. 244; Political
Tractate, p. 356.
impossible to maintain friendship among men," 82 again an attitude which even by an admirer of Spinoza's is described as using "the law of nature to provide Grotius with a basis for acquiescence to the social status quo." 83 The objections to the concept of natural law are not limited to moral and political ones, however. Also from the philosophical and epistemological perspective it has been shown to be untenable. For Kant this was an unjustifiable theory. It stipulated a number of things as given, as dogmatically and metaphysically irreducible, which could not defend themselves before the tribunal of human reason. As we have seen previously, natural law assumes the existence of man as an unchangeable reality, conscience as a divine and infallible faculty within man, and the moral law as an entity outside of and objectively confronting man. But the moral law, so Kant taught, is self-created and self-impcsed by man; it must be autonomous to be moral. Ethics are never given in any existing reality, be this now man or nature or revelation; they are ideals, "ought's," tasks to be achieved after they have been rationally defined. Man is not a noumenal reality whose permanent character may be assumed to have been formed from its very inception but in turn a perfectible being capable of change and improvement. A competent student of Kant then summarizes his position toward the concept of the natural law in these words: "We have reached the pinnacle of the system with respect to the metaphysical foundation of the philosophy of law. The concept of the natural law is replaced by the a priori, or rather by the reason which expands a priori into principles." 84 Thus, "however much the concepts of freedom and equality (as taught by Kant) seem to coincide with those of the natural
The Jurisprudence of Holland, transl. R. W. Lee, Oxford I926, I, p. 81. 83 Lewis S. Feuer, Spinoza and the Rise of Liberalism, Boston 1958,
p. 269,
n. 14.
Erich Cassirer, Natur- und Voelkerrecht im Licht der Geschichte und der systematischen Philosophie, Berlin I919, p. 275.
law, however much they are even described as demands of the law of nature, the peculiar achievement of critical philosophy consists of the special manner in which it interprets them. Freedom and equality are ideas which do not designate a "being" but an "ought," not a reality but a task of perfection which is to be attained gradually." 85 The position of Hermann Cohen with regard to the concept of natural law deserves to be stated fully, firstly because he is the outstanding representative of critical philosophy, secondly because it is not sufficiently known, thirdly because in the dispute between Maimonides and Spinoza with which we are concerned he is not only an interested and significant party but also tended, we may now say wrongly, to fear that in principle Spinoza, whom he opposed, might in this case have made a valid point against Maimonides as whose student he regarded himself. "The danger of scientific dogmatism resides in the philosophical, allegedly metaphysical prejudice that the foundation of morality is to be conceived as a natural law, as a law deposited in our bones. From this common starting-out point onward the paths and the directions diverge. Some say that we do everything out of compassion, others out of revenge. The so-called moral sense is blown in all directions. It is discerned in everything, and it is conceived of as being compulsory since it is revealed in all directions and interpretations. This is alleged to be the only basis for all human concepts and views of ethics, and this basis is found in human psychology, or rather, to be more exact, in physiology, for the senses have always been located within the small confines of these two disciplines... When the moral law is conceived as a natural law, as is done by the naturalists of the senses, one is forced to revert to the psyche and to the metaphysics of rational psychology. The proper jurisdiction of ethics, which is derived from the ethos, is lost." 86 "Morality is not supposed to constitute a problem of its own but merely
ib., p. 287. Berlin I904, p. 94; cf. also p. 247.
86 Ethik des Reinen Willens,
an exudation of nature,... but we know and understand that this view is a mediaeval error garbed in modern clothes." 87 Thus Cohen'sfirst main objection to the doctrine of natural law is that it identifies ethics with physiology, the "ought" with "being;" it assumes that morality is something that exists rather than something that is to be achieved. A subsidiary weakness of the doctrine which results from this fundamental fault is that it leads to chaos, for all ethical programs have, as we had previously seen, invoked the warrant of nature for their particular theses. A last and even more crucial objection must be raised against the doctrine of the law of nature, Cohen continues. "Only this is here emphasized, that the ethical personality is not given and may not be pre-supposed with certain
natural tendencies and conditions... The ethical subject
is not the spirit which so easily becomes a moral ghost. The ethical subject is not simply born and hereditarilydetermined; rather, however much birth and heredity may have to be taken into account, the person still always remains a new and peculiar problem which cannot be dissolved into its given factors and conditions. The method of purity liberates the
concept of the ethical subject from prejudices... What
meaning could ethics have if the ethical subject could be totally conceived as given, born, and raised in its environment? Ethics would then dissolve in anthropology... The method of purity, on the other hand, seeks to determine those conditions and concepts which-we may put it sobring about the concept of the human being in accordance with the fundamental law of truth. Truth does not consider exclusively or even preferably a theoretical interest in the man of nature; it also demands the ethical interest in the man of culture and of universal history." 88 In other words, contrary to the necessary premise of all theories of natural law, man is not a given, permanent reality inaccessible to fundamental change. This is moral counsel of despair and
87 ib., p. 420;
cf. also p. 421.
ib., pp. 91 f.
political reaction, quite apart from being rampant empiricism. Manis a being which, though shaped to some extent by the conditions of his physical origin, can be and should be madein the image of the ethical imperatives which he rationally imposes upon himself. These imperativesare hypotheses in the Kantian sense, ideas produced not by experience but by the reason and thus "purely," though not idealistically in the sense that they either have no relationship to the basic principles of jurisprudenceor that they cannot powerfully affect men's real lives. This, contrariwisethen, is counsel of hope: man is capable of infinite self-perfection; let no man reject demands for reform on the ground that human nature is opposed to it. Subsidiary to this argument runs Cohen's final point, that natural law always defines man in terms of his most primitive and original estate; this is a scientific, cognitive, historical endeavor, not an ethical one. The truth of ethics is much more concerned not with what man is or was but with what he is and can become under the conditions of culture and history. Contemporaryphilosophersof law whose intellectual orientation was significantly influenced by the fundamental thoughts of Immanuel Kant, of Hermann Cohen and of his of Marburg-school critical philosophy have put their teachers' refutation of the doctrine of natural law into practice. Applying it to the concrete reality of jurisprudencethey have shown that the idea of natural law is both irrational and injurious and have replaced it with a more persuasive and constructive doctrine. Hans Kelsen is in some ways their most representative spokesman. The law of nature, he declares, is the legal equivalent of the philosophical concept of the noumenon: it is supposed to "lie behind" the phenomenon of the actual, empirical law as its true, substantial, and permanent reality without in human experience ever being capable of being reached or even understood. But, like the idea of the noumenon as such, this is an irrational idea, for, by definition, it cannot be grasped by human comprehension,and it cannot
be made or shown to operate in the only universe which men inhabit, the universe of phenomena. 89 Furthermore, the philosophers of natural law, whenever they wish to bring their theory down into reality, necessarily and uselessly duplicate the principles of the law, for they must "positivize" the ideal law before it can become effective law. 90 If there were such a thing as a noumenal, "real," natural law it would be uncognizable anyway, and an uncognizable reality is, for human reality which is the only reality that can meaningfully be considered in philosophic discourse, no reality at all. 91 Then again, as we have previously noted, whenever the natural law is brought down from its ethereal speculative heights into the arena of human experience, in other words when an attempt is made to spell out what it presumably commands, it turns out to impose on men precisely those obligations which the positive law, the law defined and enforced by existing human powers, commands anyway. Thus it justifies and perpetuates positive law and, far from having the revolutionary and rejuvenating effects which are sometimes ascribed to it, it is actually a profoundly conservative force. 92 In this connection Kelsen alludes to Rousseau and claims that his social doctrine of man's nature was much less progressive than is generally believed. 93 In the context he cannot take the space to prove his point, but it is a point well worth understanding and affirming, it only because the historical connection between Rousseau and Spinoza has often been made. Whatever use the theoreticians of the French Revolution may have made of his writings, the fact remains that by the time Rousseau finishes defining "the
Die Philosophischen Grundlagen der Naturrechtslehre und des
Berlin 1928, p. 62. Cf. also I. Husik, "The Legal
Rechtspositivismus, PP. 315 f., 321.
Philosophy of Hans Kelsen," Philosophical Essays, Oxford 1952, esp.
91 Schmitt, op. cit., pp. 32 f. 92 Kelsen, op. cit., pp. 33 f., 38, 40o. 93 ib., p. 40.
90 ib., p. I6.
general will" and the citizen's duty of absolute submission to this sovereign, there is not the slightest room left in his state for rebellion against unjust government or resistance to immoral laws. The individual may at most preserve his sense of freedom and righteousness in the privacy of his heart, but any and every public action, even in the sphere of religion, must be unquestioningly subordinated to the dictates of the state. At last Rousseau resorts to the specious freedom which, like Spinoza, defines liberty as resignation into necessity, identifies it with peace of mind, and best summarizes it in the words: "There is no more liberty on earth but in the heart of the righteous man," 94 and one commentator rightly describes this position, then, in this fashion: "The word libertas on the prison-gates (and we to day would add the inscription on the gate into the Dachau concentration camp) and on the chains of the galley slaves in Genoa seems to Rousseau symbolic of the real meaning of liberty in a civil state." 95 Non, Kelsen concludes, the law is human social self-creation according to reason. 96 Thus the concept of the natural law would seem to be disposed of once and for all. And yet, when all is said and done, there is one last consideration which prevents us from discarding it in toto. The philosophical arguments in its favor have not been found to be valid. But the necessities of social morality do impose an ultimate caution upon us. It is not unimportant, for example, that the idea of natural law first seems to have been formulated in the classical age of Greek philosophy as a protest against the positive law of the city with its superstitions and mythologies, its tyranny and unrighteousness. There is a law higher than that of the ruthless rulers, the philosophers declared, and to this law they appealed in the effort to liberate society. Since then it would almost always seem to have been in situations of social
94 Walter Eckstein, "Rousseau and Spinoza," Journal of the History
of Ideas, V, 3, pp. 281 ff. 95 ib., p. 288.
op. cit., p. 63.
stress that the law of nature was brought out again. Grotius expatiates upon it when the Netherlands are locked in combat with England over the freedom of the seas. Erich Cassirer studies it in a book published in Germany in I9I9 after the experience of the First World War. Leo Straus advocates its restoration after the experience of the lawlessness of Nazism and the Second World War. He makes no bones about it that it was this experience which frightened him into feeling the need for some reliable and permanent source of social morality. He refers specifically to Kelsen when he warns that the absence of a belief in natural law is an invitation to tyranny. 97 He persists in believing, or rather in hoping, that natural law is a revolutionary force, 98 for it is presumably something which even the dictator cannot set aside. With some justification he points out that, after all, also the historical school of jurisprudentialthinking was meant to have a conservative impact on society since it was developed in the i9th century largely as a reaction to and defense against the forces of the French Revolution which were, rightly or wrongly, associated with the idea of natural law. 99 That there remains a last necessity for the idea of natural law from this point of view even the neo-Kantians are prepared to grant to a certain extent. Hermann Cohen does not reject the idea completely but calls it "ambiguous,"-invalid and injurious for the reasons previously stated, but good in the sense that it expresses the impulse to rebellion against legal arbitrariness.100In his sense, however, the law of nature must be understood not as a law to be found in nature or even in human nature but rather as a law created by reason in accordance with, if you will, the nature of human ethics. Ernst Cassirer points out that in the thought of Kant and
cit., p. 4. ib., p. 93. 99 ib., pp. I2 f. 100 op. cit., p. 248.
97 op. 98
Cohen Rousseau's idea of the state of nature became transformed from the historic, empiric, original estate of man (granting that Rousseau himself ever thought of it as such in the first place) into a logical construct, a rational priority, which was philosophicallynecessary so that all social contracts could be ideally deduced from it and so that it could serve as a norm. 101And for the same reason even Kelsen, the outspoken advocate of legal positivism, in the end must stipulate a rational, natural Grundnormas a "minimally necessary natural law" to justify the idea of the social contract and to provide a last resort of freedom and morality. 102 From the systematic-philosophicpoint of view we thus find ourselves in a real dilemma: we cannot do without the idea of a natural law, and we cannot justify this idea. We ought to have it, and we ought not to have it at the same time. To proclaim it unambiguously, as Spinoza for example did, is to lead us into all sorts of philosophical and moral difficulties, and to reject it completely leads us into grave dangers. This is precisely the point at which Maimonides'doctrine enters. He has been confronted with this kind of problem before: theology seems to require the belief in creation, and philosophy seems to refute it: in such a situation, he declares, the rational position to take is not to rely on the belief more than absolutely necessary,-if possible actually to do without it,-but then to try to make it as philosophically acceptable, And this even as likely as the reason is capable of doing. 103 is also the position he takes with regard to the problem of the law of nature: "The reason inclines toward it, and in Revelation it is confirmed;"104 in other words, it is rationally likely and even necessary but also undemonstrable and dangerous. What in a modern Kantian like Cohen the selflegislating reason had to do to assure the benefits of natural
101 Rousseau, Kant, Goethe, Princeton 1945, p. 34: "Je cherche le droit et la raison et ne dispute pas des faits." 102 op. cit., p. 67; cf. also Schmitt, op.cit., pp. I03 f. 103 Cf. Guide for the Perplexed, II, chapters 15-I8, 22-25.
104 "Laws of the Kings," ch. 9: I.
law, in Maimonides naturally Revelation was called upon to perform. This is by no means the same thing, nor is here the place to discuss the merits of the two positions and to weigh them against one another, but Maimonides' view may at least be said to have broken the stranglehold of a doctrine of natural law which regarded itself as being certain, immovable, and irresistible. His view proclaims that for effective law men need more than natural law, and this itself has proved itself to be an important philosophic achievement and a valuable contribution to the history of philosophic progress. In terms of his own philosophy Maimonides held the balance between the doctrine of natural law and the doctrine of positive (be this now divine or human) law, and this, it would seem, is also today as far as the human reason can go. 105 Centuries later Locke expressed the same belief: there is natural law, but it must be assured and affirmed by revelation, and to be able to do this revelation must be preceded by the knowledge of God. 106 And this is exactly what Maimonides said to the Noachite: the fulfillment of the moral law insures you of God's approval: the law of nature provides you with an inkling of the moral law, but by itself it is neither enough nor reliable; to know the moral law you also have to submit to Revelation, and you have to know God. To us he says: the law of nature must be preserved if only so that we will not always be restricted to the fallibilities of the positive law, but this natural law cannot be relied on to reside in the nature around man or in the nature within man; it must come from a higher source. To Maimonides this source was, of course, divine revelation; to Cohen it was reason, or the nature which man will in the future make for himself. It is another question, perhaps the most important one, whether on this last score Maimonides or Cohen has more to teach us.
105 Compare Guide, II, 40: "Though the Torah is not natural, nonetheless it has a natural access." 106 Strauss, Natural Right and History, op. cit., pp. 203-205.
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Dear Friends of Saint Joseph Notre Dame:
We are proud to present to you an exciting new vision for Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School with the approved 2017-2020 Strategic Plan. As Pastor and Board of Trustees Chair, we wish to commend the fine efforts of so many people in our school community who have collaborated on the creation of this Strategic Plan which will set the path for extraordinary growth over the next three years for our beloved school and alma mater.
The Strategic Plan tackles four inspiring goals which will engage our community in the charism, academic and professional development, enrollment, and fiscal strength. The goals both stretch the imagination and set focus on tangible results which will hopefully provide the seeds for innovation and change, so that Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School emerges as one of the leading Catholic college preparatory high schools in the East Bay.
The 2017-2020 Strategic Plan rests solidly on our mission statement which states: “We develop confident, open-minded, and effective leaders who are ready to live joyful lives of faith, scholarship, and service.” This mission along with the exciting vision embarked by the 2017-2020 Strategic Plan will help focus the direction of our school as it navigates in a very tumultuous and changing world.
We are grateful to all who have worked on this impressive document. The 2017-2020 Strategic Plan is now in the hands of educators and leaders who will make this vision a reality.
May God, through the intercession of Saint Joseph and Holy Mary Mother of God, continue to bless our school as a beacon of light on Chestnut Street and beyond.
Fr. George Alengadan
Pastor, St. Joseph Basilica Parish
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Alfredo Blanco pretrial hearing set for Jan. 2
Photo by Hubble Ray Smith.
Prosecuting attorney Bob Moon explains the admissibility of evidence to Chris Cranston, left, brother of murdered real estate agent Sidney Cranston Jr., outside Mohave County Superior Court on Monday. Cranston attended a hearing for murder suspect Al Blanco.
By Hubble Ray Smith
Originally Published: November 7, 2017 6 a.m.
KINGMAN – Chris Cranston made another trip to Kingman from his North Carolina home and heard lawyers discuss the admissibility of evidence Monday in the murder case of his brother, Sidney Cranston Jr.
He’s getting a little impatient waiting for a trial date to be set for Alfredo Blanco, accused of killing Sidney Cranston in June 2015 and burying his body on a ranch about 40 miles east of town.
Superior Court Judge Rick Lambert set the next pretrial hearing for Jan. 2.
At Monday’s hearing, defense attorney Robin Puchek requested written and oral statements of co-defendant Bill Sanders, who was a friend of Blanco and eventually led FBI and Mohave County Sheriff’s deputies to Cranston’s body in January.
Sanders is charged with concealment of evidence and tampering with a dead body, and is free on his own recognizance.
Puchek also requested production of specific items, email history, statements from jailhouse informants and other witnesses. He wants to identify admissibility of depositions, materials and witness interviews, zeroing in on the admissibility of polygraph evidence of Sanders.
“We’re still way off from trial,” Puchek told the judge.
The state has gathered more than 700 pages of evidence disclosure from the FBI and other law enforcement agencies investigating the murder.
Blanco worked as a handyman and property manager for Cranston and was last seen with him on June 16, 2015. He had collected $1,600 in rent payments.
Sid Cranston murder trial set for May 8
Murder trial for real estate agent's death on track for September
Blanco case over 700 pages of evidence, next hearing Sept. 11
Blanco pretrial hearing July 10, state’s request for saliva granted
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Bill to legalize sports wagering clears first legislative hurdle with bipartisan support
A measure seeking to generate tax dollars by making it legal for Kentuckians to place bets on sporting events passed through the House Licensing and Occupations Committee meeting on Wednesday by a unanimous 19-0 vote.
House Bill 137, sponsored by Rep. Adam Koenig, would give people the ability to place bets in person at Kentucky racetracks with a tax of 10.25 percent and online with a 14.25 percent tax rate.
Koenig said it is estimated more than $150 billion is wagered illegally each year across the country and Kentucky could be capturing revenue if this bill passes.
As for how much new revenue the bill would generate, John Farris of Commonwealth Economics consulting firm told the committee his company estimates the state could bring in around $22.5 million each year if the bill is passed in its current form.
The revenue collected through the bill, Koenig said, would be spent on the cost of regulating wagering and addiction prevention services, with any additional funds going to the state’s woefully underfunded pension systems.
A similar bill was put forth by Koenig during the 2019 session. Since then, other states have passed sports betting measures and are collecting money from the new laws. Farris noted the longer Kentucky waits, more money will be lost.
Democratic state Rep. Al Gentry testified alongside Koenig in support of the bill and said he can’t see any good reasons to not pass the bill, as it brings in new money for essential areas, bolsters the state’s signature horse racing industry with the in-person wagers, and allows the state to regulate the practice.
Other key aspects of the bill include the legalization of online poker with a 6.75% tax rate, removal of language prohibiting wagers on in-state teams, and more.
An initial licensing fee of $500,000 will be charged to those who will accept in person wagers followed by a $50,000 annual fee.
House Bill 137 now moves to the full House for a vote on the floor.
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Don’t Give Money To Beggars At Christmas Say Bastards Who Run Homelessness Charities
Posted on December 2, 2014 by johnny void | 144 Comments
Nasty posters like these have become a regular feature in some cities in over the Christmas period.
Homelessness charities in two cities have decided to spread some Christmas love by urging people not to give money to homeless beggars in the cold Winter months.
A campaign spearheaded by Liverpool Council, with the backing of some local charities and the police, warns that “Your Kindness Could Kill” because many homeless people spend all their money on drugs or alcohol. Elsewhere in Bath the message is more explicit, warning that the city has a reputation for being “easy to beg in” which could harm the town “socially and economically”.
These nasty campaigns began in 2003 when several London charities including Thamesreach and St Mungos teamed up with Tory Westminster Council to produce posters warning that beggars spend all their money drugs. The message from the charities was clear, give the money to us instead. Those whopping charity Chief Executive salaries won’t pay themselves.
There was a time when homelessness charities fought against this kind of lazy stereo-typing of homeless people who often face verbal and even physical abuse on the streets. They might even have argued that addiction is an illness and not one that will be cured by making life even harder for those affected. These days however they are squarely behind the ludicrous notion that the very worst thing you can do for someone in poverty is give them what they need – which is some money.
No-one’s life is going to be saved by a hot mug of soup or a quid from a passer by. But it might just mean that person has a mildly less shit day because of the kindness of strangers. And that applies whatever they spend the money on, which is as likely to be hostel service charges as drugs or alcohol. Benefit sanctions and brutal social security cuts mean that more people than ever are likely to be begging for food or to put the heating on this Christmas. They are just collateral damage however in this moral campaign to hide homelessness away and stop shoppers being bothered.
If these campaigns are successful and less money is given to beggars over the Christmas period then all that will mean is that those who were begging for food will go hungry and people with substance dependencies will have to beg for longer. Or turn to other far more dangerous ways of making money, such as sex work or crime. Nobody is going to suddenly come off heroin because of a few bad days begging. Addiction doesn’t work that way, as these charities are well aware.
The sad truth is that Killing With Kindness campaigns have little to do with getting people off the streets and more to do with fundraising over the lucrative festive period. Homelessness organisations, in particular the Big Issue who back the Bath campaign, are in direct competition for funds with people begging on the street. They know that some people don’t trust charities and would rather give direct help. They are using these campaigns to try and guilt trip the public into changing their behaviour in the nastiest way possible by pretending that if you give some money to a beggar it will kill them.
It’s never even occurred to the Ned Flanders wannabes running homeless charities that some people don’t care if beggars spend their money on drink or drugs. Few people are heartless enough to begrudge a homeless person a drink at Christmas, even if they are a fucking alcoholic. It’s not like those in charge of these charities are planning on opening up emergency detox centres on Christmas Eve. They’ll be too busy getting pissed along with everyone else.
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144 responses to “Don’t Give Money To Beggars At Christmas Say Bastards Who Run Homelessness Charities”
Wirral In It Together | December 2, 2014 at 2:12 pm | Reply
Reblogged this on Wirral In It Together and commented:
Liverpool Council and others step in to divert your cash AWAY from homeless people and into the deep pockets of “Charity” bosses on six figure salaries…
Annos | December 2, 2014 at 3:42 pm | Reply
““Charity” bosses on six figure salaries…”
http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/finance/news/content/18470/former_st_mungos_chief_executive_receives_160000_payout
wildswimmerpete | December 2, 2014 at 4:19 pm | Reply
You’ll always find suit, collar and tie types around when money is involved. Flies round a turd, so to speak 😦
GEOFF REYNOLDS | December 4, 2014 at 10:46 pm | Reply
“ALL THOSE STATE INDUCED DEATHS AND SUICIDES AND NOT A MENTION OF SMITH, MCVEY, GRAYLING, HARPER OR FREUD ON CRIMEWATCH”
……………………….mind you, it’s on the BBC, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
“DIAL “M” FOR MURDER” MAXIMUS WILL ALLOW HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS (ex bed pan washers from ATOS), to interrogate claimants over the phone line……………
2) Claimants were told by Ministers that the “face to face”
assessment process was required to ensure that people were getting
the correct level of benefits and in the majority of cases, only a
F2F assessment would provide for this. Why then is it being
conducted mainly on the phone where the HCP has no knowledge of
body language, facial expression or indeed physical impact on the
claimant?
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/face_to_face_pip_assessments_bei#incoming-592286
“Cameron’s office gave £150,000 to failing charity run by party donor”
http://politicalscrapbook.net/2014/11/camerons-office-gave-150000-to-failing-charity-run-by-party-donor/
Christ | December 2, 2014 at 2:17 pm | Reply
Oh bollocks Johnny. Have you ever had any direct contact with street outreach teams? Do you realise how hard it is to direct these people to services where they can actually get help? How many fucking people do you think sleep on the streets as a lifestyle choice because they couldn’t get a place at a hub or temporary accomodation?
Seeing as you tacitly accept that the money you give them goes straight on drugs or booze (and anyone who’s worked with these people knows it does) why don’t you cut out the middle man and inject the smack straight into their veins for them?
What a pile of fucking wank.
johnny void | December 2, 2014 at 2:32 pm | Reply
Street homelessness is soaring. This strategy hasn’t worked. It’s a fundraising intiative.
“why don’t you cut out the middle man and inject the smack straight into their veins for them?”
You mean like the methadone programmes?
jaypot2012 | December 2, 2014 at 2:33 pm | Reply
There are people who read this blog, and have their own blogs, who don’t use or allow filth like you have spouted. If you can’t do a reply without such disgusting language, then don’t do one at all.
Katherine Perlo | December 3, 2014 at 11:44 am | Reply
Quite a few people sleep on the streets because they have dogs that the hostels won’t accept, quite arbitrarily regardless of the dog’s nature. (There are a few dog-friendly hostels in Edinburgh, but the demand exceeds the supply.) This is not a ‘lifestyle choice’, unless you apply that trivializing label to something known as love.
Lucy | December 3, 2014 at 11:48 am | Reply
Well Christ baby, of course you don’t want people giving the homeless who are forced to beg, any cash at all. Because if they did, there would be less money to pay your wages and the epic salaries of those at the top of the parasitic charity tree wouldn’t there? Then you might find yourself in the same position as the homeless souls you patronise on the street.
…and you wouldn’t like that one bit.
moodygirl86 | December 4, 2014 at 10:08 am | Reply
You appear to have named yourself after the wrong person. Last guy I heard of by the name of Christ had more compassion in his little finger than you will EVER have in your pathetic life. I hope for your sake you NEVER end up on the streets and have to put up with the kind of shit that the homeless face every day.
leonc1963 | December 2, 2014 at 2:20 pm | Reply
A6er | December 2, 2014 at 2:22 pm | Reply
Nina | December 2, 2014 at 2:33 pm | Reply
The following information is freely availiable online.
From the broadwaylondon.org 2013 Financial report:
The following number of staff earned more than £60,000 during the year:
£80,000 – £89,000 = 1
From the thamesreach.org.uk 2013 – 2014 shareholders report:
The number of employees whose annual emoluments were £60,000 or more were:
£90,001 – £100,000 = 1
I think that rather than add to those people’s pockets, who no doubt have a home and lifestyle I can only dream of, I’ll just carry on buying a coffee and a sausage roll for the homeless guy I see every now and again in town. Because it could easily be me.
Hear hear Nina – exactly what I will keep on doing. And as for posters from “Charities” telling me what to do with my money – well stuff ’em, I’ll do whatever I like.
Gets ready to go to the local recycling center to get yet more warm coats and blankets, as well as shoes and boots to give to the homeless.
jaynel62 | December 2, 2014 at 2:39 pm | Reply
Downright disgusting – Boycott these Charities
Trevor | December 2, 2014 at 2:44 pm | Reply
No doubt the same sort of cruel, inhumane legislation that exists in many cities in the “good ‘ol US of A”, where it’s actually an imprisonable offence not only to give money but food to the homeless, will soon be enacted upon these shores; it will make the UK’s 1824 Vagrancy Act appear almost compassionate in comparison.
Anyhow, I don’t want hypocritical charities dictating to me who I can and cannot give money to. Perhaps they should stick to handing out awards to murderous war criminals like Tony Blair and shut the f**k up!
We’ve already got the US imposing their “standards” here. Unum, Maximus anybody?
GEOFF REYNOLDS | December 4, 2014 at 7:35 pm | Reply
“DRIVING THE SCOT’S TO SUICIDE, ALL IN A DAYS WORK FOR THE DWP”…………….
UK Government welfare reforms are “pushing people to breaking point” in communities throughout Scotland, according to a new report.
The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) said cuts are having a “devastating” impact on individuals and the charities that help them.
Benefit claimants face depression, fear and anxiety as a result of changes to the system, a report by the umbrella body for voluntary organisations in Scotland found.
SCVO said the findings backed up calls for the devolution to Holyrood of more welfare powers than were recommended by the Smith Commission last week.
It also called for an end to benefit sanctions in Scotland, saying people were being punished unfairly in the current system.
The body wants action to increase access for people to jobs paying the living wage as well as clearer information for claimants to help them avoid sanctions.
Its report said: “Inflexible assessment processes, poor understanding of families’ circumstances and the threat of continual reassessment is heaping stress and anxiety on to people, negatively affecting their health and leading families to destitution.
“Sanctions are being applied more frequently, sometimes without any understanding of the real barriers to people finding employment.
“The threat of sanctions combined with benefit delays is pushing some people to extreme lengths, including re-offending and suicide attempts.
“The day-to-day struggle to survive is pushing people to breaking point.”
The SCVO said disabled people and women experiencing domestic violence were particularly at risk, with the changes affecting their ability to enter the labour market and lead independent lives.
The report added: “Families and communities are in real crisis, many are already barely scraping by and some are left without any income.
“This must be addressed as a matter of urgency.”
The organisation said an increasing number of people were seeking support from charities and funding was not keeping up with demand, with frontline workers struggling to keep up with benefit changes.
Commenting on the report, John Downie, SCVO director of public affairs, said: “It amplifies the many calls for the devolution of more power over welfare than promised by the Smith Commission, in order to take a different approach which, instead of punishing people, gives them the support they need when they need it most.
“People are being sanctioned for circumstances beyond their control.
“This is completely unacceptable and we want to see an end to all sanctions in Scotland immediately.
“We also need more investment in frontline third sector organisations so that they are in a better position to support people bearing the brunt of welfare cuts.
“Many charities and third sector organisations are being overwhelmed by demand from the most vulnerable people in our communities who are struggling to cope owing to these unfair changes.”
The body carried out interviews with charities and community groups at locations across Scotland and conducted an online survey in summer 2014.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been accused of breaking the “letter and spirit” of the Smith Commission, after it emerged that lucrative Work Programme contracts are to be extended.
The Smith Commission, set up in the wake of the Scottish independence referendum, recommended that control over the Work Programme should be devolved to Holyrood “on expiry of the current commercial arrangements”.
However, it has now emerged the DWP has taken the decision to extend the contracts without the consent of the Scottish Government, despite cross-party agreement powers over the back-to-scheme scheme would be devolved.
Commercial contracts are due to expire in 2016 and this is when the Scottish Government expected powers to be devolved, until they learned yesterday that the contracts are to be extended for a further year.
http://www.welfareweekly.com/dwp-accused-breathtaking-arrogance-work-programme-devolution/
http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/trust-social-media-mainstream-press-bbc.html
VOTE COULDN'T GIVE A SHIT | December 4, 2014 at 11:01 pm | Reply
TOO RIGHT GEOFF, TIME FOR THAT FUCKING SCOTTISH ‘PARLIAMENT’ TO GET OFF IT’S FUCKING ARSE AND IMPROVE THE LIVES OF THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE BY BRINGING THEM UP TO THE STANDARD THAT THE NORDIC AND SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES ENJOY INSTEAD OF FUCKING AROUND WITH THE DRINK LIVE LIMIT TO CATCH POOR BASTARDS OUT DRIVING TO WORK THE NEXT DAY AND HAVE THEIR LIVES FUCKED UP BY THOSE POLICE SCOTLAND CUNTS ALL FOR HAVING A GLASS OF WINE WITH THEIR EVENING MEAL!! THE SCOTS ARE WAITING NICOLA STURGEON, THE SCOTS WANT TO SEE REAL CHANGE, POSITIVE CHANGE FOR THE PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND NOT MORE BULLSHIT LAWS IN THE MOULD OF KENNY FUCKING ‘I WANT TO LOCK MORE SCOTS UP’ MACKASKILL FOR THOSE FUCKING POLICE SCOTLAND CUNTS TO USE TO KIDNAP AND IMPRISON THE PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND!!
Mark Catlin | December 2, 2014 at 2:49 pm | Reply
Reblogged this on markcatlin3695's Blog and commented:
I’ve been homeless and begged, hearing this sort of bullshit from those supposed to help homeless people, staggers me. So no-one gives to beggars on the strength of their “sage” advice, but then it turns out the “homeless charities” don’t have the funds to help all the homeless. What happens then?
untynewear | December 2, 2014 at 2:51 pm | Reply
Same things happening in Newcastle Upon Tyne…
http://unemployedtynewear.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/newcastle-city-centre-beggars-are-making-up-to-200-a-day-it-is-claimed/
Personally, I think I’d rather be killed by kindness, than be killed by unkindness… which seems to be the only alternative on offer.
Stevie | December 2, 2014 at 2:54 pm | Reply
If me giving money to a homeless person stops ME from buying drink and drugs then it’s all for the greater good. I dont give anything away with a Caveat attached.
What anyone does with anything i decide to give away ceases to become my business the moment it leaves my hand. and for the record , i prefer to skip the middle man when it comes to charity, because the middle man takes his slice first. .
timcole67 | December 2, 2014 at 3:12 pm | Reply
@Stevie This came up in work recently where a colleague saw me giving money to a guy on the street. Firstly, I said it was none of her business what I do with my money. Secondly, it’s none of my business how he spends it and thirdly, (this one she didn’t like!), why does she feel the need to comment on this at all, when I don’t comment on her inane chat about how much she’s spent at the weekend on a bloody handbag.
Awesome Retort my friend.. 😉
Jeffery Davies | December 2, 2014 at 3:26 pm | Reply
Gordon bennit isnt life strange keep off the grass dont feed the wildlife
strangely now its beggers onward christian soldier such is the life
of the salvation army who takes these on the street people to stack
their shelves getting monies for the bodies ops dont feed the beggers
they might not come into our stacking shelves programs strange isnt
that life now resoves around said charitys who take this blood monies
jeff3
overburdenddonkey | December 2, 2014 at 3:33 pm | Reply
habituation of bears by feeding them is bad, as is feeding new forest ponies, coz they ought to have plenty of free freerange food and shelter….not feeding and sheltering human beings as a common good is just plain nasty….people who hit the streets for many reasons often to escape the conditionalities imposed by charities and such like… free no strings money is provably a good thing to do, but it needs to be enough to get a person back on their feet…the only clinic i know that will aid in curing addictions and causal emotional health problems has had to shut down because of lack of support, it’s slogan was “the helping hands of kindness” run by quaker dr bob johnson…it is not the capitalist slogan “be cruel to be kind”…or “cruelty is the new love”…..these kindness is the new cruelty people should actually be protesting about the lack of proper welfare and facilitates for all those in need NOT blaming the victims of this, and ensure dr bob emotional health centers spring up all around the UK…that way their will be even more people shouting about the injustice of austerity…
“Universal Credit: even ministers’ answers are delayed”
http://politicalscrapbook.net/2014/12/universal-credit-even-the-parliamentary-answers-are-delayed/
profreedan | December 2, 2014 at 4:06 pm | Reply
Whether someone gives money to beggars is surely their own choice and should not be the position of charities or local councils to tell people what to do either way .
Personally my own experience of street beggars is near where I used to work where there was a lot of betting shops. Beggars used to directly approach people and ask for money and then go into the betting shops. There was a group of regulars who you always saw hanging around these shops so you knew where they were gonna spend the money they got off people.
However that is of course a wider social problem and charities should not be telling people not to give money to beggars because they might spend it on gambling or some other “vice”.
I once came across a guy begging in Malaysia anf felt so sorry i gave him my shoes and my shirt.
He was laid out on the pavement in front of a car dealership which sold Porsches and BMW’s and there were people looking in the showroom window as he struggled to sit up.
A life is a life, no matter how poor or how lowly………………………
We are all supposed to be born equal, i still firmly believe this and never will forget it.
When i was young, my Dad would say to me at every chance he could, “I cried because i had no shoes until i met a man who had no feet”
It gave me a kind of moral compass that would serve me well during my life, understanding that however bad i felt their would always be someone worse off.
Osborne’s Autumn statement will bring no joy to anyone i know, the spectre of death will come a lot closer to those who are really struggling.
A pound coin in the right direction will not go amiss although my role has now been reversed to that of the lowly one.
A smile may be a beam of hope from someone in despair, sanctioning somebody did not increase the job count and bedroom tax never freed up any rooms…………………..
What Johnny has highlighted, is evil, personnified………………….
The cruelty that man can inflict on man. I never imagined we would ever stoop this low in this century, but i have been proved wrong.
We are accelerating backwards at a rate never before seen in history, to the dark ages.
Good always does prevail over evil, they call it common sense, nothing more……………………….
……………….strange how life changes, today i put some cardboard inside my shoes.
They will last a little longer and give me the benefit of a meal.
why, does cardboard taste better once it’s been shoe linings?
…………..absolutely, tastes like Dover Sole…………………..
a toll tax, beg for help through official channels only…prove you’re deserving poor and not the undeserving poor…pay the shepard ( we know best guru) for help…
Dreading Chrismas OBD, stuffing the hamster, (sellotape it up of course) and using last years crackers, out of date ritz……….
John Parkin | December 2, 2014 at 4:51 pm | Reply
I`d like to see churches and community centers thrown open to the homeless and not just at Christmas, if the Government are not going to provide homes then shelter is the least they can do.
Anyone who is genuinely bothered about people buying drugs can always spend a couple of minutes to buy a pastie, bag of chips or burger and hand it to that person rather than turn a blind eye.
Ulysses | December 2, 2014 at 6:42 pm | Reply
A rattling addict has no use for food mate, he’ll spew it straight back up, if he can face the thought of it in his mouth in the first place
As someone once commented to me, as I ate a bag of crisps in the same room…. ” Razor blades in cheese and onion flavour”
I just hope that when these homeless people are on the verge of starving and prepared to do anything to survive they target “Suits” for any muggings they do -“Social Justice”.
Bernadette H | December 2, 2014 at 5:32 pm | Reply
Gumtree job adverts are primarily jobs advertised for charity fundraising, up to £10.00 per hour. I often wondered why Charities can afford such ‘good wages’. Now I know why. Very much like ‘Children in Need’ holding on to 80 million pounds. Why?
I don’t give a shite what the poor and homeless do with my pennies, its fuck all anyway and fuck all to do with me. I only wish I could give more.
I know a bucket collector who make £500 a week before it gets handed to to the next person down the line…Go Figure.
freethinkinganarchist | December 2, 2014 at 6:00 pm | Reply
Reblogged this on Free Thinking Anarchist and commented:
surly if anybody is in need of a little escape through drink and drugs its homeless people at Christmas
Dave | December 2, 2014 at 6:02 pm | Reply
Quite a few homeless I deal with would rather spend freezing nights in the open than in the hostels some describe as abusive hell. A few quid given to them makes all the difference out on the street
Exactly, they are akin to open prison but with more rules, and breaking the rules leads to disastrous consequences.. not more time under a roof being fed, but instantly
out on the streets…
prayerwarriorpsychicnot | December 2, 2014 at 6:35 pm | Reply
No, they want you to give your money to charities which pay 6-figure salaries to the bosses and no longer provide any services to needy people, but just talk about the problem.
stilloaks | December 2, 2014 at 7:09 pm | Reply
Reblogged this on Still Oaks and commented:
I know this was quite a time ago, but the big issue founder, John Bird was the one who wanted to lock up the homeless.
“In a tough and provocative article, Big Issue founder John Bird argues that the present homeless policy is utterly useless and the only ‘cure’ for most is compulsory treatment in mental hospitals…”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-436807/Big-Issue-founder-says-lock-homeless.html
Katherine Perlo | December 3, 2014 at 1:29 pm | Reply
I stopped buying the Big Issue some time ago, because the last one I bought contained not one but two articles praising workfare. Of course I give money to homeless people, but I don’t buy the magazine.
dirt under their feet | December 5, 2014 at 4:36 pm | Reply
I admit I do occasionally buy a Big Issue from a seller with a regular pitch, only because it cheers him; but I then give him a bank note and tell him to keep the change. What he does with it is up to him, as I perceive him as an adult able to make his own decisons. I know that his needs, of whatever type, are genuine; and it really is a rubbish way of making a few pounds maybe.
Though it’s over priced and not even a good publication; and, yes, it is unacceptable that it then is used by John Bird to say how people shouldn’t give money to Big Issue sellers or others in obvious need, and how they shouldn’t be allowed to stay on benefits, as it makes them dependent – being said by those hugely dependent on various sorts of public fundings for their own comfortable lifestyles.
No charity gets anything from me while there’s anyone there making more than my small income (or making use of ‘volunteers’ from the Job Centre), which excludes nearly all of them; while it’s the chuggers begging on the streets for people to sign up to having charities dipping regularly into their bank accounts who are the nuisances who should be cleared away.
Fellow JCP Sufferer/Customer | December 2, 2014 at 7:27 pm | Reply
I don’t agree with any charities telling you to give money to them rather than those they are supposed to be helping, but many years ago I saw a tv programme about a woman in England who was a drug addict and who told the tv crew (and the viewers) about how she would approach people in stations and claim she was stranded and needed the money for the fare home, and because she had a baby with her they would sympathise with her and give her money, which she would spend on drugs – she showed the tv crew (and the viewers) her arm, just in case we doubted it. Presumably she was paid for her story, but unfortunately it spoiled things for her as it was broadcast throughout the country. I later encountered her (and her unfortunate baby) in Scotland, as she must have thought tv hadn’t reached Scotland – I didn’t tell her it had, but I didn’t give her any money either.
My ‘Social’ landlord has just signed up with Experian, with support from the Big Issue Investment Group, to pass all tenants details to build a database of tenant credit history. I never remember signing my tenancy agreement stipulation that my personal details could be sold to 3rd parties. Greedy Bastards.
overburdenddonkey | December 3, 2014 at 11:05 am | Reply
perhaps write to them and withdraw any implied consent to this…
HA | December 4, 2014 at 12:56 am | Reply
You have given your permission though. They probably gave you some mile long tenancy agreeement to sign that you never bothered to read as well as a Data Protection Act waiver just so that “they could call an ambulance if something bad happened to you”… and you just kind of like, signed, just like everyone else cos it’s only the housing asssociation, what nefarious deeds could the possibly get up to… 😉
Stepping Razor Sound Plate System | December 2, 2014 at 8:22 pm | Reply
So there is a class system for Food Banks !!! Food vans have been going around for decades !!!
All three main parties were told back in the early 1980s that there was a massive shortage in social housing looming, the three main parties (on purpose) did nothing!. The reason was to push house prices higher and ever higher, to make people think they were going to make their fortune with ever increasing prices, many were stupid enough to think it would never come to an end, many were encouraged to buy second houses to rent out to provide a pension plan for themselves at the expense of the poorest and disadvantage amongst us!.
Between the years 1982-2007 there were three, I will repeat that “THREE” council houses built in Scotland, most of those years we had a Labour government.
People just keep on voting for evil, and evil is what they get!!!.
overburdenddonkey | December 2, 2014 at 10:07 pm | Reply
“But this is small change. Let’s talk about the real money. The Westminster government claims to champion an entrepreneurial society, of wealth creators and hard-working families, but the real rewards and incentives are for rent. The power and majesty of the state protects the patrimonial class. A looped and windowed democratic cloak barely covers the corrupt old body of the nation. Here peaceful protestors can still be arrested under the 1361 Justices of the Peace Act. Here, the Royal Mines Act 1424 gives the Crown the right to all the gold and silver in Scotland(6). Here the Remembrancer of the City of London sits behind the Speaker’s chair in the House of Commons(7), to protect the entitlements of a Corporation that pre-dates the Norman conquest. This is an essentially feudal nation”.
http://www.monbiot.com/2014/12/02/breaking-the-silence/
KentAllard | December 2, 2014 at 10:04 pm | Reply
If you give money to weak willed wasters they sit on benches all day, stoned out of their minds, blankly staring into space http://imgur.com/MiftnyD
beastrabban | December 2, 2014 at 10:28 pm | Reply
Mr Void here presents the case that the homeless charities are trying to dissuade people from giving money directly to beggars on the streets, not because they are genuinely afraid that they will use the money to buy booze or drugs, but simply because the charities themselves want to be the only recipients of charitable giving and are trying to remove them as awkward competition. This is all too believable. Mr Void himself has pointed out the massive salaries enjoyed by the chief executives of these charities.
He also mentions that Bath is particularly keen to discourage begging as this threatens to damage the town socially and economically. This is no doubt why other towns, like Bristol, have also adopted the same policy. A few years ago there was an item on the local BBC news, Points West, in which someone from the local authority or a homeless charity warned Bristolians against giving to beggars. This was accompanied by a poster campaign. Johnny Void also reported a little while ago that in London, at least, legislation had been passed to clear the beggars out of the centres of the borough. This gave the illusion that the capital didn’t have a homeless problem, while in fact the number of homeless people had grown.
As for Bath being an easy city to beg in, I honestly don’t know about that. When I worked there in the 1990s, the town did have a sizable crustie population, and it was supposedly on one of the routes used by the New Age travellers as they moved to and from Glastonbury. You would see crowds of them gathered by Marchant’s Passage, a shopping mall, just by the bus station. The town does have a sizable and submerged underclass, in contrast to its image as a town populated entirely by well-heeled Jane Austen aficionados. This underclass is unusual in that, unlike in other cities, it exists cheek by jowl with the rich and affluent, and so both ends of the economic spectrum are on glaring display.
sdbast | December 2, 2014 at 10:31 pm | Reply
saffron dickson delivers words of universal truth… http://new.livestream.com/IndependenceLive/RIC2014
guy fawkes | December 3, 2014 at 1:45 pm | Reply
No sound to your video link and a man speaking not Saffron!
the link works for me…
guy fawkes | December 4, 2014 at 10:36 am | Reply
Someone else makes a comment underneath the video that there is no sound, perhaps it’s only audible to the Scots?
like i say the sound is working my end…
have you seen the “days of hope” series of 4 films by allen and loach..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u019DvYjY4 they are fresh and as contemporary as when they were made in 1975…
I have bookmarked the days of hope film and hope to watch when I get time, Ken Loaches films are always pertinent and poignant to working class struggle.
awoladdy | December 3, 2014 at 10:23 am | Reply
don’t give money, give hot food and clothing
Lucy | December 3, 2014 at 12:00 pm | Reply
awoladdy, see what Ulysses says up thread about someone with a severe substance dependence problem being unable to eat or even keep food down. What Ulysses says is true.
Mr. Reckless | December 3, 2014 at 12:07 pm | Reply
Why accept the assumption that street beggars are all substance abusers, are people who are forced to beg at food banks assumed to be and stigmatised as substance abusers.
Addicts or not, everyone is a human being. A sociable animal who needs kindness and care, whoever they are.
Exactly, so give em the money so they can see to their own immediate need, dont condescend by giving them food
we all dream of freedom when we are not free…caught betwixt a rock and a hard place, not a pleasant place @ all…..the land is ours…diggers and dreamers…leveller’s…covenanter’s….the tales of robin hood…the holy grail…why does a movement start, it starts because of oppression…oppression causes depression…no where else to go, the dream of dignity shattered…mining, steel, factory, mill, farming, and industrial, towns cities villages, decimated by savagery all to make a buck…
blocking symptoms does not cause cure…symptoms always lead to root cause…addictions are a symptom of a bankrupt culture…
an addiction is a craving beyond what nature provides, it is caused by deprivation(s), (neglect)…not deliberate neglect of self, but by being abused…i’ve never met an addict, who intended to become addicted, they were looking for solutions, something to take the pain away…which is what human beings do and are gifted to do with our massive brains, that have become gummed up with the shit of life, and consequential sufferings…ironically trying to comply with cultural demands… just in now, timely for this post… https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/12/why-should-we-be-beggars/ ….freedom come all ye…
The only ray of light in this horrible campaign is that it was clearly made necessary by the innate decency of most people, who follow the instinct to help homeless people directly, and will no doubt continue to do so despite the charities’ self-interested moans.
Mr. Reckless | December 3, 2014 at 11:48 am | Reply
You could be placed in a variety of roles within the voluntary and community sector, such as cleaning public spaces, recycling services, or supporting local charities. – Learn Direct.
Who owns Learn Direct Scotland – My World of Work – Skills Development Scotland?
SFC invests around £1.6 billion in Scotland’s colleges and universities for teaching and learning, research and other activities in support of Scottish Government priorities.
Does the SFC invest in Learn Direct Scotland – a Scottish Government priority?
Fritz Todt | December 4, 2014 at 12:51 am | Reply
Who owns Learn Direct Scotland? Organisation Todt – an executive agency of the RAD (Reich Labour Service)
Mr. Reckless | December 4, 2014 at 4:33 am | Reply
Way more sophisticated than the RAD …
Not the Third Reich but the Progressive Third Sector.
NoOppression | December 3, 2014 at 12:12 pm | Reply
Why are People so Gormless and Brainwashed ?
The Real Crime is the Suffering of the Homeless and the Boneheaded
Lack of Compassion of too Many I Am All Right Jack Rich People
Tax the Rich Hands Off the Poor
Socialism Not Slavery
Tax the administrators who are enforcing these unjust laws!
“As befits his taste for only the very best of things, Russell Brand’s new home in the Hollywood Hills is a sumptuous affair of sunlit rooms and period vaulted ceilings that hark back to the golden days of the movies.
Owned by Laurence Olivier in the Thirties, it has its own cinema, plus five bedrooms and five bathrooms (a lower bath-to-bed ratio is absolute social death in such a wealthy enclave).
Of an evening, Brand can recline amid the scent of oleander trees on a candlelit balcony, with its own outside bar offering stunning views of the twinkling city below. As well as an estimated £15 million in the bank, he became the proud owner of the white-painted Los Angeles pad earlier this month.
So how does this fit in with his ranting rallying cry on Newsnight last week for a ‘socialist egalitarian’ revolution, an end to ‘massive economic disparity’ and belief that ‘profit is a filthy word’?
One suspects that last assertion, however, might come as something of a surprise to the ‘high- net-worth individuals’ that Brand is currently trying to charm into investing in his new film. After all, as well as offering the potential for big returns on their stakes in the movie, Brand’s company is also promising, I have learned, that most unsocialist of sweeteners — massive tax breaks of up to 60 per cent — for those willing to put up their cash.”
Still, at least he’s willing to support others less fortunate.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2483929/Russell-Brands-unsocialist-15m-business-empire.html#ixzz3Kqo0m8qq
Just hope he doesn’t have a few too many bevvies and leave a voicemail message for an elderly family member of one of the women….
The Tourists | December 5, 2014 at 1:47 am | Reply
This will be near where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie live/d in a big gorgeous glass fronted house. We were over there a couple of years ago and spotted Brad and Angelina out in their drive. Before we could stop gawping they had invited us in for a few refreshments…. well, it was a very hot day 😀
Russell the coke head having a revolution down in rehab !!!
As long as we live in a capitalist system, we live in a world of corruption and hypocrisy, other political and economic systems have not fared much better either, not everyone on the planet can sit beneath an oleander tree whether they have the money or not, whether we have this political system or some other.
We could have a fairer system that does put a roof over everyones head, clothes on their back, food in their belly and money for a few luxuries, but there is always going to be inequality in where people are housed and how idyllic their life can be because of hurricanes, earthquakes etc.or the job they are expected to undertake. I don’t think someone showing their face as a guest on a popular chat show should be paid astronomical amounts while nurses in the health service find their funding cut for treating the sick and their pay increases a fraction of those from the celebrity or ruling class.
I am detracting from the fact that those that are in a position to have a voice, usually speak more for themselves than for anyone else and benefit more than the ‘charitable cases’ they purport to help.
There should be no need for homelessness or charitable cases, everyone should have a free dwelling place, putting an end to land and property acquisiton.
Russell Brand doesn’t like speaking for himself at all it seems – correction, he doesn’t like speaking OF himself in relation to his wealth. Perhaps he could negotiate with the landlords and buy the Estate himself and give the tenants there a fair rent, if he feels so strongly about it.
…but putting his money where his mouth is might not be a good investment, and might involve sacrificing some of his wealth…
Who do you know that has not profitted from property investment?
The chancellors know where their bread is buttered and help the wealthy acquire more wealth through profitable acquisitions, that is who Osborne has reduced stamp duty for, not the general public who would still find it difficult to get onto the property ladder.
All designed to give the property market a boost for those that want to buy or those that want to turn their assets into cash and sell the properties that may be past their sell by date to some unsuspecting buyer, while reducing revenue for the treasury with favourable stamp duty.
First quantative easing and fiddled house pricing to keep the profiteers from defaulting on any property loans they may have aquired – now reduced stamp duty.
While the poor have increased costs in rent, bedroom tax, council tax etc.
Yes they should all put their money where their mouths are.
ps but it is still creating multiple property acquisitions for those that can afford it giving them power over their tenants.
Paul Smyth | December 3, 2014 at 3:32 pm | Reply
Ems | December 3, 2014 at 3:40 pm | Reply
Just showed the poster only to my 10 year old and said “what do you think of this poster?’. He said “It’s wrong because it is saying all homeless people are alcoholics and drug addicts.” Enough said. Brilliant article.
The DWP are beggers – that means don`t give beggers nothing like signing something.!!! Begging DWP Sanctions.
Derrick Harriott – I’m Your Puppet
DWP Theme Tune !!
the rulers – let my people go
Mr. Reckless | December 3, 2014 at 5:14 pm | Reply
Put the politics aside there is enough hypocrisy to deal with – SNP is WP/workfare funded by the Scottish government?
Street begging in the community is stigmatised, being forced to beg at the food bank in the name of community is glorified – hypocrisy.
mr r
see your point, sooner have money used for prevention rather than cure…
sooner have money used for prevention rather than cure… Not in the health service where money is wasted on useless preventative proceedures and nothing in the pot for emergencies when preventions have failed.
An organisation (which we call a ‘provider’) will:
find you your work placement(s) of up to 30 hours per week for up 26 weeks, and provide up to 10 hours of supported job search each week, over a period of up to 30 weeks.
FOR PROFIT HUMAN Trafficking within the UK, from the DWP/JCP to WORKFARE PROVIDER-Learn Direct Scotland to PLACE OF LABOUR.
Over 9000 of the homeless are ex-servicemen and women, and account for over 10% of rough sleepers. Initially sucked into the governments funnel of ‘see the world’ and ‘learn a trade’ as economic no hopers, then discharged into civvy life with little or no rehabilitation, having experienced god knows what. The charities are wrong to assume homeless are in the main substance abusers. Some are, but this masks the underlying despair, depression of our fellow humans. Hot food, hot drinks, a few quid -and a chat goes a long way.
Special interest subdivisions of the homeless should be avoided as it encourages the politics of the deserving and undeserving poor. Already this can be found in social housing where ex-servicemen and women are supposedly given priority, thank them for their service but civvy life is civvy life and the same rules apply to all.
brace yourself 60% of cuts still to come!
You're in the Army Now :( | December 4, 2014 at 11:01 am | Reply
Bollocks Dave! If you can fix a push-bike you can fix a car, and if you can fix a car you can fix a fighter jet equipped with a Samsung radar system. Yeah, I watch the TV ads…. 😀
…………….and MAXIMUS can fix your medical repot so that you will lead the life of a war torn veteran existing on absolutely fuck all…………..
Dave | December 3, 2014 at 10:12 pm | Reply
Agree Reckless, just highlighting how the rich, aristocracy and cabinet are content for the fodder that they send to kill brown people for their mercenary adventures, to rot in the gutter.
“THE ONLY ADVENTURE A SOLDIER WILL SEE, IS THE INSIDE OF A BODY BAG”
absolutely right Dave, cannon fodder!!!!
…………….and regarding Prince Harry’s adventures in the military hiding behind a brigade of Gurkha’s, he is to the army what foot and mouth disease is to mouthwash…………..
“Absolutely fuck all”
You will never see a politicians offspring near a theatre of battle, they would be on the end of a walky talky saying, tally ho chaps………
So if you fancy being killed, don’t waste your time training to be a human target, just become a benefit claimant and let the state take your life, just as they are doing today………………
“YOU CAN STAMP AS MANY MEDALS AS YOU WANT, IT’S NOT WHAT YOU CARRY ON YOUR CHEST OR MANTLEPIECE THAT COUNTS, IT’S THE HORROR OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED, BURNING AWAY INSIDE YOU”
“MAXIMUS WILL NOW BE EXPECTED TO STEAL THE BENEFITS FROM OUR FORGOTTEN, LIMBLESS,MENTALLY TORTURED HEROES”
…………….but see what ATOS did;
Daily Mail online 1 June 2013
A record number of wounded war veterans have been denied disability benefits in the past year
after undergoing tests carried out by the Government’s controversial assessment company.
Hundreds of injured ex-soldiers are being declared fit for work by Atos Healthcare in spite of
physical and mental injuries they suffered in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Last night, the Royal British Legion (RBL) announced a 72 per cent annual rise in former
soldiers having their applications to receive Employment Support Allowance (ESA) turned down.
Several hundred wounded personnel were denied the benefit on the basis of physical
examinations conducted by Atos, according to the RBL.
The company is contracted by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to assess benefits
claimants’ capability to work.
In one case, Lance Corporal Mark Dryden, 35 – a former member of the Royal Regiment of
Fusiliers who, after an explosion in Iraq, lost his right arm and the full use of his left – was asked
by Atos assessors if he was left or right-handed. He is now taking his case against the DWP to a
benefits tribunal.
That case, and others, have led to accusations that Atos Healthcare is under intense pressure to
produce assessments that enable the Government to reject benefits claims.
Servicemen suffering from the mental scars of combat also complain that they have been turned
down for disability benefits.
Many injured troops have also described having to undergo demeaning physical tests by the
firm.
hugosmum70 | December 3, 2014 at 11:05 pm | Reply
staggered at the number of replies to this. will read more tomorrow as i cant keep eyes open right now . need my bed. (sounds terribly selfish i know when you think of those poor devils on the streets with nowhere to lay their heads.
)…… i lived in Bedford for a few years… came back to york shire 17yrs ago., there was one homeless charity down there that ill never forget. cant remember its name but it seemed that it was only homeless youngsters mainly that it helped. and one of the rules they had to agree to before they were given a room at their hostel was that they attended THEIR church every Sunday.was a evangelical one. i went a few times myself. something badly wrong there though i,and others,outside their clique, couldn’t put our fingers on what it was. but what hostel makes that kind of rule anyway?
tony | December 4, 2014 at 6:14 am | Reply
its up to me if I want to give a rough sleeper money and its up to them what they spend it on. Nobody else’s business.
Pension60 | December 4, 2014 at 1:48 pm | Reply
The homeless rough sleepers exist in a nation that does not feed its starving, risen 70 per cent as they are since 2010, nor provide growing social housing, but tax the poor out of a roof over their head and bread on the table.
We have high streets full of empty shops and empty flats above them, where councils put posters in the shop windows with fake customers in a fake business.
And we have huge numbers of empty terrace streets, all boarded up, costing councils money in security.
So I despair about The Greens not putting up on billboards throughout England and Wales that they would save lives with a majority governnemtn in 2015, by their unique policy of ending all this cruel ever reducing and lost benefits regime, whilst raising national debt on benefits admin by the billions:
– universal and automatic Citizen Income, non-withdrawable
to the level of the basic tax allowance.
– Full State Pension to all citizens, irregardless of National Insurance contribution / credit history, mostly lost due to benefit rule changes and early retirement in lieu of redundancy under the massive austerity job losses.
The Greens offer tens of millions the end of the threat to their lives from starvaton and hypothermia.
So why are not these new and unique policies more widely told by The Greens, please?
Because they are all in it together – The Progressive Masturbation Syndicate.
overburdenddonkey,
Waiting on the Bonnie Rebellion.
Becoming disillusioned with the radical road to independence, for the radicals have marched the Scots into a progressive cul-de-sac.
the passion for indyscot remains unabated imv stronger than ever…but there is little anyone can do atm….except do what we need to do in prep for the 2015ge…one could argue that the snp masterfully put us in this position, but imo 45/55 is too slim a ‘victory’ for that…cast your mind back, we were all suffering campaign fatigue, this whole campaign has been grueling….
cheated not defeated…we are the change….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyJmDcQf-qU
The Battle Of Prestonpans 1745 – Music And Song Of The Campaign 🙂
we’ll get there…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u019DvYjY4 74mins the most beautiful version of the the bold fenian men, i have ever heard… 🙂
“WHO WILL TAKE No.1 SLOT FOR CHRISTMAS”
Will it be the Prison Service or the DWP?.
Each department is pushing for the highest suicide rates on our run up to the festive time of goodwill to all men, though both seem unaware of this fact……………
That’s right. murder of the people is the only agenda they follow.
Pressure is starting to build from a totally new outsider, the Probation Service who took their first trophy’s only recently.
Strangely, each department vehemently denies their involvement, but you can’t kid, a kidder, as the saying goes.
My money is still on the DWP.
With the help of the Freedom of Information Commissioner and the Judiciary and Police, all firmly in their pockets, coroners will be working overtime to manage , “A BLIP”, as Grayling eloquently described it……………
“THE DWP NEED MORE TIME TO CONCOCT A REPLY TO ONE OF DUNCAN SMITH’S LIES”
From: J Roberts
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
In a House of Commons debate (1/9/14) the Secretary of State for
Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith stated:
“By 2015-16, the out-of-work benefit bill will fall back to
pre-recession levels, down to 2.3% of GDP. It peaked under the last
Government at nearly 3% of GDP.”
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa…
1. Please provide a list of all benefits that make up the
out-of-work benefit bill.
2. For each benefit, please provide the actual amount spent on it
when total spending on out-of-work benefits amounted to nearly 3%
of GDP.
3. For each benefit, please provide the projected amounts of
spending that make up the figure of 2.3% of GDP that Mr Duncan
Smith referred to.
J Roberts
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/out_of_work_benefit_bill_almost#outgoing-405191
“THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL HAS BEEN REDACTED (HIDDEN) FROM THE DWP/ MAXIMUS CONTRACT”
…………….SIMPLY PUT, THE EXPECTATION OF SUICIDES AND DEATHS WILL SPIRAL OUT OF CONTROL, BUT WE DON’T WANT THE PUBLIC TO BE AWARE……………………………………….
FOIA Exemption applied
Any names or other personally identifiable information.
FOIA exemption Section 40 applies as it violates the
4.1 Supplier proposal,
privacy rights of the individuals.
9.2 Key Personnel
2.4 Security Management –
FOIA exemption Section 43(2) applies, commercial
Annex B Security
interests would be prejudiced if disclosed
4.1 Supplier Proposal
FOIA exemption Section 43(2) applies, details of
proposed resource information and internal processes
constitute confidential commercial information,
commercial interests would be prejudiced if disclosed
4.2 Commercially Sensitive
interests would be prejudiced if disclosed.
4.4 Third Party Contracts
6.1 Mobilisation and Transition FOIA exemption Section 43 (2) applies detailed
Plans – Paragraph 8.1, Annex
1 Mobilisation Plan, Annex 2
Resource Plan, detail within
commercial interests would be prejudiced if disclosed.
Annex 3 Planned Innovations,
Annex 4 Volume Plans, Annex
5 Recruitment Plans
7.1 Charges and Invoicing –
FOIA exemption Section 43(2) applies, financial and
Annex 1 and Annex 4 –
costing information constitutes confidential commercial
Payment Model.
information, commercial interests would be prejudiced if
disclosed.
18 Information Technology
FOIA exemption Section 43 (2) applies commercial
Services – Annex 3
Commodity Service List
ALL IN ALL, THE RECIPE FOR THE BIGGEST CULL OF DISABLED PEOPLE SINCE THE HOLOCAUST…………………….
“DWP INDEPENDENT EXPERTS, MY ARSE”
The DWP consulted closely with an advisory group of independent experts in health, social care
and disability throughout the design of the criteria, to ensure that they are clear and that they
allow priority in the benefit to be focused on those who need it most.
From the outset the Department tasked the advisory group to work in conjunction with the
Department to design a consistent, transparent and fair assessment. The group was not asked
to design an assessment that would provide savings; they were asked to help us design a robust
assessment that would ensure the benefit is targeted on those who face the greatest barriers to
participating in society.
13. UnumProvident is actively engaged with the Government, policy-makers and large employers to share best practice and to see where our systems and approaches might be applied more widely. We are currently working with the Department of Work and Pensions on this, and have had discussions with officials in HM Treasury and the Prime Minister’s office. We have met with officials to help better understand the nature of the IB casebook, and to discuss how our commercial experience and expertise might be more widely applied. In addition, we will shortly be supporting the National Employment Panel in its work on the New Deal for Disabled People through a secondment of one of our senior managers.
22. It is UnumProvident’s experience that most disabled people are capable of some work. We would contend that this is the case even where those people are already in receipt of incapacity benefit. What is key is that the individual has an expectation of a return to work. In this respect, the terminology and eligibility criteria for claiming incapacity benefit are particularly unhelpful. First, the very term “Incapacity Benefit” suggests that it is a benefit that is paid to those who are incapable of work. This is both derogatory and obstructive. In fact, most disabled people are capable of some work, in some capacity or other, so why label them as being “incapable”?
25. UnumProvident would propose that IB should be retained for those disabled people who are genuinely incapable of undertaking any work whatsoever. The remainder should be transferred to a form of Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) which is sufficiently flexible to recognise that they have limited capacity to work. JSA claimants are required to look for work, and indeed are supported in that process by JCP. This simple administrative move sets the expectation of a return to work both for the individual and also for potential employers
……………………….AMERICAN PRIVATE HEALTH INSURERS UNUM ADVISING THE DWP…………………….
“PROFITS BEFORE PEOPLE, IGNORE ALL THE DEATHS”……….
Dillinger – Cup A Tea
Call on the Scottish government to bust DWP sanctions in Scotland £4£ utilising the Scottish welfare fund.
£57.35 JSA – no assets, no income and the JCP – PCS union death kapos think a Santa Sanction is hilarious.
Misconduct in public office.
GEOFF REYNOLDS | December 5, 2014 at 12:09 am | Reply
What a fucking country we live in!
“The only country that releases information that not many pensioners died of cold nearly a year ago”
……………..the reason that this has been in the media is just a sad excuse for the impending rise in hpothermia related deaths that are to come in the following cold spell over winter…………..
If heating or eating was a problem for pensioners a few years ago, then it will be more severe now, given that bills have rocketed and food prices gone through the roof.
What dirty trick will the government do to our pensioners next?
They have been filling the papers with shit about how well off pensioners are nowadays. This signals an attack on their wellbeing, they are itching to push them into the cemetery faster……………………..
Our pensioners are some of the worst treat in the EU, in fact there was a documentary on Swedish tv highlighting how we pay our retired persons peanuts.
The norm is usually around 30,000, thirty thousand old people will die, and for what?
Meanwhile we are shafted by the energy companies who refuse to reduce bills even though wholesale prices have dropped………..
Even the regulators have a conflict of interest, their members paid for by the very companies they are supposed to regulate.
WHAT A CUSHTY SET UP……………………………….
Proud to be British?. you must be fucking joking!!!
To all the Scottish 45+ political groups there is a mandate, time to step out of the social justice echo chamber and call the Scottish parliament to action.
No use babbling about consensus, equality and glass ceilings while Scotland’s daughters and sons are being slaughtered.
The SNP have the political power leverage wield it or lose it!
damo | December 5, 2014 at 1:36 pm | Reply
russel brand grew up in a council flat to a single mother he later became a heroin addict ,he,s had his fair share of shit like the rest of us but unlike most celebrities at least he,s giving back with support like him or loath him he is a least doing something I don’t see anything comeing from the politicals ,lol
Ricky Gervais | December 5, 2014 at 2:00 pm | Reply
If Russell Brand has genuinely boot-strapped himself from the gutter and isn’t just another middle-class kid who has found a niche 😀 then you have to give him his dues. He could easily still be sat in a council flat on the dole, and where would his media profile be then? He would be reduced to posting on the Void to make his voice heard maybe using BLOCK CAPITALS to get his message out a bit louder. He is in a no-win situation! Anyway, if the ‘left’ is reduced to attacking Russell Brand as if he is some evil entity a la IDS and his dwp sanctioning operative its a sad day. How many benefit claimants has Russell Brand rendered destitute, tipped over the edge into suicide. Who gives a flying fuck if he has a few bob in the bank – didn’t stop him wearing a ripped T-shirt to the Parliamentary Committee meeting. And what about that non-entity Richard Bacon, who is also moving to LA, it’s not like he ever mentions it 😀 And don’t even mention that tosser Nicky Campbell 😀
Sometimes people use gutter tactics to climb out of the gutter, like social climbing, sexual favours etc., but who am I to judge?
That’s right, Russell Brand became a heroin addict because he feels very strongly about things – nothing to do with being an idiot. Comparing him to people who also have a few bob/million in the bank and who don’t “speak out” in support is similarly idiotic. With the money he has he could probably buy the estate and GIVE it to the residents. Problem solved but that would involve action which is often expensive, and talk is cheap. Messiah complex? Perhaps. Talent? Not a trace. His new book apparently advises people to not pay their mortgages and he thinks profit is a dirty word. Where do the profits of his book go?
PS – And why would anyone care whether he wears a ripped T-shirt or not, whether to the Parliamentary Committee meaning or to attend Buckingham Palace – where he will probably get an OBE some day, just like all the other talentless non-entities who are currently called celebrities? Just because he grew up in a council estate doesn’t excuse his hypocrisy now that he is rich.
Fascinating that all that is left is political consumption and parody, that is what Russell Brand has maybe inadvertently exposed.
damo | December 6, 2014 at 12:36 pm | Reply
my god…the bitterness,lol..good on russel brand..good to him ,he,s got millions in the bank …good..well done he,s made it ..he by using his talents and intelligence climbed out of heroin addiction got away from poor street ..fantastic ..if you have grown up on poor street than that’s what you want..to get away from there…that’s what we all want to get away from poverty and hard ship..at least he is giving back ..well done that man well done Russell xxxxx.
guy fawkes | December 7, 2014 at 11:04 pm | Reply
You should read the lyrics to the song “hungry years”, not all that glitters is gold, but trying to alleviate or eradicate poverty for everyone not just yourself is more worthwhile, so we should applaud the fact that he is speaking out about the injustices in life, even though as I stated earlier, either directly or indirectly it could be more beneficial for him to do so, than for us, with this shower of charlatans in power or with any of the others waiting to claim the crown either.
Chris | December 19, 2014 at 2:58 am | Reply
Because, the truth is funny.
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Rob Smith homeless soon and very ill | August 25, 2015 at 11:27 pm | Reply
Rob Smith homeless soon and very ill
http://www.gofundme.com/mcthe4
Bill | December 1, 2015 at 11:56 am | Reply
I heard from Slovakia homeless people a drink numbs the cold on a freezing day on the streets and what else hope have they got seriously? At least it provides fleeting comfort
If there was more services for detox etc then maybe they would save done people and furthermore if the problem was tackled before it gets so bad then there would be less problems overall
Nienna | December 23, 2015 at 10:57 pm | Reply
Disgusting. Just through instinct I’ve always given directly to the homeless.
victim | January 8, 2016 at 5:24 am | Reply
snuff being filmed of off the system homeless. also being used for illegal clinical trials. There even filming them dying before they get them to court at p-q units south Wales favourites abuse them call them I’ll then kill me make money from footage too. We’ll done conservatives. none cult running nhs and feds hostels you name the hate crime scum they sent videos to my news feed of others they have killed to threaten me….murderers visual an ties get them out …
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Gaetano’s 70th Birthday Celebration in Denver, Colorado
If you are craving Italian food in Denver most people will point you to one place, Gaetano’s. The restaurant has a somewhat sordid and infamous history. It was established in 1947 by none other than the Smaldone family. Famous in Denver for gambling, loansharking and bootlegging, the three Smaldone brothers, Clyde, Eugene (Checkers) and Clarence (Chauncey), were the face of the mob in this western city. The brothers ran the restaurant after taking it over from their parents but it was more of a front for years to the illegal gambling that happened upstairs on the second floor above. In the true fashion of the times, there was even a secret and hidden stairway in the men’s restroom that was invite only. From Gaetano’s, the Smaldones ruled north Denver from the 1930s through the 1970s. The brothers have since passed on and the family sold the restaurant in 2006 but there is still a rich and opulent history that oozes from every nook and cranny.
This past weekend the restaurant celebrated its 70th birthday in true Italian form. I was lucky enough to be invited to the festivities on Friday. I walk through the doors and the place is packed. A three-piece band, starts in with Dean Martin’s “That’s Amore” as the door shuts behind me. The steady din of conversation creates a comforting white noise as I shake off the chill from outside. Every stool at the bar and every table and booth is filled with people. Suits, vests, dresses, hats, many patrons are dressed in attire that is a throwback to the heyday of the joint. Servers weave through the throngs of people, some dancing in the aisles between tables, delivering delicious, steaming plates loaded with traditional Italian cuisine. Bartenders work furiously to fill drink orders but still take the time to make every person saddled up to the bar feel like they are the prime concern. The band breaks and an announcement is made that the show is about to start. The music starts back up as the entire restaurant watches Fannie Spankings and Tatianna Tatas from the The Clocktower Cabaret perform their burlesque numbers. Conversation has stopped, just hoops and hollers, encouraged by the dancers, echo off the walls of the restaurant.
The party continues late into the evening and more festivities are planned for Saturday as well. More food, more music and even a birthday cake. I think the celebration would make the Smaldone brothers smile.
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Giuliani: “I Never Said There Was No Collusion Between The Campaign, Or People In The Campaign”
Another interview, another controversy. Trump counsel Rudy Giuliani has found himself in another firestorm after telling CNN host Chris Cuomo: “I never said there was no collusion between the campaign, or people in the campaign.” The problem is that his client has . . . repeatedly.
Update: In what has become a pattern, Giuliani spent the next today walking back his statements.
Giuliani made some good points in the interview but whatever progress was made was quickly lost in the pileup over the collusion line. Giuliani was trying to focusing on the evidence against the President: “There is not a single bit of evidence the President of the United States committed the only crime you can commit here, conspiring with the Russians to hack the DNC.” In the heated exchange, he then said “I never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign… I have not. I said the President of the United States.”
Giuliani also said Trump has never denied there was no collusion:“[Trump] didn’t say ‘nobody,’ he said he didn’t, How would you know nobody in your campaign…” However, Trump has denied precisely that. This includes just last month, the president posted on Twitter, saying there was no collusion. In August, Trump tweeted “Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, one of the most successful in history, is a TOTAL HOAX.”
I will add that I continue to find the new and open advocacy of hosts like Cuomo to be jarring. There was a time when hosts tried to be neutral and allow for civil debate between guests. Hosts are now the advocates offering determined arguments for or against Trump.
If there is a strategy here, I cannot see it. Chaos is a situation, not a strategy, in litigation.
Giuliani put himself again at odds with what his client has said:
Moreover, Giuliani himself has made such denials.
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In deterministic chaos there are strange attractors.
Mr Kurtz says:
try and say something relevant to any of the topics at hand. any of them! and in case you did not ever tell this to your students let me tell it to you. being oblique in writing is not better than being CLEAR
I merely repeated what can be found in any mathematics text on deterministic chaos.
Learn to use your search engine and grow a little. As it stands you appear to be one of the Verkrampte.
mespo727272 says:
Mr. Kurtz:
Prof Benson thinks being inscrutable makes him erudite. i think it makes him silly.
Late4Dinner says:
Mr Kurtz says: January 17, 2019 at 1:59 PM
i like what turley said. in litigation chaos is a situation not a strategy
actually for some people it can be a strategy, just an ineffective one usually, which is why the saying arose.
David B. Benson says: January 17, 2019 at 9:27 PM
try and say something relevant to any of the topics at hand. any of them!
Well, then, there you have it. Kurtz is aware of exactly one of his thoughts at the time that Kurtz thinks it. And then it’s gone. Poof. Voila.
Mr Kurtz & mespo727272 — if you don’t appreciate the humor, ignore the comment.
Kenneth Tennant says:
IOWA WITHHELD EXONERATING EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE TO OBTAIN CONVICTIONS FOR PROFIT! http://www.youtube.com/user/KornKobIowa OUTRAGEOUS EGREGIOUS PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT
“If the FISA court judges don’t have hearings on the false “dossier” applications soon, they will be complicit.”
– Mark Levin
Yeah where are those high priests of the law dedicated to ethical conduct and ever willing to impose their will on citizens at the behest of the government?
Roll out a whole lotta guillotines!
The customers are lining up!
Darren Smith says:
“Sometimes I guess there just aren’t enough guillotines.”
– Robesgump
The kindergartners are so incognizant they really, really think they have something on Giuliani and, by extension, President Trump. Giuliani simply said that he is representing President Trump, not the campaign or other individuals – that he has no facts about the campaign in general or other individuals.
Chuck’s found his “temper tantrum” and its in the sand box of CNN – home of his play-date-mate, Adam Schiffy.
Now you know why the American Founders restricted the vote to Male, European, 21 year-olds with 50 lbs. Sterling or 50 acres.
The noose is beginning to tighten on the Obama Coup D’etat in America and all of its co-conspirators:
Sessions, Rosenstein, Mueller/Team, Comey, McCabe, Strozk, Page, Kadzic, Yates, Baker, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Priestap, Kortan, Campbell, Steele, Simpson, Joseph Mifsud, Stefan “The Walrus” Halper, Kerry, Hillary, Huma, Mills, Brennan, Clapper, Farkas, Power, Lynch, Rice, Jarrett, Obama et al.
“Bruce Ohr Testimony Undercuts Adam Schiff’s Defense Of FBI”
“Justice Department official Bruce Ohr’s testimony about his meetings with FBI officials regarding dossier author Christopher Steele severely undercuts claims made in 2018 by California Rep. Adam Schiff and his fellow Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee.
Ohr told lawmakers Aug. 28, 2018, he briefed top FBI officials Andrew McCabe and Lisa Page in early August 2016, just days after he met with Steele, a former British spy who was investigating then-candidate Donald Trump.Ohr testified he told McCabe and Page about his interactions with Steele, who was working at the time for Fusion GPS, a Democrat-funded opposition research firm. The FBI relied heavily on Steele’s unverified dossier to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Republicans have focused on the Ohrs’ link to the dossier and Steele. In a memo dated Feb. 2, 2018, House Intelligence Republicans, led by then-Chairman Devin Nunes, asserted the FBI filed to disclose in their FISA applications Ohr’s wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion GPS. They also noted in the so-called Nunes memo that the FISA applications do not reveal Steele’s anti-Trump bias. Ohr claimed Steele told him during a meeting Sept. 23, 2016, he was “desperate” that Trump not win election. Ohr testified he had shared details of his contacts with Steele with the FBI prior to the election. In addition to the meeting in early August 2016, Ohr met in late September 2016 or early the next month with Page, FBI counterintelligence deputy chief Peter Strzok, and Justice Department officials Bruce Swartz, Zainab Ahmad and Andrew Weissmann. Ahmad and Weissmann are currently working on the special counsel’s investigation. Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) departs at the conclusion of a closed-door meeting between the House Intelligence Committee and White House senior advisor Jared Kushner on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. July 25, 2017. The FBI obtained its first FISA against Page on Oct. 21, 2016, weeks after that meeting. Ohr’s testimony conflicts with House Intelligence Democrats’ claim in a memo released Feb. 24, 2018, that served as a rebuttal to the Nunes memo. That document sought to defend the FBI’s handling of the Steele dossier and its applications for the first FISA warrant. Democrats asserted Ohr did not meet with the FBI until after the 2016 election and thus had no opportunity to tell the FBI his wife worked for Fusion GPS. He was also unable to relay that Steele had communicated anti-Trump bias to him. “[Republicans] mischaracterize[s] Bruce Ohr’s role, overstates the significance of his interactions with Steele, and misleads about the timeframe of Ohr’s communication with the FBI,” the so-called Schiff memo reads. Democrats claimed only in “late November 2016” Ohr informed the FBI of “his prior professional relationship with Steele and information that Steele shared with him.” “This occurred weeks after the election and more than a month after the Court approved the initial FISA application,” reads the memo, which included the emphasis on “after.” “The Majority’s reference to Bruce Ohr is misleading,” Democrats asserted.
The revelations in Ohr’s testimony create a bit of a dilemma for Schiff, who is chairman of the House Intelligence panel. In a Feb. 6, 2018, interview with The Atlantic, Schiff remarked on “how flawed the Nunes memo is.”
– Chuck Ross | Reporter
Tom Nash says:
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/putin-angrily-resigns-from-trumps-reelection-campaign
Look, even IF there was “collusion”, that’s ancient history now.
This article, nearly 2 years old now, documents the rift between Trump and Putin that makes future collusion virtually impossible.
Natacha says:
Turley says: “I will add that I continue to find the new and open advocacy of hosts like Cuomo to be jarring. There was a time when hosts tried to be neutral and allow for civil debate between guests. Hosts are now the advocates offering determined arguments for or against Trump.”
Again, I say, Turley’s problem is viewing Trump as though he belongs in the ranks of Abraham Lincoln, JFK, FDR and other POTUSs. He does not. Are interviewers supposed to ignore all of the criminal conduct by his campaign? How about all of the daily, incessant lying? How about the lack of leadership, advocacy for Russia, putting innocent children in cages, and racist, misogynist utterances? Is the main stream media, as informers of the people, just supposed to go along with that and not question it, as if it’s normal? How about the historic deficit, tax cuts primarily for the wealthy, insisting on a border wall instead of smart, relevant and current technology to curb illegal immigration,, refusal to budge and shutting down the government in response to a pundit’s criticism? How can anyone be neutral when discussing any of this? What “civil debate” can there be about such matters? Send in the clowns. Giuliani is the head clown.
This is absurd x 2 says:
Are interviewers supposed to ignore all of the criminal conduct by his campaign?
It’s not difficult to ignore. It doesn’t exist. They’ve spent 30 months scrounging for it to please themselves and people like you, and they’ve found bupkis.
What about the indictments, the guilty pleas, Manafort’s convictions?
Manafort has been convicted for things that had nothing to do with the Trump campaign. Some of the things he has been charged with and did with the Ukranian government were done by the Podesta Group as well. In fact Hillary had more interractions with the Ukranians then did Manafort both before and after representing Trump. The Ukranians had to appologize to Trump for dealing with Hillary.
Natacha, your head is filled with junk.
see allan they are graceless conversants who challenge you and then always fail to admit or concede a point. natch is the worst, but some of our other partners in dialogue here are worthy of respect. she however has declared that she has not respect for karen so surely she has no respect for me. nor do I wish for her respect i spurn it and i spit on it and I laugh at her insofar as I even notice
Acromion says:
Understood that bupkis is all you could possibly be aware of from where you stand, confusing your opinion with facts, facts that no one has but Mr. Mueller. So we will see. Perhaps you are correct. Or not.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/19/mueller-investigation-findings-914754 prepare for disappointment. ready your talking points to declare victory and retreat
The legendary Jim Lehrer of PBS Newshour once said that he saw his primary obligation as “telling the viewers what happened”; i,e., reporting the news.
Journalist like Lehrer, or Brian Lamb of C-Span, are very rare.
They are “straight down the middle” reporters who report the news, equally treat and challenge any subject they interview with scrupulous objectivity, and conceal their own political leanings.
“Turley’s problem” is the death of that kind of reporting, replaced by “advocacy reporting”.
I won’t get into Natacha’s problems, as I have other things to do for the next 10-12 hours.
More From That WSJ Story:
TRUMP, COHEN, JERRY FALWELL JR..
AND THE MYSTERIOUS ‘POOL BOY’..!!
Today we learn one small yet dramatic story that shows the way he and Trump did business. The Wall Street Journal reports:
In early 2015, a man who runs a small technology company showed up at Trump Tower to collect $50,000 for having helped Michael Cohen, then Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, try to rig online polls in his boss’s favor before the presidential campaign.
In his Trump Organization office, Mr. Cohen surprised the man, John Gauger, by giving him a blue Walmart bag containing between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash and, randomly, a boxing glove that Mr. Cohen said had been worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter, Mr. Gauger said.
Mr. Cohen disputed that he handed over a bag of cash. “All monies paid to Mr. Gauger were by check,” he said, offering no further comment on his ties to the consultant.
Mr. Gauger owns RedFinch Solutions LLC and is chief information officer at Liberty University in Virginia, where Jerry Falwell Jr., an evangelical leader and fervent Trump supporter, is president.
If the connection between Cohen and Jerry Falwell Jr. rings a bell, that may be because of the bizarre story that came out last year, in which Falwell and his wife, on a stay at a luxury hotel in Miami, developed a “friendly relationship” with a pool boy. Two years later they began loaning the pool boy (by then, all of 22 years old) funds that would total $1.8 million to start a business. BuzzFeed reported that “Falwell had discussed the [pool boy] case with Cohen prior to his unexpected decision to lend his backing to Trump,” an endorsement Cohen arranged and that was incredibly important to Trump in obtaining evangelical Christian support in 2016.
I leave it to you to fill in the blanks on that one, but the point is that it has become amply clear there were many instances, like the hush-money payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, when Trump needed something a little shady taken care of and Cohen was the person he turned to.
Edited from: “Michael Cohen Is About To Sing, And Trump Is In Big Trouble”
Today’s WASHINGTON POST
RE. THE JERRY FALWELL JUNIOR CONNECTION:
Three years ago observers were surprised when evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Junior threw his support to Donald Trump. Trump had never been thought of as a ‘Christian’ conservative. One could hardly imagine Trump hanging out with southern Baptists. After all, Trump had a decades-long image as that of a New York playboy. ‘Why would evangelicals embrace a penthouse womanizer’?
Well it now appears that Falwell Junior had something to hide, perhaps. Therefore Falwell struck an odd alliance with Donald Trump in exchange for.. (fill in the blank).
All of Washington now eagerly awaits Michael Cohen’s February 7 appearance before Congess.
Peter, do you do anything but regurgitate the day’s talking points? Even if Cohen’s not lying for effect, this is silly. No one pays any attention to online polls.
Tabby, the WSJ story, that I presume you read, is ‘not’ about online polls.
Correction to above comment: The story is about Michael Cohen’s efforts to manipulate online polls. And the odd connection to Jerry Falwell Jr.
Peter, make up your mind.
DSS, Peter chronically has his finger down his throat.
” And Trump Is In Big Trouble”
I don’t know how many times the Shill posting ends with the above. Is that the Shills signature?
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Non-Fiction Book Review | “Saints at Devil’s Gate: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail” by Laura Allred Hurtado and Bryon C. Andreasen
Posted Sunday, 26 February, 2017 by jorielov (Artist) Bryan Mark Taylor, (Artist) John Burton, (Artist) Josh Clare, Bryon C. Andreasen, Laura Allred Hurtado, Saints at Devil's Gate, The Church HIstorian Press, The Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 0 Comments
Acquired Book By: I received an enquiry from the (LDS) Church Historian Press regarding working with them on select non-fiction releases – which interested me as I have been reading LDS Fiction and Non-Fiction for the past two years. My interests in non-fiction (LDS or otherwise) tend to parallel through the historical past (as I love learning about History) and thread through biographical accounts of persons who lived. I love to seek out a variety of topics across different sub-interests of mine – including Science, Philosophy and Feminism as well. Being an ancestral sleuth in my family alongside my Mum, I love finding out the hidden histories not as well known as other aspects of the historical past, too. Therefore, when they approached me about reviewing for them, I was quite keen to find out more about their releases. This marks my first review with a second shortly following: ‘At the Pulpit’ a special overview of LDS Women.
I received a complimentary copy of “Saints at Devil’s Gate” direct from the publisher The Church Historian’s Press (in conjunction with The Church of Latter-day Saints) in exchange for an honest review. I did not receive compensation for my opinions or thoughts shared herein.
Why I was keenly interested in this particular release:
Originally, I was meant to post my review on behalf of ‘Saints at Devil’s Gate’ in January – however, due to personal reasons (related to life after my father’s stroke) I haven’t been able to post as frequently as I had beforehand – I’ve been spending the past few months re-adjusting to my father’s recovery and being his main caregiver whilst my Mum works full-time in order to offset my father’s recovery. It hasn’t lended itself to feeling very readerly or in the mood to blog – I’ve had to make adjustments to my online life as I re-emerge into my reading life one story at a time. I admit, I haven’t quite found the balance I am seeking but throughout January & February, I can say, my family and I have found positive enroads moving forward with my father’s recovery, as well as keeping observant on how the after effects of his stroke’s are affecting his everyday life.
Having said this – I originally wanted to post this review far ahead of my second review for the LDS Church, however, sometimes in our lives things happen which upset the course we’re walking. The best we can do is try to make amends lateron and follow-up after the dust settles. I’ve been struggling to re-inspire myself forward in my readings – finding that whilst I feel more confident in what I’m doing offline to help my Dad, I haven’t quite transitioned through to finding down-time to focus on things outside our personal sphere. I’d like to find a way to read and blog more regularly similar to the pace I was starting to set forth as my ‘new regular norm’ last Autumn, as despite pairing down my commitments, I was finding reading several books a week to be quite enjoyable – especially with a more relaxed pace of deadlines.
I am hoping with each new post and book I consume now, will be one story closer to finding my bookish spirit renewed as I inch towards balancing being a caregiver and a hearty reader of stories – coming full circle since the fateful day I watched my father have a stroke before the paramedics and doctors were involved. Some events cause small ripples of changes and other times, our lives change in such distinctive ways, it takes us a bit of time to ‘catch-up’ to realising we’re not quite the same as we were but that doesn’t mean life won’t continue forward – it’s simply we need to allow ourselves a bit more breathing space to sort it all out. Find our way, and hope everyone along the way understands our absences where we cannot always pull things together.
The reason I wanted to accept receiving ‘Saints at Devil’s Gate’ is because it’s a photographically inspired art book – following in the footsteps of the Mormon Pioneers who went West in search of a new place to call home. Through my ancestral research – I have come to find out more about how all of our ancestors made their way in the world. Courtesy of the LDS Church for providing us with the best resource to seek out our ancestors: FamilySearch.org. I’ve mentioned this previously on my blog – how thankful I am to Family Search and the LDS Church for providing all of us a method of researching our family and ancestral lines.
Although I am non-LDS Protestant, part of what I researched led me to find I have Pioneers of the LDS Church in my ancestral past – where a marriage separated part of my ancestral family. The wife of one of my ancestors had to say ‘goodbye’ to her family as they moved West – taking the long road out to Utah, whilst staying behind to start her family, having been recently married. This is as much as I can pull together by what is left behind to be found. At least, I think this is what happened! There is always an error of caution when researching your ancestral heritage – are the pieces pulling together in the right way and are we interpreting the clues in the right way to understand the lives of our ancestors? I am unsure if I will find more at a later date or not, but for now, I thought it was keenly interesting on the fringes of finding out about this – a book about the Mormon Trail was available to be reviewed!
I also appreciated the Church Historian’s Press for being open to having a diverse group of reviewers and book bloggers receiving their releases from different backgrounds – as this highlights something I’ve been trying to understand better about why there is such a division of interest in INSPY Non-Fiction and Fiction releases. INSPY is the shortened word for Inspirational Fiction and Non-Fiction – the main umbrella of literature for faith-based literature – not limited to one religion nor branch of Christianity; as sometimes I think is wrongly perceived. I read INSPY Lit as it was intended – across cultural and religious backgrounds whilst finding inspiring stories in both fictional and realistic (non-fiction) settings of interest.
Saints at Devil's Gate
Subtitle: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail
by (Artist) Bryan Mark Taylor, (Artist) John Burton, (Artist) Josh Clare, Bryon C. Andreasen, Laura Allred Hurtado
Source: Direct from Publisher
The book showcases fifty-two landscapes paintings of the Mormon Trail, the 1,300 mile route from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City that some 70,000 Latter-day Saint pioneers travelled between 1846 and 1869. Each painting is paired with quotations from the original journals and reminiscences of pioneers who made the journey.
The paintings were created from 2011 to 2016 by award-winning Latter-day Saint landscape artists John Burton, Josh Clare, and Bryan Mark Taylor. Jean Stern, executive director of the Irvine Museum in Southern California, said that these artists are 'noted for their remarkable ability to paint beautiful and elegant works, filled with natural light and brilliant colour.' He added that the paints will 'appeal to all viewers, those who seek meaning and enlightenment in the historical background of the trail s well as those who seek beauty in art and nature'.
The pairings of the paintings with historical quotations allows modern-day readers to share in some of the feelings that Mormon pioneers experienced while travelling west. For example, Bryan Mark Taylor's Looking Back which depicts Nauvoo as seen from across the Mississippi River in Iowa is paired with a May 1846 excerpt from Wilford Woodruff's journal: 'I left Nauvoo for the last time perhaps in this life. I looked upon the temple & city of Nauvoo as I retired from it and felt to ask the Lord to preserve it as a monument of the sacrifice of his Saints'.
Laura Allred Hurtado, global acquistions art curator for the Church History Museum points out that 'not all the experiences of the Mormon pionners were tragic. Journal entries capture the mundane and practical toiling of daily life', such as finding places to wash clothes, picking flowers, and dancing and playing music.
Pioneeers also commented regularly, sometimes quite poetically, on the beauty and grandeur of the land they were traversing. Referencing bluffs she had passed in western Nebraska on the journey in summer 1853, English convert Hannah Tapfield King wrote, 'The Bluff ruins... are very beautiful - I should like to have an explanation about them - but I suppose none know their history - They stand out in bold relief with a silent eloquence that speaks trumpet-tongued to every thinking mind - They are looking eternally silent.'
The new book accompanies an exhibition of the same name that opened at the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City on November 17. The free exhibition is open to the public and will run through August 2017. The exhibition is also available online via LDS Church History Department.
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A world traveler and an accomplished painter, Bryan Mark Taylor has won numerous top awards at the most prestigious plein air invitationals and is regularly featured in western art magazines. His work can be found in private, corporate, and museum collections around the world. He received his BA from Brigham Young University in 2001 and his MFA from Academy of Art University in 2005. He lives with his wife and four children in Alpine, Utah.
About (Artist) John Burton
John Burton is an award-winning oil painter best known for his stirring and vivid depictions of the transitory beauty of our ever-changing world. A graduate of Academy of Art University, Burton has traveled and painted around the globe, always maintaining his home in the American West. Burton’s deep American roots permeate the rich, natural character of his art and inform his work’s reverent tone. John is married with four children.
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Josh Clare graduated with a BFA in illustration from BYU-Idaho in 2007 and has earned numerous awards, including Artists’ Choice at the 2012 Laguna Plein Air Invitational and second place in the Raymar 6th Annual Art Painting Competition. His work has been featured in Western Art & Architecture, Southwest Art, and Art of the West. He lives with his wife, Cambree, and their children, Nathan, Anna, and Emily, in Cache Valley, Utah.
About Bryon C. Andreasen
Bryon C. Andreasen earned a JD at Cornell University and a PhD in nineteenth-century American history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently a historian at the Church History Museum, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah. Previously he was the research historian at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, where he also edited the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association and helped found the Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition that pioneered heritage tourism in Illinois.
About Laura Allred Hurtado
Laura Allred Hurtado works as the global acquisitions art curator for the Church History Museum, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah. She has curated exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, CUAC Contemporary, Alice Gallery, Rio Gallery, Snow College, and the Granary Art Center. Previously, she worked at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Attend Mili & Bertie’s single release party
OPERA IN THE CITY: Music festival Opera in the City begins today, aiming to make the art form accessible to all. Tonight’s event is the UK premiere of Caccia Lontana, an opera of courtly intrigue and forbidden love by Croatian-Italian composer Antonio Smareglia. St Bride’s (Fleet Street), various prices, book ahead, 20 August-7 September
JURASSIC PARK: Babble Talks — a series of lectures aimed at carers with babies under 1 year old — tackles the topic of Jurassic Park. Natural History Museum curator Dr Susie Maidment gives a talk about the science behind the films, and whether the events on screen could really happen. Adults without babies also welcome. Crouch End Picturehouse, £10, book ahead, 11.30am-12.30pm
PETER PAN: Join a family-friendly walk through Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, themed on Peter Pan. Follow in the footsteps of author JM Barrie and see the real-life spots that inspired him. Fancy dress is encouraged, with prizes for the best-dressed children. Kensington Gardens, £5, book ahead, 11.30am-12.30pm
Opera in the City begins today
A ROYAL PROGRESS: Take an evening tour of the Museum of the Order of St John, focusing on the royal history of the building. Find out about the Clerkenwell Priory, founded by Henry II, and the beginnings of the St John’s Ambulance service under Queen Victoria, all told through objects in the museum. Museum of the Order of St John (Clerkenwell), £10-£12, book ahead, 6pm
RANDOM ACTS: Watch a series of five-minute films, covering everything from homoerotic wrestling to paternal confrontation in the Scottish wilderness. The event is part of Channel 4’s short film strand Random Acts, and is followed by some of the directors and actors talking about their work. Somerset House, £10, book ahead, 6.30pm
Get stuck into royal history in Clerkenwell
DREAMS OF A LIFE: 2011 documentary Dreams of a Life tells the story of Joyce Vincent, who died in her bedsit in 2003 but wasn’t discovered until three years later. It pieces together imagined interviews with some of the people in her life. This screening is followed by a Q&A with director Carol Morley. Bertha DocHouse (Bloomsbury), £9/£7/£5, book ahead, 6.30pm
ORGAN CONCERT: Renowned concert organist Colin Walsh performances pieces by Bach, Mozart, Franck and Vierne on the Willis pipe organ in the Great Hall at Alexandra Palace. The instrument has undergone much restoration over a long and complicated history and tonight’s a chance to hear it as its best. Alexandra Palace, £16.50, book ahead, 7pm
Hear the Willis pipe organ in action
THE JAILER’S DAUGHTER: New theatre show The Jailer’s Daughter describes itself as “a twisted mash up of Love Island, Shakespeare and Black Mirror”. Based on the Shakespeare character of the same epithet, it’s set in a live-televised celebrity jail, and explores the theme of sacrificing human rights for the sake of reality TV. Space (Mudchute), £14/£12, book ahead, 7.30pm (until 24 August)
SINGLE RELEASE PARTY: British alt-pop duo Mili & Bertie release their debut single with a launch party. Enjoy an evening of live music by the band themselves, and by special guests, and be among the first to hear the new single. Nambucca (Holloway), £6, book ahead, 8pm-11.30pm
Tube ponderings with Barry Heck
Our resident tube fancier dishes out daily thoughts on the London Underground.
The tube network contains many ‘ghost stations’, places where trains no longer stop but the building (and sometimes platforms) remains. Some of these like Aldwych and Down Street are pretty well known, and even open to occasional tours. But have you ever noticed these telltale tiles facing out onto Knightsbridge? This is the former entrance to Hyde Park Corner tube station, designed by Leslie Green in the early 20th century. It saw its last passengers in 1932, when the new entrance opened beneath the roundabout. It’s now an upmarket hotel, named the Wellesley after onetime local Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. Before that, it was a pizza restaurant. Follow Barry on Twitter @HeckTube.
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Take part in a pub quiz and a raffle tonight in aid of Action For Education. Quiz for Education takes place in King’s Cross, with prizes to be won and food and drink available to buy. Find out more and book tickets.
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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Jokes About His India Trip
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and family at the Golden Temple in Amritsar in February 2018.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presented a slideshow, which called his visit to India “a trip to end all trips.”
By Little India Desk | May 29, 2018
Reminiscing about the past few months of “downs and downs,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made fun of his own trip to India at the press gallery dinner in Ottawa on May 26, calling it a “trip to end all trips.”
Greeting the audience with a ironic “namaste” to general laughter, Trudeau ran a slideshow of his “special moments” from his trip to India in February, that received quite a coverage in both the countries, and across the world. Before the presentation of the slideshow, Trudeau said: “That’s it for this year.. nothing else happened.. we didn’t go to India.”
Referring to the presentation, he said to general laughter that he had repressed his memories of the India trip until his staff made the slideshow.
“The beginning of the end” slideshow, that featured a sad emoticon on the first slide, opened with a map of India shown upside down and a picture of Trudeau getting a “very warm welcome” from Gajendra Singh, the Indian Minister of State for Agriculture. The reception by a junior minister led to Indian and Canadian media speculating whether this meant a snub by the Indian administration.
When the picture of him wearing a colorful sherwani with Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, who was dressed in all black, emerged, Trudeau commented: “One of us is very underdressed.”
Trudeau’s Indian attires, which subjected him to much mocking by the media, were once again in the limelight in a picture where he was seen meeting Infosys CEO Salil Parekh. “And here I am, meeting with the CEO of Infosys, a company that, for the record, announced new investments in Canada during the course of this trip. But you guys didn’t report on it — because I was wearing a shirt and tie. Boring,” he said.
The slideshow ended with a photograph of Sophie Gregoire Trudeau in a sari alongside former convict Jaspal Atwal, whose presence created a controversy in both the countries. “The media could not stop talking about this picture,” Trudeau quipped. “Such a beautiful dress.”
Trudeau giving a legitimately hilarious take down of his own India Trip at the Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner. #cdnfp #nerdprom pic.twitter.com/bBjrUFt9xq
— Stephanie Carvin (@StephanieCarvin) May 27, 2018
Atwal’s presence at the event in Mumbai caused a stir in Canada, with the then National Security Adviser Daniel Jean attributing his presence to “rogue elements” in the Indian establishment, a comment he later had to issued a clarification on. Atwal’s presence was made possible because his name figured on the guest list prepared by Surrey Center MP Randeep Sarai.
Trudeau also mentioned it in his address. “Randeep Sarai was in-charge of the guest list tonight, so just watch your backs,” he said.
To conclude the slideshow, Trudeau said, “That was India – the trip to end all trips.” He added: “Seriously, I have told my staff, I am not going anywhere ever again.”
The Canadian PM’s trip was called “as bad as his Bhangra moves” by National Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh. “My biggest concern was that he would turn Canadians off Bhangra,” Singh said during his address at the event.
Singh, who offered to teach all those present “some nice Bhangra moves,” broke into the traditional dance on popular Punjabi number Mundeian toh bach ke rahin with a few Canadian leaders onstage.
Singh also referred to the stories surrounding his position on the Khalistan movement, saying, “My staff was really worried that I am just going to bomb it. And I told them, ‘Relax. I denounce terrorism in all its forms’.”
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Starwood CEO ditches desktop PC: I can be much more productive with my Apple iPad
Thursday, November 20, 2014 9:27 am Thursday, November 20, 2014 18 Comments
“Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. relocated to a new headquarters in Stamford, Conn., a few years ago. That gave Chief Executive Frits van Paasschen a chance to get rid of some clutter,” Steven Norton reports for The Wall Street Journal. “The first thing to go? His desktop computer. ‘I thought, you know what, I actually don’t use it,’ he said. Instead, he chose to go all mobile. ‘I do all of my work via mobile so essentially my office is wherever I go, and I can be much more productive.'”
“Mr. van Paasschen, 53 years old, is among a growing number of professionals to enter the post-PC world, ditching the desktop and turning to smartphones and tablets as primary work tools. The former Coors Brewing Co. chief relies on his Apple Inc. iPhone and iPad for work at home and the office,” Norton reports. “Eli Lilly & Co., for example, transitioned its entire sales team away from laptops over the past few years, deploying 18,000 iPads to help improve the way salespeople interact with busy doctors. Mike Meadows, Lilly’s vice president and chief technology officer, said the switch boosted productivity since the salespeople no longer had to fumble with bulky computers and poor battery life.”
“Chris Holdren, global SVP of Starwood Preferred Guest and Digital, has taken a note from his boss,” Norton reports. “His laptop permanently resides in his New York office. His iPad and iPhone keep him connected during the two-and-a-half-hour commute to work each day, and he no longer needs a PC to work on presentations. ‘Now I just use my iPad.'”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz,” “Arline M.,” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
2-1/2 hour commute?…I’ll take my 15 minute commute thank you!
Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 10:20 am
Same reaction here. The guy is a fool to waste a full day a week of his life being transported to a workplace. That is 1/7 of his life, gone! He has a couple of choices. Find work closer to home or get a home closer to work.
One question that pops out, if HQ moved to Stamford, why is IT still in Manhattan? And why is Starwood making executives out of people who are so dim as to be willing to spend their precious life commuting?
NCG598
His commute likely starts with a shower, breakfast, gets dressed, and stops along the way to shop….. After which he likely arrives 2.5 hours late for work. Then reverse the process, but leaves 2.5 hours early – Zero impact on life.
hkiphone09
Many people I know who work in Central London but live way outside of it because on the weekends, they get to enjoy a massive 6 bedroom mansion, multiple garages and cars, maybe even an acre or two of personal fields where they could even raise a pony for the kids. Life isn’t all about the buzz and excitement of inner city urban lifestyle. The kids enjoy a nicer school environment and while the 2hr commute is fatiguing for the breadwinner, they all say it’s worth it when the weekend comes 🙂
Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 12:27 pm
It is an individual decision and will be different depending on where one lives. I’m sure I came from an American perspective in my comment, with the attendant assumption that the commute was by car, which is our norm. Spending an hour or two riding a train out of London is going to be a different experience from that. (Hope I’m not overly romanticizing life in England)
But you can have a life with less acreage or less money. Who wants to inflict less time on themselves, since you never know just how much you have? I’m just promoting mindful decisions, rather than trying to out-tech a basically bad work situation.
Still, using an iPad for work would be a tempting way to compensate.
althegeo
He works on the train for a total of 2.5 hours a day.
Make sence yet?
Swordmaker
No, but it does make “sense”. . . sorry, I couldn’t resist the straight line. LOL!
I can sort of understand that commute — Stamford is a bit of a reach to enjoy the peaceful suburbs, but I remember when I lived in the South Bronx near Yankee Stadium it would take me 45 minutes on a good day to take the subway to Grand Central in Midtown. Commuting into Manhattan from anywhere stinks on ice. Thank goodness I married into a nice location on the Upper East Side!
peterblood71
He might be using that relative quiet travel time to be more productive which distractions at work can work against. (Or he might just be playing Pac-Man.)
Uh, 1.20 mins with that minding numbing 101 and Sepulveda Pass traffic.
iDontDoWindows
It takes me 1.20 minutes to get from my house into the car 🙂
Takes me 1.20 minutes to heat my tea on the way downstairs to my home office, not much traffic usually !-)
I don’t think Microsoft would be happy to hear that first story. Nadella would urge him to get a Surface Pro 3 so that Starwood CEO would only require one device to suit all of his computing needs.
Kaddywampus
I didn’t know the Surface could make phone calls. They really packed everything in to it. I suppose it has a kitchen sink as well??
Apple & mobile iOS enterprise is now the ticket for more productive business. Clunktastic Windows, more and more not so much.
It’s funny how just looking at the Windows UI just “makes me wanna barf!” I think at this point the over-familiarity of dreck Windows staring them in the face also comes into play for executives as “been there, done that, tired of it.” These new tools I think give them a true feeling of progressing.
orenokoto
Think I’ll go stay in a Starwood hotel.
1Racer
They are quite nice. I stay in one when I travel to China for business.
Intel i7 is slower than A7 right ? Hope Apple has a Mac Mini comng with i7 AND EXPANABLE MEMORY. Or maybe just buy a PC.
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Budgets unbalance themselves if your leaders are glib economic ignoramuses
December 19, 2019 - By John Robson
There’s an old Goon Show gag where a solemn announcer proclaims the broadcast of the latest fiscal update then you hear insane cackling. Today instead, a financial update that ought to be delivered, and received, with hysterical laughter is followed by solemnity.
I refer of course to the latest federal Liberal one. And I do so with a certain degree of bafflement because, as I’ve said before, Finance Minister Bill Morneau once had brains. He had a successful career in the financial and policy world, generally it seems on the sensible side. What on earth happened?
The question demands an answer. And it now demands a derisive one, because he just told us the deficit would be $7 billion higher than we were promised in the budget scant months ago when he also solemnly assured us it would soon decline dramatically after a brief inexplicable surge. No, wait. That’s not why. That’s such old news it could be from the Mulroney years. The reason Morneau’s latest egg should be all over his face is he delivered not bad news but fake news.
I realize that term is overused. I try to avoid it. But sometimes someone peddles such a lie or delusion that you have to blow that particular whistle. And the reason this update was fake rather than just old bad news is that, as the National Post’s John Ivison immediately pointed out, Morneau’s already dismal fiscal update left out $56.7 billion in new spending the Liberals promised in the election and included in the Throne Speech.
Well, I call it dismal. But of course it was put forward smugly. And don’t get me started on the Throne Speech. Oops. Too late. Because it’s actually a constitutional rule in Canada that Parliament may not approve any spending or taxation not requested in an address from the Throne in that session. It’s an old and very important rule designed to prevent the Executive from steamrolling the Legislature by requiring a precise, costed outline of its plans. But the legislature has since steamrolled itself, with the result that Throne Speeches now sound, and look, like campaign literature. As does almost everything else.
So back to the campaign-style fiscal update and its idiotic-style losing $56.7 billion. It’s not a subtle error. Even to Bill Morneau $56.7 billion isn’t chump change. Even spread over four years of reckless spending, surging deficits and fatuous statements. How do you promise a bunch of new spending then go before a microphone clutching a spending update crafted by fine, and very well paid, minds in the Finance Department, and that colossal sum you couldn’t shut up about on the campaign trail two months ago is missing and you either didn’t notice or thought we wouldn’t?
Somebody’s stupid for sure. And it gets worse. Which can’t have been easy. But confronted with the fact that in 2015 the Liberals promised small deficits that would soon vanish, gave us new less attractive figures in the 2019 spring budget while assuring us the plan was doing fine except it wasn’t, then in December 2019 gave us numbers that were immediately revealed to be wrong even before you botched your Grade 4 math, Morneau smirked “Nobody said it was going to be easy”.
Now this remark is not just fatuous and insulting. It’s actually insane because, of course, someone did say it would be easy. And he knows it because that person was his boss Justin Trudeau. “The budget will balance itself”, then-third party leader Trudeau breezily declared in 2014.
His defenders insist that he’s been mocked out of context because the full sentence was “the commitment needs to be a commitment to grow the economy and the budget will balance itself.” But he made a commitment that was a commitment to grow the economy. What’s more the economy grew. But the budget didn’t balance itself and nobody balanced it because they thought it was easy. Just like when his dad was prime minister and laughed off deficits that grew to such menacing proportions that within a generation we nearly “hit the wall” fiscally.
At that point we weren’t laughing because it turned out budgets unbalanced themselves with surprising ease if your leaders were glib economic ignoramuses. And Morneau doesn’t even have that excuse because whatever he is, he can’t be an economic ignoramus. He just can’t. So imagine knowing your boss said those words then making a glib joke about it over a document that lost $56.7 billion and still showed looming deficits.
You get the idea? Far from trying to make sense, or being embarrassed that he wasn’t making sense or apparently even trying to on a key issue, he finds it funny. He laughs in our faces at the idiotic way he and his colleagues are driving the federal government back in the direction of insolvency. And expects us to nod and go clever, dude. And… we do?
I don’t want to get into a long digression about the irrelevance of truth in the Age of Trump that will offend friend and foe alike. Trump spouts nonsense all the time, from record crowds at his inaugural to Ted Cruz’s father being linked to the Kennedy assassination, that would appal his supporters if Hillary Clinton said it. But it’s not just him, of course. Bill Clinton told endless lies and harassed women in ways that would appal his supporters if Donald Trump did it whereas because it’s our guy it’s You Go Big Dawg.
In short, far too many politicians and partisans go around acting like there’s nothing to see in a process that amounts to gaslighting voters. And Justin Trudeau does it too. When he’s not being cosmic about the space-time continuum he alternates gaffes with nonsense in a remarkably blithe way, on everything from deficits to China’s sparkling environmental record and admirable dictatorship to how Albertans make terrible Prime Ministers and Quebeckers need to run Canada. Then he acts like it never happened.
Most people, for instance, would be embarrassed to swagger into the national unity file dragging that last clunker. Not him.
Oh well. It’s all fun and games, right? Because you have your truth and I have mine and… hang on. Bill Morneau has our money and needs way more of it and forgot.
Here’s where the rubber hits the cheque. Deficits are real. Debts are real. Interest payments are real. And we have a Finance Minister who just forgets billions in spending, still can’t make the numbers look attractive, and thinks it’s funny.
He’s not the one who should be laughing. We should. At him.
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Terror, ‘The Most High’ – Exclusive Video Premiere
Los Angeles hardcore heroes Terror are unleashing their new album, 'Live by the Code,' on April 9, and we've got an exclusive treat for fans. Loudwire has teamed up with Scion AV and Victory Records to premiere the music video for the scorching track 'The Most High' (watch below).
Having been around for just over a decade, Terror rose to prosperity early in their career with the 2003 EP 'Lowest of the Low' and the band's debut full-length, 'One With the Underdogs,' which was released in 2004. The group's fifth album, 'Live by the Code,' continues Terror's pure hardcore tradition, as showcased in 'The Most High.'
'The Most High' tells the story of how hardcore music offered Terror a great deal of meaning growing up, despite constant exposure to negative surroundings. Along with shining a spotlight on the band's connection with hardcore, 'The Most High' celebrates the rowdiest crowds in underground music while paying tribute to the bands that inspired Terror to pick up their respective instruments.
Landmark albums such as Hatebreed's 'The Rise of Brutality,' Descendents' 'Cool to Be You' and H20's 'Nothing to Prove' are held up to the camera in the video for 'The Most High,' while additional tributes are paid to Sick of it All, Madball, Judge and other hardcore cornerstone acts.
Check out the world premiere of Terror's 'The Most High' in the player below, along with the band's upcoming tour dates with Hatebreed and Lamb of God. 'Live by the Code' is available for pre-order in a number of packages here.
Terror, 'The Most High'
Terror 2013 U.S. Tour Dates:
with Hatebreed:
4/09 - Millvale, Pa. @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
4/10 - Kokomo, Ind. @ Centerstage Bar and Grill
4/11 - Grand Rapids, Mich. @ The Intersection
4/12 - Iowa City, Iowa @ Blue Moose Tap House
4/13 - Milwaukee, Wis. @ The Rave
4/14 - Toledo, Ohio @ Headliners
4/15 - Louisville, Ky. @ Headliners Music Hall
4/16 - Spartanburg, S.C. @ Ground Zero
4/17 - Baltimore, Md. @ Rams Head Live
4/18 - Rochester, N.Y. @ Water Street Music Hall
4/20 - Worcester, Mass. @ The Palladium- New England Metal and Hardcore Festival
with Lamb of God:
5/16 - Asheville, N.C. @ The Orange Peel
5/17 - Chattanooga, Tenn. @ Track 29
5/18 - Nashville, Tenn. @ Marathon Music Works
5/20 - Columbia, Mo. @ The Blue Note
5/22 - Boulder, Colo. @ Boulder Theater
5/23 - Salt Lake City, Utah @ In The Venue
5/24 - Garden City, Idaho @ Revoltion Center
5/25 - Reno, Nevada @ Knitting Factory
5/26 - Ventura, Calif. @ Majestic Ventura Theater
5/28 - Tucson, Ariz. @ Rialto Theatre
5/29 - Anaheim, Calif. @ City National Grove Of Anaheim
5/31 - Chico, Calif. @ Senator Theatre
6/01 - Portland, Ore. @ Roseland Theater
6/02 - Kennewick, Wash. @ Toyota Ice Areana
6/03 - Missoula, Mont. @ Wilma Theater
6/04 - Billings, Mont. @ Shrin Auditorium
6/06 - Fargo, N.D. @ Concert Hall at The Venue
6/07 - Madison, Wis. @ Orpheum Theatre
6/08 - Lincoln, Neb. @ Bourbon Theatre
6/09 - Wichita, Kansas @ The Cotillion
6/10 - Tulsa, Okla. @ Cain’s Ballroom
Check out More 2013 Must-See Rock + Metal Concerts
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Instagram debuts tool for celebrities, publishers to label sponsored posts, Stories
Instagram creators will be able to attach "Paid partnership with" tags to their sponsored posts to keep clear of regulators.
Tim Peterson on June 14, 2017 at 9:00 am
Instagram is a popular place for brands to pay celebrities and publishers to piggyback their organic audiences. But if those celebrities and publishers don’t disclose when a post is paid for — and many do not — they and the brands risk running afoul of the Federal Trade Commission’s disclosure guidelines. While some opt to add #ad or #spon to their posts’ captions, there hasn’t been a set standard to tell viewers when something is sponsored — until now.
A little over a year after Facebook introduced a sponsored-content labeling system, Instagram is rolling out a way for celebrities and publishers to label their organic posts, including Stories, as sponsored.
Sometime “in the coming weeks,” when a person or publication posts a photo, video or Story to Instagram that was paid for by a brand, they will be able to flag it as sponsored content, and the post or Story will feature a “Paid partnership with [brand name]” label when people view it. Instagram will not be doing the tagging for creators, according to an Instagram spokesperson. It’s unclear what types of Instagram accounts will be able to do this tagging and when. The spokesperson said that Instagram is trying it out with “a limited set of partners.”
Aimee Song (@songofstyle) is one of the first creators to use Instagram’s sponsored-content tags.
In case keeping clear of regulators isn’t reason enough to use the tagging system, Instagram is dangling another incentive. Anyone who tags a sponsor in a post will be able to get a better look at how that post is doing, which could help them prove the post was worth the brand’s money. And brands will be able to view for themselves the reach and engagement stats for tagged Instagram posts through their Facebook Pages’ Insights tab.
For photos and videos appearing in people’s main feeds, creators will be able to see reach and engagement stats like the number of likes and comments a post receives, and for Stories posts, creators will see how many people were shown the Story post, how many times people tapped forward or backward from a post, how many times people exited the Story after seeing a post and the number of times people replied to the post. Those stats are already available to people and publishers with business accounts on Instagram, but only to business accounts.
Sometime later this year, Instagram plans to roll out an official policy for sponsored posts and what it will do to enforce that policy. The company said that policy will be based on the one Facebook introduced last year.
Tim Peterson
Tim Peterson, Third Door Media's Social Media Reporter, has been covering the digital marketing industry since 2011. He has reported for Advertising Age, Adweek and Direct Marketing News. A born-and-raised Angeleno who graduated from New York University, he currently lives in Los Angeles. He has broken stories on Snapchat's ad plans, Hulu founding CEO Jason Kilar's attempt to take on YouTube and the assemblage of Amazon's ad-tech stack; analyzed YouTube's programming strategy, Facebook's ad-tech ambitions and ad blocking's rise; and documented digital video's biggest annual event VidCon, BuzzFeed's branded video production process and Snapchat Discover's ad load six months after launch. He has also developed tools to monitor brands' early adoption of live-streaming apps, compare Yahoo's and Google's search designs and examine the NFL's YouTube and Facebook video strategies.
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Future Installer will deliver an unrivalled combination of inspiration and innovative tech solutions to ensure that installers are able to meet the evolving wants and needs of end-users and specifiers. Future Installer will be divided into three interactive zones to ensure the best experience for visitors. A key focus will be qualifications, skills and training through an educational zone where MCS will be central to the activity, showcasing their standards and advocating quality as well as bringing stakeholders together.
Ian Rippin, CEO of MCS said: “Over the last ten years the UK domestic renewable energy market has radically changed leaving some immediate challenges for MCS and our sector. Domestic energy will play a huge part in achieving Government targets of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. However, in order to increase the scale and reach of small-scale low carbon installations, we need to prepare a generation of Future Installers.
“The installer of the future will need to have the necessary skills, qualifications and training, a grasp of emerging technologies, an appreciation of the need for standards and a willingness to help in building consumer confidence in low carbon technology. Our Zone at Futurebuild 2020 will have a clear focus on preparing for our home-grown energy future, exploring how the full spectrum of renewable energy products and services rolled out by qualified, competent Installers, will contribute to a rapid transition to a smarter, lower carbon homes and communities.”
The collaborative showcase also includes key partners GSHP Association, AceOn Group, RECC and OFTEC, with more to be confirmed in the coming weeks. It will promote the mix of renewable technologies including solar PV, solar thermal, ground source heat pumps, air source heat pumps and battery storage.
Inspiring keynotes from leading energy companies will also feed into the educational purpose of the programme with businesses such as UK100 Cites, ARUP, Community Energy England, Energy Systems Catapult, Good Energy and Energy all taking part.
Workshops will be delivered across all three days with interactivity at the heart of the Future Installer zone including live demos of heat pumps, solar PV and battery storage to showcase the working parts and installation of products.
Martin Hurn, Event Director at Futurebuild commented:
“Educating and helping to inspire installers is critical and so we are delighted to announce our partnership with MCS to help upskill across the domestic energy sector. Situated within the Energy section at Futurebuild 2020, Future Installer is both for MCS certified installers as well as those that work in the wider industry, so we invite people to come along and experience it for themselves.
“MCS wants to drive awareness that the role of the installer must change if we are to respond to the climate emergency. This will involve new processes and new innovations and so Futurebuild is the ideal location to do this, with thousands of industry professionals – from senior decision makers to start up innovators – visiting from around the globe to learn about the latest innovation and develop mutually beneficial relationships.”
With low carbon and renewable energy at the heart of Future Installer, trade association OFTEC are excited to join MCS as a key partner as they prepare for the change to align to new Government policy.
Malcolm Farrow, Head of Communications at OFTEC said, “The UK’s decarbonisation agenda will bring enormous changes to the way we heat buildings and achieving high quality outcomes will be essential as we embrace the challenge of achieving net zero. Excellence always been a central goal of OFTEC’s competent person scheme, so we are excited to be partnering with MCS on their Future Installer stand.”
Heat pump technology will play a major role in meeting the Government target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. To achieve the installation rate required to meet this ambitious goal, significant focus will need to be placed on retraining the existing heating and plumbing workforce to become the heat pump installers of the future. The Ground Source Heat Pump Association Chairman, Bean Beanland said: “In being a part of Future Installer we are looking to inspire and motivate visitors into taking the first step to becoming a heat pump installer. The industry is growing at an ever increasing rate and to keep up with the demand, the industry must ensure it has a trained and competent workforce in place to take up the challenge. The GSHPA is working highly collaboratively with MCS and others to develop the training programmes that will not only deliver the workforce, but which will also provide fossil fuel technicians and plumbing companies with a solid pathway for business continuity as the high carbon era comes to an end. This is especially important for all the family firms which are so prevalent in the heating sector.”
Futurebuild 2020 takes place 3rd - 5th March at ExCeL London. To come and visit us, register for your complimentary ticket here.
Find out more about Future Installer: https://www.futurebuild.co.uk/exhibiting/future-installer."
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News & Events | Press Releases | Shaping the Installers of the future at Futurebuild 2020
Shaping the Installers of the future at Futurebuild 2020
As the need for more sustainable solutions in both new and retrofit projects increases, Futurebuild has announced an exclusive new partnership with standards organisation, MCS, to deliver a dedicated platform for installers to gain cutting edge education and access practical solutions that will help them thrive.
The collaborative showcase also includes key partners GSHP Association, AceOn Group, RECC and OFTEC, with more to be confirmed in the coming weeks. It will promote the mix of renewable technologies including solar PV, solar thermal, ground source heat pumps, air source heat pumps and battery storage.
Futurebuild 2020 takes place 3rd – 5th March at ExCeL London. To come and visit us, register for your complimentary ticket here.
Find out more about Future Installer: https://www.futurebuild.co.uk/exhibiting/future-installer.
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Samsung's new 8K TV is all screen and no bezel
By Brenda Stolyar 2 weeks
All those rumors about Samsung's new TV have officially been confirmed and, yes, the company's latest flagship is bezel-less.
Known as the Q950TS, the 8K QLED TV will make its official debut on the ground at CES 2020.
The reveal comes a bit earlier than expected. It seems someone accidentally published a press release (in Korean) on Samsung's Newsroom with all the juicy details.
Ahh, fun times for Samsung.
Anyways, what we mean by bezel-less is the Q950TS consists of 99 percent display. It features the same Infinity Screen that's on the company's Galaxy smartphones, including the most recent Galaxy S10 and Note 10 series. With a depth of 15mm and a fully flat back, it's also super thin.
The TV also comes with an adaptive picture feature. Rather than having to annoyingly get up to either dim the lights or shut the blinds, the TV automatically adjusts its brightness and contrast ratio depending on the environment in the room.
It's also impressively thin.
Image: Samsung
It features an Active Voice Amplifier (AVA) as well. Whenever the TV detects disturbances, it amplifies the dialogue by adjusting the volume. That way, you don't have to press rewind to catch what you might've missed.
Additionally, the Q950TS comes equipped with a Multi View feature. For those sports fanatics out there, you can watch two games at once, either in split screen or picture in picture.
Samsung is also expanding its Health app from its wearables and smartphones to the TV. That means you'll be able to access your activity stats and fitness content right from your television.
Or don't. I'm not one to judge.
Samsung has yet to release details on how much this stunning TV is going to cost and when it's going to be available. But, we'll update this story as soon as we have all the info.
TOPICS: Tech, Tech, consumer tech, Consumer Tech, Samsung, CES, TVs, 8K TV
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Meet the team — Ben Mancini — Development Manager
Ben Mancini
In our weekly series where we get to find out about the people who work in Redgate’s Product Development teams we spoke to Ben.
Ben works as a Development Manager looking after the 3 teams that make up the Database DevOps programme. We spoke about what led Ben to applying for Redgate, the most expensive alarm clock in the world and how liking a good debate led to 16 years working in IT.
Your name and role
Ben Mancini, Development Manager
How long have you done this, what did you do before?
Two and a half years here at Redgate, prior to this I’ve done pretty much every role in IT except being a developer! I started in IT as a software tester, became a test manager, programme test manager, hopped across to release and change management, did some project and then programme management, eventually discovered agile and retrained as a Scrum Master then onto an Agile Coach, then became a Head of Infrastructure, Head of Quality Assurance and then later Head of Software Engineering before finding my way to Redgate. Alongside the different roles I’ve also been a people manager for a decade. Phew!
How did you become a Development Manager?
I was working for a start-up as head of their software engineering department when my recruiter hinted that I may want to apply for the role Redgate were advertising. Looking at the requirements it seemed like just the fit for me with the balance between agile expertise, people management and operational delivery experience. I applied and as they say, the rest is history.
What sort of things did you do to prepare you for the role?
If I’m honest, not a lot. I guess the preparation for the role had been a lot of my previous roles, things like Scrum Master and Agile Coach gave me the agile experience, including the focus on servant leadership and experimentation with teams. The many roles where I’d had people management gave me the people experience and being involved in project delivery for 15 years in some shape or form gave me a lot of the operational experience that Redgate were looking for. I guess the key message here is to look at the experience you already have. A lot of that will provide you with the preparation you need.
Did you always know you wanted to become a Development Manager?
Never. I studied Law at college and had every intention of heading to Uni and becoming a Barrister (I love a good debate/argument 😊 ) but I did the typical thing of taking a gap year to go and earn some money, the trouble with this is once you start earning a regular wage it makes going back to studying a fair bit harder. So I stayed at my first employer for almost twelve years instead of the planned one!
What’s the thing that gets you out of bed in the morning?
Children mainly, I have five so its guaranteed that either our youngest (Isla — three and a half) will be up, or our teenage daughter (Emily — 14 going on 18) will be loudly getting ready for school, but definitely not our eldest son (Luke — 17) who tends to stay in bed till half the day has gone! Apart from that I’m generally an early riser anyway as I head to work about 6.30 each morning.
What’s the thing that makes you want to put the alarm on snooze?
Traffic, the A14 currently challenging the M25 for countries biggest car park.
What one piece of advice would you give to someone seeking to do your role?
Forget doing things by the book. One of the best learnings I’ve taken from working with the many teams I have is that frameworks, techniques and practices go out the window when a team faces challenging circumstances or suffers a setback. The best way to approach these situations is to observe, listen, offer support and advice, but never jump straight into ‘follow this framework to solve all your ills’ it doesn’t work in most cases! Encourage experimentation and learning from failure, its where the best (And sometimes hardest) lessons tend to be.
Best advice to give to someone looking to join Redgate?
Do it! I’ve not regretted it for a second. Its not been easy by any stretch, but its challenging, rewarding, incredibly supportive, quite possibly the best company culture I’ve ever worked in where you’ll be working with people at the top of their game.
Where do you see Redgate in 5 years’ time?
Bigger, more people, same company culture. Cross platform for all of our products.
What’s the motto you live by?
Given the choice of being somebody or doing something, I’d pick doing something every time — it’s an answer to a question a US Air Force pilot John Boyd gave. John Boyd created the OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act) which is very similar to the Deeming model I’ve used in Systems Thinking (Plan, Do, Check, Act). To me its how I want to be remembered. Not someone who was out to be somebody, but somebody who was out to do something of value.
Describe what Ingeniously Simple means to you.
You know the smile you get when you try a new gadget, piece of tech, software or general product and it does something that both surprises and pleases you? That’s Ingeniously Simple.
Ingeniously Simple
How Redgate build ingeniously simple products, from inception to delivery.
Ingeniouslysimple
Development Manager @ Redgate, Agile Coach, ex — Programme Manager. Lover of all things agile. Founder of Cambridge Agile Exchange.
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Laser spectroscopic studies of Tb3+-doped oxyfluoroborate glass
K. K. Mahato, S. B. Rai
Department of Biophysics, Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal
Tb3+-doped oxyfluoroborate glasses have been prepared for different concentrations of Tb. The absorption, fluorescence and photoacoustic spectra of these have been recorded and studied. It is marked that the fluorescence intensity of different fluorescence transitions decreases with the increase of Tb ion concentration in the glass. This quenching at higher concentration is due to the energy transfer among the excited and nearest neighbor unexcited Tb ions in the glass. The lifetime measurement confirms it, as the lifetime of a particular state was found to decrease with the increase of Tb ion concentration in the glass. The mechanism of the energy transfer process was determined to involve quadrupole-quadrupole interaction. We have also studied the energy transfer from Tb3+→Pr3+ when both the rare earths are doped together in the glass. A decrease in the lifetime of the 5D4 level of Tb3+ with the increase of Pr3+ concentration confirms this.
Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
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Mahato, K. K., & Rai, S. B. (2000). Laser spectroscopic studies of Tb3+-doped oxyfluoroborate glass. Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 56(12), 2333-2340. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1386-1425(00)00283-3
Mahato, K. K. ; Rai, S. B. / Laser spectroscopic studies of Tb3+-doped oxyfluoroborate glass. In: Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 2000 ; Vol. 56, No. 12. pp. 2333-2340.
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Out of Home gets behind football legend Francis Benali’s bid to raise £1 million for Cancer Research UK
By adminOctober 3, 2016 No Comments
In 2014 former Southampton FC defender, Francis Benali embarked on what was deemed by many (including medical experts) to be an “impossible journey” – running to all 20 Premier League stadiums in just 21 days. He ran over 1000 miles and raised more than £265,000 for Cancer Research UK. Benali was named Celebrity Fundraiser of the Year by the Just Giving charity and won the inaugural Barclays Spirit of the Game and Cancer Research’s Flame of Hope awards in 2015. But that is not the end of the story.
The new challenge for 2016 is Benali’s Big Race which will see him visit all 44 Premier League & Championship grounds in just 2 weeks in a bid to raise £1 million. Every day he will run a minimum of one marathon & cycle more than twice that distance to cover on average 100 miles every day.
According to CRUK, 1 in 2 people born after 1960 in the UK will be diagnosed with some form of cancer during their lifetime. Survival rates have doubled in the last 40 years (from 24% to 50%) and fundraising initiatives are key to CRUK’s progress. As an industry, many of us have been affected by Cancer and it is for this reason that key Out of Home media owners have come together in support of Franny. Maxx Media, the leading digital media owner in the South of England is working with Outdoor Plus, Signature Outdoor & Forrest Media to deliver a tactical location based campaign to drive both awareness of Benali’s Big Race and raise funds directly.
As the most public communications channel, Digital Out of Home is the perfect medium to raise awareness of this challenge & drive website traffic to the fundraising page. The activity will be scheduled to correspond with Benali’s route starting in Bournemouth on 2nd October & finishing in his home town of Southampton on 16th October.
Peter Dixon, Managing Director, Maxx Media commented: ‘It’s an absolute honour to support Franny throughout this huge challenge he’s undertaken and with the backing of Outdoor Plus, Signature Outdoor & Forrest Media, we will be providing him & his team with the use of our digital screens to raise awareness, as and when he arrives in towns & cities around the UK’
For any media companies or individuals wishing to support Francis Benali’s Big Race and donate to Cancer Research UK, please either text Fran to 70200 to donate £5 or visit benalisbigrace.com where you can donate online
Peter Dixon, Maxx Media: 07831 441060 / peterdixon@maxxmedia.co.uk
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Uttar Pradesh to Soon Begin Installation of Smart Meters in Partnership with EESL
High-end consumers to get the smart meters first
Energy Efficiency, Other
The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) has approved a petition filed by Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd. (UPPCL) regarding the rollout of smart meters in the state.
The UPPCL had submitted that it was going to install smart meters for urban high-end customers and for the remaining consumers, these smart meters will be installed later in a phased manner.
UPPCL has roped in Energy Efficiency Service Limited (EESL) for the installation of smart meters due to their expertise in low cost bulk procurement and working as demand aggregators. EESL will make upfront capital investment and recover it in long-term out of the gains of the project on OPEX basis.
UPPCL has selected meter suppliers and system integrators through international competitive bidding. L&T has been selected as the system integrator, while Genus, ITI, Zen and Koenics Meter have been chosen for supply of meters. Moreover, HCL and Fluent Grid have been selected as the billing system implementing agencies.
UPPCL is targeting 4 million consumers across five distribution companies (DISCOMs). In Phase-I, smart meters will be installed in towns with high energy input >500 million units (MUs) and high AT&C losses. In Phase-II, towns with energy input >=250 MU will be benefited and in Phase-III, towns with energy input >=150 MU and <250 MU will be benefited.
While examining the petition and subsequent submissions made by the UPPCL, UPERC opined that installation of smart meters is a national program and has resulted in benefits to the consumers as well as DISCOMs.
UPERC accepted UPPCL’s smart meter roll-out plan and asked UPPCL to incorporate a few pointers for the implementation. UPERC asked UPPCL to ensure smart meters conform to standards set by the Ministry of Power and Central Electricity Authority (CEA).
UPERC has also asked UPPCL to submit progress of the installation of smart meters on a quarterly basis once the plan is rolled out.
EESL, a joint venture of the public-sector units of the Ministry of Power and the Government of India, has joined states with many states in the country to facilitate their transition to energy efficient devices. Soon, Uttar Pradesh’s neighbor Bihar also signed an agreement with EESL to deploy smart meters in 130 towns and adjacent rural areas covering approximately 1.8 million customers in the state.
Recently, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) successfully completed the pilot phase of its satellite-based smart meter project in a village in Varanasi in which 5,000 households received the meters.
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Long-Term Open Access Customers Get Highest Priority in Uttar Pradesh
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A few wheeled packs stand out in terms of convenience and construction, while others won't make it through the school year.
We’ve taken a thorough look at the rolling backpack options for teens ages 13 and up (and we have a recommendation for elementary-age kids too).
Our main goal was to find the most durable and practical option to recommend for middle and high school use, as well as for short overnight trips.
We looked at the wheeled backpacks from both well-established and rather unknown brands. The key factor was the ability to withstand the trials and abuse of daily use, year after year, through all kinds of rough, wet, and bumpy environments.
There are many poorly built backpacks on the market, and we wanted to recommend only what would stand up well over time, protect schoolwork and even a laptop, and come with a guarantee from a company with a history of follow-up.
L.L. Bean Rolling Deluxe Book Pack
The best rolling backpack we’ve found for high school students lugging lots of books is the 2019 update to the L.L. Bean Rolling Deluxe Book Pack. It wraps school stuff in the weatherproof, rip-resistant, flexible 420-denier nylon that was originally designed for military parachutes, and the backpack’s stitching, wheels and zippers are similarly built to last — and backed by L.L. Bean’s famously generous guarantee on materials and craftsmanship.
Other main features of note:
Reflective trim on front and back for safety at night
Pull handle that locks into place at two points, making it comfortable for 10-year-olds on up to looming high school kids
Backpack straps that tuck away when not in use to avoid snagging when rolling
Dual main compartments allowing for the separation of, say, gym socks from textbooks
Dual side water-bottle pockets
Interior tech pocket with hole for headphone cable or USB-C extra battery cable (for heavy power users on long days)
While we also have a few cheaper recommendations (below), we think the wheeled option from L. L. Bean is well-worth the slightly higher upfront investment due to its likely longevity. Expect it to last through school years and beyond.
Check prices here
The Benefits of Rolling Backpacks for Young People
The Best Rolling Backpack for High School: L.L. Bean Rolling Deluxe Book Pack
L.L. Bean's Lifeproof Construction and Materials
Features of the L.L. Bean Rolling Deluxe Book Pack
Downsides to the L.L. Bean Rolling Deluxe Book Pack
Slightly Cheaper, But Not Quite As Durable: Lands' End Classmate Large Rolling Backpack
Other Kids Rolling Backpacks
Decent, Quite Cheap: JWorld Sundance Laptop / Sunrise Rolling Backpacks
Very Cheap, In Fact Worthless: The Rockland 17" Roadster Rolling Backpack
Lightweight, Subdued Design: HollyHOME Wheeled Rolling Backpack
Solidly-Built, Laptop Sleeve Included, but Expensive: JanSport Wheeled Backpacks
Some Stylish Patterns and Smaller: The Pottery Barn Kids Mackenzie Rolling Backpacks
Includes Matching Lunch Bag: Tilami Rolling Backpack
Wrap-Up: The Best Rolling Backpack for High School
Published March 6, 2018. Thoroughly updated on July 26 and July 29, 2018.
With apologies for the obvious pun, teens have a lot on their shoulders. Schools pile on textbooks, workbooks, often a laptop, and take-home projects, and some teens also their share time between different households (with separated parents, grandparents, babysitters, etc.). And there are after-school activities with their accompanying equipment, as well as the fun stuff that kids like to tote with them through the day.
The load can build up —and it’s not healthy. There is excellent research showing that when young people carry heavy backpacks they often develop problems like low back pain, compressed lumbar discs, and asymmetry. Such back problems in youth can then lead to worse issues in adulthood. In addition, heavy backpacks harm joints and contribute to falls — over 6,000 child emergency room visits in 2016 were for backpack injuries. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends rolling backpacks for youth carrying a heavy load.
All that said, rolling backpacks can be a tripping hazard in more-crowded school hallways. Those who use rolling backpacks should understand that there are situations where it’s necessary to use the backpack straps, and take advantage of them.
We prioritized durability in our considerations, followed by features like reflective trim and organizational pockets. We found that the L.L. Bean Rolling Deluxe Book Pack had just about everything we could ask for.
L.L. Bean’s Lifeproof Construction and Materials
Almost all other backpacks in this class are made from polyester fabric, mainly 600D polyester, which has the advantage of being cheap, light, and easy to dye many colors, but it is not as strong as the 420D nylon used for the body of L.L. Bean’s rolling backpack. (While D or “denier” is a measure of density of the fabric, it is only relevant as a measure of strength among the same types of fabric — and not when comparing different fabrics to each other.) As we mentioned, 420D nylon was originally designed for military parachutes. And the 1680D ballistic nylon that is used for the bag’s base is even tougher — in the pre-kevlar days it’s what soldiers wore to protect themselves from shrapnel. Do your worst — this fabric won’t rip.
All of this wouldn’t mean much if the stitching, zippers, handles, and wheels weren’t similarly built to last for the long haul, but they are. The range of L.L. Bean backpacks have consistently topped durability tests from consumer organizations, reviews, and from customers and outdoorsy vloggers. These have shown for instance that LL Bean zippers have held up over time and the handles didn’t tear in jerk tests.
The LL Bean Rolling Deluxe Book Pack’s fabric is treated to repel moisture, and zippers are protected with flaps, also improving water resistance. In sum, precious assignments and books should survive even when the bag is caught in a downpour or plopped down in a mud puddle.
L.L. Bean has covered all of the features that we find most useful:
The bag’s 35L capacity is a wee bit larger than other rolling backpacks; it’s fair to assume that anyone wanting wheels may regularly have a bulkier load.
There are two separated main compartments with an organizer panel and laptop sleeve.
The 3M™ Scotchlite™ reflective trim on the bag’s front and back makes the bag highly visible from any angle at night.
The pull handle can be tucked neatly into the unit or locked in place at two different heights, improving comfort.
The well-padded backpack straps can be tucked into the back compartment so that they don’t snag when rolling.
Two quite large water bottle pockets (also great for carrying a sandwich or fruit, or wet item).
It’s a bit larger than the other options. While most high school kids who want a rolling backpack are by definition carrying a lot of stuff, there are also slightly smaller options below.
It’s a bit expensive; for a small step down in price (but also quality and likely durability), check out the Lands’ End option below and for a larger step down see the J World options. We think L.L. Bean’s durability is well worth it, however.
The Rolling Deluxe Book Pack is sold directly from L.L. Bean and is available in black, dark plum, and navy. It measures 19 x 14 x 9.5 inches (48.3 x 35.6 x 24.1 cm), has a 35L / 2,124 cubic-inch capacity, and weighs 5 lbs. 3 oz. (2.35 kg).
Slightly Cheaper, But Not Quite As Durable: Lands’ End Classmate Large Rolling Backpack
Lands’ End also offers a well-built children’s wheeled backpack that is a bit cheaper than L.L. Bean’s and offers mainly the same features: the Lands’ End Classmate Large Rolling Backpack.
The drawback is that we can’t expect it to hold up as well as L.L. Bean’s wheeled backpack discussed above. Reviewers who tested other children’s Lands’ End backpacks found them to be generally well built though with some parts that didn’t hold up as well over the long term (for example with one reporting a life span of two years of daily use — which is still not so bad). Lands’ End uses 600D polyester for the body and 1200D polyester for the base, which have the advantage of being lighter but do not hold up quite as well as the nylon material employed by L.L. Bean.
The Classmate does have a feature that our main recommendation lacks: You can add embroidered emojis, animals, sports equipment and more, as well as monogrammed initials or a short word.
The Lands’ End Classmate Large Wheeled Backpack also has a reflective patch for visibility, two smaller front pockets, and a solid guarantee with a history of good follow-up. It measures 18 x 13 x 9 inches (45.7 x 33 x 22.9 cm) and has a capacity of 27.8L. It does not have a laptop sleeve.
While some of these backpacks are cheaper than our main recommendation at the top, we think their overall cost will be greater for most people as the bags inevitably wear out. But for those teens more likely to lose rather than abuse their backpack, a cheaper option might well be worth considering, as it’s not such a big deal to replace.
Decent, Quite Cheap: JWorld Sundance Laptop / Sunrise Rolling Backpac ks
JWorld New York offers two very reasonably priced rolling backpack options that are suitable for high school. They have reflective strips for visibility and are made of the same 600D polyester as the Lands’ End option, offering reasonable water resistance. They’ve garnered a few positive web and Amazon reviews, although some users note problems with durability and the construction quality certainly does not approach that of our main picks above. There are in particular complaints of pieces such as wheels breaking. Backpacks do get heavy daily use in high school, but if you have another main backpack and just use a rolling backpack on occasion, these are cheap options.
J World New York Sundance Laptop Rolling Backpack,... $44.99
The J World New York Sundance Laptop Rolling Backpack is the slightly larger of the two and can old a laptop in its padded sleeve. It measures 20 x 13 x 9 inches (50.8 x 33 x 22.9 cm) with the 38.3L capacity and is also available from eBags.
J World New York Sunrise, Pink Zulu $44.09
The J World New York Sunrise Rolling Backpack is just a bit shorter and is cheaper and lacks the laptop sleeve. It measures 18 x 13 x 9 inches (45.7 x 33 x 22.9 cm), and has a 34.5L capacity.
Very Cheap, In Fact Worthless: The Rockland 17″ Roadster Rolling Backpack
Rockland 17" Rolling Backpack, Pinkchevron, One...
The Rockland 17″ Roadster Rolling Backpack was the cheapest option we found, but many of its Amazon reviewers complained of the bag’s wheels and handles giving out after just a few weeks. Given that risk, we might just opt for a non-wheeled backpack at this price point, and save the trouble.
It is available in a huge range of colors and printed designs.
The backpack measures 13 x 10 x 17 inches (33 x 25.4 x 43.2 cm). It’s also available from Target and eBags.
17 inches Multifunction Waterproof Wheeled Rolling...
The HollyHOME Wheeled 17″ Rolling Backpack comes in quite relaxing plain colors. Its few Amazon reviews are rather mixed (and likely reliable), with some reports of parts breaking, and there’s a dearth of commentary elsewhere on the brand. The company promises to refund for problems within only 30 days, which is a far cry from the lifetime guarantee of our top pick. The bag measures 17.3 x 8.7 x 11.8 inches (43.9 x 22.1 x 30 cm).
There is also a 19″ version that has a laptop sleeve, although it’s a bit oddly placed on the front flap rather than the back as with most backpacks, and may not offer as much protection. This version is 18.9 x 7.5 x 13.8 inches (48 x 19 x 35.1 cm).
Jansport Driver 8 Core Wheeled Backpack - 15-inch...
JanSport offers two rolling backpacks that are suitable for high schoolers with lots of books who want to roll. Both are solidly built from 600D polyester (though not the tougher 420D nylon employed for our main pick above). This is the top-selling American brand for school bags and its other bags got great (if not top) marks from the French consumer testing organization and reviewers. The JanSport lifetime warranty is excellent.
These bags did not win out over our main pick because they’re nearly the same price and for slightly less durable material, but they really are fantastic and can be expected to hold up quite well over time.
The JanSport Driver 8 Backpack is the slightly larger and more expensive of the two and is the one that includes a padded sleeve for up to 15″ laptops. The handle has two locking stages so it can be comfortable to pull for teens of various heights. The backpack straps tuck away when not in use. There are two large main compartments, a front organizer pocket, and a water bottle pocket. It measures 21 x 14 x 10 inches (53.3 x 35.6 x 25.4 cm) and has a 36 L capacity. It is also available from JanSport, Zappos and eBags.
JanSport Wheeled Superbreak, Multi Texture Stripe,...
The JanSport Superbreak Backpack is a slightly simpler affair with just one big main compartment and one front organizer pocket. The handle locks at three levels. It measures 19 x 13 x 9.5 inches (48.3 x 33 x 24.1 cm) and has a capacity of 33L. It is also available from JanSport, Zappos and eBags.
Pottery Barn offers smaller rolling backpacks for younger, elementary-school-age children made from 600-denier polyester, available in a huge range of designs. So if your kid wants to go for a specific look, this could be an option.
Reviews from experts and mom blogs have been overall positive in terms of quality and how long they held up, though our main pick above should do better for holding up over the long term. The rolling backpack version of their Mackenzie line is for kids over 48″ tall and it is smaller than most bags here, at just 13 x 7 x 18 inches.
Tilami Rolling Backpack Laptop 18 inch with Lunch...
We’re not sure about the construction of this bag but the exposed zippers (no covering flap) don’t suggest that forethought has been given to rain, and you’re not exactly saving money here. There is, however, an included matching lunch bag. The Tilami Rolling Backpack is available in a wide range of wild printed designs. It measures 19.2 x 13.6 x 9.8 inches (48.8 x 34.5 x 24.9 cm).
Overall, the best rolling backpack is the incredibly durable L.L. Bean Rolling Deluxe Book Pack. We expect it to hold up throughout high school and beyond. It has thoughtful organizational pockets and a reasonable degree of waterproofing to keep books and a laptop safe.
But there are other options:
Our second choice is the somewhat cheaper but still high quality Lands’ End Classmate Large Wheeled Backpack.
Another decent, durable choice is the JanSport Driver 8 Backpack.
And for a very cheap option that also has a laptop sleeve, go for the J World New York Sundance Laptop Rolling Backpack.
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Canadian Business Magazine - illustration by Owen Freeman
21 May 2014, 2.35pm EDT
Canadian Mining Investment Benefits Eritrea’s Repressive Regime
Nevsun ResourcesEritreaCorporate Social ResponsibilityHuman Rights
Communications and Outreach Coordinator responsible for: strategic research, social media, and public engagement; our Africa program, environmental assessment, and uranium mining.
Last week saw a sensational headline in Canadian Business Magazine: The slaves of Eritrea: Canadian mining company Nevsun has been accused of using forced labour to build a mine in Eritrea. How could something like that happen in the modern business world? The news wasn’t so much the allegations, now a couple of years old, that contractors at Nevsun Resources’ Bisha gold-copper mine in Eritrea had used forced labour, under inhumane conditions. It was that the Canadian government’s response to those allegations, exposed through an Access to Information request, was to worry about the company’s public reputation – not any actual abuse of workers.
But a larger issue lurks undiscussed in the background. What are the ethics of doing business in Eritrea? The accusations of using forced labour originate with Nevsun being forced to contract government and military businesses, and the company has worked to isolate itself from their labour practices. But at the same time, Nevsun’s operations are contributing to the well-being of a regime classified by many observers as one of the world’s most repressive.
The Eritrean government may well be using the revenue from the mine to build much-needed infrastructure and services, but what assurance is there that it is not also going to buy weapons? Various agencies, including Amnesty International, have found Eritrea to be one of the most repressive countries in the world, with a long list of violations including thousands of people subject to arbitrary, cruel, and indefinite detentions. Eritrea has also been subject to a UN Security Council-imposed arms embargo (UNSC Resolution 1907) since 2009, principally on account of its support for Islamist guerrilla group al Shabaab, though it doesn’t affect foreign investment. The UN found that by 2012 Eritrea had stopped direct support for the militants but continued to channel support through proxies in the region, and that sanctions should not be lifted.
Short of full economic sanctions, Canada has no legal mechanism to control investment by Canadian companies, even in cases as egregious as this. Elizabeth Chyrum of Human Rights Concern testified to the Human Rights Subcommittee of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development in February, 2012, about the use of Army conscripts and the mistreatment of workers by Eritrean government construction company Segen under contract to Nevsun.
Nevsun was clearly aware of the possibility of abuse; it has been producing glossy Corporate Social Responsibility reports since 2011 supposedly addressing the potential for such violations. Despite this, CEO Cliff Davis told iPolitics in November, 2012: “I’m certainly not directly aware (of human rights violations) at all.” Davis was in Ottawa to testify before the same parliamentary committee; it is still a mystery why he appeared before the committee when he had little of substance to present, and who on the committee invited him six months after Chyrum’s disturbing testimony.
An investigation by Human Rights Watch, published soon afterwards in January 2013, supported these allegations, finding that Nevsun “initially failed to take those risks seriously, and then struggled to address allegations of abuse connected to its operations. Although the company has subsequently improved its policies, it still seems unable to investigate allegations of forced labor concerning a state-owned contractor it uses.”
In this context, the revelations by Canadian Business are especially damning of the Canadian government. Their only response to the Canadian public? That Corporate Canada “leads the world in responsible mining practices.” Nevsun’s defence is that (a) it is doing nothing illegal, and (b) it is providing benefits to Eritreans by providing jobs and revenue.
Neither the company, nor, it seems, the Canadian government has any ethical qualms about supporting the Eritrean regime, even in the absence of any guarantees that such support isn’t going directly or indirectly to support a group Canada lists as a terrorist entity — or being used to repress the country's own people.
News Top court weighs precedent-setting case of human rights breaches at Canadian mine in Eritrea 23.01.2019
Blog Entry Can Slave Labour Charges Against Canadian Company Be Heard in Court in Canada? Supreme Court of Canada Hears Arguments Today 23.01.2019
News Canada’s overseas mining practices on trial in alleged rights abuse case 18.01.2019
Blog Entry New Report Points To Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses in Eritrea as Canadian Company Goes To Supreme Court Over Allegations of Forced Labour 14.06.2018
News Almost A Quarter-Million People Worldwide Join Call For Nevsun Resources Investors to Divest Over Abuses at Eritrea Mine 03.05.2017
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Philosophy of Science & Technology
The First Computers
From History of Computing
History and Architectures
Edited by Raúl Rojas and Ulf Hashagen
Paperback $40.00 X £32.00
A cohesive, well-defined discussion of the architecture of early computers.
Mary Croarken
This history of computing focuses not on chronology (what came first and who deserves credit for it) but on the actual architectures of the first machines that made electronic computing a practical reality. The book covers computers built in the United States, Germany, England, and Japan. It makes clear that similar concepts were often pursued simultaneously and that the early researchers explored many architectures beyond the von Neumann architecture that eventually became canonical. The contributors include not only historians but also engineers and computer pioneers. An introductory chapter describes the elements of computer architecture and explains why "being first" is even less interesting for computers than for other areas of technology. The essays contain a remarkable amount of new material, even on well-known machines, and several describe reconstructions of the historic machines. These investigations are of more than simply historical interest, for architectures designed to solve specific problems in the past may suggest new approaches to similar problems in today's machines.
Contributors Titiimaea F. Ala'ilima, Lin Ping Ang, William Aspray, Friedrich L. Bauer, Andreas Brennecke, Chris P. Burton, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Paul Ceruzzi, I. Bernard Cohen, John Gustafson, Wilhelm Hopmann, Harry D. Huskey, Friedrich W. Kistermann, Thomas Lange, Michael S. Mahoney, R. B. E. Napper, Seiichi Okoma, Hartmut Petzold, Raúl Rojas, Anthony E. Sale, Robert W. Seidel, Ambros P. Speiser, Frank H. Sumner, James F. Tau, Jan Van der Spiegel, Eiiti Wada, Michael R. Williams
Out of Print ISBN: 9780262181976 472 pp. | 6 in x 9 in June 2000
$40.00 X | £32.00 ISBN: 9780262681377 472 pp. | 6 in x 9 in July 2002
Raúl Rojas
Raúl Rojas is Professor of Computer Science at the Free University of Berlin.
Ulf Hashagen
Ulf Hashagen is affiliated with the Munich Center for the History and Science and Technology, Deutsches Museum.
Productivity Machines
Corinna Schlombs
James W. Cortada
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/first-computers
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Subject: Why It's Hard to Find the Best Pot Stocks to Invest in Right Now
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Why It's Hard to Find the Best Pot Stocks to Invest in Right Now
By Jim Bach, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 - July 23, 2015
The growing, nationwide political climate is shifting in favor of marijuana legalization.
But finding the best pot stocks to invest in right now to capitalize on what promises to be an explosive growth in the years to come is proving to be a conundrum.
And that's for one simple reason...
What Investors Need to Know About Finding the Best Pot Penny Stocks
How to Invest in Pot Stocks Right Now
GrowLife Stock Illustrates Hazards of Pot Penny Stocks
This Number Proves Pot Stocks Are Here to Stay
GW Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: GWPH) Stock Now Up 1,112% in Past Year
Not All Pot Penny Stocks Took a Hit from the SEC
Why GW Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: GWPH) Is a Hot Pot Stock for 2014
Investing in Bitcoin Pot Penny Stocks: Welcome to the 21st Century
Double-Digit (or More) Profits in This Market Are About to Rocket
Pot Penny Stocks Are Up as Much as 1,210% – Here's How to Invest Now
Stocks to Watch: Marijuana Buds While Blackberry (Nasdaq: BBRY) Dies on the Vine
Ending the War on Pot Would Add $20 Billion to the U.S. Economy
By Jim Bach, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 - July 9, 2015
It can be difficult to identify the best pot penny stocks at the moment.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's trading halts on a number of pot penny stocks illustrate this.
Here's how to separate the good from the bad...
By Jim Bach, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 - June 22, 2015
If you're looking to strike it rich with pot stocks, we may have some bad news for you.
Unless you are an angel investor, friends and family of a promising startup, or a lucky pump-and-dumper, it's next to impossible to be a successful pot stock investor.
But there are a few things you can do now in an investing environment unfriendly to pot stocks...
By Jim Bach, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 - June 9, 2015
GrowLife stock is a perfect case study in the perilous world of pot penny stock investing.
Riding the sudden wave of excitement surrounding marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado, investors began piling into pot stocks with reckless abandon, hoping they could get in on the ground floor of a soon-to-be burgeoning marijuana industry.
But the profits have dried up, and the story of GrowLife stock shows us why...
By Tara Clarke, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @TaraKateClarke - August 22, 2014
June was the best-selling month ever for recreational marijuana in Colorado, bringing in a whopping $24.7 million in total sales according to state tax collections reported on August 8.
This record-breaking number means one thing: the cannabis industry is booming, and pot stocks are here to stay.
Welcome to the latest category of "sin stocks."
And you may be surprised at the best way to play it...
By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning - June 30, 2014
GWPH Stock Update: GW Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: GWPH) stock once again hit our "hot stocks" list Monday when shares surged some 15% intraday to a 52-week high of $109.56.
Here’s why this leader among marijuana stocks has soared more than 1,100% in the past year.
By Money Morning Staff Reports, Money Morning - June 10, 2014
The recent boom in pot penny stocks almost seems too good to be true - and according to the Securities & Exchange Commission, it might very well be.
In the past few weeks, the SEC has been investigating several pot stocks-eight of which have now been temporarily suspended. According to the SEC, the suspended marijuana stocks were in violation of serious regulations, including instances of "manipulative transactions" and "unlawful distribution of securities."
Here’s where that leaves the state of pot penny stocks today.
GW Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: GWPH) stock is a hot pot stock to buy now.
The company has been on fire for months thanks to its deep pipeline of promising cannabinoid products - with one in particular getting a lot of attention.
Here’s why it’s headed higher – even after this recent pop...
By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - May 5, 2014
A world in which you could invest in pot penny stocks was virtually unimaginable 20 years ago, as was a world with a digital currency like Bitcoin.
But now investing in Bitcoin pot penny stocks is a reality. And tapping into both the growing market for marijuana and the potential of Bitcoin is an intriguing investing prospect, to say the least.
Here are three Bitcoin pot penny stocks that seek to profit from this magic formula...
By Peter Krauth, Resource Specialist, Money Morning - April 9, 2014
It's not often a new kid makes it onto the commodities block.
Change can be disrupting... but it can also - in this case - be hugely profitable.
It's acquiring the marketplace qualities of long-traded commodities...
You may have guessed I'm talking about cannabis.
By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - January 15, 2014
GreenGro Technologies Inc. (OTC: GRNH) is up 1,210% (after having risen as much as 2,100%), Cannibis Science Inc. (OTC: CBIS) is up 183%, and Hemp Inc. (OTC: HEMP) is up 359%.
Hemp Chief Executive Officer Bruce Perlowin told Bloomberg News investors in pot penny stocks are looking for "the next Microsoft."
"The demand for marijuana is insatiable," said Perlowin. "You have a feeding frenzy for the birth of a new industry."
This is the kind of growth opportunity that comes along only once in a generation...
By Money Morning Staff Reports, Money Morning - January 14, 2014
Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald appeared on FOX Business' "Cavuto" on Friday evening to discuss the top stocks to watch in the weeks ahead.
Our stocks to watch list for Jan. 2014 focuses on Apple (AAPL), Blackberry (BBRY), Sears (SHLD) – and marijuana.
See how hot stocks are now...
By kdowdle, Money Morning - April 25, 2013
So much for the war on drugs. For the first time ever, a majority of Americans now support legalizing marijuana.
According a new report from the Cato Institute, pot legalization could inject $20 billion a year into the U.S. economy due to the tax revenue generated and savings in law enforcement costs.
So how big is the market for market for marijuana?
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Chile for the Time of Year
REVIEW: Marillion – Chile for the Time of Year (2014)
MARILLION – Chile for the Time of Year (2014 Racket Records)
The first Marillion Christmas CD release since 2008’s Pudding on the Ritz doubled down! It was an unusual but special treat: a full-on double live album.
Recorded May 16 2014 in Santiago Chile, it has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas, except that it was that year’s fanclub gift to the fans. With that in mind, it could be their Christmas release with the widest appeal. No carols here for the Grinches and Scrooges to complain about. Just two CDs of progressive music from the Sounds that Can’t Be Made era.
It was the final date on Marillion’s Latin American tour, and it sounds as if they pulled out all the stops. “Gaza”, a cinematic 20 minutes of swirling rock, is a hell of a way to open such a show. Bass runs, samples and guitars coagulate into a mass of music, breathtaking in construction. That’s a lot to digest, and so an easier pill to swallow follows. “Easter” (wrong occasion, lads!) is one of Marillion’s best known hits, liquid and energizing. It and the ballad “Beautiful” each serve to refresh your ears and prepare them for bigger musical challenges ahead.
“This is a song about, and called…’Power'” whispers Steve “H” Hogarth just before another weighty progression. The dancey “You’re Gone” lightens the mood again, as the band wisely don’t let things stay in one groove for too long. “You’re Gone” was a charting single for the band, but as far as accessible pop rock goes, I think they have better tunes in the pocket. Like “No One Can”, or “Cover My Eyes” elsewhere on the album. These longstanding classics from Holidays In Eden have aged well, though the high notes on “Cover My Eyes” have to be supported by the audience.
“Man of a Thousand Faces” is always an interesting song, coming from Marillion’s acoustic “Hootie” phase (as Tom Morwood calls it). It’s adds variety to the concert setting, and is certainly as dramatic as Marillion before and since. But it’s the first song from the Fish era that really stirs the soul. “Warm Wet Circles/That Time of the Night” is a song Hogarth has always done well. As the years passed, he became more comfortable with the Fish songs, and that is audible.
Plenty more early songs follow on the second disc, making this live album a really fine sampler. “Uninvited Guest” and “Hooks In You” from Seasons End were both popular singles in their time, and some diehards love when they resurface in the set. Others think Marillion has better material these days. Neither song was on 2012’s Sounds Live, a much more serious and less upbeat listening experience overall.
Once “Hooks in You” has crashed its final chord, the balance of the album is made of epics and old Fish classics. “Ocean Cloud” and “Neverland” (16 and 10 minutes long respectively) are the epics, both slowly pulsing with vivid life. The way each twists and turns makes neither a bore. “Neverland” is the album closer in fact, ending it in dramatic fashion.
Before we get there, Marillion lay down four Fish classics in a row: The timeless trio of “Kayleigh” – “Lavender” – “Heart of Lothian”, and the poignant ballad “Sugar Mice”. All singles, all tracks forever linked to Fish. But Steve is the Marillion singer now, and he’s been singing those songs almost as long as Fish himself. His versions have their own quirks and personalities, and we live in a world where they can all coexist with Fish’s.
I love when Hogarth says, “We dedicate this song to all the Kayleighs in the audience! There’s bound to be a couple!” Indeed, they’d be in their 30s today.
Merry Christmas Marillion and thanks for the CD. For those who hate Christmas music, this is the one for you! In fact, as a pure live Marillion album, it’s better than most (and they have a lot)!
Happy Christmas Everybody! (1998 – Webfree 1)
marillion.christmas (1999 – Webfree 2)
A Piss-Up in a Brewery (2000 – Webfree 3)
A Very Barry Christmas (2001 – Webfree 4)
Santa and His Elvis (2002 – Webfree 5)
Say Cheese! Christmas With Marillion (2003 – Webfree 6)
Baubles (2004 – Webfree 7)
Merry Xmas to Our Flock (2005 – Webfree 8)
The Jingle Book (2006 – Webfree 9)
Somewhere Elf (2007 – Webfree 10)
Pudding on the Ritz (2008 – Webfree 11)
Chile for the Time of Year (2014 – Webfree 17)
A Collection of Recycled Gifts (2014 – Compilation with new Christmas material)
Christmas Tour 2014 – Live at the Forum (2014 Abbey Road “instant live”)
A Monstrously Festive(al) Christmas (2015 – Webfree 18)
Posted in Reviews and tagged Chile for the Time of Year, fan club releases, Ian Mosely, marillion, Mark Kelly, Pete Trewavas, Racket Records, rarities, Steve Hogarth, Steve Rothery, The Web UK on December 11, 2019 by mikeladano. 22 Comments
#800: It’s Beginning to Look Like Marillion Christmas
GETTING MORE TALE #800:
It’s Beginning to Look Like Marillion Christmas
Immediate apologies to probably a large percentage of readers. There are two kinds of people: those who like Christmas music, and those who do not. Those in the “not” category will probably be dropping in droves this December, as I announce the latest review series here at mikeladano.com.
It’s an interesting matter of fact, but Marillion have a total 15 Christmas themed albums. That’s an incredibly large number! Most were only available (for free) to fans of the Marillion Web fan club. Over the last few Christmases, I’ve reviewed a number of them (linked below). In 2019, I finally acquired the only two I had been missing. I didn’t get into Marillion early enough to get the first two, but I was on board by the third. Now, two decades later, I decided to bite the bullet and pay Discogs prices, which were not all that bad ($30 US each). And now I have them all!
For a short while, Marillion switched from releasing Christmas albums to Christmas DVDs, which I do not collect. In 2014, CDs resumed for a short additional run.
Now that I actually have them all, I’d like to get them all reviewed too. After all, I can really only do that kind of thing once a year — in December. Starting with Webfree 1, I’m going to work my way down the list. And if this doesn’t interest you at all, that’s cool. I get it. That’s the thing about personal projects. This is more about me than you, I’m afraid. But there’s plenty of reason for you to stick around, too. Many of these Marillion “Christmas” albums have minimal Christmas content. Chile for the Time of Year? That’s just, flat-out, a double live album. It was recorded in May! It boasts some of Marillion’s best known songs (“Kayleigh”, “Easter”, “Cover My Eyes”), and also a number of key later progressive epics (“Gaza”, “Ocean Cloud”, “Neverland”). If it were not one of their annual Christmas fanclub freebies, it would fit in any other time.
If you’re a diehard, or just remotely curious about Marillion, I’ve done my best to write for both of you. These CDs are going to expose to you to variety of Marillion songs. Hits, deep cuts, and stuff you never heard of before. And you won’t find a series this detailed anywhere else.
As I buckle in for what looks to be a chilly season, I wish you all the very Merriest of Christmases. It matters not if you celebrate it. As the world pauses together this season, I hope you have nothing but warmth and happiness in your life. Perhaps a hot drinky-poo or a pipe by the fire is all you desire. Might I recommend a Marillion Christmas to nail the vibe just right?
Posted in RSTs Mk II: Getting More Tale and tagged A Collection of Recycled Gifts, A Monstrously Festive(al) Christmas, A Piss-Up in a Brewery, A Very Barry Christmas, Baubles, Chile for the Time of Year, Christmas music, Christmas Tour 2014 - Live at the Forum, fan club releases, Happy Christmas Everybody!, Ian Mosely, marillion, marillion.christmas, Mark Kelly, Merry Xmas to Our Flock, Pete Trewavas, Pudding on the Ritz, rarities, Santa and His Elvis, Say Cheese! Christmas With Marillion, Somewhere Elf, Steve Hogarth, Steve Rothery, The Jingle Book on December 2, 2019 by mikeladano. 22 Comments
GALLERY: I am once again a Marillion Web UK member
Greetings! Last month, we took a detailed look at four of Marillion’s annual Christmas releases:
A Collection of Recycled Gifts (2014)
A Very Barry Christmas (2001)
Christmas 2002 – Santa and his Elvis (2002)
Somewhere Elf (2007)
With the exception of A Collection of Recycled Gifts, these Marillion CDs were a free gifts exclusively for members of the official Web UK club. I ceased subscribing and collecting a few years ago when they switched format to DVD releases. Video is way further down on my collecting priority list. In 2014, however, I learned they switched back to CD! A double CD in fact: a live concert recorded in Chile called (heh heh) Chile for the Time of Year!
I re-subscribed just in time to get it. And it has arrived, along with the 48 page glossy Web UK magazine. This is a heavy mag, printed on good quality paper. It’s nice that some bands’ fans still value such niceties. There are four issues per year.
Below are a selection of pics. For more on the Web UK, and a better way of life, visit marillion.com.
Posted in Sh*te Photies and tagged Chile for the Time of Year, Christmas albums, fan club releases, Ian Mosely, marillion, Mark Kelly, Pete Trewavas, Steve Hogarth, Steve Rothery, The Web UK on January 15, 2015 by mikeladano. 3 Comments
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Devendra Fadnavis: Karnataka bypolls prove people won
Devendra Fadnavis: Karnataka bypolls prove people won’t tolerate if someone tries to play with the public mandate
Mirror Online | Updated: Dec 9, 2019, 16:07 IST
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis
The results of the Karnataka bypolls undoubtedly strengthen the BS Yediyurappa-led BJP government in the state. It's also become a platform for former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to take a dig at the opposition, especially when the BJP, in Maharashtra, has to contend with sitting in the opposition, in spite of emerging as the single largest party at the end of the elections with 105 seats in the 288-strong assembly.
In a fresh jibe, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, this afternoon took to Twitter and said that people won’t tolerate if someone tries to play with the public mandate and wish. He said this in connection with Karnataka bypoll results where BJP has performed stupendously. CLP leader Siddaramaiah also tendered his resignation after poor show by Congress in the Karnataka Assembly bypolls.
Fadnavis tweeted, "In the very first chance they get, this is how voters react to opportunist politics & stealing of mandate by rejected parties by coming together for the sake of power! Karnataka By polls results proves that people won’t tolerate if someone tries to play with public mandate & wish! (sic)" The BJP had fielded 13 disqualified MLAs (who quit the Congress and joined the BJP) as its candidates in the December by-elections in 15 constituencies.
In the very first chance they get, this is how voters react to opportunist politics & stealing of mandate by reject… https://t.co/DzLM82xQFg
— Devendra Fadnavis (@Dev_Fadnavis) 1575884932000
Also, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday asserted that he would give a stable and pro-development government for the next three-and-half years -- the remainder of his term.
"Voters have given their verdict and the results are out. Now we have to focus on the development of the state. I will give a good administration in the next three-and- half years with the help of our ministers and MLAs," he told reporters. He sought the support of the opposition to complete his term unhindered. The opposition was trying to create confusion among people. I appeal to them that at least from now on give us their complete support," Yediyurappa said. "We had given assurance to all the disqualified (Congress-JDS) MLAs that they will be made ministers. So there is no question of backtracking from what we promised them. We will make them ministers and give them responsibility to grow our party base in their area," he said.
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Review of the Blackwater Lawsuit
The Nation has a good article on the Blackwater lawsuit that is slowly working its way through the court system. In Blood Is Thicker Than Blackwater, Jeremy Scahill describes actions by a company that is the worst fear by many opposing privatization (did someone mention CusterBattles?). When firms act like this, as Blackwater is alleged to have done, it not only taints the industry but also the United States. As an interview in the movie Shadow Company demonstrates, Stephen "Scott" Helvenston, Mike Teague, Jerko Zovko and Wesley Batalona were attacked not because they were contractors or because they might have been military, but because they were thought to be CIA…
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Recently, Blackwater announced that it was willing, and could, provide a brigade size force for humanitarian interventions (HI), such as is needed in Darfur. The Blackwater pronouncement (I think it goes beyond ‘announcement’) is largely based on Tim Spicer’s observation, as quoted in the Green Paper: "too often the major powers won’t intervene or delay until it’s too late." What might the Blackwater deployment look like and how might it work?
Shadow Company movie review
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Later this month in Texas, the movie Shadow Company will make its debut at the South by Southwest Film Festival. Self-described as a “ground breaking investigative” documentary, Shadow Company explores the origins and “destinations” of private security contractors (PSCs). Back in January, Onnesha Roychoudhuri interviewed Nick Bicanic, Shadow Company’s director and co-founder of the production company putting the movie out. If you haven’t read the interview, you should. Not to be redundent with Roychoudhuri, I asked Nick why he made Shadow Company. "I decided to make this film because I could see that the Rules of War have changed. There was a relevant message about modern warfare that did not…
Update: PSC Snipers in Iraq
If you have not seen this yet, I had posted a link in an earlier post to a video clip of a PSC sniper in Iraq. The video has impact. The video is of private security troops interdicting hostile enemy targets (i.e. insurgents / terrorists) from a rooftop in Iraq may be taken place in April 2004 (Sadr’s Rebellion). The firing position may be CPA headquarters. Two other stories on snipers in Iraq… The first one is on a successful SAS operation, Marlborough. The second is a record sniper shot in Iraq by a US soldier in theatre. More details are available on both ops, but I have decided not…
Blackwater Oath: a pledge to the sovereign or a play to look more American?
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Book Review: Uncharted (Creativity And The Expert Drummer) by Bill Bruford
Recently, for work, I’ve had the pleasure of hanging out a bit with Paddy Spinks, the man charged with keeping King Crimson together in the 1980s. Chatting about that mighty musical unit recently, he said that Bill Bruford had been the ‘natural showman’ of the band.
So it was a bit of a surprise to read Bruford’s words about the latter part of his distinguished drumming career in the introduction to fascinating new book ‘Uncharted’: ‘I dreaded performance to the point where…I was unable to function meaningfully. Performance had become incomprehensibly difficult and insuperably so.’
‘Uncharted’ is Bruford’s detailed voyage through the psychology of performance, performance anxiety and drumming creativity. He sets out his objectives clearly: ‘I want to suggest some answers to some fundamental questions about drummers. What do we do and why do we do it? Is there anything creative about it? What are drummers for, if not to be creative?’
He provides some answers himself and also garners opinions from a variety of respected players including Peter Erskine (Weather Report, Kate Bush, Steely Dan), Chad Wackerman (Frank Zappa, Allan Holdsworth) and Cindy Blackman-Santana.
‘Uncharted’ is most assuredly an academic book, the fruits of a University of Surrey PhD, so it probably won’t surprise any Bruford fans to learn that it features no drummer jokes. But it’s never less than gripping, with fascinating titbits dropped in here and there about a distinguished career in music.
The book shines a light on the current state of the recording world, with pithy comments about the rise of the ‘bedroom’ musician and ‘stay-at-home’ drummer sending in his/her parts via email or Skype. Bruford laments the lessening of time that bands spend together in the rehearsal room these days, often due to financial constraints, rightly commenting that music as complex and nuanced as Yes or King Crimson could only have been produced via lengthy band ‘woodshedding’ sessions.
There are striking observations on the merits or otherwise of ‘playing to your audience’, especially from Erskine: ‘I don’t really give a f**k about the audience. You can quote me on that!’, and also a couple of amusingly barbed Bruford comments about playing double drums with another of the UK’s greatest players. Hint, hint…
Despite its occasional longeurs, ‘Uncharted’ is a fascinating, forensic look at creativity and collaboration, with reverberations that go far beyond the world of music.
‘Uncharted: Creativity And The Expert Drummer’ is published by the University Of Michigan Press.
Posted in Bill Bruford, Book Reviews / Tagged billbruford, bookreviews, chadwackerman, cindyblackman, kingcrimson, paddyspinks, petererskine, universityofmichiganpress, yes / 3 Comments
Frank Zappa’s Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch: 35 Years Old Today
Barking Pumpkin Records, released 3rd May 1982
Bought: Virgin Megastore, Oxford Street, 1988?
This is the first Zappa album I ever bought. It was a cheapo Fame Records/EMI cassette edition. Before Ship, I had only heard choice cuts courtesy of a friend’s career-spanning compilation. I was going to say that Ship was not the ideal album to start with, but actually with hindsight it probably was; it’s maddening, brilliant, tawdry, overblown – basically a microcosm of Zappa’s ’80s output.
Ship ditched the lush, multi-tracked sound of 1981’s You Are What You Is in favour of a no-reverb, claustrophobic mix featuring Chad Wackerman’s busy drums, blaring synths, in-your-face bass and loads of wacky guitar processing.
Opening track ‘No Not Now’, concerning the sexual dilemmas of a long-distance truck driver, is a six-minute disaster area that would surely test the patience of even the most diehard Zappa fan. ‘Valley Girl’ placed killer new-wave rock around daughter Moon’s hilarious vocal exclamations. It was a typically bold, spontaneous and very successful career move by FZ resulting in a timely hit single (peaking at #32 in the US).
But we then unfortunately segue into ‘I Come From Nowhere’, a fairly unlistenable track about the inanity of TV personalities with a ghastly vocal performance by Roy Estrada over an uninvolving, sub-Men At Work riff.
But side two of Ship demonstrates all that’s essential about ’80s Zappa. It should really be heard in its totality. The title track is surely one of his career highlights, a unique, surrealistic 12-minute salvo featuring spoken-word, ‘scatting’, a great rock guitar solo over a grinding 9/8 vamp, a blizzard of avant-garde piano/percussion and even a quote from Stravinsky’s ‘Rite Of Spring’ (of course also a piece about ritual sacrifice).
‘Envelopes’ is a brief but brilliant through-composed tribute to Conlon Nancarrow featuring close-interval, player-piano perversions, while ‘Teenage Prostitute’ is the R-rated version of ‘Valley Girl’, a hellish vision of Hollywood’s underbelly complete with ‘Peter Gunn’ riffs, intricate marimba and operatic vocals by Lisa Popeil.
I was in. I would immediately go back/forward and investigate FZ’s career in more detail. Next up was Sheik Yerbouti, the first CD I ever bought and probably my favourite Zappa album.
Posted in 1982, Album Reviews, Frank Zappa, Rock / Tagged barkingpumpkin, chadwackerman, conlonnancarrow, frankzappa, lisapopeil, moonzappa, stravinsky / 7 Comments
Technology Catches Up With Technique: Allan Holdsworth’s Secrets
Intima Records, released May 1989
Bought: Our Price Richmond, 1989
Some time around the late ’80s, I became a bit disillusioned with the major UK music mags (but continued to love Q). Their infinite search for ‘coolness’ coincided with my increasing interest in playing bass and guitar, so I started checking out American mags such as Musician, Guitar World and Guitar Player, as well as Guitarist here in the UK. Their focus seemed to be on the mechanics of/intentions behind making music rather than puking in hotels or haircuts.
I think I first heard guitarist Allan Holdsworth’s name via a Guitar Player cover interview to promote his Secrets album. I hadn’t yet heard a note of his music but his intelligent, exceptionally modest (some would say mordant) approach to playing drew me in, as did his endorsement of sax players (Brecker, Coltrane, Parker) rather than the usual guitar influences. Also he mentioned that he had been working with drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, another name that I had heard with relation to Frank Zappa but had never really properly investigated.
By chance, I came upon Secrets a few months later in a bargain bucket. From the first bar of the opener ‘City Nights’ (a typically nimble salvo around the kit by Vinnie) I was blown away. Holdsworth’s solo is burning, with loads of notes spraying out everywhere, but it’s also totally devoid of clichés. He repeats the trick all over Secrets, with Vinnie and bassist Jimmy Johnson prodding and cajoling him every step of the way.
It’s also refreshing to hear Allan blowing over lots of major chords in ‘Joshua’, the sort of tune which might be a bit soppy in the hands of Metheny or Abercrombie but is transformed into a stunningly fluent series of solos alongside Colaiuta’s brilliantly unhinged accompaniment. ‘Spokes’ is a nicely arranged vehicle for Allan’s nutty synthaxe playing (and some more Vinnie/Jimmy genius) and, on ‘Endomorph’, Holdsworth even comes up with a very moving song inspired by the death of his father with some excellent vocals from Craig Copeland.
Secrets is the one where technology really caught up with his ingenious concepts. All lead guitarists are on an endless search for tone and Allan seems to have found his ideal here. It’s smooth yet fiery and he genuinely achieves the ‘sheets-of-sound’ style of improvising that he so admires in his favourite sax players by utilising incredibly wide intervals (for a guitarist) and legato phrasing.
His playing is as instantly recognisable as Wes, Van Halen or Scofield’s. It’s not easy music, though. But, as he lamented in the interview mentioned above, it’s not that difficult and he always wished it was more popular.
Vinnie Colaiuta
Secrets was the first in a trio of superb solo albums (and some sterling sideman work with Chad Wackerman) which continued with Wardenclyffe Tower in ’92 and Hard Hat Area in ’94, all of which are pretty essential listening if you like his vibe.
Within a year of Secrets coming out, I’d seen Allan live at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London and also checked out his month-long guest spot with Level 42 at Hammersmith Odeon throughout December 1990 (and some brilliant solos on their Guaranteed album). I was becoming a major fan and have been ever since.
Posted in 1989, Album Reviews, Allan Holdsworth, Fusion, Jazz / Tagged allanholdsworth, billbruford, chadwackerman, level42, tonywilliams, vinniecolaiuta / 3 Comments
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LG appeals to home brewers with capsule-based craft beer system
By Paul Ridden
LG appeals to home brewers wit...
LG will debut its HomeBrew automated craft beer machine at CES 2019
The HomeBrew will take care of the whole brewing process, all a user needs to do is slot in a single use cartridge and press a button
LG has developed a fermentation algorithm for the HomeBrew machine that monitors and controls temperature and pressure for optimum output
Countertop craft beer systems are not new, Seattle's PicoBrew has been offering devices of all shapes and sizes for a number of years and it's not the only company to do so. Now LG has decided to join the party with an automated machine called the HomeBrew, which will make its debut at CES 2019 in Las Vegas next month.
LG says that a combination of single-use capsules, an optimized fermentation algorithm, one touch operation and self-cleaning capabilities should make for "incredibly easy" craft beer production at home.
The whole process has been automated so users can load the machine with a capsule –which contains malt, yeast, hop oil and flavoring – press the button and let it get on with fermenting, carbonating, aging and serving.
The fermenting algorithm has been developed for optimum output, monitoring and controlling temperature and pressure along the way, and the machine is reported capable of producing up to 5 liters of craft beer in about 2 weeks.
Thanks to a companion mobile app for iOS/Android, impatient crafters can check the HomeBrew's status at any time, even if they're not at home. And at the end of the process, the machine will clean itself using only hot water.
So far LG has revealed that five flavors will be made available at launch – an American IPA, and American pale ale, and English stout, a Belgian-style Witbier and a Czech Pilsner. And that's about all the information available at the moment. Expect more to land when CES opens its doors on January 8.
Source: LG
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While Paul is loath to reveal his age, he will admit to cutting his IT teeth on a TRS-80 (although he won't say which version). An obsessive fascination with computer technology blossomed from hobby into career before hopping over to France for 10 years, where he started work for New Atlas in 2009. Now back in his native Blighty, he serves as Managing Editor in Europe.
socalboomer December 11, 2018 03:48 PM
well . . . "Appeal to homebrewers" is a bit of a stretch. :)
bullrun December 11, 2018 11:33 PM
I think I'd rather just pick up a 6 pack of a good micro-brewed IPA at the local beer store....Let someone whose job it is to make beer -- make it!
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Fotografiska Will Open a Photo Center in the Park Avenue Building Made Notorious by Art-World Scammer Anna Delvey
Swedish photography destination Fotografiska reveals new details about its forthcoming New York space, which will open next year.
Eileen Kinsella, June 28, 2018
Fotografiska will open a new photography center in the Flatiron DIstrict in Spring 2019. Photo: Courtesy Fotografiska.
New York is officially getting a new cultural destination—although one scam artist is likely not happy about it.
The Stockholm-based photography center Fotografiska has announced that it is moving forward with plans to make a splashy expansion to New York in spring 2019. The private, for-profit institution will open a 45,000-square-foot facility in a historic building on Park Avenue South in the Flatiron district. You might remember the space—it’s the same one that now-jailed-on-Rikers Island scammer Anna Delvey sought to lease for her own ill-fated, imaginary art center. (Sorry, Ms. Delvey.)
According to a statement, the institution represents “the first major opening of a cultural museum” in the city since 1977. Like Fotografiska’s space in Stockholm, the center—founded by brothers Jan and Per Broman—combines photography exhibitions, dining, and entertainment. The six-floor, 45,000-square-foot New York space will include a photography bookstore and three floors of exhibition space dedicated to rotating presentations of work by both local and international photographers. (Fotografiska, which has only a small collection of Swedish photography, hinges its business on the notion that visitors will pay for admission and then spend at its swanky cafe and bookshops.)
Passersby will get a taste of what’s to come this summer. Starting in July, the street-level windows will be adorned with images from past Fotografiska exhibitions.
Anna Delvey attending the first Tumblr Fashion Honor presented to Rodarte at the Jane Hotel on September 9, 2014. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images)
The newly confirmed details about the center’s opening, which has been in the works for many months, might have passed without much notice. But the space became notorious after The Cut published a lengthy profile of Anna Delvey (real surname: Sorokin), who posed as a wealthy German heiress to foot an international spending spree and became consumed with the idea of turning the venue into her own contemporary art center. (When confronted with the news that Fotografiska had signed a lease for the same location, she dismissed it as “fake news.”)
The space is owned by RFR Realty, the real estate company founded by art collector Aby Rosen. In a statement, Fotografiska New York’s general partner Geoffrey Newman said: “We have been looking for the right New York location for quite a while, and the Park Avenue South space is a great opportunity for us.” The photography center is also expanding in London, where it is planning to occupy a new building near the Whitechapel Gallery also in Spring 2019.
Fotografiska first opened on the waterfront in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2010. Since then, it has showcased famous photographers including David LaChapelle and Annie Leibovitz alongside lesser-known talent such as the late Chinese photographer Ren Hang. It also hosts workshops, events, and artist talks and says it attracts more than 500,000 visitors each year.
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Click here to login Confusion ensues during veterinary-compounding discussion
Christy Corp-Minamiji, DVM
Difficulties faced by California veterinarians in obtaining compounded drugs for their patients aren’t likely to be resolved any time soon, judging by the outcome of a recent meeting of the California State Board of Pharmacy Enforcement and Compounding Committee.
A request by veterinary compounding business Roadrunner Pharmacy for exemptions from and clarifications on new state regulations resulted in an hour-long discussion in which many questions were raised and none settled. Instead, the parties decided to continue talks another day.
The confusion centers around the application of new state rules to compounding for veterinary patients. Effective as of Jan. 1, the regulations are aimed at protecting human and veterinary patients alike, and designed to bring state code in line with federal guidance regarding the testing required for compounded preparations.
The more rigorous oversight was prompted by a scandal in 2012 involving contaminated injectable steroids that were compounded by a Massachusetts pharmacy. The tainted preparations caused an outbreak of fungal infections that killed 64 people and sickened 689 more. Historically, compounded preparations have not been subject to the same type or intensity of regulation as commercial drugs.
Compounded preparations are drugs customized for a patient’s individual needs. Drug compounding ranges from adding a flavoring to or altering the concentration of an existing drug to creating a formulation not available on the commercial market. The use of compounds is important in veterinary medicine, where patients range from finch to elephant, and where administering medication can be far more complex than saying, “Here, swallow this capsule.”
“Veterinary medicine is different [from human medicine] in many ways,” Rob Eaton, founder and COE of Arizona-based Roadrunner, told the pharmacy board compounding committee during its April 18 meeting. “Compounds are one of the mainstays of veterinary clinics.”
What about in-house compounding?
The state Veterinary Medical Board is working on a separate set of regulations that will apply to compounding done by veterinarians.
Until this year, nothing in state law addressed veterinary compounding, according to the board’s executive officer, Annemarie Del Mugnaio. The issue arose when someone asked whether federal guidance on veterinary compounding applied.
After reviewing the federal code, legal counsel for the California board came to the opinion that those guidelines are applicable only in states with their own laws and regulations authorizing compounding by veterinarians, Del Mugnaio told the VIN News Service.
The language that the board’s legal counsel focused on is in Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations, section 530.13.
Other states might interpret that section differently.
In any case, the California veterinary board requested its legislature to authorize compounding by veterinarians and give the board authority to regulate it. That legislation passed and was signed by the governor in September. It took effect on Jan. 1.
Now a committee of the veterinary board is in the process of writing regulations. Del Mugnaio expects the process will take the better part of the year. She said draft language might be ready for the full board's consideration in July.
Veterinarians are welcome to weigh in at any point, whether by attending board meetings when the issue is under discussion or by sending written comments at any time. Once regulations are proposed, there will be a 45-day review period, during which time formal public comments will be invited.
Of course, veterinarians have been compounding right along. Asked whether they should continue going about their business as usual until the rules are figured out, Del Mugnaio noted that current inspections by the board do include checking for expired drugs and proper labeling.
— Edie Lau
Dr. Grant Miller, director of regulatory affairs at the California Veterinary Medical Association, said veterinarians in the state are reporting difficulty acquiring commonly used compounded drugs, with large compounding pharmacies reluctant to ship to California as a result of the new state rules. He said delays and increases in expense are leading to clients being unable or reluctant to treat their pets.
Two aspects of the new regulations in particular are causing friction. The first is a limit on “office stock” of compounded preparations.
Because having a drug compounded and shipped to a client can take several days, veterinarians frequently keep stock on hand to dispense to clients to cover the gap until the prescription can be filled. They also keep office stock to treat hospitalized patients.
The new regulations limit office stock to a five-day supply that must be labeled for a specific patient.
Roadrunner senior pharmacist Bruce Dell suggested the rule is inflexible to the point of potentially causing harm to patients. “There is no way for a veterinarian to know in advance the species, weight and dose [of a potential patient],” Dell said. “Absence of clinic stock delays treatment.”
Eaton concurred, complaining about what he called the “interrogative nature” of the questions Roadrunner now feels compelled to ask prescribing veterinarians. “We are asking veterinarians to read the crystal ball and know every pet that will need office stock,” he said.
The other thorny issue is the beyond-use date (BUD) of compounds that are suspended in an aqueous, or water-based, solution. Such drugs include eye drops and liquid oral medications.
Because compounded preparations are not made to the exact same formulation as commercial drugs, ingredient breakdown and likelihood of contamination over time are not known to the same degree as with commercial drugs. This uncertainty often compels a comparatively short BUD. California regulations now specify a BUD no longer than 14 days for compounds in an aqueous solution.
Many compounders and veterinarians contend that the period is unreasonably short. Miller of the CVMA said the BUD standard is so short that California veterinarians sometimes receive a shipment of compounded medications dated for expiration two days later.
The law allows the 14-day BUD to be extended, but critics say the conditions are onerous and cost-prohibitive. The rules for extending BUD call for three levels of testing:
Proof of stability: Does the compounded preparation remain in the same form and concentration over the desired period of time without breaking down?
Proof of sterility: Will contaminants grow in the compounded preparation during the stated time period?
Container-closure studies: Does the compounded preparation react with its container in a way that causes it to break down or bind to the container?
Dell argued that such stability studies potentially could cost thousands of dollars — too much for medication meant to be given to a single patient. He argued that other, less expensive, methods of measuring potency of a drug would be equally valid.
Christine Acosta, pharmacy board supervising inspector, disagreed that potency testing could stand in for stability testing. Acosta said potency tests do not account for byproducts of degradation that do not provide a therapeutic benefit, yet may cause a preparation to appear potent.
Questions from the committee appeared in some instances to indicate a lack of familiarity with details of the board’s own rule. Regarding the BUD for aqueous medications, for example, one committee member asked, “Is this for oral [medications]?”
Dell from Roadrunner replied: “The standard is nebulous. It doesn’t say whether it is for oral, sterile, non-sterile, etc.”
Another member asked, “Given the vagueness of the regulation, couldn’t you determine the [type of] test [required to extend the BUD]?”
Eaton responded: “We could, but this is a contentious issue and I don’t want to feel lucky. We were hoping for more clarity.”
The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), a nonprofit scientific organization, allows greater latitude in its BUD standard for aqueous suspensions. It establishes a 14-day BUD “in the absence of other data,” allowing for alternative dating to be used if pharmacists can show they are compounding the drug according to a published recipe with proven stability up to a different date.
Many meeting attendees expressed concern that the California rule is not consistent with USP, which, while not a government regulating body, is a respected standard-setter.
The committee tabled the discussion to an as-yet unscheduled future meeting.
USP tackles ‘hot mess’ — veterinary compounding - July 19, 2018
FDA backs off veterinary drug compounding approach - November 7, 2017
Popular as ever, veterinary compounding poised for change - August 6, 2015
FDA releases draft guidance on animal drug compounding - May 18, 2015
DOJ challenges ruling in veterinary compounding case - November 16, 2011
AVMA asked to acknowledge court ruling in compounding brochure - September 20, 2011
Veterinary compounding out of FDA’s jurisdiction, judge rules - September 13, 2011
Future of veterinary compounding hangs in balance - February 25, 2011
Campaign to defend veterinary compounding may be misdirected - February 18, 2011
Franck’s Pharmacy negotiates with FDA in Washington on veterinary compounding - May 20, 2010
FDA calls veterinary compounding at Franck’s illegal - April 19, 2010
Drug maker sues compounding pharmacy - December 17, 2009
Confounding Compounding - November 24, 2009
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Greta Fable: The Green makeup of predatory Capitalism
Newsbred Staff
Greta Thunberg with Christine Lagarde, director of the IMF
The true ecologists of this world are the people who fight against the depredation perpetrated by the multinationals: those who give their lives for their communities, for mountains and rivers. Every month, dozens of these real ecologists are murdered in their countries: the bullets of the hired assassins of transnational capitalism blow up their heads full of honesty and struggle, and they die clean hands, hands that will never clasp the infamous hands of the IMF, or those of other vampires on the planet. The exploiting class and its capitalist system is perpetuated on the basis of extermination and alienation: on the basis of violence, but also on the basis of the lie it imposes through its mass media.
In several photographs and videos, one can see Greta Thunberg, the new character hyper-mediated by the cultural apparatus of capitalism, with Christine Lagarde, director of the IMF and candidate for the ECB (the IMF, this institution of transnational capitalism that plunders the nature and starving entire people). A handshake that illustrates the joy of the masters of the world greeting those who serve them in the important task of infiltrating all the struggles with Trojan Horses that lead the energies to dead ends, manipulating majorities in pseudo-struggles that never touch the root of the problems, and therefore do not solve them. The capitalism that is destroying nature, and the exploiting class that benefits from it, are not called into question by the Fable "Greta". The planet dies and the dominant class continues with its Circus. This is absolute cynicism.
In capitalism, television, the press, the cultural industry belong to the private monopolies: these monopolies often also have capital in the military-industrial complex, the agro-food industry, the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, etc ... All The foregoing explains why the mass media do not broadcast information about anyone who actually questions their interests: no one who challenges the perpetuation of this system, questioning capitalism, will receive such hyper-mediatization.
The depredation of nature is due to the capitalist mode of production: the agro-food industry poisons the land, the mining industry devastates the mountains and rivers, etc. Overconsumption is a phenomenon remote controlled by the cultural apparatus of capitalism, by the advertising bombardment. Programmatic obsolescence, the perverse mechanism of premature aging of things, implemented by design in the capitalist mode of production, also guarantees the bourgeoisie that the masses indulge in overconsumption, because that is how the bourgeoisie fills its coffers: on the basis of exploitation of workers and on the basis of the devastation of nature.
There is no solution to the devastation of nature in the context of capitalism. Faced with the palpable tragedy of plastic continents floating on the oceans, dizzying deforestation of millennia forests, destroyed glaciers, water tables and rivers contaminated and drained, cordilleras amputated by the mining industry, depleted uranium with which the military-industrial complex bombs whole regions, CO2 levels rising sharply, the cynicism of the masters of the world is colossal. As if their approach to the question was:
"We cannot hide the sun with a finger, that is to say we can no longer hide the devastation of the planet that we, the big capitalists, are perpetrating; so now what can be done to continue looting and capitalizing is to lie about the root and systemic causes of the problem. What is important is that we are not designated as responsible; that we are not designated as the owners of the means of production, who decide what happens, under what conditions and at what rate; that we are not appointed to us by those who enrich us by the plundering of nature and by the surplus value we confiscate from the workers, who decide how the population should behave, since we push them to the overconsumption that we rich, and induce him not to question this system that suits us, a dominant minority. To pretend to be concerned about the planet, will bring back good recipes, it is enough for a good operation of propaganda on a world scale, that one sees us to listen to some symbol which we will have created before, something which does not give us not as a dominant class, as an exploiting class, and which ultimately does not call into question this system. "
But gangrene does not cure with plaster, and obviously the predation of the planet will not be held back by the placebos that the same system proposes to channel the social discontent towards dead ends.
Greta and her group appeal to the so-called "moral qualities" of the masters of the world, appeal to their so-called "good will"; once again, we enter the anesthetic fable that pretends to ignore that in capitalism the accumulation of wealth is perpetrated by the great capitalists in two fundamental ways: the exploitation of the workers and the plundering of nature. In this fable of green-washing, the existence of a so-called "green capitalism" is posed fraudulently, which is totally impossible by the very logic of the system. A "green capitalism" is not possible, nor is "capitalism with a human face" any more than a vegetarian lion.
And to those who argue that the imposture proclaims that "the Nordic countries are great examples of good and green capitalism," retort that it would be better to inquire with the victims of the massacres that large northern companies have fomented in Congo to loot coltan and other resources. Do you speak to Ericsson, Saab, Volvo, Bofors, Nammo, Kongsberg, Ikea, H & M, etc? Neither very "green" nor very "human" in terms of exploitation and devastation against the workers and against nature. Oh, if we succeed in outsourcing all the cloak practices that enrich a multinational, then this cesspool is not taken into account?
A "green capitalism" is not possible, nor is a "capitalism with a human face" any more than a vegetarian lion. Because exploitation and predation are inherent to capitalism. However, what is possible is to make up the same inhuman and in no way green face of capitalism, with tons of makeup to make it look what it is not. But a lion with a zebra mask will never be vegetarian as the effigy of his mask, just like a system like capitalism, will never be "green" like the masks that the system mediates on itself. Major multinational energy companies, predators par excellence of nature, sport hummingbird or marine fauna logos. BMW and a Swiss bank finance the boat with which Greta travels the seas.
Moreover, in the Greenwashing speech, everyone is equally guilty, and finally ... "if we are all guilty, nobody is guilty of it in a specific way", which is a way of diluting responsibilities, not to name the main culprits of this barbarism: the big capitalists, the transnational bourgeoisie.
It is true that the overconsumption is not limited to the bourgeoisie, because if it can consume much more and generate a frightening waste, the exploited class was also alienated by the advertising bombardment, to lead to overconsumption, even at the price to accumulate debts. But again, there is a question of class: because it is the exploiting class, the one that owns the means of production and propaganda, which imposes its ideological and cultural hegemony on the whole planet, it is the class an exploiter who disposes of the exploited class through the mass media that are his property. It is through alienation that the exploiting class directs the exploited class towards overconsumption. A class runs the other through advertising bombardment and through the paradigms imposed by the cultural apparatus of capitalism (individualism, consumption presented as "compensatory", notion of "success" linked to having and not to being, etc ... ). The programmed obsolescence (premature aging of things) also guarantees the big capitalists that the masses overconsume, to fill their bank accounts while devastating the planet.
By 2019, the world's 26 richest people have the same wealth as those with the world's 3.8 billion most impoverished people, half of the world's population (Oxfam). A handful of billionaires own the main means of production and propaganda. 1% of the world's population owns 82% of the world's wealth. Data on per capita electricity consumption shows that Europe, the United States, Canada and the remaining capitalist metropolises consume, by far, the vast majority of energy consumed in the world .
In the Green Makeup discourse, we can assimilate the depredations committed by the big capitalists, by the gigantic multinationals who divert entire rivers for the mining industry, to the peoples who are the victims. We equate the victims and the executioners in this abject discourse of "we are all guilty" that makes no distinction, neither of social classes, nor between the handful of countries that consume 80% of the planet's resources (United States, Europe Canada, Japan, Australia and other capitalist metropolises) and all the other countries in the world (the vast majority) that survive with the remaining 20%. In the Green Makeup speech, we do not talk about capitalist metropolises that overconsume versus the capitalist peripheries conceived by transnational capitalism as mere "reservoirs of resources" and pillaged to the bone, with a devastating ecological impact and a social impact of brutal impoverishment; Neither is it said that looting is perpetrated by assassinating any person or community who raises his voice against capitalist looting.
Predatory multinationals and the peoples they exterminate are assimilated. Take the example of Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Glencore by diverting an entire river to use the water in the largest coal mine in the world, the Cerrejón mine in Colombia, which causes drought, ecocide, famine and genocide against one of the main indigenous peoples of Colombia, the Wayú. More than 14,000 Wayú children died of hunger and thirst because of the capitalist looting perpetrated by these three multinationals. The coal that is mined per ton is mainly destined for the United States and Europe. So no, we are not "all guilty in the same way". A working family is not guilty in the same way as a capitalist. The multinational Glencore n ' is not "guilty in the same way" as the Wayú people, who not only are not guilty, but undergo genocide. The culprits are not the thousands of social fighters, real ecologists, who are killed daily by the bullets of the hired assassins of transnational capitalism; but those who plunder the planet and pay hitmen to exterminate any opposition to capitalist looting.
For our dead, not a minute of silence in the face of the barbarism and the pantomime with which the transnational bourgeoisie claims to cover up its crimes: more than 1500 peasants, indigenous, Afro-descendants, environmentalists, social activists, were murdered in Colombia by transnational capitalism in five years, several thousand in Mexico, as much in various countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. And this same bourgeoisie comes to us with its fable of the teenager with braids, which does not question the capitalist system and which is hyper-mediatized, with this staging that feels Euro-centered paternalism, with this decor that stinks the cynicism, with this theater that stinks simulation so that nothing changes.
They experiment to see how we swallow all their montages with a smug smile, while they, the members of the exploiting class, continue to destroy the mountains and the rivers, the oceans and the forests; they continue to perpetrate ecocides and genocides, they continue to push millions of looters on the roads of the exodus, they continue to transform the planet into landfill and the human beings into insane (and to the one who does not let alienate , and who claims to fight outside the tracks of the useless, is thrown to him the paramilitary and military ball, the political persecution and the prison).
Berta Caceres, Chico Mendes, Macarena Valdes, Mapuche, RP Global,
"As long as we live under capitalism, this planet will not be saved; because capitalism is against life, ecology, human beings, women, "said Berta Cáceres, a genuine ecologist and Honduran social fighter, murdered for opposing capitalist looting. Chico Méndes, another authentic ecologist, defender of the Amazon and social activist murdered to silence his voice class consciousness, to try to curb the political organization of the dispossessed, already announced before being assassinated, the impostures of " greenwashing "(we did not use that term then, but the fact already existed). Against capitalism and its Green Makeup, had also risen Macarena Valdés, Mapuche ecologist murdered because of his defense of nature and the community. Macarena had confronted the multinational RP Global, of Austrian capital, which promotes energy sold as "renewable and sustainable" (omitting its participation in ecocide and genocide against the Mapuche people). The activists against the depredation of nature are thousands, their voices are not publicized, their lives are often short because they are shattered by the repressive tools at the service of transnational capitalism.
And if a country claims to nationalize its natural resources and not allow multinationals to plunder them, it is bombarded, victim of imperialist wars; it is invaded by religious mercenaries, fanatics incubated since the empire, then by the NATO boots; he is tortured, martyred, and bloodthirsty. Where are these so-called "ecologists" of the system when US and European imperialism is slaughtering nature and peoples in Iraq, Libya, Colombia, Afghanistan, Yemen, etc. Ah ... there is no "demonstration" On their part, is not it? ... Of course, the puppets are due to the theater, to fool the dupes, to make thousands of people who have been (and are daily) murdered by transnational capitalism for having truly defended the planet in the first place, are even more ignored in the midst of all the cacophony, the hypermediatization of The fiction. But the struggle continues, against capitalism and its barbarism; because the cosmetics with which they claim to cover its stench, we are numerous and numerous enough not to be swallowed.
(This article by Cecilia Zamudo is taken with gratitude from NewsNet.fr, a French news website).
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Ireland Level The Series
Dominant team performance sees Ireland level the series in Zimbabwe
A dominant, unbeaten innings by the returning Isobel Joyce, a high-class all-around performance by Rachel Delaney, and a first international wicket for Cara Murray were a few of the highlights from a victory by the Ireland Women’s team in Harare today, levelling the three-match series against Zimbabwe Women at 1-1.
Joyce, who flew into the tourist’s camp one day after her teammates (following completion of her commitments captaining the Hobart Hurricanes in the Women’s Big Bash League in Australia), showed no signs of jetlag as she dug in, and then dominated the Zimbabwean bowling attack.
Her career-best unbeaten 91 off 101 balls (9 fours) – part of a near record-breaking partnership with teammate Rachel Delaney (68) – took Ireland from a precarious 35-4 to a highly competitive 207-5.
The pair, who are also teammates at club-level playing for Merrion Cricket Club, racked up the 4th highest ever partnership in Ireland Women’s cricket history for a one-day game (the highest partnership in one-day cricket for Ireland Women is 184, set by Claire Shillington and Caitriona Beggs in 2005).
While Joyce dominated with the bat, it was the steady, confident play of Delaney that provided the necessary support. Delaney easily passed her previous highest score (17*), striking five boundaries in the process.
The experienced Zimbabwean pace bowler Precious Marange returned an impressive bowling performance taking 1-11 off her 10 overs, including four maidens.
Having been set 208 for victory, the host’s lost two early wickets to Ireland’s opening bowler Amy Kenealy, before a 62-run stand in 11 overs between Modester Mupachikwa (51) and Precious Marange (30) saw Zimbabwe seemingly on track to reach their target.
The ball was then thrown to off-spinner Delaney, who broke the partnership with the first of her three wickets. Delaney bowled tightly and ended with 3-33 off eight overs. Her all-around credentials were also on full display earlier in the innings when she took a stunning catch at Point to dismiss the opposition captain Chipo Mugeri (4).
Rachel Delaney said:
“Great to get a win after a disappointing start to the series. I play with Isobel in club and I’ve batted with her a fair bit, and she’s also my coach there, so it was nice to get out in the middle with Izzy – it took the nerves off a bit.”
One other impressive performance to note was that of Cara Murray. After a solid debut in the senior Ireland Women’s team two days earlier, Murray took her first international wicket and finished with an economical 1-24 off 10 overs.
Fittingly, a direct-hit run out by Joyce claimed the final Zimbabwean batter and wrapped up a victory by 12 runs.
The preparations for the match began in disrupted fashion when Ciara Metcalfe was forced to withdraw with a minor calf strain. Metcalfe is expected to recover and feature again on the tour.
With the two teams claiming one victory apiece, the series decider will be played in two days on Monday 5 February.
ZIMBABWE WOMEN v IRELAND WOMEN, 2nd 50-over match, Country Club, Harare
Ireland Women 207-5 (50 overs; I Joyce 91*, R Delaney 68; A Mushangwe 2-45)
Zimbabwe Women 195 (47 overs; M Mupachikwa 51, P Marange 30; R Delaney 3-33)
Ireland Women beat Zimbabwe Women by 12 runs. Series level 1-1.
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Health care protection bills seek to mirror Affordable Care Act
By: Daniel J. Munoz
Lawmakers sent a host of bills to Gov. Phil Murphy’s desk aimed at preserving several provisions of the Affordable Care Act in the state, to shield against the uncertainty of federal health care.
The Senate and Assembly voted along party lines to approve the package of eight measures, all of which replicate widely popular features of the ACA, commonly referred to as Obamacare.
“If the courts at the federal level were to overturn or repeal certain parts of the Affordable Care Act, then these statutes would be put in place,” Senate Budget Chair Paul Sarlo, D-36th District, said at a Jan. 7 committee hearing when introducing the bills.
The bills come as the Murphy administration tries to ramp up a state-based, Obamacare-style marketplace. Many were introduced or backed by the governor’s office, and are expected to see his signature.
In 2018, Murphy approved an individual health care mandate, and for the fines collected from its violations to finance a “high-risk pool” for the state’s more expensive patients.
Then in March, the governor announced the formation of the health plan marketplace, which will begin offering plans this fall for enrollment in 2021.
“We cannot leave the health and safety of our citizens up to the whims of the White House,” Senate Health Committee Chair Joe Vitale, D-19th District, said in a Jan. 7 statement. “This legislation is a commitment to our residents and an assurance that our state will do everything we can to make sure New Jerseyans are healthy, safe and able to afford health care.”
What’s in the package
One measure, Senate Bill 3809, gives the state broad authority to review health insurance hikes over a certain threshold.
Assembly Bill 5508 would require these health plans to provide contraceptive coverage, and removes the religious exemption for “religious employers,” which include churches, and schools those churches operate.
Senate Bill 3802 would require health coverage for children up to the age of 26, while Senate Bill 3812 would require health insurance companies to invest at least 85 percent of money collected from customers into health care benefits, and not profits.
Senate Bill 3808 would ban so-called “basic and essential health plans,” which are typically lower-cost and provide skimpier health coverage.
Assembly Bill 5507 would require health insurers to cover certain preventive services at no cost to the patient, including mammograms and vaccinations.
Assembly Bill 5248 would require that all health plans cover the “10 essential health benefits” laid out in the ACA, such as ambulance and emergency services, hospitalization, maternity and newborn care, mental health and substance abuse disorders, and preventative screening.
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While we were visiting the IWA festival last weekend we cadged a free bed with our son Peter at Cambridge. Apart from our ritual meal at the Castle pub in Castle Street (for my money the best pub in Cambridge) we took a stroll around Jesus lock, which is the limit of navigation for narrowboats on the Cam. I particularly like the way the balance beams curve up and over from the top of the gates. I haven't seen any others like it as far as I recall.
Also interesting was the windlass padlocked to the paddle gear. All you need is the combination number to free it for use.
Last year there was a lot of hoohaa about a threat to do away with the visitor moorings, but eventually the Council came to their senses and now there is a nice space for half a dozrn boats just below the lock.
The same rain that caused all the mud at the IWA festival had also raised the level of the Cam and the footpath was flooded here and there. This enterprising young couple found a way to keep their feet dry, but their dogs weren't so lucky!
Sunshine and mud at the IWA festival
We had a great couple of days at the IWA festival at St Ives (the Cambridgeshire one) this weekend. However, despite the best two days of weather this year, the festival site was a quagmire. On top of the wet summer, St Ives had had a week of heavy rain before the sun came out, and with all the vehicles delivering stands and equipment on site, this was the result on Saturday morning.
However it did dry up a bit and they did their best to lay down paths of wood chip etc and everyone had a great time. Stallholders I spoke to seemed to be pleased with the trade they were getting. We spent a fair bit, and came away with ideas to spend a whole lot more, although no doubt a cooling off period may bring us to our senses!
The riverside was busy with people viewing new boats as well as with visitors and passers by.
Perhaps the most unusual thing we saw was this mobile belfry! I suppose all festival like to ring the changes from time to time:-). ( Sorry.)
Kath and I each attended a workshop. She did cabin crochet (results in a later blog I hope), and I made a rope side fender. Far from perfect but OK for starters. I'm going to make some more - practice makes perfect.
A kind neighbour has given me a small collection of waterways related books which she found when clearing out the flat of a deceased friend. Among them was The Water Road by Paul Gogarty (ISBN 1-86105-655-9, Robson Books). Paul is a travel writer for a number of national newspapers. The book is an account of a narrowboat journey in 2001 starting from London and making a figure of eight journey taking in Birmingham, the Potteries, Manchester, Leeds, Goole, Lincoln, Leicester, Oxford, Lechlade and Windsor. It took him four months, mostly single handed. I must say I admire his bravery because he was an inexperienced boater and some of the waterways he travelled were not for the faint hearted. Anyone who starts off from Limehouse onto the Thames has my respect!
Anyway, I enjoyed the book a lot and frequently found myself agreeing with his observations about the pleasures of slow travel on water, the incredible mix of people one meets, and the occasional depressing attitude of the less tolerant in our society. Paul is a good writer and has an amazing ability to search out and engage interesting people. The trip is quite an adventure and the book is a good primer for anyone wanting to know what travelling on canals and rivers is like.
One of these days I'm going to compile a table of the relative ease of lock gates and paddle mechanisms on the Grand Union. There seems to be no correlation between size of balance beam or depth of gate and how heavy they are to push. They vary from dead easy to almost unmovable. If I had them recorded I would know which ones I could send a youngster forward to set up.
Mind you, some gates swing too easily so that they swing open by themselves when you want them shut. You could be running round a lock all day shutting first one side only to find that the opposite one has swung open. In the end you have to open a sluice at the other end to let the water slam it for you.
Uxbridge lock is a prime example. Only about four feet drop but the bottom gates are really hard and yet the top gates drift open at the slightest whiff when the lock is full.
Old but well greased paddle mechanisms can be a lot easier than new ones. Worst of all are the dreaded hydraulic mechanisms. Never too stiff but they take too many turns to wind up and are just as many, and as hard work, to drop. I like the old exposed mechanisms like this one we saw in Brum recently. Plenty of places to trap your fingers in the exposed cogs, and the main gear shaft is obviously loose in its bearing but I bet it rattles up dead easily. I also like the grooves cut in the post by the horse ropes in the old days. Despite modern safety standards it would be a crime to replace this paddle mechnism while it still works.
Mind you its fun when you come across the odd super duper electric stuff like this one on the Lea navigation. Not that I'd want to see them everywhere. How would we keep fit?
Not inclined
B*gg*r! I just discovered that we missed an opportunity when we went to the Blists Hill museum in Ironbridge recently. We saw the Shropshire canal, (not to be confused with the Shropshire Union canal) but failed to walk round the bend to see the inclined plane. I wrongly assumed it would now be no more than a grassy bank, but now find out that it still has the rails and various other bits intact, having been part restored in the 1980s. The inclined plane, opened in 1792 allowed 5 ton tub boats to be hauled up 207 feet from Coalport to Blists Hill. Oh well, we'll see it next time.
The bit of the canal in the museum lies alongside a short bit of railway track where a working replica of Trevithick's steam locomotive (the world's first) can be seen in steam. At least I got a picture of that.
Its hard to imagine what people of the time made of this amazing contraption which had the power of several horses and had all manner of strange gubbinses attached. Notice the angle iron rails and how the wheels sit outside the upright bit.
While we were there, we were pleased to see references to our namesake.
Perhaps the best bit of the museum for Jacob, was the opportunity to handle and spend pre- decimal money. I'd forgotten how big and heavy the coins were. Old money could be got from the on site bank, although for a new fiver you only got a couple of shillings worth of the old stuff. Still, it went quite a long way as sweets etc were offered at Victorian prices.
Cuddly Dudley
I can hardly believe I'm writing this, but on our hols we spent a fascinating couple of days in Dudley!
Our main objective was the Black Country Living Museum which is rather like the more famous Blist Hill museum at Ironbridge, but in our view a lot better. First it has a proper canal basin with a selection of old boats including the famous president steam narrowboat. Then the central exhibit, a couple of typical Black Country victorian streets, complete with charactor actors with thick local accents having hilarious arguments in the street. The shops were superbly kitted out. I really liked the old ironmongers shop full of tin baths, oil lamps, old tools and the like. The houses and shops have been moved there brick by brick and reconstructed exactly as they were.
We took the guided tour of the coal mine. A good job they gave out helmets as I banged my head every ten yards. Then there were factories and workshops, a cinema showing silent films, all powered by old gas engines, a school where you could join the class and be harangued by a strict schoolma'am and loads more. By signing a gift aid form when you go in, you get free entrance for subsequent visits within a year. A bargain.
Right next to the museum is the Dudley Canal Trust which does boat trips into the amazing Dudley tunnel complex. The tunnels were originally dug for the purpose of extracting limestone, leaving huge caverns underground, some of which how now lost their roofs making erie ivy hung pits into which the boat cruises. I don't think there is anythong like it on the rest of the canal system.
To see some of the more normal local canalscape we took a stroll along the towpath in nearby Tipton where there is a junction and a nice flight of locks. We particularly liked the little cantilevered footbridge at the tail of the lock. Further down we came upon the derelict Beans Foundry which until fairly recently cast engine blocks for the car industry. Now it is derelcit and according to an old chap we met is regularly ransacked by local youths strippiong out the copper wire etc.
Then we needed to eat and drink, and where better than the famous Mad O'Rourkes Pie Factory.
Actually it's a bizzare pub serving huge meals including a Desperate Dan Cow Pie complete with horns and weighing 4 lbs. I thought that was a bit much so I ordered spare ribs, which I think might have weighed the same! Someone up the other end ordered a mixed grill which came to the table on a shovel (really!). Here is their gravy machine.
Give Dudley a try, I recommend it.
Back home from our camping hols in Shropshire. I know we're boring but we keep returning to the same camp site near Church Stretton because it's such a brilliant spot. Not many people seem to know this area but it's amazingly good for walking. Church Stretton nestles between the Stretton Hills, steep and sharp edged, and the great mound of the Long Mynd deeply cut with narrow valleys or batches with waterfalls and ravines. The top, at about 1700 feet is moorland covered with bilberry, heather and bracken.
Here we see the Stretton hills from the Mynd,
and from virtually the same spot but looking the other way, we see a tiny part of the Mynd with Jacob practicing his golf swing
Our campsite in Little Stretton
is at the foot of Ashes Hollow, one of the prettiest valleys on the Mynd
and quite rocky in places
anyway, enough of this hills mullarkey, in succeeding posts I'll report on how we managed to see some great canal sights while we were there.
Running repairs
Herbie's batteries haven't been charging well for some time. Last year when the charging was particularly bad whilst we were cruising, we called in River Canal Rescue (RCR) with whom we are members, to help. The guy came out and muttered about the Sterling alternator controller. He obviously doesn't like them, so he disconnected it and we did notice an improvement.
However I still haven't been happy with the charging since and suspected that the alternator was really at fault and the demands of the Sterling had been too much for it. Anyway, while we were at Marsworth recently the alternator really packed in. The charge light wouldn't go out and we were getting no amps and hardly any volts. So we called in RCR again.
"Yup, it's the alternator alright. I've got a spare in the van that might fit, but before I swap it out I'll check if I can get the pulley off the old one (to swap onto the new one) because if I can't shift it I can't help you further." Big spanners were produced and there was much cursing and straining but the pulley nut wouldn't budge. "Sorry, nothing I can do here, you'll have to get it to somebody who can get it on a bench to budge the pulley". And off he went :-(
Luckily we were moored only a hundred yards from Ed Boden, professional canal boat engine fixer, so I called on him. "Yeah, I can fix that easy, but not till Monday afternoon" It was Saturday. "OK" I said, there are worse places to be marooned than Marsworth. So I had a nice weekend fishing off the boat and strolling to the pub. Ed turned up on Monday bearing a new alternator. With a battery powered hammer drill he had the pulley nut off in two seconds. Why RCR can't carry such a tool I can't imagine. Within an hour we had a new alternator installed, complete with a field tap wire should I decided to reinstate the Sterling. I commend him to you. My voltmeters are especially happy!
Our other technical problem was a leak from the freshwater pump, which we first noticed on seeing damp patches in the storage spaces under the front steps. Had I called in a professional, he may well have swapped out the pump which with labour would have cost around £100. I could see the water was dripping out of a joint between two parts of the pump, so I pulled it apart, put some jointing compound on it and screwed it together again and now its as dry as a bone :-). Cost - less than a quid for the tube of compound.
We're off camping now for a couple of weeks. More when I get back. Meanwhile I thought you might like this sign from a bridge by Hanwell top lock.
Must go, I'm off to load up my ponderous carriage.
GU Pubs
It would be an incomplete picture of our trips up and down the southern GU if I failed to mention the pubs we visited, sometimes for just a drink and sometimes for food as well.
Twice on this trip we visited pubs which advertise real ales but didn't have any available! The first was the Coy Carp at Harefield, who admittedly did rustle up a barrel of London Pride when we complained. Had we not, I don't think they would have bothered putting it on. Sunday lunch there was OK - nothing more.
Then at the Fishery in Hemel Hempstead, which has three labelled real ale pumps, the barmaid said, "sorry, no ales today" and seemed surprised we cared. We didn't eat there as planned, but had the brilliant idea of catching the train back to Apsley to go to the excellent Papermill pub. Stations were only a minutes walk at either end and the train journey just 5 minutes. The Papermill, just opposite the BW Apsley marina is a spacious, comfortable modern Fullers pub in a converted industrial building. They offer very good beer, good service, and excellent food. We like their stilton cheeseburgers which are home made and huge.
Up at the Cowroast Inn (at Cowroast, 50 yards from the lock) the pub is run by a Thai family. You get free prawn crackers with your beer! It's a strange mixture of traditional pub and a very good Thai restaurant. Tasty food and good portions.
Regular readers will know of our liking for the Anglers Retreat at Marsworth. Suffice it to say it is a very modest building with no architectural charm, but the beer (including the wonderful Tring Brewery "Sidepocket") is well kept and the food is distinctly home cooked from fresh ingredients. The menu changes daily according to what produce they can get. We had the steak and mushroom pie - lots of meat, real shortcrust pastry, proper gravy, and no less than eight different vegetables. Lovely.
At the other end of Marsworth is the Red Lion, where we strolled up for a pint and stayed to watch the Grand Prix on the telly. What a gem this pub is. Flagstone floors, comfy seats, interesting beers including from local breweries. A quiet friendly traditional village local. Neat and tidy without being modern or posh.
Next was the Grove Lock at, you've guessed it, Grove Lock, near Leighton Buzzard. Another Fullers pub aimed at the diner, and popular for business lunches. The menu is comparatively pricey. We just had a shared appetiser of chunky bread (I forget what type but it was lovely), with toasted haloumi cheese, which toasts without melting, and peppers. I think it cost about £8, but was enough for a good snack between three of us.
On our final weekend, we met up with Pete and Rob, the other members of our band PRANK, and tootled from Bulls Bridge down to the Fox at Hanwell, near Brentford. What a great pub this is. Lively and friendly and likely winner of the Herbie Pint Of The Year award. Superbly kept Timothy Taylors Landlord. This was the first time we had eaten at the Fox, other times we had been there on non food days. We had bavette steaks (apparently a cut high on the thigh and near the fillet) with tarragon butter and chips and salad. £10.95 if I recall correctly. I fear the chips were probably cooked in beef dripping. Unhealthy but gorgeous. The steaks were perfect and the tarragon butter scrummy. The Fox is a strong contender for Herbie Pub of the Year.
If all this sounds like a pub crawl, don't forget we were out for 16 days, and our son Peter was with us for a holiday.
Watching the birds
We've been lucky with the birds lately. As soon as we started off on the trip we were joined by Langley's resident common tern, who was using the disturbance of the boat in the water to see the fish scattering. He gets so close you could almost touch him. This time I managed to get a reasonable shot of him.
That night we moored at Black Jacks lock where there are peacocks. One part flew, part clambered onto the thatched roof of the cottage and right onto the chimney top. Here he is.
After being on the water so much, I have now reversed my previous dislike of geese, particularly greylags. I used to think they were aggressive, but they don't seem to be now, and they're such smart birds.
At Marsworth Kath had the goslings literally eating out of her hand . We love mooring here, right below the bank of Startops reservoir, and very handy for the Anglers Retreat!
The ducks there were doing a strange skimming movement. Zooming across the water with their bills just scooping the surface. I'm not sure whether they are drinking, or catching some microscopic surface food, or what.
Talking of ducks, near Harefield the canal was covered with duckweed which the swans didn't seem keen to swim through. Herbie left a psychedelic wake as we passed. You can just make out the swans beyond the weed.
Lastly, how about these cormorants perched on a mobile phone mast down towards Hanwell
More highlights later.
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A GUIDING LIGHT IN MEMORY OF RUSS
Posted by Dave Stopher | Mar 20, 2019 | Business, Charity, Health | 0
The wife of well-known Teesside businessman Russ Devereux has spoken courageously of the “loving, positive and fun-loving” husband and dad as she launches a children’s project in his memory.
Russ, who ran family-owned Billingham business Devereux Transport and Distribution, was just 41 when he died by suicide in May 2018, leaving behind a loving family including wife Catherine and their three young daughters.
Catherine says those who loved Russ are determined to talk about and tackle the causes of suicide because of the “devastating” impact his death has had on them.
Supported by more than £20,000 donated by friends, colleagues and local businesses, she has now launched the Russ Devereux Headlight Project in Russ’s memory.
The project will deliver emotional resilience programmes in Teesside schools in the belief that early intervention can enable children to cope in later life with stressful situations and crisis.
Catherine said: “Russ was a loving, kind and caring husband and Dad to his three girls.
“He always had a positive outlook on life, was happy, had a great sense of humour and was fun-loving.
“He had a healthy lifestyle, was laid back and easy-going in nature, and he always managed stress well, despite running the family business, employing more than 180 staff and winning a number of awards.
“Russ was well known and respected by the local business community and had excellent working relationships with his staff, while he was always supportive and generous with his time despite the fact that he always had a busy workload of his own.
“He was also a talented golfer, a sport which was his passion and which lent itself well to his temperament.
“Because of all this, Russ was the last person that anyone would have expected to end his life.”
In launching the Russ Devereux Headlight Project, Catherine added: “Because of the devastating impact Russ’s death has had on his family, friends and the wider community, we feel it is important to talk about suicide.
“The sort of crisis-driven stress that can result in suicide is especially dangerous because the physical signs are not always easy to identify. Suicide remains the single biggest killer of young men under the age of 45.”
The idea for the Headlight Project came about because Russ was a loyal supporter of charitable movement Teesside Philanthropic Foundation, undertaking a number of challenges to raise funds for the local community causes the charity supports.
Along with helping to build resilience among the children it works with, the project will offer one-to-one counselling and play therapy sessions.
It is a long-term aim of the project to raise an awareness of the signs and symptoms of the triggers that lead to someone ending their life.
Catherine added: “I believe that if children are supported in their early years, they can be taught how to manage tricky situations and learn how to regulate and voice their thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
“We hope the project will provide a guiding light when the road ahead is dark.”
In the longer term, subject to funding, there are also plans to go into secondary schools, colleges and Teesside University to raise awareness of suicide.
The Headlight Project’s logo was designed and created by Russ and Catherine’s three girls as a tribute to their dad and his work in the family business.
Along with thanking the Philanthropic Foundation for their support in helping to set up the project, Catherine added: “I would like to thank our families and friends who have supported us through this difficult time and continue to do so, enabling me to make this project a reality.”
To make a donation to the Russ Devereux Headlight Project, visit www.teessidecharity.org.uk/2019/02/guiding-light-memory-russ/ or (for print press) www.teessidecharity.org.uk
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Novo Nordisk Foundation awards USD 30 million for a plant research project to kickstart the next green revolution
The world’s population will increase by an additional 2 billion by 2050, and combined with rising incomes, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations expects that the demand for food will increase by about 50%. This poses new challenges for agricultural productivity and sustainability and is the basis for the Collaborative Crop Resilience Program (CCRP): a new 6-year research project to be carried out in Denmark and the United States for which the Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded a grant of DKK 203 million (USD 30 million).
“For the first time, researchers will examine in depth the underlying biology of how the roots and leaves of plants interact with bacteria. This can help reduce the use of fertilizer and pesticides by promoting natural bacteria that coexist with the plants. The goal is to create more efficient and more sustainable agriculture and pave the way for the next green revolution,” says Claus Felby, Head of Life Science Research and Industrial Applications Promoting Sustainability, Novo Nordisk Foundation.
The Collaborative Crop Resilience Program will be carried out by researchers from the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, North Carolina State University and the Technical University of Denmark – each of which has strengths in agricultural or biological research. The overall program has three subprojects.
MATRIX will focus on the abundant but poorly studied interactions between plants and microbes above the ground.
INTERACT will focus on the essential and mutually beneficial interactions between plants and microbes underground.
InRoot will provide knowledge and tools for the science-based development of new crop varieties and associated microbial interventions.
“This grant enables us to explore basic unanswered questions about the mechanisms that govern the interaction between plants and soil microbiological communities. The combination of different types of expertise opens new opportunities for delivering top-level research. In the international context, it is a unique programme,” says Jens Stougaard, Professor, Aarhus University, who heads the InRoot project.
“Knowing more about the interactions between plants and the microbes that live on, in or near them will help us to harness these interactions to protect crops from drought, temperature extremes, insects, pathogens and other stressors. Ultimately, we want to create predictive models of plant-soil-microbe systems that can be used on a global scale as real-time decision-making tools to lower agricultural risks and improve crop yields,” says Amy Grunden, Professor, North Carolina State University. She is the principal investigator and Chair of the Steering Committee of the Collaborative Crop Resilience Program, which provides overarching management of the interconnected projects.
The Collaborative Crop Resilience Program is thus a completely new approach to further develop agriculture by focusing not on the crops but on the microorganisms around them. Specifically, this involves examining up to 1000 species of bacteria and analysing how they interact with a specific crop. The scientific results will enable the existing crops to be improved and, in the long term, create much more sustainable agricultural production with improved yields and greater resilience to climate change. This research field has come into focus in recent decades, but the tools required to study thousands of interacting bacteria have only recently become available.
“The Collaborative Crop Resilience Program is a unique opportunity to achieve a basic system understanding of the interaction between microbes and plants under complex environmental conditions. Such basic understanding is necessary if greener plant production is to maximize the use of the interaction between microbes and plants,” says Mette Nicolaisen, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, who heads the INTERACT project.
“This project and the expertise the participants bring can pave the way for solutions to some very specific challenges we are facing globally. We expect the project to help to create solutions for the agricultural sector that contribute to more sustainable production methods that are also economically viable, “says Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Professor, University of Copenhagen, who heads the MATRIX project.
The research on how natural bacteria interact with crops can basically be compared with examining LEGO bricks (bacteria) and determining which ones are in place and how they interact. Then researchers can investigate how these can be assembled into something that is larger and stronger than the individual bricks. This has a huge potential for improving agricultural productivity.
The Collaborative Crop Resilience Program is a public research project, and the knowledge created will therefore be publicly available, enabling anyone to build on the initial basic knowledge to create new knowledge and solutions. The project will be carried out with field and greenhouse experiments, mainly in Denmark and North Carolina, United States.
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Eighteen oral history interviews have been recorded with landscape architects and other individuals who have been influential in the founding and development of the landscape architecture profession in New Zealand.
The oral history collection was initiated in 2006 when Boffa Miskell Limited commissioned six interviews with founding members of the Institute. Twelve more were recorded between 2009 and 2013, with funding from NZILA, the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board and a New Zealand Oral History Award. It is likely that further interviews will be recorded as funding allows, to add further perspectives to the collection.
Copies of all the interviews are held in the NZILA archives and at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington. They are not available online. If you wish to listen to any of them through the Alexander Turnbull Library, you will need to place a request to listen at the library or via interloan if your local library supports interloans. To identify an interview and make a request use the search tool at https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#home. Use the ‘key words’ panel and select ‘Interview/event’ in the ‘level’ box. However, some interviews that have yet to be catalogued will not show up so, in addition, select the ‘Ask a librarian’ tab (bottom right of the tiaki page.) Alternatively, contact NZILA. Note: the interviews are subject to varying interviewee conditions of access and use and are subject to copyright. The Institute or Library can advise you.
The interviewees
Frank Boffa (play audio)
Charlie Challenger (play audio)
Barry Chalmers
Hedley Evans
Robin Gay (play audio)
Tony Jackman
Di Lucas
George Malcolm
Diane Menzies
Alan Morgan
Herwi Scheltus
Allan Rackham
Alan Titchener
Jan Woodhouse
Thanks to the interviewees for their time, recollections and reflections.
The objective of the oral history collection is to gather a representative range of perspectives and experiences relating to the practice of landscape architecture in New Zealand - as told through personal stories.
The interviewees were selected for their roles in founding, leading and developing the profession in New Zealand. Collectively, they include individuals who were the first teachers and practitioners, who set up and served on the NZILA, who lobbied for protection of landscape values, who developed new methodologies and techniques, and who represented the profession overseas.
Opportunities in the
During the 1970s and 1980s, most of the new graduates found employment in the public service - Ministry of Works, the departments of Lands and Survey, Electricity, Forestry, the Housing Corporation and in local government. These jobs provided a reasonably secure work environment to get started and the opportunity to demonstrate what landscape architects could offer.
In the private sector, Frank Boffa was one of the few who was brave enough to set up on their own in the early days, founding the one-man practice that became Boffa Miskell Limited.
The 'Think Big' projects of the Muldoon era provided an important opportunity to demonstrate that landscape architects could handle big projects and be influential in reducing environmental impacts.
1990s and coming of age
By the time of Rogernomics, the profession was well enough established for most practitioners to adapt to the massive government restructurings and cut-backs of the late 1980s. From then on, the balance shifted towards private practice, greatly aided by the advent of the Resource Management Act. The Institute had lobbied hard to have the word 'landscape' included in the Act and that led to unprecedented amounts of work and prominence in the following decades.
Collectively, the interviews touch on many aspects of change in New Zealand. The numerous themes covered include:
difficulty in communicating landscape architecture and landscape values to others;
collegiality of the early days;
competition that came with more private practice and Environment Court work;
milestone projects and increasing work in urban design and community development;
the Institute's development, paralleling the profession's growth;
prominent representation in affairs of the International Federation of Landscape Architects;
questions about how to weave a bicultural approach into the practice of landscape architecture in New Zealand;
the desire to interpret and express New Zealand's unique qualities and sense of identity in landscape work
Ultimately, it is a 'coming of age' success story, as the late Robin Gay reflects. Play audio
Any re-use of these audio clips is a breach of copyright. Copyright is held variously by Boffa Miskell Limited and the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA). For copyright enquiries, contact NZILA.
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